Daily Review with Clay and Buck - May 13 2022

Clay Flys Solo While Buck Enjoys His First Time in Chicago. Senator Rand Paul: We Can't Be the World's Sugar Daddy. OutKick's Bobby Burack Talks Woke Sports with Clay. It's Friday the 13th! What's Your Go-To Scary Movie?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show, Friday,
the thirteenth edition. We may have a little bit of
fun with that before all is said and done. As
an old school horror movie fan myself, I'm sure many
of you out there are as well, I hope that

(00:20):
this is not a terrifying day. However, for you guys,
as you get ready to roll into the weekend with
warm weather everywhere, this is going to feel much like
summer to a lot of you. My co host Buck
Sex that is, in Chicago, there was a massive kids
party in downtown Chicago, perhaps to welcome Buck to Chicago City.

(00:42):
He'd never been to before. So if you see him
walking around the streets there with his girlfriend, he is
likely going to be having a fantastic time. Weather seems
good there. I asked him if he was going to
go see a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field, and
he said he hadn't even thought about it, and I
at least encouraged him to go check out rig Gleeville,
which is a phenomenal if you just want to go
have a few beers and enjoy the fact that baseball

(01:05):
is going on. But we've got a lot to get
into throughout the course of today's program, I want to
let you know where we're headed. Alex Barrenson is going
to be with us at one o'clock Eastern. One of
my writers who's been doing a fabulous job, Bobby Barak,
he writes an OutKick. Encourage you guys to be paying
attention to his work, and also if you just want

(01:26):
to bookmark OutKick dot com, it's one of the only
places that's saying in the world of sports and beyond.
And then Rand Paul Senator, who has provoked a great
deal of discussion over his refusal to sign on to
a forty billion dollar aid package for Ukraine, which, by

(01:46):
the way, I think we should be complimenting him for
because all he's asking for is for there to be
an inspector general connected to that forty billion dollars. And
given how much of a kleptocracy Ukraine has been and
our own government's failure oftentimes to track massive amounts of
money that we are spending, look at what happened with

(02:07):
the PPP program. But that will be an interesting discussion
with him. All of that and more coming your direction,
but I wanted to start with what has become readily apparent,
the information arbitrage war that is going on every single
day on Twitter, and there are a couple of breaking

(02:27):
news stories. Woke up this morning to see that Elon
Musk is potentially not going to buy Twitter. Although he
says he remains committed to the purchase of the company,
he is concerned about how many bots in other words,
not real accounts there are on Twitter, and he has
therefore put a pause on his potential purchase of Twitter. Now.

(02:51):
To be fair, he is saying that he still intends
to purchase Twitter, but the stock as we are speaking
right now has dropped nearly nine percent. It's trading at
forty one dollars and change. The company was supposed to
be sold for fifty four twenty, so there's a massive
discount going on right now. Now. Some of you out

(03:12):
there are like, Okay, what could be going on here?
I think what maybe at play here is Elon Musk
lowering his potential purchase price for Twitter because he's aware
that with the massive stock market sell off, we have
seen trillions of dollars in value erased almost to the
point where Joe Biden's entire tenure seventeen months now, the

(03:35):
stock market is not far from going negative over that
seventeen month period, and so as a result, tech company
stocks have collapsed. And I happen to think that Elon
Musk may be thinking to himself, fifty four dollars and
twenty cents a share is way too much to be paying,
when if I weren't buying this company, Twitter might be

(03:57):
twenty five dollars a share, So he could walk away,
allow the stock price to collapse, and then potentially come
back and try to make a play for that. But
this is important, and it is such a win for
sane people in an insane world if Elon Musk buys Twitter,
because right now the White House is still using Twitter

(04:22):
to spread direct wise while accusing people like you and
me and many of your coworkers who start to raise
questions about the Biden administration of spreading disinformation. This morning,
sorry this was yesterday afternoon. The White House tweeted out
when President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there

(04:44):
was no vaccine available. That first sentence is a direct lie.
In fact, Joe Biden got his COVID shot in December
of twenty twenty, a full month before he took the
oath of office. So that sentence from the White House,
which has been lecturing all of us about the perils
of disinformation, is a lie. And then the next sentence,

(05:08):
in the last fifteen months, the economy has created eight
point three million jobs and the unemployment rate stands at
three point six percent, the fastest decline in unemployment to
start a president's term ever recorded. This is direct disinformation.
This is direct a direct lack of truth as well.

(05:30):
And so what's at stake here? What is at play?
The White House is asking for the power to determine
what is truth and false in social media, in modern
media today, while using those same platforms to directly spread
lies and misinformation themselves. Now this is important because there's

(05:51):
going to be a lot of discussion about this as
we get closer to the midterms. The Biden administration is
going to claim that they have created all these millions
of jobs and that they have created a strong economy.
We know that's not true because we're all struggling every
single day with nearly double digit inflation. But when they
claim that they have created as they did in this tweet,

(06:13):
eight point three million new jobs, and it's the fastest
decline in unemployment to start a president's term ever recorded.
What you need to understand is this, we still have
not regained all of the jobs that existed in March
of twenty twenty, when we had fifteen days to slow
the spread. We still have not regained. We're still, i believe,

(06:36):
over a million jobs behind. We had the greatest economy
in the history of the United States in February of
twenty twenty, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, everybody's overall wages were growing,
We had hit an unbelievable fifty plus year low in
the unemployment rate, and we were just starting to hit

(06:57):
full steam ahead thanks to all of the economic policies
that Donald Trump and the Republican Party put in place
to unlock the full growth of our economic potential. And
then what happened COVID. COVID happens. We make the disastrous
decision to shut down our economy and start to send
trillions of dollars into the marketplace. That is only going

