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Hour 2 - Enes Kanter Freedom on Death Threats · The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back in.
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  Speaker 2: Hour number two, officially one week until the midterms, and
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  Speaker 2: we are breaking down all the absolute latest, encouraging all
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  Speaker 2: of you to get out an early vote.
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  Speaker 1: I am in Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Buck is in Miami, and we are joined here in
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  Speaker 2: the Nashville area studio by a man whose name I've
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  Speaker 2: been mispronouncing for a long time until Buck told me
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  Speaker 2: that I had been mispronouncing it. Ennis Cantor-Freedom. I've been
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  Speaker 2: saying Ennis. You never actually corrected me because you're such
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  Speaker 2: a nice guy. But now I am pronouncing your name correctly.
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  Speaker 2: Ennis Cantor Freedom, the bravest.
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  Speaker 1: Woman that I know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into the WNBA chaos here in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: But let's begin with this. You are here in town
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  Speaker 2: because Marsha Blackburn is running for governor. In one week,
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  Speaker 2: I am emceeing her election night party, which I expect
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  Speaker 2: will lead to her becoming the governor. and tonight there
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  Speaker 2: is an event going on just north of town, an
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  Speaker 2: area called Hendersonville.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be there. I'm going to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Marsha Blackburn is going to be there. Other congressional candidates
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  Speaker 2: are going to be there. What are you planning on doing,
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  Speaker 2: and what do you expect to see tonight?
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  Speaker 3: So around five years ago, when I got kicked out
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  Speaker 3: of the NBA because of China's Communist Party, she was
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  Speaker 3: actually the first person that reached out to me, and
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  Speaker 3: that meant a lot to me. Even my own teammates,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just what? disappeared, you know, she was the
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  Speaker 3: first person that reached out and that meant a lot
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  Speaker 3: to me. And now when she reached out and say, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: would you like to come to Tennessee and do a
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  Speaker 3: rally with me?
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm in.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, she's like a family. And
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  Speaker 3: we definitely need a leader that is going to keep
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  Speaker 3: men out of women's locker room, women's shower, and women's bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: That's a crazy thing that you need to say. But
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  Speaker 1: I want to go back.
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  Speaker 2: Some of this audience may not know your story and
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  Speaker 2: what happened as it pertains to China. You're from Turkey.
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  Speaker 2: You are an NBA first-round draft pick. And you did
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  Speaker 2: what that upset China, that Marsha Blackburn, senator from Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: reached out to you.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So I started to talk about the human rights violations
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  Speaker 3: in China. And literally less than 24 hours, they stopped
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  Speaker 3: showing every Boston Celtics game on Chinese television.
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  Speaker 1: You were playing for the Celtics at the time.
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  Speaker 2: You call out the China human rights violations and China
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  Speaker 2: shuts down the Boston Celtics.
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  Speaker 3: Literally less than a day. And then, obviously, NBA started
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  Speaker 3: to lose millions of dollars because Boston Celtics is one
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  Speaker 3: of the biggest teams in NBA. And then many of
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  Speaker 3: my teammates said, listen, man, this is your last year
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  Speaker 3: in NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Have fun. Enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hope that we win a championship because you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to play basketball ever again. And then a few
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  Speaker 3: months later, during the trade deadline, they traded me to
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  Speaker 3: Houston Rockets and then released me in less than three minutes.
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  Speaker 3: And after I got released, none of my teammates or coaches,
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  Speaker 3: which I played 11 years in NBA, I had hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of teammates, they didn't reach out. So I was sitting
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  Speaker 3: at home. I started to question myself. I'm like, did
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  Speaker 3: I do something wrong, right? That's when Senator Marsha reached
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  Speaker 3: out to me and said, hey, we know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Would you like to come on my show to talk
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  Speaker 3: about it so you can bring more awareness? Even that
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  Speaker 3: five-minute phone call meant so much to me. I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: a senator now has my back. In the last five years,
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  Speaker 3: she's been really helping with many things. And I think
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  Speaker 3: it's time for me to just pay that respect back.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you being with us, Enes.
