January 10, 2022 • 46 mins
The covid narrative is in freefall as Clay and Buck drop more truth bombs. Doomed in NYC: Unfortunately, Eric Adams picks up where de Blasio left off. Chicago teachers stay home, fail the children. Gut Punch: Great TV dad Bob Saget dead at 65 and happier recollections of TV past.
Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuck
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck
Sexton Show. I hope all of you had fantastic weekends.
I did. NFL playoffs are set, we got the National
Championship game between Alabama and Georgia. To night's football heaven
(00:21):
for those of us out there who love football. It's
also Buck Sexton the Dark Ages for the Biden COVID regime.
Everything it feels like is falling apart for them, as
it pertains to the overall narrative of Joe Biden's entire
(00:44):
twenty twenty presidential campaign. He said, I'm gonna shut down
the virus. I'm not gonna shut down the economy, and
the virus is surging, and it feels like to me, Buck,
and I'm curious if you got this sense too. Ever,
since the Supreme Court arguments on Friday, which we talked
a lot about over the COVID vaccine mandate, that Biden
(01:07):
has lost control. Finally of the narrative, We've got a
couple eclips of Rochelle Willinski, the CDC director, that I'm
gonna get to in a moment but Buck, you're in
New York City, the place with basically the highest COVID
rate of infection once more, two years later, effectively after
March of twenty twenty. What is the vibe on the ground.
And do you also have the sense that I do
(01:30):
coming out of this weekend that basically the Biden White
House has just finally lost control of the COVID narrative
that they're trying to sell to the American public. The
narrative is in freefall. It's I mean to say it's
collapsing is one thing. I think it's actually going in
the other direction too. It's not just that people are
ceasing to believe a lot of what the established consensus
(01:55):
storyline is. They're saying they're starting to finally and I
think this is a good thing. Say wait a second,
how long have they been wrong about this? Why should
we trust this narrative going forward? Why should the apparatus
have so much control over our lives? Clay, it was
just bombshell after bombshell the last a few days with
what's being said, Because first of all, let's just all
(02:15):
take a step back. We've had this enormous fight over
mandates and in New York City. They implemented it the
federal government. Just to remind everybody is supposed to start,
I believe today the initial phase, although it's really a
phased in process of the ocean mandate. Right. That's why
we had the Supreme Court oral arguments, and this is
why there's the urgency of whether it be a stay.
(02:36):
So you're in the phase now where technically the federal
government is supposed to be forcing these shots into people's
arms or they can get a test every week and
be harassed forever and be masked up and you know,
or get fired. Right, that's where we are Clay. Up
to forty percent of COVID patients, according to Rochelle will
Lenski in the CDC in the hospital may be there
(02:58):
for other reasons. I mean, I know they have this audio,
but the numbers now are telling us what we've been
saying along, which is COVID is dangerous to a small
percentage of the overall US population. The vaccines do not
stop the spread. They've had to admit that. I mean,
that's obvious now. They do not stop the spread, and
they might be dramatically overcounting. The CDC might be dramatically
(03:20):
overcounting hospitalizations and debts. Yes, and we're gonna play a
couple of these clips for you. I also there's a
great editorial I shared it. We're going to talk about
this too, because I think it ties in to this
overall crumbling foundation of the Biden COVID narrative on the
opinion page of the Wall Street Journal. Omicron makes Biden's
(03:43):
mandates obsolete. If you want to do a little reading
during a commercial break here and a little bit, we're
going to talk about that piece, which is written, by
the way, by a Nobel Prize winning physician, so it's
kind of a significant significant person to be writing that story.
But first, Rochelle will Lyinsky, it seems to me to
(04:05):
some extent, has been deputized as the official sudden truthteller.
Now she's not sharing data that you and I buck
haven't been talking about for a long time. But what's
landing here is this data is blowing people away, and
it's also making people realize stop and say, wait a minute,
(04:27):
why have we not known about this before? And what
else are they not telling us? Now, there are a
couple of different clips that I want to play here Friday.
Rochelle will Lyinsky went on Good Morning America and she
said that what we've talked about for a long time
that the people who are dying with COVID have four
(04:48):
or more comorbidities. Often listened to cut three of Rochelle
will Lyinsky, CDC Director Friday on Good Morning America. The
overwhelming number of debts, over seventy five occurred in people
who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are
people who were unwell to begin with. Okay, So this
(05:09):
is what we've been saying. If you are not well,
if you have a high level of obesity, you are
under particular risk from COVID. This has been data that
the CDC has been unwilling to share with the American
public on shows like Good Morning America, with people like
Rochelle Walinsky sharing it. So if you missed that, over
(05:30):
seventy five percent, she said, of deaths are occurring in
people with at least four comorbidities, and these people are
not well, she is saying, okay now. Also, she went
on Sunday with Brett Baer on Fox News Sunday and
she was asked directly what percentage of the people that
(05:52):
are counted as COVID deaths died from COVID, not with COVID.
Listen to this with I'm a crime, following that very carefully.
Our death registry, of course takes a few weeks to
and takes a few weeks to collect, and of course
Omicron has just been with us for a few weeks.
But those data will be forthcoming, all right. So really
(06:13):
the question there is an important part from Brett Bayer too,
because he says directly, buck, hey, there's eight hundred and
thirty five thousand deaths that are attributed to COVID, how
many of those are deaths with COVID? That is, people
have many different comorbidities, and other words, if you're in hospice,
and as often unfortunately occurs in a hospice, you die
(06:35):
not with any one particular cause. You might have pneumonia,
you might have the flu, you might also have COVID.
