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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome to Tuesday, November, fourth year of Our Lord, twenty
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it together. After all, we're all in this together. This
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just waking up. The forty sixth Vice President of the
United States has died. Former Vice President Dick Cheney died
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at the age of eighty four. Cheney's career in public
service began in nineteen sixty nine. He joined the Nixon
administration went on to be the Ford White House chief
of staff, then a representative from Wyoming made his way
to Secretary of Defense under H. W. Bush, and then
running mate and vice president for eight years under George W.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Bush. Dick Cheney dead at the age of eighty four.
Today's election day.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Voters are going to the polls in New York City
the Big Mom Donnie race, as well as big governor
races in New Jersey and Virginia, and the Trump administration
plans to use contingency funds to partially pay snap benefits.
As the federal government shutdown rolls on into its second month.
Looking at electric vehicle sales, they appear to be pardon
(01:41):
the pun in the tank. National correspondent Roy O'Neil is
here with the story. Good morning, Rory, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
We're seeing a big fall off in electric sales numbers,
and largely because we thing all those subsidies went away
at the end of September, so people were rushing to
car dealerships up through September thirtieth, and then in October
we're steering clear. Ford, Diya, Hyundai, and Toyota all reported
significant declines in EV sales as many buyers pulled Forward
(02:10):
their purchases to make the purchase in September when they
could still get credits of up to seventy five hundred dollars.
Forward saw a twenty five percent drop in its year
over year all electric October sales.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So this whole experiment, you know, I always felt like
the amount of materials and the difficulty in getting these
materials to create these batteries, the amount of investment that
it takes up front, these charging stations that you would
put in your home, or you would pay roughly the
(02:45):
same thing if you go to public ones as you
would to fill up with gas. So the transition to
your home, and whether it's one car or both car.
I mean, there's just a lot of things working against this.
But make no mistake about it. You pull a way
to paid incentive and it's left on its own and
it's falling.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
How do they get it stabilized?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's not well, it's not fall What we saw was
a fall off in October because the subsidies went away.
Year over year, EV sales are up thirty percent from
where they were a year ago. For the month of October,
forty percent jumped from quarter to quarter. But again, what
we saw, we believe was just a lot of that
buying activity.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean, why you.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Wouldn't leave seventy five hundred bucks on the table right
if you were about to buy a car. So now
the question is the question you're asking, you know, it
was this all subsidies.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, do you need more subsidies? Right? So now going forward,
there's still confidence.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
But you know, Toyota, for instance, is betting more that
we're all fans of hybrids. They've really been pushing more
hybrids and seeing a lot of success there. Others have
been trying to go all electric with things like the
F one to fifty Lightning or the Mustang E, which
is a fine car, but it ain't a Mustang, let's
be clear.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
But the.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So all all those questions though about you know, what
the long term future is. I think it's still a
bit of an x because look, Tesla is still selling
an awful lot of vehicles out there.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Subsidies are not.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, and Prius has been one of the great success
stories really of this century, and that's the hybrid technology mostly.
You know, I have an electric and I love the
way drives. It's not an environmental choice, it's just it's
a performance choice.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But you know, it's been a handful.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I mean, this thing in my garage sometimes works, sometimes
it keeps tripping, but by and large, you know, you
I've always felt like Rory that you remember when Beta
came out and you were like, and then VHS, but
then even VHS is DVD coming. You know, it feels
like there's something else coming. But right now the growth
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has been somewhat it's always something else coming. That's well,
that's true, Dick Cheney. Anything you want to say or
should we do that in the third hour, we could
do that later.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But yeah, it's just an incredible series of arcs to
his life in terms of being sort of the come
up guy behind the scenes guy to Defense secretary, to
sort of going into the private sector working with oil
companies around the world, and then suddenly pulled back into
politics under George W. Bush, and then a very different
(05:18):
political turn in the later years.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So it's a remarkable series of arccidents. Yeah, we'll cover
Dick Cheney died at the age of eighty four. This
is a guy that behind the scenes was always a
mover and shaker. In front of the scenes, somewhat unlikable
and a little harsh, but we'll talk more about that
and remember him. It's also election day in several states,
where you'll have more on that coming up in the
third hour. Did I mention that James Carafano was back
(05:42):
from his long hiatus? I do think you did. It
was borderline a wall. We'll have to address that with him.
But we've engaged in wars, cold and hot wars with
socialist communist nations my entire life, and now one of
our two major parties leans socialist. Literally by the numbers,
their voters prefer socialism over capitalism.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We'll ask Lieutenant Colonel, is this.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
A Democrat party problem or are we literally at war
with ourselves in this country?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And Clay Travis from Claim Buck is going to join us.
He's out with a new book called Balls, How Trump
One Men and Democrats lost them. Listen, here's the most
significant reason why I want you to listen next half hour,
because if in fact the Democrats have a male problem
and not a Trump problem. Trump may go away in
(06:32):
three years, but men are not. We'll talk about that
with Clay Travis coming up. Can't have your morning show
without your voice, wouldn't have your morning show without your voice.
Let's start with Joseph as sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, I have a frozen computer. It looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah seriously, yeah, yeah, I'm having to kill that program starting.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Oh, I can talk unst yourselves. I'll be right back.
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
We were growing over the polling information and what the
poll would suggest, and it was done by the Daily
Mail through JL Partners. So this is polling that nobody
in America thought to do, but across the pond they did,
and that was as New Yorkers, what are you going
to do if Mom Donnie wins? Are you going to stay?
(07:23):
Are you going to consider leaving? Or definitely leave? We
found it interesting to definitely leave. The majority among candidates
was the Sleeve with supporters, second, the Cuomo the least,
as you would imagine Mom Donnie. The most that said
they would leave was fifty to sixty four year olds,
followed by sixty five plusers, and then third was eighteen
to twenty nine young people that said they would leave.
(07:47):
Perhaps that small percentage of young people that said they
would leave are ones that are actually making decent money.
Who knows it. Definitely leans men would leave more than women.
And what we thought was younger support from US Donnie
is somewhat translated differently, but inside the numbers, the poll
found that seven percent of those earning over two hundred
(08:08):
and fifty thousand dollars would definitely leave. So the more
money you make, the more likely you are to leave.
Why because they're going to take your money to pay
for all these freebies for everyone else. And keep in mind,
in New York City, the top one percent of earners
pay around half of the city's income taxes. That number
would be extraordinarily higher to provide free food, free childcare,
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free transportation, locked in rent, let alone, seizing property rights.
I mean, there's a lot of mayhem if mon Donnie
should win, and then some of it that may never
even happen. It's just raw pandering because he can only
raise corporate taxes. He can't raise individual tax rates without
the governor's approval, and she has vowed not to allow that.
