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00:01:41.600 Welcome in. We are rolling through the Thursday edition of Clay and Buck. We appreciate all of

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00:02:06.760 with all of us.

00:02:09.300 So, much to be discussed as we roll through today's program.

00:02:14.280 I jotted down a bunch of things.

00:02:15.800 um sophie cunningham has become an absolute megawatt superstar and if you don't know her yet

00:02:24.500 you're about to know her and love her uh she is a women's basketball player we talked a little bit

00:02:29.820 about her yesterday buck uh because she um came out and said men shouldn't be able to compete in

00:02:35.660 women's sports became the first that i know of current pro athlete in women's sports to be

00:02:41.700 willing to say that she was grilled by left-wing sports media members who were offended men in

00:02:50.060 particular for that perspective and she led with I said what I said which I just oh my heart skips

00:02:58.620 a beat buck when somebody says something that can be controversial and then everybody comes after

00:03:03.640 him and you what do you so often see the mealy mouth oh I apologize to anybody who was offended

00:03:09.720 I hate it.

00:03:11.000 And so we'll talk a bit about that here in a moment.

00:03:13.920 Nevada versus South Carolina for the first Democrat primary.

00:03:19.720 Hispanic versus black. 0.58

00:03:21.180 Identity politics go into the mat. 0.98

00:03:23.800 Buck has gone after women with short hair.

00:03:26.260 It sounds crazy.

00:03:27.480 No, no, no.

00:03:28.020 Hold on.

00:03:28.420 Hold on.

00:03:28.740 Hold on. 0.90

00:03:29.580 Women being told by their friend to cut their hair short.

00:03:33.520 That is a different framing, sir.

00:03:36.900 We will have fun with that.

00:03:38.420 I promise. Also, there's some of you out there that are still riding around on, would have still been riding around on horses in the early car age. You're not happy about self-driving cars. There is data out that they are infinitely safer than driving, driven cars.

00:03:58.600 uh waymo data um as tesla and waymo and many other companies out there begin the battle over

00:04:05.960 self-driving cars we will get into that because i think that'll be really fun and the data is

00:04:10.900 starting to roll in david rutherford is going to join us uh he's going to talk about testosterone

00:04:15.260 in the military and then steve dace uh is going to talk with us he watched the odyssey i have not

00:04:20.480 seen the odyssey buck has not seen it but it is a big story and so we will be discussing that but

00:04:25.920 We begin, Buck, with yesterday evening, as I was sitting down to eat my dinner,

00:04:32.340 there is a pregame press availability for Sophie Cunningham.

00:04:38.300 And after she said that men should not be able to play in women's sports,

00:04:42.740 that boys should not be able to play in girls' sports,

00:04:45.720 the crazy sports media, which continues to get crazier,

00:04:51.240 decided that they were going to speak out and attack her.

00:04:54.540 She is grilled by WNBA reporters over those comments that she made in an ESPN article.

00:05:01.500 And she began by saying, I stand by what I said.

00:05:05.300 Cut 16.

00:05:06.220 And that story with ESPN, you talked about wanting to protect young girls who shouldn't have to go against biological men.

00:05:11.500 Just can you expand your viewpoint on that?

00:05:13.300 I mean, I think I said what I said.

00:05:14.680 I think it's kind of common sense.

00:05:16.360 And I think I'll always believe in that.

00:05:18.440 I think it's really important to protect children.

00:05:20.560 And that's little girls who are also involved in that category.

00:05:24.040 And so I stand on what I said and I always believe that.

00:05:28.480 Do you see your advocacy on that, like taking any form going forward?

00:05:31.940 You know, I don't know. I didn't. I'm not a very political person, but I do have beliefs.

00:05:36.200 I have morals and I'll always stand on those and be true to true to who I am.

00:05:39.780 And I think people are going to take it how they want to take it.

00:05:42.700 But I've never even really said anything about that.

00:05:44.760 And so when it comes just to protecting young girls in sport and women in sport, I feel very strongly about that.

00:05:51.180 I think that's why you have Title IX.

00:05:53.000 That's why you have some of the greats in women's sports. 0.99

00:05:56.180 If Title IX and women's sports weren't protected, 1.00

00:05:58.640 then you wouldn't hear about any type of women in sport.

00:06:00.680 And so I think in the future, it's just really important to protect.

00:06:04.700 Okay, Buck, she continued, and I feel like I'm just saying hallelujah

00:06:09.160 because I've been waiting for someone in women's sports,

00:06:12.960 current athlete, to speak out like this.

00:06:15.540 Then a reporter on a left-wing news organization

00:06:18.720 asked if she was targeting trans people, as you would expect,

00:06:22.860 here is cut 17 some people might say hey for the trans community this could be something that could

00:06:28.000 come back on us or be targeted against us like how do you i guess view that sort of critique um you

00:06:33.060 know i like i said i extend love and um i don't dislike anyone like i think there is room for

00:06:38.140 absolutely everyone here and i think there's room to love everyone and um i truly think when you get

00:06:42.480 people in the same room you have conversations you actually have a lot in common with a lot

00:06:45.700 a lot in common with a lot of people and so um i'm there to love uh but i'm also there to to love

00:06:51.460 biological women and i think that there are rights that need to be protected and um like i said i'm

00:06:57.020 going to stand true to that um i'll never falter in my beliefs in that but i have never once that

