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I don't want you getting too much trouble with the IRGC with your Gay-Atolla comments. Okay, that's all I'm saying. Nonetheless, Trump says that he would like to meet Lil Mo. This is cut seven. This is from Pod Force One with Miranda Devine. Play it. So we had various levels of people. And the first set is gone. The second set is gone. Part of the third set is gone. And the people where we're dealing with, we know. They're the people that are leading the country. Is it the gay Ayatollah? He's involved, absolutely. Really? Yeah, I think they have a lot of respect for him. So is he, he's compensous? He's not sick in hospital, in a coma as we've been told. Well, I don't know. I haven't had the privilege of meeting him, but I'm not hearing he's doing great. You're doing better. If you believe the stories is, you know, missing a lot of different parts. Who's making the decisions? Well, they say he is giving approval because that's the way it has been for a long, long time, his father and then him. I guess it's a succession. But we seem to be getting along quite well. Would you like to meet him or meet any of the Iranians in person? I've never thought of it, actually. It's a very good question. I'll think of it. Yeah, I'd like to meet him. I'd like to meet everybody. I'd like to meet him. We probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works out. A couple of things, Clay, real quick here. Did Miranda say the gay Ayatola? I think she did. Yeah. I think she did. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of widely discussed. I think the New York Post was the first paper, if I remember, to actually put out that Iran's Ayatollah might be gay. And that was one reason that they didn't necessarily want him as the successor. And then there was the decision made that he should be the successor. And then lots of people, Buck, don't know where he is or even if he is still alive. So... This is one of the big challenges, I think, is communicating in general with whoever is making decisions inside of Iran. I'm not even sure we officially know. And in the meantime, that's also why it takes so long to go back and forth with different versions of what's going to happen here. So. On the Strait of Hormuz, I was doing a bunch of reading on the Strait of Ormuz as one does. And I do think one of the signature elements of this discussion, which you and I have kind of hit on quite a bit, is who's going to send their ships back in? It's one thing for these ships to get out of the Strait of Hormuz and be given the ability to take their cargo wherever they want to go around the world. Buck, if you suddenly were not a radio show host and you were in charge of international shipping. Do you think maybe you would pick a route that didn't involve the Strait of Hormuz if you had been captured, effectively held hostage in the Strait of Hormuz for months? Do you think it might be hard to find a crew that wants to go back into the Strait of Hormuz? A lot of discussion about getting the ships out, and that's important. My question is, who's ever going back?

That seems like an awful potential risk to take if your ship is making money based on transiting goods. the danger of being stuck there is pretty substantial. And there was a huge write-up about Lloyd's of London and how much we, remember when I talked about the insurance premiums and we had all the insurance agents calling it and everything else. I still think this is going to be a massive part of the story because the insurance premiums have skyrocketed, as you would well imagine, at Lloyd's of London for any of these ships. Are they even getting right insurance premiums to let ships go back into the straight of Hormuz given what we've already seen and done? I will tell you the word from the White House, having just been in D.C. and talk to some folks who are very involved on the national security side, they are not worried at all. They feel very confident that Trump has got this, and it's all going to work out. I mean, that really is the... That is the word, the vibe, whatever, the party line, all the rest of it. So I did not sense they are approaching this with any concern. I think that their view is, or I should say their view is from the White House, that Trump is going to get what he wants out of this, and everyone just needs to give more time and be patient. We'll see. I'm not, you know, because the second I, I'm just telling you what the word from the White House is. The second I say this, we're going to get people like, do you know what I paid for gas this morning? I'm like, probably a lot. Gas prices are, have come back down. I think I saw, I know they're under $4 where I am. because that's what I paid this past weekend. But I also know that nationwide, I think, the price of gas is back down to around 421-ish, 431, something in that neighborhood, average gas prices now, which I was going to get into this at the top of the third hour. But in addition to doing all my research on the Strait of Hormuz, I was looking at all the data on... how things have gone in the first several years, purely from an economic perspective, because we got into that real discussion yesterday, which I still think is a big and significant one about why consumer confidence is so low. And you can say, okay, well, there's different things. Gas prices are high. This is not the worst, not even close to the worst economy we've ever had in 50 years. So why is there this sort of national malaise? Yes, there's a certain segment of the population that hates President Trump. Let's say that's 40% of Americans that are just obsessed, that believe that he is uniquely evil. But, and they're not going to be persuaded that anything is fine, even if suddenly they were all multimillionaires. They would still find a reason to dislike President Trump.

