Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jun 9 2026

Republicans Buy Sneakers Too

Clay Travis and Buck Sexton talk about President Donald Trump’s appearance at Madison Square Garden during a New York Knicks game, which Clay and Buck frame as a culturally significant moment in the intersection of sports, politics, and media narratives. They analyze reactions from fans, commentary from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and broader questions about the NBA’s political activism, arguing that the league may be shifting away from its previously “woke” positioning. The discussion expands into a broader critique of politics in sports, media bias, and public reactions to Trump as a New York figure.

Could Steve Hilton Win?

Steve Hilton joins the show to provide a detailed update on the California gubernatorial primary, explaining that he is highly confident of securing a top-two finish and advancing to the general election, even as official results remain delayed due to prolonged vote counting across the state. A major focus is the extended timeline for ballot processing in California, with Hilton criticizing the system as inefficient and mismanaged, particularly highlighting rules that allow ballots without clear postmarks to be accepted if they include handwritten dates. The conversation frames these practices as contributing to widespread skepticism around election transparency and trust in the vote-counting process.

The discussion then shifts to a key voter ID ballot initiative in California, which Hilton says has strong public support and could be a near-term solution to many of the concerns being raised. The proposal would require government-issued identification for voting, whether in person or by mail, reducing reliance on signature verification processes that currently slow down vote counting. Clay and Buck strongly endorse voter ID laws, arguing they are consistent with requirements for other constitutional rights and would improve election confidence. They also debate the role of absentee and mail-in voting more broadly, suggesting that widespread early in-person voting could replace much of the current mail-based system.

Election Integrity

Clay and Buck explore campaign spending dynamics, particularly the failure of billionaire Tom Steyer to secure a top-two finish in California despite massive financial investment. This leads to a broader point about the limits of political advertising, with the hosts arguing that even heavy spending cannot overcome weak voter appeal. They also revisit recent national campaigns, suggesting that increased public exposure can sometimes hurt candidates rather than help them.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville

Clay and Buck react to breaking reports involving Iran and U.S. military tensions, after news surfaces that an American Apache helicopter may have been shot down. The hosts emphasize that President Donald Trump has indicated a potential U.S. response, pending investigation into whether the incident was hostile action, mechanical failure, or friendly fire. Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville joins the show to weigh in on the escalating situation, warning that if Iran was responsible, consequences are likely. This segment highlights broader U.S.-Iran geopolitical tensions and national security concerns, underscoring the potential for rapid escalation in the Middle East.

The conversation with Senator Tuberville shifts into 2026 midterm election outlook and Senate control, where he predicts Republicans are likely to maintain their majority but expresses frustration with stalled legislative priorities. A major focus is the SAVE America Act and election security legislation, with Tuberville criticizing fellow Republicans who opposed advancing the bill. He emphasizes concerns about voter fraud, election integrity, and inconsistent vote-counting standards across states, arguing that federal action is necessary to ensure confidence in U.S. elections. The discussion also dives into the ongoing debate about the Senate filibuster, with Tuberville and the hosts suggesting Democrats would eliminate it if they regain power, raising stakes for current legislative battles.

They also touch on college sports controversies and NIL-era challenges, as Tuberville reacts to a controversial court ruling allowing a college quarterback accused of gambling violations to continue playing. He argues that the decision reflects a broader erosion of accountability in college athletics, pointing to issues like sports betting, transfer rules, and commercialization of college sports as threats to the integrity of the system.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in to the Tuesday edition of Clay and Buck.
It is a big primary day out there, South Carolina, Maine, Nevada,
North Dakota. As we are fully into primary season, in
particular Maine Grand Platner. We will see exactly what the

(00:21):
impact has been of the revelation surrounding Graham Platner, if
at all. With those primary votes coming in in the
state of Maine, South Carolina, big decision, tons of people
running on both the governors and the Senate side. In
the Republican primary in general, we will see what the
outcome is there Nevada, North Dakota as well. Everybody get

(00:45):
out and vote. I think the main primary by far
is going to be the biggest storyline, even though we
suspect that Graham Platner is going to win. We'll get
a little bit of a read on how many people
vote for Susan Collins even though she's basically unopposed, and
how many people again vote for Graham Platner. And as
I mentioned, South Carolina is going to be a major

(01:06):
revelation in many ways. Okay, Buck, and by the way, California,
let me give you a rundown of where we are
headed Steve Hilton has advanced to the runoff in California.
He is going to be one of the two contenders.
So while the LA Area LA County Area voting has

(01:31):
been very suspicious and looked quite out landish and outrageous
in many ways. It is not officially official yet, but
according to Calshi and Polymarket Buck, Steve Hilton ninety nine
percent chance that he is going to advance.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
The AP has not yet called it.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Several places have called it as a Steve Hilton versus
Javier Bessera overall runof off in California, but the I
would say it still feels a bit rotten in California
in the way that the LA voting went down. We
will ask Steve Hilton about that. He's going to join

(02:12):
us at one o'clock. Senator Tobby Tubberville of Alabama, soon
to be the next governor of Alabama, will be on
with us at two, and then Ainsley Earhart, who many
of you begin your day with on Fox and Friends
in the morning, is going to be with us in
the back end of the program in the third hour
as well. But Buck, it's rare I say this, but

(02:35):
the American Sporting I turned itself to Madison Square Garden
last night, where President Trump was in attendance. You and
the President are both big Knicks fans, and I think
this is culturally significant. And some of you are going
to say, Okay, Clay, what are you talking about with

(02:57):
the overall cultural significance. Here is Adam silver This is
the commissioner of the NBA. I have ripped the NBA
to high heavens because they put Black Lives Matter on
the basketball court in twenty twenty, because they put political
slogans on the back of guy's jerseys instead of their
actual names. Because Lebron James has been a woke imbecile,

(03:19):
so has Steve Kerr, so has Greg Popovich, so has
Adam silver Buck. I don't know if you remember this,
but I would argue that in many ways, the woke
era of the NBA began when Adam silver decided to
pull the All Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina
over a transgender bathroom bill. A lot of people don't

