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Buck Sexton
I feel like sometimes being broke is.
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Buck Sexton
Third hour of play and buck kicks off now. Everybody, thank you for being here. Immigration, big issue, very important. Illegal immigration and legal immigration. Actually, conversations to be had about all of this right now given the Trump agenda. The border, as he had mentioned just a little while ago with the Saudi crown prince in the Oval Office, border is very secure. I don't know if it's the most secure. You know, they got a pretty secure border between north and South Korea. But, you know, I get his point. It's a very secure border now. And compared to what it was, it's a remarkable transformation. And we should never lose sight of the fact that a secure border was always possible. But the Democrats didn't want it and in fact chose to make it insecure, wide open. In fact, that is what occurred. And Trump has proven that in very short, very short order, within a few months of taking office, it all changed. And so all those reporters, all those Democrats who pretended under Biden's wide open border policies that it was just beyond the capabilities of the United States government to do something about it. They were lying to you. They were lying to you. Please do not forget that, because there's a lot of work to be done still on immigration, the H1B issue, which is about reforming a legal component of immigration. But let's still stay focused here for a bit on the illegal immigration issue. We had around 10 million. We don't even know the exact number. We don't know how many came in under Biden, and we don't know how many are here total. Nobody does. And anyone who says otherwise, again, lying to you. So we had 10 million come in under Biden, which means there are legals in this country who have been here for a short period of time, completely unvetted, no idea who they are. And we, the American people, have had enough of this solid majority of Americans want illegals who came here under Biden to be sent back to their home country, which is a com. This is a just outcome. We're not, we're not arguing in favor of solitary confinement for 10 years for every legal came here. I understand a vast majority of them, not bad people at all. They, they want a better life for themselves and their kids. I bear for those illegals. I don't bear them any ill will. But they aren't allowed to stay here. This is a different thing. I don't have a problem with them as individuals, as human beings. And I saw what the Catholic Conference of Bishops and you know, I'm trying to be more active in my Catholic faith in last couple of years. Well, obviously coinciding as well with my son's birth, I think it's very important that he grow up in a household that at some level is practicing its Christian faith. Not just believing and not just knowing, but active in our church, in the Catholic Church, at least in a Christian faith at a minimum. I saw what the Catholic bishops put out there and it's just. Yeah, I won't get into this now other than. I think there's a lot, a lot of work to be done inside the Catholic Church and the way that it has been brought so far to the left. These bishops have nothing to say about abortion everywhere at all times on demand in blue states and abortion and pro abortion politicians and the pro trans agenda politicians and for trans kids, all this, nothing to say about that, Only open borders. This is when, this is when it's too far for them. Very frustrating, Very frustrating because in a modern American society, as we in our modern American society, presence equals the state, giving them things that they take from Americans that are rightfully, that rightfully belong to Americans and that are taken from us under the threat of force. If I don't pay my taxes, in fact, if I don't, even if I don't pay my taxes, I go to prison. If I don't pay my health care premiums, I don't have access to private health care and I'm paying for all the emergency room visits with my tax dollars for all these illegals they're taking from. There's a. There's a theft that occurs. A theft is occurring on a massive scale by the presence of these illegals. And it is a theft that people need to understand in the most clear terms and that this must be addressed by the administration. In fact, JD Vance, this is cut 12. So this ties into a lot, ties into the jobs Issue ties into the tax issue, ties into the housing issue. And here is J.D. vance on the issue of home affordability and illegals play 12. A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking housing that ought, by right go to American citizens. And at the same time, we weren't building enough new houses to begin with, even for the population that we had. So what we're doing is trying to make it easier to build houses, trying to make it easier to build factories and things like that so that people have good jobs. We're also getting all of those illegal aliens out of our country. And you're already seeing it start to pay some dividends. No matter what Democrats say, no matter what these civilization undermining Pro illegal alien NGOs do and say supply and demand is a real thing. It's a real thing. When it comes to the labor market, it's a real thing. When it comes to the housing market, it's always real, it's always operating. It's just a question of how much