Hour 2 - Bright Red Line

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I remember when I was growing up as a kid, like the Oscars, for example, was absolute. Everyone watched the Oscars and you were really rooting for a movie to win. No one pays attention to stuff anymore. But I'll tell you, the Emmy for Best Comedy Show went to Stephen Colbert, the canceled Stephen Colbert show, who ruined a dynasty, who ruined a franchise. They gave him the award. And I just think it goes to how. out of touch, deluded, and kind of defiant in their absurdity. I mean, why did he get the award? Because the narrative is that he was anti-Trump and some kind of an anti-Trump hero. So the fact that he was overpaid and his ratings stunk don't matter. And that just goes, though, to everything you see with their media. Now, they are, Clay, they are unrepentantly. completely detached from reality. I have not paid attention to the Emmys since they gave Andrew Cuomo the special Emmy. in the wake of COVID. And then they pulled his special Emmy after he was accused of sexual harassment. Not for sending everybody into the nursing homes. This did happen last night on the Emmys, though. This is someone named Hannah Einbinder. Never heard of her before. Yeah. I don't know who she is. But she won an award, and this is how she celebrated. I see it on the cut sheet here. Cut three. Finally. I just want to say, finally, go birds, fuck ice, and free Palestine. Thank you. That's like that right, right there, you know that this is a person who has honestly just like low IQ, low information voter, the most superficial and self-congratulatory nonsense that you could say in what's, as the birds think, by the way, is that? That's Eagles. Oh, that's for the Eagles. So that's acceptable. The first one, okay. I'm not trying to antagonize Eagles fans here. That's fine. But the rest of it, you know, the bleep ice and then free Palestine. They got the big win over the Chiefs. But yeah, F. Ice and Free Palestine. And then afterwards, she's Jewish. And she said, I just think it's important for Jewish people to speak out what in favor of the eradication of Israel. There are a lot of left-wing Jews, unfortunately, who are. deeply critical of Israel and are and give aid and comfort to Israel's enemies I don't know what else to say that's not a I when I was doing Middle Eastern studies 20 years ago on campus there were a couple of Jewish professors who taught Middle Eastern studies and they were rabidly anti-Israel so this is not a a new phenomenon that you could have somebody that is taking that position. But yeah, I don't even know this person is. I didn't want to spend much time on it. For me, it was more just the fact that Stephen Colbert, it reminds me of when they gave the, what is it, the Pulitzer to, was it the Washington Post for the Russia collusion reporting?

preclude that but one person we know is responsible for the act but for the encouragement of the ideology for the encouragement of the demonization no this is a broad left-wing democrat problem and that they want to do this both sidesism drives me up the wall and especially after what just happened notice clay there's no there's no accountability among people on the left for this there's no sense that our rhetoric got overheated and crazy on this stuff They just say, yeah, well, you know, it happens on both teams. And no, it doesn't, by the way. I can sit here and rattle off all the – the only thing that they will point to that has any real connection to Trump world is January 6. And the only person who was killed on January 6 was a Trump supporter shot in the neck when she was unarmed. And, you know, this is, that's it. This is the only thing that they can say. And I just feel like we play, we, we can't play into their hands by pretending like this isn't a problem that needs to be confronted squarely on the Democrat side of things because it is. Yeah. And I think we can get into some interesting discussion on the celebration of Charlie Kirk's death. I don't know how you feel about this, but if you are a taxpayer-funded employee and you go on social media, certainly if you're an elementary school teacher, did you see the story buck about the, I've got a 10-year-old. About the teacher. We have people calling in, by the way, who have experienced what you're saying right now themselves. So we'll take those calls. About the teacher who played the assassination of Charlie Kirk in his classroom and told the kids that Charlie Kirk deserved to be killed. I can't believe that's possible. Let me point this out. There are two pilots who are now suspended. I'm not sure if they've been fired yet for major airlines. You saw this? Who also were in the celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination. I do not feel safe with someone driving an airplane with 200 people that I'm one of. I do not feel safe with a pilot who celebrates political assassination of an American. And I don't think that's a strange position to have at all. I don't want to be on that person's plane. I don't trust their psych. I don't think they're psychologically fit. to be at the controls of a commercial jet? I couldn't believe the night. Yes on that. Also, I couldn't believe the number of people who were in uniform posting videos celebrating Charlie Kirk being assassinated. I don't think you should be able to be a police officer. I don't think you should be able to be a member of our military. Our taxpayer dollars are funding you and you, some of these guys in uniform are celebrating Charlie Kirk being murdered. And I've said this for a long time. People get fired up on First Amendment. In uniform at work.

