Hour 2 - Cost of Illegal Immigration
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0:34All right. Welcome into the second hour of Clay and Buck.
0:37And let's talk about this, shall we?
0:39We had President Trump hosting the families of crime victims, angel families at the White
0:48House. Yes. I'm sorry. This morning.
0:53Wait. Is it yesterday or today?
0:55I think it was this morning.
0:56Uh, he participated in, yeah, it was this morning.
0:59That's right. In an angel family's remembrance ceremony in the East Room.
1:03This event honored angel families, relatives of individuals killed or harmed in crimes allegedly committed
1:08by, oh gosh, when you read the official description of this, as I was just
1:14doing, they go to undocumented immigrants, often referred to as legal aliens.
1:18No, referred to as legal aliens, because that is the proper legal term.
1:23This is, I was actually not going to think of this as an opportunity to
1:27sell manufacturing delusion copies, but on the propaganda section, there's a whole stuff, all the
1:33stuff about immigration, and the change in our language that has been in the service
1:39of, uh, pushing for illegal immigration has been profound.
1:45And you'll notice it had, it went from, uh, illegal alien to illegal immigrants to,
1:53uh, undocumented immigrants to undocumented to now, I don't know, like, non -citizens soon to
2:01be American or something. So, they do this on purpose, obviously.
2:07Uh, they change the words that are used so that you have essentially ceded ground
2:13in the debate before you've even had it.
2:15If you're undocumented, well, how do you fix that?
2:17Well, get them the documents.
2:19Right? That's the way you, if you're undocumented, how do you fix it?
2:22Get them documents. Oh, it shouldn't be too hard.
2:25You see the way that this works.
2:27And that's always been the plan.
2:29Uh, the American people have been put through one of the most sustained campaigns of
2:37lies around immigration, uh, on any major policy issue in this country.
2:43It's up there with whatever else you think the Democrat left has been spreading, uh,
2:53untruth, mistruths about, uh, Democrat media.
2:57And, and really, unfortunately, a lot of Republicans, too.
3:01We were led to believe so many things.
3:02Even though, for example, I think it was, uh, John McCain was a sponsor of
3:07the Secure Fences Act. I mean, you go back to the early 2000s, there were
3:11all these, there were all these, um, moments where Republicans would say that they were
3:16going to build the, build the dang fence and things like that.
3:20But the Bush administration was terrible on this stuff.
3:23The Obama administration was, was very bad.
3:27The Biden administration, though, was in a class by itself.
3:31The Biden administration just decided, you know what?
3:34We've gotten to a critical mass here of illegals coming into the country.
3:39Where we might as well just, just sort of take the gloves off and just
3:44let it rip. Just let them all in.
3:46Just let them all in.
3:47Everybody wants to come in.
3:48And remember, there were videos of illegals coming to our border.
3:52And the occasional journalists would say, hey, what are you doing here?
3:55And they would say, like, I'm here because Biden is going to let me stay.
3:59That really happened. I forget what exact words were used, but that really happened.
4:05Oh, speaking of Biden, we actually, the team did pull this, uh, because I, I
4:10brought it up before. What did Biden say about, uh, Obama?
4:18Here we go. This is 28.
4:19This is a flashback to 2007.
4:21Play, uh, 28 for me.
4:23I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream fricking American who is articulate and
4:30bright and, and. And cut out there.
4:38Did he say clean? Because that's.
4:41And that was also in the.
4:43Nice looking guy. There. There you go.
4:47Yeah. Yeah. That's a strange thing to say.
4:52Why didn't Biden end up being his VP?
4:55This is what I'm saying.
4:56But Democrats, this is part of the, the advantage, part of the, uh, privilege package
5:02of being a Democrat in politics or just somebody who the Democrat Party finds useful.
5:07That's really what it is.
5:09It's not about loyalty. It's not about what you stand for.
5:11It's are you useful to the power and the interest of the Democrat Party?
5:15If the answer is yes, racism, it doesn't, it doesn't matter.
5:18And that, that doesn't affect you really.
5:21Because there's always a chance for you to beg forgiveness later or to do more
5:24for. And that, that doesn't affect you really.
