Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H3 - Kamala: "Imma Get Mine"
4/25/202637 mincomplete
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0:08And I've got a whole bunch of things I want to lay out for you,
0:11but Clay is giving me the hand signal because we have a special secret Clay
0:17and Buck show hand signals for breaking news.
0:20It better be breaking. It better not be about some guy's extension for coaching some
0:27league somewhere. What is this breaking news?
0:30Not that, Buck, but I do think this is fairly significant given how close the
0:36House majority and minority situation is.
0:41Representative Sheila Sherfalis -McCormick from Florida, a Democrat, has resigned from Congress.
0:48She was found guilty of violating more than 20 House ethics rules and faces, this
0:55is Bill Malugin's update, faces federal charges for stealing millions of dollars in FEMA money.
1:02So this is the third resignation from the House in the space of just a
1:08few days now. And this is a Democrat seat that is being relinquished.
1:14We'll see what else is, if there's anybody else that's going to drop out.
1:17But I thought that was pretty significant because she had faced a lot of calls
1:22to resign. Republican congressmen from South Florida has resigned, and obviously Swalwell.
1:28And one more thing before you dive in.
1:30We're waiting. We still don't know.
1:31J .D. Vance has not left.
1:33And we don't know if he's going to leave for Pakistan for these talks, whether
1:38or not that's going to happen.
1:39But let me tell you, if I'm J .D.
1:41Vance, you know what I'm saying?
1:43Can we do this via Zoom?
1:45Can I speak to the Iranian negotiators with a Zoom call?
1:48You know, I would do this.
1:49You just made fun of me for saying this is an awful plane flight to
1:53have to take all the way to Pakistan.
1:55I would be loath to get on that flight.
1:58There's a difference between... He's flying on Air Force Two or whatever.
2:03He's going to have a nice layout bed.
2:05It's going to be way fancier than any of us are going to be traveling
2:10to that part of the world.
2:11That said, I'd still rather do a Zoom from the comfort of my own home
2:16with these Iranian negotiators who are just going to be playing games.
2:20There's not going to be a deal, okay?
2:22Trump may say tomorrow, we've reached a great deal, and then it will be we're
2:28doing a follow -up on the deal in six weeks, which is another way of
2:31saying what I've told you all along, it's going to be an agreement to talk
2:36more about what the agreement will be.
2:39And that is where this is heading.
2:40So I think that JD should make the case for this should be a Zoom
2:45because Islamabad, I'm going to tell you, Uber Eats Islamabad, probably not great.
2:50I'd rather be in D .C.
2:51personally. I would agree with you that the food...
2:56I'm not... And we're going to make enemies today.
2:59First New Jersey, now Pakistan.
3:02I am not sold that the food would be very good in Pakistan either.
3:05And I would not want to get on a flight for 12 or 13 hours,
3:09go negotiate for 21. Here's the other thing, Buck.
3:12I think you're right. I don't think we're going to get any actual resolution.
3:17And so we'll see what transpires, but that's the absolute latest there.
3:22I'll tell you, Pakistani food, believe it or not, is quite similar to what we
3:27think of as Indian food, which they would not want to hear, but it is
3:32true. And Indian food is delicious.
3:34So it depends. You just want to get a certain quality of it.
3:38That said, I think that your options beyond that cuisine in Islamabad, probably not great.
3:46I think Lahore is supposed to be the most sophisticated city in Pakistan, most international.
3:52It's on the coast. So I think Lahore, you'd probably get some good stuff.
3:56But Islamabad, Islamabad is kind of the Albany of Pakistan.
4:00And I love you, Albany, because we have a great station there.
4:03But it's not New York.
4:05It's New York City, I mean.
4:06It's not the cosmopolitan castle.
4:09You just came. That was such a New Yorker move of you to just flying
4:13elbow Albany out of nowhere.
4:16Just obliterated them. I'm going to move on to Kamala Harris here for a second.
4:22I'm going to move on to Kamala Harris.
4:22People in Albany just driving around, having a good day.
4:26And then Macho Man Randy Savage off the top rope just leg drops him.
4:31Flying elbow. They're both the capitals.
4:32They're both the capitals. I'm just saying the capital of one, capital of the other.
4:36There you go. You know, you're lucky.
4:39Your state is a rarity in that most states.
4:43Wait, actually, I don't know if it's most states.
