June 21, 2022 • 37 mins
Jeremy Popoff of the band Lit talks to Clay and Buck about the show's new theme song -- and more. Biden on his bike fall. Broadway to drop mask mandate. Adam Carolla wishes C&B a happy anniversary. SCOTUS decision on religious schools is a win for freedom. Dems slash price on photo with Kamala. Dems have no bench, what will happen in 2024? Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson wish C&B a happy anniversary. C&B's first-ever caller calls back to discuss Uvalde.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travison buck Sexton
Show podcast. Welcome back in our number three underway. I
am Clay Travis, he is buck Sexton. We are celebrating
the one year anniversary of The Clay Travison buck Sexton Show.
Encourage all of you to go subscribe to the podcast
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if you haven't already, you'll ensure that you don't miss
a moment. We had herschel Walker here in studio with
me in Atlanta, Georgia. Buck is down in the Florida Keys.
We are continuing to move all over the country as
we are number one in a ton of different markets.
I will hit all those markets with you, I promise
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before the show is over today in honor of the
one year anniversary. But we are joined by the man
whose music you just heard, bringing us back into the
third hour of the program. He is Jeremy pop Off
from the band Lit and Jeremy, I've gotten to know
you in Nashville. What does it mean for you as
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a I know very much long time Russia Winbaugh fan
and listener to have your music now connected to the
audience that we are speaking with every single day. Ah Man, Well, first,
of all, Uh, i'd like to wish you guys a
happy anniversary and uh and and you know, we're big
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fans of the show and thank you when you take
you know, I was in England, um when you texted
me about possibly you know, using the song and uh,
and everybody was super fired up and said, it's a
real it's a real honor for us, you know. UM.
And we're just uh, we're yeah, I mean we're we're
truly humbled and honored that you that you picked our
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song to uh. You know, we're We're get to be
a little small part of the show each day and
it's awesome and we get Jeremy. We're so appreciated and
we think LID is uh is a great, great band.
I'm wondering, you know that that guitar riff you're you're
the lead guitarist of the band LID, and that guitar
riff in particular that people here at the top of
the show. I would argue it's one of the most
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iconic guitar riffs of the nineteen nineties, one of the
most memorable, the one that really sticks out. I'm just
wondering how this came together, you know, This is like
our behind the music moment here because were you just
you know, you're hanging out on the beach with a
with an acoustic and having some fun. I mean, how
did this come together? Man? We used to have a
warehouse in Anaheim, were you know, the band's originally from Anaheim, California,
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and we had a warehouse that was a man cave.
Before that, you know, we knew what a man cave was,
and we spent every night there for several hours. And
that's where we practiced and wrote and hung out with
our friends and did all that stuff. And that riff
just sort of spilled out one night, and can did
you remember just do you remember playing it and realizing, oh,
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that's really good. I mean, we thought it was cool,
but we think all our songs are cool when writing them,
you know. So it's actually one of our good buddies, Tony,
who was kind of like the unofficial fifth member. He
was kind of like, I don't know, man, I really
liked that song. So we ended up we didn't play
it for a few shows because we were self conscious
about it because Tony didn't like it. And but yeah,
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what a crazy what a crazy thing? Man? Two notes
and and some lyrics that were probably written to be
maybe changed or modified when we had time to get
to it, and then it just sort of took off
and became something that we would have never dreamed that
it became, and were really just blessed. And it's crabby.
Yet just yesterday we got we must have had one
hundred thousand, you know, messages sent to us. There was
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that viral video yesterday of the bride playing drums to
it at our wedding, and it's just like a weekly
thing where it's just like it just takes on this
life of its own, and it's just crazy. Jeremy. One
thing that Buck and I wanted to make sure we
did when they told us that the music was coming
up and we needed to come up with a new
open to our hours, was we said, we don't want
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to end up with a musician or a group that
doesn't like our audience and doesn't respect our perspective. And
I was so excited to know you you relocated your
family from California to Tennessee, and you were super upset
with all of the restrictions that we're going on with COVID,
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And so when I told Buck that he was like,
oh man, these are our guys, but kind of explain
how you ended up making the move to Nashville and
what your response was to the government telling you, hey,
this is what you can do, this is what you
can't do. There's a lot of musicians now that seem
to embrace the nanny state, when oftentimes artists and musicians
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historically have been about rebelling against the power structure. There's
an awful lot of musicians and artists now who say, hey,
regulate me more, which to me is the anti of
what art should be. It's crazy how how full circle
it's come with a lot of musicians, and especially like
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you know, the guys that are you know, supposedly more
punk rock and more edgy or alternative, and they have
just sort of gone the way of the buffalo and
just sort of follow whatever they're being told to do.
And you know, we're just we're look, we're an American
rock and roll band. We we we we were very um,
just middle class dudes that grew up in Anaheim, which
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is not the you know, it is not the fancy
part of Orange County. And we just were hard working,
do it yourself guys who who believed it much more
of just you know, our our freedom is not negotiable,
and uh, leave us alone, let us do our thing.
And and and we're also you know, we're not um.
We played by the rules. You know, we're respectful dudes,
and we're family guys, and we have our values and stuff.
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But we're just kind of like, hey man, you know,
we're we're growing. Ask men, now leave us alone, you know,
and let us let us do We're you know, we're
not We're gonna do what we want to do. But
it blows our minds to see just how many of
our peers have have just like just they lost their
balls somewhere along the way or something. Now that's what
I said. I think that's right. We're speaking right now,
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do you Jeremy pop Off, the lead guitarist of the
band Lit And for those of you who are wondering
where that where that music, the song that you're hearing
the top of the show comes from. Where the one
year anniversary of clay An Buck. We've got this new
theme song that gets everybody fired up. And you know,
do you do you think Jeremy that there's I think
right now I'm gonnall just put this out there. There's
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a little bit of a turning away from the monolith
in the arts that we've seen, or just the the
demand that everybody, whether you're in whether you're in sports,
whether you're in Hollywood, where you're in music, that that
entertainment is just so the province of only one side
of the national conversation. Do you think we're heading toward
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a little bit at least? I'm not even saying people
that are Republican or conservative necessarily who are are in
music and in the arts, but just understanding that without freedom,
you actually can't be an artist, and therefore you have
to actually defend individual freedom at some level. Um. And
I mean, look, I think the reason why your show
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is number one in so many markets and is so
you know, popular and refreshing, is because I don't think
that it's so. I don't think it's about being far
right or far less. I think it's about people are
starting to realize, like, you guys are just you guys,
just make sense. It's just common sense. And it's it's
not about politics. It's about like, what what are we
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doing here? And it's and it's it's so much more
when I listen to you guys, I'm just like, who,
who's going to disagree with this? Right now? It doesn't
you know what I mean? We feel the same way.