00:07:02.180 i hated the the trans community um like i said i think there's space for everyone so are you

00:07:09.280 in disbelief that this is actually a thing that has to be said no i'm surprised that it took this

00:07:15.300 long for someone like her in women's athletics to take this position honestly and and to take

00:07:22.680 it at the wnba which is probably the wokest of the women's sports leagues or at least the most

00:07:28.760 openly so uh and i think that the way she's doing it is also it's very well it's it's accurate it's

00:07:37.140 truthful and it's also tactically very smart which is to say this is about protecting women

00:07:42.020 This isn't about

00:07:43.900 You know

00:07:45.660 Trump or right wing

00:07:47.100 Or Republicans or anything like that

00:07:49.720 This is about protecting women

00:07:51.720 And protecting women specifically in sports 0.87

00:07:53.640 I don't know Riley Gaines has been out there 0.97

00:07:55.780 Making this case obviously

00:07:57.040 Riley's a friend of the show

00:07:58.240 And there have been some others

00:08:00.040 I haven't seen anyone from the WNBA

00:08:02.100 Willing to say this 0.52

00:08:03.820 I think Caitlin Clark is 0.99

00:08:05.860 Making too many hostage videos 1.00

00:08:08.260 As it is from the court

00:08:09.720 As she's being battered and attacked

00:08:11.740 by people that are jealous of her money and fame.

00:08:15.780 But this is something that they don't have an answer to,

00:08:19.520 which is who's the one who's really defending women here?

00:08:24.080 What they want to say, well, what about trans women? 0.77

00:08:27.500 No, no, they're not women. 1.00

00:08:29.840 So to defend women, you actually have to not allow trans women 0.99

00:08:32.900 to compete against women in sports. 0.78

00:08:36.640 This destroying gender categories in sports 1.00

00:08:39.480 is the destruction of women's sports.

00:08:41.740 fundamentally and everybody knows it and this is why they have just had years of this

00:08:49.480 cult-like cognitive dissonance of we're all about equality for women including men who think they're

00:08:57.660 women beating up that beating up those women in athletic competition because they have physical

00:09:02.380 advantage legitimately beating them up and winning a gold medal at the summer olympics which just

00:09:07.820 happened so uh this is i i think it's so important so if you're out there listening right now and

00:09:15.020 you've got daughters i said this last night i was on sean hannity's show we were talking about it

00:09:19.400 i would go buy a sophie cunningham jersey i would make sure that these jerseys are sold out because

00:09:25.960 if you're out there and you're fed up the best thing i think you can do is support people in

00:09:31.820 women's sports who are willing to speak out on this buck i saw annika sorenstam who's one of the

00:09:37.360 best women's golfers has now shared um Sophie Cunningham's take and endorsed it we have women's

00:09:44.260 tees on golf courses for anyone out there who plays I mean men can typically hit the golf ball

00:09:50.040 a lot further than women I mean this is not this is basic biology doesn't mean look my golf swing

00:09:55.020 is awful there's a lot of women out there listening to us right now who can hit the ball better than 0.64

00:09:59.400 I can at golf but a general uh male athlete is going to be much better at this by the way 1.00

00:10:05.380 This is also going to be seen as an anti-Megan Rapinoe take. 0.98

00:10:10.520 After Sophie Cunningham spoke out, Buck, our good friends at The View, the morons there,

00:10:17.740 they shared this clip of Megan Rapinoe on The View saying any removal of men and women's athletics 0.95

00:10:25.440 is a direct attack on women in society because this is the other side of that argument. 1.00

00:10:30.700 Retired women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe, this is out there.

00:10:34.400 i think this is a battle women have to fight i mean look i can tell you what i think but i think

00:10:38.080 women need to fight this battle on behalf of women's athletics the other side is megan rapino

00:10:42.960 listen guests are going after trans people in sports and they're using this as a wedge issue

00:10:47.300 because we love sports and you know we don't want our little girls to be unsafe in sports and it's

00:10:52.260 like unsafe from who but okay but now we're using this as like an overarching thing when really what 0.54

00:10:58.760 we're attacking women we're saying if you look like this as a woman you can play if you look 0.87

00:11:03.740 like this is one it's an attack on women in society and i think the the tie between the

00:11:09.580 heritage foundation now wanting to go after title nine it's just like so blatant like let's connect

00:11:14.160 these dots it's more than just a couple of trans kids in the entire country and a couple in each

00:11:20.400 state being able to participate in some youth sports it it's just blather you actually there's

00:11:26.780 no argument here yes or rather there's no logical progression into anything she's saying it's just

00:11:32.420 a bunch of feelings that she has strewn together that are trying to make the point that she

00:11:39.040 stands with the men who say they're women because the argument here is very much on the side of

00:11:46.200 people who live in reality and see it for what it is women who look a certain way who says it's

00:11:52.180 about women who look a certain way there have been butch ladies who have competed in sports 1.00

00:11:58.240 for a long time no one has said anything about that unless that butch lady actually has a penis 1.00

00:12:05.000 that's the distinguishing characteristic here yeah i i'm laughing because this is so basic for 0.99

00:12:13.900 anyone out there uh and and look the sports media hates this there's an article buck i wanted to

00:12:23.880 read this to you uh because i don't think you've seen it and i think your your head is going to

00:12:28.600 explode this is usa today uh so sophie cunningham initially became can i just say one thing while

00:12:34.680 before you let t this up i just want to just this is kind of like sprinkling a little spice into

00:12:38.240 this you know how you told me that the sports media was more left-wing than even political and 0.63

00:12:42.320 i had a hard time believing it is true they're also even dumber than i thought though i will say 0.94

00:12:47.000 that it's they're very very dumb in general i mean please continue it is true that i've been uh 0.98

00:12:52.800 Dominating a lot of people with, you know, borderline hundred IQs for a long time. 0.98

00:12:58.700 Listen to this.

