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Speaker 1: Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now, and.
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Speaker 2: A couple of things.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit more about the race out in Los Angeles and in the state of California for the Governor's mansion, respectively, because it's just some really interesting dynamics playing out there. And I gave Spencer Pratt, who just so you all know, we have reached out. We are in the stages. I think of getting him to come and join us. Understandably, I think he's a little wary of media. That media people he does not know, and you know, we are a known energy to people who have been on the right and in politics for any length of time. But he is new to this game, and neither Clay nor I have particularly deep roots in reality TV. Although I wonder which one of us would last longer on Survivor.
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Speaker 2: I think you would. Actually, I take it back.
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Speaker 1: I think you just said I got a little extra storage, you know what I mean, so I could outlast them.
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Speaker 2: You know, I got more calories to go with it.
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Speaker 3: I know, I'm not sure if I'm getting stronger or fatter. It may be a combination of both, but I will say I think you may have more so. First of all, neither one of us would be good candidates. I think both of us would do poorly. So this is like, yeah, this is like saying, you know which fat kid is going to do better giving.
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Speaker 2: Up chocolate right in the ass, kicking content. This is not.
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Speaker 3: I think, well, actually, this is such a tough call. I think I would be better able to handle the the awfulness of living outdoors than you would. But I don't think I would be good at it. I just think you and I would both be awful at it. I think I might be a little bit less awful at it.
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Speaker 2: That may.
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Speaker 1: I think your attitude would probably would probably pull you through. I think I might have the edge on you when it comes to like fishing with a spear.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know why. I'm just making that up, but I think so. I think I don't think. I mean, I don't think that's I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't think I would be I think I would be awful at everything that has to do with survivor life. First of all, and I've made this clear before, I don't enjoy being outdoors.
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Speaker 2: And staying outdoors.
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Speaker 3: I like being outdoors and going back to a house. This whole idea of oh, let's just camp outside in the cold and the and the rain and the heat or whatever it is that is not appetizing to me. So the whole concept of being outdoors is not something that I would be in favor of.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, does that make sense? Oh? No, for sure, Yeah, I do not think.
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Speaker 1: I do not think I would be a I think this audience though, if we just did a quick like, if we just did a quick casting call, we could get some people, guys and gals out of the people listening right now, who would be survivor superstars. I bet some of you know how to do that stuff where you make the lean to and you make the caveman tools and all of it.
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Speaker 2: So I just I know you people I know.
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Speaker 3: Would Laura would do well much better than I would. I think she'd probably do better than you too. I think Carrie, Oh, Jerry's a house cat. Carrie's a house cat, just like me. She is not an outdoor One of the things when we were getting married, I was like, is it okay that I never want to take you camping?
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Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, that's that's fine.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I have no I was like, I'll stay in a hotel and go look at mountains. I'll hike, I'll be in the outdoors. I want to be in a bed every night. Growing up with a dad who made me go out there and put the air mattress thing that you blew up yourself on the rocky ground. Yeah, and waking up and it's really cold outside and you're shivering and your little uh, you know, sleeping bag and the whole thing. No, I'm good. I like thread count, I like a bed. I'm a house cat. And I know that know thyself to thine own self be true, Clay, and I know where we are in this, and a lot of you are like, you know, I could last three months in the ukon with just one match and a blade, you know. I know that's you guys. Neither of us are are up there for that. So okay, sorry, a little bit of digression there into reality TV. We're not bigger Reality TV world, but we'll try to get Spencer Pratt on. I had to just get into this story for a second here because I have some theories.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't even.
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Speaker 1: Say they're conspiracy theories. I just think they're theories. This story from Axios. Clay, we haven't spent a lot of time on Cuba here on the show, and it's very interesting. Cuba just had a meeting with the CIA director. Okay, this is Cuba in Cuba, that's what I mean. Yeah, of course in Cuba, CIA director and a bunch of people who are with them with faces blurred out because you know they're maybe undercover or they just don't want their identities out there meeting with senior communist. But by the way, it's just it's just a mafia Cuba is just a mafia state. You really think they're walking around talking about Leninism and you know the workers paradises.
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Speaker 2: No, it's a mafia state.
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Speaker 1: It's just a country run by an organized crime family known as the Castros.
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Speaker 2: And and you know, enough is enough. But clay this story.
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Speaker 1: So the CIA just met with them, and I think that's going to tie into this story. Axios not usually like it's lid, but not usually completely full of it, you know, they I wouldn't say there's been a lot of retracted Axios stories that I'm familiar with.
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Speaker 2: I trust Axio is probably more than CNN at this point.
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Speaker 1: Cuba, excuse me, Cuba has acquired According to Axios more than three hundred military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the US base at Guatanamo Bay, US military vessels, and possibly Key West. Whoa hey, it's like right in my backyard, ninety miles north of Havana. According to classified intelligence shared with Axios, Clay this to me is because I think there's something else going on, but this, if this is true, even I would have to say, this is the most pretextual. Oh, we're just gonna go in there and kick their asses the thing I've ever seen them.
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Speaker 2: Really.
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Speaker 1: Cuba's gonna they can't keep the lights on at night anywhere in the country basically, but they're going to start hitting us with drones.
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Speaker 2: They're going to pick a fight. Now.
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Speaker 1: It was pretty funny to read this. I was like, wow, guys, it's not too slick. If this is what we're going to.
