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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show, Friday, the thirteenth edition. We may have a little bit of fun with that before all is said and done. As an old school horror movie fan myself, I'm sure many of you out there are as well, I hope that this is not a terrifying day. However, for you guys, as you get ready to roll into the weekend with warm weather everywhere, this is going to feel much like summer to a lot of you. My co host Buck Sex that is, in Chicago, there was a massive kids party in downtown Chicago, perhaps to welcome Buck to Chicago City. He'd never been to before. So if you see him walking around the streets there with his girlfriend, he is likely going to be having a fantastic time. Weather seems good there. I asked him if he was going to go see a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field, and he said he hadn't even thought about it, and I at least encouraged him to go check out rig Gleeville, which is a phenomenal if you just want to go have a few beers and enjoy the fact that baseball is going on. But we've got a lot to get into throughout the course of today's program, I want to let you know where we're headed. Alex Barrenson is going to be with us at one o'clock Eastern. One of my writers who's been doing a fabulous job, Bobby Barak, he writes an OutKick. Encourage you guys to be paying attention to his work, and also if you just want to bookmark OutKick dot com, it's one of the only places that's saying in the world of sports and beyond. And then Rand Paul Senator, who has provoked a great deal of discussion over his refusal to sign on to a forty billion dollar aid package for Ukraine, which, by the way, I think we should be complimenting him for because all he's asking for is for there to be an inspector general connected to that forty billion dollars. And given how much of a kleptocracy Ukraine has been and our own government's failure oftentimes to track massive amounts of money that we are spending, look at what happened with the PPP program. But that will be an interesting discussion with him. All of that and more coming your direction, but I wanted to start with what has become readily apparent, the information arbitrage war that is going on every single day on Twitter, and there are a couple of breaking news stories. Woke up this morning to see that Elon Musk is potentially not going to buy Twitter. Although he says he remains committed to the purchase of the company, he is concerned about how many bots in other words, not real accounts there are on Twitter, and he has therefore put a pause on his potential purchase of Twitter. Now. To be fair, he is saying that he still intends to purchase Twitter, but the stock as we are speaking right now has dropped nearly nine percent. It's trading at forty one dollars and change. The company was supposed to be sold for fifty four twenty, so there's a massive discount going on right now. Now. Some of you out there are like, Okay, what could be going on here? I think what maybe at play here is Elon Musk lowering his potential purchase price for Twitter because he's aware that with the massive stock market sell off, we have seen trillions of dollars in value erased almost to the point where Joe Biden's entire tenure seventeen months now, the stock market is not far from going negative over that seventeen month period, and so as a result, tech company stocks have collapsed. And I happen to think that Elon Musk may be thinking to himself, fifty four dollars and twenty cents a share is way too much to be paying, when if I weren't buying this company, Twitter might be twenty five dollars a share, So he could walk away, allow the stock price to collapse, and then potentially come back and try to make a play for that. But this is important, and it is such a win for sane people in an insane world if Elon Musk buys Twitter, because right now the White House is still using Twitter to spread direct wise while accusing people like you and me and many of your coworkers who start to raise questions about the Biden administration of spreading disinformation. This morning, sorry this was yesterday afternoon. The White House tweeted out when President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available. That first sentence is a direct lie. In fact, Joe Biden got his COVID shot in December of twenty twenty, a full month before he took the oath of office. So that sentence from the White House, which has been lecturing all of us about the perils of disinformation, is a lie. And then the next sentence, in the last fifteen months, the economy has created eight point three million jobs and the unemployment rate stands at three point six percent, the fastest decline in unemployment to start a president's term ever recorded. This is direct disinformation. This is direct a direct lack of truth as well. And so what's at stake here? What is at play? The White House is asking for the power to determine what is truth and false in social media, in modern media today, while using those same platforms to directly spread lies and misinformation themselves. Now this is important because there's going to be a lot of discussion about this as we get closer to the midterms. The Biden administration is going to claim that they have created all these millions of jobs and that they have created a strong economy. We know that's not true because we're all struggling every single day with nearly double digit inflation. But when they claim that they have created as they did in this tweet, eight point three million new jobs, and it's the fastest decline in unemployment to start a president's term ever recorded. What you need to understand is this, we still have not regained all of the jobs that existed in March of twenty twenty, when we had fifteen days to slow the spread. We still have not regained. We're still, i believe, over a million jobs behind. We had the greatest economy in the history of the United States in February of twenty twenty, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, everybody's overall wages were growing, We had hit an unbelievable fifty plus year low in the unemployment rate, and we were just starting to hit full steam ahead thanks to all of the economic policies that Donald Trump and the Republican Party put in place to unlock the full growth of our economic potential. And then what happened COVID. COVID happens. We make the disastrous decision to shut down our economy and start to send trillions of dollars into the marketplace. That is only going to be exacerbated when Joe Biden becomes president in twenty twenty one and immediately adds another one point nine trillion in COVID spending that was unnecessary, and immediately adds another over one trillion dollars in the infrastructure bill, which you'll remember Buck and I saying also further created the apparatus here for nearly double digit inflation. And recall that we also were absolutely poised for another five plus trillion dollars in spending as a part of the Build Back Better Bill. If that had ended up happening, then we would be well into double digit inflation fifteen twenty percent. Who knows where the inflation rate might be if Joe Biden had gotten everything you wanted. So I start here talking with you about the information wars that are taking place every single day, and you guys listening know what I'm talking about. Whether or not you feel comfortable being able to share your opinion on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. There are people who want to be able to investigate you, to pay attention to what you are saying in terms of whether they believe it's true or false. And this idiot ministry of truth individual Nina Jankowitz, who has been hired by the Biden administration to be their Czar of misinformation. She now is saying, this is crazy that she wants people to be able to edit your own tweets and change what is said in those tweets if they decide that it is misinformation. Listen to this incredibly eatic idea. So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter the same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can add context to certain tweets. So, just as an easy example, not from any political standpoint, if President Trump were still on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the sixty lawsuits that went through the court, or something that an election official in one of the states said, perhaps your own secretary of State and his news conference is something like that, adding context so that people have a fuller picture rather than just an individual claim on it a tweet. This is madness. First of all, if you disagree with something that people tweet, you can dispute it, you can argue with it on Facebook, you can respond to a comment that you disagree with already and further contextualize what is being said. But what's going on here is we got a rigged system, and Elon must buying Twitter is a big part of ending that rig game, because guess what hasn't happened at all. It's not uncommon when I share a COVID detail, a COVID fact, that there's an appended statement underneath it about whether or not they consider it to be true or false. The Biden White House Live yesterday, this is a direct lie. When President Biden took off as millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available. Twitter has not done anything to label that tweet. There's no further context provided for this claim that Joe Biden has been the most successful economic president ever. That's what he's claiming. Yet every single one of you out there that is seeing shortages in baby formula, dealing with the highest gas prices in United States history, dealing with the highest inflation in forty plus years, every single one of you knows this is a lie. There is no response at all providing further context on these lies. And here direct quote. Biden receives the first dose of coronavirus vaccine publicly. He got it on December twenty first, twenty twenty. At the time that he took office, the Trump administration was administering one million COVID shots a day, over a million COVID shot today, and for the first several months of the Biden White House, they didn't accelerate that rate very substantially at all. They were implementing the existing policies and procedures that had already been put in place by the Trump White House. This is a lie. It's important to call out lies, particularly when the people who are lying to you are claiming that they are the ones telling the truth. That is a straight up nineteen eighty four George orwell, big government authoritarian move from the Biden White House. Nothing is being said at all. So that is the context on what's going on right now with Twitter, the battle for truth and for fairness, content neutral policies that should hopefully be put in place in the event that Elon Musk is able to complete this acquisition of Twitter. Now we got a lot to discuss. I will open up the phone lines, take some of your calls today here, given the fact that it is Friday, and we try to take calls fairly regularly when Friday's arrived two eight two two eight eight eight two two eight A two, encourage you to call in. Load up the lines. We'll take some of your calls today as well. But in the meantime, I want to tell you about our friend Mike Pillow Lindell, the inventor of My Pillow, and everybody over there that is helping to make sure that you get incredible offers as you are going into their website and right now they have to buy one, get one free extravaganza on multiple products you've heard us rave about in the past. With our promo code Clay and Buck, you can plug that in and get great buy one, get one free pricing on My Pillow, bedsheets, Giza eleganst my Pillows, six piece towel sets, and roll and go Anywhere my Pillows. All these products come with a sixty day money back guarantee. 