June 21, 2021 • 36 mins
PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 3:
WHO says kids shouldn't get vaccinated. Clay doesn't want his kids vaccinated because they're not in danger from covid. Buck on people still wearing masks in New York. Biden hypes new variant scare to push vaccinations. Clay's had covid, decided not to get vaccinated. Ron Johnson on Dr. Fauci. Clay's take: Covid response was our biggest failure since Vietnam. June 21, 1788 is the day the Constitution was ratified. Rush's timeless wisdom on the Constitution and American Greatness. Clay and Buck are optimistic about America's future despite all the left does to try to tear the country down. Clay and Buck close out the show by thanking Rush.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in our number three Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton show. I am Clay Travis. We appreciate all of
you hanging out with us. First two hours in the books.
We are having more fun than any radio show should
be able to have and we are only in our
first day together. This has been an awful lot of fun.
You guys have been fantastic. By the way, social interaction
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has been phenomenal. Encourage you to go follow the Twitter
feed at Clay and Buck. You can follow me on
Twitter at Clay Travis. You can follow Buck Sexton on
Twitter at Buck Sexton. We had a poll question. I'll
try to do a lot of poll questions keep you
guys engaged. I'm curious what the audience will let us
know based on voting in some of these poll questions
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that we put out. And right now over forty thousand
of you have voted in our first poll question, which
was this the most recent straw poll for twenty twenty
four Republican candidates had these four guys as the top
vote getters. Who is your top pick of four for
twenty twenty four? We want to hear from you. Ron
de Santist, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Mike Pompeo were
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those top four. Again, over forty thousand of you have voted.
That will be up all day. You can go interact,
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Not to bragg or draw attention to ourselves, but this
is in fact the largest radio show launch in the
history of the medium so far as I understand it,
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and we are here for you to fight the battles
that you guys all care about. We are certainly inspired
and we honor the memory of Russia Limbaugh and we
will continue to fight the battles that he held. So
dear one of the battles that Russia Limbaugh was fighting
for the past year has to do with COVID and
all of the absurdity and the fallout from COVID We've
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talked about an hour two Buck, you were pointing out
that the heroes of the early COVID storylines, You're Gavin
Newsom's in California, your Andrew Cuomos in New York are
now the villains. And the Rod descantis Is of the world,
and the Greg Abbotts and the Brian Kemps, the state
governors Bill Lee, who we are sitting in the state
of Tennessee doing the show right now in Nashville, who
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opened their markets, who opened their states, who allowed their
kids to go to school. They have all finally become
the heroes for anyone with a functional brain. But big
story out there now, I don't know how much you
can trust to who They clearly have carried the water
for China a lot. They initially gave us totally flawed
information out of Wuhan, China about how prevalent COVID was
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where it came from. Like many of you are, most
of you, I would imagine listening right now, maybe almost
all of you, because I think most of you have
functional brains. The evidence all supports the idea that COVID
came out of a Chinese lab, that we were probably
using American dollars to do gain a function research, that
some of that money would have come from the NIH
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with doctor Fauci's fingerprints all over it. One of the
big questions, and We're going to get into being as
honest with you every single day as we can. And
I'll talk about this from a father's perspective because Sunday
was Father's Day. One of the big questions out there
has been as kids under eighteen years old are now
eligible for the vaccine, what should be the choice that
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you make as a parent. And I've got three kids, buck, thirteen, ten,
and six. I care about them more than anything in
the world. I don't want them to get vaccinated because
the data reflects that they are not in danger of
COVID from COVID and that if they get it, they
will be fine. I'm more of fraide frankly, of this
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vaccine and it being rushed and the fact that why
would you give it to children. My kids have all
been in person in school. They we have fortunately been
able to weather COVID, I think better than almost anywhere
in the country, here in my home state of Tennessee.
But I'm not going to give my kids the vaccine.
And I know there are a lot of parents and
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grandparents out there listening to us, aunts and uncles who
have young kids as well, and I feel like it
has become an anti vax argument to say that you
don't want your kids under the age of eighteen to
get the vaccine, And I think that's fundamentally unfair because
every parent out there cares, every grandparent cares more about
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their kid than anything. These are real decisions that we're making.
I got my kids vaccinated for measles, mom's rebella, all
of the things that are tangible threats to them. But
there's a lot of evidence. Germany, not exactly known for
its irrationality, German scientists have come out and said kids
under eighteen shouldn't get the vaccine, and now The WHO,
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and I know, again there's questions about whether or not
you can trust them, but buck the Who has come
out and said that they don't support vaccination for anyone
under the age of eighteen. Always with this Clay, there's
a lack of the next step in the conversation too,
there's the rewriting of history, which we've talked about, where
we're supposed to forget that when I often referred to
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as the fauci Id consensus, the blue check expert, Yes,
m D class have been not only wrong but obviously
deeply politicized in a lot of the recommendations here. I mean,
all you have to do, and I just came from
New York City, is walk around. You will see people
double masked in eighty five degree weather outside by themselves.
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Is Nashville compared to New York City and your experience.
I walked into the hotel here and the people at
the front desk had no masks on, and I thought
I was in some alternate universe. All of a sudden,
it is amazing. You still require masks at the coffee
shop on my corner in New York. You still have
masks required in every grocery store everywhere. And this is
despite the fact that New York City, for example, has
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a seventy percent give or take vaccination rate, among the
highest in the country. This has become a political branding
exercise and religious belief really for a whole lot of people,
which you and I saw when we used to talk
about this over a year ago. Now, because there was
a it was an object that people wanted to show
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off to people. Oh I'm wearing I wear masks all
the time. I'm wearing them on the treadmill, all the
rest of it. And when we go back and look
at so many of the decisions, whether it's the shutdown
of schools which never should have happened, or now the
masking after not after Faut he said don't mask, then
it was you should mask, and then it became double
mask because we know the whole thing became absurd. We're
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now being told that you have to get vaccinated no
matter who you are across the country. That's where the
Biden administration is. Everybody's going to get vaccinated. They don't
even talk about how there could be a need for boosters,
which would mean that we would have to also run
this process again. So if you think, if you think
that it's a one and done, I need someone to
explain to me, and I'm someone who's seen a lot
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of the bad policies here coming, why we're not going
to have to go through this year and a year
out and the return of fauciism with masking during flu season,
masking during and if you think that they're not already
gearing up for this, we actually have. I mean, here's
President Biden at the White House on Friday talking about
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you guessed it, new variants, folks, that's my new variant variant.
