April 30, 2025 • 36 mins
In hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the hosts cover a diverse range of topics, blending humor, politics, and current events. The hour begins with a lighthearted discussion about an AI simulation of a battle between humans and gorillas, showcasing the hosts' playful banter and curiosity about technology.
The conversation then shifts to the political landscape, focusing on the recent cabinet meeting at the White House. The hosts highlight the extensive two-hour session where President Trump and his cabinet members addressed various issues, emphasizing Trump's transparency and willingness to engage with the media.
A significant portion of the hour is dedicated to analyzing comments made by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at Harvard University. Walz claimed he was chosen for the Democratic ticket to appeal to white football fans and truck enthusiasts, a strategy the hosts critique for its condescending and ineffective approach. They discuss the broader implications of the Democratic Party's struggle to connect with male voters, noting that the party has not won the majority of male voters since 1964.
The hosts also delve into the topic of AI chatbots and their interactions with minors, highlighting concerns about sexually explicit content. Senator Marsha Blackburn joins the show to discuss her efforts to address this issue through legislation, emphasizing the need for safeguards to protect children online.
Additionally, the hour includes a discussion on the economic impact of tariffs and the importance of investing in America. Senator Blackburn shares insights on the significant investments made in Tennessee and the broader implications for the U.S. economy.
The show wraps up with a humorous debate about the social etiquette of asking friends to help with moving, and the hosts share personal anecdotes about their experiences. They also touch on the importance of sportsmanship, featuring a clip from NBA player Giannis Antetokounmpo discussing humility in victory.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. You never
know what you're going to see that AI brings to bear.
There's been a big debate about whether one hundred men
could defeat one gorilla. Somebody has put ten thousand gorillas
versus a million humans into AI and during the commercial
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break this may not surprise any of you. I have
been sitting watching a battle between a million humans and
ten thousand gorillas to see what is likely to happen.
And I have not finished yet, but we may get
Buck's opinion on gorillas versus humans and who would win
the battle before all is said and done. But we've
(00:49):
got several other different stories that we are tracking. What
is going to happen with the immigration policies of the president.
Has he stopped talking and with the cabinet yet? I mean,
this was what like an hour and a half Producer
Ali that he talked to the media and the cabinet
met with the media nearly two hours potentially. I know
(01:11):
it was supposed to start at eleven am Eastern. I
think he'd started at like eleven thirty or eleven forty
and has been going for much of the course of
this program. We've been sharing some of those elements with
all of you, and as we sit here on day
one oh one, we're going to be joined by Marsha
Blackburn on the back half of the program here at
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two thirty Eastern. But I did want to share this
with you, Tim Walls, who I believe has no political
career left, and those of you who are listening to
us in Minnesota should be ashamed that this man is
your governor. By the way, the cabinet meeting and the
press availability following it went for two hours and two minutes.
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What I mean that is a long time. We do
a three hour daily show here, so he nearly gave
us a run for our money, and who could do
the longest show. I will say, whatever your thoughts thoughts
are on Trump, we have never had a president answer
more questions, and I'm certain we've never had a cabinet
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answer more questions than what the Trump administration first one
hundred days have been like. That is Trump is telling
you exactly what he's going to do and why. Tim Walls,
speaking at Harvard University, said that he was I guess
this was a panel this week at Harvard said that
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he was on the ticket because he could code talk
to white football fans and also guys who liked to
fix their truck so that they were more comfortable voting
for Kamala Harris Buck, this is crazy town. I know
a lot of you out there listening to us right
(02:58):
now are football fans. Some of you probably also pretty
adept at working on trucks. Are there any of you
listening right now that think that worked? I have said
and I'll continue to say it. Tim Walls is a
lesbians idea of a man that will appeal to men,
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and that perfectly personifies I think the modern day Democrat Party.
Did Tim Walls make you, guys, football fans and car
officionados out there, feel like you could vote for Kamala
and the Democrats more? Eight hundred and two two two
eight a two because that is what? Can you believe?
This is real? This is the argument he's making. Well,
(03:39):
I think it's true. But I also think that we
saw that it. It's one thing for it not to work.
I think it backfired because I think that there was
something condescending to the very people that the Democrats were
trying to at the last minute fool.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
In this way.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh yeah, you know we got, we got people that
wear car and go to Walmart and shoot guns at
birds and things too like. It just doesn't It didn't
seem authentic because it wasn't authentic because Tim Walls is
a communist and the whole thing was absurd. And so
I think that this it was worse than it didn't
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work for them. I think it actually went against them
using Walls for that group in that way. I think
that is one hundred percent accurate. Here is Tim Wall
saying it. This is starting to get a lot of
play for the reason that I believe Buck said, which
is this blew up in Democrats' face, and I think
also reflects that they don't really have a strategy to
talk to normal guys, which was a huge part of
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the twenty twenty four failure. Here is Walls explaining who
he was supposed to appeal to.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I was on the ticket, I would argue, because we
did a lot of amazing progressive things in Minnesota that
improved people's lives. But I also was on the ticket
quite honestly, you know, because I could code talk to
white guys watching football fixing their truck during that that
I could put them at ease I was the prom
mission structure to say, look, you can do this and
vote for this, and you look across those swing states,
(05:05):
with the exception of Minnesota, we didn't get enough of
those votes.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I mean, they didn't even do that well in Minnesota.
I think the numbers reflected. I don't have them in
front of me right now, but that basically, twenty twenty
four Minnesota was not much different than twenty twenty Minnesota. Now,
twenty sixteen, Minnesota was even closer. Trump came within I
think fifty thousand votes or so in twenty sixteen of
flipping Minnesota as well, and it was relatively close and
(05:31):
meaning five points or so if I remember correctly, But
Walls didn't even really add much to the Minnesota support.
You remember when Elizabeth Warren, she of fake Native American
heritage and tenured tenured professor of law at Harvard University,
was really making a go of it for the presidency,
(05:53):
or we knew she was going to, and she did
the whole Okay, I'm gonna get me a beer, and
everybody was just like, you've never said I'm gonna get
me a beer before in your life. In one sentence,
Elizabeth Warren showed it, She's like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna
imbibe some some prude hops and maybe have I don't know,
(06:15):
a bud feizer. I have said for some time JBN
should be the lesson for most politicians. Just simplify it.
