May 19, 2022 • 36 mins
The iconic Rush Limbaugh theme song, My City Was Gone by The Pretenders, is retiring, almost like the loving and respectful retirement of a sports jersey, as Clay sometimes brings up. Clay and Buck, with the one-year anniversary of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show approaching, announce the new theme song, My Own Worst Enemy by Lit, a band they both respect a lot and feel reflects the values of the show. C&B open the phone lines to for callers to weigh in on the new theme song and remembering Rush. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich joins the show to discuss the upcoming border disaster of Biden ending Title 42. The new Marilyn Monroe movie reminds C&B of the famous moment of Marilyn singing Happy Birthday to JFK.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in our number three Clay
Travis buck Sexton Show. We appreciate all of you hanging
out with us, so as you listen to the music
that is bringing us back here at the top of
the hour, a lot of you have the same reaction
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that we have had over the years. For decades, Rush's
theme song has reminded everyone out there truth and clarity
on the way. It's an iconic song forever that's going
to be attached to Russian Limbaugh and everything that he represented.
As we come up on the one year anniversary of
this show, these songwrites are expiring, and we wanted to
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take this time. Buck and we talked a lot about
this behind the scenes. As this songwrites are expiring, I
wanted to take the time to find a song for
this show that could be as iconic and irreplaceable in
the future, and also that would feature a band that
really loves and respects what our political beliefs are, because
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there's a lot of you out there know there are
a lot of bands that do not respect what we
believe in every day, and so we spend a lot
of time on this book, and for us this is
really like retiring the jersey in sports, because Russia's theme
song is forever attached to his memory, everything he built,
(01:30):
and we deeply honor that his legacy, and that song
is a part of his legacy. Of course, So with
all of that in mind, and given as we said
that the songwrites are expiring soon, we found this amazing band.
Clay is actually friends with the individuals in this band Lit.
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You may know the band Lit. The song we've landed
on is called My Own Worst Enemy. It has tens
of millions of YouTube plays. There are hundreds and hundreds
of rock stations that were playing it when it first
came out in nineteen ninety nine, which I will say
is a great year, a phenomenal year, maybe the greatest
year of all time. And Clay, a really great thing
(02:11):
is it's it's rare to find a rock band that
honestly doesn't have the politics of a bunch of of
evil commies, no matter how good their music may be.
These guys are patriots. They love America. You know them.
They listen to the show, Yeah, I listen. I know
them personally, and so I'll give you a I'll give
you a story. They live here in Nashville. The band
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is lit again. The song is My Own Worst Enemy.
If you are a fan at all of nineteen nineties
era music, this is one of the most iconic songs
that came out of the nineties. I met these guys
many times over the years here in Nashville, and actually
I was over at their house once and I walked
in and they had a college football game on as
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Utah was playing, and we're number one in Salt Lake City,
so shout out to the Utes, and I just thought
that was interesting. I watch every college football game, but
they were they had Utah on, and I walked in
and Jeremy Popoff, who is one of the members of
the band, his son was a student manager for the
Utah Utes football team. So I got to know the
family really well, and in fact, their son was one
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of the interns for OutKick, and I've gotten to know
them so well. And we were making this decision. Buck
was really important to me that we feature music from
people who respect and love and have the same political
beliefs as us. These guys moved to Tennessee from California
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because they were so frustrated with the direction that California
politics had gone, and they are going to be long
time listeners of this show. They loved a Rush and
when we had this conversation with them, Buck, I mean,
you should have seen their faces and how excited they
(04:00):
were to be able to bring their music to this
audience and connect their brand and their spirit with the
spirit and the brand of the greatest radio show audience
that has ever existed in American history. So we spent
a lot of time on this. When they told us
this song was expiring, that the contract was running out,
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that they wanted to make sure that it was forever
iconic and connected to Rush, that we could find our
own version of this, And I'm confident that you guys
are going to like it in the same way my
city was gone to find Rush again. I think your
analogy is a good one, Buck of retiring, you know,
sort of, the Jersey will always be proud of our
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affiliation with Rush in that theme song, but we hope
that this new song will also be a big part
of our listening family. I think we're going to debut
it on Monday. It may take some time for people
to get used to, but we wanted to directly address
this with you instead of just flipping a switch. Suddenly,
you guys are like, what the world happened? We we
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live every day on this show to serve this audience,
the audience that Rush built, and everything we do keeps
in mind that legacy and all that he built over decades.
So we make decisions here with that as a as
a load stars, as a guiding point for us. And
so with that in mind, we are retiring the jersey.
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So to speak of a great song, a song, let's
be honest, that Rush made great. Actually, I think that
that's fair to say. It is really associated with Rush
more than anything than anything else about that song. And
now we're going to be introducing folks to LIT and
we think that they will. We hope they'll enjoy it.
We want to hear from you, by the way, as
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we say we serve you. We serve this audience every day.
That's why we're here. And it's an honor. Honestly, it
is a privilege. And I've said this before and I
think you can tell Clay and I feel the same way.
We really mean it. We're lucky to be able to
do this show. Every day. It's a great blessing for
all of us to be able to talk to all
of you. So I want to hear from some of you.
Of you are if you know, Lid, if you're excited
about the prospect of a little bit of some nineties
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music being thrown into the mix here, you've already heard
some nineties here and there. I mean, we're you know,
we want to keep it just from an audio and
music lover perspective, keep it, keep it fresh and moving,
and introduce you to new things in general. And so
if you have any thoughts on this one eight hundred
two two two eight eight two, we would love to
chat with you about it and hear what you think
about it. And know that we know that it's a
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transition and for some of you might take a little
bit of getting used to. But we're we're excited about
it and it will be I think something we all
look back on and say, this is kind of a
it's fun. It's a fun thing. It's a fun thing
to get to have a relationship with this band this
way and to have a sound that will be associated
with us in my neighborhood. Buck, I sent you this video.
We had a nineties tribute band come out and play
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here in here in Nashville, And the very first nineteen
nineties song that the tribute band played was My Own
Worst Enemy, And so I took I mean, there's you know,
several thousand people at this event. It was great out
here in Franklin, and I took a video of it.
And actually in downtown Franklin, probably a couple of months ago,
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I was at a charity event and Lit came and
played my own and Worst Enemy, and the entire place
just went crazy. So I know, everybody's got different musical
interest and different musical taste. And when you came of age,
you may think is the greatest music of all time,
regardless of when you came of age. So for Buck
and I, the nineties are basically the best era of
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music that ever exists. You know, we did a little testing.
I mean, I try to convince some maybe my acapella
rendition of the Macaino would be a good way to
go and that would really fire people up. But apparently,
you know, that wasn't really gonna make it quite as effect.