5:24the oppressed groups that you've offended or something like that no really racism uh predominantly
5:30in political discourse in this country in the last uh well few decades at least
5:35is just something that you you particularly try to weaponize in bad faith against republicans
5:41to scare them and shut them down and stop them from doing things that would
5:45be good policy including and and disproportionately for the black community in this country things
5:51like safer streets more support for cops more enforcement of the law you know you've
5:57got the left saying that that stuff is racist meanwhile it's not racist and actually
6:02it really does in in major cities for example help black people uh more than
6:06anybody else so there's there's all that happening in the background here of this of
6:10this discussion on immigration um and trump trump decided you know one thing i've been
6:16saying that there's all these lies around this one one of the big lies or
6:19one of the things that they will do i should say part of the propaganda
6:22around immigration has been you know we have to this is the founder of the
6:28next founder of google or they do the jobs americans won't do or they're more
6:32law -abiding than americans are a big part of immigration discourse has been they are
6:38better than us illegals i'm not talking about legal migrants i'm talking about illegal migrants
6:44people who just come here and break the law they're better than the americans who
6:47are actually here which is quite a thing to say for an american and especially
6:51an american politician but that was very common doing the jobs americans won't do uh
6:56yeah not for not if if the choice is being here or being in uh
7:03nicaragua a lot of people would rather be here even if they're being paid below
7:07market wages it's a better country that's not it's not some huge mystery it doesn't
7:12doesn't go to the uh inherent work ethic of any group of people one way
7:16or the other um but the other part of this is i i used to
7:20say this when i would debate people years ago this has been a big issue
7:22for me for a long time certainly for the last uh really well really since
7:26trump came into office uh since 2016 um and since uh ann coulter's excellent adios
7:34america was published uh very very good book and you know you you see the
7:40way that the immigration story was laid out for so many people in this country
7:45and it was just a big lie it wasn't true and one of the things
7:49that i would ask people when i would debate them on this especially at cnn
7:52places like that is is there any downside to illegal immigration because if you ask
7:59somebody from like the cato institute which is an open borders shell lunatic factory uh
8:04if you ask people from places like this libertarians you know far left bleeding heart
8:11types any any and all of the above they never have an answer for you
8:15and so then i always say that if there's no downside to illegal immigration why
8:20don't we just be go open borders they all we can't do that why you
8:24won't identify a downside you won't tell me what the trade -off is ah well
8:29trump will tell you what the trade -off is one of the trade -offs is
8:32that there are thousands and thousands of people in this country who aren't supposed to
8:36be here who kill people who rape people who uh steal who commit armed robberies
8:42all of the above all these kinds of things and this is trump here at
8:46the uh at the ceremony honoring these families this is cut one from this morning
8:52for the angel families play it we're willing to tell the story and that i
8:55don't know why the the news doesn't want to hear it the democrats don't want
8:59to hear it the radical left they don't want to hear it what's not to
9:01hear we want to stop murderers and criminals from coming into our country i watch
9:06the mayor of minneapolis i watch these people saying we want to protect murderers i
9:11i don't get there's something sick they're sick can't have a country like that so
9:15we appreciate the bravery of everybody in this room actually again this is something that
9:25the media overall will not tell you about this is the the other side of
9:30you know they love to run these stories particularly if it's uh they'll run some
9:37story about a a dreamer they used to you notice the dreamer thing has fallen
9:40away a little bit but it says some dreamers like this dreamer is a valedictorian
9:44isn't this amazing you know dreamer being somebody who allegedly was brought here when they
9:50were still a minor by their parents and as i have to note and this
9:55sounds kind of harsh to some people but it's true you know if if my
9:59if if dad steals a million dollars from a bank and gives it to me
10:03to fund my uh you know my laboratory where i'm going to do great things
10:08for researching different medicines it's still stolen money you're not supposed to benefit from criminal
10:14activity and and entering the country illegally is in fact illegal but you would always
10:19hear these stories about the valedictorian you would never hear the story about the illegal
10:24who had been arrested 10 times and drunk driving five times and then finally you
10:29know killed a family of three on the highway media won't tell that story in
10:33fact if anything they'll they'll do the it's such and such a you know it's
10:38a michigan man or a or a florida man or a you know whatever kills
10:45three people in a car accident well actually this guy is not an american at
10:50all he's you know from some third world country and has been in this country
10:54nothing but a drain on our resources and breaking our laws and a giant net
10:59negative for us. Trump spoke about how much also the how much pain there has
11:04been as a result of the as a result of some of these illegals the
