Hour 1 - Go Thank an Oil Man

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Talk to him about how this whole Iran war thing is going. And the Save Act, Save America Act, have that discussion. Senator Eric Schmidt will be with us. And we will also have Senator John Cornyn with us. I would say to any of you who have, we have a lot of Texans who listen. Texas or California, well, those are the two biggest states by population, so it's not really that surprising. But it's either Texas or California is our biggest state for listenership. So we have a lot of Texans, and we love all of you. Not all of you. Our huge John Cornyn fan, some of you perhaps are, send us your questions for John Cornyn, and we will see if we can get a couple of them to him on the air today as he is in this primary, this contested primary, wondering if there will be a Trump endorsement. That's a lot of eyeballs on this one. So we will get to that. So we have three guests today, two senators, Uncle Bill, and now we can get into some of the news the day. Clay. Little Mo, as Clay calls him, Iran's new supreme leader, Muhtaba Ali Khamenei, has issued a statement, but he is, well, someone has issued a statement on his behalf. He is apparently in a coma and missing a leg. So he got hit in one of these airstrikes, and they are putting him forward as the future of Iran. That... certainly goes to what level of pressure the leadership of Iran is under that even their next up at bat is having to have statements released from others around him because he's in a coma from an airstrike. So essentially the next person who raises their hand in Iran and says, I'm going to continue the Islamic revolution in this country and I shall continue to fight against the great Satan and the little Satan, probably going to get blown up. That is where we are right now, at least while these hostilities, these aerial campaign continues. Clay, oil price. has surged a bit, and there are concerns as well after two tankers were attacked and I believe are on fire in the straight of Hormuz. So they're continuing to try to go after the oil, the global oil industry, as their choke point, as their way to hit back at us. Also, Trump monitoring Iranian terror sleeper cells, a lot of concern about that, and I think rightly concern about that. And we shall discuss that. So, Clay, I mean, first one up here, we are in another day of this aerial campaign. We now know that Mastaba is in a coma. Little Mo is having a tough one.

What do you think about the latest here with the attacks on oil? oil shipping and trying to make this a global environmental and economic catastrophe to get this to stop. That's clearly the Iranians play. Yeah, I think it actually is going to make President Trump angrier and I think it's actually going to result in a worse outcome for Iran than if they allowed the oil to transit without issues at all. And I'm pulling up to check the oil price as we speak right now because it has been probably the number one. story that is out there, and it's hanging right around $90 a barrel. And you say, okay, Clay, where does that compare? It's around $65, if I remember correctly, before this war started. And now it's right around $90. It went all the way up to $120 Sunday in the opening hours of the market beginning with danger and fear. And so then it crashed all the way back down to like 75. It's come back up to around 90. It's bounced around a lot. And I think the question is, how safe is the straight of Hormuz? And what does that mean for overall pricing of oil and gas? Now, President Trump has released, I think it's 180 million barrels is what I saw from the Strategic Reserve. There's 400 million. worldwide being released. My understanding Buck is that that takes a couple of weeks to actually come into the marketplace as a whole because it takes a while for all of those all those barrels of oil to reach the marketplace. Yeah, I stand corrected on that one. Chuck Schumer said do it and Trump's actually doing it. Now, the Democrats are going to hit him for having to do that, but the oil shock seems severe enough that some effort to soften the blow. is a bloater wallets essentially is uh is underway so there you go Chuck Schumer giving some uh some good advice to his opposition hey clay even a broken clock you know so i'll i'll take the l on that one trump's doing it this is cut 17 on gas prices trump last night at joint base andrews hit it on when you're planning to tap their strategic petroleum reserve, a timeline of when that could happen? We're going to be doing it very quickly, and then we'll fill it up. We'll fill up our reserves. You know, if you remember, I filled them up, and then I had a deal to go at the highest level. A level that's never been. And Chuck Schumer and the Democrats for $25, and it was turned down. You remember that, Peter. Almost before your time, but not quite. But it was, we had a deal at $25. Think of that. $25 a barrel, and the Democrats turned it down. We were going to tap it out like it's never been. But they turned that down, and now it's a lot higher. Clay Trump, of course, saying Democrats had no foresight on this issue, not a surprise.

