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Buck Sexton
No purchase necessary vgw group void where prohibited by law 21 + terms and conditions apply. Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now. Clay having a week of vacation with the family. So it's just gonna be me, the Buckster, also known as just Buck in for this week and excited to talk to you all about the news. What's going on all across this great land of ours. Play sends you all high fives. Will be back a week from today on Monday. Now let's start to look at where we're going here, my friends. We have signs of America healing and then some signs of the markets getting a little choppy. On the progress Front. In Washington D.C. over the weekend, there were crews dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza, which is just a few blocks north of the White House. It was there for over four years. And we'll talk about this. What a change is underway here. Also, not a surprise, but Andrew Cuomo, who is going to be running for mayor in New York or is running for mayor in New York and is already way ahead in the polls, he's starting to carve out the quote, unquote reasonable Democrat lane because he thinks that there is an opportunity for him to not just become the mayor, but to become the mayor on his way to running for president. He's got some thoughts on cops that you will say are obvious because they are, but for Democrats these days, nothing is obvious. And I just got got that to talk to you about here. Uh, and so much more that we will be diving into. But first up, let's talk about where Trump is, where the economy is and what we are going to be told in the, in the days ahead about, about all of this. First off, yes, there is amazing stuff happening, amazing stuff happening. I mean, here's an example. A New York Times headline, inside Trump's war on the irs. Ah, magnifique. It is a perfection, isn't it? Inside Trump's war on the irs. Now they're saying it's going to stall your audits. And the skeleton stuff. Biden hired 70,000 new IRS agents. What are they all doing? Well, we all have some idea, I think, of what they were going to do. Things are going to be quite different now. We can talk about this. IRS might have to shed as much as 50% of its workforce. This is all part of the remolding of the American, not just tax, but I would say American governance code in general that is underway right now. There is a major project of, dare I say, national sovereignty reclamation underway. We are reclaiming things under this Trump administration like our right to not be spent into oblivion, our right to say that bureaucrats do not rule over us. They are supposed to serve the public, not serve themselves. They are not supposed to be tools of partisan attack. They're not supposed to be weaponized at the IRS or the doj. All of these things are now underway. It's going to take some time. It's not going to happen all at once. And this is the part that I want to keep reminding you of because the first month it was just amazing. Executive orders, we're all doing MAGA backflips. Fantastic, incredible win by Trump, defeated the deep state, defeated the four farcical criminal prosecutions against him, survived two assassination attempts. Just an unbelievable comeback story for Donald Trump. Month one, it's setting the tone, setting the agenda, taking actions, executive orders. Now we're getting into, we're under the hood and it's messy. There are going to be some tough moments here. It's not all going to be clear sailing even with the right captain at the helm. And Trump is pointing this out himself. He spoke to Maria Bartiromo over the weekend, also speaking on Air Force One. And look, right now the stock market has gotten a little bit of a tough day. Nasdaq has fallen 3% here as I talk to you. Trump hasn't ruled out recession is something that is now being reported. Trump is saying, look everybody, you can't just watch. This is cut six. You can't just watch the stock market day to day. We are going long term, major transformation to put us in a better place as an economy and as a country. Play six, you said, look, we're going to have a disruption, but we're okay with that. Is that what you meant? The stock market going down was the disruption. What other disruption were you alluding to?
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Donald Trump
Look, what I have to do is build a strong country. You can't really watch the stock market. If you look at China, they have 100 year perspective. We have a quarter. We go by quarters.
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Buck Sexton
That's true.
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Donald Trump
And you can't go by that. You have to do what's right. What we're doing is we're building a tremendous foundation for the future. Tremendous foundation, I think Trump giving a.
