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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis BUCK SEXTON show Let me hit you with a bunch of news. We're about to be joined by Congressman Chip Roy. So the oil price of oil and gas, we talked about this a bit. Overnight it hit $120 a barrel. It is back down now to around $95 a barrel, meaning it has fallen $25 since many of us went to bed last night. Coming back down still up since the Iran invasion, but not the crazy spike that it looked like there was going to be as we were going to bed last night and the oil and gas market open so down. I mean, this is true about 25 stock market. We talked even when we started on the show, the stock market was, was moving substantially. And we said, hey, just stay calm. Stock market now not very moved at all, relatively flat. President Trump going to speak at 5:30 Eastern, I believe from down at Doral in South Florida about many of these issues and more. We also now just Tish, I'm not sure if she's speaking. She is speaking live, guys. If we can roll on this, the there have been two individuals arrested for ISIS inspired attacks. These are American citizens that these IED devices that fortunately did not go off or thrown outside of Gracie Mansion in New York City. And the head of the nypd, Jess Tisch, is talking about exactly what the charges reflect right now. We will give you those updates in the near future. Uh, we bring in now Congressman Chip Roy, who is focused on a lot of different things, including he is now in a runoff for the attorney general position, uh, in Texas, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. Uh, so Congressman, let's start there. It's late May, is the runoff. Uh, what is the latest on that campaign? Uh, as we also have the former attorney general in a runoff going up against John Cornyn on the Senate side. Several runoffs still to come in the in the primary in Texas.
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Congressman Chip Roy
Yeah, great to be on and really appreciate your all's focusing on this raise because it's so critically important for not just the state of Texas, but for the country. In the horrific event that we do not retain the majority in the House or the Senate, there's not going to be a more important job than the office of the Attorney General in the state of Texas, which is the biggest law firm in Texas and the most important AG's office. So you know, when I decided to run, it was partly looking in the future about needing somebody who has the chops and the background and the expertise to do it. We are in a runoff. We expected to be in a runoff because we had a four way split. Two state senators with some significant name idea, a fourth credible opponent. And then you know, my opponent spent $18 million the one that's in the runoff. And with all due respect to him, he is a trust fund kid who's never been in a courtroom, never practiced law, never prosecuted a bad guy, never been in the AG's office. I'd be hard pressed to hire him when I'm the Attorney General and I think you need to have the day, the ability to do this on day one. I am the former first Assistant Attorney General. I am a former federal prosecutor. I've been in Congress for four terms, almost eight years. Chairman of the subcommittee of the Constitution. I was a lawyer for Rick Perry, been a lawyer on the Judiciary Committee. I know how to do this job. So that's what the race is going to be about. We're out there raising the money and we're going to go toe to toe. And we have not gone negative on him. He went very negative on me. So you know, we'll be returning fire in this, in this cycle and we're going to win handily.
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Clay Travis
Chip, appreciate you being with us. Can we talk about the SAVE act for a minute here? Because I got to tell you something, every time we do a show, if we don't bring it up at least once an hour, someone gets mad out there at us because it's very important and we agree it's so important. But there's also limitations to how much we with our almost 600 stations and etc. Etc. But how much we can make this happen. It is up to the Congress to make this happen. What is the state of the SAVE act and why aren't we seeing more of a push to at least make the talking filibuster happen from Democrats? Make the American people see in an election year that they just frankly don't want election Security.
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Congressman Chip Roy
Yeah. So I think this would be a one hour conversation because it's so complex for the, for the complexity of the Senate rules. But I'm just going to distill this to the basics. The Senate can do three things. They can establish a quorum, like be in a quorum call or go find 51. You got to have a quorum. Or they can be speaking or they can be voting. That's it. Those are the three options. So the question here is whether or not you're going to do. What the Senate has gotten used to is what people don't fully understand. The Senate has gotten accustomed to putting the Senate in a default state of a quorum call. That means they're not even there. They come into session, but they're not really doing anything. They're then meeting and they're deciding what few things they'll vote on. And then meanwhile they're processing some number of the President's appointees. Frankly, not fast enough. And so they decide whether to vote. They vote in two circumstances. Either they've come up with a grand bargain that Democrats or Republicans agree to, which usually means the American people get screwed and they spend hundreds of billions of dollars and they get 80 something votes. Or it's a partisan issue like this and they go ahead and have a fake theater vote.
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Buck Sexton
Right?
