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00:01:22.600 our number two california primary day iowa primary day and more as we are coming on with all of you

00:01:32.020 stock market continues to set yet another record high the stocks have been on a tear all throughout

00:01:40.180 may we have now moved into june and there remains a great deal of economic optimism continuing to be

00:01:48.780 back and forth i described it yesterday buck as groundhog day when it comes to what is or is not

00:01:55.180 going to happen with iran nothing particularly new there as that talks continue surrounding

00:02:03.980 the strait of hormuz um now several different stories graham plattner is in washington dc today

00:02:13.020 meeting with many different Senate Democrats as his Senate primary campaign in Maine remains

00:02:21.300 imperiled I'm curious maybe to dive into some of this with Buck during the course of today's

00:02:26.980 program we have a primary in both California and in LA and Buck I told you in the first hour our

00:02:37.040 thanks by the way to Andrew Giuliani talking about the 11 different United States stadiums

00:02:42.080 that are going to be hosting the World Cup starting next week on Thursday.

00:02:46.360 Nine days from now, things will begin to get a bit chaotic in a good way,

00:02:52.520 I think, when it comes to everything surrounding there

00:02:55.640 as the U.S. hosts the World Cup for the first time since 1994.

00:03:00.580 The U.S. men's soccer team, by the way, Buck,

00:03:03.060 scheduled to play two games in L.A. and one in Seattle in the group stages,

00:03:08.520 the first one on june 12th and they played well in their matchup i think against senegal

00:03:14.660 and christian pulisic scored his first goal in five months so for those of you who are interested

00:03:20.520 i would like to think that we could win some games and start to have some pro u.s uh positivity i

00:03:27.840 know for a fact there are a bunch of diehard trump guys on the u.s men's soccer team i'll leave it at

00:03:35.360 that um so we will see how all of this uh ends up shaking out now we were talking about what the

00:03:44.580 prediction markets say as we get ready for the midterm cycle and buck i have been talking with

00:03:53.640 buck a lot off air i'm obsessed with these and i understand some of you are going to say oh i don't

00:03:59.240 know why you care about what poly market's going to say clay or what cal she's going to say i am

00:04:04.680 far more interested when people put their actual money down on what they think is going to happen

00:04:10.760 than trying to glean what's going to happen from all of the different poll results out there so

00:04:17.980 the we'll see what happens everybody in california go vote karen bass and spencer pratt right now 0.87

00:04:24.860 are favored to advance to the runoff karen bass is the incumbent mayor of los angeles javier

00:04:32.080 Becerra and Steve Hilton are favored to advance in the California governor's race.

00:04:41.680 But, Buck, you were asking me, I've got right now about $3,500, relatively small amount of money,

00:04:49.980 but I am putting my money where my mouth is, and so I have a bunch of different predictions here.

00:04:56.240 I have, you asked, I have Susan Collins to win the main Senate race.

00:05:02.080 uh right now the prediction markets give her a 41 chance to win uh i have ken paxton to win

00:05:12.520 the texas senate race they give him a 59 chance to win i have the ninth district of tennessee

00:05:22.040 the one that they redrew in memphis i have the republican party to win that race which i think

00:05:28.560 they will i have the uh republicans to win the house that pays out at four to one that is a

00:05:36.740 less likely outcome i have kamala to be the 2028 democrat presidential nominee

00:05:44.180 i have a 10 to 1 payout if that were to become a reality and i have mike rogers to win the

00:05:52.380 michigan senate race right now they give him a 29 chance to win so all of these markets are out

00:06:00.120 there every single day on calci and on poly market and i pay attention to them because i think they

00:06:06.980 are a better uh arbiter of where the current market is than trying to look at polls which we

00:06:14.500 know are often paid for by candidates or paid for by political parties to try and convince people

00:06:22.360 of the legitimacy of those polls as a method as russia said for a long time to drive the overall

00:06:30.360 narrative surrounding all of these different cases so buck spencer pratt i have said if i

00:06:37.700 lived in los angeles i would vote for spencer pratt no doubt i would at this point i think

00:06:43.320 you have to vote for steve hilton because chad bianco i don't think has a chance to advance

00:06:48.480 uh to the runoff and i'm concerned that otherwise we could end up with two democrats both in the

00:06:55.220 mayor's race and in the governor's race which i think would be the worst outcome from the primaries

00:07:00.980 in california today i i have this thought i'm wondering about it and again i go back to what

00:07:06.180 people that uh people whom i see in person just sort of ask me you know which uh i was pretty

00:07:12.820 do you get the same thing too that when you see people and you just want to hang out and talk to

00:07:16.620 like well explain the thing that you talk about for three hours a day on radio do you get the

00:07:20.640 personal radio show asks i get that sometimes yeah can you just do a show for me right now

00:07:24.980 i was like yes i want to talk about dogs and and like recipes and my baby i've no anyway but people

00:07:31.180 ask me this when they see me they say what is more likely here with the california situation

00:07:37.060 that it will be a test case that affects whether democrats as a brand are on defense going into

00:07:47.080 the midterms or that people still care more about prices you see this thing on the cover i think it

00:07:52.840 was the wall street journal clay uh your favorite paper oh yeah my favorite your favorite uh i think

00:07:58.540 it was in the cover wall street journal that that truckers maybe our truckers can like can tell us

00:08:02.420 if this is accurate some of them are spending twelve hundred dollars every two days on fuel

00:08:05.500 something like that uh because they're fuel now obviously those are for those are for major

00:08:11.580 transport commercial vehicles but the point here being gas price now we're heading into a long

00:08:18.260 summer where i think people here we go yeah some commercial truck drivers this is cover the wall

00:08:23.660 street journal or i should say on the website america's truckers are driving just a little

00:08:27.460 slower to save gas some commercial truck drivers are slowing down to cut costs at the pump one

00:08:32.420 driver said it cost him 1200 to refuel his truck every two days clay there's a part of me that

00:08:37.580 wants to say all this focus on the california madness is going to help us out but do people

00:08:43.580 in iowa do people in uh well more to the point georgia pennsylvania do they care you know is

00:08:50.960 this situation in california something that the political elites and commentators and californians

00:08:56.420 care about or does it have national residents in an election year that's my question yeah i i think

00:09:02.480 it's a great question and and i think this is where california can kind of give us an indication

00:09:07.920 of how viable is the republican party argument because if spencer pratt were to lose and you

