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Guaranteed human welcome in our number two Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you. Our thanks to Linda from Green Valley, Arizona as her call on Friday has helped for there to be TSA agents deployed today. And Buck, as I'm starting off this hour, this just came across my Twitter feed. Listen to the call out rate from Sunday. These are TSA agents not showing up for work. Remember, they're not being paid BWI 38%. This is according by the way to David Shepherdson, JFK 37.4% Pittsburgh 24.7% Philadelphia 24.2% LaGuardia in New York City 21.7% IAH in Houston 39.1% Phoenix 20.3% New Orleans 42.3% and Atlanta 41.5%. So if you're wondering, hey, how did Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston and jfk. I bet things were awful at BWI too. I hadn't heard about bwi. The call out rate people aren't getting paid. They're getting frustrated. And some of these people I bet are doing second jobs because they have to pay. I just find this to be again, absolutely inexcusable that we're requiring the TSA agents to show up, not be paid. And by we I mean Democrats. And so if you're looking at Poly Market, for instance, they are projecting that the, the shutdown, the refusal to pay TSA agents is going to extend into April. So 67% chance this thing extends into April. So this is not going to get any better. And in fact in many places it's probably going to get worse, worse. And again, those call out rates are huge. But if you think about what's going on, people have kids, they have, they have the ability and responsibility to, it's like their job, their, their bills are, people are just like, okay, you don't have to pay your car payment, you don't have to pay rent, you don't have to pay $40,000 a year is the average TSA agent salary. And again, I just would say how many people out there, you've been in this situation, I've been in this situation, could go a month without being, without being paid and still be able to pay your bills. Most people can't. And so this to paycheck for years
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it was like money came in, paid rent, some money for food and gas and like that was it. So that's, you know, obviously you can run up credit card debt, but that's not a good idea.
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Yeah, I mean, and so it's a tough situation right now. ICE agents being deployed to try and make everything better. Buck, I talked about this yesterday or Friday on the program. You know, how, how you weren't here. So I want to hit you with these stats because DC does something interesting. They publish all of their, all of their data, their crime data online. And so you can look at it in real time. We're talking President Trump is in Memphis discussing the success that he's had driving down the overall rate of crime. This is an extraordinary data point. It has received hardly any attention. And I talked about it, remember? You well do, because we talked about it. What if what President Trump was doing on crime actually just worked, right? Everybody came out in D.C. and they said two things. They said, one, hey, well, crime's not that bad. And you know, you're like, you're lying, right? You recognize. And then, and then some leftos, some legacy media even said, well, crime is pretty bad. And then they said crime's not bad. So they were willing to lie in D.C. secondly, they said, well, this is not going to work. Buck, Trump is in Memphis, 25 year low on violent crime there as of this year compared to last year. Murder right now is down 65% in Washington D.C. and sexual assault is down 65% compared to last year.
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Can I just point this out, Those numbers are incredible. And the fact that this isn't, I'm even going to, I'm going to hit some of the conservative media on this or some of the Trump supporting media on this. Guys, where are you? You a little too much. Just sort of holding a microphone up to whatever Trump is saying and just going, oh, he's handling it all for us. Ok. Yeah, but you have massive news entities and people with big platforms out there who need to be getting this messaging out. Not just to the party faithful, not just to people that voted Trump three times, but get it out to the so called normies in the middle, just the everyday folks who don't pay very close. If you're listening to this show, you care about politics, you care about current events and you're, you're informed. That's just reality. You know, more than a vast majority of the people you come across at the grocery store, at the gas station, in the school pickup line, whatever, you know more than they do because you listen to the show. You're welcome. Thank you for being with us. Of course. But Clay, there are all these people who have no idea what you're talking about with the numbers. They have never heard this before. They don't know it's a massive, massive win. If you were, if you were trying to become the mayor of D.C. for a second term, let's say, and you had brought down the crime rate 60%, the murder rate 60%, that would be the number one thing I think you would be telling everybody, yes, Trump helped them do this and he's not even the mayor.
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And again, I just think this is so important. A lot of times when things go well, there is a failure to cover them because there is a bad news bias that is out there. And I think you're right. How many people out there in so called conservative media do you think have shared with their audience that Washington D.C. homicides are down 65%, that sex assaults are down 65%, that Memphis is at a 25 year crime low, and oh, by the way, that the country is at a 125 year low for murders, that is unbelievable. Buck, if you and I had come on, I always like to play this game. If you and I had come on and way overpromised and we had said, I think this Trump surge is going to work, this is a no brainer, murders are going to drop 50% year over year, everyone out there in legacy media would have grabbed our tweet or would have grabbed our sound soundbite and they would have dunked on us over how ridiculous that prediction was. In fact, we would have been undershooting by a significant degree how successful Trump's surge was. And by the way, why wouldn't this be replicated in every city with high crime in America? Imagine if to your point, Buck, imagine if we just grew used to allowing murder to happen because we weren't willing to do the things that were necessary to drive it down. How much different would America look like if murders dropped 60% in the next year?
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Clay, this is reminding me actually of this moment from the first Trump administration when I was doing my show, but also something called Rising on Hill tv, which later became Breaking Points, which is now the Kristol and Sagar show, which is a very big podcast. But I remember when I was doing that show, all these Democrats who hated Trump, this is first Trump administration. You know the argument I had to have with them over and over again on the show because this was around the kids in cages era and, and border security stuff. Right. You know, the argument was walls don't work. That was their talking point.
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Walls I do don't work. Yes.
