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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
That's odoo.com Clay Travis with the Clay and Buck show wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Buck Sexton
Buck Sexton here, the entire Clay and Buck show wish you and your family a warm Christmas season and a joyful New Year. Sunday Hang is brought to you by.
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Clay Travis
Chalk Natural supplements for guys, gals and nothing in between. Fuel your day@chalk.com Bold, reverent and occasionally random. The Sunday Hang with Clay Lane Buck Podcast starts now. I just put up a poll question Buck that we can have some fun with this too. Today the last pennies are being produced. That is the $0.01 coin is basically being phased out. Trump came in and said the penny doesn't make sense. It costs more than to than to produce it. Should we eliminate all coins? This may be stepping into. This may be like when I went after flute players.
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Buck Sexton
I'm I'm a hard yes on this one. Producer Greg, I'm going to get we're going to give you a minute. I don't know if he's by the mic in NYC or if he wants to just do a talk back or whatever he seems like he's not down for. And I want to know why would anyone want there to still be pennies? I we need to have currency for every person because you eliminate the penny, you eliminate the nickel. That's the it's the first step on the slippery slope to getting rid of all currency and then everything can be tracked by the government all the time. Okay, well I'm with, I'm with you on the digital dollar thing, producer Greg, so that you're. I'm with you on that. But pennies? When was the last time you used a penny? You'd be surprised.
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Clay Travis
How much jangling coins does producer Greg have in his pocket right now? Just jangling around weighing down his pants, dragging them down. I'm in. I'm with you Buck. I think we should eliminate all coins. I don't think there should be coin currency anymore.
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Buck Sexton
That may be a scorching hot take that we didn't expect to be scorching.
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Clay Travis
Maybe we may get fired up get attacked on this one. But we're right. We may have stepped into a coin loving buzzsaw here. Buck it is. The comments are going to be very, very funny. I think on this the poll you can go vote in it Thousands of you are already weighing in, and the general consensus is it's close to 50, 50 on whether we should be eliminating all coins. The reason why I brought that up was because today is reportedly the last day I saw this on Fox News, that they are going to be producing the penny. It definitely costs more to produce the penny than the penny is worth. And so in the future, the smallest coin would now be the nickel. And I think going forward, you're going to see more and more arguments about, hey, do we still need to continue to produce coins? There would still be coins in circulation probably for, you know, the next hundred years. I mean, I don't know how long it would go on. Here's a fun stat for you, Buck. What percentage of money that exists in the world today actually physically exists? What percentage of 15.
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Buck Sexton
20.
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Clay Travis
Good guess. I'm told it's 10.
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Buck Sexton
Okay, I was. I was in the room. I was in the room.
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Clay Travis
But, yeah, I think that will blow a lot of your minds out there. In other words, if you went to the bank and you have X dollars and everybody went to the bank and they have X dollars, I mean, this is sort of a bank run. The physical notes that represent the vast majority of the wealth in the world. It doesn't exist. It's just numbers on a computer screen. Only about 10% of the dollars in America, of the euros in America, of all of the different currencies physically exist. That's something kind of interesting. And the younger you are, the young people. And I sound like an old guy every time I say that. Young people, and I'm getting to be an old guy. They don't even carry money. I mean, like, the actual physical carrying of money. They have their iPhone, they pay with Apple pay. They have credit cards. They don't physically carry around cash at all. They have Venmo, they have Zelle. They have all these different ways to share expenses when they're buying, you know, going out for dinners or whatever else, concert tickets. It's kind of wild. We're moving towards a cashless society already, and I think we're moving there in really rapid fashion, much to producer Greg's chagrin.
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Buck Sexton
Well, yes, and I do agree that there are concerns about not having the privacy and the ability to just have currency that the government is not tracking and aware of at all times. But I don't know, man.
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Clay Travis
Pennies.
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Buck Sexton
Not. Not a fan of pennies.
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Clay Travis
Quarters.
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Buck Sexton
I'm a little more open to a little more.
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Clay Travis
Did you ever work retail? Did you ever work at a place where you had to accept cash, make change, like process transactions. I've done a lot of retail in my life.
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Buck Sexton
Tell everybody. Clay, Abercrombie and Fitch, were they only. Where they only hired good looking people when Clay did it. He loves to remind us all. My wife too, very shy about it. I'm like, I'm like, so you were hired at the Florida Abercrombie or you know, Fitch or like the Orlando area or whatever because you were cute, right? Like, just say it. She's like, no, I was a hard worker. I'm like, right, right.
