Hour 3 - Iran's Wild Card Option
4/16/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now.
0:07President Trump is speaking just outside the White House.
0:10We are going to join the commander in chief here live.
0:13Let's do it, friends. What are you telling the airlines and the oil companies about
0:18the way you're going to open up the trade?
0:20So if you look at the oil and if you look at the price we're
0:23paying, it's about half what people thought it would be if you did what I
0:27had to do. We had to take this journey to the Middle East in order
0:30to get rid of a nuclear weapon.
0:32There would have been if we didn't hit him with a B -2 bombers or
0:35if I didn't kill the Barack Hussein Obama deal, the nuclear deal, which was a
0:39disaster, we would have had nuclear weapons exploding in the Middle East and beyond.
0:45I believe I've been able to stop that.
0:47I think we have a very successful negotiation going on right now.
0:52And I think it'll be if it happens, it'll be announced fairly soon.
0:56And that'll give us free oil, free hormones straight.
1:01Everything will be nice. And I think your oil price will go down to lower
1:04than what it was before.
1:06And I think a lot of good things will happen.
1:10Just for clarity, you're willing to extend the ceasefire?
1:13We'll see. I don't know if it will happen.
1:15Ideally, but if I needed to, I would.
1:17The Lebanese people love you so much.
1:19What do you say? The Lebanese people love you so much.
1:21What's your message for them?
1:22And you will visit Lebanon after this?
1:25I will do that. At the right time, I would certainly go there.
1:28Do you think there's war in Ukraine?
1:30You know, Putin doesn't want to stop it, apparently.
1:32He's bombing Ukraine. Do you think this war has the potential to go on for
1:36years more? Well, it should have been.
1:38It should have never started.
1:40If I were president, the war in Ukraine never would have started with Russia.
1:44But it's going on. Hopefully, it'll get over soon.
1:47The first lady came out last week and said she had no links with Jeffrey
1:50Epstein. Who did? The first lady, Melania.
1:52She had none. Why did she come out and say that last week?
1:54Because the fake news was saying she did.
1:56And she had none. And I think that's been proven.
1:59It bothered her that the fake news was being fake news.
2:03So she just wanted to clarify.
2:05The president, who's taking care of Hezbollah?
2:07Do you think that they are destroying the deal that they are trying to make?
2:10We're going to see how it all works out.
2:11But they'll be working and coordinating, if you know, you know, Lebanon, right?
2:16So they'll be working with Hezbollah.
2:18Are you still interested in acquiring Iranian oil?
2:22What? Are you still interested in acquiring Iranian oil?
2:26Well, we'll see. I mean, we have a very good relationship with Iran right now.
2:30It's hard as it is to believe.
2:32And I think it's a combination of about four weeks of bombing and a very
2:38powerful blockade. The blockade is maybe more powerful than the bombing, if you want to
2:42know the truth. Are you going to make the Arab countries pay a portion of
2:48all of the contributions? I think they'll make that.
2:49I think they're going to make that contribution.
2:53I think the Arab countries, because we've done a lot, I think they'd make a
2:57contribution toward the coast. I think they're going to make a deal with Iran, but
3:15I think we're very close to making a deal with Iran.
3:17You'll be the first to know, but I think we have a chance.
3:20And if that happens, oil goes way down, prices go way down, inflation goes way
3:26down. And you're going to have much more importantly than even that, you won't have
3:31nuclear holocaust. All right, so President Trump, I'm making it.
3:46All right, there you go, team.
3:47So we have, that was President Trump live.
3:50And yeah, some interesting things going on there.
3:54For one thing, Hezbollah is now included in these negotiations for the ceasefire.
3:59In case anybody was wondering, is Hezbollah really a proxy of Iran?
4:02Well, considering they have to be a part of the ceasefire, they're going to be
4:05a part of the ceasefire negotiations.
4:07Yes, Trump saying we have a good relationship with Iran.
4:11I'm sure a lot of people are going to, he said that.
4:14He also said we're very close to a deal with Iran, but let's be clear.
4:17When he says we have a very good relationship, I'm going to do a little
4:21Trump translation. What he means is, he's saying they're starting to be more willing to
4:28see the light and that the communication is bearing fruit.
