December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show dives into the aftermath of Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District special election, where Republican Matt Van Epps secured a decisive nine-point victory over Democrat Afton Bain. Clay and Buck break down why this off-calendar election mattered, emphasizing low turnout—roughly half of a typical congressional race—and how Democrats hoped to flip a Trump-leaning district but failed. The hosts credit grassroots awareness and strong support from President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson for the win, reinforcing a key takeaway: “Running with Trump is how you win.” Van Epps himself echoed this sentiment in his victory speech, signaling the GOP’s strategy heading into 2026.
The discussion also explores voter behavior in special elections, contrasting Republican voters’ busy family lives with Democrats’ identity-driven activism. Clay shares personal insights on living in Williamson County, Tennessee, and why he refuses to support Davidson County after its COVID policies. Buck adds humor about avoiding a “communist dystopia” in Clay’s district, while callers from Alabama, Florida, and Michigan weigh in on the race’s significance and the broader political landscape, including battleground states like Michigan.
Beyond politics, Hour 1 touches on cultural and economic trends. Clay highlights American Eagle Outfitters’ stock surge following its controversial Sidney Sweeney ad campaign, arguing that traditional advertising resonates more than “woke” marketing. The hosts also tease upcoming stories, including President Trump’s comments on Somali fraud in Minnesota, and share lighthearted banter about holiday gift ideas, cozy blankets, and nostalgic tech like walkie-talkies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in the Kalay Travis buck Sexton Show. We appreciate
all of you, especially those of you who heard the
clarion call to show up yesterday in the final election
of twenty twenty five in Tennessee's seventh congressional district, where
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you guys got out the vote and comfortably helped Matt
Van Ebbs become my congressman. He won by a round
nine point in a frankly turnout that was roughly half
of what typically happens in congressional races. This was You're
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going to hear a lot of spin, although it seems
to me that they have already kind of dropped this
story in the legacy media and as a result, they
are not paying a lot of attention to this because
the result was a very comfortable win for Matt Van
Epps nine points. They initially tried to say, well, Trump
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won this district by twenty two points in twenty twenty four,
and yeah, that's true. Way less people showed up to vote.
The Democrat crazy Bass shows up to vote in all
of these special elections. This was their best opportunity to
get a steal in this seat, and they lost by
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nine points. So congrats to Matt Van Epps. It took
a lot of efforts to make people aware that this
race was happening. Yesterday, in the middle of the holiday season,
the week after Thanksgiving. We had him on this show twice,
President Trump, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. They all
got out, and I want to say thank you to
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everybody who showed up for this race, and frankly, Buck,
I think there are a lot of people out there
who would have been voting Van Epps that still had
no idea this race was taking place because it was
a December election, the week after Thanksgiving special election. New
congressional districts just very difficult to mobilize. This was the
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best case scenario for the Democrat Party. I watched the
results come in. I celebrated by kicking back and finishing
the first four episodes of season five of Stranger Things
with the Travis Boyce. It was a fun night in
the Travis household. That's how we celebrated Buck.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm of two minds on this, Okay. On the one hand, yes,
of course, this is a Republican win, good for the country.
Afton Bane was clearly a lunatic, and the good guys
won this round. That's all true, and it's important for
the midterms that they didn't get some crazy, off off
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year special election win that they could turn into. All
of that is true, But there's a little part of
me that is sad, a little part of me that
has had to sit here while you have thrown all
sorts of calumnies. Is that the right word at New
York City for Mom Donnie's win. And I was going
to have some fun with the fact that your district
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might have been full commie. There perhaps could have been
breadlines outside of peg Leg Porker, my favorite Nashville barbecue.
There would have been girls on those outdoor bar bicycle things,
singing the Soviet national anthem and drinking nothing but cheap vodka,
because that's how the motherland of the Soviet Union would
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have wanted it. So on the one hand, yes, Clay,
the good guys won. On the other hand, the opportunity
for all of us to troll you for living in
a communist dystopia district is now gone. So I just
wanted to be honest about that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I am so glad that I don't have to worry
about having this crazy chick representing me apt in Baine.
She got kicked to the curb, and I do think so,
you know, she's going to be tweeting at you and
all the daily wire guys, and the trolling that you
were going to have to endure would have just been
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very difficult.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The cope now, in my mentions, the cope now is well,
this is a crazy right wing district where racists like
Clay Travis lived.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's really hard to win.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And let me just tell you, thank the ward that
I live where I do. I live in Williamson County, Tennessee,
God's country. I am never leaving for the rest of
my life. I am living right here in this county.
I think I've said this on the air before, Buck,
I don't know if I I think I've told you.
I don't know if I've said it on the air
after COVID. I told my wife, I said, you know,
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we've been picking a new place to live in the
area because the boys are getting bigger and we want
to be a little bit closer to their school. All
those things, I said, you can find us a I said,
I will not live in Davidson County. That is Nashville's
Davidson County, where I was born and raised, because I'm
still so angry of how they handled COVID. I said,
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you know, look, it's a small thing, but I will
not give them property tax dollars because I am so
angry about the choices they made during COVID. So Williamson County,
which is for those of you who know the Nashville area, Brentwood, Franklin,
it is the greatest place I think anywhere in the country.
I do not ever want to leave here. And when
you looked at the results, Williamson County showed up for
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Matt Van Epps in big numbers. And I do think
this is an important story going forward, Buck because the
nation may be saying, Okay, this race is over. What
we learned.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
One.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You got to run towards Trump. You cannot run away
from him. I mean, this is the story.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
This is what, this is what Congressman elect Van Epps
just said, This is cut one. Listen to him say it.
Cutwall on and with President Donald J.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Trump and stood firmly behind our campaign. I am humbled
beyond belief to stand before you tonight as your next representative.
I say this to my friends in the liberal media
and to the professional panickers and my own party. Tonight
we showed running from Trump is how you lose. Running
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with Trump is how you win.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Look, I think it's going to be a big decision
in twenty six and I am super optimistic, as we
have talked about on this program that the economy is
going to be very good by the summer, and that
is going to be ultimately I believe, the deciding factor
in many of these different races out there. But there
are going to be a lot of people who have
to make decisions about how to win without Trump on
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the ballot. And Donald Trump is never going to be
on the ballot again for the rest of our lives.
