May 12, 2022 • 37 mins
Larry Kudlow on inflation, economy. Stock market collapses under Biden. Democrat Katie Porter: We need abortion because of inflation. FBN's Kennedy joins Clay and Buck to cover the failures of Biden and Big Gov. C&B on cooking. Buck's first trip to Chicago.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Suxton Show podcast. If the top line is eleven percent
increase for the past twelve months, If that's the top line,
that's basically what it was last month. I mean last
month was eleven point two percent. So this shows you
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there is no progress on inflation. The inflation problem is deep,
it's intense, it's virulent, and it's widespread. You know, there
was some muttering on the CPI report that maybe there
was going to be some relief. I didn't think so
when you looked under the hood, the CPI report was
a very bad report. This makes things even worse. That
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was Larry Cudlow on producer price index inflation combined with
consumer price inflation. It's basically him just telling you, if
you look at what people really need to buy and
what they have to get to keep the household running,
inflation is even worse than you think. And welcome back
to Clay Buck. Of course, third hour here we were
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a little too much in the happy zone. They're talking
about top gun and stuff. So now I have to
bring you back to the reality of a Biden regime
that is completely inept and capable and that's not surprising.
Look at who is running the show, look at who's
around him, look at the kind of people that Joe
Biden relies on for top level advice, particularly on the economy.
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And look at Mayor Pete running a transportation transportation agency.
And the realities here are too stark for anybody, I
think to miss or avoid. We may very well be
heading into recession. I see the crypto world, which I'll
just say this, I watched the crypto world. I own
a very little, very tiny bit, you know, I own
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like a piece of a couple of different coins. I'm
not a crypto investor. People though, who are, and some
of the people listening this I'm sure are are. They're
like evangelists for crypto crypto, the crypto bros, the crypto
folks out there. When it goes down, down down, and
even when you have coin Base, which is the largest
exchange for cryptocurrency buying and selling, publicly saying that it
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micro bankrupt. If things don't don't turn around, the crypto
guys and gals just say, great, buying opportunity. Great. If
they do not, they do not blink, They do not
move an inch off of their their crypto, their crypto fondness,
I guess you can call it, because they view they
take a long term view of it. They think that
it's really not just an economy changer, but almost a
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society changer, decentralized currency and what that will do the world. Anyway,
maybe a conversation we can have more another time, because
this also just broke speaking of economics and how things
are going in the world of corporations and finance, finance whatever.
Twitter is freezing new hires, fired some senior employees, basically
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battening down the hatches for the the hurricane that is
on the way via at least in their in their minds,
and Elon must takeover of that platform at Clay, I'll
just I'll just give you this. While that's all happening,
there was a tweet, oh I think I think it
might have been from Reuter's or the AP, but they
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they posted something last night. Elon Musk boasts that he's
acquiring Twitter to de friend freedom of speech, but he
has long used the platform to attack those who disagree
with him. I actually think the left has gone so
crazy on this issue on censoring and silencing that that
they fundamentally do not understand what freedom of speech actually like.
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They reject the foundational understanding of free speech now, and
that's part of what is driving their panic over at
Twitter and about Twitter, well, think about how radical it
is that media companies that owe their very existence by
and large to free speech are troubled by the existence
of free speech, but they're really at by a speech
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they don't agree with. And by the way, this is
turning into quite a story, Buck, because as we're speaking, unfortunately,
first of all, the stock market is nearly to the
point where you are about to go underwater on the
Joe Biden administration. In other words, if you came in
and you were a super left winger and you said,
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my goodness, there's never been a better time to buy
stock than right now. Joe Biden's gonna be the greatest
economic president. He's gonna bring us all together. We're coming
out of COVID. This country is going to be on fire.
We're almost to the point, just fairly above water right now,
going all the way back to January twentieth in both
the Dow and the S and P five hundred buck,
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where you are almost underground, underwater. The other words, the
market is about to turn negative for the whole first
seventeen months or so of Joe Biden's presidency. That's a
pretty significant factor. Okay. And people out there who say, well,
a lot of people don't own stock, well, it's not
really true. A lot of people have four oh one ks,
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and those values in those four oh one k's, if
you're looking at them, are down a lot so far
this year. I believe, Buck, I saw, this is the
worst start for the SNP five hundred through whatever we
are at mid May May twelfth, in one hundred years.
So for anybody out there who's listening to us right now,
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the worst beginning for the SNP five hundred in a
hundred years relative to where we have gone for the
start of the year to May twelfth, and both the
SMP five hundred and the Dow about to go underwater.
One more thing here, Buck, Twitter. Elon Musk is buying
Twitter for fifty four dollars and twenty cents of share.
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Twitter is down over a dollar right now. There's nearly
ten dollars below what Elon Musk has been for Twitter.
That's a lot of expectation. Shouldn't potentially built in that
this deal still may not get done, whether it's the SEC,
whether it's the ftc, whether Elon Musk might come back
and say, hey, by the way, I know I bid
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fifty four twenty, but the stock market has collapsed a lot.
I'm actually only going to bid forty eight dollars now,
and if you say no, I'll pay the billion dollars penalty.
Your stock's gonna cut in half. I was thinking about
this just the other day, Clay, because as you see
what's going on in the markets, the economy, we started
off with some commentary on inflation and how it's it's
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actually worse in terms of how it affects people, particularly
people who are just trying to meet their monthly and
weekly bills. Is I remember when Joe Biden got elected
and put aside, I don't even be able to screaming heat,
but he is the president. So this is what we're
dealing with. Okay? Is it unfair? Is it crappy? Doesn't
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making me sad too? Yes? But as Joe Biden came
into office, I remember thinking all he has, all all
this team, this cabal of libs around him and his advisors.
All they have to do is not mess things up.
And they should have. They should have mend at their
back all the advantages out there exactly. They got reopened.
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They've got the vaccine thanks to Operation Warp Speed already
in place, and that should mean that everyone's gonna calm down.
We're gonna reopen, right, I mean, who could have foreseen
that it would have been not one shot and two shots,
three shots for you know, all the things. But if
you go back to like January of twenty twenty one,
you'd think to yourself, all right, the economy no longer
has to be or it should never have been. But
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the economy is not is less likely to be artificially
shut down because of the pandemic. We should have a
huge surge of economic activity and just a bulliance. I mean,
people that are optimistic, positive, feel like everything's gonna get better.
And I remember thinking I was concerned because not because
I don't want that to happen. I actually do really
want that to happen. But I was thinking to myself,
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people may attribute that natural force to Biden and the
people around him. This, by the way, this is exactly
what happened with Obama. Obama comes into office, I mean,
not exactly what happened. But it's similar. Comes in office
right after the Great Recession of two thousand and eight,
what did they say for the first two years, Oh,
but it's so much better than it. Well, of course
it was better than At the absolute worst moment of
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the worst recession since the Great Depression, Obama wasn't just existing,
was more, you know, it was gonna make things better.
