Hour 1 - Dirty Dem Playbook
2/19/202639 mincomplete
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0:33T's and C's apply. Welcome in.
0:36Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Thursday
0:40edition of the program. And I have to tell you, I have a challenge for
0:46everyone out there. Buck is going to benefit from this challenge, but the show will
0:50as well. Buck Sexton's book is presently the number four bestseller on all of Amazon
0:57.com. For books, you're probably getting beaten out by some other products.
1:02Number four, I have no idea.
1:04Do you know this book, Theo, of Golden and Novel?
1:06Do you know anything about this book, Buck?
1:09No, I do not know anything about this book.
1:11It has 50 ,000 reviews, so it must be a perpetual bestseller because I can't
1:16imagine that it would get 50 ,000 reviews unless it was just everywhere.
1:21Number two is Jelly Roll's wife's autobiography.
1:27The funny XO. Is she a former dancer?
1:32Former stripper, I believe. Exotic dancer as one might be.
1:35So a book by a former stripper is doing very well, apparently.
1:39Let Them, which has sold 4 billion copies.
1:42I don't know how this Let Them author, she's swimming, swimming in money.
1:49She's Scrooge McDuck diving. That book has been at the top of bestseller list for
1:53everywhere. And then Manufacturing Delusion, number four overall.
2:00So is it possible to drive it to number one?
2:03That would be an incredible accomplishment.
2:06Congratulations to Buck on the launch so far.
2:09So a stripper, a Theo of Golden, I know nothing about this, and a Let
2:15Them theory, only between Buck Sexton and number one overall on Amazon.
2:20So that's a tremendous accomplishment.
2:22Thanks to everybody out there who has been buying it.
2:24Congrats to Buck. And can you take it to number one?
2:27I'll start the show with that.
2:28Now, unfortunately for Buck, starting the show in a positive way, but there is a
2:34story involving the Royal Family that is right now the number one story in all
2:39of America. And when I woke up and I got this alert from the Wall
2:43Street Journal and I read it, my first thought was, Buck is going to be
2:47so upset that the Royal Family is at the top of the news cycle.
2:50That we have to talk about this at all?
2:52Correct. Yes. The Royal Family, a bunch of inbred clowns.
2:56Who cares? This whole thing is absurd.
2:57And yet, here we are.
2:59Prince Andrew, that is the brother of King Charles, has been arrested in association with
3:08the emails that were released as part of the 3 million emails that were published
3:14by the Department of Justice in the Epstein Revelations.
3:18Now, he has not been arrested for any sex crime -related issue.
3:23He has, in fact, been arrested for basically leaking classified information, allegedly, and that is
3:33the story here. And so, yeah.
3:38Well, I was just going to say, so this is pretty obviously you embarrassed us,
3:43meaning Andrew for the UK, right?
3:46Andrew embarrassed the Royal Family.
3:48Andrew embarrassed the establishment of the United Kingdom.
3:52He's in that photo that everyone has seen a million times now, and they're going
3:59after him here. I've never heard of someone in the UK being prosecuted.
4:04This has to do with trade secrets or something like that.
4:07I mean, this is... It's not like he was giving...
4:10Go ahead. Some of these emails that he was alleged to have been involved in
4:14leaking, but a lot of people are focusing on this in America, and they're saying,
4:19oh, they're arresting him. Not for any sex -related crime.
4:23It's for the idea that he might have disclosed inappropriately private information that should not
4:31have been released via the email showing him sharing this information.
4:37And this is also where if you just...
4:38Even on the Daily Mail, you know, huge UK website, they'll point this out.
4:42The age of consent nationally in the UK is 16.
4:46So as a UK national, he would not have...
4:51Yes. As a UK national, he would not have committed any sex crime specifically because
4:58of the age of Virginia Guffrey when she was in the UK.
5:03Now, the trafficking component of it, if he knew that she was being coerced or
5:07if she was paid, you know, that may be where he does get eventually prosecuted
5:12on this. But the age issue, you'll notice...
5:16Because otherwise, why wouldn't that have charged have been brought a long time ago?
5:20So the UK, the age of consent is 16.
5:23So it would be on a traffic issue...