There are a lot of people who show up to
supper Trump that do not show up in races when
Trump's not on the ballot. So I am cautiously optimistic
for twenty six. But I do think one of the
lessons of what happened here was Trump is doing a
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good job. You cannot run away from him, and you
absolutely positively need to motivate the base that is the
Republican Party because there's a lot of non traditional voters
and this is going to be true all these off
year elections. To the extent that people are out there listening,
I would really implore if you're a Republican in Congress,
I get that you may be unhappy, or there may
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be life related concerns. I don't understand why you would
leave and force an off year election or an off
calendar election. At this point, please stay. The opportunity here
was created because my Congressman Mark Green decided to step down.
The only way these people win in Trump districts is
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by relying on these off calendar elections. When the crazy
Democrat voters show up, they're more loyal. They just are and.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Loyal. I can't. They have less to do. They tend
not to have jobs and families the same way that
our voters do. You know, they're sitting around without a
whole lot on the calendar except dyeing their hair purple
and talking about fascism in Trump's America. So yes, they
show up. I'm not sure it's a loyalty thing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Our people are busy picking the kids up from uh well,
I think soccer press probably. But maybe what I say loyal,
I mean their political belief is all that defines them.
I think we're saying somewhat similar things. If you're a
Trump voter, there's a lot of things going on in
your life. You're probably religious, you're committed to a church.
You probably have a family. You're obligated to be running
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your kids or your grandkids all over the place. There
are a lot of people for whom the Democrat Party
has become their sun, moon and stars. It's their religion,
it's their life, it's their entire value system. It is
something that fundamentally defines them.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It gives them identity. Yeah, that is that is who
they are. And that's why they're so annoying about it.
When you were sitting next to them at any kind
of a function, or if they figure out what you
or I do, for example, they want to start telling
us what's really going on. Let me tell you a thing, sir.
I mean, I'll be honest with you. Buck.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
When I went and voted yesterday, it was cold. You know,
it's thirty five degrees, like the worst weather that Nashville
can have. Yeah, on that down here in South Florida, Pepes,
none of that. The best thing about when I lived
in the in the in the Caribbean for a couple
of years, when I was a young kid. When you
watch bad weather other places and you live in great weather,
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You're just like, why do people do this? You know,
you're already doing it all you Miami people.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You sit in here, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Warm, in your perfect weather, and you're like, why would
you be a place where it snows. You know, you're
watching a football game on television, or you're watching the
weather reports, and you're just like, what a crazy idea
that these people have to just go sit in the cold.
The afton Bane supporters buck old women. It was super cold.
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They were standing outside on the street for hours, no cover,
with aften Baine signs. And I'm not talking. I mean
these are not like twenty year old college kids. This
is like seventy five year old women. Their entire life
purpose is the Democrat Party. And I think there are
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a lot of other men that they have grabbed, that
they have captivated as your life's purpose is to show
up and do this work for the Democrat Party, and
that those people show up in these special elections in
a way that I would say, quote unquote people with lives.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah do not necessarily well. This is also why being
being a Democrat means and I'm talking about going back
for decades never having to address personal accountability. Being a
Democrat means that you can have this whole system that
will justify choices you made based on convenience, based on emotion,
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based on how it made you feel at the time.
I would argue that the central ethos of the Democrat
party runs contrary to the wisdom that you accrue from life.
And so if you are a woman in your sixties
or your seventies who has always, always, always voted Democrat,
it is in fact, in some ways more important than
ever that you perpetuate that system, because the moment you
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start to question it, you question a lot of things
that you have thought and done in your life previously.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm weird in this way, probably many ways. Many of
you out there are going to say, I'm willing to
accept that I could be wrong about everything, and I.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I mean, maybe it's partly legal training, maybe partly it's
just a willingness to accept and acknowledge larger questions out there.
I think a lot of our listeners are I think
a lot of our listeners are in that camp.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And with age comes wisdom.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And I don't you know when there's a twenty year
old running around who has an opinion. I tend to
think and hope that as they have life experience, they
will become more educated. You have kids, you have different experiences.
You become a grandparent, you have different experiences.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But you're right.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I think a lot of these crazy left wing people,
they're so committed to it being their identity how they
vote that if they ever examined that even the party
that they vote for is no longer the party of
the nineteen eighties or the nineteen nineties, it would require
them to revoke much of their entire life's work, and
they're unwilling to have that realization.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
A lot of things that they have believed for a
long time would start to crumble before their eyes. So
that's why they're like at in pain free Palestine, climate
change is an existential threat, because if they stopped the hysteria,
they would look around and they'd have to think. I
really wasn't very nice to people who were important in
my life at different times. I really didn't think about others.
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I really didn't put my country or my community first
in any meaningful way. I just pretended and voted for
these silly commies. That's my view of it, at least.
All right, Look last night, I you know, Clay, I'm
a modest guy, but I got to tell everybody about
this one. I was all cozy on the couch, and
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I mean I was in a great spot. I had
Ginger next to me, Speed had already gone to sleep,
and I'm sitting there, I'm drinking my tea and I've
just got this wonderful blanket from Cozy Earth that is
wrapped around my legs.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It is pretty bubble. And my wife did South Florida,
this is that you got? Your air conditioning was going on. Yeah,
I was gonna say, the air conditioning is very strong here.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So my my beautiful wife is also on the couch
and she has some flimsy I'm just gonna say it,
some flim kind of sad blanket, sad exclamation point blanket
on her feet. And I don't even know where this
thing came from. You know what I did, I said, honey,
we can share. So we shared our Cozy Earth blanket
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Speaker 2 (15:49):
All right, welcome back, he into Clay and Buck. Uh
Van Apps Matt van Apps brought home the w we
had yesterday Speaker of the House Johnson and Van Apps
calling in, and we were hitting this one hard because,
as we had been telling you all along, it would
have been both sad exclamation point and in some ways
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kind of funny for those of us who don't live there.
If Clay's congresswoman was maybe the most insane single member
of the United States Congress living in this wonderful red
state of Tennessee, but an absolutely insane member of Congress.
She did not end up winning. Leslie in Birmingham, Alabama
is on the phone. She wants to chat with us
about this. What's going on? Leslie, Hey, good.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Morning, Yes, sirs, I listen to you guys every day,
and I really want to just send my kudos and
big thank you for making the country aware of the situation.
