Hour 3 - FREEDOM
3/2/202636 mincomplete
0:00This is an iHeart Podcast.
0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome back in.
0:05Hour number three, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:08Big primary in Texas tomorrow.
0:10Ken Paxton will join us at the bottom of the hour.
0:13Other contenders between now and then as well.
0:17We have put out invites to everyone.
0:19But the biggest story going on certainly right now and maybe for the next several
0:25weeks is the war in Iran.
0:29We played earlier for you the latest updates from President Trump.
0:34A couple of details off the top.
0:36Stock market not moving, basically flat.
0:39Oil prices up 5%. That is not a very substantial rise there.
0:44So the economic reaction to the war so far has not been incredibly significant.
0:51Right now, as we are talking to all of you, something unfortunately that may be
0:56very important for many of you out there is to remain aware and vigilant as
1:02there is an update right now in Austin, Texas, having to do with what seems
1:08like a terror -inspired attack on innocent people out on the night in the bar
1:15community when someone who was wearing a pro -Allah and pro -Iran shirt decided that
1:25they were going to kill innocent people.
1:27We'll let you know what the Austin police say about that.
1:29I think he also had photos, like posters, of Iranian leaders in his home.
1:35So he's leaving a bit of a clue as to the motivation, I think.
1:40I think we know what's going on here.
1:42One might see. Yes. Positive.
1:44Los Angeles, Washington, D .C., New York City.
1:47The response from people of Iranian descent, immigrants, and their first and second generation offspring
1:54here has been incredible. President Trump being praised significantly.
1:58We haven't talked about the political ramifications of this thus far, Buck, because obviously we're
2:05in the midst of a war, but it didn't stop Democrats from immediately lining up
2:10with the exception of John Fetterman.
2:15And here is something John Fetterman posted a few hours ago that I think gets
2:19at the crux of this issue, Buck.
2:21Every member in the U .S.
2:23Senate agrees we can't allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.
2:28I'm baffled why so many are unwilling to support the only action to achieve that.
2:35Empty sloganeering versus commitment to global security.
2:40Which is it? I thought that was well said by Senator Fetterman, who has become
2:45the sanest of all Democrats.
2:46We certainly wouldn't have anticipated this when his election was going on, the race was
2:52going on. But, Buck, that kind of gets to it.
2:55And what I would say in general is a reflective anti -Trump policy is, we
3:01all know, moronic, right? You can't be 100 % opposed to basically everything that anyone
3:07does. But this is a modern -day Berlin Wall moment.
3:14And I was a kid, you may not have even been born, back in 1989
3:18when the Berlin Wall came down.
3:20I don't remember, at the time, Democrats running around saying, oh, we're opposed to everything
3:27that's going on with President George Bush Sr., the older Bush, when he was in
3:33office then. I remember sort of a universal celebration of the fact that freedom was
3:39coming to many countries in Eastern Europe, and the wall between East and West Berlin
3:44was coming down was seen as the ultimate triumph in our battle against Russia in
3:50the Cold War. Here, and again, I understand that a lot of people are not
3:54connecting all these things. I think they should be.
3:57Venezuela has more freedom than it has had in decades.
4:00Cuba is closer to freedom than it has been in decades.
4:03And Iran, right now, is freer probably than it has been in decades already with
4:10a hoped -for continued movement towards more freedom.
4:14President Trump is taking the most aggressive policies in favor of basic human rights that
4:20we have seen in generations in this country.
4:23And meanwhile, Democrats are lining up and saying, I do think it's worth mentioning that
4:30just a couple of years ago, they were all over campuses demanding freedom for people
4:35in the Middle East, even though it was freedom in Gaza, which is one of
4:40the most restrictive areas on the planet, and Hamas is a terror organization that runs
4:44Gaza. Now we have President Trump potentially liberating 90 million people, giving more basic human
4:51rights to women around the world, the goal here is, than has been done by
4:55any president in generations. And Democrats' perspective is, we can't be in favor of this?
5:00They're in an intractable position, it seems to me, when it comes to trying to
5:05justify their attacks on Trump in this manner.
5:09Well, keep in mind, it not only would be a huge win for Trump, it
5:13would be a repudiation of the single achievement, if you can call it that, of
5:19eight years of Obama foreign policy.
5:21And Obama is certainly the most...
