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Clay Travis
Travis. Buck Sexton Show Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program. I'll have you know that I am seeing all of your rooster related commentary as we have shared the cost of of cost of eggs. Carol wants me to know that she paid 9.99 for a dozen at a store in Jacksonville, Florida this morning. You're being gouged, Carol. The price is down to 355. You should have waited another week. Gene wants me to know it's illegal to have roosters in Davidson County. Don't know what county you're in. I'm in Williamson County. I just went downstairs, Buck. My wife was listening to the show. She said she's done chicken coop research and it actually is kind of expensive when you factor in all the feed and all the roosters and the all this stuff. Do you know about the actual.
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Guest Speaker
Can I just tell you that it's awesome that Lara has already done chicken coop research though. That's what I'm talking about.
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Clay Travis
She knows on the ball, she said the chickens are not cheap, the roosters are not cheap, there's lots of organic feed cost rolled in and that having your own eggs, not easy. By the way, I live in Williamson County. My wife tells me that as long as you have an acre or more, she really has done the research where we live for people out there, Franklin Brentwood, just south of Nashville, that you are allowed to have a chicken cooperation. Now I am not going to have a chicken coop and I hope that my neighbors where we are moving are not going to have chicken coops. Because when we lived in the US Virgin Islands and I was an attorney in the US Virgin Islands 20 years ago before I have a law license there. I have a law license in my home state of Tennessee. Everybody there had roosters and chickens. And those things wake up so early in the morning. And if you live in a normal area where there's lots of houses around, everybody, here's your rooster. And so I don't want anybody having roosters really close to me because it definitely, unless you have a lot of distance between you and your neighbors, everybody hears your rooster in the morning.
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Guest Speaker
You know that we could sell a version of your life story of Southern lawyer goes to Caribbean island to practice law and has to deal with being woken up by roosters in the morning. We could sell this like Netflix or something, no problem. I mean this, it sounds like a sitcom that was on the CW 10 or 15 years ago.
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Clay Travis
I still have my law license in the US Virgin Islands. I could decide if I wanted to, to just go back to being an island lawyer, which definitely sounds like it would be a streaming service show probably. It would probably have to be a comedy, but it would be a lot of fun. And it was not a bad job to have be a Caribbean lawyer. I was at the biggest law firm in the Caribbean. I think we had 12 attorneys. Think about how like the biggest law firm in the entire Caribbean, any country was 12 attorneys. And. And so it was kind of a unique experience.
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Guest Speaker
You know, people asking me, by the way, to give them my assessment of this show, the Recruit, about a new CIA guy recruited in. And I don't want. I don't like to be. I don't like to be such a grouch, but it is just garbage. It's just a really, really bad show. So I tried, for those of you who've asked me, what is my assessment? It is. It makes no sense. I don't. It's Netflix. So how do you know? Right. People watch it because it's on Netflix.
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Clay Travis
Well, but I mean, is it like one of the 10 trending shows? I mean, those are legitimately. If you get top 10, everybody's watching those shows.
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Guest Speaker
I think it probably has been at some point, but Netflix has so much control over that. I think the Tennessee Country Lawyer who Goes to the Caribbean is a much better premise for a show personally. So I might have to write this. I'll bring you on as a consultant.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, well, I, I certainly can be an expert. There's probably not that many people that are experts in that. We got a bunch of stuff that's out there. I mentioned that the Trump. Zelensky. Sorry, the Trump Putin call has ended. Buck. I believe this would be the first call between anyone in Russia, certainly Putin, and anyone in the United States at a high level. In what? Probably. I mean, did Biden ever talk to Putin at all in his whole tenure there?
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Guest Speaker
I don't believe so. The team can check us on this. I don't think that Biden and Putin ever had direct high level talks about a ceasefire. In fact, there's pretty credible reporting from early on, I think June of 22, that Biden, because of Boris Johnson at the time, shut down an early effort to have a cease fire negotiation. Am I. I'm going into the memory banks here, but I think that's right.
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Clay Travis
I think that that is totally because.
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Guest Speaker
The belief was with all of our munitions and all of our training and all of our intel, I remember people saying that Ukraine's going to win this thing.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Guest Speaker
And winning doesn't mean preventing Russia from steamrolling the whole country. It means kicking the Russians out of the territory that they had taken. And that was fantasyland stuff.
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Clay Travis
Well, lots of people also thought that Putin might get overthrown. Remember, that was kind of the fantasy land take on this. Oh, Putin is going to invade. That means that there's going to be.