(08:52):
So time will tell him that, all right, we're unfrozen.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
To Joseph we Go, Michael, I'm trying to understand why
it is that big money I need supporters support Mamdami
when the policies that he puts.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Forth and would hurt them the most, and it would
hurt business in New York and it would hurt their
ability to make money. I just can't figure out why
they would do that.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well, they're already paying a big price tag. I don't
know that I see a lot of evidence of that.
You brought up the one group read that was in
support of this, But I mean, we just saw in
this poll, the more money somebody made, the more likely
they were to say I will definitely leave, not may leave,
(09:40):
or stay definitely leave. So I would think the exodus
would be those with means because it's about to be
taken from them.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But you mentioned that on one area.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Do you see any large support among wealthy people for
mom Donnie?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I think Red's frozen now.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
No, okay, not the ultra wealthy.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, no, Jim is in Florida.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Look, the people in this country have been snookered by
that great fiction that Philip Bustiout, a French philosopher, warned
about two hundred years ago that government socialism is that
great fiction that purports to take care of everybody's personal
needs at the expense of everybody else. And those New Yorkers,
the ten percent that want to leave, are they going
to vote. If he had ten percent of people voting,
(10:30):
Mondamie would never get in.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Thanks. Yeah, well that was what I said an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So according to this JL Partners and Daily Mail survey,
it found that nine percent of New Yorkers would definitely
leave the city if Mom Donnie were to win. The
city is eight point five million people. Ten percent, you're
looking at over eight hundred thousand. All of early voting
came to what five hundred and sixty thousand. Yeah, these people,
(10:56):
instead of threatening to leave, would make sure they both
bring somebody with them.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
He's not gonna win, but well, there's gonna be a difference.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
There's gonna be a difference between total people in voting age,
so that that's not the same. Well yeah, I know, yes,
and not everyone's going to vote either. So you know,
we find in America only half of us vote at best.
So I mean, if there's a million or so people
that say this guy wins, I'm leaving. If those millions
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show up and vote, I doubt he's going to win.
And I'm with Jim. I mean, the numbers just don't
make sense.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh, dunn, Oh.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
I keep thinking that major cities like Chicago Austin, Sacramento,
Los Angeles, Philadelphia already have many socialist programs in place.
For that reason, I'm not sure that New York City
is going to learn from those lessons good luck.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, I mean that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We are somewhat a socialist hybrid as it is, so,
you know, but to go out, I mean, I guess Mom,
Donnie will be the first to you know, rather than
you know, be socialist, democrat or any kind of hyend.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'm a socialist.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Never really came clean about being an Islamist. I guess
that makes him at first. But yeah, the problem is
throughout human history it just hasn't worked. So he's proposing
something that is a historic proof and failure. Oh my gosh,
there's something about Mary.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
I have a novel idea for all of the million
or so people who want to leave New York and
go live in other places and ruin their states and cities.
How about if you go out and grab four or
five other people and go vote to not have a
Democrat socialist mayor of New York City.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
You know, just an idea. It reminds me.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It reminds me of one time I was in the
car with my mom and it was raining and she
looks at me and I'm looking at right in the eye.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
As she's driving. He goes, Michael, I'm going to hit
that car in front of me.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And I'm staring right in the eye, and I go,
I think you are too. Now, we could have spent
that time, I don't know, hitting the brakes instead of
having a conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chuno.
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If you're just waking up in his twenty six minutes
after the hour, and these are your top five stories.
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Of the day.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Former Vice President of the United States, the forty sixth
Vice President of the United States, says died Dick Cheney
died at the age of eighty four. Chaney's career in
public service began in nineteen sixty nine. He was an
aide in the Nixon administration as well as the Ford administration,
where he rose to be the White House Chief of Staff.
Later became a congressman of Wyoming, working his way up
to minority whip, then later appointed Secretary of Defense by H. W.
(13:51):
Bush and then running meet and Vice President by George W.
Bush and announcing his passing, Cheney's family said his death
was due to complications of pneumonia, cardiac and vascular disease.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Tick Cheney dead at the age of seventy four.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Today is day thirty five of the federal government's shutdown,
tying the record for the longest shutdown in history.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
The Senate is set to vote for a fourteenth time
to try and end the impasse, and Senate Majority Leader
John Thune says these optimistic lawmakers will find a solution
this week. Democrats are holding firm on demands to save
healthcare subsidies that keep insurance premiums down for millions, while
Republicans have refused to negotiate until the government is reopened.
In the meantime, the US Department of Agricultures planning to
(14:32):
use contingency funds to pay partial food assistance benefits to
millions of Americans affected by the shutdown. I'm Tammy Trihio.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The Trump administration plans to use contingency funds to partially
pay snap benefits as the federal government shutdown rolls on.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
In a court Finally, Monday, the administration said the money
would cover fifty percent of eligible households current alluntments. This
comes after two separate rulings last week ordered the Trump
administration to tamp emergency funds that will cover some of
the SNAP program. Funding for the a food assistance program
ran on Saturday. About forty two million Americans received SNAP benefits.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'm Mark Neyview.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Voters in California are headed at the polls today too
to vote on the congressional maps. Jack Crumley has more.
Speaker 11 (15:11):
A ballot measure being voted on today in California would
redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats. Proposition fifty
is being pushed by Governor Gavin Newsom as he aims
to give Democrats more seats in Congress. Recent polls show
the measure is likely to be approved. Prop fifty is
a response to Republican led redistricting plans in a handful
of states across the country. Other Democratic led states, like
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Virginia have also pushed forward their own congressional map changes.
I'm Jack Crumley. Actress Diane Ladd has died.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
Lad's death confirmed in a statement from the actress Laura Dern,
Ladd's daughter from her marriage to the actor Bruce Dern.
Lads film and television career spanned more than fifty years
and included both Emmy and Academy Award nominations. She was
nominated for three Oscars for roles in Alice, Doesn't Live
Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose. The Mississippi
(16:00):
native died at her home in California Monday. Diane Ladd
was eighty nine years old. Liz Morner, NBC News Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
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ever have one of your parents say if you keep
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Speaker 3 (16:57):
I can't we got to Jack. Jack Sitterelly is in.
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cough out of my throne. Good morning, Welcome to your
morning show. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at
the age of eighty four complications from pneumonia, cardiac and
vascular disease. It's election day in the governor's race in
New Jersey and Virginia, and of course the big mayor's
race in New York City, and the Trump administration plans
(17:26):
to use contingency funds to partially pay snap benefits to
federal government employees during this and to citizens during the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Clay Travis from Clay and Buckets with us.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
He's out with a new book called Balls, How Trump
Won Men and Democrats Lost them.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's an explosive new book. It's out today.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You can get it and the proceeds help benefit a
great charity. Clay, Good morning, and welcome to your morning show.