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And, and you sit here, you're like, that is the dumbest thing this is like saying water isn't wet. Of course walls work. Walls have worked for all of human history. They're not perfect, but, you know, you wouldn't say like antibiotics don't work because they don't work 100%. Yeah, they work. It just, it was the dumbest talking point. And sure enough, it finally started to get out there because more and more people with border patrol would say, hey, you know, it actually helps us in this area. You don't have to have a wall over the entire border. Anyway, my point with this is let's look at what Trump did. Like they were saying walls don't work because they hate Trump and they were willing to take the dumbest position imaginable. Like they had figured something out that for all of human history we had been wrong on. Okay, now look at what Trump did in D.C. clay declared a crime emergency, deployed National Guard and additional people. Forget this. Additional federal law enforcement agents. By the way, Director Cash Patel, who gets a lot of heat from the media on a lot of things. FBI has played a big role in this. Our friend Dan Bongino, when he was deputy director, he was pushing this big time, big role in this. This is the most important stuff. The FBI does get very bad, dangerous people off the streets. They had a massive surge in fugitive task force operations, essentially grabbing the guys that you've been trying to get for a long time. A massive surge in going after high profile criminal targets, using federal people. Forget this. Do you know any drugs? If you're a drug dealer, you're breaking federal law. Like it's actually a federal crime. It's not just a state crime, even if you're just selling. And so federal resources can be. And there's a lot of crimes if you're a drug dealer carrying a firearm as well as drugs to sell. That's a specific federal crime. That's an additional. I think it's a 10 year felony. You get hit with for that. Right. Because you're committing a felony and you're carrying an illegal firearm as a felon. So, Clay, there's all these things. Of course this brings the crime rate down. Like, do you see what I'm, do you see what I'm getting at?
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No, this is the most obvious. They're all connected, but they told us crime wasn't bad. And oh, by the way, this is going to fail. And I just think results matter when you try something. And we said at the time, maybe it doesn't have any impact really substantial at all, but at least you're trying to do something. One of the best lessons you can get in management is just make a decision, right? Because if you're wrong, you can change the decision. If you're right, things get better. And so failure to do things just keeps everything bad. You know, making choices and making a decision is actually so important. And I give credit, I think it ties in with Linda's call. President Trump's like, yeah, why don't we just put ice in airports? We can do things the obvious, this
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is the genius of Trumpism, is being willing to do the obvious thing that will make things better. It's really that simple. Do the obvious thing. Don't listen to all the squawking from the talking heads who know nothing on TV or for that matter, a lot of them on podcasts and radio. Like, do the obvious thing to there is a fire. You have a bucket of water. Don't listen to the people who say, well, sometimes water can make the fire worse. What if there are chemicals in that fire? No, throw the bucket of water on the fire. Make things better. This is the fundamental genius of Trumpism in action. Do the obvious thing. That will work. And sure enough, here we are once again. We see pouring water on a fire usually, you know, 99% of the time makes the fire less bad or puts it out. And I, you know, Clay, I knew this was going to work in D.C. because, and I told you this, I think I mentioned on the show, I have a friend who is Democrat, very good friend of mine, has very good connections into the D.C. mayor's office. That's all I'll say. And he's like, oh, no, she, she knows this is, she's not, she's not going to be all out in front saying, I love Trump, but she's happy that the crime rate's going to go down because you know who looks, you know who looks like one of the best mayors in the country right now? Muriel Bowser of D.C. it's true. Look at the numbers she takes. She gets. Trump has handed her the best crime drop numbers of any mayor, like since Giuliani in the 90s in New York. And all she had to do was not be a total maniac who did everything in her power to undermine. And by the way, she did criticize it. I'm not saying that, but.
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And we're on pace for the lowest murder rate in Washington, D.C. in recorded history in our 250th year anniversary of the country's founding, it seems, look, Trump gets the symbolism of that. And you can't have a great country. If your capital isn't safe, I would stand by that no matter what country you're in.
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You know, Clay, also, this is where I think the conservative mind and the liberal mind or the leftist mind, progressive, whatever, they change the terms because over time people realize how bad they are, so they have to keep cycling. Notice I've been a conservative mind. We've never gone, oh, I'm not conservative. No, no. But it's because conservative is based on. It's applying the knowledge of history and experience to try to make good decisions today. Liberals are what's going to feel good to say right now. Leftists are what's going to put the state in place of God and empower it to do everything for me so I don't have to do anything. But, you know, you look at these things, you look at the way this plays out, and this should be so obvious to everyone. If we were wrong about something, if putting blue light, you know, those blue idea. Do you have those on your campus, Clay? They had these things like. Yeah.
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Where you could hear the thing and it would immediately set off. Yeah.
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To me, it's like, well, in an era of cell phones, you know, do you really even, you know, what's the deal? You have a cell phone, Everyone has a cell phone on. But if putting blue lights up all, all over a city or something brought the murder rate down 60%, I'd be like, well, I was wrong. I want less murders, rapes and robberies. Let's put up more. Like, I would admit that there was something that they're not admitting that what Trump has done has saved lives and saved countless people from being the victims of violent crimes.
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All you have to do. I just went directly to the Washington D.C. data center. It's the easiest research for anyone on the planet to do. No one is talking about it. And again, when things are going well and Trump is involved at all, the reason you hear nothing, because Trump is partly responsible for things going well. They won't cover it.
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Interesting. Mariel Bowser of D.C. by the way, not running for a fourth term. She's going to go do something else. You know what she's going to do? She's going to go into the private sector and she's going to be giving lectures for, you know, 50 to $100,000 a pop about how to turn around the crime situation in D.C. just watch. Just watch.