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Guest Speaker
Lindsey Graham said something insane at one point about Putin. I don't remember what it, what it was. You know, maybe the ceiling is going to come down on Putin's head or something. He said something crazy. And I remember this like, we should take him. You know, I'll find it. But yes, there was that moment.
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Clay Travis
Couple of things that I want to hit here. You have been just completely destroying the idea that there's going to be anything in this. But there has been a great deal of discussion about Trump releasing the remainder of the JFK files. What what did he say? Lindsey Graham.
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Guest Speaker
Lindsey Graham said on TV that we should take him out. We should take Putin out.
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Clay Travis
I remember that now.
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Guest Speaker
Yeah. That's insane. This was insane. He actually said that. So, anyway, I remembered it. I'm like, oh, my God, Lindsey Graham, you know, never seen a war. He didn't want somebody else.
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Clay Travis
I think he said it on Fox News, didn't he? Because it went mega viral. Beyond that, like, hey, we should go ahead and kill Vladimir Putin. But there's someone.
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Guest Speaker
Someone, to be fair, it was someone in Russia should take this guy. Imagine if Putin said somebody in America should take out the US President. I mean, you know, this is. This was reckless, stupid stuff. But anyway, sorry, J Files, let's.
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Clay Travis
Well, it was going to be. The whole argument was, oh, this is somehow going to blow up in Vladimir Putin's face. Oh, he's going to lose his power. That was sort of the fever dream of many people out there early in this war. That clearly is not going to happen. As a result, we now have a conversation which is making the idea of a ceasefire increasingly likely. Um, and I am optimistic that potentially in the next 30 days or so, we might be able to get one. But, yes, Trump is going to release, supposedly today, the remainder of the JFK files. Buck, what I have seen is that there are 80,000 pages of these files that have not yet been public. This is Trump announcing that he is going to release them. This was yesterday afternoon at the Kennedy Center. Cut 16.
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Donald Trump
We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files. So people have been waiting for decades for this. And I've instructed my people that are responsible, lots of different people put together by Tulsi Gabbard, and that's going to be released tomorrow.
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Clay Travis
Okay, Buck, go ahead and ruin everybody's fever dreams out there in the conspiracy universe. Will there be anything newsworthy, noteworthy, of any kind of significant detail that comes out in these documents, in your opinion?
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Guest Speaker
It is my astute assessment that these documents will come out and that it will be a nothing burger with cheese and those gross pickles that they put on burgers. Sometimes the little, like, slivers of pickles. I don't want pickles on my burger. I don't know why anybody wants pickles on their burger. It will be that it'll be the worst kind of nothing burger. That is my belief. If I am wrong, perhaps I'll have to eat a burger with these pickles on it as my way of eating humble pie. I think that it's very unlikely that anything. This is What I always tell people, if it was really good, we would either already know because it would have leaked or somebody would have talked about it, or it would already have been so destroyed and buried that it's not like you can just open the files and it's in there. Right. This is what I tell people about Epstein stuff, too. It's not that I don't think. I know there was a huge Epstein conspiracy. I know there was a lot of stuff going on there that we haven't still been told about or been able to prove in public, but a lot of the stuff has been destroyed. That's the whole point. Right. It's, you know, they're not leaving the evidence out there, like, hey, here's the huge conspiracy that goes to the top of the power structure of like the global elites. They're not going to keep that stuff on the shelf. They don't have it marked with a little highlighter. So I think it's very unlike. Well then. But now, here's the thing, Clay. People are going to say, oh, but this gives us so much more context. And you know, the people that are obsessed with the JFK stuff, they'll find things in this to say, oh, that's. We know so much more now. But is there going to be a bombshell? No bombshell.
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Clay Travis
Well, let me ask you.
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Guest Speaker
CIA didn't kill Kennedy is what you're not. I mean, that's the thing. The CIA didn't actually kill Kennedy, believe it or not.
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Clay Travis
There's also not a CIA guy. Oh, it's exactly what you would say. Also, there's not going to be a written confession from J. Edgar Hoover saying, hey, it was me, I ordered the entire thing. Ok. Why would this stuff have remained classified until now? I. That's always accept your argument.
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Guest Speaker
I mean, a very good question.
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Clay Travis
Why? Why would. Because to me, as just a normal guy out there, my thought whenever things are classified is they're trying to hide something. So it's been 62 years or whatever the math is on this. Why not just have it public?
