June 17, 2022 • 36 mins
Senator Marsha Blackburn joins C&B to discuss all the big issues. Clay pays tribute to his cousin, Steve, taken too soon. Buck's dad, Speed Sexton, joins us in-studio for Father's Day, and answers your questions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in the final hour of
the week Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Fourteen hours up, one
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anywhere there are podcasts available. Search out my name Clay Travis,
you can search out buck Sexton. Make sure you don't
miss a single moment. I know a lot of you
out there now that it's officially summer, going on vacation,
traveling around, chasing the kids from one sporting event to another,
and so you can listen to this podcast whenever you want.
We love all of our affiliates out there and all
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of you listening live and now joining us from I believe,
the great state of Tennessee. Although she may still be
in Washington, DC. Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Joe Biden's already
left the White House for the day. He's headed to
his beach house. He didn't get in until twelve thirty
on Monday, but I was kind of thinking, is it
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better for Joe Biden just not to be in the
White House at all, since everything he seems to be
doing is such a disaster. Everything they are doing makes
the line of Tennesseean's and the American people worse. And
when I talk with people here in Tennessee Clay, they
are saying, you know, I voted for Joe Biden, or
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I didn't support Joe Biden, but I thought he would
be a moderate. I didn't expect Bernie Sanders. And they're
just so frustrated because inflation, the price it's pumps a
price it's a grocery store, the open border, drugs on
the streets, crime in the communities, the list goes on
and on, and they're really frustrated with what is coming
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out of this administration. So maybe we just want to
see Joe go to the beach and stay there for
the rest of the summer and the Democrats not try
to pass one more bill because we're playing block and
tackle every single day. Or Blackburn, it's buck, thanks for
being with us. The latest that we saw was on
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the bill that's supposed to be bipartisan on gun control
gun restrictions that it's running into some problems now and
may not actually go through the Senate. You have you
any insight into that. You tell us more about that. Well,
they have a framework, they don't have legislative text, and
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there's a big difference. And I'm one that has said, look,
I will not vote for anything that is going to
infringe on any body Second Amendment rights. I am not
going to vote for anything that would give a platform
that the federal government could establish some kind of national
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gun registry. And do we need to harden schools? Yes.
Four months I've been recommending that we use the one
hundred billion dollars left over from COVID in the Elementary
and Secondary Schools Fund so that schools can apply technology
harden those schools. Also, for years, I have been recommending
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that we work with retired law enforcement and veterans and
deputize them so they can take a shift and be
the officer on duty at every school, with schools having
one one point of entry into those schools. Those are
common sense things that could be done. But you know,
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when you leave it to the left, they don't want
to do that. They want to have red flag laws
that they are going to say they can incent the states.
But then it turns out to being a mandate and
its coercive behavior on behalf of the federal government. So
for me, that is not something I'm going to support.
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Center Blackburn you know this. I mean my kids live
in Williamson County, just outside of Nashville, and what you
just referenced, they go to public school. We have a
security police officer there that they love, Officer Show, who's
been inside their school for years. Kids all of her
and they have one entry point and I don't understand
why that's remotely controversial. I also want to thank you
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this absurd wokeification that's going on with our military where
we spend more time talking about diversity and inclusion than
we do kicking people's ass, and you've got a policy
in place that you're working on to try to dewokeify
our military. What would that entail? Yes, I actually have
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two different bills. I had offered these in our Defense
Authorization Act markup that we had and Clay, what this
would do is, I think the military should be focused
on our adversaries and on fighting and winning wars. We
know that the new access of evil is communist China,
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Ron and North Korea. They don't give a rippen flip
about how woke the US military is, but the American
people care desperately about defeating our enemies and our adversaries.
That is what the focus of the military should be, readiness, training,
preparation to fight and to win. And the second provision
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that I have offered in and working on is to
protect the children of military members when they are in
our DoD schools on military basis. It had come to
my attention that we had some teachers who were trying
to work with the student to hide the student wanting
to do gender fluidity or gender transition or have psychological care.
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The parents do not need to be kept in the
dark on this, and we do not need teachers on
our military basis encouraging children not to talk to their
parents and to hide things from them. And I found
out through this process, if there was not a DoD policy,
that parents needed to have the right to be involved
in these decisions. So I tried to push that forward,
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and we're yet to get bipartisan agreement on that one.
Speaking of Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Senator, if you
are in the majority come next year, which Clay and
I and certainly the audience are hoping is going to
be the case. What are some of the things that
you and your Senate colleagues in the Republic. Again, assuming
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a Republican majority would plan to do, Biden would still
be president, so that creates some roadblocks. But what would
you like to see happen? We need to get the
country on the right track, and starting with that are
two things we need to do. Address the cost of
the pump, which means restarting the Keystone Pipeline, opening up
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Alaska offshore drilling, go back to fracking, and it's going
to mean that a Republican Ledhouse and Senate is going
to have to takes us up and push it forward
and to override Joe Biden and the leftist opinion on
this issue. The second thing is getting government spending under control.
And as y'all know, and as you've talked about, the
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two things, inflation, the prices upon the grocery store and
government spending have been the two drivers on this out
of control inflation rates that we're seeing. So we need
to freeze government spending. We need to freeze government hiring.
We need to freeze escalation rates in salaries of government employees.
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And then we need to require a supermajority to pass
any spending bill during times of high inflation. And that
is the legislation I've had now this is the second
year I've had it. When inflation is high, we ought
not to have these bills flying through Congress. Just look
at what the Biden administration has done. You've got six
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point eight trillion that was spent on COVID, and then
you had another two trillions and one point nine trillion
in infrastructure, and now for his billback, Brokagen to Biden
launch another two trillion dollars in The economists are saying,
stop spending government money. So let's be smart about this.
Let's stop it. Sendor Blackburn, you also have gone aggressively
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after the threats that have been put forward against Supreme
Court justices. The left wants to pretend that a crazy
lunatic didn't show up at Justice Kavanaugh's house trying to
assassinate him. It took forever for the House to actually
pass a bill to provide protection. I know the Senate
acted much faster on that, But to your point, what
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in the world is going on with this lack of
protection for Supreme Court justices? What should happen in your mind.
I know you've been pretty outspoken and active about this.