4:44A lot of states, the main city is not the capital, right?
4:49Clearly, that's the case. Yeah, everybody wants to come to Nashville.
4:53But I do understand that nobody wants to leave Manhattan for Albany.
4:57Like, there is a lot of people that are not excited necessarily to be departing
5:03the center of the country.
5:04I've never been to Sacramento.
5:05I used to be a big fan of their basketball team, actually, back in the
5:08Chris Weber, Vlade Divas, Mike Bibby days.
5:12But when I used to watch the NBA.
5:15That team, you'll well remember, Buck, was robbed by the officiators.
5:18Totally robbed. Yeah. Yeah, by L .A., by Los Angeles Lakers.
5:23And an official was totally bought off.
5:25The whole thing. You could tell watching it, it was a scam.
5:28It was obvious that it was actually one of those times you yell, the reps
5:30are paid off, and they really were.
5:33But Sacramento is not one of the primary cities for California.
5:37Anyway, you guys all know this.
5:37You go to a lot of different states.
5:38This is the situation. So with that all said, let's not talk about the J
5:44.D.'s heading to Islamabad maybe.
5:46Don't you think, though, that the Zoom pitch would be they can do secure video
5:49just so you know that's not a hard thing to do.
5:51They do this in the intelligence world all the time.
5:53So don't you think a secure video would be the move here?
5:56I just think that they're making J .D.
5:59go a long way to not come home with the prize.
6:03Nonetheless, all right, Kamala Harris, she's probably running.
6:07I'd give the very, very long odds that she's not at this point, which is
6:11sad for me. I don't know what I was thinking that day.
6:14I was just trying to be feisty, and Clay completely suckered me into this bet.
6:21That, I mean, yeah, granted, I threw out the bet idea, but you jumped on
6:25that right away. You were like, this guy's in it.
6:26This guy's selling me Amazon for $5.
6:29Like, this is crazy. And so anyway, I'll take my lumps on this one.
6:33Kamala here, though. How is she going to be the Democrat?
6:39And that's an interesting thing, because you would talk about how incompetent she is and
6:45how she's not a good politician.
6:47All true. But look at the rest of the field.
6:50I still think Gavin Newsom is going to beat her, and that's really interesting to
6:53me because they're both California.
6:54They're kind of relying on the same donor base and the same.
6:57But here she is giving you a sense of, I think, where some of the
7:02Kamala campaign, should it happen, because it is not 100 % yet.
7:06It's like 99%. Here it is.
7:08Cut one. I think it's okay for us to be a bit transactional, too, and
7:16to say, I'm going to get mine also.
7:21And so don't count on me to be a voter and be the backbone of
7:27the Democratic Party. He's talking about black women there as the backbone of the Democratic
7:32Party and saying, I'm going to get mine, addressing in the urban vernacular, if you
7:40will, Kamala Harris, the pandering and the transformation that Kamala is going to engage in
7:47to being, how would you put it?
7:53Kamala is going to run, in order to be the nominee, an identity -laden politics
7:59campaign the likes of which you have never seen before.
8:02And she's going to argue to this audience of black women, as she is already
8:07starting to preview, we have always been treated unfairly.
8:11I am your voice. And she's going to say, if I'm not selected, it is
8:18the Democrat Party turning their back on you, the backbone of the Democrat Party.
8:25And that is going to be her entire campaign in the primary.
8:30And, Buck, I think it's going to work.
8:33And, again, I don't think she's just going to run.
8:37I think she's going to win the nomination.
8:40And I don't think she's going to win the nomination in a way that makes
8:43her a likable candidate for the general election.
8:46But she is going to lean on identity politics as the reason why she's entitled
8:54to this nomination. She's going to argue.
8:57She's already started the argument.
8:58She's going to argue. You and I think it's ridiculous.
9:00You read the book. She's going to argue the reason she lost is because they
9:05threw her into an unwinnable situation after 107 days.
9:10Wait for this. Clip it, producer Allie.
9:13Save it. Because you guys are going to say, oh, my God, Clay completely called
9:16this. She's going to say that she had to do what black women always have
9:23to do, pick up the mess that old white guys create.
9:27She's going to turn herself into an avatar for black women across America who are
9:35given difficult jobs because the leaders that gave them those jobs weren't up to the
9:41challenge. And she's going to say, Joe Biden left me a mess, didn't give me
9:46time to clean it up.