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  Speaker 4: And I've already told Clay that my money is still
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  Speaker 4: on you if you guys play horse at his house
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  Speaker 4: in the backyard. even if you can only shoot jump
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  Speaker 4: shots left-handed. But I think you'll probably still be able
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  Speaker 4: to come out on top of that one.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: But speaking about the basketball world, you have been very
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  Speaker 4: open about the fact that you would be willing to–
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know if you have any particular pay requirements,
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  Speaker 4: but willing to be a WNBA player who would just
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  Speaker 4: do her absolute best to break all the scoring titles
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  Speaker 4: and records and everything else– And yet somehow the WNBA
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  Speaker 4: has decided you are ineligible. We are curious here on
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  Speaker 4: the program, on what grounds have you, a proud and
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  Speaker 4: outspoken self-declared woman, been denied from the WNBA draft?
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  Speaker 3: So congressional letters have been sent to WNBA. We were
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  Speaker 3: just asking about, you know, what is a woman? We
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  Speaker 3: finally heard back from them. they said, well, Enes cannot
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  Speaker 3: play because he's a man.
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  Speaker 1: So we've been.
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  Speaker 3: Asking this question to Commissioner Kathy Engelbert, what is a woman, right?
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  Speaker 3: She's been hiding behind a task force, which we have
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  Speaker 3: no idea what people are.
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  Speaker 2: They have put together a task force to try to
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  Speaker 2: determine what a woman is. For people out there who
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  Speaker 2: don't know, this is real in the WNBA. Yet they
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  Speaker 2: have been able to tell you. Yeah, but I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe this is the world that we live in. That
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  Speaker 2: can't be real. Yet they can tell you that you
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  Speaker 2: are a man, but they can't tell us what a
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  Speaker 2: woman is.
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  Speaker 1: So my question is, she can.
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  Speaker 3: Identify what is a man, but when we ask, hey, what.
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  Speaker 1: Is a woman? No answer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Which is a shame, you know? I'm just very shocked, man,
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  Speaker 3: because if the NBA commissioner tomorrow comes out and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we don't know what is a man, I promise there will.
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  Speaker 1: Be an outrage. There will be a lockout the next day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I cannot believe these women, right, these ladies are
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  Speaker 3: just not taking this personal and says, we have a commissioner,
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  Speaker 3: we have a boss that cannot even define what my
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  Speaker 3: gender is. And this is unacceptable. So... Um, it's a shame, man, um,
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  Speaker 3: that she can say I'm a man then, but she
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  Speaker 3: cannot define what is a woman.
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  Speaker 2: And you are wearing for people who are not watching
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  Speaker 2: the video, encourage you to go watch the YouTube channel,
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  Speaker 2: a shirt that says define woman or.
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  Speaker 1: Let me play. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So you have declared for the WNBA draft. It is
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  Speaker 2: in April. Are you prepared to sue, to argue that
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  Speaker 2: you are eligible? What's, where do you see this going now?
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  Speaker 1: So, um, The most simple thing, everything, all this madness
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  Speaker 1: can end tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: If they would just say only women are allowed in
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  Speaker 2: the WNBA, you would drop out.
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  Speaker 3: All I'm asking is to add the word biological in
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  Speaker 3: your collective bargain, and I promise you will not hear
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  Speaker 3: from me ever again. But if not, I have every
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  Speaker 3: right to pursue for the draft, which I already did.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of people are asking me, like, would
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  Speaker 3: you sue them, right? I'm actually like a very nice guy.
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  Speaker 3: They're already losing millions of dollars, right? I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to bring a lawsuit and they're going to lose more money, everything.
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  Speaker 3: But if it comes down to that, I think the
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  Speaker 3: WMA should definitely be held accountable for their action.
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  Speaker 4: Enes, what do you think is the real reason? behind their,
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  Speaker 4: because as you're pointing out, you're doing this for a purpose.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I have seen, especially because Clay retweets some
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  Speaker 4: of the, you know, the back and forth that you
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  Speaker 4: have and he has with other people in the sports
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  Speaker 4: world about this. I don't know if some of the
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  Speaker 4: people are just too stupid, quite honestly, to understand what
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  Speaker 4: you're doing or if they're pretending not to understand. But
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  Speaker 4: you are making a principled point. You're not looking for
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  Speaker 4: a payday to be the best, highest paid WNBA player.