state interference is there, how much, how much subterfuge is there in the market. But people need places to live, they need to pay for them. The prices are being set. And in this case here, let me get, let me give you just a particularly clear example. And this is short term housing, hotels, New York City. I'm going to be visiting my family next week in New York. It has not. People keep. I've even had people say to me like, has Mamdani ruined it yet? I'm like, well, he's not mayor yet. So we, we gotta, we gotta take a moment. You know, he comes mayor, I think a little later. But here we have New York City with its housing prices and its, which are sky high, but also. Which is how mom, Donnie of course rode this issue into the mayor's office. But then you have, on top of that, the hotels in New York City hotels are, are wildly expensive. And I know this because I'm looking at the hotel bills for next week and I'm going, oh my gosh, hotels are wildly expensive in New York. It was the case. I'm not sure what it is right now, but in last few years that migrants at taxpayer expense were, were taking up 20%. 20, 20 to 25%, I think it was, of the hotel rooms in the five boroughs of New York City, that's a huge portion of it. When you take 25% off the table. For those of us who are not government subsidized and not having someone else pay for it, what happens? Price goes up. More people want the same amount of goods that are there. The price goes up. So if that applies in New York City, and it most certainly does. The same way that the 30% of illegals using all hotel. I'm sorry, all er, visits. Right. The same way that those individuals create longer waits and more expensive care for everybody else. Supply and demand. There's always a cost. There is no free lunch. I mean, some people have a free lunch, but it's not free for everybody. Right? Somebody else is paying for that lunch. That's why there can't be a free lunch. Someone's paying and it's you. And many of us have become tired of how much of that is going on when it comes to illegal aliens in the millions in this country. And there's also the issue of when do we have too many illegals and when do we have too many recent arrivals for assimilation to function the way that it needs to in any society? Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida. And it's not just because I live here. Look, Governor DeSantis is a big part of why I moved here, because of what he was doing in this state. He, I think, is the best governor still in America. I'd never experienced this before, and I joke around with my family members about this. I used to just always have to tell myself, I lived in New York, all right, you know, the political leadership, although there were some good mayors. There were some good mayors, but at the state level, a lot, a lot of bozo, a lot of dumb stuff being done, I thought, all right, well, I still love New York, even if the leadership is dumb. Now I'm in Florida and I get to say, wow, this is a great state. I'm really enjoying my life here. And the leadership does smart things that they should do and they even think of smart things to do that I hadn't thought of. That's what it is to be in a state with intelligent, conservative, realistic, sane governance. Now, you know, some of you really like Texas. You really like Tennessee. You really like whatever in red state. Governor, you have some of you in Utah. Well, I've heard it. I've heard. I've heard some mixed reviews about how you feel about your state governance. You love your state. But I've heard. I'm just saying we have a huge Salt Lake City audience. I was out in Utah not long ago and I heard, you know, you love Utah, but the Utah leadership, I hear some things a Little mixed. A little mixed review. But DeSantis weighed in on the illegal immigrant issue, and here he is, and he's just saying something that needs to be said. It is possible to take in too many foreigners too quickly, and we need to be realistic about that as a country. Because at some level, a country is an idea. It is lines on a map that only can exist because there is a sense of a political nation, family of people, a bond that exists between us as Americans. It's a very complicated, really interesting thing, isn't it, the notion of this nation state, of this American family that you and I, you know, you may have grown up in Washington state, or you may have grown up in Colorado, and I grew up in New York City, and that there's something that holds us. There are things that hold us together. We have all this shared belief, all this shared sense of destiny and purpose as Americans. We have to protect that and preserve that. It isn't just a guarantee. In fact, countries fall apart. They have civil wars, they have secession movements, they have breakages in that polity the Greeks would have called it right in that political family. And Ron DeSantis says, look, what if you bring 10 million people into. 10 million people from Somalia into Georgia? Would that be a good idea? Blake, cut 11.
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Eric Trump
You have some strain on the right.
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Buck Sexton
It's no, no, no. Illegal. Illegal immigration is bad. Legal immigration, no matter what, is good. And wait a minute now, I'm not.
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Eric Trump
Saying any of it's that it's all.
