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of Klan Buck starts right now. Thanks for being here. Ryan Gardusky, our clan buck numbers guy. He joins now. It's a Numbers Game is his fantastic podcast on all things political and otherwise on the Clay and Buck Podcast network. And he's also got the national populist newsletter on substack. Mr. Garduska, great to have you, sir.
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Ryan Gardusky
Thank you.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Are you recovered? I know you'd had a, you'd had a fever. Would you get like a summer flu?
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Ryan Gardusky
No, I. It's one of those typical things where a relative brings their sick child around you they know is sick, and everyone gets ill afterwards. It was one of those things. But I'm on the mend. Things are copying. Yeah.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Good, good, good. Okay. Well, is America on the mend after socialism night in New York just a few days ago? First, what were your, your top level observations? I mean, this, this Chevalier chick is definitely nuts. I mean, she's, she's a wacko. There were some others that were in the mix too. What, what matters? What matters? Looking at this stuff to you, I
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Ryan Gardusky
think when you look at the. Her we. I call her DAC because it's easier. The woman who ran against Espilot in Harlem in the Harlem district. Harlem and part of the Bronx. Part of that race that no one is talking about is the fact that the black part of Harlem really always had a very negative relationship with espilot because espilot 10 years ago ran against. Ran against the former congressman Charlie Rangel. Charlie Rangel, for those who don't remember, his most famous thing in his life was he didn't pay taxes, even though he wrote the tax code because he says it's too complicated. He's dead now. Doesn't matter. But anyway, that district was historically a black district with a black representative. Esplat challenged him, saying there's more Dominicans than blacks now. This should be a Dominican district. Black political leaders and black voters, older voters in that area, never forgave him for that, ever. So he should have been doing better, even among people who don't care about socialism. But he underperformed Cuomo by a good measure in the black parts of Harlem and the urban parts of Harlem. Something that really struck me, though, when I broke down precinct by precinct was really the turnout level in these heavy transplant, high, college educated, very far left districts. So in that same district, in the district I talked about in Harlem and in South Bronx, in the parts like by Columbia University, in the area north of that, Morningside Heights, where it is very transplant, very white for northern Manhattan, but a lot of other people, high income, high college education. The average precinct election precinct, which is only just a couple blocks long, had between 2 and 600 people show out in each precinct. And there's dozens of precincts in that area. The Bronx for example, which is Esplat's area that he was very strong in, there rarely broke 100 votes per precinct, sometimes maybe at most 150. But the turnout numbers were very lopsided in favor of where a socialist was running and a DSA candidate was running over in Brooklyn. Over in the other district where Valdez was running, the only people to really mobilize and vote against the DSA and show up in big numbers were the Hasidic Jews. They did show up in big numbers against the DSA candidates, but there just weren't enough of them. Most of them actually live in Hakeem Jeffries district. And this also goes to show over in Grace Meng's issue. Grace Meng is a Asian American congresswoman, Democrats in Queens. She is very unnoticeable. No one knows any of her record whatsoever. She is a very small part of the common corridor in her district. Nonetheless, in her Asian majority district, she only won by 15 points because in the Asian predominant precincts over in Chinatown and Flushing Queens, over in the ethnic white neighborhoods out in near Whitestone or Middle Village and parts of Glendale, the average turnout was 80 to 100 people per precinct. Over in the Comme Corridor area there were three to 400 persons per precinct. So the turnout intensity, Democrat turnout nationwide has been high. But among those people who are mobilized by socialism, it is near presidential level turnout even for these kinds of midterms. And the average blue collar working class Democrat, many of them who are either ethnically white or black and Hispanic, had nowhere near that intensity whatsoever.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
So I saw this DSA co chair. This was a quote circulating on X. We're using the Democratic Party as a ballot access vehicle, not because we share its goal. This is from the Democrat Socialists or the. Yeah, Democrat Socialists of America. We build our own organization, get elected on the Democratic label, caucus with Democrats when it's useful, and push our own agenda from the inside. We see the Democratic establishment as an obstacle, not a home. The DSA how powerful is it in New York? Elsewhere? Is this part of a leftward lurch of the party? What do you see?