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  Speaker 4: Like you're trying to actually protect women's sports. And yet
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  Speaker 4: it seems like there is a willingness. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 4: already saying this from the WNBA to. really digging deep
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  Speaker 4: on this, not just for the bad press, but maybe
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  Speaker 4: even to start to hurt their bottom line and lose money,
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  Speaker 4: which they can scarcely afford to do.
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  Speaker 1: So why are they doing it? It's so easy to
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  Speaker 1: fix this. Why can't they just say, yeah, obviously biological.
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  Speaker 4: Women are all that we can have playing in the
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  Speaker 4: Women's National Basketball Association.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So I actually asked this question to some of my
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  Speaker 3: former colleagues, NBA players. I was like, listen, why? They said, well,
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  Speaker 3: there's so much money on the line, and also they're
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  Speaker 3: scared of the cancel culture. Listen, of course, these WNBA players,
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  Speaker 3: they don't want a male coming to their league because
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  Speaker 3: they know they're going to take their minutes. You're going
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  Speaker 3: to take their money, take their endorsement deals, and take
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  Speaker 3: their dignity. They cannot compete against us, and everyone knows that.
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  Speaker 3: But when it comes to the media, they just cannot
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  Speaker 3: say it out loud because they know they're going to
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  Speaker 3: face a lot of backlash. I mean, cancel culture is
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  Speaker 3: really in America. They're going to face that as well.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a shame, man. They're putting their money and
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  Speaker 3: business over their morals, values, and principles, and someone has
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  Speaker 3: to call them out.
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  Speaker 2: How many points do you think you would score if
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  Speaker 2: you got to play in a WNBA game?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm watching the finals, right? Which is, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: two best teams in a WNBA. I promise you, man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go out there and try to break
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  Speaker 3: Will Chamberlain's 100 points record.
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  Speaker 1: You think you could score 100 points? 100% yes.
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  Speaker 2: In a WNBA game. Okay, now they won't let you
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  Speaker 2: watch the games. You got kicked out of a regular
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  Speaker 2: season game. Then you had tickets to go and sit
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  Speaker 2: and watch. the, uh, the additional play, the NBA, WNBA finals.
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  Speaker 2: What happened then in Atlanta?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: So first of all, I paid thousands of dollars. I
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  Speaker 3: think I bought two courtside tickets. It was close to $ 15, 000.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm helping you all, but I'm the
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  Speaker 3: one paying these $ 7, 500.
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  Speaker 2: Per ticket for you to say courtside. So you bought
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  Speaker 2: two courtside tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Courtside tickets, right?
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  Speaker 3: I walked in the arena and there was like the,
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  Speaker 3: The moment I walked in, I see like the police
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  Speaker 3: officers was just waiting for me there. I get close
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  Speaker 3: to the gate and I promise you there was seven
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  Speaker 3: police officers just surrounded me. And I turn around, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: listen guys, I have the ultimate respect for you guys
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  Speaker 3: and thank you for your service. But I have every
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  Speaker 3: right to enter the arena and sit on the seat
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  Speaker 3: that I purchased.
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  Speaker 1: You purchased yourself two tickets. You just want to go
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  Speaker 1: watch the game.
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  Speaker 3: They said, well, you are too big of a threat.
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  Speaker 3: For that reason, we're going to put you up there
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  Speaker 3: in the suite. And if you don't want that, you
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  Speaker 3: have your freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, I'm sorry. I couldn't understand that, Ennis. You're a
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  Speaker 1: public safety threat? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm the one getting thousands of death threats, right?
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  Speaker 3: But I promise you, they treated me like a criminal.
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  Speaker 1: I looked around. I'm like, we have seven police officers
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  Speaker 1: around me. And I'm like trying to see like, what
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  Speaker 1: did I do wrong? They wouldn't let you go to
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  Speaker 1: your seat.
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  Speaker 3: Nope. They said, you're either going to go to suite
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  Speaker 3: that we, and they said, we're going to put a
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  Speaker 3: police in front.
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  Speaker 1: Of your door.
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  Speaker 3: So everywhere I go, I have to be watched by
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  Speaker 3: the police and see where I'm, where am I going?
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  Speaker 3: What am I doing? I'm like this at this point.
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  Speaker 2: These are just to, just to clarify, these are actual
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  Speaker 2: police or they're security guards in the actual police, actual police.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So at that point, I'm like, I listen, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: do anything wrong. I would like to sit on my,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to go in a prison box, you know.
