October 7, 2021 • 37 mins
PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 3:
Clay and Buck do a deep dive into Biden's pathetic approval numbers. Biden's incompetence in Afghanistan killed 13 service members, suicide bomber was released from prison days earlier. Sage Steele suspended by ESPN for daring to criticize vaccine mandates, Obama. Dave Chappelle under fire for comments on transgenders. Bill Maher keeps calling out woke leftists. Mom: I won't listen to Fauci. Surgeon General compares covid shot to other vaccines.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in our number three Thursday edition. Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show appreciate all of you hanging out with
us listening either live on podcasts, streaming wherever you may
be across this great country. We appreciate you spending your
day with us. We have talked about a lot of
different topics in the first two hours. If you want
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to dive into some of those discussions, encourage you to
download the podcast. We talked about the Florida facemask data.
No big surprise to anyone who had been looking at
the facemask data overall, but there is no benefit to
kids wearing masks in schools according to the data coming
out of Florida, where cases continue to plummet overall, including
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among school children. That isn't stopping the push for kids
ages five to eleven to be forced potentially to get
the COVID vaccine, depending on which state and community you
may live in. We have been talking about the demands
potentially for vaccine, passport for travel, also an insane idea
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that everyone in the country should be tested twice a
week for COVID. We just heard us talking about the
Department of Justice investigating parents as domestic terrorists for comments
that they are making at school boards relating to COVID masking,
and also critical race theory. All of that good discussions.
Plus we had Gordon Chang on in the last hour
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why does Taiwan matter to the American people and what
might happen if China actually invades Taiwan? Really interesting discussion
with him in the second hour the program. You can
make sure that you hear and see everything that we
had to say about those topics by downloading the podcast.
Search out my name Clay Travis, search out Buck Sexton.
But big story that is out there is Joe Biden's
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overall approval rating despite the fact that at least according
to the official tallies, he is the most popular president
in the history of the United States. Buck Sexton eighty
one million votes. Weird, how could he not be? It's
not like Democrats had repudiated him and thought he was
a joke for decades until five minutes ago. And his
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approval rating according to the most recent poll. And this
is a big deal from Quinnipiac University, which does really
pretty regular poles. And look, I understand all poles have flaws,
We certainly know that, but in general, Buck, I don't
think of Quinnipiac as being one that is associated with
one political party or the other. Is that fair to say?
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It tends to be a middle of the road ish
poles as these things go. It's not as if it
regularly wildly overvalued Donald Trump's support or anything during his
tenure as president or during the last couple of presidential campaigns. Yeah, Quinnipiac,
it's all right, all right, there you go, solid endorsement
of the university as a whole. All right. I'm looking
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at the poll numbers right now, Buck, and if I
am in the Biden White House, I am in terror
over these. Okay. Joe Biden's overall approval rating right now
thirty eight percent among all voters for independence, thirty two
percent approval of Joe Biden, sixty percent disapproval. All right,
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that is the persuadable middle. I thought this was interesting
for men. Fifty eight percent of men disapprove of Joe Biden.
Forty eight percent of women disapprove of Joe Biden. The
only people right now, this is crazy, that are white
that approve of Joe Biden are four year college graduates.
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And even that group is a tiny number. I thought
this was interesting buck even among young people, thirty six
percent approval rating for Joe Biden. Among those eighteen to
thirty four. The high water mark for approval for Joe
Biden is actually people who are sixty five and up.
He has a one percent approval rating. There. The least
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approving of Joe Biden. Interestingly, though, are people ages fifty
to sixty four, So seniors are strongly in approval. And
here's where some of these specifics. The majority of the
population now disapproves of the way Joe Biden is handling
the coronavirus, which is pretty strong, including substantial numbers of
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young people, which would explain the f Joe Biden chance
that we may be hearing so frequently play. This is
all just putting numbers to the perception that anybody who's
living in America and being honest has right now, which
is the country is not doing well. It doesn't feel
like it should at this stage, given we've had this
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mass vaccination campaign, we should have had an economy that
felt like a rocket ship, and instead we've had a
lot of excuse, making it actually a lot of scapegoating
of people who have resisted vaccine man dates or haven't
gone along with every aspect of Fauciism. If the Biden
administration right now was tasked with coming up with the
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which they are right in different ways, but if you
read the talking points, so you heard the talking points
about their best case as to how they've done a
good job so far, it would be a laughable list.
I mean, it wouldn't actually pass the laugh test. People
would hear this stuff. They'd say, Oh, I'm sorry, we're
supposed to think the economy's so great right now, nobody
feels like the economy is so great, and really, Clay,
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what I think they're they're hoping on their banking on.
Which is why there's so much at stake with the
Reconciliation bill, which we still know is it's going to
get through at some level it'll probably be one point
five or maybe two trillion dollars. Is that they're going
to turn on the money gun and they're going to
try to unnest the ties the American people. They're going
to try to buy us off with our own money
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to turn the numbers around that you're citing from this polling.
That's the whole game they gotta they've got to redistribute
that wealth around. They gotta take, you know, even bigger
debts that will affect future generations and make people feel
like things for them are a little bit better, or
at least by going after they're super rich or whatever
they're gonna say, they'll make it seem worse for other
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people and make those feel good by comparison, who have
a bit of a bit of social social justice and
really class warfare feeling. What do you think the worst
of all of these categories is Joe Biden approval wise?
Where are people most furious with Joe Biden right now?
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I think the border. This is crazy. Listen to these
numbers on the border right now Joe Biden, do you
approve or disapprove of the way he's handling the situation
at the Mexican border? Twenty three percent approval, sixty seven
percent disapproval. Buck for independent voters, seventy three percent of
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them disapprove of the away Joe Biden is handling the border.
And even those white four year college degree owners, sixty
six percent of them disapprove of Joe Biden at the border.
And by the way, all ages, even young people are
even more likely to disapprove of Joe Biden than the
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overall percentages. I can't remember seeing any particular subject where
a president was this underwater on his job. It's worth
noting that what catapulted President Trump to the front of
the pack of Republicans was I remember that election very well.
I was covering him very closely. It was the border issue, folks. Yeah,
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Trump was a showman. Trump was engaging, entertaining. He was
an extended middle finger to the class of elites from
which he came but had repudiated on behalf of the
of the working men and women of America. Right that,
there was a lot, but the border was the issue
that separated him from the rest. To build the wall.