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Probably you're right. You're probably right.
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You know how to really run a city. Look at, look at the great numbers she's going to go out on here after a fourth term. So there you have it. All right, look. One of the joys of homeownership is filling your yard with trees and shrubs and watching them grow into something awesome. Our sponsor, Fast Growing Trees. This is really cool. It's the nation's largest online nursery and they can help you find the perfect plants to complement your home. Fast Growing trees have over 1200 different varieties and this is the part of it that I think is also really fun. Kerry just did this. She had a long video call with one of their incredible experts and they learn about where are you, what are you looking for, what climate are you in? What kind of plants? You know, we want plants here that are very hardy because the crazy sun that comes in can really just fry a lot of different plants. So they have expertise. And now Carrie and I have a bunch of different plants coming from Fast growing Trees. Fast growing trees. Reinventing the way we find the shrubbery and trees for our yards. They're also helping apartment dwellers in metropolitan areas like New York City with indoor plants, too. Gotta get the right indoor plants. Everybody plants just make every home nicer. I'm a big plant guy. This is true. Big pet guy, Big plant guy. Everything you order is backed by their alive and thrive guarantee. That's how well they've nurtured your new trees and plants. Fast GrowingTrees.com is the website to go to. Stop buying things randomly. They die, they leaves all fall off. That's sad. Go to Fast Growing Trees to get the highest quality, the biggest variety and the expertise so you know what you're doing and you have this great greenery in your home or on your porch or wherever. Use Buck as your promo code for 20% off. That's fast growing trees dot com. Use promo code buck for 20% off.
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Stories of freedom, stories of America. Inspirational stories that unite us all. Each day, spend time with Clay and Buck. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Okay, we're gonna go take a couple of calls. Linda in Green Valley, Arizona has called in. She couldn't get through, so she has given us a talk back. I will play that for you momentarily. But first, quickly, Dan. He says he's in an unidentified blue state. Dan, fire away. Good job, Dan. Hang up on Dan Scott in Georgetown, Kentucky. Please leave the phone lines clear for our good friend Linda Scott in Georgetown, Kentucky.
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Hello, gentlemen. I've been listening. I've been a Republican My whole life. I'm 64 years old. A year ago in March, one of you two guys said these tariffs are the way to go and if they've not gone down by September, last September, then I'll go wear a clown suit. They're higher now than they were then. Where's the clown suit at? You got to be truthful to the people.
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Well, we didn't say that. I will put everybody on transcript review. Scott, I think what you might remember is I said I would wear a clown outfit on Piers Morgan show if the stock market was lower. When everybody was panicked in April and last year and everybody was suing, I said if the stock market is lower. I think I said in a year or maybe it was 18 months. I don't remember exactly. The stock market is up about 40% since that in April. So that was the discussion point. Thanks for the call. If you want to go back and review the transcripts, I think the only time I talked, I don't think it was a clown suit. I think I said I would wear a clown face or clown makeup or something like that. You only get to see, like a part of my, you know, upper body. A suit wouldn't make a lot of sense.
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Clay's very dialed in whenever it comes
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to any bet situation.
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I can tell you that. That is if he's making any sort of wager, he's paying attention.
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So producer Ali has written it down. She's on it. Buck. The date is by October 7, 2026. I said that I will wear a clown nose on the program. That is by October 7, 2026, if the stock market is not up and if gas prices are not lower. That was in April of 2025. The stock market is up huge. I think gas prices even now are down from where they were back then. But I'm feeling good about that wager. But again, on October 7, 2026, I'll be here with a clown nose. If I am wrong, that's when I told you all to buy stocks in April and that things would be going well. I'm very confident that, that that's going to be a good position, if nothing else.
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If you've spent your time listening to us for these five years and you didn't panic, sell your retirement fund at the beginning of the Trump administration. Definitely financially worth your time, everyone.
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No doubt.
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I think if you would listen to that one, that one bit of advice from Clay and Buck World worth all, worth all the hours you've spent with us.
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So here is Linda. She Couldn't get through. So again, we're trying to clear the phone line so Linda can call in after the huge impact she has. This is Linda from Green Valley, Arizona, reacting to her Friday call that has changed American policy. Listen.
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Good morning, Clay and Buck. This is Linda from Green Valley, Arizona. I've been listening. I tried to call in, but couldn't get in. So just wanted to let you know that this was my own idea. We live in an area with a lot of Border Patrol and Homeland Security employees, and we live south of Tucson where the mayor is terrible with all of this kind of stuff. So thank you very much. Bye.
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All right, so that is Linda. Please leave the phone lines. I'd like to hear from Linda. Here's some fun.
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Can we just weigh in on the Linda thing real quick? Just want to say this. I think she's totally right. I think this was her idea. Clay, you and I, you, you even more so. You're like living in the Matrix 24. 7. But we're scanning and talking and looking at what's going on with all the conversation, politically, online and everywhere else. Sometimes someone will think that they came up with something. And I'm like, I've already seen that in 10 other places because it's a pretty straightforward idea. This is not that I. Until this came up on this show, I had seen not a peep about this anywhere in the online or otherwise media ecosystem. So I totally think, Linda, Linda, I don't know. Maybe you just saved America. Like, maybe you just saved the country because you called into Clay and Buck and you had been listening. So there is that.
