July 6, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicked off with a wide-ranging discussion centered on the aftermath of the America 250 celebration, the growing cultural divide over patriotism, and an unexpected sports controversy that dominated national attention. Clay and Buck reflected on Independence Day festivities and argued that the nation's 250th anniversary highlighted stark differences between Americans who proudly celebrate the country's history and those on the political left who are increasingly critical of the United States. The hosts framed patriotism, American exceptionalism, national identity, and civic pride as defining themes of the hour.
The dominant topic throughout Hour 1 was the controversy surrounding the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team and President Donald Trump’s involvement in overturning a controversial red card issued to one of America’s top players ahead of a critical World Cup match against Belgium. Clay explained the circumstances surrounding the player’s ejection and suspension, arguing that the original call was unjustified and significantly harmed the United States' chances in the tournament. The hosts discussed FIFA rules, video review technology, international reaction to the decision, and the legal appeals process that ultimately allowed the player to return to action. They praised Trump for advocating on behalf of the United States and argued that sports officials should prioritize correcting obvious mistakes rather than allowing flawed rulings to stand.
The conversation expanded into a broader examination of the FIFA World Cup’s impact on America’s global image. Clay and Buck argued that the tournament has served as an international showcase for the United States, highlighting positive experiences shared by foreign visitors throughout the country. They pointed to social media content from tourists visiting Texas and other American cities, suggesting that many international visitors have been impressed by American hospitality, infrastructure, culture, and energy. The hosts described the World Cup as an enormous success for the United States and a major opportunity to strengthen perceptions of America around the world.
Throughout the hour, the hosts repeatedly emphasized the scale of the World Cup audience, noting that more than 100 million Americans had already watched tournament action and predicting that the upcoming United States-Belgium match would become one of the most-viewed television events of the year. They compared the anticipated audience to major NFL playoff games and the Super Bowl, arguing that the tournament had generated unprecedented interest among American sports fans. Listener calls reflected enthusiasm for the U.S. national team and growing support for soccer’s place in American sports culture.
The hosts also discussed what they viewed as partisan reactions to the controversy. They criticized political opponents of President Trump who expressed support for Belgium or opposition to the red-card reversal, arguing that some critics appeared more interested in opposing Trump than supporting American athletes. The discussion touched on political polarization, nationalism, international competition, and the role of sports as a unifying force during major national events.
Several listener calls added additional perspective to the soccer debate. Callers discussed the growth of soccer in America, shared stories connected to professional and collegiate soccer, and reflected on how the World Cup has brought Americans together. One caller recounted playing alongside Prince Albert of Monaco at Amherst College, while another argued that many foreign visitors attending the World Cup demonstrate a greater appreciation for America than some domestic critics. The discussion blended sports, immigration, patriotism, and cultural identity into a broader conversation about what it means to support the United States.
Beyond soccer, Hour 1 also examined political reactions to America’s 250th anniversary celebration. Clay and Buck praised the nationwide festivities, including fireworks displays, military performances, and patriotic events held across the country. Clay shared his experience attending the America 250 celebration at Mount Rushmore, where President Trump delivered remarks. Listener feedback highlighted appreciation for the event’s focus on military performers rather than celebrity entertainers, reinforcing the hosts’ themes of patriotism, service, and national unity.
The hosts contrasted those celebrations with criticism from progressive politicians and commentators. They specifically discussed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and other left-leaning figures whom they argued focus excessively on America’s shortcomings. The conversation evolved into a broader critique of what the hosts described as anti-American sentiment within s
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody, Monday, July sixth edition of Clay and Buck,
and it is going to be a doozy. Great to
have you with us. Hope you got a fantastic two
hundred and fiftieth. I was down here in South Florida,
did some barbecuing, fireworks, watching America celebrating, and then yesterday
I cheered on jolly Old England as they defeated Mexico
(00:24):
on their home turf. Clay, A lot happening here. I
know you've been back for a couple of days from us.
You probably told everybody about Hawaii, Big Kahuna, Clay Travis,
very good, very good. Some people are saying on the surfboard,
very good. But I trust you had a fantastic vacation.
We're finally now back here in action dynamic duo of
(00:45):
Clay and Buck, and there's much to discuss, although I
was a little surprised to see coming out of the
two fiftieth. A couple of things. One, Clay, we have
the way people who listen to this show and see
the world like we do, the way that we all
think of the two fiftieth, and then people like Mamdani
and Democrats and others who take it as an opportunity
(01:05):
to dump on and basically cry about America, which is
I suppose entirely unsurprising. That was what I thought would
be our main focus today as we come back, Although
it turns out, Clay, the streams have been crossed. We
are now in dare I say, a Shark NATO, perhaps
(01:26):
a Clay NATO of content situation where we have Trump
intervening with FIFA, the World soccer federation body, during a
World club here, a World Cup here, on us soil
over the course of America's not just Independence Day celebration,
but two hundred and fifty years of American independence, and
(01:50):
also now getting into the legal wrangling around the rules.
Although I suppose it's kind of just like a soccer associations,
they can make it up as they go along. Clay,
a red card removed for an American national team player.
You broke the story as I understand it over the weekend.
(02:10):
So now Klay's a breaking news guy too. He's not
just a commentator, a breaking news guy. The President intervening
on America's two hundred and fifty is birthday so that
our men's national team tonight will have its highest goal
scorer on the pitch to fight against Belgium in a
do or die situation. It feels like a sports show
(02:32):
all of a sudden, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't know to what extent this audience has been
closely following this story. So let me give you like
one minute if you're out there and you're thinking to yourself,
what in the world is going on here? The United
States best goal scorer, fuller in Balligan, was suspended in
(02:55):
a match that we won against Bosnia, and he was
suspended in a way that was unjustified according to most people.
I think you coach soccer when you saw that he
got the red card for this. For people who don't know,
a red card gets you kicked off the field, so
(03:16):
your team has to play one man down for the
remainder of the game, and then it gets you a
suspension for the next game. So it's an incredibly punitive
penalty that is brought to bear. But let me ask
you this, because you coached high school soccer for a while,
if one of your players had gotten a red card
(03:36):
for what occurred in this match, would you have lost
your mind on the sideline as a coach.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes, I absolutely would have. I did Clay and I
is interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
We're both proud patriotic Americans who both played as youths
and enjoy watching soccer, which kind of for some people
makes us lose American points whever not while our US
men's national team is in the midst of a hosted
by America World Cup. And let me tell you, for
all of you who are like, I don't care soccer,
(04:11):
I don't care, this has been a tour de force
for the whole world to see how awesome America is. Yes,
it really has been. It has been eye opening because
people have been you know, we got to remember the
way that things are shared now on TikTok and Instagram
and everything else. And it's been beautiful to see. To Texas.
(04:34):
You've gotten so much love. People from Tokyo to uh
to Turkey have just been showing up in Texas and
they're like, this place is amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like it's been really cool for America.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So, whether you like soccer or not, back to the
and we can talk more about that because we haven't
had a chance to kind of wrap on that stuff.