Speaker 13 (17:53):
Well, it's great to talk with you guys. I'm a
born and raised Nashville guy, as I imagine a lot
of people out there know. And I am up in
New York City doing promotion right now for all of
the things relating to Ball. So I hope people go
out by the book. I think they will enjoy it.
And I'm up here doing all the promotion and then
I'll head back home to Nashville. So can't wait born
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and raised Nashville kids.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I was just going to say, we're on one hundred
and seven stations, but we originate from Nashville.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
We could have done this right at home, couldn't we have?
Speaker 7 (18:22):
All?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Let's talk about the book, because I love the thesis
of it, which is twofold one. How did Wokeness just
end by somebody calling it out?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And that's someone being Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
But the other thesis is that he lost men, that
the Democrats may have a man problem, not a Trump problem,
because if that's true, Trump goes away in three years.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Men don't.
Speaker 13 (18:45):
Yeah. Look, I think the big issue that Democrats have
is their brand has become toxic with young men. And
I spend a lot of time writing about that. It's
not coincidental. I have three boys, so I try to
see the world through their eyes as well. And there's
a part of the book, and I bet a lot
of people who have kids and grandkids, particularly boys, may
have experienced this. I grew up in an era where
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we said, hey, men and women should be able to
achieve excellence in whatever their chosen pursuits are, and you
shouldn't be restricted by your gender. We want to treat
people equally under the law. That doesn't mean that we're
equal in all respects, and it certainly doesn't mean that
girls are better than boys. And during COVID, my kids,
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my two youngest, were obsessed with collecting sports cards. And
I remember we were walking into a Target in the
Nashville area and my middle son stopped me and he said, Dad,
they would never have those for us. And I said,
what do you mean And he said, look at those shirts.
And the entire front of the store was just girl
(19:51):
power girl power shirts. He said, Dad, they would never
sell boy power shirts. And yeah, I seeing it suddenly
through his eyes. This world that young boys are growing
up in, that young men are growing up in, they're
being taught, told and taught that they are the cause
of all life's problems. And it started with young white boys,
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and then it spread to Black, Asian, Hispanic young men,
toxic masculinity in general, and they're just fed up. They're
just looking around and saying, there's nothing wrong with us.
And I think there is a real rebellion that's gone on.
And there's a section of the book where I talk
about that for many people, young men are looking for
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a man to aspire to and emulate, and a lot
of young men find that to be their grandfathers, because
maybe dad's not home, maybe there's an older guy that
is influential to them, and they look up to them.
And for Trump, I think a lot of young men
see him as an avatar of masculinity that they would
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aspire to emulate in some ways. And the bravery that
he showed in Butler, Pennsylvania, I think really resonated with
young men and in my world, ended the election when
it came to young men, but also men of all
ages and of all races, which I think is one
of the big stories of Trump twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Clay Travis joining us balls, how Trump won men and
Democrats lost them.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
You know, it's interesting you bring that up.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I have two daughters as well, and I think we
have a great advantage having our kids at this age
and watching it. I can tell you I can talk
to my two daughters or my son, and you know
they'll accept gay issues.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It was too far transgender.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
They saw that when they had a friend who thought
they were a dog and they started dressing like a dog,
eating from a dog played at home. This all looked
like mental illness to them. And I think it was
the combination of the gender play and then COVID. It
was a deadly combination for the youth. And I think
they lost I mean you talk about losing them. I
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think there are girls. I can tell you my daughter's
just turned twenty one and they're looking for a man
to marry, and they have a generation of men who
have been remolded, and so I think there's going to
be some backlash into the twenties with this age group
as well.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
No, look, this is a huge part of the book.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
I write about young women in particular two in young men,
and I think what you hit on is something that
is profoundly significant. It is we tried to tell men
to be more like women, and we tried to tell
women to be more like men, and we have created
this mishmash of women who don't want effeminate men and
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men who don't want masculine women, and everybody's less happy
than they were before all this craziness began. And I
spend a lot of time on that because I think
the ultimate result is people don't get married and there's
a lot less kids, which is not good for humanity.
And there's a big part of the book where I
write about the most successful women. I was actually talking
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about this with a super successful woman last night as
near the Fox studios. And the number of super successful
women now who can't find men to have kids with
that are going through sperm donor notebooks and picking people
that they don't know at all that they would rather
have a child with than actual real men is not good.
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And the number of men out there that can't find
women and then become embittered and angry because providing is
a big part of how most men providing for a
family see themselves in an aspirational way. And so I
think gender roles are going to be a profound challenge
for many people out there, and this book really kind
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of addresses that and your point on the trans issue,
by the way, as soon as they can get you.
The book opens with the Leah Thomas story. As soon
as they can get you the pin swimmer, who was
a man that won a women's INCAA championship. As soon
as they can get you to say that man is
a woman, They're getting you to lie. And once they
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can get you to lie about an objective, realistic, biological truth,
they can get you to lie about anything. And I
think that is a part of the goal.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It takes a lot of courage to write a book
like this. Clay Travis from The Clay and Buck Show
joining us. The name of the book is called Balls.
How Trump won Men and Democrats lost them. Clay, this
is kind of like a cultural war consequence in the
backdrop of politics and a generational problem.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
How do we get out of this?
Speaker 13 (24:42):
I think men have to aspire to masculinity, traditional notions
of strength and providing for families. I think that a
lot of a lot of women are going to be
very unhappy with the world they have created, where I
don't think there's that many women who want to look
(25:05):
around at sixty years old and say, hey, I never
got married, I never had a family, and maybe I
was sold a little bit of a bill of goods,
and I think there are a lot of young men
that have come to that realization. And I think the
story of twenty twenty eight, this is in the book,
is going to be more and more young women looking around.
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There's an argument. I make this argument in the book
that feminism as we experience it today is actually what
every man would have wanted if he was rich and
powerful in like nineteen sixty five. You have unlimited access
to sex and almost zero effort that you have to
put into it. You've got apps, you can get on
(25:50):
Instagram and just scroll through one pretty girl after another,
send him a barely legible message, and just wait and
see who's going to respond. I don't think women find
that attractive, and I certainly don't think it's helpful when
it comes to the propagation of the species, that this
is what we've created.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You know, I look at your life and a lot
of people you know, kind of stare and they go,
this guy is about being a husband, about being a father,
and then just love sports, everything sports. How does he
end up being the replacement for Rush Limbaugh? But you
know what, Clay, I think in God's plan, you were
the perfect view and the perfect eyes for this topic
(26:32):
because it's really sports and competition that opened America's eyes
to this really worldview political and cultural flaw.
