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Welcome to today's edition of the

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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.

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Third hour Clay and Buck kicks off right

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now, and we had some

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breaking news from overseas

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that I wanted to get to. There

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was a massive explosion

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in Iran, actually

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two explosions, two bombs, killing

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one hundred and three people earlier

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today and over

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two hundred wounded. This

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was in the city of Kerman, which

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is about five hundred miles southeast

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of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and

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it was a horrific scene

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you have over I mean, for over one hundred people

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to die in twin blasts is indicator

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of These were powerful explosives, a lot of shrapnel.

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And this was also symbolic,

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this strike because it was at the fourth

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anniversary of

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the killing of General Cossim Solomoni.

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Now you will, i'm sure, recall that

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Cossam Solomoni was killed in Iraq

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by a us drone under

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the Trump administration, and

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it was something that Donald Trump

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initially received some

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criticism, of course from

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the foreign policy intelligensia about,

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but it turned out that it was the

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right move. Cossam Solomoni

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was a mastermind of terror attacks

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around the world because he was the leader of the

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Iranian Revolutionary Guard KODS

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force Coods's word for Jerusalem.

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That tells you something. And the

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IRGC is the

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external well is the operations

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arm of the Iranian revolution. KUODS is the

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external arm of it. And

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there was the blood

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of many, many America and soldiers on

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the hands of Costum Soulomaning. He

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helped mastermind the

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creation and deployment during the US

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occupation of Iraq of EFP's

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explosively formed penetrators,

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these shape charges that would punch

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a piece of molten copper through the whole

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of an armored US armored

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vehicle not anymore thanks

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to Donald Trump as commander in chief. I

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gave him full credit for this at the time, and

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I think it's another one of these moments where a

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lot of people who even were favorably disposed

2:35

toward Trump thought maybe

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on foreign policy, you know who

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knows, right, he didn't have any foreign policy

2:42

experience before becoming president. But

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if you look at his foreign policy record, it

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is first of all, the no

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New Wars thing, pretty big deal, well

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done on that. You look at his foreign policy record, it

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was actually one of the strongest

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areas foreign policy. I think you

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could argue in the war years of

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Trump was one of the strongest portfolios he

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had, and

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that includes US trade

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with China taking

3:09

action on that. It includes the renegotiation of

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the US Mexico Canada trade agreement, and

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these are things that he did often.

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At the We're

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getting a lot of criticism from people on the right,

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as I've said, who

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would say, oh, this is you know, trade wars

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lead to real wars, and oh my gosh, he killed Costum

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Solomoni. Now the Iranians are really going to get us.

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Well, we're the ones who

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are in the position of strength. Although you don't

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get that feeling when you have a Democrat

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administration like Joe Biden's administration

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in charge. You don't get the

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sense that America has the

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most powerful and capable

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and fearsome military machine

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of any country, any state, any

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entity in the history of the planet. You don't get

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that sense sometimes when a Democrat like Biden

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is running things, even though

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it is still true. But

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the killing of Costom Solomani was a

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at the time, a bold move because

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the conventional wisdom had been he's

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too important to Iran If we

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do something against Costom Solomani.

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Oh my gosh, the backlash against

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US. No, that

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wasn't true, because the Iranians,

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no backlash. Okay, you want

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to. You know, Costam Solimani was a legitimate

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target for all the reasons I laid out.

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He's traveling as an enemy combatant in a

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theater of war. And you

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know, they at

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some level also recognize one thing the Iranian

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Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Mullahs

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in general recognize is force,

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because Mike makes right in their world, and

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we have a whole lot more force to deploy than they do.

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It doesn't mean that we go looking for fights and

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a reckless but it does mean that when you're killing American

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soldiers, you don't get to get away with it. When

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you're just orchestrating the deaths of Americans

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and also the loss of arms and limbs and

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sight of American soldiers because

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Cossam Solomoni thinks that it advances

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the interests of Iran, He's

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got to be a dead man. That's just a question of when.