We feel. We feel like everyone should be listening at agree.
So there you go. Well, I think it's a balance
of you know, we all get together with our buddies
and I've listened. I've got a lot of friends from
all over the spectrum of beliefs and religions and faiths
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and politics or whatever. And you know, at the end
of the day, we all get together and have a beer,
and we agree on on way more than we disagree on,
you know, and uh, and all we really all want
to do is be happy and healthy and raise our
families and and uh and be able to have a
shot at at you know, the American dream. So who
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who who doesn't agree with that? And and and then
call me and let's and let's have a conversation about it,
because I don't I wouldn't, you know, I don't understand
how you were not on that page. You know, Jeremy,
you and I met for the first time with Tommy
larn we were out watching an Alabama LSU football game
in twenty twenty in Nashville when there were still our
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restrictions on how long bars could be open. Our mutual
friend Steve Ford, owns a bunch of bars in downtown
Nashville and was chomping at the bit over what was allowed.
And we left that bar to go back to your house,
and you had the Utah football game on by the way,
where in Salt Lake City is one of the cities
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where we're number one. And I walked in. I was like, Oh,
this guy must be a pretty big college football fan.
Your son was a student manager, it turns out, on
the Utah football team, and so you were watching that game.
But I'd always been a fan of your band, and
certainly of the iconic songs that you've produced, including the
one that we're using to start every hour. But that
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was where I said, oh, man, this is this is
a dude who overlaps with me in a lot of
different areas. And that was during a time when the
city of Nashville was trying to say you couldn't have
more than like five people in your house, which kind
of goes to the whole point of how absurd all
this was. Well, if you remember that night too, I
mean the the cops were called from a neighbor, and yeah,
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it ended up being a whole thing, a whole lot.
What happened. Yeah, by the way, for people who don't know,
we went back to college football games and have some
drinks when the bars were shutting down your house in
Davidson County, which is where Nashville is. The cops showed up.
I think they were like fifteen or twenty people there.
It wasn't like it was a you know, raging house party.
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Everybody was pretty much indoors, just having a few drinks
and watching some football. It wasn't even that late and
the cops came. I mean, which, by the way, is
just an element of how crazy it was. Whatever ended
up happening with that, well, that was my brother's house
that time, and uh and yeah, he got arrested and
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he had to go to court, you had to do
community service and pay a fine and hire a lawyer.
And yeah, you're right. It was about fifteen people there,
and I would say, you know, eight of them were
standing out on the deck, you know, having a cigar
or a cigarette or whatever, and there was a handful
in the house. Is also you know, a four thousand
square foot house with twenty of space and tall ceilings
and everything else. And it was and you know, they
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came into the backyard, if you remember, and they were
like filming us from the backyard. It was a real odd,
odd experience. And honestly, I think it was probably the
next day that my wife and I started looking at
houses outside of Nashville. We ended uppooding out by you
out in Franklin. And yeah, so it sounds like Fouci
was going to appear a moment, guys, buck. This is Nashville, Tennessee,
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a city known for creativity and people having a good time.
We're not talking about like four hundred people at a house,
and they arrested your brother for having like fifteen of
us over and for violating the law about how many
people you could have over at your own home. And
a bunch of those people, to his point, were standing
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on the backyard deck outdoors smoking cigars or drinking beers
around a little fire pit, if I remember correctly, Yeah, right,
it was. It was pretty insane. Um. Yeah, you know,
Gavin Degras was there that night too, and I remember
standing out there talking to the officers out in the street, which,
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by the way, you know, God bless them. And they
were just enforcing some silly order that they were handed
down and by the mayor. And you know, they weren't
stoked on getting you know, they drew the short straw
that night and had to be on you know, house
patrol shift or whatever. But they kind of had a
look on their faces like, yeah, tell us about it.
This sucks, you know. And but I remember Gavin saying
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to a couple of them like, so wait a minute,
you're telling me that if I have a twenty thousand
square foot house, I could still only have fifteen people
over or eight people or whatever the number was. But
it was one of those things where it just didn't
make any right, It didn't make any sense. It's like
if a one bedroom apartment is the same as a
you know, six bedroom house or there was. None of
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them made any sense, Jeremy, because all those people got
COVID probably twice anyway, And don't even get me started
on the night and the way, how perfect of a
Nashville story would it be. Gavin DeGraw, Uh, the band Lit,
Tommy Layer, and Clay Travis all get arrested for having
beers in a private home and violating covid law. I mean,
I feel like people are going to look back on
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this and say, this is one of the dumbest things
that's ever occurred in the United States history. Yeah, all right, Jeremy,
how do people check out are you guys still on
tour or where can that go? And obviously they hear
the song listening to this show, but if they want
to hear more LIT songs or see you guys live,
So we just we're here in southern California right now
because we just did We just played Adam Carolla's party
and then the day before that we had our album
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released party. Our new record just came out on Friday,
So if everyone could go give it a spin, we
would appreciate that. It's called Taste Like Gold. And in iTunes,
you know, go on iTunes and get and get it
and check out Lit band Official on any of the
socials and give us a shout and and man, just
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we're so stuck that you guys are playing us every
day and supporting our band, and we love you guys,
and happy anniversary and thinks for Thank you so much. Man,
we were honored honor to play the song. It's fantastic
all the best to you and I'm sure we'll see
you guys hopefully soon, maybe in Nashville. And also congrats
to our good friend Tommy on her new show super
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If it wasn't Joe Biden, and if it wasn't a
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wouldn't be necessarily getting into into all that. But I
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am happy to see and Clay just told me about
this because I love that our our theme song music
play comes from a band that you could say are
mask bandits if you will, that are that are not
not people that wanted to believe the man during all
the lockdown stuff. Broadway in New York City, where all
the Broadway theaters are, is dropping its mask mandate July first, Clay, I,
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you know, I live adjacent to a Broadway theater. My
apartment of New York is adjacent to a Broadway theater.
So every day that they're doing they're doing shows, I
would see people lined up. They made people put their
masks on outside to ensure compliance as they walked in.
