Hour 3 - Let Him Cook
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0:34Welcome, everybody. Third hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right
0:38now. Clay is out today doing clay things on a clay adventure.
0:43He'll be back with us tomorrow.
0:44Just me today. I am recovering from a stomach bug over the weekend.
0:50So drinking my Pedialyte does not taste great, but it does get the job done.
0:55And I got a lot of news to talk to you all about here.
0:59We have, oh boy, a few things.
1:03First of all, let's start with the happy.
1:04We mentioned this top of the show.
1:06U .S. men's hockey team.
1:09Gold medal in the Olympics.
1:10Yay. Very exciting. A lot of patriotism.
1:13A lot of USA. And the player who had his tooth broken by the stick
1:18and stayed in the game.
1:19And I think he did.
1:19He scored the winning goal, too.
1:21Didn't he? It's a crazy story.
1:24With half of his tooth missing.
1:27The front tooth as well.
1:28Like, there's different. Some teeth you can get chipped or knocked out, and you're like,
1:33that's not great. But the front teeth, that's the.
1:36Oof. But he stayed in there.
1:39Those hockey guys are tough.
1:41I got to say. You don't want to fight hockey guys.
1:43That I know. Even if they're retired or whatever.
1:45You don't want to mess with the hockey guys.
1:46And then you got, what else happening over the weekend?
1:50We talked about the military operation that took out El Mencho, the Jalisco cartel, Jalisco
1:59New Generation cartel guy. And, yep, that happened.
2:04Let me see. Jack Hughes.
2:07They're saying, yeah, Jack Hughes.
2:10Whew. That's a, that guy's a tough dude.
2:15So anyway, there's a cartel guy got taken out of the weekend, $15 million bounty
2:18on his head. I guess the Mexican military doesn't get to collect that, but they
2:22really wanted him. They took him out.
2:24A gunman at Mar -a -Lago, about an hour from where I am here, up
2:30north. Gunman from Mar -a -Lago, shot and killed.
2:34Entered the grounds. Had a shotgun.
2:37Assuming Secret Service said halt.
2:38Halt, he didn't halt, and that was all, that was all that went down there.
2:43And so we've got that, another threat against President Trump.
2:46Something that I thought was, was worth revisiting, though, from last week.
2:51So we got those big news stories about the gold medal, shooting at Mar -a
2:56-Lago, Mexican cartel leader taken out.
3:01And, but then last week we had that Supreme Court decision.
3:06And Trump was, to put it mildly, unhappy with the 6 -3 decision that went
3:13against him in the Supreme Court.
3:16Learning Resources, Incorporated v. Trump.
3:20International Emergency Powers Act, IEPA, as we call it, does not authorize him to impose
3:28these tariffs, they said. Well, Trump, in a press conference shortly afterward, said that this
3:35was deeply disappointing. He said he was ashamed of certain members of the court.
3:40Ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for our country.
3:43He thanked the justices, he thanked the justices, or sorry, he personally attacked some of
3:52the justices, said that they were just loyal and unpatriotic fools and lapdogs, whoa, and
3:59said the ruling was terrible and ridiculous.
4:01But he announced that he would work around the ruling using other legal authorities.
4:06He signed off on a new temporary 10 % global tariff under Section 122 of
4:11the Trade Act of 1974.
4:14This went to a different statute, a different authority for this.
4:17He posted about this on Truth Social, by the way.
4:19You can read some of this off of Truth Social if you want.
4:22Then the next day, he raised the tariff to, the global tariff, 15%, called the
4:28Supreme Court's opinion ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti -American.
4:33He praised dissenting justices Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito for wanting to make America great again.
4:41So Trump was annoyed by it, but he's not stopping.
4:45And he's not stopping the tariffs either.
4:48And Scott Besant, his very capable Secretary of the Treasury, who I think has become
4:54one of the most impressive members of the Trump cabinet, I think that Besant has
5:00really shown. First of all, just look at the way the economy, and people can
5:04say, oh, it's not like the Treasury Secretary is responsible for it all.
5:07Okay, but if the economy was trash, don't you think we'd all be hearing about
5:11how terrible Scott Besant was?
5:12If inflation was going through the roof, don't you think we'd be hearing about how
5:15terrible Trump and Besant were on this?
5:18So maybe you get more credit when the things are good, and you get more
5:21blame when things are bad, but that's the way it goes.
