Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jul 9 2024

Joe loses two Georges. Battleground state Republicans. Admitting when you're wrong.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. It is Clay time, It is Buck time.
It is the Clay, Travis and Buck Section Show. Getting
ready to dive into it all with you. Thanks for
being with us. Oh my, another day. More stories coming in.
The pressure on Joe Biden continues, although I think it's
getting to be more pathetic and less ominous for Biden's future,

(00:24):
although we shall see that all turn on a dime.
Who will dive into all of that here momentarily, so
looking forward to breaking that down for you for sure.
We've also got Trump in Miami yesterday. He gave a
rally and had some very interesting things to say, so

(00:44):
we will make sense of all of that. The Miami
rally also Axios with a story according to Trump advisors,
the swing state rankings of hardest and easiest win. Did
you see this Clay this week? And it's surprising switch one. Yeah,
I think that Wisconsin is their most challenging, but they

(01:06):
said something else, so we will dive into some of that.
Maggie Haberman weighs in on the Trump reaction. The Trump
team reaction to the calls for the Biden campaigns, saying
they're staying or Biden's not going.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Also Supreme Court justice. So to my oars.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Bodyguards, I believe the US marshals shot a would be
a carjacker yesterday. And this this is interesting one just
because it shows you in DC, even our Supreme Court
justices have to be worried about getting their cars robbed
or getting carjacked. Also sort of my ore as you

(01:43):
no doubt, No is very opposed to anyone being able
to bear arms to defend themselves, does not believe, explicitly
rejects that there is a constitutional right to bear arms
in self defense in any capacity. But she twenty four
to seven armed security that's highly trained and has federal
law enforcement power. So you know that's interesting, isn't it.

(02:06):
We shall discuss that a little later on in the program.
But the big one today, well, there's really two.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's funny.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I think the I don't know, Clay, you can tell
me which one you find more interesting. I lean in
the direction of the Stephanopolis saying the obvious part, not
even the quiet part out loud, is really interesting. He
thinks that Biden cancer four more years. Also, George Clooney
has said that Biden should step aside. In a guest

(02:36):
essay at the New York Times, because when I'm thinking
of somebody who has tremendous wisdom and judgment about life,
I think those actors who haven't done anything worth seeing
in like fifteen years. But let's I want to start
with Stephanopolis. Clooney just had a big fundraiser, and so
some people I think are saying that's a bigger one.
I think the Stefanopolis situation is.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Are you so let me ask you.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, I just want to ask you right off. Do
we have the audio? Because I think we can play it,
but it's kind of harm Oh wait, they're George. It's
a tale of two George's. I didn't even realize that. Y. Yes,
But I want to get your ciaa take on this,
because you were asking me this off air, and now
you've got me wondering if I just took it too
much at face value? Do we have this Stepanopolis audio

(03:19):
to play here? It is for those of you who
did not hear it. He's walking on the street New
York City. Somebody comes up to him and this is
what it sounded like.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
What do you think do you think Biben should set down?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
You talk to him more than anybody else have lately,
and you could be honest, you don't think you can
start four more answers?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right, that's an answer.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I okay, okay, Now, Stephanopolis Clay has already apologized for this,
which is just hilarious because it goes to they still
have this thing like there's this high priesthood of the
journals who don't really have opinions. I mean, if anything,
he's he's offering an opinion in a private context.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
And as far as I'm concer, he's a Democrat operative.
He worked in the Clinton white House. He helped smear the
Bill Clinton accusers. Like this is I don't even know
what to say. The idea that this guy's a journalist
is absurd. Oh he's like evil Frodo Beggins. And you know,
I'm just saying he's not very tall. And yet here
we are being told that he has to apologize or

(04:20):
that he feels need to apologize. If you couldn't really
make out what he said, he said to this guy
on the street in Manhattan on surreptitiously recorded video. I
don't think he can serve four more years, Clay, four
more years. I don't think Biden can serve four more months,
but we're even having this conversation like this is a problem,

(04:40):
this is insane.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
One just to go back in time for George Stephanopolis,
if you wonder how being a political guru can take
you into OutKick the coverage terrain? Didn't he date Jennifer
Gray soon after she was a superstar in Dirty Dancing?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Am I crazy for this? I think he married a
pretty blonde actress. I think I think he's doesn't surprise
me at all.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
But I mean in nineteen ninety two for him to
be dating so the staff can look this up, he
was not willing to put baby in the corner. I
think he got to date Jennifer Gray, which would have
been an incredible accomplishment because that was just a couple
of years after Dance the.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Movie came out.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
All right, Clay, focus the Republic is at stay George, Now,
what question you asked before we came on the air?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Is I think more interesting here?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
So, first of all, it sounded like that got stepped on,
like he initially asked can he be president? And it
sounded like Stephanovolos was going to answer that and maybe
say no right now, which would actually be I think
a far bigger story and one that we should be
talking about, which is whether Biden has the capacity to

(05:53):
be president not for four more years, but for six
more months.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Did you want to fire it again?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now that we've talked about little bit again, so let's
just play it one more time?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Seven can hear? This is the secret video of Stephanopolis?
What do you think? Do you think Biden should step down?
You talk to him more than anybody else have.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Lately, and you could be honest years you don't think
he can start four more years?