And I think that was really a special thing for
our country going into the two fiftieth, but on the
red card Clay, this was the most absurd red car
any human being has ever seen given in any soccer
game ever. Trump is one hundred percent correct to advocate
(05:08):
for America's interest in this and people who are acting
like this is some huge it's all.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It's all a judgment call, folks.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know, it's all a matter of inches here to
borrow from a Pacino in any given Sunday, like Trump's
fighting for that inch.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
So here is the uh what so yesterday, Yes, I
broke news. There's like ten million views on it on Twitter.
Every now and then I jump into the Hey I've
got news, uh, and I will break it President Trump,
this doesn't surprise me at all. In fact, I tweeted
that he would likely get involved because he is a
legitimate sports fan. Andrew Giuliani, who is the head of
(05:47):
basically running the White House Task Force for the World
Cup for into, both of ours been on the program.
A bunch uh and Howard Lutnet, Commerce Secretary all put
together a team of elite wars from outside the government
to be able to work on an appeal. President Trump
has now said, we'll play that audio for you in
(06:08):
a sect that he called Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA,
and basically said the truth, this shouldn't have been.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
A red card. It was a bad call.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And he believed that there was evidence that would suggest
it should be suspended aka overturned, at least in the
short term, and FIFA under their rule governing powers Rule
twenty seven looked at it and said we are suspending
the enforcement of the rule of this red card, and
(06:40):
all of Europe has lost their minds over the fact
that this has occurred. Now buck to me, I look
at this in a functional way. If you make a
bad call and the bad call can be reversed, the
bad call should be reversed like that's.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
To me the essence of this. It shouldn't have been
ever in place.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Although the way I I have to tell you something
about all this, folks, The fact that they now have
this thing, this var this virtual review, just goes to
show you how many soccer games previously just turned on
a whim, particularly on off sides, which I don't care
who you are, without being able to go back and
look at instant replay, and I mean at the absolute
(07:20):
highest level, they were getting off sides calls wrong all
the time all the time, and an off sides call
is the game a lot of the time because if
you don't call, you know you've seen a lot of goals.
It's actually kind of frustrating now a little bit for
the viewer because you'll think someone scored a goal and
then they'll do the off sides review play. The whole
ethos now of the soccer is, in this modern marvelous
(07:41):
age we are in of technology, get it right. This
is about getting it right. This is about a fair hearing.
So the Europeans, no surprise, are whining and crying about this,
particularly Belgium.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And this is great for America tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Can you imagine all so wanting to they really want
to play against a essentially a wounded US men's team,
Like that's.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
How that's how they want to proceed.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
They want they want to be able to say, we
beat America without their second best player, look at how
good we are. So yeah, I think that they're being
a bunch of crybabies. But it is it is the
trump card that has trumped the red card, which on
America's two hundred and fiftieth the symbolism I think is
lost on nobody, and look.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
This is what the president should be.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He should be the foremost advocate for United States interest
in the world. And if you are getting screwed in
a sporting event, then I think it's fine for the
president to step in and be an advocate and put
together government outside of government warriors to be advocates. And
I just think this is what Trump does and I'm
(08:55):
not surprised by it at all.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'm in favor of it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Buck, you are not as as plugged in, certainly to
the college football world. I would also point out this
is what America does. We file lawsuits, we have judges
looking at everything. The idea that there would be politicians
involved in sport related incidents is for anybody who's a
(09:18):
college football fan, your quarterback is probably suing to argue
that he should be able to play. There's been conference
realignment lawsuits where governors and senators have been going toe
to toe. There are reports back in the day during
conference realignment that some senators on the floor had to
be separated. Mitch McConnell, who doesn't want to fight for
(09:40):
anything often times, was ready to come to blows over
whether Louisville was going to be in a conference.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Versus West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
All of this chaos and craziness is part and parcel
of American life. But yes, Bucket felt like this story
was almost perfectly designed for me.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It also it does remind me of when I was
coaching high school soccer in New York Clay We were
undefeated and going into the playoffs, and it was the
last game of the season and I played my best
player only in the second half, who ended up going
on to have a pretty good college career. He was
an exceptional, exceptional like fifteen year old fourteen fifteen year
(10:18):
old soccer player, and he he was being fouled so much,
and the ref was so trash that he wasn't calling,
and he turned around and he dropped kicked a soccer
ball in the kid's face, who like really grabbed his
shirt or whatever. It was a hell of a move,
by the way, but he definitely got a read. He
definitely got a red card for that, And I couldn't
really argue it. I couldn't really argue it because if
you drop kick a soccer ball in someone's face and
(10:40):
purpose as hard as you can and they like fall
down and they're like crying for mommy, You're gonna get
a red card. This red card was sort of the
opposite of that in my in my mind, where it
was you should only get a red card for doing
something that is a clear and willful violation of the
rules and or like dangerous and harmful to another player.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
That's really what it's supposed to be about.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You're geting ejected from two games from the game and
the next day the penalty is too significant, I think
in the first place, if you get kicked out of
a game and your team has to play for one
less player, that should be the end of the penalty, right,
Like not getting to play for thirty minutes with a
guy is pretty severe of a punishment.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It is funny though, I think that people have realized
too the soccer. It's a good thing for soccer that
now they have And anyways, like, why are you guys
talking to this? The President has been more focused on
this the last three days than horn Movez just being
honest with you, Okay. The president has been more in
on this, the president of the United States, this issue
as Clay is hitting in a US men's national team
jersey than anything else in the world. So we're just
(11:43):
following the news cycle. We're not.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
This is not I will say, Fox News, CNN, and
MSNBC all began their our discussions of the biggest news
in the country right now with this story.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So it is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And I think you were talking buck about Americans, and
I think this audience has will be watching this game
tonight against Belgium.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
In overwhelming numbers, huge numbers tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Producer Mak who's probably at home, I don't know. I
don't know if he's in studio right now. He's up
in New York. Producer Mack Clay, who you know, work
with me when I was doing my own show years
and years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
He loves hockey.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He loves hockey, and he was like, you got to
watch that movie Miracle and and you'll be cheering for
America by the end. And I was like, you know
what you're I checked it out. It's absolutely true. I'm
not a hockey guy. But when the US ice hockey
team is either in a moment of glory against against
the Soviets or kicking ass all of a sudden, I'm like,
give me a puck and a stick.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I'm right there with you. Guys.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay, so I do think that there's a little bit
of America, especially because we're hosting this World Cup, which
means we have all these foreigners who are coming here,
uh and and experiencing America, many of them for the
first and it's been quite a scene. It's been a
lot of fun by it's been a huge success. And
you know how you know, it's been a huge success
Anti Trump. The Trump haters are trying to downtalk it. Now, Oh,
(13:11):
Trump didn't do It's not that Trump did such a
good job. It's just some of the format changes.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh, it's not.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It's been a massive success in this country. It's been
the most interesting, you know, World Cup draw that I've
seen in a long time. And Clay, the other funny
thing about this, we're talking about the way left and
right approached the two fiftieth Democrats and Republicans. So many
people who are just Trump hating Democrat commies are angry
(13:37):
about Americans. I'm talking about now, there are American Democrats
who are siding with the r US national team player
should be out. I wish he still had the red card.
