January 10, 2022 • 37 mins
Doomed in NYC: Eric Adams picks up where de Blasio left off, allows illegal aliens to vote, hires his brother. Shannon Bream tip: Court ruling on OSHA mandate Thursday? Chicago teachers stay home, fail the children. Great TV dad Bob Saget dies at 65.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome into the second hour of The
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Everybody eight hundred two
eight two eight eight two on those phone lines NYC
my hometown. A lot of people listening on seven ten
w R NYC right now, and you are very much
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affected by in the day to day exactly what we're
about to talk about here, but across the country. Let
me just give you this quick pitch. This is Los Angeles,
New York. You see what happens in these places, and
it's what the Democrats want to do to the whole
country if they can, if they could, And it gives
you a sense of their mindset going forward into this
midterm election year, because we had been thinking for a while,
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I think on the right, Oh my gosh, Biden is
such a joke. These policies that are being implemented are
so bad that the Democrats are going to have to
do what they usually do an election year, which is
pretend to be something other than that which they are.
Do a little head fake towards the center. Oh yeah,
we're not We're not a bunch of quasi Marxists running
around who want to undermine the very foundations of American society. No, no, no,
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of course not right. We're not teaching critical race theory
to your kids in school now. We don't do that,
and if anyone was doing it, we'll put a stop
to it. You would think they might do that, but
that's not necessarily. What's actually happening in New York City
is an example I think of, Oh wow, they might
just be so ideologically committed that they're going to keep
on ruining this place. They're going to keep doing what
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they've done in San Francisco, in New York, in Los
Angeles and destroy the largest cities in America, make them
unlivable hell holes. Eric Adams was the great hope to
end this, and I can tell you that so far,
it looks like he may just be a continuation in
many ways of the de Blasio decline. He might be
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a little bit better on police, but let me start
with this. He has backed allowing eight hundred thousand non citizens,
and I just want to say this, non citizens is
not a term we should use. We should use the
actual federal legal code term, which is a legal alien,
or if you want to illegal immigrant. But it is
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a violation of US law for people not in this
country legally to be here. That has not changed, that
is still in the books. If the Democrats don't think
that's fair, they should be advocating for the elimination of
illegal status, which we know they will do, but it's
just a question of when they have the votes and
the power to try to get it through. But in
the meantime, Clay eight hundred thousand illegal aliens in New
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York City are now because Eric Adams has allowed the
legislation to automatically become law on Sunday, he did not
veto it, eight hundred thousand illegals are now voting for
city council for the mayor. What does this say to
people who first of all live here a second, I'll
have to pay the outrageous taxes to live here and
the people that came through the system legally looks like
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Democrats don't care, Like they make a mockery of all
of it. No one saw this news who is an
American citizen and thought, this solidifies my decision to live
in New York. That's my number one takeaway. And this
is significant because Eric Adams has talked about publicly. I
think he said a lot of the right things, which
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is one of the first things he's gonna do is
get on a plane and go down to Florida, he said,
and try to persuade people who had left New York
to move to Florida, had taken their tax dollars from
New York to Florida, and was going to try to
persuade him to come back. This is the exact opposite
of that. My second thought is there's no way this
is constitutional. So the idea, and again I understand people
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out there, Some are going to say, well, this is
just a local election, this is not a state or
federal election. But to me, the idea that you can allow,
First of all, how are you going to distinguish? Right,
So we already know that New York City's elections are
a total mess. They've acknowledged it. The mayor race itself
was a mess. They put out wrong numbers, they had
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to correct them. How are you going to easily create
a system where you are going to allow people to
vote in local elections but then not allow them to
vote in state or federal elections. It seems to me
that this would be rampant fraud opportunities because you're going
to have what two different registers of who exactly is
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legal to vote and who's not, and what are the
rules and ramifications here? I just I find it hard
to believe that this is going to be upheld constitutionally.
But it shows you the mentality here, folks. Certainly this
is a new era for New York. They've already done
something like this in San Francisco. They are making moves
to do things like this in Los Angeles and other places.
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But here's Eric Adams when this was being talked about.
Here's how we responded. Doesn't the bill just make a
mockery of the idea of American citizenship? Though? I mean,
this is just for local elections, but does that mean,
like next to New York City is going to want
non citizens to vote in federal elections. I mean, what
do you say to all the people who went through
the process, the difficult process of becoming an American citizen,
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studying for the test, swearing an oath of allegiance to
the United States of America, who now see this legislation
just saying, well, and anyone who's here, you can go
ahead and vote well, I say to them, keep doing it.
You know, membership has his privileges. Being a member of
what we call the United States of America is a
great privilege, and I would tell them keep doing it.
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Don't let anything daunt you or take you away from
that mission. This legislation is not going to do that.
This is that. That's a laughable non answer, by the way,
to some actual questions being asked in fairness on CNN,
A laughable non answer. So what what is it? What
are people to make of this? We haven't even talked
about the fact that this mayor's now you're gonna have
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to be working in a world worthy district. Attorney brag
is apparently saying, what do you mean You guys are
gonna be upset at me because I'm not gonna put
armed robbers in prison at all. I mean, there's a
lot of indicators here that Adams is not going to
be the savior of New York City. And I think
increasingly to be a Democrat today and good standing Clay,
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you have to embrace a level of a derangement. I mean,
you have to actually think that it's not that the
policies are failing, it's that we haven't done them enough,
whether it's COVID, criminal reform, illegal immigration. If we just
get more of the thing that's working out really poorly
for America, eventually it will be a good thing. And
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here is what I think is going to be one
of the lasting impacts of COVID. Right. Eventually COVID is
going to go away. COVID politics are going to go away.
May take two or three years, may take longer than
that before the entire cycle of the COVID political arena
is exhausted. But what is not going to go away? Buck?
And I'm curious how much do you think this plays
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in big cities like New York have relied upon the
network effect to even if they make poor decisions. People
have said, oh, well, i have to be in New
York because I've got to do this job or that job.
I've got a Wall Street job and I've got to
be in New York. I've got a media job, and
I've got to be in New York. I think what
has happened with COVID is many people have realized that
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the technology exists for them to do their jobs anywhere,
certainly in the country and in many cases all over
the world, and so you are creating new, dynamic levels
of competition that the big cities I'm not sure have
recognized enough. And I'll get use you as an example, Buck.
When you and I started doing radio, let's say it's
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you know, twenty years ago you're doing radio. Being in
a studio was a requirement you in order to have
the right technology, in order to have the right sound,
you went into a physical studio and you had to
be present in a particular location. You and I have
got the biggest radio show in the country thanks to
taking over for Rush, who had built the biggest radio
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show in the country. And much like Rush, even back then,
he could travel around. But COVID has allowed radio in
a way that never would have existed before, to be
taken place anywhere in the world. And you can do
this show from anywhere I don't know. And I think
that translates not just for our job, but for many
jobs out there. And I'm not sure politicians are aware
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of how much competition exists now for the New York
cities of the world. And it used to be for
a lot of jobs, presence was required. You had to
actually be there to be you know, if you're going
to work. Investment banking was the big thing in New
York City in the nineties and then the two thousands
it became being a hedge fund guy. And yeah, some
of that could be done remote, but generally you had
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to be there in the meeting, in the room with people.
