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Welcome to the third hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, everybody.

Thanks for being here.

Man, we are flying through all these topics today.

A lot to still discuss, though.

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It's open-line Friday.

We'll take some calls from you in the back part of this hour, for sure. And we also want to make sure you remember to subscribe to the podcast, the Clay and Buck podcast, Clay Travis and Buck's Exction Show, wherever you listen to podcasts. They put it up hour by hour. So if you miss the second hour, you want to hear it, it's right there for you. You miss a third hour, you know, you can do the rest and figure that one out. We all got it. All right. Our friend Alex Berenson about to join us, I want to say this comes from his substack. And I just want to read you a quote from one of his recent pieces of analysis here. In the United States, we do not force adults to take medicines or have medical procedures if they are psychiatrically competent.

We do not make them lose weight or stop drinking or exercise.

We do not make women have abortions or get pregnant.

Personal medical decision making is personal.

It does not belong to the state.

These COVID vaccine mandates and quasi-mandates are fast becoming the greatest infringement on liberty in the United

States since slavery was abolished, and I don't know what is going to stop them.

He's got a new book, Pandemia, which you can get now. Mr. Alex Berenson, good to have you back.

Good to talk to you, Buck. So let's just start with top, top level view of what you're seeing right now

as Biden and everyone's walking around on the Democrat side saying, hey, mandates work. Isn't that

great? Yeah, yeah, they work. If you force people to, you know, give up their jobs,

even in an economy as tight and, you know,

as this one, a lot of people have mortgages to pay and they have kids to worry about.

And they're not going to give up their jobs, even if they don't want to be vaccinated.

They will, they will take, you know, they will swallow hard and take the shot and hope

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