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Speaker 3: Do buck, if Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine all weren't happening, Cuba would be a huge story. Yes, now you can say Venezuela, which is true, is directly connected to Cuba because it was our removing of Maduro that ended all of the free oil and gas that otherwise was flowing into Cuba or drastically reduced. Also, we told Mexico, hey, stop the flow of oil and gas into Cuba. But a few years into well, when we first started this program together, there were massive protests in Cuba, and I would submit to you that if Cuba were out there as a standalone issue, it would be one that everybody is talking about. I think that Cuba is going to fall as a communist state, and now what that's going to look like going forward, I think is going to be somewhat challenging. But to me, when we toppled Venezuela and again, everything is going so well in Venezuela that no one even mentions it. They're producing more oil and gas than they have in a very long time. The overall freedoms in Venezuela are better. Yes, they still need to have elections at some point in time. But when we basically remember the when when my oldest son was young, they had that game where you would throw what was it, the pigs?
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Speaker 2: Do you remember the flying pigs game? Am I the only one?
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Speaker 3: You were so young, I mean meaning you were so you weren't dating or or having a baby in yourself. What is the flying pig game? Does anybody in the anybody in the audience in our studio know the flying pig game? Uh? I know I'm going to be blown up when uh, when nobody does a flying pig island here it is right now? What what it's the it's it was the most popular. I think they were pigs. They turned it into a whole industry. You played the game and you shot them at the structure, and you tried to knock down the whole place.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, angry birds. I thought they were.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, angry birds.
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Speaker 2: I thought.
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Speaker 3: I thought they were pigs. My apology not angry not angry pigs, angry birds. This analogy would have worked really well if I nailed it instead of.
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Speaker 2: Real there's the flying pigs game. At the flying pigs birds pigs?
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Speaker 3: You know that you pull them so you set this link shot up and my kit, my five year old back in the day, loved this game.
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Speaker 2: And if you hit things perfectly.
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Speaker 3: You would hit one little support structure and everything around it would collapse. Venezuela was the support structure upholding Cuba and Mexico's support was another one of those. But really it was taking out Venezuela. There is no world in which I believe the existing Cuban government is going to survive. So I think the question, and Buck, you may have even studied this back in the day. In Cia, I know they've been studying it for sixty some odd years. The question is, how do you create a system that is better for the Cuban people without utterly collapsing whatever limited amounts of support existing Cuba right now? Because Cuba has what around nine million people off the top of my head, and all of those nine million basically wish they lived in Miami. It is like nine million people in Cuba and live in Miami is like a ninety five percent approval rating, right what that they wish? Every Cuban basically wishes they could live in Miami instead of Cuba, or at least live in Cuba and have Miami level lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Cuba is obviously in Miami.
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Speaker 3: How do you create a world in which all of Cuba doesn't immediately come to the United States and further collapse the existing Cuban economy?
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Speaker 2: And how do you? I have your answer?
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Speaker 1: I have, or rather I think I have what is being offered up right now as the answer to what's happened. I think the CIA director and I have no inside knowledge of this. I did not talk to anyone senior intel about it, but my sense, first of all, they're sharing that photo, which was very interesting, So that's that's an unusual You don't have a lot of CIA director meeting with basically an enemy regime photos that just get released from a CIA's official account. So that was sending a very clear message publicly. And Clay, I think the private message, which ties into the public message, was you guys saw what we did to Maduro. Right, you guys realize how easy this would be for us.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: We We're not saying we're gonna come. We're not landing the eighty second Airborn, We're not sending a marine expeditionary unit. You know, we're just gonna find who's the biggest pain in the ass, who the biggest pains in the ass and the government are, and we're gonna show up because we know you're all involved in all kinds of illegal stuff, including drug trafficking through your island, and we're gonna lock you up in the nastiest federal prison in America imaginable forever or or.
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Speaker 2: You can actually start to play ball.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that is the pitch the CIA director likely made to a to a you know Diaz Canal, you know, the guy who's running running Cuba now and his top lieutenants and whatever. I think it was basically, some of you are gonna go. You can either be on the good guy side of this, or you can be on the delta guys kicking in your door at three am and hopefully they take you into custody side of this.
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Speaker 2: Like, that's where this is.
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Speaker 3: I think I am cautiously optimist to be cautiously optimistic about a lot that Marco Rubio, who is I think spearheading this to a large extent, has been thinking about how to replace this Cuban regime for legitimately his entire life, and that this would be the equivalent if you are a Cuban kid growing up and being the guy who is in charge of finally dismantling the awful communist regime of Cuba is akin to being Neo in the matrix and finding out finding out that you are the Cuban neo. You have grown up and you are now able to fix everything that was wrong with this broken system in Cuba.
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Speaker 2: Having said that, I think.
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Speaker 3: By the way, that's a great uh that you want a good meme to turn Marco Rubio into the Cuban neo that is I would think would kill with the Cuban community out there. It's more I think it's going to be super difficult here because they are so decrepit and so run down trying to figure out how to bring some form of capitalism to Cuba and not make things immediately worse In the short term. I think it's gonna cost a lot of us money. I think we're gonna have to give them a lot of oil and gas. I think we're gonna have to give them a lot of support in order to stabilize the awfulness that they have. But we have big carrots to offer here along with you know, the stick is I think what we just talked about, which is the ore badass bearded dudes the middle of the night get you know, uh dropped right at your front door and they're they're kicking indoors your doors. Yeah, you're you're done zo. I think that has now been probably explained to the leaders of the Cuban because I'm sure they think, oh, look we can what are you gonna stop us with? We've seen, We've seen how well that Chinese stuff and Russian supplied stuff worked in Iran or in Venezuela.
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Speaker 2: By do you think you're gonna stop who was protecting Maduro? Cuba? Cubans? You wiped them out good. So your baddest.
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Speaker 3: Ass dudes are already waxed like they did not stand up very well for Maduro.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's I think they made the classic offer they can't refuse.
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Speaker 2: We'll see if they do, in fact refuse it. I think that would be unwise.
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Speaker 1: I think they will because I think that there's some worry that some of them will end up taking a dirt napp one way or another if they try to play ball with America.
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Speaker 2: But we'll see.
