Hour 2 - Tax Day: Money Not Well Spent
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0:35Hour number two, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:39We are continuing to track the absolute latest in Iran.
0:44As President Trump told Maria Bartiromo in an interview that he feels like everything is
0:50winding down, the markets seem to believe that is likely true as record highs have
0:56hit today in the stock market.
0:59That is, never before in the history of your 401ks have they been more valuable
1:05than they are at this exact moment.
1:07So, if you are a buy -in holder and you trust that things are going
1:11to get better, you are being rewarded today for having faith in President Trump, the
1:19American economy, and the decision -making of the leadership in this country right now.
1:25We have Justice Alito talk.
1:28We've got a bunch of people who want to weigh in on a variety of
1:30stories. Bartiromo, as we talked about earlier in the program, had a conversation with President
1:37Trump. And for the first time that I have seen Trump address it, there was
1:41the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy raised.
1:44Remember, on Polymarket right now, there is an expectation that Alito will step down.
1:51If that were to happen, President Trump would have the ability to appoint a replacement.
1:55We talked about some of that.
1:57800 -282 -2882. Do you want to, just for a minute here, on the Iran
2:02thing, we've been talking about it a lot lately, but I would just point out,
2:05Clay, you have now the straight.
2:11We went from there's a blockade, I think that was yesterday, to now the straight
2:18is open, and the war is almost over, but we don't have an agreement on
2:25the end of the negotiations, but we're not blockading the straight anymore.
2:32I think we are blockading the straight, but controlling ingress and egress, meaning we're not
2:40allowing Iran to send from Iranian ports, ships in and out, but we are allowing
2:46ships that are not coming from Iran to traverse the straight.
2:51That's my understanding of exactly.
2:54Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz permanently open just hours after imposing Iran blockade, as
3:01China intervenes, they want me to do it.
3:04U .S. blockade of Iranian port fully implemented.
3:08Trump very close. That was yesterday.
3:11So if China intervened, wouldn't that be so they could get Iran's oil?
3:17This is a good question.
3:18My understanding is that the blockade is still in effect, and we are not allowing
3:26Iranian ships in or out if they are intending to go to Iranian ports, but
3:35that ships that are not starting or concluding their trip in Iran are being allowed
3:40to move in and out.
3:41I think that is the latest.
3:44So here, well, I'm giving you the truth social, so you tell me what this
3:48means. China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz.
3:53I am doing it for them also and the world.
3:57This situation will never happen again.
3:59They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran.
4:02President Xi will give me a big fat hug when I get there in a
4:05few weeks. We are working together smartly and very well.
4:09Doesn't that beat fighting? But remember, we are very good at fighting if we have
4:13to, far better than anyone else, President Donald J.
4:15Trump. So, again, I could be off here, but China wants Iranian oil.
4:21They rely on it more than anybody.
4:23Yes. So if we're doing it for China, I assume that means we're letting Iran
4:26sell oil back to China again.
4:29Right? Or no? I don't think so.
4:34But I understand. Just so you guys will understand, this is changing like hour by
4:38hour, so it's not, I mean, the read -in this morning may have changed over
4:42the course of the show.
4:42There is right now a live White House briefing.
4:49The headline is soon, White House briefs as U .S.
4:53blockades Iran's ports, is the headline right now on Fox News.
4:58So I think what President Trump is saying is, and again, this is me trying
5:03to understand, is that the Strait of Hormuz is open, as China has requested, but
5:09we are not allowing Iranian oil out, but we are allowing oil that is originating
5:15elsewhere out of the Strait of Hormuz right now.
5:19That's my understanding. So we haven't, that's an important distinction.
5:24So Trump, Because if we've said, you know what, we're just opening it totally for
5:28everybody. And this whole thing, I mean, what are we doing?
5:32So, OK, correct. I think it is wide open.
5:35Sorry, I'm choking on my smoothie here.
5:37I think it is wide open for all countries.
