00:01:22.600our number two california primary day iowa primary day and more as we are coming on with all of you
00:01:32.020stock market continues to set yet another record high the stocks have been on a tear all throughout
00:01:40.180may we have now moved into june and there remains a great deal of economic optimism continuing to be
00:01:48.780back and forth i described it yesterday buck as groundhog day when it comes to what is or is not
00:01:55.180going to happen with iran nothing particularly new there as that talks continue surrounding
00:02:03.980the strait of hormuz um now several different stories graham plattner is in washington dc today
00:02:13.020meeting with many different Senate Democrats as his Senate primary campaign in Maine remains
00:02:21.300imperiled I'm curious maybe to dive into some of this with Buck during the course of today's
00:02:26.980program we have a primary in both California and in LA and Buck I told you in the first hour our
00:02:37.040thanks by the way to Andrew Giuliani talking about the 11 different United States stadiums
00:02:42.080that are going to be hosting the World Cup starting next week on Thursday.
00:02:46.360Nine days from now, things will begin to get a bit chaotic in a good way,
00:02:52.520I think, when it comes to everything surrounding there
00:02:55.640as the U.S. hosts the World Cup for the first time since 1994.
00:03:00.580The U.S. men's soccer team, by the way, Buck,
00:03:03.060scheduled to play two games in L.A. and one in Seattle in the group stages,
00:03:08.520the first one on june 12th and they played well in their matchup i think against senegal
00:03:14.660and christian pulisic scored his first goal in five months so for those of you who are interested
00:03:20.520i would like to think that we could win some games and start to have some pro u.s uh positivity i
00:03:27.840know for a fact there are a bunch of diehard trump guys on the u.s men's soccer team i'll leave it at
00:03:35.360that um so we will see how all of this uh ends up shaking out now we were talking about what the
00:03:44.580prediction markets say as we get ready for the midterm cycle and buck i have been talking with
00:03:53.640buck a lot off air i'm obsessed with these and i understand some of you are going to say oh i don't
00:03:59.240know why you care about what poly market's going to say clay or what cal she's going to say i am
00:04:04.680far more interested when people put their actual money down on what they think is going to happen
00:04:10.760than trying to glean what's going to happen from all of the different poll results out there so
00:04:17.980the we'll see what happens everybody in california go vote karen bass and spencer pratt right now0.87
00:04:24.860are favored to advance to the runoff karen bass is the incumbent mayor of los angeles javier
00:04:32.080Becerra and Steve Hilton are favored to advance in the California governor's race.
00:04:41.680But, Buck, you were asking me, I've got right now about $3,500, relatively small amount of money,
00:04:49.980but I am putting my money where my mouth is, and so I have a bunch of different predictions here.
00:04:56.240I have, you asked, I have Susan Collins to win the main Senate race.
00:05:02.080uh right now the prediction markets give her a 41 chance to win uh i have ken paxton to win
00:05:12.520the texas senate race they give him a 59 chance to win i have the ninth district of tennessee
00:05:22.040the one that they redrew in memphis i have the republican party to win that race which i think
00:05:28.560they will i have the uh republicans to win the house that pays out at four to one that is a
00:05:36.740less likely outcome i have kamala to be the 2028 democrat presidential nominee
00:05:44.180i have a 10 to 1 payout if that were to become a reality and i have mike rogers to win the
00:05:52.380michigan senate race right now they give him a 29 chance to win so all of these markets are out
00:06:00.120there every single day on calci and on poly market and i pay attention to them because i think they
00:06:06.980are a better uh arbiter of where the current market is than trying to look at polls which we
00:06:14.500know are often paid for by candidates or paid for by political parties to try and convince people
00:06:22.360of the legitimacy of those polls as a method as russia said for a long time to drive the overall
00:06:30.360narrative surrounding all of these different cases so buck spencer pratt i have said if i
00:06:37.700lived in los angeles i would vote for spencer pratt no doubt i would at this point i think
00:06:43.320you have to vote for steve hilton because chad bianco i don't think has a chance to advance
00:06:48.480uh to the runoff and i'm concerned that otherwise we could end up with two democrats both in the
00:06:55.220mayor's race and in the governor's race which i think would be the worst outcome from the primaries
00:07:00.980in california today i i have this thought i'm wondering about it and again i go back to what
00:07:06.180people that uh people whom i see in person just sort of ask me you know which uh i was pretty
00:07:12.820do you get the same thing too that when you see people and you just want to hang out and talk to