And now in the digital aire, that's certainly changing. I also, though,
just want to note play back to the Eric Adams
as savior or not of New York City. By the way,
I just want to I want to tell everybody I'm
putting if you're asking me to place a bet, I
think that he's going to be if de Blasio was
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an f I think Eric Adams is to be like
a C minus. Is my so not good but a
little better than you know. Yeah, so it's it's not
it's not great. I mean, here he is when he's
made his brother the I think it's a deputy commissioner
level senior role in the NYPD. He gets hired. Listen
to how Eric Adams explains this. Let me be clear
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on this. My brother is qualified or the position number one.
He will be in charge of my security, which is
extremely important to me in a time when we see
an increase in white supremacy and hate crimes. I have
to take my securities in a very serious way, and
I need someone that I trust around me. I'm doing
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these times for my security, and I trust my brother deeply.
I mean, come on, give me a break, all right,
the rise in white supresey. I live in New York City.
There's no rise in white supremacy here. There's no rise
in hate crimes here. Whenever, like Huffpower or one of
those crap left wing sites does so hate crimes are rising,
it's always about A, how it's a Republican's fault A,
and then B when you look at the data, it's
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because they started including you know, a comment made somewhere
by someone that was never verified in the data on
hate crimes. But I mean, this is just it feels
like he's playing the left wing politics game here to
excuse nepotism, which I gotta say, some people on the right,
you know, the nepotism thing, we let it slide a
little bit. We shouldn't. But that nepotism is an issue. Well,
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remember when the stop Asian hate crime went viral and
everybody was suddenly like, man, Asian people are really victims
of hate crimes a lot. We've got to stop this.
When they thought they could blame it and connect it
to white supremacy, that was the narrative. And then they
started looking at all the hate crimes that were going well,
started looking at the videos, yeah, and it was all
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primarily Asian people were victims of hate crimes being perpetrated,
if you want to call them hate crimes by black people.
And then the Democrats are like, oh, well, maybe this
Asian hate crime thing is not such a big deal,
and buck it totally disappeared. There was like a month
where people were like, hey man, we really got to
stop this Asian hate. And then some of the videos
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started going viral and you saw who the suspects and
the Asian hate attacks were, and it turned out they
were black and they couldn't tie it to white supremacy,
and all of a sudden, the media didn't care about
Asian hate anymore. There was an amazing moment in all
of this when I don't know if you remember this place.
This was years years and years ago, maybe five or
six years ago. I'm just guessing I can't even remember.
It's been so far back. Now, you know, we get
to my age and started to forget that. And there
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was a woman, a you know, a visually appealing lady
who had a camera guy follow her all over New
York City, and the idea was, this is the amount
of you know, a cat calling and harassment and everything
that you would suffer from if you were a again,
visually appealing, good on camera, as they would say in
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the business lady walking around New York City. And initially
it was oh, my gosh, the patriarchy, the misogyny, and
then the left had to freak out because basically every
single male who said something in this video in New
York City was a male from a community of color.
And so then it became this was advance So they
were trying to take down the patriarchy, but they actually
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started advancing you know, stereotypes or whatever. You know, they
started to have these these problems and politics to wides right.
I mean again, I think the Asian one is so
fascinating because the idea was a white supremacy is so
all encompassing that even Asian people aren't safe in this country.
And they did that based on the shooting that took
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place in Georgia, and they were trying to tie it
all together into white supremacy, and then all of the
viral Asian attacks ended up having black perpetrators, and the
story just disappeared. I mean it literally, when's the last
time you saw a story about Asian hate? And just yeah,
I mean it's been I don't know that many many
many months, many months, just vanished. So I think New
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place that is suffering because of bad democrat ideas, it's
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(14:43):
I was texting with Shannon Bream, who is our Fox
News is Supreme Court legal analyst and also was on
with US Friday discussing the oral arguments. It took place,
and she was flagging for me something that could be
pretty significant, and it is that the Supreme Court has
added a day to release opinions on Thursday of this week.
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And she just said that's interesting because it could be
that they're going to rule on that Biden vaccine mandate
and the stay in particular as soon as Thursday. That
she thought it was interesting that they have added a
day to release opinions that would otherwise not necessarily have
been anticipated or a part of the regular schedule. And
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that's why, you know, based on her texting about that,
I also think that could be somewhat significant in terms
of the overall the overall decision that they're going to render,
which I think is going to be able to say
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going to put a stay in place at this point?
(15:54):
I do, right, But you don't think they're gonna okay,
so there will be a stay. I think that's my
that's my if I were betting, if I had to
put money on the line right now, based on having
listened to the oral arguments, they may allow the Biden
mandate for healthcare workers, although I think that's a little
bit of a harder call, and right now it feels
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like the healthcare companies are basically just saying we don't
have mandates anymore anyway, because they're letting COVID positive nurses
back in hospital. Think about that, everybody. I mean that
that's not an insignificant I talked to me the last week.
Lay just brought up a few moments ago here that
in Rhode Island, I think is one of the places
where they have officially said you can bring in COVID
positive nurses to work as long as they're massed up
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as if that's let me ask you, would you rather
if you're a person at high risk, you're you're eighty
five years old, and have you know a history of
upper respiratory issues, you know, maybe have emphyzem or something
like that, would you rather just take your chance with
someone who's an unvaccinated nurse or someone who is, Oh,
I've got pretty bad COVID, but don't worry, I'm wearing
a mask. For the most part, I think I think
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we think, yeah, it's it's a fascinating question. I think
some of these places are actually bringing back COVID positive
nurses to wait on COVID positive patients, right, isn't that
one of the ways that there's been Now, how do
you restrict their ability to interact with other patients? I
understand as a challenge, but I think they're so desperate
because so many nurses are out with COVID issues that
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they're they're doing whatever they can to get nurses back.
I gotta track this one down. I saw this over
the week, and I'm pretty sure it's true. It looks
like nursing homes in Connecticut maybe taking people who are
positive back. Now, so you have COVID, you're going back
into the nursing home. So you know, we are in
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Feel the difference. So, first of all, remote learning has
hit a disaster for America's kids, and I think we
have to acknowledge that, and we have to do everything
we can to minimize any further remote learning look I
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understand teacher's frustrations. A lot of school districts did not
put in I did not use the billions of dollars
that they have gotten to put in improvements and ventilation
and other upgrades. So the question is can you still
have school in the middle of a surgeon. The answers
you can because if people are vaccinated, teachers should be
all vaccinated and boosted. If people were high quality mass
even without those other upgrades, which I would like to see,
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it still is safe for kids and teachers be back
in school. So I think at this point there's really
no good explanation for having remote schools. Explanation that was
doctor a Chief Jah there. He's one of these guys
who goes on a lot of the cable news. He's
an MSNBCCNN one though not somebody that you would think
necessarily is going to ever call out the fauciite nonsense.