5:24Besant has presided over a very strong economy, a very rapidly growing economy.
5:30But on the Supreme Court ruling, he had some very straightforward analysis of all this.
5:40This is cut 22, and here's what he had to say.
5:43Play 22. It's very interesting that the Supreme Court said that the president can't raise
5:49$1 of revenue with tariffs, but he can put on a full embargo.
5:53So they reaffirmed his ability to block all trade.
5:56He just cannot accept $1 for the trade.
5:59And I will tell you, the tariff revenues, they have come into the Treasury.
6:05But more importantly, the ultimate goal of tariffs is rebalancing trade and bringing our trade
6:10deficits into balance. We've seen our goods sector, the deficit, with our trading partners, drop
6:15by 17%. We've seen our bilateral deficit with China drop substantially.
6:19And we are seeing trillions of investments and factories coming back to the U .S.
6:23because of the tariffs. So the policy overall seems to have worked very well, if
6:34you look at it from the perspective of what will benefit the American economy.
6:37And looking at what they wanted to have happened once they put these in place.
6:42In calendar year 2025, tariffs were $264 billion.
6:52That's some real money, friends.
6:54Some say it's actually more like $287 billion in customs, duty, taxes, and fees altogether.
7:03So this is a lot of money that came in.
7:06And yet the economy was still strong.
7:10Unemployment, inflation, growth, all these things.
7:13Wages. Things are going well.
7:15Now, the one place where people have been citing challenges is on affordability and high
7:22prices. High prices, as we know, were kicked into place by the worst economic decision
7:31-making imaginable during COVID. Some of which occurred on Trump's watch but would have very
7:37quickly been turned around. But then Biden came in and did a whole lot of
7:40crazy stuff, spending trillions of dollars completely unnecessarily after we had already seen that COVID
7:46was not something we should have shut down the economy for, shut down schools for,
7:50and everything else. But, yeah, if you're going to just tell people not to work
7:54and print trillions of dollars, you're going to inflate your currency and you're going to
7:57have problems. So none of that was a surprise.
8:00I think all of that exactly lined up the way that we would have assumed.
8:05But Trump inherited those high prices as president.
8:08He's trying to deal with it.
8:09He doesn't sit around whining about it, but he's trying to deal with it.
8:13And that is going to take some time.
8:18But in the meantime, there are a lot of things that I think are going
8:22exactly the way that he would like them to with regard to the economy.
8:27And the Supreme Court ruling, to me, seemed very much like the justices in the
8:33majority. Well, there are a few justices who just hate Trump and anything that he
8:37does they're going to oppose.
8:38Pretty much. We know who they are.
8:41And then there are a few other justices, notably Roberts, but also Gorsuch and Coney
8:51Barrett, who are institutionalists for the court at some level.
8:55They believe in keeping the public's, whatever that means to them, view of the court
9:04favorable. And I think that they stepped in here, and I think they make political
9:08decisions. They go, well, we're going to knock him down on this one because some
9:12of the other ones that are coming down the pipeline, Clay and I talked about
9:15this last week. I think it's correct.
9:17I think it's true. Some of the other ones coming down the pipeline are going
9:19to go Trump's way, and there are going to be people who are very unhappy,
9:23very unhappy about that. But on this tariff issue, they are saying, yes, he can
9:30embargo. He can shut down all trade, but he cannot, he can regulate it, but
9:36he can't take a dollar.
9:39Isn't that interesting? The interstate commerce clause has been used in so many abusive ways
9:49for government overreach, all under the term, all under the idea that regulate means, you
9:54know, you can do like whatever you want.
9:57Regulate means, oh, it's crossing state lines, we can do whatever we want.
10:01And yet on this one, regulate cannot mean imposing any kind of a tariff, an
10:10import duty, whatever you want to call it.
10:13Scott Besson spoke about this again.
10:15This is cut 23, and he's talked more about the plan continues, just like Trump's
10:20view of this. They're not stopping.
10:22They're not slowing this down.
10:23Play 23. I want to point to what we're doing.
10:27The president, the administration remains undeterred in reshoring American factories and getting rid of these
10:36massive trade imbalances. That's the big story here, is that we are immediately going to
10:41go to Section 122 tariffs, and that the revenue for the U .S.
10:46Treasury for 2026, the projections are unchanged.