5:24or a minor paid for prostitution again those things are also illegal in the u
5:29.s they would be illegal in the uk um you know those are the ways
5:34that he may get hit because they're looking right now apparently they're going through all
5:38of his stuff so they may bring some kind of a sex related charge against
5:41him but it is interesting that clay right now he's being charged because of something
5:47in the epstein files that has to do with trade secrets has nothing to do
5:53with actual sex crimes it just shows you this is where this situation is right
5:59now i mean i think there's a there's a there's a real desire to just
6:03start making examples of some of these individuals even if you it's like getting capone
6:07on taxes maybe even if you have to get them on something unrelated to the
6:12actual you know severe crime committed and last night the wall street journal had a
6:18story that said there was someone who was prepared to potentially basically turn in jeffrey
6:24epstein and it went into details i didn't realize this epstein basically owned a modeling
6:31agency in conjunction with this guy that um uh that was involved in the alleged
6:38story and so if you're wondering where did a lot of these women come from
6:44they recruited them and signed them through the modeling agency many of them were ukrainian
6:51and russian and then epstein would bring these models into his world and based on
6:59the emails he was saying and sending to some of these men hey i've got
7:03a new 25 year old here she is uh these were not kids uh according
7:09to the email from the wall street journal uh these were uh models that were
7:15brought over uh young women but of age women and there was involvement with prince
7:22andrew uh allegedly with meeting a lot of these different women so i think buck
7:28um this story by and large is actually less complicated than i think many of
7:34the conspiracy theories have suggested basically jeffrey epstein had created a world where he had
7:42access to very young attractive women most of whom at least based on the stories
7:48that i have seen most of whom were adults yes and remember for people who
7:53say well he was a he was a pedophile what he was convicted of was
7:57engaging in sexual activity with a 17 and a half year old um in the
8:03state of florida and so that is what made him a so -called sex offender
8:08for purposes of his felony that was the uh charge that he pled guilty to
8:14that's what we've actually had his attorney at the time on uh to discuss with
8:20uh on on this program uh for those of you who remember uh alan dershowitz
8:25was on alan dershowitz is his attorney who's been on to talk about that so
8:29all of this uh continuing to spiral out but prince andrew arrested to buck's point
8:35now they're doing a search maybe they will find out that there are other crimes
8:39that he could have been involved in but the crime that he's being basically investigated
8:43for is leaking classified information what this does even not even national security information trade
8:49information trade information which which by the way the uk has extremely uh when it
8:55wants to the uk does not have freedom of speech and i know this feels
8:59like a digression but just stay with me for a second everyone in the uk
9:02if you say something that hurts the national interest they can basically throw the book
9:08at you right i mean they're they're law they do not have a true free
9:11they do not have a first amendment obviously we have a different constitution etc uh
9:15but they there's like the i think it's called the official secrets act and they
9:19can just hammer you with this and it covers a whole range of things and
9:23they don't have that same uh that same free speech protection that we do here
9:27so it seems like he may have run afoul of that but people are clicking
9:31on prince andrew arrested and i think everyone is assuming they got him and they
9:38got him on on on being uh you know a sex criminal underage girls it's
9:43trade secrets yes it is actually right now not anything having to do with sex
9:48at all that may change um what it does do buck is it keeps the
9:54epstein story front and center and um what we're going to see is is there
10:02a continuing demand for further uh aspects of this uh these uh these arrests to
10:09occur this is the according to the daily mail and i even though i am
10:15interested in the royal family this is the first royal family member arrested in 400
10:20years in england wasn't he like deroyled like defrocked yeah so i don't know if
10:25he officially still counts as a royal um but uh but they're counting him still
10:31as a member of the royal family i think he was still in line eighth
10:35or ninth in line to the throne so i think they have stripped a title
10:39but i still think he's like not all the titles this whole thing is so
10:43just can we just to take a take put aside the epstein component of the
10:46story for a second because i just want to lay into this whole royal family
10:48this whole royal family thing the uk is so stupid okay these these do good
10:52in terms to know that this is the middle law one of jbe i believe
10:52in law school imposterous grifters, Meghan and Harry, the whole thing.
10:55Can we just stop with all this, everyone?
10:56I know they're not our royals, but we need to, in America, not care about
11:00this at all. There are other royal families in Europe, and you never hear about
11:04them, and that's a good thing.
11:06You know, they maybe show up at a couple of functions once or twice in,
11:09like, Spain or Sweden or something.
11:11No one cares. Not a big deal.
11:13The fascination with the U .K.
11:15royal family, they're basically the original, like, you know, Kardashians, oh, I'm sorry?