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But right now we're talking about this the issue of
schools because the city of Chicago has three hundred and
fifty thousand children who are for the fourth day out
of school, and you would say, wait, hold on a second,
why is that going on? Well, we all know why,
right the teachers unions have a lot of power, and
they know that they get paid. You know, you run
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a small business or your an employee of a company
that has bills to pay, and you say, yeah, I
know that it's fine, and a lot of other people
and YadA YadA, and I'm vaccinated and boosted, but I'm
just not going to work. That's a problem. That's not
going to work out so well. But if you're getting
paid by the taxpayer, and you have Democrat politicians in
your pocket because you're the teachers union and you raise
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money for them, and you're essentially a Marxist public sector union,
you can get away with this kind of stuff. And
this is so interesting. Here was actually the head of
the Chicago teachers union speaking out, and just listen to him. Here.
This is what he says, Hey, everyone's making a hard
choice right the context of this, Hey, you are making
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a hard choice about whether it goes to the grocery
store or not. No, actually, not true. This is not
a hard choice. The rest of the country not only
has schools open Clay, but there have been schools that
were open that did fine before there was even a vaccine.
Private and parochial schools across the country. Even here in
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New York City stayed open. Pre vaccination have been opened
the whole time. There's a vaccine, obviously not in the summertime,
but there's no art, there is no good faith argument
for this, and the fact that Biden won't just come
out and say this is nonsense, knock it off, just
goes to show you these libs don't care about kids.
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It to me, this is the biggest failure of all
the COVID failures, because you are talking about the city
of Chicago, where every bar is open, where every sports
area is open. You can go sit twenty thousand people
can and watch the Chicago Bulls play a basketball game,
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or watch the Chicago Blackhawks play a hockey game, and
yet your kids aren't allowed to be in public school.
It's an unmitigated disaster that we could be here. And
it is a fundamental failure of Joe Biden's leadership that
he doesn't just come out and say every kid in
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every school has to be back. And I don't know
how this situation resolves itself, Buck, because we're talking about
four days now, where the teachers unions are refusing to
go back, and where Chicago Mayor Lorie Lightfoot is actually
trying to hold them accountable, but doesn't have any real
ability to do so. How does this situation resolve itself?
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I don't even really know the answer. This is a
monstrous number of people. And this is why I said,
and I'll continue to say it. January sixth was a
disaster the way that Democrats tried to honor it with
the singing of a song from Hamilton and the candlelit
vigil on the steps, and Dick Cheney is suddenly a
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hero of the left wing of this country. Everybody's trying
to get their picture taken with him after they wanted
him charged with war crimes during the Iraq War fallout.
All of that took place, and yet no one is
really speaking out about Chicago and the Democratic Party at all.
You got a Democratic governor, you got all Democrats who
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are running the city of Chicago. You've certainly got in
the nation and apparatus that is very pro teachers Union,
and right now they are effectively kicking Joe Biden in
the teeth and saying we're not going to open And
by the way, this is important because it's also spread.
My understanding is Atlanta area kids are not in school.
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Some of them are remote Milwaukee area kids. A lot
of kids, my kids went back, we had some snow
days and went back to public school today for a
return to normal class. But there are a lot of
schools that are coming back either this week or next
weekend MLK Day, Some start the day after. This is
a big mess. And there are many urban school districts
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in particular all over this country, blue city and often
blue state locations where kids two years, after fifteen days
to slow the spread, are still not going to be
back in person school. When you listen to the arguments
of the Chicago Teachers Union and to be fair, and
we do that here. We are fair. We make the
real arguments, or rather we present you with the real
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arguments from the other side, and we call out good
behavior and good comments no matter who it comes from.
You know, we give high fives. We're deserved. Even Lorie
Lightfoot is like, what the heck are you guys doing
to the teachers union. The mayor, the very left wing
and not very competent mayor of Chicago is saying, you
guys got to get your butts back in the classroom.
This is crazy because if you take them at their
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award that this is really just about fear of the virus.
At this point, think about what that means. They're talking
about adults who are all vaccinated and boosted, who are
going to be exposed to children who have never been
at high risk nor a likely source of spread to adults,
and they've never even really understood why that is. The
theory is that young immune systems may clear it so
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quickly and have such a small viral load. Maybe they
also have less droplets in the air when they breathe. Whatever,
the point is, kids don't spread it to adults very readily.
If they're not willing to go into at a time clay,
when grocery store workers and postal workers and carpenters and
contractors and you know, name somebody, right, bar owners. If
they're not willing to go to work when everybody else is,
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when are they willing to go to work? I mean,
I think there's some part of them that they maintain
this fantasy of they at least want to have the
option for quote remote learning, which means really no learning
whenever they want, for as long as they want, because otherwise,
what's the end of this When everybody has high high
speed filters installed in every public school in Chicago. Give
me a break. Good luck with that. And we also
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have to remember, and again I want to reiterate, we
know we have tons of listeners of this show, teachers,
members of the principle of vice principles, like administrators that
are also agreeing with us. So I don't want to
paint with a broad brush with the idea because many
teachers out there, for instance, my public school kids teachers,
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they've been back in school forever now. But the precedent
that we sat buck was in March of twenty twenty.
We basically let teachers just walk off and we paid
their full salaries and they effectively got months of vacation
with no responsibility really to speak of. I'm talking about
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March until the end of the school year. There was
almost no remote learning that went on March April, May
June of twenty twenty. And then the remote learning started
because we were in the middle of a president cycle
and because we failed as a country for many people
in August and September. But we set the precedent, unfortunately
with the teachers that it's unsafe for you to go
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back in the classrooms, and we will pay you your
full salary if you don't do it. I've said from
the get go we should look at the percentage of
efficacy when it comes to remote learning, and it is
massively lower. And we should undercut every teacher salary by
let's say forty percent and say hey, if you want
to teach remotely, we'll give you sixty percent of your salary,
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but the other forty percent goes back to the taxpayer.
I bet almost every teacher if you said that, would say, oh,
no, no no, I want to go back to the classroom.
Why do you think about my hidden camera theory that
of all these and mother way, this is the Chicago
teachers Unions we're talking about. To Clay's point, I know
they have been you know, my Jesuit High School here
in New York City, they've been. They've been opened for
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you know, they were open in the fall of twenty twenty.
I mean they've been opened. They've been opened for a
long time. They playing a plenty of cool thousands and
thousands them across the country, and the teachers have been
showing up and a lot of don't have gone COVID.
They're fine and Anyway, I think if you followed around
the teachers Union president with a hidden camera, what you'd
find is that he's really scared of COVID from kids
in the classroom, or maybe he doesn't even teach, right,
(28:16):
but you know some of his members and they're at
like packed bars in downtown Chicago watching the football games.
