October 1, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show opens with Clay and Buck examining the economy, inflation, energy prices and the political battle heading into the 2026 midterm elections. They react to President Donald Trump’s Oval Office comments on diesel prices, Russia and Ukraine, and the state of the U.S. economy, including Trump’s argument that America is seeing major investment in factories and strong employment. Clay contends that the most effective Republican economic message is that the Biden administration left behind high inflation and a damaged economy that requires time to repair, while pointing to stock market performance, low unemployment, accelerating wage growth and stronger economic growth as reasons for optimism. The hosts acknowledge that many Americans remain frustrated by the cost of groceries, gasoline and other everyday expenses, and they debate how quickly improving economic indicators can translate into voters actually feeling better about their finances. They also discuss oil and gas prices amid conflict involving Iran and instability in the Middle East, as well as the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on diesel supplies.
The conversation then shifts to the 2026 midterm elections and the battle for control of Congress. Clay argues that Democratic political momentum may have peaked and predicts Republican advertising could begin moving key races toward the GOP. He highlights Senate contests in Texas, Iowa, Kansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Maine and Michigan, while Buck says he is encouraged about Republican prospects in the Senate but stresses that turnout will ultimately determine the results. They discuss the flood of political advertising airing in battleground states such as Virginia, why campaigns rely so heavily on negative attack ads, and why conventional attacks against Trump have sometimes failed to achieve their intended effect. The hosts also use New York City and Zohran Mamdani as an example in their broader argument about Democratic economic policies, contending that policies intended to address affordability and housing costs can instead contribute to higher prices and rents.
Financial commentator Trish Regan joins Hour 1 for an extended discussion of the Trump economy, inflation, energy and consumer sentiment. Regan argues that today's inflation environment represents an improvement from the inflation surge during the Biden administration but says consumers remain acutely aware that prices are substantially higher than they were several years ago. She explains why lower inflation does not mean prices return to their previous levels and discusses the latest Personal Consumption Expenditures inflation reading, energy costs, gasoline prices and the movement of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. She and the hosts explore the challenge Republicans face in persuading voters that economic conditions are improving when some Americans have yet to experience those improvements personally. Regan also makes the case for continued economic policies centered on capitalism, innovation and private-sector growth while warning about the economic direction she believes Democrats would pursue.
Regan and the guys also dive into the rapidly changing media and entertainment industry, discussing Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and CNN. The conversation focuses on the implications of consolidation in the entertainment business, Netflix's competitive position and the potential for technology to completely reshape how Americans consume movies, television and news. Regan predicts that artificial intelligence, virtual reality and personalized entertainment could eventually allow audiences to customize programming and experience news or major events in dramatically more immersive ways. The discussion expands into the future of journalism, including the growing role of citizen journalists and social platforms, and how traditional television networks and international news bureaus may need to adapt to technological disruption.
The interview concludes with a broader conversation about artificial intelligence, data centers, China, American energy production and national security. Clay raises concerns that public fears about AI infrastructure and data-center construction could leave the United States at a competitive disadvantage to China. Regan argues that winning the global AI race is both an economic and national-security imperative, with abundant and reliable energy necessary to power the data centers and computing infrastructure behind the technology. She maintains that America needs sensible safeguards while continuing to invest aggressively in AI rather than allowing fear of the technology to surrender strategic leadership to China. The discussion ties AI innovation directly to economic productivity, energy policy and the long-term competition between the United States and China.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in, everybody, to the Thursday edition of Clay and Buck.
First day of October, my friends. A lot to talk about.
A lot going on. We have more on the Dubai
Air terror attempt, which we spent a lot of yesterday's
show talking about because the news was just breaking. We
(00:21):
have more details. Everything we were talking about yesterday in
the analysis side of things looks like It is being
proven as more information comes out. We also had Trump
yesterday in the Oval Office. He was talking AI, diesel prices,
the economy in general. Clay, a really interesting speech from
(00:44):
Secretary of War Hegseth. where he laid out some new ideas,
new organization for within the military, particularly looking at tech, robotics,
and preparing for the weapons of the future. He also, though,
because he's Secretary of War, had some memorable lines that
the media is going to focus on. We can share
those with you. More data coming in, of course, for
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the election. California gubernatorial debate is a thing that We
can also bring to you here Steve Helton v. Javier, Clay.
Javier Becerra. Not to be confused with Professor Charles Xavier.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Javier.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And we'll discuss that. Oh, and then also, it's a
news item, and we could talk about it for sure.
I'm not sure even where it currently stands. But the
attempted execution.
Of a longtime death row inmate and a female, the
only female I believe on death row, was botched in
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Tennessee yesterday, which is, this brings up a whole range
of questions and issues, including why is it that we
continue to make something, if we're going to do this,
we should be able to do it efficiently with 100%
completion and Exactly as as planned. And they they've made
(02:11):
a complete mess of this. So we can discuss that
a bit. And of course, there's always the should we
have the death penalty? And that's a discussion that will
always be something we can go back and forth on. Clay,
I think first up, I was going to start with
with the Trump Oval Office comments, because I think he
(02:33):
handles some of the top issues right now. that are
out there let's start with uh first of all on
the on diesel we mentioned this yesterday the president is
staying on this because he realizes the cost of stuff
is a big issue in this election people being able
to pay their bills credit card uh debts going up
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all that is important right now it's important in general
but it's particularly important in the run up to this election.
Here he is talking about the diesel price. This is
cut eight.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Play it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You know, diesel is really hurt much more, not by
the Middle East, but by what's going on in Russia,
because those diesel refineries are being knocked out at a
pretty alarming rate. And if that didn't happen, we wouldn't
have a diesel problem. What's happened in Russia with Ukraine
has been really the biggest problem for diesel.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Clay, he's staying with this Russia-Ukraine is the bigger problem.
I don't, First of all, people are going to argue
and say, no, that's not, that the Middle East disruption
is the bigger disruption because Russia-Ukraine, if you look on
a chart, diesel price this last year, Russia-Ukraine's been at
war for a long time. I just would rather the
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president talk about the great things in the economy right
now and focus on more of that macro picture. He
did some of that. This is cut 10. Listen to this, Clay,
and then please tell me what you think.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Go for it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I think we had the most consequential presidency, maybe one
of the most ever. Maybe some people say the most consequential.
Look at what we're doing now. We're building plants and
factories all over the nation. We have record employment numbers.
We have more people working in the United States today
than at any point in the history of our country
by far.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We are booming.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
You know, I use the expression from the king of
Saudi Arabia. But others said almost the exact words. He
said at the time. And he's referring to a different
time period. At the time, he said, sir, one year ago. Again,
he said it a year ago. So we're talking about
two years. I don't want you to get that wrong.
But he said a year ago, one year ago, during
the Biden administration, you were a dead country.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You were dead.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
We never thought you had a chance. And now you
have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I like when he talks about the general economy, Clay,
and what he's.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Done for it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I think the message if I were telling the president
exactly what I think the best message is, it is
that Biden drove the economy into the ditch. We had
to get the car out of the ditch. We had
to get the car retrofitted, fixed. And now we are
driving on the road and we're headed to a really
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good place. I think that's actually what the data reflects now.