Give me an acronym. Jbien stands for just be normal.
The number of politicians that can't just be normal is
off the charts. So but I have to ask, I
think some of these people are not normal, So this
(06:36):
is why they come across as trying hard to be normal,
because they're actually huge weirdos.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think there's a lot of truth to that, and
there's probably something for why politics draws that more because
it's also very strange to need to have constant affirmation
from random people that you don't know that they think
you're a good choice to do a job for them.
(07:04):
I mean, the whole idea of begging people to vote
for you is I think, just a strange way to
make a living personally. But it is interesting because what
Walls is saying is actually, I think why the Democrat
Party is in the brand is in the.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Toilet right now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
There's lots of talk about, oh, what's Trump's approval rating
and everything. Trump's approval rating is probably nearly twenty points
higher than the national approval rating of any Democrat in
America right now. So if you say, okay, Trump's only
got forty percent approval, let's say it's a bad number. Right,
forty percent of Americans prove of Trump right now? What
Democrat has twenty five percent approval? I don't mean in
(07:47):
the Democrat Party, I mean nationwide. I don't think there's
anybody even within single digits of Trump when it comes
to approval. And so there's a lot of people who
are upset about the trajectory of the nation right now.
Things cost too much, there's a lot of upheaval. But
the last time that a Democrat ran for president and
(08:09):
one men nineteen sixty four. Let me repeat that most
of the anti Trump sentiment in America is from women.
Men are overwhelmingly on board the Trump train. The last
time the Democrat ticket won the majority of male voters
(08:31):
in America was nineteen sixty four. That is, for many
people a holy Craft moment. So this idea that the
Democrat Party has suddenly begun to struggle with men is false.
What has actually happened is they've just hit all time
lows with men. They've been struggling for sixty years, but
(08:52):
now they are losing so badly that even buck when
they are trying to address the issue with which is
clearly paramount when it comes to them winning elections, they
end up with a guy like Tim Walls, who actually,
I think you're right, even though he's designed to bring
in men who like to hunt and men who like football.
(09:15):
Remember they introduced him at the DNC not as Governor.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Walls, but as coach Walls.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
He wasn't even a head coach, but they tried to
turn him into some sort of Eric Taylor Friday Night
Lights figure to appeal to men, and it landed flat.
I think they should have called them choreographer Walls because
those jazz hands and his fat leaguers sometimes, you know,
spirit fingers, high leg kicks. I don't know did he
try out. I know he needed a job soon because
he's not going to be able to be governor forever.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Could he be a rocket?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I think if you put him on the stage, he's
got a good leg kick and the rockets, I mean,
that is not that is not a light amount of
work when you do those leg kicks one after the other.
I think, to be fair to Tim Walls, I think
he could leg kick like a lot of women can
leg kick, and maybe that has appeal. I'll tell you
one thing I think is interesting. I've seen some of
(10:05):
these stories out there, and I've seen the re emergence
of some leftists from the in media from the Obama era,
and these efforts to say, you know, well, this is
the new Is this the new masculine face of the
Democrat Party? You know, is this the new like the
badass bro and all of these people they put forward.
(10:25):
I'm like, no, no, And then you think to yourself,
this is amazing. I mean, there are a lot of
Democrats out there, a lot of Democrats in the media.
This is the best they've got to just appeal the
normal guys who like guy things. The people they're putting
forward do not answer the mail, so to speak. It
does not get it done.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And look, I mean it wasn't just Tim Walls that
she was considering. Remember it was Shapiro, who I think
you've rightly said, has the unfortunate for Democrats these days religion, right,
I don't think they can put a Jewish guy on
the ticket, even if he's in the most important state,
and that is a huge indictment of the It would
cost them. It would cost the Michigan. I think they
(11:05):
know that. I mean, I think that that's Look, look
what just happened in his last election. Democrats had problems
in Michigan in the first place. But I think it
would cost the Michigan to have a Democrat as the
top of the ticket, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And then you've got JB.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Pritzker, who we said has got the same issue that
that Frankly Chris Christie had, which is you're not gonna
elect I don't think America is going to elect a
four hundred pound dude.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I mean maybe if he was two sixty instead of
four hundred, maybe people change their minds. He's also you know,
because I'm sympathetic to this, and you know, I've talked
about how I've been getting I've gotten back into like
reasonable shape now and I'm still going and going trying
to get better shape all the time. The guy's a billionaire.
Like you know, if you gained thirty or forty pounds
(11:50):
because you were working double shifts and you're trying to
provide for your family, and you know you're just your
ear down hamburgers and French fries because you're trying to
get save money and eat fast. Yep, totally sympathetic, no judgments.
The society that we live in prioritizes more hours at
the desk, less time out there. It's easier to get fast,
(12:12):
crappy food, and it has you know all that. So
I'm this dude's a billionaire. You're a billionaire in the
era of you know, get a private chef, get on
some GLP ones. I mean, the guy is morbidly obese.
Like again, it's not about that shaming. It's about you
couldn't responsibly elect this guy to be president because his
(12:33):
health is such obviously an issue you couldn't protect. You
couldn't think this guy could serve eight years without there
being huge problems. And also he's got the same problem
in the Gavin Newsom does, which is he's actually been
an awful governor. Everybody is leaving Illinois, everybody is leaving California.
Chicago's a great place to live. The mayor's got a
six percent approval rating because Democrats have done a really
(12:55):
poor job of governing in places like Illinois, in California
and so Andy Bashe we got a huge audience in Kentucky.
I'm sorry that guy has the looest masculinity reading on
the planet. I think Kentucky should be embarrassed who have
elected him twice. His daddy was the governor, is the
(13:15):
reason he got elected. He did awful with COVID, he
shut down churches, he didn't let kids go to school
and play sports. Like the fact that Kentucky elected this
guy twice is I think an incredible embarrassment for this thing.
