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0:05Thursday edition of the Clay, Travis, and Buck Sexton show.

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0:13That starts right now. And we got so much to get to.

0:17Let me just give you a little bit of an outline before we dive into

0:19all the biggest stories today.

0:20Uncle Bill, Bill O 'Reilly, joining us, hour two.

0:24Talk to him about how this whole Iran war thing is going.

0:27And the SAVE Act, SAVE America Act, have that discussion.

0:31Senator Eric Schmidt will be with us.

0:35And we will also have Senator John Cornyn with us.

0:38I would say to any of you who have, we have a lot of Texans

0:41who listen. Texas or California, well, those are the two biggest states by population, so

0:46it's not really that surprising.

0:47But it's either Texas or California is our biggest state for listenership.

0:51So we have a lot of Texans, and we love all of you.

0:55So not all of you are huge Cornyn fans.

0:58Some of you perhaps are.

1:00Send us your questions for Senator Cornyn, and we will see if we can get

1:04a couple of them to him on the air today as he is in this

1:08primary, this contested primary, wondering if there will be a Trump endorsement.

1:14That's a lot of eyeballs on this one.

1:16So we will get to that.

1:19So we have three guests today.

1:20Two senators, Uncle Bill, and now we can get into some of the news of

1:24the day. Clay, little Mo, as Clay calls him, Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei,

1:32has issued a statement, but he is, well, someone has issued a statement on his

1:37behalf. He is apparently in a coma and missing a leg.

1:41So he got hit in one of these airstrikes, and they are putting him forward

1:45as the future of Iran.

1:48That certainly goes to what level of pressure the leadership of Iran is under, that

1:55even their next up at bat is having to have statements released from others around

2:02him because he's in a coma from an airstrike.

2:05So essentially, the next person who raises their hand in Iran and says, I'm going

2:10to continue the Islamic revolution in this country, and I shall continue to fight against

2:15the great Satan and the little Satan, probably going to get blown up.

2:19That is where we are right now, at least while these hostilities, these aerial campaign

2:24continues. Clay, oil price has surged a bit.

2:29And there are concerns as well, after two tankers were attacked, and I believe are

2:35on fire in the Strait of Hormuz, so they're continuing to try to go after

2:43the oil, the global oil industry as their choke point, as their way to hit

2:48back at us. Also, Trump monitoring Iranian terror sleeper cells, a lot of concern about

2:54that, and I think rightly concerned about that, and we shall discuss that.

3:01So, Clay, I mean, first one up here, we are in another day of this

3:08aerial campaign. We now know that Mojtaba is in a coma.

3:12Little Mo is having a tough one.

3:15What do you think about the latest here with the attacks on oil shipping and

3:22trying to make this a global environmental and economic catastrophe to get this to stop?

3:28That's clearly the Iranians' play.

3:29Yeah, I think it actually is going to make President Trump angrier, and I think

3:34it's actually going to result in a worse outcome for Iran than if they allowed

3:39the oil to transit without issues at all.

3:42And I'm pulling up to check the oil price as we speak right now, because

3:47it has been probably the number one story that is out there, and it's hanging

3:52right around $90 a barrel.

3:54And you say, okay, Clay, where does that compare?

3:57It was around $65, if I remember correctly, before this war started, and now it's

4:04right around $90. It went all the way up to $120 Sunday in the opening

4:11hours of the market, beginning with danger and fear.

4:17And so then it crashed all the way back down to like $75.

4:21It's come back up to around $90.

4:22It's bounced around a lot.

4:24And I think the question is, how safe is the Strait of Hormuz?

4:29And what does that mean for overall pricing of oil and gas?

4:34Now, President Trump has released, I think it's 180 million barrels is what I saw

4:40from the Strategic Reserve. There's 400 million worldwide being released.

4:44My understanding, Buck, is that that takes a couple of weeks to actually come into

4:50the marketplace as a whole, because it takes a while for all of those barrels

4:56of oil to reach the marketplace.

4:58Yeah, I stand corrected on that one.