00:12:59.720 This is a USA Today sports column today, okay, by a writer named Nancy Armour.

00:13:06.240 She is arguing that Caitlin Clark arguing with officials is putting black lives in danger. 0.54

00:13:13.420 This is her real column, Buck. 0.65

00:13:14.900 Listen to this.

00:13:15.520 it seems there is a white nationalist element to clark's fandom that is deeply deeply problematic 0.82

00:13:23.480 made even more so because the wnba is made up predominantly of black women many of them queer

00:13:30.040 when clark claims fouls that don't exist when she goes on profanity laced tirades at referees 1.00

00:13:36.900 those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and take matters into their own hands

00:13:44.240 okay this is a real column that is out i think this woman belongs in by the way a uh a straight

00:13:52.240 jacket in a mental institution she continues it shouldn't need reminding this country has an 0.85

00:13:57.720 awful history of black people being harmed even killed this is a sports article in the name of

00:14:03.900 defending white women the wnba's all-star game this weekend is in chicago emmett till's hometown 0.60

00:14:10.300 and a local art gallery is currently hosting an exhibit

00:14:13.520 imagining his life if he hadn't been lynched. 0.96

00:14:16.040 While it's incumbent on the WNBA to do more to protect its players,

00:14:20.280 there also should be an expectation on Clark

00:14:23.300 to recognize the wider consequences of her actions.

00:14:28.400 Imagine you are Joe Schmoe's sports fan,

00:14:32.480 and let's pretend you still get the USA today,

00:14:35.880 and you sit down and you're like, 0.85

00:14:37.720 hey you know what I just want to read about sports and then you read that you're a white

00:14:42.880 supremacist because you support Caitlin Clark having five threes last night I mean this is what

00:14:48.840 we have to fight and people out there who say why does this matter again you have to win culture in

00:14:55.840 order to win elections and if you stand up for Sophie Cunningham just speaking basic truth I

00:15:04.020 think you embolden and empower a lot of other women that are afraid of being attacked by these

00:15:09.140 crazy people in sports media to also stand up and speak out loud so that's why i think this is a

00:15:15.600 supremely significant story um and bravo sophie cunningham for being willing to uh to speak out

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00:18:44.080 Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.

00:18:46.160 we have some important sound bites for you from trump's marietta georgia speech which we will be

00:18:54.520 getting to as well uh we're going to be dialing uh deeper diving deeper dialing in or diving

00:19:02.580 deeper i gotta go with one or the other uh into the political back and forth as the midterm

00:19:10.360 election approaches so part of that is like georgia the senate seat that's up for grabs

00:19:15.500 there we had the candidate on yesterday and we'll look at some of these individual races

00:19:19.680 and then also just for fun clay has seen and i have seen that currently the polling shows

00:19:27.980 none other than aoc as the preferred democrat presidential candidate in was it iowa or new

00:19:38.800 hampshire new hampshire new hampshire in new hampshire so that is also indicating something

00:19:46.300 here there isn't clay this is why i think it'll be fascinating to watch this play out among the

00:19:50.880 democrats they don't have a clinton and obama or a biden uh in the mix they don't have a gore they

00:19:59.620 don't have somebody who's been uh they have kamala harris who i think has a well we'll see but i

00:20:06.020 think has a pretty weak brand relative to those other names um and then they have a whole left

00:20:11.880 wing of the party that is lurching harder to the left with each passing day and they may this this

00:20:19.200 may be the time when all of a sudden people see who really calls the shots in the democrat party

00:20:24.440 these days it might be a little bit different it's no longer the pelosi clinton party it's

00:20:28.800 turning into something else well and where they pick as the first primary will tell you who they

00:20:36.180 are trying to rig the game for they are going to rig the game in some way and i would just add

00:20:41.660 yes aoc is surging the who is the bland white guy that they can cast in the joe biden unthreatening

00:20:50.380 role and then have him effectively be the trojan horse candidate who they think they can ride

00:20:55.460 into the gates of power and then throw everything open

00:20:59.700 and be crazy left wing, I think it's going to come down 0.56

00:21:02.600 to Mark Kelly versus Andy Beshear for bland white guy

00:21:06.900 that they try to argue should be the leader.

00:21:09.840 I don't think Gavin Newsom's inviting you to his vineyard anymore, Clay.

00:21:12.720 I think you are off the vineyard list.

00:21:15.320 I think he's lost bland white guy standards.

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00:22:13.960 Welcome back into Clay and Buck.

00:22:15.560 We're joined by our friend David Rutherford of The David Rutherford Show, former Navy SEAL.

00:22:20.680 and a guy who just got back from safari, and I mean that.

00:22:26.020 He was on safari in Africa.

00:22:28.500 David, great to have you. 1.00

00:22:30.760 Rock out with your grok out, man.

00:22:32.900 That was one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time, dude.

00:22:37.700 I'm glad you caught that part.

