Hour 2 - Iran's Public Executions

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comments from President Trump in the Oval Office where he is with the Prime Minister of Japan, I believe. I think that's right. Yeah. I know these countries with their presidents and their prime ministers. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? It's kind of tough to keep tabs. You know, sometimes even throw Chancellor in there. I'm like, what are we? A university? What's going on? So, yeah, no, they got president, the prime minister, all this stuff. I think it's the prime minister of Japan. In most countries, the prime minister, as we know, is actually the important one. And the president's less powerful. But anyway, we'll get to that in a second. I have some very important updates for you, which just means I'm taking the opportunity to have a little fun before we get into all the seriousness. Although Trump said something quite hilarious in the Oval Office, which we'll bring to you in a second. I'm not delusional. There was, in fact, a movie. with Tom Selleck in 1984 called Runaway. And the director, I did not know this until I picked it up, was Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame and ER. I did not realize this. But the movie is in an advanced society where homes have robots that perform everyday duties for them. Sometimes they malfunction, and they have to call in a team with Sergeant Jack Ramsey, played by Tom Selleck, to deal with rogue robots in the home. I'm just saying this was a long... This movie's like, we're going back 40 years, my friends. This is a long time ago. Elon Musk's working on robots right now that are going to be able to do your laundry and cook food for you and everything else. So... This is, you know, it's kind of interesting to see how this plays out. I just thought everybody should know that that is a real thing. The other thing I saw Clay on this, because I looked this up on Rotten Tomatoes, one battle after another has a 94% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes. Rigged. Rigged. I don't know if it's the mail-in ballot. I don't know if they've got illegals voting. There's no way that one battle after another. You have not seen this movie now. I have not seen it, but I trust producer Allie. And she says it is worse than sinners. She just texted us. It's crap, exclamation point. Yeah. As you're talking about it. 94% because I was downstairs setting the multi-view for my kids to be able to watch the NCAA tournament. It's spring break week. And so I was putting it on. I didn't take them out of school, although there are probably some of you who got to skip school back in the day on this. And I saw that you can buy it. And I was actually thinking, oh, should I buy it this weekend since it won the Oscar? You haven't seen it. Producer Ali says it's crap. But to your point, it obviously has got a decent score. But I do feel like a lot of Rotten Tomatoes is rigged now because it became such a toners is 97%, which is just appalling. I mean, that's, this is like, oh, yeah, you know, the latest election in Turkmenistan really went the way of the ruling party. Like, it's rigged. Right. That's why they get 98% of the vote. Sinners is 97% of the vote. Rigged, total war machine, 71%. War machine, I'm going to tell you this, maybe worse than sinners. This is a movie with the guy who plays Jack Reacher on the TV show. I don't remember his name, but he's all, like, you know, jacked up. Oh, I did. I started a show with him.

This is, yeah, Blue Mountain State. He was one of the fad on Blue Mountain State. Alan Richter, is that his name? Richson, Richson, maybe. Something like that. He was a, but yeah, I know he's super successful now and actually grew up where I am right now on the panhandle of Florida. But yeah, I did Blue Mountain State, which has become a cult classic on streaming services now. I played myself back in the day. I'm going to ruin this movie for you, by the way, if you haven't seen it. And I know you're like, fuck, this isn't a movie review show. I'm going to get to all the news in a second. We have three hours a day. Just give me a second here. All right. I sit through these movies so you don't have to. I am doing all of you a service. So, Clay, Predator, which is an amazing movie from the 80s with Arnold Schwarzenegger. And Petter is a fantastic movie. This is like a Predator ripoff, except... It's Army Rangers. I saw this. We were picking a movie to watch, and I was like, there's no way this movie is any good. It's on Netflix, right? Like Lauren and I were picking a movie, and I was like, I won't watch that one. This is the dumbest movie. It's the dumbest movie maybe I've ever seen. Sinners is a better movie. This isn't about politics for me. Sinners is a better, more entertaining movie, even though it's crap than War Machine. War Machine, just think about this premise for a second. There are a bunch of Army Rangers. who are training non-live fire, okay? They've got like the laser gun, like laser tag guns basically, all right? Whatever they call that, like simunition or laser tag. And out of nowhere, with no explanation, a big robot machine appears and starts just shooting them. Yes. And then they have to like run away from it while they're all getting blown up by the big robot machine. And then eventually he gets himself into like an earth excavator and he defeats the robot machine. It's the dumbest movie I've ever seen it. Like the people who wrote this movie should be ashamed. The fact that this movie even got made is appalling. I could write a better movie in one day. One day. Give me one day Netflix. I vetoed that movie for Laura because I was like it's like a robot predator, but way worse. So you have confirmed that that's true. I'll give you a movie. I don't know how many people have heard about this. The one that we picked, and I only watch movies when it's not football season. I actually have time. We watched a house of dynamite. Have you heard about this? No. On Netflix, I don't know how popular this thing was. It came out last year. And it is about what would happen if a nuclear weapon was launched towards the U.S. And it just takes you, it's not particularly political that I noticed. It just takes you into like the special ops, into everything that would occur to the best of their ability.

