June 19, 2025 • 37 mins
In Hour 1 of the live Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, Clay Travis sets the stage by reflecting on a memorable viral moment from the White House, using it as a springboard for a series of cutting-edge political and cultural discussions. He launches into a robust critique of mainstream media commentary—specifically calling out figures like Whoopi Goldberg—arguing that their comparisons between the challenges faced by certain groups in the United States and the conditions under repressive regimes like Iran misrepresent the realities of global human rights. Clay highlights how restrictive policies abroad, such as severe limitations on women's rights in Iran, sharply contrast with the broad freedoms and economic opportunities available in America. He underscores that the nation's high standard of living, democratic principles, and vibrant sports culture serve as clear indicators of its successful model of freedom and opportunity.
Further, the live broadcast delves into the importance of cultivating national service and international exposure among young Americans, comparing the disciplined environment in countries like Israel—where even 18-year-olds balance military responsibilities with everyday life—to the relative trivial pursuits observed in some segments of American youth culture. Emphasizing American values such as patriotism, self-reliance, and a global perspective, Clay argues that mandating a period of live service or travel could instill true gratitude and deeper understanding of the wider world. Throughout this hour, the show weaves a narrative that champions critical thinking, personal responsibility, and a belief in American exceptionalism while challenging prevailing victim narratives in modern political discourse.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Thursday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show, Happy
June Team. It was a year ago at a celebration
on the White House the lawn that went megaviral of
Joe Biden freezing that I've already shared with all of
you from my Twitter account. If you haven't and can't
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remember where we were a year ago, rejoice. We have
come a long way America in one year, from a
president standing on the south lawn of the White House
completely unaware of what was going on during a supremely
awkward concert at the White House to Donald Trump ruling
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the country in a fabulous manner through the first half
of his four year term. First half of the first
year of his four year term, we will give you
the absolute latest on Iran and Israel. We will dive
into many of the biggest stories of the day. Because
I am working, and I bet a lot of you
are working. I am back home in Nashville. Had an
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amazing time up in Washington, DC, met so many of you.
Appreciate Senator Haggerty's office for allowing my son to be
an intern up there. He had an incredible time. Congress
is out today and they are out tomorrow is my understanding,
which is why we are back, because why celebrate Juneteenth
for one day when you could celebrate it for two
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and be paid by the American taxpayer to do so.
Welcome to your government now, I bet most of you
are not taking Juneteenth off. But I did think that
we should honor Juneteenth as one would by playing what
went megaviral. We shared it with you yesterday on the
social media accounts. When you actually dive in to the View,
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I would maintain that it is the dumbest program that
has ever been allowed to appear daily on television for
some time, and the arguments just keep getting more ridiculous.
So there was a discussion. I want to give credit
to one of the ladies on the View, Alissa Fara
Griffin has family of Iranian descent. I believe her father
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is Iranian. I could be wrong on that, guys, will
you check that in the studio, but she has a
connection to Iran and in her family background. And they
were discussing freedoms for women in Iran, and just to
reinforce in case you are not aware, in Iran women
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have to a large extent no human rights at least
comparable to what would exist in the West, for instance,
and I believe they've only changed this recently. Women were
not even allowed to go watch the Iranian soccer team play.
The Iranian soccer stadium only allowed men to go watch soccer. Now,
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this is a big deal. Soccer is a huge sport
all over the world, but the most popular sport in Iran.
Women weren't allowed to go in there. Sounds somewhat ridiculous,
but that is true. I think they now allow a
handful of women into the stadium. I think they have
progressed there. You can be beaten and arrested if you
are not covered correctly as you walk the streets of Iran.
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There have been protests from women who say, hey, can
we just not have to wear a jab? Can we
just uncover our hair? Can we allow our faces to
be seen? And the religious police will walk around in
Iran and arrest and or beat women who defy dress
codes all over the country. So whatever you think of
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life in America, women comparably have it pretty good here.
And honestly, this was one of my biggest issues with
the Megan Rapinos on the US women's soccer team, you know,
for the Women's World Cup. You can basically pick every
winner just by analyzing human rights in the country, because
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while our women go on the nash international stage and
rip America, the reason why our women are super talented
at soccer is because they can wear shorts and they
have basic human rights. Is it a surprise that the
women who have the most human rights would also be
the best at athletics. And also this speaks to the
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incredible wealth of America because in general, it is a
luxury to be able to put your kids into sports
and allow them to develop as athletes. Most really athletic
men get noticed and can have success around the world
because male athletics is still a moneymaker to a large
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extent in much of the world, women's athletics to a
large extent is not in most of the world. And
so it is an incredible sign of both human rights
and the wealth of this nation that we have tens
of millions of girls who are playing elite level soccer
in this country. And so I wish that the US
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women's soccer team when they're on the global stage, instead
of denigrating the United States and refusing to go visit
the White House after they won the World Cup in
twenty nineteen and Trump was in office. I wish they
had said, hey, we may not agree on every political
issue in the United States, but what we certainly agree
on is women should be able to compete at the
absolute highest level of athletics. And the reason why we're
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having success on the global stage is actually a reflection
of America's embrace of human rights, and we wish women
around the world had the same rights that women have
in the United States. That's a really strong argument. I
think it would have been compelling. I think that there
would have been a lot of little girls all over
the world who heard that and were even more aspirational
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to be great at sports, but also to look up
to the United States women who are great at sports
and could be their role models. Going for instead, Meghan
Rapino said, Hey, if you're a man and you want
to play women soccer, I think you should be able
to do so. She lifted the latter, not unlike what
we just saw some own biles do in her tweet
at Riley Gains. Okay, so they're discussing how life is
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in Iran. Alyssa Fara Griffin, who directly knows how the
women of Iran are treated based on her family's background.
