Hour 1 - Dems Are Political Insurgents
3/24/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome in Tuesday edition, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:09I am down at our Jacksonville, Florida affiliate.
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0:16Always like to give them a shout out when we're in different studios.
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0:25area. Buck, you were just here.
0:26That is WBOB, and we were talking about this yesterday, that Jack's Beach, one of
0:35the great under -discussed parts of the country, people listening to us in Jacksonville Beach
0:40area right now are either saying, shut up, guys.
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0:56country, in my opinion. It's pretty awesome.
0:58Underrated. And they used to be decent at football down here.
1:03So for the Jacksonville Jaguar fans out there, I know, I know.
1:07They had a good year.
1:09And honestly, it's not very far from the University of Florida where Buck Sexton's wife
1:13is an alum. Unfortunately, they got whipped by Iowa in the NCAA tournament and are
1:19out. Did you even know that, Buck?
1:20I did not, but it looks like I lost one on the bracket because I
1:23always bet on Florida. Florida, I'm always betting on Florida.
1:26So the Gators are out.
1:28We will have some fun.
1:30Who did you have to win the whole thing, by the way?
1:32I went with Duke just because I've heard the name so many times.
1:35Houston is my pick. I think Duke's actually going to lose to St.
1:37John's this upcoming Sweet 16 game.
1:40But both of our teams are still alive.
1:42Houston's got a tough matchup as well.
1:45And we'll be taking a bunch of your calls.
1:47By the way, Steve Yates, good guest here because a lot of people have been
1:51saying, what do I need to know about this Strait of Hormuz?
1:53It's in the news a lot.
1:55I understand a lot of you are having to learn a lot of geography here
1:58as the situation in Iran continues.
2:00We will discuss that with him.
2:02Plus, we just talked about this yesterday.
2:05Senator Marsha Blackburn is going to join us in the third hour.
2:09She was with President Trump in Memphis on his visit to that city where crime
2:14is plummeting. I also want to throw out the phone number here for people who
2:19live in Memphis in the wake of the president's visit.
2:23I'm curious for all of you listening in Memphis, how much difference have you seen
2:27in Memphis since the president's surge happened?
2:31800 -282 -2882. But I wanted to start with this.
2:36Linda in Arizona continues to dominate the news cycle.
2:41There are tons of stories about her.
2:42This morning, as we were getting ready to come on the program, the Washington Post
2:47wanted to interview us. They want to interview Linda.
2:52So if she is listening right now, producer Greg is going to ask whether you
2:57want to be interviewed by the Washington Post.
2:59So for everybody out there who is calling, you never know when you might step
3:02in and become a major part of the national story.
3:05And Buck, I flew this morning out of Nashville.
3:09Zero issues with the TSA there.
3:11Every time I go through the Nashville TSA, I meet listeners.
3:16I meet fans of the show.
3:18I love the Nashville airport.
3:21And I love the TSA there.
3:23I appreciate everybody working. I'm going to be flying out this evening out of Jacksonville
3:28because I'm speaking at an event down here and then headed back home.
3:32And what I saw was things seem to be moving and progressing well.
3:36It appears, Buck, that TSA agent presence has actually helped with a lot of call
3:43-outs going on, a lot of sicknesses, a lot of people saying, hey, you know
3:46what? I've got to do another job.
3:48I've got to be able to make money.
3:49I've got child care issues.
3:50I've got to make sure that I can pay my bills, which I totally understand,
3:54which is why this is so unfair.
3:56And I think that the TSA agents are, in fact, helping because wait times seem
4:02to be down. Based on what I have seen this morning, in the wake of
4:08TSA agents being deployed to help then allow, as Linda argued and I think is
4:13happening, TSA agents to be reallocated because otherwise they don't have to watch exits and
4:19entrances and all these different things at the airport.
4:22So we will see exactly how this plays out.
4:24But I did want to say, this is, I think, a super cool example of
4:30President Trump paying attention and the relationship that he has with his voters.