00:22:40.320 Oh, man, not much. 0.82

00:22:41.420 Before we get into the serious stuff, Iran, testosterone checking in the military, 0.71

00:22:45.860 all that good stuff, and people maybe promised that you're not going to make

00:22:50.260 the air force air force jokes when we talk about that by the way um uh but the if you were left

00:22:57.360 overnight in south africa okay if you were left overnight you were in south africa on safari right

00:23:02.820 yep yep unbelievable is is it is it the if you had to pick between making it overnight

00:23:11.020 when they're you know on the savannah just you by yourself or you have to swim through hippo

00:23:18.700 and crocodile infested waters for six hours which one do you do savannah absolutely savannah you're

00:23:27.100 not going to live with the hippos and the crocs it's just there's no way they dominate the water

00:23:32.000 they own the water but i will tell you chances me at my age now i'm not making it on the savannah

00:23:37.660 either unless you get me some kind of like infrared like drone swarm of me i'm dead i'm

00:23:45.160 deader than dead man there's what you just went i'm assuming and got to see uh buck was telling

00:23:50.680 me in south africa was there any point when you were close to animals that you thought maybe this

00:23:57.420 isn't that safe because i've seen some of this stuff where people go down to africa to go on

00:24:03.380 the safaris and they get in canoes and they're coming really close to crocodiles and really close

00:24:09.420 to um to hippos and then i see sometimes lions basically standing right alongside even coming

00:24:16.720 onto some of these safari jeeps was there ever a point where you were like ah this doesn't feel

00:24:21.660 that safe i i mean this was my second time doing it but for my family their first time and on our

00:24:27.860 fourth night we were tracking three full-grown male lions that were stalking this massive herd

00:24:33.860 of buffalo and they were literally like you could reach over and pet them that's how close they were

00:24:39.400 And that, I'll tell you what, my heart was spinning at that time, but thank God the guide we were with, he's fourth generation, he lived on this reserve, you know, he's a 35-year hunter, he's incredible.

00:24:53.600 So, you know, having him in the vehicle, his knowledge base, we were good.

00:24:57.520 And really the reality is if you keep inside that vehicle, you know, the silhouette, they're used to that all day long.

00:25:03.840 So you're, I'd say, you know, 90% safe.

00:25:07.380 The only time is if there's a stampede in the night and the buffaloes run in

00:25:11.720 or a bull elephant comes over and knocks in it.

00:25:14.580 But other than that, like, you're good to go.

00:25:17.760 Very cool, Rudd.

00:25:18.780 Have you ever done a safari, anything like that, Buck?

00:25:21.500 Top of my list.

00:25:22.800 I want to do it, never done it.

00:25:24.360 So I definitely want to check it out.

00:25:26.160 Not surprised that Rudd is now a second-timer with that.

00:25:29.780 Now let's talk about, you were out where we had the announcement, Rudd,

00:25:34.800 of the Department of War, the D.O.W. testosterone checking and T.R.T. infusing policy.

00:25:44.180 Talk to us about this.

00:25:45.800 It was the most significant thing that's come out of this administration in terms of support of veterans by far and active duty guys,

00:25:55.260 Because, you know, as we're ramping up in Iran, the probability of guys going over and continuing deployment cycles is getting higher and higher by the day for sure.

00:26:07.580 And what we've seen and the reason why it was so critical for me in this memorandum that Pete put out last week was it was the first time that we saw a person at this level use the term operator syndrome.

00:26:19.760 So within that, it is this unique constellation of 17 different medical and behavioral health challenges that soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and coasties that for who have long term exposure to high risk training and deployments that the effects of that take over and create this operator syndrome.

00:26:37.840 Well, one of the main ones is that is endocrine dysfunction.

00:26:41.480 And what happens is as you're, you know, you get in this hypervigilant state for years and years and years, it has a profound and negative impact on your endocrine system, thereby metabolic dysfunction, which then depletes testosterone production.

00:26:57.100 And so when you have low testosterone as an operator, it can affect mood, sleep, all these things.

00:27:03.060 So to see this memorandum for me in particular, because I've been fighting this battle with a couple of the gentlemen, Dr. Chris Free, Dr. Alok Madan, who wrote the original paper that was published in February 2020.

00:27:16.840 I've been in this fight with them to try and get this idea at the highest echelons of of government.

00:27:22.880 And thank God, you know, the secretary of war has made it an important thing now.

00:27:27.940 So it's going to be revolutionary to our warfighters.

00:27:30.640 we're talking and uh david rutherford encourage you to go subscribe to his podcast doing

00:27:36.720 fantastically well as a part of the clay and buck podcast network okay 12 straight days of strikes

00:27:43.060 on iran there now is talk that there may be threats from the houthis uh when it comes to

00:27:48.280 saudi arabian shipping oil and gas prices are up in those 12 days if the president came to you

00:27:55.560 obviously you are not seeing national security briefings every day so we understand that you're

00:28:00.240 not plugged in on that level but if he said to you rut how do we solve it you would say what

00:28:05.020 well obviously the biggest concern now is is you know they're starting to hit our bases

00:28:11.320 you know we had those unfortunate you know we lost four service members uh lieutenant uh fee

00:28:17.880 hand sergeant ramper said uh private gonzalez and sergeant swinton and my thoughts and prayers to

00:28:24.360 them and their families you know this is the cost of of conflict as people die and and so

