Hour 1 - Clay Just Says No
4/24/202637 mincomplete
0:00This is an iHeart Podcast.
0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome in to the Clay and Buck Show Friday edition.
0:09I hope all of you are having fantastic early starts to your weekend.
0:15Hopefully you didn't stay up too late watching the NFL draft last night as a
0:20lot of people made tens of millions of dollars.
0:23Congratulations to all of them.
0:25And I hope your team made the stellar picks.
0:29I am in Washington, D .C.
0:31And as I was coming in this morning to the studio that we have here
0:36in Washington, D .C. By the way, Buck is out today.
0:39He's in New York City.
0:39He will be back with me on Monday.
0:41As I was coming into the studio here in Washington, D .C., our nation's capital,
0:47in the 250th anniversary of our nation, I couldn't stop but think how much better
0:54everything looks. And I know that there are a ton of people out there that
1:00might say, well, why does it matter how Washington, D .C.
1:04looks? It's 95 % Democrat.
1:06We have all sorts of tax dollars being wasted all over the nation's capital.
1:12I hate Washington, D .C.
1:13I understand some of you are going to say that.
1:15I also understand that a lot of you, because you love America, are going to
1:19be taking family vacations to Washington, D .C.
1:22this year. Or you have been already this year.
1:25Maybe your kids went on spring break with a school trip.
1:29And I have to tell you something.
1:31I went to college in Washington, D .C.
1:33I don't think D .C.
1:35has ever been safer. I don't think D .C.
1:38has ever been more beautiful.
1:39I don't think D .C.
1:40has ever been in a better position than it is right now in the 250th
1:46anniversary of our nation's founding.
1:48And I think that's really important.
1:50And I think it's a story that we should be telling more.
1:53And so I wanted to start off today's program, since I'm in D .C., telling
1:57you a real tangible impact that we are seeing.
2:01You say, okay, Clay, what is different about what's going on in Washington, D .C.?
2:05Well, I have in front of me right now the overall crime rates in Washington,
2:11D .C. And I talk about this sometimes because I think data is important.
2:15And sometimes it's very easy to get lost in the day -to -day negativity associated
2:20with that. But let me take you back in time before I go into the
2:24crime details. I was up doing the show in 2024, I think it was, during
2:33the summer when campuses were taken over by all the protesters, angry about the response
2:41of Israel to October 7th.
2:43And I walked through my alma mater campus, George Washington University.
2:47They gave me a scholarship.
2:49I went up to D .C., graduated in three years from GW.
2:53And while I was at GW, it was a relatively normal school.
2:59And then the entire campus went crazy.
3:02They decided, for instance, that the George Washington Colonials mascot and the George Washington Colonials
3:09moniker was actually offensive. You say, okay, well, what was offensive about it?
3:14Well, the fact that we were a colonial army for some people created too much
3:19of an evocation of the idea of colonialism.
3:24And so they changed the name of GW's mascot to the GW Revolutionaries.
3:29It's a small thing. Some of you will know that I made a decent -sized
3:33donation to Vanderbilt University Law School recently.
3:36I didn't give any money to GW.
3:37I gave money to Vanderbilt because their response to the October 7th, 2023, protesters on
3:45campus was that they immediately arrested every protester who tried to take over campus, and
3:51they kicked the protesters who were students out of school, did not give them credit
3:56for the semester work that they had done so far, and said, sayonara, find a
4:01new place to go to school.
4:02You violated our campus codes, and there is a consequence for that.
4:06No matter what speech you were advocating, and we're not going to stand for this.
4:09And I loved it. On the flip side, George Washington University, they allowed on -campus
4:16protests, the quad to be taken over, a cafea to be put on the George
4:20Washington statue. They allowed for months there to be protests taking over the center of
4:26the campus. It wasn't just the ugliness of allowing campus protests tense.
4:31It wasn't just that they said, globalize the intifada on the side of a campus
4:35building that was named after Holocaust survivors, the primary library on campus.
4:41It was that that was a reflection of the larger culture that took root in
4:45Washington, D .C. Everywhere you looked in parks, people had put up tents, and they
4:50were living in squalor in parks throughout Washington, D .C.
