Hour 2 - DeSantis for SCOTUS?

This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. The Joel Osteen Daily podcast. God's plans for you are for good. Be inspired. Get ready. God is about to exceed your expectations. Joel Osteen Daily podcast. You are coming out of that dry place into more than enough. Daily encouragement right when you need it. There are opportunities in your future. bigger than you can imagine. Listen to the Joel Osteen Daily podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Welcome back in Good Friday edition of the program. We are rolling with many of you. Lots of people out of work today. Off work today, maybe more accurately. I hope all of you, wherever you may be. Lots of people traveling as well. I hope everybody traveling. I hope you, wherever you may be, are having a good, blessed weekend beginning with you and your family. Buck and I are here with you. Let me fill you in on a couple of big stories that are going on. One of the two crew members has been rescued after an F-15 was reportedly shot down in Iran. Rapid search underway for the second of those pilots. And again, one pilot rescued intent search for the other. Way more new jobs created than was anticipated as we began the first hour of the program letting all of you know. And I am monitoring making sure that I'm on top of the absolute latest on that search for the second pilot. Again, one pilot has been rescued since the start of this program when we brought you the news about that. All right. We've been talking about the Artemis Mission. We have talked about a great deal already in the first hour. Some fun, Buck. Sylvia writes in, Clay, I am 88 years old, and I heard that kid say friggin, and I have hearing aids. Do you need hearing aids? Thanks for listening, Sylvia. I don't think so. Although, to be fair, Buck, I went through the drive-through this morning to get my kids some McDonald's. because they're out of school today for Good Friday. And the lady, I think she was Hispanic, was trying to ask me if I needed jelly for my buttered biscuits. And I had no idea what she was saying coming through the intercom there at the drive-thru. So maybe I'm on my way to needing hearing aids. I don't know. Although I do think there's quite a few people that also heard on that clip the exact same thing that I heard. Maybe it's just a sign. No, no, no. of how dirty our hearings are. Okay, let's see. Hold on a second. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I need to know something here. You go butter and jelly. Are you a butter and jelly guy on biscuits? You double up? Yes, I am, but I'm fat. So these biscuits work these. You know, you think you know a guy. You think you know a guy. You think you know a guy.

These biscuits were for my 11-year-old who all he wanted from McDonald's for breakfast this morning. He said, Dad, just give me three butter biscuits. So he just wanted butter on him, straight butter biscuits. And so I was trying to order those. And the jelly question got me all befuddled. Okay. We do have a couple of talkbacks here. By the way, the clip that is that we played in the first hour was of a little kid who was at the Artemis launch and was super excited. I thought he used a different F word. This is pretty funny. Robert from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 106.1 FM. Make it a joke here. See if you get it. Very clean buck, Robert from North Carolina, Fort Bragg area. Now I can see why y'all haven't called it the Buck and Clay Show. Say that fast five times you're quick. That gets you in trouble. There's a hundred percent. Fair point. I would be scared. I'd be scared to say it five times real fast on the radio. Here, get a call from the boss. You know what I mean? Yeah, FCC would take us out at handcuffs regularly if we had to, if we had to pronounce that coming in and out. This is, this is Linda who says she's dying laughing. It was fricking or frigging made me laugh. Even reading those, these emails, I feel like I'm dancing on a very, very. Thin ice. Paul from Wisconsin, News Talk 1130. What you got for us, Paul? Hey, Clay, this is Paul from Wisconsin. Thanks so much for playing that freaking clip by that kid. That was freaking hilarious. See, I can hear him. I can hear the enunciation there. All right. You know what else is freaking hilarious? It is Gavin Newsom's wife has started to go viral for being crazy. And I don't know how many of you have heard this, but she's been doing a lot of interviews. And so far she had kind of fallen under the radar. But she seems to be a true adherent of the woke virus buck. And here she is saying, She gives her boys baby dolls to learn about caregiving. Cut 19. I've given our boys dolls, even if they tear that off. I've given them dolls to learn that care and caregiving is not just an activity that's reserved for women, but that it's also an activity that is a responsibility of men. What I've done with both my daughters and my sons is if I'm reading a book and the protagonist as a male, I just change the he to a she. And it just normalizes for my sons in particular. It's not even, I don't even just do it for my girls. I do it for my sons because I want them to see that women can be the center of a story, that women matter, that women are interesting. What a weirdo, Buck. This is, you know, you did something that I wasn't expecting.