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Ryan Gardusky
Well, in New York, New York is the goal, is the crown gem of the DSA network. Right? Nowhere is it more powerful than in New York City, especially in the quote unquote commie corridor where almost every single district.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Wait, what's the commie. I'm from New York. What's the commie core? You used to live in Astoria. Is that part of the Commie quarter? What's the Commie quarter?
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Ryan Gardusky
The commie corridor stretches. It's every part of Brooklyn and Manhattan that touches the water across from Manhattan. So it stretches from Astoria, Queens to Sunset Park, Brooklyn. That entire strip that goes, goes out of the water every, every people, all the people who couldn't afford to live in Manhattan anymore back in the 90s that moved to Williamsburg, they have extended themselves throughout the entire, everything that touches the water that goes to Manhattan. And they are all very far left. So all the way up from the top of Astoria all the way down to Sunset park and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, it's really now to Bay Ridge. So that entire strip of land, those are a lot of seats. And what Democrats did, this is why Democrats are so stupid in New York. Sometimes Democrats, to prevent Republicans from winning any local office seats in Queens and Brooklyn, they ran their districts east to west instead of north to south. Had they ran them north to south, they would have given Democrats socialists fewer seats to win. But because they ran them long ways east to west, they have more seats to campaign in, to win. Because it's a little bit of this, of the commie corridor and a lot of other areas that just don't have high intensity voter turnout. So you have ethnic white areas that voted for Trump that have a local representative who's a member of the DSA because they refuse to give Republicans any seats in the, in the, in the state of legislature in New York. And that's why the DSA is in fact, more powerful than it even should be, is because they were trying to, you know, get as many Democrats in the state legislature as possible.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
So Harry Antin of cnn, the poor man's Ryan Graduski, he was, was looking at the data after this election and he, there was a graphic he put up on the screen. I'm trying to find it, but it's basically the view among Democrats, not nationwide, but the view among Democrats of socialism, I think it was 10 years ago versus today, something like that. And it has gone up dramatically. And there are People I saw, you know, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Jesse Kelly. I've seen a bunch of people on X who are saying, guys, the Bolsheviks were never popular either, but they started out as a committed minority and then shaped things to their will over time. Is the Democrat Party lurching left toward a more open embrace of socialism or how does that look going into the midterms?
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Ryan Gardusky
Yeah, I mean, the thing is, is that, you know, everyone tries to paint us as a New York particular election and as a New York phenomenon or just an inner city phenomenon, because remember, mayor of Washington D.C. is now a DSA member. Mayor of Seattle is now a DSA member. Potentially the mayor of LA will be a DSA member. However, DSA members have won other primaries. They want a primary in rural Maine, they want a primary in Montana. They have elected office holders now in most states of the country in Democratic primaries in deep red states. They will find that sole blue pocket and they will put their flag there and then win primaries everywhere else. So, yes, that's a big part of it. What has really been surprising more than anything, and there's been no backlash, nothing from the Democratic Party is really how there's been a displacement, which for my life, you know, they've always had black candidates run for office as Democrats, being that blacks are the most loyal Democrats there are. And now it's a lot of Arab candidates who are running as the DSA candidates and they're winning oftentimes beating black candidates. It's kind of, it's just the observation of how quickly those demographics and that change has happened. But yeah, so the party is changing very quickly. And what we're seeing is both it's college educated whites, but it's not just college educated whites and it's not unemployed college educated whites. Parts of these areas, the DSA members winning, are very wealthy. These are people who live in three, $4 million townhouses in Brooklyn. It's also assimilated second generation immigrants, those Asian, Middle Easterners, sometimes African immigrants. Their kids did assimilate. They didn't assimilate to Archie Bunker and John Wayne's America. They assimilated to AOC's version of America. They have assimilated. And that's why sometimes this woman, the DAC up in Harlem, who's radical, who doesn't believe in biracial or, sorry, multiracial coupling because you shouldn't, you should not have a relationship with a colonizer is what she said. She's.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Well, I actually, I had not heard. I'd heard crazy stuff. I had not heard her say that.