Well lave unvaccinated people even more vulnerable than they are
a month ago or a month ago. This is a
serious concern, especially because of what experts are calling the
Delta virus. The Delta variant. It's a variant that is
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more easily transmissible, potentially deadly, and particularly dangerous for young people. Now,
a few things, One, I guess we've moved away from
the South African variant toward the or the you know,
the UK variant or whatever it was that they were
saying before. But also Clay the story over the weekend
Daily Mail had this was that there are all these
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experts now who are saying these Red states are gonna
they're gonna get it. They're gonna get badly if they
don't just bend the knee and get vaccinated. Across the board, everybody, man,
woman and child across across the board. And what is
The biggest issue here that isn't being talked about to
me is I went to my local grocery store last
week and I got an antibody test twenty five bucks,
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took fifteen minutes, get my finger pricked. They come out
and they say, hey, you've got COVID antibodies. I never
tested positive for COVID. I had one day in the
last eighteen months where I had a fever Sunday. I
worked from home for the next to eight to ten days.
I didn't go get tested in the middle of November,
and the sites were totally overwhelmed. I've had the flu before,
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I've had a lot of other illnesses. I've never gotten
tested for the flu. I felt fine one day, I
had a fever. The next day I was fine, okay,
So I went and got tested for the antibodies. One
of the things that the experts don't seem too willing
to acknowledge is we know that there are over one
hundred million people who have had COVID. I'm one of them.
I'm one of them. Yep, we have right now in
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our blood antibodies. Many of us do the same thing
that you would get if you got the vaccine except
a natural version. Rand Paul Senator from Kentucky, talked about this.
He is a doctor, unlike a lot of the other
people who claim to be doctors out there, the blue
checkmark brigade, as I called them. I've made the decision
that I'm not going to go get vaccinated now because
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I've already had COVID. Other people could make other decisions,
but when I have the antibodies in my blood, I
would literally be going to get a vaccine to get
antibodies in my blood. I feel fine, I feel healthy,
and I understand that everybody should be able to make
their own decisions about whatever they choose to do for
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their own health. Additionally, as a parent, I have to
sit back and look at my thirteen, my ten, and
my six year olds and say, Okay, what am I
going to do for them? And the answer is not
a damn thing, because I look at the data and
if they get COVID, they are under infinitely more risk.
This is true for people under the age of eighteen.
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You are under infinitely more risk eth from the seasonal
flu than you are from COVID. Look at the data,
COVID drastically overrepresented with people who are senior citizens. If
you're a senior citizen and you're listening to us right now,
I've said this to my own parents, I would encourage
you to go get the vaccine. You're in a greater
danger from COVID. You don't have to listen to me.
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But that's the advice that I gave my parents, that's
the advice that I gave the elderly family members, and
my advice I gave my parents, and who are vaccinated, Yes,
my parents are too. And and that's to say, you
don't have to listen to us. We're not telling you
that you have to do anything, but for kids, I'm
not doing it. Buck And it's crazy to me that
there's not even a real discussion about this in the
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United States, when the WHO and Germany are both saying, hey,
we don't believe kids under the under the age of
eighteen need to be vaccinated at all, and certainly not
really young versions of that right, And this ties in
with college kids and everyone else. If you're in your
teenage years, you're in your twenties, you're in your thirties.
Unless you have major health related conditions, you're gonna be
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fine if you get COVID, and this has been my argument.
I know, Buck, you got into this as well. When
this whole debate started, I said, stratification of ages. And
if we were making intelligent, rational policy decisions, we would
have isolated the elderly and the severely unhealthy and told
them to stay away from modern society and let everybody
else go to work. This is what the Great Baron
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Coon Declaration of thousands, of which everybody tried to shut down, exist.
And that's why the science, which is Faucci, has doubled down.
I want to come back to Fauci has the science.
You see, he's he's referred to himself. He said again,
if you if you don't like me, you don't like
the science, so let your high schools. He did. He's
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a he went to my He's like the one that
the high school loves me. I don't know, I think,
I'm yeah, but we'll we'll come back into this because
here's what I want. All the understand Uh, this hasn't
gone away, folks, I just flew here. There's still all
these regulations, still, all these start It's crazy. And and
unless we go and say what was done that was,
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what do we get wrong here, I'm telling you, And
even if you're living, if you're breathing that free, fresh
air without two or three masks on your face and
a plastic bag over your head and whatever else is
going on. But finally you're breathing that fresh air in Texas,
in Florida, in any state that's not basically New England,
New York or California. The federal governments, the Biden administration,
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they're not done with you on this one yet. And
that's why the airplane thing matters. So I want to
get into that as soon as we come back, and
the need to rectify what has been done here that
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of rough greens. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. And one thing that we know is
that science is not consensus and certainty is not fact.
That you should always leave open the possibility with new evidence,
new data, that you should change your conclusions. And if
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you have imperfect, highly imprecise data, you shouldn't pretend you
know everything, which is exactly what has happened at various
stages of the pandemic in this country. And the expert class,
the blue check mds, Let's be honest. The Democrat lockdowners,
they've acted like they've known everything at every stage. Ron
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Johnson was asked about this Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin
on Sunday when it came specifically to some of the
medicines people are talking about, well, do we know more
about iver mecta? Now? Do we know more about what
was the truth of the hydroxy chloroquine? Is it thromys
in situation from the early days? What do we have
full data on it? Here's what he said, Doctor fausci happened,
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Media arrogance, social media censorship happened. But we all know
that doctor Fausci. He's not a modest man. If you
question what he did, apparently you're questioning science itself. But
you can look at how he stage managed the COVID
crisis and call it anywhere close to a success. Six
hundred thousand people died, trillions of dollars of economic devastation.
He ignored early treatment. He probably helped sabotage the use
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of some of these things. And you have to understand
that doctor Fauci, people in the health agacies that meeting
the social media, they will never admit they were wrong
on this because if they do, they're gonna have to
admit that literally hundreds of thousands of people didn't have
to lose their lives but for their censorship, their arrogance,
and doctor Fauci's mismanagement. Oh, doctor Fauci is science, though, Clay.
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And if he were here, he'd say, Clay wears your mask.
I can feel you unvaccinated droplets hitting me in the face.