00:07:16.620like well explain the thing that you talk about for three hours a day on radio do you get the
00:07:20.640personal radio show asks i get that sometimes yeah can you just do a show for me right now
00:07:24.980i was like yes i want to talk about dogs and and like recipes and my baby i've no anyway but people
00:07:31.180ask me this when they see me they say what is more likely here with the california situation
00:07:37.060that it will be a test case that affects whether democrats as a brand are on defense going into
00:07:47.080the midterms or that people still care more about prices you see this thing on the cover i think it
00:07:52.840was the wall street journal clay uh your favorite paper oh yeah my favorite your favorite uh i think
00:07:58.540it was in the cover wall street journal that that truckers maybe our truckers can like can tell us
00:08:02.420if this is accurate some of them are spending twelve hundred dollars every two days on fuel
00:08:05.500something like that uh because they're fuel now obviously those are for those are for major
00:08:11.580transport commercial vehicles but the point here being gas price now we're heading into a long
00:08:18.260summer where i think people here we go yeah some commercial truck drivers this is cover the wall
00:08:23.660street journal or i should say on the website america's truckers are driving just a little
00:08:27.460slower to save gas some commercial truck drivers are slowing down to cut costs at the pump one
00:08:32.420driver said it cost him 1200 to refuel his truck every two days clay there's a part of me that
00:08:37.580wants to say all this focus on the california madness is going to help us out but do people
00:08:43.580in iowa do people in uh well more to the point georgia pennsylvania do they care you know is
00:08:50.960this situation in california something that the political elites and commentators and californians
00:08:56.420care about or does it have national residents in an election year that's my question yeah i i think
00:09:02.480it's a great question and and i think this is where california can kind of give us an indication
00:09:07.920of how viable is the republican party argument because if spencer pratt were to lose and you
00:09:15.780end up with two democrats there and you end up with two democrats in the democrat race
00:09:21.280for governor as well it's just gradations of blueness and the competition is not going to
00:09:28.420require any real addressing of the larger issues there i also think narratively if spencer pratt
00:09:36.520is one of the finalists and if steve hilton is one of the finalists you have to acknowledge that
00:09:41.840there still is enthusiasm for republican arguments nationwide and i i think that is significant as
00:09:49.140well i will say price of oil and gas has come back it's come back uh an average of about 30 cents
00:09:56.200ish i believe uh based on the numbers that i have seen since uh memorial day as i told you based on
00:10:02.940oil and gas prices was likely to happen i'm on the record as saying i think we're going to be around
00:10:07.940three dollars a gallon by the time we get to uh the election in november uh right now the average
00:10:15.060gas price is four dollars um ish like nationwide and again i always like to have fun with this but
00:10:21.180average gas price nationwide does not mean that is what you paid this morning so i appreciate that
00:10:26.160if you live in california you for instance are paying way more than if you live in uh louisiana
00:10:32.580or texas and so there is a wide variety of different prices that people pay i noticed in
00:10:38.980my particular neighborhood driving home a couple days ago prices were down to 390 on the gas
00:10:47.660stations as i was driving past uh near where i live so back under four dollars a year average
00:10:53.840gas price around four dollars as well and so i think all of these um all of these factors are
00:11:01.100huge but i think gas prices is going to be a big part and candidly of how people feel about the
00:11:06.800overall economic situation um and i was reading great piece in the wall street journal over the
00:11:12.960weekend uh that kind of ran through uh in fact i flagged this buck because i did think it was
00:11:18.760perspective is important in life um and i think a lot of times uh uh here is warren buffett said
00:11:27.900recently and i flagged it because i thought it was so interesting that the poorest people in
00:11:32.860america today live richer than the richest people in the world did in the early 20th century this
00:11:40.300sounds like your buddy buck over here who's been telling everybody that wealth and status are
00:11:44.000different things that wealth and where you fall within the hierarchy of the society around you
00:11:48.540are different things and this is why go ahead sorry i sent this in to uh producer greg and it
00:11:54.940is cut eight you will appreciate what warren buffett said it's from i think a couple of years
00:11:59.880ago but i do think it goes to perspective and to your point on wealth versus status all these
00:12:07.020different things but listen to warren buffett the greatest probably the greatest capitalist
00:12:11.360other than elon musk of all time certainly warren buffett is the greatest investor i think it's fair