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Ryan Gardusky
Oh yes, she said, she said, she said black men who fetishize colonizers are disgusting. Yes. Oh yeah, she's nuts. She's completely insane. But she's, she converted to Islam not because she believed in the Quran, but because she sympathized with the people of Gaza. She is nuts. But she's perfect. That's a perfect assimilation to, you know, lived hard left wing ideology. And that is where they assimilated into mass media and the university system. And so it's perfect. So they have this huge population of younger people. I say younger 40 and under because they're not all like 18. Some of them are well into the middle age. But 40 and younger, wealthy, wealthy, college educated whites mixed with first and mostly second generation though, immigrants who absolutely believe stock and barrel. All this stuff. Our next election that we're going to see is in Wisconsin where this woman, Fong is her last name, she's running for governor. She is like, she makes this woman look sane. She's running and she's leading in the polls right now and she's running against the lieutenant governor who is a Marxist. So there's no end in sight, by the way. Also dac, you know who, one of the people she said was a horrible politician for being too supportive of Israel. This candidate who just won in Harlem. Two people she said are on her enemies. Listen, AOC and Bernie Sanders, they're too friendly to Israel. There is no bottom. There is no bottom, there's no floor. We're not going to come to a conclusion this story. You either have to beat them and ridicule them and while you have the power, make sure the institutions don't produce more of them or they will take over.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
So Ryan, just one more for you before we go. That was exactly what I was curious about after this. And so I'm glad we got your take on this. It's a numbers game, everybody. Is Ryan's podcast. Great work that he does.
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Ryan Gardusky
Tomorrow's all about this too, the Friday episode.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Oh, great. So guys, this is. You have a deep dive on this stuff tomorrow, especially for a W O R listeners or people that really want to know what's going on in their backyard. Go, go listen to Ryan's podcast on this. But just one thing. We had Uncle Bill, we had Bill O'Reilly on yesterday and he just threw in the mix that he's just like, look, the Democrats have no leader. And that was interesting because they clearly have some leaders. But I understand what he's saying. I get his his point. And I wanted to ask you, who's the most powerful Democrat? You know, as we're seeing this stuff play out in New York and people talking about aoc, who is the most politically powerful Democrat in America today?
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Ryan Gardusky
Well, right now it's probably Mandani. I mean, Pauli Mandani and Bernie. Bernie has a fundraising list that's bigger than everybody. But Mandani, as far as who energizes and motivates people. Yeah, it's the shining guy from the smiley guy from the Knicks game, that failed rapper. Because people have this vision for what he stands for. Even though he's gotten close to nothing of his agenda done in New York. I mean, it's virtually close to nothing. And he's capitulated on crime by bringing on Tish James, who's pretty hard lined on crime. And he's completely not who he pretends to be. He's not done nearly what he's pretended do. He's probably the most popular Democrat right now in the country overall. I would say besides that Bernie.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
I mean, it's either Bernie or Mamdani. I mean, you know, you can't find Kamala. Everyone just laughs every time she shows up in the media somewhere. And Gavin Newsom is just not getting any of the headlines these days.
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Ryan Gardusky
Yeah, he's a podcast host. But that's why right now the Democrats are deciding where to hold their first primary in 2028. They're going to decide on the Deep South. It is still old and it is still black. They are going to reject a DSA candidate. And in that. In the south, if you.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Does that mean. Does that mean Kamala becomes the nominee? If Clay was here, this is what he would ask you.
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Ryan Gardusky
Probably. I mean, I would say right now. Yeah, I mean, I mean, right now. As of right now, yes. That doesn't mean she will, but as of right now, probably, yes. But they will allow. They will push for the Deep south to avoid because they are less scared of a common Harris than they are of a aoc Bernie Sanders back to Canada because a comma Harris is a. Is absolutely no threat to Hakeem Jeffries. Mandani absolutely is.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
All right, Ryan Graduski, everybody. Check out his podcast tomorrow on the Clay and Buck network. It's a numbers game. Ryan, great stuff. Thank you.
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Ryan Gardusky
Thank you so much.
