November 26, 2025 • 61 mins
Iconic Moments in History Deep dive into U.S. history: elections during the Civil War and WWII, Revolutionary War realities versus myth, and reflections on Founding Fathers’ imperfections. Pop culture notes include Mel Gibson’s The Patriot, critiques of modern streaming content, and ideas for new American historical entertainment like a Crockett biopic. FBI Director Kash Patel Calls In FBI Director Kash Patel reports double the violent offender arrests compared to last year, a 55% drop in Memphis homicides in just three months, and major reductions in murder rates nationwide. The FBI seized 127 million lethal doses of fentanyl, a 31% increase, and dismantled 764 child exploitation networks, marking a 300% surge in pedophile arrests. Under Trump’s directive, the FBI has turned over 40,000 documents to Congress in nine months, far surpassing previous administrations. Patel calls this the most transparent era in FBI history. The show dives into the Epstein Transparency Act, with Patel confirming the Trump administration reopened the case. Despite legal hurdles with the Epstein estate, the FBI remains committed to releasing files while protecting victims’ rights. Hosts question the origins of Epstein’s $600 million estate, sparking a broader conversation on global banking secrecy, offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands, and financial transparency. Patel assures listeners that the FBI followed every lead, briefed President Trump throughout, and found no evidence of a broader conspiracy. All shooter devices and social media accounts were seized, reinforcing the Bureau’s commitment to facts over speculation. Patel advocates for a public, televised trial to counter conspiracy theories, drawing parallels to the O.J. Simpson case and emphasizing maximum transparency. Patel outlines a sweeping purge of leakers and politicized actors, ending the weaponization era of Russiagate-style abuses. He promises continued accountability and high-profile indictments before year-end. Looking ahead, Patel teases major developments in December, including more disclosures and arrests in ongoing high-profile cases such as the NBA/MLB investigation involving Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones. The next hour promises insights from Miranda Devine on judicial accountability and the latest dropped prosecution against President Trump. Miranda Devine on Accountability Miranda Devine, The New York Post columnist and host of the “Pod Force One” podcast, joins the show. She brings the facts on Hunter Biden, the Trump Administration’s 2026 strategy, deportations, affordability, and holding judges accountable when the criminals they let out of jail go on to re-offend (citing the Chicago incident). She also loves Thanksgiving and wishes you all a joyous one. Fabulous Turkey History Clay and Buck talk about the magic of the holiday season and why it's so fun to experience again when you have kids. They also ask the audience to send in their holiday music recommendations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the pre Thanksgiving edition
of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm here
in NYC, soon to be known as Mom Donneville. There
are not, in fact breadlines yet on the streets. They're
(00:21):
they're not singing the Soviet national anthem anywhere, so that's
a good thing. We have my friend Clay Travis. Of course,
he's coming to you from the Panhandle, also known as
God's Country on the Gulf of America. Lovely, lovely place,
and we have a much, we have a much to
discuss with you today. We have Miranda Devine going to
(00:44):
be joining us. It's always got great things to talk about.
We've got Cash Betel, director of the FBI, and we've
been trying to talk to Cash here for a while.
We appreciate that he will be on the air with us.
More things to talk to him about that we're even
going to have time for as you can. We'll get
to as much of it with him as we can.
He is very busy trying to both round up all
(01:06):
the bad guys out there with the FBI, hard at
work and keep the streets safe and reform that institution
which was desperately in need of of just that, the FBI.
So we have a lot going on there. We've got
some other odds and enza Trump pardoning turkeys, which we
are looking forward to that discussion. Afton Baine, I cannot
(01:30):
actually believe that that is someone's and my name is
Buck Sexton, and I think that's I think Afton Baine
is a funky name. We'll talk about what this looks
like in Clay's because we have to this. This election
is happening in days. They are hoping everyone that you
will be if you live in this congressional district, which
(01:51):
I do, which my congressman, Yeah, this Clys would be
Clay's congressman, which would be pretty funny if he's in
this wonderful red state of Tennessee with among the most
lunatic members of Congress out there. She's AOC level crazy
and maybe worse.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
From what I've said, I think I think she's crazier
than AOC. And if you consider that she represents the
state of Tennessee and AOC represents New York, she is
outrageously out of line with the average Tennessee, and whereas
the average New Yorker you could at least argue, might
support much of what AOC would argue for. Also Buck
(02:31):
big news the Georgia decision with the Trump case, as
we told you, that is the Fanny Willis case that
we told you for garbage was years has officially been dismissed.
And we'll get into that more importantly. Maybe you're, as
you said, in New York City, and you have commandeered
the staff to be holding your baby son right now.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So we're where.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's like the pilots of the plane are now distracted
by a cute baby boy. I looked just down at
my phone and producer Ally I didn't even know if
she's working today.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Producer Ally is a jack of all trades. She handled
so many of the things as as ep here. But
with producers Greg and Mike, they are doing impromptu babysitting.
My wonderful wife Carrie got caught in traffic and she's
got You know, this is true for a lot of us.
Even when you move to Florida, Clay, this is I
know so many New Yorkers we still keep our various
(03:29):
like long term relationships with doctors with your you know,
people with their barber, with their hair, all these things.
So she was trying to stack all these appointments this morning,
and it is a little late getting getting in here
to the studio. But it's no problem, I told her,
because Baby Speed is a show stopper and he's hanging
out with the staff in there. He's ready for his
own microphone. I'm telling you, he's having a great time.
(03:52):
So very very much appreciate what's going on there. We'll
put that. We'll put up a Baby Speed with the
team photo on Clay and Buck. Great Thanksgiving being fair,
you know, great, great family fun going on, and we'll
also have some discussions about Thanksgiving and how thankful we
are for all of you, and how I think this
country should be thankful for the amazing position we find
(04:13):
ourselves in, despite the challenges, despite the things that aren't
exactly as we want them to be, and there are
many of them. It is a remarkable time to be
an American, my friends. And one of the reasons Clay
I like history so much is because there's I think
there's a lot of context and comfort. You know, we
both have. It's funny too, we both love history clearly different.
(04:35):
You're like a civil war super freak. You know, you're
all about civil war. I tend to like like ancient Greek,
Roman stuff, sixteenth century Mediterranean stuff, you know, some specifics.
But history gives you a context for the world that
we live in today, and it's a reminder of a
few things. One, there's really nothing new. Every humanity has
(04:57):
been through all these things that we are going through now.
And two, wo man, it's nice to be able to
just sit down at a table with an enormous plump
turkey and more. The problem is not having food on
the table like the Pilgrims, And I know Rush had
an amazing first Thanksgiving show that we've talked about before.
The problem is when to cut off all the cranberry
(05:17):
and the stuffing and everything else, which is kind of
a metaphor for where we are in America these days. Yes,
there are challenges play, but we are very blessed and
have a lot to be thankful for.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, And also to your point, history there is an
obsession with saying all the time, oh my god, this
is the worst, how can we ever get through this?
I always like to say we had an election in
the middle of the Civil War.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Eighteen sixty four, we had an election during World War Two,
and if you go back, I don't know if you've
watched any of the ken Burns Revolutionary War series at
all yet, Buck, but I've been reading the Atkinson trilogy
on Revolutionary War, and I know for many people out there,
they we kind of have this idea of the founding
(06:06):
Fathers as sort of these gilded statues, and because of
how the Revolutionary War turned out, we have created this
idea in our heads that it wasn't incredibly bloody and
contentious and violent. And because again the Constitution, Declaration of Independence,
they're they're sort of embossed in this.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Glow of of of sort of historical.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Relevance that makes it seem like they weren't contentious at
the time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It was nasty.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I mean, you go back and look at much of
our history and it's been way way way more contentious,
way more violent, way more awful than the present day
in which we live. And I think that's important because
nobody has historical knowledge at all anymore, and so everybody
is like a butterfly or a goldfish, and they think
that everything it's the first time that it's ever occurred.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
One of my favorite history factoids from the Mel Gibson
movie The Patriot, which we just I had my father
in law, yeah, Captain Flatley, I had him staying with
us over the weekend, and we were just like, what
can we watch that we'll just enjoy watching we've seen before,
Like I've reached this point now I can't even look
for new stuff because it takes so long and you
(07:22):
end up watching some some you know, communist nonsense on
Netflix for five minutes and realized that, you know, the
the era of good TV is over. But we turned
on The Patriot and the fact that the British were
very upset with the with the colonists or you know,
with with the the early Americans for shooting officers. That
(07:43):
is real. That is a real thing. The British were like,
how how dare you? And all of our guys from
like you know, areas of rural Virginia and Tennessee were like,
those officers look like good targets to me. I mean,
you know, different times, my friends, different times. But that
was considered ungentlemanly. That was a real thing. And all
of these wars that were fought in our past, were
very nasty and ungentlemanly, and they didn't have a lot
(08:07):
of the things they have today that can help save
lives as we know. Okay, I'm getting I'm getting a
little bit. Look at Thanksgiving the show. We're gonna take
a lot of your calls, a lot of your stuff.
Like we said, we got cash on which will be phenomenal.
I really want to talk to him about the the
situation of the FBI and didn't really to sped a
law enforcement helping out in these cities. I still first
of all, that Memphis is not getting enough attention. We
(08:28):
try to give it more attention here, but that that
is working, and that it is working in DC, and
that this idea of deploying more law enforcement resources is
somehow crazy as a means of bringing down crime. Clay,
the El Salvador miracle needs to be talked about more
(08:49):
in our country from basically the least safe to the
safest place per capita in the entire western hemisphere of
the globe. Okay, and how did they do it? Backing
the cops and locking up the bad guys. It does work.
It does work when you do this, and you know
I'm willing to have. We can have conversations about you know,
(09:12):
about second chances and about mercy for people who have
been convicted, on the different things. We can have that
once we bring the homicide rate down to all time
lows in all of these cities that have been plagued
with you know, let's fix the problem, and then we
can have it. I didn't say open the floodgates and
let everybring out, but then we can have more conversations
about rehabilitation and what do we do. And I think
(09:33):
at that point we'd find that there are a lot
of people that you actually can't rehabilitate, and that it's
better for them and better for us and better for
society if they are institutionalized for a long period of time,
certainly the period of time that they are most dangerous
to the public. So I think that these are all
things that we'll certainly talk to Cash about. But I
also wish that there was substantially more attention on this
(09:55):
aspect of what Trump is doing that is I think
working and should get a whole lot more attention. But
we we spoke about this, Trump pardoned the turkeys. We're
just gonna have some fun with us for a second.
You already did the Trump Pritzker line right yesterday, I
play I played a bunch.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mean again, the thing that I don't think most
people have contemplated is Trump makes everything so much more entertaining.
Whenever he's off the stage, things like the pardoning of
the turkeys are just gonna kind of vanish as entertaining things.
But this was happening yesterday during the program, and I said,
we got to show cuts of what was going on.
(10:33):
I think we can play the Pritzker line again because
it is such a funny one, as he explains why
he's not gonna talk about the fact that JB. Pritzker
is a fat slob in vintage Trump fashion, which is
very very funny.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, there's a there's Pretererizio is one way of describing this,
saying what you say you won't say. And there's another
term for it, which I can't remember, but it's a
it's a rhetorical trick, which Trump is is quite good at.
And and then there's the there's the illegal orders brew haha.
(11:08):
You know again, I was in the I was traveling
clay yesterday. I was in the air. That was why
I had to uh, you know, that was why you
were solo. So if we if you already hit all
of that, But that seems like something that is not
going away, that seems like a component of well, certainly
the Trump administration's approach to this stuff is never to
back down. But Secretary of War heg sat he he
(11:32):
does not let this stuff go lightly. Our friend Pete,
who I've known for many years, he is viewing this
with with seriousness what they have done. He is not
letting this go, no doubt. And let's play that.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Let's play the Pritzker line, because I do think it's
a good way to start off the Thanksgiving Eve show,
and we should say we're incredibly thankful to all of
you and be safe out there. I traveled yesterday, you
traveled yes day. There are people on the road all
over the country that are listening to us right now.