Speaker 13 (26:42):
Well that's very flattering to say, but I do think
you're correct that seeing the world suddenly become identity politics
in sports made me aware of what they were trying
to create culturally, because sports is about the best man
or woman winning. It's the ultimate meritocracy. There is equality
(27:03):
of opportunity, but there's no different treatment based on your
race or gender. We're all equal, and this is I'll
leave everybody with this to think about, and I hope
people go out and check out the book. I'm donating
the proceeds to charity. I just want these arguments out
there to win. But think about this, I can make
a strong argument. I think that the last object that anybody, Republicans,
(27:24):
Democrats and independent trust to be an accurate reflection of
the real world is the scoreboard. Think about it. Everybody
trusts the scoreboard to get the score right. If somebody
steps on a three point line, everybody points and says,
wait a minute, that was a two, that wasn't a three,
Hey get the score up. That run should count. That
(27:44):
run shouldn't count. That's because we trust the rules of sports.
I think we need to make America more like sports
and sports less like American identity politics. That's the thesis
of the book overall.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Thanks so much for your time, Lay Travis.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The book is called Balls, How Trump Won Men and
Democrats Lost them. It's available Amazon and everywhere great books
are sold. And as you just mentioned, no profit. He's
giving it to charity. So get the book Balls by
Clay Travis. Thank you, Clay, God bless you all right.
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Speaker 1 (29:33):
Forty sixth Vice President of the United States. Dick Cheney
has died at eighty four. Started off as a Nixon
ad back in nineteen sixty nine. He went on to
be an aide for Gerald Ford after Watercape, elevating himself
all the way to White House chief of staff for President.
Ford later ran for Congress representing Wyoming, became the minority whip.
(29:54):
Eventually got tapped to be Secretary of Defense by H. W.
Bush and then by presidential running mate for his son,
George W. Bush tick Cheney, dead at the age of
eighty four, according to the family, complications of pneumonia and
cardiac and vascular disease. While the Trump administration plans to
use contingency funds to partially pay SNAP benefits as the
(30:16):
federal government shutdown rolls on, in.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
A court finaling Monday, the administration said the money would
cover fifty percent of eligible households current alumpments. This comes
after two separate rulings last week ordered the Trump administration
to tamp emergency funds that will cover some of the
SNAP program. Funding for the food assistance program ran on Saturday.
About forty two million Americans received SNAP benefits. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
A late ad supporting Andrew Cuomo in New York City's
mayors ray shows Democratic nominees or On Mamdani in front
of a video showing the collapse of the twin Towers
on nine to eleven.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
The ad, which also shows one of the towers bursting
into flames, comes from the pro Cuomo super Pack four
Hour City Former mayor Michael Bloomberg just backed the group
with more than three million dollars. It's an attempt to
link Mom Donnie to talker Hassan Piker, who said America
deserves nine to eleven on a livestream in twenty nineteen.
Mom Donnie appeared with Piker in April, and, after months
(31:10):
of criticism from Cuomo, called Piker's comments objectionable and reprehensible.
At a recent debate, Mam Donnie's also complained about Cuomo
and Republican Curtis Sliwa injecting Islamophobia into the race. Andrew
Whitman NBC News Radio, New York.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Two races for governor in Our Nation Spotlight Today Virginia
and New Jersey Jack Crumley has more.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
New governors are being elected by voters in two states today.
In Virginia, Democrat Abigail Spanburger has maintained a double digit
lead over Republican lieutenant governor wins some earl sears. In
New Jersey, Democrat Mikey Cheryl's lead in the polls over
Republican Jack Chittarelli has narrowed to single digits. Former President
Obama has appeared at rallies for both span Burger and Cheryl. Meanwhile,
(31:53):
President Trump held tele rallies for Chitdarelly and Winsome Earl sears,
but did not make any in person. Jack Crumbley Disney's
request to YouTube TV to return ABC Television back to
its platform ahead of election Day has been denied.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Disney had asked YouTube TV to restore ABC for election
day as a matter of public interest, so subscribers could,
in the company's words, have access to the information they
rely on. It all comes amid a blackout and dispute
between the two companies, as Disney owned channels, including ABC
and ESPN, have been removed from YouTube tv, making them
no longer available to an estimated ten million subscribers. I'm
(32:31):
Tammy Triheo.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
The US Postal Service is launching its Operations Santa campaign.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Mark Mayfield has the details.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Comes Santa Claus, and Comes Santa Claus Right Down Santa CAUs.
Speaker 10 (32:44):
The annual initiative connects kids and families in need with
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Speaker 1 (33:01):
I'm Mark Mayfield, Well, technology is causing the death of
another form of payment inside your checkbook.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
We go with bre Tennis's story.
Speaker 15 (33:11):
Target says only three percent of their transactions are with checks,
so they banned them. So did all the Old Navy, Lululemon,
Whole Foods, and a long list of other companies. The
Federal Reserve says it's good for business because credit or
debit cards have less fraud. They're also faster at the checkout.
It's the over fifty age group that still writes checks,
and it's hard to give up, like having cash in
(33:31):
your wallet, something the younger generation also doesn't grasp. I'm
bre Tennis Well.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Last night, Marvin Harrison seven catches ninety six yards in
a touchdown, not enough to make up the seventy point
deficit of my fantasy football weekend, but enough for the
Cardinals to win twenty seven to seventeen over the Cowboys
in Dallas. On the ice, the Blues won three to
two over the Edmonton Oilers. Penguins lost four to three
to the Leafs in Toronto, and the Breads get a
point but lost five to four to the Canooks in
(33:59):
over time. On the Hardwood Pistons won one fourteen, one
oh six over the grizz That's my Detroit market.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Over my Memphis market. I can't win in these situations.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
My Los Angeles market versus my Portland market went Blaker's way.
They beat the Blazers one twenty three, one fifteen. The
King's lost to the Nuggets last night, one thirty to
one twenty four. Birthdays today the Karate Kid himself, or
should I say Cobra Kai.
Speaker 13 (34:23):
Kai.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I like Cobra Kai way better than I like Karate Kid.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Ralph Machio is sixty four years old today.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
All right, alright, alright.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Matthew McConaughey is fifty six. I thought he was older
than that. Former OSU cowboy and Dallas cowboy Des Bryant
is thirty seven. And if it's your birthday, Happy birthday.
We are so glad you were born. And thanks for
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All right.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
When we come back, James Carafano was finally back. I
was about to report him for being a wall but
he's back in the country. We've been engaged in wars,
hot wars and cold wars with social those communist nations
my entire life. Now one of our two major parties
is majority socialist. Probably should sit down with the Lieutenant
(35:09):
colonel and ask him if this is a Democrat Party
problem or if we are actually officially at war with
ourselves here in America. James Carafona, White House Correspondent, John
Decker and Roy O'Neill and Moore your Sounds of the Day.
All next hour is your Morning Show continues.
