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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
It's the Alpha
Crypto with Clay Note.
Serving up finding news and turnit brought to you by the Alpha
Crypto and Refuge Medical.
And now it's time for the show.
SPEAKER_01 (00:21):
Oh my goodness, the
things that I put Clay through
just to get on this program,just to do the thing.
So Clay shows up, he's allprepared, he's ready to go, he's
ready to rock and roll.
And I come in like a hurricane,acting like I've been through
the war.
No excuses.
How are you, Clay?
SPEAKER_05 (00:42):
I'm good.
Just ordered because there was aminor technical difficulty with
Elsa's earphones, and shecouldn't hear me, and she felt
like it was her fault andtechnical things happened, but
we're all good.
I'm good.
How are you?
SPEAKER_01 (00:55):
Good.
I am good.
I am good.
I um yeah, I mean, I leave, so Igo on uh Friday uh to go see my
grandbabies.
So I am you know basically outof my head with excitement right
now, and I I just can't wait toget there and squeeze those
babies.
So yeah, so I am good doing thecountdown.
(01:15):
You have got a lot of stuffgoing on.
You are the book tour man rightnow, right?
SPEAKER_05 (01:20):
Yeah, I uh second
book uh cross the bear.
Here we go.
Copy it right here, right?
That looks so good.
Looks so good.
Keep moving, keep shooting.
Um, Cross the Bear came out inSeptember, and we just announced
that uh the third book,Rebellous, is uh coming out the
on Veterans Day, 11th ofNovember.
And so yeah, we're in finalstages right now.
(01:41):
I just, you know, I did a bunchof stuff today.
I wrote the back coverdescription and um some other
pieces and parts that go insidethe book and the covers being
designed, and so we're we're inall of the final stages of book
three.
Yeah.
And then of course, with that,you have to do all the publicity
and everything else.
So I'm doing other podcast, youknow, appearances and and oh, by
the way, I'm writing book fourat the same time.
(02:02):
So yes, I am busy and happybusy.
SPEAKER_01 (02:04):
Oh my goodness.
So we gotta um we have to dolike we have to hearken back to
the old days, the origin story,and I have to interview you
about your book series.
Wouldn't that be fun?
SPEAKER_05 (02:16):
I anytime you're
ready.
SPEAKER_01 (02:17):
Right?
Let's yeah, let's do it.
SPEAKER_05 (02:19):
I've been banging
them out, so I I want to get the
problem.
SPEAKER_01 (02:22):
I know, and you
know, and that I I personally I
love hearing the stories of howother authors, especially when
it's series, like their wholeprocess and everything, because
I just love to I just love that,I love that chat.
I love that conversation.
So yeah, yeah, I think we'regonna do that.
We'll when we're we'll we'llsidebar on that uh afterwards
and talk about that.
Um, but for today, we've got umClay pulled up like seven topics
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for us again.
He I think you just like I thinkyou like putting the pressure
on, like, can we do it?
Um but we're talking big stuff,right?
We've got uh let's see.
SPEAKER_05 (02:55):
I think it's a sweet
spot.
It is done as many as nine, Ithink, but I think it's the
comfortable amount.
But yeah, busy week.
Um, and uh, you know, we'rewe're kicking it off.
We got you know, I got we Iguess we got one fun one at the
end, but uh you know, uh there'sa lot going on, folks.
It's just it's the way of theworld.
SPEAKER_04 (03:14):
Government is real,
important drivers getting not
just behind the wheel, butbehind the light.
SPEAKER_01 (03:37):
Mm-hmm, for sure.
All right, let's see.
What do we have?
Oh, well, let's start right offthe bat um with the government
shutdown status, the statusupdate on all of that.
So Clay was a little bummed out.
Why were you a little bummedout, Clay?
SPEAKER_05 (03:54):
I was wrong.
I said last week, if you guysremember, okay, so it's our
normal recording time,Wednesday, 4 30 on the East
Coast.
And I said last week when werecorded that I thought that the
government shutdown would beresolved by last Friday at the
latest before the weekend, andit is a week later, still going
on.
So I, you know, my predictionwas off.
(04:15):
Um, I did not realize that uhtruthfully that the the Dems
would be so hard line on this.
And that's and they're findingevery excuse in the book to
continue the shutdown.
SPEAKER_01 (04:27):
Yeah, yeah,
absolutely.
And you know, and I did my bestto make Clay feel better about
that because I said, Clay, youare so rarely wrong.
Uh like you gotta have, youknow, you gotta, it's gotta
bring you down a little, it'sgotta humble you.
He's a very humble guy, he's notuh he's not a braggart, but he
is.
I mean, let's face it, Clay, youyou have been right on so many
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things.
I I wish I had that skill setand time to go through all of
our things and just do therunning tally of all the things
that you called and were spoton.
So you get a pass.
You get a pass on this one.
SPEAKER_05 (04:57):
I appreciate that.
I really do.
Uh yeah.
But yes, the government shutdowncontinues.
Um, I I think there has beensince you know in the last week,
I think there's been a total ofsix votes, I think is what I
counted up.
I maybe plus or minus one there,but I think it's six votes that
have been denied.
I think there was another onetoday.
I think there was an additionalDemocrat that jumped over, which
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is still not enough.
But now, folks, we're startingto see some of the impacts of
the shutdown itself.
SPEAKER_01 (05:27):
Uh 750,000 federal
employees are furloughed or
forced to work without pay,which is correct.
SPEAKER_05 (05:36):
Just such a stress.
One of those, you know,significant is the air traffic
controllers.
Um and so there is uh tocompound things because they
know that their first partialpaycheck is the 14th.
And they, if it goes beyondthat, then they're they will
have a no-pay due paycheckperiod on the 28th.
(05:56):
Uh, and that's what they'reanticipating.
You've seen, or there has beenin, I think, six cities, six,
six airports, four majorairports to include O'Hare, LAX,
Nashville, um, and I can'tremember the fourth one.
Um, but there's starting to be auh what you would refer to, and
I know you're familiar with thisas a cop's wife, a blue blue
going on in some of theseairports with the air traffic
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controllers.
SPEAKER_01 (06:19):
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Um, I mean, what do you even sayto this?
Like you can't expect people towork like this under these
conditions and just to keepshowing up with no guarantee.
But they have mortgages, theyhave bills, they have children,
they groceries.
I mean, you know, you you justsimply cannot do this.
So that they are being heldransom, essentially, um, you
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know, is just insane to me.
And basically all because theycan't, and correct me if I'm
misunderstanding something here,but all basically because they
can't get their BS added into uhinto this package, basically.
So, you know, the theRepublicans are trying to put
forward a you know one of thecleanest uh bills that that you
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can.
I think how many pages was it'slike it's you know the least
amount of pages, probably inanything that's come through in
years and years and years.
SPEAKER_05 (07:15):
Uh very important.
We we talked about this lastweek.
They're asking for essentiallyan extension, no change to
spending, no change to anything.
Give us six weeks, give us anextension, keep the government
open, keep paying people, we'llfigure it out by the middle of
November, right?
That that is we're not takinganything away, we're not adding
anything.
They just want the six weeksix-week extension, and they
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can't get enough Democrats tobreak away from Schumer to vote,
yes, just to keep the governmentopen.
They're hardlining on you knowthe the health care for illegal
aliens, they're hardlining onall on these, you know, hands.
SPEAKER_01 (07:51):
And denying and
denying that.
Denying.
It's not.
Yeah, it's not it's not forillegal aliens.
I don't know what you're talkingabout.
You're making that up.
No, no, actually, not makingthat up.
That's literally what you'redoing.
