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District, which I do, which, which is my congressman.
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Yeah, this is, this would be Clay's congressman, which would be pretty funny if he's in this wonderful red state of Tennessee with among the most lunatic members of Congress out there. She, she's AOC level crazy and maybe worse from what I've seen, I think.
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She, I think she's crazier than aoc and if you consider that she represents the state of Tennessee and AOC represents New York, she is outrageously out of line with the average Tennessee. And whereas the average New Yorker, you could at least argue, might support much of what AOC would argue for. Also, Buck, big news. The Georgia decision with the Trump case, as we told you, that is the Fannie Willis case that we told you for garbage was years has officially been dismissed. And we'll get into that. More importantly, maybe you're, as you said in New York City and you have commandeered the staff to be holding your baby son right now. So we're, we're, it's, it's like the pilots of the plane are now distracted by a cute baby boy. I look just out at my phone and producer Ali, I don't even know if she's working today. We gotta put this photo on their lap.
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Producer Ali is a jack of all trades. She handled so many of the things as, as EP here. But with producers Greg and Mike, they are doing impromptu babysitting. My wonderful wife Carrie got caught in traffic and she's got, you know, this is true for a lot of us. Even when you move to Florida, Clay, this is, I know so many New Yorkers. We still keep our various, like, long term relationships with, with doctors, with your, you know, people with their barber with their hair, all these things. So she was trying to stack all these appointments this morning and is a little late getting, getting in here to the studio, but it's no problem. I told her because Baby Speed is a showstopper and he's hanging out with the staff in there. He's ready for his own microphone. I'm telling you, he's having a great time. So very, very much appreciate what's going on there. We'll put that, we'll put up a Baby Speed with the team photo on Clay and Buck. Great Thanksgiving fair, you know, great, great family fun going on. And we'll also have some discussions about Thanksgiving and how thankful we are for all of you and how I think this country should be thankful for the amazing position we find ourselves in, despite the challenges, despite the things that aren't exactly as we want them to be. And there are many of them. It is a remarkable time to be an American, my friends. And one of the reasons Clay, I like history so much is because there's, I think there's a lot of context and comfort. You know, we both have it's funny, too. We both love history. Clearly different. You're like a Civil War super freak. You know, you're all about Civil War. I tend to like, like, ancient Greek, Roman stuff, 16th century Mediterranean stuff. You know, some specifics. But history gives you a context for the world that we live in today. And it's a reminder of a few things. One, there's really nothing new. Every humanity has been through all these things that we are going through now. And two, man, it's nice to be able to just sit down at a table with an enormous plump turkey and more food. The problem is not having food on the table like the Pilgrims. And I know Rush had his amazing first Thanksgiving show that we've talked about before. The problem is when to cut off all the cranberry and the stuffing and everything else, which is kind of a metaphor for where we are in America these days. Yes, there are challenges, Clay, but we are very blessed and have a lot to be thankful for.
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Yes. And also to your point, history, there is an obsession with saying all the time, oh, my God, this is the worst. How can we ever get through this? I always like to say we had an election in the middle of the Civil War. It's kind of a big deal. 1864, we had an election during World War II. And if you go back, I don't know if you've watched any of the Ken Burns Revolutionary War series at all yet, Buck, but I've been reading the Atkinson trilogy on the Revolutionary War, and I know for many people out there, they. We kind of have this idea of the Founding Fathers as sort of these gilded statues. And because of how the Revolutionary War turned out, we have created this idea in our heads that it wasn't incredibly bloody and contentious and violent. And because, again, the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, they're. They're sort of embossed in this glow of. Of. Of. Of sort of historical relevance that makes it seem like they weren't contentious at the time. It was nasty. I mean, you go back and look at much of our history, and it's been way, way, way more contentious, way more violent, way more awful than the present day in which we live. And I think that's important because nobody has historical knowledge at all anymore. And so everybody is like a butterfly or a goldfish, and they think that everything. It's the first time that it's ever occurred.