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O'Dell Jornan seven minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome to Tuesday, November, fourth year of Our Lord, twenty
twenty five. One chance to live this day and understand
it together. After all, we're all in this together. This
is your morning show. I'm Michael del Journal Jeffrey's got
the sound redkeeping and eye on the content if you're
just waking up. The forty sixth Vice President of the
United States has died. Former Vice President Dick Cheney died
(00:55):
at the age of eighty four. Cheney's career in public
service began in nineteen sixty nine. He joined the Nixon
administration went on to be the Ford White House chief
of staff, then a representative from Wyoming made his way
to Secretary of Defense under H. W. Bush, and then
running mate and vice president for eight years under George W.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Bush. Dick Cheney dead at the age of eighty four.
Today's election day.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Voters are going to the polls in New York City
the Big Mom Donnie race, as well as big governor
races in New Jersey and Virginia, and the Trump administration
plans to use contingency funds to partially pay snap benefits.
As the federal government shutdown rolls on into its second month.
Looking at electric vehicle sales, they appear to be pardon
(01:41):
the pun in the tank. National correspondent Roy O'Neil is
here with the story. Good morning, Rory, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
We're seeing a big fall off in electric sales numbers,
and largely because we thing all those subsidies went away
at the end of September, so people were rushing to
car dealerships up through September thirtieth, and then in October
we're steering clear. Ford, Diya, Hyundai, and Toyota all reported
significant declines in EV sales as many buyers pulled Forward
(02:10):
their purchases to make the purchase in September when they
could still get credits of up to seventy five hundred dollars.
Forward saw a twenty five percent drop in its year
over year all electric October sales.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
So this whole experiment, you know, I always felt like
the amount of materials and the difficulty in getting these
materials to create these batteries, the amount of investment that
it takes up front, these charging stations that you would
put in your home, or you would pay roughly the
(02:45):
same thing if you go to public ones as you
would to fill up with gas. So the transition to
your home, and whether it's one car or both car.
I mean, there's just a lot of things working against this.
But make no mistake about it. You pull a way
to paid incentive and it's left on its own and
it's falling.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
How do they get it stabilized?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's not well, it's not fall What we saw was
a fall off in October because the subsidies went away.
Year over year, EV sales are up thirty percent from
where they were a year ago. For the month of October,
forty percent jumped from quarter to quarter. But again, what
we saw, we believe was just a lot of that
buying activity.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean, why you.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Wouldn't leave seventy five hundred bucks on the table right
if you were about to buy a car. So now
the question is the question you're asking, you know, it
was this all subsidies.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, do you need more subsidies? Right? So now going forward,
there's still confidence.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
But you know, Toyota, for instance, is betting more that
we're all fans of hybrids. They've really been pushing more
hybrids and seeing a lot of success there. Others have
been trying to go all electric with things like the
F one to fifty Lightning or the Mustang E, which
is a fine car, but it ain't a Mustang, let's
be clear.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
But the.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So all all those questions though about you know, what
the long term future is. I think it's still a
bit of an x because look, Tesla is still selling
an awful lot of vehicles out there.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Subsidies are not.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, and Prius has been one of the great success
stories really of this century, and that's the hybrid technology mostly.
You know, I have an electric and I love the
way drives. It's not an environmental choice, it's just it's
a performance choice.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But you know, it's been a handful.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I mean, this thing in my garage sometimes works, sometimes
it keeps tripping, but by and large, you know, you
I've always felt like Rory that you remember when Beta
came out and you were like, and then VHS, but
then even VHS is DVD coming. You know, it feels
like there's something else coming. But right now the growth
(04:48):
has been somewhat it's always something else coming. That's well,
that's true, Dick Cheney. Anything you want to say or
should we do that in the third hour, we could
do that later.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But yeah, it's just an incredible series of arcs to
his life in terms of being sort of the come
up guy behind the scenes guy to Defense secretary, to
sort of going into the private sector working with oil
companies around the world, and then suddenly pulled back into
politics under George W. Bush, and then a very different
(05:18):
political turn in the later years.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So it's a remarkable series of arccidents. Yeah, we'll cover
Dick Cheney died at the age of eighty four. This
is a guy that behind the scenes was always a
mover and shaker. In front of the scenes, somewhat unlikable
and a little harsh, but we'll talk more about that
and remember him. It's also election day in several states,
where you'll have more on that coming up in the
third hour. Did I mention that James Carafano was back
(05:42):
from his long hiatus? I do think you did. It
was borderline a wall. We'll have to address that with him.
But we've engaged in wars, cold and hot wars with
socialist communist nations my entire life, and now one of
our two major parties leans socialist. Literally by the numbers,
their voters prefer socialism over capitalism.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We'll ask Lieutenant Colonel, is this.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
A Democrat party problem or are we literally at war
with ourselves in this country?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And Clay Travis from Claim Buck is going to join us.
He's out with a new book called Balls, How Trump
One Men and Democrats lost them. Listen, here's the most
significant reason why I want you to listen next half hour,
because if in fact the Democrats have a male problem
and not a Trump problem. Trump may go away in
(06:32):
three years, but men are not. We'll talk about that
with Clay Travis coming up. Can't have your morning show
without your voice, wouldn't have your morning show without your voice.
Let's start with Joseph as sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, I have a frozen computer. It looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah seriously, yeah, yeah, I'm having to kill that program starting.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Oh, I can talk unst yourselves. I'll be right back.
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
We were growing over the polling information and what the
poll would suggest, and it was done by the Daily
Mail through JL Partners. So this is polling that nobody
in America thought to do, but across the pond they did,
and that was as New Yorkers, what are you going
to do if Mom Donnie wins? Are you going to stay?
(07:23):
Are you going to consider leaving? Or definitely leave? We
found it interesting to definitely leave. The majority among candidates
was the Sleeve with supporters, second, the Cuomo the least,
as you would imagine Mom Donnie. The most that said
they would leave was fifty to sixty four year olds,
followed by sixty five plusers, and then third was eighteen
to twenty nine young people that said they would leave.
(07:47):
Perhaps that small percentage of young people that said they
would leave are ones that are actually making decent money.
Who knows it. Definitely leans men would leave more than women.
And what we thought was younger support from US Donnie
is somewhat translated differently, but inside the numbers, the poll
found that seven percent of those earning over two hundred
(08:08):
and fifty thousand dollars would definitely leave. So the more
money you make, the more likely you are to leave.
Why because they're going to take your money to pay
for all these freebies for everyone else. And keep in mind,
in New York City, the top one percent of earners
pay around half of the city's income taxes. That number
would be extraordinarily higher to provide free food, free childcare,
(08:32):
free transportation, locked in rent, let alone, seizing property rights.