4:55When you walked through any area of Washington, D .C., it smelled like feces.
5:02It looked nasty. It looked dirty.
5:06The grass was overgrown. This was not a place that looked like it should be
5:11the front porch of our nation.
5:14And it was, frankly, to me, disgusting, degrading, decrepit, nasty at a level that I
5:21had never seen it before, and I went to school there in the night.
5:24and he's the early 2000s, and I've spent a lot of time in Washington, D
5:28.C. over the years. It is, I think, a city that should be a jewel
5:31of the nation. Trump got into office, and he saw all this, and he said,
5:36I'm fixing it. Now, you can say, well, Clay, how does this compare to Iran?
5:41How does this compare to inflation?
5:42How does this compare to the overall focus of the nation?
5:48You can certainly say that it shouldn't be something that matters, but it is something
5:54that matters. President Trump, living in Washington, D .C., said we've got to fix this
5:59squalor, and he did. He said, we're going to call in the National Guard.
6:04We're going to clean up all these homeless encampments.
6:06We are going to stop people defacing monuments, and we are going to return order,
6:14decency, beauty to our nation's capital, and he did it.
6:19And I've got the numbers.
6:22Last year at this time, President Trump said, I'm going to call out the National
6:26Guard after too many violent incidents were happening all over the city, and he said,
6:30we cannot have this in our nation's capital.
6:32We can't have it for the 250th anniversary of our nation's birth.
6:36We have to fix it.
6:37Here are the numbers in front of me right now.
6:41Everybody you will recall, because we talked about it quite a lot on this program,
6:45everybody you will recall said, oh, that's not going to work.
6:48Look, they said two things.
6:50That's not going to work, and crime isn't that bad here anyway.
6:58Both of those were arguments.
7:00One of them was a lie.
7:02Crime was really bad. Crime in D .C.
7:05exploded after 2020. It was nasty.
7:09It was decrepit. It was run down.
7:12It was violent, and it was unsafe.
7:14All of these things are true.
7:16So crime was a major issue, so that was a lie.
7:19But the other part maybe was even more troubling.
7:22It was, this is not going to work.
7:26Well, how do you know?
7:27We've never really tried it before.
7:30It was defeatism writ large, which unfortunately is a common refrain on the left in
7:37this country. Anytime somebody tries to fix anything, they just say, well, that's not going
7:42to work. Well, it's better to do something and be wrong, in my opinion, than
7:48do nothing and 100 % be wrong.
7:50Because you can fix wrong decisions.
7:53I would say this is one of the things that President Trump's critics really haven't
7:58gotten. If President Trump makes a decision and he sees it going bad, he changes
8:03it. That's how business executives work.
8:07Look, any of you who have ever run anything, the way you fail is by
8:11failing to make decisions. You have to make tons of decisions every day, all of
8:15us do in our personal lives.
8:16If we just freeze and we don't do anything, then everything eventually falls apart.
8:22So you have to make choices.
8:24And you hope that if you make 100 choices, 70 of them are correct, maybe
8:2830 of them are wrong.
8:29But a wrong choice is not a really awful situation.
8:32Because if you make a wrong choice and you're rational and you're reasonable, you look
8:36at the wrong choice and you said, boy, we got that wrong.
8:38Let's fix it. So President Trump does things.
8:42Most people in Washington, they don't want to do anything.
8:44They just want to keep getting the job.
8:46They just want to keep being able to be paid, matter, go to significant events,
8:52feel like the job will exist in perpetuity.
8:55That's why so many politicians try to avoid taking stands on anything.
8:59They hide because you can just keep getting elected oftentimes if you aren't really noticed
9:05for anything. Once you get in office, that's a power of incumbency.
9:09President Trump wasn't trying to do this forever.
9:11He had a lot of other jobs.
9:13He said, hey, I want to fix things.
9:14And I think you look everywhere in Washington, D .C.
9:17He's talking about building a beautiful arch.
9:18He's trying to remake the ballroom.
9:20Most of these things he's not going to benefit from personally, but he just thinks
9:24it makes sense to fix things that are broken.
9:27That's what builders do. And so the data was, oh, it's not going to work.