People are still angry because of the cost of goods.
Cost of goods skyrocketed during Joe Biden. They actually have
come back immensely, but people don't feel it yet. Now,
the challenge here, as you well know, is oftentimes the
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people that Trump is interacting with are involved in big business.
Big business is feeling it already. We're at record highs
in the stock market. The unemployment rate is very low.
Wage growth is accelerating. The overall growth rate of the
economy was just raised. And I think there's a decent
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chance that by the end of the year, we're going
to be hitting at 3% or higher, which is transformative
level growth. And if I'm looking into the future for J.D. Vance,
who is the presumptive frontrunner right now, I think the
economy in 27 and 28 I think we're going to
have left behind the Biden doldrums. What I would say
(06:17):
is we are on the comeback trail right now. Things
are getting better. Do you want to put Democrats who
put us in this ditch in the first place, who
lit the economic fire, who are the arsonists back in control?
We're not perfect and we still have work to do,
but we have the right plans in place. Everything Democrats
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favor will make things worse. That's tough because really what
he's asking and requiring is patience and nobody's patient. Everybody
wants everything fixed immediately. But I am telling you that
by the time we get into the spring and summer
of next year, I think a lot of people out
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there are going to be feeling the positive changes that
have been put in place. And the more you can
allow that positive change to happen and the less you
can derail it, the better things will be in 27
and in 28. I think that's a good pitch. I
think it's an accurate pitch. And I think it's one
that can resonate with lots of people. Let me also
(07:23):
say this, Buck. I think Democrat arguments have peaked. I
am seeing increasingly as we enter into now November signs
that the Republican advertising campaigns are having an impact and
that trend lines are going to move back in the direction.
I really do believe this of Republicans. I think you're
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starting to see it already. I think you will start
to see Democrats. This is a prediction. in the next
10 days or so dial back the number of States
that they are spending money in. I think they're going
to fall behind in Texas. I think they already kind
of see that. I don't think they have any chance
of winning the Senate in Iowa or Kansas. I think
you will see it. And I think the battlegrounds are
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going to come right back to where we expected them
to be Georgia, North Carolina, Maine, where I think Susan
Collins is going to hold on and Michigan with, with,
the expected battlegrounds being there. And I feel pretty good
about where the Senate map is looking just based on
the trend lines of where we're headed.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I feel like the great irony of talking about the
economy right now and Democrats, Republicans going into the midterms,
it reminds me of the Mamdani situation insofar as the
people whose primary concern is is one aspect of the
economy right now, which is price of gas, price of groceries,
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some of those day-to-day cost of living items. They might
think to themselves, I hope this doesn't happen, but they
might think we just need a change. So let's put
the other team in charge because I'm frustrated with this situation.
And the irony is the other team will make it worse.
Just like with Mamdani, how did Mamdani come into office
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in New York City? There were a lot of things,
but the primary message, Clay, he had was the rent
is too. He's really like the rent is too damn
high guy. Do you all remember him? That was his
own party. The rent is too damn high. That was
his thing.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Mamdani, the rent's higher than it's ever been. And it's
going to keep.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Record highs all time in New York City within a
few months of the policies he tried to put in place.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And I'm going to tell you, people might say, oh,
it's only been a year.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
OK, I promise you it'll be it'll be at an
all time high or close to it next year. And
it's going to go up the year because the things
that he tries to do politically, philosophically actually exacerbate the problem.
So we can agree on the problem. But the solutions
offered by Democrats make it worse. Oh, you don't like
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a high price of high price of day to day living.
Democrats are the ones that spend us into oblivion. Now,
we have spent too much on the right as well,
but it's always Democrats who spend more, who want to
spend more. And, Clay, that's where inflation comes from, which
is why these prices have gone up the way that
they have and stayed high. And it's also why you're
(10:19):
overtaxed and it's also why you're overregulated, all these things.
So I just there's this part of me that feels
this frustration that the people who are frustrated are only,
you know, it's like they're like, oh, my gosh, you know,
my foot's on fire. Give me that can of gasoline
that is voting for Democrats.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Here's the other thing, Buck. Democrats are going to be
unable to pass anything. This is the reality because of
not having control of the government. So what they're going
to do is going to be nonexistent. And then they're
going to argue that they know the solution in 2028
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because they can't actually make things better in 2027 and 2028.
I'm just telling you exactly how this is going to
play out. So if you are out there right now
and you are frustrated that things have not gotten better faster,
I understand. But your anger should be at Democrats for
digging such a hole that we had to get ourselves
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out of. Again, when Joe Biden came into office, inflation
was one point nine percent. He took us immediately to
nine point one percent. And we now we're back in
the vicinity of three. And if and when we get
the situation in Iran rectified, which is a long-term plan
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solution for a short-term pain, then I think you're going
to see the price of oil and gas, as we
have said, already coming back down. I think the fact
that even the New York Times is now covering, oh, wait,
oil and gas is coming out of the Middle East
at same or similar rates now at the end of
September than it ever has. Remember when they tried to
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argue oil Iran has won the war. And now Iran
has got inflation that we've never seen before. Their entire
economy is collapsing. They have no air force. They have
no Navy. They have no functional ability to do anything
in the Middle East. And I think what you're going
to see is all of these issues continue to to
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move in a positive direction. Now, the challenge is. Takes
a long time for oil and gas prices to come down.
They go up really fast, which we've talked about on
this program before. We'll open up, by the way, phone
lines 800-282-2882. And we got a bunch more stories, Buck.
I did all my reading because we talked about it
a little bit on this Cornell rape case.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
This is another social media firestorm that is getting many
people have gotten just a tiny pinprick of the actual
data involved in this case and the actual facts. I
am really well versed on this now. And my goodness,
this is just a another example of a runaway story
(13:12):
that isn't remotely reflective of the truth. So we can tease.
That's what you call a tease in the business, Buck.
I'm going to tee off on this. As I think
you should. In the meantime, if you're sitting there on
Thursday and you're going to be staying up for the
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
Welcome back in clay and buck appreciate all of you
hanging out with us as we move closer and closer
to the midterms buck i was telling you that i'm
beginning to feel like the democrat wave has peaked and
the republican spending has is starting to really kind of
push back the tide. We'll see how high it can go.
(15:10):
I still think the House is going to be difficult,
but I'm feeling better and better about remaining in control
of the Senate. And given the fact that there will
be a ton of vacancies on the Senate side, it
feels to me like something very good that we will
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be able to maintain control of the Senate if what
I see these trend lines continue.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, I feel good about the Senate for Republicans. I've
even seen some polling that is encouraging for Susan Collins,
for example. So I think things are going to trend
the right direction in some of the key Senate races.