Speaker 5 (06:13):
All right?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
You see you see the way I'm saying that, Like
he asked first, do you think he should step down?
And it sounded like Stephanopolis was going to start to
answer that, which would have been I think a far
bigger story. I think he benefited by just saying he
can't starve four more years? Which what do you think
ninety percent of Americans believe?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
What? What's crazy to me? I mean, there's a lot
that's crazy to me. Right.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
This is we are entering just to ever understands American politics,
which has reverberations around the world and for the history
of our of our species. Okay, this is a big deal.
It has entered crazy town. This is crazy town stuff.
This is the Emperor. Joe Biden is uh not prancing

(06:55):
around naked because he can't prance, but you know he's
he's he's slowly doddering down the street without any clothes on,
and we're being told, oh no, he's got clothes on,
Like this is the most obvious.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
This is the this is.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
The story, the fairy tale, the parable of the Emperor's
new clothes made real. And Stephanopoulos is saying something I
think so interesting because four more years, Clay to me,
the whole game here is can they just get everyone
to vote Biden? Yeah, so that they can have a
Democrat in power? The notion of Biden doing like the

(07:31):
the The argument right now for people with functioning brains is, Kennon,
should Biden stay in between now and November or you know, January? Yes,
just because and then they'll have Kamala takeover. But there
are people did you see on CNN former Republican Jonah
Goldberg got in an argument with Bettingfield or I think

(07:54):
betting I think that's her name. She was a former
Obama spokesperson, and she.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Said, do we have I think we have this too,
saying it's four more years that he could that that
Biden has four more full years in him. Do you
guys have this way?

Speaker 1 (08:06):
I'm going out of order here.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
I sorry, but cut three.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Democrats say this election is about democracy in the future
of the country, and then he says, well, if I lose,
I give him my best shot. Who cares. That is
a terrible answer. He was clearly prepped, and he still
gave a.

Speaker 7 (08:23):
Terrible hand, saying the last three years mean nothing to
you when you have a president who has gotten more
done in a bipartisan way than anybody thought was possible,
has gotten meaningful gun legislation done, has gotten infrastructure build.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
If you had a heart attack, you want to say, well,
what did the last three matter?

Speaker 7 (08:36):
That's that's like saying it doesn't so it doesn't matter
his president because it doesn't matter what happens when this
person's in office. That's saying that only the campaign is
the only thing that matters.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
I don't think that's true.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
I don't think that's true.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
Then it depends campaigns are about the future, and that's fine.
I'm just saying saying the last three and a half
years don't matter.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
At all. Is it don't matter all about him whether
or not he can do the job the next the
next four and a half years. Do you honestly think
he can serve four and a half more years?

Speaker 5 (09:02):
I do.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I think that's lunatic, I really do. I think it's lunatic.
Can I just give let me give Jodah Goldberg credit. Okay,
I don't agree to god everything he says, but it
is lunatic stuff. Okay, But this is the thing, Clay.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
To get to November, they have to be willing to
say that that he can get four more years.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
They have to be even crazier. It's not just the
lie about he's okay for now, they have to say
he's okay till twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 8 (09:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
No, that's bonkers.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
You asked the question on the Stephanopolis video, and he
did date Jennifer Gray dirty dancing. I mean, that is
an amazing pull back in ninety two. But you asked
the question, was this a setup? Did he want this
to be out there? And then sometimes you get set
up and you come back and you're like, oh, I'm sorry,
regret that that got out. I don't think so. I
think this was just a random on the street encounter.

(09:57):
And I think he was trying to be nice, But
now you got me thinking, it's really kind of weird
that they just randomly found Stephanopolis and his jym clothes
on a random street corner asking him about Biden, Like
it is the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Right after this interview too.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
And and if he's gonna have any weirdness about offering
an opinion to a rando on the street, George Defanopolis
hasn't been in the game long enough to understand this.
I mean, it's just the whole thing is it is
very stri I didn't think about it. I took it
at because he didn't say anything that controversial to me.
But the fact that this video existed, it does feel strange.

(10:33):
It feels a little bit like it's a plant. It
feels a little bit like this must agree something. Yeah,
And and and here's the thing. You know, you're you're
you're Stephanopolis. I think you want to get on the record.
I think that there are a lot of people who
want to create the record now of we told you so,
and then they're gonna fall online. But they'll at least
have this, uh, you know, at least have this in

(10:54):
a position where they can later on say that we
tried to warn you about this situation. But yeah, I mean, Clay,
if you or I were recorded walking down the street,
we'd be like, oh, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I mean if someone asks us a political question to
be like yeah, we'd answer and we'd say what we
always say, and then if the notion that we'd have
to apologize for.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's just so funny that these people live in this,
like the legacy journal media thinks that they're not allowed,
like there don't do opinion stuff, like they don't have opinions.
It's just well, it also felt feels to me now
that I think about it, like Stephanopoulos felt like he
was getting too much criticism for not pushing back hard
enough against Biden, and so he's trying to stay in

(11:34):
good graces. And then he can say it, and then
he can come out and say, hey, I wish this
hadn't you know, gotten out And so he kind of
gets to eat his cake and have it too right.
I mean, he gets both sides of the equation covered
because he gets to do the holier than now. But
you really know what he thinks. And this is why
I think actually as much as I do make constant

(11:54):
jokes about it, because it is hilarious and it is
living in an alternate universe. Morning Joe is such an
important touchtone daily political experience for Democrats because so much
of the Democrat identity is sitting at the cool kids table.
It's certainly in the media and we're talking about we're

(12:15):
talking about George Clooney here in a second. But and
and also for the people that cover politics, they want
to have access and they want to be, like I said,
they want to be at the cool kids table for
the next administration. And the problem they have right now
is they don't know who's going to be the head
of that table, and so they're trying to establish, you know,
a little bit of bona fidez here, a little bit

(12:37):
of bona fidez that they're trying to leave these crumbs
so that no matter what happens, if Biden loses, they
can say I told you he was going to lose.
If he wins, they can say I rallied behind him.
If he gets replaced, they could you know, that's part
of the dissonance is that there's no ethics involved in this.
The voices, the people that you are hearing want to
exactly what Clay said, have their cake and eat it

(12:57):
too with whatever comes out of this election, because proximity
to power is the single most important thing, you know,
whether it's Biden or Kamelo or somebody else or whatever.
They just want to make sure that you know they're
at the party with all the photographers in the Hamptons
next summer. That's what this really is. And George Defanopolis

