00:08:14.440And for people like me and Buck, over about 50% of Democrats said that people who criticize the COVID shot should be fined and imprisoned.
00:08:28.560I shared that clip from that poll yesterday because it's as if people want to pretend all of this never happened.
00:08:39.960And I see it in conjunction with Jake Tapper went on with Piers Morgan and Piers Morgan asked him about the Biden cognitive and physical decline cover-up.
00:08:51.960And Tapper now, who had a show on CNN for the entire Biden administration, he now says, you know, in many ways, the cover-up of Biden's health, physical and mental, was worse than Watergate.
00:09:17.080Because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn't drinking.
00:09:22.020We quote Archibald Cox, who was a Watergate investigator, talking about how powerful the presidency is and how presidents get surrounded by people who have a vested interest in keeping that president propped up.
00:09:35.120Okay, worse than Watergate, and by the way, I think it was worse than Watergate, the decision for the media to not cover Biden's mental and physical decline and now the COVID shot being pulled for kids.
00:09:54.600How can anyone trust anyone in legacy media at this point?
00:09:58.500If they told you, as CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox did not, by and large, but the Washington Post and the New York Times, all of those major legacy media outlets that I just ran through.
00:10:16.180If they all told you, if they all told you that your kids needed to get the COVID shot or they were in danger of death, and if they all told you that Biden was the best mental and physical version of himself and that anybody criticizing him was spreading disinformation and misinformation, how can anyone trust these people again?
00:10:37.080How can you, if you worked at all those places, and you got the two biggest stories, maybe of your career, COVID, and I'm not just talking, by the way, about the shot, but now that the shot's being pulled for kids, I do think it's important to point out that they tried to force kids to get the shot in order to be able to go to school in many parts of the country.
00:11:01.960Now that they're pulling this shot, and now that everybody suddenly says, hey, you know what, yeah, Biden mentally and physically, he wasn't up for the job.
00:11:09.960How can anyone, those are the two, I would argue, those are the two biggest stories in the last certainly 20 years.
00:11:17.300If you go back to 9-11, what has mattered more than those two things, COVID and Biden's mental and physical decline, they got all of that wrong.
00:12:55.000Now, make no mistake, what they are attempting to do is memory hole the entire COVID era and pretend that they never could have known better because the experts got it wrong, not them.
00:13:05.160And then the thing that they're actually experts in, which is theoretically politics and analyzing presidents, they're claiming that they just couldn't see past the incredible cover up that the Biden administration has put in place.
00:13:17.700Because I would submit to you that you should not let them off the hook.
00:13:22.060You should remember this failure for the rest of their career.
00:13:26.120And I would also submit to you, you know who the biggest advertisers are on CNN and MSNBC?
00:13:35.760Do you think it was coincidental that they whiffed on the value of the COVID shot when all of these drug companies were spending hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars to advertise on their programs?
00:13:49.120And this is one where I think RFK Jr., who's a lifelong Democrat, is actually right.
00:13:53.580Why in the world are they accepting all of this money for prescription drug advertisements on programs where they regularly have to cover prescription drugs and whether or not they're necessary?
00:14:04.440I would submit to you it's not a coincidence that the prescription drug companies got beneficial coverage while spending hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.
00:14:18.400And then we all know that it wasn't that they got fooled.
00:14:23.160It was that they aren't actual journalists.
00:14:26.300They are propaganda stooges for Democrats.
00:14:29.560And they weren't willing to tell their audience the truth about Joe Biden until it became clear Biden was never going to be in power again.
00:14:36.620We'll talk about all this, but I think the conjunction of these two stories coming together is actually a moment of reckoning for the legacy media, which is leading to many of them being destroyed.
00:14:47.040And I think this is such a huge story that I think it needs to be hammered home, and we'll have some fun doing that today, among many other things.
00:14:55.940But I want to tell you also, supporting the people of Israel more than just a belief.
00:15:00.880It's something that I traveled to Israel to see for myself in December what exactly the organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the IFCJ, was doing.
00:15:09.940They're on the ground in Israel every day, blessing lives in real, tangible ways, feeding elderly Holocaust survivors who have nobody else.
00:15:17.400They're building bomb shelters to protect schoolchildren from rocket attacks.
00:16:41.800If you missed it earlier today, the COVID shot has been pulled off the recommended shot list for kids and pregnant women.