But that was the talking point, right he was the president.
Things things were recovering, and he was taking credit for
the recovery. The bounce back was what I anticipated, I
thought might have with Biden, and I just bring it
up because here we are, and not only are they
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not getting credit for a bounce back they don't deserve.
We have to credit them right now with taking the
economy off the tracks and running it into a ditch.
That's where we actually are. So when in the opposite direction,
I thought, I was hoping they just wouldn't mess it up,
and then that said, look at what geniuses we are.
Instead it's, oh my gosh, this is a bunch of clowns.
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Buck to your point, maybe the single most important thing
that people could buy for purposes of food is baby formula.
The number one thing that you could buy is baby formula.
That is of the utmost importance, because look, if you
like bananas and there ain't bananas on the shelves, you
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can go buy oranges or apples. If you like coke,
buy pepsi. If you like Bud light, go buy Coors
Light or Miller Light instead. In other words, there are
lots of fungible products much of America. Sometimes you just
have to freeze at the natural abundance of choices. Sometimes
when you just go buy something like pepper, and you
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just stand in front of all the different peppers and
seasonings and everything else that are there, it's almost an
abundance of riches to such an extent in terms of
options that sometimes you free when you walk into a
Public's or a Kroger or whatever grocery chain you are
out there shopping at. Right now, we don't have baby
formula on the shelves. Over two years after COVID shutdowns
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happen fifteen days to stop to spread, the stock market
is about to go negative in the entire Biden regime.
And by the way, if you consider nearly ten percent inflation,
you're already nearly double digits down just based on what
the value of your own money is because of what
you have to pay for everything else. I don't even
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know what they can be thinking right now in the
Biden White House. It's why Buck, they are so desperately arguing,
Oh my goodness, do you know what's going to happen.
They're gonna take away your contraception. You're not going to
be able to buy condoms. If Republicans are in control,
You're not going to be able to buy birth control.
That's what they're trying to argue already, because they are
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so desperate, because they failed on an epic level, the
likes of which we've never seen most of our lives.
But there are some people out there, maybe listening to
us right now, that remember Herbert Hoover being president. Unless
you were around for Herbert Hoover being president, I don't
know that you can think of a worse president in
the last hundred years than what we're seeing from Joe
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to Jimmy Carter anymore. Jimmy Carter was a billion times
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of you. We've been talking about the economic situation because
it's impossible to ignore what a huge story it is.
We'll have Kennedy from the Fox Business Network at two
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thirty that's just about ten minutes from now on the
East Coast or wherever you are listening to it, at
two thirty on the East Coast. And some of these
arguments that are being made now are so transparently crazy
that you don't even believe what you are hearing. And
Katie Porter made the argument that inflation is up. We
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need as a result vault of inflation being up even
more abortions now than ever before. This is a real
argument made by a real person who was elected to Congress. Listen.
I don't think they compare. I think they actually reinforce
each other. So the fact that things like inflation can
happen and it become more expensive to feed your kids
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and to fuel your car is exactly why people need
to be able to be in charge of how many
emails they're going to have to feed. So I think
the fact that we're seeing this jump in expenses, that
we're seeing people having to pay more in the grocery store,
pay more at the pump, pay more for housing, is
a reason that people are saying I need to be
able to make my own decisions about when and if
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to start a family. So I don't think we're going
to see them. I don't think it's about comparing them
or contrasting them. I think they reinforce for people just
how big of a responsibility it is to take care
of a family. Clay, I don't think that gas prices
are up so it's time to kill the babies is
a good A good slow term strategy for a good
strategy for Democrats. Does this woman realize what she's actually saying.
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I mean, you know, the price of meat is up,
so like, you know, maybe you need We just heard
her price of milk and beef is up, so maybe
you need some more more abortions. I mean, this is
what is wrong with these people. Here is what I
would say. There are lots of Republican staff. There's lots
of people as the midterms get closer, and we need
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to make this a reckoning on COVID, which, by the way,
we mentioned Biden's trying to circulate back up. They're arguing
there's gonna be one hundred million new COVID cases all
the failures there. But based on the vote we had
yesterday in the Senate book, what needs to happen and
what you just heard from Katie Porter and everybody else
that's making arguments like these, we need to just ask
a basic question. And it is a big and significant question,
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and there are many different answers that people could give,
But when does a baby begin to have rights in
a womb? Because based on the Senate vote, the Demo
perspective right now is never you can get an abortion
up to nine months of pregnancy basically even right before
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you go into labor. Click. So Democrats are advocating for killing,
for for the right to kill a full sty opinion.
In my opinion, people can again, we can have all
sorts of debates about this. This This is why I think
I don't even know if there's a debate there. I mean,
I wonder what that debate is. I think it's murder, right,
and it would be murder under virtually every state statue.
Which is why I take the conversation outside of abortion
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and just say, hey, if a pregnant mom in the
eighth or ninth month of her pregnancy was shot and
as a result, the baby also died, that's a double
murder charge. That's two murders. Okay, so when does that
baby begin to have rights? I'd like to hear Democrats
to answer that question. Never appears to be the official
perspective of their party. But just to be clear, you
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had an elected member of Congress there arguing on national
TV that, yeah, you know, in lation being high or
just shows that you need to be able to have abortions. Yeah,
that was the argument. Janet Yellen's argument of just a
couple of days ago, which Senator Tim Scott obviously took
which was, oh, well, you know, low income and minority
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individuals need to be able to have need you have
abortions because they you know, they won't be able to
be in a position to um financial I think she
specifically said black women, which is even crazier. We'll have
to go back. I'm pretty sure Buck, she wasn't just
saying low income people. I think she specifically said black
women need to be able to not have to have
their children. And then Tim Scott fired back, and so
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I'm glad, my black mother. I think your recollection is correct.
By the way, Yeah, which is I mean that audio
was so racist, Like, if you listen to it, think
about that's the Treasury secretary, this is a number of
congress Think listen to the arguments that these people are making, folks,
and then think about who on the pro life side
is saying anything crazy. Nobody. It's all reasonable. And that's
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my point. The dog mattism, if that is a word,
is occurring almost exclusively on the Democrat side of the
abortion argument right now. Interest rates not looking great, and
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The other path is the Ultra Maga plan. Senator Rick
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The Great Maga King Joe Biden apparently thinks he's going
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to stop the bleeding and the mid terms for Democrats
by giving his opponents cool nicknames. We have Kennedy with
us right now. Kennedy from Fox Business. He has a
great show over there. You should all check out every
night Kennedy, and you know for other places the Outnumbered Couch, etc. Kennedy,
Thanks for being with us. Yeah, I was gonna say, great,
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which nickname? I was gonna say, which one is better?