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And that the fact that they

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have this commemoration of Costam Solomony

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is certainly

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a window into what matters

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in the Islamic Republic.

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Revolutionary Republic of Iran. You know, it's

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definitely not republic a real republic, but anyway,

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certainly what matters there. And now we get

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to what happens in response to this, because this is

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a big thing, multiple

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explosions killing one hundred

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plus people at

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a symbol of Iranian

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state mourning. There's

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already reporting. I'm seeing this reporting

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that strikes me as well.

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A lot of the people reporting on the stuff don't really know anything,

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so it's not surprising they're saying, well,

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you know, Israel killed a be Root

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based Hamas leader yesterday,

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and they throw that in there like, well, this has to do with that.

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Yeah, but Israel hasn't done

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dual bombings killing over one

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hundred people. I assume most,

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if not all civilians. That's not in

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the Israeli m O targeted

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assassinations of enemy combatants

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that they do. But this

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could be any number of different extremist entities

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and groups in Iran that

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operate within Iran. It could be a Sunni militant

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group. There are

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a number of different factions

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inside of Iran that

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oppose the regime. So it's just not clear

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who did this yet. No one has yet taken

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responsibility. But

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there will certainly be people in the Middle East who

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will just for even if they don't believe

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it. You know, there'll be leadership that says that somehow this

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is tied to it to Israel,

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just to fan the flames of hatred even more.

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But it's a reminder I think also, you know,

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we have an election coming

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up, and I

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saw these numbers. I'll share this with you. Four

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in ten Americans according

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to a recent poll. I'm trying to see

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what the polling company was here. I

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cut off the link when I was doing my research,

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but four in ten Americans say

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foreign policy should be top

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priority in twenty twenty four top

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priority. Well,

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it's worth looking at the record

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of the Biden regime on this issue, I

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used to say, and I believe it is very it's

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a very defensible point, because it's very true that

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the greatest source of weakness. Isn't

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this all amazing when you tie this together, my friends, the

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greatest source of weakness for the

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Obama administration over its eight years.

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And there's a lot of stuff that you could throw out there right

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now, a lot of things you could say and I would

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say, Okay, yeah, that's that's a valid, valid

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entry into the worst

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category for the Obama administration. But

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I think foreign policy was the single biggest,

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most obvious, you

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know, realm of just one debacle

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after another under Obama. And the way

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you could see this was everything every

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area of the world look our foreign policy,

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you know, vis A, vi Bolivia,

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or Thailand in any given

8:31

moment, that doesn't really matter all that much. Right, I'm

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not saying those countries wi't matter and those people that I'm

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just saying there are challenges and hot

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spots, and there are places that are pretty much status

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quo. And when you looked at

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the hot spots under the Obama administration,

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they all got worse. They all

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got worse in the Obama

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years. As a result of Obama decisions,

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you had the collapse of Iraq and the rise

8:55

of ISIS. You had you

8:58

know, the Taliban with stand

9:00

the surge in Helmand and Condahar

9:03

in Afghanistan, and US

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the surge and withdrawal plan. He said, we're surging,

9:07

but we're withdrawing, and he put out the dates. The whole

9:09

thing was a mess. Our relationship with Pakistan

9:12

deteriorated, not that it was a great relationship anyway.

9:15

The situation in Syria completely fell

9:18

apart, turned into Syrian Civil War. I mean, I could

9:20

do the whole show just on and not ben

9:22

Ghazi. I know some of you're probably saying Benghazi Leibia.

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Of course a mess,

9:27

one mess after another. And why is

9:29

this? I think noteworthy in this

9:31

moment, at this point in time, who

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was appointed

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by Barack Obama to

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be in essence, de

9:42

facto foreign policy chief for his administration

9:45

to handle these issues, including, you know, handling

9:48

negotiations in a place like Ukraine and

9:50

whether they'd get a billion dollar loan guarantee or

9:52

not only if you get rid of that prosecutor. Remember

9:55

this, it's Joe Biden. Joe

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Biden somehow managed to be in

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this upside down world of Democrats where

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true is false and false is true. Biden

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became the addition to

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the Obama ticket that was supposed

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to bring foreign policy wisdom

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into the situation, and it was actually

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a shambles for eight years.