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Guest Speaker
Clay, a friend of mine who, you know, who wrote a book on World War II naval warfare, if the CIA wanted to make sure if there's anything that is OSS related, it could still have class. So you can't write about the OSS unless you're going to go through the.
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Clay Travis
Review even 80 years later.
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Guest Speaker
Yeah, I mean, we're going to be on a hundred years before you know it. And there's still classified stuff about the oss. There's still classified Stuff about the Korean War. I mean, there's classified. You sit, there you go. I'm pretty sure all the informants are dead. If they're not, we definitely need to know about them because I want to drink whatever they're drinking. So, you know, this is. A part of. It is just government bureaucracy. I think a part of it also is they don't, you know, that they, they want to. There are some things where they want to avoid embarrassment. But yeah, the thing is, if there's anything redacted in these files, well, then that's just going to make the conspiracy folks get even more fired. And understandably so. I would agree with them. If there's anything that's still redacted, you'd say, well, this is really funky. But yeah, I think it's. The government likes to avoid embarrassment in different ways. When I say the government, I mean agencies. When you think of these agencies like their individual brands, they think of themselves like a company. You know, people call the CIA the company, but they think of themselves like, you know, they have a reputation. So we'd say the government's really more the FBI, state police agencies, et cetera, et cetera. So that's where I think you may find some interesting stuff. But nothing, I promise you guys, there's not going to be some note in there from like the CIA director. That's like, Jack Ruby was our guy all along.
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Clay Travis
That would be spectacular. But I do think a lot of people out, I mean, meaning that we finally get some form of resolution. The fact that all of this has remained classified for so long, I think for regular people, and I would put myself in the regular people category here, makes us feel like something is being hidden that otherwise should have been out there. Um, but the 80,000 pages in theory are going to be released today.
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Guest Speaker
And do you think it will be really interesting?
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Clay Travis
I don't know. I don't, I don't have any. My, my thing is why keep it classified for 60 some odd years if there is nothing of any substance at all that has remained hidden? That, that, that's my biggest question about it in general. It just doesn't add up that it would all be totally boring if they have kept it covered up for this long. So I hope there's some at least historical record that comes out and is somewhat interesting or intriguing. I hope that tomorrow or Thursday, after people have had the opportunity to start to go through some of this, that we could come on the show and say, oh, this is intriguing. Uh, let's have a conversation about this.
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Guest Speaker
It's interesting to me as well. There have been other assassinations and attempted assassinations of US Presidents in the past. And. And there's just this. There's an acceptance, like it was some crazy person. Yeah, it was. You know, it was some job seeker. In one case, it was some anarchist, but in this case with Kennedy. And I think it's in part because of the Oliver Stone movie. And it just has turned into this, like, Hollywood cause and. Or, you know, Hollywood fascination. And I just think, you know, come on, it's never as interesting as we want it to be.
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Clay Travis
Look, we dodged legitimately, basically one of the biggest bullets in American political history. On July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania, everyone living today would die with the majority of Americans for the next 50, 60, 80 hundred years refusing to believe that that lunatic was a lone gunman. And by the way, we still don't know anything about that guy. You know, it's kind of crazy that he came within a quarter inch of blowing the President's head off, and we still have no idea hardly anything about that guy who did that Yesterday. We're talking about the future of tech, and I had an amazing experience in the driverless car. I know we got a ton of reactions to that. Walkie talkies, you know, they were originally made for soldiers, but they become a utility tool for anyone who needed to communicate within short distances. Our sponsor, Rapid Radio, is reimagined walkie talkies. They work everywhere, all over the country, allowing you to talk to one person or your entire team all at once. You know, I got a text message from a buddy of mine down in Florida. He's got family up in Montana, and the cell phone network is atrocious there. He said he went and got Rapid Radios, and they work well for him and his family in Montana when they are on vacation. And he thanked me. He's like, I had no idea about the. He sent me a text message yesterday about it, and he said, they're fabulous. He bought four for his entire family. You can go online to rapidradios.com you get up to 60% off free UPS shipping from Michigan, plus a free protection bag. All you need to do is add code radio and you get an extra 5% off. We know these guys, we love them, based in Michigan. They are absolutely dominating in this space. You need it in the event of catastrophe, just for backup. Maybe you don't want your kids to have actual cell phones that have access to the Internet, but you want to be able to stay in touch with them, get a Rapid Radio Today we used them at the My wife brought them up to Knoxville. We were going to a big college football game. When Tennessee beat Alabama this past fall, we had them in Knoxville able to communicate because the cell phone network Sometimes you guys who've been to big games know what I'm talking about, get overloaded because so many people are in such close proximity. Go online rapidradios.com 60% off free UPS shipping add code radio check them out today. Rapid Radios.com code radio saving America one thought at a time Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. Ryan Seacrest here When you have a busy schedule, it's important to maximize your downtime. One of the best ways to do that is by going to chumbacasino.com Chumba Casino has all your favorite social casino games like spin slots, bingo and solitaire that you can play for free for a chance to redeem some serious prizes. So hop on to chumbacasino.com now and live the Chumba Life. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary VGW Group void where prohibited by law. 21/ terms and conditions apply.