But I also think that You know, the situation can
(15:57):
change very rapidly and we have to run through the tape,
as they say, all the political cliches every election time.
It's going to come down to turnout. It's going to
turn to come out and come down to who wants
it more, who puts more points on the board. That's
who's going to win. So this is where we are
at this stage of the midterms. It's underway. The narratives
are out there. The spending on TV is. Um, you know,
(16:20):
since I was in, uh, you know, I was in
Virginia recently, Clay, obviously I was, uh, with you in DC,
but I was in Virginia and it's just this thing.
One of the TVs was on the house I was
in and it's just constant political ads.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Oh yeah. Cause Virginia is a state that's, you know,
in play. And I mean, every, I'm telling you, Buck,
I pretty much only watch sports. Every commercial break during
my sporting events is all political ads. Now it's, I mean,
cause I assume that Republicans are targeting men in huge
numbers and, And you can't get men in huge numbers
without targeting sports overwhelmingly.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I just also love how there really is this formula,
like the attack ads. It must work because they all
do more or less the same thing, which they're like,
some people like puppies, babies, and ice cream. not this jerk,
big red X across his face. He thinks puppies smell
bad and babies are too loud. He also wants to
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take all your money, lock up your grandma and do terrible,
terrible things to you. Do not vote.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Like every ad that's really amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
It's never, it's never like bill seven to five, you know,
he voted against this for raising your taxes. And I
think that's bad for the overall economy. It's like, He
is anti puppies and ice cream. This is why I
think everybody knowing who you are. This is why the
attack ads didn't work on Trump. That's one of the
(17:44):
funniest things. The Kamala attack ads, they tested and they
actually helped Trump.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
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Speaker 1 (18:54):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're joined by our
good friend Trish Regan. She's host of the Trish Regan
Show on YouTube and also the co-founder of the financial
research firm 76research.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Com. Trish, great to see you as always.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
It's good to see you too, Buck. Good to be
here with both of you.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So I know you cover a lot of ground, and
so we're going to ask you about a whole range
of things, of course, from the news today. But I
did want to start right in the center of your wheelhouse,
if I could, with the economy. where Trump is, where
the Republicans are on their messaging right now about cost
of living, about cost of gas, employment, all that stuff.
(19:35):
How are we doing and how is it being expressed?
Do you have some comments, concerns or corrections for how
the GOP is pushing it all?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, I mean, look, we're doing okay, right? And compared
to where we were, Buck, we're doing more than okay,
because we were looking at nearly 10% inflation in a
given month under Joe Biden. And so then everybody in
the media was like, woohoo, when it went down to 6%,
and woohoo, when it was down to 5%. Problem is,
that's cumulative, right? So you're 10%, you're 6%, you're 5%.
And so fast forward to today, And we're looking at,
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you know, decent inflation, you know, somewhere between two and
a half and three percent. We just got the PCE,
the personal consumption expenditure index in yesterday that came in
a lot lower than expected. And what it's showing is that, yeah,
you know, energy is kind of Not great, right? Energy
prices are higher than they used to be. Gas prices
are higher. But that hasn't caught up with the rest
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of the economy yet. And that's important because once it does,
then you're really off to the races and it's really
out of control. But I would just say, look, it's
not great in part because everybody remembers what it was
like when Donald Trump was there pre-2020. And then all
of a sudden Biden comes in and it's like a
runaway train, right? Inflation is out of control. Well, we're
never going to get back to 2020. to levels that
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we saw, you know, before March of 2020, like the
genie's already out of the bottle and you don't want
deflation in the economy, but it still hurts. I mean,
every time I go to my local diner and I'm like, wait,
blueberry pancakes cost $ 16 now. Are you kidding me at
a diner? But that's sort of what happens, right? And
nobody's bringing it down to $ 12. Nobody's bringing it down
to $ 7. I'm like, I remember when it was 595
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and that was just a couple of years ago. And
so it hurts. It's painful. And people have this you know, frustration,
I think. But the reality is it's not that bad.
I mean, honestly, considering what's going on with Iran, you
would think it would be so much worse. But that's
another thing, by the way, that I don't think the
Democrats are counting on. But we are actually getting oil
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out of the Strait of Hormuz. Now, the blockade's working.
And I think that over the next couple of weeks,
and it takes a couple of weeks to catch up
to the gas pumps, you're going to start to see
prices come down again. just in time, fortunately, for midterms.
So hopefully that affects people's sentiment. But you've got a
very negative storyline out there, and it's being felt.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Trish, you and I share a love and obsession with
all of the media-related drama and stories, as Buck always
talks about on this program. I'm fascinated by the Warner Brothers'
Paramount Battle Netflix, what's going on with its business overall.
So let's start with the judge signed off, I believe, yesterday,
(22:21):
officially dismissing the 12-state AG case that had been trying
to hold up. This merger is a full go basically now,
and expectations are it will close this week or next
week would be kind of my expectation, at some point
in the next 10 days or so. Tell this audience
why you think that's a big deal. And have you
been as found this entire story as compelling as I have? Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Clay, this is amazing. This is amazing on so many
different levels, obviously from the sort of new media standpoint,
but also, also like on a cultural level, because don't forget,
you know, we were being fed, I think a lot
of woke garbage for years. It wasn't really working, but
it kind of just kept going. Right. And, Netflix is
a great example of that with some of the stuff
(23:06):
that they were putting on. Their content has really deteriorated.
They were doing deals with the Obamas, etc. You know,
and there's just not a lot of reason from my
viewpoint to be watching Netflix right now. And if you
look at what's happening in the market, I was just
this morning actually reading an analyst report. It's actually here
on my desk as we speak. This is a just
(23:27):
out from Wells Fargo. I mean, they're downgrading the stock.
It's now underweight, which is a fancy way of saying sell, sell,
sell this company. But it's down like 24% this year.
I think it's down 41% over the last 12 months. Because,
by the way, Netflix wanted, remember, to get Warner Brothers Discovery,
and they didn't. And it was Paramount. Now, Paramount Skydance, listen,
(23:50):
David Ellison is– In my estimation, pretty incredible in that
he was able, number one, to accomplish this. But number two,
I think he's thinking about entertainment in very, very new ways.
Much like Elon was thinking about entertainment and news when
he came to X in terms of giving sort of
more power to the people. Stay with me for a second,
because I actually think this is going in fascinating directions.
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And I think we're going to. at some point in
your future, maybe in the next 10 years or so,
you're going to be able to basically say, hey, this
would be me. I want to watch a romantic comedy tonight.
And I would like it to be an actor like so-and-so.
And you might even be able to pick the ending, Clay.
I mean, that's how remarkable all of this is. And
(24:33):
when you factor in AI and what that is going
to mean for the entertainment industry, I think about it
with the news industry, because you've got CNN now that
is is being owned by Paramount Skydance. I mean, this
is going to be amazing because what if you said,
if you've ever been to the Apple store and you've
tried on those virtual reality goggles, what if you said, hey,
I can take somebody out to the front lines of
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the hurricane or the convention or right into the Oval
Office or to the sporting event, right? I mean, if
you can take somebody right there, that is amazing. And
that is the future of media. It is going to
change in ways we can't even imagine. But David is
thinking about that. He understands that. He gets that. And
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he's thinking about the technology behind it. And so that's
why it was important for him to have, for example, CNN,
which is a great footprint, right? It's all over the world.
