December 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show opens with Clay sharing his whirlwind weekend at the Big Ten Championship and FIFA World Cup draw, setting an energetic tone for the hour. From there, the conversation pivots to a major revelation from The New York Times confirming widespread corruption in Ukraine. Clay and Buck analyze how billions in U.S. aid have been misused, validating long-standing concerns and raising questions about accountability and foreign policy under the Trump administration. This segment underscores the geopolitical stakes as peace negotiations continue and corruption scandals dominate headlines.
The discussion then shifts to one of the most consequential media stories of the year: Netflix’s bid to acquire Warner Brothers versus Paramount’s competing offer. Clay argues that this battle will shape the future of news and entertainment, particularly CNN’s editorial direction. He makes the case that Paramount ownership could restore balance to CNN, while Buck explains why the network’s old model is unsalvageable in today’s opinion-driven media era. Together, they explore how media consolidation, antitrust law, and cultural influence will impact American discourse for years to come.
Hour 1 also previews Supreme Court cases that could redefine presidential power for generations, a topic with enormous implications for Trump’s next term and future administrations. The hosts examine how these rulings might alter executive authority and set new precedents. Economic issues take center stage as well, with Clay highlighting gas prices hitting multi-year lows—a welcome relief for holiday travelers—and analyzing how inflation trends will dominate the 2026 election cycle. Buck adds insight into the Biden administration’s immigration failures, citing a New York Times report that exposes how Democrats abandoned border security, fueling a surge of illegal crossings.
International security concerns round out the hour, with discussion of Venezuela’s instability, Iran’s diminished influence, and U.S. strikes on drug-running boats. The hosts question whether fentanyl or cocaine is the real target and connect these developments to the collapse of the so-called “axis of evil.” Clay emphasizes how these shifts in global power dynamics could influence energy markets and U.S. foreign policy.
Adding a lighter touch, Sean Hannity makes a surprise appearance for playful banter about sports predictions and Clay’s rose wine controversy. Clay shares optimism about the U.S. men’s soccer team’s World Cup draw and reflects on the cultural significance of major sporting events. Hour 1 blends hard-hitting analysis with humor and personality, delivering sharp insights on politics, media consolidation, global affairs, and cultural trends—all in the signature Clay and Buck style.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I
don't know if Buck is even aware, but Chaos in
the College Football playoff rankings was my weekend festivities Buck.
I was in Indianapolis, got to meet a bunch of
our listeners at the Big Ten Title game. Had an
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awesome time up there. India is a great just a
great city to walk around downtown. They've done a fantastic
job of making that just a very accessible spot. They
had a ton of different events going on. I don't
think I'm putting him on blast too much, but one
of the officials as I was walking around the field
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for the Big Ten Title game, walked over and sought
me out just to say that he loves the radio
show and he listens every day. So he's in his
full officiating gear getting ready for the Big Ten Big
Ten Championship game. You never know who is a Clay
and Buck listener out there, and we had a nice chat,
(01:02):
so I appreciate him coming over and talking.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I was all over the place. I was in d C.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I met a bunch of our people for the FIFA draw,
called in for that and then Indy and now I'm
back home and excited to be with all of you.
So there's a bunch of stuff out there, Buck, As
we come up on Christmas and as things typically start
to slow down a bit, there's actually some big stories
out there that I thought we could could have some
(01:28):
fun with all of you. With front page story Today's
New York Times, Ukraine huge grift. There is billions and billions,
probably frankly hundreds of billions of dollars that suddenly on
the front page of the New York Times they acknowledge
has been intentionally set up to allow theft.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I think that when.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We look at Ukraine and Russia and the peace plan
that is moving through there, Buck, I think one of
the challenges is Ukrainians are increasingly becoming aware that there
is a great deal of corruption surrounding everything having to
do with the Zolenski. How much he's personally involved and
and or benefiting remains to be seen. But it is
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the case that yet another conspiracy has been proven to
be true that people who are have been arguing, Hey,
a ton of our money that we've been sending there
is not being spent on defending Ukraine or fighting Russia.
It's actually lining the pockets of elite people in power
in Ukraine that has one hundred percent been proven to
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the extent that now even the New York Times is
willing to put it on the front page of the newspaper,
so we can get into that sixty minutes interviews Marjorie
Taylor Green. As soon as you decide that you want
to rip Trump, suddenly you are worthy of a sixty
minutes profile. But I actually think this story is more
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signific again than maybe many would realize, and it's going
to play out over the next year, and it's going
to be a big decision for the Trump administration, DOJ
and for the Antitrust to analyze. And that is that
Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers, the HBO essential
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portion of Warner Brothers, the Harry Potter film franchise, the
Game of Thrones, anything that you've watched on HBO. Netflix
is trying to buy Paramount, which has been acquired by
the Ellison family. Paramount has put in a larger bid
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to buy the entirety of Warner Brothers, which would include CNN.
So if you are out there right now and you're
listening to me and Buck and you're saying Okay, you know,
maybe you subscribe to Netflix, maybe you'll watch HBO occasionally.
But you're saying, Clay, why should I care who owns
this company? I think it's actually super important and if
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you are of the opinion that there should be a
middle of the road rational media out there. Notwithstanding the
criticism I just levied against sixty minutes, I think if
Netflix buys HBO, that it is a mostly left wing organization.
Netflix is. I think that CNN will be left to
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continue to be a left wing organization. I personally, Buck
like the idea of Paramount acquiring the entirety of Warner Brothers,
including CNN, and trying to run CNN as what it
used to be. You know, you worked at CNN back
in the day before they went full crazy, Buck.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But I witnessed the transition to full crazy. Just I
was there when you know, in fre any of you
Star Wars nerds, when the Emperor all of a sudden,
like his face changes and he gets all scared. I
witnessed that at CNN.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So for those of us who are old enough to
remember it, and I imagine that's a lot of the
people out there listening, it was not that long ago
in the grand scheme of things, when during the Gulf War,
for instance, CNN made a name for itself and everybody
trusted CNN to be on the ground and really legitimately
report the news that was going on. Heck, even whenever
(05:24):
you thought of Larry King back in the day, Larry
King wasn't some I mean, got married nine or ten times,
whatever the heck it was so personally he had some issues,
but in terms of his show on a nightly basis,
you may feel differently, Buck, that was very middle of
the road, right, He got good guests, they had conversations.
CNN lost its way, and I do think that if
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CNN ends up staying super left wing, that is not
a good thing for the country. And so that's why
I think this is significant.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
There are some broader trends as well, though, that CNN
got caught up in. For example, when you mentioned the
Gulf War and CNN's absolute heyday, which I would say
is the nineties era CNN Clay that was really pre
or early stage Internet. People can get information from anywhere now, right,
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this is right? What do we do here that they
don't do in the ap headlines, we entertain, we engage.
We bring a point of view, we bring life stories,
we bring you a conversation. Right, we're with our friends
talking about these things. We're not breaking news on the
latest ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia because by the time
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somebody does that, it's on the global Internet and everybody's done, right,
doesn't Really that's a thing that I think is ongoing.
