June 11, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast opens with Buck Sexton hosting solo, setting a broad and energetic tone that blends breaking news, politics, foreign policy, sports culture, and social commentary. This hour is heavily driven by conversation around a historic New York Knicks NBA Finals comeback, while also incorporating major Iran-U.S. tensions, election politics, and cultural debates, making Hour 1 a wide-ranging entry point into the day’s top stories.
A central focus of Hour 1 of the program is the New York Knicks’ dramatic 29-point comeback victory, described as one of the most remarkable in NBA Finals history. Buck highlights the scale of the comeback, noting that teams down by 20+ points rarely win in postseason play, which amplifies the significance of the Knicks’ performance. The discussion expands beyond sports into a broader sports culture and societal impact narrative, with Buck emphasizing how the win has unified New York City and captured national attention, illustrating the ability of major sporting events to create shared cultural moments and civic pride. At the same time, he criticizes instances of fan misconduct, including destructive celebrations and harassment of opposing teams, calling for sportsmanship, civility, and respect in fan behavior.
A significant portion of Hour 1 centers on Knicks star Jalen Brunson, who is praised for his leadership, humility, and professionalism. Buck presents Brunson as a model example of positive role models in professional sports, highlighting his “clutch” performance, team-first attitude, and composure under pressure. Brunson’s postgame remarks and actions—such as acknowledging a Make-A-Wish recipient—are used to underscore themes of character, leadership, and responsibility in public figures, reinforcing a broader discussion about the need for admirable role models in modern culture.
Beyond sports, Hour 1 transitions into major geopolitical developments, particularly U.S.-Iran tensions and recent airstrikes. Buck explains that President Donald Trump has indicated further action may be forthcoming, framing the situation as part of a strategic military pressure campaign aimed at forcing Iran into a diplomatic agreement.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of Clay and Buck.
Just Buck today. That would be me Clay. He's doing
the important work of golfing, but he is doing it
for the team. It's a team effort and he's out
there on behalf of play and Buck showing everybody his
(00:21):
stroke he's got. He's very good, very good on the
golf course. They say, so Clay will be back on Monday.
I'll actually be out Monday anyway. Long story short, just
me today. A lot of news, a lot of news
to discuss. I generally don't do much sports. That's the
other guy. Although it is funny when some of you
send emails angry at Buck for sec football takes. But
(00:44):
the Knicks with an incredible, incredible come from behind win
last night. I did watch it. I am a Knicks
fan stretching back a very long time, and it was.
It was game the best and most incredible fourth quarter
of basketball. I have ever seen the biggest comeback in
(01:08):
a finals, and in some ways, I guess you could
say the biggest comeback in any game. Given the importance
of this one. They were down at one one moment
by twenty nine points, and they came all the way back.
So we'll talk a little bit about that, because it's
really turned into a New York phenomenon. The city of
(01:29):
New York is in rare form these days, people dancing
in the streets having a great time. There are unfortunately,
some there always are some people who think that they're
in some other place, some other city, where they do
these things which they should not do, causing mayhem, in trouble,
getting arrested. So we'll talk a little about the Knicks.
(01:52):
And it is in fact the case that I grew
up watching them, going to games, many many games, and
was a long time and now so I feel like
I'm putting my jersey back on again. It has been
collecting dust. It has been retired for a bit. Big
news though, also with the Iran situation that we shall discuss,
(02:15):
President Trump has well, there have been some air strikes
and Trump has said more is coming. And we are
back on the the kinetic portion of this situation, the
campaign to hit them hard enough from the sky that
the Iranians finally are willing to sign the deal, to
(02:35):
get behind the deal and accept that this is where
these are going. Some updates also on the Graham Platner
main Senate Race Trump was on Fox and Friends this morning.
We shall discuss that. Right before I was coming on
the air, there was some reporting about a possible biological
(02:56):
threat detected at the Pentagon. My understanding is that that
has that was a false alarm. The latest reporting I'm
seeing on that is it's not not anything to be
overly concerned about. Right now. There was a lockdown at
the Pentagon, but I believe there if they have not
already lifted it, they will be lifting it imminently. So
(03:17):
the big things today we got the Knicks, we got Iran,
and then some other stories we shall throw into the mix,
probably on the political side of things, Los Angeles mayor
election stuff like that. So I did want to start
here with the New York Knicks, the New York Basketball
Knicks and incredible, an incredible night for those of you
(03:40):
who watch. And here's what I wanted to say about it,
because I know some of you don't care about basketball,
like Buck, why are you talking about the NBA. A
few things that I take from this one is the
city of New York has been through a lot of
heartbreak and has had a lot of years where their
(04:01):
basketball team was either terrible and that was more like
the two thousand mid two thousands era, or came close
that was in my youth, including against the Houston Rockets
when they very much could have and should have won.
And so people just see this as part of the
story of America's largest city. And I know a lot
of UWR listeners in particular see this as long overdue.
(04:25):
They got one more game to win, one more game
to win. It'll be this Saturday. They'll have the chance
to close the whole thing out. But there were some
things about it that I thought, or we're talking it.
First of all, this guy, Jalen Brunson here he is.
This is what he said, is that after the game
play clip one.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Guys, nothing, there's nothing to celebrate us. It's not over yet,
not even close.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
This guy, whether you're a basketball fan or not, I
have to say he is incredible on a number of levels. One,
he's somebody who literally has ice in his veins. This
is a guy who likes the big moments, who seizes them.
He's the most clutch shooter in the NBA right now.
(05:10):
But beyond that the fact that he approaches what he
does with a degree of humility always and that he's
a professional. He wants to always get better, he wants
to share credit with the rest of the team. You know, sports,
I know is something that can teach lessons in life.
(05:32):
And yes, it brings us together. A lot of people
have been noting that there's a sense of, certainly in
New York togetherness around this situation. Well, people have jumped
on the bandwagon from all over the country and given
the riveting nature of the comeback as it unfolded last night,
and I was here for an event up in the
(05:55):
Palm Beach area for a radio event with some of
our fellow radio hosts, I was able to get can
watch the second half of the game, and this was
the biggest single comeback that has ever been mounted in
a final. And then Knicks, we're down, have been down.
I'm sorry. This is the statistic I want to give you.
(06:15):
Teams down twenty plus points in the postseason in the
last two years are four and seventy one. That's that
includes playoffs and finals. Four wins, seventy one losses. But
the Knicks, that's the rest of the rest of the NBA.
The Knicks are five and three. So if you like
the excitement of this. If you like the come from behind,
(06:37):
never say die attitude, there's something that is inspiring about it.
