April 6, 2024 • 36 mins
Biden declares Trans Day of Visibility on Easter. Buck's family trip to the Everglades. Biden blames covid for the lousy economy in interview with NBC weatherman Al Roker. Biden denies declaring Easter Sunday Trans Day of Visibility. Big rig driver calls in.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in Everybody, April Fool's Day edition of The Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I guess I've probably preempted
myself from being able to come on the air and
talk about how Biden's doing a great job and all
the rest, right, I mean, we can't. Once you announce
it's April Fools, then everybody's on guard. So I guess
(00:25):
I've eliminated that from the conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
But that's Have you ever really gotten got on April
Fools at any point in your life where you were like,
I'm all in, like I really believe this.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, I probably have quietly believed some news stories that
were spoof news stories or especially on Twitter. Yeah, I
mean these days, you know, who can tell what's real
or not? I think I think it effectively impossible to
know these days. Like if someone makes up a fake
Trump quote and puts it online, as long as it's
in Trump dialect, if you will, it's tough to know
(00:58):
if he said it or not. So who knows? Everything
is so crazy?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
To your point, I also feel like April Fool snuck
up on a lot of people because it feels even
more challenging to be a Monday, coming right after Easter,
where everybody's back, you know, kind of in the work,
but you're not really aware of exactly what day it
is on a Monday in a way that you might
have been later in a week.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So it feels like this is a ripe and feaken.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
There's a good word for you, opportunity right now for
April Fool's jokes to really flourish.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Coming right out of the gates with a new sat
word here on clay en Buck. Appreciate it. Got a
lot of news to discuss with all of you. For example,
Biden tries to weigh in on the economy, still talking
about COVID. That's not going to be a winning message.
Snl over the weekend with a rare, actually funny joke
(01:47):
about Joe Biden that hits home a bit that he
is failing to connect with the black community and anti
Florida prop and propping popping up rather in the New
York Post and some other places. I want to dissemble
(02:09):
or disassemble. Assembling is something else. Disassemble the nonsense on
that former Olympic medal winner Sharon Davies speaking out Clay
after C C. Telfer a transman or trans woman whatever,
a man pretending to be a woman running in the
hurdles races against women. There's a photo of it, and
(02:30):
no surprise when you're formerly a competitive male hurdle runner
and now you're competing against women. Everybody can tell who
the man is and it's not hard, despite everyone's supposed
to be ignoring the evidence of their own eyes and ears.
Do you also have JK. Rowling speaking out in Scotland?
(02:54):
This is what you know. I love Scotland, had a
great trip there with Kerry last summer. Beautiful country, amazing history,
love the people. Some of the worst politics in the
developed world, I mean, just so far left wing. And
there's now the possibility of being arrested for like pronoun refusal.
I mean, they're going to that length. So I think
(03:14):
we should have a discussion about that as well. But Clay,
let's start off with this. You mentioned April fools. I
thought this was going to be hard. This was one
of those moments where I thought, is this real? I
need to verify that this is real before I can
comment on it. But sure enough, it was over the weekend,
(03:35):
and thank you for helming the show. Friday, will I
got to spend time with family. I'll tell some fun
family stories later on. The White House put this out
today on Transgender Day of Visibility. I have a simple
message to all trans Americans. I see you. You are
made to the image of God, and you're worthy of
respect and dignity. Clay. They are doing from the White
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House a transgender Day of Dignity on Easter, which is
the actually most important holiday to Christians. I know people
usually think it's Christmas, but actually Easter for practicing Christians
is the single the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the single
most important holiday of the year. This is not an accident.
(04:22):
What do you think they're trying to accomplish with this one?
Is it just to spur reaction from the religious rite
or rather just from the religious Christians out there to
say this is an outrage?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Correct me if I'm wrong, But this was This trans
Day of Visibility has only existed for a few years,
and the Biden White House was the first group to
the first White House to ever acknowledge trans Day of Visibility.
And it is on March thirty first, which happens to
overlap with Easter this year. To me, what it likely
(04:57):
symbolizes if you were trying if Joe Biden were able
to actually make arguments or understood anything that his White
House is actually doing, he would probably try to say
something like Easter and trans Day of Rights go together,
because there's nothing more in the spirit of Easter than
welcoming everyone, no matter what their background is. That is
(05:20):
the ultimate Christian ethos, right, That would be I think
the argument that they would try to make if Joe
Biden were actually capable of making him. But to me, Buck,
what this symbolizes in many ways is has anybody ever
actually grilled Biden on any of this? And I would
tie it in with what the National Organization of Women
(05:40):
said on the same day. This is the National Organization
of Women, Betty Frieden am I correct in this. This
was a militant feminist group that was founded to advocate
on behalf of women and women's rights and women's issues.
They tweeted yesterday on the same day, which to me
is even crazier than what the White House did, because
(06:01):
again I think Joe Biden has no idea what's going on?
Repeat after us weaponizing womanhood against other women is white
supremacist patriarchy. Patriarchy at worst at work. Sorry, making people
believe there isn't enough space for trans women in sports
(06:23):
is white supremacy patriarchy at work. They've then shared an
article with a picture of our friend Riley Gaines, who
has been standing up for the crazy proposition that women's
sports should be made up of women. But I see
these as connected and an evidence of the broken mind
syndrome that is a that is currently on pre eminence
(06:43):
on the left right now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
A few things. One is this is this has been
in effect since the Obama administration. I believe in two
thousand and nine. So Obama put this thing into rotation.
But they had to know when they declared this. First
of all, there are there are other there's like, there's
other transgender days of celebration or remembrance or commemoration or
(07:05):
whatever already on the calendar. And why do we need
him in the first place? Right, Like, yeah, I don't think,
I mean there's anybody, you know. This notion of transgender
invisibility is also a myth. Individuals who are transgender and
and and open about it tend to be quite obviously
transgender and quite visible, and you know, no one sits
around wondering, you know, when will Dylan mulvany come out
(07:27):
of his shell? You know what I mean? Like, we're
very aware.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Of a lot of Nobody to your point, sees the
picture of the dude that won the women's championship and
is like, oh, I can't figure out which one the
dude is.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Right, We are quite aware of this, but it's there's
there's the point of disrespect and the point of religiosity. Okay,
one thing on the point of disrespect. It would it
would never happen that Democrats would hold a transgender day
of visibility on say du Wali, which is the Hindu
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festival of lights, or on Ramada and make a big
deal of it. You know, find me a major on Passover,
find me a major holiday for a religious group in
this country, for a major religion in this country. You know,
why not just have the Bide administration declare if this
is no big deal, why not just have the Biden
administration declare December twenty fifth to be you know, Youth
(08:23):
Transgender Surgery Day. You know, well, because I think people
would get the messaging, Like I think there'd be some
very clear understanding. And this is actually true historically of
people when it comes to conquest. You replace their holidays
with your holidays. And this is the beginning of that.
