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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Georgia Hardstark
Hey, it's Karen and Georgia from My favorite Murder. Thanks to Hyundai, we got to take a post show drive in the Ionic five.
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Clay Travis
We had snacks, laughs and we even recorded a special episode featuring some unforgettable car themed stories.
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Georgia Hardstark
Take a listen. I'm going to tell you a story today, Karen. It's about a pivotal role that cars played in none other than the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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Karen Kilgariff
In our number two Friday edition of the program. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We got a lot of people weighing in on a variety of different subjects. Latest on Iran, Israel, we will dive into. Buck will be back with me on Monday. Monday traveling back from France where he has been on the French Riviera. We will have a lot of your weigh ins on a variety of different topics. 8002822882 We're Having Fun's 50th anniversary of JAWS. My argument is it's the most influential movie ever made. Also, by the way, it launched the summer blockbuster era. For those of you who are around my age, it's very commonplace. You would get out of school and there would be a roster of incredibly big blockbuster movies that were all ready to roll. And that is now super commonplace. But back in the day, the idea was, oh, summer is kind of a lull in the box office. People are traveling. It's not the time when movies are going to take off. And that changed with Jaws and the summer blockbuster phenomenon. So 50th anniversary, it is, by the way, airing for free on something called over the air television that is free for everybody on NBC at, at 8:00 Eastern. So if you've never, if you're one of the only people out there who's never seen Jaws tonight and you are capable of figuring out how to put on NBC, it will be free tonight for everybody to watch on the 50th anniversary. So what's a break? Well, to start the show, I was running through the fact that Democrats who hope to be the nominee in 2028 are mostly ignoring the Wednesday Supreme Court case on the transgender kid issue, which was decided 6 to 3 in favor of the state of Tennessee being able to prohibit these treatments. They're pretending that that ruling did not happen. Let me also point out, along with many other issues out there, if Trump hadn't won the 2016 election, this probably would have been a 5 to 4 decision. Tennessee is not able to stop kids from having trans surgery. I know sometimes that gets lost in the, in the overall larger geopolitical picture. But the most consequential thing in terms of being able to look at the Supreme Court for generations to come was Trump's 2016 election win. Because without that, a lot of these six to three common sense decisions may well have been five to four crazy left wing decisions. And a state like Tennessee might not have been able to say, hey, we're not going to let 15 year olds chop off their boobs or their penises that is child abuse. And we think it's not a actual medical treatment. So I know sometimes that gets lost in the shuffle. But Trump 1.0 if he doesn't win and Hillary is in office, a lot of these rulings that have come down are very, very different. And I think it's worth keeping in mind that as we look ahead, Supreme Court justices are on the court for life, but some of these guys and gals are getting up there into their 70s, into their high 70s. And you only have to look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg to point to that and say, hey, you gotta be careful about staying on for too long because you may not make it to where you're in a position where somebody who has a judicial philosophy like yours is going to be replacing you. And so in the case of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you end up with Amy Coney Barrett, who is in the majority on this 6, 3 decision. I would like to think Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have been smart enough because she is an old school liberal to have looked at a story like this and said, this is crazy. She's a mom. This is outrageous to allow 14 and 15 year olds to do this. But the Democrat orthodoxy and the far left wing woke ideology is very strong in many of these individuals. And I'm not sure necessarily that that would have occurred. Um, okay, I want to play for you. Barack Obama has decided to go back out on the interview circuit. Um, and I believe this was a Connecticut event where he was sitting and he was talking and he's talking about misinformation and disinformation. And I want to just play this cut for you. And then I want to lay out a thesis that I think is underlying why Obama is suddenly becoming more outspoken a bit. Let's listen. Our biggest challenge right now is we need democracy and social cohesion and trust more than ever. And it's probably as weak as it's been since I've been alive. And that's a bad combination. Okay, I don't actually buy that that's true because Barack Obama. What year was Barack Obama born, Guys? Will you look that up? I think Barack Obama was alive and 1968, which I would argue for most people out there is the craziest year of most of our lives. I would actually put 2020 in second place in many ways in terms of eras. The COVID 2020, BLM protest, George Floyd insanity. All of that is right up there with 1968. They echo with each other. But I think Barack Obama would have been alive in 1968. I believe that I'm accurate on that because I think that Barack Obama is about 15 years older than me and is the oldest born in 1961. So, yeah, he may not remember it well, but he was certainly alive for