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so we are continuing here with our conversation about all things from the crazy lady I'm trying to find. Guys, where's the cut of her being? You know what? We'll come back to this in a moment. The the Chevalier woman who just won the Daria Aliza Avila Chevalier dac. She just gave an interview, which you're not going to learn much from the interview, of course it doesn't say very much, but she just gave an interview where she was going into commie speak and she was asked straight up, are you a communist? Guys, I don't have time to play it now. I know we've got a guest here coming up in a minute, so why don't we plan to go back to this? Just because I think it's instructive. Not only that she refuses to answer the question are you a communist? But she also immediately starts speaking just like a communist would. So that's I think an indicator of something, isn't it? And you might say, oh no, we don't have communists in this country. Really. Bill O'Reilly said it a few days. I think she is. Just to be clear, Communism is really a political religion, but it's a belief system. Of course there are communists in this country. Of course there are commies here. So we should go back and we'll play some of those cuts for you coming up. But we've got a special guest in just a minute. Switch your service on your cell phone to PureTalk, the wireless carrier I use and get unlimited high speed data for less than $35 a month. This has been my carrier for years. Long enough to prove they're every bit as good as any of them out there, but with a better monthly price tag. PureTalk services on the nation's best 5G nationwide system, the same one used by one of the big three companies. PureTalk is also supporting our veterans in the month leading up to our nation's 250th birthday by donating a percentage of their revenues this month. And next to America's Warrior Partnership, this nonprofit foundation stands on the front lines of preventing veterans suicide. And they do this by covering the basics. They help with housing, transportation, counseling, and coordinated access to VA benefits. Pure Talk's goal over the next 45 days is raising and contributing $250,000 by the end of July, when you switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk. This month, you'll have an opportunity to round up to support America's Warrior Partnership. Pure Talk matches your donation. Just dial £250 and say Clay and Buck to be connected to Pure Talk's friendly US customer service team. Again, dial pound 250, say clay and Buck to start saving today. Our guest now is Dan Mason, former president and CEO of CBS Radio. He's got a new book out, Fearless the Life and Times of a Media Maverick. Dan, great to finally get a chance to talk to you. Your reputation precedes you, sir. Thank you so much for being here with us on Clay and Buck. Sorry, Clay is gone. He was going to call in from the beach in Hawaii just to hang out with you, too. But I said, clay, the reception. We're going to hear the waves. The reception's not that good. So you just got me today. But you are a legend in the radio industry, sir. Why are you writing this book? Let's start with that.
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Dan Mason
Well, first of all, thank you for having me. And I've never been. I've never talked to 9 million people at once, so that's what Julie says. Julie Talbot says, your audience is so glad to be a lot of people.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Yeah.
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Dan Mason
Thank you. Why did I want to write the book? I wanted to write a written account of my own life. And I think back to my mom and dad or maybe even my grandparents. How cool it would be if I had that. It's like a road map of who they were or where. Where I came from. But that's primarily why I did it. And the more I got into it, I realized in my life and practiced this all through my CBS days. The things I've learned along the way, I didn't dream that up. It was taught to me by other people. And I also realized that it's kind of incumbent upon me to give that back. It's not mine to keep. So there's a lot of, I guess, Danism, as you could say. That's for lack of a better term. That's what I named it. In the book Short things that I've learned that will help anybody no matter what industry they're in. And of course, Buck, there has to be, oh, probably about 30 to 40% of funny radio stories. And that would be bosses, jocks, recording artists. I think I've got them all in there.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
So you describe radio in the book as the media backbone of America. And chapter seven is titled Radio is Dead with all the ways people consume content. Now, has that changed or just evolved?
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Dan Mason
Well, I wrote that chapter. I thought about walking by a appliance store in about 1960, 62, I saw my first color TV. And I don't know if you remember it, you probably don't remember this, you're too young. But the whole slug line for advertising was, wow, I saw color tv. So the TV people were out in force talking about radio being dead. And of course cassettes came along, CDs came along, you name it, it all came along. But here we are, because radio is about companionship and more specifically about making friends.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
And I was told this once by a very well known person in the industry that if you do this right, then it should be a one to one conversation, but perhaps in this case heard millions of times over or millions of one to one conversations happening. What is the advice that you would give to people who are in this medium about how to establish that very special, that very powerful connection that radio is able to do? That things like TV really just, it's just not the same.
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Dan Mason
I think radio is a much different medium because it is a call to action medium. You know, you could get on the air a morning show, could get on afternoon, it doesn't matter, and raise money for a family who had been burned out of their home. You might raise money for the dog shelter to get all the dogs adopted for that day. And it can happen little, not so much in tv. But radio is that one to one communication. And like I said before, it's a sense of belonging. People want to belong to something bigger, part of a family. And it's about, it's simple, it's just about making friends.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
You have a chapter about NPR and the whole public funding back and forth over that. Where do you come down on that issue? You're a guy who knows plenty about, about NPR and what it does and does not do.