5:00Chuck Schumer said do it, and Trump's actually doing it.

5:02Now, the Democrats are going to hit him for having to do that, but the

5:05oil shock seems severe enough that some effort to soften the blow, blow to your

5:12wallets essentially, is underway. So there you go.

5:16Chuck Schumer giving some good advice to his opposition.

5:21Hey, Clay, even a broken clock.

5:23You know, so I'll take.

5:24the l on that one trump's doing it this is cut 17 on gas prices

5:27trump last night at joint base andrews hit it there's a timeline on when you're

5:32planning to tap the strategic petroleum reserve a timeline of when that could happen we're

5:37going to be doing it very quickly and then we'll fill it up we'll fill

5:40up our reserves you know if you remember i filled them up and then i

5:44had a deal to go at the highest level a level that's never been and

5:49schumer and the democrats for 25 and it was turned down you remember that peter

5:55almost before your time but not quite but it was uh we had a deal

5:59at 25 think of that 25 a barrel and the democrats turned it down we're

6:04going to fill we're going to tap it out like it's never been but they

6:08turned that down and now it's a lot higher clay trump of course saying democrats

6:14had no foresight on this issue not a surprise but there's enough of a jolt

6:19to the oil markets that there's serious and and immediate action being taken to stabilize

6:24things yeah look and i i think this is where the the average american is

6:30going to feel to the extent we do anything going on with iran is in

6:35oil and gas prices and i i would just point out that two years of

6:41oil and gas prices coming down by and large was not a story that is

6:46almost i i watch these television broadcast of the news almost every day for at

6:52least three hours every day uh while i'm talking to all of you i have

6:56never seen cnn or msnbc do a story on boy president trump has really brought

7:02down gas prices during his tenure in office never seen a story about gas prices

7:08going down for a year and a half and now gas prices have gone up

7:12for a week and it's the lead story on msnbc and cnn and by the

7:17way buck it vanished when oil and gas prices went back down to 75 now

7:22they've come back up to 90 we're back to covering oil and gas prices again

7:26and they put the picture of the oil and gas prices in the corner of

7:30the screen right now the talk talking point on cnn is oil and gas prices

7:35and talking point on msnbc is oil and gas prices so i do think when

7:39it's a good story right for the year and a half that the prices came

7:42down not one mention of it for the one week they've gone back up oh

7:46my goodness this is a story that we have to cover well as we know

7:51journalism in america has fully fully morphed into it's not about what you should know

7:57it's about telling the audience what they want to know yeah what they want to

8:01hear what they want to watch uh and that's certainly the case over at at

8:05cnn at msnbc at ms now it's the case of fox too i don't live

8:09in some delusional world i mean fox is going to have a right of center

8:12point of view but there's more there's so much more honesty about that i mean

8:16their prime time lineup are opinion hosts cnn still pretends cnn still pretends that they're

8:22just journalists they're just anderson cooper could vote either way who knows does he love

8:27trump does he hate trump oil prices important today unimportant yesterday i wonder why i

8:33also think this is important um and i think it has been under discussed and

8:38it continues to be under discussed you can criticize fox and you can criticize uh

8:43them you know they have 66 of the news audience whatever the heck it is

8:4760 on any given day bigger than msnbc and cnn combined their entire business is

8:54based on advertising so their audience responds to things and they cover it that used

9:02to be the overarching uh uh way that everybody made money now the new york

9:07times makes money washington post makes money off subscriptions and that's a very different business

9:12model because subscribers want to be told that their worldview is correct when you're pegged

9:18to advertising you're trying to reach the biggest possible audience because that's how you get

9:23paid we get paid based on advertising so the bigger the audience is the more

9:27money this show makes uh we're not making money off subscriptions the new york times

9:32subscription changes the calculus of how the business is run and i was just looking

9:37this just came across the the line buck new york times has stunned me has

9:41doubled the number of journalists that employees in the last 10 years they have 2300

9:47journalists now doubled what they had just 10 years ago and that's to serve subscribers

