Hour 3 - Fangs Grow Back
3/16/202637 mincomplete
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0:07Iran, the big story of the day.
0:09We're going to give you the latest on it.
0:11President Trump went live and we carried some of that for you in the first
0:15hour. If you want to go back and listen to that, of course.
0:17All three hours of the Clay and Buck show were up in podcast form as
0:20soon as we finish with them.
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0:25podcasts. Now, Trump covered a whole range of issues.
0:28We have this ongoing, I guess we just call it airstrikes, Clay.
0:34I say this is war, but that's okay.
0:36I don't want to get into some definitional fight with people.
0:39As long as we understand that we are engaged in acts of war, we are
0:43killing people, we are blowing up military materiel, we have lost over a dozen soldiers
0:51in this process, or I should say a dozen service members in this process as
0:55well. So it's serious business.
0:58Whatever we want to call it, it's a serious business, and this is something that
1:02the country should pay close attention to.
1:05Now, with the latest on this, there are concerns over the price of oil, the
1:11Strait of Hormuz, allies assisting us with the Strait of Hormuz, or the lack thereof,
1:19lack of help from them.
1:20So here we have Trump, for example.
1:22This is cut 34 on whether France's Emmanuel Macron has been helpful and what's going
1:30on with our allies and the Strait of Hormuz.
1:33Here's what he has to say.
1:33Play 34. Have you been speaking with the French President Macron about the coalition to
1:39reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
1:40Yeah, I have spoken to him.
1:43He's been on a scale of 0 to 10.
1:48I'd say he's been an 8.
1:50Not perfect, but it's France.
1:54We don't expect perfect. Are you confident that France will help with the reopening of
1:59Strait of Hormuz? Yeah, I mean, sure.
2:02He's going to, I think he's going to help.
2:04I mean, I'll let you know.
2:05I spoke to him yesterday.
2:08I don't do a hard sell on them because my attitude is we don't need
2:13anybody. We're the strongest nation in the world.
2:16We have the strongest military by far in the world.
2:18We don't need them. Clay, Trump being Trump there and just laying it out.
2:24He's like, look, if allies want to help, they'd be great.
2:25He says Macron, 8 out of 10 from Trump is pretty good.
2:28Because you know if it were a 2 out of 10, he wouldn't be shy,
2:31or a 0 out of 10, he wouldn't be shy about saying it.
2:34But getting more allies to help, this is a, remember, it's not just Iranian oil.
2:40It's Iraqi and Kuwaiti and, you know, you have to do the Saudi.
2:43You've got to think about all the different factors here with the Strait of Hormuz
2:48and who is affected by this.
2:51Yeah, and look, I mean, the reality is China, I believe, is the most impacted.
2:56They're the ones who need Iranian oil worse than anybody does.
3:00And so the amount of oil and gas that impacts us that comes out of
3:05the Strait of Hormuz is almost non -existent.
3:08In fact, we're a net exporting country when it comes to our overall oil and
3:13gas. And if you paid attention, the oil and gas company stocks have actually been
3:17on fire because Trump prefers that the price of oil and gas be in the
3:21$50 area. The oil and gas providers, some of them say they need it to
3:25be in the $60 area.
3:27For those of you that are paying attention right now as I speak to you,
3:31oil and gas is $94 a barrel, and it's down from $120 last Sunday when
3:39it spiked and hit a higher rate.
3:42So the price of oil and gas has come down.
3:44The price will go up.
3:46And President Trump has been pretty clear that when, and I think this is 100
3:50% accurate, when we end our actions in the Middle East, they will be coming
3:56back down. Here, by the way, we were talking earlier about Mojtaba Khamenei and the
4:01fact that Trump has been told that he may actually be gay.
4:06But Trump says we don't know where he is or even if he's alive.
4:11He was asked about this at a press conference at the Kennedy Center just a
4:15little bit earlier in the day.
4:17Here is cut 35, Trump on the man that has been elevated to the new
4:23Supreme Leader of Iran and whether he's even alive.