SPEAKER_05 (08:03):
Oh, I mean, so now
you've got the military as well.
Um you know, and so the airtraffic controllers, you know,
there's a little bit of the blueflu.
Like I said, you've got um, youknow, a handful of airports
where many of them, uh enough ofthem uh are not showing up for
work and calling in sick becausethey're not getting paid.
Um, so now you've got staffingmanning issues, right?
And now you've got delays andyou've got flight cancellations
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and all those other things.
And that, you know, they've gotthe ability to do that.
The military does not.
Um and I and I only went throughreally one of these.
There was one very, very earlyin my career which truthfully
didn't last long enough toaffect a paycheck.
Um, but it happened right afterI came on active duty in 1995.
Uh, and then there was a secondone just a few years ago before
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I retired um that underPresident Obama that lasted, I
think it was 17 days orsomething like that.
It lasted enough where a half tohalf months paycheck, which we
got back.
Um but but you could you couldsee the impact on the young
soldiers with families.
It's not the senior folks.
They they're they're okay.
Everybody's gonna be okay.
But you know, the youngfamilies, you know, the E2
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through E4, you know, youngfolks in an apartment with two
or three kids that, you know, umspouses, you know, wants to
work, can't work because ifshe's working, she's trying to
pay for childcare.
Or, you know, it it's that crux.
I mean, we've got tons and tonsof service members who are
already on food stamps and nowthey're not getting paid.
And oh, by the way, they don'tget to call in sick folks.
(09:30):
That's not a thing.
They gotta go to work.
SPEAKER_01 (09:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's not
even an option.
I I read somewhere that theWhite House stance is uh on
refusing automatic back pay forfederal workers.
Um what what is up with that?
Is that is that a thing?
Is that being misrepresented?
Have you heard anything aboutthat?
SPEAKER_05 (09:49):
I have not I have
not heard.
Um I I don't know.
I do know that the military,because they don't have the
option of going on, you know, ofbeing furloughed, they do get
back pay.
I know that um key and essentialpersonnel is what they're
referred to as, so like airtraffic controllers.
Um they don't have an option.
If they don't go to work, ifthey call off sick, then that's
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treated as any other PTO, sickday, whatever.
Um, and they get paid whether ornot, depending on what they have
in the bank for those, you know,time off statuses.
Everybody else, if you'refurloughed, I I honestly don't
know, especially if you're notdesignated as being essential
personnel, whether or not you'reuh you're you're getting paid.
My guess is in many cases you'renot.
SPEAKER_01 (10:32):
Right.
Well, listen, y'all.
I just told you I'm going toFlorida on Friday, and nothing
is if I have to fly that plane.
SPEAKER_05 (10:41):
Are you not y'all
want that?
Orlando is the other one.
Are you flying to Orlando?
SPEAKER_01 (10:45):
I am.
SPEAKER_05 (10:48):
That is one of the
the four that I think is uh on
the on the uh higher end or thethe concerning number of uh
delays and flight cancellations.
Uh Hare, LAX, Orlando, and Iwant to say it's it's kind of an
odd one.
I know Nashville's in there, butit's kind of low.
But um Oklahoma City, maybesomebody like that.
SPEAKER_01 (11:10):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (11:10):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (11:11):
They're bear
straight in this out.
You know, it's all about it'sall about me.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_06 (11:16):
I get it.
SPEAKER_01 (11:17):
You know, I get it.
It's all about thosegrandbabies.
And anybody, anybody, anybodywith grandchildren understands
it.
SPEAKER_05 (11:22):
Everybody else maybe
does not understand the you know
what's a little astonishing isthat it while I was watching
that last night, they wereinterviewed, they were at
airports and they were, youknow, talking to people who'd
either had a delay or had aflight cancellation or were
there to pick somebody else upor whatever.
Um, I I saw probably maybe fiveor six faces, different people
being interviewed.
And there were two.
(11:43):
There was uh a man and a womanseparately interviewed, not
together, who didn't even knowthere was a government shutdown.
They had no idea why there was acancellation, they had no idea
why.
Wow.
One was there uh trying to flyout, their flight got canceled,
and then another person wasthere to pick someone up, and
that flight had been delayed,and they interviewed both of
them.
Neither one of them had any hadany idea there was a government
shutdown going on.
I was interesting, veryinteresting.
SPEAKER_01 (12:04):
Well, you know, I
mean, I I I think there is, and
I'll I'll pull that word out ofthe drawer again.
There is that level of fatiguethat everybody feels with all of
it, with the politics, with theyou know, culture wars, with all
of the things.
And I think there probably is avery reasonable, meaning
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size-wise, portion of thepopulation that is just saying,
you know what?
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't want to hear about it.
I don't, I don't care.
Don't talk to me about it.
I'm not gonna watch the news.
I'm not gonna watch anything.
I'm just gonna live my life.
And, you know, I mean, I don'treally knock them for it because
they probably are living a muchmore peaceful existence than the
(12:47):
rest of us.
So, you know, I don't reallyknock them, and I know there's
certainly an argument forknowing what's happening in the
world around you, especially ifyou're at the airport expecting
to go somewhere and you're like,what's happening?
You might, you know, you mightwant to tune in just a tiny bit.
I know what they can do, Clay.
They can just watch our show andkind of get like, you know, just
just get enough.
It's like one hour, right?
(13:09):
Yeah, like you can it's aone-hour show.
You probably have an option.
You notice you ever notice this?
You have an option now, you canspeed things up.
Like you speed up books, youknow, you can I'm sure you can
speed up the videos too.
You can get this all like in ain a half hour, probably.
Probably.
Why not?
Right?
Just a suggestion, just athought, an idea.
And look, we're so much morepleasant about it and cheerful
about it than you know theestimate right now is 24 days.
SPEAKER_05 (13:33):
Yeah, I I saw that
just before I saw uh the the
guesses.
I don't know why, but theestimate is this is gonna last
24 days.
Um and uh I yeah, I I don't knowwhat the significance of 24 days
is.
Yeah, but that's that's theguess right now.
I I will tell you that uh thisone will be long remembered.
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Uh it will be long rememberedwhen it comes around election
time for the very few electionsthat are going on here in
November, but definitely nextyear 2026.
Uh you know, both sides willbring this up and point fingers
at each other.
So take notes, people rememberwho's responsible.
Uh, because uh, you know, asSpeaker of the House Johnson
brought up just the other day,he said, Hey, Chuck Schumer's
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been in office since I was nine.
Yeah, that's what he said.
He's like, we've got careerpoliticians here that are that
are part of the problem.
Yeah, and he said ChuckSchumer's been office since I
was nine years old.
So don't look at me, look athim.
So yeah, um, and I think what doyou think we'll take the bigger
hit on this?
SPEAKER_01 (14:33):
Republicans or
Democrats?
I mean, my opinion is Democrats.
Democrats will, yeah, right.
Yeah, I think so.
SPEAKER_06 (14:38):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (14:39):
I mean, I I I guess
if you're uh a Democrat um
bystander, you probably willblame Republicans no matter
what.
But if anybody's being objectiveand really looking at the
totality of the entire thing,yeah, I think it's probably
pretty clear for anybody payingattention.
But we shall see.
We'll see the spin.
I'm sure the spin is happening,and and I was a bad girl.
SPEAKER_05 (15:00):
I haven't even
really watched what what they're
there's there's scarecrow, youknow, put fingers going both
ways, everybody's pointing theopposite direction at the other
side.
SPEAKER_06 (15:09):
Right.
SPEAKER_05 (15:09):
Um, and they're and
they're blaming all of this, you
know.
Everybody is getting blamed.
Um, you know, President Trump'sfault.