You made me have some sympathy for Gavin Newsom. That guy's got his hands full, man. That guy's, that's rough. You haven't started reading books to your kids. He's only one. You're reading, I guess, maybe at bedtime? Last night, I'm reading. Can I tell you something that's really funny to me, actually? Speed is going to be one in about a week. April 11th is his birthday, so we're very excited. We're going to have a wild party for our one-year-old involving lots of his favorite little, like, fruit crisp things that he likes to eat so much. And he has a bunch of books by his bed. Now, he can't read, obviously. I mean, he'll be able to read very soon because he's my son. But he's not yet one, so he can't read. And... But the only book he wants, it's almost like magic. We have a whole bunch of children's books for him, the big pictures and things where the wild things are. That's it. If you try to put another book in front of him, he slaps it away. He loves where the wild things are, which I got to say, I mean, you grew up. I had that when I was a kid. You had it. What is it about that book? It's just stood the test of time in a way. I would have thought there be all these new children's books now and everything else. That book is like a classic among classics. Good Night Moon was one that my kids absolutely loved, that every time I read it, I'm kind of amazed at how popular it is. I bet every mom, dad, grandma, grandpa out there has read Good Night Moon at some point in time. And my thought when I heard that clip, the doll's part was weird, but it didn't make as, I didn't focus on it as much as the back end there. Changing the gender of the heroes of children's stories is a crazy thing to do. I mean, it is like I'm thinking about it in the context of... Like, my kids all loved Harry Potter. Before they could read, we read Harry Potter. The fact that Hermione Granger is a girl is a significant part of that story. The fact that Harry Potter is a boy is a significant part of that story. They have male names. They have female names. Gender is real. The idea that you would be changing the gender of anyone in a children's story. is something that a crazy person would do. Like, this is not a normal thought process, and it actually thought to me, this manufactured delusion, she has become buck delusional. She has. Like, it actually makes no sense at all the choice that she's making. It's more work, and it's nonsensical.

I just got so excited Clay used the title of the book. Thank you. Sorry. Just threw it in there. I appreciate that. Clay's helping with the promo. It is a manufactured delusion with her book. I mean, it just makes no sense. It's becoming a phrase. It's becoming a phrase more and more people are using. That's why you got to go get the book. But Clay, I think that Gavin Newsom's wife is exactly, this is what's so funny about it. If you and I were coming up with, what's Gavin Newsom's wife like? an actress who's sort of uptalk and is like really about feminism and like female leads in a story and that's what it like i i knew this me i'd never seen his wife until recently or i'd never heard her speak or anything and that's i said yeah that's exactly what i would assume gabvin's wife is like you just tell You can just tell. The same way that I've never heard, AOS, is she married to that guy? They're just kind of like a red-haired dude that's, are they married? I think she got married to the red-haired guy, yeah. Yeah, the red-haired guy. By the way, I'm going to say this. It's good work for him. No, right now. Yeah. You know, there's some guys who see a guy who's going, you know, I married up. You know, whatever, fine. That's the whole point. You out kicked your coverage. I mean, the whole goal of, of men, I think, should be to end up with women that are better looking than you are. I mean, that's a good life goal. This is the whole point. This is why we sit in cubicles and do all these things we do for so many hours so we can, like, level up a couple levels, you know, with the ladies. But I would say there are some guys who see a guy who has out kicked his coverage, you know. And he's gone up a couple levels on the hotness scale for his partner. And they get, like, jealous or they think it's not fair. I'm always like, high five, buddy. It's good to know that guys are getting it done out there. You know, it's good to know that we can still aspire. So I think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's husband deserves credit at least for that. But I would also say, I don't think he's a bro-y guy. You can just tell. You're like, he's married to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He probably kind of mumbles about like, yeah, I'm a male feminist, you know, yeah. You can just tell. This is the reality of who these people are. You can tell based on... what they would be subjected to day and dad. So Gavin Newsom, of course, he's not going to have, his wife's not going to be some cool chick that you just want to sit down and hang out with and have a conversation. She's pretty, of course. You know, I mean, Gavin Newsom is very superficial guy. Of course, she's pretty. But is, like, talking about things that she doesn't really understand. And does she think that, like, everyone from the South is, like, maybe kind of racist? Yes. No surprise. Yeah, well, I mean, I think also, yes. This is what, wife, too. This is the wife after he slept with his best friend's wife while he was the mayor of San Francisco. Was he married to Kim Guilfoyle? I believe he was. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was his first wife. Yeah. But I had somebody come up to me over the weekend. Who knows Gavin Newsom actually quite well. And we were talking about 2028. That's how it came up. Like who are the Democrats going to nominate? Not like we were just sitting around. Hey, let's talk about Gavin Newsom. And he said that he was a Californian.