That's a pretty good Fauci impersonation. I'm not gonna lie,
but this is to me, probably the most infuriating part
of this entire process is the fact that we haven't
been able to have a real debate about the appropriate responses,
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but we failed. I believe that our response to COVID
is the single greatest American failure since the Vietnam War.
I really do. And what I hope is in the
same way that we got an accounting of the Vietnam
War and that was the best in the brightest who
into us put us into the Vietnam War as well,
I hope we're going to get a full accounting of
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all the failures that we saw from COVID. I fear
that we are not, because it will make people like
Fauci and the left wing mask mafia look like the
idiots that they are, and it will actually hold them
accountable and they'll have to recognize for all of the
errors that they made why they're so significant. When we
come back, we're going to continue to unpack this story.
But I want to talk to you guys for a
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and if a lot of you are like me, it
meant that maybe your kids were not fighting with each
other for a couple of minutes out there. Maybe they've
set down and they got a picture with you. Maybe
they maybe they were willing just like they are on
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Legacybox dot Com, slash Clay and Buck. I admire people
who are able to take what everybody assuliers are these intricate,
in ornate, complex things and boil them down to their essence.
Clay Travis Buck, Sexton Rush Limbaugh bringing us back there.
That's what we hope to be able to do for you. Guys,
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is take complicated stories and frankly break down stories that
are not being given to you in an honest and
factual manner and let you know why they matter. That's
what we're going to try to do for three hours everything,
every single day, and Buck, you know, I think it's
a really good omen. Our show is debuting on the
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anniversary of when the US Constitution became the official framework
of our government June twenty first, seventeen eighty eight, Clay,
that's when New Hampshire became the ninth of thirteen states
to ratify it. Rush spoke of the Constitution often, as
we all know, with great admiration, with awe, with reverence.
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The show will continue to feature of Russia's wisdom as
it relates to the present. So we thought it appropriate
to start with these words from Rush. US Constitution limits
the role of government in everyday life. The founders of
this country realized that the natural tendency of human beings
with power is tyranny. They knew it, they realized it.
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They built in checks and balances to assure that we
didn't go tyranny, and if we did, it was going
to take a long time to pull it off. They
knew what human nature was, they had studied it from
the beginning of time. And it is truthful to say
that the natural tendency of people with political power is tyranny.
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That is what is so miraculous about our country. We've
been around two hundred plus years and we have had
a piece of paper, essentially the Constitution that everybody has
sworn a lead agents and fealty to. Amazingly, it would
have been not difficult at all to rip it up
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at any time in the past two hundred years now.
There have been people that tried, There have been people
that wanted to. But in the end we somehow, and
I believe it's because we are a nation blessed by God.
We have survived where other people on this planet have not.
Something about the sheer, raw decency goodness of power as
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defined and expressed in our Constitution has intimidated even the
worst of bad actors into leaving it alone. Until now.
Now we have arrived at the moment where the Constitution
no longer frightens the people behind Joe Biden. The Constitution
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no longer threatens them, The Constitution no longer intimidates something.
You know why, because they believe that a significant portion
of American people have no idea what the Constitution says.
They believe that a majority of American people have no
idea what the Constitution is about. They believe a majority
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of Americans have no idea what the Bill of Rights is.
If you don't know what the Bill of rights is,
then how can you be upset over losing it? And
to a point, they are right, we do have because
of so much ignorance in our education system. We have
literally lost the education system in pop culture. It's amazing
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to think about how we have entered into a world
those are Russian Limbaugh's words where so many of you
listening to us right now feel terrified to say what
you think about COVID, or to say what you think
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about any subject in the world right now. I've always argued,
and this is me putting my lawyer hat on Buck,
that the single most valuable asset we have as a
society is our embrace of Western civilization. What Russia is
really talking about there. For anybody who studies history, and
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I know you're a history nerd like I am, Buck,
is our government represents the best approximation and analysis of
all of Western civilization, the best things that we could
pull from all of history to create the most even
while it's imperfect form of government that has ever existed
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in the history of the free world. And much of
what I see going on a day to day basis now,
Buck is really not just an attack upon American values.
It's an attack about all of Western civilization, which is
the foundation essentially of all freedom in the world. And
it's so maniacally insane to me. That's saying, Hey, maybe
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we should learn from the Greeks and the Romans, Maybe
we should learn from all the Enlightenment values as we
did to create the best form of union that we can. Oh,
but wait a minute, those are a lot of white guys.
We can't listen to them anymore. That's kind of the
world that we found ourselves in. And it scares me.
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We talked about this when we started the show. I
don't only think and this is one of the great
things about being a father and being a parent. Your
worldview expands from Hey, what's going to happen during my life?
And one day you're going to find this out, Buck,
And immediately when that kid arrives, you start thinking about, Hey,
long after I'm gone, what world are they going to? Inherit?
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And we've been talking to you for over two hours,
and we're gonna be talking into you, hopefully for years.
But that's where my motivation to take on this challenge
with this show with you, Buck came from thinking about
how do we pass on the values that have driven
the success of this country to the next generation. And
I think, I know there's a lot of people, a
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variety of different ages that are listening to us right now.
You're thirty nine, I'm forty two. God willing, we got
a couple of generations ourselves where we can continue to
influence things and continue the battles that Rush fought. But man,
I'm already thinking about what is coming for that next generation.
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From my thirteen year old, from my ten year old,
from my six year old. I'm not worried so much
about my life. I've had a great life, But I
am concerned when Western civilization itself is under siege, and
whether when the foundational documents of our country, which have
allowed us to be the most successful country and the
best beacon of freedom that's ever existed in the world,
is now under assault. That's why I'm here candidly, and
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I know that's a big reason why you're here too.
I think the recognition that everyone should have is that
the Left, in this country and in broader the broader
West around the world, in so many ways, is intentionally
kicking at the load bearing walls of Western civilization. They
do this knowing what the eventual goal is. There are
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reasons why they are trying to undermine and attack the family,
religious belief, whether it's a question of your ability to
practice freely, not just under COVID, but in general. They
try to eliminate separation of the genders. We've all seen this.