Chance we all remember this. This is if you're looking
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at I mean Clay, the numbers spare it out. By
the way, the borders the worst it's ever been. So
if this polling has any merit whatsoever, or rather, if
it's possible for people to have their opinions changed on
the border, they would have to think that it is
worse now than it's ever been, because that is what
the data actually reflects when you're looking at illegal crossings,
the general lawlessness. Let's not forget the highest ever overdose
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rate in this country last year, over ninety thousand people
died vast majority of that fence, and all those opioids
coming across the US Mexico border, brought here by the
cartels that are also doing the human smuggling operations, and
it's not going to get any better. Clay, this is
a part of it that you know so too, as
a counterpoint, almost to my sense that, oh gosh, I
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don't want us to get complacent. The one area where
I think they have no chance of spin, no chance
of turning a narrative around, is the border, because they
won't go to the Trump policies that secured the border,
and therefore their best hope is going to be call
everybody who points out what's happening at the border racist
or end and or ignore it entirely as a national
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press matter. That's what they're going to try to do.
We've been talking about how low can things go, to
your point that you're afraid that it just can't get
any worse. Biden's approval rating among Democrats is still eighty percent,
but that's the lowest approval rating I can remember for
a president of either the Republican or the Democratic Party,
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because we talk about, hey, you got forty percent of
people that are basically going to be right or die
with you, and even now Biden is losing them. And
by the way, Ron Johnson, Senator from Wisconsin, speaking of
the immigration disaster that is going on right now, I
can't remember ever seeing a president polling this low in
terms of any issue, much less one of such integral
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importance as the border. Ron Johnson's talking about how Biden
is just letting everybody into the country even though it's
absolute insanity. Listen to the numbers here from Ron Johnson's
The Border Crisis. I finally got the numbers out of
the DHS in terms of how many people they dispersed
so far in the first nine months, about a half
a million. You add on to that, Rodney Scott, the
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recently retired border chief, four hundred thousand known gotaways. That's
nine hundred thousand people straplate that for the year. That's
one point two million people. That's a larger number than
the populations of nine states. It's not just sheer in competence.
This is what he intended to do. This is what
Democrats want, open borders, week America a week in military,
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higher energy prices, penalizing low income individuals, and they purport
to be four low income Americans. They're not Their policies
harm poor people. Republicans Clay have to make this case.
The data is very compelling and it cannot be refuted.
But they have to also explain why is this a problem?
I mean, I know right now there are a whole
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lot of legal imigrants who are listening to this who
would say, for one thing, it is a total slap
in the face to the people who came here and
went through the process. In some cases you had to
get visas and then renewed visas, and pay immigration attorneys,
and had to get their sponsored all these different things.
They could have just shown up, been told by the
cartels what to say, lied because they're not actually fleeing
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oppression or violence, or just saying it and then disappear
in the interior of the United States. And what does
it do? What does it actually do to wages in
different parts of the country when there's a large surge
of illegal aliens who will be competing for those wages.
They always say, oh, it doesn't bring down national wages. Yeah,
of course, it's not necessarily going to bring it down
all across the country at the same time. But in
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areas where you've had large illegal migrant flow in recent months,
you are going to see in effect on the wage scale.
You are also going to see an effect on emergency rooms,
on the school systems, on all these resources that are
paid for by people's tax dollars. And also there's the
notion of sovereignty. America is supposed to be able to
determine who comes and who doesn't. At some point you ask,
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how do we have a country if we can't actually
determine who comes and who goes and under what circumstances.
I think that is something I mean, seventy percent of
Independence agree with that, Buck, I mean, Biden is underwater
on an unbelievable level on the border. And so if
I were right now advising Republicans on areas to attack
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Joe Biden, I go after the places where he is
weakest and where people are going to respond the most aggressively.
I doubt that there are many shows that spend more
time talking about the border crisis than this one as
a part of their their three hours on the air,
or even you know, even shows that are that are
you out there that are closer to the border. I'm
just telling you, Clay, I think you're right. I think
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talking just a few moments ago about the border and
how the border is in absolute mass. But remember, it's
not that it's a mess because we can't figure out
what to do or the Biden administration is trying everything
they can. They're trying to make it secure, and no
they like the outcome. They just don't like you being
aware of it. They want as many illegals to come
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into the country as possible. That that's why they pretend
to oppose this in public, while then behind the scenes,
when it comes to the actual bureaucracy and the way
the DHS is handling all this and ice and the
undermine the constant undermining of border patrol by this Biden administration,
they show you with their actions what they really want,
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which is as many legal as possible. But that's a
story that we continue to hit here because the American
people need to know about it, and the Democrat corporate
media wants to suppress it, doesn't want to talk about it.
There's another story that we will also continue to just
bring up so we're all aware of what's going on,
and that is that there are still Americans who are
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left behind by this Biden administration in Afghanistan. Do we
know how many? Well, here's the latest from the West
Wing with Jensaki. Do you have any update on Afghanistan
and how many Americans are still there? And does the
president fill the Taliban's cooperating still with efforts to get
those or many Americans? Do we remain through appropriate channels
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of course, in touch with Talibian officials. In terms of
the specific numbers, I'd point you to the State's Department,
and they have the most updated number. I'm not given
they oversee that process. They oversee it, Clay. But it's
interesting because the buck stops with the White House. The
White House is calling the shots on all of this.
They don't have the number, they won't share them now
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if they want to say that's for operational security reasons.
I'd be willing to hear that, but then they'd have
to then they'd be implying they know. I don't even
think this Biden team knows how many Americans are left behind,
and I don't think they care all that much. I
think they want to focus more on the insurrection of
soccer moms, There's no doubt about that. And we talked
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about this yesterday, and how much discussion did you even
see in the media, Buck, surrounding the information that the
thirteen American servicemen that we lost we lost because of
Biden administration incompetence, and we knew that, but specifically, the
person who blew himself up was a prisoner that we
allowed to be set free, and within a few days
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he was blowing himself up, killing dozens of Afghans as
well as thirteen American servicemen. Every time we look at
any of the details surrounding Afghanistan, Buck, things just get
worse and worse for the Biden administration, whether it's killing
an innocent man and seven young children while thinking that
he was an isis K fighter or letting an actual
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ISIS fighter out of our prison. So he could go
kill our souls somehow, Clay. I mean, I said this
on Fox News after that horrible incident with thirteen people,
and they were asking me, Buck, you were a CIA,
how are you gonna They say they're gonna find these people,
and I said, there's no way. We have the intel
network on the ground, the real time action to find
who did this and to necessarily stop the next when
we're lying on the Taliban. I knew that. But the
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Biden administration, Yeah, they really thought, they really thought they
got him with that. They were they were doing a
victory lap on that drone strike that killed ten innocent people,
seven children. No doubt, it's awful. When we come back,
we'll continue to contextualize all the insanity that's going on
out there. I'll play a clip for Buck from Bill
Maher and see if he believes me that Bill Maher
might have been red pilled or not. We get another clip.
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Welcome back again, Clay Travis, Buck Sex. That appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Buck. I don't know
if you've been paying attention to this story, but I
think it's a fascinating one, and I've been on Fox
News a couple of times talking about it. Sage Steele
is a long time I think it's fair to say
she's been at ESPN for a long time. She went
on Jay Cutler's podcast. Jay Cutler is a former NFL quarterback,
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and we had Jay on the show a few weeks ago.