there's enough of a jolt to the oil markets that there's serious and immediate action being taken to stabilize things. Yeah, look, and I think this is where the average American is going to feel to the extent we do anything going on with Iran is in oil and gas prices. And I would just point out that two years of oil and gas prices coming down, by and large, was not a story. That is... Almost, I watch these television broadcast of the news almost every, at least three hours every day while I'm talking to all of you. I have never seen CNN or MSNBC do a story on boy, President Trump has really brought down gas prices during his tenure in office. Never seen a story about gas prices going down for a year and a half. And now gas prices have gone up for a week, and it's the lead story on MSNBC and CNN. And by the way, Buck, it vanished when oil and gas prices went back down to 75. Now that they've come back up to 90, we're back to covering oil and gas prices again. And they put the picture of the oil and gas prices in the corner of the screen. Right now, the talking point on CNN is oil and gas prices and talking point on MSNBC. is oil and gas prices. So I do think when it's a good story, right, for the year and a half that the prices came down, not one mention of it, for the one week they've gone back up, oh my goodness, this is a story that we have to cover. Well, as we know, journalism in America has fully morphed into, it's not about what you should know. It's about telling the audience what they want to know, what they want to hear, what they want to watch. And that's certainly the case over at CNN, at MSNBC, and MS now. It's the case of Fox, too. I don't live in some delusional world. I mean, Fox is going to have a right of center point of view. But there's more, there's so much more honesty about that. I mean, their primetime lineup are... Opinion hosts. CNN still pretends. CNN still pretends that they're just journalists. Anderson Cooper could vote either way. Who knows? Does he love Trump? Does he hate Trump? Oil prices. Important today. Unimportant yesterday. I wonder why. I also think this is important. And I think it has been under discussed and it continues to be under discussed. You can criticize Fox, and you can criticize them. You know, they have 66% of the news audience, whatever the heck it is, 60% on any given day, bigger than MSNBC and CNN combined. Their entire business is based on advertising. So their audience responds to things and they cover it. That used to be the overarching way that everybody made money. Now the New York Times makes money. Washington Post makes money off subscriptions. And that's a very different business model because subscribers want to be told that their worldview is correct. When you're pegged to advertising, you're trying to reach the biggest possible audience because that's how you get paid. We get paid.

based on advertising. So the bigger the audience is, the more money this show makes. We're not making money off subscriptions. The New York Times subscription changes the calculus of how the business is run. And I was just looking, this just came across the line, Buck. New York Times, this stunned me, has doubled the number of journalists that employs in the last 10 years. They have 2,300 journalists now. doubled what they had just 10 years ago. And that's to serve subscribers. It's not to provide the best possible outcome to the media ecosystem. I also, though, think that there's, and this has been the case for a long time, this has been an argument that I've been making since before I was in media. There's a fundamental honesty with Fox News, which I think is part of why the audience is so durable. uh, sticky, if you will. I mean, stays with Foxwatch. There's a fundamental honesty about, yeah, of course, like the opening model. Like, Jesse Waters isn't sitting there. Like, I don't have any opinions. I'm just presenting the objective news. Like, that's insane. These other channels have been doing this game of we're just, we're just news. Yeah. Same thing with ABC News and these other things. Same thing with, though. They're just lying. They're just lying to people. And eventually the lies got to be too much. But back to the oil price situation. I think, Clay, again, this is going to be relatively short term. And as long as that's the case, it will be fine. Here's Energy Secretary Chris Wright, though. We've had him on the show. Very interesting guy. This is cut 18. He's saying, look, the Biden administration was playing all kinds of politics with this and not even using it for this is an emergency situation. They were just using it to try to goose the numbers to look better. Play 18. We have about 415 million barrels in storage right now. Very unfortunately, the Biden administration drained almost 300 million barrels out, mostly the lower gasoline prices for a midterm election without disruptions and energy flows. That's not what the SPR is about. The SPR is about this, when we have short-term disruptions and flows to replace those flows. But, Dana, we will simultaneously sell this oil in the near term when it's needed and buy long-term oil. meaning, say, 12 months down the road, and we'll pull out 170 million barrels and we'll put back in 200 million barrels in the next year. So we'll actually have more oil in our SPR a year from now than we do today. That's the responsible way to use it. There you go. Again, and what I think is so important about this is the only reason this isn't a major, huge, transformative danger for us. is because we actually produce so much more oil. Because we're the energy superpower of the world. You want to know why your grocery prices aren't skyrocketing and they're on oil lines? Go thank an oil man. Go thank somebody who works for Texaco or whatever. I mean, that's because in the 1970s, for those of you who lived through it, we were able to be held hostage effectively, both literally in the sense of what happened with Iran with our embassy there. But they were able to hold this hostage. Those of you who remember lining up and having difficulty getting oil and gas. Heck, Buck, I'm reading right now. I love reading about World War II. You know that during World War II, Americans were restricted to four gallons of gas a week. So people barely drove anywhere because of the huge shortage and the amount of oil and gas we needed in order to fight that war. At least they were in Iowa where I'm reading about it. Anyway, I love all of this.