And by the way, if you need something to listen
to on your travels, good opportunity to go to subscribe
(12:11):
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what you might be in the mood for. Because I
know a lot of you are going to be on
the road ninety percent of the people traveling, and I
think they said eighty two million ish people are expected
to be traveling for Thanksgiving in the country. So a
(12:32):
lot of you needing things to listen to late night drives,
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that are great that many of you can can track down.
I think we got to do a Crocket like biopic
(12:54):
by the way, you know, talking about good TV shows,
or like a Crockett series.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I got ad Oh, that's a good idea. I agree it.
I do like your like your Undaunted Courage idea as well.
But there's some there is such a market for great
American historical uh entertainment, and I think that's clear. I
have not watched The ken Burns. I've read some reviews
of it, of the Revolution. I may get to some
(13:19):
of it over the next few days because they're going
to be in food coma with the family and just
watching stuff I've heard. There's a little bit of Wokeness,
which I expect because it's Ken Burns, but I've heard
it's pretty well done.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Overall, so I DVR it, so I haven't watched it yet.
I don't know if people still DVR things. I still do,
so it's on my roster of things to watch. Buck
not gonna shock you. I'm going to spend pretty much Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday watching football, so I will not watch anything else. Probably,
But if I only watch one game with my you
(13:49):
know what, Clay, come back and give me the answer
on the other side, because someone's gonna love some people
are gonna love you, and some people are gonna be
angry at Clay. And I love when they get ticked
off at Clay. It's so fun. The talkbacks are hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
If if I only get to watch one football game
with my brothers and my dad, who are normal Americans
who like football, which one is it? Because I will
I will mark that one on the calendar. If I
only get one, I know you're gonna watch them all.
If I only get one, we'll come back. Clay will
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Speaker 2 (15:14):
We are joined now, but a guy that both Buck
and I are thankful is the FBI director. He is
cash Betel, Happy Thanksgiving, Cash, and congrats on what I
think most of us would say has been a really
good first year.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But I want to start with this.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You know you're doing a lot right when the Wall
Street Journal and the New York Times both had huge
expose's on you that basically said, yeah, this guy's working
a lot, he's traveling a lot, and he has a girlfriend.
I don't know that I've ever seen as much attention
paid to a girlfriend before. But congrats, And what's it
(15:57):
been like to have Buck and I. We're talking about
this on the s showing off air, but it feels
like you kind of cycle around where somebody is the target,
and right now the mainstream legacy media has decided you're
the target.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So how's it going.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, first of all, it's so great to be with
you guys. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. I'm
stuck in DC on duty, but that's okay. That's what
the job requires, and that's what we give it. You're right,
we've had a historic year. We've taken down twice as
many violent fenders as last year. Loan s he's more
phentanyl than ever before, struck a deal with China to
shut off fentanyl precursors arrested more than four hundred and
(16:32):
ninety percent increase in seven sixty four extremist those attempting
to and violating our children's rights. And that's just the
tip of the iceberg. This FBI is on fire, and
that's why the mainstream media is coming after you. They
know they politicize the FBI and law enforcement like never
before during Russia Gate and Arctic Frost, and they know
we're sitting in the seat to expose it, and that's
exactly what they're going to do. And they're baseless attacks,
(16:54):
baseless attacks against my girlfriend and me and Alexis, by
the way, is a brilliant country music start conserve commentator
in our own rights. With the fact that the mainstream
media has decided to come after me through her is
disgusting and despicable, but it also tells us we're strong
enough to get through it and we're over the target
and claim buck, we're not stopping. Wait till you see
(17:15):
what we got coming up in another Weekness.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, Director Patel, we we have we have a lot
of faith and you and Deputy Director Bongino and have
have kept that faith all along as the audience knows,
because we know you guys, and we know what you
approach this job with and and why you took this
job as well. I will note to what Clay said,
It is very clear to us that like the eye
of sourn has moved from from Secretary of War Hegseth,
(17:41):
you know, the New York Times going all out on
him to now the eye of sore and is on you.
But we know that you'll be you'll be fine with us.
In fact, here we play real quick President Trump. There
was a story circulating a day or what the last
twenty four hours. They're all saying that you know that
that that Trump is thinking about your your replacement, and
he spoke to this and basically said, fat chance, fake news.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Oh he's doing a good job, Cash Mittel, No, he's
doing a great job. I think.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Listen to the President handles that just like what are
you even what are you even talking about? But clearly
they're trying to create dissension in the ranks, so to speak. Cash,
and I want you to speak to something that we
want to give more attention to because it's so important.
The federal efforts to bring down violent crime in cities
and some of the places like Memphis, places like Saint Louis, Washington,
(18:34):
d C. Can you speak to that please and give
us some of the numbers and the stats, because the
mainstream legacy media clearly doesn't want to admit they've been
wrong on this one.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Absolutely, that's the mission here, protect the homeland and crush
violent crime. And President Trump authorized us to do just that.
And the FBI has been the beach ed in places
like Memphis and Saint Louis and Miami and so many
other cities across the country. Violent crime exploded, unto the
bidinary administration and the prior FBI leadership to blossom and
did nothing about it. What we did we took a
(19:03):
thousand agents out of Washington, DC and moved them into
the field permanently. Every single state got a plus up
of intelligence analysts and FBI agents and they hit the streets.
And what happens when you do that. You get thirty
thousand arrests, twenty five thousand of which of violent offenders.
That's twice as many as last year alone. And we
don't even have December done yet. And in terms of
(19:24):
murder rate, we are chopping the murder rate in major
cities by thirty and forty percent. In me this alone,
the homicide rate is down fifty five percent in three months.
That is an unbelievable number for the city that has
the highest per capita homicide in the United States of America.
At the FBI, I'm focused on letting good cosy cops.
Me and Deputy Director are here to push the agents
(19:46):
out to the field where the work is and the
fentandel seizures. We see one hundred and twenty seven million
lethal doses of sentinel. That's a thirty one percent increase alone,
and we're taking the fight to our enemies. And we're
also engaging with partners like the CCP see where we
can to shut off sentinel precursors and make sure they
don't devastate our young communities around the country. And that's
(20:06):
just a little bit of what we're doing. We're also
the most transparent agency now forty thousand documents turned over
to Congress by this FBI nine months. Ray did thirteen
thousand in his entire seven years, and Comy did three
thousand in his entire three years. So if there are
people saying we're not transparent and committed to oversight, just
look at the evidence when.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You I know, we're really good friends with Charlie Kirk
and one of the biggest challenges of any of these jobs.
And Buck and I were live on the air when
the shooting happened. It was obviously devastating for us and
for everybody out there listening. What can you tell us
about that investigation? Do you believe based on what you've
seen so far? And I know there's a trial coming up,
so you may have to tiptoe around it a little bit,
(20:47):
do you believe that that individual acted alone? And also
do you hope, because I do, that this trial is
as public as possible so that people can see it
in all of the evidence that your agents and other
law enforcement have brought to bear there, What can you
tell us about that investigation in that case?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, you guys know, we're all super close with Charlie,
and you know, when you're that director of the FBI
and your tasked with leading for the nation's manhunt for
your friend, you got to put that piece aside. And
we were able to find the perpetrator in thirty three hours.
And that's because the FBI cut videos directly from the
university value Utah security systems publicized in for the world
(21:29):
and the nation, and then we were able to apprehend
this individual. But that's just step one. Like you said,
there's a trial. And the good thing about state court,
as you guys know, is there can be cameras. On
my federal court. There are no cameras allowed ever, so
I'm hoping there's a camera in there, and i want
the world to see how we put on the display
of evidence. And it's a state prosecution, so the FBI
(21:49):
is a partner, but we're not the lead. But this
I think everybody at Turning Point in Erica and everybody
in Charlie's universe knows this. FBI is committed to investigating
absolutely every single lead and that's what we're doing. On
top of that, we're protecting the integrity investigation by not
disclosing information prematurely. The prosecution must come first. Our biggest
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failure after this tragedy would be to allow this individual
to walk freely because of the myth queue of evidentiary
collection or disclosure of improper information. I'm not going to
let that happen.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We're speaking to the FBI Director Cash Pattel and Director
Patel The audience here has been for a long time,
very very consistent on they want more transparency when it
comes to Epstein files. Doj we know we just had
this vote. President Trump came out in favor of the
Epstein Transparency Act, huge votes or rather almost unanimous votes
(22:47):
in an incentate in the House in order to release
more files. Just can you can you speak to this
because there has been among the Trump faithful a lot
of frustration with some of the stops start on the
and what feels to some like hiding the football, like
just you know what's out there, you know what's coming out.
(23:08):
I wanted to give you the floor to address people
who support President Trump, supported the pick of you and
Deputy Director Bongino, and specifically wanted to get to the
heart of this issue. So what can you tell everybody
about that?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Absolutely, Look, we have to remind the audience that President
Trump was the one who had the audacity and compunction
and right place so to reopen the Epstein case. The
US Attorney Acosta over fifteen years ago handle this case
and basically bootstrapped any future investigation because he limited the search,
larrence and investigatory parameters and got judges to sign off
on it and agreed to a non prosecution deal and
(23:45):
agree to a prohibition against the disclosure of information. Now,
once President Trump reopened that and we're now in the
second Trump administration, we committed to reviewing every single piece
of information in there for any credible leads and for
anyone out there saying, oh, we're detecting pedophiles. We have
arrested three hundred percent more pedophiles during the nine months
that I've been there forad Director and year to date
(24:07):
last year alone, we have dismantled child pedophile rings and
are crushing seven six four networks. So we're on it,
but we cannot violate court orders and put out information
that a federal judge is prohibited us. On top of that,
there are victims' rights, where we will always protect victims rights.
But we have been committed to work with Congress to
put out as much as we can. The Department of
Justice is beyond back to court twice now to get
(24:29):
permission for us to disclose more information. And the biggest distinction,
by the way, is that there's the Epstein estate. They
have had information for years that they have refused to
turn over to law enforce and authorities. And by the way,
this FBI has been asking everybody that represents the victim,
anyone that knows anything about these alicious, alleged acts of
(24:50):
sexual deviance and violence, to please come forward.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Wait, can you explain this because this is how is
it that the estate? I mean, you're the FB. Well,
I think people hear this. What do you mean that
they won't release Like, don't they have to release?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
No, anyone's in state. They it's your state, someone else's
a state unless there is a criminal violation occurring there.
There is no lawful mechanism to force an a state
to surrender information. And that's the key the battle with
But what I was saying earlier is we've asked not
only the Estate and everybody else who's been saying we
have information of new victims, of people on Congress holding
(25:27):
their microphone rallies and everything. Do you not many people
have come forward to this FBI with quote unquote new information. Zero,
not one person. Every time I ask, no one comes forward,
This FBI will investigate any new leaves. And we're also
committed to transparency, as they said, forty thousand pages to
Congress in just nine months alone. We're not hiding anything.
(25:48):
We're committed to max transparency while protecting victims' rights, and
we are going to a vive by whatever quote orders
there are, because those are the laws of the land.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
We did ask for some of our VIPs, Director Battel,
to send in their thoughts and question essions for you.