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Dan Mason
I've listened to NPR for about 50 years, off and on, so I think I'm as good as anyone else in this country to make a comment on NPR. First of all, 1934, the Communications act established that there would be non commercial radio stations. And they would get on there and do something a little different that maybe a crazy top 40 station wouldn't do and that they always had this snooty attitude, always. And they were very, no matter what, they were partisan. It didn't reflect so much until President Obama was, was elected. Now this is my $0.02. So other people may have a different opinion. In about 1967, the government came along and said, you know what, these guys are not making much money and they need to be, they need to be on the air still, so let's fund them. And that went on from 67 to recently 2000 just last year, which was about July. It was challenged in March of this year by a federal judge. But it's still going to be a tough putt to bring that back was about 1.1 billion. So I wrote Commissioner Carr, who gave a tour at 1010 wins and I told him I have a solution. I have the total solution for all of this and nobody's going to sue anybody. And here's the solution, Buck. Drop entirely the non commercial status of those radio stations. I mean, you hear, you hear on there. This is brought to you by a fund from Blank. This is provided to you by blank. They're taking money and that's okay, but let them sell like every other radio station. There should not be non commercial stations anymore. And you look at Premier Network, if they want to have a Network, there is 4,000 non commercial stations right now in this country. You telling me they couldn't cobble together 400 of those to go out and begin to sell a network ad? I think they could. And I think that as far as ratings go, they sure have those where I'm from. In Washington D.C. they're number one in the market. And I know in Washington D.C. if they put salespeople in the street, they would be the darling of the market, I'm sure, so they can raise money. But if they don't drop that non commercial status, it's going to be tough.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
We are speaking to Dan Mason, former president of CE and CEO of CBS Radio. He's got a book out, Fearless the Life and Times of a Media Maverick. Why was Rush Limbaugh so special?
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Dan Mason
He made a lot of friends. Yeah, he had some enemies too, but he stood for something. And you know, he, he was not afraid to take a position, say who he was or you know, not afraid to congratulate someone, not afraid to offend someone. I mean, it's interesting with him, he started like in Sacramento As a dj and you talk about vision, you talk about passion and desire. Look, throughout his career, I mean, he's just, he's, he's a. That should be the maverick, not me.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Now there are, as I understand it, some juicy stories in the book. Can you give us one or two? Can you give us so, so people can go pick up a copy of Fearless? Like what are some things that they'll find? You gotta, you have people listening right now, by the way, who are 30, 40 year radio devote devotees. I mean, people generally listen to rush for 30 years, but you got people that have been all about this medium, a lot of them. We've also got digital streaming and other things too, because we're in the, you know, year of our Lord 20, 26, a lot of things going on. But give us some stories for the radio folks out there.
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Dan Mason
Well, there's a lot of funny stories. A couple of them I can't tell you because they're too R rated. Even though your audience is probably, I don't know, PG to R rated, I'm not sure. But the story that comes to mind, that is a funny one that I can tell. I don't, I don't know how old you are, but Dottie west was a huge country music singer in the early 80s. She had that song what Are We Doing in Love with Kenny Rogers, which was the number one record. But I was at KTSA in San Antonio as general manager. I was only 27 years old and my friend worked at United Artists in Nashville and she was Dottie's promoter. So she calls me and says, listen, we're, we're coming through San Antonio and said, let's have lunch. I want you to meet Dottie and just talk. I said, sure, I'd love to meet Dottie. So we go to a Steak and Ale and remember Steak and Ale, we go there and we have, we have lunch and lunch is. And she was absolutely the most beautiful woman that I'd ever seen in my life at that time, but just beautiful. And I would think about all those commercials she'd do like, did like. I was raised on Country Sunshine, which was a big Coke commercial back in the day. But we're winding down lunch and she looks at me and she goes, dan, I've got a great idea. And I say, oh, what's that? She says, why don't you come with me? And I said, where? And she goes, dallas. We're on the way to Dallas and I think you should come with me so we can get to know each Other a little bit better. And I say, I don't think I can. And she goes, why not? I said, well I've got a wife and a young son and I've got a radio station to run. And she looks at me and winks and says, I don't see the issue. What's the point? That was hilarious. At least at that place in time. It was really, really funny.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
So I also hear from the team that you got 50. I'm a huge dog person. You got 50 dogs adopted all at once?