00:28:29.960 you know i think we're at the precipice of something that you you either need to upgrade

00:28:35.200 significantly obviously the biggest concern are the straits of hermos you know we have 17 ships

00:28:41.500 we've got enough support but you need to up the game right and so unfortunately that's just the

00:28:47.980 nature of of warfare and um so you're gonna have to increase your footprint and all of our bases

00:28:53.960 in Iraq and the other bases. You're going to have to launch more strategic strikes. You're

00:28:59.780 going to have to put them on on call to be able to take whatever barrage of drone strikes or 0.88

00:29:05.100 missile systems from from Iran. But I think the next, you know, reality that we have to face is 0.99

00:29:12.960 is, you know, somehow putting troops on the ground in Iran. That seems like what's going to be the 0.88

00:29:19.720 next um probable reality to be able to shift the the strategic dynamics of what's taking place

00:29:28.340 you think that means karg island you think it could be more than just karg island rut what's

00:29:33.920 your sense of if it does turn into some kind of uh ground deployment for our for our troops what

00:29:41.300 where do you think that happens i don't know i think karg island is the thing everybody just

00:29:46.300 keeps repeating because it sounds cool. Everybody knows the name, but there's 117,000 miles of

00:29:52.240 coastline in Iran. There's other strategic locations that you could place soldiers and

00:29:58.460 fighters to conduct different types of missions. And I, you know, I just don't know. You have to

00:30:03.280 understand a greater kind of that secret squirrel understanding of, of the different bases that

00:30:10.080 exist in iran you know maybe deploy you know a 75th ranger battalion take over some strategic

00:30:18.440 base that's remote in iran that has a complex system and try and assault that and hold that

00:30:23.720 and see what happens there but it like it's provoking it's it's kind of seeing what their

00:30:28.900 their reactionary responses are we've seen what they can do on our our friends in our gulf state

00:30:35.680 region and on our basis so we've got it we've been probing enough to know what their reaction

00:30:40.020 capabilities are, but maybe it's going deeper in Iran. Maybe it's, it's probing them up near

00:30:45.040 Tehran. I don't know, but I think the Karg Island is not the best tactical approach,

00:30:51.800 but it seems like if you really want to gain control of the straight, because in the long

00:30:57.620 term, that's, what's going to lead to the greater problems globally, economically,

00:31:01.960 that type of thing, you know, maybe you have to do that too. With how many troops,

00:31:05.960 Some people are saying 15000 Marines. Some people are saying, I don't know, you know, five thousand special forces.

00:31:13.500 I don't know. I think it really depends on exploring a greater, more vast array of what Iranian vulnerabilities are initially.

00:31:24.280 How much would you think the fact that the midterms are coming up in November should play into this decision?

00:31:33.360 and how much do you think it does clay that is the that is a million dollar question right there

00:31:40.140 man way to be on point i mean i think we just saw it i mean just we just saw that the senate passed

00:31:46.360 a resolution to shut down trump's war powers or curtail it in some case and had a bunch of

00:31:53.020 republicans vote on the democratic side so i think you're already starting to see it now the house

00:31:58.700 did pass what a 95 billion dollar supplemental something to to keep the war going or whatever

00:32:04.500 but i think you're already seeing it you're starting to see people get gun shy as it relates

00:32:10.640 to the war and their campaigns and what's going to take place in the midterms for sure

00:32:15.720 dave rutherford everybody also known as rut go check out his podcast and i'll tell you dave in

00:32:23.300 the uh in the chat in our youtube chat people just said oh it is our it is our favorite seal

00:32:27.860 so it's very cool i gotta say our favorite you guys rock a good description you guys rock show

00:32:34.180 thank you brother and i'm glad you're home safe and sound that the leopards didn't get you

00:32:38.020 leopards never gonna get the rut god bless you guys there you go man thank you that's right

00:32:45.900 it doesn't it doesn't have you noticed how close some of those people get to those animals on those

00:32:49.960 safaris man like uh it's a little bit intimidating well i don't think i would get in the water

00:32:55.700 what what did you think about the guy we didn't talk about it but the guy who was in was it was

00:33:00.260 it yellowstone i'm assuming oh yeah i think it was yellowstone yeah who got the bison just threw

00:33:05.260 him 10 feet in the air i felt so bad for that guy because sometimes when people get attacked by

00:33:11.080 animals you can tell they've provoked the animals and they've put themselves in that situation

00:33:16.840 that was just i think he's okay uh that was just he is he was hospitalized but he's all right but

00:33:22.260 that was just a mean bison yeah well he's just that's a granddad there with his dad from a 0.89

00:33:27.180 substantial i mean with his grandson from a substantial distance they're kind of looking

00:33:32.440 at the bison and then the bison just went after him and it felt personal it felt like he had

00:33:38.640 insulted the bison's family i don't know if he did something to the bison's mom back in the day

00:33:43.020 but it felt like the bison was after him for reasons other than just being a random tourist in Yellowstone.

00:33:51.560 But yeah, the water, man, they're getting really close to crocodiles and hippos.

00:33:56.700 I'm not getting in the water.

00:33:57.800 I'll look over the water, but that was tough.

00:34:00.880 Yeah, and producer Allie is saying it's mating season,

00:34:04.020 and the bison was showing off for the female bison by tossing the human in the air like that.