4:35Yesterday, I went on after we had this show, Buck, I went on with our
4:39friend, Will Cain, and I said this on our radio show as well.
4:44I said, hey, President Trump, I bet Linda, grandmother of five, mom of a couple
4:51of kids, I said she's a big fan.
4:53I bet she would appreciate an autographed copy of the Trump was right about everything
5:00hat. Within an hour of me saying that, President Trump's team had texted and they
5:07have signed, if you go on Twitter, you can see it.
5:09We'll share it from Clay and Buck if we haven't already.
5:12Linda has a personally signed President Trump hat that he signed for her yesterday on
5:19Air Force One that he is sending to us that we will then route to
5:23Linda as a... Thank you for being a supporter and helping to come up with
5:26a great idea. I know there's a lot of stories out there.
5:31To me, Buck, as we just told the Washington Post, and we all know how
5:35talking to media that doesn't love us often goes, so I have no idea how
5:39that story will turn out.
5:41But I actually think, irrespective of what your opinion is of President Trump, the fact
5:47that he is able to see a good idea and act on it basically in
5:53the space of 72 hours is a warp speed response from government.
5:58I think Linda's idea was a good one.
6:00She put it out into the ecosystem.
6:02It did not exist before her call, and shortly thereafter the President of the United
6:07States is acting on it.
6:09I don't know that there's any example of a president behaving this way where he
6:15listens to his voters and tries to respond and is willing to accept their good
6:20ideas that we have ever seen.
6:22I think it is a great story.
6:25And if I were advising the White House, I would lean in on it.
6:28We're going to take great ideas no matter where they come from.
6:30You can be a Nobel Prize winning economist, economist, or you can be a grandma
6:35of five. Good ideas are good ideas.
6:38We're going to try to move on them when we see them, and I think
6:41it's an incredible testament to him.
6:43Well, that's the way that government should function.
6:45And it goes back to, Clay, what I was saying yesterday about how the simple
6:50genius of Trumpism is figure out the obvious thing to do to make it better
6:54and do that thing. And this, now to be fair, this is not an obvious
6:58thing to make it better.
7:00This was, there was some artistry, there was some creative thinking in this one.
7:04But Trump is willing to do the thing that will work or do the thing
7:08that is a break from what everybody else in consistent failure has been offering as
7:16the only alternative or the best option or whatever it may be.
7:19So I'm very happy to see that this has been deployed.
7:23It is quite, it's classic, isn't it?
7:25I'm traveling for one day and Clay and the audience decide to fix America in
7:3024 hours. So well done.
7:32I knew, I knew the ship was in good hands.
7:35I knew with you at the con, things would, would go, would go smoothly.
7:39And in this case, better than smoothly, it looks like may have really done an
7:44end run on the Democrats here.
7:46Clay, I still believe that if nothing else, it'll help the lines a bit, which
7:51is good. But it also just shows the Democrats are causing this.
7:55Because there's no way, if Republicans were causing, even if you're not paying attention to
7:59politics, if Republicans were causing the long TSA lines, now they're going to send ICE
8:04over instead of just having the TSA do their jobs and be funded?
8:08No, of course, this is Democrats.
8:10And it brings me back to counterinsurgency theory.
8:15Democrats are waging a political insurgency in an election year.
8:19Insurgents just have to make things bad.
8:21They have to make things dysfunctional, miserable, dangerous, whatever.
8:25And then they say, see, they can't protect you.
8:28They can't make it better.
8:28The people in charge are bad.
8:30The people in charge are the ones that are failing you, even though it's the
8:34insurgents that are blowing up the village and making sure that no one can get
8:37food. But they say, see, they can't make things better for you.
8:41Put us in charge and things will be fine.
8:43That's what Democrats are doing.
8:44They're political insurgents. They're making you miserable at the airport.
8:48They're slowing down travel. They're creating frustration because there's not enough frustration out there for
8:55them to capitalize on from bad Trump policy or bad problems.
