CLAY: Buck and I are gonna be down in the state of Texas tomorrow. But we have been, both of us, a lot of time in the state of Florida. Ron DeSantis, obviously, running for reelection, and he was showing up for an event at USF, University of South Florida, down in the Tampa area, and there were kids waiting behind him who were wearing masks, and this is not even as the event is beginning. This is as Ron DeSantis is walking up off the mic, talking to the kids all with masks on behind him. Listen to this.

This is phenomenal. Ron Desantis tells USF kids they don’t have to wear their masks because they don’t do anything and it’s time to stop with all the political theater. pic.twitter.com/o8xGzyKXcV

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) March 2, 2022

BUCK: This is the exactly correct attitude to mask wearing now: “Take the dumb masks off.” Kids, adults, seniors, everybody, take ’em off. If you insist on wearing them, it’s one thing. Clay, we’re going down to Houston. You know, I’ve never been to Houston before.

CLAY: Great town. I think you’re gonna have a good time.

BUCK: Spent a lot of time in Dallas and when I tell Houstonians that, they’re like —

CLAY: There’s a big rivalry. Big rivalry between Houston and Dallas.

BUCK: “Why don’t you come to the best city in Texas instead of…?” and I’m like, “Look, I don’t even…” You know, I’ll see. We’ll see who has the best barbecue. We’ll see about this rodeo this weekend. So but, anyway, the reality here is you have people… I’m gonna be on a plane. You’re gonna be on a plane, too. We’re gonna be masking up on that plane.

CLAY: Unfortunately.

BUCK: Not a single person on the planet would win a debate with me or you about how stupid it is to mask up on planes. Not one. Because it is demonstrably idiotic.

CLAY: Well, I think it’s also demonstrably an incredibly difficult argument to even make if you watched the State of the Union last night. Even Democrats inside of an enclosed building — even old Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, who are by far under the greatest risk from covid — were not wearing masks. So how can you have watched last night’s State of the Union and in any way argue that you need to have a mask on for an airplane flight?

There’s no argument at all, and I wished that Joe Biden was going to make that announcement last night. If he had wanted to actually make news — he didn’t really make any news with any of the pronouncements from his State of the Union address — he could have said, “Hey, and I’m telling the CDC that it’s time to go do away with the mask mandate.” I don’t know, when is it up again, like March 15th or March 18th or something, I believe, if I’m not mistaken? I don’t know how they can justify extending it at this point in time when all 50 states — even Hawaii has now done away with their mask requirements to enter that island state.

BUCK: Masking is pure political tribalism at this point, folks, and hysteria based.