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Buck Sexton
Little shout out there to the Hundred Year Marathon about Chinese strategy, a book by Michael Pillsbury, which I've read and I think a lot of you would enjoy it, if you're interested in China's view of itself and of the 21st century, its role in the 21st century. But I think Trump is taking exactly the right approach here, which is, yeah, we're not going to freak out based on a 2 or 3% market swing on any given day. Here's what we have to understand now as a country, as Doge and Elon are doing their work, a lot of bad stuff has been going on behind the scenes of the government. I mean, we look at something like the $36 trillion national debt. We say, oh my gosh, what a massive number. How did we ever get here? But there's also been a lot of shenanigans in the way that, for example, employment data is reported. Just remember, every single one of Biden's quarters last year were over reported for jobs. That's part one. So the perception management, operation, this is like info, this is like information warfare that you'll see in intelligence, military side of things, psyops, psychological operations, perception management underway by the media. And the way they talk about these things was very clear. So they over reported the Trump jobs, I'm sorry, the Biden jobs dramatically. And what else we've figured out or something else that has come to the forefront. I mentioned this a couple of days ago on the show. 25% of jobs under Biden, I think it was in 2023, but I'm sure the 24 numbers were very similar. Were government jobs. That is a massive percentage of government jobs. If we saw this in another country, we'd say, oh my gosh, they're creating a bureaucracy that is going to strangle free enterprise and just be a weight on the shoulders of the people. And sure enough, the more we look at the numbers, the more we look at the truth. We find out that that is what has been going on all along. Because bureaucrats cost money. Bureaucrats also decide that they want to justify their existence and so they start doing things, things that are not necessarily helpful, things that often are going to slow down the economy and going to hurt your freedom and your ability to just engage in self determination. Day in and day out. And then there's a step even beyond that, which is the weaponization of the bureaucracy, which we have seen, where the self aware, unaccountable bureaucracy, formerly known as the swamp, decides that it is a lever for one half of the political spectrum in this country against the other. That is an entirely unsustainable situation, and it is being addressed. Now, finally, this is happening. Now, I bring this up because there's going to be some disruption, as Trump's already said, as a result of this. Now, disruption is not a euphemism for a depression. Okay, everything is going to be fine and then better than fine. But when you have to fix a problem, right, when you go into a situation, when you step in, I don't know how many of you have watched the show Kitchen Nightmares with Chef Ramsay. I like cooking. Clay does not like cooking. He doesn't cook. I like cooking. Chef Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare show at its best was a very entertaining formula. I know it's very staged and everything, but put that aside. He goes in and he's like, who's in charge here? You know, he starts yelling at him, and it's because the place is a mess. Trump, Elon, the team, they are looking into the kitchen and seeing all the creepy crawlies scurrying around on the ground and seeing the, you know, the, the rotted stuff in the meat locker. And. And they're saying, okay, it's going to get ugly for a second here. To fix this, you got to roll up your sleeves and get up your elbows in the muck to try to take this stuff to a better place. And this is important for us psychologically to understand this, because to really do it, you're going to have to be willing to take on some short term pain for long term gain. And when you have 25% of jobs coming from government, jobs, which is just adding to the burden on the taxpayer, when you turn that around, the economy's used to a lot of jobs coming from government, you know, GDP growth. This is like one of the big arguments I used to have with the open borders Cato Institute libertarian types. Well, the more illegals we have, the bigger our gdp. Yeah, but that doesn't mean that individually we're doing better. Quite the opposite, actually. If they are a net drain on the economy, and then that's not even taking into it the social, political, and cultural costs of unrestricted illegal immigration, which is what we had under Biden. But of course, there are going to be some things that happen here that can feel a little bit disruptive. One of the big ones that I know people are concerned about is tariffs. This is cut four. Trump is saying, look, tariffs are going to work out phenomenally for us. Let's hear from the man himself.
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Donald Trump
I think the tariffs are going to be the greatest thing we've ever done as a country. It's going to make our country rich again. We have many companies, as you know, auto companies are opening up plants now. We've had four or five announced already. But many more are coming. And we're basically going to take back the money, a lot of the money that we've given away over many decades. We've lost our jobs, we've lost our factories. We've lost 90,000 factories since the beginning of NAFTA. It's not that long ago. 90,000 factories. Think of that. And we're going to get them back and they're coming back and they're coming back in record.