You have many different illnesses oftentimes that are occurring simultaneously,
but you are on your way to death. Otherwise that
would be counted as a COVID death. Or memorably, as
has sometimes happened, if you come in to the hospital
(06:56):
after getting hit by a bus and you test positive
for cod you are COVID debt. Okay, So how could
we have had anything even approaching a rational and reasonable
policy discussion, Clay, when this CDC is effectively telling us
the numbers. And remember the numbers are what they used
to justify everything. There was a time when New York
City was shutting down schools because of the positivity rate
(07:20):
of COVID tests, which makes zero sense, right, I mean,
that's how many people are taking tests. Are asymptomatic? People
taking tests? Are people They have had the numbers game
being played this whole time. And now when they say
things like seventy five percent of COVID deaths are those
who are essentially at high risk of dying from the
(07:40):
flu any number of respiratory people with four comorbidities. I mean,
that's that's statistically someone who is at risk from just
day to day life. We're all going there, by the way,
We're all going to be at that point. But when
I hear us say that, I have to think about
all the lives, because remember they also tell us everybody
who is dying almost everybody, I should say, who was
(08:01):
dying the hospital is unvaccinated. I find that the most
recent data on that was pretty stunning. It's like point
zero zero three percent of those dying are vaccinated. So
they're saying every one of the hospital in the US
who is dying? I know I find that. I find
that not but the CDC is saying it. But just
take that for a moment and pause and just think
about what that means. Think of all the lives that
(08:23):
could have been saved if we had gotten ninety nine
point nine percent of those truly at risk vaccinated instead
of firing thirty five year old nurses with natural immunity
and trying to force everyone's ten year old to get
the shot. Think of the dispersal of resources, the lack
of trust, the authoritarian overreach that has been created by
trying to do this and not just mass vaccination, mass
(08:46):
booster campaign. Now for everybody, people looking around saying, who
are the morons in charge that think this is actually
working well? And what this represents to me, Buck is
the internal polling in the White House on COVID must
be a disaster right now for Joe Biden, because the
first thing I say is okay, they're going to now
(09:09):
start sharing data that frankly, when you and I would
share it on social media. What would we get told, oh,
you're trying to kill Grandma's You would sometimes be told, hey,
you can't share this. It appears to me that big tech,
and I'm curious if you buy into this, it seems
like big tech has stopped restricting the spread in many
ways of critical, critical commentary surrounding COVID all this I got.
(09:34):
I just got hit my Facebook account. I got diging
the last twenty four hours for something I said on
this show, which we then shared at Facebook dot com
slashblock Sexton. So we're now fighting with them as an untruth.
They said, like, this is this independent fact checkers. I
have run circles as have you, around these independent fact
checkers for months when you look at what is actually true,
(09:57):
who ends up being right versus who is going along
with the narrative at the time? Journalism, Big Tech, my friends,
they have betrayed not only their professions but this country
over the course of the pandemic by refusing to stand
for truth, refusing to make sure there's accountability for the
abomination of a CDC, which is at this point they're
(10:18):
the worst three letter agency in the federal government, which
is an astonishing accomplishment and the people who are doing
these fact checks, well, that's interesting that you just got
ding because what I have noticed is it seems like
there now is a willingness to have a debate about
what's going on surrounding the COVID vaccine. And I continue
(10:40):
to say COVID vaccine in question and quotation marks, because
the question that I asked Buck that got everybody riled
up last week on Twitter was just this, name me
any other vaccine in quotation marks that you have to
get three or four shots in a year and it
doesn't prevent you from getting or spreading the virus. I've
never heard of that happen. This is the crappy vaccine.
(11:00):
And anybody's ever heard of I mean, no one's ever
been sitting around saying, yeah, you know, get the MMR
vaccines and maybe get them four times a year for
the rest of your life, and maybe it works, maybe
it doesn't. Doesn't stop the spread. Of course, this is
not what we thought of when this is not what
they told us. To be very clear, they said ninety
five percent protection. You don't get it, you don't spread it.
But Clay, to your point about social media, what I
(11:20):
think we're seeing is that it's more apparent now that
there are some people who are allowed to say what
you and I say, And so that's okay. Now what
are you and I allowed to say it? Right? Can
I say that the vaccines don't stop the spread? I
might get danged, I might get shut down, But Rochelle
Wilenski can go and say it right. It's about who
(11:41):
can say what, which just goes to show you this
is all about power dynamics and has been all along,
and politics and the politics I think on this are
disastrous now for Joe Biden, and I think they are
trying to figure out they're in a tough spot right
because they used COVID to keep Donald Trump from getting
reelected twenty twenty, all of the death counters, which miraculously
(12:03):
have disappeared, even though the deaths are continuing to go up,
all of the nuance surrounding these numbers. Wait a minute,
what's the difference between the COVID death with COVID versus
COVID because a death because of COVID. These were conversations
that were not allowed to happen. And now as they
look ahead to the red wave that is coming in
twenty twenty two to this mid term. As every single
(12:25):
day Buck more and more people my phone. I don't
know about you, but there are friends of mine that
I will hear from pretty regularly who may have been
critical of some of my COVID comments earlier, and they're like, man,
I'm starting to look at the data and a lot
of what you've been saying is true. Yeah, it's not
like I'm pretending to be a Nobel Prize winning scientist.