11:09things they've done this is cut to where he just says to these angel families
11:12look your loss is infinite and I'm very sorry very sorry for what's happened play
11:16to everyone in this room not only suffered an infinite loss they were the victims
11:21of politicians who put the comfort of foreign criminals before the safety of American citizens
11:27and American patriots their stories were censored and suppressed like maybe almost never before so
11:35that the politicians could open our borders and allow our nation to be invaded if
11:40we didn't win the election our nation would right now be destroyed let's just take
11:46that last part for a second if Biden well in this case it would have
11:52been Kamala right if Kamala had won the election we would have gone back to
11:59the posture remember they would have told us it's impossible to secure the border which
12:04was always a lie a lie that Trump has now exposed once and for all
12:09but they would have told us it's impossible to secure the border and we would
12:14have had millions and millions of more people coming into the country and and staying
12:20here and availing themselves of all kinds of benefits and really just taking from the
12:28American people I mean this is the the part of it that was a wake
12:32-up call for so many I think was when and give Texas governor Greg Abbott
12:37credit when he just started saying fine we're just going to bust these illegals to
12:39where they want to go we'll send them to New York we'll send them Chicago
12:42and then you see what happens in these cities they're not coming here because they're
12:49about to start the next great tech company they're coming here because they think that
12:54there's a free lunch in many cases this is what these illegals are doing if
12:59they were coming here because they thought that they could contribute right away you would
13:02think the legal immigration process might be more to their uh their liking and beyond
13:09that there's also the issue of how do you have a country that has anything
13:13that feels cohesive about it if you're going to be bringing millions of different people
13:19in year after year after year from all over the world disparate cultures different languages
13:23different religions different political beliefs and everything else you could say well that's always been
13:30the story of America that's actually not true another lie that they tell the story
13:33of America America is temporary waves of migration legal migration followed by real clampdowns like
13:41all right now we all get to live now we've let some more people into
13:44the house now we all live in the house together for a while we get
13:46to know each other it's not supposed to be just open door policy forever that's
13:50actually not how immigration has worked uh in America and it's also quite a different
13:56thing to show up here as a settler uh or a pioneer than it is
14:02to show up get chauffeured around at taxpayer expense be given a you know ebt
14:08card free health care and effectively told that you are now going to be taken
14:17care of by the people who are already here just by virtue of our sense
14:21of guilt or obligation or something it's a very different thing they're not they're not
14:25hacking it out of the wilderness with their own two hands here in this country
14:29okay this is the different thing so if we look at the immigration immigration waves
14:35that have come in the 21st century illegally the the American economy is or rather
14:43the American system is already straining under the weight of the promises we've made to
14:47Americans you really think that you're going to be paying more or rather they're this
14:51is when they go the GDP is growing and GDP is not that's not that's
14:56not everything of course GDP grows if you have a million more people what is
15:00the quality of life of those people how how are they uh contributing to the
15:08society uh around them and how are they assimilating into that society these are all
15:12the questions but this is why Trump he just needs to tell these stories people
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17:19Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
17:22We have calls coming in, some talkbacks.
17:25Want to get to more of those.
17:27Something that I thought would be worth chatting about just for a second here.
17:31Fareed Zakaria over at CNN, which is still a thing, still exists.
17:38Fareed Zakaria pointing out that Democrats, really bad at the whole running cities thing, like
17:45New York and L .A.
17:46This is cut 15. Listen to this.
17:48New York is really a prime example of a problem Democrats seem unwilling to confront.
17:53Blue cities are out of control.
17:56Promising more, spending more, delivering less, and pushing off the fiscal problems to some future
18:03day. Take Los Angeles, another one -party metropolis, wrestling with affordability and disorder.
18:09The city's homelessness budget for fiscal year 2025 -26 totals about $950 million.
18:18Or take Chicago with a mayor whose approval rating is deep underwater, where the pension
18:23promises are so large that they will surely bankrupt the city at some point.
18:28What is the theory of good government here?
18:34There is no theory of good government.
18:36I mean, he walks right up to the conclusion but doesn't really give it, which
18:40is that Democrats' fundamental belief systems when it comes to the governance of a city
18:45are failures. Fails. Cannot work.
18:48Will not work. You cannot spend constantly more than you take in.
18:52You cannot have a massive blow to bureaucracy.
18:53You cannot tax people into submission and then they have to leave.
18:57These are all bad ideas.
18:59You cannot encourage homelessness and wonder why people are unhappy with disorder on the streets.
