Hour 3 - Kamala: "Imma Get Mine"
4/21/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off now, everybody.
0:08And I've got a whole bunch of things I want to lay out for you,
0:11but Clay is giving me the hand signal because we have a special secret Clay
0:17and Buck show hand signals for breaking news.
0:20It better be breaking. It better not be about some guy's extension for coaching some
0:27league somewhere. What is this breaking news?
0:30Not that, Buck, but I do think this is fairly significant given how close the
0:36House majority and minority situation is.
0:41Representative Sheila Sherfalis -McCormick from Florida, a Democrat, has resigned from Congress.
0:48She was found guilty of violating more than 20 House ethics rules and faces, this
0:55is Bill Malugin's update, faces federal charges for stealing millions of dollars in FEMA money.
1:02So this is the third resignation from the House in the space of just a
1:08few days now. And this is a Democrat seat that is being relinquished.
1:14We'll see what else is, if there's anybody else that's going to drop out.
1:17But I thought that was pretty significant because she had faced a lot of calls
1:22to resign. Republican congressmen from South Florida has resigned, and obviously Swalwell.
1:28And one more thing before you dive in.
1:30We're waiting. We still don't know.
1:31J .D. Vance has not left.
1:33And we don't know if he's going to leave for Pakistan for these talks, whether
1:38or not that's going to happen.
1:39Let me tell you, if I'm J .D.
1:41Vance, you know what I'm saying?
1:42Can we do this via Zoom?
1:45Can I speak to the Iranian negotiators with a Zoom call?
1:48You know, I would do this.
1:49You just made fun of me for saying this is an awful plane flight to
1:53have to take all the way to Pakistan.
1:55I would be loath to get on that flight.
1:58There's a difference between... He's flying on Air Force Two or whatever.
2:03He's going to have a nice layout bed.
2:05It's going to be way fancier than any of us are going to be traveling
2:10to that part of the world.
2:11That said, I'd still rather do a Zoom from the comfort of my own home
2:16with these Iranian negotiators who are just going to be playing games.
2:20There's not going to be a deal, okay?
2:22Trump may say tomorrow we've reached a great deal, and then it will be we're
2:28doing a follow -up on the deal in six weeks, which is another way of
2:31saying what I've told you all along.
2:33It's going to be an agreement to talk more about what the agreement will be,
2:39and that is where this is heading.
2:40So I think that JD should make the case for this should be a Zoom
2:45because Islamabad, I'm going to tell you, Uber Eats Islamabad, probably not great.
2:50I'd rather be in D .C.
2:51personally. I would agree with you that the food...
2:56I'm not... And we're going to make enemies today.
2:59First New Jersey, now Pakistan.
3:02I am not sold that the food would be very good in Pakistan either, and
3:06I would not want to get on a flight for 12 or 13 hours, go
3:10negotiate for 21. Here's the other thing, Buck.
3:12I think you're right. I don't think we're going to get any actual resolution, and
3:17so we'll see what transpires, but that's the absolute latest there.
3:22I'll tell you, Pakistani food, believe it or not, is quite similar to what we
3:27think of as Indian food, which they would not want to hear, but it is
3:32true. And Indian food is delicious, so it depends.
3:36You just want to get a certain quality of it.
3:38That said, I think that your options beyond that cuisine in Islamabad, probably not great.
3:46I think Lahore is supposed to be the most sophisticated city in Pakistan, most international.
3:52It's on the coast. So I think Lahore, you'd probably get some good stuff, but
3:56Islamabad. Islamabad is kind of the Albany of Pakistan, and I love you, Albany, because
4:02we have a great station there, but it's not New York.
4:05It's New York City, I mean.
4:06It's not the cosmopolitan capital.
4:09You just came. That was such a New Yorker move of you to just flying
4:13elbow Albany out of nowhere, just obliterated them.
4:18I'm going to move on to Kamala Harris here for a second.
4:22People in Albany just driving around, having a good day, and then Macho Man Randy
4:27Savage off the top rope just leg drops him, flying elbow.
4:32They're both the capitals. They're both the capitals.
4:34I'm just saying, the capital of one, capital of the other.
4:36There you go. You're lucky.