I'm just looking at the data and using it to
(12:47):
inform my opinions, which is what all intelligent people should do.
And there are Nobel Prize winning scientists that kind of
say we've been saying here in the claim Buck Show.
I'm just gonna just gonna put it out in a
little bit, a little bit of what the claim Buck
Show has been recently. You know, you don't just vote
every November. You vote every single month with the money
you spend to the companies you choose to spend it with.
Consider your current cell phone provider and the bill you're
(13:07):
paying this month. Your money supports the candidates and issues
that they donate to. Do you know who they are.
Let me give you a hint you might be frustrated
to see the support for the leftist politicians pushing liberal agendas.
But there's a solution, Pure Talk. Get your cell phone
service from pure Talk. They use the exact same towers
accessing the exact same five G network as one of
those companies. With pure Talk, you have the peace of
(13:28):
mind that you're supporting a veteran run business with employees
all here in the United States. Clay and I are
proud to be customers for that reason too. And Clay,
this is a monthly bill you can be proud to pay,
no doubt, it's likely to be half of what your
current cell phone bill is. That means you're likely to
save fifty or sixty dollars or more each month. So
how do you get yourself hooked up from your cell
(13:50):
phone right now? Grab them in your hands. Dial pound
two fifty say pure Talk, and you'll save an additional
fifty percent off your first month. Dial pound two five
zero say pure Talk today. Welcome into the second hour
of the Clay, Travis and Buck Sex and show everybody
(14:12):
eight hundred two eight two eight eight two on those
phone lines NYC my hometown. A lot of people listening
on seven ten WR, NYC right now, and you are
very much 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
(14:33):
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, 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
(14:55):
have to do what they usually do an election year,
which is pretend to be something other than that, which
they do a little head fake toward the center. Oh yeah,
we're not that. We're not a bunch of quasi Marxists
running around who want to undermine the very foundations of
American society. No, no, no, 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,
(15:16):
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 they've done in San Francisco, in
New York, in Los Angeles and destroy the largest cities
(15:41):
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 a little bit better on police, but
let me start with this. He has act allowing eight
(16:03):
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 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
(16:26):
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 York City are now because Eric Adams has
allowed the legislation to automatically become law on Sunday, he
(16:46):
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 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
(17:10):
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 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
(17:32):
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 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
(17:52):
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 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
(18:15):
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 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.
(18:36):
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. 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
(18:57):
that mean, like next to New York City is going
to non citizens to vote in federal elections? I mean,
when what do you say to all the people who
went through the process, the difficult process of becoming an
American citizen, 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 stay to them,
(19:19):
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. 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
(19:40):
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 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 going
to put armed robbers in prison at all. I mean,
(20:03):
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 in good
standing Clay, 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
(20:26):
we just get more of the thing that's working out
really poorly for America, eventually it'll be a good thing.
And 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
(20:47):
political arena is exhausted. But what is not going to
go away? Buck? And I'm curious how much do you
think this plays 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
(21:07):
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 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
(21:30):
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 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
(21:53):
I have got the biggest radio show in the country
thanks to taking over for Rush, who had built the
biggest radio show in the country. And much like 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
(22:15):
for many jobs out there. And I'm not sure politicians
are aware 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,
(22:38):
some of that could be done remote, but generally you
had to be there in the meeting, in the room
with people. And now in the digital era 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 Deblasio
(23:00):
was an f I think Eric Adams is going 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
(23:23):
clear 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
(23:44):
during these times or my security, and I trust my
brother deeply. I mean, come on, give me a break,
all right. The rise in white supresse. 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 hate
crimes are rising, it's always about how it's a Republican's fault. A,
and then B when you look at the data, it's
(24:06):
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,
(24:28):
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
started looking at the videos, yeah, and it was all
(24:50):
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
(25:11):
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, Clay,
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 there, and there
(25:34):
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 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
(25:56):
in 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
(26:19):
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
(26:40):
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 into vanished. So I think New
(27:01):
York folks, it's in trouble, and it's showing you that
even a place that is suffering because of bad democrat ideas,
it's very hard to get them to turn around the
Marxist ship. It's very hard to get them to shift gears.
When it comes to protecting the value of receiving his account,
few strategies are more successful than investing a portion of
that saving his account in real goal. That's been proven
(27:23):
over the course of time, particularly in times when inflation
is impacting us in so many ways as it is
these days, Buying real goal and taking possession of it
has been made easy with the help of our friends
at the Oxford Gold Group. Owning and holding real goal
that you can securely store away is a practical reality.
There's nothing like real gold delivered to your home. Buying
real gold is smart, calculated and a proactive thing to do.
(27:46):
My friends at the Oxford Gold Group are who you
need to call to get started. They'll explain everything to you.
