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

Welcome everybody. Third hour of play and buck kicks off right now.

And, uh, well, that's fascinating. I didn't, I didn't even know about this, but the, uh,

New York Times piece that I mentioned here, it's now the top,

it's the top story of the Fox News dot com website. Wow. So this really, I mean,

it was making noise last night on Twitter, people saying you gotta see this.

And, um, I read it. I said, yeah, this is, he understands the betrayal that the American people,

many of them feel by the elites who construct these systems and pass these laws and make these

economic policies. Anyway, it's, uh, this is quite a moment. It's rare for a columnist, the New York

Times to be the lead story on Fox News. We also have, uh, coming up here, a discussion of the,

the throwdown blue state red state, uh, California, Florida, Gavin Newsom, Governor Ron

DeSantis. I guess I should say Governor Gavin Newsom to be fair, uh, and Governor Ron DeSantis.

It looks like it's gonna happen. And I think that's a good thing. I think it's a good thing for, uh,

a number of reasons, which we shall be getting into. Um, but first up here, just some,

some updates, if you will, on the, uh, the Hunter Biden situation. And it's not even Hunter Biden,

the Biden crime family. We know that this was a family business. In fact, without Joe Biden,

there was no business. Uh, he was the, uh, what the sine qua non, right? Uh, without Joe Biden,

there's nothing without Joe Biden, no one's given Hunter all this money. And the Democrats have

lied and lied and lied about this. And finally, it's just too much. Finally, it really is impossible

for them to argue that it wasn't clearly unethical. And of course, they were misleading the American

people about this for a long time. But also, uh, people are wondering, right, what happened there

with the Hunter Biden plea agreement? Why did that go the way it went at the time? Well, because the

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