One coming in from lewis here, how is it going
with the subversives and those who are not dedicated to
the mission in the FBI and leakers who are trying
to play political games? Basically, Director Patel, how's the cleanup
of the FBI going fantastic?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
This institution of law enforcement will be just that. There
will be no weaponization and no politicization. And those people
that have been jettison from the scrolls of the FBI
have been done so because they failed to meet the
mission standards or their ethical obligations. And so we are
going across the country and replacing anyone and removing anyone
who fails to meet our high standard here. As we've
(26:37):
done that, we're going to continue to do that. I'm
committed to that because that's what President Trump was elected for,
to make sure we end the weaponization. No more Russia Gate,
no more artic for us, no more illegal spying on
political opponents, members of Congress, and staffers, including like myself,
submitting us to countless hours of grand jury and courtroom expenditures.
We have ended that era, and anyone who participate in
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it will be exposed in held account.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
What can you tell us about the Trump assassination investigation?
The first one, because unfortunately, I know there was two.
There were reports out there Tucker Carlson New York posts saying, hey,
this guy had substantial actions online, that he was potentially
trans influenced. I mean a furry I mean, this is crazy.
(27:22):
I mean, I'm curious whether you think there is when
you look at Minneapolis, when you look at Nashville, when
you look at the allegations of Utah, and maybe the
allegations of this Trump shooter is trans violence being under investigated.
But what can you tell us about the investigation of
that first Trump shooter potential trans connections anybody else?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Do you believe the acted alone? What does the evidence show?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We follow the evidence and that's it, and we've brief
President Trump the entire way and he's been fully satisfied
with our investigatory steps. We got into this FBI, the
prior FBI for whatever mistakes they made in for whatever
information they didn't release. We've released everything we possible and
we've told the public we see every device got into
every device of the assailants, got into all of his
(28:07):
social media, all of his email accounts, and we've publicized
that information. And if there was any investigatory lead that
actually led to anyone else, we will one hundred percent
take it. But again it goes back to credible information.
If you post something on social media and someone comments
on it and that's not a connection necessarily, that's not
necessarily credible. It's like going on x and following a
(28:28):
million comments from the client Buck Show, but we look
at every single one of them. We will we will
not leave any stone unturned, and that's what we did here.
We redoubled our efforts and we will continue to take
any new information that develops.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You started with us saying next couple of weeks, we
got some things coming again, Buck and I are excited
you're there. We're excited Dan Bongino's there. We think you
guys have done a fantastic job. What kind of prediction
can you give us as we move into December? What
should people be paying attention to in your mind, what
would you like them to know?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
More accountability on high profile cases. That's coming for sure.
We're going to disclose. This is the battle rhythm. We
said here for the first time ever at the FBI,
we are simultaneously disclosing the Congress while simultaneously investigating. That's
never been done before. You've seen the stonewalling from prior administrations,
and we're not doing that. But we are not going
to cripple an investigation before we get to the end points.
(29:23):
You're going to see that. You're also going to see
things like historic reduction and murder rates across the country
by double digits. We'll put those numbers out in December.
That is a massive victory for the American people, brought
to you by the Trump administration and this FBI. And
we're about to bring some arrests for high profile cases.
And we'll just again we won't let the indictments and
the public prosecution speak to our efforts. Those that say
(29:47):
we know van and I never say, sit here and
trust this. Look at the body of work that this
FBA is done. And when you look at the mainstream
media attack if we're so failing if we're so bad,
how is it that we have record historic arrests and
record amounts of state for the American people, record drug seizures,
record narcotics arrests, record arrests of stopping terrorism attacks like
we did in Michigan, and the mainstream media came in
(30:09):
after us for that as well. If we followed them,
they would have allowed us to arrest the individuals after
they killed Americas. This FBI is not failing.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You had a recent press conference where you announced the
arrest of Chauncey billups of NBA prominent players Damon Jones,
also MLB. Do you think that investigation is complete or
their potential other individuals that could be charged related to
those incidents?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
That investigation is ongoing, all.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Right, FBI Director Patel, thank you so much for making
the time for us. Thanks for all the work you're
putting in over there. You have our best the Deputy
Director Bongino, you know we're thinking about him too. Happy
Thanksgiving to you and to all the men and women
of the FBI who are doing it the right way
and getting the job done. Thank you, Thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Happy Thanksgiving. Appreciate your wonderful audience.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
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(32:05):
Thanksgiving before Turkey Day here on Clay and Buck. I'm
coming to you from New York City, which is not
yet Mom Donnieville. It is still Eric Adams down and
it's looking good. I got to say a lot of
people on the streets here. The energy is high, the
prices are higher. And h Clay, yeah, it's crazy. I
mean hotels here and everything. It's just this city is,
uh somehow it only gets more expensive. Clays down in Panama.
(32:30):
I'm sorry, hand of unexpected. That's the Panhandle, not Panama.
I was thinking about places. Panama is where I am
right now. But that'd be fun, though.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I hear not working out in the Panama Canal right now,
to try to make sure ships are getting through.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
He's a team player, you know. We want to help
with affordability. Got to make sure those supertankers get through
the Panama Canal. So Clays down there directing traffic with
his bare hands. That's the kind of man he is.
We do have now, Miranda Devine, We're about to just
start tap dancing and telling funny stories. We are joined
now by New York Post Commis Branda and Vine. Also,
Podforce one is her wonderful podcast which is doing great.
(33:13):
People love it. Miranda. So now we're taking a bit
of a hard turn here because the situation of some
of these high profile cases. We can come back and
talk Thanksgiving with you toward the end, but these high
profile cases where you have just horrific things happening. Now, look,
the perpetrators in these specific cases, on the light rail
(33:34):
in North Carolina, on the L train in Chicago, the
perpetrators are black men. In these cases, the victims are
white women. And the most salient fact when it comes
to the law enforcement side of things is that these
or i should say the judicial and you know, general
law enforcement side of things, is that some of these
(33:55):
judges have let these individuals out in one case of
the horrific, horrific stabbing, another lit this woman on fire
who is fighting for her life in critical condition, the
judges let them out dozens and dozens of times. You
want accountability, you want this to stop. Tell us what
that would look like.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Ah, Honestly, it's so clear that the judges are endangering
the lives of the rest of us by this kind
of I don't know whether you call it what Gadzad
calls it, with suicidal empathy or just they don't care
but they need to be held accountable. Everyone else is
held accountable, Cops if they do the wrong thing in
(34:36):
an arrest, Doctors, every other professional is held accountable.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
But judges just.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Have some sort of immunity that I think needs to
be punctured. At least then they might think twice before
they let out some of these monsters on the streets
when they should be locked up. And I mean the
alleged respect in the case of Bethany McGhee in Chicago,
(35:03):
who was a beautiful young girl doused in gasoline and
then set on fire. She has, you know, facial disfigurement,
half her body is burned. She's in the burns unit
in critical condition. He was so deemed so violent that
he couldn't even be kept in a locked wing psychiatric
(35:25):
wing of the local hospital because he'd assaulted a social
worker so badly that she had a bruised cornea concussion.
That keeps, you know, some sort of problem that lingers
and disjudge, knowing all the litany of seventy two arrests
and the arson and the aggravated assault in his background,
(35:47):
still let him out on the street with an ankle monitor,
which is utterly useless.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
What do you think, Miranda.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
You've been running around doing all your interviews, which have
been doing great for The New York Post as a
part of your podcast Thanksgiving week, and soon we're going
to be sprinting through the Christmas holiday season, as everybody knows,
Year one will be over, So I think we could
start to kind of give takes overall on Trump year one.
(36:17):
What is your take on Trump year one? And if
he were asking you, hey, what should I focus on
for the next six months leading into the primary season
and the midterms, what would you tell him he should
do going forward.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I think his first year has been incredibly successful and dynamic,
especially when you compare it to his first term when
he was crippled the whole year by Russia. Gay But look,
I mean, I think they have it all in hand.
You know, he's focusing particularly on affordability because I mean,
(36:53):
you saw from Mandani quite cleverly made that the centerpiece
of his campaign, and since that success, now affordability is
the watchword for politicians everywhere, which I think is a
good thing. So I think they'll be focusing on that
in terms of their messaging. But I think that the
Trump administration's been raiser sharp on lowering inflation and trying.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
To set the economy right.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
And I know that, you know, his Trump's been attacking
the Reserve Board chairman because well said, sorry, Ceral Reserve governor.
I thought I was in Australia set a reserve government
to try and get interest rates down, which will make
a difference as well. So that and then I think
they should just keep just and I hope they do.
(37:43):
But you know, there seems to be rumbles to let
off on the deportations because of the optics and the
craziness of the Democrat pushback, but I.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Think they should double down on it.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
They've already managed to get rid of a million and
a half and they're you know, they're twenty million some
ond or maybe ten million came in under Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, I think that they need to continue on with that, Miranda.
And also the you're noting, which is a very important
component of it, the number of actual deportations, which I
think is about a half a million that have been
processed as deportations, and then the self deportations as in
people who are illegals who have left the country, which
is in far actually a far greater number because they're like, look,
(38:28):
I don't want to get deported and I don't want
to go through that process, so they actually go back
to their country of origin and get a lot of
visa overstays. People like that that do that as well.
I think it's critical that they continue on with this.
But I also you know, we had Director Patel on
of the FBI in the last hour Miranda, so only
only a list guests today allowed on the show, and
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we asked him about these law enforcement efforts. You know,
one we talked about these crazy judges who let people out.
You know, sure they've done they've been violent, and it's
their seteth the rest, but maybe seventy five is the
lucky number on the stop. I mean, this is madness,
it's anti civilization. It makes us all less safe. But
what the Trump administration has been doing with the federal
law enforcement side, the numbers are looking really good in
(39:12):
these cities, and yet all these people saying it's not
going to do anything. That's clearly not true.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, it's clearly not true. And look, I think this
is just part of this sicko resistance that's growing. It's
the way the Democrats think that they can slow down
the agenda for Trump will block it all together like
they did in the first term, and they're just throwing
everything that the kitchen think at it. And part of
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that is the crazy protests and a lot of boomers
out there with nothing better to do but line up
for hours at home depot and you know by five
dollars scrapers or one dollar scrapers or whatever it is.
So I just feel like there's a lot of sort
(39:58):
of storm and drang, lot of craziness out there. But
the seems to me the Trump administration and Trump himself
is just forging ahead and ignoring it all. And eventually,
I think in time for the midterms, there will be
enough sort of successes chalked up on the economy and
(40:19):
crime and everything else that you know, they'll be able
to emerge out into the sunlit uplands and benefit from
that with the voters.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
So anyway, and I think that the deportations and the
self deportations, part of the reason the self deportations are
going so well is because of those optics, because of
the military style, you know, raids that they're doing just
to pick up I went on one in Chicago just
to pick up one illegal migrant criminal. It's like, you know,
(40:51):
they're entering for Lousiah. The amount of equipment and helicopters
and drones and you know, the special vehicles and vehicles.
But they have to do it for their own safety.
And I think it's a good thing that it looks
like overkilled because it scares the rest of them and
they think, well, let's go back to our home country
(41:11):
and come back the right way. And they've been promised,
They've given money to help them with their travel expenses,
and then they promised that they will you get to
be on the front of the queue if they.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Want to come back legally.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Miranda, I think you talked with Buck about this. If
I'm not mistaken, I think I was out. But Hunter
Biden and the degree to which he is spiraling, where
do you think all this ends? And do you expect
that there will be any consequences today? Earlier the Georgia
case got kicked to the curbs. South Florida's done, Washington
d C Is done. I think eventually, as we've said
(41:46):
on this program for a long time, New York City
is going to get tossed by the courts because it
was a sham prosecution and a sham case. What is
the end stage for lawfair? Will any of the Hunter
Biden universe be held accountable? That's one of the I'm
mary questions we probably get going forward. Or do you
think basically all this is over and Hunter's just going
to continue to do podcast tours where he insults people
(42:09):
like you and kind of throws fits.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Well, I think all eyes are on Fort Pierce in Florida,
where you know, there's going to be a grand jury
convened to look at this grand conspiracy case that's being built,
I'm told, and that will encompass Joe Biden, Barack Obama,
and Hillary Clinton, as well as the usual suspects of
(42:35):
John Brennan's and James Clappers and Jim Comey, et cetera.