8:59They want the Iran war to be this huge cleavage in the MAGA base.
9:06It's not. All the polling, you know, are we taking irate calls about the Iran
9:13war? No, we're not. We're open to them, but people are saying, yeah, look, I
9:17trust Trump to play this out.
9:19I trust Trump to figure out the best way for the country to move forward
9:23on this. That seems like 80, 90 percent of Trump voters right now, which is
9:29pretty solid. So this is why they have to make the TSA thing a point
9:32of misery, because otherwise economy's good, border secure.
9:37Trump is, you know, you got to let him cook on Iran.
9:40He's doing his thing. What else are they going to point to?
9:43I think that's the other part of this is that's unfortunate.
9:48A lot of Democrats are trying.
9:51I've seen it to say TSA failure is a function entirely of Trump and Republicans.
9:57And frankly, there's a lot of people who believe that because they are in such
10:03a sheltered media ecosystem that all they can think of is orange man bad.
10:09Buck, I had some fun with this.
10:11I posted this last night because I did think it was funny.
10:14The left wing out there is outraged by the idea that ICE agents wear masks.
10:21And their latest concern is what if ICE agents wear masks at the airport?
10:26The funniest thing about this, as you well know, is the people who are wearing
10:31masks at the airport still after six years are concerned that the ICE agents might
10:38be wearing masks at the airport.
10:40It wasn't very long ago, and I'm still radicalized and angry about it, that they
10:45were all lecturing us. Remember when they would say, Buck, my mask protects you and
10:50your mask protects me. which is why flight attendants were monitoring how long you sipped
10:58from a drink or chewed your peanuts.
11:00I guess they don't have peanuts anymore because of all the peanut allergies, your pretzels
11:04on the airplane and walking around and saying, excuse me, sir, excuse me, ma 'am,
11:10you're keeping your mask down for too long.
11:13So if you truly believe that masks were important, shouldn't you be applauding the fact
11:19that the ICE agents were wearing their masks in the airport?
11:22Isn't wearing their masks keeping you safe?
11:26That is what they argued with us six years ago, and I'm still not going
11:30to forget it because they were such draconian, awful authoritarians for that entire process.
11:37And now many of them just want to pretend that it never happened.
11:41It's also a perfect example of this tells you everything you need to know.
11:47If someone is currently walking through an airport anywhere in America wearing a cloth mask
11:52and they have an opinion of any kind on politics and they're, you know, they
11:58maybe just don't know anything and that's why they're wearing the mask.
12:00They could just be wildly ignorant of all things.
12:02That's possible. But if they have an opinion on, say, ICE, 100 % chance, 100
12:08% chance that they are outraged about what happened in Minneapolis, wearing a mask to
12:15protect you from germs, which does not work.
12:17It does not work. It never worked.
12:20It's very obvious people. What about surgeons during?
12:22Yeah, because that they're up close and they have saliva and stuff could fall into
12:25the wound. That's a different thing.
12:26But anyway, doesn't work, Clay, and yet 100 % chance that they're very upset about
12:33Trump. There is not a single Republican in America right now walking around, not a
12:38single Trump voter in an airport with a mask on who's like, COVID is still
12:42real. That's right. That's 100 % true.
12:45And so I do think it's funny that these are the people that are claimed
12:48to be the most outraged and upset and terrified of the fact that ICE is
12:53acting as they are in airports, which, by the way, doesn't mean that everything's going
12:58to get better. It's just kind of a bandage to help with the disaster that
13:04Democrats have created. And if you're standing in a line, and I know that some
13:09of you are, as you listen to us, you're headed into airports.
13:14Honestly, if I were thinking about Buck traveling to Houston, New Orleans, New York City,
13:20Atlanta, based on some of the information that I have seen over the past few
13:24years, I wouldn't go. If I had a trip scheduled right now to land at
13:28IAH in Houston, and I knew I was going to have to fly back out,
13:31I would not go. If I were headed to Atlanta, I wouldn't go.