And they're trying to blame allkinds of things on on the
government shutdown that havenothing to do with the
government shutdown.
It's it's ridiculous.
But yeah, it'll all come out inthe wash and and it'll impact
folks.
Hopefully, it won't be forgottenbefore the next election.
SPEAKER_01 (15:28):
Yeah, yeah, no
kidding.
Uh, let's see, what do we gotnext?
Oh, driving while high.
Listen, can I go on a can I goon a rant?
Go on, my little, can I go on arant?
I am so sick and tired ofwalking down the street, walking
into a restaurant, uh business,driving on the bleeping highway,
and having waves of that nasty,disgusting skunk smell invade my
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personal space.
Like I listen, if that's whatyou want to do, knock yourself
out.
Put yourself into, you know,catatonic state for all I care.
Um, I don't need to smell it.
And here's here's and I know allthe people are gonna pipe it,
and they're like, it'smedicinal, and there's nothing
bad about it, and it's not ademo.
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I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't make it my problem.
I was flying back when I was inhigh school, no problem then.
Good times, whatever.
I'm a grown ass adult.
I do not need to walk into everylane and aspect of public life
and have that smell invade mynostrils.
(16:38):
Chew a gummy, eat a brownie,take a lollipop.
I don't care how you do it, butI don't understand for the life
of me why they have to smoke itso that we can all smell it on
them.
I like it's making my throatclose up.
I'm so repulsed.
SPEAKER_05 (16:55):
I actually didn't do
it last night.
I I I went to go see a um,there's a a very famous former
radio personality in Chicago.
Uh his name was Kevin Matthews.
I grew up listening to him inhigh school radio.
And but he is uh, you know, hewent through the gambit of the
90s, right?
You know, a lot of you know, hehe partied, he had a good, you
know, all of those things.
(17:16):
And now he's he's uh he's foundGod.
It's called Broken Mary.
Um I recommend folks go see it.
It's the the um it's in limitedtheaters, it's a great story.
Um, but uh it's the the filmitself is about an hour long,
but then actually they you canstay afterwards and pray the
rosary if you're Catholic withKevin Matthews on the screen.
Um very cool kind of thing.
(17:37):
The story's great, regardless.
As I'm walking into the movietheater last night, just like
just as soon as I got out of mycar all the way to the door of
the theater, just hot smelleverywhere.
Just and it was, you know, it'snot like I don't know what I'm
smelling, you know.
SPEAKER_01 (17:51):
Yeah, right,
exactly.
So you know, listen, and we'llget into the the real meat of of
this topic, what the headline isthere, but uh you know, just
it's just another way to usherin societal decay.
Like I get people, I get thewhole medicinal aspect of it.
But Joe Schmoe driving down thehighway, which is we're getting
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to this part of this now, andwalking into a restaurant, uh
any business, whatever the caseis, um come on now.
It's not they're not using itmedicinally, they're not using
it for their cataracts or theircancer or their migraines or
whatever, you know, or theirbackache.
Like everything now needsmarijuana to make them feel
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better, right?
Like highly coincidental thateverybody suddenly needs it to,
you know.
So give me a break with all ofthat.
And now let's talk about thisvery serious, legitimate.
I just mentioned it like threetimes, driving down the highway,
and I'm not exaggerating.
My windows aren't even open,like I have to shut my vent off
from that smell coming out ofthe car in front of me or beside
me.
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You this is driving whileimpaired.
And I don't care if you thinkyou are more brilliant or
creative or any of this nonsensewhen you're high, you are a
danger.
And this was not well thoughtout.
I don't think it was thought outat all, right?
I mean, how they they have noway of addressing this in the
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way that you can for drunkdriving.
There's no breathalyzer test,right?
Like it's it's more involved.
SPEAKER_05 (19:25):
Yes.
So there, you know, they did astudy.
This is based on uh, I thinkit's out of Ohio.
They took six years worth ofdata.
So this is not just like asmattering, just a small piece.
Six years worth of data, andwhat they've seen is an
increase, 40%, I think it's 42%actually, of fatalities, auto
fatalities, um have been causedby uh, or at least the people
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that have been tested in thefatality have had a toxic level
of THC in their bloodstream.
In other words, not a, you know,because we we all know it's not,
you know, it's not a joke, it'snot a lie.
The stuff stays in your systemfor 30 days at a minimum, um,
depending on how strong it is.
Now, um, this is toxic levels inthe sense of immediate or use
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immediately before or evenduring operation of the vehicle.
So like the levels were thathigh in the bloodstream that
they they could tell that theperson was impaired post-mortem,
literally post-mortem.
Um, so you know, it the evidenceis there and and the concern,
you know, is exactly what yousaid, which is there is no
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breathalyzer test, right?
There's no, it's not like youknow, when you get pulled over,
cops smell alcohol.
They can smell pot, but theycan't, there's no test for you
immediately other than a fieldsobriety type test, right?
Right.
And, you know, THC marijuanaaffects you differently than
alcohol does, so the testsaren't necessarily the same or
are they reliable?
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But what there isn't is abreathalyzer test on the spot to
check your blood alcohol contentuh in a similar fashion for
marijuana.
So um, you know, that's wherethe crux is.
People think, well, I can smoke.
There, you know, even if I if Ismoke in my house, you know,
very much like, you know, andalcohol, drink before you drive,
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smoke before you drive, but thenthere's no trace of it, right?
And because there's nobreathalyzer for it, people
figure they get pulled over,they're not gonna get caught.
Well, the problem is that theyare impaired, like you said.
And say the number ofauto-related fatalities while
impaired on THC slash marijuanais skyrocketing, and it's in a
(21:37):
direct relationship with thelegalization of marijuana, the
availability of marijuana to thegeneral public.
Um, and and people are, ofcourse, as people do, abusing
it.
And that's where we sit rightnow.
SPEAKER_01 (21:50):
Right.
Yes, because you know, myhusband said this many years
ago, and we repeated it in soand unfortunately I've had
reason to repeat this in so manydifferent circumstances that you
know the problem of the world ispeople, because people ruin
everything.
Yeah, everything.
And this is another example ofthat, you know.
And uh, you know, for probablythe third time, I'll say I
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understand the value of incertain circumstances, the
benefits that they have shownwith the use of marijuana for
legitimate medical reasons.
So we're not talking about that,we're talking quite literally
about impaired driving,operating of machinery, like all
of these things putting thepublic at risk, um, you know,
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for simple recreational use.
And that's, you know, again, itjust anybody who's paying
attention, I mean, anybody withhalf a brain, quite honestly,
saw this coming a mile down theroad, that this is exactly where
this would lead to.
And, you know, it's justanother, and I blame you,
betcha.
I'm gonna blame those Democratsagain.
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And I'm sure there's plenty,there were plenty.
I'll just I'll be fair and sayI'm sure there's plenty of
Republicans too that, you know,cross that line and green
lighted that because you know,money speaks louder than
anything else, right?
And they saw some dollar signsand they said, Hey, well, we can
make some money off this.
I mean, people are doing itanyway.
Let's make some money off it forour states and blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah.
And, you know, oh, don't worryabout that pesky cultural
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societal decline and the youknow, further dumbing down of
society and you know, makingthem numb and incapable of
making, you know, sounddecisions and choices in life
and motivation to succeed and doanything.
Like, listen, I'm not saying allmarijuana users are derelicts
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and can't function in society.
There's a frightening numberthat can and do.
Um, that's more frightening tome, you know, and you don't you
don't know unless you smell iton them.
Uh, you don't know if yourdoctor is high while operating
on you.
You don't know if your Uberdriver is high driving you
anywhere.