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Buck Sexton
Bad or what, but is bringing 10 million people from, like Somalia and dumping them into Georgia, is that good because it's legal? I think you have to think critically about what are we doing with an immigration policy, and is it benefiting the American people? Is it helping to promote a strong American culture? We should never bring people into this country who hate America. We have to be smart. It's lazy thinking to say anything that's legal must necessarily be good, critical. And this is the next level of this discussion. This is where this is all going now. It's not just illegal immigration that needs a good long look. We've had a lot of legal immigration. We've changed this country faster with foreigners than at any time in our history, more than the Ellis island era, more than the period of the. Of the settlers, more than any time, okay? We have had massive transformation. Now, a lot of them, a lot of people come here, become great Americans. I live here in South Florida, and it's funny because I, through my study of authoritarianism and communism, specifically, I Just have this inherent fondness and kinship with Venezuelan Americans and Cuban Americans who are right wing and hate communism. Like, we just have. I just have this bond. They think how I think, and we. So yes, it can work and it's a beautiful thing and it is part of the story of America. And I get all of that. But there has to be a real conversation about have we done too much of this thing? You know, you drink too much water, you die. You know that that's a truth. That's a real thing. You can actually die. You need water to live. Water is not bad. Too much water too fast, guys. I think it's called like hyponatremia or something. Check me on this one. But it's when you, you, you get the sodium levels get thrown off. It happens to elite athletes sometimes in like super marathons or ultramarathons. You could. Water can kill you if there's too much of it. Drinking it, I mean, obviously you can drown in it. But drinking too much water, it is possible to have too much of what is otherwise a good thing or a valid thing. Have we had too much legal immigration too quickly in this country? This is not to disparage anyone who's come here legally. We love our American legal immigrants and, you know, but the number's gotten really big and we do have to draw a line somewhere. And maybe it's time to like, you know, cozy up with our fellow Americans for a while here and have some continuity, some. Some sense of assimilation, some sense of our shared Americanness, some. That. That is a. Because if you look at previous periods of migration to America, there was a surge and then things calmed down for a while and we let things settle. There was a surge and then we get. It is only in this era where we've done just blown the hinges off the doors. Everyone's coming. Everyone's coming illegally. You know, it's a free for all. And it's supposed to continue this way in perpetuity. Ron knows. Ron DeSantis, the governor knows. That's crazy. No country can be the country it is if it continues in this way. That's what I think. All right, look, the mess that is Russia's invasion and near constant bombing of parts of Ukraine continues. Lost in all the war posturing and politics of stories of innocent civilians and the hardships that they're facing. It's a country that the international fellowship of Christians and Jews are putting their focus on right now in the course of their work. The IFCJ came upon a 96 year old Holocaust survivor. Her name is Galena. She lived much of her life in the same village and understandably, it's not healthy. Today, like every day, she must decide whether to spend what little money she has on food, medication or heating through the ifcj and with the help of your donation, you can bring hope to those in need like Galena. Your gift of $25 provides a food box packed full of life saving essentials that will help feed an elderly Jew struggling to survive. Don't delay. Your gift today will give hope to Galena and many like her that are desperately in need. To rush your gift, call 888-488 IFCJ. That's 888-488-4325 or give online@ FellowshipGift.org that's FellowshipGift.org Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Mic drops that never sounded so good.
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Eric Trump
Well, last time you thought it was John Claude Van Damme, but it was Steven Skull. Now listen, we've come a long way since then. We were number one New York Times bestseller. We're number one every week on Amazon. We've done an unbelievable job. And this country is pissed off, my friend. I think you know that better than anybody. But this country is severely pissed off. And I think that's why, you know, it ran the charts as hard as it did and it's why it's doing as well as it is.
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Buck Sexton
I would tell you this, my friend. I think it was Clay who messed up Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal because I would never, never mess up our 80s action lore. That's a clay. That's a clay. I'm throwing clay right under the bus on this.
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Eric Trump
Throw clay under the bus. I'm pretty sure it was clay.
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Buck Sexton
I'm taking this whispering angel, chardonnay drinking, you know, fancy fellow, throwing him on the bus. Anyway, he sends his regards, by the way. He's on a, he's on a super secret mission which we will only be able to tell the audience about I think later on in the week. But he's abroad right now. But let me, let me just ask you about this because your dad today was president, United States was in the Oval Office with the Saudi crown prince. And the questions from the reporters, one in particular really intended to just be attacks, not even really questions, you know, very much in the when did you stop beating your wife? Category of questions. And President Trump had just had enough. I gotta say, I hear that. I see a lot of Other people hear that and they think, yeah, I actually don't think the President should sit there and just take abuse from journalists.