4:32I don't think Trump is suggesting that the Iranian government are big fans of ours.
4:38I don't think he's saying that.
4:39That would be a bit extreme.
4:41But Trump said if Iran had a nuke, they would use it.
4:44We'll bring you some of the, we were in commercial break when he started with
4:47this, was watching it here.
4:49But we'll bring you some of the key moments of that.
4:52And there are a few things here that come together.
4:58Like I said, that was just the president.
5:00I was speaking outside the White House.
5:01Also, just can you imagine, I don't want to get diverted into Biden talk now
5:05because he's going to be a footnote in American history, I think.
5:08And people, even Democrats, will try to memory hole the whole Biden, well, lack of
5:13memory, among other things, fiasco.
5:15But could you imagine the former president just pretty much every day, it feels like,
5:23taking questions from a somewhat.
5:24hostile depends on the on the question or press corps and handling things in real
5:28time this guy is communicating with us constantly he's putting out true social posts constantly
5:33so we don't have to guess as to what this president to this commander -in
5:37-chief has in mind we don't have to sit around wondering whether he has a
5:42plan that he is executing on he tells us exactly what's going on so the
5:46ceasefire um and by the way trump also said no sunset limits on any iran
5:53deal because that was always a problem for me this idea that okay you can't
5:57enrich for five years well that doesn't get us to a good place that was
6:01what iran said by the way even if you can't enrich for 20 years okay
6:06iran will wait and they'll do that so uh the ceasefire including hezbollah is an
6:11interesting point we're heading toward the following there will be the ceasefire date which i
6:18can't do the math on the flyer up top of my head but i i
6:20think it's what is it guys guys when does a ceasefire end do a quick
6:23search for me on that one let me know i think it's sometime next week
6:26it would end so maybe like next thursday or friday or something so the ceasefire
6:31um because it was a 10 day right if memory serves or was it yeah
6:35it was a 10 day ceasefire so once that's coming closer you're going to have
6:40really only three options you're going to have a deal which would be for us
6:48certainly i believe the most uh that would be the best outcome wait is trump
6:52still going now team he's i'm sorry he's guys he stopped from it but now
6:57he's still going let's go back to the man himself play it for a second
7:00here it's impossible that some foreign uh adversary is in the united states to open
7:06these people up well you know if i did open borders it wasn't very hard
7:10to get here but we've gotten many of them out you know we've fought many
7:13many people many many very bad people including thousands of murderers that we've taken out
7:19of our country thousands of drug lords that we've taken out of our country hundreds
7:24of thousands of prisoners that were let into the u .s that we've taken out
7:28of our country as far as the scientists are concerned we'll probably have a pretty
7:32good answer over the next week does it have to be a big deal all
7:38at once or would you accept a little deal to start well i have a
7:43little deal i can make a little i want to get it done and get
7:46back to uh keep going with long you know our pricing is doing great as
7:51soon as the war is over we're going to be lower than we were two
7:54or three years ago so i want to get back to that i want we
7:58had to do something we had to make sure that a random against a nuclear
8:01weapon and we're at that they've agreed to that they've totally agreed to that they've
8:06agreed to almost everything so maybe if they can get to the table there's a
8:11difference they agree they got to get to the table with a pen uh we'll
8:16have that over with and then we can focus on our great economy and also
8:20you know i inherited the highest prices in the history of our country the worst
8:24inflation in the history of our country i'll get it down to a very low
8:28number we had it to a very low number and it's still low but the
8:33most important thing right now is to make sure iran can never have a nuclear
8:40all right so we i think we leave it there he's talking about a whole
8:42range of things now talking about immigration and everything else we'll pull some of the
8:45top clips for you so you can hear it um but a few things one
8:47the team pulled for me that the ceasefire is scheduled to end april 22nd so
8:52yeah that's like late late next week if my math is correct and it was
8:56set for two weeks uh from from the get -go it began on april 8th
9:00so so here we are now uh deep into this ceasefire process and trump is
9:07speaking about where the negotiations stand he is saying we are very close to a
9:13deal with iran and i think trump recognizes that people are going to put a
9:19lot of uh a lot of consideration into that well what does very close mean
9:24and what kind of a deal is it for the iranians at this point to
9:30be willing to give up any nuclear ambition remember there are there's two pieces to
9:36that there's the agreeing to do it and then there's the processes through which we
9:42can verify that they're doing it as i've said before that would mean enriched uranium
9:47comes out of the country it would means we'd be monitoring with satellites constantly and
9:52it also means that uh we would have the right to inspect any facilities that
9:58we suspected of uh being used for the purposes of illicit nuclear activity and i
10:06think that's just for for the guys in charge in iran that is total capitulation
10:12i hope it happens but if that happens it means that trump has finally backed
10:18the iranian government into a corner so effectively that they have to they have to
10:26break on that that is their non -negotiable that has been their non -negotiable up
10:31to this point they're going to enrich uranium they're going to continue doing this and
10:36if you believe the trump administration's version of events and i do on this uh
10:40this story when they met with negotiators uh for trump initially whitkoff and and kushner
10:48the iranians were essentially saying you got to treat our nuclear we're program as a
10:53fait accompli. You have to act like this is now a part of reality for
10:59the future and not going to change.