4:26Cut 35. A lot of people are saying that he's badly disfigured.
4:31They're saying that he lost his leg, one leg, and he's been hurt very badly.
4:38Other people are saying he's dead.
4:42Nobody's saying he's 100 % healthy.
4:45And, you know, he hasn't spoken because the Ayatollah would sit and he'd spew hate
4:51from a form of a throne.
4:53Not as nice as a throne.
4:55I like the English throne much better.
4:58But it was a fancy chair.
5:01But he'd spew hate from his chair.
5:04But you'd see him a lot, right?
5:06This one, we haven't seen it at all.
5:08So that could be for a lot of different reasons.
5:11We don't know, Peter, if he's dead or not.
5:14Okay, a couple of other things here, Buck.
5:17President Trump says, so he doesn't, that was a response to a question from Peter
5:20Ducey. He says, we don't know if he's alive or dead.
5:23And President Trump, says one of the challenges here, Iran wants to talk, and they
5:28say they want peace, but President Trump says we killed so many of their leaders,
5:32we're not even sure who's alive or who we're negotiating with.
5:35Cut 36. All of their leaders are dead, as far as we know, but they're
5:41all dead. We don't know who we're dealing with.
5:43We knocked out the first group, then the second group met, 88 met to pick
5:48the leader, because the first group was all dead, and the second group got knocked
5:52out, they're all dead. That a third group met, I would think they're a little
5:56nervous about meeting, I don't know if they're nervous.
5:59Maybe they're not, maybe they're crazy.
6:01If they're not nervous, then they're crazy.
6:02But we met with the next group, but we don't know who their leader is.
6:08We have people wanting to negotiate, we have no idea who they are.
6:14And then, so again, we have no idea who the leader is, we don't know
6:18who we're negotiating with. I did think this was interesting, Buck, and we were talking
6:21about this a little bit off the air.
6:24President Trump won't say which president he talked to, former president, although we'll tell you
6:30who our guesses are here in a moment.
6:32But he said, I wish I had done it.
6:35Here is cut 37. Every president knew.
6:39I've spoken to a certain president, who I like actually, a past president, former president.
6:44He said, I wish I did it.
6:45I wish I did. But they didn't do it.
6:48I'm doing it. Yeah. Which president?
6:50I can't tell you this.
6:52I don't want to embarrass him.
6:53It would be very bad for his career, even though he's got no career left.
6:58Okay. Certain president who he likes that says, I wish I had done it.
7:04Buck, Bill Clinton, it feels to me, if you listened, I don't know if we
7:09played that. Maybe we can go grab it.
7:10Bill Clinton, in his Epstein deposition, said, as far as I know, President Trump never
7:16did anything wrong. Can we go grab that?
7:18I know it was in the roster, producer Greg, if you can grab that, because
7:21I don't think we ever played it.
7:23But I meant to have us play it, because President Trump has been actually fairly
7:29complimentary of President Clinton. They used to play golf a lot.
7:33I don't think it's Biden, because certainly Trump does not seem to be very fond
7:37of Biden. I don't think it's Obama, because I don't think Trump and Obama would
7:41talk. George W. Bush is the only other former president this could be, but it
7:46doesn't seem like President Trump and George W.
7:49Bush have much of a positive relationship.
7:52So would you agree with me, if you were assessing who the conversation was with,
7:57that by far it would be Bill Clinton?
7:59Yeah, I think if you put Bill Clinton and Donald Trump in a room right
8:03now, I think they'd bro it out for an hour and are laughing and having
8:06a good time. I don't think that Trump has any animosity toward Bill Clinton at
8:10all. I can't think of Bill Clinton taking any meaningful shots at Trump publicly either.
8:16I do not think that Donald Trump likes Barack Obama.
8:18I do not think that they would have this kind of offline conversation.
8:22I could not see that.
8:24So, you know, yeah, I would I would say it's probably I mean, I the
8:27only other one I think it could be is George W.
8:29Bush. Right. And there's never really been any indication that Trump and George W.
8:34Bush have much of a relationship at all.