So that's I mean, that's a pretty ambitious proposal, but gosh,
if it came off, it would be so satisfying but
also so important for the country to ensure something like
this never happens again, where you know, a president and
(42:56):
a presidential candidate is assaulted every which way with law
fair assassination attempts and so on, and so in that way,
I think Joe Biden, perhaps not charged, but as an
unindicted co conspirator, certainly that would assist in giving me
giving posterity a real view of who he was as
(43:18):
Hunter Biden. I mean I see him as much as
a victim of his father as anything else. I mean,
he's a victim of his own problems and his own
addictions and appetites. But look, he has political ambitions. So
it just depends what direction this country goes in. If
it doesn't start heading on the up and up with
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Trump in charge, then there could be a real possibility
of a Hunter Biden running for president.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
So, Miranda, before we let you go, wait, I thought
for president. I just threw it in at the end
as a record scratch moment at the house party said
ohoh wait a second. He's a maniac play so I
would not be so prized if he ran. In fact,
he'd probably do better than Kamala Harris. Do you think
is going to run anyway? I wanted to ask you this, Miranda, Australia,
(44:10):
you guys don't do Thanksgiving? Do you? What's up with that? Well,
why aren't our Aussie brothers and sisters doing a Thanksgiving?
It sounds like such a great holiday that everybody could
get behind. I know, I don't think you have turkeys
down there because they're not dangerous enough for Australia. But
what can you tell us is this something that maybe
is going to catch on down Under?
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Well, Australian didn't have Pilgrims.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
And all the history that you had.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
That's so wonderful that and we don't have the same
seasons as you. Like it's spring there now, yea, and
all that. But Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday for I
just think it is so wonderful and Americans are at
their absolute best. Food is delicious, Everyone's in a great mood,
it's the most hospitable. It just showcases American hospitality. I
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would have to say, from my very earliest memories here
in my various iterations, I've just loved Thanksgiving and I
hope everyone has a wonderful day and a stressfue happy
day with lots of delicious gobble gobble turkey.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
That's like a really good answer on Thanksgiving. Yes, I agree.
You know she stuck the landing on that one. Guys,
go check out pod Force one and that's Miranda's podcast.
Highly recommend it and Miranda, have a very happy Thanksgiving.
We're glad you loved the holiday.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Thank you, thanks so much time back.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
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basting the turkey or or making pie, which you perhaps
make some mistakes and just say I'm just gonna smash
it all up with a big spoon and then call
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(47:21):
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and Buck podcast network because you've requested this and it's
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(47:43):
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And like I said, tomorrow, we've got some best of
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even if you are a radio listener every day, which
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(48:08):
Chef Andrew Grule. I'm doing this from the top I
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just the Markowitz. Did you say Carol, Yeah, I think
I said Lisa bo Lisa Booth, Thank you Lisa Booth.
So yes, those are all people that you can listen
to in the podcast network, and I think you should. Clay,
there's a little bit of a little bit of a
little bit of history, a little bit of lore that
(48:28):
I want to introduce to the program. Do you have
any idea? This is I've always been someone who's fascinated
by the origins of things. This is just ever since
I was a little kid. Why is that thing the
way it is? Or why is it called what it is?
You know where that we're why we call the bird
turkey a turkey? Have you ever thought about this?
Speaker 2 (48:51):
The only thing I'll know about the turkey, and this
is a little bit of anecdote, and is that Benjamin
Franklin wanted the turkey instead of the bald eagle to
be the official bird symbol of the United States.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
I think that was a rare a rare l for
for our man, Ben. You know, I think that the
American bald eagle is atle slightly more majestic. You know
what I'm saying, Like, no, when we have to go
into other countries and whoop some ass, do we really
want like a like a screaming turkey on the side
of our A ten or on the side of our
(49:22):
F sixteen, or or do we want a American bald eagle.
I'm just saying, you know, the I think personally that's
the way to do it. There we go, there we go.
Oh wow, have you ever have you ever been near
enough one that they started to chase you? I have?
Speaker 2 (49:36):
You know, I was on a hike yesterday. Hike is
a bit of an exaggeration. I was walking in my name,
you walk to your property. That that's where we are now.
Clay has turned into Chevy Chase from Caddy Shack. Who
He's like, I just get lost in my own home sometimes.
I went across the street in my new neighborhood. There
is a I think it's probably a hill. I don't
(49:56):
know what the difference is between a hill and a mountain.
It's more hill than mountain. You know where I am
in Middle Tennessee, we have rolling hills more so than anyways,
A pretty high, pretty high hike. And I was walking
up the side of this hill as one does majestic
majestic hike by myself, and huge what are they called
(50:17):
flocks of turkeys all suddenly appeared. There were like six
of them, and one of them started to chase me,
and I, you know, being the brave man that I am,
I just kind of stood my ground and the turkey
didn't come after me that but I wondered, what do
I do if he actually gets to me?
Speaker 1 (50:33):
I guess I kick him. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
I don't know what the appropriate way to fend off
a turkey is. But yeah, like they were just wild
turkeys in the in the New neighborhood where I live.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
So this is this is a fun one. As we
all know, there's a country named Turkey, which corresponds with
the seat of the former Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman
traders in the fifteen hundreds, so Ottoman slash Turkish traders
brought into Europe a bird that came from West Africa. Okay, now,
(51:05):
the bird that they brought in from West Africa was
actually a well, they started calling it a turkey cock
or a turkey hen because it was brought in via,
so it's like they took it from West Africa. The Ottomans,
they brought it, you know, through their ships, they brought
it into Europe. They started calling it a turkey cock
(51:26):
or a turkey hen. And then when we start having
more time in the Americas, they discovered the Spanish conquistadors
discover the domesticated turkey that the Aztecs had had for
a long time. So the Aztecs had domesticated a turkey,
like we have you know, chickens, and so they brought
them back to Europe, and those that they brought back
(51:48):
to Europe looked like the what's actually a guinea foul
from Guinea and West Africa. But people thought, oh, that's
like the same thing, and that came to us via Turkey.
So they were calling the new bird in the America's
a turkey? Is that all I know? It's a little
round about. So basically the name turkey comes from the
(52:10):
African guinea fowl that was transported by Ottoman traders to Europe,
who then confused when the conquistadors brought back from the
New World the domesticated bird that had no name that
looked like the guinea fowl that they were calling a turkey,
they started calling the new bird a turkey. Boom history.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
So that is the bird equivalent of how we came
to call Native Americans Indians.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Yeah, very close, Yeah, very similar. Yeah. Yeah, I mean
it's had no idea.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
I would have thought that there was probably a connection
between the country and the bird, but I had never
figured out the entomology there.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
So boom.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Now everybody has a turkey story to share at their Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
So what we were eating is a bird that Europeans
hundreds of years ago thought name for the traders that
brought a bird from Africa when they actually brought a
bird from the New World that they thought was the
same bird from Africa, and they called it Turkey because
the guys bringing to them were Turkish. There you go. Now,
I just thought everybody should know, Like, that's that's kind
(53:21):
of a fun one, isn't it. That's pretty good. I
think it's good.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
I think it's a good bit of knowledge for everybody
out there to share with their families.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Oh to your point, by the way, Clay, in Turkish,
the bird is called Hindi, meaning from India. So there
you go, because from the Indies because they got it,
they where they transported it from. You know. There's like
a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (53:46):
Well, you can find this on the podcast along with
Russia's Thanksgiving and we are asking for suggestions as Monday
will be the first day of December that we will
be back and uh let's see, we have Kenneth from
uh hold On Sheldon from North Carolina in in. This
is Buck's favorite song. This is what he wants to
(54:09):
ensure that we are playing. We ask for Christmas suggestion music.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
In in.
Speaker 5 (54:15):
Listen Manheim steam Roller whatever, Yeah, brush us to play
it every year Manham Steamroller.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
I'm just saying I'm pulling together a best of Mannheim
playlist for this show. I celebrate the whole catalog. I'm
I'm a Mannheim officionado and I'm in I'm our point man.
I'm a comologist, chief Kamala expert, although I'm gonna read one.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
Hundred in seven days, which is the one of the
worst punishments I can think too to give someone I'm
gonna have to surrender my comologist title if she does
in fact run for president by the way, which I'm
starting to get a little worried about that one. And
then the other one is I'm a Manheim Steamroll expert,
so I'm like chief Steamroller if you will, John in Sacramento.
(55:05):
By the way, we're talking about reclining seats. I want
to one hundred percent sign on with John in Sacramento.
This also drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
KK.
Speaker 5 (55:13):
Hey, guys, you talk a lot about airplane terrorist. What
about road terrorist people that don't move over to the
right after passing somebody that's going slower than them, or
people that go slow on the hills and then speed
up when you're trying to pass them in a passing lane.
Speaker 2 (55:32):
Yeah, road terrorists there. I want police, And I know
we have a lot of you listening right now. I
think you should get pulled over if you're not driving
fast enough in the left lane instead of worrying about
overall speed. When Buck Sexton, you know, driving this daisy
over there is going forty five miles an hour in
the left lane, I want There's nothing more infuriating to
(55:53):
me when driving than a guy or gal who is
in the left lane that doesn't seem to notice that
there are forty six people lined up behind them because
they are going the same speed in the left lane,
or even slower than people are going in the right.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Just a lot of you are driving right now, and
I just want you to think of this. You want
to know what it's like when Klay Travis is your driver.
Remember that scene in Maverick Top Gun, the first scene,
the first scene where he's in the experimental plane and
people were like, is this thing gonna come apart? Don't
go to like mock twelve or whatever. That's Clay's foot
on the accelerator in his suv. You start to be like,
(56:29):
I think this car is rattling a little bit. Is
this can it go these speeds? Is there enough air
in these tires for this?
Speaker 2 (56:35):
I am a I'm a rapid mover, And if you
are a slow mover, god forbid, you're driving slow in
the left lane headed to the airport. To immediately get
on the plane and then recline your seat directly in
front of me, I'll be done for Somebody sent an
email in and said, why don't you just fly first class? Clay,
I fly Southwest Airlines. There is no first class. Nashville,
(56:58):
Tennessee's number one airline in the public airport is Southwest Airlines,
and so even if I wanted to get a first
class Southwest Airline seat, they do not exist. Every seat
is the exact.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
I'm gonna tell you, I'm actually a little bitter every
time I come to visit you and the iHeart team
based in Nashville. At how much better you're like your airport.
It's a great area. You guys are so spoiled in Nashville,
and really the holiday season, a lot of you are
going through airports today. Man, there are airports, and there
are airports, and Nashville is clean and civilized and orderly,
(57:32):
and there's good food options and it all makes sense.
Miami is a third world airport. I don't know what
to say. Miami is the worst major airport in the country.
You're always walking like four miles. Everything looks the same.
The food options are garbage. Okay, there is a secret
Chick fil A if you know where to go, but
other than that, but it's not it's not first of all,
(57:53):
if the walk like you're gonna walk off your whole
chicken sandwich on the way there. Miami Airport's the worst
airport in the Maybe I mean think you have a
worst airport. La Guardia used to be terrible, and the
Delta terminal LaGuardia they knocked the cover off the ball.
It's really nice. I think the worst airport.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
So, first of all, Fort Lauderdale is easier to get
in and out of, but it's also an awful airport.
As someone who gets stuck there, like it feels like
every time I go to Fort Lauderdale, they have no
food options. It is I think Miami's location for an
airport is good, it's just awful if you actually have
to go there inside of it. They should keep the
(58:32):
land lease and they should just start. They should like
just knock the whole thing down and start from scratch.