00:09:15.780 end up with two democrats there and you end up with two democrats in the democrat race

00:09:21.280 for governor as well it's just gradations of blueness and the competition is not going to

00:09:28.420 require any real addressing of the larger issues there i also think narratively if spencer pratt

00:09:36.520 is one of the finalists and if steve hilton is one of the finalists you have to acknowledge that

00:09:41.840 there still is enthusiasm for republican arguments nationwide and i i think that is significant as

00:09:49.140 well i will say price of oil and gas has come back it's come back uh an average of about 30 cents

00:09:56.200 ish i believe uh based on the numbers that i have seen since uh memorial day as i told you based on

00:10:02.940 oil and gas prices was likely to happen i'm on the record as saying i think we're going to be around

00:10:07.940 three dollars a gallon by the time we get to uh the election in november uh right now the average

00:10:15.060 gas price is four dollars um ish like nationwide and again i always like to have fun with this but

00:10:21.180 average gas price nationwide does not mean that is what you paid this morning so i appreciate that

00:10:26.160 if you live in california you for instance are paying way more than if you live in uh louisiana

00:10:32.580 or texas and so there is a wide variety of different prices that people pay i noticed in

00:10:38.980 my particular neighborhood driving home a couple days ago prices were down to 390 on the gas

00:10:47.660 stations as i was driving past uh near where i live so back under four dollars a year average

00:10:53.840 gas price around four dollars as well and so i think all of these um all of these factors are

00:11:01.100 huge but i think gas prices is going to be a big part and candidly of how people feel about the

00:11:06.800 overall economic situation um and i was reading great piece in the wall street journal over the

00:11:12.960 weekend uh that kind of ran through uh in fact i flagged this buck because i did think it was

00:11:18.760 perspective is important in life um and i think a lot of times uh uh here is warren buffett said

00:11:27.900 recently and i flagged it because i thought it was so interesting that the poorest people in

00:11:32.860 america today live richer than the richest people in the world did in the early 20th century this

00:11:40.300 sounds like your buddy buck over here who's been telling everybody that wealth and status are

00:11:44.000 different things that wealth and where you fall within the hierarchy of the society around you

00:11:48.540 are different things and this is why go ahead sorry i sent this in to uh producer greg and it

00:11:54.940 is cut eight you will appreciate what warren buffett said it's from i think a couple of years

00:11:59.880 ago but i do think it goes to perspective and to your point on wealth versus status all these

00:12:07.020 different things but listen to warren buffett the greatest probably the greatest capitalist

00:12:11.360 other than elon musk of all time certainly warren buffett is the greatest investor i think it's fair

00:12:17.360 to say of all time listen to this bottom two percent in terms of income in the united states

00:12:23.020 the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1%, all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when I

00:12:32.820 was six years old. John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world. And today, you can get

00:12:39.740 better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation. You can do

00:12:45.840 everything better than he could. It's astounding. That's in my lifetime. If you wanted to watch

00:12:52.000 a football game. He still had to go there. And I can sit there with this big screen,

00:12:59.460 and they keep showing me the replay, explaining to me what happened. And maybe everybody doesn't

00:13:05.320 have a screen as big as mine, but damn near everybody has a screen or an iPhone or a computer

00:13:11.680 or access to one. I mean, when I was born, the dentist didn't use Novocate.

00:13:18.520 i think that's really well said well this is what i've been telling everyone and this is what i keep

00:13:24.480 saying in the context of artificial intelligence will there be some job displacement and is that

00:13:29.160 a that is a societal concern yes absolutely will ai make everyone everyone no matter where you are

00:13:37.580 on the income scale markedly wealthier in terms of those things that warren buffett just laid out

00:13:43.700 The answer is certainly yes, certainly yes.

00:13:47.860 The same way the Internet has made everyone, because of productivity gains in every product and every service and everything that you are exposed to, the Internet has made everyone wealthier as well.

00:13:59.960 It has been hard on, you know, stockbrokers and travel agents, but overall, the Internet has made people much, much wealthier.

00:14:08.360 So wealth and status are different things and wealth relative to other people versus versus wealth in an absolute sense.

00:14:17.480 And this is also why I think, Clay, you have a society now here in America.

00:14:22.000 And a lot of this is around the world, the same same situation where we now have problems, including diseases, physical diseases of overabundance.

00:14:30.280 But we even have overabundance in terms of entertainment options.

00:14:33.700 If you had told me 20 years ago that I would be able to turn on, without commercials, a movie library with basically any movie that I had ever wanted to see, and I could just press a button, I would have said, oh my gosh, that's amazing.

00:14:46.300 Now what happens?

00:14:47.800 You get analysis paralysis.

00:14:49.940 How many of you sit there?

00:14:51.120 The only thing you know is you've got to listen to Clay and Buck every day for three hours.

00:14:54.240 But after that, what do you do with your time?

00:14:56.840 How do you spend your time?

00:14:58.660 So this is the great wealth abundance problem that we have now.

00:15:03.200 people are too fat from too many calories people have too much entertainment people are glued to

00:15:08.340 all the screens that are everywhere with more entertaining more addictive things for your eyes

00:15:13.000 than ever before and people can shop with the stroke of a of a you know a thumb you know etc

00:15:18.420 etc etc this is going to continue and this is why i think spirituality and connection to people who

00:15:23.740 matter in your life and family and those things actually become more important but that's a

00:15:27.960 conversation for another time i i think the analysis paralysis is going to become more and

00:15:34.140 more commonplace and my concern is that you're going to see i mean i i had to go buy i think

00:15:41.300 it was peanut butter the other day i how do you decide which peanut butter to buy you know like

00:15:47.360 there are there is an element where you go from okay i want crunchy or i want plain

00:15:53.340 to their 20 different brands and god forbid you even make a decision about what makes sense i i

00:16:01.680 used i used to like hummus when i was younger and the hummus that i used to eat like the from the

00:16:06.560 grocery store now i think of it's like trash a la poubelle it is it is terrible quality hummus

00:16:13.220 it was delicious to me 20 years ago but now clay you go in there and there's all these amazing

00:16:18.600 variety the same thing is true of milks the same issue we have more and more choice and we have

00:16:23.560 hedonic adaptation we have so much access and so much wealth that we forget how things were before

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00:19:35.160 welcome back in clay and buck joined now by our friend steve hilton he is in huntington beach

00:19:42.840 california pretty fantastic coastal community there steve we know you're running around like

00:19:48.600 crazy we encourage everybody out there in the primary world to go vote in california and i'll

00:19:55.200 let you make the case to this audience why if they want a republican into the final two that

00:20:02.000 vote needs to be for you thank you guys it's really great to be with you and and i think

00:20:07.120 it's really important just to think about the opportunity here in november today we've got

00:20:12.860 the primary and i'll get to that in a second but the reason it matters is because actually this

00:20:17.280 state is ready for change we are done with the insanity the crime the chaos the homelessness

00:20:23.780 the taxes the regulations the bloat the bureaucracy the nanny state nonsense we are done with it and

00:20:31.380 You can see that in the energy in L.A. around Spencer Pratt's campaign.