Like when you apply it to allthese situations where your
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safety and well-being, or let'sgo even more important, your
children's safety andwell-being, are unknowingly at
risk.
Uh, you know, and and I guess wehave to go into like, okay,
we're talking about the problemso much, and now we got to talk
about, well, what can you do?
What are the solutions?
I mean, uh, can you, you know,now that the uh horse is out of
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the stable, are what are theodds of this getting reversed?
Yeah, what do you think is couldeven possibly happen from this
point?
SPEAKER_05 (24:36):
Yeah, I I I think
it's really, really difficult.
I think what it will take is amajor um because everything else
requires a lobby.
It's gonna take a major lobby ora major um donor uh to be
opposed to this to have anyimpact.
And I say that in the sense of,you know, businesses as an
example.
So think of a business thatoperates a fleet of vehicles.
SPEAKER_06 (24:58):
Okay.
SPEAKER_05 (24:59):
So they, you know, I
I worked for a brief period of
time, a few years after Iretired, for a corporation that
had that.
You know, we had vehicles, wehad licensed operators, and so I
watched while I worked there asthese laws were passed to
legalize.
We would tell when I firststarted working there, we would
test people, right?
There was always a drug test,right?
(25:20):
Um, and then there was randomtests afterwards, and then it
got to the point where it waslike, well, it was legalized.
So even if we tested them, wecouldn't fire them because it
stays in your bloodstream for solong.
You know, a guy could be like,Well, I smoked on Saturday and
I'm here, you know, on Tuesdaytaking a urinalysis, and I'm
(25:40):
perfectly fine, right?
So now you you you're puttingbusinesses at risk.
Um businesses are putting arebeing put at risk um by by these
laws.
Now, I think the simple solutionis, you know, don't you know
flip flip it back over and don'tlegalize it.
But the tax dollars associatedwith it already uh are are gonna
(26:02):
you know stop that fromhappening.
No, no, no state levelgovernment um is ever going to
like, oh yeah, we're just gonnastop collecting taxes on that.
That's never happening.
Right now, keep in mind thefederal government still has not
legalized marijuana.
Federally, it is still now, it'sbeen in consideration.
I know it's been talked toPresident Trump has been talked
(26:23):
to about this, um, aboutchanging the classification of
marijuana as a drug, but only atthe state level is it, you know,
is it legal and it's from stateto state, which again, states'
rights, these are the thingsthat we like as conservatives.
However, in this case, I thinkthis one is a little bit risky.
Look, folks, I I'm not evencriticizing people who do do it
recreationally.
If you want to do it, you know,and it's legal where you're at,
(26:46):
you're a grown adult, I got it.
SPEAKER_06 (26:48):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (26:48):
The the shocking
thing is after all the years and
years and years and years ofDUI, drunk driving, you know,
all the things that we wentthrough as teenagers, right?
Mad, you know, mothers againstdrunk driving, students against
drunk driving.
You know, we had all of thisimpact on our lives where just,
oh, we just got beat over thehead with, you know, designated
driver.
You know, and I think it becamevery, very normalized.
(27:11):
To see this and to see it on therise to an extent of 42% in
these studies of people impairedby THC marijuana causing fate
fatal crashes is crazy to me.
Like, how did we lose the bubbleon being responsible operators
of motor vehicles?
And what it tells me is that thebreathalyzer is the deterrent.
(27:33):
Right.
It's not people of goodconscience, it's not people
doing the right thing, it'speople making sure they can't
get caught.
Right.
Right.
So when you can't get caughtwith the marijuana, then people
just do it and they just say thehell with it.
Um, so I think we've got a it'sa it's an ethical problem, moral
ethical problem.
And I think you're right.
I think the the decay and thethe status of where we at is
(27:53):
gonna make it almost impossibleto flip this back over and turn
it back the way that it shouldbe.
Um so the only answer is, youknow, we we we gotta go old
school, and I think I think tostop it is to to ban it
completely.
That's the only way you're gonnastop the the autofatalities.
SPEAKER_01 (28:10):
Yeah, you know, I
mean, unless they can come up
with um, you know, a a test,obviously, you know, along the
lines of um the breathalyzertest, you know, some version of
that, something that'snon-invasive.
Because like right now, I thinkit's only like a blood test,
right?
Or urine, I mean urine or bloodtest, right?
SPEAKER_05 (28:29):
Yeah, but but again,
it it takes a while for that
test to go, right?
And then come back.
I mean, it's the same thing.
We still do um blood alcoholcontent.
They can draw blood, right?
Police departments can do thatas a as opposed to a
breathalyzer.
But there's nothing on the spot,there's nothing on the roadside,
there's no like uh there'snothing like that available, and
and that's where that is wherethe problem lies.
SPEAKER_01 (28:49):
So until they come
back, I feel like this is an
obvious question, but uh uh likethe field sobriety test, like
they they do, they obviouslywould be doing that type of
testing.
But again, it's like prove it.
I could just walk slow becausethey talk slow just because I
talk slow.
My eyes are wearing because I'mwearing contacts and my eyes are
tired.
Yeah, I maybe never use thatexcuse as being.
(29:15):
Yeah.
Uh, I don't know.
I just the whole thing is justso predictable, and and because
it's so predictable, it is thatmuch more frustrating and
annoying and slightlyinfuriating when you think about
well, not slightly veryinfuriating when you think about
the the vitalities and you knowall of that stuff.
It's like, come on, you greedyidiots.
(29:39):
I mean, like that's all it comesdown to.
Greedy idiots who just have noregard.
And I'm talking about thelawmakers when I say that.
And you know, uh first andforemost, uh, because as we
know, people are people.
If you tell them they can, youknow, drink themselves, you're
free to drink yourself into astupor.
You are free to smoke until yourlungs turn black and turn into.
(30:00):
Dust, you're free to smoke potuntil you can't see straight.
People will do it just becausethey can.
SPEAKER_06 (30:07):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (30:08):
Uh all right.
That makes me exhausted.
Let's move on to the next one.
I'm already so aggravated.
So aggravated.
Oh, what are we talking about?
Oh, uh the Virginia AttorneyGeneral.
So what the heck, Clay?
Come on.
This is just crazy.
This Jay, what's his name?
Jay Jones.
Are you even kidding me rightnow?
I mean, and I say that, and Idon't even really mean that.
(30:30):
I'm not surprised.
This, this, none of this issurprising to me whatsoever.
Uh, this guy I don't, I thoughtI had the quote in front of me,
but said some pretty crazystuff.
SPEAKER_05 (30:41):
I mean, basically
for the political violence that
we've been talking about, youknow, he's been advocating or
has said in a number of uhsocial media posts, whether it's
tweets on X or whatever, aboutum shooting Republicans, about,
you know, um, what was it?
Who was it?
Pol Pot and somebody else.
And like, you know, it wasbasically like, I would I I
(31:03):
would rather kill an AmericanRepublican than two of the worst
human beings on the planet, youknow, uh kind of thing.
And and so this guy is theattorney running for the
attorney general for the stateof Virginia.
Um, and and you know, so it hitssocial media.
We all expect the, you know,hey, I'm sorry, uh, I'm gonna
(31:23):
back out, you know, this is notappropriate behavior, blah,
blah, blah.
No, guy doubles down, and by theway, he's getting tons and tons
of support at the national levelfrom um national level
congressional leaders, House ofRepresentatives, senators, etc.
Um, the amazing thing is thatVirginia is one of the states
that has an election this year.
(31:45):
Yeah.
So you've got the lieutenantgovernor, uh Earl Sears, who's
awesome.
SPEAKER_01 (31:52):
I love her.