9:55it's not to provide the best possible uh outcome uh to uh to the media

10:01ecosystem i also though think that there's and this has been the case for a

10:04long time this has been an argument that i've been making since before i was

10:07in media there's a fundamental honesty with fox news that it which which i think

10:12is part of why the audience is so uh durable uh sticky if you will

10:18i mean stays with fox watch there's a fundamental honesty about yeah of course like

10:22the opening model like jesse waters isn't sitting there like i don't have any opinions

10:26i'm just i'm just presenting the objective news like that's insane these other channels have

10:31been doing this game of we're just we're just news yeah by the way same

10:34thing with abc news and these other things same thing with though they're just lying

10:38they're just lying to people and eventually the lies got to be too much but

10:41back to the uh oil price situation uh i think clay again this is going

10:47to be relatively short term uh and as long as that's the case it will

10:52be very short term uh and as long as that's the case it will be

10:52very short term uh and and and and and and and and and and and

10:52and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and

10:52and and and and and and and and and and be fine.

10:53Here's Energy Secretary Chris Wright, though.

10:55We've had him on the show.

10:56Very interesting guy. This is Cut18.

10:58He's saying, look, the Biden administration was playing all kinds of politics with this and

11:02not even using it for this is an emergency situation.

11:05They were just using it to try to try to goose the numbers to look

11:09better. Play 18. We have about 415 million barrels in storage right now.

11:14Very unfortunately, the Biden administration drained almost 300 million barrels out, mostly the lower gasoline

11:21prices for a midterm election without disruptions in energy flows.

11:25That's not what the SPR is about.

11:27The SPR is about this.

11:28When we have short term disruptions and flows to replace those flows.

11:32But Dana, we will simultaneously sell this oil in the near term when it's needed

11:37and buy long term oil, meaning, say, 12 months down the road.

11:41And we'll pull out 170 million barrels and we'll put back in 200 million barrels

11:47in the next year. So we'll actually have more oil in our SPR a year

11:50from now than we do today.

11:52That's the responsible way to use it.

11:55There you go again. And what I think is so important about this is the

12:01only reason this isn't a major, huge, transformative danger for us is because we actually

12:08produce so much more oil.

12:09We're the energy superpower of the world.

12:11You want to you want to know why your grocery prices aren't skyrocketing and they're

12:15on oil lines. Go thank an oil man.

12:17Go thank somebody who works for Texaco or whatever.

12:20I mean, that's because in the 1970s, for those of you who lived through it,

12:25we were able to be held hostage effectively, both literally in the sense of what

12:30happened with Iran, with our with our embassy there.

12:33But they were able to hold us hostage.

12:35Those of you who remember lining up and having difficulty getting oil and gas.

12:40Heck, Buck, I'm reading right now.

12:41I love reading about World War Two.

12:43You know that during World War Two, Americans were restricted to four gallons of gas

12:48a week. So people barely drove anywhere because of the huge shortage and the amount

12:53of gas oil and gas we needed in order to fight that war.

12:56At least they were in Iowa, where I'm reading about.

12:59Anyway, I love all of this.

13:01But the reason we now have energy independence is because we have unleashed the full

13:07economic spirit, capitalistic success of our oil and gas industry in a way that frankly

13:13didn't exist in the in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.

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15:16Most Democrats have been crazy on Iran, reflexively opposed to anything going on there.

15:22I got to give him credit.

15:24John Fetterman, who is the sanest Democrat on the planet.

15:27He's coming under fire right now because he decided to speak out and say that

15:33we need to take out Mojtaba Khamenei, a .k .a.

15:38Little Mo. This was on Fox News.

15:41And this is John Fetterman saying, no, like this guy can't be allowed to become

15:45the ruler of Iran. Listen.

15:48You said that you are confident the world is better after the death of Iran's

15:53Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei.

15:55But his son. 100%. His son.

15:58But his son is. Kill every last member of their leadership.

16:01Well, his son is now in charge and he's considered even more of a hard

16:04liner. They should kill him too.

16:06He hasn't been able to produce a video or a scene in public at all.

16:11Why? Why? Maybe they're seriously injured.