I don't think I've told you this, Buck, but I
am tone deaf, like I can't. This may not surprise
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people because I don't necessarily do great when it comes
to pronunciations. But I was in chorus in high school
and I was so tone deaf in terms of being
able to sing that the chorus teacher said, you mouth
the words. I've never heard of the chorus teacher doing
this before. He stood in front of the bases till
he could find out who was messing up the pitch,
and he said, you have a good speaking voice. He said,
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you will announce from now on. In course, you had
to take chorus. You had to take an art to graduate.
The mind was chorus. He said, from now on, you
will announce the songs that we sing, but you will
actually just mouth the words. We don't need I have
you've ever heard of anybody being told that who's a
member of a choral group. You announced you have a
good voice, good speaking voice. You could announce what we're
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going to sing. But you can no longer sing. This
reminds me of when I was short for a short
period time trying to play ice hockey in the third grade,
and they told him, and I told the counselor or
the coach that my helmet was too small from my
huge head, and it was good and he's like, no,
it's not and he put it on my head and
he goes, yeah, I know it is too small. You
(09:01):
could have been the next Mark Messier. Helmet was a
monster issue. I needed a different helmet and I never
actually even got it in my ice hockey career. Did
last f I think it lasted about three weeks. So yeah, man,
we've all we've all got those memories. Clay. I just
have never heard of anybody being you know, they always
say like anybody can get better. I've never heard of
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a chorus teacher. Mister Scandrick God rest his soul. At
Martin Luther King Magnet in Nashville, there's a lot of
witnesses stopped right in front. You could just see his eyes.
He was so disappointed Buck that the choral group in
the bases when he was standing in front of him
were not in unison singing. Well. But I did do
a really good job announcing all those songs that year.
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So we all have our benefits, we all have our talents.
But in all seriousness, I'm telling you, the lit guys
are super excited and we will do an event. I
don't know when it will be, but at some point
we gotta we gotta get them to show up and
do live, live stuff for us in Nashville. We're talking about,
you know what we could do. I need to get
them on I need to text them and see what
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their schedule looks like around the mid terms because we're
doing our event in Nashville to celebrate what should be
a red tide for the midterms. Need to get the
guys to show up and sing my own worst enemy
better and better, because we we'd like to give you.
We gotta tell you what's going on and what the
challenges are in the country. And look, the Biden administrations
in charge. There's a lot of stuff that's messed up
right now, there's no question about it. But we are
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planning a midterm election party, not a call in you know, oh,
this state that we're going to let other people do that.
They can sit there at the decision desk or whatever
and they can make their calls. We're going to be
rocking out and maybe really rocking out because it is
looking like it will at least be a restoration of
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sanity in the November election. I don't want to get
too far ahead of ourselves. But it is looking pretty
good right now, and so if we could have lit
play there, I mean, honestly, I don't know if there
is a band that can transport you to the late
nineties faster with a song. I mean, they're right, you know,
you're right up there. It's iconic in the way that
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like Bittersweet Symphony and some of those other great songs songs.
We'll play it for you. If it's not already hute up,
I hope it is. We'll see if we can play
it for you coming out of the next break as
we come in for the next segment. If you guys
haven't yet heard or not exactly sure of what that
song sounds like, it's a choral right that you will
hear as we start each of the hours going forward,
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I believe on Monday. So I just want to let
you know where it was coming from, why it was
happening the background there. And we continue to thank you
guys for supporting the show as we continue to grow
and continue to fight the battles that Rush would be
fighting himself if he were still with us today on
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be hearing more of it, and we so appreciate all
of you listening to us every day and in general
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want to hear from you. Of course, you open up
the lines and it is a tsunami of phone calls
right away. If you were expecting and here is Blake
in Colorado, Blake Lit. What do you think, Hey, I
love it. I'm a big stan of the show. I
follow Clay actually from Fox Sports right and I loved
(14:03):
him on there, especially during the COVID years. And I
was thinking that you guys are thinking about maybe kid
rock possibly two. But we did, We did discuss. We
discussed kid rock. We kicked around it. And it's just
the instrumental that you hear there. And for everybody out there,
some people don't pay that much attention to music. Other
people pay a lot of attention to it. It's the
(14:25):
open of each hour, so you'll hear that instrumental that
you just heard to open hour one, hour two, and
hour three. And so we listened. I mean, Buck and
I Aren Let's be honest, we are not super music people.
But when this was expiring, we needed to come up
with a new song, and so they had a bunch
of different suggestions, and what we wanted to make sure
it was that we were not featuring someone who would
(14:48):
not like our show. We're never getting I mean, just
think about this. You know, even when Trump would play
at these arenas they into, they would they would send
this annoying letter, don't use that song. So we just
said no, no, no, We're only talking to bands that
are cool with us, support our values, and quite honestly
respect this audience like they're one of you. Lid is
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one of you in terms of their view of America.
So that was a huge, huge win for us in
that regard. Blake, We're glad you like it. Good to
hear it. Todd in his self described freedom bunker in Nebraska.
Hey Todd, Hey Buck, it's so good to hear you again. Clay,
hello as well. Thank you. You know there's a tough day.
Transitions are hard and they're inevitable, though, so I want
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to start use by saying quickly made dettos to all
of us that have listened to Rush and miss him.
I miss him every day and prayers for Catherine. We
think of you and we love you, and our hearts
are always with you. And I've been a Rush listener
since ninety two. Buck, I've been listening to you for years.
I'm not an OSS member, but pretty close. Thank you,
and you know, I'm just so it's sad and happy
(15:54):
at the same time. When Rush passed away, Buck Eye
was clearly torn up, but very happy, been more happy
to learn that you were going to be in the
replacement slot along with Clay, and so twenty minutes ago
when the song came on, my city was gone. I'm
here with my bass over my shoulder playing it along,
dancing with my closest friend in the world, as we
always do, get up and dance, and so very sad
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to hear that news. But at the same time, Guy,
I saw lit in concert when I lived in Kansas
City in two thousand, outdoor concert in the middle of summer,
one of the greatest nights. The stars came out. So
what an excellent selection to continue with. And to both
of you and all the Rush listeners across America, I
want to say, and around the world you know, love
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you Rush and to YouTube, keep up the fight. We
listened every day three hours every day podcast subscriber, and
end with shield Tie, Shield Tie, Tom, thank you so much.
I'll have to explain that one at some point too.
Maybe start working that one into the show. Oss Clay,
you know, as the officer Strategic services of listeners. When
I started a show that was digital, I was digital
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first as a radio stream on the Blaze dot com
on Saturday's for three hours. Original Saturday Squad was what
they call it. So that's what he was referring to there.