that. What's behind Obama? Let me, it's a funny line. Let, let me, let me actually dive in here for a minute and, and tell you where I think all this is coming from. So I think that Obama believed that his 2008 win and his 2012 win was going to make him one of the most transformative figures in American history from a presidential perspective. And I think he was quite confident in that and I think he was quite proud of it. That he is the first nonwhite president, half black, half white, the white half evidently doesn't count, but first non white president. And I think he was of the opinion that his election in the 21st century was going to turn into a transformative moment and that in the generations to come, he would echo even more, that he would become even more of an iconic figure. I don't think it's happened. And I think he is looking now at Donald Trump because we just had the 10 year anniversary of Trump coming down the escalator and announcing that he was going to run for president in 2016, the election cycle. And now Trump has been elected twice and he's going to be in office as long as he stays healthy until January of 2029. And Trump 2.0, I think, has the potential to be one of the most impactful and consequential terms in office that we have ever seen. And if you just use the first 150ish days of Trump 2.0 as a proxy. I actually asked Buck this when we walked out of the Oval Office last week. What is Trump even going to do by year three? He's moving so fast. And obviously one of the challenges of being president is there are many different issues that arise that you're not really in control of. COVID is a great example. In 2020, because I think Trump was on pace to have the greatest economy in the history of the world. And if Covid doesn't suddenly land in March of 2020, even if it landed in March of 2021 instead of March of 2020, if it doesn't land right in the middle of an American presidential election cycle, I think Trump would have rode that economy in 2020. No matter what sort of shenanigans Democrats tried, I think he would have ridden that into an incredibly successful 2020 election campaign. And I think he would have crushed Joe Biden. I don't think it would have even been remotely close because, remember, it would have been. They would have not been able to hide Biden. They wouldn't have been able to send him to the basement. Biden's frailties would have been in stark contrast with Trump's virility. And I don't even think the election would have been close. I think Democrats got thrown a life vest and it saved what would have otherwise been a metaphorically drowning Biden 2020 campaign. And I think a lot of them, in retrospect now see that. I think it's why they played up the fear of COVID all those other things, because I think they recognize that they would have lost and it would not have been particularly close in 2020. But if Trump had won in 2020, I actually think his impact would be far less consequential than it has been in this term, starting in 2025. And I think Obama's having that realization. I think Obama is suddenly looking around and saying, okay, if you just think about presidents in the last two generations, Ronald Reagan had a transformative presidency. I know the Berlin Wall came down in George H.W. bush's tenure. A lot of people forget about that in 1989. But Reagan had a transformative presidency. In my life, I would put Reagan as the most transformative president. Bill Clinton, I think, had a highly successful presidency. And I know people out there are like, yeah, well, leave aside, leave aside the intern. As I've said for some time, I would rather a president screw an intern than the whole country. Okay, Biden screwed the whole country. He may not have screwed an intern, but he screwed the whole country instead. If you're around my age, most of us who grew up, and I'm 46, most of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s feel like America was pretty awesome in the 80s and 90s. That entire generation of kids that grew up in the 80s and 90s, I'm not saying we're perfect, but it was a sort of a pre Internet world where you could just get let out on your own. Like, I laugh about this now, but I rode the school bus home from my public school. My parents both worked. They just gave me a mace canister on the keychain. I was 10. And they were like, hey, if anybody tries to kidnap you, just spray them with Mace. If I suggested that about my 10 year old right now, my wife would strangle me. What we let kids do in the 70s 80s and 90s. And don't even get me started. I'm sure in the 50s and 60s, I mean, my mom says when she was growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, they had ponies. And her mom would just be like, hey, you and your brother, get on your ponies and just be back before dark. You got on a horse and just rode off into the distance in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the 1950s. And my grandma was just like, yeah, just make sure you're back before dark. Do you know how far you could go on a horse? And they were just like, hey, you'll be fine. You're eight. Get on the horse. Just ride around for a while. We'll see you later. Take a pack lunch. So I could see why my mom thought, well, he's just riding the school bus. It's super safe. But, you know, protectionism of kids has grown immensely. But I think most people look back at the 80s and 90s, and they say, okay, the Reagan era, the Clinton era, most people were pretty happy in the country. And then I think, and this is where, you know, I'm going to have to dive into this, because some of you may disagree, but I think George W. Bush was an unmitigated disaster. Came in with a balanced budget, 9, 11 happens, we end up in war with Iraq. Dick Cheney's a disaster. That's why I think the idea that Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala. A lot of you are, like, good. Dick Cheney's the worst vice president in the history of the United States. I'm gonna have to expound on this thesis, but I think what Obama is slowly starting to recognize is that what he thought was going to be a transformative presidency that was the story of the 21st century. In terms of excellent leadership. He has been totally overtaken by Trump. Trump is far more consequential and far more successful than Obama ever would have been. And it's a direct result of Obama's failed policies that Trump was enabled. And even beyond that, I think there's an argument that the only reason Trump even got into office was because Obama taunted him and Trump said, screw this. I'm not staying on the sidelines anymore. So Obama might have chosen the method of his own destruction, just like in Ghostbusters. And it's Trump, and I think Obama's starting to recognize it. We'll come back, we'll talk about this more. But maybe you need some energy in your life, some vim, vigor, vitality. Longest day of the year coming up right now, tomorrow is the longest day of the year. Summer solstice. I think I got that right. It is going to be daylight out longer than any other day of the year. You're going to be chasing the kids and grandkids around the lake, the pool, all over the place during this summer. Do you have the energy to do it? If you don't, you ought to check out Chalk. 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Georgia Hardstark
From My favorite Murder. Thanks to Hyundai, we got to take a post show drive in the Ionic five.
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Clay Travis
We had snacks, laughs, and we even recorded a special episode featuring some unforgettable car themed stories.
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Georgia Hardstark
Take a listen. The Montgomery Bus Boycott Success was dependent on the action and dedication of many individuals, of course. But today we're going to focus on the work of one of those people. In particular, a woman in her 30s. And yes, I love her name. It's Georgia Gilmore.
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Clay Travis
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Georgia Hardstark
Oh, my God.
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Clay Travis
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Karen Kilgariff
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show, I'm gonna expound on this Obama idea and why he's suddenly looking around and saying, wait a minute, the future that I thought was going to be here is not in fact here. And I think he caused Trump because again, if you just go back and I'm talking about the last two generations and you're just kind of running down the list, you're like, okay, Reagan, boom, huge success. Clinton screwed an intern, didn't screw the whole country. Most people, I would say, liked the 90s, 2000s. I think George W. Bush, unmitigated disaster. I think George W. Bush is the worst two term president. When you talk about getting us into a war, wasting trillions of dollars, I think Trump calling out George W. Bush is when a lot of people really perked up for the first time and said, this is a different kind of candidate. And I think it actually underscores much of the debate we're having right now about Iran and what the American response should be because a lot of you that are not in favor of aggressive American foreign policy are of that opinion because of the lies you were told about Iraq and Afghanistan. So then you move into the, you know, look, Biden is clearly the worst president in the last two generations. And I don't even think Democrats are going to argue against that. Trump, Trump was right when he said Jimmy Carter died happy because at least he knows he's no longer the worst president. But both Carter and Biden were accidental presidents. Carter brought on by the Watergate situation, Biden brought on by Covid and the rig job that surrounded the 2020 election. But I think Obama, now looking back, you're going to have those twin double terms of Obama and of Trump. And historians for decades are going to be arguing, hey, who was the most transformative figure of the 21st century? And I think Obama's starting to recognize the answer is Trump, that Trump is going to be far more impactful and that Barack Obama's presidency is going to slide into the recesses of history because he got a lot of things wrong, in particular Iran, which we'll talk about and how it underscores some of the differences between these two when we come back. But I think on the Long march of history Obama is starting to recognize. Oh, Trump has passed me. I was mentioning a minute ago, my mom texted me, she said it wasn't just pack your lunch. My grandma also said take a canteen full of water and just go off and ride on a horse wherever you want to go all day long. On long Chattanooga summer days, you and your brother will be fine. That was the 1950s. By now, maybe you're not really willing to just give your kid a canteen, a horse and a packet of lunch and say go. But if you were, Rapid Radios is able to take care of your kids even if they don't have a phone. 