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Refused to add that to the building. You know, I think it's fiscally or responsible to spend forty billion dollars with insufficient oversight. The Afghan War, you know, went on for twenty years, started out slow and then went on for twenty years. But we do have a special Inspector General who's followed this. He's written entire books on the waist and much of it has really at least slowed down the thieves. I mean, there are thieves everywhere. When government's handing out money, the thieves line up as well. And if you want to slow them down, you have to let them know there's going to be an inspector that looks at every dollar that's spent in Afghanistan. We would give like ninety million dollars to build a hotel, a luxury hotel while we're in that in the first place is one question. But then they would build half of a hotel or a third of the hotel, and the contractor would run off of the money. We found out about that because of this special Inspector General for Afghanistan, and so we advised that since this guy has a great track record and he's still got money in his budget, why don't we immediately turn it over to them. They're very, very capable. They're already up and running. We don't have to wait a year for the president to appoint somebody. We just put it into the baibywook of an already existing Inspector General. And you know, apparently Republicans and Democrats are so eager to send our money to a foreign country they don't want to have any sufficient oversight. I just I find it impossible to believe that this would be remotely controversial given what we just saw. And you know a better, naybody, Senator, the wasted money in pp P dollars, I mean billions of dollars that we wasted trying to run that program. Why would we not use an existing infrastructure program that we already have to monitor our own government spending and apply it to Ukraine as well? What are they trying? Why are they afraid of this? They're always more eager to send the money out than they are to be responsible with it. And look, this is how we got a thirty three into our debt. This isn't a Republicans and Democrats don't have a good track record on spending your money. But this is a government that spent one point five million to study of taking a selfie of yourself while smiling. If that would make you happy if you looked at that selfie later on in the day's chalk full of waste? No doubt we I obviously totally understand what you're doing here and support it, and a lot of our listeners do as well. You're being criticized, which is the normal routine now anytime you don't submit to everything that Ukraine wants, you are pro Russia. How would you respond to the argument out there that is being made by some of the left wing wounds that the reason you're doing this is because you're being a stooge for Vladimir Putin or for Russia. You know, I took an oath of office. My oath of allegiance is to the United States and to the US Constitution, no other nation, no matter how sympathetic we are. I'm sympathetic to Ukraine. I want food and to be defeated. I think what you did as an awful aggression. But my oath of office is to my country. You know, if we bankrupt our country, who's left to help anyone. So I'm for selling arms to Ukraine, for sharing things with Ukraine. But we gave fourteen billion two weeks ago. And the thing is is, once we get to sixty billion, it will be more or about the same that Russia spends in an entire year plus. But Europe is giving them. So, you know, it's sort of the same argument the President Trump made. Everybody needs to step up, but the NATO allies need to step up, and we don't need to be the sugar daddy and the policeman of the world that we have to do everything we can help. Sure but forty billion dollars will now make it in the space of too much. Will have given almost as much as Russia spends in a year. And we said, look at this in Afghanistan, you realize we were giving them. I think it was two hundred and fifty million dollars every three months in one hundred dollar bills. I'm not making this up. Palettes of one hundred dollar bills were airlifted into Afghanistan every three months for twenty years. So yes, the American government has a terrible history. And the guy that oversaw the waste and told us about the waist that happened in Afghanistan, this special inspector is perfectly poised to do it, and they don't want him in particular because they know he will ferret out the waist and he will point out the abuse. We're talking to, Senator m Paul. You're also a doctor, and a lot of people, certainly we've done it on this show, are pointing out the incongruity here, Senator, of sending forty billion dollars to Ukraine, while simultaneously many moms and dads are unable to find baby formula on the shelves right now, and in fact, Jensaki said, hey, what would you tell I'm sure you saw this clip. She said, what would you tell? What would you have parents do who can't find baby formula? She said, I'd have them called their doctors. What in the world is going on here that we can spend forty billion dollars on Ukraine but we can't get baby formula on our shelves in this country. Yeah, it's misplaced priorities. You know, he's been about six million on cancer research and we're spending forty billion on this. So the thing is is money should never be given in one huge lump sun without oversight. It's a bad idea. But we don't have the money. We will borrow this money from China to send it to Ukraine. It's not like we have a big vat of money, a big rainy day account. We just say, well, you know, we've done very well this year. Why don't we send some of it to help somebody else fight for democracy. This is equivalent to that if you want to help someone in your community and you don't have any money, you say, you know what, I'll go down to the bank and I'll borrow a thousand dollars and I'm gonna give it to the Salvation Army. Well it might sound noable, but isn't noble to give money money give people money you don't have. We're at trillion dollars short every year, and then they started going crazy on the COVID bailouts, and we added six trillion more in the last two years. We have double digit inflation. The lockdown has still so completely screwed up the economy. We don't have baby formula. So yes, I think there are priorities we can be helpful in the world, but we are not the sole repository of all the body in the world, and we shouldn't shovel it out so fast without oversight that it actually hurts our country. Like I said, I'm sympathetic to Ukraine, but my allegiance is to my country. I have to make sure that the United States is doing okay before we give it away the house or give away the farm. Our good friend flip Flop Fauci came out Senator and said the pandemics over. And then now he's come walked that back and says, oh no, the pandemic's not over at all. And the Biden White House is now saying we may have one hundred million new COVID cases in the fall and the winter. Based on your experience as a doctor, how would you assess the way that COVID is going right now and what should the government be doing, if anything, as we get ready for the summer. The first thing that everybody needs to know is if you test a thousand people randomly anywhere in America, you'll find that ninety seven percent or more have immunity. They either got the immunity from the vaccine, or they got community from having the disease, or both. Seventy five percent of kids under eleven. By the fall, it's going to be one hundred percent of all the kids under eleven. We'll have had this for better or worse. That's with vaccine. Without vaccine, people are still going to get it. But the good news is almost everybody in our country has some form of immunity, So we're going to be okay with this no matter what happens. No big predict the exact case, Colt. But if you want to know whether or not to pay attention to doctor Fauci, I'll tell you this. When the court when the US Federal Court struck down the mandate on wearing masks on planes. Doctor Fauci said, how dare the courts? How dare the Constitution? How dare anybody who bleeds? An individual for you didn't say anything about his mandates because Bigali, he is science, and how dare the courts? That is in arrogance we have never seen in an elected official, much less a bureaucrat. He believes that the courts and their interpretation of the Constitution have nothing to do and should have no oversight on his dictates. That is about the most Unamerican policy and proposal and attitude I've ever heard of. I appreciate you bringing up the airplanes as well there, because the last time we talked to you, you were having a press conference at the Nashville Airport in favor of the removal of mask mandates. Since that has happened, no great surprise to you or me or many of our listeners, But I do think it's worth mentioning. We haven't seen a massive airline shortage based on sickness. There haven't been hardly any cancelations. Overall, complaints and issues between passengers and people working on those planes have plummeted. How do we keep the mask mandate from being returned going forward, and it's night and day when you travel on the airport, people are alive again. People are friendly. TSA agents are padding me on the back and thanking me. The flight attendants are coming up and wanting their fishers taken, saying thank you so much for getting rid of these ridiculous things. So we have to we have to, you know, let people know the numbers. But I can tell you this, if the Democrats want to get wiped out in November, look at the unofficial poll in the airport. Ninety seven percent of the people disagree with Fauci or discounting his advice, and their assessment of the risk is they don't need the mask. Ninety seven percent of the people. If the Democrats want to campaign on mandates on Fauci bringing the mandates back on the courts bringing it back, they are completely insane and they're going to be wiped out in the fall because ninety seven percent of travelers don't want to wear a mask. Did you win the eighty to one long shot bid on the Kentucky Derby this past weekend? Do you have any success there? I only wish I saw that horse that horse would not get in the gate. He was jumping all over the place. I should have been on that horse. And then you see wins the race and he's still fighting with the other horses. Talking about moxie. Man, that horse had some moxie. Now, by the way, that on the horse that was trained in Bowling Green where I live, and it got second. It was a favorite, and I did, of course gwin place and show. So I took away less than I put in. But we usually consider that sort of a peric victory, no doubt. By the way, Bowling Green's a great town in Kentucky for people who haven't been there before. It's also Friday the thirteenth. And if I'm not mistaken, Howoween the original Halloween was set in Bowling Green, Kentucky, wasn't it. You know, I'm not positive that there is a connection somehow to the producer, but I'm not sure if it was actually in film there. But I can tell you for certain, we do make the Corvette. We are home of the Corvette. That's great. It's a great museum there as well. Appreciate the time, Senator, have a fantastic weekend and appreciate all the fights you're fighting for us. Thanks guys. That is Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky, the man who has a crazy idea. If the United States government is going to spend forty billion dollars, let's just make sure that it's not being wasted. Let's have an inspector general actually review the forty billion dollars in expenditures. We know how much money. You heard him talking about how much money we wasted an Afghanistan until we got an inspector general. You know how much money that we wasted with the PPP. As much as ten percent of the eight hundred billion dollars handed out was stolen. We know that government spends money and efficiently. How in the world is it remotely controversial to one an inspector general reviewing the money that we are spending to make certain that that money is not going and being stolen by kleptocrats. In Ukraine, where we already know there is a massive issue associated with thievery, this seems like the very essence of what a public servant should do. Make sure that the money we're spending, at a bare minimum, actually goes to what we're trying to spend it on. Sure tax dollars, my tax dollars, our tax dollars. Thanks to Rampaul, we come back, we'll break down because they take your calls by the way to one two eight two two eight eight two. But a lot of you out there, you're starting your day with a hot cup of coffee. Also coming up on the third hour of the show here, coming up on three o'clock on the East coast, coming up on noon on the West coast. Maybe you need a little pick me up right now. Well, I've got the absolute perfect brand for you. It's Black Rifle Coffee. 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Website again to get this great coffee from this great company, Black Riflecoffee dot Com twenty percent off by using our names Clay and Buck, Black Rifle Coffee, America's coffee. