Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Nov 19 2025
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Summary
The Epstein Transparency Act passed both houses of Congress and the Senate, and now the Justice Department has 30 days to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Clay and Buck discuss what that means and what it means for our understanding of Epstein.
Transcript
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Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now.
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So we know yesterday when I was on the air with you,
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oh, Clay will, in fact, call us from his super secret mission abroad this hour.
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He's traveling, but he wants to tell you what he's doing.
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One of you might have already guessed it, which was a pretty remarkable, remarkable thing.
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So looking forward to that as that conversation gets rolling.
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Now, now, we had yesterday the House all voting in favor of, except for one guy, a Republican,
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voting in favor of the Epstein Transparency Act.
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And then we had last night the Senate passing the same bill unanimously.
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Senators locked in agreement, automatically passing the bill as soon as it came in from the House.
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Once the president signs the bill, the Justice Department has 30 days to release materials related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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The president has already said that he believes this is or that he's supportive of this.
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Now, he has said that he thinks this is the right move.
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So we're going to get into what's going to happen here.
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It's not like we're going to know all of the details, even for some time here.
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There may be further redactions that happen or rather that we will have to contend with, because my sense is if the redactions are extensive enough.
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There have to be more things that are released.
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Another possibility is that there's nothing massive, and I say massive, in the information that is released, the files, if you will, of this investigation.
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And then people just say they hid stuff, and there's still a clamoring for more transparency, more...
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Those are some of the things that I think could come out of this.
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But there was this today, as I was preparing for our show here.
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Pam Bondi, the attorney general, referring to the Epstein investigation as a pending investigation.
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The issue with the new information that you just indicated, is the department seeking information, perhaps from the Epstein estate,
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because Mr. Blanche did not have that information when he interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell.
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And would you limit the new investigation to just those named persons that the president talked about,
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I would refer to the deputy attorney general's post that he put out on X,
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and we're not going to say anything else on that,
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because now it is a pending investigation in the Southern District of New York.
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Meanwhile, the House has demanded Epstein financial records from JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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No one outside of a very small circle knows what is in this release that Donald Trump,
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I am very confident, is going to sign the final step, if you will, before the release.
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We're going to wait a bit for this information.
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I don't know exactly how many days, but they have up to 30 days to release.
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But I sit here and I say to myself, because you know,
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and the House has already released 65,000 documents related to Epstein,
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you know very well that I have been pounding a certain drum on this issue of follow the money.
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It is completely unthinkable, unthinkable to me, or rather it should be unthinkable,
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maybe a better way of putting it, that we do not have a full accounting
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of how Epstein pulled together a fortune that was approaching a billion dollars.
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He was not some, you know, hedge fund guy running $30 billion of other people's money.
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And so this then brings up, how did he make this money?
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Why is it that there were some people in Epstein's orbit who were unbelievably,
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and I mean that in the real sense of can't believe it, unbelievably generous to him?
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The money, I think, is the single best chance we have to get these answers.
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According to the subpoenas that were just put out by the House,
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JPMorgan Chase began an internal investigation into accounts previously held by Epstein,
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flagging some 4,700 transactions as suspicious.
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Epstein held accounts and banked with Deutsche Bank from 2013 until 2018.
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So they're going back in here into the money trail.
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And I sit here wondering how it is, and by the way, I want to be clear that sometimes
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I will ask questions here that are rhetorical because something isn't adding up.
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How is it possible that we don't have a full and clear understanding of where all of Epstein's money came from?
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We've had a little bit here, a little bit there.
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And I might add, if it's somewhere already, if they have the flow chart of funds,
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if it's in the release, why haven't we already been given it?
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Why is it taking all of this pressure and all of this time,
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why is it taking us to this place to be in a situation to finally get those answers?
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Now, I think you can pretty much set your watch to this one, no matter what happens here
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This is all about getting Trump for the Democrats.
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And there's something very grotesque about Democrats suddenly caring.
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They didn't care about this during the Biden administration.
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Suddenly caring so much about the Epstein files, Epstein's victims, all of this.
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It's hard not to view it as posturing, because it is posturing, meant to create the moral high ground
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from which they can throw mud at Donald Trump, or at least the appearance of such a thing.
