April 3, 2025 • 36 mins
In hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, the hosts cover a variety of topics with their guest, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and engage in lively discussions and listener interactions. The hour begins with Senator Blackburn discussing the recent tornadoes in Tennessee, particularly in Hardiman and McNary counties, and the efforts to provide aid and assess the damage. She mentions the disaster declaration approved by President Trump, highlighting the swift federal response.
The conversation then shifts to the judiciary hearings on universal injunctions, where Senator Blackburn criticizes the use of nationwide injunctions by district judges to obstruct President Trump's agenda. She emphasizes the lack of constitutional authority for such actions and discusses potential legislative measures to address this issue. The discussion also touches on aviation safety, with Senator Blackburn expressing concerns about Boeing's safety culture and the FAA's hiring practices. She stresses the importance of qualified air traffic controllers and the protection of whistleblowers.
The hosts and Senator Blackburn also delve into border security and drug interdiction, praising the Trump administration's success in reducing illegal entries and drug seizures. Senator Blackburn highlights the need to restore a DEA program called Consensual Encounters, which was effective in intercepting drugs at transit hubs but was suspended by the Biden administration.
Throughout the hour, the hosts engage with listeners on the pronunciation of the word "tournament," adding a lighthearted and humorous touch to the show. They also discuss Elon Musk's influence and the backlash he faces from Democrats, emphasizing the importance of cutting government waste and the potential economic boom under President Trump's administration. The conversation includes advice to listeners not to panic about short-term stock market fluctuations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third hour of playing Puck kicks off now. Senator Marsha
Blackburn of Tennessee joins us. Senator, always going to talk
to you, Thanks for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It is always so good to talk to you. Thanks
so much for.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Having me on a bunch of issues. Wanted to get
your latest analysis on judiciary hearings, drug seize of the border.
We're going to get into that momentarily. But first, I
know that Tennessee, your homestate, has been hit with some
really scary storms and there's been some loss of life.
What can you tell us about these tornadoes and the
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efforts to get help to those who need it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yes, we know that they have touched down in a
couple of counties, Hartiman County and McNairy County. The town
of Selmer has been the hardest hit. They have lost
six lives. And I know our governor and the Tennessee
Emergency Management my team, they've all been out this morning
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and they're working hard to help people recover and to
do a damage assessment. But McNairy County, Tennessee, really caught
the brunt of it last night, and we certainly are
praying for those individuals. And then we've got a lot
of flooding that is taking place in the middle Tennessee
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area and continuing to watch that. It should be raining
for another eight hours or so and then we'll be
able to do a better damage assessment.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Is the is there a need centator for coordination with
the Trump administration the federal government on some of the
efforts to get help or is the State of Tennessee
mostly handling.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, we did the disaster declaration last night during the night,
and President Trump went ahead and approved that. So those
resources are being surged into the area now and we're
really grateful to the President for taking such swift action
on that and coordinating with our state.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
All right, center, Well, thoughts and prayers go to everybody
in your state affected by this, and we know that
you and President Trump and also Tennessee emergency services are
on it. I had a friend who just moved to
Nashville and was surprised that at how these tornadoes rolled
in and it really rattled a lot of people. So anyway,
with Austin, prayers go to them, and we'll be thinking
about the folks at Tennessee. Tell us about this judiciary
(02:25):
hearing on universal injunctions. This seems to be clearly the
universal injunctions one of the primary obstruction tools that have
been used against the Trump agenda so far. What came
out of these hearings and what do you think comes
next on this issue.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
One of the things that really was so apparent on
this is how the Democrats have not been able to
get what they want. It's a ballot box, so they've
not been able to get what they want legislatively. And
they really were sent a message John November fifth if
they did not like so now they have turned to
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the judiciary and time and again, as we heard from
the witnesses, there is absolutely no constitutional or statutorial authority
for a district judge to issue a nationwide injunction. And
a district judge is constrained by the case in front
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of him and the district in which he is seated,
and he cannot go outside of that. And so it
just showed up, showed how the Democrats are trying to
politicize the courts this time to get their way, which
is to stop President Trump's agenda. And in the month
(03:49):
of February, these activist judges issued fifteen universal injunctions against Trump,
and during Biden's entire administration four years, there were only
fourteen against Biden in total.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Now, what do you think should happen or what are
you hoping will happen next? On this? The Supreme Court,
I would assume, has to has to weigh in. So
it feels like for a lot of us, are we
just in a weight and see mode for there to
be some sanity restored to this process. What happens next?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, we do have legislation and having the bill that
would clarify that the judge cannot go outside of his
district to end in making a ruling that helps to
elevate this issue because Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts is
going to have to weigh in on this and the
(04:47):
Supreme Court is going to have to weigh in on
this issue. But we think it is a valid point
and something that is necessary to pull point out that
this authority does not exist with these federal district judges.
(05:07):
And again it points out the importance of having good
constitutional jurists on the bench.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Also, yesterday, Senator, there was a hearing Senate hearing with
the CEO, the current CEO of Boeing. You know a
lot of people are much more attuned to air safety
than they have been in a while, given some of
the very unfortunate situations both including some fatal accidents but
also some near misses that have been happening. I know
(05:37):
this specifically was focused on the seven thirty seven Max
nine jet incident and some other very high profile aviation
aviation issues, But what happened to Boeing, I mean, that's
I think a lot of people just curious. This used
to be considered a great American company with incredible safety procedures,
incredibly innovative, and there's been a loss of confidence in
(06:01):
Boeing as a corporation. What did the CEO tell you?
What do people need to know about air How this
company and just airline safety in general is getting the
focus that it needs well.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And on airline safety, we have all been very concerned
about that and are pushing the FAA to make certain
that they are hiring people that are qualified to be
air traffic controllers. And last year, because of DEI requirements,
they had a thousand people that were qualified, but they
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did not take them because they didn't need certain DEI requirements.
Now on Boeing, I think that many of us have
just been disappointed with how they've taken their eye off
the ball, seemingly when it comes to safety and they
(06:55):
I talked to with the CEO yesterday in my time
of question about how their culture at the company just
seemed to have eroded and there was not that trust
among the employees and the leadership. And then also the
lack of protection that was given to whistleblowers because whistleblowers
(07:19):
had been fired, they had been isolated, and what we need.