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We're not tired of winning. The president is amazing. He's doing great things all around. Clay I didn't know it was possible for me to think that Trump was doing a better job or was more brilliant than he is. But then he comes out and blows away all expectations by letting it be known that, like me, he does not like hamilton. This is 17. He does not like the Broadway play hamilton very much. Play 17.
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Donald Trump
I'd say come here and see a show I was never a big fan of. I never liked Hamilton very much, and I never liked it. But we are gonna have some really good shows. I would say this. Come here and watch it, and you'll see over a period of time, it'll improve very great physically, and we're going to get some very good shows. The thing that does well are Broadway hits, and we have some beauty, I guess. We have Les Mis coming and we have some others, but the Broadway hits have done very well. So I'm going to spend some time. We have a good board. In the meantime, we're running the country and we're running it well.
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Clay Travis
All right.
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Guest Speaker
That was Trump at the Kennedy Center. Clay I didn't know he could be more amazing. But like me, he realizes Hamilton is trash.
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Clay Travis
I will say this is a shot from Trump because he actually likes musicals. He really likes Les Mis. He likes Phantom of the Opera. Like this isn't just me pointing out the truth, which is all musicals are overrated and awful and most men who go to them are only going so their wives or girlfriends will sleep with them, which is the truth. But Trump really likes them so this is a shot across the bow at Lin Manuel Miranda.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show okay, a report on what Trump and Putin spoke about is now out. I am reading this from Caroline Levitt who posted this on social media today. President Trump and President Putin spoke about the need for peace and a ceasefire in the Ukraine war. Both leaders agreed this conflict needs to end with a lasting peace. They also stressed the need for improved bilateral relations between the United States and Russia. The blood and treasure that both Ukraine and Russia have been spending in this war would be better spent on the needs of their people. Conflict should have never started and should have ended long ago with sincere and good faith peace efforts. Again, I am reading from the statement. The leaders agreed the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East. The leader spoke broadly about the Middle east as a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflict. They further discussed the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons and will engage with others to ensure the broadest possible application. The two leaders shared the view Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel and the two leaders agreed a future with an Improved bilateral relationship between the US And Russia has huge upside, including enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved. That is the statement that was just released on the call between Putin and Trump. Cleaning up a little bit earlier, we were talking about when was the last time Biden talked. Biden had not spoken to Putin since the invasion of Ukraine. He did speak to him in 2021. Just FYI, we were asking, I was. Whether they had spoken while Biden was in office. It happened in 2021, Buck. I think all of that is moving in a very favorable direction. I guess the question out here. And again, that is the statement we just released, that was just released by the White House. If Trump is able to actually get peace in Ukraine, wouldn't he deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Like, in an honest, legitimate world, wouldn't this be the very definition of what a mediator and, or leader who was not directly involved in the conflict should receive for ending a conflict of this significance?