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Congressman Chip Roy
And they have a vote, they put it on the floor, 53 vote for it and then they go give a press conference saying we tried, we didn't have 60 votes. They're used to that. That's a long winded way of saying they're accustomed to not doing the job. If we force them to do a talking filibuster, it will change the dynamic of the Senate. It will be like Mr. Smith goes to Washington. They will have to mean it. They will have to actually show up. So that's all we're asking them to do. We're not asking for a change in rules. We're asking for thune to be on the floor, to have a few senators available to make sure they block any weird unanimous consent requests. And then when the Democrats stop talking, we need to present 51 members to say, yes, you're going to talk or we're going to vote. And you do that for weeks. In the Civil Rights act of 1964, it was on the floor for three months. We moved 30 votes through political pressure. Democrats didn't want to have civil rights. We beat them. Democrats today don't want us to have citizens voting and voter id. We can beat them if we put it on the floor. But the Senate has to change.
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Buck Sexton
We're talking to Chip Roy running for attorney general still in Congress. What should happen in your mind if the president called you and said, hey, we got the situation in Iran going on right now. Price of oil and gas spiked last night, as you well know. It says being down in Texas by it's now come back $25. And and I just tweeted the stock market has come back substantially so that MSNBC is not showing the stock ticker on their television network anymore. We pointed out they only show it when it goes down. What would you tell President Trump? You've got you're on the ballot for the midterm elections coming up now House and Senate, lots of key state races as well across the nation. What's the best way to handle this if he asked your opinion?
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Congressman Chip Roy
Well, the president and I do talk on occasion. I'm not in South Florida at our strategic retreat because I'm campaigning in Texas. But what my message is to the White House now and what it has been publicly and will be to the President when we speak is stay the course and keep leading. He is smart. He's going to watch this. The reason the stock market isn't collapsing is because the stock market knows that there's a balance here on oil prices. We're in a good spot because America can produce oil. This is not the America 20something years ago where we were so beholden to Middle east oil that we'd be on the chopping block. We're getting a twofer out of this right now. China is taking it on the chin on oil. We can produce oil through fracking and hard, you know, the hard work here in America. And we're in a pretty good spot now. We don't want to have unrest in perpetuity. The president doesn't want that either. We are taking out their conventional capability, we're taking out their nuclear capability. We are knocking out the evil parts of the regime. The key issue right now is, as the president said yesterday in his very unique way, hey, when will this end? And he said, when they cry uncle. And I think the president is going to push this right up to the point that he needs to to back the Iranian people, try to make sure they don't put a crazy person in char, try to force Iran to do the right thing and then pull back. And let's get busy doing what we need to do to, you know, finish this economy being strong, get back to where we need to be. But I think the market is Factoring a lot of that in and you know, we can withstand oil going up a little bit, we can produce oil and then that'll all settle back down. Gas prices will get back down. But let's remember, gas prices go up infinitely more in California and New York and highly regulated places than they do in Texas. Here our gas prices don't fluctuate that much because we don't have so many regulations on it. So the president needs to just keep his foot on the gas and lead because we were elected to lead. We weren't elected to get reelected. When you start trying to get reelected as your policy aim, you lose. When you lead, you win. And the president's leading.
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Clay Travis
And we're speaking to Congressman Chip Roy. Congressman, and you might have even touched on some of this here. But I'm trying to follow all the, all the latest and greatest that you're, you're dialed in on the DHS funding situation. What the, what the heck is going on with this and is this is we're seeing these big TSA lines. There's DHS funding holdups, but there's funding that's already in play like can make, make sense of this for everybody. So we know what the heck's happening.
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Congressman Chip Roy
Well, remember that last year we put in place funding for ICE and Border Patrol and that is enabling us to continue to do our work to secure America. But the Democrats pulling back the funding on DHS because they want to make a show about ice, is leaving tsa, Coast Guard, FEMA and other functions dangling. So now we're seeing that pressure that's going to unfold in the airports when people are trying to travel and they have three hour and four hour waits because we're going to start losing personnel because what the administration is having to do is to start saving money by constraining operations. And then you've got personnel who aren't getting paid. So they have to show up. They have to manage personal issues, daycare, life, gasoline. So things are going to start getting worse and Democrats are going to own it. We have to stay the course and make sure the American people know that Democrats cause this problem. We have passed funding bills, we passed three funding bills and Democrats have rejected those in favor of politics. We stand with the ice, we stand with Border Patrol. We stand with doing our job. We stand with TSA and Coast Guard and fema. Democrats are blocking it and they've got to own that.
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Buck Sexton
Congressman Chip Roy, we appreciate the time. When is the runoff election and when can people start voting in it?