If they had been heeding what these whistleblowers were saying,
maybe that would have helped with not having this diminished
work culture, and maybe they would not have taken their
(07:40):
eye off the safety provisions that they should be meeting
every single day as a guarantee to the flying public.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
We're speaking the Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Senator
one of the areas where the Trump administration right out
of the gate has shown just incredible results is the
reduction in illegal entries in the United States. There's also
been a substantial reduction in the illegal importation of drugs
(08:10):
like fhentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, all the rest of it. But
you have raised you and along with your colleague, Senator
Ted Cruz have raised that there was an effort that
previously existed to add to the current, you know, the
current efforts to stop the drugs from flowing into the
country that involve interdiction at transit hubs, and that Biden,
(08:33):
the Biden administration turned this off. Can you tell us
about what this program was and what would it take
to get it going again.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yes, and this was a program that was suspended. It
was a DEA program and it is called consensual encounters,
and it allowed DEA agents to inspect and conduct interdiction
efforts in transit hubs. And we're trying to restore that. Now.
(09:03):
Let me just give you the Nashville Airport as an example.
If you take the period of time from twenty twenty
two to twenty four, then they apprehended thirty three kilograms
of fentanyl pills, sixteen kilograms of fentanyl powder, and over
fifteen hundred kilograms of marijuana as they were conducting these interdictions.
(09:29):
And the DOJ's Inspector General had concluded that the Biden
administration DEA was not following these policies that are put
in place, and we should be using every federal agency
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and everything that we have in order to conduct these
searches and to keep these drugs from coming into the kind.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Is there anything else that you would like to see
on the congressional specifically Senate side, a congressional side to
help with border related efforts. Is there anything else that
as a member of Congress you could help get done,
because it's great what Trump has done so far, but
it feels like legislation could always help, or maybe in
this case it could help.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, we do need legislation because we need to codify
the actions of the president, and we need to make
certain that we go back to building the wall so
that we deter that entry on the southern border. And
we have to turn our attention to the northern border
with Canada. When you look at the amount of fintannol
(10:43):
that was apprehended not by Canadian manted police but by
the US border patrol up there on that northern border,
it was enough to kill nearly fifty million people. And
we know that the drug traffickers are now changing their
route and they're going up to the Canadian border and
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then coming back down into the US. So it is
imperative that we look at what is going to happen
there with securing that border, and I think that you
will see us push more for these programs that will
help us to secure this country. And bear in mind,
(11:31):
when we secure the border and you curb illegal entry,
and thank goodness, we are now at the lowest levels
it's been in two decades, then Border Patrol has the
opportunity to do more work at the ports of entry
and to stop the transit of some of these drugs
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that have been making their way into the country.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Senator Blackburn, always appreciate you making time for us here
on clan back. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Absolutely, thank you, Bania.
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Speaker 1 (13:38):
Oh, looks like the pronunciation police swat team is after me.
Now they're throwing in flash bangs. They're getting really aggressive
coming after me. Some people are saying, pronunciation police very aggressive,
very aggressive, not nice, not nice. Uh. We have well, well,
there are some who are coming to my aid on
(13:58):
this issue. We have a Twin Cities listener on kt
LK unidentified, but he's here to he's here to back
me up on my pronunciation play d d oh buck.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Man, I was gonna was outside to hear that pronunciation
please talk back.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And then the guy said, you said it was in.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The Twin Cities.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Man, I'm from the Twin Cities.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I got say.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm a little embarrassed, man.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I apologize.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I apologize about that.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Oh crap man, that was that was embarrassing to hear
that guy from the Twin Cities go.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That far on the word tournaments. Oh man, please forgive us.
We love you, dude. I love the Twin Cities too.
No no harm, no foul on this one. Uh. And
we've also got here ee a listener out of Saint
Louis who listens on one of four point nine The Patriot.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
There that last caller doesn't know what they're talking about.
It is pronounced tournament like a band. They don't go
out on tour. They go out on tour tournament, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And now we get VIP listener Christine, who sent me
a Google pronunciation Q that says that it is, in fact,
according to Google communists, tournament. Now we're getting people coming
from all sides here. But VIP listener Kender writes in
to say, we are big Looney Tunes fans in my house, Buck,
(15:24):
and you say tournament just like bugs Bunny on the show.
And I laugh every time I hear you do it
as a text, and I say it this way, tournament
are all right? You are all you fancy people pronunciation police,
with your your pulling me over and stopping me from
continuing on with the show. I'm gonna tell you this
(15:45):
right now. I look this up, and the best information
that I can find online is that this is not
in fact a question of mispronouncing one way or the other,
but it is whether you prefer to speak in the English,
UK English or American English version of this. So over
(16:08):
in the UK, where they started the language, they say tournament.
Here in America, it is more common to say tournament,
but I would say it's a bit like theata and theater.
You can say it either way and it's still English
and it's still the way that people pronounce the words.
(16:29):
So it's a tomato tomato pronunciation police tomato now. But
you know what annoys me about that one? No one
actually does anyone say tomato. I don't. I've never heard
anyone say tomato. So that whole thing probably is not
actually helping my argument. But some of you are like, oh,
Bucky pronunciation. You know, this is what happens. Pronunciation police
(16:51):
go after Clay. That's way more fun. He gets all
twangy sometimes and says crazy things. But yeah, I know
you guys. You guys have been lighting me up today.
So I did want to give give fair airtime on
that one. And look, I'm going to come back here
in a second and talk a little bit about the
the efforts of doge Elon Musk and what's going on
(17:12):
on that Secretor of the Economy, because you know, it
was really important when we talked to Jim Jordan the
last hour, Congressman Jordan that he said there needs to
be a recision bill. Remember, Elon is really just identifying
what should be cut. He's identifying the fat that should
be cut, and it has to be done by Congress
for it to really stick. And so that's a very
(17:34):
important component of this. And Democrats are still enraged at Elon,
number Elon his influence. First of all, what is Elon
like fifty? Is that right? How old is Elon fifty
to fifty five? Something like that? I would say, I
think these early fifties they're worried he's going to be
around for a long time, making the Communists miserable. So
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the team here, does you know not let me get
in away with any shenanigans. No shenanigans allowed. And he says,
you know, for a guy who finds the British monarchy
(19:18):
to be such a waste of time, you certainly seem
to like the way they say words like tournament. And
I say to that producer Greg touchet, which is a
fancy French word, and you know what. You're right, you
have something there. I did though. I had for many
years an English nanny from England, from Liverpool, and she
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used to make cream of wheat for me, which I've
never do. You guys, ever, I feel like no one
ever eats. She would make cream of wheat or porridge.