This is I think a big move. And to your point,
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you do live right on top of the Broadway theaters.
And as we were walking by to come to your
place to go to dinner on Friday, my wife, who
when we were in New York City, if there were
no mask mandate. We might well have looked at going
to a Broadway play together, as many couples do and
families when they go on vacation to New York City.
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To me, this is a sign that overwhelming majorities of
their customers are saying the mask mandate is insanely dumb.
And every time one of these otherwise left wing bastions
of masking dropped their masking requirement, we get back to
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one more semblance of normalcy. And I think this is
a straight business decision. I think they were looking and saying,
we're losing money based on having this. We're not protecting anybody.
It's a little bit of sanity returning in an insane world.
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And he is still great as a stand up comedian,
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it's great to hear from him. We've had him on
the show several times and look forward to having him
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on again. We were talking during the break as we
often do, continuing the conversation, and when exactly all of
the most controversial Supreme Court decisions are going to come
down is an tinuing topic of discussion. But they had
an interesting decision that came down earlier today dealing with
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basically the rights of parents to be able. You may
have read the case. I have not because I'm running
around here with my eleven year old, but I read
I knew the case was coming down dealing with the
essentially the rights of religious based schools to get the
same treatment in terms of parental dollars that are being
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able to be applied as other private schools. And it
essentially is a huge win for people who are sending
their kids to religious based private schools in terms of
the way that those are going to be treated under
state law and there's not going to be a discriminatory
treatment of those compared to others. And it also has
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this thinking still about when the decision on abortion is
going to come down, and also the gun decision, which
I would say are the two biggest that are still
waiting to officially be released out there at some point
before the term ends. At the end of June. I
do think one of them more interesting parts of the
discussion around school choice vouchers and religious schools. There are
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a couple of things that you will hear the not
very well educated leftist shout as though it's a great
a great argument or even an argument ender for them,
meaning it's it's game over, checkmate. One of them is
it's like shouting fire in a crowded theater. Yeah, which
was the wrongly decided Shank v Us decision that said
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that someone handing out a socialist handing out anti war
pamphlets on the street before World War One was so
dangerous to the aims of the country that his political
speech was like shouting fire in a crowded theater. So
they always say that one and they never know the basis.
The other one is this is a separation of church
and state. There is no separation of church and state.
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Phrase in the Constitution actually comes from a letter that
Thomas Jefferson wrote in eighteen eighteen o two. I think
it was from the I don't want to it was
from like the Baptist, the Danbury Baptist in Connecticut or something.
I don't know. It was from a letter that Jefferson
wrote bottom line, and now we see that in a
six three decision, there's no reason for a program that
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if it's an accredited school, there's no reason why you
shouldn't be able to use the dollars you're given to
go to a school that even has a religious instruction
as part of it. So it's a win for religious freedom.
And I think that's a very good thing, because any
wins for freedom these days will be uh, well, we
need to rack up as many as we possibly can,
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no doubt. And speaking of racking up wins, you know
he's not racking up wins this. I saw this story
and I said, we should definitely mention this. Kamala Harris.
They are trying to raise money based on you get
a photograph with Kamala Harris if you donate a certain
amount of money. And Joe Biden's vice president has become
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so unpopular that initially they were asking fifteen thousand dollars
per photograph. Now they have lowered their asking price all
the way down to five thousand dollars. Now many of
you out there listening are saying to yourselves, wait a minute,
who in the world would even pay five thousand dollars
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for a Kamala Harris photo. This is actually not that
high when it comes to politicians that are much desired.
People want that photo, they want to put it on
their office wall. If you're a big Democrat supporter, the
fact that they can't even sell Kamala Harris meet and
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greets for fifteen k and they're now all the way
down five k. I can't help but laugh. Let me
get this right. Yes, Like I don't know, I don't
know if anyone out there's like a watch guy. But
you know if someone told you, hey, do you like
my rolex? It's fifteen grand, and then a week later
they're like, actually it's five grand, you'd say that's a
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fake rolex. Right, Yeah, that's a big that's a big
price reduction they're doing in the Kamala Harris photo world.
But think of who really right now, who that you
can think of, meaning you know, in very general terms,
is going to be particularly excited about presenting to your point,
this is all about, oh, look at me, I'm connected
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in Democrats circles or Democrats owners. Look and politicians on
both sides do this and I'm not. But the point
is who wants to associate their brand, their personal brand,
with Kamala Harris right now. And the answer is even
among Democrats, very few people. They don't want the photo
of Kamala on their wall. And we need to point
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out I'm all dropped out of the Democrat primary before
vote was even taken. She was pulling at one percent.
No one liked her. The more times Democrats saw her speak,
the less support they wanted to give her. Not before
calling Joe Biden an old racist on stage at order
the Democrat debates, nor before her announcing I'm obviously a
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top tier candidate. Not so obvious, it turned out. And
this is part of the larger question that Democrats are
going to have to answer. And this is why this
discussion has begun more in earnest already. The Republican backbench,
in other words, the contenders who could be president from
the Republican Party is way deeper than the list of Democrats.
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They have a huge generational divide. And then the people
who are younger, the AOC's the mayor Pets of the world.
No one actually likes them, you know, in terms of
the larger base because of how left wing they are.
By is helping to cover up the fact that there
is no backbench in the Democrat Party. I mean, they're
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trying to draft Beto, They're going to talk about bringing
back Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, who, by the way, Rush
coined the phrase fokahonas, which obviously is a little bit
different than Pokehonas, even wittier. But that is where that
started to take take off in Earnest and then Trump
just came in and went straight Pokehonas. But I don't
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see anybody in the Democrat Party that I would say, oh,
this is the candidate that everybody is going to end
up lining up behind. I just I don't see any
great backbenchers waiting to be president in their party right now.
They're gonna run AOC at some point, but that's years
down the line. It's not quite her time yet, I
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would think. But Democrats, when I say run, I'm not
sure she'll get their nomination even but she'll certainly be
in the mix as a Democrat contender, just based on
name recognition and personal brand alone. Our friends who gave
some very kind words earlier in the show about this show,
Jesse Kelly has an idea he thinks I saw him
put this out on Twitter that Eric Adams, the Mayor
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of New York City, could be a a sort of
surprise contender for the Democrats in the This is in
a Biden's not running, let's have the Democrats have an
open primary world, which I don't even I'll be honest
with you, if someone put the someone put the you
know odds up to me, or someone said you got
to have another bet. I think Biden's running again right now.