00:12:17.360to say of all time listen to this bottom two percent in terms of income in the united states
00:12:23.020the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1%, all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when I
00:12:32.820was six years old. John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world. And today, you can get
00:12:39.740better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation. You can do
00:12:45.840everything better than he could. It's astounding. That's in my lifetime. If you wanted to watch
00:12:52.000a football game. He still had to go there. And I can sit there with this big screen,
00:12:59.460and they keep showing me the replay, explaining to me what happened. And maybe everybody doesn't
00:13:05.320have a screen as big as mine, but damn near everybody has a screen or an iPhone or a computer
00:13:11.680or access to one. I mean, when I was born, the dentist didn't use Novocate.
00:13:18.520i think that's really well said well this is what i've been telling everyone and this is what i keep
00:13:24.480saying in the context of artificial intelligence will there be some job displacement and is that
00:13:29.160a that is a societal concern yes absolutely will ai make everyone everyone no matter where you are
00:13:37.580on the income scale markedly wealthier in terms of those things that warren buffett just laid out
00:13:43.700The answer is certainly yes, certainly yes.
00:13:47.860The 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.
00:13:59.960It has been hard on, you know, stockbrokers and travel agents, but overall, the Internet has made people much, much wealthier.
00:14:08.360So wealth and status are different things and wealth relative to other people versus versus wealth in an absolute sense.
00:14:17.480And this is also why I think, Clay, you have a society now here in America.
00:14:22.000And a lot of this is around the world, the same same situation where we now have problems, including diseases, physical diseases of overabundance.
00:14:30.280But we even have overabundance in terms of entertainment options.
00:14:33.700If 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.
00:25:35.380We have the highest poverty rate in the country, the highest unemployment rate, the highest cost of living by far,
00:25:40.840ranked 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.
00:25:48.980We have the highest taxes in the country for the worst results, the education results for a disaster,
00:25:53.620homelessness rampant crime and chaos everywhere the cities are a total just you know like third
00:25:59.300world squalor in in our great cities and it's not just la it's right across the state i mean
00:26:03.820they've completely failed but how dare they ask for another four years like you don't deserve
00:26:08.640another four minutes and we just got to have people who are representing common sense change
00:26:13.480that's the other thing about our campaigns they're not divisive they're not ideological
00:26:17.060what am i running on your first hundred grand tax-free three dollar gas cut your electric
00:26:22.060bills in half a home you can afford to buy cut your costs help your business fix our schools
00:26:27.360just practical things to make life better because california's got everything we need
00:26:31.700amazing natural beauty incredible people the best weather talent energy innovators we got
00:26:38.060everything we need we're going to have unlimited natural resources oil and gas water everything we
00:26:44.200need except a good governor and once we have that all we got to do is get out the way and california
00:26:50.300will thrive like you've never seen before what will the results of the primary tell you i think
00:26:56.820you're gonna be advancing into the final two i think spencer pratt will as well in order to get
00:27:03.480into the general and i know the primary is today we want everybody to go vote we want you into that
00:27:07.900final two tomorrow in theory you pivot and it becomes a general election how many persuadable
00:27:15.300voters do you think there are in california because california has voted overwhelmingly blue
00:27:21.960the analogy we've used on this program is giuliani and bloomberg got elected in new york city because
00:27:27.560people were fed up with the status quo with traditional democrats california potentially
00:27:32.800with spencer pratt potentially with you is finally saying as part of your candidacies hey the old blue
00:27:39.500ways don't make sense let's just bring in some sanity how many persuadables do you think there
00:27:44.740are in the general well i'm going to give you a real number this is a poll that the california
00:27:50.000post uh commissioned and published just at the end of last week 56 that's the that's the number
00:27:56.340who say the state's going in the wrong direction that's and that's a majority and i think that's
00:28:01.800the group um it's more than we need we just need 50 plus one but i think that's where you start
00:28:07.440there's and and and that is really what this is about is saying we really can change is possible
00:28:13.160But you're not going to get it if you keep voting the same way.