(13:18):
certainly falls into that category. Okay, so that's one George.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
We're gonna come back and talk in a little bit
because I do think the significance George Clooney and Julia
Roberts and Katzenberg, whoever it was, just threw a monster
fundraiser for Joe Biden. It probably got the most attention
because Obama had to help Joe Biden off the stage
at the end of it. Clooney says in this editorial,

(13:43):
which I read so you don't have to, as soon
as it went up on the New York Times page,
says that the Biden he saw at the fundraiser is
the exact same Biden that was on the stage debating
against Trump. I think that's significant because what they're trying
to do is say oh, that was just a bad night.
Now you're starting to see other people push back and say,

(14:04):
actually no, this is a representative sample of what Biden
is often like.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
We'll talk about that.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
What does it mean Is it possible that any of
this pressure is going to have any impact at all
on Biden and whether he runs.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
We'll talk about all that and more.

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Speaker 2 (15:39):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
We talked just a few moments ago about George Stephanopubulis,
who is caught on audio on a video audio by TMZ.
It seems a little weird. He's walking around. They just
happen to find the guy who just happened to do
the in depth interview with Joe Biden a few days ago,
to say, Hey, what do you think he's like. I
don't think he's got four more years. I think it's hilarious, dude.

(16:03):
No one thinks he has four more years.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
And I mean, I don't think. I'm not convinced that
Joe Biden will have power of speech in two years. Okay,
I'll say that. I don't know say it.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I hate to say it, but I think that's very
fair position. I don't think he will be able to
make words in about two years, okay, based on the
deterioration speed that we have seen. I'm not a doctor,
but I think anybody with a functioning brain would see
that and say that that this. And yet, as we know,
not only is it Biden has to stay in now,

(16:35):
or at least that's what looks like it's happening. Biden's
staying in means that people around him have to be
willing to publicly say we think he can do four
more years, even though I think every single one of
them knows there is no chance Joe Biden finishes out
by choice or not by choice. There is no chance
he would make it to twenty twenty eight as president

(16:56):
of the United States. Okay, we are.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
In an absurd situation with all of this, and yet
it's a situation that has been a long time building
up and they have no one to blame but themselves.
So Stephanoppinopolos, whatever, George, do you know that, George Stephanopolis?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
He says.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes, he says, I believe if you if you're a
Greek and your last name ends in the in the
ulos suffix, that means you come from the Peloponnese.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Is that right. We've got Greek listeners, they'll tell me this.
So that's why. And anybody whose name ends in uh
in ulos, you don't need to know this anyway. Back
to George Clooney, Mister George Clooney, very famous for the
movies he has been over the years. I'm gonna say
something too. I think he's kind of overrated. You're probably
a big Clooney guy, but I think he's kind of overrated.
If I have to pick, i'd go Brad Pitt. Better

(17:50):
body of work. I even think a better actor. So
Clay and Buck fighting over.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
To man, I'm just feeling you the Brad Pitt. Brad
Pitt super accomplished. I mean, I thought you were gonna
say like someone who was less accomplished would be more challenging.
But I would agree with you on Brad. I think
Brad Pitt's one of the five most successful actors of
his generation. And again depending on defining generation, but Brad
Pitt is really really good. Another guy, like we talked

(18:15):
about yesterday, Tom Cruise Denzel tends to be Brad Pitt.
They just don't make very many bad movies. There are some,
I know because you guys are gonna blow me up
with them, but in general, those guys have pretty good
choices in terms of the movies they make.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Clooney's made a bunch of clunkers. Yes, he makes.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Really that, So I think in Pitt v. Clooney, I
think that Pitt is the better actor. And they were
weren't there both in Ocean's eleven or anyway? The point
here about the politics. I did enjoy Ocean's eleven. I'll
say I didn't see the Night gamey. Ocean's eleven is
a good film. If I have to the best Brad
Pitt movie seven, it's seven. I mean, it's dark, but

(18:54):
seven is an incredible movie. I think the best Brad
Pitt movie is seven. For me, I'd have to say
I probably go Troy because I like all that historical
epic stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
That's super homo erotic. Like again, settle down.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I don't want to cast dispersions on Achilles, and as
Seinfeld said, not that there's anything wrong with it, but
I think Brad Pitt's Achilles is super gay in in
Troy Well Clay.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
I don't know if you know, but the ancient Greeks
they did they were a little bit different, different show maleig.
You know, they did things a little different. You know,
they had the Olympics naked. They had a lot of
things going on naked. Anyway, that was a long time ago,
you know, a couple of thousand years.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Wrestling tough to do and not be gay. I would
just suggest, I would just suggest this is like if
you get you get athletes. You get athletes, and you
want to get them.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Really laughing. This is true. This is uh, this is
true for all of you.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
The toughest thing for an athlete to do, pro athlete,
college athlete, full grown men.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Shower fights.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Guys on teams get in fights all the It happens
all the time every league. They get in fights, and
people who cover in the media have seen them shower fights.
How do you break up a shower fight? Guys are
like on a football field. We'll break it up on
a basketball court. Two guys are slipping, sliding around, fully naked,
throwing haymakers at each other. One of them has to

(20:23):
get knocked out before the fight ends. Nobody wants to
break it up. Lessons from Clay from.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
The World of sports for all of you.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
I'm gonna take us back to the presidential contest now, everybody.
So I was gonna say the best Clooney movie, I
can't even think of what the best Clooning movie'd be.
Probably Ocean's eleven. Uh, so we have because his batman
was not good.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
George Clooney, who is If you're looking for the quintessential democrat,
elitist Hollywood celebrity, he's certainly in the conversation. You know,
he's incredibly wealthy, He's got the wife who does all
the international cause stuff.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
And you know, Clooney is, uh, you.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Know, like private jets, show up at Davo, show up
at the climate change conference, kind of a guy. And
he's written in the New York Times that they need
a new nominee. The headline here is George Clooney, I
love Biden, but we do need a new nominee. And
he says all these nice things about him, and you know, here,