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Buck Sexton
This is where we start to see that Trump breaks with the economic consensus, really, with both parties, which is that tariffs are a. They say tariffs are tax, tariffs are a bad thing. And I just take the, I take the perspective. First of all, most economists know nothing at a wrong about everything. It's just the truth. Ok. Most, you know, macroeconomics is true. Microeconomics is generally guesswork. If economists knew what was going to happen, they'd be the most valuable people at, you know, Goldman Sachs and at all these different. Forget about what the CEO says. Everyone should just be listening to the economists. Right? Economists are less reliable than weathermen when it comes to prediction. And when you look at the trade issues that we're talking about here, there are countries that, I mean, I know this went viral recently when it was pointed out that Canada says tariffs are terrible. You know, I know they got the new leadership coming in. Tariffs are terrible. Why are you doing tariffs to us? Why does Canada have a tariff on, on US dairy of 200% or something like that? Why do they have, why does China have all of these tariffs if it's so self defeating? Why do other countries do it to us if it's so obviously dumb? Why do they do it? And the people that say that Trump shouldn't do this, never answer that, really. Or they say they're just making mistakes. Hmm. It's a lot of other places to be making mistakes on this. And then you, you go beyond that, I think, and you say, what are the long term implications for this country of having more domestic industry, of having more things here? What does an America First. America First. Economic development policy look like it doesn't put all people on equal footing around the world. It's what's best for Americans. Right. So that doesn't necessarily look like what everybody else is going to like and want to do or want us to do. So with Trump, I know I said, Chef Ramsey, before, you know, Trump is in the kitchen, you gotta let the guy cook, you gotta let him do his thing, you gotta let him get after a bit. Some of this is just going to be negotiation tactics, some of this is going to be conversations that are had behind closed doors that come to some, you know, they said, oh my gosh, Trump is going to tear up nafta. I remember this. Trump is going to tear up nafta. What's he doing? People who understood the economic realities of NAFTA across the board, we're saying, which is very few people, I might add, not the politicians that talk about it, they know nothing. But they would say, of course NAFTA has to be renegotiated. It's been 20 years, of course it needs to be changed. NAFTA came into existence initially, before there was really much of an Internet economy. Things have changed. Trump was right, the other side was wrong. Let's see how he does this. I think he has earned the ability to have the support of all people of goodwill in this country on some of these issues. I know some of them are going to hate him forever because look at the incredible changes he is already engaged in and look at the way that he has proven the detractors wrong time and time again. So a little bit of disruption, a little bit of the markets, that's just what the Democrats. Oh, let's talk about the Democrats and their opposition to this. In a second. They're gonna start to hone in on this, say Trump is tearing everything apart. No, he's not. They just have nothing else to say. We'll get to it. So as I said, our stock markets are experiencing a little turbulence and investors can sometimes panic. And I don't want you to pan, I just want you to prepare, be smart, look at where things are going and take the long term view, that is always so key. Buying gold right now, that's long term view, especially with an economy that could have some ups and downs coming up here. So gold is absolutely something that you should consider for your portfolio. And Birch Gold Group is who you should go to. Birch Gold Group specializes in helping you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA and physical gold for no money out of pocket. Just listen to this five star review from For Birch. Knowledgeable, helpful, non pressure. It's exactly what you want. Get your free info kit on Gold by Texting my name Buck to the number 9898 98. No obligation only useful information. A plus rating from the Better Business Bureau and countless five star reviews. Text my name Buck to 9898 98. That's Buck B U C K Text Buck to 989898 and let Birch Gold help you secure your future today with Gold. You ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Back into Clay and Buck. Got a quick turnaround here. Want to just let you know we'll take calls today on the show and also get some of your talkbacks. 800-282-2882. This is what they're digging into right now for the opposition to Trump. It's oh my gosh, he's going to. He's going to run the economy off a cliff. No, he's not. And we all know this. But anything that they can say that will sour the mood of some Americans about what Trump is trying to do, they will do. But I will just note this in a in a New York Times piece about Trump's possible recession. They're already talking about this. Remember under Biden they wanted to change the definition of recession. Two quarters of negative, negative growth Recession. And then all of a sudden we're getting think pieces the New York Times, because it was Biden as president, puppet president, think pieces where they're saying, well, is that really a recession though? I think it's something else makes it a recession. But here's what they say. The economic backdrop this is the New York Times is still solid by many metrics, but policies like tariffs, deportation and steep government spending cuts will test that resilience. So having illegals in the country makes us richer and having government spend us into oblivion makes us richer, according to the New York Times, apparently. I think we should address this. Rapid radio's walkie talkies are incredible. They let you communicate with the touch of a button. Kind of like those old school walkie talkies you had as a kid, except these let you talk to anyone throughout the country. Rapid radios operate on a nationwide LTE network of cell phone towers which is key during a disruption. They became invaluable to my in laws last October when hurricane Helene left the family and so many others without a way to communicate. But we were using our rapid radios the next day after the storm. Rapid radios makes communicating easy and simple. 