Having real goal delivered to your home or having real
goal as part of your IRA, it is just a
phone call away with Oxford Gold. Call them at eight
three three four zero four gold and learn how you
can have real gold in your IRA and delivered to
your door. That's the Oxford Gold Group A three three
(28:06):
four zero four gold A three three four zero four
g LD. 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. So I understand
teacher's frustrations. A lot of school districts did not put
(28:28):
in I did not use the billions of dollars that
they had gotten to put in improvements in 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 wear high quality mass even
without those other upgrades, which I would like to see,
it still is safe for kids and teachers to be
(28:50):
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 the
guys who goes on a lot of the cable news
he's an MSNBCCNN one, though not not somebody that you
would think necessarily is going to ever call out the
fauciite nonsense. But right now we're talking about this the
(29:13):
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 a small business or your an employee of
(29:35):
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
(29:55):
raise 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 on this is
just 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 a hard choice about whether to go
(30:17):
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 New York City stayed open pre vaccination,
(30:40):
have been opened the whole time there's a vaccine, obviously
not in the summertime. But there's no argue, 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. It to me, this is the
(31:02):
biggest failure of all the COVID failures, because you are
talking about the city of Chicago, where every bar is open,
where every sports arena is open. You can go sit
twenty thousand people can and watch the Chicago Bulls play
a basketball game, or watch the Chicago Blackhawks play a
(31:24):
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 every school has to be back. And
(31:47):
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 Lori
Lightfoot is actually trying to hold accountable but doesn't have
any real ability to do so, how does this situation
resolve itself? I don't even really know the answer. This
(32:09):
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 hero of the left wing of this country.
(32:31):
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 are running the city of Chicago. You've
(32:53):
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. Some of them are remote Milwaukee area kids.
(33:14):
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 in particular all over this country, blue city
(33:36):
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 arguments from the other side, and we call out
(33:57):
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
award that this is really just about fear of the virus.
(34:19):
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
quickly and have such a small viral load. Maybe they
(34:41):
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, and are they willing to go to work?
I mean, I think there's some part of them that
(35:02):
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 have to remember, and again I want to reiterate,
we know we have tons of listeners of this show, teachers,
(35:26):
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,
they've been back in school forever now. But the precedent
that we sat buck was in March of twenty twenty.
(35:50):
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
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
(36:11):
because we were in the middle of a presidential 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
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
(36:34):
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,
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.
(36:55):
Why do you think about my hidden camera theory that
of all these and mother way, this is the Chicago
Go Teachers unions we're talking about. To Clay's point, I
know they have been you know, my my Jesuit High
School here in New York City, they've been they've been
opened for 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're playing a plenty of schools,
thousands and thousands them across the country, and the teachers
(37:15):
have been showing up and a lot of them have
gone COVID. They're fine. And anyway, I think if you
followed around the teacher's union president with a hidden camera,
which you'd find is that he's really scared of COVID
from kids in the classroom, or maybe he doesn't even teach, right,
but you know some of his members and they're at
like packed bars in downtown Chicago watching the football games.
(37:37):
Mister Travis, you know it's joy. 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, and you would follow that person around be like, well,
you know you were able to go to the gym,
(37:57):
you know, I got pictures here if you meditain, 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 do you remember I think it was the
Chicago Area Teachers Union head, wasn't it who got popped
on her vacation to Puerto Rico. I remember this. I
(38:18):
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? Did she stop taking the virus? Seriously?
(38:42):
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 and had COVID already. But notice she
goes she goes down to Florida. I guess she's not
so scared of ron death Santis is Florida after all, Clay,
(39:03):
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 positive, 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 who know they have it that
are staying at home. I mean, this is crazy. Mortgage
(39:25):
rates are still near record lows, but experts are forecasting
several increases in twenty twenty two. That's not an if,
but rather oh when and by how much? That makes
now the time to get a free mortgage review from
American Financing. It's a quick and easy way to see
if you can save up to a thousand dollars a
month without resetting your loan. It really is possible to
(39:45):
pay less than interest and stay on track to be
mortgage free because of American Financing they can write any
term ten years and over, so you're not wasting your
hard earned money on years you don't need. You really
do have an opportunity to save up to twelve thousand
dollars a year. American Financing has helped thousands of people
just like you for over twenty years, so you can
(40:07):
trust that they're good at what they do and that's
saving people like you money. So why not learn more?
You could skip get this, folks. You could skip two
mortgage payments and close on a new quick loan too.
And by the way I use American Financing, I know
how much money you can save as well, because these
guys in American Financing do incredible work. Here's how you
(40:28):
do it. Get your phones in your hand call eight
hundred seven seven seven eighty one O nine. That's eight
hundred seven seven seven eighty one oh nine. Or you
can visit American Financing dot net, MLS one eight two
three three four MLS, Consumer access dot org. Welcome back
(40:48):
in Clay 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 sit around
(41:10):
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 love us. And you could watch these
shows with your mom and dad, with your grandma and grandpa,
(41:30):
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 kind of like
a gut punch Bob Saget, 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 was like an updated
(41:54):
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
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 TGIF lineup.
(42:14):
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 I share as as one
of the great loves of cinema. But yeah, he was
(42:35):
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 dollar 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. I was 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 Welleially, I wasn't as
(42:58):
expensive those Victorians 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 Saget Alan Thick, the dad
on Girl Names, Jason sever if I remember correctly. Uh,
(43:19):
Bill Cosby before we knew the Bill Cosby off the
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 airtas another fantastic dad. Um,
(43:42):
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
(44:03):
head Lights, that's a phenomenal Eric Taylor's fair. I want
him to be, you know, the coach of my kids team.
We gotta we gotta bring him back. We could use
coach Eric Taylor to give us pep talks during the
course of the show, like 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 you
know what I did? They sold off all of the
(44:26):
props from Friday Night Lights. Did you know about this, NBC?
Did I bought a Dylan Panthers 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 we should have gone on longer.
I got hurt by the writer's strike at one point.
(44:46):
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. Face like a very well done
show for what it is, and you can really have
(45:07):
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
back and watch a show. So I watched all of
(45:30):
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 wouldn't even coordinate this. No,
I watched season one. I'm all in for seasons two, three,
and four. Now, uh, 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? It changes things up a little bit and
(45:51):
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 wanted 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
(46:14):
to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton fund the EIB Network
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck
Sexton Show. I hope all of you had fantastic weekends.