But also I like the fact that you have somebody
who is now a true superstar in the league and
Jellen Brunson who is just a sort of model of
what we would want to see from a athlete at
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that level in all respects, and I thought this was
really this was really special too. He took a moment
before starting his postgame press conference to say some nice
words about a Make a Wish, a Make a Wish
recipient who he had taken the time to spend with
before this is cut. To listen to this real quick
(07:19):
before we get started.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I just want to say I thought some prayers with
a friend of mine I got to meet and talk
to last week, Jonathan from North Carolina from the Make
a Wish Foundation in the Gardener Jeens Foundation. He had
a heart condition and it was just asked to me
to just kind of take a video and reach out
(07:41):
to him. But something in my mind told me just
to try and get on the face sign get the
chat with him. And I was got the pleasure to
do so. And it was a quick call, but it
was it was, it was well worth it, and I
just want to say my thoughts, some prayers were him
and his family just find out some news about him today.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So thank iris saw mister Bronson here is just a
very classy individual, and you know, he's married to his
high school sweetheart. He is not somebody who's you know,
causing problems or getting into a mess off the court.
(08:22):
And for a generation of young men, particularly young men
who really look up to basketball players, he's certainly fitting
the role of role model in the sports world in
a way that I think is really admirable. So I
look at this guy not just as a New Yorker,
but as somebody who observes public figures in general and
thinks that we are in very much something of a
(08:45):
desperate need in pop culture for people who are very
success for men who are very successful but also conducting
themselves in a way that you'd say, well, I'd like,
you know, my son to act that way, especially if
they that pinnacle of their profession, whether it's athletics or
anything else. I think there's some general lessons from this.
(09:06):
They're also, of course, was some funny stuff about how
it was because Trump wasn't there and they had this
great win. People were talking about it as a breaking
of the Trump curse. They make everything political. They really
do pretend like the reason Donald Trump, or the reason
the Knicks lost their last home game before this was
because of Donald Trump. So I do appreciate that this
(09:31):
gives everybody an opportunity to follow a story where there's
some really positive escapism. People were making jokes and making
fun of me last night. When Buck Sexton is tweeting
about a basketball game, it means that it has reached
critical mass and everyone is really fired up about it.
I'm going to talk to you about Iran and everything
(09:52):
else here in just a moment. But it was a
pretty incredible spectacle last night. And it's fun to see
the city of New York, which I've been a little
concerned about because of Mom Donnie and some of the
trajectory of the governors the governance there. It's nice to
see it have something to get really excited about. The
one thing that I will I will just say is
(10:15):
the people that do this thing where they and I
know this isn't a New York things happens all over
the place, but who after their team wins they think
that the way to celebrate is to break things and
cause mayhem and anarchy. This is really loser stuff. I
remember being a kid and and we had a joke
(10:37):
the other day when producer Mike was running the board.
He's not with us today, but how he doesn't like
hair bands. But I remember in that era, there was
this trend of some of these very very famous rock
bands destroying like hotel rooms. Do you remember that was
a thing where people would just decide that they were
going to go you know, some very famous whether it's
(10:58):
Guns n' Roses or you know one of the fans,
and they would trash a hotel room and be written
about like yeah, like those bad boys. And I remember,
even as as a young kid, thinking like this is
someone's mom, you know who works for the gonna have
to clean that up. You know, this is someone gonna
have to deal with this message. Why is that? What
is cool about smashing your guitar and some hotel room
are causing this? So that that behavior I got to say,
(11:22):
was it's disappointing that that's happening at the n Why
look the NYPD. I mean, if you were to pull
the NYPD, ninety nine percent of NYPD folks are Nick
Oh maybe some of their Nets fans, but I'm sure
they're Knicks fans now, but they all love the Knicks.
They don't want to be arresting anybody for celebrating. This
is really this is strange to me that this happens.
(11:45):
And the other thing that I find, you know, if
we're looking at the totality of this situation and the
way that certain behaviors are tolerated or not, and things
that I think we could have more of a conversation
of as a as a as a country. Perhaps that
there are people waiting outside the hotel where the San
Antonio Spurs are staying so they can shout abuse and
(12:10):
even throw things at them is disgraceful and disgusting beyond
words like these are people at the absolute pinnacle of
their profession. They are incredible athletes. They're at this moment
in time where they should be able to just focus
on what they do and everyone should appreciate them as
(12:32):
just worthy contenders, whether you're rooting for the next rooting
for the Spurs. To me, this is the same level
of low iq, self indulgent, babyish nonsense as somebody who
would like spit at an actor because they played the
bad guy in a movie. It's like they're doing their job,
which is to entertain you. They're not actually the bad guy.
(12:55):
So that's where people take this stuff too far. I
can appreciate the emotional surge. I appreciate people deciding that
they're going to be a part of whether you live
in California or Texas or you know, anywhere East Coast,
anywhere in between. There's something exciting about this story, and
a lot of the country is taking it as an opportunity,
(13:16):
especially we go into the summer. We don't have an
election that's imminent right now or anything to get on this.
But it's also a moment where we can tell everybody, hey,
let's let's act as if we've been here before, you know,
let's act as if we appreciate everything that's going on here.
And I know this is like a very tiny minority
of people that are engaging this stuff, but it's just
(13:37):
so disappointing to see because it should be nothing but joy.
People should just be out there celebrating, and honestly, I
know for San Antonio fans there's a degree of heartbreak,
But what really matters is that you're watching a great
game and you're seeing competitors, and you're having this entertainment
at the highest level, and there's something inherently positive and
joyous about that, whether you win or lose. I know
(14:00):
sportsmanship can sound corny when people talk about it, but
it is the most important thing because ultimately, you know,
it's about the game, it's about life. It's about respecting
and appreciating what people are are bringing to this competition,
and that we can all enjoy it together and the unificate,
the the unity that comes from all of that. I
(14:22):
think it's the first time I've ever done a monologue
on the show where I've started, uh started off talking
about sports. I promise it's not a sports show today.
But the Knicks last night it was incredible and I
was watching, and I know if Clay was here, he'd
want to talk about this at some length. But Iran
got bombed a bunch and more of that is coming.
So we'll talk about this. I'll get into my wheelhouse,
(14:43):
which is politics and national security momentarily, and also we'll
take calls if you want to talk about the Nick stuff.
Of course, our w R listeners, if you had any
particular experience or emotion that that you want to share.
But like I said, it has reached critical mass, and
it is if you. I mean you see the most
conversation online right now by far is on the NBA Finals,
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Speaker 3 (16:46):
Hit it guys, Buck, I truly do love you, and
I mean this with all sincerity. We're known as the
Party of Principles, and I guess there Automatic defense is
always calling the other side hypocrites. So why are we
celebrating the NBA and why are we celebrating New York City?
Is there two of the most left wing like are
(17:08):
we just trying to impiltrate them. And what's the strategy
here because I've been boycotting all sports for seven years.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
A few things here. First of all, President of the United
States went to the game, so that makes it a story,
you know, not this one, but the one before. So
all of a sudden, you have more interest from Republicans,
I think in this whole series than you would have before.