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Clay Travis
It was a. The retail jobs that I had. I worked at American Eagle, now famous because of the Sydney Sweeney jeans. For years I worked at a company called Media Play in the book section. The idea there was you could buy CDs, you could buy books. Some of you will remember the concept. Big box retailer. And then I worked at Abercrombie and Fitch, Pentagon City Mall in Washington D.C. while I was in college. One of the best jobs I ever had. Buck. Pretty girls walk in. You got an immediate excuse to talk to pretty girls. It's like, I mean, that's.
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Buck Sexton
I'll tell you the truth, man. I got caught up in the world. And this was really common in New York, the world of the unpaid corporate internship I. I had. And in retrospect, I got scammed. I think it would have been way better. Now some. Some places I got like. I worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and they. Because they actually had interns do real work. They paid you like you were paid. It was, you know, it was maybe three or four hundred bucks a week or something at the time. But it was like at the time, living in D.C. with three roommates over the summer, that was real money. But I remember other places where I worked and I did. I worked at the Council on Foreign Relations as an intern. They didn't pay. And that place has a huge cf. People like cfr, that's the Globalist and the Illuminati. Yeah, I was an intern there. Trust me, no one cared. No one remembered me. They didn't pay. And people were. There was someone who got an actual recommendation from, I think it was the crown prince of Jordan or something for one of those internships, Clay. I mean, people would go all out for these. Didn't matter. These unpaid internships. It doesn't. People are like, oh, it'll translate into a job. What I'm saying is, I think your experience of actually working in commerce and capitalism, a much better play for people. And it establishes something of an economic libido. You're like, oh, work harder, work longer, more money. An internship where you're not paid just so you can put it on your resume, you're actually incentivized to do as little as possible and get out of there as fast as possible.
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Clay Travis
And I think they're diminishing the number of unpaid internships in general. Oh, no, it's.
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Buck Sexton
There are rules against it now. There are rules against it now because it became so exploitative. Like, I did one at CBS Evening News, but I got school credit for it, so that seemed like a fair. But I did summer internships, a number of them, starting when I was even in high school, where I didn't get any. I didn't get paid. And I was just basically fetching coffee and making xeroxes so I could put on my resume that I. This was a thing in the 90s. Those of you who are elder Millennials, not you old Gen X people. Gen X people, you got to worry about your creaking joints and bones. The Elder Millennials, you know what I'm talking about. You. We all got scammed, man. Late 90s, it was like, Clay, I worked at a. At a music label for a summer, for a couple of months, and it was a complete waste of my time.
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Clay Travis
This is unexpected. You worked at a music label for, like, a month?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, like an internship. Total waste of time. They're, like, the biggest. I think it was supposed to be all summer. I legitimately told my parents, like, I'm going to go play tennis instead. This is a waste of time.
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Clay Travis
So, yeah, what was the music label? Death Row?
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Buck Sexton
No, no, no, no, it wasn't. It was actually a music publishing company, so it was kind of like, did A&R, and it was owned publishing. Right. Clay was the most boring intern. I don't even remember. I was, like, 17. The worst thing I ever.
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Clay Travis
Worst I. Worst way I ever spent a summer in college. When I was at GW Undergrad, I went and worked on Capitol Hill as part of being a student in D.C. and that was actually somewhat useful and interesting. But, yeah, there's a ton of those that don't have any impact at all. I was just thinking, nowadays, when you work retail and a lot of you out there who work in. Who work in restaurants or whatever else, I don't even remember the last time I saw someone pay in a restaurant with cash. You know, they have all these mobile devices now where they can come right to your. Right to your table and, like, take all your money. I don't even remember some. A lot of places won't even take cash now. We used to. The reason I was bringing it up Buck is at the end of the day at American Eagle, and it doesn't seem very safe now. We would have a big bag of cash that we would deposit into the bank that we would clear out the cash registers with. And I was thinking about it the other day because if I tried to explain that to my kids, they wouldn't even understand. And it was filled with coins and it was filled with cash, and we had to tally it up and we had to take it and we had to deposit it. At the end of the day, there's never any security. I remember thinking, this doesn't make a lot of sense. There's thousands and thousands of dollars. There's. But that was what we had to do because the physical encapsulation of money was such a thing. And remember in Breaking Bad, when he starts to make real amounts of money, Great television show, and he doesn't even know what to do with all the cash. This is one of the challenges of the drug trade in general. It's all a cash business. It takes a lot of space when you have actual. The physical manifestation of all that wealth.