Can I just, Trump actually was, because I was telling you what the word from the White House is, kind of off, you know, off stage, if you will. So I met with some people in D.C. and was talking to them. But here is Trump saying, when I asked about this, specifically how does he feel about the Iran situation? This is again on Pod Force 1. This is 9. Hit it. I think we're going to be in very good shape. We're in good shape right now. We have the blockade, which is amazing. Our Navy is great. We have the strongest military in the world. I built the military on my first room, my first term, and I'm using it during my second term. I didn't think I'd be using it this much. But we had a big success in Venezuela. It was over in one day. We have a great relationship with the people in Venezuela. The oil companies are moving in now with us. And that's been a tremendous success, even from the economic standpoint, with the oil standpoint. But that was essentially much less than a one-day war than a great success. And we're having a very great success in Iran militarily. So you think the blockade is still be in place by Labor? I don't know. I mean, I think it could be, but I think it's unlikely. I think that we'll have it. I think this will resolve itself fairly quickly. He's saying it will resolve itself fairly quickly. So there you go. Take that as you will. The president seems unbothered by the situation. It doesn't seem like there's more urgency from him. It's just continued negotiations, and the blockade is in place. So that is something else, Clay, that came up here. Because this, I don't think we talked to this in the show. There was an Axios report that Trump called Benjamin Netanyahu and said, you are. Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, you are bleeping crazy. And he was asked about this. And I want you to hear his response. to being asked directly about it. Play six. You were angry with him. You said, are you effing crazy? What are you effing doing? I helped you stay out of jail. Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms? I did. I would say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon. You know, at some point I said, we'll get to stop this. We've got to stop it. But I have a very good relationship. We've done well. done well together. He always is. We could never have done it, but everybody knows that we could have never done it without the United States. But I've worked very well together. I like Beebe a lot, and I've worked very well with him. We had a, you know, I'm a wartime president. He's a wartime prime minister, very important part of the world. And I think we've done, you know, very well. We've gotten along very well together. I think he's like, look, we get a little hot into the collar, but I love the guy. It's all good. That seems to be the takeaway there. I think this is funny only in the context of we have been told by many people on both the right and the left, because the anti-Jewish sentiment has certainly percolated from the left, but also from some elements of the right, that Trump is completely at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu.

And there's tons of evidence actually, which is the only logical story here, that Benjamin Netanyahu actually has to do what Trump wants to do because America is the huge international power and Israel is not. So the whole idea of Trump only is acting at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu has always been crazy. And I wonder how they calibrate in their minds those people who have made this argument when Trump is just legitimately cursing and berating Benjamin Netanyahu because of some of the choices Benjamin Netanyahu is making that he doesn't support. You know what? There's 10 million people who live in Israel roughly. There's 350 million people here. Our overall economic might and military might dwarfs Israel's. Anyone who was arguing that a country that's roughly the size of New Jersey was going to be dominating the decision making of the United States, I always think was crazy. But these little evidence. out here. I give credit for Miranda Devine getting that story out. I do think that Israel helped to convince Trump that there could be a regime change. I think that's true. But the idea that Israel is dictating to Trump what they can and can't do is absolutely. Here's a good word for you. We said this from the very beginning. No one dictates to Trump anything. Okay. This is reality. Do I think that the reporting about Benjamin Netanyahu? pushing that there could be regime change and that the time was right for it is probably accurate? Yes. And did that end up being a good assessment? It was not a good assessment. But was that his honest assessment? That's, you know, to each, to each his own on the analysis there. But Trump believed or, you know, Trump was like, okay, I'll do that. I'll do that. There wasn't some leverage. There wasn't some special button that Benjamin Netanyahu could hit where it goes, oh, okay, Trump will do whatever. That button doesn't exist. And we said that from the very beginning. Trump is going to do what Trump is going to do. And he acted as he thought was in the best interest of this country as commander-in-chief. And he seems very still at peace with the decision, even though the perhaps delay in some of this has got some people a little bit concerned. But we'll see how it, we're going to look into this, as Trump says. We're going to look at this. When you switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk. To take advantage of their new low price for unlimited high-speed Wi-Fi, you're going to save money every month and help a great cause. Pure Talk is on a path to raise $250,000 for America's Warrior Partnership this month and next month. This nonprofit foundation stands on the front lines of preventing veteran suicide. Because Pure Talk is veteran-led, this is important to them. America's Warrior Partnership helps our veterans with housing when they need it. They provide transportation and counseling and access to VA programs. Here's how you can help. When you switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk this month, you'll have an opportunity to round up to support America's Warrior Partnership. Pure Talk will match that donation until they reach $250,000. So enjoy unlimited talk, text, and unlimited high-speed data.