By the way, there's fighting between the two countries, in
case you didn't know, So that's something that's going on.
We are in an era now, Clay where storytelling, connection
to audience, analysis, and trustworthiness of the person, not of
the entity, but of the people or person speaking to
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you is the currency of the news media. And so
how to Seenn operate in an era where that's the case.
If they did straight news, they wouldn't really have an audience.
I think this is the challenge that they run into
because just news without opinion isn't going to engage either side,
and they don't have an information advantage anymore. Everyone is
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putting the news up instantaneously. So we've entered a new
era of news and information online. And there's some great
parts about that. There are some not great parts about that.
But CNN, I think, and that model is going to
get largely I don't think it can ever come back.
As my position on this, I don't actually think CNN
is salvageable as what it was in the nineties because
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the world has changed. Part of why they went so
insane is because, well it was mostly because Jeff Zucker
hated Trump and it was personal. But beyond that, you know,
they brought in that other guy who got fired for
doing the Vanity Fair piece. Basic was a Vanity Fair
I think, or the Atlantic, I can't remember. He was
trying to make it not insane. There's not really an
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audience for a CNN that's not full of lunatics.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Here's my concern as we look at the at the
landscape of media, the people who are in positions of
power are going to be more powerful maybe than we
have seen in a very very long time, in terms
of the dollars that they have. And I'm very thankful
that Elon Musk has had a commitment to free speech
(08:34):
and that he decided to buy Twitter renamed it X,
but he could have just as easily decided that he
was a super left winger, and at that point in time,
we are in significant difficulty, and so I think right
now the framework for how these media companies are going
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to be owned, distributed, everything associated with it. If you're
not paying attention to what happens to Warner Brothers, I
think you're missing potentially an incredibly important media story that
is going to play out over the next year. And
I think if you voted for Trump, it is in
much better your interest for Paramount to end up buying
(09:18):
Warner Brothers than for Netflix to buy Warner Brothers. I
really think that's true. And so this is a big story.
This is an important one. I understand it's a little
bit in the weeds because then it's going to involve
antitrust law and it's going to get very complicated, and
it's going to take place over the next eighteen months.
But I just wanted to put that on the horizon
(09:39):
for everybody out there. There's also right now buck a
huge presidential power case which could implicate many of these
things over the next three years of Trump, but certainly
for the next several generations of presidents. And it has
to do with where exactly does the president's power extend
and how is it controlled god going forward? So we're
(10:01):
coming up on the end of the year. But there
are a lot of things that I think are massively
consequential that are all coming together right now that may
slide under the radar because everybody's got Christmas parties. You've
got a Christmas party on Thursday that I'm gonna be at.
I'm excited to get down to Miami and being warned,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
When we're stocking up on Buddy Rose. Clay's coming into town,
so we gotta make sure plenty of rose to go around.
Some people are saying a big Rose drinker, Kaylee mcanenny
calling him out in absentia. I might add that is
absentia devastating.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
This reminds me of when Riley Gaines brought a two
by four to me on Sean Hannity's show. I am
flying to Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game. So
I was in the air, unable to do Kaylee's show,
and then I look down at my phone and recognize
that I have suddenly been savagely attacked on Fox News
for my alcohol drinking habits.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Can you guys pull that Pull that one up, because
we got we'll play it in the next segment. I
just want to to be clear, I have my man
Clay's back, or I said, I think he's doing sports
stuff somewhere, which is, by the way, it's a weekend,
wasbably the probably the right answer, and Caylee was like,
I don't know. I hear wine tasting, maybe maybe sniffing
for the aromas of the rose before he swills it
(11:16):
around and talks about the notes of black currant and
vanilla that he's that he's picking up. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
This is just I was out Friday night with our
friend Alexi Lawless because they had the FIFA and Andrew Giuliani,
who was who's basically in charge of Buddy the FIFA event. Yeah,
it was a fun group, but uh but Alexi uh
was was questioning my alcohol choices, and uh, thankfully someone
with us, another man ordered an espresso martini, which was
(11:44):
more attackable worthy, so I was able to shift.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Sometimes you don't have to be right. Somebody else just
had to screw up worse.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Uh, Ben who was with us, ordered an espresso martini
and you duck out of the line of fire there.
But my rose consumption has u has now led to
multiple daily attacks. We're gonna have to get Kaylee back
on to talk about that. And I understand if you're
out there and you say I can't trust anything you're
saying now, Clay, because you voluntarily consumed rose. So so
there's that as well. By the way, we just bring
(12:12):
you the news. We bring you the news here. I
think I sent in a talkback. But we did get
a great draw for the World Cup. If you want
positive news, theoretically even the US men's soccer team can't
screw up the draw that we got on Friday. We
should be in the knockout stages. That should be uh,
that should be fantastic going forward. So some good news
(12:34):
out there, But I do I do think again, it's
easy to get kind of your Your eyes will roll
back into your head sometimes if you're not a nerd
like I am, when it comes to media and big
media mergers and what the impact could be for how
we discuss issues in this country. I think if you're
a Trump voter, you you want paaramount to buy Warner Brothers.
If you are a left winger, I think that you
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want the opposite to haveapon.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
All right, we'll take calls, we'll get in all this.
We'll let's talk about the small American fraud. We'll discuss
Obamacare premiums going up. We'll talk about the New York
Times writing that Biden screwed up immigration big time, bigly, bigly.
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Speaker 2 (14:21):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. We are
live and it's always in motion. On this show. We
have a surprise guest in our New York City studio.
I don't even know who it is. I truly do not.
They just said he's miked up. So, sir, mystery guests,
you are on the air. I'm holding a book.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
It's called Falls and you have to have a lot
of those to write that book and call it that title.
How Trump young Men in Sports saved America? Right there?
Of course, that would be Clay Travis's book, Claim Buck.
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Good to talk to you all good. We're good And
mister Sean Hannity, it is fantastic. Have you with us.
I've been hearing a little bit that my buddy Clay
here he owes you a little money. He's like turning
into the guy who runs away in Bronx tail.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You know me thousands, what you know? The ironic part
is Clay He's way more knowledgeable in sports than I am.
Although I love sports, and like everybody else, I find
it a great distraction. But I love our gladiator sports
in particular, love UFC, I love football, I love ice hockey.
I'm a big Florida Panthers fan of seasons tickets. And
(15:29):
what I love is that he'll be on TV or
we'll be on this show. We'll just be talking and
I'll say, who do you think is gonna win? And
I always take the other team and he always loses.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Always you run the reverse, the reverse Clay prediction.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
If I had been on and we had been going
back and forth over Alabama Georgia, I did hit my
bloodbank guarantee on Georgia. I know you've got Alabama connections.
That was a beat down that the Bulldogs put on
the te Yeah, but I didn't take that bet because
I knew I'm gonna lose.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I'm like I just when you know somebody's gonna lose,
you don't make that bet. You just don't.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Jean, do you have do you have a super Bowl
prediction that you always make or are you willing to
make one now on the air, Clay, do you have one?
Since I have both of you kill.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Super Bowls a little bit early to make that prediction,
But I do think, uh, I don't know. I honestly
would love to see the New England Patriots back in it.