Mister Travis, you know, enjoy it is it is. It
is a great point. It reminds me back in the
day when you would have somebody claim that they had
a major injury for a traffic accident or whatever, and
you would hire an insurance adjuster if you were a lawyer,
(28:39):
and you would follow that person around be like, well,
you know you were able to go to the gym.
You know, I got pictures here if you, madame, but
you on the water slide didn't see him to make
a difference, Yeah, yeah, and when you were out dancing
at the at the at the bar and like everything else.
I mean, I love that idea. And you know what's
happened is remember I think it was the Chicago area
Teachers Union head, wasn't it who got popped on her
(29:01):
vacation to Puerto Rico. I remember this. I think that's right,
we have. It was definitely a teacher's union. We need
to look up. I'll look up during the break. But
one of them was at Puerto Rico. Like they weren't
even smart enough not to post their their vacations going
out of country when they were supposedly too afraid to teach.
I just want to know, did AOC who has COVID now, folks?
(29:25):
Did she stop taking the virus? Seriously? Did she let
her guard down too soon? Notice how it's always a
moral failing if anyone the left doesn't like when they
get COVID. Meanwhile, everyone, I mean, I've had COVID, You've
at COVID. It's all over the place. So many people listening,
probably about three quarters of people listening to this have
had COVID already. But notice she goes she goes down
(29:45):
to Florida. I guess she's not so scared of ron
death Santis is Florida after all? Clay, Oh, what a shock,
no doubt, bucket. By the way, the number of people
that I'm hearing now who have COVID, Whole families that
aren't even in the data, right, Like everybody test pop
but it's all home tests. Or whatever. So we're talking
about a million official cases or whatever the heck it is.
It might be two or three times that with people
(30:08):
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Welcome back, Ed Klay, Traravis, Buck Sexton, show Bucks. Some
bad news for people, I would say, of our generation
and even younger and certainly older as well. They used
to be that we had all these great sitcoms. We
were like kind of in the wheelhouse. Buck, you're a
couple of years younger than I am, but you could
(31:55):
sit around and you could watch the family sitcom, right,
And a big part of the family sitcom was the
TGIF Thank God It's Friday. I loved it. I watched
it religiously as as like a young you're like a
twelve thirteen, fourteen year old loved yes. And you could
watch these shows with your mom and dad, with your
(32:16):
grandma and grandpa, your younger brothers and sisters. Everybody kind
of set around the television together, whether it was The
Cosby Show, whether it was Family Ties, and this is
just kind of like a gut punch. Bob Saggett, who
was one of the all time great TV dads from
Full House and then they had come back because my
kids loved I believe it's on Netflix Fuller House, which
(32:39):
was like an updated version of Full House, and so
Bob Saget, sixty five years old, out of nowhere, just
drop dead, I mean, and there was no indication that
he might be sick. He had done a comedy show
the night before, and this was kind of a gut punch,
kind of came out of nowhere. I remember that was
so I think that was probably my favorite of the
(32:59):
t GIF lineup. And for those who were roughly within
ten years of Clays and my ages, you know we're
talking about I did love Family Matters. I think Carl
Winslow Carl Winslow one of the great TV dads as well. Yes,
and that whole thing came together because of the copy
played on Diehard, a movie that actual share as one
of the great loves of cinema. But yeah, he was
(33:22):
in full house. He was great. I had to get
a bit older, though, to learn that, like, not everyone
gets to live in a three million dollars townhouse in
San Francisco overlooking a park, you know. I was like, yeah,
this is just like, like you know how Americans live,
you know, as a little kid, because I'd never even
been to San Francisco till I was an adult. And
then I found out, Oh, oh, that's like they basically
lived in a mansion, which well wasn't as expensive those
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Victorian like kind of gingerbread houses that they lived in.
For those of you who remember that show, By the way,
I jotted down a bunch of TV dads that I
thought were pretty fantastic. I've got Bob around that same era,
Bob sag It, Alan Thick, the dad on Girl names
Jason sever if I remember correctly. Uh, Bill Cosby, I
(34:07):
am before we knew the Bill Cosby off the I
don't know. I think he's canceled. I don't know what
the show itself, The Cosby Show is still really really good.
He is a great TV dad. Played the role of
a great TV dad. Carl Winslow from Family Matters, Uncle
Phil from Fresh Prince of bel Air, fantast another fantastic dad. Um,
(34:29):
there used to be a lot of awesome dads back
in the day. I don't even know. I guess Goldberg's.
Did you ever watch that Goldberg show? Yeah, I've never
seen that. What's it called? Like? It's it's it's the
nineteen eighties nineties Goldberg esque show. Um it had the
dad was I think he just got fired for all
sorts of issue, would say Coach Eric Taylor of Friday
(34:50):
d Lights phenomenal. I want him to be, you know,
the coach of my kids team. We gotta we gotta
bring him back here. We could use coach Eric Taylor
to give us pep talks during the course of the show.
I like to I want to wear a Dylan Panther's
T shirt or sweatshirt while I'm doing this. I don't
even wear that that silly hat with the khaki khaki
shorts he wear all the time. And know what I did?
(35:11):
They sold off all of the props from Friday Night Lights.
Did you know about this, NBC? Did? I bought a
Dylan Panther's coaches polo so I have in one of
the ones that the coaches wore on the television show
I have in my closet. Now, we should we should
have had more of that show. I would say, I
wish it'd have gone on longer. I got hurt by
(35:31):
the writer's strike at one point. But Clay also, I
have to I have to give some props. You said
that Missus Travis liked Cobra Kai, and it kind of
jogged my memory because I was like, wait a second,
I mean, you know, I trust Missus Travis's opinion on
this stuff. You I don't know, mister I like Hamilton,
but Missus Travis I trust. I went back, Cobra Kai
is amazing. This like a very well done show for
(35:52):
what it is, and you can really have the whole
family watch it. Pretty much a little bit of cursing,
but yeah. So my wife watches a lot of shows,
and so I use her as the sounding board, and
she said, if you like Karate Kid, which I did,
you will love Cobra Kai. So on Friday, I was like,
you know, it's a long week, I'm just gonna kick
(36:13):
back and watch a show. So I watched all of
season one of Cobra Kai on Friday. You hadn't seen
it before. Oh my gosh, I watched season three. I
binge watched season three this week. I wouln't even coordinate this. No,
I watched season one. I'm all in for seasons two, three,
and four. Now, you know, when football season gets near
the end, I have a little bit of free time
for a change. You know, was was LaRusso the bad guy?
(36:36):
It changes things up a little bit and kind of
your headspace changes a little bit. Johnny is an incredible
actor in this show. It's really funny, well done. If
you liked Karate Kid at all, good one to watch
with your kids. I mean, I'm watching with my kids.
Like you said, some language, but in general not too bad.