00:34:09.280 You know what's got a lot of testosterone? 0.71

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00:34:11.780 No doubt.

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00:37:17.460 Welcome back in.

00:37:18.720 Clay and Buck, appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program.

00:37:25.260 We are joined now by Steve Dace.

00:37:26.980 He is a highly successful radio show host, show host.

00:37:31.760 I think you do a lot of things in Iowa, I believe, if I am not mistaken.

00:37:35.880 And we're going to get into a lot of different things with him.

00:37:38.780 But actually, I'll start with this.

00:37:40.620 We're going to get into Sophie Cunningham, The Odyssey, a bunch of different stories.

00:37:44.320 What is the reaction in Iowa?

00:37:46.220 You've got competitive races for both the Senate and the governor's races.

00:37:51.660 The Democrat Party has basically decided we're done with having our caucuses start in Iowa.

00:37:57.960 Is that being received well in the state?

00:38:00.440 I know that's very important to many Iowans.

00:38:04.000 What is that like from your perspective?

00:38:07.680 No, it has not been received well at all, guys.

00:38:12.460 And we have about a quarter of a million voter registration advantage over Democrats here in the state of Iowa.

00:38:18.660 But they have probably the two best candidates they've run in our state statewide,

00:38:23.180 particularly the Senate candidate.

00:38:24.240 I know there's a lot of attention on Rob Sand, but the Senate candidate, Josh Turek,

00:38:28.840 former gold medal wheelchair Olympian, has run very inspirational ads.

00:38:32.740 I think it's really the best messaging statewide a Democrat has done,

00:38:36.000 and not just our state, but I've seen anywhere around the country in the Trump years, really.

00:38:41.800 I mean, the stuff he's hitting Trump on is kind of traditional class warfare liberal stuff

00:38:46.140 and not the stuff that's deconstructive in nature like we've seen over the last few years

00:38:54.120 and much of the Trump era.

00:38:55.600 So his negatives are not very high.

00:38:58.180 I think he'll be a tough beat.

00:38:59.460 I think Rob Seen will be a tough beat.

00:39:00.980 I think, though, the metrics that we have on the ground in Iowa give us an advantage here,

00:39:05.520 particularly because we did not nominate an establishment hack member of Congress

00:39:09.740 that they could have nationalized our race and run against.

00:39:12.820 Instead, we nominated a conservative outsider in Zach Lane.

00:39:16.140 who now he is free to attack them from the right in ways that Randy Feenster would not have been.

00:39:21.260 So I still think Zach will win.

00:39:23.040 Ashley Henson, I think, will probably win.

00:39:24.960 But I think they're getting it every ounce of that quarter of a million voter registration advantage 1.00

00:39:28.840 in the current environment.

00:39:30.060 It might just be by a couple of points.

00:39:32.040 Steve, it's Buck.

00:39:32.660 Appreciate you being with us.

00:39:34.680 I'm still torn between whether I'm going to go,

00:39:38.740 mostly because I hate going to movie theaters, but that's a separate conversation.

00:39:42.820 Someone's always talking, and I get very grumpy.

00:39:44.780 but even if I was willing to go to movie theaters

00:39:47.840 I'm torn between whether I would go see The Odyssey

00:39:51.040 so that I would know or that

00:39:53.080 but you've seen it

00:39:54.420 and the critique that I saw you write on X of it

00:39:58.160 I think is very much what I would expect to feel

00:40:01.500 based on what I know of the movie

00:40:03.060 but instead of just surmising

00:40:05.220 why don't you tell everybody

00:40:06.900 because you saw it

00:40:08.220 what do we need to know about this

00:40:09.940 this is the cultural phenomenon of the week

00:40:11.940 I think there's more conversation about this

00:40:13.580 We'll talk about Sophie Cunningham in a second.

00:40:15.780 But more conversation about this in the culture than anything else right now.

00:40:20.260 In short, Buck, I think Christopher Nolan ought to be ashamed of himself. 0.89

00:40:24.040 And I think that all you need to know is the hipster feminist who did the modern translation of the Odyssey 0.90

00:40:32.680 that Nolan based much of his script off of has come out and pointed out that, you know,

00:40:37.160 essentially he reduced Odysseus into just kind of a modern whiner,

00:40:41.320 constantly looking for some form of affirmation and counseling for his laments

00:40:46.060 and not the hero seeking after glory of the story.

00:40:49.140 And if that's coming from the feminist hipster that Nolan based his interpretation off of,

00:40:54.740 well, then imagine what somebody like me who puts the fun in fundamentalist thinks of the film.

00:40:59.700 It is, I was blown away, and I'm a Christopher Nolan stan.

00:41:03.880 I raised a son whose dream in life until about 30 days ago was to be the next Christopher Nolan

00:41:11.000 and now he won't even go see the film.

00:41:13.360 Anybody who's telling you that the Ellen Page character is a minor footnote cameo

00:41:18.100 done to appease Academy voters for an Oscar is wrong.

00:41:22.200 Ellen Page is basically the rosebud of the whole movie.

00:41:24.900 I mean, she is the moral conscience of the film.

00:41:27.900 She is driving Odysseus' conscience the entire film.

00:41:32.600 She gives him a nice woke spirit of the age lecture from, ironically, hell.

00:41:38.280 I mean, sometimes these people with their own wokeism can't afford stepping on their own rakes.

00:41:42.020 That's right, Elliot Page, Ellen Page speaks from hell, so that's a thing.