Maybe I'm an oddball out on this. I've known Robert
Kraft for decades, so I like him personally and he
is a great, great guy. He recently sent me a
pair of sneakers, you know, we wear sneakers all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I saw him Sean at the FIFA event. He was
there for the World Cup draw. So I would like
to see them get back. I think they can. They
might have found the next Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
This guy. Wait wait, I also had Sean. Do you
talk about soccer on your show at all? Because now
hey hijacked the show last week for like an hour
to talk about feet, which Ali calls Faifa, which.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Ali's not that wrong.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
The ironic part is I was always a good athlete
in school before I once had a shoulder injury, a
rotator cuff injury. I always had a sling shot arm
I was a pitcher in baseball. Love sports, and I was,
you know. And then because it was a small school,
they my teachers were the coaches of the teams, and
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it was soccer, and then it was basketball, and then
it was baseball. Baseball I liked the most at the time,
but I was always a hockey player too, and they
are like, okay, you can play. You're going to play,
or you're going to fail. So I had a choice.
But it did improve my grades in high school if
I would play play these sports. They made me play
soccer for four years in high school and I hated it.
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And not only position real quick center half back, which
means if you run up and down the field, and
then like in between periods, I'd be smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Sean Hannity, he'll be on on many of these stations,
pretty much all of them. Right after US. Sean, I'll
get to you next time. I see promise, Money's coming,
all right, super Bowl beck coming, super Bowl Bet We'll
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I don't always win In fact, often I lose, as
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you just heard from Sean Hannity, but I do love
to sit around and watch over the weekend. As Sean said,
kick my feet up, have a drink and watch games.
I spend all day on Sunday watching NFL games with
my boys. I was on the road. I'm gonna give
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Trauts Bock Sexton, show some positivity, more positivity for everybody
out there. I know as many of you will be
traveling for the holidays, for Christmas, for New Years. The
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price of gas is now below three dollars a gallon
in thirty seven states. This is according to the Trump Team.
In twenty two states, it's now below two dollars and
seventy five cents a gallon, and in five states it
is below two dollars and fifty cents a gallon. That
is a multi year low that it is costing you
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to fill up your gas tank.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So as I know.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Many of you are, when you're looking at those credit
card bills and you're like, do we really need to
be buying all of these gifts? Do we really need
to be going to all these different parties and all
these different things that end up costing a lot of
money As we come down the home stretch, hopefully you
are at least being able to save some money as
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you go around for your holiday shopping and your holiday travels.
So I do think this is significant. It goes to
what I think is going to be the biggest issue
in twenty twenty six buck its cost of goods. And
if you look at the price of gas in the
context of inflation, because Biden drove up inflation to such
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a rapid degree, we're at nearly historic all time lows
four prices of gas augusted adjusted for inflation. And every
time I say this, somebody emails us and says, this
morning it was three dollars and forty eight cent. Said,
you know, look, I understand if you're in San Francisco
right now, you're paying a lot more than if you're
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in Mobile, Alabama, for instance. So I understand that everybody's
prices are different, which is why I hit so many
different states. And by the way, one reason your price
for gas, for instance, in California is so high, is
because they tried to create a world to dissuade you
from driving gas powered vehicles. So that is out there
(20:57):
kind of monitoring what the storylines are. They're still going
after Pete Hegseth over the Venezuelan strikes buck on MSNBC.
But I feel like in the wake of the testimony
from the admiral and the fact that many people were
able to see the videos, that story has essentially started
to vanish. It's a sign of desperation that that's probably
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the best thing they think they can.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
You're going to see. I think more of a focus
on this. I've seen this bubbling up. The strikes on
these boats, the ones at least that are happening in
the Caribbean. Some happen in the eastern Pacifics that would
be off the coast of Mexico on the way into
the US. But the strikes, I believe that's where those
strikes have been. I mean, they're certainly in that general vicinity.
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The ones in the Caribbean, though they're Now you're going
to see more people asking, well, is this fentanyl or
is a cocaine? Is a cocaine that's meant to be
transshipped to the European market mostly? If that's the case,
why aren't we being told that? You're going to hear
more of this too. I actually do want a Department
of War to make this more clear because I think
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otherwise it will become a louder question, which is we're
being told this is to stop people. We're not having
one hundred thousand or eighty thousand cocaine overdose deatsy or
that's not what's happening. So is this mostly cocaine in
these boats that are being blown? Is it entirely cocaine
or is it fentanyl? Because if it's not fentanyl, people
are going to start to ask, I think more, well,
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why aren't we going after the fentanyl which is a
overwhelmingly Mexican cartel overland issue. That's how the fentanyl is
actually getting into the United States. So you may see
a switch, I think a pivot to that, not just
the laws of war issue, but the well what's the
primary target issue?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I think that's going to come into play. And also
again in my New York Times reading, I do it
so you don't have to really detailed breakdown of about
twelve different names. Maybe is it twelve, Maybe it's eight
or nine that they think could take over when Maduro
is out. It feels like there is an expectation that
Maduro may just decide to take refuge in a foreign country.
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And one big part of the Venezuela story Buck is,
I do think it's connected to Iran. These countries made
choices about who they wanted to be allied with, and
now nobody has their back right. One significant impact of
essentially the sterilization of Iran's influence in much of the
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Middle East and the attack that we dropped on them
is Iran is completely powerless right now. They are a
state without influence even in their own borders to a
large extent, but certainly beyond their borders. Cuba is I
mean nonexistent as a viable force. Russia has had no
ability to extend a hand in any direction at all
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to try to prop up some of these different assets,
and China's neutered.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
China to a.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Large degree, Buck has not been willing to step in
to help Venezuela to help Iran. So this so called
axis of evil that has existed for some time, and
obviously North Korea is powerless, but there is virtually no
impact in terms of these anti American unified actors when
they are able to unite. Venezuela is out there floating
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on its own. No one is in any way able
to even support them. And again, if we could get
peace in Ukraine, Russia's oil comes back on the national
national market really rapidly. I started off by talking about
the good news of oil prices they would come down
even more, because I do think that they would. They
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would collapse even more than they already have. And again
we're at multi year lows and gas prices. That makes
a difference when you're out there, unfortunately having to stack
up a lot of different presence and a lot of
expenses that maybe you weren't as excited about putting on
the table out there, speaking of pudding on the table,
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do we want to play this egregious attack that I
was subjected to on Fox News airway?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
We were going to we never break a tease, of course,
but I mean Sean wanted to come hang out. He
was in the studio. So we got to take Sean
when he wants to hang out. But I did, so
I'm gonna tell you how this happened. They said to me.
They said, Buck, because they know I don't like to
work weekends. Okay, I just don't. I generally I don't
like that. But but for Caylee MACKINENNI, who's a dear
friend of many many years. I like to point this out.
(25:29):
Clay I will have been doing I'll be in my
either fifteenth or sixteenth year of like working in media,
starting in June. That's when I left the government in
two thousand and eleven. I think. So it's coming up right.
I've known Cally almost that whole time. I think I
met her the second or third year. I bring it
up because I'm willing to do Cally's show on the
weekends because she's a great American and it's a great program.