That's how much self loathing these filthy American commedies actually have.
They would like to see America's national team hobbled just
(14:00):
because they hate Trump so much.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It is extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
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A two two eight A two America two fifty amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We'll get into that buck.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I don't know if you watched the fireworks display at
I don't know. It's like one am on the East coast.
By the time they went off, it looked it was unbelievable.
If you even if you haven't, go look at the
time lapse, uh and see how all of that broke out.
And I just it was so vintage, over the top,
(14:32):
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Speaker 3 (16:00):
Welcome back in.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
President Trump earlier had a press availability where he was
announcing Trump accounts, and he said this to confirm that
he had been involved.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Listen, if they wouldn't allow you know, a top player,
maybe the best, maybe among the best players on the
team to play, I think it would have had a
big stain. And I related just that Fhil I didn't
tell him what to do. I can't tell him what
to do. But and I don't believe he made the decision.
I think it was a committee that made the decision,
(16:34):
and they made the right decision because number one, it
wasn't a foul. And you want to see a game
with your best players. You don't want to say, how
would you feel if I took Messi out? You know,
he ran into somebody. We took Ronaldo. Ronaldo, you bumped
into somebody. We're going to take you out of a game.
He's great, Well, Harry Kane, Harry Kane, We're going to
(16:55):
take you out of the game, Harry, because you happen
to hit somebody a little bit harder than you can.
You can't do that. If you would have taken him out,
I think I think it would have really stained this
incredible champion. We got to have our best players, and
they've got Belgium's got a great team. By the way,
We have our best players and they have to have
(17:15):
their best and if we win or we lose, it's fair.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So this story tonight we got Monday night football soccer
style buck eight pm Eastern. I think that this has
added so many different layers of interest and I would
bet almost everyone listening to us right now, at some
point in time is gonna watch Clay.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I don't know how I'm gonna handle this thing. I'm
gonna watch with my brothers. Last night, Carry was laughing
at me, She says, you're rubbing off on me. I
was watching my beloved England, my number two team, number
two in my heart, an incredible game against Mexico where
England came out victorious.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I was sweating.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I had to change my shirt after watching the game
because I was so nervous for jolly old England tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I don't know what I'm going to do.
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
The biggest story in America right now, right after the
two fiftieth is, in fact, the US men's national team
playing tonight. The President of the United States, the leader
of the free world, intervening completely unprecedented in a red
card decision in the previous game, which would have kept
out the number one goal scorer most people would say,
probably the most second most valuable player on the US
(19:19):
men's national soccer team. The Trump card deployed to nullify
the red card, if you will, We've got all kinds
of comdness here at home who are crying about it.
You've got Europeans. Of course they're crying. They love crying,
and it's going to be a big thing tonight this game.
(19:40):
But as I've been saying, it's also the timing of
all this with the two fiftieth and the World Cup here,
it has been a phenomenal press for America. I think
for the rest of the world it's also play and
we can get into more of the detailed Clay.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
He's like, no, the FIFA rules we're gonna get into.
We're gonna get into.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But there's also the recognition that I think people need
to have that the view of America that a lot
of including our own left wing media at least like
see I've discussed this before, CNN International is basically enemy propaganda.
If you're overseas and you're watching CNN International, it's an
American channel, but you would think that it is run
(20:19):
by like run by Beijing, and they're paying the bills
for Like CNN International is horrible, and a lot of
people are told to think really bad things about America
that are just not This is why you shouldn't care
when they do these like public opinion polls of America,
really because most people don't know they have no idea
they think this place is really it's so dangerous everywhere.
(20:42):
It's not dangerous everywhere.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It's a lot safer than a lot of places in Mexico,
by the way.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And it's also incredibly welcoming and beautiful, and there's amazing
stuff here.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And the people like visitors, legal visitors, We like.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Visitors, We like people coming to hang out here, and
you know, support our businesses and support everything.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So look, I just think the kids say this, the vibes, the.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Vibes are great right now in America and Trump stepping
in with the whole world. Remember, the whole world is
watching these World Cup what Klay, what's the viewership line? Now,
give us some of this debts sports ball, let's go
what I mean? This is enormous.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, so so far over one hundred point Let me
get the actual number because my buddy at Fox Sports
shared this a little bit earlier today. One hundred point
one hundred and three point four million Americans have watched
the World Cup so far. So we're talking about World
(21:37):
Cup meeting near super Bowl level across the board viewership.
And I'll put it into context for you tonight. And
by the way, I'll put it into context this way.
We have loaded lines with everybody wanting to weigh in
on this late latest controversy. We're going to get to
that in a moment. This will be the most watched
(21:58):
television event other than this is my prediction tonight, other
than the Super Bowl and the AFC and the NFC
championship games, so the three biggest football games of the
year in the NFL, this will be the most watched
of twenty twenty six sporting event on television. More people
(22:19):
will watch this game tonight than the game you and
I went to Miami, Indiana for the College Football National Championship.
Huge and Evan in eastern North Carolina is building on
what you just said, Buck, which is so many of
these foreigners who have come here and fallen in love
with America. Evan, I've had the same thought as you.
(22:40):
You want to replace some of the existing Americans with
these guys who have come in from other countries and
just can't stop talking about how awesome it is.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yeah, first of all, love to show. Then we'll listen
to y'all since the great rush had left us. Got
a shout out to my parents for at least keeping
me straight straight enough not to be a comedy, I'll
tell you that. But yeah, so I just think that
with all these illegals that.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
We already rounding up, all the hate that we're getting
from the media, we just need to get rid of
all of these comedies because.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I feel like that's a threat to a national security
as it is. But we just need to give all
these foreigners as come to the world cud. We just
need to.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Give them, just let them in because they seem like
the ones that we won't, you know, And I hate
when people say that we're racist and all that we're not.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
We just want people to love America like these folks have.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Thank you for the call. I think that's well said.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
By the way, leftists now, President Trump has broken their
brains to such an extent that many of them are
now saying that they are rooting for Belgium. In fact,
this guy, Brian Krasenstein tweeted, I swear while many of
you are likely yelling go America, I'm yelling go Belgium
(24:09):
and the rule of law.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
For the rest of us. Yeah. Yeah, this guy is
really he's oh my god, I mean, just law.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
There's this, there's No, it's a refereeing decision of sporting event. Dude, Relax,
this isn't a magna carta being torn up before your
very eyes.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
It's okay, this is I think. I think that like,
go ahead, go ahead, No, No.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I was gonna hit a couple more calls, but you
it really is. I mean, I imagine you're gonna build
on this. Trump has so broken people's brains that they're
rooting against the U s A in favor of Belgium
over I mean, this is significant over a rule in
a game that was wrong being corrected by the way
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after there's already been a punishment because the US had
to play around thirty minutes with only ten players in
the game against Bosnia. So there's already been a punishment
that was unjust levied. And this is just continuing a
Dana in the tri Cities of Washington.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
What you got for us?