(21:23):
here's the first reaction that I have to this, Clay
all of this. This is the unspoken part of it, right,
But let me just also say, Joe Biden does not
give a bleep about what George Clooney says.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Are right, So, okay, could care. George Clooney just raised
thirty million dollars for him in a Hollywood fundraiser recently,
three weeks ago, three weeks ago. So this is what
I keep saying. These people, Oh, George, you know, we're
a a Joe has to step down. They're raising money
for Joe. Handover fist.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Okay, the part of this, I don't know what your
biggest reaction, initial reaction this by the way, the op
add it's it's Joe is great, but we have a
great bench and it's time for people to step up.
But nobody can outrun father time. And you know whatever,
it's the very like nothing interesting. The fact that Kamala
Harris is not just the assumed air in all these

(22:16):
pieces is such a slap in the face. She's the
vice president. The current president has dementia. She should be
the one the problem here. Is that they can't even
get unity in the party on that move because Kamala
is such a disaster.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
You and I have said this on this program. Trump
said it yesterday at his rally in South Florida. He said,
give Biden credit. The one thing he did was pick
the only person more incompetent than him to be as
vice president. So they're not trying to elevate her. To me,
the clooney takeaway that is most important here is is

(22:57):
this couple of sentences. It's devastating to say it, but
the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at
the fundraiser was not the Joe big effing deal Biden
of twenty ten. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of
twenty twenty. He was the same man we all witnessed

(23:19):
at the debate. So all these arguments what the Biden
people have been trying to say, and I know you
went a bad into this, but yeah, they try to
say bad night. Now they're coming out and saying, actually,
you know what, that's who he is, and this ties
in because he's losing.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's why they're doing it. It's not about the debate.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's that they are losing if he were, that's a
huge to all shut up, that's that's a huge takeaways.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
This is when This is why I've said all along
that they would vote for him if he came out
with a blanket over his knees. The only reason you're
seeing this make believe surge of honesty from Democrats about
Biden is that all the polls show him getting absolutely
destroyed right now. I mean the polls right now are
in Landslide territory right Just to be clear, what happened

(24:05):
in twenty twenty two is in a lot of close races,
the Republicans were ahead. They weren't ahead by massive, massive numbers,
but they were ahead. But Democrats closed the gap, and
sure enough we didn't get the votes where we needed
them how we needed them.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
This is different.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
This is a presidential poll or presidential polling consistent for months,
the trend only going in one direction, all saying the
same thing, all with the same key takeaway, and that
right now, from an electoral college standpoint, it would be
a one of the biggest ass kickings we have seen
in a long time in a presidential election. That's why

(24:42):
George Clooney is writing this that's why this is happening.
That's the funny part about this too, is they're like,
I have to speak truth to power now. It's like, no,
you're just desperate because your guy is about to get
just waxed, gonna get That's what.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
The underlying story is here. That's why all of this
is happening. Laura Travis, by the way, has weight in.
She says, Brad Pitt's best movie by far as fight Club.
So for some of you, that was my second choice.
To be fair, that was my number. I was gonna
go number two on that one. But that's fair.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
She's wrong.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I mean it's seven, but but I wanted to that
is that is. It's a very dark movie. I mean
it's sad, but it's an incredible film.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I mean it's good, but it's like a horror movie.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
I don't know, I can't get. I'd take definitely fight
Club over seven. Fight Club is not exactly a super
lighthearted movie either. It's pretty dark.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, but there's a message to it, you know what
I mean, there's a message to it.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
You know, office space, no one talks about fight Club,
Ali says snatch, she's just off the reservation.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
I mean come on, I mean, come on, you want
to step up.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Lebron and Jordan and Ali just came in with John
Stockton and got to keep John Stockton in mind.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
I mean, come on, let's get John his due respect. Okay,
a great player in his day.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
He's the greatest baseball player of all time. I think
you really have to think about Kim kamanatty. I think
that's a if you're a Houston person, you're gonna be
laughing about that. Sorry, maybe Kim Kammandaddy's driving along, he's like, man,
what happened there? It's Babe Ruth, It's Willie Mays, Kim Kaminet.
I mean, come on, fight club. It's definitely seven. But
that's at least an argument.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Legends of the Fall was a good movie for what
it was.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Except except Brad Pitt did not age at all, and
everyone else turned into like a senior citizen in that movie.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 3 (26:38):
He also married the eight year old girl from that movie,
which is kind of a little bit creepy. Remember that
obviously had grown up. But yes, he didn't marry or
when she was eight. But I think it's like, you know,
that's that Jeopardy skit they do where it's like meet
your second wife, and have you seen that's actually really funny.
I have seen that. That's a Saturday Night Live skit. Sorry,
it's like meet your second wife. Anyway, it's a really

(27:00):
funny skit. I think, like for the women out there
that are watching you, Like Brad Pitt's like twenty five
or thirty and there's this like eight year old girl
and then he ends up with her. It's kind of like,
I don't know that that's the love story. I would
want to, you know, kind of focus on.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Also, every girl about my age, for some reason, loves,
uh Meet Joe Black. This is very they love the
Meet Joe Black movie. I've heard of seen it.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, I've seen it. I think I think it's a
it's not in the in the running. No, it's not
in the running. I'm just saying this is another another no, no, No.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
I think you're right. I think a lot of women
love Meet Joe Black. I was gonna say, isn't clue,
isn't Brad Pitt? Also, and a river runs through it.
Now he's not the star like this was before he
was a superstar. I think he's the he's the supporting Uh,
he's the brother, the other brother. Yes, my dad loves
fly fishing, so I had to sit through that movie.
There's a lot of I actually think that's a really
good movie. Norman McLean novel A River Runs through It