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. We're having a good time. On Friday the thirteenth. We bring in one of the really talented young writers who is doing good work every single day at the website that I sold to Fox last year, almost a year to this day, OutKick dot Com. I'd encourage you to add it to your repertoire places that you go visit if you're looking for sanity in an insane world. But Bobby, I want to start with this. It's Friday the thirteenth. You haven't been prepped on this. Is there a scary movie that to you is the greatest of all scary movies, Like if you had to watch a scary movie tonight, which one would you pick? And why? So? The answer has to be the Shining Clay, right, because out of all the goofy characters that we've seen in horror movies, nobody's been more authentically terrifying than a crazy Jack Nicholson that's stuck in that lodge all winder so to me, when he's chasing after his family with the acts and stuff, you turn all the lights off. Nothing's more terrifying than that. And I say that as someone that saw Conjuring opening night in the theaters at all the school they am what everybody when everybody started clapping when they heard those voices in the basement, that was unbelievable. By the way, we're gonna open up phone lines in the third hour eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. But if you are a huge horror movie fan and you want to weigh in with what people should watch tonight, given the fact that it's Probay at thirteenth, you can load up the phone lines. We'll take some of your calls throughout the course of the remainder of the show on that topic, all right, Bobby, you do fantastic work for us at OutKick, and I couldn't believe that the NBA did this. We talk a lot at OutKick about the degree to which sports has turned into basically woke sports. It's taken over the universe of regular sports fans and they constantly are lecturing us. And the worst in terms of lecture, I think, I think you'd probably agree is the NBA. And so the NBA pulled their All Star game. We got a lot of people listening in North Carolina out of Charlotte over a transgender bathroom bill. And then they end up now going to the United Arab Emirates, which if you are gay you can be put to death there, and it feels like OutKick and to a certain extent, Fox News, which bill on a lot of Outkicks work, are some of the only outlets even discussing this. How crazy is the hypocrisy? Yeah, and there's no other league that gets protected by the sports media like the NBA. Is I mean, this music going on for years right now. The fear that broadcasters from an ESPAD and The Ringer and CBS and New York Times have calling out the NBA is really second to none. And what I find so fascinating about this is Clay. The NBA just turned the corner for the first time in four years by moving out of politics, by focusing just on the games. And what do you know, their weeks reaching near record highs, highest opening first round since twenty fourteen and first coome a context. The NBA ratings plummeted to all time lows. When they really embrace the quote unquote racial record in the country, they put Black Lives Matter across the court. I mean, the MBA lost almost forty eight percent of their audience would they embrace social justice messaging, and it took them three years to get it back. So all of a sudden they're just now focusing back on the game and people love it. Now they make a statement like this, they're in jeparty, I think again, of losing some of their more moderate political audience, which is just insane business decision now. Also, Phil Mickelson got destroyed to such an extent. Golfer out there, who a lot of people listening to us right now play golf. I know. Phil Mickelson got destroyed for negotiating with Saudi Arabia about a new golf league effectively and he didn't even agree to it, He certainly didn't sign on to do it. Yet the NBA criticism is minor relatively speaking. How can you justify Phil Mickelson getting crushed like he did for negotiating with Saudi Arabia compared to the NBA getting a pass with United Arab Emirates, Well, you can. That just goes back to that who is playing about how the media protects the NBA, particularly the sports media, because you know, you and I are some of the only people that have really called out Lebron James hypocrisy and some of the other NBA players right away. Every time we do this, somebody from like the Athletic or The Atlantic comes after us saying, oh, well, you guys don't like because the NBA players stuck out for you know, black riots and racial injustice and all that stuff. You get none of that when you criticize Phil Mickelson. So it doesn't surprise me that top shows like Pardon Interruption will lead an entire day condemning Phil Mickelson for thinking about going to Saudi Arabia, but not mention this because there's no pushback by going after Phil Mickelson, an old white male golfer. But going after some of these NBA players who are so active and popular on Twitter, that comes with another degree of backlash that quite frankly, most journalists and TV anchors don't have the backbone to withstand. Speaking of journalists and TV anchors, ESPN, I still think this is shocking. And we're talking, by the way, with Bobby Barak. He does fantastic work at OutKick. Encourage you to go checkout a OutKick dot com to read a lot of what he is doing on a day to day basis. ESPN stopped programming in March during the NCAA Women's basketball tournament. I think a lot of people out there listening right now may not even know this to criticize the Florida Parents Rights Bill, which kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third graders are not going to be taught about sex related issues. Again, ESPN on their programming stopped and had a moment of silence. L Duncan, I believe is who was hosting this ridiculous charade. Yet they're not going to even say a word about the NBA going to the UAE. They claim that they cared about gay people, but as we just said gay people can be put to death in the UAE. Same thing for the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks, who also have had walkout situations. What in the world is going on here that ESPN can have this woke stance as it pertains to the state of Florida for a bill that frankly, a lot of their people aren't even smart enough to understand why they sounded like such idiots for this protest, and yet they're not going to be right saying a word about the UAE or the NBA's relationship there. Yes, l Duncan, like You said, goes on air during a college basketball tournament says it's so unfair to the LGBT community that these teachers won't let the kids say gay, which obviously is not true. There's nothing in the bill that fans you from using the word gay. That's not what it does. It basically tells teachers, you know, don't talk about sex change and transgenderism with third graders and younger. So she doesn't even know what the bill says, but she interrupts a game to spread that talking point, saying this is an attack on the LGBT community. Then she goes on Twitter a little after saying, well, I have friends that are LGBT, so it's my job to use my large platform to stand out for them and protect them. Yet, like you said, the the league that she claims to be her favorite is now partner up with a country that if you're gay, they're allowed to punish you by debt. Moreover, Clay L Duncan is frequently interacting with joy Read on Twitter, who posted a bunch of homophobic posts on her blogs a couple of years ago. Of course, so l Duncan brands herself as the gay rights activist at ESPN, Yet she's talking with joy Read and not saying a word about the MBA deal with a country that can kill you for being gay. So, to me, there's no bigger fraud at ESPN than Earth. There's a lot of people on that list to consider it. Right now, I think she's in a league of her own. She's a clown and she's a hypocrite, and frankly, I'm not even sure she's smart enough to understand how much of a clown and a hypocrite she is. But it's part of the larger network environment that ESPN has created created Bobby for people who may not be super plugged in in the world of sports, how left wing is the sports media that covered sports? As we talk a lot about the left wing bias in politics from MSNBC and Washington Post and the New York Times and CNN and all these outlets that everybody immediately recognizes and acknowledges, has that left wing bias. A lot of times, the ESPN's of the world slide under the radar, and the extreme left wing bias of the sports media outside of places like OutKick almost doesn't even get called out at all. Right, And I don't is anybody more qualified to talk about this than you and I, because I don't think anybody on a daily basis delves into bolts of political media landscape in the sports media's landscape like we do. And yet there is a perspective of news media leans left, which it absolutely does, but the sports media leans in that direction so much further because here's the thing. The reason what sports media is is that most of the people are sort of bitter and they feel like they need to prove what side they're ounds. You see, so many people just never miss an opportunity to call somebody racist for something that's not a racist. At least in the news media, you have alternative outlift that can push back on that prominent outlift, and too OutKick, there was nobody in the sports media space that could even get a moderate opinion just to push back and say, wait a minute, what you're saying is not factual. That all these sports anchors saying that this bill prohibits the word of gay. If there wasn't an OutKick, there would not be a single website that covers sports that would have said that. So I think the biggest thing is if there is less of a voice in alternative sports media than there is news media. And I find that so unfortunate because I go to a sports bar or go to a sports game, and I think so many people are just so fed up with what's going on, but their voices are not a representative representative because so much of the sports conversation for so long has been dictated by ESPN, the Washington Post, NBC Sports all the which lean probably as far left as CNN, and an ESPN's case, as far left as MSNBC. I don't think there's any doubt if you enjoy this conversation and you want to have a little bit of sanity in your sports life. I'd encourage you to check out Bobby Barak. Also checkout OutKick dot com Bobby by the way, data also out there. Major League Baseball pulled the All Star Game out of Georgia because they said that it was Jim Crow two point zero. So the voting has surged in Georgia. Another lie, another thing that sports got wrong. Yeah, I think my favorite one is actually I think when Biden called it Jim Crow on steroid, Jim Crow two point oh. It's pretty good, but Jim Crow on steroids even better. Yeah, it's just another example of sort of these sports companies and major corporations acting irrationally out of fear. So what happened here is MLB commissioner Rob Manford. He saw the push to say that Georgia's bills were holding black people back with an example of volor suppression, so he felt he needed to make a statement to show everybody, well, he's not a racist. You can't call me a racist. I pulled the All Star Game out of Atlanta, But as you say, it didn't suppress any votes. Of voting is up double since twenty eighteen and moreover, what ended up happening. He took the All Star Game to Colorado, which arguably has more stringent voting laws than Georgia, And in the meantime, he ended up just taking money away from black owned businesses in Atlanta. So what did he accomplish? Nothing? Thankfully, the Braves won the World Series and got to host three World Series games instead. Bobby, keep up the good work. Appreciate it, my man Clay, Appreciate it. Great speeches inspire us. They make you think, they inspire us to act. They reassure us all of our beliefs. Hillsdale College knows this too, and for as long as fifty years now, they've reprinted the words from great speeches in a monthly magazine digest. They call this publication and Primus, and it's delivered every month to some six million plus readers. As you start to receive and read this publication, it will remind you of our nation's great heritage of liberty. These days, Hillsdale publishes people like Victor Davis Hanson, Molly Hemingway, Mark Stein, and Chris rufo Imprimus is delivered for free each month as a gift from Hillsdale College, no strings attached. They just want you to be informed and reminded of the value of our liberties. To get a free subscription. 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Right, you can go from apple to any other fruit product. Right. If you want a beer, I'm gonna have some adult beverages tonight down at the I'm down on by the way that Florida Panhandle having an awesome time down here. We got a lot of listeners from all over the country. I met a bunch of them last night out to dinner. But if you want to go with an adult beverage, maybe you're a bud light guy, you could probably make do with Miller Light or Core's Light. If you're a parent and you need baby formula, there isn't a fungible alternative. I've been through this. I know a lot of dads and moms know the feeling where you suddenly realize you're out of baby formula. It's late at night, and you walk into that twenty four hour grocery store to go by the Similac or the Infamil, whatever brand you might be dealing with, and you know that that is incredibly important because you've got a crying baby back home, because you've got a baby that's hungry, because you have to maintain and provide for that baby, and there aren't hardly any fungible alternatives because the baby is still feeding from the bottle. Well, Jensaki is in the White House. We just told you it's her last day. She was asked yesterday about the baby formulas shortage, and she blamed it on people who are are hoarding baby formula. That's really what the White House response is. Now, listen to this. If you are a parent who's looking for formula right now, struggling to find what you need, you have even a rough guess of how long these shortages are going to last. What's your parents be bracing for here, Well, we've already seen an increase in supply of the past couple of weeks. What we are seeing, which is an enormous problem, is hoarding. People hoarding because they're fearful, that is one element of it. And people hoarding because they are trying to profit off of fearful parents. So that is also something we're focused on. I don't know. I've lived in America my whole life. I never remember a time when hoarding baby formula would have been remotely effective because there was plenty of it. Joe Biden, Bear selves Biden, of all the things that we could be running out of, right now. Running out of baby formula is absolutely absurd. We took phone calls on this earlier this week. You may recall from the East coast to the West coast, people were calling into the program talking about the difficulty they are having finding baby formula. It's just such an extent that grandma's and grandpa's are getting drawn into the search process in many different places. All right, final few minutes here, final twenty minutes or so of the program for the week. Let's have a little bit of fun open lines eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. I pointed out earlier in the show that it's Friday the thirteenth, and the most scary series of movies that I have