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  Speaker 3: You guys trying to put me in this like little
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  Speaker 3: box and you guys have to watch me and put
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  Speaker 3: up police in front of my suite. I'm like, this
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  Speaker 3: is unacceptable. I would like to go to my seat
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  Speaker 3: and whatever. I'm like, they're like, listen, there's no way
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  Speaker 3: you're going to enter the arena. You can't leave then.
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  Speaker 3: And they escorted me out.
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  Speaker 1: Who gave this order?
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  Speaker 3: So 45 minutes, so 45 minutes before the game, We
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  Speaker 3: got a call from the NBA security. Now the NBA
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  Speaker 3: is involved as well. And they said, listen, you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to enter the arena. We have
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  Speaker 3: a suite for you. So if you would like to
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  Speaker 3: just go to suite, you're more welcome to come. If not,
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  Speaker 3: then you're not allowed to be in the arena.
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  Speaker 1: What happens to your tickets then? So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody sat in those seats. Exactly. I don't know. $ 15, 000
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  Speaker 1: on those seats and they would not allow you to
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  Speaker 1: use them.
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  Speaker 3: And they didn't even return money back. That's the crazy thing. Um, no, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's been crazy, man. I mean, I, how did they
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  Speaker 3: know you were coming? So we let the, because I
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  Speaker 3: was getting a lot of death threats, we let the
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  Speaker 3: FBI know. And also, I didn't want them to, like,
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  Speaker 3: be surprised. I told them, like, listen, I'm just going
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  Speaker 3: to come there. I would like to peacefully watch the game.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want no drama. I don't want to cause
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  Speaker 3: any trouble. So they knew I was coming. Because I
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  Speaker 3: didn't want them to be like, well, he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: It on purpose. Or he's trying to sneak in. Exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I told them, like, hey, man, I'm coming. Can you
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  Speaker 1: believe this buck?
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  Speaker 4: This is outrageous. Honestly, this is even crazier than I
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  Speaker 4: thought it would be. I'm also wondering, Ennis, if these
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  Speaker 4: death threats, which you've been getting, is it obviously these
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  Speaker 4: are very emotionally unstable people who are doing something very
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  Speaker 4: wrong and very stupid. But do they say that this
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  Speaker 4: is to protect trans rights? On what basis are you getting?
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  Speaker 4: I assume it's all about your stance on this WNBA issue.
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  Speaker 4: But is it men who are really pro women saying
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  Speaker 4: they're men? Who is doing this?
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  Speaker 1: Who's threatening to kill you so far as you can tell?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you can see this or not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if we can zoom in on that. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so I'll read it to you. He said, I wish
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  Speaker 3: he got Charlie Kirk during this video. So my DMs
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  Speaker 3: are full of pictures and videos of the moment that
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk got shot. And they're saying that you're next.
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  Speaker 4: So it's explicitly political trans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, so this is unacceptable, man. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: from day one, I said this, listen, I am not anti-trans.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not anti-LGBTQ. You have all these rights, right? But
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  Speaker 3: I am just pro-woman. There's a huge difference between two things. But, no,
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  Speaker 3: I've been getting a lot of threats, man. And I
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  Speaker 3: fight against China.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Chinese Communist Party. This is nothing compared to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the threats that I'm getting from.
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  Speaker 2: And you have I mean, just so people know, you
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  Speaker 2: have you're in my studio right now. You've got armed security.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Like you have to now travel with security because of
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  Speaker 2: the threats that you're getting from the trans community for
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  Speaker 2: simply saying men should not be able to compete in
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  Speaker 2: women's sport.
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  Speaker 1: No, everywhere we go.
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  Speaker 3: We had a conversation with the FBI and everywhere I go,
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  Speaker 3: I have to let FBI know where I'm going, everywhere
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  Speaker 3: I go, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Just absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Ennis, you're a principled man as well as a
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  Speaker 4: great athlete. So we appreciate you being with us here.
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  Speaker 4: And it's great that you're spending some time with Senator Blackburn.
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  Speaker 4: We're a big fan of hers. And thank you and
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  Speaker 4: come back anytime and keep us in the loop on
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  Speaker 4: how things are going and just stay safe out there.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that, man. That means a lot.
