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Clay Travis
Who's a good boy?
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
That's right dude, you're a good.
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Clay Travis
Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Our number three. A lot of you weighing in 800-282-2882. President Trump set to speak soon on affordability related issues. We have got a couple of different breaking news stories that I wanted to hit you guys with. First of all, and it seems like this is kind of a significant story. Alina Haba, who is the State Attorney, I believe for New Jersey, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, I believe is her official title according to Mary Margaret Olahan who we have had on the program quite a bit. She is a Daily Wire reporter. There was a attack at the U.S. attorney's office and a suspect entered the building with a baseball bat around 5pm yesterday proceeded to Alina Haba's office. But Pam Bondi says this is in the last last hour or so. These details coming out. Attorney General last night an individual attempted to confront one of our U.S. attorneys, Haba destroyed property in her office and fled the scene. Thankfully, Alina is okay. So again, left wing violence is certainly an issue, and we're glad that Alina Haba is okay. But somebody showing up with a bat and attacking the office is something obviously very, very serious. Other news, John Fetterman's office put out this statement. During an early morning walk, Senator Fetterman sustained a fall near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Out of an abundance of caution, he was transported to a hospital in Pittsburgh. Upon evaluation, it was established he had a ventric ventricular fibrillation flare up that led to him feeling lightheaded, falling to the ground, hitting his face with minor injuries. Uh, he is still hospitalized. This is a funny quote. Senator Fetterman had this to say, if you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now. So that is John Fetterman. He's doing well, receiving routine hospital observations and they are adjusting, potentially his defibrillator in the way that I would imagine that that works inside of his body. Reminds me, Buck, that quote, if you thought my face to look bad before, wait until you see it now. One of the all time great rejoinders from Abraham Lincoln. Do you remember this quote? He was accused of being two faced and his response was, do you think if I had two faces, I would wear this one? Which, again, I'm paraphrasing, but a pretty witty comeback that reminded me of what John Fetterman was saying there. Now, remember how we talked, Buck, about Michelle Obama every time she speaks, making herself less likely, she less likeable. She is continuing to speak and drive down her overall likability every single time that she speaks. I thought we could have fun with this and play this. Cut. Michelle Obama said, I've got a couple of cuts that are crazy, but Michelle Obama said, black female beauty is so powerful, we are owed respect. Cut one.
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Clay Travis
I mean, first of all, every man on the planet, trust me on this, is aware of beauty. There's nobody out there who's like, hey, you know, I didn't know this woman was attractive. But this is the toxic nature of identity politics where she's arguing basically because of my race, that we, that we have to be respected. And I just, I don't. I. You read her PhD or whatever the thesis that she wrote.
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Buck Sexton
Oh no, no, no. Under undergraduate Princeton thesis.
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Clay Travis
Okay.
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Buck Sexton
No, no PhD, no, no.
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Clay Travis
She, she went to law school, right? She went to Harvard for law school. That's where she met Barack Obama, right? No, she was an attorney and he was an associate and they met at the firm. But he was older when he went back to law school I think is the story.
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Buck Sexton
She, she at one point had a job at a public hospital in the state of Chicago. I'm sorry, in the state of Illinois when her husband was a state legislator. I think she was a diversity educator at the hospital making 300 something thousand dollars a year. And this was over 20 years ago. So make like half a mil a year in today's dollars to be a diversity educator.
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Clay Travis
So at the University of Chicago, if I remember correctly. I think you are hitting that exactly right. But yeah, basically a half million dollars in today's dollars to essentially have a job that is a cakewalk. You don't have to hardly do anything. And, and that is the reality. So all of this is, all of this is, is bonkers. Also I pulled this clip because I saw this circulating. Democrats have decided buck that their go to talking point for this past campaign season and maybe it's going to extend in the next campaign season is that we need more grocery stores provided by the government. We know that this was a big part of Mamdani's pitch in New York City. But this is Katie Wilson who ended up winning the mayor's race in Seattle. I don't know if you've heard this. This was a flashback to her campaign but it is now circulating. She says that they can't allow grocery stores to shut down in Seattle and that if it does happen then the government needs to step in and be the grocery store.
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Buck Sexton
Can I just, can I just to clarify just a point of clarity. Yeah. Michelle Obama worked at the University of Chicago Medical Center. So you're right, it was a hospital but you know, it was the UChicago Hospital and she was executive director for community affairs diversity educator. So it's what she was working on. A lot of diversity and recruitment is what I'm reading here. Guess what? She was a diversity educator making a half mil a year basically. So nice. Nice job if you.
