Clay Travis (17:25)
I love the Twin Cities, too. No, no harm, no foul on this one. And we've also got here EE a listener out of St. Louis who listens on 104.9 the Patriot. There's that last caller doesn't know what they're talking about. It is pronounced tournament. Like a band. They don't go out on tour, they go out on tour tournament. All right, and now we get VIP listener Christine, who sent me a Google pronunciation cue that says that it is, in fact, according to Google Communists tournament. Now, we're getting people coming from all sides here, but VIP listener Kendra writes in to say, we are big Looney Tunes fans in my house, Buck, and you Say tournament, just like Bugs Bunny on the show. And I laugh every time I hear you do it. As a Texan, I say it this way. Tournament. All right, you. All right, all you fancy people. Pronunciation, Police. With your. Your pulling me over and. And stopping me from continuing on with the show. I'm gonna tell you this right now. I looked this up, and the best information that I can find online is that this is not, in fact, a. A question of mispronouncing one way or the other, but it is whether you prefer to speak in the English, UK English, or American English version of this. So over in the uk, where they started the language, they say tournament. Here in America, it is more common to say tournament, but I would say it's a bit like theater. And theater, you can say it either way, and it's still English and it's still the way that people pronounce the word. So. So it's a tomato. Tomahto. Pronunciation police. Tomato now. But you know what annoys me about that one? No one actually does anyone say tomahto. I don't. I've never heard anyone say tomahto. So that whole thing probably is not actually helping my argument. But some of you are like, oh, Bucky, pronunciation. You know, this is what happens. Pronunciation, please. Go after Clay. That's way more fun. He gets all twangy sometimes and says crazy things. But, yeah, no, you guys. You guys have been lighting me up today. So I did want to give. Give fair air time on that one. And look, I'm going to come back here in a second and talk a little bit about the. The efforts of Doge Elon Musk and what's going on on that sector of the economy. Because, you know, it was really important when we talked to Jim Jordan last hour, Congressman Jordan, that he said there needs to be a rescission bill. Remember, Elon is really just identifying what should be cut. He's identifying that should be cut. And it has to be done by Congress for it to really stick. And so that's a very important component of this. And Democrats are still enraged at Elon. Remember Elon, his influence, first of all, is Elon like 50? Is that right? How old is Elon? 50, 55, something like that? I would say I think he's early 50s. They're worried he's going to be around for a long time, making the communists miserable. So we're going to talk more about this. 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Goodranchers.com use my name, Buck, and you'll receive free bacon, ground beef or seed oil, free chicken nuggets or salmon, and for a year and $40 off good ranchers.com promo code. Buck, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Producer Greg holding me to account as the team here does, you know, not let me get in the way with any shenanigans. No shenanigans allowed. And. And he says, you know, for a guy who finds the British monarchy to be such a waste of time, you certainly seem to like the way they say words like tournament. And I say to that producer Greg Touche, which is a fancy French word. And you know what? You're right. You have something there. I did, though. I had for many years an English nanny from England, from Liverpool. And she used to make Cream of Wheat for me, which I've never did. You guys ever. I feel like no one ever eats. She would make Cream of Wheat or porridge. She's very English. She liked fried. Fried fish sandwiches and pound cake. I think that's all she ever ate. And I think she made it to, like, her 80s and all she ever ate was fried fish sandwich and pound cake. And she would call me Buckle, Buckle, you have to eat your Cream of Wheat. She would say she was very much like Mrs. Doubtfire, actually. She really was very much. These are Liverpool. She's very much like Mrs. Doubtfire. And, yeah, so maybe I learned some. I bring it up because when I was young, I might have picked up some of her habits. Although a Liverpool accent is a very particularly. You know, Liverpool is very, very funky even among the English accents. So I can't even pretend to do it. There are some people who can take you. They're actually, they're actually quite gifted in this, in this way. They can do an accent tour of the entire United Kingdom. And there's like at least a dozen, probably more like 20 different specific ways that people speak English in the United Kingdom that are recognizable to other people. And that's not even, that's not even adding in the languages like Gaelic and Welsh and these things which are, you know, been around for thousands of years. So, yeah, I definitely want to go spend some time over there. Looking forward to that. Looking forward to getting that done. All right, let's talk about Elon here for a second. Talk about what's going on with Elon Musk, the company Tesla. And I know today. Oh, you know, here's. Before I get into Elon, before I get into Elon, don't look at your 401k today. That's a long term thing, right? That's a long term play. Don't. Don't look at your. Just. You want to let these things play out over time. It's about the long game, not the short game. And just don't fall into it because the worst thing that people do is they go, oh, my gosh. And they start to panic and then there's more