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Dan Mason
That was that. Yeah, that was back in Atlanta, probably late 70s. And we teamed up with a steakhouse. This is a famous one, but the name escapes me. But they were giving away bags of like bones, like steak bones when you couldn't do that these days. And that's another thing, Buck, you some of these promotions that are in that book, you couldn't do them in a million years now. But we did a big dog a thon over the air and sure enough, every one of those dogs found a home.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Wow, amazing. Well, that's great. I'm so happy to hear that all worked out. What are you doing with the profits from your book Fearless?
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Dan Mason
Profits go to the Broadcasters foundation of America and I'm the chairman emeritus of that group. As a matter of fact, we're doing a mixer here in this building tonight at 5:30 to introduce more people to the Broadcasters Foundation. It's an organization found 75 years ago probably. And it's there to take care of people in radio and television with acute needs like sickness or whatever. And it's really, it's a great organization. So a lot of people, older people now, I've outlived their kids and they have nothing, absolutely nothing. Then you've got another segment of people who have been hit by cancer and they can't feed their family, can't pay the rent. So the money that the Broadcasters foundation takes in goes in direct to those folks on a monthly check basis.
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Dan Mason. The book is Fearless the Life and Times of a Media Maverick. Dan, Great sir. An honor to have you here with us on Clay and Buck. And have fun at the party tonight and best of luck with the book. Thank you so much.
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Dan Mason
Thank you, Buck.
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They've gotten the whole country in ruins.
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Ryan Gardusky
What?
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Host (Buck Sexton)
Like, like really, really guys, the guys, the countries. It's actually, I don't know, I could always tell you the sky is falling. I just think that's not a. I don't think that's a construct. I don't think it's true. I don't think it's a constructive way to go. And even if it were true, wouldn't it be better to at least maintain some sense of hope in the process and not just abandon all hope? Right. Wouldn't that be a better way to go? So there is that. I will tell you I had the pleasure of taking my 14 month old, my son down to the swimming pool today in the community here. I don't have my own pool. We have a little pool in the community. Took him to swimming pool for his swim lessons. And it's just one of the most fun things. And I didn't realize this about being a parent in advance, but watching the, just every little development, the words now flowing more freely. He's saying more things, he's understanding more, he's picking up more. He's producer Mike says you'd have to show. I actually did have to show id, so I did have to show ID to get into the pool. But there's, there's just something about enjoying observing that, you know, those, those little moments that was really, really fun. And I don't know, it was really special. It's also a reminder, everybody learning to swim is very important. Get your kids to swim. I had a nurse friend telling me just the other day, that's just her, her big advice for new parents is as soon as you can get them to, you know, get them to a point where they can at least be in the water safely for obvious, obvious reasons. You want to be able to be able to tread water and do things like that. So I was enjoying that. And I bring it up just because whatever you're going to be doing this 2 50th take it all in. Take it all in countries. I know we got Iran stuff and I'm hearing some reports that there might be a little bit of a disturbance right now in the Strait of Hormuz. I got to confirm that. But we're not in some huge massive war. We're not in a COVID lockdown. We're not in the Great Depression. Trump is president and the country has a bit of a pep in its step and right now things are good. So enjoy that. And if you don't even want to think about today, enjoy the incredible history history of our nation and how many great books there are to read about this place. I'm finishing up a book on Ethan Allen right now. Interesting guy, I'm gonna say. Not one of the most interesting figures I've read about, you know, but some interesting stuff really was more made a bigger difference in terms of prisoner of war treatment during the revolution than anything else. And that was a big deal in the early. Well, it's always a big deal, but it was particularly important political in the early days of the revolution against the British. And there's that. So something else that maybe we'll talk about a bit more next week. Send me your thoughts, emails, all that good stuff. Talk backs Tomorrow be Friday. I think we got Tudor Dixon and Ann Coulter joining. It's going to be a great show. I will talk to you all then.
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