9:48I only got 107 days.
9:50The idea that she wrote that book called 107 days is not a coincidence, and
9:56she's going to argue that she's the most qualified.
9:59Black women are the base of the Democrat Party, and she has to be the
10:02nominee or it's racist and sexist not to pick her.
10:06Now, I think it's going to be hard for Democrats to get past her.
10:09Here's how they do it.
10:09I don't think that you're on.
10:11I think that's it. What you're laying out is accurate.
10:14I think it's a given.
10:16I think there's no question.
10:16We already know if she gets far enough what the narrative will be, so you're
10:20correct, but I don't think that that's a – you're not out on a limb
10:24with that one. Okay, so I think that she will – that will be her
10:27argument. How do you rebut it?
10:29Okay, if the Democrat Party wants to self -select like they did for Bernie when
10:34they took him out for Hillary and like they did for everybody else when they
10:38rigged everything for Biden both in 20 and in 24, they need to find a
10:44minority candidate who can cut into Kamala's appeal with black women.
10:49Is it AOC? I don't know.
10:52I think it's the – She's in a good spot is there is no other
10:56black female candidate that is able to tap into the audience that she already has
11:02gained the loyalty of. So one, is there a way?
11:05Does AOC peel any of that away?
11:07Can Wes Moore, Cory Booker can't, like it's just never going to happen for him.
11:12But is there a minority candidate that can cut into her minority appeal?
11:17That's cut one for what they do.
11:19Two is, Buck, and I keep hammering this, I'm the only person in America who
11:22seems to say it. Which primary states are first?
11:25If they make South Carolina and Georgia and Tennessee early up in the primary process,
11:31Kamala is going to be the nominee.
11:33If they suddenly go back and say, we got to go back to New Hampshire
11:37and we got to go back to Iowa, it gives other people a chance to
11:41get their voices heard. But if they go to states with large black populations in
11:46the primary, Kamala is going to be the nominee.
11:48I'm just telling you, you can think it's crazy, but a lot of people would
11:53have said it was crazy when in 2022, if you had said, hey, Donald Trump's
11:59going to win his best victory of all time in 2024.
12:03I think she believes time is on her side.
12:07I've also got something else that I've got to say, the reporting on this would
12:13indicate that Clay was on to something, which I hate to admit, but I cannot
12:17tell a lie. You see this stuff about DeSantis?
12:20Mm -hmm. You said Supreme Court.
12:23I said, I don't think he wants Supreme Court.
12:25I think he wants to stay in the game.
12:27The reporting right now is, well, it's kind of both are right now in play
12:33in the sense that he either wants a top three cabinet job, or which would
12:40be War, Department of War, Department of Defense, Secretary of State, or maybe Treasury.
12:48Some people would put that there.
12:50AG, that he's very interested in AG, according to this.
12:53No, no. Axios is saying he's not interested in AG.
12:55Oh, okay. I see this headline right now.
12:57Sorry. Yes. Not interested in AG.
12:58That's what was surprising to me.
13:00Okay, yes. But he is interested, possibly, in a Supreme Court opening.
13:06That I did not see.
13:07I thought that he would.
13:09So it's not that he wants that as the top choice, but apparently the reporting
13:13is that DeSantis is open to the idea, which I will admit is a surprise
13:16to me. I thought he would want to be in the political game.
13:19No question. No fuss. No muss.
13:22But turns out, at least if you believe this, and this doesn't, you can always,
13:27there's the things that the New York Times and Axios report where there's political advantage
13:31in lying, and you have to be careful.
13:33But there's some times where they probably just want to report what they're finding because
13:37why not? Why not be, you know, there's no penalty for accuracy.
13:41That's what you have to remember with the corporate media.
13:43If there's no penalty for accuracy, sometimes they tell the truth.
13:47Yeah. And also, if the reporting corresponds with some things that you or I have
13:54experienced, again, Ron DeSantis, and I say this favorably, is a law nerd.
13:59He loves reading Supreme Court opinions.
14:01He likes to analyze the law.
14:04I think, I said this, what, a week or two weeks ago, as the Alito
14:10talk, Clarence Thomas, I thought that it was interesting that Molly Hemingway mentioned, you know,
14:15John Roberts also over 70 years old, that there would be deep interest potentially in
14:22a replacement there. And this interesting part in the Axios story, Buck, is that there
14:28is a headline here that specifically references Clarence Thomas.