00:28:17.260And 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.
00:28:26.900You've got to stop voting the same way and think you're going to get a different result.
00:28:30.580We've tried that now for a very long time in California, and it hasn't worked.
00:28:34.380I 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.
00:28:46.160And all these things he was saying and made all these promises, none of them have been delivered.
00:28:56.300Even 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.
00:29:09.540Steve, 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.
00:29:22.540But 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.
00:29:32.900Well, certainly housing, gas right now, blue states tend to have higher prices, it depends.
00:29:38.040And then homelessness depends on which blue state, but a place like New York certainly has a lot of those challenges too.
00:29:42.840But what are your, in shorthand, how do you actually make those three things better as governor in California?
00:29:51.040Well, 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.
00:30:11.900We have abundant oil reserves right here in California, but because of their insane climate policy, we're importing it.
00:30:18.42080% nearly of our oil is now imported.
00:32:50.440We 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.
00:33:03.860If 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.
00:33:12.620that's what we've got to do to start getting businesses back here so we create the jobs so
00:33:18.160we don't have the highest unemployment in the country and good paying jobs so we don't have
00:33:22.000the highest poverty in the country so the economic crisis is something that's very much top of my
00:33:26.980list steve hilton last question for you from 1850 to 2020 to your point california gained population
00:33:34.440every year starting in 2020 the population began to decline uh that needs to be fixed um jd vance
00:33:41.980just endorsed you i just saw on social media president trump has endorsed you last question
00:33:47.360what is the impact of the trump vance endorsement on primary day here it's huge because it'll tell
00:33:53.480everyone who wants change but particularly republican voters because it's a primary
00:33:57.300and typically it's the it's people who are the more committed partisans who vote in primaries
00:34:02.640you've got to get this done because what that means is that you're going to have a partner
00:34:07.440for the administration wanting to make common-sense change happen.
00:34:12.320The president wants to open up energy production.
00:34:33.920is going to benefit everyone in california but our whole country as well but it won't happen
00:34:38.520unless people go and vote for it and you've got to do that today go vote californians go vote even
00:34:44.460if it takes a week or a month for these votes to be counted because of the dysfunction there you
00:34:49.180got to go vote today go vote for our man steve hilton for governor and uh steve we we are pulling
00:34:56.280for you we're counting on you or we're uh you know uh what's the word i'm looking not counting
00:35:00.660on you what's the word i'm looking for uh oh we're looking forward to celebrating your advancement
00:35:04.400to the final two do you expect to find out tonight or do you think this thing's going to drag on for
00:35:09.220weeks by the way we think we we think that we there's a there's a strong chance that we'll get
00:35:13.320a sense that that um we we've done it um yeah i don't want to put a number on it but we think
00:35:18.480it's possible that tonight we'll know um not for certain it won't be confirmed but we'll have a
00:35:23.920very good sense of it we think that's possible maybe go vote for steve hilton californians go
00:35:28.420get 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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00:36:22.680right clay and buck find them on the iheart app or wherever you get your podcast welcome back in
00:36:28.740clay and buck appreciate all of you hanging out with us it is world cup in america season and
00:36:36.580there are going to be matches played all over the united states and if you're upset at all with
00:36:41.960anything surrounding the world cup this guy is to blame andrew giuliani i saw the new york times
00:36:49.660had a huge profile that i was reading i think it was in sunday or saturday of you and the way that
00:36:56.760it was a great actually was a pretty good article like as these things go i was reading it and i
00:37:01.380was like as new york times they're gonna be awful uh but it was actually i thought relatively fair
00:37:06.500but the very last paragraph was if anything goes wrong andrew's gonna have to bear all the blame
00:37:12.720uh we had dinner recently you're running through all the different challenges that uh his official
00:37:17.740title is executive director white house task force on the fifa world cup u.s plays june 12th uh on