Third hour next, We're hanging out with you. You're listening
(37:00):
to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the EIB Network
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome into the second hour of The
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Everybody eight hundred two
eight two eight eight two on those phone lines NYC
my hometown. A lot of people listening on seven ten
w R NYC right now, and you are very much
(00:22):
affected by in the day to day exactly what we're
about to talk about here, but across the country. Let
me just give you this quick pitch. This is Los Angeles,
New York. You see what happens in these places, and
it's what the Democrats want to do to the whole
country if they can, if they could, And it gives
you a sense of their mindset going forward into this
midterm election year, because we had been thinking for a while,
(00:45):
I think on the right, Oh my gosh, Biden is
such a joke. These policies that are being implemented are
so bad that the Democrats are going to have to
do what they usually do an election year, which is
pretend to be something other than that which they are.
Do a little head fake towards the center. Oh yeah,
we're not We're not a bunch of quasi Marxists running
around who want to undermine the very foundations of American society. No, no, no,
(01:07):
of course not right. We're not teaching critical race theory
to your kids in school now. We don't do that,
and if anyone was doing it, we'll put a stop
to it. You would think they might do that, but
that's not necessarily. What's actually happening in New York City
is an example I think of, Oh wow, they might
just be so ideologically committed that they're going to keep
on ruining this place. They're going to keep doing what
(01:30):
they've done in San Francisco, in New York, in Los
Angeles and destroy the largest cities in America, make them
unlivable hell holes. Eric Adams was the great hope to
end this, and I can tell you that so far,
it looks like he may just be a continuation in
many ways of the de Blasio decline. He might be
(01:52):
a little bit better on police, but let me start
with this. He has backed allowing eight hundred thousand non citizens,
and I just want to say this, non citizens is
not a term we should use. We should use the
actual federal legal code term, which is a legal alien,
or if you want to illegal immigrant. But it is
(02:13):
a violation of US law for people not in this
country legally to be here. That has not changed, that
is still in the books. If the Democrats don't think
that's fair, they should be advocating for the elimination of
illegal status, which we know they will do, but it's
just a question of when they have the votes and
the power to try to get it through. But in
the meantime, Clay eight hundred thousand illegal aliens in New
(02:36):
York City are now because Eric Adams has allowed the
legislation to automatically become law on Sunday, he did not
veto it, eight hundred thousand illegals are now voting for
city council for the mayor. What does this say to
people who first of all live here a second, I'll
have to pay the outrageous taxes to live here and
the people that came through the system legally looks like
(02:57):
Democrats don't care, Like they make a mockery of all
of it. No one saw this news who is an
American citizen and thought, this solidifies my decision to live
in New York. That's my number one takeaway. And this
is significant because Eric Adams has talked about publicly. I
think he said a lot of the right things, which
(03:17):
is one of the first things he's gonna do is
get on a plane and go down to Florida, he said,
and try to persuade people who had left New York
to move to Florida, had taken their tax dollars from
New York to Florida, and was going to try to
persuade him to come back. This is the exact opposite
of that. My second thought is there's no way this
is constitutional. So the idea, and again I understand people
(03:40):
out there, Some are going to say, well, this is
just a local election, this is not a state or
federal election. But to me, the idea that you can allow,
First of all, how are you going to distinguish? Right,
So we already know that New York City's elections are
a total mess. They've acknowledged it. The mayor race itself
was a mess. They put out wrong numbers, they had
(04:02):
to correct them. How are you going to easily create
a system where you are going to allow people to
vote in local elections but then not allow them to
vote in state or federal elections. It seems to me
that this would be rampant fraud opportunities because you're going
to have what two different registers of who exactly is
(04:22):
legal to vote and who's not, and what are the
rules and ramifications here? I just I find it hard
to believe that this is going to be upheld constitutionally.
But it shows you the mentality here, folks. Certainly this
is a new era for New York. They've already done
something like this in San Francisco. They are making moves
to do things like this in Los Angeles and other places.
(04:43):
But here's Eric Adams when this was being talked about.
Here's how we responded. Doesn't the bill just make a
mockery of the idea of American citizenship? Though? I mean,
this is just for local elections, but does that mean,
like next to New York City is going to want
non citizens to vote in federal elections. I mean, what
do you say to all the people who went through
the process, the difficult process of becoming an American citizen,
(05:05):
studying for the test, swearing an oath of allegiance to
the United States of America, who now see this legislation
just saying, well, and anyone who's here, you can go
ahead and vote well, I say to them, keep doing it.
You know, membership has his privileges. Being a member of
what we call the United States of America is a
great privilege, and I would tell them keep doing it.
(05:26):
Don't let anything daunt you or take you away from
that mission. This legislation is not going to do that.
This is that. That's a laughable non answer, by the way,
to some actual questions being asked in fairness on CNN,
A laughable non answer. So what what is it? What
are people to make of this? We haven't even talked
about the fact that this mayor's now you're gonna have
(05:48):
to be working in a world worthy district. Attorney brag
is apparently saying, what do you mean You guys are
gonna be upset at me because I'm not gonna put
armed robbers in prison at all. I mean, there's a
lot of indicators here that Adams is not going to
be the savior of New York City. And I think
increasingly to be a Democrat today and good standing Clay,
(06:10):
you have to embrace a level of a derangement. I mean,
you have to actually think that it's not that the
policies are failing, it's that we haven't done them enough,
whether it's COVID, criminal reform, illegal immigration. If we just
get more of the thing that's working out really poorly
for America, eventually it will be a good thing. And
(06:30):
here is what I think is going to be one
of the lasting impacts of COVID. Right. Eventually COVID is
going to go away. COVID politics are going to go away.
May take two or three years, may take longer than
that before the entire cycle of the COVID political arena
is exhausted. But what is not going to go away? Buck?
And I'm curious how much do you think this plays
(06:50):
in big cities like New York have relied upon the
network effect to even if they make poor decisions. People
have said, oh, well, i have to be in New
York because I've got to do this job or that job.
I've got a Wall Street job and I've got to
be in New York. I've got a media job, and
I've got to be in New York. I think what
has happened with COVID is many people have realized that
(07:13):
the technology exists for them to do their jobs anywhere,
certainly in the country and in many cases all over
the world, and so you are creating new, dynamic levels
of competition that the big cities I'm not sure have
recognized enough. And I'll get use you as an example, Buck.
When you and I started doing radio, let's say it's
(07:34):
you know, twenty years ago you're doing radio. Being in
a studio was a requirement you in order to have
the right technology, in order to have the right sound,
you went into a physical studio and you had to
be present in a particular location. You and I have
got the biggest radio show in the country thanks to
taking over for Rush, who had built the biggest radio
(07:54):
show in the country. And much like Rush, even back then,
he could travel around. But COVID has allowed radio in
a way that never would have existed before, to be
taken place anywhere in the world. And you can do
this show from anywhere I don't know. And I think
that translates not just for our job, but for many
jobs out there. And I'm not sure politicians are aware
(08:16):
of how much competition exists now for the New York
cities of the world. And it used to be for
a lot of jobs, presence was required. You had to
actually be there to be you know, if you're going
to work. Investment banking was the big thing in New
York City in the nineties and then the two thousands
it became being a hedge fund guy. And yeah, some
of that could be done remote, but generally you had
(08:37):
to be there in the meeting, in the room with people.
