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Clay
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Clay
Welcome in our number three Friday edition, 14 hours up. We are rolling into the 15th hour now. You can reach out to us, 800-282-2882 if you would like to weigh in. You can certainly continue to use the talkback. And I'm going to play an outrageous attack on my outfit to go visit the president of the United States at some point in this hour. I will have all of you know 800-282-2882. And we have got a lot to continue to discuss. As always, encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a single moment. We have had several guests already talking about the big Israel attacks on Iran that happened yesterday evening In America. American time. Scott Jennings, CNN's I would say top talent came on with us, Ben Shapiro from the Daily Wire, Josh Hammer, editor at large at Newsweek. We're going to talk with Yell Eckstein from the IFCJ about what's going on with Israel at the bottom of this hour. But this is a good opportunity to go subscribe to the podcast. A lot of discussion, many different angles. I would argue almost every angle covered here. And Buck, let's go. We actually happened to be in the West Wing yesterday for a substantial amount of time. We met with President Trump, saw J.D. vance, Stephen Miller, Caroline Levitt, a lot of the people that we have known for years that are doing phenomenal work. And I would describe, I think you probably would sign off on it, President Trump as extremely relaxed. He wanted us to see the changes that he's made to the Oval Office, the changes that he has made in terms of portraiture in the cabinet rooms and everything immediately ancillary to the Oval Office. Also, you can see, and I think this is going to end up being pretty cool. He is in the process of building a patio where you can dine outside. So it will be like he has basically at Mar a Lago. But this would extend. He's paying for himself. He says this would extend for future presidents as well. But he likes the idea of having sort of his own salon where you can walk outside and have meals on a patio just outside the Oval Office in the West Wing. But I would describe him as super relaxed. He wanted all of you to know that he appreciates you and really is greatly thankful for all of your support. But the thing that he seemed most excited about talking about is something that hasn't gotten a great deal of attention. Buck and I wanted to play this Audio because it's kind of gotten lost in the shuffle of everything that has happened since Israel attacked Iran. But with us, he wanted to say, because he signed this bill, he wanted to talk about the impact of ending the electric vehicle mandate and what he believed was going to be a substantial change for the better for many different American drivers out there. And this is cut 18 with buck and I. And you can go see the pictures, by the way. Some of you want to see the pictures. They're up at all the Clay and Buck social media accounts. We were happy to have the time that we did with the President and all the staff. But here is cut 18. Trump announcing yesterday that he was terminated the California EV mandate, which matters to a lot of you out there.
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Buck
Listen, this is good news indeed. People said it couldn't be done. You got it done. I just have to sign, right? That's very good. This is really something. And it has to do with the California auto regulation CR A. It's been a disaster for this country. And I want to thank everybody for being here. We officially rescue the US Auto industry from destruction by terminating California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.
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Clay
Okay. There is the announcement Buck from President Trump. I knew he wanted, would want to talk about a lot of different things, but this is the thing he was most excited to talk about with us.
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Buck
Yeah, I know he was. We sat down and we were obviously, we're already thinking about Iran, but also we're talking border, we're talking riots in L. A And how he's. And he was like, gentlemen, did you see, did you see the thing I did on the vehicles? We're like, yeah, yes, sir, Mr. President. We saw that. He really, because he had just signed it. I was very proud of it. He just done a press conference on it just to bring everybody up to speed on this, Clay, because this has got, this is one of these. It's actually a big deal, but it has gotten in the media cycle, the news cycle we live in. It has definitely gotten buried quite a bit. The Republican led Congress passed these resolutions in May to reverse Biden administration approval of the California electric vehicle mandate. When the President signs a joint resolution revoking federal laws, it carries the force of law and are not subject to judicial review. So this, this is actually something that matters a whole lot. And for anyone who's forgotten what this, what this says, California in 2024 banned gasoline powered car sales by 2035 and revoked the federal waiver that would allow that allows it to set its own tailpipe emission standards. Under the clean Air Act, 17 states, 30% of the US vehicle market had adopted this plan, which, you know, again, this is a California EV mandate. This is nuts. Yeah, this is completely insane. These states were going to say, you can't sell a normal car anymore in our state by 20, 20, 35, 10 years. This is going to go pretty fast, sir. Trump has freed the auto market from this insanity and it's a big win. It's a big win for those of us who don't necessarily want to drive an ev, but also don't want to the climate change lunatics completely infringing on markets and driving up the cost of everything for no reason.