11:01And I think that kind of bluster and that really that disrespect from the Iranian
11:07negotiators toward the United States and Trump, trust me, takes that personally when he's the
11:12president, that really incited or ignited this whole situation.
11:18So he's saying we're getting closer and closer to a deal.
11:21We know what the major sticking points are.
11:24It's all about that nuclear deal.
11:25But we have them in a very tough place.
11:28I don't know how they break out of this.
11:32I don't know how the unless they are just willing to endure months of suffering
11:38and think that that will somehow spike oil prices enough to create pressure on Trump
11:45to abandon this siege because it really is a name.
11:50Blockade is a naval siege, in a sense.
11:53And what I see happening here is by the 22nd, by the 22nd of April,
12:00which is when the ceasefire is supposed to end.
12:02Trump can have a deal, a final deal agreed to.
12:05That would be the best scenario.
12:07Trump can say we're really, really close and we're going to extend the ceasefire for
12:12another two weeks. I've already I've been telling you four weeks.
12:16That is what I think will happen.
12:18And I still think that will happen, although I'm getting a little more optimistic about
12:22a full victory outcome here.
12:25But I still think it's going to be a delayed negotiation.
12:27The other option is to start blowing up more stuff in Iran, turn the heat
12:34up even more while the blockade is going on.
12:36It'd be a one two punch.
12:38And I think Trump is willing to do that.
12:41So those are, as I see it, the three pathways.
12:43And then the wild card options would be on the Iranian side.
12:47And the wild card options would be they blow up a tanker in the strait,
12:53which I think is too suicidal.
12:56Although remember, this is the land of suicide bombers, broadly speaking.
13:00I think it's too suicidal even for the Iranian government that that is left.
13:04And they recognize that, I think.
13:08But, you know, we don't really know.
13:12I'm trying to think of other ways that they could shake things up more directly.
13:17But those are the those are the only things that I see because because Iran's
13:21leverage was the Strait of Hormuz.
13:22And Trump has flipped that on them.
13:25Trump has used jujitsu on the world stage to take the one choke point.
13:32That's kind of a play on words there with jujitsu, right?
13:34The one choke point that he has or that that the Iranians had and he
13:40flipped it around and now is using it to choke them.
13:44It's remarkable. And and it's it's showing a lot of understanding of the strategy in
13:50the statecraft here. So it's you got to say right now it's looking pretty impressive
13:54what Trump has been able to pull off.
13:56What do you think about all of this?
13:58What do you think about this blockade and Trump's strategy here?
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15:22Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
15:25Trump just did a 30 minute or so impromptu, almost 30 minutes impromptu press conference.
15:33Unfortunately, the chopper was in the background there, folks.
15:36I'm sorry about that audio quality, but it's the said that was that that's the
15:39feed, right? There's no, you're taking it live and the chopper in the background is
15:43pretty noisy. But Trump is, Trump has taken, was taken all kinds of questions.
15:51There are a lot of stuff on Iran.
15:53And Trump also said, according to my team here, because we're all monitoring it together,
15:58that Iran is set to execute four more people.
16:01So there's going to be Iranian executions going on.
16:05So they have time for brutality, even in this moment with the most powerful country
16:10in the world, putting their, putting the Iranian government right in the crosshairs.
