Hour 2 - Will Iran Determine the Midterms?
4/7/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome back in.
0:06Hour number two. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton.
0:09Show as we wait for the deadline.
0:138 p .m. Eastern. Oh, it bated breath.
0:18People are in my mentions.
0:19I just jumped in on social media, Buck.
0:21I'm going to take some of your calls.
0:22We've got a bunch of different interesting calls here.
0:25But they're saying, Trump is going to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
0:31I will wager any amount of money that anybody out there listening has that we
0:37will not drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
0:40And I feel very, very confident about this.
0:43But if some of you have lots of money that you want to put on
0:47the line here, I think your brains are broken.
0:51If you are arguing, oh, my God, Trump is going to drop a nuclear bomb
0:55on Iran. But there's actually a lot of people out there, Buck, arguing Trump will
0:59drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
1:01Markets, by the way, actually pretty calm.
1:04The oil market not moving very much at all.
1:08The stock market not moving very much at all.
1:11There is a sort of genuine, I think, comfort that nothing crazy is going to
1:19happen. And we will see at 8 p .m.
1:21Eastern tonight or maybe before.
1:23I will mention Todd Blanche, who is the acting attorney general, is having a press
1:29conference right now at the Department of Justice.
1:31We are monitoring that being covered live by Fox News.
1:34He is the acting attorney general replacing Pam Bondi.
1:38And we will update you if any major news comes out of that.
1:43But, Buck, we've got a bunch of callers here.
1:45And I thought they had several different interesting takes here.
1:51And Taylor, I'll start with Taylor.
1:54Taylor is from Columbus, Ohio.
1:56He says he voted for President Trump three times, that you are an independent, but
2:02that you are upset at both Buck and me because we are not tough enough
2:07on Trump. Taylor, you have the floor from Columbus, Ohio.
2:12Yeah, you know, I actually think you guys are way better than anybody else in
2:18conservative media because you actually will call a spade a spade, which is why I
2:23keep listening to you guys.
2:24But it just feels like every time I turn on the other guys' Fox News,
2:31it's just one big cheerleading gush fest.
2:34And I'll tell you, it's people like me who came out in droves in 2024
2:40and gave Trump and the GOP a total mandate.
2:45And you hit it on the head last segment.
2:48If the Democrats were to get a mandate like that, like what we saw Trump
2:52get in 2024, they would steamroll this country with the agenda.
2:56And I got to say, guys, Pam Bondi was an utter disaster, Chrissy Noem, total
3:03disaster. All this COVID fraud, all this Medicare fraud, Somali fraud, election fraud, it's been
3:10totally forgotten about seemingly by this administration.
3:13Now we're facing a war that if this goes off the rails with Iran, I'm
3:17telling you, people in my generation do not have a stomach for this.
3:21I'm asking you guys because I think you're the best at what you do on
3:25this side of things. Who is holding the Trump administration accountable?
3:29Because we are the ones who gave him this mandate.
3:33And I'll tell you, there are millions of people like me who at this point
3:37are thinking of sitting this one out in the midterms.
3:40I want to see how this Iran thing plays out.
3:44But I think someone needs to get in Trump's ear and say, hey, we gave
3:50you this mandate. You need to start delivering on these things.
3:53So here's what I would say, Taylor.
3:55First of all, really appreciate the call and also the words of support for the
3:59show. Because it means a lot to us because Clay and I, especially in the
4:02Internet ecosystem, we're very fortunate, thanks to iHeart, that we're on almost 600 radio stations.
4:08But also we operate in the online space like other people do.
4:12And these days, the way to get attention and clicks in the online space, on
4:16the right, is to just be insane.
4:17It's to just be completely nuts.
4:19Say wild stuff, no accountability, make crazy predictions.
4:23Say, I will bet my career that space aliens will land tomorrow.
4:27They will rip off their humanoid faces.
