Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 31, 2026


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00:01:11.300 Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
00:01:17.140 Good to be back with all of you.
00:01:18.680 That I will say.
00:01:19.700 Good to be back with you.
00:01:20.460 I missed you all.
00:01:21.220 And I did get to enjoy listening in as Clay enjoyed the Fouch-a-thon that occurred yesterday.
00:01:31.100 I would, on the instruction of counsel, I am evoking my Fifth Amendment right.
00:01:37.000 You will notice I am not wearing a mask as I do this very sad exclamation point.
00:01:43.480 So, Fauci yesterday, skewered for all to see.
00:01:47.200 because, Clay, you know, there's invoking the fifth,
00:01:50.560 as I know you were discussing yesterday,
00:01:52.860 when everyone can understand why you would do it.
00:01:55.960 Well, you already have a pardon for everything in the past.
00:01:58.160 Why can't you just speak honestly about these things?
00:02:03.200 And it's because all of Fauci's past history
00:02:09.040 now exposed via these missives that he wrote himself, 0.99
00:02:13.800 These love letters that he wrote on a government server, which can I also just say, Clay, so dumb. 0.99
00:02:21.240 Yes. 0.96
00:02:21.820 That is the other part of this that I know you were hitting on yesterday, a lot of all things Fauci.
00:02:27.360 The fact that he thought, I'm just going to write about how handsome I am and how much Julia Roberts just had a twinkle in her eye when I was telling her about mitigation measures.
00:02:41.180 uh this guy truly delusional and and now i have to say the the um the mockery that any person can
00:02:51.780 see as a result of all this this is what is needed because they were going to hold out on
00:02:56.720 all of this and say oh but the science is still with fauci you know clay the defense in recent
00:03:02.600 years had been uh it was a fog of war situation it was there's no fog of war when you're writing
00:03:10.800 about how you're the most famous person in the world while you're telling everybody if they hug
00:03:15.480 grandma you're gonna kill her yeah you know what i mean there's no fog of war defense there the
00:03:20.920 whole process i do think we've talked a lot about how history is going to handle covid i think 0.98
00:03:28.180 fauci on some level is starting to realize oh wait i'm gonna be the bad guy of this story
00:03:36.080 you know like you always have that that question do the villains of history totally understand that
00:03:43.480 they'll be the villains of history because one of the great um you know sort of cliches of history
00:03:48.160 is that the winners write history so we don't really know i mean there's probably a lot of
00:03:53.000 good guys that end up losing bad guys write them they're cast differently i mean shakespeare is a
00:03:57.760 great example of this in the way that his uh history plays defined what we think oftentimes
00:04:04.620 about English kings, Scottish kings, all these different things.
00:04:08.440 But really, when you look at this,
00:04:10.980 I felt like there was a little bit of a realization
00:04:15.020 behind Fauci's stony, indignant, constant recitation
00:04:20.760 111 times of his Fifth Amendment.
00:04:23.160 I felt like Buck, part of him was starting to recognize,
00:04:27.320 oh, wait a minute, I'm going to be the bad guy.
00:04:29.780 And he's 85 years old, and let's say he lives 15 more years,
00:04:34.420 You and I, hopefully, and many of our listeners are going to live long enough for the history of COVID to start to be written.
00:04:42.540 And I think the idea that Anthony Fauci's diary indicated was that he believed he was going to be the hero.
00:04:50.020 I think he's starting to recognize, wait, I'm going to be the villain.
00:04:54.160 And this is not going to be some story of incredible success that I was the father of.
00:04:59.440 instead i'm going to be the guy who got paddleboarders arrested on the ocean that
00:05:03.740 people can't believe is real in the decades to come isn't it in batman the dark knight rises
00:05:11.220 when he says die a hero or live long enough to see yourself the villain yeah fauci is seeing
00:05:18.100 himself the villain and i really think that the only way that this could have broken through
00:05:22.600 as it did yesterday in that hearing um was the the fact that you cannot explain they can argue
00:05:31.060 the science all day they can argue whose decision everything was and everything else you know clay
00:05:36.820 if you're the four-star general during a war and you know you're like having an affair with a
00:05:44.920 subordinate and all and you're writing things about how you know you want to be on cnn and
00:05:51.440 it's apparent that you're not showing up for like funerals of your soldiers there's no excuse for
00:05:55.960 that i understand this is different it's not military but there is a similar sense of you were
00:06:02.620 the captain of the ship here the four-star general in this uh in this metaphor and you were really
00:06:08.980 more concerned at the peak at the worst of covid you were obsessed with how much attention you were
00:06:15.500 getting and you wrote it down and there's no debate about it so fauci as a megalomaniac is
00:06:21.960 no longer a point of of of argument and that takes it even further than just he got some stuff wrong
00:06:29.020 because you know what they were saying the whole time was he did his best yes he did his best based
00:06:34.160 on and we knew that was a lie you knew it i knew it we've been talking about this for years
00:06:38.040 but this actually was the achilles heel for him oh no he really was obsessed with himself and no
00:06:44.880 one can argue that anymore 100 i also think the other thing that the diary reflects buck is
00:06:51.000 he can't claim he wasn't the decider that all of life comes down to you have experienced it no
00:06:58.880 matter what you do buck you had to talk about what the rules are of a condo board um anybody
00:07:04.860 out there that's tried to get something built uh and you've had to go through uh that that process
00:07:11.020 The question of who's the decider is ultimately the thing that matters most, right?
00:07:16.640 There's lots of any big company has 168 vice presidents of something that really can't do much.
00:07:24.080 And ultimately, it lands on the CEO's desk.
00:07:26.820 Remember, Harry Truman had the great memorable.
00:07:30.160 The buck stops here.
00:07:31.360 And on the other side, I think it said, I'm from Missouri or something like that.
00:07:36.260 The president is the ultimate decider.
00:07:38.280 In this situation, I think with Fauci's diary, what you see is he was actually the ultimate decider.
00:07:46.600 And all the people out there that are concerned about democracy and everything else,
00:07:52.160 so many people that are elected decided that a random employee inside of our government
00:07:59.660 who was taxpayer-funded would decide multi-trillion dollar outcomes when it came to state-level elections.
00:08:08.280 and, sorry, to national decisions.
00:08:12.320 Fauci was the decider.
00:08:13.560 He bragged about New York and California shutting down
00:08:16.220 because of his private conversations.
00:08:18.120 Here's another thing if you want a positive, Buck.
00:08:20.900 Fauci did allow Ron DeSantis to become the most successful governor
00:08:26.300 of the COVID era.
00:08:27.800 And I sent out a tweet about this, and I kind of talked.
00:08:31.120 We had him on yesterday.
00:08:31.900 But, Buck, you are a great example of this.