I mean, there's a lot of mayhem if mon Donnie
should win, and then some of it that may never
even happen. It's just raw pandering because he can only
raise corporate taxes. He can't raise individual tax rates without
the governor's approval, and she has vowed not to allow that.
(08:52):
So time will tell him that, all right, we're unfrozen.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
To Joseph we Go, Michael, I'm trying to understand why
it is that big money I need supporters support Mamdami
when the policies that he puts.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Forth and would hurt them the most, and it would
hurt business in New York and it would hurt their
ability to make money. I just can't figure out why
they would do that.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well, they're already paying a big price tag. I don't
know that I see a lot of evidence of that.
You brought up the one group read that was in
support of this, But I mean, we just saw in
this poll, the more money somebody made, the more likely
they were to say I will definitely leave, not may leave,
(09:40):
or stay definitely leave. So I would think the exodus
would be those with means because it's about to be
taken from them.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But you mentioned that on one area.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Do you see any large support among wealthy people for
mom Donnie?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I think Red's frozen now.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
No, okay, not the ultra wealthy.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, no, Jim is in Florida.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Look, the people in this country have been snookered by
that great fiction that Philip Bustiout, a French philosopher, warned
about two hundred years ago that government socialism is that
great fiction that purports to take care of everybody's personal
needs at the expense of everybody else. And those New Yorkers,
the ten percent that want to leave, are they going
to vote. If he had ten percent of people voting,
(10:30):
Mondamie would never get in.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Thanks. Yeah, well that was what I said an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So according to this JL Partners and Daily Mail survey,
it found that nine percent of New Yorkers would definitely
leave the city if Mom Donnie were to win. The
city is eight point five million people. Ten percent, you're
looking at over eight hundred thousand. All of early voting
came to what five hundred and sixty thousand. Yeah, these people,
(10:56):
instead of threatening to leave, would make sure they both
bring somebody with them.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
He's not gonna win, but well, there's gonna be a difference.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
There's gonna be a difference between total people in voting age,
so that that's not the same. Well yeah, I know, yes,
and not everyone's going to vote either. So you know,
we find in America only half of us vote at best.
So I mean, if there's a million or so people
that say this guy wins, I'm leaving. If those millions
(11:25):
show up and vote, I doubt he's going to win.
And I'm with Jim. I mean, the numbers just don't
make sense.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh, dunn, Oh.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
I keep thinking that major cities like Chicago Austin, Sacramento,
Los Angeles, Philadelphia already have many socialist programs in place.
For that reason, I'm not sure that New York City
is going to learn from those lessons good luck.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, I mean that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We are somewhat a socialist hybrid as it is, so,
you know, but to go out, I mean, I guess Mom,
Donnie will be the first to you know, rather than
you know, be socialist, democrat or any kind of hyend.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'm a socialist.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Never really came clean about being an Islamist. I guess
that makes him at first. But yeah, the problem is
throughout human history it just hasn't worked. So he's proposing
something that is a historic proof and failure. Oh my gosh,
there's something about Mary.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
I have a novel idea for all of the million
or so people who want to leave New York and
go live in other places and ruin their states and cities.
How about if you go out and grab four or
five other people and go vote to not have a
Democrat socialist mayor of New York City.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
You know, just an idea. It reminds me.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It reminds me of one time I was in the
car with my mom and it was raining and she
looks at me and I'm looking at right in the eye.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
As she's driving. He goes, Michael, I'm going to hit
that car in front of me.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And I'm staring right in the eye, and I go,
I think you are too. Now, we could have spent
that time, I don't know, hitting the brakes instead of
having a conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chuno.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
If you're just waking up in his twenty six minutes
after the hour, and these are your top five stories.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Of the day.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Former Vice President of the United States, the forty sixth
Vice President of the United States, says died Dick Cheney
died at the age of eighty four. Chaney's career in
public service began in nineteen sixty nine. He was an
aide in the Nixon administration as well as the Ford administration,
where he rose to be the White House Chief of Staff.
Later became a congressman of Wyoming, working his way up
to minority whip, then later appointed Secretary of Defense by H. W.
(13:51):
Bush and then running meet and Vice President by George W.
Bush and announcing his passing, Cheney's family said his death
was due to complications of pneumonia, cardiac and vascular disease.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Tick Cheney dead at the age of seventy four.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Today is day thirty five of the federal government's shutdown,
tying the record for the longest shutdown in history.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
The Senate is set to vote for a fourteenth time
to try and end the impasse, and Senate Majority Leader
John Thune says these optimistic lawmakers will find a solution
this week. Democrats are holding firm on demands to save
healthcare subsidies that keep insurance premiums down for millions, while
Republicans have refused to negotiate until the government is reopened.
In the meantime, the US Department of Agricultures planning to
(14:32):
use contingency funds to pay partial food assistance benefits to
millions of Americans affected by the shutdown. I'm Tammy Trihio.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The Trump administration plans to use contingency funds to partially
pay snap benefits as the federal government shutdown rolls on.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
In a court Finally, Monday, the administration said the money
would cover fifty percent of eligible households current alluntments. This
comes after two separate rulings last week ordered the Trump
administration to tamp emergency funds that will cover some of
the SNAP program. Funding for the a food assistance program
ran on Saturday. About forty two million Americans received SNAP benefits.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'm Mark Neyview.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Voters in California are headed at the polls today too
to vote on the congressional maps. Jack Crumley has more.
Speaker 11 (15:11):
A ballot measure being voted on today in California would
redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats. Proposition fifty
is being pushed by Governor Gavin Newsom as he aims
to give Democrats more seats in Congress. Recent polls show
the measure is likely to be approved. Prop fifty is
a response to Republican led redistricting plans in a handful
of states across the country. Other Democratic led states, like
(15:32):
Virginia have also pushed forward their own congressional map changes.
I'm Jack Crumley. Actress Diane Ladd has died.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
Lad's death confirmed in a statement from the actress Laura Dern,
Ladd's daughter from her marriage to the actor Bruce Dern.
Lads film and television career spanned more than fifty years
and included both Emmy and Academy Award nominations. She was
nominated for three Oscars for roles in Alice, Doesn't Live
Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose. The Mississippi
(16:00):
native died at her home in California Monday. Diane Ladd
was eighty nine years old. Liz Morner, NBC News Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
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ever have one of your parents say if you keep
crossing your eyes like that, they're going to get stuck. Well,
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Speaker 3 (16:57):
I can't we got to Jack. Jack Sitterelly is in.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Sucks soon to New Jersey right now, and I couldn't
stop doing Harry Carey, and now I can't get this
cough out of my throne. Good morning, Welcome to your
morning show. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at
the age of eighty four complications from pneumonia, cardiac and
vascular disease. It's election day in the governor's race in
New Jersey and Virginia, and of course the big mayor's
race in New York City, and the Trump administration plans
(17:26):
to use contingency funds to partially pay snap benefits to
federal government employees during this and to citizens during the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Clay Travis from Clay and Buckets with us.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
He's out with a new book called Balls, How Trump
Won Men and Democrats Lost them.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's an explosive new book. It's out today.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You can get it and the proceeds help benefit a
great charity. Clay, Good morning, and welcome to your morning show.