Great Maga King or Ultra Maga, Like which one's gonna
sell more T shirts? Well, Ultramaga sounds like um a
light beer that you get if you are on keto.
And Biden's speech this week, I gotta say, even his supporters,
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I think are recognizing that whatever magic they were expecting,
this guy or to pull off whatever they thought he
was gonna pull out of the hat, so to speak.
It's just not there for this administration. So where do
they go from here? Um? Unfortunately they go to Kamala
Harris and and that's why people are up on because
she is arguably worse. You know, he's very bad at
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defining inflation and explaining what they're going to do about it.
Believe it or not, she is abhorrence at that. She
Watching her explain inflation is something I do when I'm
in a bad mood because I cackle hysterically like she
does when she's asked an uncomfortable question, because she has
no idea what she's talking about. So, Kennedy, the only
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first of all, thanks for coming on. The only thing
I can say that is a positive right now about
the economy and in particular the stock market as we're
about to go underneath the number that existed on January
twenty January twentieth of twenty twenty one, when Joe Biden
took office for both the SNP five hundred in the
tao is everyone is talking about how awful the economy is.
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And sometimes when everybody agrees the economy is awful, and
that we're in an awful place. That's a great buying indication.
I'm really stretching to try to think about a positive
here at all. Are there any positives that you can
see on Joe Biden's economic plans or where we are
for the next couple of years with him in charge
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or at least him or Kamala in charge. No, the
only people this is good for are some of our
Golden Americans who are on fixed incomes that are chained
to interest rates. So they're the only ones who really
benefit when interest rates go up because it's going to
be more expensive to payoff credit cards and get loans
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from mortgages and cars and things like that, and things
are already expensive. So you're really hamstringing the middle class here,
and it's getting tougher and tougher to a fign people
to blame and be try and shellac this turd because
people out there are really really hurting, and you know,
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you know it's the Wall Street is not for billionaires.
People who have full one ks and any sort of
investment tools that help them stay for retirement. That stuff
is being wiped out. And if you are in your fifties,
your sixties, then you're looking at retirement. You're now looking
at working at least four or five more years if
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the economy continues to do what it's doing. And you know,
blaming President Trump like it's September of twenty twenty, it's
not doing anyone any favors because all that does is
given this administration and excuse to not doing anything. Speaking
of Kennedy from Fox Business where she's got a show,
you should all check out Kennedy. Good, good name, clear,
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clear reason for the name. Kennedy forty billion dollars speaking
of what you know, Folks here are dealing with all
kinds of problems. And I understand the government spends a
lot of money in a lot of things, and people
could say, oh, we walk and chew GM at the
same time in the federal government, whatever, forty billion dollars
a lot of money in a forty billion here, forty
billion there. It does start to add up after a while.
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That's being sent to Ukraine. I mean, there are a
number of levels on which I think this is troubling
to people. One is it feels like these days we
don't have money to be throwing around, but also how
much more involved should we get in Ukraine. Well, the
more we get involved, the more we want a return
on our investment. So if you're sending humanitarian aid, the
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return on investment is people living and we are working
toward peace. If the money is going toward arms to
sort of piece meal help Ukraine stay in a long
term conflict, that's really the worst case scenario. I mean,
that's that's awful for them. It's not good for you know,
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innocent Russian people who are now suffering under sanctions because
they can't get rid of their tyrannical death. But and
now you've got the United States that is facing you know,
this record inflation, gas prices are high. You cannot blame
everything or most things on Ukraine. And on top of that,
like young families can't find baby formula. You know, it's
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like they're celebrating abortion. They're turning a blind either the
fact that there's this formula shortage and it is a
real crisis for anyone who's had a baby, you know,
like that's that's a terrifying prospect, not able there's nothing
able to see the most vulnerable member of your family
with no alternatives. So it's I applaud the Republicans who
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voted against the forty billion dollars package. And it's not
that they don't love Ukraine, it's that they know there's
no accountability here and what we have is protracted war. Kennedy,
I've argued, and I think Buck is in this camp too.
I bet you are as well that the best thing
Republicans can do right now is just try to run
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out the meaning we're gonna have most congress people and
Senators that are up for reelection leave DC and go
back in the summer and in the fall to campaign.
Is the best thing that could happen for the economy
right now for Republicans to just prevent Joe Biden from
trying to fix the economy and pass trillion dollars spending
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bills on top of trillion dollars spending bills, and just
hope we can run out the clock and then get
a Republican House and send it to moderate the awful
economic decisions being made in the White House right now. Yeah,
it's really interesting because you know, one of Biden's big
tactics right now is to blame Trump for deficit spending.
But that's what you're doing if you're spending trillions of
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dollars on plans that you have no way of paying
for it. And now you know, the bill is starting
to show up, and it's showing up in the form
of inflation, which is just yet another tax on people,
especially working Americans. So I wish Washington would do less.
I wish the Fed didn't exist. I wish they would
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pass fewer laws. I wish they would repeal more laws.
That's one of the things I like about the Trump administration.
But doing nothing is a lot better than this plus
budgetary and this busybody socialistic sending this idea that government
can solve all the problems. Naturally, government creates more problems
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than it solves, and the bigger it gets, the bigger
your problems get. And and people should see that from
the pandemic, up from inflation, and from everything else that
is happening right now around them. Those are the failures
of big government that can at some point it will
no longer be able to support itself, let alone the
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hundreds of millions of people relying on it. Check out
Kennedy's show Kennedy on Fox Business. Miss Kennedy, great to
have have you come back soon. Clay Buck, You're you're
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I'm glad somebody thinks I was gonna say she knows
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like it ignited the oil that she had in there,
and then in port and safety tip, cover it with
the cover for the pen. That's that's the way you
want to deal with it. She kind of like splashed
it all of a sudden, she turned her pen into
(30:28):
a flamethrower. I know that's not going to happen while
I'm gone, but I remember my parents it was warning
me no cooking when I'm out of the house. So Clay,
no cooking. This is why I don't cook. I don't.
I do know. If it can't be done in a
microwave or I can't buy it somewhere, I do not cook.
That is my wife can cook. U. But when I
was in school, I remember I started dating her buck
(30:51):
and she came over. She was like, well, we're gonna
make a meal in your in your place. That's when
I was in law school and she came over and
she was like, where are your pots and pants? Wait?