00:16:50.540A lot of you out there are saying, finally, and you're very thankful that you never got any of the COVID shots for your kid or yourself.
00:16:58.660Or you are resentful that because of where you were going to school or where you worked, that in order to maintain your employment or maintain your school eligibility, you had to get the shot.
00:17:14.500But Riley, let me take you back in time with COVID for a minute before we get into the craziness of the sports universe in terms of men competing as women.
00:17:26.360You guys, you were a University of Kentucky SEC champion swimmer.
00:17:31.240What do you remember about what you guys had to do during COVID?
00:17:35.160Because I think a lot of this is just getting totally memory hold.
00:17:38.280If I remember correctly, you guys had to wear masks sometimes between laps or craziness for swimming.
00:18:28.220They told us, me specifically, being that I was the team captain.
00:18:32.400They told me I had to get the vaccine or else I'd be hurting my team.
00:18:35.500But, of course, this didn't sit right with me, right, being young, being healthy.
00:18:39.760I'd already had COVID at that point, which, being a biology student, I understood the antibodies to be the most natural and best form of immunity.
00:18:56.060It was almost as if they hadn't prepared for what to say.
00:18:58.600They weren't given a script of what to say when asked this question.
00:19:00.980And so that's when they responded back, well, we really mean highly suggested.
00:19:05.160And I said, well, you can take that and shove it because I'm not getting the vaccine.
00:19:09.340But let me tell you, Clay, the rest of my collegiate career, so all of my junior year, all of my senior year, they made it miserable for me.
00:19:17.220I had to go to testing every single week.
00:19:19.360They made it at 5 a.m. to make it what they described as inconvenient for us.
00:19:24.220I had to wear a mask in the weight room.
00:19:25.920And we did have to wear a mask in between laps when we got out of the water on the pool deck.
00:19:30.040I mean, we essentially waterboarded ourselves every single day for the next two years.
00:19:34.880You had to wear masks between laps in the pool?
00:21:31.820I talk now to kids on college campuses, Riley, and I'm sure you do, too.
00:21:35.680In many parts of the country, these kids went home in March of 2020 as 16-year-olds, and they basically didn't see the kids they went to high school with in a big group again in many parts of the country until they graduated in the next year in June of whatever it would have been, 2021, 2022, some of these places.
00:21:56.720So you miss your junior year, end of year.
00:22:00.180You miss everything that happens during your senior year.
00:22:03.400For everybody out there listening, think about how transformative usually your 16-, 17-, 18-year-old era is.
00:22:11.060It is not surprising to me that there are so many kids out there that are angry about what was taken from them.
00:22:22.620I hear that all the time, not only from my peers, from my friends, from people I had classes with, but I'm glad I've got a younger sister and a younger brother.
00:22:32.540My brother was about that 16-year-old age group during the time of COVID in 2020, and he was in the middle of his football season.
00:22:41.480They were on pace to be state champions.
00:22:44.000He went to Donaldson Christian Academy.
00:24:04.920Earlier today, Trump sent out a truth post and said,
00:24:09.280California, under the leadership of radical left Democrat Gavin Newsom, continues to illegally allow men to play in women's sports.
00:24:16.660This week, a transition male athlete at a major event won everything, now qualified to compete in the state finals next weekend.
00:24:25.200As a male, he was less than an average competitor.
00:24:27.840As a female, this transition person is practically unbeatable.
00:24:32.180This is not fair, totally demeaning to women and girls.
00:24:34.860He then calls out the governor, Newsom, who has said it is unfair.
00:24:38.960He says, I will speak with him today to find out which way he wants to go.
00:24:42.360In the meantime, I'm ordering local authorities, if necessary, to not allow a transition person to compete at the state finals.
00:24:49.540This is a totally ridiculous situation.
00:24:51.440Can you believe, years after you swam against Leah Thomas now, what, three years ago, if I remember correctly,
00:24:57.860that we are still in a position where, if anything, Democrats have hardened their stance on this being okay?
00:25:03.380You know what, Clay, I truthfully imagined, I knew this, of course, would be an election issue.
00:25:09.480It would get us through November of 2024.
00:25:12.500But I really believed that, of course, we would see this red wave, which we saw.
00:25:16.560And I believed after that the Democrats would slowly begin to recant, to distance themselves from their voting records, from their positions.
00:25:24.300They've taken on totally outlandish, crazy stuff, such as men and women's sports.
00:25:29.480But that is not at all what they have done.