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Clay
Totally. And look, and this is what Trump told us, and we're not speaking out of turn on this story when we were sitting talking with him. If you want to own an ev, go more power to you. Right. The market should dictate the choices that you make. The state should not dictate the choices that you are forced to make.
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Buck
Imagine California and there was a time, Clay, when I think this was something they would have wanted to do. Imagine California said, and it's going to make Clay very sad because I've seen the cars that Clay has. No SUVs allowed. Yeah, we're going with an SUV ban in this state. California says you're not allowed to sell an SUV in the state of California. Remember, for a while it was, oh, they're gas guzzling now. SUVs have actually become very efficient and they're hugely popular. It's like a giant part of the US Car sales market. Car market. But you just say, well, that's a completely ridiculous intrusion on the car market in a huge state. So Trump has again, all he has done is restored choice to the consumer and restored the ability of the auto market to be a market instead of some kind of state enforced mandate based on green New Deal insanity. So it is a really big win.
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Clay
It is, totally. And by the way, we should update, there are air raid sirens being going off in Israel right now as there's an expectation that Iran has fired some missiles in their direction. Updating you on what is taking place there. It is now night in Israel, so it's probably not a huge surprise that the attack would come at night. We'll see if it's even as substantial or Iran is capable buck of doing even as much as they tried to do the last time when they put what, 100 missiles in the air and Israel and its allies effectively shot down all of those missiles and there were no Casualties.
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Buck
I think Israel, first of all, I hope and pray that they're able to shoot down these missiles, which are just intended. Remember, the strikes that Israel did were precise strikes at legitimate military targets. And what Iran is going to do in response is I just want, they're just trying to send a big missile that goes boom into a crowded apartment building and kill as many Jews as possible. That's what the Iranian response is supposed to be. They always fight these wars. So I think that the Israelis are going to have a ratcheted or a tiered response whereby every time Iran does something, the Israelis are just going to raise the cost for Iran. And then it's a question of how much more of this do they want. You know, Ben Shapiro is on this last hour. He said leaving the mullahs alive gives them something to think about. The mullahs may not survive this thing. We'll, we'll see what happens. They, they, if they order a lot of mass casualty, attempted mass casualty attacks on Israel, the Israelis have mapped out that whole country and they have total dominance in the skies. We'll see what ends up happening with this, no doubt.
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Clay
And, and, and on that front, as we wait to see what's going to happen there, I will say this about our visit to the White House. A lot of you wanted to know if I was going to be able to get in. The answer was yes. I brought my passport yesterday or two days ago. My I don't have the real ID and you have to have a real ID or a passport. So I was able to get in with my passport. I was struck buck. Leave aside the politics of the current moment and many of the topics that we discussed, the sheer happy warrior dumb vibe that existed in the West Wing yesterday when we visited with whether It's President Trump, J.D. vance, Caroline Levitt, Margot Trump's top personal assistant, Natalie, who follows him around everywhere. It is a intensely positive environment there. And I think it's because they know that they are doing the work that the American people sent them there to do and they know how to do it and they are delivering. And Trump has a level of confidence in what is required to do the job. That is next level. And let me just echo this again. The Israelis consulted with the Trump team and Trump went out yesterday and threw an all time head fake saying that the negotiations were still ongoing. Same thing happened with Pete Hegseth went to a Washington Nationals game with his kids. Obviously it's Father's Day weekend. You had Marco Rubio. This was a masterclass. I think in subterfuge and the ability to catch Iran unaware. And for Israel to have the ability buck, to actually have the Iranians schedule in person meetings so they could directly attack because they are so enmeshed in the Iranian security services is really an incredible strength of their attack. And let me just mention this too. A lot of people told you, some on the right, many on the left, that if Israel attacked Iran, we're still in the early stages, that this would basically be a preset to World War three. I think you're now learning Iran is not very strong. They lack the ability to even defend their own country. And China and Russia, they're not coming to the aid. The other Middle Eastern countries, many of them welcome this even if they say publicly there's a difference between public and private conversations. They may say publicly they don't like it. Privately, they are very welcoming even of this. And I think you're seeing that a lot of the cataclysmic analysis as often as the case was not reflected in reality.