When it comes to our justices and their families, they
need to have round the clock protection. That is the
bill we moved out of the Senate, and then Pelosi
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sat on it for a month, and then you had
the squad and the leftists in the House vote against it.
But they are in mind, every lasting one of them.
Every one of them voted for extra protection for themselves
after January sixth, So they want to protect themselves, but
they don't want to protect the justices and the justice's families.
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The other thing is these protesters that are out in
front disturbing the peace, messing up the neighborhoods where these
justices live or where they go to church. They should
be marched down the city Hall and they should be
booked on violation of eighteen USC. One five h seven,
because it is illegal to go out and protest at
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a judge's home and try to influence a sederal judge
on the outcome of a decision. It is an illegal act.
So I think that d OJ and FBI need to
get out here and they need to do their job,
and they need to make certain that they are very
carefully what is happening with these protests in these communities,
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because many of these protesters, in these groups that are
sponsoring the protest is y'all know, they have been saying,
you're going to have a summer of rage if we
don't get the opinion we want from the Supreme Court.
That is illegal. Chuck Schumer ought to go out here
and he ought to apologize to Gorsitch in kavanaf for
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calling him out on the steps of the Supreme Court
some months ago and saying you have unleashed the whirlwind.
That is inappropriate. He should be out there apologizing. We
need to protect the court. We need to protect the
justices on the court. Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee Senator,
always appreciate you coming by. You got it, Take care
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you hanging out with us. We're about to be joined
by Buck's dad. It is Father's Day weekend. I hope
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all the Dad's out there, are having a fantastic early
start to your weekend. I've got three boys of my own.
I cannot wait to hang out with them during the
course of this weekend. My dad was scheduled to be
on with us, but yesterday I just want to kind
of fill you guys in. Yesterday, near the end of
(12:45):
the show, I got some awful news. My first cousin,
Steve Travis, he's sixty two years old, died unexpectedly yesterday.
It's my dad's nephew. He is incredibly broken up about it.
He didn't feel like he could come on and talk
about Father's Day because of this death we just had
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in the family. But I just wanted to tell you
a little bit about Steve here as we roll in.
He's a father himself. His daughter Jennifer, is absolutely fantastic,
and he is a thirty plus year listener of the
Rush Limbaugh Show. He was a huge fan of Rush
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and when I got the offer from Julie Talbot, who
was Bucking Eyes boss and she's fantastic to come and
be able to take over this show. I only called
a couple of people to ask them about it, and
Steve was one of them because he was such a
diehard Rush Limbaugh fan. And it's been really fun the
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last year because he listened every day and he would
text during segments and share his opinions and thoughts as
someone who had been listening to this show for a
really long time. And yesterday he was had been in
perfect health. He was outside early in the morning working
in his yard, like I said, sixty two years old,
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had just recently been to the doctor, gotten a clean
bill of health, and he just collapsed and died. And
so my family is still stunned. We'd asked for your prayer,
certainly for Steve's close family, his daughter and his wife,
but my dad, who is again it's his nephew and
they kind of grew up together. He was just so
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broken up over this that he didn't think he could
come on and talk about Father's Day. So what I
would just say to everybody out there is, you know,
if you've got a dad, hug him grandpa. If sometimes
you know, families don't get along, none of us are
guaranteed anything at all, right, And so I would just say,
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you know, as all of us are celebrating Father's Day,
I know Mother's Day just happened. If you got people
in your family that you care about, don't ever neglect
telling them how much you care. And I know that
things can be controversial and difficult on a day to
day basis. Certainly no family is perfect, but I do
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think on times like these, and everybody has unexpected awful
things that happen in their family that none of us
can control. But I do think that I would just
want to say to everybody out there. First of all,
you know, Steve was an incredible long time Russia Limbaugh listener,
and I am honored to have known him, and he
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is one of you to his core and to his soul,
and he's a big reason why you're listening to me
talk on this show right now. And for everybody out
there who is who is certainly getting ready for Father's Day,
just take the time to tell the people in your
life that you love them, because none of us are
guaranteed any day, any hour, and things can happen at
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any point. We're going to be joined by Buck's dad,
who is phenomenal. I don't want to make the whole show,
certainly any kind of down, or we're gonna have a
lot of fun To close, out this Friday edition. But
I just wanted to mention why my own dad was
not going to be on. He didn't think he could
make it through segments talking about Father's Day after what
happened yesterday in our family. So Buck, look, you know this,
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and everybody else out there knows. You never know when
something tragic might happen in your life, and so we
love spending time with all of you. We know that
your families are incredibly important. And I would just say,
as we head into the final thirty minutes of the
show Father's Day weekend, if you get the opportunity, got
a loved one out there, maybe haven't talked to him
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in a while, take the opportunity to reach out and
try to make sure that you don't take anything for
granted when it comes to the important relationships in your life,
your family, your friends, everything else. A lot of thoughts
and prayers for you and yours, Clay, and we will
obviously have to have your dad on another yea, he
will want to meet Papa TRAVI will he will one
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come on, he just I really he is an incredibly
emotional guy. He would have broken down thirty seconds into
the Father's Day discussion, and we weren't that confident to
be honest in his cell phone, as I've said for
a while, So I'll bring him into the Nashville studio.
That'll be He's excited to meet you, and he loves Obviously,
my dad listens to the show every single day, so
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he wants to come on. Our moms were on, my
dad will be on at some point. But coming up
next we are going to be joined by Buck's dad
here in the New York City studio. It's gonna be
a lot of fun in honor of Father's Day. Is
it a fun hour? People ask me this, and I'm
sure to ask you this too, like do your parents listen?
And I almost do they listen? They listen every day? Yeah, yeah,
your mom was saying last night we were meeting, and
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my mom listens to every minute. She just texted me
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my sister for a while, and she said, hey, we've
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clay In Buck Show and some special Father's day Time
here on the air Underway joined by my Dad, Mason,
Speed Sex at in Studio and here with Clay Clays
of course a dad in his own right. Dad, how
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you doing well? Its needless to say, a great honor
to be here with two of the obviously most talented
and hardest working men in media. And um, it's sort
of the culmination of a dream to be here. Buck,
We've got We've got a well trede. He's already saying
nice things about it. I've always known I loved your dad.
