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1:04When I last spoke at this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a
1:09nation in crisis with a stagnant economy.
1:13Inflation at record levels. A wide open border.
1:18Horrendous recruitment for military and police.
1:21Rampant crime at home. And wars and chaos all over the world.
1:26But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we
1:32have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before.
1:37Today, our border is secure.
1:39Our spirit is restored. Inflation is plummeting.
1:43Incomes are rising fast. The roaring economy is roaring like never before.
1:51And our enemies are scared.
1:53Our military and police are stacked.
1:55And America is respected again, perhaps like never before.
2:04That was from the State of Union last night.
2:07President Trump giving a phenomenal, in my opinion, Clay also sees it as a great
2:14speech, a phenomenal address to the nation.
2:18And the transformation of the nation in 12 months or so has been nothing short
2:28of incredible. And I think that he has done even better than I had anticipated
2:34in that period of time.
2:36He has accomplished even more.
2:38And one of the reasons I like to point this out, Clay, is the, oh,
2:43it's all the same. It's all a uniparty.
2:47Nothing matters. The black pill, if you will, that some people on the right even
2:52like to take. Maybe they do it online to get attention or they're just having
2:55a bad day, which that can happen.
2:56You know, sometimes I'm a little salty.
2:58I've had bad days. But there is, I think, an important point in saying the
3:07country is doing really well right now.
3:09Trump is delivering. The decision does matter.
3:13Who is in charge? Who has power to shape this country's future and its destiny
3:18does matter. It is not all the same.
3:22Apathy isn't cool. Trump, the Republicans are infinitely better than the Democrats on balance on
3:31every major issue right now.
3:33And one thing that I would just say is, what is an objective measure that
3:39someone could point to and say it was better under Biden?
3:45I don't, if I were offered a bounty, if I were offered a reward, a
3:51substantial one, to come up with something off the top of my head that I
3:56would have to concede, you know, Biden was a whole lot better on that issue.
4:00I can't do it. Clay, I think that we're in an era here of politics
4:05where the Democrats are so wrong on so many things that they are just going
4:13to keep digging because the alternative is to turn around and start one by one
4:18admitting and accepting that they've managed to get on the wrong side of every important
4:23issue. The border, crime, immigration enforcement, the economy, I mean, we're seeing with states right
4:33now, people are fleeing. I mean, Gavin Newsom pulled this routine.
4:36I'm sure you saw him.
4:37He was asked, and it was a friendly interview, too, I think it was like
4:40MS Now or one of those channels, asking about people leaving his state.
4:45And he's just like, we have the biggest AI.
4:46And it's like, yeah, dude, you inherited Silicon Valley.
4:49Congratulations. Your state is falling apart because of your governance.
4:53People are fleeing in large numbers.
4:55If you didn't have a lot of immigrants coming into this country, you would have
4:59had negative population. I mean, this I they're losing everywhere.
5:04I just sort of sit here and say to myself, where is the what is
5:08the the bright shining thing for Democrats?
5:11Obamacare. They would have said health care.
5:14Trump brought this up last night in the speech.
5:16Obamacare is a disaster. It's tripled everybody's health care premiums.
5:22No, all of that is true.
5:24And. And. It is why their only outcome is people not paying attention that could
5:30lead to them getting support.
5:33I mean, I'll open up phone lines.
5:35Is anybody out there that sees something that Democrats are doing and thinks we need
5:42more of that? 800 -282 -2882.
5:46I think this is where I'm a results guy.
5:49I'm a data guy. Show me the results.
5:52This is why in the first hour I said murders are down 67 % in
5:57Washington, D .C. That is a tangible result, in my opinion, of Trump's policies on
6:03crime. Inflation is down. I believe it's at 2 .4 % most recently.
6:09The stock market's at record highs.
6:12I think that is a reflection of Trump's economic policies.
6:15The border is shut down.
6:18Again, personally, I understand why people can say, I don't like Trump.
6:23He's not my cup of tea.
6:25He's too much of a bull in a china shop.
6:27I don't like the things he tweets.
6:29I don't like some of the names that he calls people.
6:31All of that, I would say, okay, I can understand that criticism.
6:36But I'm a results guy, and if you tell me that you're only going to
6:41analyze the results and not the surrounding penumbra of Trump behavior, there's nothing you can
6:49criticize in the actual results, which is why their only hope is to play on
6:55emotion. You know what wasn't mentioned once, I don't believe, last night, Buck?