4:29They will be lizards. And they will say we are actually all obeying Hillary Clinton.
4:34Like, I can say that, and that's interesting, but then tomorrow comes, and I would
4:39hope that the audience would hold me to account.
4:41But that doesn't happen anymore on the right.
4:43So I'll put that out there first and foremost.
4:45So I appreciate you and others, because they're choosing to listen to this show instead
4:49of some of the crap that's out there, make those distinctions.
4:52So thank you, and I really mean this from the bottom of my heart.
4:55It speaks well to your discernment and your intellect, okay?
4:59So there's that. Beyond that, everything that you've said I think is completely fair.
5:03You know, I'm maybe too nice sometimes about people, especially if I think they're well
5:09-intentioned. I think it's a general thing in my analysis that maybe is, you know,
5:15in political commentary could be a shortcoming, quite honestly.
5:17If I feel like someone's a good person, look, Christine Ohm shot her dog.
5:21She got no, there was no quarter, no benefit for me after that.
5:24thing okay i didn't like that and we we had that out on the show
5:27and everyone knows how i feel about it uh and among other things by the
5:31way not just the dog shooting but um so with pam bondy i think i
5:34go maybe i go a little soft her record was not good in her first
5:37year it just wasn't um but then again i'm saying that right so that's where
5:41i would come down on that on the but on the most important thing and
5:43trump i want to hand this to you because i think our callers hit like
5:46this is the site this is what's so critical right now because if it goes
5:50wrong it goes wrong in the midterms the midterms goes wrong the trump agenda is
5:53over okay the party's over folks we're gonna it's gonna get ugly after the midterms
5:58if we lose the house and certainly if we lose the house in the senate
6:00clay it's like trump is the chief poker player and he has put a whole
6:06mound of chips in the front in the middle of the table on this iran
6:10thing if he wins if he gets this done i mean that's amazing so i'm
6:17not going to hit a guy i'm not going to come after a guy for
6:21making a bit's a big gamble a big bet before we know what's happened now
6:25would i have made the bet no but i'm not donald trump and i'm not
6:28the commander -in -chief him putting all these chips on the table this way clay
6:31to me if it comes back a big win great if it comes back snake
6:37eyes we will hold the administration to account as much as we can here and
6:41you know god help our country because we're going to have some tough tough conversations
6:45ahead when democrats take control because that's what i see happening what do you think
6:48so i have obviously a lot of thoughts unfortunately we have a big show so
6:54we could share most of them look i think trump if you want to criticize
6:59him has been trying to fix too many things simultaneously there's a lot of broken
7:05things out there i think we also live in an era where whatever trump does
7:11there is a concerted opposition of people that's brains are broken that are lined up
7:17to convince you that it's the worst thing they've ever seen right now we have
7:22been at war with iran for six weeks 13 american soldiers have died i wish
7:28that we had lost no uh life at all in this uh in this event
7:33with uh that we're currently in with iran but that is one of the most
7:37successful operations of war in the history of the united states joe biden couldn't leave
7:44afghanistan without 13 people dying 40 plus people have died and been murdered in chicago
7:51since this war started if you had to choose whether you wanted to be an
7:57american soldier fighting in iran or just a regular american living in some neighborhoods on
8:04the south side of chicago it's almost to the point seriously where the danger on
8:09the south side of chicago is higher than the danger in the skies above iran
8:13to be fair clay though people would say you know if you live in chicago
8:16you have to live where you live we didn't have to we didn't have to
8:20start an air campaign against iran right so there's but their position isn't that it's
8:23so few casualties or or whether it is few or not the position of those
8:28who are upset with trump is it should be zero we should not have lost
8:31a single american life in this well and that goes to the argument of whether
8:35you trust trump with the decision that he has made in iran i see all
8:39of these connected i see venezuela i see cuba i see uh iran connected directly
8:46um and i think trump is seeing governments that are opposed to basic human rights
8:52and freedom that are close to toppling and he has decided he's going to take
8:56them out while he can now venezuela seems to be going fantastically well there's almost
9:01zero discussion about what's going on in venezuela that's a sign that things are going
9:06really well cuba if we hadn't allowed russia to deliver a couple of ships there
9:11basically wouldn't have been able to even continue to exist as a country we can