We want we got more calls, people calling in saying
they love lit and they want to they want to
weigh in, and other folks I'm sure are gonna be
calling in two. But I think unfortunately we're about to
hit a hard break and we got we got a
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big issue to talk about your second which is Title
forty two with the ag of Arizona, Mark Bernovich, who's
also also in his own race there, so we got
we gotta talk to him in a few moments here.
Border mess, Clay is this is gonna be one. I
think this would be end up being the biggest story
in the country in June, alongside the final abortion decision.
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Those are going to be two very very big stories.
No doubt you guys can continue to weighim may take
a few more of your calls to close out the show.
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Arizona coming in to talk about Title forty two and
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in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show, appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. We are now joined by the
Attorney General of Arizona. He is fighting battles every day
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for so many people out there in the state of Arizona,
including in Phoenix, where we have one of the biggest
audiences listening to radio in the country, number one in
that market. Attorney General Bernovich, let's just start right here.
If and when Title forty two is no longer in force,
what do you expect to happen in the state of
Arizona And what are you trying to do to fight
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against the repeal of Title forty two. Well, a tidal
wave of destruction will impact our southern border, and it's
got nothing to do with climate change. And don't just
take my word for the Biden administration that themselves have
said that we will see eighteen thousand people a day
trying to legally enter our country. And I'll think about it.
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You have the basketball playoffs going on right now. That's
like the equivalent of one of those arenas every single
day illegally entering the United States. And you're talking about
the price of drugs dramatically falling, impact the social welfare system. Literally,
Americans will die, Our country will be forever changed as
a result of the lawlessness at our southern border. Title
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forty two, as you guys know, is one of the
only things left for making this crisis even worse. And
that's why I was very proud to lead the charge.
Our lawyers are in federal court arguing that the Biden
administration cannot resend Title forty two at this time, So
AJ Burnham appreciate you being with us. What should they
put aside what they will do, because I think we
all know it's going to be a disaster. But what
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should they do, meaning an extension of Title forty two
until when and until what measures are in place? Right?
I mean, that's one part of this discussion that I
don't because you can't have Title forty two forever, right,
At some point one would think this authority would would
have to expire realistically, So I mean, do we have
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metrics for when that should be and what needs to
be put in place so that it doesn't result in
the flood of illegal crossing that everybody's expecting right now? Well,
once again, put to all in context, is that Title
forty two can't be looked at is an isolate since
you're right, it was a common sense public health policy,
but it's now one of the only tools law enforcement
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has to deal with the historic portal crisis. So this
didn't begin an end with Title forty two. I mean
this began literally on the day Joe Biden was inaugurated,
when he stopped building the border wall and we had
to assue him over that. When you remember when he
implemented that what they called temporary and it was permanent
guidance where the Biden administration refused to deport people deportation
orders more than a million people in this country, including
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people being released from prisons and jails. We had to
assume him over that, and there's been ongoing litigation. I
was at the US Supreme Court in February arguing when
the Biden administration tried to rescind the public charge rule
where they want to give government benefits to non citizens,
what I call the incentivization of legal immigration. So the
problem is is what we have seen over the last
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year and a half since Joe Biden took office is
a systematic attempt to undermine the rule of law and
to undermine all not only literally statutes, but to undermine
policies and formal government rules that were implemented that we're
actually having a real effect on a legal immigration. So yeah,
Title forty two is one of the only it is
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one tool in the toolbox. It wasn't meant to be permanent,
but I think we all recognize that if Joe Biden,
Kamala Harris sector of Mayorchas revoked Title forty two. At
this time, he is setting up the Southwest for the
biggest invasion since the Alamo. What are you seeing on
the ground in Arizona as we get basically six months
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out from the mid terms, What do you expect for Arizona,
which is a huge battleground, to look like come November eighth. Well,
it's someone that grew up here in Arizona, you know,
and I've lived here. I still live in my same
neighborhood I grew up in. If people want security, it's
all about security, and that means border security, in economic security,
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and folks here, you know, wherever they live in the state,
recognize that. Whether it's at the gas pump, whether it's
at the grocery store, or whether it's the gangs that
have increased their presence in our neighborhoods. This is all
a result of the failed policies of Joe Biden. Secretary
of ma Orchis Kamala Harrison Cartel Kelly, and so I
think there's a lot of great anger and frustration with
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what's going on, and really when it comes to especially security,
border security, and this is when the federal government's at
its apex of power, where the president is supposed to
be protecting us and guarding us, and instead we're not
only seeing a record amount of people legally cross the border,
which strains our social services, we are now seeing a
dramatic decrease in the price of fetinol, in the price
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of methanncetamine. And I will tell you the former gang prosecutor.
We know is the cartels make more money off drugs,
they become more powerful, and we know that more people
are going to die. Someone's niece, nephew's son, daughter is
going to die as a result of the flood of methanncetamine.
It's coming not only into Arizona, but it's also spreading
throughout the United States. And so we talk about security,
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safety in our neighborhoods, and we talk about the ability
of hard middle class neighbor Americans to be able to
fill up their car with gas and not have to
take out a college loan. Speaking to Attorney General Mark
Bernovich for the State of Arizona, mister Attorney General, tell
me what could be done to clean up the situation.
I mean, you mentioned the cartels, you mentioned fentonel overdoses
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one hundred and seventy one hundred and seven thousand overdoses
fatal overdoses nationwide last year. I'm sure tragically a large
percentage of fatal overdoses occurred in Arizona as it's along
the border. So how do you crack down effectively how
you're talking about safety? People need safety? What would you
do or what you know if you were to win
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a Senate seat, for example, what would you like to
see change? Well, hey, I'm going to win the Senate seat,
and we need to have a realistic and holistic approach.
And so one we look at what's going on with
our judiciary and even the Supreme Court, making sure that
we appoint and confirm judge is that understand the rule
of law and that they're not there to be policymakers,
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but they're there to enforce the law. We need to
make sure that we are supporting our law enforcement officials
and that means making sure that you know, we don't
demonize them and that we don't try to stigmatize people
that are just doing their jobs. And we need to
make sure that we have the resources and the willpower
available to enforce existing laws when it comes to our
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southern border, and so that literally means we've got to
deport people with deportation orders. We have to make sure
that we continue to build the border wall, we have
to make sure that we're you know, especially the local level,
the state levels I've done as prosecutors. We want to
make sure that people that break the law are arrested
and punished, and that we have a judicial system that
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enforces the law as it's supposed to be. And so
I think that part of the problem we've had is
that you send people to Washington, DC that just want
to get reelected and they want to continue to grow
the side in the scope of the federal government. And
the next thing, you know, we have the federal government,
for example, involved in education and trying to ram critical
race theory down our kids throats. And that's not the
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role of the federal government. But when it comes to
issues like border security and national security, that is where
we need the federal government to focus it's time and resources.