(03:43):
even remember this, but the state of North Carolina was
actually ahead of the curve and they said, hey, you
know what, we don't think that people pretending to be
a different gender should be able to use whatever bathroom
they want to use. You should use the bathroom of
your actual gender. This is not a crazy idea, but

(04:03):
the NBA said, oh, my goodness, how in the world
can we ever play our All Star game here? They
pulled their All Star game out of Charlotte Buck. This
then opened the NBA up because people said, wait a minute,
you play games in China, you play games at Mexico,
you guys play games in the Middle East.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Are you now saying that where you play.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
A basketball game is in some way a reflection of
whether you approve of the politics there. It all blew
up on Adam Silver's face. And this really exploded in
Hong Kong when Darryl Moray, a general manager of the
Houston Rockets at the time, said, hey, we should have
free speech basically in Hong Kong and China cut off

(04:43):
the NBA. Adam Silver last night Buck he said this
when he was asked in the pregame about President Trump
cut seven.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
You know, I've been with the league for a long time.
I ran MBA Entertainment years ago. He did any Levekins
game spot with us. He was a fixed year at
NBA Madison Square gardens. Do you guys remember who all
of you when you played here? Not Draymond, but back
in the old days, he had courtside seats. He was
here all the time, he was at draft. So he's
a genuine Knicks fan. And so yes, there's some inconvenience

(05:13):
to the fans here, but one looking around.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
At the arena, it's packed.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
So people listened, they came early, they got through whatever
extra security, which is necessary. So, as I said, I
think we should be using sports to create more of
a sense of community with people, not less.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
This is a complete repudiation of much of the Silver
era buck and it feels significant culturally to me.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
You are a Knicks fan, what say you?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, First of all, the reception that Trump got was
mixed from the fans in terms of the booing that happened.
I listened, I was watching, I was watching the game
with my brothers. There were people that were not booing, obviously,
but there were many who boo. And it is a
reminder to me that people do not put Trump in

(05:58):
the proper context a lot of the time. He is
in many ways the ultimate New Yorker. He is the
New York president. I mean, you'd have to go back
quite a ways for another president to be as of
the city and environs of New York as he is.
He's a queen's guy who became a Manhattan baron of building,

(06:19):
and he's he is a quintessential New Yorker, and yet
New York, because it has gone so woke and so
left wing, does not even claim him really so much
so that now I think people view him more as
a Palm Beach Florida guy, which he has been as
well in a sense, but that's really his country home

(06:40):
or his getaway. He's a New York guy, and I
just think it's a shame that the culture of New
York has for so many I know a lot of
people saying, well, I don't feel that way, and of
course I don't either, But because it's an eight to
one Democrat or Republican city, there's not the sense of
pride that you would think that a son of New

(07:02):
York would have as being the two term president. So
that's one thing that it was a reminder of last night.
A little frustrating. I think Adam Silver's point here on
sports should be unity. I mean, it sounds like sounds
like he's taking a Clay Travis line there, and and
it's but it's.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Really I think what the common sense.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
It would be great to see that the NBA has
been really among the most woke of all leagues and
the most divisive, which is why I stopped being a
Knicks fan, stop watching the NBA. But the president going
to the game. Look, he's a showman, and he likes
a big you know, he likes a big event.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Whatever it may be.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
And I think that other than the fact that the
Knicks lost last night, and I think the officiating, I'm
just gonna say it, I think the officiating was a little,
a little weak, a little little pro san antone.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't know if they I.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Love that in five years you are now the who
comes on and says, I don't know about this officiating, Like, uh.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
You know, I mean that that call where he had
Brunson get called with a flagrant because he didn't protect
the landing space for the feet of the shooter.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
I mean the shooter.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Kicked his legout. I'm sorry, you kick your legout. You
know that's on you anyway. Anyway, we don't need to
get too into it. It's felt it felt a little
uh a little like they need to go back some
of these reps and read the rule book a little
more closely.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Uh but no, I thought last night with Trump being there,
added to sort of the spectacle and the pageantry of it.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I also think that if you, uh, here, here's a
question for you, if if it were Biden, and assume
that he knew where he was. If it were Biden,
who were at the event, Clay and you, with some
of your very sports connected friends were sitting courtside, because
we all know it's where Clay would be sitting. He'd
be right there with Timouthi, Challemet and Ben Stiller, and

(09:00):
I would like to sit next to Larry David, who
is one of the great sitcom creators of all time
with Kurr. I mean, he might throw something at you
when he realized what you do for a living. But
that's okay. But Clay, I truly look, you can't know, rather,
you can't prove this unless you're in this situation. I
wouldn't boo a US president like this. I think it's classless.

(09:23):
Even if I don't like what the president's doing or whatever,
he is the president, there's some respect for the office,
and I think when a president shows up to a
sporting event, that actually should be respect the office, respect
that the president's there. And I think that booing a
president is classless, regardless of party.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
I really do.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
And people might get mad at Oh you would you
you should boo Obama if he was at the game.
I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
You and I agree on percent on this, and look,
I understand. Look, everybody has the right.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
I wouldn't stand up and cheer wildly, be like, oh love,
I'm not gonna sell out everything, but I'm not gonna boo.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I think this is a look.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
One of the all time great quotes by any sports
figure was Michael Jordan saying Republicans by Sneakers Too.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
He has admitted that he said it.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
I wrote a book called Republicans by Sneakers Too, where
basically I argued that Adam Silver should be doing exactly
what he did, and it's taken him a decade to
get there. But there are tens of millions of people
who love basketball and also love President Trump. If you're
in the business of putting on a basketball game, I

(10:39):
want everybody who loves basketball to watch, and a lot
of people have stopped doing that. The data reflects that
the NBA lost a ton of fans. I think Adam
Silver is acknowledging it. I think Lebron, James, Steve Kerr,
Greg Popovich, they all led the NBA over a woke waterfall,
which was a disaster for the league. And I think

(11:00):
President Trump has in many ways rectified that. And I
think Trump even said cut three. They asked him, hey,
is the NBA left wing? And here's what he said.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yeah, it's a tougher again the.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Left wing, not that they weren't getting criticized.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
For putch a little left wing.