13:34If I were headed to New York City, I wouldn't go.
13:37I just, I'm not willing to stand in line for hours.
13:41There are very few trips that are so necessary to make that you're, that I
13:46would be willing to stand in line for hours to make them.
13:51All very good points. We'll come into some of your calls and talkbacks here about
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15:22Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
15:24Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
15:29Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
15:33We've got some great talkbacks and calls that we're going to be getting to here
15:36shortly. Obviously, we're loving calls these days because of all the attention on our great
15:41caller from last week. But Clay, I am seeing, I just saw this.
15:46The photos, I'm assuming these are, you know, the great thing about Grok is you
15:49can kind of in real time check to make sure something, and I have to
15:52do this these days. I don't feel like an unk.
15:54I feel like I'm being thorough to make sure it's not AI because the AI
15:59is getting better and better on this stuff.
16:01But JFK, I've never seen delays like this before.
16:07I mean, Democrats, JFK Airport, Democrats are snarling air travel in a way that, can
16:15you remember seeing lines like this?
16:17I mean, three -hour, four -hour TSA line?
16:20But how you're missing your flight, aren't you?
16:22Oh, I'm not going to the airport five hours before my flight or four hours
16:26before my flight. I, again, I cannot imagine unless you are traveling for, I mean,
16:35with the way that somebody's parent or grandparent is severely ill and or there's a
16:42funeral or a wedding, something that cannot be moved that you are trying to make
16:47it to. With Zoom for business and everything else, I would just be like, hey,
16:52it's way more efficient. Is that what it is?
16:55Three or four hours at JFK in the New York City area right now?
16:59Yeah, Atlanta and Houston, they're staying arrive four hours early.
17:05No, my answer to that would just be I'm not going to your point unless
17:09it's a funeral or a wedding or it's a wedding or let's say you have
17:13an international flight and you've been planning for a long time.
17:16Like the idea of I'm going to go for a long weekend or I'm going
17:20to go to a sporting event or something like that.
17:22I would just say, hey, I am out on this.
17:25And again, I think it's important here.
17:28Democrats idea is just to make people as uncomfortable as possible and hope that this
17:36ends up being an issue for Republicans, even though it's all being created by Democrats.
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19:00Welcome back in, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show.
19:03Buck, we didn't talk about this yesterday, but I do think it's a big story,
19:07and I was reading a lot about it this morning.
19:10Yesterday, there was a Supreme Court case on mail voting and when ballots have to
19:17arrive, and there's been a huge discussion, obviously, about the Save America Act, and we
19:23have discussed it ad infinitum on this show.
19:26But I do think this case, which I believe the Supreme Court is likely to
19:31rule six to three on, let me give you a little bit of a background,
19:34and then let's maybe have a conversation about it, because I think it's one that
19:40is worthy of your knowledge and discussion out there in the larger audience.
19:47Mississippi had a rule, I believe, that a ballot could arrive for up to five
19:54days after Election Day and still be counted.
19:57This is not a unique Mississippi law.
20:00There are many states, I believe 19 of them, that allow ballots to arrive for
20:06many days after Election Day and still be counted, and this could add up to
20:11hundreds of thousands of ballots out there.
20:14Buck, I'm going to give you my magic wand solution that I think there should
20:19be challenges on, and I would actually be 100 % in favor of.
20:24I'm curious what you think.
20:25Given that we now have early voting, almost every state in America has early voting,
20:32I don't think that absentee ballots, by and large, or mail voting should exist.
20:38First, in my home state of Tennessee, you can early vote for weeks, and certainly
20:44you can still go on Election Day.
20:46In my ideal world, everyone should basically have to go vote in person.
20:52Now, limited exemptions for soldiers that are overseas and don't have the ability to come
20:59back, for people that might be overseas for a variety of reasons, that was basically
21:05the reason that absentee ballots existed in the past.