They've tried to eliminate gender essentially as a concept, as
a meaningful organizational principle of our lives and how we
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interact with going on in the Olympics right now, buck
undermining fundamental freedoms that we thought we all held dear
and in common in this country, but doing so openly
because fortunately, and I think the show, while we are
going to be fighting for you, we are also going
to be a reminder of what the Left has accomplished
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so far and where they think they are in this
whole process. They feel ascended, and you could point to elections,
and you can point to you all the back and
forth of power. But if you look at the culture,
if you look at some of the foundational principles that
holds our whole country together, that actually keeps us as
one people, those are under assault from open borders. Those
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are under assault from an anti constitutionalism that is essential
to the left wing view of America today because restraints
on government power mean that you can never actually get
to the utopia that the leftists, the authoritarian Democrats really
they increasingly obviously the Marxist I even a friends who
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say they have a communist ethos without communist economics. That's
essentially what we're facing in so many ways from Democrat
party today. This is a real challenge and a real
fight because if you look over the last twenty years,
put elections aside for a moment, you're asking that question
about your children, and many other people listening to the show,
what does the future look like for their kids and
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grandkids and grandkids, And it's going to be on the
current trajectory, a very different place. I don't think we
should lapse into a fatalism about that. I think there
should be an understanding that we can go back to
founding principles. We can go back to true unity, which
I know that word has been turned into a laugh
line by the Biden administration, which try to unify for
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about five seconds after he was sworn in. But that's
one of the things. We will both be serious, clay
about the scale of the challenge and honestly the threat
to our American ness that we face, but also be
happy warriors in this fight because we know. The great
news for us is that we have so many millions
and millions of people across the country in this house
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that rush field, so to speak, that know that they
have to stand with us at the barricade. They know
that they are in this together with all of us.
You guys are the tip of the spear, Buck, and
I are going to be out there in front of
the line. But you guys are the tip of the spear.
And what is encouraging to me, and I think the
happy warrior phrase is a good one I like to
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use too. What is encouraging to me is, Buck, we're
on the side that's going to win. We are. I
firmly believe that I'm a huge optimist. I think if
you study American history over time, rationality, logic, reasonableness wins.
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Right now, it's not. And there have been periods throughout
American history where irrationality, fear, fear mongering, unfortunately, race baiting, identity, politics,
cancel culture, all of that roles together, and for a
short period it can look like that side is going
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to win. But I think what ends up happening, and
I can already see it rising up, is there is
a strong reaction coming on the other side. Twenty twenty two,
I think Republicans are gonna take back the House and
probably the Senate, and with the right nominee in twenty
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twenty four, which we've been talking about already, I think
that Kamala Harris is going to get her ass absolutely
kicked destruction without COVID. Without COVID happening, Donald Trump wins
a landslide in twenty twenty and we can get into
all the different permutations of voting and everything else. But
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if COVID doesn't happen, Bucket, I think you're with me here.
Trump wins Minnesota, he wins, he wins Pennsylvania with ease,
he flips I think Nevada. I think heps New Mexico.
That we're talking about a destruction. And I think what
the Democrats have reaped here is they have convinced themselves
that identity politics and cancel culture is their route to power.
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And I think in twenty twenty two and in twenty
twenty four, Western civilization's gonna rise up and all the reasonable, logical,
rational people out there are gonna kick some serious ass.
And guess what, We're gonna be here with you enjoying
that ass kicking. I remember that twenty ten election. Remember
in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, everyone
thought that it was going to be a fundamental transformation
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of America. Now, some of that may have been accomplished
over the ensuing years, but there was quite a big
pushback and it led to a whole movement, and there
might be another movement, Clay to your point about the
mid term, And part of that is, I think because
of exactly what Rush said. The genius of the Constitution
is that understanding of human nature, and even at a
point where it might feel, and it does to me
and to Clay right now, like freedom is not just
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under assault, but perhaps it's beginning to die out there,
a stern civilization buck there are embers for the conflagration
to come that all we have to do is just breathe,
breathe a bit more into the Constitution and those fundamental
precepts of American life and it can all come back.
And that's part of our goal here. Also part of
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our goal is to hear from all of you. And
we've got a whole bunch of calls that we meant
to get to, we will get to, we come back
whatever I mean we're gonna have, essentially whatever the top
story for you is, we can get to that in
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O l D. Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton,
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appreciate all of you hanging out with us. First show,
Monday edition. Almost all in the books here. Buck has
got you. We gave you a little bit of positivity
there in the last segment. I'm optimistic we're gonna win
the long term war, even though the battles right now
can be very fierce. And you have a great moment
of contemplation here, Buck Sexton. To take us into the
final bit of the show. First off, doctor Fauci won't
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join us, really, so I'm gonna have to be I
don't know if he's gonna get know. Clay is here
and the droplets just we're in studio. He's not two masks,
not three zero masks. I'm very he's very upset. Fauci's
very upset with Clay to start off with. But my
friend Carol mark Witz over the New York Post had
a great piece owners share with all you real quickly.
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The headline is this summer, turn off your screens and
boldly go out into the real world. And oh my gosh,
is that the case? My friends? It's so important to
get everyone. I feel this right, Clay, don't you feel
this energy? People want to live life. The world outside
of your screen is far better than the world inside
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of it. And a great thing about radio as you
could be poolside, beach side, we can hang out of
you with that that beautiful Montana air blowing through your hair.
Or if you're down, you know, getting some sun in
San Diego or wherever Clay Travis and Buck Sexy can
hang out with you. But our point really is here, folks.
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We made it through. I know, I know we talk
about some of this stuff, some of the wrong decisions
in the past, about the lockdowns, everything else, but Clay,
anyone listening to this, we made it through. We got
through this pandemic, and now it really is time for
the business of the American people to be business, but
also to be fun. Have some fun out there as
we roll into the summer. Burn your masks, live your life,
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and we want to thank all of you. We didn't
get to all the calls. We want you to know
that we're going to be interactive. Can find us on
Twitter at Buck Sexton, at Clay Travis. Well, you're going
to be here with you for three hours every day
for a long time. To come, but as we finish
this first show, we want to once more thank Rush
Limbaugh for the opportunity to speak to all of you.
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He is an icon. We will never replace him. But
as we said to start this show, we will be
fighting the battles that he cared about deeply for the
next week's, months, and hopefully years going forward. Thank you
for giving us the time today, and we will continue
to fight those battles right buck. Absolutely, we're looking forward
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to it, joining you here every day. Thanks for being
with us. Make sure you check us out on social
media wherever you do your social media stuff, and we'll
be back tomorrow, same time, same place, twelve noon Eastern
Welcome back in our number three Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton show. I am Clay Travis. We appreciate all of
you hanging out with us. First two hours in the books.