9:16at any point in time i believe decide what's going to happen in cuba with
9:20iran trump believes and again you don't have to sign on to this although i
9:26do think there's some cogency to this that because of the power of iran to
9:32control some so much of the flow of the flow of oil and gas that
9:37there is basically a surcharge on what oil and gas costs because of their government
9:43and the fact that they can't be relied upon and as a result he believes
9:47that if there is a more stable government that we do not worry about having
9:51nuclear weapons that things will be better for american commerce in the years ahead to
9:57me again this is overreach the easiest thing for trump to have done was just
10:01show up not really rock the boat very much and as a result there wouldn't
10:07be the these risks these taking and this i think is the number one way
10:11to really sum it up i think trump sees what happened with north korea and
10:16i think bill clinton regrets the way that he handled north korea and trump wants
10:21to solve the problem of iran potentially having nuclear weapons if we could go back
10:26in time i bet if we got bill clinton on this program and other than
10:30sexual relations with monica in the white house right of the decisions that bill clinton
10:35made that were directly related to american foreign policy i bet i went back and
10:40read all about this buck i bet he wishes that jimmy carter hadn't parachuted into
10:45north korea for those of you who forgot how this all went trump i mean
10:50uh clinton was all prepared to attack North Korea and try to wipe out their
10:54nuclear ambitions and then Jimmy Carter said I'm gonna go meet with the North Koreans
11:00and I'll get us a deal and he did that and he went in and
11:04the deal was that North Korea was never gonna have nuclear weapons and Buck what
11:07did they do they got nuclear weapons it is both imminently rational for North Korea
11:12and for Iran to want nuclear weapons because it guarantees the government will be in
11:17power forever and imminently rational for countries like ours to want Iran to not join
11:23North Korea and to keep them from ever having nuclear weapons Trump could have punted
11:27on this whole thing Buck he could have just said hey I'm out in 29
11:31I will let the rest of the world deal with the with whether Iran has
11:36nuclear weapons in the future I think Trump is genuinely trying to fix things for
11:42generations that he's not going to live to see and that is a substantial overreach
11:46and ambition and intent and if it doesn't pan out to your point he's put
11:50a lot of chips in the table and some people are going to say he
11:53should have just left Iran alone North Korea's got nuclear weapons what do we care
11:58what do we care if Iran gets nuclear weapons I think there's some people who
12:01would say that I just feel like there are a lot of people who are
12:05declaring this amazing or awful when they don't know the score we don't know and
12:14and so how can you be in a position that that's just people looking for
12:18a way to justify their own view of Mideast policy their own view of Trump
12:24there is still a possibility here of I think a high I think it's a
12:28probability better than 50 50 I wouldn't say it's a sure thing that Trump manages
12:33to completely change the trajectory of the Middle East and put an end to the
12:39the Middle East can never be stable it's just like a perpetual warfare jihadist blow
12:44themselves up crazy crazy zone okay there's a possibility that he changes that trajectory in
12:51a way that is a once in a once in a lifetime opportunity there's also
12:56a possibility that this thing continues to be a little bit of a mess and
13:01maybe he does more damage to Iran maybe he lands some US troops on the
13:06shores of Hormuz because they won't open Hormuz maybe we take some more losses and
13:10things get uglier and worse and he gets absolutely shellacked in the midterms for this
13:15and then we will know that it was not a good gamble right yes we
13:21don't know yet and I'm just trying to be honest with you about this there's
13:24some people that want us to say it's amazing some people want to say it's
13:27terrible we talk about what has happened and what we think is happening but tomorrow
13:34is going to be very different from today in terms of the scoreboard for Iran
13:37I know I'm sorry that you know it's a war and it's not a game
13:40but in terms of the uh the wisdom or lack thereof of this entire operation
13:46we'll see what happens with this red line tonight but because this is serious stuff
13:50I don't think it's I don't think it's intellectually honest to just get dug into
13:54one side and either take out the pom -poms or take out the sledgehammer and
13:59pretend like that's being fair to the situation I do have faith Clay still that
14:04Trump will pull this thing out if he doesn't we will say that this was
14:08a blunder and it will be apparent to everyone then but I feel like pre
14:12-judging the outcome from our perspective doesn't do any what's the point of that I'll