I did. NFL playoffs are set, we got the National
Championship game between Alabama and Georgia. To night's football heaven
(00:21):
for those of us out there who love football. It's
also Buck Sexton the Dark Ages for the Biden COVID regime.
Everything it feels like is falling apart for them, as
it pertains to the overall narrative of Joe Biden's entire
(00:44):
twenty twenty presidential campaign. He said, I'm gonna shut down
the virus. I'm not gonna shut down the economy, and
the virus is surging, and it feels like to me, Buck,
and I'm curious if you got this sense too. Ever,
since the Supreme Court arguments on Friday, which we talked
a lot about over the COVID vaccine mandate, that Biden
(01:07):
has lost control. Finally of the narrative, We've got a
couple eclips of Rochelle Willinski, the CDC director, that I'm
gonna get to in a moment but Buck, you're in
New York City, the place with basically the highest COVID
rate of infection once more, two years later, effectively after
March of twenty twenty. What is the vibe on the ground.
And do you also have the sense that I do
(01:30):
coming out of this weekend that basically the Biden White
House has just finally lost control of the COVID narrative
that they're trying to sell to the American public. The
narrative is in freefall. It's I mean to say it's
collapsing is one thing. I think it's actually going in
the other direction too. It's not just that people are
ceasing to believe a lot of what the established consensus
(01:55):
storyline is. They're saying they're starting to finally and I
think this is a good thing. Say wait a second,
how long have they been wrong about this? Why should
we trust this narrative going forward? Why should the apparatus
have so much control over our lives? Clay, it was
just bombshell after bombshell the last a few days with
what's being said, Because first of all, let's just all
(02:15):
take a step back. We've had this enormous fight over
mandates and in New York City. They implemented it the
federal government. Just to remind everybody is supposed to start,
I believe today the initial phase, although it's really a
phased in process of the ocean mandate. Right. That's why
we had the Supreme Court oral arguments, and this is
why there's the urgency of whether it be a stay.
(02:36):
So you're in the phase now where technically the federal
government is supposed to be forcing these shots into people's
arms or they can get a test every week and
be harassed forever and be masked up and you know,
or get fired. Right, that's where we are Clay. Up
to forty percent of COVID patients, according to Rochelle will
Lenski in the CDC in the hospital may be there
(02:58):
for other reasons. I mean, I know they have this audio,
but the numbers now are telling us what we've been
saying along, which is COVID is dangerous to a small
percentage of the overall US population. The vaccines do not
stop the spread. They've had to admit that. I mean,
that's obvious now. They do not stop the spread, and
they might be dramatically overcounting. The CDC might be dramatically
(03:20):
overcounting hospitalizations and debts. Yes, and we're gonna play a
couple of these clips for you. I also there's a
great editorial I shared it. We're going to talk about
this too, because I think it ties in to this
overall crumbling foundation of the Biden COVID narrative on the
opinion page of the Wall Street Journal. Omicron makes Biden's
(03:43):
mandates obsolete. If you want to do a little reading
during a commercial break here and a little bit, we're
going to talk about that piece, which is written, by
the way, by a Nobel Prize winning physician, so it's
kind of a significant significant person to be writing that story.
But first, Rochelle will Lyinsky, it seems to me to
(04:05):
some extent, has been deputized as the official sudden truthteller.
Now she's not sharing data that you and I buck
haven't been talking about for a long time. But what's
landing here is this data is blowing people away, and
it's also making people realize stop and say, wait a minute,
(04:27):
why have we not known about this before? And what
else are they not telling us? Now, there are a
couple of different clips that I want to play here Friday.
Rochelle will Lyinsky went on Good Morning America and she
said that what we've talked about for a long time
that the people who are dying with COVID have four
(04:48):
or more comorbidities. Often listened to cut three of Rochelle
will Lyinsky, CDC Director Friday on Good Morning America. The
overwhelming number of debts, over seventy five occurred in people
who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are
people who were unwell to begin with. Okay, So this
(05:09):
is what we've been saying. If you are not well,
if you have a high level of obesity, you are
under particular risk from COVID. This has been data that
the CDC has been unwilling to share with the American
public on shows like Good Morning America, with people like
Rochelle Walinsky sharing it. So if you missed that, over
(05:30):
seventy five percent, she said, of deaths are occurring in
people with at least four comorbidities, and these people are
not well, she is saying, okay now. Also, she went
on Sunday with Brett Baer on Fox News Sunday and
she was asked directly what percentage of the people that
(05:52):
are counted as COVID deaths died from COVID, not with COVID.
Listen to this with I'm a crime, following that very carefully.
Our death registry, of course takes a few weeks to
and takes a few weeks to collect, and of course
Omicron has just been with us for a few weeks.
But those data will be forthcoming, all right. So really
(06:13):
the question there is an important part from Brett Bayer too,
because he says directly, buck, hey, there's eight hundred and
thirty five thousand deaths that are attributed to COVID, how
many of those are deaths with COVID? That is, people
have many different comorbidities, and other words, if you're in hospice,
and as often unfortunately occurs in a hospice, you die
(06:35):
not with any one particular cause. You might have pneumonia,
you might have the flu, you might also have COVID.