00:08:35.000 I'm in Florida right now doing the show. 1.00
00:08:37.040 think about what would have happened in 2018 if Andrew Gillum gay prostitute sleeping with 0.99
00:08:45.500 drug addicted felon I believe he's a felon if he's not he's been charged with felonies to my 0.98
00:08:51.500 understanding Andrew Gillum had been elected in 2018 Buck he would have shut down Florida
00:08:57.120 just like New York and California and you can say well Georgia and Brian Kemp and maybe Tennessee
00:09:02.380 and bill lee and greg abbott in texas maybe they would have stood maybe or maybe without desantis
00:09:08.460 taking the slings and arrows of shutting refusing to shut down a big populated state maybe maybe
00:09:16.720 fauci would have been even more successful and so ultimately florida reaped the benefits and i
00:09:23.920 think desantis's tenure in office will redound throughout the covet era as the way that we
00:09:30.480 should have responded to covid and fauci is going to be the great villain so in many ways desantis
00:09:36.960 and also on a smaller level people like you and me who found a big audience by just being sane
00:09:43.080 in a time when everybody else lost their minds fauci is going to be the great villain of covid
00:09:48.140 i think increasingly you can see the ron desantis is of the world uh the brian kemp's the bill lees
00:09:54.100 the greg abbott's to a certain extent red state governors who said no they're going to continue
00:09:59.400 And I mean populated red state governors, because a lot of red state governors in western states, they don't have the same huge collection of population in terms of everybody being in a dense area like bigger states would.
00:10:13.720 I think you can start to see the first draft of history and the impact that all of this is going to have.
00:10:19.460 And Fauci is not going to come off well.
00:10:21.560 It took a long time, but we did get some Fauci accountability, at least on the public record.
00:10:30.680 And I really appreciate that Rand Paul stayed on this as long as he did and refused to let this go because, yeah, we could find the data, we can find all these different things. 0.97
00:10:41.600 finding out about what a megalomaniac and what a narcissistic fool during a time of extreme 0.90
00:10:49.420 suffering for the country uh fauci was that that is it's unforgivable and it's also 0.98
00:10:57.880 not something that can be dismissed they can dismiss all the they can dismiss oh no one knew
00:11:03.080 it was hard we tried we tried no no no and i'm not even getting into the fact that he knew that
00:11:07.000 it wasn't as deadly and i mean there's a whole bunch of things yeah oh yeah uh that that also
00:11:10.820 came out from this so he lied about everything they're not going to accept that he lied about
00:11:15.060 everything they're going to say oh it was tough he's making judgment calls the fact that he is
00:11:20.160 is gushing about the celebrities who by the way why does he have time to talk to celebrities when
00:11:24.280 he's the most important that's one of the things i like to think that this guy is you know in the
00:11:28.020 office until two o'clock in the morning calling every every uh you know major hospital system
00:11:32.980 and getting the latest data he's doing celebrity zooms and also why is it the celebrities have
00:11:37.880 access to the top doctor there's all these things you can talk about this so i thought it was i
00:11:42.060 thought it was uh great that this information came out i would just point out we invited dr
00:11:47.060 fauci on the program for years he never had time for us but somehow he could always manage to take
00:11:52.880 the phone call from bet midler or julia roberts here's something that i would ask star this write
00:11:58.400 it down use it if you still are hearing people in your life defend fauci buck here's a to me this
00:12:04.860 really kind of sums it up joe biden gave him a 10-year pardon a 10-year pardon from basically
00:12:11.320 2014 all the way through what january of 25 right when biden left office 10 plus years
00:12:18.300 everything that fauci did is protected even though we know that he committed i think a lot
00:12:23.420 of crimes during that time, lied about him, all those things, okay? He had a 10-year pardon,
00:12:29.800 and he still needed to invoke the Fifth Amendment 111 times while testifying in front of Congress.
00:12:37.400 Just a simple question for everybody out there. Has anyone ever heard of someone who is completely
00:12:43.820 innocent of all crimes that needs a 10-year pardon, and then, as if that were not enough,
00:12:50.220 also needs to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times.
00:12:56.680 The 10-year pardon by itself was not enough.
00:12:59.540 This guy is guilty of sin.
00:13:01.760 Fauci, by the way, may, according to Senator Rand Paul,
00:13:05.640 not entirely be protected from accountability.
00:13:07.860 This is cut one. Listen.
00:13:09.420 We'll vote to hold him in contempt of Congress.
00:13:11.480 That is a felony, and he can be prosecuted.
00:13:14.260 We can't prosecute him, but we refer him to the Department of Justice.
00:13:17.660 So there is a question.
00:13:18.980 can you plead the Fifth Amendment when you've been pardoned?
00:13:21.880 If you've already been granted immunity,
00:13:23.880 how can you be seeking immunity from self-incrimination
00:13:27.140 if you've already been granted immunity?
00:13:29.120 So at the very end, I ask him the very specific question,
00:13:32.000 within the parameters of your pardon,
00:13:34.160 this is a question within the parameters of your pardon,
00:13:36.840 did you destroy records?
00:13:38.280 And he refused to answer that, so a court will have to decide.
00:13:41.300 The Department of Justice has to be convinced to take the case,
00:13:44.000 and then the court will have to decide,
00:13:45.480 Does his Fifth Amendment privilege apply when he has a pardon?
00:13:49.240 This has been debated across the Internet, across the country, and we're going to find out an answer.
00:13:54.440 Can we have the Honorable Judge Clay on the other side of this break?
00:13:58.520 Give his legal analysis.
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00:14:30.080 They said every single one of them, we agreed, had to cost over $1,000 an hour.
00:14:35.000 So Fauci is paying at least $6,000 to those six attorneys, and they're all working hard for him.
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00:17:49.160 by missouri senator eric schmidt uh we got a lot we can get into you with uh senator schmidt but i
00:17:55.360 know you're a big sports fan I don't know how much attention you have paid Buck and I were just
00:18:00.100 talking um about Sophie Cunningham coming out and saying men shouldn't be in women's sports I know
00:18:06.320 she plays in Indiana but she was and is I think one of the best women's basketball players ever
00:18:12.500 from the state of Missouri so I know a lot of your constituents are big fans of hers did you see that
00:18:18.380 a WNBA owner you know minority owner but not the head owner but one of the owners sitting courtside 0.99
00:18:25.340 ripped two teenage girls, cursed them out for showing up 1.00
00:18:30.740 and supporting Sophie Cunningham's stance on men and women's sports.
00:18:35.360 What's your reaction to that?
00:18:37.360 It's very bizarre.
00:18:38.540 Yeah, and Sophie Cunningham, the pride of Mizzou, right?
00:18:40.940 She's the all-time leading scorer in women's basketball there.
00:18:43.020 And it's reached new levels of fame recently.
00:18:46.500 But I don't understand it.
00:18:48.620 You'd think a sports league would want to be growing their audience,
00:18:50.980 and they have a very marketable person in Sophie Cunningham
00:18:55.540 and they just can't get out of their own way on stuff like this.
00:18:58.920 I don't get it.
00:19:00.640 The WNBA, you know, it just feels like a league that could have a bigger audience
00:19:05.760 if they just got out of their own way.
00:19:08.520 And when you have a co-owner of a team, I mean, this isn't just some, like,
00:19:12.380 you know, drunk person at the game.
00:19:14.280 I mean, this is the co-owner of the team felt so compelled to yell at these young girls
00:19:19.260 who showed up to the game.
00:19:19.980 It's just very strange.
00:19:21.840 It's absolutely bonkers.
00:19:23.480 Okay, we've got a bunch of stuff we can get into with you.
00:19:26.540 I know there is an ongoing negotiation surrounding the College Sports Act.