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This is awful for trust in results in any way. And if I were Spencer Pratt or I was Steve Hilton, I mean, these guys are living in a sort of never-ending world of uncertainty as they try to figure out whether they're advancing into this new, this runoff or not. And it may end up being very close. Maybe it doesn't matter as much when there's a 10 or 15 spread. in what the outcome is, but likely for both Steve Hilton and advancing into the final two, and also for Spencer Pratt, this is going to be a relatively close race on both fronts, given how many people are running. I will say, and I think we had a talkback on this, but Katie Porter, remember Herbuck? She got 5% of the vote. Yeah. She's just ready to throw a big vat of boiling hot potatoes at all the voters of California right now. Not a surprise. Very upset at them. And nationwide, by the way, that's a reference if you forgot what Katie Porter did. Nationwide, this could matter because the overall house, as happened in 2022, is likely going to come down to what the results are in California. And we're not going to know who the head of the house is, like which party won the house potentially for a month. As everybody just kind of sits around and waits on California to slowly be able to tabulate all these results, it's just unacceptable. And to me, it's also symptomatic buck of the just utter collapse of California as a desirable place to live. They can't even count votes. They counted votes faster. They counted votes faster back in the 19th century than they are managing to do right now. That would seem to be not fast enough. Yes. And also a sign of things going in reverse in a very significant way that we're taking longer to count now than we used to back over 100 years ago. Cozy Earth makes the most comfortable sheets embedding I've ever experienced. Smooth as silk. They feel like butter. Great if you run hot at night. Keep you cool during the evening. We have them on all the beds in the Travis House sold. Cozy Earth clothing made for guys like us. Who says you have to look frumpy to be comfortable, shorts, tops, hoodies, sweats, everything. Stylish wears well. And your wife might even be impressed. Coming up on Father's Day, if you're looking for a good gift for dad, you can get hooked up with cozy earth clothing. It's all online right now. And you will be glad if you check it out. Use my name Clay for up to 30% off when you go to cozyEarth.com. That's cozyEarth.com. My name Clay, if you get hooked up, you will be well on your way to loving this product. CozyEarth.com code clay. That's cozyearth.com code C-L-A-Y. Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. So. Had a lot of talk there about the situations that Donald Trump is handling. It's got a whole range of things on his plate, as the commander-in-chief would tend to.