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Well, I just wanted to tag along with what you
said about. You know, usually it's called soccer, but tonight
in America, it's going to be Monday Night football and
we're all going to be watching and sharing on the
US and I just want to know your opinion. I
had heard someone say that maybe they shouldn't start him,
see how the US does without him, just.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
To kind of rub it in a little.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I don't know, what do you.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Think, Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I would absolutely, I would absolutely not Yeah, absolutely, and
I would. I I'd play him and I would leave
him in the game the whole time. I hope he
scores two goals. I want him to have a hat trick.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Your worlds are colliding here, Eric in Delray Beach, Florida.
You can't see the call screen. Eric, explain where you
played soccer?
Speaker 9 (26:14):
Well, anyway, good afternoon, gentlemen. Listen. I was a ball
boy for four years with the Cosmos and my high
school coach was Chepe Messling was a goalie. So I
got to know Kenally and Pale and Beckenbauer and all
those guys. So I hope that this, finally, you know,
puts soccer on the map in the US. It's really
it's a great sport. Anyway, h we are fellow Lord
Jeff alumni and uh. I played four years at Amherst
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College and I was a left wing and the guy
on the right wing was a little bit of a
prissy guy and used to get his butt kicked almost
every game, especially from Williams and Brown name was Prince
Albert from Monaco, and I was the only guy that
really stuck up for him because I was born and
raised in New York City and we don't take any
of that crap, right buck. So anyway, I think I.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Still waits Albert from Monaco.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Ye, this is true. Yes, and he and he shows
up still at like soccer events at homecoming.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yes this is unlie, Yes he does.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
And he's not dressing in women's clothing anymore, which is amazing.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
No, but.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
All kidding around. Yeah, so I used to have a
fight at least once a game, especially from Williams, because
they used to just trip him and elbow them and
bang them up really badly, and got to the point
where his father sent some big tough guys there to
kind of patrol the sidelines of the games after a while.
But yeah, it was pretty wild. But you know what,
this is the most ridiculous red card I've ever seen,
(27:37):
because obviously we watch it in real time, it wasn't
an intentional play, and then they slow it down the
slow motion and stop action, which is against the thief rules. Right.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, Yeah, that was part of the appeal that I
thank you for the call. I can't buck. Did you
expect to have your worlds colliding with.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think we're technically fellow Mastodons now because yes, because we.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Had to get rid of British people with the uh
in fact that he got.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Some small pox blankets to people and it was a mistake.
Nobody's perfect Clay, Remember nobody's perfect.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So you know, Lord Jeff, you know he had a
little he had a little mistake on that one. But yeah,
we're the Masto Dons now. It is true that the
Prince Prince Albert of Monaco went to my college. I
was not there while he was there, but yes, I
can I can imagine all all of that stuff is
h is true? Did you quit Clay? Important question? Did
you ever get a red card? It's a great question
(28:33):
in your soccer career. Did you ever get a red card?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I don't think so, because, I mean, to your point,
you had to be so outside the bounds of rules
to get a high school red card. I don't even
remember even anybody that we played against getting red cards.
I mean you must had to like throw it.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I saw a kid throw a rock at a referee
he got a red card. It was not from New
York City. People were a little bit tough in the
boroughs there. It wasn't It was always.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Standard was it had to be outside the bounds of
a normal soccer match in order to get a red card.
I got a couple of yellows back in the day
for slide tackles that didn't go as well as I
would have hoped.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
But no, y Sometimes you come in from the side,
sometimes it's a little more, you know, trailing behind. I'll
just say this though, I got a yellow card when
I was a coach. That would surprise a lot of people.
But I was fiery. I was fiery on those sidelines.
So the ref came over and was like, you are
disrespectful and gave me a yellow card, and I.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Was like, let's go, ref, let's go.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Did it fire up your team? Did they play better
after the coach got the yellow card?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Usually happen, right, of course, so they know that then
the boxer was on their side to the very end.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
We'll continue to take your calls, by the way.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Eight hundred and two A two two eight A two
also Talk America to fifty in serious news there's a
hearing today in the Charlie Kirk trial, and we will
update you on that taking place in Utah. Also, I'm
actually curious on bucks take on this. I haven't even
asked him. Continuing the theme of Democrats not being fans
(30:10):
of America, Senator Mark Kelly, who's supposed to be a
moderate Arizona senator, one of their potential contenders for president,
showed up at a Mexico watch party.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Did you see this last night?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Buck Ye wearing a Mexico jersey, which to me is
just a cardinal cardinal sin, especially for a sitting United
States senator. He hasn't posted himself in a US jersey
at all, showed up in a Mexico jersey. Mexico lost
three to two last night, a great game against England.
(30:42):
But what do we expect from our sitting That to
me is more worthy of criticism than anything Trump did.
He's advocating for the US and Mark Kelly will talk
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Speaker 2 (32:49):
Welcome back in play and Buck, we are rolling through
the Monday edition of the program Wake of America two
fifty and Buck, you just pointed out Belgium is now
appealing the rescinding or suspension of the Red Card, So
there is continuing drama that could be playing out there.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
And so many, I mean loaded lines.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Everybody wants to weigh in, variety of different perspectives out there. Yeah,
Joyce in Montana the Mount Rushmore event Friday night, I
was there. We'll get an America two fifty call in Joyce.
What did you think?
Speaker 8 (33:34):
I thought it was beyond beautiful. I think the shining
star of it all was the fact that there wasn't
a celebrity to be found that are men and women
of the military, are multi talented and they put on
an amazing show.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Buck, I don't know how much you watched. Thank you
for the call, Joyce.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I agree one hundred percent with what she just said,
and maybe we'll build on this a little bit top
of the next hour. I don't know how many of
you watched the America two fifty. The fact that they
had the UH and I want to get the name right,
and so I'm just going to say the military singers,
but there is an official name for them instead of
the celebrities. They had the military band, singers and performers
(34:20):
coming out. They were incredible. I didn't know how talented
these people were. Good for them, Yeah, no, it was great.
It's an excellent move.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And look, I know a lot of people had fantastic
celebrations over the weekend. And just like so many things
in life, you know, you can choose to enjoy and
appreciate greatness and blessings and where we are, or you
can just be perpetually miserable and vote for Democrats. I
don't know, that's kind of the way it is. This
is a huge divide. You see the datea over the weekend.
(34:51):
I think it was a you gov poll that Democrats.