8:36So I think of the of the former presidents, Clinton would be the one that
8:40he has the best relationship with by far.
8:42Well, what he's speaking to here as well is when he says a former president
8:46who says, I wish I could have done this to the Iranian regime has just
8:51been causing problems and not like trade problems.
8:55I mean, you know, the Iranians, they directed, you know, the via Hezbollah as a
9:01proxy, direct terrorist attacks all over the world.
9:04There was a horrific attack at the Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
9:07I've actually been to that Jewish center and been there for a ceremony commemorating this
9:12down in Argentina. Just how how horrible this attack.
9:15You wouldn't think that, you know, Middle Eastern terrorist groups would be reaching deep into
9:21Argentina at some. But they did.
9:24So this is the the reality, I think, Clay, is Trump just lost patience with
9:29this nonsense. I think he realized that there was no world in which the Iranians
9:34were going to meaningfully agree to verifiable denuclear weaponization and everything.
9:42And it was all just chirping and chat.
9:45You know what I mean?
9:46It was all nonsense. And all this talk and all the negotiations, Trump, I think,
9:51and his team are approaching them in good faith.
9:53And they just the more they deal with the Iranians, the more they feel like
9:57you're just you're just constantly playing games and lying.
10:00And he said, enough is enough.
10:02And I think that there are a lot of people that after especially many of
10:06you listen to this, you know what I'm talking about in Iraq.
10:08It was Iranians working through the Shia militias, which were just essentially armed, tripped and
10:14equate and armed, trained and equipped factions of the Iranians in Iraq.
10:22They were blowing up Americans just to kill Americans, maiming them, killing with these EFPs.
10:28I've talked about the explosively formed penetrators.
10:30The Iranians came up with a an explosive that was specifically designed to penetrate the
10:37holes of American armored vehicles, because after all, the E IEDs, our vehicles got up
10:43armored. But these EFPs could punch through almost anything.
10:46And they did this just to kill Americans.
10:47They weren't going to take over in Iraq.
10:49You know, they weren't going to invade themselves.
10:52um so they kind of took over via proxy but uh people got pissed off
10:57about this and uh trump was pissed off about it and i get it so
11:00part of this also is just we're sick of the iranians thinking that they can
11:04do this stuff but i'll just remind everyone they stay in charge they're not going
11:08to forget about this so it's not like the problem is solved just by we
11:12keep hearing defang i've used the phrase myself the fangs are going to grow back
11:16if the same people are in charge here by the way we didn't play this
11:20um bill clinton was deposed in the epstein related uh investigations and here is what
11:27he said about president trump he goes out of his way uh not even directly
11:32asked this i think in a democrat line of questioning to say hey i never
11:37saw anything that would suggest trump was engaged in any kind of illegality listen he's
11:43never the president never this is 20 something years ago never said anything to me
11:49to make me think he was involved in anything improper with regard to hepstein either
11:54he he just didn't that's the truth i could you know as i said earlier
12:00the only conversation i had with president trump about this was in the early 2000s
12:06and i have no information that he did anything wrong i just want it all
12:13out there i want everybody to get it all out there and let everybody see
12:16where we are i just thought that was interesting in the in the prelude to
12:20that um clinton said hey you're not asking me specifically about this but he just
12:26put it out there which makes me think and i know they played golf together
12:30before again presuming president trump is being honest about this and i think he probably
12:35is i think he probably does talk to bill clinton every now and then i
12:38think he liked bill clinton um it also ties in buck with i think bill
12:45clinton if you go back in time would say not having taken out north korea's
12:49nuclear abilities is one of his regrets from when he was president i think he
12:53said that publicly um and uh and i know that we've made that analogy certainly
13:00i have that this is the modern day equivalent of taking out the uh nuclear
13:05opportunity before it arises and so i think they probably have talked about this um
13:10so i i would i would be very surprised if he's not talking about bill
13:12clinton yeah i think that's probably the case um now we have to see where
13:18all of this goes and how long this continues on and we haven't really discussed
13:23it clay but there is something of a fracture in the maga world right now
13:28where there are a lot of very ardent trump supporters who are really really upset
13:35about this operation in iran uh i think that they will stop being so upset
13:41about it when the operation ceases which i believe will be soon but you know
13:46this is causing in an election year now we're early in the election year but
13:50this is definitely causing a bit of static on our own side and i think
13:54that people have started to lose sight a little bit and this is true in
13:57a whole range of ways of what a danger the democrats are how much suffering