But that sort of 1980s model of having your bureaus
everywhere is over because you're going to have everyday citizen
journalists contributing to to news in, in ways that we're
(25:37):
starting to see, for example, on X, I think it's
so exciting, but it's massive change. And the industry is
going to be just upside down and Netflix, unless they
change and maybe they will, but unless they change fast,
like they're going to go the way of, I was laughing.
It's like going to be blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Speaking to Trish Regan and you should check out her
show on YouTube, which is doing phenomenally well and has
been for years.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Huge, huge. You could say Trish Regan on YouTube, huge show.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And I wanted to ask you, if you were tasked
with making the pitch, if you will, at this last
stage here to voters about why they're better off– Drawing
upon the numbers, the reality, the truth, despite the price
of diesel, despite the price of gas, which we do
hear a lot of people annoyed about, upset about. What
(26:29):
is your economic pitch for the great things that Trump
has accomplished thus far and why they need more time
to keep going and finish the course?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Well.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
I mean, I think the alternative is pretty bleak, right?
But I mean, we're looking at socialism, which I'm just
going to call is, you know, their version of it's
really kind of communism, frankly. I mean, when you look
at what they're they're pitching. And so that's really dangerous.
I think about all the bad stuff that could have happened.
I mean, we were already in runaway train, you know,
inflation season between Biden, Powell and what he did with
(27:03):
the money printing. And then, of course, Chuck and Nancy.
I mean, so that was just a triple whammy, right?
They were they were just at it. And and that
is frankly, what we're dealing with in terms of the
hangover with inflation combined with Iran. But imagine if Kamala
was running AI right now and all the productivity gains
that are coming in the door, like that would be
out the window because you'd have DEI in charge of AI.
(27:28):
I mean, you would have a stifling of innovation. They
would be picking the winners and the losers. And you
can be pretty sure that half the country, if you
happen to be conservative, would be on the losing end
of that. And so, you know, it's really kind of,
to me, it's a very basic thing. You have an
opportunity to continue this wonderful story that is America, right?
(27:50):
And the capitalism that has made us the envy of
the world. the greatest economy that the world has ever seen.
Or you have the alternative, which is basically every third
world country that everybody's trying to get the heck away from.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Right.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
So it's not even that hard a decision to me.
But what people need to know about is they got
to get out and vote like you can't just sit
home and be like, you know, I really don't like
the cost of gas right now. So I'm not that
motivated to vote. You need to actually go out and
vote because the alternative is the other team gets in.
And that's going to be a doozy. I mean, if
they were to take the Senate, I'm with Clay. Like,
(28:24):
I don't think that they're going to get that far.
But if they were, I mean, what are we looking at? Impeachment?
It's actually really scary where this could go.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Trish, for people out there, and there's some in this audience,
and Buck and I have talked about it a lot,
that are apprehensive, nervous about AI, that are apprehensive, nervous
about data centers. I love your enthusiasm for American capitalism.
What would you tell people out there from your perspective?
What Buck and I have been hammering on is I
(28:55):
actually think this is a great example of China taking
advantage of our media and our marketplaces because they're building
productivity and capacity for AI and data centers like crazy.
But they're playing on the fears of Americans to try
to limit us doing it. What would your pitch be
to our audience as it comes to those two issues
(29:15):
right now?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Of course. I mean, this is it's a matter of
national security as well as economic security. You have to
own this space. There's no if and or but about it.
I mean, this is effectively a race to the future.
And whoever wins this one is going to be in
charge of the world. It's why actually energy ties into
this as well, as you guys know.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Right.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Because you're going to need a lot in terms of
the grid, etc you're going to be needing a lot
of energy to power all this ai to power the
future and so you want to lock all of that
down i mean this is a very very sort of
momentous time we are on the front lines of history
and whoever wins this one is going to dominate the
future for decades and hundreds of years to come i
(29:55):
mean this is kind of a moment in time when
you can't mess around. And of course, China wants us
to be fearful. Of course, China wants us to get
political and say, oh, no way, no way. Now, I'm
not saying we go crazy with this stuff and don't
have any kind of mechanisms in place. And look, I
think the president is meeting with all these AI executives.
(30:16):
It's really important. He understands the nuances and the dangers,
but he also understands and he's not giving up on this.
Not one bit like he is not given an inch.
He understands that this is a race that's do or die,
because you can get scared, you can get fearful, you
can say we're going to control it, and we're going
to just turn it all over to China, and then
you can just kiss America goodbye. So we just can't
(30:41):
allow that.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Trish Regan, great to see you. Thanks so much for
being here. Come back soon, all right? That was fun.
We like hanging out.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
I'd love to, anytime, and likewise on my program.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, this was awesome. I love the enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, she's amazing. Great to see you, Trish. Thank you.
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We are rolling into the end of the hour here.
What you got for us?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I just have a quick question for you.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Is Eye of the Tiger, all time, the greatest hype
up for the gym or athletic event song?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Like, if you had to pick one that you're going
into the boxing ring, you're going into lift weights, you're
going into aerobicize class, whatever it may be, is Eye
of the Tiger the goat of hype songs for physical activity?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It is up there. Now, I think it's also generational. Like,
my son has a playlist for his high school football
games that he will put on. And sometimes I'll be
driving him to his games. Eye of the Tiger is
not prominently featured. There are a lot of songs that
I don't even know with a lot of words that
(33:22):
I can't even say. I would be curious.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Could you ask young Mr. Travis what the GOAT workout
song for his age cohort? I'll ask him that today.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I would be curious for his age kids, because I
do think if you're 40 plus, I think Eye of
the Tiger would be your number one go-to, like, workout,
get ready hype song for a game. If you're under 30,
I don't know if Eye of the Tiger still has
(33:50):
the same cultural panache.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Very high chance that I would listen to Eye of
the Tiger before stepping onto the tennis court to get
smoked by Hannity's daughter.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Do we have audio of that? I saw it on Fox,
you jerk. I called you out last night. I don't
know if the team has that. Do we have that
audio yet? We should if we don't. I told you
I was going to do it. It wasn't like a
covert attack here. When Sean came on the show Monday,
I said, hey, when I go on with them on Wednesday,
(34:20):
I'm going to make sure that I set you up
and get you locked and loaded. Let's see. How do
we not have that? Where's producer Greg? Producer Greg can
find audio from everything under the sun, but he managed
to miss it. I might have slipped him a 20
and said, just leave that one off the list, Clay.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
You never know.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Producer Greg coming in. He's getting paid off not to
have the clip of you getting called out in front
of millions of people last night with Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Christy in Utah wants to weigh in, not on my
tennis game, but on something important.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What's up, Christy?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
How are you guys doing? Great. Good. So, yeah, sorry
about the tennis game. Good luck to you.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
But I wanted to kind of.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
I wanted to kind of talk about why the average
American worker, namely me, might be a little hesitant. When
everyone's talking about how good the economy is, there's a
lot of us who don't feel that.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
And it's not because of prices. I mean, prices don't help.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
But some of, I mean, I'm going to go back to.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
The employment thing. I've been looking for over a year.