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Buck
Yes. And this is on track to be one of the most successful military operations in modern military history. So we hope that that continues because it is to the benefit of everyone that we root for here that that is the case. Not just our friends and allies in Israel and not just other Middle Eastern countries and countries in the region that are very pleased to see the Iranian threat cut down to size, but also for the Iranian people, it weakens a regime that has been nothing but a nightmare for them for 50 years now. And it is long past time for there to be change. And there's no reason why Iran can't be something a lot more along the lines of, say, Turkey, you know, another country with a tremendously proud history and a really rich past that functions as a. I'm not saying Turkey's perfect. We have our occasional gripes with them in NATO, but it's a functioning modern state and not one that keeps anybody up at night in Israel, United States or really around the region for that matter. So that I think is, is what is possible here. And it's, it's looking like so far it's a very good day. As you said, there's missiles in the air and we don't know what the Iranians are going to pull, pull off with any reprisals. But their military to military capability is, is de minimis. It's really the terror, the terror strikes that we would have to be worried about or, you know, terror cells that go operational and we're going to have to Keep a close eye on that. And it's very hard to fight against those or it's very hard to catch all of those, I should say. But that can't change the reality of what just happened to Israel, which is its military and nuclear program have been effectively decapitated.
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Clay
And I think this is so important for ordinary Iranians. I thought it was interesting that Ben Shapiro told us that they basically have tried to turn off the Internet in Iran because they don't want people to understand what's actually going on. But at some point, these conversations are going to start as they start anywhere in the world, when humans gather. Wait a minute. You've had been in power the Ayatollahs for two generations. You told us Israel was the great evil. You told us that we were going to eradicate Israel from the planet. And actually we don't even have the ability to fight Israel. Leave aside the religion, leave aside all these things. Just pure efficacy of government. Israel has created one of the great technological civilizations in the history of the Middle east. And Iran has been left behind. The Ayatollahs are being embarrassed.
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Buck
There are early reports now of direct, of some direct hits on Tel Aviv. So we don't know what the, the scale of those hits are or what if there, if there are any casualties. We don't know. We just know. Clay, right now as we're talking to you, there are real time reports of impacts in Tel Aviv. We're going to continue to watch this very closely. Stay with us. We'll be back with more details here in just a minute.
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Buck
Yeah, in real time, we're following as closely as we can the updates from on the ground in Israel. There are reports of. Of impacts in Tel Aviv, but it could be a detonated missile or it could be shrapnel from missiles that have been shot out of the sky. I mean, remember, some of these are large enough that even if the pieces fall, could blow, blow a hole through a roof. That seems like it's actually a strike. So no reports right now, and it's very early, it's very preliminary. No reports, as I speak to you, of casualties on the ground in Tel Aviv or elsewhere in Israel. But Iran is clearly doing what it can militarily is as a reprisal strike right now. Now, we've seen this in other situations, Clay, where the Iron Dome is incredibly effective and there are minimal casualties among the Israelis. That is certainly the hope that we all have right now. But we have to continue to watch this because Iran, you can imagine, is going to fire the best stuff it's got. And whatever it's got at this point most likely may not be enough to penetrate. Maybe it is. We'll have to see.
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Clay
Yeah. And again, it's live on television right now, so I don't ever like to say, hey, you know, but you can see on FOX News right now the missiles, many of them being intercepted by the defense. And again, it appears that some of them may be hitting the ground, but we don't know. As you said, this happened before. You can't necessarily tell whether it's a full detonation, parts of parts of the missile. But that is going on right now as we speak to you. We'll talk with Yael Eckstein about that when we come back and continue to update you on exactly what's going on.
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Clay
We've obviously been talking mostly during the course of the program about the Israel attack on Iran. Iran now responding missiles raining down in Israel as many, most of them it appears, based on the videos I'm seeing, the television coverage appear to be shot down. Yale Exein joins us now, our friend IFCJ Head. And I'll start with this. My understanding is, Yale, based on the staff, they told me that you were on your way to Israel, flying back from the United States and they turned your plane around and brought you back stateside. What can you tell us about your personal experience before we dive in to the latest with Israel and Iran?
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Yael Eckstein
Yes, well, since October 7th, my biggest fear has been leaving Israel, getting locked out. You see how the airspace closes in a second and having my family inside. So I've been leaving periodically, but only for two or three days. I actually came to America now for a quick three day trip, important meetings, and I was on my way back to Israel. Around three and a half hours into the flight, the pilot came on and said Israel is right now attacking Iran's nuclear program. We have fear of hijack and we have to close all wi fi, turn around and go back to America immediately. So I'm here in America. My family, I'm in touch with them. They're in the bomb shelter right now as we speak, with hundreds of rockets overhead. And I'm just praying that Israel will be protected and then I'll be able to get home soon.