Something else that's going on here, though, Clay. I know you talked about it. Yes, what it would you have? We got a caller who was calling in to update us on the amount of time it's going to take to count. She called in with us the other day. Let's do it. Roxanne Hodge, I believe. You can let me know if I'm pronouncing your last name correctly or not. I saw you just tweet and I had the team reach out to you. 37 days is the current tracker of how long it's going to take. for all of these California votes to be tabulated? Oh, yes, sir. It's hoag rhymes with rogue. But the most important thing is that, yes, California, for years, this predates COVID. This predates our all the mail-in elections. They normally get 30 days. I don't know if they gave themselves a holiday boost for the 4th of July, but we are looking at a timeline that we will not have certified results until July 10th. That's insane. That's insane. Why can you try to help us understand Roxanne? Cool name, by the way. Why is that the way? Like, how can anyone think that that's okay? Well, I think, and I'm going inside their minds, now they've always taken a very long time to add in the mail-in ballots, and now that we've gone to all mail-in, so even if people drop off their ballots on election day at a vote center, they count as mail-in. They give seven days for ballots to arrive. But even before that, like last night, the first batch of results we got weren't from... the electronic vote machines in vote centers. One would think that you can tabulate that. Like, you could go on Twitter slash X right now, put up a survey that lasts 12 hours. And when the survey closes, you would see the results. I honestly do not understand why the electronic vote tabulation takes so long. If you look at the registrar voters in Los Angeles, which they do a good job, but I don't know if it's union breaks, what it is. They are going to do updates. There's going to be an update today that's going to be reported at 4 p.m. Pacific. And then we don't get another one until tomorrow at 4 p.m. And then Friday, like they're keeping bankers hours for something that's incredibly important. This is important, too. You said, and I don't remember, you correct me if I'm wrong. I don't remember in the 90s or the early 2000s that there was this issue with California votes being tabulated. And Buck is in Florida right now. Obviously, all of us remember what happened in Florida in 2000 when it took forever to decide who won that state. And Florida fixed everything. And now a couple of hours after Florida is done with the votes, they shut down the ballots, we know exactly what the results are. It's instantaneous. When did California start doing this? And obviously it's intentional. Their idea is, oh, this is going to allow us to get a higher voter participation rate, I'm sure is what they're saying. But.

This is, I think, frankly, inexcusable and indefensible to the rest of the country. And I know for many Californians as well. Well, it's been going on for at least a decade. I don't know if you guys remember Congresswoman Young Kim was declared a winner, went to D.C., did her freshman orientation in Congress. And then, too bad, so sad, was replaced. And that was back in 2018 or 2020, I think. It happened, you know, with Rick Caruso in the L.A. mayoral race. Oh, yay, he won. And then all the other ballots come in. And in terms of them claiming that we've increased turnout, I mean, right now, you know, L.A. County is looking maybe if we're lucky, we'll hit 25, 28 percent turnout. But that's the crazy thing. We don't even know what the denominator of votes cast will be for a full week. It's crazy. So how are you feeling about not forget about the vote counting part of it because that's obviously a mess? But from what we've seen so far, are you optimistic given the strong initial showing from Steve Hilton and from Spencer Pratt? What's your sense of it? I'm cautiously optimistic, but what I'm really happy about is that we are now going to have conversations about the best way to run something. The fact that Karen Bass couldn't win outright when Democrat politicians here who are incumbents just skate, they normally just, nobody cares, they just skate. The fact that he has opened up a flank that's going to be a, like, do you like hope on the streets? Because that's what you're going to vote for. And that conversation will take place with great sunlight and attention, because Spencer is brilliant at getting that. And then the same thing with Steve Hilton. You cannot be making the argument as Xavier Becerra is trying to that California needs fixing, and I'm the guy to fix it when your party broke it. No doubt. If these results were to hold, Buck was being the optimistic one for a change off the start of the show today, how optimistic are you that Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt now in one-on-one runoffs would be able to reach across and bring in some traditional Democrat voters? Are you optimistic that would occur? Because, again, finally, you're down to a head-to-head if these guys can officially get the nod. to advance to the runoff.