14:34DeSantis and conservative justice Clarence Thomas said, according to a source, almost have a father
14:40-son relationship. That would be a hell of a legacy for Trump.
14:45Now, I told you, and I think you probably signed on this too as well,
14:49Buck, it only takes about two more years for Clarence Thomas to be the longest
14:54serving justice of all time.
14:55I think that matters to him.
14:57I don't think he's going to leave before then, if he's healthy.
15:01Uh, DeSantis would also be a super difficult target for Democrats to try to submarine.
15:10He has the intellect. He has the skills.
15:12He has the back, you know, he has a background.
15:15He's got a super clean, you know, everything would have come out about him already.
15:18There's nothing to hit. Yeah, they can try to Kavanaugh him, but we would see
15:22that coming the same way we, you know, now it'd be Kavanaugh part two.
15:25It's not going to work.
15:27Um, so yeah, I, I think that that's very, that's very, and Clay, I thought
15:31that you were off on that one and I will give you a, I will,
15:34I will give you the full credit for thinking that that is a possibility.
15:38Look, 40 years of DeSantis on the Supreme Court would be an absolute home run
15:43for Trump. Yes. We always talk about how would a guy.
15:47It was always a good idea from that perspective.
15:49I just didn't, I thought Ron still wanted to be president.
15:51Like I'm telling you this right now, Ted Cruz does not want Supreme Court.
15:54Ted Cruz wants to run different thing that, that I think is very clear to
15:59people in that orbit. So Ron though, maybe wants that Supreme Court seat.
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17:35All right, we're going to dive into this Axios story a little bit when we
17:39come back, because it begins with President Trump has told confidants Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
17:47is begging for a job, including attorney general.
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18:56All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
18:58Buck, you know, Trump called in to CNBC and some important news was made from
19:03what he said about a whole range of things going on.
19:11Clay, number two I will ask you about at some point here, which is just
19:14interesting to me, which is Clay, Trump, not Clay, Trump saying that college sports is
19:18it. You know what, actually?
19:20Explain this to me. I want you to explain to me what's going on.
19:22This is Trump on CNBC.
19:24I just want to learn on this one because I have no idea, really.
19:27I mean, I guess it's the name and likeness thing at some level, but that's
19:29about as much as I understand of it.
19:31This is cut, too. This is Trump this morning.
19:33Play it. Look what happened with NIL.
19:36They destroyed college sports, the court system.
19:39Destroyed. So hard to put that one back, Humpty Dumpty.
19:42So hard to put that one back together.
19:45You know, we had 150 years of rulings and everything else, and they had such
19:50a great system. It was a scholarship system.
19:52You get free college if you're a good athlete.
19:55You get this. You get that.
19:56And it took care of every sport, fencing, not only football.
19:59Now it's all football, and the football is bringing down colleges because they're losing.
20:04Did you see Penn State lost $500 million last year?
20:09Florida State lost $450 million last year.
20:13They can't lose that kind of money.
20:15They don't make that kind of money.
20:16College sports is a disaster right now.
20:19You have many people staying in college because they're going to make more money than
20:22they would if they went into baseball, Major League Baseball, or the NFL.
20:26They can make more money, you know, a seven -year freshman.
20:29We have a seven -year freshman.
20:31It's crazy. It is ridiculous to me as an outsider.
20:35Some of these things he's talking about, like the seven -year freshman thing and all
20:38this nonsense, the guys who are 28 who are playing college athletics now to make
20:42money. It's absurd. It's stupid.
20:44It makes a mockery of the whole thing.
20:45Are his numbers right with the $400 million?
20:48What is he talking about?
20:48Well, so those numbers, I'm always skeptical of accounting numbers because this is my general
20:55position on accounting in general.
20:57You give me 10 accountants, 10 different accountants will tell me what I owe for
21:00taxes. Like, so much of this is infuriating.
21:04You know, I'm honestly a flat tax guy.
21:07You know, back in the day, one thing I think Steve Forbes got right is
21:10we should just be able to have on our, you know, postcard, like, hey, everybody
21:14pays 12 % or whatever the heck it was.
21:17But going back to Trump, well, he's right in general direction without me being able
21:22to subscribe to the specifics because I haven't read those exact numbers.