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Clay Travis
Not a bad gig. Relatively low stress here is that Seattle new mayor basically echoing the same arguments that were made on the other side of the country coast to coast. What we really need is more government. Grocery stores just like Cuba.
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Katie Wilson (Seattle Mayor)
Access to affordable healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores at will and leave behind food deserts. Together we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. Food deserts are not natural. Corporations create them when they abandon our communities. As mayor, I'm excited to step up and with ufcw explore public option grocery stores to fill those gaps.
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Clay Travis
I thought this was funny, Buck, because it directly connects with the conversation we had during the snap debate, which is the argument that she is making about food deserts and availability of food has been tested and it is just not true. There is no lack of available food products that people in different communities want to buy. And so this was a talking point, probably what, 2010 ish. And now it's just coming back even though it's been soundly refuted. And I do think the fact that government owned grocery stores, again like Cuba is being argued in favor of in both Seattle and New York City is, is interesting about the dearth of real ideas motivating the Democrat party right now.
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Buck Sexton
They've done this before. As I've said this here. Here you go. I was pulling this up.
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Clay Travis
Giving the poor.
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Buck Sexton
This is from the New York Times, everyone giving the poor easy access to healthy food doesn't mean they'll buy it. What a shock there. And I'll read you a little bit from this. This is 2015, Clay. It's a decade ago in 2010, the Bronx, this Bronx section, what is called the food desert. This Bronx community was a food desert, low income neighborhood in New York's least healthy county. No nearby grocery store, few places where residents could easily buy fresh food. The target of a city tax incentive program to bring healthy food into underserved neighborhoods. A 17,000 square foot supermarket opened, aided by city money paying for 40% of the cost. Neighborhood welcomed the addition. But the diets of the neighborhood's residents did not. They don't want to buy what coastal elites want them to buy. We can go over this. This is the New York Times study after study, we can. Does this really shock anyone? This is kind of funny, isn't it? You sit there, you go in under. In low income communities, in low income communities, if people have the choice, generally speaking, talking about broad buying habits, you don't have to call me and say, I have a friend who's low income and he's running six triathlons. Yeah, okay, I get it. Generally speaking, in low income communities, when people have the opportunity to buy chips, soda, candy, you know, frozen food that they can frozen Pizza, whatever. Or they can buy arugula, free range, lean, you know, chicken breast or whatever. Which one are they going to do? There's a reason why they sell the food they sell in low income communities because that's what people in those communities buy. Even when you subsidize so called or not so called it is even when you subsidize healthier food. And so what are you going to do about this? You know, you either let people make their own choices and eat garbage, basically. Not actual garbage, but you know what I mean, eat stuff that's bad for you. Or you let people, you know, you tell them that this is all. Remember Clay, they. They're worried about food deserts. But the SNAP program has to cover chips and soda. Well, which is it?
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Clay Travis
Yes. And the government run grocery stores. I just, I. One of the biggest challenges of capitalism is young people who have all of the benefits of living in a capitalistic society decide that capitalism doesn't work. And it's all one big circle. I feel like we've seen this with policing where people say, oh, you know what, Being concerned that you have too many violent predators behind bars is a luxury of a low crime environment. And so you have a low crime environment. And people start saying, hey, you know what? We need fewer cops and we need fewer people in prisons and we need more lenient treatment of bad guys. And then there's more bad guys on the street. What happens? The overall violent crime rate skyrockets. And it would be nice if we could just have public policy that acknowledges what works and what doesn't. And how about we don't try the things that we know don't work? Government funded grocery stores. I just. The profit margin on grocery stores buck is 1 or 2%. It's one of the hardest businesses to run.
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Buck Sexton
You know what would really be the test? And this would, this would go to mamdaniism and everything as well. We should run an experiment, go to one of these supposed. Remember it's a food desert. It's also an area where we're gonna be told people are oppressed and there's all this oppression. It's a low income community and I'm sure there's systemic racism involved and all this other stuff go into that community. Clay set up a just a nor. Just let. Let the grocery store that's there or let the place where people get their food. A lot of times it's more like in New York I'm speaking about now, it's more like a convenience store. People go in and they'll have food there, but they won't have the big aisles like they will in a, in a Giant or a food town or you know, whatever. A and P, I don't even know if that exists anymore. Does A and P still exist?
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Clay Travis
The grocery store, we got Publix, we got Piggly Wiggly, we got Kroger where.