(07:22):
to be exacerbated when Joe Biden becomes president in twenty
twenty one and immediately adds another one point nine trillion
in COVID spending that was unnecessary, and immediately adds another
over one trillion dollars in the infrastructure bill, which you'll
remember Buck and I saying also further created the apparatus
here for nearly double digit inflation. And recall that we

(07:45):
also were absolutely poised for another five plus trillion dollars
in spending as a part of the Build Back Better Bill.
If that had ended up happening, then we would be
well into double digit inflation fifteen twenty percent. Who knows
where the inflation rate might be if Joe Biden had

(08:05):
gotten everything you wanted. So I start here talking with
you about the information wars that are taking place every
single day, and you guys listening know what I'm talking about.
Whether or not you feel comfortable being able to share
your opinion on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. There are
people who want to be able to investigate you, to

(08:26):
pay attention to what you are saying in terms of
whether they believe it's true or false. And this idiot
ministry of truth individual Nina Jankowitz, who has been hired
by the Biden administration to be their Czar of misinformation.
She now is saying, this is crazy that she wants

(08:46):
people to be able to edit your own tweets and
change what is said in those tweets if they decide
that it is misinformation. Listen to this incredibly eatic idea.
So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter the
same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can

(09:08):
add context to certain tweets. So, just as an easy example,
not from any political standpoint, if President Trump were still
on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone
could add context from one of the sixty lawsuits that
went through the court, or something that an election official

(09:30):
in one of the states said, perhaps your own secretary
of State and his news conference is something like that,
adding context so that people have a fuller picture rather
than just an individual claim on it a tweet. This
is madness. First of all, if you disagree with something

(09:50):
that people tweet, you can dispute it, you can argue
with it on Facebook, you can respond to a comment
that you disagree with already and further contextualize what is
being said. But what's going on here is we got
a rigged system, and Elon must buying Twitter is a
big part of ending that rig game, because guess what

(10:12):
hasn't happened at all. It's not uncommon when I share
a COVID detail, a COVID fact, that there's an appended
statement underneath it about whether or not they consider it
to be true or false. The Biden White House Live yesterday,
this is a direct lie. When President Biden took off

(10:33):
as millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available.
Twitter has not done anything to label that tweet. There's
no further context provided for this claim that Joe Biden
has been the most successful economic president ever. That's what
he's claiming. Yet every single one of you out there
that is seeing shortages in baby formula, dealing with the

(10:56):
highest gas prices in United States history, dealing with the
highest inflation in forty plus years, every single one of
you knows this is a lie. There is no response
at all providing further context on these lies. And here

(11:16):
direct quote. Biden receives the first dose of coronavirus vaccine publicly.
He got it on December twenty first, twenty twenty. At
the time that he took office, the Trump administration was
administering one million COVID shots a day, over a million
COVID shot today, and for the first several months of

(11:38):
the Biden White House, they didn't accelerate that rate very
substantially at all. They were implementing the existing policies and
procedures that had already been put in place by the
Trump White House. This is a lie. It's important to
call out lies, particularly when the people who are lying
to you are claiming that they are the ones telling

(12:01):
the truth. That is a straight up nineteen eighty four
George orwell, big government authoritarian move from the Biden White House.
Nothing is being said at all. So that is the
context on what's going on right now with Twitter, the
battle for truth and for fairness, content neutral policies that
should hopefully be put in place in the event that
Elon Musk is able to complete this acquisition of Twitter.

(12:25):
Now we got a lot to discuss. I will open
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(13:51):
Travis Buck Sexton Show appreciate all of you hanging out
with us as we continue to fight for sanity in
an insane world. Speaking of that bat, we are joined
now by Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky, who is in
the news right now. We're going to ask him a
little bit about COVID as well, but in the news
right now, because Senator, you can explain it to the audience.

(14:13):
You are simply asking for a Inspector General to be
able to review how we are spending forty billion dollars
in aid for Ukraine. That seems like an imminently reasonable request.
What in the world is going on that is being
right now? Refused to add that to the building. You know,

(14:35):
I think it's fiscally or responsible to spend forty billion
dollars with insufficient oversight. The Afghan War, you know, went
on for twenty years, started out slow and then went
on for twenty years. But we do have a special
Inspector General who's followed this. He's written entire books on
the waist and much of it has really at least
slowed down the thieves. I mean, there are thieves everywhere.

(14:58):
When government's handing out money, the thieves line up as well.
And if you want to slow them down, you have
to let them know there's going to be an inspector
that looks at every dollar that's spent in Afghanistan. We
would give like ninety million dollars to build a hotel,
a luxury hotel while we're in that in the first
place is one question. But then they would build half
of a hotel or a third of the hotel, and
the contractor would run off of the money. We found

(15:20):
out about that because of this special Inspector General for Afghanistan,
and so we advised that since this guy has a
great track record and he's still got money in his budget,
why don't we immediately turn it over to them. They're very,
very capable. They're already up and running. We don't have
to wait a year for the president to appoint somebody.
We just put it into the baibywook of an already

(15:40):
existing Inspector General. And you know, apparently Republicans and Democrats
are so eager to send our money to a foreign
country they don't want to have any sufficient oversight. I
just I find it impossible to believe that this would
be remotely controversial given what we just saw. And you
know a better, naybody, Senator, the wasted money in pp
P dollars, I mean billions of dollars that we wasted

(16:03):
trying to run that program. Why would we not use
an existing infrastructure program that we already have to monitor
our own government spending and apply it to Ukraine as well?
What are they trying? Why are they afraid of this?
They're always more eager to send the money out than
they are to be responsible with it. And look, this
is how we got a thirty three into our debt.