00:25:32.620They have double, tripled, quadrupled down on this insanity.
00:25:59.140It is virtually always mediocre boys, mediocre men who couldn't hack it in their own division or maybe ranking in the bottom of the barrel, right?
00:26:08.240They switch over to the Women's League, and they substantially skyrocket in the rankings, whatever that system may be at the state level in what he's describing here in California.
00:26:19.420This boy by the name of A.B. Hernandez.
00:26:22.320Maybe, I'm sure you remember, Clay, about a week or so ago, a video went viral of this young girl who placed second in California.
00:26:31.800Her name is Reese Hogan in the triple jump.
00:26:34.140But it was only after everyone exited the podium, with the man, of course, standing atop the podium, where she jumps on the first place podium.
00:26:43.200And I thought that was the most remarkably brave display that really we've seen thus far.
00:26:50.140I mean, we've seen some pretty awesome things, right?
00:26:51.800Like I think of the girls in West Virginia, the middle schoolers who boycotted and shot put, which Outkick was the first to report on, by the way.
00:26:58.900I think of several instances of girls boycotting.
00:27:01.840But this, I thought, was really the perfect way to embody and highlight that that man atop the podium was a total fraud, and everyone recognizes it.
00:27:12.020You got into it with Jemele Hill a little bit over the weekend.
00:27:15.980Jemele Hill is a crazy person who used to work at ESPN, just kind of the female version maybe of Keith Olbermann, who you've also gotten into it over with.
00:27:23.420I just, three years ago, if only women had swam in your NCAA championship, where do you think you'd be?
00:27:32.440Well, my plan, what I was post-graduating from University of Kentucky, I was in dental school, actually set to specialize in endodontics, so root canals, basically.
00:28:06.020Our life would look a whole lot different had that man, that 6'4", again, as President Trump words it,
00:28:14.260mediocre man, not been in the pool with us, in the locker room with us that day.
00:28:18.980So, I think this is so important, because you get attacked, I think, unfairly, and I'm sure on a level that you never would have ever anticipated,
00:28:30.000for just being a woman who believes women's sports should be made up of women.
00:28:34.080And I love when I see your tweets, J.K. Rowling, just fearlessness, because this is not a complicated issue,
00:28:39.800but the only reason you have ended up doing what you are doing is because, one, you're fearless,
00:28:47.060but, two, you dealt with this directly, and you never want any other girls or women to ever have to deal with this either,
00:33:18.520You can take care, basically, of all of the challenges associated with whatever you leave behind financially, possessions-wise, by just getting everything written out in advance.
00:33:32.160It takes away a lot of the stress from your family, maybe a lot of the squabbles over who gets what and unfortunately happens.
00:39:16.840It's actually the antithesis of everything that science in many ways should represent.
00:39:20.880Well, it's the censorship industrial complex that silenced expert physicians from respected academic institutions
00:39:31.640that simply disagreed with Dr. Fauci or asked questions about the absolutism of the COVID recommendations.
00:39:39.660That was an ugly chapter in our nation's history, and I hope we never go back there.
00:39:43.980We're doing a lot to promote transparency and civil discourse now.
00:39:48.000I hope we can rebuild trust and the scientific process of wrestling and debating on ideas.
00:39:56.620At the FDA, we're doing a lot now with forums and bringing in people with different ideas to debate how we can do things differently,
00:40:05.760how we can address our chronic disease epidemic, how we can rethink our food supply.
00:40:09.540But to some degree, to be honest, Clay, I feel like we lost in some of the battles that we fought during COVID in the Biden administration.
00:40:20.880We fought like crazy to get the schools back open, and it was very divided.
00:40:26.080It was very polarizing, and for some crazy reason, it fell along partisan lines it shouldn't have.
00:40:32.340And we fought like crazy for the kids, and for the most part, we were not able to get the schools back open during most of that, you know,
00:40:42.280after the fall of 2020 for the next, for almost a year after that.
00:40:48.200You know, kids are still reeling back, and they're trying to recover.
00:40:52.640We have to, you know, almost rescue these kids now and give them special attention because of the learning loss.
00:40:59.360And I think the greatest untold story of the COVID battles was that the populations hurt the worst were the poor and minority communities in the United States.
00:41:11.340I practiced at the time at Johns Hopkins, and in East Baltimore, I mean, you close those schools and send the kids home with an iPad.