16:14It could be very hard to just sit down and even do a video and

16:17have them put that out.

16:18So hopefully he is. significantly wounded and if he does recover you know i do

16:24absolutely support you know having israel to just eliminate him all right uh by the

16:31way that was news nation elizabeth vargas asking that question uh i think i said

16:35fox news buck we mentioned this yesterday i think fetterman's right mom dad wife and

16:42son all killed in uh in an attack maybe the one that uh that mochtaba

16:47survived i don't see any way this guy's a forever jihadist this is there's no

16:51way we're gonna be the work with him but can i just say i really

16:54get a little bit of a of a uh a tingle here of office space

16:59the movie when the guy goes through hypnosis and he just after being kind of

17:04like a schlub who's like and like getting ordered around he's like i'm just gonna

17:08do whatever i want he turns into like this cool confident guy and that's the

17:11rest of the rest of the movie he's just and he god damn it feels

17:13good to be a gangster going to the background it's like that's what happened to

17:17fetterman it's crazy he's you know the guy i mean look i know he had

17:21a serious medical issue but he's he's the best democrat senator he's the best democrat

17:28senator on the scene right now i think by far i don't know who else

17:32would be in that conversation so credit where it's due i mean i was i'm

17:37shocked but credit where it's due we got this one wrong i thought that he

17:40would be an awful senator we campaigned against him on the show i mean dr

17:45oz ran against him for those of you remember he was basically unable to talk

17:48back in 2022 he's recovered he seems to be in better shape and he's the

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18:5798 so we were talking about how the democrats are trying to pounce on this

19:01democrats pounce they always say republicans pounce but now i feel self -conscious about it

19:05because i'm saying democrats pounce but they are leveraging the very short uh term so

19:11far because it's been a few days spike in gas prices to be like oh

19:14my gosh the sky is falling i thought they wanted us to use less gas

19:18clay i thought they wanted more yeah i thought climate change was going to kill

19:21us all what what happened to these people this is the thing this is how

19:24you know you're dealing with a democrat with a leftist there's just no accountability there's

19:29no accountability they can say anything change their mind the next day contradict themselves in

19:34the same sentence and if you try to point this out they just scream at

19:38you more loudly you know they just get more like unhinged so it's very difficult

19:42people say you know how do you convince the democrats in your life i'm like

19:45i don't know i'm a unless they seem reasonable and then they're already halfway there

19:49because they're reasonable unless they seem reasonable just don't waste your time uh so here's

19:55one thing that's going on that they're trying to make a big deal to gas

19:57prices another thing that's going on i couldn't believe the story i was actually going

20:01to send out a fiery tweet on this one but i got i think speed

20:05was like you know biting my ankle or something uh so i i got distracted

20:09but uh i was going to send out a fiery tweet on this one clay

20:13this story that like pete hegseth as secretary of war by the way they're going

20:18to make fun of us all for calling the secretary of war if they if

20:21the democrats win back the presidency they're going to go back to calling the secretary

20:25of defense guarantee you by the way i actually think they may change the name

20:29to secretary of peace like they might i just felt my estrogen level rise i'm

20:35just telling you they might jump right over secretary of defense and go to secretary

20:40of peace uh in response to secretary you actually sounded like brian stelter there for

20:44as you said those words i'm just telling you i'm trying to prepare people for

20:48what might happen if uh if democrats get back in power imagine uh the people

20:54uh yeah it's just a good cry he just needed a good cry he did

20:59a good cry i remember covid i was crying it was so sad um okay

21:04so yeah but back to secretary of war heads up uh so they said that

21:11he spent millions and millions of dollars on food and then they went and circled

21:18the food items that seem like they're you know extravagant to them and you have

21:24people like paul begala who has honestly just always been one of these people who

21:29is only around because he's been around so long i've never heard any impressive analysis

21:33from this guy i don't know him it's not personal but i just not an

21:36impressive guy but he's comes from that clinton era of tv where it's like if

21:40you're willing to show up and you know put on a blue blazer and you

21:44know squawk at people you can get on tv here here he is He's talking

21:48about this, and he's going up against Scott Jennings, so you have an idea of

21:51how that's going to go.