Is trying to make the point that Israel has basic
human rights, and in fact, I haven't heard very many
people react to this. But you know, one of the
things that they had to cancel in Israel because of
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all the missiles coming in from Iran the Pride March.
The Pride March Israel, I believe, is the only country
in the entire Middle East that would even have a
Pride march because gay people otherwise get thrown off the
roofs of buildings and beheaded in many different Middle Eastern countries,
which is why Gays for Gaza is one of the
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dumbest American political arguments of all time. But they were
trying to have a conversation about that, and whoope, Goldberg
took it over and said she doesn't think black people
in America have it better than the average woman in Iran.
This was actually what ABC aired yesterday, Play the cut.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I think it's very different in the United States in
twenty twenty five than it is.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
To live in around You're not for everybody, not every black.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Let me tell you about being in this country. This
is the greatest country in the world. But yeah, I
know that I know that, and we all know that.
But every day we are worried. Do we have to
be worried about our kids? Are their kids going to
get shot because they're running through somebody's neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Nobody wants to diminish them. Very real problems we have
in this country. Wells intent, it's important we remember there
are places much darker than this country, and people deserve right.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Not everybody feels that way. Not everybody feels that way. Listen,
I'm sorry. You know when you think about the fact
that we were we got the vote in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Five, Okay, they don't have free and fair elections in Iran.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's not even the same universe. They can't go out
of their house.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
There's no way I can make you understand.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
There's no way I can make you understand because you're
a moron. Whoopee Goldberg. You make eight million dollars a
year to go on a show, to not do basic research,
to have no idea how things are around the rest
of the world. To compare how black people live in
America in twenty twenty five with how women live in
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Iran in twenty twenty five, is so brain dead that honestly,
I think that the view has become so toxic for
just its stupidity that ABC News has to be looking
around how much money could they possibly make off this
show versus how much brand equity are they losing. I
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just can't believe that anyone could be this dumb. And
by the way, it's not just Whoopy Goldberg. There are
lots of people all over the United States who have
no conception for how good we all have it in
this country. And I really do wish a part of
me does that every American had to spend two years
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sort of like the Mormon Mission. A lot of you
out there listening in Utah. You're part of your religious faith.
Your kids will go on a two year mission. They
don't know where they're going to go all over the world.
If we had two years of service required for every
American teenager at eighteen years old, and you had to
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go to a third world country and actually try to
make that third world country better, and you had to
live there, and you had to see how people in
that country lived. When you got on an airplane and
you came back here, you would kiss the ground when
you stepped off that airplane. There is no conception, by
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and large among huge populations in the United States of
how incredibly fortunate we all are to live here. Does
not mean that the United States is perfect. No country
created by humans in the history of mankind has ever
been perfect. But if you had to choose right now,
there's a great analogy that Warren Buffett has says, if
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you want to contemplate, I think it's such a good one.
If you want to contemplate how you should feel relative
to the rest of the world, Imagine that there was
a huge vase and there were seven billion marbles in it.
It's roughly the population of the world, not one person
in the United States. And if you drew a marble
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out of that seven billion, not one person in the
entire United States should ever risk changing places. Right, It's
a great analogy. If your kids are out there, if
they don't understand gratitude, one of the most powerful emotions
there is. If you had to take a marble out
of that seven billion, and you changed places with whatever
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marble you drew, not one person in the United States
should ever make that trade, because the chances are that
you would go to a vastly inferior country with vastly
less human rights and economic resources. And so when I
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see people like Whoopi Goldberg, who are making millions of
dollars a year, who have become fabulously wealthy, arguing that
the average black person in America is somehow in worse
place than the women of Iran and even the men,
it is so incomprehensibly dumb that I think ABC News
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should be looking at a show like that and saying, boy,
I know it's called the View, but we should have
a standard of basic intelligence, and our show hasn't met it.
Send Whoopee Goldberg to do the show from the average
country in the third world and make her live like
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the people do there. First of all, she wouldn't do it,
But I do think it would be important and clarifying
in many ways to actually know of which you are speaking,
as opposed to trying to denigrate and pull down the
app But I do think it would be important and
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clarifying in many ways to actually know of which you
are speaking, as opposed to trying to denigrate and pull
down the aspirations, hopes and realities of so many young
people that might be watching that show and believe her
that they have no chance for success and then want
to marinate in the idea of their own victimization because
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they aren't aware of how truly fortunate they are no
matter what your background is to live in the United
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Speaker 1 (14:52):
Walking back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show team says,
by the way, I asked for them to look this up.
Team says that that Alissa Fara Griffin has a background.
Her dad is of Syrian and Lebanese descent, not Persian.
But my point stands that she has a Middle Eastern
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background and so probably has a little bit better of
an idea of what life is like in the Middle
East based on her family than Woopy Goldberg would. And
some of you can say, Okay, well, why does it
matter what Whoopy Goldberg is saying there? I think it
matters immensely because so many kids who don't know any better,
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their knuckleheads, they think that they are victims. If you
grow up believing, oh, I can't accomplish anything, the world
is allied against me, everything is so unfortunate for me
in America in twenty twenty five, it takes a lot
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to break you out of that worldview. The reality is
that no matter how you became a citizen or how
long your family has become citizens of the United States,
there is virtually no place in the world where it
would be better for you to live than the United
States right now. And so when you embrace this idea
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of victim culture oppression, you end up, I think, stifling
the ability of young people to have success. And since
it's juneteenth, I've been hammering this and I don't know
why more people don't hammer it. You know, I can't
guarantee you're going to be rich. It's hard to get rich.
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You have to work, you have to get some good fortune.
There's lots of things that go into you becoming wealthy.
But every single person listening to me right now can
guarantee they are not poor if they do the following.
I hammer this home. I wish we had teachers hammering
at home more often. Graduate from high school, get a job,
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get married, don't have a kid until after you get married.
