March 2, 2022 • 37 mins
Longtime TV personality Dr. Oz joins Clay and Buck to explain the reasons he's running for Senate in Pennsylvania. DeSantis tells group of kids they can take off their masks. Clay's floored to learn Buck never filled out a March Madness bracket. Biden suddenly claims he cares about the border. Where's tiny Fauci? C&B in Houston this weekend. Masks on planes are stupid. Why is it still happening?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. We are here in the third hour
of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Everybody appreciate
you spending the time with us, and I want to
get right into it now with someone I'm sure many
of you are quite familiar with. Doctor Oz is with us.
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Is running right now in the great data Pennsylvania for Senate.
He's a Republican candidate in that state, and you all
know him from TV and being a doctor and all
that good stuff. Doctor Oz, thanks for being with us.
Blessing be with you. My brothers in law are avid listeners,
so I get to show off to them today, which
is hard to do in our family. That's fantastic. They
clearly have very good taste, Doc, So tell us why.
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I mean, for a lot of folks, the most basic
question before they're running for anything is the is the why.
But you know you're a you're a celebrity, you're a doctor,
and also you're a doctor who plays one on TV
two Because you are one, why are you getting involved
in this to any days looking around at the walls
and wondering whether musty cameras watching meet the countries in
such a crisis and no one seems to really be
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addressing elements of it, and especially got bad during COVID.
I'd noticed it before, but since I knew medicine well,
I could see mistakes made that were absolutely intolerable and
yet restifled discussion. People who had better ideas were not
given the opportunity to speaks. One of the reasons I've
asked for doctor Fauci to resign challenge them to a debate.
I think that his desire to be the one and
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only solution for everything COVID has led to him helping
cancel physicians, Nobel laureates, doctors and scientists who had ideas
that I think could have contributed and ease the pain
of so many during COVID. I also witnessed firsthand errors
in how we've managed the pandemic with regard the mandates,
where we took a meat cleaver to American civil liberties
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and our ability to actually be independent and individualism should
drive those decisions, not government, top down authoritary endings. Doctor.
I was appreciate you coming on with us. I'm curious
what you think when you see on Monday Joe Biden
walking wearing a huge mask as he crosses the White
House lawn. And then last night during the State of
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the Union, there's basically no mask to be seen. He's
shaking hands, he's headbutting people. Believe it or not, it's
such a bastardization. I would imagine of the science argument
to have one day a guy walking around outdoors with
a mask. On the next day he's hugging and shaking
hands and everything else. How frustrating is that to see
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as a doctor and recognize how poor of a job
in many ways our government has done explaining risk analysis
and COVID. You know what's shocking to me is they,
with the hypocritical tone, say we're following the science, and
what they're really doing is following the political science. This
is all theater. It has been theater for quite a while.
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We see that we get red states versus blue states
and their outcomes. But over the past two months has
been as slow easing of these mandates in blue states,
and especially for the last few weeks because they realized
people have had it. I mean, you can only be
dishonest to a certain degree, and people even in your
own party begin to revolt. And what you're describing as
a classic example of leaders who are making draconian decisions
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about what people should suffer through, but not living through
those same restrictions themselves. Restated people with big backyards told
people with no backyards early in the pandemic to stay indoors,
and that's exactly where the virus was so literally, not
only were these authoritarian moves harmful indirectly because they leaded
deaths of despair, but they were directly harmful. They didn't
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help us. They actually made things worse. And you can
most clearly see this with kids. What society, what self
respecting people use their children as shields. We closed our
schools down and never opened them in many parts of
the country for such a long period that we may
have caused irreparable harm to those kids. Yet early on
I said, gee, Europeans, they're keeping their schools open. They
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love their kids more than we love our kids. What's
going on here? And I think those are the kinds
of decisions once made, they were unwilling to backtrack on,
and then it's evolved into this. You know, I believe
in science maneuvering, which is just first of all, I
believe in God, right science is a tool. I'm a scientist,
a doctor. I use science to help save lives. But
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it's something that's supposed to be challenged, supposed to be
improved on, and we did not allow that to happen.
And COPE is just an example the same maneuvering, the
same approach has been going on for quite a while.
I lived through it on my show. I would take
on government issues frequently and get beaten back, at least
they try to, and I'd be a you know, at
porcupine about these issues. Continue to strike back until we
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finally get the truth out there. But forget about COVID
for a second. What's happening an energy policy which directly
led what's happening in the Ukraine. What's happening in our
school system where we don't let parents and at least
their values get with the kids. Well, you know, our
teachers are indoctrinating our kids with guys that don't agree
with ours. We see this at the border when you
have false narratives and the true story of a cartel
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run human trafficking operation doesn't actually reach the front pages.
These are the kinds of things that bother us. And
I'll end with China, because the real existential threat here
is China. They eat our lugs, they steal from us,
take advantage of us, They cheated everything. And they're watching
Putin very carefully and gee saying I can't believe Putin
got away with this much. Already, as horrible as it is,
he's thinking, well, maybe I'll do the same thing with Taiwan.
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Ten percent of the world semiconductors, eighty five percent of
the high quality ones, all of it at risk because
they see us as weak. We're speaking of Mathmet Jengi's Oz,
doctor as I hope I got that almost correct. Doctor Oz,
as you all know him from TV. He's a surgeon,
healthcare advocate and running for Senate in Pennsylvania. He's in
the Republican primary right now. So with that in mind,
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doctor Oz, how would you describe your political philosophy? Are
you a Concernvai? Have you always been? Are you a
more recent convert? I mean, what should people know about
what your core, what your foundation of politics is. I'm
a conservative Republican, always have been. When I was eight
years of age, my father, who was an immigrant who
came here legally because the United States was recruiting physicians
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told me we were Republicans, and I I asked them why,
and he says, because they have better ideas the realities
of life a Republican. So my first election was the
nineteen eighty for Ronald Reagan, who I've voted for, and
I'm proud to have voted for Republicans, and I believed
the Republican Party represents what conservative thought could be. Not
all Republicans are conservative, but I am. And I feel
strongly that the issues that galvanize me, and you know,
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I'm pro life, pro Second Amendment in a big way.
Every law abiding American citizen order to be allowed to
own a farm arm of their choice. These are all
issues that are important here in Pennsylvania. And if you
take it to the next step, what I really want
to do is protect my children and your children. It's
one of the reasons I decided to close the show,
by the way I burned the votes. Right, when when
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you go into politics, you have you're hosting a syndicated
network television show. You're not allowed to air that show
because it's unfair because you're everywhere. And so I shut
the show down, shut the magazine down, did all the
things that I thought was right because I feel so
passionately about this, and as a conservative, I know that
some of the mistakes we've made our affect you are
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kids in ways that will be more difficult to improve
because if the kids are taught to be Marxists, then
they're not going to understand the very foundations of what
conservatism represents. You mentioned that show. I'm kind of curious
about this. How much money did you walk away from?