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I mean I think he thinks he's running again against Trump,
and therefore he's going to run again. But put aside
whether that's jew or not. Clay, do you see you
think Eric Adams is somebody who just as the mayor
of New York City? Because I don't. I think he's
already such a disaster to New Yorkers that I feel
like his brand is questionable. Yeah, I don't think he would.
I don't think he would play very well nationally because
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I don't think the story he has to tell for
New York City is very good. I understand the argument
of Democrats made such an awful choice in d funding
the police that they need to swing totally in the
opposite direction and put a former cop on the ticket
to try to inoculate themselves from that criticism that is
one hundred percent valid because crime has skyrocketed all over
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the country. But I don't think Eric Adams is that
person who can end that criticism. And frankly, he hasn't
seemed that adroit on the national stage whenever he tries
to step in and talk beyond New York. I feel
like whenever we get an opening, though, you think Hillary,
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I think think she's not done yet. You think Hillary
is still waiting in the wings. I do. I think ultimately,
when you look at all of the available options out there,
what Hillary wants to have happen is for everybody to
come to her on Ben Didnee and say, you're the
only person out there who can bring the Democrat Party
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to the White House in twenty twenty four. So so,
but how then, let's look at that narrative for a second.
You have Biden, who Democrat Democrat perspective, here, Biden beats Trump,
Hillary loses to Trump. So how can you how you
know the the Democrat apparatus replaces the winner in a
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sense with the loser based on the fact that Hillary's
what six or seven years younger I think something like that.
I think also you have to consider that Trump may
not be the nominee. There's a big New Yorker piece
out there about de Santis, so I think Trump de
Santis that champions up everything, battle Royale, And the only
way I think Biden's the nominee is if Trump is
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running because they think, oh, he can beat Trump again.
I don't think he would. I think Trump would squash
Biden without COVID hanging out over everything, and given how
poorly Biden has done, he can't sell the I'll make
things normal when he's been been the most abnormal president
in generations in terms of his actual president. Yeah, I
appreciated he sent me that New Yorker profile. Pie's supposed
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to be a hit piece on Descantist and it it
is great. You love reading a hit piece when it's
essentially making the arguments that. Yeah, Ronda Santis, when other
people were at partying and doing kex stands, he was like,
I'm gonna work two jobs to pay off my loans
and then go serve in the military after I graduate
from Yale and then Harvard, like a loser. It was
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really there was a line in there from one of
his teammates where he was like, oh, he was basically
a jerk, and he was always working really hard all
the time, and his papers were so good that other
people couldn't claim they were even his work because he
came up with such original thoughts. And oh, by the way,
he said no to the experts and opened up Florida.
And I was like, yeah, these are all things that
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are very positive. Even even the snide comments that they
could get from people that allegedly knew him in his
past were either dripping with jealousy and or just made
him sound even cooler. It's right, you know it. So
I think that battle's gonna happen. But I wonder if
they're going to circle back to Hillary, because I'm not
sure that anybody else is able to get the nomination.
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And I think you can't underrate Kamala is black and
she is a woman by the Democrat's own standards. If
Biden we're not running, it would be racist and sexist
for her not to be the nominee. So I think
that knocks out a lot of people. Hillary at least
could end the sexist argument if they could find a
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consistently good I mean, the Eric Adams argument, he's a
black guy, so that would at least take the race
out of equation. But I don't know how you knock
out both the woman and the minority without being racist
and sexist. Come back and close it up here to
SEC folks, stay with us. You know, the primaries before
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Ron Johnson here, happy one year anniversary. You guys had
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some really big shoes to fill and you're doing a
fantastic job. Thanks for telling America the truth. Very kind
words there from Senators Cruise and Johnson, two of the
two of the greats from the Republican side of the
United States Senate and a frequent guest and friends of
the show. Just good guys, real patriots, people that do
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their country honor by serving their country. And you know, Clay,
it has it has been quite quite a year, my friend.
We actually have I believe our first caller from a
year ago. So what do you call it in comedy
when you circle around to the original joke? You know
what I mean? This is this isn't a joke, but
it's like we're circling, We're going full circle. You see
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what I'm saying. There's a name for it. Some of
the comedians the audience on them talking about John in Savannah, Georgia.
Honestly one of my favorite talent to visit. I always
say that what's up? John? Your first caller? And now
here you are again? Here am again, guys, congratulations on
a great first year. Thank you so much. We appreciate that.
You also have some thoughts on you. You're a retired
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law enforce in thirty five years, right, so you have
some thoughts on You've all day. I retired from Lorne
and I'm still serving, and you know, I'm I'm pretty
much disgusted by everything that's come out. Really, it's a
a lot of I don't have a lot of words
right now. It's pretty sick me. Yeah it was. It's
looked the more. Yeah, John, we appreciate so much. You
call it in year year over year. Here we get
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a call we get a call again. Thanks John. Um.
I knew this was going to happen. Um. I was
on Tucker Show talking about this, I think two weeks ago,
and I said, the more we find out effectively, the
worst and the more unacceptable was the word I use
the response will it's not to pass blame not to
Monday Morning Quarterback. Lessons learned, you know, the same way
that we all learned after nine. Even if someone says
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they're hijacking the plane, you fight to take back that cockpit.
You don't say, oh, maybe we're gonna land somewhere and
negotiate an active shooter situation. It's every man woman capable
of wielding a weapon and going after that shooter has
to do so. When the investigation inside of Texas refers
to it as an abject failure, when they say that
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the gunman should have been neutralized within three minutes, that
the door was unlocked the entire time. Everyone is imperfect,
no matter what you do for a living. This appears
to have been, as it is described, an abject failure.
And you can support police generally while acknowledging that sometimes
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police do not do their job just like any other
profession out there. And in this situation, they totally failed
the kids and the teachers inside of those classrooms. And
I would hope that everyone out there listening across the
country will recognize when this situation happens again, that you
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can't set up a perimeter, you can't set up a barricade.
You have to go balls to the wall after the shooter.