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One of my favorite history factoids from the Mel Gibson movie the Patriot, which we just. I had my father in law, Captain Flatley, I had him staying with us over the weekend. And we were just like, what can we watch that we'll just enjoy watching we've seen before? Like, I've reached this point now where I can't even look for new stuff because it takes so long. And you end up watching some, some, you know, communist nonsense on Netflix for five minutes and realize that, you know, the, that the era of good TV is over. But we turned on the Patriot and the fact that the British were very upset with the, with the colonists or, you know, with the, the early Americans for shooting officers. That is real. That is a real thing. The British were like, how, how dare you? And all of our guys from, like, you know, areas of rural Virginia and Tennessee were like, those officers look like good targets to me. I mean, you know, different times, my friends, different times. But that was considered ungentlemanly. That was a real thing. And all of these wars that were fought in our past were very nasty and ungentlemanly. And they didn't have a lot of the things they have today that can help save lives, as we know. Okay, I'm getting, I'm getting a little bit. Look at Thanksgiving Day show. We're gonna take a lot of your calls, a lot of your stuff. Like we said, we got cash on, which will be phenomenal. I really want to talk to him about the, the situation of the FBI and really just federal law enforcement helping out in these cities. I, I still, first of all, the Memphis is not getting enough attention. We try to give it more attention here, but that that is working and that it is working in D.C. and that this idea of deploying more law enforcement resources is somehow crazy as a means of bringing down crime. Clay, the El Salvador miracle needs to be talked about more in our country. From basically the least safe to the safest place per capita in the entire western hemisphere of the globe. Okay. And how do they do it? Backing the cops and locking up the bad guys? It. It does work. It does work when you do this. And, you know, I'm willing to have, we can have conversations about, you know, about second chances and about mercy for people who have been convicted on different things. We can have that once we bring the homicide rate down to all time lows in all of these cities that have been plagued with, you know, let's fix the problem, and then we can have a. I didn't say open the floodgates and let everybody out, but then we can have more conversations about rehabilitation and what do we do? And I think at that point we'd find that there are a lot of people that you actually can't rehabilitate. And then it's better for them and better for us and better for society if they are institutionalized for a long period of time, certainly the period of time that they are most dangerous to the public. So I think that these are all things that we'll certainly talk to Cash about. But I also wish that there was substantially more attention on this aspect of what Trump is doing that that is, I think, working and should get a whole lot more attention. But we spoke about this. Trump pardoned the turkeys. We're just gonna have some fun with this for a second. You already did the Trump Pritzker line, right? You.
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Yesterday, I played a bunch. I mean, again, the thing that I don't think most people have contemplated is Trump makes everything so much more entertaining whenever he's off the stage. Things like the pardoning of the turkeys are just going to kind of vanish as entertaining things. But this was happening yesterday during the program, and I. I said, we gotta show cuts of. Of what was going on. I think we can play the Pritzker line again because it is such a funny one. As he explains why he's not gonna talk about the fact that J.B. pritzker is a fat slob in vintage Trump fashion, which is very, very funny.
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Yeah, there's a. There's. Preterizzio is one way of describing this. Saying what you say, you won't say. And there's another term for it, which I can't remember, but it's a. It's a rhetorical trick, which Trump is. Is quite good at. And then there's the. There's the illegal orders brouhaha. You know, again, I was in the. I was traveling clay yesterday. I was in the air. That was why I had to, you know, that was why you were solo. So if we. If you already hit all of that, but that seems like something that is not going away. That seems like a component of. Well, certainly the Trump administration's approach to this stuff is never to back down. But Secretary of War Hegseth, he does not let this stuff go lightly. Our friend Pete, who I've known for many years, he is viewing this with seriousness. What they have done, he is not letting this go.
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No doubt. And let's play that. Let's play the Pritzker line, because I do think it's a good way to start off the Thanksgiving Eve show. And we should say we're incredibly thankful to all of you and be safe out there. I traveled yesterday you traveled yesterday. There are people on the road all over the country that are listening to us right now. And by the way, if you need something to listen to on your travels, good opportunity to go to subscribe to the Clay and Buck Podcast network where we have a bevy of fantastic audio options for you no matter what you might be in the mood for. Because I know a lot of you are going to be on the road. 90% of the people traveling and I think they said 82 million ish people are expected to be traveling for Thanksgiving in the country. So a lot of you needing things to listen to. Late night drives, early mornings. Crockett Coffee probably could help out a little bit with that too. 30% off everything at Crockett Coffee right now. But if you go subscribe Clay and Buck Podcast network, you will find a bevy of shows that are great that many of you can can track down.