11:22They're original Kardashians on some level.
11:25Yes, just famous for being famous.
11:27I know they're famous for being royals, but they didn't do anything, and generally they're
11:30a bunch of losers, and they're deeply unimpressed.
11:32I mean, the king of England right now is a moron.
11:34He's a moron. Why do we care?
11:36The crown's a really good show.
11:38The crown is a really good show.
11:39The crown is a good show.
11:40I'm not hating on the crown.
11:42That's a good piece of entertainment.
11:44I'm saying the elevation of the royal family as someone that anyone in America or
11:50anywhere should care about is preposterous.
11:54And every time I hear someone say, oh, history and the unity under the blood.
11:59No, I'm sorry. The head of the Church of England, the whole thing is just,
12:02it's ridiculous. We all see this.
12:05I don't know what it's going to take, but it's going away.
12:07Can I just be clear?
12:08It's just a question of when.
12:10And there's no way you can keep this going where people get, they have like
12:12tens of millions of dollars a year in allowance in all these mansions just so
12:16they can show up at parties and people can pretend that they have something to
12:19say. I think Meghan and Harry have done a great job making people realize what
12:23a clown show this whole thing is.
12:24So, separate from the specifics of the Andrew situation, but I just, I can't help
12:30myself. You know, the Daily Mail obviously runs all these because it's UK -based paper,
12:34and it does actually do a lot of good coverage of things.
12:36It's just constant stuff on the royals.
12:38I'm like, who cares? I will say you're in the book -selling business right now.
12:44Prince Harry's book sold an ungodly amount of copies in the United States when it
12:49was released. There is an insane, and I'm going to be, I'm going to throw
12:52her under the bus here.
12:53This is a book, the book holds spare.
12:55The book holds spare. They don't really need it.
12:57It's really sad for me.
12:58It is not uncommon. When I get in the car and Laura Travis has been
13:02listening to a podcast, hopefully it is this show, which you should subscribe to on
13:07podcast, but it is not uncommon, Buck, when I get into a car that there
13:11is a British voice speaking, and it is the latest drama surrounding the royal family
13:17that Laura Travis is choosing to pursue.
13:19So, I think a lot of women love this, and a lot of women hate
13:23Meghan Markle. I would put my wife into this camp and just cannot stop consuming
13:30content about how awful Meghan Markle is.
13:34Well, Laura and Carrie could do a podcast just about the awfulness of Meghan Markle.
13:39That would be a thing, actually.
13:40I think it would take off, too.
13:41You know how shocking it is for me when I get into, if I get
13:43into her car, and immediately there's just a British voice talk.
13:47I'm like, what is this?
13:48And she's like, oh, I'm listening to British podcasts about how awful Meghan Markle is.
13:54So, there is a big market still for the royals.
13:57Now, I do think more significantly going forward, a lot of people are going to
14:01say, why is England holding people accountable for what they did in the Epstein emails,
14:08and the United States is not?
14:10What you and I would circle back on is, I still haven't seen, and I've
14:15read a lot of the coverage, I still haven't seen someone point and say, this
14:20is 100 % a crime.
14:22Now, we're going to open up a couple of them.
14:23But hold on a second.
14:24They're not really, just to be clear, they're not holding Prince Andrew right now, or
14:29they're not trying to hold Prince Andrew.
14:31I guess there's a presumption of innocence over there, too, right, in the legal system.
14:34And they're not holding him responsible for anything having to do with Epstein sex crimes.
14:41Correct. But for Epstein emails.
14:44This is like payback for that, in a sense, right, and for the embarrassment.
14:47But I'm just saying, this is a completely separate, you know, this is almost like
14:51they're prosecuting him for insider trading in the stock market.
14:54It has nothing to do with sex crimes.
14:56Nothing. And by the way, some people are being like the Wasserman guy that they're
15:00trying to get to step down from the L .A.
15:03the 2028 Olympic Committee is under fire for flirting with Jelaine Maxwell 20 years ago.
15:13So he didn't even email Epstein.
15:15He just flirted with Jelaine Maxwell 20 years ago.
15:18And they're like, he's selling his agency in Los Angeles because when he was 28
15:24and she was 41, they had flirtatious emails back in the day.
15:29I mean, this is real.
15:30Like, they made him sell his agency and the mayor of Los Angeles just said
15:34he can no longer be involved in the Olympic Committee.