21:08They were very specific as to who could get them, and that has existed for
21:14decades and makes complete sense.
21:16This idea of, oh, I'm just too lazy, and so I'm going to get a
21:20mail ballot rather than actually go in person and vote, I don't think should exist.
21:26And we've got a clip on this.
21:28Alito is actually even more aggressive than this.
21:32I believe I am correct that New Hampshire is the only state in the nation
21:37that requires everybody to vote in person on Election Day.
21:42I think it's the only state in the nation that has that requirement.
21:45There is no mail -in valoting.
21:47There is no mail -in valoting.
21:47There's no excuses. Basically, you have to show up on Election Day and vote.
21:52Alito says based on the way Election Day is defined in the Constitution, he actually
21:57thinks that should be the law for the nation.
21:59Listen to this. We have lots of phrases that involve two words, the last of
22:06which, the second of which is day.
22:09Labor Day, Memorial Day, George Washington's birthday, Independence Day, birthday, and Election Day.
22:17And they're all particular days.
22:21So if we start with that, if I have nothing more to look at than
22:25the phrase Election Day, I think this is the day in which everything is going
22:30to take place and or almost everything.
22:33So I think that's kind of an intriguing take.
22:36What do you think in general?
22:38The Supreme Court, I believe, is going to limit ballots and say if they're not
22:43in on Election Day as mail ballots, absentees, everything else, they don't count.
22:48I think that will help because I think a lot of people will say, well,
22:50I don't want to risk this now.
22:51I'm going to go vote in person.
22:54What's your take on this in general?
22:57Well, look, the mail -in ballot thing is for me the single biggest opening for
23:04shenanigans because what it involves in many states, as we know, is the sending out
23:11of live ballots. And remember, think about what Democrats want.
23:15Voter rolls that we know have lots of dead people, multiple counted people, meaning that
23:21people are getting sent. They live in Arizona and they're getting ballots sent to Georgia.
23:28I mean, crazy stuff because people move, right?
23:31They don't want to clean up the voter rolls, so they want live ballots out
23:36there and they want them to be able to be, in some cases, legally collected.
23:43Now, ballot harvesting, some states it's illegal, some states it's legal.
23:46But they want it to be legal to harvest those ballots.
23:50And I believe some states allow you to fill them out as well on behalf
23:54of somebody and then drop them in.
23:58This is an enormous... How would you ever be able...
24:01If someone can lawfully, lawfully in a state, go to a nursing home and go
24:09in and say, hey, everybody, do you mind if I help you with this?
24:12Can I collect all your...
24:13And I'm going to just...
24:14I'm going to take all your ballots.
24:15I'm going to fill it out for you, too.
24:17You know, all that stuff, right?
24:19Yes. How could you ever prove...
24:21You can't. ...realistically that someone didn't just fill out, a hundred Democrat ballots and dump
24:26them into the polling location.
24:29You're not going to have all taped conversations between this person, again, because you're allowed
24:33to collect them. You're allowed, in some cases, to fill them out, which is, to
24:36me, even crazier. But this is what Democrats want to continue.
24:40So the mail -in balloting thing is nuts.
24:42The problem, I think, with election day...
24:47I agree with him in principle, but the problem that I think the Supreme Court
24:50runs into here is you know, we also don't really want to have necessarily federalized
24:56elections, right? We want states to have the ability to make decisions about how they're
25:01going to do it individually.
25:03So you've got to have it one way or the other, because if you have
25:06federalized elections, keep in mind the Democrats get into a place where they can decide,
25:11well, you're going to do it our way now, right?
25:12So this is the push -pull, I think, that makes this a little complicated.
25:17But to me, what's at the core of the Supreme Court case, right, is can
25:22you count ballots... After they come in, after election day.
25:25After election day. That is nuts.
25:27I mean, now you're just...
25:29You are begging for fraud that is unprovable and untraceable to give elections to people
25:37that didn't win. And of course what Democrats want.