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Congressman Chip Roy
May 26 that voting won't start until mid May. Right now just please visit shiproy.com and shoot me a few bucks. We got it. We're beating itself under I don't think Texas should be for sale. I don't think you should be able to buy votes with your with your family money. I've spent a lifetime in public service. I got to earn it but I need your help to do it. So Chiproid I calm appreciate it fell God bless. And by the way, Texas baseball is undefeated and we play tomorrow night to set our go 16 and oh which would be the first time we were 16 and oh since our 2005 national championship run. So hook them.
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Buck Sexton
There you go. Congressman Chip Roy married to an Aggie worth mentioning. By the way. We will talk to you again soon. Again Texas with the primary underway and soon to be early voting going on in that I believe. Okay, we've got some audio from Just Tish laying out the federal charges as well as state charges that are being pursued in this terror attack. We will discuss all of that and play the latest for you when we come back. But power outages can happen in a moment's notice. Look what happened this past weekend. Oklahoma and Michigan tornadoes touched down and did a great deal of damage and knocked a lot of people out of power as well as injuring and killing many different people out there. Rapid Radios. They provide clear communication, long battery life, durability that will stand up to real world emergencies. Staying connected shouldn't depend on luck. It should depend on the tools you trust like Rapid Radios. If you want to protect your family during the next weather emergency or whatever causes the disruption. If you want peace of mind when the weather turns dangerous, get a set of Rapid Radios today. Go to rapidradios.com right now. Check out the new Rad1. See the full emergency features. Five day charge on one setup. Get hooked up now. When the world goes quiet, make sure you don't communication redefined only@rapidradios.com
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Congressman Chip Roy
News you
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Clay Travis
welcome back into Clay and Buck. We got Jesse Tisch in New York as the NYPD commissioner and turn back the clock. 15 years. I was sometimes sitting in a conference room with then analyst Jessica Tisch. And I was an analyst too, in the nypd. She was on the counterterrorism side. I was on the intel side. Which do. They did very similar things. Intel kind of did more counterterrorism and counterterrorism did more site security. It was a little bit of a weird mission or point being, she's been in this game a long time. She knows what she's talking about and she's competent and she's a competent manager and has the respect. It is very hard to get the respect of a lot of cops when you haven't been a cop. And they just know. I'll tell you that when I was in the nypd, Bloomberg had a lot of respect, even though obviously that guy had never been a cop. But he let Ray Kelly, who was a cops cop and very much celebrated in New York City for all that he did. He let Ray Kelly run that, run that department and keep the city safe. And it was like a Swiss watch, as much as it could be. I mean, it was really a good combo. And the cops that I worked with all had the real cops. I was like a, you know, analyst, civilian guy. They all had very good things to say, not just about Kelly, but about. About Bloomberg, because he knew what he knew and he knew what he didn't know. And that's a very important thing for anybody who's going to have power and be in a managerial role. I bring all this up because Jesse Tisch, the commissioner, is saying. Commissioner Tisch is saying this is a terror attack. And we've got more audio of her explaining this is ISIS inspired too. Play it, guys.
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Jessica Tisch
We can now share that federal charges have been filed in the Southern District of New York against two individuals, Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, in connection with that attack. The defendants are charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS using a weapon of mass destruction, transporting explosive materials, interstate transportation and receipt of explosive materials, and unlawful possession of destructive devices. The complaint sets forth the factual allegations supporting those charges. As alleged in the complaint, the defendants were inspired by ISIS to carry out their attack. And as alleged, both defendants have admitted that they acted on Saturday because of isis.
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Clay Travis
Clay, this is for. For them to be coming out saying this from the, for the police commissioner to say this. They have a lot of evidence already that points to not just this is terrorism, but this is ISIS inspired.