She's very English. She liked fried fried fish, sandwiches and
pound cake. I think that's all she ever ate, and
I think she made it like her eighties and all
she ever ate was fried fish, sandwich, pound cake. And
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she would call me buckle, Buckle, you have to eat
your cream of wheat. She would say. She was very
much like Missus Doubtfire. She actually she really was very
much of Liverpool. He's very much like Missus Doubtfire. And
uh yeah, so maybe I learned some. I bring it
up because when I was young, I might have picked
up some of her habits. Although a Liverpool accent is
(20:23):
a very particularly you know, Liverpool is very very funky,
even among the English accents, so I can't even pretend
to do it. There are some people who can take you.
They're actually they're actually quite gifted in this. In this
way they can do an accent tour of the entire
United Kingdom. And there's like at least a dozen, probably
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more like twenty different specific ways that people speak English
in the United Kingdom that are recognizable to other people.
And that's not even that's not even adding in the
languages like Gaelic and Welsh and these things which are
you know, been around for thousands of years. So yeah,
I definitely want to go spend some time over there,
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looking forward to that, looking forward to getting that done.
All right, let's talk about Elon here for a second.
Talk about what's going on with Elon Musk the company
Tesla and I know today, Oh you know here, here's
before I get into Elon, before I get into Elon. Uh,
don't look at your form on Ky today. Don't you
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know that's a long term thing, right, that's a long
term play. Don't don't look at your just you want
to let these things play out over time. It's about
the long game, not the short game. And just don't
fall into it because the worst thing that people do
is they go, oh my gosh when they start to panic,
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and then there's more panic, and then and and then
you have people that understand the cycles of this stuff
and they just start buying up things when the price drops.
Don't take mine work. If you go listen to one
of it, listen to what he's saying on this stuff.
You know, yeah, I could things get a little bit choppy, sure,
but that doesn't mean that the fundamentals of America as
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the best country to invest in with the best companies
in the world has actually changed. And if anything, I'm
very optimistic about what this will do once Trump gets
things gets things going. So just saying there's all this
panic out there, I know, I actually here you go,
here's here's Uh. Well, no, I don't want to get
into it. We already talked about it as those people.
(22:31):
Oh my gosh, it's so much worse than I ever
thought was possible. You know, it's okay, it's it's all
going to uh it's it's all going to make sense.
And you know Trump will adjust too. This is this
is not anything that has been done that is it
cannot be undone. This isn't like we invaded some country
in bombed a city to smithereens it's like, well, maybe
(22:51):
we shouldn't have done that. Uh, he's negotiating with these
different countries, the tariffs there's there's uh, there's flux, there's
flow here of what's going to be going on. So
it's all good. I'm just here to tell you See,
if I wanted to just get attention, I'd say, oh
my gosh, what's going on the markets. I'd make it.
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Make it like that scene in Ghostbusters where Staypuff has
exploded and there's marshmallow falling from the sky, like melted
marshmallow falling from the sky, and everybody, you know what
I mean, I could I could take that approach to this. Oh,
the markets and the marshmallows. It's fine, it's all fine,
It's gonna be all right. The people in charge know
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if Joe Biden and I think this is really going
to resonate with all of you, if Joe Biden, who
they admit, and I'm actually gonna do a buck brief
on this right after the show, so you should check.
You should check it out, subscribe on YouTube buck Brief.
It's a little extra thing that I do after the show.
Here and go check it out. It's in the podcast
network too. I'll do a whole thing on this. But
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Joe Biden, they're now full on saying we had to
create little visual cues on the stage for him neon
tape because he didn't know where to walk. And they
said he didn't They said he truly did not know
who he was the day of the debate, And they're
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not They're saying he actually didn't know who he was
at one point his brain had stopped being able to
process who are you. They let that guy be commander
in chief for four years, They let him be the
head of the executive branch for four years. They lied
to us about it. We all know they're disgraceful. But
if that imbecile and his socialist cronies around him were
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not able to tank the US economy, I assure you
Donald Trump, the mega capitalist, multi billionaire, you know, international
brand builder, and he's not going to be the one
that tanks the US economy. Okay, I'm not saying it's
going to be perfect, you know, to like I said today,
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I don't look at things, but if Joe Biden didn't
just the economy, there's zero chance in my mind that
Donald Trump's going to destroy the economy. And I think
that the overwhelming likelihood is you're gonna see an economic boom.
And you know what, they're gonna say, get ready for
this when the economy and you know what I'm going
to say too, but we should just say it out
loud together. Ready, Oh, it's because of all the things
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that the Democrats did before Trump took office. If whether
it's in three months or six months or or you know,
right before the midterms, when things start to really cook,
when things start to really look good, you're gonna hear
them all. Who look at the price of eggs before
Trump came in was already going down. The price of
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eggs was going down, and it was all Biden, you know,
when he knew where he was, which was not often.
But they'll say anything, but I want you to be
prepared for They'll never admit that they're wrong, is the
point here, So don't ever expect self correction for them.
The Democrat mindset is incapable of self correction, and so
on the economy, that's exactly where things will be. Okay,
(26:03):
now we can get into the Elon thing. I just
I wanted to get that off my chest because I
know I'm gonna get emails this weekend. Oh I'm so
worried and all my retirement accounts and I'm gonna be fine.
Look at the look at the stock market even under
even under now. Part of the problem is that the
stock market was getting propped up by all the money
printing that was going on, and asset prices were going up,
which is crushing the middle class. You see, Trump understands
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all these mechanisms. Part of the problem is that if
your work for wages instead of owning assets, that will
get inflated by all of the money sloshing around that's
being created by the government through the overspending and the
quantitative easing policies. Uh, yeah, it's rough for if you're
working for wages for a living, which a vast majority
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of Americans do. If you have a lot of money
in the stock market, if you own a lot of properties, yeah,
then your asset values get increased and you don't care
about the cost of to day items because it doesn't
affect you enough to make any difference. And so this
this makes things harder for the vast majority, but it
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elevates the elites. And then you have so many elites
turn around and say, what do you mean the economy's great? Well,
hold on is it? How is it great?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And and look at all of the ways that people are.