14:17just give you this prediction for tonight if Trump announces that there's a deal the
14:22same people who said he's going to nuke Iran are going to be upset and
14:27say the deal isn't good enough I just a prediction like what perspective of reasoned
14:33analysis could lead you to he's going to nuke Iran to if he doesn't nuke
14:38Iran and he announces a peace deal they're going to say the peace deal isn't
14:42good enough I can tell you exactly what their reaction is going to be I
14:46would rather be wrong in my analysis or my assessment and have good things happen
14:51for America than the other way around unfortunately not a lot of people in our
14:54business are acting like that recently because whatever happens they're kind of rooting against Trump
15:00on this one and I mean from the right and to me that's just that's
15:04something that we would never tolerate uh in terms of the commentary from Democrats without
15:09the harshest of rejoinders but there are people that just want to be right about
15:13this thing which means they hope that Trump fails so a lot of troops die
15:16and a lot of troops die like they would celebrate if 50 American troops die
15:21in the next if you want to hammer Trump after this thing turns into debacle
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19:0198 welcome back in clay travis buck sexton show okay as we await the 8
19:07p .m deadline of president trump uh we will take a bunch of your calls
19:12here and i'm gonna try to go in the order of well i can't even
19:17tell how long you've been waiting so tough break there um but let's start with
19:21i know dave in logan utah has been waiting a little while so let me
19:24start with him dave appreciate you uh you listen what you got for us yeah
19:29well first of all let me say i was glad to hold the weight and
19:32i appreciate you guys i appreciate you raising the bar on the eib networks too
19:36um i'm calling because you know you mentioned the uh rep who was bringing up
19:41the uh impeachment again against trump and all these um blue states that are talking
19:47about prosecuting uh trump administration members once trump is out of office and the next
19:52administration is in if it's democratic administration so i was wondering other than you know
19:57continually having republicans in office which i wish would happen is there anything from your
20:04guys's perspective that can be done either by congress by the president or by the
20:08people to prevent um democrats from retroactively going back and prosecuting these members of the
20:17administration for doing what their job is protecting america and trying to make america great
20:21makes me sick what they're trying to do but i'm wondering if there's anything that
20:24you can think of that can be done to help protect those members of the
20:27administration thank you for the call don't put democrats in power i think that's the
20:33only thing you can do well i know i think that trump is going to
20:36and this is uh this has been coming for a while um but i think
20:42trump is going to end up having to give uh universal pardons yeah to a
20:46lot of members of his administration but this is going to create uh this is
20:52going to be tough because democrats will come in and they'll get ready to do
20:56that and they'll do really bad stuff and then they'll have i mean look at
21:00look at hunter biden hunter biden's a criminal obviously i mean committed many many crimes
21:05and got pardoned by daddy on his way out along with others and there's no
21:10question although i know it's alleged but i mean come on there's no question about
21:14what hunter biden was doing but now i think we're in it we're in a
21:18world where you're going to have prevent preemptive preventative pardons by trump i think he's
21:24going to have to pardon pete again when i say pardon pardon in advance yeah
21:28pete hegseth he's going to have to pardon a whole range of people because they
21:34were part of his administration i think you are likely correct and by the way
21:40i think it will become standard that all presidents of all parties just start issuing
21:46blanket parts pardons to a large extent for but here's what he should do administration
21:52he should he should have the pardons in such a way that it is pardoned
21:56for any and all you know future that that may that may have allegedly occurred
22:02in the course of his official duties which of course you shouldn't need a pardon
22:07for but i think that's where i think that's what we're heading toward it also
22:11raises the question and again this is the legal nerd in me to what extent
22:16are preemptive pardons legal because typically the president has the power to pardon and usually
22:23the way we see it used is for charges that have occurred or charge investigations
22:28that are ongoing for some form of specific uh element of a uh of a
22:36of an act whereas preemptive pardons are just like kind of blanket and um i
22:42think there's probably going to be court challenges on some of those uh all right
