Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travison Bucks Xt and Show Podcast.

Welcome in. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. I am Clay Travison is Bucks

Xt and we are rolling with the Clay Travison Bucks Xt and Show on a great Wednesday in July.

As the battle lines are beginning to form the new mask mandate as it is rolling out in some

ways across the country, all of the conflict coming to a head I believe. And the conflict may be

the most pronounced in the state of Florida where Ron DeSantis has effectively laid the gauntlet down

and said Florida will not be acquiescing to mask mandates or any other restrictions on his state

while he is governor down there given all of the time that he has spent branding the state of Florida

as an oasis of freedom. And I want to play for you DeSantis. This is last week DeSantis standing up

against the idea of all of these restrictions which are coming down on all of us. Let's listen.

If anyone is calling for lockdowns, you're not getting that done in Florida. I'm going to protect

people's livelihoods. I'm going to protect kids right to go to school. I'm going to protect

people's rights to run their small businesses. We have a situation where we have three vaccines that

have been widely available for months and months now and people need to make decisions what's

best for them. But they have the government come in and lock anyone down or restrict anybody

is totally unacceptable. And it's easy for some physician to advocate that because it doesn't

affect them. It does affect the people in this state. So we're going to lift people up. We're not

locking people down and we're going to make sure that folks are able to exercise their decision

making that what's best for them. And I think millions of Floridians have obviously done that

for the last year and a half. And so we want to continue to support their efforts.

So Buck, the question here and I do think DeSantis is maybe going to lead the Republican

opposition at this point to the overreach that we're going to see from the Biden administration,

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