Speaker 13 (17:53):
Well, it's great to talk with you guys. I'm a
born and raised Nashville guy, as I imagine a lot
of people out there know. And I am up in
New York City doing promotion right now for all of
the things relating to Ball. So I hope people go
out by the book. I think they will enjoy it.
And I'm up here doing all the promotion and then
I'll head back home to Nashville. So can't wait born
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and raised Nashville kids.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I was just going to say, we're on one hundred
and seven stations, but we originate from Nashville.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
We could have done this right at home, couldn't we have?
Speaker 7 (18:22):
All?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Let's talk about the book, because I love the thesis
of it, which is twofold one. How did Wokeness just
end by somebody calling it out?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
And that's someone being Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
But the other thesis is that he lost men, that
the Democrats may have a man problem, not a Trump problem,
because if that's true, Trump goes away in three years.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Men don't.
Speaker 13 (18:45):
Yeah. Look, I think the big issue that Democrats have
is their brand has become toxic with young men. And
I spend a lot of time writing about that. It's
not coincidental. I have three boys, so I try to
see the world through their eyes as well. And there's
a part of the book, and I bet a lot
of people who have kids and grandkids, particularly boys, may
have experienced this. I grew up in an era where
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we said, hey, men and women should be able to
achieve excellence in whatever their chosen pursuits are, and you
shouldn't be restricted by your gender. We want to treat
people equally under the law. That doesn't mean that we're
equal in all respects, and it certainly doesn't mean that
girls are better than boys. And during COVID, my kids,
(19:29):
my two youngest, were obsessed with collecting sports cards. And
I remember we were walking into a Target in the
Nashville area and my middle son stopped me and he said, Dad,
they would never have those for us. And I said,
what do you mean And he said, look at those shirts.
And the entire front of the store was just girl
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power girl power shirts. He said, Dad, they would never
sell boy power shirts. And yeah, I seeing it suddenly
through his eyes. This world that young boys are growing
up in, that young men are growing up in, they're
being taught, told and taught that they are the cause
of all life's problems. And it started with young white boys,
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and then it spread to Black, Asian, Hispanic young men,
toxic masculinity in general, and they're just fed up. They're
just looking around and saying, there's nothing wrong with us.
And I think there is a real rebellion that's gone on.
And there's a section of the book where I talk
about that for many people, young men are looking for
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a man to aspire to and emulate, and a lot
of young men find that to be their grandfathers, because
maybe dad's not home, maybe there's an older guy that
is influential to them, and they look up to them.
And for Trump, I think a lot of young men
see him as an avatar of masculinity that they would
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aspire to emulate in some ways. And the bravery that
he showed in Butler, Pennsylvania, I think really resonated with
young men and in my world, ended the election when
it came to young men, but also men of all
ages and of all races, which I think is one
of the big stories of Trump twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Clay Travis joining us balls, how Trump won men and
Democrats lost them.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
You know, it's interesting you bring that up.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I have two daughters as well, and I think we
have a great advantage having our kids at this age
and watching it. I can tell you I can talk
to my two daughters or my son, and you know
they'll accept gay issues.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It was too far transgender.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
They saw that when they had a friend who thought
they were a dog and they started dressing like a dog,
eating from a dog played at home. This all looked
like mental illness to them. And I think it was
the combination of the gender play and then COVID. It
was a deadly combination for the youth. And I think
they lost I mean you talk about losing them. I
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think there are girls. I can tell you my daughter's
just turned twenty one and they're looking for a man
to marry, and they have a generation of men who
have been remolded, and so I think there's going to
be some backlash into the twenties with this age group
as well.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
No, look, this is a huge part of the book.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
I write about young women in particular two in young men,
and I think what you hit on is something that
is profoundly significant. It is we tried to tell men
to be more like women, and we tried to tell
women to be more like men, and we have created
this mishmash of women who don't want effeminate men and
(22:43):
men who don't want masculine women, and everybody's less happy
than they were before all this craziness began. And I
spend a lot of time on that because I think
the ultimate result is people don't get married and there's
a lot less kids, which is not good for humanity.
And there's a big part of the book where I
write about the most successful women. I was actually talking
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about this with a super successful woman last night as
near the Fox studios. And the number of super successful
women now who can't find men to have kids with
that are going through sperm donor notebooks and picking people
that they don't know at all that they would rather
have a child with than actual real men is not good.
(23:30):
And the number of men out there that can't find
women and then become embittered and angry because providing is
a big part of how most men providing for a
family see themselves in an aspirational way. And so I
think gender roles are going to be a profound challenge
for many people out there, and this book really kind
(23:52):
of addresses that and your point on the trans issue,
by the way, as soon as they can get you.
The book opens with the Leah Thomas story. As soon
as they can get you the pin swimmer, who was
a man that won a women's INCAA championship. As soon
as they can get you to say that man is
a woman, They're getting you to lie. And once they
(24:13):
can get you to lie about an objective, realistic, biological truth,
they can get you to lie about anything. And I
think that is a part of the goal.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It takes a lot of courage to write a book
like this. Clay Travis from The Clay and Buck Show
joining us. The name of the book is called Balls.
How Trump won Men and Democrats lost them. Clay, this
is kind of like a cultural war consequence in the
backdrop of politics and a generational problem.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
How do we get out of this?
Speaker 13 (24:42):
I think men have to aspire to masculinity, traditional notions
of strength and providing for families. I think that a
lot of a lot of women are going to be
very unhappy with the world they have created, where I
don't think there's that many women who want to look
(25:05):
around at sixty years old and say, hey, I never
got married, I never had a family, and maybe I
was sold a little bit of a bill of goods,
and I think there are a lot of young men
that have come to that realization. And I think the
story of twenty twenty eight, this is in the book,
is going to be more and more young women looking around.
(25:27):
There's an argument. I make this argument in the book
that feminism as we experience it today is actually what
every man would have wanted if he was rich and
powerful in like nineteen sixty five. You have unlimited access
to sex and almost zero effort that you have to
put into it. You've got apps, you can get on
(25:50):
Instagram and just scroll through one pretty girl after another,
send him a barely legible message, and just wait and
see who's going to respond. I don't think women find
that attractive, and I certainly don't think it's helpful when
it comes to the propagation of the species, that this
is what we've created.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You know, I look at your life and a lot
of people you know, kind of stare and they go,
this guy is about being a husband, about being a father,
and then just love sports, everything sports. How does he
end up being the replacement for Rush Limbaugh? But you
know what, Clay, I think in God's plan, you were
the perfect view and the perfect eyes for this topic
(26:32):
because it's really sports and competition that opened America's eyes
to this really worldview political and cultural flaw.