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Speaker 1: But Cuba, Cuba could be turned into a wonderful place, I think very rapidly. Oh, Clay, you know Europeans loved a vacation there. Even under the current situation. You get a lot of European investment, you get a lot of American investment. The beaches there, from what I understand, I obviously haven't been, but the beaches there are actually quite beautiful and there's a lot. I mean, the tourism industry would boom, but they've just ruined this place. Just communists ruin everything. The communists have ruined this place, and now there's a chance to turn around. I also, by the way, I'm very bullish on Venezuela. It's gonna take some time, but I think Venezuela in five years you're gonna have to You're gonna start to see stories when Stump's no longer in office. By the way, if there's a Democrat in twenty twenty nine, I promise you start to see stories about how Venezuela's just turned itself around, and it's so amazing what's happening with their oil industry. That's where that's going.
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Speaker 2: And then here we go.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the latest that would translate relatively well onto Oh, yes, this is the one we have talked before, Clay about the yoga mommies. Now, there are yoga mommies in a lot of places across America. They particularly I'm I live in yoga mommy Ground zero.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you this right now.
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Speaker 1: Every mommy around me is doing yoga, They're doing pilates or doing everything. Here in South Beach, it is the life. Everyone is going to class. And I live near a lot of these studios and everything else, So I know the yoga mommies. My wife is a yoga mommy in fact, so as is Clays.
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Speaker 2: She did she did.
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Speaker 1: I know she does every sport, but she does a little yoga. I know she does like working out.
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Speaker 3: It does crazy amount of every thing that keeps women in good shape.
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Speaker 2: So yes, there you go, she taught yoga for a while. I believe there you go.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, So so we got yoga mommy expertise here. And Spencer Pratt knows in Los Angeles you know the Lululemon brigade as you as you will. The lul Lemon brigade is very strong. There's a lot of ladies there too who are really into it. And he recognizes that this is generally a depends if they're married like their mommies. If they're married with kids, Republicans actually can do pretty well with them.
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Speaker 2: If they're single, it's a lot harder.
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Speaker 1: But here is a Spencer Pratt supporter ad and hat tip to Jeane Parmesan Interesting on X who came up with this ad that has now gone viral.
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Speaker 2: Listen to this, all right, class, great job today.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I have to tell you something.
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Speaker 3: Promise you won't get mad.
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Speaker 4: I'm voting for Spencer Pratt.
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Speaker 2: Get mad.
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Speaker 1: I'm voting for Spencer Pratt too.
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Speaker 2: Did someone mention Spencer Pratt.
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Speaker 1: No, no, oh, because I'm actually voting for him.
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Speaker 2: Oh so are we? I just don't know if we can say that too loud?
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Speaker 3: Over here, say what Spencer Pratt, He's got my vote?
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Speaker 4: Wait?
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Speaker 2: Is everyone here voting for Spencer Pratt? Clay?
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Speaker 1: All these for those who can't see it. If you've probably if you just wore on exit over the week and you probably saw it. Those are AI women. Okay, this this is what's amazing.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: They look very realistic. You can tell their AI, but just barely. And it certainly works for creative purposes. Attractive AI women and yoga pants saying that they're going to vote for Spencer Pratt. This goes viral. A couple of things happening here. One is being able to leverage AI as a tool of politics is now a thing that we're going This is now the game for at least for social media, for online content. This is the way that memes were really powerful. Clay, I think in the first Trump term, AI and the sort of mematic aspect of AI is now also a really big part of our I just think it's interesting.
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Speaker 2: It's part of the toolkit. Now it works, Yes, it works really really well.
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Speaker 3: The other part of that ad that I think is significant is it's white women, it's a black woman, it's an Asian woman, and you can say, Okay, well, how does that make any sense at all? You can't win in LA without the mom vote, and so I think that Spencer Pratt has been brilliant in the way that he has distributed both official and unofficial ads. And again to me, in two weeks ish, when the official California primary results are coming out, we're going to see how much of the virality online through social media is going to be reflected in the actual results. Because to be fair, Buck, we talked about this last week. Sometimes the media and we're in the media, makes people believe a story matters, and then when you see the results, you recognize how much of a lie or how inaccurate that was.
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Speaker 2: Right. The perfect example of this was Tony Hinchcliff.
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Speaker 3: The roast comedian, made a joke about Puerto Rico, and everybody tried to say that was at the Trump Madison Square Garden rally. This is going to change everything when it comes to Hispanic support, when it comes to how Puerto Ricans vote. And then Trump won Hispanic men and narrowly lost Hispanic women. And everyone who told you that that joke was going to change everything and spend a week talking about it was totally wrong. So to what extent is the Spencer Pratt momentum online which is huge and real, how much of that is reflective of real Los Angeles voters? And here's the other part of this. Sometimes the media talking about it can turn a story that wasn't on the radar to a certain extent onto the radar. So I think Spencer Pratt is going to be in a runoff with Karen Bass based on what I see online, and we're going to have a repeat of the Rick Caruso versus Karen Bass campaign, with the only change being this is really not a referendum on Spencer Pratt. It's a referendum on Karen Bass. And is Los Angeles willing to have a break the glass moment where they say things that gotten so nasty, so filthy in the city of Los Angeles that we have to clean things up.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's gonna be the question. And are the.
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Speaker 3: Normy moms normy moms out there, to your point, Buck, the moms who are going to yoga classes, the moms sitting in line dropping their kids off at school, the moms walking their young kids to the park. Is the Sprincer Pratt pitch, which is, I'm gonna make parks safe again. I'm gonna make it so that you're not having to step over needles when you walk out to go to a to go to an LA park.
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Speaker 2: Is that going to be effective? I think that's going to be an interesting question.