All of those things. If you do those four things,
which are very reasonable to be able to do, that's
a very aspirationally attainable goal. No matter where you live,
you have a zero percent virtual chance of being poor.
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Can't guarantee you're going to be rich, can guarantee you're
not going to be poor. Imagine if what Pee Goldberg
went around on the view making that argument to young kids. Hey,
everybody's not going to have a perfect setup. Everybody's born
with different opportunities based on the economic realities of their
parents of the place that they're born. Graduate high school,
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get a job, get married, have kids after you get married.
You have a zero percent chance, virtually in America today
of being poor. That seems like a very aspirational thing
that every kid should be taught, particularly young men. I'm
going to tee off on this some today because I've
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you can always reach out. I love by the way,
how awesome many of your comments are in the show.
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can just grab the iHeart app. You can click the
microphone button. You got thirty seconds. Trent in Kansas says, Hey,
maybe whoope should go visit Iran and try to come back.
Listen to cut DD. Hey Clay, this is Trent to Kansas.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
I think you should challenge wo Be Goldberg to go
visit Iran and if she makes it back, to come
back and she can then explain to the people on
her idiotic TV show just what a Ran is actually like.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That would actually be fantastic. Again, I say this for everyone.
If you are fortunate enough to be able to afford
international travel and I get it is very expensive. I
think one of the best things you can do for
your kids is actually show them through missionary work through travel,
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what much of the rest of the world has to
live like. This is one reason that I love to travel.
I want to see as many countries in my life
as I can, to just experience the fulsomeness of what
world life represents. You guys know, I'm a history nerd.
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There's lots of places I want to go that have
been historically relevant throughout world history. There's tons of places
I would love to go that I still haven't been.
I'd never been to Italy till two years ago. I
took my whole family over. Was an unbelievable experience. I
wanted to go to Australia. I took my family to Australia.
My kids are getting older. One reason I'm on the
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road and try to travel as much as I can
now is once they get to be eighteen, get to
be adults, they go off to college. I don't know
how they're going to want to spend their time. I
hope they're still going to want to travel with mom
and dad, and maybe as they realize how much travel costs,
Mom and dad's vacations start to sound a lot better.
I bet there's a lot of you who are parents
and grandparents that have experienced that. So I hope they're
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still going to want to be able to travel. But
even if they don't once they're over eighteen, I want
to have helped to show them the places around the
world and what it's like. I want to take them
to Israel. I did the show from Israel in December.
I think it would be incredibly eye opening. And it's
not always the things that you expect to be incredibly
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influential to you that are I figured that walking around
in the Old City of Rusalem and seeing the Christian
and Jewish and Muslim religious sites would be incredibly moving,
and it was. But you know, some of the things
that you don't anticipate are what stick with you. In Israel,
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eighteen year olds have aks on their back and are
serving for their country. You know. Here, super popular Alabama
sorority girl TikTok, I'm told it's all about rush. Oh
what outfits am I gonna wear?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
How pretty am I? Look? At all the things I
can do with my makeup and my hair and all
these different things and It's wildly popular Alabama. If you
don't know your kids, your grandkids, ask them about it,
especially if they're girls. The Alabama Sorority TikTok thing is
a absolute, huge, massively popular social media event. And I
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think they even made team can look it up. I
think they even made a documentary about it or a
reality show about it. Just the process of going to
the University of Alabama and rushing to be a member
of a sorority. All these eighteen year old girls in Israel,
the same eighteen year old Southeastern Conference sorority girls are
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instead in green fatigues with aks on their back. Because
every eighteen year old in Israel, by and large, unless
you're supremely religious, which is its own controversy there, now
goes immediately into the armed forces and puts their life
on the line to defend their country. You join the IDF,
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and I couldn't stop thinking about that. We're standing in
line for coffee and these eighteen or nineteen year old
girls walk in in their uniforms with aks on their
back and stand in line to get coffee. Totally normal.
There same eighteen year old girls here that are losing
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their minds over whether they have the right shoes to
get in the right sorority at the University of Alabama.
I'm not trying to judge the University of Alabama sorority girls.
God forbid. Good for them. They're happy. But the cultural difference,
if you are fortunate enough to have teenage girls or
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teenage boys, between what the average life in Israel would
be like for an eighteen year old girl right now,
and what the average life for an eighteen year old
girl trying to get in a Southeastern Conference sorority or
a big ten sorority, a big twelve sororita, whatever it is,
is seismic. They expect their eighteen year olds in Israel
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to put their lives on the line. Every single one
of them goes into training, knows how to use weapons,
understands that at any moment in time there might be
at terror attack and they might have to fire their
weapon and defend the people in their country. And here
we just have frivolity. And so how many of our
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people out there, how many eighteen year olds in America
understand what eighteen year olds in Israel do not? Very many? Now,
some of you who are part of Birthright Israel and
you get over there and you see it all those things.
And I'm just using Israel as an example, but I
bet a lot of eighteen year olds in America are
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sitting around depressed right now, like, oh, the Wi fi
is not working.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
It's summer.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm so bored. And you're like, well, you know, you
could be in a bomb shelter, or you could be
on your stomach, crawling underneath people firing at you, being
concerned about your nail. Uh, what's it called the I've
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never had my nails done, the nail salon not being
able to get you in today, Maybe it's not that
big of a deal in the in the larger context,
and there are many countries like this around the world,
And so if I could wave a magic wand I
think America would be transformed if everybody had to do
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a Mormon style mission for two years in another country,
and I think our overall national discourse would actually be
much healthier. Now. I understand some of you out there
listening to me right now are like, hey, Clay, that's
what I did when I was eighteen. Yeah, good for you.
Good for you for having the discipline, having the courage,
the bravery to do it. What percentage of eighteen year
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olds serve their country in the United States right now,
zero point five percent, one percent. It's a tiny, tiny
percentage of young men and women. There are some volunteering
to do it, more power to you, But I'm just
saying it's not the same as when the entire culture
has to do it, and it does change things immensely.