Let's not do this thing where we cast out New
York City as some kind of dystopia that we hope
(17:39):
just collapses under the water. It's the largest, and I
would argue greatest city. Greatest is a general term in America,
and it has as many Republicans as the entire state
of Nebraska. New York City, my friend, has as many
Republicans as Nebraska if you look at the last election cycle.
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know the seventh pole now or something. I don't golf,
so I don't know much about this, but he's got
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Travis big swing, hits, hits the ball, hard, beautiful swing.
Maybe we'll get some video of Clay doing this later on.
(19:25):
Let's take some calls here, Matt in Cape Girardo, Missouri. Matt, first,
I have to ask you, do you know what is
the most famous and important single thing in terms of
data points about Cape Girardo Alien Rex. It is where
Rush Limbaugh was born in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Oh, yeah, I work at his health sometimes.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Well it's Brouse. Oh cool. Well there you go. Anyway,
just a little trivia point for everybody. I'm sure most
of the audience knew that, but Cape Girardo is Russia's hometown.
Tell me, Matt, what have you got going on? What's
on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I wanted to thank you for everything you do and
then tell you I appreciate you. You speak for a
lot of people that don't get to speak and say
the things that they want to because you've a voice.
But I also wanted to thank you for bringing up
the NBA this morning. It's the finals. It's a big
deal and I really liked hearing about it this morning.
And you also were spot on when you were talking
about Jaylen Brunson. He's a class act and a great
person for everybody's kids out there to be watching and
(20:25):
role modeling for it.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Thank you so much, Matt and and look, Clay and
I have a lot of fun with this. Like you know,
I don't like sports. I mean I actually played a
lot of sports. I've watched a fair amount of sports
throughout my life. I did sour on the NBA for
a number of years because of the politics and the wokeness.
And I would say this about anyone who we had
that talk back for example. And of course, by the way,
(20:47):
you know, if someone wants to give me some heat
for talking about it, by all means they're welcome to
This is like the family table. Anybody can bring up
anything that's on their mind. But I would say, first
of all, you know the era of Lebron as the
you know, the leader, if you will, of the NBA,
the the closest thing to a Michael Jordan of his era,
although I'm still a Michael Jordan guy. Uh as the
(21:10):
greatest as the goat, if you will. But I think
Jalen Brunson is stepping up into being one of the
if For some people, he is the guy but he
is certainly one of the elite name brand players in
the league. And the fact that he is a consummate
profet like whether you like basketball or not. And that's
(21:32):
how I try to talk about these things, whether you
enjoy the game for what it is or not. Having
somebody of his prominence who is you know, he's he's
married to his high school sweets sweetheart, which I think
that sounds like, oh buck, who can no these days?
You know, we need we need more and he's still
married to her. Right, we having public public figures who
(21:53):
are conducting themselves honorably and and are and are doing
things the way that we'd like to see our own
children or grandchildren do them. In this regard, I think
that's important. I think I think, you know, we say
we want more of this, and then it's all, well, well,
that stuff doesn't really matter. No, of course, when you're
pra praising what should be praise or praising what is praiseworthy,
(22:14):
I think is always a worthwhile endeavor. And the fact
that he clearly you know, it really touches his heart
when he has meetings with people young, you know, young
people from Make a Wish Foundation that he speaks so
well about his teammates and is it's like just truly
a class act. And by the way others og Nanobi,
(22:36):
I mean this team of New York Knicks, the way
that they they act in post game, the way that
they conduct themselves. From everything that I have seen and read,
and I'm a relatively newcomer to this, but I observe
what's going on the news. They're really good ambassadors for
the sport and for the league. And I think young
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people can look up to the way they act in
general and say, well, that's that's the way it should
be done. It's not the you know, I haven't seen
a lot of woke stuff. I haven't seen, and I
would like this is like now I'm like borrowing the
Klay Travis mantra here for a second. I do want
sports to be something that are just to be enjoyed
and to bring people together, and you can celebrate it
(23:19):
for what it is and it's something that's American and
that's true and that's pure and that's good and we
all that would be great. And it felt a lot
more like that when I was a kid, certainly, and
particularly the NBA. Then starting around the you know, early
two thousands, and you know, really the Obama era, everything
just got super woke and got crazy. Guy in Albany,
(23:42):
or in Albany, Oregon, not to be confused with allban
New York.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
What's going on, guy, Hey, yeah, it's another Albany. I
was just hearing you. I didn't know that. I'd watched
some things about after the game on a clip the
Knicks fans just celebrating and that was great, But I
didn't know that they harassed the other team going.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Up to their hotel room. That's the kind of thing
I've never liked because I've grown up at a college
town and stuff. Rooted for my team, but I never
really liked it when everybody would move the other team
coming on. If you don't have another team out there,
you don't have a game.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And yeah, I think you always you always need to
show respect for the gladiators in the in the arena,
so to speak. I mean you need to, you know,
as long as they're conducting themselves as professionals, which the
San Antonio Spurs have been. You know, they've been fighting,
they've been showing a lot of a lot of heart,
and obviously they've gotten to the finals they're very young team.
(24:42):
So you know, to me, you got to go into
this and you got to give standing ovations to both
sides and to show any But just to also be clear,
it's a very small small you know, it might be
a few hundred people, Max, who are outside of the
guy thank you for calling in or outside of the
San Antonio hotel. But that's a really menacing and really
(25:04):
stupid thing to do. And I actually think the league,
you know, somebody maybe should say something about that, just
publicly be like, guys, you know, maybe even one of
the knicks. It wouldn't be a bad thing to be like, hey, guys,
we don't we don't do that. That's not that's not
how we are here, and that's not how anyone should be.
You know. I will tell you this and and because
we have the World Cup coming up to more sports
(25:26):
talk from Buck, just wait un till I start telling
you guys about my new passion, which is padel, which
is like a Latin American version of tennis mixed with squash,
mixed with the like, uh, pickleball. Anyway, that'll be another day.
But the the US national team when it goes to
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certain particularly this has happened when they played in Mexico,
but it's happened in other Latin American countries. The US
men's soccer team and these the fans like throw, you know,
object and like pelt them with things as they're going in.
I'm like, this is such a disgusting, low class, stupid,
low IQ thing to do. And and you know, I
(26:08):
am Americans. Certainly in soccer. I've never like, are we
don't do that to teams that visit here and play
and and that sort of thing should should absolutely never
never happen, should never occur. So yeah, no, I agree
that it was just the breaking stuff in the streets.
You know, I went to college. I'm gonna give a
little bit of hard time to Massachusetts. I went to
college in uh in mass and you know, right down
(26:31):
the street from UMSS Amherst. I was in AMers College.
And when the Patriots would win, there would be mobs
that would like tip over cars and light things on fire.