More Democrats have a favorable view of the BLM flag
than the American flag.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
This was circulating over the weekends. I saw that, and.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
It's completely you know, somebody might try to argue with
the methodology or something totally believable.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I'm I mean, you see this.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
There are places in America where even on the two fiftieth,
people were pulling down American flags. But they're perfectly fine
with you know, the trans Pride flag and Palestinian flags.
They love a lot of other flags, but not the
American flag, which is so bizarre the people that live
here that are unwilling to celebrate America on its birthday.
And like I said, I also Clay, when when you
(35:30):
were out, I said, I don't want any of this.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Like we've been imperfect. You know, you know what Mamdani did, right,
you know, we've been imperfect. We even McConaughey.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
McConaughey is just a stupid kami who speaks with a
Southern drawl. So people are like, well maybe he's okay,
No he's not okay, he's a jerk.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
So they do this whole.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Thing where they do all the throat clearing, and we're
not perfect and everything else. What other country do they
think is okay to celebrate I always want to ask
this something Monaco, I mean a place that's completely insignificant
that nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I think that's I think that's well said, and I
would just point out it's a celebration at celebrations of
effectively a celebration of a life, right, the life of
this country for two hundred and fifty years. You don't
get up at a eulogy when someone's life is being
celebrated and say, boy, he was a bad dad from
(36:21):
nineteen sixty four to nineteen seventy two. It's important to
recognize that as we celebrate his life, like no and
some he did a pretty good job. By the way,
FIFA has rejected Buck the Belgium appeal of the Balligan reinstatement,
so he will play.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Tonight Belgium appeal, you fied, you fired? I like it.
What did the Belgians even do? Well, We're gonna kick
their ass tonight, French frost out French Well,
Welcome everybody, Monday, July sixth edition of Clay and Buck,
and it is going to be a doozy. Great to
have you with us. Hope you got a fantastic two
hundred and fiftieth. I was down here in South Florida,
did some barbecuing, fireworks, watching America celebrating, and then yesterday
I cheered on jolly Old England as they defeated Mexico
(00:24):
on their home turf. Clay, A lot happening here. I
know you've been back for a couple of days from us.
You probably told everybody about Hawaii, Big Kahuna, Clay Travis,
very good, very good. Some people are saying on the surfboard,
very good. But I trust you had a fantastic vacation.
We're finally now back here in action dynamic duo of
(00:45):
Clay and Buck, and there's much to discuss, although I
was a little surprised to see coming out of the
two fiftieth. A couple of things. One, Clay, we have
the way people who listen to this show and see
the world like we do, the way that we all
think of the two fiftieth, and then people like Mamdani
and Democrats and others who take it as an opportunity
(01:05):
to dump on and basically cry about America, which is
I suppose entirely unsurprising. That was what I thought would
be our main focus today as we come back, Although
it turns out, Clay, the streams have been crossed. We
are now in dare I say, a Shark NATO, perhaps
(01:26):
a Clay NATO of content situation where we have Trump
intervening with FIFA, the World soccer federation body, during a
World club here, a World Cup here, on us soil
over the course of America's not just Independence Day celebration,
but two hundred and fifty years of American independence, and
(01:50):
also now getting into the legal wrangling around the rules.
Although I suppose it's kind of just like a soccer associations,
they can make it up as they go along. Clay,
a red card removed for an American national team player.
You broke the story as I understand it over the weekend.
(02:10):
So now Klay's a breaking news guy too. He's not
just a commentator, a breaking news guy. The President intervening
on America's two hundred and fifty is birthday so that
our men's national team tonight will have its highest goal
scorer on the pitch to fight against Belgium in a
do or die situation. It feels like a sports show
(02:32):
all of a sudden, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't know to what extent this audience has been
closely following this story. So let me give you like
one minute if you're out there and you're thinking to yourself,
what in the world is going on here? The United
States best goal scorer, fuller in Balligan, was suspended in
(02:55):
a match that we won against Bosnia, and he was
suspended in a way that was unjustified according to most people.
I think you coach soccer when you saw that he
got the red card for this. For people who don't know,
a red card gets you kicked off the field, so
(03:16):
your team has to play one man down for the
remainder of the game, and then it gets you a
suspension for the next game. So it's an incredibly punitive
penalty that is brought to bear. But let me ask
you this, because you coached high school soccer for a while,
if one of your players had gotten a red card
(03:36):
for what occurred in this match, would you have lost
your mind on the sideline as a coach.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes, I absolutely would have. I did Clay and I
is interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
We're both proud patriotic Americans who both played as youths
and enjoy watching soccer, which kind of for some people
makes us lose American points whever not while our US
men's national team is in the midst of a hosted
by America World Cup. And let me tell you, for
all of you who are like, I don't care soccer,
(04:11):
I don't care, this has been a tour de force
for the whole world to see how awesome America is. Yes,
it really has been. It has been eye opening because
people have been you know, we got to remember the
way that things are shared now on TikTok and Instagram
and everything else. And it's been beautiful to see. To Texas.
(04:34):
You've gotten so much love. People from Tokyo to uh
to Turkey have just been showing up in Texas and
they're like, this place is amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like it's been really cool for America.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So, whether you like soccer or not, back to the
and we can talk more about that because we haven't
had a chance to kind of wrap on that stuff.
And I think that was really a special thing for
our country going into the two fiftieth, but on the
red card Clay, this was the most absurd red car
any human being has ever seen given in any soccer
game ever. Trump is one hundred percent correct to advocate
(05:08):
for America's interest in this and people who are acting
like this is some huge it's all.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It's all a judgment call, folks.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know, it's all a matter of inches here to
borrow from a Pacino in any given Sunday, like Trump's
fighting for that inch.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
So here is the uh what so yesterday, Yes, I
broke news. There's like ten million views on it on Twitter.
Every now and then I jump into the Hey I've
got news, uh, and I will break it President Trump,
this doesn't surprise me at all. In fact, I tweeted
that he would likely get involved because he is a
legitimate sports fan. Andrew Giuliani, who is the head of
(05:47):
basically running the White House Task Force for the World
Cup for into, both of ours been on the program.
A bunch uh and Howard Lutnet, Commerce Secretary all put
together a team of elite wars from outside the government
to be able to work on an appeal. President Trump
has now said, we'll play that audio for you in
(06:08):
a sect that he called Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA,
and basically said the truth, this shouldn't have been.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
A red card. It was a bad call.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And he believed that there was evidence that would suggest
it should be suspended aka overturned, at least in the
short term, and FIFA under their rule governing powers Rule
twenty seven looked at it and said we are suspending
the enforcement of the rule of this red card, and
(06:40):
all of Europe has lost their minds over the fact
that this has occurred. Now buck to me, I look
at this in a functional way. If you make a
bad call and the bad call can be reversed, the
bad call should be reversed like that's.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
To me the essence of this. It shouldn't have been
ever in place.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Although the way I I have to tell you something
about all this, folks, The fact that they now have
this thing, this var this virtual review, just goes to
show you how many soccer games previously just turned on
a whim, particularly on off sides, which I don't care
who you are, without being able to go back and
look at instant replay, and I mean at the absolute
(07:20):
highest level, they were getting off sides calls wrong all
the time all the time, and an off sides call
is the game a lot of the time because if
you don't call, you know you've seen a lot of goals.