00:19:31.840 You have co-sponsored this along with Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Cantwell.
00:19:37.320 You've been going back and forth with the SEC and the Big Ten.
00:19:41.440 What's the absolute latest on this bill?
00:19:43.700 Have you gotten a response from the SEC and the Big Ten yet?
00:19:47.360 Is this bill going to be able to get on the floor?
00:19:49.700 What can you tell us?
00:19:51.480 Yeah, I mean, this is very timely right now.
00:19:53.440 The Big Ten is meeting right now or soon will be meeting about this.
00:19:57.240 The SEC, they have a call with their presidents later on this afternoon.
00:20:02.660 I was on the phone with Tony Petiti, the commissioner of the Big Ten,
00:20:05.360 late last night and with Greg Sankey this morning.
00:20:08.940 You know, we want to have their support.
00:20:11.040 I mean, we've worked really hard, I think, to build a coalition,
00:20:12.940 not just with those two conferences but with the Big 12 and the ACC
00:20:16.780 and these conferences.
00:20:17.560 But beyond that, too, there's a lot in here for the student athletes and a lot has gone into this thing to try to address all the major issues, Clay, that you and I have talked about before.
00:20:26.240 You've got this, you know, you've got these eligibility issues, you've got the governance issue, you've got the one-time transfer, all those sorts of things need to get taken care of.
00:20:33.200 The ability to pool media rights if they want to, making sure that's purely voluntary and never forced, that was a big part of what these negotiations have been about.
00:20:41.140 So I would say today is a very important day because in order for us to do this next week, which a very important week, theoretically, it could be one of the last weeks we're up here.
00:20:51.320 I don't know. I mean, we could stay in August. I support that. But next week's a very important week.
00:20:56.440 And if that's the case, we got to get it kind of teed up today.
00:21:00.060 And so these meetings are really important and why these conversations have been very timely and intense.
00:21:05.300 Okay, I'll follow up on that. I don't want to get you into Petiti or Sankey private conversations. But in general, are you optimistic that you're going to be able to get their sign on at this point? I know you still got to wait on the meetings. But how would you assess your optimism level to right now at this exact moment?
00:21:26.540 uh this is very much like real time um i've been hopeful all along i i think that this is
00:21:33.200 look there are things in this with something that this is this complex and you know literally
00:21:39.240 impacts um you know 500 000 student athletes and all these institutions that people love and root
00:21:46.760 for and all these kind of issues at play this bill um is an effort to try to reach a compromise of
00:21:54.280 all the various and competing positions on it.
00:21:57.240 So it's not perfect.
00:21:58.700 Like there's things in here that I wish were a little bit different.
00:22:01.700 And I'm sure that the conferences, the smaller conferences,
00:22:04.120 the bigger conferences, same thing.
00:22:05.240 But I do think it's at a place right now where we need to move
00:22:08.780 because it's not going to get any better.
00:22:11.220 And another year or two of this madness we see right now,
00:22:14.620 it's just not sustainable.
00:22:15.940 Even the schools that are choosing to compete and have rosters that are 55
00:22:20.040 or 60 million for football alone,
00:22:21.960 which even though there's a cap of 20 and a half million uh they will freely admit to you that this
00:22:27.360 is not a good situation the constant movement's not good for graduation rates uh if you're
00:22:31.820 transferring four or five times um so i think we need to provide some stability and i think this
00:22:36.600 bill as it stands not right now is the best effort to do it so i am hopeful but but we're
00:22:41.040 going to find out real soon in the next few hours senator schmidt appreciate you being with us um
00:22:46.860 I wanted to move our attention, if I could, to another aspect of the Senate,
00:22:51.300 and that has to do with the Judiciary Committee postponing a scheduled vote
00:22:56.280 to advance Todd Blanche's nomination.
00:22:58.900 So we know there are a couple of Republican senators, Cornyn and Tom Tillis,
00:23:05.000 who are, let's just say, iffy at this stage of the game.
00:23:10.260 What do you think is going to happen here, and what are those two guys thinking?
00:23:14.100 well they're both on the judiciary committee so am i and um you know they've raised each one of
00:23:21.000 them kind of a separate issue i think uh senator tillis wants uh todd blanche to meet with some of
00:23:27.540 the victims the obscene victims i think that was his sort of his ask and um i think that's gone
00:23:34.380 relatively well um i have not spoken directly with tom about that but i feel like that's moving
00:23:39.880 along. Senator Cornyn has an issue with this. Some of the legal matters that that have been
00:23:47.560 before the Department of Justice related to President Trump. And so, you know, I'm hopeful
00:23:52.280 that they can work that out to the extent that it can be worked out. I think Todd is eminently
00:23:56.840 qualified. Todd Blanche is eminently qualified. He's done a very good job, I think, of refocusing
00:24:01.640 the department from the Biden years to taking on violent crime. And you look at this anti-fraud
00:24:06.940 um effort that they have across the country minneapolis and california those are really
00:24:10.960 important things for the department of justice to be focused on and have an attorney general
00:24:14.340 who's serious so he's the acting ag i mean no matter what happens he's going to remain the
00:24:19.440 attorney general the acting attorney general i just think it it would be an important thing for
00:24:22.960 us to do to move them forward and have them confirmed in front of the full senate so i know
00:24:27.480 sorry go ahead no i was just going to say building on that question with buck um president trump said
00:24:32.820 hey if these guys won't get on board we'll just wait you probably know this i don't know the
00:24:38.300 answer off the top of my head let's say that the nomination doesn't get confirmed and we wait for
00:24:45.180 the election and then god forbid we end up in a situation where democrats take back control of
00:24:51.960 the senate getting anyone confirmed then as you know becomes very very difficult how long could
00:24:58.260 todd blanch serve as acting attorney general is there a limit on that how would that play out
00:25:03.680 well according to recent precedent i'm gonna freak i'm gonna blank on the cabinet member
00:25:09.200 that biden had that served out as acting throughout the term i mean he can basically
00:25:14.060 be the acting attorney general okay i think for almost all of the remaining trump term but i think
00:25:18.520 you know it's it's always better to have a you know a position like that confirmed by the united
00:25:23.160 states senate i think that's an important thing for us to do because we're in that personnel
00:25:26.400 business and he's eminently qualified no one no one disputes that uh i think you know a couple
00:25:31.820 of these issues that senators are addressing are kind of one-offs from that not related to his
00:25:35.760 qualifications and my hope is that they can figure all that out and we can move forward on todd
00:25:39.360 blanche next week as i mentioned next week's a very important week um because september guys
00:25:44.760 is going to be i think it's going to be very messy the democrats want to shut the government down
00:25:49.460 uh that is on september 30th i think they view it as a political uh effort for them to shut it
00:25:56.100 down in october is this is this going to be for open border center they're going to want you know
00:26:00.020 no more ice no i don't know what it's going to be yet yeah oh i mean i'm guessing it may be the
00:26:04.560 whole thing it may be the whole thing it may be all of government it may be tsa again it may you
00:26:09.440 know i don't know what it's going to be but i i think it's going to be something i i just that's
00:26:13.600 just sort of how i see it some people are more optimistic but i've seen what the democrats the
00:26:17.760 game plan is uh they're obstructionists and they want chaos they think chaos helps them and i hope
00:26:23.120 the american people uh view it differently but we got to do everything we can to make sure that
00:26:27.380 doesn't happen by september 30th i know if you're not from new york city maybe missouri doesn't
00:26:32.720 think of itself as like right next door to michigan but i do because i'm from new york
00:26:37.340 what do you think about me what do you think about the mission you're a flyover guy come on
00:26:42.820 i mean you guys are close enough right you probably have college teams that travel to
00:26:47.740 play each other hundreds of miles hundreds of miles away but yes that is a perfect that's a
00:26:52.540 perfect lead-in for a new york city guy senator smith hey at least i'm self-aware at least i'm
00:26:57.660 self-aware about it so michigan senate race super important main senate race super important can you
00:27:04.320 just weigh in on on how you feel about republicans holding the majority and what do you think the key
00:27:09.540 issues are going to be in some of those places i see now why you did there's some symmetry they're
00:27:14.540 all states that start with m there you go so um i feel pretty good about the senate the map uh
00:27:21.640 Susan Collins, I mean, they had the Graham-Plattner experiment that totally, you know, was as disastrous as him in a port-a-potty, I suppose.
