Hour 2 - Do The Obvious Thing
3/23/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome in. Hour number two.
0:06Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:09Appreciate all of you. Our thanks to Linda from Green Valley, Arizona.
0:17As her call on Friday has helped for there to be TSA agents deployed today.
0:25And Buck, as I'm starting off this hour, this just came across my Twitter feed.
0:31Listen to the call -out rate from Sunday.
0:35These are TSA agents not showing up for work.
0:39Remember, they're not being paid.
0:44BWI, 38%. This is according, by the way, to David Shepardson.
0:49JFK, 37 .4%. Pittsburgh, 24 .7%.
0:55Philadelphia, 24 .2%. LaGuardia in New York City, 21 .7%.
1:02IAH in Houston, 39 .1%.
1:07Phoenix, 20 .3%. New Orleans, 42 .3%.
1:13And Atlanta, 41 .5%. So if you're wondering, hey, how did Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston,
1:24and JFK, I bet things were awful at BWI, too.
1:29I hadn't heard about BWI.
1:31The call -out rate, people aren't getting paid.
1:34They're getting frustrated. And some of these people, I bet, are doing second jobs because
1:40they have to pay. I just find this to be, again, absolutely inexcusable that we're
1:46requiring the TSA agents to show up, not be paid.
1:49And by we, I mean Democrats.
1:51And so if you're looking at Polymarket, for instance, they are projecting that the shutdown,
2:01the refusal to pay TSA agents is going to extend into April.
2:06So 67 % chance this thing extends into April.
2:11So this is not going to get any better.
2:14And in fact, in many places, it's probably going to get worse.
2:18And again, those call -out rates are huge.
2:22But if you think about what's going on, people have kids.
2:25They have the ability and responsibility.
2:29It's like their bills are people are just like, oh, okay.
2:33You don't have to pay your car payment.
2:35You don't have to pay rent.
2:36You don't have to pay $40 ,000 a year is the average TSA agent salary.
2:41And again, I just would say, how many people out there, you've been in this
2:45situation, I've been in this situation, could go a month without being paid and still
2:51be able to pay your bills.
2:52Most people can't. And so this is indefensible.
2:55I lived paycheck to paycheck for years.
2:57It was like money came in, paid rent, some money for food and gas, and
3:02like that was it. So that's, you know, obviously you can run up credit card
3:06debt, but that's not a good idea.
3:08Yeah. I mean, and so it's a tough situation right now, ICE agents being deployed
3:14to try and make everything better.
3:17Buck, I talked about this yesterday or Friday on the program.
3:23You know how, you weren't here, so I want to hit you with these stats
3:27because DC does something interesting.
3:29They publish all of their data, their crime data online.
3:34And so you can look at it in real time.
3:37And we're talking, President Trump is in Memphis discussing the success that he's had driving
3:43down the overall rate of crime.
3:46This is an extraordinary data point.
3:49It has received hardly any attention.
3:51And I talked about it.
3:53Remember, you well do, because we talked about it.
3:56What if what President Trump was doing on crime actually just worked, right?
4:02Everybody came out in DC and they said two things.
4:04They said, one, hey, well, crime's not that bad.
4:09And, you know, you're like, you're lying, right?
4:12You recognize. And then and then some leftos, some legacy media even said, well, crime
4:19is pretty bad. And then they said crime's not bad.
4:22So they were willing to lie in DC.
4:24Secondly, secondly, they said, well, this is not going to work.
4:28Buck, we're Trump is in Memphis, 25 year low on violent crime there.
4:35As of this year compared to last year, murder right now is down 65 percent
4:41in Washington, DC, and sexual assault is down 65 percent compared to last year.
4:49Can I just point this out?
4:51Those numbers are incredible. And the fact that this isn't I'm even going to I'm
4:56going to hit some of the conservative media on this or some of the Trump
4:58supporting media on this. Guys, where are you?
5:01We're a little too much just sort of holding a microphone up to whatever Trump
5:06is saying and just going, oh, he's handling it all for us.