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Buck Sexton
And it is such a story at this point that even all three networks carried the live analysis of this. I mean, we're very, very fortunate that these moron terrorists actually failed in creating the explosive devices that they wanted to throw. But again, remember that the way that Zoran Mamdani covered this initially was, oh, this was a white supremacist rally. And the way that many different media groups covered this was as if this was in some way a cause of the protest. When these were counter protesters who showed up, up. And the press conference has just now broken up. It's been covered live for much of the last 30 minutes. And I think it's evidence that many of us all over the country need to be keeping our heads on a swivel while the situation is playing itself out in Iran. You know, Buck, they still haven't said what motivated the shooting in Austin. Remember the photos we saw? I feel pretty comfortable about what motivated the shooting in Austin. And now we know directly because the body camera is exactly what motivated these guys for their would be attacked. I want to tell you, if you're out there right now and you are ready for the World Baseball Classic, a lot of people out there watching us about to play Mexico, I believe. It is so much fun. Really cool watching that going on. You've got NCAA tournament play starting next week. You've got NBA and NHL players playoffs not very far away and major league baseball itself only a couple of weeks away. Perfect time to play along with prize picks. You go to prizepix.com right now. Use code clay. You get $50 when you play. $5. That's prizepix.com code clay get signed up today. $50 when you play $5 in all 50 states at price picks. Welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton show All right, let's kind of re set everything out there. The panic over oil and gas prices has vanished in the time that we were on air. It's really kind of amazing. Price of oil and gas overnight spiked to over $120 a barrel. It's now back down to around $93, meaning it dropped by $27. And if you're wondering, okay, well, how much of a story is oil and gas now? Stock market is basically flat as I am watching it right now, meaning it hasn't really moved at all. Today, after all the panic setting in. And the story now is, would be ISIS terrorist outside of Gracie Mansion in New York City throwing IEDs. And we have a press conference that just ended. And this is Jessica Tisch. Let me make sure that I get this cut right. This is cut 33 announcing federal charges and saying the suspect acted for ISIS.
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Jessica Tisch
Listen, we can now share that federal charges have been filed in the Southern District of New York against two individuals, Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, in connection with that attack. The defendants are charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS using a weapon of mass destruction, transporting explosive materials, interstate transportation and receipt of explosive materials, and unlawful possession of destructive devices. The complaint sets forth the factual allegations supporting those charges. As alleged in the complaint, the defendants were inspired by ISIS to carry out their attack. And as alleged, both defendants have admitted that they acted on Saturday because of isis.
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Buck Sexton
We just played that. I'm playing it again. I thought it was a little bit of a different cut, but it's the same one. So, look, this is, Buck, I think, a story that is unfortunate, but one that is certainly the case. While we are engaged in Iran, we need to be more careful. We just talked about what happened in Austin where the guy was wearing an Iranian T shirt. I think it's hard to say that. That his motivation in shooting innocent people in Austin was not what was going on in Iran. Maybe these guys would have acted out otherwise, but I tend to think there's probably a connection here, too. And there are reports, you worked in this directly, that Iran may have tried to, if there are sleeper cells here, tell people, hey, start to act out in the United States.
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Clay Travis
Yes, it's very easy for word about this to get out there. ISIS used to do something called remote control or outside in terror attacks, where they would essentially make contact with people in Western countries, European countries, America, and give them ideas and logistics, help to plan attacks, to pick. So they were very. This is going back, you know, 2012, 2013, 2014 time period, but they were very active in that. And it wouldn't be hard at all for elements of the Iranian regime to be doing the same. Remember, the Quds Force, which is the external operations arm, the irgc, is broken down into a few different. It's really, you know, a. It was initially a parallel military structure, and now it's their. Now it's the beating heart of the evil Iranian regime. They have the ground forces. They've got, I think, a naval arm, an air arm, maybe even a cyber. And then they've got Quds Force, which is their external operations. Quds being Jerusalem, by the way, external operations, army and clay. They are all dedicated to keeping this whole thing going because you have to remember they have very privileged positions within the Iranian state especially. You're talking about the officer corps. Think of the IRGC a little bit like the SS of the Nazis. And it lines up. They're the ideological hardcore that are also in charge of the security and the military infrastructure in that country. And they're going to be a huge challenge. They're the biggest challenge actually for regime change. And they also run a lot of external terrorist ops. So bringing this to how easy would it be for them to be making contact or have contact with fellow ideological travelers who want to go out and wage jihad? Internet makes this a very easy game for them.