You shouldn't be, in my opinion, advocating for anything politically. This is an easy test. If I go to Walmart and I go through the checkout line and the person at Walmart says, hey, here's my opinion on abortion when they're like checking me out for my food. No. you should be fired, right? If I go up to McDonald's and try to get a hamburger and the person taking the order says, you know, meats murder, maybe you should get a salad instead. You should be fired, right? In uniform at work, no one has the right to advocate for politics. And I don't even see political perspective on, hey, murder is good. I think you should get fired if you're at work and you're advocating. And if you're taxpayer funded, it's crazy to me. The number of people who have failed a basic test of humanity of, hey, is it okay to kill a dad if you disagree with him politically? There are tens of millions maybe of Americans right now who would say, yay, for that. I know they would celebrate if you or I got murdered. I mean, that's the reality. Yeah. It is a basic test of humanity that so many, unfortunately, on the left, are failing. And it's something we have to understand as a country. And we have to grapple with this. We can't just move past this. They're calling for an ideological ceasefire after an act of ideological terrorism. No, I think actually we need to look more closely at this and see what has been happening. We have a lot of really good calls. I do want to get to them. We'll get to them here in just a moment. But, you know, we are huge, huge proponents of good ranchers here. I actually just made some good rancher steaks a few days ago. And I'm excited when I get back down to my home in Florida to make more. Stakes, burgers, chicken, salmon, all available from good ranchers. And look, this stuff is all the highest quality comes from here in America. No antibiotics, no hormones, no seed oil. The seed oil and gluten-free chicken nuggets are a special treat for me. I go through them very quickly. They're absolutely delicious. Subscribe to Good Ranchers. Just get your meat delivered every month. And you can get 25 bucks off a month when you use promo code buck. You'll also get free shipping and a free gift of meat in every order for life. Choose from bacon, chicken nuggets, even Wagyu burgers. Visit good ranchers.com. Use my name Buck as your promo code. Get a one-time $40 discount plus the $25 ongoing discount in future months. That's $65 off this first month. Plus free meat for life every month. So just go to good ranchers.com, pick the box you want, sign up to have meat delivered monthly, and use Code Buck for a fantastic deal. Stories of Freedom. Stories of America. Inspirational stories that unite us all. Each day, spend time with Clay and Buck. Find them on the free I-Hard Radio app or wherever you get your podcast.

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He and his brother and most of their school wore ties and suit coats in honor of Charlie Kirk. They had a on-campus meeting that they couldn't even fit all the people in the room. I think this is happening on campuses all over the country. I think it is an incredibly positive reaction. We'll continue to update you on all of this, including Dan Lanning. I thought Buck. really powerful statements, particularly when you consider that he is Oregon's football coach, that he is dealing in a state that is not necessarily very receptive. We'll play you some of those cuts in a minute. And I was in... Knoxville, Tennessee over the weekend for the Georgia Tennessee game. And the number of you out there that came up to me was absolutely fantastic to talk about Charlie Kirk. And I was just, it was great to be out in a public arena. And if you are... going to football games. If you are a fan of sports in general, I bet a lot of you were watching college football and the NFL over the weekend. How about the big Texas A&M win over Notre Dame? Eagles take down the chiefs. Unfortunately, my Tennessee volunteers missed a chip shot field goal. Georgia won in overtime. You can get hooked up right now with prize picks. You can play in California. You can play in Georgia. You can play in my home state of Tennessee. You can play in Buckstay of Florida. You get $50 instantly. We'll give you a pick on Thursday to let you know what we got going for all of you. $50 when you play $5. Just go to prizepicks.com. Use code clay. That's prizepicks.com. My name Clay one more time. Pricepix.com. My name Clay. Sign up today. Our welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're going to talk a bit here about the unhinged and demonic reaction to the assassination last week of our friend Charlie Kirk. It's important that everyone understand what is going on here and that we not push aside or sweep this under the rug or anything. People need to know what... some of the nurses, some of the pilots, some of the teachers, some of the go down the list what they think about this or what they're saying publicly about this. I will point out Bill Maher on his show, this is cut 30. And he said this to me before, and I'll get into Clay what he's said to me because I think it goes right to this. But there is a huge difference, even in just... Whether someone who is a leftist will talk to you or not if they know you're a conservative. Play 30. They're the people who don't want to talk. It's my main issue with them. And Charlie Kirk was a guy who, like, he was always talking. And I talk to him here. You know, the right winger say what you want about them, but they talk to you. They're not into this leftist thing. The left really has much more of a, I don't talk to you. I don't want to deal with you. You're deplorable.