00:41:47.080 And then, you know, at the end, when Odysseus disguises himself to make sure his wife and son of him betrayed him,

00:41:54.340 takes the name of Ellen Page's character and is out to kind of avenge her legacy the entire film.

00:42:01.560 I mean, again, her character is the moral, she's in the very first scene,

00:42:05.560 She's in the undercurrent of the entire film.

00:42:08.340 And it's a character, by the way, that's not even in the Odyssey.

00:42:10.780 My own theory is that originally Ellen was cast as Achilles,

00:42:14.920 and then with the entire blowback several months ago,

00:42:18.880 they changed it to this other character.

00:42:20.360 That's my own pet theory. 0.99

00:42:22.260 And then there's this weird feminist lament that Anne Hathaway's character has

00:42:27.860 about how the men won't allow her to become queen.

00:42:30.360 It's just intentionally subversive.

00:42:32.660 It's intentionally deconstructive in nature.

00:42:35.180 and Odysseus abdicates his throne at the end instead of taking it as he does in the story.

00:42:40.140 He abdicates it in the end because he's got to go off now and sail and find himself

00:42:43.800 and learn from all the terrible things he has said and done. 0.82

00:42:47.500 It's just I found the film to be, frankly, pathetic, and I don't even think it's very good.

00:42:52.120 Much like Tenet, I don't know what this new fetish is with making films you can't understand from Nolan,

00:42:58.100 but he did this with Tenet.

00:42:59.960 Good luck understanding every fourth word of that film.

00:43:02.820 The same thing is odd with this sound design.

00:43:04.840 And this was also with The Dark Knight Rises, guys.

00:43:06.800 Remember that there was originally a preview that came out of the Bane hijack scene,

00:43:11.040 and so many IMAX audiences complained that they couldn't understand Bane.

00:43:14.200 They had completely remixed that film before the theatrical release.

00:43:17.960 So I don't know what it is.

00:43:18.720 He doesn't want you to hear his movies.

00:43:19.900 It's kind of weird.

00:43:21.180 But the film itself, it's not good.

00:43:24.080 And I think the one thing that Nolan proved is you can't make something great and woke.

00:43:28.300 Because to serve the woke, you have to put in the kinds of things that undermine

00:43:32.420 and deconstruct the heroism of your own characters.

00:43:34.840 and make them less attractive.

00:43:36.760 And you've got to add all this sort of psychiatric exposition postmodernism

00:43:43.500 to explain themselves that also drives away audiences.

00:43:46.700 You, by the way, are hitting on something.

00:43:48.520 I don't know if Buck has picked up on this.

00:43:50.720 I'm infuriated regularly with modern-day sound mixing

00:43:56.040 where I can hear a jet taking off in the background

00:44:00.980 or the music in the background.

00:44:03.320 It is insanely loud.

00:44:04.840 but you can't actually hear the dialogue that the characters are engaging in.

00:44:09.380 And to me, the dialogue is the most important part,

00:44:12.040 not the fact that there's ambient sound in the background.

00:44:14.220 And I sound like an obsessive radio guy, I understand it, audio guy,

00:44:19.660 who I've made fun of in the past.

00:44:21.180 It has to be a perfect audio experience.

00:44:22.960 But I do think that we have added a lot of the depth of sound

00:44:26.880 and detracted from the most important part of sound in a movie,

00:44:30.220 which is what people say.

00:44:32.020 Let me go to this question, and then we'll come back to Sophie Cunningham with you.

00:44:36.520 Buck and I have argued that there is a wide-open lane that is huge.

00:44:42.260 We've got billionaires who listen to this program.

00:44:45.020 It takes a lot of money to make a movie.

00:44:47.040 Odyssey costs $250 million, reportedly, plus how much it costs to market it,

00:44:51.740 all the other attributes associated with making a successful movie.

00:44:55.520 You're a big movie buff.

00:44:56.560 You just said you like Christopher Nolan.

00:44:57.960 Are you with Buck and me that there is a huge lane available for somebody who would just make great movies like we watched in the 80s and 90s that are designed to appeal to everyone and aren't trying in any way to make a direct propagandist political statement as a part of the movie?

00:45:15.400 10,000 percent.

00:45:16.860 I mean, 10,000 percent.

00:45:18.060 And I think what you're kind of seeing, I would argue, faith-based and conservative filmmaking in the last few years,

00:45:25.340 I hope my film Nefarious played into this, I think what you're seeing is now we're figuring out

00:45:31.080 that it's really just about telling a great story, and if you do that,

00:45:34.080 then your worldview will shine through organically on its own,

00:45:36.840 as opposed to trying to check boxes and shoehorn in ideas.

00:45:40.500 And what you're seeing, and that's why a lot of conservative and faith-based filmmaking

00:45:43.280 was cheesy and failed for so many years what you're seeing now clay is on the other side

00:45:47.580 they're the ones doing it they're the ones saying now that we don't have to tell a good story anymore

00:45:51.780 we have to check boxes uh we have to make sure that all of our tropes are included that all of

00:45:56.960 our representatives uh in all our various tribes feel like they had agency um and you know that's

00:46:03.220 i think one of the things that we set out to do when we made nefarious was just to make the best

00:46:07.560 thriller kind of based off those 90s thrillers like Fallen, you know, like Silence of the Lambs,

00:46:14.100 like Seven, with the budget we had to kind of make our best version of that. And it just so

00:46:18.640 happened to contain our worldview because as filmmakers, that's our belief system. But it

00:46:22.700 wasn't like we were just sitting around in a writer's room. Oh, let's drop that line too.