(16:24):
This isn't a Republicans and Democrats don't have a good
track record on spending your money. But this is a
government that spent one point five million to study of
taking a selfie of yourself while smiling. If that would
make you happy if you looked at that selfie later
on in the day's chalk full of waste? No doubt
we I obviously totally understand what you're doing here and

(16:47):
support it, and a lot of our listeners do as well.
You're being criticized, which is the normal routine now anytime
you don't submit to everything that Ukraine wants, you are
pro Russia. How would you respond to the argument out
there that is being made by some of the left
wing wounds that the reason you're doing this is because
you're being a stooge for Vladimir Putin or for Russia.

(17:11):
You know, I took an oath of office. My oath
of allegiance is to the United States and to the
US Constitution, no other nation, no matter how sympathetic we are.
I'm sympathetic to Ukraine. I want food and to be defeated.
I think what you did as an awful aggression. But
my oath of office is to my country. You know,
if we bankrupt our country, who's left to help anyone.

(17:33):
So I'm for selling arms to Ukraine, for sharing things
with Ukraine. But we gave fourteen billion two weeks ago.
And the thing is is, once we get to sixty billion,
it will be more or about the same that Russia
spends in an entire year plus. But Europe is giving them. So,
you know, it's sort of the same argument the President
Trump made. Everybody needs to step up, but the NATO

(17:55):
allies need to step up, and we don't need to
be the sugar daddy and the policeman of the world
that we have to do everything we can help. Sure
but forty billion dollars will now make it in the
space of too much. Will have given almost as much
as Russia spends in a year. And we said, look
at this in Afghanistan, you realize we were giving them.
I think it was two hundred and fifty million dollars
every three months in one hundred dollar bills. I'm not

(18:18):
making this up. Palettes of one hundred dollar bills were
airlifted into Afghanistan every three months for twenty years. So yes,
the American government has a terrible history. And the guy
that oversaw the waste and told us about the waist
that happened in Afghanistan, this special inspector is perfectly poised
to do it, and they don't want him in particular

(18:39):
because they know he will ferret out the waist and
he will point out the abuse. We're talking to, Senator
m Paul. You're also a doctor, and a lot of people,
certainly we've done it on this show, are pointing out
the incongruity here, Senator, of sending forty billion dollars to Ukraine,
while simultaneously many moms and dads are unable to find
baby formula on the shelves right now, and in fact,

(19:02):
Jensaki said, hey, what would you tell I'm sure you
saw this clip. She said, what would you tell? What
would you have parents do who can't find baby formula?
She said, I'd have them called their doctors. What in
the world is going on here that we can spend
forty billion dollars on Ukraine but we can't get baby
formula on our shelves in this country. Yeah, it's misplaced priorities.
You know, he's been about six million on cancer research

(19:26):
and we're spending forty billion on this. So the thing
is is money should never be given in one huge
lump sun without oversight. It's a bad idea. But we
don't have the money. We will borrow this money from
China to send it to Ukraine. It's not like we
have a big vat of money, a big rainy day account.
We just say, well, you know, we've done very well
this year. Why don't we send some of it to
help somebody else fight for democracy. This is equivalent to

(19:49):
that if you want to help someone in your community
and you don't have any money, you say, you know what,
I'll go down to the bank and I'll borrow a
thousand dollars and I'm gonna give it to the Salvation Army.
Well it might sound noable, but isn't noble to give
money money give people money you don't have. We're at
trillion dollars short every year, and then they started going
crazy on the COVID bailouts, and we added six trillion
more in the last two years. We have double digit inflation.

(20:12):
The lockdown has still so completely screwed up the economy.
We don't have baby formula. So yes, I think there
are priorities we can be helpful in the world, but
we are not the sole repository of all the body
in the world, and we shouldn't shovel it out so
fast without oversight that it actually hurts our country. Like
I said, I'm sympathetic to Ukraine, but my allegiance is

(20:33):
to my country. I have to make sure that the
United States is doing okay before we give it away
the house or give away the farm. Our good friend
flip Flop Fauci came out Senator and said the pandemics over.
And then now he's come walked that back and says,
oh no, the pandemic's not over at all. And the
Biden White House is now saying we may have one
hundred million new COVID cases in the fall and the winter.

(20:55):
Based on your experience as a doctor, how would you
assess the way that COVID is going right now and
what should the government be doing, if anything, as we
get ready for the summer. The first thing that everybody
needs to know is if you test a thousand people
randomly anywhere in America, you'll find that ninety seven percent
or more have immunity. They either got the immunity from

(21:17):
the vaccine, or they got community from having the disease,
or both. Seventy five percent of kids under eleven. By
the fall, it's going to be one hundred percent of
all the kids under eleven. We'll have had this for
better or worse. That's with vaccine. Without vaccine, people are
still going to get it. But the good news is
almost everybody in our country has some form of immunity,
So we're going to be okay with this no matter
what happens. No big predict the exact case, Colt. But

(21:39):
if you want to know whether or not to pay
attention to doctor Fauci, I'll tell you this. When the
court when the US Federal Court struck down the mandate
on wearing masks on planes. Doctor Fauci said, how dare
the courts? How dare the Constitution? How dare anybody who bleeds?
An individual for you didn't say anything about his mandates
because Bigali, he is science, and how dare the courts?