I can't break bread with you. That attitude. And like all the right wingers, they don't have that attitude. No, again, I didn't vote for them. And Charlie Kirk and I certainly don't agree on much politically. But he sat here. He's a human being. He's not a monster. And a husband and a father. Yes. And I liked him. I liked them all. They're all nice people when you meet them in person. And they're not as crazy as they would. Nobody's as crazy as they make them out to be. I say, Bill, when I did a show the first time, I don't even know now, Clay, years ago, and this is one of our first conversations backstage. He's like, I appreciate that you come here and you say what you say and you tell people what you think, but you're nice to everybody, you're cordial, you're not being a jerk. And he said, you're one of these happy warriors. I think that's a term very well applied to Charlie Kirk. Many have already said it. Happy warriors. ideological or ideal warriors, right? That's the whole point. It's supposed to be exchanging ideas. I don't take the positions that I take, and neither to Charlie, not to you, Clay, to make anyone feel badly. It's because we want to share the truth with other people. I actually want them to agree with me. I'd much rather have them say, you know what, you've got a point or you know what you're right than to feel mocked and belittled or attack. That's actually not. The point, I mean, that can happen sometimes because of the way these exchanges go, but that's not the point of the exchange. But I know you're looking at this. I mean, there is a movement now to create a searchable database online for people that are celebrating, and that is the appropriate word, they are celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which is so monstrous and so disgusting. What are you seeing about the numbers that have been gathered so far? Supposedly 50,000 names. And here's the way that I would analyze this. 50,000 people who have gone on social media and celebrated. the assassination. The way that I would work through it is this. I think if you are a public employee, I think you should be fired. That is, when I say public employee, I mean taxpayer funded. If you're a member of the military, if you are a member of police, if you are a member of first responding communities, firefighters, I think everyone who has gone on social media and celebrated a political assassination should be fired. I don't believe our taxpayer dollars should go for that. If you are the University of Tennessee, for example, just announced that they have fired a faculty member who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination. If you are a teacher, I certainly do not believe that you should be in charge of molding young minds if you are celebrating political assassination. When it comes to people who are employed by private companies, I owned a company, I sold it.

I would fire anyone at my company when I own the company who went on social media and said, in any way, this is celebratory. I think individual business owners should have that right. I don't think certainly it should be mandated if you're a private employee. If you did it in uniform at work, to me, it's a no-brainer. I would do it individually. But again, if you are taxpayer-funded... I think we should have a pretty bright red line, and I think the bright red line should be. You shouldn't celebrate, hey, if Rachel Maddow got assassinated, if Barack Obama had gotten assassinated, you should be fired if you are a military member, if you're a police officer. I think you can easily kind of work through this. and i don't have a problem with that at all private employers i think should be able to uh to make their own decision we'll take some calls here christa in florida with a story that ties right into what we're talking about welcome christa Hi, Clay and Buck. Thank you so much for taking my call. I really appreciate it. This is, it's been shocking. It's been heartbreaking. But I just want to read you from this man's LinkedIn page, Firefighter, EMT, Hazardous Materials Specialist Chemical and Materials. Sorry. Let me say. Can you not share full name because, look, there could be somebody having impostors. I just don't want this station to be putting people on blast without us knowing anymore. Okay, thank you. No, absolutely not. I will not say the name, just the credentials. Yes. Because then the most shocking part of that was this was my children's youth ministry leader. And he has, you know, he was working with my young adults. And what did he say specifically? He celebrated one less maggot on the world. Oh, my God. And he was insulting our priest for praying. I mean, look, I appreciate you calling. Anyone who is involved in children. should be, in my opinion, immediately fired from their job if they are in any way celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. You know, thank you for calling Christel. I know that's a tough thing. And a youth minister, I mean, come on. Because it feels like such a betrayal. You've entrusted your kids to this person for their moral development youth minister. And you can't understand the obvious, unbelievable and demonic moral failure.