if there were a nuclear weapon launched. We don't know where it's come from. It's just been launched from a submarine basically is the idea, but we're not sure exactly how it got launched. Who was responsible for it? What do you do? what happens if that moment actually occurred. It's a nuclear weapon headed towards the United States, one missile. And it just is an examination of the behind the scenes. You're in the White House. You're in the situation room. You're seeing it from the Defense Department perspective from the, you know, young. Anyway, it's good. I thought it was pretty good. It sounds way better. I mean, it's already. I'm sold. This sounds way better. I have no idea how... how accurate it is, but it felt accurate to me that this is something what it might somewhat look like. And also, if any of you were asking, the Tom Selleck movie Runaway is apparently terrible, so just don't put that on your list. That was a Michael Crichton, L, unfortunately, not a good movie, but Tom Selleck's a great American hero. Clay, I can't believe you abandoned mustache team, by the way. I'm still, like, a lot of ladies are upset about this. I got it short. You know what the truth of the matter is? wearing a mustache is hard to do without the mustache hairs getting in your nose i don't know if there's experts out there on how to handle this it was making my nose itch all the time it was making me sneeze all the time like the mustache gets into your nose region and i wasn't very good at being able to we probably in this audience have some winners of the international mustache competition i mean we this is this is a facial hair heavy audience we got a lot of dudes a lot of bros Who could probably weigh in on how to keep the hair out of your nostrils. So I'm just saying because our ladies are grandmas for Clay, which if it's not officially a group, it basically is a group because I've seen them and they're very handsy around him. And, you know, Laura's very patient with this. The grandmas get very hansy with clay. I don't know. Once they hit like 60, all of a sudden, they're just grabbing and squeezing clay. They were big fans of the mustache. Tom Selleck style. Back to the movie, though. I got to tell you the worst part about... War Machine, and I promise we're going to get to the Trump thing now. The worst part about War Machine, though, is think about this. In the movie Predator, you have this elite special operations team. They've got all this, like, state-of-the-art weaponry, they've even got a mini gun, and they've got all this cool stuff, and they're in the jungle, it's a warfare. In the movie, in this movie War Machine, they're in a training exercise. They don't even have any rifles. And they're just running away from this machine that's going, bam, and like blowing them up. And this is the worst movie I've ever seen. They're like throwing rocks at the robot. Yeah, somebody said it's Predator with a robot. And they were like, here's a hundred million dollars. And it's not a good, not a good movie. What's so funny is I could say to someone, hey, I'm going to write a movie for Netflix. And Netflix, like, executives would laugh. I could write a better movie than this movie. I'm not kidding. Certainly in a weekend, probably in 24 hours. It was that bad. I mean the whole thing, the screenplay, the whole thing. All right. Now, Trump. Let's get into it. News. We are a news program. 36. Here it is. Donald Trump meeting with the president of Japan, a prime minister of Japan, sorry, Prime Minister of Japan. And he was asked by a reporter, why didn't you tell Japan ahead of the Iran strikes what was coming? Here's what he said. One thing you don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard. And we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted.

Surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay? Right? He's asked me, no, you believe in surprise, I think much more so than us. And we had a surprise, and we did. He's really funny. He's asked, why do you tell the allies about the huge air campaign you launched today? And he's like, what about Pearl Harbor? It is very funny that the Japanese person in the Oval Office would ask the President of the United States why they kept the Iranian attack secret and didn't tell the Allies. And I think some of you would have thought of that, but Trump on his feet immediately thinks. Why did you get guys tell us about Pearl Harbor? And this response is going mega viral. Again, I've been reading so much about World War II and trying to learn more and more about it. The negativity of our war with Iraq, whatever you want to call it, intervention, our altercation, our engagement, whatever word you want to apply to this current situation, I do wonder how would things that most of us look back on now in time and say, you know what, World War II, boy, we were really the good guys. How would today's American media cover World War II? Are they of the belief? My argument is they are not that America could be a good guy? Are left-wing media today? Are they able to even comprehend or willing to consider that the United States might be a good guy? And Buck, I give credit. Do you see the cover? It's very powerful. I saw it this morning of the Australian newspaper. The Australian is a great newspaper that I read because I buy all the print media when I was in Australia a couple of years ago. They put the faces of tons of the victims of Iran's government, over 30,000 of them, who were murdered for protesting. And a lot of people are asking the question, why is an Australian media outlet covering these 30,000 deaths in a way that the U.S. isn't? And Stephen Chung, who works inside of the White House for President Trump, just shared this story. They just executed a 19-year-old champion wrestler publicly hung him for protesting the government that exists right now in Iran. So they are continuing with public executions. And a lot of people out there who otherwise are always saying, oh, look at how awful Israel is. Look at what's going on in all of these places right now. And they just executed a 19-year-old, killed him in a public hanging. You know, good and evil still exists. And Iran is evil. and the government of Iran, not the people of Iran. And I think much of a media has lost the ability to call good and evil because they bought into this idea that the United States is evil too. And if we're evil, then there is no good. And I do think this is where moral authority matters and eliminating moral relativity matters.

I mean, think about the way that two deaths in Minneapolis were covered in this country. Whatever you think about, I'm the Alex Pruitt and Renee Good. Those two people being killed were covered as an unacceptable result of Trump's draconian policy. Now, most of you disagree with that. You've seen the footage, all those things. But just think about the way the media covered it. Meanwhile, we're trying to help the people of Iran after they just killed 30,000 of their innocent citizens intentionally just for marching in the streets to say, hey, we should have basic human rights. I do think it's hard to reconcile that. And I think it's a profound failure of the American media. And it makes me wonder to what extent can we even comprehend the way that something like World War II, which I think most people would say, hey, we were the good guys. How would today's American media cover World War II? And how are they failing when they're covering the Iran situation? I think it's a honestly big picture question that's worth a lot of people comprehending and contemplating. Here on Clay & Buck, we support any company that chooses to create American jobs and is patriotic and its ethos, even if it costs them more money than offshoring those roles. Well, you know, Pure Talk keeps jobs here at home while also keeping the price for all of you very low. That's why they're my cell phone provider. And the quality is just as good as any of the big-name competitors because they're on the same 5G network as one of them. But Pure Talk brings you the best pricing and the best customer service. For $25 a month, Pure Talk gives you unlimited talk text and plenty of data. And with Pure Talk, there's no contract, no cancellation fees. Grab your cell phone, dial pound 250. Say the keywords Clay and Buck. Let Pure Talk's U.S. Customer Service team help you make the switch in 15 minutes or less. Dial pound 250. Say Clay and Buck. You'll also say 50% off your first month. Pure Talk, America's wireless company. Stories of freedom, stories of America, inspirational stories that unite us all. Each day, spend time with Clay and Vine. Find them on the free I-Hard Radio app or wherever you get your podcast. If you're trying to grow spiritually while juggling a busy life, Intouch.org is a really helpful place to pause and catch your breath. Sometimes you just need a moment to refocus, and that's exactly what you'll find there. You can dive into practical, down-to-earth teaching from Dr. Charles Stanley. Read a short devotional that fits into your day or explore free study guides that speak to real-life situations you might be dealing with. Whether you're looking for direction, comfort, or simply a little encouragement to keep going, there's always something meaningful waiting for you. It's easy to use. It's available any time, and it meets you right where you are in your walk with God. When you're ready for a bit of clarity or a spiritual reset, Take a moment to see how Intouch.org can support your day. It might be exactly what you need. When you experienced the PFL live, the hits are harder. The crowd is louder.