You have many different illnesses oftentimes that are occurring simultaneously,
but you are on your way to death. Otherwise that
would be counted as a COVID death. Or memorably, as
has sometimes happened, if you come in to the hospital
(06:56):
after getting hit by a bus and you test positive
for cod you are COVID debt. Okay, So how could
we have had anything even approaching a rational and reasonable
policy discussion, Clay, when this CDC is effectively telling us
the numbers. And remember the numbers are what they used
to justify everything. There was a time when New York
City was shutting down schools because of the positivity rate
(07:20):
of COVID tests, which makes zero sense, right, I mean,
that's how many people are taking tests. Are asymptomatic? People
taking tests? Are people They have had the numbers game
being played this whole time. And now when they say
things like seventy five percent of COVID deaths are those
who are essentially at high risk of dying from the
(07:40):
flu any number of respiratory people with four comorbidities. I mean,
that's that's statistically someone who is at risk from just
day to day life. We're all going there, by the way,
We're all going to be at that point. But when
I hear us say that, I have to think about
all the lives, because remember they also tell us everybody
who is dying almost everybody, I should say, who was
(08:01):
dying the hospital is unvaccinated. I find that the most
recent data on that was pretty stunning. It's like point
zero zero three percent of those dying are vaccinated. So
they're saying every one of the hospital in the US
who is dying? I know I find that. I find
that not but the CDC is saying it. But just
take that for a moment and pause and just think
about what that means. Think of all the lives that
(08:23):
could have been saved if we had gotten ninety nine
point nine percent of those truly at risk vaccinated instead
of firing thirty five year old nurses with natural immunity
and trying to force everyone's ten year old to get
the shot. Think of the dispersal of resources, the lack
of trust, the authoritarian overreach that has been created by
trying to do this and not just mass vaccination, mass
(08:46):
booster campaign. Now for everybody, people looking around saying, who
are the morons in charge that think this is actually
working well? And what this represents to me, Buck is
the internal polling in the White House on COVID must
be a disaster right now for Joe Biden, because the
first thing I say is okay, they're going to now
(09:09):
start sharing data that frankly, when you and I would
share it on social media. What would we get told, oh,
you're trying to kill Grandma's You would sometimes be told, hey,
you can't share this. It appears to me that big tech,
and I'm curious if you buy into this, it seems
like big tech has stopped restricting the spread in many
ways of critical, critical commentary surrounding COVID all this I got.
(09:34):
I just got hit my Facebook account. I got diging
the last twenty four hours for something I said on
this show, which we then shared at Facebook dot com
slashblock Sexton. So we're now fighting with them as an untruth.
They said, like, this is this independent fact checkers. I
have run circles as have you, around these independent fact
checkers for months when you look at what is actually true,
(09:57):
who ends up being right versus who is going along
with the narrative at the time? Journalism, Big Tech, my friends,
they have betrayed not only their professions but this country
over the course of the pandemic by refusing to stand
for truth, refusing to make sure there's accountability for the
abomination of a CDC, which is at this point they're
(10:18):
the worst three letter agency in the federal government, which
is an astonishing accomplishment and the people who are doing
these fact checks, well, that's interesting that you just got
ding because what I have noticed is it seems like
there now is a willingness to have a debate about
what's going on surrounding the COVID vaccine. And I continue
(10:40):
to say COVID vaccine in question and quotation marks, because
the question that I asked Buck that got everybody riled
up last week on Twitter was just this, name me
any other vaccine in quotation marks that you have to
get three or four shots in a year and it
doesn't prevent you from getting or spreading the virus. I've
never heard of that happen. This is the crappy vaccine.
(11:00):
And anybody's ever heard of I mean, no one's ever
been sitting around saying, yeah, you know, get the MMR
vaccines and maybe get them four times a year for
the rest of your life, and maybe it works, maybe
it doesn't. Doesn't stop the spread. Of course, this is
not what we thought of when this is not what
they told us. To be very clear, they said ninety
five percent protection. You don't get it, you don't spread it.
But Clay, to your point about social media, what I
(11:20):
think we're seeing is that it's more apparent now that
there are some people who are allowed to say what
you and I say, And so that's okay. Now what
are you and I allowed to say it? Right? Can
I say that the vaccines don't stop the spread? I
might get danged, I might get shut down, But Rochelle
Wilenski can go and say it right. It's about who
(11:41):
can say what, which just goes to show you this
is all about power dynamics and has been all along,
and politics and the politics I think on this are
disastrous now for Joe Biden, and I think they are
trying to figure out they're in a tough spot right
because they used COVID to keep Donald Trump from getting
reelected twenty twenty, all of the death counters, which miraculously
(12:03):
have disappeared, even though the deaths are continuing to go up,
all of the nuance surrounding these numbers. Wait a minute,
what's the difference between the COVID death with COVID versus
COVID because a death because of COVID. These were conversations
that were not allowed to happen. And now as they
look ahead to the red wave that is coming in
twenty twenty two to this mid term. As every single
(12:25):
day Buck more and more people my phone. I don't
know about you, but there are friends of mine that
I will hear from pretty regularly who may have been
critical of some of my COVID comments earlier, and they're like, man,
I'm starting to look at the data and a lot
of what you've been saying is true. Yeah, it's not
like I'm pretending to be a Nobel Prize winning scientist.
I'm just looking at the data and using it to
(12:47):
inform my opinions, which is what all intelligent people should do.
And there are Nobel Prize winning scientists that kind of
say we've been saying here in the claim Buck Show.