Because lgbt q I A plus agenda is in fact
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the state enforced religion of the left. And that's where
I get to the point of religiosity. The trans agenda
is actually very much like climate change, a leftist religion
with the force of the state. And that's why this
is effectively a how or a you know, whatever they
want to call it. It's treated as like a religious
observance day that never mind what we're really even commemorating.
(09:10):
It is meant to be a replacement, it is meant
to be offensive. It's a thumb in the eye of
believing Christians. And this is where I start to say,
if you call yourself a Catholic and you vote for
good Catholic Joe Biden, your delusional. There's there's a delusion
at work here because they are actually trying to destroy
the Catholic Church, the Catholic faith. I can only speak
about Catholicism. I know we have a lot of the
Evangelicals and Protestants will listen. I think they want to
(09:31):
destroy that too, to be fair, but I can't speak
from inside of that community. Play they're declaring war on
actual Christian faith and tradition from the White House. I
think a lot of people see this for what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I agree, and I also think this speaks to the
failure of media in general. Has Joe Biden to your knowledge,
but because it hasn't occurred to mine, has Joe Biden
ever been asked if he thinks that men pretending to
be women should be able to compete in women's athletics
and win championships. Has Kamala Hair ever been asked that directly?
I mean, this is something that I think eighty twenty
(10:05):
people think is ridiculous. But if I were Joe Biden,
if you asked, if I'm Joe Biden, asked me the question,
We'll do a little role play.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Okay, let's we'll play it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
So I am an actual, honest journalist that is not
an oxymoron in this respect, And I say, I get
to sit down across from you, President Biden. Right now,
there are all over the country men who are identifying
as women competing against women, winning women's championships. Sometimes injuring
female athletes. You played sports growing up. You like to
(10:32):
talk about your affinity for many different sports teams out there.
Do you think it's appropriate for men who identify as
women to be competing in women's sports and in some
cases winning women's championships?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Shouldn't have called on this guy, Oh, buddy, you know second, Oh,
we're all, we're all people, you know, we're all we're
all well, God's children, and you know, it's just, you know, gosh, man,
I mean, you know, have a little heart, you know,
a little heart for the people and children are gone
out there, and you know, I'm a I'm an extreme Catholic,
(11:06):
right wing Catholic, but not right wing, and you know,
it's just, you know, man, just just just have some
love in your heart.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's how he would answer. I think you're probably right.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
But that's where you also need honest people to follow
up and just say, well, this is not really this
is an easy question to answer, right, yeah, But you know,
he would do the he would do the indignant grandpa
who's like got scrambled eggs, but nonetheless is trying to
tell you something about being good people or something, you know,
and but no, he has the real answer is he
(11:39):
has no actual answer, but he would just do what
he always does, which is what a version I think
quite aptly, if I may say so, put forward there,
and he would just evade the question entirely, because it
is an eighty twenty question, eighty twenty issue to your
your point, but it's about a lot more. Sports is
just where it is the most clear, right sport.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
This is where everyone can see. And also the cost
is very clear to other people. I would argue the
cost of transgenderism is that it is very destructive to
the transgender individual, especially when you start adding hormones and
surgery and top surgery and all these other things. I
think the medical community, unfortunately has been infiltrated. We saw
(12:22):
this not just during COVID but with the whole trans issue.
They've changed what's in the DSM five, which is the
man you'll use for psychiatric disorders in successive versions of
the DSM. They've just been going along. They say it's oh,
because of new research. It's not true. It's politics. But
self mutilation is wrong. People that are having this issue
(12:43):
deserve help, They deserve support, and noticed no one ever
says you should be unkind to transgender people that they don't.
You know, they always create these massive straw meenclay. You know,
Biden will say, oh, I deserve respect. There's you know,
there's God's children too. Yeah. Of course, of course they
deserve respect. And of course they're God's children too. No
one's saying that they are not. They are our brothers,
(13:05):
they are our sisters, they are our cousins, they are friends.
But they're having a problem. They're going through a tough situation,
and because of that situation, the rest of society cannot
be forced to live in a lie along with them.
You know, if somebody has anorexia nervosa and they weigh
under one hundred pounds and they're five foot ten, it
(13:25):
is not kind to say, you're right, you're too fat.
It is not kind to do that. And that is
what we are being forced to do.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What we're really dealing with here, I think is the
limits of left wing inclusion across all of society. And
I think trans male, whatever you want to classify it,
men pretending to be women and women's sports is so
clarifying and inevitably impossible to ignore. As we said, show
a picture of five athletes competing. It isn't hard to
(13:55):
figure out who the dude is. It stands out very easily.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I mean if you or I were on starting line
with professional female track athletes, first of all, I mean
we would get most. But that's not the point. The
point is everybody would know who the dude is. Yes,
this isn't hard. You know. My case is, look for
the belly, look for the guy who's often after after
like five strides like, oh oh man, this is not
(14:19):
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Speaker 1 (16:14):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we are powering
through the Monday after Easter. I hope all of you
had fabulous times with your families over what was for
manting along we get in. Some of you still have
Monday off depending where your kids may go to school. Buck,
you went out on an airboat and got to see
(16:36):
alligators with your three year old nephew. How cool was
the airboat? I've done it. It is a badass experience.
But what did you guys find?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The Everglades? It was called the River of Glass, sorry,
River of Grass Everglades tour we did. It was phenomenal.
It exceeded my expectations. I had done it before in
New Orleans, which was which was fun. It was a
little cold, came I went in an off time. Was
a little cold out there, and it was more about
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i'd say, the scenery than it was about the actual wildlife.
This Everglades store. I mean, we got to get pretty
close to a ten foot gator. I'd never I'd only
seen little ones. Every alligator I've seen the while before,
I've seen a bunch of them. Looked like You're like, oh,
like I could take it home and put it in
my bathtub. Like it was kind of a little guy.
You know, when you see a ten foot up close,
(17:27):
it's like a dinosaur. I mean, it was amazing. The
guy who took us was a phenomenal guide. We saw
some amazing birds. I don't know, it was great, Like
I love wildlife and animals, and it totally exceeded expectations.
This river of grass tour down.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And your three year old nephew, I bet he thought
it was amazing, right, I Mean he was like he didn't,
you know, it's funniest things.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yesterday he flew home to New York and he was
telling my sister, He's like, but I want to stay
and see more alligators.
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Speaker 2 (18:51):
Check it out. How's the economy doing? What are we on?