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I got to meet you guys last night, you and
your wife and at our one year anniversary party. So
I'm curious. You've got four kids, that's correct. What is
your favorite thing about Father's Day? Is there anything that
is a tradition in the Sexton household or family that
has has built up over the years. Well, you know
you we were just talking about your dad getting emotional.
(19:52):
I'm going to get emotional now. Um. No, We're just
a very close family. Yeah, and got three sons and
a daughter, right, we love being together. There was actually
a question here that was sent in from a caller
asking about what get into all that. I understand, but
I you know it don't mean to preempted, but to
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say that asking what did I like to do with you, Buck,
and and really, you know what, our favorite thing is
just to hang out. We have a big terrace in
our apartment fortunately, and and we love just to hang
out together, have dinner together, yep, and and talk you know,
politics going in people's lives. And that's it. We just
we love being together. That's pretty much it. What age
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I'm curious because I've got a fourteen and eleven and
a seven year old. I've got three boys. You now
our grandfather as well, so congratulations on that. But as
a dad, what ages did you like Buck and his
brothers and his sister? What age range did you find
to be the most fun as a parent? Was there
one era that stands out? Boy, that's an interesting question.
I think it was different for each child. You know,
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be honest with you. You know it all it all
passes so quickly, and I don't remember a bad time.
It all seems like it was all, you know, pretty special,
and I felt really blessed to have such outstanding children.
That's that's really the truth. So we got some VIP emails.
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We've also got some calls Dad from people that want
to speak to you. And again, we were gonna have
Clay's dad but we're have Clay's dad on a future show.
Um Alfie in New York City said, Buck and Clay
display real leadership qualities. I love that our team. Yeah, look,
everybody's fantastic, how everybody loves us. But Buck and Clay
display real leadership qualities. I'm wondering if they were naturally
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liked that as kids. For example, were they class president,
heads of any clubs at school, capital of a sports team,
or in the cub Scouts. Of Clay, we just said,
were you president? I was your president of the school.
You are too right. We're both presidents of the student
body at our respective schools. So I guess that's a
good sign. Yeah, I mean I think that, you know,
to some degree, says at all Buck, uh, you know
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started out. I think he's told the story of his
speech impediment and how that you know, held him back
in in early school, first and second grade, and then
he he got you know, we got him to a
speech pathologist who really helped him, and by the third
or fourth grade he was the top student in his class.
And from then on, you know, he really was, you know,
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sort of a leader of his peer group going forward.
From then on, I mean right through high school, uh
to a lesser degree in college only because uh, perhaps
of the vagaries of Amherst. He knows, he knows that
you know, I got I got picketed. Dad knows this story.
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For a Sanco de Mayo party, I mean there was
actual yeah, yeah, and and it was everyone just came
down on the buckster because like I like to throw
a party and have a good time, calling my mom
and dad. I'm like, everyone's coming down on me. The
good news was that there was so there was a
flyer that was made, and the flyer was considered offensive. Offensive,
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and there was a lot of cultural appropriation going on.
I was just in charge of booze procuring. I was
not involved tequila and and fortunately the young woman who
was my classmate who made the offensive flyer was a
female from South Asia and therefore they were far less
inclined to kick her out of school than a white guy.
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I had to have meetings with all the diversity counselors.
I had threats of picketing. They said they were going
to call the police on us for the school said
they would call actual police on us for underage drinking.
And so we had to just like beg forgiveness and
drink our tequila behind closed doors. That is an amazing story.
By the next one. By the way, Yeah, Gabby in Beacon,
New York says, uh, we I mentioned that we met
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last night, and Buck's mom has already been on. Uh.
I know, miss Sexton was an actress. Question here from
Gabby were you ever a hair model? Because you still
have a heck of a head of hair on you
your son. O. This is Gabby and Beacon, New York.
I'm reading directly. This is her question, not mine. Gabby anyway,
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h No, I your dad. I mean you just you
were you were a stockbroker, right, You just went to
your fiftieth and right reunion business school reunion, just got
back from it. Yeah, it was quite an experience, I'll
be honest with you. For a lot of reasons, I
don't want to go on a huge tangent, but basically,
they're about of of my class of seventy five that
started in the class of nineteen seventy two, uh twenty
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percent of past and and that's a very sobering reality.
And then of the remaining uh sixty or so in
that are still alive, about twenty one or twenty two
showed up for the reunion with their significant others, wives
and so on, and it was in many ways the
best reunion by far, because all the competition that you
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usually you know when you show up at your tenth
or your twentieth, uh, those that was all gone. It's
all about you know, your health, your grandchildren, your family,
and there was a real sense of camaraderie and love
and special you know, affection within the group. And I
thought that was that was really something I didn't really anticipate,
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but I found, you know, really really rewards. Remember how
much at Harvard Business School costs when you went there,
Well it was funny because when I started it was
thirty five hundred dollars, that's right. But the funny part
about it was that there was actually a protest with
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signs and you know everything else. Uh when they raised
a tuition to five thousand dollars of my second year,
So you can imagine Harvard Business School students protesting. And
we were just speaking about the campus radicalism thing that
I you know that I doubt, which was just people.
It was like the movie PCU for our listeners, which
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if you have not seen you absolutely would have fun
watching You guys have all seen PCU right politically correct university.
You haven't unacceptable. It's even more timely, I would say
now than ever it was. But you were at Columbia
when the students seized the building broke right, t tell
us about this was crazy. Well again I was. I
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graduated from Columbia nineteen sixty nine. But in nineteen sixty eight,
my junior year, the students for a Democratic Society, a
young man named Mark Rudd, some of you remember, literally
shut the university down completely and radicalized, you know, all
the students that remained on campus, and they were really
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far left radicals, I mean in the mathematics building, you know,
you had you know, real Marxists, wanted to literally burn
the university down. So after about two weeks of shutting
down the university, finally I think it was Grayson Kirk,
who was the president, called in the New York Police Department,
and that was an incredible experience. I happened to work
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at the time for Whitney north Seymour junior, who was
became the Southern District Attorney. Uh And anyway, real real
quickly I got word that the police were coming in
at two a m. That night, And so I had
a friend who had a an apartment on the fourth
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floor at one hundred and sixteenth Street and Amsterdam, so
I could watch the main gate and these that they
call them the Tactical Police Force. They're all on these
big horses and they're all you know, got helm right,
the whole thing. Anyway, it was, it was a real war.