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Why? Why? Maybe they're seriously injured. It could be very hard to sit down and even do a video and have to put that out. So hopefully he is significantly wounded. And if he does recover, you know, I do absolutely support having Israel to just eliminate him. All right. By the way, that was News Nation, Elizabeth Vargas, asking that question. I think I said Fox News. Buck, we mentioned this yesterday. I think John Fetterman's right. Mom, dad, wife, and son all killed in an attack. Maybe the one that Mojtab has survived. I don't see any way that he can have a misjudice. There's no way we're going to be the work with him. But can I just say, I really get a little bit of a tingle here of. office space, the movie, when the guy goes through hypnosis, and he just, after being kind of like a slub who's like, eh, I'm like getting ordered around. He's like, I'm just going to do whatever I want. He turns into like this cool, confident guy, and that's the rest of the movie. He's just, and he got damn, it feels good to be a gangster going to the background. It's like, that's what happened to John Fetterman. It's crazy. He's, you know, the guy, I mean, look, I know he had a serious medical issue, but he's, he's the best Democrat senator. He's the best Democrat senator on the scene right now. I think by far. I don't know who else would be in that conversation. So credit where it's due. I mean, I was, I'm shocked, but credit where it's due. We got this one wrong. I thought that he would be an awful senator. We campaigned against him on the show. I mean, Dr. Oz ran against him. For those of you remember, he was basically unable to talk back in 2022. He's recovered. He seems to be in better shape. And he's the sanest Democrat in the country by far. It's amazing stuff. You never know. For those of us who have purchased gold as an investment, let me tell you, it feels good if you've gotten in on gold. I take physical possession with the gold that I purchase, like actually gold that you can hold in your hand, you can store in your safe, but others like to put gold in their IRA or 401K, and they like to see how gold is doing over time with those monthly statements with their balance. Either way, gold grows in value because gold has always been a store of value, up 65% last year. And because of all the money printing going on and the big debt that we have, gold's going to continue to go up in the future. Gold that's consistently grown up 700% since 2006. Ford-thinking Americans know that gold is good, and Birch Gold Group is there for you. Birch Gold Group can help you convert an IRA or 401k into an IRA in gold. They can also send physical gold to your house. I just got some from Birch Gold Group. Text Buck to 98, 98, 98, 98, text BUCK to 98, 98, 98, 98. So we were talking about how the Democrats are trying to pounce on this. Democrats pounce. They always say Republicans pounce. But now I feel self-conscious about it, because I'm saying Democrats pounce. But they are leveraging the very short.