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It's a truly original idea. And even cnn, I just retweeted it. Brian Stelter is covering it. And he went and looked. The only reason I talked about it, you know this, probably the audience doesn't necessarily know this. We don't choose our topics when we go on television. So. So people out there like, you know, we choose the topics here on this show. But when you go on as a television guest, they. They're like, hey, we're going to have you talking about X or Y. I wasn't even necessarily 100% certain what the topics were on Friday. So it's not like I planned it, but I did want to give. I. The only regret I have on Fox News is I wish that I had remembered Linda's name. I couldn't remember exactly what the caller's name was. So that was on me. But I didn't want to even take credit for the idea because I thought it was such a good one. So I said in that clip and we'll play it for you again at the top of the next hour. Hey, this was one of our callers on Clay and Buck and then it went viral from there.
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So I got to tell you that when I saw this and I was in the car driving up to, it's a long drive, by the way, driving from Miami up to Ponte Vedra, and I feel like I'm going to become part of the Real Estate Salesman of the year. Because I really, I was just like, this place is amazing.
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It's great.
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But as I'm driving, as I'm driving up Clay and I'm seeing all the stuff on my phone about Linda, I didn't hear the call initially and I just remember thinking, I'm like, is this light and ever was that everyone thought this, is this light him up Linda? Because we had light him up Linda with the drug cartel boats were like, what should be done? She's like, take them out, blow them up. Oh, they're floating, not floating anymore. Take them out, you know. And I was like, did light them up, Linda. Just light up a cigarette and go, you know what we do? We deploy ice to the airports, you know, but apparently this is Arizona, Linda. Different Linda.
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So both sides of the country covered with excellent Linda callers. So, so, yeah, like again, I think this is an example. Now what this is going to encourage, Buck, is a lot of people give us manifestos anytime we have like a public event. People are super nice, they show up and they're like, hey, here's my 400 page treatise on why the commerce clause is being misapplied based on the original meaning of the Constitution. Thank you. Like, I, I, I would love your 400 page treatise on the commerce clause. It's hard for me to get through that if you can distill an idea down simply and say, hey, why don't we do this again? When the caller put it forward, I was like, hey, you know what? This makes an awful lot of sense. And it resonated with me and obviously it resonated in the White House too, because I don't think there's any way to be fair. I understand President Trump and he deserves credit for everything because ultimately it's his administration. Do you think it's coincidental that on, on Friday night I referenced this idea from Linda and by Saturday morning, the idea of deploying ice agents was happening. Now, where I give the President a tremendous amount of credit is it's Monday and they're in 13 airports. Yeah, he moves. Usually you can't get the government to do anything. We got people in 13 airports, hopefully helping people get through TSA.
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I would also note on this that at a minimum, and it is already helping a bit, but at a minimum, it shows to anyone who is paying attention in this country that the Trump administration does not want you in long lines at the airports and is doing what it can, including being creative and thinking outside the box to help travelers get to their spring break destinations, get to, you know, their, their Aunt Ethel's house for the, for the weekend, whatever it may be, work. People have to go to places for their jobs. Trump is trying to fix problems. Democrats make problems. I mean, that's, I think one of the biggest takeaways from this or should be, especially because this is an election year, Democrats are willing to manufacture problems and create pain for Americans so they can lie about who's causing the pain and try to win votes based on that. That's the game. They light the fire and they're like, where's the fire department? Not here fast enough.
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Here's one thing that I will try to do, by the way, I'm going to try to get Linda an autograph Trump hat. I think we could probably make that happen. I could probably reach out. I think Linda had such a good idea. I bet President Trump would like to sign a hat for. I am quite confident, Buck, that you and I can, can manage to make that happen. So if Linda will either call back or she can give us a talk back with her actual contact. We will not play your contact information on the, on the national radio, but that will allow us to be able to, to get back in touch with you easier. In the meantime, I want to tell you all about LifeLock and what a tremendous difference they can make. Every day you hear about somebody else's information leaking. Guess what newest leak aura not to be confused with the ring company identity protection company got hit with the data breach. 900,000 records exposed. Company reports an employee fell for a hack attack. And if the breach impacts you, don't wait. Still time to stay one step ahead of any online identity threats coming your way. Rely on LifeLock. They monitor hundreds of millions of data points a second for identity threats and alert you right away if anything pops up. Not all identity protection is the same. LifeLock will protect you and notify you when your information ends up inevitably hacked online. Join now. Save 40% off your first year with my name Clay as the promo code. That's 1-800lifelock. You can also head to lifelock.com promo code Clay for 40 off. That's 1-800-lifelock lifelock.com promo code clay for 40 off. Two guys walk up to a mic. Anything goes Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Welcome in everybody. Welcome everybody, to the third hour of the Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton show. We've got stuff to talk about with Iran. Still updating on that. Also, the TSA backlog created by Democrats on behalf of illegal aliens who are a Democrat. Let's just be honest, foreigners in this country illegally are a Democrat constituency, one that the Democrats are very devoted to. And that is why some of you have dealt with horrific lines at airports. And it is why some of you are canceling travel, including spring, spring break plans, because you can't get where you have to go. Because they want to make sure that ICE does not continue its enforcement mission. We will talk about all that. But Clay, something else I wanted to note here. On the on the good news side of things, a statue of Christopher Columbus has been put up outside of a federal office building on White House grounds. This is a replica of a statue that was toppled in Baltimore in 2020 during the George Floyd Mass Race Panic or racial justice protest, as CNN calls it here. And this is outside the eeob. Eeob rather Eisenhower Executive Office Building. This is where Clay was barred for showing up in flip flops and a Tommy Bahama shirt. You know, they said, no, Mr. Travis, you are not at the beach. And Clay was like, but I'm Clay Travis. This is how I roll. Nonetheless, the next time you go to the White House, Clay will have proper attire and proper identification, which was the real issue, as we know, because for some reason Clay, you know the governor, you should ask your governor, why don't he doesn't get you guys Real IDs. I don't want to get into the Real ID feud right now, but why can't Tennessee just have real compliant id, you know, the real id?