14:03how much uh waste how much fraud how much misery how much crime how we
14:10go to the list if democrats take back power we will all have to suffer
14:13through and i think that will be a unifying thing as it gets closer i
14:19would hope it's a unifying thing to recognize the democrat party of 2024 that was
14:24soundly defeated is the exact same democrat party now except they're even more you know
14:31outraged angry and and emotionally unstable and they are thinking that as soon as trump
14:37is no longer leading they'll have an opportunity so that's that's part of this too
14:43so i'm just saying there i know there are voices out there who are very
14:45upset at trump about this who are trump supporters i don't care about that i
14:49hate trump even if he cures cancer people because they're they're irrelevant i mean there
14:53there's nothing to to do for them um but i do think we have to
14:56keep an eye on how long this goes because you want people to show up
14:59in the midterms and and prevent trump from being completely stymied by a democrat controlled
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16:25on the free iheart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts welcome back in
16:30clay travis buck sexton show we'll um have some takes here from hollywood last night
16:38one is positive the other is negative just to balance things out but i am
16:44a super media nerd and so i've been paying a lot of attention as buck
16:47has mocked me a little bit for uh on who's going to own warner brothers
16:52um and i actually think it's a positive that paramount will now own warner brothers
16:58and if you were out there and you say i don't know that it matters
17:00maybe netflix who why do i care well jane fonda is upset so you probably
17:06should uh think to yourself hey maybe the right side did win this one this
17:10is jane fonda on being against the paramount merger and paramount having cnn cut 29
17:17yeah the mergers are going to be bad for workers a lot of people are
17:21going to lose their jobs we're going to we're going to have higher prices we're
17:26going to have political control over what we do you know that's why hegseth said
17:32the the secretary of defense oh he said we can't cnn can't come soon enough
17:38to be under the control of paramount because we know that trump wants to hurt
17:44i mean i slept with the guy that created it you did i have a
17:48personal stake in it all right jane fonda slept with ted turner back in the
17:54day so she has a personal stake in it buck um and if jane fonda
17:58is against it i think a lot of you are probably saying maybe i should
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18:54.org that's ifcj .org welcome back into clay and buck so we are talking about
19:00the iran situation here and everything going on around it uh and it looks like
19:06this war is going to continue on for at least some weeks ahead we've also
19:11got a lot of your talkbacks your thoughts your latest for all of us uh
19:16which we want to get to for sure um do we still let me see
19:20if we still have here we go uh podcast listener oh wow this is not
19:26about iran clay did you have something you want to jump this is going to
19:29get unserious very fast here these talkbacks do you have serious analysis to offer up
19:34well i what did i uh tease i do want to mention before we have
19:39some some fun here this is awful and it's a story that i think should
19:43be getting more attention oh you're talking about this is a serious thing the uh
19:46yeah yeah the iranian women's soccer team uh refused to sing the national anthem in
19:51australia during a tournament that happened about the same time as our attacks on iran
19:56began uh the women were then threatened by their minders as unfortunately often occurs and
20:04seven of them i believe was the initial number were granted uh asylum in australia
20:11because they were terrified to go back home there are reports now that iran has
20:17been seizing the family members of these women and torturing them and the women have
20:24now for the most part all left australia and relinquished rescinded their asylum claims i
20:34believe uh team if you can make this i believe they're down to two people
20:38now who are left in australia two members of that team and everybody else has
20:45uh has decided to uh to return to iran even though obviously they are uh
20:51likely to face severe torture themselves and maybe even execution for some of them um
20:58on top of that buck uh no one the megan rapinos of the world all
21:05of the u .s women's soccer players who have lectured us about how awful trump
21:10is and how they won't go to the white house and how they don't want
21:14your support if you're a trump voter all of those things the megan rapinos and
21:18their crowd have said none of these women have said a world a word buck
21:22about these iranian women's soccer players and spoken up for basic human rights around the
21:28world or supported them in any way i just think it's very much worth considering
21:33uh when we look at the hypocrisy there of so many of these athletes when
21:39real danger is faced and when real courage is required by women's athletes they won't
21:46say a word And unfortunately, these women, we may not see some of them ever
21:51again because they may well be tortured or killed for having the bravery to actually
21:58do something to stand up for freedom.