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And yes, I am right. There is an actual documentary
about the Alabama Stroorty rush. And I just the dichotomy
because look, I'm a guy who comes out of covering
college football, and I'm not claiming to be some tough guy.
I've never served in the military. I went off to
college when I was eighteen. But I do think I
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have tried to have a larger global perspective of what
life is like. And that's one of the benefits of
traveling is sometimes things stick out to you which seem
normal in that country, that are staggering to us based
on the way that we typically live. In Israel, eighteen
year old girls are walking around with aks ready to
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take out anybody who is a terrorist, and highly skilled
and highly trained in how to use incredibly deadly weapons.
And here in the United States, the average eighteen year
old girl is on TikTok trying to figure out how
to buy the newest swimsuit for summer. They're not the same.
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And I think Whoopy Goldberg, it's hard to pick on
eighteen year olds because if you remember when you were eighteen,
you're ignorant about many different things. That's what you rely
on adults to help you recognize. But Woopy Goldberg is
the adult. She should be the person who has a
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larger perspective to make her audience understand how their lives
fit in the context of the larger world. Every Black
person in the Uni States today is incredibly fortunate on
average to live in the United States today. Then in Africa,
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this is not a doubt at all. The average standard
of living in any African country is a pen prick
of the average standing standard of living of the average
Black person in America today. Didn't they have? That girl
went viral recently, the eighteen year old girl, Will you
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guys look that up? I don't think we played it
on the show, but she was so upset about racism
in America that she moved to Africa, and then after
only a few months in Africa, she was like, actually,
I want to go back to America. And I'm not
trying to pick on her, but she was uniquely susceptible
to the argument that she was oppressed and she was
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a victim and she didn't have a high quality of life.
And as soon as she went to Africa, she was like, actually, sorry,
I want to go back to the United States. Actually
way better there. That's how virtually every person of every
race would be if they went to a different country.
And yesterday I was talking about the fact that I
was getting attacked because elon Omar, who was born in Somalia,
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was ripping the United States, says one of the worst
countries in the world. And I said, isn't it amazing
how often the people who rip the United States, even
if they have multiple passports, even if they have citizenship
in multiple countries, they almost never go back. If you
truly thought that this country was awful, you should go
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to a better country. If you think that you live
in a crappy city or state in the United States,
I would tell you to move to a new city
or state. You're not happy with where you are, you're
not happy with the country that you live in, and
you have the ability to go to a new country,
do it? You know, the ultimate lie that they have
been telling for so many years is that America is
a fundamentally awful racist country. If that were true, how
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come during Joe Biden's era, ten million plus people risk
their entire lives to come to this country, the overwhelming
majority of whom are black and brown. Because it's a lie,
because this is the greatest country that has ever existed
in the history of the world, and most people are
taking it for granted if you are living here already,
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because to a large extent, we don't understand the larger
world and how fortunate we all are. But if you
doubt it, look at how many people were willing to
risk everything to try to come here, overwhelmingly minorities. If
America were a supremely racist country, do you think tens
of millions of black and brown people would be doing
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everything they can to illegally enter this country. Of course
not so. Some of the lies that we are being
told that are being propagated by people like will Pee
Goldberger actually insanely pernicious because they aren't true. And she's
old enough to know better and have some basis of
rational thought, but people listen to her and they believe it,
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Buck. I
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talking about it all week. Buck is in Buck Is
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(34:08):
He has been over there all week. I am back
in Nashville. Craig in Jacksonville, Florida wants to weigh in
what you got for us.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Thank you for taking my call. I love what you're
talking about today. My father was an immigrant from Chile
from South America, came here in in the early seventies,
didn't speak a lick of English, came here legally on
a visa, lived here on a green card for twenty years.
Then he became a citizen, as the proudest American I know.
(34:38):
But when I after my junior year in college, I
wanted to see where my family came from. So I
went down there for a whole summer, down to Chile,
and it changed my life. And I'm not exaggerating. People
here have no clue how lucky they are. I have
a story where I went with one of my cousins.
I have or family there than here. I went to
(35:01):
the beach with one of my cousins and there is
about a ten year old kid, took his shoes off,
went into the water, came back, his shoes were gone.
Someone stole them. The kid was crying like his parents
were killed. And I said to my cousin, I said,
what's the big deal. It's a pair of shoes, man,
you know, move on, And he told me you don't
understand his parents may have to work for eight months
(35:21):
before they could buy him another pair of shoes. So
I gave him a brand new pair of Nikes that
I had called my dad and said, hey, I need money,
I need to buy new shoes. I mean, so people
don't understand the difference. So I love what you're talking
about today.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Thank you. It's a great story, sad story, but representative
of how our immense wealth and ability to buy goods.
Oftentimes we presume that other places have that same ability,
and they don't. Most places the world is not disposable,
meaning the goods. I mean, look at what's going on
in Cuba. I mean not very far right. Cuba used
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to be one of the jewels of the American of
the Caribbean, and not far from America. Right, you could
hop on a boat, get from Key West, get from Tampa.