May not Mayday? Whoops? April Fool's Day? It feels like
May day for the economy. I've always seen this is
one of those derivations, you know, mayday when a plane
is going down or something. That's what they'll say of
the radio. They think it comes from the French may
day as an am apostrophe, a day to give aid,
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but they're not really. I've heard different variations of this.
I'm always very frustrated when I want to learn where
something comes from and you check online, as we all do,
and there's three different explanations for it, and you know,
who really knows. But yeah, may days are different thing.
It's also about communism. April Fool's Day is what today is.
And Biden is not trying to make a joke when
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he blames here we are in twenty twenty four COVID
for how the economy is doing. This has cut ten
play it when people are saying, you know, but mister President,
I'm feeling I'm you know, my buck isn't going as far.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
What do you say to those folks about the economy
and what's going on? Well, I say, we have the
best economy in the world.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We got to make it better.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
We really do have the best economy in the world.
Jobs are up, more than they've ever been. We're in
a situation where the lowest unemployment rate in fifteen years
was maintained.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
We have people who just but people, look.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I think we're going to find out that what happened
is a consequence of the crisis we had on health
is to have a lasting effect, and we just got
to get people to move ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And we're ready.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I mean, I think the country is ready to come
together in a way that I never I mean, not necessarily.
I'm truly optimistic.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I'm not even really sure what he thinks he's saying,
because when he says, you know, we have the best
economy in the world, and then he says, well, COVID
slowed things down, it's a little bit of like, well,
are things awesome or are we still waiting to finish
the work. But my interest was pequked to play when
just the way Al Roker poses the question, it's a setup, right,
(20:50):
it's a softball. It's some people may be saying this,
but mister president, you know, tell them why things are
actually great? Be very different if he were Republican.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Well, why is the they show weather Man interviewing Joe Biden?
Is my first takeaway, right, we're not talking. Not that
I'm really blown away by the journalistic credentials of the
people at sixty minutes or the New York Times or
the Washington Post, but for there to be a situation
where Al Roker is sitting down for an interview of.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The president, and I don't begrudge this.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
If Joe Biden was doing interviews with everybody we've interviewed
the president, some people might say, why it's Donald Trump
spending an hour with Clay and Buck on a radio show. Well,
Trump will talk to everybody. If Biden were doing an
interview with every different interest group and every different media
outlet out there, I would say, Okay, that's kind of
what you would expect the president to do. Historically, he
(21:44):
has had the fewest media interactions of any president in
any of our lives. When you talk about the number
of sit down interviews he's done, print interviews that he's
done as well, and also the number of press conferences
that he has had. No one has had few media
interactions as the president of the United States ever, especially
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in a first term when you're trying to win reelection.
Maybe sometimes in the second term you don't want to
do as much media interaction because you don't find it
as useful. No one's done less, and it's massively less
than what Trump or Obama for instance, did in their
first terms when it came to speaking to the media.
So the soft toss questions that he gets and the
(22:27):
fact that he's being interviewed by the weatherman from the
Today Show who is? Can you think of a less
threatening media figure than Al Roker?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I honestly think his favorables as a national media figure
may be among the absolute highest. I mean, in general,
I think being being a beloved weatherman. People need to
know the weather, and everybody loves the lovable weather.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Willard Scott back in the day people will remember him
was he also on the Today Show?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Everybody loved Willard Scott.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now everybody likes Al Roker and the fact that he's
sitting for this interview is I think emblematic of them
trying to hide him. I would also point this out.
You and I were talking about this off air. I
was out at Costco. I'm still trying to teach my
oldest how to drive, and so we're taking little trips
around our neighborhood. We went to Costco, Go grab a
(23:17):
couple of pizzas, get a couple of books.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I love Costco. It's the only place I really shop and.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They have buck a gas station there and you can
save X number of cents off a gallon, and I
always use it kind of as a proxy. Costco is
always packed. But the longer the gas station lines get
it at Costco on average, the more gas prices are
going up, and gas prices now are going up substantially.
(23:46):
The cost of a barrel of crude oil is going up.
There has to be somewhat of a panic setting in
in the Biden White House right now, because usually the
prices are going to go up into the summer, and
even if they start to come back down November, as
is typically the case, where you come down from can
have an impact, and a lot of you out there
(24:06):
are seeing your gas prices skyrocket substantially. I was reading
in the last couple of weeks, for instance, Salt Lake City,
where we have a massive audience, a lot of you
listening to us in Salt Lake City, gas prices have
gone up sixty cents in the last couple of weeks
in Salt Lake City, Chicago area. A lot of you
in the Chicago area. Listen, gas prices of skyrocket. It's
happening everywhere, but we're moving back towards four dollars a
(24:30):
gallon territory. I believe I'm correct that gas price is
peaked in the Biden administration around May or June of
twenty twenty two, right before the midterm elections, and they
started to come back down, and he was bragging about
how the prices had come out down.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And remember back in the.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Day, Buck he said, oh, this is Putin's price hat hike.
They tried to not claim responsibility for gas prices going up,
and then when they came down, they said, this is
Bidenomics working for you. Going up in an election year.
Not good for Joe Biden. Most noticeable part of people's
daily pocketbook one of the ironies of the American y
(25:06):
energy industry.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And I spoke to a room of one thousand people
who all work basically in the energy industry at the
Energy Museum in Beaumont, Texas recently, and I got to
chat with all of them after my speech about what's
going on. And I would just say the fact that
we were the number one oil producer and number one
(25:31):
natural gas exporter in the world last year is despite
the Biden administration, and there was across the board everyone
I spoke to, and these are people who are you know, midstream, upstream, downstream,
trying to remember all the different terminology I learned in
the production process of oil and natural gas. They're als
saying the same thing, which is they keep limiting the
(25:53):
you know, they basically stopped the drilling on federal land, right,
you can't look for stuff on federal land, but the industry,
through technological advances and deficiencies keeps getting more, getting more
and more out of what has already been found. And
the the you know, efficiency of fracking specifically, remember when
(26:13):
they were telling us all the fracking was going to
poison all the drinking water. By the way, it's a
total nonsense. Yeah, fracking uses water and sand. The people
who were saying this stuff know nothing. There was a documentary,
wasn't there like a decade ago, and they lit the
water on fire. Had nothing to do with fracking, but
you know it got an oscar anyway. I mean, they're
wrong about this stuff all the time, and the anti
energy folks, but I'm just saying, Biden bends the knee
(26:37):
to the environmentalists left and the industry still makes up
most of the gap, and thank god they do because
of what's going on in Russia and other places. And
yet there's no thanksgiving to the given to them. And
you know what Biden's going to do with price to
stay high Clay blame price gouging. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And also to your point on the environmentalists, they we
talked about training day of visibility going into the weekend.