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  Speaker 4: or the Olive Garden, okay? But at least I'm honest
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: with all of you.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I am who I am. Kevin in New York, be
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: on the talkbacks, hit it.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: Did I hear Buck correctly?
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Did he just say he's never been to a cheesecake factory?
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: And he's also never been to Home Depot. Do we
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: even know if this guy's.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: A real American?
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Excuse me, sir. I have been to Home Depot once recently.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: So there's that. But yes, no, I had not been
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: to the... I had not been to the Cheesecake Factory.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: Matt in South Carolina. Clay's coming in for a little
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: bit of fire from Matt in South Carolina.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Go for it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Buck, don't feel too bad, man.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: I'm not some fluty Yankee that eats a pistachio custard,
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: and I've still never been to Olive Garden or Texas Roadhouse.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: As much as Clay likes T & A, I'm surprised he.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Hadn't mentioned Hooters. He seems like a Hooters guy to me,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: which I've only been there once in my life.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Clay.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Matt in South Carolina says he thinks you're a Hooters guy,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: whether you'll admit it or not.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I haven't been to a Hooters in a while. I
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: don't think I can. I don't think. Yeah, I think
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: we've lost Clay temporarily in the mic here. So we'll
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: get back.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Clay, we'll bring that back here shortly. I think the
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: live in studio has thrown us off a little bit.
• 17:15
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  Speaker 1: Hit it.
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  Speaker 2: Clay, why are you surprised that Buck has never been
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: to a Texas roadhouse?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: The boy grew up in Manhattan. He's used to fine dining,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 4: I did do a fair amount of Michelin-recommended and Michelin-starred
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• 17:47
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• 17:50
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  Speaker 4: Clay and Buck. We're going to bring you to the
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  Speaker 4: front lines of... Battlefield, Kansas, my friends. We are now
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: joined by incumbent Republican senator and doctor as an actual physician, M.D., etc.,
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  Speaker 4: Roger Marshall. Senator Marshall, thanks.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: For joining us. We know you're on the road. You
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: are going around.
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  Speaker 4: Seeing the great people of your state. Bring us right
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: into the action. It's a week from Election Day. What
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: are you seeing?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: What are you hearing?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: What are the closing arguments, sir? Yeah, Clayton Buck, it's
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: great to be with you.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: This will turn out to be all about election turnout.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Right now, the Democrats are coming out early voting like
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: the president is on a ballot.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: We need those Trump voters to come out as well.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: There's 175,000 people in Kansas that only vote when President
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Trump is on the ticket, and he's on the ticket. Look,
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: if you're a person out there that wants to make
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: America great again, if you want an American first agenda,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: we cannot turn over the Senate to Chuck Schumer to, uh,
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. That's what this is
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: all about. It's going to be really close on who
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: keeps control of the Senate. If we lose Kansas, we
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: give Chuck Schumer control. That's going to give us open borders,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: higher taxes, and a weak military. It's that simple.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Senator Marshall, we've been telling everybody to get out and
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: vote early. How commonplace is early voting in your state,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: and what would you tell people they should know and
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: should do as we sit here one week from Election Day?