ever seen are the Conjuring films, but there have been other films. I went and saw paranormal activity by myself. My wife, and at that time, I think we had two kids were out of the house. I came back home to the house by myself. I left every light on in the entire house, and I also propped the door so it couldn't be opened. I guess thinking that the ghost wouldn't just float through the door, But I was at the time. I don't know. Thirty seven, thirty eight year years old, fully grown man, and I had all the lights on in the house after going to see Paranormal Activity. I love scary movies. I love, by the way, the Scream series in terms of pure enjoyment as a kid growing up, I was a big night Mary on elm Street fan. A lot of you want to weigh in, so let's take some of your calls here on open Line Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Dave down in Miami. I'm asking you what the scariest movie you have ever seen? If you had to give a recommendation to people to watch a scary movie tonight, which one would you go with? Dave? Who you got? I would totally be quick here to listen the conjuring, Paranormal Activity, Exorcists aren't even scary movies. They're all good. I watched the movie that messed me up for three days. I don't know anything about Shadow People. Tell me what the general plot of Shadow People is. It's about a radio talk show host that's trying to investigate this mysterious shadow People that people are reporting about. That thing mess me up. I'm gonna look it up. Didn't bother me. I have to watch scary movies by myself anyway, because my wife doesn't watch. My kids don't wat scary movies. Thank you, but this one got you. David Miami says, Shadow People, Ali, I'm gonna put you on. I'm already a little bit afraid there because he says it's about a radio show host. I don't need any terrifying radio show host movies. I don't want to be unable to get out of bed over or cold up underneath the covers over a radio show movie. Tim in Raleigh, North Carolina. By the way, thanks to everybody listening in Raleigh playing Buck show number one in the entire market. What is the scariest movie you have ever seen? What should people watched him play? Thank you for what you do, amazing show. Appreciate your movie. The perfect movie for Buck right now is The Relic. It's I'm a Chicago. It's the Museum in Chicago, and it's about a scientist who goes to some tribe in the middle of nowhere and it doesn't work out well for him. The Relic. I don't know this movie either. I'm not. I'm actually writing these down because I'm genuinely curious. I'm always looking for a new scary movie to check out, because i do really like scary movies. But I'm not familiar with either of those. Denise in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Denise, are you a UNC tar heel or are you a Duke? Blue devil? Or is that an insulting question to ask somebody in Chapel Hill. I'm from Florida, so you're neither watch I won't watch Night of the Living Dead. The Night of the Living Dead you won't watch. By the way, did you say you're from Florida? So that means you don't have a chosen team. You live in Chapel Hill, You're not on team UNC or team Duke. No, I live here because of my granddaughter that I won't watch The Dead Night of the Living Dead. Thank you to called Denise. Denise might be the only person in Chapel Hill who can dodge the question of blue devils or tar heels because a little bit like being down in Alabama, and if somebody says, are you in Auburn, an Alabama person, you immediately have an answer. Then East living in Chapel Hill, she has no affiliation in the biggest basketball rivalry in the country right now, at least in States. Bob in Rochester, New York, Bob, what you got for us? I'm back in nineteen seventy nine and the original Alien movie. Oh, that was the Sigourney Weaver Original Alien movie is pretty spooky. They had thanks for the call. They had was a Universal Studios where they had the Alien ride in the amusement park and it comes down. I think it was Universal Studios back in the day. And I took my kids through and this has been like seven or eight years ago, and they were really rattled and we watched a little bit of Alien and it was terrifying to them. It's one of those horror movies that holds up. George, by the way, in Florida has another movie that I'm not that familiar with. George, what part of Florida? Are you in Melbourne on the East Coast? Yeah? Yeah, So what's the movie that you're saying. It's Friday the thirteenth Scariest Movie if you had to get people's suggestion. Well, this came out in the seventies and it was a really cheesy movie. But when I first saw it, scared the dig inside of me. It was called fantasm. Yeah, I don't know fantasm either. By the way, thank you for the call. All over the country people weighing in. You can weigh in at Clay Travis on Twitter as well. I put this poll question up. It wasn't even a poll question. It was just, hey, what do you have? What do you have out there? And I knew, by the way, some people were gonna respond this way John Rich? Who a lot of you were going to know? The country music singer? He responded, So I just put up on Twitter for everybody out there, and you can go vote and get in a debate. I think what seven hundred comments beneath this Friday the thirteenth, What's the scariest movie ever made? Debate and discussed below. This is on Twitter. I'm at Clay Travis. John Rich, fabulous success as a country music singer said the scariest movie ever made is the one we're living through right now. So the Biden administration, and I can certainly understand. I knew someone would think that, and certainly I don't disagree. Of all the presidents we've had in my lifetime, Joe Biden is the one I trust the least to solve any issue at all that might arise in this country. Final segment of the week up next. We'll keep the phone lines open. One eight two eight two two eight a two. It's Friday the thirteenth. This is the Clay and Buck Show, and I want you guys to know inflation continues to weigh outpace wage growth. A few companies are giving cost of living allowances that match, let's be honest, at eight point three percent inflation rate we're all dealing with right now. You want to talk about scary household budgets are getting crushed. So how do you help to put your household budget in order? Call American Financing. Look, I know a lot of you out there right now are making decisions on where to buy gas based on what the prices are up on the boards as you're driving by. I know that a lot of you are going into grocery stores and you're buying and Eric products maybe instead of the name brand products, because you're just trying to save a little bit of money. Everybody out there just about is having their finance is challenged by what's going on with the inflation rate. You know what the biggest expense most of us have in our lives a home we're going to buy. That is where the vast majority of us are going to spend them most money. Yet, how much time you're saving money with gas, you're saving money with grocery stores. How much time to most people give over to saving money with the right mortgage rate? Nowhere near as much. Well, I'm asking you to give ten minutes of your time to American Financing and let them put your financial house in order. If you own a home, maybe you've got a lot of equity value now that you can unlock. If you don't own a home yet, getting the right rate is incredibly important. Again, all it takes is one ten minute call eight hundred seven seven seven eighty one o nine. Maybe you're gonna get home tonight and you're gonna talk with your spouse and you'll say, hey, I was listening to Clay. He keeps talking about calling American Financing ten minutes. Did you do it? And if you haven't done it yet, you can be the hero of the family just in time for Friday the thirteenth. End the scary costs that many of us are having to pay for our mortgages that are unnecessary eight hundred seven seven seven eighty one oh nine. You can also visit American Financing dot net MLS one eight two three three four mls, Consumer Accessorg. Welcome back in Glay Travis buck Sexton show Buck in Chicago for the long weekend. If you are in the Windy City, keep your head on a swivel for Buck. He will be back on Monday with me. But we've had a great time with you guys so far. On the Friday edition of the program podcast Wise, Alex Barrenson was phenomenal in the second hour of the program, answering a lot of questions Twitter band Alex Barrenson, Bobby Barrack, who is a writer at OutKick, also great, and then Senator rand Paul at the top of this final hour, dealing with the forty billion dollars in Ukraine, aid that he has a radical idea, how about we have an inspector general to verify that we don't waste all of it. Seems very very reasonable. We're having some fun taking a lot of calls about what exactly is your favorite horror movie since we are right now obviously on Friday the thirteenth, and a lot of you have weighed in want to give the show. The show crew all put their picks in Ali Silence of the Lambs, very very scary movie back in the day. Anthony Hopkins man, how good was he in that? And the Clarisse character who was played by Oh yeah, Jodie Foster. She was creating that too, Greg twenty eight days later, Mike, these are all the people who work on the show. Dracula's daughter Dean Evil Dead. Mojo went with young Frankenstein. Lisa went with Jaws. And I have to say, I think Jaws is the single most influential movie that has ever been made in American history. And some of you out there like you're crazy Clay, now think about it. I'm down at the beach right now. I'm going to go in the water when I get done with the show. And when I go in the water, I will think, at least for a moment, I hope I don't get eaten by a shark. Every single person, and a lot of this was such a back in the day when this movie was made. You've probably gotten scared of sharks swimming in a lake. You've probably gotten scared of sharks swimming in a swimming pool. At night. That's how impactful this movie is. I'm not sure that any movie ever made has ever impacted the American cultural conscience the same way that Jaws has. Andrew went with Jacob's Ladder. That was a spooky movie. And then Dub, Look, if I had to pick someone to win a fight to the death that works on the show, Buck well, Buck, you know he was in the CIA. I don't even know. Buck might have all sorts of crazy, you know, choke you out, you know, or you know, make you pass out by bending your thumb the wrong way. But Dub is a big dude. Dub said, I hate scary movies. He's the biggest guy on the show, six probably six four two forty, and he's afraid to watch scary movies. Okay, so we got a couple more people who want to weigh in. Before I do that, just want to say we're coming up on the one year anniversary of Clay and Buck and we are loving being able to spend three hours with you guys every single day all over the country. Thank you for letting us do this job. I really do think, and I know I speak for Buck as well, that we have the best jobs in the entire country. I'm excited to get out of bed come talk with you guys every single day. Thank you for making this such a fun experience. As we come up on the one year anniversary of this show. All Right, Dan in Buffalo, Wyoming, which is a heck of a name for its down what movie are you rolling with? I'm rolling with a TV movie made in nineteen seventy two that you can still watch on Netflix. It's called Gargoyles and it was absolutely terrifying. I was nineteen years old when it came on TV. I was at home alone one night watching the television and it struck. It struck a nerd with me, and I haven't forgotten about it until over fifty years or fifty years it's been. Yeah, I appreciate that, Dan, I need to get out to Wyoming. By the way, I've never spent any time in Wyoming. I love the Yellowstone television show, and spoiler alert, they dump all the dead bodies allegedly from Montana in Wyoming in a big crevice there By the way. Yellowstone is a really fun show if you need something to watch that is not really scary. Adam in Florida, what part of Florida. Are you in, oh, Florida? Where in Florida? Laurco? Oh? Okay, yes, what would you roll with as the scariest movie vs here on Friday the thirteenth? You ever hear of Burnt Offerings? No, you guys are giving me a lot of scary movies that I'm not familiar with. I do know the omen which I think is another one that you liked. That's right, see Burnt Offerings. That that's with Oliver Read and Karen black Ye and Betty Davis has a little part in it. Now I appreciate the call. I'll have to check. I have been jotting down a bunch of these scary movies to check out, and let's go ahead and close out the week. Jim in Nantucket, mass As. It gotten warm up in Nantucket yet have all the people from out of town started to roll in yet? Yeah? They starting to roll in. But my movie was Playmisty for me. Jessica Waters was a knife wielding psychopath stock in Clint Eastwood. Interesting. We watched it. We watched it as a little movie theater would go to during the week, about ten of us and would all sit separately. By the end of the movie. We're all in the same roll and I walk home. I walk home on the dark street to my house. I can't go to sleep, so I put TV on. Jessica Watts. This is the guest on Johnny Coon Show No showing the worst clips of the movie. Thank you for the call. Good luck with the influx of out of towners. I appreciate all of you. Encourage you to have fantastic weekends. I