Look look at also some of the mandatory beliefs that
if you're going to be a Democrat at the national level,
(13:36):
in good standing with the base and with the Democrat machine,
you have to you have to do what say that
God John Oliver did on HBO reci He's like, is
there really evidence that men are better at sports than women?
He yes, you moron, Yeah, of course, of course there's
It's called all of human history. We're all very but
(13:56):
you have to say these things that no normal guy
will say, No normal red blooded American man is like,
you know, I'm a male feminist, and I think that
you know, the transagender for kids is a good idea, like,
so this is there's a bit of self selection that's
gone on here, right, it was, it was different twenty
(14:16):
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and Bock play. I don't think we played Giannis uh
the but yes, what did I would I say, I said,
be honest, which is theoretically how you would expect that
it might be pronounced. But you know, athlete pronunciations is
(16:19):
Buck's only error on pronunciations anywhere. This is true. This
is where the pronunciation won Quan and Giannie quite the athletes.
But yes, we might even find the guys. The guy's
last name. But this is what he said last night
about sportsmanship. Clay wanted to play. I actually saw it
and was very impressed by this by this fellow.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I know he's an MVP, he is a world class athlete.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
This is what he said.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Listen, I believe like being humbling victory. That's how I am. Now,
this can be a lot of people out there that
are like, no, when you when you win the game,
and you know it's it's a green light for you
to be disrespectful towards somebody else. I disagree. I won
the championship. They haven't having a fan, which at the
(17:02):
moment I thought it was fun, But then I realized
it was Tity's son, which I love. Titus I think
is a great competitor. He was his dad sort coming
in the floor and showing me his son, Tawell with
his face. This is what we do, this is what
we do this if we do this, I feel like
that's very, very disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Watch the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I mean, for a guy to be that eloquent in
a foreign language, I think the NBA totally blew it
not making somebody like him the face of the league.
Compared to Lebron who just tells you how awful America
is all the time and what a victim he is,
Giannis is actually really profound in many of the ways
that he speaks, and I would encourage you to listen
(17:46):
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Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hang out with us.
We are now joined by Senator from the great state
of Tennessee, where I reside. I last saw her for
a fundraiser I believe for the Nashville Davidson County Republican Party.
(19:14):
That was a fun event. Senator Blackburn, I know you're
focused on a lot of things, but let's start off
right here. It's day one, Oh one, how would you
rate the first one hundred days of Trump?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And where is the Senate.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
When it comes to getting this big bud, big beautiful
bill done. What can you tell us about it all?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Well, for President Trump's first hundred days, promise is made,
promises kept, and he has done it in grand fashion
the way he is moving forward, securing the border, getting
inflation down, making certain he's restoring our standing in the world,
(19:54):
and something very important to me, and I know you
also is getting men out of women's.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Sports a man.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
So I think you've had a very good one hundred days.
And it is up to the House in the Senate
to make certain that we pass this bill, the Reconciliation Bill,
that we make permanent the tax cuts from twenty seventeen.
And you know, the important thing to remember on that
(20:23):
is that if we cannot get this passed, then the
American people will have the largest tax height in history.
It will be a four trillion dollar increase in their taxes.
So it is imperative, absolutely imperative that we get this
(20:44):
job done.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Center Blackburn, thanks for being here with us. I know
after you talked to us here you're going to meet
the White House invest in America event. What's going on
with that? We know what Trump has been up to
policy wise up to this point. We talked about one
hundred day, the one hundred days in yesterday and looking
at what has been a phenomenal start for his second term.
(21:07):
But what can you tell us about investing in America
and some of the plans, deals, programs, et cetera that
Trump's trying to get accomplished.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Yes, what we know is that there has been five
trillion dollars of investment committed in the US since President
Trump took office. Now this is a combination of direct
foreign investment and also American private investment. Tennessee has been
(21:37):
the recipient of some of this. We have We've had
thirty companies and twelve hundred jobs and one point two
billion dollars already invested in Tennessee since President Trump was
elected in November, and this is twelve hundred jobs. Now,
(21:58):
part of that is private, part that is direct foreign
investment in our state. But it proves the point that
people want to invest in America. They know that they
want access to our market. They know that if they
manufacture here, they're not going to pay the tariffs. So
whether it's Schneider Electric or Abb Electronics or Charms Candy Company.
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They all are expanding and creating jobs in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
AI is a rapidly advancing tech revolution that I think
many people are still getting their hands kind of wrapped
around what the impact is going to be. I have
read about what one of the things that you have
written a letter to Facebook slash Meta about there's lots
of AI now, and I was kind of stunned by
(22:48):
this because I barely I'm gonna be honest with y'all,
I've barely used AI. But these chatbots, evidently, while engaging
with miners who might be using them, are engaging sometimes
in sexually explicit related interactions. For people out there who
don't know about this, I think this is important for
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parents and grandparents to know. What is that investigation shown?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Oh my goodness, this is one of the most disgusting
and horrifying things that has come about. Meta has created
this chat box, and what the investigation This was reported
in the Wall Street Journal is it engages in sexually
explicit conversation with individuals and miners use this. There are
(23:41):
no safeguards. This is why we need to pass that
kids online Safety Act. There are no safeguards, and the
explicit nature of this is something that is just horrifying.
I have talked to moms of teenagers that cannot even
believe that Matta knows this is a problem. They know
(24:04):
how it is being used, and they will not take
it offline, So it is appearing on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat,
and this is the kind of thing that needs to
be bought. You know, you can't take a child into
a pornographic show or an X rated movie, or take
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them to a liquor store strip club, but they're exposed
to this in the virtual space twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week, and the fact that this is
happening is absolutely horrifying.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Senator Blackburn, are you sensing any pushback from your Senate
Democrat colleagues in terms of dealing with this problem. There
are some areas where I think we would all like
to believe, we'd like to believe at least I know
it's not perfect. That there is a by partisan desire
still that exists, and it's protecting children I think would
(25:04):
be high on that list. Is this something you think
that legislation could get done in a bipartisan way to
protect the kids, or.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
What's the whole The Kids Online Safety Act passed through
the Senate on a ninety one to three vote yes,
and it failed in the House. You had Speaker Johnson
and Leadersklife who did not bring the bill forward at
the end of the last Congress. Senator Bloman, Paul and
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I are refiling the bill in the next week and
we are going to push it through in the Senate
again and give our friends over in the House opportunity
to join us so we can get this to President's
Trump President Trump's desk and put a duty of care
on the social media platforms so that you are able
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to block them and that parents and kids have a
toolbox and can disable some of these algorithms so that
kids are not exposed to these things in the virtual space.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Well, why is Facebook? I mean, this clearly is not
a good you know, it is not a good area.