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Well, again, the Democrats are out and voting.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: There's a group of people, I don't know if it's 35%
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: or so, Democrats hate President Trump.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: So those people have already voted. It's a protest vote.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: It's equally as important that President Trump's people that support
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: his agenda, that support Secure borders, a strong military.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Lower taxes.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Those folks need to get out and vote. Otherwise, we
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: end up with open borders and amnesty. My opponent openly
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: supports all those things. This is a guy who Barack
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Obama is his idol. This is a guy who said
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: he's in favor of open borders. of amnesty, a guy
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: that's out there protesting against police. He's the person out
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: there that cries when President Trump took down Joe Biden's
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: orders on transgender. So most importantly, if we don't want
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: to turn over control of the Senate to Chuck Schumer,
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: we need traditional Republicans, Trump supporters to get out there
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: and vote.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Senator Marshall, I know you are obviously laser focused on
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: your race, as you should be. And as we can see,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: the lovely Kansas countryside there.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: In the background.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: But I wanted to get your opinion on something because
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: you were a practicing medical.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Doctor, an MD. I believe you were an OBGYN.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: What do you think about the muted media coverage, but
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: it is out there, of Abdul El-Sayed up in Michigan
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: who's also running as a Democrat for the Senate seat.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you're well aware of that race, a very
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: tight one, calling himself a physician all the time, but
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: never actually doing a residency or practicing medicine. What's your
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: take on that?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Well, it's an.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Insult to my profession is what it is. What type
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: of a person goes to med school and then doesn't
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: do a residency? It just doesn't make any sense to me.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Is he not smart enough to pass his boards? Is
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: that the problem? Is he not smart enough, doesn't want
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: to work hard enough to go through a four or
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: five year residency? residency like that, he certainly should not
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: be ever touching or seeing a patient. Maybe we should
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: look to see if he even has a license. But look,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: I'm really insulted. But even more concerning to me, though,
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: are his radical policies. And that right now, the Democrats
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: have the tail wagging the dog. On the best day,
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Democrats are what? Big government socialists. But they're being ran
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: by this far, far, far left. You want to know
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: what folks in Kansas are concerned about? It's radical Islam.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: And we don't want those open borders and his El
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Saeed's policies of radical Islam coming to rest in the
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: state of Kansas.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I think this is really important, and I know many
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: of our listeners know it already, but When these middle-of-the-road
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: guys claim that they're going to represent a state like
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Kansas in an independent fashion, what they're really telling you
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: is not what they're going to do, which is they're
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: going to be far left and they're going to be
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: radical in the way that they represent.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: A state like Kansas.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: How important is it for voters out there in your
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: state to understand, look, if this were an actual fight
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that people were having where the Democrat says what the
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Democrat truly believes and the Republican says what the Republican
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: truly believes, this is not a remotely close contest in Kansas.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: People are getting snookered here. I think it's fair.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I want you to dive in and explain that as well.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Thanks so much, yes. So my opponent is actually a
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: radical liberal. All you have to do is look at
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: his track record. This is a guy, the pastor of
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: the biggest Methodist church in the country, but he split
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: the church.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: He says he's a uniter, but he divided.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: One-fourth of the Methodist churches left the denomination because of
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: his woke ideology.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: This is a guy that won't let you call children
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: in church boys or girls.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: He has a list of accepted nouns and pronouns for children.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: It's because of him, the second biggest Methodist church in
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: the country just left that denomination, the church down on
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: SMU campus in that area as well.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: But it is a skins and shirts church. exercise eventually.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: If he would win, Chuck Schumer becomes the majority leader
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: and they set the stage.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: They decide what we vote on, what we don't vote on.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: And look, every Senate Democrat voted against voter ID. They
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: voted against a farm bill. They voted against securing the border.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: They voted against the military as well. They voted against
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: tax cuts. That's who the Democrats are, so they can
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: say one thing during the election, but when they get
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: up there, Chuck Schumer's going to cut their knees off
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: if they don't vote with him. They'll never be on
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: a committee of importance. He'll never help them again financially
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: as well. Chuck Schumer is funding this guy's election. He's
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: giving him $ 25 or $ 30 million. We're trying to run
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: a campaign on $ 5 million. So this guy will be
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: bought and paid for by Chuck Schumer. And the radical
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: liberal Democrats. That was my question for you were speaking
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: to Senator Marshall, by the way. And we have a
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: robust Kansas audience, guys. You got to make sure you
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: get out and vote. Very, very important. You don't want
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Clay to have to shame you for non-voting. You need
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: to get out there and vote.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: He's he's Clay is like Santa Claus.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: He knows who's been naughty and nice or nice when
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: it comes to voting time. So you guys got to
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: get out there and vote. But on the money dynamic,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: because that's obviously something that, as I've been following this race, Senator,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: really stands out. I'm going to guess that the tens
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: of millions of dollars that your woke pastor opponent has
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: raised have not all come from Topeka.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: The super majority of his funding will be outside dollars.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: And they always are.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: I don't know how the Democrats do it. We could
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: talk about that someday. But they can raise more in
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: six months than I can raise in six years. And
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: we worked hard at raising the $ 4 or $ 5 million that.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: We did raise.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: But they're able to raise that in a matter of
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: 90 days. We'll be outspent just like we were six
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: years ago, 5 to 1, 10 to 1, somewhere in there.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: We'll spend $ 5 million.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: They're going to spend $ 40 or $ 50 million.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: We were expecting this.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: But hardworking Kansans understand what's at stake, that if we
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: would elect Adam Hamilton, that would put Chuck Schumer in control.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: That means open borders, higher taxes, and a weak military.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I said that I am looking at the numbers, and Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I'm very confident in. How confident are you as we
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: sit here one week out?