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I used to even when I was at CNN,

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I would debate Libs on Obama

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foreign policy. They would just get absolutely crushed,

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not just because I know more than them, which I

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did not to be that guy, but I

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did, But beyond that because

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the record was so weak, you

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know, I mean, if we're talking about

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a football team and they're to twelve,

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I think it's pretty easy to make the case that they're not

10:43

a very good football team. Right. That was

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the Obama administration on foreign policy. Oh

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in twelve or fourteen or however many games or a

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season. I have no idea, Clay, where are you? But

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this is I think a

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place where you will see if

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the Republican candidates

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and likely Trump can

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focus the American people's attention on this enough.

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The withdrawal in Afghanistan was an absolute

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debacle. The

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situation in the Middle East has

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been getting

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much more volatile.

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It's always a little volatile, it's the Middle East, but it's getting

11:21

much more valid under Joe

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Biden's tenure. And then the

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Ukraine Russia war, which

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I think has been really

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filled with the Obama administration

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has led a delusional narrative

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on this. It is delusional

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to think that the Ukrainian military, even

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with all the support and all the money we give them, is

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going to be able to defeat and end

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the Russians by military means. It's

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delusional, but that's what

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we've been told time and again, look

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at the New York Times. Oh, this spring offensive is going

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to come through. It's a failure.

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And you have to wonder if this does turn into

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a negotiated settlement, will

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the Obama I'm sorry, the Biden administration,

12:06

which is really just the continuation of the third term

12:08

of Obama anyway, But will the Biden

12:10

administration push

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back any negotiations

12:16

We already know they've they've meddled

12:19

before in this to

12:21

stop a negotiated settlement that was reported

12:23

very early in that conflict. Will the will the

12:26

Biden administration delay

12:29

a settlement to what's

12:31

going on in Ukraine and Russia?

12:33

Because and there's so many ways they can do it. Oh, we just

12:35

think maybe one more fighting season and they'll

12:38

get the upper hand. I mean, there's they can always justify

12:40

this, but in reality, will they do it?

12:42

Because they don't want Biden to have to

12:44

turn around to all the people putting Ukraine

12:46

flags in their Twitter bios and say,

12:49

yeah, all that fighting and all that stuff, we really just should

12:51

have negotiated from the beginning, because

12:53

what about all the Ukrainian soldiers who have

12:56

lost their lives in the last year. What

12:59

was that for If it's just going

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to turn into Ukraine,

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gives some territory and Russia stops the military

13:06

onslaught. What

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was the delay for? Was it

13:10

necessary? Now? I know people could argue, oh, well

13:12

they had to, you know, they had to bleed the Russians

13:15

more before they would come to the table. Yeah,

13:17

but we heard that really wasn't the case in the beginning. A

13:20

promise, a guarantee of Ukraine not joining NATO

13:22

and some territory

13:25

in the east of the country, and

13:27

this thing could be over. But nope,

13:30

nope, a lot of Ukraine

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flags and they're gonna they're gonna defeat that.

13:34

There was a time when there were lunatics running around saying

13:37

maybe this means the end of Putin and

13:40

you know, the whole government in Moscow is gonna fall

13:42

and Russia is gonna I mean, it got crazy.

13:44

You remember on that. It's a mess.

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It's a mess. And so

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if these polls are right, and

13:53

there's there are forty percent

13:55

of Americans now who think the foreign policy is important, to

13:57

think it's the most important issue.