Turn in general, Mark Bernovitch of Arizona and SENTI candidate,
appreciate you being with us, sir. Hey, thanks lock guys. Hey,
what about my walk up music? What would you pick, Oh,
(26:28):
I don't know, like maybe some grateful debt or a
rush line like kid Rock. Do you ever have you
ever gotten a cease and desist? Because I know this
happens to a lot of politicians when you're doing rallies
and you use music that you like, but the politicians,
I mean the musicians decide they don't like you. Has
that happened to you or have you heard of that
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happening in Arizona? No? But I think the key is
you gotta go with folks like Toby Keys, Kid Rock
or the Grateful Dead where they don't get hung up
on that or Lords example, which is why we that
they're going to love this music for decades to come.
I was gonna say, we can send him a playlist,
but you know, it's like I'm burning him a CD
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or something, Hey burning for you. That'd be a good
walk up song. But yeah, maybe the boister Coults would
stop me from playing it. I don't know. So all right,
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we go to some more calls, because we got lines
lit up all over the place, we have opened the
floodgates to the phones. Clay, You I didn't like you know,
I will say I did enjoy the My Week with
Marilyn movie. I thought that was that was good for
what it was. It was a pretty entertain Did you
(29:19):
see that movie My Week with Marylyn? I have not
seen it. No, Oh, it's very good, very well done. Actually,
I'm a I would recommend that it was better than
I thought it would be good date movie. Yeah, you
know that kind of thing. But you're Marilyn Monroe, his
history buff. I guess well. I saw this circulating. I
thought it was interesting, So I'm a history nerd. And
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one of the most iconic moments of John F. Kennedy's
presidency is when Marilyn Monroe saying Happy Birthday to him.
It has now been to sixty at the anniversary. This
happened sixty years ago today, and we actually had a
debate about whether we could play this or not. I
put my lawyer had on. This is a historically relevant
(30:03):
moment in American history. Those of you who remember, I
wanted to give you a little bit of taste. Here's
what it sounded like. Marilyn Monroe. By the way, we're
talking about how tone deaf I was. Maril Monroe not
tone deaf. Here's her birthday singing to the president. Hassy's
birthday took day, mister President, Puppy's firsday. Let me just
(30:34):
say this as a marriage as a married man, I
don't know how JFK didn't get killed by Jackie Kennedy
as soon as that happen. I don't know how that
didn't happen because there's a lot of married men out there.
If I don't even know who the equivalent today of
Marilyn Monroe is, can you think who the equivalent There's nobody.
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There's nobody on that level of fame, iconic female, you know,
beauty and sensuality and that at that No, I mean
she was, she's kind of the first. She's kind of
like the she's like the beatles of um, you know,
female by herself. So yeah, that that had to be
an awkward return home to the White House for John F.
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Kennedy Jr. JFK. I would think as a married man,
I don't think that probably went very well. Just just
for just for the record, the media was a very
different world back then. They covered up for so much
about JFK's personal life is problems, the use of different
substances is uh, we could dally and different. I mean,
(31:42):
they covered up, but they covered it. They didn't even
did they knew about stuff. And they're like, oh, we're
not going to talk about that because we want people
believe the fact that FDR couldn't walk And this was
a totally different Why when people the whole self serving
narrative of journalism as truth tellers who stand athwart pour.
The history of American journalism is actually the opposite of that.
(32:04):
For the most part, it is usually cozying up to
and doing the bidding of power, particularly when it comes
to political journalism and people with access to the White House,
because you know, there was a time when if you
weren't with a you know, a major news organization, didn't
have access, you couldn't even get your your thoughts out
there anyway, So everyone was playing the game man, and
they covered up JFK. I mean, you know, a lot
(32:27):
of problems, a lot of problems, by the way, seventy
nine percent approval rating because the media covered up, because
they covered it, because then they want us to go
back to that. If the media had their way, America
would be seventy nine percent approving of Joe Biden. As
we can't find baby formula and we have the worst
worst economic crisis happening right now since two thousand and eight. Um. Anyways,
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you can see but see Clay who took us to
the happy place, and I got all it's because I
can't speak today, so I'm I'm in a little bit
of historical relevancy Clay wanted to make it like a
light historical ed nigam, halt you over here because I
need to gargle salt water and I can barely speak.
Stephen in Allentown, Pennsylvania's got some thoughts. What's up Stephen?
Playing books? Shield time shield tie, Sir. I gotta say, Um,
(33:13):
I miss Rush. But if there was ever any dynamic
duo that could that can continue on with the good
work for the God, bless you both. You're doing it.
You're doing a bang up job though the bands, you
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know what. I love that, And I gotta say, And
it wasn't easy for me at first because I grew
up in Ohio and Chrissy Hines and the Pretenders. When
I would hear that, come on, I mean I played
high school football at Hoover High in North Canton, Ohio,
and I always identified, even though I live in Pennsylvania now,
(33:59):
I always I find that to a time in my
life that you know, you only get once. Yeah, thank
you for the call. Look, I think a lot of people, Um,
you know it's gonna be partly generational. And Buck and
I are a little bit younger. And that was a
song that to us evokes an era that we thought
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was a was a pretty good one and I just
love I mean, in this era where musicians are constantly saying,
if you don't share my politics, I don't want you
to share my music, we wanted to make sure that
we found somebody who fit the political moment. Randy in
I think it's Maxwell Nebraska. Randy Hey, it's an honor
(34:44):
to be on. We appreciate lifelong democrat. But I enjoyed
the show. All right, we'll take it. No, you know,
you could have went with your bumper music forget me,
I'm over. I am dealing with about a COVID and
that's no joke. But anyway, you could have went with
your bumper music of chocolate, but Lid is great. You
could have went with Blink one eighty two or Goldfinger,
(35:05):
but Lid is great. You know, the Tonight Show was
an iconic theme with Johnny Carson that theme song for
like twenty five thirty years, and then when it changed
to Jay Leno, he changed the music, so the pretender
thing go to rust with Rush. Well, thank you, by
the way, And look, we could have come on at
(35:26):
the very start and said we demand everything about the
show change Buck and I did not in any way
believe that that was appropriate. So a full year of
honoring Rush's legacy by continuing to play his theme music.
And I think Buck's analogy is a good one of
(35:47):
retiring the jersey. I mean, this is a song that
will forever be connected to Rush, and we honor his
legacy every day by fighting the battles that he would
still be fighting if he were here. And I think
he would be happy that we have selected a band
that was a big fan of his. I mean, they
loved listening to the show, and Buck and I wanted
(36:09):
to make that certain when we picked a new song,
that it would be somebody who honored the legacy of Rush,
end of this audience, end of the show. Yeah, they
were Rush fans as well as people that listen to
this show now. So we managed to find a band
with both, which was pretty amazing when you think about
how far left most of the entertainment media and music
world is. So we're really fortunate, We're excited about it.
