Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Aug 5 2026

Clay Travis and Buck Sexton discussed the rise of Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates, like Abdul El-Sayed, the continued strength of progressive figures and movements, and what they see as increasing tension between moderate and far-left factions. They examined election trends in several states, reviewed primary results beyond Michigan, and debated how Democratic candidates could attempt to reposition themselves for general election voters. The conversation also explored polling accuracy, voter demographics, turnout considerations, and the importance of key swing states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia in shaping future national elections.

Clay and Buck take on the media criticism of Travis’s proposal, including discussion of a Minneapolis television commentator who accused him of using the challenge to mock women’s athletics. Clay and Buck rejected that criticism, arguing that their position is intended to defend women’s sports rather than diminish them. The hosts contended that acknowledging biological differences is the foundation for maintaining separate athletic competitions and argued that allowing biological males to compete in women’s leagues undermines competitive fairness. Throughout the hour, they repeatedly returned to the idea that the controversy reflects a larger national disagreement about gender identity, public policy, and the role of sports in cultural debates.

A high-profile interview with Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers following Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s primary victory. Mike Rogers joined the program to outline his strategy for the general election, arguing that Michigan voters are looking for change after years of Democratic leadership. Rogers emphasized economic issues including manufacturing jobs, education performance, energy costs, housing affordability, and economic development, while portraying El-Sayed as far outside the political mainstream. The discussion centered on how Republicans can compete for independent voters, blue-collar workers, suburban voters, minority voters, and traditionally Democratic constituencies in a state expected to play a major role in determining the balance of power in Washington.

Clay and Buck shifted to Tennessee politics with an interview featuring Johnny Garrett, a Republican candidate for Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District. Garrett discussed his campaign message, support for President Trump’s agenda, low-tax and conservative governance, and efforts to bring what he described as successful Tennessee policies to Washington. The conversation also explored redistricting, election administration, border security, voting integrity, and the SAVE Act. Garrett argued for stricter election safeguards and highlighted Tennessee’s election systems as a model for the rest of the country.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Wednesday edition of Clay and Fuck kicks off right now.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh boy, what a show, What a day.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Michigan's mom Donnie wins the Democrat Senate primary. Al Sayed
fellow Abdul al Sayed is victorious against his challenger, Harley Stevens,
and we will have that discussion. We'll talk about what
this means. There's some other primary results that are certainly

(00:35):
worth us spending some time on. And mister Clay Travis
is continuing to make the rounds on media elsewhere as
his ten million dollar WNBA franchise expansion challenge is catching fire.
And some people very upset, very upset at the observation

(00:59):
of reality that men are better than women at roughly
equivalent levels, meaning college to professional or maybe even high
school professional in a lot of different sports. This is controversial,
even though that is the basis of why we have
men's and women's sports separated. Right, we don't have a
men's and women's SAT, but we do have a men's

(01:19):
and women's basketball team and league, etc. There are reasons
for this. There are reasons for this. We shall discuss that. Yes, sir,
there you Clay. If you're not on YouTube. You're missing
out because he's wearing a blazer today, which means he's
probably doing some mover and shaker stuff. Were you just
hanging out with the CEO of Goldman?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
What's going on here?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Apologies for being like thirty seconds late. I was on
with Piers Morgan. Things got heated are here, as things
often do with the debate over men and women's sports.
They actually had a guy on the show who was
refused using Peers. I give Peers really does do a

(02:02):
good job of questioning, and he got a left winger
on there and he said, hey, would you acknowledge that
steroids are, for instance, an issue? And the guy kept saying, well,
I don't care at all about men and women's sports.
I think this is a huge distraction. There's nothing to it.
And Peers got him to admit that he cared about
steroids and cheating in baseball in the Olympics. He said,

(02:24):
wait a minute, why do you care about fairness in
competition as it pertains to that, but you will not
acknowledge any issues in men and women's sports. But it
was the very end of the show, so this went
over ran. Paul was on as a guest and so
I legitimately sprinted over here. Thank you for bringing us
in right off the top. But I'm if you're watching

(02:47):
on YouTube, I got to adjust my chair here in
a minute too. But if you're watching on YouTube, you
are getting to see me in a sports coat and
a button down, which I rarely wear on this program.
But a couple of other things you just hit off
right off the top. The biggest I would say this
is effectively in many ways in earthquake because Abdul Lsayed

(03:11):
won this Michigan Democrat Senate primary, but buck he only
won it by around one point. Hailey Stevens only lost
this primary by about fifteen thousand votes. And it's another
huge polling era error in the polling era of failure
that continues. And now Mike Rogers is going to be

(03:35):
going head to head against abdul lsayad in Michigan and
this may well decide the United States Senate control because
I think Mike Rogers is going to beat him.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I really do. Well.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I would also like you to know everyone that the
timing is fortuitous. I believe we have Mike Rodgers joining
us today on the program Play the Check Yes with
us about this very important Senate race, which, of course
people are going to look at any swing state like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia,

(04:07):
look at these places and the election results and extrapolate,
rightly or wrongly, what this means for the big twenty
twenty eight election. And I'm not trying to freak any
of you out, but Clay and I have already been
mentally preparing ourselves for this. The president next presidential election
cycle basically starts in January and we are in August,

(04:31):
meaning that this is going to be a big This
is going to be a thing, my friends. There's going
to be a battle royale among the Democrats. We're going
to see something happen. Who is the heir apparent for
Maga seem to be the vice president, but some people
think maybe they's something else afoot. We'll get into all this,
so Clay, just a brief over. I want to dial
into the al sai Ed thing too, who has let

(04:53):
everybody know that his Instagram algorithm is very focused on
OnlyFans models, which we can play that clip. I'm gonna
tell you something. Don't tell your wife, everybody, don't tell
your wife. My Instagram is just all these only things
models in the algorithm don't.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Don't do that.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
This is gonna be a rare situation where you will
hear me defend abdull lsayd. That is probably a sign
that he is looking at a lot of pretty girls
on Instagram. I gotta be honest with you. I the
every time somebody comes out and I think I've said
it before too, like my Instagram algorithm, Buck, this is

(05:30):
not gonna shock you.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
It is all like sports, and I know where it is.
It's sports.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I like if I go, if I go into the algorithm,
I'm just being honest with everybody. Sports and pretty girls. Now,
what I actually think is the most crazy thing about
this Instagram algorithm in general. I don't know if we've
talked about this on the program. The AI fake pretty
girls are now starting to wipe out the actual pretty
girls on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Buck.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's to the point now where I see a pretty girl,
I can't even tell if it's a real person or
if it's just an AI bot creation of a pretty girl,
which is now funny. The competition for pretty girls is
not other pretty girls primarily on Instagram influencing, it's whether
it's actually a real person or.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Not again, not coming down hard on this one wan
or the other.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm just saying, guys, don't announce for no reason that
your Instagram algorithm is just beautiful women in lingerie, because
you know your wife or your girlfriend doesn't really need
to hear that. But back to the election results. Here
we'll talk about mister I al said on what this means,
I'll give you a little preview. I think Clay and
I are gonna as often happens, we never do this beforehand.