10:52So he's saying they march along as expected on this one and they're going to
10:58keep pushing in the same direction because despite what everyone in the so -called economic
11:05or economist intelligentsia had said, it did not destroy the economy.
11:10It did not create out of control prices.
11:13All these things, the parade of horribles that we were told would result from this
11:21did not happen. And so you would think that would be indicative of, well, maybe
11:27Trump's on to something here.
11:28And he has been on so many of these things.
11:30I remember in the first Trump administration, the desire that Trump had not only to
11:36change trade with China, but to renegotiate NAFTA.
11:39And all these people who were supposedly experts were saying, that's crazy, that's crazy.
11:43Of course, it's not crazy.
11:45NAFTA was negotiated in the 90s.
11:49The Internet was barely a thing.
11:52Plenty of reason to look at the trade agreements that we have with neighboring countries
11:56and redo them. And so he was fundamentally correct on that.
11:59And in dealing with China, there was the collective wisdom, communist wisdom.
12:09The general consensus was if you do anything to China on trade, you're going to
12:15antagonize them and cause all these problems for the United States.
12:17Meanwhile, they were antagonizing us.
12:20We were in a trade war.
12:21It was just a one -way trade war.
12:22China against us. And we were sitting here like, we're free trade.
12:25We don't do that. Well, hold on a second.
12:28It's not free trade if they're not free trade.
12:30It just means that they're taking advantage of us.
12:33Trump fundamentally understood that power dynamic and took the necessary action to deal with it
12:38so effectively, I might add, that the Biden administration pretty much continued on with Trump
12:44policies on China, on trade.
12:47So not that Biden was really awake long enough to know what was going on.
12:50The point is, I think that he earned the leeway to let him cook, as
12:55they say, as the kids say these days.
12:57Let him cook. Let Trump cook.
12:59And I think that he's doing a good job with this specifically.
13:04And he knows what's going to be to our benefit.
13:07And fine, they don't like the authority he was using.
13:09Now he's using a different authority.
13:11He's pointing. They've already cited what the statute is.
13:12They're going to use that statute.
13:13And they're going to keep going.
13:16And I think that it's going to be to the benefit of this country.
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15:01Welcome back in here to Play and Buck.
15:03Just as I was talking to you in the last half hour or so about
15:07the escalation from the Trump administration in the fight against the cartels and everything going
15:15on to our south with stopping the importation of drugs, mostly fentanyl, but also cocaine,
15:24heroin, and others into this country.
15:25There has been another strike, another narco -terrorist boat blown up in the Caribbean today.
15:34The U .S. Southern Command put out the following.
15:37Oh, there's a video of it here, too.
15:39I'm going to watch the video while I tell you about this.
15:41On February 23rd, at the direction of South Com Commander General Donovan.
15:46Whoa, that boat is gone.
15:50Joint task force, Southern Spear, conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by
15:55designated terrorist organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was, let me see what it says here,
16:03transiting along no narco -trafficking routes in the Caribbean, was engaged in narco -trafficking operations.
16:08Three male narco -terrorists were killed in this action.
16:10No U .S. military were harmed.
16:12Yeah, and I've got a video of it.
16:14You can see the strike.
16:16Yep, that just, so that just, we just blew up another narco boat.
16:19I was talking about that.
16:20That just happened today. So we are very much, the U .S.
16:25government and the Secretary of War are very much continuing on with this war on
16:32drugs. I'm just going to tell you something.
16:34If a Democrat wins the next election, just get ready for this, they're going to
16:37switch it back to Secretary of Defense, 100%.
16:41And then it will be this thing that kind of the next, you know, do
16:44we switch it back, do we switch it back?
16:46The next administration, if it's a Democrat administration, will say we're back to Secretary of
16:52Defense. I can almost guarantee you.
16:57Now, I hope we won't have the next administration be Democrats, but I can tell.
17:02I've started to see more in articles, too.
17:04They'll say Pentagon Chief Hegseth, who refers to himself as the Secretary of War, you
17:11know, they just see, they don't like, they don't like that there's been a change
17:17in the nomenclature of our military.
17:22They very much are bothered by this.
17:24And they're bothered by the fact that the military is not focused on DEI and
17:28on, you know, trans surgeries and all this other stuff that had become really an
17:33oppressive part of the HR culture in the Pentagon.
