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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Shh.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in. We appreciate all of you. Thank you for hanging out with us on the Monday edition post Thanksgiving edition of the Clay and Buck show. I think probably quite a few of you along with your favorite host have maybe indulged a bit over the course of the long weekend. A decent amount of food consumed, beverages consumed. I know that was the case with me. We had an awesome time. We had. How big was your Thanksgiving dinner, buck? We had 13 in and I had all my nieces, my niece, my nephews, sister, brother in law, mom, dad and my mother in law along with my family. It was awesome. So we had 13 for Thanksgiving dinner. Went well, had a great time down in the free state of Florida. Still the free state of Florida. I was laughing also. Still angry about the Remember the Gavin Newsom advisements on Thanksgiving where you were not allowed to. I shared that five years ago now. But you and I will never forget what they put us through and I know many of you out there listening will never forget either. But the five year anniversary of Gavin Newsom telling you you had to eat outside, that you could not have very many people to your Thanksgiving dinner that you should not sing or chant. If you remember that directive from the dictatorial governor of California during that awful time, I think many of you will remember Deborah Birx.
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Buck Sexton
Dr. Birx also went home for Thanksgiving and hung out with all of her people after telling everybody don't go home and hang out with everyone at Thanksgiving. Yes, that was, that was a tough one to explain. That was, that was going full French laundry on that one a la Gavin Newsom. So yes, I will never, I will never forget that we had a very civilized. It was just eight of us. I think it was eight of us. I think that's the count. And yes, it was fun. I had my son. So the first time I was a dad for this Thanksgiving. We very much enjoyed it. I will say, I think I did. If you're looking at my, at my caloric damage, I gotta say the sweet potatoes, the candied sweet potatoes with the marshmallow on top. I don't know. Someone's just gotta cut me off sooner. Those things are too good. I almost use them like a dip for everything else, you know. So I'm like, you know, what goes well with candy, sweet potatoes, everything else on this plate.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. So I think there's probably a decent number of you out there that are, are thinking to yourselves, hey maybe, maybe time to hit the gym. Maybe opportunity to, to get out and get back in a little bit better shape as December is beginning, particularly with Christmas and New Year's on the, on the calendar coming up very, very quickly. So bunch of different stories that we are following as we are speaking to all of you right now. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, our friend, been on the show a ton over the years. She is taking questions in the White House from media. We'll be sharing some of those takes with all of you. We've already talked encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast. We've already talked with speaker of the House Mike Johnson as well as Matt Van Epps. Big congressional election in the 7th district of Tennessee. That's my home district. It will be getting a lot of attention. It is a leading story out there for everyone involved in the, in the House majority is why Mike Johnson is here. It's why President Trump called in this morning to a rally. And we'll be calling into a rally again this evening. We've been updating people on the National Guard shooting. We played that for you. I think we have an update from Caroline Levitt on that. Let me hit you with that if I can. Uh, cut 28. This is Caroline Levitt talking about the two National Guard soldiers who were shot, uh, within about a mile of the White house. Uh, cut 28.
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Clay Travis
So that was Caroline Levitt just a few moments ago at the White House press briefing. Okay. A couple of other things that are out there that are substantial. Buck, I don't know if you've done this, but the White House just released a briefing. Sorry. A statement from the president's physician talking about the fact that he had had a full body MRI scan done and that his overall health was very positive. I was talking with a friend of mine who is in health care, and he said that he thinks this is going to become more and more standard. Have you read or seen this you may have done it, I don't know. It is becoming that they have these new, basically, and you may be able to explain it better than me, the full body scans that are done for of healthy people to try and see if there might be something that could be occurring that would be an issue. And he told my friend who I was talking with about this, who was involved in health care, said, you know, most of the time if you're healthy, it doesn't pick up anything. But he said, a friend's wife, they found an aneurysm that they had no idea would have been an issue. Were able to go in, treat it before it became a major issue and it might have killed her. And she thought she was 100% healthy. She had no idea this was going on. These are preventative in nature, but they're basically full body scans. The White House just released that President Trump has done this and that his full body scan showed no health concerns of which to be alarmed by. Mary Margaret Olahan, who is the daily wires White House reporter, just tweeted out the letter that the White House has sent to all media members that says, hey, President Trump is in good shape. The President had referenced it and there had been a lot of discussion about this. Have you had this done or do you know people that have had it done?
