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February 27, 2025 13 mins

Producers Ali and Greg play some audio from the cutting room floor — and explain how it got there — and also an audience Talkback with a Rush request that foreshadowed DOGE.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
And here we go with another episode of After Hours
with producer Alli.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
And producer Gred.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome back, Yeah, hopping into the feed here our little
easter egg that we've decided to do from time to time.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I think it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yes, So let's jump right in. Greg. We've already gotten
some talkbacks and emails from you, so we're going to
share that in just a.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Little bit exactly. You thought it was a good thing too,
and you told us, and I'm looking forward to talking
about that.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yes, And I think one thing we should talk about
because we said we would explain sort of some of
the behind the scenes here on the show. And our
show airs between noon and three pm Eastern, which is,
for better or worse, the busiest time of the day.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I feel like with the news, Yeah, they talk about
prime time for television whatever between whatever eight and eleven
or something seven and eleven. At for us, it's new
prime news time, new bang, right.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I mean, we start really working on the show between
six and seven in the morning, right, and then it
just gets like a slow grind as we get closer
and closer to noon. And then usually like for example,
today there was a cabinet meeting a half hour before
we're going to air, and poor Greg the first.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Cabinet meeting, I mean, like, not just any cabinet, the
first of the new administration.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, so Greg is frantically trying to get those bites together.
I'm trying to pay attention. Mark's trying to pay attention.
It's just and then you know, Clay and Buck communicating
with us at the same time, getting organized chaos before
we go on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's a good way of putting it, yeah, a little bit,
and especially because it was the first one too, and
it was going to be a big one because not
only is it the first time everybody's sitting around the
desk or the table, but Elon Musk is going to
be there too. I mean this is going to be
a doge meeting as well. And so of course, I
mean every news outlet is preparing for it, and they're

(01:51):
they're waiting for the president to come on and I'm
sitting there waiting for and I'm saying to Ali and
producer Mark, who's also involved in this, going, I'm going
to finish this sheet up so we can you.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Know, by sheet, you mean the cut sheet with all
the sound bites.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
For exactly so I can, so we can be ready
when the cabinet meeting starts, and Suuren up. As soon
as I said that, bang and there they go.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
They started going, that's right. So what we're going to
do here is because we were so busy, we thought
we'd play a couple bites that ended up on the
cutting room floor, not for any other reason than time.
We just did not have the time to play them
on the show.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
And there were interesting bites too well.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
They tie into what one of our talkbacks had asked
us for, which was this, gentleman. Before we play it,
I'll just give you a quick tease on it was
remembering something that Rush said way back when that was
actually very prescient, and we thought we would go back
and dig it up and show sort of the compare
and contrast what's happening that what happened then versus what's

(02:56):
happening now right right.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
But before we get to those, we're going to play
these soundbites from Elon Musk, one from Elon Musk and
one from Donald Trump from that meeting, which which is
all we're going to tie it all together by the
end of it.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
That's right, it's going to be it's going to all
make sense.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
So should we go ahead and meet with.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
This first one?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Twenty three?

Speaker 3 (03:16):
All?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Right, here we go. This is Elon Musk talking about
DOGE and its impact.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, basically, this isn't this shouldn't even be a partisan thing.
He's issuing a warning. This isn't something we'd like to do.
It's something we kind of have to do.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Right exactly, here we go.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
The overall bulk.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Here with the those team is to help address the
almost texts we simply cannot sustain at the country two
trillion dollar deficits the interest rates to just the interest
on the national debt.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Now itxceeds the Defense Department spending. We spend a lot
on the Defense Department, but we're spending like over trillion
dollars on interest. If this continues, the country will go
become de facto bankrupt. It's not an optional thing. It
is a central thing. That's that's the reason I'm here
and taking a lot of flack and getting a lot
of death threats by the way. I mean, I'd like
to suck them up, you know. But if we don't