16:16Tom in Spokane, Tom. Tom.
16:20What's going on? You want to talk about this?
16:22Oh, well, thanks, Buck. I just think that Trump needs to more often and more
16:31strongly voice that we're not against Iraq.
16:39I mean, Iran. We're against not the Iranian people, just the Iranian establishment.
16:49Yeah, the regime. Sure. It's not about the Iranian people.
16:52It's about the Mullahs, the IRGC, the besiege, these guys, right?
16:56I stress a lot more often.
16:58And, you know, if he has a good speechwriter, I would like to write some
17:03speeches for Trump myself. Well, Tom, we will pass along your regards on that one,
17:10and we'll see if that hits.
17:11Thank you so much for calling in.
17:13I would say this. I mean, Trump's rhetoric is Trump's rhetoric.
17:15He's definitely not going to change it now.
17:18And I think that this is much more about telling we, the American people, what
17:25he's doing than it is speaking directly to the people in Iran right now.
17:28I think they're quite aware that we are blowing up military targets.
17:32I mean, let's understand something.
17:33Even without using nukes, we could flatten Tehran tomorrow if we wanted to.
17:38We're not trying. The military actions that the Department of War is taking are not
17:42designed, certainly not yet, not designed to punish the Iranian people broadly, although the economic
17:50impact of this blockade will do that financially.
17:55It's not blowing people up, but it will do that financially.
17:58So that's going to have an effect, too.
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19:00We'll have some of the cuts here that we didn't play from that impromptu press
19:10conference, if you will. Trump taking a whole range of questions outside of the White
19:16House with the chopper going to the background.
19:21Get to the chopper. And we have a bunch of you sending in all kinds
19:26of talkbacks and thoughts, and we'll take some of your calls, too, on where this
19:31is all going. But look, you know that I come from a background of somebody
19:36who saw things not going well, put it mildly, up close and personal in both
19:42Iraq and Afghanistan, Democrat and Republican administrations, I might add.
19:46And so anytime we're talking about war, I just approach it with a I don't
19:53approach it with a pessimistic view.
19:56I just it's very much a trust but verify situation for me, because if we're
20:00going to put our people in harm's way, if we're going to be using the
20:03military to take life, thousands of lives abroad, we should be asking questions and be
20:11darn short the right way.
20:12I have had my moments of questioning and even some skepticism of some of what's
20:21gone on with Trump in Iran.
20:22But if this embargo, I'm sorry, blockade, if this blockade holds of just Iran in
20:29the strait, and so Iran is no longer using that as leverage, it becomes our
20:36greatest point of leverage against Iran.
20:38Iran, if that holds, and their economy, I would assume is going to start to
20:44spiral. And then you add to that, perhaps additional airstrikes not clear on what they
20:50would be. I wonder how long the Iranians can hold on with that.
20:55I think that they had assumed that there may be.
20:58And again, when I say the Iranians, it was true.
21:01It is true. What that caller said before, we're talking about the Iranian government, our
21:06beef, the world's beef, but America specifically, our beef with the, and Israel, the Iranians
21:13is with the security services, the government, the military.
21:17It's not with someone who lives in a, you know, modest house in Isfahan or
21:25something, and is just trying to go teach Sunday, well, not Sunday school, but teach,
21:30well, maybe, but go to, you know, teach grammar school is what I meant to
21:33say. That's not our beef.
21:35We're not trying to hurt people who have had no effect on Iranian policy, and
21:40in many cases want the regime gone, of course, as we know.
21:43We saw that with those protests that were out in the streets.
21:47But this is, let's go to cut 26 here for a second.
21:51Trump is sounding very positive here on this deal and the prospect for a deal.
21:59Play 26. We're doing very well, I can tell you.
22:08Maybe it'll happen before that.
22:09I'm not sure it needs to be extended.
22:12Just so you know, Iran wants to make a deal, and we're dealing very nicely
22:17with them. We've got to have no nuclear weapons.
22:20That's a big factor. And they're willing to do things today that they weren't willing
22:25to do two months ago.
22:27So he is straight up telling us that there is progress in the negotiations in
22:32terms of concessions the Iranians are willing to make.