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Buck Sexton
Somebody. Somebody can tell me what the. This was a famous problem that Pablo Escobar, the world's drug kingpin back in the 80s and 90s, and really the original public enemy number one of the US government in the pre war on terror terror era. He had something that they would call spoilage clay, which was they had. So they could not find a place to put all the cash that they were making by selling cocaine in the United States. And so they would store it underground in pallets and rats would eat it. And they. There were some crazy figure, tens of millions of dollars a year they thought they were losing to rats eating their cash because that's how much cash they were making in the illegal drug trade. One thing that used to exist in New York, it doesn't really anymore. But there were a number of restaurants that were famous. Clay. For being cash only.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
And it was basically because it was like they weren't really reporting all the money they were making. You know, that was. That was the idea issue.
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Clay Travis
Yes. But the.
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Buck Sexton
The IRS got way better at calculating the. You know, because they can base it off your inventory. So what you buy. What are you buying monthly? Oh, really? You're only making that much, but you're buying this much. So they have ways of figuring this stuff out.
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Clay Travis
Bars and then it's restaurants. That was huge. They would avoid reporting the actual dollars that came into the building. And now obviously you can't do that with credit card and a lot of you out there who get tips. It's way easier to track your tips now in a credit card era than ever was when you just got cash handed to you.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Caller Jen
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
I'm just going to say, if someone finds you in the driveway of your nice brand new house bludgeoned, and there's a flute and a handful of pennies next to the body, we're all going to know what happened.
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Clay Travis
That's right. I'm in potential danger here. I want to take this call because I don't even understand how it's possible. There is a woman, Jen. She says she is in the southeastern United States. You said you only escaped your husband because you were able to save pennies. Is Jen there?
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Buck Sexton
Yes, sir.
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Caller Jen
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
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Clay Travis
All right, Jen, how many pennies did you save? What did it, what did escaping your husband cost you? What did you buy?
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Caller Jen
I bought a lawyer for $1,000 as a retainer using 35 jar, 35 quart size glass jars on six shelves in the back of my pantry, all filled with pennies.
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Clay Travis
How many years did it take you to save up that many pennies?
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Caller Jen
It took me about. It took me about two and a half years.
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Clay Travis
So were you thinking the whole time, I'm saving these pennies so I can afford to divorce my husband? And what did the lawyer think when his retainer fee is paid in 35 jugs of pennies?
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Caller Jen
My lawyer was amazing. And what I was doing was I was slowly collecting pennies and other change because he was looking in my wallet after I would go grocery shopping for my cash. And my lawyer was very amazing.
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Clay Travis
So was this like an incredible story? Yeah, this is pretty crazy. So you hid the coins that you were getting back as change on like grocery store trips and whatnot. And as a result, you were able to retain an attorney. So it's not just pennies. You were having quarters, like just all the change you could get.
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Buck Sexton
You were change jars. You kept change jars together and you were able to get a lawyer.
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Caller Jen
It was, it was 35 jars of pennies alone. With an addition of mixed change altogether mixed together. So it was 35 pennies. 35 jars of pennies only. And then additional change as well. But it was over $1,000 in just pennies.
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Clay Travis
So what would have happened if the. If I had won and there were was. Now the reality is change is going to be circulating for the rest of our lives. What they're doing today is they are just stopping production of more pennies so they'll continue to circulate for the rest of our lives. But what would you have done if change didn't exist?
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Caller Jen
I wouldn't have been able to get out.
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Clay Travis
I wouldn't have been able to still be married.
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Caller Jen
Probably.
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Buck Sexton
Wow. Well, that's quite a story, I gotta say. Have you ever seen the Shawshank Redemption?
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Caller Jen
Patience is a virtue. Be virtuous.
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Buck Sexton
You know, I just it remind. Thank you for calling in, Clay. It reminds me of what Andy Dufresne, right. Taking one little piece of dirt at a time and then he tunnels out. Remember? That was the whole thing.
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Clay Travis
It's an amazing part of the story that's also the story of Alcatraz. If you visit Alcatraz. The only people to ever escape from Alcatraz dug their way out through the back of their jail cell there. And they then climbed on the pipes all the way out. And we never have figured out what happened to those guys.