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No matter what happens with these files, I can assure you, they will not say, you know, you know, Trump is cleared.
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And so that also brings us to why I think Trump wasn't so immediately in favor of the release.
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Because no matter how much transparency he offers, or rather he gives,
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and for a lot of you, I understand, this is a follow-through on a campaign promise.
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And clearly Trump has decided that that's what's going to happen.
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This should have been done, I think a lot of people recognize now, sooner.
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A lot of you were calling in and demanding it, to which I just kept saying,
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And all we can do is air, as we did, our sense that there's more here,
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I think that has certainly been a very real motivation here, right?
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Telling people, having the Trump base come forward and say,
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Now, Speaker Johnson, he is pointing out here, this is cut one.
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He's saying that the president has nothing to do with it.
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They're going to attack Trump, even if his name doesn't appear one more time in the files.
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This is a political exercise for Democrats, and it pains me to say it.
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This is as deceitful and dishonest as their pointless stunt was to shut the government down.
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Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy, the unspeakable evils that this guy committed with his trafficking ring
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and all of the abuses that they made these young women go through.
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They're using that as a political weapon to try to distract from their failures as a party
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and to try their best to try to tie President Trump somehow into this wretched scandal.
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He's been very clear, and he has nothing to hide, and that's why he's endorsed the vote today.
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I think the president is about to show all of his naysayers, detractors, haters.
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They hate him in a way that is irrational and that is extreme to the point of being unhealthy,
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But they're not going to ever say that it's enough.
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You can never convince the people who have been trying to dirty Trump up with Epstein
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that there's not more to be found that would prove that Trump is really the bad guy.
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And, in fact, Chuck Schumer is out there saying already that this is, and this is cut three,
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one of the worst, most damaging moments of the Trump presidency.
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This will go down as one of the most damaging moments of Donald Trump's presidency.
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In trying so hard to hide the truth, Donald Trump has provoked the fiercest rebellion he's ever faced
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among his own supporters, both in Congress and around the country.
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All the lying, all the broken promises about transparency,
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all the bullying and threats to members of Congress who wanted these files released,
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His usual methods of intimidation and dishonesty have failed spectacularly in this instance.
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So we are to believe, if you listen to Chuck Schumer there,
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You know, the whole Schumer shutdown disaster for him politically.
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Whatever fastball he used to have is no longer there.
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Chuck Schumer is saying, this is such a disaster.
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We are to believe that the Biden DOJ, which was on a jihad against Trump,
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we are to believe that they had derogatory information about Donald Trump
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while they were prosecuting him in two federal criminal trials that were, as we know, political,
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totally politically motivated, but that they didn't release this?
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You have all these files, especially now with AI.
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You could find Trump's name and find every reference to him in seconds doing a simple search,
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and you could use AI to find anything that even vaguely is Trump adjacent in all these documents.
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So don't tell me, oh, they didn't have the manpower.
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They didn't have the ability to figure this out.
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No, they're doing this because, for one thing, unfortunately, they have been successful
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in completely changing the national political conversation away from the stupidity,
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the selfishness, and the absurdity and the destruction of the Schumer shutdown.
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You notice, does it even feel like we had a month-long government shutdown for no good reason
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It feels like it was years ago now because they've completely shifted the conversation.
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You know, I wish I had the power to direct the whole national conversation.
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We've got millions of you who listen, but there's 350 million people in the country
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when you add all the illegals, something like that.
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So here we are, and we're going to see Trump signing this,
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and then there's going to be more files released, and we'll continue to work through them.
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I was actually on with Piers Morgan for his show, which will be airing later today.
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And Piers dramatically, strenuously disagrees with me on this.
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He thinks that there are people who are going to go to prison over what's in the...
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I just don't see it because the DOJ then would have to admit that they were holding files
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that should have brought prosecutions for child sex traffickers.
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I mean, I'm not saying that it's impossible to believe the DOJ would do that,
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And then they're going to release it and have to say,
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Are people going to accept if they do put out all the stuff they've got in their possession?
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Will there be an acceptance that this is everything that they really have?