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Buck Sexton
I know people who have had it done and I think that it is, I think it is the future of medicine. I think people are going part of the future of medicine. Yes, I think people are going to be. Be more and more and more because of the proliferation of information that we all have. Artificial intelligence is a very useful tool, not just for doctors, but for you at home and all of this too. For self diagnosis you can take photos of things, you know, for medical purposes. You can take a photo of your hand and be like, what is that weird bump on my hand? And I will say I'm not a doctor, but here's what I can tell you about this based on the following. People are gonna realize that you don't wanna wait to be really sick before you try to get help. You wanna find things as early as it's not just find when things have gone wrong. You wanna look at the trajectory, look at the trend of different health markers, whether it's your A1C, your cholesterol, your. All these different things that you know, really your cardiovascular health and arterial health, really really important. And anything that can give you a sense as to how that's going is I think, going to become very, very valuable. Tool. So, you know, there's also clay a whole article today on the change, what they're kind of calling the GLP1 economy. Yeah. You know, with. With Ozempic and WeGovy. I read that things where now people more and more. First of all, everyone wants to wear, you know, more sort of form fitted and athleisure clothing. And people want to go on more travel, you know, kind of hiking and. And, you know, do more adventurous vacations. And people are having more sex and are. There's actually been a big surge in pregnancy tests among the cohort of.
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Clay Travis
Is this true?
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
People feel better about their bodies and they feel more sexually desirable, probably. And maybe we get more babies as a result. Well, that's good positivity thing where they put fat chicks in spandex and we're like, hey, go buy bras and go buy athleisure and all this stuff. It turns out nobody actually wants to be overweight now. And hopefully these GLPs, which are becoming more and more affordable, are going to lead us down a pathway where people are healthier. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
GLP ones did to body positivity what body cams did to the BLM movement.
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Clay Travis
So that's a good analogy.
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Buck Sexton
Why, thank you. Thank you. I did well in the SAT analogies.
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Clay Travis
If I remember, they've been eliminated. The SAT analogy section. In fact, Buck, this ties in with what I was going to hit you with. And I also want to get your take on Venezuela, the Ukraine situation, everything else. There's a story in this morning's Wall Street Journal. And for those of you that are watching on video. Yes, this is my old man pulling out the newspaper moment. College students can't do elementary math. Buck, this whole elimination of the sat, I've been paying attention to it because my oldest son is doing his college applications right now. And every school is slowly realizing that the SAT was actually very predictive of your overall ability to do college work. Buck, listen to this. One in eight freshmen lack basic high school math skills. Okay, Students placed in a remedial. This is for the University of California, San Diego, according to the Wall Street Journal this morning. Listen to this, buck, because only 39%. I want all of you out there to listen. I'm not trying to give you a math test, but listen to this. Only 39% of freshmen at the University of California, San Diego. This is evidently an elite California school. 39% could correctly round this number three. Third. Now I'm going to give my 30. 374,518. Only 39% could correctly round that number to the nearest hundred. A third grade skill of this elite University of California school. By the way, the answer is 374,500. Right. You're rounding it down. If it were 551, you would round it up. Only 39% of their admitted students could get that question right. Buck.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, this is what happens. This is also what has happened in a lot of all these schools, Clay, that have gotten rid of the satisfaction for applications. They've all had to go back to it. They've all had to go back to it because you can't have. You can't have any real sense as to someone's academic ability. Again, this is where it's like, is the test everything? No. Are there good test takers and bad test takers? Yeah. I mean, people get into that a lot. But you know, quite honestly, as a predictive tool, it's very accurate about your academic ability to handle these things. They got rid of it and now they're bringing it back. And a lot of us are just saying, I told you so.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Well, the impact of it here was grade inflation has occurred to such an extent that SAT and ACT have actually become more valuable because it says here, all these kids that are failing, that don't have basic math skills, they're actually testing with A grades in calculus and in pre cal and stat and all these things that should be very easily testable. So the grade itself, it's great inflation, where everybody gets A's now, and you basically don't have any foundational knowledge of something simple like math. And. And this is occurring certainly in history and English and other courses too, but in math, that, that. The fact that only 39% could correctly round that number. When I read that this morning, I said, what are we doing? Like, what kind of world have we created?
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Buck Sexton
There are major constituencies for the elimination of object objective metrics, for one, the entire DEI apparatus, but also the teachers unions nationwide. The testing gap, as it is generally referred to, particularly white and Asian students on one side and black and Latino students on the other, has not budged. In fact, if anything, it has gotten worse over the last 30, 40 years. So all of the unbelievable sums of money that have been thrown into public education in this country have not been able to put even the slightest dent. If anything, it actually has. The testing gap has expanded. So get rid of the numbers, Clay. If you can't. If you can't fix the problem. The numbers show. Get rid of the numbers. This is the game that they have been playing in higher ed for a long time. And there are very powerful constituencies that don't want there to be any accountability, any truth, any honesty in any of this. And this is when you get people that have straight A's that are going to college who can't do fractions. They, you know, they can't.