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But also I feel like we should just be coming back in on the 50th anniversary with that iconic soundtrack from Jaws, every single segment here, because I would submit to you, it's probably the most iconic soundtrack that has ever existed. John Williams, am I correct about that, was the the creator of that soundtrack. And I feel like it's what Barack Obama is hearing in the back of his mind every time he sees Donald Trump with another press conference in the White House that his legacy is just slowly being devoured by Trump. And look, it remains to be seen. And I think the conversation is going to shift in the wake of the midterms. Whatever happens in the midterms, the conversation is going to turn to, okay, what is Trump's long range legacy? Because he's going to undoubtedly have dominated the American body politic from 2015 till 2029. But if JD Vance or Marco Rubio or someone who is in the Trump school is the next man up or the next woman up, who knows towards being elected President of the United States. And I think that's likely to happen because I think Democrats are so lost, then the Trump legacy is only going to continue to grow. And that's where I think the 2024 election, you guys know I'm a history nerd. The 2024 election ended the Trump is an accidental president narrative, because that's what they tried to say. Oh, 2016, he kind of snuck up on people. They never saw him coming. Hillary should have campaigned more in Michigan, in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He only won that election by a tiny amount. Oh, this is just. Democrats were asleep at the wheel. And then Biden gets elected, and they try to put Trump in prison for the rest of his life. And then he comes back and he wins the greatest Republican presidential victory since 1988. I mean, I think that is the greatest Republican presidential victory since 1988. It turned Trump into a transformative political figure that even his critics can't disavow. They really can't argue against it now. And I don't think anything that happens in this term is going to change the fact that Trump is the most consequential and transformative American presidential contender and candidate and president of the 21st century. And I think Obama is slowly coming to realization with that. And I also think the sort of the artifice of the Obamas is kind of being torn down. Because whatever you think about Barack, you know, he talked a lot about, oh, we need more common facts and everything else I would love for Obama, who I always found to be most likable, whatever you think about him, presidentially, because he raised two young daughters while still being in the White House, and he coached their basketball team. Do you guys remember this? This was, you know, leave aside everything else, I found two things. Obama as a dad, to me, I thought was the best version of Obama just in terms of his public Persona. And he. There were two things. One, he coached his girls basketball team, the young girls basketball team. And on that aspect, it. How has no one ever asked Obama, you had two daughters, what do you think about men pretending to be women playing and winning women's sports championships? He gets interviewed all the time. Never asked. By the way, Joe Biden was never asked that question. Now, I know Biden tried to hide from the media. Kamala Harris was never asked that question. If you wonder about Democrat party and big media legacy, media collusion, sometimes you can just see it by the questions themselves being asked. How is it possible that Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have never been asked what they think about men in women's sports, no one has ever thought to ask that question. They certainly have never addressed it on their own. But no opposition figure in the media that's trying to speak truth to power and ask questions of people in positions no one's ever asked that question isn't that remarkable when you really think about it? I bet if when Obama was coaching his 10 year old daughter, if there had suddenly been a 14 year old boy trying to play in their league, he would have been like, no, no, no, this is ridiculous. I think dad of two daughters who played sports, Obama actually thinks this is ridiculous. But he's talking about the importance of speaking honestly to audience and how we've lost trust. Why won't he speak out on that? I think it's a really interesting question because I would submit to you, and I really do believe this is true, even in this Iran and Iraq debate. It isn't that you have to agree with Trump on everything, it's that you believe that he will be straight with you about what he believes. What matters more than whether you agree with someone in this era that we're in right now is whether you think they are being authentic about what they believe with you. And I would submit to you, for any man that is in the Democrat party right now, certainly any heterosexual man, if they are unwilling to say men shouldn't be in women's sports, they're lying to you. And if you're not willing to take that stand cuz you're afraid of what the blowback may be, then I can't trust you on anything else. But one Obama coaching his daughters too. And I always think this is good. When his daughters were going to prom, I don't remember the exact quote, but they asked Obama, hey, have you weighed in on basically who your daughters are going to going dating or who they're going to prom with? And he said, you know, something along the lines of, you know, I'm President of the United States, I have to make super important decisions every day. My daughters think my opinion on boys are completely ridiculous. And the reason why I like both of those things is they have nothing to do with being President of the United States, but they humanize him as a normal guy. I've talked about this with Trump. I thought they did a great job with this in 2024. Trump has a phenomenal relationship with his grandkids. He really does. They like him when they interact with him. You can tell how much they enjoy being around him. He is a very Likable and involved grandpa, you know, Lara Trump, his daughter in law. Trump took his. His youngest daughter, I think it was in North Carolina, the Grandparents to school day. I don't know what it's officially called. Probably grandparents to school day. My own parents have done that. Trump walks in, little girl holding her hand. We