For those of you who Miami, who remember that, Ara,
you can go study it. They're still driving around in
cars in the nineteen fifties because they don't have the
ability to continue to build it. Richard in Maine, you
want to be I got thirty seconds for you here
(36:20):
what you got for us?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Hey, good afternoon. I love your show. You guys do
a great job. Where my wife and I we've been
saying for twenty to thirty years all about this national service,
and I don't want you to confuse it with military service,
which is fine. I'm the former Air Force officer, but
you don't necessarily have to carry a gun to learn
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how to wake up at six in the morning, be
fit and do a job. So like nine months full
time of training and then the balance of the two
years you're doing the job, and then as for the
job market.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I love the idea, Richard. I think it's one of
the things the Mormons get right. I think it's why
they have such perspective and gratitude. I think the country
would benefit from something like that. Next
Welcome in Thursday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show, Happy
June Team. It was a year ago at a celebration
on the White House the lawn that went megaviral of
Joe Biden freezing that I've already shared with all of
you from my Twitter account. If you haven't and can't
(00:22):
remember where we were a year ago, rejoice. We have
come a long way America in one year, from a
president standing on the south lawn of the White House
completely unaware of what was going on during a supremely
awkward concert at the White House to Donald Trump ruling
(00:43):
the country in a fabulous manner through the first half
of his four year term. First half of the first
year of his four year term, we will give you
the absolute latest on Iran and Israel. We will dive
into many of the biggest stories of the day. Because
I am working, and I bet a lot of you
are working. I am back home in Nashville. Had an
(01:06):
amazing time up in Washington, DC, met so many of you.
Appreciate Senator Haggerty's office for allowing my son to be
an intern up there. He had an incredible time. Congress
is out today and they are out tomorrow is my understanding,
which is why we are back, because why celebrate Juneteenth
for one day when you could celebrate it for two
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and be paid by the American taxpayer to do so.
Welcome to your government now, I bet most of you
are not taking Juneteenth off. But I did think that
we should honor Juneteenth as one would by playing what
went megaviral. We shared it with you yesterday on the
social media accounts. When you actually dive in to the View,
(01:53):
I would maintain that it is the dumbest program that
has ever been allowed to appear daily on television for
some time, and the arguments just keep getting more ridiculous.
So there was a discussion. I want to give credit
to one of the ladies on the View, Alissa Fara
Griffin has family of Iranian descent. I believe her father
(02:17):
is Iranian. I could be wrong on that, guys, will
you check that in the studio, but she has a
connection to Iran and in her family background. And they
were discussing freedoms for women in Iran, and just to
reinforce in case you are not aware, in Iran women
(02:38):
have to a large extent no human rights at least
comparable to what would exist in the West, for instance,
and I believe they've only changed this recently. Women were
not even allowed to go watch the Iranian soccer team play.
The Iranian soccer stadium only allowed men to go watch soccer. Now,
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this is a big deal. Soccer is a huge sport
all over the world, but the most popular sport in Iran.
Women weren't allowed to go in there. Sounds somewhat ridiculous,
but that is true. I think they now allow a
handful of women into the stadium. I think they have
progressed there. You can be beaten and arrested if you
are not covered correctly as you walk the streets of Iran.
(03:26):
There have been protests from women who say, hey, can
we just not have to wear a jab? Can we
just uncover our hair? Can we allow our faces to
be seen? And the religious police will walk around in
Iran and arrest and or beat women who defy dress
codes all over the country. So whatever you think of
(03:50):
life in America, women comparably have it pretty good here.
And honestly, this was one of my biggest issues with
the Megan Rapinos on the US women's soccer team, you know,
for the Women's World Cup. You can basically pick every
winner just by analyzing human rights in the country, because
(04:12):
while our women go on the nash international stage and
rip America, the reason why our women are super talented
at soccer is because they can wear shorts and they
have basic human rights. Is it a surprise that the
women who have the most human rights would also be
the best at athletics. And also this speaks to the
(04:35):
incredible wealth of America because in general, it is a
luxury to be able to put your kids into sports
and allow them to develop as athletes. Most really athletic
men get noticed and can have success around the world
because male athletics is still a moneymaker to a large
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extent in much of the world, women's athletics to a
large extent is not in most of the world. And
so it is an incredible sign of both human rights
and the wealth of this nation that we have tens
of millions of girls who are playing elite level soccer
in this country. And so I wish that the US
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women's soccer team when they're on the global stage, instead
of denigrating the United States and refusing to go visit
the White House after they won the World Cup in
twenty nineteen and Trump was in office. I wish they
had said, hey, we may not agree on every political
issue in the United States, but what we certainly agree
on is women should be able to compete at the
absolute highest level of athletics. And the reason why we're
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having success on the global stage is actually a reflection
of America's embrace of human rights, and we wish women
around the world had the same rights that women have
in the United States. That's a really strong argument. I
think it would have been compelling. I think that there
would have been a lot of little girls all over
the world who heard that and were even more aspirational
(06:02):
to be great at sports, but also to look up
to the United States women who are great at sports
and could be their role models. Going for instead, Meghan
Rapino said, Hey, if you're a man and you want
to play women soccer, I think you should be able
to do so. She lifted the latter, not unlike what
we just saw some own biles do in her tweet
at Riley Gains. Okay, so they're discussing how life is
(06:26):
in Iran. Alyssa Fara Griffin, who directly knows how the
women of Iran are treated based on her family's background.
Is trying to make the point that Israel has basic
human rights, and in fact, I haven't heard very many
people react to this. But you know, one of the
things that they had to cancel in Israel because of
(06:47):
all the missiles coming in from Iran the Pride March.
The Pride March Israel, I believe, is the only country
in the entire Middle East that would even have a
Pride march because gay people otherwise get thrown off the
roofs of buildings and beheaded in many different Middle Eastern countries,
which is why Gays for Gaza is one of the
(07:08):
dumbest American political arguments of all time. But they were
trying to have a conversation about that, and whoope, Goldberg
took it over and said she doesn't think black people
in America have it better than the average woman in Iran.
This was actually what ABC aired yesterday, Play the cut.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I think it's very different in the United States in
twenty twenty five than it is.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
To live in around You're not for everybody, not every black.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Let me tell you about being in this country. This
is the greatest country in the world. But yeah, I
know that I know that, and we all know that.