00:41:18.900It's not like your country club suburbs that are wealthy.
00:41:21.580And those kids took a horrible beating from these misguided COVID policies.
00:41:26.300So we're trying to rebuild public trust.
00:41:28.680Secretary Kennedy has got a great vision.
00:41:32.440Mehmet Oz is a transformational leader at CMS, and we're doing everything we can at the FDA to focus on our mission of delivering more cures for the American public and healthier food for children.
00:41:44.200What do you think, having been through these battles, you just hammered, and I think it's the worst part of COVID, frankly,
00:41:49.940is the fact that the poorest among us, the public school kids, I was a public school kid K-12, a lot of them left and didn't come back to school for over a year in physical person.
00:42:01.160These are the kids that have the less resources, don't have private tutors, don't have the ability to go to private school like Gavin Newsom's kids do.
00:42:08.500When you hear Randy Weingarten now say that she was working super hard to try to reopen schools, what's your reaction?
00:42:14.900Well, her group edited the school opening policy of the CDC to make it stricter, and those edits were incorporated in the final version that was published by the Biden administration and the CDC.
00:42:31.540And that was tragic because you did not have a scientific document.
00:42:35.280You had a document that was interfered with by a special interest group at the expense of children.
00:42:42.900So there's a lot of lessons we should learn from COVID, but I think the biggest lesson is that we should let scientists be scientists and do their job.
00:42:52.800The announcement again today, you came on this show for years, and I want to give you credit.
00:42:58.580I mean, my two youngest kids were certainly not ever going to get the COVID shot based on the data.
00:43:05.980And we talked a lot about natural immunity and the impact that it was going to have.
00:43:11.400It's been five years, and I know for many people out there, it feels still like the snap of fingers.
00:43:18.720What has to happen for public trust in health to return to where it was pre-COVID?
00:43:26.840I think we have to be successful as a new team coming in.
00:43:30.580I think we have to be incredibly transparent.
00:43:33.080I think we have to address the big issues of our day that we are not talking about.
00:43:38.760You know, COVID was a snapshot into how you saw a ruling class in America create rules for themselves that benefited themselves.
00:43:47.960They could send their kids to private schools.
00:43:50.180The country clubs were booming throughout COVID.
00:43:54.160For a lot of the Zoomocracy in America, they were going to work now in their pajamas on, you know, video conferencing.
00:44:01.760Come to inner-city Baltimore, it was an entirely different story, and you saw sort of the tyranny of the ruling class write rules for themselves.
00:44:13.140It is also with the great public health issues of our day.
00:44:19.760Why do 40 percent of American kids have a chronic disease?
00:44:23.960If you think about what we've been taught in medical school, it's this weird dynamic where we sort of blame kids for being sick.
00:44:32.080We don't talk about the food supply, the availability of healthy foods, food chemicals, food ingredients, all the stuff that are coming up in the Make America Healthy Again report that came out a week ago.
00:44:46.080So that is a fresh new perspective because we can't just keep talking about financing our broken health care system.
00:44:53.680We have to talk about fixing it, and to fix it, we have to get at these root causes.
00:44:57.500So we're changing the conversation from just talking about chemotherapy and insulin to actually talking about environmental exposures in the food we eat and school lunch programs.
00:45:09.600You're seeing action on the SNAP waivers by the USDA so that government dollars aren't going to all the sugary junk food in the SNAP program.
00:45:20.520You're seeing some real movement we've never seen before.
00:45:23.340So to rebuild public trust, in my opinion, Clay, we'll do it best by succeeding at actually making progress on improving the health of the population by addressing these root causes.
00:45:37.000When you are out traveling, and we're talking to Dr. Marty McCary, the FDA commissioner, his book is, I want to make sure that I get this right, the most recent book is, Ali, text me that again, I'll get it before we leave, Blind Spots.
00:45:53.300When you still see people wearing masks, going on airplanes, when you still see kids sometimes, I can't believe this is happening, still wearing masks, what do you think?
00:46:03.120Well, part of me thinks I don't know what their personal clinical situation is, but the other part of me thinks it may be somebody who's entirely young and healthy who has been misled and given a false sense of security that if they do this one mitigation step, that somehow they're going to help achieve a COVID zero world.
00:46:26.900Which, remember, for a lot of COVID, there was actually this mindset that we would get to zero COVID, that we would eradicate the virus.
00:46:36.300And so when I see somebody, I think I don't blame them.