And he said that he knew Gavin Newsom quite well, and lots of people did. And they said that for people who knew him on a personal level, this is people that actually know him, the sleeping with his best friend's wife, while I think was it his best friend was like his chief of staff, in some way, there was a connection there too, was a line of demarcation that a lot of them cut Gavin Newsom off and just said, this guy's a sociopath. And I think a lot of guys out there kind of can get this. I mean, look, cheating on your wife, not a good thing to do. Cheating on your wife when it is your best friend's wife, supposedly, is, I mean, for a lot of guys, is just like a... That's lunatic, lunatic. selfish, destructive behavior. Like, you need significant help style decision making. And this is somebody who knew him personally and said that was a point where a lot of people were just done with him on a personal level. And it doesn't get talked about that much, but I do think it's significant. He's the perfect Democrat. This is my whole point. He's like a lizard person who just changes with the temperature around him as necessary. He's a chameleon. He turns into the color of his surround. It doesn't matter. He doesn't care. There's nothing left inter. There's no, like, voice from the soul internally that's saying, hey, man. That's really gross. Don't say that. Or, hey, you really shouldn't support that. No, anything. Perfect vessel for the Democrats. Joe Biden in many ways, perfect vessel for the Democrats. Look, sounds, you know, presents old-timey grandpa that, like, couldn't be that radical, couldn't be that progressive and, you know, of course, all I. Gavin Newsom, in his own way, perfect for the Democrats, soulless, but slick. soulless, but slick. That's what they need. That's what they want. Someone who will say whatever. People got mad if we had, by the way, I think the Democrat had came on. Seems like a nice guy. I think he's confused about what political party he belongs to. Or he's lying about what he's lying about what he actually thinks about that stuff, which I can't. If someone says, hey, if I say, hey, do you agree with Trump securing the border? I go, yes, I think that's a great idea. What do you want me to do? Be like, no, you're lying. What am I supposed to do? The guy says it's a great idea, okay? But that guy, I think, you know, I think he's confused about his party, but I think a lot of his general impulses, General Harris, we had a lot of general impulses make sense and come from a place of honor. Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom doesn't know how to spell honor. Gavin Newsom is, but I say that with some degree clay of, not reverence, what's the word of like, I almost respect how soulless he is. It's pretty amazing. Like his X factor is that he'll say and do anything he has to do for power. It does not matter. It's actually very Hillary Clinton in that sense. Anything goes. Whatever works. That's very powerful. You know, you guys saw me yesterday, and I was actually...