I have two young adult sons who are married and Tennessee.
One lives in Franklin, one lives in Nashville, and because
of your show and bringing this to light, I contacted
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them hoping that would transfer into for more votes for
the rest stay to Tennessee. So thank you, Thank you, Wesley.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
We're glad to have done a small part. I do
think awareness was the key here. Again, a lot of
people know when the midterm elections are going on, when
the certainly the presidential elections are going on, getting people
out to vote. Buck, we were talking about this off
air turnout about fifty percent roughly of what a traditional
election would be, which is why this margin went from
twenty two to nine. But they were trying to steal
(17:21):
the election. By the way, I will be in Birmingham
next Wednesday raising a bunch of money for a big
charity event, Birmingham Quarterback Club. I'm speaking down there. I
think they have hundreds of people, so hopefully I can
entertain them. But I'll be down in Birmingham next week.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah. I like Birmingham. That is really tied to my
first ever college football at a big level experience because
that's where I was hanging out before we went to Tuscaloosa,
another very fun town I had not been to before.
I meant to mention this, by the way, Paul Finebaum
not running for senate. I mentioned it on social media.
I didn't mention it yesterday on the program.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
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out with us. It's not a little bit of fun here.
We'll get some of your calls here momentarily. But Buck,
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I saw this stat this morning as I surveyed the
landscape of the stock market. American Eagle Outfitters. You remember
when American Eagle was in the news back in the summer,
when they brought Sydney Sweeney the Buxom. I think is
the way that you described her bucks of glass into
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their into their advertising world. They did the great Jeens commercial.
For those of you out there that have forgotten about this,
I do think culturally this is significant. It's just a
pretty girl wearing jeans. They sold out of the jeans,
but then she said she people. That's the craziest part.
The people on the left said, well, this is Nazi eugenics.
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You know, how can a blonde, blue eyed girl says
that she has great jeans. They had the big discussion
all through left wing media. American Eagle stock is soaring
to again today buck after they beat earnings estimates. They
now have gone up over over three dollars today. If
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you bought the stock the day the ad campaign began,
stock is up one hundred and twenty percent, you would
have more than doubled your money. If you had simply
seen a buck some lass in a Jens commercial that
was being criticized and thought, you know what, I think
America might respond well to a pretty girl selling blue jeans.
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And guess what, America has responded quite well to it.
I think what you're seeing And people say, okay, well,
why does this matter? We were so lied to When
you were walking through the mall and you saw a fat,
androgynous chick in a bra and a panty in the
window at Victoria's Secret, and you thought to yourself, boy,
(21:04):
I don't know that you know, I want to buy
underwear When the model looks like Clay Travis might as
well have a beard and a broad and panties on.
I don't know that that's really gonna make a lot
of sense, but they tried to slam this home through
the culture. Advertising agencies are among the wokest of all
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brands in the entire world. They try to make you
think that the world looks differently than it does, and
that you should like things that you don't. It's all
going up in flames, all of it. And I thought
that anyway, as I'm watching that stock price sore, I
did think it was was super interesting in that respect.
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We got a bunch of people who went to weigh
in Carmen in Florida. Let's take some of your calls, Carmen,
what you got for us?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
How are you doing?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Guys? Listen? This is my take on it. I'm so
glad that van jan as for the Republicans because it
had been the other Democrat, AOC would have would have
thought that her, you know, her movement, her socialist movement,
would have been the way to go validated, you know.
(22:15):
And not only that, because she was so successful with
Mandana and she thought that she can do the same
with this with this Democrat lady. And I just think
that that would have blown her head even more. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Look, I think in general, when you start to look
through all of all of the arguments that are going
to be out there, what you're going to see is
what works in New York City in LA. And this
should be common sense, But for a lot of Democrats
it's not. What works in New York City and in
LA is not going to work in the same way
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in the larger you know, the battleground states. I was
looking at numbers coming out of Michigan, for instance. I
think we got a real shot in Michigan of flipping
the governor's seat and the Senate seat there. Remember Trump
won Michigan by a relatively small, tight margin. But there
are big battleground states out there that I think the
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idea of Mom, Donnie and this crazy after bainchick are
not going to pan out. Tom in Tampa. What you
got for us?
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Hey, First, I do want to talk about that. I'm
so happy about David kaya wibsy Cary so boy. But
I do want to give you a free plug for
the audio book Falls. Okay, I not only got my copy,
but a former salesmaner my best friend, used to draw
the balls up on the easel and I got him
one for Christmas. So Joe, this one's for you. Clay.
(23:45):
On the election, obviously, praise God for you for what
you did and everything. But I have to also say
I am totally shocked that mat spread was only nine points.
I'm sitting there saying, like I've spent a lot of
time in David, the county wins the county even though
I'm in Tampa like that, that's where it should have
(24:07):
been twenty five thirty points. And also one last thing
on balls, you and I have the same grandfather. Mine
came through Els Island. So I'll listen to you.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So you you have family members calling in now, Clay,
this makes sense given I don't know how we have.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
The same grandfather here, But but I appreciate Tom and Tampa.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I don't have any runnings. I thought he was a
member of your family before he even said the part
about genealogy. That guy, what do you what do you say?
And how do we have the same grandfather?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Tom?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I didn't know I had any relatives in Tampa.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
The same grandfather has to do with people have to get.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Your audio book to understand your dynamic about about grandparents
and and just so you know I stay up at
night worrying about the birth rate just like you do.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
If I had a critique of Balls. If I had
a critique, it would only be because I know, because
of demographics, the people buy the most crap in their life,
the most luxury crap of their life, between forty eight
and fifty eight, and without without a birth rate to
support that, guess what, we're screwed. So I am totally
on point with you.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Get balls, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Not an actual relative there, Buck, I was like trying
to figure out what exactly was the boy. But yes,
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revolution there. Nancy in Michigan Nancy, what you.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Got for us?
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Oh, hey, you guys, congratulations on Tennessee. It's awesome. But
I was listening last week. I wasn't able to get through.
This guy from New York called and he was dis
and Trump because he's trying to get along with the
commie mayor elect. Well, you know, it's all about keeping
your friends close and your enemies closer. And people should
(26:24):
not give up on.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Trump that quick.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
He knows what he's doing. You gotta trust the guy.