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airline employees that are working inside of the airports. This is why every airline CEO in America published an open letter saying, get this funded and pay everybody. And Buck, the ridiculous thing about this is eventually they're going to get paid. It's illegal to employ people and not compensate them for their work. So the principle or the perspective that's even being advocated for. is nonsensical because we know how this ends. It ends with them eventually getting paid. But in the meantime, people are not able to take care of their families. And I just think this is wrong. And I don't think this should be allowed, period. You shouldn't be allowed to make people continue to work without paying them for working, period. Because guess what? Your credit card bills still come due. Your car payments still come due. Your rent still comes due. Most people don't have the ability to go candidly for two months without making money. They just don't. And so I think that everything about this is wrong. And I think it makes us less safe. And I think it also makes everybody angrier because I understand you shouldn't have to stand in line for two hours to go to the airport. So just so we're all very clear on this, the reason why DHS people are not getting paid. And the reason why TSA lines are incredibly long and a whole bunch of different airports burning tens of thousands of people's time unnecessarily. Yes. Is because Democrats, like a bunch of babies throwing a tantrum, think that this is forcing accountability. for what happened in Minneapolis, where a couple of lunatics forced a confrontation with ICE officers and got shot. Yes, that's 100% true. People are waiting in line. If you have had to wait in line, or if you are a DHS officer, a TSA officer who has not gotten paid, it is because Chuck Schumer and company think that the lunatics that we saw on camera running up the people in ice, you can't, the child predator, illegal alien you're trying to arrest is as American as apple pie. Those lunatics got shot. It was mishandled from the messaging perspective. That's why no longer has a job at DHS, which was the right move, by the way. And that's what this is all about? Yes. One has nothing to do with the other. They're just inflicting pain on people to show the Democrat base of maniacs who don't want anyone. And be clear, they don't want anyone deported because they don't want the worst of the worst illegals that are prioritized by these ICE task forces in different cities because they're multiple-time felons, because they've come into the country illegally after being deported multiple times, all this stuff. They don't even want them gone. We are...

light years away from like kindly abuela, you know, who's been here for 30 years getting sent back to Nicaragua or something. That is not what's going on. What's going on is they're going after the high-level public safety threats, and Democrats aren't even okay with that. And Democrats will stymie it. They will stop it. They won't allow them to go into courthouses. They won't allow detain a request. They won't allow any of this. And they think they're the good guys. They're just, this is just a messaging battle for them. They want to just say, this is about accountability for ICE and we have to know, we have to, they have to show their faces and they have to. They don't want immigration enforcement. It's crazy. They already agreed to this. It basically is, it's beyond absurd. And I don't know when it's going to end. A part of me thinks that Democrats are hoping there's something awful that happens because you know what will happen, right? They're not paying TSA. If somebody gets through a TSA screening with something that they can do harm to others with, gun, bomb, whatever it is, Democrats will line up and say this is all President Trump's fault. You know it. I know it. They're going, they're basically rooting for something awful to happen so that they can blame Trump. Here is, uh, Chuck, I mentioned him. Chuck Schumer, cut 17. Play this one. They are trying to dupe us, folks. They are trying to dupe America. They say, oh, this is just a voter ID law. Bullshit. It is not a voter ID law. It is a law that will kick millions of Americans. off the voting rolls. We know what happened. Their bill, they had to add this in, demands that every state turn over the voting rolls to the Department of Homeland Security. And we've had enough of them on other issues, on other issues. And once they get that, there is a algorithm put in by Elon Musk and Doge that would kick tens of millions of people off the rolls. I mean, that's all about the Save Act, obviously, the Save America Act, but the point is like, this is what Democrats just sabotage the country and think they're the good guys. This is all, they're doing it with DHS and ICE. They're doing it with the Save America Act. This is where it is, man. They, and Clay, unfortunately. You know, they're pretty effective at lying. I mean, they're pretty good at convincing people who don't pay close attention that somehow they're the good guys in all this. This is like George Floydism we're talking about here up in Minneapolis with the eye. Don't forget about the facts. Oh, two people were shot by ice, and it's terrible, and that's why we have to wait in line at TSA. Like, what are they even talking about? The people that were shot by ICE were acting like maniacs. They were obstructing law enforcement.