But every day we are worried. Do we have to
be worried about our kids? Are their kids going to
get shot because they're running through somebody's neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Nobody wants to diminish them. Very real problems we have
in this country. Wells intent, it's important we remember there
are places much darker than this country, and people deserve right.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Not everybody feels that way. Not everybody feels that way. Listen,
I'm sorry. You know when you think about the fact
that we were we got the vote in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Five, Okay, they don't have free and fair elections in Iran.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's not even the same universe. They can't go out
of their house.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
There's no way I can make you understand.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
There's no way I can make you understand because you're
a moron. Whoopee Goldberg. You make eight million dollars a
year to go on a show, to not do basic research,
to have no idea how things are around the rest
of the world. To compare how black people live in
America in twenty twenty five with how women live in
(08:50):
Iran in twenty twenty five, is so brain dead that honestly,
I think that the view has become so toxic for
just its stupidity that ABC News has to be looking
around how much money could they possibly make off this
show versus how much brand equity are they losing. I
(09:13):
just can't believe that anyone could be this dumb. And
by the way, it's not just Whoopy Goldberg. There are
lots of people all over the United States who have
no conception for how good we all have it in
this country. And I really do wish a part of
me does that every American had to spend two years
(09:36):
sort of like the Mormon Mission. A lot of you
out there listening in Utah. You're part of your religious faith.
Your kids will go on a two year mission. They
don't know where they're going to go all over the world.
If we had two years of service required for every
American teenager at eighteen years old, and you had to
(09:57):
go to a third world country and actually try to
make that third world country better, and you had to
live there, and you had to see how people in
that country lived. When you got on an airplane and
you came back here, you would kiss the ground when
you stepped off that airplane. There is no conception, by
(10:19):
and large among huge populations in the United States of
how incredibly fortunate we all are to live here. Does
not mean that the United States is perfect. No country
created by humans in the history of mankind has ever
been perfect. But if you had to choose right now,
there's a great analogy that Warren Buffett has says, if
(10:40):
you want to contemplate, I think it's such a good one.
If you want to contemplate how you should feel relative
to the rest of the world, Imagine that there was
a huge vase and there were seven billion marbles in it.
It's roughly the population of the world, not one person
in the United States. And if you drew a marble
(11:03):
out of that seven billion, not one person in the
entire United States should ever risk changing places. Right, It's
a great analogy. If your kids are out there, if
they don't understand gratitude, one of the most powerful emotions
there is. If you had to take a marble out
of that seven billion, and you changed places with whatever
(11:27):
marble you drew, not one person in the United States
should ever make that trade, because the chances are that
you would go to a vastly inferior country with vastly
less human rights and economic resources. And so when I
(11:49):
see people like Whoopi Goldberg, who are making millions of
dollars a year, who have become fabulously wealthy, arguing that
the average black person in America is somehow in worse
place than the women of Iran and even the men,
it is so incomprehensibly dumb that I think ABC News
(12:10):
should be looking at a show like that and saying, boy,
I know it's called the View, but we should have
a standard of basic intelligence, and our show hasn't met it.
Send Whoopee Goldberg to do the show from the average
country in the third world and make her live like
(12:30):
the people do there. First of all, she wouldn't do it,
But I do think it would be important and clarifying
in many ways to actually know of which you are speaking,
as opposed to trying to denigrate and pull down the
app But I do think it would be important and
(12:50):
clarifying in many ways to actually know of which you
are speaking, as opposed to trying to denigrate and pull
down the aspirations, hopes and realities of so many young
people that might be watching that show and believe her
that they have no chance for success and then want
to marinate in the idea of their own victimization because
(13:12):
they aren't aware of how truly fortunate they are no
matter what your background is to live in the United
States of America today, So happy Juneteenth. I wanted to
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Walking back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show team says,
by the way, I asked for them to look this up.
Team says that that Alissa Fara Griffin has a background.
Her dad is of Syrian and Lebanese descent, not Persian.
But my point stands that she has a Middle Eastern
(15:12):
background and so probably has a little bit better of
an idea of what life is like in the Middle
East based on her family than Woopy Goldberg would. And
some of you can say, Okay, well, why does it
matter what Whoopy Goldberg is saying there? I think it
matters immensely because so many kids who don't know any better,
(15:34):
their knuckleheads, they think that they are victims. If you
grow up believing, oh, I can't accomplish anything, the world
is allied against me, everything is so unfortunate for me
in America in twenty twenty five, it takes a lot
(15:55):
to break you out of that worldview. The reality is
that no matter how you became a citizen or how
long your family has become citizens of the United States,
there is virtually no place in the world where it
would be better for you to live than the United
States right now. And so when you embrace this idea
(16:17):
of victim culture oppression, you end up, I think, stifling
the ability of young people to have success. And since
it's juneteenth, I've been hammering this and I don't know
why more people don't hammer it. You know, I can't
guarantee you're going to be rich. It's hard to get rich.
(16:39):
You have to work, you have to get some good fortune.
There's lots of things that go into you becoming wealthy.
But every single person listening to me right now can
guarantee they are not poor if they do the following.
I hammer this home. I wish we had teachers hammering
at home more often. Graduate from high school, get a job,
(17:03):
get married, don't have a kid until after you get married.
All of those things. If you do those four things,
which are very reasonable to be able to do, that's
a very aspirationally attainable goal. No matter where you live,
you have a zero percent virtual chance of being poor.
(17:24):
Can't guarantee you're going to be rich, can guarantee you're
not going to be poor. Imagine if what Pee Goldberg
went around on the view making that argument to young kids. Hey,
everybody's not going to have a perfect setup. Everybody's born
with different opportunities based on the economic realities of their
parents of the place that they're born. Graduate high school,
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get a job, get married, have kids after you get married.
You have a zero percent chance, virtually in America today
of being poor. That seems like a very aspirational thing
that every kid should be taught, particularly young men. I'm
going to tee off on this some today because I've
been thinking about it a lot, particularly young men who
feel lost in the toxic masculinity era and don't really
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can just grab the iHeart app. You can click the
microphone button. You got thirty seconds. Trent in Kansas says, Hey,
maybe whoope should go visit Iran and try to come back.