7:00And this is where I think Democrats have to start to get really nervous.
7:03You're right, Democrats traditionally have won on health care, but a lot of people are
7:07getting their insurance bills, and they're saying, wait a minute, Obamacare is broken.
7:12My premiums are tripling. They're quadrupling.
7:15I think there's a lot of you out there that are even just saying, I
7:19just want health care that's protection for catastrophe.
7:23And I mean that. You're going to look and say, I'll pay a lot of
7:27you out there. I know we're starting to research this because I've done it in
7:30the past. I'll pay the first $7 ,000 of my medical expenses right off the
7:38top. I'll make that risk.
7:39I'll even take on the first $10 ,000 or something like that.
7:42You're only worried about catastrophic related health care.
7:46I think there's way more people buying that.
7:49But, Buck, you know what isn't talked about anymore at all and is actually the
7:53linchpin of basically the entire Democrat Party?
7:56Abortion. It is. Remember when they told us Dobbs gets passed, Democrats tried to say,
8:03they're going to be showing up at the door dragging your daughter out by her
8:07hair. You're going to be trying to drive across the state line and police are
8:11going to pull you over and they're going to throw your sister in prison.
8:16It's gone. It has vanished as a political issue.
8:19Every state make its decision and whatever state you're in, you can advocate for it.
8:25I knew this was the case, by the way.
8:27We've been talking on the show for years.
8:28They managed to, right after Dobbs, kind of, and I was like, I'm telling you,
8:33this isn't going to be an issue.
8:35Until people experienced what actually was the result of Dobbs, they were able to play
8:41with it. But as soon as they did, it was true, which is that it
8:43wasn't an issue at all because it's gone back to the states, which is what
8:46it should have done all along.
8:48And, you know, states have different abortion laws, states have different age of consent laws,
8:53like states have different gun laws, states have different laws that, depending on what state
8:57you're in, you're either good to go or going to prison.
9:00I mean, states have a lot of power.
9:02States make very big determinations about things that you'll go, well, that feels kind of
9:06arbitrary, but that's the deal.
9:09And on abortion, that certainly falls into that category.
9:13So, yeah, that is something that they can't.
9:15Fuck, think about it. There's hardly any discussion, even on a state level, about it.
9:21And if they don't have health care, which I think you're right, now they're going
9:25to blame Republicans for it, right?
9:27But the reality is their solution to health care has failed and made everything worse.
9:32Abortion's not a thing anymore.
9:33I don't even hear it in state legislative races.
9:36What do they have? What is their thing where they're like, we can address this
9:40and make things better? I legitimately can't even think of one.
9:43We don't have an insurance system when it comes to health care.
9:49Your health insurance is not insurance.
9:51It is a complex system of cross -subsidies where there are guaranteed payments made from
9:59the government to hospital systems and to insurers.
10:03And also insurers get guaranteed client base from all of us because we have to
10:07have insurance. And what you have is it's not insurance because younger and healthy people
10:13who should be the cheapest to get insurance have to subsidize the old, the sick
10:20and the illegals. And the poor, right?
10:25I mean, there are people who that's the entire system is you're going to get
10:30more expensive and crappier stuff than you would otherwise.
10:33If you are somebody who is generally healthy and pays for your own stuff, you're
10:39going to get generally crappier, more expensive stuff so that we can get because health
10:44care is a finite resource, despite what people think, despite what people say.
10:48And that means that, you know, we...
10:53We're just squeezing the balloon and goes to one side instead of the other.
10:56And this is why family of four that's, you know, ever, you know, the parents
11:01are like 35 to 55 or something, and they got two kids.
11:05They can't afford their health care premiums because they're paying for illegals in California and
11:09New York. They're paying for people who are chronically ill.
11:13Now, we could have a talk as a society about what we do with the
11:17so -called high risk pools, right?
11:19We could have a talk about that, but that's not the talk that we had.
11:22Instead, it was everybody gets sandwiched in together, and so you have some people that
11:26are, and then you talk about the elderly, and there's no incentive.
11:31Here's a perfect example of this, Clay, and this was actually just making the rounds
11:34on X in the last couple of days.
11:37It's a great example. Can we talk about TVs and how when you and I
11:40were in college? Yeah, it's a great one.