I mean, the easiest way to put this is, you
can afford under Biden from the beginning to the end,
you could afford half the house. You could before Biden
came into office. By the time when inflation kicked up,
half the house based on the rates. Think about that
for a moment. So if you could afford, you know,
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really nice four or five hundred thousand dollars home in
a in an you know, in a like a nice
suburb somewhere some community want to live in whatever, Now
you can afford a two hundred, two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
That's a big difference, isn't it. What changed? Your job
didn't change. Did your job start paying you fifty percent
more because of us?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What changed is the system. What changed is the tax
on savers and wage earners that comes from the inflation
that was imposed on us by the people controlling the
spigots at the top, who don't really care about what
the inflation does, what inflation does to the cost of goods,
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because they have enough wealth already that it doesn't affect
them in any meaningful way. Or they work for the government,
or they work for the federal government. They're making one
hundred and fifty grand to do nothing, to not even
show up. That's a pretty nice gig. Think about that.
Think of all these they all vote Democrat. As you've now,
we've all figured this out, right. You think of all
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the dual income DC based households where you have two
people that are making let's say, roughly one hundred and
fifty grand each, probably not doing much of anything and
working for the Education Department and working for the USAID
thousand take home pay plus amazing benefits to not do anything.
(29:05):
I mean, think about what a great gig that is, right,
Think about a great gig that is people think, you know, media,
when you do well and you build over time is great.
I'll just be honest with you about this Media is
I mean, I love this job. It is a privilege,
and Clay and I feel this way every day we
truly do. It is a privilege to get to do
this job. And I am thankful every single day for
each and every one of you who listens, because you
(29:26):
are the reason that I get to do this job.
And it is an absolute privilege, I will tell you.
Having to build for fifteen years to get here. Media
at first is a lot of show up at a
horrible time, like show up when nobody else wants to
show up for almost no money or sometimes no money.
I did a radio show for free for eighteen months,
for free, not a dollar, did not make a dollar
(29:48):
for eighteen months. This is going back to the early
days of my career, and I was happy to do
it because I wanted to prove that I could do
this and build an audience. But it's just funny thinking
about it in that way where you know you're in
fields and I know a lot of the same thing.
You've got to just be constantly hustling. You're trying to
bring in business for your company. You're trying to build
out your own company. You're trying you've got to make
(30:09):
things happen. Or you know, you have very clear deliverables
for your boss, and you live and you know you
live by this profit and laws statement that your company
otherwise there is no company. Right Imagine that world, and
then you can go into the world of you have
amazing health care you basically pay nothing for that covers everything,
(30:30):
and you have three or four weeks of paid time
off a year at least, and you work from home
and you're making three hundred graand between you and your spouse,
you have no real work product expected of you, and
you're unfireable. Yeah, think about that gig, right, Think about
that gig for a second. That is what is the
(30:51):
monetary value of that? And this is why they get
so upset at Elon, and this is why they hate
Dog so much, and they're trying so hard to make
everybody you know upset about what is going on with this. Well,
hold on a second. The rest of us have to
live in the real world, So what exactly is going
on here? And they're going after Elon and AOC will
(31:16):
refuse to say that the Democrats completely demonizing this guy
has anything to do with the fact that maniacs are
torching Tesla's. This has cut twenty one.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Do you see a connection at all between the rhetoric
we're hearing from Democrats on Musk and Tesla connection to
the violence at all? What's happening on the streets to
test the dealerships?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah? I mean again, like I've I've seen the US Communists.
I hate this country. I mean it's psyches harsone. Do
you still have your Tesla? I was just wondering you
still have your tesla for security reasons. I'm not talking
to you. Oh, she doesn't like to be asked these questions.
(32:00):
Isn't it interesting that he throws in that she used
to she had a Tesla. The tesla was something that
a lot of Libs bought because of all the climate
change stuff. But now they want to get rid of
their tesla's or they say they'll never buy another Tesla.
The climate change stuff hasn't changed at all. They just
don't like Elon because he likes Trump and he's trying
to cut government waste. That's it. That's how simple that is,
(32:20):
isn't it. They're just they're frauds. Just remember, it's so
nice to wake up every day and know that you
try to live in truth and not go around as
some big virtue signaling phony. What a waste of time, energy,
and life to go around and just say, oh, I'm
so great for no apparent reason other than I'd say
(32:41):
the things that other people tell me. I need to say,
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All right, we're closing up shop today on Clay, and
Clay will be back tomorrow. He's gonna tell us about
all of his big winnings on the golf course.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Maybe hearing from some people, the play is unbelievable, short game,
long game, ready for the tour. In fact, he'll tell
you more about it himself tomorrow, to be sure. And
I'll be with you guys coming from Arizona. I know
some of you are saying, oh my gosh, your wife's
your wife's due next week. How is you know it's
(34:38):
gonna be fine. I don't really have a better answer
than wife said, keep your She said, keep your obligation.
I said, honey, I'll do anything you want. He said,
you keep your obligation. I think we'll be fine. I
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I don't know. I'll fitigure something out. I'll figure something out.
But hopefully I'm only gone for thirty six. I shouldn't
say this on that I'm only going for thirty six
and then sure enough, something's gonna Oh boy, yeah, okay,
I'll figure it out. Darryl in South Louisiana listening on
WRN O, what's going on ff here?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Play it, hey, buck, this is Darryl, South Louisiana, outside
New Orleans. Hey, don't sweat it about the pronunciation of tournament.
That's the way I've been saying that my whole life.
I'm fifty eight, and everybody around here says the same thing,
just like we say Pecan's not peacans, and just like
we say bouffe not buffet for the all you can eat. Please,
(35:40):
all right, man, keep up the good work. You and
Clay do an awesome job.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Thank you, Darryl. I appreciate that coming to us from
South Louisiana, New Orleans, great city, Love Louisiana. Spent spent
a fair amount of time there, so yeah, that's right.
I like his I like his attitude with it. And
we've also got some of you to way into a
VIP email from George. Here. There are regional all of
you are see pronunciation police has taken over here. There
(36:08):
are regional pronunciations for many English words. Neither pronunciation is wrong.
It's a matter of local regional preference. Thank you, VIP George.