What was the what was the Clay Law School bachelor
pad like gott I get a little bit of a
description here. I mean it was a it was a
nice little place, uh, you know, like for people who
know Nashville, just right around Vanderbilt Um and uh there
(31:14):
like a Jimi Hendricks poster on the wall. Though like
what I'm talking, I hardly had in I don't think
I had any artwork. I have I still have no
people come my apartment. That's what they were saying, like,
why do you have no artwork? I'm like, what am
I like a gallery curator? Like what do you talk?
I'm trying to think. I might have had like a
poster of you know, like my college or something on
the wall, but not really much artwork. But I had
no pots and pants. And what's crazy about this buck
(31:35):
is she came in and she was like, where are
your pots and pans? And I had been living in
this place for nearly a year and at no point
had I ever thought, Hey, where are my pots and pants?
Because I just I never I had plates. But you know,
I would throw a h I would. I eat a
lot of Windy's. I ate a lot of Subway um
(31:56):
and I made a lot of turkey and cheese sandwiches.
I mean, like I just and then your work in
full time when you're in law school, you got tons
of work to do and everything else. So I just
why I don't cook. I've never made a full meal
that involved, you know, like a substantial period of time
of cooking in my life. I actually I enjoy cooking
steak in various red meats. That's my that's my specialty.
(32:19):
And that i'd say, and I'd like to cook eggs.
And the one thing is I always have to prepare
my apartment because I go with high smoke point oil
cast iron. I have to open the doors the windows
because smoke alarm always. You know, I've never figured out
how to get the smoke alarm to not you know,
I press it, I put it on hush moote, it
doesn't work, So smoke alarm always always goes off. But yeah, basically,
(32:41):
you know, I know you're not gonna burn down the
house trying to burn down the place. Yeah, the first
time I think you've been out and I've been in
since like Labor day of last year, you've filled in
a couple I mean we haven't missed. First of all,
the two of us in this year have not missed
many days. We missed a few days, and missed is
the wrong word. Around Christmas we took off a few days,
but one or the other of us, I think, I'm right,
(33:03):
has basically been in every day. We both did COVID
for I'm sorry, did COVID like it's a new like
it's a new designer drug. Ye, we both did the
show while we had COVID for a solid week respectively,
which which I do recall. But you know, you know,
I was thinking about this too. I was talking about
one of my brothers um last night about it because
I just said, you know, it's it's been a while
(33:23):
since I've explored a an American city, and one thing
that I think we should do is, you know, meaning
I've never been there before, right like a first time
or in a city. I mean, I'm forty now, I've
been to most of the cities that are large. I've
been the most big cities in the country. But I
thought about actually my list, and we've got some great
have not been to Seattle, want to go out there.
(33:44):
We've got a great affiliate in Seattle. Haven't been to Phoenix,
and we we love our Phoenix people crushing it in Phoenix, Arizona.
Save it for the super Bowl. Fox has got to
super Bowl this year in February, So that's what I
want to go to Phoenix. Let's do that's you need
to be in Phoenix. They have an overlap there which
is incredible. They've got the Waste Management Open, which is
(34:06):
one of the greatest, most fun golf tournaments in the
country that is overlapping with the super Bowl. So Phoenix
in February early February. First of all, the weather's great
compared to the rest of the country. We're number one,
by the way in Phoenix. We appreciate all you out there.
So they basically have great trace in radio programming radio too.
You need to be out there for the super Bowl,
(34:27):
so put pinning that one in February. Yeah, but those
are those are the only other ones that are that
are close, you know, getting in the three quarters of
a million to a million plus. I haven't been to
Seattle yet, which I need to go to. We've got
a great affiliate in Seattle. Haven't been to Phoenix, so
and we're gonna be going to some cities together as
part of the show. Here going forward. We got some
Texas stuff planned already been in Texas once, we'll be
in Texas back, I know. But once we say this
(34:48):
on the air, then we're then we're committed to it.
Then we have to get the whole staff to align
and actually make it happen. So but I I am
gonna I gotta get to Phoenix at some point. Man.
That was something I was thinking about last night. Seattle, too,
is a fun lakes before they allowed it to descend
into abject misery by not allowing police to do their jobs.
It's a it's a good spot. My family was telling
me my brother, one brother, I'd spent a lot of
(35:10):
time there, and he said that if you, he said,
it is the Pacific Northwest, I would agree this one
of the more beautiful parts of the country. I've been
to Oregon and along the coast there. It's it's absolutely gorgeous.
So there's a lot to a lots recommend it. This
is all to say, though that turns out also, uh,
during my Chicago visit that lumalnatis you brought them up
(35:32):
a little bit clay. You brought him up Chicago style.
Apparently Lumna he's got the best pizza. But not only that,
they got gluten free pizza. So ah, I gotta go
to Lunatis. That's a big win for you. Uh. And
I tried to tell you to check and see. I
haven't even checked. See if the Cubs were in town,
they get you to go out to Wrigley Field and
go around Wrigley Fale. That would be an incredible experience.
(35:54):
I just want I want to tell you. I want
to tell you a secret. Um just you, me and
the millions of people that listen to the show. You know,
Philadelphia is a great town. I went. I've spent some
time in Philadelphia a few years back. Great town. But
I gotta tell you all these people were talking a
big game about the the cheese steak places there and
this is what I can be gluten this is this
is in the in the pre gluten free era. Ah.
(36:15):
So I'm excited to try the Chicago Deep Dish because
I hear it's great. And uh, you know when your
local quiz, when you tell someone their local cuisine that's famous,
like doesn't quite. I think I might be banned from
Philly until I change my tune on this. I think
you're gonna like the Deep Dish Pizza in Chicago and
Pats and Gino's in uh in Philly, both good. Um
(36:36):
that is uh. I'm not gonna allow you to go
after the cheese steak. I made a joke once about
his cheese whiz even cheese, and I got I got
dragged like I made fun of soy milk man. It
was rough. So I'll look for you. See Chicago. Yeah,
if you see in Chicago this week in folks, say hi,
uncle Clay is taking the rains tomorrow solo. You're gonna
(36:56):
have a great time with him. Talk to you Monday,
talk to him tomorrow. See then,
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Suxton Show podcast. If the top line is eleven percent
increase for the past twelve months, If that's the top line,
that's basically what it was last month. I mean last
month was eleven point two percent. So this shows you
(00:20):
there is no progress on inflation. The inflation problem is deep,
it's intense, it's virulent, and it's widespread. You know, there
was some muttering on the CPI report that maybe there
was going to be some relief. I didn't think so
when you looked under the hood, the CPI report was
a very bad report. This makes things even worse. That
(00:42):
was Larry Cudlow on producer price index inflation combined with
consumer price inflation. It's basically him just telling you, if
you look at what people really need to buy and
what they have to get to keep the household running,
inflation is even worse than you think. And welcome back
to Clay Buck. Of course, third hour here we were
(01:02):
a little too much in the happy zone. They're talking
about top gun and stuff. So now I have to
bring you back to the reality of a Biden regime
that is completely inept and capable and that's not surprising.