11:41Or, you know, when I was in college and, you know, you were in your
11:4640s, it was hard to carry, you know, TVs were like these huge, heavy things,
11:52and I remember pooling money with my college roommates to be like, we spent, you
11:58know, $500 or $800 or something, which was a lot of money to us on
12:01a TV, and this thing, you know, weighed like 150 pounds, and it was, and
12:07now, I mean, you get like a 60 -inch plasma for $500.
12:10I mean, it's crazy what you get.
12:12It's crazy. Yeah. Same thing's true of getting an MRI versus getting LASIK.
12:17LASIK is generally a fee -for -service, very high -satisfaction eye surgery where people compete.
12:25Different ophthalmologists or whoever does it, you're probably, maybe that's not, I think it's ophthalmologists,
12:30but whoever's doing LASIK surgeries, they, maybe it's an eye surgeons or something, whatever they're
12:35called, they compete on price and the whole experience, and so LASIK is half the
12:42price it was 20 years ago.
12:45MRIs have improved basically not at all, same technology, and MRIs are now 100 %
12:52more expensive, give or take.
12:53How is that possible, everybody?
12:56Because of the bureaucracy, because they tell you that you're getting insured, you're not getting
13:02insured, but people don't want insurance.
13:04People want a magic little card that pays for all their boo -boos and makes
13:08all the bad things go away, even though that ain't happening either, by the way,
13:11no matter what insurance you have.
13:13So this is the problem.
13:14We can't, there's no accountability, there's no honesty, and there's no transparency in the pricing
13:19in the healthcare system. Positive front page Wall Street Journal today, Ozempic prices are collapsing.
13:26Do you know why? Because everybody is competing with the GLP -1s, and as a
13:32result, the overall cost for your average consumer purchase has plummeted compared to what it
13:39used to cost, and we'll take some of your calls, 800 -282 -2882, but I
13:45think this is why I'm looking around, and I like to watch and see how
13:49everybody's covering. CNN and MSNBC haven't covered, by and large, the Trump State of the
13:55Union today. Anyway, that's a sign that things went really well for Trump.
13:59They basically are just pretending it didn't happen, they're turning the page, and they're moving
14:03on to other stories, because last night was seen as such of a success for
14:09the vast majority, I think, of people who paid attention.
14:12You know how pathetic it actually has gotten in Democrat world, Clay?
14:15You know what really one of the primary, really the primary Democrat attack on Trump
14:20is these days, it's not Russia collusion, it's not elections denial, it's not, you know,
14:27the insurrection, whatever, you know what it is right now?
14:30Epstein. On Trump. That's the thing that Democrats attack on.
14:35That's the lead right now on MSNBC.
14:36I didn't even know that.
14:37You have a quad box up, I don't even have it up in here.
14:39That's, yeah. Epstein. That's Trump's fault?
14:43Like, this guy was, whatever you're saying, this guy was doing this for decades.
14:49Like, does the Epstein think it's Trump's fault?
14:51They've released millions of pages.
14:52The millions of pages are out there.
14:54But this just goes to show, it's just pure slander.
14:57They charged Epstein while Trump was in office the first time.
15:01Everybody forgets. It's just pure Trump slander.
15:03That's all this is. Trump, Epstein.
15:04Trump, Epstein. Something that you would see in an authoritarian or totalitarian dictatorship, these are
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17:41We're going to get to your poll, your calls here in just a couple of
17:45minutes. So we got loaded lines.
17:46Stick with us. Buck, this is interesting.
17:49Do you know which Democrat was the only Democrat to shake Trump's hand at the
17:55State of the Union? Our buddy from Pennsylvania, Fetterman.
17:59Yes, that's correct. I just guessed that, but I had a feeling.
18:03Yep. Legitimate. Oh, sorry. We've got Senator Blackburn coming up.
18:06We'll get to your calls in a sec.
18:07I bring that up because Quinnipiac just came out with a poll in Pennsylvania.
18:11Republicans have a 55 point approval for John Fetterman, 73 to 18.
18:20Democrats minus 40. Fetterman is overwhelmingly popular with Republicans, overwhelmingly negative now with Democrats.
18:31I just thought that was super interesting.
18:33All right, let's get to some of your calls.
18:36Scott in Indiana. What you got for us?
18:40Hey, Clay, earlier you said you were worried about Democrats winning back the House.
18:46And then just a few minutes ago, Buck said they're losing everywhere.