I appreciate it. See he's a peace maker, he's a peacemaker.
I'm a man of peace. So that is where we
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a great show for you tomorrow. I'm gonna fly out
to Arizona. Arizona, I love you. I'll see you soon.
Third hour of playing Puck kicks off now. Senator Marsha
Blackburn of Tennessee joins us. Senator, always going to talk
to you, Thanks for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It is always so good to talk to you. Thanks
so much for.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Having me on a bunch of issues. Wanted to get
your latest analysis on judiciary hearings, drug seize of the border.
We're going to get into that momentarily. But first, I
know that Tennessee, your homestate, has been hit with some
really scary storms and there's been some loss of life.
What can you tell us about these tornadoes and the
(00:35):
efforts to get help to those who need it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yes, we know that they have touched down in a
couple of counties, Hartiman County and McNairy County. The town
of Selmer has been the hardest hit. They have lost
six lives. And I know our governor and the Tennessee
Emergency Management my team, they've all been out this morning
(00:58):
and they're working hard to help people recover and to
do a damage assessment. But McNairy County, Tennessee, really caught
the brunt of it last night, and we certainly are
praying for those individuals. And then we've got a lot
of flooding that is taking place in the middle Tennessee
(01:20):
area and continuing to watch that. It should be raining
for another eight hours or so and then we'll be
able to do a better damage assessment.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Is the is there a need centator for coordination with
the Trump administration the federal government on some of the
efforts to get help or is the State of Tennessee
mostly handling.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, we did the disaster declaration last night during the night,
and President Trump went ahead and approved that. So those
resources are being surged into the area now and we're
really grateful to the President for taking such swift action
on that and coordinating with our state.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
All right, center, Well, thoughts and prayers go to everybody
in your state affected by this, and we know that
you and President Trump and also Tennessee emergency services are
on it. I had a friend who just moved to
Nashville and was surprised that at how these tornadoes rolled
in and it really rattled a lot of people. So anyway,
with Austin, prayers go to them, and we'll be thinking
about the folks at Tennessee. Tell us about this judiciary
(02:25):
hearing on universal injunctions. This seems to be clearly the
universal injunctions one of the primary obstruction tools that have
been used against the Trump agenda so far. What came
out of these hearings and what do you think comes
next on this issue.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
One of the things that really was so apparent on
this is how the Democrats have not been able to
get what they want. It's a ballot box, so they've
not been able to get what they want legislatively. And
they really were sent a message John November fifth if
they did not like so now they have turned to
(03:04):
the judiciary and time and again, as we heard from
the witnesses, there is absolutely no constitutional or statutorial authority
for a district judge to issue a nationwide injunction. And
a district judge is constrained by the case in front
(03:27):
of him and the district in which he is seated,
and he cannot go outside of that. And so it
just showed up, showed how the Democrats are trying to
politicize the courts this time to get their way, which
is to stop President Trump's agenda. And in the month
(03:49):
of February, these activist judges issued fifteen universal injunctions against Trump,
and during Biden's entire administration four years, there were only
fourteen against Biden in total.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Now, what do you think should happen or what are
you hoping will happen next? On this? The Supreme Court,
I would assume, has to has to weigh in. So
it feels like for a lot of us, are we
just in a weight and see mode for there to
be some sanity restored to this process. What happens next?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, we do have legislation and having the bill that
would clarify that the judge cannot go outside of his
district to end in making a ruling that helps to
elevate this issue because Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts is
going to have to weigh in on this and the
(04:47):
Supreme Court is going to have to weigh in on
this issue. But we think it is a valid point
and something that is necessary to pull point out that
this authority does not exist with these federal district judges.
(05:07):
And again it points out the importance of having good
constitutional jurists on the bench.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Also, yesterday, Senator, there was a hearing Senate hearing with
the CEO, the current CEO of Boeing. You know a
lot of people are much more attuned to air safety
than they have been in a while, given some of
the very unfortunate situations both including some fatal accidents but
also some near misses that have been happening. I know
(05:37):
this specifically was focused on the seven thirty seven Max
nine jet incident and some other very high profile aviation
aviation issues, But what happened to Boeing, I mean, that's
I think a lot of people just curious. This used
to be considered a great American company with incredible safety procedures,
incredibly innovative, and there's been a loss of confidence in
(06:01):
Boeing as a corporation. What did the CEO tell you?
What do people need to know about air How this
company and just airline safety in general is getting the
focus that it needs well.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And on airline safety, we have all been very concerned
about that and are pushing the FAA to make certain
that they are hiring people that are qualified to be
air traffic controllers. And last year, because of DEI requirements,
they had a thousand people that were qualified, but they
(06:34):
did not take them because they didn't need certain DEI requirements.
Now on Boeing, I think that many of us have
just been disappointed with how they've taken their eye off
the ball, seemingly when it comes to safety and they
(06:55):
I talked to with the CEO yesterday in my time
of question about how their culture at the company just
seemed to have eroded and there was not that trust
among the employees and the leadership. And then also the
lack of protection that was given to whistleblowers because whistleblowers
(07:19):
had been fired, they had been isolated, and what we need.
If they had been heeding what these whistleblowers were saying,
maybe that would have helped with not having this diminished
work culture, and maybe they would not have taken their
(07:40):
eye off the safety provisions that they should be meeting
every single day as a guarantee to the flying public.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
We're speaking the Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Senator
one of the areas where the Trump administration right out
of the gate has shown just incredible results is the
reduction in illegal entries in the United States. There's also
been a substantial reduction in the illegal importation of drugs
(08:10):
like fhentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, all the rest of it. But
you have raised you and along with your colleague, Senator
Ted Cruz have raised that there was an effort that
previously existed to add to the current, you know, the
current efforts to stop the drugs from flowing into the
country that involve interdiction at transit hubs, and that Biden,
(08:33):
the Biden administration turned this off. Can you tell us
about what this program was and what would it take
to get it going again.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yes, and this was a program that was suspended. It
was a DEA program and it is called consensual encounters,
and it allowed DEA agents to inspect and conduct interdiction
efforts in transit hubs. And we're trying to restore that. Now.
(09:03):
Let me just give you the Nashville Airport as an example.
If you take the period of time from twenty twenty
two to twenty four, then they apprehended thirty three kilograms
of fentanyl pills, sixteen kilograms of fentanyl powder, and over
fifteen hundred kilograms of marijuana as they were conducting these interdictions.