15:38But, I mean, this is kind of indicative.
15:39We'll take your calls. A lot of people are probably going to weigh in.
15:42Iran news potentially coming. Can you take Buck's book to number one overall?
15:46We could go to war with Iran this weekend, but everyone wants to talk about
15:50Prince Andrew in the news right now.
15:52This is where we are as a society.
15:53We might go to war with a country with 90 million people and a lot
15:57of missiles, and that might happen.
15:59But Andrew's a scumbag. Let's talk about that.
16:02That's where the news cycle is right now.
16:03And take Buck's book to number one, which is our news cycle.
16:06I want to see what happens.
16:06Thank you. Manufacturing delusion. Manufacturing delusion.
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17:39back into clay and buck yeah good point from the team here uh producer greg
17:43saying that in the uk you get you get thrown in prison for writing the
17:45wrong thing on facebook about immigrants so yeah there's no there's no free speech there
17:49uh that is a real thing um but they can also throw you in prison
17:52for a whole range of things piers morgan who follows the royals very closely here
17:57he is cut eight that was a terrible piers morgan uh cut eight here he
18:00is uh talking about how this is the biggest threat to the monarchy monarchy play
18:03it can charles has seen that these were lies realizes that andrew is lying realize
18:09the severity of this scandal and the potential danger to the monarchy itself you know
18:15uh ainsley and i we've done a lot of stuff together in the uk of
18:19big royal events from coronations to funerals uh in the in the last uh few
18:24years um and and previously we will have all covered things like the death of
18:29princess diana these are huge seismic moments in the royal family's history i have never
18:34seen a bigger threat to the future of the monarchy than what is unfurling right
18:39now by the way he's right he's realizing the monarchy is a bunch of jerks
18:44and it's absurd and it's unearned and it's anachronistic and it should go away that's
18:48what people are actually realizing slowly but surely i think that buck prince william is
18:53uh popular enough that it's not going to be an issue for the future for
18:58him but we'll see clay the monarchy defender over here he's a monarchist uh all
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20:04um we've got a lot of different stories that we're following bug it it is
20:09funny that we may go to war with iran uh we're going to talk with
20:13steve yates at one in like 30 minutes roughly about the possibility of war with
20:19iran uh our friend carol markowitz will join us in the next hour to talk
20:22about issues of the day but prince andrew being arrested has taken over the news
20:29cycle as opposed to whether we might go to war in the middle east um
20:34and there are other news cycle moments that i think are worthy of discussion and
20:39one of them just so happens to be us being completely right about the made
20:45up james tallarico interview i know buck you uh yesterday had fcc commissioner brendan carr
20:51on uh the team pulled a bunch of different cuts here but here is a
20:55flashback from tuesday's edition of the show where i said this is going to be
21:01so much more beneficial to tallarico in the texas primary than running the actual interview
21:08was it feels like a rig job here is cut 11 when i hear and
21:13see this controversy emerging i say my goodness this is elite democrat power brokers deciding
21:22to set up this james tallarico interview if it airs it's a huge uh bonus
21:28to him but if it gets shut down under this fcc equal time doctrine i
21:35would argue it's an even bigger bonus for him because most people would have never
21:40seen this but for the fact that stephen colbert went on and attacked his bosses
21:45for not letting him have on james tallarico So, guess who now is saying this?
21:52Stephen Colbert himself went on and said, way more people watched this than ever would
21:57have seen it. This was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, cut 10.
22:03Whatever talking to me, the corporation put out this press release, this statement.
22:09In it, they say, The Late Show was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the
22:14interview with Representative James Tallarico.
22:16The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal time
22:21rule for two other candidates, including Representative Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the
22:26equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled.
22:28The Late Show decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on -air
22:32promotion on the broadcast, rather than potentially providing the equal time options.
22:37So, we obeyed our network and put the interview on YouTube, where it's gotten millions
22:42of views. And I can see why.
22:49Tallarico is an interesting guy.
22:51I don't know if he should be the senator, but it was a good discussion.
22:54I wish we could have put it on the show, where no one would have
22:57watched it. Okay, so, Buck, here is the other thing on, this is Harry Enten,
23:06CNN data guru, sharing all the data.
23:10And again, this feels like such a rigged job.
23:12The real victim here is not Stephen Colbert or James Tallarico, Buck.