I like to burn the boat's analogy. How much money
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did you walk away from to run for political office
where obviously, unless you're Joe Biden's family, you don't typically
get super wealthy from it already, but you had to
have a highly successful show. I'm just really intrigued by
a decision like that because you're turning away probably tens
of millions of dollars to be able to run for
a political office. That's the exact amount I walked away
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from it, and so I've been blessed. Yeah, I mean
that's a really interesting discussion, right, because there's a lot
of people out there. You were saying, Hey, I can
make tens of millions of dollars, but I care so
much about these issues that I'm willing to walk away
from that money. You know how deflating it is to
sit in your safe little studio air condition, lots of
people pampering you, or in the operating room because I
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still take care of patience and you know it's pretty
safe there. If you're not the patience and witness your
country falling apart. What's the point of making a couple
of extra zeros of money when what has allowed my
family to thrive and prosper, which is the generosity, wisdom
and strength of America, is being torn down, torn asunder
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because people feel we are so irredeemably stained that the
only way to fix us is to break us asunder
in the little pieces and then rebuild us with their
toxic ideology. And I refuse to stand by and watch
that happen. And it's okay if it doesn't work out,
you know when, hopefully years from now, I try to
live a healthy, healthy lifestyle, even on the campaign trail
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and diner food. Years from now, when I passed away
on my headstone, I wanted to read heart surgeon keb Host.
If it happens to say, Senator, that's great too. I
don't intend to go there and live and washing the
rest of my life. I'm trying to do an intervention
to help doctor Oz. I should have probably asked you
at the top, given the news cycle right now, if
you had a chance to watch some are all the
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State of the Union address, and what you're feeling is
as somebody who wants to get into this fight about
the current White House and the regime that's been calling
the shots the last year and a year or so.
I was not impressed by the State of the Union.
Of course they watched it. I watched the Republican response
as well. It's disappointing that Joe Biden painted a vastly
different picture of his first year in office than the
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disastrous being experienced by the vast majority of Americans. You go,
I do these big town halls here in Pennsylvania. No
one here thinks that's what's going on. We're worried about
the record inflation we're experiencing. Gas prices obviously an eight
year high. I did a TikTok video, by the way,
on gas prices. They got two million views. Almost immediately
TikTok took it down, which again is part of the century,
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and that bothers me so much. I put it back
up again because I got thirteen million people on social media,
so I went to say, well why they taking it down? Now?
It has stead and a half million views. But why
would I not be able to mention the reality of
what the average American is suffering through right now? And
these are issues that are addressable. Our energy policy makes
zero sense if especially if you look at the Ukraine.
We should be Joe Biden yesterday and State of Union
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should have designated key oil and gas projects in our
country to be critical infrastructure for national security, and then
they do everything to protect those those efforts, because right now,
no one's going to get to natural gas out from
under my feet in Pennsylvania, although we could power the
whole country for a century and ship it to our
European allies to free them from the yoke of Russia.
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Doctor Oz, do you think that Oprah would vote for
you if she were living in Pennsylvania. I don't know
she's you know, I talked to her before I ran,
I just inform her. I asked her not to get
involved because it's the right thing to do, and she agreed.
So I have no idea. I think she'd have to
like everybody else in Pennsylvania way what I'm saying, compared
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to everybody else, and make the best choice of her ability.
But the one thing I'm sure is that she would vote.
The other thing I was going to say about that
is you came. We talked a little bit about you
coming out of the television studio and running for political office.
You're a beloved guy, you know, when you're the doctor
who's trying to get everybody to be healthy. I mentioned Oprah,
You have a great relationship with them. You mentioned the
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millions of followers you have. And then you step into
a fray where people start throwing punches at you. How
much different does that feel than what you were doing beforehand,
where you're sort of a non ideological doctor figure who
everybody kind of responds to in a favorable way. And
then you step in and you start get taking swings
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and arrows, so to speak. How has that been an
adjustment for you? You know it's going to surprise you.
It's a very cathartic process. You don't have to pretend
that you're and you know, refrain from saying things because
you know people are going to get all upset about it.
You can say exactly what you're thinking, because people are
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going to vote based on that, and you are the
person you are, So for me, it's been incredibly freeing.
I love my show, I love talking about health. But
when I got frustrated about, for example, what I thought
she was doing leading our public health response, I tried
to say things. But after a while, people you know,
they don't want you saying those things, and you've got
incredible pressures to make sure you stay within a little
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cordant limit, which is why I know what it's like
for corporate America right now. They don't want to get involved.
I'm here to say you have to get involved, be
a patriot, stand up with what you know is right.
Say what you see at these town halls. That's my
one plea. I think you'd vote for me if you
came and listen, because if you heard me speak, you'd
want to be part of our campaign effort. But no
matter what, just say what you're seeing, because if you
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don't and no one else does, we're gonna believe all
this woke ideology that's suffocating our brains. Doctor oz dot com.
Doctor oz is running for the Senate, Folks in Pennsylvania.
Doctor Oz appreciate it, sir, thanks so much. Thanks for
making me a hero to my brothers in law, Gotlis,
thank them for listening for us. Thank you. All right,
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Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us,
doctor os. Pretty good job there. That's going to be
a battle royale in the state of Pennsylvania. I think
their Democrat side also has got a ton of different
people running Republican side as well, where I don't think
it's going to be about a royal State of Florida.
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Buck and I are going to be down in the
state of Texas tomorrow, but we have been both of
us a lot of time in the state of Florida.
Ronda Santis obviously running for reelection, and he was showing
up for an event at USF the University of South
Florida down in the Tampa area and there were kids
waiting behind him who were wearing masks. And this is
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not even as the event is beginning. This is as
Ron de Santis is walking up off the mic talking
to the kids all with masks on behind them. Listen
to this. You do not have to wear those masks.
I mean, please take Honestly, it's not doing anything and
we got to stop with this covies theater. So you
want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous. This
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is the exactly correct at two mask wearing. Now take
the dumb masks off. Kids, adults, seniors, everybody. Take them off.
If you insist on wearing them. It's one thing. I mean, Clay,
I'm getting we're going down to Houston. I know, I've
never been to Houston before. We'll talk. Oh it's a
great town. I think you're gonna have a good time.
I've spent a lot of time in Dallas, and when
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I tell Houstonians that, they're like, well, want to tell
there's a big rivalry, big rivalry between Houston and Dallas.
Why don't you come to the best city in Texas
instead of And I'm like, oh, look, I don't even
you know. I'll see, we'll see who has the best barbecue.
We'll see about this rodeo this weekend. So but anyway,
the reality here is you have people we're gonna I'm
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gonna be on a plane. You're gonna be in a
plane too. We're gonna be masking up on that plane.
Unfortunate a single person on the planet would win a
debate with me or you about how stupid it is
to mask up on planes, not one, because it is
demonstrably idiotic. Well, I think it's also demonstrably an incredibly
difficult argument to even make. If you watch the State
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of the Union last night, even Democrats inside of an
enclosed building, even old Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden,
who are by far under the greatest risk from COVID,
we're not wearing masks. So how can you have watched
last night's State of the Union and in any way
argue that you need to have a mask on for
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an airplane flight. There's no argument at all. And I
wished that Joe Biden was going to make that announcement
last night if he had wanted to actually make news.
He didn't really make any news with any of the
pronouncements from his state of the Union address. He could
have said, hey, and I'm telling the CDC that it's
time to go do away with the mask mandate. I
don't know when is it up again, like March fifteenth
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or March eighteenth or something. I believe I'm not mistaken.