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And we should keep that in mind because addressing those fundamentals, looking at what has gone wrong within the economic machine of America, you know, starting to pull some of the old broken wires and things like that and starting to deal with it is going to create some moments of unease. Also. We have a spending addiction in this country. We should be honest about that. Politically speaking, we have a spending addiction. Both parties spend too much money. And we've known this for a long time. Remember I got into this 15 years ago, 14 years ago, whatever, the Tea Party. I wasn't a Tea Party guy. I got into media and then the Tea Party was happening. But I, everybody was very concerned, rightly so, about the spending that was going to occur under Obama. And it was a blowout of spending, was crazy. And we've had nothing but the continuation of that since. And this is a big problem now. I know under the first Trump term you could say, look Covid, once in a century situation with the pandemic, yeah, but we spent too much money. It was an emergency. But because we had already been racking up too many debts before that, it still hurts, right? We didn't have the emergency fund for Covid. We just printed more money and now we have stubborn inflation. Now we have these problems. Trying to address this is going to cause some of its own short term issues. And this is why I think it's important to understand what Democrats view as the economy versus what is the real economy. I had mentioned in the New York Times they had the economic. This is the quote from the it's all about is Trump causing a recession? This is the moment, this is what they're in right now. Is Trump causing a recession? And even if there's no data to support this, if it clearly does not happen, it doesn't matter, the damage is done. They're doing perception warfare. Trump bad tariffs, bad Trump recession. They're just trying to like an ad campaign almost. They're trying to associate words in your mind. It's a mass conditioning of the public that they're engaged in. So you know, people would say it's Pavlovian. Like you hit the bell though. It actually wasn't a bell, it was a metronome or a buzzer. But that's a whole other conversation. People just think what they think about this stuff. Same way that people think that lemmings commit suicide. No, they don't. Go find out what Disney did to make people think that lemmings commit suicide. Mass psychology is a fascinating area of study. Perhaps a fascinating area of study for a book that will be coming out next fall anyway by yours truly. So we have the Democrats trying to make this case. Meanwhile in the New York Times piece on is this a Recession? The economic backdrop looks solid. They have to say that cuz they look at the numbers and also hasn't been that long. They were telling us it was fine under Biden a few months ago. Now it's all are we in a recession? Policies like tariffs. Okay, that one, that one People of good, you know, goodwill can disagree, or people who know what they're talking about can come to different conclusions. I think tariffs are a tool, and I think that it's specific to which tariff against whom, in what context. You know, the country was funded by tariffs until we had the income tax, the United States was. Which is another thing that more people should know. Think about that. We lasted a long time without an income tax. We just, we just had tariffs. So. But the fact that deportations and government spending are listed here as two things to be concerned about now, on the government spending part of this. Yeah, but that's money we shouldn't be spending, Right. If you're running up a credit card bill and I tell you, you can't keep going to, you know, the Hermes store for your wife and buying $5,000 handbags and you. That's a thing. I know people spend that. I don't know. Ladies love bags. I don't know what that is, but my bag is from north face. It's 20 years old. But lately, you know, that's like my backpack. If I told you to stop spending. Yeah. I would be decreasing your economic activity. That is true. And for a moment you'd be like, but I like going to Costco and running up all those debts. But the point is to get under control. You have to stop doing that. There's a trade off in this. So, of course, if you stop the out of control government spending, there's going to be a little bit of a, of a shock factor in some of the economy with. We're not just creating this illusion of economic growth, because that's really what it is. And then on deportations, this is because they keep telling us, oh, but who's going to, you know, work construction? Let me say most construction is not done by illegals. So they say these things. They don't know the numbers. A vast majority of construction is not done by illegals. But they'll say, who's going to work in agriculture? Who's going to do? And you say Americans. And they might have to get paid a little bit more. Yes. And that might result in some additional costs. But you know what also won't happen? $15 billion being spent by New York City, born as an expense by taxpayers, by Americans to put illegals in hotels and pay for their food and everything else. The notion that illegals who come here are a net positive to the economy is lunacy. Is lunacy. We, the American people, have run up $36 trillion of debt. A lot of that is sure there's the waste, fraud and abuse component, but a lot of it is entitlement spending. A lot of it is just the government using your tax dollars like a little piggy bank. That's the American people. You're going to tell me that what happens to the 20 or 30 million illegals and I don't know the number, nobody does. But 20 or 30 million illegals from the country when they're all at retirement age, they're just going to be depending on the system for health care. Trust me, they don't have 401ks to pay for all of their health care. So that's not going to happen. It's going to be an expense on all of us. When you look at the long term implications, when you look at how in our immigration policy, currently in our immigration laws, you are not allowed to be a dependent on the state if you come to. And that's for legal immigrants too. This was a, this is a promise made via legislation by Congress to the American people that is completely ignored. So that alone, when you start to look at the numbers, the long term costs, you realize, oh my gosh, we've been had, we've been lied to about about all of this. And then you have the other thing to really keep in mind, which is that the Democrats are nuts. Here's Trump Cut 3, reminding everybody that while what he's doing is going to require a little bit of patience and a little bit of trust, a little bit of faith in the America first agenda, the other side are the wackos who are the reason that Trump is back in charge again. Cuz they can't do, they can't govern, they don't know what they're doing. Play three.