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Clay Travis
That's what this article is all about.
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Buck Sexton
And I read it. Half and three eighths. No idea. No idea. I mean, you know, I'm not a math guy, but I do think you should be able to do fractions when you're in college.
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Clay Travis
And again, it goes to the meritocracy itself, which is the best, brightest among us. And by the way, the impact on this is devastating when it comes to producing, as you might imagine, kids who can actually major in engineering or math related fields or be involved in the quote unquote hard sciences that have real answers where you can't. Just you and I, I mean, I was a history major. You kind of BS your way sometimes through history arguments. Certainly you can BS yourself through a lot of English social sciences majors. But I saw this and I just said it should be. I think the White House should even get involved on this. If you're taking federal dollars, you should have to do standardized tests and the best and brightest should get admitted to the best schools, period. That should be the reality. And again to your point, testing doesn't always guarantee success. There's tons of super smart kids who end up disasters, but it does give you a general baseline aptitude test compared to everyone else around the nation. And these schools, if they want to be elite academic institutions, should be and should be admitting the smartest kids, regardless of what their backgrounds are today.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
News you can count on and some laughs too. Clay Travis at Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We got a caller, Don in Oklahoma, a retired chemistry professor. I wonder if Don's favorite show is Breaking Bad, but he wants to talk to us about something else. What's going on? Don?
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Jonathan Alpert
I retired from the third largest university teaching chemistry and I teach the students how to do algebra. But the kicker was they can't multiply 2 times 3.
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Clay Travis
How much worse has it gotten? You taught presumably for a long time. How much worse has preparation for students gotten?
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Jonathan Alpert
Terribly worse. I started in 77 and retired a couple years ago and it's from the last 10 years it's just plummeted.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. A lot of you coming out of Thanksgiving holiday, maybe there were conversations that you had with people who hated President Trump. Maybe you've had had them in the past over the last decade. Maybe you have friends and family that you have lost potentially because they have become so deranged when it comes to President Trump and the way that, that they see him. I read in the Wall Street Journal a great write up on Trump derangement syndrome from our current guest Jonathan Alpert as almost its own psychiatric psychological diagnosis. And we said, okay, we got to get this guy on. And he is now with us. This is Jonathan Alpert. I loved your piece. For people who have not read it, you're a psychotherapist, New York and D.C. and you got a book called Therapy Nation about all the different aspects of therapy going on. But when you see people who it appears frankly do have Trump derangement syndrome, is that a real thing? Kind of take people through the argument that you made in the, the Wall Street Journal editorial.
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Jonathan Alpert
Yeah. And Clay, great to be here. It's not a real thing. However, it probably should be a real thing. But I don't think we'll ever see it in the dsm, which is sort of the bible of psychiatric disorders in my profession. But what I have seen is quite troubling. We're seeing families split up. We've seen people obsessed with Trump, they're hyper fixated on Trump and frankly, it's ruining their mental health. And I would go so far as to call it a, in some ways a mental health epidemic that's focused or revolves around Trump. And I don't care if it's Trump or Biden or Harris or anyone. If you're that hyper fixated on a figure, you need to check in with a therapist, someone like me.
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Buck Sexton
Now, Jonathan, appreciate you being with us. It's Buck, the, what would be the, the things to look for where someone, I mean, you said things like hyper fixated. You know, what are some of the, the red lines that somebody would want to look at where something goes from just being a very perhaps overzealous belief or very overzealous thoughts about, in this case, a politician to where it actually is clinical. Because what I see myself as, a non medical, non psychoanalyst, is a lot of people who have a bizarre, irrational, and really delusional fear themselves. Personally, like, I know people who lose, truly lose sleep at night. I mean, they've told me this because they're worried that Trump is going to just pull them off. Like, Trump is going to have people pull them off the street and throw them into a cell somewhere for no reason. Like, how different is that from somebody who's, you know, agoraphobic or something?
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Jonathan Alpert
Yeah, and Buck, it's not too different if you're at the point where you are losing sleep over our president or if you, like, some of my patients, can't enjoy a vacation because, quote, how can I possibly relax and enjoy a vacation knowing that Trump's in office? You're sick, you've got issues. And similar to other mental health issues that we see, whether it's OCD or anxiety disorders, it disrupts a person's life. It impairs relationships, whether it's from romantic relationships or work relationships or friendships. This is when it rises to the level of pathologic. And that's where I become greatly concerned. And if you look back over the past decade, when Trump first entered our world as a politician, I mean, I had patients who were ready to flee the country. I actually know some who did flee the country. And I would remind them that the fact that you can get out there and protest even in front of Trump's house is a good reason to stay here. But the problem is people aren't looking at this in a rational way. They're. They're quite irrational. They do think that Trump is going to round people up and send them off to a island somewhere. They think that Trump is a Nazi. So I've heard all sorts of outrageous statements like that. And as a therapist, I try to confront them and help them see things rationally. And with some of those people, I'm successful, and others, frankly, I'm not.