21:27College sports are broken. And college, it is funny.
21:31President Trump is just trying to fix everything simultaneously.
21:35He's trying to fix the ballroom at the White House situation.
21:38He's trying to build a huge arch.
21:41He's trying to fix the situation in Venezuela, in Iran, in Cuba.
21:46He's trying to fix the American economy.
21:48He's just doing everything all at once, and he's also trying to fix college sports.
21:53Here's the easy way to explain it, Buck.
21:56There is perpetual college football free agency and college basketball.
22:01So we got the NFL draft coming up on Thursday.
22:03A lot of people will watch it, tens of millions.
22:06In college athletics right now, every single player is a free agent every year, and
22:12they're making money through NIL, which is name, image, and likeness, which is if you
22:17and I do an advertisement on television, that would be NIL.
22:21That would be NIL for a player or a coach as well.
22:24What they're getting is pay -for -play.
22:26So we went from you'll be suspended if you get paid anything for being a
22:31college athlete to you can make millions of dollars to play college football and college
22:37basketball now. And so his point that I think really kind of brings it home
22:40is we have guys suing to be able to stay in college because they'll make
22:45more money playing college sports than they will if they go to the pros.
22:49Think about how crazy that is.
22:51So you've got 19 -year -olds on college campuses making millions of dollars.
22:56Buck, can you imagine how much trouble?
22:59They're not student -athletes. This whole thing is so idiotic.
23:02It's so absurd. But, Clay, it has been for – this has been my thing
23:05for a long time. A lot of these schools, they're not student -athletes, okay?
23:09They're mercenaries for sports. Sports, they're pretending to go to classes.
23:13They're pretending to get an education.
23:14Now, I know people say, oh, but what about this person who's, like, at Stanford
23:17and he's a genius and also, you know, playing on the tennis team.
23:20We know what we're talking about here.
23:22This whole thing has been a charade.
23:24They don't even go to class anymore, Buck, because everything is online.
23:28So a lot of these guys – you used to, when I was a kid,
23:31when you were a kid, there would be guys who were, quote, unquote, academically ineligible
23:35because they hadn't gotten enough credits.
23:37But nobody's academically ineligible anymore, and they're going to five schools in five years.
23:42Think about how hard it is to transfer.
23:44It's just semi -pro sports using, in a lot of cases, for, like, the state
23:48schools, taxpayer -enabled ecosystems and even stadiums to build all this stuff.
23:55Because, you know, people talk about the big programs, but, yeah, there's thousands of colleges
23:59in the country. Yes. And they all have sports teams.
24:01So a lot of them are not making – you know, I went to Amherst.
24:04UMass Amherst, nobody was freaking out about what a great football team they had, but
24:08they have a giant stadium paid for by the taxpayer.
24:12So this is just – it's finally – some of us have been, like, shouted
24:16at, like, nerd, getting a wedgie and getting shoved in the locker for talking about
24:20this for a long time.
24:20I am one of those people.
24:22It's just an observation of what is clear, which is that these things are not
24:27what they are pretending to be.
24:29In fact, you've got coaches making $10 million, but their players get, like, kicked out
24:33of the NCAA forever if they accept a ham sandwich from a booster.
24:36It's so stupid. It's absurd.
24:38So it's broken. The whole thing is preposterous.
24:39And it went to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said 9 -0 that
24:43the NCAA basically couldn't restrict competition, and that's where we are.
24:48Now, Congress – and I'm going to testify about this, because I could spend –
24:51like, I love this. It's super complicated, but I get all in the weeds.
24:55I'm going to go testify for this with Jim Jordan in June.
24:58I'm scheduled to. But what they need is an antitrust exemption, because without an antitrust
25:04exemption, there's basically no way to put in place rules.
25:07So here's a historical analogy for you, Buck, and I've used this.
25:11Remember when the Berlin Wall came down, and suddenly you could sell nuclear weapons and
25:16kidneys in some of these Eastern European countries?
25:19They had no guardrails. They went from everything is basically prohibited to be sold outside
25:25of the government sphere to we have absolutely no rules at all.
25:28And I'm not kidding. You could buy – suddenly they were selling off factories on
25:32that make steel, and you could just go buy them, and you could sell –
25:36I think you could still sell kidneys in Russia.