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Buck Sexton
By the way, speaking of pennies and coinage and bills in circulation, I did check back on this one. And according to Pablo Escobar's brother at the time, who was also his accountant for the operations of the Medellin cartels, importation of cocaine and I believe heroin, but mostly just cocaine in the United States play their spoilage, which was rats eating the cash and just physical loss to the elements of the cash that they were storing was $2 billion a year.
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Clay Travis
Unbelievable.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, just like they're like, oh, big rainstorm. The cash got wet and the rats ate some. We were losing $2 billion a year. That's how much cash they had.
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Clay Travis
I mean, I think the answer. Some of you out there are probably wondering why we only go up to $100 bills. For those of you that are strongly committed to, to cash, it's because they don't want to make it easier for the storage of. Of money for illicit transactions. In other words, if we had a thousand dollar bill, you can imagine how much more money could be stored illicitly. And there's been talk about the euro potentially replacing the hundred dollar bill. And you know, because if you're Engaged in criminal activity. You want the largest denomination bill possible.
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Buck Sexton
What's the most cash. What's the most cash you've ever seen physically present?
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Clay Travis
It's a great question.
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Buck Sexton
One time, 10K. I mean, I, oh, I, I saw, I saw several million dollars in cash one time.
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Clay Travis
Well, you carried. Back in the day at the CIA, you guys had go bags filled with lots of cash. Right.
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Buck Sexton
Can neither confirm nor deny. I'm just saying I saw a lot of cash I saw.
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Clay Travis
I mean, I told you back in the day, the US Mint. So I've seen the big pallets of cash before there. But in terms of physical cash that I've ever seen, I think it was about 10 grand is the most that I've ever seen physically present. One place.
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Buck Sexton
I can just tell you that. It's, it's funny also when you see these movies and they're like, I need $10 million and someone shows up with like a briefcase. Oh, no, no, no. It's going to be like duffel bags. You're talking duffel bags for 10 million. For $10 million. It's going to be a bit more than a, that a simple valise or a briefcase. That's not going to get it done for you. Just throwing that out there. For any of you who are planning like a Bond villain style, you know, bank situation. Yeah, you can just.
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Clay Travis
Should I play some of these people that are furious because the pennies going away because we are deluged in them right now?
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Buck Sexton
I just think that it's a shame that they can actually like, as part of the show, you know, throw pennies at you to show their displeasure because that would just be fun. But yes, go ahead.
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Clay Travis
Let's see. Oh, man. So many different ones of these. Let's go. A lot of people are saying they use coins for family fun. This is, for instance, what Justin from Arizona, kfyi Double D is saying.
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Buck Sexton
I think we should keep the coins. I'm with your producer. We have a thing we call the Family Fun Jar. So all of our loose change goes into there and when it fills up, we cash it in and go do something fun as a family.
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Clay Travis
That's a cool idea if you're regularly bringing cash into the house. Now, have you ever done that where you've.
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Buck Sexton
It is deeply satisfying. And I did this for many years. I had a, I had a change jar. I was, I had very little money and I was working for the government and I had a change jar and I would go to one of those like coin star or one of those Places. Because also, I remember I went once to a bank and they gave me the little like, Tootsie Roll things to wrap them up in. And I did the math on this in my head. I'm like, this is. I'm paying myself like $3 an hour in terms of coin rack.
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Clay Travis
Roll up all your coins.
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Buck Sexton
It was not good. So, yeah, coins are one of those things. But I've definitely gone out with a buddy of mine who used to do this too and like, get like a Chinese. All you can eat, you know, $17 with the coins you have together. It's. I would tell you it's very satisfying. Very satisfying.
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Clay Travis
I would say probably the most common is the going through. I think tolls now tend to also accept credit cards. But you know that feeling when you're driving and you're like, oh, I don't have much cash, and there's a toll coming up. Everything else, I don't, I don't think I've had very. I'm trying to think of the last time I had physical possessions of coins. I don't pay cash for anything. I, I don't. I'm trying to think, what's the last time you paid cash for something? Do you remember? I don't.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I'm trying to think. Actually, no, I. Oh, church.
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Clay Travis
I get cash at church. The, the, the donation in the.