4:39Your state is a rarity in that most states, wait, actually, I don't know if
4:43it's most states, a lot of states, the main city is not the capital, right?
4:49Clearly, that's the case. Yeah, everybody wants to come to Nashville, but I do understand
4:54that nobody wants to leave Manhattan for Albany.
4:57Like, there is a lot of people that are not excited necessarily to be departing
5:03the center of the country.
5:04I've never been to Sacramento.
5:05I used to be a big fan of their basketball team, actually, back in the
5:08Chris Weber, Vlade Divas, Mike Bibby days.
5:12But when I used to watch the NBA.
5:15That team, you'll well remember, Buck, was robbed by the officiators.
5:18Totally robbed. Yeah. Yeah, by LA, by Los Angeles Lakers, and an official was totally...
5:24bought off the whole thing was a scam you could tell watching it it was
5:27a scam it was obvious that it's actually one of those times you go the
5:30reps are paid off and they really were um but sacramento is not one of
5:34the primary cities for california anyway you guys all know this you go a lot
5:38of different states this is the situation um so with that all said let's not
5:42talk about so jd's heading to islamabad maybe don't you think though that the zoom
5:47the zoom pitch would be they can do secure video just so you know that's
5:50not a hard thing to do they do this in intelligence world all the time
5:53so don't you think a secure video would be the move here i just think
5:57that there's they're they're making jd go a long way to not come home with
6:02the prize um nonetheless all right kamala harris she's probably running i'd give the uh
6:09very very long odds that she's not at this point which is sad for me
6:12i don't know what i was thinking that day i was just like i was
6:15just trying to trying to be feisty and clay completely suckered me into this bet
6:21that i mean yeah granted i threw out the bet idea but you jumped on
6:25that right away you're like this guy's in this guy's in it this guy's selling
6:28me amazon for five dollars like this is crazy and so then anyway i'll take
6:32my lumps on this one kamala here though how is she going to be the
6:38democrat and that's that's an interesting thing because you would you would talk about how
6:44incompetent she is and how she's not a good politician all true but look at
6:49the rest of the field i still think gavin newsom is going to beat her
6:52and that's really interesting to me because they're both california they're kind of relying on
6:55the same donor base and the same um but here she is giving you a
6:59sense of i think where some of the kamala campaign should it happen because it
7:04is not 100 yet it's like 99 here it is cut one i think it's
7:11okay for us to to be a bit transactional too and to say i'm gonna
7:17get mine also and so don't count on me to be a voter and be
7:26the backbone of the democratic party he's talking about black women there as the backbone
7:31of the democratic party and saying i'm i'm a i'm gonna get mine uh addressing
7:38in in the in the urban vernacular if you will kamala harris the pandering and
7:44the transformation that kamala is going to engage in to being um how would you
7:51put it to be kamala is going to run in order to be the nominee
7:57an identity laden politics campaign the likes of which you have never seen before and
8:02she's going to argue to this audience of black women as she is already starting
8:07to preview we have always been treated unfairly i am your voice and she's gonna
8:15say if i'm not selected it is the democrat party turning their back on you
8:22the backbone of the democrat party and that is going to be her entire campaign
8:28in the primary and buck i think it's gonna work and again i don't think
8:35she's just gonna run i think she's going to win the nomination and i don't
8:41think she's gonna win the nomination in a way that makes her a likable candidate
8:44for the general election but she is going to uh lean on identity politics as
8:52the reason why she's entitled to this nomination she's going to argue she's already started
8:57the argument she's going to argue you and i think it's ridiculous you read the
9:01book she's going to argue the reason she lost is because they threw her into
9:06an unwinnable situation after 107 days wait for this clip it producer ali save it
9:13because you guys are going to say oh my god clay completely called this she's
9:17going to say that she had to do what black women always have to do
9:23pick up the mess that old white guys create she's going to turn herself into
9:31an avatar for black women across america who are given difficult jobs because the leaders
9:38that gave them those jobs weren't up to the challenge and she's going to say
9:43joe biden left me a mess didn't give me time to clean it up i
9:48only got 107 days the idea that she wrote that book called 107 days is
9:54not a coincidence and she's going to argue that she's the most qualified black women
9:59are the base of the democrat party and she has to be the nominee or
10:03it's racist and sexist not to pick her now i think it's going to be
10:07hard for democrats to get past her can i just how they do i think
10:10i don't think that you're on i think that's a what you're laying out is
10:14accurate it's because i think it's a given i think there's no question we already
10:17know if she gets far enough what the narrative will be so you're correct but
10:21i don't think that that's a uh you're not you're not out on a limb
10:24with that one okay so i think that she will that will be her argument
10:28how do you rebut it okay if the democrat party wants to self -select like
10:32they did for bernie when they took her took him out for hillary and like
10:37they did for everybody else when they rigged everything for biden both in 20 and
10:41in 24 they need to find a minority candidate who can cut into kamala's appeal
10:48with black women is it aoc i don't know i think The reason she's in
10:53a good spot is there is no other black female candidate that is able to
11:00tap into the audience that she already has gained the loyalty of.