It's the worst airport in America is Dulles. Dalls is
in Washington, DC. The worst airport in America. First of all,
it's from like nineteen sixty four, and they have these
stupid people mover shuttles. It's in the middle of nowhere.
(58:54):
No one has ever wanted to go to Dulles in
their entire life.
Speaker 1 (58:58):
You can't fly.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
Internationally out of National which is the best location in
terms of like you're there and you're in Washington, d C.
In like ten minutes, so you can't. It used to
be Dulles existed for long range flights because they keep
the Congress people keep expanding how far you can go.
I think Dallas is the worst airport in America.
Speaker 1 (59:18):
Charlotte Airport, Charlotte's Airport is I know that it's just
not built. Charlotte's got. The problem with that one is
that it's just too crowded because Charlotte City's exploded. Yeah,
it's just boomed, and they weren't ready for it. So
I don't really hold that you know, they just got
to do some expansion. It's not that it's that bad.
JFK is not as I don't like JFK. Really, the
(59:38):
New York Area airports New York Area, including Newark, are
are trash. I don't know what you know. Lax is nice.
People try to say la X has got a lot
of good stuff. The International Terminal. I can't throw any
any heat. All right, Well, we'll get to your talkbacks
and you'll close us out here in a second with
your Thanksgiving thoughts. And now you all know where Turkey
(59:58):
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of you had thought all this time there's a country
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with each other. And now you know, and now you know, Yes,
little history, bow for the Buckster. On this Thanksgiving you
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Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the pre Thanksgiving edition
of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm here
in NYC, soon to be known as Mom Donneville. There
are not, in fact breadlines yet on the streets. They're
(00:21):
they're not singing the Soviet national anthem anywhere, so that's
a good thing. We have my friend Clay Travis. Of course,
he's coming to you from the Panhandle, also known as
God's Country on the Gulf of America. Lovely, lovely place,
and we have a much, we have a much to
discuss with you today. We have Miranda Devine going to
(00:44):
be joining us. It's always got great things to talk about.
We've got Cash Betel, director of the FBI, and we've
been trying to talk to Cash here for a while.
We appreciate that he will be on the air with us.
More things to talk to him about that we're even
going to have time for as you can. We'll get
to as much of it with him as we can.
He is very busy trying to both round up all
(01:06):
the bad guys out there with the FBI, hard at
work and keep the streets safe and reform that institution
which was desperately in need of of just that, the FBI.
So we have a lot going on there. We've got
some other odds and enza Trump pardoning turkeys, which we
are looking forward to that discussion. Afton Baine, I cannot
(01:30):
actually believe that that is someone's and my name is
Buck Sexton, and I think that's I think Afton Baine
is a funky name. We'll talk about what this looks
like in Clay's because we have to this. This election
is happening in days. They are hoping everyone that you
will be if you live in this congressional district, which
(01:51):
I do, which my congressman, Yeah, this Clys would be
Clay's congressman, which would be pretty funny if he's in
this wonderful red state of Tennessee with among the most
lunatic members of Congress out there. She's AOC level crazy
and maybe worse.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
From what I've said, I think I think she's crazier
than AOC. And if you consider that she represents the
state of Tennessee and AOC represents New York, she is
outrageously out of line with the average Tennessee, and whereas
the average New Yorker you could at least argue, might
support much of what AOC would argue for. Also Buck
(02:31):
big news the Georgia decision with the Trump case, as
we told you, that is the Fanny Willis case that
we told you for garbage was years has officially been dismissed.
And we'll get into that more importantly. Maybe you're, as
you said, in New York City, and you have commandeered
the staff to be holding your baby son right now.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So we're where.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's like the pilots of the plane are now distracted
by a cute baby boy. I looked just down at
my phone and producer Ally I didn't even know if
she's working today.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Producer Ally is a jack of all trades. She handled
so many of the things as as ep here. But
with producers Greg and Mike, they are doing impromptu babysitting.
My wonderful wife Carrie got caught in traffic and she's
got You know, this is true for a lot of us.
Even when you move to Florida, Clay, this is I
know so many New Yorkers we still keep our various
(03:29):
like long term relationships with doctors with your you know,
people with their barber, with their hair, all these things.
So she was trying to stack all these appointments this morning,
and it is a little late getting getting in here
to the studio. But it's no problem, I told her,
because Baby Speed is a show stopper and he's hanging
out with the staff in there. He's ready for his
own microphone. I'm telling you, he's having a great time.
(03:52):
So very very much appreciate what's going on there. We'll
put that. We'll put up a Baby Speed with the
team photo on Clay and Buck. Great Thanksgiving being fair,
you know, great, great family fun going on, and we'll
also have some discussions about Thanksgiving and how thankful we
are for all of you, and how I think this
country should be thankful for the amazing position we find
(04:13):
ourselves in, despite the challenges, despite the things that aren't
exactly as we want them to be, and there are
many of them. It is a remarkable time to be
an American, my friends. And one of the reasons Clay
I like history so much is because there's I think
there's a lot of context and comfort. You know, we
both have. It's funny too, we both love history clearly different.
(04:35):
You're like a civil war super freak. You know, you're
all about civil war. I tend to like like ancient Greek,
Roman stuff, sixteenth century Mediterranean stuff, you know, some specifics.
But history gives you a context for the world that
we live in today, and it's a reminder of a
few things. One, there's really nothing new. Every humanity has
(04:57):
been through all these things that we are going through now.
And two, wo man, it's nice to be able to
just sit down at a table with an enormous plump
turkey and more. The problem is not having food on
the table like the Pilgrims, And I know Rush had
an amazing first Thanksgiving show that we've talked about before.
The problem is when to cut off all the cranberry
(05:17):
and the stuffing and everything else, which is kind of
a metaphor for where we are in America these days. Yes,
there are challenges play, but we are very blessed and
have a lot to be thankful for.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, And also to your point, history there is an
obsession with saying all the time, oh my god, this
is the worst, how can we ever get through this?
I always like to say we had an election in
the middle of the Civil War.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Eighteen sixty four, we had an election during World War Two,
and if you go back, I don't know if you've
watched any of the ken Burns Revolutionary War series at
all yet, Buck, but I've been reading the Atkinson trilogy
on Revolutionary War, and I know for many people out there,
they we kind of have this idea of the founding
(06:06):
Fathers as sort of these gilded statues, and because of
how the Revolutionary War turned out, we have created this
idea in our heads that it wasn't incredibly bloody and
contentious and violent. And because again the Constitution, Declaration of Independence,
they're they're sort of embossed in this.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Glow of of of sort of historical.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Relevance that makes it seem like they weren't contentious at
the time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It was nasty.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I mean, you go back and look at much of
our history and it's been way way way more contentious,
way more violent, way more awful than the present day
in which we live. And I think that's important because
nobody has historical knowledge at all anymore, and so everybody
is like a butterfly or a goldfish, and they think
that everything it's the first time that it's ever occurred.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
One of my favorite history factoids from the Mel Gibson
movie The Patriot, which we just I had my father
in law, yeah, Captain Flatley, I had him staying with
us over the weekend, and we were just like, what
can we watch that we'll just enjoy watching we've seen before,
Like I've reached this point now I can't even look
for new stuff because it takes so long and you
(07:22):
end up watching some some you know, communist nonsense on
Netflix for five minutes and realized that, you know, the
the era of good TV is over. But we turned
on The Patriot and the fact that the British were
very upset with the with the colonists or you know,
with with the the early Americans for shooting officers. That
(07:43):
is real. That is a real thing. The British were like,
how how dare you? And all of our guys from
like you know, areas of rural Virginia and Tennessee were like,
those officers look like good targets to me. I mean,
you know, different times, my friends, different times. But that
was considered ungentlemanly. That was a real thing. And all
of these wars that were fought in our past, were
very nasty and ungentlemanly, and they didn't have a lot
(08:07):
of the things they have today that can help save
lives as we know. Okay, I'm getting I'm getting a
little bit. Look at Thanksgiving the show. We're gonna take
a lot of your calls, a lot of your stuff.
Like we said, we got cash on which will be phenomenal.
I really want to talk to him about the the
situation of the FBI and didn't really to sped a
law enforcement helping out in these cities. I still first
of all, that Memphis is not getting enough attention. We
(08:28):
try to give it more attention here, but that that
is working, and that it is working in DC, and
that this idea of deploying more law enforcement resources is
somehow crazy as a means of bringing down crime. Clay,
the El Salvador miracle needs to be talked about more
(08:49):
in our country from basically the least safe to the
safest place per capita in the entire western hemisphere of
the globe. Okay, and how did they do it? Backing
the cops and locking up the bad guys. It does work.
It does work when you do this, and you know
I'm willing to have. We can have conversations about you know,
(09:12):
about second chances and about mercy for people who have
been convicted, on the different things. We can have that
once we bring the homicide rate down to all time
lows in all of these cities that have been plagued
with you know, let's fix the problem, and then we
can have it. I didn't say open the floodgates and
let everybring out, but then we can have more conversations
about rehabilitation and what do we do. And I think
(09:33):
at that point we'd find that there are a lot
of people that you actually can't rehabilitate, and that it's
better for them and better for us and better for
society if they are institutionalized for a long period of time,
certainly the period of time that they are most dangerous
to the public. So I think that these are all
things that we'll certainly talk to Cash about. But I
also wish that there was substantially more attention on this
(09:55):
aspect of what Trump is doing that is I think
working and should get a whole lot more attention. But
we we spoke about this, Trump pardoned the turkeys. We're
just gonna have some fun with us for a second.
You already did the Trump Pritzker line right yesterday, I
play I played a bunch.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mean again, the thing that I don't think most
people have contemplated is Trump makes everything so much more entertaining.
Whenever he's off the stage, things like the pardoning of
the turkeys are just gonna kind of vanish as entertaining things.
But this was happening yesterday during the program, and I said,
we got to show cuts of what was going on.
(10:33):
I think we can play the Pritzker line again because
it is such a funny one, as he explains why
he's not gonna talk about the fact that JB. Pritzker
is a fat slob in vintage Trump fashion, which is
very very funny.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, there's a there's Pretererizio is one way of describing this,
saying what you say you won't say. And there's another
term for it, which I can't remember, but it's a
it's a rhetorical trick, which Trump is is quite good at.
And and then there's the there's the illegal orders brew haha.
(11:08):
You know again, I was in the I was traveling
clay yesterday. I was in the air. That was why
I had to uh, you know, that was why you
were solo. So if we if you already hit all
of that, But that seems like something that is not
going away, that seems like a component of well, certainly
the Trump administration's approach to this stuff is never to
back down. But Secretary of War heg sat he he
(11:32):
does not let this stuff go lightly. Our friend Pete,
who I've known for many years, he is viewing this
with with seriousness what they have done. He is not
letting this go, no doubt. And let's play that.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Let's play the Pritzker line, because I do think it's
a good way to start off the Thanksgiving Eve show,
and we should say we're incredibly thankful to all of
you and be safe out there. I traveled yesterday, you
traveled yes day. There are people on the road all
over the country that are listening to us right now.
And by the way, if you need something to listen
to on your travels, good opportunity to go to subscribe
(12:11):
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think they said eighty two million ish people are expected
to be traveling for Thanksgiving in the country. So a
(12:32):
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I think we got to do a Crocket like biopic
(12:54):
by the way, you know, talking about good TV shows,
or like a Crockett series.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I got ad Oh, that's a good idea. I agree it.
I do like your like your Undaunted Courage idea as well.
But there's some there is such a market for great
American historical uh entertainment, and I think that's clear. I
have not watched The ken Burns. I've read some reviews
of it, of the Revolution. I may get to some
(13:19):
of it over the next few days because they're going
to be in food coma with the family and just
watching stuff I've heard. There's a little bit of Wokeness,
which I expect because it's Ken Burns, but I've heard
it's pretty well done.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Overall, so I DVR it, so I haven't watched it yet.