We are having more fun than any radio show should
be able to have and we are only in our
first day together. This has been an awful lot of fun.
You guys have been fantastic. By the way, social interaction
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has been phenomenal. Encourage you to go follow the Twitter
feed at Clay and Buck. You can follow me on
Twitter at Clay Travis. You can follow Buck Sexton on
Twitter at Buck Sexton. We had a poll question. I'll
try to do a lot of poll questions keep you
guys engaged. I'm curious what the audience will let us
know based on voting in some of these poll questions
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that we put out. And right now over forty thousand
of you have voted in our first poll question, which
was this the most recent straw poll for twenty twenty
four Republican candidates had these four guys as the top
vote getters. Who is your top pick of four for
twenty twenty four? We want to hear from you. Ron
de Santist, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Mike Pompeo were
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those top four. Again, over forty thousand of you have voted.
That will be up all day. You can go interact,
you can respond, you can argue with everyone on social
media as seems to be something that is wildly popular
to do, and you can go follow us so you
can also talk to other people listening to the show.
I want to get it ready with the hashtag and
the hashtag Clay and Buck. Hashtag Clay and Buck. If
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you want to react to the show, you want to
interact with other listeners, that's where you can do that.
That obviously all on Twitter. We appreciate all of you
interacting on Facebook, on Instagram, on all of the places
out there, over four hundred AM and FM stations carrying us.
Not to bragg or draw attention to ourselves, but this
is in fact the largest radio show launch in the
history of the medium so far as I understand it,
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and we are here for you to fight the battles
that you guys all care about. We are certainly inspired
and we honor the memory of Russia Limbaugh and we
will continue to fight the battles that he held. So
dear one of the battles that Russia Limbaugh was fighting
for the past year has to do with COVID and
all of the absurdity and the fallout from COVID We've
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talked about an hour two Buck, you were pointing out
that the heroes of the early COVID storylines, You're Gavin
Newsom's in California, your Andrew Cuomos in New York are
now the villains. And the Rod descantis Is of the world,
and the Greg Abbotts and the Brian Kemps, the state
governors Bill Lee, who we are sitting in the state
of Tennessee doing the show right now in Nashville, who
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opened their markets, who opened their states, who allowed their
kids to go to school. They have all finally become
the heroes for anyone with a functional brain. But big
story out there now, I don't know how much you
can trust to who They clearly have carried the water
for China a lot. They initially gave us totally flawed
information out of Wuhan, China about how prevalent COVID was
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where it came from. Like many of you are, most
of you, I would imagine listening right now, maybe almost
all of you, because I think most of you have
functional brains. The evidence all supports the idea that COVID
came out of a Chinese lab, that we were probably
using American dollars to do gain a function research, that
some of that money would have come from the NIH
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with doctor Fauci's fingerprints all over it. One of the
big questions, and We're going to get into being as
honest with you every single day as we can. And
I'll talk about this from a father's perspective because Sunday
was Father's Day. One of the big questions out there
has been as kids under eighteen years old are now
eligible for the vaccine, what should be the choice that
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you make as a parent. And I've got three kids, buck, thirteen, ten,
and six. I care about them more than anything in
the world. I don't want them to get vaccinated because
the data reflects that they are not in danger of
COVID from COVID and that if they get it, they
will be fine. I'm more of fraide frankly, of this
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vaccine and it being rushed and the fact that why
would you give it to children. My kids have all
been in person in school. They we have fortunately been
able to weather COVID, I think better than almost anywhere
in the country, here in my home state of Tennessee.
But I'm not going to give my kids the vaccine.
And I know there are a lot of parents and
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grandparents out there listening to us, aunts and uncles who
have young kids as well, and I feel like it
has become an anti vax argument to say that you
don't want your kids under the age of eighteen to
get the vaccine, And I think that's fundamentally unfair because
every parent out there cares, every grandparent cares more about
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their kid than anything. These are real decisions that we're making.
I got my kids vaccinated for measles, mom's rebella, all
of the things that are tangible threats to them. But
there's a lot of evidence. Germany, not exactly known for
its irrationality, German scientists have come out and said kids
under eighteen shouldn't get the vaccine, and now The WHO,
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and I know, again there's questions about whether or not
you can trust them, but buck the Who has come
out and said that they don't support vaccination for anyone
under the age of eighteen. Always with this Clay, there's
a lack of the next step in the conversation too,
there's the rewriting of history, which we've talked about, where
we're supposed to forget that when I often referred to
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as the fauci Id consensus, the blue check expert, Yes,
m D class have been not only wrong but obviously
deeply politicized in a lot of the recommendations here. I mean,
all you have to do, and I just came from
New York City, is walk around. You will see people
double masked in eighty five degree weather outside by themselves.
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Is Nashville compared to New York City and your experience.
I walked into the hotel here and the people at
the front desk had no masks on, and I thought
I was in some alternate universe. All of a sudden,
it is amazing. You still require masks at the coffee
shop on my corner in New York. You still have
masks required in every grocery store everywhere. And this is
despite the fact that New York City, for example, has
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a seventy percent give or take vaccination rate, among the
highest in the country. This has become a political branding
exercise and religious belief really for a whole lot of people,
which you and I saw when we used to talk
about this over a year ago. Now, because there was
a it was an object that people wanted to show
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off to people. Oh I'm wearing I wear masks all
the time. I'm wearing them on the treadmill, all the
rest of it. And when we go back and look
at so many of the decisions, whether it's the shutdown
of schools which never should have happened, or now the
masking after not after Faut he said don't mask, then
it was you should mask, and then it became double
mask because we know the whole thing became absurd. We're
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now being told that you have to get vaccinated no
matter who you are across the country. That's where the
Biden administration is. Everybody's going to get vaccinated. They don't
even talk about how there could be a need for boosters,
which would mean that we would have to also run
this process again. So if you think, if you think
that it's a one and done, I need someone to
explain to me, and I'm someone who's seen a lot
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of the bad policies here coming, why we're not going
to have to go through this year and a year
out and the return of fauciism with masking during flu season,
masking during and if you think that they're not already
gearing up for this, we actually have. I mean, here's
President Biden at the White House on Friday talking about
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you guessed it, new variants, folks, that's my new variant variant.