You know, he's incredible what he does.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, we were saying this too, and this is this
is Buck speaking from the New Yorker perspective or I
guess former New Yorker. Now, there was no upside for
Trump being grof were rude? Mom, Donnie hasn't done anything
other than run a campaign where he said, you know,
and said some things in the past that Trump disagrees with.
But Trump's approach of, hey, if you want to be
(26:55):
more reasonable than people expect, you know, we're willing to
meet you on some of the issues where you're going
to be reasonable. Yeah, maybe mom, Donnie forgets all that
and acts like the lunatic we think he'll be. But
at least Trump gave him the opportunity, at least Trump's.
At least Trump was willing to be the bigger man
and say to him, if you want to be a
good mayor, we're here for you. And I think that's
(27:16):
absolutely the approach. What's the alternative, Trump looking like some
petulant child. I can't believe you won. You're terrible. This
is the White House, he's the president. He did exactly
the right thing.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I think once they made the decision to have the
face to face meeting, if Trump wanted to continue to
snipe and go back and forth, I think he would
have not done the meeting, if that makes sense. Once
you're going to be face to face in the White House,
I don't think you win substantially by having that battle
in public in that same way, if that makes sense.
(27:47):
By the way, eight hundred and two two two eight
eight two uh we uh will continue to take some
of your calls during the course of the program.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I want to know why. Sometimes I legitimately get curious,
you know, you guys who want to get on the
air anytime that you leave us with a little bit
of a tease, Like I just was told here that
someone wants to pull my man card. I'm like, what
did I do? This is truck driver Steve. We love
our truckers. You guys are with us three hours a day,
a lot of you all across this country. Truck driver
(28:14):
Steve Clay, this is CC, says he's pulling my man card.
I don't even know what I did yet, play CEC.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
He guys, truck driver Steve here, you know we might
have to seriously consider pulling bucks mankard. I mean the
drinking tea thing, giving the wife the blanket for her feet.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
Come on, dude, get me drinking a beer and putting
an empty.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Beer box on our feet. I'd tell you, truck driver Steve,
happy carry means a happy everybody around here. If I
got if, I gotta give her the blanket. I gotta,
you know, give her a foot rub, whatever, wife he needs.
Wife he gets okay by the fact there's no man
card getting pulled over that one.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
The fact that you have got the air conditioner turned
up too high that you need a blanket while you're
watching the show.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Is it's a little bit of a taunt on the rest.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
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When do we have a nor'easter?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I think with the ac indoors here in South Florida,
sometimes it'll get to sixty eight or sixty nine degrees
and that's just ooh, it's chili. Yeah, I'm gonna be
down next week.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'm not gonna lie. I'm looking. I'm looking more to
h South.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
He's gonna be wearing flip flops appropriately next week instead
of having his toes turn blue in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So I went down to get my newspaper this morning
and my flip flops and uh, but it was cool.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It was cold. Wake, I'll wake you up in the morning.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I'm the only person who's still get I'm living in
fear buck every time I open my email that they're
gonna stop delivering print newspapers. This is I moved to
a new location here and I had to switch and
I was like, oh, my goodness, are they still gonna
be able to get my newspapers here or not? And uh,
that's got me a little bit nervous and not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
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Speaker 2 (32:15):
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We're gonna
get into here coming up in a little bit more
on this story out of Minnesota. Tim Walls land about
and with a lot of Somali immigrants about the Somali
fraud that has been going on there. Trump weighed in
on this, Clay, and We're gonna talk about it because
(32:37):
the President's talking about it. So I think that's certainly
something that we should dive into. And we have a
lot of great talkbacks and a lot of people who
are weighing in currently this one I did. I'm just
curious what she's going to say here. Again, it's like
a tease because she's going after the part of Williamson
County that Clay lives in. I don't even know there's
(32:58):
a thing, Lisa. This is ee on the talk backs
hit it.
Speaker 11 (33:02):
This is Lisa, and I lived in Williamson County, but
I live in the Republican part that did not vote yesterday.
I made sure I lived in this part of Tennessee.
You're in the walk part. You knew that when you
moved there. You are not in the hardcore Republican center
of Williamson County because if you voted in that election yesterday,
you're in the wrong part.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Gee saying you're in the squishy part, Clay, this squishy,
not so hardcore Republican part of your county, sir.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I will say the Williamson County part of my county
is such that the left wingers on social media were
fired up about how well it voted for Matt van Epps.
In fact, it barely swung and I was actually, I'll
pull this up because it was.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
It was pretty great.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I love when people who here's what a couple of
people said. Suburban Williamson County just absolutely nooked. Afton Bane
went from Trump plus thirty and twenty four to Van
Epps plus twenty four, which is basically nearly I mean,
people showed up in big numbers. I love Williamson County.
(34:17):
I love this place. Remember bucket was the school board meeting.
Here was one of the first times where I said, hey,
we're starting to finally see some substantial pushback against the
crazy Biden era. And then some guy who has the
tag liberal Hoosier, who was a left winger from Indiana,
poor Bastard said, in response to these turnout numbers, that
(34:38):
place is a white supremacist haven. A bunch of far
right pundits live there, like Matt Walsh and Clay Travis.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh yeah, dude, Franklin and Britwin are awful. Dude, Matt,
Matt Walsh's gonna be so sad, so sad when he
hears this mean thing said about him.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Uh Kiddith frank in Tennessee, God's country.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
What you got for us?
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, hey, guys. One of the things I wanted to
just say is, you know, I'm sure the left will
be going crazy today about how they shrunk the the
uh you know, the vote with only winning by nine points.
But I mean, I'm a lifelong Middle Tennessee and and
I contribute that shortfall completely to Republicans just not getting
(35:25):
out and voting around the holidays, people living their lives.