(27:55):
that it was based on, also incredibly well done. I mean,
if you like watching guys in beautiful rivers in Montana
fly fishing, you will like that movie. If that does
not excite you, you probably should watch Snatch and hang
out on Team Alley. On that one, I will say,
Brad Pitt and Moneyball is really good, but you have
to be a sports fan. I don't know that you
would like Moneyball if you're not a sports fan. When
he plays the.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Billy and he has a pretty he's got a pretty
minor part in that movie. I don't think that's not
a Brad would say is better. Oh I'm sorry, No,
he has a big one of Moneyball. I was thinking
of the Big Short. He has a smaller one of
the Big Short Moneyball.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
He's very Yeah, Moneyball is good. I mean Brad Pitt
is very good in it, and he does play Billy
Bean very well. But I think Jonah Hill is actually
kind of the Steeler.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Here Jordan George.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Creedy writes this this op edge, just to bring this
back for a second here and always like this is
the thing. I All I care about with these people
are the movies that they make. I don't care about
their political opinions. I don't think they are wise. I
don't think they are smart. It's hilarious to me that
The New York Times is like, you know.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
What we're gonna do. We're gonna leverage the political power
of George Clooney.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
In this moment, I will say Buck, The New York
Times is running a takedown Biden campaign right now. Like
I think they have someone basically in a war room saying, Okay,
we're gonna drop the second editorial on Monday. On Tuesday,
we're gonna have the Clooney editorial. This is why I

(29:19):
keep asking what arrows are left in the quiver? How
far are they willing to go to try and take
down I mean, I think Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I think they took their shot and they missed, and
I think Biden knows it.

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Speaker 2 (30:54):
We want to talk about will he stare, will he go?
Joe Biden. I think he's staying.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
I think he's likely staying, But there's still the possibility,
of course, is the possibility of some kind of a
last minutes which we'll see what ends up happening with that.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Interesting to hear all of the back and forth over
the decision here for the Democrats and how this is
playing out. Nancy Pelosi still one of the biggest voices
and I think has some of the most sway among
Democrats out there. She is saying, straight up, it is

(31:34):
all about what Biden decides. This has cut six and
I think this is really, at the end of the day,
the truth of it all. Does he have your support
to be the head of the Democrats.

Speaker 8 (31:44):
Agat as long as the president had the president it's
up to the president to sucide if he is going
to run. We're all encouraging him to make that decision
because time is running short. He's beloved, he is respected,
and if people want him to make that decision has made.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
He has said he has made the decision he has
said firmly this week he is going to run.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Do you want him to run?

Speaker 8 (32:13):
I want him to do whatever he decides to do,
and that's that's the way it is. Whatever he decides,
we go in.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Okay, can I just just for a moment, everybody, it's
pretty amazing. What do you?

Speaker 1 (32:24):
What do you when you actually take a step back
and look at what's going on here. There's this constant
drum beat from prominent Democrats of I support whatever Joe
Biden does. And then a couple of hours later, Joe
Biden is on stage and we're saying I'm running, guys,
one hundred percent, I'm running. And then a couple of
days later you'll have another Democrat. Just want to be clear,

(32:47):
whatever Joe Biden decides, I will support. And then a
couple of hours later, you got Joe Biden's you know,
press shop putting out one hundred percent Joe Biden. All
in has decided stop asking me about this, Like, at
what point can they stop playing this game of you know,
they keep leaving open the possibility that Joe will choose

(33:09):
not to but they don't want to say that, so
they just keep saying we'll support Joe Joe saying I'm good,
I'm running.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
It's over, which is why the only thing in the
back of my mind that makes me wonder whether there
is another shoe to drop is whether they're making basic
threats to him. The New York Times Editorial, Washington Post
George Clooney A few. I think it's up to seven

(33:37):
different congressmen. Now do we have the audio, because I
do think this is actually kind of getting edit And
I give credit to Bennett I believe is the name
of the Colorado senator who came out last night on
Caitlin Collins Show and William Bennison. Yeah, I'm not sure.
His first building is Oh, what's his name? Michael Bennett.

(33:59):
I'm sorry, right, Bill Bennett, somebody else go ahead. Yeah,
Michael Bennett came out and said, Hey, not only am
I concern that Biden's going to lose, I'm concerned that
it may be a landslide. Listen to cut nineteen. This
is now cutting through. This is the first senator that
I'm aware of to say publicly like he did, and

(34:21):
listen to this conversation, Hey, we're going to lose, and
me we may get our ass kicked here he is.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
This race is on a trajectory that is very worrisome
if you care about the future of this country.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Joe Biden was nine points up at this time.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
At the last time he was running, Hillary Clinton was
five points up. This is the first time in more
than twenty years that a Republican president has been up
in this part of the campaign. Donald Trump is on track,
I think to win the selection and maybe win it
by a landslide and take with him the Senate and
the House.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
That's what's going on here. Pay attention to that last
couple of lines.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Everybody's all well and.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Good for the guy at the top of the ticket,
as long as the guy at the top of the
ticket doesn't start to impact your.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Ability to continue.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
The guys who are under the line of fire the
most right now. John Tester in Montana se he is
beating him. I think is going to beat him in Montana.
Sharad Brown, Bernie Marino is I think going to beat
him in Ohio. But then we've had these guys on.
Eric Hovdey in Wisconsin, Go vote for him. Dave McCormick

(35:34):
in Pennsylvania, go vote for him. A lot of these
carry Lake in Arizona, Sam Brown in Nevada. A lot
of these other Republicans that are in these battleground states
are starting to inch up a little bit as Joe
Biden comes down and many of these other senators and
congress people who are in toss up districts, they're starting