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19:5120 % off. Hopefully none of you were trying to fly into certain parts of
19:59Mexico, like Jalisco, over the weekend, because flights were very much delayed or canceled, canceled
20:08mostly, because the single highest bounty on any cartel leader was this guy they call
20:19El Mencho, some other long name, long Mexican name.
20:26But El Mencho is sort of like El Chapo.
20:30And El Mencho, unlike El Chapo, he wasn't a Sinaloa head.
20:35He was C. Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
20:41So C -N... What is it?
20:44C... I always mess up the acronym.
20:46Jalisco New Generation... J -N -C -J or whatever.
20:51Hold on. He's... El Mencho is the very big bad guy.
20:55We're going to give $15 million if someone takes him out.
21:00So this is what happened over the weekend.
21:04He was taken out. Yeah, J -N -G...
21:09Sorry. J -N -G -C.
21:12It's not an easy one.
21:13It's not an easy acronym.
21:14Jalisco New Generation Cartel. So I knew the name, but the acronym was giving me
21:20some trouble. So this is...
21:24Considered these days the most ultra -violent and awful of the cartels, which is really
21:33saying something. You can read about the kind of things that they have done.
21:37I don't recommend you do.
21:39Just think ISIS -level mutilation, beheading, setting people on fire.
21:44I mean, the worst kind of stuff.
21:45These are the absolute... We're not an exceptional artifact.
21:47it's just fake reason for this...
21:47don't even know how's it...
21:47This one's a stupid thing.
21:47this isn't something like the way it has you know, We've made it a delightful
21:47thing about that, These people and these cartels, these hitman, sicarios and these cartels, they're
21:53vermin. They are a disgrace to humanity, and they should be met with the full
22:00force of the state. And that means come out with your hands up or get
22:07carried out. And that's it.
22:10So this is what happened.
22:11There was an operation over the weekend.
22:15And Nemesio Aseguera Cervantes, that is Almencho's name, of the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
22:24He and a joint Mexican military -U .S.
22:28intelligence -assisted operation. I'm just going to take a guess here that we helped a
22:34lot. Just a guess. I don't know.
22:36But a lot of help.
22:39Like more help than anyone's talking about kind of help.
22:41You know what I mean?
22:42Maybe not. Just a guess.
22:46But this guy got taken out, and all hell broke loose.
22:52Not really a big surprise there.
22:55Guadalajara plunged into chaos. The cartel retaliated.
23:00It was violence that spread to cities and beach resorts.
23:04Gunmen torched stores and banks.
23:06They blockaded highways. And this is essentially the cartel saying, you know, we're going to
23:15rain holy hell down on you if you think you can get away with this
23:19kind of stuff. Jalisco New Generation cartel is interesting.
23:23It doesn't just do the extreme violence I talked to you a little bit about.
23:27But it really is all of the above criminal enterprise.
23:31Human trafficking gets into the avocado game, believe it or not.
23:39Smuggles migrants, like I said.
23:42All kinds of things. Oil theft.
23:46By the way, this is what, when the Islamic State did this too, but Al
23:51Qaeda in Iraq, people always think of it as a terrorist group.
23:55From my time working Iraq on the CIA desk, Iraq desk rather, at the CIA,
24:01AQI at the time would do, and all of you who served in the military
24:05know exactly what I'm talking about.
24:07Yeah, they would blow up a marketplace and say they're doing this for jihad, but
24:11they would kidnap people for ransom and saw their head off even if the ransom
24:15was paid. They would steal oil from oil trucks.
24:18They would just take the truck, take all the oil.
24:21They would do protection rackets to stores, you know, give us money or we'll just
24:26blow up your store and kill everybody in it.
24:28So just criminal enterprises and just violence to get what they want, violence to advance
24:35their interests. So this Jalisco New Generation cartel operates like that.
24:40And they finally took this guy on Montreal.
24:42Like I said, $15 million bounty on his head.
24:45So that's pretty considerable. And the Mexican government now is trying to figure out, okay,
24:52well, what's next here? I see this and I say, first of all, this is
24:59a big win for the anti -cartel side of things.
25:04And I think that this is only possible because of American interest and American help
25:11in this situation. That's what I think.
25:14And as I said, I think our help and our interest is probably considerably higher
25:17than anything that has been yet reported.
25:19Although I'm not able to say any more than that.