SPEAKER_05 (31:53):
Folks, if if the
name's not ringing your bell, I
promise you you know she is.
She's African American, uh,she's a former military officer,
she's the lieutenant governor ofVirginia, she's running for
governor of Virginia, and she'sthe conservative candidate, and
she's a badass.
She's awesome.
Well, she's running against um alady named Spanberger, yeah.
Um, who we all thought that whenJay Jones was like, I'm not
(32:16):
getting out of the race, thatguilt by association, that at
least she would say, Hey man,you're killing us.
Like you're killing you, you'rekilling me.
Like, if you stay in, neither ofus are gonna get elected.
And no effect.
He stayed in.
Yeah, she's she's still in goodshape in the gubernatorial
(32:37):
election.
Like, what is going on in thestate of Virginia?
SPEAKER_01 (32:40):
It's so crazy.
Now, um, when some Earl hereShea put out a pretty intense
ad, and we do have it, I'm gonnaplay it for you guys.
SPEAKER_00 (32:51):
A lot of people are
saying it's the Democratic
rhetoric that has led to theseattacks.
Charlie Kirk got killed whilespeaking at a developer.
SPEAKER_01 (33:45):
Yeah, great, great
ad.
And boy oh boy, folks, payattention, man.
Pay attention.
This is what they are all about.
This is what they uh representand what they call for.
They make no secret of it.
Violence is the answer if youare on the left.
(34:06):
This is the message that they'resending.
Violence is not just okay, it'sgood.
And if this is, you know,Virginia, pay attention, man.
And this affects everybody.
This this has, you know, thisisn't just Virginia that this
affects, much like you know, momDonnie doesn't just affect New
York, uh, you know, if he getsin.
(34:28):
I that this is man, oh man, it'sso crazy.
But uh I do love it.
SPEAKER_05 (34:35):
I guess we should
with all the school board
issues, uh, you know, LoudounCounty and all that, like this
this shouldn't surprise us, butit but it continues to, right?
What I actually what doesn't,what what surprises me is the
lack of reaction.
It's not that they think likethis, it's not even that they
talk like this in public, right?
(34:57):
It is the lack of reaction fromthe public to say that's not
okay, you don't represent me, Idon't want you in office.
The fact that these peoplecontinue to be competitive in
these elections is baffling,yeah.
Just absolutely baffling.
Um, it shouldn't surprise me,but it continues to, and maybe
(35:18):
that's my fault.
SPEAKER_01 (35:19):
Yeah, I know, but
I'm with you.
I and I think most of us are.
I think it is so hard when youare a civilized human being to
see the lack of, I mean, lack ofcivility, what a mild way to
phrase that, right?
To see the you know, blatant uhcall for anarchy and violence
(35:39):
and craziness, uh, and for thatto be the the norm is just for
them.
SPEAKER_05 (35:45):
Um and think about
this, folks.
That is the potential governorsetting let your saying let your
rage, right?
You know, act on your rage.
Right.
If an attorney general who isendorsing, advocating, talking
about violence, right?
Yeah, and they are not run outon their behinds, is just but
(36:08):
but the two of them together, ifthey both get elected, the
potential for excusableviolence, political violence in
the state of Virginia goesthrough the roof.
Yeah.
Because you've got a governorwho advocates for it, and you've
got an attorney general who'sgonna protect those that they
choose to protect and prosecuteor defend those that they choose
to prosecute or defend.
(36:28):
Right?
That, you know, if there's evenan offset, even if you've got an
attorney general that getselected who is an idiot and a
governor who's not, or viceversa, then there's an balance.
But if they both get elected,folks, Virginia is I would drive
around that state.
I would avoid all travel,anything associated with yeah, I
wouldn't near that joint.
SPEAKER_01 (36:49):
Absolutely,
absolutely.
So obviously, we're gonna keepwatching that one, and and you
know, whenever there's updateson it, we will we will we will
update you, man.
But I hope it's good news fromthere because oof.
Uh listen, I I skipped rightover this one.
I think it was out of likebecause I kind of felt bad for
you because Chicago, Chicagoagain.
(37:11):
Surprise.
Yeah, go ahead, Clay.
SPEAKER_05 (37:14):
So the the National
Guard, the National Guard is
here.
The National Guard from Texashas landed.
Um, I hate to say this.
There's some bad photo ops outthere right now already.
Texas getting off the trucksyesterday.
There's some uh chubbyoverweight folks that probably
are not Secretary Hags', youknow, uh mock uh fighting force
uh coming up from the state ofTexas.
(37:35):
However, um they are they arehere.
The intent for the NationalGuard to help ICE in Chicago
specifically, by the way, over athousand arrests by ICE in the
last two weeks in the city ofChicago.
Um, so the the intent is forthem to provide facility
security, right?
That's the right now the rolefor the National Guard.
(37:56):
They're on a 60-day uhmobilization, so they will come
here.
They're the ones that are gonna,you know, provide the security
in and around the ICE facilitiesto facilitate and allow the ICE
agents to do their jobs, right?
Of course, you've got GovernorPritzker, mayor of Chicago, have
both said, and we've gotevidence of this, um, that they,
you know, Illinois andspecifically Chicago police
(38:18):
departments, law enforcementagencies are not allowed to uh
support, protect, um, assist ICEfederal law enforcement in any
way, shape, or form.
Uh, in fact, when there was aconflict last week, uh, CPD
tried to respond uh at thecontrol level and uh were told
to not.
Uh they were called off by theirchain of command and told them,
(38:40):
hey, ICE is doing their thing.
Um and and so you've got that,but you've also got the state uh
suing the federal governmentabout utilization of the
National Guard.
The same thing is going on inPortland, folks.
Um we we talked about it lastweek.
Their governor really had his hereally had his crap together
because they had a lawsuit uh uhyou know submitted in under 12
(39:01):
hours from those things.
So they they don't, as far as Iknow, I don't think there's
National Guard in Portland atthis point.
Um they got ahead of the aheadof the ball game, uh, but
there's a lawsuit there too.
And again, ICE is under attackon a daily basis as they operate
in around Portland.
Uh I am an advocate.
We talked about this before,that you know, we're none of us
(39:22):
want to see an American cityfall uh into complete disarray.
I think Portland is primed forit.
Uh I think that they continue tolive under this, like um, like
they're happily effed up.
Like they they like it that way.
And I think I think truthfully,for the sake of everybody
outside of Portland, I thinkpulling all federal government,
(39:44):
all federal law enforcement, andall federal money out of
Portland uh is a viable option,even to the point where somebody
I I said this on social mediaand somebody said, so that means
then they shouldn't pay federaltaxes.
I'm okay with that.
Fine.
Yeah, give everybody who livesin Portland a buy.
I I don't care.
It's not gonna fix it.
It doesn't matter.
I think we should get everybodyout and just let Portland, you
(40:06):
know, burn in whatever way thathappens.
SPEAKER_01 (40:08):
Yeah, let them have
it.
And can we ship more there?
Can we ship them from otherplaces?
Like, can we just give them, youknow, I know it's not an island,
guys, don't worry, but can wejust call it the island of
Portland and ship them all allthere?
You can have your your merrylittle island of misfits, island
non-island of misfits and umdegenerates and you know, go go
(40:32):
crazy, go crazy, have fun.
And that's it, but you staythere.
That's your own place.
I I personally love that idea.
You know, there's been thislong-standing conversation since
all of this has been going on.
Um that why don't we just, youknow, why don't we just split up
the states, right?
We'll we'll all theconservatives and Republicans
(40:53):
can just take all the we'll takethe southern states, thank you.
Can we like the sunshine?