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I think we got to do a Crockett like biopic by the way. You know, talking about good TV shows are like a Crockett series. I got.
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Oh, that's a good idea.
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I do like your like your undaunted courage idea as well. But there's some. There's such a market for great American historical entertainment and I think that's clear. I have not watched the Ken Burns. I've read some reviews of it of the Revolution. I may get to some of it over the next few days because they're going to be in food coma with the family and just watching stuff I've heard. There's a little bit of wokeness, which I expect because it's Ken Burns. But I've heard it's pretty well done.
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Overall, so I DVR'd it. So I haven't watched it yet. I don't know if people still DVR things I still do, so it's on my roster of things to watch. Buck not going to shock you. I'm going to spend pretty much Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday watching football. So I will not watch anything else.
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Probably if I only watch one game with my you know what, Clay, come back and give me the answer on the other side because someone's going to love question. Some people are going to love you and some people are going to be angry at Clay. And I love when they get kicked off at Clay. It's so fun. The talkbacks are always hilarious. If I only get to watch one football game with my brothers and my dad who are normal Americans who like football, which one is it? Because I will, I will mark that one on the calendar. Finally get one. I know you're going to watch them all. Finally get one. We'll come back. Clay will give his answer, putting them right on the hot seat. Like a turkey.
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Good start.
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Shh.
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I'm going to make some friends and enemies with the answer to the question that Buck asked as we went to break. Buck's dad and brothers will be Sitting around watching football and he said if he had to pick one. And so I of course was not able to pick one because I picked one NFL game which will be dominating much of Thursday and one college football game. So my NFL pick, Buck, is Chiefs, Cowboys, which will be maybe the most watched game of the entire weekend. You got Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs who are the biggest television draw modern era in the last four or five years. And you've got the Cowboys who are the biggest draw for the 21st century, essentially. It's going to be unbelievable.
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Going to be a good game. Am I going for the underdogs here which whom I assume would be the Cowboys or are they not the underdogs?
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Well, I'm impressed that you know, the Cowboys are the underdogs. They are a three point underdog at home. Chiefs have not had a traditional chief year, but this is by, I, I think by far the best game in the NFL of Thanksgiving weekend. And then the other one for college football, Texas A and M. Texas, I think is going to be an absolute donnybrook, as I like to say. Texas A And M is 11 and oh, undefeated. Huge rivalry game. This is college football at its best. Lots of in state rival games. So these are the nasty rivalries where, you know, you really interact all the time, whether it's Alabama, Auburn, South Carolina, Clemson, Kentucky, Louisville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt. Like I could run through Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, all of these different Ohio State, Michigan, but it's not an in state game. All of these different games going head to head. I think A and M Texas is going to be an incredibly fantastic game. They haven't played for a long time. Now they're back together because Texas has joined the sec. So I would actually pick two games in Texas, Chiefs, Cowboys and A and M. The Aggies going up against the Longhorns would be my top draft picks. NFL and college football. And I bet a lot of you out there are going to be watching these games. Buck, do you play, do you and your brothers like play a football game like Central Park? I don't know. Is this a, is this a thing at all?
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The Travis boys. Yeah, I love the disgust on his face. A huge percentage of our listeners will be playing or have played Thanksgiving football games with friends and family. My kids are already scouting out the right location for the Travis family Thanksgiving football game and I'm just hoping I don't tear an acl. I don't want to go down with an injury. Look, it is Thanksgiving and we can be thankful for so many things that are going on right now in the country. And one of the things that's going on in the world is thanks to President Trump, we've got peace setting forth across the entire country. If we get peace in Ukraine, that would be fantastic. But thankfully we have got peace. The Christians and the Jews have helped to bring peace in Gaza, at least in the short term. The IFCJ is doing what they can to help the Jewish faith in Ukraine, particularly the elderly, but also in Israel. And thanks to the international fellowship of Christians and Jews, you can bring hope to those in need. Your gift of $25 provides a box packed with life saving essentials that will help feed families and individuals feeling especially ignored right now. Rush your gift at 888-488 IFCJ. That's 888-488-4325. Go online to fellowshipgift.org that's fellowshipgift.org. Hey, I'm Clay Travis.