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Buck Sexton
I Publix, I should have said Pub. Like I just lost my Florida card for a week. I should have said Publix right away. I didn'. Anyway, they don't have something like that necessarily. But you could honestly, I think offer in the, in these same communities you could offer, not just reduce. You could say, ok, you can either buy the stuff that we deem unhealthy or, or we'll give you, we'll give you the healthy food free. And I think that people would be shocked to see what the actual result of that experiment is.
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Clay Travis
I think that would be super intriguing.
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Buck Sexton
People want to eat what they want to eat. Bottom line.
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Clay Travis
And we'll come back, we'll take some of your calls. Still a lot of people weighing in H1B discussion impressed by the, the quality of takes there. But I want to tell you what we are a little bit less than six weeks until Christmas. Believe it or not, Thanksgiving is, am I correct in this, 14 days away. Two weeks from today is Thanksgiving. It's going to be here in a hurry. We're going to be rolling into the holiday season and you can give an incredible gift to your family. That's a Legacy box. They can take your old VCR tapes. They can take your old 8 millimeter film reels. They can take your old photographs. Whatever family media you have, you can get hooked up right now at legacybox.com Clay for a nine dollar per tape deal. That is a nine dollar per tape deal at legacybox.com Clay early access to the best deals of the year. Legacybox.com Clay give your family the gift of memories that will last a lifetime. Digitally preserved for ever@legacybox.com Clay that's a legacybox.com Clay News and politics, but also a little comic relief. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. You know we important thought that we just had also about the food situation there and the idea of government run grocery stores. There's a lot of lobbying that goes on by Big Agra and the big food companies to make sure that the things that the liberal elites who run these cities don't want the low income communities to be ingesting in those quantities are covered by things like food stamps, AKA snap, right? Obviously they renamed it because food stamps after a while had picked up something of a negative connotation. It was food welfare and so they call it SNAP now. But it's the same basic, same basic premise or it is the same premise. And I think that that's one aspect of this is that there's a big incentive, Clay, to make people or to encourage people to eat this stuff and for it to be subsidized by the government. And beyond that, I just think what experience with a government entity makes you think that you want the government in charge of Stocking and getting the best quality for the dollar.
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Clay Travis
This is actually a really fun question.
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Buck Sexton
I'm still ticked off about how bad the food was in my private high school. It was a scholarship school. It was prison food. My high school should be ashamed at the food that they were making us eat. And that wasn't even the government. Like, I can't imagine what it's like in an actual prison or a state facility.
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Clay Travis
Look, the. The efficiency required to be a profitable grocery store, to say nothing of the competition that must occur for cleanliness and lack of spoilage and all of those things. Kansas City tried this. Remember the story that was out there about Kansas City? They said, hey, we need to have government run grocery stores. They couldn't get produce there in a healthy way. Right. It was spoiling. Nobody wanted to shop there. The shelves were mostly empty. It was an unmitigated disaster. Which, buck, if you told me, what do you expect a government run grocery store to look like? It is what happened in Kansas City. It's what I would have predicted. And I wish we had trips, like field trips, so kids could go to Cuba and actually see what the full fruition of a government system that they're supporting now in New York City is like so that you could understand what it's like to not have air conditioning. WI fi never works. Government owned grocery stores where everybody stands in line for hours to be able to get a bar of soap, like, this is crazy.
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Buck Sexton
Civilization is based upon individual incentive. Yes. There's always the group, the community that you need, but you need people to have their own individual reasons for doing what they're doing, or they're not going to do it. This is why places like the Soviet Union collapse into a totalitarian nightmare. Because there is no incentive for the individuals. And so the only way they make you do what you're supposed to do is with a gun in the back of your head. That's. It's just brute force. If you want to have a society that functions efficiently and well, people have to benefit. Clay, I want a grocery store where the manager's making six figures. I want a grocery store where the people in charge take pride in what they do. Like, you know, it's very straightforward to me, you know, where they take a lot of pride in what they do. Chalk supplements that are absolutely top tier, top class. You have to try them out for yourself. I take chalks daily and the chalk pre workout formula. I'm going to go to the gym later today and I'm going to be hitting the Chad mode. It's great for any workouts. Going to go for a long run, a long walk, but also just getting stuff done around the house. It just gives you that energy, gets you fired up. Chalk is spelled C H O Q.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. We thank you for hanging out with all of us on a Thursday as the government is officially reopened. Encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast. You can search out my name, Clay Travis. You can search out Buck Sexton. We've got an incredible network of shows that are distributed there as well. And go subscribe to our YouTube channel. This Week you have been seeing that. I am now in a studio that does not look like the Wayne's World basement. There is bright lights, there is better graphics, and so you can check it out for yourself to see how things look there. Buck I was last night on with our friend Sean Hannity as the president was preparing to sign the bill to open the government back up.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, just, I think it's very big of Sean to have you on his show while you still owe him some cold, hard cash. As you know, Sean's a very nice guy. He's letting you get on his show even though there's an outstanding debt here.