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Is there a possibility that they decide to stay in-house and elevate Todd Blanche? Could they go into the Senate? And we'll get some more of your talkbacks. A lot of you reacting here on this Good Friday. I want to tell you, though. You can save up to $1,000 right now, pound 250. If you go to Pure Talk right now, pound 250, say Clay and Buck, you get to keep your same phone and your same phone number, and you could potentially save $1,000 over the course of a year. Tremendous difference for you and for everyone else out there. No matter what you use right now, you could be saving a lot more. $25. a month for unlimited talk, text, plenty of data. Compare that to your current cell phone bill. Calculate the amount you'll be saving every month. Switch your service to Pure Talk. Dial pound 250. Say our names Clay and Buck to make the switch to Pure Talk today. That's pound 250. Say Clay and Buck switch to America's wireless company Pure Talk. They share your values. They will make a tremendous difference for you. Get hooked up now, pound 250, say Clay and Buck. Speaking truth and having fun. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Okay, yesterday during the program, Pam Bondi, Attorney General out. Not even very much discussion today about the fact that President Trump moved on from his attorney general yesterday. These are the names that are at the top right now of the Polly Market, who will be the next Attorney General prediction markets, Buck. I'm going to hit these for you. We talked about a variety of different names. Lee Zeldin is a pretty big favorite. 53% right now, coin flip, but he's the favorite to be the next Attorney General. He is the current EPA head. Then you have Todd Blanche, who is the interim, was working as the second in charge of the Department of Justice, has now been elevated, for those of you certainly who remember, Todd Blanche was President Trump's private attorney during much of the criminal mess that he had when he was not in office. They seemed to have a very good relationship. And then in third place, 25% chance right now that it will be Todd Blanche. In third place... Judge Janine Piro, who is right now the head of the D.C. attorney's office that has been prosecuting as the district attorney, basically, of the District of Columbia. Many of those cases, obviously also very well known to many of you as a panelist on the five, which is the most popular show on cable before she was elevated into this job. Couple of other names that are out there. They are substantial underdogs. Ken Paxton. Now, I don't know, Buck, if Ken Paxton could be confirmed by the United States Senate. He is the current Attorney General of Texas. He's been on this program many times. He is running against John Cornyn in the Senate primary.

This would be kind of a masterstroke for Trump. Ken Paxton has been a longtime ally of President Trump. If he were able, and I don't know if he would be able to, but if he were able to be confirmed by the Senate, remember we only have 53 votes. So you assume unified opposition from Democrats, Ken Paxton, maybe. could be an incredible choice because it would end the Senate battle in Texas and basically take Texas and the amount of money that's going to be spent between now and late May off the table and kind of put James Talarico down in a way that he would be unlikely to win. It ends the acrimony of the primary. Ken Paxton would get a more important, I would argue, job as the attorney general than he has right now in the Senate. Those are the top four. You and I talked about the fact that we thought Ron DeSantis would be an amazing attorney general. I'll stand by that. If they wanted to go in the Senate, Mike Lee could make a lot of sense because theoretically he would be easy to confirm. That's kind of what I would say, top five or six. You mentioned Harmeet Dillon. Where do you see this going? Do you think the favorites? Do you think it's very likely it's going to be Lee Zeldin and or Todd Blanche? That's about a... 85% chance according to the prediction markets, or do you think Trump could just go off the board? I think that Trump is running yet another episode of the apprentice, the apprentice Department of Justice, meaning that he wants everyone to be in a tizzy running around thinking about who could be, who will be. You know, the only person who knows, Clay, is Donald Trump. I think that he's probably still considering what his options are. He's going to listen to different voices over the days ahead. I think all of these options are strong, the ones that he's talking about. And I don't think Ron DeSantis, I don't think he will be asked, nor do I think he would take the job, quite honestly, for a bunch of reasons. Let me ask you this, by the way, sorry to cut you off, but I get a lot of responses on this. What is Ron DeSantis going to do? He is an elite political talent who has transformed the state of Florida in his eight years. His term ends in November. He's not going to run again. Byron Donalds's, I believe, is going to be the next governor of the great state of Florida. I think Byron Donalds's going to do a good job. But Ron DeSantis, come November, basically, I know he'll serve until January when we have a sworn in, swearing and occurring of the new governor. What is he going to do? Well, the easiest thing would be to go into the private sector and make a whole bunch of money, which I think he could easily do. The less easy thing that I actually think is the more likely thing is that he will run for president. But he'll run for presidents, as Ron DeSantis would, saying, hey, I think I'd be the best for this job. But I'd also be a great Secretary of State under a JD Vance or a Marco Rubio or whatever administration. So I think he's going to run.