(36:31):
We appreciate all of you given us. First of all,
this this whole year of listening. I am going to
go rest my voice. Clay is going to go take
care of the family and we will be back with
you tomorrow, ready to rock.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in our number three Clay
Travis buck Sexton Show. We appreciate all of you hanging
out with us, so as you listen to the music
that is bringing us back here at the top of
the hour, a lot of you have the same reaction
(00:21):
that we have had over the years. For decades, Rush's
theme song has reminded everyone out there truth and clarity
on the way. It's an iconic song forever that's going
to be attached to Russian Limbaugh and everything that he represented.
As we come up on the one year anniversary of
this show, these songwrites are expiring, and we wanted to
(00:45):
take this time. Buck and we talked a lot about
this behind the scenes. As this songwrites are expiring, I
wanted to take the time to find a song for
this show that could be as iconic and irreplaceable in
the future, and also that would feature a band that
really loves and respects what our political beliefs are, because
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there's a lot of you out there know there are
a lot of bands that do not respect what we
believe in every day, and so we spend a lot
of time on this book, and for us this is
really like retiring the jersey in sports, because Russia's theme
song is forever attached to his memory, everything he built,
(01:30):
and we deeply honor that his legacy, and that song
is a part of his legacy. Of course, So with
all of that in mind, and given as we said
that the songwrites are expiring soon, we found this amazing band.
Clay is actually friends with the individuals in this band Lit.
(01:51):
You may know the band Lit. The song we've landed
on is called My Own Worst Enemy. It has tens
of millions of YouTube plays. There are hundreds and hundreds
of rock stations that were playing it when it first
came out in nineteen ninety nine, which I will say
is a great year, a phenomenal year, maybe the greatest
year of all time. And Clay, a really great thing
(02:11):
is it's it's rare to find a rock band that
honestly doesn't have the politics of a bunch of of
evil commies, no matter how good their music may be.
These guys are patriots. They love America. You know them.
They listen to the show, Yeah, I listen. I know
them personally, and so I'll give you a I'll give
you a story. They live here in Nashville. The band
(02:33):
is lit again. The song is My Own Worst Enemy.
If you are a fan at all of nineteen nineties
era music, this is one of the most iconic songs
that came out of the nineties. I met these guys
many times over the years here in Nashville, and actually
I was over at their house once and I walked
in and they had a college football game on as
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Utah was playing, and we're number one in Salt Lake City,
so shout out to the Utes, and I just thought
that was interesting. I watch every college football game, but
they were they had Utah on, and I walked in
and Jeremy Popoff, who is one of the members of
the band, his son was a student manager for the
Utah Utes football team. So I got to know the
family really well, and in fact, their son was one
(03:17):
of the interns for OutKick, and I've gotten to know
them so well. And we were making this decision. Buck
was really important to me that we feature music from
people who respect and love and have the same political
beliefs as us. These guys moved to Tennessee from California
(03:39):
because they were so frustrated with the direction that California
politics had gone, and they are going to be long
time listeners of this show. They loved a Rush and
when we had this conversation with them, Buck, I mean,
you should have seen their faces and how excited they
(04:00):
were to be able to bring their music to this
audience and connect their brand and their spirit with the
spirit and the brand of the greatest radio show audience
that has ever existed in American history. So we spent
a lot of time on this. When they told us
this song was expiring, that the contract was running out,
(04:21):
that they wanted to make sure that it was forever
iconic and connected to Rush, that we could find our
own version of this, And I'm confident that you guys
are going to like it in the same way my
city was gone to find Rush again. I think your
analogy is a good one, Buck of retiring, you know,
sort of, the Jersey will always be proud of our
(04:42):
affiliation with Rush in that theme song, but we hope
that this new song will also be a big part
of our listening family. I think we're going to debut
it on Monday. It may take some time for people
to get used to, but we wanted to directly address
this with you instead of just flipping a switch. Suddenly,
you guys are like, what the world happened? We we
(05:03):
live every day on this show to serve this audience,
the audience that Rush built, and everything we do keeps
in mind that legacy and all that he built over decades.
So we make decisions here with that as a as
a load stars, as a guiding point for us. And
so with that in mind, we are retiring the jersey.
(05:26):
So to speak of a great song, a song, let's
be honest, that Rush made great. Actually, I think that
that's fair to say. It is really associated with Rush
more than anything than anything else about that song. And
now we're going to be introducing folks to LIT and
we think that they will. We hope they'll enjoy it.
We want to hear from you, by the way, as
(05:47):
we say we serve you. We serve this audience every day.
That's why we're here. And it's an honor. Honestly, it
is a privilege. And I've said this before and I
think you can tell Clay and I feel the same way.
We really mean it. We're lucky to be able to
do this show. Every day. It's a great blessing for
all of us to be able to talk to all
of you. So I want to hear from some of you.
Of you are if you know, Lid, if you're excited
about the prospect of a little bit of some nineties
(06:09):
music being thrown into the mix here, you've already heard
some nineties here and there. I mean, we're you know,
we want to keep it just from an audio and
music lover perspective, keep it, keep it fresh and moving,
and introduce you to new things in general. And so
if you have any thoughts on this one eight hundred
two two two eight eight two, we would love to
chat with you about it and hear what you think
about it. And know that we know that it's a
(06:30):
transition and for some of you might take a little
bit of getting used to. But we're we're excited about
it and it will be I think something we all
look back on and say, this is kind of a
it's fun. It's a fun thing. It's a fun thing
to get to have a relationship with this band this
way and to have a sound that will be associated
with us in my neighborhood. Buck, I sent you this video.
We had a nineties tribute band come out and play
(06:52):
here in here in Nashville, And the very first nineteen
nineties song that the tribute band played was My Own
Worst Enemy, And so I took I mean, there's you know,
several thousand people at this event. It was great out
here in Franklin, and I took a video of it.
And actually in downtown Franklin, probably a couple of months ago,
(07:14):
I was at a charity event and Lit came and
played my own and Worst Enemy, and the entire place
just went crazy. So I know, everybody's got different musical
interest and different musical taste. And when you came of age,
you may think is the greatest music of all time,
regardless of when you came of age. So for Buck
and I, the nineties are basically the best era of
(07:35):
music that ever exists. You know, we did a little testing.
I mean, I try to convince some maybe my acapella
rendition of the Macaino would be a good way to
go and that would really fire people up. But apparently,
you know, that wasn't really gonna make it quite as effect.