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And I'm Buck Sexton. You know what we're thankful for this year, all of you?
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That's right. We have the best radio audience in the country, hands down.
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Sending a big warm and happy Thanksgiving from the Clay and Buck Show. So it is the day before Thanksgiving. We're gonna have a lot of Thanksgiving talk on the show today. We're hanging out with all of you. A lot of you are traveling. So Godspeed on that and stay safe. Enjoy yourselves. Hopefully you've got some Clay and Buck podcast network episodes to listen to if you're not listening to this show live. And we also want to bring you some of the news of the day. Like we said, we'll have Cash Patel and Miranda Devine with us later. So two great guests. Talk to them about everything going on. In the meantime, this story that just came down, the judge has dismissed the Georgia election interference case against Trump. This would now be the third, the third and last pending criminal prosecution against Trump for the 2020 election stuff. Clay, I just think we should take a moment here. We said this would happen. This was the second, I would argue, the second weakest. They were all weak and they were all absurd. But if you were ranking them in terms of absurdity, the New York criminal case against Trump I think was just, it's, it is preposterous to the point where no lawyer in good faith can really make the case that what they were trying to do to Trump was, was valid. It was crazy. And the charging, 34 counts of the same thing because you wrote it on different pieces of paper. I mean, no One could think that that was in good faith. It wasn't in good faith. It was a get Trump operation. We all know that. But beyond that, this one in Georgia, a RICO case.
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Yeah.
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Brought by a clearly deeply incompetent Fanny Willis and also compromised Fanny Willis in this process. If you had told people at, like a CNN panel a few years ago, not only is Donald Trump going to defeat all four of the criminal cases against him, effectively, I know the New York one, but you know nothing SAP that that will eventually be overturned on appeal, too. He will end up being president. And this will all be something that the Trump voters can laugh about, although it was very serious in a sense, too. But we can laugh in the face of the crying libs on this. I think they would have thought we were insane. But we knew all along that this is where this was heading for Georgia.
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We said, and we're going to be proven correct, that all of these cases were going to collapse. And now three of the four halves, Atlanta's over, South Florida is over. Washington, D.C. is over. And to your point, eventually the convictions in the ridiculous New York State charges are going to be tossed, too. And so we're going to end up with Trump going 4 for 4, sweeping the board, and not only going 4 for 4, being elected president, winning the popular vote. And I know we're still in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, and we talked about how we're students of history and how if you're a student of history, you're aware that sometimes it can take 50 or even 100 years for full significance of actions to be understood in the larger context in which they occurred. I think a very positive result of this is going to be that the American public said going after political opponents by trying to put them in prison, in prison for the rest of their lives and trying to bankrupt them is not going to work in the political arena. And what we talked about, and I think we did a good job of this, is this was one of those rare circumstances where there's both the political and the legal occurring simultaneously. And a lot of criminal defense lawyers out there constantly cringed over the decisions that Trump made in talking constantly about these cases. Because any of you that have ever been involved in the criminal justice system, one of the first things your lawyer will say if you get charged with a crime typically is shut your mouth, don't say anything, don't give any additional evidence to the prosecution, stay quiet and let me handle this, Trump. And I think it was brilliant. I think it was strategically without Precedent, frankly, decided. I am going to handle this, and I am going to treat this basically as a political campaign, even though we're in the midst of these legal proceedings, where, remember, they're trying to imprison him for the rest of his life, they're trying to bankrupt him, and they're trying to ensure that his life is effectively over and he won on a level that I think even Democrats are having trouble with. And I think, historically, Buck, it's going to become even more remarkable in the decades ahead as the stories of this election are told. Um, and I think the 2024 election, your grandkids, everybody out there listening right now, if you don't have grandkids yet, they will be watching documentaries on this election. They'll be reading books to the extent that anybody still reads books in 70 or 80 years from now, and they'll be peppering you with questions like, grandma, grandpa. For us, Buck, we'll have little kids that will be, hopefully, grandkids one day asking us, wait a minute. Tell me about what happened in 2024. We're studying this now in school. Did all of this really happen? The Trump era is going to be so ripe, so incredible for the historical record in the years to come. And we're just now, I think, recognizing the impact of all of this as these lawfare cases collapse. And again, I think New York City on appeal, they're going to toss that. And all the people who went on MSNBC and said they've got them now, remember all these guys and gals who made a living, oh, this is one of the greatest RICO cases I've ever seen. I don't see how Trump, Remember the mug shot? I don't see how Trump handles this. And instead, he has emerged victorious on a level, frankly, that I'm not sure we've ever seen in the context of criminal justice in this country.