5:40But Iran is what the president was trying to say in that statement.
5:45And China is happy because there was a thought that the Strait of Hormuz blockade
5:50was not going to allow any ships out.
5:53And we are economically curtailing Iran's ability to sell its oil right now.
6:00I think that is the latest.
6:02And right now, hopefully we'll get a specific statement from that on the White House
6:07press. OK, Iran, the New York Times, as of an hour ago, says Iran links
6:11ships slower stop as U .S.
6:13blockade is fully implemented. So now we are opening the Strait entirely.
6:18So this is where, so she asked us to open the Strait.
6:23But the Strait's not really open.
6:25This is why it's a little confusing.
6:26It's not entirely open. The Strait is partially open.
6:29It's open for everybody except for Iran, which does affect global oil.
6:35Just to be clear, it's not like, oh, take a small violin out for Iran.
6:38I don't, but the issue is global supply.
6:42I mean, there's still an effect here because Iranian oil is now blocked from the
6:45market. Yes, and I actually have some data points on this that I thought were
6:50interesting because I was doing my research.
6:53A couple of things here.
6:56The United States, and this is getting nerdy, but I'll hit you with some nerd
7:00details. The United States was producing, this is according to open source intel.
7:08The United States was producing 13 .6 million barrels per day in 2025, about 16
7:16% of the global oil supply.
7:18And it was exporting roughly 4 million barrels per day of crude, right?
7:24We talk about we're a net exporter.
7:26We produce more than we need.
7:27When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, April exports of oil and gas jumped
7:34to 4 .9 million barrels per day.
7:37May is currently tracking to potentially be 5 .2 million, which would be an all
7:43-time record of oil and gas exported from the United States.
7:48And this says 28 supertankers booked for May.
7:51Normally, it's around five. Asian buyers that once depended on Hormuz are now turning to
7:58U .S. supply. And this is the argument that I made the other day.
8:04The Strait of Hormuz being blocked has actually created the biggest payday for U .S.
8:10oil that has ever existed.
8:11So, the math on this, and then here's another piece of the math that I
8:16thought was interesting, is the impact that comes in.
8:22To your point, Buck, China purchased 90 % of Iran's oil in 2024.
8:29Right. Okay. So, China also accounted for one quarter of Iran's non -oil exports during
8:40that period. So, basically, Iran is being funded by China, right?
8:48Like, much of the Iranian economy directly results to...
8:53Well, this is why I needed clarification on Xi Jinping wants his oil, but apparently
9:00now he just wants the Strait Open so he can get the oil from the
9:02Saudis or the Kuwaitis instead.
9:04I think that's the actual result.
9:06But I thought this was crazy.
9:0730 % of Iran's economy, according to this study, and I read this in the
9:12New York Times, actually now comes directly from China.
9:19Oh, yeah. So, it's really kind of crazy to think about what the impact is
9:23as it pertains to, effectively, China is driving almost the entirety of this, of the
9:32Iranian economy. So, with President Trump scheduled, when is he going?
9:37He's going in, like, next month?
9:39Is that right? For a few weeks.
9:41A few weeks. He's going to get a big, fat hug, actually.
9:44That's what he said. But that also is my belief.
9:47And you went to Taiwan.
9:49I think all this is really interestingly connected because, remember, China has tried to restrict
9:56the flow in the South China Sea of ships arguing this is Chinese territory.
10:02We can keep anyone. They put in new islands.
10:05They've created all surrounding the Taiwan situation.
10:08The Strait of Hormuz is a little bit of a test case for what might
10:14be happening in the event that China ever made a move on Taiwan.
10:20And so, I think this huge part of this story, Trump wants there to be
10:25a resolution with Iran that he can present to China as a gift of sorts
10:31by the time he goes to Iran, I mean, goes to China for that state
10:35visit. One of the possibilities, and this was after talking to the Taiwanese president, national
10:40security advisor, and all the rest this past September, one of the concerns that they
10:45have is of a Chinese blockade of the island of Taiwan, obviously.
