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January 15, 2025 36 mins
Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire and hostage deal. Will TikTok shut down on Sunday? Newsom’s executive order makes him the arbitor over fair market prices on property offers. Dog eats Clay’s book and the AI’s that crack us up.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show kicks off now. Great to have you all
with us, and we've got the continued confirmation hearings on
Capitol Hill for Trump appointees. We are days away from
inauguration day, Trump two point zero Trump, the sequel Trump

(00:23):
Part duh. All of these things going to be occurring,
very exciting, and we're going to dive into what we
think is going to be happening the first week. Clay
and I'll actually be up in DC fighting through the crowds,
but among the people, among the people on the streets
of our nation's cat.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
How many things by dragging you around to that otherwise
you would refuse to do. You would not have gone
to the RNC, probably right, And you wanted to murder
me when it was one hundred and eighty degrees and
we were trying to go through security for the first day.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I wasn't gonna tell everybody, but yeah, Clay is not lying.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
He's correct. It was the hottest day at Milwaukee for
the first couple of days that we were there. You
wouldn't have gone to that. Would you have gone to
the inauguration? Can either confirm nor deny. But I was
dragging Buck all over the country to big events for crowds,
in festivity and for volity.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Because Clay is used to you know, sec football games
with you know, eighty to one hundred and twenty thousand
people all gathered together. He's very crowd prepped and crowd ready,
and like feels that excitement and that energy. I like
to wear sweatshirts and be in my quiet home. I'm
not really eating pistachio ass ice cream. Eating pistachio cremberlet

(01:39):
or ice cream. I'll take either one. So we're a
bit of an odd couple that way. And I'll just
say though that I am going to the inauguration with
Clay and we're gonna we're gonna have a great time.
So while we're standing in security lines and freezing our
butts off in that DC weather, it's gonna be really
I'm leaving Miami's really rough right now. It's about seventy
five degrees. There's a light breeze. I'm excited to be

(02:00):
standing outside in security lines in a suit which I
never wear, getting padded down for the security of this inauguration.
So it's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. We're
looking forward to it. But yes, we've got that coming up.
We've got let me see more here on Trump weighing
in on the wildfires, Biden's last few days, including an

(02:23):
action that he took on Cuba that's surprising some people.
We've got more on that, we'll have some discussion about.
I honestly think all these nominees, this is not very
exciting of a news story so far. I think all
these Trump nominees are likely to get through. But let's
dive into something else here. We can draw up on

(02:44):
Clay's recent trip to the region for some specifically on
the ground analysis here. But the big breaking news headline
right as we came on the air, Israel and Hamas
agree to a deal to pause the fighting in Gaza.
This is what we're hearing Isral Hamas have agreed to

(03:05):
a pause in the fighting the Gaza Strip, according to
Arab mediators, opening a pathway to end a fifteen month
war that has laid waste to the enclave, threatened to
spark a regional conflict and royal politics in the West.
The deal is expected to be implemented in three phases,
will begin with the exchange of some of the hostages
held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Negotiators

(03:29):
including Steve Whitkoff, president Elect Trump's does designated Middle East Envoy,
along with officials from US, Israel, and Arab countries, reconvened
at midday in Doha Cutter to finalize the draft. According
to sources, so it's looking like a breakthrough here, Clay,
What do you make of it and how does the

(03:51):
timing play in here with the new administration coming in
Trump's admit, Trump's envoy clearly involved.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I think Trump deserves all the credit for this ceasefire,
and as secondary to that, everybody who voted for Trump
deserves credit here. When I was in Israel last month,
I sat and talked with the Speaker of the Israeli
House and we shared that on this show, and he
said it was a sea change basically overnight. As soon

(04:21):
as Trump won the Hamas negotiators recognized that it was
very different than if Kamala Harris had won. There was
and is a segment of the Democrat left that is
very anti Semitic, that is aligned with the Palestinians in
their mind in the way that this was going to
play out, and that made a resolution more difficult to

(04:45):
engage in for Democrats than it would for Republicans. The
details here from what I am reading and this news
just breaking right as we're coming on the air, is
that thirty three hostages are going to be released with
a pre reference or focus on still women children. Remember
there are still women and children being held, as well

(05:06):
as men over the age of fifty and people with
medical related issues. Now you and I were talking about
this off air, can you imagine we're talking about coming
up on five hundred days. I believe of captivity for
many of these innocent people who were grabbed on October seven,
twenty twenty three, so and many of them have been