Speaker 7 (11:19):
I think, so it tends to be a little bit
left wing, but it was it's great entertainment, great.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
So I think President Trump, I do think this is
culturally significant, and some people are going to disagree, but
it is impossible to have imagined this kind of thing
existing in twenty twenty and when President Trump, when the
Black Lives Matter was written on the court, when there

(11:45):
were political slogans on the jerseys. And I think it's
important to acknowledge and note when cultural wins are moving
back in the direction of sanity, and that's what I
thought last night represented in many ways. And by the way,
President Trump is still getting attacked by did you see
this ridiculous quote from Hakeem Jefferies, who may be the

(12:06):
biggest dork in politics. Did you see him in the
pink Knicks hat buck. He's going to be in theory
the next Speaker of the House. Here's what he said,
cut eight, attacking Trump over the Knicks.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
Listen, It's not clear to me that Donald Trump is
a big Knicks fan. I mean, does this guy even
know the difference between Karl Rove and Karl Anthony Towns.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
He's just injecting himself into the NBA finals because he
just always has to bring the Maga circus into town.
And that's unfortunate.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
It's just not true. I mean, people know, go go
to the Knicks, have been for a long time as
they are as an NBA team is in any major city,
it's a place to see NB seen. And Trump has
both of those things seen and been saw there. I
don't know how to say that, you know they have
seen him there, So yes, no, Trump is a long

(13:06):
as a long time Nicks fan, and anyway, it's just
you know, Hakeem Jeffrey it's just so petty and dumb.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
He's not a smart guy.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
So I also the fact that he could potentially be
the Speaker of the House is unbelievable to me. I mean,
just because he's I think a moron, and and also
just never says anything interesting. He's got dead eyes, he's
not particularly charismatic. The only reason that he is the
head of the Democrat Party now is because he's a
black guy.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
He was the interview, he was the interview right before
me last time. I think there were maybe the time
before that, I did Bill Maher and I just remember thinking,
this is such a boring interview. He has nothing to say.
It's not even I disagree with what he says. It's just,
you know, sometimes you'll hear you know, Bernie Sanders is
a clown and his whole political philosophy is essentially a fraud.
But put that aside, he will say some kooky, crazy stuff.

(13:55):
So you're like, oh God, here we go, right. Hakim
Jeffries is just he and what has he ever said
that has been remotely entertaining. I just think it's funny
that Trump has now managed to turn the Knicks into
a political landmine, and most people will agree with Adam
Silver and I give him credit and nikeem jefferys a
huge loser and zero charisma, and I can't imagine that

(14:17):
he's going to be a very good leader regardless. He's
certainly not now, but if he ever wore the speaker,
he's going to be even less. It's also amazing if
there are guys on that on that floor. You know,
we're in America today and we hear a lot still
from the left, particularly about like you know, institutional racism,
and you know, this country is so unequal in all
this stuff. There are a lot of and you know,
they've they've earned the right and they're the elite of

(14:38):
the elite in terms of their profession of basketball. Their
guys in the floor making fifty million dollars a year
in salary, yes, salary, yes, yeah, imagine a whole bunch
of them. I mean, and every one of those starters,
Clay has got to be making eight figures, I mean
at least oh yeah, guys, you know, ten, fifteen, twenty

(14:59):
million bucks a year. Yes, you know, America is such
a rough, awful place, so racist, like, you.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Know, calm down, everybody, calm down. It's a hard putt
to sink. I think most people, if they were making
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Speaker 2 (16:31):
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Speaker 4 (16:34):
Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off. Now we
are joined by Steve Hilton, top two finisher so far
in that governor's race and for California, of course. And Steve,
first of all, what is the very latest? Because I'm
sure you're up on it. Where do things stand right now?
Talk to us about vote totals, the future? How's it looking?

Speaker 8 (16:57):
Yeah, very latest is a very flexible term in for
you when it comes to elections. It could be very late. Indeed, look,
we just did a press conference outside the vote center
in Los Angeles. I'll get to that in a second.
In terms of the race, we you know, we're still
in the same position, which is, we're very very confident
that we've made it into the top two. Some have

(17:19):
already called it for us decision death HQ. We always
took the view in our campaign that we'd wait, you know,
slightly old fashioned, wait for.

Speaker 7 (17:26):
The official AP call for the race.

Speaker 8 (17:29):
That could happen today after the votes are reported today,
it could be sometime this week. We're very confident though,
that we've made it. It doesn't seem any possibility that
Tom sty could catch up.

Speaker 7 (17:41):
And that's why, you know, some.

Speaker 8 (17:43):
Have already caught the race for me, but we're just
waiting for the AP to make it completely official. In
terms of the actual count, it's just a shambles. The
shambles continues. You've still got certain counties in California that
have barely reported half the vote a week on.

Speaker 7 (17:59):
It's a week election day.

Speaker 8 (18:01):
It's just insane. I just want to give you one
indication of how insane it is. Because even if you
give them everything that they're saying.

Speaker 7 (18:09):
About why we have this ridiculous system.

Speaker 8 (18:12):
Where they want, oh, every vote, you know, everyone to
have the chance to vote every possible way in maximum
accessibility or whatever. Okay, fine, give them that. So the
concept is this, we want you know, if you want
if you vote by mail, we want to make sure
that everybody's vote is counted, and we want to treat
you the same as if you voted in person. So
let's just say you want to vote by mail, and

(18:32):
you leave it right up until election day, and then
you send your ballot in on election day in the mail,
just as.