(09:29):
And the DOJ's Inspector General had concluded that the Biden
administration DEA was not following these policies that are put
in place, and we should be using every federal agency
(09:49):
and everything that we have in order to conduct these
searches and to keep these drugs from coming into the kind.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Is there anything else that you would like to see
on the congressional specifically Senate side, a congressional side to
help with border related efforts. Is there anything else that
as a member of Congress you could help get done,
because it's great what Trump has done so far, but
it feels like legislation could always help, or maybe in
this case it could help.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, we do need legislation because we need to codify
the actions of the president, and we need to make
certain that we go back to building the wall so
that we deter that entry on the southern border. And
we have to turn our attention to the northern border
with Canada. When you look at the amount of fintannol
(10:43):
that was apprehended not by Canadian manted police but by
the US border patrol up there on that northern border,
it was enough to kill nearly fifty million people. And
we know that the drug traffickers are now changing their
route and they're going up to the Canadian border and
(11:07):
then coming back down into the US. So it is
imperative that we look at what is going to happen
there with securing that border, and I think that you
will see us push more for these programs that will
help us to secure this country. And bear in mind,
(11:31):
when we secure the border and you curb illegal entry,
and thank goodness, we are now at the lowest levels
it's been in two decades, then Border Patrol has the
opportunity to do more work at the ports of entry
and to stop the transit of some of these drugs
(11:52):
that have been making their way into the country.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Senator Blackburn, always appreciate you making time for us here
on clan back. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
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Speaker 1 (13:38):
Oh, looks like the pronunciation police swat team is after me.
Now they're throwing in flash bangs. They're getting really aggressive
coming after me. Some people are saying, pronunciation police very aggressive,
very aggressive, not nice, not nice. Uh. We have well, well,
there are some who are coming to my aid on
(13:58):
this issue. We have a Twin Cities listener on kt
LK unidentified, but he's here to he's here to back
me up on my pronunciation play d d oh buck.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Man, I was gonna was outside to hear that pronunciation
please talk back.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And then the guy said, you said it was in.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The Twin Cities.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Man, I'm from the Twin Cities.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I got say.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm a little embarrassed, man.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I apologize.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I apologize about that.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Oh crap man, that was that was embarrassing to hear
that guy from the Twin Cities go.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That far on the word tournaments. Oh man, please forgive us.
We love you, dude. I love the Twin Cities too.
No no harm, no foul on this one. Uh. And
we've also got here ee a listener out of Saint
Louis who listens on one of four point nine The Patriot.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
There that last caller doesn't know what they're talking about.
It is pronounced tournament like a band. They don't go
out on tour. They go out on tour tournament, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And now we get VIP listener Christine, who sent me
a Google pronunciation Q that says that it is, in fact,
according to Google communists, tournament. Now we're getting people coming
from all sides here. But VIP listener Kender writes in
to say, we are big Looney Tunes fans in my house, Buck,
(15:24):
and you say tournament just like bugs Bunny on the show.
And I laugh every time I hear you do it
as a text, and I say it this way, tournament
are all right? You are all you fancy people pronunciation police,
with your your pulling me over and stopping me from
continuing on with the show. I'm gonna tell you this
(15:45):
right now. I look this up, and the best information
that I can find online is that this is not
in fact a question of mispronouncing one way or the other,
but it is whether you prefer to speak in the English,
UK English or American English version of this. So over
(16:08):
in the UK, where they started the language, they say tournament.
Here in America, it is more common to say tournament,
but I would say it's a bit like theata and theater.
You can say it either way and it's still English
and it's still the way that people pronounce the words.
(16:29):
So it's a tomato tomato pronunciation police tomato now. But
you know what annoys me about that one? No one
actually does anyone say tomato. I don't. I've never heard
anyone say tomato. So that whole thing probably is not
actually helping my argument. But some of you are like, oh,
Bucky pronunciation. You know, this is what happens. Pronunciation police
(16:51):
go after Clay. That's way more fun. He gets all
twangy sometimes and says crazy things. But yeah, I know
you guys. You guys have been lighting me up today.
So I did want to give give fair airtime on
that one. And look, I'm going to come back here
in a second and talk a little bit about the
the efforts of doge Elon Musk and what's going on
(17:12):
on that Secretor of the Economy, because you know, it
was really important when we talked to Jim Jordan the
last hour, Congressman Jordan that he said there needs to
be a recision bill. Remember, Elon is really just identifying
what should be cut. He's identifying the fat that should
be cut, and it has to be done by Congress
for it to really stick. And so that's a very
(17:34):
important component of this. And Democrats are still enraged at Elon,
number Elon his influence. First of all, what is Elon
like fifty? Is that right? How old is Elon fifty
to fifty five? Something like that? I would say, I
think these early fifties they're worried he's going to be
around for a long time, making the Communists miserable. So
(17:55):
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Clay and Buck, producer Greg holding me to account as
the team here, does you know not let me get
in away with any shenanigans. No shenanigans allowed. And he says,
you know, for a guy who finds the British monarchy
(19:18):
to be such a waste of time, you certainly seem
to like the way they say words like tournament. And
I say to that producer Greg touchet, which is a
fancy French word, and you know what. You're right, you
have something there. I did though. I had for many
years an English nanny from England, from Liverpool, and she
(19:39):
used to make cream of wheat for me, which I've
never do. You guys, ever, I feel like no one
ever eats. She would make cream of wheat or porridge.
She's very English. She liked fried fried fish, sandwiches and
pound cake. I think that's all she ever ate, and
I think she made it like her eighties and all
she ever ate was fried fish, sandwich, pound cake. And
(20:01):
she would call me buckle, Buckle, you have to eat
your cream of wheat. She would say. She was very
much like Missus Doubtfire. She actually she really was very
much of Liverpool. He's very much like Missus Doubtfire. And
uh yeah, so maybe I learned some. I bring it
up because when I was young, I might have picked
up some of her habits. Although a Liverpool accent is
(20:23):
a very particularly you know, Liverpool is very very funky,
even among the English accents, so I can't even pretend
to do it. There are some people who can take you.
They're actually they're actually quite gifted in this. In this
way they can do an accent tour of the entire
United Kingdom. And there's like at least a dozen, probably
(20:44):
more like twenty different specific ways that people speak English
in the United Kingdom that are recognizable to other people.