I am 100% optimistic, and I don't just say that because I'm a cheerleader for the party officially. I have seen with my own eyes Democrats coming out for Spencer and for Steve. There were even Democrats who donated to the Republican Party of L.A. County to help spread the word and get out the vote of our, you know, we're only just under 15% of the electorate in the city of L.A., but they wanted to make sure that we have a real. conversation and that we can actually have good governance. The people who keep talking about, you know, experience, well, the experience that we've seen so far has driven us into the ground. And I say this as someone from a third world country. I drive from the airport to my family home in Kingston on nicer streets than I do from LAX to my home in North Hollywood. I'm just wondering, and maybe the answer is much longer. How long does it take, like in Jamaica to count election ballots? Pretty much a day. Pretty much a day. Now, to be fair, we'll have a much better idea in two weeks. I mean, you know, it takes 37 days to certify, but really they're going to jam, you know, two weeks in. We'll really know what we're looking at. This is just insane. Thank you for the update. Will you please keep calling in and updating us as these counts continue? Because I know I speak for a lot of people out there who voted for Steve Hilton and who voted for Spencer Pratt and say, I know how this story is going to end. I've lived through it before. Democrats keep counting until they get the numbers they need. We're a little bit like Lucy with the foot, you know, Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football, but I have faith. Thank you. We like your faith. Thank you so much for the call. Thanks for the update. Got such a great California listeners. Clay, can I take us now to the other side of the country? Yes. Maine. Maine. Where I'm just going to tell you guys this. I don't think this has happened yet. I have been told by my people, because I know people, that there's going to be some. Graham Platner stuff coming down today. I don't think the story has dropped yet, but more stuff and possibly some very damaging stuff about this. Or I should say, what's the right word? I am told it will be very damaging stuff. How about that? Potentially knock him out of the race damaging stuff is what you have been told is coming. This is what I have been told by people who know these things. Now, that's not a guarantee, and sometimes people get to, you know, until you're, now it's coming from the New York Times, I might add, is where it is expected to drop. So remember, this is pro-democrat media, and you have to wonder, okay, well, what's their approach going to be with this? But at least you have here, Senator John Fetterman. who, and some of you like to remind us, does vote with Democrats like 90% of the time, but he does say things that annoy Democrats, and occasionally he'll vote with Republicans, so there's that. Here he is on the Graham Platner.

for senator's situation 25 hit it what kind of a creeper has been on a decade on a platform like kick and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and and who knows what else would it be better for democrats if he was not the candidate here oh i'm saying it's like um You know, when I was growing up, if someone had a clear Nazi tattoo on them, you probably could conclude that there's a Nazi sympathizer. At some point, you're going to continue to defend that or dismiss that. Yeah, that's a tough one. By the way, the Nazi tattoo thing, I think, is going to be a whole lot more... defensible, at least politically, than what I'm hearing is likely to come out about Graham Platner in the next 24 hours, if not in the next few hours, Clay. So what do Democrats do here? I mean, remember, Eric Swalwell just got knocked now. They had Xavier Becerra. So this, see, what you have to keep in mind is, yes, it was Democrats who took down Eric Swalwell. Well, it was really women who came forward and told their stories, but Democrat media covered it, but they had a plan B. And Xavier Becerra is now either number one or number two. Well, for the time being, I know we can't really say, but he's clearly a leading contender and a former Obama guy. So they had a plan B. What's the plan B if Graham Platner gets just plastered? They're going to go right back to Janet Mills, who is the current governor. That's who Chuck Schumer endorsed. So they thought that Janet Mills had a better chance of winning than Graham Platner did. And that's why I think all these stories are coming out right now. They're trying to CO him before the primary is Tuesday. This is crazy stuff. And again, I think it's Eric Swalwell 2.0. I think there's an element of Joe and Kamala Harris and the way that whole Biden-Kamala Harris switch went down because I think they want to knock Graham Platner out of this race before Tuesday. Remember, and we talked about this on the program before, I don't know when it started, but you don't drop out anymore. You suspend your campaign. It's like you're just kind of hanging there. Like you haven't quite said, hey, I'm out. You're waiting to see if some sort of chaos is going to drop. And Janet Mills recently came back out. I don't know if we have that audio. I know we had it yesterday. And she said, Buck, to answer your question, I think she's letting it be known, she made a big deal of saying, I didn't drop out. I just suspended my campaign. So she is there. and is ready to resume the campaign if there is the force out of Graham Platner. And I think the fear that they have, Buck, is that Susan Collins is going to beat a wounded Graham Platner. And so they're trying to kill him. The fact that it's coming from the New York Times, Tommy Laren, Tommy Lerrin sent me a message. She said, you know, it's like, remember the horror movie back in the day?