They also put in place new mandates on trucks. Did
you see this or mandates? Is they're trying to basically
mandate it while claiming that they aren't mandating it. But
they're trying to get long haul trucks now to become evs.
(27:18):
And I believe the the just the sheer technology on
long haul trucking. And we've got a monster audience of truckers.
We love you guys who are listening to us right now.
The idea, I know these guys are going crazy even
thinking about it. Can you imagine when you're being paid
based on your ability to get from one part of
the country to another, and substantial difference if you are
(27:40):
in an electronic electric vehicle, and you can only get
like two hundred and forty miles at the absolute apex,
and then you have to stop and charge for a
substantial period of time. One of those big trucks, those
big rigs, this.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Is this is bad. Can a big rig go on
a full tank? I have no idea? Actually, how far
do you think it can go?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So first of all, I do not know. But all right,
one of our big rig drivers call in full time.
I will guess.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I will give you a guess. I bet that you
can go given the size of those vehicles. I mean,
I'll think that I drive a big Escalade and in
that at my wife's cars, the Escalade, it's biggest car
we have.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's not quite a big rig. But yes, no, but
but I caind of like escalate. It's not quite an
eighteen weeks.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
But I can put five I can get five hundred
miles on the Escalade. So I would bet that the
size of the fuel tanks on those on those big rigs,
I would guess certainly they can get seven hundred eight
hundred miles without having to without having to stop at least,
And that may be low. But the point is, I
(28:48):
think The absolute best that they've ever been able to
do under any conditions with an electric vehicle is about
two hundred and fifty miles. That is not ideal, especially
when you consider how long it takes to recharge many
of these vehicles.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Well that the the the recharging frequency and the duration
of the recharge is the look. I'll be honest, I'm
I'm an Elon Musk supporter. Like I I'm you know,
belong to the Elon Musk uh, you know, supports society
or fan club or whatever. So I thought about getting
a Tesla, not because of climate change or whatever, just
(29:24):
because it's a cool car. It was a cool car.
But I have too many friends who tell me the
the it's not about Tesla specifically. The electric vehicle market
is just not It's not there yet. The infrastructure is
not there yet. And if you spend one three hour
stretch charging your car during a long road trip, you're like,
I'm never doing this again.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I would lose my mind if I had to wait
hours on a long drive because of inefficiency when it
comes to recharge. And that's really I mean, Otherwise, what
do I care when I'm only driving close proximity to
my house. But when you actually have a long drive
to make and you can't easily refuel or recharge, I
would lose my mind. A lot of them don't work.
(30:05):
They take forever. Weather factors in in a big way
in terms of the efficiency of many of these charging stations.
I bet many of you out there listening would also
lose your minds on a long trip when you're trying
to get some moyere for Easter, for instance.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
What we just went through. Yeah, I mean, the only
reason to get an EV these days, as far as
I'm concerned, is so that you can pull up alongside
your Biden voting neighbor who's driving an SUV and in
bad faith shame them for it. How dare you, sir?
Don't you care about the environment? Don't you care about
the polar bears drowning because of the melting ice caps
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Speaker 1 (32:14):
Welcome Back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Now says Buck when asked about proclaiming Easter Sunday trans
Day of Visibility, he said, I didn't do that. Asked
about the claim by Speaker Johnson otherwise, the President replied,
he's thoroughly uninformed.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Buck. I think that Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Might legitimately have no idea that his White House proclaimed
Easter trans Day of Visibility. I think that they put
out statements under his name all of the time that
he has no idea are actually going out.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
And I believe him.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
When he's saying this, But it's scary to think about
because if the President doesn't even know what the President's
office is saying, it really just raises the question again,
who's actually in charge?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
But it also completely lines up with our baseline thesis
about all things Biden, which is that he is, to
use your word, the avuncular grandpa, old school democrat face
on far left progressive policies. Right. Oh, how radical can
this White House be? It's good old Joe Biden that's
(33:34):
running it. He's not running it. He's a front. He's
like a shell company. Here's the statement. Now, therefore, I
put out by the White House. Now therefore, I, Joseph R. Biden,
Junior President of the United States of America, by virtue
of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
the Laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March
(33:56):
thirty first, twenty twenty four as Transgender Day of Visibility.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So this is wait very scary to me because it's
Biden not knowing what Biden's office is actually doing. And
it raises a question who's a real commander in chief?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
You want to know who is endowed with power of
attorney for the presidency in this White House, because there
are people who are clearly making high level decisions without
his Knowledgeers say, so, I did what we asked for it.
We got Terry in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our one of
our squad of big rig drivers that we love who
(34:34):
listen to this show. Terror you want to answer our
question and say Hi, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Hey, hey, claim buck. It's a pleasure to be on
with you two.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Thank you, sir, Thank you for what you do. So
tell us what how far can you go totally full tank? Well?
Speaker 7 (34:48):
I don't know about that, but I can drive from Dunn,
North Carolina, which is about an hour south of Raleigh,
to Greencastle, Pennsylvania, which is on the it's on the
Maryland Pennsylvania line, and back. It takes me approximately ninety gallons,
which is anywhere from eight hundred to one thousand miles.
And my fuel tanks on my truck are not as
(35:09):
big as the sleeper truck. I don't drive a sleeper truck.
I drive a day cab because I'm home every day.
But I can do at least eight hundred nine hundred
miles on the tank and still have some left.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's that's wow. That's about double what I thought it
was gonna Did you think it was not much? Glad? Well,
when I knew that, thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
By the way, I knew when I could put almost
five hundred in the escalade that it had to be
nearly twice that, because it's just a pure efficiency thing.
The less time you have to stop for fuel, the
better you're going to get a mileage return. So I
knew they had to have eight hundred or one thousand
mile ability on that tank.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
This is also like I was speaking to a friend
who has ties to the boat and yachting world over
this past weekend, which I know nothing. I'm not a
boat guy. I'm just gonna know. You know, trucks I love.
Put me in a truck, I'd be happy. I could
drive any vehicle. I'm on ground. I feel good. I'm happy.