Speaker 7 (18:38):
If you showed up and voted in person.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
Then we've got to give you time for the ballot
to arrive because it's the US Postal Service, and who
knows how long you'll take, So they give you seven days. Okay, fine,
you would assume from that that in order that your
vote is counted in that seven day period, which is
just coming to an end today, they kind of check
that you really did send your mail ballot in on
or before election day. And of course, we have very

(19:02):
simple way of doing that would just look at the
postmark on the envelope. Well, not in California, unbelievably, there
is a rule that says that if there is no postmark,
or if the postmark is illegible or whatever, or just
no postmark at all, it's okay. If you handwrite the date.

Speaker 7 (19:24):
And it can be accepted.

Speaker 8 (19:25):
In other words, they have legalized backdating your ballot. You
could vote, could have voted yesterday and put a written
election day on it in hand and that would count.
It's just unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
That's insane. Yes, this is absolutely crazy. We're talking to
Steve Hilton.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
First of all, I'm going to say congratulations on advancing.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
I understand that you're waiting.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Till the absolute latest moment, and I know there's a
lot of people very happy that.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
You have advanced. We were, like Steve Hilton IPO investors here.
We got in early.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Some people were saying, is this guy, siria al. We're
very seriou with Steve Hilton.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Go away.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
I need the state of California desperately needs you. I'm
sure that you have heard a ton about this. This
is something we took calls on all day yesterday. We
have been talking about it a great deal. The situation
in LA and the fact that the mail ballots are
drastically different than the early voting tallies that have come in.

(20:23):
For many people, it is just assigned that they can't
trust the counting in California in general, but LA specifically.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
What do you see there?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
What can someone do who is in California that is
frustrated by this? What should happen going forward based on
what you're seeing on the ground there.

Speaker 8 (20:45):
Yeah, So we were literally at that counting center just now,
just driving away from it, and the press conference that
I just held along with my running mate for Lieutenant
of the Gloria Ramira, and the chair of the California
Republican Party, was to say, there's so many things we
need to change with the system, but there's one really
big one that we can actually make happen very quickly

(21:07):
because it's on the ballot in November, and that is
voter ID. Voter ID is on the ballot this November.
We can actually have it in California. That would avoid
so much of this because one of the reasons it's
all taking so long is because they have to do
signature matching and verification by hand. They're all sitting around
in these offices peering at signatures. It's just insane. But

(21:29):
if you had voter ID, you wouldn't need any of that.
So that's something we can get done this year. Now.
In terms of LA I want to be really this
is what I think is happening, and it's a complete
example of the corruption in California. I think what's going on.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
There is ballot harvesting.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
Where you've got the Again, this is totally legal, where
any individual organization can just go around scooping up ballots
many as they want, there's no limit to the number
and just collecting them on people's behalf and dropping them
off of putting them in the ail or whatever. And
this is where the corrupt Democrat machine comes in, and

(22:10):
it actually connects to something that we've been exposing during
the course of this year through cal DOJE. So remember,
I mean we probably talked about some of these examples
from a fraud reports. This is when all this comes
into play.

Speaker 7 (22:22):
Because I'll give you a couple of the examples.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
The cannabis tax in California. When cannabis was legalized Proposition
sixty four, a tax was imposed that was supposed to
go towards substance abuse prevention. We tracked down that money
we found three hundred and fifty million dollars was actually
siphoned off into Democrat political organizing. All these hundreds of
different groups doing voter registration, ballot harvesting, all of this

(22:49):
second example from the Climate Change Mitigation Fund, one billion
dollars with a B since twenty fifteen, one hundred million
every year supposedly spent on solar panels for low income
apartment buildings. We found that only seventy two million was
spent on that nine hundred and twenty eight million when
on Democrat political organizing, environmental justice groups, voter registration, ballot harvesting.

(23:13):
Third example Turler. This is our fourth fraud report. Turler
with the Immigrants Rights group, far left group that was
really involved in about a year ago the riots in
La against Ice. They are supporting my opponent, Javier Biserra.
They have an office in Mexico which literally promotes illegal

(23:34):
immigration and explains people how to do it. This is
an organization that is eighty five percent funded by California taxpayers,
basically an arm of the government.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
It is we exposed its.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
Political organizing manual.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
It takes taxpayer.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
Money because it's mostly taxpayer funded, and pays illegal immigrants.

Speaker 7 (23:54):
To do ballot harvesting.

Speaker 8 (23:56):
So this is what's going on now. You're seeing this
machine in action. Did all this money that's been siphoned
off into these nonprofits? This is what they do and
this is the moment when they come into play. They
just go around and we hear reports unions doing it
in nursing homes and all the rest of it. Just
collecting ballots in quote marks, helping people fill out their

(24:18):
ballot and then turning them in.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
And I think that's what happened in.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
LA question for you, thank you for all those specifics
you said. On the ballot. Eighty percent of people are
in favor of basic ID being shown in order to vote.
What is the ballot initiative that is there in California?
And for people out there who are skeptical, some of
these ballot initiatives, for instance, having to do with affirmative action,

(24:43):
even in California, which is a blue state, have absolutely trounced.
Right seventy thirty sixty five thirty five. What is the
ballot initiative and what are the possibilities when it comes
to passage?

Speaker 2 (24:56):
As you see them, So the.

Speaker 8 (24:58):
Ballot, the specific ballot issue would require government approved ID
to be shown when you vote. So if you vote
in person, your drive a license, if you vote by mail,
your Social Security number that's then matched. So it's very
you know, it's it's pretty accessible it's because it's no
change to the vote by mail system, which I would

(25:21):
like to change. But you know, we tried to get
a realistic win. We tried to get maximum support for it.
So it means you have to use government registered ID
in order to vote, whether that's in person or by mail.
It has around seventy percent support in California. Seventy percent,
that's the latest polling. It qualified for the ballot.

Speaker 7 (25:38):
You have to get signatures to get on the ballot.
We got way over the necessary.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
Amount, so it's very you know, it looks like you'll well,
it looks like you'll get across the line.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
In fact, what today my press conference was about.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
Not only making the point that vote ID would feed
this whole fast up, but I often to have you
ab Sarah joined with campaigning for it.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
Let's do it together.