(05:27):
kept basically in the tunnels underneath Gaza for much of
that time. They may barely have seen sunlight for that
entire period of time. Obviously, all the bombings going on,
the fact that you don't know if you're going to
be a lie from one moment to the next. It's
a level of basically just psychological torture over and above

(05:51):
whatever the physical aspects of this are, the likes of
which very few people have experienced in a modern era.
So I want all of the hostages to come home.
This is a very big focus in Israel. As we
mentioned Buck, When you get off the airline when we
landed in Tel Aviv, you walk down the ramparts towards
the customs area, and they have all of the different

(06:14):
placards for the individual hostages along that walkway with a demand.
When you land on l Al Airlines, which is the
only airline still going into Israel right now from the
United States, when they land, they say, bring our hostages home.
When you land in the United States they say the
same thing. It is a obsession the likes of which
we have not ever had anything similar in the United

(06:37):
States to get these hostages back. And the analogy I
think I gave when I was over there that I
think is apropos in some respect. Imagine if on September
the eleventh, when we were attacked, if they had taken
hundreds or even a thousand Americans hostage Al Qaeda had
been able to do that, and for over a year

(06:58):
those hostages had been held, what would the psychic impact
on America have been. That's Israel right now, and so
getting those hostages home is the focus. Whether this ceasefire
holds or not remains to be seen. Remember, in the
North they have a ceasefire with Hesbola. But I think
this is one of the most consequential results on foreign

(07:18):
policy of Trump's win. I don't think it's coincidental that
he said they'll be held to pay if these hostages
are not backed by the time he takes office, and
a lot of the hostages are now going to be back,
what five days before Donald Trump officially takes the oath
of office.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
I think that this is indicative of the change of
the changing of the guard, if you will, that's happening
in DC with Donald Trump and his team coming in.
As we've discussed, there's no contingent. There's no group within
the Republican MAGA party that is favorable to or winds

(07:57):
about the treatment of Hamas or tries to back Israel
from its response to the Hamas terror attack. So that
clearly changes the calculation a bit. I mean, there's no
reason for Biden to have waited on this. If he
could have gotten this deal done sooner, he would have
gotten this deal done sooner because of the election. Obviously,
it's not like this isn't a thing that you hold

(08:19):
till the last minute. It's not a pardon that you're
just doing, you know, on the way out the door.
So I think that the Trump administration coming in is
playing a role in this, and I think that Israel
has managed to put itself in a better position in
terms of its national security and national unity on this
issue than at any time in a long time there.

(08:43):
I mean you, I'm sure Clay experiences when you're talking
to Israeli officials and just dealing with every day Israelis
as part of your trip. They recognized that they had
their nine to eleven and that this was part of
the Hamas and Hezbollah and Iranian backed plan essentially make
life unlivable and eventually destroy the Jewish state in whatever

(09:05):
way that they could. And Israel has fought back valiantly
against this and taken the fight to their enemies. So
I think that this is look, we just we want
the hostages to come home. It's a shame that it's
taken as long as it has and there have been
as many losses as have already occurred. But I think
that you're going to see a lot of things happening

(09:27):
early on with this Trump administration, where the response from
people Clay will be wait, why did it take Trump
winning and coming in for this to happen? Yeah, you know,
they'll be common sense, straightforward, even on foreign policy matters,
things that occur. We haven't even talked about Ukraine yet
and the possibility of a negotiated ceasefire and settlement there,

(09:48):
which is also high on the Trump administration agenda. But
just remember this, These things can get done, but they
get done when it's Trump and his team, and they
wan able to get done with Biden and his team,
And it's worth asking why that is or why it
was so delayed in the case of these hostages.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah. Two other things that I would point out that
immediately come to mind Buck yesterday, I don't think it
was inconsequential. Pete hegg Seth, who's going to take over
I believe going to be confirmed, said when asked about this,
I believe by Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas. What's your
perspective on Israel and Hamas he said, I stand one
hundred percent. I'm paraphrasing Pete Hegseth on the side of Israel.

(10:30):
You are going to have a more aggressive pro Israeli
Hawk in Pete Hegseth, and also with Marco Rubio who's
testifying today, there's going to be a precipitous shift I
think in the overall policy of the Secretary of State,
Department of Defense, and also Donald Trump. The other thing
I'll say is history rhymes, it often doesn't repeat itself.