00:27:29.400 So that's gone.
00:27:30.500 I think she's much better positioned now than where things were a month and a half or so ago. 0.97
00:27:35.240 I mean, if they elect this, the El Syed guy who's in the lead in Michigan, that is very much in play where a year ago, 0.97
00:27:44.580 I don't think a lot of people would have thought we were going to have a chance, be competitive, and maybe win Michigan. 0.99
00:27:48.460 So I do think that is probably, by way of contrast for us, these radical sort of DSA members is good for us electorally.
00:27:57.920 I think it's terrible for the country that the Democrats are actually electing these people to be their nominees in a general election, you know, because eventually these people are going to they're going to start winning general elections.
00:28:07.820 And it won't be limited to, you know, New York, where you're from, right, where the craziness and the hammer and sickle wave we saw a month ago.
00:28:15.640 So I do think it improves our chances if that person's the nominee, but I don't think it's good for the country.
00:28:20.600 I think we win Maine. New Hampshire's in play for us, which is good.
00:28:23.980 North Carolina is going to be tough and Michigan could be in play as well.
00:28:28.140 Ohio, I think we're going to be fine in Ohio.
00:28:30.220 Sherrod Brown is kind of a retread career politician and John Husted should be OK there.
00:28:35.880 I know that you, as attorney general of Missouri, helped to hold Fauci and the Biden administration more accountable than almost any attorney general did in the country.
00:28:45.580 I'm curious what you thought of Fauci taking Fifth Amendment 111 times during that hearing yesterday, how you would assess any legality of pursuing Fauci might look going forward in the wake of that.
00:29:00.820 And just as a general context, I know it's been six years.
00:29:05.080 Buck and I are still furious. Almost everybody out there listening to us right now is still furious over what left wingers Fauci led did to us during that time.
00:29:16.320 How would you assess where we are right now, what your thoughts were on that hearing and where we might go going forward?
00:29:21.780 I'm with you guys. I think for me, when I was attorney general that time, it was a it opened up my eyes to what the left was capable of.
00:29:32.200 if they had a little bit of power or just an excuse like that.
00:29:35.720 Bulldozing sand, you know, into these skate parks, police tape around playgrounds,
00:29:40.880 forcing the masking of five-year-olds in school.
00:29:43.180 It's why we sued the school districts.
00:29:44.540 It's why we sued the Biden administration over the shot and all those sorts of things.
00:29:48.020 I think we should never forget what that looked like and what that actually was.
00:29:51.860 And Fauci was the crown prince of all, but with his candles and his bobbleheads, right?
00:29:57.020 I think it reminded me, I took his deposition in the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit.
00:30:01.780 He sat across the table as smug as could be, kind of like he was yesterday.
00:30:05.840 He had less to say yesterday because he was taking the Fifth Amendment.
00:30:08.780 But I think in our deposition of him, he said, I don't recall, like 170 times as well.
00:30:14.100 So this guy who proclaimed to be the science and this all-knowing expert suddenly doesn't have a whole lot to say now
00:30:21.320 because I think he knows he's been exposed to some legal jeopardy regardless of the auto-pinned pardon.
00:30:26.360 There could be state issues out there.
00:30:28.220 We're going to see.
00:30:28.940 But this guy needs to be held accountable.
00:30:30.300 This is what abuse looks like.
00:30:32.920 This is what the othering of our fellow countrymen was like in that era.
00:30:38.500 You couldn't question anything.
00:30:40.040 The government was coming after you to censor you with big tech giants.
00:30:43.200 This was Orwellian, and it happened, and we can't memory hole it.
00:30:46.540 I'm with you.
00:30:47.060 Like a normal person is still pissed about this thing and should be, and Fauci was the face of it.
00:30:52.020 So I hope there's some accountability.
00:30:54.340 We did our best in my time as AG.
00:30:55.700 Hopefully some other AGs or other people can take up the charge here because it was just insulting to see him sit there yesterday and take the fifth on everything.
00:31:05.380 Senator Schmidt, great stuff, sir.
00:31:07.080 Thank you so much.
00:31:08.680 All right, guys.
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00:32:34.500 Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now,
00:32:37.820 and we are joined by our friend Ryan Gerdusky,
00:32:42.180 host of the podcast It's a Numbers Game,
00:32:44.720 which is a fantastic podcast.
00:32:46.580 Highly recommend you all check it out.
00:32:47.940 On the Clay and Buck Podcast Network, Mr. Gerdusky,
00:32:50.760 so many things to talk to you about um start with mass let's start with mass immigration have you
00:32:56.760 seen this situation in the footage going viral i know we don't talk about spain very much
00:33:03.520 but uh is it pronounced say youda i don't know you know how to pronounce it in morocco where you 0.98
00:33:11.200 have the uh african migrants just completely overwhelming there's this little spanish enclave
00:33:16.980 And they're just they're just like running through the fence, basically, to get on to what is technically Spanish territory after the Spanish prime minister, I think, signed an amnesty for a million people that are in the country illegally. 0.99
00:33:30.260 So things are have you seen this?
00:33:32.400 Things are getting crazy over there.
00:33:34.420 Yeah, it was as Pedro Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
00:33:37.680 Originally, he says me for five hundred thousand and then it was a million.
00:33:41.520 Now it's estimated to be three million, which Spain is not a large country.
00:33:45.380 Three million is about eight percent of the population. So it is a tremendous amnesty.
00:33:50.300 And bigger problem is that it's part of Spain is part of the Schengen agreement, which means that if you are a resident of Spain and legally there, you can go to any other country in the EU without a passport.
00:33:59.660 So we're talking the possibility of millions of people going not only to Italy, but end up in Germany and Ireland and Sweden, quite like it happened back in 2015.
00:34:08.040 So not only is this causing backlash in his own country, but Georgia Maloney and other prime ministers around Europe are pushing back against his amnesty plan.
00:34:17.160 Ryan, yeah, that clip is what will happen if Democrats in back up in power again.