am Play Travis and this has been the Clay and Buck Show. Go subscribe to the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a single moment. We have had so much fun. We've got a one year party coming up in a little bit. I'm gonna make the trip up to New York City and hopefully they'll let me into some of the businesses there. Buck will be back on Monday. Thanks for hanging with us. Have fantastic weekend. Fleet Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show, Friday, the thirteenth edition. We may have a little bit of fun with that before all is said and done. As an old school horror movie fan myself, I'm sure many of you out there are as well, I hope that this is not a terrifying day. However, for you guys, as you get ready to roll into the weekend with warm weather everywhere, this is going to feel much like summer to a lot of you. My co host Buck Sex that is, in Chicago, there was a massive kids party in downtown Chicago, perhaps to welcome Buck to Chicago City. He'd never been to before. So if you see him walking around the streets there with his girlfriend, he is likely going to be having a fantastic time. Weather seems good there. I asked him if he was going to go see a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field, and he said he hadn't even thought about it, and I at least encouraged him to go check out rig Gleeville, which is a phenomenal if you just want to go have a few beers and enjoy the fact that baseball is going on. But we've got a lot to get into throughout the course of today's program, I want to let you know where we're headed. Alex Barrenson is going to be with us at one o'clock Eastern. One of my writers who's been doing a fabulous job, Bobby Barak, he writes an OutKick. Encourage you guys to be paying attention to his work, and also if you just want to bookmark OutKick dot com, it's one of the only places that's saying in the world of sports and beyond. And then Rand Paul Senator, who has provoked a great deal of discussion over his refusal to sign on to a forty billion dollar aid package for Ukraine, which, by the way, I think we should be complimenting him for because all he's asking for is for there to be an inspector general connected to that forty billion dollars. And given how much of a kleptocracy Ukraine has been and our own government's failure oftentimes to track massive amounts of money that we are spending, look at what happened with the PPP program. But that will be an interesting discussion with him. All of that and more coming your direction, but I wanted to start with what has become readily apparent, the information arbitrage war that is going on every single day on Twitter, and there are a couple of breaking news stories. Woke up this morning to see that Elon Musk is potentially not going to buy Twitter. Although he says he remains committed to the purchase of the company, he is concerned about how many bots in other words, not real accounts there are on Twitter, and he has therefore put a pause on his potential purchase of Twitter. Now. To be fair, he is saying that he still intends to purchase Twitter, but the stock as we are speaking right now has dropped nearly nine percent. It's trading at forty one dollars and change. The company was supposed to be sold for fifty four twenty, so there's a massive discount going on right now. Now. Some of you out there are like, Okay, what could be going on here? I think what maybe at play here is Elon Musk lowering his potential purchase price for Twitter because he's aware that with the massive stock market sell off, we have seen trillions of dollars in value erased almost to the point where Joe Biden's entire tenure seventeen months now, the stock market is not far from going negative over that seventeen month period, and so as a result, tech company stocks have collapsed. And I happen to think that Elon Musk may be thinking to himself, fifty four dollars and twenty cents a share is way too much to be paying, when if I weren't buying this company, Twitter might be twenty five dollars a share, So he could walk away, allow the stock price to collapse, and then potentially come back and try to make a play for that. But this is important, and it is such a win for sane people in an insane world if Elon Musk buys Twitter, because right now the White House is still using Twitter to spread direct wise while accusing people like you and me and many of your coworkers who start to raise questions about the Biden administration of spreading disinformation. This morning, sorry this was yesterday afternoon. The White House tweeted out when President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available. That first sentence is a direct lie. In fact, Joe Biden got his COVID shot in December of twenty twenty, a full month before he took the oath of office. So that sentence from the White House, which has been lecturing all of us about the perils of disinformation, is a lie. And then the next sentence, in the last fifteen months, the economy has created eight point three million jobs and the unemployment rate stands at three point six percent, the fastest decline in unemployment to start a president's term ever recorded. This is direct disinformation. This is direct a direct lack of truth as well. And so what's at stake here? What is at play? The White House is asking for the power to determine what is truth and false in social media, in modern media today, while using those same platforms to directly spread lies and misinformation themselves. Now this is important because there's going to be a lot of discussion about this as we get closer to the midterms. The Biden administration is going to claim that they have created all these millions of jobs and that they have created a strong economy. We know that's not true because we're all struggling every single day with nearly double digit inflation. But when they claim that they have created as they did in this tweet, eight point three million new jobs, and it's the fastest decline in unemployment to start a president's term ever recorded. What you need to understand is this, we still have not regained all of the jobs that existed in March of twenty twenty, when we had fifteen days to slow the spread. We still have not regained. We're still, i believe, over a million jobs behind. We had the greatest economy in the history of the United States in February of twenty twenty, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, everybody's overall wages were growing, We had hit an unbelievable fifty plus year low in the unemployment rate, and we were just starting to hit full steam ahead thanks to all of the economic policies that Donald Trump and the Republican Party put in place to unlock the full growth of our economic potential. And then what happened COVID. COVID happens. We make the disastrous decision to shut down our economy and start to send trillions of dollars into the marketplace. That is only going to be exacerbated when Joe Biden becomes president in twenty twenty one and immediately adds another one point nine trillion in COVID spending that was unnecessary, and immediately adds another over one trillion dollars in the infrastructure bill, which you'll remember Buck and I saying also further created the apparatus here for nearly double digit inflation. And recall that we also were absolutely poised for another five plus trillion dollars in spending as a part of the Build Back Better Bill. If that had ended up happening, then we would be well into double digit inflation fifteen twenty percent. Who knows where the inflation rate might be if Joe Biden had gotten everything you wanted. So I start here talking with you about the information wars that are taking place every single day, and you guys listening know what I'm talking about. Whether or not you feel comfortable being able to share your opinion on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. There are people who want to be able to investigate you, to pay attention to what you are saying in terms of whether they believe it's true or false. And this idiot ministry of truth individual Nina Jankowitz, who has been hired by the Biden administration to be their Czar of misinformation. She now is saying, this is crazy that she wants people to be able to edit your own tweets and change what is said in those tweets if they decide that it is misinformation. Listen to this incredibly eatic idea. So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter the same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can add context to certain tweets. So, just as an easy example, not from any political standpoint, if President Trump were still on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the sixty lawsuits that went through the court, or something that an election official in one of the states said, perhaps your own secretary of State and his news conference is something like that, adding context so that people have a fuller picture rather than just an individual claim on it a tweet. This is madness. First of all, if you disagree with something that people tweet, you can dispute it, you can argue with it on Facebook, you can respond to a comment that you disagree with already and further contextualize what is being said. But what's going on here is we got a rigged system, and Elon must buying Twitter is a big part of ending that rig game, because guess what hasn't happened at all. It's not uncommon when I share a COVID detail, a COVID fact, that there's an appended statement underneath it about whether or not they consider it to be true or false. The Biden White House Live yesterday, this is a direct lie. When President Biden took off as millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available. Twitter has not done anything to label that tweet. There's no further context provided for this claim that Joe Biden has been the most successful economic president ever. That's what he's claiming. Yet every single one of you out there that is seeing shortages in baby formula, dealing with the highest gas prices in United States history, dealing with the highest inflation in forty plus years, every single one of you knows this is a lie. There is no response at all providing further context on these lies. And here direct quote. Biden receives the first dose of coronavirus vaccine publicly. He got it on December twenty first, twenty twenty. At the time that he took office, the Trump administration was administering one million COVID shots a day, over a million COVID shot today, and for the first several months of the Biden White House, they didn't accelerate that rate very substantially at all. They were implementing the existing policies and procedures that had already been put in place by the Trump White House. This is a lie. It's important to call out lies, particularly when the people who are lying to you are claiming that they are the ones telling the truth. That is a straight up nineteen eighty four George orwell, big government authoritarian move from the Biden White House. Nothing is being said at all. So that is the context on what's going on right now with Twitter, the battle for truth and for fairness, content neutral policies that should hopefully be put in place in the event that Elon Musk is able to complete this acquisition of Twitter. Now we got a lot to discuss. I will open up the phone lines, take some of your calls today here, given the fact that it is Friday, and we try to take calls fairly regularly when Friday's arrived two eight two two eight eight eight two two eight A two, encourage you to call in. Load up the lines. We'll take some of your calls today as well. But in the meantime, I want to tell you about our friend Mike Pillow Lindell, the inventor of My Pillow, and everybody over there that is helping to make sure that you get incredible offers as you are going into their website and right now they have to buy one, get one free extravaganza on multiple products you've heard us rave about in the past. With our promo code Clay and Buck, you can plug that in and get great buy one, get one free pricing on My Pillow, bedsheets, Giza eleganst my Pillows, six piece towel sets, and roll and go Anywhere my Pillows. All these products come with a sixty day money back guarantee. 