5:09OK, yeah. But you have massive news entities and people with big platforms out there
5:14who need to be getting this messaging out, not just to the party faithful, not
5:18just to people that voted Trump three times, but get it out to the so
5:22-called normies in the middle.
5:24They're just the everyday folks who don't pay very close.
5:27If you're listening to this show, you care about politics, you care about current events,
5:30and you're informed. That's just reality.
5:32You know more than a vast majority of the people you come across at the
5:36grocery store, at the gas station, in the school pickup line, whatever.
5:39You know more than they do because you listen to this show.
5:42You're welcome. Thank you for being with us, of course.
5:46But, Clay, there are all these people who have no idea what you're talking about
5:50with the numbers. They have never heard this before.
5:52They don't know. And it's a massive, massive win.
5:56If you were trying to become the mayor of D .C.
6:00for a second term, let's say, and you had brought down the crime rate, 60%,
6:06the murder rate, 60%, that would be the number one thing I think you would
6:10be telling everybody. Trump helped them do this, and he's not even the mayor.
6:15And, again, I just think this is so important.
6:19A lot of times when things go well, there is a failure to cover them
6:24because there is a bad news bias that is out there.
6:27And I think you're right.
6:28How many people out there in so -called conservative media do you think have shared
6:33with their audience that Washington, D .C., homicides are down 65 %?
6:39That sex assaults are down 65%, that Memphis is at a 25 -year crime low?
6:44And, oh, by the way, that the country is at a 125 -year low for
6:51murders. That is unbelievable. Buck, if you and I had come on, I always like
6:56to play this game. If you and I had come on and way overpromised, and
7:00we had said, I think this Trump surge is going to work, this is a
7:04no -brainer, murders are going to drop 50 % year over year, everyone out there
7:10in legacy media would have grabbed our tweet or would have grabbed our soundbite, and
7:16they would have dunked on us over how ridiculous that prediction was.
7:20In fact, we would have been undershooting by a significant degree how successful Trump's surge
7:27was. And, by the way, why wouldn't this be replicated in every city with high
7:34crime in America? Imagine if, to your point, Buck, imagine if we just grew used
7:40to allowing murder to happen because we weren't willing to do the things that were
7:45necessary to drive it down.
7:47How much different would America look like if murders dropped 60 % in the next
7:52year? Clay, this is reminding me, actually, of this moment from the first Trump administration
7:58when I was doing my show, but also something called Rising on Hill TV, which
8:05later became Breaking Points, which is now the Crystal and Sager show, which is a
8:09very big podcast. But I remember when I was doing that show, all these Democrats
8:13who hated Trump. This is his first Trump administration.
8:15You know the argument I had to have with them over and over again on
8:18the show? Because this was around the kids in cages era and border security stuff,
8:24right? You know what the argument was?
8:26Walls don't work. That was their talking point.
8:30Walls don't work. Yes. And you sit here, you're like, that is the dumbest thing.
8:35This is like saying water isn't wet.
8:37Of course walls work. Walls have worked for all of human history.
8:40They're not perfect. But, you know, you wouldn't say like antibiotics don't work because they
8:46don't work 100 percent. Yeah, they work.
8:48It just it was the dumbest talking point.
8:51And sure enough, it finally started to get out there because more and more people
8:55with Border Patrol would say, hey, you know, it actually helps us in this area.
8:59You don't have to have a wall over the entire border.
9:01Anyway, my point with this is let's look at what Trump did.
9:05Like they were saying walls don't work because they hate Trump and they were willing
9:08to take the dumbest position imaginable.
9:11Like they had figured something out that for all of human history we had been
9:14wrong on. OK, now look at what Trump did in D .C., Clay, declared a
9:19crime emergency, deployed National Guard and additional people forget this additional federal law enforcement agents.
9:27By the way, Director Cash Patel, who gets a lot of heat from the media
9:31on a lot of things, FBI's played a big role in this.
9:35Our friend Dan Bongino, when he was deputy director, he was pushing this big time,
9:40big role in this. This is the most important stuff the FBI does get very
9:44bad, dangerous people off the streets.