And when the Patriots would lose, there would be mobs
that tip over cars and light things on fire. And
big games, I'm like, what is this, guys, Well, what
are you doing? You're not You're not there. This is entertainment.
(26:53):
So I'll tell you this too. There are life lessons
and there are things that you can take from sports
that matter more, that matter beyond sports. But I also
this is entertainment. This to me is like movies or
video games or you know, uh, what's the majong which
my wife has gotten into recently. I didn't know this
was also a bit of a phenomenon. Now, aren't the
(27:15):
majong experts out there? My wife has really gotten into majong.
Mike and Fort Bragg once again called Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
What's going on? Mike?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Hey, what's going on? My friend? How are you doing it?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I'm great, man, Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Great talk to you, man. I think a lot of
you guys awesome. You are doing good work, making a
huge difference. What I wanted to say, I did motivational speaking.
I was a service manager, local dealership here. Spent a
lot of my life in service. Lou Holtz brings me
up to him as guys used to get the inZone
and the first thing to do is celebrate, dance, throw
the football, throw the helmet off. He said. Listen, he said,
(27:51):
I want you guys to do me a favor, and
they looked at me and says, listen, act like you've
been here before. Most importantly, act like you're going back.
The most thing about this is it's a team sport.
We're individuals, but it's for one united force. And I
just wanted to share that with you. I thought it
was a great phrase that he had. I used to
use a lot of my talking. And there's one other
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thing I want to say. Did you get a chance
to see the speech on the young man from Harvard?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Well, I don't know which young man from Harvard. I'm
not sure I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
It was a graduate from Harvard. So he gave the
speech to the class twenty two year old gentleman, and
the speech starts out like this and says, it's going
to sound like a punchline. There's a Muslim, a Christian,
and a Jew. And basically what he talked about was
his heritage, how he came to be, and most importantly,
the United the United Front of everybody understanding each other.
(28:44):
So the speech he gave was primarily for understanding. I
would encourage anybody to look at it. It's something I
watched and it's just like wow, I can't believe was that.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
This year's commencement speech? Is that what you're thinking? Is
that what it was?
Speaker 8 (28:56):
It was this year? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, okay, all right, so that's what that is. No,
I didn't see it, but thank you for the heads
up on it. I'll definitely take a look. And yeah,
the act as if you've been there before is a
great way to approach really everything in life when it
comes to success, because neither success nor failure is ever final.
And I think something that the older you get, or
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maybe the older I get, the more I recognize, is
you always want to maintain at every level of success
you have, you want to maintain an underlying humility because
you never know what tomorrow may bring, and all you
can do is the best work you can and be
the best version of yourself that you can and whatever
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it is that you do every day, that's all you
can control. Because there is luck involved in this game
that we call life, and there is luck involved in
basketball too, and football and all these other things. You know.
Og and Anob's hand is just blocked a little bit
more on that tip, and all of a sudden you've
got all these sad Knicks fans and all these happy
Spurs fans. You know, the the bounce of the ball
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does make a difference in all of these things. But
that's true in life in general as well. And you know,
if you maintain as your foundation a relationship with God
and with your family and remember what is most important. Yeah,
of course you've got to celebrate wins, but you always
have to remember who you are along the way, because
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where there are wins, there will also be losses. And
I think that hubris is unfortunately the undoing of many
a great person because they lose that sense of who
they are and they no longer maintain that ballast, which
is which is humility. By the way, I see a
lot of that in Jalen Brunson, which is why I
was thinking about this this morning. A guy who could be,
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you know, just decked out in three million dollars of
gold and jewelry and everything and about to start his
own hip hop video or you know, or a country
music video or whatever Chenre he likes it he could
be doing. He's like, I'm a professional. My team is
what matters to me. Right now. We're trying to deliver
for our fans. We're trying to put out a great product.
(31:04):
And until this is done, it's not done. And I'm
telling you so again. Whether you like sports or not,
whether you like me talking about sports today or not,
you're showing up to the factory floor, You're showing up
to your job in the office or out in the
field or whatever it is you're doing. That mentality will
always put you in good stead. I'm a professional. I
do what I do. DJ Shipley, who might I just
(31:24):
I'm a huge fan of in general former Dev grew operator.
You know he was on very well known from the
Sean Ryan podcast some years ago. He he just has
a very simple phrase, be a pro. Be a pro.
And you say, oh, okay, well yeah for you. Sure,
you know you're built like Leonidas from three hundred and
(31:44):
you know you're this like super trained Navy seal and everything. Yeah.
But his point is, whether you're whether you're a Navy
seal or a plumber, or an NBA player or a
school teacher or whatever it is, be a pro. And
what does that mean to mean? Xact as if it
means bring the skill set to bear. But know that
you're always still a student, Know that there's always more
(32:05):
for you to learn. Know that there are other people
who will be better than you at certain things, if
not better than you in the entire field, and you
should want to learn from them and not ever feel
like you should avoid them because of ego or anything
like that. Be a pro DJ Shipley, He's got it right.
He actually has really cool T shirts to say that
on it from GBRS group anyway, just putting that out there.
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That's and Jalen Brunson to me, among the other Knicks
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Looking for normal in a world of crazy. Clay and
(34:16):
Buck have your back. Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
Bobby and Birmingham, Alabama. What's going on? Bobby?
Speaker 9 (34:26):
Hey, I wanted to let you know that I play
a lot of majong and it's basically our version of
your eighteen holes of golf. The guys play golf, the
girls go play majong.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
My wife really likes it, and I never thought is
it kind of like a card game. I don't even
really understand what it is.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
It's a Chinese tile game. It's a mixture of a
lot of different things. It's got some luck, it's got
a lot of skill. We say it's great for our neuroplasticity,
and this way we can spend a lot of money
on tiles and matts, and the guys spend more money
on gos club, so we'll never.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Meet that well, Bobby, thank you for educating me on
this one a little bit. And I hear you. By
the way, I don't do golf just because I know
that if I really get into it, it's going to
be too much time away from other things that I
have focus on. As I get older and maybe have
more time that I you know, right, now, I got
a young baby at home, so I'm holding off on golf.
(35:21):
I'm not throwing any shade at golf. I'm just saying
I can't have I don't have the time. Unlike Clay,
who is apparently out on the fifteenth hole right now,
I don't have the time for golf.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I have responsibilities like this show. But yeah, my wife
Carrie loves Majong. That's been really fun. Tommy and Florida,
what's going on, Tommy? Tommy's gone okay, Well that's a shame.
John and Bergen County, what's going on? Hey, how you doing?
(35:51):
Love the show?
Speaker 5 (35:51):
I listen almost every day. I just wanted to come
and too bad. Games three in a playoffs, Sure first
came out, came out that night. They were playing you know, streetball.