00:20:34.540 You see it in the crowds that we're getting up and down the state.

00:20:37.380 So I think when you look at the November election, we really can turn it around.

00:20:43.240 It is not a lost cause.

00:20:44.740 It really is the year when we can win.

00:20:46.820 There's a majority of Californians now who want to go in a new direction.

00:20:50.660 That is shown by every single poll.

00:20:52.680 The Democrat candidates for governor are a disaster.

00:20:56.140 You've got the billionaire climate fanatic Tom Steyer. 0.93

00:20:58.600 You've got Biden's useless HHS secretary, Javier Becerra.

00:21:02.880 So the opportunity, the golden opportunity is very, very big this year.

00:21:07.160 But we only get it if we can get a Republican into the top two.

00:21:11.860 And because we have this crazy system in California where you could end up with two Democrats,

00:21:16.440 we've got to really take that seriously today because the polls have been tightening.

00:21:21.200 Tom Steyer, he's already spent $220 million trying to buy this election.

00:21:26.800 he's creeping up and most of the polls now now show pretty much a three-horse race myself stye

00:21:33.360 and becerra um they're up there there's a few points difference in the different polls but

00:21:37.920 that's how we have to think about it there is no guarantee at this moment that a republican will

00:21:42.900 make it into the top two that's why every single vote is vital like truly vital and i want to

00:21:49.720 address directly something that i hear from many people in our state which is steve looks like he's

00:21:55.280 got this he's been leading in most of the polls for most of the year let's see if we can get two

00:21:59.960 republicans in the top two by voting for the other guy running who's a republican chad bianco and i

00:22:06.180 understand the sentiment there but it is really dangerous thinking because the facts and the math

00:22:10.880 don't bear it out i'll just give you one example poll came out on friday this is from a democrat

00:22:15.660 pollster has me at 27 percent javier becerra 26 percent tom steyer 22 percent chad bianco

00:22:23.100 nine percent there is actually now no possibility that he can get in the top two it's nothing

00:22:28.720 personal we don't disagree on policy we have a good relationship it's just where we are in the

00:22:33.460 campaign and so every single vote for anybody other than me including chad bianco is actually

00:22:39.900 a vote to get two democrats in the top two and that kills the chance to change that's why i'm

00:22:44.880 so happy to have had the president restate his endorsement and urge everyone to get out and vote

00:22:50.340 for me today and i've just seen that the vice president jd vance has has done the same and and

00:22:55.540 i'm so honored to have his support on this very special day but it's not going to happen this

00:22:59.740 amazing opportunity to save california unless we really take this seriously every vote counts

00:23:05.340 if you're listening in california please make sure you get your vote in please make sure you vote for

00:23:10.500 me um and if you've already voted tell all your friends text email you know the drill we've got

00:23:15.880 to get every single vote is up till 8 p.m. tonight Steve I just want to note that we've

00:23:21.000 been having you here on this show to tell our California audience about your extremely viable

00:23:27.000 and now leading uh you know in in the very top of this race candidacy from the beginning

00:23:32.360 so we're very proud that uh we saw that this was something that could yes thank you thank you of

00:23:39.500 course that we knew that you were a serious contender we knew that you were going to connect

00:23:42.960 with the voters there and that there's just a desire for things to be better uh one of the

00:23:48.920 aspects of this that i see in both your campaign and the spencer pratt campaign for the mayor's

00:23:54.320 office in la uh that that one thing a common thread that runs between the two of them is

00:23:59.420 why leave the people who mess everything up still why leave them in charge and also why not have

00:24:05.860 people who are just promising to fix the things that the people of california want fixed it feels

00:24:12.080 like that's the mental hurdle that we just need enough voters to get beyond exactly and just to

00:24:17.380 believe that change is possible that we just to just to say we don't have to live like this we do

00:24:23.080 not have to put up with this it the choice is in our hands with our votes today and you and what's

00:24:28.600 really interesting look spencer's very different character in many ways i know him a little bit i

00:24:32.500 endorsed him we actually both spoke that i spoke at the same event where he announced his candidacy

00:24:37.060 on january the 7th the one year anniversary of the fires that they let us burn rally he's very

00:24:41.980 different um different race it's non-partisan in the la mayor's race i'm running as a republican

00:24:46.560 but here's the similarity we are both outsiders neither of us have run for office before and we

00:24:52.020 are very we're not afraid to just tell the truth about this totally broken corrupt failed system

00:24:56.720 in la and across california and you see the results all around us and so we just got to

00:25:02.200 tell the truth about that and honestly for these democrats i sometimes i even wonder how they have

00:25:07.620 the nerve to ask for another four years in power they've had 16 years of total control of california

00:25:13.560 all the statewide offices that both chambers in the legislature with a two-thirds majority

00:25:18.540 all the major cities all the major counties the state supreme court with a 6-1 majority

00:25:25.720 They've had 16 years of total control to show us that this progressive model of governance works.

00:25:33.060 And they've totally failed.

00:25:35.380 We have the highest poverty rate in the country, the highest unemployment rate, the highest cost of living by far,

00:25:40.840 ranked 50th out of 50 for Opportunity by U.S. News and World Report, 50th out of 50 states for Business Climate by Chief Executive Magazine.