22:47let's keep going down the list here tom in florida i think was the next
22:51man up on the uh on the team here tom what you got for us
22:55well you talk about the democrats like they're crazy and they're way out there and
23:01i think you're being extraordinarily kind because i think they're the greasiest slimiest bunch of
23:05people on planet earth they hate this country they hate the constitution they root against
23:12everything that's going on in the country and having said that between now and 2040
23:18would you guys agree that the democrats are going to take over the house the
23:23senate and the presidency all at once at some point in time and if that
23:27happens i think they promised that they'd end the filibuster first pack the supreme court
23:33with six morons like katanji brown jackson second add two senators in washington two senators
23:40in puerto rico seven congressmen and then the fourth thing that they'll do is that
23:45they'll naturalize every illegal immigrant in this country and the republicans will never ever win
23:52another election in history and i want you to tell me what you think this
23:57country is going to look like when and if that happens okay there's a lot
24:01there thank you for the call buck i would bet a lot of money that
24:05between now and 2040 so you got 28 32 36 40 that's four different election
24:12cycles tell me if you would sign off on this i think it's very likely
24:16that in the next 12 years that democrats six to 14 years that democrats will
24:21have the house the senate and the presidency at some point in time the next
24:2512 years i bet you would also not we're rooting we're not rooting for it
24:29but i bet you would agree with me on that if you're giving odds on
24:32it i mean the odds are pretty high i don't think anyone could really give
24:35precise odds but yeah it's certainly a concern i think it's high and then to
24:40the point that he he said which we have said for some time i think
24:44there are a lot of republicans right now saying i'm going to stay committed to
24:48the principle of requiring effectively and i know there's exemptions and all these different things
24:5360 votes to really get anything passed in the senate right um i think democrats
24:59will do away with that um as soon as they have the presidency the house
25:03in the senate i think they will toss that filibuster on the dumpster fire of
25:09history and when they have the ability to use power they will do you have
25:13it would you also sign off on that being likely if they get the ability
25:17to get the majority again yeah they'll i think they'll go for the jugular and
25:22try to create a one -party state i don't i don't think our call is
25:25wrong at all i think that's the plan uh i think that has been the
25:28plan for quite some time i think that's the the real plan with the legal
25:31immigration i might add we always talk about this like well what do we do
25:35to slow it down and how do we enforce the law and everything else they
25:38still want mass amnesty and the party that delivers mass amnesty knows that they'll be
25:42able to count on 70 80 percent of the vote of the amnestied maybe 100
25:47who knows but something close to that uh but that's the plan to transform the
25:53electorate in this country and it's it's a uh an effort to create a one
26:00-party state and i am very concerned about that so the amount of time that
26:05we have here to try to set things right and this is i think why
26:08a lot of people also were so fired up about the save save america act
26:13uh and it's not going to pass and we're we've been saying this all along
26:19remember year one we told you the trump administration as he was getting stuff done
26:23and things were going well said this is great on task but enjoy this i
26:28told you i said the communists are going to come back the pendulum will swing
26:32in the other direction this is just the nature of our political reality in this
26:36country um and clay here here's a caller from this is a talkback e from
26:41a caller in fresno california who's referring to the the young guy i think from
26:46ohio who was very frustrated with trump on iran and a few other things this
26:50is a response to that play e that last caller is kind of bs uh
26:54trump did everything he did on his agenda in one year almost he he did
26:58everything either the big bill or executive order and it's up to the rest of
27:04the senate and republicans to codify it um that's not his he can't do anything
27:09about that he did what he said first off that kid who said like you
27:13know his generation or his people got trump up elected uh no we all got
27:17trump elected and part of the agenda i wanted taken care of was iran i've
27:22been waiting decades for someone to do this to iran so and for you guys
27:26to say if things go bad from here it was a blunder because he loses
27:29the midterms i'm sorry but decapitating iran is more important than the midterms okay a
27:38few things one i said it depends on how bad it gets if we have
27:42u .s troops that end up being deployed to iran and for this can get