So we'll take that, right?
And like I the more tired,fatigued I get from all this,
the more I'm like, oh, what awonderful idea.
And I and I know, you know, somany people will jump in and be
like, come on, now you can't,that's not the way to handle it,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
(41:13):
But I don't know.
I mean, maybe it is because weare so profoundly divided in
what uh what our values andethics and beliefs and every
single thing.
We are so incredibly divided onthat.
Like it almost feels like thebest solution here.
I, you know, I don't know,somebody's gonna get mad when I
said that, but whatever.
SPEAKER_05 (41:34):
It's all being
clouded by social media.
You know, there's a lot ofsingle-shot snapshots of this
happening, and then and then astory forms around it.
True or untrue.
You know, there's a uh uh a headpastor from a Chicago area
Presbyterian church.
There's a snapshot of him beinguh pepper sprayed uh by you know
(41:56):
uh some law enforcement agent.
One, we don't know if it's AI.
Two, yeah.
Everybody assumes because he'sclergy that he was peaceful,
that he wasn't doing anythingwrong, that you know, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
Assuming is bad.
We all know the you know theanecdote, right?
Um, but you can't convincepeople of that because of their
(42:17):
own internal bias.
And social media is doing thisentire thing for both sides a
disservice.
Um but what's really thedisservice is the fact that
people can't look at thosethings and say, you know, I
don't know what's going onthere.
It looks bad, but I don't knowwhat happened.
So I'm gonna wait and see, likewe always talk about, right?
Wait and see what happens.
People react in the craziestways, and it's not helping.
SPEAKER_01 (42:39):
No, no, it's really
not.
And you know, and it's such agood point, Clay, for you know,
for all of us and and myself,ourselves included, to, you
know, to take that step back, totake a deep breath and to say,
you know, this isn't everybody.
This isn't representative of themajority.
These are just the most vocalportions of each group of
(43:04):
people.
And, you know, and those are theones that make the most noise.
You know, it's a the wholesqueaky wheel thing that you
hear about.
Well, of course, that's gonnaget the most attention.
Of course, these are the thingsthat are getting the most
attention.
In huge portions across America,um, people are just living their
lives and getting along andcoexisting, uh, and and having
(43:26):
differences of opinions andbeliefs and still, you know,
functioning without trying tohurt each other.
So, you know, that is the actualnorm.
That is the actual reality, youknow, and it's it's good to
remember that.
It's good to take that pause andgo, hang on, hang on, let's go
touch grass, right?
That's actually been my favoritesaying of late.
(43:47):
And I know it's you know, it'sone of the ones that's gonna get
overused and we'll get tired ofit.
Maybe people are already tiredof it.
I'm not, I am very fond ofsaying, go touch grass, breathe
air, touch grass.
It's it's all okay.
That was my reminder to myself,guys.
You didn't need it.
I needed it right then.
Oh, what are you gonna?
Oh, now I gotta bring us rightback down again, guys.
(44:10):
Right back down again.
Uh yeah, so a lot of talk goingon right now.
Uh of course, that Hamas is umtalking or listening to
potential peace talks and allthose things.
You know, the question always isthough, like, do they need it?
Because history has shown not somuch.
SPEAKER_05 (44:32):
Yeah, the the
latest, I guess, is is you know,
an offer from you know,negotiated by President Trump
through um, you know, Bibi, uh,and then forwarded to Hamas,
waiting for their responseabout, you know, it's it's a
peace deal.
It's contingent upon the releaseof you know the Israeli
(44:53):
hostages, the hostages from twoyears ago, literally two years
ago, um.
Um and and it's it's in it, theball is in Hamas's court right
now.
And and the latest that I sawright before we went into
recording is they basically saidno.
And so as hopeful as I think allof us were, um, you know, this
(45:14):
is uh this is not something thatuh we should ever assume is
going to be successful.
We all know peace in the MiddleEast is this very fleeting, you
know.
We we were very close tograsping it four years ago, to
be beaten.
Uh, but but you know, right nowthere is an offer on the table.
Like I said, the last thing Iheard was Hamas and no.
(45:36):
Um and and we'll have to seewhat happens.
But uh, you know, the fact thatwe got Netanyahu to even agree
to a deal didn't involvebulldozing, you know, Gaza Strip
and starting over again.
Right is is promising.
Uh, because listen, folks, asmuch as I support Israel, and I
and I, you know, and I clearlywill never support a terrorist
(45:58):
organization, uh, you know,specifically Hamas in this case,
um, you know, PresidentNetanyahu's in a in a tough
spot.
I mean, when you live next doorto your prime enemy who's trying
to kill you on a daily basis,being gracious and being
forgiving is is a difficultthing.
Um and the fact that we got himto agree to any deal whatsoever
under any terms is is prettymiraculous.
(46:20):
And then if I and then of courseHamas turns around and takes
this opportunity to say, and andthey're not gonna do it.
So we'll have to see whathappens, but but I progress is
being made.
I am still hopeful uh for foreverybody in that region that
they can at least stop killingeach other for a while.
Will there ever be pure peace?
Probably not, but take a breakfrom the killing for a little
bit and and you know, eat somefalafel and just everybody just
(46:43):
chill for a little bit.
SPEAKER_01 (46:44):
I love some falafel,
yeah.
Come on, guys.
Just I feel like food solveseverything.
Just I mean, it really does.
I mean, food food solves so manyproblems in the world.
Uh so remember the it's sounrelated, but it just made me
think of it, guys.
I'm sorry, but it just made methink of the old Snickers
commercials with uh Betty White,you know, eat a Snickers.
(47:05):
You're not you when you'reyourself when you're hungry.
Yes, I love those.
I just love it.
It's so true.
Everybody just have a falafel.
I like that.
That's gonna be our thing.
Right?
Yeah, all right, guys.
Obviously, we're gonna keep youupdated.
Uh next up, see, we're plowingfor those last ones because
we're getting close.
This, oh my gosh.
(47:27):
So, you know, here, I mean, hereI know this guy before I gave
you this topic.
No, no, I listen, I have to I'veI have thrown myself on the
sword here so many times thatI'll do it again.
I only pay attention to what Ihave to, like what I absolutely
have to.
So a lot of times, like anembarrassing a lot of times when
(47:50):
Clay puts out subjects, I'mlike, new to me.
Let me go find out what'shappening here.
Uh this this was one of those.
I was like, Dr.
Antifa, what?
And then you know, I had I hadlike a bunch of consecutive
what.
Uh, you know, the second onebeing that at Rutgers
University, like, what?
Why am I so again?
(48:11):
Here we are with the why am Isurprised?
Why would that have surprisedme?
And yet it did.
It did.
SPEAKER_05 (48:18):
So the latest is
that this guy is uh he's in
this, I can't remember thetitle, right?
When you get to college, you getis all the teachers' positions
are titled, right?
So it's a professor, anassistant professor, an
associate professor, andadvising professor.
I don't know.
He's got one of those lowertitles, right?
Um, and his name is Mark Bray.
Um, and he teaches, he teaches acourse on I couldn't get I
(48:42):
couldn't find the course title,but it is about terrorism.
Uh, I think the concept ofterrorism, um, which in the
scheme of things, I'll be honestwith you, I have taken courses
professionally about you knowstudying terrorism in military
education, in you know, uhpersonal curiosity classes, like
terrorism is a viable subject atany university, and it's not
(49:05):
something we should shy awayfrom.
Right.
So the fact that this guy wasteaching a course about
terrorism is not all thatshocking.
The fact that he has writtenthree specific books on
anti-fascism, specificallyAntifa, including the Antifa
Bible, came from this guy.