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Speaker 3: By the way, breaking news a jury has found open Ai not libel in the Elon Musk lawsuit about whether Open AI. I don't know how many of you followed this case, but Elon sued Open AI, which initially started as a nonprofit and has now turned into a trillion plus dollar for profit AI corporation. Elon Musk sued in a Oakland, California, Northern California courtroom, and that is that is a victory for Open AI and a loss for Elon Musk. The jury has found that that was not ah it was not improper, was not a violation of their nonprofit status. Elon Musk was going to donate whatever money he won to a nonprofit, so it's not going to be a dramatic impact but that news has just come down in the last five minutes as I am as I am going through and uh and catching up.
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Speaker 2: With all of this.
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Speaker 1: Okay, interesting these AI companies, I might add, there's there's I don't know how much of this is going to happen quickly, but I think it is going to happen. Where the AI is. We're having these conversations play about artificial intelligence, which sounds futuristic, but it's actually already here. I'm gonna say this. I took Weimo again. Uh, just yesterday I had to run an errand and I got into Weimo and let me tell you, it's amazing. You get into this car, it just takes you, drives you perfectly, takes you exactly where you want to go.
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Speaker 2: And there are other there.
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Speaker 1: Were some moments where I was like, oh, is it going to know to kind of go around this cone? And there was a construct It does everything. It does everything like you're whatever. It's almost like what you're thinking it should do, it will do. Now this is all leveraging the increases in technology, AI, GPS, all of these things that are now they're getting faster and faster all the time. The systems are getting better and better all the time, and so our conversation of this is going to have to evolve along with it. Autonomous driving is already here, just a question of how rapidly it has adopted and what that does to you know, a whole lot of different businesses and the efficiencies and also the job changes and all these things that are going to happen. And you saw over the weekend, I'm sure I think it was Ken Griffin was saying that some of the abilities now that they remember there's different levels of AI too, and like not everyone has access to the like really fancy stuff, but AI can do things that would have taken a high level like a chartered financial analyst a CFA or somebody with real you know, real finance and econ experience, hours maybe days, maybe weeks to do. AI can get you the answer and like a minute.
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Speaker 3: I went out two things. I went out to dinner with one of the top AI guys recently at one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
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Speaker 2: Wow, hey, hey, played Travis. Look at that. I peppered him with all sorts of AI questions.
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Speaker 3: And the biggest question that I think is out there is everything's feels so accelerated now. If you remember when the Internet took off, and a lot of you remember when the Internet took off, there was I felt like a period of time where Americans could get used to the fact that the Internet was coming, and everybody remembers y two k and what's going to happen? And you remember how long it used to take Buck, I don't know when you got the internet at home, but the getting online on a phone line, how long it took to download anything? Right that you've got mail on AOL. We had a period of time where I feel like many people were able to adjust when did you get your first email address? When did you start sitting down in front of a computer? When did the thing start to move to your phone? The progression of tech allowed people to feel comfortable with it. Over time. It feels like everything is happening instantaneously. And my question that I was most interested in, does this ever slow down again? Or are we on an accelerated timetable where everybody just feels like the world is spinning too fast for them? And he told me after about a couple in the next eighteen months or so that he thinks AI is going to slow down well, and people will start to understand how it's going to be implemented faster. You just talked about self drive, first time it's ever happened. I took my eleven year old to school today this morning and Tesla drove us there and it drove me home. I took him to the school elementary school the tesla and I'm watching it because it's there's kids running in every direction, and any of you who are going to elementary schools in the morning, you know what I'm talking about. He goes to a K to five school and it was flawless. I'm just telling you, you haven't gotten in a Tesla yet to have it self drive.
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Speaker 3: Guy just I never met him. He just came up to me at the birthday party and he said, hey, man, I've been seeing what you said about Tesla. I went and bought one. I echo everything that you have said. Things are going to be changing really rapidly. I think the next eighteen months and when people get uncomfortable. And I'm not a.
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Speaker 2: We saw on Saturday in Louisiana.
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Speaker 1: Pam from Anchorage wants to weigh in this is h on the talkback hit It.
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Speaker 4: I would like to point out that Clay would definitely do better on Survivor. Not only is Buck a house cat, He's a pampered housecat that looks for his cozy earth blanky to keep warm in his home when his thermostat is not set exactly right, and then looking for his crembrulat his pistachio cat. Clay, you've at least gone I would presume some sporting events well in clement weather and toughed it out for a couple hours. You definitely have the edge.
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Speaker 2: That's rough.
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Speaker 3: This is I felt the elbow on my chin there. I will say again, you and I would both do poorly on this. And yes, Pam is right. I've been to some bad weather conditioned games. But the older I get, the less willing I am to sit in any bad weather at all and watch a game. I got a great flat screen television at home, perfect weather.
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Speaker 2: I'm getting, Pam, Pam, I got illow news for you, Pam.
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Speaker 1: When Clay goes to sporting events, now people are serving him Bellini's with caviar on them at the sporting event. Okay, I'm just going to let you know a little secret here. It's not his days of the red solo cop drinking, whatever the heck they give him.
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Speaker 2: Those are long gone.
Speaker 1: Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now, and.
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Speaker 2: A couple of things.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit more about the race out in Los Angeles and in the state of California for the Governor's mansion, respectively, because it's just some really interesting dynamics playing out there. And I gave Spencer Pratt, who just so you all know, we have reached out. We are in the stages. I think of getting him to come and join us. Understandably, I think he's a little wary of media. That media people he does not know, and you know, we are a known energy to people who have been on the right and in politics for any length of time. But he is new to this game, and neither Clay nor I have particularly deep roots in reality TV. Although I wonder which one of us would last longer on Survivor.
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Speaker 2: I think you would. Actually, I take it back.
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Speaker 1: I think you just said I got a little extra storage, you know what I mean, so I could outlast them.
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Speaker 2: You know, I got more calories to go with it.