Listen to cut DD. Hey Clay, this is Trent to Kansas.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
I think you should challenge wo Be Goldberg to go
visit Iran and if she makes it back, to come
back and she can then explain to the people on
her idiotic TV show just what a Ran is actually like.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That would actually be fantastic. Again, I say this for everyone.
If you are fortunate enough to be able to afford
international travel and I get it is very expensive. I
think one of the best things you can do for
your kids is actually show them through missionary work through travel,
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what much of the rest of the world has to
live like. This is one reason that I love to travel.
I want to see as many countries in my life
as I can, to just experience the fulsomeness of what
world life represents. You guys know, I'm a history nerd.
(20:47):
There's lots of places I want to go that have
been historically relevant throughout world history. There's tons of places
I would love to go that I still haven't been.
I'd never been to Italy till two years ago. I
took my whole family over. Was an unbelievable experience. I
wanted to go to Australia. I took my family to Australia.
My kids are getting older. One reason I'm on the
(21:09):
road and try to travel as much as I can
now is once they get to be eighteen, get to
be adults, they go off to college. I don't know
how they're going to want to spend their time. I
hope they're still going to want to travel with mom
and dad, and maybe as they realize how much travel costs,
Mom and dad's vacations start to sound a lot better.
I bet there's a lot of you who are parents
and grandparents that have experienced that. So I hope they're
(21:33):
still going to want to be able to travel. But
even if they don't once they're over eighteen, I want
to have helped to show them the places around the
world and what it's like. I want to take them
to Israel. I did the show from Israel in December.
I think it would be incredibly eye opening. And it's
not always the things that you expect to be incredibly
(21:54):
influential to you that are I figured that walking around
in the Old City of Rusalem and seeing the Christian
and Jewish and Muslim religious sites would be incredibly moving,
and it was. But you know, some of the things
that you don't anticipate are what stick with you. In Israel,
(22:18):
eighteen year olds have aks on their back and are
serving for their country. You know. Here, super popular Alabama
sorority girl TikTok, I'm told it's all about rush. Oh
what outfits am I gonna wear?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
How pretty am I? Look? At all the things I
can do with my makeup and my hair and all
these different things and It's wildly popular Alabama. If you
don't know your kids, your grandkids, ask them about it,
especially if they're girls. The Alabama Sorority TikTok thing is
a absolute, huge, massively popular social media event. And I
(23:01):
think they even made team can look it up. I
think they even made a documentary about it or a
reality show about it. Just the process of going to
the University of Alabama and rushing to be a member
of a sorority. All these eighteen year old girls in Israel,
the same eighteen year old Southeastern Conference sorority girls are
(23:23):
instead in green fatigues with aks on their back. Because
every eighteen year old in Israel, by and large, unless
you're supremely religious, which is its own controversy there, now
goes immediately into the armed forces and puts their life
on the line to defend their country. You join the IDF,
(23:45):
and I couldn't stop thinking about that. We're standing in
line for coffee and these eighteen or nineteen year old
girls walk in in their uniforms with aks on their
back and stand in line to get coffee. Totally normal.
There same eighteen year old girls here that are losing
(24:07):
their minds over whether they have the right shoes to
get in the right sorority at the University of Alabama.
I'm not trying to judge the University of Alabama sorority girls.
God forbid. Good for them. They're happy. But the cultural difference,
if you are fortunate enough to have teenage girls or
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teenage boys, between what the average life in Israel would
be like for an eighteen year old girl right now,
and what the average life for an eighteen year old
girl trying to get in a Southeastern Conference sorority or
a big ten sorority, a big twelve sororita, whatever it is,
is seismic. They expect their eighteen year olds in Israel
(24:49):
to put their lives on the line. Every single one
of them goes into training, knows how to use weapons,
understands that at any moment in time there might be
at terror attack and they might have to fire their
weapon and defend the people in their country. And here
we just have frivolity. And so how many of our
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people out there, how many eighteen year olds in America
understand what eighteen year olds in Israel do not? Very many? Now,
some of you who are part of Birthright Israel and
you get over there and you see it all those things.
And I'm just using Israel as an example, but I
bet a lot of eighteen year olds in America are
(25:36):
sitting around depressed right now, like, oh, the Wi fi
is not working.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
It's summer.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm so bored. And you're like, well, you know, you
could be in a bomb shelter, or you could be
on your stomach, crawling underneath people firing at you, being
concerned about your nail. Uh, what's it called the I've
(26:06):
never had my nails done, the nail salon not being
able to get you in today, Maybe it's not that
big of a deal in the in the larger context,
and there are many countries like this around the world,
And so if I could wave a magic wand I
think America would be transformed if everybody had to do
(26:27):
a Mormon style mission for two years in another country,
and I think our overall national discourse would actually be
much healthier. Now. I understand some of you out there
listening to me right now are like, hey, Clay, that's
what I did when I was eighteen. Yeah, good for you.
Good for you for having the discipline, having the courage,
the bravery to do it. What percentage of eighteen year
(26:50):
olds serve their country in the United States right now,
zero point five percent, one percent. It's a tiny, tiny
percentage of young men and women. There are some volunteering
to do it, more power to you, But I'm just
saying it's not the same as when the entire culture
has to do it, and it does change things immensely.
(27:13):
And yes, I am right. There is an actual documentary
about the Alabama Stroorty rush. And I just the dichotomy
because look, I'm a guy who comes out of covering
college football, and I'm not claiming to be some tough guy.