Speaker 8 (26:02):
Let's just show people that actually, for once, we can
come together behind something sensible, because the Democrat machine is
a cause against Vote I D just as they are nationally,
because it would get in the way of all these
things that they've been pushing.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
We're speaking here to Steve Hilton everybody, as we know,
he is in the top two right now for the
governor's race in California, and we are really pushing for him,
and Steve, can you just take us I know that
there's still you know, you're it's still not official official,
but looking pretty official. Assuming that it is what we think,
which is that you're going to be in this runoff

(26:39):
going forward, Just take us through a little bit of
this timeline of what happens between now and election day.
What are the primary issues you're going to be hitting
in and what are you going to be doing to
get some of the people who maybe didn't vote for
you in the initial runoff to realize sanity is better
than the insane asylum vote.

Speaker 8 (26:56):
Steve Hilton, Yeah, that's a very important word. Oh, we
are assuming that that's the case, and we're planning according
We have been since last Wednesday, honestly.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
Because it was very obvious on election night that we
had a sufficient.

Speaker 8 (27:09):
Margin to withhold any gains that Stier might make. Tom Steyer,
the billionaire climate fanatics, is number three.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
So we've been.

Speaker 8 (27:17):
Planning since last Wednesday. The real campaign begins next week,
once all.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
This election, once the call is made.

Speaker 8 (27:23):
We're very confident the call will be this week and
so we can get cracking.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Next week.

Speaker 8 (27:28):
There are six Next week is week one of sixteen
weeks till ballots go out, so we're not going to
waste any time. And we'll be doing two things, which
is laying out a sense, a positive practical plan for
cutting your costs, helping your business, fixing our schools, just
common sense things that everyone can get behind. For example,

(27:50):
my tax plan, your first one hundred grand tax free.
That's been very popular on the campaign trail. It's the
quickest way. You know, we have the highest cost of
living in the country thanks to Democrat policies. All the
different components of that we are well known, the highest
gas prices, highest housing costs, and so on. But the
simplest and quickest way we can get more money in

(28:10):
people's pockets is to take less out.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
So that's the.

Speaker 8 (28:14):
Starting point, which is to cut your taxes, especially for
working people. We're going to be offering an update to
that plan. We've been doing the math to expand.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
That, and that'll be my first announcement next week.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
So what you'll see is the same kind of campaigning
I've been doing now, high energy up and down the state,
focused on positive practical changes. You know, your taxes, vehicle registration,
the small business registration fee, all these different things that
we can do that will cut the taxes, the bloat
in the government and bring us back to sanity. The

(28:47):
word us there is exactly right. I just think of
this as not you know, this campaign for the next
sixteen weeks is going to be not about Republican Democrat.
It's are you on team sanity or not? Join team sanity.
That's the basic message. There's so much going on here
that is just insane. Importing oil halfway round the world,
shoving up our gas prices when we have abundant oil

(29:08):
reserves here in California doesn't make sense.

Speaker 7 (29:11):
There's so many things like that.

Speaker 8 (29:13):
And at the same time, we'll be prosecuting very strongly
the case against Havierbsara, because he is exactly the kind
of thing I mean, he's more of the same, but worse.
He's a thirty six years a career politician. That's his
whole life. He was asked the other day, you'll be
seeing an ad on this coming out very shortly on

(29:34):
an interview, what he would change about what's happened that's
brought us to these terrible results in California. Policy wise,
he gave basically the Kamala Harris answer in that notorious
interview on the view in her general election campaigns. I
didn't think of anything. He's more of the same, but worse,
and that is going to be very much part of it.
I mean, the list of things that disqualify haavy Ebasara

(29:57):
from being governor is a very long list. Even the
Biden administration officials that he worked with, the Biden cabinet
officials think that he was useless. I mean, how incompetent
do you have to be if Biden's cabinet thinks you're
too incompetent for them, And it's just it's a very
long list. And so that's going to be the combination.
You cannot have this guy. It's more of the same

(30:19):
cost in competence and corruption. But he is a positive,
practical plan for change. So I'm looking I'm excited about it.
This is what it's all been about. And I know
people look at California and say, oh, no chance, very
heavily Democrat state, whatever, But you know, we've reached a
point where people are really ready for change, and I
think we're going to pull it off.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Steve Hilton everybody. Steve, what's your website for the campaign.

Speaker 8 (30:41):
Steve hiltonfogovernor dot com.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Fo R guys, let's let's help Steve bring home the
w California listener. Steven, thanks for being with us.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
Great to talk to you, of course, see a thing guy.

Speaker 7 (30:51):
Thank you.

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Speaker 2 (32:08):
Happening here, so much to talk to you all about.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
We just had on before Steve Hilton, and he see Clay,
I think that what that was really important because notice
he was speaking because obviously as somebody in the governor's
race and the top two contender, which means he has
a very serious shot of becoming the governor of California,
he really knows what he's talking about. In an era

(32:31):
of a lot of stuff flying around, you know, Clay,
apparently the thing about all the votes went for one
candidate in the ballot, you know, in one of the
ballot dumps, it was not accurate, and and even people
who are on the right on Republicans there said no, no, no,
that's not actually true. But that was caught on like
wildfire online. My point is, when you're talking about election integrity,

(32:56):
stuff got to have the facts straight because the moment
that the narrative becomes, hey, you're cheating because of X
or Y, and it turns out X or Y or
legitimate and fine Z, which is the real reason, gets
discounted as part of the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
You see what I mean.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
This is why we gotta stay, gotta stay on the specifics,
on the reality, on the fact, gotta stay where the
facts are really and Steve Hilton was doing that. You'll
notice he was walking through those things. He was saying,
those are huge issues. The fact that there's a giant
NGO industrial complex paying illegals to collect ballots on behalf