Look at who is running the show, look at who's
around him, look at the kind of people that Joe
Biden relies on for top level advice, particularly on the economy.
(01:24):
And look at Mayor Pete running a transportation transportation agency.
And the realities here are too stark for anybody, I
think to miss or avoid. We may very well be
heading into recession. I see the crypto world, which I'll
just say this, I watched the crypto world. I own
a very little, very tiny bit, you know, I own
(01:45):
like a piece of a couple of different coins. I'm
not a crypto investor. People though, who are, and some
of the people listening this I'm sure are are. They're
like evangelists for crypto crypto, the crypto bros, the crypto
folks out there. When it goes down, down down, and
even when you have coin Base, which is the largest
exchange for cryptocurrency buying and selling, publicly saying that it
(02:10):
micro bankrupt. If things don't don't turn around, the crypto
guys and gals just say, great, buying opportunity. Great. If
they do not, they do not blink, They do not
move an inch off of their their crypto, their crypto fondness,
I guess you can call it, because they view they
take a long term view of it. They think that
it's really not just an economy changer, but almost a
(02:32):
society changer, decentralized currency and what that will do the world. Anyway,
maybe a conversation we can have more another time, because
this also just broke speaking of economics and how things
are going in the world of corporations and finance, finance whatever.
Twitter is freezing new hires, fired some senior employees, basically
(02:56):
battening down the hatches for the the hurricane that is
on the way via at least in their in their minds,
and Elon must takeover of that platform at Clay, I'll
just I'll just give you this. While that's all happening,
there was a tweet, oh I think I think it
might have been from Reuter's or the AP, but they
(03:17):
they posted something last night. Elon Musk boasts that he's
acquiring Twitter to de friend freedom of speech, but he
has long used the platform to attack those who disagree
with him. I actually think the left has gone so
crazy on this issue on censoring and silencing that that
they fundamentally do not understand what freedom of speech actually like.
(03:39):
They reject the foundational understanding of free speech now, and
that's part of what is driving their panic over at
Twitter and about Twitter, well, think about how radical it
is that media companies that owe their very existence by
and large to free speech are troubled by the existence
of free speech, but they're really at by a speech
(04:00):
they don't agree with. And by the way, this is
turning into quite a story, Buck, because as we're speaking, unfortunately,
first of all, the stock market is nearly to the
point where you are about to go underwater on the
Joe Biden administration. In other words, if you came in
and you were a super left winger and you said,
(04:23):
my goodness, there's never been a better time to buy
stock than right now. Joe Biden's gonna be the greatest
economic president. He's gonna bring us all together. We're coming
out of COVID. This country is going to be on fire.
We're almost to the point, just fairly above water right now,
going all the way back to January twentieth in both
the Dow and the S and P five hundred buck,
(04:46):
where you are almost underground, underwater. The other words, the
market is about to turn negative for the whole first
seventeen months or so of Joe Biden's presidency. That's a
pretty significant factor. Okay. And people out there who say, well,
a lot of people don't own stock, well, it's not
really true. A lot of people have four oh one ks,
(05:06):
and those values in those four oh one k's, if
you're looking at them, are down a lot so far
this year. I believe, Buck, I saw, this is the
worst start for the SNP five hundred through whatever we
are at mid May May twelfth, in one hundred years.
So for anybody out there who's listening to us right now,
(05:27):
the worst beginning for the SNP five hundred in a
hundred years relative to where we have gone for the
start of the year to May twelfth, and both the
SMP five hundred and the Dow about to go underwater.
One more thing here, Buck, Twitter. Elon Musk is buying
Twitter for fifty four dollars and twenty cents of share.
(05:49):
Twitter is down over a dollar right now. There's nearly
ten dollars below what Elon Musk has been for Twitter.
That's a lot of expectation. Shouldn't potentially built in that
this deal still may not get done, whether it's the SEC,
whether it's the ftc, whether Elon Musk might come back
and say, hey, by the way, I know I bid
(06:10):
fifty four twenty, but the stock market has collapsed a lot.
I'm actually only going to bid forty eight dollars now,
and if you say no, I'll pay the billion dollars penalty.
Your stock's gonna cut in half. I was thinking about
this just the other day, Clay, because as you see
what's going on in the markets, the economy, we started
off with some commentary on inflation and how it's it's
(06:32):
actually worse in terms of how it affects people, particularly
people who are just trying to meet their monthly and
weekly bills. Is I remember when Joe Biden got elected
and put aside, I don't even be able to screaming heat,
but he is the president. So this is what we're
dealing with. Okay? Is it unfair? Is it crappy? Doesn't
(06:54):
making me sad too? Yes? But as Joe Biden came
into office, I remember thinking all he has, all all
this team, this cabal of libs around him and his advisors.
All they have to do is not mess things up.
And they should have. They should have mend at their
back all the advantages out there exactly. They got reopened.
(07:17):
They've got the vaccine thanks to Operation Warp Speed already
in place, and that should mean that everyone's gonna calm down.
We're gonna reopen, right, I mean, who could have foreseen
that it would have been not one shot and two shots,
three shots for you know, all the things. But if
you go back to like January of twenty twenty one,
you'd think to yourself, all right, the economy no longer
has to be or it should never have been. But
(07:38):
the economy is not is less likely to be artificially
shut down because of the pandemic. We should have a
huge surge of economic activity and just a bulliance. I mean,
people that are optimistic, positive, feel like everything's gonna get better.
And I remember thinking I was concerned because not because
I don't want that to happen. I actually do really
want that to happen. But I was thinking to myself,
(08:01):
people may attribute that natural force to Biden and the
people around him. This, by the way, this is exactly
what happened with Obama. Obama comes into office, I mean,
not exactly what happened. But it's similar. Comes in office
right after the Great Recession of two thousand and eight,
what did they say for the first two years, Oh,
but it's so much better than it. Well, of course
it was better than At the absolute worst moment of
(08:23):
the worst recession since the Great Depression, Obama wasn't just existing,
was more, you know, it was gonna make things better.
But that was the talking point, right he was the president.
Things things were recovering, and he was taking credit for
the recovery. The bounce back was what I anticipated, I
thought might have with Biden, and I just bring it
up because here we are, and not only are they
(08:44):
not getting credit for a bounce back they don't deserve.
We have to credit them right now with taking the
economy off the tracks and running it into a ditch.