00:37:26.540friday of next week i believe that is in la uh this thing starts next thursday you can correct
00:37:32.860me if i'm wrong on that but i know you have been working all the time all hours dealing with mayors
00:37:39.120all over the country about these big events what should our audience know about the world cup coming
00:37:45.120up starting next week it's going to go on for a month and how significant it's going to be for
00:37:49.480the country yeah clay well always great to be with you over here you know the funny thing was
00:37:54.300that was from curtis liwa who was a radio partner of mine oh yes way back when so i don't know what
00:37:59.820that tells you and what you and buck should get from that right there but i guess don't allow your
00:38:03.680radio partner to do a new york times interview otherwise they they spill the beans um but no
00:38:09.080really look we have the largest sporting event here in world history coming when you look at
00:38:14.260the viewership numbers and i know i've said this to you before but about 130 million people watched
00:38:19.380the last super bowl 1.6 billion watched the last world cup final so this really is unlike every
00:38:25.420anything else from a security setup i was with secretary mullen yesterday in dallas looking at
00:38:31.140the stadium there they are setting up all 11 stadiums in the united states of america all 78
00:38:36.580matches exactly like it would be like from a perimeter perspective from a counter uas perspective
00:38:42.520like it was a super bowl so you could just see the exact same perimeter setup that they used
00:38:47.880in uh levi's stadium last year in february for the for the super bowl that's exactly what they're
00:38:54.120going to be doing for the world cup so look we've been telling fans get there early spend the day at
00:38:59.680the stadium you want to make sure that you have the opportunity to get in because we are not going
00:39:03.960to compromise our security especially in light of some of the uh some of the issues that are going
00:39:08.680on so that's been our main focus and clay you know this and you've seen this in a lot of the
00:39:13.680lead up to this the excitement and the energy around the world cup internationally it's been
00:39:19.280going on for months you're starting to feel that it's starting to become palpable here in the
00:39:24.420united states but once that first game kicks off in the u.s on june 12th you're right we're starting
00:39:29.700in mexico on june 11th the next day the u.s will play paraguay at sofi stadium on june 12th once
00:39:36.860that game kicks off um it is going to be an incredible energy in this country over the course
00:39:42.520of the 39 days that the world cup will be here now andrew i can bring a little special perspective
00:39:47.620to this because i recall almost i don't know 30 years ago your own soccer career sir so you've
00:39:55.820been at this for quite some time you were a goalkeeper if i remember correctly they called
00:40:00.600you the great wall of giuliani and that nothing got past you and uh and on the saint david's red
00:40:06.620team which was the like the varsity team you were the goalkeeper and people would you'd run for that
00:40:12.080ball and they would scatter in fear knowing the drop kick that was about to uh about to happen so
00:40:18.020i just want everyone to know and you're not new to the soccer situation and and you're certainly
00:40:22.720bringing a lot of uh of enthusiasm to something that's going to have what what kind of money is
00:40:28.000this going to bring in what kind of attendance numbers we're looking at overall yeah well the
00:40:32.460great wall giuliani and we're in the red team uniform i just want to make sure you know that
00:40:36.500i'm i'm working for the united states of america i love the united states of america no issues with
00:40:41.600china there from that perspective but uh you're absolutely right we go way back here buck i can
00:40:46.260tell you that this is going to be from an economic perspective a massive driver we're expecting
00:40:51.52030 billion dollars in economic economic impact that's just for the 11 host cities when you think
00:40:57.220about the fact that 39 of the teams will be basing in the united states so think about the
00:41:03.020croatian team will be based in alexandria virginia you'll have the brazilians based in morristown new
00:41:09.260jersey you have england and argentina based in the kansas city suburbs there that's where you're
00:41:14.760going to have tens of thousands depending on the country tens of thousands of fans coming on out
00:41:20.460spending their time spending their dollars that's where you're really going to see a major major
00:41:25.080economic impact the average traveler that comes here for the world cup they may go to two games
00:41:30.760and spend and spend 12 days that's what we've been trying to do we've been trying to then push them