00:46:40.200I blame the people who have given them the impression that if you wear a mask in public every day for the rest of your life as a young, healthy person, you're going to somehow live a healthier, greater life.
00:46:51.860Kids have had their face covered for nearly three years over some of this dogma in parts of the country, and the kids are sad.
00:47:00.900I mean, the one in four teen girls is being treated for depression.
00:47:08.240And so there are statistics that tell us we've got to not just have a myopic focus on viral transmission of one virus, but instead treat the entire person as a living, beautiful human being.
00:47:41.760Dr. Marty McCary, one of the heroes, along with Dr. Bhattacharya, I hope that when history is written of the COVID era,
00:47:49.340that guys like him and guys like Dr. Bhattacharya and many others who were willing to speak up against the tidal wave of inhumanity and anti-science,
00:48:00.000that their stories are a true story of heroism in the face of a great deal of attacks.
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00:50:55.540And there's several different things that I want to hit that I think are particularly important coming out of the weekend.
00:51:02.580So I'm going to play several of these things.
00:51:05.600But I want to start with Democrats are now, this is from the New York Times, doing a deep dive on what went wrong in 2024.
00:51:14.820And they have decided that they need to do a better job of pursuing young men.
00:51:20.840And this is, this in many ways sounds like what you would say when you discover a new tribe that has never had contact with the outside world before.
00:51:35.460Democrats just sound completely broken when it comes to understanding how to have a conversation with normal men out there.
00:51:47.600And I saw this story over the weekend in the New York Times and I just thought to myself, yes, we should definitely focus on this, Democrats.
00:51:59.140The prospectus for one new $20 million effort obtained by the Times aims to reverse the erosion of Democrat support among young men, especially online.
00:52:11.880And again, I'm reading from the New York Times.
00:52:13.460It is codenamed SAM, short for Speaking with American Men, A Strategic Plan, and promises investment to, quote, study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.
00:52:33.220It recommends buying advertisements in video games, among other things.
00:52:37.420I have talked about this quite a lot, and this is what my new book is about.
00:52:43.100It's about how Democrats lost young men.
00:52:45.480And I want to tell you a couple of analogies that are in the book.
00:53:27.100Pre-order your copy today with a link.
00:53:30.500Again, the book is called, it's going to be out in November, but you can get it for $14, I think, right now on Amazon, Balls, How Trump Young Men and Sports Saved America.
00:53:38.780And the cover of the book has two basketballs on the cover.
00:53:43.460And some of you are going to say, oh my God, like you're so immature.
00:53:47.520And yes, that probably is somewhat true.
00:53:49.400But I also want for people to be gripped by the argument.
00:53:55.480And the cover of a book is, not surprisingly, an opportunity to grab people and make them think about something or see something that they may not have seen before.
00:54:06.260And so I've spent a great deal of time in the last several months diving into the data, analyzing what exactly is going on with young men.
00:54:15.640And I want to hit you with a couple of stories that really are in the book.
00:54:20.240And again, the book's going to be out in November.
00:54:21.960I think you guys are really going to like it.
00:54:23.620If you're audio book people, I'll be reading it.
00:54:26.820Buck has got a great new book that's going to be out in January, too.
00:55:06.880If you've got kids or grandkids, I want to hit you with a couple of stories.
00:55:09.600Sometimes we don't see the world through the eyes of people who are of different ages than us, even though we might see many of the same things that they do.
00:55:23.400And I've got two stories that are examples and anecdotes that are in the book that really kind of crystallized the world for me.
00:55:44.940But in the COVID era in 2020, my then nine-year-old, my middle son, like a lot of your kids or grandkids, was obsessed with football cards, basketball cards, baseball cards.
00:56:01.440Well, YouTube has really, I think, fueled this because you unpack, you open these, you break, as they call it, these cards, and you go through and you look at them, and they have all sorts of special cards.
00:56:16.400I mean, it takes me back in time every time I walk into a card shop with my boys.
00:56:20.420And it just reminds me of being in the 1980s, 1990s, for many of you, 60s, 70s, whenever you were into 2000s, baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards.
00:56:33.900And we were going to Target during the COVID era.
00:56:37.280Everything, you know, by and large, shut down.
00:56:39.200My kids are really fired up about cards even more.
00:56:43.080This is when YouTube, it kind of took off people.
00:56:45.420Card value skyrocketed a lot of people sitting around watching.