17:37I can tell you it wasn't the CIA.
17:38My friends in the CIA, all the DEI woke stuff was all over that building,
17:44too. Anyway, back to the strike here.
17:46We blew up another narco boat.
17:47We're going to keep doing this, it seems.
17:49Oh, something else also. I mean, President Trump is going to have to pardon his,
17:54he's got to pardon a number of senior military officials, not because they've broken the
17:58law or done anything wrong, but I think the next administration would come in and
18:01possibly try them over some of this.
18:04I'm just saying what I think is likely to happen.
18:07So you're going to see a whole range, I would assume, before Trump leaves office
18:12of pardons for senior officials in the Pentagon, because they are very hell -bent on
18:22convincing people that these are unlawful targets that are being hit and that these are
18:28war crimes. So just get ready for that, too.
18:31They've really tried very hard to take Pete Heggshead down during the confirmation and after
18:36his confirmation. They have been unsuccessful, and I can tell you something.
18:40New York Times, Washington Post, these kinds of entities, whatever's left of them now, it
18:46just burns them up that they have not been able to ruin the Secretary of
18:53War, take him out of his job in some capacity.
18:56But he's going to stay on it, and he's going to stay on the war
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19:58Judge Eileen Cannon for the win.
20:02You might not have even heard of this story.
20:04This one is worth a couple minutes on.
20:07Judge Cannon, down here in Florida, the great state of Florida, has ordered the Jack
20:16Smith special counsel report to be kept under wraps.
20:23There you go. This is for the Washington Post.
20:25A federal judge in Florida blocked public release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's extensive report
20:30on the classified documents case against President Donald Trump, a resounding victory for Trump's efforts
20:37to block public viewing of what probably would be damaging details about his retention of
20:45classified materials after he left the White House in 2021.
20:49The decision Monday morning from U .S.
20:51District Judge Cannon resulted from litigation has dragged on for more than a year.
20:56Cannon ruled that releasing the special counsel report could violate grand jury secrecy rules and
21:02result in impugning their presumption of innocence for Trump and his co -defendants in a
21:06case that did not result in guilty verdicts.
21:10The ruling can be appealed.
21:11Trump and the Justice Department opposed the public release.
21:14First Amendment advocacy groups and media outlets pushed in Cannon's court for release.
21:19Yeah, no surprise there. Smith charged Trump in 2023 with 40 counts.
21:25A little trip down memory lane.
21:2640 counts of illegally retaining classified defense information and obstructing government efforts to retrieve the
21:34materials. Two of Trump's personal aides were charged with obstruction alongside him.
21:3940 counts of illegally retaining...
21:41I mean, it's almost hard to...
21:44You go back in time, you think about what they tried to do to Trump
21:47and all... Stuff I did, you say, 40 counts?
21:50And that's just that one case.
21:52The 35 or 36 counts of the nonsense in New York.
21:56All these different judges, rather prosecutors, just completely abdicating their most basic ethical responsibilities all
22:06in the service of politics.
22:08And the craziest part of it all is that it helped propel Trump to be
22:13president again. The whole thing backfired.
22:16I mean, I think that is very clear now.
22:18The whole thing backfired on them.
22:21Thank heavens. I mean, thankfully, that's the way it went.
22:25But it is, in retrospect, just stunning that we went through this, that Trump went
22:32through this. You know, a lot of people get indicted for minor stuff, and they
22:35can't sleep at night. You know, they're a wreck.
22:39They look gaunt. They lose weight.
22:40What's going to happen to me?
22:42I mean, Trump took four criminal cases, four different criminal cases, all bogus, but he
22:50took them in stride. That is pretty amazing.
22:53And he took a bullet through the ear.
22:55And he took that in stride, too.
22:58This guy is, he said it, he is built different.
23:01There is something very different about him.
23:03And he is able to keep going and keep pushing forward.
23:08Maybe there is something to drinking 15 Diet Cokes a day.
23:10I don't know. I like Diet Coke.
23:14Trump's got some secret that he could share with all the rest of us.
23:18Gavin Newsom, on the other hand.
23:22Gavin Newsom. Oh, boy. We're going to be talking about him a lot.
23:25We're not going to have a choice because he's going to run.
23:28And he is going to make a lot of noise while he's running.
23:31And I think he's probably going to be the Democrat nominee.
23:34Maybe some other options that come up.