(33:36):
of Democrats and that that's legal under California law is crazy, yes,
but that's happening. That's happening. When you have to understand
is that in a place like California, a lot of
public money, state money, taxpayer dollars goes to filters its
way to these NGOs. So you have NGOs getting taxpayer
dollars that are then turned around to use illegals as

(33:59):
the labor to elect Democrats who want more illegals to
come into the country. This is the self licking ice
cream cone. This is the problem that we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
So I just I.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Caution you to just scream fraud, fraud, fraud, and then
start attaching to it things that aren't necessarily accurate or
that there's a because that is the favorite thing that
Democrats can have is Republicans in this race or in
any race, saying that this is a fraud, and they go, actually,

(34:30):
we can prove it's not, haha, and then they don't
want to hear anything else beyond behind that. Mike Johnson,
for example, here Clay is saying this is he's saying that,
let's go on in California.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Stinks to high heaven. This is eleven play it.

Speaker 9 (34:43):
I'm not saying it's rick. I'm saying it stinks to
high heaven. And everybody knows that. Let's let's let's remove
the appearance of impropriety, let's have what a concept, Let's
have votes on an election the day of the election.
That's what many states are able to do. I think
California is playing around with us.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
What evidence is there to prove that there was a ring?

Speaker 9 (35:02):
I don't Some of these efforts are so diabolical and
so far upstream it is impossible to prove. But I
think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here, and that's
a concern. We need people to believe in the integrity
of our election system.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
See, I agree with everything Mike Johnson says.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
They're clay. It's about the appearance of integrity. It's about
the common sense application here of rules and regulations. But
he's not making why he's not running with wild conspiracies.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
The appearance of impropriety is a huge part of our
legal standards for a long time as it pertains to elections,
and if you think about it, it makes total sense.
It's not only impropriety, it's not only fraud. It's the
appearance of impropriety and fraud which delegitimizes the elections themselves.
And I thought the other thing that Steve Hilton said

(35:50):
with us Buck that was so significant was that there
is a referendum on the ballot this fall that appears
to have seventy percent of the support California voters. That
would require some form of id for elections to occur. Now, unfortunately,
it would still permit male balloting, which is a huge

(36:10):
part of this right. I mean, when you really analyze
all elections, requiring someone to go in person with an
ID to vote should be the standard upon which all
of our elections are based. Now, should there be a
small minority of the overall population that can get absentee ballots? Yes,
But given that we have expanded early voting in many

(36:32):
states for weeks in advance of election day, I don't
even buy into the fact that there should be very
much mail or absentee If you're a soldier in your
overseas and you aren't able to travel for an entire
month to vote, I think most people would say, yes,
that can make sense if you can't get to a
public place in your place that is your primary residence

(36:55):
for an entire month.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I'm just gonna be honest, if.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
From October first to November five, or whatever the heck
collection day is, you are not physically present in the
state or the jurisdiction in which you are voting, I
got to be honest with you. A big part of
me doesn't think that you're spending enough time in that jurisdiction.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
To need to vote.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Right for a full month of in person voting, if
you can't find the time and you aren't physically able
to get there, I got to be honest with you.
I don't think you're being hamstrung or treated unfairly. And
every single person out there has had to show their ID.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
For picking up movie tickets.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
For certainly people say, well, buying go to a movie
or going to a concert is not a constitutional right.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Okay, buying a gun is?

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Is there anybody out there, Buck, you're the way more
of an expert than I am. Is it possible in
any way to buy a weapon legally in the United
States without showing an ID.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Nope, you can't go to an ffelon do it, that's
for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
So, I mean you have a Second Amendment right to
possess weapons. You have to show an ID to be
able to buy a gun. I don't think most people
out there would say, hey, that's totally fine to be
able to go to buy guns out of the back
of people's trunks. And my point is constitutional rights all
come with regulations that are designed to make sure that
that constitutional right is not only protected for you, but
for everyone else. And I think some of these referendums,

(38:22):
because Buck, they're not particularly connected to Democrat or Republican,
they pass and they're actually very right of center. I
mean the Affirmative action in California has been crushed property taxes.
California has some of the most restrictive property tax laws
of any state in the nation. Because property tax got

(38:45):
so out of control, Californian and said we're not going
to allow this. So I think the vast majority of
Californians listening to us right now are in favor of ID.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I think on federal law.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
I've never done a private sale like this, but I
think federal law mandates that you cannot sell a farm
to a prohibited person. You have to make sure that
they reside in the same state as you. You can't
sell it across state lines, and you have to make
sure that they are of age in that state for
the sale. So you kind of need to see someone's
ID to do that. But there's not a specific ID.

(39:16):
But if you go to an FFL though, for sure,
because they're gonna run a NIX check on you and
everything else. So just I know the gun people out there,
I don't want to get lit up by you guys.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I understand my point on when you say, hey, there
should be some restrictions. People say, well, voting is a
constitutional right and we're not going to restrict in any
way constitutional rights. Then you say, okay, so there should
be zero restrictions on all firearms.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
There's enormous and endless restrictions on the Second Amendment, which
I think the restrictions often veer into what is unconstitutional,
certainly in blue states, and we're supposed to accept that.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
For some reason.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
There's apparently no restrictions on voting in the state of
California other than you got to be like a legal resident,
but there's no checks in ballot balance is to see
if you are a legal resident to be putting the
vote in that you are, like, they don't they don't
want to verify. There's no verification process. There's a lot
of verification for gun ownership, so it's treated quite differently.