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Refused to add that to the building. You know, I think it's fiscally or responsible to spend forty billion dollars with insufficient oversight. The Afghan War, you know, went on for twenty years, started out slow and then went on for twenty years. But we do have a special Inspector General who's followed this. He's written entire books on the waist and much of it has really at least slowed down the thieves. I mean, there are thieves everywhere. When government's handing out money, the thieves line up as well. And if you want to slow them down, you have to let them know there's going to be an inspector that looks at every dollar that's spent in Afghanistan. We would give like ninety million dollars to build a hotel, a luxury hotel while we're in that in the first place is one question. But then they would build half of a hotel or a third of the hotel, and the contractor would run off of the money. We found out about that because of this special Inspector General for Afghanistan, and so we advised that since this guy has a great track record and he's still got money in his budget, why don't we immediately turn it over to them. They're very, very capable. They're already up and running. We don't have to wait a year for the president to appoint somebody. We just put it into the baibywook of an already existing Inspector General. And you know, apparently Republicans and Democrats are so eager to send our money to a foreign country they don't want to have any sufficient oversight. I just I find it impossible to believe that this would be remotely controversial given what we just saw. And you know a better, naybody, Senator, the wasted money in pp P dollars, I mean billions of dollars that we wasted trying to run that program. Why would we not use an existing infrastructure program that we already have to monitor our own government spending and apply it to Ukraine as well? What are they trying? Why are they afraid of this? They're always more eager to send the money out than they are to be responsible with it. And look, this is how we got a thirty three into our debt. This isn't a Republicans and Democrats don't have a good track record on spending your money. But this is a government that spent one point five million to study of taking a selfie of yourself while smiling. If that would make you happy if you looked at that selfie later on in the day's chalk full of waste? No doubt we I obviously totally understand what you're doing here and support it, and a lot of our listeners do as well. You're being criticized, which is the normal routine now anytime you don't submit to everything that Ukraine wants, you are pro Russia. How would you respond to the argument out there that is being made by some of the left wing wounds that the reason you're doing this is because you're being a stooge for Vladimir Putin or for Russia. You know, I took an oath of office. My oath of allegiance is to the United States and to the US Constitution, no other nation, no matter how sympathetic we are. I'm sympathetic to Ukraine. I want food and to be defeated. I think what you did as an awful aggression. But my oath of office is to my country. You know, if we bankrupt our country, who's left to help anyone. So I'm for selling arms to Ukraine, for sharing things with Ukraine. But we gave fourteen billion two weeks ago. And the thing is is, once we get to sixty billion, it will be more or about the same that Russia spends in an entire year plus. But Europe is giving them. So, you know, it's sort of the same argument the President Trump made. Everybody needs to step up, but the NATO allies need to step up, and we don't need to be the sugar daddy and the policeman of the world that we have to do everything we can help. Sure but forty billion dollars will now make it in the space of too much. Will have given almost as much as Russia spends in a year. And we said, look at this in Afghanistan, you realize we were giving them. I think it was two hundred and fifty million dollars every three months in one hundred dollar bills. I'm not making this up. Palettes of one hundred dollar bills were airlifted into Afghanistan every three months for twenty years. So yes, the American government has a terrible history. And the guy that oversaw the waste and told us about the waist that happened in Afghanistan, this special inspector is perfectly poised to do it, and they don't want him in particular because they know he will ferret out the waist and he will point out the abuse. We're talking to, Senator m Paul. You're also a doctor, and a lot of people, certainly we've done it on this show, are pointing out the incongruity here, Senator, of sending forty billion dollars to Ukraine, while simultaneously many moms and dads are unable to find baby formula on the shelves right now, and in fact, Jensaki said, hey, what would you tell I'm sure you saw this clip. She said, what would you tell? What would you have parents do who can't find baby formula? She said, I'd have them called their doctors. What in the world is going on here that we can spend forty billion dollars on Ukraine but we can't get baby formula on our shelves in this country. Yeah, it's misplaced priorities. You know, he's been about six million on cancer research and we're spending forty billion on this. So the thing is is money should never be given in one huge lump sun without oversight. It's a bad idea. But we don't have the money. We will borrow this money from China to send it to Ukraine. It's not like we have a big vat of money, a big rainy day account. We just say, well, you know, we've done very well this year. Why don't we send some of it to help somebody else fight for democracy. This is equivalent to that if you want to help someone in your community and you don't have any money, you say, you know what, I'll go down to the bank and I'll borrow a thousand dollars and I'm gonna give it to the Salvation Army. Well it might sound noable, but isn't noble to give money money give people money you don't have. We're at trillion dollars short every year, and then they started going crazy on the COVID bailouts, and we added six trillion more in the last two years. We have double digit inflation. The lockdown has still so completely screwed up the economy. We don't have baby formula. So yes, I think there are priorities we can be helpful in the world, but we are not the sole repository of all the body in the world, and we shouldn't shovel it out so fast without oversight that it actually hurts our country. Like I said, I'm sympathetic to Ukraine, but my allegiance is to my country. I have to make sure that the United States is doing okay before we give it away the house or give away the farm. Our good friend flip Flop Fauci came out Senator and said the pandemics over. And then now he's come walked that back and says, oh no, the pandemic's not over at all. And the Biden White House is now saying we may have one hundred million new COVID cases in the fall and the winter. Based on your experience as a doctor, how would you assess the way that COVID is going right now and what should the government be doing, if anything, as we get ready for the summer. The first thing that everybody needs to know is if you test a thousand people randomly anywhere in America, you'll find that ninety seven percent or more have immunity. They either got the immunity from the vaccine, or they got community from having the disease, or both. Seventy five percent of kids under eleven. By the fall, it's going to be one hundred percent of all the kids under eleven. We'll have had this for better or worse. That's with vaccine. Without vaccine, people are still going to get it. But the good news is almost everybody in our country has some form of immunity, So we're going to be okay with this no matter what happens. No big predict the exact case, Colt. But if you want to know whether or not to pay attention to doctor Fauci, I'll tell you this. When the court when the US Federal Court struck down the mandate on wearing masks on planes. Doctor Fauci said, how dare the courts? How dare the Constitution? How dare anybody who bleeds? An individual for you didn't say anything about his mandates because Bigali, he is science, and how dare the courts? That is in arrogance we have never seen in an elected official, much less a bureaucrat. He believes that the courts and their interpretation of the Constitution have nothing to do and should have no oversight on his dictates. That is about the most Unamerican policy and proposal and attitude I've ever heard of. I appreciate you bringing up the airplanes as well there, because the last time we talked to you, you were having a press conference at the Nashville Airport in favor of the removal of mask mandates. Since that has happened, no great surprise to you or me or many of our listeners, But I do think it's worth mentioning. We haven't seen a massive airline shortage based on sickness. There haven't been hardly any cancelations. Overall, complaints and issues between passengers and people working on those planes have plummeted. How do we keep the mask mandate from being returned going forward, and it's night and day when you travel on the airport, people are alive again. People are friendly. TSA agents are padding me on the back and thanking me. The flight attendants are coming up and wanting their fishers taken, saying thank you so much for getting rid of these ridiculous things. So we have to we have to, you know, let people know the numbers. But I can tell you this, if the Democrats want to get wiped out in November, look at the unofficial poll in the airport. Ninety seven percent of the people disagree with Fauci or discounting his advice, and their assessment of the risk is they don't need the mask. Ninety seven percent of the people. If the Democrats want to campaign on mandates on Fauci bringing the mandates back on the courts bringing it back, they are completely insane and they're going to be wiped out in the fall because ninety seven percent of travelers don't want to wear a mask. Did you win the eighty to one long shot bid on the Kentucky Derby this past weekend? Do you have any success there? I only wish I saw that horse that horse would not get in the gate. He was jumping all over the place. I should have been on that horse. And then you see wins the race and he's still fighting with the other horses. Talking about moxie. Man, that horse had some moxie. Now, by the way, that on the horse that was trained in Bowling Green where I live, and it got second. It was a favorite, and I did, of course gwin place and show. So I took away less than I put in. But we usually consider that sort of a peric victory, no doubt. By the way, Bowling Green's a great town in Kentucky for people who haven't been there before. It's also Friday the thirteenth. And if I'm not mistaken, Howoween the original Halloween was set in Bowling Green, Kentucky, wasn't it. You know, I'm not positive that there is a connection somehow to the producer, but I'm not sure if it was actually in film there. But I can tell you for certain, we do make the Corvette. We are home of the Corvette. That's great. It's a great museum there as well. Appreciate the time, Senator, have a fantastic weekend and appreciate all the fights you're fighting for us. Thanks guys. That is Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky, the man who has a crazy idea. If the United States government is going to spend forty billion dollars, let's just make sure that it's not being wasted. Let's have an inspector general actually review the forty billion dollars in expenditures. We know how much money. You heard him talking about how much money we wasted an Afghanistan until we got an inspector general. You know how much money that we wasted with the PPP. As much as ten percent of the eight hundred billion dollars handed out was stolen. We know that government spends money and efficiently. How in the world is it remotely controversial to one an inspector general reviewing the money that we are spending to make certain that that money is not going and being stolen by kleptocrats. In Ukraine, where we already know there is a massive issue associated with thievery, this seems like the very essence of what a public servant should do. Make sure that the money we're spending, at a bare minimum, actually goes to what we're trying to spend it on. Sure tax dollars, my tax dollars, our tax dollars. Thanks to Rampaul, we come back, we'll break down because they take your calls by the way to one two eight two two eight eight two. But a lot of you out there, you're starting your day with a hot cup of coffee. Also coming up on the third hour of the show here, coming up on three o'clock on the East coast, coming up on noon on the West coast. Maybe you need a little pick me up right now. Well, I've got the absolute perfect brand for you. It's Black Rifle Coffee. 