Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast.

Welcome back in final hour of the week 14 hours up 15th hour rolling through.

Encourage you as always go seek out the whole show on podcast if you miss any of it. We love all

of our 400 plus affiliates in all 50 states. But man Alex Berencine was fantastic at the top of

the second hour discussing everything the latest COVID data where we may be headed based on what

happened in Israel. We've also been talking about the rapid collapse of Afghanistan, the rise

of the Taliban, the fact that we've had to call in 3000 troops, Buck spent time in Afghanistan,

we've been discussing that. We are going to have a little bit of fun because it is Friday the 13th

and we want to send you into the weekend with at least some positive thoughts in general.

But with all the COVID vaccine mandates spiraling down in Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, LA,

New York City. But we haven't talked about yet what is an unmitigated disaster. Another one.

Another one. The border, Buck Sexton, while the Biden administration may be talking about trying,

which is an earlier story today, the AP reported that the Biden administration is considering

restricting travel between states over COVID vaccines. Buck, the situation on the border in July

220,000, I think it was nearly people came across. It's basically a sieve. There's no protection

there at all. For all of the talk about the concerns surrounding COVID, you've got people

pouring across the border in numbers that haven't been seen in 20 or more years. And now we've got

people in the Biden administration finally acknowledging that it's broken.

Well, behind closed doors, right? Not acknowledging it in a way where we could say,

oh, you mean you guys are starting to wake up to the reality? Let's just be clear, Clay.

I was down in the Rio Grande sector of the US, Mexico border, either in March or April.

It's been a few months now, but I was down there with doing essentially right along with

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