And now in the digital aire, that's certainly changing. I also, though,
just want to note play back to the Eric Adams
as savior or not of New York City. By the way,
I just want to I want to tell everybody I'm
putting if you're asking me to place a bet, I
think that he's going to be if de Blasio was
(08:57):
an f I think Eric Adams is to be like
a C minus. Is my so not good but a
little better than you know. Yeah, so it's it's not
it's not great. I mean, here he is when he's
made his brother the I think it's a deputy commissioner
level senior role in the NYPD. He gets hired. Listen
to how Eric Adams explains this. Let me be clear
(09:20):
on this. My brother is qualified or the position number one.
He will be in charge of my security, which is
extremely important to me in a time when we see
an increase in white supremacy and hate crimes. I have
to take my securities in a very serious way, and
I need someone that I trust around me. I'm doing
(09:42):
these times for my security, and I trust my brother deeply.
I mean, come on, give me a break, all right,
the rise in white supresey. I live in New York City.
There's no rise in white supremacy here. There's no rise
in hate crimes here. Whenever, like Huffpower or one of
those crap left wing sites does so hate crimes are rising,
it's always about A, how it's a Republican's fault A,
and then B when you look at the data, it's
(10:03):
because they started including you know, a comment made somewhere
by someone that was never verified in the data on
hate crimes. But I mean, this is just it feels
like he's playing the left wing politics game here to
excuse nepotism, which I gotta say, some people on the right,
you know, the nepotism thing, we let it slide a
little bit. We shouldn't. But that nepotism is an issue. Well,
(10:25):
remember when the stop Asian hate crime went viral and
everybody was suddenly like, man, Asian people are really victims
of hate crimes a lot. We've got to stop this.
When they thought they could blame it and connect it
to white supremacy, that was the narrative. And then they
started looking at all the hate crimes that were going well,
started looking at the videos, yeah, and it was all
(10:47):
primarily Asian people were victims of hate crimes being perpetrated,
if you want to call them hate crimes by black people.
And then the Democrats are like, oh, well, maybe this
Asian hate crime thing is not such a big deal,
and buck it totally disappeared. There was like a month
where people were like, hey man, we really got to
stop this Asian hate. And then some of the videos
(11:08):
started going viral and you saw who the suspects and
the Asian hate attacks were, and it turned out they
were black and they couldn't tie it to white supremacy,
and all of a sudden, the media didn't care about
Asian hate anymore. There was an amazing moment in all
of this when I don't know if you remember this place.
This was years years and years ago, maybe five or
six years ago. I'm just guessing I can't even remember.
It's been so far back. Now, you know, we get
to my age and started to forget that. And there
(11:31):
was a woman, a you know, a visually appealing lady
who had a camera guy follow her all over New
York City, and the idea was, this is the amount
of you know, a cat calling and harassment and everything
that you would suffer from if you were a again,
visually appealing, good on camera, as they would say in
(11:53):
the business lady walking around New York City. And initially
it was oh, my gosh, the patriarchy, the misogyny, and
then the left had to freak out because basically every
single male who said something in this video in New
York City was a male from a community of color.
And so then it became this was advance So they
were trying to take down the patriarchy, but they actually
(12:16):
started advancing you know, stereotypes or whatever. You know, they
started to have these these problems and politics to wides right.
I mean again, I think the Asian one is so
fascinating because the idea was a white supremacy is so
all encompassing that even Asian people aren't safe in this country.
And they did that based on the shooting that took
(12:37):
place in Georgia, and they were trying to tie it
all together into white supremacy, and then all of the
viral Asian attacks ended up having black perpetrators, and the
story just disappeared. I mean it literally, when's the last
time you saw a story about Asian hate? And just yeah,
I mean it's been I don't know that many many
many months, many months, just vanished. So I think New
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I should say on all these Buck just got a text.
(14:43):
I was texting with Shannon Bream, who is our Fox
News is Supreme Court legal analyst and also was on
with US Friday discussing the oral arguments. It took place,
and she was flagging for me something that could be
pretty significant, and it is that the Supreme Court has
added a day to release opinions on Thursday of this week.
(15:09):
And she just said that's interesting because it could be
that they're going to rule on that Biden vaccine mandate
and the stay in particular as soon as Thursday. That
she thought it was interesting that they have added a
day to release opinions that would otherwise not necessarily have
been anticipated or a part of the regular schedule. And
(15:33):
that's why, you know, based on her texting about that,
I also think that could be somewhat significant in terms
of the overall the overall decision that they're going to render,
which I think is going to be able to say
that the Biden vaccine mandates on Constitution. You think they're
going to put a stay in place at this point?
(15:54):
I do, right, But you don't think they're gonna okay,
so there will be a stay. I think that's my
that's my if I were betting, if I had to
put money on the line right now, based on having
listened to the oral arguments, they may allow the Biden
mandate for healthcare workers, although I think that's a little
bit of a harder call, and right now it feels
(16:15):
like the healthcare companies are basically just saying we don't
have mandates anymore anyway, because they're letting COVID positive nurses
back in hospital. Think about that, everybody. I mean that
that's not an insignificant I talked to me the last week.
Lay just brought up a few moments ago here that
in Rhode Island, I think is one of the places
where they have officially said you can bring in COVID
positive nurses to work as long as they're massed up
(16:37):
as if that's let me ask you, would you rather
if you're a person at high risk, you're you're eighty
five years old, and have you know a history of
upper respiratory issues, you know, maybe have emphyzem or something
like that, would you rather just take your chance with
someone who's an unvaccinated nurse or someone who is, Oh,
I've got pretty bad COVID, but don't worry, I'm wearing
a mask. For the most part, I think I think
(16:59):
we think, yeah, it's it's a fascinating question. I think
some of these places are actually bringing back COVID positive
nurses to wait on COVID positive patients, right, isn't that
one of the ways that there's been Now, how do
you restrict their ability to interact with other patients? I
understand as a challenge, but I think they're so desperate
because so many nurses are out with COVID issues that
(17:21):
they're they're doing whatever they can to get nurses back.
I gotta track this one down. I saw this over
the week, and I'm pretty sure it's true. It looks
like nursing homes in Connecticut maybe taking people who are
positive back. Now, so you have COVID, you're going back
into the nursing home. So you know, we are in
this cycle, folks. And really, ultimately what you realize is
(17:43):
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a very destructive one. And it's all crumbling right now,
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Feel the difference. So, first of all, remote learning has
hit a disaster for America's kids, and I think we
have to acknowledge that, and we have to do everything
we can to minimize any further remote learning look I
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understand teacher's frustrations. A lot of school districts did not
put in I did not use the billions of dollars
that they have gotten to put in improvements and ventilation
and other upgrades. So the question is can you still
have school in the middle of a surgeon. The answers
you can because if people are vaccinated, teachers should be
all vaccinated and boosted. If people were high quality mass
even without those other upgrades, which I would like to see,
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it still is safe for kids and teachers be back
in school. So I think at this point there's really
no good explanation for having remote schools. Explanation that was
doctor a Chief Jah there. He's one of these guys
who goes on a lot of the cable news. He's
an MSNBCCNN one though not somebody that you would think
necessarily is going to ever call out the fauciite nonsense.