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Buck Sexton
I actually have a, like, a little cash, like box that every Sunday I just go to for putting in the cash box at church. I think you can do a check. Like, I see. I'm not casting aspersions here. Okay. It's church. I see some of the older parishioners do checks. Yes. But to me, I'm like, I'd rather just give them a, you know, give them a bill. So that's the only place that I just realized this. I have cash on hand for church. And in case we get a delivery and I have to get. I also. Oh, tips for delivery guys. That's what it is.
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Clay Travis
Tips.
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Buck Sexton
Tips for delivery.
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Clay Travis
Tips for tips is the last time that I remember giving cash. It used to be when the boys were younger and we had regular babysitters, babysitters only dealt in cash. That was like, oh, and when I.
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Buck Sexton
Get my haircut business, when I get my.
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Clay Travis
When.
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Buck Sexton
When my Cuban Americans put on the Buena Visa social club, give me a tiny coffee and give me fancy haircut, I give those guys cash. So there's something.
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Clay Travis
I will also point this out. My wife just takes money out of my wallet and, and the kids do too, sometimes, because The I'm the only person in the house that actually has cash. So on the rare event when we need cash. But having said that, I don't remember the last time I got coined. Like, I do not have physically in my possession right now. I don't think I have any coins.
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Buck Sexton
You're like a time warp, man. You're sitting there with your actual newspaper made of paper with your dollar bills and your kids coming over borrowing 20s from you. You really, this is like 1998 over in the Travis household.
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Clay Travis
Well, why would you want to leave behind the greatest year that has ever existed in the history of the world? I'd like to go back to 1998.
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Buck Sexton
The late 90s were a great time in America. I will agree with that. I can't. I cannot tell a lie. It's very important.
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Clay Travis
Clay Travis with the Clay and Buck show. Wishing you and your family a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year Sunday sizzle with Clay and Buck.
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Buck Sexton
Clay ll. I think this whole conversation about Clay not carrying cash is his justification for not paying his sports bets to Sean Hannity. Clay, you owe Hannity money. You owe Hannity sports bet money.
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Clay Travis
I've lost every bet to Hannity and he's been talking about it lately. And I saw him in person on Thursday and I was just like, man, I didn't get a chance. I haven't been to the atm. So, you know, Sean left, left your.
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Buck Sexton
Wallet in your other suit jacket. Is that where we are, Clay?
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Clay Travis
I had the tux on. I had the tux on at the Patriot Awards. I'm not usually having the wallet in the tux pants. And so it's just tough timing for me. And yeah, that is, that is very, very funny. A lot of great reactions, by the way, pouring in on many different topics out there, including all of you people who love change, pocket change, all of you men out there with £10 of pocket change in one of your pockets, pulling down your pants. That's why you have to wear a belt buckle, because the change is just overloading your. Your pants, otherwise dragging you down. And let's see, I want to catch up with all of these. You know, I will say I was reading an article. The original silver buck in the, in the coins, I believe stopped around 1960. And so an average quarter and half dollar I think is now worth if it's pre 1960, because we've seen precious metals prices go up to such an extent. I think if you find a half dollar or a quarter quarter that is full silver, they're now actually worth over $3 each. And I don't want you to look to me to be your precious metals expert so you can do your own research. But they stopped making 100 silver coins. I believe it was sometime around 1960. And if you find them from before, they're actually worth way more than the face value of the coin. To try to win back coin aficionados out there.
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Buck Sexton
Well, you know, in ancient Rome they did this. They had initially in their coinage. Early Roman coins had silver. They were silver. They were made of silver. And almost entirely and then over time they started the debasement of their own coinage by putting less and less silver in the coins.
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Clay Travis
Didn't that also contribute to insane rates of lead poisoning the way that they made the coins back in the day? I think I'm correct about that in terms of the impact of coinage. But yes, that is typically what happens is you're debasing on a face value level the substance under which your currency is based. Michigan Tim he says he's got a coin operated laundromat. Imagine the amount of coins he's collecting on a daily basis.
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Buck Sexton
Gigi I own a coin operated laundromat. I sure hope they don't get rid of quarters.
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Clay Travis
Well look, they're not going to get rid of them. The question is and this topic came up because they are finishing the production of pennies. So pennies will continue to circulate. There just won't be new ones coming into the the overall coin release. And the reality is most people are still going to keep losing pennies in their couch cushions and eventually they will all vanish. But that's where they will be.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Pressure is coming down. Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainer games.com this.
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