22:01It kind of ties in with your point earlier, Buck, which is it's hard to
22:05be the guy or gal who stands up for a new regime when the regime
22:10in power still has the ability to kill you.
22:13It takes unbelievable courage and frankly, a high tolerance for risk, not only for you,
22:19but for your family to rise up with the idea of throwing over this government,
22:24overthrowing this government when the reality may be there might not be very many people
22:28following you. It is interesting, I think, as well, Clay, with this and it is
22:32it's a really it's a terrible story.
22:34It's important for people to know about the story, but the same voices who are
22:39so quick to criticize Trump and the U .S.
22:43for its actions in Iran have narrow word of criticism to share about the Iranian
22:51regime ever. Sure, really. Iran just gets to do what it wants.
22:56And a lot of people in the commentariat and in politics don't really have any
23:02problem with Iran. They can do whatever that they can sponsor as much terrorism as
23:06they want. They can be as they can be as as they can persecute gays
23:12as much as they want.
23:13They can whatever it is that they want to do.
23:15And they're allowed to do it and they can be authoritarian, non -democratic state, no
23:23elections, nothing else. And you might say, oh, but what about all these other Arab
23:25countries in the region? OK, yeah, but they're not causing problems for everybody else.
23:28So, you know, we take problems based on the order of importance and priority, I
23:34think. And that's how our focus should be distributed.
23:37They have nothing to say about these Iranian countries.
23:40They have no problem. I'm sorry, with these Iranian actions, they have no problem with
23:43it, or at least they don't feel the need to vocalize that.
23:47It's only America that they're willing to speak out against and trash.
23:50And I just think that goes to the unseriousness of so much of the anti
23:54-American commentariat in general. These are people who only find fault.
24:00It actually reminds me a lot of the anti -Israel commentariat.
24:02They'll criticize Israel. They have nothing to say about Gaza being run by Hamas as
24:08a terrorist state for as long as it was and what an awful place it
24:12is and how in so many of these countries, you know, there's this perfect correlation
24:17with regimes that hate Israel and hate Jews and horrible, crappy countries that nobody wants
24:23to live in, really, and that have nothing but misery and despair as their primary
24:28day -to -day existence. There's a 100 % correlation.
24:32It's kind of amazing, isn't it?
24:33Yes. You look at the countries that hate Israel the most, and they're the crappiest
24:36places in many cases in the world.
24:39And the people who speak out against Israel, and you see this even in the
24:43United Nations, have nothing to say, not a word to say about tyranny and oppression
24:48and violence and disgusting behavior from Muslims who are running the show in Gaza or
24:55from Muslims who have been running Iran into the ground.
24:58I mean, Iran should be a really nice country.
25:01You ever notice something? Nobody wants to visit this place.
25:04It's not safe now, obviously, but I mean, in general, like, no one wants it.
25:08Americans, we can't go to Iran.
25:10We can't see all the beautiful architecture and the history and eat the pistachios and
25:14buy the carpets. We can't do all this, which is just shameful.
25:18And really, very few people can and will do any of this because you cannot
25:22trust that government at all.
25:24They may decide to grab you to make an example of you because they're a
25:28fundamentally immoral regime, a fundamentally evil regime.
25:33And the people that have done all these things, they're not going to get better.
25:36They're not going to improve.
25:37And so finally, Trump, I think, makes the decision.
25:40We at least have to raise the cost of doing business for these maniacs.