I'm just not a boat guy a road crew. But
that's fresh water. That's very different. The amount of money
(36:07):
you burn kind of literally with gas in big boats
is that's one of the major expenses that people don't
necessarily if you've got a powerboat, hole can it can
burn a hole in your pocket pretty fat. Oh, there's
no doubt at all.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
That's the one thing that one I don't want the
responsibility of trying to pilot a boat that costs substantial
amounts of money, given my dangers of creating some sort
of problem there but but yeah, it's it's it's it's
an absolute money furnace where they always say, like for
biggest boats, if you have to ask how much it costs,
you don't have enough money when it.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Comes to boating. Let's they say, there's a lot of
that here in Miami. I can tell you that, Yeah,
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in Everybody, April Fool's Day edition of The Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I guess I've probably preempted
myself from being able to come on the air and
talk about how Biden's doing a great job and all
the rest, right, I mean, we can't. Once you announce
it's April Fools, then everybody's on guard. So I guess
(00:25):
I've eliminated that from the conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
But that's Have you ever really gotten got on April
Fools at any point in your life where you were like,
I'm all in, like I really believe this.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, I probably have quietly believed some news stories that
were spoof news stories or especially on Twitter. Yeah, I
mean these days, you know, who can tell what's real
or not? I think I think it effectively impossible to
know these days. Like if someone makes up a fake
Trump quote and puts it online, as long as it's
in Trump dialect, if you will, it's tough to know
(00:58):
if he said it or not. So who knows? Everything
is so crazy?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
To your point, I also feel like April Fool snuck
up on a lot of people because it feels even
more challenging to be a Monday, coming right after Easter,
where everybody's back, you know, kind of in the work,
but you're not really aware of exactly what day it
is on a Monday in a way that you might
have been later in a week.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So it feels like this is a ripe and feaken.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
There's a good word for you, opportunity right now for
April Fool's jokes to really flourish.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Coming right out of the gates with a new sat
word here on clay en Buck. Appreciate it. Got a
lot of news to discuss with all of you. For example,
Biden tries to weigh in on the economy, still talking
about COVID. That's not going to be a winning message.
Snl over the weekend with a rare, actually funny joke
(01:47):
about Joe Biden that hits home a bit that he
is failing to connect with the black community and anti
Florida prop and propping popping up rather in the New
York Post and some other places. I want to dissemble
(02:09):
or disassemble. Assembling is something else. Disassemble the nonsense on
that former Olympic medal winner Sharon Davies speaking out Clay
after C C. Telfer a transman or trans woman whatever,
a man pretending to be a woman running in the
hurdles races against women. There's a photo of it, and
(02:30):
no surprise when you're formerly a competitive male hurdle runner
and now you're competing against women. Everybody can tell who
the man is and it's not hard, despite everyone's supposed
to be ignoring the evidence of their own eyes and ears.
Do you also have JK. Rowling speaking out in Scotland?
(02:54):
This is what you know. I love Scotland, had a
great trip there with Kerry last summer. Beautiful country, amazing history,
love the people. Some of the worst politics in the
developed world, I mean, just so far left wing. And
there's now the possibility of being arrested for like pronoun refusal.
I mean, they're going to that length. So I think
(03:14):
we should have a discussion about that as well. But Clay,
let's start off with this. You mentioned April fools. I
thought this was going to be hard. This was one
of those moments where I thought, is this real? I
need to verify that this is real before I can
comment on it. But sure enough, it was over the weekend,
(03:35):
and thank you for helming the show. Friday, will I
got to spend time with family. I'll tell some fun
family stories later on. The White House put this out
today on Transgender Day of Visibility. I have a simple
message to all trans Americans. I see you. You are
made to the image of God, and you're worthy of
respect and dignity. Clay. They are doing from the White
(03:59):
House a transgender Day of Dignity on Easter, which is
the actually most important holiday to Christians. I know people
usually think it's Christmas, but actually Easter for practicing Christians
is the single the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the single
most important holiday of the year. This is not an accident.
(04:22):
What do you think they're trying to accomplish with this one?
Is it just to spur reaction from the religious rite
or rather just from the religious Christians out there to
say this is an outrage?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Correct me if I'm wrong, But this was This trans
Day of Visibility has only existed for a few years,
and the Biden White House was the first group to
the first White House to ever acknowledge trans Day of Visibility.
And it is on March thirty first, which happens to
overlap with Easter this year. To me, what it likely
(04:57):
symbolizes if you were trying if Joe Biden were able
to actually make arguments or understood anything that his White
House is actually doing, he would probably try to say
something like Easter and trans Day of Rights go together,
because there's nothing more in the spirit of Easter than
welcoming everyone, no matter what their background is. That is
(05:20):
the ultimate Christian ethos, right, That would be I think
the argument that they would try to make if Joe
Biden were actually capable of making him. But to me, Buck,
what this symbolizes in many ways is has anybody ever
actually grilled Biden on any of this? And I would
tie it in with what the National Organization of Women
(05:40):
said on the same day. This is the National Organization
of Women, Betty Frieden am I correct in this. This
was a militant feminist group that was founded to advocate
on behalf of women and women's rights and women's issues.
They tweeted yesterday on the same day, which to me
is even crazier than what the White House did, because
(06:01):
again I think Joe Biden has no idea what's going on?
Repeat after us weaponizing womanhood against other women is white
supremacist patriarchy. Patriarchy at worst at work. Sorry, making people
believe there isn't enough space for trans women in sports
(06:23):
is white supremacy patriarchy at work. They've then shared an
article with a picture of our friend Riley Gaines, who
has been standing up for the crazy proposition that women's
sports should be made up of women. But I see
these as connected and an evidence of the broken mind
syndrome that is a that is currently on pre eminence
(06:43):
on the left right now.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
A few things. One is this is this has been
in effect since the Obama administration. I believe in two
thousand and nine. So Obama put this thing into rotation.
But they had to know when they declared this. First
of all, there are there are other there's like, there's
other transgender days of celebration or remembrance or commemoration or
(07:05):
whatever already on the calendar. And why do we need
him in the first place? Right, Like, yeah, I don't think,
I mean there's anybody, you know. This notion of transgender
invisibility is also a myth. Individuals who are transgender and
and and open about it tend to be quite obviously
transgender and quite visible, and you know, no one sits
around wondering, you know, when will Dylan mulvany come out
(07:27):
of his shell? You know what I mean? Like, we're
very aware.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Of a lot of Nobody to your point, sees the
picture of the dude that won the women's championship and
is like, oh, I can't figure out which one the
dude is.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Right, We are quite aware of this, but it's there's
there's the point of disrespect and the point of religiosity. Okay,
one thing on the point of disrespect. It would it
would never happen that Democrats would hold a transgender day
of visibility on say du Wali, which is the Hindu
(07:58):
festival of lights, or on Ramada and make a big
deal of it. You know, find me a major on Passover,
find me a major holiday for a religious group in
this country, for a major religion in this country. You know,
why not just have the Bide administration declare if this
is no big deal, why not just have the Biden
administration declare December twenty fifth to be you know, Youth
(08:23):
Transgender Surgery Day. You know, well, because I think people
would get the messaging, Like I think there'd be some
very clear understanding. And this is actually true historically of
people when it comes to conquest. You replace their holidays
with your holidays. And this is the beginning of that.