5:24most remarkable democrat politician of the 21st century the most um lasting legacy uh transformed
5:33the country obviously i think made it much worse in a lot of ways but
5:36he he he didn't matter he certainly had an impact uh his whole mid -east
5:43policy was built around getting some deal with iran and if trump can take this
5:48in the direction of the mullahs are gone there's no nuke threat anymore and iran
5:53is going to be a normal country you know why can't iran be a normal
5:56country think of how many other countries there are around the world and this is
5:59the truth about america for all these people that want to talk about imperialism and
6:03look what we're doing and i know there's a lot of stuff out there right
6:06now uh from the well sometimes there are there are principled non -interventionists and then
6:11there are i hate america so whenever america does something i just oppose it people
6:15too they're not the same thing there are people that just don't want us getting
6:19involved they never want republican democrat they don't want us getting involved other people's stuff
6:22fine valid i understand that there are other people they congregate on the left who
6:28just hate america and this gives them an opportunity to say that everything that goes
6:31wrong in the world is america's fault but clay the truth is uh you know
6:35the people of paraguay aren't up late at night wondering if like america is going
6:39to invade or bomb them because they're a normal country that minds their own business
6:43for the most part and is reasonable with their neighbors and uh self -governing and
6:47that's great and that's fine same thing with thailand you know same thing with go
6:51down the list so many countries and obviously every talk about all these countries in
6:54europe we don't have to accept that iran just gets to be this uh this
6:59hellhole of terror and terror sponsoring and all this other stuff for all perpetuity uh
7:05because we actually don't have to accept that and trump certainly doesn't so i think
7:10that we are uh certainly living in remarkable times uh it's an exciting period of
7:14change it's also one of caution as we noted there have been strikes against u
7:19.s bases we have lost brave service members there are going to be lives on
7:23our side lost in this process the question is how many uh so that's something
7:28else that we have to keep in mind too so clay i think uh what
7:34time will tell uh whether or not this is the most brilliant stroke of military
7:39slash diplomacy of the trump administration or if we are getting ahead of our skis
7:44on this one but i'm feeling pretty good about it democrat uh the democrats criticism
7:50of it to your point is not really much more than trump is doing it
7:55so it has to be bad and i really mean that that's it it doesn't
7:59go beyond that there's not some grappling with the intellectual realities of what trump has
8:03done and notice the democrats are perfectly happy to have 90 million iranians uh consigned
8:10to perpetual fear tyranny and servitude to a theocracy as long as it means that
8:18donald trump doesn't get to get a win trump derangement syndrome is real i think
8:24this is important too and we haven't really talked about it very much for people
8:29out there who's saying there's no real plan in place again we don't know who's
8:33going to rule i am confident that marco rubio and pete haggseth and jd vance
8:38and president trump have an idea on that also pay attention to the fact that
8:44iran is just haphazardly sending missiles all over the middle east and striking all these
8:51different middle eastern countries and those middle eastern countries by and large are now allied
8:57with the united states and i think this is so supremely important saudi arabia in
9:02particular if you go back and you say why did uh why did october 7th
9:062023 happen why did 1200 innocent israelis get murdered why were over 200 kidnapped by
9:13hamas what was the intent there they were terrified that the abraham accords which is
9:19a peace agreement a normalizing of relations was going to expand and include saudi arabia
9:26saudi arabia and israel were basically going to say hey we're in favor of commerce
9:30we're not going allow religious difference to divide us forever we want to see peace
9:36in the middle east and iran which was funding uh hamas which was funding hezbollah
9:41which was funding all of these different terror groups around the world that were striking
9:47in israel but also everywhere else they said we can't allow this to happen and
9:52that was one of the reasons primary reason i believe why hamas attacked when they
9:56did now what are you seeing all these different middle eastern countries are allowing the
10:01united states and israel to use their airspace to be able to rain down holy
10:07hell on iran and there are reports out there that and that is what we
10:11always said pay attention not to what people say but that what they do that
10:16both saudi arabia and israel were encouraging president trump to take out this uh islamic
10:24leadership in iran saudi arabia couldn't say it publicly now that iran has attacked them
10:31a lot of these other countries have now come forward and condemned iranian action and
10:35let me read you one uh comment we'll get we got a bunch of callers
10:38everything else um but buck i've got a friend uh jamie chadwell is the head
10:44coach of liberty football his wife is iranian and she just posted something that i
10:49thought was really good uh he tagged me in it uh um on uh social
10:54media uh he said um people have been inquiring about our feelings about what's going
11:00on in iran here's what she said honestly i don't have enough words to describe
11:05what it means to us as well as millions of persians who sacrificed everything to