(35:56):
to speak out. And remember Buck, we shared this with
the audience. I believe it was Punch News that shared
the internal Biden polling of battleground states. Been at there
the senator Democrat from Colorado. Colorado right now is a
battleground state. Nobody's talking about it, but according to the

(36:18):
Biden's own Biden's own polling, he's only winning Colorado by
a point or two. I mean, we're talking Tom, We're
not just talking about like, hey, a few states out
there that were within single digits are going to be competitive.
We're talking about Colorado, New Mexico, places that really, I

(36:38):
think many Democrats haven't considered battlegrounds for some time.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
We'll look at the transformation of the national political conversation
that is happening right now. It has been an article
of faith, really for four years after the twenty twenty election,
that this is going to be razor thin, this is
going to be super close, and that there will be
a lot of very competitive races. There is a panic

(37:06):
right now among Democrats that that is not in fact
going to be the case. That for the first time
since twenty twenty I think Democrats are worried that they are,
but they were not. I did not sense that they
were worried in twenty twenty two. You know, you think
about this. Our side got over confident, no question, our
side thought. Republicans thought they were going to pull out

(37:28):
the close races, and and it didn't break our way,
except you know, Florida, Ron De Santis ran up the
scoreboard like crazy twenty points.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
But elsewhere it didn't happen. Okay, New York Long Island
thankfully got us.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
The Leiz Elden was close, didn't win, But the Red
movement in really New York and California was actually what
gave us control in the House, which has been critical
to Stemy. The Biden Destroy America agenda, so which is
what they should call it. That's technically not their platform,
but I do think that Biden Destroy America agenda gets

(38:01):
to the heart of it. So we have seen a
huge shift now to Democrats in panic mode. Not we
think our side's going to do really well if trends continue.
Democrats are freaking out right now that they're going to
lose in a way that could be transformational for years

(38:23):
to come in American politics. Yes, there's a very real
chance that not only do you have a Donald Trump presidency,
but you have a Donald Trump presidency with House and
Senate control again. And that is oddly you know, we
haven't even really talked about this. That feels like a
very different ballgame for what Trump can get done than
if he has a divided Congress. If he has a

(38:45):
divided Congress, we know what they're going to do, and
you know there's major legislation is not gonna happen. You
still get the judges, you still get executive orders, you
still have a lot of good things that Trump can do.
But let's say that they managed to take the House
and we take the Senate, for example, that would really
slow things down the way things are looking right now.
It could be read in a way that we haven't

(39:08):
seen really since the Tea Party election. And that's where
I think, And that was obviously a big year because
of what was able to be switched after the Obama
wave year in two thousand and eight. But I think
that you're going to see a lot of Democrats having
to play defense in places that a year ago they
would have thought it was unthinkable. I mean, hey, look,

(39:29):
this can all change. But somebody showed me how that's
not the reality of the numbers as they come out
day in and day out right now, and every time
we share these numbers, it's important. You need to go vote.
I need to get your friends and family to go vote.
And if you've got friends that are not very usual voters,
you need to sit down with them and drop them

(39:51):
to the polls with you. Make those trips to go
get your votes done, vote early, get an early ballot,
get it taken care of, start working on canvassing and
getting other people to go vote. All these things are true.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
But I just shared one of my friends and one
of our writers at out Kick, Bobby Barack, just shared
the data that MSNBC's television ratings, notwithstanding Buck Sexton as
their stalwart Morning Joe fan, they have tanked to their
lowest levels in twenty twenty four since the debate. As

(40:25):
there is a form of depression kind of setting in
for Democrats. Again, this is when you pour on more steam.
But I think there is, in addition to the nervousness
about the traditional Democrat electorate, whether you might be losing
Hispanic men, Black men, for instance, I think that's real.
I think there's also a massive enthusiasm gap. And this

(40:49):
is I think one of our bets that I may
finally win. One has been that there will be fewer
people vote in twenty twenty four than voted in twenty
twenty when we kind of get the final tallies in.
I'm really confident about that one because I think the
level of enthusiasm, especially if Joe Biden is the guy.
A lot of people bought the bill of goods that

(41:10):
Biden sold. I don't think that the Democrats are going
to be as good at getting out their electorate as
they have been in for instance, twenty twenty when I
understand the rig job everything else going on, but there
was also a great deal of angst. There was this
sense that that election was the most important election of

(41:31):
our lifetimes. COVID played into it. Trump was hitler according
to them. I don't think they have that same vibe.
Do you feel if you had to guess right now,
do you feel like the Democrats can gin up the
same level of turnout that they did in twenty twenty
right now, four months from now from election day.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
I'm concerned about that. I mean, I think that you
said that there'll be less people voting in this election. In
the last election, I found that hard to believe at
the time and said, so I'm finding it less hard
to believe now. So I don't know. Maybe I'll get
dessert at Poppy's Steak for you or something. We'll figure
it out.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
If you don't know.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Buck has been sharing videos of the most expensive steakhouse
that he can find in Miami. I have to admit
the videos look pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
They present a steak to you in a gold case
that they open up in front of you, and everyone
has white gloves on and they're wearing like black tie,
and they're playing loud music and there's a what is it?
What's the stuff that's like it's so cold and that
it makes the smoke dry dry ice.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yes, there's like dry ice everywhere, and it's it's quite
a scene. So it's only like a thousand dollars clay.
So the thousand dollars steaks, not to some gold flakes
on that. Why do you want gold flakes on your stak?
Because you want to light.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
Money on fire apparently, So I will say that will
be the best money I have ever spent, because I
do not see a way that Joe Biden can win
this election if he is the nominee.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
I hate over confidence really in all things. I think
over confidence is one of the fastest ways to to
lose sight of things and to create own goals for yourself,
you know, meaning scoring on yourself by accident, right, But
I don't understand how to I don't understand how Biden
could win this election unless we're going to start talking