Three people died during that. Wow, taking saw you saw
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actual violence from the commuty, the batons, the whole thing.
Oh yeah, No, I saw somebody jump from one of
the buildings onto the back of a policeman, broke his
back and he subsequently died in the hospital. So does
nineteen sixty eight, by the way, remind you now the
world that we're in now, Does that does that congruency
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historically resonate for you or are they totally different in
your mind? Well, I think they're certainly parallels. Um. You know,
clearly we have a very far left, radicalized Democratic Party
now that is prone to violence and is using you know,
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obviously Antifa and these other sort of you know, auxiliary
movements to enforce whatever ideas they're trying to enforce and
intimidate people. Um, so yeah, I look, I what what
people don't understand is how close we are always to
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civil unrest. You know, it doesn't take much. You know,
a crowd of two or three hundred people that is
willing to go to jail or will willing to you know,
break and burn. It can be a formidable force. See,
we got, we got, we got anti communists here in
New York City, Claisna. We're gonna bring you back to
close it out and honor a father's day. And I
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want to ask you a question here in a minute
when we come back, now that you're a grandfather, is
being a grandfather? I know it's Father's Day coming up.
I'll let you answer when we come back out of
this next break, But as being a grandfather more fun
than being a father, think about it. We'll get your answer.
I know there's a lot of people out there that
have gotten to experience both. And I'm curious the difference.
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show some Father's Day fun to kick you off for
the Father's Day weekend with my dad here. Mason speed
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Sexton a very cool name. I was in fact with
him in a car when maybe we were going a
little fast and the police officer pulled them over and said,
your literally your middle name is literally speak. He thought
that was funny. I don't know if we got a
warning or a ticket. I was a kid, but that
did actually happen, Um, dad, we got we got all
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kinds of questions coming from people all over the country. Um,
let first hold on, I'm sorry, there's lots of dads.
There's lots of granddads out there listening right now. How
would you describe being both? Which do you like more? Well?
I like both, to be honest you, I'm so blessed
to have an amazing little grandson. His name is Ryan
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Mason Kumar and we call him Ray Ray the rock Star.
And uh, he's twenty months and has completely changed my life. Um,
you know, my perspective has gone from you know, just
worrying about retirement and health and those issues, and now
it's really a focus on I want to make sure
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he has every opportunity that I can possibly vide him,
including with his parents of course, and um, you know,
just watching him grow up and spending time with him
is incredibly special. And you know, in some ways it's
better because I don't have the direct responsibility, but in
other ways, uh, you know, there's nothing like you know,
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having having your own children, you know, and being a
hopefully a model of behavior. You guys are kind of
similar because you had the four of us dad by
the time when Doy you had us four when you
were what mid mid thirties, right thirty. I'm married your
mother when I was thirty and she was twenty, and
then by about forty three forty four, I think I
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had four children, because Clay got married at twenty five.
He's got three kids. He's forty three. Yeah, I had
twenty eight, twenty eight years old as when I had
my first. So I've got a fourteen year old, the
eleven year old in the seven year old. Busy stuff.
We got Barney from Potkeepsie. He's actually got a question.
He called it on the lines. We had the Father's
Day line. Let's play missus Barney from the Kipsie. I
just wanted to know from Buck's dad, what were his
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thoughts when Bucks joined the CIA. Well, that's a great question,
and obviously you have remember the time that he joined
the CI. It was after nine to eleven, and he
joined it to his credit as a you know, I
think a show of patriotism and concern for his country.
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He had been studying Middle Eastern affairs and had some
knowledge of Arabic, so he was in some ways an
ideal candidate for the CIA. But you know when he
went away and said, Dad, I can't tell you where
we're going. It's top secret that that's a concern. And
when we found out, you know that it was we
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obviously suspected it was Iraq and ultimately Afghanistan. I will
tell a quick story. There was an article in the
New York Times about the fact that five senior Al
Qaeda leaders had been liquidated in Moselle Um Mosel. I'm sorry,
and I had just had a feeling that Buck was involved,
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and as it turned out, he can neither confirm nor deny,
but out show up here now is Dad spilled some
but some friends who were very badass door kicker folks,
I might have tried to help point them in the
general vicinity. Um anyway, So we were incredibly proud, of
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course for buck service, and still are. Yeah, we we
have Thelma from Thelma from Seattle, and I don't want
to have Clay has got to throw a sports question
because just the sex he raised. He used to take me.
He took me to Giants games, took me to Knicks games,
you know, because I think this audience thinks like I
played the sports, I saw the sports. I still like
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to play the sports. I'm just not I don't really
watch the professional leagues very much. Anyway. We'll get to
that a second. This is Thelma from Seattle. Let's play it.
This is Thelma from Seattle. I was just curious. The
Sexton family has some interesting names, Speed Buck, What are
the origins? Well, the Speed family. Excuse me, the Speed
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is a family name. It was my mother's maiden name.
The Speed family I was just telling Clay here because
he's from Nashville, is a prominent family in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Speed Museum is an internationally well known museum, Speed Institute.
And then of course Farmington, which is the family home,
which was designed by Jefferson, is a National Historic Landmark.
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So the Speed name in Louisville in particular is a
you know, it's a historically important name. The if you Go,
if you Go back ultimately to John Speed was a
cartographer to Queen Elizabeth, the real Queen Elizabeth, and then
Joshua's Speed was Link and his best friend and advisor
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during his entire uh political career, and then ultimately James Speed.
His brother was the second attorney general in the or
It was his attorney general in his second term. So um,
that tells you a little bit of the Speed name.