27:46really i don't think it will but again i i think that was allison from
27:50la listens on the keib uh clay we're not getting ahead of where the story
27:55actually is and where things actually are right now uh and you say that right
28:00now about losing them okay democrats win let's say the democrats democrats win the house
28:04and the senate in the midterms now you're talking about no more trump judges no
28:09more trump appointees maybe a uh a supreme court vacancy opens up and they have
28:14to navigate through that situation uh and and it means that you have impeachment hearings
28:19and the end of the trump agenda here at home here at home and i
28:24think part of the problem here is that uh you know you got fox news
28:27and some very loud voices that are totally focused on iran right now i understand
28:31why and so the gop faithful are like okay there's a lot of media attention
28:36on iran people care about what's happening here in america more than what is happening
28:42in iran more than what the risk i think of uh iranian nuclear capability is
28:48when it comes to who they're going to vote for so i you know i
28:53i think that's very valid um anyway i didn't say it was going to go
28:56bad just to be clear i just said if it does go really bad and
28:59we lose then we'll see if people think that this iran situation was worth it
29:05i might also add if we don't get the concessions if we don't get the
29:08agreement iran's going to try to start building nukes again everybody and they're going to
29:12have a lot of money when the oil starts to flow it's not over here
29:17is what i would say in general trump is making decisions that may not pay
29:23off beneficially for decades and i think we live in such a short -term attention
29:31span world that's why i like to go back and look at north korea if
29:34we could i i guarantee you i'd love to have bill clinton on and to
29:37ask him this question i bet he would say and he may have said it
29:40publicly since i wish that i had done something instead of listening to jimmy carter
29:44i wish that i had taken out north korea's ability to ever have nuclear weapons
29:48he probably also would say i wish i hadn't bombed an aspirin factory in sudan
29:52to distract from monica's testimony at the grand jury just say there's probably a lot
29:56i think he would probably say i wish i'd taken out osama bin laden right
30:00right there's lots of things that you could point to that he would like to
30:03change i think trump is trying to make decisions which is honestly again this is
30:09why the scope and the reach of what trump is trying to do is actually
30:13the exact opposite of a lot of what people say trump is doing you know
30:18this if you study history most authoritarian dictators are obsessed with what occurs while they
30:27are in office and uh and that means that they oftentimes do not make great
30:33decisions for the decades into the future most of the time trump is trying to
30:38make decisions right now that are beneficial for decades to come that frankly he's probably
30:43not going to benefit from politically and you can agree or disagree with that context
30:49venezuela to me uh iran and cuba are all connected in that way i also
30:55think there's not enough discussion you mentioned this buck but i do think it's significant
30:59whatever you think of trump marco rubio i think has done a phenomenal job as
31:04secretary of state i think that pete hegseth has done a really good job as
31:07secretary of war and certainly jd vance has been very supportive i think trump and
31:12then if you want to toss in treasury secretary scott besant you want to talk
31:15about the top five guys that trump has right now at the top of his
31:19team i think you can make a real argument that they are the most competent
31:23most intelligent you know quintuplet that we have seen running the united states government in
31:29a very very long time i don't think that's a crazy take at all and
31:33so the idea that trump is just this mad king and nobody else is able
31:38to help him make decisions i think frankly is just is just absolutely insane bush
31:43cheney rumsfeld had a lot of acclaim yeah that went well that i'm just saying
31:49i'm just saying we got it we got to keep it real here you know
31:51the resume doesn't necessarily translate into the results again i think but for so many
31:56people here and i i feel the same way on this somebody asked me right
32:00now what i bet if i were betting and i'm just hopeful that this goes
32:04well because i'm i bet on america right but if you're asking me if i
32:07were like my last dollar i had to put on whether trump pulls us through
32:11this and it ends up being a a win a true win or not i
32:16would say yeah i think trump's gonna gonna pull this out um but we we're
32:22not there yet he got to get the straight open that's why trump's tweeting uh
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33:54and entertainment. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get
34:01your podcasts. Welcome back in here to Play and Buck.