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It's a great question. I think maybe now they are, but I, I can't keep up with all the real ID shenanigans.
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Yeah, Clay was like, hey, man, I'm wearing a puka shell necklace. I'm here to see the big guy. What's going on? They're like, Excuse me, Mr. Clay. Not today, sir. All right. But so outside the eeob, they have a Christopher Columbus statue that has gone in. And I have to say this is the White House saying it's proud to honor Columbus. Celebrating our nation's 250th anniversary of independence. The White House honors Christopher Columbus's legendary life and legacy with a well deserved statue on White House grounds. Columbus is the original American hero. This is all from the White House press release on this. A giant of Western civilization, one of the most gallant and visionary men ever to walk the face of the earth. 13 foot tall statue, copy of the one thrown into Baltimore harbor by the lunatic iconoclasts of the George Floyd cult. And Clay I this is one of these things that Trump does and it's really a side quest. Like this isn't the main of Trump is obviously trying to fix the airports with the tsa, he's trying to win the Iran war, He's got some big things he's working on right now. This is a side quest, but it's a beautiful side quest. Absolutely love this, standing up for Columbus, putting it on White House grounds, putting the statue up on White House grounds. In this way, we were losing so much in this cultural and really this battle over history and the way that history affects our culture today. The explorers, I find that period in history fascinating. And what the explorers did clearly changed the world. These were amazing men. Columbus was, was an amazing individual and accomplished a tremendous amount. And Democrats hate all of that. And so the fact that they hate it means clearly Trump is doing the right thing here
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for sure. And, and again, I, I, I think whoever is able to set the parameters of historical discussion in this country to a large extent is determining the biggest question, which is, is America a force for good in the history of the world or not? And as a secondary aspect of that question, is Western civilization overall good for America or not and good for the world or not? And to me, and for most anybody out there that has ever studied history, the answer is beyond, beyond a shadow of a doubt. It is the reason why people have the luxury and the time and the resources and the ability to argue that Western civilization is awful and that America has been a force for evil is largely because the exact opposite is true. And it is the incredible luxury of capitalism. And maybe its ultimate flaw, that it produces so much luxury and so much free time that people have the opportunity to sit around and argue about whether Western civilization and American capitalism is a good thing. I'm watching right now. Cuba's in darkness again, Buck. They do not have the ability to produce electricity on the entire island. Did you see they sent all those influencers to go visit and argue that Cuba Deserved all this different support. Even Greta, the Youngberg.
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Yeah, Greta, who chases whatever left wing flavor of the moment is Greta, who
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was the climate change obsessive, is now saying that it is immoral for the United States not to allow oil to be shipped to Cuba. So she. I just think that's very, very funny. And Greta Thunberg's ideal world, we should all live basically in the Stone Ages so we don't increase the overall, you know, the price, the temperature around the world. So now she's arguing that it is immoral not to allow oil and gas to be delivered to Cuba and all of these influencers. According to reports, Buck were staying at a luxury hotel in Havana, which was the only place in Havana with power.
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Oh, wow. What a shock. You know what else is really shocking? It turns out that if climate change is an existential threat to all of humanity, which Barack Obama used to say, as if he was some genius for saying it in formal speeches while he was president, including at the Coast Guard Academy graduation. Biggest national security threat we face is climate change. Not Russia, not China. No, no climate change, Clay. This is a point of such stupidity. They continue on with this, but it's a religious belief, so it's unfalsifiable. If Cuba going into darkness is clearly and metaphysically, metaphorically and literally, it is in darkness. But if Cuba were in darkness, that would cut down the CO2 footprint dramatically. They should be hailing this as a huge victory.
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Right?
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You know, the Cuban people can just. They can build windmills and ask China to send them some solar panels, right? Oh, no. It turns out that without fossil fuels, you live in effectively dire poverty. That is the reality. You can't live in a modern civilization. You can't live in a modern world currently without fossil fuels. As we're seeing from the focus on this trade of Hormuz and the need to keep the oil flowing from that region. But, yeah, back to Christopher Columbus for a second. The celebration of American history now and going into the 250th anniversary is a very, very important thing. They did a lot of damage to America's sense. And I mean, this. The Democrats, the left, all the. All the hate America first historiography and all the stuff that was going on, they did a lot of damage to our unity and to our sense of heroes of the past and things that we can. Again, what. What do we admire about Columbus? I'm not saying that Columbus was great on LGBTQ rights, but that's not actually why there's a statue of him he had some areas where he was tremendous. Ok. And I would note something. MLK had some areas where he was great and some areas that we know about and you've talked about this Martin Luther King Jr. That were very far from great. We just even saw recently, we didn't talk about it last week, Cesar Chavez, a hero, quote unquote, of the labor movement in California. A labor guy. Well, it turns out now multiple allegations of raping children. And there are over 100 schools named for this individual. I think like 120 schools across America.
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B
That's crazy. I didn't, I didn't realize that we had named that.