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Buck
So what can you tell us, Yael, and thank you for being here with us. Just about the current state of the Israeli people's mindset and how they're feeling about this. I mean, on the one hand, under threat, missiles coming in. On the other hand, the military precision, and it seems so far the tactical successes of this strike are truly almost miraculous in the level of what was accomplished here. So I wanted you to bring us into what the Israeli people are feeling right now.
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Yael Eckstein
Indeed. Well, everyone seems. This is really a story of David versus Goliath. Like, you have to look at Israel on the map and then look at Iran on the map. And Israel has been trying to protect our borders for the past 10 years at least from the proxy terror organizations that they've been investing in. We had Hezbollah on our border on the north. We had Hamas on the border in the. They were all calling for our destruction. And we see after October 7th that they're not just using words, they're actually building up military presence in order to wipe Israel off the map. But the truth is, what Israel has realized is that these threats aren't going to stop until we mitigate the risk of an Iranian nuclear reactor, because then they don't need to talk. They just launch one nuclear bomb and Israel is wiped out. And so this is a day, on one hand in Israel of celebration. It's a day like Purim, like wicked Haman that wanted to wipe out and kill all the Jews, and he ended up being killed in the same way that he planned for Mordecai. And that was kind of the reversal of history that God did. Those who threaten God's people, they will end up being the ones who are harmed. And so on one hand, we are celebrating that this huge risk of an Iranian nuclear bomb is right now what it seems like no longer an imminent risk, which means that we will survive, God willing. But on the other hand, the price might be very high. Right now. There are hundreds of rockets in the sky above Israel. We know that there's been hits, and we are just praying with all of our might. And, you know, I have to also say that Israel really feels like we're doing this not just for Israel's survival, but that we're doing this on behalf of the free world. Everyone who cherishes life, who values life, these mullahs and these Islamists in Iran, they value and cherish and seek death. And They've killed over 600American and they've threatened America and they threaten Iran and they threaten the moderate Arab countries. And so 80 years ago, 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis and the world sat silent. And what we're seeing today is that as Iran attacks this nuclear threat, as Israel attacks the nuclear threat in Iran, we have the entire free world standing with us in order to make sure the future is better and bright and free, not just for Israel, but for Jordan, for Saudi Arabia, for Egypt, for America, for Europe, for the UAE and Dubai, for all these countries that just want peace. This is the turning point that I pray, pray, pray that this light will shine and we'll know new days of peace.
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Clay
Yeah, well, you're a mom, you've got several different kids. I think one thing that the moms of America don't necessarily hear that much about or know is that most teenagers in Israel go in to serve the idf. I think that you have a child or multiple children that are either in the IDF or soon will be. I know it's Father's Day coming up in the United States this weekend, but for the dads and moms across America who don't really understand what that is like for every teenager by and large to be serving, can you explain how connected the people of Israel are directly to their military service? Maybe in a way that people in America just frankly don't know and certainly isn't similar here.
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Yael Eckstein
Yeah, definitely. Well, Israel is tiny country. We're 7.5 million Jews in Israel, so how do we defend ourselves surrounded by 300 million Arabs? It's because every single person in Israel from the age of 18 actually until the age of 50 when they're doing reserve duty, until the age of 50 serve. So at 18, my daughter just graduated high school and her entire class. When I was at the graduation they went through and said which unit each one of them is going through in the army, not which university they're going to. One is going to the Air Force, one is going to the Navy. My daughter is going to be a welfare officer for the soldiers and to help them. But every single 18 year old in Israel is on the front lines in some way serving and protecting this country of Israel. And the husbands up until age of 50 are out in the field in reserve duty protecting the country. So from my board member who around an hour ago dropped his 18 year old son off at the border with Gaza, who was deployed to go into Gaza and protect Israel, to my cousin who is a 40 year old man, professional data analyst with four kids who's been gone for two weeks in reserve duty, it's a country of heroes. Where you go into the bank and your banker is wearing their army uniforms because they're in reserve duty and the teachers leave because they're called up for reserve duty. It's a country of heroes, where everyone has a personal stake in it. In fact, just two weeks ago, I was at the funeral of a 20 year old boy, Yihai, who I've known him from the time he was indicted. My daughter, who's in the army now, and Yishai used to play when they were babies. And when they started the funeral, for me, this says everything. His young widow, he got married two months ago, stood up and she said, you know, I always believe that God is good, that we are living prophecy, that he wants us to fight for peace and freedom, and if this is the cost, then let it be. And she opened up the funeral with psalms of thanksgiving, just thanking God for having a country of Israel that the Jewish people could destroy, defend ourselves, that we can live in peace so that we can be resilient and there's a very heavy cost. And I guess that's also why I feel like the work of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is more important now than ever because our children are on the front lines and they're wearing their guns and protecting the values of America and the West. And it's really peace through force when all your neighbors want to kill you. But right now on the ground, Clay and Buck, there are thousands of first responders who are wearing bulletproof helmets and vests because of the fellows. There are tens of thousands of people who are in the bomb shelters that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has placed. There's actually NICU babies on ventilators and in there, all getting the medical attention being moved to underground facilities that the Fellowship has provided that are bulletproof and shrapnel proof and rocket proof. And so across Israel right now as we speak, I could confidently say at least hundreds of thousands of lives are being saved because of the Fellowship's projects. And it's you and your listeners who have made this possible. So for anyone who's ever given a donation to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, I just want to take this opportunity to say thank you, thank you, thank you. Because right now it's saving lives.