(10:51):
This is another analogy with Jimmy carterbuck because for those
of you out there who remember this, as Ronald Reagan
came into office, suddenly the Iranian hostages are released. Remember,
there are still American hostages being held by Hamas that
may or may not be alive, and our media by
and large doesn't focus on this. But when Ronald Reagan

(11:14):
came into office, suddenly the Iranian hostage situation was resolved.
Back in nineteen eighty that had hung as an albatross
over Jimmy Carter's head, and it took a new administration,
a new leadership in order for that to become a
reality again. This to me is another one of those
echoes that suggest, hey, there's a lot of rhyman and

(11:37):
connection between the Jimmy Carter regime and the Joe Biden regime.
One term accidental President Watergate us COVID. Again, they rhyme.
They're not one hundred percent analogous, but this would be
another situation that somewhat is evocative. I would say of
the way the Carter term ended when Reagan came into office.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
I will say it's funny because I mentioned yesterday the
formerly much more powerful among Democrats as a voice as reclined.
He's a New York Times columnist now, but I saw
something from him on X Reset is essentially saying this
is the absolute high water mark of MAGA and trump
Ism that everything gets. You know, yes, right now it

(12:17):
looks like Democrats are all defeated and destroyed, but the
election was actually pretty close by the numbers. Governing is hard, YadA, YadA, YadA.
But I just bring it up because that's a pep
talk on the left. Now, it's only gonna get worse
for Trump and better for us, we promise you, because
right now they got nothing, and right now there's no
sense that they're able to stand to thwart the agenda

(12:40):
and slow down the America First proposals.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
They don't even have an articulate opponent. I mean, we've
talked about this, and we kind of when anytime we
give a nominee, we immediately get lit up. Like I said,
Gretchen Whitmer, people were like, oh, you're great, but somebody
has to be the alternative. I think it speaks to
the weakness of the Democrat bench. We've talked about this.
If Trump had decided he wasn't going to run, there

(13:06):
are ten guys and gals that a lot of you
like in the Republican Party that would have had a
legitimate chance to be the nominee. And we would have thought, hey,
you know what, they could be pretty good on the
national stage as political figures. Who stands out and you're like, man,
that Democrat. I think your Wes Moore analogy is not
a bad one. The Maryland governor as somebody who could

(13:26):
become a scendant on the national stage. But you know,
Gretchen Whitmer, right now, Gavin Newsom is collapsing as they
can't put the fires out still in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
You know JB.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Pritzker has got the Chris Christy issue.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Buck.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
You know, he's kind of just a fat guy, and
fat people, I hate to say it, typically don't do
that well in the cosmetic television age. Who's out there
and you're like, hey, this guy's a stud. Tim Wallas
is a mess. Josh Shapiro, unfortunately for him, happens to
be Jewish and Democrats the base doesn't really like Jews. Now,
I mean, this is a mess. I mean in all honesty,

(14:06):
and we'll talk about that and take some of your
calls going forward. But that is major breaking news as
we were coming in with you, and good news if
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(16:14):
New Gingrich is going to join us, by the way
at two thirty third hour of this program. Should be
an interesting conversation obviously to hear what he thinks of
the goals going forward in the House and what he
expects of the Trump administration. As many people gear up
as we sit here, thankfully five days away from Trump
raising his right hand, We're going to get into a

(16:37):
bunch of different stories out there. We mentioned the Gaza
cease fire news breaking right as we were coming on
the air. There's also a couple of other things that
I think are interesting. Buck TikTok is now publicly saying, hey,
we're going to shut down the whole app on Sunday,
and I actually find this utterly fast. We've never seen
anything like this in a social media era.

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(17:38):
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're going
to check in on the situation out in California here
for a second. I have already heard anecdotally but from
a number of personal friends here in Florida, Clay, that
they know people who have houses on the market here
in Florida that are doing showings. And I believe virtual showings,

(19:18):
you know, so an agent kind of shows you around
with the phone and people will put offers on Holmes
this way for people from Los Angeles that this has already,
this is already. Now, maybe this is just anecdotal, it's
a handful of people, but I've heard a number of
stories already. People from Malibu the Palisades are looking outside
of the state because they're house burned down and they

(19:40):
don't know what's going to happen with the rebuild. So
this is and the photos I will say that the
video and everything you can see of this, the devastation
is shocking. It's whole neighborhoods burnt down to the cinders,
and you know, beautiful homes in these neighborhoods stretching back.