You would think for them to be in opposition. You know, parents,
You've got bipartisan Senate vote for this, she said, you know,
over ninety votes.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Going.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
What are they just saying it's technologically difficult for them
to handle this problem, or what are the social media companies,
specifically Facebook saying.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Yeah, but what they do is they use our children
as a profit center because their value is based off
the number of eyeballs that they can connect with every
day and the amount of time that they can hold
those eyeballs. So the longer they can keep a kid
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scrolling or listening or looking, the better off they are
as far as their profit goes. You know, Meta even
assigned a dollar value to each kid that is on
their site. I think the dollar value was two hundred
and forty seven dollars and that's what the profit margin
(27:18):
is on that kid for a year. And it is
disgusting the way they have treated our children, what they
are exposing them to. This chatbot that they have created
is over the top. There are parents that are saying
this has got to be taken down. And Senator blumensaal
(27:38):
and I wrote Mark Zuckerberg. We have not heard one
word back from him. There is no one from Metta
that has reached out to say, hey, we get it,
We're taking this down.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Senator Blibern, I know you're going to be at the
White House here in a little bit for a Trump address.
You have known Trump for a long time, now basically
his entire political career. You were there for the first
term of Trump and now you're there for Trump two
point oh. Yes, how is he different, if at all?
So far as you can tell through the first hundred days,
(28:13):
what is different about Trump two point zero compared to
Trump one point zero.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
He is so focused on getting things done. And you know,
as I say, promises made, promises kept are the way
to sum up his first one hundred days and place
when you look at the intentionality that he approaches every
single day with, it is really quite remarkable. He came
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into office knowing what he was going to do. He
started in on those executive orders. He said, we're going
to get this border secure, We're going to get inflation down,
and he has done it. And people that I am
talking with every single day are so grateful to have
a president committed to action on behalf of the American people.
(29:06):
And even when you look at tariffs and there's all
this talk around tears, people are very patient. They say,
we do want to get the cost of living down.
We want to get it down long term. We do
want to get the cost of government down. We want
to get it down long term so that our kids
and grandkids can experience the American dream. We want to
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make certain that government is smaller and more manageable, and
that power and authority and money is sent back to
the state. And that is what Donald Trump is doing.
Every single day. He is focused on what is happening
on main street in our communities. He is focused on
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prosperity for all Americans. And that is why I think
it's so appropriate that he uses the phrase the Golden
Age of America.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Amensider a black look forward to talking to you again soon.
Have a good time at the White House. And we
appreciate the time today.
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I told you we have Canadian listeners. Listener AA Sean
in Toronto, play.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
It a claim.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Buck.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Shawn here from just outside of Toronto, Ontario, up in Canada,
just shooting a quick message about how disappointed a lot
of us are with these election results and how our
country is pretty much gone. I think Trump needs to
offer any conservative or trades people that are up here.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Offered to come on down there one to one dollar value.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I think you'd have a lot of skilled treats people
coming down to your country.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh, Canadians deciding to come across the border to work.
I do know that lost in all the shuffle over
the election that happened in Canada this week, the growth
in the Canadian economy under Justin Trudeau. Did you see
that graphic?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Buck?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Basically for eight years, nothing has grown in Canada at all,
and compared to the American economy over the last eight years,
we're just leaving them behind. And you would think that
would lead to some form of reflection, given that we
are in close proximity to each other, and you would say, boy,
why is our economy growing at a snails pace compared
(33:40):
to the United States?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Just south?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Instead, it seems like much of Canada has basically bought
into Orange man Bad and they're willing to have worse
economic growth because they don't want to admit that left
wing economic policy stifles growth massively. Say maybe maybe a
few words of encouragement for our Canadian brothers and sisters
(34:05):
up there up North America, junior, we hope you're doing well.
I would just say this, The fact that as many
people voted for Kamala in this last American election as
did given how poorly Joe Biden had and his party
had governed America for the four years, just goes to
show you there's a lot of crazy out there. You
(34:25):
gotta stay in the fight. There'll be better days ahead.
Pierre pouliev I think he clearly should have He should
have tried to co opt Trump as an ally instead
of playing this oh, you know, we're separate from America thing,
and we're never going to be the fifty first state.
We're going to stay on the outside. That was pretty
good outside, right. I think our caller there really are
(34:46):
thought that. I thought it was interesting. I thought you
were making a play instead of it being a a.
I thought you were saying a A like a Canadian
would say a. I think that thought that that was
an an unk joke, a dad joke right there. Ay,
look at play. Look at this guy. My poor kids
(35:06):
get driven around that. I found out they've been complaining
about this. I take them all over the place to
show them real estate and talk about real estate values
and everything else. And I found out the other day.
My wife told me that when I picked them up
after school that sometimes they will say, is Dad gonna
drive us by a shopping center and talk about and
talk about real estate again when we're done with sports today,
(35:31):
And so as one does. After the most recent lacrosse game,
I took my son to not one real estate location,
but double real estate locations my fourteen year old on Saturday,
and I'm gonna what is the favorite what is the
favorite play? As dad with the boys activity all in
is it? Is it watching a great sporting event? I mean,
(35:53):
you guys go fishing together, Like, what is the what
is their favorite thing?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Events? Sporting events are really fun. I was just texting
with my wife.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I guess it's the twentieth anniversary of Star Wars Episode three.