uh term so far because it's been a few days spike in gas prices to be like oh my gosh the sky's falling i thought they wanted us to use less gas clay i thought they wanted more yeah i thought climate change was going to kill us all what what happened these people this is the thing this is how you know you're dealing with a democrat with a leftist there's just no accountability there's no accountability they can say anything change their mind the next day contradict themselves in the same sentence and if you try to point this out they just scream at you more loudly You know, they just get more like, ah, unhinged. So it's very difficult. People say, you know, how do you convince the Democrats in your life? I'm like, I don't know, unless they seem reasonable. And then they're already halfway there because they're reasonable. Unless they seem reasonable, just don't waste your time. So here's one thing that's going on that they're trying to make a big deal to gas prices. Another thing that's going on. I couldn't believe the story. I was actually going to send out a fiery tweet on this one, but I got, I think speed was like, you know. biting my ankle or something. So I got distracted. But I was going to send out a fiery tweet on this one, Clay. This story that, like, Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War, by the way, they're going to make fun of us all for calling the Secretary of War. If the Democrats win back the presidency, they're going to go back to calling the Secretary of Defense. Guarantee you, by the way. I actually think they may change the name to Secretary of Peace. I just felt my estrogen level rise. I'm just telling you they might jump right over Secretary of Defense and go to Secretary of Peace in response to Secretary. You actually sounded like Brian Stelter there for a moment, as you said those words. I'm just telling you. I'm trying to prepare people for what might happen if Democrats get back in power. Imagine all the people. Yeah, it's just a good cry. He just needed a good cry. He did a good cry. I remember COVID. I was crying. It was so sad. Okay. So, yeah, but back to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. So they said that he spent millions and millions of dollars on food. And then they went and circled the food items that seem like they're, you know, extravagant to them. And you have people like Paul Bagala who has honestly just always been one of these people who is only around because he's been around so long. I've never heard any impressive analysis from this guy. I don't know him. It's not personal, but I just not an impressive guy. But he comes from that Clinton era of TV where it's like if you're willing to show up and put on a blue blazer and squawk at people, you can get on TV. Here he is talking about this. And he's going up against Scott Jennings. So you have an idea of how that's going to go. Play it. That's not important. You know what's important? He has spent $15 million in one month for ribby steak, $6.9 million for lobster tail, $225 million for furniture. He spent more in the month of September than most countries on earth spend in their defense. All do you believe? All for himself? Lobster tails? Do you believe our troops are eating MRAs? No, no, no. Lobster tails? Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating all the lobster? Wait, he can't eat 60? Oh, really, the troops are getting lobster. Frequently in theater. Oh, my God. Troops who are going to work. Oh, my God. You know that. You know that. You know that. You are so full of this. You are so full of this. You're going to be killed over this. Internet. Do something. I'm going to, I'm going to raise my hand here because I used to eat in military facilities overseas in Iraq and a war zone.

And yes, they do have ribby steak. Yes, they do have once a week or a couple times a month. They'll have like surf and turf night and have some lobster tails. There's two parts of this, Clay. On the one hand, Is Paul Bagala really that stupid that he's like a million dollars of ribeye? You couldn't eat. Pete Hegseth could eat ribeye three meals a day. Yes. For the next 300 years. Okay. And he wouldn't eat 18 million dollars of ribby or whatever it is. It's obviously for the troops. But the other side of this is notice how quickly Democrats, and look, there are Democrats who serve and there are Democrats who are pro-military and I have to. But Democrats in elected office, Democrats in media. They are so quick to dismiss, to cast aside. It's like, what are we supposed to feed our troops? Gruel? The troops don't deserve a ribby steak once or twice a week? Like the troops, we're the richest country in the history of the world. We can't feed our military well. We're only supposed to give them spam in a can. Like, the elitism is just dripping from these libs on this issue. Yeah, and look, I would submit that. Political consultants are a lot like coaches who happen to get good quarterbacks. they make them look good, right? So Paul Begall, whatever you think of Bill Clinton, he made his entire career off being an advisor, if I remember correctly, to Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton's a really good politician. So whatever political consultants surround him, they get to be burnished by his success, right? And a lot of this is, I think, proximity to someone who is talented. Same thing, by the way, for President Trump. uniquely talented political figure. And so the political consultants around him, do they help? Certainly. But are they basking in the reflective glow of his political ascendancy and success? Yes, 100%. This is such a moronic take. If you told me, hey, what are you going to get upset about that our government is spending money on? Feeding troops well is the four billionth thing that I would point to and say, let's investigate this. To Scott Jennings' credit here, Buck, they actually went and the troops are posting how excited they were to get a surf and turf meal. So there's evidence of them eating steak and lobster and being so excited that they had a special meal and were being rewarded for the hard work that they put in. I mean, there's actual tangible evidence of this. And to your point, basic math. It's impossible for anybody to spend this much money on food for themselves, for his family. I mean, this is such a dumb argument. And by the way, it's been, to the credit of people who are actually journalists, they went back and looked, and the spending is very similar, no matter who the president is, because the troops get rewarded sometimes with great meals. Look, I'll tell you this, the food and the, uh,