23:37But I still think that Gavin Newsom ends up winning this thing.
23:41Tells you a lot. There's 350 million people in this country, give or take.
23:46The best the Democrats can do is this guy.
23:49Just so you know, I'm just like all of you.
23:51I got a 960 on the SAT, and I can't read.
23:55Whoa, Gavin. Whoa. Oh, buddy.
23:58Here he is on CNN.
24:00Another issue that he likes to weigh in on.
24:05Talking with Dana Bash about the trans athlete issue.
24:13This is 29. Hit it.
24:14There's no doubt that the Democratic Party needs to be, dare I say, more culturally
24:19normal. I believe that. Less prone to spending a disproportionate amount of time on pronouns,
24:28identity, politics. More focused on tabletop issues.
24:32But I think if you can't hold the line on competitive sports, again, sports, there's
24:38some nuance in this larger conversation.
24:39But competitive metal sports, if we can't find that nuance, I think we're going to
24:45lose a lot of people that aren't, we're not going to get invited into a
24:48larger conversation. So I do think we have to be more sensitive in that respect.
24:55Listen to the way he kind of speaks about the issue, but also dances around
24:58the issue. Dudes have an advantage over chicks in sports, okay?
25:02That's what we're talking about here.
25:03That's obvious. We all know this.
25:05And that there is a lunatic 20 % of the country, all Democrats, who want
25:12to pretend like that's not the case, is a huge problem for Democrats, at least
25:17in national elections. And there's a whole chapter in my book, Manufacturing Delusion, about this,
25:21where we talk about this issue, rather where I write about this issue, and how
25:30it's not a fringe issue to Democrats, it's a critical issue to Democrats.
25:35Because, first of all, they have invested so much in this.
25:39You have to remember, they can't just walk away from this now.
25:44They can't just say, oh, yeah, we were wrong about that.
25:47Now, think of all the damage, all the wreckage that has been left as a
25:51result of their lunacy. No, they want to keep fighting on this.
25:55They want to keep pushing forward on this because they also want to make people
26:04bend the knee to whatever madness is mandated.
26:08They want to make you agree.
26:11They want to make you nod and mouth the preferred slogans whenever they tell you
26:17to, however they tell you to, because they know they've got you then.
26:22If they can make you say that a man is a woman or that a
26:25man can compete against a woman in sports and there's no disadvantage for the woman,
26:28they can get you to say everything, anything, however they want to.
26:37And that's the real power that they see.
26:42There's also a huge apparatus behind this trans agenda stuff of what happens to the
26:52gay rights movement, for example.
26:54All these entities that were supporting that.
26:57Well, then you had Obergefell and then that sort of was that.
27:01And now what do all these organizations and entities do?
27:04Oh, it has to be on the trans issue now.
27:06Where does it how does a progressive progress in the realm of gender and race
27:13and these things in an America?
27:15that has gay marriage in all 50 states and in which, if you actually look
27:23at the data on race, there is no legalized systemic racism against non -white, non
27:34-Asian minorities in America. In fact, there are legalized racial benefits for those groups in
27:42this country. That's the truth.
27:44That's what the Supreme Court just found.
27:45Which I know also contrary to what we have been told for a very long
27:51time. Another manufactured delusion out there that the only racism that we could speak about
27:57was the kind of ephemeral or, you know, in the ether racism, the bigotry of
28:07broad perception. What about minority contracting out of D .C.
28:13in the government where people pretend that there's some, like, Alaskan Inuit that is running
28:22their contracting company and really it's just a bunch of rich guys who run this
28:26thing. It's just a mess, okay?
28:29The whole thing. It's a racial spoil system and it must stop and it's madness.
28:36So, yeah, that's another component of all this.
28:40But Gavin Newsom is going to be out there making his case to the American
28:45people and doing everything that he can to appeal to anyone and everyone.
28:51And that means he's going to do the, you know, hey, like, I'm cool just
28:56like you and I'm going to kind of, I'm even going to change the way
28:59I talk a little bit and all of a sudden be a little more street,
29:02you know, a little more down to earth.
29:05And, again, I can tell you that this is going to backfire on him.
29:08I don't think it is.
29:09I think, if anything, Gavin Newsom is, he's willing to say whatever he needs to
29:17say to any audience in the moment.
29:20And that's what Democrats expect, actually.