Now I'm not claiming this is a great, colossal cinematic
work of art, but it's the twentieth anniversary. So I
was texting with my wife. I was like, Hey, let's
take all three boys because they grew up watching the
Star Wars movies. Let's take them to go watch that.
That is a lot of fun. And then I've got
(36:20):
to go basically in about thirty minutes, I'm gonna head.
They have an early afternoon. My fourteen year old does
lacrosse game. I know nothing about lacrosse, but he now
plays lacrosse. So going to kids sporting events is pretty fun.
So I'm gonna pick up my ten year old at
school and then we'll head to go watch the fourteen
year old. So I would say sports and pop culture
(36:41):
movies probably top of the list. I'm going to go
change some diapers and clean some onesies, so I got
that going for me, which is nice.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
There you go, dad life. Enjoy
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. You never
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There's been a big debate about whether one hundred men
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And I have not finished yet, but we may get
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the battle before all is said and done. But we've
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is going to happen with the immigration policies of the president.
Has he stopped talking and with the cabinet yet? I mean,
this was what like an hour and a half Producer
Ali that he talked to the media and the cabinet
met with the media nearly two hours potentially. I know
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it was supposed to start at eleven am Eastern. I
think he'd started at like eleven thirty or eleven forty
and has been going for much of the course of
this program. We've been sharing some of those elements with
all of you, and as we sit here on day
one oh one, we're going to be joined by Marsha
Blackburn on the back half of the program here at
(01:33):
two thirty Eastern. But I did want to share this
with you, Tim Walls, who I believe has no political
career left, and those of you who are listening to
us in Minnesota should be ashamed that this man is
your governor. By the way, the cabinet meeting and the
press availability following it went for two hours and two minutes.
(01:56):
What I mean that is a long time. We do
a three hour daily show here, so he nearly gave
us a run for our money, and who could do
the longest show. I will say, whatever your thoughts thoughts
are on Trump, we have never had a president answer
more questions, and I'm certain we've never had a cabinet
(02:16):
answer more questions than what the Trump administration first one
hundred days have been like. That is Trump is telling
you exactly what he's going to do and why. Tim Walls,
speaking at Harvard University, said that he was I guess
this was a panel this week at Harvard said that
(02:37):
he was on the ticket because he could code talk
to white football fans and also guys who liked to
fix their truck so that they were more comfortable voting
for Kamala Harris Buck, this is crazy town. I know
a lot of you out there listening to us right
(02:58):
now are football fans. Some of you probably also pretty
adept at working on trucks. Are there any of you
listening right now that think that worked? I have said
and I'll continue to say it. Tim Walls is a
lesbians idea of a man that will appeal to men,
(03:18):
and that perfectly personifies I think the modern day Democrat Party.
Did Tim Walls make you, guys, football fans and car
officionados out there, feel like you could vote for Kamala
and the Democrats more? Eight hundred and two two two
eight a two because that is what? Can you believe?
This is real? This is the argument he's making. Well,
(03:39):
I think it's true. But I also think that we
saw that it. It's one thing for it not to work.
I think it backfired because I think that there was
something condescending to the very people that the Democrats were
trying to at the last minute fool.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
In this way.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh yeah, you know we got, we got people that
wear car and go to Walmart and shoot guns at
birds and things too like. It just doesn't It didn't
seem authentic because it wasn't authentic because Tim Walls is
a communist and the whole thing was absurd. And so
I think that this it was worse than it didn't
(04:16):
work for them. I think it actually went against them
using Walls for that group in that way. I think
that is one hundred percent accurate. Here is Tim Wall
saying it. This is starting to get a lot of
play for the reason that I believe Buck said, which
is this blew up in Democrats' face, and I think
also reflects that they don't really have a strategy to
talk to normal guys, which was a huge part of
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the twenty twenty four failure. Here is Walls explaining who
he was supposed to appeal to.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I was on the ticket, I would argue, because we
did a lot of amazing progressive things in Minnesota that
improved people's lives. But I also was on the ticket
quite honestly, you know, because I could code talk to
white guys watching football fixing their truck during that that
I could put them at ease I was the prom
mission structure to say, look, you can do this and
vote for this, and you look across those swing states,
(05:05):
with the exception of Minnesota, we didn't get enough of
those votes.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I mean, they didn't even do that well in Minnesota.
I think the numbers reflected. I don't have them in
front of me right now, but that basically, twenty twenty
four Minnesota was not much different than twenty twenty Minnesota. Now,
twenty sixteen, Minnesota was even closer. Trump came within I
think fifty thousand votes or so in twenty sixteen of
flipping Minnesota as well, and it was relatively close and
(05:31):
meaning five points or so if I remember correctly, But
Walls didn't even really add much to the Minnesota support.
You remember when Elizabeth Warren, she of fake Native American
heritage and tenured tenured professor of law at Harvard University,
was really making a go of it for the presidency,
(05:53):
or we knew she was going to, and she did
the whole Okay, I'm gonna get me a beer, and
everybody was just like, you've never said I'm gonna get
me a beer before in your life. In one sentence,
Elizabeth Warren showed it, She's like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna
imbibe some some prude hops and maybe have I don't know,
(06:15):
a bud feizer. I have said for some time JBN
should be the lesson for most politicians. Just simplify it.
Give me an acronym. Jbien stands for just be normal.
The number of politicians that can't just be normal is
off the charts. So but I have to ask, I
think some of these people are not normal, So this
(06:36):
is why they come across as trying hard to be normal,
because they're actually huge weirdos.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think there's a lot of truth to that, and
there's probably something for why politics draws that more because
it's also very strange to need to have constant affirmation
from random people that you don't know that they think
you're a good choice to do a job for them.