It's actually kind of frustrating now a little bit for
the viewer because you'll think someone scored a goal and
then they'll do the off sides review play. The whole
ethos now of the soccer is, in this modern marvelous
(07:41):
age we are in of technology, get it right. This
is about getting it right. This is about a fair hearing.
So the Europeans, no surprise, are whining and crying about this,
particularly Belgium.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
And this is great for America tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Can you imagine all so wanting to they really want
to play against a essentially a wounded US men's team,
Like that's.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
How that's how they want to proceed.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
They want they want to be able to say, we
beat America without their second best player, look at how
good we are. So yeah, I think that they're being
a bunch of crybabies. But it is it is the
trump card that has trumped the red card, which on
America's two hundred and fiftieth the symbolism I think is
lost on nobody, and look.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
This is what the president should be.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He should be the foremost advocate for United States interest
in the world. And if you are getting screwed in
a sporting event, then I think it's fine for the
president to step in and be an advocate and put
together government outside of government warriors to be advocates. And
I just think this is what Trump does and I'm
(08:55):
not surprised by it at all.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'm in favor of it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Buck, you are not as as plugged in, certainly to
the college football world. I would also point out this
is what America does. We file lawsuits, we have judges
looking at everything. The idea that there would be politicians
involved in sport related incidents is for anybody who's a
(09:18):
college football fan, your quarterback is probably suing to argue
that he should be able to play. There's been conference
realignment lawsuits where governors and senators have been going toe
to toe. There are reports back in the day during
conference realignment that some senators on the floor had to
be separated. Mitch McConnell, who doesn't want to fight for
(09:40):
anything often times, was ready to come to blows over
whether Louisville was going to be in a conference.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Versus West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
All of this chaos and craziness is part and parcel
of American life. But yes, Bucket felt like this story
was almost perfectly designed for me.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It also it does remind me of when I was
coaching high school soccer in New York Clay We were
undefeated and going into the playoffs, and it was the
last game of the season and I played my best
player only in the second half, who ended up going
on to have a pretty good college career. He was
an exceptional, exceptional like fifteen year old fourteen fifteen year
(10:18):
old soccer player, and he he was being fouled so much,
and the ref was so trash that he wasn't calling,
and he turned around and he dropped kicked a soccer
ball in the kid's face, who like really grabbed his
shirt or whatever. It was a hell of a move,
by the way, but he definitely got a read. He
definitely got a red card for that, And I couldn't
really argue it. I couldn't really argue it because if
you drop kick a soccer ball in someone's face and
(10:40):
purpose as hard as you can and they like fall
down and they're like crying for mommy, You're gonna get
a red card. This red card was sort of the
opposite of that in my in my mind, where it
was you should only get a red card for doing
something that is a clear and willful violation of the
rules and or like dangerous and harmful to another player.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
That's really what it's supposed to be about.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You're geting ejected from two games from the game and
the next day the penalty is too significant, I think
in the first place, if you get kicked out of
a game and your team has to play for one
less player, that should be the end of the penalty, right,
Like not getting to play for thirty minutes with a
guy is pretty severe of a punishment.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
It is.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It is funny though, I think that people have realized
too the soccer. It's a good thing for soccer that
now they have And anyways, like, why are you guys
talking to this? The President has been more focused on
this the last three days than horn Movez just being
honest with you, Okay. The president has been more in
on this, the president of the United States, this issue
as Clay is hitting in a US men's national team
jersey than anything else in the world. So we're just
(11:43):
following the news cycle. We're not.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
This is not I will say, Fox News, CNN, and
MSNBC all began their our discussions of the biggest news
in the country right now with this story.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So it is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And I think you were talking buck about Americans, and
I think this audience has will be watching this game
tonight against Belgium.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
In overwhelming numbers, huge numbers tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Producer Mak who's probably at home, I don't know. I
don't know if he's in studio right now. He's up
in New York. Producer Mack Clay, who you know, work
with me when I was doing my own show years
and years ago.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
He loves hockey.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He loves hockey, and he was like, you got to
watch that movie Miracle and and you'll be cheering for
America by the end. And I was like, you know
what you're I checked it out. It's absolutely true. I'm
not a hockey guy. But when the US ice hockey
team is either in a moment of glory against against
the Soviets or kicking ass all of a sudden, I'm like,
give me a puck and a stick.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I'm right there with you. Guys.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay, so I do think that there's a little bit
of America, especially because we're hosting this World Cup, which
means we have all these foreigners who are coming here,
uh and and experiencing America, many of them for the
first and it's been quite a scene. It's been a
lot of fun by it's been a huge success. And
you know how you know, it's been a huge success
Anti Trump. The Trump haters are trying to downtalk it. Now, Oh,
(13:11):
Trump didn't do It's not that Trump did such a
good job. It's just some of the format changes.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh, it's not.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It's been a massive success in this country. It's been
the most interesting, you know, World Cup draw that I've
seen in a long time. And Clay, the other funny
thing about this, we're talking about the way left and
right approached the two fiftieth Democrats and Republicans. So many
people who are just Trump hating Democrat commies are angry
(13:37):
about Americans. I'm talking about now, there are American Democrats
who are siding with the r US national team player
should be out. I wish he still had the red card.
That's how much self loathing these filthy American commedies actually have.
They would like to see America's national team hobbled just
(14:00):
because they hate Trump so much.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It is extraordinary.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
By the way, open phone lines eight hundred and two
A two two eight A two America two fifty amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We'll get into that buck.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I don't know if you watched the fireworks display at
I don't know. It's like one am on the East coast.
By the time they went off, it looked it was unbelievable.
If you even if you haven't, go look at the
time lapse, uh and see how all of that broke out.
And I just it was so vintage, over the top,
(14:32):
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Speaker 3 (16:00):
Welcome back in.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
President Trump earlier had a press availability where he was
announcing Trump accounts, and he said this to confirm that
he had been involved.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Listen, if they wouldn't allow you know, a top player,
maybe the best, maybe among the best players on the
team to play, I think it would have had a
big stain. And I related just that Fhil I didn't
tell him what to do. I can't tell him what
to do. But and I don't believe he made the decision.
I think it was a committee that made the decision,
(16:34):
and they made the right decision because number one, it
wasn't a foul. And you want to see a game
with your best players. You don't want to say, how
would you feel if I took Messi out? You know,
he ran into somebody. We took Ronaldo. Ronaldo, you bumped
into somebody. We're going to take you out of a game.