00:46:26.220 It wasn't like that. And so we're actually in the process right now of raising money for the

00:46:30.300 next movie we're going to do that may be even darker than the first film was. And I have to

00:46:35.740 tell you that that finding our our people need to understand that you know um we're behind in pop

00:46:42.560 culture because the other side was until now well they still are they're willing to lose money for

00:46:47.960 their message and i think that our people have got to got to determine and understand that the

00:46:53.180 amount of hearts and minds you can reach with good storytelling nowadays is huge um and it's the last

00:46:59.280 place left guys where i think people will let you uh come at their worldview if you entertain them

00:47:04.240 and just tell them a good story that they won't do in any other venue

00:47:07.080 where so many minds are made up.

00:47:08.720 And I think this is kind of the undiscovered country for the American right

00:47:12.100 is to realize that for the bang for your buck

00:47:16.020 and a relatively good chance at an ROI,

00:47:18.300 you can do way more culture shaping and shifting in the storytelling arena

00:47:22.140 than you even can directly in politics now.

00:47:25.160 Speaking of Steve Dace, radio host, go check out the Steve Dace show,

00:47:29.320 and he goes to the podcast of it.

00:47:30.880 and uh steve sophie cunningham a lot of our mail we already had a uh i would assume unrequited

00:47:38.400 marriage proposal from one of our audience members just saying if she if she's listening

00:47:42.320 he will get her a ring so she does have certainly fans in the talk radio space um but her taking

00:47:48.540 this this position that women's sport should be protected for women seems to be the most

00:47:55.900 straightforward statement of the obvious imaginable and yet it is a revolutionary act it seems in our

00:48:01.700 current culture what do you make of it well first of all hat tip to your your co-host there clay i

00:48:07.040 thought he had a great observation yesterday i saw uh on the same day that espn lets go which

00:48:11.800 chief racebader uh and ryan clark uh they published this interview with sophie cunningham uh drawing a

00:48:17.440 clear line between insanity and sanity i think the most so that's a great observation there i i think

00:48:22.840 the most important thing actually that sophie cunningham said is is is when she said i said

00:48:27.780 what i said and i stand by it in response there is a graveyard of people who have been willing to

00:48:33.900 take an initial step into just outlining sanity and then with a modicum of pushback have completely

00:48:41.420 buckled particularly frankly too many men so for her to stand up there against the uh the the horde 0.96

00:48:47.400 the woke horde there of WNBA media, and it's not worthy of arguing.

00:48:52.720 There's not even an argument, all right?

00:48:54.180 I mean, so these people aren't serious thinkers.

00:48:57.280 There's really nothing else to say other than I said what I said, and I stand by it. 1.00

00:49:00.820 It stands by itself that women ought to be competing against women 1.00

00:49:04.080 and ought to be competing against men, 0.92

00:49:05.940 and everybody else who doesn't have the woke mind virus on planet Earth agrees.

00:49:10.140 So I think the fact that she was willing to stand by it, guys,

00:49:12.940 I think that's even more important than what she said originally.

00:49:15.840 I agree with that.

00:49:17.400 Last question for you, Kaitlin Clark came out of Iowa.

00:49:21.180 This is one that I got completely wrong.

00:49:23.200 I never believed that her fame from college basketball would translate to the WNBA

00:49:29.120 because, frankly, it hasn't really happened before.

00:49:32.040 Even you, are you surprised by the degree to which Kaitlin Clark has captured

00:49:37.340 so much of the nation's attention, particularly given that she's playing in the WNBA? 0.77

00:49:43.340 No, because she's a magnetic personality and plays a great style of game.

00:49:48.000 What has surprised me, though, I have to tell you, Clay,

00:49:50.280 is how much she desires the approval of this peer group to the point of just taking things

00:49:57.860 and swallowing her own tongue and not speaking out like Sophie has

00:50:01.560 and just what we were talking about.

00:50:03.280 That has surprised me.

00:50:04.820 And I wonder if we get to a point with her where she now begins to become identified

00:50:10.040 with the very forces that a lot of her fans think that she's kind of been anointed to oppose

00:50:16.120 because she greatly desires the mainstream acceptance of the very groups

00:50:20.320 and the very forces that want to rank her 11th among point guards in her own league.

00:50:25.360 And so I think now that's the danger for Caitlyn.

00:50:28.100 Is it going the other way?

00:50:29.540 Kind of classic, you know, does she become essentially the John Cornyn of the WNBA? 0.74

00:50:34.000 Does she forget she was a senator from Texas

00:50:35.940 and she just greatly desires the Washington Post

00:50:38.740 and New York Times editorial board acceptance 0.68

00:50:41.840 and alienates her own base, 0.99

00:50:43.920 I would be more concerned about that moving forward for Caitlin Franklin.

00:50:46.660 You're giving people nightmares here, Steve, 1.00

00:50:48.080 the John Cornyn of the WNBA.

00:50:50.860 That is quite a thing.

00:50:54.200 Outstanding stuff, Steve.

00:50:55.280 We appreciate it.

00:50:56.460 Keep up the good work.

00:50:57.020 Thank you, guys.

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