(40:15):
And you know, you get to the why is it
that they're always so opposed to voter ID Well, I
think we know why because they're opposed everywhere and anywhere.
And the once you start adding into this the NGO
industrial complex where they have vote harvesting going on, they say,
prove the fraud. And I understand this is a valid

(40:36):
response clator to what I was saying about be specific
know what you're talking about with what is illegal or
what the fraud is that you're trying to cite. One
of their rejoinders is, well, you know, prove it, And
from our side it's often, yeah, Well, the whole point
is you make the law so that it's impossible to
prove if you can, if you can hand right back
date a ballot, how could you even theoretically prove that

(40:59):
that's not you don't you see what I'm.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Saying, Well, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 4 (41:03):
It's kind of like an honor system thing, and people
have no honor a lot of the time when you're
talking about these sorts of issues. So yeah, it's a
big it's a it's a big mess. They like it
to be messy.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
I also think what Steve was talking about is important
because it starts to explain how the data is coming
out as it is.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
There is right now. I believe there was.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
When they looked at the Nittya Ramen La mayor race numbers,
they saw those coming in and they said, if your
Karen Bass's team were in right, Nitya Rabin's team.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Started she started crying.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
On election night, they said, we have to do whatever
it takes to get as many ballots complete as possible.
The story of how she went from when people went
all in person and voted, she got whatever it was,
twenty one percent of the overall vote, and then she
starts to get forty percent of the vote when it
comes to mail ballots. I think that's a hard explanation

(42:04):
other than the rig job was in effect and they
knew that they had to get her above Spencer Pratt,
and they put out the code read to make it happen.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
And again, this is why all votes should have.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
I hope the Supreme Court is going to solve this
buck All votes should have to be in by election
day period. I mean, this sounds crazy that you would
even have to make this argument. Every single vote should
have to be in the possession of your jurisdiction on
election day. By the time the ballots officially closed a

(42:41):
week later, votes can still arrive in California.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
How in the world is that remotely constitutional? It can't be.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
I hope the Supreme Court itself is going to step
in and solve some of this, because I think it
would make the ballot harvesting and the vote chasing post
election day. I think it would make it much more
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(44:17):
number three Tuesday edition, Clay and Buck. We appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Reports that Iran shot
down an Apache helicopter. Trump says the US will respond,
although there is an investigation going on right now as
to exactly what happened there. We also have South Carolina, Maine, Nevada,

(44:38):
and North Dakota all with primaries the Southern Poverty Law
Center being grilled by our friend Jim Jordan at a
hearing on Capitol Hill. Right now, California voting impact continuing
the story surrounding at Steve Hilton with with us he
will be into the runoff for California governor. A lot
of really good info from Steve Hilton about the particulars

(45:00):
of what's going on with California voting. We had Donald
Trump at the next game last night. We bring in
now our friends Senator Tommy Tuberville, and uh, let's start
with this news that has recently broken. Senator Tubberville, by
the way, going to be the next governor of the
great State of Alabama. We will get into that a
bit as well. But right now he is Senator and uh,

(45:23):
there is a report that there was a helicopter shut down.
President Trump has said that the US is going to respond.
What have you heard about that, Senator? What do you
expect to see happen in that front.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
Yeah, they're making sure that it wasn't mechanical, that was
wasn't a problem with friendly fire. They'll do all the investigations.
But I feel sorry for the r GC if they
actually shot this helicopter down. President Trump's given them all
the rope in the world. They're about to hang themselves,
and you know, they don't want to deal with us.
They're you know, they're killers. And the ones that are

(45:58):
actually running O Ran I don't know how many thousands
of the ninety million it is, but they know that
they're times limited if they ever give up, because they
killed forty thousand of their own people. So they're fighting
to save their lives. But you know, I again, I
don't know what President Trump's gonna do, but I know
he doesn't put up with stuff like this. If you
mess with us, you're going to pay the price. So

(46:20):
interesting to see what happens the next twenty four hours.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
Phil, appreciate you being here with us as always. How
do you think we're looking for the Senate coming up
in this mid term election?

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Did we we may have lost Senator there from here?

Speaker 5 (46:37):
Now?

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yeah? That went off there we go.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
Ok.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Buck was just asking you how you see things in
the Senate looking.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
It's always a toss up, number one. You never know
how the voting is gonna go because there a lot
of these states have opportunities to to vote how they
want to vote and how they can counter to votes.
Leea A California. That's an absolute. That's the reason we
need to Save America Act. And and as you know,
for the life of me, I can't imagine us not

(47:06):
doing that while we have control. But that's that's up
to the people up here. Again, I think we'll control
the Senate, but we might might lose one or two
in the majority. But as long as you keep the
majority of find But we've had a majority for a
year and a half, we haven't done anything. We've got
the big beautiful Bill. It's time to make a difference
in this country. And every time I go to Alabama

(47:27):
that they all coach when of y'all going past the
Save America Act. What am I gonna know? I vote
counts and I don't have IVY legal voting every time
that I vote wrong. Y'all need to take care of this. Well,
we tried to the other night. Forty nine voted for it,
and we had four Republicans and didn't vote for it,
and uh, you know just what it is. You get

(47:47):
called out when you do stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
We're talking to Senator Tommy Tubberville. You used to before
you got into politics. You were the head coach of
a bunch of different schools, ole miss Auburn, Texas Tech
among them. I'm sure you saw the ruling that came
down yesterday that just set the entire college sports landscape
on fire. Texas Tech transfer quarterback Brendan Soresby alleged to

(48:10):
have gambled on a lot of different football games, among others,
for teams that he was a part of. A judge said,
he can play. He's only going to miss two games.
It's one of the first rulings that I've seen from
a judge where almost everybody said, boy, he got it wrong.
And it seems to have accelerated the discussion about there

(48:31):
needing to be a solution.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
What did you think of the ruling? What needs to happen.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
I got out ten years ago, and if any of
our kids that have been caught gambling or whatever, they'd
have been done. And that showed you how times have changed.
I think the NCAA came out and not allow him
to play, but a federal judge gets involved again. I
don't have a dog in this fight. I mean college
sports is all screwed up right now, as we all know.