He's great, Well, Harry Kane, Harry Kane, We're going to
(16:55):
take you out of the game, Harry, because you happen
to hit somebody a little bit harder than you can.
You can't do that. If you would have taken him out,
I think I think it would have really stained this
incredible champion. We got to have our best players, and
they've got Belgium's got a great team. By the way,
We have our best players and they have to have
(17:15):
their best and if we win or we lose, it's fair.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So this story tonight we got Monday night football soccer
style buck eight pm Eastern. I think that this has
added so many different layers of interest and I would
bet almost everyone listening to us right now, at some
point in time is gonna watch Clay.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I don't know how I'm gonna handle this thing. I'm
gonna watch with my brothers. Last night, Carry was laughing
at me, She says, you're rubbing off on me. I
was watching my beloved England, my number two team, number
two in my heart, an incredible game against Mexico where
England came out victorious.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I was sweating.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I had to change my shirt after watching the game
because I was so nervous for jolly old England tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I don't know what I'm going to do.
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
The biggest story in America right now, right after the
two fiftieth is, in fact, the US men's national team
playing tonight. The President of the United States, the leader
of the free world, intervening completely unprecedented in a red
card decision in the previous game, which would have kept
out the number one goal scorer most people would say,
probably the most second most valuable player on the US
(19:19):
men's national soccer team. The Trump card deployed to nullify
the red card, if you will, We've got all kinds
of comdness here at home who are crying about it.
You've got Europeans. Of course they're crying. They love crying,
and it's going to be a big thing tonight this game.
(19:40):
But as I've been saying, it's also the timing of
all this with the two fiftieth and the World Cup here,
it has been a phenomenal press for America. I think
for the rest of the world it's also play and
we can get into more of the detailed Clay.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
He's like, no, the FIFA rules we're gonna get into.
We're gonna get into.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But there's also the recognition that I think people need
to have that the view of America that a lot
of including our own left wing media at least like
see I've discussed this before, CNN International is basically enemy propaganda.
If you're overseas and you're watching CNN International, it's an
American channel, but you would think that it is run
(20:19):
by like run by Beijing, and they're paying the bills
for Like CNN International is horrible, and a lot of
people are told to think really bad things about America
that are just not This is why you shouldn't care
when they do these like public opinion polls of America,
really because most people don't know they have no idea
they think this place is really it's so dangerous everywhere.
(20:42):
It's not dangerous everywhere.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It's a lot safer than a lot of places in Mexico,
by the way.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And it's also incredibly welcoming and beautiful, and there's amazing
stuff here.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And the people like visitors, legal visitors, We like.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Visitors, We like people coming to hang out here, and
you know, support our businesses and support everything.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So look, I just think the kids say this, the vibes, the.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Vibes are great right now in America and Trump stepping
in with the whole world. Remember, the whole world is
watching these World Cup what Klay, what's the viewership line? Now,
give us some of this debts sports ball, let's go
what I mean? This is enormous.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, so so far over one hundred point Let me
get the actual number because my buddy at Fox Sports
shared this a little bit earlier today. One hundred point
one hundred and three point four million Americans have watched
the World Cup so far. So we're talking about World
(21:37):
Cup meeting near super Bowl level across the board viewership.
And I'll put it into context for you tonight. And
by the way, I'll put it into context this way.
We have loaded lines with everybody wanting to weigh in
on this late latest controversy. We're going to get to
that in a moment. This will be the most watched
(21:58):
television event other than this is my prediction tonight, other
than the Super Bowl and the AFC and the NFC
championship games, so the three biggest football games of the
year in the NFL, this will be the most watched
of twenty twenty six sporting event on television. More people
(22:19):
will watch this game tonight than the game you and
I went to Miami, Indiana for the College Football National Championship.
Huge and Evan in eastern North Carolina is building on
what you just said, Buck, which is so many of
these foreigners who have come here and fallen in love
with America. Evan, I've had the same thought as you.
(22:40):
You want to replace some of the existing Americans with
these guys who have come in from other countries and
just can't stop talking about how awesome it is.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yeah, first of all, love to show. Then we'll listen
to y'all since the great rush had left us. Got
a shout out to my parents for at least keeping
me straight straight enough not to be a comedy, I'll
tell you that. But yeah, so I just think that
with all these illegals that.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
We already rounding up, all the hate that we're getting
from the media, we just need to get rid of
all of these comedies because.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I feel like that's a threat to a national security
as it is. But we just need to give all
these foreigners as come to the world cud. We just
need to.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Give them, just let them in because they seem like
the ones that we won't, you know, And I hate
when people say that we're racist and all that we're not.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
We just want people to love America like these folks have.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Thank you for the call. I think that's well said.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
By the way, leftists now, President Trump has broken their
brains to such an extent that many of them are
now saying that they are rooting for Belgium. In fact,
this guy, Brian Krasenstein tweeted, I swear while many of
you are likely yelling go America, I'm yelling go Belgium
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and the rule of law.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
For the rest of us. Yeah. Yeah, this guy is
really he's oh my god, I mean, just law.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
There's this, there's No, it's a refereeing decision of sporting event. Dude, Relax,
this isn't a magna carta being torn up before your
very eyes.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
It's okay, this is I think. I think that like,
go ahead, go ahead, No, No.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I was gonna hit a couple more calls, but you
it really is. I mean, I imagine you're gonna build
on this. Trump has so broken people's brains that they're
rooting against the U s A in favor of Belgium
over I mean, this is significant over a rule in
a game that was wrong being corrected by the way
(25:05):
after there's already been a punishment because the US had
to play around thirty minutes with only ten players in
the game against Bosnia. So there's already been a punishment
that was unjust levied. And this is just continuing a
Dana in the tri Cities of Washington.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
What you got for us?
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Well, I just wanted to tag along with what you
said about. You know, usually it's called soccer, but tonight
in America, it's going to be Monday Night football and
we're all going to be watching and sharing on the
US and I just want to know your opinion. I
had heard someone say that maybe they shouldn't start him,
see how the US does without him, just.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
To kind of rub it in a little.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I don't know, what do you.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Think, Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I would absolutely, I would absolutely not Yeah, absolutely, and
I would. I I'd play him and I would leave
him in the game the whole time. I hope he
scores two goals. I want him to have a hat trick.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Your worlds are colliding here, Eric in Delray Beach, Florida.
You can't see the call screen. Eric, explain where you
played soccer?