13:59

I'll be honest with you. I that seems high

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to me, but I

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can understand, given what's going on,

14:06

why people. Have you mentioned China and Taiwan. It's

14:08

a whole other part of this. But

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they have the wrong team in charge. Everyone, they

14:13

have the wrong team in charge. They're

14:16

the wrong team in charge for eight years of Obama

14:18

and now we're going to the fourth year of a disastrous

14:20

Bide administration and we all know

14:22

it. Blinking is is a buffoon.

14:25

The people that are entrusted to

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do what is in the American people's best interest

14:30

on the global stage are clowns.

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They're clowns. And

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you know, people can say whatever they want about Trump's style

14:38

and Trump's verbiage and everything else.

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Look at the foreign policy results. Put

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them up against any Democrat

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going back for decades and say

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that he's done much better. He's done much

14:51

better. So maybe this is

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something that moves the needle in a meaningful

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Telling The Clay Travis and

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Buck Sexton Show. So we were talking

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about Biden just now and how is a failure on foreign

16:08

policy. We're talking about Claudine

16:11

Gay in the first hour and how she's a plagiarist.

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Let's do a little flashback. You're gonna combine

16:17

these ideas. Joe Biden the

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plagiarist. This is back in nineteen

16:21

eighty seven. You're gonna hear it. Biden's

16:23

side by side with British

16:26

Member of Parliament Neil Kinnock. Hmmm,

16:29

it might sound kind of familiar. Play it. Why am

16:31

I the first

16:33

Kinnick in a thousand generations

16:37

to be able to get the university?

16:38

Why is it that Joe Biden is

16:40

the first in his family ever

16:43

to go to a university?

16:44

Was it because they were weak? Those people

16:47

who could work eight hours the underground

16:49

and then came up and played football week.

16:52

My ancestors who worked in the coal mines in northeast

16:54

Pennsylvania, who come up after twelve hours and

16:56

play football for four hours. No,

16:59

it's not because because they weren't as smart.

17:01

It's not because it didn't work as hard.

17:04

It's because they didn't.

17:05

Have a platform upon which to stand.

17:08

It was because there

17:10

was no platform upon

17:12

which they could stand.

17:15

I think it goes on. But yeah,

17:17

Joe Biden's like, I'm just gonna take a speech that some

17:19

other dude said in England because you know who's gonna

17:21

figure that out? And I'm gonna give that speech like it's

17:23

my speech and no one's gonna notice. Well,

17:26

Joe, it turns out actually and

17:29

that really sunk his first presidential

17:32

bid. The

17:34

thing I will say about Joe Biden that you you

17:37

have to look

17:39

at with some degree of awe is

17:41

his just utter shamelessness. Fifty

17:45

years in politics of pure

17:47

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I broke one of my own rules. Over the holiday.

18:53

I went to see a movie in a movie theater

18:57

on my birthday. I went

18:59

to see the Ferrari movie about

19:02

Enzo Ferrari. Which is the

19:04

way that Adam Driver sounds when he's

19:06

playing Enzo Ferrari. It's like it's

19:08

like a guy who's hired to play Mario

19:10

and Luigi at a kid's birthday party. He's like, hey,

19:13

my name is Enzo. I make a the pizza on the

19:15

spaghetti. It is not

19:17

good. It is not good.

19:20

Some people can disagree with me on the

19:23

Ferrari movie. The first hour

19:25

is absolutely brutal hour

19:29

and change. You're just watching like miserable

19:31

people and this and

19:33

a failing or failed marriage.

19:36

And there's nothing really about the cars.

19:38

And I mean there's one scene, there's

19:41

one scene where Enzo for now,

19:43

look understand, Ferrari had all

19:45

these brilliant For those of you who are gonna

19:47

come at me on this one. Ferrari's

19:50

are amazing pieces of really

19:53

art and engineering, and unfortunately

19:56

I get subjected to far too many of them revving their

19:58

motors outside my house

20:01

in Miami, because a lot of Ferrari's here. But they're

20:03

beautiful cars and have been for a very long time,

20:05

and it's one of the most

20:07

recognizable and iconic brands on the

20:10

planet. People just wear t

20:12

shirts with Ferrari symbol on it because it's cool,

20:15

you know, and obviously the increasing

20:17

popularity of Formula One and the Ferrari team.