I've never served in the military. I went off to
college when I was eighteen. But I do think I
(27:35):
have tried to have a larger global perspective of what
life is like. And that's one of the benefits of
traveling is sometimes things stick out to you which seem
normal in that country, that are staggering to us based
on the way that we typically live. In Israel, eighteen
year old girls are walking around with aks ready to
(27:57):
take out anybody who is a terrorist, and highly skilled
and highly trained in how to use incredibly deadly weapons.
And here in the United States, the average eighteen year
old girl is on TikTok trying to figure out how
to buy the newest swimsuit for summer. They're not the same.
(28:26):
And I think Whoopy Goldberg, it's hard to pick on
eighteen year olds because if you remember when you were eighteen,
you're ignorant about many different things. That's what you rely
on adults to help you recognize. But Woopy Goldberg is
the adult. She should be the person who has a
(28:47):
larger perspective to make her audience understand how their lives
fit in the context of the larger world. Every Black
person in the Uni States today is incredibly fortunate on
average to live in the United States today. Then in Africa,
(29:11):
this is not a doubt at all. The average standard
of living in any African country is a pen prick
of the average standing standard of living of the average
Black person in America today. Didn't they have? That girl
went viral recently, the eighteen year old girl, Will you
(29:32):
guys look that up? I don't think we played it
on the show, but she was so upset about racism
in America that she moved to Africa, and then after
only a few months in Africa, she was like, actually,
I want to go back to America. And I'm not
trying to pick on her, but she was uniquely susceptible
to the argument that she was oppressed and she was
(29:55):
a victim and she didn't have a high quality of life.
And as soon as she went to Africa, she was like, actually, sorry,
I want to go back to the United States. Actually
way better there. That's how virtually every person of every
race would be if they went to a different country.
And yesterday I was talking about the fact that I
was getting attacked because elon Omar, who was born in Somalia,
(30:19):
was ripping the United States, says one of the worst
countries in the world. And I said, isn't it amazing
how often the people who rip the United States, even
if they have multiple passports, even if they have citizenship
in multiple countries, they almost never go back. If you
truly thought that this country was awful, you should go
(30:40):
to a better country. If you think that you live
in a crappy city or state in the United States,
I would tell you to move to a new city
or state. You're not happy with where you are, you're
not happy with the country that you live in, and
you have the ability to go to a new country,
do it? You know, the ultimate lie that they have
been telling for so many years is that America is
a fundamentally awful racist country. If that were true, how
(31:04):
come during Joe Biden's era, ten million plus people risk
their entire lives to come to this country, the overwhelming
majority of whom are black and brown. Because it's a lie,
because this is the greatest country that has ever existed
in the history of the world, and most people are
taking it for granted if you are living here already,
(31:26):
because to a large extent, we don't understand the larger
world and how fortunate we all are. But if you
doubt it, look at how many people were willing to
risk everything to try to come here, overwhelmingly minorities. If
America were a supremely racist country, do you think tens
of millions of black and brown people would be doing
(31:48):
everything they can to illegally enter this country. Of course
not so. Some of the lies that we are being
told that are being propagated by people like will Pee
Goldberger actually insanely pernicious because they aren't true. And she's
old enough to know better and have some basis of
rational thought, but people listen to her and they believe it,
(32:10):
and it leads to unfortunately a non positive universe. Right now,
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Buck. I
believe I didn't say off the top, and I've been
talking about it all week. Buck is in Buck Is
in the South of Rants. He is in cann at
a major advertising festival. On behalf of the show and
on behalf of iHeart. He will be back on Monday.
(34:08):
He has been over there all week. I am back
in Nashville. Craig in Jacksonville, Florida wants to weigh in
what you got for us.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Thank you for taking my call. I love what you're
talking about today. My father was an immigrant from Chile
from South America, came here in in the early seventies,
didn't speak a lick of English, came here legally on
a visa, lived here on a green card for twenty years.
Then he became a citizen, as the proudest American I know.
(34:38):
But when I after my junior year in college, I
wanted to see where my family came from. So I
went down there for a whole summer, down to Chile,
and it changed my life. And I'm not exaggerating. People
here have no clue how lucky they are. I have
a story where I went with one of my cousins.
I have or family there than here. I went to
(35:01):
the beach with one of my cousins and there is
about a ten year old kid, took his shoes off,
went into the water, came back, his shoes were gone.
Someone stole them. The kid was crying like his parents
were killed. And I said to my cousin, I said,
what's the big deal. It's a pair of shoes, man,
you know, move on, And he told me you don't
understand his parents may have to work for eight months
(35:21):
before they could buy him another pair of shoes. So
I gave him a brand new pair of Nikes that
I had called my dad and said, hey, I need money,
I need to buy new shoes. I mean, so people
don't understand the difference. So I love what you're talking
about today.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Thank you. It's a great story, sad story, but representative
of how our immense wealth and ability to buy goods.
Oftentimes we presume that other places have that same ability,
and they don't. Most places the world is not disposable,
meaning the goods. I mean, look at what's going on
in Cuba. I mean not very far right. Cuba used
(35:58):
to be one of the jewels of the American of
the Caribbean, and not far from America. Right, you could
hop on a boat, get from Key West, get from Tampa.
For those of you who Miami, who remember that, Ara,
you can go study it. They're still driving around in
cars in the nineteen fifties because they don't have the
ability to continue to build it. Richard in Maine, you
want to be I got thirty seconds for you here
(36:20):
what you got for us?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Hey, good afternoon. I love your show. You guys do
a great job. Where my wife and I we've been
saying for twenty to thirty years all about this national service,
and I don't want you to confuse it with military service,
which is fine. I'm the former Air Force officer, but
you don't necessarily have to carry a gun to learn
(36:43):
how to wake up at six in the morning, be
fit and do a job. So like nine months full
time of training and then the balance of the two
years you're doing the job, and then as for the
job market.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I love the idea, Richard. I think it's one of
the things the Mormons get right. I think it's why
they have such perspective and gratitude. I think the country
would benefit from something like that. Next
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