That's where we actually are. So when in the opposite direction,
I thought, I was hoping they just wouldn't mess it up,
and then that said, look at what geniuses we are.
Instead it's, oh my gosh, this is a bunch of clowns.
(09:06):
Buck to your point, maybe the single most important thing
that people could buy for purposes of food is baby formula.
The number one thing that you could buy is baby formula.
That is of the utmost importance, because look, if you
like bananas and there ain't bananas on the shelves, you
(09:28):
can go buy oranges or apples. If you like coke,
buy pepsi. If you like Bud light, go buy Coors
Light or Miller Light instead. In other words, there are
lots of fungible products much of America. Sometimes you just
have to freeze at the natural abundance of choices. Sometimes
when you just go buy something like pepper, and you
(09:49):
just stand in front of all the different peppers and
seasonings and everything else that are there, it's almost an
abundance of riches to such an extent in terms of
options that sometimes you free when you walk into a
Public's or a Kroger or whatever grocery chain you are
out there shopping at. Right now, we don't have baby
formula on the shelves. Over two years after COVID shutdowns
(10:15):
happen fifteen days to stop to spread, the stock market
is about to go negative in the entire Biden regime.
And by the way, if you consider nearly ten percent inflation,
you're already nearly double digits down just based on what
the value of your own money is because of what
you have to pay for everything else. I don't even
(10:36):
know what they can be thinking right now in the
Biden White House. It's why Buck, they are so desperately arguing,
Oh my goodness, do you know what's going to happen.
They're gonna take away your contraception. You're not going to
be able to buy condoms. If Republicans are in control,
You're not going to be able to buy birth control.
That's what they're trying to argue already, because they are
(10:58):
so desperate, because they failed on an epic level, the
likes of which we've never seen most of our lives.
But there are some people out there, maybe listening to
us right now, that remember Herbert Hoover being president. Unless
you were around for Herbert Hoover being president, I don't
know that you can think of a worse president in
the last hundred years than what we're seeing from Joe
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or the day before. Not even fair to compare him
to Jimmy Carter anymore. Jimmy Carter was a billion times
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welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you. We've been talking about the economic situation because
it's impossible to ignore what a huge story it is.
We'll have Kennedy from the Fox Business Network at two
(13:36):
thirty that's just about ten minutes from now on the
East Coast or wherever you are listening to it, at
two thirty on the East Coast. And some of these
arguments that are being made now are so transparently crazy
that you don't even believe what you are hearing. And
Katie Porter made the argument that inflation is up. We
(13:58):
need as a result vault of inflation being up even
more abortions now than ever before. This is a real
argument made by a real person who was elected to Congress. Listen.
I don't think they compare. I think they actually reinforce
each other. So the fact that things like inflation can
happen and it become more expensive to feed your kids
(14:19):
and to fuel your car is exactly why people need
to be able to be in charge of how many
emails they're going to have to feed. So I think
the fact that we're seeing this jump in expenses, that
we're seeing people having to pay more in the grocery store,
pay more at the pump, pay more for housing, is
a reason that people are saying I need to be
able to make my own decisions about when and if
(14:41):
to start a family. So I don't think we're going
to see them. I don't think it's about comparing them
or contrasting them. I think they reinforce for people just
how big of a responsibility it is to take care
of a family. Clay, I don't think that gas prices
are up so it's time to kill the babies is
a good A good slow term strategy for a good
strategy for Democrats. Does this woman realize what she's actually saying.
(15:06):
I mean, you know, the price of meat is up,
so like, you know, maybe you need We just heard
her price of milk and beef is up, so maybe
you need some more more abortions. I mean, this is
what is wrong with these people. Here is what I
would say. There are lots of Republican staff. There's lots
of people as the midterms get closer, and we need
(15:26):
to make this a reckoning on COVID, which, by the way,
we mentioned Biden's trying to circulate back up. They're arguing
there's gonna be one hundred million new COVID cases all
the failures there. But based on the vote we had
yesterday in the Senate book, what needs to happen and
what you just heard from Katie Porter and everybody else
that's making arguments like these, we need to just ask
a basic question. And it is a big and significant question,
(15:48):
and there are many different answers that people could give,
But when does a baby begin to have rights in
a womb? Because based on the Senate vote, the Demo
perspective right now is never you can get an abortion
up to nine months of pregnancy basically even right before
(16:10):
you go into labor. Click. So Democrats are advocating for killing,
for for the right to kill a full sty opinion.
In my opinion, people can again, we can have all
sorts of debates about this. This This is why I think
I don't even know if there's a debate there. I mean,
I wonder what that debate is. I think it's murder, right,
and it would be murder under virtually every state statue.
Which is why I take the conversation outside of abortion
(16:32):
and just say, hey, if a pregnant mom in the
eighth or ninth month of her pregnancy was shot and
as a result, the baby also died, that's a double
murder charge. That's two murders. Okay, so when does that
baby begin to have rights? I'd like to hear Democrats
to answer that question. Never appears to be the official
perspective of their party. But just to be clear, you
(16:54):
had an elected member of Congress there arguing on national
TV that, yeah, you know, in lation being high or
just shows that you need to be able to have abortions. Yeah,
that was the argument. Janet Yellen's argument of just a
couple of days ago, which Senator Tim Scott obviously took
which was, oh, well, you know, low income and minority
(17:14):
individuals need to be able to have need you have
abortions because they you know, they won't be able to
be in a position to um financial I think she
specifically said black women, which is even crazier. We'll have
to go back. I'm pretty sure Buck, she wasn't just
saying low income people. I think she specifically said black
women need to be able to not have to have
their children. And then Tim Scott fired back, and so
(17:35):
I'm glad, my black mother. I think your recollection is correct.
By the way, Yeah, which is I mean that audio
was so racist, Like, if you listen to it, think
about that's the Treasury secretary, this is a number of
congress Think listen to the arguments that these people are making, folks,
and then think about who on the pro life side
is saying anything crazy. Nobody. It's all reasonable. And that's
(17:58):
my point. The dog mattism, if that is a word,
is occurring almost exclusively on the Democrat side of the
abortion argument right now. Interest rates not looking great, and
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the deficit increased every single year he was president. They
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They want to solve by raising taxes and luring your income.
Americans have a choice right now between two paths reflecting
two very different sets of values. My plan the tax
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giving workers well deserved raises, reducing the deficit by historic levels,
making big corporations and very wealthiest Americans paid their fair share.
The other path is the Ultra Maga plan. Senator Rick
Scott Wisconsint a member of the the Ultra Maga path.