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Donald Trump
The Democrats are out of control. You saw that the other night during the speech when they wouldn't stand up for Two of the young ladies were killed by illegal aliens. One with the cancer, the young man with the cancer. And all you want to do is stand up and applaud the man and the boy, a young boy. And nobody's ever seen anything like that. They're out of control. They've lost their minds.
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Buck Sexton
It's true. They are out of control and they have lost their minds. And this is a massive problem for the country because even though they're not in power right now, for one of two major political parties in America to be in a state of perpetual delusion is really bad for us. It would be nice if we had the America first agenda, Trump, the Trump team, and then there was you know, the second option was people who weren't as good but weren't crazy. But no, we have crazy. We have people who are dealing with an alternate reality as their vision of what should be going on in America. And, you know, you see this even as some Democrats come forward and they try to seem reasonable and rational. You see this with Gavin Newsom, you see this with Andrew Cuomo. These people, the top figures of the Democrat Party, know that what the Democrat Party wants and where it stands on some issues does not work in the real world. But they also know that their constituents, their voters, the Dem machine, doesn't care. They want what they want because it feels good to want it. And this is true. When you hear them talking about Ukraine as well, I keep seeing this. People are asking, oh, well, what do you think about what Trump is doing on Ukraine? I say, well, hold on a second. This is like asking me to assess how well a coach did in the super bowl the day before the Super Bowl. I don't know yet. But I do know that if he's made his way to the super bowl, and in this case, that's Trump, if he's gotten that far, if he has a track record of extreme success, to bash him before he's able to do the thing he's trying to do makes no sense. And so on Ukraine, what you have are people who have become. And when I say people, a party, the Democrat Party, which has become so emotionally invested in this, they really believe that this is just a good versus evil contest. And anything we can do to help the good Ukraine against the evil Russia, we should do. But to this, I always say, well, hold on, if it's that important, why, why not send US Troops to do the fighting? Which I know is terrible, and I would never want that, but I would ask this question to the people that believe in it. So, oh, well, we don't have to do that. Ukraine is going to keep fighting where they're running out of people. They've lost an entire generation of young Ukrainian men. And for what? When you start to look at this conflict like an adult, instead of looking at it like it's, you know, Frodo and, and Samwise against Sauron and the Lord of the Rings, you start to see that there's more nuance here, and we need to bring this to a conclusion. Here's Trump, by the way, getting, getting annoyed when he's this cut 5 reporter annoys Trump, asking if Putin was disrespecting him by attacking Ukraine. Play this disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine when you're trying to.
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Donald Trump
Who? What did he do?
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Buck Sexton
Well, he's attacking Ukraine.
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Donald Trump
Is he disrespecting me?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. Who.
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Donald Trump
Who are you with?
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Buck Sexton
I'm Michael Birdbaum, Washington Post.