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But sometimes they even will say, Buck, you got it
to the show. We're gonna have you and clay On
together and it's going to be oh so much fun.
So I'm waking up. I'm leaving Baby Speed with Carrie.
I got my crocket coffee at the tables smelling and
tasting delicious Crocketcoffee dot Com. You wanna go subscribe this
holiday season? My friends. We'll get back to that. But
I leave and I'm expecting that there there's there's gonna
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be some dynamic duo action. It's gonna be mister Clay
Travis up there. And sure enough they say right before
I go in there, Actually, Buck, it's just gonna be
you this Saturday. Clay is too cool for school. He's busy,
and Kaylee and her team decided that they were gonna
have at it. They're gonna let you know what they
think about this absence from our Saturday coffee session, if
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you will. And here, well, some of us drink rose.
Here's how that went. Play it.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Clay is absent today. I don't know where in the
world is Clay, but we put this poster together for
him towards where is Clay Travis. Well, I have a theory.
Okay sports, but Buck, I have a theory. I told him.
Next time he comes on, I'm going to unleash a
picture of him drinking a female rose at the Patriot Awards.
Jesse Waters team has asked me for that picture.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I said, nope, I'm.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Holding it for the next time Clay's on here. I
think he's not. He doesn't want that picture out.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Look. The man enjoys a nicely chilled rose. We even
had discussions on our radio show about how perhaps when
he comes to visit Miami Beach next there could be
some froze in his future frozen rose for those who
are uninitiated in some of these fancier ways.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
So there is that.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I will tell you I was at with Clay and
Jesse Travis. Sorry, Clay Travis and Jesse Kelly wants another
radio host, and Jesse Kelly ordered seventy dollars tequila shots
at a hotel where we're at now. He claims to
not know that they were seventy dollars each. But I'm
just going to tell you some of these radio guys
they're quite fancy and their taste for booze, and Clay
is going to have to explain to the masses how
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he became a rose guy in between sec football and
drinking beer out of solo cups.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Everyone thinks Clay Travis is at a football game right now,
like with an IPA. I bet he's on a beach
somewhere with that chilled rose. But we'll find out where
is Clay.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
There's this other Fox news show, This is Nation WADA's
gonna say this. Notice how I tried and just throw
Jesse Kelly under the bus as a distraction to run
some cover for you. I just want this to be clear.
I'm trying. They didn't tell me they were good. They
put a wanted poster for Clay up on the screen.
I was doing the best I could with what I had.
Jesse is very tall, so it's hard to shove him
under the bus. But I tried.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Seventy five dollars tequila shots. I might add the seventy
would have been a bargain compared to what Jesse ordered.
I was in the air. I was in the air
on the way to the Big Ten Title game. Never
been to the Big Ten title game before. I've been
to the SEC Championship game a lot. It was a
great game. Congratulations Indiana Hoosiers got the big win over
Ohio State, and it was an awesome game. But yeah,
(28:44):
in the air, I looked down at my phone and
there's just attacks raging in every direction. Did you really
not know that I that I was not going to
be on. Did you think that I was sitting down
to beyond? I forgot. I thought you were joining.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yes, they did send me something saying you and Clay
will be on together, and I was so then of
course there was sadness. Sadness descended upon the Lamb when
it was gonna be just me on Saturday. You know,
I could have been going for a walk on the beach,
drink in some froze, but instead I was in my
home studio getting ready to do the hit. But it
was very much, very much a great chance to sit there,
(29:19):
sit there and chat with this Kelly McKenna who's doing
fantastic stuff and her dad has been listens every day.
So we got a bring a game because mister Macinanny
mcanenny senior is uh is telling us that we got
to make sure the show is entertaining.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, no doubt. And uh, I bet he was watching
the football games. So there you go. That was what
that's my excuse. Maybe I'll be on this Saturday. I'll
try to me. I'll be down in Miami. Uh maybe
they'll maybe they'll have me on to defend myself from
from Miami.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But in the meantime, By the way, this is interesting.
We've got the the the now hostile takeover bid. CNN
is now forced to cover a hostile takeover bid from
people who want to buy the network and actually make
it sane. And I just bring that up because again,
(30:07):
this is going to be a story that is uh,
I think dominating much of the the newscast going forward,
and we will see what the what's going to transpire there.
But I really do think if you're a Trump voter,
you should want Paramount to to win. I tweeted that,
and uh, I think this is going to be an
important battle when it comes to media consolidation and power.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I certainly think that it's going to play out in
a way that we will have to pay close attention to.
I didn't I don't know. I don't really haven't much
of a take on the and so I think it's
super super significant how exactly this is going to play
itself out? Well, why do you think Paramount is going
to be so much better than Netflix? That's why I
to me, it's I think that they are going to Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I think this is some this is some faith in
Larry Ellison and David David Ellison, who would basically David
Ellison will be running paramout. I think that they look
at the way CNN is and say, this left wing
craziness that we have allowed to exist at CNN, we
are going to adjust. I think that's a huge part
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of their decisions. I think culturally Paramount has sane owners.
Netflix is very left wing, and that's pretty sure, pretty
announced left wing. So I think if they buy these assets,
it will make them a stronger left wing element here.
(31:33):
And so look, would I prefer obviously that that Fox
or yours truly got the opportunity to make decisions editorially
for CNN? Do I think that would be better insaner, Yes,
I think they'll do a better job.
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.
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Speaker 2 (33:08):
Welcome back in here too, Clay and Buck. We will
be diving in shortly. Here to a couple of things.
One of them is this article in the New York
Times that I just think is fascinating about how the
Biden administration completely fell apart on the issue of immigration.
I think it's all cleanup on Ale Biden. Actually, I
(33:30):
don't think that this was just a thing that happened.
They're basically saying Biden screwed up. They didn't pay enough
attention to this. Totally disagree. They knew exactly what was
going on. They were briefed, they were told this was
what they wanted. What they don't want is the American
people to realize that the Democrat Party chose to let
ten million people take advantage of us, come into our
(33:51):
country and help themselves to our welfare, benefits and everything else. Right,
they don't want people to remember going into the midterms
the Democrat Party shows to completely abrogate, to abandon our sovereignty.
So we'll get into that here coming up in a
few minutes. We've also got some talkbacks and calls and
(34:11):
wonderful things like that that we like to address here.
Let's do uh oh, here we go. Alan from New
Orleans who listens on the Fantastic Wrno play.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Bb Well Clay if I was out at a beautiful event,
like you are, sitting at a table with Kaylee mcinnaney,
Emily Compagno, and Tommy Lauren. I'm drinking with dead drinking
and I don't care what anybody says, So you go forward,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, I appreciate that that endorsement there. It has been
neglected to point out that again, Kaylee, Tommy, and Emily
all at the same table with me, and Kaylee, to
my recollection, says hey, I want to I don't want
to drink the red wine at the table, because I
do think there was some red wine because she was
(35:00):
worried about staining her teeth. She had to get up
on the stage and present an award, and so that
was I think the impetus to Whispering Angel being poured
for everyone around the table. It's not like they had
bottles of bourbon or vodka or any even any beer availability.