He says he's going to run for the school board
and we're living in the same county here in Tennessee.
He's so fired up about the mask mandate. But she
went on with Jay and she said that she was
really upset that her employer, ESPN mandated all employees get
the vaccine, and so she decided to go ahead and
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get the vaccine, but she didn't think that was the
right choice for her employer. Uh. She then got the vaccine,
but has already tested positive for COVID buck in another
one of these wildly, wildly rare, according to the Fauciites
breakthrough cases that seem to be happening a great deal.
At what point do we stop calling them breakthrough? It's
a great question. What should you wonder, you know, if
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it's if it's like a gonna be fifty partial breakthrough,
what is the word that you would Again we talked yesterday.
I don't even know that it's appropriate to call the
covid vaccine a covid vaccine. It's a covid shot, but
we typically and something. A doctor was mad at me.
He said, I call it the flu vaccine. I don't
know why you and Buck wouldn't. I don't know anybody
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that calls the flu shot the flu vaccine. Do you
have you ever heard anybody? Maybe that's just uh, that's
just kind of in the parlance of our times. People
say the shot but no one but no one thinks
they get No one has ever thought, oh, you get
the flu shot, you'll never get the flu for the next,
you know, fifty years. No one thinks that. So I
think we should start calling it the covid shot because
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the idea that it's a vaccine, to me, a vaccine
has to be something that guarantees pretty much for most
people that you're not going to be getting the getting
overall this virus. But I think it's interesting Sage Steele
at ESPN because she's suspended now for at least a
week because ESPN was angry about her criticizing the vaccine mandate,
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and so it's an interesting question that I thought that
rose up because there's so many people out there that
are being mandated forced to get the vaccine. What is it?
Let's say you we talked about the decision people buck
have to make. Are you going to keep the job
or not keep the job? And most people are going
to have to keep the job because that's how they
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make the living, they pay their mortgage, they take care
of their kids. But what is the response if you
decide that you'll get the vaccine but also want to
speak out about the fact that you don't think it
makes sense. You have the right to do that. If
you are staying employed and your employer now has a
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vaccine mandate and you disagree with that, but you also
don't want to walk away and get a new job. Yeah,
I'm gonna agree. Look, I agree in principle, But then
you get into well, what other you know? Can you?
Can you speak out against the specific diversity and inclusion
policies of your company because you oppose those on ethical grounds? Right,
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you start to get into the how much criticizing of
your own employer allowed to do? In general? I agree
with you that in principle you should be able to
say this, and you should be able to speak out
on this issue because it's it is of such public importance.
It is of such importance to all of us. But
to give a sense of how there's really a vindictiveness
now about this too. I believe it's going on today
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in Oregon. They have some kind of a board the
state of Oregon, which we haven't talked about Oregon a lot.
We've got some great listeners in Oregon. A lot of
our people are you know, eastern sort of more eastern
Oregon away from the coast, but I'm sure we got
Portland listeners too. They are looking to pull the licenses
for nurses who are fired, or at least suspend their licenses.
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So it's not enough to get you fired from your
job as a first responder during the pandemic because you
don't want the shot. And by the way, there's no
exemption for natural immunity. They want to make sure you
can't get a job elsewhere too, in your profession, because
that's how nasty and vindictive. They want to make this
whole thing for again, so you can get a shot
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that you need to get another one in six months
or else. You're basically like, you know, do you even
have protection and you can't have natural immunity for it
to prove that it's just crazy. Not only that, buck,
have you seen some of these companies are now not
only mandating that you be vaccinated, but your spouse if
you are on the healthcare Have you seen this, they're
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questioning whether your spouse is vaccinated, and if they are
able to prove proof of vaccination, they're increasing charge thing
for sure. Yeah, that's not even for you though, for
your spouse. There now like going into your whole family
to check and see what you're doing. There's there's no
end of this stuff. They're never going to be tired
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of it. They're never going to decide you know what,
Maybe that was a little too extreme because they make
all these decisions thinking that they inherently the people pushing
the stuff think they are smarter than everybody who opposes it.
They don't think there's a different point of view. They
don't think there's a balance between freedom and public responsibility.
It's we are the smart people who listen to Fauci,
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and everyone who doesn't listen is dumb, so we don't
care what they think. That is the mentality encapsulated here.
And this is why I say, you know, hubris is
one of the original sins of the left and of
the Democrat Party today they got a lot of really
dumb people who are Democrats who think they're really smart.
But you know, you know what I'm gonna do tonight,
I'm gonna watch this, uh, Dave Chappelle new Netflix comedy special,
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which is everybody's demanding that it be canceled because it's
not not positive enough towards transgender people. And uh, and
I'm fascinated to see it. It's great advertising, by the way,
for a comedy special to be so controversial at this level.
So I'm gonna you know what, I might not watch
it tonight, but I will watch it this week too,
so I'll give a review of it a little bit
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for you tomorrow. But this is part of my brigade, right.
I think that comedians are going to end up crushing
partly the woke universe, because they're just all getting fed
up with the idea that every joke has to be
you know, analyzed by the faculty at your school of Amherst.
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You know, they all got to sit around and be like, well,
is this appropriate humor for the young people to be experiencing.
And Bill Maher, who I contend has been somewhat red pilled,
but you can see somewhat. He's not red pilled. Though
red pilled means that he's on our team. He's not
on our team. I like Bill, by the way. He's
an interesting guy. He's a fun guy to talk to you.
But he is a liberal. Folks, he went after the woke.
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I haven't even heard this clip yet, but I'm curious.
Let's play cut fifteen. For the first time in my life,
I am playing to a mixed audience. I was in
Nashville about a month ago and the audience was about
sixty to forty. I would say liberal to a conservative.
That never used to happen never, And I think it's because,
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you know, ten years ago, in my opinion anyway, the
left did not have a crazy section. There was no
such thing as woke. And now they do have a
crazy section, which I call out as a liberal, there's
a hunger to hear that. I think traditional liberals have
had it with the far left of their own party.
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I mean, Clay, this was not an overnight thing. This
has been growing for a long time. So this like,
where did the woke crazy come from? The difference isn't
that there is a woke left. The difference is that
they now run the Democrat Party and call all the
shots in corporate America. That's it's a power shift. It's
actually not an ideological shift. They didn't really get crazier.
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They're just in a position to impose their craziness on
the rest of us. At least that's the debate that
I would have with Bill over this. He sounds like, Oh,
we used to all beat No, we can go, but
remember them. We talked about it the movie PCU. This
stuff has been around for a long time, but we
all used to laugh at the crazies at least a
little bit more. And now the crazies are running the
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HR departments of every major company in America, and often
or the CEOs too, or the CEOs are so afraid
of them that they might as well bend to their will.
