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

The second smallest audience to watch a state of the Union address in 30 years.

The only one that was smaller was Joe Biden's first address, which technically was right after he was coming into office when only 26.9 million people watched him speak then.

Just 27.3 million watched on Tuesday, meaning that regardless of what Joe Biden said, it was unlikely to be a persuasive speech.

But I think it's important to recognize two things.

One, Joe Biden is going to run in 2024 and two as cognitively impaired and likely to get far worse as Joe Biden is.

He's 80 now. He would be 82 for the election of a second term. And he would be 86 years old when he finishes the term completely.

And I was out last night with some friends in Phoenix. And one of those friends came up and he said, Clay, love the show. I always like to hear that.

And he said to somebody in the media business out also for the Super Bowl. He said, I just have one question for you. Can you please mention it on the radio tomorrow? Why do we not have upper and age limits for people to hold office?

We've had this conversation on the show before. And I do think it's a really fascinating one because if you think about it from a constitutional perspective, the reason why and his point was we have a lower let lower end age limit.

Right. You have to be 35 years old to be elected president in the United States. And you know, a lot of people out there right now, you don't really think about why the lower end age limits existed because 35 is young, but it's not insanely young. Right. And the stair step, House of Representatives, I believe is 26.

And then I think the Senate is 30 or whatever it is. And then obviously the presidency, you have to be 35 years old. And the answer there, historically, to a large degree, our founding fathers wanted to keep someone from having an elective office and being able to hand it off to someone so young that they were the default, even if they weren't in office continuation. Right.

You didn't want to end up with a situation where a president could serve for a couple of terms. And then the president could decide to make his 18 year old son, the president of the United States, where it's a default continuation of a presidency going on and forward. It was an idea to try, I think to combat combat,

Dynastic genealogy, which was one of the things that they were fighting against here in the United States compared to the legacy of European power. So that makes some sense. I also think there was this idea that by and large people didn't live that long in the 1700s.

So I think, and I know Benjamin Franklin was old during the constitutional convention and all of that and during the revolution, there certainly were elderly individuals, but a lot of the founding fathers were really pretty young when they were out battling for American independence in their 20s and their 30s, which is kind of crazy to think about.

And I don't believe many of them contemplated that we would be in a situation where an 85 year old guy would be the president of the United States, or frankly, we'd have a speaker of the house over 80. I mean, we really do have a very elderly ruling class. And I think that becomes important when you consider doesn't matter to Democrats.

They've made the calculated decision that Joe Biden is going to be their nominee in 2024 and it doesn't matter what his health condition is by and large. It doesn't matter how adult he is, how incapable of actually responding on his feet, how he can't make decisions that are important.

If there's not a long range precedent in play, such as what happened we just saw with the Chinese spy balloon. But if you were out there and you thought to yourself, Democrats are going to have one bit of an eye odour of caring about the cognitive abilities of the person who is our commander in chief, the person who is the ultimate decider.

If you thought that they were going to even for a moment, consider that it might be unacceptable to put somebody of Joe Biden's clear cognitive deficiencies in the Oval Office for another four years.

John Federman is now a senator from Pennsylvania. And this is not getting a lot of attention because it ties in with what Buck and I told you with what many of you out there knew what happened. I hope he's okay and I hope he gets out.

But John Federman is currently hospitalized with a health condition. They don't know exactly what it is. There was fear that he might have had another stroke. It does not appear that he's had a stroke.

But as anybody who watched this campaign in Pennsylvania, as anyone who watched the debate between Federman and Dr. Oz knew this man, John Federman was not capable of doing the job for which he was elected.

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