This should never happen again in American history. I just
want us to say we so appreciate the experience, the expertise,
the knowledge, and just the common sense that this audience
brings to us. Not just on the air with the
phone calls is obviously great too, but your emails, your
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Facebook messages, We're reading it all the time. The team's
reading it all the time, and you should all feel
like you are active participants in this show because the
show has done for you and we learned so much
from all of you. Clini are so appreciative of each
and everyone who'd be listening across the country, and honestly,
we can't thank you enough. We're number one and a
bunch of markets. Fuck I forgot to name off all
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of the markets. I will do that tomorrow. It's fifteen
or sixteen we'll talk about it tomorrow. Sleet Travis and
Buck Sexton on the front Blinds of Truth m M
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travison buck Sexton
Show podcast. Welcome back in our number three underway. I
am Clay Travis, he is buck Sexton. We are celebrating
the one year anniversary of The Clay Travison buck Sexton Show.
Encourage all of you to go subscribe to the podcast
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if you haven't already, you'll ensure that you don't miss
a moment. We had herschel Walker here in studio with
me in Atlanta, Georgia. Buck is down in the Florida Keys.
We are continuing to move all over the country as
we are number one in a ton of different markets.
I will hit all those markets with you, I promise
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before the show is over today in honor of the
one year anniversary. But we are joined by the man
whose music you just heard, bringing us back into the
third hour of the program. He is Jeremy pop Off
from the band Lit and Jeremy, I've gotten to know
you in Nashville. What does it mean for you as
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a I know very much long time Russia Winbaugh fan
and listener to have your music now connected to the
audience that we are speaking with every single day. Ah Man, Well, first,
of all, Uh, i'd like to wish you guys a
happy anniversary and uh and and you know, we're big
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fans of the show and thank you when you take
you know, I was in England, um when you texted
me about possibly you know, using the song and uh,
and everybody was super fired up and said, it's a
real it's a real honor for us, you know. UM.
And we're just uh, we're yeah, I mean we're we're
truly humbled and honored that you that you picked our
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song to uh. You know, we're We're get to be
a little small part of the show each day and
it's awesome and we get Jeremy. We're so appreciated and
we think LID is uh is a great, great band.
I'm wondering, you know that that guitar riff you're you're
the lead guitarist of the band LID, and that guitar
riff in particular that people here at the top of
the show. I would argue it's one of the most
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iconic guitar riffs of the nineteen nineties, one of the
most memorable, the one that really sticks out. I'm just
wondering how this came together, you know, This is like
our behind the music moment here because were you just
you know, you're hanging out on the beach with a
with an acoustic and having some fun. I mean, how
did this come together? Man? We used to have a
warehouse in Anaheim, were you know, the band's originally from Anaheim, California,
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and we had a warehouse that was a man cave.
Before that, you know, we knew what a man cave was,
and we spent every night there for several hours. And
that's where we practiced and wrote and hung out with
our friends and did all that stuff. And that riff
just sort of spilled out one night, and can did
you remember just do you remember playing it and realizing, oh,
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that's really good. I mean, we thought it was cool,
but we think all our songs are cool when writing them,
you know. So it's actually one of our good buddies, Tony,
who was kind of like the unofficial fifth member. He
was kind of like, I don't know, man, I really
liked that song. So we ended up we didn't play
it for a few shows because we were self conscious
about it because Tony didn't like it. And but yeah,
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what a crazy what a crazy thing? Man? Two notes
and and some lyrics that were probably written to be
maybe changed or modified when we had time to get
to it, and then it just sort of took off
and became something that we would have never dreamed that
it became, and were really just blessed. And it's crabby.
Yet just yesterday we got we must have had one
hundred thousand, you know, messages sent to us. There was
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that viral video yesterday of the bride playing drums to
it at our wedding, and it's just like a weekly
thing where it's just like it just takes on this
life of its own, and it's just crazy. Jeremy. One
thing that Buck and I wanted to make sure we
did when they told us that the music was coming
up and we needed to come up with a new
open to our hours, was we said, we don't want
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to end up with a musician or a group that
doesn't like our audience and doesn't respect our perspective. And
I was so excited to know you you relocated your
family from California to Tennessee, and you were super upset
with all of the restrictions that we're going on with COVID,
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And so when I told Buck that he was like,
oh man, these are our guys, but kind of explain
how you ended up making the move to Nashville and
what your response was to the government telling you, hey,
this is what you can do, this is what you
can't do. There's a lot of musicians now that seem
to embrace the nanny state, when oftentimes artists and musicians
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historically have been about rebelling against the power structure. There's
an awful lot of musicians and artists now who say, hey,
regulate me more, which to me is the anti of
what art should be. It's crazy how how full circle
it's come with a lot of musicians, and especially like
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you know, the guys that are you know, supposedly more
punk rock and more edgy or alternative, and they have
just sort of gone the way of the buffalo and
just sort of follow whatever they're being told to do.
And you know, we're just we're look, we're an American
rock and roll band. We we we we were very um,
just middle class dudes that grew up in Anaheim, which
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is not the you know, it is not the fancy
part of Orange County. And we just were hard working,
do it yourself guys who who believed it much more
of just you know, our our freedom is not negotiable,
and uh, leave us alone, let us do our thing.
And and and we're also you know, we're not um.
We played by the rules. You know, we're respectful dudes,
and we're family guys, and we have our values and stuff.
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But we're just kind of like, hey man, you know,
we're we're growing. Ask men, now leave us alone, you know,
and let us let us do We're you know, we're
not We're gonna do what we want to do. But
it blows our minds to see just how many of
our peers have have just like just they lost their
balls somewhere along the way or something. Now that's what
I said. I think that's right. We're speaking right now,
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do you Jeremy pop Off, the lead guitarist of the
band Lit And for those of you who are wondering
where that where that music, the song that you're hearing
the top of the show comes from. Where the one
year anniversary of clay An Buck. We've got this new
theme song that gets everybody fired up. And you know,
do you do you think Jeremy that there's I think
right now I'm gonnall just put this out there. There's
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a little bit of a turning away from the monolith
in the arts that we've seen, or just the the
demand that everybody, whether you're in whether you're in sports,
whether you're in Hollywood, where you're in music, that that
entertainment is just so the province of only one side
of the national conversation. Do you think we're heading toward
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a little bit at least? I'm not even saying people
that are Republican or conservative necessarily who are are in
music and in the arts, but just understanding that without freedom,
you actually can't be an artist, and therefore you have
to actually defend individual freedom at some level. Um. And
I mean, look, I think the reason why your show
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is number one in so many markets and is so
you know, popular and refreshing, is because I don't think
that it's so. I don't think it's about being far
right or far less. I think it's about people are
starting to realize, like, you guys are just you guys,
just make sense. It's just common sense. And it's it's
not about politics. It's about like, what what are we
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doing here? And it's and it's it's so much more
when I listen to you guys, I'm just like, who,
who's going to disagree with this? Right now? It doesn't
you know what I mean? We feel the same way.