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Well, I think you also can see that the weaponization of the Department of Justice by a Democrat administration against a Republican. If you had told me, just take Trump out of this many years ago, if you had said, at some point, Democrats are going to bring a bunch of criminal cases against their chief political rival, I think the assumption would be that would be enough to, at a minimum, prevent him from winning the election, which I think was what Democrats were counting on all along, oh, my gosh, he's been charged. We can't have. I would have even gone as far as to think, well, given how federal criminal cases usually go, probably gonna have a former president who's in prison and the fact that he beat all of this and won is still. It's the most amazing from. From 2020 to where we are right now is the most incredible political comeback any of us have ever seen. And I think we'll ever see. I don't think anything will ever rival this in American politics in our lifetime. And to what you said, there will be almost a disbelief in the future. There will be future generations that will ask about how all this went down, and we'll be able to tell our kids or grandkids. Yeah, it really was. You know, I'll be able to say, I was at the gym and Trump got hit with a bullet, and I. And I saw him go down and I thought, oh, my gosh, we've lost our president. Like, what is. And then he stood up and pumped his fist in the air and said, fight. Yeah, I mean, Reagan was a great president. Reagan got shot. I mean, but Reagan didn't have that moment. Right? I mean, you just, you couldn't make this stuff up. You couldn't script this.
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I think you're 100% correct. And it's going to become, I think, even more iconic in the decades ahead because the politics of the present will be stripped away, and there will be lots of people out there that didn't have a particular perspective on the Trump presidency and the Trump era that are going to be studying this. And again, that's why I think the fight, fight, fight moment is going. And people got mad at me, as often happens. But I think it's a Gettysburg Address style moment. Remember, in the immediate aftermath of the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln got savaged for what he said there. And it was only in the aftermath, as the, as the historical record began to be set, that people went back and said, this is one of the most stupendously perfect ways to personify what we had gone through in the Civil War. But you go back and look at what was said. I think Edward Everett, if I'm not mistaken, was the orator there who spoke for three hours and gave a garlanded address that everybody said was incredible. And now most people, I just said his name. I think I got it right. Most people have no idea he ever existed. And the Gettysburg Address is memorized by school kids across the country. I think the Trump fight, fight, fight moment, particularly on video, as it resonates and echoes and reverberates throughout American history, will become even more badass now as the Trump era and the individual political fights of that era begin to fade. In the same way that you know, we started off buck by saying people have a difficulty now assuming that George Washington was ever flesh and blood or Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin because they have become such iconic founding heroes of mythology that we forget to a large extent these were just guys who were trying to make the best decisions in their life, sometimes making the wrong decisions, that is Jefferson and Sally Hemings. They were imperfect. Like all of us. Trump has many imperfections. But that moment was as perfect of a response as we've ever seen from an American president. And I'm not kidding. I think it will have a Gettysburg Address in like, impact a hundred years from now as the baddest ass thing that any American president has ever done in response to actual violence. I. If you, again, we said it immediately in the aftermath, if you had scripted that in a Hollywood movie, they would have said, no, this is too unbelievable.
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People will groan and oh, nobody would ever do that.
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That's right.
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And I think I would have said, nobody would ever actually do that, guys. That's absurd. Nope, Trump did it. And Trump beat four criminal prosecutions and also never, never despaired during any of this.
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It's unbelievable.