11:11flee the harshness of the regime my parents were crying tears of joy on saturday
11:17persians all over the world are breathing a sigh of relief for the first time
11:22in 47 years it's not tears of joy over a war these are tears of
11:27hope and a future for the nation and the people of iran it's about having
11:32solace it's declaring justice for the thousands upon thousands of innocent people the islamic regime
11:38has imprisoned falsely accused and killed it's for the parents who had to search through
11:42hundreds of body bags laying in a yard just to find their deceased child brutally
11:48murdered for only wanting to voice their opinion to dance in the streets to not
11:52have to cover their hair for the child who wanted a future for freedom please
11:57don't ever take your freedoms here in the u .s for granted i never understood
12:01how people here could despise the u .s so much how they could burn the
12:05flag how they could protest against the united states everything that has been given to
12:10them i guess that's because they never had to live a life that took all
12:15those freedoms away signed a hopeful and grateful persian american i thought that was well
12:22said because i think that is the immense outpouring of joy that you are seeing
12:27and it goes to i don't see how you can make this political buck when
12:30i watched in georgetown all of these iranian people when i watched outside of the
12:35white house the pure joy of their celebration uh when i watched it in la
12:40they shut down wilshire boulevard for those of you who know la filled with a
12:44huge joyful iranian march uh in favor of freedom that they want to see in
12:50their country when i saw new york city um the people who have dealt with
12:54actual oppression the people who have dealt with the taking away of their basic human
12:59rights the people who have struggled for 50 years living under this harsh oppressive oppressive
13:03regime they understand what has been done here and they view president trump as a
13:11heroic force for good in the middle east and i think that is something that
13:16it's going to be very hard if we can manage to change uh the trajectory
13:20of this country in the direction of basic human rights and freedom it's a transformative
13:25move that will echo throughout the middle east for generations to come so are there
13:31challenges yes but i do think that statement um really got to the heart of
13:35what we're seeing from so many persians around the world and think about this too
13:40clay what was the alternative yeah the alternative is to keep this dance of bad
13:48faith negotiations from the iranian mullah side going until they get a nuke or until
13:53we get tired of it and decide to do what we did and it's not
13:57like things were fine and quiet over there they have been causing problems all over
14:03the region that's what they do they they believe in this you know it's the
14:08islamic revolution that they think they are the custodians of they're not it's a revolutionary
14:13government the same way that the bolsheviks and the soviet union thought of themselves as
14:17revolutionaries with global ambitions i might add they were colonialist in their mindset actually they
14:24they wanted to expand their authority and their power in the region they were not
14:29looking to mind their own business and they wanted to wipe israel off the map
14:34and that was a stated goal of the regime if the stated goal of your
14:38country is to destroy another country maybe you don't get to be in charge of
14:43a country and there's a great line great line for pete hegseth where he said
14:49they chanted death to america and death to israel and israel and the united states
14:55instead brought death to the ayatollah uh that is my line was good that line's
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16:24The ongoing conversation. I do not believe that Texans are going to elect a Democrat
16:31in the Senate race in 2026.
16:33Whether it's Jasmine Crockett or James Tallarico, I think whomever emerges as the Republican nominee
16:41will win. Now, could it be closer depending on who the Democrats nominate and who
16:47the Republicans nominate? Yes, certainly.
16:49But I think Texas has proven itself to be such a red state that the
16:54only way this happens is if people just don't show up.
16:58Right. And that's certainly the game plan of Democrats that people just don't show up.
17:04But I can't imagine that's going to happen in Texas.
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18:05Text Buck to 989898. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
18:10Welcome back in. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
18:13We are joined now by one of the three Republicans who is running for the
18:18Senate nomination in the state of Texas.
18:21Tomorrow is Election Day, primary voting taking place in Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina.
18:28Ken Paxton joins us now.
18:30I know you've been running all over the state.
18:33What is your message here, closing moments, as many people will be going to the
18:38polls tomorrow? I know a lot of people have already early voted.
18:41Why should they vote for you tomorrow, Attorney General Paxton?
18:46It's simply this. I get results versus John Cornyn's last 40 years in office.
18:52And I've asked, in every meeting since April the 8th, I've asked every single person,
18:56whether it's one person or 3 ,000, can you name one single good accomplishment of
19:02John Cornyn at 40 -plus years in office?
19:04And no one's ever given me an answer.
19:05And I respond to say, take any two -week period of my time at office
19:10as Attorney General, other than Christmas and Thanksgiving, and I guarantee you, pick any two
19:15weeks. I've done more in two weeks than he's done in 40 -plus years.