I don't know how they can justify extending it at
this point in time when all fifty states, even Hawaii
has now done away with their mask requirements to enter
that island state masking is pure political tribalism at this point,
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Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
We moved into the month of March. When's the last
time you filled out a bracket for the NC double
A tournament. I've never even know what I'm talking about,
never filled out a bracket. You've never filled out an
NC doable A tournament bracket. No, not even when you
were a kid. No, it's rare that mine. I wish
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there was video of my jaw just dropping like this.
I would I would bet ninety seven percent, ninety eight
percent of our audience has filled out an NC double
A tournament bracket at some point, even if it's just, hey,
here's a ten dollars you know, here's a bracket, go
fill it out. Ten dollar challenge at your place of work.
(19:50):
Maybe when you were a kid in school. I don't know.
When I was a kid, teachers we used to fill
out the brackets and if you won, you got like
a pizza gift certificate or something. I I am legitimately
in disbelief that you've never filled out an NC double
A bracket. I mean, I think it's just not as
common in the Northeast because we don't have a huge
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NC double A March madness. I'm not I'm not gonna
let you go. I went to school in the Northeast.
Every kid I knew was doing Brackett Challenge. They're all
in the mid Atlantic, sir. It's all I went to
George Washington. People who don't know it's all Northeastern kids.
It's all Long Island kids, all Philly kids. Uh. Yes,
they have like geographic diversity now a little bit more,
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but it's a very Northeastern school. This will not be
news to the audience that Buck is a strange duck.
So here we go. I just I am in Where's Ali?
Has everybody else on the show? Surely even and you
guys all, I'm asking everybody. Oh we got I got
both of our producers here in New York, Mojo and Mike.
I mean, I'm sure producer Mark, who's who loves sports
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has probably filled out brackets every year since he could write.
Both are producers here. They've never filled it out. Both
of them never filled it out. They just told me
right here, right now, Mojo and Mike, no brackets. I am,
I am, I am the reason I was just bringing
this up because we're now into March, and March madness
is basically our unifying symbol of excellence for everywhere, but
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this studio evidently where the majority of people have never
filled out brackets. Hey, here's what I want you to do.
If you are as stunned by this revelation as I am,
just tag at Buck Sexton, at Clay Travis on Twitter
and let me know because I feel like I'm in disbolt.
I can't even conceptually my kids, my seven year old
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is already filled out a bracket. I mean, their dad
did found a sports network to be Fair Sports Media company.
That's true. They're probably on the high end percentile for
sports knowledge based on young kids. But all right, so
we're gonna have to come back to this. The reason
I was gonna bring it up is I am booked
to be out in Vegas, which is one of the
great experiences is of being a sports fan, the opening
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weekend of the NC Double A tournament in Vegas, and
I was just thinking about that as we came back
from March Madness, and and I just am still floored
that you've never filled out of brackets. So I'm gonna
have to explore this in further detail. In fact, thousands
of you, according to what I've heard, are going to
be at our event in Houston. I want all of
you to come up who were listening right now in
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Houston and let Buck know if you are as stunned
as I am that he has never filled out a
bracket challenge. I don't even remember what were we planning
on talking about. Otherwise, I was going to bring us
in and we were going to talk about the border.
The border we're going down to. Yes, the the important thing, Claire,
not the brackets. I bet most of the border agents
down there by the way, I bet some of the
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illegal immigrants have even filled out bracket challenges before I
will tell you that we're gonna be down in Houston,
which is closer to the border than where both of
us are right now. And I'm sure that there were
many things that stunned a lot of you who watched
the State of the Union address, but Joe Biden's suddenly
coming out in favor of border security was one of
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the more jaw dropping nowhere near as much jaw dropping
as Buck not finishing out a bracket, but one of
the more drug jaw dropping revelations of the State of
the Union. Listen to this. If we're had to advanced
liberty injustice, we need to secure our border and fix
the immigration system. And as you might guess, I think
we can do both. Provide a pathway to citizen for Dreamers,
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those the temporary status, farm workers, essential work. The revis
are laws, so if business have workers they need the families,
don't wait decades or unite. It's not only the right
thing to do, it's economically smart thing to do. That's
why the immigration reform is supported by everyone from labor unions,
the religious leaders to the US Chamber of Commerce. Let's
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get it done once and for all. You know who
doesn't support immigration reform, and by that they always mean amnesty.
The American people, by solid majority whenever polled, they do
not support amnesty for illegal immigrants, certainly not in advance
of a truly secure border and a willingness to enforce
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the law in the interior of the US, not just
at the border. That's one of the biggest places the
Biden administration has broken down on this and purposefully so
the non enforcement in the US interior. They are literally,
as we all know, flying people to New York, Chicago,
other places across the country from the US Mexico border.
Illegal immigrants are being flown taxpairs on the hook for
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this all over the country, so every state effectively becomes
a border state in that situation. They do not enforce
in the US interior. You had one point six one
point seven million known. They keep calling them encounters clay.
That's a nice way of saying illegal crossings, because if
you show up at the Tijuana San Diego border with
a passport saying I want to come into America at
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the appropriate border station, that's not an accounter. They're not
accounting those they're counting people that are coming into the
country illegally. Biden speaking about securing the border is the
arsonists claiming to be a firefighter. I mean, this is outrageous,
this is absurd. His administration is openly in the policies
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they pursue open borders. Well, this is buck, if you
look at the data and trust the polling, basically the
weakest point for all Democrats, which is why when I
watched the State of the Union last night, I felt
like Biden was making a calculated attempt to repudiate the
left wing of his party. Now, I don't buy it.
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You don't buy it. I imagine most of our listeners
do not. But when he came out and he said
that he wanted to fund the police, not to defund
the police. When he tried to argue that COVID isn't
a part as an issue, even though by the way,
he's made it a total part as an issue, and
this maybe surprised me the most. Buck. In addition to
saying he was going to secure the border, you know
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what he didn't mention even one time. January sixth, he's
back on Capitol Hill. What if the Democrats spent a
year focusing on obsessively January sixth, the threat to our democracy.
Biden himself has made many speeches about this. He didn't
even mention it. Why was that, I think because the
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polling on January sixth is not good. Most regular people
out there are like, yeah, you know what, it was
a riot. We had an entire year of riots from
twenty twenty, this summer, all the way up through the election.
And we wish riots didn't happen whether you're a Democrat, Republican,
or an independent. But Democrats have wildly overplayed their hand
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in trying to argue this is an insurrection in that
the country was though was actually threatened by what happened
on that. That's true, and it's also true that Trump
is not, we know this for sure, is not going
to be on the ballot in the mid terms. Yes,
And if you're thinking about independence, if you're thinking about
who is going to show up and vote, people can
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figure out that when you're the party in power, you
have a majority in the House, you have a day
factor majority in the Senate, you have the White House.