(22:01):
That is in arrogance we have never seen in an
elected official, much less a bureaucrat. He believes that the
courts and their interpretation of the Constitution have nothing to
do and should have no oversight on his dictates. That
is about the most Unamerican policy and proposal and attitude
I've ever heard of. I appreciate you bringing up the
airplanes as well there, because the last time we talked

(22:23):
to you, you were having a press conference at the
Nashville Airport in favor of the removal of mask mandates.
Since that has happened, no great surprise to you or
me or many of our listeners, But I do think
it's worth mentioning. We haven't seen a massive airline shortage
based on sickness. There haven't been hardly any cancelations. Overall,
complaints and issues between passengers and people working on those

(22:45):
planes have plummeted. How do we keep the mask mandate
from being returned going forward, and it's night and day
when you travel on the airport, people are alive again.
People are friendly. TSA agents are padding me on the
back and thanking me. The flight attendants are coming up
and wanting their fishers taken, saying thank you so much

(23:05):
for getting rid of these ridiculous things. So we have
to we have to, you know, let people know the numbers.
But I can tell you this, if the Democrats want
to get wiped out in November, look at the unofficial
poll in the airport. Ninety seven percent of the people
disagree with Fauci or discounting his advice, and their assessment
of the risk is they don't need the mask. Ninety
seven percent of the people. If the Democrats want to

(23:27):
campaign on mandates on Fauci bringing the mandates back on
the courts bringing it back, they are completely insane and
they're going to be wiped out in the fall because
ninety seven percent of travelers don't want to wear a mask.
Did you win the eighty to one long shot bid
on the Kentucky Derby this past weekend? Do you have
any success there? I only wish I saw that horse
that horse would not get in the gate. He was

(23:49):
jumping all over the place. I should have been on
that horse. And then you see wins the race and
he's still fighting with the other horses. Talking about moxie. Man,
that horse had some moxie. Now, by the way, that
on the horse that was trained in Bowling Green where
I live, and it got second. It was a favorite,
and I did, of course gwin place and show. So
I took away less than I put in. But we

(24:10):
usually consider that sort of a peric victory, no doubt.
By the way, Bowling Green's a great town in Kentucky
for people who haven't been there before. It's also Friday
the thirteenth. And if I'm not mistaken, Howoween the original
Halloween was set in Bowling Green, Kentucky, wasn't it. You know,
I'm not positive that there is a connection somehow to
the producer, but I'm not sure if it was actually

(24:32):
in film there. But I can tell you for certain,
we do make the Corvette. We are home of the Corvette.
That's great. It's a great museum there as well. Appreciate
the time, Senator, have a fantastic weekend and appreciate all
the fights you're fighting for us. Thanks guys. That is
Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky, the man who has a
crazy idea. If the United States government is going to

(24:55):
spend forty billion dollars, let's just make sure that it's
not being wasted. Let's have an inspector general actually review
the forty billion dollars in expenditures. We know how much money.
You heard him talking about how much money we wasted
an Afghanistan until we got an inspector general. You know

(25:15):
how much money that we wasted with the PPP. As
much as ten percent of the eight hundred billion dollars
handed out was stolen. We know that government spends money
and efficiently. How in the world is it remotely controversial
to one an inspector general reviewing the money that we

(25:36):
are spending to make certain that that money is not
going and being stolen by kleptocrats. In Ukraine, where we
already know there is a massive issue associated with thievery,
this seems like the very essence of what a public
servant should do. Make sure that the money we're spending,

(25:57):
at a bare minimum, actually goes to what we're trying
to spend it on. Sure tax dollars, my tax dollars,
our tax dollars. Thanks to Rampaul, we come back, we'll
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On Friday the thirteenth. We bring in one of the

(27:45):
really talented young writers who is doing good work every
single day at the website that I sold to Fox
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I'd encourage you to add it to your repertoire places
that you go visit if you're looking for sanity in
an insane world. But Bobby, I want to start with this.
It's Friday the thirteenth. You haven't been prepped on this.

(28:07):
Is there a scary movie that to you is the
greatest of all scary movies, Like if you had to
watch a scary movie tonight, which one would you pick?
And why? So? The answer has to be the Shining Clay, right,
because out of all the goofy characters that we've seen
in horror movies, nobody's been more authentically terrifying than a

(28:29):
crazy Jack Nicholson that's stuck in that lodge all winder
so to me, when he's chasing after his family with
the acts and stuff, you turn all the lights off.
Nothing's more terrifying than that. And I say that as
someone that saw Conjuring opening night in the theaters at
all the school they am what everybody when everybody started
clapping when they heard those voices in the basement, that

(28:51):
was unbelievable. By the way, we're gonna open up phone
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horror movie fan and you want to weigh in with
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Probay at thirteenth, you can load up the phone lines.
We'll take some of your calls throughout the course of
the remainder of the show on that topic, all right, Bobby,

(29:12):
you do fantastic work for us at OutKick, and I
couldn't believe that the NBA did this. We talk a
lot at OutKick about the degree to which sports has
turned into basically woke sports. It's taken over the universe
of regular sports fans and they constantly are lecturing us.
And the worst in terms of lecture, I think, I

(29:33):
think you'd probably agree is the NBA. And so the
NBA pulled their All Star game. We got a lot
of people listening in North Carolina out of Charlotte over
a transgender bathroom bill. And then they end up now
going to the United Arab Emirates, which if you are
gay you can be put to death there, and it

(29:56):
feels like OutKick and to a certain extent, Fox News,
which bill on a lot of Outkicks work, are some
of the only outlets even discussing this. How crazy is
the hypocrisy? Yeah, and there's no other league that gets
protected by the sports media like the NBA. Is I mean,
this music going on for years right now. The fear

(30:18):
that broadcasters from an ESPAD and The Ringer and CBS
and New York Times have calling out the NBA is
really second to none. And what I find so fascinating
about this is Clay. The NBA just turned the corner
for the first time in four years by moving out
of politics, by focusing just on the games. And what

(30:39):
do you know, their weeks reaching near record highs, highest
opening first round since twenty fourteen and first coome a context.
The NBA ratings plummeted to all time lows. When they
really embrace the quote unquote racial record in the country,
they put Black Lives Matter across the court. I mean,
the MBA lost almost forty eight percent of their audience

(31:01):
would they embrace social justice messaging, and it took them
three years to get it back. So all of a
sudden they're just now focusing back on the game and
people love it. Now they make a statement like this,
they're in jeparty, I think again, of losing some of
their more moderate political audience, which is just insane business
decision now. Also, Phil Mickelson got destroyed to such an extent.