The food in some of the major fobs in Iraq and in Afghanistan, food was good. And darn right, it should be good. Isn't that you were there? Isn't it the least you could do is actually take care of people who are in danger of dying, like feed them well? They're in a war zone, okay? Yeah. We had people, the people who were running, even the ones who were like me, who were basically phobits, I mean, who were stuck on the base most of the time or, you know, somewhere all the time. I got to get off, but the point is, um, You know, you had to run and do duck and covers because of the incoming water rounds in different places that are. Like, I think we can afford to give, like, decent ribeye. I don't think we have to give cat food to our soldiers, thank you very much. But the contempt, the sort of the, we have to feed these soldiers in uniform with ribai and occasionally some seafood. Like how? Can you imagine? Like, I just, but this is where you see how Democrats really feel about it. Democrats think, they're like, don't we pay for their MREs? They should just need MREs all the time. They don't care. How about the same people were defending illegal immigrants getting taxpayer funded four-star hotel rooms? not citizens, not putting their lives on the line, coming here and taking our actual tax dollars. Oh, this is just what America has to do. We have to be generous. We have to give everybody four-star hotel rooms and unlimited Wi-Fi and let anybody in the world who wants to come here know this. And then meanwhile, but we can't feed our soldiers well. And to try to make this a line of political attack, I think this really does blow up on them. I think Pete Hegseth, I mean, you know how sometimes the counterpunch is more successful than the punch? If the Secretary of War or his team are listening, I think this is a unbelievable opportunity for a counterpunch that could flatten the people who are criticizing him over this. I got to tell you, the things that Pete Hegseth has done and said in office, they want to come after him so badly, but they realize that. the arguments that they would have to make, he's saying things like, let's focus on let's have a military that does the mission, that doesn't get bogged down in identity politics and isn't sitting around giving people lectures on how you have to like, you know, do transgender surgery with taxpayer dollars or you're a bad person, all this stuff that was going on. By the way, going on the CIA going on in the intel community too. Democrats hate what he's doing, but they don't really want to go out there and say, you know what we really need for, we know what we really need for, you know, the seal teams to function better. We need more trans seals. We need more chicks, actually, who can't do two pull-ups. joining the seals and seeing how that helps for their operational readiness. They can't actually make these arguments publicly. And so that's why Pete, I think, just by doing what he does, Secretary War Pete Hegseth is spiking the football in the faces of the hard left in this country day in and day out. And they don't really know what, but that's why they're so desperate to hit him. That's why they're saying $18 million of lobster till.