Why should TSA agents' paychecks be held hostage because Democrats are angry about ICE? I mean, but this is what I mean. It's George Floydism in that, oh, George Floyd was killed by one cop. So now your store in like Baltimore should be burned to the ground? Yeah, that's just an excuse for people to act like idiots. But these guys are just, again, the average TSA agent makes 40K. Think about how many of you out there listening right now could go six or eight weeks without a paycheck. Even if you ultimately get that paycheck down the line, you're working full time. How many of you could pay all your bills if you didn't get two months of pay? Your average TSA agent can. It's not like they're making $400,000 a year. It's not like they have the ability to create huge savings on $40,000 a year on average. I just think this is frankly reprehensible and awful. And the results, again, I just jotted it down. No pay is wrong. Making us more dangerous in the country at a time when there are people trying to attack us, New York City, Austin. Denver, a Detroit area, and, uh, and Old Dominion. And. The politics on it, to Buck's point, are ludicrous. So it doesn't even add, none of it adds up. And the end result is awful across the board for everybody. This, again, I think it's not a bigger story because Iran is soaking up all of the news right now. But every morning locally, this is a big story. If you're trying to go to the airport and they're telling you to get there three hours before your flight and you're standing there for hours in your line, it's a big deal. People are angry. Let me tell you, when we were doing counterinsurgency analysis in the worst days of the Iraq war, one thing that we would talk about as we were doing these assessments and going into the White House, talk to Bush, talk to Cheney, the national security team, et cetera, was the problem of dealing with an insurgency is they benefit from misery. All they have to do is create misery. At some level, they're winning, right? Blow this up. Kill this person. Make life unlivable because the people who are supposed to be in charge are hurt by their inability to protect everyone else. This is kind of the Democrat approach to when the Republicans have an administration. All they want to do is just create misery. and dissension they don't have better ideas they don't have ways they don't they don't want to fix anything they are like insurgents they just want to spread misery because they benefit from misery and that is what Chuck Schumer and all of his democrat pals are trying to do that's obviously what this tsa thing is make people ticked off make people feel bad tell them the bad things are happening and then they can be uh democrats can be in power that's the whole game and it's really hard to deal with because misery is easy to make

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by and large, are doing better financially than the average TSA agent is. So if you're going to bear a brunt, if you're going to argue this is so politically necessary, actually do it to yourself. I think it's a great point. Can I also tell everybody, Clay, is exciting. But Amazon is now fully stocked again with manufacturing delusion. So if you haven't gotten your copy yet, it's also the hardcover is marked down to $25. manufacturing delusion get yourself a copy at amazon clay got to promote got to keep this capitalist vibe going get your copies guys people like the book clay what are you going to what magical journey are you going to take us on an hour three you're starting to solve we've got a ton of different talk back so i'm going to have some fun with that um but did you see they have caught mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife With even more outrageous anti-Jewish posts, we will have some fun with that. I've got a take. I'm curious at Buck's response to this take. And we will also continue to roll through all of your talkbacks and update you on the situation in Iran. We've played a ton of those cuts already. So that shall be. the next hour of the program. You can also load the phone lines, 800, 282-282-282. We'll take some of your phone calls. Buck is out Friday. So this is your last hour to hang out with him for the week. That's true. There you go. Very sad.

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