10:49One of the ways that this could be rolling.
10:52That against them would be to claim that there's some dispute between China and Taiwan,
10:57whatever it may be, you know, some pretext.
10:59And then they don't actually invade and they don't even necessarily hit Taiwan with a
11:03lot of missiles or anything.
11:03They just cut off seaborne trade to an island, including the oil and things that
11:09Taiwan needs and hope that they could essentially get a capitulation before the United States
11:15and Japan, most notably, are able to come to their aid or come to come
11:21to intervene. This does seem like we have ways of hitting China via blockade without
11:28even dealing with a possible Chinese blockade of Taiwan.
11:32So we have our own leverage points on the global oil supply against them, although
11:37a lot of it, I think, comes from Russia, too.
11:39I think that's hugely important and not many people have really thought about it.
11:43China is a very fortunate country in many respects when it comes to natural resources
11:50and economic power and everything else.
11:52On oil and gas, we have the ability to curtail the Chinese economy because we
11:59are now energy independent in a way that I don't think a lot of people
12:03have contemplated. And while everybody was trying to say, oh, Iran controls the Strait of
12:09Hormuz and all these other different things, what President Trump did with Venezuela was he
12:14took China was spending a lot of money with Venezuela and buying their oil and
12:17gas. We now control that supply.
12:19If we control the Iran supply of oil and gas, which it seems like we're
12:23going to have in some way, obviously, we're not allowing it at all right now.
12:27In conjunction with those numbers I just shared you about record amounts of oil and
12:32gas production, the United States' ability suddenly, when it comes to oil and gas, is
12:38maybe the biggest of all of the bargaining chips that we have on the global
12:44stage right now. And that's a direct result of Republicans saying, let's drill, baby, drill,
12:50which used to be a controversial thing to say.
12:52I was going to say, the biggest national security asset that Trump has deployed in
12:58all of this with Iran, the single most important asset, all the oil men and
13:04oil women, a lot of guys tend to be out in the oil patch, though,
13:07who have made us an energy, a true energy superpower in the last couple of
13:12decades, largely because of fracking, which they told us wrongly was going to poison all
13:18of our drinking water. And, you know, there were idiotic movies and documentaries made about
13:23how fracking was so dangerous.
13:25It's not dangerous. Something like 90 -something percent of wells now are fracked because it's
13:30so much more efficient to extract more out of it.
13:32It involves mostly water and sand, from what I understand, in the process, and then
13:36some solvents. So, yeah, we're in a whole different position.
13:42This isn't 1970 -whatever. This is a whole different world of U .S.
13:46energy independence that we're dealing with.
13:47And Trump has seen this all along.
13:49If we can keep this where the strait is open, the only way that Iran
13:55stops this is if they try to make an example out of a ship and
13:59show that they have to.
14:02Iran, sorry for the terrorist verbiage here, but Iran has to show they're willing to
14:06shoot a hostage. Yes. If they're not willing to shoot a hostage, then they can't
14:10take the strait of Hormuz hostage anymore.
14:13And that means that now we're just in a waiting game for them.
14:17I mean, their entire economy is going to implode now if we really blockade the
14:21clay because it's all seaborne trade.
14:23Yes. It's everything. Not a lot of important trade coming from Afghanistan, one of their
14:28neighbors, to Iran. Like, you start to look at this.
14:30Not a ton coming over the border from Iraq either.
14:33Like, they need access to the ocean.
14:35Here's one thing I will say that makes me nervous about the energy independence.
14:41We have it. What's China's retaliation?
14:46Taking Taiwan and controlling all the semiconductors, which we don't have the ability to produce
14:53in the United States yet.
14:55And President Trump has been smart about this.
14:57You toured with Taiwan's semiconductor, everything else.
15:00If Taiwan's semiconductor chips are taken offline, then we are in a huge world of
15:09hurt almost at the time that you snap your fingers.