9:46They had a massive surge in fugitive task force operations, essentially grabbing the guys that
9:54you've been trying to get for a long time, a massive surge in going after
9:58high profile criminal targets using federal.
10:00People forget this. You know, any drugs, if you're a drug dealer, you're breaking federal
10:05law like it's actually a federal crime.
10:07It's not just a state crime, even if you're just selling.
10:10And so federal resources can be and there's a lot of crimes.
10:13If you're a drug dealer carrying a firearm as well as drugs to sell, that's
10:18a specific federal crime. That's an additional.
10:20I think it's a 10 year felony you get hit with for that.
10:23Right. Because you're committing a felony and you're carrying an illegal firearm as a felon.
10:27So, Clay, there's all these things.
10:29Of course, this brings the crime rate down.
10:32But do you see what I'm sure?
10:33I'm getting it. No, they're all they're all connected.
10:36But they told us crime wasn't bad.
10:39And oh, by the way, this is going to fail.
10:41And I just think results matter when you try something.
10:46And we said at the time, maybe it doesn't have any impact really substantial at
10:50all. But at least you're trying to do.
10:52something one of the best lessons you can get in management is just make a
10:57decision right because if you're wrong you can change the decision if you're right things
11:02get better and so failure to do things just keeps everything bad you know making
11:09choices and making a decision is actually so important and i give credit i think
11:14it ties in with when this call president trump's like yeah why don't we just
11:17put ice in airports we can do things the obvious this is the the genius
11:23of trumpism is being willing to do the obvious thing that will make things better
11:28it's really that simple do the obvious thing don't listen to all the squawking from
11:34the talking heads who know nothing on tv or for that matter a lot of
11:37them on podcasts and radio like do the obvious thing to there is a fire
11:42you have a bucket of water don't listen to the people who say well sometimes
11:45water can make the fire worse what if there are chemicals in that fire no
11:49yeah throw the bucket of water on the fire make things better this is the
11:54fundamental genius of trumpism in action do the obvious thing that will work and and
12:01sure enough here we are once again we see pouring water on a fire usually
12:05you know 99 of the time makes the fire less bad or puts it out
12:10and and i you know what i play i knew this was going to work
12:13in dc because and and i told you this i think i mentioned on the
12:16show i have a friend who's democrat very good friend of mine has very good
12:21connections into the dc mayor's office that's all i'll say and he's like oh no
12:25she she knows this is she's not good she's not going to be all out
12:28in front saying i love trump but she's happy that the crime rate's going to
12:32go down because you know who looks you know who looks like one of the
12:34best mayors in the country right now muriel bowser of dc it's true look at
12:40the numbers she takes she gets trump has handed her the best crime drop numbers
12:45of any mayor like since giuliani in the 90s in new york and all she
12:49had to do was not be a total maniac who did everything in her power
12:53to undermine and by the way she did criticize it i'm not saying that but
12:56hey we're on pace for the lowest murder rate in washington dc in recorded history
13:03in our 250th year anniversary of the country's founding it seems i thought trump gets
13:11the symbolism of that uh and you can't have a great country if your capital
13:16isn't safe i just i would stand by that no matter what country you're in
13:20you know clay also this is where i think the conservative mind and the liberal
13:24mind or the leftist mind progressive whatever they change the terms because over time people
13:29realize how bad they are so they have to keep cycling notice i've been a
13:32conservative mind we've never gone oh i'm not conservative no no but it's because conservative
13:36is based on it's applying the knowledge of history and experience to try to make
13:41good decisions today liberals are what's going to feel good to say right now leftists
13:45are what's going to put the state in place of god and empower it to
13:48do everything for me so i don't have to do anything um but you know
13:52you look at these things you look at the way this plays out and this
13:57should be so obvious to everyone if we were wrong about something if putting blue
14:03light you know those do you have those on your campus clay they had these
14:05things like yeah where you could hit the thing and it would immediately set off
14:09yeah to me it's like well in an era of cell phones you know do
14:12you really even you know what's the deal you have a cell phone everyone has
14:14a cell phone on but if putting blue lights up all all over a city