I mean, it's crazy. If we've learned anything, By the way,
we'll talk a little bit more about that, because I'm
fascinated by identities colliding, and I think traditionally left wing
comedians are suddenly realizing that their actual enemies are on
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a sweet start with your team. Sorry that we got
to close up shop today here on the Clay and
Buck Show, but we'll be back with you tomorrow and
just give you a sense of what you can look
forward to. A Barrenson deep dive on all the latest
COVID dat. Our friend Alex Barrenson has got a new
book out Pandemia. He'll be appearing with us and we'll
just say, okay, give us, give us what is the
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data actually tell people, so then you can look like
a great prognosticator when it actually starts to show up
in our data here in the US based on the
UK and Israeli numbers. We also have Grammy nominated singer
songwriter John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting, who's helping with
American and Afghan ally EVAs going on as we speak.
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I've spoke with some folksom former military about this as well.
It's still ongoing and private citizens are having a very
big role in trying to get out the last Americans
of the bind administration has left behind. Also want to
say to everybody happy battle of Lepanto day, Clay, you're
Lepanto fan. I don't know what the Battle of Lepanto is.
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So on October seventh of fifteen seventy one, you had
what was arguably the largest naval engagement to that point
in history. Maybe Actium, there are a few others, but
you had the Holy League, a number of Christian states
in a massive naval engagement against the unified forces of
the Ottoman Empire. And if the Christian forces had lost,
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it was believed that the next stop for the Ottomans
was going to be the invasion of mainland Italy and
with it Rome and the Vatican. That was the plan
the Muslim Ottomans had at the time. But they prayed
the Rosary. The Christian forces were victorious, and it is
still one of the biggest, one of the biggest battles
to have ever occurred, involving ships, tens of how many
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people day, I'm a pretty big history guy. I don't
know that I've ever heard of that battle. What percentage
of our listenership do you think I've heard of the
Battle of Lepanto? Well, I might have done a two
hour operetta on the Battle of Lepanto as a podcast
a few years ago, so they would have heard of it.
But it's a yeah, that's it wasn't really an opera
that would be singing it was, but it was a
theater of the mind we had. I was saying, did
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you sing about it? No, I just that was the
wrong description of it. Was a podcast, history podcast for
a couple of hours. Maybe it was like an hour.
I don't think it was a couple of hours. Anyway,
Maybe I'll find that one out in the archives and
put it out on Facebook or Twitter. But yeah, Battle
of Panto October seven, fifteen seventy one, Cross versus Crescent
one of the more interesting periods of High Renaissance warfare.
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And I think we've we've nerd it out. Now we've
nerd You've been to Italy, Yeah, of course I've never been.
Oh really, yeah, it is amazing. I've heard it's amazing.
I've heard it's incredible. I'm a huge history guy, you know,
so I've never made. I like France a lot too,
but you got to deal with French people. Whereas you're
in Italy you get the great food, all the all
the cultured history and stuff, and Italians, in my experience
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in my experience, okay, toward Americans a little more, a
little less likely to be like, what do you Americans
doing here? Hey? What do you do? You know you're
they're like a little That was my French guy. Yes,
so sort of. It's Kensna Peppi lapew as well. All right,
let's get Natalie's gonna bail me out here from Scottsdale, Arizona. Natalie,
what's going on? I'm about the mandate, Maxine or mandates
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or the shot for the kids. Uh? These people are
forgetting Uh Like for me, for instance, I gave birth
to my children. They did not, So you don't tell
me what to do with my kids. And that goes
to their most of America, we don't tell people what
to do with their kids. We raise them, we feed them,
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we've clothed them, we do everything, and we know them
better than they do. How dare how dare they come
and try to tell us what to do with our children? Sorry,
anti Christ s Fauci, I won't listen to you someone
who dislikes s Fauci at the level that yours. Truly,
I think, by the way, I think Natalie speaks for
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a lot of Scottsdale area moms just going to toss
that out there. I think there's a lot of moms
in Scottsdale and all over the country. But I think
a lot of the moms who were the most adamantly
opposed and dads to the idea of mandatory vaccines are
very well educated. And that's what I think the caricature
of the anti vax movement, which it isn't anti vaccine.
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I'm not anti vaccines when the vaccines are necessary. They
keep buck trying to say, well, George Washington vaccinated his
army against smallpox. Yeah, because almost everybody who got smallpox died.
We actually have murthy today saying this, making that same
making that same pitch. If we have it, guys, let's
play it. I think it would be where'd it go.
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Vaccine requirements are not mute. In seventeen seventy seven, President
George Washington required soldiers to be inoculated against small box.
In the eighteen hundreds, many public schools began to require
vaccinations for their students. During World War Two, the US
military require their troops to be vaccinated against a number
of diseases, including typhoid, tetanus. In yellow fever. There have
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been a number of instances throughout history where we have
made a decision as a society to abide by common
rules to protect the common good. The speed limit, yeah,
we got speed limit. Yeah, helmets, we get it right. Sure.
One thing is that, as you pointed out, thirty percent
of all people infected with smallpox die. Yeah, box highly infectious,
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thirty percent people die. But beyond that should remember this
and the experts at the time, George Washington got a
bacterial infection. You know what the experts at the time did,
drained his blood and almost certainly killed him. So that's
what the genius is. The faucis of Washington's era demanded,
let's drain this guy's blood while he has a bacterial infection. Yeah.
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And look, if COVID was killing thirty percent of people,
I'd be saying, you know what, I think we should
got all get the shot. Yes, absolutely everybody. If he
was killing everybody, I mean, you know, if this was
like the bubonic plague, I'd say, we gotta do what
we gotta do. Yes, it's not doing that and it's
not killing any kids. And again I would just say
to everybody out there, no school has ever mandated the
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flu shot, then, I'm aware of no school in my
lifetime has ever said if you don't get the flu shot,
you're not allowed to attend school. And the flu, the
seasonal flu, kills far more children every year than COVID has.
We also never have mandated masks for the seasonal flu.
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If you're not going to treat the seasonal flu, which
is far more dangerous to young children than covid, then
what have you been doing for the last generations? As
it pertains the seasonal flu, We've all been mass murderers
every every wintertime and Christmas without knowing it, just by
breathing clay. That's what we're supposed to think. We're all
such bad people. Thank you all for calling in talking
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to us. I know with a lot more folks that
want to weigh in on this one. Trust us, this
is not going away. We're gonna have our buddy Alex
Barnson on tomorrow to go into the latest numbers. We'll
talk to him about vaccine mandates in schools, the latest
mass data out of Florida, where we are with boosters,
all that stuff. He's gonna have a lot, plus his
book Pandemia is out. Recommend you all get a copy
of it. We'll talk more about that one tomorrow and maybe, Clay,
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since we're holding the line here on the border, maybe
we're talking the border tomorrow a little bit too. Yeah.