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Eric Trump
Well, listen, he's not good at taking abuse from journalists. And he's certainly at the point in his life where he doesn't need to. In fact, some of those interactions are some of the most comical interactions you'll ever see. And, you know, and the media always portrays themselves as jokers. They have this entire time. I mean, look at 60 Minutes, right? Look at Lesley Stahl. You know, my father goes out, they're spying on my campaign. They're not spying on your. And then, sure enough, guess what we find out that they're spying on the campaign. And look at, you know, CNN every single day and look at the questions that they ask. And every single time they ask a question, everything that my father says is proven to be correct. And yet they continue to go down these narratives, right? I mean, look at the New York Times with their Pulitzer Prizes for the Russia hoax. It was a hoax. They, you know, they let, they let it run for a three year period of time, and then it came out that was a hoax. They won't give back their Pulitzer Prizes, but yet they berated my father every single day. Look at all the sham indictments and trials in New York where every single day, you know, they said my father was going to jail. They said that, you know, he was good. He's the worst human. And guess what? Every single one of those lawsuits got overturned, right? Every single one of those indictments got overturned in the court system. And so the point of the narrative is our media in this country doesn't have a whole lot of credibility. The trust in our media in this country is single digits, right? No one likes them, no one trusts them. They normally conduct themselves like absolute fools. And it's why American people don't like them, don't watch them. And it's why independent voice like yours is doing so well.
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Buck Sexton
Well, you know, on this, on this issue of the, the critics of the administration or of your dad and the team he has around him in the Cabinet, it's pretty remarkable to me. You know, you, you run. You're the executive vice president of the Trump Organization. You've been operating in the world of international business dealings and at a scale with, you know, big dollar figures, a lot of employees, a lot of productivity, a lot of things going on. The voices that I hear attacking Trump from the left, the Democrat Party, attacking this administration on affordability, on things like housing, I just have to laugh. These people you know, this is the AOC Mamdani wing. They don't know a darn thing about how to build anything, what it costs, what it means to actually create product for people like homes to live in. And yet they're the experts on this. I mean, this strain of Mamdaniism, it's just got to drive you nuts as a, as part of a family of builders.
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Eric Trump
You know what drives me nuts is actually under Joe Biden, you had four years of 10% plus inflation in this country, right? That means every two by four at Home Depot is more expensive. I mean, housing prices literally doubled. And that's because of massive, massive inflation. Guess who that benefits? That doesn't benefit the lower and middle classes. That benefits people that have assets. And yet they're talking about affordability now. So you mean to tell me 10% compounded every single year? You remember energy prices, you know, buck. You remember the little stickers that said I did that and it's a picture of Joe Biden's face. And everybody was putting them on the gas prices, you know, gas pumps all over the country, right. When energy costs became some of the most expensive in history, when, you know, America stopped exporting energy, right? They became dependent on other countries for energy. Even though that we were totally energy sufficient under my father's first term and he gave it all away when he started banning the Keystone XL pipeline and so many other projects, right? Biden caused that problem. Biden caused the inflation. Look at inflation rates today under my father versus inflation rates under Joe Biden. It's laughable that anybody could say that the affordability crisis occurred under Donald Trump and not Joe Biden when you literally had the cost of everyday life go up a compounding 10% a year. It was over 40% over the four year period of time when nominal wages were increasing like 2% a year. Right? People are getting crammed down by, by 25, 30, 35% over that period of time where they were losing grounds. The cost of everything was going like this and obviously wage growth was, was virtually stagnant. I find it comical to say the least.
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Buck Sexton
Speaking of Eric Trump, number one New York Times bestseller Under Siege is his book, which I know so many of you have gotten copies of. But if you haven't, makes a great, great present for the holidays. Eric. You know, we're coming into the end of the year, holiday season and there's a lot of talk, like I said, about affordability and people are going to, I'm sure we're going to see the news Reports on Monday, Tuesday about the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner now versus obviously under Biden, the inflation for these dinners was, was tremendous. Now, Trump, your dad's bringing this stuff down, but what is your. You're having to operate in the private sector in ways that you have tremendous connectivity here at home and around the world. What's your look ahead for the 2026 economy here at home? What are some of the things that you think could really ignite the continuation of a lot of the growth and a lot of the good policy that we've seen? What are you looking at for 2026 when it comes to the costs of things, pocketbook issues, all that?