00:25:48.980 We have the highest taxes in the country for the worst results, the education results for a disaster,

00:25:53.620 homelessness rampant crime and chaos everywhere the cities are a total just you know like third

00:25:59.300 world squalor in in our great cities and it's not just la it's right across the state i mean

00:26:03.820 they've completely failed but how dare they ask for another four years like you don't deserve

00:26:08.640 another four minutes and we just got to have people who are representing common sense change

00:26:13.480 that's the other thing about our campaigns they're not divisive they're not ideological

00:26:17.060 what am i running on your first hundred grand tax-free three dollar gas cut your electric

00:26:22.060 bills in half a home you can afford to buy cut your costs help your business fix our schools

00:26:27.360 just practical things to make life better because california's got everything we need

00:26:31.700 amazing natural beauty incredible people the best weather talent energy innovators we got

00:26:38.060 everything we need we're going to have unlimited natural resources oil and gas water everything we

00:26:44.200 need except a good governor and once we have that all we got to do is get out the way and california

00:26:50.300 will thrive like you've never seen before what will the results of the primary tell you i think

00:26:56.820 you're gonna be advancing into the final two i think spencer pratt will as well in order to get

00:27:03.480 into the general and i know the primary is today we want everybody to go vote we want you into that

00:27:07.900 final two tomorrow in theory you pivot and it becomes a general election how many persuadable

00:27:15.300 voters do you think there are in california because california has voted overwhelmingly blue

00:27:21.960 the analogy we've used on this program is giuliani and bloomberg got elected in new york city because

00:27:27.560 people were fed up with the status quo with traditional democrats california potentially

00:27:32.800 with spencer pratt potentially with you is finally saying as part of your candidacies hey the old blue

00:27:39.500 ways don't make sense let's just bring in some sanity how many persuadables do you think there

00:27:44.740 are in the general well i'm going to give you a real number this is a poll that the california

00:27:50.000 post uh commissioned and published just at the end of last week 56 that's the that's the number

00:27:56.340 who say the state's going in the wrong direction that's and that's a majority and i think that's

00:28:01.800 the group um it's more than we need we just need 50 plus one but i think that's where you start

00:28:07.440 there's and and and that is really what this is about is saying we really can change is possible

00:28:13.160 But you're not going to get it if you keep voting the same way.

00:28:17.260 And so actually a big theme of the general election campaign, which as we plan to do starts tomorrow, is just those two simple words, vote different.

00:28:26.900 You've got to stop voting the same way and think you're going to get a different result.

00:28:30.580 We've tried that now for a very long time in California, and it hasn't worked.

00:28:34.380 I mean, Gavin Newsom, last time in his re-election campaign, acknowledging he'd failed to solve homelessness, failed to deal with the housing crisis, failed to reduce the bloat and bureaucracy.

00:28:46.160 And all these things he was saying and made all these promises, none of them have been delivered.

00:28:50.160 Everything's got worse.

00:28:51.400 Housing costs are higher.

00:28:52.880 Gas prices are higher.

00:28:54.360 The homelessness is more than it was.

00:28:56.300 Even though we've spent tens of billions of dollars on homelessness, and in fact, we estimate $425 billion in fraud, waste, and abuse in the last five years in California.

00:29:07.900 So they're done.

00:29:09.540 Steve, Steve, can I jump in with – we know that it's a disaster, as you're outlining, the previous – or up to this point, the recent governor, what's going on in Los Angeles County.

00:29:22.540 But you hit on three things there that I think go to not only critical issues for California, but in other misgoverned blue states, these tend to be problems as well.

00:29:32.900 Well, certainly housing, gas right now, blue states tend to have higher prices, it depends.

00:29:38.040 And then homelessness depends on which blue state, but a place like New York certainly has a lot of those challenges too.

00:29:42.840 But what are your, in shorthand, how do you actually make those three things better as governor in California?

00:29:51.040 Well, I'll deal with the specifics on gas. My target is $3 gas. That's the pledge that I've made. We're going to try and get the $3 gas. And people say, well, how are you going to do that? It's so high now. Yeah, that's right. But before the Iran war, in 40 states in America, gas was $3 or less. Most of them don't have oil reserves.

00:30:11.900 We have abundant oil reserves right here in California, but because of their insane climate policy, we're importing it.

00:30:18.420 80% nearly of our oil is now imported.

00:30:21.520 That's what we can change.

00:30:22.580 And by the way, I can do that directly through the executive branch, through the state agencies, not needing the legislature to do that.

00:30:28.540 Even if it's a Democrat legislature, I can make that happen.

00:30:31.520 That's the starting point.

00:30:32.780 Instead of the cost and idiocy of shipping in oil, we'll use our own.

00:30:36.720 then there's a whole bunch of climate regulation that we can roll back and start to get back to

00:30:42.180 because most of the two dollars or more increase in gas prices in california compared to the rest

00:30:47.380 of the country is not actually the gas tax that's about 60 odd cents of it most of it is these

00:30:52.140 regulations that we can change in terms of homelessness is very straightforward we've got

00:30:57.280 number one enforce the law these homeless campers are illegal they've always been illegal but they've

00:31:02.500 refuse to actually remove them by some misguided notion of compassion.

00:31:06.720 How compassionate is it to let people live in those conditions?

00:31:09.780 So my starting point would be to say to local politicians,

00:31:12.940 I'll give you a certain amount of time, between three and six months,

00:31:16.300 to say you've got to clean it up, all of it.

00:31:18.460 Not some, you know, Newsom's bragging about a 9% reduction,

00:31:22.880 which is BS anyway if you look at the data.

00:31:25.240 No, it needs to be a 100% reduction.

00:31:27.580 You don't see this in other states.

00:31:29.540 You don't see it in other countries.

00:31:31.160 It's totally avoidable if you just start by that principle of we're going to enforce the law.

00:31:35.980 By the way, that's exactly what Spencer Pratt is saying in L.A.

00:31:38.400 He's making the same point.

00:31:39.700 And so the next step is to get people into drug and alcohol rehab,

00:31:44.360 because 80% of people who are homeless have those problems, and mental health services.

00:31:48.880 And the money's there for that because we've seen the billions that has gone into what they call the homeless industrial complex,

00:31:54.180 all these useless nonprofits doing nothing except keeping themselves in business,

00:31:57.780 and crony developers who are selling these apartment units to the government

00:32:01.640 for about a million dollars each,

00:32:03.660 which they put people in there who are addicted to fentanyl.

00:32:07.460 Nothing ever happens.

00:32:08.520 So we've got the resources to do it.

00:32:10.540 Spencer Pratt's plan is basically the same as mine.

00:32:13.160 I think if he wins, as I very much hope and think he will,

00:32:18.260 then that's one city I can check off my list

00:32:21.740 because he's going to get it done there.

00:32:23.700 I want to make a broader point, though,

00:32:25.180 which is the foundation of all this is a strong economy.