00:34:24.280 It looks like when Bill Malugin was down at Eagle Pass, Texas, and we saw tens of thousands of people.
00:34:28.940 What I would point out, Ryan, I'm sure you saw it, too.
00:34:31.460 I think I saw Matt Sorter, among others, posting about this.
00:34:35.040 everybody coming in is young and male people like to say oh this is about trying to take care of
00:34:41.920 families there's no women there's no children storming across the border there right now it's
00:34:45.900 all military age males um and and i do think that's worth reiterating again and again overwhelmingly
00:34:52.960 we are not seeing families come we're seeing young men come um when you look ryan let's go
00:34:59.020 into the the current political environment tuesday uh i was at a a fundraiser last night for jimmy
00:35:05.080 patronus awesome guy represents the florida first district basically right across the street uh he
00:35:10.660 was having a fundraiser doing great work one of the guys there is working on the michigan senate
00:35:16.140 campaign my wife is from michigan this is one that we've talked a lot about a lot on this program we
00:35:20.380 have followed it closely they had their final debate tuesday is the primary we will be talking
00:35:25.220 about a great deal. Abdul El-Sayed is pulling away from Haley Stevens and appears to be a
00:35:31.300 substantial favorite going into the primary on Tuesday. Do you buy if El-Sayed wins that Mike
00:35:37.720 Rogers, who is going to be the Republican nominee, has a very good chance to win? How does that
00:35:43.020 change your calculus? We'll dive into some other parts of the Senate maybe a bit later in the
00:35:47.300 conversation here, but tell me about Michigan with the primary Tuesday. Yeah, Haley Stevens's 1.00
00:35:52.840 fake accent with a stick of two of them is not really getting what people thought that would. 1.00
00:35:57.460 Here's the problem with Haley Stevens. It's not just polling. Early voting data is showing that 1.00
00:36:01.280 white college educated and Muslim populations in the state are voting at much higher percentages
00:36:06.740 than her bases, which is predominantly black areas in the Detroit area. Detroit's black areas 1.00
00:36:12.340 have had substantially lower turnout. So are the rural areas. And the bigger problem with
00:36:16.680 Democrats, period, is that the white working class people who would normally back a Haley
00:36:21.140 Stevens are all Republicans now. Mike Rogers is probably polling close to even against Abdul
00:36:28.160 Saeed. He's a very extreme candidate. He's campaigning with the podcaster, Hassan Piker,
00:36:33.220 who said that Americans deserve 9-11. However, it is a bad year for Republicans. It is a year
00:36:40.140 in a state that is 50-50, but a little more for Trump than for Kamala. It is looking like a D plus
00:36:47.140 seven d plus eight year the generic ballot is leaving leaving the train and is really sticking
00:36:51.780 to democrats so in an environment like that even bad candidates can win even francesca hong who is
00:36:58.140 you know nuts beyond belief over in wisconsin she could probably win in an environment like this
00:37:03.680 it's just becoming it's looking more and more like a wave for democrat kind of year
00:37:07.660 so ryan what are some of the variables between now and election day that you feel like you're
00:37:15.000 going to be the primary determinants about whether republicans hold the house and republicans
00:37:19.360 hold the senate what are some of the the prime you know the primary levers that depending on
00:37:24.480 which way they go we're going to either be celebrating or having a rough one well you know
00:37:31.060 we talked several weeks several months ago at this point about the iran war and oil prices and food
00:37:35.760 prices and we all said if it goes down by the end of summer by midsummer will be republicans will
00:37:41.640 be fine. And when it started dipping during the negotiations, Republican numbers did substantially
00:37:45.980 improve. Republicans are doing better than Trump's doing and Trump's in close to George W. Bush
00:37:50.060 territory as far as polling goes. However, we're at the end of summer now. Kids are going back to
00:37:55.120 school in the South like next week and oil prices are back up and Democrats numbers are starting to
00:38:01.600 surge. At the end of the day, it comes down to food prices, oil prices, and if the Iran war is
00:38:06.480 wrapped up or not. I mean, it's really just that is the margin in a lot of states where it's going
00:38:10.980 to matter a lot of people defy political gravity people like susan collins and others brian
00:38:15.600 fitzpatrick a congressman in pennsylvania if you're looking at a d plus seven d plus eight
00:38:19.860 year it's going to be almost impossible for any of these people who defy gravity who win in
00:38:24.860 democrat states and districts to hold on okay so let's uh pretend that uh that it's going to be
00:38:31.520 hard let's just say acknowledge michigan new hampshire georgia which are probably ryan you
00:38:37.380 can disagree with me if you if you would point to any other place probably the only three states
00:38:42.260 where republicans could say hey we have a chance of taking a democrat seat that's where democrats
00:38:47.260 hold it right now um if none of those happen right we hope they do but if none of those were to
00:38:52.140 happen then you flip back to okay what about texas what about iowa what about um you know
00:38:59.380 you start to run through a bunch of these other alaska battleground states ohio how confident
00:39:05.140 are you that republicans can get to at least 50 that would mean lose three uh you can afford to
00:39:12.080 lose three and still have the tie break for you lose control of the senate what's going to happen
00:39:16.840 there how do you feel about republican held seats well the first you have a collins who is who's
00:39:22.900 defied gravity yeah no no it's okay she's she is the one who's in a democrat seat she's very 0.99
00:39:29.400 endangered but she is extremely popular among independents and some democratic women she's in 1.00
00:39:34.640 a tough battle this year, though. North Carolina is the other really important one. Former Governor 0.98
00:39:39.300 Roy Cooper is beating Michael Watley, the Republican back candidate, by nine points in
00:39:44.900 the latest Fox News poll. The good thing Republicans after those two states, which is one's a Democrat,
00:39:50.120 one's a swing state, you get to states where Trump won all by double digits. So the ability to win
00:39:55.260 past those two states becomes harder and harder and harder for Democrats. That's the one key thing.
00:40:00.460 When you mention Texas, if you look at where people are reserving cash reserves for ads, almost no, I think 700,000 went for Democrats in Texas and none went for Republicans in Texas.
00:40:11.000 There's multiple reasons for this.
00:40:12.480 I have a little insight information.
00:40:15.280 You know, Republicans in the Senate allegedly really wanted John Cornyn to be the nominee.
00:40:20.640 They did not want Ken Pax to be the nominee.
00:40:22.680 And they basically told the Trump's team in the White House or in the political side saying, if he's the nominee, he's all your problem.
00:40:29.880 we're not taking it. But the other problem is, is that Texas is 20 media markets. It's the biggest
00:40:34.860 media market in the entire country. So to invest in Texas requires more money than any other states.
00:40:40.460 And it's a hard lift for Democrats. That's why they would rather invest in Iowa, in Ohio, in
00:40:45.080 Alaska and other places than invest in Texas. It's just really expensive. As far as Iowa, Ohio and
00:40:51.100 Alaska goes, Ohio is a tough state. But John Euston is a fairly unknown lieutenant governor
00:40:55.480 relatively to Sherrod Brown, who is the Democrat nominee, former senator. Iowa looks like it's
00:41:01.500 turning more and more towards Republicans' favor. Alaska, the Democrat Mary Patola,
00:41:05.580 former congressman who lost, she has an immense burn rate. She's raising a lot of money,
00:41:09.780 but she's blowing through it very, very early. So I feel decently okay about Alaska,
00:41:13.860 given how much money she's blowing early on. Ohio is the one that I would probably be looking at.