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Eric Trump
Buck, I've never been more bullish on the future of America. I mean, I mean, that's the. Sincerely, you know, if you look at what my father's doing on energy, right, he wants energy, he wants these smarts, he wants these nuclear reactors, right? He's, he's permitting them left and right. He's saying, drill, baby, drill. He wants to have the cheapest energy in the world. And why is that? Let me, let me just explain this to everybody. Energy costs are directly correlated to GB gdp. The lower your energy costs, generally speaking, the higher your GDP costs are. And you can track that for literally decades and decades around the world. You keep low energy costs, you're going to have high gdp. That's especially true when you have things like the crypto industries, the AI industries, industries that can transform, be transformational to an economy. Obviously, AI is that revolution. Crypto in terms of digital finance, is that revolution. Guess what they need? They need energy. So does manufacturing. It needs energy. We've got more energy under our feet than any country anywhere in the world. And we're finally exploiting that again, which is an amazing thing for the United States of America. That's what pulls costs down. You know, they say about 50 to 60% of all inflation is the cost of energy. Because for every egg, for every gallon of milk, for, you know, guess what you need to do? You need to transport that. And transporting costs are expensive. And that's all based, you know, on oil and gas and ultimately energy. So we're solving the energy. Second of all, look at bonus depreciation, right? So my father put in 100% bonus depreciation. It means that every person who reinvests their company, reinvest their business is able to write it off, you know, day one, year one. What that's going to do in terms of the contracting space? What's that to do with, in Terms of inward investing in companies in America is going to be transformational. Third of all, look at the, you know, the tax plan. The largest tax breaks in the history of our country were put in by. By my father, right? That's going to be revolutionary for American competitiveness around the world. You know, business owners. Fourth, look at the amount of inward investment that's coming into our country. And look at what Saudi Arabia is doing. Look at what all these countries are doing. Literally trillions of dollars at this point. Trillions and trillions of dollars are coming into the United States. And that's before you even get to, you know, he's going out to every country saying, listen, aside from the fact I want you to invest $2 trillion in the US or a trillion dollars or $800 billion, I want you to go out and I want you to buy 200 Boeing aircraft, right? I mean, he's literally saving industries by what he's. What he's doing. Then fifth, you look at, you know, the tariffs. The tariffs are working. It's hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars that are flowing back into this country based on tariffs, based on the fact that everybody wants to and needs to trade with the United States of America, which is by far the world's largest economy of 32, $33 trillion. And guess what he's doing on the opposite side? He's getting rid of all tariffs. He's getting rid of all duties, which is allowing Ford and allowing all the American companies to be able to export their product overseas. The point of this story is I've never been more bullish on the United States ever before. There's confidence in this country. There's respect around the world for the United States of America. Everybody wants to be part of the dollar. You see stable coins all around the world that are pegged to the US Dollar. Trillions of dollars are going to come into our economy based on stable coins, based on the growth of cryptocurrencies, which I believe in with every aspect of my heart and soul. Our economy is going to boom. Are you going to have volatility? Of course. You always have volatility in every economy. But I think you compare America to Europe. It's not even close. You compare America to just about any other region in the world, Buck. It's not even close. We're doing all the right things, and we're doing them quickly and smartly. And America is ultimately going to win because of it. And there's never been a time in my life where I've been more bullish on the United States of America.
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Buck Sexton
Eric Trump, everybody go get a copy of his book Under Siege. And Eric, thanks for coming by to hang out. Good to see you as always.
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Eric Trump
Thanks, Mark.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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Eric Trump
I don't know.