So I appreciate Alan having my back bill in New
(35:20):
Jersey CC.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Nothing wrong with those roses, fellas. They're just red grapes
that have had the skins peeled off, mashed up and
made into the wine, especially if they're a zinfandel or
a pinot noir. Either of those roses are very nice,
full flavored like the reds, only without some of that
little extra bite that the tannins sometimes give. Anyways, good stuff, flavorful, enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
I didn't know we're going to have a regional distributor
for Whispering Angel in our audience today, but apparently, well,
there definitely.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Should be a wine. I mean, I've said this a
lot about different programs. I think alcohol being a sponsor
of the show would not be a bad idea. I
don't think we've had any no beer, no liquor, no
no wineries. I think that could make a lot of
sense for twenty twenty six. That would be a smart decision.
I think if you're out there and you're in the
(36:15):
alcohol market, maybe reach out to our team buck we
come back. We can also talk about the Supreme Court
cases that are ongoing relating to presidential power. I bet
you talked about this sum on Friday, the decision by
the Trump administration to say Europe's on the brink of
civilizational erasure, which is a big story that unfortunately is
(36:38):
very significant with the decline of the overall population. When
it comes to comes just birds, in general. We'll break
all that down more. Take some of your calls eight
hundred and two two A two Thanks for hangling with us,
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I
don't know if Buck is even aware, but Chaos in
the College Football playoff rankings was my weekend festivities Buck.
I was in Indianapolis, got to meet a bunch of
our listeners at the Big Ten Title game. Had an
(00:21):
awesome time up there. India is a great just a
great city to walk around downtown. They've done a fantastic
job of making that just a very accessible spot. They
had a ton of different events going on. I don't
think I'm putting him on blast too much, but one
of the officials as I was walking around the field
(00:42):
for the Big Ten Title game, walked over and sought
me out just to say that he loves the radio
show and he listens every day. So he's in his
full officiating gear getting ready for the Big Ten Big
Ten Championship game. You never know who is a Clay
and Buck listener out there, and we had a nice chat,
(01:02):
so I appreciate him coming over and talking.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I was all over the place. I was in d C.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I met a bunch of our people for the FIFA draw,
called in for that and then Indy and now I'm
back home and excited to be with all of you.
So there's a bunch of stuff out there, Buck, As
we come up on Christmas and as things typically start
to slow down a bit, there's actually some big stories
out there that I thought we could could have some
(01:28):
fun with all of you. With front page story Today's
New York Times, Ukraine huge grift. There is billions and billions,
probably frankly hundreds of billions of dollars that suddenly on
the front page of the New York Times they acknowledge
has been intentionally set up to allow theft.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I think that when.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We look at Ukraine and Russia and the peace plan
that is moving through there, Buck, I think one of
the challenges is Ukrainians are increasingly becoming aware that there
is a great deal of corruption surrounding everything having to
do with the Zolenski. How much he's personally involved and
and or benefiting remains to be seen. But it is
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the case that yet another conspiracy has been proven to
be true that people who are have been arguing, Hey,
a ton of our money that we've been sending there
is not being spent on defending Ukraine or fighting Russia.
It's actually lining the pockets of elite people in power
in Ukraine that has one hundred percent been proven to
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the extent that now even the New York Times is
willing to put it on the front page of the newspaper,
so we can get into that sixty minutes interviews Marjorie
Taylor Green. As soon as you decide that you want
to rip Trump, suddenly you are worthy of a sixty
minutes profile. But I actually think this story is more
(02:59):
signific again than maybe many would realize, and it's going
to play out over the next year, and it's going
to be a big decision for the Trump administration, DOJ
and for the Antitrust to analyze. And that is that
Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers, the HBO essential
(03:20):
portion of Warner Brothers, the Harry Potter film franchise, the
Game of Thrones, anything that you've watched on HBO. Netflix
is trying to buy Paramount, which has been acquired by
the Ellison family. Paramount has put in a larger bid
(03:41):
to buy the entirety of Warner Brothers, which would include CNN.
So if you are out there right now and you're
listening to me and Buck and you're saying Okay, you know,
maybe you subscribe to Netflix, maybe you'll watch HBO occasionally.
But you're saying, Clay, why should I care who owns
this company? I think it's actually super important and if
(04:04):
you are of the opinion that there should be a
middle of the road rational media out there. Notwithstanding the
criticism I just levied against sixty minutes, I think if
Netflix buys HBO, that it is a mostly left wing organization.
Netflix is. I think that CNN will be left to
(04:25):
continue to be a left wing organization. I personally, Buck
like the idea of Paramount acquiring the entirety of Warner Brothers,
including CNN, and trying to run CNN as what it
used to be. You know, you worked at CNN back
in the day before they went full crazy, Buck.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But I witnessed the transition to full crazy. Just I
was there when you know, in fre any of you
Star Wars nerds, when the Emperor all of a sudden,
like his face changes and he gets all scared. I
witnessed that at CNN.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So for those of us who are old enough to
remember it, and I imagine that's a lot of the
people out there listening, it was not that long ago
in the grand scheme of things, when during the Gulf War,
for instance, CNN made a name for itself and everybody
trusted CNN to be on the ground and really legitimately
report the news that was going on. Heck, even whenever
(05:24):
you thought of Larry King back in the day, Larry
King wasn't some I mean, got married nine or ten times,
whatever the heck it was so personally he had some issues,
but in terms of his show on a nightly basis,
you may feel differently, Buck, that was very middle of
the road, right, He got good guests, they had conversations.
CNN lost its way, and I do think that if
(05:46):
CNN ends up staying super left wing, that is not
a good thing for the country. And so that's why
I think this is significant.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
There are some broader trends as well, though, that CNN
got caught up in. For example, when you mentioned the
Gulf War and CNN's absolute heyday, which I would say
is the nineties era CNN Clay that was really pre
or early stage Internet. People can get information from anywhere now, right,
(06:16):
this is right? What do we do here that they
don't do in the ap headlines, we entertain, we engage.
We bring a point of view, we bring life stories,
we bring you a conversation. Right, we're with our friends
talking about these things. We're not breaking news on the
latest ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia because by the time
(06:38):
somebody does that, it's on the global Internet and everybody's done, right,
doesn't Really that's a thing that I think is ongoing.
By the way, there's fighting between the two countries, in
case you didn't know, So that's something that's going on.
We are in an era now, Clay where storytelling, connection
to audience, analysis, and trustworthiness of the person, not of
the entity, but of the people or person speaking to
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you is the currency of the news media. And so
how to Seenn operate in an era where that's the case.
If they did straight news, they wouldn't really have an audience.
I think this is the challenge that they run into
because just news without opinion isn't going to engage either side,
and they don't have an information advantage anymore. Everyone is
(07:24):
putting the news up instantaneously. So we've entered a new
era of news and information online. And there's some great
parts about that. There are some not great parts about that.
But CNN, I think, and that model is going to
get largely I don't think it can ever come back.