18:50Democrats are losing everywhere. I'm confused.
18:54If they're losing everywhere, how come we're worried about them taking back the House?
18:58No, I mean, they're losing the argument.
19:00They're losing the argument everywhere.
19:02Yeah. Yeah. The concern that we have is that we are in a post -fact
19:07world where results may not matter.
19:10I also think Trump derangement when Trump is not on the ballot.
19:15This is my personal take is a more powerful motivator than Trump's support is.
19:20Again, when Trump is off the ballot, the people who hate him are more likely
19:25to show up because they their brains are broken than everybody is out there.
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19:31We saw this in twenty eighteen when Democrats were very successful in the midterms now.
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20:57Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
21:00Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
21:01We are joined by Senator Marsha Blackburn of the great state of Tennessee, which has
21:07given us both a fantastic senator and a fantastic Clay Travis.
21:11So we have so much to be thankful for, Tennessee.
21:14And thank you for being here, senator.
21:17Well, I'm always so delighted to join you all.
21:21Thanks for having me back.
21:23It really was an incredible state of the union.
21:26And that comes, Senator Blackburn, from somebody who thinks even his own team state of
21:30the unions are usually kind of boring and go too long.
21:33I thought last night was remarkable.
21:34I just wanted to get your top line thoughts on it.
21:38And and how was it?
21:40It was remarkable. And the two hours absolutely flew by because the president just kept.
21:48Rolling right on through all the objections that the left side of the aisle was
21:54throwing their way. I was so pleased he laid out where we were a year
21:58and a half ago with 9 % inflation, with chaos in the world.
22:02And then he drew it to today where we're at 2 .4 % inflation.
22:08The price of gas coming down, the price of groceries beginning to normalize, wages going
22:14up and job opportunities increasing.
22:17And our standing in the world is restored.
22:21Our allies are working with us.
22:23Our adversaries and enemies fear us.
22:27They know that President Trump means business and that he has the backing of Republicans
22:33in the House and the Senate.
22:36Were you stunned, even as someone who has been involved in politics for a long
22:41time, that when they had the mom of a murdered, innocent woman and they had
22:48her stand and when they had Charlie Kirk's wife Erica stand and when even on
22:53a much less serious front, they brought in the U .S.
22:58men's Olympic team that every Democrat didn't stand up and clap.
23:02I wish there had been even more of a camera on the larger viewing area
23:09so you could see it.
23:10But I got to admit, I was kind of staggered.
23:13I don't know who gave Democrats that advice, but including, hey, do you think your
23:17job is to take care of citizens or illegal immigrants?
23:21That's right. I couldn't believe the way they behaved.
23:24Their behavior was appalling. And the fact that they would stay sitting in their seats
23:30and not stand to honor these who have lost loved ones, to honor those that
23:37have served our country, to honor the oath that they took to protect and defend
23:46and honor the people who voted for them and elected them to make certain that
23:53they were there to serve the people.
23:56It was absolutely astounding. But you know what?
24:00This is where the line of distinction is.
24:05What we have seen is the current Democrat Party, which is led by the far
24:11left wing of the Democrat Party, the Democrat Socialists, they would rather take care of
24:19illegal immigrants than they would take care of the people that voted for them.
24:25They would rather provide for illegal immigrants than provide for the citizens of their states
24:35and the citizens of this nation.
24:38It is astounding. Senator Blackburn, you also wanted to talk to us today about this
24:46case currently with the courts involving social media, and there's the Kids Online Safety Act.
24:54There's a whole range of issues coming together here.
24:57Can you just tell us first what is going on right now?
25:02We've got Mark Zuckerberg recently had to show up in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
25:08He testified. He's the CEO of Meta.
25:11There's this whole court case going on.
25:13It's with the jury right now.
25:15What are the items at issue, and what do you want to see from this
25:19case? Yes, indeed. This case, which I will say this, Mark Zuckerberg being on the
25:26stand in this case, I don't know what the outcome, the legal ramifications of the
25:33case are going to end up being.
25:35No one can tell us exactly because there's a jury involved.
25:39What I do know is this, that Mark Zuckerberg lost in the court of public
25:45opinion because he continued to say that social media had nothing to do with the
25:53accelerated levels of anxiety and depression, eating disorders, teen suicide, and this bucket of mental
26:03health issues. When the research that Meta has and whistleblowers have given that research to
26:11us, and of course it was presented in court, and you know that they know
26:16what they are doing to kids.