(06:39):
I think it's just because while we agree on a lot,
we have just somewhat different dispositions and perspectives on the
world around us. I think he thinks I'll say at
his toast against Mike Rogers and I am worried.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Well, I am concerned. Here's what I would say.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I don't want to do this right now, but
go ahead, go ahead, We've got a home.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
I don't know that I would say host.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
This is gonna be a super close race, right I
mean Michigan, we said yesterday a Senate candidate from the
Republican side has not won in Michigan since the nineteen nineties.
Who's a Republican? So this is gonna be a tough
battleground race, but I am very optimistic, very optimistic.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
You saw like my dad calling who's gonna win the
football game? Sun?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's clearly gonna be the Giants, but I mean maybe
the Cowboys, like Okay, you know, having a little tide.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Down to two points one way or the other, it's
gonna be fifty one forty nine one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
I think, So let's we're gonna we're gonna dive into
that certainly some more and what this means, but I just, Clay,
I want to set the table a bit with what
we are seeing right now and in this primary.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
And what's going on.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Five states held primaries yesterday, Okay, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia,
and Washington. By far, the one that's getting the most
attentions we've already discussed is the very narrow defeat of
Hailey Stevens by I'll abdu al sayed. So it was
a one percentage point difference, fifteen thousand votes over a

(08:04):
million casts. That's a big deal. The Democrats, Well, the
other races are not really I'm trying to skip through
to just the ones that we care about.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Rep.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
John James, who is Trump backed, is now facing off
against Benson for the governor's race in Michigan, so that
will be interesting as well. As you've got a governor's
race with some with a Trump backed candidate on the
Republican side, who's got a real shot. You've got Kansas

(08:35):
governor's race. There nothing that's really getting that much attention.
And you know the Washington has a top two primary system,
so we'd have to spend more time on that. But
the broadest takeaway here, Clay, I think is you've still
you have this continued rise of far left candidates within
the Democrat Party. There is clearly a trend here. The

(08:59):
trend is not definitive, but the trend is real and
I don't see it slowing down any time soon.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, I think what it represents, and this is the
analogy that I would draw. I think what it represents
is in twenty twenty two, there was such frustration with
Joe Biden and the way that the twenty twenty election
went and COVID and everything else that I said, I
expected there to be a red tsunami, and you got

(09:28):
it a little bit in New York, and you got
it a little bit in Florida, and the House did flip.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
But this we got a big time in Florida. It
just didn't wash around the rest of the country, correct And.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
A reason why it didn't ultimately wash around the rest
of the country was Democrats had been strategic and they
had helped to elevate the further right candidate in all
of the Republican primaries. They were actually out there buying
ads to support right wing candidates. And so as all
of this played out, I think in a very significant way,

(10:02):
Republicans overreached in twenty twenty two, and that cost us
in a bunch of otherwise close environments, and we didn't
get the same result in Florida and New York on
the East Coast that we got in much of the
rest of the country as a result, and frankly, a
lot of those twenty twenty two races, you go back
and look, incumbent's basically won everywhere, and Democrats won a

(10:24):
lot of really close races that came down to the
very fine margin. And so as a part of all
of this, I think that what you may see is
Democrats angry, frustrated, furious over twenty twenty four. In Trump,
and so they're actually going with the farthest left wing candidate,
which may not pay play very well at all buck
in the general elections.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
So one thing. A couple of other names that come
up here. Donovan McKinney, Clay Michigan's thirteenth congressional district. He
defeated incumbent Shri Thanadar, who might be like, who is
that guy? If you see him, if you see a
clip of him, you'll be like, oh, that guy. He

(11:06):
has had some viral clips in the past, but this
is a DSA endorsed guy. Donovan McKinney was a Democratic
Socialist endorse candidate, So he's now probably gonna gonna win
that seat. I know, it's just one congressional sheet seat.
Rashieta talib easily won. She smoked her competitor. So anyone thinks,
oh the squad, the squad is not over. The squad

(11:27):
is still thriving. And then in the state legislative races
of Michigan, Kansas and Missouri and Washington, you had a
number of explicitly DSA. Now I understand that's just if
you don't live in those states, you're like, they don't
really affect me. But it's a little bit of the
farm team for congressional seats, right, that's the that's the
the JV before the varsity of the national level. And

(11:49):
you had a whole bunch of Chris Gilmour, Isaiah Harris,
Jimmy Lapp, Sewn Scott, Jalen Scott. You had a whole
bunch of people who are DSA endorsed who won. Now
they have to continue to win. This is just a primary.
But you know you're not seeing Democrats walk with from
the DSA thing and play. You got Bernie Sanders out
there saying things like, oh, we can't judge you know, right,

(12:14):
I mean left, sorry, not right wing, far left streamer
Hassan piker By saying America deserved nine to eleven.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
He belongs in the party.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
He belongs in the party more than James Carville. This
is what you're hearing from people who are very prominent
voices among Democrats. So they're making plenty of room for
the ultra progressive commy maniacs.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, and look, I think in Wisconsin, I think Republicans
have a really good chance of winning the governor's race there.
In fact, Republicans are favored to win because it looks
like they're going to nominate Francesca Hong. Now to be
fair in the markets out there, Michigan is still favored
to vote for Abdul Lsied, but I light it out yesterday.