19:18If we want somebody to go up there and fight for us and get something
19:20done for the state of Texas, I'm the guy.
19:24Mr. Attorney General, what's top of the agenda?
19:26You're telling us that you can get things done.
19:29That's great. What are the kind of things that, as a senator representing the wonderful
19:34state of Texas, where we have so many listeners and we're very grateful for all
19:37of them, what are the things that you would want to seek to add to
19:41your roster of accomplishments in office as a senator this time around?
19:45Yeah, so I think President Trump hit it over the fence.
19:49He hit the most important issue, which he asked Congress to pass immediately, which was
19:54voter integrity, where we protect our elections from mail -in ballots, we have photo ID,
20:00and we make sure that people are citizens.
20:03If we can't fundamentally do that, then we are at risk of losing everything else
20:08because there are many, many states who are not using photo ID, who are having
20:12massive mail -in ballots we cannot track, and we don't have secure elections.
20:17And without that, nothing else matters.
20:19Beyond that, I mean, since John Korn has been there, let's see.
20:22In the time of George Washington, the time of John Korn is $6 .2 trillion
20:25in debt. Now we're $38 trillion since John's been there.
20:29The federal budget is out of control.
20:31We've got to figure that out.
20:33I'm very interested in what's going on with China.
20:35I think they are our number one threat.
20:37Obviously, we've got Iran right now.
20:40Interested in judicial appointments because I have to deal with them every day.
20:44Ted Cruz has done a great job helping the president to make good picks.
20:48On the other hand, John Korn's picks have not been so great.
20:51So those are just a few of the issues that I care about.
20:54There's certainly more than that.
20:55We're talking to Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas.
20:58He's running tomorrow in the primary.
21:01Let me give you a couple of arguments to respond to that we've had on
21:05the show so far. One is Ken Paxton can't win in the general.
21:09The other is people should go vote for Jasmine Crockett instead of worrying about the
21:17Republican Senate race that's going on.
21:19Your response to those two, which are two different arguments we've had made today on
21:24the show. Well, first of all, I think it's interesting that this is a John
21:28Korn argument because you can't win the primary.
21:30I've won three statewide races over a period of 12 years.
21:33So the naysayers, I'm 3 -0.
21:36I haven't lost a single race.
21:39As a matter of fact, I've won 18 races overall.
21:41So it's great to decide now that I can't win a statewide race when I've
21:45won three in a row.
21:47So there's no... evidence for this.
21:48John Cornyn makes this story up just like he's made up his whole record over
21:51the last year. And the reality is if you actually do the polling, which I've
21:56seen, I do as well or better than him.
21:58Not significantly, but it's not like I do worse.
22:02Every poll I've seen, I've done as well or better than him.
22:05And this idea that Republicans should go vote for Jasmine Crockett, I mean, I wouldn't
22:10do it because I want to make sure that we have the right person running
22:13in the Republican primary to take on the Jasmine Crockett.
22:16Let the Democrats sort that out.
22:18We're going to beat either one of them because we're still a Republican state.
22:22We haven't lost statewide elections since 1994.
22:25And just to be clear, we had invited on Cornyn, everyone, for tomorrow.
22:29And we'll see if he chooses to come on at some point here in the
22:32near future. But Attorney General Paxton, what's the on policy?
22:39You know, I don't know if you guys know each other.
22:40You and Cornyn are not personally.
22:42Well, it's not about that.
22:43On policy, on decision making, when it comes to wielding the power entrusted to you
22:49as a senator by the people of Texas, where are you guys different?
22:53Where do you differ ideologically or where do you differ when it comes to how
22:57you would actually vote? I think on many things.
23:01I give you examples of judges, budget, but just things like Second Amendment issues, where
23:05he helped Joe Biden pass one of the most restrictive Second Amendment bills in my
23:11lifetime. There's no way that Joe Biden is going to be congratulating me like he
23:15did John Cornyn. I would not be out there pushing amnesty like he's been pushing
23:19over the last four decades.
23:20I would have been for the border wall.
23:23Now he suddenly is, but he wasn't for a decade.
23:26I've got 15 to 20 clips of him saying we shouldn't do a border wall.
23:30On the other hand, he also claims to be a big Trump fan.
23:33And yet in 2016, he said Trump was an albatross around our neck.
23:37And then in the most recent election, he said that Trump's day had passed and
23:41that we should elect somebody else.
23:43I was on the Trump bandwagon because I thought he would be the best choice.
23:47This guy now suddenly is, but for his entire career, he's been in opposition to
23:52Donald Trump. We're talking to Ken Paxson, AG.