I've had tons of interviews. And I've been rejected repeatedly.
multiple times. So I finally have turned to consulting just
to pay the bills because I have a doodle who
has become used to a certain lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I know what that's like.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
I need to keep him pampered apparently. But yeah, it's
pretty demoralizing unless you're super strong. There's a lot of
people out there who have been looking for work for
A couple of years and not being able to pay
your bills is probably one of the most demoralizing things
a person can go through.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
So let me first of all, I wish can you
stay online? People in Utah who want to hire somebody
who's awesome, who's listening to us right now. I want
them to get your information so people can reach out.
Let me just ask you this quickly. You only have
about 30 seconds. Do you think your life would be
better if Democrats were in power?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
No, absolutely not. I'm telling you why we're hesitant on
the economy because we're not feeling I will never be
a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I've been.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
No, no.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
But the pitch that Democrats are making, Christy, is that
your life would be better if they were in charge.
And I think a lot of people actually are willing
to accept that argument. Please stay online. Utah listeners. Christy
is awesome. You should find a job for her. We're
going to get her contact now. Next hour.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Next.
Welcome in, everybody, to the Thursday edition of Clay and Buck.
First day of October, my friends. A lot to talk about.
A lot going on. We have more on the Dubai
Air terror attempt, which we spent a lot of yesterday's
show talking about because the news was just breaking. We
(00:21):
have more details. Everything we were talking about yesterday in
the analysis side of things looks like It is being
proven as more information comes out. We also had Trump
yesterday in the Oval Office. He was talking AI, diesel prices,
the economy in general. Clay, a really interesting speech from
(00:44):
Secretary of War Hegseth. where he laid out some new ideas,
new organization for within the military, particularly looking at tech, robotics,
and preparing for the weapons of the future. He also, though,
because he's Secretary of War, had some memorable lines that
the media is going to focus on. We can share
those with you. More data coming in, of course, for
(01:05):
the election. California gubernatorial debate is a thing that We
can also bring to you here Steve Helton v. Javier, Clay.
Javier Becerra. Not to be confused with Professor Charles Xavier.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Javier.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And we'll discuss that. Oh, and then also, it's a
news item, and we could talk about it for sure.
I'm not sure even where it currently stands. But the
attempted execution.
Of a longtime death row inmate and a female, the
only female I believe on death row, was botched in
(01:48):
Tennessee yesterday, which is, this brings up a whole range
of questions and issues, including why is it that we
continue to make something, if we're going to do this,
we should be able to do it efficiently with 100%
completion and Exactly as as planned. And they they've made
(02:11):
a complete mess of this. So we can discuss that
a bit. And of course, there's always the should we
have the death penalty? And that's a discussion that will
always be something we can go back and forth on. Clay,
I think first up, I was going to start with
with the Trump Oval Office comments, because I think he
(02:33):
handles some of the top issues right now. that are
out there let's start with uh first of all on
the on diesel we mentioned this yesterday the president is
staying on this because he realizes the cost of stuff
is a big issue in this election people being able
to pay their bills credit card uh debts going up
(02:56):
all that is important right now it's important in general
but it's particularly important in the run up to this election.
Here he is talking about the diesel price. This is
cut eight.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Play it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You know, diesel is really hurt much more, not by
the Middle East, but by what's going on in Russia,
because those diesel refineries are being knocked out at a
pretty alarming rate. And if that didn't happen, we wouldn't
have a diesel problem. What's happened in Russia with Ukraine
has been really the biggest problem for diesel.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Clay, he's staying with this Russia-Ukraine is the bigger problem.
I don't, First of all, people are going to argue
and say, no, that's not, that the Middle East disruption
is the bigger disruption because Russia-Ukraine, if you look on
a chart, diesel price this last year, Russia-Ukraine's been at
war for a long time. I just would rather the
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president talk about the great things in the economy right
now and focus on more of that macro picture. He
did some of that. This is cut 10. Listen to this, Clay,
and then please tell me what you think.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Go for it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I think we had the most consequential presidency, maybe one
of the most ever. Maybe some people say the most consequential.
Look at what we're doing now. We're building plants and
factories all over the nation. We have record employment numbers.
We have more people working in the United States today
than at any point in the history of our country
by far.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We are booming.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
You know, I use the expression from the king of
Saudi Arabia. But others said almost the exact words. He
said at the time. And he's referring to a different
time period. At the time, he said, sir, one year ago. Again,
he said it a year ago. So we're talking about
two years. I don't want you to get that wrong.
But he said a year ago, one year ago, during
the Biden administration, you were a dead country.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You were dead.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
We never thought you had a chance. And now you
have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I like when he talks about the general economy, Clay,
and what he's.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Done for it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I think the message if I were telling the president
exactly what I think the best message is, it is
that Biden drove the economy into the ditch. We had
to get the car out of the ditch. We had
to get the car retrofitted, fixed. And now we are
driving on the road and we're headed to a really
(05:11):
good place. I think that's actually what the data reflects now.
People are still angry because of the cost of goods.
Cost of goods skyrocketed during Joe Biden. They actually have
come back immensely, but people don't feel it yet. Now,
the challenge here, as you well know, is oftentimes the
(05:33):
people that Trump is interacting with are involved in big business.
Big business is feeling it already. We're at record highs
in the stock market. The unemployment rate is very low.
Wage growth is accelerating. The overall growth rate of the
economy was just raised. And I think there's a decent
(05:54):
chance that by the end of the year, we're going
to be hitting at 3% or higher, which is transformative
level growth. And if I'm looking into the future for J.D. Vance,
who is the presumptive frontrunner right now, I think the
economy in 27 and 28 I think we're going to
have left behind the Biden doldrums. What I would say
(06:17):
is we are on the comeback trail right now. Things
are getting better. Do you want to put Democrats who
put us in this ditch in the first place, who
lit the economic fire, who are the arsonists back in control?
We're not perfect and we still have work to do,
but we have the right plans in place. Everything Democrats
(06:40):
favor will make things worse. That's tough because really what
he's asking and requiring is patience and nobody's patient. Everybody
wants everything fixed immediately. But I am telling you that
by the time we get into the spring and summer
of next year, I think a lot of people out
(07:01):
there are going to be feeling the positive changes that
have been put in place. And the more you can
allow that positive change to happen and the less you
can derail it, the better things will be in 27
and in 28. I think that's a good pitch. I
think it's an accurate pitch. And I think it's one
that can resonate with lots of people. Let me also
(07:23):
say this, Buck. I think Democrat arguments have peaked. I
am seeing increasingly as we enter into now November signs
that the Republican advertising campaigns are having an impact and
that trend lines are going to move back in the direction.