(31:27):
Golfer out there, who a lot of people listening to
us right now play golf. I know. Phil Mickelson got
destroyed for negotiating with Saudi Arabia about a new golf
league effectively and he didn't even agree to it, He
certainly didn't sign on to do it. Yet the NBA
criticism is minor relatively speaking. How can you justify Phil

(31:49):
Mickelson getting crushed like he did for negotiating with Saudi
Arabia compared to the NBA getting a pass with United
Arab Emirates, Well, you can. That just goes back to
that who is playing about how the media protects the NBA,
particularly the sports media, because you know, you and I
are some of the only people that have really called
out Lebron James hypocrisy and some of the other NBA

(32:11):
players right away. Every time we do this, somebody from
like the Athletic or The Atlantic comes after us saying, oh, well,
you guys don't like because the NBA players stuck out
for you know, black riots and racial injustice and all
that stuff. You get none of that when you criticize
Phil Mickelson. So it doesn't surprise me that top shows
like Pardon Interruption will lead an entire day condemning Phil

(32:34):
Mickelson for thinking about going to Saudi Arabia, but not
mention this because there's no pushback by going after Phil Mickelson,
an old white male golfer. But going after some of
these NBA players who are so active and popular on Twitter,
that comes with another degree of backlash that quite frankly,
most journalists and TV anchors don't have the backbone to withstand.

(32:57):
Speaking of journalists and TV anchors, ESPN, I still think
this is shocking. And we're talking, by the way, with
Bobby Barak. He does fantastic work at OutKick. Encourage you
to go checkout a OutKick dot com to read a
lot of what he is doing on a day to
day basis. ESPN stopped programming in March during the NCAA
Women's basketball tournament. I think a lot of people out
there listening right now may not even know this to

(33:20):
criticize the Florida Parents Rights Bill, which kindergarten, first grade,
second grade, and third graders are not going to be
taught about sex related issues. Again, ESPN on their programming
stopped and had a moment of silence. L Duncan, I
believe is who was hosting this ridiculous charade. Yet they're
not going to even say a word about the NBA

(33:44):
going to the UAE. They claim that they cared about
gay people, but as we just said gay people can
be put to death in the UAE. Same thing for
the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks, who also have had
walkout situations. What in the world is going on here
that ESPN can have this woke stance as it pertains
to the state of Florida for a bill that frankly,

(34:05):
a lot of their people aren't even smart enough to
understand why they sounded like such idiots for this protest,
and yet they're not going to be right saying a
word about the UAE or the NBA's relationship there. Yes,
l Duncan, like You said, goes on air during a
college basketball tournament says it's so unfair to the LGBT
community that these teachers won't let the kids say gay,

(34:28):
which obviously is not true. There's nothing in the bill
that fans you from using the word gay. That's not
what it does. It basically tells teachers, you know, don't
talk about sex change and transgenderism with third graders and younger.
So she doesn't even know what the bill says, but
she interrupts a game to spread that talking point, saying
this is an attack on the LGBT community. Then she

(34:48):
goes on Twitter a little after saying, well, I have
friends that are LGBT, so it's my job to use
my large platform to stand out for them and protect them. Yet,
like you said, the the league that she claims to
be her favorite is now partner up with a country
that if you're gay, they're allowed to punish you by debt. Moreover,

(35:09):
Clay L Duncan is frequently interacting with joy Read on Twitter,
who posted a bunch of homophobic posts on her blogs
a couple of years ago. Of course, so l Duncan
brands herself as the gay rights activist at ESPN, Yet
she's talking with joy Read and not saying a word
about the MBA deal with a country that can kill

(35:31):
you for being gay. So, to me, there's no bigger
fraud at ESPN than Earth. There's a lot of people
on that list to consider it. Right now, I think
she's in a league of her own. She's a clown
and she's a hypocrite, and frankly, I'm not even sure
she's smart enough to understand how much of a clown
and a hypocrite she is. But it's part of the
larger network environment that ESPN has created created Bobby for

(35:52):
people who may not be super plugged in in the
world of sports, how left wing is the sports media
that covered sports? As we talk a lot about the
left wing bias in politics from MSNBC and Washington Post
and the New York Times and CNN and all these
outlets that everybody immediately recognizes and acknowledges, has that left

(36:13):
wing bias. A lot of times, the ESPN's of the
world slide under the radar, and the extreme left wing
bias of the sports media outside of places like OutKick
almost doesn't even get called out at all. Right, And
I don't is anybody more qualified to talk about this
than you and I, because I don't think anybody on
a daily basis delves into bolts of political media landscape

(36:36):
in the sports media's landscape like we do. And yet
there is a perspective of news media leans left, which
it absolutely does, but the sports media leans in that
direction so much further because here's the thing. The reason
what sports media is is that most of the people
are sort of bitter and they feel like they need

(36:56):
to prove what side they're ounds. You see, so many
people just never miss an opportunity to call somebody racist
for something that's not a racist. At least in the
news media, you have alternative outlift that can push back
on that prominent outlift, and too OutKick, there was nobody
in the sports media space that could even get a