15:12And so that is my concern because China doesn't have oil and gas, but they
15:17may say, hey, we got computer chips and you guys can't produce them and you
15:21can't power the AI revolution or much of your entire economy because you can't produce
15:27enough of them. We have to onshore the production of these chips like we onshore
15:34oil and gas. And I think it's actually a hugely important geopolitical decision.
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17:33clay and buck we've got a white house briefing going on right now with scott
17:38besant the secretary of the treasury talking and uh we will bring you the highlights
17:44of that as they come to us because i'm sure there'll be some interesting things
17:48that he has to say about where we're on the economy team are the clay
17:50you have the most current lines lit situation we have time for one call there
17:54do we have anybody up i'm i know we're running up against the clock here
17:57but i wanted to get to someone yeah i think we could is aaron in
18:01colorado still there yeah i'm here fire away uh two things i just wanted to
18:09say can we get somebody to introduce a constitutional amendment to cement nine justices so
18:16no party can ever interfere with the judicial branch and two if we do can
18:24we just throw janine perro out there as a possible candidate for a supreme court
18:29justice just to put a burr in their saddle in reverse order um janine perro
18:34is awesome she's 70 something you want the supreme court justice to be 40s or
18:4150s at the oldest because you want it long term uh second part of that
18:45um i i think the idea of stacking the supreme court unfortunately is top of
18:52mind for democrats the problem is i think any constitutional amendment getting passed is virtually
18:57impossible so i'm afraid that's something that they may try we'll talk about it a
19:02little bit more when we come back welcome back in we will update you a
19:05bit on the white house press conference that is currently going on caroline levitt fielding
19:11questions right now from peter ducey of fox news uh we will give you the
19:16latest there but buck it is tax day and i flagged this uh as i
19:22was doing my research because we hear so much about how often we are living
19:28in a completely uh uh unfair tax system and so these numbers are a couple
19:37of years old and i'm sure that they have continued to be uh to be
19:42addressed and and to continue to move so that the so -called rich are paying
19:47even more and more but let's start here because i do think it's worth mentioning
19:51every single tax day that arises roughly half of all americans pay no federal income
19:58taxes so if you are paying tax at all today or you have paid tax
20:05at all during the past year federal income tax then you are paying more than
20:11half of americans are and in fact as we all know a lot of people
20:16get refunds uh that they didn't ever pay in the first place so you're getting
20:21paid my dollars your dollars going to people that did not actually pay any taxes
20:27here's some stats for you the top one percent pays 40 and this is rough
20:33it's actually increased i sense uh think since then pays 40 of all income taxes
20:39the top 10 pays 72 of all income taxes and the top 25 pays 87
20:50of all income taxes so on in the united states if you are in the
20:5775 of uh earners below the top 25 you only pay 13 of all federal
21:08income tax dollars does that seem like money well spent and uh the older i
21:14get the more frustrated and angry i am uh about the money that i pay
21:20that gets completely wasted and the fact that like many of you out there i
21:26work two of the five days every week directly to pay uh the federal government
21:32so every time you hear me on monday and tuesday on this radio program i
21:37am not actually making any money at all it's going straight to the government it's
21:42kind of crazy to think about and the same is true for many of you
21:44out there now buck that is you Ever enough, though.
21:49So New York City, which I believe we said the other day, has a bigger
21:55government than the state of Florida.
21:57New York State is about twice as big as the state of Florida's government.
22:01But I believe New York City, by itself, has a bigger budget than the entire
22:07state of Florida. Yet it is not enough.
22:11And Kathy Hochul and Momdani are now saying, hey, if you have a second home
22:18in New York City that costs $5 million or more, they're going to ratchet up
22:22the tax rates on you to a significant degree.
22:24And you know what's going to happen, Buck?
22:27Phones are ringing in Florida.
22:29Phones are ringing in Texas.
22:30Phones are ringing in Tennessee because you're paying 40%.