I really do believe this of Republicans. I think you're
(07:43):
starting to see it already. I think you will start
to see Democrats. This is a prediction. in the next
10 days or so dial back the number of States
that they are spending money in. I think they're going
to fall behind in Texas. I think they already kind
of see that. I don't think they have any chance
of winning the Senate in Iowa or Kansas. I think
you will see it. And I think the battlegrounds are
(08:06):
going to come right back to where we expected them
to be Georgia, North Carolina, Maine, where I think Susan
Collins is going to hold on and Michigan with, with,
the expected battlegrounds being there. And I feel pretty good
about where the Senate map is looking just based on
the trend lines of where we're headed.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I feel like the great irony of talking about the
economy right now and Democrats, Republicans going into the midterms,
it reminds me of the Mamdani situation insofar as the
people whose primary concern is is one aspect of the
economy right now, which is price of gas, price of groceries,
(08:48):
some of those day-to-day cost of living items. They might
think to themselves, I hope this doesn't happen, but they
might think we just need a change. So let's put
the other team in charge because I'm frustrated with this situation.
And the irony is the other team will make it worse.
Just like with Mamdani, how did Mamdani come into office
(09:10):
in New York City? There were a lot of things,
but the primary message, Clay, he had was the rent
is too. He's really like the rent is too damn
high guy. Do you all remember him? That was his
own party. The rent is too damn high. That was
his thing.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Mamdani, the rent's higher than it's ever been. And it's
going to keep.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Record highs all time in New York City within a
few months of the policies he tried to put in place.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And I'm going to tell you, people might say, oh,
it's only been a year.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
OK, I promise you it'll be it'll be at an
all time high or close to it next year. And
it's going to go up the year because the things
that he tries to do politically, philosophically actually exacerbate the problem.
So we can agree on the problem. But the solutions
offered by Democrats make it worse. Oh, you don't like
(09:56):
a high price of high price of day to day living.
Democrats are the ones that spend us into oblivion. Now,
we have spent too much on the right as well,
but it's always Democrats who spend more, who want to
spend more. And, Clay, that's where inflation comes from, which
is why these prices have gone up the way that
they have and stayed high. And it's also why you're
(10:19):
overtaxed and it's also why you're overregulated, all these things.
So I just there's this part of me that feels
this frustration that the people who are frustrated are only,
you know, it's like they're like, oh, my gosh, you know,
my foot's on fire. Give me that can of gasoline
that is voting for Democrats.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Here's the other thing, Buck. Democrats are going to be
unable to pass anything. This is the reality because of
not having control of the government. So what they're going
to do is going to be nonexistent. And then they're
going to argue that they know the solution in 2028
(10:58):
because they can't actually make things better in 2027 and 2028.
I'm just telling you exactly how this is going to
play out. So if you are out there right now
and you are frustrated that things have not gotten better faster,
I understand. But your anger should be at Democrats for
digging such a hole that we had to get ourselves
(11:21):
out of. Again, when Joe Biden came into office, inflation
was one point nine percent. He took us immediately to
nine point one percent. And we now we're back in
the vicinity of three. And if and when we get
the situation in Iran rectified, which is a long-term plan
(11:41):
solution for a short-term pain, then I think you're going
to see the price of oil and gas, as we
have said, already coming back down. I think the fact
that even the New York Times is now covering, oh, wait,
oil and gas is coming out of the Middle East
at same or similar rates now at the end of
September than it ever has. Remember when they tried to
(12:02):
argue oil Iran has won the war. And now Iran
has got inflation that we've never seen before. Their entire
economy is collapsing. They have no air force. They have
no Navy. They have no functional ability to do anything
in the Middle East. And I think what you're going
to see is all of these issues continue to to
(12:23):
move in a positive direction. Now, the challenge is. Takes
a long time for oil and gas prices to come down.
They go up really fast, which we've talked about on
this program before. We'll open up, by the way, phone
lines 800-282-2882. And we got a bunch more stories, Buck.
I did all my reading because we talked about it
a little bit on this Cornell rape case.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
This is another social media firestorm that is getting many
people have gotten just a tiny pinprick of the actual
data involved in this case and the actual facts. I
am really well versed on this now. And my goodness,
this is just a another example of a runaway story
(13:12):
that isn't remotely reflective of the truth. So we can tease.
That's what you call a tease in the business, Buck.
I'm going to tee off on this. As I think
you should. In the meantime, if you're sitting there on
Thursday and you're going to be staying up for the
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
Welcome back in clay and buck appreciate all of you
hanging out with us as we move closer and closer
to the midterms buck i was telling you that i'm
beginning to feel like the democrat wave has peaked and
the republican spending has is starting to really kind of
push back the tide. We'll see how high it can go.
(15:10):
I still think the House is going to be difficult,
but I'm feeling better and better about remaining in control
of the Senate. And given the fact that there will
be a ton of vacancies on the Senate side, it
feels to me like something very good that we will
(15:30):
be able to maintain control of the Senate if what
I see these trend lines continue.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, I feel good about the Senate for Republicans. I've
even seen some polling that is encouraging for Susan Collins,
for example. So I think things are going to trend
the right direction in some of the key Senate races.
But I also think that You know, the situation can
(15:57):
change very rapidly and we have to run through the tape,
as they say, all the political cliches every election time.
It's going to come down to turnout. It's going to
turn to come out and come down to who wants
it more, who puts more points on the board. That's
who's going to win. So this is where we are
at this stage of the midterms. It's underway. The narratives
are out there. The spending on TV is. Um, you know,
(16:20):
since I was in, uh, you know, I was in
Virginia recently, Clay, obviously I was, uh, with you in DC,
but I was in Virginia and it's just this thing.
One of the TVs was on the house I was
in and it's just constant political ads.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Oh yeah. Cause Virginia is a state that's, you know,
in play. And I mean, every, I'm telling you, Buck,
I pretty much only watch sports. Every commercial break during
my sporting events is all political ads. Now it's, I mean,
cause I assume that Republicans are targeting men in huge
numbers and, And you can't get men in huge numbers
without targeting sports overwhelmingly.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I just also love how there really is this formula,
like the attack ads. It must work because they all
do more or less the same thing, which they're like,
some people like puppies, babies, and ice cream. not this jerk,
big red X across his face. He thinks puppies smell
bad and babies are too loud. He also wants to
(17:14):
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terrible things to you. Do not vote.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Like every ad that's really amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
It's never, it's never like bill seven to five, you know,
he voted against this for raising your taxes. And I
think that's bad for the overall economy. It's like, He
is anti puppies and ice cream. This is why I
think everybody knowing who you are. This is why the
attack ads didn't work on Trump. That's one of the
(17:44):
funniest things. The Kamala attack ads, they tested and they
actually helped Trump.