(43:14):
about I mean ballot rigging and massive malfeasance. That is
something that just so you know, we are going to
talk to the r and C chair and then either
this week or next week about the r n c's lawsuits.
The r and C is suing in all kinds of
states to get ahead of any issues or any improprieties

(43:36):
or loopholes, and so there is action being taken and
we are following it, and we're going to bring that
to you. So people who are concerned about election integrity issues.
We're on it. We just have to present it as
it's happening, right. We're not bringing these lawsuits, so we'll
talk about that. But my bottom line, Clay here is
a I know it is possible, but I don't know

(43:57):
how it is possible that Donald Trump could lose to
Joe Biden, and given what's gone on. Mean, I know
it's possible, I just can't think of how do you
know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (44:06):
My concern if it happened would be Trump would have
his own health condition and in some way Republicans have
to scramble on the health front in the same way
that Democrats are. Right now, that's I mean four months
away or someone we saw what happen with Kavanaugh.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
I hate to even mention it.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Someone who is aware that Trump is likely to win
tries to act out against him in a violent way.
Which is why I've said I would sign to triple
Donald Trump's security detail and cover the rest of the
cost myself for the next four months, because that's how
concerned I am about deranged left wingers who had bought

(44:44):
into the idea that he's hitler trying to do something
now that they're having to come to grips with the
fact that, oh, my goodness, he could very likely be
president again.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Well, dive into some of your calls, some of your emails.
You're coming up.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Also, remember that sort of major incident where her security
detail had to shoot a guy who was trying to
car jack them in her car outside of her home
in Northwest which is the fancy part of DC, Washington, DC.
And she thinks none of you should be able to
have guns, None of you, not a single one of you.
You should not be allowed to own a firearm. She
has people living out living, you know, with her, twenty

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Speaker 1 (46:36):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. It's crazy that it's
the middle of July. We've got the RNC coming up
next week in Milwaukee. Looking forward to seeing many of
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Speaker 2 (47:05):
What is the best steakhouse in Milwaukee? I need a
little help on this one, all.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Right, the best steakhouse in Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
And by best, I mean expensive. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
And I'm not looking for value here because somebody else
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or you can call into and tell the team. And
then we have this continuing debate and discussion over what
should be done with Biden, because this whole race could
could change in a heartbeat, could change very rapidly depending

(47:37):
on how that goes. Clay, I'll just note that I
think originally was it tomorrow was supposed to be Trump's sentencing, right.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
I think that was right.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Trump was supposed to be sentenced possibly to prison tomorrow,
and here that was decided weeks ago, and now they've
moved it to September, and the polls are showing a
wipe out for Biden. If he stays in, I'll likely
wipe out for anybody on the Democrat side who would
take over for him. And here we are looking at

(48:10):
the very high likely that no other trials. By the way,
I think you're right about that one. Now I think that
they're not. We both thought New York was going to happen,
and it did. I said one or two trials will happen,
You said only one. I think it is going to
end up being only one. I think the j sixth
trial given the Supreme Courts to see the Supreme Court
refuse to do what all the other courts have done,

(48:31):
which is super fast, ludicrous speed to get Trump. So
there looks like they're not going to be able to
get it done. I like a very small probably. I'd
give it a five percent chance they'll be able to
start the Jay six trials.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
That might be generous.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
But the whole lawfair thing, I just think it's interesting
to take a moment. The entire lawfair situation seems to
have been an abject failure, and if anything, seems to
have consolidated the GOP and a lot of non GOP voters,

(49:05):
not base voters. I guess you could say around Donald
Trump in this moment, because it was just too wrong,
you know, and I think that we should take a
moment to be really happy about that.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yeah that I think you're a.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Solid majority of the American people still recognize you don't
hold four prosecutions on bogus nonsense until an election year
to stop somebody from becoming president. You know, that's just
too gross.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
I think it's a very strong If Trump goes on
to win, I think it will be among the most
significant parts of his victory because anytime someone thinks about
doing this in the future, they will say, be careful,
we'll get what happened to Biden when he tried to
do it to Trump. Also, as a part of this,

(49:57):
you and I took shrapnel four months from a lot
of people out there in this audience who said Trump
could never win in twenty twenty four. I wonder how
many of you out in that audience, who might have
been sending an angry email or been sending an angry tweet,

(50:19):
would like to reconsider that position as we sit here
less than four months from the election. I think the
argument that Trump was uniquely unelectable, whether you were a
nicky Haley person or Ron DeSantis person has gone up
in flames. Doesn't mean that Trump's gonna win. I think

(50:41):
that he will, and I think that he should be
favored to win right now, That in and of itself.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Proves the failure to me of that argument.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
I have not seen anybody reach out and say, you
know what, I came after you guys pretty hard. I
haven't say seeing anybody reach out and say I was wrong.
Let me say this. We talked about this a little bit.
Consider the power that comes with admitting when you get
something wrong. I wish we could normalize this in America.

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Speaker 3 (51:24):
Husbands are never right, so you don't even ever consider
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I was watching House of the Dragon with Laura.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
I was watching it last night. You caught out. What
do you think?

Speaker 3 (51:37):
So I'm a couple episodes behind, but let me catch
up and then I'll give you my Okay, so there
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got my phone and I sent a tweet kind of
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season so far. For those of you who don't know,
this is the Game of Thrones connected spin off, and
I said, season two way better than season one, basically.