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Speaker 3: I know, I'm not sure if I'm getting stronger or fatter. It may be a combination of both, but I will say I think you may have more so. First of all, neither one of us would be good candidates. I think both of us would do poorly. So this is like, yeah, this is like saying, you know which fat kid is going to do better giving.
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Speaker 2: Up chocolate right in the ass, kicking content. This is not.
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Speaker 3: I think, well, actually, this is such a tough call. I think I would be better able to handle the the awfulness of living outdoors than you would. But I don't think I would be good at it. I just think you and I would both be awful at it. I think I might be a little bit less awful at it.
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Speaker 2: That may.
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Speaker 1: I think your attitude would probably would probably pull you through. I think I might have the edge on you when it comes to like fishing with a spear.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know why. I'm just making that up, but I think so. I think I don't think. I mean, I don't think that's I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't think I would be I think I would be awful at everything that has to do with survivor life. First of all, and I've made this clear before, I don't enjoy being outdoors.
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Speaker 2: And staying outdoors.
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Speaker 3: I like being outdoors and going back to a house. This whole idea of oh, let's just camp outside in the cold and the and the rain and the heat or whatever it is that is not appetizing to me. So the whole concept of being outdoors is not something that I would be in favor of.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, does that make sense? Oh? No, for sure, Yeah, I do not think.
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Speaker 1: I do not think I would be a I think this audience though, if we just did a quick like, if we just did a quick casting call, we could get some people, guys and gals out of the people listening right now, who would be survivor superstars. I bet some of you know how to do that stuff where you make the lean to and you make the caveman tools and all of it.
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Speaker 2: So I just I know you people I know.
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Speaker 3: Would Laura would do well much better than I would. I think she'd probably do better than you too. I think Carrie, Oh, Jerry's a house cat. Carrie's a house cat, just like me. She is not an outdoor One of the things when we were getting married, I was like, is it okay that I never want to take you camping?
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Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, that's that's fine.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I have no I was like, I'll stay in a hotel and go look at mountains. I'll hike, I'll be in the outdoors. I want to be in a bed every night. Growing up with a dad who made me go out there and put the air mattress thing that you blew up yourself on the rocky ground. Yeah, and waking up and it's really cold outside and you're shivering and your little uh, you know, sleeping bag and the whole thing. No, I'm good. I like thread count, I like a bed. I'm a house cat. And I know that know thyself to thine own self be true, Clay, and I know where we are in this, and a lot of you are like, you know, I could last three months in the ukon with just one match and a blade, you know. I know that's you guys. Neither of us are are up there for that. So okay, sorry, a little bit of digression there into reality TV. We're not bigger Reality TV world, but we'll try to get Spencer Pratt on. I had to just get into this story for a second here because I have some theories.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't even.
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Speaker 1: Say they're conspiracy theories. I just think they're theories. This story from Axios. Clay, we haven't spent a lot of time on Cuba here on the show, and it's very interesting. Cuba just had a meeting with the CIA director. Okay, this is Cuba in Cuba, that's what I mean. Yeah, of course in Cuba, CIA director and a bunch of people who are with them with faces blurred out because you know they're maybe undercover or they just don't want their identities out there meeting with senior communist. But by the way, it's just it's just a mafia Cuba is just a mafia state. You really think they're walking around talking about Leninism and you know the workers paradises.
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Speaker 2: No, it's a mafia state.
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Speaker 1: It's just a country run by an organized crime family known as the Castros.
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Speaker 2: And and you know, enough is enough. But clay this story.
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Speaker 1: So the CIA just met with them, and I think that's going to tie into this story. Axios not usually like it's lid, but not usually completely full of it, you know, they I wouldn't say there's been a lot of retracted Axios stories that I'm familiar with.
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Speaker 2: I trust Axio is probably more than CNN at this point.
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Speaker 1: Cuba, excuse me, Cuba has acquired According to Axios more than three hundred military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the US base at Guatanamo Bay, US military vessels, and possibly Key West. Whoa hey, it's like right in my backyard, ninety miles north of Havana. According to classified intelligence shared with Axios, Clay this to me is because I think there's something else going on, but this, if this is true, even I would have to say, this is the most pretextual. Oh, we're just gonna go in there and kick their asses the thing I've ever seen them.
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Speaker 2: Really.
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Speaker 1: Cuba's gonna they can't keep the lights on at night anywhere in the country basically, but they're going to start hitting us with drones.
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Speaker 2: They're going to pick a fight. Now.
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Speaker 1: It was pretty funny to read this. I was like, wow, guys, it's not too slick. If this is what we're going to.
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Speaker 3: Do buck, if Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine all weren't happening, Cuba would be a huge story. Yes, now you can say Venezuela, which is true, is directly connected to Cuba because it was our removing of Maduro that ended all of the free oil and gas that otherwise was flowing into Cuba or drastically reduced. Also, we told Mexico, hey, stop the flow of oil and gas into Cuba. But a few years into well, when we first started this program together, there were massive protests in Cuba, and I would submit to you that if Cuba were out there as a standalone issue, it would be one that everybody is talking about. I think that Cuba is going to fall as a communist state, and now what that's going to look like going forward, I think is going to be somewhat challenging. But to me, when we toppled Venezuela and again, everything is going so well in Venezuela that no one even mentions it. They're producing more oil and gas than they have in a very long time. The overall freedoms in Venezuela are better. Yes, they still need to have elections at some point in time. But when we basically remember the when when my oldest son was young, they had that game where you would throw what was it, the pigs?
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Speaker 2: Do you remember the flying pigs game? Am I the only one?
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Speaker 3: You were so young, I mean meaning you were so you weren't dating or or having a baby in yourself. What is the flying pig game? Does anybody in the anybody in the audience in our studio know the flying pig game? Uh? I know I'm going to be blown up when uh, when nobody does a flying pig island here it is right now? What what it's the it's it was the most popular. I think they were pigs. They turned it into a whole industry. You played the game and you shot them at the structure, and you tried to knock down the whole place.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, angry birds. I thought they were.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, angry birds.