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're joined by our
good friend Trish Regan. She's host of the Trish Regan
Show on YouTube and also the co-founder of the financial
research firm 76research.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Com. Trish, great to see you as always.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
It's good to see you too, Buck. Good to be
here with both of you.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So I know you cover a lot of ground, and
so we're going to ask you about a whole range
of things, of course, from the news today. But I
did want to start right in the center of your wheelhouse,
if I could, with the economy. where Trump is, where
the Republicans are on their messaging right now about cost
of living, about cost of gas, employment, all that stuff.
(19:35):
How are we doing and how is it being expressed?
Do you have some comments, concerns or corrections for how
the GOP is pushing it all?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, I mean, look, we're doing okay, right? And compared
to where we were, Buck, we're doing more than okay,
because we were looking at nearly 10% inflation in a
given month under Joe Biden. And so then everybody in
the media was like, woohoo, when it went down to 6%,
and woohoo, when it was down to 5%. Problem is,
that's cumulative, right? So you're 10%, you're 6%, you're 5%.
And so fast forward to today, And we're looking at,
(20:09):
you know, decent inflation, you know, somewhere between two and
a half and three percent. We just got the PCE,
the personal consumption expenditure index in yesterday that came in
a lot lower than expected. And what it's showing is that, yeah,
you know, energy is kind of Not great, right? Energy
prices are higher than they used to be. Gas prices
are higher. But that hasn't caught up with the rest
(20:30):
of the economy yet. And that's important because once it does,
then you're really off to the races and it's really
out of control. But I would just say, look, it's
not great in part because everybody remembers what it was
like when Donald Trump was there pre-2020. And then all
of a sudden Biden comes in and it's like a
runaway train, right? Inflation is out of control. Well, we're
never going to get back to 2020. to levels that
(20:53):
we saw, you know, before March of 2020, like the
genie's already out of the bottle and you don't want
deflation in the economy, but it still hurts. I mean,
every time I go to my local diner and I'm like, wait,
blueberry pancakes cost $ 16 now. Are you kidding me at
a diner? But that's sort of what happens, right? And
nobody's bringing it down to $ 12. Nobody's bringing it down
to $ 7. I'm like, I remember when it was 595
(21:15):
and that was just a couple of years ago. And
so it hurts. It's painful. And people have this you know, frustration,
I think. But the reality is it's not that bad.
I mean, honestly, considering what's going on with Iran, you
would think it would be so much worse. But that's
another thing, by the way, that I don't think the
Democrats are counting on. But we are actually getting oil
(21:35):
out of the Strait of Hormuz. Now, the blockade's working.
And I think that over the next couple of weeks,
and it takes a couple of weeks to catch up
to the gas pumps, you're going to start to see
prices come down again. just in time, fortunately, for midterms.
So hopefully that affects people's sentiment. But you've got a
very negative storyline out there, and it's being felt.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Trish, you and I share a love and obsession with
all of the media-related drama and stories, as Buck always
talks about on this program. I'm fascinated by the Warner Brothers'
Paramount Battle Netflix, what's going on with its business overall.
So let's start with the judge signed off, I believe, yesterday,
(22:21):
officially dismissing the 12-state AG case that had been trying
to hold up. This merger is a full go basically now,
and expectations are it will close this week or next
week would be kind of my expectation, at some point
in the next 10 days or so. Tell this audience
why you think that's a big deal. And have you
been as found this entire story as compelling as I have? Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Clay, this is amazing. This is amazing on so many
different levels, obviously from the sort of new media standpoint,
but also, also like on a cultural level, because don't forget,
you know, we were being fed, I think a lot
of woke garbage for years. It wasn't really working, but
it kind of just kept going. Right. And, Netflix is
a great example of that with some of the stuff
(23:06):
that they were putting on. Their content has really deteriorated.
They were doing deals with the Obamas, etc. You know,
and there's just not a lot of reason from my
viewpoint to be watching Netflix right now. And if you
look at what's happening in the market, I was just
this morning actually reading an analyst report. It's actually here
on my desk as we speak. This is a just
(23:27):
out from Wells Fargo. I mean, they're downgrading the stock.
It's now underweight, which is a fancy way of saying sell, sell,
sell this company. But it's down like 24% this year.
I think it's down 41% over the last 12 months. Because,
by the way, Netflix wanted, remember, to get Warner Brothers Discovery,
and they didn't. And it was Paramount. Now, Paramount Skydance, listen,
(23:50):
David Ellison is– In my estimation, pretty incredible in that
he was able, number one, to accomplish this. But number two,
I think he's thinking about entertainment in very, very new ways.
Much like Elon was thinking about entertainment and news when
he came to X in terms of giving sort of
more power to the people. Stay with me for a second,
because I actually think this is going in fascinating directions.
(24:12):
And I think we're going to. at some point in
your future, maybe in the next 10 years or so,
you're going to be able to basically say, hey, this
would be me. I want to watch a romantic comedy tonight.
And I would like it to be an actor like so-and-so.
And you might even be able to pick the ending, Clay.
I mean, that's how remarkable all of this is. And
(24:33):
when you factor in AI and what that is going
to mean for the entertainment industry, I think about it
with the news industry, because you've got CNN now that
is is being owned by Paramount Skydance. I mean, this
is going to be amazing because what if you said,
if you've ever been to the Apple store and you've
tried on those virtual reality goggles, what if you said, hey,
I can take somebody out to the front lines of
(24:54):
the hurricane or the convention or right into the Oval
Office or to the sporting event, right? I mean, if
you can take somebody right there, that is amazing. And
that is the future of media. It is going to
change in ways we can't even imagine. But David is
thinking about that. He understands that. He gets that. And
(25:16):
he's thinking about the technology behind it. And so that's
why it was important for him to have, for example, CNN,
which is a great footprint, right? It's all over the world.
But that sort of 1980s model of having your bureaus
everywhere is over because you're going to have everyday citizen
journalists contributing to to news in, in ways that we're
(25:37):
starting to see, for example, on X, I think it's
so exciting, but it's massive change. And the industry is
going to be just upside down and Netflix, unless they
change and maybe they will, but unless they change fast,
like they're going to go the way of, I was laughing.
It's like going to be blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Speaking to Trish Regan and you should check out her
show on YouTube, which is doing phenomenally well and has
been for years.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Huge, huge. You could say Trish Regan on YouTube, huge show.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And I wanted to ask you, if you were tasked
with making the pitch, if you will, at this last
stage here to voters about why they're better off– Drawing
upon the numbers, the reality, the truth, despite the price
of diesel, despite the price of gas, which we do
hear a lot of people annoyed about, upset about. What
(26:29):
is your economic pitch for the great things that Trump
has accomplished thus far and why they need more time
to keep going and finish the course?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Well.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
I mean, I think the alternative is pretty bleak, right?
But I mean, we're looking at socialism, which I'm just
going to call is, you know, their version of it's
really kind of communism, frankly. I mean, when you look
at what they're they're pitching. And so that's really dangerous.