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The answer has to be the Shining Clay, right, because out of all the goofy characters that we've seen in horror movies, nobody's been more authentically terrifying than a crazy Jack Nicholson that's stuck in that lodge all winder so to me, when he's chasing after his family with the acts and stuff, you turn all the lights off. Nothing's more terrifying than that. And I say that as someone that saw Conjuring opening night in the theaters at all the school they am what everybody when everybody started clapping when they heard those voices in the basement, that was unbelievable. By the way, we're gonna open up phone lines in the third hour eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. But if you are a huge horror movie fan and you want to weigh in with what people should watch tonight, given the fact that it's Probay at thirteenth, you can load up the phone lines. We'll take some of your calls throughout the course of the remainder of the show on that topic, all right, Bobby, you do fantastic work for us at OutKick, and I couldn't believe that the NBA did this. We talk a lot at OutKick about the degree to which sports has turned into basically woke sports. It's taken over the universe of regular sports fans and they constantly are lecturing us. And the worst in terms of lecture, I think, I think you'd probably agree is the NBA. And so the NBA pulled their All Star game. We got a lot of people listening in North Carolina out of Charlotte over a transgender bathroom bill. And then they end up now going to the United Arab Emirates, which if you are gay you can be put to death there, and it feels like OutKick and to a certain extent, Fox News, which bill on a lot of Outkicks work, are some of the only outlets even discussing this. How crazy is the hypocrisy? Yeah, and there's no other league that gets protected by the sports media like the NBA. Is I mean, this music going on for years right now. The fear that broadcasters from an ESPAD and The Ringer and CBS and New York Times have calling out the NBA is really second to none. And what I find so fascinating about this is Clay. The NBA just turned the corner for the first time in four years by moving out of politics, by focusing just on the games. And what do you know, their weeks reaching near record highs, highest opening first round since twenty fourteen and first coome a context. The NBA ratings plummeted to all time lows. When they really embrace the quote unquote racial record in the country, they put Black Lives Matter across the court. I mean, the MBA lost almost forty eight percent of their audience would they embrace social justice messaging, and it took them three years to get it back. So all of a sudden they're just now focusing back on the game and people love it. Now they make a statement like this, they're in jeparty, I think again, of losing some of their more moderate political audience, which is just insane business decision now. Also, Phil Mickelson got destroyed to such an extent. Golfer out there, who a lot of people listening to us right now play golf. I know. Phil Mickelson got destroyed for negotiating with Saudi Arabia about a new golf league effectively and he didn't even agree to it, He certainly didn't sign on to do it. Yet the NBA criticism is minor relatively speaking. How can you justify Phil Mickelson getting crushed like he did for negotiating with Saudi Arabia compared to the NBA getting a pass with United Arab Emirates, Well, you can. That just goes back to that who is playing about how the media protects the NBA, particularly the sports media, because you know, you and I are some of the only people that have really called out Lebron James hypocrisy and some of the other NBA players right away. Every time we do this, somebody from like the Athletic or The Atlantic comes after us saying, oh, well, you guys don't like because the NBA players stuck out for you know, black riots and racial injustice and all that stuff. You get none of that when you criticize Phil Mickelson. So it doesn't surprise me that top shows like Pardon Interruption will lead an entire day condemning Phil Mickelson for thinking about going to Saudi Arabia, but not mention this because there's no pushback by going after Phil Mickelson, an old white male golfer. But going after some of these NBA players who are so active and popular on Twitter, that comes with another degree of backlash that quite frankly, most journalists and TV anchors don't have the backbone to withstand. Speaking of journalists and TV anchors, ESPN, I still think this is shocking. And we're talking, by the way, with Bobby Barak. He does fantastic work at OutKick. Encourage you to go checkout a OutKick dot com to read a lot of what he is doing on a day to day basis. ESPN stopped programming in March during the NCAA Women's basketball tournament. I think a lot of people out there listening right now may not even know this to criticize the Florida Parents Rights Bill, which kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third graders are not going to be taught about sex related issues. Again, ESPN on their programming stopped and had a moment of silence. L Duncan, I believe is who was hosting this ridiculous charade. Yet they're not going to even say a word about the NBA going to the UAE. They claim that they cared about gay people, but as we just said gay people can be put to death in the UAE. Same thing for the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks, who also have had walkout situations. What in the world is going on here that ESPN can have this woke stance as it pertains to the state of Florida for a bill that frankly, a lot of their people aren't even smart enough to understand why they sounded like such idiots for this protest, and yet they're not going to be right saying a word about the UAE or the NBA's relationship there. Yes, l Duncan, like You said, goes on air during a college basketball tournament says it's so unfair to the LGBT community that these teachers won't let the kids say gay, which obviously is not true. There's nothing in the bill that fans you from using the word gay. That's not what it does. It basically tells teachers, you know, don't talk about sex change and transgenderism with third graders and younger. So she doesn't even know what the bill says, but she interrupts a game to spread that talking point, saying this is an attack on the LGBT community. Then she goes on Twitter a little after saying, well, I have friends that are LGBT, so it's my job to use my large platform to stand out for them and protect them. Yet, like you said, the the league that she claims to be her favorite is now partner up with a country that if you're gay, they're allowed to punish you by debt. Moreover, Clay L Duncan is frequently interacting with joy Read on Twitter, who posted a bunch of homophobic posts on her blogs a couple of years ago. Of course, so l Duncan brands herself as the gay rights activist at ESPN, Yet she's talking with joy Read and not saying a word about the MBA deal with a country that can kill you for being gay. So, to me, there's no bigger fraud at ESPN than Earth. There's a lot of people on that list to consider it. Right now, I think she's in a league of her own. She's a clown and she's a hypocrite, and frankly, I'm not even sure she's smart enough to understand how much of a clown and a hypocrite she is. But it's part of the larger network environment that ESPN has created created Bobby for people who may not be super plugged in in the world of sports, how left wing is the sports media that covered sports? As we talk a lot about the left wing bias in politics from MSNBC and Washington Post and the New York Times and CNN and all these outlets that everybody immediately recognizes and acknowledges, has that left wing bias. A lot of times, the ESPN's of the world slide under the radar, and the extreme left wing bias of the sports media outside of places like OutKick almost doesn't even get called out at all. Right, And I don't is anybody more qualified to talk about this than you and I, because I don't think anybody on a daily basis delves into bolts of political media landscape in the sports media's landscape like we do. And yet there is a perspective of news media leans left, which it absolutely does, but the sports media leans in that direction so much further because here's the thing. The reason what sports media is is that most of the people are sort of bitter and they feel like they need to prove what side they're ounds. You see, so many people just never miss an opportunity to call somebody racist for something that's not a racist. At least in the news media, you have alternative outlift that can push back on that prominent outlift, and too OutKick, there was nobody in the sports media space that could even get a moderate opinion just to push back and say, wait a minute, what you're saying is not factual. That all these sports anchors saying that this bill prohibits the word of gay. If there wasn't an OutKick, there would not be a single website that covers sports that would have said that. So I think the biggest thing is if there is less of a voice in alternative sports media than there is news media. And I find that so unfortunate because I go to a sports bar or go to a sports game, and I think so many people are just so fed up with what's going on, but their voices are not a representative representative because so much of the sports conversation for so long has been dictated by ESPN, the Washington Post, NBC Sports all the which lean probably as far left as CNN, and an ESPN's case, as far left as MSNBC. I don't think there's any doubt if you enjoy this conversation and you want to have a little bit of sanity in your sports life. I'd encourage you to check out Bobby Barak. Also checkout OutKick dot com Bobby by the way, data also out there. Major League Baseball pulled the All Star Game out of Georgia because they said that it was Jim Crow two point zero. So the voting has surged in Georgia. Another lie, another thing that sports got wrong. Yeah, I think my favorite one is actually I think when Biden called it Jim Crow on steroid, Jim Crow two point oh. It's pretty good, but Jim Crow on steroids even better. Yeah, it's just another example of sort of these sports companies and major corporations acting irrationally out of fear. So what happened here is MLB commissioner Rob Manford. He saw the push to say that Georgia's bills were holding black people back with an example of volor suppression, so he felt he needed to make a statement to show everybody, well, he's not a racist. You can't call me a racist. I pulled the All Star Game out of Atlanta, But as you say, it didn't suppress any votes. Of voting is up double since twenty eighteen and moreover, what ended up happening. He took the All Star Game to Colorado, which arguably has more stringent voting laws than Georgia, And in the meantime, he ended up just taking money away from black owned businesses in Atlanta. So what did he accomplish? Nothing? Thankfully, the Braves won the World Series and got to host three World Series games instead. Bobby, keep up the good work. Appreciate it, my man Clay, Appreciate it. Great speeches inspire us. They make you think, they inspire us to act. They reassure us all of our beliefs. Hillsdale College knows this too, and for as long as fifty years now, they've reprinted the words from great speeches in a monthly magazine digest. They call this publication and Primus, and it's delivered every month to some six million plus readers. As you start to receive and read this publication, it will remind you of our nation's great heritage of liberty. These days, Hillsdale publishes people like Victor Davis Hanson, Molly Hemingway, Mark Stein, and Chris rufo Imprimus is delivered for free each month as a gift from Hillsdale College, no strings attached. They just want you to be informed and reminded of the value of our liberties. To get a free subscription. 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Right, you can go from apple to any other fruit product. Right. If you want a beer, I'm gonna have some adult beverages tonight down at the I'm down on by the way that Florida Panhandle having an awesome time down here. We got a lot of listeners from all over the country. I met a bunch of them last night out to dinner. But if you want to go with an adult beverage, maybe you're a bud light guy, you could probably make do with Miller Light or Core's Light. If you're a parent and you need baby formula, there isn't a fungible alternative. I've been through this. I know a lot of dads and moms know the feeling where you suddenly realize you're out of baby formula. It's late at night, and you walk into that twenty four hour grocery store to go by the Similac or the Infamil, whatever brand you might be dealing with, and you know that that is incredibly important because you've got a crying baby back home, because you've got a baby that's hungry, because you have to maintain and provide for that baby, and there aren't hardly any fungible alternatives because the baby is still feeding from the bottle. Well, Jensaki is in the White House. We just told you it's her last day. She was asked yesterday about the baby formulas shortage, and she blamed it on people who are are hoarding baby formula. That's really what the White House response is. Now, listen to this. If you are a parent who's looking for formula right now, struggling to find what you need, you have even a rough guess of how long these shortages are going to last. What's your parents be bracing for here, Well, we've already seen an increase in supply of the past couple of weeks. What we are seeing, which is an enormous problem, is hoarding. People hoarding because they're fearful, that is one element of it. And people hoarding because they are trying to profit off of fearful parents. So that is also something we're focused on. I don't know. I've lived in America my whole life. I never remember a time when hoarding baby formula would have been remotely effective because there was plenty of it. Joe Biden, Bear selves Biden, of all the things that we could be running out of, right now. Running out of baby formula is absolutely absurd. We took phone calls on this earlier this week. You may recall from the East coast to the West coast, people were calling into the program talking about the difficulty they are having finding baby formula. It's just such an extent that grandma's and grandpa's are getting drawn into the search process in many different places. All right, final few minutes here, final twenty minutes or so of the program for the week. Let's have a little bit of fun open lines eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. I pointed out earlier in the show that it's Friday the thirteenth, and the most scary series of movies that I have ever seen are the Conjuring films, but there have been other films. I went and saw paranormal activity by myself. My wife, and at that time, I think we had two kids were out of the house. I came back home to the house by myself. I left every light on in the entire house, and I also propped the door so it couldn't be opened. I guess thinking that the ghost wouldn't just float through the door, But I was at the time. I don't know. Thirty seven, thirty eight year years