I don't think I've told you this, Buck, but I
am tone deaf, like I can't. This may not surprise
(07:56):
people because I don't necessarily do great when it comes
to pronunciations. But I was in chorus in high school
and I was so tone deaf in terms of being
able to sing that the chorus teacher said, you mouth
the words. I've never heard of the chorus teacher doing
this before. He stood in front of the bases till
he could find out who was messing up the pitch,
and he said, you have a good speaking voice. He said,
(08:18):
you will announce from now on. In course, you had
to take chorus. You had to take an art to graduate.
The mind was chorus. He said, from now on, you
will announce the songs that we sing, but you will
actually just mouth the words. We don't need I have
you've ever heard of anybody being told that who's a
member of a choral group. You announced you have a
good voice, good speaking voice. You could announce what we're
(08:38):
going to sing. But you can no longer sing. This
reminds me of when I was short for a short
period time trying to play ice hockey in the third grade,
and they told him, and I told the counselor or
the coach that my helmet was too small from my
huge head, and it was good and he's like, no,
it's not and he put it on my head and
he goes, yeah, I know it is too small. You
(09:01):
could have been the next Mark Messier. Helmet was a
monster issue. I needed a different helmet and I never
actually even got it in my ice hockey career. Did
last f I think it lasted about three weeks. So yeah, man,
we've all we've all got those memories. Clay. I just
have never heard of anybody being you know, they always
say like anybody can get better. I've never heard of
(09:22):
a chorus teacher. Mister Scandrick God rest his soul. At
Martin Luther King Magnet in Nashville, there's a lot of
witnesses stopped right in front. You could just see his eyes.
He was so disappointed Buck that the choral group in
the bases when he was standing in front of him
were not in unison singing. Well. But I did do
a really good job announcing all those songs that year.
(09:43):
So we all have our benefits, we all have our talents.
But in all seriousness, I'm telling you, the lit guys
are super excited and we will do an event. I
don't know when it will be, but at some point
we gotta we gotta get them to show up and
do live, live stuff for us in Nashville. We're talking about,
you know what we could do. I need to get
them on I need to text them and see what
(10:03):
their schedule looks like around the mid terms because we're
doing our event in Nashville to celebrate what should be
a red tide for the midterms. Need to get the
guys to show up and sing my own worst enemy
better and better, because we we'd like to give you.
We gotta tell you what's going on and what the
challenges are in the country. And look, the Biden administrations
in charge. There's a lot of stuff that's messed up
right now, there's no question about it. But we are
(10:25):
planning a midterm election party, not a call in you know, oh,
this state that we're going to let other people do that.
They can sit there at the decision desk or whatever
and they can make their calls. We're going to be
rocking out and maybe really rocking out because it is
looking like it will at least be a restoration of
(10:45):
sanity in the November election. I don't want to get
too far ahead of ourselves. But it is looking pretty
good right now, and so if we could have lit
play there, I mean, honestly, I don't know if there
is a band that can transport you to the late
nineties faster with a song. I mean, they're right, you know,
you're right up there. It's iconic in the way that
(11:06):
like Bittersweet Symphony and some of those other great songs songs.
We'll play it for you. If it's not already hute up,
I hope it is. We'll see if we can play
it for you coming out of the next break as
we come in for the next segment. If you guys
haven't yet heard or not exactly sure of what that
song sounds like, it's a choral right that you will
hear as we start each of the hours going forward,
(11:28):
I believe on Monday. So I just want to let
you know where it was coming from, why it was
happening the background there. And we continue to thank you
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want to hear from you. Of course, you open up
the lines and it is a tsunami of phone calls
right away. If you were expecting and here is Blake
in Colorado, Blake Lit. What do you think, Hey, I
love it. I'm a big stan of the show. I
follow Clay actually from Fox Sports right and I loved
(14:03):
him on there, especially during the COVID years. And I
was thinking that you guys are thinking about maybe kid
rock possibly two. But we did, We did discuss. We
discussed kid rock. We kicked around it. And it's just
the instrumental that you hear there. And for everybody out there,
some people don't pay that much attention to music. Other
people pay a lot of attention to it. It's the
(14:25):
open of each hour, so you'll hear that instrumental that
you just heard to open hour one, hour two, and
hour three. And so we listened. I mean, Buck and
I Aren Let's be honest, we are not super music people.
But when this was expiring, we needed to come up
with a new song, and so they had a bunch
of different suggestions, and what we wanted to make sure
it was that we were not featuring someone who would
(14:48):
not like our show. We're never getting I mean, just
think about this. You know, even when Trump would play
at these arenas they into, they would they would send
this annoying letter, don't use that song. So we just
said no, no, no, We're only talking to bands that
are cool with us, support our values, and quite honestly
respect this audience like they're one of you. Lid is
(15:10):
one of you in terms of their view of America.
So that was a huge, huge win for us in
that regard. Blake, We're glad you like it. Good to
hear it. Todd in his self described freedom bunker in Nebraska.
Hey Todd, Hey Buck, it's so good to hear you again. Clay,
hello as well. Thank you. You know there's a tough day.
Transitions are hard and they're inevitable, though, so I want
(15:33):
to start use by saying quickly made dettos to all
of us that have listened to Rush and miss him.
I miss him every day and prayers for Catherine. We
think of you and we love you, and our hearts
are always with you. And I've been a Rush listener
since ninety two. Buck, I've been listening to you for years.
I'm not an OSS member, but pretty close. Thank you,
and you know, I'm just so it's sad and happy
(15:54):
at the same time. When Rush passed away, Buck Eye
was clearly torn up, but very happy, been more happy
to learn that you were going to be in the
replacement slot along with Clay, and so twenty minutes ago
when the song came on, my city was gone. I'm
here with my bass over my shoulder playing it along,
dancing with my closest friend in the world, as we
always do, get up and dance, and so very sad
(16:16):
to hear that news. But at the same time, Guy,
I saw lit in concert when I lived in Kansas
City in two thousand, outdoor concert in the middle of summer,
one of the greatest nights. The stars came out. So
what an excellent selection to continue with. And to both
of you and all the Rush listeners across America, I
want to say, and around the world you know, love
(16:37):
you Rush and to YouTube, keep up the fight. We
listened every day three hours every day podcast subscriber, and
end with shield Tie, Shield Tie, Tom, thank you so much.
I'll have to explain that one at some point too.
Maybe start working that one into the show. Oss Clay,
you know, as the officer Strategic services of listeners. When
I started a show that was digital, I was digital
(16:58):
first as a radio stream on the Blaze dot com
on Saturday's for three hours. Original Saturday Squad was what
they call it. So that's what he was referring to there.
We want we got more calls, people calling in saying
they love lit and they want to they want to
weigh in, and other folks I'm sure are gonna be
calling in two. But I think unfortunately we're about to
hit a hard break and we got we got a
(17:19):
big issue to talk about your second which is Title
forty two with the ag of Arizona, Mark Bernovich, who's
also also in his own race there, so we got
we gotta talk to him in a few moments here.
