Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show Podcast.

Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show. I hope all of you had fantastic weekends. I am Clay Travis and as I am speaking to you right now,

the Dow is down 830 points. Joe Biden just finished talking to the American public.

And there is a massive sell off going on on Wall Street that is I believe connected pretty clearly to COVID fears rising and new,

which Bucks Xt and I have told you was going to happen. And I got a provocative thesis for you. We're going to spend a lot of time discussing what exactly is going on with this COVID collapse in the stock market.

But my fear what we are going to see in this country, we saw LA last week, re institute their mask mandate announced they were doing it. It started late Saturday night. I'm actually headed out to LA on Wednesday. So I will see what exactly is going on there and report back to you live on the show on Thursday and Friday.

But I think where we are rapidly headed looking ahead is too massively different COVID responses in this country that are going to create a seismic schism.

Use an interesting word between red state America and blue state America where red state America Bucks Xt and is going to say we've already tried the lockdowns. We've already tried the masks.

There is nothing we can do to stop a virus from spreading. We have to remain open and live our lives as normal as we possibly can. And I think what's going to happen in blue state America and you're already seeing it happen in LA is first are going to come to masks.

Then are going to come aggressive social distancing arguments and then I think we're headed for lockdowns. Let me give you one example of some people in Wall Street believing that I'm correct right now almost every stock is down today buck.

One of the best performing stocks in the entire market peloton which was also one of the biggest beneficiaries of the stock market crash with I think it's fair to say last March because everybody suddenly had their gym shut down and they wanted to have a peloton bike or peloton equipment at home almost everything is down peloton up 6% right now as we're going to be going to the market.

Right now as we're speaking as the stock market itself is down right around 2 and a third to 2 and 2.4% why that big divergence.

I think there are some people right now trading on the idea of lockdowns coming back and we're going to tell you all about this because I think it's a massive story going on right now.

Do you buy into the idea of almost a covid civil war developing in our country. Blue state America does one thing red state America does another it's all going to depend on what we see in the next few weeks from the data.

If we see an increase in deaths and hospitalizations then people are going to really freak out right now it's about caseload and the caseload in some European countries and I think that's noteworthy because there are so many right now.

Who are blaming explicitly Fox news by name for this search as if Fox news is doing gain a function research here in New York City can try to I mean it's crazy stuff being said by people and I mean by Fauci I mean by the actual lab coat tyrants that go on TV all the time.

So they're blaming the right generally speaking we could say that without ever specifying why and without looking at the data for who's not really vaccinated.

My worry here is that they're going to use a lesser level of vaccine efficacy as a justification not for loser restrictions and more freedom but actually a much bigger push to get everyone vaccinated every man woman and child and to get everyone to accept

boosters as part of this whole situation it's not it's not going to be optional that the left is panicking about this now if we don't have the hospitalizations and deaths.

Then it's going to this this will calm down I think quite rapidly that doesn't mean it's going to go away doesn't mean we won't go into lockdowns in the winter time when we have another search but clay my thesis right now is this and it's actually something.

That I've been saying for months and here actually in in May of 2020 I wrote we're moving toward eventual herd immunity as a society we're just doing it more slowly at the price of trillions of dollars millions of jobs the constitution the bill of rights.

And people are figuring this out the hardest way possible that was a year ago more than a year ago that I said that I think more than ever that's what we're seeing if the if it doesn't even prevent.

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