(12:58):
I think he's got major issue with Jewish voters. You
mentioned John James, who's going to be on the program
again soon, the Republican nominee for governor in Michigan.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
He's a black guy.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Why does that matter, you might say, Well, El Sayed
has got issues with black voters. They overwhelmingly voted for
Hailey Stevens. Now, maybe some of those guys and gals
are going to come back into the big tent now
that Lsayed is there. But I think he's going to
struggle in the Detroit area and Buck. I'll just say,
I know the state of Michigan really really well. Everyone

(13:32):
who lives remotely in a rural place, there are still
some old school Democrats in many of these rural locations. Man,
they are not going to show up and vote for
Abdul l Sayed. And these are I'm not talking about
the diehard, died in the wool political people. I'm talking
about just your regular hardworking people out there in Michigan.

(13:54):
I think they're going to show up and they're going
to vote for Mike Rodgers. Now, it's going to be close,
because Michigan is a fifty to fifty state, and we
know they could run big Bird and he would get
forty eight percent of the election vote right now in
Michigan because Democrats show up and support Democrats no matter
who is actually on the ballot. But I am very
optimistic that Mike Rodgers can win. We will ask him

(14:16):
about all this at two pm Eastern when he is
going to be on the program with US.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
I almost I feel like I can't really argue.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
With Clay effectively right now because when he's wearing a
sport jacket, he's so much more authority. You know, usually
he's wearing Sands old T shirts. So this is why
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(14:44):
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Speaker 1 (16:38):
Last, learn and hang with the guys. Clay and Buck
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Speaker 3 (16:45):
Welcome back in Clay and Buck Hour number two. We
are having some fun rolling through the program.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
And we appreciate all of you. So WNBA.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
W U NBA has been in a bit of a
pickle buck since Sophie Cunningham said men shouldn't be able
to play in women's sports, the entire league has fallen apart.
You've had coaches coming out and saying that they think
that men should be eligible to play in the WNBA.
The league itself can't manage to figure out what a
woman is. You now have and we're gonna have some

(17:22):
fun with this. If you haven't seen it, you now
have a french Man who is identifying as a woman
that is averaging twenty points and twenty rebounds per game,
and his clips have gone viral as he has said
that he would love.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
To be able to play in the WNBA.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
I saw all of this absurdity, and as I often do,
I think one of the best things you can do
when you hear an absurd argument is actually accept the
premise of the argument and accelerated.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Let me explain what I mean by that.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
We could have on this program a expert in the
difference between men and women, and he could come on,
or she could come on, and they could say, hey,
men have way more muscle, men are taller, men are stronger,
men are faster, men process way more oxygen through their lungs,

(18:17):
and they're able as a result to jump higher. All
of these things we know to be true, and responding
to absurd arguments like men should be able to play
women's basketball with factual based arguments sometimes works, but a
lot of times it just gets lost I'm pretty good
at recognizing absurdity and taking more absurdity on top of

(18:42):
it and getting a great deal of attention for it,
which is what I did when I said, Hey, I
think a boys' high school state champion would beat a
women's WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces, and in fact, I
will put ten million dollars on that game. Winner gets
ten million dollars. The Women's WNBA has not responded to

(19:05):
that at all. The Las Vegas Aces have not responded
to that at all. It has since gone viral. Every
website basically that covers politics and sports has written about this.
The tweet itself, it got over ten million views. Lots
of Buck boys' high school coaches have reached out to

(19:26):
me and said, Clay, we would love to be in
this game because they believe that they would be able
to win, and they would. The reaction has continued to
pour in. Last night someone tagged me in this and
I saw it and Buck I could not even keep
a straight face as I was watching it. But there

(19:47):
is a Minneapolis newscaster who was really upset with the
fact that I put my ten million dollar challenge. This
is kare K eleven t in Minneapolis. I don't know
much about that station. I imagine you have not regular or.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
I don't think anyone who lives outside of Minneapolis does
to be fare.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
But maybe you're in Minneapolis, and maybe this is your
preferred television news network. This woman named Jana Shortle Jana
Shortel decided that she needed to make a monologue, responding
to me and Carl, are you assuming gender here?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Excuse me, sir, excuse me? Are you assuming Jena could
go either way? Did she ever?

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Sannah would be I think Jana would be. Jana I
believe is a woman. I believe you know I'm not.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
I think you're just making an assumption about gender right now,
and I want.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
You to be cautious about that.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
That's all I think you're I'm a person to stereotype,
but if I were going to stereotype, I would say
that I think Jana may well drive a Subaru. And
here is Jana just teeing off on me. This was
her her show monologue. As she finished the program, Minneapolis,

(21:06):
I got served by Janna.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Listen.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
The entire world of women's sports is facing the debate
within its own leagues of who should get to play
and who should not. And a voice that often shouts
loudly in that debate is a right leaning outlet owned
by Fox News called OutKick Sports, and today it's founder
took to a new stunt, one that really makes no
sense if OutKick is really concerned about caring about women

(21:30):
and women's sports. So Clay Travis, he's the man behind OutKick.
He announced today he's offering ten million dollars to the
winner of a game of basketball between a high school
boys team of his choosing and the WNBA defending champions.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
The Las Vegas Aces.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
I thought to myself why, But obviously the answer is
because he thinks it is so impossible for any group
of women, let alone the best in the game, that
they could ever beat younger and more inexperienced boys. It's
a thinly veiled sexist joke, revealing the actual truth of
how he and his organization feel about women's sports. It's
not about caring about them.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
They think women's sports are a joke.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh oh my gosh, I want to jump in. I
want to freak out it. Clay, Clay, she missed, she
I'm going with. She misses the entire point, which is
you and me and everyone who is with us on
this are trying to defend women's sports by showing the

(22:30):
absurdity of what her side is proposing, which is that
men do not have We are going back to the
core reason, like I said, we do not have a
men's and women's sat sit down, right. There's a reason
for that, because our assumption is that men and women
can take the same standardized academic test and let the

(22:52):
results fall where they may, because men do not have
an ingrained advantage.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now some of you are going to say, well, like
women do better and verbal and men do better.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Meth Yeah, but it's we're okay, okay, plenty of ladies
get sixteen hundreds like that doesn't matter. In sports, it
would be a massacre. It would be It would be
at the high school level, boys and girls sports not separated,
professional level, Olympics, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Boys and girls not separated. It is the.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Disillusion or the dismembering, I should say, or kind of both,
the dismembering of women's athletics all at once. And this
person is mad at you for pointing out that the
Left wants to make a full scale mockery of women's sports.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
By allowing men to crush women in.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Athletic competition by saying, I am you, I am the
same as you. I'm sorry, but I just but this
is the thing, this is what you deal with. I
not that I have to rush in here to defend
your honor. But that was the dumbest takedown I've seen
in a long time, and I've seen a lot of
dumb takedowns.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
So she said that this was a thinly veiled sexist joke.
I wrote down that quote as I was listening to it. No,
because if we said the WNBA should play against the NBA,
everyone would recognize the NBA would win. If we said
the WNBA champ should play against a male college champ,

(24:15):
everyone would recognize the men would win. You have to
go down to the high school level in order to
even find anyone who will argue that women could be competitive. Now,
I think the boys. The reason I put ten million
dollars out. I think the boys would win by forty
or fifty points. And the illustration here is that not
even grown men can dominate women's athletics. Adolescent boys can.