President Biden, when you're trying to make it about someone
who no longer holds elected office, nor is running. It's pathetic,
it's too obvious. So at least for the midterms if
Trump runs again, obviously you're going to see a lot
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of January six talks from the Democrats, but going into
what are elections determining Congress, Senate obviously also a lot
of state state level elections too, to focus on the
insurrection and trump Ism is just effectively for anyone who
can see, who can read between the lines a little bit,
is just an admission that the the Democrats are not
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doing a good job and have no real plan or
policy to speak of. It's just what about Trump? What
about Trump when he's not even running? Doesn't work so well.
It's a tough sell. It is as well come back
close out the show Wednesday edition, get ready for our
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First hour, we had Lauren Bobert, congresswoman from Colorado, who've
got a lot of attention, a lot of heat, but
isn't backing down one inch in the aftermask of the
State of the Union addressed missed that. Go check it out.
Please subscribe to the podcast. Everyone's checking out those numbers,
and we hope to set new records this coming month,
so that will be fantastic if we do. And then
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I got a question for all of you, and that
is where is Tiny Fauci? Is he hiding in a
drawer somewhere at the CDC? Has he fallen into a
thimble and is now yelling out that everyone still needs
to be masking up? Why aren't you wearing masks? I'm
just wondering how it's possible that suddenly they announced this
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for the State of the Union, that all these mask
mandates are going away, and Little Fauci, the mask fundamentalist,
disappears somewhere. I mean, I know he's easy to lose
in a crowd, but where did he go? Clay, He's
been on every media outlet except this one for basically
two straight years. He'll go talk to anybody's podcast. I mean,
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this guy is the number one guest. He was on
basically every morning show. It feels like for the last
two years you haven't been able to escape him. He's
every time I look up, he's on CNN or MSNBC
telling you about how you're all gonna die and how
important it is for you to, you know, go get
your eighth booster. And all of a sudden, in what
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is fairly significant CDC activity starting on Friday, ending masking
and effectively last night's State of the Union, nobody's wearing
a mask. Every state, even including Hawaii, California, Washington, and Oregon,
states that had lost their minds, New York, New York City,
all these places doing away with their mask mandates. I
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saw where Philadelphias letting their kids now not have to
wear masks anymore. All these places, and Fauci isn't to
be heard from at all. And again, I don't know
who ordered the code read. I don't know who in
the Biden White House walked in and said, guys, our
polling numbers are absolutely atrocious, but somebody did, and that
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code read got ordered, and they basically kicked Fauci right
out of any media app appearances. And they since then
have totally pivoted in every direction. Buck. It is like
light switch, Like you know, you're sitting in darkness and
then they suddenly flipped a light on and they're pretending, oh, yeah,
well there's the science change, But it did it. They
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just recognized that they were getting crushed and they're terrified, running, scared,
and they changed everything overnight. I just would find it remarkable.
And there's a part of me as I will be
on a plane tonight because we are going to be
in Houston for the next few days and I'll be
We'll be at our KTRH, our great affiliate there, Clay
and Buck show number one of the market across all formats,
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and just you know, it's pretty nice. For the Houstonians
who are supporting us and listening, thank you so much.
We really do appreciate that. And for those will be
coming out, they'll be over a thousand folks Clay that'll
be hanging out with us. They'll be barbecue, live music.
We'll get on stage say a few things about crushing commies,
and then we'll be crushing some beers or in my case,
demo or something gluten free. Tequila. You'll be close to
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see tequila. Well, you know, I don't want to get
sloppy in front of our people. You know, the tequila
comes out and part I've bet a lot of our
people will be getting sloppy. There's a lot of reasons
for celebration in State of Texas, but I almost want
to get on the plane tonight and just I'm so
curious if the attitude, because it had been this militant,
how dare you pull your mask down on the plane.
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We're gonna kick you off the plane. We're gonna ban
you from flying this airline again. You almost wonder if
you got on you had your mask down. You're like,
are we really gonna do this? Guys? Are we really?
Mask mandates are gone everywhere? We're really gonna do this
thing on the plane where we have to have a
mask mandate? You know? They if if the airline attendant
I'm not supposed to say steward us anymore, right, if
the airline attendant came up to me and was like, look,
I know the rule is dumb, but I could get
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in trouble, so would you mind just pulling it up,
then I'd be like, we're making progress. I'm not sure though.
I think this is a little bit now like the
way it was on planes for a long time, with
a lot of First of all this stuff, would you
wear a seat belt? Oh my god, the chance of
you hitting your head on the ceiling from turbulence if
you don't have your seat belt on, is you know
this is like telling everybody to wear a helmet when
they're driving in a car. I mean, it could happen,
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but anyway, a lot of stupid rules. You also don't
recognize if you have your seat belt on on an airplane, right,
it's impossible not to know you have a mask on,
Like the seat belt is rare, is relatively innocuous in terms. Hey,
when we flew back from Palm Beach Tuesday evening after
we did our interviewer, I did you went down to
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further south Florida. The I got on my flight and
Fort Lauderdale flying back, and two of the flight attendants
at the top of the front of the airplane. I
don't know if I even I don't think I told
this story on the air came up and they said, hey,
how was it? And I said sorry. They were like,
we we saw that you were at Marlago and we're
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just about to sit down and listen to your interview
with the president on Clay and Buck when we got
on the airplane, and then we saw you getting on
the airplane and I was like, well, it was amazing.
It's great to hear. They like, we loved the show,
and they said and we agree with you about masks.
And they said, so many flight attendant, Now this is
Southwest Airlines, but they said, so many flight attendants are
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one hundred percent in agreement with you guys that this
is madness. They said, we hate having to go around
one of the flight attendants did and constantly police it.
And so I've noticed as they brought back alcohol and
as they've got liquor back, the flow and the airplanes
and everything else. There's very little in my experience now,
policing on Southwest Airlines, which is what I fly most
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of the time, where they're saying, hey, get that mask
up above your mouth. I don't see it happened very often.
I do think that's a very that's a positive indicator.
I think there's been a little bit less meaning. I
mean I had someone who I had, an airline attendant
midway through the pandemic, tell me that my mask looked
too thin. Yeah, of course made me change my mask.
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I mean it was there were no holes in the mask,
My mask looked thin, put on a different I mean,
so people have been total psychopaths about this. I mean
that there was a time and they would get away
with it because that's a real sanction against somebody. If
you're banned you like Southwest, if you got banned from
Southwest forever, that gets people's attention. But you know, we
really are We've entered the crazy, the crazy phase now
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where everyone can see that masking on planes is stupid.
Why does it still happen? It still happens because Democrats
won't let it go. They're a day did to the power,
the control. This is what their team does. This is
how they show their compliance, and they're just emotionally A
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lot of them are emotionally damaged by the pandemic too,
which I think it's interesting now Joe Biden says, Oh,
the pandemic was so rough on people. The lockdowns were
so rough on people too. I would love to know.
I'm just thinking about it. Do South Does Southwest have
more sane flight attendants than other airlines because they tend
to be based in the southeast more so, and so
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they would tend to have more red state employees would
be my guests, and so they'd have more sanity than
maybe your East or west coast based airlines. Might I
don't know the answer, but I'd be curious about that too.
How to flight attendants vote in presidential elections and does
who they are employed by matter. I tend to think
Southwest people are probably Trump people. We'll see, we'll see
if I can get away with you know, low riding
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my mask beneath the nose. Tonight, we'll see. We'll do
a little test, see what happens. Hopefully had a good
band from Delta. Thanks everybody for listening. Klon Buck from
Houston tomorrow talk to you then play Travis and Buck
Sexton on the front Lines of Truth.