25:24That's just my hunch. But I think it could be the beginning of us getting
25:28far more involved in this because what is the primary financial activity of Jalisco New
25:38Generation cartel, just like Sinaloa and the Zetas and all these others?
25:42It's drug smuggling. And what is the primary market?
25:47The United States. So they're the ones who are putting fentanyl on the streets of
25:53America. And we have all these overdoses year in and year out.
25:58Less than 100 ,000 last year.
26:00So the number has gone down a bit.
26:01But tens of thousands of people a year are dying.
26:05And Trump has said enough is enough.
26:07Enough is enough. So the war on drugs under this administration certainly looks a little
26:15bit more like a war than what we've seen in previous administrations.
26:18We've been blowing up the narco boats in the Caribbean.
26:22Interestingly enough, those narco boats coming from Venezuela are almost 100 % cocaine carrying, not
26:31actually fentanyl carrying. So they carry cocaine, and it's mostly for transshipment from the Caribbean
26:37into European markets. But we also wanted to, as it's quite clear now, we wanted
26:43to put pressure on the Venezuelan government, too, and the narco trafficker, Maduro, who was
26:49running that government, who is now in prison.
26:51So this was all part of a broader strategy.
26:54But in the case of this Jalisco New Generation cartel, these are the guys who
26:58are just running fentanyl through every major American city and engaged in unbelievably hideous violence.
27:07Mexico has something like 30 ,000 murders a year.
27:10Think about that for a second.
27:1230 ,000 murders a year?
27:16it's a country considerably smaller than the united states and there are areas of the
27:20country that it's just not safe to go to oh speaking of that because i
27:25said i hope you're not trying to travel these places they shut down uh airports
27:31and air travel into a whole bunch because of all the disorder and unrest on
27:36the streets and the burning they'll set up a bus and they'll light it on
27:41fire you know they'll steal a bus they'll light it on fire and they'll block
27:44the highway on the way to the airport they uh do all kinds of stuff
27:50shoot off their guns shoot at people so people who were planning to go on
27:56vacation to some of these areas yeah they had a uh they had a rough
28:01a rough situation going on here because the airlines have to take into account can
28:08we reliably safely land are we at risk uh are our people our staff and
28:16our our passengers are they at risk so this is this is a big hit
28:22you know some of the stuff that we'd seen up to this point had been
28:25elder members sort of uh over the hill cartel bosses who had been transferred into
28:33u .s custody that had happened under the trump administration early on uh but this
28:39is taking out a a big fish and this could certainly this could certainly rattle
28:45some cages over there this could create uh real challenges and uh problems that i
28:51think we might end up well let's just say this i don't think trump is
28:56bluffing when he says that we're going to go after the cartels given that we've
29:02been willing to blow up these ships in the caribbean do we think that there's
29:08any reason that trump would not be willing to order strikes on high level targets
29:11in mexico the mexican president uh shine bomb right he's already said that the war
29:20on the narcos is contrary to mexican law and contrary to human rights i think
29:26she's paid off i mean i i think she's i don't like i can't pretend
29:30that i follow the ins and counts of daily mexican politics but this this woman
29:35first of all the amount of money that these narco groups have think about the
29:39ways that they can launder this money and get it into seemingly legitimate businesses and
29:44then funnel to politicians we've all seen the narco show uh right or at least
29:49a lot of you've seen the narco show i've certainly seen it uh this stuff
29:52is real there are ways that the corruption reaches all the way to the top
29:57and it seems that the mexican government as it stands right now the agreement is
30:03whether it's spoken or unspoken as long as the cartels are just focused mostly on
30:09poisoning americans and creating all of that uh destruction and decay on our streets remember
30:16it's not just the drugs it's not just the overdoses it's the criminal enterprises that
30:20flourish in america because you know without the money people wouldn't do this stuff so
30:26people sell the drugs these street gangs the famous ones that we've all heard of
30:31before the ones that are talked about in rap songs and stuff you know all
30:35these different gangs they're selling drugs so think about the amount of and if you
30:40look at the homicide numbers in this country how many people are being shot in
30:46drug turf war uh feuds how many people are shot as a result of gang
30:51activity of some kind or another is very high and that's when you when you
30:57look at the full scope of the damage that's done to this country because of
31:02the illicit sale of fentanyl by these cartels into this uh into our borders it's
31:09vast and trump is just saying you know enough is enough the problem they have
31:15in mexico is going to be the cartels are very you know they're each one
31:19of these cartels has thousands and thousands of sicario assassin soldier types whatever you want
31:25to call them you know gunmen for who work for the cartels and they'll do
31:28anything and they will start to attack the very infrastructure and the and the underlying
31:34foundational elements of mexican society if they're pressed hard enough so that will hold us
31:39back at some level but maybe we start to turn parts of mexico into something
31:43a little more approximating the northwest frontier province of pakistan remember that nwfp or waziristan
31:50fatah the federally administered tribal area all parts of uh pakistan along the afghan border
31:57where there would just be these mysterious explosions that would happen mysterious explosion would happen
32:02and then some guy who was a senior member of the haqqani network maybe with
32:06some ties to al -qaeda or some guy who was doing something sketchy for the
32:11taliban or whatever it may be would be no more we might start to have
32:17a bit of that going on i think the mexican government no matter what is
32:20going to be telling us that they don't want us to do this and if
32:22we do it they're going to be saying how how dare you how dare you
32:26but they also know that trump is not going to allow this to just continue
32:31on where we have the flourishing of drug groups you know drug gangs on our
32:39streets and the people who are overdosing and all the loss of life and all
32:43the loss of life and all the loss of people's futures and the destruction of
32:46families that comes from this stuff.