I think he's going to run because I think now we've seen running for president, and this has been played out many times in recent elections going back now decades, running for president is a brand enhancing and sometimes cabinet position enabling maneuver. So why not? So that's what I think he's probably. So start, I mean, and basically as we have talked about. It sounds like he would be out of office, but the presidential primary starts basically in January of 27. When people come out of Christmas and New Year's, the 28 presidential cycle will begin by January and February of March. Everybody will be announcing that they are going to be running for president. We'll see how many they end up actually being. I hope everyone enjoyed the one year of Trump's first or Trump's second term. where we weren't essentially gearing up for either a midterm or a presidential election, because that's the way that this goes. We had one year, and now we're in the midterm year. Yes. And then it's going to be the beginning of the presidential cycle. So we're going to be jumping into this right away. But yeah, I think I think Ron's going to run. And I think very much in the way that he even ran the last time, which obviously didn't work against Trump, didn't work very well at all. But he'll run on, hey, guys, I think I'm great for the job. But he's not. He's not going to get ugly with fellow Republicans. I think he'll probably be, if he does run and I'm right, he'll be smiling at Marco Rubio on the stage. Again, I don't even know. There's a lot of talk as to whether J.D. or Marco Rubio is the heir apparent. I don't really have a, I think they're both really solid choices. I don't really have a dog in that fight. Some people feel very, very strongly about it. I'm somewhat agnostic. I think they're both. If I thought one was much weaker than the other, I'd have a strong opinion on it. But right now, I want to see that play out, but I think, yeah, Ron would be somebody who, if he were to run again, it would be, hey, let's see what kind of traction I get, slash, he would be a really good AG or Secretary of State. I don't think he wants to be the AG at the end of Trump's second term, quite honestly. That's where he doesn't want to go. Let me give you one. It's a sad story. Samuel Alito report came down. Sounds like he's fine. But he was hospitalized in March after a federalist-related issue with his health. They said he was dehydrated. He had to be taken to the hospital. If you are looking at the landscape of available candidates for the Supreme Court, and you are trying to avoid a Ketanji Brown Jackson situation. I think Ron DeSantis would be an incredible Supreme Court justice. I don't know that anybody else has ever said this. Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, he has a good relationship with both. I don't know that he would want it. I haven't talked to Ron DeSantis about this, but I'll tell you a story. I don't think I've told this story on the air before. Ron DeSantis is a legal nerd, and that's not an attack. That is an endorsement. He reads the actual opinions, as one should, as the chief executive of a state. He is a strong legal scholar. Some people would prefer, at times, to be immersed in the policy details, the challenges of legalities. Other people kind of float above it.

I don't think Trump is sitting down pouring through Supreme Court justices like opinion saying, what, can you believe this footnote? Is this dicta or is this the official opinion? I know he was at the argument on Wednesday. I think he gets the big picture impact. I don't think he goes into the nitty gritty. I think Ron DeSantis is a nitty gritty guy. I think Ron DeSantis as a replacement for Samuel Alito or if Clarence Thomas, these guys are both 75 plus-ish. and Buck, we may lose the Senate, and nobody else wants to talk about the fact that if we lose the Senate, Trump has no ability to appoint new Supreme Court justices, and who knows when the Republicans will have the Senate and the presidency again, I don't, I may be, I feel like I'm the only person like hitting this, hitting this button and talking about it, but we saw what happened with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. When you get to be 75, if you're having every now and then a little bit of a health condition, it can turn in a hurry. And next thing you know, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is getting replaced by Amy Coney Barrett. And that reverse could happen, right? Clarence Thomas could be replaced by the equivalent of Ketanji Brown Jackson if Democrats have the ability to do this. Same thing with Samuel Alito. I think there needs to be a real discussion behind closed doors about health and whether in the summer it could make sense when this term ends in June to have a Supreme Court confirmation. And I'll just toss that out there. The timing would be perfect on a Ron DeSantis on the Supreme Court. Have you heard anybody else ever make that suggestion or have I blown your mind with this idea? No, that's up there with Linda from Arizona talking about deploying ICE. If this were to happen, I've never heard anyone talk about Ron for the Supreme Court. So that would be quite a... He's 45, 46 years old. So you got a long runway, young, right, as judges would go. I think it could make a ton of sense. Yeah, interesting. I can see that more than Ted Cruz wants to be president. You and I would be president. Ted Cruz would be in agreement that Ted Cruz is going to run for president in 2028. I mean, period. He'll start running in January of 27. Yeah, people are going to say, oh, but what about there's not the same feeling about this, which we all very much heard when people ran, including Ron DeSantis against Trump. It was it's not their time. It has to be Trump. It has to be Trump. There is not a unified voice of the Republican Party that I think is going to insist that there is only one going forward. I haven't seen that. Maybe Trump, the only way that changes is if Trump says everyone, MAGA, JD, or Marco, but I assume it's JD. JD is my guy. He is the, you know, Trump would have to do that in a very clear, very concerned. I don't know if he'll do that. I think if he just kind of says, you know, I'm going to let Maga decide. It's up to them. Let the Republican base do what it does. I think you're going to have a lot of people run, actually. I think it'll be much more interesting. There's only one Trump, right? I mean, it's a different thing. No one else is Trump. I'm going to give you a crazy take, part two, that no one else has said that I don't think anybody else has said. I think there's a possibility that Marco Rubio.