Speaker 13 (26:42):
Well that's very flattering to say, but I do think
you're correct that seeing the world suddenly become identity politics
in sports made me aware of what they were trying
to create culturally, because sports is about the best man
or woman winning. It's the ultimate meritocracy. There is equality
(27:03):
of opportunity, but there's no different treatment based on your
race or gender. We're all equal, and this is I'll
leave everybody with this to think about, and I hope
people go out and check out the book. I'm donating
the proceeds to charity. I just want these arguments out
there to win. But think about this, I can make
a strong argument. I think that the last object that anybody, Republicans,
(27:24):
Democrats and independent trust to be an accurate reflection of
the real world is the scoreboard. Think about it. Everybody
trusts the scoreboard to get the score right. If somebody
steps on a three point line, everybody points and says,
wait a minute, that was a two, that wasn't a three,
Hey get the score up. That run should count. That
(27:44):
run shouldn't count. That's because we trust the rules of sports.
I think we need to make America more like sports
and sports less like American identity politics. That's the thesis
of the book overall.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Thanks so much for your time, Lay Travis.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The book is called Balls, How Trump Won Men and
Democrats Lost them. It's available Amazon and everywhere great books
are sold. And as you just mentioned, no profit. He's
giving it to charity. So get the book Balls by
Clay Travis. Thank you, Clay, God bless you all right.
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Forty sixth Vice President of the United States. Dick Cheney
has died at eighty four. Started off as a Nixon
ad back in nineteen sixty nine. He went on to
be an aide for Gerald Ford after Watercape, elevating himself
all the way to White House chief of staff for President.
Ford later ran for Congress representing Wyoming, became the minority whip.
(29:54):
Eventually got tapped to be Secretary of Defense by H. W.
Bush and then by presidential running mate for his son,
George W. Bush tick Cheney, dead at the age of
eighty four, according to the family, complications of pneumonia and
cardiac and vascular disease. While the Trump administration plans to
use contingency funds to partially pay SNAP benefits as the
(30:16):
federal government shutdown rolls on, in.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
A court finaling Monday, the administration said the money would
cover fifty percent of eligible households current alumpments. This comes
after two separate rulings last week ordered the Trump administration
to tamp emergency funds that will cover some of the
SNAP program. Funding for the food assistance program ran on Saturday.
About forty two million Americans received SNAP benefits. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
A late ad supporting Andrew Cuomo in New York City's
mayors ray shows Democratic nominees or On Mamdani in front
of a video showing the collapse of the twin Towers
on nine to eleven.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
The ad, which also shows one of the towers bursting
into flames, comes from the pro Cuomo super Pack four
Hour City Former mayor Michael Bloomberg just backed the group
with more than three million dollars. It's an attempt to
link Mom Donnie to talker Hassan Piker, who said America
deserves nine to eleven on a livestream in twenty nineteen.
Mom Donnie appeared with Piker in April, and, after months
(31:10):
of criticism from Cuomo, called Piker's comments objectionable and reprehensible.
At a recent debate, Mam Donnie's also complained about Cuomo
and Republican Curtis Sliwa injecting Islamophobia into the race. Andrew
Whitman NBC News Radio, New York.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Two races for governor in Our Nation Spotlight Today Virginia
and New Jersey Jack Crumley has more.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
New governors are being elected by voters in two states today.
In Virginia, Democrat Abigail Spanburger has maintained a double digit
lead over Republican lieutenant governor wins some earl sears. In
New Jersey, Democrat Mikey Cheryl's lead in the polls over
Republican Jack Chittarelli has narrowed to single digits. Former President
Obama has appeared at rallies for both span Burger and Cheryl. Meanwhile,
(31:53):
President Trump held tele rallies for Chitdarelly and Winsome Earl sears,
but did not make any in person. Jack Crumbley Disney's
request to YouTube TV to return ABC Television back to
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Speaker 5 (32:07):
Disney had asked YouTube TV to restore ABC for election
day as a matter of public interest, so subscribers could,
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and ESPN, have been removed from YouTube tv, making them
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(32:31):
Tammy Triheo.
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The US Postal Service is launching its Operations Santa campaign.
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Mark Mayfield has the details.
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Speaker 1 (33:01):
I'm Mark Mayfield, Well, technology is causing the death of
another form of payment inside your checkbook.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
We go with bre Tennis's story.
Speaker 15 (33:11):
Target says only three percent of their transactions are with checks,
so they banned them. So did all the Old Navy, Lululemon,
Whole Foods, and a long list of other companies. The
Federal Reserve says it's good for business because credit or
debit cards have less fraud. They're also faster at the checkout.
It's the over fifty age group that still writes checks,
and it's hard to give up, like having cash in
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your wallet, something the younger generation also doesn't grasp. I'm
bre Tennis Well.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Last night, Marvin Harrison seven catches ninety six yards in
a touchdown, not enough to make up the seventy point
deficit of my fantasy football weekend, but enough for the
Cardinals to win twenty seven to seventeen over the Cowboys
in Dallas. On the ice, the Blues won three to
two over the Edmonton Oilers. Penguins lost four to three
to the Leafs in Toronto, and the Breads get a
point but lost five to four to the Canooks in
(33:59):
over time. On the Hardwood Pistons won one fourteen, one
oh six over the grizz That's my Detroit market.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Over my Memphis market. I can't win in these situations.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
My Los Angeles market versus my Portland market went Blaker's way.
They beat the Blazers one twenty three, one fifteen. The
King's lost to the Nuggets last night, one thirty to
one twenty four. Birthdays today the Karate Kid himself, or
should I say Cobra Kai.
Speaker 13 (34:23):
Kai.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I like Cobra Kai way better than I like Karate Kid.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Ralph Machio is sixty four years old today.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
All right, alright, alright.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Matthew McConaughey is fifty six. I thought he was older
than that. Former OSU cowboy and Dallas cowboy Des Bryant
is thirty seven. And if it's your birthday, Happy birthday.
We are so glad you were born. And thanks for
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All right.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
When we come back, James Carafano was finally back. I
was about to report him for being a wall but
he's back in the country. We've been engaged in wars,
hot wars and cold wars with social those communist nations
my entire life. Now one of our two major parties
is majority socialist. Probably should sit down with the Lieutenant
(35:09):
colonel and ask him if this is a Democrat Party
problem or if we are actually officially at war with
ourselves here in America. James Carafona, White House Correspondent, John
Decker and Roy O'Neill and Moore your Sounds of the Day.
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