9:32The lie was, the attempt was, let's see if we can fix this.
9:35The criticism was, this is not going to work.
9:38The other criticism was, this is a lie.
9:40Well, it's working. And it's working on an incredible level.
9:44And you know it's working on an incredible level because as I sit here in
9:47Washington, D .C., almost nobody's talking about this.
9:50And I'm up here because the White House Correspondents Dinner is going on.
9:53President Trump is going to be speaking there.
9:55I'm going to be going to the event.
9:56I hope President Trump comes out and actually tells all of the media in this
10:01room the data that I'm about to share with you.
10:03I hope he puts it up on a PowerPoint.
10:05I hope he makes everybody look at it.
10:08Murders since last year in Washington, D .C., are down 51%.
10:13Think about that for a minute.
10:15Oh, it's not going to work to 51 % decline in murder so far this
10:21year compared to last year.
10:23We are on track for Washington, D .C.
10:26to potentially, as we come up on the end of the month of April, a
10:32third of the way through the calendar, so not an insignificant period of time, we
10:38are on track for Washington, D .C.
10:40to have, on a per capita basis, the lowest murder rate in any of our
10:44lives. That seems pretty significant to me.
10:4851 % decline overall in murder.
10:52murder. And people out there, I get it.
10:54You can say, well, they're rigging the numbers.
10:57They're lying. They're not telling us.
10:59This is why I like to start with murder.
11:01If a body's dead and it appears to have occurred in a violent matter, we
11:05probably have an idea that a murder occurred.
11:07So yes, you can finesse other different aspects of crime rates, which is unfortunately what
11:13we have seen happening in many left -wing cities.
11:15Murder is pretty reliable, down 51%.
11:19It's not just that. Sex abuse charges, down 36%.
11:24Arrest for assault with a deadly weapon, guess what?
11:29They're actually up, meaning we are going out and getting people who are engaging in
11:35violent behavior and we're arresting them, which makes everybody out on the street safer.
11:40Motor vehicle theft, theft, down 57%.
11:44Theft from auto, 42%. Now, there's not a huge number of them, but arson is
11:52down 100%. According to this, there has not been a single act of arson in
11:57the entirety of the city of Washington, D .C.
12:01Robbery, down 22%. Burglary, down 19%.
12:05All of these things are plummeting.
12:08It worked. Washington, D .C., as I speak to you today, is probably safer on
12:15this day than it has ever been in the life of anyone that is out
12:19there listening to this right now.
12:21That is a profound accomplishment.
12:24And it's also, this data is writ large across the station.
12:28As we have told you, last year was the lowest overall murder rate in the
12:31nation. All over the country, this is happening.
12:35But it could happen so much more.
12:38It's happening in Memphis, happening in Washington, D .C.
12:42Imagine how many lives would be saved from murder if what Trump has done in
12:48D .C. was applied in Chicago, was applied in Atlanta, was applied in New York
12:54City, was applied all over this nation, particularly in the places that have the highest
13:00rates of violent crime. Memphis used to be the place.
13:02It works. We did something, and the results were very positive.
13:08We should do more of it.
13:10This is the entire purpose of federalism in general.
13:14It is the state should be laboratories.
13:16When we find something that works, we should extrapolate that across the entirety of the
13:22nation. And using Washington, D .C.
13:25as a test case, as the front porch of the nation, really, in the 250th
13:31anniversary of the nation, I think is an incredibly symbolic moment that we should all
13:38be celebrating and that everyone should be talking about.
13:42But almost no one is.
13:45You, however, are aware of it.
13:47Think about all the media activity in Washington, D .C.
13:51that's going to happen this weekend surrounding the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
13:55How many media are actually going to cover the true story of what's going on
13:58in Washington, D .C.? I hope President Trump shows up, puts this data on a
14:03jumbotron behind him, and makes every single media member in Washington, D .C.
14:08see what real, tangible results look like as President Trump has made Washington, D .C.
14:14not just great again, greater than it's ever been in the history of our nation.
14:19All right, when we come back, continue to break this down for you.
14:22I'm in D .C. for the day.
14:24We've got a great show coming your way.