34:06We want to get some of your calls and get to some of the latest
34:10thoughts on everything going on in Iran.
34:14But also, I want to note, we are going to have the Secretary of HHS,
34:19Robert Kennedy Jr., will be joining us in the second half of the next hour.
34:26We're talking about a lot of the Maha, Make America Healthy Again agenda.
34:32I want to ask him about peptides.
34:34I want to ask him all kinds of things.
34:35Where's the FDA on this stuff?
34:37Where are all these cures?
34:38We've got AI now. The world of health is about to get a whole lot
34:41more interesting and, I think, data -driven, and there'll be more access for people to
34:45this stuff than ever before.
34:47So that's really unique. And we can also ask him whether he thinks Clay is
34:51going to be able to continue to bench more than his sons for the foreseeable
34:57future. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
35:00Some of these boys are looking pretty robust, Clay.
35:03I'm nervous. I was just telling you off air that I'm going to end up
35:08tearing my rotator cuffs and stuff trying to make sure I can still bench more
35:11than they can because they have the advantage of youth on their side, and they're
35:17getting a lot stronger very rapidly.
35:19So I didn't think I was going to be challenged for strength, superiority in the
35:24house this soon. But the 15 -year -old is coming for my title.
35:29You know, Kerry and I have started doing yoga together, which is really fun, I
35:33have to say. It's really good.
35:35I've learned I am not flexible.
35:38Is it hot yoga or just yoga?
35:40Oh, just plain, plain, like slow, it's like, I would say I'm doing yoga for
35:46old people. Which makes sense.
35:48Is it just you and her or you in a class?
35:50Yes. We have an instructor.
35:52Okay. The two of us with the instructor.
35:54No, I wouldn't do it in front of other people.
35:55That's what I was wondering.
35:57Yeah. No, no. I've had bad memories.
36:00I tried to just jump into a class once at a big commercial gym in
36:03New York, and I looked like I was having a heart attack in the back.
36:07They kept saying Chattarunga, and I'm like, Chatta what?
36:10Chatta what? I have no idea what's going on here.
36:13I was like sweating profusely.
36:15It's funny you mentioned that, because this morning I was getting ready, and there's, I
36:18guess, a clip that's gone viral, and it probably circles back around in a bunch
36:23of different times. But there's just an old, have you seen this video?
36:26There's an old guy just standing outside of a yoga studio, and just there's a
36:30huge collection of really good -looking women in tight clothes doing yoga poses, and he
36:36just stops and stands there, and they come, and they're like, you have to keep
36:40moving, sir. And so I'm thinking to myself, poor guy's out for a walk.
36:44He didn't know he was going to see 15 gorgeous girls in spandex doing yoga
36:48poses. Stops to look. Next thing you know, he's mega viral on the internet.
36:51Got to keep your head on a little out there, kids.
36:53He was just checking out their Chattarungas.
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