21:52Play it. That's not important.

21:53You know what's important? He has spent $15 million in one month for ribeye steak,

21:59$6 .9 million for lobster tail, $225 million for furniture.

22:03He spent more in the month of September than most countries on Earth spend in

22:07their defense. Paul, do you believe it?

22:08All for himself? Lobster tails?

22:10Do you believe? While our troops are eating MREs?

22:12No, no, no, no, no.

22:13Lobster tails? Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating all the lobster?

22:16Wait, he can't eat 60?

22:18Oh, really? The troops are getting lobster?

22:21Frequently in theater. Oh, my God.

22:22Troops who are going to work in great meals.

22:24You know that. They're getting lobster.

22:25You are so full of this.

22:27You are so full of this.

22:28Internet, do something. I'm going to raise my hand here, because I used to eat

22:32in military facilities overseas in Iraq in a war zone, and yes, they do have

22:38ribeye steak. Yes, they do have once a week or a couple times a month,

22:43they'll have, like, surf and turf night and have some lobster tails.

22:48There's two parts of this, Clay.

22:49On the one hand, is Paul Begala really that stupid?

22:53Like, a million dollars of ribeye?

22:55You couldn't eat? Pete Hegseth could eat ribeye three meals a day for the next

23:00300 years, okay? And he wouldn't eat 18 million dollars of ribeye or whatever it

23:05is. It's obviously for the troops.

23:07But the other side of this is, notice how quickly Democrats, and look, there are

23:12Democrats, you know, who serve, and there are Democrats who are pro -military, and I

23:16have to, but Democrats in elected office, Democrats in media, they are so quick to

23:21dismiss, to cast aside. It's like, what are we supposed to feed our troops?

23:26Gruel? The troops don't deserve a ribeye steak once or twice a week?

23:31Like, the troops, we're the richest country in the history of the world.

23:34We can't feed our military well?

23:36We're only supposed to give them spam in a can?

23:39Like, the elitism is just dripping from these libs on this issue.

23:43Yeah, and look, I would submit that political consultants are a lot like coaches who

23:50happen to get good quarterbacks.

23:52They make them look good, right?

23:54So, Paul Begaard, whatever you think of Bill Clinton, he made his entire career off

23:59being an advisor, if I remember correctly, to Bill Clinton.

24:01Bill Clinton's a really good politician.

24:03So, whatever political consultants surround him, they get to be burnished by his success, right?

24:13And a lot of this is, I think, proximity to someone who is talented.

24:18Same thing, by the way, for President Trump.

24:20He's a uniquely talented political figure.

24:24And so, the political consultants around him, do they help?

24:27Certainly. But are they basking in the reflective glow of his political ascendancy and success?

24:34Yes, 100%. This is such a moronic take.

24:37If you told me, hey, what are you going to get upset about that our

24:42government is spending money on?

24:43One, feeding troops well is the four billionth thing that I would point to and

24:49say, let's investigate this. And to Scott Jennings' credit here, Buck, they actually went and

24:57the troops are posting how excited they were to get a surf and turf meal,

25:02so there's evidence of them eating steak and lobster and being so excited that they

25:09had a special meal and were being rewarded for the hard work that they put

25:14in. I mean, there's actual tangible evidence of this.

25:17And to your point, basic math, it's impossible for anybody to spend this much money

25:22on food for themselves, for his family.

25:24I mean, this is such a dumb argument.

25:27And by the way, to the credit of people who are actually journalists, they went

25:32back and looked, and the spending is very similar no matter who the president is

25:37because the troops get rewarded sometimes with great meals.

25:42Look, I'll tell you this.

25:43The food in some of the major fobs in Iraq and in Afghanistan, food was

25:50good. And darn right it should be good.

25:54Isn't that you were there?

25:54Isn't it the least you could do is actually take care of people who are

25:58in danger of dying, like feed them well?

26:01They're in a war zone, okay?