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It's evening, getting ready to go out and have some wine.
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I didn't want to step on anything about the process
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to be able to actually meet the Pope in person.
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sort of a Pope address in many different languages,
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and if they're asked what they're most proud of
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I mean this is all very very much there for so I
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I really think that there need to be more voices
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speaking to young women are not gonna some of you by the way very glad
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you're listening to the show but I don't know if a 43 year old guy
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telling women about their life choices is going to resonate with you
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know 20 somethings who love Taylor Swift like I understand that may not be
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my prime demographic for my message but we need more women who can speak
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effectively to them and it's for their own good because they're being led down
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a pathway that is not turning out well and the fact that you're getting close
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to almost half of women don't want to get married young women 18 year old
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women they don't want to get married now you could say oh maybe they still want
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to have kids and I would say to that you're gonna have kids you should get
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married okay you should you should have a stable family formation shouldn't do
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this shouldn't do this the baby mama thing or the shouldn't do this yeah
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producer Alley tells me some people are getting mad at Taylor Swift for getting
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married no no no this is this is very bad message they have okay on the good so
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that's on the bad side of things women young women are being absolutely
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brainwashed misled it's terrible I see it everywhere and the results are just
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going to be a lot of a lot of misery for them later in life a lot of regret I
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should say you know people can find purpose in a lot of things and I'm not
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saying you can't find purpose without a family and certainly not saying you
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can't find purpose without having children and a lot of people have
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difficulty having children but we're talking it's like policy what is going
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to bring the greatest happiness results for the greatest number of people
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getting married having a family pursuing a life where you are focused day to day
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outside of your own needs and wants it's so important it's so important to have
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things that you care about relationship with God your wife your husband your
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kids your immediate family you know your your family member that your caretaker
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are taking care of you have to care a cause that's actually worthy not like
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climate change but an actually worthy cause you have to care about things
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beyond yourself because otherwise you'll just go through the scale of hedonic
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adaptation things get better you get used to it materially things get better you
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don't care anymore you know I was I was recently out with a guy is a friend of a
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friend very nice guy and I'm not not putting him down but I just thought it's
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kind of funny there's a car called a Pagani which I think is cost like like four
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million dollars six minutes a car it costs millions of dollars I don't know it
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producer alley Google what a Pagani costs it's it's it's absurd and this guy has
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eight of them and let me tell you something the ninth Pagani he's probably
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going to lose it somewhere doesn't even care right you reach this point where
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that stuff doesn't matter you have to find meaning in other things meaning
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things outside of your immediate needs and wants on the upside though of this
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same pupil the fact that young men and I love it's a huge problem for the
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Democrat Party it's a huge problem for the woke left young men have gotten the
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message young men realize toxic masculinity is a toxic ideology of nonsense they
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have realized that that the suppression of traits in within masculinity bravery
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courage uh aggression concentrated in the right ways you know that that the
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suppression of these things wanting to be the leader of a family wanting to be the
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leader of of a of a community well what and whatever way that is wanting to be a
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leader in the workplace that the suppression of that is just absolute nonsense
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and really destructive and young men are realizing this is why they are turning
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away from the Democrat Party that's why young men are increasingly going back to for
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those uh those who are Christian going back to church they're they they want more they
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want to lead they want to be spiritual leaders they want to be people that they want to be uh
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someone that their wife can count on yes to defend them to protect them physically but
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also emotionally and spiritually to be there for that we want to have our roles we want to pursue
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the best of what it is to be a man young men want to get married in greater numbers according to pew
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they want to be masculine not you know just oh I'm shooting up a lot of steroids and you know I I look
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like uh he-man or uh whatever no it's about fulfilling their masculine imperative their masculine
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destiny to be men that they become good men they get it in greater numbers and it's just because of
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the failure of what the left is offering the undermining and the hypocrisy and the smugness of our
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culture of leftism and liberalism and all this other nonsense that's just constantly degrading and
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pulling men down they see it and they've had enough and they know there's something better and I just
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truly hope that the young women of America are on the precipice of a similar renaissance a similar
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rebirth of uh understanding but I'm not sure I worry women have been greatly misled and the damage is
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