11:04So one, is there a way, does AOC peel any of that away?
11:07Can Wes Moore, Cory Booker can't, like it's just never going to happen for him.
11:12But is there a minority candidate that can cut into her minority appeal?
11:17That's cut one for what they do.
11:19Two is, Buck, and I keep hammering this, and I'm the only person in America
11:22who seems to say it, which primary states are first.
11:25If they make South Carolina and Georgia and Tennessee early up in the primary process,
11:31Kamala is going to be the nominee.
11:33If they suddenly go back and say, we got to go back to New Hampshire
11:37and we got to go back to Iowa, it gives other people a chance to
11:41get their voices heard. But if they go to states with large black populations in
11:46the primary, Kamala is going to be the nominee.
11:48I'm just telling you, you can think it's crazy, but a lot of people would
11:53have said it was crazy when in 2022, if you had said, hey, Donald Trump's
11:59going to win his best victory of all time in 2024.
12:03I think she believes time is on her side.
12:07I've also got something else that I've got to say the reporting on this would
12:13indicate that Clay was on to something, which I hate to admit, but I cannot
12:17tell a lie. You see this stuff about DeSantis?
12:20Mm -hmm. You said Supreme Court.
12:23I said I don't think he wants Supreme Court.
12:25I think he wants to stay in the game.
12:26The reporting right now is, well, it's kind of both are right now in play
12:33in the sense that he either wants a top three cabinet job, or which would
12:40be Department of War, Department of Defense, Secretary of State, or maybe Treasury.
12:48Some people would put that there.
12:50AG, that he's very interested in AG, according to this.
12:53Oh, no, Axios is saying he's not interested in AG.
12:55Oh, okay, I see this headline right now.
12:57Sorry, yes. Not interested in AG.
12:58That's what was surprising to me.
13:00Okay, yes. But is interested, possibly, in a Supreme Court opening.
13:06That I did not see.
13:07I thought that he would.
13:09So it's not that he wants that as the top choice, but apparently the reporting
13:13is that DeSantis is open to the idea, which I will admit is a surprise
13:16to me. I thought he would want to be in the political game, no question,
13:20no fuss, no muss. But turns out, at least if you believe this, and this
13:26doesn't, you can always, there's the things that the New York Times and Axios report
13:30where there's political advantage in lying, and you have to be careful.
13:33But there's some times where they probably just want to report what they're finding, because
13:37why not? Why not be, you know, there's no penalty for accuracy.
13:41That's what you have to remember with the corporate media.
13:43If there's no penalty for accuracy, sometimes they tell the truth.
13:47Yeah, and also, if the reporting corresponds with some things that you or I have
13:54experienced, again, Ron DeSantis, and I say this favorably, is a law nerd.
13:59He loves reading Supreme Court opinions.
14:01He likes to analyze the law.
14:04I think, I said this, what, a week or two weeks ago, as the Alito
14:10talk, Clarence Thomas, I thought that it was interesting that Molly Hemingway mentioned, you know,
14:15John Roberts also over 70 years old, that there would be deep interest potentially in
14:22a replacement there. And this interesting part in the Axios story, Buck, is that there
14:28is a headline here that specifically references Clarence Thomas.
14:34DeSantis and conservative justice Clarence Thomas said, according to a source, almost have a father
14:40-son relationship. That would be a hell of a legacy for Trump.