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Speaker 2: I thought.
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Speaker 3: I thought they were pigs. My apology not angry not angry pigs, angry birds. This analogy would have worked really well if I nailed it instead of.
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Speaker 2: Real there's the flying pigs game. At the flying pigs birds pigs?
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Speaker 3: You know that you pull them so you set this link shot up and my kit, my five year old back in the day, loved this game.
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Speaker 2: And if you hit things perfectly.
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Speaker 3: You would hit one little support structure and everything around it would collapse. Venezuela was the support structure upholding Cuba and Mexico's support was another one of those. But really it was taking out Venezuela. There is no world in which I believe the existing Cuban government is going to survive. So I think the question, and Buck, you may have even studied this back in the day. In Cia, I know they've been studying it for sixty some odd years. The question is, how do you create a system that is better for the Cuban people without utterly collapsing whatever limited amounts of support existing Cuba right now? Because Cuba has what around nine million people off the top of my head, and all of those nine million basically wish they lived in Miami. It is like nine million people in Cuba and live in Miami is like a ninety five percent approval rating, right what that they wish? Every Cuban basically wishes they could live in Miami instead of Cuba, or at least live in Cuba and have Miami level lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Cuba is obviously in Miami.
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Speaker 3: How do you create a world in which all of Cuba doesn't immediately come to the United States and further collapse the existing Cuban economy?
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Speaker 2: And how do you? I have your answer?
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Speaker 1: I have, or rather I think I have what is being offered up right now as the answer to what's happened. I think the CIA director and I have no inside knowledge of this. I did not talk to anyone senior intel about it, but my sense, first of all, they're sharing that photo, which was very interesting, So that's that's an unusual You don't have a lot of CIA director meeting with basically an enemy regime photos that just get released from a CIA's official account. So that was sending a very clear message publicly. And Clay, I think the private message, which ties into the public message, was you guys saw what we did to Maduro. Right, you guys realize how easy this would be for us.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: We We're not saying we're gonna come. We're not landing the eighty second Airborn, We're not sending a marine expeditionary unit. You know, we're just gonna find who's the biggest pain in the ass, who the biggest pains in the ass and the government are, and we're gonna show up because we know you're all involved in all kinds of illegal stuff, including drug trafficking through your island, and we're gonna lock you up in the nastiest federal prison in America imaginable forever or or.
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Speaker 2: You can actually start to play ball.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that is the pitch the CIA director likely made to a to a you know Diaz Canal, you know, the guy who's running running Cuba now and his top lieutenants and whatever. I think it was basically, some of you are gonna go. You can either be on the good guy side of this, or you can be on the delta guys kicking in your door at three am and hopefully they take you into custody side of this.
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Speaker 2: Like, that's where this is.
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Speaker 3: I think I am cautiously optimist to be cautiously optimistic about a lot that Marco Rubio, who is I think spearheading this to a large extent, has been thinking about how to replace this Cuban regime for legitimately his entire life, and that this would be the equivalent if you are a Cuban kid growing up and being the guy who is in charge of finally dismantling the awful communist regime of Cuba is akin to being Neo in the matrix and finding out finding out that you are the Cuban neo. You have grown up and you are now able to fix everything that was wrong with this broken system in Cuba.
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Speaker 2: Having said that, I think.
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Speaker 3: By the way, that's a great uh that you want a good meme to turn Marco Rubio into the Cuban neo that is I would think would kill with the Cuban community out there. It's more I think it's going to be super difficult here because they are so decrepit and so run down trying to figure out how to bring some form of capitalism to Cuba and not make things immediately worse In the short term. I think it's gonna cost a lot of us money. I think we're gonna have to give them a lot of oil and gas. I think we're gonna have to give them a lot of support in order to stabilize the awfulness that they have. But we have big carrots to offer here along with you know, the stick is I think what we just talked about, which is the ore badass bearded dudes the middle of the night get you know, uh dropped right at your front door and they're they're kicking indoors your doors. Yeah, you're you're done zo. I think that has now been probably explained to the leaders of the Cuban because I'm sure they think, oh, look we can what are you gonna stop us with? We've seen, We've seen how well that Chinese stuff and Russian supplied stuff worked in Iran or in Venezuela.
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Speaker 2: By do you think you're gonna stop who was protecting Maduro? Cuba? Cubans? You wiped them out good. So your baddest.
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Speaker 3: Ass dudes are already waxed like they did not stand up very well for Maduro.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's I think they made the classic offer they can't refuse.
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Speaker 2: We'll see if they do, in fact refuse it. I think that would be unwise.
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Speaker 1: I think they will because I think that there's some worry that some of them will end up taking a dirt napp one way or another if they try to play ball with America.
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Speaker 2: But we'll see.
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Speaker 1: But Cuba, Cuba could be turned into a wonderful place, I think very rapidly. Oh, Clay, you know Europeans loved a vacation there. Even under the current situation. You get a lot of European investment, you get a lot of American investment. The beaches there, from what I understand, I obviously haven't been, but the beaches there are actually quite beautiful and there's a lot. I mean, the tourism industry would boom, but they've just ruined this place. Just communists ruin everything. The communists have ruined this place, and now there's a chance to turn around. I also, by the way, I'm very bullish on Venezuela. It's gonna take some time, but I think Venezuela in five years you're gonna have to You're gonna start to see stories when Stump's no longer in office. By the way, if there's a Democrat in twenty twenty nine, I promise you start to see stories about how Venezuela's just turned itself around, and it's so amazing what's happening with their oil industry. That's where that's going.