Well lave unvaccinated people even more vulnerable than they are
a month ago or a month ago. This is a
serious concern, especially because of what experts are calling the
Delta virus. The Delta variant. It's a variant that is
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more easily transmissible, potentially deadly, and particularly dangerous for young people. Now,
a few things, One, I guess we've moved away from
the South African variant toward the or the you know,
the UK variant or whatever it was that they were
saying before. But also Clay the story over the weekend
Daily Mail had this was that there are all these
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experts now who are saying these Red states are gonna
they're gonna get it. They're gonna get badly if they
don't just bend the knee and get vaccinated. Across the board, everybody, man,
woman and child across across the board. And what is
The biggest issue here that isn't being talked about to
me is I went to my local grocery store last
week and I got an antibody test twenty five bucks,
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took fifteen minutes, get my finger pricked. They come out
and they say, hey, you've got COVID antibodies. I never
tested positive for COVID. I had one day in the
last eighteen months where I had a fever Sunday. I
worked from home for the next to eight to ten days.
I didn't go get tested in the middle of November,
and the sites were totally overwhelmed. I've had the flu before,
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I've had a lot of other illnesses. I've never gotten
tested for the flu. I felt fine one day, I
had a fever. The next day I was fine, okay,
So I went and got tested for the antibodies. One
of the things that the experts don't seem too willing
to acknowledge is we know that there are over one
hundred million people who have had COVID. I'm one of them.
I'm one of them. Yep, we have right now in
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our blood antibodies. Many of us do the same thing
that you would get if you got the vaccine except
a natural version. Rand Paul Senator from Kentucky, talked about this.
He is a doctor, unlike a lot of the other
people who claim to be doctors out there, the blue
checkmark brigade, as I called them. I've made the decision
that I'm not going to go get vaccinated now because
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I've already had COVID. Other people could make other decisions,
but when I have the antibodies in my blood, I
would literally be going to get a vaccine to get
antibodies in my blood. I feel fine, I feel healthy,
and I understand that everybody should be able to make
their own decisions about whatever they choose to do for
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their own health. Additionally, as a parent, I have to
sit back and look at my thirteen, my ten, and
my six year olds and say, Okay, what am I
going to do for them? And the answer is not
a damn thing, because I look at the data and
if they get COVID, they are under infinitely more risk.
This is true for people under the age of eighteen.
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You are under infinitely more risk eth from the seasonal
flu than you are from COVID. Look at the data,
COVID drastically overrepresented with people who are senior citizens. If
you're a senior citizen and you're listening to us right now,
I've said this to my own parents, I would encourage
you to go get the vaccine. You're in a greater
danger from COVID. You don't have to listen to me.
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But that's the advice that I gave my parents, that's
the advice that I gave the elderly family members, and
my advice I gave my parents, and who are vaccinated, Yes,
my parents are too. And and that's to say, you
don't have to listen to us. We're not telling you
that you have to do anything, but for kids, I'm
not doing it. Buck And it's crazy to me that
there's not even a real discussion about this in the
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United States, when the WHO and Germany are both saying, hey,
we don't believe kids under the under the age of
eighteen need to be vaccinated at all, and certainly not
really young versions of that right, And this ties in
with college kids and everyone else. If you're in your
teenage years, you're in your twenties, you're in your thirties.
Unless you have major health related conditions, you're gonna be
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fine if you get COVID, and this has been my argument.
I know, Buck, you got into this as well. When
this whole debate started, I said, stratification of ages. And
if we were making intelligent, rational policy decisions, we would
have isolated the elderly and the severely unhealthy and told
them to stay away from modern society and let everybody
else go to work. This is what the Great Baron
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Coon Declaration of thousands, of which everybody tried to shut down, exist.
And that's why the science, which is Faucci, has doubled down.
I want to come back to Fauci has the science.
You see, he's he's referred to himself. He said again,
if you if you don't like me, you don't like
the science, so let your high schools. He did. He's
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a he went to my He's like the one that
the high school loves me. I don't know, I think,
I'm yeah, but we'll we'll come back into this because
here's what I want. All the understand Uh, this hasn't
gone away, folks, I just flew here. There's still all
these regulations, still, all these start It's crazy. And and
unless we go and say what was done that was,
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what do we get wrong here, I'm telling you, And
even if you're living, if you're breathing that free, fresh
air without two or three masks on your face and
a plastic bag over your head and whatever else is
going on. But finally you're breathing that fresh air in Texas,
in Florida, in any state that's not basically New England,
New York or California. The federal governments, the Biden administration,
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they're not done with you on this one yet. And
that's why the airplane thing matters. So I want to
get into that as soon as we come back, and
the need to rectify what has been done here that
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of rough greens. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. And one thing that we know is
that science is not consensus and certainty is not fact.
That you should always leave open the possibility with new evidence,
new data, that you should change your conclusions. And if
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you have imperfect, highly imprecise data, you shouldn't pretend you
know everything, which is exactly what has happened at various
stages of the pandemic in this country. And the expert class,
the blue check mds, Let's be honest. The Democrat lockdowners,
they've acted like they've known everything at every stage. Ron
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Johnson was asked about this Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin
on Sunday when it came specifically to some of the
medicines people are talking about, well, do we know more
about iver mecta? Now? Do we know more about what
was the truth of the hydroxy chloroquine? Is it thromys
in situation from the early days? What do we have
full data on it? Here's what he said, Doctor fausci happened,
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Media arrogance, social media censorship happened. But we all know
that doctor Fausci. He's not a modest man. If you
question what he did, apparently you're questioning science itself. But
you can look at how he stage managed the COVID
crisis and call it anywhere close to a success. Six
hundred thousand people died, trillions of dollars of economic devastation.
He ignored early treatment. He probably helped sabotage the use
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of some of these things. And you have to understand
that doctor Fauci, people in the health agacies that meeting
the social media, they will never admit they were wrong
on this because if they do, they're gonna have to
admit that literally hundreds of thousands of people didn't have
to lose their lives but for their censorship, their arrogance,
and doctor Fauci's mismanagement. Oh, doctor Fauci is science, though, Clay.
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And if he were here, he'd say, Clay wears your mask.
I can feel you unvaccinated droplets hitting me in the face.
That's a pretty good Fauci impersonation. I'm not gonna lie,
but this is to me, probably the most infuriating part
of this entire process is the fact that we haven't
been able to have a real debate about the appropriate responses,
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but we failed. I believe that our response to COVID
is the single greatest American failure since the Vietnam War.