They were taking cheap shots from brunts in the whole
night and they were laughing when the refs didn't call
him and they tried to get under his skin, and
(36:13):
he behaved like a gentleman.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Absolutely, thank you, John, And uh yeah, no, there's a jet.
That's a very good I keep saying classy, but Brunson
very much conducts himself like a gentleman. And again people
are saying, oh, Buck, but I thought you think the
NBA is woke. Guys, I think you all know the
Knicks win. Is he going? It's the biggest news story
in the country right now. It just is. It's that
(36:35):
and maybe some of the Iran strikes, which I will
be talking about, but that's it. And we're a new
stalk program, so I can't. I can't ignore the biggest
story in America right now. Whether you think it matters
or not, a lot of people do. But we're gonna
talk to Ryan Gardusky about Iran, about California voting, about
politics that's coming up later
Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of Clay and Buck.
Just Buck today. That would be me Clay. He's doing
the important work of golfing, but he is doing it
for the team. It's a team effort and he's out
there on behalf of play and Buck showing everybody his
(00:21):
stroke he's got. He's very good, very good on the
golf course. They say, so Clay will be back on Monday.
I'll actually be out Monday anyway. Long story short, just
me today. A lot of news, a lot of news
to discuss. I generally don't do much sports. That's the
other guy. Although it is funny when some of you
send emails angry at Buck for sec football takes. But
(00:44):
the Knicks with an incredible, incredible come from behind win
last night. I did watch it. I am a Knicks
fan stretching back a very long time, and it was.
It was game the best and most incredible fourth quarter
of basketball. I have ever seen the biggest comeback in
(01:08):
a finals, and in some ways, I guess you could
say the biggest comeback in any game. Given the importance
of this one. They were down at one one moment
by twenty nine points, and they came all the way back.
So we'll talk a little bit about that, because it's
really turned into a New York phenomenon. The city of
(01:29):
New York is in rare form these days, people dancing
in the streets having a great time. There are unfortunately,
some there always are some people who think that they're
in some other place, some other city, where they do
these things which they should not do, causing mayhem, in trouble,
getting arrested. So we'll talk a little about the Knicks.
(01:52):
And it is in fact the case that I grew
up watching them, going to games, many many games, and
was a long time and now so I feel like
I'm putting my jersey back on again. It has been
collecting dust. It has been retired for a bit. Big
news though, also with the Iran situation that we shall discuss,
(02:15):
President Trump has well, there have been some air strikes
and Trump has said more is coming. And we are
back on the the kinetic portion of this situation, the
campaign to hit them hard enough from the sky that
the Iranians finally are willing to sign the deal, to
(02:35):
get behind the deal and accept that this is where
these are going. Some updates also on the Graham Platner
main Senate Race Trump was on Fox and Friends this morning.
We shall discuss that. Right before I was coming on
the air, there was some reporting about a possible biological
(02:56):
threat detected at the Pentagon. My understanding is that that
has that was a false alarm. The latest reporting I'm
seeing on that is it's not not anything to be
overly concerned about. Right now. There was a lockdown at
the Pentagon, but I believe there if they have not
already lifted it, they will be lifting it imminently. So
(03:17):
the big things today we got the Knicks, we got Iran,
and then some other stories we shall throw into the mix,
probably on the political side of things, Los Angeles mayor
election stuff like that. So I did want to start
here with the New York Knicks, the New York Basketball
Knicks and incredible, an incredible night for those of you
(03:40):
who watch. And here's what I wanted to say about it,
because I know some of you don't care about basketball,
like Buck, why are you talking about the NBA. A
few things that I take from this one is the
city of New York has been through a lot of
heartbreak and has had a lot of years where their
(04:01):
basketball team was either terrible and that was more like
the two thousand mid two thousands era, or came close
that was in my youth, including against the Houston Rockets
when they very much could have and should have won.
And so people just see this as part of the
story of America's largest city. And I know a lot
of UWR listeners in particular see this as long overdue.
(04:25):
They got one more game to win, one more game
to win. It'll be this Saturday. They'll have the chance
to close the whole thing out. But there were some
things about it that I thought, or we're talking it.
First of all, this guy, Jalen Brunson here he is.
This is what he said, is that after the game
play clip one.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Guys, nothing, there's nothing to celebrate us. It's not over yet,
not even close.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
This guy, whether you're a basketball fan or not, I
have to say he is incredible on a number of levels. One,
he's somebody who literally has ice in his veins. This
is a guy who likes the big moments, who seizes them.
He's the most clutch shooter in the NBA right now.
(05:10):
But beyond that the fact that he approaches what he
does with a degree of humility always and that he's
a professional. He wants to always get better, he wants
to share credit with the rest of the team. You know, sports,
I know is something that can teach lessons in life.
(05:32):
And yes, it brings us together. A lot of people
have been noting that there's a sense of, certainly in
New York togetherness around this situation. Well, people have jumped
on the bandwagon from all over the country and given
the riveting nature of the comeback as it unfolded last night,
and I was here for an event up in the
(05:55):
Palm Beach area for a radio event with some of
our fellow radio hosts, I was able to get can
watch the second half of the game, and this was
the biggest single comeback that has ever been mounted in
a final. And then Knicks, we're down, have been down.
I'm sorry. This is the statistic I want to give you.
(06:15):
Teams down twenty plus points in the postseason in the
last two years are four and seventy one. That's that
includes playoffs and finals. Four wins, seventy one losses. But
the Knicks, that's the rest of the rest of the NBA.
The Knicks are five and three. So if you like
the excitement of this. If you like the come from behind,
(06:37):
never say die attitude, there's something that is inspiring about it.
But also I like the fact that you have somebody
who is now a true superstar in the league and
Jellen Brunson who is just a sort of model of
what we would want to see from a athlete at
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that level in all respects, and I thought this was
really this was really special too. He took a moment
before starting his postgame press conference to say some nice
words about a Make a Wish, a Make a Wish
recipient who he had taken the time to spend with
before this is cut. To listen to this real quick
(07:19):
before we get started.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I just want to say I thought some prayers with
a friend of mine I got to meet and talk
to last week, Jonathan from North Carolina from the Make
a Wish Foundation in the Gardener Jeens Foundation. He had
a heart condition and it was just asked to me
to just kind of take a video and reach out
(07:41):
to him. But something in my mind told me just
to try and get on the face sign get the
chat with him. And I was got the pleasure to
do so. And it was a quick call, but it
was it was, it was well worth it, and I
just want to say my thoughts, some prayers were him
and his family just find out some news about him today.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So thank iris saw mister Bronson here is just a
very classy individual, and you know, he's married to his
high school sweetheart. He is not somebody who's you know,
causing problems or getting into a mess off the court.