20:20

Scuderia Ferrari Suderia

20:23

is Italian for stable,

20:26

like the stable full of the horses, Ferrari horses

20:30

or Scuderia scuderia. Is that how they say

20:32

it. I don't know. I don't other

20:35

than me Kiamo buck, I don't really know what to say

20:37

in Italian. But I

20:39

went to see the movie, and you

20:42

know, people can agree disagree. I

20:44

thought it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in a movie theater.

20:48

You know, Yeah, the racing sequences were kind

20:50

of cool, but before anyone says,

20:52

oh, you just don't like racing or something, Ford versus

20:54

Ferrari is a great movie, Christian

20:56

Bale, Matt Damon, great movie and

20:58

dealt with some of the Ferrari stuff in a much

21:01

better movie than this. Trying

21:03

to think of Oh I love the what was

21:05

the one Rush? Great

21:08

movie, really entertaining, really

21:10

well done. The guy they have playing

21:12

Niki Lauda, the storied

21:15

Formula one racer who's just passed away a few

21:17

years ago, does an

21:19

incredible job playing Niki Lauda. And

21:22

it's a really good movie. So I like race

21:24

car movies. Just understand, I went to this

21:26

movie to like this movie. It is not a good movie.

21:29

The accents are ridiculous. Penelope pru

21:31

Cruz is a Spanish

21:34

actress who speaks English with a

21:36

Spanish accent, and now they wanted to speak

21:38

English with an Italian accent. I got news for you. It

21:40

doesn't work out so well.

21:43

Uh.

21:44

And then also the the like

21:46

mistress of Enzo Ferrari. You

21:49

know he's Italian, He's got a mistress. You know that

21:52

one does back in the day in Italy. I guess she

21:55

has no accent suddenly like she sounds

21:57

like she's from Iowa or something,

21:59

you know. So the whole thing it's a

22:01

mess. At one point He points to a couple

22:03

of pigeons and he says, freedom for that

22:05

pigeon is pie. I was like, is

22:07

that supposed to be? Is this supposed

22:09

to be clever? Like, well, what does that even mean? Is?

22:13

I thought it was horrible. Some people disagree with

22:15

my I'll tell you. My brother and my dad's always with me.

22:17

They thought it was horrible too. And there's a really graphic

22:19

scene in it, like way more graphic traffic

22:22

act or you know, racing accent, a traffic accident,

22:25

racing accident that I needed to be

22:27

But my biggest problem with it isn't even uh,

22:31

it isn't even that. The movie I thought absolutely stunk.

22:34

I give it like a d. My biggest problem

22:36

isn't so much that. My biggest problem with

22:39

it. Also, you hate Adam Driver, you hate Enzo

22:41

Ferrari, and this guy said all this

22:44

really interesting stuff. You know, he would say things. The

22:46

real Enzo Ferrari said things like tell

22:48

a child to draw a car and he will make

22:50

it red. And that's why Ferrari had to be read because

22:52

of the wonderment of what a child thinks

22:54

of as what a beautiful race car is. You

22:56

know, he says things like he was a great agitator

22:59

of men and

23:01

that was really his skill set, was that he knew how

23:04

to get people to do their best

23:06

anyway. And then the movie you

23:08

get none of that. You just get the guy who's like, oh, like, I'm

23:10

my car company is a running out of mindey

23:12

and I cheat on my wife and a very

23:14

mean man, and I don't love anybody. You're

23:17

like, what is this?

23:18

Like?