22:33And then you add another 13 % over half of your money before you even
22:38pay property taxes, if you live in New York City, is going to the city,
22:43the state, and the federal government.
22:44The good news, though, Clay, is, sure, the taxes are high.
22:49Sure, people are fleeing New York and California in high -tax jurisdictions continuously now.
22:55But the good news is that Momdani is focusing on the really important stuff, like
22:59building a government -run grocery store that will cost $30 million and take three years.
23:06Here it is, Momdani making his case yesterday in Harlem in Manhattan.
23:13This is cut 11. Let's hear from Kwame Momdani, the governor of New York.
23:19I'm sorry, the mayor of New York City.
23:21Here he is. Play 11.
23:22New York City, it is time for a grand experiment once again.
23:26Just as LaGuardia used government to respond to the challenges of the Great Depression, we
23:30will use government to respond to rising prices and unaffordable groceries.
23:35The city will subsidize a core set of staples.
23:39A private operator will run the store, but they answer to the standards that the
23:43city will set. These standards include requirements that at our stores, bread will be cheaper.
23:49Eggs will be cheaper. Grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation, and workers
23:55will be treated with dignity.
23:59Okay, so unless he's going to subsidize this directly with tax dollars, which is just
24:05a welfare program then, right?
24:09It's just a version of food stamps except you've got to go get the food.
24:12You don't just get the money to get the food.
24:15This has a 0 % chance of working the way that is planned.
24:18I think he even maybe at some level knows that, and this is why the
24:23three -year timeline, when he's up for mayor, I might add, for reelect, three -year
24:28timeline is no problem for him because he gets to keep talking about how great
24:31this is going to be until people realize this is going to be like a
24:35Soviet Union grocery store with really good prices on bread that isn't even on the
24:40shelves. How do you think he's really this dumb?
24:45Can we play that cut again?
24:47Does he really think that grocery stores are gouging people and that running a grocery
24:58store is the greatest business that's ever existed in the history of mankind?
25:03I mean, play that cut again if we could because anyone who believes any of
25:09this is a complete moron.
25:12Momdani's not a complete moron.
25:14Like, surely he understands, and this makes it worse, right, because he knows he's lying.
25:19Surely he understands what you said earlier in the program and all of you know.
25:22So the profit margin on groceries is among the lowest profit margins of any capital
25:29-intensive business on the planet.
25:32You can – this is one of the things I like about AI, just like
25:35I like X because it shows more of reality now to people.
25:39Like, you see, like, crimes that are happening and how awful they are and who's
25:43committing them, and the media doesn't get to just say, oh, we have no idea.
25:46You can just do really quick data analysis now.
25:48You don't have to – it's way better than Google at this on Grok.
25:52Clay, it's – the Food Industry Association says that the average profit in 2024 for
26:00a grocery store average 1 .7 % per item.
26:061 .7%. If someone thinks that's price gouging, they're an imbecile.
26:12They're an ignoramus. They know nothing, but an ignoramus runs the city of New York
26:19right now, unfortunately. I mean, this is just such basic research.
26:23Play this again because – and I understand people get frustrated, and we've talked about
26:27this with gas prices too.
26:29The gas stations are not gouging you.
26:31They're not making very much money on gas.
26:33Because grocery stores is one of the worst, most difficult businesses that you could possibly
26:39get into because it is so incredibly difficult to actually make a consistent profit.
26:45But listen to Mom Donnie.
26:47He's going to – I mean, this is just – of all the arguments you
26:50could make, I'm going to run a grocery store, and it's going to be way
26:54cheaper, and you're going to get a way higher quality product is one of the
26:59dumbest arguments I've ever heard a Democrat make.
27:01It's right up there with defund the police.
27:03But listen to this again.
27:04It's just not true. Buck just gave you the data.
27:06New York City, it is time for a grand experiment once again.
27:10Just as LaGuardia used government to respond to the challenges of the Great Depression, we
27:15will – use government to respond to rising prices and unaffordable groceries.