I really do. And what I hope is in the
same way that we got an accounting of the Vietnam
War and that was the best in the brightest who
into us put us into the Vietnam War as well,
I hope we're going to get a full accounting of
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all the failures that we saw from COVID. I fear
that we are not, because it will make people like
Fauci and the left wing mask mafia look like the
idiots that they are, and it will actually hold them
accountable and they'll have to recognize for all of the
errors that they made why they're so significant. When we
come back, we're going to continue to unpack this story.
But I want to talk to you guys for a
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minute here about Father's Day. Father's Day just came and went,
and if a lot of you are like me, it
meant that maybe your kids were not fighting with each
other for a couple of minutes out there. Maybe they've
set down and they got a picture with you. Maybe
they maybe they were willing just like they are on
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Legacybox dot Com, slash Clay and Buck. I admire people
who are able to take what everybody assuliers are these intricate,
in ornate, complex things and boil them down to their essence.
Clay Travis Buck, Sexton Rush Limbaugh bringing us back there.
That's what we hope to be able to do for you. Guys,
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is take complicated stories and frankly break down stories that
are not being given to you in an honest and
factual manner and let you know why they matter. That's
what we're going to try to do for three hours everything,
every single day, and Buck, you know, I think it's
a really good omen. Our show is debuting on the
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anniversary of when the US Constitution became the official framework
of our government June twenty first, seventeen eighty eight, Clay,
that's when New Hampshire became the ninth of thirteen states
to ratify it. Rush spoke of the Constitution often, as
we all know, with great admiration, with awe, with reverence.
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The show will continue to feature of Russia's wisdom as
it relates to the present. So we thought it appropriate
to start with these words from Rush. US Constitution limits
the role of government in everyday life. The founders of
this country realized that the natural tendency of human beings
with power is tyranny. They knew it, they realized it.
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They built in checks and balances to assure that we
didn't go tyranny, and if we did, it was going
to take a long time to pull it off. They
knew what human nature was, they had studied it from
the beginning of time. And it is truthful to say
that the natural tendency of people with political power is tyranny.
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That is what is so miraculous about our country. We've
been around two hundred plus years and we have had
a piece of paper, essentially the Constitution that everybody has
sworn a lead agents and fealty to. Amazingly, it would
have been not difficult at all to rip it up
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at any time in the past two hundred years now.
There have been people that tried, There have been people
that wanted to. But in the end we somehow, and
I believe it's because we are a nation blessed by God.
We have survived where other people on this planet have not.
Something about the sheer, raw decency goodness of power as
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defined and expressed in our Constitution has intimidated even the
worst of bad actors into leaving it alone. Until now.
Now we have arrived at the moment where the Constitution
no longer frightens the people behind Joe Biden. The Constitution
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no longer threatens them, The Constitution no longer intimidates something.
You know why, because they believe that a significant portion
of American people have no idea what the Constitution says.
They believe that a majority of American people have no
idea what the Constitution is about. They believe a majority
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of Americans have no idea what the Bill of Rights is.
If you don't know what the Bill of rights is,
then how can you be upset over losing it? And
to a point, they are right, we do have because
of so much ignorance in our education system. We have
literally lost the education system in pop culture. It's amazing
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to think about how we have entered into a world
those are Russian Limbaugh's words where so many of you
listening to us right now feel terrified to say what
you think about COVID, or to say what you think
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about any subject in the world right now. I've always argued,
and this is me putting my lawyer hat on Buck,
that the single most valuable asset we have as a
society is our embrace of Western civilization. What Russia is
really talking about there. For anybody who studies history, and
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I know you're a history nerd like I am, Buck,
is our government represents the best approximation and analysis of
all of Western civilization, the best things that we could
pull from all of history to create the most even
while it's imperfect form of government that has ever existed
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in the history of the free world. And much of
what I see going on a day to day basis now,
Buck is really not just an attack upon American values.
It's an attack about all of Western civilization, which is
the foundation essentially of all freedom in the world. And
it's so maniacally insane to me. That's saying, Hey, maybe
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we should learn from the Greeks and the Romans, Maybe
we should learn from all the Enlightenment values as we
did to create the best form of union that we can. Oh,
but wait a minute, those are a lot of white guys.
We can't listen to them anymore. That's kind of the
world that we found ourselves in. And it scares me.
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We talked about this when we started the show. I
don't only think and this is one of the great
things about being a father and being a parent. Your
worldview expands from Hey, what's going to happen during my life?
And one day you're going to find this out, Buck,
And immediately when that kid arrives, you start thinking about, Hey,
long after I'm gone, what world are they going to? Inherit?
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And we've been talking to you for over two hours,
and we're gonna be talking into you, hopefully for years.
But that's where my motivation to take on this challenge
with this show with you, Buck came from thinking about
how do we pass on the values that have driven
the success of this country to the next generation. And
I think, I know there's a lot of people, a
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variety of different ages that are listening to us right now.
You're thirty nine, I'm forty two. God willing, we got
a couple of generations ourselves where we can continue to
influence things and continue the battles that Rush fought. But man,
I'm already thinking about what is coming for that next generation.
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From my thirteen year old, from my ten year old,
from my six year old. I'm not worried so much
about my life. I've had a great life, But I
am concerned when Western civilization itself is under siege, and
whether when the foundational documents of our country, which have
allowed us to be the most successful country and the
best beacon of freedom that's ever existed in the world,
is now under assault. That's why I'm here candidly, and
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I know that's a big reason why you're here too.
I think the recognition that everyone should have is that
the Left, in this country and in broader the broader
West around the world, in so many ways, is intentionally
kicking at the load bearing walls of Western civilization. They
do this knowing what the eventual goal is. There are
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reasons why they are trying to undermine and attack the family,
religious belief, whether it's a question of your ability to
practice freely, not just under COVID, but in general. They
try to eliminate separation of the genders. We've all seen this.