00:41:36.160to freedom 250 events all these celebrations around our semi-quincentennial when i first
00:41:42.580spoke to the president about this and i actually just spoke to him on sunday again kind of about
00:41:46.940the legacy aspect about this the thing that i like to say is there is no larger platform that
00:41:53.760you're going to be able to go and get out the truth about american exceptionalism we know that
00:41:59.420much of the media especially international media has lied about american exceptionalism
00:42:04.960for the last many decades this is an unbelievable opportunity to show firsthand that america is
00:42:11.440capable truly of hosting some of the great cultural events here in the world i know and you have met
00:42:19.100a lot of the Fox people that are putting this on Fox Sports awesome guys and gals that are going to
00:42:24.880be a part of this big festivity and even in those conversations there's been some talk about
00:42:32.300hey what should we be telling people who are going to these matches you mentioned 11 different
00:42:38.220stadiums you mentioned the security I've heard it's Super Bowl like I've been to a few Super
00:42:43.240bowls they tell you to arrive hours early because it's not the same as going to a regular baseball
00:42:49.800game or a regular football game what would you tell anybody that's out there going to a game
00:42:55.740hey if the game starts at four o'clock in the afternoon how much time do you think they should
00:43:01.760give to get into the stadium given all the security issues what should they budget yeah
00:43:06.960give an hour and a half definitely at least give an hour and a half i would say and soccer fans
00:43:11.940are notorious for coming to the gates here within the last 15 20 minutes that's not going to work
00:43:17.380unless you're going to miss the first half of the game so we really really want you to get in there
00:43:21.720fifa's set up a lot of different fan activations for those that have tickets within the perimeter
00:43:26.720so they're fascinating things to do you can go and watch your team warm up for the hour before
00:43:31.860the game so get there an hour and a half two hours before we know gates are going to open
00:43:36.040two to three hours for the final four hours before so make sure you get there look people
00:43:41.120have paid a premium for these tickets we want to make sure that they're able to really really enjoy
00:43:46.280this and you know clay i'm glad you mentioned the super bowl again because i was talking about the
00:43:51.300physical perimeters there and how you'll have three ticket checks unlike your typical nfl game
00:43:56.360where you normally have one but i think one incredible story really to tell is on counter uas
00:44:01.060mitigation and what we've been able to do so in 2025 for all the seer event ratings around the
00:44:08.760united states that would be the super bowl that would be the boston new york marathon events like
00:44:13.780that for all of them only five were covered for counter uas mitigation drone mitigation
00:44:20.800in 2026 for the world cup alone all 78 games will be covered for counter uas mitigation
00:44:29.200and one of the fan fests in each and every one of the cities so just for the world cup alone
00:44:35.700you're talking about over 156 different games sites that are being covered compared to five
00:44:43.200last year that's not even including sailforth 250 freedom 250 uh f indy car that's going to be on
00:44:50.540the on the national mall all those other events so this has really been an amazing work here by
00:44:56.080the federal interagency led by the air sovereignty task force with president trump signed and the
00:45:01.680White House task force on the World Cup. Andrew, one of the big conversation points has been
00:45:07.400dynamic pricing cost of tickets. I've actually seen that the cost of tickets has started to come
00:45:13.860down in many of these different matches. I want to take my kids. I think there's a lot of people
00:45:19.680out there that are just sports fans in general, may not be diehard soccer fans, but want to see
00:45:24.420what the experience is like. What would you say about cost? What would you say about the comfort
00:45:30.520level when it comes to taking your family security wise what would you just say about that experience
00:45:35.060for families yeah look i agree with the president what he said a month ago or so costs are expensive
00:45:41.800and i think that part of that is the fact that uh fifa had over 500 million ticket requests this
00:45:47.760is going back to january at the the half billion mark for what is uh about seven million tickets
00:45:53.580uh between the the three countries here and so that obviously creates a a supply and demand now
00:45:59.780Some 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.
00:46:10.940Think Curaçao, where there are only 300,000 residents.