We feel. We feel like everyone should be listening at agree.
So there you go. Well, I think it's a balance
of you know, we all get together with our buddies
and I've listened. I've got a lot of friends from
all over the spectrum of beliefs and religions and faiths
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and politics or whatever. And you know, at the end
of the day, we all get together and have a beer,
and we agree on on way more than we disagree on,
you know, and uh, and all we really all want
to do is be happy and healthy and raise our
families and and uh and be able to have a
shot at at you know, the American dream. So who
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who who doesn't agree with that? And and and then
call me and let's and let's have a conversation about it,
because I don't I wouldn't, you know, I don't understand
how you were not on that page. You know, Jeremy,
you and I met for the first time with Tommy
larn we were out watching an Alabama LSU football game
in twenty twenty in Nashville when there were still our
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restrictions on how long bars could be open. Our mutual
friend Steve Ford, owns a bunch of bars in downtown
Nashville and was chomping at the bit over what was allowed.
And we left that bar to go back to your house,
and you had the Utah football game on by the way,
where in Salt Lake City is one of the cities
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where we're number one. And I walked in. I was like, Oh,
this guy must be a pretty big college football fan.
Your son was a student manager, it turns out, on
the Utah football team, and so you were watching that game.
But I'd always been a fan of your band, and
certainly of the iconic songs that you've produced, including the
one that we're using to start every hour. But that
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was where I said, oh, man, this is this is
a dude who overlaps with me in a lot of
different areas. And that was during a time when the
city of Nashville was trying to say you couldn't have
more than like five people in your house, which kind
of goes to the whole point of how absurd all
this was. Well, if you remember that night too, I
mean the the cops were called from a neighbor, and yeah,
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it ended up being a whole thing, a whole lot.
What happened. Yeah, by the way, for people who don't know,
we went back to college football games and have some
drinks when the bars were shutting down your house in
Davidson County, which is where Nashville is. The cops showed up.
I think they were like fifteen or twenty people there.
It wasn't like it was a you know, raging house party.
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Everybody was pretty much indoors, just having a few drinks
and watching some football. It wasn't even that late and
the cops came. I mean, which, by the way, is
just an element of how crazy it was. Whatever ended
up happening with that, well, that was my brother's house
that time, and uh and yeah, he got arrested and
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he had to go to court, you had to do
community service and pay a fine and hire a lawyer.
And yeah, you're right. It was about fifteen people there,
and I would say, you know, eight of them were
standing out on the deck, you know, having a cigar
or a cigarette or whatever, and there was a handful
in the house. Is also you know, a four thousand
square foot house with twenty of space and tall ceilings
and everything else. And it was and you know, they
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came into the backyard, if you remember, and they were
like filming us from the backyard. It was a real odd,
odd experience. And honestly, I think it was probably the
next day that my wife and I started looking at
houses outside of Nashville. We ended uppooding out by you
out in Franklin. And yeah, so it sounds like Fouci
was going to appear a moment, guys, buck. This is Nashville, Tennessee,
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a city known for creativity and people having a good time.
We're not talking about like four hundred people at a house,
and they arrested your brother for having like fifteen of
us over and for violating the law about how many
people you could have over at your own home. And
a bunch of those people, to his point, were standing
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on the backyard deck outdoors smoking cigars or drinking beers
around a little fire pit, if I remember correctly, Yeah, right,
it was. It was pretty insane. Um. Yeah, you know,
Gavin Degras was there that night too, and I remember
standing out there talking to the officers out in the street, which,
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by the way, you know, God bless them. And they
were just enforcing some silly order that they were handed
down and by the mayor. And you know, they weren't
stoked on getting you know, they drew the short straw
that night and had to be on you know, house
patrol shift or whatever. But they kind of had a
look on their faces like, yeah, tell us about it.
This sucks, you know. And but I remember Gavin saying
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to a couple of them like, so wait a minute,
you're telling me that if I have a twenty thousand
square foot house, I could still only have fifteen people
over or eight people or whatever the number was. But
it was one of those things where it just didn't
make any right, It didn't make any sense. It's like
if a one bedroom apartment is the same as a
you know, six bedroom house or there was. None of
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them made any sense, Jeremy, because all those people got
COVID probably twice anyway, And don't even get me started
on the night and the way, how perfect of a
Nashville story would it be. Gavin DeGraw, Uh, the band Lit,
Tommy Layer, and Clay Travis all get arrested for having
beers in a private home and violating covid law. I mean,
I feel like people are going to look back on
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this and say, this is one of the dumbest things
that's ever occurred in the United States history. Yeah, all right, Jeremy,
how do people check out are you guys still on
tour or where can that go? And obviously they hear
the song listening to this show, but if they want
to hear more LIT songs or see you guys live,
So we just we're here in southern California right now
because we just did We just played Adam Carolla's party
and then the day before that we had our album
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released party. Our new record just came out on Friday,
So if everyone could go give it a spin, we
would appreciate that. It's called Taste Like Gold. And in iTunes,
you know, go on iTunes and get and get it
and check out Lit band Official on any of the
socials and give us a shout and and man, just
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we're so stuck that you guys are playing us every
day and supporting our band, and we love you guys,
and happy anniversary and thinks for Thank you so much. Man,
we were honored honor to play the song. It's fantastic
all the best to you and I'm sure we'll see
you guys hopefully soon, maybe in Nashville. And also congrats
to our good friend Tommy on her new show super
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on Joe Biden's mild stumble that was rippling through the
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If it wasn't Joe Biden, and if it wasn't a
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wouldn't be necessarily getting into into all that. But I
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am happy to see and Clay just told me about
this because I love that our our theme song music
play comes from a band that you could say are
mask bandits if you will, that are that are not
not people that wanted to believe the man during all
the lockdown stuff. Broadway in New York City, where all
the Broadway theaters are, is dropping its mask mandate July first, Clay, I,
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you know, I live adjacent to a Broadway theater. My
apartment of New York is adjacent to a Broadway theater.
So every day that they're doing they're doing shows, I
would see people lined up. They made people put their
masks on outside to ensure compliance as they walked in.