(37:17):
moderate opinion just to push back and say, wait a minute,
what you're saying is not factual. That all these sports
anchors saying that this bill prohibits the word of gay.
If there wasn't an OutKick, there would not be a
single website that covers sports that would have said that.
So I think the biggest thing is if there is
less of a voice in alternative sports media than there

(37:38):
is news media. And I find that so unfortunate because
I go to a sports bar or go to a
sports game, and I think so many people are just
so fed up with what's going on, but their voices
are not a representative representative because so much of the
sports conversation for so long has been dictated by ESPN,
the Washington Post, NBC Sports all the which lean probably

(38:00):
as far left as CNN, and an ESPN's case, as
far left as MSNBC. I don't think there's any doubt
if you enjoy this conversation and you want to have
a little bit of sanity in your sports life. I'd
encourage you to check out Bobby Barak. Also checkout OutKick
dot com Bobby by the way, data also out there.
Major League Baseball pulled the All Star Game out of

(38:20):
Georgia because they said that it was Jim Crow two
point zero. So the voting has surged in Georgia. Another lie,
another thing that sports got wrong. Yeah, I think my
favorite one is actually I think when Biden called it
Jim Crow on steroid, Jim Crow two point oh. It's
pretty good, but Jim Crow on steroids even better. Yeah,
it's just another example of sort of these sports companies

(38:43):
and major corporations acting irrationally out of fear. So what
happened here is MLB commissioner Rob Manford. He saw the
push to say that Georgia's bills were holding black people
back with an example of volor suppression, so he felt
he needed to make a statement to show everybody, well,
he's not a racist. You can't call me a racist.

(39:03):
I pulled the All Star Game out of Atlanta, But
as you say, it didn't suppress any votes. Of voting
is up double since twenty eighteen and moreover, what ended
up happening. He took the All Star Game to Colorado,
which arguably has more stringent voting laws than Georgia, And
in the meantime, he ended up just taking money away
from black owned businesses in Atlanta. So what did he accomplish? Nothing? Thankfully,

(39:28):
the Braves won the World Series and got to host
three World Series games instead. Bobby, keep up the good work.
Appreciate it, my man Clay, Appreciate it. Great speeches inspire us.
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Clay and Buck for Helsdale dot com. Welcome back in
Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Buck is in Chicago. Should
probably mention that have a couple times during the course
of the show. Will be back together Monday, but he
is never been in Chicago, so he's spending some vacation

(40:56):
time there. One and two, we just played some Jensay
clips for you, but this one this baby formula shortage,
and you heard Rand Paul talking about it with us
as well. This is pretty wild the degree to which
we are now probably suffering many moms and dads out
there are with the single most irreplaceable product out there.

(41:21):
Because right now, if there's a shortage of bananas, you
can decide. I know we got a lot of banana
fans out there, but if you want to go with
a fruit, you can go from banana to orange. Right,
you can go from apple to any other fruit product. Right.
If you want a beer, I'm gonna have some adult

(41:41):
beverages tonight down at the I'm down on by the
way that Florida Panhandle having an awesome time down here.
We got a lot of listeners from all over the country.
I met a bunch of them last night out to dinner.
But if you want to go with an adult beverage,
maybe you're a bud light guy, you could probably make
do with Miller Light or Core's Light. If you're a
parent and you need baby formula, there isn't a fungible alternative.

(42:08):
I've been through this. I know a lot of dads
and moms know the feeling where you suddenly realize you're
out of baby formula. It's late at night, and you
walk into that twenty four hour grocery store to go
by the Similac or the Infamil, whatever brand you might
be dealing with, and you know that that is incredibly

(42:30):
important because you've got a crying baby back home, because
you've got a baby that's hungry, because you have to
maintain and provide for that baby, and there aren't hardly
any fungible alternatives because the baby is still feeding from
the bottle. Well, Jensaki is in the White House. We
just told you it's her last day. She was asked

(42:53):
yesterday about the baby formulas shortage, and she blamed it
on people who are are hoarding baby formula. That's really
what the White House response is. Now, listen to this.
If you are a parent who's looking for formula right now,
struggling to find what you need, you have even a
rough guess of how long these shortages are going to last.

(43:15):
What's your parents be bracing for here, Well, we've already
seen an increase in supply of the past couple of weeks.
What we are seeing, which is an enormous problem, is hoarding.
People hoarding because they're fearful, that is one element of it.
And people hoarding because they are trying to profit off
of fearful parents. So that is also something we're focused on.
I don't know. I've lived in America my whole life.

(43:36):
I never remember a time when hoarding baby formula would
have been remotely effective because there was plenty of it.
Joe Biden, Bear selves Biden, of all the things that
we could be running out of, right now. Running out
of baby formula is absolutely absurd. We took phone calls
on this earlier this week. You may recall from the
East coast to the West coast, people were calling into

(43:57):
the program talking about the difficulty they are having finding
baby formula. It's just such an extent that grandma's and
grandpa's are getting drawn into the search process in many
different places. All right, final few minutes here, final twenty
minutes or so of the program for the week. Let's
have a little bit of fun open lines eight hundred
two eight two two eight eight two. I pointed out

(44:19):
earlier in the show that it's Friday the thirteenth, and
the most scary series of movies that I have ever
seen are the Conjuring films, but there have been other films.
I went and saw paranormal activity by myself. My wife,
and at that time, I think we had two kids

(44:39):
were out of the house. I came back home to
the house by myself. I left every light on in
the entire house, and I also propped the door so
it couldn't be opened. I guess thinking that the ghost
wouldn't just float through the door, But I was at
the time. I don't know. Thirty seven, thirty eight year

(45:00):
years old, fully grown man, and I had all the
lights on in the house after going to see Paranormal Activity.
I love scary movies. I love, by the way, the
Scream series in terms of pure enjoyment as a kid
growing up, I was a big night Mary on elm
Street fan. A lot of you want to weigh in,
so let's take some of your calls here on open

(45:20):
Line Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Dave down in Miami. I'm
asking you what the scariest movie you have ever seen?
If you had to give a recommendation to people to
watch a scary movie tonight, which one would you go with? Dave?
Who you got? I would totally be quick here to
listen the conjuring, Paranormal Activity, Exorcists aren't even scary movies.