(04:08):
do this, America will go bankrupt. That's why it has.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
To be done.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Spoken like someone truly from the private sector. I think
there's this impasse where the public sector and the private
sector are kind of knocking heads now with Elon coming
in with DOGE, because a lot of the things he's
asking for are very real would be very reasonable in
the private sector.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
No question. Interestingly enough, too, this is the kind of
thing that Republicans have been in conservatives going back to
that way before the Tea Party. I remember having conversations
about this with people students in college about the size
of the debt, what's going to happen, and how we're
going to be able to pay this off. And they've
been arguing about how we're going to manage the enormous

(04:56):
debt without being able to tackle your entitlements. Well, this
is a way to actually do that. They're actually focusing
on these things that Republicans have been talking about for
thirty years or more.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
That's right, and that's also going to tie in with
our caller talkback. But why don't we go to President
Trump next?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
This is what he had to say related to all
of this.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
One of the most important initiatives is DOGE, and we
have cut billions and billions and billions of ballons. We're
looking to get it maybe to a trillion dollars. If
we could do that, we're going to start getting to
be at a point where we can think in terms
of balancing budgets. Believe it or not, something you haven't
heard in many, many years, decades actually, and that's a

(05:38):
big Whether it's this year or next year, I think
we'll be very close to balancing budgets. And the DOGE
is very important.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
They last balanced a budget under the Clinton administration in
nineteen I honestly nineteen ninety eight. I think it was
ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh, I'm you know what I'm thinking of. I'm thinking
of the House Bank and Post Office scandal of that.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yes, and that's when the big Republican Republicans swept the
House right and Rush went and talked to the freshman
in ninety four. But it was I believe it was
ninety eight with Nuk Gingrich and Clinton. That's the last
time that we had a balanced budget.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
But what I was saying about ninety four, that House
bank scandal and the post Office scandal was sort of
like a foreshadowing of DOGE.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's true.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
We should pull up some old Rush video on that
or Rush Audio, because that it's just sort of history
kind of recycles itself in many ways if you don't
pay attention to what's actually going.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
On, it's true, and that brings us to.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Our talk back. So we have a talkback from Joel.
Podcast listener. Thank you very much for Joel for sending
this in, and for everyone else out there who might
want to send a talk back into us. Just go
to the iHeartRadio app, go to the Clay and Buck show.
You'll see a microphone. You just press. The microphone gives
you thirty seconds to leave a nice concise message, as
Rush would say, get in, get it, and get out,

(07:06):
and we will play some of them on the after.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Hours show like we're going to do right now. So
thank you to Joel and everybody else who sent in stuff.
But this is the one that really caught our attention.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Let's play it this, sir, producer Ali, could you look
into back in two thousand and nine when Rush was
talking about the stimulus package and how the Democrats were
using it to funnel money through the unions into their coffers,

(07:37):
and I think Elon Musk is finding this stuff now
with Doge.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Thank you, Joel, you have a good memory. I remember
Rush talking about this quite a bit. In fact, do
you remember Greg Rush's morning updates that he used to do?

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Oh I do? Yeah, they were famous, they were.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
And we found a Rush morning update from February Worry
of twenty and eleven, and Joel, this is just for you.

Speaker 7 (08:05):
Since taking office, Obama has bailed out auto unions, teachers' unions,
select Wall Street bankers, who were among his biggest donors,
using the trillion dollar porculus as a Democrat Party slush fund.
Even now, the regime is proposing another round of spending
increases for infrastructure and education.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
This in addition to the fifty three.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
Billion dollars they want to lavish on high speed rail.
Nobody wants. But with all that spending, I'm going to
have to be cut. So the regime is planning to
reign in federal spending by cutting two and a half
billion from the home heating aid program for the poor
half its budget. With a record unemployment records, snow and

(08:45):
sub zero temperature, states report that a record number of
households are asking for help. Senator John Carey, who served
in Vietnam protests, he said in the middle of a brutal,
even historic New England. Winter home heating assistance is more
critical than ever to the health and welfare of millions
of Americans, especially senior citizens. But that matters not to