22:36Now, this could all be part of the Iranian positioning, the Iranian play for time
22:42strategy. But I think that the reason Trump is out there saying this right now
22:47is because he knows, and this is what I'm seeing too, if this situation with
22:54the straight holds, this is a one.
22:56The pressure valve is now really one way.
23:00The issues of the straight -up form moves have become far more powerful for the
23:05Iranian regime than they are for us in terms of the way to either sit
23:12this out or turn up the heat, whatever it may be, or wait this out,
23:16I mean. So that's where we are with the Iran deal.
23:20We'll see if it actually ends up happening.
23:22And Trump also has said that he would go to Pakistan.
23:25This was some news that was just broken a few minutes ago.
23:28This is 27. He says he would go to Pakistan to complete a deal if
23:31one is ready to be done.
23:34Would you ever go to Pakistan to deal the deal yourself?
23:37I would. I would go to Pakistan, yeah.
23:39Pakistan has been great. They've been so good.
23:41Islamabad, I'll be... I might go.
23:45If the deal is signed in Islamabad, I might go.
23:48The field marshal has been great.
23:50The prime minister has been really great in Pakistan.
23:53So I make good. And if he gets a deal, maybe Trump Tower, Islamabad, but
23:58you'd know that better than anybody.
23:59It's a beautiful tower he'd build, the most beautiful.
24:04I've never been to Islamabad.
24:05I hear it's not great.
24:07But, yeah, Trump is saying that he would go himself because he would recognize, we
24:12would all recognize, the historic nature of that kind of an agreement, and he certainly
24:18wants to be there. He understands all the implications of getting this to that point.
24:25But I am more optimistic now than I...
24:28I still think there's going to be an extension of the ceasefire, to be clear.
24:31But I'm more optimistic that at the end of this, Trump is going to get
24:33something closer to what he wants than I was before because of the change about
24:40that we've been discussing today.
24:42Now, the Artemis crew, the Artemis 2 crew, is talking about their moon mission.
24:50I'm not a big, like, producer Greg, I think Clay also, Clay has more of
24:57the, and I mean this in a good way, the childlike wonder when it comes
25:01to space exploration and astronauts.
25:03Like, he loves all that stuff.
25:05And I am a little more like, okay, I'm glad we're doing big things again.
25:10I'm glad that we are also really in the early stages of building out true
25:19space exploration infrastructure. Now, SpaceX is a huge piece of that equation.
25:25But getting us to go on this, or getting this historic moon mission done, it's
25:31cool. And, you know, there's a lot to go to.
25:35Producer Greg, do you want to come on and tell me why the Artemis 2?
25:39Is he in studio right now, or am I catching him?
25:41I'm here. I'm here. He's not grabbing Shake Shack.
25:44All right. Producer Greg. Producer Greg.
25:47Artemis 2, they're talking about this.
25:49Why should a salty old dog like me care that much about this mission?
25:55Sell me on this thing.
25:56It's about the human exploration and what we can achieve, the technology and the whole
26:05thing coming together, what it takes to produce something like this.
26:11I mean, a rocket like that going to the moon is probably the most sophisticated
26:17piece of machinery with so many different working parts at every one time, with so
26:21many points of failure that could happen.
26:24And the fact that they're able to get it to go together and to go
26:29to the moon, in this case, around the moon, and then hopefully in a few
26:33more years actually land on the moon again, just stretches us as people, as human,
26:42as Americans, and to show that we can do it as regain some of the
26:48prize that we lost. So here's, okay, Producer Greg, you're doing, I mean, I'm hoping
26:52NASA doesn't snatch you up to do comms for them, because you're doing an excellent
26:55job explaining, as I said, the childlike wonder that so many have about that.
26:59But here's my thing. We've already been to the moon.
27:02We did this. So isn't this a little bit like the second person to summit
27:08Mount Everest? Like the first person, it's, oh my gosh.
27:11The second person, it's, okay, that was hard, but didn't we already get there?
27:15Like... Well, help me with that.
27:16Okay, real quick. Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
27:19Neil Armstrong. Who was the second?
27:24I don't know. Buzz Aldrin.
27:25There we go. You've heard his name, though, right?
27:27Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
27:29I'm not like an astronaut hater.
27:30I'm just not as, I don't get as fired up about this or something.