Yeah, right.
So he is a, and that's why theycall him Dr.
Antifa on on Rutgers, the NewJersey, the State College of New
(49:28):
Jersey, as I call it.
Um he is uh he's a professor oncampus.
He teaches a course there.
Uh, he's written three booksvery pro-Antifa.
Um, and and now is under uh he'staken some he's taken some death
threats.
He has taken some uh he's beendoxxed, I think, once or twice.
(49:50):
And so the chapter of TurningPoint USA at Rutgers University
has come out with a petition andthey want him off of campus.
They want the guy gone.
Um they're not asking to cancelthe course, they're not asking
for any of that stuff.
They want this particular guy,because of his relationship with
Antifa, gone.
Um, and so they've got a numberof now they have also come out
(50:12):
and said, hey, listen, we do notendorse the death threats, we do
not endorse the doxing or any ofthe rest of that stuff.
We just want the guy gone.
Um, and so they're they'repushing for that.
But what does this guy do?
He's like, I I I'm not livinglike this.
Um, I'm gonna make all of my theentire course is gonna be online
and I'm my family to Europe.
SPEAKER_01 (50:33):
Yeah, yeah.
He ran away like the littlechicken coward that he is, that
they all actually are.
They are all flat out cowards,pure cowards.
They can't, they just they canthey can't they can dish it out,
but they can't take it for thetime and again, over and over
again.
What is Ruther's saying this isokay?
(50:54):
Yeah, I listen.
We're we are at the point, andwe've been at this point for a
while now, let's face it, thatif you are, and and I mean this
as kindly as I can say it, ifyou are still sending your
impressionable young humans tothese universities, shame on
(51:14):
you.
Shame on you.
You are putting this on all ofus.
This is what you are producingby sending your and I know, calm
down, everybody.
I know it's not every studentthat goes into uh these
universities and these collegescome out like this, but way too
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many of them are, and they arethe ones causing all of the
problems in our world right now.
SPEAKER_05 (51:41):
So um I've got kids
in college, and and I, you know,
and I get I get back briefs fromthem a couple of times a week.
Course content on you know,instructors that they have,
anything a little crazy dicey,right?
There's a big, you know, um,depending on the college campus,
you know, um some big responseto Charlie Kirk, some not at
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all.
Um, you know, but I but I'malways listening and paying
attention to course content andum you know what's coming from
the instructor themselves.
So it's not every campus, folks.
We're not saying that.
And it's certainly not everystudent because you can send
great kids to college and theystill come back great kids.
But there are places and thereare people who this Dr.
(52:24):
Antifa guy, this Mark Beret, isa prime example, right?
He he is a guy that I don't wantmy kids sitting in the classroom
with for a semester.
Yeah, just my life.
Goodness, no.
It may exist on college campuseseverywhere.
SPEAKER_01 (52:36):
Yeah, yeah.
It's you know, at the veryleast, listen, I know you gotta
put your kids through college.
I get it, they gotta go if theywant to do certain things.
I I get that, of course.
And but boy, oh boy, payattention.
Your kid starts acting anydifferently, you know, and not
in obviously you want them tomature and grow as human beings.
That's that's a good difference.
Uh pay attention, guys.
(52:58):
Just pay attention and and cutthat off, man.
SPEAKER_05 (53:01):
Be active involved
parents.
And that's you know, I I this isa discussion that I've had.
It's listen, you know, youyou're a grown-up, you're an
adult.
I understand that.
But I'm paying for this.
So I need a vote, you know, likeyeah, and active involved
parenting does not stop at theend of high school.
(53:21):
If you're sending your kids tocollege unless they're paying
for it on their own, even ifthey're not paying, even if even
if they are paying for it,they're still your kid.
SPEAKER_06 (53:28):
They're still your
kid, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (53:29):
Actively involved in
what's going on in their lives.
But these are the things thatyou've got to listen for and
look for when you've gotcollege-age kids nowadays, just
a fact of any college campus.
SPEAKER_01 (53:38):
Yeah, yeah.
It's such uh it's such a shame.
It's so crazy.
I'll say one more time.
Pay attention, parents.
Um, also pay attention, folks,to the kind of music your kids
are listening to, for heck'ssake.
Um, listen, you know, I had aconversation with my daughter
about this guy.
(53:59):
Um, I don't, honestly, I don't,I couldn't tell you anything
that he's doing, so I don't knowanything about him.
I don't frankly care.
I don't care about the SuperBowl.
I don't care about football.
I don't care about the NFL.
Don't care because they knockedthe care right out of me.
They just pumped it right out ofmy system.
But it's a thing that'shappening, that's coming up.
Um so why do we care?
(54:19):
Um well bad bunny.
He uh I guess his music has alot of anti-ice or his public, I
don't know about his music, Ishouldn't say that.
Uh I know his public stance isanti-ice.
Um his clothing choice, hispersona, all of the things are a
little eyebrow raising.
Again, do you?
(54:40):
Ooh, do you?
I hate that phrase that I saidit anyway.
Um I don't know.
I mean, what do you is it a bigdeal, Clay?
What do you think?
SPEAKER_05 (54:52):
I you know, there's
no there's never been a shortage
of controversial performances.
I mean, let's just, you know, ifJustin Timberlake, Jan Jackson.
I mean, it starts there and itgoes on.
SPEAKER_06 (55:04):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (55:04):
I I didn't know, I
don't listen to modern music at
all.
Um, I didn't know who Bad Bunnywas.
Um, my assumption was it was theDJ.
SPEAKER_01 (55:13):
Um yeah, I would
have thought that, sure.
SPEAKER_05 (55:15):
And and so I had to
ask the question, uh, like you
did.
And it was like, oh, well, it'syou know, it's modern dance
music, okay, fine.
Um, and then you know, youstarted to see the pictures.
And okay, listen, Bad Bunnydresses like a woman.
He is a male, dresses anddresses often, which for the
younger generation is less of aconcern, right?
(55:37):
Than most of the oldergeneration, although we've
talked about how the pendulum isswinging.
Uh but two things one is BadBunny was on Saturday Night Live
this past weekend, which isanother show that I don't watch
anymore because the contentsucks.
Nope.
SPEAKER_01 (55:51):
People, I gotta tell
you, guys, stop asking me if
I've seen uh Maya Rudolph, uh,her invitation or impersonation
of Connolly Harris.
I have actually never seen itbecause I don't watch it.
I don't watch the show.
So stop asking me.
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_05 (56:06):
So he Bad Bunny was
on Saturday Night Live.
He is uh port of Puerto Ricandescent, uh native Spanish
speaker.
Most of his music, myunderstanding, is in Spanish,
uh, if not all.
And he came out and saidblatantly, hey America, you have
four months to learn Spanish ifyou want to listen to my
halftime Super Bowl show becauseyou know, because it's not gonna
be in English.
(56:27):
Now, I okay.
Okay, you know, you're puttingyourself out there.
Yeah.
Here's the question, though, andthis goes back to Anheuser
Busch, this goes back to CrackerBarrel, this goes back to all of
these other.
What is what is the NFLthinking?
Yeah, the NFL audience like isthe bulk of the NFL audience,
(56:51):
even the casual NFL watcher,somebody who one wants to listen
to and or see Bad Bunny perform,right?
Also in Spanish, which we allknow the vast majority of
America, there are plenty ofAmericans who do speak Spanish,
sure.
Right?
Or, you know, but many don't,you know, and and a lot of the
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NFL watching, you know, audiencedoesn't speak Spanish.
And for him to have thisattitude of, well, that's a you
problem, that's not a meproblem, um, like that that is
it's an NFL problem.