(20:04):
Some of them are you know, very historic homes. Anyway,
the whole thing is so heartbreaking. And everyone who has
been paying attention to this, and we've been talking about
it a lot, has been looking at the state of
California and saying, Okay, what have you guys and gals
been doing about this? How did you prepare for this?
How are you handling it? The mayor of Los Angeles

(20:25):
getting a lot of heat. The Governor of California, Gavin
Newsom getting a lot of heat. This is Gavin Newsom
stepping in to show you why having the wrong understanding
of economics and the wrong political philosophy is a problem.
Here he is saying that he has signed an executive
order to stop people from putting in what what are

(20:47):
considered undervalued offers to buy properties that have been affected
by the fire. Play it from here in Altadena.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
I just signed an executive order with community leaders to
deal with the issue that is becoming a bigger and
bigger issue every day, and that's land developers that are
engaging in predatory efforts to make unsolicited offers for properties
that significantly below market value. This predatory behavior is disgusting

(21:14):
in the best of times, and of course here in
the midst of this tragedy at scale, it's disgraceful. So
we're going to hold those folks accountable. I'm very grateful
for the leadership here in the community that promoted this approach,
and this executive order is a reflection of their direction
and their commitment to preserving the unique character of this
community for generations to come.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Clay This is this encapsulates that democrats never learnt. They
don't understand They don't change their mind. They just keep
doing the same things and failing the same ways. What
is a below market value offer right now from a developer.
What's going to happen here is people are going to say,
hold on, it's going to take me three years to rebuild.

(21:56):
I got to go through the insurance company. If somebody
wants to write me a check right now for a
million dollars for my plot of land, I want to
take it. The State of California is saying no, it's
worth more than that, because we say so.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, And who is the determination factor here for what
is an unacceptable offer? Like the entire purpose of market
based economics is a buyer and a seller. Now, if
Gavin Newsom, we're saying, I'm not going to allow foreclosures
to occur from a bank, for instance, because somebody's house

(22:32):
is burned down and they're in dire straits because they're
trying to reconcile what the insurance proceeds are going to
be with whatever they may or or owe in a mortgage.
That's rational. I was just talking about with uof Airbuck.
There is a job I think for a government when
it comes to quote unquote predatory loaning, right, you shouldn't

(22:52):
loan shark laws. You shouldn't be able to take advantage
of somebody, in my opinion, and get one hundred and
fifty percent interest rate on a thousand dollars loan that
basically is unable to be repaid.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Well, one part of this, also with credit card companies
that I think it often gets left out, is you
can't discharge credit card debt and bankruptcy. It's really it's
almost impossible. So the government says, well, the credit card
companies are going to get their money one way or another,
and so the government then also has to say, we
can't have you locked in at one hundred percent interest forever. Right,
So so.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Most top line right now, I think credit card, whether
you like it or not, is around twenty six percent
and that's insane. And if you're listening to me, I
don't want to sound like Dave Ramsey, but credit card
debt can completely sabotage any family finances, any individual finances.
Get rid of it first more than anything else. Okay,

(23:46):
there's my Dave Ramsey would do.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
No, it's a very important bit of advice for everybody
out there. I've went through periods going to play. I've
never run a credit card debt, but I've run my
bank account down to basically zero many times, just because
because credit card debts the first thing you want to
get rid of as fast as you possibly can. Well,
because a lot of people don't understand the concept of
compound like twenty six percent, I was talking. I was

(24:09):
trying to teach this to my boys the other day,
and the idea of compound interest is one of the
great benefits to any investment. Right.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Basically, if you buy S and P five hundred index funds,
you hold it for ten years on average. Historically, every
ten years your money doubles and you don't have to
do anything with it, which is why starting young, saving money,
all those things are good advice. But the idea that
Gavin Newsom, who can't even put out a fire, still
is going to be the arbiter of what fair market
value is for properties that have been destroyed by fires,

(24:42):
and that the government of California deserves more power economically
is crazy.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
He says he's going to criminally prosecute people. So you're
going to threaten to put people in prison for making
what they think is a fair market offer under the
circumstances for a piece of property. We're not talking of
people that are, you know, selling keys to a house
that they don't own or something, and that's fraud, right,
We're not talking about fraud. We're talking about Gavin Newsom
arbitrarily stepping in to say, first of all, how does

(25:08):
he even have the authority to do this, but stepping
in to say, we will determine at some level that
the offer made on this property is a criminal act
because it's so much lower than it should be. Meanwhile,
I mean, we had Adam croll On and you know
he's been great on this because you know he's living,
he's a lifetime California guy. He gets it. He's saying