27:20The city will subsidize a core set of staples.
27:23A private operator will run the store, but they answer to the standards that the
27:28city will set. These standards include requirements that at our stores, bread will be cheaper,
27:33eggs will be cheaper, grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation, and workers
27:40will be treated with dignity.
27:42Okay, so he's saying they're going to subsidize the price of groceries, Buck, which means
27:47taxpayers are going to give money to buy groceries for other people, which means everybody
27:55has less. It's less efficiency.
27:58I would actually just prefer that they be honest about this and increase the EBT
28:04benefits or whatever, the food stamps benefits.
28:06We all know exactly what's going on, but he said only for staples.
28:11Now, this brings up some really interesting.
28:13So he's like, milk and bread.
28:15No one is poor, and I mean no one, because of the price of milk
28:20and bread. There are other things where red meat has gotten a lot higher.
28:24It's fine, but milk and bread is not actually where people are.
28:27The budget is finally just too constrained.
28:29That's not what's breaking the proverbial camel's back.
28:33There are other things and other budgetary matters that are far.
28:36By the way, that cost of health care, the cost of housing, those are things,
28:39if you're in New York City, that are crushing people.
28:42The expectation that people are going to spend 40, 50, 60 percent on rent, and
28:47you might say, oh, well, Mom Donnie wants to help with that too.
28:50He's going to make that worse.
28:52You want to deal with that issue?
28:54Then you have to deal with all the regulations in New York City that artificially
28:57constrain supply, but they don't believe in supply and demand in Commie Mom Donnieville.
29:03They think they can just wave a magic Marxist wand.
29:06Clay, on this issue of the milk and bread also, New York City was where
29:11they ran an experiment some years ago about food deserts.
29:15And the whole premise was, I've talked about this in the show before, so I'll
29:18give you a short version, but it's really interesting.
29:20And the New York Times was who did a story on it.
29:23It was under the Obama administration, no surprise.
29:25Federal program, hey, you know why they aren't eating enough arugula in low -income, high
29:30-crime areas? You know why they aren't really digging into the quinoa?
29:36It's because we haven't subsidized it.
29:39If we only made it cheaper, the arugula and the quinoa and the free -range,
29:45you know, duck -a -la -range, it would be flying off the shelves.
29:51You know what they found when they did this project, this pilot project of the
29:54so -called food desert, by giving people artificially cheap access to radishes?
29:59And by the way, I'm being serious.
30:00Those were the kinds of foods that didn't change buying behavior at all.
30:04You know what people wanted to buy, particularly with food stamps?
30:07Soda, chips, and candy. Yep.
30:11Soda, chips, and candy. Biggest items.
30:15Ever go to a grocery store in a low -income area?
30:17I've been to them because of my time at the NYPD.
30:19Long story, we can talk about it another time.
30:21I've been to many of them, actually.
30:22And, Clay, that's what they're mostly selling at the front.
30:26It's not because people don't have access to cheap produce.
30:28They don't want it. So they're also going to call up against this issue.
30:33They're going to make milk and bread really cheap.
30:35And you know what's going to happen?
30:36They're going to run out of the milk and the bread.
30:38Their milk and the bread is not going to be well -stocked.
30:40It's not going to be what people want.
30:41And they're going to find out that's actually not what people are buying anyway.
30:44Also, of all the places to deliver food to, the cost to get product into
30:52New York City has to be off the charts.
30:56Yeah. So even if you were going to run a government -funded grocery store, I
31:01think it would fail everywhere.
31:02Kansas City did this recently, and they had to shut down because they couldn't keep
31:06produce on the shelves and they couldn't keep a product and nobody wanted it.
31:11Getting product to New York City to a grocery store is going to be virtually
31:15impossible. And this is going to be an unmitigated disaster.
31:19Just put a pin in this.
31:20It's going to fail epically.
31:22I doubt whether it will ever even really start to run.
31:26And it's going to cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, which is why they've
31:31got to raise more money because they keep spending and wasting what they get.
