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

Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck,

rolling solo today here in the chair, talking to all of you across the country. Thank you so

much for being here with me. We are an open line Friday, 800-282-2882. We miss our buddy Clay,

my main man. He's out today on vacation, well, well deserved. Left me in charge through

me the keys to the Maserati, so to speak, and has let me drive it solo today. And so we want to

hear from all of you, 800-282-2882. Coming up, we'll talk about the California recall situation,

some words of wisdom from Larry Elder on that one, who is making Gavin Newsom sweat more than usual

about the possibility of losing his job, updates on the climate change in sanity from some of the

lips in the media. And of course, we have time a little more of the Fauciite madness getting debunked

and then your calls. But I want to tell you about this story. Trapped in Afghanistan, rescued by

volunteers, how a handful of Americans freed 5,000 Afghans from a lounge at the Willard Hotel in

Washington, a group of men and women mobilized a global network to conduct a two-week military

style rescue operation, which is known as the commercial task force. We have Zach Van Meter

with us right now, who is a member of that commercial task force and was heavily involved in

coordinating this. He dispatched former commandos to Kabul on this two-week operation. Zach,

thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me. Just how did this all come together? I mean,

give folks a sense of who you are and what the genesis of the task force was.

So I have no military background or intel or anything. Just in private equity, we looked at

defense, manufacturing, and in that business, you got to kind of hire the guys used to work in that

space. So back up a couple years ago, we met this gentleman named Sean, who's heavily featured in

the article. Sean called me one day and said, hey, you want to save 3,500 orphans. So of course,

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