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. We are here in the third hour
of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Everybody appreciate
you spending the time with us, and I want to
get right into it now with someone I'm sure many
of you are quite familiar with. Doctor Oz is with us.
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Is running right now in the great data Pennsylvania for Senate.
He's a Republican candidate in that state, and you all
know him from TV and being a doctor and all
that good stuff. Doctor Oz, thanks for being with us.
Blessing be with you. My brothers in law are avid listeners,
so I get to show off to them today, which
is hard to do in our family. That's fantastic. They
clearly have very good taste, Doc, So tell us why.
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I mean, for a lot of folks, the most basic
question before they're running for anything is the is the why.
But you know you're a you're a celebrity, you're a doctor,
and also you're a doctor who plays one on TV
two Because you are one, why are you getting involved
in this to any days looking around at the walls
and wondering whether musty cameras watching meet the countries in
such a crisis and no one seems to really be
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addressing elements of it, and especially got bad during COVID.
I'd noticed it before, but since I knew medicine well,
I could see mistakes made that were absolutely intolerable and
yet restifled discussion. People who had better ideas were not
given the opportunity to speaks. One of the reasons I've
asked for doctor Fauci to resign challenge them to a debate.
I think that his desire to be the one and
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only solution for everything COVID has led to him helping
cancel physicians, Nobel laureates, doctors and scientists who had ideas
that I think could have contributed and ease the pain
of so many during COVID. I also witnessed firsthand errors
in how we've managed the pandemic with regard the mandates,
where we took a meat cleaver to American civil liberties
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and our ability to actually be independent and individualism should
drive those decisions, not government, top down authoritary endings. Doctor.
I was appreciate you coming on with us. I'm curious
what you think when you see on Monday Joe Biden
walking wearing a huge mask as he crosses the White
House lawn. And then last night during the State of
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the Union, there's basically no mask to be seen. He's
shaking hands, he's headbutting people. Believe it or not, it's
such a bastardization. I would imagine of the science argument
to have one day a guy walking around outdoors with
a mask. On the next day he's hugging and shaking
hands and everything else. How frustrating is that to see
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as a doctor and recognize how poor of a job
in many ways our government has done explaining risk analysis
and COVID. You know what's shocking to me is they,
with the hypocritical tone, say we're following the science, and
what they're really doing is following the political science. This
is all theater. It has been theater for quite a while.
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We see that we get red states versus blue states
and their outcomes. But over the past two months has
been as slow easing of these mandates in blue states,
and especially for the last few weeks because they realized
people have had it. I mean, you can only be
dishonest to a certain degree, and people even in your
own party begin to revolt. And what you're describing as
a classic example of leaders who are making draconian decisions
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about what people should suffer through, but not living through
those same restrictions themselves. Restated people with big backyards told
people with no backyards early in the pandemic to stay indoors,
and that's exactly where the virus was so literally, not
only were these authoritarian moves harmful indirectly because they leaded
deaths of despair, but they were directly harmful. They didn't
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help us. They actually made things worse. And you can
most clearly see this with kids. What society, what self
respecting people use their children as shields. We closed our
schools down and never opened them in many parts of
the country for such a long period that we may
have caused irreparable harm to those kids. Yet early on
I said, gee, Europeans, they're keeping their schools open. They
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love their kids more than we love our kids. What's
going on here? And I think those are the kinds
of decisions once made, they were unwilling to backtrack on,
and then it's evolved into this. You know, I believe
in science maneuvering, which is just first of all, I
believe in God, right science is a tool. I'm a scientist,
a doctor. I use science to help save lives. But
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it's something that's supposed to be challenged, supposed to be
improved on, and we did not allow that to happen.
And COPE is just an example the same maneuvering, the
same approach has been going on for quite a while.
I lived through it on my show. I would take
on government issues frequently and get beaten back, at least
they try to, and I'd be a you know, at
porcupine about these issues. Continue to strike back until we
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finally get the truth out there. But forget about COVID
for a second. What's happening an energy policy which directly
led what's happening in the Ukraine. What's happening in our
school system where we don't let parents and at least
their values get with the kids. Well, you know, our
teachers are indoctrinating our kids with guys that don't agree
with ours. We see this at the border when you
have false narratives and the true story of a cartel
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run human trafficking operation doesn't actually reach the front pages.
These are the kinds of things that bother us. And
I'll end with China, because the real existential threat here
is China. They eat our lugs, they steal from us,
take advantage of us, They cheated everything. And they're watching
Putin very carefully and gee saying I can't believe Putin
got away with this much. Already, as horrible as it is,
he's thinking, well, maybe I'll do the same thing with Taiwan.
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Ten percent of the world semiconductors, eighty five percent of
the high quality ones, all of it at risk because
they see us as weak. We're speaking of Mathmet Jengi's Oz,
doctor as I hope I got that almost correct. Doctor Oz,
as you all know him from TV. He's a surgeon,
healthcare advocate and running for Senate in Pennsylvania. He's in
the Republican primary right now. So with that in mind,
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doctor Oz, how would you describe your political philosophy? Are
you a Concernvai? Have you always been? Are you a
more recent convert? I mean, what should people know about
what your core, what your foundation of politics is. I'm
a conservative Republican, always have been. When I was eight
years of age, my father, who was an immigrant who
came here legally because the United States was recruiting physicians
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told me we were Republicans, and I I asked them why,
and he says, because they have better ideas the realities
of life a Republican. So my first election was the
nineteen eighty for Ronald Reagan, who I've voted for, and
I'm proud to have voted for Republicans, and I believed
the Republican Party represents what conservative thought could be. Not
all Republicans are conservative, but I am. And I feel
strongly that the issues that galvanize me, and you know,
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I'm pro life, pro Second Amendment in a big way.
Every law abiding American citizen order to be allowed to
own a farm arm of their choice. These are all
issues that are important here in Pennsylvania. And if you
take it to the next step, what I really want
to do is protect my children and your children. It's
one of the reasons I decided to close the show,
by the way I burned the votes. Right, when when
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you go into politics, you have you're hosting a syndicated
network television show. You're not allowed to air that show
because it's unfair because you're everywhere. And so I shut
the show down, shut the magazine down, did all the
things that I thought was right because I feel so
passionately about this, and as a conservative, I know that
some of the mistakes we've made our affect you are
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kids in ways that will be more difficult to improve
because if the kids are taught to be Marxists, then
they're not going to understand the very foundations of what
conservatism represents. You mentioned that show. I'm kind of curious
about this. How much money did you walk away from?