where you would get like the dun dun dun the phone call is coming from inside the house you remember that horror story back in the day it's like you know babysitters downstairs right doesn't that happen in scream and they realize you know because i can see you know with a scary well he's outside i'm a scream expert he's outside the house but but the concept is back in the day babysitters downstairs somebody keeps calling she keeps uh hanging up And then she calls the police and they say, you need to get out of the house right now. And she says, why? And they say because that call is coming from upstairs in your house. This is the call coming from inside. So they are threatening Graham Platner. I would imagine, Buck, there's probably phone calls going on behind the scenes now where if you drop out, maybe these stories aren't released that are as damning as they would be if you refuse to. to drop out. So I think this is a mess. I would pay attention to it. I think it is significant. And just FYI. So I like your call, Buck. If you look at the prediction markets. Susan Collins is almost favored now to win that main seat. The money has been pouring in on her, which suggests to me people think that Graham Platner is a wounded candidate as we get ready for that Tuesday primary next week. Also, I'd point out, Buck, the Graham Platner campaign put out a new poll saying, everything is fine. We're not losing any support at all, and they weren't up very much. and that's an internal campaign. It just kind of feels like we got the panic that is underway. We'll dive into all that and more when we come back in the meantime. If you are a small business owner, and I know many of you out there are, including both Buck and me, and if you've had to deal with all the different paperwork that is regularly in front of you, Let me tell you something. When you sign the insurance policy, that's the, that's sometimes just the beginning. You don't know what's covered. You don't know what kind of support you're going to get. Heck, you don't even know how many insurance agencies you might have for your companies. SuperShore is the super agency built for you licensed in every state year-round support at supershore.com slash clay. You also get fine print facts. They can tell you. What you are spending, what you actually need, what you are covered for. They can save you money and simplify all of your insurance issues. No cost. Just go to super sure.com slash clay. One super agency, one powerful platform. If you are like me and run a small business, all your policies in one place, super sure.com slash clay. Paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency LLC, a licensed insurance agency. Laugh. Learn. Hang with the guys. Right there when you need them most. Clay and Buck. Just preset them on the eye heart app.

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If you get a 90% chance of something happening, there could still be 10% chance that the other thing's going to happen, right? So it is like any other probability. But to answer your question, when they get to 90%, I have found them to be quite reliable. And I'll give you another example of how I was using them last night, Buck. I was watching the votes come in. And then I was constantly going over to the polymarket site to see what the... percentage chances were of who was going to win the race. They usually move faster than the actual vote tallies when people are putting their real money behind it. There was one upset. We'll talk about what happened in Iowa, a winner that was not endorsed by President Trump, what that story is, and it connects to Rush Limbaugh. I think you guys are going to enjoy the clip that we have for you about the new nominee to be the next governor of Iowa. We'll talk more about 60 minutes. And Buck, I've got a reason for optimism, dated. I need it. I need it. When we come back, final hour Wednesday next. Life moves fast. At American Military University, they're ready to help you keep up. AMU's flexible, affordable online programs in cybersecurity, IT, space studies, and more are designed for service members, veterans, and their families. AMU provides the support you need to take the next step, wherever life takes you. American Military University, made for what's next. Learn more at amu.apus.edu.edu. Trade screen time for race time at Virginia International Raceway. August 21st through 23rd, IMSA's Michelin GT Challenge brings some of the coolest cars to VIR for an unforgettable family weekend. Explore, meet drivers, see race cars up close, and experience the thrill of racing from every corner of the track. It's more than a race. It's a memory waiting to be made. Kids 12 and under get in free. Get your tickets at VIRFam.com. That's VIRFAM.com. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our warfighters, advances life-saving health care, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage. You want your master's degree. You know you can earn it, but life gets busy. The pack schedule, the late nights, and then there's the unexpected. American Public University was built for all of it. With monthly starts and no set login times, APU's 40 plus flexible online master's programs are designed to move at the speed of life. Start your master's journey today at APU.APUS.edu. You want it? Come get it at APU.