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Buck
What stood out to me, ifcj.org or supportifcj.org and now is a moment when you can really show that support. Yael, very much appreciate you being with us. Our prayers go out to our brothers and sisters in Israel and we'll have you on again. To follow up and make sure that everything is going as well as it can under the circumstances. Thank you for being with us.
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Yael Eckstein
Thank you so much for everything. You do claim that you are a light in the starkness.
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Buck
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Ryan
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Youth Advocate
I'm Molly Roberts.
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Clay
And I'm Drew Goins. Each Friday on Impromptu, we talk through the questions we can't stop thinking about.
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Youth Advocate
Do we need to rethink how much we drink?
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Clay
Why are companies really asking workers to come back to the office?
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Youth Advocate
Does boycotting a business actually work?
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Clay
Should we quit social media?
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Youth Advocate
We're here when the news gets personal.
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Ryan
And the headlines hit home.
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Clay
Join Molly and me every Friday on Impromptu from Washington Post Opinions.
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Youth Advocate
Find Impromptu wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck
Closing up shop here on Clay and Buck before we head off for the weekend, some some notes here. First of all things happening right now. And so as you listen to this over the weekend you will know more than we do about the missiles that are in the sky currently, as we speak to you, there are missiles making their way, 100 missiles making their way toward Israel. We hope that Israel is able to shoot them all down. There are no casualties from it. We do not know that. We do not know what is going to happen. And the problem with. With combat, the problem with warfare is nobody knows until it happens what has happened. Right.
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Clay
So.
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Buck
Or what will happen. So we have to continue to watch this very closely. I am going to be out all next week on business, though, despite what Clay may say in my absence about me just touring Latour Eiffel.
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Clay
I will just say business on business. The French Riviera is not exactly. I mean, you know, this is. Is. This is not trying to think of a Gary, Indiana in February, right? Like the Riviera in summer. Not exactly the French Riviera. An awful place to be.
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Buck
Look at Clay with the elbow off the top belt buckle for Gary, Indiana there. You know, I hear it's lovely snowshoeing over there.
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Clay
Clay, I was trying to think of a city that I'm not sure we're on in that would not.
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Buck
That was a good. That was a good call. If we, we. If Gary, Indiana, boycott the show, we would survive. But we do love you, Gary. We don't want you to think that. We don't want you listening.
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Clay
I don't even think people listening in Gary, Indiana right now would dispute that Gary, Indiana in February is not an.
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Buck
Ideal place or that the south of France in general is a little bit more of a fun destination. But I am on business overseas. I'm on show business, everybody. Don't let Clay fill your head with any oh bucks on like a vacation. It's a boondoggle. There might be some steak frite. There might even be a little champagne, a little. A little partying late into the night. I don't know. There could even be some yachts involved. Clay. But you know what?
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Yael Eckstein
What?
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Buck
I do this for us. Ok, buddy? This is for the team.
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Clay
I appreciate you being so sacrificial in nature. I will say on a, on a big picture story, this is somewhat emblematic of the culture shifting because we have tons of big brands that have never been willing to advertise on this show for the four years we've been talking to you every single day that suddenly we get text messages from our ad sales team about I'm not going to give them any advertisements till they start spending money on this show. But I think it's because they're realizing, hey, 77 million people voted for Donald Trump. And a lot of those people have good, robust pocketbooks to invest in a variety of different outlet and companies. And now they're all saying, wait, what's one of the biggest shows in America if not the biggest? Clay and Buck? Well, let's spend money. So you are going to be, to your point, going to this advertising event and meeting with some of the biggest companies in the United States and around the world that are suddenly interested in investing on this show in terms of advertisers.