00:32:27.780 And actually, the main mission, I think, for me, is going to be rescuing our economy.

00:32:31.880 We're heading for real disaster.

00:32:33.480 So many business leaders that I've met in the last year or so have said to me, we're just waiting for your election.

00:32:39.320 And if you don't make it, we are out.

00:32:41.020 The exodus that we've seen so far is going to be a stampede if we have another four years of Democrat rule.

00:32:47.020 And this state is in real trouble.

00:32:49.000 And so we've got to turn that around.

00:32:50.440 We made an estimate last week, we published this, that the total cost of the bloated regulatory nanny state bureaucracy in California on our economy is $745 billion a year in economic cost.

00:33:03.860 If we cut that out, then California would become not just, we're now the fourth biggest economy, we'd be the third biggest economy in the world if we just cut out all the nonsense.

00:33:12.620 that's what we've got to do to start getting businesses back here so we create the jobs so

00:33:18.160 we don't have the highest unemployment in the country and good paying jobs so we don't have

00:33:22.000 the highest poverty in the country so the economic crisis is something that's very much top of my

00:33:26.980 list steve hilton last question for you from 1850 to 2020 to your point california gained population

00:33:34.440 every year starting in 2020 the population began to decline uh that needs to be fixed um jd vance

00:33:41.980 just endorsed you i just saw on social media president trump has endorsed you last question

00:33:47.360 what is the impact of the trump vance endorsement on primary day here it's huge because it'll tell

00:33:53.480 everyone who wants change but particularly republican voters because it's a primary

00:33:57.300 and typically it's the it's people who are the more committed partisans who vote in primaries

00:34:02.640 you've got to get this done because what that means is that you're going to have a partner

00:34:07.440 for the administration wanting to make common-sense change happen.

00:34:12.320 The president wants to open up energy production.

00:34:15.680 So do I. Newsom is blocking it.

00:34:18.000 The vice president is heading his fraud task force

00:34:20.480 trying to save taxpayer money in California.

00:34:23.540 So do I. But Newsom is blocking it.

00:34:25.540 It's going to be a new day when you have a governor in California

00:34:28.700 in our biggest state actually working with the administration

00:34:32.140 to make common-sense change happen.

00:34:33.920 is going to benefit everyone in california but our whole country as well but it won't happen

00:34:38.520 unless people go and vote for it and you've got to do that today go vote californians go vote even

00:34:44.460 if it takes a week or a month for these votes to be counted because of the dysfunction there you

00:34:49.180 got to go vote today go vote for our man steve hilton for governor and uh steve we we are pulling

00:34:56.280 for you we're counting on you or we're uh you know uh what's the word i'm looking not counting

00:35:00.660 on you what's the word i'm looking for uh oh we're looking forward to celebrating your advancement

00:35:04.400 to the final two do you expect to find out tonight or do you think this thing's going to drag on for

00:35:09.220 weeks by the way we think we we think that we there's a there's a strong chance that we'll get

00:35:13.320 a sense that that um we we've done it um yeah i don't want to put a number on it but we think

00:35:18.480 it's possible that tonight we'll know um not for certain it won't be confirmed but we'll have a

00:35:23.920 very good sense of it we think that's possible maybe go vote for steve hilton californians go

00:35:28.420 get it done steve best of luck we'll talk to you soon thank you all right here's a question for the

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00:36:22.680 right clay and buck find them on the iheart app or wherever you get your podcast welcome back in

00:36:28.740 clay and buck appreciate all of you hanging out with us it is world cup in america season and

00:36:36.580 there are going to be matches played all over the united states and if you're upset at all with

00:36:41.960 anything surrounding the world cup this guy is to blame andrew giuliani i saw the new york times

00:36:49.660 had a huge profile that i was reading i think it was in sunday or saturday of you and the way that

00:36:56.760 it was a great actually was a pretty good article like as these things go i was reading it and i

00:37:01.380 was like as new york times they're gonna be awful uh but it was actually i thought relatively fair

00:37:06.500 but the very last paragraph was if anything goes wrong andrew's gonna have to bear all the blame

00:37:12.720 uh we had dinner recently you're running through all the different challenges that uh his official

00:37:17.740 title is executive director white house task force on the fifa world cup u.s plays june 12th uh on

00:37:26.540 friday of next week i believe that is in la uh this thing starts next thursday you can correct

00:37:32.860 me if i'm wrong on that but i know you have been working all the time all hours dealing with mayors

00:37:39.120 all over the country about these big events what should our audience know about the world cup coming

00:37:45.120 up starting next week it's going to go on for a month and how significant it's going to be for

00:37:49.480 the country yeah clay well always great to be with you over here you know the funny thing was

00:37:54.300 that was from curtis liwa who was a radio partner of mine oh yes way back when so i don't know what

00:37:59.820 that tells you and what you and buck should get from that right there but i guess don't allow your

00:38:03.680 radio partner to do a new york times interview otherwise they they spill the beans um but no

00:38:09.080 really look we have the largest sporting event here in world history coming when you look at

00:38:14.260 the viewership numbers and i know i've said this to you before but about 130 million people watched

00:38:19.380 the last super bowl 1.6 billion watched the last world cup final so this really is unlike every

00:38:25.420 anything else from a security setup i was with secretary mullen yesterday in dallas looking at

00:38:31.140 the stadium there they are setting up all 11 stadiums in the united states of america all 78

00:38:36.580 matches exactly like it would be like from a perimeter perspective from a counter uas perspective

00:38:42.520 like it was a super bowl so you could just see the exact same perimeter setup that they used

00:38:47.880 in uh levi's stadium last year in february for the for the super bowl that's exactly what they're

00:38:54.120 going to be doing for the world cup so look we've been telling fans get there early spend the day at

00:38:59.680 the stadium you want to make sure that you have the opportunity to get in because we are not going

00:39:03.960 to compromise our security especially in light of some of the uh some of the issues that are going

00:39:08.680 on so that's been our main focus and clay you know this and you've seen this in a lot of the

00:39:13.680 lead up to this the excitement and the energy around the world cup internationally it's been

00:39:19.280 going on for months you're starting to feel that it's starting to become palpable here in the

00:39:24.420 united states but once that first game kicks off in the u.s on june 12th you're right we're starting

00:39:29.700 in mexico on june 11th the next day the u.s will play paraguay at sofi stadium on june 12th once