29:23This is not, there's a, we often talk about the different, like, broad cultural themes
29:32of being on the right or being on the left in this country, but there's
29:35different political cultures, too. Democrats going around and, remember Hillary did her thing when she
29:44went to a black church and she spoke and everyone was, Democrats doing this thing
29:47where they pander. They're expected to pander.
29:51Now, there are some Republicans who pander a bit, too.
29:53I get it. But we're a little more like, you know, slow down on that.
29:59And particularly pandering to minorities or different religious groups is something that I think Republicans
30:04have less of a, well, tolerance of, yes, but also we don't demand it of
30:10our politicians. Democrats demand this.
30:13You have to play this game.
30:15And Gavin Newsom will certainly play it.
30:17But when he says that they're going to lose people unless they're willing to say
30:21that there's a fundamental issue of fairness in all of this, yeah, there's also, it's
30:27a dude saying he's a chick.
30:29This is not right. This is not true.
30:32They're lying to you. It's a person with problems.
30:35They're lying to you. We all see the lie.
30:39And I'm sure you've seen these, this guy who was like trying to compete in
30:44the Olympics, powerlifting. It's a large man.
30:48Says he's a woman, grows his hair out a little bit.
30:50Now he's going to compete against women.
30:52The whole point of sex segregated sports is we understand that there are massive biological
30:57differences. And look, any, any, go ask any of your bodybuilder bro friends out there
31:03or, you know, go online and just see what they have to say about this.
31:06You can run, you know, you can, as I say, you could, you could pin
31:11testosterone at a certain level and it starts to function pretty similarly to steroids.
31:17It's not technically like the same as some of these big nasty steroids that bodybuilders
31:23will take and people will talk about, but just the hormone in, in super physiological
31:29levels, uh, testosterone will result in more muscle growth, more strength, these kinds of things.
31:35And men have a heck of a lot more testosterone naturally than women do.
31:40So it's also, I saw, I think it was, um, I'm trying to remember who
31:45it was shared online. They just finished this like big study that found out that
31:49men overwhelmingly have a higher sex drive than women do.
31:53I was like, I can't, we're still studying this stuff.
31:57It's like 75 % of men are more interested in sex more of the time
32:03than, than women are. I think it's, yeah, that sounds about right.
32:07That sounds about right. Uh, I think that is, that is definitely the case, but
32:12the rejection of basic biology and the enforcement of a sameness over all of us
32:18that does not exist. This is also a dream of totalitarian regimes and has been
32:23for a long time. You'll notice something, whether it's in the Soviet union or in
32:28Maoist China, uh, people are, men and women, um, dress, uh, far more similarly.
32:36It's very drab. And part of this is because they don't have the resources to
32:39like make nice clothing in those kind of, in those places at the time.
32:42But, uh. There was a huge move toward women doing the same roles as men,
32:50women going to the factories alongside men, all of this kind of stuff.
32:54It's actually why the Soviet Union had a whole, I'm talking about the Soviet Union,
32:58not modern Russia, had a whole universal child care program.
33:02Oh, yeah, you can read about it.
33:04You can check it out.
33:04Universal child care. Give your child into the local commissar facility and then go work
33:12in the factory for 10 hours, you and your wife.
33:16So there's something about being able to break down the gender differences between us that
33:24is really also a form of ultimate control.
33:28And also I think that they recognize that for really most people, your immediate and
33:33most intense loyalty is to your family and husbands to wives.
33:38And there are gender roles that our society is built on.
33:41If they can break those down and replace it with some other framework, some other
33:46thing, they can recreate society entirely.
33:48That's like a much deeper philosophical view of the collectivist left, but that all comes
33:53into play as well with the gender discussion and why they're always doing this gender.
33:59And it's not even just the trans thing.
34:01Now it's non -gender, agender, bi -gender, tri -gender, whatever this stuff is.
34:08So they come up with new stuff every day.
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37:14stay away from me, the whole thing.
37:16But Ginger Spice, because dogs and humans, you know, don't have the same – like,
37:20they can't catch the cold from you, you can't catch a cold from them.
37:23It's different. She usually sleeps right next to Mommy.
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37:37I have to tell you, it was really nice.
37:39Dogs, man. Dogs, brah. Especially when you're sick and your dog curls up to you,
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37:46Dogs are the best. That's really the wisdom that I have for you today.
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