(25:29):
that it's gonna take forever for people to get the
permits and get the resources and get the things they
need to rebuild, because California is gonna make it all
more complicated than it needs to be.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
And think about and again, this is why I think
California is screwing all this up. It's a good sound
bite because it gets Gavin Newsom out saying I'm gonna
keep people from taking advantage of you. That's basically what
he's saying. The other way of thinking about this is
he's gonna keep you Californians from making rational choices for
your fami. Let me give you an example of how

(26:01):
this could apply. Buck, your house is completely burned down
right now in California, and we found out, unfortunately some
of our team that is out there working on Clay
and Buck have lost their homes. And we're going to
try to help those people out through iHeart and everything else.
But this is a reality, right people lose their home.
You are now living in your famili's, your aunt or

(26:26):
uncle's home with your kids, and everybody's at wits end
because there's barely any room. You're in grandma and Grandpa's house,
whoever it is. You want to buy a new place.
You may want to leave California. This might have been
the tipping point for you, and you just say, you
know what, I want to start over. It's time for
us to go somewhere new. You need money to have
a cash deposit to buy a new home. Most places,

(26:48):
you can't buy a home with no money down right.
That just doesn't happen very often. Huge percentages And I
hate to say this, but I've been reading about it.
Huge percentages of people who have lost their home in
California due to the cost of housing buck their actual
net worth is huge percentages based on the home that
they own. So you might be worth one point eight

(27:11):
million dollars in California, and one point two of that
might be the home that you bought twenty years ago
for three hundred thousand dollars that's now worth a million
and a half dollars. How do you buy a new
home if your home just burned down, It's going to take,
to your point a long time for insurance insurance payments
to come through. You are financially curtailed. Right now, somebody

(27:33):
knocks on your door or reaches out to you and says,
I'll give you three hundred thousand dollars cash right now
for your lot. You know you're not going to rebuild.
You just want to get that money because you want
to roll it into a new property. And Gavin Newsom
is going to say, oh, based on prior property tax
when you actually had a house, this dollar figure is unacceptable.

(27:56):
Why should you as the owner not be able to
make that choice.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
My assumption would be here that you also, you know,
if let's say your house is insured, will just make
it easy. The Palisades houses are a lot more than
this than the Malibu houses, but and probably everything in
Altadena too, pretty much. But let's see, your house is
insured at a million dollars, right, So now you have
a house that is gone, the insurance company gone. So
the insurance company is supposed to come in. Now that's

(28:22):
a whole other problem. But let's say the insurance company
comes in, gives you a million dollars, and now you
have a plot of land. And if somebody comes in
and says, okay, so you've got your million dollars for
the loss of the house for the insurance, you could
choose to try to, you know, rebuild and do the
value of that, although guess what the cost of material
and get in cruise. I mean, I'm here in the

(28:42):
years I can take to get your house rebuilt. I
mean our our condo board meetings where I live, it's
always rock em sock em over, trying to figure out
how we get contractors to even show up because there's
always a better contract and they, you know, there's something
else comes along. And that's just down here out Florida.
In good times, there's gonna be backlogs of years to rebuild.

(29:04):
Point here being if you get your insurance check and
you have your land and you want to sell it,
I would assume the people that are selling this land
have a pretty good People usually know what they're you know,
what the acreage where they live, what their house is worth.
Certainly in these high high end areas, they will Gavin
Newsom is going to say no, He's going to say,
this is what the price is. The price is, and
by the way, what is even the mechanism? Like do

(29:25):
you have That's what I was saying, like how do
you determine? And you said you're going to prosecute people
because they try to buy land at a value that
you don't like.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
I mean, this is crazy talk. And all of this
is occurring when the California government, both local and state.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Still can't put out fires.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
If I'm sitting around right now, I'm like, what are
you focusing on predatory pricing for houses that got burned down?
How about you put out the damn fires? Gavin Newsom
and Karen Bass. But the point you're making, and I
think it's an important one, is do you believe that
California understands the value of your property more than you do.
As someone who potentially just lost everything and is trying