Border mess, Clay is this is gonna be one. I
think this would be end up being the biggest story
in the country in June, alongside the final abortion decision.
(17:40):
Those are going to be two very very big stories.
No doubt you guys can continue to weighim may take
a few more of your calls to close out the show.
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in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show, appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. We are now joined by the
Attorney General of Arizona. He is fighting battles every day
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for so many people out there in the state of Arizona,
including in Phoenix, where we have one of the biggest
audiences listening to radio in the country, number one in
that market. Attorney General Bernovich, let's just start right here.
If and when Title forty two is no longer in force,
what do you expect to happen in the state of
Arizona And what are you trying to do to fight
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against the repeal of Title forty two. Well, a tidal
wave of destruction will impact our southern border, and it's
got nothing to do with climate change. And don't just
take my word for the Biden administration that themselves have
said that we will see eighteen thousand people a day
trying to legally enter our country. And I'll think about it.
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You have the basketball playoffs going on right now. That's
like the equivalent of one of those arenas every single
day illegally entering the United States. And you're talking about
the price of drugs dramatically falling, impact the social welfare system. Literally,
Americans will die, Our country will be forever changed as
a result of the lawlessness at our southern border. Title
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forty two, as you guys know, is one of the
only things left for making this crisis even worse. And
that's why I was very proud to lead the charge.
Our lawyers are in federal court arguing that the Biden
administration cannot resend Title forty two at this time, So
AJ Burnham appreciate you being with us. What should they
put aside what they will do, because I think we
all know it's going to be a disaster. But what
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should they do, meaning an extension of Title forty two
until when and until what measures are in place? Right?
I mean, that's one part of this discussion that I
don't because you can't have Title forty two forever, right,
At some point one would think this authority would would
have to expire realistically, So I mean, do we have
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metrics for when that should be and what needs to
be put in place so that it doesn't result in
the flood of illegal crossing that everybody's expecting right now? Well,
once again, put to all in context, is that Title
forty two can't be looked at is an isolate since
you're right, it was a common sense public health policy,
but it's now one of the only tools law enforcement
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has to deal with the historic portal crisis. So this
didn't begin an end with Title forty two. I mean
this began literally on the day Joe Biden was inaugurated,
when he stopped building the border wall and we had
to assue him over that. When you remember when he
implemented that what they called temporary and it was permanent
guidance where the Biden administration refused to deport people deportation
orders more than a million people in this country, including
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people being released from prisons and jails. We had to
assume him over that, and there's been ongoing litigation. I
was at the US Supreme Court in February arguing when
the Biden administration tried to rescind the public charge rule
where they want to give government benefits to non citizens,
what I call the incentivization of legal immigration. So the
problem is is what we have seen over the last
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year and a half since Joe Biden took office is
a systematic attempt to undermine the rule of law and
to undermine all not only literally statutes, but to undermine
policies and formal government rules that were implemented that we're
actually having a real effect on a legal immigration. So yeah,
Title forty two is one of the only it is
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one tool in the toolbox. It wasn't meant to be permanent,
but I think we all recognize that if Joe Biden,
Kamala Harris sector of Mayorchas revoked Title forty two. At
this time, he is setting up the Southwest for the
biggest invasion since the Alamo. What are you seeing on
the ground in Arizona as we get basically six months
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out from the mid terms, What do you expect for Arizona,
which is a huge battleground, to look like come November eighth. Well,
it's someone that grew up here in Arizona, you know,
and I've lived here. I still live in my same
neighborhood I grew up in. If people want security, it's
all about security, and that means border security, in economic security,
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and folks here, you know, wherever they live in the state,
recognize that. Whether it's at the gas pump, whether it's
at the grocery store, or whether it's the gangs that
have increased their presence in our neighborhoods. This is all
a result of the failed policies of Joe Biden. Secretary
of ma Orchis Kamala Harrison Cartel Kelly, and so I
think there's a lot of great anger and frustration with
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what's going on, and really when it comes to especially security,
border security, and this is when the federal government's at
its apex of power, where the president is supposed to
be protecting us and guarding us, and instead we're not
only seeing a record amount of people legally cross the border,
which strains our social services, we are now seeing a
dramatic decrease in the price of fetinol, in the price
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of methanncetamine. And I will tell you the former gang prosecutor.
We know is the cartels make more money off drugs,
they become more powerful, and we know that more people
are going to die. Someone's niece, nephew's son, daughter is
going to die as a result of the flood of methanncetamine.
It's coming not only into Arizona, but it's also spreading
throughout the United States. And so we talk about security,
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safety in our neighborhoods, and we talk about the ability
of hard middle class neighbor Americans to be able to
fill up their car with gas and not have to
take out a college loan. Speaking to Attorney General Mark
Bernovich for the State of Arizona, mister Attorney General, tell
me what could be done to clean up the situation.
I mean, you mentioned the cartels, you mentioned fentonel overdoses
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one hundred and seventy one hundred and seven thousand overdoses
fatal overdoses nationwide last year. I'm sure tragically a large
percentage of fatal overdoses occurred in Arizona as it's along
the border. So how do you crack down effectively how
you're talking about safety? People need safety? What would you
do or what you know if you were to win
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a Senate seat, for example, what would you like to
see change? Well, hey, I'm going to win the Senate seat,
and we need to have a realistic and holistic approach.
And so one we look at what's going on with
our judiciary and even the Supreme Court, making sure that
we appoint and confirm judge is that understand the rule
of law and that they're not there to be policymakers,
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but they're there to enforce the law. We need to
make sure that we are supporting our law enforcement officials
and that means making sure that you know, we don't
demonize them and that we don't try to stigmatize people
that are just doing their jobs. And we need to
make sure that we have the resources and the willpower
available to enforce existing laws when it comes to our
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southern border, and so that literally means we've got to
deport people with deportation orders. We have to make sure
that we continue to build the border wall, we have
to make sure that we're you know, especially the local level,
the state levels I've done as prosecutors. We want to
make sure that people that break the law are arrested
and punished, and that we have a judicial system that
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enforces the law as it's supposed to be. And so
I think that part of the problem we've had is
that you send people to Washington, DC that just want
to get reelected and they want to continue to grow
the side in the scope of the federal government. And
the next thing, you know, we have the federal government,
for example, involved in education and trying to ram critical
race theory down our kids throats. And that's not the
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role of the federal government. But when it comes to
issues like border security and national security, that is where
we need the federal government to focus it's time and resources.