27:33Here's my point. That just because this is the second time we're going, just because
27:39Buzz Aldrin was the second person to step foot on the moon doesn't make the
27:42accomplishment any less important or less significant.
27:44And two more things. This is a first step to get back to, to get
27:49to Mars. In order to do this, to get to Mars, what Elon wants to
27:54do, what Trump wants to do, what we need to be doing as a human
28:00species to expand ourselves beyond Earth, to stretch our knowledge and our boundaries.
28:05Getting to the moon is the first step because the gravity is lighter, the opportunities
28:09for mining some of the materials we need, water and other things.
28:13It's a better place to launch from than Earth.
28:16So that's, that's the next thing.
28:18So this is all a stepping stone to get onto Mars and beyond, to expand
28:23ourselves into the 22nd century and beyond.
28:27That was really good, producer Greg.
28:29Thank you. Thank you. I'm, I'm, I'm quite, quite sold on the prospect of this
28:33being a very exciting to people.
28:35Thank you so much for that.
28:36So there you go. See, when you, when you have, it's a little like a
28:39Scully and Mulder situation. You know, if you got a little bit of a skeptic
28:42about that, you got to bring in the believer and Greg is a, Greg is
28:45a believer. And in this one, I was really just being honest with him.
28:48I wasn't, I wasn't pretending like when I pretend to hate hockey just to get
28:52him and producer Mark all fired up at me because then they want to throw
28:55me into the boards and pull my Jersey over my head.
28:58But yes, this, this was a, this was a big, a big step for, for
29:02mankind, I suppose, even though we've taken the similar step before.
29:05So that's interesting to me.
29:06I still think, thank you, Greg.
29:08That was great. I still think that it would be really interesting for Clay and
29:12I to get down to SpaceX and I'd like to find a way to work
29:16that out. We got to reach out to Elon's team and, and see, because I
29:20have heard from people who have been down there.
29:22You know, I saw, I, I, I went and actually met with the secretary of
29:28war and, and saw some of his team, as you guys know, at Cape Canaveral
29:33and, and saw the NASA facility there and the, the rocket.
29:36And this is, I actually saw this rocket.
29:39I actually went and saw the rocket.
29:41That's right. All right. I'm pretty sure that was the one that I saw.
29:44It was about to be the one that they used.
29:45I have a photo of me standing in front of the Artemis too.
29:48I should have put that together before this.
29:50So yes, I've been there.
29:52The blue origin facility was, was pretty cool, but you know, I want to see
29:58the SpaceX facility. SpaceX, they're like, they're like the bad boys of, of space exploration.
30:03Like they're just going for it.
30:05They're doing really cool stuff.
30:06So I'm going to go check that out.
30:08And that will be something that we'll put on, on the radar here for the
30:11show. I think we'll have to put that ahead of the Greenland show, which now
30:17we don't hear about whatever happened to Greenland.
30:19Greenland was going to be ours.
30:20And now it's not so sad.
30:22I thought we'd be able to go and check that out.
30:25I'm going to close out here with some calls, some thoughts from all of you.
30:28If you want to talk space programs, you want to either reiterate, reiterate, I think
30:31most of you are probably on producer Greg's wavelength, that this is amazing.
30:35This is incredible. And I do think space exploration is about to do incredible things
30:40or becoming more amazing as we go along here.
30:43And I think Elon is going to get us to Mars.
30:45We are going to become multi -planetary in our lifetime.
30:47I do believe that. And we have visionaries like Elon Musk who are just doing
30:54things that are truly amazing.
30:57So that's all very, very cool.
30:59I'm sure a lot of you feel that way about this.
31:01But to me, they're like, we're going to get back to the moon.
31:03I was kind of like, well, we've been to the moon, right?
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32:16Closing up shop today on Clay and Buck.
32:22Clay and I are going to be linking up here to Amigos, high -fiving and
32:28thriving here in the Palm Beach area.
32:31Going to be at Mar -a -Lago tonight, White House South, if you will, at
32:36a lovely charity event there.
32:38So we're very excited about that.
32:40We'll have some more information on that out there.
32:41I do believe, unfortunately, for those...
32:43For those of you who are not going to be there, it is completely sold
32:45out. But that's great, obviously, to raise money for the very worthy cause.