And that's not even that's not even adding in the
languages like Gaelic and Welsh and these things which are
you know, been around for thousands of years. So yeah,
I definitely want to go spend some time over there,
(21:06):
looking forward to that, looking forward to getting that done.
All right, let's talk about Elon here for a second.
Talk about what's going on with Elon Musk the company
Tesla and I know today, Oh you know here, here's
before I get into Elon, before I get into Elon. Uh,
don't look at your form on Ky today. Don't you
(21:27):
know that's a long term thing, right, that's a long
term play. Don't don't look at your just you want
to let these things play out over time. It's about
the long game, not the short game. And just don't
fall into it because the worst thing that people do
is they go, oh my gosh when they start to panic,
(21:48):
and then there's more panic, and then and and then
you have people that understand the cycles of this stuff
and they just start buying up things when the price drops.
Don't take mine work. If you go listen to one
of it, listen to what he's saying on this stuff.
You know, yeah, I could things get a little bit choppy, sure,
but that doesn't mean that the fundamentals of America as
(22:10):
the best country to invest in with the best companies
in the world has actually changed. And if anything, I'm
very optimistic about what this will do once Trump gets
things gets things going. So just saying there's all this
panic out there, I know, I actually here you go,
here's here's Uh. Well, no, I don't want to get
into it. We already talked about it as those people.
(22:31):
Oh my gosh, it's so much worse than I ever
thought was possible. You know, it's okay, it's it's all
going to uh it's it's all going to make sense.
And you know Trump will adjust too. This is this
is not anything that has been done that is it
cannot be undone. This isn't like we invaded some country
in bombed a city to smithereens it's like, well, maybe
(22:51):
we shouldn't have done that. Uh, he's negotiating with these
different countries, the tariffs there's there's uh, there's flux, there's
flow here of what's going to be going on. So
it's all good. I'm just here to tell you See,
if I wanted to just get attention, I'd say, oh
my gosh, what's going on the markets. I'd make it.
(23:11):
Make it like that scene in Ghostbusters where Staypuff has
exploded and there's marshmallow falling from the sky, like melted
marshmallow falling from the sky, and everybody, you know what
I mean, I could I could take that approach to this. Oh,
the markets and the marshmallows. It's fine, it's all fine,
It's gonna be all right. The people in charge know
(23:32):
if Joe Biden and I think this is really going
to resonate with all of you, if Joe Biden, who
they admit, and I'm actually gonna do a buck brief
on this right after the show, so you should check.
You should check it out, subscribe on YouTube buck Brief.
It's a little extra thing that I do after the show.
Here and go check it out. It's in the podcast
network too. I'll do a whole thing on this. But
(23:52):
Joe Biden, they're now full on saying we had to
create little visual cues on the stage for him neon
tape because he didn't know where to walk. And they
said he didn't They said he truly did not know
who he was the day of the debate, And they're
(24:14):
not They're saying he actually didn't know who he was
at one point his brain had stopped being able to
process who are you. They let that guy be commander
in chief for four years, They let him be the
head of the executive branch for four years. They lied
to us about it. We all know they're disgraceful. But
if that imbecile and his socialist cronies around him were
(24:35):
not able to tank the US economy, I assure you
Donald Trump, the mega capitalist, multi billionaire, you know, international
brand builder, and he's not going to be the one
that tanks the US economy. Okay, I'm not saying it's
going to be perfect, you know, to like I said today,
(24:57):
I don't look at things, but if Joe Biden didn't
just the economy, there's zero chance in my mind that
Donald Trump's going to destroy the economy. And I think
that the overwhelming likelihood is you're gonna see an economic boom.
And you know what, they're gonna say, get ready for
this when the economy and you know what I'm going
to say too, but we should just say it out
loud together. Ready, Oh, it's because of all the things
(25:19):
that the Democrats did before Trump took office. If whether
it's in three months or six months or or you know,
right before the midterms, when things start to really cook,
when things start to really look good, you're gonna hear
them all. Who look at the price of eggs before
Trump came in was already going down. The price of
(25:40):
eggs was going down, and it was all Biden, you know,
when he knew where he was, which was not often.
But they'll say anything, but I want you to be
prepared for They'll never admit that they're wrong, is the
point here, So don't ever expect self correction for them.
The Democrat mindset is incapable of self correction, and so
on the economy, that's exactly where things will be. Okay,
(26:03):
now we can get into the Elon thing. I just
I wanted to get that off my chest because I
know I'm gonna get emails this weekend. Oh I'm so
worried and all my retirement accounts and I'm gonna be fine.
Look at the look at the stock market even under
even under now. Part of the problem is that the
stock market was getting propped up by all the money
printing that was going on, and asset prices were going up,
which is crushing the middle class. You see, Trump understands
(26:25):
all these mechanisms. Part of the problem is that if
your work for wages instead of owning assets, that will
get inflated by all of the money sloshing around that's
being created by the government through the overspending and the
quantitative easing policies. Uh, yeah, it's rough for if you're
working for wages for a living, which a vast majority
(26:48):
of Americans do. If you have a lot of money
in the stock market, if you own a lot of properties, yeah,
then your asset values get increased and you don't care
about the cost of to day items because it doesn't
affect you enough to make any difference. And so this
this makes things harder for the vast majority, but it
(27:08):
elevates the elites. And then you have so many elites
turn around and say, what do you mean the economy's great? Well,
hold on is it? How is it great?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And and look at all of the ways that people are.
I mean, the easiest way to put this is, you
can afford under Biden from the beginning to the end,
you could afford half the house. You could before Biden
came into office. By the time when inflation kicked up,
half the house based on the rates. Think about that
for a moment. So if you could afford, you know,
(27:40):
really nice four or five hundred thousand dollars home in
a in an you know, in a like a nice
suburb somewhere some community want to live in whatever, Now
you can afford a two hundred, two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
That's a big difference, isn't it. What changed? Your job
didn't change. Did your job start paying you fifty percent
more because of us?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What changed is the system. What changed is the tax
on savers and wage earners that comes from the inflation
that was imposed on us by the people controlling the
spigots at the top, who don't really care about what
the inflation does, what inflation does to the cost of goods,
(28:22):
because they have enough wealth already that it doesn't affect
them in any meaningful way. Or they work for the government,
or they work for the federal government. They're making one
hundred and fifty grand to do nothing, to not even
show up. That's a pretty nice gig. Think about that.