panic and then, and then you have people that, that understand the cycles of this stuff and they just start buying up things when the price drops. Don't take my word for you. Go listen to Warren Buffett. Listen to what he's saying on this stuff. You know. Yeah. Could things get a little bit choppy? Sure. But that doesn't mean that the fundamentals of America as the best country to invest in with the best companies in the world has actually changed. If anything, I'm very optimistic about what this will do once Trump gets things, gets things going. So. Just saying, there's all this panic out there. I know. Actually, here you go. Here's. Here's. Well, no, I don't want to get into it. We already talked about it. All these people. Oh, my gosh. It's so much worse than I ever thought was possible. You know, it's okay. It's. It's all going to, it's all going to make sense. And, you know, Trump will adjust to. This is. This is not anything that has been done that is, that cannot be undone. This isn't like we invaded some country and bombed a city to smithereens. It's like, well, maybe we shouldn't have done that. Uh, he's negotiating with these different countries, the tariffs. There's, there's, there's flux, there's flow here of what's gonna be going on. So it's all good. I'm, I'm just here to tell you, see, I, if I wanted to just get attention, I'd say, oh, my gosh, what's going on? The markets, I'd make it, I'd make it like that scene in Ghostbusters where Stay Puff has exploded and there's marshmallow falling from the sky. Like melted marshmallow falling from the sky. And everybody. You know what I mean? I, I could, I could take that approach. This. Oh, the markets and the marshmallows. It's fine. It's all fine. It's going to be all right. The people in charge know if Joe Biden. And I think this is really going to resonate with all of you. You. If Joe Biden, who they admit. And I'm actually going to do a buck brief on this right after the show. So you should check, you should check it out. Subscribe on YouTube. Buck Brief, it's a little extra thing that I do after the show here and go check it out. It's in the podcast network, too. I'll do a whole thing on this. But Joe Biden, they're now full on saying we had to create little visual cues on the stage for him, neon tape, because he didn't know where to walk. And they said he didn't. They said he truly did not know who he was the day of the debate. And they're not exact. They're saying he actually didn't know who he was at one point. His brain had stopped being able to process. Who are you? They let that guy be commander in chief for four years. They let him be the head of the executive branch for four years. They lied to us about it. We all know they're disgraceful. But. But if that imbecile and his socialist cronies around him were not able to tank the US Economy, I assure you, Donald Trump, the mega capitalist, multibillionaire, you know, international brand builder, and he's not going to be the one that tanks the U.S. economy, okay? I'm not saying it's going to be perfect, you know, like I said today, don't look at things. But. But if Joe Biden didn't destroy the economy, there's zero chance in my mind that Donald Trump's going to destroy the economy. And I think that the overwhelming likelihood is you're going to see an Economic boom. And you know what they're going to say, get ready for this when the economy. And you know what I'm going to say too, but we should just say it out loud together. Ready? Oh, it's because of all the things that the Democrats did before Trump took office. If, whether it's in three months or six months or, or, you know, right before the midterms, when things start to really cook, when things start to really look good, you're gonna hear them, oh, look at the price of eggs. Before Trump came in was already going down. The price of eggs was going down and it was all Biden, you know, when he knew where he was, which was not often. But they'll say anything. But I want you to be prepared for that. They'll never admit that they're wrong is the point here. So don't ever expect self correction for them. The Democrat mindset is incapable of self correction and so on the economy, that's exactly where things will be. Okay, now we can get into the Elon thing. I just, I wanted to get that off my chest because I know I'm gonna get emails this weekend. Oh, I'm so worried. And all my retirement accounts and all my. Gonna be fine. Look at the stock market. Even under, even under. Now part of the problem is that the stock market was getting propped up by all the money printing that was going on and asset prices were going up, which is crushing the midd class. You see, Trump understands all these mechanisms. Part of the problem is that if you work for wages instead of owning assets, that will get inflated by all of the money sloshing around that's being created by the government through the overspending and the quantitative easing policies. Yeah, it's rough if you're working for wages for a living, which a vast majority of Americans do. If you have a lot of money in the stock market, if you own a lot of properties, yeah. Then your asset values get increased and you don't care about the cost of day to day items because it doesn't affect you enough to make any difference. And so this, this makes things harder for the vast majority, but it elevates the elites. And then you have so many elites turn around and say, what do you mean the economy's great? Hold on, is it? How is it great rate? And look at all of the ways that people are. I mean the easiest way to put this is you can afford under Biden from the beginning to the end. You could afford half the house. You could before Biden came into office by the time when inflation kicked up half