00:39:36.860 that game kicks off um it is going to be an incredible energy in this country over the course

00:39:42.520 of the 39 days that the world cup will be here now andrew i can bring a little special perspective

00:39:47.620 to this because i recall almost i don't know 30 years ago your own soccer career sir so you've

00:39:55.820 been at this for quite some time you were a goalkeeper if i remember correctly they called

00:40:00.600 you the great wall of giuliani and that nothing got past you and uh and on the saint david's red

00:40:06.620 team which was the like the varsity team you were the goalkeeper and people would you'd run for that

00:40:12.080 ball and they would scatter in fear knowing the drop kick that was about to uh about to happen so

00:40:18.020 i just want everyone to know and you're not new to the soccer situation and and you're certainly

00:40:22.720 bringing a lot of uh of enthusiasm to something that's going to have what what kind of money is

00:40:28.000 this going to bring in what kind of attendance numbers we're looking at overall yeah well the

00:40:32.460 great wall giuliani and we're in the red team uniform i just want to make sure you know that

00:40:36.500 i'm i'm working for the united states of america i love the united states of america no issues with

00:40:41.600 china there from that perspective but uh you're absolutely right we go way back here buck i can

00:40:46.260 tell you that this is going to be from an economic perspective a massive driver we're expecting

00:40:51.520 30 billion dollars in economic economic impact that's just for the 11 host cities when you think

00:40:57.220 about the fact that 39 of the teams will be basing in the united states so think about the

00:41:03.020 croatian team will be based in alexandria virginia you'll have the brazilians based in morristown new

00:41:09.260 jersey you have england and argentina based in the kansas city suburbs there that's where you're

00:41:14.760 going to have tens of thousands depending on the country tens of thousands of fans coming on out

00:41:20.460 spending their time spending their dollars that's where you're really going to see a major major

00:41:25.080 economic impact the average traveler that comes here for the world cup they may go to two games

00:41:30.760 and spend and spend 12 days that's what we've been trying to do we've been trying to then push them

00:41:36.160 to freedom 250 events all these celebrations around our semi-quincentennial when i first

00:41:42.580 spoke to the president about this and i actually just spoke to him on sunday again kind of about

00:41:46.940 the legacy aspect about this the thing that i like to say is there is no larger platform that

00:41:53.760 you're going to be able to go and get out the truth about american exceptionalism we know that

00:41:59.420 much of the media especially international media has lied about american exceptionalism

00:42:04.960 for the last many decades this is an unbelievable opportunity to show firsthand that america is

00:42:11.440 capable truly of hosting some of the great cultural events here in the world i know and you have met

00:42:19.100 a lot of the Fox people that are putting this on Fox Sports awesome guys and gals that are going to

00:42:24.880 be a part of this big festivity and even in those conversations there's been some talk about

00:42:32.300 hey what should we be telling people who are going to these matches you mentioned 11 different

00:42:38.220 stadiums you mentioned the security I've heard it's Super Bowl like I've been to a few Super

00:42:43.240 bowls they tell you to arrive hours early because it's not the same as going to a regular baseball

00:42:49.800 game or a regular football game what would you tell anybody that's out there going to a game

00:42:55.740 hey if the game starts at four o'clock in the afternoon how much time do you think they should

00:43:01.760 give to get into the stadium given all the security issues what should they budget yeah

00:43:06.960 give an hour and a half definitely at least give an hour and a half i would say and soccer fans

00:43:11.940 are notorious for coming to the gates here within the last 15 20 minutes that's not going to work

00:43:17.380 unless you're going to miss the first half of the game so we really really want you to get in there

00:43:21.720 fifa's set up a lot of different fan activations for those that have tickets within the perimeter

00:43:26.720 so they're fascinating things to do you can go and watch your team warm up for the hour before

00:43:31.860 the game so get there an hour and a half two hours before we know gates are going to open

00:43:36.040 two to three hours for the final four hours before so make sure you get there look people

00:43:41.120 have paid a premium for these tickets we want to make sure that they're able to really really enjoy

00:43:46.280 this and you know clay i'm glad you mentioned the super bowl again because i was talking about the

00:43:51.300 physical perimeters there and how you'll have three ticket checks unlike your typical nfl game

00:43:56.360 where you normally have one but i think one incredible story really to tell is on counter uas

00:44:01.060 mitigation and what we've been able to do so in 2025 for all the seer event ratings around the

00:44:08.760 united states that would be the super bowl that would be the boston new york marathon events like

00:44:13.780 that for all of them only five were covered for counter uas mitigation drone mitigation

00:44:20.800 in 2026 for the world cup alone all 78 games will be covered for counter uas mitigation

00:44:29.200 and one of the fan fests in each and every one of the cities so just for the world cup alone

00:44:35.700 you're talking about over 156 different games sites that are being covered compared to five

00:44:43.200 last year that's not even including sailforth 250 freedom 250 uh f indy car that's going to be on

00:44:50.540 the on the national mall all those other events so this has really been an amazing work here by

00:44:56.080 the federal interagency led by the air sovereignty task force with president trump signed and the

00:45:01.680 White House task force on the World Cup. Andrew, one of the big conversation points has been

00:45:07.400 dynamic pricing cost of tickets. I've actually seen that the cost of tickets has started to come

00:45:13.860 down in many of these different matches. I want to take my kids. I think there's a lot of people

00:45:19.680 out there that are just sports fans in general, may not be diehard soccer fans, but want to see

00:45:24.420 what the experience is like. What would you say about cost? What would you say about the comfort

00:45:30.520 level when it comes to taking your family security wise what would you just say about that experience

00:45:35.060 for families yeah look i agree with the president what he said a month ago or so costs are expensive

00:45:41.800 and i think that part of that is the fact that uh fifa had over 500 million ticket requests this

00:45:47.760 is going back to january at the the half billion mark for what is uh about seven million tickets

00:45:53.580 uh between the the three countries here and so that obviously creates a a supply and demand now

00:45:59.780 Some of those ticket requests were overloaded to games like Colombia versus Portugal or Brazil versus Morocco, where you might have some of the smaller countries or some of the newer countries.

00:46:10.940 Think Curaçao, where there are only 300,000 residents.

00:46:14.720 There are games that are available for less than $200.

00:46:17.340 And you can look in most cities, you'll be able to now access a stadium for less than $250 for some of these games.

00:46:25.760 So that's just the way that dynamic pricing works.