SPEAKER_01 (57:25):
It's an NFL problem.
And you know, listen, the NFLcannot get out of their own
stupid way.
I mean, they really can't.
It it's like a it's like acontest to see how many
Americans they can put off.
And, you know, and of course theresponse is going to be, well,
that's because they're racist.
You're all racist and this andthat, you know.
And no, it's because you are notreading the room at all of what
(57:50):
your target audience is, youknow, as in the people who buy
the tickets and fill thestadiums and buy the NFL package
to watch all of that stuff, youknow, the ones who were super
excited when guns, I don't know,did Guns N' Roses headline one
time?
I don't know why I just wantedto say Guns N' Roses, but I
could be right, I could bewrong, I have an idea.
But the demographic, themajority of the demographic that
(58:13):
is watching and moreimportantly, buying, purchasing,
is not the people that you arecatering to.
And I can tell you that with apretty good dose of confidence.
And what this really is, isbecause they are partnered NFL
and Rock Nation, which isJay-Z's company corporation,
(58:34):
they are partnered.
So Jay-Z and his ilk arebasically influencing all of
this.
So if that's what y'all want,knock yourselves out.
Everybody who enjoys that, yougo ahead and enjoy it.
But I can tell you right now,you are turning off more people
(58:56):
than you are bringing in, andyour numbers will show it.
SPEAKER_05 (59:01):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (59:02):
Simple as that.
SPEAKER_05 (59:03):
So there's already
uh discussions of alternate
halftime shows by people likeRock and Jason Aldean and some
others.
Yes, yes.
I'll bet you a dime on a dollar,it's Fox.
And uh Brilliant, by the way.
Brilliant.
Time time out, you know, time itto where it is a an alternate
halftime concert.
(59:24):
Um, and and that will be themetric, folks.
Um I don't even know whatnetwork has this Super Bowl
anymore.
Um but you will they will seeit.
They will see the drop, they'llsee the drop in viewership for
the halftime show.
Um whether it's people justchanging the channel
specifically to watch analternate um concert or just to
(59:46):
turn it off.
Right.
Um, but you will they they willfeel it.
Um we all know the money that isspent by advertisers during the
Super Bowl, it's astronomicallyhigh.
Um, they are the ones who will,you know.
Fix this for the future.
But I think, you know, we'redown the road of, you know, I
don't think anybody's going tobudge on this one.
(01:00:07):
Oh, by the way, you rememberwhen I said I thought it was
going to be Taylor Swift, it wasgoing to be the halftime show?
Yes.
Yeah.
Well, here's the thing.
The rumor is she was offered thehalftime show, but she did she
mandated three things.
And I don't know if this istrue, folks, but I've heard it
on a couple of different spacesin a couple of different places.
Um, enough to make me believethere's some truth behind it.
Um, she made three demands.
(01:00:27):
One, that she got to uh do theset list, right?
She got to pick the songs, noinfluence from the NFL on which
song she was gonna sing.
Two, that um she got totalcontrol over the show itself,
um, you know, and and the NFLcouldn't tell her yes or no
about costume changes orfireworks or whatever.
But the last one was that shedemanded that President Trump
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not be allowed to go to theSuper Bowl.
SPEAKER_01 (01:00:52):
Oh, I did hear that.
SPEAKER_05 (01:00:54):
We can't do that.
Like that's not even a thing.
But again, folks, I wasn't indiscussion between Taylor Swift
and the NFL.
I have no idea if that's true,but there's enough traction on
that out there uh where it it atleast is something to be
considered.
But anyway, that's how we endedup with Bad Bunny is the word on
the street.
SPEAKER_01 (01:01:12):
Very sad, very sad.
And again, listen, I am not, Ihave I've never been a person to
uh call for boycotts of any ofanything, really.
I I fully believe in lettingeverybody make their own choices
and and um you know their owndecisions.
I just I'm just not into thewhole like we must boycott.
I simply choose not to watch.
(01:01:34):
And um and I and I think I'msafe to say that I might be
speaking for a whole bunch ofpeople.
I'm curious to see how many.
I'd love to know, actually,guys, if you don't mind, let us
know in the comments if you'regonna be watching the NFL or or
not or the Super Bowl or not.
And by the way, no judgment ifyou watch it.
Uh if that if you want to watchit, watch it.
If you like Bad Bunny, enjoy theshow.
(01:01:54):
I'm sure it'll be exactly whatyou anticipate it to be.
And that's great for you.
Just uh simply not for me, notmy thing, not my style.
Uh, I I don't really want tosupport anybody who is, you
know, vocally anti-ICE and uhall of that, and anti-America,
really.
So they can suck it as far asI'm concerned.
Y'all do what you want to do.
(01:02:14):
Hey, I wanna I wanna end I youknow, I I forgot to throw this
in there um when we weremessaging before.
Um, but I just want to say youmentioned a movie you saw, and I
want to mention a movie I sawtoo.
And I actually I enjoyed it.
I haven't been to the movietheater since the Elvis movie,
the last Elvis movie that cameout, which yeah, so that was the
last one I went to.
And this one, um, my husband anddaughter wanted to go see it.
(01:02:36):
And I used to be a fan of TheRock, Dwayne Johnson.
I'm not so much a fan anymore.
But his uh new movie is out.
It's called The SmashingMachine.
It's the Mark Kerr story.
SPEAKER_05 (01:02:46):
I haven't seen it,
but I've seen the previews.
SPEAKER_01 (01:02:48):
It looks like very
good, very different, very
different.
I mean, you know, his acting,his performance, that's I'll
talk about that in a second.
Um, but the movie style, the waythat it was done, very
different.
If you are I call them quietmovies because they're just
stories, like it's you know,there's no crashing cars and
crazy things.
There's of course fight scenescenes um, you know, that you
(01:03:10):
watch in the ring and all thatstuff, uh, which are pretty
dynamic and really good.
But overall, it's just a story,and I love that.
Um now Dwayne Jots, uh, listen,I in his world, in his Hollywood
world, um, I feel like that wasa Academy Award um performance.
It was actually that good, in myopinion.
(01:03:32):
So if you're gonna see it, ifyou care, I would be curious, or
if you have seen it, I'd becurious what your thoughts are.
But yeah, I actually, if that isyour type of movie, I I would
actually recommend going to seeit.
So yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (01:03:44):
I as a writer, I'm
all for good storytelling.
I miss good storytelling.
Um, but he also did hit a keycomponent to winning an Oscar,
which is go ugly.
SPEAKER_06 (01:03:51):
Right?
SPEAKER_05 (01:03:52):
I always say go ugly
um to win an Oscar.
And uh I've seen the makeup workthat they did on him, which is
amazing.
SPEAKER_01 (01:03:59):
Fascinating.
His even the way um, even theset of his eyes, there's you
know, a certain I don't know howto describe it, you'll know what
I'm talking about when you seeit, but even the set of his
eyes, um, that was acting likeit was really good.
I was very impressed, veryimpressed.
So good on him.
Um again, yeah, add it to thelist.
(01:04:20):
I I would say worth seeing.
So yeah, so that's it.
That's all I got, guys.
Uh Clay, you want to close himout with anything?
Any message you want to givethem?
SPEAKER_05 (01:04:27):
Yeah, folks.
Um, uh as always, we weappreciate you uh tuning in,
listening on whatever uhplatform you're listening or
watching on.
Elsa and I are uh, you know, welove that we've got huge fans in
you guys, but we're huge fans ofyou guys, and uh we appreciate
all the support.
And uh we will be back nextweek.
And until then, keep moving,keep shooting.
SPEAKER_01 (01:04:46):
Take care, guys.
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