(24:40):
And so if you wanted me to go to eighth grade,
I think there are probably a lot of eighth grade
boys teams out there. As soon as the kids get
the mustache, testosterone starts to flow. There is a big
gap developing rapidly between men and women.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So I think in eighth grade, I'm just I think
an eighth grade team is gonna happen. There are plenty
of women in the WNBA who are over six feet
sum are over six five. I think an eighth grade
team would have an eye coach to coach.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Against, because that goes up to eighteen year olds, they
would get smoked.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
But eighth eye coached against some eighth grade boys, I
think those kids have six kids already. I mean, I'm
telling you some of these fourteen fifteen year old boys
have full beards. Now, I could find eighth grade basketball
teams that would beat the WNBA. The point here is
not that this is the meaning to women's sports. It's
that the only reason women's sports exist is because men

(25:30):
don't play them, because otherwise you would have a unisex
league and no women would be able to play. So
when I get attacked like this. By the way, there's
a couple of other funny clips. Did you see the
clip of the French French woman producer Ali, I'm gonna
give you. We gotta be clear here the Frenchman, it's
a frenchman. It's a French dude. Okay, Fuck, that is

(25:52):
a bad bitch. If I've ever seen one on the
basketball court. You need to see this dude who is
six foot three. He's averaging twenty points and twenty rebounds
a game in the French pro leagues. Producer Ali, I'm
gonna give you the most difficult booking challenge of your life.
I'm sure this dude speaks French. Can we get the

(26:13):
French women's basketball All Star on out kick?

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Talk to him by.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
A DM Buck and he said that he would love
to play in the WNBA. So he is dominating the
French women's basketball league. It would be transphobic of the
WNBA not to let this man who identifies as a
woman play in their league. And Buck, he would wreck them.
If you haven't seen these clips, we'll share them at

(26:39):
claymbuck dot com. You can go to Clay Travis. I
share a couple of them. I couldn't stop laughing. Buck
he had an and one for those of you who
don't know. And one is when you get hit as
you're potentially scoring a basket and you get a free
throw plus the basket, so it's a three point play.
He had an and one play where like he pumped
his fist celebrate. I must have watched it twenty times

(27:02):
because I could not stop laughing over him.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
This dude, I mean, this is a dude like he's
pre ripped. This is just a dude just dominating.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
He's got a ponytail, just dominating these random French chicks.
He's averaging twenty points and twenty rebounds a game, and
he's probably a decent pickup basketball player at your average
why right, I mean, you watch this guy. He's not
playing above the rim, he's not leaping out of the gym.
He is a decent male athlete in that he's not obese,

(27:35):
and he can run up and down the court, and
he is just reckon these chicks.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
And I think it's worth noting that you by by
focusing in on this and giving Julie Tatar Tatart his due. Yeah,
on this issue, the WNBA should be excited about this
prospect because their claim is that when you they're they're

(28:00):
official or the uh, you know, the consensus view of
the WNBA is that what you're doing, what you're suggesting,
is somehow disrespectful. Okay, if it's disrespectful, then show the
respect for Julie Tatar.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Of playing in the w NBA.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yes, and see what people really think of this, and
see how they feel when the inevitable happens.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Sometimes you have to follow people down the woke rabbit
hole and follow the logic of their argument and say, okay,
let's do it. And basically that's what I've done. By
the way, we got a couple of funny ones here
is Alex Marlow.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Why don't you hold it until I want everyone?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Why don't we give them a little teas here? You've
got a let's go, we got.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Some more funny ones. By the way, I also point
this out Stephen A. Smith is in making these arguments.
More and more people are coming out and just saying
we can't allow this to continue. Right, reasonable rational guys.
I think black, white, Asian, Hispanic, everybody who's a dude
out here is just like, this is absolutely crazy. And

(29:07):
you might say, okay, where does this matter again? What
I would continue to reiterate is as soon as you
know that a politician will lie to you, as soon
as you know that they are lying to you, you
cannot trust them. You might even agree with some of
the things that they say otherwise, but you cannot trust them.
This is table stakes for me. If they'll lie to
you about this, what else will they lie to you about?

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Speaker 2 (30:33):
Third hour of play and Buck joins A starts rather
right now and joining us, Joining us jump into that
part is Mike Rogers. He is the current Republican nominee
for that critical Senate seat up in uh Michigan. And uh,

(30:54):
we appreciate you being with us, Mike, thank you so much.
Let's just dive into it. I mean, there's some questions
we gotta ask you, Like, we know you've locked up
the nomination and now abdu al al sayed some.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Would call up.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Some people might call it progressive, others perhaps a bit
of a comedy a little bit. He is now the
Democrat nominee instead of Hailey Stevens. Trump crowing about how
this is great for the GOP. I know you don't
want anyone to get complacent. It's going to be a
tough fight to the end. But just if you would
tell us about how your game plan from now until

(31:29):
election day is locked in against this guy, what are
the differences we're going to be hearing about.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
Well, you think this is somebody that believes that America
deserved nine to eleven. Couldn't condemn the terrorists here in
Michigan who loaded his car up with explosives and drove
it into a synagogue to try to blow up one hundred.

Speaker 8 (31:51):
And forty kids.

Speaker 7 (31:53):
This is the guy that doesn't believe we should have prisons.
We are to open up prisons and let up criminals
and sexual offenders.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
He wants to defund the police, he wants to defund ice.