23:55I know you're running for the Senate right now, but there was the attack that
23:59happened in Austin over the weekend.
24:02I know there's been a couple of press conferences about that.
24:05What can you tell us about that shooting?
24:08What do we need to know?
24:09What should we know from a Texan perspective on that investigation?
24:14I think the most important thing to me is just what the investigation turns up
24:18about connections and whether this guy was operating alone or whether he was part of
24:23a bigger plan to do damage in this country.
24:26I've been concerned. You know, of course, I sued Joe Biden, what, 20 times just
24:30over immigration. And my biggest concern was this type of thing happening.
24:35We opened up our border.
24:36We would not be able to vet people.
24:38We'd not be able to control.
24:40And obviously, this guy got his citizenship legally, but it's now a bigger problem than
24:45ever because we have so many undetted people.
24:47We don't know where they are.
24:49And if I'm an American enemy, for sure, I've planted sleeper, sleeper cells in the
24:54country. It's certainly very concerning, given what we just saw in Austin, that there are
25:02likely more radicals who will be activated from within our midst.
25:08It seems like the Democrats are just never going to learn the lesson on this.
25:13They're never going to understand what that threat actually is in this country.
25:17Is there anything that you think needs to be done legislatively differently to address this?
25:23Is there anything that you would say, hey, guys, something that would make us safer
25:26here at home that we could enact starting in 2027 when I'm in the United
25:30States Senate is anything come to mind or is it just enforce the laws we've
25:35already got? Well, enforce the laws we already have, but also more resources to start
25:40vetting some of these people that came into our country that we haven't tracked down
25:44yet that we need to track down for sure.
25:47People like this who could do damage to our country.
25:50So I would say more resources to the people that are dealing with the DHS,
25:55the Border Patrol, the people that the Democrats don't want to fund are the very
25:59people right now that we need not just less funding, we need more funding.
26:04It seems clear that you're going to be at least one of the two that
26:08advances to the runoff. And we're talking to Ken Paxton.
26:11I know that early voting has been substantial and a lot of people still have
26:16to vote tomorrow. What is your anticipation for what will take place tomorrow?
26:22There's three primary candidates. One of you will be eliminated.
26:25Do you expect that you'll be among the top two?
26:28I expect I'll be the number one.
26:30And as a matter of fact, I don't know.
26:33It's hard to measure from early voting, but just some of our analytics.
26:36I mean, there is a slight possibility.
26:40Obviously, there's not just two other people.
26:42There's still seven others. So there's eight people.
26:45So I tell people it's like playing basketball, seven on one, trying to outscore everybody
26:49while they play offense and defense.
26:51So it's challenging to get through this without a runoff.
26:56But if anybody has a shot at that, it's me.
26:59If you are first place, runoff.
27:03I mean, it's going to cost a lot of money.
27:04If you win substantially, should there be just a recognition that you're going to be
27:09the nominee and start to focus?
27:11Because it does seem likely that Democrats will know their nominee come.
27:15tomorrow night yes and i say this because already cornyn's about 100 million dollars i've
27:21spent three million and if i come out on top the spending on his side
27:26needs to stop it makes no sense if we care about electing a republican from
27:30texas and republicans in michigan and george and these other states they're going to stop
27:34wasting money on a primary 100 million is enough do not go in on another
27:3850 million dollars to try to make me unelectable which is what cornyn said his
27:43goal is make i'm going to make ken taxon unelectable well that is that's great
27:46if we only care about electing incumbents but i thought we were about electing republicans
27:50and the strategy of spending another 50 million on john cornyn after he loses the
27:55first round makes no sense if you actually do care about electing republicans do you
28:00think if you win this primary that president trump had a rally in corpus christi
28:04going into the weekend and he chose i think he basically said i'm endorsing you
28:09and wesley hunt and john cornyn he said you know basically i'm not picking a
28:12side do you think when he sees the texans come out and pick a side
28:17do you think he'll weigh in and say hey we basically have our nominee now
28:20what do you anticipate from the white house well you're going to be shocked i
28:23i never i never completely anticipate what the president might do i do know this
28:27i'm a i've been a big fan of his i have been a supporter of
28:30his since 2016 i was one of two people troy nelson i was the only
28:35two people that showed up elected officials when he announced for president because at the
28:40time defences was surging and trump had all these investigations and indictments all stuff but
28:46i do know this i i trust him he's made a lot of really good