old, fully grown man, and I had all the lights on in the house after going to see Paranormal Activity. I love scary movies. I love, by the way, the Scream series in terms of pure enjoyment as a kid growing up, I was a big night Mary on elm Street fan. A lot of you want to weigh in, so let's take some of your calls here on open Line Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Dave down in Miami. I'm asking you what the scariest movie you have ever seen? If you had to give a recommendation to people to watch a scary movie tonight, which one would you go with? Dave? Who you got? I would totally be quick here to listen the conjuring, Paranormal Activity, Exorcists aren't even scary movies. They're all good. I watched the movie that messed me up for three days. I don't know anything about Shadow People. Tell me what the general plot of Shadow People is. It's about a radio talk show host that's trying to investigate this mysterious shadow People that people are reporting about. That thing mess me up. I'm gonna look it up. Didn't bother me. I have to watch scary movies by myself anyway, because my wife doesn't watch. My kids don't wat scary movies. Thank you, but this one got you. David Miami says, Shadow People, Ali, I'm gonna put you on. I'm already a little bit afraid there because he says it's about a radio show host. I don't need any terrifying radio show host movies. I don't want to be unable to get out of bed over or cold up underneath the covers over a radio show movie. Tim in Raleigh, North Carolina. By the way, thanks to everybody listening in Raleigh playing Buck show number one in the entire market. What is the scariest movie you have ever seen? What should people watched him play? Thank you for what you do, amazing show. Appreciate your movie. The perfect movie for Buck right now is The Relic. It's I'm a Chicago. It's the Museum in Chicago, and it's about a scientist who goes to some tribe in the middle of nowhere and it doesn't work out well for him. The Relic. I don't know this movie either. I'm not. I'm actually writing these down because I'm genuinely curious. I'm always looking for a new scary movie to check out, because i do really like scary movies. But I'm not familiar with either of those. Denise in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Denise, are you a UNC tar heel or are you a Duke? Blue devil? Or is that an insulting question to ask somebody in Chapel Hill. I'm from Florida, so you're neither watch I won't watch Night of the Living Dead. The Night of the Living Dead you won't watch. By the way, did you say you're from Florida? So that means you don't have a chosen team. You live in Chapel Hill, You're not on team UNC or team Duke. No, I live here because of my granddaughter that I won't watch The Dead Night of the Living Dead. Thank you to called Denise. Denise might be the only person in Chapel Hill who can dodge the question of blue devils or tar heels because a little bit like being down in Alabama, and if somebody says, are you in Auburn, an Alabama person, you immediately have an answer. Then East living in Chapel Hill, she has no affiliation in the biggest basketball rivalry in the country right now, at least in States. Bob in Rochester, New York, Bob, what you got for us? I'm back in nineteen seventy nine and the original Alien movie. Oh, that was the Sigourney Weaver Original Alien movie is pretty spooky. They had thanks for the call. They had was a Universal Studios where they had the Alien ride in the amusement park and it comes down. I think it was Universal Studios back in the day. And I took my kids through and this has been like seven or eight years ago, and they were really rattled and we watched a little bit of Alien and it was terrifying to them. It's one of those horror movies that holds up. George, by the way, in Florida has another movie that I'm not that familiar with. George, what part of Florida? Are you in Melbourne on the East Coast? Yeah? Yeah, So what's the movie that you're saying. It's Friday the thirteenth Scariest Movie if you had to get people's suggestion. Well, this came out in the seventies and it was a really cheesy movie. But when I first saw it, scared the dig inside of me. It was called fantasm. Yeah, I don't know fantasm either. By the way, thank you for the call. All over the country people weighing in. You can weigh in at Clay Travis on Twitter as well. I put this poll question up. It wasn't even a poll question. It was just, hey, what do you have? What do you have out there? And I knew, by the way, some people were gonna respond this way John Rich? Who a lot of you were going to know? The country music singer? He responded, So I just put up on Twitter for everybody out there, and you can go vote and get in a debate. I think what seven hundred comments beneath this Friday the thirteenth, What's the scariest movie ever made? Debate and discussed below. This is on Twitter. I'm at Clay Travis. John Rich, fabulous success as a country music singer said the scariest movie ever made is the one we're living through right now. So the Biden administration, and I can certainly understand. I knew someone would think that, and certainly I don't disagree. Of all the presidents we've had in my lifetime, Joe Biden is the one I trust the least to solve any issue at all that might arise in this country. Final segment of the week up next. We'll keep the phone lines open. One eight two eight two two eight a two. It's Friday the thirteenth. This is the Clay and Buck Show, and I want you guys to know inflation continues to weigh outpace wage growth. A few companies are giving cost of living allowances that match, let's be honest, at eight point three percent inflation rate we're all dealing with right now. You want to talk about scary household budgets are getting crushed. So how do you help to put your household budget in order? Call American Financing. Look, I know a lot of you out there right now are making decisions on where to buy gas based on what the prices are up on the boards as you're driving by. I know that a lot of you are going into grocery stores and you're buying and Eric products maybe instead of the name brand products, because you're just trying to save a little bit of money. Everybody out there just about is having their finance is challenged by what's going on with the inflation rate. You know what the biggest expense most of us have in our lives a home we're going to buy. That is where the vast majority of us are going to spend them most money. Yet, how much time you're saving money with gas, you're saving money with grocery stores. How much time to most people give over to saving money with the right mortgage rate? Nowhere near as much. Well, I'm asking you to give ten minutes of your time to American Financing and let them put your financial house in order. If you own a home, maybe you've got a lot of equity value now that you can unlock. If you don't own a home yet, getting the right rate is incredibly important. Again, all it takes is one ten minute call eight hundred seven seven seven eighty one o nine. Maybe you're gonna get home tonight and you're gonna talk with your spouse and you'll say, hey, I was listening to Clay. He keeps talking about calling American Financing ten minutes. Did you do it? And if you haven't done it yet, you can be the hero of the family just in time for Friday the thirteenth. End the scary costs that many of us are having to pay for our mortgages that are unnecessary eight hundred seven seven seven eighty one oh nine. You can also visit American Financing dot net MLS one eight two three three four mls, Consumer Accessorg. Welcome back in Glay Travis buck Sexton show Buck in Chicago for the long weekend. If you are in the Windy City, keep your head on a swivel for Buck. He will be back on Monday with me. But we've had a great time with you guys so far. On the Friday edition of the program podcast Wise, Alex Barrenson was phenomenal in the second hour of the program, answering a lot of questions Twitter band Alex Barrenson, Bobby Barrack, who is a writer at OutKick, also great, and then Senator rand Paul at the top of this final hour, dealing with the forty billion dollars in Ukraine, aid that he has a radical idea, how about we have an inspector general to verify that we don't waste all of it. Seems very very reasonable. We're having some fun taking a lot of calls about what exactly is your favorite horror movie since we are right now obviously on Friday the thirteenth, and a lot of you have weighed in want to give the show. The show crew all put their picks in Ali Silence of the Lambs, very very scary movie back in the day. Anthony Hopkins man, how good was he in that? And the Clarisse character who was played by Oh yeah, Jodie Foster. She was creating that too, Greg twenty eight days later, Mike, these are all the people who work on the show. Dracula's daughter Dean Evil Dead. Mojo went with young Frankenstein. Lisa went with Jaws. And I have to say, I think Jaws is the single most influential movie that has ever been made in American history. And some of you out there like you're crazy Clay, now think about it. I'm down at the beach right now. I'm going to go in the water when I get done with the show. And when I go in the water, I will think, at least for a moment, I hope I don't get eaten by a shark. Every single person, and a lot of this was such a back in the day when this movie was made. You've probably gotten scared of sharks swimming in a lake. You've probably gotten scared of sharks swimming in a swimming pool. At night. That's how impactful this movie is. I'm not sure that any movie ever made has ever impacted the American cultural conscience the same way that Jaws has. Andrew went with Jacob's Ladder. That was a spooky movie. And then Dub, Look, if I had to pick someone to win a fight to the death that works on the show, Buck well, Buck, you know he was in the CIA. I don't even know. Buck might have all sorts of crazy, you know, choke you out, you know, or you know, make you pass out by bending your thumb the wrong way. But Dub is a big dude. Dub said, I hate scary movies. He's the biggest guy on the show, six probably six four two forty, and he's afraid to watch scary movies. Okay, so we got a couple more people who want to weigh in. Before I do that, just want to say we're coming up on the one year anniversary of Clay and Buck and we are loving being able to spend three hours with you guys every single day all over the country. Thank you for letting us do this job. I really do think, and I know I speak for Buck as well, that we have the best jobs in the entire country. I'm excited to get out of bed come talk with you guys every single day. Thank you for making this such a fun experience. As we come up on the one year anniversary of this show. All Right, Dan in Buffalo, Wyoming, which is a heck of a name for its down what movie are you rolling with? I'm rolling with a TV movie made in nineteen seventy two that you can still watch on Netflix. It's called Gargoyles and it was absolutely terrifying. I was nineteen years old when it came on TV. I was at home alone one night watching the television and it struck. It struck a nerd with me, and I haven't forgotten about it until over fifty years or fifty years it's been. Yeah, I appreciate that, Dan, I need to get out to Wyoming. By the way, I've never spent any time in Wyoming. I love the Yellowstone television show, and spoiler alert, they dump all the dead bodies allegedly from Montana in Wyoming in a big crevice there By the way. Yellowstone is a really fun show if you need something to watch that is not really scary. Adam in Florida, what part of Florida. Are you in, oh, Florida? Where in Florida? Laurco? Oh? Okay, yes, what would you roll with as the scariest movie vs here on Friday the thirteenth? You ever hear of Burnt Offerings? No, you guys are giving me a lot of scary movies that I'm not familiar with. I do know the omen which I think is another one that you liked. That's right, see Burnt Offerings. That that's with Oliver Read and Karen black Ye and Betty Davis has a little part in it. Now I appreciate the call. I'll have to check. I have been jotting down a bunch of these scary movies to check out, and let's go ahead and close out the week. Jim in Nantucket, mass As. It gotten warm up in Nantucket yet have all the people from out of town started to roll in yet? Yeah? They starting to roll in. But my movie was Playmisty for me. Jessica Waters was a knife wielding psychopath stock in Clint Eastwood. Interesting. We watched it. We watched it as a little movie theater would go to during the week, about ten of us and would all sit separately. By the end of the movie. We're all in the same roll and I walk home. I walk home on the dark street to my house. I can't go to sleep, so I put TV on. Jessica Watts. This is the guest on Johnny Coon Show No showing the worst clips of the movie. Thank you for the call. Good luck with the influx of out of towners. I appreciate all of you. Encourage you to have fantastic weekends. I am Play Travis and this has been the Clay and Buck Show. Go subscribe to the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a single moment. We have had so much fun. We've got a one year party coming up in a little bit. I'm gonna make the trip up to New York City and hopefully they'll let me into some of the businesses there. Buck will be back on Monday. Thanks for hanging with us. Have fantastic weekend. Fleet Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