23:17And I can't believe I'm saying this.
23:19It's Jasmine Crockett. They're treating her.
23:22Clay is pro -royal family, pro -Jasmine Crockett today.
23:25I'm taking all the tough arguments today, pro -royal family.
23:29And I'm defending Jasmine Crockett here because they're terrified she would be the nominee, the
23:36Democrat Party. And this reminds me of what they did to Bernie Sanders when they
23:41did the rigged job for Hillary Clinton.
23:44Jasmine Crockett is not allowed to go on with Colbert, doesn't get to make the
23:49case to the Texas Democrat Senate primary voters.
23:52And meanwhile, listen to Harry Enten.
23:55This is a huge story.
23:57The overall interest in Tallarico has skyrocketed.
24:02This is CNN pointing out, hey, the controversy is way better than if he had
24:07just been able to go on the program in the first place.
24:10You know, I'm going to quote one of my favorite singers and actresses, Barbra Streisand.
24:14There's a real Barbra Streisand effect going on here.
24:17What are we talking about here?
24:19Well, take a look here.
24:20Google searches for James Tallarico.
24:22In the U .S., up 4 ,900 percent today versus Monday.
24:26How about in Texas, where you have that key Senate race going on there?
24:30Up like a rock. And we're talking about up 1 ,150 percent.
24:34So this has actually been very good news for James Tallarico.
24:38You want that attention. You have that primary going on in a few weeks.
24:42And he's absolutely gotten it, both nationwide and, of course, very importantly, in the state
24:46of Texas as well. The highest on record.
24:49So if you look at the gambling markets, right, the prediction markets, as it were,
24:56and you're curious, okay, what is the impact here?
25:00Tallarico's chances since this story came out, Buck, of winning the primary in Texas have
25:07skyrocketed in this prediction market.
25:11He was starting to fade.
25:13Jasmine Crockett was rising. And it's like the Democrat Party ordered the hit.
25:19They used Colbert. And the real victim here, the bad guy, is not Donald Trump.
25:25It's not CBS. It's not some executive who rightly pointed out the conflict here.
25:30It's all Jasmine Crockett just getting dunked on by her own party.
25:37This is all I could think.
25:39It feels so self -evident to me.
25:43There's nothing that could have been more clear than this was an op.
25:47And, you know, you called it out right away.
25:48And I think it was definitely apparent to anyone seeing how this was going to
25:53go. But it reminds me of the old days with CNN and the Trump first
25:57term with Jim Acosta when it was, you know, oh, my gosh, like they're shutting
26:00down the First Amendment. Look at how mean they're being to journalists.
26:03There's nothing better for his career than when Trump would make fun of him.
26:05There's nothing better for a CNN anchor than when Trump would go after them because
26:10their audience loves to see that.
26:11There's nothing better for Don Lemon than getting arrested.
26:14As we said on this program, the idea that he was going to bear consequences
26:18was just not true. It's the best thing that ever happened to his career.
26:23And so this victim narrative that they create, it's all just self -serving nonsense, as
26:30we know. But the good news for everybody is James Tallarico is going to get
26:33smoked in the Senate race.
26:35I mean, he's not going to come close, I think.
26:36It's going to be his Beto 2 .0.
26:39Remember Beto? Wasn't he on the cover of Vanity Fair?
26:42It's like, oh, he's like so handsome.
26:44I think he married a rich woman.
26:45Like, this guy doesn't even have a real job.
26:46You know, he's one of these people.
26:47He married a woman whose family has money, and, you know, he wears jeans.
26:53And he's like, we're going to, like, take all your AR -15s, and, like, we're
26:56going to make a big pile of them and, like, light them on fire.
27:00And all the libs on the coast are like, he's amazing, and he wears Wrangler
27:04jeans and cowboy boots, so Texas will love him.
27:06And Texas was like, no, actually no.
27:09So, yeah, I think this is Tallarico is going to be just like Beto, and
27:14it's not going to work for him.
27:15So that's the good news.
27:16Now, I do think the question here going forward is, I know they're going to
27:21toss to the curb. Colbert's show in May, I think, is over.
27:27And in the meantime, as we could well have expected, he's throwing as many fits
27:31as he can, kicking and screaming on the way out to his show ceasing to
27:35exist. And then guess what's going to happen, Buck?
27:38Spotify, or someone like Spotify, is going to give Stephen Colbert $100 million to do
27:44a podcast and Stephen Colbert is not going to be a victim.