I think we need too, because it's the number one
weakness of Joe Biden according to that new Quinnipiac pole
where he's only got thirty eight percent approval. We'll close
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Welcome in our number three Thursday edition. Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show appreciate all of you hanging out with
us listening either live on podcasts, streaming wherever you may
be across this great country. We appreciate you spending your
day with us. We have talked about a lot of
different topics in the first two hours. If you want
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to dive into some of those discussions, encourage you to
download the podcast. We talked about the Florida facemask data.
No big surprise to anyone who had been looking at
the facemask data overall, but there is no benefit to
kids wearing masks in schools according to the data coming
out of Florida, where cases continue to plummet overall, including
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among school children. That isn't stopping the push for kids
ages five to eleven to be forced potentially to get
the COVID vaccine, depending on which state and community you
may live in. We have been talking about the demands
potentially for vaccine, passport for travel, also an insane idea
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that everyone in the country should be tested twice a
week for COVID. We just heard us talking about the
Department of Justice investigating parents as domestic terrorists for comments
that they are making at school boards relating to COVID masking,
and also critical race theory. All of that good discussions.
Plus we had Gordon Chang on in the last hour
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why does Taiwan matter to the American people and what
might happen if China actually invades Taiwan? Really interesting discussion
with him in the second hour the program. You can
make sure that you hear and see everything that we
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Search out my name Clay Travis, search out Buck Sexton.
But big story that is out there is Joe Biden's
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overall approval rating despite the fact that at least according
to the official tallies, he is the most popular president
in the history of the United States. Buck Sexton eighty
one million votes. Weird, how could he not be? It's
not like Democrats had repudiated him and thought he was
a joke for decades until five minutes ago. And his
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approval rating according to the most recent poll. And this
is a big deal from Quinnipiac University, which does really
pretty regular poles. And look, I understand all poles have flaws,
We certainly know that, but in general, Buck, I don't
think of Quinnipiac as being one that is associated with
one political party or the other. Is that fair to say?
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It tends to be a middle of the road ish
poles as these things go. It's not as if it
regularly wildly overvalued Donald Trump's support or anything during his
tenure as president or during the last couple of presidential campaigns. Yeah, Quinnipiac,
it's all right, all right, there you go, solid endorsement
of the university as a whole. All right. I'm looking
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at the poll numbers right now, Buck, and if I
am in the Biden White House, I am in terror
over these. Okay. Joe Biden's overall approval rating right now
thirty eight percent among all voters for independence, thirty two
percent approval of Joe Biden, sixty percent disapproval. All right,
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that is the persuadable middle. I thought this was interesting
for men. Fifty eight percent of men disapprove of Joe Biden.
Forty eight percent of women disapprove of Joe Biden. The
only people right now, this is crazy, that are white
that approve of Joe Biden are four year college graduates.
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And even that group is a tiny number. I thought
this was interesting buck even among young people, thirty six
percent approval rating for Joe Biden. Among those eighteen to
thirty four. The high water mark for approval for Joe
Biden is actually people who are sixty five and up.
He has a one percent approval rating. There. The least
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approving of Joe Biden. Interestingly, though, are people ages fifty
to sixty four, So seniors are strongly in approval. And
here's where some of these specifics. The majority of the
population now disapproves of the way Joe Biden is handling
the coronavirus, which is pretty strong, including substantial numbers of
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young people, which would explain the f Joe Biden chance
that we may be hearing so frequently play. This is
all just putting numbers to the perception that anybody who's
living in America and being honest has right now, which
is the country is not doing well. It doesn't feel
like it should at this stage, given we've had this
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mass vaccination campaign, we should have had an economy that
felt like a rocket ship, and instead we've had a
lot of excuse, making it actually a lot of scapegoating
of people who have resisted vaccine man dates or haven't
gone along with every aspect of Fauciism. If the Biden
administration right now was tasked with coming up with the
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which they are right in different ways, but if you
read the talking points, so you heard the talking points
about their best case as to how they've done a
good job so far, it would be a laughable list.
I mean, it wouldn't actually pass the laugh test. People
would hear this stuff. They'd say, Oh, I'm sorry, we're
supposed to think the economy's so great right now, nobody
feels like the economy is so great, and really, Clay,
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what I think they're they're hoping on their banking on.
Which is why there's so much at stake with the
Reconciliation bill, which we still know is it's going to
get through at some level it'll probably be one point
five or maybe two trillion dollars. Is that they're going
to turn on the money gun and they're going to
try to unnest the ties the American people. They're going
to try to buy us off with our own money
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to turn the numbers around that you're citing from this polling.
That's the whole game they gotta they've got to redistribute
that wealth around. They gotta take, you know, even bigger
debts that will affect future generations and make people feel
like things for them are a little bit better, or
at least by going after they're super rich or whatever
they're gonna say, they'll make it seem worse for other
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people and make those feel good by comparison, who have
a bit of a bit of social social justice and
really class warfare feeling. What do you think the worst
of all of these categories is Joe Biden approval wise?
Where are people most furious with Joe Biden right now?
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I think the border. This is crazy. Listen to these
numbers on the border right now Joe Biden, do you
approve or disapprove of the way he's handling the situation
at the Mexican border? Twenty three percent approval, sixty seven
percent disapproval. Buck for independent voters, seventy three percent of
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them disapprove of the away Joe Biden is handling the border.
And even those white four year college degree owners, sixty
six percent of them disapprove of Joe Biden at the border.
And by the way, all ages, even young people are
even more likely to disapprove of Joe Biden than the
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overall percentages. I can't remember seeing any particular subject where
a president was this underwater on his job. It's worth
noting that what catapulted President Trump to the front of
the pack of Republicans was I remember that election very well.
I was covering him very closely. It was the border issue, folks. Yeah,
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Trump was a showman. Trump was engaging, entertaining. He was
an extended middle finger to the class of elites from
which he came but had repudiated on behalf of the
of the working men and women of America. Right that,
there was a lot, but the border was the issue
that separated him from the rest. To build the wall.
Chance we all remember this. This is if you're looking
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at I mean Clay, the numbers spare it out. By
the way, the borders the worst it's ever been. So
if this polling has any merit whatsoever, or rather, if
it's possible for people to have their opinions changed on
the border, they would have to think that it is
worse now than it's ever been, because that is what
the data actually reflects when you're looking at illegal crossings,
the general lawlessness. Let's not forget the highest ever overdose
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rate in this country last year, over ninety thousand people
died vast majority of that fence, and all those opioids
coming across the US Mexico border, brought here by the
cartels that are also doing the human smuggling operations, and
it's not going to get any better. Clay, this is
a part of it that you know so too, as
a counterpoint, almost to my sense that, oh gosh, I
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don't want us to get complacent. The one area where
I think they have no chance of spin, no chance
of turning a narrative around, is the border, because they
won't go to the Trump policies that secured the border,
and therefore their best hope is going to be call
everybody who points out what's happening at the border racist
or end and or ignore it entirely as a national
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press matter. That's what they're going to try to do.