23:19

Why am I watching this? There's no sense

23:21

of the story of Ferrari and the the place

23:23

that it goes to, and then it becomes this incredible

23:26

and iconic brand anyway, and I hate

23:28

it. The worst part of the whole experience, though,

23:30

and I'm not alone in this. I can

23:32

bring you all back to agree with me on this

23:34

one is that

23:38

they had me sit through thirty minutes of

23:41

not even previews. I actually I'm

23:43

old school. I like previews

23:46

when they're pretty good. Now it's

23:48

not as exciting as it used to be when I was a kid

23:51

in the golden era of cinema that was the nineteen

23:53

nineties, because now

23:56

you can go online. There are websites, you know,

23:58

on YouTube, you can see every major movie trail or

24:00

whenever you want. You can watch it on your phone, so it's

24:02

really not like the unveiling of some

24:04

cool new movie. You know, if you were in theaters and you

24:06

saw the trailer for Terminator

24:09

two back in the day, it's like, oh my

24:11

gosh, I gotta wait seven

24:13

months or something to see this. That's going to be amazing.

24:15

Though you don't really have that anymore. But I kind of like trailers.

24:17

I'm okay with it movies

24:20

now. And maybe you know, I don't know how many

24:22

of you have experienced this yourselves. It's

24:25

like some torture chamber where

24:27

they make you sit there for thirty minutes

24:30

watching crappy commercials, not

24:33

even trailers, commercials

24:35

like you know, hey, you must buy

24:38

this candy, and you're sitting there like, I don't

24:41

I've paid I don't even know. My brother took

24:43

me because my birthday. You know,

24:45

you're paying twenty five dollars a seat or something

24:47

crazy for the movie. Now you're paying

24:49

twenty five dollars. You're already in there

24:51

for like two hours in change, which is

24:54

really longer than I want to sit in any chair

24:56

other than this radio chair. And

24:59

then and they make you shit through crappy commercial so

25:01

they can you know, further mind, they're

25:03

just monetizing your time. The

25:06

movie theaters are being disrespectful

25:08

of the customer's time. And

25:11

so I'm just telling you I'm not going back to a movie theater.

25:13

I'm out. I'm done. I've said this before.

25:15

Some of you have listened to me for many years now, I've been I've been

25:17

through this before. I can't do this anymore. But

25:20

I can't. I can't do it anymore. The experience

25:23

at home. I sit there, I go. I've got

25:25

a flat screen half

25:27

carry is here at Asker. I don't know how big art she got our TV.

25:29

I think it's like sixty five inches. We got a big flat

25:31

screen TV. And now huge flat screen TVs

25:33

you can get for you know, a couple of hundred bucks. Basically,

25:36

it's technology has gotten so inexpensive.

25:39

And you got a huge flat screen

25:41

TV. I got a giant comfortable couch. I got refrigerator

25:43

with all my favorite food. I got my cute little

25:46

dog. Granted now is

25:48

like the size of snuffleophagus because she's

25:50

hit fifteen pounds and I can't believe how fast she's

25:52

growing up. But I got the cute little dog, and

25:55

and I have no one talking, no one

25:57

looking at their phone, and no one making

25:59

me watch thirty minutes of pre roll

26:02

thirty minutes of pre roll commercials.

26:05

It was truly thirty minutes long. And

26:08

I see there's someone a here

26:11

we go, there's some

26:13

of the film. Writer Richard Zoglin

26:17

has demanded now that movie theaters cite

26:20

their actual start time for

26:22

the movie. No more

26:25

getting people to show up for a three o'clock

26:27

movie and the film starts at three

26:29

thirty five. I don't want

26:31

to shit in a movie theater and watch commercials.