00:46:14.720There are games that are available for less than $200.
00:46:17.340And you can look in most cities, you'll be able to now access a stadium for less than $250 for some of these games.
00:46:25.760So that's just the way that dynamic pricing works.
00:46:28.120Look, it's something that we've discussed. We certainly are aware of the price of this.
00:46:32.780We 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.
00:46:44.440And that's helped made the fan festivals free or very, very low cost for everybody.
00:46:49.500So 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.
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00:52:37.980And my daughter-in-law late last summer was saying she thought we needed more patriotic books for children and board books for young children.
00:52:47.560And so I got the idea, especially with America's 250 coming up.
00:52:52.020my books really take a journey of a little boy who has a dream on july 4th he's out celebrating
00:52:59.700with his parents and he goes to bed that night he dreams all of american revolutionary history
00:53:06.200so he's on the mayflower and he's a pilgrim then he's a colonist he makes friends with
00:53:12.960great american revolutionary heroes like sam adams and takes part in the boston tea party and he
00:53:19.680makes friends with Paul Revere and rides with him. And my hope is that it will spark conversation
00:53:25.480with parents and children just about the heroism and bravery, courage that our founders really
00:53:35.240showed. Kelly, I appreciate you coming on and encourage people to check out the book. Buck
00:53:41.060and I were just having a conversation about America 250. I don't know if you remember America
00:53:46.180200 but based on the things that we see it seems like the nation came together for america 200
00:53:52.540even though a lot of things were objectively tough for the country at that point in time
00:53:57.280you just had rfk and mlk assassinated uh richard nixon had just been impeached and removed from
00:54:03.740office the vietnam war had been going on yet people seem to come together and really have a
00:54:09.440good time at 200 i don't get the sense that that's happening for 250 do you how do we change
00:54:15.960that you know I agree and I do very much remember America 200 I was a little girl growing up in a
00:54:24.880small town in Russellville and that bicentennial summer was so exciting and I think of just our
00:54:30.720little town my mother and I had 1776 style dresses made and so did all my friends and
00:54:38.820their moms and we all participated in this big festival in our downtown square for the
00:54:45.260bicentennial and i just i remember it just consumed the whole summer and i i wish i did
00:54:51.280see that kind of spirit for the 250 and and you're right i'm i'm really not how much of of your um
00:54:58.440efforts to write this book comes out of a recognition uh kelly that there's a there's a
00:55:06.160lack of content that i think young people are exposed to that celebrates traditional americana
00:55:11.920and and our history i mean i'll give you just an example i have i have a one-year-old
00:55:15.900and i won't name names here but there's a communist on youtube that he seems to want to
00:55:21.680watch all the time that does children's content that is very left-wing and i can't get him
00:55:28.020he's he's old enough now where he will he will take the controller out of my hand he can't really
00:55:33.820find things yet but he'll take it out of my hand and kind of bang it until i give him
00:55:38.020the uh the left-wing song and dance from youtube that he wants so is is this in part because you
00:55:44.400want kids to have content that aligns with with your values and and and you know i'm just wondering
00:55:50.160what spurred you to do this i i i agree with you 100 because our grandson is about 17 months old
00:55:57.520and uh our son and daughter-in-law they say kind of the same thing as i said my daughter-in-law
00:56:03.020really gave me the idea for this because she's like you know we want to really instill these
00:56:06.740values. And we want to have, you know, our son grow up with an appreciation for America and a
00:56:13.520love for America. And, you know, that's really my purpose in the book. I mean, I think we need to
00:56:19.260remember that the American Revolution was really a convergence of, you know, vision and resolve
00:56:26.320that has never been equaled in all of human history. I mean, our founders were really the
00:56:32.080original civil rights heroes. They took, you know, ideals from the Enlightenment and used them to
00:56:39.220challenge the divine right of kings and hereditary rule and challenge the most powerful empire in the
00:56:45.980world in order to say, look, we believe in, you know, in natural law. We believe that our rights
00:56:52.780come from God and not from any king or any government. So their courage was really
00:56:59.680intellectual and moral, but it was also physical courage as they were all basically committing
00:57:07.600acts of treason, right? The Declaration of Independence was considered an act of treason.