Because lgbt q I A plus agenda is in fact
(08:46):
the state enforced religion of the left. And that's where
I get to the point of religiosity. The trans agenda
is actually very much like climate change, a leftist religion
with the force of the state. And that's why this
is effectively a how or a you know, whatever they
want to call it. It's treated as like a religious
observance day that never mind what we're really even commemorating.
(09:10):
It is meant to be a replacement, it is meant
to be offensive. It's a thumb in the eye of
believing Christians. And this is where I start to say,
if you call yourself a Catholic and you vote for
good Catholic Joe Biden, your delusional. There's there's a delusion
at work here because they are actually trying to destroy
the Catholic Church, the Catholic faith. I can only speak
about Catholicism. I know we have a lot of the
Evangelicals and Protestants will listen. I think they want to
(09:31):
destroy that too, to be fair, but I can't speak
from inside of that community. Play they're declaring war on
actual Christian faith and tradition from the White House. I
think a lot of people see this for what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I agree, and I also think this speaks to the
failure of media in general. Has Joe Biden to your knowledge,
but because it hasn't occurred to mine, has Joe Biden
ever been asked if he thinks that men pretending to
be women should be able to compete in women's athletics
and win championships. Has Kamala Hair ever been asked that directly?
I mean, this is something that I think eighty twenty
(10:05):
people think is ridiculous. But if I were Joe Biden,
if you asked, if I'm Joe Biden, asked me the question,
We'll do a little role play.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Okay, let's we'll play it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
So I am an actual, honest journalist that is not
an oxymoron in this respect, And I say, I get
to sit down across from you, President Biden. Right now,
there are all over the country men who are identifying
as women competing against women, winning women's championships. Sometimes injuring
female athletes. You played sports growing up. You like to
(10:32):
talk about your affinity for many different sports teams out there.
Do you think it's appropriate for men who identify as
women to be competing in women's sports and in some
cases winning women's championships?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Shouldn't have called on this guy, Oh, buddy, you know second, Oh,
we're all, we're all people, you know, we're all we're
all well, God's children, and you know, it's just, you know, gosh, man,
I mean, you know, have a little heart, you know,
a little heart for the people and children are gone
out there, and you know, I'm a I'm an extreme Catholic,
(11:06):
right wing Catholic, but not right wing, and you know,
it's just, you know, man, just just just have some
love in your heart.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's how he would answer. I think you're probably right.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
But that's where you also need honest people to follow
up and just say, well, this is not really this
is an easy question to answer, right, yeah, But you know,
he would do the he would do the indignant grandpa
who's like got scrambled eggs, but nonetheless is trying to
tell you something about being good people or something, you know,
and but no, he has the real answer is he
(11:39):
has no actual answer, but he would just do what
he always does, which is what a version I think
quite aptly, if I may say so, put forward there,
and he would just evade the question entirely, because it
is an eighty twenty question, eighty twenty issue to your
your point, but it's about a lot more. Sports is
just where it is the most clear, right sport.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
This is where everyone can see. And also the cost
is very clear to other people. I would argue the
cost of transgenderism is that it is very destructive to
the transgender individual, especially when you start adding hormones and
surgery and top surgery and all these other things. I
think the medical community, unfortunately has been infiltrated. We saw
(12:22):
this not just during COVID but with the whole trans issue.
They've changed what's in the DSM five, which is the
man you'll use for psychiatric disorders in successive versions of
the DSM. They've just been going along. They say it's oh,
because of new research. It's not true. It's politics. But
self mutilation is wrong. People that are having this issue
(12:43):
deserve help, They deserve support, and noticed no one ever
says you should be unkind to transgender people that they don't.
You know, they always create these massive straw meenclay. You know,
Biden will say, oh, I deserve respect. There's you know,
there's God's children too. Yeah. Of course, of course they
deserve respect. And of course they're God's children too. No
one's saying that they are not. They are our brothers,
(13:05):
they are our sisters, they are our cousins, they are friends.
But they're having a problem. They're going through a tough situation,
and because of that situation, the rest of society cannot
be forced to live in a lie along with them.
You know, if somebody has anorexia nervosa and they weigh
under one hundred pounds and they're five foot ten, it
(13:25):
is not kind to say, you're right, you're too fat.
It is not kind to do that. And that is
what we are being forced to do.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What we're really dealing with here, I think is the
limits of left wing inclusion across all of society. And
I think trans male, whatever you want to classify it,
men pretending to be women and women's sports is so
clarifying and inevitably impossible to ignore. As we said, show
a picture of five athletes competing. It isn't hard to
(13:55):
figure out who the dude is. It stands out very easily.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I mean if you or I were on starting line
with professional female track athletes, first of all, I mean
we would get most. But that's not the point. The
point is everybody would know who the dude is. Yes,
this isn't hard. You know. My case is, look for
the belly, look for the guy who's often after after
like five strides like, oh oh man, this is not
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Speaker 1 (16:14):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we are powering
through the Monday after Easter. I hope all of you
had fabulous times with your families over what was for
manting along we get in. Some of you still have
Monday off depending where your kids may go to school. Buck,
you went out on an airboat and got to see
(16:36):
alligators with your three year old nephew. How cool was
the airboat? I've done it. It is a badass experience.
But what did you guys find?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The Everglades? It was called the River of Glass, sorry,
River of Grass Everglades tour we did. It was phenomenal.
It exceeded my expectations. I had done it before in
New Orleans, which was which was fun. It was a
little cold, came I went in an off time. Was
a little cold out there, and it was more about
(17:06):
i'd say, the scenery than it was about the actual wildlife.
This Everglades store. I mean, we got to get pretty
close to a ten foot gator. I'd never I'd only
seen little ones. Every alligator I've seen the while before,
I've seen a bunch of them. Looked like You're like, oh,
like I could take it home and put it in
my bathtub. Like it was kind of a little guy.
You know, when you see a ten foot up close,
(17:27):
it's like a dinosaur. I mean, it was amazing. The
guy who took us was a phenomenal guide. We saw
some amazing birds. I don't know, it was great, Like
I love wildlife and animals, and it totally exceeded expectations.
This river of grass tour down.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And your three year old nephew, I bet he thought
it was amazing, right, I Mean he was like he didn't,
you know, it's funniest things.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yesterday he flew home to New York and he was
telling my sister, He's like, but I want to stay
and see more alligators.
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We're like, yeah, I would do, buddy again. I don't
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Check it out. How's the economy doing? What are we on?
May not Mayday? Whoops? April Fool's Day? It feels like
May day for the economy. I've always seen this is
one of those derivations, you know, mayday when a plane
is going down or something. That's what they'll say of
the radio. They think it comes from the French may
day as an am apostrophe, a day to give aid,
(19:14):
but they're not really. I've heard different variations of this.