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Guest Speaker
Yes, of course. But the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Barack Obama for doing nothing. I think Yasser Arafat got it at one point. You look at the people who've got the Nobel Peace Prize, and it has unfortunately become a bit of a, bit of a political joke in a lot of ways. So I know your point is well taken, which is that this would be a momentous, momentous diplomatic win and not just a dip, a win for humanity. I mean, truly, when you, I don't know how many of you have watched, there's a lot of video out there about what's going on on the Ukraine, Russia front. And what these soldiers are going through. It is trench warfare. They have drones that are flying in at them and blowing people up every day. They've got artillery rounds blowing up all around. I mean, it's, you've got guys that are storming trenches and, you know, machine gunning each other at close range. Like, it's horrible stuff that's happening day in and day out over there. And bringing this to an end would be such a win. And it's very. Frustrating isn't even the right word. It's, it's grotesque. When you see these people that are saying, but Trump is just throwing in the towel, you, what do these people think is going to happen? You know, at some point, it feels like the, the Slava, Ukraine people really just feel like if they, if they string this thing out long enough, maybe we'll have Americans sent over there to do the fighting for them, which is an absolute red line for you. For Me and I know for everybody listening, I mean, that's just completely beyond the pale. We should not lose a single American life, a single American finger fighting over who's in control of the eastern portion of Ukraine. And in the meantime, there's nothing to be gained in the long run for Ukraine continuing to fight and lose its entire able bodied male population when there's the possibility that you could still have a country that is functioning, a country that is a homeland for the Ukrainian people, and wouldn't be in the midst of a horrible and bloody war. Like I said, Clay, it used to be that the Democrats were supposedly the peace party. They were really the undermine America during time of war party. That's actually more accurate. But they would at least go through the motions of pretending that they didn't want, you know, don't go after Saddam in the first war, don't go after Saddam in the second war. Don't, you know, they were the ones that were saying we. And maybe they're right about the second one, but we shouldn't be fighting these wars except when it comes to wars like this where there's some humanitarian interest and no real American interest at stake. So I think that if Trump is able to pull this off, it's a huge win all around. And again, it brings us back to, yes, Trump out there negotiating to end wars and stop bloodshed, just like Hitler would have done.
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Clay Travis
I would also point out if we could get a ceasefire, the price of gas would drop immediately in a significant fashion.
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Guest Speaker
I think Trump sees that. He knows all this stuff with Russia has hurt us economically, probably in the west, more than it's hurt Russia. Russia doesn't really care.
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Clay Travis
And even the opening back up of the Black Sea would dramatically decrease prices for a variety of goods, including is, am I correct that Ukraine is one of the largest wheat producing countries in the world and that, you know, that, you know, the amount of goods that the grain is used to produce has also driven up the cost. And I've been told that because of the shipping costs associated with the dangers of the Black Sea. The other thing is Trump has attacked the Houthis in, in the Red Sea area. Right. That is also driven up the cost of goods being shipped around the world. So while there is a great focus on tariffs and what the impact of the cost of goods could be for tariffs, I think in Trump's internal calculation, he is seeing the ending of the wars to the extent that we can keep them ended. And I know they've reignited right now in the Middle East. But if you could end the war in Ukraine this summer, I think you would see a massive deflationary movement on a variety of the price of goods, in particular oil and gas.
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Guest Speaker
You know, there is a historical mirror image here, perhaps, or there's echoes of when Reagan came into office. Volcker had to tighten things, tighten things at a level that, you know, way beyond what we've seen so far in terms of how high rates had to go. And yeah, I mean, there, there was a, essentially a recession. Reagan more or less inherited that recession, but you had to, you had to get the, you know, you had to clear the system out. You had to get things under control. And there was a little bit of economic pain that the country had to go through early on, and then 20 years of boom and prosperity afterwards. Right. So if, if this is a Reagan moment for Trump on the economy, and I think there are a lot of reasons to believe that, that it could be and that it will be, the historical analogy here is very favorable, but it might take a year, 18 months, something like that, for things to really get cooking the way they would like them to. You cannot fix a problem that others refuse to fix and expect that there's not going to be some discomfort along the way, because why wouldn't they f if that wasn't the case?
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Clay Travis
This is, though, a very good sign, I think. It's hard to spin it as a bad sign. It'll be interesting to see what the larger media ecosystem says about this. Remember, Ukraine has effectively already agreed to a 30 day ceasefire and it sounds like Russia is willing to potentially get involved as well.
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Guest Speaker
Let's say, let's just go through a best, a best case scenario here for those of us who are adults. And then I'll tell you what the libs will say and how they'll play this, right? Let's assume that this ceasefire goes forward and maybe it does it. And maybe, you know, maybe Trump ends up having to drop the hammer on Putin with a whole lot more economic warfare stuff. And that's all possible. Ok? We don't know, we don't get ahead of ourselves here, but if you're gonna war game this out a little bit, let's assume, Clay, that the ceasefire goes forward and it is durable and we go into, at every phase of the ceasefire. You know, you'll be hearing from Democrats. Putin got too much of what he wanted and he could break the ceasefire at any moment. Putin got too much of what he wanted and he could break the ceasefire at any. You're gonna hear that over and over for months and months and months, so that by the time it's clear that this conflict, if this happens, this conflict actually has ceased to be the war, the meat grinder of humanity that it has been, they're just hoping to play this out so that nobody even realizes that Trump is what, you know, if you extend this out and complain about it the whole time, it denies him at some level the victory, the political victory, at least to some, that he would be winning by ending this thing. Do you see what I mean? They. They complain, they say, we don't know yet. We don't know yet. And they keep doing that until eventually when it's clear, oh, no, Trump actually pulled off something of a. Of a diplomatic miracle here. People have moved on to other things that I think that's how they play it, because they're never going to say, wow, he's a brilliant statesman and he saved thousands and thousands of lives and had the economy boom because of.