Your favorite team in the world of sports is Gosh,
(36:22):
it has been the It has been the Giants. But
I gotta tell you, I think the Jets are are
going to be ascendant this year. Oh really yeah, I'm
very very positive on Silah and the Jets. Here we
go OutKick news story right here. Speed Sexton calls the
Jets big in the next season. Jets love you. Happy
Father's Day, you Buck. Happy Father's Day to all the
dad's out the play. Happy Father's Day to you all
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Rock Thanks for hanging with us.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in the final hour of
the week Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We appreciate all
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We love all of our affiliates out there and all
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of you listening live and now joining us from I believe,
the great state of Tennessee. Although she may still be
in Washington, DC. Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Joe Biden's already
left the White House for the day. He's headed to
his beach house. He didn't get in until twelve thirty
on Monday, but I was kind of thinking, is it
(01:03):
better for Joe Biden just not to be in the
White House at all, since everything he seems to be
doing is such a disaster. Everything they are doing makes
the line of Tennesseean's and the American people worse. And
when I talk with people here in Tennessee Clay, they
are saying, you know, I voted for Joe Biden, or
(01:23):
I didn't support Joe Biden, but I thought he would
be a moderate. I didn't expect Bernie Sanders. And they're
just so frustrated because inflation, the price it's pumps a
price it's a grocery store, the open border, drugs on
the streets, crime in the communities, the list goes on
and on, and they're really frustrated with what is coming
(01:44):
out of this administration. So maybe we just want to
see Joe go to the beach and stay there for
the rest of the summer and the Democrats not try
to pass one more bill because we're playing block and
tackle every single day. Or Blackburn, it's buck, thanks for
being with us. The latest that we saw was on
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the bill that's supposed to be bipartisan on gun control
gun restrictions that it's running into some problems now and
may not actually go through the Senate. You have you
any insight into that. You tell us more about that. Well,
they have a framework, they don't have legislative text, and
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there's a big difference. And I'm one that has said, look,
I will not vote for anything that is going to
infringe on any body Second Amendment rights. I am not
going to vote for anything that would give a platform
that the federal government could establish some kind of national
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gun registry. And do we need to harden schools? Yes.
Four months I've been recommending that we use the one
hundred billion dollars left over from COVID in the Elementary
and Secondary Schools Fund so that schools can apply technology
harden those schools. Also, for years, I have been recommending
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that we work with retired law enforcement and veterans and
deputize them so they can take a shift and be
the officer on duty at every school, with schools having
one one point of entry into those schools. Those are
common sense things that could be done. But you know,
(03:33):
when you leave it to the left, they don't want
to do that. They want to have red flag laws
that they are going to say they can incent the states.
But then it turns out to being a mandate and
its coercive behavior on behalf of the federal government. So
for me, that is not something I'm going to support.
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Center Blackburn you know this. I mean my kids live
in Williamson County, just outside of Nashville, and what you
just referenced, they go to public school. We have a
security police officer there that they love, Officer Show, who's
been inside their school for years. Kids all of her
and they have one entry point and I don't understand
why that's remotely controversial. I also want to thank you
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this absurd wokeification that's going on with our military where
we spend more time talking about diversity and inclusion than
we do kicking people's ass, and you've got a policy
in place that you're working on to try to dewokeify
our military. What would that entail? Yes, I actually have
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two different bills. I had offered these in our Defense
Authorization Act markup that we had and Clay, what this
would do is, I think the military should be focused
on our adversaries and on fighting and winning wars. We
know that the new access of evil is communist China,
(05:00):
Ron and North Korea. They don't give a rippen flip
about how woke the US military is, but the American
people care desperately about defeating our enemies and our adversaries.
That is what the focus of the military should be, readiness, training,
preparation to fight and to win. And the second provision
(05:23):
that I have offered in and working on is to
protect the children of military members when they are in
our DoD schools on military basis. It had come to
my attention that we had some teachers who were trying
to work with the student to hide the student wanting
to do gender fluidity or gender transition or have psychological care.
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The parents do not need to be kept in the
dark on this, and we do not need teachers on
our military basis encouraging children not to talk to their
parents and to hide things from them. And I found
out through this process, if there was not a DoD policy,
that parents needed to have the right to be involved
in these decisions. So I tried to push that forward,
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and we're yet to get bipartisan agreement on that one.
Speaking of Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Senator, if you
are in the majority come next year, which Clay and
I and certainly the audience are hoping is going to
be the case. What are some of the things that
you and your Senate colleagues in the Republic. Again, assuming
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a Republican majority would plan to do, Biden would still
be president, so that creates some roadblocks. But what would
you like to see happen? We need to get the
country on the right track, and starting with that are
two things we need to do. Address the cost of
the pump, which means restarting the Keystone Pipeline, opening up
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Alaska offshore drilling, go back to fracking, and it's going
to mean that a Republican Ledhouse and Senate is going
to have to takes us up and push it forward
and to override Joe Biden and the leftist opinion on
this issue. The second thing is getting government spending under control.
And as y'all know, and as you've talked about, the
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two things, inflation, the prices upon the grocery store and
government spending have been the two drivers on this out
of control inflation rates that we're seeing. So we need
to freeze government spending. We need to freeze government hiring.
We need to freeze escalation rates in salaries of government employees.
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And then we need to require a supermajority to pass
any spending bill during times of high inflation. And that
is the legislation I've had now this is the second
year I've had it. When inflation is high, we ought
not to have these bills flying through Congress. Just look
at what the Biden administration has done. You've got six
(07:56):
point eight trillion that was spent on COVID, and then
you had another two trillions and one point nine trillion
in infrastructure, and now for his billback, Brokagen to Biden
launch another two trillion dollars in The economists are saying,
stop spending government money. So let's be smart about this.
Let's stop it. Sendor Blackburn, you also have gone aggressively
(08:19):
after the threats that have been put forward against Supreme
Court justices. The left wants to pretend that a crazy
lunatic didn't show up at Justice Kavanaugh's house trying to
assassinate him. It took forever for the House to actually
pass a bill to provide protection. I know the Senate
acted much faster on that, But to your point, what
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in the world is going on with this lack of
protection for Supreme Court justices? What should happen in your mind.
I know you've been pretty outspoken and active about this.
When it comes to our justices and their families, they
need to have round the clock protection. That is the
bill we moved out of the Senate, and then Pelosi
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sat on it for a month, and then you had
the squad and the leftists in the House vote against it.
But they are in mind, every lasting one of them.
Every one of them voted for extra protection for themselves
after January sixth, So they want to protect themselves, but
they don't want to protect the justices and the justice's families.