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Buck
And speaking of advertising, Crockett Coffee is a fantastic advertiser on this show. You should all be drinking your Crockett. All right, When I'm gone, mourn my absence by caffeinating yourselves with Crockett coffee. Go to crockettcoffee.com use code book if you want a signed copy of Clay's American Playbook. Only got some left. Then we're both having books come out in the next. Well, I don't know, next. Less than 12 months. Like eight months or so. Gonna be a lot of fun.
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Clay
By the way, we had an amazing time yesterday. Thanks to everybody in the West Wing for hosting us. It will not surprise what is the first thing I said when we got a picture sent to us and we were standing outside of the White House? I turned to Buck, I showed him the picture, and I said, what am I gonna get ripped to the high heavens for in this photo? That's literally the first thing I said. When we got the photo, I was like, I don't even know enough. Now look, here's the reality.
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Ryan
Reality.
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Clay
I can be in a tuxedo, dressed perfectly, standing next to a beautiful woman like my wife, and you guys will completely ignore how amazing she is and just tee off on me. I would even go so far, Buck. I think I could be photographed purely for purposes of. Of social media, standing next to Sydney Sweeney, wearing virtually nothing. And every guy who looks at that photo in some way will decide to dissect what I'm wearing as opposed to what she is not wearing. With that in mind, I believe we have a talk back. An angry listener upset about my attire.
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Buck
Listen, play with all that money you got. You couldn't afford a nice suit and you wore jeans in the Oval Office. Are you kidding me?
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Clay
I did not. See, this is what I'm talking about. I did not have jeans on. I wore.
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Buck
I would not. I would not have let him go into the Oval Office just to just. You guys know, I am. I am the. It's like Trump, I am the chosen one. No, I am the Clay whisperer when it comes to these issues. I said, clay, no flip flops, no jeans in the Oval Office. And he didn't fight me on this one.
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Clay
I would wear flip flops, shorts and a T shirt every day for every event if I could. I'm not going to go full Fetterman on all of you, though. I wore nice. These were like hundred and fifty dollar Peter Millar pants. They were blue. They were not blue jeans. Now, I did not have a suit, to be fair with you. I didn't travel with a suit. I'm up here for two weeks with my, with my son. I don't like over packing for clothes. So I have two jackets. I have two jackets in our radio studio right now to Buck and Ally, our producer. I got dressed and I said, which of these jackets is the most appropriate for me to wear? I borrowed a tie from Buck to make sure that I had a tie on. And Buck is a team player.
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Buck
I gave him two ties to pick from. He actually chose well.
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Clay
And, and I also brought in one of my son's ties because he's doing an internship on Capitol Hill. Because I was had had a backup, I did not pack one of my own, which probably doesn't surprise anybody, but I thought I actually looked fairly decent in the outfit. And immediately it goes up. Five seconds later, the first complaint about my outfit arises. It doesn't matter now I can thankfully play the flute. There's pictures of us in a boat up right now.
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Buck
Look, Trump's not talking any, any smack about. Sorry. Clay's not talking any smack about flute playing in front of Trump because he knows how that's going to go over. Trump, renowned flautist, has come to the aid, has come to the assistance of flute players across America. After all of the columnies. Is that how you say.
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Clay
I thought it was calumnies, but I can't pronounce it.
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Buck
No, it might be. You're probably right. I know that word from reading and not saying it. I'm now I just got the pronunciation police angry at me, but I'll be in France next week. Pronunciation police. So what are you going to do about that?
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Clay
Enjoy the rose. Enjoy what I'm sure is a great French Riviera trip. I will be holding down the Ford. I'll be here in D.C. monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And Buck will welcome you back. You might weigh in with a couple of different clips so we know how hard you're working on the Riviera.
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Buck
Have fun.
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Clay
We'll see you all Monday. Stay safe over the weekend and can't wait to talk to you again in a few days.
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Youth Advocate
Nearly 90% of kids who vape say flavors are why they do it. A lot of the flavors that I've heard are like peach, mango, watermelon. It makes it seem like more childlike and innocent. Oh, if I try this once, it won't be that much of a problem. But then eventually it becomes a problem. It's time to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco products in Oregon and protect our kids from nicotine addiction. Urge lawmakers to Pass Senate Bill 702A. Take action at flavorshookoregonkids.org paid for by the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids Action Fund.
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Ryan
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Clay
Please don't touch the exhibit folks.
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Ryan
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Youth Advocate
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Clay
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