We've been talking about how low can things go, to
your point that you're afraid that it just can't get
any worse. Biden's approval rating among Democrats is still eighty percent,
but that's the lowest approval rating I can remember for
a president of either the Republican or the Democratic Party,
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because we talk about, hey, you got forty percent of
people that are basically going to be right or die
with you, and even now Biden is losing them. And
by the way, Ron Johnson, Senator from Wisconsin, speaking of
the immigration disaster that is going on right now, I
can't remember ever seeing a president polling this low in
terms of any issue, much less one of such integral
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importance as the border. Ron Johnson's talking about how Biden
is just letting everybody into the country even though it's
absolute insanity. Listen to the numbers here from Ron Johnson's
The Border Crisis. I finally got the numbers out of
the DHS in terms of how many people they dispersed
so far in the first nine months, about a half
a million. You add on to that, Rodney Scott, the
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recently retired border chief, four hundred thousand known gotaways. That's
nine hundred thousand people straplate that for the year. That's
one point two million people. That's a larger number than
the populations of nine states. It's not just sheer in competence.
This is what he intended to do. This is what
Democrats want, open borders, week America a week in military,
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higher energy prices, penalizing low income individuals, and they purport
to be four low income Americans. They're not Their policies
harm poor people. Republicans Clay have to make this case.
The data is very compelling and it cannot be refuted.
But they have to also explain why is this a problem?
I mean, I know right now there are a whole
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lot of legal imigrants who are listening to this who
would say, for one thing, it is a total slap
in the face to the people who came here and
went through the process. In some cases you had to
get visas and then renewed visas, and pay immigration attorneys,
and had to get their sponsored all these different things.
They could have just shown up, been told by the
cartels what to say, lied because they're not actually fleeing
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oppression or violence, or just saying it and then disappear
in the interior of the United States. And what does
it do? What does it actually do to wages in
different parts of the country when there's a large surge
of illegal aliens who will be competing for those wages.
They always say, oh, it doesn't bring down national wages. Yeah,
of course, it's not necessarily going to bring it down
all across the country at the same time. But in
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areas where you've had large illegal migrant flow in recent months,
you are going to see in effect on the wage scale.
You are also going to see an effect on emergency rooms,
on the school systems, on all these resources that are
paid for by people's tax dollars. And also there's the
notion of sovereignty. America is supposed to be able to
determine who comes and who doesn't. At some point you ask,
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how do we have a country if we can't actually
determine who comes and who goes and under what circumstances.
I think that is something I mean, seventy percent of
Independence agree with that, Buck, I mean, Biden is underwater
on an unbelievable level on the border. And so if
I were right now advising Republicans on areas to attack
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Joe Biden, I go after the places where he is
weakest and where people are going to respond the most aggressively.
I doubt that there are many shows that spend more
time talking about the border crisis than this one as
a part of their their three hours on the air,
or even you know, even shows that are that are
you out there that are closer to the border. I'm
just telling you, Clay, I think you're right. I think
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talking just a few moments ago about the border and
how the border is in absolute mass. But remember, it's
not that it's a mess because we can't figure out
what to do or the Biden administration is trying everything
they can. They're trying to make it secure, and no
they like the outcome. They just don't like you being
aware of it. They want as many illegals to come
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into the country as possible. That that's why they pretend
to oppose this in public, while then behind the scenes,
when it comes to the actual bureaucracy and the way
the DHS is handling all this and ice and the
undermine the constant undermining of border patrol by this Biden administration,
they show you with their actions what they really want,
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which is as many legal as possible. But that's a
story that we continue to hit here because the American
people need to know about it, and the Democrat corporate
media wants to suppress it, doesn't want to talk about it.
There's another story that we will also continue to just
bring up so we're all aware of what's going on,
and that is that there are still Americans who are
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left behind by this Biden administration in Afghanistan. Do we
know how many? Well, here's the latest from the West
Wing with Jensaki. Do you have any update on Afghanistan
and how many Americans are still there? And does the
president fill the Taliban's cooperating still with efforts to get
those or many Americans? Do we remain through appropriate channels
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of course, in touch with Talibian officials. In terms of
the specific numbers, I'd point you to the State's Department,
and they have the most updated number. I'm not given
they oversee that process. They oversee it, Clay. But it's
interesting because the buck stops with the White House. The
White House is calling the shots on all of this.
They don't have the number, they won't share them now
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if they want to say that's for operational security reasons.
I'd be willing to hear that, but then they'd have
to then they'd be implying they know. I don't even
think this Biden team knows how many Americans are left behind,
and I don't think they care all that much. I
think they want to focus more on the insurrection of
soccer moms, There's no doubt about that. And we talked
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about this yesterday, and how much discussion did you even
see in the media, Buck, surrounding the information that the
thirteen American servicemen that we lost we lost because of
Biden administration incompetence, and we knew that, but specifically, the
person who blew himself up was a prisoner that we
allowed to be set free, and within a few days
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he was blowing himself up, killing dozens of Afghans as
well as thirteen American servicemen. Every time we look at
any of the details surrounding Afghanistan, Buck, things just get
worse and worse for the Biden administration, whether it's killing
an innocent man and seven young children while thinking that
he was an isis K fighter or letting an actual
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ISIS fighter out of our prison. So he could go
kill our souls somehow, Clay. I mean, I said this
on Fox News after that horrible incident with thirteen people,
and they were asking me, Buck, you were a CIA,
how are you gonna They say they're gonna find these people,
and I said, there's no way. We have the intel
network on the ground, the real time action to find
who did this and to necessarily stop the next when
we're lying on the Taliban. I knew that. But the
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Biden administration, Yeah, they really thought, they really thought they
got him with that. They were they were doing a
victory lap on that drone strike that killed ten innocent people,
seven children. No doubt, it's awful. When we come back,
we'll continue to contextualize all the insanity that's going on
out there. I'll play a clip for Buck from Bill
Maher and see if he believes me that Bill Maher
might have been red pilled or not. We get another clip.
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Welcome back again, Clay Travis, Buck Sex. That appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Buck. I don't know
if you've been paying attention to this story, but I
think it's a fascinating one, and I've been on Fox
News a couple of times talking about it. Sage Steele
is a long time I think it's fair to say
she's been at ESPN for a long time. She went
on Jay Cutler's podcast. Jay Cutler is a former NFL quarterback,
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and we had Jay on the show a few weeks ago.
He says he's going to run for the school board
and we're living in the same county here in Tennessee.