As my position on this, I don't actually think CNN
is salvageable as what it was in the nineties because
(07:46):
the world has changed. Part of why they went so
insane is because, well it was mostly because Jeff Zucker
hated Trump and it was personal. But beyond that, you know,
they brought in that other guy who got fired for
doing the Vanity Fair piece. Basic was a Vanity Fair
I think, or the Atlantic, I can't remember. He was
trying to make it not insane. There's not really an
(08:08):
audience for a CNN that's not full of lunatics.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Here's my concern as we look at the at the
landscape of media, the people who are in positions of
power are going to be more powerful maybe than we
have seen in a very very long time, in terms
of the dollars that they have. And I'm very thankful
that Elon Musk has had a commitment to free speech
(08:34):
and that he decided to buy Twitter renamed it X,
but he could have just as easily decided that he
was a super left winger, and at that point in time,
we are in significant difficulty, and so I think right
now the framework for how these media companies are going
(08:54):
to be owned, distributed, everything associated with it. If you're
not paying attention to what happens to Warner Brothers, I
think you're missing potentially an incredibly important media story that
is going to play out over the next year. And
I think if you voted for Trump, it is in
much better your interest for Paramount to end up buying
(09:18):
Warner Brothers than for Netflix to buy Warner Brothers. I
really think that's true. And so this is a big story.
This is an important one. I understand it's a little
bit in the weeds because then it's going to involve
antitrust law and it's going to get very complicated, and
it's going to take place over the next eighteen months.
But I just wanted to put that on the horizon
(09:39):
for everybody out there. There's also right now buck a
huge presidential power case which could implicate many of these
things over the next three years of Trump, but certainly
for the next several generations of presidents. And it has
to do with where exactly does the president's power extend
and how is it controlled god going forward? So we're
(10:01):
coming up on the end of the year. But there
are a lot of things that I think are massively
consequential that are all coming together right now that may
slide under the radar because everybody's got Christmas parties. You've
got a Christmas party on Thursday that I'm gonna be at.
I'm excited to get down to Miami and being warned,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
When we're stocking up on Buddy Rose. Clay's coming into town,
so we gotta make sure plenty of rose to go around.
Some people are saying a big Rose drinker, Kaylee mcanenny
calling him out in absentia. I might add that is
absentia devastating.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
This reminds me of when Riley Gaines brought a two
by four to me on Sean Hannity's show. I am
flying to Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game. So
I was in the air, unable to do Kaylee's show,
and then I look down at my phone and recognize
that I have suddenly been savagely attacked on Fox News
for my alcohol drinking habits.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Can you guys pull that Pull that one up, because
we got we'll play it in the next segment. I
just want to to be clear, I have my man
Clay's back, or I said, I think he's doing sports
stuff somewhere, which is, by the way, it's a weekend,
wasbably the probably the right answer, and Caylee was like,
I don't know. I hear wine tasting, maybe maybe sniffing
for the aromas of the rose before he swills it
(11:16):
around and talks about the notes of black currant and
vanilla that he's that he's picking up. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
This is just I was out Friday night with our
friend Alexi Lawless because they had the FIFA and Andrew Giuliani,
who was who's basically in charge of Buddy the FIFA event. Yeah,
it was a fun group, but uh but Alexi uh
was was questioning my alcohol choices, and uh, thankfully someone
with us, another man ordered an espresso martini, which was
(11:44):
more attackable worthy, so I was able to shift.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Sometimes you don't have to be right. Somebody else just
had to screw up worse.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Uh, Ben who was with us, ordered an espresso martini
and you duck out of the line of fire there.
But my rose consumption has u has now led to
multiple daily attacks. We're gonna have to get Kaylee back
on to talk about that. And I understand if you're
out there and you say I can't trust anything you're
saying now, Clay, because you voluntarily consumed rose. So so
there's that as well. By the way, we just bring
(12:12):
you the news. We bring you the news here. I
think I sent in a talkback. But we did get
a great draw for the World Cup. If you want
positive news, theoretically even the US men's soccer team can't
screw up the draw that we got on Friday. We
should be in the knockout stages. That should be uh,
that should be fantastic going forward. So some good news
(12:34):
out there, But I do I do think again, it's
easy to get kind of your Your eyes will roll
back into your head sometimes if you're not a nerd
like I am, when it comes to media and big
media mergers and what the impact could be for how
we discuss issues in this country. I think if you're
a Trump voter, you you want paaramount to buy Warner Brothers.
If you are a left winger, I think that you
(12:58):
want the opposite to haveapon.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
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All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. We are
live and it's always in motion. On this show. We
have a surprise guest in our New York City studio.
I don't even know who it is. I truly do not.
They just said he's miked up. So, sir, mystery guests,
you are on the air. I'm holding a book.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
It's called Falls and you have to have a lot
of those to write that book and call it that title.
How Trump young Men in Sports saved America? Right there?
Of course, that would be Clay Travis's book, Claim Buck.
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Good to talk to you all good. We're good And
mister Sean Hannity, it is fantastic. Have you with us.
I've been hearing a little bit that my buddy Clay
here he owes you a little money. He's like turning
into the guy who runs away in Bronx tail.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
You know me thousands, what you know? The ironic part
is Clay He's way more knowledgeable in sports than I am.
Although I love sports, and like everybody else, I find
it a great distraction. But I love our gladiator sports
in particular, love UFC, I love football, I love ice hockey.
I'm a big Florida Panthers fan of seasons tickets. And
(15:29):
what I love is that he'll be on TV or
we'll be on this show. We'll just be talking and
I'll say, who do you think is gonna win? And
I always take the other team and he always loses.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Always you run the reverse, the reverse Clay prediction.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
If I had been on and we had been going
back and forth over Alabama Georgia, I did hit my
bloodbank guarantee on Georgia. I know you've got Alabama connections.
That was a beat down that the Bulldogs put on
the te Yeah, but I didn't take that bet because
I knew I'm gonna lose.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I'm like I just when you know somebody's gonna lose,
you don't make that bet. You just don't.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Jean, do you have do you have a super Bowl
prediction that you always make or are you willing to
make one now on the air, Clay, do you have one?
Since I have both of you kill.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Super Bowls a little bit early to make that prediction,
But I do think, uh, I don't know. I honestly
would love to see the New England Patriots back in it.
Maybe I'm an oddball out on this. I've known Robert
Kraft for decades, so I like him personally and he
is a great, great guy. He recently sent me a
pair of sneakers, you know, we wear sneakers all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I saw him Sean at the FIFA event. He was
there for the World Cup draw. So I would like
to see them get back. I think they can. They
might have found the next Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
This guy. Wait wait, I also had Sean. Do you
talk about soccer on your show at all? Because now
hey hijacked the show last week for like an hour
to talk about feet, which Ali calls Faifa, which.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Ali's not that wrong.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
The ironic part is I was always a good athlete
in school before I once had a shoulder injury, a
rotator cuff injury. I always had a sling shot arm
I was a pitcher in baseball. Love sports, and I was,
you know. And then because it was a small school,
they my teachers were the coaches of the teams, and
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it was soccer, and then it was basketball, and then
it was baseball. Baseball I liked the most at the time,
but I was always a hockey player too, and they
are like, okay, you can play. You're going to play,
or you're going to fail. So I had a choice.