I'm always very frustrated when I want to learn where
something comes from and you check online, as we all do,
and there's three different explanations for it, and you know,
who really knows. But yeah, may days are different thing.
It's also about communism. April Fool's Day is what today is.
And Biden is not trying to make a joke when
(19:36):
he blames here we are in twenty twenty four COVID
for how the economy is doing. This has cut ten
play it when people are saying, you know, but mister President,
I'm feeling I'm you know, my buck isn't going as far.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
What do you say to those folks about the economy
and what's going on? Well, I say, we have the
best economy in the world.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We got to make it better.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
We really do have the best economy in the world.
Jobs are up, more than they've ever been. We're in
a situation where the lowest unemployment rate in fifteen years
was maintained.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
We have people who just but people, look.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I think we're going to find out that what happened
is a consequence of the crisis we had on health
is to have a lasting effect, and we just got
to get people to move ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And we're ready.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I mean, I think the country is ready to come
together in a way that I never I mean, not necessarily.
I'm truly optimistic.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I'm not even really sure what he thinks he's saying,
because when he says, you know, we have the best
economy in the world, and then he says, well, COVID
slowed things down, it's a little bit of like, well,
are things awesome or are we still waiting to finish
the work. But my interest was pequked to play when
just the way Al Roker poses the question, it's a setup, right,
(20:50):
it's a softball. It's some people may be saying this,
but mister president, you know, tell them why things are
actually great? Be very different if he were Republican.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Well, why is the they show weather Man interviewing Joe Biden?
Is my first takeaway, right, we're not talking. Not that
I'm really blown away by the journalistic credentials of the
people at sixty minutes or the New York Times or
the Washington Post, but for there to be a situation
where Al Roker is sitting down for an interview of.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The president, and I don't begrudge this.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
If Joe Biden was doing interviews with everybody we've interviewed
the president, some people might say, why it's Donald Trump
spending an hour with Clay and Buck on a radio show. Well,
Trump will talk to everybody. If Biden were doing an
interview with every different interest group and every different media
outlet out there, I would say, Okay, that's kind of
what you would expect the president to do. Historically, he
(21:44):
has had the fewest media interactions of any president in
any of our lives. When you talk about the number
of sit down interviews he's done, print interviews that he's
done as well, and also the number of press conferences
that he has had. No one has had few media
interactions as the president of the United States ever, especially
(22:04):
in a first term when you're trying to win reelection.
Maybe sometimes in the second term you don't want to
do as much media interaction because you don't find it
as useful. No one's done less, and it's massively less
than what Trump or Obama for instance, did in their
first terms when it came to speaking to the media.
So the soft toss questions that he gets and the
(22:27):
fact that he's being interviewed by the weatherman from the
Today Show who is? Can you think of a less
threatening media figure than Al Roker?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I honestly think his favorables as a national media figure
may be among the absolute highest. I mean, in general,
I think being being a beloved weatherman. People need to
know the weather, and everybody loves the lovable weather.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Willard Scott back in the day people will remember him
was he also on the Today Show?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Everybody loved Willard Scott.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now everybody likes Al Roker and the fact that he's
sitting for this interview is I think emblematic of them
trying to hide him. I would also point this out.
You and I were talking about this off air. I
was out at Costco. I'm still trying to teach my
oldest how to drive, and so we're taking little trips
around our neighborhood. We went to Costco, Go grab a
(23:17):
couple of pizzas, get a couple of books.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I love Costco. It's the only place I really shop and.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They have buck a gas station there and you can
save X number of cents off a gallon, and I
always use it kind of as a proxy. Costco is
always packed. But the longer the gas station lines get
it at Costco on average, the more gas prices are
going up, and gas prices now are going up substantially.
(23:46):
The cost of a barrel of crude oil is going up.
There has to be somewhat of a panic setting in
in the Biden White House right now, because usually the
prices are going to go up into the summer, and
even if they start to come back down November, as
is typically the case, where you come down from can
have an impact, and a lot of you out there
(24:06):
are seeing your gas prices skyrocket substantially. I was reading
in the last couple of weeks, for instance, Salt Lake City,
where we have a massive audience, a lot of you
listening to us in Salt Lake City, gas prices have
gone up sixty cents in the last couple of weeks
in Salt Lake City, Chicago area. A lot of you
in the Chicago area. Listen, gas prices of skyrocket. It's
happening everywhere, but we're moving back towards four dollars a
(24:30):
gallon territory. I believe I'm correct that gas price is
peaked in the Biden administration around May or June of
twenty twenty two, right before the midterm elections, and they
started to come back down, and he was bragging about
how the prices had come out down.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And remember back in the.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Day, Buck he said, oh, this is Putin's price hat hike.
They tried to not claim responsibility for gas prices going up,
and then when they came down, they said, this is
Bidenomics working for you. Going up in an election year.
Not good for Joe Biden. Most noticeable part of people's
daily pocketbook one of the ironies of the American y
(25:06):
energy industry.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And I spoke to a room of one thousand people
who all work basically in the energy industry at the
Energy Museum in Beaumont, Texas recently, and I got to
chat with all of them after my speech about what's
going on. And I would just say the fact that
we were the number one oil producer and number one
(25:31):
natural gas exporter in the world last year is despite
the Biden administration, and there was across the board everyone
I spoke to, and these are people who are you know, midstream, upstream, downstream,
trying to remember all the different terminology I learned in
the production process of oil and natural gas. They're als
saying the same thing, which is they keep limiting the
(25:53):
you know, they basically stopped the drilling on federal land, right,
you can't look for stuff on federal land, but the industry,
through technological advances and deficiencies keeps getting more, getting more
and more out of what has already been found. And
the the you know, efficiency of fracking specifically, remember when
(26:13):
they were telling us all the fracking was going to
poison all the drinking water. By the way, it's a
total nonsense. Yeah, fracking uses water and sand. The people
who were saying this stuff know nothing. There was a documentary,
wasn't there like a decade ago, and they lit the
water on fire. Had nothing to do with fracking, but
you know it got an oscar anyway. I mean, they're
wrong about this stuff all the time, and the anti
energy folks, but I'm just saying, Biden bends the knee
(26:37):
to the environmentalists left and the industry still makes up
most of the gap, and thank god they do because
of what's going on in Russia and other places. And
yet there's no thanksgiving to the given to them. And
you know what Biden's going to do with price to
stay high Clay blame price gouging. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And also to your point on the environmentalists, they we
talked about training day of visibility going into the weekend.