(48:58):
You know, the transfer, the money and and everything that
goes along with it. Uh, we're going to lose it
if we don't watch it. But it's things like this,
it just you shake your head. Going soon or later,
we've got to put integrity back into this and not
just look at winning and losing. But you know, money talks.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
When you look at what's going on in Alabama right now,
you're going to be the next governor. And I understand
you may want to say we got to win the
election in November, but when you look at strengthening red states,
you're seeing so many people move in from other places. Uh,
I live in Tennessee. We got so many people flooding

(49:38):
into this state. Bucks in Miami down in Florida, people Texas.
I think you're starting seeing uh people moving into Alabama too.
How do you strengthen and make sure that red states
are not going to get run over by new people
coming in?

Speaker 2 (49:54):
How do you fix it?

Speaker 5 (49:56):
Well, first of all, you fix it by having you know,
treating every body fair. But you make sure everybody's accountable.
And it all goes back to making sure that if
you make a decision, that you're held accountable for it,
and it all goes back, you know. I know we've
got some people moving in our states or from California,
from from some of the northern states because they're running

(50:16):
from high taxes. But you try to be a state
that wants to recruit other people, and I hope they
see that as an opportunity. Now you come in and
start voting for the same nonsense that you ran from,
then you got a problem again. I think that goes
back if we had to save America, if everybody had

(50:38):
to be accountable to vote, okay, just like the ones
we got ridden up. If everybody had to be accountable,
this country would be so much better. But for some reason,
we can't get old that hurdle. You know, a lot
of people say, well, this tradition in the Senate not
to bus to philibush or do this, or that, we
don't want to federalize elections. Listen, we federalize everything else.
We screwed up health care, we'd name screwed up or a

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military axes or high We're losing one hundred and ten
million an hour to frow. Think about that, guys, one
hundred and ten million an hour as a threeion dollars
a year, and we act like that we can't get voting.
Come on, give me a break.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
So Senator, I see here from a news source, punch
Bowl News, that Senator Tillis sent a fifteen paragraph well,
screed is what it's being called here to gop senators,
calling them out for their opposition to his opposition, if

(51:36):
you will, to his move to envy Weaponization Fund Donald
Trump's Lawfair Weaponization Fund and continue to push the Save Act.
And apparently Tillis went after you specifically. What's going on here?

Speaker 5 (51:52):
Well, I came out and tweeted, this is the people
that voted against the slave of America. It's the first
time we voted on it, okay, and it should have
been a a long time ago, but I wanted my
people back home. I'm accountable to people in Alabama, and
every time I go back, coaches my vote going to count.
We're trying to pass the Save America Act, and I
want them to see the vote. It was forty nine

(52:14):
Republicans and four voted against it. Now, this is not personal.
You've got to be accountable for you vote. You know,
until this comes out and comes out against me, that's fine.
He came out against some of my staff, which is
not fine. But at the end of the day, you're
a big boy up here. You got to stand behind
your vote. And if I voted against that, people Alabama

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would have been in an uproar. And so I just
want to make sure, Hey, I voted for this. These
are the ones that didn't vote for it. And you know,
at the end of the day, I don't know why
I wrote that. I mean, it's pretty knowledgeable that that
vote was public anyway, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
For You're going to be the next governor, So you
are leaving the Senate. But do you have any doubt
that as un as Democrats get back control of the
White House and back control of the Senate, that they
will immediately do away with the filibuster, and everybody on
the Republican side who's making a big show of we
can't get to sixty votes so we can't pass this

(53:16):
is just going to get completely steamrolled and look pathetic.
I mean, this is frustrating to me because the vast
majority of the American public, eighty percent of them, believe
in basic election security. We'll see what's going on in LA.
We saw what happened in twenty twenty. Democrats are going
to do whatever it takes to get into power, and
once they get fifty and have a tie break vote,

(53:38):
the filibuster's gone. Like what is being protected here? It's frustrating.

Speaker 5 (53:42):
Well, it's the way I've been explained to. But some
of these people that don't want to vote for it
is that they want to protect the tradition of the Senate. Hell,
I don't work for the Senate. I work for the
United States and the American people and the taxpayers and
the people of Alabama. And we know, you know, you
just said it, and everybody in this building knows. If

(54:04):
they ever get a majority again, they're not Democrats anymore.
They're far left hosts. They're gonna bust Showbuster. It's over,
and they're gonna pack the court. They're gonna make DC
and some of the other states of and take two senators.
I mean, it's gonna be over, folks. This is our
only chance. And that's the reason that I'm wondering, what
the heck are we doing. I mean, we got majority here.

(54:25):
We saw they almost did it the last time, and
uh don't Democrats that voted against the were Cinema and Mansion. Hell,
they're gone. They got run off and they got new people.
So I'm fighting for our country and uh, you know
the same personal This is about the future of our
kids and our grandkids here and it ain't looking good

(54:45):
with the people's voting against the Save America Act.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Senator Truberville, appreciate you being with us here.

Speaker 5 (54:51):
Oh I thank you, see it.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 4 (54:54):
You play whenever we have them on. I've never played football,
but I feel like I'm waiting for to tell me
that I'm gonna go in to the wide receiver position
and I better not drop the ball, you know what
I mean, Like I don't want to disappoint Coach Tubberville.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
It is a function of how crazy the world has
become that a lot of football coaches make way more
sense than a lot of politicians. And I've said it
before on this show, but I think it's worth real debate.
We hold our football coaches to a higher standard of
job performance than we do our politicians.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Well as a football coach, right, or really as any
high level athletic coach, but you have to you have
to exert leadership, decision making and strategy, and whether you're
good or not is something that you know, Yeah, your players,
and there's a lot of factors, but there is some
observable metric. Politicians, it's like, can they just convince people

(55:51):
that they're going to do things that they're not going
to do? Yeah, there is, you know, that's that's really
the you know, And then there's a million ways to lie.
There's no win and loss record, there's voting records, and
there's a million ways to pretend that you didn't vote
for what you voted for. You voted for the bill
before you voted against it. As John Kerry infamously said, like,
there's a lot of stuff that goes on. There a
lot of ways to dirty the waters. So anyway, but oh,

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