14:19or something brought the murder rate down 60 i'd be like well i was wrong
14:23i want less murders rapes and robberies let's put up more like i would admit
14:27that there was something that they're not admitting that what trump has done has saved
14:31lives and saved countless people from being the victims of violent crimes all you have
14:37to do i just went directly to the washington dc data center it's the easiest
14:43research for anyone on the planet to do no one is talking about it and
14:47again when things are going well and trump is involved at all the reason you
14:54hear nothing because trump is partly responsible for things going well they won't cover it
14:59interesting mariel bowser of dc by the way not running for a fourth term she's
15:04going to go do something else you know what she's going to do she's going
15:07to go into the private sector and she's going to be giving lectures uh for
15:12you know 50 to a hundred thousand dollars a pop about how to turn around
15:16the crime situation in dc just watch just watch probably you're right you're probably right
15:21you know how to really run a city look at look at the great numbers
15:24she's going to go out on here after a fourth term uh so there you
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17:16clay travis buck sexton show uh we will take some of your calls 800 -282
17:21-2882 uh welcome i would love to hear from linda from green valley arizona because
17:28she is partially responsible for ice agents being at the airport today maybe entirely responsible
17:34cut 27 fox news reporter madison scarpino in atlanta but seeing these ice agents out
17:42here today managing lines helping with crowd control just like borders are tom holman said
17:47they would here's a look at them this morning and again the lines have been
17:51a little bit better the last few hours but still unusually long as tsa workers
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18:54communication redefined welcome back in clay travis buck sexton show okay we're gonna go take
19:00a couple of calls linda in green valley arizona has called in she couldn't get
19:05through uh so she has given us a talk back uh i will play that
19:09for you momentarily but first quickly dan he says he's in an unidentified blue state
19:14dan fire away good job dan hang up on dan scott in georgetown kentucky please
19:24leave the phone lines clear for our good friend linda scott in georgetown kentucky hello
19:31gentlemen uh i've been listening i've been a republican my whole life i'm 64 years
19:38old um a year ago in march one of you two guys said these tariffs
19:46are the way to go and if they've not gone down by september last september
19:51then i'll go wear a clown suit they're higher now than they were then where's
19:58the clown suit at you got to be truthful to the people well we didn't
20:02say that um i will put everybody on transcript review scott i think what you
20:08might remember is i said i would wear a clown outfit uh on pierce morgan
20:13show if the stock market was lower when everybody was panicked in april and last
20:20year and everybody was suing i said if the stock market is lower uh i
20:25think i said in a year or maybe it was 18 months i don't remember
20:28exactly uh the stock market is up about 40 percent since that in april so
20:34that was the discussion point thanks for the call if you want to go back
20:38and review the transcripts i think the only time i talked i don't think it
20:42was a clown suit i think i said i would wear a clown face or
20:45clown makeup or something like that you only get to see like a part of
20:48my you know upper body a suit wouldn't make a lot of sense clay is
20:51very dialed in whenever it comes to any bet situation i can tell you that
20:56that is uh if he's making any sort of wager he's paying attention so producer
21:01ali has written it down she's on it buck uh the date is by october
21:077th 2026 i said that i will wear a clown nose on the program that
21:13is by october 7th 2026 if the stock market is not up and if gas
21:19prices are not lower that was in april of 2025 the stock market is up
21:25huge um i think gas prices even now are down from where they were back
21:30then uh but i'm feeling good about that wager but again on october 7th 2026
21:35i'll be here with a clown nose uh if i am wrong uh that's when
21:40i told you all to buy stocks in april and that things would be going
21:43well um i'm very confident that uh that that's going to be a good position
21:47you If nothing else, if you've spent your time listening to us for these five
21:51years and you didn't panic sell your retirement fund at the beginning of the Trump
21:58administration, definitely financially worth your time, everyone.
22:01No doubt. I think if you would listen to that one that one bit of
22:04advice from Clay and Buck World worth all worth all the hours you've spent with
22:08us. So here is Linda.
22:11She couldn't get through. So, again, we're trying to clear the phone lines so Linda
22:15can call in after the huge impact she has.