I just think the special election I just think it
really had everything to do with that because I was
calling a lot of my friends that I know were conservatives,
and the majority of them as of yesterday had not
voted and hadn't really hadn't really planned to get out
and do it. Yeah, so that's to me, that is
(35:47):
you know, that's what the difference was. That we've had
a lot of people moved down here Clays, you know,
from outside the state, but I mean Middle Tennessee and
Tennestens in general. We just don't believe in all that
garbage that he was finishing. And uh, they I don't
think they shrunk anything other than Republicans, just like we
always seemed to do. A lot of times, we get
(36:10):
a little lazy. We live our own lives and we
don't go out and because we think everything is great.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think that's exactly right from Kenneth, and uh, I
think winning by nine that's why I was happy that
we just yeah, look us native Middle Tennesseeans like me
who live in God's Country Williamson County.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Uh, we have what did what did I miss? What's
the frequency? Kenneth?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Come on, No, I didn't even get your r em joke.
I didn't get your r EM joke. I've got an
uncle Kenneth. He's a great guy that he was excited
at the results too. He knows the frequency.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Thank you. The team in New York is giving me
high fives from Afar
Welcome in the Kalay Travis buck Sexton Show. We appreciate
all of you, especially those of you who heard the
clarion call to show up yesterday in the final election
of twenty twenty five in Tennessee's seventh congressional district, where
(00:21):
you guys got out the vote and comfortably helped Matt
Van Ebbs become my congressman. He won by a round
nine point in a frankly turnout that was roughly half
of what typically happens in congressional races. This was You're
(00:43):
going to hear a lot of spin, although it seems
to me that they have already kind of dropped this
story in the legacy media and as a result, they
are not paying a lot of attention to this because
the result was a very comfortable win for Matt Van
Epps nine points. They initially tried to say, well, Trump
(01:04):
won this district by twenty two points in twenty twenty four,
and yeah, that's true. Way less people showed up to vote.
The Democrat crazy Bass shows up to vote in all
of these special elections. This was their best opportunity to
get a steal in this seat, and they lost by
(01:26):
nine points. So congrats to Matt Van Epps. It took
a lot of efforts to make people aware that this
race was happening. Yesterday, in the middle of the holiday season,
the week after Thanksgiving. We had him on this show twice,
President Trump, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. They all
got out, and I want to say thank you to
(01:48):
everybody who showed up for this race, and frankly, Buck,
I think there are a lot of people out there
who would have been voting Van Epps that still had
no idea this race was taking place because it was
a December election, the week after Thanksgiving special election. New
congressional districts just very difficult to mobilize. This was the
(02:11):
best case scenario for the Democrat Party. I watched the
results come in. I celebrated by kicking back and finishing
the first four episodes of season five of Stranger Things
with the Travis Boyce. It was a fun night in
the Travis household. That's how we celebrated Buck.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm of two minds on this, Okay. On the one hand, yes,
of course, this is a Republican win, good for the country.
Afton Bane was clearly a lunatic, and the good guys
won this round. That's all true, and it's important for
the midterms that they didn't get some crazy, off off
(02:54):
year special election win that they could turn into. All
of that is true, But there's a little part of
me that is sad, a little part of me that
has had to sit here while you have thrown all
sorts of calumnies. Is that the right word at New
York City for Mom Donnie's win. And I was going
to have some fun with the fact that your district
(03:15):
might have been full commie. There perhaps could have been
breadlines outside of peg Leg Porker, my favorite Nashville barbecue.
There would have been girls on those outdoor bar bicycle things,
singing the Soviet national anthem and drinking nothing but cheap vodka,
because that's how the motherland of the Soviet Union would
(03:38):
have wanted it. So on the one hand, yes, Clay,
the good guys won. On the other hand, the opportunity
for all of us to troll you for living in
a communist dystopia district is now gone. So I just
wanted to be honest about that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I am so glad that I don't have to worry
about having this crazy chick representing me apt in Baine.
She got kicked to the curb, and I do think so,
you know, she's going to be tweeting at you and
all the daily wire guys, and the trolling that you
were going to have to endure would have just been
(04:10):
very difficult.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The cope now, in my mentions, the cope now is well,
this is a crazy right wing district where racists like
Clay Travis lived.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's really hard to win.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And let me just tell you, thank the ward that
I live where I do. I live in Williamson County, Tennessee,
God's country. I am never leaving for the rest of
my life. I am living right here in this county.
I think I've said this on the air before, Buck,
I don't know if I I think I've told you.
I don't know if I've said it on the air
after COVID. I told my wife, I said, you know,
(04:49):
we've been picking a new place to live in the
area because the boys are getting bigger and we want
to be a little bit closer to their school. All
those things, I said, you can find us a I said,
I will not live in Davidson County. That is Nashville's
Davidson County, where I was born and raised, because I'm
still so angry of how they handled COVID. I said,
(05:10):
you know, look, it's a small thing, but I will
not give them property tax dollars because I am so
angry about the choices they made during COVID. So Williamson County,
which is for those of you who know the Nashville area, Brentwood, Franklin,
it is the greatest place I think anywhere in the country.
I do not ever want to leave here. And when
you looked at the results, Williamson County showed up for
(05:33):
Matt Van Epps in big numbers. And I do think
this is an important story going forward, Buck because the
nation may be saying, Okay, this race is over. What
we learned.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
One.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You got to run towards Trump. You cannot run away
from him. I mean, this is the story.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
This is what, this is what Congressman elect Van Epps
just said, This is cut one. Listen to him say it.
Cutwall on and with President Donald J.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Trump and stood firmly behind our campaign. I am humbled
beyond belief to stand before you tonight as your next representative.
I say this to my friends in the liberal media
and to the professional panickers and my own party. Tonight
we showed running from Trump is how you lose. Running
(06:25):
with Trump is how you win.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Look, I think it's going to be a big decision
in twenty six and I am super optimistic, as we
have talked about on this program that the economy is
going to be very good by the summer, and that
is going to be ultimately I believe, the deciding factor
in many of these different races out there. But there
are going to be a lot of people who have
to make decisions about how to win without Trump on
(06:52):
the ballot. And Donald Trump is never going to be
on the ballot again for the rest of our lives.
There are a lot of people who show up to
supper Trump that do not show up in races when
Trump's not on the ballot. So I am cautiously optimistic
for twenty six. But I do think one of the
lessons of what happened here was Trump is doing a
(07:13):
good job. You cannot run away from him, and you
absolutely positively need to motivate the base that is the
Republican Party because there's a lot of non traditional voters
and this is going to be true all these off
year elections. To the extent that people are out there listening,
I would really implore if you're a Republican in Congress,
I get that you may be unhappy, or there may
(07:36):
be life related concerns. I don't understand why you would
leave and force an off year election or an off
calendar election. At this point, please stay. The opportunity here
was created because my Congressman Mark Green decided to step down.