(45:41):
They're all good. I watched the movie that messed me
up for three days. I don't know anything about Shadow People.
Tell me what the general plot of Shadow People is.
It's about a radio talk show host that's trying to
investigate this mysterious shadow People that people are reporting about.
That thing mess me up. I'm gonna look it up.

(46:06):
Didn't bother me. I have to watch scary movies by
myself anyway, because my wife doesn't watch. My kids don't
wat scary movies. Thank you, but this one got you.
David Miami says, Shadow People, Ali, I'm gonna put you on.
I'm already a little bit afraid there because he says
it's about a radio show host. I don't need any
terrifying radio show host movies. I don't want to be
unable to get out of bed over or cold up

(46:28):
underneath the covers over a radio show movie. Tim in Raleigh,
North Carolina. By the way, thanks to everybody listening in
Raleigh playing Buck show number one in the entire market.
What is the scariest movie you have ever seen? What
should people watched him play? Thank you for what you do,
amazing show. Appreciate your movie. The perfect movie for Buck

(46:49):
right now is The Relic. It's I'm a Chicago. It's
the Museum in Chicago, and it's about a scientist who
goes to some tribe in the middle of nowhere and
it doesn't work out well for him. The Relic. I
don't know this movie either. I'm not. I'm actually writing
these down because I'm genuinely curious. I'm always looking for

(47:10):
a new scary movie to check out, because i do
really like scary movies. But I'm not familiar with either
of those. Denise in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Denise, are
you a UNC tar heel or are you a Duke?
Blue devil? Or is that an insulting question to ask
somebody in Chapel Hill. I'm from Florida, so you're neither
watch I won't watch Night of the Living Dead. The

(47:34):
Night of the Living Dead you won't watch. By the way,
did you say you're from Florida? So that means you
don't have a chosen team. You live in Chapel Hill,
You're not on team UNC or team Duke. No, I
live here because of my granddaughter that I won't watch
The Dead Night of the Living Dead. Thank you to
called Denise. Denise might be the only person in Chapel

(47:54):
Hill who can dodge the question of blue devils or
tar heels because a little bit like being down in Alabama,
and if somebody says, are you in Auburn, an Alabama person,
you immediately have an answer. Then East living in Chapel Hill,
she has no affiliation in the biggest basketball rivalry in
the country right now, at least in States. Bob in Rochester,
New York, Bob, what you got for us? I'm back

(48:17):
in nineteen seventy nine and the original Alien movie. Oh,
that was the Sigourney Weaver Original Alien movie is pretty spooky.
They had thanks for the call. They had was a
Universal Studios where they had the Alien ride in the
amusement park and it comes down. I think it was
Universal Studios back in the day. And I took my

(48:39):
kids through and this has been like seven or eight
years ago, and they were really rattled and we watched
a little bit of Alien and it was terrifying to them.
It's one of those horror movies that holds up. George,
by the way, in Florida has another movie that I'm
not that familiar with. George, what part of Florida? Are
you in Melbourne on the East Coast? Yeah? Yeah, So

(48:59):
what's the movie that you're saying. It's Friday the thirteenth
Scariest Movie if you had to get people's suggestion. Well,
this came out in the seventies and it was a
really cheesy movie. But when I first saw it, scared
the dig inside of me. It was called fantasm. Yeah,
I don't know fantasm either. By the way, thank you
for the call. All over the country people weighing in.
You can weigh in at Clay Travis on Twitter as well.

(49:21):
I put this poll question up. It wasn't even a
poll question. It was just, hey, what do you have?
What do you have out there? And I knew, by
the way, some people were gonna respond this way John Rich?
Who a lot of you were going to know? The
country music singer? He responded, So I just put up
on Twitter for everybody out there, and you can go
vote and get in a debate. I think what seven
hundred comments beneath this Friday the thirteenth, What's the scariest

(49:44):
movie ever made? Debate and discussed below. This is on Twitter.
I'm at Clay Travis. John Rich, fabulous success as a
country music singer said the scariest movie ever made is
the one we're living through right now. So the Biden administration,
and I can certainly understand. I knew someone would think that,
and certainly I don't disagree. Of all the presidents we've

(50:07):
had in my lifetime, Joe Biden is the one I
trust the least to solve any issue at all that
might arise in this country. Final segment of the week
up next. We'll keep the phone lines open. One eight
two eight two two eight a two. It's Friday the thirteenth.
This is the Clay and Buck Show, and I want
you guys to know inflation continues to weigh outpace wage growth.

(50:30):
A few companies are giving cost of living allowances that match,
let's be honest, at eight point three percent inflation rate
we're all dealing with right now. You want to talk
about scary household budgets are getting crushed. So how do
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(50:51):
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and Eric products maybe instead of the name brand products,
because you're just trying to save a little bit of money.
Everybody out there just about is having their finance is
challenged by what's going on with the inflation rate. You

(51:12):
know what the biggest expense most of us have in
our lives a home we're going to buy. That is
where the vast majority of us are going to spend
them most money. Yet, how much time you're saving money
with gas, you're saving money with grocery stores. How much
time to most people give over to saving money with
the right mortgage rate? Nowhere near as much. Well, I'm

(51:33):
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American Financing and let them put your financial house in order.
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Welcome back in Glay Travis buck Sexton show Buck in
Chicago for the long weekend. If you are in the
Windy City, keep your head on a swivel for Buck.