I don't know if people still DVR things. I still do,
so it's on my roster of things to watch. Buck
not gonna shock you. I'm going to spend pretty much Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday watching football, so I will not watch anything else. Probably,
But if I only watch one game with my you
(13:49):
know what, Clay, come back and give me the answer
on the other side, because someone's gonna love some people
are gonna love you, and some people are gonna be
angry at Clay. And I love when they get ticked
off at Clay. It's so fun. The talkbacks are hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
If if I only get to watch one football game
with my brothers and my dad, who are normal Americans
who like football, which one is it? Because I will
I will mark that one on the calendar. If I
only get one, I know you're gonna watch them all.
If I only get one, we'll come back. Clay will
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Speaker 2 (15:14):
We are joined now, but a guy that both Buck
and I are thankful is the FBI director. He is
cash Betel, Happy Thanksgiving, Cash, and congrats on what I
think most of us would say has been a really
good first year.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But I want to start with this.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You know you're doing a lot right when the Wall
Street Journal and the New York Times both had huge
expose's on you that basically said, yeah, this guy's working
a lot, he's traveling a lot, and he has a girlfriend.
I don't know that I've ever seen as much attention
paid to a girlfriend before. But congrats, And what's it
(15:57):
been like to have Buck and I. We're talking about
this on the s showing off air, but it feels
like you kind of cycle around where somebody is the target,
and right now the mainstream legacy media has decided you're
the target.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So how's it going.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, first of all, it's so great to be with
you guys. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. I'm
stuck in DC on duty, but that's okay. That's what
the job requires, and that's what we give it. You're right,
we've had a historic year. We've taken down twice as
many violent fenders as last year. Loan s he's more
phentanyl than ever before, struck a deal with China to
shut off fentanyl precursors arrested more than four hundred and
(16:32):
ninety percent increase in seven sixty four extremist those attempting
to and violating our children's rights. And that's just the
tip of the iceberg. This FBI is on fire, and
that's why the mainstream media is coming after you. They
know they politicize the FBI and law enforcement like never
before during Russia Gate and Arctic Frost, and they know
we're sitting in the seat to expose it, and that's
exactly what they're going to do. And they're baseless attacks,
(16:54):
baseless attacks against my girlfriend and me and Alexis, by
the way, is a brilliant country music start conserve commentator
in our own rights. With the fact that the mainstream
media has decided to come after me through her is
disgusting and despicable, but it also tells us we're strong
enough to get through it and we're over the target
and claim buck, we're not stopping. Wait till you see
(17:15):
what we got coming up in another Weekness.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, Director Patel, we we have we have a lot
of faith and you and Deputy Director Bongino and have
have kept that faith all along as the audience knows,
because we know you guys, and we know what you
approach this job with and and why you took this
job as well. I will note to what Clay said,
It is very clear to us that like the eye
of sourn has moved from from Secretary of War Hegseth,
(17:41):
you know, the New York Times going all out on
him to now the eye of sore and is on you.
But we know that you'll be you'll be fine with us.
In fact, here we play real quick President Trump. There
was a story circulating a day or what the last
twenty four hours. They're all saying that you know that
that that Trump is thinking about your your replacement, and
he spoke to this and basically said, fat chance, fake news.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Oh he's doing a good job, Cash Mittel, No, he's
doing a great job. I think.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Listen to the President handles that just like what are
you even what are you even talking about? But clearly
they're trying to create dissension in the ranks, so to speak. Cash,
and I want you to speak to something that we
want to give more attention to because it's so important.
The federal efforts to bring down violent crime in cities
and some of the places like Memphis, places like Saint Louis, Washington,
(18:34):
d C. Can you speak to that please and give
us some of the numbers and the stats, because the
mainstream legacy media clearly doesn't want to admit they've been
wrong on this one.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Absolutely, that's the mission here, protect the homeland and crush
violent crime. And President Trump authorized us to do just that.
And the FBI has been the beach ed in places
like Memphis and Saint Louis and Miami and so many
other cities across the country. Violent crime exploded, unto the
bidinary administration and the prior FBI leadership to blossom and
did nothing about it. What we did we took a
(19:03):
thousand agents out of Washington, DC and moved them into
the field permanently. Every single state got a plus up
of intelligence analysts and FBI agents and they hit the streets.
And what happens when you do that. You get thirty
thousand arrests, twenty five thousand of which of violent offenders.
That's twice as many as last year alone. And we
don't even have December done yet. And in terms of
(19:24):
murder rate, we are chopping the murder rate in major
cities by thirty and forty percent. In me this alone,
the homicide rate is down fifty five percent in three months.
That is an unbelievable number for the city that has
the highest per capita homicide in the United States of America.
At the FBI, I'm focused on letting good cosy cops.
Me and Deputy Director are here to push the agents
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out to the field where the work is and the
fentandel seizures. We see one hundred and twenty seven million
lethal doses of sentinel. That's a thirty one percent increase alone,
and we're taking the fight to our enemies. And we're
also engaging with partners like the CCP see where we
can to shut off sentinel precursors and make sure they
don't devastate our young communities around the country. And that's
(20:06):
just a little bit of what we're doing. We're also
the most transparent agency now forty thousand documents turned over
to Congress by this FBI nine months. Ray did thirteen
thousand in his entire seven years, and Comy did three
thousand in his entire three years. So if there are
people saying we're not transparent and committed to oversight, just
look at the evidence when.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You I know, we're really good friends with Charlie Kirk
and one of the biggest challenges of any of these jobs.
And Buck and I were live on the air when
the shooting happened. It was obviously devastating for us and
for everybody out there listening. What can you tell us
about that investigation? Do you believe based on what you've
seen so far? And I know there's a trial coming up,
so you may have to tiptoe around it a little bit,
(20:47):
do you believe that that individual acted alone? And also
do you hope, because I do, that this trial is
as public as possible so that people can see it
in all of the evidence that your agents and other
law enforcement have brought to bear there, What can you
tell us about that investigation in that case?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, you guys know, we're all super close with Charlie,
and you know, when you're that director of the FBI
and your tasked with leading for the nation's manhunt for
your friend, you got to put that piece aside. And
we were able to find the perpetrator in thirty three hours.
And that's because the FBI cut videos directly from the
university value Utah security systems publicized in for the world
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and the nation, and then we were able to apprehend
this individual. But that's just step one. Like you said,
there's a trial. And the good thing about state court,
as you guys know, is there can be cameras. On
my federal court. There are no cameras allowed ever, so
I'm hoping there's a camera in there, and i want
the world to see how we put on the display
of evidence. And it's a state prosecution, so the FBI
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is a partner, but we're not the lead. But this
I think everybody at Turning Point in Erica and everybody
in Charlie's universe knows this. FBI is committed to investigating
absolutely every single lead and that's what we're doing. On
top of that, we're protecting the integrity investigation by not
disclosing information prematurely. The prosecution must come first. Our biggest
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failure after this tragedy would be to allow this individual
to walk freely because of the myth queue of evidentiary
collection or disclosure of improper information. I'm not going to
let that happen.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We're speaking to the FBI Director Cash Pattel and Director
Patel The audience here has been for a long time,
very very consistent on they want more transparency when it
comes to Epstein files. Doj we know we just had
this vote. President Trump came out in favor of the
Epstein Transparency Act, huge votes or rather almost unanimous votes
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in an incentate in the House in order to release
more files. Just can you can you speak to this
because there has been among the Trump faithful a lot
of frustration with some of the stops start on the
and what feels to some like hiding the football, like
just you know what's out there, you know what's coming out.
(23:08):
I wanted to give you the floor to address people
who support President Trump, supported the pick of you and
Deputy Director Bongino, and specifically wanted to get to the
heart of this issue. So what can you tell everybody
about that?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Absolutely, Look, we have to remind the audience that President
Trump was the one who had the audacity and compunction
and right place so to reopen the Epstein case. The
US Attorney Acosta over fifteen years ago handle this case
and basically bootstrapped any future investigation because he limited the search,
larrence and investigatory parameters and got judges to sign off
on it and agreed to a non prosecution deal and
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agree to a prohibition against the disclosure of information. Now,
once President Trump reopened that and we're now in the
second Trump administration, we committed to reviewing every single piece
of information in there for any credible leads and for
anyone out there saying, oh, we're detecting pedophiles. We have
arrested three hundred percent more pedophiles during the nine months
that I've been there forad Director and year to date
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last year alone, we have dismantled child pedophile rings and
are crushing seven six four networks. So we're on it,
but we cannot violate court orders and put out information
that a federal judge is prohibited us. On top of that,
there are victims' rights, where we will always protect victims rights.
But we have been committed to work with Congress to
put out as much as we can. The Department of
Justice is beyond back to court twice now to get
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permission for us to disclose more information. And the biggest distinction,
by the way, is that there's the Epstein estate. They
have had information for years that they have refused to
turn over to law enforce and authorities. And by the way,
this FBI has been asking everybody that represents the victim,
anyone that knows anything about these alicious, alleged acts of
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sexual deviance and violence, to please come forward.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Wait, can you explain this because this is how is
it that the estate? I mean, you're the FB. Well,
I think people hear this. What do you mean that
they won't release Like, don't they have to release?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
No, anyone's in state. They it's your state, someone else's
a state unless there is a criminal violation occurring there.
There is no lawful mechanism to force an a state
to surrender information. And that's the key the battle with
But what I was saying earlier is we've asked not
only the Estate and everybody else who's been saying we
have information of new victims, of people on Congress holding
(25:27):
their microphone rallies and everything. Do you not many people
have come forward to this FBI with quote unquote new information. Zero,
not one person. Every time I ask, no one comes forward,
This FBI will investigate any new leaves. And we're also
committed to transparency, as they said, forty thousand pages to
Congress in just nine months alone. We're not hiding anything.
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We're committed to max transparency while protecting victims' rights, and
we are going to a vive by whatever quote orders
there are, because those are the laws of the land.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
We did ask for some of our VIPs, Director Battel,
to send in their thoughts and question essions for you.
One coming in from lewis here, how is it going
with the subversives and those who are not dedicated to
the mission in the FBI and leakers who are trying
to play political games? Basically, Director Patel, how's the cleanup
of the FBI going fantastic?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
This institution of law enforcement will be just that. There
will be no weaponization and no politicization. And those people
that have been jettison from the scrolls of the FBI
have been done so because they failed to meet the
mission standards or their ethical obligations. And so we are
going across the country and replacing anyone and removing anyone
who fails to meet our high standard here. As we've
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done that, we're going to continue to do that. I'm
committed to that because that's what President Trump was elected for,
to make sure we end the weaponization. No more Russia Gate,
no more artic for us, no more illegal spying on
political opponents, members of Congress, and staffers, including like myself,
submitting us to countless hours of grand jury and courtroom expenditures.
We have ended that era, and anyone who participate in
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it will be exposed in held account.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
What can you tell us about the Trump assassination investigation?
The first one, because unfortunately, I know there was two.
There were reports out there Tucker Carlson New York posts saying, hey,
this guy had substantial actions online, that he was potentially
trans influenced. I mean a furry I mean, this is crazy.
(27:22):
I mean, I'm curious whether you think there is when
you look at Minneapolis, when you look at Nashville, when
you look at the allegations of Utah, and maybe the
allegations of this Trump shooter is trans violence being under investigated.