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Yeah, well, I mean, I'm sure they're almost all in California, right? They're lunatics there. But yes, Clay, this guy is. He's accused of raping a 12 year old. That is what has come out now. I mean, this, this is heinous stuff. You know, this isn't adults at a party and somebody grabs somebody after too many cocktails. This is being a predator of children that he is accused of. And I would just note that. Is the left gonna change all these? Are they gonna say, oh, well, there was no trial or you know, it's, it's. Look at some of the people that they elevate. They've elevated Harvey Milk, the whole other, you know, you look at these individuals, the left is willing to elevate, but they want to trash Columbus because he didn't have the right policy on the, on the trans community or because he was too mean to the natives. The natives were mean too. Like everybody was trying to conquer everybody back then.
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Yeah. And if you're a history person, I would encourage you to go read some of the age of exploration books. Because what those guys did, it really does boggle the mind. The risk that they took, the bravery that they showed, the courage that was in not only from them, but also from their entire crews. And I think this is important. We found people basically living very often in stone age style civilizations.
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No, literally, literally. Stone age level advancement. This was true. But it was true in the Americas.
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B
Yes.
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People were living in the stone age and they'll say, oh, but look at the Aztecs. Yeah. What kind of tools were they using? Why. Why were the Spanish soldiers so invincible to them? Horses, steel, gunpowder. In a very limited fashion, it was just horses and steel.
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Yes. And you go, and I mean, heck, I mean even not that long ago, I got to take the awesome trip to Australia with my family. A couple of years ago, the aboriginal people were living in squalor in the 1780s and had no connection with the larger world.
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I believe the inhabitants, the original inhabitants of Tasmania, the island off of Australia. When the European explorers first arrived, the inhabitants of Tasmania didn't have a reliable way to start fire.
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B
Think about that. So you're talking about. Yes, it's a clash of civilizations, but it's really Western civilization, which was on an entirely different level.
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And.
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B
And the idea that Columbus. I mean, maybe we can pull the. I know we've played this a couple of times. I think we play it on Columbus Day a lot. But the Sopranos episode, which is a very funny one, where they decide that they're going to go after Christopher Columbus. I just came back from Italy last year. Buck. One of the coolest things among many when you tour the Vatican is you can get a sense for they have all these maps of the. Of the New World because if you go back in time and you think what was the most valuable asset for intelligence purposes in the 141500s was maps. And you would protect maps as huge state secrets because as the age of exploration was taking place, figuring out how to get to the right location was. Was incredibly valuable. And even knowing where it was. And so I think it's important to push back here in all ways. And. And to your point, Buck, this was a. I think it's so symbolic. This was a toppled statue from during the George Floyd protest that I believe was thrown into a harbor. I think is the story on this Columbus statue. And it's now been reclaimed and it's put up outside the Old Executive Office
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Building hundreds of years before. Some of the South Dakotans listening to this will know what I'm talking about right away. Hundreds of years before Columbus even arrived, there was a mass grave site that was really just a massacre where they piled all the bodies together. The Crow Creek site. Men, women and children killed, scalped, mutilated. Hundreds of years before Columbus even got to the. So my point here being these tribes all lived in a constant state of. Of warfare. There was no. There was no Christian or Judeo Christian or even Islamic morality that was. That was taught and imposed. It was just. I got my tribe, we got other tribes. If you got to kill everybody in that tribe and take their stuff because you got a cold winter ahead, that's what you do. Men, women and children. There were no rules. There was no nothing. Now, yes, I know everybody is. Everybody is capable of extreme cruelty. All different races, all different religions. That is obvious from all of history. But it is only the Native Americans. Clay who get this treatment of they were living in harmony. It was like the Pocahontas movie. They were, they were just like all dancing around in beautiful fields of, of you know, amber waves of grain, talking to the sparrows and the raccoons. No, that's actually not how it was. I have a book, I told you that it's war before civilization. The only thing that kept people from killing everybody in the tribe was they couldn't kill everybody in the tribe. If they could, if they could wipe out their adversaries man, woman and child, they would do it regularly.
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There were basically constant wars. This is, I've been preaching this book for five years now. A fun read about undaunted courage is most of those tribes had never seen a white guy before. And so they. The danger obviously you can imagine of that style of exploration is replicated in many different of the explorer feats. But worrying that you were going to end up not yourself because there was a relatively small group of people traveling, but that you were going to end up in some way in between two different tribes that were at war with each other, which was perpetual basically on the frontier. Look, I want to tell you once you get introduced to Cozy Earth, two things will happen. You'll want one of everything they make and you'll want to share the fact that they're so awesome with everybody. You know, in our case starting with the sheets and the bedding. Hands down, the most comfortable sheets I have ever slept on. Luxury hotel soft made with a fabric that wicks away the heat your body creates while sleeping. In fact, everything they manufacture made to be cozy and comfortable, including the complete line of clothing. You can find it all online@cozy earth.com your purchase totally risk free 100 day money back guarantee in addition to a 10 year warranty because they want you to absolutely love their products. Go online to cozyearth.com use my name Clay to get a 20% discount on your purchase. And if you get a post purchase survey be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here one more time. Cozyearth.com promo code CLAY to get the discount. That's cozyeart.com promo code C L A Y News you can count on and some laughs too. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show Linda from Green Valley, Arizona online. She is the reason we believe that there are ICE agents in 13 different airports across the country. Because of this call from Friday's show. Listen, Linda, in Green Valley, Arizona, what you got for us?