didn't see as much of that in Trump 1.0. I think they leaned into it on Trump 2.0 because, one, he's probably gotten a little bit older, but two, I think Trump got more comfortable with that aspect of his personality. Trump has a really good relationship with his kids and a very good relationship with his grandkids, irrespective of his particular politics. I think that humanizes him and I think that connects with the larger American public in a good way because he's also a dad and a grandpa. And I think that even though he has a great deal of power, connects in a very positive way there. But sometimes when people start talking and they talk more and more, you realize how much they were protected by the legacy media and they weren't actually very likable ever. And I think that's becoming true of Michelle Obama. I had him pull a clip. I don't know why she needed to do a podcast. Michelle Obama has been probably the most protected person in all of American presidential politics in my life, in that no one was ever able to say, by and large, anything at all negative about her. And the more she has spoken out in the post presidency, the more ungrateful, the more unlikable she has been. I said this at the time when she didn't show up for Jimmy Carter's presidential funeral. I thought it was an insult to the country. To me, I get it. It stinks. You may not have a personal relationship with Jimmy Carter very much, but to me, you owe the American public a display of the barest, mad, barest minimum of gratitude to show up at a funeral like that. Barack Obama showed up. She wasn't willing to. And then she said, uh, well, I didn't even want them to pack me a dress, so I didn't even have to worry about it. Like, you can't even pack your own dress. She is so out of touch and so frankly unlikable that every time a new episode of her podcast drops, her likability goes down even more. And here she is. I think this just came out this week, if I'm not mistaken, guys, you can correct me. Here she is saying she's glad she had daughters because otherwise she would have had a son. And he might have been like Barack Obama. Listen, you should have threw a boy in the mix. I would. I'm so glad I didn't have a boy here because he would have been a Barack Obama. The baby Barack. It would have been amazing. No, I would have felt for him. I mean, your husband was the President of the United States. You had two daughters. Oh, I didn't want to have a son because he would have been like my husband. You mean the guy who got elected President of the United States and went to Harvard Law School and was the editor of the Harvard Law Review? Whatever you think about Obama, like, way smarter than Joe Biden, way smarter than Kamala Harris. I wouldn't have wanted to have a son that was like my husband. Really, the more Michelle Obama speaks, the sadder I feel for Barack Obama for having to be married to her. She doesn't seem like a very fun person to be around. She seems like an entitled, arrogant brat. And think about how much she was protected by the legacy media people over time. One reason that it's hard to attack me is because when you do live radio for three hours every day, you're not going to be perfect, but you can't act. I would have to be the greatest actor in the history of mankind to come on this show and pretend to be something that is different from what I am in the real world. If you had my wife on this program and asked her, hey, when Clay started doing radio, I guarantee you she would answer this, how nervous were you? And she said, all the time. I was. She would say, all the time. I was insanely nervous this sports talk radio, because she was so afraid when she listened, she would cringe. Cause she would be like, oh, you can't say that on radio. There is almost no difference between what public opinions I would share with all of you, millions of people listening right now, and what I would say if you happen to be having a meal with me. There is there. There is very little difference between Clay Travis on the radio. I think Buck would say the same thing, for better or worse. And Clay Travis. Real life and authenticity destroys. Cancel culture. They tried to cancel Trump. The problem is people have gotten to know him. And you may not agree with him, but there isn't very much difference between public and private Trump. And so the attacks don't register. You know, they found before Biden dropped out, they were running all these attack ads on Trump and they were testing them, and they found that they actually benefited Trump. That's a sign. That's pretty incredible. When they're running ads, talking about how awful you are, and people are watching them, and it actually makes them like Trump more. And I think the reason why was people decided, yeah, this guy's being attacked too much. They're coming after him too aggressively, and it isn't actually in any way legitimate. And so I think the more we hear of Michelle Obama, who didn't speak very much publicly before and was protected, and they, you know, probably negotiated every interview she did, and they knew exactly what dress they were gonna put her in, because God forbid she actually dress herself, and they knew exactly what the lighting was gonna be be, and they knew the seven questions they were gonna ask her. And now on a podcast, which is somewhat unscripted, it's still not live, right? So if she really, truly is unlikable in a segment, they can just erase it and you never see it. Or they can go full Meghan Markle, and they can not even. That's actually very funny. People just kind of forgot about it. My wife hates Meghan Markle. Listens to all the British podcasts about how awful Meghan Markle. To me, I thought the funniest thing about Megan Markle's podcast that who was she doing the podcast with? Was it Spotify? Whoever she