26:34

Obviously. Now I know some of you can

26:36

say, oh, well you should. First of all, I didn't know

26:38

that they did this because I can god the movies never and

26:41

if you're anything like me after this experience,

26:43

you're not going back to the movies. So

26:45

they're doing all the wrong things

26:47

here. The only thing that's

26:49

gotten better about movies recently is they finally

26:52

figured out I remember that if you had someone

26:54

who was too tall sitting in front of you. When I was growing up

26:56

going to the movies, you wouldn't see anything. You just start at the back, and

26:58

if someone had like a really stupid hat on, you're

27:00

just standing at their hat the whole movie. You know, you couldn't

27:02

see anything. But

27:05

yeah, I just got to tell you that was what

27:07

I gave you a bunch of things in my review of Ferrari,

27:09

which I thought was absolutely horrible. And

27:13

uh, and then I tell you that the movie

27:15

theater experience. I don't know how the movie theaters are staying

27:17

in business. Honestly. I know that for people,

27:19

there's like a nostalgia factor to it. Look, I fell

27:21

for it. I went with my dad, my brother. We

27:24

were trying to watch the movie No guy, guys,

27:26

guys day at the movie theater, watching for I

27:29

was pouring rain here in Miami, so there's nothing. You know, it's

27:31

pouring rain in Miami. You know, I

27:33

read books all the time, so that's not like, oh, I'm gonna read

27:35

a book today. It was on my vacation and

27:38

so we went and see it. And it's just I can't

27:41

imagine that the movie business can

27:43

continue like this. Uh.

27:45

Speaking of the movie business, there's a

27:48

an outspoken feminist

27:50

director who has been tapped

27:52

to run this Star

27:54

Wars franchise. Now going forward, anyone

27:58

want to place bets on how this one's gonna go? Hmm,

28:02

we'll talk about that probably a little bit more tomorrow. But

28:04

yeah, bucks movie reviews, Ciskel

28:06

and Ebert have got nothing on, nothing on me.

28:08

I remember them from back in the day. Actually,

28:10

did one of them? Pardon me? Did one of them pass away? Are

28:14

they both? They're both okay? Good? Am

28:16

I right?

28:17

No?

28:17

I think one of them passing. I'm sorry.

28:19

One of them did pass away? Yes, I think one. I forget which

28:21

one one of them passed away. But I grew up watching Ciskel

28:24

and Ebert, so I don't know whoever, the

28:26

who who's the biggest movie critic these days?

28:28

Is there one? Is there one person who's like the critic

28:31

because the thumbs up thumbs

28:33

down was the thing I grew up with watching it on TV.

28:35

Anyway, we'll

28:37

get into some of your calls. Eight hundred two eight two to

28:41

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31:30

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31:39

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31:42

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31:44

are wrong. But I would say this the

31:50

other movie that we that I was thinking about,

31:53

and I'm really disappointed because I

31:55

like Michael Mann, who directed Ferrari a

31:58

lot as a director. I love Last the Mokends.

32:00

I think it's a phenomenally good movie start

32:02

to finish. Daniel de Lewis starring

32:04

in that one. I like Heat

32:07

another excellent. It's thirty minutes

32:09

too long. They needed an editor. It's thirty minutes

32:11

too long. I could cut thirty minutes of fat out of it.

32:13

But Heat's a very very

32:15

good movie. The gun sequence is obviously incredible.

32:18

To sit down between Pacino and de Niro over

32:20

coffee is as

32:23

just quite a moment in cinematic history.

32:27

But you know, I just was expecting more from Michael Mann

32:29

on this one. I know he's gotten a bit older. Same thing

32:31

with Ridley Scott and the and the Napoleon

32:33

movie, which I have not seen, and

32:36

I really wanted a good Napoleon movie.

32:38

You know, it was amazing to me. I really want

32:40

a good Napoleon. I'm hopeful that

32:42

the Denzel Washington starring

32:45

Hannibal movie about Hannibal Barka

32:47

not in the Second Punic War Ancient

32:50

Rome, not you know, Hannibal, the guy that you

32:52

know eats people's liver with fava beans or

32:54

whatever. Yeah,

32:57

that's a different Hannibal. I'm

32:59

hoping that will be a good movie or a good show.

33:01

I think it's a show that they're making for Netflix. But

33:05

a lot of the team here, well, we got one thumbs up

33:07

one thumbs down on the gods Zilla movie.