Speaker 7 (32:04):
I mean, this guy is very radical, way too radical
for Michigan. Not real big on closing the border either.
I mean, if you just go right down this list.
And by the way, is proposing the largest expansion of
the federal government in American history. And you know what
they say, a government big enough to give you everything
you need is a government big enough to take everything

(32:26):
you have. Guess what that is? This guy in a nutshell.
So the good news is it's a change election in Michigan.
So he's a radical guy, but we're trying to change
directions here. For over a quarter century, we've had two
Democrats representing the state, and over about over a decade
in Lansing and in the US Senate, we've had two
Democrat Senators, They've lost two hundred thousand manufacturing jobs, highest

(32:50):
utility rates in the Midwest, highest auto insurance in the nation.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
Our kids are now forty fourth in education in the country,
can't buy a home anymore, and the average home for
a new homeowners forty years old.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
So this we're we're talking about changing Michigan back for
the better.

Speaker 7 (33:07):
And his narrative is exactly what we've been prepared for
for a year about how on a touch these Democrats
are from people who actually won't for a living.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Mike, appreciate you coming on.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Congratulations on being the official Republican nominee for the Senate.
And Mike Rogers is a very I think I can
say middle of the road guy. A lot of middle
of the road voters are going to decide this election.
You know that forty seven percent forty eight percent of
Democrats would show up and vote for anybody. Where does

(33:39):
this race, in your mind, ultimately get decided? And I
know the answer is statewide. You need big turnout everywhere.
But if you had to point, is it Oakland County,
is it the Detroit suburbs?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Where is ultimately your.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Focus going to need to be to win this race?
And the persuadable voters, the people who might vote for
Trump one election and might have also voted for Gretchen
Whitmer in a previous election. People whose votes are up
for grabs.

Speaker 7 (34:07):
Anybody that wants to hear that message about getting our
kids reading again, building things in Michigan again, the defense
industrial base work. And we used to build ships and
airplanes and tanks. Guess what, we don't do any of
that in Michigan anymore. And so what we're going to
do is step back in and reattract that defense industrial
base work, which cuts across every demographic in this state.

(34:29):
Who doesn't want their kids reading? I mean this should
be a no brainer. Who doesn't want the lower their
utility rates? Who doesn't want lower auto insurance rates? So
we're talking about things that will impact people's lives. And
that's what's so different about this. Every national pundit wants
to make this about Donald Trump versus fill in the blank.
This is the rest of the country is doing great

(34:50):
and manufacturing. We want to join in. We have the
blue state blues here. We want to join in in
that economic recovery that the President is delivering in Texas
and Florida in other places. We want to be a
part of that. And so we're gonna you know, there's
certain counties that we will target, you know, like a
county like Saganaw everybody fights over that one, or Kemp County. Absolutely,

(35:11):
but we're also talking to people all over the state.
And when you have a guy that is about as
anti American as I've ever seen a candidate running for
the United States Senate, trust me, there's a lot of
great patriots here.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
They may be, you know, struggling at the end of the.

Speaker 7 (35:25):
Month, but man, they're not going to want to send
somebody who does not believe in the promise of America
to the United States Senate. So we're taking that message everywhere.
We're going to target you know, black voters in Detroit,
we did pretty well on the last go round with
Hispanic voters. We're targeting them, good news, as we've been
targeting them for a better part of the year. And

(35:46):
so if you're an opportunity guy and believes in the
promise of America, you're going.

Speaker 5 (35:49):
To be on our team.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
And I think that's just not It doesn't leave much
for his coalition of kind.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Of these I don't know left the I mean, I
don't even know how to describe them there.

Speaker 7 (36:00):
Their ideas are as crazy as you can imagine, and
I think most people are going to pick common sense.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Mike, you had a razor thin showdown and unfortunately didn't
go your way with Alyssa Slotkin, who, by the way,
I'm hearing has aspirations beyond the Senate. I think everyone's
hearing that he's paying attention to politics these days.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
We'll see how that goes for her.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
But what are some of the things that you would
take away from that race that you'd apply now, as in,
do you have some lessons learned? Do you have a
refined and more you know, more directed, more locked in
message for some of these independence I know it was
like what fifteen thousand or nineteen thousand votes was separated the.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Two of you, which can given how many votes.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
I'm sorry, yeah, I was gonna say, given how many
votes cast, this is an absolutely razor thin margin this
time around. What are some of the things that are
just going to get that additional focus, because look, I
have a lot of confidence in you and you bringing
home the w on this one, but just based on
how ninety nine percent of the Kammala vote if you will,
which Slockin got, by the way, is going to go

(37:10):
for this guy, right, I mean ninety nine percent of
the locked in Democrats. You have to beat him out
on independence and have to get a great turnout among
a lot of working you know, working everyday voters, working
class voters.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
How do you do that?

Speaker 5 (37:23):
Yeah, well one is ground game and so think of this.

Speaker 7 (37:27):
This is in July our campaign crossed one point one
million doors knock That's never been done in Michigan. So
one of the things we learned from that last experience
is you got to get that started earlier, and so
we did.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
We were knocking on doors in Michigan in December. That's commitment.

Speaker 6 (37:45):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (37:46):
And we had just a lot of folks out there,
both volunteers and otherwise out there knocking doors, getting our
message out, getting people excited about a change of the
election here in Michigan.

Speaker 5 (37:56):
They've got to think of this. They come out of
this thing.

Speaker 7 (37:59):
There's more people that voted against Abdul yesterday than voted
for him.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
They have to try to put this thing back. We're
already hearing from Stevens supporters, We're hearing from UAW workers.
We're hearing from, you know, folks all over the state
saying I can't I'm not doing this.

Speaker 7 (38:17):
Yes, yes, I might be a Democrat, but I am
not that Democrat.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Those calls are coming into our campaign. I mean, I can't.

Speaker 7 (38:23):
Just can't tell you. That's all that we can do
to keep up with those calls. So our message is
going to be broader to reach out to those folks,
and it is going to be about getting our fourth
graders reading. It is going to be about bringing defense
industrial work back. It is about putting shop back in
every high school in this state. We've got a focused

(38:43):
message on what people know works and what.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
And they know we can deliver on it. And we've
got a great ticket.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
This is the first time and I can't tell you
how long we have a great setate candidate that would
be me.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
We have a great governor candidate.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
We have great attorney general and Secretary of state candidate.
I mean, this is a strong ticket, and we're excited
about getting out and criss crossing the country. And I
think people are going to see a hopeful message about
Michigan's future or this kind of dark and dreary and
socialist message about you know, let's share everybody in the

(39:21):
state of misery.