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Clay Travis
It is true. I mean, I can honestly say I don't think I've ever been on any one show that I owed money to before. And Hannity has not broken any legs. He hasn't loan sharked me out. I haven't had, you know, anybody knocking on the door looking to collect. And fortunately for me, I, I don't carry around that much cash. So it's just, just been a thing. Like I saw Sean last week at the Patriot Awards, told him, I said, hey, man, sorry I'm wearing a tux. I forgot to bring cash. And God forbid I had any change. We're lucky.
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Buck Sexton
Hannity's a gentleman is all I'm saying.
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Clay Travis
We got a lot of emails from People out there that love pocket change, which we can have some fun with before the show is over. But they had to cover fill time. And so they had. Our friend Peter Doocy was on from the White House lawn and Sean was just asked him, hey, how much different is it for the media that cover the President now where basically you can ask questions all the time compared to Joe Biden where he might show up once a week and kind of mumble through things and. And how did the media talk about that? I thought it was a good question. Here's an interesting answer where Doocy is like, man, I got to scramble to even find new questions to ask the President because he answers so many of them.
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Clay Travis
I just thought that was really funny that Trump is answering so many questions about so many different topics that sometimes if you're in the Oval Office and preparing yourself to be asking him questions, he runs through the entire roster of questions. So you're going on dailymail.com to check and see what the latest news is. Maybe outkick.com okay. A bunch of people want to weigh in. Buck, we got loaded lines all over the country. Let's go to Dave in Rochester, New York. We'll start with you, Dave. Fire away.
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Caller Dave from Rochester
Hey guys. Love your show. So I think, I think you're missing the mark on the grocery store food desert. What's happened? There's so much theft actually, that stores have to lock product up. I live in Rochester, New York and there's, you know, Wegmans chain here in Rochester and they moved out of the city entirely with the exception of one.
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Caller Joe from Naples
Store due to theft.
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Caller Dave from Rochester
Yeah, we've got two Walmarts in Rochester that basically have two law enforcement cars outside and shot spotters in the parking lot. So it's not that, you know, they don't want to buy stuff. It's that there's so much stuff, there's no profit to run a grocery store.
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Clay Travis
Well, thank you. It's. It's a combination of multiple factors. But what we were talking about in particular was the products that are sold in the grocery store. Even when they are discounting, quote, unquote, healthy foods, the people who buy product still want to buy the unhealthy food. In other words, it's not an absence and people aren't.
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Buck Sexton
Aren't swiping all the charcuterie. I can. I can assure you that's not. That's not what's happening.
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Clay Travis
And also, we've talked about this quite a lot because the worst thing about a store shutting down in the. In the neighborhood is not only the lack of access to the store, oftentimes because of theft, it takes all those jobs out of the community. So you have to get on a bus or you have to get on public transit and go a decent distance to have a job.
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Buck Sexton
Look, you can see, you can take a drive through any neighborhood, really, in America. And, you know, based on the businesses and kind of how the businesses look, you know, what the. What the vibe is around the business, what kind of a neighborhood you're in. Yes, you're in a neighborhood where the businesses have bars on the doors, bars on the windows. Even for like a 711 setup, it looks like there's a bank teller behind, you know, bulletproof glass. You're in. You're in bad shape. If there's a lot of check cashing places, if there's a lot of liquor stores, especially kind of depressing looking liquor stores, you're in bad shape. Right? We talk about what happened at some of these pharmacies when there were the BLM riots that, that would burn down these pharmacies. Clay. Some of those places, like Wall, you know, Walgreens, people actually get their food there. They get groceries that they'll go there to get, milk, they'll go there to get. So when those close down, it's not just, oh, I have to go further for my prescription or whatever. It's also adding to the lack of good food options. Look, I spent about a year and a half at the nypd, and we would do. We were. We would do stakeouts. I mean, I know that sounds like I was. I would do stakeouts, be in an unmarked car. I'd be with a detective, and in some very, very sketchy neighborhoods and you know, people you'd see like what they're buying and where they go, what the stores look like. You can tell in a lot of these stores what the average income of the people living in the neighborhood is just by what's. By the grab and go right by the register. Yeah, I'm telling, you know, if you're in a fancy, if you're in a fancy ish or even a middle class neighborhood, it's going to be like, you know, nice chocolate bars and things like that. If you're in a rough neighborhood, it's going to be off brand chips, it's going to be off brand whatever. And you know, you see these things playing out and people pick up on these signals in their own community. And, and it's a, and it's a shame because you should have pride in the businesses in your community. To your point, also employers in your community which makes it, you know, a place that people feel more invested in as well.