14:45Now, I told you, and I think you probably signed on this too as well,
14:49Buck, it only takes about two more years for Clarence Thomas to be the longest
14:54-serving justice of all time.
14:55I think that matters to him.
14:57I don't think he's going to leave before then, if he's healthy.
15:02DeSantis would also be a super difficult target for Democrats to try to submarine.
15:10He has the intellect. He has the skills.
15:12He has the back, you know, he has a background.
15:15He's got a super clean, you know, everything would have come out about him already.
15:18There's nothing to hit. They can try to Kavanaugh him, but we would see that
15:22coming the same way we, you know, now it would be Kavanaugh part two.
15:25It's not going to work.
15:28So, yeah, I think that that's very, that's very, and Clay, I thought that you
15:32were off on that one, and I will give you, I will, I will give
15:35you the full credit for thinking that that is a possibility.
15:38Look, 40 years of DeSantis on the Supreme Court would be an absolute home run
15:43for Trump. Yes. We always talk about how would a guy govern.
15:47It was always a good idea from that perspective.
15:49I just didn't, I thought Ron still wanted to be president.
15:51Like, I'm telling you this right now, Ted Cruz does not want Supreme Court.
15:55Ted Cruz wants to run.
15:56Different thing. That, I think, is very clear to people in that orbit.
16:01So, Ron, though, maybe wants that Supreme Court seat.
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17:35All right, we're going to dive into this Axios story a little bit when we
17:39come back, because it begins with President Trump has told confidants Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
17:47is begging for a job, including Attorney General.
17:51And then DeSantis' source in the same article says he does not want Attorney General.
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18:01to have to make on Attorney General other places matter a great deal.
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18:56All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
18:58You know, Trump called into CNBC and some important news was made from what he
19:04said about a whole range of things going on.
19:08Um, Clay, number two I will ask you about at some point here, which is
19:13just interesting to me, which is Clay, uh, Trump, not Clay, Trump saying that college
19:17sports is it. You know what, actually?
19:20Let's explain this to me.
19:21I want you to explain to me what's going on.
19:22This is Trump on CNBC.
19:24I just want to learn on this one because I have no idea, really.
19:27I mean, I guess it's the name and likeness thing at some level, but that's
19:29about as much as I understand of it.
19:31This is cut to, this is Trump this morning.
19:33Play it. Look what happened with NIL.
19:36They destroyed college sports, the court system, destroyed.
19:40So hard to put that one back, Humpty Dumpty.
19:42So hard to put that one back together.
19:45You know, we had 150 years of rulings and everything else, and they had such
19:50a great system. It was a scholarship system.
19:52You get free college if you're a good athlete.
19:55You get this, you get that.
19:56And it took care of every sport.
19:58Fencing, not only football. Now it's all football, and the football is bringing down colleges
20:03because they're losing. Did you see Penn State lost $500 million last year?
20:09Florida State lost $450 million last year.
20:13They can't lose that kind of money.
20:15They don't make that kind of money.
20:16College sports is a disaster right now.
20:19You have many people staying in college because they're going to make more money than
20:22they would if they went into baseball, Major League Baseball, or the NFL.
20:26They can make more money, you know, a seven -year freshman.
20:29We have a seven -year freshman.
20:31It's crazy. It is ridiculous to me as an outsider.
20:35Some of these things he's talking about, like the seven -year freshman thing and all
20:38this nonsense, the guys who are 28 who are playing college athletics now to make
20:42money. It's absurd. It's stupid.
20:44It makes a mockery of the whole thing.
20:45Are his numbers right with the $400 million?
20:48What is he talking about?
20:48Well, so those numbers, I'm always skeptical of accounting numbers because this is my general
20:55position on accounting in general.
20:57You give me 10 accountants, 10 different accountants will tell me what I owe for
21:00taxes. Like, so much of this is infuriating.
21:04You know, I'm honestly a flat tax guy.
21:07You know, back in the day, one thing I think Steve Forbes got right is
21:10we should just be able to have on our, you know, postcard, like, hey, everybody
21:14pays 12 % or whatever the heck it was.
21:17But going back to Trump, well, he's right in general direction without me being able
21:22to subscribe to the specifics because I haven't read those exact numbers.