25:44And I think that's a big part of why we're currently bombing their military into
25:49smithereens. And that's why, ultimately, this story might be that we just I think you
25:54use the mow the grass analogy where ultimately we destroy as much as we can.
26:00We leave and we say, hey, in five years, we may have to come back
26:03and do this again. And that's assuming that we don't get actually people rising up.
26:09OK, I mentioned that we would play a couple of cuts from the from the
26:13Oscars, Buck. This is Charitha Chandran, who I'm sure I mispronounced her name.
26:20She is an actor in Bridgerton.
26:23So this is perfect. I don't know what else she was in, but she was
26:26on the red carpet and they asked her why she was speaking out.
26:30And she said she's demanding a ceasefire in Gaza now.
26:35That happened six months ago, but she's maybe a little bit behind.
26:40This is Hollywood actress Charitha Chandran.
26:44Listen, cut 30. It's an artist for ceasefire pen.
26:47And what we are demanding is a ceasefire in Gaza.
26:51And and I think that I am so blessed to have a platform and this
26:56is the least I can do to use it.
26:58And like sometimes the news cycle is so fast and people move on.
27:02But the people in Gaza and the West Bank are still suffering.
27:05So, yeah, it's just bringing attention to that.
27:09OK, yeah. The ceasefire started six months ago.
27:13So great job. You've done an increase.
27:15incredible phenomenal uh job of uh of being on top of the news but you
27:20just have to remember i don't i'd never heard of this person before she's obviously
27:23an actress uh the point of her saying these things is not has nothing to
27:30do with gossip yeah this is you always have to remember this is true about
27:34about libs about leftists about democrats and the global left in general the causes are
27:40largely irrelevant it's what taking the side of the cause says about them to their
27:44peers so so her saying this you know you could say hey i'm here to
27:52save the dodo bird and somebody could pull her side be like dodo bird's been
27:56extinct honey for like a hundred and something years doesn't matter she wants you to
28:00know she's an environmentally conscious person like the the stupidity the lack of geopolitical knowledge
28:06or even curiosity clay it's not a problem the whole point is your declaration of
28:12fealty to the thing to the current thing that people have to pretend they care
28:17about so that other people around them think they're a good person and that's all
28:22this really is and unfortunately this is very powerful the kind of thing that in
28:26manufactured delusion a great book you should all get by the way if you have
28:29not already new york times bestseller go get your copy but it's in there i
28:33um would love to have had a microphone or maybe just an audio transcript of
28:38some of the conversations she had with people as to your point they all said
28:43it's so great of you to use your platform to speak out against the war
28:46that's continuing in gaza because they also have no idea that there's been a ceasefire
28:50for six months but i did say we would play a nice thing from the
28:53oscars you may have seen this buck i saw it on social media a little
28:57bit ago uh best actress winner jesse buckley from hamnet that don't know who she
29:03is did not see this movie but she decided to use her acceptance speech to
29:08praise marriage and promote motherhood uh this was actually i'm told quite nice cut 22
29:14you fred i love you man i love you you're the most incredible dad you're
29:21my best friend and i want to have 20 000 more babies with you i
29:25do i do and isla my little girl who is eight months who has absolutely
29:31no idea what's going on and is probably dreaming of milk but this um is
29:36kind of a big deal and i love you and i love being your mom
29:39and i can't wait to discover life beside you it's mother's day in the uk
29:43today so i would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother's
29:54heart uh so very positive there i didn't know it was mother's day in the
30:01uk over the weekend happy mother's day to all the moms in the uk listening
30:05to us right now maybe there's two or three um but uh but i thought
30:09that was pretty great so uh we wanted to at least share a positive that
30:13did happen last night on the oscars get married and have kids um it's a
30:17good thing to do uh all right uh buck you've got us going into this
30:20break and then we've got some laughs for you a lot of very good talkbacks
30:25i've seen a preview uh and we'll have some fun with those but first buck
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32:05listening to all that then i'm actually gay i'm not gonna i'm not gonna deny
32:09flute playing broadway shows tesla and knowing british royalty if you heard all those factors
32:14you would think that i might be gay so maybe i am gay sorry wife
32:18sorry laura uh maybe i'm the the uh the gayatola uh podcast listener christina e
32:25hi it's christina texas i'm pretty sure the wizard of oz would qualify for an
32:30academy award saying that the tin man the scarecrow the witches the munchkins are all
32:36under underrepresented ethnic groups um that is quite funny very well played uh senator ted
32:42uh senator ted Cruz shared that same criteria on DEI, and he said none of
32:48these prior winners for Best Picture would qualify.