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Buck Sexton
Not only that, we had a wide open southern border with people traveling in from all over the world, mostly young men for four years, effectively under Joe Biden. So we. You don't even know who's here. I would also add this, and you just heard Chip Roy talking about it a little bit at the top of the last hour. The TSA not being fully funded right now seems like a really bad idea. You mentioned earlier, Buck, the reason why we have to go through the security mechanisms that we do in this country is largely fear of Middle Eastern terrorists. I mean, that's the reality. Yes, everybody gets padded down. Yes, everybody has to behave in, in certain ways going through the tsa, regardless of our backgrounds. But the reality is most terrorist threats in the United States, all of us know it is primarily Middle Eastern young men. And that's why we now, in the wake of 9 11, have to go through the security apparatus at TSA that we do. Doesn't it seem like a really bad idea to not be paying TSA agents right now? Especially as we are entering spring break season when it is one of the busiest times to fly all over the United States. I think it's a really bad idea. I saw the footage. I'm sure you did. Buck of New Orleans. I think they're telling people to get there five hours before your flight. Right now in New Orleans, five hours. Because you have to stand in line for three hours to get through. Democrats cause this. If you are in Houston right now, I saw multi hour waits in Houston to be able to fly out too. And you're saying, okay, what's happening? The guys at TSA and gals at TSA are not getting paid and when they're calling out sick, they don't have the resources to be able to have people there. And so as a result, unfortunately, the lines are getting excessive in many different airports around the country. What? This is the third or fourth time we've done this to TSA as well. And this is all caused by Democrats. Republicans have tried to fund the government multiple times now. Chuck Schumer got angry after Minneapolis and said, oh, I'm not gonna allow it. He's afraid of AOC challenging him. And as a result, we've got long lines and probably less people working than otherwise would be. People are calling out sick because they're not getting paid.
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Clay Travis
It's almost like Democrats would rather burn everything down than let the other side run things better than them. Honestly, they don't have ideas to do things better. They just want things to go poorly. They want Iran to be a disaster for the Trump administration. They want the economy to start to go into free fall. I mean, they are rooting against America right now in every sense, because they are not in power. And power is the single most important thing to them. Just the reality. And they want to come back into power and do exactly what they were doing under Biden. They just won't have a, A, a senile sock puppet to operate with this time. They'll have some other sock puppet in there because it really is. We said this all along about Biden, but it's true of any Democrat that they're thinking about. It's the, it's the apparatus. It's the people around whoever the figurehead is who really make the determinations and the decisions. It's the ideologues who are very unimpressive, uninspiring, and can't even pretend to care about people other than their own parochial interests. They're the ones that will be running the country if the Democrats come into power again. So we're here to remind everybody of that.
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Buck Sexton
One other bit of news, Buck. So I would. I can't imagine. Can you imagine flying out of New Orleans and showing up five hours early to stand in line for three hours so you can get through the checkpoint? I, I would be furious. And Democrats have caused this. This is breaking news. We didn't mention this. I, I think we mentioned it off the top. There's a new supreme leader. He is the son of Khomeini. He supportedly. Mochtabakkamine. This is according to Il Jacoby, and other reporters have said this as well, that he was severely injured and one of his legs has been amputated. He may not even be aware that he has now been elevated to supreme Leader. That is the. That. That is the report that is out that they don't know exactly what the injuries are, but it has been reported that he is severely injured, and he has not, probably not surprisingly, appeared in public. So what exactly his status is, even as the leader is, is unclear.
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Clay Travis
A lot of things unclear in Iran right now. All we can do is hope that the people who are making decisions on our side continue to stay focused and frosty and keep the lessons of the past in mind while they use what is an incredible technological advantage in military capability that we're seeing all across the battlefield far beyond. You know, Clay, I remember seeing my first drone strike when I was in Iraq in real time. Now, I didn't see the actual. Like, I was watching on. On, you know, surveillance footage with a team of other agency people and task force guys from the military. And. And they called in. They, you know, they had a. They had a drone. I mean, it was the standard thing you've seen in movies now, but it was daylight, and they, you know, we could see on the isr, and they came in and they hit a car with an explosion. And these guys all. They all died. One guy got out. He was kind of on fire, but he fell down dead. And then everyone else in the car was dead. And now I think back to when you and I were visiting the White House last June, and one of the senior White House national security guys pulled us aside and said this was just declassified and showed us a video, and it was a very similar video 20 years removed. But in this video, the car is driving, okay? It's not stopped. The car is driving, and they use the flying Ginsu knife, which is a drone that doesn't have explosions or an explosion. It has blades that come out of it. And they took out the guy in the passenger seat and didn't touch the three other guys. They all got out. That is the kind of technology that we're talking about now. It's not just that we can blow you up in the car. We can actually just slice one person in half with the three other people around them if we don't want to hurt them. Untouched in a car that is moving. So the Iranians, between us and the Israelis, they've got their hands full in a ways, in a way that I don't think even they anticipated. Clay. I think the advantage that we're bringing to the battlefield here and what we're able to do from the sky added to the technical intelligence collection capabilities. It's like we have their entire battle space mapped out and it's just we hit what we want to hit, when we want to hit it.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, they're in trouble and I would think that the likelihood of anyone being in power in Iran being in power for very long if we don't want them in power is very low. So we'll continue to update you on that. We'll take some of your talk backs to close out the program. Very news centric, lots of news. Monday edition of the program.