(09:05):
the cold hearted pharaoh in the White House. Tough choices
must be made. Apparently, the brunt of those tough choices
will fall upon the backs of the most vulnerable, the elderly,
the children, and minorities who were always hardest hit. These
have to face the cruelty of winter, defenseless. Some may
have to choose between heaving and eating. So I offer

(09:27):
a personal plea to Pharaoh Obama. If you won't let
my people go, can you at least throw them a bone?
Let them have some heat, bro please.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
That was a classic Rush Morning Update where he would
take a topic and just really synthesize it down.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
The thing that I find interesting is the whole porculous
thing started and Rush coined the term porculus right after
Obama was emaculated. If you'll forgive me the rushism back
in two thousand and nine, and this is from February
of twenty eleven. This is two years later, so you
can see these things never die. They just keep moving

(10:04):
on and they find new ways to make them move on.
So thank you Rush for pointing that out, and thank
you Ali for digging that up.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
And thank you Joel for reminding us about that.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
We also had a great email from Kendra too. Yeah
we love.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Kendra is one of our VIPs, and she sent this
in Greg. I'll read it, producers. Ali and Greg just
wanted to say how much I enjoyed the new After
Hours podcast and the special tribute to Rush. When CMB
mentioned it was the anniversary of his passing, I got
a little sad, but after listening to your podcast I

(10:38):
felt much better. It was so thoughtful and well done,
and such a great reminder of how not only was
Rush right about everything then, his words are still relevant today.
I also realized that while I hate that we had
to give up Rush, we now have the great voices
of Clay and Buck to carry on the torch of
truth and I am very thankful for that. Thank you

(10:59):
for all you do for the Rushlambashaw all those years,
and now for Clay and Buck putting forth a great
product and show to keep us all seen. God bless
you kindness regards Kendra.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Thank you so much, Kendra. That means so much to us.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
It really does. We appreciate it. And this after ours
podcast is gonna, like we said, be a bunch of everything,
maybe more in the random side. But we encourage your emails,
We encourage your talkbacks and just sharing more with you
about the show.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, make sure you send us a talk back. If
you are a VIP, send us an email through the
VIP email portal. Again, they go straight to Ali and
me and we're happy to field positive feedback, negative feedback,
more positive feedback please if that's okay.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yes, we're an open book here and we can handle it.
We wear helmets. So, Greg, I wanted to tell you
I was at the doctors this morning getting my annual
routine blood work. Sure, and usually I kind of you know,
I ace it doctor, so I feel pretty good about it.
But now that I'm in my fifties, oh, some things
came up blood pressure this, and that I'm low on energy.

(12:09):
So I think I'm gonna have to cave and start
taking some of this chuck that the boys keep talking about.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oh good for you.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yes, I'm looking into now starting the female Vitality Stack. Well,
that would hope, so because it also helps with some hormones, Steff,
and as you. It's producer Ali and producer Greg and
producer Mark and engineer Mike. It's all men in the studio,
and I tend to tell them that the temperature is
constantly fluctuating. I'm always hot or I'm cold, and I'm like,

(12:40):
don't you guys feel that too, And they just look
at me like, no, we don't, No, we don't. So
I think I need to kind of, you know, regulate
those hormones. It's that time of life. Just being blunt
about it.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
What a great idea. I think that's a fantastic idea.
I know it's worked for Buck that doing what he's doing,
and he's been talking about how much weight he's lost
and what how much energy it gives him. So yeah,
it's fantastic, and I think it needs to be something
that I take up too, maybe once the spring running
seasons hits.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and Greg, with Trump's administration going full speed ahead,
I mean this is like unlike anything we have dealt
with as far as how fast and trying to keep
up with it all, So I think we all could
use a little more energy. I'm The website is chalk
dot com, and you can put in Clay's name or
Buck's name to get a discount on a subscription. And yeah,

(13:34):
that I think is about it for this episode of
After Ours.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Until next time, which we don't know when it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
It's an Easter egg, guys.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
It could be tomorrow, well it could it could be
not until Easter. We don't know. We'll see, all right,
thanks again, until next time.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Thanks

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