32:48So taking out a guy with a $15 million bounty on his head is significant.
32:53They'll replace him. I get all that.
32:55But it's significant insofar as I think it might be the beginning of something far
32:59more sustained and more systematic, if you will.
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34:57Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
35:00And let me get some of your talkbacks.
35:03Start with C -Lin from Houston who listens on KTRH.
35:07Play it. Here we are on the west side of Houston again at said brick
35:13-and -mortar bookstore. I did rifle through and find a singular copy of yours.
35:19I pulled it off the shelf and sent it out in front of Clay's book,
35:24which was still on display.
35:25And I just wanted to give him a big shout -out for the assist.
35:32There we go. Thank you so much.
35:34And thank you for finding the book at the brick -and -mortar store that seems
35:37to be hiding it, even though it's outselling 90 % of the other books that
35:41they have on display right now in the front.
35:43So there you go. But it's outselling them because of all of you, and I
35:46greatly appreciate the support. And the book has been doing well because of all of
35:50you. You are my tribe.
35:52You are my people. You are the ones that I need to make this a
35:57success. And so you've been stepping up.
35:58But if you haven't yet, please, please go get your copy of Manufacturing Delusion.
36:02It's not a big book.
36:05It's pretty small. It's very readable.
36:07It's meant to be something you can sit down with and finish in a weekend
36:10easily. It's not sitting here with a three -part biography or three -part history of
36:21the Russian Civil War or something.
36:24And this is like, it gets right to it.
36:26D, Adam in Fresno, California.
36:29Play it. I wanted to let you know I went out and bought Buck's new
36:32book, Manufacturing Delusion. And I like to go to the Barnes & Noble and ask
36:36for it by a name just to let the lefties know that it exists.
36:40And I'm here for that.
36:45I love it. Thank you.
36:47Got to keep those lefties on their toes there.
36:49Yeah, they're being difficult on this one in some places.
36:53They're, you know, look, they never get tired of trying to tilt the playing field
37:01in their favor, that much I will say.
37:03Won't give credit where it's due.
37:04Timothy from Sacramento listens on KFBKE.
37:07E, hit it. Buck, when are you going to have a paperback, man?
37:11Can't take a hardback to work on a job site.
37:14Need that paperback. Good question.
37:20I don't know when the paperback will come out, but I will say the audio
37:23book is out. But you can definitely listen on your drive to the world.
37:28And I narrate the audio book or I read the audio book for you.
37:32So you can go get the audio book for sure.
37:35And I recommend you do so.
37:36And I will get back to you on that paperback.
37:38Coming up here, we'll talk a little bit about Scott Fesson on the tariffs.
37:43Maybe have a little more fun talking about how great it was that America won
37:46the gold medal, men's and women's gold medal in ice hockey.
37:53And we've also got Trump at the governor's dinner.
37:58We've got some other good stuff going on.
38:01Basically, it's going to be great.
38:03Third hour of the show, going to be great.
38:05That I can promise you.
38:06Some people are saying it's going to be huge.
38:08Be back with you here in a few minutes.
38:10Take a little break. Take a little break.
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