25:39Of course they want this.
25:41I actually, I understand the aspect of, hey, you don't want federalized control of elections.
25:49I also think that the whole purpose of state as laboratory examples is everybody can
25:57learn from best practices. Florida, to me, should be the standard nationwide.
26:03Florida was a disaster. I'm in Florida right now, Buck.
26:06You're in Florida right now.
26:07Everybody remembers the butterfly ballot, the hanging chads, all the different people who were holding
26:14up the individual ballots to determine, hey, was there a vote cast here or not,
26:19are all over Palm Beach County.
26:21I think when you actually look at Florida now, look how great Florida is, Buck.
26:28Within three hours of the elections ending, Florida has posted every aspect of their election
26:35tally. Heck, we talked about it on the program during 2024.
26:39You can actually see who's turning out in Florida, Democrat, Republican, Independent, and look at
26:45the early voting that is going on.
26:47Again, I understand the concept of mail -in voting historically.
26:52To me, the number of states that have early voting, I almost always early vote.
26:58If I don't early vote, it's just because I want the fun of going to
27:03vote on Election Day. I don't, I don't understand.
27:08We have made voting so easy that voting in person to me should be the
27:13default standard. You're showing up with your...
27:15ID proving that you are you everybody says oh my goodness this is so hard
27:20they're lying I just changed my address yesterday on the Tennessee registrar website website buck
27:27because we just moved recently selling our old home it took me five minutes I
27:34went in I pulled out my uh my license I put in my info I
27:39changed my address I'm now registered to vote at the new place this is not
27:43complicated there are lots of things in life that are complicated getting registered to vote
27:48and showing up with a driver's license to vote is not one of them um
27:53and I just think to me requiring the votes be in by election day is
27:59the bare minimum of security that we should demand this to me falls into states
28:05are supposed to under the constitution right the elections clause they they are supposed to
28:11um be able to essentially set the polling places the voting methods the registration procedures
28:18ballot design right things like that but the congress can also come in with something
28:25that is really necessary to effectively override uh them on this stuff and you can't
28:30have votes counted after election day is a is a thing that we should have
28:35that seems pretty straightforward and this is because it so clearly undermines the faith and
28:41integrity of the faith that people have in the integrity of these elections so to
28:46me that's a that's a straightforward one things can get a little bit tougher with
28:50you know we don't like mail -in balloting but to your point or as a
28:53general principle we don't like mail -in balloting florida has mail -in balloting yeah so
28:58no look there are lots of states that do it I just think if you
29:01asked me to wave a magic wand if the state of tennessee came to me
29:04and they said clay uh what are your opinions on how voting should take place
29:09in your state I love early voting I understand some people out there don't like
29:13it I like giving people an option I think it makes it easier I think
29:16it limits crowds on election day give everybody the opportunity to come in for a
29:21couple of weeks in advance you got kids you got obligations you got responsibilities maybe
29:25you're traveling you can schedule when it makes sense to you you don't have to
29:29necessarily go on voting day on election day um but I think we should limit
29:34overall mail ballots and look the reason buck why we have the five -day Mississippi
29:38law how many times now do you do you trust the postal service I don't
29:44like there how many times have you had I'll tell you what I had a
29:49check just vanish like I mailed it going somewhere and somebody writes me back like
29:54three weeks later and they're like I never got this and so I have to
29:56cancel a check how often does that happen it seems if you really want your
30:00vote to be counted you should go in person take your id and do it
30:04because I don't trust that my ballot's going to get there in time even if
30:07I send it two weeks beforehand California has the most no surprise here states that
30:13broadly allow third -party ballot collection include California Colorado Nevada Oregon Arkansas and Florida have
30:23a strict limit of I think it's two extra ballots Illinois and Kansas have a
30:28limit of 10 Louisiana Maine Maryland Minnesota so there's all I mean there's more and
30:34more there's all these different state by this is why people say what about this
30:37state look I don't I you can't if you don't live in this state it's