21:27College sports are broken. And college, it is funny.
21:31President Trump is just trying to fix everything simultaneously.
21:35He's trying to fix the ballroom at the White House situation.
21:38He's trying to build a huge arch.
21:41He's trying to fix the situation in Venezuela, in Iran, in Cuba.
21:46He's trying to fix the American.
21:47economy um he's just doing everything all at once and he's also trying to fix
21:52college sports here's the easy way to explain it buck um there is perpetual college
21:58football free agency and college basketball so we got the nfl draft coming up on
22:03thursday a lot of people watch it tens of millions um in college athletics right
22:08now every single player is a free agent every year and they're making money through
22:13nil which is name image and likeness which is you know if you and i
22:17do an advertisement on television that would be nil that would be nil for a
22:22player or coach uh as well what they're getting is pay for play so we
22:27went from you'll be suspended if you get paid anything for being a college athlete
22:32to you can make millions of dollars to play college football and college basketball now
22:37and so his point that i think really kind of brings it home is we
22:41have guys suing to be able to stay in college because they'll make more money
22:46playing college sports than they will if they go to the pros think about how
22:50crazy that is so you've got 19 year olds on college campuses making millions of
22:56dollars buck can you imagine how much they're not student athletes this whole thing is
23:01so idiotic it's so absurd but clay it has been for this has been my
23:05thing for a long time a lot of these schools they're not student athletes okay
23:09they're mercenaries for sports sports they're pretending to go to classes they're pretending to get
23:14an education now i know people oh but what about this person who's like at
23:16stanford and he's a genius and also you know playing on the tennis team we
23:21know we're talking about here this whole thing has been a charade they don't even
23:25go to class anymore buck because everything is online so a lot of these guys
23:30used to when i was a kid when you were a kid yeah there would
23:33be guys who were quote unquote academically ineligible because they hadn't gotten enough credits nobody's
23:38academically ineligible anymore and they're going to five schools in five years think about how
23:42hard it is to transfer it's just semi -pro sports using in a lot of
23:47cases for like the state schools taxpayer enabled uh ecosystems and and even stadiums to
23:54build all this stuff because you know people talk about the big programs but yeah
23:58there's thousands of colleges in the country yes and they all have sports teams so
24:02a lot of them are not making you know i went to amherst umass amherst
24:05nobody was freaking out about what a great football team they had but they have
24:09a giant stadium paid for by the taxpayer so this is just it's finally some
24:14of us have been like shouted at like nerd getting a wedgie and getting shoved
24:19in the locker for talking about this for a long time i am one of
24:21those people it's just it's just an observation of what is clear which is that
24:26these things are not what they are pretending to be in fact you got coaches
24:30making 10 million dollars but their players get like kicked out of the ncaa forever
24:34if they accept a ham sandwich from a booster it's so stupid it's absurd so
24:38it's broken it's preposterous and it went to the supreme court and the supreme court
24:41said 9 -0 that the ncaa basically couldn't restrict competition and that's where we are
24:48now congress and i'm going to testify about this because i could spend like i
24:52love this it's it's super complicated but i get all in the weeds i'm going
24:55to go testify for this with jim jordan in june i'm scheduled to um but
25:01what they need is an antitrust exemption because without an antitrust exemption there's basically no
25:06way to put in place rules so the here's a historical analogy for you buck
25:10and i've used this remember when the berlin wall came down and suddenly you could
25:15sell nuclear weapons and kidneys in some of these eastern european countries they had no
25:19guardrails they went from everything is basically prohibited to be sold outside of the government
25:25sphere to we have absolutely no rules at all and i'm not kidding you could
25:29buy suddenly they were selling off you know factories on that make steel and you
25:34could just go buy them and you could sell i think you could still sell
25:37kidneys in russia i think i'm not 100 an expert on that but they had
25:41all these uh no rules or regulations at all they went from purely restricted economic
25:47activity to unregulated uh capitalism we're in the unregulated capitalism stage of college athletics it
25:54was still illegal to sell nukes but i see what you're saying yes like that
25:57that still basically you could buy you could buy a missile i think you could
26:00buy a missile back in the day it's still illegal but yes you mean they
26:03were selling them yes like there's a difference anyway it doesn't matter but yes there
26:07was it wasn't actually legal to do everything but people were doing a lot of
26:11stuff can you sell kidneys still i don't know i mean i think i think
26:16you could i think in many different eastern european uh countries they will allow you
26:21to sell your kidney so i mean it's it's it's it's illegal here to sell
26:27your kidney um you can give it away uh but you can't sell it um
26:31and uh and not that i'm an organ donor expert but just we have gotten
26:36to complete unregulated capitalism by the way i teased this just a second ago the
26:42axio story on de santis um it actually says all sorts of interesting things and
26:49now we need to get well let's put an invite out to uh governor de
26:53santis to come on again he may not want to because this story is now
26:57out there and it's getting so much attention but the opening paragraph buck actually says
27:02i thought you would be interested president trump has told confidants florida governor ron de
27:08santis is quote begging for a job including in the attorney general uh and it
27:15quote Quotes them as saying DeSantis' future was on the menu after the two men
27:20had lunch at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami a week ago.