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Clay Travis
Is a really good sign that they are talking, I think. Again, we read you the readout on the report. I am cautiously optimistic. I like to go to look at Poly Market. It has now bucked the chances of a ceasefire by May 1st at 60%. You know, you can go take either side on this, on this prediction market.
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Guest Speaker
Right.
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Clay Travis
It's why it's kind of interesting to look at. But that is a small favorite, that we may have a ceasefire in Ukraine by May 1. The other reason, the timing matters on this a lot, Buck and I do think it's worth, you know, reinforcing this on a regular basis. Typically, as it gets warm in Ukraine, the armies are better able to move and the overall fatality rates increase. It's still the midst of winter over there right now, but moving forward, essentially.
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Guest Speaker
The same thing was true in Afghanistan when the. When the mountain passes meltdown. And it's easier to, you know, to move around. You got more fighting, more shooting.
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Clay Travis
So hopefully, if there is a ceasefire, they could get a ceasefire in place by the time it starts to warm up there, so that we can limit the overall amount of death that might be occurring. And again, to your point, yes, very Hitlerian of Trump to try to end the largest war in Europe since World War II. It's exactly what Hitler would have done if he had been in a position of prominence in America. And obviously, we're ridiculing the absurdity of that.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Well, I mean, look, Axel F. Which was the fourth in the Beverly Hills universe. Not bad. Also, the. And I'm not saying that it was as good as the originals, all right. Because I get a deluge with people on this, too. Also didn't think coming to America too, was awful. Also, watch that one. I got ripped to shreds by Buck for saying I didn't think Gladiator 2 was awful. I probably will like Happy Gilmore, too, and I think Buck will certainly dislike it. By the way, a little bit of news. Caroline Levitt just texted me. So. So I can. I can say it. I'm gonna be on the road Saturday with President Trump at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Philadelphia. They have not yet announced that he is going to be there. For those of you that are big NCAA wrestling fans, I know the NCAA Tournament is underway as well, but it should be a really cool event. Our friend Jim Jordan is going to be there, who wrestled in college, coached as well as Dave McCormick, a newly elected senator from Pennsylvania who wrestled at West Point. So this is a big event. I've never been.
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Guest Speaker
You know what's a really good but haunting and disturbing movie? Foxcatcher.
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Clay Travis
I've never watched it. Steve Carell.
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Guest Speaker
That is insane. You're the sports guy and you've never watched Foxcatcher. You.
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Clay Travis
Steve Carell did that like in the middle of the office, didn't he, like, left and made that movie.
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Guest Speaker
It is a very. He is freakishly good at doing the weird Dupont Air guy because I, you know, you know, they. Not an heiress. I guess you're the heir, right? Yeah. He is so good. You haven't seen them. Clay, you have got to watch that movie. It. It is disturbing, though.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, no, I need to check it out. By the way, Caroline Levitt also, she is giving us access as part of new media. She said that nobody else would have ever let us travel for this. Buck, we're going to be doing cool things as a part of the new media on this radio show. So our buddy Caroline Levitt, expanding the access to the press corps. And it's going to be super cool. So I'll be on Air Force One Friday. As soon as we finish the show, I'm going to head to Andrews. Air Force base and we'll spend Friday, Saturday, Sunday traveling with Trump, including at that NCAA wrestling match. So should be really cool. I can't wait to get on Air Force One. I've never been on Air Force One obviously before. That's a pretty cool experience. So I can't wait to be able to share that with all of you on Monday after we spend the weekend there.
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Guest Speaker
Have you ever done collegiate style wrestling?
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Clay Travis
No.
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Guest Speaker
Oh I have. We had to in my school. It was required of everybody and so we I was head tossing people around and had for how long? We did it from like 4th to 8th grade.
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Clay Travis
It was everybody had to do it.
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Guest Speaker
Everybody had to do it. Wow.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
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Guest Speaker
Kids around?
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Clay Travis
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