26:02Yeah. We had people, the people who were running, even the ones who were like

26:06me, who were basically fobbits, I mean, who were stuck on the base most of

26:08the time or, you know, somewhere all the time.

26:10I got to get off, but the point is, you know, you had to run

26:14and do duck and covers because of the incoming mortar rounds and different places that

26:17are, like, I think we can afford to give, like, decent ribeye.

26:20I don't think we have to give cat food to our soldiers, thank you very

26:24much. But the contempt, the sort of the, ugh, we have to feed these soldiers

26:30in uniform with ribeye and occasionally some seafood.

26:35Like, can you imagine? Like, I just, but this is where you see how Democrats

26:39really feel about it. Democrats think, they're like, don't we pay for their MREs?

26:43They should just eat MREs all the time.

26:45They don't give, they don't care.

26:46How about the same people were defending illegal immigrants getting taxpayer -funded four -star hotel

26:54rooms? Not citizens. Not putting their lives on the line.

26:59Coming here and taking our actual tax dollars.

27:02Oh, it's, this is just what America has to do.

27:05We have to be generous.

27:06We have to give everybody four -star hotel rooms and unlimited Wi -Fi.

27:09And let anybody in the world who wants to come here know this.

27:13And then, meanwhile, but we can't feed our...

27:15soldiers well and to try to make this a line of political attack i i

27:20think this really does blow up on them and i think pete hegseth i mean

27:25you know how sometimes the counterpunch is more successful than the punch if the secretary

27:30of war or his team are listening i think this is a unbelievable opportunity for

27:35a counterpunch that could flatten the people who are criticizing him over this i i

27:42gotta tell you the things that that hegseth has done and said in office uh

27:47they they want to come after him so badly but they realize that the arguments

27:53that they would have to make he's saying things like let's focus on lethality let's

27:57have a military that does the mission that doesn't get bogged down in uh identity

28:02politics and isn't sitting around giving people lectures on how you have to like you

28:07know do transgender surgery with taxpayer dollars or you're a bad person all this stuff

28:12that was going on by the way going on the cia going on in the

28:15intel community too democrats hate what he's doing but they don't really want to go

28:20out there and say you know what we really need for we know we really

28:24need for uh you know the the seal teams to function better we need more

28:29trans seals we need more chicks actually who can't do two pull -ups joining the

28:36seals and seeing how that helps for their operational readiness and they can't actually make

28:40these arguments publicly and so that's why pete i think just by doing what he

28:45does secretary war hegseth is spiking the football in the faces of the hard left

28:50in this country day in and day out and they don't really know what but

28:53that's why they're so desperate to hit him that's why they're saying 18 million dollars

28:56of lobster till frozen seafood for our troops you have a problem with this i

29:01couldn't believe it i mean they're they're not paying butlers to feed them caviar i

29:06mean you know it's it's food it's crazy soldiers should have excellent food i mean

29:11if anything i'd probably get pissed off i felt like the food wasn't good enough

29:13right and i mean feeding your troops well for those of us who are military

29:19historians is the number one way to ensure that your troops are the best at

29:24their jobs right like napoleon that an army marches on its stomach i think that's

29:28exactly right that's the quote boom that's a good that's a good call napoleon bonaparte

29:34himself comes for by the way i also think this is their frustration i bet

29:39you would sign off on this we know a lot of these guys trump jd

29:43vance rubio hegseth i would argue that quad is leave aside the politics i would

29:51argue that quad is the smartest quad that we have had in positions of leadership

29:57in any of our lives again trump jd vance marco rubio pete hegseth i think

30:04that is an incredibly intelligent group and one of the challenges they have is they're

30:09also very good at communication so the attacks on them often don't land and frankly

30:14are downright moronic um much like our boy eric swalwell who we were talking about

30:19on the flip side as being one of the dumbest uh politicians that is out

30:24there in america today right now um you got us going to break buck we'll

30:28take some of your talk back so we got some funny ones a bunch of

30:31people wanting to weigh in uh callers by the way some of you may be

30:34soldiers who've been serving and actually have eaten the the steak and the uh the