The only way these people win in Trump districts is
(08:00):
by relying on these off calendar elections. When the crazy
Democrat voters show up, they're more loyal. They just are and.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Loyal. I can't. They have less to do. They tend
not to have jobs and families the same way that
our voters do. You know, they're sitting around without a
whole lot on the calendar except dyeing their hair purple
and talking about fascism in Trump's America. So yes, they
show up. I'm not sure it's a loyalty thing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Our people are busy picking the kids up from uh well,
I think soccer press probably. But maybe what I say loyal,
I mean their political belief is all that defines them.
I think we're saying somewhat similar things. If you're a
Trump voter, there's a lot of things going on in
your life. You're probably religious, you're committed to a church.
You probably have a family. You're obligated to be running
(08:56):
your kids or your grandkids all over the place. There
are a lot of people for whom the Democrat Party
has become their sun, moon and stars. It's their religion,
it's their life, it's their entire value system. It is
something that fundamentally defines them.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It gives them identity. Yeah, that is that is who
they are. And that's why they're so annoying about it.
When you were sitting next to them at any kind
of a function, or if they figure out what you
or I do, for example, they want to start telling
us what's really going on. Let me tell you a thing, sir.
I mean, I'll be honest with you. Buck.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
When I went and voted yesterday, it was cold. You know,
it's thirty five degrees, like the worst weather that Nashville
can have. Yeah, on that down here in South Florida, Pepes,
none of that. The best thing about when I lived
in the in the in the Caribbean for a couple
of years, when I was a young kid. When you
watch bad weather other places and you live in great weather,
(09:52):
You're just like, why do people do this? You know,
you're already doing it all you Miami people.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You sit in here, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Warm, in your perfect weather, and you're like, why would
you be a place where it snows. You know, you're
watching a football game on television, or you're watching the
weather reports, and you're just like, what a crazy idea
that these people have to just go sit in the cold.
The afton Bane supporters buck old women. It was super cold.
(10:18):
They were standing outside on the street for hours, no cover,
with aften Baine signs. And I'm not talking. I mean
these are not like twenty year old college kids. This
is like seventy five year old women. Their entire life
purpose is the Democrat Party. And I think there are
(10:38):
a lot of other men that they have grabbed, that
they have captivated as your life's purpose is to show
up and do this work for the Democrat Party, and
that those people show up in these special elections in
a way that I would say, quote unquote people with lives.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah do not necessarily well. This is also why being
being a Democrat means and I'm talking about going back
for decades never having to address personal accountability. Being a
Democrat means that you can have this whole system that
will justify choices you made based on convenience, based on emotion,
(11:14):
based on how it made you feel at the time.
I would argue that the central ethos of the Democrat
party runs contrary to the wisdom that you accrue from life.
And so if you are a woman in your sixties
or your seventies who has always, always, always voted Democrat,
it is in fact, in some ways more important than
ever that you perpetuate that system, because the moment you
(11:37):
start to question it, you question a lot of things
that you have thought and done in your life previously.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm weird in this way, probably many ways. Many of
you out there are going to say, I'm willing to
accept that I could be wrong about everything, and I.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I mean, maybe it's partly legal training, maybe partly it's
just a willingness to accept and acknowledge larger questions out there.
I think a lot of our listeners are I think
a lot of our listeners are in that camp.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And with age comes wisdom.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And I don't you know when there's a twenty year
old running around who has an opinion. I tend to
think and hope that as they have life experience, they
will become more educated. You have kids, you have different experiences.
You become a grandparent, you have different experiences.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But you're right.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I think a lot of these crazy left wing people,
they're so committed to it being their identity how they
vote that if they ever examined that even the party
that they vote for is no longer the party of
the nineteen eighties or the nineteen nineties, it would require
them to revoke much of their entire life's work, and
they're unwilling to have that realization.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
A lot of things that they have believed for a
long time would start to crumble before their eyes. So
that's why they're like at in pain free Palestine, climate
change is an existential threat, because if they stopped the hysteria,
they would look around and they'd have to think. I
really wasn't very nice to people who were important in
my life at different times. I really didn't think about others.
(13:13):
I really didn't put my country or my community first
in any meaningful way. I just pretended and voted for
these silly commies. That's my view of it, at least.
All right, Look last night, I you know, Clay, I'm
a modest guy, but I got to tell everybody about
this one. I was all cozy on the couch, and
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Speaker 1 (13:45):
It is pretty bubble. And my wife did South Florida,
this is that you got? Your air conditioning was going on. Yeah,
I was gonna say, the air conditioning is very strong here.
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Speaker 2 (15:49):
All right, welcome back, he into Clay and Buck. Uh
Van Apps Matt van Apps brought home the w we
had yesterday Speaker of the House Johnson and Van Apps
calling in, and we were hitting this one hard because,
as we had been telling you all along, it would
have been both sad exclamation point and in some ways
(16:10):
kind of funny for those of us who don't live there.
If Clay's congresswoman was maybe the most insane single member
of the United States Congress living in this wonderful red
state of Tennessee, but an absolutely insane member of Congress.
She did not end up winning. Leslie in Birmingham, Alabama
is on the phone. She wants to chat with us
about this. What's going on? Leslie, Hey, good.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Morning, Yes, sirs, I listen to you guys every day,
and I really want to just send my kudos and
big thank you for making the country aware of the situation.
I have two young adult sons who are married and Tennessee.
One lives in Franklin, one lives in Nashville, and because
of your show and bringing this to light, I contacted
(16:51):
them hoping that would transfer into for more votes for
the rest stay to Tennessee. So thank you, Thank you, Wesley.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
We're glad to have done a small part. I do
think awareness was the key here. Again, a lot of
people know when the midterm elections are going on, when
the certainly the presidential elections are going on, getting people
out to vote. Buck, we were talking about this off
air turnout about fifty percent roughly of what a traditional
election would be, which is why this margin went from
twenty two to nine. But they were trying to steal
(17:21):
the election. By the way, I will be in Birmingham
next Wednesday raising a bunch of money for a big
charity event, Birmingham Quarterback Club. I'm speaking down there. I
think they have hundreds of people, so hopefully I can
entertain them. But I'll be down in Birmingham next week.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah. I like Birmingham. That is really tied to my
first ever college football at a big level experience because
that's where I was hanging out before we went to Tuscaloosa,
another very fun town I had not been to before.