32:49So we are excited about that.
32:53This is, all right, we got F.
32:55Mike from Hoboken, New Jersey, who's a WOR listener who sent in a talkback.
33:00Let's see what he has to say.
33:01Producer Greg, don't take crack from Buck about the space program.
33:05Come on, Buck. We're putting people on the surface of the moon.
33:09Come on, have a sense of national pride and excitement.
33:11You've got to be a little bit more like Clay in this respect.
33:14You're disappointing me. Come on.
33:17I mean, it's cool. We've been on the moon before, though.
33:19Like, when we land on Mars, I'll be super excited.
33:23When we have space lasers, like in Star Wars, pew, pew, pew, you know, then
33:27I'll be excited. But, you know, my excitement grew.
33:32Producer Greg did a very good job.
33:34He sold me on it, why it's important.
33:37But, you know, it's a little bit like regaining territory that was lost.
33:40It's not really – it doesn't feel like breaking new territory all that much.
33:45But, you know, I hear what you guys are saying.
33:48I hear where you're going on this one.
33:51And for a lot of folks out there, space, the final frontier.
33:54I feel like Star Trek really fell off in the 21st century.
33:59I feel like Star Trek was bigger in the 90s, just in the culture and
34:04everything else, than it is maybe in the – yeah, the late 90s.
34:07Star Trek was having a moment.
34:09I know originally it was Captain Kirk, which is way before that, but I think
34:12it was a comeback. I'm just trying to think of my own viewing and movies
34:16and stuff that I saw.
34:17They were like Star Trek movies they would put out there.
34:20But it has become Star Wars all the time in the 21st century.
34:25So this has turned into the Star Wars victory celebration, I think, in the best
34:32movie or TV series set in outer space.
34:37I tried to watch The Martian with Matt Damon.
34:41It was okay. It was okay.
34:44And it was a little really long.
34:47This is another complaint that I have.
34:48Guys, and all my complaints are correct, so just understand.
34:51You can, like, take notes on this stuff.
34:52Neck ties, unless you're at – and one of my esteemed listeners pointed out, what
34:58about weddings, meeting the president?
35:00Okay, yes, you know, church on Sunday.
35:02Okay, there are times when a tie is appropriate, but just wearing a tie to
35:05wear a tie to me is crazy.
35:06They're like, oh, when you go on Fox, you should wear a tie.
35:08I'm not wearing a tie on Fox.
35:10Maybe if I were a host.
35:11They're not even paying me.
35:12I'm not going to wear a tie.
35:14So, anyway, I'm not a tie guy, and also drawstring pants are genius, and you
35:20should just get in on this.
35:21I'm telling you, they've made them now, so you can't even tell.
35:24They can hide the drawstring in the waistband, which is also elastic.
35:29You're going to be so calm.
35:30Those of you who are mocking me over this, you're going to say, wow, Buck,
35:34you were right, and you're always right, and it's amazing.
35:37And then I just lost my train of thought from a second ago.
35:41Oh, we're talking about space movies.
35:42Yeah, The Martian. It's just okay.
35:44Movies that are too long.
35:45That was my get -off -my -lawn moment.
35:47Movies that are too long, with very rare exceptions.
35:51A movie should not be longer than two hours, and really an hour 40 is
35:58the sweet spot. Here we go.
36:01Carol from Lincoln, Nebraska. KFAB listener.
36:05G on the talkback. Hit it.
36:06Hey, I just heard Producer Greg on there with Buck.
36:10I think there needs to be a show of Producer Greg or Buck and Producer
36:16Greg. How about that? That's a great idea.
36:19And I can understand both of you.
36:21Thanks. Thank you, Carol. It's a great idea, but you see Producer Allie, Producer Greg,
36:26Producer Mark. They're with us every day, and they all have areas of expertise.
36:31So they're a part of the ensemble cast right now.
36:34You know what I'm saying?
36:35It's like we're in an orchestra, and Producer Greg is the tuba player.
36:40Was that a shot? I don't know.
36:41But he's definitely in the orchestra with us.
36:43Is the tuba player to get the respect he deserves?
36:46I think he does. Probably better than a flute player.
36:49Clay would say that. He'll be with us tomorrow.
36:51Talk to you guys then.