I think about all the bad stuff that could have happened.
I mean, we were already in runaway train, you know,
inflation season between Biden, Powell and what he did with
(27:03):
the money printing. And then, of course, Chuck and Nancy.
I mean, so that was just a triple whammy, right?
They were they were just at it. And and that
is frankly, what we're dealing with in terms of the
hangover with inflation combined with Iran. But imagine if Kamala
was running AI right now and all the productivity gains
that are coming in the door, like that would be
out the window because you'd have DEI in charge of AI.
(27:28):
I mean, you would have a stifling of innovation. They
would be picking the winners and the losers. And you
can be pretty sure that half the country, if you
happen to be conservative, would be on the losing end
of that. And so, you know, it's really kind of,
to me, it's a very basic thing. You have an
opportunity to continue this wonderful story that is America, right?
(27:50):
And the capitalism that has made us the envy of
the world. the greatest economy that the world has ever seen.
Or you have the alternative, which is basically every third
world country that everybody's trying to get the heck away from.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Right.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
So it's not even that hard a decision to me.
But what people need to know about is they got
to get out and vote like you can't just sit
home and be like, you know, I really don't like
the cost of gas right now. So I'm not that
motivated to vote. You need to actually go out and
vote because the alternative is the other team gets in.
And that's going to be a doozy. I mean, if
they were to take the Senate, I'm with Clay. Like,
(28:24):
I don't think that they're going to get that far.
But if they were, I mean, what are we looking at? Impeachment?
It's actually really scary where this could go.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Trish, for people out there, and there's some in this audience,
and Buck and I have talked about it a lot,
that are apprehensive, nervous about AI, that are apprehensive, nervous
about data centers. I love your enthusiasm for American capitalism.
What would you tell people out there from your perspective?
What Buck and I have been hammering on is I
(28:55):
actually think this is a great example of China taking
advantage of our media and our marketplaces because they're building
productivity and capacity for AI and data centers like crazy.
But they're playing on the fears of Americans to try
to limit us doing it. What would your pitch be
to our audience as it comes to those two issues
(29:15):
right now?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Of course. I mean, this is it's a matter of
national security as well as economic security. You have to
own this space. There's no if and or but about it.
I mean, this is effectively a race to the future.
And whoever wins this one is going to be in
charge of the world. It's why actually energy ties into
this as well, as you guys know.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Right.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Because you're going to need a lot in terms of
the grid, etc you're going to be needing a lot
of energy to power all this ai to power the
future and so you want to lock all of that
down i mean this is a very very sort of
momentous time we are on the front lines of history
and whoever wins this one is going to dominate the
future for decades and hundreds of years to come i
(29:55):
mean this is kind of a moment in time when
you can't mess around. And of course, China wants us
to be fearful. Of course, China wants us to get
political and say, oh, no way, no way. Now, I'm
not saying we go crazy with this stuff and don't
have any kind of mechanisms in place. And look, I
think the president is meeting with all these AI executives.
(30:16):
It's really important. He understands the nuances and the dangers,
but he also understands and he's not giving up on this.
Not one bit like he is not given an inch.
He understands that this is a race that's do or die,
because you can get scared, you can get fearful, you
can say we're going to control it, and we're going
to just turn it all over to China, and then
you can just kiss America goodbye. So we just can't
(30:41):
allow that.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Trish Regan, great to see you. Thanks so much for
being here. Come back soon, all right? That was fun.
We like hanging out.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
I'd love to, anytime, and likewise on my program.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, this was awesome. I love the enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, she's amazing. Great to see you, Trish. Thank you.
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What you got for us?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I just have a quick question for you.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Is Eye of the Tiger, all time, the greatest hype
up for the gym or athletic event song?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Like, if you had to pick one that you're going
into the boxing ring, you're going into lift weights, you're
going into aerobicize class, whatever it may be, is Eye
of the Tiger the goat of hype songs for physical activity?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It is up there. Now, I think it's also generational. Like,
my son has a playlist for his high school football
games that he will put on. And sometimes I'll be
driving him to his games. Eye of the Tiger is
not prominently featured. There are a lot of songs that
I don't even know with a lot of words that
(33:22):
I can't even say. I would be curious.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Could you ask young Mr. Travis what the GOAT workout
song for his age cohort? I'll ask him that today.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I would be curious for his age kids, because I
do think if you're 40 plus, I think Eye of
the Tiger would be your number one go-to, like, workout,
get ready hype song for a game. If you're under 30,
I don't know if Eye of the Tiger still has
(33:50):
the same cultural panache.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Very high chance that I would listen to Eye of
the Tiger before stepping onto the tennis court to get
smoked by Hannity's daughter.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Do we have audio of that? I saw it on Fox,
you jerk. I called you out last night. I don't
know if the team has that. Do we have that
audio yet? We should if we don't. I told you
I was going to do it. It wasn't like a
covert attack here. When Sean came on the show Monday,
I said, hey, when I go on with them on Wednesday,
(34:20):
I'm going to make sure that I set you up
and get you locked and loaded. Let's see. How do
we not have that? Where's producer Greg? Producer Greg can
find audio from everything under the sun, but he managed
to miss it. I might have slipped him a 20
and said, just leave that one off the list, Clay.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
You never know.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Producer Greg coming in. He's getting paid off not to
have the clip of you getting called out in front
of millions of people last night with Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Christy in Utah wants to weigh in, not on my
tennis game, but on something important.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What's up, Christy?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
How are you guys doing? Great. Good. So, yeah, sorry
about the tennis game. Good luck to you.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
But I wanted to kind of.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
I wanted to kind of talk about why the average
American worker, namely me, might be a little hesitant. When
everyone's talking about how good the economy is, there's a
lot of us who don't feel that.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
And it's not because of prices. I mean, prices don't help.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
But some of, I mean, I'm going to go back to.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
The employment thing. I've been looking for over a year.
I've had tons of interviews. And I've been rejected repeatedly.
multiple times. So I finally have turned to consulting just
to pay the bills because I have a doodle who
has become used to a certain lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I know what that's like.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
I need to keep him pampered apparently. But yeah, it's
pretty demoralizing unless you're super strong. There's a lot of
people out there who have been looking for work for
A couple of years and not being able to pay
your bills is probably one of the most demoralizing things
a person can go through.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
So let me first of all, I wish can you
stay online? People in Utah who want to hire somebody
who's awesome, who's listening to us right now. I want
them to get your information so people can reach out.
Let me just ask you this quickly. You only have
about 30 seconds. Do you think your life would be
better if Democrats were in power?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
No, absolutely not. I'm telling you why we're hesitant on
the economy because we're not feeling I will never be
a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I've been.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
No, no.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
But the pitch that Democrats are making, Christy, is that
your life would be better if they were in charge.
And I think a lot of people actually are willing
to accept that argument. Please stay online. Utah listeners. Christy
is awesome. You should find a job for her. We're
going to get her contact now. Next hour.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
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