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The other thing is these protesters that are out in
front disturbing the peace, messing up the neighborhoods where these
justices live or where they go to church. They should
be marched down the city Hall and they should be
booked on violation of eighteen USC. One five h seven,
because it is illegal to go out and protest at
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a judge's home and try to influence a sederal judge
on the outcome of a decision. It is an illegal act.
So I think that d OJ and FBI need to
get out here and they need to do their job,
and they need to make certain that they are very
carefully what is happening with these protests in these communities,
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because many of these protesters, in these groups that are
sponsoring the protest is y'all know, they have been saying,
you're going to have a summer of rage if we
don't get the opinion we want from the Supreme Court.
That is illegal. Chuck Schumer ought to go out here
and he ought to apologize to Gorsitch in kavanaf for
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calling him out on the steps of the Supreme Court
some months ago and saying you have unleashed the whirlwind.
That is inappropriate. He should be out there apologizing. We
need to protect the court. We need to protect the
justices on the court. Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee Senator,
always appreciate you coming by. You got it, Take care
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you hanging out with us. We're about to be joined
by Buck's dad. It is Father's Day weekend. I hope
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all the Dad's out there, are having a fantastic early
start to your weekend. I've got three boys of my own.
I cannot wait to hang out with them during the
course of this weekend. My dad was scheduled to be
on with us, but yesterday I just want to kind
of fill you guys in. Yesterday, near the end of
(12:45):
the show, I got some awful news. My first cousin,
Steve Travis, he's sixty two years old, died unexpectedly yesterday.
It's my dad's nephew. He is incredibly broken up about it.
He didn't feel like he could come on and talk
about Father's Day because of this death we just had
(13:05):
in the family. But I just wanted to tell you
a little bit about Steve here as we roll in.
He's a father himself. His daughter Jennifer, is absolutely fantastic,
and he is a thirty plus year listener of the
Rush Limbaugh Show. He was a huge fan of Rush
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and when I got the offer from Julie Talbot, who
was Bucking Eyes boss and she's fantastic to come and
be able to take over this show. I only called
a couple of people to ask them about it, and
Steve was one of them because he was such a
diehard Rush Limbaugh fan. And it's been really fun the
(13:46):
last year because he listened every day and he would
text during segments and share his opinions and thoughts as
someone who had been listening to this show for a
really long time. And yesterday he was had been in
perfect health. He was outside early in the morning working
in his yard, like I said, sixty two years old,
(14:07):
had just recently been to the doctor, gotten a clean
bill of health, and he just collapsed and died. And
so my family is still stunned. We'd asked for your prayer,
certainly for Steve's close family, his daughter and his wife,
but my dad, who is again it's his nephew and
they kind of grew up together. He was just so
(14:28):
broken up over this that he didn't think he could
come on and talk about Father's Day. So what I
would just say to everybody out there is, you know,
if you've got a dad, hug him grandpa. If sometimes
you know, families don't get along, none of us are
guaranteed anything at all, right, And so I would just say,
(14:53):
you know, as all of us are celebrating Father's Day,
I know Mother's Day just happened. If you got people
in your family that you care about, don't ever neglect
telling them how much you care. And I know that
things can be controversial and difficult on a day to
day basis. Certainly no family is perfect, but I do
(15:15):
think on times like these, and everybody has unexpected awful
things that happen in their family that none of us
can control. But I do think that I would just
want to say to everybody out there. First of all,
you know, Steve was an incredible long time Russia Limbaugh listener,
and I am honored to have known him, and he
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is one of you to his core and to his soul,
and he's a big reason why you're listening to me
talk on this show right now. And for everybody out
there who is who is certainly getting ready for Father's Day,
just take the time to tell the people in your
life that you love them, because none of us are
guaranteed any day, any hour, and things can happen at
(15:58):
any point. We're going to be joined by Buck's dad,
who is phenomenal. I don't want to make the whole show,
certainly any kind of down, or we're gonna have a
lot of fun To close, out this Friday edition. But
I just wanted to mention why my own dad was
not going to be on. He didn't think he could
make it through segments talking about Father's Day after what
happened yesterday in our family. So Buck, look, you know this,
(16:19):
and everybody else out there knows. You never know when
something tragic might happen in your life, and so we
love spending time with all of you. We know that
your families are incredibly important. And I would just say,
as we head into the final thirty minutes of the
show Father's Day weekend, if you get the opportunity, got
a loved one out there, maybe haven't talked to him
(16:39):
in a while, take the opportunity to reach out and
try to make sure that you don't take anything for
granted when it comes to the important relationships in your life,
your family, your friends, everything else. A lot of thoughts
and prayers for you and yours, Clay, and we will
obviously have to have your dad on another yea, he
will want to meet Papa TRAVI will he will one
(17:01):
come on, he just I really he is an incredibly
emotional guy. He would have broken down thirty seconds into
the Father's Day discussion, and we weren't that confident to
be honest in his cell phone, as I've said for
a while, So I'll bring him into the Nashville studio.
That'll be He's excited to meet you, and he loves Obviously,
my dad listens to the show every single day, so
(17:23):
he wants to come on. Our moms were on, my
dad will be on at some point. But coming up
next we are going to be joined by Buck's dad
here in the New York City studio. It's gonna be
a lot of fun in honor of Father's Day. Is
it a fun hour? People ask me this, and I'm
sure to ask you this too, like do your parents listen?
And I almost do they listen? They listen every day? Yeah, yeah,
your mom was saying last night we were meeting, and
(17:43):
my mom listens to every minute. She just texted me
she's driving back from Florida, where she's been down with
my sister for a while, and she said, hey, we've
been able to pick you up for the first two hours,
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clay In Buck Show and some special Father's day Time
here on the air Underway joined by my Dad, Mason,
Speed Sex at in Studio and here with Clay Clays
of course a dad in his own right. Dad, how
(19:09):
you doing well? Its needless to say, a great honor
to be here with two of the obviously most talented
and hardest working men in media. And um, it's sort
of the culmination of a dream to be here. Buck,
We've got We've got a well trede. He's already saying
nice things about it. I've always known I loved your dad.