This is I think a big move. And to your point,
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you do live right on top of the Broadway theaters.
And as we were walking by to come to your
place to go to dinner on Friday, my wife, who
when we were in New York City, if there were
no mask mandate. We might well have looked at going
to a Broadway play together, as many couples do and
families when they go on vacation to New York City.
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To me, this is a sign that overwhelming majorities of
their customers are saying the mask mandate is insanely dumb.
And every time one of these otherwise left wing bastions
of masking dropped their masking requirement, we get back to
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one more semblance of normalcy. And I think this is
a straight business decision. I think they were looking and saying,
we're losing money based on having this. We're not protecting anybody.
It's a little bit of sanity returning in an insane world.
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And he is still great as a stand up comedian,
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it's great to hear from him. We've had him on
the show several times and look forward to having him
(19:44):
on again. We were talking during the break as we
often do, continuing the conversation, and when exactly all of
the most controversial Supreme Court decisions are going to come
down is an tinuing topic of discussion. But they had
an interesting decision that came down earlier today dealing with
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basically the rights of parents to be able. You may
have read the case. I have not because I'm running
around here with my eleven year old, but I read
I knew the case was coming down dealing with the
essentially the rights of religious based schools to get the
same treatment in terms of parental dollars that are being
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able to be applied as other private schools. And it
essentially is a huge win for people who are sending
their kids to religious based private schools in terms of
the way that those are going to be treated under
state law and there's not going to be a discriminatory
treatment of those compared to others. And it also has
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this thinking still about when the decision on abortion is
going to come down, and also the gun decision, which
I would say are the two biggest that are still
waiting to officially be released out there at some point
before the term ends. At the end of June. I
do think one of them more interesting parts of the
discussion around school choice vouchers and religious schools. There are
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a couple of things that you will hear the not
very well educated leftist shout as though it's a great
a great argument or even an argument ender for them,
meaning it's it's game over, checkmate. One of them is
it's like shouting fire in a crowded theater. Yeah, which
was the wrongly decided Shank v Us decision that said
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that someone handing out a socialist handing out anti war
pamphlets on the street before World War One was so
dangerous to the aims of the country that his political
speech was like shouting fire in a crowded theater. So
they always say that one and they never know the basis.
The other one is this is a separation of church
and state. There is no separation of church and state.
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Phrase in the Constitution actually comes from a letter that
Thomas Jefferson wrote in eighteen eighteen o two. I think
it was from the I don't want to it was
from like the Baptist, the Danbury Baptist in Connecticut or something.
I don't know. It was from a letter that Jefferson
wrote bottom line, and now we see that in a
six three decision, there's no reason for a program that
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if it's an accredited school, there's no reason why you
shouldn't be able to use the dollars you're given to
go to a school that even has a religious instruction
as part of it. So it's a win for religious freedom.
And I think that's a very good thing, because any
wins for freedom these days will be uh, well, we
need to rack up as many as we possibly can,
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no doubt. And speaking of racking up wins, you know
he's not racking up wins this. I saw this story
and I said, we should definitely mention this. Kamala Harris.
They are trying to raise money based on you get
a photograph with Kamala Harris if you donate a certain
amount of money. And Joe Biden's vice president has become
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so unpopular that initially they were asking fifteen thousand dollars
per photograph. Now they have lowered their asking price all
the way down to five thousand dollars. Now many of
you out there listening are saying to yourselves, wait a minute,
who in the world would even pay five thousand dollars
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for a Kamala Harris photo. This is actually not that
high when it comes to politicians that are much desired.
People want that photo, they want to put it on
their office wall. If you're a big Democrat supporter, the
fact that they can't even sell Kamala Harris meet and
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greets for fifteen k and they're now all the way
down five k. I can't help but laugh. Let me
get this right. Yes, Like I don't know, I don't
know if anyone out there's like a watch guy. But
you know if someone told you, hey, do you like
my rolex? It's fifteen grand, and then a week later
they're like, actually it's five grand, you'd say that's a
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fake rolex. Right, Yeah, that's a big that's a big
price reduction they're doing in the Kamala Harris photo world.
But think of who really right now, who that you
can think of, meaning you know, in very general terms,
is going to be particularly excited about presenting to your point,
this is all about, oh, look at me, I'm connected
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in Democrats circles or Democrats owners. Look and politicians on
both sides do this and I'm not. But the point
is who wants to associate their brand, their personal brand,
with Kamala Harris right now. And the answer is even
among Democrats, very few people. They don't want the photo
of Kamala on their wall. And we need to point
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out I'm all dropped out of the Democrat primary before
vote was even taken. She was pulling at one percent.
No one liked her. The more times Democrats saw her speak,
the less support they wanted to give her. Not before
calling Joe Biden an old racist on stage at order
the Democrat debates, nor before her announcing I'm obviously a
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top tier candidate. Not so obvious, it turned out. And
this is part of the larger question that Democrats are
going to have to answer. And this is why this
discussion has begun more in earnest already. The Republican backbench,
in other words, the contenders who could be president from
the Republican Party is way deeper than the list of Democrats.
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They have a huge generational divide. And then the people
who are younger, the AOC's the mayor Pets of the world.
No one actually likes them, you know, in terms of
the larger base because of how left wing they are.
By is helping to cover up the fact that there
is no backbench in the Democrat Party. I mean, they're
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trying to draft Beto, They're going to talk about bringing
back Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, who, by the way, Rush
coined the phrase fokahonas, which obviously is a little bit
different than Pokehonas, even wittier. But that is where that
started to take take off in Earnest and then Trump
just came in and went straight Pokehonas. But I don't
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see anybody in the Democrat Party that I would say, oh,
this is the candidate that everybody is going to end
up lining up behind. I just I don't see any
great backbenchers waiting to be president in their party right now.
They're gonna run AOC at some point, but that's years
down the line. It's not quite her time yet, I
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would think. But Democrats, when I say run, I'm not
sure she'll get their nomination even but she'll certainly be
in the mix as a Democrat contender, just based on
name recognition and personal brand alone. Our friends who gave
some very kind words earlier in the show about this show,
Jesse Kelly has an idea he thinks I saw him
put this out on Twitter that Eric Adams, the Mayor
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of New York City, could be a a sort of
surprise contender for the Democrats in the This is in
a Biden's not running, let's have the Democrats have an
open primary world, which I don't even I'll be honest
with you, if someone put the someone put the you
know odds up to me, or someone said you got
to have another bet. I think Biden's running again right now.