But it did improve my grades in high school if
I would play play these sports. They made me play
soccer for four years in high school and I hated it.
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And not only position real quick center half back, which
means if you run up and down the field, and
then like in between periods, I'd be smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
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pretty much all of them. Right after US. Sean, I'll
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you just heard from Sean Hannity, but I do love
to sit around and watch over the weekend. As Sean said,
kick my feet up, have a drink and watch games.
I spend all day on Sunday watching NFL games with
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Trauts Bock Sexton, show some positivity, more positivity for everybody
out there. I know as many of you will be
traveling for the holidays, for Christmas, for New Years. The
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price of gas is now below three dollars a gallon
in thirty seven states. This is according to the Trump Team.
In twenty two states, it's now below two dollars and
seventy five cents a gallon, and in five states it
is below two dollars and fifty cents a gallon. That
is a multi year low that it is costing you
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to fill up your gas tank.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So as I know.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Many of you are, when you're looking at those credit
card bills and you're like, do we really need to
be buying all of these gifts? Do we really need
to be going to all these different parties and all
these different things that end up costing a lot of
money As we come down the home stretch, hopefully you
are at least being able to save some money as
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you go around for your holiday shopping and your holiday travels.
So I do think this is significant. It goes to
what I think is going to be the biggest issue
in twenty twenty six buck its cost of goods. And
if you look at the price of gas in the
context of inflation, because Biden drove up inflation to such
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a rapid degree, we're at nearly historic all time lows
four prices of gas augusted adjusted for inflation. And every
time I say this, somebody emails us and says, this
morning it was three dollars and forty eight cent. Said,
you know, look, I understand if you're in San Francisco
right now, you're paying a lot more than if you're
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in Mobile, Alabama, for instance. So I understand that everybody's
prices are different, which is why I hit so many
different states. And by the way, one reason your price
for gas, for instance, in California is so high, is
because they tried to create a world to dissuade you
from driving gas powered vehicles. So that is out there
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kind of monitoring what the storylines are. They're still going
after Pete Hegseth over the Venezuelan strikes buck on MSNBC.
But I feel like in the wake of the testimony
from the admiral and the fact that many people were
able to see the videos, that story has essentially started
to vanish. It's a sign of desperation that that's probably
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the best thing they think they can.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
You're going to see. I think more of a focus
on this. I've seen this bubbling up. The strikes on
these boats, the ones at least that are happening in
the Caribbean. Some happen in the eastern Pacifics that would
be off the coast of Mexico on the way into
the US. But the strikes, I believe that's where those
strikes have been. I mean, they're certainly in that general vicinity.
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The ones in the Caribbean, though they're Now you're going
to see more people asking, well, is this fentanyl or
is a cocaine? Is a cocaine that's meant to be
transshipped to the European market mostly? If that's the case,
why aren't we being told that? You're going to hear
more of this too. I actually do want a Department
of War to make this more clear because I think
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otherwise it will become a louder question, which is we're
being told this is to stop people. We're not having
one hundred thousand or eighty thousand cocaine overdose deatsy or
that's not what's happening. So is this mostly cocaine in
these boats that are being blown? Is it entirely cocaine
or is it fentanyl? Because if it's not fentanyl, people
are going to start to ask, I think more, well,
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why aren't we going after the fentanyl which is a
overwhelmingly Mexican cartel overland issue. That's how the fentanyl is
actually getting into the United States. So you may see
a switch, I think a pivot to that, not just
the laws of war issue, but the well what's the
primary target issue?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I think that's going to come into play. And also
again in my New York Times reading, I do it
so you don't have to really detailed breakdown of about
twelve different names. Maybe is it twelve, Maybe it's eight
or nine that they think could take over when Maduro
is out. It feels like there is an expectation that
Maduro may just decide to take refuge in a foreign country.
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And one big part of the Venezuela story Buck is,
I do think it's connected to Iran. These countries made
choices about who they wanted to be allied with, and
now nobody has their back right. One significant impact of
essentially the sterilization of Iran's influence in much of the
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Middle East and the attack that we dropped on them
is Iran is completely powerless right now. They are a
state without influence even in their own borders to a
large extent, but certainly beyond their borders. Cuba is I
mean nonexistent as a viable force. Russia has had no
ability to extend a hand in any direction at all
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to try to prop up some of these different assets,
and China's neutered.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
China to a.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Large degree, Buck has not been willing to step in
to help Venezuela to help Iran. So this so called
axis of evil that has existed for some time, and
obviously North Korea is powerless, but there is virtually no
impact in terms of these anti American unified actors when
they are able to unite. Venezuela is out there floating
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on its own. No one is in any way able
to even support them. And again, if we could get
peace in Ukraine, Russia's oil comes back on the national
national market really rapidly. I started off by talking about
the good news of oil prices they would come down
even more, because I do think that they would. They
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would collapse even more than they already have. And again
we're at multi year lows and gas prices. That makes
a difference when you're out there, unfortunately having to stack
up a lot of different presence and a lot of
expenses that maybe you weren't as excited about putting on
the table out there, speaking of pudding on the table,
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do we want to play this egregious attack that I
was subjected to on Fox News airway?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
We were going to we never break a tease, of course,
but I mean Sean wanted to come hang out. He
was in the studio. So we got to take Sean
when he wants to hang out. But I did, so
I'm gonna tell you how this happened. They said to me.
They said, Buck, because they know I don't like to
work weekends. Okay, I just don't. I generally I don't
like that. But but for Caylee MACKINENNI, who's a dear
friend of many many years. I like to point this out.
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Clay I will have been doing I'll be in my
either fifteenth or sixteenth year of like working in media,
starting in June. That's when I left the government in
two thousand and eleven. I think. So it's coming up right.
I've known Cally almost that whole time. I think I
met her the second or third year. I bring it
up because I'm willing to do Cally's show on the
weekends because she's a great American and it's a great program.
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But sometimes they even will say, Buck, you got it
to the show. We're gonna have you and clay On
together and it's going to be oh so much fun.
So I'm waking up. I'm leaving Baby Speed with Carrie.
I got my crocket coffee at the tables smelling and
tasting delicious Crocketcoffee dot Com. You wanna go subscribe this
holiday season? My friends. We'll get back to that. But
I leave and I'm expecting that there there's there's gonna
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be some dynamic duo action. It's gonna be mister Clay
Travis up there. And sure enough they say right before
I go in there, Actually, Buck, it's just gonna be
you this Saturday. Clay is too cool for school. He's busy,
and Kaylee and her team decided that they were gonna
have at it. They're gonna let you know what they
think about this absence from our Saturday coffee session, if
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you will. And here, well, some of us drink rose.
Here's how that went. Play it.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Clay is absent today. I don't know where in the
world is Clay, but we put this poster together for
him towards where is Clay Travis. Well, I have a theory.
Okay sports, but Buck, I have a theory. I told him.
Next time he comes on, I'm going to unleash a
picture of him drinking a female rose at the Patriot Awards.