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: Well, look, I'm running like we're down three points. You know,
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: the polls haven't even. We're going to assume the polls
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: are right. I can't take anything for granted. And none
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: of your listeners can take anything for granted. Right now,
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: early voting, like I said, the Senate, excuse me, the
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: Democrats are out like it's a general election for a president.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: And the Republicans are kind of dragging our feet here.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: So I'm asking Republicans to get out there and vote.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: You can vote early. Every place across the state is
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: open now. I love in-person voting on Election Day. But
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: if you're in town anyway, you're a farmer and you
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: happen to be in town today or tomorrow, pop into
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: the courthouse and go in there and vote.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Outstanding stuff.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: We encourage all of you get out there early, get
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: out there and vote for Roger Marshall in Kansas. Keep
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: up the good work on the campaign trail, Senator. And
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: good luck one week from today when everybody finds out
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: what exactly is going to happen on the midterms. We're
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: optimistic for you, but we need Kansans to be aware
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: this is a real battle and they need to show up.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Thanks for playing back. Appreciate y'all. Everybody go vote.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Doc.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Bring home the W. All right, look, we'll see plenty
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• 29:26
  Speaker 2: We are rolling through the one week away from the midterms.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: The you just heard seven days until the midterm elections.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: You just heard from Roger Marshall, who is one of
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the uh candidates out there and he pointed out that
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: democrats have shown up in kansas early voting and they
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: are trying to put his seat in question Again, I
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: think that there are a lot of states out there.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I would put Texas in this camp. I would put Nebraska.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I would put Kansas. I would put Iowa in this
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: camp even, where Republicans have done so well over the
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: last 15 or 20 years that it is difficult to
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: understand that your seat might be in danger. And so
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of people have gotten used to their vote
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter that much in the grand scheme of things.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: And I think just a lot of you out there
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: need to understand how important it is to get out
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: there and vote. And, Buck, we were talking, and I'm
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: going to continue to give you the data, not the
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: current poll numbers because we're a week out, but the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: actual data. There are a lot of very positive signs
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: across many different states that there is not going to.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Be a blue wave or a blue tsunami.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: But the only way to combat that is for people
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: who voted for President Trump in 2024 to get out
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: and vote. We are fortunate that most of the battlegrounds
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: are actually in states that Trump won by double figures. Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Ohio.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Those are places that should not be close if Republicans
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: do their jobs. And so if you're listening to me
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: in one of those states, your votes matter more than
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: they may have traditionally. You need to get out and
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: vote and you need to kind of grab your knucklehead
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: friends by the lapel. and say, hey, knucklehead, you're coming
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: with me too because it's important for you to go vote.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: And I think sometimes there is a degree of comfort
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: when you always win. I think this is going on
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: in Texas. I think a lot of people just looked
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: at James Tallarico and said, come on. This is like
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: we may lose a race one day. It's not going
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: to be to this guy. And Democrats have lined up
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: and gotten behind him. And I think a lot of
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: people need to wake up in the in the marketplace
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: I think just to spice up the stakes here a
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: little bit, if Republicans hold the Senate, I think you
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: have to take me to the Cheesecake Factory in Miami Beach.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: How funny is it that the last Cheesecake Factory meal
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I had was in Miami Beach?
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Laura and I were there. We had time to kill.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And we wanted to eat something before we headed to
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: the airport, and I said, we've got to get into
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: the Cheesecake Factory here. You know who's at the Cheesecake
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Factory right now?
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: My mom.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: My mom just texted me during the last commercial break
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: a picture of she and my dad going to eat
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: at the local Cheesecake Factory because... They loved the Cheesecake Factory.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I said that this was a place that we liked.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: To go to celebrate. My parents loved chain restaurants. The
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: beautiful Cheesecake Factory.
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  Speaker 2: I've been to every chain restaurant on the planet at
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: some point in time, basically, if they have a footprint
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  Speaker 2: in Nashville.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: But I have a question about this.