00:41:18.860 In that case, it would probably look like a 51-49 map for Republicans.
00:41:22.440 worst case scenario anything ryan that you're looking at in terms of um democrats sort of
00:41:33.380 shifting focus right now to reposition themselves based on the latest or you know where where are
00:41:39.800 they going in heaviest and hardest thinking they actually have a real shot at a pickup
00:41:44.460 well i mean democrats are kind of playing it more safe than usual the one thing that they're doing
00:41:50.020 is very interesting, is the Democratic nominees have dropped out of the Nebraska and Idaho Senate
00:41:55.700 race. And what is happening is two independents who are saying, we don't know who we're going
00:42:00.100 to caucus with. They're likely going to caucus with Democrats. They are the official nominees,
00:42:04.520 and they're trying to run candidates in red states who don't have the stink of the Democratic brand
00:42:10.000 on them to make these races competitive. I mean, over in Idaho, Senator Risch is an older man. He's
00:42:15.480 over 80 years old he's running for his i think fourth term in the senate and uh you know there's
00:42:21.040 a lot of questions over whether he should be running at this age uh his poll numbers have
00:42:25.400 tied in substantially in some polls but who knows it is idaho is a very very red state
00:42:30.140 that's their game plan though is to run these independent candidates in these very red states
00:42:35.340 hoping they can narrow it as long as there's no democrat on the ballot so we'll see if it plays
00:42:39.920 out well so ryan you might have noticed from uh well one we're friends and we just talk randomly
00:42:45.120 but also from my ex-account and some recent discussions on the show,
00:42:50.140 I am paying attention to the fact that, and I really, I'm going to tell people right now,
00:42:55.160 please do not email me and say, don't complain about the weather.
00:42:59.100 The weather hasn't gotten 100% worse for the airlines in the last two years,
00:43:03.080 but three-hour-plus delays have.
00:43:06.160 And this is something we have told would be addressed and would get better.
00:43:09.280 We were all mocking Buttigieg for being MIA and things being rough.
00:43:14.680 we were told they were going to be fixed they have not been fixed even a little bit and it's a big
00:43:20.760 annoying pain in the butt for millions of people who fly especially if you fly on a regular basis
00:43:25.620 i had a a super irritating flight story recently i've heard a lot of other people you had one that 0.58
00:43:33.000 you wanted to share but can you all at the end of it can you also tell us um i think it's fair to
00:43:38.320 say that the trump administration should focus and do more on this but but go ahead i had to fly
00:43:43.080 from new orleans to harrisburg not an easy flight with one connecting thing i land in detroit four
00:43:48.600 hour delay the woman taking the tickets at the fourth hour gives this long rambling speech on
00:43:54.660 the microphone and says i'm sorry y'all i don't even know where i am right now i'm so tired
00:43:58.800 i'll pray for me as i pray for you something you do not want to hear before you get on a plane
00:44:04.240 uh get to harrisburg i defy the next day i ended up driving across three different states to find
00:44:12.120 a plane with a direct flight because my other flight was canceled. Overall, six flights, five
00:44:18.260 states, 60 hours of insanity only for the last flight to be canceled and had to sleep over
00:44:24.240 in a different hotel to fly out the next morning. It cost over $1,000 because being in such a small
00:44:31.380 place at the time, the next available flight was like two days later. It was truly insane,
00:44:37.260 incredibly frustrating there was a bit of a weather problem but i'm sorry it's not that bad
00:44:42.100 there has been weather before and um and american airlines was shut down because of the it problem
00:44:47.860 but it was but the fact that you have to wait in the airport for four hours sometimes only to find
00:44:52.140 out hey your flight's canceled is infuriating just tell me ahead of time so i can make plans but
00:44:57.380 there was not there's just lack of communication and understaffing that is insane in the airlines
00:45:03.260 right now because airlines are banks who own planes they're not actually yes they're credit
00:45:07.520 card companies with planes this is true uh this is why i mean i i hate to hear that my wife gets
00:45:13.640 on me sometimes i won't do connecting flights i i will at this point because travel has gotten
00:45:19.480 so frustrating if you can't i mean i'm in nashville but i will drive to an airport to do
00:45:25.460 a connecting flight because it feels like if you're relying on two flights to try to get you
00:45:30.340 anywhere it's basically a fool's errand at this point in time to even attempt if i can't go there
00:45:37.000 direct i ain't going uh and i feel like many of you out there feel that way too um as well because
00:45:43.080 at least if you're stuck in a city where you're trying to go to or a city that you live in you
00:45:48.460 can go back if you're stuck in midpoint you're just i mean you're totally handcuffed by everything
00:45:54.080 and in a small city a lot of these are regional areas if you're stuck in a regional area you
00:45:58.560 don't know anybody places closed at five six o'clock and that was the case in harrisburg yeah
00:46:02.840 i was like i have to drive i ended up driving to washington i drove to virginia washington and
00:46:07.980 then end up in baltimore i mean it was insane trying to get a flight that i have to drive four
00:46:13.140 hours to find a flight for two i mean but that's the state and anyone who flies i have to fly for
00:46:18.540 work i just have to there's no other option to put people in that kind of position on a regular
00:46:23.200 basis you know it makes it easy of life just horrible for everybody let's let's get to the
00:46:28.680 30 000 or the 50 000 foot view is it the worst it's ever been in your opinion because i think
00:46:33.980 that flying is now the worst that it has ever been in my lifetime uh you know with the exception of
00:46:37.960 like some you know like post 9 11 or something right but i mean i think flying is now the worst
00:46:42.040 yeah i i two years ago i used to fly six to two three four years ago 60 times a year i would fly
00:46:48.260 I flew all the time.
00:46:49.700 It is way significantly worse, and it is hours, delays, and cancellations, and no one communicates
00:46:55.300 and everything with you.
00:46:55.940 The communication part is what frustrates me the most.
00:46:58.760 I'm sorry.
00:46:59.240 You didn't just find out that your flight's canceled 15 minutes before after waiting
00:47:02.920 four hours.
00:47:03.500 I don't believe that.
00:47:03.600 Well, what upsets me, too, is some people like to sort of be the great defenders of
00:47:08.180 the airlines all the time, as if I don't know that, yeah, of course, you can't fly
00:47:12.220 in a thunderstorm.
00:47:13.000 I'm not talking about that.