The Great Maga King Joe Biden apparently thinks he's going
(19:58):
to stop the bleeding and the mid terms for Democrats
by giving his opponents cool nicknames. We have Kennedy with
us right now. Kennedy from Fox Business. He has a
great show over there. You should all check out every
night Kennedy, and you know for other places the Outnumbered Couch, etc. Kennedy,
Thanks for being with us. Yeah, I was gonna say, great,
(20:21):
which nickname? I was gonna say, which one is better?
Great Maga King or Ultra Maga, Like which one's gonna
sell more T shirts? Well, Ultramaga sounds like um a
light beer that you get if you are on keto.
And Biden's speech this week, I gotta say, even his supporters,
(20:42):
I think are recognizing that whatever magic they were expecting,
this guy or to pull off whatever they thought he
was gonna pull out of the hat, so to speak.
It's just not there for this administration. So where do
they go from here? Um? Unfortunately they go to Kamala
Harris and and that's why people are up on because
she is arguably worse. You know, he's very bad at
(21:07):
defining inflation and explaining what they're going to do about it.
Believe it or not, she is abhorrence at that. She
Watching her explain inflation is something I do when I'm
in a bad mood because I cackle hysterically like she
does when she's asked an uncomfortable question, because she has
no idea what she's talking about. So, Kennedy, the only
(21:30):
first of all, thanks for coming on. The only thing
I can say that is a positive right now about
the economy and in particular the stock market as we're
about to go underneath the number that existed on January
twenty January twentieth of twenty twenty one, when Joe Biden
took office for both the SNP five hundred in the
tao is everyone is talking about how awful the economy is.
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And sometimes when everybody agrees the economy is awful, and
that we're in an awful place. That's a great buying indication.
I'm really stretching to try to think about a positive
here at all. Are there any positives that you can
see on Joe Biden's economic plans or where we are
for the next couple of years with him in charge
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or at least him or Kamala in charge. No, the
only people this is good for are some of our
Golden Americans who are on fixed incomes that are chained
to interest rates. So they're the only ones who really
benefit when interest rates go up because it's going to
be more expensive to payoff credit cards and get loans
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from mortgages and cars and things like that, and things
are already expensive. So you're really hamstringing the middle class here,
and it's getting tougher and tougher to a fign people
to blame and be try and shellac this turd because
people out there are really really hurting, and you know,
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you know it's the Wall Street is not for billionaires.
People who have full one ks and any sort of
investment tools that help them stay for retirement. That stuff
is being wiped out. And if you are in your fifties,
your sixties, then you're looking at retirement. You're now looking
at working at least four or five more years if
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the economy continues to do what it's doing. And you know,
blaming President Trump like it's September of twenty twenty, it's
not doing anyone any favors because all that does is
given this administration and excuse to not doing anything. Speaking
of Kennedy from Fox Business where she's got a show,
you should all check out Kennedy. Good, good name, clear,
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clear reason for the name. Kennedy forty billion dollars speaking
of what you know, Folks here are dealing with all
kinds of problems. And I understand the government spends a
lot of money in a lot of things, and people
could say, oh, we walk and chew GM at the
same time in the federal government, whatever, forty billion dollars
a lot of money in a forty billion here, forty
billion there. It does start to add up after a while.
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That's being sent to Ukraine. I mean, there are a
number of levels on which I think this is troubling
to people. One is it feels like these days we
don't have money to be throwing around, but also how
much more involved should we get in Ukraine. Well, the
more we get involved, the more we want a return
on our investment. So if you're sending humanitarian aid, the
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return on investment is people living and we are working
toward peace. If the money is going toward arms to
sort of piece meal help Ukraine stay in a long
term conflict, that's really the worst case scenario. I mean,
that's that's awful for them. It's not good for you know,
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innocent Russian people who are now suffering under sanctions because
they can't get rid of their tyrannical death. But and
now you've got the United States that is facing you know,
this record inflation, gas prices are high. You cannot blame
everything or most things on Ukraine. And on top of that,
like young families can't find baby formula. You know, it's
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like they're celebrating abortion. They're turning a blind either the
fact that there's this formula shortage and it is a
real crisis for anyone who's had a baby, you know,
like that's that's a terrifying prospect, not able there's nothing
able to see the most vulnerable member of your family
with no alternatives. So it's I applaud the Republicans who
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voted against the forty billion dollars package. And it's not
that they don't love Ukraine, it's that they know there's
no accountability here and what we have is protracted war. Kennedy,
I've argued, and I think Buck is in this camp too.
I bet you are as well that the best thing
Republicans can do right now is just try to run
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out the meaning we're gonna have most congress people and
Senators that are up for reelection leave DC and go
back in the summer and in the fall to campaign.
Is the best thing that could happen for the economy
right now for Republicans to just prevent Joe Biden from
trying to fix the economy and pass trillion dollars spending
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bills on top of trillion dollars spending bills, and just
hope we can run out the clock and then get
a Republican House and send it to moderate the awful
economic decisions being made in the White House right now. Yeah,
it's really interesting because you know, one of Biden's big
tactics right now is to blame Trump for deficit spending.
But that's what you're doing if you're spending trillions of
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dollars on plans that you have no way of paying
for it. And now you know, the bill is starting
to show up, and it's showing up in the form
of inflation, which is just yet another tax on people,
especially working Americans. So I wish Washington would do less.
I wish the Fed didn't exist. I wish they would
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pass fewer laws. I wish they would repeal more laws.
That's one of the things I like about the Trump administration.
But doing nothing is a lot better than this plus
budgetary and this busybody socialistic sending this idea that government
can solve all the problems. Naturally, government creates more problems
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than it solves, and the bigger it gets, the bigger
your problems get. And and people should see that from
the pandemic, up from inflation, and from everything else that
is happening right now around them. Those are the failures
of big government that can at some point it will
no longer be able to support itself, let alone the
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hundreds of millions of people relying on it. Check out
Kennedy's show Kennedy on Fox Business. Miss Kennedy, great to
have have you come back soon. Clay Buck, You're you're
both a dream country. Thank you so much, thank you.
I'm glad somebody thinks I was gonna say she knows
what's up. She knows the deal. So we'll come back
here in a second and take a couple of your
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calls so we can eight hundred two eight two eight
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head off the weekend. And remember Clay's Clay's in charge
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is operating at casino out of the studio all of
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There's not gonna be a kegerator going on, mister, mister
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I did. Also, I gotta say, uh, you know I
sent you this. Let's go to viral of this of
a of a influencer cooking and this is actually easier
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than than one would think this. I'm not gonna lie.