Think of all these they all vote Democrat. As you've now,
we've all figured this out, right. You think of all
(28:42):
the dual income DC based households where you have two
people that are making let's say, roughly one hundred and
fifty grand each, probably not doing much of anything and
working for the Education Department and working for the USAID
thousand take home pay plus amazing benefits to not do anything.
(29:05):
I mean, think about what a great gig that is, right,
Think about a great gig that is people think, you know, media,
when you do well and you build over time is great.
I'll just be honest with you about this Media is
I mean, I love this job. It is a privilege,
and Clay and I feel this way every day we
truly do. It is a privilege to get to do
this job. And I am thankful every single day for
each and every one of you who listens, because you
(29:26):
are the reason that I get to do this job.
And it is an absolute privilege, I will tell you.
Having to build for fifteen years to get here. Media
at first is a lot of show up at a
horrible time, like show up when nobody else wants to
show up for almost no money or sometimes no money.
I did a radio show for free for eighteen months,
for free, not a dollar, did not make a dollar
(29:48):
for eighteen months. This is going back to the early
days of my career, and I was happy to do
it because I wanted to prove that I could do
this and build an audience. But it's just funny thinking
about it in that way where you know you're in
fields and I know a lot of the same thing.
You've got to just be constantly hustling. You're trying to
bring in business for your company. You're trying to build
out your own company. You're trying you've got to make
(30:09):
things happen. Or you know, you have very clear deliverables
for your boss, and you live and you know you
live by this profit and laws statement that your company
otherwise there is no company. Right Imagine that world, and
then you can go into the world of you have
amazing health care you basically pay nothing for that covers everything,
(30:30):
and you have three or four weeks of paid time
off a year at least, and you work from home
and you're making three hundred graand between you and your spouse,
you have no real work product expected of you, and
you're unfireable. Yeah, think about that gig, right, Think about
that gig for a second. That is what is the
(30:51):
monetary value of that? And this is why they get
so upset at Elon, and this is why they hate
Dog so much, and they're trying so hard to make
everybody you know upset about what is going on with this. Well,
hold on a second. The rest of us have to
live in the real world, So what exactly is going
on here? And they're going after Elon and AOC will
(31:16):
refuse to say that the Democrats completely demonizing this guy
has anything to do with the fact that maniacs are
torching Tesla's. This has cut twenty one.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Do you see a connection at all between the rhetoric
we're hearing from Democrats on Musk and Tesla connection to
the violence at all? What's happening on the streets to
test the dealerships?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah? I mean again, like I've I've seen the US Communists.
I hate this country. I mean it's psyches harsone. Do
you still have your Tesla? I was just wondering you
still have your tesla for security reasons. I'm not talking
to you. Oh, she doesn't like to be asked these questions.
(32:00):
Isn't it interesting that he throws in that she used
to she had a Tesla. The tesla was something that
a lot of Libs bought because of all the climate
change stuff. But now they want to get rid of
their tesla's or they say they'll never buy another Tesla.
The climate change stuff hasn't changed at all. They just
don't like Elon because he likes Trump and he's trying
to cut government waste. That's it. That's how simple that is,
(32:20):
isn't it. They're just they're frauds. Just remember, it's so
nice to wake up every day and know that you
try to live in truth and not go around as
some big virtue signaling phony. What a waste of time, energy,
and life to go around and just say, oh, I'm
so great for no apparent reason other than I'd say
(32:41):
the things that other people tell me. I need to say,
you know, the Democrat Party? All right, make your life
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Speaker 1 (34:08):
All right, we're closing up shop today on Clay, and
Clay will be back tomorrow. He's gonna tell us about
all of his big winnings on the golf course.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Maybe hearing from some people, the play is unbelievable, short game,
long game, ready for the tour. In fact, he'll tell
you more about it himself tomorrow, to be sure. And
I'll be with you guys coming from Arizona. I know
some of you are saying, oh my gosh, your wife's
your wife's due next week. How is you know it's
(34:38):
gonna be fine. I don't really have a better answer
than wife said, keep your She said, keep your obligation.
I said, honey, I'll do anything you want. He said,
you keep your obligation. I think we'll be fine. I
think we'll be fine if I have to, Uh, I
don't know, like call secretary hegseth and see if I
could maybe like hit your ride on a military play
at home in the middle of the night or something.
(34:59):
I don't know. I'll fitigure something out. I'll figure something out.
But hopefully I'm only gone for thirty six. I shouldn't
say this on that I'm only going for thirty six
and then sure enough, something's gonna Oh boy, yeah, okay,
I'll figure it out. Darryl in South Louisiana listening on
WRN O, what's going on ff here?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Play it, hey, buck, this is Darryl, South Louisiana, outside
New Orleans. Hey, don't sweat it about the pronunciation of tournament.
That's the way I've been saying that my whole life.
I'm fifty eight, and everybody around here says the same thing,
just like we say Pecan's not peacans, and just like
we say bouffe not buffet for the all you can eat. Please,
(35:40):
all right, man, keep up the good work. You and
Clay do an awesome job.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Thank you, Darryl. I appreciate that coming to us from
South Louisiana, New Orleans, great city, Love Louisiana. Spent spent
a fair amount of time there, so yeah, that's right.
I like his I like his attitude with it. And
we've also got some of you to way into a
VIP email from George. Here. There are regional all of
you are see pronunciation police has taken over here. There
(36:08):
are regional pronunciations for many English words. Neither pronunciation is wrong.
It's a matter of local regional preference. Thank you, VIP George.
I appreciate it. See he's a peace maker, he's a peacemaker.
I'm a man of peace. So that is where we
(36:28):
will leave that for today. Basically, go check out the
Klambuck podcast Network. Now, I got a buck reef going
up there. We've got Carol Markowitz, Tutor Dixon, a new
podcast we'll be launching next week. Very exciting. It might
be somebody who is a I don't know, former Navy seal,
all around badass, being American patriot. I don't know. It
(36:49):
might be some amazing stuff coming your way. So well,
a great show for you tomorrow. I'm gonna fly out
to Arizona. Arizona, I love you. I'll see you soon.
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