(07:04):
I mean, the whole idea of begging people to vote
for you is I think, just a strange way to
make a living personally. But it is interesting because what
Walls is saying is actually, I think why the Democrat
Party is in the brand is in the.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Toilet right now.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
There's lots of talk about, oh, what's Trump's approval rating
and everything. Trump's approval rating is probably nearly twenty points
higher than the national approval rating of any Democrat in
America right now. So if you say, okay, Trump's only
got forty percent approval, let's say it's a bad number. Right,
forty percent of Americans prove of Trump right now? What
Democrat has twenty five percent approval? I don't mean in
(07:47):
the Democrat Party, I mean nationwide. I don't think there's
anybody even within single digits of Trump when it comes
to approval. And so there's a lot of people who
are upset about the trajectory of the nation right now.
Things cost too much, there's a lot of upheaval. But
the last time that a Democrat ran for president and
(08:09):
one men nineteen sixty four. Let me repeat that most
of the anti Trump sentiment in America is from women.
Men are overwhelmingly on board the Trump train. The last
time the Democrat ticket won the majority of male voters
(08:31):
in America was nineteen sixty four. That is, for many
people a holy Craft moment. So this idea that the
Democrat Party has suddenly begun to struggle with men is false.
What has actually happened is they've just hit all time
lows with men. They've been struggling for sixty years, but
(08:52):
now they are losing so badly that even buck when
they are trying to address the issue with which is
clearly paramount when it comes to them winning elections, they
end up with a guy like Tim Walls, who actually,
I think you're right, even though he's designed to bring
in men who like to hunt and men who like football.
(09:15):
Remember they introduced him at the DNC not as Governor.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Walls, but as coach Walls.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
He wasn't even a head coach, but they tried to
turn him into some sort of Eric Taylor Friday Night
Lights figure to appeal to men, and it landed flat.
I think they should have called them choreographer Walls because
those jazz hands and his fat leaguers sometimes, you know,
spirit fingers, high leg kicks. I don't know did he
try out. I know he needed a job soon because
he's not going to be able to be governor forever.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Could he be a rocket?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I think if you put him on the stage, he's
got a good leg kick and the rockets, I mean,
that is not that is not a light amount of
work when you do those leg kicks one after the other.
I think, to be fair to Tim Walls, I think
he could leg kick like a lot of women can
leg kick, and maybe that has appeal. I'll tell you
one thing I think is interesting. I've seen some of
(10:05):
these stories out there, and I've seen the re emergence
of some leftists from the in media from the Obama era,
and these efforts to say, you know, well, this is
the new Is this the new masculine face of the
Democrat Party? You know, is this the new like the
badass bro and all of these people they put forward.
(10:25):
I'm like, no, no, And then you think to yourself,
this is amazing. I mean, there are a lot of
Democrats out there, a lot of Democrats in the media.
This is the best they've got to just appeal the
normal guys who like guy things. The people they're putting
forward do not answer the mail, so to speak. It
does not get it done.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And look, I mean it wasn't just Tim Walls that
she was considering. Remember it was Shapiro, who I think
you've rightly said, has the unfortunate for Democrats these days religion, right,
I don't think they can put a Jewish guy on
the ticket, even if he's in the most important state,
and that is a huge indictment of the It would
cost them. It would cost the Michigan. I think they
(11:05):
know that. I mean, I think that that's Look, look
what just happened in his last election. Democrats had problems
in Michigan in the first place. But I think it
would cost the Michigan to have a Democrat as the
top of the ticket, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And then you've got JB.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Pritzker, who we said has got the same issue that
that Frankly Chris Christie had, which is you're not gonna
elect I don't think America is going to elect a
four hundred pound dude.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I mean maybe if he was two sixty instead of
four hundred, maybe people change their minds. He's also you know,
because I'm sympathetic to this, and you know, I've talked
about how I've been getting I've gotten back into like
reasonable shape now and I'm still going and going trying
to get better shape all the time. The guy's a billionaire.
Like you know, if you gained thirty or forty pounds
(11:50):
because you were working double shifts and you're trying to
provide for your family, and you know you're just your
ear down hamburgers and French fries because you're trying to
get save money and eat fast. Yep, totally sympathetic, no judgments.
The society that we live in prioritizes more hours at
the desk, less time out there. It's easier to get fast,
(12:12):
crappy food, and it has you know all that. So
I'm this dude's a billionaire. You're a billionaire in the
era of you know, get a private chef, get on
some GLP ones. I mean, the guy is morbidly obese.
Like again, it's not about that shaming. It's about you
couldn't responsibly elect this guy to be president because his
(12:33):
health is such obviously an issue you couldn't protect. You
couldn't think this guy could serve eight years without there
being huge problems. And also he's got the same problem
in the Gavin Newsom does, which is he's actually been
an awful governor. Everybody is leaving Illinois, everybody is leaving California.
Chicago's a great place to live. The mayor's got a
six percent approval rating because Democrats have done a really
(12:55):
poor job of governing in places like Illinois, in California
and so Andy Bashe we got a huge audience in Kentucky.
I'm sorry that guy has the looest masculinity reading on
the planet. I think Kentucky should be embarrassed who have
elected him twice. His daddy was the governor, is the
(13:15):
reason he got elected. He did awful with COVID, he
shut down churches, he didn't let kids go to school
and play sports. Like the fact that Kentucky elected this
guy twice is I think an incredible embarrassment for this thing.
Look look at also some of the mandatory beliefs that
if you're going to be a Democrat at the national level,
(13:36):
in good standing with the base and with the Democrat machine,
you have to you have to do what say that
God John Oliver did on HBO reci He's like, is
there really evidence that men are better at sports than women?
He yes, you moron, Yeah, of course, of course there's
It's called all of human history. We're all very but
(13:56):
you have to say these things that no normal guy
will say, No normal red blooded American man is like,
you know, I'm a male feminist, and I think that
you know, the transagender for kids is a good idea, like,
so this is there's a bit of self selection that's
gone on here, right, it was, it was different twenty
(14:16):
years ago. This has been a shift in the culture
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and Bock play. I don't think we played Giannis uh
the but yes, what did I would I say, I said,
be honest, which is theoretically how you would expect that
it might be pronounced. But you know, athlete pronunciations is
(16:19):
Buck's only error on pronunciations anywhere. This is true. This
is where the pronunciation won Quan and Giannie quite the athletes.