Frozen seafood for our troops. You have a problem with this? I couldn't believe it. I mean, they're not paying butlers to feed them caviar. I mean, you know, it's food. It's crazy. Soldiers should have excellent food. If anything, I'd probably get pissed off. I felt like the food wasn't good enough. Right. And, I mean... Feeding your troops well, for those of us who are military historians, is the number one way to ensure that your troops are the best at their jobs, right? Was it Napoleon that an army marches on its stomach? I think that's exactly right. That's the quote. Boom. That's a good call. Napoleon Bonapal himself comes for her. By the way, I also think this is their frustration. I bet you would sign off on this. We know a lot of these guys. Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth. I would argue that quad is, leave aside the politics, I would argue that quad is the smartest quad that we have had in positions of leadership in any of our lives. Again, Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, I think that is an incredibly intelligent group. And one of the challenges they have is they're also very good at communication. So the attacks on them often don't land and frankly are downright moronic. Much like our boy Eric Swalwell, who we were talking about on the flip side as being one of the dumbest politicians that is out there in America today right now. You got us going to break, Buck. We'll take some of your talkbacks. We've got some funny ones. A bunch of people wanting to weigh in callers. By the way, some of you may be soldiers who've been serving and actually have eaten. The steak and the lobster. If anybody out there has had the steak and lobster meal, you can call in, let us know what you got. I remember my grandfather, especially he got older, he would talk about he's on the USS Batan in World War II, which is one of these converted carriers, kind of like a short carrier, if you will. And I remember him talking about how when they would go into port and they would get some actual like fresh stuff. Oh, yeah. and just like what a morale boost it was for these guys. And they're out at sea. They got Japanese kamikazis flying at them. They're taking, you know, machine gun fire across the deck, all this stuff. I think we should get them rib-eyes when we can. Like, I think that's a pretty, I think America can afford to feed its soldiers well. Wow, Democrats are this one. It was pretty astonishing. One of the great benefits of being a homeowner is having a yard. I grew up in Manhattan, surrounded by buildings and concrete. So the city parks were our yard. But now that I live in Miami and have a home, Carrie and I love making that home ours and love the outdoors. If you're a homeowner, you have the same ability and get the same gratification. When it comes to yards, the life hack here is an online company called Fast Growing Trees. It's America's largest, most trusted online nursery. If you're thinking about planting new trees in your yard this spring or shrubs and flowers, fast growing trees will send you the very best. Fast growing trees, online nursery gives you the size scale, and most importantly, the knowledge of many of the best horticulturalists in the nation.

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You know, we were underwater 70-some days at a time. I was fast attack sub. And to have that, to have that, it just felt so nice to have a really good meal. And that was part of what they told us, hey, you get the best food in the military, and it was surf and turf. Thank you for the call. And thank you for the service. Colleen in upstate New York, Colleen, fire away. Hi, I just wanted to reiterate what the last two callers said. My husband spent 25 years serving on submarines, and he missed birthdays, he missed high school graduations, he missed all sorts of stuff. So I think the least we can do for these men, and I guess in the future women, would be to feed them well. So I get tired of people making a big fuss about it. Thank you for the call. They're not giving out like Rolls-Royces and diamond-encrusted watches here. We're talking about good food for the people who are keeping the country safe. It's a bare minimum obligation. Chris in Ohio has a point. Chris, what you got for us? Yeah, if the Dems have a problem with a good meal for the military, would they be willing to eliminate lobster and steak off the SNAP benefits card, or better yet, only send MREs out to SNAP recipients across the country, just like the military gets when they're at war. I think that's a good argument. Like I said, people staying in four-star hotels on our taxpayer dime who were illegal immigrants and Democrats saying we had an obligation to do that. I think most of you out there saying, hey, if we're going to be spending money feeding the military, well, that's an expense that actually makes sense from a tax perspective. When we come back, Bill O'Reilly will join us, friend of the program, longtime media legend. That's next on Clay and Buck. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, advances life-saving health care, combats 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. 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. Saturday, July 25th. I know. I will be the best welterweight in the world. An undefeated phenom. Batman is a rising star. And a frightening force. What a win for Shemiel Musayev. Ascend on the nation's capital to fight for gold. Thad, the silverback gene. Silverback nation makes them noise. Versus Shamil Musayev. Oh, it's over! For the PFL welterweight world title. On real. Saturday, July 25th and 10 p.m. Eastern on ESPN.

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