00:46:28.120 Look, it's something that we've discussed. We certainly are aware of the price of this.

00:46:32.780 We have a federal as a federal government has made sure that we put in federal security grants grants here for the states, for the 11 states that are going to be hosting World Cup and World Cup related events.

00:46:44.440 And that's helped made the fan festivals free or very, very low cost for everybody.

00:46:49.500 So we want to make sure that whether or not you're able to take your family to the stadium or whether you're going to a fan fest, that you're going to be able to have the opportunity to enjoy this World Cup here in the United States over our 250th birthday.

00:47:05.060 Andrew, we appreciate the work.

00:47:06.700 I know your wife, your daughter, you've been traveling all over the place.

00:47:10.440 I can't wait to see how this is going to shake out.

00:47:13.020 And I know it's going to be fantastic.

00:47:14.660 And thanks for everything you're doing.

00:47:16.880 Clay, thank you for your friendship.

00:47:18.380 And, Buck, I don't know who actually's soccer career ended first, you or me,

00:47:22.840 but I think we're in the right places where we need to be.

00:47:26.280 I'm going to tell you something, Andrew.

00:47:27.740 I know you're a very humble man, but if the USA soccer team gets into a little trouble,

00:47:32.640 I just think they should have a jersey on standby for you to get in that net

00:47:36.700 because ain't nothing getting past my man, Andrew.

00:47:39.260 I've seen it before, man.

00:47:40.340 I've seen you in that net.

00:47:42.340 Well, Buck, I appreciate it, but I'll put it this way.

00:47:44.880 If we want the U.S. to win and guarantee a win, you put me on the other team and goal there,

00:47:50.240 and something tells me we're going to win eight games and be World Cup champs.

00:47:53.680 But thank you for the – I've got to bring you on as my PR guy.

00:47:56.500 This is amazing.

00:47:57.960 I do what I can.

00:47:59.100 Andrew Giuliani, everybody.

00:48:00.320 Andrew, good luck with this huge endeavor.

00:48:02.600 I think World Cup is going to be amazing, and we'll be talking to you as it goes.

00:48:06.340 Thanks, guys.

00:48:07.740 That's Andrew Giuliani.

00:48:08.960 He's doing great work.

00:48:09.940 I'm excited about the World Cup.

00:48:11.560 Buck's excited about the World Cup.

00:48:13.220 But I hope a lot of you are.

00:48:15.180 I think it's going to be a really cool.

00:48:16.840 I know there's the anti-soccer element out there.

00:48:20.280 But I actually think this is going to be pretty awesome.

00:48:22.400 And I remember it being awesome back in 94 when we hosted the last time.

00:48:25.940 And there weren't very many soccer fans in general in the United States at that time.

00:48:29.840 There's way more now.

00:48:30.680 I think this is going to be cool.

00:48:31.940 Hopefully the U.S. men can actually win some games.

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00:50:48.920 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of America.

00:50:53.380 The soul of this country is found in the stories of those who defended it.

00:50:57.380 I'm J.R. Martinez, a U.S. Army veteran.

00:51:00.900 I know that true valor isn't just a word.

00:51:03.440 It's a choice made in a split second.

00:51:06.780 That's why I'm honored to bring you a brand new season of Medal of Honor,

00:51:10.580 Stories of Courage from Pushkin Industries and iHeart Podcast.

00:51:14.980 You'll fly into the heart of a rescue mission with Air Force pilot James Fleming in Vietnam.

00:51:20.720 I'm going to put you out in the middle of hell. 0.93

00:51:23.300 If you have to come home, I'll bring you home. 1.00

00:51:25.480 That's my duty. It's my honor.

00:51:27.380 We'll also travel back to 1926 to witness Richard Byrd's historic flight over the North Pole.

00:51:34.420 These are more than just stories of combat.

00:51:37.260 They are testaments to leadership, community, and the human spirit.

00:51:41.740 Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:51:48.480 Welcome back in to Clay and Buck.

00:51:50.580 We're joined now by Kelly Paul, author of Goodnight Young American and Goodnight Little American.

00:51:57.380 And Kelly is the wife of Dr. and Senator Rand Paul

00:52:02.460 Who is a frequent guest on the show

00:52:04.140 Kelly, congrats on the authorship

00:52:06.660 On the books that come out today

00:52:08.740 Tell us a bit about these

00:52:10.540 We were just discussing the 250th

00:52:12.580 And patriotism

00:52:14.320 And it feels like it could use a little bit of a boost

00:52:17.180 In some quarters these days

00:52:18.560 Your books talk about Americans

00:52:21.020 I assume from the perspective of loving America

00:52:24.540 Tell us about it

00:52:25.660 Absolutely

00:52:27.420 Well, thanks so much for having me.

00:52:29.800 Yes, they do.

00:52:30.920 They were inspired by my grandson.

00:52:33.020 This is my first time to ever write a children's book.

00:52:36.460 He's about a year and a half old.

00:52:37.980 And my daughter-in-law late last summer was saying she thought we needed more patriotic books for children and board books for young children.

00:52:47.560 And so I got the idea, especially with America's 250 coming up.

00:52:52.020 my books really take a journey of a little boy who has a dream on july 4th he's out celebrating

00:52:59.700 with his parents and he goes to bed that night he dreams all of american revolutionary history

00:53:06.200 so he's on the mayflower and he's a pilgrim then he's a colonist he makes friends with

00:53:12.960 great american revolutionary heroes like sam adams and takes part in the boston tea party and he

00:53:19.680 makes friends with Paul Revere and rides with him. And my hope is that it will spark conversation

00:53:25.480 with parents and children just about the heroism and bravery, courage that our founders really

00:53:35.240 showed. Kelly, I appreciate you coming on and encourage people to check out the book. Buck

00:53:41.060 and I were just having a conversation about America 250. I don't know if you remember America

00:53:46.180 200 but based on the things that we see it seems like the nation came together for america 200

00:53:52.540 even though a lot of things were objectively tough for the country at that point in time

00:53:57.280 you just had rfk and mlk assassinated uh richard nixon had just been impeached and removed from

00:54:03.740 office the vietnam war had been going on yet people seem to come together and really have a

00:54:09.440 good time at 200 i don't get the sense that that's happening for 250 do you how do we change

00:54:15.960 that you know I agree and I do very much remember America 200 I was a little girl growing up in a

00:54:24.880 small town in Russellville and that bicentennial summer was so exciting and I think of just our