31:35Publix is a very well -known Florida -based grocery chain.
31:39I go to Publix all the time.
31:42The annual net sales is something like $40 million.
31:46Billion. Just public data. Million, sorry, per store.
31:50Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. $40 million in sales per store.
31:54Now, this is where you start to see, okay, there is a profit motive here.
32:00Meaning if you sell $40 million of groceries at a 1 % or 2 %
32:05profit margin, you're making money.
32:08And that's when you've covered everything.
32:09That's with taxes and everything else.
32:10But you're doing fine. And if you do 100 of these, now you've really got
32:14a big business, right? The point is, it's all about scale.
32:18And what they're going to do at this grocery store that New York City is
32:21going to run, which I'm telling you is going to be the saddest, give it
32:24six months after opening, it'll be the saddest, most pathetic grocery store you've ever seen.
32:28They don't understand the way that scale actually works.
32:32So they think, oh, well, we're going to sell $3 million of groceries, just 30
32:36% cheaper than everybody else in the city.
32:39And it's going to be a disaster.
32:41And the whole thing is going to collapse.
32:43And I think Mom Donnie knows it, Clay, but he's doing it anyway because it's
32:47about the story. It's not about the groceries.
32:49It's not about helping people with their costs.
32:52It's the talking point. But we want to help all of you have beautiful plants,
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33:06I've got the open blinds.
33:08Sometimes they say, oh, your studio's too bright.
33:10I like to be able to look outside.
33:12I like to be able to enjoy the trees that are growing in my yard.
33:17I like to be able to check and see how the plants are doing.
33:20I like to be able to do all of those things.
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34:58T's and C's apply. We are rolling through the Wednesday edition of the program, Tax
35:02Day edition. And we are going to be joined by Elise Stefanik, congresswoman from New
35:08York. She's got a great book out at the top of the next hour.
35:11We will dive into some of these New York -related issues that we have been
35:16talking about so far. We got a ton of talkbacks.
35:20Let me try to hit some of these before we finish out the second hour
35:23of the program. And let's go.
35:26Oh, my goodness. There are so many.
35:30John in Orange County, California is teeing off on you, Buck.
35:33I'll go to B. Buck, are you kidding me?
35:36Drawstring pants? Yeah, maybe if you're 85 years old.
35:40Seriously, brother. Come on. Hey, look, John.
35:44John, I'm here for you.
35:45It's okay, buddy. Let it all out.
35:48Try those drawstring pants. Don't tell anybody.
35:52Just try those drawstring pants.
35:53Before you just go down this dark path of forswearing the drawstring pants, they make
36:00them now where they look just like khakis.
36:01This is what I'm trying to tell you.
36:03You'll never know. And you'll just be so comfortable and happy.
36:06John, trust me. We got so many funny talkbacks.
36:11I'm going to get to a bunch of these, Buck, in the third hour of
36:14the program. Let's do CJ in Tempe, Arizona.
36:19Play that one. I love the elastic waistband with a button, but drawstrings and this
36:23casualization. You guys sound like a bunch of Fettermans.
36:28And I just want to say, can you picture Bond rolling into the casino, like
36:33tying up his drawstring pants?
36:37No. You wear a tux, you look good.
36:40Come on, guys. Wow. Fettermans, dude.
36:44That was harsh. I felt the sting on that one.
36:46Like a two -by -four to the face.
36:48A Fetterman? I think there's a difference between hoodie and shorts everywhere you go and
36:54normal pants and normal shirt without needing to go full tuxedo.
37:00But we will talk with Elise Stefanik.
37:02We'll get her read on this and more when we come back.
37:05We'll get to a ton of your talkbacks as well.
37:09We appreciate all of you.
37:10And also we'll update you on the press conference that is going on right now
37:14in the White House featuring Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, SB8 head Kelly Loeffler and Caroline
37:21Levitt here on Tax Day.
37:22Thanks for hanging out with us.
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