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Clay Travis
No doubt. Joe in Naples, Florida. Joe, what you got for us?
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Caller Joe from Naples
Gentlemen, I want to weigh in on the H1BS. For mid 70s through 2008. I ran a technology company in the Boston area. I was competing with half a dozen major computer companies. A lot of tech. I had to use H1BS because the American schools were not turning out the quality of engineer and mathematicians I needed. I used a couple of Germans, an Englishman and a Japanese among others. I put the issue down to in the 50s and 60s we had the big Eisenhower science and technology initiative in schools and that faded out by the mid-70s. Yeah, I used them. I, I wound up having to pay as much if not more to get qualified engineers, data scientists and math people.
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Clay Travis
And so you couldn't find, in your experience in Boston, you couldn't find Americans with. This was not a dollars decision for you necessarily. You couldn't find American born workers with the skill set you needed to have an effective company.
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Caller Joe from Naples
I would go down to mit. I'm an alum of mit. I would go down there every interview opportunity and I might be able to get one engineer, one applied math guy because I was competing against IBM, Deck Data, General Wang, a whole bunch of other big boys. They could, we got, we, we got mit, Northeastern bullets. The fight for qualified folks started very heavy in the late 70s, early 80s, the first five years of the business, I could sort of find what I needed. But when the colleges started dumbing down grades and the government initiative on the space race and technology started going down, couldn't get them, just could not get the quality of engineer.
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Clay Travis
Thank you for the call. And this is what I would say Buck is somewhat of a clarion call for needing to graduate more American born students with skills in the so called hard sciences as opposed to the social sciences which tend to be easier and aren't as challenging. Jeff in Las Vegas, you got to take for us. Thanks for calling.
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Buck Sexton
Perfect.
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Caller Dave from Rochester
30 years and when I started out all the recruiters, all the recruiters were American. And as, as a contract programmer, my life depends on recruiters. Now the majority are Indians and not only that, I would say about 10 or 20% are calling from India and I'd like to refute the first. The guy that just was on. I, I've been a VP director and I've hired programmers, I've hired Indian programmers and I've hired American programmers and American programs programmers are just as good, if not better. When I was at American Mutual Funds, American Mutual Funds is in Irvine, California which is a big Indian community.
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Clay Travis
Now.
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Caller Dave from Rochester
There were floors and floors of Indians but senior management, senior management were all Americans getting bonuses. One last thing, you know, just to show you how dumb American companies can be. I worked for Boeing for a while and when I was there, when they made a contract, when they made a deal with China and the deal was that China would buy several hundred 747s if Boeing would agree to turn over all the engineering documents on the technologies that go into building 747s. Guess what?
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Caller Joe from Naples
Boeing made the deal.
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Caller Dave from Rochester
And one last thing, you guys have got one of the top shows in America. Use your show when you have, when you guys come up with great, great ideas which you do all the time. Call these calls Chuck Schumer. Call, call these. Call AOC Coal Crockett and live online. And if they're too cowardly the answer, great, we'll all see it. They're all full of crap.
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Clay Travis
They won't. Thank you for the call. A lot of good comments there. They won't come on. And I think there's now a rule where we aren't allowed. I know this was an old school radio thing. You could just call people and try to get them online without, get them on air without saying who you are. And you would get them talking and then they find out, hey, we're talking to tons of people all over the city or all over the state or the nation. We have, we have extended offers to people across the political spectrum.