22:18This is Linda from Green Valley, Arizona, reacting to her Friday call that has changed
22:24American policy. Listen. Good morning, Clay and Buck.
22:27This is Linda from Green Valley, Arizona.
22:29I've been listening. I tried to call in but couldn't get in.
22:33So just wanted to let you know that this was my own idea.
22:36We live in an area with a lot of Border Patrol and Homeland Security employees,
22:42and we live south of Tucson where the mayor is terrible with all of this
22:49kind of stuff. So thank you very much.
22:51Bye. All right. So that is Linda.
22:54Please leave the phone lines.
22:55I'd like to hear from Linda.
22:57Here is some fun. Can we just weigh in on the Linda thing real quick?
23:00Yeah. I just want to say this.
23:02I think she's totally right.
23:03I think this was her idea.
23:04Clay, you even more so.
23:07You're like living in the matrix 24 -7, but we're scanning and talking and looking
23:11at what's going on with all the conversation politically online and everywhere else.
23:16Sometimes someone will think that they came up with something, and I'm like, I've already
23:20seen that in 10 other places because it's a pretty straightforward idea.
23:24This is not that. Until this came up on this show, I had seen not
23:29a peep about this anywhere in the online or otherwise media ecosystem.
23:34So I totally think, Linda, I don't know.
23:37Maybe you just saved America.
23:39Maybe you just saved the country because you called into Clay and Buck and you
23:42had been listening. So there is that.
23:44It's a truly original idea, and even CNN, I just retweeted it, Brian Stelter is
23:50covering it, and he went and looked.
23:52The only reason I talked about it, you know this, probably the audience doesn't necessarily
23:56know this, we don't choose our topics when we go on television.
24:00So people out there are like, we choose the topics here on this show, but
24:04when you go on as a television guest, they are like, hey, we're going to
24:07have you talking about X or Y.
24:09I wasn't even necessarily 100 % certain what the topics were on Friday, so it's
24:15not like I planned it.
24:16But I did want to give, the only regret I have on Fox News is
24:20I wish that I had remembered Linda's name.
24:22I couldn't remember exactly what the caller's name was, so that was on me.
24:26But I didn't want to even take credit for the idea because I thought it
24:28was such a good one.
24:29So I said in that clip, and we'll play it for you again at the
24:32top of the next hour, hey, this was one of our callers on Clay and
24:35Buck. And then it went viral from there.
24:37So I've got to tell you, though, when I saw this, and I was in
24:40the car driving up to, it's a long drive, by the way, driving from Miami
24:44up to Ponte Vedra. And I feel like I'm going to become Ponte Vedra Real
24:48Estate Salesman of the Year because I really, I was just like, this place is
24:51amazing. It's great. But as I'm driving up, Clay, and I'm seeing all the stuff
24:56on my phone about Linda, I didn't hear the call initially.
25:01And I just remember thinking, I'm like, is this light?
25:03And everyone thought, is this light them up, Linda?
25:06Because we had light them up, Linda, with the drug cartel boats.
25:08We're like, what should be done?
25:09She's like, take them out.
25:11Blow them up. Oh, they're floating?
25:13Not floating anymore. Take them out, you know?
25:16And I was like, did light them up, Linda?
25:17Just light up a cigarette and go, you know what we do?
25:19We deploy ice to the airports, you know?
25:23But apparently, this is Arizona, Linda.
25:24Different Linda. Both sides of the country covered with excellent Linda callers.
25:30So, yeah. Like, again, I think this is an example.
25:34Now, what this is going to encourage, Buck, is a lot of people give us
25:38manifestos. Anytime we have like a public event, people are super nice.
25:44They show up and they're like, hey, here's my 400 -page treatise on why the
25:49Commerce Clause is being misapplied based on the original meaning of the Constitution.
25:54It's like, thank you. Like, I would love your 400 -page treatise on the Commerce
26:00Clause. It's hard for me to get through that.
26:02If you can distill an idea down simply and say, hey, why don't we do
26:08this? Because, again, when the caller put it forward, I was like, hey, you know
26:13what? This makes an awful lot of sense.