25:38I think. I'm not 100 % an expert on that.
25:40But they had all these – no rules or regulations at all.
25:45They went from purely restricted economic activity to unregulated capitalism.
25:50We're in the unregulated capitalism stage of college athletics right now.
25:54It was still illegal to sell nukes, but I see what you're saying, yes.
25:57Like, that still would have been a problem.
25:58Basically, you could buy a missile.
26:00I think you could buy a missile back in the day.
26:01It's still illegal, but yes.
26:03I mean, they were selling them, yes.
26:04Like, there's a difference. Anyway, it doesn't matter, but yes.
26:07Can you still sell kidneys?
26:08It's definitely legal to do everything, but people were doing a lot of stuff.
26:11Can you sell kidneys still?
26:14I don't know. I mean, that's very specific.
26:16I think you can – I think in many different Eastern European countries, they will
26:21allow you to sell your kidney.
26:23So, I mean, it's illegal here to sell your kidney.
26:28You can give it away, but you can't sell it.
26:31And not that I'm an organ donor expert, but just we have gotten to complete
26:37unregulated capitalism. By the way, I teased this just a second ago.
26:41The Axios story on DeSantis, it actually says all sorts of interesting things.
26:49And now we need to get – well, let's put an invite out to Governor
26:53DeSantis to come on again.
26:54He may not want to because this story is now out there and it's getting
26:57so much attention. But the opening paragraph, Buck, actually says – I thought you would
27:02be interested. President Trump has told confidants Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is, quote, begging for
27:10a job, including in the attorney general.
27:14And it quotes them as saying – saying DeSantis' future was on the menu after
27:19the two men had lunch at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami a week
27:25ago. Ron was begging me to be AG, Trump told one confidant, who relayed the
27:31remark to Axios, said another source.
27:34There was a conversation at that lunch.
27:36I don't think AG is real, but he's going to be looking for work, and
27:40Trump likes him. And there is now a quote from DeSantis' team.
27:46Some in the media prefer to focus on fake rumors rather than the many accomplishments
27:51of Florida's partnership with the Trump administration.
27:54The governor looks forward to continuing to work with President Trump on enforcing immigration laws,
27:59restoring the Everglades, and helping to reform college athletics, because Ron DeSantis is on the
28:04board on college athletics. Remember, Trump was thinking about picking DeSantis to replace Hegseth when
28:11it seemed like Hegseth might not get confirmed.
28:14This is another part of the quote.
28:17DeSantis is 100 % not interested in AG, but would be interested in two things,
28:23war secretary or Supreme Court, which would be his dream job, said another source familiar.
28:31So, I just think this is a, put a pin in this.
28:37Because DeSantis is term limited out in November, Buck.
28:40And I don't think he's going to go sit on the sidelines for a few
28:43years. I think there's a lot of things that he could help this administration doing.
28:48And I know every time we mention this, all the DeSantis people that are still
28:51mad, and they only seem to exist online, and all the Trump people who are
28:55still mad online just come and yell at each other in my mentions.
28:58But I like to see two successful guys work together for the betterment of the
29:02country. So, sue me on that one.
29:04Total non -sequitur for a second.
29:06But you see that there's some guy, and it was going viral recently, who's done
29:10a linguistic map of all of America.
29:13And one of the words that is used to separate what dialect of American English
29:18you speak is pin. It's interesting.
29:22And you just said pin.
29:24So, you actually are a Tennessean, it turns out.
29:28And I am some Anglo -Irish Yankee from New York, because we would say pin,
29:35and you say pin. What?
29:38Let me ask you this.
29:39When you are waiting to get tickets...
29:43There's seven different ways that people say that word, apparently, across the country.
29:47Oh, that's super interesting. Pin.
29:49Yes. Like, the pin that I'm...
29:52Well, I have to now think about how I'm saying it.
29:56When you are waiting to get tickets, and you would go to get them, you
30:00would be doing what? With there are people in front of you.
30:04Waiting? You would be in what?
30:08Line. Yeah, but how would you say it?
30:12In line. You say you go stand on line or in line?
30:17Ooh. Now, see, now you've kind of thrown me...
30:21Yeah, I've got you rattled, because you're not thinking about how you would do it.
30:23There are a lot of people listening to us right now.
30:25I would say waiting in line.
30:27Waiting in line is how...