I'm just gonna just gonna put it out in a
little bit, a little bit of what the claim Buck
Show has been recently. You know, you don't just vote
every November. You vote every single month with the money
you spend to the companies you choose to spend it with.
Consider your current cell phone provider and the bill you're
(13:07):
paying this month. Your money supports the candidates and issues
that they donate to. Do you know who they are.
Let me give you a hint you might be frustrated
to see the support for the leftist politicians pushing liberal agendas.
But there's a solution, Pure Talk. Get your cell phone
service from pure Talk. They use the exact same towers
accessing the exact same five G network as one of
those companies. With pure Talk, you have the peace of
(13:28):
mind that you're supporting a veteran run business with employees
all here in the United States. Clay and I are
proud to be customers for that reason too. And Clay,
this is a monthly bill you can be proud to pay,
no doubt, it's likely to be half of what your
current cell phone bill is. That means you're likely to
save fifty or sixty dollars or more each month. So
how do you get yourself hooked up from your cell
(13:50):
phone right now? Grab them in your hands. Dial pound
two fifty say pure Talk, and you'll save an additional
fifty percent off your first month. Dial pound two five
zero say pure Talk today. Welcome into the second hour
of the Clay, Travis and Buck Sex and show everybody
(14:12):
eight hundred two eight two eight eight two on those
phone lines NYC my hometown. A lot of people listening
on seven ten WR, NYC right now, and you are
very much 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
(14:33):
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, 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
(14:55):
have to do what they usually do an election year,
which is pretend to be something other than that, which
they do a little head fake toward the center. Oh yeah,
we're not that. We're not a bunch of quasi Marxists
running around who want to undermine the very foundations of
American society. No, no, no, 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,
(15:16):
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 they've done in San Francisco, in
New York, in Los Angeles and destroy the largest cities
(15:41):
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 a little bit better on police, but
let me start with this. He has act allowing eight
(16:03):
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 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
(16:26):
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 York City are now because Eric Adams has
allowed the legislation to automatically become law on Sunday, he
(16:46):
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 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
(17:10):
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 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
(17:32):
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 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
(17:52):
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 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
(18:15):
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 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.
(18:36):
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. 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
(18:57):
that mean, like next to New York City is going
to non citizens to vote in federal elections? I mean,
when what do you say to all the people who
went through the process, the difficult process of becoming an
American citizen, 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 stay to them,
(19:19):
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. 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
(19:40):
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 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 going
to put armed robbers in prison at all. I mean,
(20:03):
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 in good
standing Clay, 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
(20:26):
we just get more of the thing that's working out
really poorly for America, eventually it'll be a good thing.
And 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
(20:47):
political arena is exhausted. But what is not going to
go away? Buck? And I'm curious how much do you
think this plays 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
(21:07):
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 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
(21:30):
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 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
(21:53):
I have got the biggest radio show in the country
thanks to taking over for Rush, who had built the
biggest radio show in the country. And much like 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
(22:15):
for many jobs out there. And I'm not sure politicians
are aware 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,
(22:38):
some of that could be done remote, but generally you
had to be there in the meeting, in the room
with people. And now in the digital era 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 Deblasio
(23:00):
was an f I think Eric Adams is going 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
(23:23):
clear 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
(23:44):
during these times or my security, and I trust my
brother deeply. I mean, come on, give me a break,
all right. The rise in white supresse. 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 hate
crimes are rising, it's always about how it's a Republican's fault. A,
and then B when you look at the data, it's
(24:06):
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,
(24:28):
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
started looking at the videos, yeah, and it was all
(24:50):
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
(25:11):
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, Clay,
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 there, and there
(25:34):
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 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
(25:56):
in 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
(26:19):
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
(26:40):
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 into vanished. So I think New
(27:01):
York folks, it's in trouble, and it's showing you that
even a place that is suffering because of bad democrat ideas,
it's very hard to get them to turn around the
Marxist ship. It's very hard to get them to shift gears.
When it comes to protecting the value of receiving his account,
few strategies are more successful than investing a portion of
that saving his account in real goal. That's been proven
(27:23):
over the course of time, particularly in times when inflation
is impacting us in so many ways as it is
these days, Buying real goal and taking possession of it
has been made easy with the help of our friends
at the Oxford Gold Group. Owning and holding real goal
that you can securely store away is a practical reality.
There's nothing like real gold delivered to your home. Buying
real gold is smart, calculated and a proactive thing to do.
(27:46):
My friends at the Oxford Gold Group are who you
need to call to get started. They'll explain everything to you.
Having real goal delivered to your home or having real
goal as part of your IRA, it is just a
phone call away with Oxford Gold. Call them at eight
three three four zero four gold and learn how you
can have real gold in your IRA and delivered to
your door. That's the Oxford Gold Group A three three
(28:06):
four zero four gold A three three four zero four
g LD. 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. So I understand
teacher's frustrations. A lot of school districts did not put
(28:28):
in I did not use the billions of dollars that
they had gotten to put in improvements in 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 wear high quality mass even
without those other upgrades, which I would like to see,
it still is safe for kids and teachers to be
(28:50):
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 the
guys who goes on a lot of the cable news
he's an MSNBCCNN one, though not not somebody that you
would think necessarily is going to ever call out the
fauciite nonsense. But right now we're talking about this the
(29:13):
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 a small business or your an employee of
(29:35):
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
(29:55):
raise 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 on this is
just 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 a hard choice about whether to go
(30:17):
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 New York City stayed open pre vaccination,
(30:40):
have been opened the whole time there's a vaccine, obviously
not in the summertime. But there's no argue, 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. It to me, this is the
(31:02):
biggest failure of all the COVID failures, because you are
talking about the city of Chicago, where every bar is open,
where every sports arena is open. You can go sit
twenty thousand people can and watch the Chicago Bulls play
a basketball game, or watch the Chicago Blackhawks play a
(31:24):
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 every school has to be back. And
(31:47):
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 Lori
Lightfoot is actually trying to hold accountable but doesn't have
any real ability to do so, how does this situation
resolve itself? I don't even really know the answer. This
(32:09):
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 hero of the left wing of this country.