(08:22):
And for a generation of young men, particularly young men
who really look up to basketball players, he's certainly fitting
the role of role model in the sports world in
a way that I think is really admirable. So I
look at this guy not just as a New Yorker,
but as somebody who observes public figures in general and
thinks that we are in very much something of a
(08:45):
desperate need in pop culture for people who are very
success for men who are very successful but also conducting
themselves in a way that you'd say, well, I'd like,
you know, my son to act that way, especially if
they that pinnacle of their profession, whether it's athletics or
anything else. I think there's some general lessons from this.
(09:06):
They're also, of course, was some funny stuff about how
it was because Trump wasn't there and they had this
great win. People were talking about it as a breaking
of the Trump curse. They make everything political. They really
do pretend like the reason Donald Trump, or the reason
the Knicks lost their last home game before this was
because of Donald Trump. So I do appreciate that this
(09:31):
gives everybody an opportunity to follow a story where there's
some really positive escapism. People were making jokes and making
fun of me last night. When Buck Sexton is tweeting
about a basketball game, it means that it has reached
critical mass and everyone is really fired up about it.
I'm going to talk to you about Iran and everything
(09:52):
else here in just a moment. But it was a
pretty incredible spectacle last night. And it's fun to see
the city of New York, which I've been a little
concerned about because of Mom Donnie and some of the
trajectory of the governors the governance there. It's nice to
see it have something to get really excited about. The
one thing that I will I will just say is
(10:15):
the people that do this thing where they and I
know this isn't a New York things happens all over
the place, but who after their team wins they think
that the way to celebrate is to break things and
cause mayhem and anarchy. This is really loser stuff. I
remember being a kid and and we had a joke
(10:37):
the other day when producer Mike was running the board.
He's not with us today, but how he doesn't like
hair bands. But I remember in that era, there was
this trend of some of these very very famous rock
bands destroying like hotel rooms. Do you remember that was
a thing where people would just decide that they were
going to go you know, some very famous whether it's
(10:58):
Guns n' Roses or you know one of the fans,
and they would trash a hotel room and be written
about like yeah, like those bad boys. And I remember,
even as as a young kid, thinking like this is
someone's mom, you know who works for the gonna have
to clean that up. You know, this is someone gonna
have to deal with this message. Why is that? What
is cool about smashing your guitar and some hotel room
are causing this? So that that behavior I got to say,
(11:22):
was it's disappointing that that's happening at the n Why
look the NYPD. I mean, if you were to pull
the NYPD, ninety nine percent of NYPD folks are Nick
Oh maybe some of their Nets fans, but I'm sure
they're Knicks fans now, but they all love the Knicks.
They don't want to be arresting anybody for celebrating. This
is really this is strange to me that this happens.
(11:45):
And the other thing that I find, you know, if
we're looking at the totality of this situation and the
way that certain behaviors are tolerated or not, and things
that I think we could have more of a conversation
of as a as a as a country. Perhaps that
there are people waiting outside the hotel where the San
Antonio Spurs are staying so they can shout abuse and
(12:10):
even throw things at them is disgraceful and disgusting beyond
words like these are people at the absolute pinnacle of
their profession. They are incredible athletes. They're at this moment
in time where they should be able to just focus
on what they do and everyone should appreciate them as
(12:32):
just worthy contenders, whether you're rooting for the next rooting
for the Spurs. To me, this is the same level
of low iq, self indulgent, babyish nonsense as somebody who
would like spit at an actor because they played the
bad guy in a movie. It's like they're doing their job,
which is to entertain you. They're not actually the bad guy.
(12:55):
So that's where people take this stuff too far. I
can appreciate the emotional surge. I appreciate people deciding that
they're going to be a part of whether you live
in California or Texas or you know, anywhere East Coast,
anywhere in between. There's something exciting about this story, and
a lot of the country is taking it as an opportunity,
(13:16):
especially we go into the summer. We don't have an
election that's imminent right now or anything to get on this.
But it's also a moment where we can tell everybody, hey,
let's let's act as if we've been here before, you know,
let's act as if we appreciate everything that's going on here.
And I know this is like a very tiny minority
of people that are engaging this stuff, but it's just
(13:37):
so disappointing to see because it should be nothing but joy.
People should just be out there celebrating, and honestly, I
know for San Antonio fans there's a degree of heartbreak,
But what really matters is that you're watching a great
game and you're seeing competitors, and you're having this entertainment
at the highest level, and there's something inherently positive and
joyous about that, whether you win or lose. I know
(14:00):
sportsmanship can sound corny when people talk about it, but
it is the most important thing because ultimately, you know,
it's about the game, it's about life. It's about respecting
and appreciating what people are are bringing to this competition,
and that we can all enjoy it together and the unificate,
the the unity that comes from all of that. I
(14:22):
think it's the first time I've ever done a monologue
on the show where I've started, uh started off talking
about sports. I promise it's not a sports show today.
But the Knicks last night it was incredible and I
was watching, and I know if Clay was here, he'd
want to talk about this at some length. But Iran
got bombed a bunch and more of that is coming.
So we'll talk about this. I'll get into my wheelhouse,
(14:43):
which is politics and national security momentarily, and also we'll
take calls if you want to talk about the Nick stuff.
Of course, our w R listeners, if you had any
particular experience or emotion that that you want to share.
But like I said, it has reached critical mass, and
it is if you. I mean you see the most
conversation online right now by far is on the NBA Finals,
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here to Clay and Buck. I knew this was gonna happen.
Get in a bunch of these. Talkback Bee John from
Minnesota listens on News Talk eleven thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Hit it guys, Buck, I truly do love you, and
I mean this with all sincerity. We're known as the
Party of Principles, and I guess there Automatic defense is
always calling the other side hypocrites. So why are we
celebrating the NBA and why are we celebrating New York City?
Is there two of the most left wing like are
(17:08):
we just trying to impiltrate them. And what's the strategy
here because I've been boycotting all sports for seven years.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
A few things here. First of all, President of the United
States went to the game, so that makes it a story,
you know, not this one, but the one before. So
all of a sudden, you have more interest from Republicans,
I think in this whole series than you would have before.
Let's not do this thing where we cast out New
York City as some kind of dystopia that we hope
(17:39):
just collapses under the water. It's the largest, and I
would argue greatest city. Greatest is a general term in America,
and it has as many Republicans as the entire state
of Nebraska. New York City, my friend, has as many
Republicans as Nebraska if you look at the last election cycle.
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Travis big swing, hits, hits the ball, hard, beautiful swing.
Maybe we'll get some video of Clay doing this later on.
(19:25):
Let's take some calls here, Matt in Cape Girardo, Missouri. Matt, first,
I have to ask you, do you know what is
the most famous and important single thing in terms of
data points about Cape Girardo Alien Rex. It is where
Rush Limbaugh was born in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Oh, yeah, I work at his health sometimes.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Well it's Brouse. Oh cool. Well there you go. Anyway,
just a little trivia point for everybody. I'm sure most
of the audience knew that, but Cape Girardo is Russia's hometown.