He's so fired up about the mask mandate. But she
went on with Jay and she said that she was
really upset that her employer, ESPN mandated all employees get
the vaccine, and so she decided to go ahead and
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get the vaccine, but she didn't think that was the
right choice for her employer. Uh. She then got the vaccine,
but has already tested positive for COVID buck in another
one of these wildly, wildly rare, according to the Fauciites
breakthrough cases that seem to be happening a great deal.
At what point do we stop calling them breakthrough? It's
a great question. What should you wonder, you know, if
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it's if it's like a gonna be fifty partial breakthrough,
what is the word that you would Again we talked yesterday.
I don't even know that it's appropriate to call the
covid vaccine a covid vaccine. It's a covid shot, but
we typically and something. A doctor was mad at me.
He said, I call it the flu vaccine. I don't
know why you and Buck wouldn't. I don't know anybody
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that calls the flu shot the flu vaccine. Do you
have you ever heard anybody? Maybe that's just uh, that's
just kind of in the parlance of our times. People
say the shot but no one but no one thinks
they get No one has ever thought, oh, you get
the flu shot, you'll never get the flu for the next,
you know, fifty years. No one thinks that. So I
think we should start calling it the covid shot because
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the idea that it's a vaccine, to me, a vaccine
has to be something that guarantees pretty much for most
people that you're not going to be getting the getting
overall this virus. But I think it's interesting Sage Steele
at ESPN because she's suspended now for at least a
week because ESPN was angry about her criticizing the vaccine mandate,
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and so it's an interesting question that I thought that
rose up because there's so many people out there that
are being mandated forced to get the vaccine. What is it?
Let's say you we talked about the decision people buck
have to make. Are you going to keep the job
or not keep the job? And most people are going
to have to keep the job because that's how they
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make the living, they pay their mortgage, they take care
of their kids. But what is the response if you
decide that you'll get the vaccine but also want to
speak out about the fact that you don't think it
makes sense. You have the right to do that. If
you are staying employed and your employer now has a
(22:06):
vaccine mandate and you disagree with that, but you also
don't want to walk away and get a new job. Yeah,
I'm gonna agree. Look, I agree in principle, But then
you get into well, what other you know? Can you?
Can you speak out against the specific diversity and inclusion
policies of your company because you oppose those on ethical grounds? Right,
(22:28):
you start to get into the how much criticizing of
your own employer allowed to do? In general? I agree
with you that in principle you should be able to
say this, and you should be able to speak out
on this issue because it's it is of such public importance.
It is of such importance to all of us. But
to give a sense of how there's really a vindictiveness
now about this too. I believe it's going on today
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in Oregon. They have some kind of a board the
state of Oregon, which we haven't talked about Oregon a lot.
We've got some great listeners in Oregon. A lot of
our people are you know, eastern sort of more eastern
Oregon away from the coast, but I'm sure we got
Portland listeners too. They are looking to pull the licenses
for nurses who are fired, or at least suspend their licenses.
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So it's not enough to get you fired from your
job as a first responder during the pandemic because you
don't want the shot. And by the way, there's no
exemption for natural immunity. They want to make sure you
can't get a job elsewhere too, in your profession, because
that's how nasty and vindictive. They want to make this
whole thing for again, so you can get a shot
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that you need to get another one in six months
or else. You're basically like, you know, do you even
have protection and you can't have natural immunity for it
to prove that it's just crazy. Not only that, buck,
have you seen some of these companies are now not
only mandating that you be vaccinated, but your spouse if
you are on the healthcare Have you seen this, they're
(23:56):
questioning whether your spouse is vaccinated, and if they are
able to prove proof of vaccination, they're increasing charge thing
for sure. Yeah, that's not even for you though, for
your spouse. There now like going into your whole family
to check and see what you're doing. There's there's no
end of this stuff. They're never going to be tired
(24:16):
of it. They're never going to decide you know what,
Maybe that was a little too extreme because they make
all these decisions thinking that they inherently the people pushing
the stuff think they are smarter than everybody who opposes it.
They don't think there's a different point of view. They
don't think there's a balance between freedom and public responsibility.
It's we are the smart people who listen to Fauci,
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and everyone who doesn't listen is dumb, so we don't
care what they think. That is the mentality encapsulated here.
And this is why I say, you know, hubris is
one of the original sins of the left and of
the Democrat Party today they got a lot of really
dumb people who are Democrats who think they're really smart.
But you know, you know what I'm gonna do tonight,
I'm gonna watch this, uh, Dave Chappelle new Netflix comedy special,
(25:01):
which is everybody's demanding that it be canceled because it's
not not positive enough towards transgender people. And uh, and
I'm fascinated to see it. It's great advertising, by the way,
for a comedy special to be so controversial at this level.
So I'm gonna you know what, I might not watch
it tonight, but I will watch it this week too,
so I'll give a review of it a little bit
(25:22):
for you tomorrow. But this is part of my brigade, right.
I think that comedians are going to end up crushing
partly the woke universe, because they're just all getting fed
up with the idea that every joke has to be
you know, analyzed by the faculty at your school of Amherst.
(25:43):
You know, they all got to sit around and be like, well,
is this appropriate humor for the young people to be experiencing.
And Bill Maher, who I contend has been somewhat red pilled,
but you can see somewhat. He's not red pilled. Though
red pilled means that he's on our team. He's not
on our team. I like Bill, by the way. He's
an interesting guy. He's a fun guy to talk to you.
But he is a liberal. Folks, he went after the woke.
(26:08):
I haven't even heard this clip yet, but I'm curious.
Let's play cut fifteen. For the first time in my life,
I am playing to a mixed audience. I was in
Nashville about a month ago and the audience was about
sixty to forty. I would say liberal to a conservative.
That never used to happen never, And I think it's because,
(26:32):
you know, ten years ago, in my opinion anyway, the
left did not have a crazy section. There was no
such thing as woke. And now they do have a
crazy section, which I call out as a liberal, there's
a hunger to hear that. I think traditional liberals have
had it with the far left of their own party.
(26:55):
I mean, Clay, this was not an overnight thing. This
has been growing for a long time. So this like,
where did the woke crazy come from? The difference isn't
that there is a woke left. The difference is that
they now run the Democrat Party and call all the
shots in corporate America. That's it's a power shift. It's
actually not an ideological shift. They didn't really get crazier.
(27:18):
They're just in a position to impose their craziness on
the rest of us. At least that's the debate that
I would have with Bill over this. He sounds like, Oh,
we used to all beat No, we can go, but
remember them. We talked about it the movie PCU. This
stuff has been around for a long time, but we
all used to laugh at the crazies at least a
little bit more. And now the crazies are running the
(27:39):
HR departments of every major company in America, and often
or the CEOs too, or the CEOs are so afraid
of them that they might as well bend to their will.