They also put in place new mandates on trucks. Did
you see this or mandates? Is they're trying to basically
mandate it while claiming that they aren't mandating it. But
they're trying to get long haul trucks now to become evs.
(27:18):
And I believe the the just the sheer technology on
long haul trucking. And we've got a monster audience of truckers.
We love you guys who are listening to us right now.
The idea, I know these guys are going crazy even
thinking about it. Can you imagine when you're being paid
based on your ability to get from one part of
the country to another, and substantial difference if you are
(27:40):
in an electronic electric vehicle, and you can only get
like two hundred and forty miles at the absolute apex,
and then you have to stop and charge for a
substantial period of time. One of those big trucks, those
big rigs, this.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Is this is bad. Can a big rig go on
a full tank? I have no idea? Actually, how far
do you think it can go?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So first of all, I do not know. But all right,
one of our big rig drivers call in full time.
I will guess.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I will give you a guess. I bet that you
can go given the size of those vehicles. I mean,
I'll think that I drive a big Escalade and in
that at my wife's cars, the Escalade, it's biggest car
we have.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's not quite a big rig. But yes, no, but
but I caind of like escalate. It's not quite an
eighteen weeks.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
But I can put five I can get five hundred
miles on the Escalade. So I would bet that the
size of the fuel tanks on those on those big rigs,
I would guess certainly they can get seven hundred eight
hundred miles without having to without having to stop at least,
And that may be low. But the point is, I
(28:48):
think The absolute best that they've ever been able to
do under any conditions with an electric vehicle is about
two hundred and fifty miles. That is not ideal, especially
when you consider how long it takes to recharge many
of these vehicles.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Well that the the the recharging frequency and the duration
of the recharge is the look. I'll be honest, I'm
I'm an Elon Musk supporter. Like I I'm you know,
belong to the Elon Musk uh, you know, supports society
or fan club or whatever. So I thought about getting
a Tesla, not because of climate change or whatever, just
(29:24):
because it's a cool car. It was a cool car.
But I have too many friends who tell me the
the it's not about Tesla specifically. The electric vehicle market
is just not It's not there yet. The infrastructure is
not there yet. And if you spend one three hour
stretch charging your car during a long road trip, you're like,
I'm never doing this again.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I would lose my mind if I had to wait
hours on a long drive because of inefficiency when it
comes to recharge. And that's really I mean, Otherwise, what
do I care when I'm only driving close proximity to
my house. But when you actually have a long drive
to make and you can't easily refuel or recharge, I
would lose my mind. A lot of them don't work.
(30:05):
They take forever. Weather factors in in a big way
in terms of the efficiency of many of these charging stations.
I bet many of you out there listening would also
lose your minds on a long trip when you're trying
to get some moyere for Easter, for instance.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
What we just went through. Yeah, I mean, the only
reason to get an EV these days, as far as
I'm concerned, is so that you can pull up alongside
your Biden voting neighbor who's driving an SUV and in
bad faith shame them for it. How dare you, sir?
Don't you care about the environment? Don't you care about
the polar bears drowning because of the melting ice caps
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Speaker 2 (32:19):
Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Now says Buck when asked about proclaiming Easter Sunday trans
Day of Visibility, he said, I didn't do that. Asked
about the claim by Speaker Johnson otherwise, the President replied,
he's thoroughly uninformed.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Buck. I think that Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Might legitimately have no idea that his White House proclaimed
Easter trans Day of Visibility. I think that they put
out statements under his name all of the time that
he has no idea are actually going out.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
And I believe him.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
When he's saying this, But it's scary to think about
because if the President doesn't even know what the President's
office is saying, it really just raises the question again,
who's actually in charge?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
But it also completely lines up with our baseline thesis
about all things Biden, which is that he is, to
use your word, the avuncular grandpa, old school democrat face
on far left progressive policies. Right. Oh, how radical can
this White House be? It's good old Joe Biden that's
(33:34):
running it. He's not running it. He's a front. He's
like a shell company. Here's the statement. Now, therefore, I
put out by the White House. Now therefore, I, Joseph R. Biden,
Junior President of the United States of America, by virtue
of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
the Laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March
(33:56):
thirty first, twenty twenty four as Transgender Day of Visibility.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So this is wait very scary to me because it's
Biden not knowing what Biden's office is actually doing. And
it raises a question who's a real commander in chief?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
You want to know who is endowed with power of
attorney for the presidency in this White House, because there
are people who are clearly making high level decisions without
his Knowledgeers say, so, I did what we asked for it.
We got Terry in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our one of
our squad of big rig drivers that we love who
(34:34):
listen to this show. Terror you want to answer our
question and say Hi, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Hey, hey, claim buck. It's a pleasure to be on
with you two.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Thank you, sir, Thank you for what you do. So
tell us what how far can you go totally full tank? Well?
Speaker 7 (34:48):
I don't know about that, but I can drive from Dunn,
North Carolina, which is about an hour south of Raleigh,
to Greencastle, Pennsylvania, which is on the it's on the
Maryland Pennsylvania line, and back. It takes me approximately ninety gallons,
which is anywhere from eight hundred to one thousand miles.
And my fuel tanks on my truck are not as
(35:09):
big as the sleeper truck. I don't drive a sleeper truck.
I drive a day cab because I'm home every day.
But I can do at least eight hundred nine hundred
miles on the tank and still have some left.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's that's wow. That's about double what I thought it
was gonna Did you think it was not much? Glad? Well,
when I knew that, thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
By the way, I knew when I could put almost
five hundred in the escalade that it had to be
nearly twice that, because it's just a pure efficiency thing.
The less time you have to stop for fuel, the
better you're going to get a mileage return. So I
knew they had to have eight hundred or one thousand
mile ability on that tank.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
This is also like I was speaking to a friend
who has ties to the boat and yachting world over
this past weekend, which I know nothing. I'm not a
boat guy. I'm just gonna know. You know, trucks I love.
Put me in a truck, I'd be happy. I could
drive any vehicle. I'm on ground. I feel good. I'm happy.
I'm just not a boat guy a road crew. But
that's fresh water. That's very different. The amount of money
(36:07):
you burn kind of literally with gas in big boats
is that's one of the major expenses that people don't
necessarily if you've got a powerboat, hole can it can
burn a hole in your pocket pretty fat. Oh, there's
no doubt at all.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
That's the one thing that one I don't want the
responsibility of trying to pilot a boat that costs substantial
amounts of money, given my dangers of creating some sort
of problem there but but yeah, it's it's it's it's
an absolute money furnace where they always say, like for
biggest boats, if you have to ask how much it costs,
you don't have enough money when it.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Comes to boating. Let's they say, there's a lot of
that here in Miami. I can tell you that, Yeah,
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