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Clay Travis
How do you handle people in your friend or family circle that are just crazy and are suffering from this? Right. I mean, because I think that is probably something that a lot of people out there, particularly in the social media age, I mean, I grew up, I remember my grandma saying, you never talk about politics or religion. Now, certainly people talk about politics all the time, particularly on social media. So you may just come across it on Facebook or you may come across it in, like I said, in your own family or at Thanksgiving, how do you handle people that are, in your opinion, meaning the family member truly gone crazy over the Trump situation? I'll give an example. This is not Trump directly. We had a family member that a younger, I don't want to get too specific, but celebrated on social media, Charlie Kirk getting shot. And I was stunned. I couldn't believe it. Maybe some of you have had, you know, in your larger family circles, things like that happen. How do you handle people who are dealing with this that seem unwell to you? What should you do as a person if that's in your friend or family circle?
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Jonathan Alpert
Yeah, And I, and I too witnessed people who were celebrating the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk. I told the story of overhearing two cashiers at Trader Joe's talking about it and celebrating it. And what's happened is people have demonized figures, whether it's Kirk or, or Trump, and they've learned to hate them and they feel like it's their duty to take them out. But when you have a family member that's, that's speaking like that, I think you need to try to confront them. I think you need to ask them, you know, why, why do you feel like it's your duty to take this person out or demonize this person or speak ill of the person? You know, it's not healthy for them to be consumed by that figure. So, you know, I think you can try to gently confront them, see how they react, see if you can work with them in that way. Other people are beyond repair and they'll believe what they want to believe. The other problem that we're seeing that you mentioned is social media. People are in these echo chambers. They only surround themselves with one opinion. They feel that the world is conspiring against them. So we've got a lot of work to do if we're going to try to get back to what we saw in the 80s after Reagan was shot. His surgeon famously said today, Mr. President, we're all Republicans, but wouldn't it be great to get back to a time like that?
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
I'm wondering also where the mental health profession is on this more broadly. And I would just say this. I am aware, sir, that your profession is based on the numbers and the data. I believe the single most, the single most left wing medical profession that is out there, is that really the reason why there isn't more of a push to treat Trump Derangement syndrome, even if they're not going to name it, to treat it as an anxiety disorder? I mean, I wonder how many psychiatrists have Trump derangement syndrome. If I can just put a point on this.
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Jonathan Alpert
Well, Buck, let me put it this way. Since my Wall Street Journal piece came out and since appearing on Fox tv, I've received too many to count hate emails from my colleagues, from therapists wishing me dead, labeling me a pedophile protector, absolutely unhinged, vile emails from licensed mental health professionals. So that tells you what you need to know about my profession. And you're right, it's dominated by liberals. But that said, I also received very supportive emails from colleagues. So I think there are probably some closeted conservative therapists out there. But, yeah, I mean, we have people who think I'm absolutely crazy because I'm identifying a trend that I've seen over the past decade. And I genuinely care about these people's mental health, the people that I'm seeing and would like them to start to be healthier and look at things in a more rational manner.
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Clay Travis
We're talking to Jonathan Alpert. I'm curious, one of the big discussions here, Trump came down the escalator 2015. So we've had a decade of Trump derangement syndrome. Do you believe that this syndrome, to the extent that it exists, that is uniquely focused on Trump, does it translate to or transfer to other Republicans in a post Trump era? What will these people, when Trump exits the stage, as he will In January of 2029, what do you think is likely to happen to their mental health at that point in time?
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Jonathan Alpert
Well, I'd be shocked if it suddenly improved once Trump left office. I think there are some people out there that always need an object, a person to hate. And if it's not Trump, it might be Rubio or JD or whoever may take over in 2028. So I do think these people need something to hate. And we're actually seeing this play out in New York where I am. The anti Israel protests have ended. And now I think over the weekend we saw several anti ICE protests. So there are some people who always need to be fighting and need what they perceive as a cause to fight for. And we'll see what happens in a few years.