I meant to mention this, by the way, Paul Finebaum
not running for senate. I mentioned it on social media.
I didn't mention it yesterday on the program.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
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We'll get some of your calls here momentarily. But Buck,
(19:08):
I saw this stat this morning as I surveyed the
landscape of the stock market. American Eagle Outfitters. You remember
when American Eagle was in the news back in the summer,
when they brought Sydney Sweeney the Buxom. I think is
the way that you described her bucks of glass into
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their into their advertising world. They did the great Jeens commercial.
For those of you out there that have forgotten about this,
I do think culturally this is significant. It's just a
pretty girl wearing jeans. They sold out of the jeans,
but then she said she people. That's the craziest part.
The people on the left said, well, this is Nazi eugenics.
(19:55):
You know, how can a blonde, blue eyed girl says
that she has great jeans. They had the big discussion
all through left wing media. American Eagle stock is soaring
to again today buck after they beat earnings estimates. They
now have gone up over over three dollars today. If
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you bought the stock the day the ad campaign began,
stock is up one hundred and twenty percent, you would
have more than doubled your money. If you had simply
seen a buck some lass in a Jens commercial that
was being criticized and thought, you know what, I think
America might respond well to a pretty girl selling blue jeans.
(20:41):
And guess what, America has responded quite well to it.
I think what you're seeing And people say, okay, well,
why does this matter? We were so lied to When
you were walking through the mall and you saw a fat,
androgynous chick in a bra and a panty in the
window at Victoria's Secret, and you thought to yourself, boy,
(21:04):
I don't know that you know, I want to buy
underwear When the model looks like Clay Travis might as
well have a beard and a broad and panties on.
I don't know that that's really gonna make a lot
of sense, but they tried to slam this home through
the culture. Advertising agencies are among the wokest of all
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brands in the entire world. They try to make you
think that the world looks differently than it does, and
that you should like things that you don't. It's all
going up in flames, all of it. And I thought
that anyway, as I'm watching that stock price sore, I
did think it was was super interesting in that respect.
(21:47):
We got a bunch of people who went to weigh
in Carmen in Florida. Let's take some of your calls, Carmen,
what you got for us?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
How are you doing?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Guys? Listen? This is my take on it. I'm so
glad that van jan as for the Republicans because it
had been the other Democrat, AOC would have would have
thought that her, you know, her movement, her socialist movement,
would have been the way to go validated, you know.
(22:15):
And not only that, because she was so successful with
Mandana and she thought that she can do the same
with this with this Democrat lady. And I just think
that that would have blown her head even more. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Look, I think in general, when you start to look
through all of all of the arguments that are going
to be out there, what you're going to see is
what works in New York City in LA. And this
should be common sense, But for a lot of Democrats
it's not. What works in New York City and in
LA is not going to work in the same way
(22:50):
in the larger you know, the battleground states. I was
looking at numbers coming out of Michigan, for instance. I
think we got a real shot in Michigan of flipping
the governor's seat and the Senate seat there. Remember Trump
won Michigan by a relatively small, tight margin. But there
are big battleground states out there that I think the
(23:13):
idea of Mom, Donnie and this crazy after bainchick are
not going to pan out. Tom in Tampa. What you
got for us?
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Hey, First, I do want to talk about that. I'm
so happy about David kaya wibsy Cary so boy. But
I do want to give you a free plug for
the audio book Falls. Okay, I not only got my copy,
but a former salesmaner my best friend, used to draw
the balls up on the easel and I got him
one for Christmas. So Joe, this one's for you. Clay.
(23:45):
On the election, obviously, praise God for you for what
you did and everything. But I have to also say
I am totally shocked that mat spread was only nine points.
I'm sitting there saying, like I've spent a lot of
time in David, the county wins the county even though
I'm in Tampa like that, that's where it should have
(24:07):
been twenty five thirty points. And also one last thing
on balls, you and I have the same grandfather. Mine
came through Els Island. So I'll listen to you.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So you you have family members calling in now, Clay,
this makes sense given I don't know how we have.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
The same grandfather here, But but I appreciate Tom and Tampa.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I don't have any runnings. I thought he was a
member of your family before he even said the part
about genealogy. That guy, what do you what do you say?
And how do we have the same grandfather?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Tom?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I didn't know I had any relatives in Tampa.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
The same grandfather has to do with people have to get.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Your audio book to understand your dynamic about about grandparents
and and just so you know I stay up at
night worrying about the birth rate just like you do.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
If I had a critique of Balls. If I had
a critique, it would only be because I know, because
of demographics, the people buy the most crap in their life,
the most luxury crap of their life, between forty eight
and fifty eight, and without without a birth rate to
support that, guess what, we're screwed. So I am totally
on point with you.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Get balls, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Not an actual relative there, Buck, I was like trying
to figure out what exactly was the boy. But yes,
look the book. By the way, you can get it
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revolution there. Nancy in Michigan Nancy, what you.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Got for us?
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Oh, hey, you guys, congratulations on Tennessee. It's awesome. But
I was listening last week. I wasn't able to get through.
This guy from New York called and he was dis
and Trump because he's trying to get along with the
commie mayor elect. Well, you know, it's all about keeping
your friends close and your enemies closer. And people should
(26:24):
not give up on.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Trump that quick.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
He knows what he's doing. You gotta trust the guy.
You know, he's incredible what he does.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, we were saying this too, and this is this
is Buck speaking from the New Yorker perspective or I
guess former New Yorker. Now, there was no upside for
Trump being grof were rude? Mom, Donnie hasn't done anything
other than run a campaign where he said, you know,
and said some things in the past that Trump disagrees with.
But Trump's approach of, hey, if you want to be
(26:55):
more reasonable than people expect, you know, we're willing to
meet you on some of the issues where you're going
to be reasonable. Yeah, maybe mom, Donnie forgets all that
and acts like the lunatic we think he'll be. But
at least Trump gave him the opportunity, at least Trump's.