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But right now we're talking about this the issue of
schools because the city of Chicago has three hundred and
fifty thousand children who are for the fourth day out
of school, and you would say, wait, hold on a second,
why is that going on? Well, we all know why,
right the teachers unions have a lot of power, and
they know that they get paid. You know, you run
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a small business or your an employee of a company
that has bills to pay, and you say, yeah, I
know that it's fine, and a lot of other people
and YadA YadA, and I'm vaccinated and boosted, but I'm
just not going to work. That's a problem. That's not
going to work out so well. But if you're getting
paid by the taxpayer, and you have Democrat politicians in
your pocket because you're the teachers union and you raise
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money for them, and you're essentially a Marxist public sector union,
you can get away with this kind of stuff. And
this is so interesting. Here was actually the head of
the Chicago teachers union speaking out, and just listen to him. Here.
This is what he says, Hey, everyone's making a hard
choice right the context of this, Hey, you are making
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a hard choice about whether it goes to the grocery
store or not. No, actually, not true. This is not
a hard choice. The rest of the country not only
has schools open Clay, but there have been schools that
were open that did fine before there was even a vaccine.
Private and parochial schools across the country. Even here in
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New York City stayed open. Pre vaccination have been opened
the whole time. There's a vaccine, obviously not in the summertime,
but there's no art, there is no good faith argument
for this, and the fact that Biden won't just come
out and say this is nonsense, knock it off, just
goes to show you these libs don't care about kids.
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It to me, this is the biggest failure of all
the COVID failures, because you are talking about the city
of Chicago, where every bar is open, where every sports
area is open. You can go sit twenty thousand people
can and watch the Chicago Bulls play a basketball game,
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or watch the Chicago Blackhawks play a hockey game, and
yet your kids aren't allowed to be in public school.
It's an unmitigated disaster that we could be here. And
it is a fundamental failure of Joe Biden's leadership that
he doesn't just come out and say every kid in
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every school has to be back. And I don't know
how this situation resolves itself, Buck, because we're talking about
four days now, where the teachers unions are refusing to
go back, and where Chicago Mayor Lorie Lightfoot is actually
trying to hold them accountable, but doesn't have any real
ability to do so. How does this situation resolve itself?
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I don't even really know the answer. This is a
monstrous number of people. And this is why I said,
and I'll continue to say it. January sixth was a
disaster the way that Democrats tried to honor it with
the singing of a song from Hamilton and the candlelit
vigil on the steps, and Dick Cheney is suddenly a
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hero of the left wing of this country. Everybody's trying
to get their picture taken with him after they wanted
him charged with war crimes during the Iraq War fallout.
All of that took place, and yet no one is
really speaking out about Chicago and the Democratic Party at all.
You got a Democratic governor, you got all Democrats who
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are running the city of Chicago. You've certainly got in
the nation and apparatus that is very pro teachers Union,
and right now they are effectively kicking Joe Biden in
the teeth and saying we're not going to open And
by the way, this is important because it's also spread.
My understanding is Atlanta area kids are not in school.
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Some of them are remote Milwaukee area kids. A lot
of kids, my kids went back, we had some snow
days and went back to public school today for a
return to normal class. But there are a lot of
schools that are coming back either this week or next
weekend MLK Day, Some start the day after. This is
a big mess. And there are many urban school districts
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in particular all over this country, blue city and often
blue state locations where kids two years, after fifteen days
to slow the spread, are still not going to be
back in person school. When you listen to the arguments
of the Chicago Teachers Union and to be fair, and
we do that here. We are fair. We make the
real arguments, or rather we present you with the real
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arguments from the other side, and we call out good
behavior and good comments no matter who it comes from.
You know, we give high fives. We're deserved. Even Lorie
Lightfoot is like, what the heck are you guys doing
to the teachers union. The mayor, the very left wing
and not very competent mayor of Chicago is saying, you
guys got to get your butts back in the classroom.
This is crazy because if you take them at their
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award that this is really just about fear of the virus.
At this point, think about what that means. They're talking
about adults who are all vaccinated and boosted, who are
going to be exposed to children who have never been
at high risk nor a likely source of spread to adults,
and they've never even really understood why that is. The
theory is that young immune systems may clear it so
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quickly and have such a small viral load. Maybe they
also have less droplets in the air when they breathe. Whatever,
the point is, kids don't spread it to adults very readily.
If they're not willing to go into at a time clay,
when grocery store workers and postal workers and carpenters and
contractors and you know, name somebody, right, bar owners. If
they're not willing to go to work when everybody else is,
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when are they willing to go to work? I mean,
I think there's some part of them that they maintain
this fantasy of they at least want to have the
option for quote remote learning, which means really no learning
whenever they want, for as long as they want, because otherwise,
what's the end of this When everybody has high high
speed filters installed in every public school in Chicago. Give
me a break. Good luck with that. And we also
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have to remember, and again I want to reiterate, we
know we have tons of listeners of this show, teachers,
members of the principle of vice principles, like administrators that
are also agreeing with us. So I don't want to
paint with a broad brush with the idea because many
teachers out there, for instance, my public school kids teachers,
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they've been back in school forever now. But the precedent
that we sat buck was in March of twenty twenty.
We basically let teachers just walk off and we paid
their full salaries and they effectively got months of vacation
with no responsibility really to speak of. I'm talking about
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March until the end of the school year. There was
almost no remote learning that went on March April, May
June of twenty twenty. And then the remote learning started
because we were in the middle of a president cycle
and because we failed as a country for many people
in August and September. But we set the precedent, unfortunately
with the teachers that it's unsafe for you to go
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back in the classrooms, and we will pay you your
full salary if you don't do it. I've said from
the get go we should look at the percentage of
efficacy when it comes to remote learning, and it is
massively lower. And we should undercut every teacher salary by
let's say forty percent and say hey, if you want
to teach remotely, we'll give you sixty percent of your salary,
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but the other forty percent goes back to the taxpayer.
I bet almost every teacher if you said that, would say, oh,
no, no no, I want to go back to the classroom.
Why do you think about my hidden camera theory that
of all these and mother way, this is the Chicago
teachers Unions we're talking about. To Clay's point, I know
they have been you know, my Jesuit High School here
in New York City, they've been. They've been opened for
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you know, they were open in the fall of twenty twenty.
I mean they've been opened. They've been opened for a
long time. They playing a plenty of cool thousands and
thousands them across the country, and the teachers have been
showing up and a lot of don't have gone COVID.