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15:52Welcome back in. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show.
15:55Buck is on having fun.
15:58He had a big event in New York City for his most recent book, Manufacturing
16:02Delusion. He is with his family in New York City for a long weekend.
16:06He'll be back with me on the Monday edition of the program.
16:09I'm in Washington, D .C.
16:10with my lovely wife, Laura.
16:12White House Correspondents Dinner coming up.
16:14Excited to be there with President Trump and all the members of his administration.
16:18Attending should be an interesting event.
16:20As I just laid out, I hope he takes the opportunity to actually let everybody
16:24know how much of a difference he's already made in Washington, D .C., and so
16:28many people out there in the National Guard that have been surged to help drive
16:32down violent crime. But I do think, as many of you out there are reacting
16:37to what I just shared with you, all of the data, again, that's from the
16:40Washington, D .C., Maine website.
16:43You can go look it up for yourself in real time, the data that is
16:46out there. I do think a lot of people are starting to ask the question,
16:51if they can do it in Washington, D .C., and Memphis, why can't they do
16:54it in my town? And I would encourage not only, like I said, President Trump
16:58to put this up on the screen for everybody to be faced with, all of
17:02the media that's going to be at the White House Correspondent Center, but I would
17:06encourage a lot of you out there to start using this data in your states
17:10and in your cities and saying, if we could do it in Washington, D .C.,
17:14a place that a lot of people thought was intractably dangerous, that couldn't be fixed,
17:18that couldn't be saved, why in the world are we not doing it across the
17:22entire nation? Why are we not driving down murder just like they did in Washington,
17:28D .C., and just like they did in Memphis?
17:30And here's the thing that is really, I think, going to get a lot of
17:33people on the left. If Trump was right, but also Trump's plans and policies in
17:40place in D .C. and Memphis, they would work everywhere.
17:44So why not just apply them everywhere and make America safer than it's ever been
17:48in the history of our nation?
17:50How much of a difference can that mean, not only for the people whose lives
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18:59The United States has imposed an ironclad blockade that grows more powerful by the day.
19:05From the Gulf of Oman to the open oceans, our Navy is enforcing this blockade
19:10without hesitation or apology. Now, as usual, there's a lot of false information out there.
19:15I'll say this, every ship, every ship that the U .S.
19:18believes meets our criteria, either Iranian ships or to and from Iranian ports, has been
19:25turned around. As of this morning, 34 total.
19:28Non -Iranian vessels are allowed to transit, and many have, including overnight.
19:33Not only is the blockade growing, in fact, a second aircraft carrier will join the
19:38blockade in just a few days, President Trump's fortitude is unshakable, and his mission is
19:44crystal clear. President Trump said it again yesterday.
19:47We have all the time in the world, and we're not anxious for a deal.
19:51And I hear him say it every day in private as well.
19:54Iran knows that they still have an open window to choose wisely.
19:57As we said previously, choose wisely at the negotiating table.
20:00All they have to do is abandon a nuclear weapon in meaningful and verifiable ways,
20:05or instead they can watch their regime's fragile economic state collapse under the unrelenting pressure
20:10of American power. A blockade as long as it takes, whatever President Trump decides.
20:17Because the bottom line remains the bottom line.
20:19Iran will never get a nuclear bomb.
20:21The choice is theirs, but with this blockade, the clock is not on their side.
20:25We are seeing vessels transiting.
20:27There are paths that are open.
20:29And part of what the president is threatening is ensuring, if there's attempts to lay
20:33recklessly and irresponsibly, lay more mines, we're going to deal with that.
20:36It's a violation of the ceasefire.
20:38So transit is occurring, much more limited than anybody would like to see, and with
20:42more risk than people would like to see.
20:44But that's because Iran is doing irresponsible things with small fast boats, crafts, like I
20:49said, with weapons on them.
20:50These are commercial ships. In some cases, cruise ships.
20:54Cruise ships that came through being threatened.
20:56That is Pete Hegseth, and he has been breaking down, as I give credit all
21:01the time, these early morning press conferences that set the agenda are so much more
21:08successful than ones that come later in the day.