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Well, Clay, I think I have a solution to the TSA problem. What we need to do is we need to supplement where we're missing out on TSA agents who can't afford to work for us anymore. We need to bring in ICE agents and fill in. And I think that, that, that would push the Democrats to sign the Homeland Security bill. I think it would set their hair on fire. But, I mean, you know, we're already paying for our. They're already funded, so they're part of Homeland Security as long as along with tsa. And I think we just need to bring in the ICE agents and fill in. And they also agree that the senators and congressmen need to wait in line.
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Thank you for the call, Linda.
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That's.
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I'm going to say it's kind of a brilliant idea. What Linda is correct about is the ICE agents are being fully paid. And so if we started to supplement when the TSA agents were not there with ICE agents, oh, my goodness, Democrats would go absolutely insane. Okay, that was Friday. Linda, you are now calling back in from Green Valley, Arizona. So let's start with this brilliant idea. As we said on Friday. What has your phone been like? Have people recognized you and your friends in community circles? What did you think when you saw the president announce on Saturday, hey, I'm making this move?
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C
Only one friend actually noticed it, and she sent me a note and she said that she had just heard that the president was going to put PSA agents in the airport. And she said, way to go. So only one person has commented so
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far, Linda, you may have changed the world. You know this, right? Like this. We can't prove this, but you may have changed the trajectory of this election year, of the Trump administration and perhaps the world as we know it, that that's just reality. How does that feel?
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C
Well, it felt great. I've been trying to call in for over 15 years, and I never got in before, so.
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Well, it was a good. It was a good call to get in.
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No telling how many other ideas you've had that could have changed the world. Okay. So this idea, sometimes we get, as we said earlier, ideas, and I'm like, yeah, that's an interesting idea, but it's actually not, you know, feasible. How did you have this idea? When. When did it come to you? Were you listening to the show and you thought of it? Where did the idea come from? So far as you can, you can trace it?
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C
Well, actually, I have grandkids who were traveling for spring break. And so I was texting my granddaughter and I asked her how the lines were. And so she was sharing with me. And I thought, this is really stupid. Why don't we just fill in with the ICE agents? Because they're all the same agency.
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I mean, it's brilliant. Now we're working. We're going to get you an autographed copy of President Trump's One of his Hats. We're going to work on that. That might be take a little bit of time. What we definitely can get you is much less desirable but autographed copies of both Buck and myself's books to thank you for helping to come up with this idea. And what does it say? What do you think when President Trump I talked about your idea on Fox News on Friday night as well. What does it say that the president is able to make something like this happen so quickly that by Monday there would be ICE agents helping TSA agents in 13 different airports?
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C
Well, Donald Trump is the kind of president that listens to the American people. And he's also the type of person, as a businessman who gets things done and he knows how to get things done. It doesn't have to go through a committee for six months or a year before you can actually come up with a good idea. He knows how to do that.
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B
You said you had a great, you were talking with your grandkids. How many kids and how many grandkids do you have?
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C
I have two adult children and I have five adults grandchildren and my husband is a retired Marine.
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B
Oh, this is awesome. Well, you can tell them that they have an awesome grandma, an awesome mom. I'm sure they already know it, but thank you so much for listening. And you've got the bat phone now. So you, you have a special job now. If you've got ideas, if you have
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any thoughts on the Federal Reserve, how to open the Strait of Hormuz, Linda, you know where to reach us.
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C
Okay, thank you.
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That is Linda in Green Valley, Arizona, who called in brilliant idea and just said, hey, what if we used because they're actually being paid some ICE agents to help tsa. And right now, as I speak to you, Buck, lead headline on CNN is ice agents among at several airports, Trump administration deploys ICE agents. Also the lead story on MSNBC now, Fox is actually Fox News. Trump is at Graceland and they are showing him several different pieces of Elvis memorabilia as he is touring Graceland. I think we have audio of Trump saying that he's in Memphis to celebrate the fact that Crime is down massively at a 25 year low. Do we have the audio. I think we do. Of Trump discussing the decline in crime. Do we have that, guys? 32.
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But just as we have in D.C. here in Memphis, we've achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded. So that's something, right? Ever recorded. In fact, you're a half a percentage point away from the record. So we'll catch them in the next month or two. All right, I think that's going to happen. But that includes a 60% drop in robberies, a 74% drop in carjacking and motor vehicle thefts. We have always achieved numbers that are good. These numbers are right online to be among the best that we've done. So we've achieved a 70% reduction in murders from the peak in this place. In total, we've arrested 7,000 criminals, seized more than 1,100 illegal guns, taken more than £1,000 of illicit narcotics and rescued more than 150 missing children, making their parents beyond happy.
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I buck this weekend I was down in Florida, but I met some people from Memphis, multiple different people from Memphis. When I meet somebody from Memphis, I just say, hey, how much of a difference can you tell? And they say that it is transformative. I mean, that, that what has happened in Memphis, which have become one of our nation's most dangerous cities, that it has made an unbelievable difference. Now, President Trump right now touring Graceland, as many of you probably have done. He told us all about Elvis a little bit earlier, too. This is cut 31.
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You know, I'm going to see Graceland after this, I think. Is that right? I love Elvis. I never met Elvis. Everyone said, did you? I met them all. I met Sinatra. I knew all of them. I never met Elvis. Sometimes I feel I should tell a little fibs that I knew him well. I love Elvis, but I never met him. But I'm going to go see Graceland after this, I think. I'm sure it's not going to be a very long stay, but I want to see that.
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B
Have you ever been to Graceland, Buck? Ever toured it?
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I've never been to Memphis.
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B
Ever. Ever.
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I'd like to go. I'd like especially to go now.