Speaker 5 (39:22):
And so we think we've got that message and we think.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
It's selling with independent voters, and we're going to attract
Hailey Stevens voters.

Speaker 5 (39:28):
And I will tell you this, this guy is anti Semitic.

Speaker 9 (39:31):
I think he's past that and now just hates people
who are Jewish.

Speaker 7 (39:35):
And we've gotten huge outreach from the Jewish community about
coming to our side to make sure that we kind
of take that hate and divisiveness that he preaches every
day and try to get it out.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Of Michigan politics.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
So we're feeling really good about how we're putting these
coalitions back together.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
You said, I think that's pretty strong, and there's obviously
a lot of Jewish people listening to us right now.
You think abdual Lsed hates Jewish people, he said after
the terror attack in southeastern Michigan, as you well know.
But I think this is important. Hurt people, hurt people.
He also he didn't say like terrorists are bad who

(40:13):
are trying to kill young Jewish kids. He implied that
this guy was motivated in some way in a justified fashion.
He has said Israel doesn't have the right to exist,
which is I think, to your point, beyond anti Semitic,
I think it's anti Jewish. He also has said he's
campaigned with a guy who said America deserved nine to eleven.

(40:36):
That is a radical proposition, And I mean, I just
think this is this is pretty aggressive. So when you
say that he that he hates Jewish people, do you
think that resonates in a substantial way in with Jewish
voters who may not traditionally have supported Republican candidates.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Are you seeing that on the ground as you travel
the state.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
Yes, And we've had outreach even prior to the election
saying this makes us very uncomfortable that the Democrat Party
is moving so far on this anti Semitic kind of
trope that they've been thrown out there. And so we've
had a lot of those contacts leading up till yesterday.
And guess what phone's blown up today? How do we help?
How do we come to our community? And by the way,

(41:22):
the rabbi of that synagogue that guy tried to bomb
when Elsie tried to do this fake apology thing afterward,
said it's just more offensive now than it was before.
And so he I think he's made that bed. There's
no way he's going to get those votes back. And
we think this is going to be significant for us
going into it. And the good news is even Muslims

(41:44):
think he's just a little bit too extreme.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
They have businesses that they're trying to run.

Speaker 8 (41:48):
The kid there.

Speaker 7 (41:49):
They want their kids to get a good school and
they don't you know they're they're they're very interested in
a better outcome for the state of Michigan for that reason,
opportunity so our kids don't leave the state. Well, guess
what he's gonna have to answer for all of that.
I mean, he's he cares about Palestine. I care about
Michigan and that's the difference.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Let me play a cut here for you. This is
from March of twenty twenty six. This is Abdul l
Sied on a call with his team saying, there are
a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad about
the fact that we killed the leader of Iran.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Listen and I want you to react to this.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
I also want to remind you guys that there are
a lot of people in Dearborn who.

Speaker 5 (42:30):
Are sad today.

Speaker 10 (42:32):
So like I just don't want to comment on Tom
I'm an a at all. I don't think it's worse
even touching that, Like they're gonna try this is what
we passed ed, but like, is it gonna how many
a bad guy?

Speaker 8 (42:44):
Is Nick great that he's dead?

Speaker 1 (42:46):
My first Amanda is eighty six years old.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
Who's gonna be dead sometimes soon?

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Anyway, Mike Rodgers, your reaction to that, That is the
Democrat Senate candidate saying he doesn't want to even talk
about the fact that the leader of Iran and the
terrorists is dead because a lot of his supporters are sad.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
It just shows you how extreme he is.

Speaker 7 (43:09):
You know, the Iatola killed slaughtered forty some thousand, some
say forty five thousand innocent protesters for standing up for
freedom in the streets of Iran, and that's the best
he can do.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
He listened.

Speaker 7 (43:25):
He just doesn't believe in the fact that these folks
should be brought to justice. This is the same Iyatola
and his regime over time that killed two hundred and
thirty some United States Marines and the barracks bombing in Beirut.

Speaker 8 (43:41):
This is the.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
Same Iatola and regime that maimed and killed US soldiers
in Iraq. How you could be one second of feeling
bad for a guy that brought more harm and death
and destruction to the United States.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
I just I don't get it.

Speaker 7 (43:58):
And by the way, I keep telling and my friends
in that community, if you want to stop sending money
to Israel, then guess.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
What take care of Iran?

Speaker 7 (44:07):
If you get Iran fixed up so they can't attack
their neighbors, they can't control the Straits and they don't
have a nuclear weapon, peace breaks out in the Middle East.
They are the main sponsor of all of that chaos,
death and destruction.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
And so again, he is not qualified to run for
the United States Senate.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
I think Michigan citizens are going to say, Nope, not
on our watch.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Mike Rogers. Everybody, Hey, we got a big Michigan audience.
We're counting on you, Michiganders to get it done this fall.
Get out there and make sure you take Mike across
the finish line.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Mike, thanks so much. We'll talk to you again.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Hey, thanks, guys, rogersf Senate dot Com.

Speaker 8 (44:47):
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Speaker 1 (46:12):
Precenter pals claim Buck on the iHeart app.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Welcome back in to Clay and Buck. We are joined
now by a guy who's hopefully going to be elected
to Congress tomorrow and Tennessee sixth Congressional District. I have
known him legitimately for my entire life, Johnny Garrett. We
grew up together, we played little league baseball together. Let
me just start with this. I mean, because Buck's gonna

(46:36):
quiz you and let you make fun of me. But
let's start with the most important things here. A lot
of people in Tennessee don't really know what congressional district
they're in because these districts got redrawn right after the
Supreme Court case came out. The Memphis Democrat district the
ninth was wiped out. And I'll give you a story, Johnny.