21:11And so what you're really hearing there is a larger discussion about a big issue
21:17that really I don't think is being talked about very intelligently by most in the
21:22media. And that is this, Iran doesn't have the ability to store very much oil
21:29and gas at all in their current status.
21:33In fact, there are reports, and I was reading a lot about them this morning,
21:38that there has been an oil tanker that is 40 years old, 35 years old,
21:45that Iran has brought to bear to...
21:47potentially be storing oil and gas on and you might say okay what do you
21:54mean by that Clay I mean this is a ship that basically isn't effective for
21:59purposes of transiting oil and gas but as we were discussing yesterday there is such
22:05a lack of storage capability in Iran that they are potentially going to have to
22:11use floating storage capacities to deal with the fact that they can't move their oil
22:17and gas out of the Strait of Hormuz in other words we have completely economically
22:23put them in handcuffs and they don't have the ability to in any way engage
22:29in true commerce because oil and gas sales is basically the entirety of their economic
22:36exports other than Buck's beloved pistachios look here also are a couple of details that
22:44I was reading this morning in the Wall Street Journal that I thought were significant
22:47it also is the case that China is desperately in need of Iranian oil and
22:54gas and they in fact have been claiming that they are buying oil and gas
22:58from other places but it's actually all originating from Iran because we have sanctions on
23:04Iranian oil in fact this is directly from the Wall Street Journal this morning most
23:09of the Chinese imports are masked this is the oil and gas imports as originating
23:15in Malaysia and Indonesia instead of Iran in the past three months China imported 93
23:22million barrels of oil from Malaysia and 77 million barrels from Indonesia that's what their
23:29customs data shows and this is what's interesting again this is from the Wall Street
23:33Journal those numbers exceeded the past production levels of the two countries so what we
23:42have here is a situation where Iran is in really significant and dire financial straits
23:50but actually so is China and if you guys heard me talking about the larger
23:54economic implications here here is the challenge that China has unlike the United States which
24:00is a net oil and gas exporting economy now China produces almost no oil and
24:06gas and when the Strait of Hormuz is closed the economy that ends up suffering
24:13the most is not the United States as I feel like I'm the almost the
24:17only person this show is almost the only one that has been willing to talk
24:21about the fact that this is not the 1990s this is not the 1980s thanks
24:26to drill baby drill we actually have a huge economic benefit frankly that now in
24:35years to the United States whenever oil and gas prices go up which is quite
24:39a bit different than what has happened in the 80s and the 90s in other
24:44words we are actually the net beneficiaries of much of the rise in oil and
24:51gas prices meaning the United States economically yes on an individual basis it is frustrating
24:57for oil and gas prices for an average gallon of gas to go from three
25:00to four dollars but it's not actually putting handcuffs on the United States economy in
25:06fact in fact when you break it down we're setting record highs in the stock
25:11market because I think the people who have got the most money to bear on
25:15this have come to recognize that we're in a new economic reality in fact as
25:20I am speaking to all of you at this exact moment we just set an
25:25all -time record high in stock prices okay and this is a sign of our
25:32overall economic might now it's not all positive because I also told you guys and
25:37I do think this is significant that the real danger to the American economy now
25:42is not oil and gas prices and this gets a little bit intimidating it's semiconductor
25:47chips and you remember when Buck went to Taiwan and he toured Taiwan semiconductor and
25:52everything else I think the real reason now that China wants to take Taiwan is
25:58not because they want the uh the imperialism because they feel like oh this is
26:05a ancestral part of the Chinese homeland there is some appeal there but it's actually
26:11because they want to control completely the uh semiconductor chips because talk to anybody that's
26:18involved in AI at all anybody that's involved in advanced technology we have a significant
26:24issue with not producing anywhere near enough semiconductors in the United States such that if
26:31China took Taiwan the issue is China would then own the entirety to a large
26:38extent of the AI future and of the tech future because they would control all
26:42the computer chips which is why it doesn't get any attention but why the maybe
26:48the most important aspect of President Trump's manufacturing in the United States agenda is actually