30:40lobster if anybody out there has had the steak and lobster meal you can call

30:43in let us know i remember i remember my grandfather he didn't you know when

30:47he especially he got older he would talk about he's on the uss bataan in

30:50world war ii which is one of these converted carriers uh kind of like a

30:54short carrier if you will and i remember him talking about how when they would

30:58go into port and they would get some actual like fresh oh yeah and and

31:03just like what a morale boost it was for these guys and they're out at

31:07sea they got japanese kamikazes flying at them they're taking uh you know machine gun

31:12fire across the deck all this stuff i think i think we should get them

31:16ribeyes when we can like i think that's a pretty i think america can afford

31:20to feed its soldiers well wow democrats are this one it was pretty astonishing um

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32:42in clay travis buck sexton show a lot of callers want to weigh in variety

32:46of different topics that we've talked about so far uh let's go into uh some

32:52of these calls let me go to matthew down in gadsden alabama you were on

32:57submarines and you can refer to uh the impact of a nice surf and turf

33:03meal what was that experience like uh yes sir i mean you know you've been

33:09in a three -month patrol out at sea just under the water doing circles and

33:13you know you get a good meal lobster and steak we had surf and turf

33:18in the middle of patrol you know it's something different help morale i mean yeah

33:22heck yeah submarine and you did on a ship anyway but it was you know

33:27something to still keep morale going thank you for the call buck and i were

33:30just talking about off air i there are a lot of jobs out there in

33:35the military that are tough i think being under the water four months at a

33:41time i could not the people who can get on submarines and do that job

33:45i would lose it i i would submariners i think is is one of the

33:49toughest uh things to to sign up for just psychologically i think they do additional

33:53testing before you can get down there for long periods of time that would be

33:57a that would be a challenging one and it's amazing too you know the nuclear

34:01nuclear submarines we have part of the nuclear triad among our very most impressive weapons

34:07period yes uh among the most important strategically and just also it's incredible what they

34:13can do they can stay underwater for so long they can fire so much nuclear

34:17missile firepower if they decide to i mean it's crazy what they can do so

34:20um jeff in dover florida also a former submariner jeff what do you remember about

34:27that experience and a lot of people weighing in on the fact that they were

34:31getting uh steak and lobster long before pete hegseth was secretary of war yeah i

34:37was on submarines from 80s up into the 90s and part of the recruitment they

34:43talked to us about was submarine duty was very arduous but the food was excellent

34:48and you can even look in any like navy website i mean this goes back

34:52to world war ii where you know they serve submariners the the quality of food

34:58and it's known as some of the best food in the military because it's a

35:02very arduous duty uh you know we were underwater 70 some days at a time

35:06i was fast attack sub and to have that to have that it just felt

35:10so nice to have a really good meal and that was part of what they

35:15told us hey you get the best food in the military and it was surf

35:19and turf thank you for the call i thank you for the service colleen in

35:23upstate new york colleen fire away hi um i just wanted to reiterate what the

35:29last two callers said my husband spent 25 years serving on submarines and he missed

35:35birthdays he missed high school graduations he missed all sorts of stuff so i think

35:39the least we can do for these uh these men and i guess in the

35:44future women would be to feed them well so i get tired of people making

35:47a big fuss about it yeah thank you for the call yeah they're not giving

35:51out like rolls royces and uh diamond encrusted uh you know watches here we're talking

35:57about good food for the people who are keeping the country safe it's a it's

36:00a bare minimum obligation chris in ohio has a point chris what you got for

36:04us yeah if uh the dems have a problem with a good meal for the

36:09military would they be willing to eliminate uh lobster and uh steak off the snap

36:16benefits card or better yet uh only send mres out to snap recipients across the

36:24country just like the mr just like the military gets when they're at war i

36:29think that's a good argument like i said people staying in four star hotels on

36:33our taxpayer dime who were illegal immigrants and democrats saying we had an obligation to

36:38do that i think most of you out there saying hey if we're going to

36:41be spending money feeding the military well that's an expense that actually makes sense from

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