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Buck Sexton
A couple, a couple of things on this one is we would never get be even forget about that rule which I think you're right on that. But I'd have to look into it. We wouldn't get around their staff. They don't Chuck Schumer, there's no, there's no like bat phone to Chuck Schumer. Well, at least we, we don't have it, we don't have that line where we could call in. So we're not going to get around his staff. And I honestly think a lot of the time there's a limited value with some of these Democrats. They're just going to say, you know, Chuck Schumer would say it's about affordability, it's about health care. Donald Trump is wrecking the republic. You've already, you've already heard it all. And that's why I don't really, you know, we can pick and choose. Like Fetterman would be interesting because there's some areas where you could actually get to a place of some agreement, a little disagreement. There's a give and take with your run of the mill Democrat on a radio show. I mean a Democrat politician on a radio show, they're just going to say what they always say. I mean, what they're saying on cnn, they're going to stay right on the talking points. So I just don't think it's very likely to be instructive or very good radio. Personally, if that wasn't the case, I think we would push more to get Democrats on. Plus Clay will yell at them like he did Mike Pence and then everyone will cry.
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Clay Travis
I would be, I would be very happy to get these guys on. They won't come on. I think it's because they just know that they don't have anything beyond talking points. And talking points in a three minute television hit might work in a 15 minute radio. It actually exposed. I can give you a preview of.
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Buck Sexton
Our, of our conversation with Chuck, our imaginary conversation with Chuck Schumer. I'd say Senator Schumer, so have premiums for the average American on the individual market gone up on average 100% or more over the last 10 years? And you know what his response would be? Donald Trump doesn't care about the working class and doesn't care about middle America. And we want to make sure your premiums are cheap. And I could repeat my question, I could say it again, but sir, is it true, you know what he would say? Donald Trump doesn't care about the middle class. He's, you know, blah, blah. This is, this is why you don't really get very far with these people. So especially Schumer he wouldn't even be fun.
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Clay Travis
He's actually really boring and not a great communicator, which is not ideal. We'll come back and we got some funny topics to have send you into the afternoon with, but I want to tell you tonight the New England Patriots are on fire and we have got a prize Picks pick for you that will begin with Thursday Night Football. This is easy. Drake May, quarterback for the Patriots, Sam Darnold, quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks and Bo Nicks, quarterback for the Denver Broncos. All of them to get more touchdown passes than the predicted number. More than one and a half for Drake May and Sam Darnold, more than one half for Bo Nicks. Three quarterbacks. We need a total of five touchdown passes there at least if we are correct, and by we I mean me, then you can go to prizepix.com you can play along. Use my name Clay Clay. You can also download the app and use my name Clay when you play $5 you get $50 deposited into your account. We've won four times this year. We're trying to win a 3 to 13 to 1 payout. It is prizepicks.com code clay that is prizepix.com code clay want to be in the know when you're on the go? The Team 47 podcast Trump highlights from.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We got kind of a short one here to close out the show, so I just want to remind you, go subscribe to Crockett Coffee. This holiday season. Go to crockett coffee.com, click on subscribe. Get your best coffee beans anywhere you can ground, get them whole. You can get K cups, even got organic coffee. Got great gear, cool sweatshirts and things. In the spirit of Davy Crockett. 10% of the profits goes to Talented Towers Foundation. And tomorrow, I'm gonna put out a marker. I want to talk about this tomorrow. The Open Table app, which I use less now that I'm a dad, because, you know, it's a lot more time dealing with pulling pureed peas off the floor. You know, I mean, we're in that phase.
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Clay Travis
You don't get to go out to dinner as often as you used to. Ew.
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Buck Sexton
We have to get a babysitter because also the dog and my baby have. They have a deal going where the dog now goes close to the highchair and knows that about 75% of the pureed food ends up on the ground. And so she's the cleanup crew. So I can't, I can't stop this, right? Because I'm like, well, it's kind of efficient, but that's what's going on. But OpenTable, Clay, the app that everyone uses for reservations, OpenTable is collecting more than just where you like to eat on people. And I want to get into this. I, I actually, I'll tell you this, everybody. I think if you're a repeat canceler on restaurants for reservations, I think that should be taken into account. I think we should have something of a dining out social credit score. I know some of you are going to get so ticked off, but I'm into it. So we can talk about this tomorrow.
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Clay Travis
We'll have some fun with that. We'll have some fun with the Friday edition of the program. Overall, great calls from you guys on the complicated issue of H1B visas, wide variety of perspectives, and I appreciated hearing from so many of you. We'll have some fun on the Friday edition of the program. Seemed like Bill O'Reilly was a little bit nervous about that steak. Bet Buck maybe, just possibly, he actually recognizes that we're going to end up right. Gavin Newsom is going to be.
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Buck Sexton
I'm already researching the best steakhouses in Long island to meet up with Uncle Bill.
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Clay Travis
Who's a good boy?
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Buck Sexton
You're a good boy.
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Clay Travis
That's right, dude. You're a good.
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