(19:31):
I got to meet you guys last night, you and
your wife and at our one year anniversary party. So
I'm curious. You've got four kids, that's correct. What is
your favorite thing about Father's Day? Is there anything that
is a tradition in the Sexton household or family that
has has built up over the years. Well, you know
you we were just talking about your dad getting emotional.
(19:52):
I'm going to get emotional now. Um. No, We're just
a very close family. Yeah, and got three sons and
a daughter, right, we love being together. There was actually
a question here that was sent in from a caller
asking about what get into all that. I understand, but
I you know it don't mean to preempted, but to
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say that asking what did I like to do with you, Buck,
and and really, you know what, our favorite thing is
just to hang out. We have a big terrace in
our apartment fortunately, and and we love just to hang
out together, have dinner together, yep, and and talk you know,
politics going in people's lives. And that's it. We just
we love being together. That's pretty much it. What age
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I'm curious because I've got a fourteen and eleven and
a seven year old. I've got three boys. You now
our grandfather as well, so congratulations on that. But as
a dad, what ages did you like Buck and his
brothers and his sister? What age range did you find
to be the most fun as a parent? Was there
one era that stands out? Boy, that's an interesting question.
I think it was different for each child. You know,
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be honest with you. You know it all it all
passes so quickly, and I don't remember a bad time.
It all seems like it was all, you know, pretty special,
and I felt really blessed to have such outstanding children.
That's that's really the truth. So we got some VIP emails.
(21:22):
We've also got some calls Dad from people that want
to speak to you. And again, we were gonna have
Clay's dad but we're have Clay's dad on a future show.
Um Alfie in New York City said, Buck and Clay
display real leadership qualities. I love that our team. Yeah, look,
everybody's fantastic, how everybody loves us. But Buck and Clay
display real leadership qualities. I'm wondering if they were naturally
(21:44):
liked that as kids. For example, were they class president,
heads of any clubs at school, capital of a sports team,
or in the cub Scouts. Of Clay, we just said,
were you president? I was your president of the school.
You are too right. We're both presidents of the student
body at our respective schools. So I guess that's a
good sign. Yeah, I mean I think that, you know,
to some degree, says at all Buck, uh, you know
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started out. I think he's told the story of his
speech impediment and how that you know, held him back
in in early school, first and second grade, and then
he he got you know, we got him to a
speech pathologist who really helped him, and by the third
or fourth grade he was the top student in his class.
And from then on, you know, he really was, you know,
(22:30):
sort of a leader of his peer group going forward.
From then on, I mean right through high school, uh
to a lesser degree in college only because uh, perhaps
of the vagaries of Amherst. He knows, he knows that
you know, I got I got picketed. Dad knows this story.
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For a Sanco de Mayo party, I mean there was
actual yeah, yeah, and and it was everyone just came
down on the buckster because like I like to throw
a party and have a good time, calling my mom
and dad. I'm like, everyone's coming down on me. The
good news was that there was so there was a
flyer that was made, and the flyer was considered offensive. Offensive,
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and there was a lot of cultural appropriation going on.
I was just in charge of booze procuring. I was
not involved tequila and and fortunately the young woman who
was my classmate who made the offensive flyer was a
female from South Asia and therefore they were far less
inclined to kick her out of school than a white guy.
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I had to have meetings with all the diversity counselors.
I had threats of picketing. They said they were going
to call the police on us for the school said
they would call actual police on us for underage drinking.
And so we had to just like beg forgiveness and
drink our tequila behind closed doors. That is an amazing story.
By the next one. By the way, Yeah, Gabby in Beacon,
New York says, uh, we I mentioned that we met
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last night, and Buck's mom has already been on. Uh.
I know, miss Sexton was an actress. Question here from
Gabby were you ever a hair model? Because you still
have a heck of a head of hair on you
your son. O. This is Gabby and Beacon, New York.
I'm reading directly. This is her question, not mine. Gabby anyway,
(24:19):
h No, I your dad. I mean you just you
were you were a stockbroker, right, You just went to
your fiftieth and right reunion business school reunion, just got
back from it. Yeah, it was quite an experience, I'll
be honest with you. For a lot of reasons, I
don't want to go on a huge tangent, but basically,
they're about of of my class of seventy five that
started in the class of nineteen seventy two, uh twenty
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percent of past and and that's a very sobering reality.
And then of the remaining uh sixty or so in
that are still alive, about twenty one or twenty two
showed up for the reunion with their significant others, wives
and so on, and it was in many ways the
best reunion by far, because all the competition that you
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usually you know when you show up at your tenth
or your twentieth, uh, those that was all gone. It's
all about you know, your health, your grandchildren, your family,
and there was a real sense of camaraderie and love
and special you know, affection within the group. And I
thought that was that was really something I didn't really anticipate,
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but I found, you know, really really rewards. Remember how
much at Harvard Business School costs when you went there,
Well it was funny because when I started it was
thirty five hundred dollars, that's right. But the funny part
about it was that there was actually a protest with
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signs and you know everything else. Uh when they raised
a tuition to five thousand dollars of my second year,
So you can imagine Harvard Business School students protesting. And
we were just speaking about the campus radicalism thing that
I you know that I doubt, which was just people.
It was like the movie PCU for our listeners, which
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if you have not seen you absolutely would have fun
watching You guys have all seen PCU right politically correct university.
You haven't unacceptable. It's even more timely, I would say
now than ever it was. But you were at Columbia
when the students seized the building broke right, t tell
us about this was crazy. Well again I was. I
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graduated from Columbia nineteen sixty nine. But in nineteen sixty eight,
my junior year, the students for a Democratic Society, a
young man named Mark Rudd, some of you remember, literally
shut the university down completely and radicalized, you know, all
the students that remained on campus, and they were really
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far left radicals, I mean in the mathematics building, you know,
you had you know, real Marxists, wanted to literally burn
the university down. So after about two weeks of shutting
down the university, finally I think it was Grayson Kirk,
who was the president, called in the New York Police Department,
and that was an incredible experience. I happened to work
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at the time for Whitney north Seymour junior, who was
became the Southern District Attorney. Uh And anyway, real real
quickly I got word that the police were coming in
at two a m. That night, And so I had
a friend who had a an apartment on the fourth
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floor at one hundred and sixteenth Street and Amsterdam, so
I could watch the main gate and these that they
call them the Tactical Police Force. They're all on these
big horses and they're all you know, got helm right,
the whole thing. Anyway, it was, it was a real war.