I like to burn the boat's analogy. How much money
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did you walk away from to run for political office
where obviously, unless you're Joe Biden's family, you don't typically
get super wealthy from it already, but you had to
have a highly successful show. I'm just really intrigued by
a decision like that because you're turning away probably tens
of millions of dollars to be able to run for
a political office. That's the exact amount I walked away
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from it, and so I've been blessed. Yeah, I mean
that's a really interesting discussion, right, because there's a lot
of people out there. You were saying, Hey, I can
make tens of millions of dollars, but I care so
much about these issues that I'm willing to walk away
from that money. You know how deflating it is to
sit in your safe little studio air condition, lots of
people pampering you, or in the operating room because I
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still take care of patience and you know it's pretty
safe there. If you're not the patience and witness your
country falling apart. What's the point of making a couple
of extra zeros of money when what has allowed my
family to thrive and prosper, which is the generosity, wisdom
and strength of America, is being torn down, torn asunder
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because people feel we are so irredeemably stained that the
only way to fix us is to break us asunder
in the little pieces and then rebuild us with their
toxic ideology. And I refuse to stand by and watch
that happen. And it's okay if it doesn't work out,
you know when, hopefully years from now, I try to
live a healthy, healthy lifestyle, even on the campaign trail
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and diner food. Years from now, when I passed away
on my headstone, I wanted to read heart surgeon keb Host.
If it happens to say, Senator, that's great too. I
don't intend to go there and live and washing the
rest of my life. I'm trying to do an intervention
to help doctor Oz. I should have probably asked you
at the top, given the news cycle right now, if
you had a chance to watch some are all the
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State of the Union address, and what you're feeling is
as somebody who wants to get into this fight about
the current White House and the regime that's been calling
the shots the last year and a year or so.
I was not impressed by the State of the Union.
Of course they watched it. I watched the Republican response
as well. It's disappointing that Joe Biden painted a vastly
different picture of his first year in office than the
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disastrous being experienced by the vast majority of Americans. You go,
I do these big town halls here in Pennsylvania. No
one here thinks that's what's going on. We're worried about
the record inflation we're experiencing. Gas prices obviously an eight
year high. I did a TikTok video, by the way,
on gas prices. They got two million views. Almost immediately
TikTok took it down, which again is part of the century,
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and that bothers me so much. I put it back
up again because I got thirteen million people on social media,
so I went to say, well why they taking it down? Now?
It has stead and a half million views. But why
would I not be able to mention the reality of
what the average American is suffering through right now? And
these are issues that are addressable. Our energy policy makes
zero sense if especially if you look at the Ukraine.
We should be Joe Biden yesterday and State of Union
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should have designated key oil and gas projects in our
country to be critical infrastructure for national security, and then
they do everything to protect those those efforts, because right now,
no one's going to get to natural gas out from
under my feet in Pennsylvania, although we could power the
whole country for a century and ship it to our
European allies to free them from the yoke of Russia.
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Doctor Oz, do you think that Oprah would vote for
you if she were living in Pennsylvania. I don't know
she's you know, I talked to her before I ran,
I just inform her. I asked her not to get
involved because it's the right thing to do, and she agreed.
So I have no idea. I think she'd have to
like everybody else in Pennsylvania way what I'm saying, compared
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to everybody else, and make the best choice of her ability.
But the one thing I'm sure is that she would vote.
The other thing I was going to say about that
is you came. We talked a little bit about you
coming out of the television studio and running for political office.
You're a beloved guy, you know, when you're the doctor
who's trying to get everybody to be healthy. I mentioned Oprah,
You have a great relationship with them. You mentioned the
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millions of followers you have. And then you step into
a fray where people start throwing punches at you. How
much different does that feel than what you were doing beforehand,
where you're sort of a non ideological doctor figure who
everybody kind of responds to in a favorable way. And
then you step in and you start get taking swings
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and arrows, so to speak. How has that been an
adjustment for you? You know it's going to surprise you.
It's a very cathartic process. You don't have to pretend
that you're and you know, refrain from saying things because
you know people are going to get all upset about it.
You can say exactly what you're thinking, because people are
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going to vote based on that, and you are the
person you are, So for me, it's been incredibly freeing.
I love my show, I love talking about health. But
when I got frustrated about, for example, what I thought
she was doing leading our public health response, I tried
to say things. But after a while, people you know,
they don't want you saying those things, and you've got
incredible pressures to make sure you stay within a little
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cordant limit, which is why I know what it's like
for corporate America right now. They don't want to get involved.
I'm here to say you have to get involved, be
a patriot, stand up with what you know is right.
Say what you see at these town halls. That's my
one plea. I think you'd vote for me if you
came and listen, because if you heard me speak, you'd
want to be part of our campaign effort. But no
matter what, just say what you're seeing, because if you
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don't and no one else does, we're gonna believe all
this woke ideology that's suffocating our brains. Doctor oz dot com.
Doctor oz is running for the Senate, Folks in Pennsylvania.
Doctor Oz appreciate it, sir, thanks so much. Thanks for
making me a hero to my brothers in law, Gotlis,
thank them for listening for us. Thank you. All right,
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Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us,
doctor os. Pretty good job there. That's going to be
a battle royale in the state of Pennsylvania. I think
their Democrat side also has got a ton of different
people running Republican side as well, where I don't think
it's going to be about a royal State of Florida.
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Buck and I are going to be down in the
state of Texas tomorrow, but we have been both of
us a lot of time in the state of Florida.
Ronda Santis obviously running for reelection, and he was showing
up for an event at USF the University of South
Florida down in the Tampa area and there were kids
waiting behind him who were wearing masks. And this is
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not even as the event is beginning. This is as
Ron de Santis is walking up off the mic talking
to the kids all with masks on behind them. Listen
to this. You do not have to wear those masks.
I mean, please take Honestly, it's not doing anything and
we got to stop with this covies theater. So you
want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous. This
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is the exactly correct at two mask wearing. Now take
the dumb masks off. Kids, adults, seniors, everybody. Take them off.
If you insist on wearing them. It's one thing. I mean, Clay,
I'm getting we're going down to Houston. I know, I've
never been to Houston before. We'll talk. Oh it's a
great town. I think you're gonna have a good time.
I've spent a lot of time in Dallas, and when
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I tell Houstonians that, they're like, well, want to tell
there's a big rivalry, big rivalry between Houston and Dallas.
Why don't you come to the best city in Texas
instead of And I'm like, oh, look, I don't even
you know. I'll see, we'll see who has the best barbecue.
We'll see about this rodeo this weekend. So but anyway,
the reality here is you have people we're gonna I'm
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gonna be on a plane. You're gonna be in a
plane too. We're gonna be masking up on that plane.
Unfortunate a single person on the planet would win a
debate with me or you about how stupid it is
to mask up on planes, not one, because it is
demonstrably idiotic. Well, I think it's also demonstrably an incredibly
difficult argument to even make. If you watch the State
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of the Union last night, even Democrats inside of an
enclosed building, even old Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden,
who are by far under the greatest risk from COVID,
we're not wearing masks. So how can you have watched
last night's State of the Union and in any way
argue that you need to have a mask on for
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an airplane flight. There's no argument at all. And I
wished that Joe Biden was going to make that announcement
last night if he had wanted to actually make news.
He didn't really make any news with any of the
pronouncements from his state of the Union address. He could
have said, hey, and I'm telling the CDC that it's
time to go do away with the mask mandate. I
don't know when is it up again, like March fifteenth
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or March eighteenth or something. I believe I'm not mistaken.