of celebrating this uh in any way shape or form it's it's stunning um and we're seeing so much of this uh and and i just i don't know i clay it's it has made me think that this country has a has a darker future than i had anticipated before just because this this has to be confronted And I would just point out, and that's why I don't like this. Oh, it's on both sides. And let's just all do dialogue. Now, no, Charlie was doing dialogue. That's the point. His whole movement was built on peaceful dialogue. And this is what happened. And look at all these people who are celebrating this. And now there's also this really. Honestly, it's just so lame. But this effort to say, well, conservatives are doing cancel culture now. Everyone who's saying that, if any person in any job said a particular racial slur, they would all demand the immediate firing of that person, probably in any context whatsoever. They all absolutely believe in people being fired from their jobs for offending. or for political reasons or whatever, but now they're pretending like this isn't. So they obviously have their red lines. They're pretending like this, celebrating the assassination of a father, a husband, a young guy, 31 years old, that's not a red line? Like, you should keep your job even after you have brought that kind of infamy on whatever organization you work for. That's insane. Yeah, and I also think this is where I always try to think on precedent. And I know this is challenging, but. I don't even know who the equivalent of Charlie Kirk would be on the left, but I've just used the name Rachel Maddow. Buck's right that she's not a perfect analogy. They don't have a perfect analogy. because their arguments are bad and they don't really believe in free speech by and large. They are very much trying to build up somebody on the left now as the new person for the youth. And he's a, I'm not going to say his name on the show. He's a very bad person. He's just a bad human being. So I don't want to, but there's someone on the left that they wrote an op-ed for the New York Times as I understand it about this issue is a, I could play clips on this show. The fact the New York Times would give that guy, well, the New York Times is a disgrace too. But it's interesting to me because our Charlie was a good and decent human being just completely without getting into his politics. And the left, of course, the person that they want to build up is an outright scumbag, outright scumbag. Just so anyone who's curious knows. He does understand, this guy does understand internet culture and online video games, that I will say, but that's about it. Well, let's use Rachel Maddow as an example or this unnamed guy. I also think if they were assassinated at a free speech event and you went on and you celebrated that as a teacher, as a faculty member at a university, as a first responder, as anyone who's employed by taxpayers, I think you should be fired for that too. So I think you can easily, to me, setting the precedent of where is the line that we draw?

And again, I think private employers should be able to make their own decisions. I would have the same standard both directions. I would fire someone when I ran my own company and I have expansive First Amendment beliefs. But people don't celebrate death. Let's understand something. So is the standard that the left thinks that we're all supposed to live by that you can say absolutely anything? And I mean anything and keep your job? Of course, they wanted people to get fired for using the wrong pronouns. Yes. These are the people that now of a sudden are free speech absolutists. The First Amendment means that the government can't take action against you for what you say. It doesn't mean that your private employer has to keep you employed no matter what you do or no matter what you say in public. That's not what I mean. So, I know. That's why to me, I mean, again, you break it down. I think in times of emotion, it's challenging. But there is a standard for basic humanity. And if you celebrate the murder of dads and moms for sharing their political opinions, in my opinion. you have failed the basic standard of humanity. If you fail the basic standard of humanity, I don't want you employed at my company. I don't want you instructing my children. If you are taxpayer funded, then I think you, if you fail the basic standard of humanity, you shouldn't be taxpayer funded anymore. Now, individual owners of businesses. I think they should have the right to decide who they employ and not. But this is not a tough call to me. We can debate sometimes gray areas of, hey, what is acceptable speech? What's not? Cheering assassination, you should get fired, in my always humble opinion. This is not a tough call. We'll take more of your calls here in just a moment. But first up here, Sabre is a company that Clay and I both trust to provide our families with the best non-lethal self-protection tools. Now, as all of you know, I'm a big 2A guy, and Clay's got a lot of firearms at his home now, too, thanks to Laura. So we believe in 2A through and through, but we also believe in force escalation, and we believe that you should have the tools that you need for the situation at hand. My wife is more comfortable with non-lethal, so we have a whole range of Sabre non-lethal products at home, and I'm glad to have access to them as well. Sabre is the number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. Start with just to make it easy for you, their pepper spray projectile bundle. When you go on the website, you'll see this gives you everything you need to both train a little bit, because you want to train. You want to try this out so that when you need it. You know how to use it. But so they give you training projectiles. They give you the ability to go through the process so you feel really comfortable with your Sabre projectile launcher. They've been out this for 50 years at Sabre. They know what they're doing. Right now, you'll say 15% when you go to SaberRadio.com. That's S-A-B-R-E-R-E-R-R-E-R-O-com. Or call this number 844-824 Safe. That's 844-824 Safe.