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Clay Travis
into Clay and Buck. Got a lot of calls, a lot of talk backs and want to tell you to go get some crack of coffee my friends. We got a new mushroom blend that's going to be coming out soon for the mushroom coffee drinkers out there, which is delicious, but cracking coffee is fantastic. Let's take a talk back here from Reggie from Fort Bragg. The proper name, North Carolina. Play it F. Reggie from Fort Bragg, a mechanic. Yes, a Tesla is a cool car. Now, yes, it's got lots of bells and whistles and flux capacitors and warp drive and all that good stuff. But here's the thing. Once that car reaches a certain age, just like your cell phone, nobody's going
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Congressman Chip Roy
to want to deal with it. Nobody's going to want to deal with
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Clay Travis
the batteries, nobody's going to want to deal with the electronics that might be going bad. You can put a for sale sign on it. It's just going to sit in your front yard. It's just going to become a statue. I mean, I like Reggie's passion. He definitely knows more about cars than either of us, that's for sure. As a, as a, as a car guy. So we'll see. People have been saying this also particularly about the, what's the, the one that looks really funky. The, the cyber truck. Yeah, cyber trucks. That, that the secondary market on them is super weak week. We'll see. Guys, you just. I don't bet against Elon. It's all, I mean, honestly, you just can't bet against Elon on any of this stuff.
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Buck Sexton
I think, look, I said this before because I'm sensitive to how expensive cars have gotten. They have 1% interest for eight years on these cars, which is pretty extraordinary. So you can buy a brand new Tesla for 1% interest for a year. If I get eight years of good work out of a car, then, look, I'm going to be happy with eight years of good solid work at a 45 or $50,000 price point. That, that seems very reasonable to me when you consider what other things are
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Clay Travis
costing, you know, you know that, that I want a Tesla. But wifey Carrie, she likes driving like she's what, she grew up in Florida, like a normal American driving a car and she likes driving and I'm like, I want to be, but she doesn't want to drive. When I'm in the car, I have to drive because I'm her husband and I'm a man. And I get that, right? Like that's the way it goes. But I want to get the self driving thing. So we're at a little bit of an impasse here.
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Buck Sexton
I would think a lot of moms and dads, but when you start driving around kids and you're constantly having to be paying attention to what's going on behind you because they're chirping and there's all different sorts of things that you have to take care of with a kid in the car that you don't self drive for. Moms seems like it would be a life ideal because you got to get a juice box out or you've got to get gold goldfish to the kids. Who needs a snack? Like, there's always a lot of management associated with young kids in car seats.
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Clay Travis
I have a friend down here who has one of those, like. It's like a kind of conversion van, you know, it's like one of those vans that's very high that he. Because he's got a big family and he drives.
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Buck Sexton
Oh yeah, those monster vans where you have like.
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Clay Travis
Oh, it's great. The seat's like a first class airline seat. I just sit back there and he drives us around. It's fantastic.
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Buck Sexton
It's like the only thing for people who have big families. That's like the only vehicle they can get the whole family mobilized in.
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Clay Travis
I. I'm very comfortable with a G. Justin from Lakewood on the talk back. Hit it.
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Congressman Chip Roy
Hey, Buck, could you please explain to me or your deal with like the whole 1911 thing?
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Buck Sexton
I just don't get it. I mean, it seems to me it's better to just be like one and done right.
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Congressman Chip Roy
Fire one shot, put a hole in them.
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Buck Sexton
They're good.
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Congressman Chip Roy
Apparently you enjoy turning people into Swiss cheese with your putty little nine mil or whatever.
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Buck Sexton
So, so, so please, please, can you explain?
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Congressman Chip Roy
Explain your hatred towards the 1911.
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Clay Travis
Sure. I'm. There's no hatred, Justin. The same way that there's no hatred toward people putting those waterproof stools in the shower so they can rest or people who have a sippy cup. These are things that are necessary. And your 1911 as a relic from a bygone era. I mean, just think about it. It's already a museum piece and you have it in your home. So I'm proud of you for honoring the past in that way. I just hope you don't throw your hip out.
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Buck Sexton
That's all the gun guy trash talk. I. I feel this is like when people are trash talking about college football. Like I. I have no idea what's going on. I don't know. 1911 guy. Remember, send the angry emails to Buck. I got no knowledge on this one.
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Clay Travis
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