the house based on the rates. Think about that for a moment. So if you could afford, you know, really nice four or five hundred thousand dollar home in a, like a nice suburb somewhere, some community you want to live in, whatever, now you can afford a 200, $250,000 one. That's a big difference, isn't it? What changed? Your job didn't change. Did your job start paying you 50% more because of this? No, what changed is the system. What changed is the tax on savers and wage earners that comes from the inflation that was imposed on us by the people controlling the spigots at the top who don't really care about what the inflation does, what inflation does to the cost of goods because they have enough wealth already that it doesn't affect them in any meaningful way. Or they work for the government or they work for the federal government. They're making 150 grand to do nothing, to not even show up. That's a pretty nice gig. Think about that. Think of all these. They all vote Democrat as you've now, we've all figured this out, right? You think of all the dual income D.C. based households where you have two people that are making, let's say roughly 150 grand each, probably not doing much of anything and working for the Education Department and working for the, you know, USAID, $300,000 take home pay plus amazing benefits to not do anything. I mean, think about what a great gig that is, right? Think about a great gig that is. People think, you know, media, when you do well and you build over time is great. I'll just be honest with you about this. Media is, I mean, I love this job. It is a privilege. And Clay and I feel this way every day. We truly do. It is a privilege to get to do this job. And I am thankful every single day for each and every one of you who listens because you are the reason that I get to do this job. And it is an absolute privilege. I will tell you, having to build for 15 years to get here. Media at first is a lot of show up at a horrible time. Like show up when nobody else wants to show up for almost no money or sometimes no money. I did a radio show for free, for 18 months, for free, not a dollar, did not make a dollar for 18 months. This is going back to the early days of my career and I was happy to do it because I wanted to prove that I could do this and build an audience. But it's just funny thinking about it in that way where, you know, you're in fields, and I know a lot of you, the same thing. You've got to just be constantly hustling. You're trying to bring in business for your company, you're trying to build out your own company, you're trying, you've got to make things happen or, you know, you have very clear deliverables for your boss. And you live in, you know, you live by this profit and loss statement that your company, otherwise there is no company. Right? Imagine that world. And then you, you can go into the world of you have amazing health care that you basically pay nothing for, that covers everything, and you have three or four weeks of paid time off a year at least, and you work from home and you're making 300 grand between you and your spouse, you have no real work product expected of you, and you're unfirable. You know, think about that gig, right? Think about that gig for a second. That is what is the monetary value of that? And this is why they get so upset at Elon and this is why they hate Doge so much and they're trying so hard to make everybody, you know, upset about what is going on with this. Well, hold on a second. The rest of us have to live in the real world. So what exactly is going on here? And they're going after Elon and AOC will refuse to say that the Democrats completely demonizing this guy has anything to do with the fact that maniacs are torching Tesla's. This is cut 21. Do you see a connection at all between the rhetoric we're hearing from Democrats on Musk and Tesla connection to the violence at all, what's happening on the streets to Tesla dealerships? Yeah, I mean, again, like I've, I've seen Republicans call me communist and I hate this country. I mean, it's like it's going up. Do you still have your Tesla? I was just wondering if you still have your Tesla. For security reasons, I'm not. For security reasons, I'm not talking to you. Oh, she doesn't like to be asked these questions. Isn't it interesting that he throws in the cheese? He had a Tesla. The Tesla was something that a lot of libs bought because of all the climate change stuff. But now they want to get rid of their Teslas or they say they'll never buy another Tesla. The climate change stuff hasn't changed at all. They just don't like Elon because he likes Trump and he's trying to cut government waste. That's it. That's how simple that is, isn't it? They're just, they're frauds. Just remember, it's so nice to wake up every day and know that you tried to live in truth and not go around as some big virtue signaling phony. What a. What a waste of time, energy and life to go around and just oh, I'm so great for no apparent reason other than I. I say the things that other people tell me I need to say. You know, the Democrat Party. All right, make your life better again. And tax season is here again. Interesting. But what do you do if you have years of missing returns you already owe back taxes? The power of now is simple. Get help now. Call Rush Tax Resolution. Every day you wait, the IRS threat grows. Seizing your assets, garnishing your paycheck, targeting your business over payroll taxes, or even revoking your passport. Don't let that happen. That stress in your chest, that sinking feeling in your gut. It disappears when you take the first step. Call the pros at rush tax resolution 877-554R U S H Get relief and feel human again. 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