27:26Ron was begging me to be AG, Trump told one confidant who relayed the remark
27:31to Axios. Said another source, there was a conversation at that lunch.
27:36I don't think AG is real, but he's going to be looking for work and
27:40Trump likes him. And there is now a quote from DeSantis' team.
27:46Some in the media prefer to focus on fake rumors rather than the many accomplishments
27:51of Florida's partnership with the Trump administration.
27:54The governor looks forward to continuing to work with President Trump on enforcing immigration laws,
27:59restoring the Everglades, and helping to reform college athletics because Ron DeSantis is on the
28:04board on college athletics. Remember, Trump was thinking about picking DeSantis to replace Hegseth when
28:11it seemed like Hegseth might not get confirmed.
28:14This is another part of the quote.
28:17DeSantis is 100 % not interested in AG, but would be interested in two things,
28:23war secretary or Supreme Court, which would be his dream job.
28:29DeSantis said another source familiar.
28:32So I just think this is a put a pin in this because DeSantis is
28:39term limited out in November, Buck, and I don't think he's going to go sit
28:42on the sidelines for a few years.
28:44I think there's a lot of things that he could help this administration doing.
28:47And I know every time we mention this, all the DeSantis people that are still
28:51mad and they only seem to exist online.
28:53And all the Trump people who are still mad online just come and yell at
28:57each other in my mentions.
28:58But I like to see two successful guys work together for the betterment of the
29:02country. So sue me on that one.
29:04Total non sequitur for a second.
29:06But you see that there's some guy, and it was going viral recently, who's done
29:10a linguistic map of all of America.
29:13And one of the words that is used to separate what dialect of American English
29:18you speak is pin. It's interesting.
29:22And you just said pin.
29:24So you actually are a Tennessean, it turns out.
29:28Not faking. And I am some Anglo -Irish Yankee from New York.
29:33Because we would say pin, and you say pin.
29:37What? Let me ask you this.
29:39When you are waiting to get tickets.
29:43But there's seven different ways that people say that word, apparently, across the country.
29:47Oh, that's super interesting. Pin.
29:49Yes. Like, the pin that I'm, well, I have to now think about how I'm
29:54saying it. Yes, yes. When you are waiting to get tickets, and you would go
29:59to get them, you would be doing what?
30:02With there are people in front of you.
30:04Waiting? You would be in what?
30:08Line. Yeah, but how would you say it?
30:12In line. You say you go stand on line or in line?
30:18Ooh. Now, see, now you've kind of thrown me.
30:21Yeah, I've got you rattled because you're not thinking about how you would do it.
30:23There are a lot of people listening to us right now.
30:25I would say waiting in line.
30:26Waiting in line is how.
30:28Yeah. A lot of people in the Northeast say they're waiting on line.
30:32Now, maybe that's starting to change because people go on line to get on the
30:35internet now. But it is a regional distinction that I noticed when I went away
30:39to college. A lot of Northeastern kids say, we're going to go wait on line
30:45instead of in line. Am I crazy on this?
30:49Interesting. Queuing up. I mean, Producer Greg is just out to launch on so many.