- [43:21]
Buck Sexton
It's top secret mission. Very exciting things going on. Top secret mission. Last time I did a top secret video, I guess it wasn't secret. But I went to Taiwan to meet with the President there and learn everything I could about the China Taiwan situation and US Relationship with Taiwan. Clay is also being an international man of mystery and that is all I'm allowed to say about it right now. We got to keep you on your toes. You know, we can't, we can't become these two predictable guys walking around with our New Balance sneakers, our cargo shorts, our fanny packs and our dad sunglasses on. You know, we got to keep you guys guessing a little bit. So. Yeah, but he'll be back definitely Monday, if not Friday and so it'll be me tomorrow and Thursday for sure. So send us a lot. I love talkbacks. Send us your talkbacks if you didn't get a chance already. We'll rack and stack them in the next couple of days and we've got some here to get to. Randy, who is Randy from Tucson, Arizona. Play cc. Hi guys. It's Randy and Tucson. Yeah. About approaching the opposite sex. I always taught my daughter and my son, my daughter, if a guy asks you to dance, you can dance. One dance.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
I didn't ask you to dance. I said you look bad in those pants. I think that's fair. I like the, the twist at the end there. I didn't see that one coming. Look, it's true that if you, if you, if you approach as this is for the guys. I know women can approach men too. I know, and you know, that's fine. But generally guys approach women first and not enough guys are approaching women in person is a big problem that is being talked about these days because it's all online now. Everything is sorted and algorithm and that's where things go. But if you approach, if you're a guy out there and you approach a woman and you are polite and respectful, you know, you can make a joke and you can be a little, you know, you can try to instigate a conversation. I'm not saying you have to say, may I meet you? I would not recommend that unless you say it like that. But if she is, if she's nasty in response, because clearly what you're saying as a guy is, I think you are pretty and I would like to talk to you, right? It's very straightforward. Like, here I am, I'm a guy. I like way. I like the way you look. If a guy, if a woman cannot be at least kind, doesn't mean she has to say yes and engage, but she can't at least be respectful and kind in that exchange, you as the guy just dodged a bullet that you're not wasting time with her, because it will. It does not get better. It does not get better. Cruelty and indifference to other people's feelings, if you see that is really the biggest of red flags in a lot of ways. And so if someone's nasty to you or puts you down because you just wanted to talk to them, you've. You've think of it like you've dodged a bullet. You're lucky, you know, you're lucky that she showed you who she really was and what you're really dealing with. EE another. We got a lot of women calling in, not giving their names, but wanting to weigh in on this. From Stamford, Connecticut, a W O R listener. Play it. Regarding your story about pickup lines. 20 years ago I had someone approach me in a bar and say, all my friends want to date women that look like Playboy models, but I'd rather date someone who looks like you.
- [46:47]
Eric Trump
It was such a horrible line that.
- [46:49]
Buck Sexton
I laughed and I ended up going on a date with them.
- [46:51]
Rodney Williams
So I think he was actually being his genuine self.
- [46:54]
Buck Sexton
I don't think it was a pickup line, but anyway, he got a date out of it. Well, that's nice. You know, you gave him a. You gave him a shot. I don't think I would necessarily go with that line, but it is, it is. So it's in the maybe it's so bad, it's almost good category. So. And you gave him some credit. It didn't sound like. I feel as though if you had actually married that guy or something, you would. You would have said so. So it sounds like he got one date out of it. Not bad. All right. The breaking news, I might add, is that the House has voted just now, just a few moments ago, to force the release of the Epstein files. So. And now the bill is going to go to the Senate side. The Bill was passed 427 to 1. The only no vote was Representative Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican. Okay. He's the one guy. 427 to 1 to release the Epstein file. So now it goes to the Senate. I think this is gonna go. I think this is going through. Trump says he wants it to go through. So who wants to be on the Senate side blocking this? But we'll see. So you may get some real Epstein transparency. Additional transparency here. I'm in favor of the transparency. They should have done this before. I don't think there will be any bombshells in it. Just. It doesn't matter what I think. Let's see. Right. But I'm just telling you, I'm trying to prep you for this. I don't think there's going to be any bombshells in it, but we'll. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. As Trump would say. We're looking at it. We're looking at it. So, Dennis, talkbacks and emails. We'll get to more of them tomorrow. You're all fantastic. I appreciate. Appreciate you hanging out with me today. And it'll be the buckster along with you tomorrow. And until then.
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Rodney Williams
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Travis Holloway
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