Speaker 9 (26:14):
Well, anyway, good afternoon, gentlemen. Listen. I was a ball
boy for four years with the Cosmos and my high
school coach was Chepe Messling was a goalie. So I
got to know Kenally and Pale and Beckenbauer and all
those guys. So I hope that this, finally, you know,
puts soccer on the map in the US. It's really
it's a great sport. Anyway, h we are fellow Lord
Jeff alumni and uh. I played four years at Amherst
(26:36):
College and I was a left wing and the guy
on the right wing was a little bit of a
prissy guy and used to get his butt kicked almost
every game, especially from Williams and Brown name was Prince
Albert from Monaco, and I was the only guy that
really stuck up for him because I was born and
raised in New York City and we don't take any
of that crap, right buck. So anyway, I think I.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Still waits Albert from Monaco.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Ye, this is true. Yes, and he and he shows
up still at like soccer events at homecoming.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yes this is unlie, Yes he does.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
And he's not dressing in women's clothing anymore, which is amazing.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
No, but.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
All kidding around. Yeah, so I used to have a
fight at least once a game, especially from Williams, because
they used to just trip him and elbow them and
bang them up really badly, and got to the point
where his father sent some big tough guys there to
kind of patrol the sidelines of the games after a while.
But yeah, it was pretty wild. But you know what,
this is the most ridiculous red card I've ever seen,
(27:37):
because obviously we watch it in real time, it wasn't
an intentional play, and then they slow it down the
slow motion and stop action, which is against the thief rules. Right.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, Yeah, that was part of the appeal that I
thank you for the call. I can't buck. Did you
expect to have your worlds colliding with.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think we're technically fellow Mastodons now because yes, because we.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Had to get rid of British people with the uh
in fact that he got.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Some small pox blankets to people and it was a mistake.
Nobody's perfect Clay, Remember nobody's perfect.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So you know, Lord Jeff, you know he had a
little he had a little mistake on that one. But yeah,
we're the Masto Dons now. It is true that the
Prince Prince Albert of Monaco went to my college. I
was not there while he was there, but yes, I
can I can imagine all all of that stuff is
h is true? Did you quit Clay? Important question? Did
you ever get a red card? It's a great question
(28:33):
in your soccer career. Did you ever get a red card?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I don't think so, because, I mean, to your point,
you had to be so outside the bounds of rules
to get a high school red card. I don't even
remember even anybody that we played against getting red cards.
I mean you must had to like throw it.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I saw a kid throw a rock at a referee
he got a red card. It was not from New
York City. People were a little bit tough in the
boroughs there. It wasn't It was always.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Standard was it had to be outside the bounds of
a normal soccer match in order to get a red card.
I got a couple of yellows back in the day
for slide tackles that didn't go as well as I
would have hoped.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
But no, y Sometimes you come in from the side,
sometimes it's a little more, you know, trailing behind. I'll
just say this though, I got a yellow card when
I was a coach. That would surprise a lot of people.
But I was fiery. I was fiery on those sidelines.
So the ref came over and was like, you are
disrespectful and gave me a yellow card, and I.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Was like, let's go, ref, let's go.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Did it fire up your team? Did they play better
after the coach got the yellow card?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Usually happen, right, of course, so they know that then
the boxer was on their side to the very end.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
We'll continue to take your calls, by the way.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Eight hundred and two A two two eight A two
also Talk America to fifty in serious news there's a
hearing today in the Charlie Kirk trial, and we will
update you on that taking place in Utah. Also, I'm
actually curious on bucks take on this. I haven't even
asked him. Continuing the theme of Democrats not being fans
(30:10):
of America, Senator Mark Kelly, who's supposed to be a
moderate Arizona senator, one of their potential contenders for president,
showed up at a Mexico watch party.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Did you see this last night?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Buck Ye wearing a Mexico jersey, which to me is
just a cardinal cardinal sin, especially for a sitting United
States senator. He hasn't posted himself in a US jersey
at all, showed up in a Mexico jersey. Mexico lost
three to two last night, a great game against England.
(30:42):
But what do we expect from our sitting That to
me is more worthy of criticism than anything Trump did.
He's advocating for the US and Mark Kelly will talk
about that as well. As I got to go to
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Speaker 2 (32:49):
Welcome back in play and Buck, we are rolling through
the Monday edition of the program Wake of America two
fifty and Buck, you just pointed out Belgium is now
appealing the rescinding or suspension of the Red Card, So
there is continuing drama that could be playing out there.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
And so many, I mean loaded lines.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Everybody wants to weigh in, variety of different perspectives out there. Yeah,
Joyce in Montana the Mount Rushmore event Friday night, I
was there. We'll get an America two fifty call in Joyce.
What did you think?
Speaker 8 (33:34):
I thought it was beyond beautiful. I think the shining
star of it all was the fact that there wasn't
a celebrity to be found that are men and women
of the military, are multi talented and they put on
an amazing show.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Buck, I don't know how much you watched. Thank you
for the call, Joyce.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I agree one hundred percent with what she just said,
and maybe we'll build on this a little bit top
of the next hour. I don't know how many of
you watched the America two fifty. The fact that they
had the UH and I want to get the name right,
and so I'm just going to say the military singers,
but there is an official name for them instead of
the celebrities. They had the military band, singers and performers
(34:20):
coming out. They were incredible. I didn't know how talented
these people were. Good for them, Yeah, no, it was great.
It's an excellent move.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And look, I know a lot of people had fantastic
celebrations over the weekend. And just like so many things
in life, you know, you can choose to enjoy and
appreciate greatness and blessings and where we are, or you
can just be perpetually miserable and vote for Democrats. I
don't know, that's kind of the way it is. This
is a huge divide. You see the datea over the weekend.
(34:51):
I think it was a you gov poll that Democrats.
More Democrats have a favorable view of the BLM flag
than the American flag.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
This was circulating over the weekends. I saw that, and.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
It's completely you know, somebody might try to argue with
the methodology or something totally believable.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I'm I mean, you see this.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
There are places in America where even on the two fiftieth,
people were pulling down American flags. But they're perfectly fine
with you know, the trans Pride flag and Palestinian flags.
They love a lot of other flags, but not the
American flag, which is so bizarre the people that live
here that are unwilling to celebrate America on its birthday.
And like I said, I also Clay, when when you
(35:30):
were out, I said, I don't want any of this.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Like we've been imperfect. You know, you know what Mamdani did, right,
you know, we've been imperfect. We even McConaughey.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
McConaughey is just a stupid kami who speaks with a
Southern drawl. So people are like, well maybe he's okay,
No he's not okay, he's a jerk.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
So they do this whole.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Thing where they do all the throat clearing, and we're
not perfect and everything else. What other country do they
think is okay to celebrate I always want to ask
this something Monaco, I mean a place that's completely insignificant
that nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I think that's I think that's well said, and I
would just point out it's a celebration at celebrations of
effectively a celebration of a life, right, the life of
this country for two hundred and fifty years. You don't
get up at a eulogy when someone's life is being
celebrated and say, boy, he was a bad dad from
(36:21):
nineteen sixty four to nineteen seventy two. It's important to
recognize that as we celebrate his life, like no and
some he did a pretty good job. By the way,
FIFA has rejected Buck the Belgium appeal of the Balligan reinstatement,
so he will play.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Tonight Belgium appeal, you fied, you fired? I like it.
What did the Belgians even do? Well, We're gonna kick
their ass tonight, French frost out French Well,
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