(32:31):
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 are running the city of Chicago. You've
(32:53):
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. Some of them are remote Milwaukee area kids.
(33:14):
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 in particular all over this country, blue city
(33:36):
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 arguments from the other side, and we call out
(33:57):
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
award that this is really just about fear of the virus.
(34:19):
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
quickly and have such a small viral load. Maybe they
(34:41):
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, and are they willing to go to work?
I mean, I think there's some part of them that
(35:02):
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 have to remember, and again I want to reiterate,
we know we have tons of listeners of this show, teachers,
(35:26):
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,
they've been back in school forever now. But the precedent
that we sat buck was in March of twenty twenty.
(35:50):
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
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
(36:11):
because we were in the middle of a presidential 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
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
(36:34):
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,
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.
(36:55):
Why do you think about my hidden camera theory that
of all these and mother way, this is the Chicago
Go Teachers unions we're talking about. To Clay's point, I
know they have been you know, my my Jesuit High
School here in New York City, they've been they've been
opened for 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're playing a plenty of schools,
thousands and thousands them across the country, and the teachers
(37:15):
have been showing up and a lot of them have
gone COVID. They're fine. And anyway, I think if you
followed around the teacher's union president with a hidden camera,
which you'd find is that he's really scared of COVID
from kids in the classroom, or maybe he doesn't even teach, right,
but you know some of his members and they're at
like packed bars in downtown Chicago watching the football games.
(37:37):
Mister Travis, you know it's joy. 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, and you would follow that person around be like, well,
you know you were able to go to the gym,
(37:57):
you know, I got pictures here if you meditain, 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 do you remember I think it was the
Chicago Area Teachers Union head, wasn't it who got popped
on her vacation to Puerto Rico. I remember this. I
(38:18):
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? Did she stop taking the virus? Seriously?
(38:42):
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 and had COVID already. But notice she
goes she goes down to Florida. I guess she's not
so scared of ron death Santis is Florida after all, Clay,
(39:03):
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 positive, 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 who know they have it that
are staying at home. I mean, this is crazy. Mortgage
(39:25):
rates are still near record lows, but experts are forecasting
several increases in twenty twenty two. That's not an if,
but rather oh when and by how much? That makes
now the time to get a free mortgage review from
American Financing. It's a quick and easy way to see
if you can save up to a thousand dollars a
month without resetting your loan. It really is possible to
(39:45):
pay less than interest and stay on track to be
mortgage free because of American Financing they can write any
term ten years and over, so you're not wasting your
hard earned money on years you don't need. You really
do have an opportunity to save up to twelve thousand
dollars a year. American Financing has helped thousands of people
just like you for over twenty years, so you can
(40:07):
trust that they're good at what they do and that's
saving people like you money. So why not learn more?
You could skip get this, folks. You could skip two
mortgage payments and close on a new quick loan too.
And by the way I use American Financing, I know
how much money you can save as well, because these
guys in American Financing do incredible work. Here's how you
(40:28):
do it. Get your phones in your hand call eight
hundred seven seven seven eighty one O nine. That's eight
hundred seven seven seven eighty one oh nine. Or you
can visit American Financing dot net, MLS one eight two
three three four MLS, Consumer access dot org. Welcome back
(40:48):
in Clay 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 sit around
(41:10):
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 love us. And you could watch these
shows with your mom and dad, with your grandma and grandpa,
(41:30):
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 kind of like
a gut punch Bob Saget, 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 was like an updated
(41:54):
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
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 TGIF lineup.
(42:14):
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 I share as as one
of the great loves of cinema. But yeah, he was
(42:35):
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 dollar 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. I was 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 Welleially, I wasn't as
(42:58):
expensive those Victorians 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 Saget Alan Thick, the dad
on Girl Names, Jason sever if I remember correctly. Uh,
(43:19):
Bill Cosby before we knew the Bill Cosby off the
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 airtas another fantastic dad. Um,
(43:42):
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
(44:03):
head Lights, that's a phenomenal Eric Taylor's fair. I want
him to be, you know, the coach of my kids team.
We gotta we gotta bring him back. We could use
coach Eric Taylor to give us pep talks during the
course of the show, like 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 you
know what I did? They sold off all of the
(44:26):
props from Friday Night Lights. Did you know about this, NBC?
Did I bought a Dylan Panthers 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 we should have gone on longer.
I got hurt by the writer's strike at one point.
(44:46):
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. Face like a very well done
show for what it is, and you can really have
(45:07):
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
back and watch a show. So I watched all of
(45:30):
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 wouldn't even coordinate this. No,
I watched season one. I'm all in for seasons two, three,
and four. Now, uh, 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? It changes things up a little bit and
(45:51):
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 wanted 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
(46:14):
to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton fund the EIB Network
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show News
Hosts And Creators
Clay Travis
Buck Sexton
Show Links
WebsiteNewsletterPopular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.