But what can you tell us about the investigation of
that first Trump shooter potential trans connections anybody else?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Do you believe the acted alone? What does the evidence show?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We follow the evidence and that's it, and we've brief
President Trump the entire way and he's been fully satisfied
with our investigatory steps. We got into this FBI, the
prior FBI for whatever mistakes they made in for whatever
information they didn't release. We've released everything we possible and
we've told the public we see every device got into
every device of the assailants, got into all of his
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social media, all of his email accounts, and we've publicized
that information. And if there was any investigatory lead that
actually led to anyone else, we will one hundred percent
take it. But again it goes back to credible information.
If you post something on social media and someone comments
on it and that's not a connection necessarily, that's not
necessarily credible. It's like going on x and following a
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million comments from the client Buck Show, but we look
at every single one of them. We will we will
not leave any stone unturned, and that's what we did here.
We redoubled our efforts and we will continue to take
any new information that develops.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You started with us saying next couple of weeks, we
got some things coming again, Buck and I are excited
you're there. We're excited Dan Bongino's there. We think you
guys have done a fantastic job. What kind of prediction
can you give us as we move into December? What
should people be paying attention to in your mind, what
would you like them to know?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
More accountability on high profile cases. That's coming for sure.
We're going to disclose. This is the battle rhythm. We
said here for the first time ever at the FBI,
we are simultaneously disclosing the Congress while simultaneously investigating. That's
never been done before. You've seen the stonewalling from prior administrations,
and we're not doing that. But we are not going
to cripple an investigation before we get to the end points.
(29:23):
You're going to see that. You're also going to see
things like historic reduction and murder rates across the country
by double digits. We'll put those numbers out in December.
That is a massive victory for the American people, brought
to you by the Trump administration and this FBI. And
we're about to bring some arrests for high profile cases.
And we'll just again we won't let the indictments and
the public prosecution speak to our efforts. Those that say
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we know van and I never say, sit here and
trust this. Look at the body of work that this
FBA is done. And when you look at the mainstream
media attack if we're so failing if we're so bad,
how is it that we have record historic arrests and
record amounts of state for the American people, record drug seizures,
record narcotics arrests, record arrests of stopping terrorism attacks like
we did in Michigan, and the mainstream media came in
(30:09):
after us for that as well. If we followed them,
they would have allowed us to arrest the individuals after
they killed Americas. This FBI is not failing.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You had a recent press conference where you announced the
arrest of Chauncey billups of NBA prominent players Damon Jones,
also MLB. Do you think that investigation is complete or
their potential other individuals that could be charged related to
those incidents?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
That investigation is ongoing, all.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Right, FBI Director Patel, thank you so much for making
the time for us. Thanks for all the work you're
putting in over there. You have our best the Deputy
Director Bongino, you know we're thinking about him too. Happy
Thanksgiving to you and to all the men and women
of the FBI who are doing it the right way
and getting the job done. Thank you, Thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Happy Thanksgiving. Appreciate your wonderful audience.
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Thanksgiving before Turkey Day here on Clay and Buck. I'm
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yet Mom Donnieville. It is still Eric Adams down and
it's looking good. I got to say a lot of
people on the streets here. The energy is high, the
prices are higher. And h Clay, yeah, it's crazy. I
mean hotels here and everything. It's just this city is,
uh somehow it only gets more expensive. Clays down in Panama.
(32:30):
I'm sorry, hand of unexpected. That's the Panhandle, not Panama.
I was thinking about places. Panama is where I am
right now. But that'd be fun, though.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I hear not working out in the Panama Canal right now,
to try to make sure ships are getting through.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
He's a team player, you know. We want to help
with affordability. Got to make sure those supertankers get through
the Panama Canal. So Clays down there directing traffic with
his bare hands. That's the kind of man he is.
We do have now, Miranda Devine, We're about to just
start tap dancing and telling funny stories. We are joined
now by New York Post Commis Branda and Vine. Also,
Podforce one is her wonderful podcast which is doing great.
(33:13):
People love it. Miranda. So now we're taking a bit
of a hard turn here because the situation of some
of these high profile cases. We can come back and
talk Thanksgiving with you toward the end, but these high
profile cases where you have just horrific things happening. Now, look,
the perpetrators in these specific cases, on the light rail
(33:34):
in North Carolina, on the L train in Chicago, the
perpetrators are black men. In these cases, the victims are
white women. And the most salient fact when it comes
to the law enforcement side of things is that these
or i should say the judicial and you know, general
law enforcement side of things, is that some of these
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judges have let these individuals out in one case of
the horrific, horrific stabbing, another lit this woman on fire
who is fighting for her life in critical condition, the
judges let them out dozens and dozens of times. You
want accountability, you want this to stop. Tell us what
that would look like.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Ah, Honestly, it's so clear that the judges are endangering
the lives of the rest of us by this kind
of I don't know whether you call it what Gadzad
calls it, with suicidal empathy or just they don't care
but they need to be held accountable. Everyone else is
held accountable, Cops if they do the wrong thing in
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an arrest, Doctors, every other professional is held accountable.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
But judges just.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Have some sort of immunity that I think needs to
be punctured. At least then they might think twice before
they let out some of these monsters on the streets
when they should be locked up. And I mean the
alleged respect in the case of Bethany McGhee in Chicago,
(35:03):
who was a beautiful young girl doused in gasoline and
then set on fire. She has, you know, facial disfigurement,
half her body is burned. She's in the burns unit
in critical condition. He was so deemed so violent that
he couldn't even be kept in a locked wing psychiatric
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wing of the local hospital because he'd assaulted a social
worker so badly that she had a bruised cornea concussion.
That keeps, you know, some sort of problem that lingers
and disjudge, knowing all the litany of seventy two arrests
and the arson and the aggravated assault in his background,
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still let him out on the street with an ankle monitor,
which is utterly useless.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
What do you think, Miranda.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
You've been running around doing all your interviews, which have
been doing great for The New York Post as a
part of your podcast Thanksgiving week, and soon we're going
to be sprinting through the Christmas holiday season, as everybody knows,
Year one will be over, So I think we could
start to kind of give takes overall on Trump year one.
(36:17):
What is your take on Trump year one? And if
he were asking you, hey, what should I focus on
for the next six months leading into the primary season
and the midterms, what would you tell him he should
do going forward.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I think his first year has been incredibly successful and dynamic,
especially when you compare it to his first term when
he was crippled the whole year by Russia. Gay But look,
I mean, I think they have it all in hand.
You know, he's focusing particularly on affordability because I mean,
(36:53):
you saw from Mandani quite cleverly made that the centerpiece
of his campaign, and since that success, now affordability is
the watchword for politicians everywhere, which I think is a
good thing. So I think they'll be focusing on that
in terms of their messaging. But I think that the
Trump administration's been raiser sharp on lowering inflation and trying.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
To set the economy right.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
And I know that, you know, his Trump's been attacking
the Reserve Board chairman because well said, sorry, Ceral Reserve governor.
I thought I was in Australia set a reserve government
to try and get interest rates down, which will make
a difference as well. So that and then I think
they should just keep just and I hope they do.
(37:43):
But you know, there seems to be rumbles to let
off on the deportations because of the optics and the
craziness of the Democrat pushback, but I.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Think they should double down on it.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
They've already managed to get rid of a million and
a half and they're you know, they're twenty million some
ond or maybe ten million came in under Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, I think that they need to continue on with that, Miranda.
And also the you're noting, which is a very important
component of it, the number of actual deportations, which I
think is about a half a million that have been
processed as deportations, and then the self deportations as in
people who are illegals who have left the country, which
is in far actually a far greater number because they're like, look,
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I don't want to get deported and I don't want
to go through that process, so they actually go back
to their country of origin and get a lot of
visa overstays. People like that that do that as well.
I think it's critical that they continue on with this.
But I also you know, we had Director Patel on
of the FBI in the last hour Miranda, so only
only a list guests today allowed on the show, and
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we asked him about these law enforcement efforts. You know,
one we talked about these crazy judges who let people out.
You know, sure they've done they've been violent, and it's
their seteth the rest, but maybe seventy five is the
lucky number on the stop. I mean, this is madness,
it's anti civilization. It makes us all less safe. But
what the Trump administration has been doing with the federal
law enforcement side, the numbers are looking really good in
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these cities, and yet all these people saying it's not
going to do anything. That's clearly not true.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, it's clearly not true. And look, I think this
is just part of this sicko resistance that's growing. It's
the way the Democrats think that they can slow down
the agenda for Trump will block it all together like
they did in the first term, and they're just throwing
everything that the kitchen think at it. And part of
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that is the crazy protests and a lot of boomers
out there with nothing better to do but line up
for hours at home depot and you know by five
dollars scrapers or one dollar scrapers or whatever it is.
So I just feel like there's a lot of sort
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of storm and drang, lot of craziness out there. But
the seems to me the Trump administration and Trump himself
is just forging ahead and ignoring it all. And eventually,
I think in time for the midterms, there will be
enough sort of successes chalked up on the economy and
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crime and everything else that you know, they'll be able
to emerge out into the sunlit uplands and benefit from
that with the voters.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
So anyway, and I think that the deportations and the
self deportations, part of the reason the self deportations are
going so well is because of those optics, because of
the military style, you know, raids that they're doing just
to pick up I went on one in Chicago just
to pick up one illegal migrant criminal. It's like, you know,
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they're entering for Lousiah. The amount of equipment and helicopters
and drones and you know, the special vehicles and vehicles.
But they have to do it for their own safety.
And I think it's a good thing that it looks
like overkilled because it scares the rest of them and
they think, well, let's go back to our home country
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and come back the right way. And they've been promised,
They've given money to help them with their travel expenses,
and then they promised that they will you get to
be on the front of the queue if they.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Want to come back legally.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Miranda, I think you talked with Buck about this. If
I'm not mistaken, I think I was out. But Hunter
Biden and the degree to which he is spiraling, where
do you think all this ends? And do you expect
that there will be any consequences today? Earlier the Georgia
case got kicked to the curbs. South Florida's done, Washington
d C Is done. I think eventually, as we've said
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on this program for a long time, New York City
is going to get tossed by the courts because it
was a sham prosecution and a sham case. What is
the end stage for lawfair? Will any of the Hunter
Biden universe be held accountable? That's one of the I'm
mary questions we probably get going forward. Or do you
think basically all this is over and Hunter's just going
to continue to do podcast tours where he insults people
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like you and kind of throws fits.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Well, I think all eyes are on Fort Pierce in Florida,
where you know, there's going to be a grand jury
convened to look at this grand conspiracy case that's being built,
I'm told, and that will encompass Joe Biden, Barack Obama,
and Hillary Clinton, as well as the usual suspects of
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John Brennan's and James Clappers and Jim Comey, et cetera.
So that's I mean, that's a pretty ambitious proposal, but gosh,
if it came off, it would be so satisfying but
also so important for the country to ensure something like
this never happens again, where you know, a president and
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a presidential candidate is assaulted every which way with law
fair assassination attempts and so on, and so in that way,
I think Joe Biden, perhaps not charged, but as an
unindicted co conspirator, certainly that would assist in giving me
giving posterity a real view of who he was as
(43:18):
Hunter Biden. I mean I see him as much as
a victim of his father as anything else. I mean,
he's a victim of his own problems and his own
addictions and appetites. But look, he has political ambitions. So
it just depends what direction this country goes in. If
it doesn't start heading on the up and up with
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Trump in charge, then there could be a real possibility
of a Hunter Biden running for president.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
So, Miranda, before we let you go, wait, I thought
for president. I just threw it in at the end
as a record scratch moment at the house party said
ohoh wait a second. He's a maniac play so I
would not be so prized if he ran. In fact,
he'd probably do better than Kamala Harris. Do you think
is going to run anyway? I wanted to ask you this, Miranda, Australia,
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you guys don't do Thanksgiving? Do you? What's up with that? Well,
why aren't our Aussie brothers and sisters doing a Thanksgiving?