(46:57):
I went to go vote in early and cast my ballot,
and I didn't even know I was in the Tennessee
ninth Congressional district until I got into the voting booth
and then I said, oh wow, I'm now in Tennessee nine.
I live in the Nashville area. There's four or five
different congress seats that people can be in in this area,
and your district got redrawn, So I'll let you stay

(47:19):
right off the top here. Tennessee sixth is what you
are running for on the Republican side. Where is Tennessee
six For people out there listening to us who may
not even know if they're in this district.

Speaker 8 (47:34):
County more of.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
The downtown area where the Titan Stadium is in Davidson County,
and then it goes from Wilson County all the way
across the Upper Cumberland to Morgan, Campbell, and Scott County
and everything in between. So about seventeen or so counties
make up the new sixth Congressional district.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
So from Nashville all the way basically up into the east.
I mean, if you're from Nashville, you go east, you
might well be in this.

Speaker 8 (47:58):
Almost a Knoxville.

Speaker 6 (47:59):
For me to go to not to Campbell County, I
nearly have to go all the way in the Knoxville
then go straight north up to Campbell County.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
So that's that.

Speaker 6 (48:06):
That's the stretch of the Upper Cumberland in the new
sixth district.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Okay, so this is an open seat. There is no incumbent.
Why are you the right candidate to represent Tennessee six.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
Well, the right candidate needs to make sure they stand
with President Trump to make DC a little like Tennessee.

Speaker 8 (48:25):
Right.

Speaker 6 (48:25):
I've been doing what we've been doing here in the
state to make a great place to raise your family,
have your freedoms we like. We like low taxes and
high freedoms here in Tennessee. And if I think we
could take a little Tennessee to d C uh, it's
going to be a great country to help President Trump
save America.

Speaker 8 (48:42):
We're seeing across the country.

Speaker 6 (48:44):
I believe you will be talking about what's happened in Michigan,
right with that crazy guy that's been that's been elected
up there, that wants to get rid of prisons, wants
to get rid of the pre police, wants to have
no borders.

Speaker 8 (48:54):
Uh, it's it's crazy.

Speaker 6 (48:55):
I've been doing that fight against the Democrats right here
in the state since I've been a state rep for
the past eight years. In fact, kicked two of them
out two or three years ago. That are just crazy
liberals that want the exact same thing that ow Siad
in Michigan wants, right, that's just been elected to be
their Democratic nominee in the Senate up there. It's really

(49:18):
a crazy time for what President Trump has to defeat
with defeating.

Speaker 8 (49:22):
The lunatic Left, and I've been doing.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
That here in the State House for eight years and
I'm ready to take what I've learned here in Tennessee
to DC.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
So, Johnny, I have to take a moment here and
take advantage of the fact that you can speak to
Clay's origin story. I don't know if I've ever met
anybody who knew like very young Clay. I know some
of his college his college and law school buddies and
early career buddies.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
I don't think I've ever met childhood friend of Clay before.
Why I have so many questions. First of all, Johnny,
I'm enough time.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
For me to go through everything that I could go
through about play back since we were in diapers week.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
I just got one thing.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
This has always befollowed me and Clay and I've been
doing the show together for five years. You, sir, sound
like a native son of Tennessee. To me, I'm like, Oh,
there's Johnny. He's from Tennessee. Clay sounds like he grew
up across the park from me. On the upper west side.
How is this possible? Was he was he a little more?
Did he have a little more country in his voice
when he was great?

Speaker 8 (50:26):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
If you've met his parents from the salt of the
earth and you're like, where did this guy come from?

Speaker 7 (50:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (50:31):
But were we grew up together? Clay?

Speaker 6 (50:33):
I want I want your listeners to know, and but
for you to know if you could watch him wind
up on the mound when he did, you know, it's
it's he's got a very interesting wind up. We playing ball?

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Oh, Johnny, Johnny, I've heard hilarious.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
I've heard from the founder of OutKick that at a
young age he could have gone pro in one of
several sports.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
But really wanted to focus on law school.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
On his rine, you you, Johnny, you like to tell
this story about going to h Major League baseball games
and how I wouldn't shut up like I would call
the whole game. You can tee off on me here
if you will.

Speaker 7 (51:08):
Man.

Speaker 6 (51:08):
We went to My cousin was the ticket manager from
the New York Yankees. Growing up, so play and I
his his parents' dad. We would all go to the
playoffs about five or six years in a row. So
it's probably in nineteen eighty nine. We were sitting on
the first base side in Cincinnati and Clay was sitting
right behind me and literally commentated the entire game. And

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I thought I was listening to Johnny Bench in the background,
listening to and And the thing is, he's a wizard, right,
you know, he knew the statistics, he knew what they did,
and he wouldn't write anything down.

Speaker 8 (51:39):
But I was like, do I have to listen to
Clay one more time?

Speaker 6 (51:43):
I want to eat my peanuts and watch my baseball
game without play yacking behind.

Speaker 8 (51:48):
Me for the entire game.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
But you basically knew Jerry is You knew that he
was destined for not just sports commentary, but a life
where he would be talking a lot.

Speaker 6 (51:59):
No, Buck, I wouldn't. I thought that he would have
been right here where he is and do what he
does today. Now this is Clay was born for this, So.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
That is not a surprise, all right.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
So I'll say we'll go offline Clay and I'll get
more embarrassing stories from Johnny, But I do we do
want to help draw him across the finish line here
to get that congressional seat.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
So what else do we got to talk about? Well, Johnny,
you coach the little league baseball. Good for people who
know Goodltsville, Tennessee has been in a Little League World Series.
A bunch you and I grew up playing Little league
baseball in Goodlitzville, Tennessee. You have coached, you got kids
when you see you know how much you gotta have
the birth certificate. You got to prove that a kid

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is under twelve or under ten or whatever the age
is for the league that you're playing, because some people
would cheat otherwise, Right, you get an older kid, he's
way better at the sport. Would you have ever believed
that the Democrat default perspective as this WNBA crisis, ridiculous
situation plays out, would be that if a man identifies
as a woman, he should be able to pete in

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women's sports. You've got daughters too, Like this is crazy.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
It's absolutely crazy, and it was. You know, Riley Gaines
is support in the campaign. She's endorsed us because she
realizes she's got a fighter right here, that's got two daughters,
that was scared to death that there's going to be
a man playing their volleyball teams competing while they were
in high school, right, I mean, it's absolutely crazy.

Speaker 8 (53:19):
And you mentioned a little league.