30:41tough to know all the different rules and all the 50 states at any given
30:44time because they also change them but for California for example you can you can
30:48have one person walk in and collect in a housing complex 300 ballots crazy and
30:55be in charge of all of them and draw and that's completely legal completely this
30:59is why Democrats wanted Buck because nursing homes apartment buildings public housing a lot of
31:05them have one central location where mail comes in and if you know the person
31:11who collects the mail in theory in theory they could grab every ballot that comes
31:17into that place and they could fill them all out Buck the number of ballots
31:25in the 2024 election people just don't want to talk about this that only voted
31:31for president and only voted for Joe Biden go back and look at the tally
31:37on 2024 look at how many people didn't vote in Senate didn't vote in the
31:42house races they just voted for president does that seem likely to you that if
31:48you were an engaged voter you would get your ballot I'm not saying some people
31:52might not do it but the number of people who just voted Biden versus the
31:58number of people who just voted Trump was off the charts right I'm talking about
32:03the whole ballot why would that happen well if you were trying to fill out
32:08as many ballots as you could if you're going to have to answer 20 different
32:12elections think about how long it takes you to fill all that out versus if
32:17you just vote for president overwhelmingly Biden won the mail -in ballots that only voted
32:25for president and if you want to see how these shenanigans can play out I
32:28know a lot of you are immediately thinking you mean like 2020 of course that's
32:32the big that's the 800 pound gorilla in the room lots of all elections yeah
32:37um yeah that that's a big one but go back and look at the um
32:41norm coleman al franken senate race in minnesota some years ago the the the disparity
32:48i mean the difference was hundreds this is for a senate seat okay it was
32:53hundreds of votes and people were showing up like oh we we look at this
32:5750 votes that were in the trunk yeah for al franken 50 votes in the
33:01trunk of some car that i guess we just found when they were doing the
33:05recount you know come on right and to your point on five days um or
33:11whatever the math is on how long the ballot can get there you can find
33:15out what the tallies are looking like and suddenly decide hey we got to get
33:20a thousand new votes in we got to get 1500 when you're talking about votes
33:23coming down to a few hundred um that's where you can really manufacture additional so
33:29i think the supreme court to their credit is going to come out and they're
33:32going to rule and say all ballots have to be received by election day and
33:37i would just suggest to you if you want 100 for your vote to count
33:41i would show up and vote in person that's what i do that's what i
33:45would encourage you guys to do um and uh look i'm not saying some some
33:49of you can't vote absentee mail ballots all those other things but if you are
33:53obsessed with your vote counting i would go in person look if you're looking at
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35:09are lit let's get to them uh rick and cape cod what's going on rick
35:20hello rick you're on line one let's go can you hear me now we can
35:26can you hear me now okay hey uh trump ought to order all gasoline to
35:34be brewed to the highest mileage we have at the moment ethanol put in least
35:40here in massachusetts into all our gasoline which decreases mileage by 10 to 15 percent
35:46if he was actually to tell them to take that out and brew the highest
35:50mileage gasoline it'd be like be getting a 10 percent increase in what we have
35:54available thank you for the call i'm not an ex we have tons of oil
36:00and gas experts out in this audience and we have got so many people out
36:05there uh that could answer that question better than we can buck my understanding is
36:10we're constantly shifting the oil and gas standard not constantly but for instance the oil
36:17and gas that you tend to buy in summer is different than the oil and
36:21gas that you tend to buy in winter uh based on the effectiveness of that
36:28uh oil and gas depending on the weather again i need to know more about
36:32oil and gas um i need to learn more i think all of us probably
36:36could but that is my understanding to partly answer that question um we will take
36:41more of your calls when we come back but we're gonna head to uh talk
36:45with our buddy steve yates who we're gonna ask all about the straight of hormuz
36:50buck he is an expert so many people out there have questions about iran why
36:54the straight of hormuz matters we're gonna dive into some those details with him next
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