00:54:30.720 little town my mother and I had 1776 style dresses made and so did all my friends and

00:54:38.820 their moms and we all participated in this big festival in our downtown square for the

00:54:45.260 bicentennial and i just i remember it just consumed the whole summer and i i wish i did

00:54:51.280 see that kind of spirit for the 250 and and you're right i'm i'm really not how much of of your um

00:54:58.440 efforts to write this book comes out of a recognition uh kelly that there's a there's a

00:55:06.160 lack of content that i think young people are exposed to that celebrates traditional americana

00:55:11.920 and and our history i mean i'll give you just an example i have i have a one-year-old

00:55:15.900 and i won't name names here but there's a communist on youtube that he seems to want to

00:55:21.680 watch all the time that does children's content that is very left-wing and i can't get him

00:55:28.020 he's he's old enough now where he will he will take the controller out of my hand he can't really

00:55:33.820 find things yet but he'll take it out of my hand and kind of bang it until i give him

00:55:38.020 the uh the left-wing song and dance from youtube that he wants so is is this in part because you

00:55:44.400 want kids to have content that aligns with with your values and and and you know i'm just wondering

00:55:50.160 what spurred you to do this i i i agree with you 100 because our grandson is about 17 months old

00:55:57.520 and uh our son and daughter-in-law they say kind of the same thing as i said my daughter-in-law

00:56:03.020 really gave me the idea for this because she's like you know we want to really instill these

00:56:06.740 values. And we want to have, you know, our son grow up with an appreciation for America and a

00:56:13.520 love for America. And, you know, that's really my purpose in the book. I mean, I think we need to

00:56:19.260 remember that the American Revolution was really a convergence of, you know, vision and resolve

00:56:26.320 that has never been equaled in all of human history. I mean, our founders were really the

00:56:32.080 original civil rights heroes. They took, you know, ideals from the Enlightenment and used them to

00:56:39.220 challenge the divine right of kings and hereditary rule and challenge the most powerful empire in the

00:56:45.980 world in order to say, look, we believe in, you know, in natural law. We believe that our rights

00:56:52.780 come from God and not from any king or any government. So their courage was really

00:56:59.680 intellectual and moral, but it was also physical courage as they were all basically committing

00:57:07.600 acts of treason, right? The Declaration of Independence was considered an act of treason.

00:57:13.760 We're talking to Kelly Paul. We'd encourage all of you to go check out her brand new book. It's

00:57:18.380 for kids. It is out today. Kelly, you're talking about courage. In this age in which we live,

00:57:26.060 we've had your husband Rand Paul on a lot what is it like to raise kids and also now have grandkids

00:57:34.080 as you just said in a world where violence feels omnipresent for people that are in public life

00:57:41.800 people like your husband who had to deal with being attacked and having people celebrate his

00:57:46.280 attacker and certainly it hasn't even been a year since what happened to Charlie Kirk the shooting

00:57:51.260 of President Trump. What's that like for you as both a mom, a grandma and a wife?

00:57:57.520 You know, it's very challenging at times. It really is. And there are moments when I'm just

00:58:01.880 sort of like, Rand, gosh, just let's check this and you can go back to being a nice doctor in

00:58:07.300 Bowling Green. But then I remember that, you know, we've been given such an incredible honor

00:58:15.340 and platform and voice and I am so proud of Rand for the things that he stands for and so I just

00:58:22.820 try to you know feel I feel brave I mean I try to feel like okay very few people have the kind of

00:58:31.360 you know platform that we do and so I want to use it for good and that's what I try to focus on.

00:58:38.640 so the book is out uh today or the two books rather out today are you planning on doing more

00:58:46.380 after this one kelly the books by the way good night young american good night little american

00:58:50.600 what age is is this mostly geared for so good night little american is a board book so it's

00:58:57.520 for babies and toddlers and it's um lullabies and really beautiful illustrations uh but they are

00:59:05.900 they're patriotic i mean they they sort of distill down the idea that you know equality

00:59:12.080 and joy are something for us all to pursue and it came from you know jefferson's writing of the

00:59:16.420 declaration and it's a it's a simple sweet little bedtime board book and then good night young

00:59:23.300 american is for children probably ages four to eight um so it could be read to your child or

00:59:29.680 older children can read it themselves and and in that one uh my little character the little boy

00:59:35.660 As I said, he basically in his dream is part of – he's just part of all revolutionary history.

00:59:43.000 He's there in Philadelphia when the signers of the Declaration are signing, and he climbs up and he rings the Liberty Bell.

00:59:51.280 He makes friends with Ben Franklin and learns about electricity, and he is crossing the Delaware with George Washington.

00:59:58.360 He's just present for all of it, and it's written through the eyes of a child.

01:00:03.080 and at the end of the book when the little boy wakes up from his dream there's a nice map in the

01:00:09.720 back of the book a simple map for children but I my hope is that more families will try to maybe

01:00:17.200 see some of these great landmarks make some southern trips and summer trips and go go to

01:00:23.280 Boston or go to Massachusetts or see you know see where the declaration was signed in Philadelphia

01:00:30.620 I think that those are the kind of things that we did back in, you know, the bicentennial, right?

01:00:36.940 I mean, I know my dad took us on a trip and it was very special.

01:00:41.880 Kelly, if people want these books, thank you for making the time with us again.

01:00:45.740 Good night, young American and good night, little American.

01:00:50.160 Amazon, where would you suggest they can find these?

01:00:53.100 And I believe your name is K-E-L-L-E-Y if people are typing in Kelly Paul just to search for that.

01:01:01.440 Right. Yes, they are on Amazon. They're on Barnes & Noble. They're online. They're in stores.

01:01:08.980 They're just about everywhere. So I hope that families will enjoy them.

01:01:14.800 And I hope that it will inspire more children to really understand what we're celebrating when we celebrate Independence Day this year.

01:01:23.100 awesome we appreciate the time thank your husband for all the work he does thank you for all the

01:01:28.080 work that you're doing as well thank you both so much for having me and by the way kelly i think

01:01:34.420 you are a listener so you have great taste in radio as well if i remember based on past so

01:01:39.920 thank you for being part of the clay and buck family yes love your show thank you so much that

01:01:46.480 is kelly paul encourage all of you to go check out her new kids books that are out right now

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01:03:44.280 As America marks its 250th anniversary, we're looking back at two and a half centuries of rebellion and liberty through the eyes of the heroes who defended it.

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