I don't know how they can justify extending it at
this point in time when all fifty states, even Hawaii
has now done away with their mask requirements to enter
that island state masking is pure political tribalism at this point,
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Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
We moved into the month of March. When's the last
time you filled out a bracket for the NC double
A tournament. I've never even know what I'm talking about,
never filled out a bracket. You've never filled out an
NC doable A tournament bracket. No, not even when you
were a kid. No, it's rare that mine. I wish
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there was video of my jaw just dropping like this.
I would I would bet ninety seven percent, ninety eight
percent of our audience has filled out an NC double
A tournament bracket at some point, even if it's just, hey,
here's a ten dollars you know, here's a bracket, go
fill it out. Ten dollar challenge at your place of work.
(19:50):
Maybe when you were a kid in school. I don't know.
When I was a kid, teachers we used to fill
out the brackets and if you won, you got like
a pizza gift certificate or something. I I am legitimately
in disbelief that you've never filled out an NC double
A bracket. I mean, I think it's just not as
common in the Northeast because we don't have a huge
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NC double A March madness. I'm not I'm not gonna
let you go. I went to school in the Northeast.
Every kid I knew was doing Brackett Challenge. They're all
in the mid Atlantic, sir. It's all I went to
George Washington. People who don't know it's all Northeastern kids.
It's all Long Island kids, all Philly kids. Uh. Yes,
they have like geographic diversity now a little bit more,
(20:34):
but it's a very Northeastern school. This will not be
news to the audience that Buck is a strange duck.
So here we go. I just I am in Where's Ali?
Has everybody else on the show? Surely even and you
guys all, I'm asking everybody. Oh we got I got
both of our producers here in New York, Mojo and Mike.
I mean, I'm sure producer Mark, who's who loves sports
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has probably filled out brackets every year since he could write.
Both are producers here. They've never filled it out. Both
of them never filled it out. They just told me
right here, right now, Mojo and Mike, no brackets. I am,
I am, I am the reason I was just bringing
this up because we're now into March, and March madness
is basically our unifying symbol of excellence for everywhere, but
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this studio evidently where the majority of people have never
filled out brackets. Hey, here's what I want you to do.
If you are as stunned by this revelation as I am,
just tag at Buck Sexton, at Clay Travis on Twitter
and let me know because I feel like I'm in disbolt.
I can't even conceptually my kids, my seven year old
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is already filled out a bracket. I mean, their dad
did found a sports network to be Fair Sports Media company.
That's true. They're probably on the high end percentile for
sports knowledge based on young kids. But all right, so
we're gonna have to come back to this. The reason
I was gonna bring it up is I am booked
to be out in Vegas, which is one of the
great experiences is of being a sports fan, the opening
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weekend of the NC Double A tournament in Vegas, and
I was just thinking about that as we came back
from March Madness, and and I just am still floored
that you've never filled out of brackets. So I'm gonna
have to explore this in further detail. In fact, thousands
of you, according to what I've heard, are going to
be at our event in Houston. I want all of
you to come up who were listening right now in
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Houston and let Buck know if you are as stunned
as I am that he has never filled out a
bracket challenge. I don't even remember what were we planning
on talking about. Otherwise, I was going to bring us
in and we were going to talk about the border.
The border we're going down to. Yes, the the important thing, Claire,
not the brackets. I bet most of the border agents
down there by the way, I bet some of the
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illegal immigrants have even filled out bracket challenges before I
will tell you that we're gonna be down in Houston,
which is closer to the border than where both of
us are right now. And I'm sure that there were
many things that stunned a lot of you who watched
the State of the Union address, but Joe Biden's suddenly
coming out in favor of border security was one of
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the more jaw dropping nowhere near as much jaw dropping
as Buck not finishing out a bracket, but one of
the more drug jaw dropping revelations of the State of
the Union. Listen to this. If we're had to advanced
liberty injustice, we need to secure our border and fix
the immigration system. And as you might guess, I think
we can do both. Provide a pathway to citizen for Dreamers,
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those the temporary status, farm workers, essential work. The revis
are laws, so if business have workers they need the families,
don't wait decades or unite. It's not only the right
thing to do, it's economically smart thing to do. That's
why the immigration reform is supported by everyone from labor unions,
the religious leaders to the US Chamber of Commerce. Let's
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get it done once and for all. You know who
doesn't support immigration reform, and by that they always mean amnesty.
The American people, by solid majority whenever polled, they do
not support amnesty for illegal immigrants, certainly not in advance
of a truly secure border and a willingness to enforce
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the law in the interior of the US, not just
at the border. That's one of the biggest places the
Biden administration has broken down on this and purposefully so
the non enforcement in the US interior. They are literally,
as we all know, flying people to New York, Chicago,
other places across the country from the US Mexico border.
Illegal immigrants are being flown taxpairs on the hook for
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this all over the country, so every state effectively becomes
a border state in that situation. They do not enforce
in the US interior. You had one point six one
point seven million known. They keep calling them encounters clay.
That's a nice way of saying illegal crossings, because if
you show up at the Tijuana San Diego border with
a passport saying I want to come into America at
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the appropriate border station, that's not an accounter. They're not
accounting those they're counting people that are coming into the
country illegally. Biden speaking about securing the border is the
arsonists claiming to be a firefighter. I mean, this is outrageous,
this is absurd. His administration is openly in the policies
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they pursue open borders. Well, this is buck, if you
look at the data and trust the polling, basically the
weakest point for all Democrats, which is why when I
watched the State of the Union last night, I felt
like Biden was making a calculated attempt to repudiate the
left wing of his party. Now, I don't buy it.
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You don't buy it. I imagine most of our listeners
do not. But when he came out and he said
that he wanted to fund the police, not to defund
the police. When he tried to argue that COVID isn't
a part as an issue, even though by the way,
he's made it a total part as an issue, and
this maybe surprised me the most. Buck. In addition to
saying he was going to secure the border, you know
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what he didn't mention even one time. January sixth, he's
back on Capitol Hill. What if the Democrats spent a
year focusing on obsessively January sixth, the threat to our democracy.
Biden himself has made many speeches about this. He didn't
even mention it. Why was that, I think because the
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polling on January sixth is not good. Most regular people
out there are like, yeah, you know what, it was
a riot. We had an entire year of riots from
twenty twenty, this summer, all the way up through the election.
And we wish riots didn't happen whether you're a Democrat, Republican,
or an independent. But Democrats have wildly overplayed their hand
(26:47):
in trying to argue this is an insurrection in that
the country was though was actually threatened by what happened
on that. That's true, and it's also true that Trump
is not, we know this for sure, is not going
to be on the ballot in the mid terms. Yes,
And if you're thinking about independence, if you're thinking about
who is going to show up and vote, people can
(27:08):
figure out that when you're the party in power, you
have a majority in the House, you have a day
factor majority in the Senate, you have the White House.
President Biden, when you're trying to make it about someone
who no longer holds elected office, nor is running. It's pathetic,
it's too obvious. So at least for the midterms if
Trump runs again, obviously you're going to see a lot
(27:29):
of January six talks from the Democrats, but going into
what are elections determining Congress, Senate obviously also a lot
of state state level elections too, to focus on the
insurrection and trump Ism is just effectively for anyone who
can see, who can read between the lines a little bit,
is just an admission that the the Democrats are not
(27:50):
doing a good job and have no real plan or
policy to speak of. It's just what about Trump? What
about Trump when he's not even running? Doesn't work so well.