27:48And then every single left -wing legacy media outlet in the country is going to
27:53do a huge story about how Stephen Colbert was a victim.
27:56I can tell you exactly how this is going to play out.
27:59His podcast is going to be highly rated because they're going to promote it like
28:01crazy. And he's going to do basically the exact same show on podcast.
28:05And he's going to make more money.
28:06And it'll be on YouTube.
28:07And they'll promote it. And they'll do a huge story about how Stephen Colbert is
28:12the big success and CBS are the losers.
28:14I can tell you exactly how the next year of Stephen Colbert's life is going
28:18to play out. Which reminds me, they manufacture his popularity and they manufacture delusions, which
28:25is a fantastic book, Manufacturing Delusion, that all of you who have not already purchased
28:29your copy should go purchase a copy of because this first week we have to
28:34be John Meacham's book. You know, Clay, I am getting...
28:36John Meacham, for those of you who don't know, he's a presidential historian.
28:40You know, there's a lot of books about these presidents, okay?
28:42But he became the go -to historian on Morning Joe alongside Beschloss to be like,
28:49Trump is Hitler and he's going to destroy America.
28:51I have people sending me, because our books came out on the same day, that
28:55if you go to, let's just say, a large brick -and -mortar retailer with many
28:59stores across the country in places, you will see that there will be like 15...
29:04There's a huge display of Meacham books.
29:05My book, you can't even find it.
29:06You have to, like, go...
29:08It's almost like you're going to buy, you know, the naughty book that you're not
29:13supposed to know exists. Who makes this decision?
29:17Corporate libs in these places.
29:19Because our books are neck and neck in sales.
29:22He has a giant display.
29:24Mine doesn't exist in physical copy unless you go and know the secret handshake for
29:28the guy, you know, stalking in the back.
29:31This is what they do.
29:32So, you know, help me out here.
29:33Show the communists that they don't get to just keep doing this nonsense.
29:37Go buy manufacturing delusion. It's so true if you walk through a book, an airport.
29:42They will give you unbelievable placement at the front of a store for your left
29:47-wing book. You all see it.
29:49I will say, I'm in Amazon right now.
29:53Best review that I've seen so far.
29:57Phenomenal book analyzing how delusion has taken over this country.
30:00I just wish the author had more respect for Taylor Swift, the Beatles of her
30:06generation. Most liked review so far.
30:09That is from me inside of Amazon.
30:12And I am a verified purchaser, to be fair.
30:15You can see that if you doubted whether I paid my own money for Buck's
30:19book, it is in my Amazon account.
30:21I am Richard Clay Travis, just so you know.
30:25I'm actually nervous now that I've said that.
30:27I'm like, have I reviewed anything else?
30:31No, only a couple of things.
30:33So I was like, oh no, what else have I reviewed on Amazon?
30:37Only a couple of books.
30:38Another one was like 15 years ago.
30:39Somebody asked me to review it.
30:40So that's the only reviews that are on my Amazon account.
30:43But that is my actual Amazon account.
30:45Go buy your copy of the book.
30:48And oh yeah, Ali's saying they used to turn Rush's book over upside down.
30:52Um, look, what I would say is in the marketplace of ideas, I think about
30:59this all the time. How do you reach people that otherwise might not be aware
31:04of your arguments? We are incredibly thankful for all of you out there that are
31:08listening to us every day.
31:09And every day, there's a few more of you than there were the day before.
31:13And that's been the case for each of the last five years.
31:15And that's a credit, um, to the staff and the fact that we try to
31:19do a good job with this show.
31:20But there's also tens of millions of people that would like our arguments and do
31:25not get exposed to them.
31:27And so hopefully, I hope that they are going to see your book, um, and,
31:31uh, and become aware that, uh, that there are arguments like these being made.
31:35Absolutely. Very important. So go check out Manufacturing Delusion.
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33:22T's and C's apply. The situation in Iran.
33:24He's a former senior national security official and we'll talk to him about what's going
33:28on. People are saying we're getting ready for the, at least Trump is getting ready
33:31to do something big with Iran.
33:35Continuous airstrikes for weeks on end if he were to go down that route.
33:39But that's the kind of preparations he's making.
33:41We'll talk about that. A lot of talkbacks.
33:43A lot of talkbacks. A on the talkback.