Three people died during that. Wow, taking saw you saw
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actual violence from the commuty, the batons, the whole thing.
Oh yeah, No, I saw somebody jump from one of
the buildings onto the back of a policeman, broke his
back and he subsequently died in the hospital. So does
nineteen sixty eight, by the way, remind you now the
world that we're in now, Does that does that congruency
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historically resonate for you or are they totally different in
your mind? Well, I think they're certainly parallels. Um. You know,
clearly we have a very far left, radicalized Democratic Party
now that is prone to violence and is using you know,
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obviously Antifa and these other sort of you know, auxiliary
movements to enforce whatever ideas they're trying to enforce and
intimidate people. Um, so yeah, I look, I what what
people don't understand is how close we are always to
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civil unrest. You know, it doesn't take much. You know,
a crowd of two or three hundred people that is
willing to go to jail or will willing to you know,
break and burn. It can be a formidable force. See,
we got, we got, we got anti communists here in
New York City, Claisna. We're gonna bring you back to
close it out and honor a father's day. And I
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want to ask you a question here in a minute
when we come back, now that you're a grandfather, is
being a grandfather? I know it's Father's Day coming up.
I'll let you answer when we come back out of
this next break, But as being a grandfather more fun
than being a father, think about it. We'll get your answer.
I know there's a lot of people out there that
have gotten to experience both. And I'm curious the difference.
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show some Father's Day fun to kick you off for
the Father's Day weekend with my dad here. Mason speed
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Sexton a very cool name. I was in fact with
him in a car when maybe we were going a
little fast and the police officer pulled them over and said,
your literally your middle name is literally speak. He thought
that was funny. I don't know if we got a
warning or a ticket. I was a kid, but that
did actually happen, Um, dad, we got we got all
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kinds of questions coming from people all over the country. Um,
let first hold on, I'm sorry, there's lots of dads.
There's lots of granddads out there listening right now. How
would you describe being both? Which do you like more? Well?
I like both, to be honest you, I'm so blessed
to have an amazing little grandson. His name is Ryan
(31:35):
Mason Kumar and we call him Ray Ray the rock Star.
And uh, he's twenty months and has completely changed my life. Um,
you know, my perspective has gone from you know, just
worrying about retirement and health and those issues, and now
it's really a focus on I want to make sure
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he has every opportunity that I can possibly vide him,
including with his parents of course, and um, you know,
just watching him grow up and spending time with him
is incredibly special. And you know, in some ways it's
better because I don't have the direct responsibility, but in
other ways, uh, you know, there's nothing like you know,
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having having your own children, you know, and being a
hopefully a model of behavior. You guys are kind of
similar because you had the four of us dad by
the time when Doy you had us four when you
were what mid mid thirties, right thirty. I'm married your
mother when I was thirty and she was twenty, and
then by about forty three forty four, I think I
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had four children, because Clay got married at twenty five.
He's got three kids. He's forty three. Yeah, I had
twenty eight, twenty eight years old as when I had
my first. So I've got a fourteen year old, the
eleven year old in the seven year old. Busy stuff.
We got Barney from Potkeepsie. He's actually got a question.
He called it on the lines. We had the Father's
Day line. Let's play missus Barney from the Kipsie. I
just wanted to know from Buck's dad, what were his
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thoughts when Bucks joined the CIA. Well, that's a great question,
and obviously you have remember the time that he joined
the CI. It was after nine to eleven, and he
joined it to his credit as a you know, I
think a show of patriotism and concern for his country.
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He had been studying Middle Eastern affairs and had some
knowledge of Arabic, so he was in some ways an
ideal candidate for the CIA. But you know when he
went away and said, Dad, I can't tell you where
we're going. It's top secret that that's a concern. And
when we found out, you know that it was we
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obviously suspected it was Iraq and ultimately Afghanistan. I will
tell a quick story. There was an article in the
New York Times about the fact that five senior Al
Qaeda leaders had been liquidated in Moselle Um Mosel. I'm sorry,
and I had just had a feeling that Buck was involved,
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and as it turned out, he can neither confirm nor deny,
but out show up here now is Dad spilled some
but some friends who were very badass door kicker folks,
I might have tried to help point them in the
general vicinity. Um anyway, So we were incredibly proud, of
(34:33):
course for buck service, and still are. Yeah, we we
have Thelma from Thelma from Seattle, and I don't want
to have Clay has got to throw a sports question
because just the sex he raised. He used to take me.
He took me to Giants games, took me to Knicks games,
you know, because I think this audience thinks like I
played the sports, I saw the sports. I still like
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to play the sports. I'm just not I don't really
watch the professional leagues very much. Anyway. We'll get to
that a second. This is Thelma from Seattle. Let's play it.
This is Thelma from Seattle. I was just curious. The
Sexton family has some interesting names, Speed Buck, What are
the origins? Well, the Speed family. Excuse me, the Speed
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is a family name. It was my mother's maiden name.
The Speed family I was just telling Clay here because
he's from Nashville, is a prominent family in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Speed Museum is an internationally well known museum, Speed Institute.
And then of course Farmington, which is the family home,
which was designed by Jefferson, is a National Historic Landmark.
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So the Speed name in Louisville in particular is a
you know, it's a historically important name. The if you Go,
if you Go back ultimately to John Speed was a
cartographer to Queen Elizabeth, the real Queen Elizabeth, and then
Joshua's Speed was Link and his best friend and advisor
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during his entire uh political career, and then ultimately James Speed.
His brother was the second attorney general in the or
It was his attorney general in his second term. So um,
that tells you a little bit of the Speed name.
Your favorite team in the world of sports is Gosh,
(36:22):
it has been the It has been the Giants. But
I gotta tell you, I think the Jets are are
going to be ascendant this year. Oh really yeah, I'm
very very positive on Silah and the Jets. Here we
go OutKick news story right here. Speed Sexton calls the
Jets big in the next season. Jets love you. Happy
Father's Day, you Buck. Happy Father's Day to all the
dad's out the play. Happy Father's Day to you all
(36:45):
Rock Thanks for hanging with us.
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