30:28Yeah. A lot of people in the Northeast say they're waiting on line.
30:32Now, maybe that's starting to change, because people go on line to get on the
30:35internet now, but it is a regional distinction that I noticed when I went away
30:39to college. A lot of Northeastern kids say, we're going to go wait on line
30:45instead of in line. Am I crazy on this?
30:48Hmm. Interesting. Queuing up? I mean, Producer Greg is just out to launch on so
30:53many... He's like... They're like, hey, do you like Coke or Pepsi, Bord?
30:57He's like, I'm a big tab guy.
30:59You know, he's just all...
31:00Producer Greg is... He's a captain in Space Force in every sense, okay?
31:05He's a Space Force guy in a lot of ways.
31:08Would you rather have Coke, Sprite, and Producer Greg's like, do you have Welch's grape
31:13soda? Just, you know, you never have any idea where he's going to come out
31:17of. Queuing up for a line.
31:19Queuing... The queue is a European phrase, Producer Greg.
31:23I'm pretty sure that very few people use relative.
31:26But online and in line, I'm telling you, is the thing.
31:29And I've noticed the pen.
31:30Here's a tip for you, Buck.
31:33You're better at linguistics than I am.
31:35I can tell immediately if someone is from the South based on how they use
31:40the word O in a sentence.
31:43And because O drags a little bit if you're Southern in the way that we
31:49talk. And even if you don't have much of an accent, I can be like,
31:52oh, you grew up in the South in some way if your O kind of
31:55lingers a little bit. Hmm.
31:58I did not know that.
32:00Very interesting. By the way, back to DeSantis and the...
32:03Notice how the framing of this issue is begged.
32:08That's... I don't believe that the governor of Florida is begging for anything.
32:13But this is... I don't know.
32:16This strikes me as... Maybe he's going to get something.
32:21And they want it to seem like...
32:23You know, they're making him kind of go through the little humiliation ritual at the
32:27very end here. I don't know.
32:28That strikes me as odd.
32:29And also, Buck, on the begging, makes me wonder, did somebody leak this to try
32:35to tank his ability to get it?
32:39Ron has any number of job opportunities and things he could do for plenty of
32:43money and be plenty... happy with his wife and kids out so i don't see
32:46begging for anything that that strikes me that's the part of it that smells funky
32:50to me honestly of all this stuff so something's up there i agree and i
32:56gotta tell you we're coming up we'll take some of your talk backs and everything
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34:31clay travis buck sexton show buck a little bit of news uh reports that whitkoff
34:38kushner hegseth rubio and vance are all now at the white house so uh the
34:45departure for pakistan seems less likely uh by the minute so we will see so
34:51the zoom option is uh looking more i think zoom could could this meeting have
34:57been a zoom instead of in person is something we've all asked yes uh so
35:01that is the absolute latest there let me also mention i know we've talked about
35:05it during the course of the program virginia if you are listening to us right
35:10now virginians get out and vote uh against this redistricting um it looks like it's
35:17gonna be close according to uh forecasts that i see out there so uh they're
35:21trying to turn virginia from six to five which is a rough approximation of how
35:26the 2024 presidential election went to 10 to one um so we would encourage all
35:31of you to get out and vote no uh all over the state of virginia
35:36very good let's see uh we've got here josh from pennsylvania he wants to talk
35:44about some stuff this is g hey guys i got one for you what do
35:48you put your groceries in at the store most places probably a cart where i'm
35:55from in pennsylvania it's a buggy and in massachusetts it's a carriage just thought that
36:01was interesting that's crazy it's a buggy are you one of those like pennsylvania dutch
36:06people that like rides around with the horse i've never heard anyone call it a
36:10buggy the amish the mennonite community perhaps by the way i wanted to clean this
36:14up i said connecticut had much lower taxes evidently i'm wrong on this this is
36:20producer greg who again is the tab soda guy uh new york new jersey connecticut
36:26pennsylvania is lower but i don't buck do very many people live in pennsylvania and
36:31go into new york i mean that's not really a thing some but not not
36:34as much i was thinking of the i was to be clear thinking of new
36:38york to new england i wasn't including pennsylvania in that conversation but you could the
36:42taxes there are a bit better but um yeah i still think we got to
36:47get a red wave to wash over connecticut and just take it over as a
36:49state hostile takeover you