00:47:13.920 there are a lot of games schedule padding on chronic understaffing as a cost cutting measure
00:47:20.560 uh you know overselling of seats and all these things these are choices the airlines make
00:47:25.940 at the expense of passengers if people say well this is what the market will decide
00:47:29.120 taxpayers have bailed out the airlines twice in the last 25 years okay they wouldn't even exist
00:47:34.860 without the taxpayer and they're heavily regulated by the federal government as it is so
00:47:38.700 i feel like they're not allowed to just punish people they shouldn't be allowed to just punish
00:47:42.260 people all the time but that's where i am i don't know i'm trying to get a movement going here ryan
00:47:46.700 i'm trying to find somebody who cares who's in charge and as far as the market goes this is not
00:47:51.660 opening up a lemonade stand it's not like any person can just open up an airline like oh it's
00:47:55.840 so simple no it is an extremely expensive over heavily regulated industry very few very few
00:48:02.040 people get to it it's both it's basically six companies that run the entire united states
00:48:05.820 airline industry they should make it a someone should make it a little bit easier because it
00:48:09.940 is incredibly frustrating shout out to southwest who bailed me out in the baltimore situation but
00:48:15.380 it was a nightmare of i fly southwest fly southwest everywhere buck here's and and ryan
00:48:21.800 something that i think factors in here you know why there isn't a lot of pressure because the
00:48:27.400 wealthier you are the less likely you fly commercial airlines so oftentimes it's wealthy people with
00:48:34.540 major connections who get major connections to the political universe they get so frustrated
00:48:39.380 over something that they hold political pressure if you're super wealthy you don't fly commercial
00:48:43.860 you're hopping on the your your private peasants the peasants like us are just allowed to suffer
00:48:49.040 out there ryan but congress does fly commercial that's the crazy thing congressmen almost always
00:48:54.280 fly commercial and oftentimes fly economy which is why i don't understand they don't do anything
00:48:59.340 about this well they do sometimes there's also a lot of private jet travel uh for politicians as
00:49:05.960 well that sometimes gets expensed through campaigns that i mean remember bernie on his uh oligarch
00:49:12.040 tour he flew private jet of course as all anti-oligarchs do all right ryan we're having
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00:52:23.240 Welcome back in.
00:52:24.380 Clay and Buck, we are rolling through.
00:52:26.580 I guess this is the third hour.
00:52:28.960 I jumped in there a little bit early, I think, Buck.
00:52:30.760 That's okay.
00:52:31.400 I feel like we've got another couple of hours to go here.
00:52:34.560 Sometimes Malone passes the basketball to Stockton.
00:52:37.480 Sometimes Stockton passes it to Malone.
00:52:39.420 I understand you got an angry email from a listener.
00:52:44.520 about your son's potential status in the WNBA.
00:52:48.300 It was a DM, and I did have to remind the fellow
00:52:51.660 that I did not, in fact, claim that my one-year-old could play in the WNBA.
00:52:55.580 How old is your son?
00:52:57.420 I have three.
00:52:58.700 One is 18.
00:53:00.040 Right, I mean the one that, you know, 15.
00:53:02.220 I know the boys.
00:53:03.360 I know the boys.
00:53:04.780 I'm specifically singling out my 15-year-old, pretty good athlete.
00:53:09.100 Who said I had a cool haircut because he's my favorite right now?
00:53:12.580 He's the one who said you had a cool haircut.
00:53:14.220 That's right.
00:53:14.660 There we go.
00:53:15.140 He will turn 16 in September.
00:53:19.460 He would be a dominant WNBA player right now. 0.72
00:53:24.160 He could step right into a starting lineup for a WNBA team.
00:53:28.640 I'm telling you, the money and the ratings, you, me,
00:53:33.680 we get Secretary of War, Hegseth, we get Jesse Kelly to be our center
00:53:38.080 just because I think he can dunk without jumping.
00:53:41.080 It's preposterous.
00:53:41.900 didn't i see jesse by the way saying oh my back's been hurting what kind of leg exercises can i do
00:53:48.480 am i making this up and i think matt walsh said just accept you're in your 60s and just get fat
00:53:53.840 and lazy now uh which is a very funny response i that may have been a thing um but also we got
00:54:00.860 we get dave rubin in the mix i'm trying to think of our start you know ted ted cruz he throw he
00:54:05.760 kicks it around old school like if you've seen ted when he played jimmy kimmel ted cruz plays
00:54:10.600 basketball the way that every long island rec coach tells you to play basketball a lot of boxing out
00:54:17.520 you got to throw some elbows to keep that space and then you know sky hooks baby hooks he's uh
00:54:23.600 he's definitely got some game he's smoked jimmy kimmel who else in in our world is is is a bit of
00:54:29.400 a baller um look i i'm trying to think of just elite athletes that we think hannity plays
00:54:36.580 basketball Hannity Hannity I know there's a lot of like MMA stuff does he do bad we got someone
00:54:41.860 find out if Hannity ever played well I bet Hannity probably had some point guard skills
00:54:46.040 Sean some credit here on good genes because he had two uh D1 college tennis player a son
00:54:53.720 and a daughter which is a crazy level of success I mean it's hard to be D1 uh one I mean at national
00:55:00.600 championship caliber program so I think Sean would have had uh you know kind of a veteran
00:55:05.940 basketball game back in the day and i'm just gonna say i don't know if bongino ever played
00:55:10.400 basketball my guess is he probably did he was a good athlete i know that but he could definitely
00:55:15.120 be our enforcer you know like the guy in hockey who just stares down the guys that like you know
00:55:20.720 make sure that no one throws a hard check on gretzky bongino would be there he'd just be 0.99
00:55:25.380 regulating in the paint making sure that none of those wmba ladies got too rough with us well 0.95
00:55:29.900 Well, I would just say if we could also draft Hegseth. 1.00
00:55:33.460 I mean, the guy bench presses 315 now.
00:55:36.540 I don't know if they're going to be drug testing.
00:55:38.360 Just tossing it out there.
00:55:40.020 He wouldn't pass.
00:55:42.060 He wouldn't pass if they did.
00:55:43.720 For performance enhancing, not for other drugs, by the way.
00:55:47.580 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:55:47.600 Correct, correct.
00:55:48.840 Testosterone is legal under a doctor's prescription.
00:55:52.200 So I think he was on the program with us because I think we had fun when he had a book come out.
00:55:57.060 He played at Princeton back in the day.
00:55:59.420 And I believe he said that he would take Angel Reese head-to-head, one-on-one.
00:56:04.760 So I think Hegseth could be a 2010 guy for us.
00:56:08.680 I think he could be like a linchpin on the team.
00:56:12.680 Yeah, I think he's a right-wing media franchise player.
00:56:16.880 I will tell you, I haven't played with him because my knees hurt.
00:56:20.680 But Dave Rubin's got some game.
00:56:22.920 He would be solid.
00:56:24.200 He's like a good two-guard.
00:56:26.240 He's got the shooting guard skills.
00:56:27.860 so we can get him in the mix.
00:56:30.420 Getting to play with the smaller basketball.
00:56:32.300 Ben Shapiro, coach, we bring Ben in to do some strategy.
00:56:35.560 He'd be good with the board and strategizing.
00:56:38.060 I don't think B-ball is going to be his thing necessarily,
00:56:42.020 but I think strategy, he'd be excellent.
00:56:46.160 That is really fun.
00:56:47.300 I did Ben's show today.
00:56:48.620 I should have asked him if he thought he could lead us to victory.