30:54He's like, hey, do you like Coke or Pepsi border?
30:57He's like, I'm a big tab guy.
30:59You know, he's just all.
31:00Producer Greg is a captain in Space Force in every sense, okay?
31:05He's a Space Force guy in a lot of ways.
31:08Would you rather have Coke, Sprite, and Producer Greg's like, do you have Welch's grape
31:13soda? Just, you know, you never have any idea where he's going to come out
31:17of. Queuing up for line.
31:19Queuing, the queue is a European phrase, Producer Greg.
31:23I'm pretty sure that very few people use relative.
31:27But online and in line, I'm telling you, is a thing.
31:29And I've noticed the pen.
31:30Here's a tip for you, Buck.
31:32You're better at linguistics than I am.
31:35I can tell immediately if someone is from the South based on how they use
31:40the word O in a sentence.
31:43And because O drags a little bit if you're Southern in the way that we
31:49talk. And even if you don't have much of an accent, I can be like,
31:52oh, you grew up in the South in some way.
31:53If you're O kind of lingers a little bit.
31:57Hmm. I did not know that.
32:00Very interesting. By the way, back to DeSantis and this and the word.
32:03Notice how the framing of this issue is begged.
32:08That's I don't believe that the governor of Florida is begging for anything, but this
32:14is this is I don't know.
32:16This this strikes me as maybe he's going to get something and they want it
32:22to seem like, you know, they're making them kind of go through the little humiliation
32:26ritual at the very end here.
32:27I don't know. That strikes me as odd.
32:29And also, Buck, on the begging, makes me wonder, did somebody link, leak this to
32:35try to tank his ability to get it?
32:38Ron has any number of job opportunities and things he could do for plenty of
32:43money. and be plenty happy with his wife and kids out.
32:45So I don't see begging for it.
32:47That strikes me. That's the part of it that smells funky to me, honestly, of
32:51all this stuff. So something's up there.
32:55I agree. And I got to tell you, we're coming up.
32:58We'll take some of your talkbacks and everything else.
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34:33Buck, a little bit of news.
34:36Reports that Whitcoff, Kushner, Hegseth, Rubio, and Vance are all now at the White House.
34:44So the departure for Pakistan seems less likely by the minute.
34:50So we will see what ends up.
34:51So the Zoom option is looking more serious?
34:54Yes. I think Zoom, could this meeting have been a Zoom instead of in person
34:58is something we've all asked.
35:00Yes. So that is the absolute latest there.
35:03Let me also mention, I know we've talked about it during the course of the
35:06program, Virginia, if you are listening to us right now, Virginians get out and vote
35:12against this redistricting. It looks like it's going to be close according to forecasts that
35:19I see out there. So they're trying to turn Virginia from 6 to 5, which
35:24is a rough approximation of how the 2024 presidential election went, to 10 to 1.
35:30So we would encourage all of you to get out and vote no all over
35:34the state of Virginia. Very good.
35:38Let's see. We've got here Josh from Pennsylvania.
35:42He wants to talk about some stuff.
35:45This is G. Hey, guys.
35:46I got one for you.
35:47What do you put your groceries in at the store?
35:51Most places, probably a cart.
35:54Where I'm from in Pennsylvania, it's a buggy.
35:57And in Massachusetts, it's a carriage.
36:00Just thought that was interesting.
36:02That's crazy. It's a buggy?
36:04Are you one of those Pennsylvania Dutch people that rides around with a horse?
36:09I've never heard anyone call it a buggy.
36:11The Amish, the Mennonite community, perhaps?
36:13By the way, I wanted to clean this up.
36:15I said Connecticut had much lower taxes.
36:18Evidently, I'm wrong on this.
36:20This is producer Greg, who, again, is the tab soda guy.
36:24New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania is lower.
36:28But do very many people live in Pennsylvania and go into New York?
36:32I mean, that's not really a thing.
36:34Some, but not as much.
36:35I was thinking of, to be clear, thinking of New York to New England.
36:38I wasn't including Pennsylvania in that conversation, but you could.
36:42The taxes there are a bit better.
36:44But, yeah, I still think we've got to get a red wave to wash over
36:48Connecticut and just take it over as a state.
36:50Hostile takeover.