They've tried to eliminate gender essentially as a concept, as
a meaningful organizational principle of our lives and how we
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interact with going on in the Olympics right now, buck
undermining fundamental freedoms that we thought we all held dear
and in common in this country, but doing so openly
because fortunately, and I think the show, while we are
going to be fighting for you, we are also going
to be a reminder of what the Left has accomplished
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so far and where they think they are in this
whole process. They feel ascended, and you could point to elections,
and you can point to you all the back and
forth of power. But if you look at the culture,
if you look at some of the foundational principles that
holds our whole country together, that actually keeps us as
one people, those are under assault from open borders. Those
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are under assault from an anti constitutionalism that is essential
to the left wing view of America today because restraints
on government power mean that you can never actually get
to the utopia that the leftists, the authoritarian Democrats really
they increasingly obviously the Marxist I even a friends who
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say they have a communist ethos without communist economics. That's
essentially what we're facing in so many ways from Democrat
party today. This is a real challenge and a real
fight because if you look over the last twenty years,
put elections aside for a moment, you're asking that question
about your children, and many other people listening to the show,
what does the future look like for their kids and
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grandkids and grandkids, And it's going to be on the
current trajectory, a very different place. I don't think we
should lapse into a fatalism about that. I think there
should be an understanding that we can go back to
founding principles. We can go back to true unity, which
I know that word has been turned into a laugh
line by the Biden administration, which try to unify for
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about five seconds after he was sworn in. But that's
one of the things. We will both be serious, clay
about the scale of the challenge and honestly the threat
to our American ness that we face, but also be
happy warriors in this fight because we know. The great
news for us is that we have so many millions
and millions of people across the country in this house
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that rush field, so to speak, that know that they
have to stand with us at the barricade. They know
that they are in this together with all of us.
You guys are the tip of the spear, Buck, and
I are going to be out there in front of
the line. But you guys are the tip of the spear.
And what is encouraging to me, and I think the
happy warrior phrase is a good one I like to
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use too. What is encouraging to me is, Buck, we're
on the side that's going to win. We are. I
firmly believe that I'm a huge optimist. I think if
you study American history over time, rationality, logic, reasonableness wins.
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Right now, it's not. And there have been periods throughout
American history where irrationality, fear, fear mongering, unfortunately, race baiting, identity, politics,
cancel culture, all of that roles together, and for a
short period it can look like that side is going
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to win. But I think what ends up happening, and
I can already see it rising up, is there is
a strong reaction coming on the other side. Twenty twenty two,
I think Republicans are gonna take back the House and
probably the Senate, and with the right nominee in twenty
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twenty four, which we've been talking about already, I think
that Kamala Harris is going to get her ass absolutely
kicked destruction without COVID. Without COVID happening, Donald Trump wins
a landslide in twenty twenty and we can get into
all the different permutations of voting and everything else. But
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if COVID doesn't happen, Bucket, I think you're with me here.
Trump wins Minnesota, he wins, he wins Pennsylvania with ease,
he flips I think Nevada. I think heps New Mexico.
That we're talking about a destruction. And I think what
the Democrats have reaped here is they have convinced themselves
that identity politics and cancel culture is their route to power.
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And I think in twenty twenty two and in twenty
twenty four, Western civilization's gonna rise up and all the reasonable, logical,
rational people out there are gonna kick some serious ass.
And guess what, We're gonna be here with you enjoying
that ass kicking. I remember that twenty ten election. Remember
in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, everyone
thought that it was going to be a fundamental transformation
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of America. Now, some of that may have been accomplished
over the ensuing years, but there was quite a big
pushback and it led to a whole movement, and there
might be another movement, Clay to your point about the
mid term, And part of that is, I think because
of exactly what Rush said. The genius of the Constitution
is that understanding of human nature, and even at a
point where it might feel, and it does to me
and to Clay right now, like freedom is not just
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under assault, but perhaps it's beginning to die out there,
a stern civilization buck there are embers for the conflagration
to come that all we have to do is just breathe,
breathe a bit more into the Constitution and those fundamental
precepts of American life and it can all come back.
And that's part of our goal here. Also part of
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our goal is to hear from all of you. And
we've got a whole bunch of calls that we meant
to get to, we will get to, we come back
whatever I mean we're gonna have, essentially whatever the top
story for you is, we can get to that in
just a moment. So we've got lines little over the place.
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and also everything you're hearing here we're going to be
posted at that site. Follow him, Clay Travis, follow I
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O l D. Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton,
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appreciate all of you hanging out with us. First show,
Monday edition. Almost all in the books here. Buck has
got you. We gave you a little bit of positivity
there in the last segment. I'm optimistic we're gonna win
the long term war, even though the battles right now
can be very fierce. And you have a great moment
of contemplation here, Buck Sexton. To take us into the
final bit of the show. First off, doctor Fauci won't
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join us, really, so I'm gonna have to be I
don't know if he's gonna get know. Clay is here
and the droplets just we're in studio. He's not two masks,
not three zero masks. I'm very he's very upset. Fauci's
very upset with Clay to start off with. But my
friend Carol mark Witz over the New York Post had
a great piece owners share with all you real quickly.
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The headline is this summer, turn off your screens and
boldly go out into the real world. And oh my gosh,
is that the case? My friends? It's so important to
get everyone. I feel this right, Clay, don't you feel
this energy? People want to live life. The world outside
of your screen is far better than the world inside
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of it. And a great thing about radio as you
could be poolside, beach side, we can hang out of
you with that that beautiful Montana air blowing through your hair.
Or if you're down, you know, getting some sun in
San Diego or wherever Clay Travis and Buck Sexy can
hang out with you. But our point really is here, folks.
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We made it through. I know, I know we talk
about some of this stuff, some of the wrong decisions
in the past, about the lockdowns, everything else, but Clay,
anyone listening to this, we made it through. We got
through this pandemic, and now it really is time for
the business of the American people to be business, but
also to be fun. Have some fun out there as
we roll into the summer. Burn your masks, live your life,
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and we want to thank all of you. We didn't
get to all the calls. We want you to know
that we're going to be interactive. Can find us on
Twitter at Buck Sexton, at Clay Travis. Well, you're going
to be here with you for three hours every day
for a long time. To come, but as we finish
this first show, we want to once more thank Rush
Limbaugh for the opportunity to speak to all of you.
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He is an icon. We will never replace him. But
as we said to start this show, we will be
fighting the battles that he cared about deeply for the
next week's, months, and hopefully years going forward. Thank you
for giving us the time today, and we will continue
to fight those battles right buck. Absolutely, we're looking forward
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to it, joining you here every day. Thanks for being
with us. Make sure you check us out on social
media wherever you do your social media stuff, and we'll
be back tomorrow, same time, same place, twelve noon Eastern
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