26:56that we have to be producing these semiconductors in the United States otherwise China has
27:02the potential world economy in its palm if it were to take over Taiwan because
27:07then China could insist that all of Taiwan's assets all of their semiconductors primarily beneficial
27:15benefit benefit benefit China which would allow their tech companies to take off but right
27:20now they have a major issue China does because they don't have oil and gas
27:25and they desperately need it and that means I saw this and I couldn't believe
27:29because I've been saying drill baby drill obviously I believe initially originated at least in
27:34a public mindset with Sarah Palin a liberal person claimed that drill baby drill is
27:43actually sexualizing climate destruction which is cut 2022 to to put a bow on this
27:52discussion by the way we'll open up phone lines we haven't taken any calls yet
27:55800 -282 -2882 also we'll play some of your talk backs when we come back
28:00and we got a couple of great guests to talk about a variety of these
28:03topics as well as we roll through the Friday edition of the program and again
28:07buck out with his family in New York City New York is taxing him so
28:10hard that he's trying to avoid doing very many shows crazy from New York City
28:15uh but uh this is cut 22 uh listen laugh and realize this is where
28:20we are to drill baby drill you don't want to drill baby drill it's an
28:23offensive phrase to say drill baby joke it's weird to sexualize climate destruction like who
28:28are you calling baby ah sexualizing climate destruction I hate when people do that um
28:36this is the left -wing mindset and actually they have not yet realized on the
28:41left that economic independence through producing more oil and gas is actually the best thing
28:47that we could do for overall human rights around the world why because as many
28:52of you are smart enough to realize the most regressive and least uh embracing of
28:57basic human rights petrochemical states that have great oil and gas deposits and as a
29:04result do not have to have dynamic economies and are able to curtail the individual
29:08freedoms of so many people in those countries that my friends is the reality of
29:13the economic condition in which we find ourselves now let me give you a little
29:17bit of a heads up where we're headed Stephen Moore a lot of you were
29:20very fascinated by the conversation we had about spirit airlines yesterday uh potentially the government
29:26saving them should they should they not and the fact that the government blew it
29:31uh because Joe Biden said that spirit shouldn't be by bought by jet blue a
29:36district court judge in Massachusetts agreed and now spirit's been in bankruptcy multiple times we
29:43will talk about that Stephen Moore listening to the program and he wanted to weigh
29:47in uh top uh economist who served as a senior policy advisor for President Trump
29:52and we're also going to be joined by a member of the President's Cabinet Scott
29:56Turner Secretary of Housing and Urban Development he's a fan and he reached out because
30:00he knew I'd be watching the NFL draft he wants to talk about a bunch
30:03of different topics but he was also a former NFL player who had a draft
30:08experience of his own and he was at the draft last night in Pittsburgh as
30:12were several hundred thousand people I bet many of whom are listening to us right
30:16now all that headed your way appreciate all of you uh and uh we like
30:20I said open up the phone lines and get everything rolling there but I wanted
30:25to make sure that all of you understood that a huge deal out there is
30:30making sure that you are able to support so many people in Israel who are
30:35struggling right now who need uh bomb shelters who need hospitals underground if you're a
30:41Christian and you just want to extend a hand to someone who is Jewish to
30:45deal with what is going on right now that's exactly why the International Fellowship of
30:49Christians and Jews was built to bridge uh and uh and and create a stable
30:54and lasting bond between Christians here in the United States and those of Jewish faith
30:59in the Middle East right now you can join Buck and me give 45 dollars
31:02and rush life -saving essentials to the vulnerable under fire I have seen it for
31:07myself you can call 888 -488 -IFCJ that's 888 -488 -IFCJ you can also go
31:14online at ifcj .org that's ifcj .org preset your pals Clay and Buck on the
31:23iHeart app welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show appreciate all of you as
31:28we are rolling through the Friday edition of the program Stephen Moore is going to
31:34be in studio with us here in DC a lot of people reacting to the
31:37numbers the awesome data on how much safer Washington DC has gotten compared to last
31:43year and how well everything uh is rolling there but also a lot of you
31:48with some interesting talkbacks uh based on what we said yesterday and given the fact
31:53that it's Friday I'm going to try to get to as many of those talkbacks