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  Speaker 4: If one were to go to Red Lobster, and before
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: any of you ask, I've been to Red Lobster many,
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  Speaker 4: many times. Not as many as our friend Jesse Kelly,
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  Speaker 4: who I think might have the record for any human
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  Speaker 4: being to go to Red Lobster. But I've been to
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Red Lobster many times. You go to Red Lobster, you
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: get lobster. You go to the Cheesecake Factory, you don't
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: even have a split.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even share the cheesecake. I'm not a cheesecake guy.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Look at that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why the Cheesecake Factory is not always my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: And my mom and dad love the Cheesecake Factory. And
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  Speaker 2: we've been going to the Cheesecake Factory on special occasions
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: for a while. And I don't remember the first Cheesecake Factory.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: I think it was Green Hills Mall. For those of
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: you who are in the Nashville area, I think that
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: was the first one that opened. But now we're out
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: in Williamson County.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's a restaurant designation that both Cheesecake Factory
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: and Maggiano's Little Italy fall into.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I did not know this. Upscale Casual is what it
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  Speaker 1: is called. That makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Maggiano's very expensive. I like Maggiano's a lot. I like
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Buca di Beppo. You ever eaten at a Buca di Beppo?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Buca di Beppo is, I love Buca di Beppo. We
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  Speaker 2: go there a lot because my oldest son, it's his
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  Speaker 2: favorite restaurant. And it is what I would describe as
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Maggiano's a little bit lower end. Maggiano's kind of high end,
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  Speaker 2: kind of fancy. I'm going to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a huge.
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  Speaker 1: Maggiano's just a little bit uppity for my taste.
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  Speaker 2: And I will say that the Buca di Beppo is
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: pretty fantastic.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: So what is your favorite of all the.
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  Speaker 4: And you could throw some others into the mix. Not
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: fast food, not fast casual, which would be a lot
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: of these places that make bowls. You know, a lot
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: of these places, you have a bowl of whatever, and
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  Speaker 4: you make it upscale casual. You only get one in
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: your town in the Nashville area. What is the preferred?
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: What is the.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Number one is tech? I've said number one is and
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I'm factoring in cost. Right. Because I think you have
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to factor that in. I would say Texas Roadhouse is one.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: The best Italian chain restaurant, in my opinion, is Bucca
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  Speaker 2: di Beppo. I don't know how many Bucas there are
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: out there. And then I'm going to get a little
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: bit specific because I don't think these are like super popular,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: but they are chains. I like Stony River Steakhouse and
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I like the Amerigo. Now, I don't know how many
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: of these there are. I know they have multiple ones
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  Speaker 2: in the Nashville area. Roadhouse and Bucca are big national chains.
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  Speaker 2: I also like Max and Irma's. Laura, my wife, was
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: actually a waitress at Max and Irma's, which is a
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Midwest-based fast casual chain, I think would be one way
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: to describe it. Not a big Applebee's guy. Not a
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: big Chili's guy, although Chili's is hard to go wrong
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: because it's Mexican, and how do you really screw up Mexican?
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: So I'd probably put Chili's on the list. So P.F.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Chang's also qualifies.
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  Speaker 3: P.F.
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  Speaker 1: Chang's is solid.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good one that I have to put on
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  Speaker 4: the list. I would say, though, technically Roots Chris is
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: considered upstairs. I was going to say that's my favorite.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm a Ruth's Chris guy, but apparently
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  Speaker 4: that's too schmancy.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: You and Morton's and the bourbon steak, yeah, where you
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: have to spend $ 120 per person to.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Go eat there. Yeah, Ruth's Chris is way above the
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: roster here.
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  Speaker 5: You make it sound.
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  Speaker 1: Like Maggiano's, where we used to go for like.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: happy hour when i was at langley like they were
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: just putting white truffle all over everything.
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  Speaker 1: Magiano's a family style italian.
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  Speaker 2: Joint it's an uppity place it's not bucca di beppo
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: is the more accessible family style italian restaurant i'm just
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: saying they got their nose a little bit in the
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: air at magiano's compared to bucca that's just the truth
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: uh all right you gotta go pick up a tesla right.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: I'm going to pick up a Tesla. I have an
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: appointment with Tesla.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Driving yourself home, you're going to love this.