32:51We talked about The Godfather, No Country for Old Men, The Departed, Chicago, A Beautiful
32:57Mind, Gladiator, Braveheart, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Unforgiven, Amadeus, Patton, The Sound of Music,
33:06My Fair Lady, Casablanca, Ben Hur, or Gone with the Wind.
33:11I have not done the deep dive.
33:13I would love to hear from the Academy how they could defend all of that.
33:18But again, they now have diversity and inclusion requirements, which would knock out a lot
33:23of, as you just heard, the greatest movies that have ever been made from ever
33:27being able to even be qualified to be nominated for the greatest movies ever made.
33:32Trucker Mike, Arizona, listening to us on KFYIF.
33:41Hey, man, do you think it's possible?
33:43There's a few Democrats, I don't even consider Democrats, just evil, anti -American, hating our
33:48country, not like the old school Democrats.
33:50I think they're voting no against Homeland Security because they're wanting a terrorist attack on
33:55Trump's watch to blame him.
33:57I don't know, man, it's disgusting, but tell me what you think.
34:00Have a good day. Look, I think, unfortunately, their brains are broken.
34:06I just and I do think when awful things happen, if they can blame Trump,
34:10they're happy to do it.
34:12If ever you were going to fund TSA, wouldn't it be now, Buck, when we've
34:18had terror attacks in Austin, Old Dominion, in Virginia, Detroit and New York City?
34:24Now, thankfully, they haven't been very successful, but there have been three lives taken.
34:29Wouldn't you want as many people as possible working in airplane security right now, given
34:35the climate that we're dealing with?
34:37Yes, but as we often see is the case, the people in the government who
34:42are supposed to care about more important things than petty politics don't always care about
34:48more important things than petty politics, even when lives are at stake.
34:51That is the unfortunate truth of what we are dealing with.
34:55Yeah, it is super unfortunate.
35:00I just I'm looking right now.
35:03That's kind of a bummer.
35:04I know. Yeah, I know.
35:05I was going to say, well, there's a lot of people who work in media
35:08that you could also put in that in that category.
35:10I just I know we actually have a lot of TSA agents who listen to
35:14this show, because every time I go through in Nashville in particular, the TSA guys
35:19listen. So thank you for everybody out there who's working without paychecks.
35:24I know that's super difficult.
35:25Again, these are not people who are able to save tons of amounts of money.
35:30I think the average salary for a TSA agent is forty thousand dollars a year.
35:34So you're talking about people who are living paycheck to paycheck and they're not getting
35:38paychecks. To me, it's an indefensible situation that we put these guys and gals in.
35:43And thank you for everybody who's showing up for work without getting paid.
35:46And if you're standing in a long line, which I know a lot of you
35:49are going to end up doing because I see the videos coming from so many
35:52different airports across the country.
35:54Democrats have made that a reality.
35:56And to Buck's point, at a time when of all times you should be caring
36:00the most, given the danger that we potentially are facing from people who want to
36:04do us ill and have used our planes before to do so.
36:08It seems like now would be the number one time that you would want to
36:12make sure everybody's getting their pay.
36:14Totally agree. Totally also agree that tomorrow is going to be an amazing show here
36:19on Clay and Buck. So make sure you tune in as we give you the
36:21latest on all of the things we hit today, including, of course, Iran and things
36:25happening in the world of politics.
36:27Appreciate you rolling with us, everybody.
36:29And we will be back tomorrow.
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