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I mean I think he thinks he's running again against Trump,
and therefore he's going to run again. But put aside
whether that's jew or not. Clay, do you see you
think Eric Adams is somebody who just as the mayor
of New York City? Because I don't. I think he's
already such a disaster to New Yorkers that I feel
like his brand is questionable. Yeah, I don't think he would.
I don't think he would play very well nationally because
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I don't think the story he has to tell for
New York City is very good. I understand the argument
of Democrats made such an awful choice in d funding
the police that they need to swing totally in the
opposite direction and put a former cop on the ticket
to try to inoculate themselves from that criticism that is
one hundred percent valid because crime has skyrocketed all over
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the country. But I don't think Eric Adams is that
person who can end that criticism. And frankly, he hasn't
seemed that adroit on the national stage whenever he tries
to step in and talk beyond New York. I feel
like whenever we get an opening, though, you think Hillary,
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I think think she's not done yet. You think Hillary
is still waiting in the wings. I do. I think ultimately,
when you look at all of the available options out there,
what Hillary wants to have happen is for everybody to
come to her on Ben Didnee and say, you're the
only person out there who can bring the Democrat Party
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to the White House in twenty twenty four. So so,
but how then, let's look at that narrative for a second.
You have Biden, who Democrat Democrat perspective, here, Biden beats Trump,
Hillary loses to Trump. So how can you how you
know the the Democrat apparatus replaces the winner in a
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sense with the loser based on the fact that Hillary's
what six or seven years younger I think something like that.
I think also you have to consider that Trump may
not be the nominee. There's a big New Yorker piece
out there about de Santis, so I think Trump de
Santis that champions up everything, battle Royale, And the only
way I think Biden's the nominee is if Trump is
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running because they think, oh, he can beat Trump again.
I don't think he would. I think Trump would squash
Biden without COVID hanging out over everything, and given how
poorly Biden has done, he can't sell the I'll make
things normal when he's been been the most abnormal president
in generations in terms of his actual president. Yeah, I
appreciated he sent me that New Yorker profile. Pie's supposed
(29:57):
to be a hit piece on Descantist and it it
is great. You love reading a hit piece when it's
essentially making the arguments that. Yeah, Ronda Santis, when other
people were at partying and doing kex stands, he was like,
I'm gonna work two jobs to pay off my loans
and then go serve in the military after I graduate
from Yale and then Harvard, like a loser. It was
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really there was a line in there from one of
his teammates where he was like, oh, he was basically
a jerk, and he was always working really hard all
the time, and his papers were so good that other
people couldn't claim they were even his work because he
came up with such original thoughts. And oh, by the way,
he said no to the experts and opened up Florida.
And I was like, yeah, these are all things that
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are very positive. Even even the snide comments that they
could get from people that allegedly knew him in his
past were either dripping with jealousy and or just made
him sound even cooler. It's right, you know it. So
I think that battle's gonna happen. But I wonder if
they're going to circle back to Hillary, because I'm not
sure that anybody else is able to get the nomination.
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And I think you can't underrate Kamala is black and
she is a woman by the Democrat's own standards. If
Biden we're not running, it would be racist and sexist
for her not to be the nominee. So I think
that knocks out a lot of people. Hillary at least
could end the sexist argument if they could find a
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consistently good I mean, the Eric Adams argument, he's a
black guy, so that would at least take the race
out of equation. But I don't know how you knock
out both the woman and the minority without being racist
and sexist. Come back and close it up here to
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Ron Johnson here, happy one year anniversary. You guys had
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some really big shoes to fill and you're doing a
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words there from Senators Cruise and Johnson, two of the
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their country honor by serving their country. And you know, Clay,
it has it has been quite quite a year, my friend.
We actually have I believe our first caller from a
year ago. So what do you call it in comedy
when you circle around to the original joke? You know
what I mean? This is this isn't a joke, but
it's like we're circling, We're going full circle. You see
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what I'm saying. There's a name for it. Some of
the comedians the audience on them talking about John in Savannah, Georgia.
Honestly one of my favorite talent to visit. I always
say that what's up? John? Your first caller? And now
here you are again? Here am again, guys, congratulations on
a great first year. Thank you so much. We appreciate that.
You also have some thoughts on you. You're a retired
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law enforce in thirty five years, right, so you have
some thoughts on You've all day. I retired from Lorne
and I'm still serving, and you know, I'm I'm pretty
much disgusted by everything that's come out. Really, it's a
a lot of I don't have a lot of words
right now. It's pretty sick me. Yeah it was. It's
looked the more. Yeah, John, we appreciate so much. You
call it in year year over year. Here we get
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a call we get a call again. Thanks John. Um.
I knew this was going to happen. Um. I was
on Tucker Show talking about this, I think two weeks ago,
and I said, the more we find out effectively, the
worst and the more unacceptable was the word I use
the response will it's not to pass blame not to
Monday Morning Quarterback. Lessons learned, you know, the same way
that we all learned after nine. Even if someone says
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they're hijacking the plane, you fight to take back that cockpit.
You don't say, oh, maybe we're gonna land somewhere and
negotiate an active shooter situation. It's every man woman capable
of wielding a weapon and going after that shooter has
to do so. When the investigation inside of Texas refers
to it as an abject failure, when they say that
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the gunman should have been neutralized within three minutes, that
the door was unlocked the entire time. Everyone is imperfect,
no matter what you do for a living. This appears
to have been, as it is described, an abject failure.
And you can support police generally while acknowledging that sometimes
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police do not do their job just like any other
profession out there. And in this situation, they totally failed
the kids and the teachers inside of those classrooms. And
I would hope that everyone out there listening across the
country will recognize when this situation happens again, that you
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can't set up a perimeter, you can't set up a barricade.
You have to go balls to the wall after the shooter.
This should never happen again in American history. I just
want us to say we so appreciate the experience, the expertise,
the knowledge, and just the common sense that this audience
brings to us. Not just on the air with the
phone calls is obviously great too, but your emails, your
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Facebook messages, We're reading it all the time. The team's
reading it all the time, and you should all feel
like you are active participants in this show because the
show has done for you and we learned so much
from all of you. Clini are so appreciative of each
and everyone who'd be listening across the country, and honestly,
we can't thank you enough. We're number one and a
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