It's kind of I like to cook. This happen to
me once. She didn't realize how much heat she had
in the pan, and it straight up ignited. It looks
like it ignited the oil that she had in there,
and then in port and safety tip, cover it with
the cover for the pen. That's that's the way you
want to deal with it. She kind of like splashed
it all of a sudden, she turned her pen into
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a flamethrower. I know that's not going to happen while
I'm gone, but I remember my parents it was warning
me no cooking when I'm out of the house. So Clay,
no cooking. This is why I don't cook. I don't.
I do know. If it can't be done in a
microwave or I can't buy it somewhere, I do not cook.
That is my wife can cook. U. But when I
was in school, I remember I started dating her buck
(30:51):
and she came over. She was like, well, we're gonna
make a meal in your in your place. That's when
I was in law school and she came over and
she was like, where are your pots and pants? Wait?
What was the what was the Clay Law School bachelor
pad like gott I get a little bit of a
description here. I mean it was a it was a
nice little place, uh, you know, like for people who
know Nashville, just right around Vanderbilt Um and uh there
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like a Jimi Hendricks poster on the wall. Though like
what I'm talking, I hardly had in I don't think
I had any artwork. I have I still have no
people come my apartment. That's what they were saying, like,
why do you have no artwork? I'm like, what am
I like a gallery curator? Like what do you talk?
I'm trying to think. I might have had like a
poster of you know, like my college or something on
the wall, but not really much artwork. But I had
no pots and pants. And what's crazy about this buck
(31:35):
is she came in and she was like, where are
your pots and pans? And I had been living in
this place for nearly a year and at no point
had I ever thought, Hey, where are my pots and pants?
Because I just I never I had plates. But you know,
I would throw a h I would. I eat a
lot of Windy's. I ate a lot of Subway um
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and I made a lot of turkey and cheese sandwiches.
I mean, like I just and then your work in
full time when you're in law school, you got tons
of work to do and everything else. So I just
why I don't cook. I've never made a full meal
that involved, you know, like a substantial period of time
of cooking in my life. I actually I enjoy cooking
steak in various red meats. That's my that's my specialty.
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And that i'd say, and I'd like to cook eggs.
And the one thing is I always have to prepare
my apartment because I go with high smoke point oil
cast iron. I have to open the doors the windows
because smoke alarm always. You know, I've never figured out
how to get the smoke alarm to not you know,
I press it, I put it on hush moote, it
doesn't work, So smoke alarm always always goes off. But yeah, basically,
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you know, I know you're not gonna burn down the
house trying to burn down the place. Yeah, the first
time I think you've been out and I've been in
since like Labor day of last year, you've filled in
a couple I mean we haven't missed. First of all,
the two of us in this year have not missed
many days. We missed a few days, and missed is
the wrong word. Around Christmas we took off a few days,
but one or the other of us, I think, I'm right,
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has basically been in every day. We both did COVID
for I'm sorry, did COVID like it's a new like
it's a new designer drug. Ye, we both did the
show while we had COVID for a solid week respectively,
which which I do recall. But you know, you know,
I was thinking about this too. I was talking about
one of my brothers um last night about it because
I just said, you know, it's it's been a while
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since I've explored a an American city, and one thing
that I think we should do is, you know, meaning
I've never been there before, right like a first time
or in a city. I mean, I'm forty now, I've
been to most of the cities that are large. I've
been the most big cities in the country. But I
thought about actually my list, and we've got some great
have not been to Seattle, want to go out there.
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We've got a great affiliate in Seattle. Haven't been to Phoenix,
and we we love our Phoenix people crushing it in Phoenix, Arizona.
Save it for the super Bowl. Fox has got to
super Bowl this year in February, So that's what I
want to go to Phoenix. Let's do that's you need
to be in Phoenix. They have an overlap there which
is incredible. They've got the Waste Management Open, which is
(34:06):
one of the greatest, most fun golf tournaments in the
country that is overlapping with the super Bowl. So Phoenix
in February early February. First of all, the weather's great
compared to the rest of the country. We're number one,
by the way in Phoenix. We appreciate all you out there.
So they basically have great trace in radio programming radio too.
You need to be out there for the super Bowl,
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so put pinning that one in February. Yeah, but those
are those are the only other ones that are that
are close, you know, getting in the three quarters of
a million to a million plus. I haven't been to
Seattle yet, which I need to go to. We've got
a great affiliate in Seattle. Haven't been to Phoenix, so
and we're gonna be going to some cities together as
part of the show. Here going forward. We got some
Texas stuff planned already been in Texas once, we'll be
in Texas back, I know. But once we say this
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on the air, then we're then we're committed to it.
Then we have to get the whole staff to align
and actually make it happen. So but I I am
gonna I gotta get to Phoenix at some point. Man.
That was something I was thinking about last night. Seattle, too,
is a fun lakes before they allowed it to descend
into abject misery by not allowing police to do their jobs.
It's a it's a good spot. My family was telling
me my brother, one brother, I'd spent a lot of
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time there, and he said that if you, he said,
it is the Pacific Northwest, I would agree this one
of the more beautiful parts of the country. I've been
to Oregon and along the coast there. It's it's absolutely gorgeous.
So there's a lot to a lots recommend it. This
is all to say, though that turns out also, uh,
during my Chicago visit that lumalnatis you brought them up
(35:32):
a little bit clay. You brought him up Chicago style.
Apparently Lumna he's got the best pizza. But not only that,
they got gluten free pizza. So ah, I gotta go
to Lunatis. That's a big win for you. Uh. And
I tried to tell you to check and see. I
haven't even checked. See if the Cubs were in town,
they get you to go out to Wrigley Field and
go around Wrigley Fale. That would be an incredible experience.
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I just want I want to tell you. I want
to tell you a secret. Um just you, me and
the millions of people that listen to the show. You know,
Philadelphia is a great town. I went. I've spent some
time in Philadelphia a few years back. Great town. But
I gotta tell you all these people were talking a
big game about the the cheese steak places there and
this is what I can be gluten this is this
is in the in the pre gluten free era. Ah.
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So I'm excited to try the Chicago Deep Dish because
I hear it's great. And uh, you know when your
local quiz, when you tell someone their local cuisine that's famous,
like doesn't quite. I think I might be banned from
Philly until I change my tune on this. I think
you're gonna like the Deep Dish Pizza in Chicago and
Pats and Gino's in uh in Philly, both good. Um
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that is uh. I'm not gonna allow you to go
after the cheese steak. I made a joke once about
his cheese whiz even cheese, and I got I got
dragged like I made fun of soy milk man. It
was rough. So I'll look for you. See Chicago. Yeah,
if you see in Chicago this week in folks, say hi,
uncle Clay is taking the rains tomorrow solo. You're gonna
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have a great time with him. Talk to you Monday,
talk to him tomorrow. See then,
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