Tell me, Matt, what have you got going on? What's
on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I wanted to thank you for everything you do and
then tell you I appreciate you. You speak for a
lot of people that don't get to speak and say
the things that they want to because you've a voice.
But I also wanted to thank you for bringing up
the NBA this morning. It's the finals. It's a big
deal and I really liked hearing about it this morning.
And you also were spot on when you were talking
about Jaylen Brunson. He's a class act and a great
person for everybody's kids out there to be watching and
(20:25):
role modeling for it.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Thank you so much, Matt and and look, Clay and
I have a lot of fun with this. Like you know,
I don't like sports. I mean I actually played a
lot of sports. I've watched a fair amount of sports
throughout my life. I did sour on the NBA for
a number of years because of the politics and the wokeness.
And I would say this about anyone who we had
that talk back for example. And of course, by the way,
(20:47):
you know, if someone wants to give me some heat
for talking about it, by all means they're welcome to
This is like the family table. Anybody can bring up
anything that's on their mind. But I would say, first
of all, you know the era of Lebron as the
you know, the leader, if you will, of the NBA,
the the closest thing to a Michael Jordan of his era,
although I'm still a Michael Jordan guy. Uh as the
(21:10):
greatest as the goat, if you will. But I think
Jalen Brunson is stepping up into being one of the
if For some people, he is the guy but he
is certainly one of the elite name brand players in
the league. And the fact that he is a consummate
profet like whether you like basketball or not. And that's
(21:32):
how I try to talk about these things, whether you
enjoy the game for what it is or not. Having
somebody of his prominence who is you know, he's he's
married to his high school sweets sweetheart, which I think
that sounds like, oh buck, who can no these days?
You know, we need we need more and he's still
married to her. Right, we having public public figures who
(21:53):
are conducting themselves honorably and and are and are doing
things the way that we'd like to see our own
children or grandchildren do them. In this regard, I think
that's important. I think I think, you know, we say
we want more of this, and then it's all, well, well,
that stuff doesn't really matter. No, of course, when you're
pra praising what should be praise or praising what is praiseworthy,
(22:14):
I think is always a worthwhile endeavor. And the fact
that he clearly you know, it really touches his heart
when he has meetings with people young, you know, young
people from Make a Wish Foundation that he speaks so
well about his teammates and is it's like just truly
a class act. And by the way others og Nanobi,
(22:36):
I mean this team of New York Knicks, the way
that they they act in post game, the way that
they conduct themselves. From everything that I have seen and read,
and I'm a relatively newcomer to this, but I observe
what's going on the news. They're really good ambassadors for
the sport and for the league. And I think young
(22:57):
people can look up to the way they act in
general and say, well, that's that's the way it should
be done. It's not the you know, I haven't seen
a lot of woke stuff. I haven't seen, and I
would like this is like now I'm like borrowing the
Klay Travis mantra here for a second. I do want
sports to be something that are just to be enjoyed
and to bring people together, and you can celebrate it
(23:19):
for what it is and it's something that's American and
that's true and that's pure and that's good and we
all that would be great. And it felt a lot
more like that when I was a kid, certainly, and
particularly the NBA. Then starting around the you know, early
two thousands, and you know, really the Obama era, everything
just got super woke and got crazy. Guy in Albany,
(23:42):
or in Albany, Oregon, not to be confused with allban
New York.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
What's going on, guy, Hey, yeah, it's another Albany. I
was just hearing you. I didn't know that. I'd watched
some things about after the game on a clip the
Knicks fans just celebrating and that was great, But I
didn't know that they harassed the other team going.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Up to their hotel room. That's the kind of thing
I've never liked because I've grown up at a college
town and stuff. Rooted for my team, but I never
really liked it when everybody would move the other team
coming on. If you don't have another team out there,
you don't have a game.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And yeah, I think you always you always need to
show respect for the gladiators in the in the arena,
so to speak. I mean you need to, you know,
as long as they're conducting themselves as professionals, which the
San Antonio Spurs have been. You know, they've been fighting,
they've been showing a lot of a lot of heart,
and obviously they've gotten to the finals they're very young team.
(24:42):
So you know, to me, you got to go into
this and you got to give standing ovations to both
sides and to show any But just to also be clear,
it's a very small small you know, it might be
a few hundred people, Max, who are outside of the
guy thank you for calling in or outside of the
San Antonio hotel. But that's a really menacing and really
(25:04):
stupid thing to do. And I actually think the league,
you know, somebody maybe should say something about that, just
publicly be like, guys, you know, maybe even one of
the knicks. It wouldn't be a bad thing to be like, hey, guys,
we don't we don't do that. That's not that's not
how we are here, and that's not how anyone should be.
You know. I will tell you this and and because
we have the World Cup coming up to more sports
(25:26):
talk from Buck, just wait un till I start telling
you guys about my new passion, which is padel, which
is like a Latin American version of tennis mixed with squash,
mixed with the like, uh, pickleball. Anyway, that'll be another day.
But the the US national team when it goes to
(25:47):
certain particularly this has happened when they played in Mexico,
but it's happened in other Latin American countries. The US
men's soccer team and these the fans like throw, you know,
object and like pelt them with things as they're going in.
I'm like, this is such a disgusting, low class, stupid,
low IQ thing to do. And and you know, I
(26:08):
am Americans. Certainly in soccer. I've never like, are we
don't do that to teams that visit here and play
and and that sort of thing should should absolutely never
never happen, should never occur. So yeah, no, I agree
that it was just the breaking stuff in the streets.
You know, I went to college. I'm gonna give a
little bit of hard time to Massachusetts. I went to
college in uh in mass and you know, right down
(26:31):
the street from UMSS Amherst. I was in AMers College.
And when the Patriots would win, there would be mobs
that would like tip over cars and light things on fire.
And when the Patriots would lose, there would be mobs
that tip over cars and light things on fire. And
big games, I'm like, what is this, guys, Well, what
are you doing? You're not You're not there. This is entertainment.
(26:53):
So I'll tell you this too. There are life lessons
and there are things that you can take from sports
that matter more, that matter beyond sports. But I also
this is entertainment. This to me is like movies or
video games or you know, uh, what's the majong which
my wife has gotten into recently. I didn't know this
was also a bit of a phenomenon. Now, aren't the
(27:15):
majong experts out there? My wife has really gotten into majong.
Mike and Fort Bragg once again called Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
What's going on? Mike?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Hey, what's going on? My friend? How are you doing it?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I'm great, man, Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Great talk to you, man. I think a lot of
you guys awesome. You are doing good work, making a
huge difference. What I wanted to say, I did motivational speaking.