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Hi, guys. Love your show. Not sure if y'all mention this or not, but Harvey Levin is the TMZ guy, and he was on air when Charlie Kirk's death was announced. And in the background, we're all his people he employees, and they were literally cheering and laughing and cheering. So, Sandy, can I jump in just because I did watch this video? I just want to point something out. And I'm not saying that I agree, or rather that I think this is true or not. They came on air and said, oh, the cheering you heard wasn't for that. It was for a car chase going on nearby. I find that, you know, very convenient under the circumstances. I'll say that. But I just want to be clear, they did try to claim right away that those were not related. Okay, I'm glad you said that because I did know, Harry or whatever's name is, did put out a statement, but the statement I saw said, we were not laughing at that, but he never followed up with a normal person would say. I mean, Clay, did you see this? I saw both. I mean, first of all, Harvey wasn't laughing at it, but there was laughter in the background, or not laughter, cheering in the background. But they, in the moment, within a few seconds, said, I just want to be clear that we're covering an unrelated issue, a car chase right now. So, I mean, I just want to be fair that they didn't say that an hour later. They said that like five seconds after you heard the cheering or, you know, the cheering going on. I think that's, look. It was quick enough that I think it maybe was true is what I'm saying. I want to make sure we focus on people that are intentionally cheering for murders to take place. And there are tens of thousands of them on social media who want their opinions to be shared. I mean, I think given the speed of the of the that wasn't for the Charlie situation and it was said right then. I think you give them a little, I think they maybe deserve the benefit of the doubt. I don't really know TMZ very well. I just know it's kind of tabloid stuff. Yeah. I can't really speak to, like, I don't know, Harvey. I don't know what they're like in that, you know, if there had been some other organizations out there, I'd be like, well, it's definitely a lie. Yeah. I also think, remember, the standard here is very lenient. Don't celebrate a murder in public. You could still, we can't see into people's hearts. You could still be happy that it happened. all we're saying is you and by the way I'm not defending that that's still a failure of your own humanity it's a next level step to say I want the entire public to be aware that I'm happy a dad got assassinated for his political beliefs that that video that you and I have both seen is one of the worst things I've ever seen in my entire life and I've seen a lot of horrible things because of the work that I used to do that's one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life I mean I can't think of something

that is more soul-crushing and grotesque than the video of what happened to Charlie up there. So how could that not hit someone, you know, right in their soul? How could they not understand right away? Like, this is the most basic human thing. I'm appalled. I'm appalled by what is going on with these tens of thousands of people celebrating. When I talked with my sons about the Charlie Kirk assassination and my two oldest boys were big fans of Charlie Kirk. They watched his videos. They're active on TikTok and YouTube and they circulated and were influential there to such an extent that many of our young men in particular have seen these videos. One of my boys said, Dad, do you think Charlie Kirk's kids are going to grow up and one day watch the video of their dad getting assassinated? I hope not. I don't think there's any reason for them to ever see it. And I hope nobody ever, you know, crosses that line. They shouldn't see it. That question just hit me right in the solar plexus. I just, I couldn't, because I was seeing it through their eyes and thinking about the dad that those kids will never know. And that video being out there is just, it's just brutal, frankly, to, brutal to think about. When we come back, we'll talk with Senator Marsha Blackburn. of Tennessee about the National Guard being called out in Memphis what she thinks should happen. And we just mentioned the University of Tennessee, a lot of different universities are dealing with this faculty members. University of Tennessee just fired a celebratory faculty member. We'll talk about that and more. Dad, Disney activities are on Lingo Kids. What? Moana and Elsa and Marvel Spider-Man, all of them. On Lingo Kids? Yes, Dad, on- Lingo Kids. That's pretty cool. I know. You just lost them for the rest of the afternoon. Worth it. Full of fun activities inspired by Disney's Moana, Frozen, Zootopia, Marvel Spider-Man, and more. Lingo Kids is where little ones discover more about favorite characters. Lingo Kids! Everything Kids love. Download it for free. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprout's has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market.

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