Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.

The Clay Travis and Box Sexton show.

Sitting in for Clay and Buck today, syndicated radio personality Michael Berry.

I want to I want you to cleanse your palate for a moment. I want to I want to discuss something else we'll get back to what we were just talking about but I want to make sure there's several things I want to discuss something else. We'll get back to what we were just talking about, but I want to make sure there's several things I wanted to get to today.

And this one is very important because it relates to an item that's been in the news.

And one of the biggest issues confronting the country

it eventually gets to illegal immigration but but hold on for a moment you

remember in early August there were some deadly wildfires that spread across part of Maui.

Now it's important to note not the rich part. I didn't realize how many celebrities had

homes in Maui and oddly enough their homes weren't the ones that burned. If they had, then we probably would have

had a national television program and we'd have had Lady Gaga and all these famous people and they would have told us how important this was

and we would have all emoted, we would have empathized, we would have connected because

oh my goodness this famous people had harm come to them, or at least one of their homes.

But that didn't happen.

On the northwest portion of Maui in a town called Lahaina or Lahaina, depending on who you ask,

2,200 buildings were destroyed.

That's 2200 structures.

Most of those were residential structures.

This was the poorer and the working class section of Maui because somebody has to clean the big mansions.

It was estimated that about six billion dollars of damage was done. The U.S. the Commerce Department went in later and

and ratcheted that down to about 5.5 billion dollars in damage to

Maui. Now when that happened there were lots of questions about people being

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