would rather be commissioner of the NFL after his Secretary of State run than Vice President. Because I think he's doing a tremendous job as Secretary of State. We've talked about VP. There's the talk of, hey, Marco's going to run with JD. I don't know that Marco Rubio wants to be vice president. I think he might see it as a demotion relative to what he gets to do right now as Secretary of State. I think he might be done with government to Marco Rubio's credit he's never made any money He's in his 50s, and everybody out there used to talk about Condoleezza Rice wanting to be one day the NFL commissioner. Roger Goodell may. Oh, you never heard that story? Oh, yeah, tons. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He was a top candidate in the public arena to be the commissioner of the NFL. This I do know. Goodell makes like 40 or something million a year, right? I think there is an argument that the best job in America is commissioner of the NFL. When you consider the amount of money they make, the fact that you're selling something that everybody loves football, I think Marco Rubio could be the, when Roger Goodell steps down, remember Goodell's dad used to be a senator. I mean, he's of political, you know, background in many ways. I think Marco Rubio could be the next NFL commissioner. And I think he would prefer that. This is where people are going to say you're crazy. I'd rather be NFL commissioner than vice president. I think I would too. I mean, if you gave me the choice right now, would you rather be VP? And I say it only in the context of Marco is getting to do... the Secretary of State job at an elite level, Vice President, you're kind of just floating around there, right? Especially Vice President, I think J.D. has found this to be a tough spot. When the President is the sun, the moon, the stars, you're sort of a secondary, by far satellite there. Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, sorry, as next NFL Commissioner and Ron DeSantis' next Supreme Court Justice. If I hit both those buck. I might have to retire because I don't know that it would be more incredible predictions. If you're looking for a better night's sleep, sometimes it's as simple as getting better sheets. And for my money, cozy earth bamboo sheets, there'll be a game changer for you. I sleep on them every night. Cozy Earth uses a fabric that wicks the heat from your body and you stay cool as a result. Not cold, just cool all night long, very breathable. Cozy Earth puts priority on constructing their sheets in bedding so they maintain their form and structure and stay soft after hundreds of washings.

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Because it's not worth it. Because there's not enough people watching, and I don't care. So they don't have the value proposition that we do or that Fox does of mass scale, big audience. Amen. Tom in Pennsylvania, former F-14 pilot, you wanted to tell us the search going on for one of the pilots out there. Thanks for calling. Absolutely. Yeah, about gathering intelligence by listening to the radio. I was in a school, an LSO school, with an Argentine Navy pilot, well, with two of them. We trained them in our school as well. And we were socializing after class one day. And we were talking about the Falklands War, which was only six years prior to this day. And one of the pilots was telling us that he was one of the two guys that launched on a mission to go attack the British fleet that was off of the coast. It was a low overcast day. They had some intelligence about where the fleet was, but they weren't exactly sure. They went out to a predetermined distance. They popped up into the overcast. They got a radar hit on the ship. They each had an extra set missile. I think they only had three in their inventory at the time. Oh, man. We'll have to talk to him more at the top of the next hour. What a tease. The Joel Osteen Daily Podcast. God's plans for you are for good. Be inspired. Get ready. God is about to exceed your expectations. Joel Osteen Daily podcast. You are coming out of that dry place into more than enough. Daily encouragement right when you need it. There are opportunities in your future bigger than you can imagine. Listen to the Joel Osteen Daily podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.