00:56:53.700 I will say, building on this, we were talking about the WNBA, 0.83
00:56:57.660 the Seattle situation, Buck, the dumbest thing that I have ever seen a sports league do on social 0.97
00:57:06.880 media. Last night, I'm getting ready for bed. And as one does, I'm on my phone scrolling, 0.99
00:57:12.920 checking to see what the news is, bombing Iran. What's the latest on that? Let me do some prep 0.75
00:57:17.220 for the show. And I see a video of Angel Reese and Paige Buckers. I think that's how you pronounce
00:57:24.700 her name i'm not great um to be fair i buckers that's right right and we got producer greg who's
00:57:30.080 a big yukon beckers sorry page beckers i always get that wrong i don't know why you have the u in
00:57:35.880 there it's an unnecessary vowel um so she is on this video with angel reese buck the wnba posted
00:57:45.140 the two of them betting four hundred dollars on a basketball game the two sides are competing
00:57:53.680 To put this into context, any NFL player who bets on their team
00:58:00.800 is automatically suspended now for two years without pay.
00:58:07.100 The WNBA posted a video of them betting
00:58:11.600 and then came out while we were on the air and said,
00:58:17.320 according to front office sports,
00:58:19.480 that the video of them betting on their game
00:58:24.160 was, quote, intended to be lighthearted,
00:58:27.820 we recognize that the post missed the mark
00:58:30.840 and removed it shortly after it was published
00:58:33.860 and addressed the matter internally.
00:58:36.960 So if you're an NFL player,
00:58:39.260 you miss two years if you bet on your team.
00:58:43.040 You do not get played.
00:58:44.080 You lose your contract.
00:58:45.620 If you are a WNBA player
00:58:47.740 and they post you on video betting for the game outcome to players,
00:58:53.400 they just say, hey, it was supposed to be lighthearted
00:58:56.540 and we're going to address it internally.
00:58:59.220 By the way, I totally, and I think anyone would understand
00:59:02.260 why betting against your team is fraud and wrong and unethical.
00:59:08.860 If you're on the team, right?
00:59:10.740 That's why it's your team.
00:59:11.500 I totally understand that.
00:59:12.580 But I'm a little fuzzier on why betting your team is going to win
00:59:18.000 when you're on a team is on a – I guess it's just they want to keep it clean
00:59:22.920 and not have people betting, and they think betting is kind of yucky.
00:59:25.500 But the biggest takeaway is, Buck, when you don't bet, right?
00:59:29.160 So Pete Rose back in the day would bet on his team to win.
00:59:32.420 But when you're not betting on your team to win,
00:59:35.460 you're also default sending the message from people who are involved
00:59:40.140 in the betting landscape oh this guy doesn't like the matchup at all going forward so when you bet
00:59:47.460 on your team I guess if you're to your point if you bet on your team every game to win then it
00:59:53.580 would be less of an issue right other than if you're on an awful team you could end up hundreds
01:00:00.120 of thousands or millions of dollars in debt which might eventually lead to you betting against your
01:00:06.020 team to try to get back in the good graces i think just i do think blanket prohibitions unless
01:00:11.400 you're an individual boxer or something like that um maybe on an individual athlete basis
01:00:17.760 uh but again telling other people this has been a huge investigation i just i can't believe the
01:00:24.940 wnba was dumb enough to post this and i can't believe their explanation is haha it's a joke
01:00:30.300 supposed to be light-hearted it's a joke nothing to see what they're saying we were just kidding 0.96
01:00:33.640 that's what they're saying we're just kidding think about this opens up a lot of territory
01:00:38.080 you know what i mean you could be like hey officer was i really going 120 miles an hour
01:00:43.860 this 300 that i'm handing you says i wasn't just kidding it's like does that work all the
01:00:51.700 cops be light-hearted right all the cops listening are like don't try the light-hearted defense when
01:00:56.480 you try to slip me cash buddy you're going to prison like you know what i'm saying
01:00:59.500 I was just joking about the bribe
01:01:02.660 that's a tough one
01:01:04.200 I think that's a tough one too
01:01:05.320 I'm just kidding about the bribe
01:01:07.400 if they refuse the bribe
01:01:09.140 I don't think you're going to get very far with that
01:01:10.580 is it the Nelly song where he's like
01:01:12.620 so you're going to do it just kidding
01:01:14.240 there's a line where he's like
01:01:16.540 do you want to do that
01:01:17.760 just kidding unless you do
01:01:20.140 in which case I'm all about it
01:01:21.640 there's a great line in there
01:01:23.960 you're more the Nelly expert on this show
01:01:26.580 than I am I can't say
01:01:27.700 you saw Nelly performance recently
01:01:29.820 I did.
01:01:30.800 Did he have like a gut and New Balance sneakers on?
01:01:34.640 I mean, how old is he now?
01:01:35.940 Nelly looks the exact same now as he did in 2001.
01:01:40.900 I don't know what the guy is doing for his living choices,
01:01:43.680 but I don't know what the absolute apex of Nelly's popularity,
01:01:48.400 probably about 2001, right?
01:01:49.980 Like when every song it felt like was a Nelly hit.
01:01:52.740 He looks and sounds the exact same.
01:01:55.360 My wife and I, we were up the night before the White House
01:01:58.260 correspondence dinner he was performing uh at the executive branch for some of our friends at 1789
01:02:03.940 capital they had gotten him scheduled we went we're having an awesome time and my wife said
01:02:09.480 my god i mean like this is just like being back in 19 uh in 2001 like this like he looks and feels
01:02:17.060 like as if this is nothing has changed at all we were just talking nelly we got way we got way off
01:02:23.660 we're we're weaving we're going rogue here what were we talking about before that was oh you were
01:02:27.360 discussing the uh the betting thing yes which was which was of of high interest do you want would
01:02:32.600 you like to do some talkbacks here with me sir because we have a lot that i believe we have not
01:02:37.960 yet uh got well they're mostly fouchy talkbacks from before i want to get some from today oh
01:02:43.100 jesse's producer jesse kelly's producer says that he did in fact play some basketball by the way
01:02:48.660 jesse who is i believe six nine for those who wonder why we call him paul bunyan chewbacca
01:02:55.340 sasquatch all he is he may be the tallest radio host in america like i think that's unlikely oh
01:03:00.980 maybe there's like a former nba player who does radio who's taller than him but even for the nba
01:03:05.380 six nine is pretty tall uh i'm sure that he was recruited by the high school the high school
01:03:11.880 basketball coach probably saw him bump his head on the ceiling going into the cafeteria and was
01:03:16.400 like hey buddy you're playing basketball this this is all very funny do we have a talk back on that
01:03:21.680 Is that what you were setting up or for Jesse's producer?
01:03:24.680 Because the team, to their credit, has done a immediate deep dive into Nelly's lyrics.
01:03:32.060 Producer Allie, can you come up?
01:03:33.680 You, I think, have nailed it that I was referring to the great hit Hot In Here.
01:03:39.520 Do you have the lyrics that I was trying to hit?
01:03:41.940 I don't know if I have the lyrics, but AI said that was in reference to I'm Just Kidding
01:03:46.780 like jason which is a playful reference to the nba player jason kidd uh yes but uh yes i will
01:03:55.720 find out that lyric do we want to do talk backs you want me to do a read we'll do all the talk
01:03:59.420 backs when we come back maybe the read and then going to i like the read and then i really want
01:04:03.660 to dive into these talk backs and let them let them breathe a little you don't even put them in
01:04:07.120 the decanter let the aromas waft a bit you know find the undertones of vanilla and uh and crisp
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