I mean, it's crazy. If we've learned anything, By the way,
we'll talk a little bit more about that, because I'm
fascinated by identities colliding, and I think traditionally left wing
comedians are suddenly realizing that their actual enemies are on
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a sweet start with your team. Sorry that we got
to close up shop today here on the Clay and
Buck Show, but we'll be back with you tomorrow and
just give you a sense of what you can look
forward to. A Barrenson deep dive on all the latest
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I've spoke with some folksom former military about this as well.
It's still ongoing and private citizens are having a very
big role in trying to get out the last Americans
of the bind administration has left behind. Also want to
say to everybody happy battle of Lepanto day, Clay, you're
Lepanto fan. I don't know what the Battle of Lepanto is.
(30:28):
So on October seventh of fifteen seventy one, you had
what was arguably the largest naval engagement to that point
in history. Maybe Actium, there are a few others, but
you had the Holy League, a number of Christian states
in a massive naval engagement against the unified forces of
the Ottoman Empire. And if the Christian forces had lost,
(30:52):
it was believed that the next stop for the Ottomans
was going to be the invasion of mainland Italy and
with it Rome and the Vatican. That was the plan
the Muslim Ottomans had at the time. But they prayed
the Rosary. The Christian forces were victorious, and it is
still one of the biggest, one of the biggest battles
to have ever occurred, involving ships, tens of how many
(31:12):
people day, I'm a pretty big history guy. I don't
know that I've ever heard of that battle. What percentage
of our listenership do you think I've heard of the
Battle of Lepanto? Well, I might have done a two
hour operetta on the Battle of Lepanto as a podcast
a few years ago, so they would have heard of it.
But it's a yeah, that's it wasn't really an opera
that would be singing it was, but it was a
theater of the mind we had. I was saying, did
(31:34):
you sing about it? No, I just that was the
wrong description of it. Was a podcast, history podcast for
a couple of hours. Maybe it was like an hour.
I don't think it was a couple of hours. Anyway,
Maybe I'll find that one out in the archives and
put it out on Facebook or Twitter. But yeah, Battle
of Panto October seven, fifteen seventy one, Cross versus Crescent
one of the more interesting periods of High Renaissance warfare.
(31:55):
And I think we've we've nerd it out. Now we've
nerd You've been to Italy, Yeah, of course I've never been.
Oh really, yeah, it is amazing. I've heard it's amazing.
I've heard it's incredible. I'm a huge history guy, you know,
so I've never made. I like France a lot too,
but you got to deal with French people. Whereas you're
in Italy you get the great food, all the all
the cultured history and stuff, and Italians, in my experience
(32:18):
in my experience, okay, toward Americans a little more, a
little less likely to be like, what do you Americans
doing here? Hey? What do you do? You know you're
they're like a little That was my French guy. Yes,
so sort of. It's Kensna Peppi lapew as well. All right,
let's get Natalie's gonna bail me out here from Scottsdale, Arizona. Natalie,
what's going on? I'm about the mandate, Maxine or mandates
(32:44):
or the shot for the kids. Uh? These people are
forgetting Uh Like for me, for instance, I gave birth
to my children. They did not, So you don't tell
me what to do with my kids. And that goes
to their most of America, we don't tell people what
to do with their kids. We raise them, we feed them,
(33:05):
we've clothed them, we do everything, and we know them
better than they do. How dare how dare they come
and try to tell us what to do with our children? Sorry,
anti Christ s Fauci, I won't listen to you someone
who dislikes s Fauci at the level that yours. Truly,
I think, by the way, I think Natalie speaks for
(33:25):
a lot of Scottsdale area moms just going to toss
that out there. I think there's a lot of moms
in Scottsdale and all over the country. But I think
a lot of the moms who were the most adamantly
opposed and dads to the idea of mandatory vaccines are
very well educated. And that's what I think the caricature
of the anti vax movement, which it isn't anti vaccine.
(33:48):
I'm not anti vaccines when the vaccines are necessary. They
keep buck trying to say, well, George Washington vaccinated his
army against smallpox. Yeah, because almost everybody who got smallpox died.
We actually have murthy today saying this, making that same
making that same pitch. If we have it, guys, let's
play it. I think it would be where'd it go.
(34:10):
Vaccine requirements are not mute. In seventeen seventy seven, President
George Washington required soldiers to be inoculated against small box.
In the eighteen hundreds, many public schools began to require
vaccinations for their students. During World War Two, the US
military require their troops to be vaccinated against a number
of diseases, including typhoid, tetanus. In yellow fever. There have
(34:34):
been a number of instances throughout history where we have
made a decision as a society to abide by common
rules to protect the common good. The speed limit, yeah,
we got speed limit. Yeah, helmets, we get it right. Sure.
One thing is that, as you pointed out, thirty percent
of all people infected with smallpox die. Yeah, box highly infectious,
(34:56):
thirty percent people die. But beyond that should remember this
and the experts at the time, George Washington got a
bacterial infection. You know what the experts at the time did,
drained his blood and almost certainly killed him. So that's
what the genius is. The faucis of Washington's era demanded,
let's drain this guy's blood while he has a bacterial infection. Yeah.
(35:19):
And look, if COVID was killing thirty percent of people,
I'd be saying, you know what, I think we should
got all get the shot. Yes, absolutely everybody. If he
was killing everybody, I mean, you know, if this was
like the bubonic plague, I'd say, we gotta do what
we gotta do. Yes, it's not doing that and it's
not killing any kids. And again I would just say
to everybody out there, no school has ever mandated the
(35:40):
flu shot, then, I'm aware of no school in my
lifetime has ever said if you don't get the flu shot,
you're not allowed to attend school. And the flu, the
seasonal flu, kills far more children every year than COVID has.
We also never have mandated masks for the seasonal flu.
(36:00):
If you're not going to treat the seasonal flu, which
is far more dangerous to young children than covid, then
what have you been doing for the last generations? As
it pertains the seasonal flu, We've all been mass murderers
every every wintertime and Christmas without knowing it, just by
breathing clay. That's what we're supposed to think. We're all
such bad people. Thank you all for calling in talking
(36:21):
to us. I know with a lot more folks that
want to weigh in on this one. Trust us, this
is not going away. We're gonna have our buddy Alex
Barnson on tomorrow to go into the latest numbers. We'll
talk to him about vaccine mandates in schools, the latest
mass data out of Florida, where we are with boosters,
all that stuff. He's gonna have a lot, plus his
book Pandemia is out. Recommend you all get a copy
of it. We'll talk more about that one tomorrow and maybe, Clay,
(36:45):
since we're holding the line here on the border, maybe
we're talking the border tomorrow a little bit too. Yeah.
I think we need too, because it's the number one
weakness of Joe Biden according to that new Quinnipiac pole
where he's only got thirty eight percent approval. We'll close
out the week in power and Strength on the Clay
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