At least Trump was willing to be the bigger man
and say to him, if you want to be a
good mayor, we're here for you. And I think that's
(27:16):
absolutely the approach. What's the alternative, Trump looking like some
petulant child. I can't believe you won. You're terrible. This
is the White House, he's the president. He did exactly
the right thing.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I think once they made the decision to have the
face to face meeting, if Trump wanted to continue to
snipe and go back and forth, I think he would
have not done the meeting, if that makes sense. Once
you're going to be face to face in the White House,
I don't think you win substantially by having that battle
in public in that same way, if that makes sense.
(27:47):
By the way, eight hundred and two two two eight
eight two uh we uh will continue to take some
of your calls during the course of the program.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I want to know why. Sometimes I legitimately get curious,
you know, you guys who want to get on the
air anytime that you leave us with a little bit
of a tease, Like I just was told here that
someone wants to pull my man card. I'm like, what
did I do? This is truck driver Steve. We love
our truckers. You guys are with us three hours a day,
a lot of you all across this country. Truck driver
(28:14):
Steve Clay, this is CC, says he's pulling my man card.
I don't even know what I did yet, play CEC.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
He guys, truck driver Steve here, you know we might
have to seriously consider pulling bucks mankard. I mean the
drinking tea thing, giving the wife the blanket for her feet.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
Come on, dude, get me drinking a beer and putting
an empty.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Beer box on our feet. I'd tell you, truck driver Steve,
happy carry means a happy everybody around here. If I
got if, I gotta give her the blanket. I gotta,
you know, give her a foot rub, whatever, wife he needs.
Wife he gets okay by the fact there's no man
card getting pulled over that one.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
The fact that you have got the air conditioner turned
up too high that you need a blanket while you're
watching the show.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Is it's a little bit of a taunt on the rest.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Of America right now, which is dealing with snowpocalypts all over.
When do we have a nor'easter?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I think with the ac indoors here in South Florida,
sometimes it'll get to sixty eight or sixty nine degrees
and that's just ooh, it's chili. Yeah, I'm gonna be
down next week.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'm not gonna lie. I'm looking. I'm looking more to
h South.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
He's gonna be wearing flip flops appropriately next week instead
of having his toes turn blue in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So I went down to get my newspaper this morning
and my flip flops and uh, but it was cool.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It was cold. Wake, I'll wake you up in the morning.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I'm the only person who's still get I'm living in
fear buck every time I open my email that they're
gonna stop delivering print newspapers. This is I moved to
a new location here and I had to switch and
I was like, oh, my goodness, are they still gonna
be able to get my newspapers here or not? And uh,
that's got me a little bit nervous and not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
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Speaker 2 (32:15):
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We're gonna
get into here coming up in a little bit more
on this story out of Minnesota. Tim Walls land about
and with a lot of Somali immigrants about the Somali
fraud that has been going on there. Trump weighed in
on this, Clay, and We're gonna talk about it because
(32:37):
the President's talking about it. So I think that's certainly
something that we should dive into. And we have a
lot of great talkbacks and a lot of people who
are weighing in currently this one I did. I'm just
curious what she's going to say here. Again, it's like
a tease because she's going after the part of Williamson
County that Clay lives in. I don't even know there's
(32:58):
a thing, Lisa. This is ee on the talk backs
hit it.
Speaker 11 (33:02):
This is Lisa, and I lived in Williamson County, but
I live in the Republican part that did not vote yesterday.
I made sure I lived in this part of Tennessee.
You're in the walk part. You knew that when you
moved there. You are not in the hardcore Republican center
of Williamson County because if you voted in that election yesterday,
you're in the wrong part.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Gee saying you're in the squishy part, Clay, this squishy,
not so hardcore Republican part of your county, sir.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I will say the Williamson County part of my county
is such that the left wingers on social media were
fired up about how well it voted for Matt van Epps.
In fact, it barely swung and I was actually, I'll
pull this up because it was.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
It was pretty great.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I love when people who here's what a couple of
people said. Suburban Williamson County just absolutely nooked. Afton Bane
went from Trump plus thirty and twenty four to Van
Epps plus twenty four, which is basically nearly I mean,
people showed up in big numbers. I love Williamson County.
(34:17):
I love this place. Remember bucket was the school board meeting.
Here was one of the first times where I said, hey,
we're starting to finally see some substantial pushback against the
crazy Biden era. And then some guy who has the
tag liberal Hoosier, who was a left winger from Indiana,
poor Bastard said, in response to these turnout numbers, that
(34:38):
place is a white supremacist haven. A bunch of far
right pundits live there, like Matt Walsh and Clay Travis.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh yeah, dude, Franklin and Britwin are awful. Dude, Matt,
Matt Walsh's gonna be so sad, so sad when he
hears this mean thing said about him.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Uh Kiddith frank in Tennessee, God's country.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
What you got for us?
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, hey, guys. One of the things I wanted to
just say is, you know, I'm sure the left will
be going crazy today about how they shrunk the the
uh you know, the vote with only winning by nine points.
But I mean, I'm a lifelong Middle Tennessee and and
I contribute that shortfall completely to Republicans just not getting
(35:25):
out and voting around the holidays, people living their lives.
I just think the special election I just think it
really had everything to do with that because I was
calling a lot of my friends that I know were conservatives,
and the majority of them as of yesterday had not
voted and hadn't really hadn't really planned to get out
and do it. Yeah, so that's to me, that is
(35:47):
you know, that's what the difference was. That we've had
a lot of people moved down here Clays, you know,
from outside the state, but I mean Middle Tennessee and
Tennestens in general. We just don't believe in all that
garbage that he was finishing. And uh, they I don't
think they shrunk anything other than Republicans, just like we
always seemed to do. A lot of times, we get
(36:10):
a little lazy. We live our own lives and we
don't go out and because we think everything is great.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think that's exactly right from Kenneth, and uh, I
think winning by nine that's why I was happy that
we just yeah, look us native Middle Tennesseeans like me
who live in God's Country Williamson County.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Uh, we have what did what did I miss? What's
the frequency? Kenneth?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Come on, No, I didn't even get your r em joke.
I didn't get your r EM joke. I've got an
uncle Kenneth. He's a great guy that he was excited
at the results too. He knows the frequency.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Thank you. The team in New York is giving me
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