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Speaker 2: And then here we go.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the latest that would translate relatively well onto Oh, yes, this is the one we have talked before, Clay about the yoga mommies. Now, there are yoga mommies in a lot of places across America. They particularly I'm I live in yoga mommy Ground zero.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you this right now.
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Speaker 1: Every mommy around me is doing yoga, They're doing pilates or doing everything. Here in South Beach, it is the life. Everyone is going to class. And I live near a lot of these studios and everything else, So I know the yoga mommies. My wife is a yoga mommy in fact, so as is Clays.
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Speaker 2: She did she did.
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Speaker 1: I know she does every sport, but she does a little yoga. I know she does like working out.
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Speaker 3: It does crazy amount of every thing that keeps women in good shape.
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Speaker 2: So yes, there you go, she taught yoga for a while. I believe there you go.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, So so we got yoga mommy expertise here. And Spencer Pratt knows in Los Angeles you know the Lululemon brigade as you as you will. The lul Lemon brigade is very strong. There's a lot of ladies there too who are really into it. And he recognizes that this is generally a depends if they're married like their mommies. If they're married with kids, Republicans actually can do pretty well with them.
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Speaker 2: If they're single, it's a lot harder.
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Speaker 1: But here is a Spencer Pratt supporter ad and hat tip to Jeane Parmesan Interesting on X who came up with this ad that has now gone viral.
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Speaker 2: Listen to this, all right, class, great job today.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I have to tell you something.
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Speaker 3: Promise you won't get mad.
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Speaker 4: I'm voting for Spencer Pratt.
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Speaker 2: Get mad.
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Speaker 1: I'm voting for Spencer Pratt too.
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Speaker 2: Did someone mention Spencer Pratt.
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Speaker 1: No, no, oh, because I'm actually voting for him.
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Speaker 2: Oh so are we? I just don't know if we can say that too loud?
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Speaker 3: Over here, say what Spencer Pratt, He's got my vote?
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Speaker 4: Wait?
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Speaker 2: Is everyone here voting for Spencer Pratt? Clay?
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Speaker 1: All these for those who can't see it. If you've probably if you just wore on exit over the week and you probably saw it. Those are AI women. Okay, this this is what's amazing.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: They look very realistic. You can tell their AI, but just barely. And it certainly works for creative purposes. Attractive AI women and yoga pants saying that they're going to vote for Spencer Pratt. This goes viral. A couple of things happening here. One is being able to leverage AI as a tool of politics is now a thing that we're going This is now the game for at least for social media, for online content. This is the way that memes were really powerful. Clay, I think in the first Trump term, AI and the sort of mematic aspect of AI is now also a really big part of our I just think it's interesting.
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Speaker 2: It's part of the toolkit. Now it works, Yes, it works really really well.
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Speaker 3: The other part of that ad that I think is significant is it's white women, it's a black woman, it's an Asian woman, and you can say, Okay, well, how does that make any sense at all? You can't win in LA without the mom vote, and so I think that Spencer Pratt has been brilliant in the way that he has distributed both official and unofficial ads. And again to me, in two weeks ish, when the official California primary results are coming out, we're going to see how much of the virality online through social media is going to be reflected in the actual results. Because to be fair, Buck, we talked about this last week. Sometimes the media and we're in the media, makes people believe a story matters, and then when you see the results, you recognize how much of a lie or how inaccurate that was.
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Speaker 2: Right. The perfect example of this was Tony Hinchcliff.
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Speaker 3: The roast comedian, made a joke about Puerto Rico, and everybody tried to say that was at the Trump Madison Square Garden rally. This is going to change everything when it comes to Hispanic support, when it comes to how Puerto Ricans vote. And then Trump won Hispanic men and narrowly lost Hispanic women. And everyone who told you that that joke was going to change everything and spend a week talking about it was totally wrong. So to what extent is the Spencer Pratt momentum online which is huge and real, how much of that is reflective of real Los Angeles voters? And here's the other part of this. Sometimes the media talking about it can turn a story that wasn't on the radar to a certain extent onto the radar. So I think Spencer Pratt is going to be in a runoff with Karen Bass based on what I see online, and we're going to have a repeat of the Rick Caruso versus Karen Bass campaign, with the only change being this is really not a referendum on Spencer Pratt. It's a referendum on Karen Bass. And is Los Angeles willing to have a break the glass moment where they say things that gotten so nasty, so filthy in the city of Los Angeles that we have to clean things up.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's gonna be the question. And are the.
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Speaker 3: Normy moms normy moms out there, to your point, Buck, the moms who are going to yoga classes, the moms sitting in line dropping their kids off at school, the moms walking their young kids to the park. Is the Sprincer Pratt pitch, which is, I'm gonna make parks safe again. I'm gonna make it so that you're not having to step over needles when you walk out to go to a to go to an LA park.
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Speaker 2: Is that going to be effective? I think that's going to be an interesting question.
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Speaker 3: By the way, breaking news a jury has found open Ai not libel in the Elon Musk lawsuit about whether Open AI. I don't know how many of you followed this case, but Elon sued Open AI, which initially started as a nonprofit and has now turned into a trillion plus dollar for profit AI corporation. Elon Musk sued in a Oakland, California, Northern California courtroom, and that is that is a victory for Open AI and a loss for Elon Musk. The jury has found that that was not ah it was not improper, was not a violation of their nonprofit status. Elon Musk was going to donate whatever money he won to a nonprofit, so it's not going to be a dramatic impact but that news has just come down in the last five minutes as I am as I am going through and uh and catching up.
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Speaker 2: With all of this.
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Speaker 1: Okay, interesting these AI companies, I might add, there's there's I don't know how much of this is going to happen quickly, but I think it is going to happen. Where the AI is. We're having these conversations play about artificial intelligence, which sounds futuristic, but it's actually already here. I'm gonna say this. I took Weimo again. Uh, just yesterday I had to run an errand and I got into Weimo and let me tell you, it's amazing. You get into this car, it just takes you, drives you perfectly, takes you exactly where you want to go.