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Clay Travis
It is interesting because we appreciate your time. I was watching a video, somebody put together a compilation. Buck, I should have sent it to you, too. Of all these people, like losing their minds to protest in favor of BLM five years ago and all the crazy videos they were making and everything else. And then, you know, it's kind of a joke. But the same people took the BLM slogan and then had the Ukraine flag in their, in their profile. Do you see that as people have some sort of absence in their life and so they are constantly seeking the next thing, whatever it is, wear a mask, get a shot. Like there's jumping from one sort of social obsession to another. Has that become more prevalent? I think in a social media age it has.
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Jonathan Alpert
And probably before BL blm we saw Occupy Wall street way back. So yeah, reported on. Yes. And they probably have an emptiness or disdain in their life or for something and they just want to be part of a cause. And I think these causes, whether it's Occupy Wall street or Israel, anti Israel or blm, it's like a big group therapy session that amounts to absolutely nothing. It's not making these people healthier. I'll share a story with you. After one of the no Kings riots, I was walking around Manhattan admiring the heaping high pile of anti Trump signs and someone came up to me and said, isn't this beautiful? And I said not really. I kind of support our president and think he's doing a good job. And she went absolutely nuts and started cursing me, not even knowing who I was. Much like the emails that I'm getting from these strangers since my Wall Street Journal piece. I can't imagine sending a stranger that I may see on TV an email telling them how much I hate them. But that might be the difference between someone with a rational mind and an irrational mind.
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Buck Sexton
How do we get more right wing mental health professionals?
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Jonathan Alpert
You know, I wish I knew. I'm part of a small group of conservative therapists who are fed up with the wokeism that's infiltrated our profession. My forthcoming book Therapy Nation does touch on this. How our graduate programs, our profession are just dominated by social justice warriors. So I think the more people like me that can get out there and who aren't afraid to speak their mind and be okay with conservative values and put, put, put their thoughts out there, the better we'll be as a nation, the healthier will be and we'll be far less divided.
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Clay Travis
Thank you. Jonathan Alpert. Encourage people to check out the book and we will share that Wall Street Journal editorial you wrote as some people may be dealing with some of this in the post Thanksgiving era in which we currently live. Thank you so much.
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Jonathan Alpert
Yes, thank you very much. Take care.
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Buck Sexton
Shh.
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Buck Sexton
All right, we're closing up shop on Trey and Bach. First show of the week. First show of December. I cannot believe how quickly the holidays are upon us. We just had Thanksgiving. It was great. I need to, I need to get my steps in, man. I need to get back on my walking regimen Clay nightly. I've been a little bit of a walking dilettante in the last couple of months and the buckster is starting to get a dad, a dad bod again. I can't, can't do it, can't do it. Gotta get out there and walking. Gotta watch the portion sizes. Got to do some strength training. So, you know, because, because Christmas again, I'm gonna go to my in laws. I, my, my mother in law is an amazing cook. And it's not just I have to watch out for the meals. She just makes delicious things and like leaves them in the kitchen, you know, like, yeah, just, you know, she's like, yeah, I just thought we'd have some baked brie with some gluten free crostini for you. And I'm like, yes, this is amazing. But obviously I'm going to eat 4,000 calories of brie right now. So that's what happens.
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Clay Travis
How many calories do you think? Let's get to these calls really quick tomorrow. Yeah, but I bet calories tomorrow. Way more. Way more than we needed. Darcy in Houston. We're gonna try to hit everybody. Thank you for calling. You got a daughter at A and M. Congrats to the Aggies on a good season, although the Longhorns took him down on Friday. But she's a civil engineer student.
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She's a senior civil engineering.
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Oh, congrats.
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Yeah, super excited. But we took her out of school. We withdrew her from school. She graduated homeschool because the public schools are failing kids in math. The grades are inflated. They're not really learning. And I was at the weekend of the 22nd, I was back at AM with our youngest at engineering orientation and she's a junior and they have A and M School of Engineering has one of the highest withdrawal rates to other majors because the kids aren't being prepared. They're not learning the basic skills that they need to know. You are absolutely right. But this partially falls to parents to do flashcards with their kids.
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Guys, thank you for the call. Look, this is the reality. It's hard to become an engineer, thankfully, because we want you to be really able to be build buildings and things like that. But you can't BS your way through it. So you either have the foundational skills of math or you don't. Congrats to her daughter who's going to graduate with that engineering degree. The number of people out there that can make tremendous livings in jobs that can't be replaced by AI. I think people are going to have to start making more strategic decisions about what skills they're gaining. Buck because a lot of these soft science jobs, you can get kicked to the curb in a hurry.
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Buck Sexton
More on all of this tomorrow, my friends. We'll talk to you then.
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Clay Travis
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Then the space hamster flew his hot air balloon all the way to the.
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Clay Travis
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