33:09

And what I guess I have to ask is team,

33:12

would I like that movie? Because I

33:14

do the fantasy genre stuff, I'm okay

33:16

like I like Game of Thrones a lot. Lord

33:19

of the Rings is, you

33:21

know, amazing to me, and the Hobbit since I was a kid

33:23

of the Hobbit movie was a mess, but the

33:26

Lord of the Rings trilogy was phenomenal. I

33:28

don't know if I would like the gods I'm usually

33:31

not a Godzilla guy. I guess that's what I'm saying. But

33:33

people are telling me that the god

33:35

Zilla movie is really

33:38

really good. Okay, Ali's

33:40

telling me I'll be impressed by the special effects. Do

33:43

you like the original Godzilla movie from nineteen

33:45

fifty four? The team is telling me that you got to go check it out.

33:48

All right, let's take some of the

33:50

calls here. Raoul in

33:53

Houston, Texas. What's going on,

33:55

Raoul, Well, lady

34:01

Hayley.

34:02

Nicky Haley wants to draw Donald Trump into

34:04

a debate, but she's gonna

34:06

be start bedmouthing him on the air.

34:09

He's gonna respond, and then she's

34:11

going to come out and say see how Donald

34:14

Trump treat women and

34:16

Donnal Trump is not gonna fall for that. That's

34:18

how come he willing debate her. Not because

34:20

he's hiding the way she says. And

34:23

I hope, oh.

34:23

I think I think you're right that he's not. He's not. Thank you,

34:25

Rowland Houston. I think you're right that he's not going

34:27

to do it. And I also think you

34:30

never have to worry about Trump on stage

34:33

throwing verbal punches. I mean, that's one that's

34:35

one thing that you know. I do not have to

34:37

worry about Trump's ability to,

34:40

you know, to mix it up in front

34:42

of a crowd. So I don't think.

34:44

Look, Nicki Haley, you know she's

34:48

you have to have I think at some

34:50

level for most people running for president, you

34:52

have to have an almost irrational

34:56

belief in your

34:58

own capability and in your

35:00

ability to you know, your ability to win and

35:02

your capabilities to do the job. I

35:05

think you have to. There has to be something a little off

35:07

where you're like, I'm the only one. I'm the one who can do

35:09

this.

35:10

Uh.

35:11

So yeah, I don't think she's gonna

35:14

be able to get Trump to do it. And I think the Trump

35:16

will uh get

35:18

you know, he'll get much higher ratings over on

35:20

Fox. Then they'll get over on So you know that's for sure. Let

35:24

me see, Well, I

35:26

was talking about movies. I'll get into this tomorrow.

35:28

The new Star Wars they got a new

35:30

director. Uh do

35:32

we have the new snow White supposed to come out sometime this year.

35:34

They've delayed it again, right, the New snow White movie

35:37

that they made where they had the like the

35:39

woke non dwarves and

35:41

then they are, but they're not going to be Dwarves, but now they are.

35:44

I don't know, it's a it's a total mess. Yeah.

35:47

What we really need are actually, uh

35:49

just great directors and writers who

35:52

are in positions to tell stories and have the budgets

35:55

to do it the way they want to do it again, which

35:57

is what we had until out

36:00

the last ten years. The last ten years,

36:02

there's just so especially movies, streaming

36:05

shows. They still make some good streaming shows, but

36:08

you know, nine out of ten movies that get released

36:10

I think are just garbage, and

36:13

it's because of the agendas and the politics,

36:15

and it's a shame because really movies

36:17

are in a lot of ways, you could argue, and I guess TV

36:19

too pre eminent art form in American

36:21

culture, and I just wish that, you know, they'd

36:23

make the good stuff like Braveheart and Gladiator

36:26

and Saving Private Ryan. I

36:28

don't know, you know, but what else goes on that list

36:31

best in Show? I love that movie. There's a lot of good

36:33

movies out there, all right, Everybody, a

36:36

lot of fun talking to here on this show. Excited

36:38

to be with you tomorrow, playback Friday.

36:40

It's gonna be a strong week. Shields Hop