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

Welcome back in final hour of the week. 14 hours up. One to go. I hope you guys have managed to

hang out with us for a lot of them. It has been an incredibly, incredibly news centric week.

So many different things that we have discussed. If you missed the first couple hours of today's

program, Senator Rand Paul was on with us an hour one. He was fantastic.

Art Lapper, the famous economist was on with us in the second hour. He was also

extraordinarily good and works set to be joined by Ian Miller, who I think many of you are going

to really enjoy. If you are active on social media, he does incredible work analyzing COVID data,

pointing out how masks and vaccine mandates have completely and totally failed.

I'm speaking of which book, I'm down in the free state of Florida. You are still wearing your scarf

trapped in your apartment as you attempt to recover from all the crime. Do you feel, by the way,

back to 100 percent? Excuse me, sir. How do you not know this isn't my ready to go face covering

at a moment's notice? You think it's a start, but it could very quickly turn into a Fauci anxiety

napkin at a moment's notice. And therefore, I am compliant with all this idiocy that does nothing

to stop the virus, but I am prepared, sir. I feel fine. I keep calling it wimpy cron. It's not

that bad. It's not that bad compared to you because I had I was fortunate in either time that I had

COVID. I had it in November, 2020. And I just had what we believe is the Omicron version last week.

I'm back 100 percent. You feel like this version because you had it pretty severe the first time.

This version of COVID, I mean, it wasn't you and I both had really bad colds. People could hear it

on the radio in November. It was not COVID. This is a pale approximation, even if that cold we had

earlier in the winter fall, right? Oh, it was the whatever that upper respiratory thing is that

people listening to show no, you had it, then I had it. Yeah. We were we didn't even see it in

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