Speaker 6 (53:20):
You wouldn't believe there's three different ways we have to
prove residency, their age, that their birth certificate here. And
you would think that Americans voting for Americans wouldn't make sense,
as President Trump has said over and over again, and
that's common sense. And the Democrats are electing people that
have their own common sense. They have no common sense

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whatsoever that anybody can vote for anybody like in New
Jersey or sixty six hundred people that are non Americans
that they've registered to vote there. It's absolutely it's absolutely
crazy what's going on in the w NBA with what
you're you're doing with your.

Speaker 8 (53:58):
Challenge, which which is? Which is fabulous?

Speaker 6 (54:01):
And I would and I would I would suggest another
another challenge. I know you're a fan of Lebron James,
and I think he's going to Philadelphia to play, But
but why not he wait three or four years. I
think they're getting a w NBA team and he can
just change to Lebronia and James and then score eight
hundred points a game and be back to the old Lebron. Right,

(54:22):
why would he why would he do that? I mean
that that is what the Democrats. That's how insane they are,
and it's just it's it's absolutely.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
Crazy when you when you look at this, obviously you're
gonna find out tomorrow. I should mention this if I
didn't before Tomorrow is the Tennessee primary. You mentioned what
happened in Michigan. There were a bunch of states that
voted yesterday. When you look at the stakes here, so
you whoever wins the Republican district, Tennessee has redistricted and

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there will not now be nine, hopefully Republicans that represent
the state. How important is just basic ballot security? I
believe Tennessee got voted. One of my wife is a volunteer.
She works at the voting precincts. You know my wife. Well,
how important is voting security? And how great would it
be if the whole nation just did what we do

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here in Tennessee.

Speaker 6 (55:14):
Well, it's we're number one for election integrity in Tennessee.
When you have to have an ID right or several
different forms you can get to vote. If we did
that across the country, then we would be a secure
nation in making sure Americans vote for Americans. That's why
I think it's so important to pass the Save Act.
The House is already passed it, it's sitting over there
in the Senate. The Senate needs to move. We need

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to make sure we pass the Saale America at which
President Trump said he would do tomorrow. I'd vote for
that piece of legislation today and twice on Sunday if
I was up there. So it's very, very important that
we make sure our elections that are electeds are elected
by Americans. You would think, again, that's common sense, that's
common sense. Do what Tennessee does, because that's what I've

(55:58):
been doing in the state has for the past eight
years to make sure Tennessee is one of the best
states in the nation. And I believe we can do
what we do here in Tennessee, we can do it
in d C.

Speaker 8 (56:09):
That's why I want to bring a whole lot of
Tennessee to d C.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
All right, last question for you, And you can tell
people how to go vote, where to go vote. But
I'm gonna let you make fun of me again. When
I wrote when I wrote my first book, you came
to the book signing that we were doing in Nashville.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
Your awesome. Grandma came, who is probably.

Speaker 6 (56:31):
Would adorge you by the way, you were like one
of her grandsons.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Miss Ann probably never has sinned in her entire life.
You can tell people how I scandalized her at that reading. Uh,
and then you can tell people how to go vote to.

Speaker 6 (56:46):
Like the g rated version you know of Clay, which
typically is you know, not the case.

Speaker 8 (56:51):
But we were at it. We read a reading. Our
entire family was there.

Speaker 6 (56:54):
It's Clay's first book, a book that was very, very successful,
probably still to this day, and he decides to read
an excerpt. I can't really remember exactly what excerpt you read,
but the the passage you read had a four letter
word that you know that starts with an F. And
and my grandmother, my sweet four eleven grandmother from Selmer, Tennessee,
was sitting on the first row. So there was no

(57:16):
not even an excuse that she couldn't hear you or
let read what you were saying.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Yeah, your poor grandma, who is one of the best
people I've ever known, I had to read a curse
word from my book in front of her, and I
almost could still hear her gasp at at at the
fact that I did that okay?

Speaker 8 (57:34):
For people who was startedly Clay a memory that I've
never forgotten.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
So how how can people vote? What do they need
to do to be able to get out tomorrow and vote.

Speaker 8 (57:44):
It's it's so important. We're doing all kinds of get out.

Speaker 6 (57:47):
The vote activities today and activities tomorrow because we need
to run the score up right. We need to make
sure Tennesseeans that Republicans vote tomorrow so they know that
Republicans can try role that.

Speaker 8 (58:00):
Will always be the ones that will make.

Speaker 6 (58:03):
Sure our conservative values are pushed, that we run the
score right, that there's Republicans voting to outnumber those Democrats
to send the message. So sometimes in a state like Tennessee,
where we will have nine to zero Congress move off
two Republican senators or Republican governor supermajorities in both houses,
they'll say, well, it doesn't really matter Republican's going to

(58:23):
win anyway. That's not the attitude that we need. We
need to make sure that we continue to pound hard
and make sure we drive up the numbers so you
see how many Republicans are voting versus the Democrats out there.
Because they'll say or try to say the Tennessee is
turning purple, and that's just not the case. That's not
the case. We want us to show up at the polls.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
I'd vote like.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Said like you, he'd vote for you. If you're in
Tennessee six, you can go out and do it. You're right,
whole state needs to show up in big numbers and
send a message for the primary my home state.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
I early voted. If you haven't, tomorrow is the primary, and.

Speaker 8 (59:01):
Go to Johnny Garrett for Congress dot com. Make sure
you go vote.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Thanks Johnny, we appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (59:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Buck, have you prepared yourself for the fact that somebody
who's known me since they were in diapers could be
in Congress? This is going to be excited for the
for the tour of Capitol Hill when he wins. But
I also still sit here and I feel somewhat cheated
out of like somehow I found the only native born
Tennessee and with no Southern accent whatsoever to do radio
with for fifteen hours a week, Like, how is this impossible?

(59:34):
I think honestly it was where I went to high school. Boys'
voices change and you end up sounding a lot like
whoever you're around. That's my best guess for for how
I ended up sounding. You've you've heard my mom and dad,
they've been on the program. I mean they sound like
they're straight out as Southern Central casting.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Oh your your parents could could like read they could
do the Burns documentary of the Civil War and yeah stuff,
and you know it would sound very southern. So yes, indeed,
all right, Well, great to talk, great to meet Johnny there.
Talk to him and people in Tennessee six go out
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