(52:38):
He will be back on Monday with me. But we've
had a great time with you guys so far. On
the Friday edition of the program podcast Wise, Alex Barrenson
was phenomenal in the second hour of the program, answering
a lot of questions Twitter band Alex Barrenson, Bobby Barrack,
who is a writer at OutKick, also great, and then
Senator rand Paul at the top of this final hour,

(53:01):
dealing with the forty billion dollars in Ukraine, aid that
he has a radical idea, how about we have an
inspector general to verify that we don't waste all of it.
Seems very very reasonable. We're having some fun taking a
lot of calls about what exactly is your favorite horror
movie since we are right now obviously on Friday the thirteenth,

(53:22):
and a lot of you have weighed in want to
give the show. The show crew all put their picks
in Ali Silence of the Lambs, very very scary movie
back in the day. Anthony Hopkins man, how good was
he in that? And the Clarisse character who was played
by Oh yeah, Jodie Foster. She was creating that too,

(53:45):
Greg twenty eight days later, Mike, these are all the
people who work on the show. Dracula's daughter Dean Evil Dead.
Mojo went with young Frankenstein. Lisa went with Jaws. And
I have to say, I think Jaws is the single
most influential movie that has ever been made in American history.

(54:06):
And some of you out there like you're crazy Clay,
now think about it. I'm down at the beach right now.
I'm going to go in the water when I get
done with the show. And when I go in the water,
I will think, at least for a moment, I hope
I don't get eaten by a shark. Every single person,
and a lot of this was such a back in
the day when this movie was made. You've probably gotten
scared of sharks swimming in a lake. You've probably gotten

(54:29):
scared of sharks swimming in a swimming pool. At night.
That's how impactful this movie is. I'm not sure that
any movie ever made has ever impacted the American cultural
conscience the same way that Jaws has. Andrew went with
Jacob's Ladder. That was a spooky movie. And then Dub, Look,

(54:49):
if I had to pick someone to win a fight
to the death that works on the show, Buck well, Buck,
you know he was in the CIA. I don't even know.
Buck might have all sorts of crazy, you know, choke
you out, you know, or you know, make you pass
out by bending your thumb the wrong way. But Dub
is a big dude. Dub said, I hate scary movies.

(55:11):
He's the biggest guy on the show, six probably six
four two forty, and he's afraid to watch scary movies. Okay,
so we got a couple more people who want to
weigh in. Before I do that, just want to say
we're coming up on the one year anniversary of Clay
and Buck and we are loving being able to spend
three hours with you guys every single day all over

(55:33):
the country. Thank you for letting us do this job.
I really do think, and I know I speak for
Buck as well, that we have the best jobs in
the entire country. I'm excited to get out of bed
come talk with you guys every single day. Thank you
for making this such a fun experience. As we come
up on the one year anniversary of this show. All Right,

(55:55):
Dan in Buffalo, Wyoming, which is a heck of a
name for its down what movie are you rolling with?
I'm rolling with a TV movie made in nineteen seventy
two that you can still watch on Netflix. It's called
Gargoyles and it was absolutely terrifying. I was nineteen years
old when it came on TV. I was at home

(56:17):
alone one night watching the television and it struck. It
struck a nerd with me, and I haven't forgotten about
it until over fifty years or fifty years it's been. Yeah,
I appreciate that, Dan, I need to get out to Wyoming.
By the way, I've never spent any time in Wyoming.
I love the Yellowstone television show, and spoiler alert, they

(56:37):
dump all the dead bodies allegedly from Montana in Wyoming
in a big crevice there By the way. Yellowstone is
a really fun show if you need something to watch
that is not really scary. Adam in Florida, what part
of Florida. Are you in, oh, Florida? Where in Florida? Laurco? Oh? Okay, yes,
what would you roll with as the scariest movie vs

(57:00):
here on Friday the thirteenth? You ever hear of Burnt Offerings? No,
you guys are giving me a lot of scary movies
that I'm not familiar with. I do know the omen
which I think is another one that you liked. That's right,
see Burnt Offerings. That that's with Oliver Read and Karen
black Ye and Betty Davis has a little part in it.

(57:21):
Now I appreciate the call. I'll have to check. I
have been jotting down a bunch of these scary movies
to check out, and let's go ahead and close out
the week. Jim in Nantucket, mass As. It gotten warm
up in Nantucket yet have all the people from out
of town started to roll in yet? Yeah? They starting
to roll in. But my movie was Playmisty for me.

(57:41):
Jessica Waters was a knife wielding psychopath stock in Clint Eastwood. Interesting.
We watched it. We watched it as a little movie
theater would go to during the week, about ten of
us and would all sit separately. By the end of
the movie. We're all in the same roll and I
walk home. I walk home on the dark street to
my house. I can't go to sleep, so I put

(58:02):
TV on. Jessica Watts. This is the guest on Johnny
Coon Show No showing the worst clips of the movie.
Thank you for the call. Good luck with the influx
of out of towners. I appreciate all of you. Encourage
you to have fantastic weekends. I am Play Travis and
this has been the Clay and Buck Show. Go subscribe

(58:23):
to the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a single moment.
We have had so much fun. We've got a one
year party coming up in a little bit. I'm gonna
make the trip up to New York City and hopefully
they'll let me into some of the businesses there. Buck
will be back on Monday. Thanks for hanging with us.
Have fantastic weekend. Fleet Travis and Buck Sexton on the

(58:45):
front lines of truth.