26:18You know that they are designing programming to capture younger kids.
26:24We all know that the valuation of Meta and Google and all of these big
26:29tech companies, it is based on the number of eyeballs they draw to the page
26:35and the amount of time they can keep those eyeballs focused on their platform.
26:43So I think he lost in the court of public opinion.
26:48It has brought forward the need to pass the Kids Online Safety Act.
26:53That came out of the Senate, 91 to 3.
26:56We have 75 Senate co -sponsors on it.
27:00It is significant. It would put in place a duty of care, a product by
27:07design safety standard for the virtual space.
27:10That is something at this point we do not have.
27:14Your grandkids might... My sons go to a similar school in the Nashville area that
27:21has a good technology policy, which is, and I know they probably may be cheating
27:27right now, but they're not supposed to have their phones.
27:30They're not supposed to be able to text message during school, and if they're caught
27:33with cell phones during school hours, there are consequences.
27:37Shouldn't this be the standard for every school, basically, in America?
27:41You're a grandma. Before that, you were a mom.
27:43As a dad, I think it's a no -brainer.
27:45And I think it's super bipartisan.
27:48Are you in favor of this?
27:49More and more schools not allowing kids to be on phones during the day?
27:55Oh, yes, indeed. Bell to bell, no cell.
27:59That is a very good policy for kids.
28:02And, you know, there's a growing body of research that shows that children who do
28:09not have a cell phone on their desk, in their backpack, within reach, their test
28:16scores go up, their achievement goes up, their participation in class increases.
28:23And the more you see this research, the more you know that it does matter,
28:28and you realize what a massive distraction it is to have that cell phone at
28:35the ready. I think one of the things that is so interesting about this also
28:39is talking to parents, teachers, and principals.
28:43Most of the behavioral issues that take place on school campuses find their nexus at
28:52the cell phone, and the bullying is 24 -7.
28:56It never stops. So putting those phones away for that period of the academic day
29:04forces kids to focus on what they are studying.
29:08It means that kids that go to study hall are actually doing research work, they're
29:14writing papers, they're pulling books out of the library shelves, and hearing from librarians about
29:22the change in behavior during those study halls is something that has not been lost
29:28on me. Speaking to Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, when you talk about, I just
29:34want to bring us back to this for a second, the social media issues for
29:38kids and online duty of care, are the social media companies, are they just saying
29:43that that's impossible, it's too expensive, it's not necessary?
29:47I mean, what's the counter -argument?
29:49Because usually when it comes to any political issue about children, everyone at least pretends
29:55that they care about the kids, right?
29:57I mean, even the big companies, so what are they saying in response to this?
30:01Why would they, you know, will they go along with it?
30:06I mean, why does it even require an act by Congress?
30:11They have proven they cannot police themselves.
30:13They have also proven that when kids are on those phones, kids are the product.
30:18And, you know, one of the interesting things is that every industrial sector in this
30:24country has product safety standards, whether it's an automobile, a toaster, a mattress, a curling
30:32iron, everything has a safety standard, everything except the virtual space.
30:39And the reason for that, big tech has spent millions of dollars lobbying last year,
30:48fourth quarter of the year, in order to take down the Kids Online Safety Act,
30:54META hired one lobbyist for every six members of Congress and spent $20 million.
31:02I'm somebody that knows what it feels like to have big tech come barreling after
31:09them with lots of lobbyists, lawyers, and millions of dollars because they do not want
31:17to change their business model.
31:19They would have to change that business model if you put in place a safety
31:26by design standard, if you de -link the algorithm so that the algorithm can be
31:34controlled by the parents and the kids and not controlled by the platform.
31:42They don't want that. Senator Blackburn, last night I was at an in -the -black,
31:49is what it's called, event about trying to balance a budget.
31:53A bunch of people you know were there.
31:55It was awesome. I know you're running for governor.
31:59But the federal government's inability to remotely make decisions that have to do, let's use
32:08as an example right now, basic election integrity.
32:12You're going to be on the ballot in November.
32:14Tennessee, thankfully, has really great election integrity.
32:17But the fact that white, black, Asian, Hispanic people overwhelmingly believe that you should have
32:22to show a photo ID in order to vote to prove you're who you are,
32:27what's going to happen with that in the Senate?