It's a tough sell. It is as well come back
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First hour, we had Lauren Bobert, congresswoman from Colorado, who've
got a lot of attention, a lot of heat, but
isn't backing down one inch in the aftermask of the
State of the Union addressed missed that. Go check it out.
Please subscribe to the podcast. Everyone's checking out those numbers,
and we hope to set new records this coming month,
so that will be fantastic if we do. And then
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I got a question for all of you, and that
is where is Tiny Fauci? Is he hiding in a
drawer somewhere at the CDC? Has he fallen into a
thimble and is now yelling out that everyone still needs
to be masking up? Why aren't you wearing masks? I'm
just wondering how it's possible that suddenly they announced this
(30:05):
for the State of the Union, that all these mask
mandates are going away, and Little Fauci, the mask fundamentalist,
disappears somewhere. I mean, I know he's easy to lose
in a crowd, but where did he go? Clay, He's
been on every media outlet except this one for basically
two straight years. He'll go talk to anybody's podcast. I mean,
(30:25):
this guy is the number one guest. He was on
basically every morning show. It feels like for the last
two years you haven't been able to escape him. He's
every time I look up, he's on CNN or MSNBC
telling you about how you're all gonna die and how
important it is for you to, you know, go get
your eighth booster. And all of a sudden, in what
(30:47):
is fairly significant CDC activity starting on Friday, ending masking
and effectively last night's State of the Union, nobody's wearing
a mask. Every state, even including Hawaii, California, Washington, and Oregon,
states that had lost their minds, New York, New York City,
all these places doing away with their mask mandates. I
(31:10):
saw where Philadelphias letting their kids now not have to
wear masks anymore. All these places, and Fauci isn't to
be heard from at all. And again, I don't know
who ordered the code read. I don't know who in
the Biden White House walked in and said, guys, our
polling numbers are absolutely atrocious, but somebody did, and that
(31:34):
code read got ordered, and they basically kicked Fauci right
out of any media app appearances. And they since then
have totally pivoted in every direction. Buck. It is like
light switch, Like you know, you're sitting in darkness and
then they suddenly flipped a light on and they're pretending, oh, yeah,
well there's the science change, But it did it. They
(31:56):
just recognized that they were getting crushed and they're terrified, running, scared,
and they changed everything overnight. I just would find it remarkable.
And there's a part of me as I will be
on a plane tonight because we are going to be
in Houston for the next few days and I'll be
We'll be at our KTRH, our great affiliate there, Clay
and Buck show number one of the market across all formats,
(32:17):
and just you know, it's pretty nice. For the Houstonians
who are supporting us and listening, thank you so much.
We really do appreciate that. And for those will be
coming out, they'll be over a thousand folks Clay that'll
be hanging out with us. They'll be barbecue, live music.
We'll get on stage say a few things about crushing commies,
and then we'll be crushing some beers or in my case,
demo or something gluten free. Tequila. You'll be close to
(32:38):
see tequila. Well, you know, I don't want to get
sloppy in front of our people. You know, the tequila
comes out and part I've bet a lot of our
people will be getting sloppy. There's a lot of reasons
for celebration in State of Texas, but I almost want
to get on the plane tonight and just I'm so
curious if the attitude, because it had been this militant,
how dare you pull your mask down on the plane.
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We're gonna kick you off the plane. We're gonna ban
you from flying this airline again. You almost wonder if
you got on you had your mask down. You're like,
are we really gonna do this? Guys? Are we really?
Mask mandates are gone everywhere? We're really gonna do this
thing on the plane where we have to have a
mask mandate? You know? They if if the airline attendant
I'm not supposed to say steward us anymore, right, if
the airline attendant came up to me and was like, look,
I know the rule is dumb, but I could get
(33:21):
in trouble, so would you mind just pulling it up,
then I'd be like, we're making progress. I'm not sure though.
I think this is a little bit now like the
way it was on planes for a long time, with
a lot of First of all this stuff, would you
wear a seat belt? Oh my god, the chance of
you hitting your head on the ceiling from turbulence if
you don't have your seat belt on, is you know
this is like telling everybody to wear a helmet when
they're driving in a car. I mean, it could happen,
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but anyway, a lot of stupid rules. You also don't
recognize if you have your seat belt on on an airplane, right,
it's impossible not to know you have a mask on,
Like the seat belt is rare, is relatively innocuous in terms. Hey,
when we flew back from Palm Beach Tuesday evening after
we did our interviewer, I did you went down to
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further south Florida. The I got on my flight and
Fort Lauderdale flying back, and two of the flight attendants
at the top of the front of the airplane. I
don't know if I even I don't think I told
this story on the air came up and they said, hey,
how was it? And I said sorry. They were like,
we we saw that you were at Marlago and we're
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just about to sit down and listen to your interview
with the president on Clay and Buck when we got
on the airplane, and then we saw you getting on
the airplane and I was like, well, it was amazing.
It's great to hear. They like, we loved the show,
and they said and we agree with you about masks.
And they said, so many flight attendant, Now this is
Southwest Airlines, but they said, so many flight attendants are
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one hundred percent in agreement with you guys that this
is madness. They said, we hate having to go around
one of the flight attendants did and constantly police it.
And so I've noticed as they brought back alcohol and
as they've got liquor back, the flow and the airplanes
and everything else. There's very little in my experience now,
policing on Southwest Airlines, which is what I fly most
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of the time, where they're saying, hey, get that mask
up above your mouth. I don't see it happened very often.
I do think that's a very that's a positive indicator.
I think there's been a little bit less meaning. I
mean I had someone who I had, an airline attendant
midway through the pandemic, tell me that my mask looked
too thin. Yeah, of course made me change my mask.
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I mean it was there were no holes in the mask,
My mask looked thin, put on a different I mean,
so people have been total psychopaths about this. I mean
that there was a time and they would get away
with it because that's a real sanction against somebody. If
you're banned you like Southwest, if you got banned from
Southwest forever, that gets people's attention. But you know, we
really are We've entered the crazy, the crazy phase now
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where everyone can see that masking on planes is stupid.
Why does it still happen? It still happens because Democrats
won't let it go. They're a day did to the power,
the control. This is what their team does. This is
how they show their compliance, and they're just emotionally A
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lot of them are emotionally damaged by the pandemic too,
which I think it's interesting now Joe Biden says, Oh,
the pandemic was so rough on people. The lockdowns were
so rough on people too. I would love to know.
I'm just thinking about it. Do South Does Southwest have
more sane flight attendants than other airlines because they tend
to be based in the southeast more so, and so
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they would tend to have more red state employees would
be my guests, and so they'd have more sanity than
maybe your East or west coast based airlines. Might I
don't know the answer, but I'd be curious about that too.
How to flight attendants vote in presidential elections and does
who they are employed by matter. I tend to think
Southwest people are probably Trump people. We'll see, we'll see
if I can get away with you know, low riding
(36:51):
my mask beneath the nose. Tonight, we'll see. We'll do
a little test, see what happens. Hopefully had a good
band from Delta. Thanks everybody for listening. Klon Buck from
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