26:15And it resonated with me.
26:17And, obviously, it resonated in the White House, too.
26:20Because I don't think there's any way, to be fair, I understand President Trump.
26:25And he deserves credit for everything because, ultimately, it's his administration.
26:28Do you think it's coincidental that on Friday night I referenced this idea from Linda
26:35and by Saturday morning the idea of deploying ICE agents was happening?
26:41Now, where I give the President a tremendous amount of credit is it's Monday and
26:44they're in 13 airports. Yeah, he moves fast.
26:46And usually you can't get the government to do anything.
26:49We got people in 13 airports hopefully helping people get through TSA.
26:53I would also note on this that at a minimum, and it is already helping
26:58a bit, but at a minimum it shows to anyone who is paying attention in
27:02this country that the Trump administration does not want you in long lines at the
27:07airports and is doing what it can, including being creative and thinking outside the box
27:13to help travelers get to.
27:15their spring break destinations get to you know their their ann ethel's house for the
27:20for the weekend whatever it may be work people have to go to places for
27:24their jobs um trump is trying to fix problems democrats make problems i mean that's
27:29i think one of the biggest takeaways from this or should be especially because this
27:32is an election year democrats are willing to manufacture problems and create pain for americans
27:37so they can lie about who's causing the pain and try to win votes based
27:42on that that's the game they light the fire and they're like where's the fire
27:46department not here fast enough um here's one thing that i will try to do
27:51by the way i'm going to try to get linda an autograph trump hat i
27:55think we could probably make that happen i could probably reach out i think linda
27:58had such a good idea i bet president trump would like to sign a hat
28:01for her um i am quite confident buck that you and i can uh can
28:06manage to make that happen so if linda will either call back or she can
28:11give us a talk back um with her actual contact we will not play your
28:15contact information on the uh on the national radio uh but that will allow us
28:19to be able to uh to get back in touch with you uh easier uh
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29:39buck sexton find them on the free iheart radio app or wherever you get your
29:44podcasts welcome back in here to clay and buck we've got a caller cynthia in
29:49bakersfield california would like to chat with us what's going on cynthia hey i'm calling
29:55from california and i wanted to say that president trump is trying to protect linda
30:02from arizona by taking the credit not that he doesn't want to give her credit
30:07but he doesn't want democrats to come at her and say oh look what you
30:11did and you have problems uh could be i think also i mean look ultimately
30:19the responsibility um of decision making obviously the executive authority rests with trump buck i
30:26also think he's probably sensitive enough to the idea of hey callers can impact the
30:33direction of the president of the united states to understand that there can be attacks
30:37come that way uh if that but again i see it as a positive because
30:43what it represents is the president is willing to consider ideas no matter where they
30:47come from if they're good ideas and they make sense it can be a caller
30:49to a radio show it can be somebody who's working on his team it can
30:52be somebody out there talking on television if there are good ideas trump is open
30:57to accepting and adopting them the thing that's most impressive to me about all of
31:01this is we can go from the president never saying it to a statement on
31:06saturday morning to by monday there are uh ice agents in 13 different airports trying
31:11to help the tsa which is hugely overwhelmed um and uh and and i think
31:17that is uh all kind of being set up uh in general we got a
31:21couple of other uh callers sandy out in memphis let me before you uh give
31:27your take here do you feel memphis is safer now than it was before the
31:33surge happened the president's in your town right now yeah 100 way way safer i
31:39mean i live in the outskirts of memphis and suburbs but when i hated going
31:44downtown my husband go to the grizzly game and i'd freak out about him being
31:47safe and now it feels totally different downtown memphis totally different that's a hugely impactful
31:56and again we've shared some of that data we'll play some of that audio for
31:59you in the third hour now uh you wanted to talk about something else yeah
32:04i have a great idea another great idea to solve the tsa problem um just
32:08go ahead and pay those people because here's the deal they pay them what's the
32:13only recourse the democrats have is to sue the government what democrat is going to
32:18sue the government based on paying tsa agents and their constituents the wrath of the
32:23constituents they would never do that so it's a win -win they get paid and
32:27the democrats too bad you suck it up because you're not going to go against
32:31that thank you i don't disagree with that in general the problem is congress authorizes
32:36the money to be able to be paid and if congress doesn't authorize the money
32:40the courts are going to say the president can't Now, I think it's an interesting
32:45question. If the president declares an emergency, could the president declare some sort of emergency
32:51under his authority as president of the United States to pay TSA workers?