Turn in general, Mark Bernovitch of Arizona and SENTI candidate,
appreciate you being with us, sir. Hey, thanks lock guys. Hey,
what about my walk up music? What would you pick, Oh,
(26:28):
I don't know, like maybe some grateful debt or a
rush line like kid Rock. Do you ever have you
ever gotten a cease and desist? Because I know this
happens to a lot of politicians when you're doing rallies
and you use music that you like, but the politicians,
I mean the musicians decide they don't like you. Has
that happened to you or have you heard of that
(26:49):
happening in Arizona? No? But I think the key is
you gotta go with folks like Toby Keys, Kid Rock
or the Grateful Dead where they don't get hung up
on that or Lords example, which is why we that
they're going to love this music for decades to come.
I was gonna say, we can send him a playlist,
but you know, it's like I'm burning him a CD
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or something, Hey burning for you. That'd be a good
walk up song. But yeah, maybe the boister Coults would
stop me from playing it. I don't know. So all right,
ag burnavitch everybody, thanks for hanging with us or good
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do great content for here. That's the plan. Wait before
we go to some more calls, because we got lines
lit up all over the place, we have opened the
floodgates to the phones. Clay, You I didn't like you know,
I will say I did enjoy the My Week with
Marilyn movie. I thought that was that was good for
what it was. It was a pretty entertain Did you
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see that movie My Week with Marylyn? I have not
seen it. No, Oh, it's very good, very well done. Actually,
I'm a I would recommend that it was better than
I thought it would be good date movie. Yeah, you
know that kind of thing. But you're Marilyn Monroe, his
history buff. I guess well. I saw this circulating. I
thought it was interesting, So I'm a history nerd. And
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one of the most iconic moments of John F. Kennedy's
presidency is when Marilyn Monroe saying Happy Birthday to him.
It has now been to sixty at the anniversary. This
happened sixty years ago today, and we actually had a
debate about whether we could play this or not. I
put my lawyer had on. This is a historically relevant
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moment in American history. Those of you who remember, I
wanted to give you a little bit of taste. Here's
what it sounded like. Marilyn Monroe. By the way, we're
talking about how tone deaf I was. Maril Monroe not
tone deaf. Here's her birthday singing to the president. Hassy's
birthday took day, mister President, Puppy's firsday. Let me just
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say this as a marriage as a married man, I
don't know how JFK didn't get killed by Jackie Kennedy
as soon as that happen. I don't know how that
didn't happen because there's a lot of married men out there.
If I don't even know who the equivalent today of
Marilyn Monroe is, can you think who the equivalent There's nobody.
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There's nobody on that level of fame, iconic female, you know,
beauty and sensuality and that at that No, I mean
she was, she's kind of the first. She's kind of
like the she's like the beatles of um, you know,
female by herself. So yeah, that that had to be
an awkward return home to the White House for John F.
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Kennedy Jr. JFK. I would think as a married man,
I don't think that probably went very well. Just just
for just for the record, the media was a very
different world back then. They covered up for so much
about JFK's personal life is problems, the use of different
substances is uh, we could dally and different. I mean,
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they covered up, but they covered it. They didn't even
did they knew about stuff. And they're like, oh, we're
not going to talk about that because we want people
believe the fact that FDR couldn't walk And this was
a totally different Why when people the whole self serving
narrative of journalism as truth tellers who stand athwart pour.
The history of American journalism is actually the opposite of that.
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For the most part, it is usually cozying up to
and doing the bidding of power, particularly when it comes
to political journalism and people with access to the White House,
because you know, there was a time when if you
weren't with a you know, a major news organization, didn't
have access, you couldn't even get your your thoughts out
there anyway, So everyone was playing the game man, and
they covered up JFK. I mean, you know, a lot
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of problems, a lot of problems, by the way, seventy
nine percent approval rating because the media covered up, because
they covered it, because then they want us to go
back to that. If the media had their way, America
would be seventy nine percent approving of Joe Biden. As
we can't find baby formula and we have the worst
worst economic crisis happening right now since two thousand and eight. Um. Anyways,
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you can see but see Clay who took us to
the happy place, and I got all it's because I
can't speak today, so I'm I'm in a little bit
of historical relevancy Clay wanted to make it like a
light historical ed nigam, halt you over here because I
need to gargle salt water and I can barely speak.
Stephen in Allentown, Pennsylvania's got some thoughts. What's up Stephen?
Playing books? Shield time shield tie, Sir. I gotta say, Um,
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I miss Rush. But if there was ever any dynamic
duo that could that can continue on with the good
work for the God, bless you both. You're doing it.
You're doing a bang up job though the bands, you
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know what. I love that, And I gotta say, And
it wasn't easy for me at first because I grew
up in Ohio and Chrissy Hines and the Pretenders. When
I would hear that, come on, I mean I played
high school football at Hoover High in North Canton, Ohio,
and I always identified, even though I live in Pennsylvania now,
(33:59):
I always I find that to a time in my
life that you know, you only get once. Yeah, thank
you for the call. Look, I think a lot of people, Um,
you know it's gonna be partly generational. And Buck and
I are a little bit younger. And that was a
song that to us evokes an era that we thought
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was a was a pretty good one and I just
love I mean, in this era where musicians are constantly saying,
if you don't share my politics, I don't want you
to share my music, we wanted to make sure that
we found somebody who fit the political moment. Randy in
I think it's Maxwell Nebraska. Randy Hey, it's an honor
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to be on. We appreciate lifelong democrat. But I enjoyed
the show. All right, we'll take it. No, you know,
you could have went with your bumper music forget me,
I'm over. I am dealing with about a COVID and
that's no joke. But anyway, you could have went with
your bumper music of chocolate, but Lid is great. You
could have went with Blink one eighty two or Goldfinger,
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but Lid is great. You know, the Tonight Show was
an iconic theme with Johnny Carson that theme song for
like twenty five thirty years, and then when it changed
to Jay Leno, he changed the music, so the pretender
thing go to rust with Rush. Well, thank you, by
the way, And look, we could have come on at
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the very start and said we demand everything about the
show change Buck and I did not in any way
believe that that was appropriate. So a full year of
honoring Rush's legacy by continuing to play his theme music.
And I think Buck's analogy is a good one of
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retiring the jersey. I mean, this is a song that
will forever be connected to Rush, and we honor his
legacy every day by fighting the battles that he would
still be fighting if he were here. And I think
he would be happy that we have selected a band
that was a big fan of his. I mean, they
loved listening to the show, and Buck and I wanted
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to make that certain when we picked a new song,
that it would be somebody who honored the legacy of Rush,
end of this audience, end of the show. Yeah, they
were Rush fans as well as people that listen to
this show now. So we managed to find a band
with both, which was pretty amazing when you think about
how far left most of the entertainment media and music
world is. So we're really fortunate, We're excited about it.
(36:31):
We appreciate all of you given us. First of all,
this this whole year of listening. I am going to
go rest my voice. Clay is going to go take
care of the family and we will be back with
you tomorrow, ready to rock.
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