did that deal with, she had so little respect for podcasting that the reports are that other people asked the questions of the people she was supposed to interview, and she later went back in and recorded the questions, and they inserted it and made it look like she had actually done the interview. Now, I think they have denied that, but there's also people who said, yeah, yeah, she did that. Can you imagine taking $20 million for a podcast and not even being willing to sit and ask the questions yourself? That is the bare minimum. Somebody could just give you a list of questions, and you just have to sit there for an hour and ask it of whatever ignoramus you're interviewing. She wasn't even willing to do that. The more Michelle Obama talks. This is one Buck was right about. I thought she was likable. I bought into, hey, she's got to be better than Kamala Harris. I think Michelle Obama is actually way less likable than Kamala Harris. I do. And I think many people out there are seeing the figment, the dishonest coverage that allowed Michelle Obama to be built up into this paragon of virtue. And actually, she's just an entitled brat. And the more she talks, the more I feel sorry for Barack Obama for having to live with her. I really do. Look, I want to tell you we've got a ton of problems going on right now when it comes to weather, when it comes to thunderstorms. You can get hooked up right now if you've got your gutters getting clogged at all hours. My gutters clogged all the time with wiffle balls, with footballs, with kids playing in the backyard. If you got limbs coming down, you got leaves coming down in all those summer storms. You can go to leaffilter.com right now. 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Buck Sexton
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Georgia Hardstark
Hey, it's Karen and Georgia from my favorite Murder. Thanks to Hyundai, we got to take a post show drive in the Ionic five.
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Clay Travis
We had snacks, laughs and we even recorded a special episode featuring some unforgettable car themed stories.
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Georgia Hardstark
Take a listen. The Montgomery Bus Boycott Success was dependent on the action and dedication of many individuals, of course. But today we're going to focus on the work of one of those people in particular. A woman in her 30s and yes, I love her name. It's Georgia Gilmore.
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Clay Travis
Oh yes. Today's story is centered on a group of courageous women dedicated on taking down Hitler during World War II. They banded together to form an all female ambulance corps which became the first unit of its kind to join an official combat division on the Western front. This is the story of the Rochambeau Group, best known by their nickname the the Rocham Bells.
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Georgia Hardstark
Oh my God.
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Clay Travis
Right? This episode is brought to you by the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5.
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Buck Sexton
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Georgia Hardstark
Hey, it's Karen in Georgia from my favorite murder. Thanks to Hyundai, we got to take a post show drive in the Ionic five.
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Clay Travis
We had snacks, laughs and we even recorded a special episode featuring some unforgettable car themed stories.
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Georgia Hardstark
Take a listen. I'm going to tell you a story today, Karen. It's about a pivotal role that cars played in none other than the Montgomery bus boycott.
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Clay Travis
Okay, well, yes, it's right there in the title, right? This episode is brought to you by the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5.
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Karen Kilgariff
You don't know me yet, but I bet we have something in common. We all wish we were better functioning humans. Maybe figure out how to sleep better, have more meaningful relationships, cook more that search for practical knowledge. It's my job at the was. I host a podcast called Try this. Every episode is like an audio class and we learn together.
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Clay Travis
I'm Christina Quinn.
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Karen Kilgariff
Now you know me. Check out try this wherever you're listening.
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Buck Sexton
I'm Rodney Williams.
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Karen Kilgariff
And I'm Travis Holloway.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome to the Wealthbreak podcast, a real conversation about finance. Let's be honest, building wealth doesn't look the same for everyone.
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Clay Travis
I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have.
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Karen Kilgariff
To revisit that and we're not stopping at success stories.
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Georgia Hardstark
What happens when it doesn't go right?
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Karen Kilgariff
How do you cope with it?
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Buck Sexton
Because wealth isn't just about money. It's about creating a life where you thrive and help others do the same. Listen to the Wealth Break podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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Clay Travis
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