32:56That might be a little bit more of a legal uncertainty.
33:00But remember, all of these judges are lining up to try to strike down everything
33:06Trump does. So if it is the otherwise power of the purse resides with the
33:12legislature, then the president trying to say, I'm going to spend this money without legislative
33:16authority becomes a challenge, which is how all this started.
33:21Let's see. Jason in Tampa?
33:24Yeah, Jason in Tampa. Hello?
33:28You're on. Can you hear me?
33:30I can. I don't agree.
33:33Yes, I don't agree that I should be filling in because what all they're doing
33:39is they're taking the pain away from regular people.
33:44But the TSA agents are the ones that are really suffering.
33:47They should leave it as is and make the Democrats come to the table to
33:53fix the problem. This way, the TSA agents are basically just being replaced by scrubs
34:00so that regular travelers are happy.
34:03Yeah, thank you for the call.
34:04I think the premise of Linda's position, and I think this is going to become
34:08apparent in the days ahead if this continues, as it's forecast to do with Polymarket
34:13is, they're going to start making arrests.
34:16And Democrats are going to lose their minds when ICE starts to arrest people at
34:22the airports. And I know people are going to say, oh, but they're going to
34:25know, and they're not going to, oh, no, no.
34:27People are going to show up at the airports, for a while at least.
34:30They're not all going to, the word is not out.
34:32They're not all listening to Clay and Buck out there in illegal fleeing felon world.
34:37So there are going to be, I'm just, just wait for it.
34:39They're going to start making arrests at the airport, and Democrats are going to lose
34:44their minds over this. And they're going to potentially go back to TSA because, again,
34:49I think this is the premise of Linda's idea that is so great.
34:51One, it can make things better.
34:53Two, it drives Democrats so crazy that they end up deciding they're going to fund
34:57TSA. We should also mention another thing that came out on Saturday, I believe it
35:01was Saturday morning, Buck, was Elon Musk said he would just pay the TSA agents
35:04himself, which I'm sure Democrats are going to end up arguing against because, again, it
35:11goes to how the allocated funds exist.
35:15But I think that also kind of paints them into a corner because they try
35:19to say, oh, rich people never do anything.
35:21They're just sucking their scum.
35:25That's the kind of Elizabeth Warren perspective.
35:27There should never be billionaires, I think is what she would say.
35:31Well, what if Elon Musk is way better at paying government workers than others are?
35:37I think that's pretty intriguing.
35:40You know why Bernie Sanders had to stop railing on the millionaires and the billionaires?
35:45Because Bernie is a millionaire with three houses.
35:49So if the millionaires are so bad, why is Bernie a millionaire?
35:54So it's only billionaires now that get hit.
35:56It is very funny that he started to defend.
36:00The only thing he ever defended Hillary Clinton on was getting paid for speeches.
36:04Do you remember that? When Bernie was like, now, now, now, she has a right
36:07to make a living because he was getting paid.
36:08That's what the market will bear for an excellent speech.
36:12And he started to sell a bunch of books, and he got rich, and suddenly
36:18he was fine with it.
36:20All right. We will dive back into some of your calls.
36:24We'll continue to try to leave some phone lines open for Linda, although every line
36:28is ringing simultaneously, meaning that a lot of you are not listening to me when
36:33I say, please let Linda be able to reach the program.
36:37And we will break down more on the latest in Iran as President Trump is
36:41speaking in Memphis. And the president just said, Buck, we've got a funny cut on
36:44this, that in addition to trying to solve crime in Memphis, he's going to do
36:48what a lot of people do when they visit Memphis.
36:50He's headed to Graceland. We'll discuss next.
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