But yes, we might even find the guys. The guy's
last name. But this is what he said last night
about sportsmanship. Clay wanted to play. I actually saw it
and was very impressed by this by this fellow.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I know he's an MVP, he is a world class athlete.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
This is what he said.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Listen, I believe like being humbling victory. That's how I am. Now,
this can be a lot of people out there that
are like, no, when you when you win the game,
and you know it's it's a green light for you
to be disrespectful towards somebody else. I disagree. I won
the championship. They haven't having a fan, which at the
(17:02):
moment I thought it was fun, But then I realized
it was Tity's son, which I love. Titus I think
is a great competitor. He was his dad sort coming
in the floor and showing me his son, Tawell with
his face. This is what we do, this is what
we do this if we do this, I feel like
that's very, very disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Watch the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I mean, for a guy to be that eloquent in
a foreign language, I think the NBA totally blew it
not making somebody like him the face of the league.
Compared to Lebron who just tells you how awful America
is all the time and what a victim he is,
Giannis is actually really profound in many of the ways
that he speaks, and I would encourage you to listen
(17:46):
to that entire clip. I've seen a bio piece on
him once he he's a refugee to Greece and then
to the US. Right, it's pretty nice, right story. Here's
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Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hang out with us.
We are now joined by Senator from the great state
of Tennessee, where I reside. I last saw her for
a fundraiser I believe for the Nashville Davidson County Republican Party.
(19:14):
That was a fun event. Senator Blackburn, I know you're
focused on a lot of things, but let's start off
right here. It's day one, Oh one, how would you
rate the first one hundred days of Trump?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And where is the Senate.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
When it comes to getting this big bud, big beautiful
bill done. What can you tell us about it all?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Well, for President Trump's first hundred days, promise is made,
promises kept, and he has done it in grand fashion
the way he is moving forward, securing the border, getting
inflation down, making certain he's restoring our standing in the world,
(19:54):
and something very important to me, and I know you
also is getting men out of women's.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Sports a man.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
So I think you've had a very good one hundred days.
And it is up to the House in the Senate
to make certain that we pass this bill, the Reconciliation Bill,
that we make permanent the tax cuts from twenty seventeen.
And you know, the important thing to remember on that
(20:23):
is that if we cannot get this passed, then the
American people will have the largest tax height in history.
It will be a four trillion dollar increase in their taxes.
So it is imperative, absolutely imperative that we get this
(20:44):
job done.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Center Blackburn, thanks for being here with us. I know
after you talked to us here you're going to meet
the White House invest in America event. What's going on
with that? We know what Trump has been up to
policy wise up to this point. We talked about one
hundred day, the one hundred days in yesterday and looking
at what has been a phenomenal start for his second term.
(21:07):
But what can you tell us about investing in America
and some of the plans, deals, programs, et cetera that
Trump's trying to get accomplished.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Yes, what we know is that there has been five
trillion dollars of investment committed in the US since President
Trump took office. Now this is a combination of direct
foreign investment and also American private investment. Tennessee has been
(21:37):
the recipient of some of this. We have We've had
thirty companies and twelve hundred jobs and one point two
billion dollars already invested in Tennessee since President Trump was
elected in November, and this is twelve hundred jobs. Now,
(21:58):
part of that is private, part that is direct foreign
investment in our state. But it proves the point that
people want to invest in America. They know that they
want access to our market. They know that if they
manufacture here, they're not going to pay the tariffs. So
whether it's Schneider Electric or Abb Electronics or Charms Candy Company.
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They all are expanding and creating jobs in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
AI is a rapidly advancing tech revolution that I think
many people are still getting their hands kind of wrapped
around what the impact is going to be. I have
read about what one of the things that you have
written a letter to Facebook slash Meta about there's lots
of AI now, and I was kind of stunned by
(22:48):
this because I barely I'm gonna be honest with y'all,
I've barely used AI. But these chatbots, evidently, while engaging
with miners who might be using them, are engaging sometimes
in sexually explicit related interactions. For people out there who
don't know about this, I think this is important for
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parents and grandparents to know. What is that investigation shown?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Oh my goodness, this is one of the most disgusting
and horrifying things that has come about. Meta has created
this chat box, and what the investigation This was reported
in the Wall Street Journal is it engages in sexually
explicit conversation with individuals and miners use this. There are
(23:41):
no safeguards. This is why we need to pass that
kids online Safety Act. There are no safeguards, and the
explicit nature of this is something that is just horrifying.
I have talked to moms of teenagers that cannot even
believe that Matta knows this is a problem. They know
(24:04):
how it is being used, and they will not take
it offline, So it is appearing on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat,
and this is the kind of thing that needs to
be bought. You know, you can't take a child into
a pornographic show or an X rated movie, or take
(24:28):
them to a liquor store strip club, but they're exposed
to this in the virtual space twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week, and the fact that this is
happening is absolutely horrifying.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Senator Blackburn, are you sensing any pushback from your Senate
Democrat colleagues in terms of dealing with this problem. There
are some areas where I think we would all like
to believe, we'd like to believe at least I know
it's not perfect. That there is a by partisan desire
still that exists, and it's protecting children I think would
(25:04):
be high on that list. Is this something you think
that legislation could get done in a bipartisan way to
protect the kids, or.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
What's the whole The Kids Online Safety Act passed through
the Senate on a ninety one to three vote yes,
and it failed in the House. You had Speaker Johnson
and Leadersklife who did not bring the bill forward at
the end of the last Congress. Senator Bloman, Paul and
(25:33):
I are refiling the bill in the next week and
we are going to push it through in the Senate
again and give our friends over in the House opportunity
to join us so we can get this to President's
Trump President Trump's desk and put a duty of care
on the social media platforms so that you are able
(25:58):
to block them and that parents and kids have a
toolbox and can disable some of these algorithms so that
kids are not exposed to these things in the virtual space.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Well, why is Facebook? I mean, this clearly is not
a good you know, it is not a good area.