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I think we're number one in Memphis. I know we have a huge audience there. Graceland is a really cool place to tour. What I would say is it does feel weird to tour somewhat modern homes. Right. When you tour a, a home, Mount Vernon, for instance, or someplace like that, that is very historic. And old. It feels strange to walk through a relatively modern day home. But it is still a very, very cool opportunity if you get the chance to go tour it. And I remember it being a bit, I don't want Memphis people to get mad at me. I remember it being in a bit of a sketchy neighborhood. I haven't been in like 15, 20 years. My wife, we were dating at the time, really wanted to tour Graceland. So we went. It's been 20, over 20 years. But they have a. Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of a suburban, ish neighborhood back in the day. I don't think it's so suburban anymore, but, but kind of, kind of wild. So, again, pretty cool that Trump is there. And again, he is touting this incredible decline in violent crime. He said murders are down 70% from their peak. We talked about this earlier. You can go look at it yourself if you want to know what Washington, D.C. crime looks like. Murders are down 65% there. These are real tangible outcomes, Great results, lots of lives saved. Seems like something we should talk about more everywhere, collectively as a country.
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You would think so. Trump has racked up in year one, now, in a few months into year two, the most secure border in our lifetime and the biggest crime drops in some major American cities in the shortest period of time that we have ever seen. Honestly, these aren't even. Well, the border was a huge thing for him. But these are things that also, I think would be considered the biggest achievement of another administration. And that would be fine because this is major stuff. Trump is just getting started. I mean, there's a lot else and we haven't even talked about tariffs. I mean, there's a whole bunch of things that have gone on that I think are really praiseworthy and show that this administration is getting it done in a lot of ways on important stuff, on stuff that affects all of us. So, Clay, the crime drop issue I still, though, keep coming back to. And so Democrats don't want to, they don't want to say, you know what, you're right, guys, let's make all the cities safer. Yeah, they're not going to do it. They're not going to do it. They would rather have people continue to get shot. 50% more in this city, 70% more in that city, 40% more. They'd rather have, you know, 20 year olds having funerals with their whole family shattered and the cycle of violence and communities ruined and all this stuff. They'd rather have all of that than have law enforcement policies that left wing maniacs think are racially insensitive. That's the truth.
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B
In Chicago, we just mentioned this poor 18 year old girl who was murdered, Sheridan Gorman, by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant. Brandon Johnson has fought to keep President Trump from bringing more security to the city of Chicago. We know that if they had not let this illegal immigrant into the country, this girl would still be alive. We know that if they had merely deported him after he was arrested, she would still be alive. Twice released. This 18 year old college student is dead. And Brandon Johnson in Chicago has directly fought against the same kind of decline in violent crime occurring in Chicago that has happened in Memphis. Results should matter. Facts should matter. Data should matter. This is all objective. You can go look it up for yourself. Pull up the Washington D.C. violent Crime and we focus. We tend to focus on murders on this show because you can fudge other numbers. We have to talk about bucks. Poor scooter. Crime got so bad in New York City when they stole Buck's scooter, he didn't even think to call New York Police Department. He just had to deal with the fact that his scooter was gone.
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When the loss of a scooter goes without, without consequence, without punishment, what does that say about society? Clay, what kind of a place are
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you living in means? Oh, man, I had a good joke. I think I can say it means that, you know, heterosexual men, heterosexual men have to learn how to walk again. They can't just scoot, scoot around on their scooters.
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I think I gained weight because the scooter, because I started scooting everywhere instead of walking. I'm being totally serious, by the way. Walking is so important.
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Walk.
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I tell everybody this. I'm so. It's a big part of it. Walking is so important. You need to, you set a step counter up on your phone, on your watch or whatever you can. 10,000 a day. Really want to get to more like 12,000 to 15,000 steps a day every day.
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B
I try to walk when the weather's good and make phone calls. Now, some people think you look a little bit ridiculous walking around in your neighborhood just making phone calls. But the other option is you sit in your house and you're in.
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No, I do that too. I want to take calls. This is the only thing I hate about Zoom now. Well, there are a lot of things probably I hate about Zoom, but I just want to be able to take calls while I'm walking. You have my total attention. I just don't want to be getting slowly fatter and dying more quickly over time because I have to sit. Sitting all day is bad.
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Sitting all day is bad. I'm being mocked, I'm told in the New York City studio for sounding like Michael Scott when I dropped my great joke from the office. One of the all time great comedies that frankly I'm not sure they could make anymore because it's such a good comedy that there's lots of things as great comedies have that might be a little bit offensive to people at times. That's why Republicans should be the party that likes jokes, let me tell you. Price Picks Amazing weekend. Did you watch 1 second of the NCAA tournament buck 1 second of basketball that took place Just announced the largest audiences of all time watching in the NCAA tournament. Opening Thursday. Games Friday. Games I told you there were kids screaming in the background. All good. They were just watching. My kids were just watching the NCAA tournament going on. You can play. Sweet sixteen is now set Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Coming up this weekend we will have the Final Four set with games taking place all over the country. The final 16 teams, congratulations to the state of Nebraska. Their Cornhuskers finally got an NCAA tournament win and then they beat my alma mater, the Vanderbilt Commodores in a walk off incredible final run. You can get hooked up right now. If you go to prizepix.com use code clay prizepix.com code C L A Y. You will get $50 in credits when you play. Five dollars. You can play in all 50 states. You're gonna love it. Prizepix.com code clay that is prizepix.com code c L A Y making America great again isn't just one man, it's many. The Team 47 podcast Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.