28:49decisions and i'm not going to pretend that i would know exactly what he's going
28:54to do because i don't he is running for senate tomorrow texas attorney general ken
29:00paxton i presume you tell everybody get out and vote you want big numbers well
29:04i'd say get i think we lost him right there on the charge for everybody
29:09who i'm sure he was going to say get out and vote for ken paxton
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31:12podcast sundays at noon eastern in the clay and buck podcast feed find it on
31:17the iheart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts welcome back into clay and
31:22buck you know i love the czar of talk michael berry i thought i thought
31:27he was a little rough on our on our lit intro though i'm just gonna
31:30be honest with you as i'm listening to some van halen like i think the
31:32upbeat intro is is a great way to get back into things i think that
31:36lit is very much of our so you know i'm just i'm just i'm just
31:40throwing a little a little flag here and then i think that lit is actually
31:44very uh very solid for for our vibe and our show here and if mr
31:49berry prefers that we had toby keith in the intro or something well you know
31:54that's his uh that's his prerogative i just i think that you know we have
31:58a pretty good intro music do you agree with this one i agree completely can
32:01we say this now i always say that and then i say it even though
32:04i don't know if the answer like uh the old rush musicians were trying to
32:09extort us after rush passed i think we can say that now and if we're
32:14not supposed to say i think you just did so i i think we could
32:17say it now but people are like why'd you change the music well because they
32:20were extorting us uh and they hate everything that we stand for and we said
32:25well we'd rather not continue to give people who are communists our money and so
32:29we wanted to find a band that really liked us and liked the show and
32:34liked rush and wanted to honor him uh and that's something wild today if rock
32:39and roll were alive and well today you would have more musicians you who were
32:43at least quietly, if not publicly, right of center, because to be truly rock and
32:49roll in the current environment, you couldn't be some communist leftist, yada, yada.
32:54Well, I mean, this is the funniest thing about the whole culture, and I do
32:58think the culture has shifted in many ways, and I think we talked about this
33:01last week with the U .S.
33:02men's hockey team and the way the nation as a whole responded compared to left
33:05-wingers. Remember that back in the day, Woodstock was opposed to the government in power,
33:13the musicians, the rockers, everything else.
33:16What we have seen happen is so many musicians nowadays are saying, please regulate us
33:22more. Remember during COVID when everybody was like, go get your, put your mask on
33:27and wear your vaccine, and you're like, well, this is, get your vaccines and wear
33:32your mask. Like, this is not like rock and roll old school where it's like
33:36rage. Remember Rage Against the Machine?
33:39They're raging for the machine now.
33:41Go support Joe Biden or even Green Day.
33:44I know they recently were out there, and Green Day was all in favor of
33:47Biden and left -wing. It's really kind of crazy.
33:51Regulate us more is not what I would characterize rock musicians historically as being in
33:58favor of. Let's get some of your talkbacks here.
34:01Podcast listener, Brian, play C on that talkback list.
34:05I was in Iraq, 2009, 2010, 2011, and every bomb that got dropped on us
34:14over there that blew up on the roadside came from Iran, and we kept tracking
34:18it. We kept telling the Obama administration, and they never wanted to do anything about
34:22it. Iran's killed more of our people than any other nation in the last 30,
34:2840 years. True. I've been saying it, true.
34:32Really, hundreds and hundreds of Americans killed and thousands severely wounded, maimed, lost an arm,
34:39lost a leg because Iran hates us, and they were operating in a country that
34:45was not their country. They were doing this to us in Iraq just because they
34:47could. So they're scumbags. The mullahs are toast.
34:52Sucks for them. They earned every bit of it.
34:55Mansour from New York City.
34:57We asked for Iranian callers.
34:58He called us in back before all of this happened.
35:02Mansour, what's your family's reaction, your friend's reaction?
35:05We'll let you have the final word on the show today.
35:09Thanks so much, guys. It's great to be on the show with you again.
35:12And first, let me explain to you something about the Iranian national football team.
35:18I ran a team, a semi -pro team here in New York, New Jersey.
35:22A lot of former players for the national team who explained to me at the
35:27time, a lot of the guys that are on the national team right now do
35:30not want to play under the same flag for the Iranian team.
35:36But they're forced to because the family has been threatened to be killed.
35:40So they play. And they have to sing the national anthem while on live TV.
35:44That's another thing that we're forced to do.
35:47Well, we're finishing. Maybe you can call in tomorrow.
35:49Positive reaction. Got 10 seconds.
35:56I think the reaction would have been positive.
35:58Mansour can call back. God bless the country.
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