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Was basically going in to get his mug shot done with a smile on his face. These people really. And this is what you said from that garbage Jake Tapper book. Biden really wanted him to be in a prison cell for the rest of his life. They really thought they were going to pull this thing off. So I understand we've talked about this for many years and this has been something that we've discussed a lot. Show. But it's really over now. Today marks. It's really over. It's done, you know, and I think that's a milestone. And I think that President Trump deserves just a tremendous amount of credit. I would even say gratitude. We're being thankful for things these days, right? That he was willing to put himself through all of this. The guy has got billions and can just hang out and play golf the rest of his days. He went through this again because he thought the job was unfinished, and now he's trying to finish the job. Still a lot to do. Still a lot of challenges ahead, but very few people would look at four criminal prosecutions, all of that coming at them, and just keep smiling. And somehow he did, which is. It feels almost superhuman. It's pretty crazy what this guy was able to pull off. And it's finally. Today we mark the defeat of Lawfare against Donald J. Trump. It's remarkable. Amen.
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For full details, Cash Patel, working on the day before Thanksgiving, will join us at the top of the next hour. I am told we have a bevy of talkbacks on a variety of. Of different subjects. Buck, I have been calling out all the terrorists to recline their seats and render the rest of us unable to move on coach class flying. You got into this with me or were led into this on Monday, Tuesday, I continued it. I think a lot of people out there are reacting. By the way, if you have health related conditions that require you to recline your seat, that's very different than just being someone who is an airplane terrorist. And, and so that is an important aspect there. You know, if you've got like a. Hold on, do we have it? Here we go.
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A hey clam. Buck, this is Lance from Hobstad, Indiana, and my wife and I are listening to the show while we are on our honeymoon in Mexico. Keep up the great work.
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B
Well, that's awesome. I would suggest maybe there's other things you could be doing on your honeymoon that are a little bit more fun, but I do appreciate you listening to us on the honeymoon down in Mexico.
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C
Clay. Clay is good with the helpful reminders. Everybody.
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Let's go. Buck, this one's gonna really make you nervous. Let's go ahead and jump to EE or no FF Pam in Anchorage. Pam does really good talkbacks. I still need to go visit Alaska. I've never been. But Pam says that she wishes you'd been on yesterday because you would have been. You would have been apoplectic. Buck, EE or ff, Whichever one Pam.
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C
Is missed Buck more than I am missing him during this segment because the look on his face while you're talking about orgies in the bathroom and all the text messaging, it would be priceless. His level of discomfort right now trying to get him to chime in. And all I'm thinking is, would he.
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Be asking you, is this segment pope approved? It was probably not Pope approved. Buck. I was talking about the I'm gone.
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C
For one day and you're talking about orgies in bathrooms. One day I'm gone for one.
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B
When I was in college, they were having all these gay guys having orgies in the bathroom and they. It was a big deal at George Washington University. And I was just saying this doesn't happen with women. I was talking about the difference between men and women. Like you've never heard, hey, a bunch of women got together and they had an orgy at a random public bathroom. These guys do it all the time. And believe it or not, it was a big discussion about the fact that men and women are very different and that our goals in life are very different. And Pam's probably right. You would have been. You would have been blushing.
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Your. Your halo is gone. I'm just saying there's no halo.
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B
Not anymore.
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I'm not going to be happy.
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No, this is funny. This references the Pope. I believe we have a talk back about the Pope. Yes. Mike wants to know if I talked about immigration policy with the Pope. The answer is no. The answer is no, Mike. But here is cc, in case you were wondering, the Pope and I didn't hang out for like eight hours and he was just like, clay, Tell me what you think about the status of the world.
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Cc, we've heard a lot of criticism from the Pope on Trump's illegal immigration policies. I was wondering, in your discussion with the Pope, did he describe his immigration policies for the walled city called Vatican City? If I'm not mistaken, only immigrants with papal approval are allowed to enter in. Where's his compassion for the illegal immigrants?
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That is a funny take. No, we invited him to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game. It was not a political take. But yes, the Pope does have the Vatican City, which is walled, which is very secure. And so do most of the super rich people out there who are open to illegal immigration. They all live inside of gates and they all have security around them, but they want you not to have it. It's amazing how often that happens.
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Funny how that gets continuously found out to be the case. All right, we are going to have Cash Patel with us, the FBI director coming up next. Send us right now on vip, email on talkbacks. Questions you want us to continue consider for the FBI director while we've got him here on the air. That'll be up next, so stick around.
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Shh.
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