I was a service manager, local dealership here. Spent a
lot of my life in service. Lou Holtz brings me
up to him as guys used to get the inZone
and the first thing to do is celebrate, dance, throw
the football, throw the helmet off. He said. Listen, he said,
(27:51):
I want you guys to do me a favor, and
they looked at me and says, listen, act like you've
been here before. Most importantly, act like you're going back.
The most thing about this is it's a team sport.
We're individuals, but it's for one united force. And I
just wanted to share that with you. I thought it
was a great phrase that he had. I used to
use a lot of my talking. And there's one other
(28:11):
thing I want to say. Did you get a chance
to see the speech on the young man from Harvard?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Well, I don't know which young man from Harvard. I'm
not sure I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
It was a graduate from Harvard. So he gave the
speech to the class twenty two year old gentleman, and
the speech starts out like this and says, it's going
to sound like a punchline. There's a Muslim, a Christian,
and a Jew. And basically what he talked about was
his heritage, how he came to be, and most importantly,
the United the United Front of everybody understanding each other.
(28:44):
So the speech he gave was primarily for understanding. I
would encourage anybody to look at it. It's something I
watched and it's just like wow, I can't believe was that.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
This year's commencement speech? Is that what you're thinking? Is
that what it was?
Speaker 8 (28:56):
It was this year? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, okay, all right, so that's what that is. No,
I didn't see it, but thank you for the heads
up on it. I'll definitely take a look. And yeah,
the act as if you've been there before is a
great way to approach really everything in life when it
comes to success, because neither success nor failure is ever final.
And I think something that the older you get, or
(29:19):
maybe the older I get, the more I recognize, is
you always want to maintain at every level of success
you have, you want to maintain an underlying humility because
you never know what tomorrow may bring, and all you
can do is the best work you can and be
the best version of yourself that you can and whatever
(29:39):
it is that you do every day, that's all you
can control. Because there is luck involved in this game
that we call life, and there is luck involved in
basketball too, and football and all these other things. You know.
Og and Anob's hand is just blocked a little bit
more on that tip, and all of a sudden you've
got all these sad Knicks fans and all these happy
Spurs fans. You know, the the bounce of the ball
(30:01):
does make a difference in all of these things. But
that's true in life in general as well. And you know,
if you maintain as your foundation a relationship with God
and with your family and remember what is most important. Yeah,
of course you've got to celebrate wins, but you always
have to remember who you are along the way, because
(30:21):
where there are wins, there will also be losses. And
I think that hubris is unfortunately the undoing of many
a great person because they lose that sense of who
they are and they no longer maintain that ballast, which
is which is humility. By the way, I see a
lot of that in Jalen Brunson, which is why I
was thinking about this this morning. A guy who could be,
(30:42):
you know, just decked out in three million dollars of
gold and jewelry and everything and about to start his
own hip hop video or you know, or a country
music video or whatever Chenre he likes it he could
be doing. He's like, I'm a professional. My team is
what matters to me. Right now. We're trying to deliver
for our fans. We're trying to put out a great product.
(31:04):
And until this is done, it's not done. And I'm
telling you so again. Whether you like sports or not,
whether you like me talking about sports today or not,
you're showing up to the factory floor, You're showing up
to your job in the office or out in the
field or whatever it is you're doing. That mentality will
always put you in good stead. I'm a professional. I
do what I do. DJ Shipley, who might I just
(31:24):
I'm a huge fan of in general former Dev grew operator.
You know he was on very well known from the
Sean Ryan podcast some years ago. He he just has
a very simple phrase, be a pro. Be a pro.
And you say, oh, okay, well yeah for you. Sure,
you know you're built like Leonidas from three hundred and
(31:44):
you know you're this like super trained Navy seal and everything. Yeah.
But his point is, whether you're whether you're a Navy
seal or a plumber, or an NBA player or a
school teacher or whatever it is, be a pro. And
what does that mean to mean? Xact as if it
means bring the skill set to bear. But know that
you're always still a student, Know that there's always more
(32:05):
for you to learn. Know that there are other people
who will be better than you at certain things, if
not better than you in the entire field, and you
should want to learn from them and not ever feel
like you should avoid them because of ego or anything
like that. Be a pro DJ Shipley, He's got it right.
He actually has really cool T shirts to say that
on it from GBRS group anyway, just putting that out there.
(32:28):
That's and Jalen Brunson to me, among the other Knicks
players too, exemplifies that ethos and that is something you
can take from this basketball series that I think is worthwhile,
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Looking for normal in a world of crazy. Clay and
(34:16):
Buck have your back. Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
Bobby and Birmingham, Alabama. What's going on? Bobby?
Speaker 9 (34:26):
Hey, I wanted to let you know that I play
a lot of majong and it's basically our version of
your eighteen holes of golf. The guys play golf, the
girls go play majong.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
My wife really likes it, and I never thought is
it kind of like a card game. I don't even
really understand what it is.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
It's a Chinese tile game. It's a mixture of a
lot of different things. It's got some luck, it's got
a lot of skill. We say it's great for our neuroplasticity,
and this way we can spend a lot of money
on tiles and matts, and the guys spend more money
on gos club, so we'll never.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Meet that well, Bobby, thank you for educating me on
this one a little bit. And I hear you. By
the way, I don't do golf just because I know
that if I really get into it, it's going to
be too much time away from other things that I
have focus on. As I get older and maybe have
more time that I you know, right, now, I got
a young baby at home, so I'm holding off on golf.
(35:21):
I'm not throwing any shade at golf. I'm just saying
I can't have I don't have the time. Unlike Clay,
who is apparently out on the fifteenth hole right now,
I don't have the time for golf.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I have responsibilities like this show. But yeah, my wife
Carrie loves Majong. That's been really fun. Tommy and Florida,
what's going on, Tommy? Tommy's gone okay, Well that's a shame.
John and Bergen County, what's going on? Hey, how you doing?
(35:51):
Love the show?
Speaker 5 (35:51):
I listen almost every day. I just wanted to come
and too bad. Games three in a playoffs, Sure first
came out, came out that night. They were playing you know, streetball.
They were taking cheap shots from brunts in the whole
night and they were laughing when the refs didn't call
him and they tried to get under his skin, and
(36:13):
he behaved like a gentleman.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Absolutely, thank you, John, And uh yeah, no, there's a jet.
That's a very good I keep saying classy, but Brunson
very much conducts himself like a gentleman. And again people
are saying, oh, Buck, but I thought you think the
NBA is woke. Guys, I think you all know the
Knicks win. Is he going? It's the biggest news story
in the country right now. It just is. It's that
(36:35):
and maybe some of the Iran strikes, which I will
be talking about, but that's it. And we're a new
stalk program, so I can't. I can't ignore the biggest
story in America right now. Whether you think it matters
or not, a lot of people do. But we're gonna
talk to Ryan Gardusky about Iran, about California voting, about
politics that's coming up later
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