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Speaker 2: And there are other there.
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Speaker 1: Were some moments where I was like, oh, is it going to know to kind of go around this cone? And there was a construct It does everything. It does everything like you're whatever. It's almost like what you're thinking it should do, it will do. Now this is all leveraging the increases in technology, AI, GPS, all of these things that are now they're getting faster and faster all the time. The systems are getting better and better all the time, and so our conversation of this is going to have to evolve along with it. Autonomous driving is already here, just a question of how rapidly it has adopted and what that does to you know, a whole lot of different businesses and the efficiencies and also the job changes and all these things that are going to happen. And you saw over the weekend, I'm sure I think it was Ken Griffin was saying that some of the abilities now that they remember there's different levels of AI too, and like not everyone has access to the like really fancy stuff, but AI can do things that would have taken a high level like a chartered financial analyst a CFA or somebody with real you know, real finance and econ experience, hours maybe days, maybe weeks to do. AI can get you the answer and like a minute.
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Speaker 3: I went out two things. I went out to dinner with one of the top AI guys recently at one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
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Speaker 2: Wow, hey, hey, played Travis. Look at that. I peppered him with all sorts of AI questions.
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Speaker 3: And the biggest question that I think is out there is everything's feels so accelerated now. If you remember when the Internet took off, and a lot of you remember when the Internet took off, there was I felt like a period of time where Americans could get used to the fact that the Internet was coming, and everybody remembers y two k and what's going to happen? And you remember how long it used to take Buck, I don't know when you got the internet at home, but the getting online on a phone line, how long it took to download anything? Right that you've got mail on AOL. We had a period of time where I feel like many people were able to adjust when did you get your first email address? When did you start sitting down in front of a computer? When did the thing start to move to your phone? The progression of tech allowed people to feel comfortable with it. Over time. It feels like everything is happening instantaneously. And my question that I was most interested in, does this ever slow down again? Or are we on an accelerated timetable where everybody just feels like the world is spinning too fast for them? And he told me after about a couple in the next eighteen months or so that he thinks AI is going to slow down well, and people will start to understand how it's going to be implemented faster. You just talked about self drive, first time it's ever happened. I took my eleven year old to school today this morning and Tesla drove us there and it drove me home. I took him to the school elementary school the tesla and I'm watching it because it's there's kids running in every direction, and any of you who are going to elementary schools in the morning, you know what I'm talking about. He goes to a K to five school and it was flawless. I'm just telling you, you haven't gotten in a Tesla yet to have it self drive.
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Speaker 2: A guy came up to me.
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Speaker 3: I was at a birthday party over the weekend and he said, I've seen you talking about Tesla.
00:32:11
Speaker 2: I went and bought one, and he says, I let it drive me everywhere. Now.
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Speaker 3: Guy just I never met him. He just came up to me at the birthday party and he said, hey, man, I've been seeing what you said about Tesla. I went and bought one. I echo everything that you have said. Things are going to be changing really rapidly. I think the next eighteen months and when people get uncomfortable. And I'm not a.
00:32:33
Speaker 2: Huge crazy tech guy, so I get it.
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Speaker 3: I think that's going to create a discombobulated feeling and I think, combined with the affordability issues, there's just a lot of discomfort out there. I don't know how that's going to play out politically, but I think the affordability plus AI happening, there's just a lot of change and most people don't deal very well with change.
00:32:59
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Speaker 2: Today, miss the show while you're on the go. Wind down your day with the Daily Review podcast.
00:34:10
Speaker 3: Find it on the iHeartRadio app for wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back in Ola and Buck. We are rolling through the Monday edition of the program. We're going to be joined by Derek Dooley. Among one of the six primaries happening tomorrow Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. The last of the Republicans that President Trump is challenging Thomas Massey Kentucky four on the ballot, and that Buck is going to be I think the final test we saw in Indiana and the state Senate President Trump overwhelmingly won.
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Speaker 2: We saw on Saturday in Louisiana.
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Speaker 3: Julia Letlow, congratulations to her, is going to be the next Senator from Louisiana. And we will see whether Thomas Massey in Kentucky four is going to withstand the onslaught of President Trump as President Trump's chosen endorsed candidate is gal Rhine. And I may be mispronouncing that because I'm not a I have not seen these ads, so I have only seen their names written. But right now, gal Rhine or Galreen has moved into a substantial lead in the public markets, sixty one percent chance that he beats Thomas Massey live right now on both Calshi and Polymarket.
00:35:36
Speaker 1: Pam from Anchorage wants to weigh in this is h on the talkback hit It.
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Speaker 4: I would like to point out that Clay would definitely do better on Survivor. Not only is Buck a house cat, He's a pampered housecat that looks for his cozy earth blanky to keep warm in his home when his thermostat is not set exactly right, and then looking for his crembrulat his pistachio cat. Clay, you've at least gone I would presume some sporting events well in clement weather and toughed it out for a couple hours. You definitely have the edge.
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Speaker 2: That's rough.
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Speaker 3: This is I felt the elbow on my chin there. I will say again, you and I would both do poorly on this. And yes, Pam is right. I've been to some bad weather conditioned games. But the older I get, the less willing I am to sit in any bad weather at all and watch a game. I got a great flat screen television at home, perfect weather.
00:36:32
Speaker 2: I'm getting, Pam, Pam, I got illow news for you, Pam.
00:36:35
Speaker 1: When Clay goes to sporting events, now people are serving him Bellini's with caviar on them at the sporting event. Okay, I'm just going to let you know a little secret here. It's not his days of the red solo cop drinking, whatever the heck they give him.
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Speaker 2: Those are long gone.