It sounds like such a great holiday that everybody could
get behind. I know, I don't think you have turkeys
down there because they're not dangerous enough for Australia. But
what can you tell us is this something that maybe
is going to catch on down Under?
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Well, Australian didn't have Pilgrims.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
And all the history that you had.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
That's so wonderful that and we don't have the same
seasons as you. Like it's spring there now, yea, and
all that. But Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday for I
just think it is so wonderful and Americans are at
their absolute best. Food is delicious, Everyone's in a great mood,
it's the most hospitable. It just showcases American hospitality. I
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would have to say, from my very earliest memories here
in my various iterations, I've just loved Thanksgiving and I
hope everyone has a wonderful day and a stressfue happy
day with lots of delicious gobble gobble turkey.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
That's like a really good answer on Thanksgiving. Yes, I agree.
You know she stuck the landing on that one. Guys,
go check out pod Force one and that's Miranda's podcast.
Highly recommend it and Miranda, have a very happy Thanksgiving.
We're glad you loved the holiday.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Thank you, thanks so much time back.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
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that Clan Buck podcast feed, including a lot of our
great hosts, Tutor Dixon, Dave Rutherford, Carol Markowitz, Ryan Gerdusky
(48:08):
Chef Andrew Grule. I'm doing this from the top I
had whom I leaving off. There's always one or two
just the Markowitz. Did you say Carol, Yeah, I think
I said Lisa bo Lisa Booth, Thank you Lisa Booth.
So yes, those are all people that you can listen
to in the podcast network, and I think you should. Clay,
there's a little bit of a little bit of a
little bit of history, a little bit of lore that
(48:28):
I want to introduce to the program. Do you have
any idea? This is I've always been someone who's fascinated
by the origins of things. This is just ever since
I was a little kid. Why is that thing the
way it is? Or why is it called what it is?
You know where that we're why we call the bird
turkey a turkey? Have you ever thought about this?
Speaker 2 (48:51):
The only thing I'll know about the turkey, and this
is a little bit of anecdote, and is that Benjamin
Franklin wanted the turkey instead of the bald eagle to
be the official bird symbol of the United States.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
I think that was a rare a rare l for
for our man, Ben. You know, I think that the
American bald eagle is atle slightly more majestic. You know
what I'm saying, Like, no, when we have to go
into other countries and whoop some ass, do we really
want like a like a screaming turkey on the side
of our A ten or on the side of our
(49:22):
F sixteen, or or do we want a American bald eagle.
I'm just saying, you know, the I think personally that's
the way to do it. There we go, there we go.
Oh wow, have you ever have you ever been near
enough one that they started to chase you? I have?
Speaker 2 (49:36):
You know, I was on a hike yesterday. Hike is
a bit of an exaggeration. I was walking in my name,
you walk to your property. That that's where we are now.
Clay has turned into Chevy Chase from Caddy Shack. Who
He's like, I just get lost in my own home sometimes.
I went across the street in my new neighborhood. There
is a I think it's probably a hill. I don't
(49:56):
know what the difference is between a hill and a mountain.
It's more hill than mountain. You know where I am
in Middle Tennessee, we have rolling hills more so than anyways,
A pretty high, pretty high hike. And I was walking
up the side of this hill as one does majestic
majestic hike by myself, and huge what are they called
(50:17):
flocks of turkeys all suddenly appeared. There were like six
of them, and one of them started to chase me,
and I, you know, being the brave man that I am,
I just kind of stood my ground and the turkey
didn't come after me that but I wondered, what do
I do if he actually gets to me?
Speaker 1 (50:33):
I guess I kick him. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
I don't know what the appropriate way to fend off
a turkey is. But yeah, like they were just wild
turkeys in the in the New neighborhood where I live.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
So this is this is a fun one. As we
all know, there's a country named Turkey, which corresponds with
the seat of the former Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman
traders in the fifteen hundreds, so Ottoman slash Turkish traders
brought into Europe a bird that came from West Africa. Okay, now,
(51:05):
the bird that they brought in from West Africa was
actually a well, they started calling it a turkey cock
or a turkey hen because it was brought in via,
so it's like they took it from West Africa. The Ottomans,
they brought it, you know, through their ships, they brought
it into Europe. They started calling it a turkey cock
(51:26):
or a turkey hen. And then when we start having
more time in the Americas, they discovered the Spanish conquistadors
discover the domesticated turkey that the Aztecs had had for
a long time. So the Aztecs had domesticated a turkey,
like we have you know, chickens, and so they brought
them back to Europe, and those that they brought back
(51:48):
to Europe looked like the what's actually a guinea foul
from Guinea and West Africa. But people thought, oh, that's
like the same thing, and that came to us via Turkey.
So they were calling the new bird in the America's
a turkey? Is that all I know? It's a little
round about. So basically the name turkey comes from the
(52:10):
African guinea fowl that was transported by Ottoman traders to Europe,
who then confused when the conquistadors brought back from the
New World the domesticated bird that had no name that
looked like the guinea fowl that they were calling a turkey,
they started calling the new bird a turkey. Boom history.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
So that is the bird equivalent of how we came
to call Native Americans Indians.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Yeah, very close, Yeah, very similar. Yeah. Yeah, I mean
it's had no idea.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
I would have thought that there was probably a connection
between the country and the bird, but I had never
figured out the entomology there.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
So boom.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Now everybody has a turkey story to share at their Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
So what we were eating is a bird that Europeans
hundreds of years ago thought name for the traders that
brought a bird from Africa when they actually brought a
bird from the New World that they thought was the
same bird from Africa, and they called it Turkey because
the guys bringing to them were Turkish. There you go. Now,
I just thought everybody should know, Like, that's that's kind
(53:21):
of a fun one, isn't it. That's pretty good. I
think it's good.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
I think it's a good bit of knowledge for everybody
out there to share with their families.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Oh to your point, by the way, Clay, in Turkish,
the bird is called Hindi, meaning from India. So there
you go, because from the Indies because they got it,
they where they transported it from. You know. There's like
a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (53:46):
Well, you can find this on the podcast along with
Russia's Thanksgiving and we are asking for suggestions as Monday
will be the first day of December that we will
be back and uh let's see, we have Kenneth from
uh hold On Sheldon from North Carolina in in. This
is Buck's favorite song. This is what he wants to
(54:09):
ensure that we are playing. We ask for Christmas suggestion music.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
In in.
Speaker 5 (54:15):
Listen Manheim steam Roller whatever, Yeah, brush us to play
it every year Manham Steamroller.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
I'm just saying I'm pulling together a best of Mannheim
playlist for this show. I celebrate the whole catalog. I'm
I'm a Mannheim officionado and I'm in I'm our point man.
I'm a comologist, chief Kamala expert, although I'm gonna read one.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
Hundred in seven days, which is the one of the
worst punishments I can think too to give someone I'm
gonna have to surrender my comologist title if she does
in fact run for president by the way, which I'm
starting to get a little worried about that one. And
then the other one is I'm a Manheim Steamroll expert,
so I'm like chief Steamroller if you will, John in Sacramento.
(55:05):
By the way, we're talking about reclining seats. I want
to one hundred percent sign on with John in Sacramento.
This also drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
KK.
Speaker 5 (55:13):
Hey, guys, you talk a lot about airplane terrorist. What
about road terrorist people that don't move over to the
right after passing somebody that's going slower than them, or
people that go slow on the hills and then speed
up when you're trying to pass them in a passing lane.
Speaker 2 (55:32):
Yeah, road terrorists there. I want police, And I know
we have a lot of you listening right now. I
think you should get pulled over if you're not driving
fast enough in the left lane instead of worrying about
overall speed. When Buck Sexton, you know, driving this daisy
over there is going forty five miles an hour in
the left lane, I want There's nothing more infuriating to
(55:53):
me when driving than a guy or gal who is
in the left lane that doesn't seem to notice that
there are forty six people lined up behind them because
they are going the same speed in the left lane,
or even slower than people are going in the right.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Just a lot of you are driving right now, and
I just want you to think of this. You want
to know what it's like when Klay Travis is your driver.
Remember that scene in Maverick Top Gun, the first scene,
the first scene where he's in the experimental plane and
people were like, is this thing gonna come apart? Don't
go to like mock twelve or whatever. That's Clay's foot
on the accelerator in his suv. You start to be like,
(56:29):
I think this car is rattling a little bit. Is
this can it go these speeds? Is there enough air
in these tires for this?
Speaker 2 (56:35):
I am a I'm a rapid mover, And if you
are a slow mover, god forbid, you're driving slow in
the left lane headed to the airport. To immediately get
on the plane and then recline your seat directly in
front of me, I'll be done for Somebody sent an
email in and said, why don't you just fly first class? Clay,
I fly Southwest Airlines. There is no first class. Nashville,
(56:58):
Tennessee's number one airline in the public airport is Southwest Airlines,
and so even if I wanted to get a first
class Southwest Airline seat, they do not exist. Every seat
is the exact.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
I'm gonna tell you, I'm actually a little bitter every
time I come to visit you and the iHeart team
based in Nashville. At how much better you're like your airport.
It's a great area. You guys are so spoiled in Nashville,
and really the holiday season, a lot of you are
going through airports today. Man, there are airports, and there
are airports, and Nashville is clean and civilized and orderly,
(57:32):
and there's good food options and it all makes sense.
Miami is a third world airport. I don't know what
to say. Miami is the worst major airport in the country.
You're always walking like four miles. Everything looks the same.
The food options are garbage. Okay, there is a secret
Chick fil A if you know where to go, but
other than that, but it's not it's not first of all,
(57:53):
if the walk like you're gonna walk off your whole
chicken sandwich on the way there. Miami Airport's the worst
airport in the Maybe I mean think you have a
worst airport. La Guardia used to be terrible, and the
Delta terminal LaGuardia they knocked the cover off the ball.
It's really nice. I think the worst airport.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
So, first of all, Fort Lauderdale is easier to get
in and out of, but it's also an awful airport.
As someone who gets stuck there, like it feels like
every time I go to Fort Lauderdale, they have no
food options. It is I think Miami's location for an
airport is good, it's just awful if you actually have
to go there inside of it. They should keep the
(58:32):
land lease and they should just start. They should like
just knock the whole thing down and start from scratch.
It's the worst airport in America is Dulles. Dalls is
in Washington, DC. The worst airport in America. First of all,
it's from like nineteen sixty four, and they have these
stupid people mover shuttles. It's in the middle of nowhere.
(58:54):
No one has ever wanted to go to Dulles in
their entire life.
Speaker 1 (58:58):
You can't fly.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
Internationally out of National which is the best location in
terms of like you're there and you're in Washington, d C.
In like ten minutes, so you can't. It used to
be Dulles existed for long range flights because they keep
the Congress people keep expanding how far you can go.
I think Dallas is the worst airport in America.
Speaker 1 (59:18):
Charlotte Airport, Charlotte's Airport is I know that it's just
not built. Charlotte's got. The problem with that one is
that it's just too crowded because Charlotte City's exploded. Yeah,
it's just boomed, and they weren't ready for it. So
I don't really hold that you know, they just got
to do some expansion. It's not that it's that bad.
JFK is not as I don't like JFK. Really, the
(59:38):
New York Area airports New York Area, including Newark, are
are trash. I don't know what you know. Lax is nice.
People try to say la X has got a lot
of good stuff. The International Terminal. I can't throw any
any heat. All right, Well, we'll get to your talkbacks
and you'll close us out here in a second with
your Thanksgiving thoughts. And now you all know where Turkey
(59:58):
comes from. How many of you be on how many
of you had thought all this time there's a country
and a bird and these things have nothing to do
with each other. And now you know, and now you know, Yes,
little history, bow for the Buckster. On this Thanksgiving you
could even say you're thankful for Buck's history. Nerdness. All right,
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