31:56as I possibly can and so we're going to go right off the top here
32:00um we're going to talk with Stephen Moore about this Spirit Airlines situation like I
32:05said many of you reacted to the conversation we had about it yesterday um here
32:10is a podcast listener Craig uh who is a Spirit Airlines pilot and wants to
32:16give us a bit more info uh and clarity I was reading a bunch uh
32:20by the way a lot of coverage of the Spirit Airlines situation uh in media
32:24this morning as I was prepping to get ready for the show uh and this
32:28is what uh Craig podcast listener cut a wanted to say hey guys just wanted
32:32to correct you on something I'm a pilot for Spirit Airlines and the company is
32:36actually in bankruptcy for the second time it's not about to enter bankruptcy so I
32:41just wanted to clear that up and appreciate all the people wishing for us to
32:45fail appreciate all the people wishing you for you to fail uh again buck pointed
32:50out and it is true we have a huge number of you that are listeners
32:53that are pilots for a variety of different airlines it feels like every time i'm
32:57flying uh just about now i meet a pilot who is a uh a listener
33:01so um look i mean the challenge here is the united states government blew it
33:07with spirit airlines the biden administration said they can't merge with jet blue and as
33:14a result 3 .8 billion dollars in equity was wiped out that's what the merger
33:20was going to be worth and then spirit argued hey if we don't merge we're
33:24going to file for bankruptcy the judge said no you're wrong the biden administration is
33:29right your business is fine and then they filed for bankruptcy and now they are
33:33basically filing for bankruptcy maybe even officially in bankruptcy again um paul in alabama buck
33:39is very anti -marijuana i would say i'm more like if you want to use
33:43it occasionally that's fine but it's hard to be super successful in life in my
33:48opinion if you use marijuana every single day just like it's hard to be successful
33:55in life i believe if you drink alcohol every single day doesn't mean they can't
34:01do it but most people who are successful in life and super productive don't use
34:06drugs and alcohol to excess and certainly don't use it every single day but all
34:12of you have to be well actually here's paul in alabama cut b clay buck
34:17i hear y 'all talking about nobody's successful smokes marijuana dude elon musk smokes marijuana
34:24joe rogan smokes marijuana highly successful highly good for the community and they promote that
34:32they do it once again dude quit saying stuff you you just dude your opinion
34:37is way off with you're out of touch with the community on on the marijuana
34:41deal dude i mean i'm a dad let me put it to you this way
34:44if you told me hey when your boys grow up clay and they become adults
34:48they are going to drink alcohol every day and or they're going to smoke marijuana
34:55every day i would be severely disappointed if they made that choice what i said
35:00on the program was look most things in life are okay if you do them
35:04with moderation i'm going out to dinner tonight i'm going to have alcohol i'm not
35:09going to have 40 glasses of alcohol i'm going to the white house correspondence dinner
35:13tomorrow i'm probably going to have alcohol there so i'll have alcohol two days in
35:17a row i won't drink on sunday monday tuesday probably at all maybe wednesday thursday
35:23too i'm social drinking right and if you are using marijuana and in my opinion
35:30if you're using alcohol every day it's going to be harder for you to be
35:35in good health and be successful in life i think that is one of the
35:38least controversial opinions we have ever had on this program now that doesn't mean that
35:44there aren't people who use alcohol and marijuana and are regularly successful what i would
35:50point to you about elon musk is there was an investigation into his companies and
35:56to whether he could have security clearance or not after he smoked marijuana on joe
36:01rogan's podcast i would also say and i bet joe rogan would say this too
36:05when you are an entertainer your lifestyle is very different than the average person my
36:12lifestyle is very different than the average listener right now when it comes to my
36:16job i have to be sitting here at a specific time talking to you every
36:20day let me tell you if i had a drug or alcohol problem it would
36:25be almost impossible for me to consistently do this show i'll guarantee you there's no
36:29way i would have been up doing my 5 a .m central show live for
36:33three hours every day it would have been almost impossible so my general advice for
36:37the kids out there if you're listening to your car don't smoke hot don't do
36:42drugs don't drink and if you do that you're probably going to be more successful
36:47but if you decide to do it just do it in moderation one second hour
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