00:57:13.760We're talking to Kelly Paul. We'd encourage all of you to go check out her brand new book. It's
00:57:18.380for kids. It is out today. Kelly, you're talking about courage. In this age in which we live,
00:57:26.060we've had your husband Rand Paul on a lot what is it like to raise kids and also now have grandkids
00:57:34.080as you just said in a world where violence feels omnipresent for people that are in public life
00:57:41.800people like your husband who had to deal with being attacked and having people celebrate his
00:57:46.280attacker and certainly it hasn't even been a year since what happened to Charlie Kirk the shooting
00:57:51.260of President Trump. What's that like for you as both a mom, a grandma and a wife?
00:57:57.520You know, it's very challenging at times. It really is. And there are moments when I'm just
00:58:01.880sort of like, Rand, gosh, just let's check this and you can go back to being a nice doctor in
00:58:07.300Bowling Green. But then I remember that, you know, we've been given such an incredible honor
00:58:15.340and platform and voice and I am so proud of Rand for the things that he stands for and so I just
00:58:22.820try to you know feel I feel brave I mean I try to feel like okay very few people have the kind of
00:58:31.360you know platform that we do and so I want to use it for good and that's what I try to focus on.
00:58:38.640so the book is out uh today or the two books rather out today are you planning on doing more
00:58:46.380after this one kelly the books by the way good night young american good night little american
00:58:50.600what age is is this mostly geared for so good night little american is a board book so it's
00:58:57.520for babies and toddlers and it's um lullabies and really beautiful illustrations uh but they are
00:59:05.900they're patriotic i mean they they sort of distill down the idea that you know equality
00:59:12.080and joy are something for us all to pursue and it came from you know jefferson's writing of the
00:59:16.420declaration and it's a it's a simple sweet little bedtime board book and then good night young
00:59:23.300american is for children probably ages four to eight um so it could be read to your child or
00:59:29.680older children can read it themselves and and in that one uh my little character the little boy
00:59:35.660As I said, he basically in his dream is part of – he's just part of all revolutionary history.
00:59:43.000He's there in Philadelphia when the signers of the Declaration are signing, and he climbs up and he rings the Liberty Bell.
00:59:51.280He makes friends with Ben Franklin and learns about electricity, and he is crossing the Delaware with George Washington.
00:59:58.360He's just present for all of it, and it's written through the eyes of a child.
01:00:03.080and at the end of the book when the little boy wakes up from his dream there's a nice map in the
01:00:09.720back of the book a simple map for children but I my hope is that more families will try to maybe
01:00:17.200see some of these great landmarks make some southern trips and summer trips and go go to
01:00:23.280Boston or go to Massachusetts or see you know see where the declaration was signed in Philadelphia
01:00:30.620I think that those are the kind of things that we did back in, you know, the bicentennial, right?
01:00:36.940I mean, I know my dad took us on a trip and it was very special.
01:00:41.880Kelly, if people want these books, thank you for making the time with us again.
01:00:45.740Good night, young American and good night, little American.
01:00:50.160Amazon, where would you suggest they can find these?
01:00:53.100And I believe your name is K-E-L-L-E-Y if people are typing in Kelly Paul just to search for that.
01:01:01.440Right. Yes, they are on Amazon. They're on Barnes & Noble. They're online. They're in stores.
01:01:08.980They're just about everywhere. So I hope that families will enjoy them.
01:01:14.800And I hope that it will inspire more children to really understand what we're celebrating when we celebrate Independence Day this year.
01:01:23.100awesome we appreciate the time thank your husband for all the work he does thank you for all the
01:01:28.080work that you're doing as well thank you both so much for having me and by the way kelly i think
01:01:34.420you are a listener so you have great taste in radio as well if i remember based on past so
01:01:39.920thank you for being part of the clay and buck family yes love your show thank you so much that
01:01:46.480is kelly paul encourage all of you to go check out her new kids books that are out right now
01:01:51.320and we were talking about america 250 we're talking about america 200 it's also coming up
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01:03:44.280As 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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