Jesse Waters team has asked me for that picture.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I said, nope, I'm.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Holding it for the next time Clay's on here. I
think he's not. He doesn't want that picture out.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Look. The man enjoys a nicely chilled rose. We even
had discussions on our radio show about how perhaps when
he comes to visit Miami Beach next there could be
some froze in his future frozen rose for those who
are uninitiated in some of these fancier ways.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
So there is that.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I will tell you I was at with Clay and
Jesse Travis. Sorry, Clay Travis and Jesse Kelly wants another
radio host, and Jesse Kelly ordered seventy dollars tequila shots
at a hotel where we're at now. He claims to
not know that they were seventy dollars each. But I'm
just going to tell you some of these radio guys
they're quite fancy and their taste for booze, and Clay
is going to have to explain to the masses how
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he became a rose guy in between sec football and
drinking beer out of solo cups.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Everyone thinks Clay Travis is at a football game right now,
like with an IPA. I bet he's on a beach
somewhere with that chilled rose. But we'll find out where
is Clay.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
There's this other Fox news show, This is Nation WADA's
gonna say this. Notice how I tried and just throw
Jesse Kelly under the bus as a distraction to run
some cover for you. I just want this to be clear.
I'm trying. They didn't tell me they were good. They
put a wanted poster for Clay up on the screen.
I was doing the best I could with what I had.
Jesse is very tall, so it's hard to shove him
under the bus. But I tried.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Seventy five dollars tequila shots. I might add the seventy
would have been a bargain compared to what Jesse ordered.
I was in the air. I was in the air
on the way to the Big Ten Title game. Never
been to the Big Ten title game before. I've been
to the SEC Championship game a lot. It was a
great game. Congratulations Indiana Hoosiers got the big win over
Ohio State, and it was an awesome game. But yeah,
(28:44):
in the air, I looked down at my phone and
there's just attacks raging in every direction. Did you really
not know that I that I was not going to
be on. Did you think that I was sitting down
to beyond? I forgot. I thought you were joining.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yes, they did send me something saying you and Clay
will be on together, and I was so then of
course there was sadness. Sadness descended upon the Lamb when
it was gonna be just me on Saturday. You know,
I could have been going for a walk on the beach,
drink in some froze, but instead I was in my
home studio getting ready to do the hit. But it
was very much, very much a great chance to sit there,
(29:19):
sit there and chat with this Kelly McKenna who's doing
fantastic stuff and her dad has been listens every day.
So we got a bring a game because mister Macinanny
mcanenny senior is uh is telling us that we got
to make sure the show is entertaining.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, no doubt. And uh, I bet he was watching
the football games. So there you go. That was what
that's my excuse. Maybe I'll be on this Saturday. I'll
try to me. I'll be down in Miami. Uh maybe
they'll maybe they'll have me on to defend myself from
from Miami.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But in the meantime, By the way, this is interesting.
We've got the the the now hostile takeover bid. CNN
is now forced to cover a hostile takeover bid from
people who want to buy the network and actually make
it sane. And I just bring that up because again,
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this is going to be a story that is uh,
I think dominating much of the the newscast going forward,
and we will see what the what's going to transpire there.
But I really do think if you're a Trump voter,
you should want Paramount to to win. I tweeted that,
and uh, I think this is going to be an
important battle when it comes to media consolidation and power.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I certainly think that it's going to play out in
a way that we will have to pay close attention to.
I didn't I don't know. I don't really haven't much
of a take on the and so I think it's
super super significant how exactly this is going to play
itself out? Well, why do you think Paramount is going
to be so much better than Netflix? That's why I
to me, it's I think that they are going to Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I think this is some this is some faith in
Larry Ellison and David David Ellison, who would basically David
Ellison will be running paramout. I think that they look
at the way CNN is and say, this left wing
craziness that we have allowed to exist at CNN, we
are going to adjust. I think that's a huge part
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of their decisions. I think culturally Paramount has sane owners.
Netflix is very left wing, and that's pretty sure, pretty
announced left wing. So I think if they buy these assets,
it will make them a stronger left wing element here.
(31:33):
And so look, would I prefer obviously that that Fox
or yours truly got the opportunity to make decisions editorially
for CNN? Do I think that would be better insaner, Yes,
I think they'll do a better job.
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Speaker 2 (33:08):
Welcome back in here too, Clay and Buck. We will
be diving in shortly. Here to a couple of things.
One of them is this article in the New York
Times that I just think is fascinating about how the
Biden administration completely fell apart on the issue of immigration.
I think it's all cleanup on Ale Biden. Actually, I
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don't think that this was just a thing that happened.
They're basically saying Biden screwed up. They didn't pay enough
attention to this. Totally disagree. They knew exactly what was
going on. They were briefed, they were told this was
what they wanted. What they don't want is the American
people to realize that the Democrat Party chose to let
ten million people take advantage of us, come into our
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country and help themselves to our welfare, benefits and everything else. Right,
they don't want people to remember going into the midterms
the Democrat Party shows to completely abrogate, to abandon our sovereignty.
So we'll get into that here coming up in a
few minutes. We've also got some talkbacks and calls and
(34:11):
wonderful things like that that we like to address here.
Let's do uh oh, here we go. Alan from New
Orleans who listens on the Fantastic Wrno play.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Bb Well Clay if I was out at a beautiful event,
like you are, sitting at a table with Kaylee mcinnaney,
Emily Compagno, and Tommy Lauren. I'm drinking with dead drinking
and I don't care what anybody says, So you go forward,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, I appreciate that that endorsement there. It has been
neglected to point out that again, Kaylee, Tommy, and Emily
all at the same table with me, and Kaylee, to
my recollection, says hey, I want to I don't want
to drink the red wine at the table, because I
do think there was some red wine because she was
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worried about staining her teeth. She had to get up
on the stage and present an award, and so that
was I think the impetus to Whispering Angel being poured
for everyone around the table. It's not like they had
bottles of bourbon or vodka or any even any beer availability.
So I appreciate Alan having my back bill in New
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Jersey CC.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Nothing wrong with those roses, fellas. They're just red grapes
that have had the skins peeled off, mashed up and
made into the wine, especially if they're a zinfandel or
a pinot noir. Either of those roses are very nice,
full flavored like the reds, only without some of that
little extra bite that the tannins sometimes give. Anyways, good stuff, flavorful, enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
I didn't know we're going to have a regional distributor
for Whispering Angel in our audience today, but apparently, well,
there definitely.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Should be a wine. I mean, I've said this a
lot about different programs. I think alcohol being a sponsor
of the show would not be a bad idea. I
don't think we've had any no beer, no liquor, no
no wineries. I think that could make a lot of
sense for twenty twenty six. That would be a smart decision.
I think if you're out there and you're in the
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alcohol market, maybe reach out to our team buck we
come back. We can also talk about the Supreme Court
cases that are ongoing relating to presidential power. I bet
you talked about this sum on Friday, the decision by
the Trump administration to say Europe's on the brink of
civilizational erasure, which is a big story that unfortunately is
(36:38):
very significant with the decline of the overall population. When
it comes to comes just birds, in general. We'll break
all that down more. Take some of your calls eight
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