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Donald Trump
You've lost a lot of credibility. Go ahead. What else?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, that's exactly the. You know. You know what? This is where I want to bring out one of my old favorite Trump memes from term one. Stupid question. Stupid question. A very stupid question from the Washington Post reporter there. There's a war going on. Is Putin disrespecting you by his military on the ground, continuing to make advances where they like? What kind of a question is that? How does this person have a job where their job is to ask questions to get people information they need for our democracy? That's not the job, though, as you know. The job of the Washington Post is trash Trump and help Democrats. That's the. Now, Jeff Bezos is tinkering with that a little bit, but the job of the Washington Post is absolutely not to get important information out to the public without fear or favor. That's laughable. We all know that. I mean, we don't have to get into that. But the childlike understanding of this conflict that so many Democrats seem to have, it's astonishing to me. And they don't even have a better alternative. If it's so important, why don't they gear up themselves and go volunteer? There are volunteer brigades in Ukraine. If. Rush. Somehow we are to believe that Russia, which is stalled out, fighting right now against Ukraine, although they do have the momentum, but still, it's been years that Russia is stalled out fighting against Ukraine. But if we don't continue this conflict ad infinitum, Russia is going to run over the rest of, you know, European contiguous countries with the Russian federation triggering Article 5 in NATO. And no big deal, because they'll just be able to do that. That's insane. This is crazy. That's not going to happen. Okay? Putin is not about to roll tanks into Warsaw or Berlin next. That's not happening, but they say it will. I don't think you should listen to people who have no idea what they're talking about. And that includes all these people criticizing Trump on Ukraine right now. They have no better ideas, and they don't see this clearly. It's kind of a trend when it comes to the critics of Trump lately. Look, these are good days to be a sports fan. Even I, the occasional fan, as you know, am aware. I mean, Major League Baseball's opening day starts in less than two weeks, and in Japan this year no less. Very cool NHL and NBA leagues are heating up with playoff contenders. March Madness Tournament starts next week. While you wait for all that to happen, download the Prize Picks app and set yourself up to follow the fun straight ahead. Prize Picks is all about the players, not the teams. You make your picks in less than a minute. Using your knowledge of those players, you turn your opinions into real money on Prize Picks. If you win, you can still win cash even if your lineup isn't perfect. With Prize Picks Flex Play, you can double your money even if one of your picks doesn't hit Prize Picks. Make sure your withdrawals are fast, safe and secure. You can get your money in as quick as 15 minutes, and they now offer MasterCard and Visa for quick and easy deposits into your account. Join over 10 million users. Sign up now on prizepix. Download the app. Use my name Buck as your code. You get $50 instantly after you play your first five dollar lineup again. Use code BUCK to get $50 instantly when you download the Prize Picks app. Prize Picks run your game. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.
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Welcome back in here to Clay and Vox. I want to get some of your talkbacks, get some of your emails, all that great stuff. Let you know where we're going here. Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo. He is running for mayor and it is probably is going to win. Probably. It's not guaranteed, but it is likely he's going to win mayor of New York, which I mean, New York is always going to, it's always going to be my hometown. You know, it's, I don't know. I'm always going to be partial to nyc. I cannot believe this guy's going to be the mayor, but I think he's going to be the mayor. We'll talk about one way that he is packaging himself, not just for that, but I think for the national stage that he is going to try to vault himself. And also want to remind you, go to Crockett Coffee, my friends. I'm drinking it right here. I need a double dose today because it's just me. Clay is on vacation, so drinking Crockett. Go to crockettcoffee.com you get a signed copy of American Playbook if you use code book when you subscribe. Please subscribe. We got light roast, dark roast, K cups, decaf, all kinds of great products. And the gear is really nice, too. The T shirts, the sweatshirts we've got up@crocketcoffee.com please subscribe. 10% of the profits goes to tell the Towers Foundation. If you're drinking some other coffee, why it's not as good, try Crockett. You'll be a fan. Now we have a talk back here that came my way. Where did it go? Yes, AA on the talkback. Play it. This one's really for the Buckstar. Buckstar. Is this producer Mark who wants to hear Coldplay at the super bowl halftime show? Is he the same producer Mac from the old show? And whether he is or not, did you ever get down to the Madison Square Garden for the Rangers game with said producer Mac? Cheers. It is. And he is in studio today in New York City. So that is the same producer Mark. We got producer Ally, producer Mike, producer Mark, producer Greg. We got the best team in radio. But producer Mark was my producer when I was solo radio and I said I would take him to a Rangers game. And then the pandemic hit and so there were no Rangers games and then I moved to Miami. So producer Mark, I think pulled this one for the talkbacks as a reminder for me and the whole country that I still owe producer Marco Rangers game so I I gotta get on that. It's been a few years. We'll dive into Cuomo and the Black Lives Matter Plaza getting removed in D.C. and much more coming up here in a minute. So stick around team. Going to be a great second hour.
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