33:45Let's hit it. We'll hit it slowly.
33:53Is it coming or not?
33:55Is it not happening? Your great book, Manufacturing Delusion.
33:58It's outstanding. It's scaring the heck out of me.
34:01I appreciate your work. Thank you so much.
34:03Thank you, Gilbert from Arizona, who listens on 550KFYI.
34:08Joseph in upstate New York, a WGY listener.
34:12Let's go, B. Good afternoon, gentlemen.
34:14I want to let you know I ordered Buck's audiobook.
34:17Got that all set. I do a lot of commuting to and from work.
34:20Currently delivering mail up here in upstate New York.
34:23I want to get a hard copy, but I'm waiting for the autographed copy through
34:26Crockett Coffee. I get myself some mushroom coffee and a great book.
34:29Thanks, guys. Have a great day.
34:32I'm going to be writing some autographs.
34:33Buck's going to be signing a lot of autographs.
34:36Codebook at CrockettCoffee .com. Let me say this, too.
34:39We're going to keep playing the audios.
34:43The CrockettCoffee .com success story is pretty phenomenal.
34:49I'm super excited about how we're going to continue to grow this, but Buck's brother,
34:54Mason, has done an awesome job running the business side of Crockett Coffee.
35:01I think we're going to get somebody to write a story telling you how well
35:04it's been doing lately, but thousands and thousands of you have signed up, and I
35:10just think the runway for this, now that we know coffee, which I gave up
35:15soda a while ago, right?
35:16My wife had been on me for a long time.
35:19I drank Mountain Dew like crazy.
35:21When we started this show, I was still pounding Mountain Dews.
35:24My wife's like, it's just sugar water.
35:25Don't drink it. So I went to coffee, and now I'm going to live forever
35:29evidently, Buck, because they keep coming out with this data saying 25 % decline in
35:37your overall Alzheimer's likelihood when you drink coffee and the age of which you are,
35:44your longevity continues to grow.
35:46And so anyway, I'm super excited about what we're doing with it, but Buck's going
35:50to have to sign a lot of copies.
35:51And if you haven't signed up yet, if you haven't subscribed, go to CrockettCoffee .com
35:55Marie in Florida listening to us on News Radio WFLA.
36:01It's Marie from Florida. I just wanted to say I'm trying to help you with
36:05your ranking there. I bought a hard copy of Manufacturing Delusion as well as the
36:11Audible book on Amazon. So I can hear your lovely voice reading the whole thing
36:17to me while I go on a run.
36:19Have a great day, guys.
36:21That's fantastic. Thank you so much.
36:24That's like, that's getting it done at all angles, and I really appreciate it.
36:27Also, for those of you who have read the book, it's a pretty quick read,
36:31and we did that on purpose.
36:32I actually cut. Clay, I think I ended up writing 50 % more than what
36:36actually made it into the book.
36:39They had to shut me down a little bit.
36:41What did I tell you about editing is the worst part of the entire book
36:45writing basis? I got so deep into Ivan Pavlov.
36:49I have like a thousand page biography of Pavlov that I use for part of
36:52the research of this, and actually the author of that, who's the premier Pavlov historian
36:56in this country, I reached out to and had questions for him.
36:59He's very nice. Professor Totus, he just answered my questions about Pavlov so I could
37:03really understand things. And he's, I think, a professor emeritus now.
37:07But I mean, I was getting, the Pavlov thing was fascinating to me because he
37:13hated the Soviets, he was doing this incredible research for the time, all this breakthrough
37:18stuff, and the Soviets let him basically be one of the very few, he was
37:23so important to them pretending that they were like a new scientific approach to government,
37:30essentially, that they couldn't kill him.
37:32They needed him. So he would say things about them that Clay would have gotten
37:36anyone else in the Soviet Union put up against the wall.
37:39So it was this very interesting back and forth between them that I, anyway, that
37:45didn't make, that really didn't make it into the book because they're like, Buck, chapter
37:47two is like, 800 pages, like 50 pages long.
37:51So when we come back, Steve Yates, okay, we talked all about the Prince Andrew,
37:58the Tallarico Senate race, the Republicans and Democrats go vote.
38:03You can vote now. March 3rd is the primary in Texas.
38:07It's the very first primary.
38:08Steve Yates, what's going to happen in Texas?
38:10in Iran. When do we get an outcome?
38:14All of that headed your way next.
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