You would think for them to be in opposition. You know, parents,
You've got bipartisan Senate vote for this, she said, you know,
over ninety votes.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Going.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
What are they just saying it's technologically difficult for them
to handle this problem, or what are the social media companies,
specifically Facebook saying.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Yeah, but what they do is they use our children
as a profit center because their value is based off
the number of eyeballs that they can connect with every
day and the amount of time that they can hold
those eyeballs. So the longer they can keep a kid
(26:56):
scrolling or listening or looking, the better off they are
as far as their profit goes. You know, Meta even
assigned a dollar value to each kid that is on
their site. I think the dollar value was two hundred
and forty seven dollars and that's what the profit margin
(27:18):
is on that kid for a year. And it is
disgusting the way they have treated our children, what they
are exposing them to. This chatbot that they have created
is over the top. There are parents that are saying
this has got to be taken down. And Senator blumensaal
(27:38):
and I wrote Mark Zuckerberg. We have not heard one
word back from him. There is no one from Metta
that has reached out to say, hey, we get it,
We're taking this down.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Senator Blibern, I know you're going to be at the
White House here in a little bit for a Trump address.
You have known Trump for a long time, now basically
his entire political career. You were there for the first
term of Trump and now you're there for Trump two
point oh. Yes, how is he different, if at all?
So far as you can tell through the first hundred days,
(28:13):
what is different about Trump two point zero compared to
Trump one point zero.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
He is so focused on getting things done. And you know,
as I say, promises made, promises kept are the way
to sum up his first one hundred days and place
when you look at the intentionality that he approaches every
single day with, it is really quite remarkable. He came
(28:41):
into office knowing what he was going to do. He
started in on those executive orders. He said, we're going
to get this border secure, We're going to get inflation down,
and he has done it. And people that I am
talking with every single day are so grateful to have
a president committed to action on behalf of the American people.
(29:06):
And even when you look at tariffs and there's all
this talk around tears, people are very patient. They say,
we do want to get the cost of living down.
We want to get it down long term. We do
want to get the cost of government down. We want
to get it down long term so that our kids
and grandkids can experience the American dream. We want to
(29:27):
make certain that government is smaller and more manageable, and
that power and authority and money is sent back to
the state. And that is what Donald Trump is doing.
Every single day. He is focused on what is happening
on main street in our communities. He is focused on
(29:48):
prosperity for all Americans. And that is why I think
it's so appropriate that he uses the phrase the Golden
Age of America.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Amensider a black look forward to talking to you again soon.
Have a good time at the White House. And we
appreciate the time today.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
You got it. Take care by now.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
That's Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee.
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Speaker 4 (32:34):
It a claim.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Buck.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Shawn here from just outside of Toronto, Ontario, up in Canada,
just shooting a quick message about how disappointed a lot
of us are with these election results and how our
country is pretty much gone. I think Trump needs to
offer any conservative or trades people that are up here.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Offered to come on down there one to one dollar value.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I think you'd have a lot of skilled treats people
coming down to your country.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh, Canadians deciding to come across the border to work.
I do know that lost in all the shuffle over
the election that happened in Canada this week, the growth
in the Canadian economy under Justin Trudeau. Did you see
that graphic?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Buck?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Basically for eight years, nothing has grown in Canada at all,
and compared to the American economy over the last eight years,
we're just leaving them behind. And you would think that
would lead to some form of reflection, given that we
are in close proximity to each other, and you would say, boy,
why is our economy growing at a snails pace compared
(33:40):
to the United States?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Just south?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Instead, it seems like much of Canada has basically bought
into Orange man Bad and they're willing to have worse
economic growth because they don't want to admit that left
wing economic policy stifles growth massively. Say maybe maybe a
few words of encouragement for our Canadian brothers and sisters
(34:05):
up there up North America, junior, we hope you're doing well.
I would just say this, The fact that as many
people voted for Kamala in this last American election as
did given how poorly Joe Biden had and his party
had governed America for the four years, just goes to
show you there's a lot of crazy out there. You
(34:25):
gotta stay in the fight. There'll be better days ahead.
Pierre pouliev I think he clearly should have He should
have tried to co opt Trump as an ally instead
of playing this oh, you know, we're separate from America thing,
and we're never going to be the fifty first state.
We're going to stay on the outside. That was pretty
good outside, right. I think our caller there really are
(34:46):
thought that. I thought it was interesting. I thought you
were making a play instead of it being a a.
I thought you were saying a A like a Canadian
would say a. I think that thought that that was
an an unk joke, a dad joke right there. Ay,
look at play. Look at this guy. My poor kids
(35:06):
get driven around that. I found out they've been complaining
about this. I take them all over the place to
show them real estate and talk about real estate values
and everything else. And I found out the other day.
My wife told me that when I picked them up
after school that sometimes they will say, is Dad gonna
drive us by a shopping center and talk about and
talk about real estate again when we're done with sports today,
(35:31):
And so as one does. After the most recent lacrosse game,
I took my son to not one real estate location,
but double real estate locations my fourteen year old on Saturday,
and I'm gonna what is the favorite what is the
favorite play? As dad with the boys activity all in
is it? Is it watching a great sporting event? I mean,
(35:53):
you guys go fishing together, Like, what is the what
is their favorite thing?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Events? Sporting events are really fun. I was just texting
with my wife.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I guess it's the twentieth anniversary of Star Wars Episode three.
Now I'm not claiming this is a great, colossal cinematic
work of art, but it's the twentieth anniversary. So I
was texting with my wife. I was like, Hey, let's
take all three boys because they grew up watching the
Star Wars movies. Let's take them to go watch that.
That is a lot of fun. And then I've got
(36:20):
to go basically in about thirty minutes, I'm gonna head.
They have an early afternoon. My fourteen year old does
lacrosse game. I know nothing about lacrosse, but he now
plays lacrosse. So going to kids sporting events is pretty fun.
So I'm gonna pick up my ten year old at
school and then we'll head to go watch the fourteen
year old. So I would say sports and pop culture
(36:41):
movies probably top of the list. I'm going to go
change some diapers and clean some onesies, so I got
that going for me, which is nice.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
There you go, dad life. Enjoy
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