32:29I think there might be a filibuster.
32:31How's that process going to play out?
32:33I still can't believe this is unpassable, basically, based on the Democrat response.
32:39You know, it's an 80 % issue with the American people across.
32:44across all different demographic groups.
32:47And that's the thing that is so interesting, the fact that it has such broad
32:52bipartisan support. I mean, Zoran Mandami wants you to show two forms of ID in
32:58order to go shovel snow in New York, but he doesn't want you to show
33:03an ID to vote. What they're trying to do is make it easy to cheat
33:08and hard to vote. We want to make it easy to vote and hard to
33:14cheat. And we have got to have photo ID in the Senate.
33:20We are going to push the Save America Act forward.
33:23I look forward to having a vote on the floor.
33:26It should be common sense, standard practice that you have to be a citizen of
33:33the United States in order to vote in our elections, and you have to show
33:39an ID and prove who you are.
33:42When it comes to the issue of the balanced budget, and I have supported a
33:48balanced budget amendment for the United States.
33:52We have that in Tennessee.
33:54We have to balance our budget.
33:56We can't borrow money or print money.
33:59We have to be very careful about that and be a good fiscal steward.
34:04It means that some years, the leaner years, you cannot do some projects you want
34:10to do. And then it means when you do have years where you have a
34:14surplus, you have to be wise about where you place those dollars.
34:18The federal government should do likewise, and they would be well served to do likewise.
34:27Senator Blackburn, appreciate you being with us.
34:29You got it. Take care.
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37:03Nachos! Feels like there's more applause for the nachos than my speech.
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37:14I just stole your thunder there for a second, buddy, because there's something very important
37:17that everyone needs to hear.
37:18You know, it's one thing when I talk smack, you know?
37:21You know, you may be a son of a gun, but you're our son of
37:24a gun, Clay. You know what I mean?
37:25Like, no one else is allowed to talk this kind of smack.
37:28But here I am, preparing to watch the State of the Union, and flashing across
37:34my screen over at Fox News, a gentleman who I have done his show many
37:39times. I have seen him out in the wild.
37:41I've bumped into Jesse Waters before, and he's quite a charming fellow.
37:45And I thought somebody that was playing by civilized rules.
37:50But then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I mean, just like a kidney
37:55shot, a rabbit punch on my man Clay Travis when he's not looking on his
38:00TV show. This is Cut 36, Jesse Waters.
38:03Listen. I don't know that I've ever been, frankly, prouder to be an American than
38:07when we kicked Canada's ass and seen.
38:12America, to a large extent, united around this team like we were.
38:16I was too young to remember it back in 1980.
38:19Oh, you were? I thought you were like 40 in 1980.
38:22You look good there, Clay.
38:25Clay! Jesse Waters, you must listen to the show.
38:29You must listen to the show because, whoa, where did that come from?
38:32Thought you were 40 in the 80s?
38:34Rough. That would make me 86, a Korean War veteran and aging quite well.
38:41I think partly people don't realize how much makeup most people wear on television.
38:50Unless I am in studio, I am never in makeup for Fox News.
38:56And if you see how much makeup a lot of TV people will wear, and
39:00I'm not throwing shade here, you have an exaggerated sense of what television life is
39:09like. Now, I'm not saying I haven't thought about this.
39:12I think you might be saying some of the Fox hosts, gentlemen, are a little
39:15tarted up. A little too much rouge going on on the cheeks.
39:19I've been saying for some time that about the age of 55, I'm suddenly going
39:25to have a huge makeup team come in here every day, and they're going to
39:29treat me like a car that needs brand new wheels in pit row, and none
39:35of you are going to recognize it or know it happened, and you're going to
39:38be like, Clay, you haven't aged a day.
39:41You look the exact same as you did 20 years ago.
39:43I'm playing the long game.
39:45I look old and ugly now, but 10 years from now, I'm going to be
39:50gorgeous. I'm just telling you, it's coming.
39:53Prepare yourselves for an outstanding looking clay.
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40:33No more sad sack. That's what I'm talking about.
40:35I want both of our sacks to be fun.
40:38You two idiots are perfect for each other.
40:39From executive producers of Ted Lasso and Shrinking.
40:42We were all a part of this victory.
40:44Now get those nachos out of the preemie warmer.
40:48Nachos! Feels like there's more applause for the nachos than my speech.
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