(52:02):
And my wife said, I don't think it's in season two.
I think you're wrong about that. Said, nope, it's season two.
And then I didn't even continue the argument. I just said,
you know what, let's talk about something else, because I
don't even want to be right when I know i'm right,
because I don't know that it benefits me that much

(52:23):
to be right. But the guys and gals who do
the best at recognizing when they're wrong. Venture capital, you
invest a lot of money in a variety of different companies.
Some of them are going to go belly up and fail,
and you have to acknowledge it with the idea that
you're going to hit some grand slams.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Well, which being wrong is baked into the expectations that
venture capital operates under. And so you're allowed to send
that email to your partners or to your investors. Hey, guys, one, two,
and three, we're a total bust. Here's why it was
really interesting. But turns out we got those wrong. But

(53:06):
four is up you know two thousand percent or whatever
you know?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Does that life?

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Though, why can't we normalize the way venture capital handles
failure and wrongness in also life? Because there are a
lot of you out there listening right now. You may
have had bad first marriages, you might have had businesses
that you started that failed. But in life, no matter
who you are, you're also going to have several things

(53:30):
that you hit grand slams on. You may be an
amazing father, you may be an amazing aunt. In life,
we don't say enough, Hey, you know what, I just
screwed that up.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
I think it would change.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
I wish what politicians would do it, because we've accepted
this world where if a politician ever says, you know what,
in retrospect, I wish I could.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Have a do over on that. Everybody wants to do that.
In life.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
There's nobody who's ever like, you know what. Every decision
that I've ever made is perfect. I've never done anything wrong.
That's the way that we require much of public conversation
in this country to take place. So anyway, I'm just saying,
imagine if you normalized acknowledging when you screwed up in
an honest way, and just moved on. I think what
you would find is people actually trust you more instead

(54:16):
of the reverse, which is you're like, oh, nobody's ever
going to trust me anymore. They actually trust you more
because they say, you know what, nobody's perfect.

Speaker 8 (54:22):
Well.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
I think for most in politics and in media, it's
very powerful to present yourself as always having the answer. Yeah,
always being right is tied into that right. I always
have the answer, I'm always right, and that is very sellable.
That is inherently appealing to people. But I agree we

(54:45):
would be in a better place if everybody who had
a platform, or everybody who had sway in the public
discussion and one way or another was willing to say, look,
I got this one wrong, and here's why you know,
we could start. I won't take us into the whole
COVID discussion. I mean that's just a perc but example, if.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
You feel a little bit better if some of those
people started coming out and saying, I understand that, I'm
not saying you have to apologize, although I can.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
I tell you my crazy thought on this, and this
is is that it's a it's effectively turned into in
this country politically, and this is because I am a
true believer of the right.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
And I will just say this, if.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Democrats started to admit they were wrong about some things,
it would become apparent that they are wrong about essentially everything,
and that the dominoes would all start to fall if
there was honesty about what's happened with their crime policies,
what happens with their economic policies, what happens with their
border like, it all starts to fall apart if you
apply an objective standard to it. So you have to
always apply an emotional standard to everything Democrats do as

(55:49):
a Democrat, which is we had really good intentions and
the other people are really bad. Yeah, And that's everything.
That's the framework for every discussion, for every That's how
you can have you know, urine feces, broken glass and
needles and assaults and theft going on all over the
place in San Francisco downtown. And the people of San
Francisco are still kind of like, yeah, but I'm a Democrat.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
It's like, well, how could you still be how could
you still do this? How could you still well?

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Because we want everyone to feel good and be happy.
We don't want anyone to go to prison. We want
unhoused people to have everything for free, and Republicans are
basically Nazis, so that turns into everything.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
I would also go back and say that this would
tie in with my original proposition. Maybe I'm strange in this.
I'm willing to change my mind. I've made bad decisions
in voting.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
I vote.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
I voted for Gary Johnson. I understand people out there
are like you and we're still friends. That's a bad choice.
I made the wrong choice there. And I'm a fairly
highly educated voter, But can.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Can I tell you a truth about my vote? Was
real quick?

Speaker 1 (56:57):
My first ever vote was for George W. Bush and too,
and I remember and like, I went off to college
and I hadn't really experienced, and people would have I'm like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
I voted for Bush.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
And I remember that was my first taste of people
looking at me like, what do you mean you voted
for Bush?

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (57:12):
I was eighteen. I was like, I mean, didn't we
all like you guys aren't idiots? You all voted for Bush?

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Right? That guy Gore is a clown? Right? Like all
I voted?

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Oh no, I voted for Gore, and I think most
people around our age probably did. But my point on
this is imagine if you wake up every day and
I would encourage all of you do this and just think,
what if I'm wrong about this? And I would tell

(57:40):
you what I've seen.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Buck.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
The people who are willing to even consider that are
the most successful in the country and in terms of
financial success, because they learn from where they screwed up.
They recognize their blind spots, and they are better going
forward than they would be if they just live in
San Francisco and say, oh, you know what, I just

(58:02):
got to deal with the fact that my little girl
might step on needles on the way to the park.
Maybe consider how this situation arose and weather and this
is also ultimately ultimate power, whether your own choices help
to make it a reality, and if so, the first
thing you can do is change your behavior before you

(58:24):
start looking at the external world and searching for somebody
to blame. There you go, there's my ted talk for
the day. And I want to tell you as we
roll into the Olympics, I can't wait. Have you seen
some of these Olympics stories?

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Buck? You know that they're going to try to swim.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
In the sign Sin River, the main river coming through Paris,
even though it's filled with feces right now, like this
is one of the primary area.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Have you heard about this? EWW, No, is this crazy?

Speaker 3 (58:57):
I can't believe more people aren't talking about this. They
are planning to use the main river in Paris, which
many of you have probably been on if you've ever
visited Paris.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
It's filthy. Nobody swims in it.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
They tried to clean it up and turn it into
one of the Olympics swimming venues, and it's just it's
a mess. As we sit here, what like two weeks
away from the start of the Olympics. Reason why I
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Speaker 2 (59:29):
Next couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
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