They're fine and Anyway, I think if you followed around
the teachers Union president with a hidden camera, what you'd
find is that he's really scared of COVID from kids
in the classroom, or maybe he doesn't even teach, right,
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but you know some of his members and they're at
like packed bars in downtown Chicago watching the football games.
Mister Travis, you know, enjoy it is it is. It
is a great point. It reminds me back in the
day when you would have somebody claim that they had
a major injury for a traffic accident or whatever, and
you would hire an insurance adjuster if you were a lawyer,
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and you would follow that person around be like, well,
you know you were able to go to the gym.
You know, I got pictures here if you, madame, but
you on the water slide didn't see him to make
a difference, Yeah, yeah, and when you were out dancing
at the at the at the bar and like everything else.
I mean, I love that idea. And you know what's
happened is remember I think it was the Chicago area
Teachers Union head, wasn't it who got popped on her
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vacation to Puerto Rico. I remember this. I think that's right,
we have. It was definitely a teacher's union. We need
to look up. I'll look up during the break. But
one of them was at Puerto Rico. Like they weren't
even smart enough not to post their their vacations going
out of country when they were supposedly too afraid to teach.
I just want to know, did AOC who has COVID now, folks?
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Did she stop taking the virus? Seriously? Did she let
her guard down too soon? Notice how it's always a
moral failing if anyone the left doesn't like when they
get COVID. Meanwhile, everyone, I mean, I've had COVID, You've
at COVID. It's all over the place. So many people listening,
probably about three quarters of people listening to this have
had COVID already. But notice she goes she goes down
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to Florida. I guess she's not so scared of ron
death Santis is Florida after all? Clay, Oh, what a shock,
no doubt, bucket. By the way, the number of people
that I'm hearing now who have COVID, Whole families that
aren't even in the data, right, Like everybody test pop
but it's all home tests. Or whatever. So we're talking
about a million official cases or whatever the heck it is.
It might be two or three times that with people
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Welcome back, Ed Klay, Traravis, Buck Sexton, show Bucks. Some
bad news for people, I would say, of our generation
and even younger and certainly older as well. They used
to be that we had all these great sitcoms. We
were like kind of in the wheelhouse. Buck, you're a
couple of years younger than I am, but you could
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sit around and you could watch the family sitcom, right,
And a big part of the family sitcom was the
TGIF Thank God It's Friday. I loved it. I watched
it religiously as as like a young you're like a
twelve thirteen, fourteen year old loved yes. And you could
watch these shows with your mom and dad, with your
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grandma and grandpa, your younger brothers and sisters. Everybody kind
of set around the television together, whether it was The
Cosby Show, whether it was Family Ties, and this is
just kind of like a gut punch. Bob Saggett, who
was one of the all time great TV dads from
Full House and then they had come back because my
kids loved I believe it's on Netflix Fuller House, which
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was like an updated version of Full House, and so
Bob Saget, sixty five years old, out of nowhere, just
drop dead, I mean, and there was no indication that
he might be sick. He had done a comedy show
the night before, and this was kind of a gut punch,
kind of came out of nowhere. I remember that was
so I think that was probably my favorite of the
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t GIF lineup. And for those who were roughly within
ten years of Clays and my ages, you know we're
talking about I did love Family Matters. I think Carl
Winslow Carl Winslow one of the great TV dads as well. Yes,
and that whole thing came together because of the copy
played on Diehard, a movie that actual share as one
of the great loves of cinema. But yeah, he was
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in full house. He was great. I had to get
a bit older, though, to learn that, like, not everyone
gets to live in a three million dollars townhouse in
San Francisco overlooking a park, you know. I was like, yeah,
this is just like, like you know how Americans live,
you know, as a little kid, because I'd never even
been to San Francisco till I was an adult. And
then I found out, Oh, oh, that's like they basically
lived in a mansion, which well wasn't as expensive those
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Victorian like kind of gingerbread houses that they lived in.
For those of you who remember that show, By the way,
I jotted down a bunch of TV dads that I
thought were pretty fantastic. I've got Bob around that same era,
Bob sag It, Alan Thick, the dad on Girl names
Jason sever if I remember correctly. Uh, Bill Cosby, I
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am before we knew the Bill Cosby off the I
don't know. I think he's canceled. I don't know what
the show itself, The Cosby Show is still really really good.
He is a great TV dad. Played the role of
a great TV dad. Carl Winslow from Family Matters, Uncle
Phil from Fresh Prince of bel Air, fantast another fantastic dad. Um,
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there used to be a lot of awesome dads back
in the day. I don't even know. I guess Goldberg's.
Did you ever watch that Goldberg show? Yeah, I've never
seen that. What's it called? Like? It's it's it's the
nineteen eighties nineties Goldberg esque show. Um it had the
dad was I think he just got fired for all
sorts of issue, would say Coach Eric Taylor of Friday
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d Lights phenomenal. I want him to be, you know,
the coach of my kids team. We gotta we gotta
bring him back here. We could use coach Eric Taylor
to give us pep talks during the course of the show.
I like to I want to wear a Dylan Panther's
T shirt or sweatshirt while I'm doing this. I don't
even wear that that silly hat with the khaki khaki
shorts he wear all the time. And know what I did?
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They sold off all of the props from Friday Night Lights.
Did you know about this, NBC? Did? I bought a
Dylan Panther's coaches polo so I have in one of
the ones that the coaches wore on the television show
I have in my closet. Now, we should we should
have had more of that show. I would say, I
wish it'd have gone on longer. I got hurt by
(35:31):
the writer's strike at one point. But Clay also, I
have to I have to give some props. You said
that Missus Travis liked Cobra Kai, and it kind of
jogged my memory because I was like, wait a second,
I mean, you know, I trust Missus Travis's opinion on
this stuff. You I don't know, mister I like Hamilton,
but Missus Travis I trust. I went back, Cobra Kai
is amazing. This like a very well done show for
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what it is, and you can really have the whole
family watch it. Pretty much a little bit of cursing,
but yeah. So my wife watches a lot of shows,
and so I use her as the sounding board, and
she said, if you like Karate Kid, which I did,
you will love Cobra Kai. So on Friday, I was like,
you know, it's a long week, I'm just gonna kick
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back and watch a show. So I watched all of
season one of Cobra Kai on Friday. You hadn't seen
it before. Oh my gosh, I watched season three. I
binge watched season three this week. I wouln't even coordinate this. No,
I watched season one. I'm all in for seasons two, three,
and four. Now, you know, when football season gets near
the end, I have a little bit of free time
for a change. You know, was was LaRusso the bad guy?
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It changes things up a little bit and kind of
your headspace changes a little bit. Johnny is an incredible
actor in this show. It's really funny, well done. If
you liked Karate Kid at all, good one to watch
with your kids. I mean, I'm watching with my kids.
Like you said, some language, but in general not too bad.
Third hour next, We're hanging out with you. You're listening
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