(30:08):
to rebuild your life.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
How is it even really your property if the state
can say no, you can't sell it for the fair
market price, and the fair market price is what the
buyer and seller decide the fair market price is right.
You know, think about this. You know, I wonder where
gavinnew some things Hunter Biden paintings are worth. Maybe he
should like weigh in on that one.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's a huge deal, and I just think about it.
You already had an awful situation. I guarantee you there
are thousands of people out there right now who have
decided I'm not going to rebuild here. I don't want
to go through this, to say nothing of the fact
that your house might burn down again. Buck, Do you
feel good about California protecting your home after your home
just went down and the fact they still can't put
out the fires. I don't A huge percentage of out

(30:50):
of those people are like, I'm out, I'm moving somewhere else.
I bet if you were to look at the political donator,
I mean, first of all, this is a you know,
essades in Malibu. You're talking eighty percent plus Democrat area.
And by the way, this is by no mean you know, look,
we want everyone's house to be fine and safe.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
We want everyone to get out of there. I'm not
This is not a like, oh, anybody deserves it because
of how they voted. I am just saying that this
has gone to the donor class of Democrats in the
area in the vicinity of Los Angeles, Right, these are
the elites that have been hit. Usually bad Democrat policy. Crime,

(31:31):
people urinating on the streets and doing drugs. Usually that
affects people who are in the downtowns of cities or
in the you know, high crime neighborhoods, which are predominantly
minority and low income. Right, that's the standard everywhere all
across the country. This time, particularly, the bad policy has
hit people in high net worth areas who write the checks,

(31:53):
who have the fundraisers for these politicians, and they are
ticked off. And that's what I think is so different
about this. Now it has been made real to people
who have been sequestered from this, who have been you know,
kept safe from it for a long time.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
I just got a text from a friend who is
a real estate agent, and she said, already where we live,
tons of Californians are coming here trying to buy property,
and they're just saying, I'm going with LA. I'm sure
in South Florida the same thing is happening with people there.
You know, if you were, if you're used to living
on the beach in Malibu, you know what a great
option is with no state income tax East or West

(32:30):
coast of Florida. South Florida pretty amazing down here, no doubt.
And then also Tennessee and Texas. My wife just pointed
out the cynical version. Additionally of what Newsom's trying to
do is keep people from leaving California because if you're
not allowing them to sell their property, the tax base.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
I hadn't even thought about that. Yeah, this California, you're
not allowed to leave.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
You can't sell your property unless the state a whore's
what the price you're getting for it is a crazy
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to get some of your calls rolling. By the way,
I maybe I'm alone on this. I am utterly fascinated
by this TikTok decision that has to be made by Sunday.

(34:18):
TikTok has let it be known that they are going
to shut down. I'll give you some more details on this.
A lot of you, it turns out, based on calls
and emails, are on TikTok. We'll talk about that some
in the next hour. Meantime, I'm about to go downstairs
trying to stay in shape. I'm gonna get my smoothie
and I'm going to get my Crockett coffee and I'm
gonna be drinking it. And we want all of you

(34:39):
signed up. Buck just put on We've got gear. He
just put on a Crockett Coffee trucker hat. It doesn't
really fit his head because he has a gigantic head
that really hats don't work on. But for me, it
will look good on all of you, though on me
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autograph copy of my book. I signed one hundred of
them yesterday Code Book. Somebody wrote in and said the
dog destroyed their book. Did you see this?

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Buck?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
And so we got a new copy out to them.
They were distraught trying to take care of everybody. Dog
may not be a fan of the book, but I
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I want to see these funny ais you guys were.
I was dying last night when the ais that created
that make it look like I'm playing the flute. Some

(35:31):
of you then turned me into a WNBA all star
I tried. I think I said this a little bit
ago to have Buck on Buck Island flooded. There's a
lot of fun stuff you can do on Twitter with
the Grock AI simulation, and so I want to see
who can make the funniest show inspired AI image. You

(35:54):
can tag at Clay Travis at Buck Sexton Challenge out there.
This doesn't happen to happen the day, but just to
make people laugh have some fun with it. And Buck
not being able to fit into a hat potentially a
a A.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
I'm just glad there's nobody here to do what they
always do, or they try to pull it down and
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to fit the hat inside. It's a very large head.
But look at this cool hat. Okay, this is legit
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was drinking my Crocket this morning. I think most of
you drink coffee. There is no reason for you to
be drinking any cross, any coffee other than Crocket. All right,
that's the way it is. Ten percent of the profit
goes to tell the Towers play Biden's farewell address? Is
it tonight? Are we going to Are we going to
be shedding tears? Should we discuss Joe saying bye to
the nation? It can't come soon enough. What's you gonna say?

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