October 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of today’s Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into the hottest political stories shaping the week ahead, with a sharp focus on the New York City mayoral race and its national implications. Clay and Buck kick off the hour discussing the upcoming elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City, emphasizing how NYC’s deep-blue politics could serve as a cautionary tale for Democrats nationwide. They preview Wednesday’s interview with Curtis Sliwa, who will make his case against progressive frontrunner Mamdani, a candidate backed by AOC and Bernie Sanders. The hosts debate whether Mamdani’s far-left agenda—highlighted by proposals like free public buses and aggressive “tax the rich” policies—could devastate New York City’s economy and quality of life.
The conversation expands to early voting trends, with record turnout reported in NYC and strong betting market odds favoring Mamdani. Clay predicts a decisive loss for Sliwa, even joking about wearing a red beret for a week if proven wrong. Callers from New York weigh in, sharing firsthand accounts of high voter enthusiasm for Sliwa and skepticism about polling accuracy.
Beyond the mayoral race, Buck and Clay analyze Democratic messaging failures, referencing Mamdani’s controversial 9/11 remarks and the broader shift toward class-based populism over identity politics. They warn that policies like fare-free transit could turn buses into “mobile homeless shelters,” reducing safety and cleanliness. The hour also touches on national economic stakes, including a potential U.S.–China trade deal under President Trump, and the ongoing debate over East Wing renovations at the White House, framing these developments as pivotal for the 2025 political landscape.
Listeners also get a taste of Clay’s upcoming book launch, humorous banter about media appearances, and a quick sports update on the Sports Equinox, where all four major leagues play on the same day.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody to the Monday edition of The Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And we are stacked, my friends,
with so much to discuss from over this weekend. We
are a week and a day away from election day
elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and probably getting more attention
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than any other good old and yc my hometown. That
is going to be the difficult one. I'm sorry to say.
I think that one's not going to be fun. But
we shall have some discussion about that. To be sure,
Clay's already grinning a little bit. It's okay, he's just
grinning because of the helpful lessons that America will learn
(00:46):
from the suffering of Manhattan. And I don't think I
have a good shot of being elected mayor of New
York City.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Let's just say there's lots of New Yorkers we got
some fun talkbacks that are not happy with me, so
we will continue to feature. I'm sure you have to understand,
my fellow New Yorkers. When Clay went to GW, as
someone born and raised in Nashville, he was like an
alien species. There were not a lot of Nashvillians at GW,
(01:12):
so did some of the New Yorkers at gw ask
Clay if he played a banjo. Probably were there some
who said, Hey, Clay, do you come from the long
line of moonshine makers. I think so, and so now
twenty some odd years later, Clay gets his revenge on
the Big Apple for all their misperceptions. Sometimes we have
to let New York City sink beneath the waves in
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order for the rest of the country to thrive. And unfortunately,
I don't think that we're going to have a good result.
But Curtis Leiwa has agreed to come on the program
yes on Wednesday, and he will make the case to
all of you why I am a moron and he
is going to win and so you can be looking
forward to that on the Wednesday edition of this fine program. Cuomo,
(01:59):
probably because we have accurately called him the worst governor
in the State of New York's history based on the
way that he responded to COVID producer Ali, despite abundant requests,
has not been willing to come on this program, even though,
to be honest, if he has any hope of winning,
he should come on this program and talk to I mean,
(02:21):
how many New Yorkers that vote are listening to us
right now. Tens of thousands just in New York City
at this exact moment are listening to us in wo R.
So if you're really trying to win, he should let
bygones be bygones, acknowledged that he screwed up COVID and
beg for everyone's vote that's listening to this right now.
I even offered to interview Cuomo as Cuomo, but he
(02:44):
would not take me up on this offer, so we try.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That would be great, great rate.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Would have been far more effective as the governor during COVID,
just if you could have that's there. I'll even let
him get all quote Italian on me and put his
hand on my on my ribcage or whatever it is
he got in trouble, for whatever it takes to get
him to get him to come on the show.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I am just Italian and affectionate.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
A lot of the Italian Americans listening are like, I
don't know, man, I've never gotten fired from my job
for groping people, and I'm plenty of Italian. Anyway, we're
kissing people a lot. I mean, I it seems a
little aggressive. Do you remember the smooch press conference. He's like,
here is a photo of me giving a smooch. Is
smooching sexual harassment? Not if you can trace your lineage
(03:31):
ton Police, Sicily and the following places. And again Italian
Americans were like, you're terrible, that's that's not actually a thing.
But nice, try though, nice, try to throw all of
us under the bus together. Nonetheless, we have we have
the New York City Mayor's race to get into, which
we shall some other very interesting things going on here.
(03:52):
Gavin Newsom gets a little a little street.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You notice this.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
He all of a sudden, Gavin Newsom is like, hey man,
I was on these mean streets making it.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm sure you saw this clip of the of course,
of course I saw this.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I mean, he's the even for Democrat liars. He is
just next he does. I think he does it pretty well.
I think he convinces himself of these lies as he
is telling them. He is so shameless, uh that it
is an advantage, that is for sure. That's true of
many Democrats. But he's particularly good. He is a particularly
(04:26):
liquacious liar. Okay, but let's get back into just just
to give you the menu here, because otherwise we're just
gonna sit and make fun of Cuomo and Mondami the
whole time. And also just a quick note, we are
having Curtis Sliwa on this week. For anyone who's writing in,
are you guys scared to have on fill in the blank?
I promise you the answer is no. Even if I'm
a little bit like, I don't know about it, Clay
(04:47):
will Clay will fight with anybody.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So if I'm like.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I think there might be too much cross talk or
it could get a little two heated, Clay's like, let's
do this. So I promise you it's never that any
It's never that the show is scared of having somebody on.
We ask for everyone. We would go on to the
view in a heartbeat if they let us. There is
no such thing as platform or person worth talking to
and either one of us unwilling to do it. It's
(05:14):
just a two way street, right, I mean, we can't
just show up, although it would be fun if if
we just got in the in the audience of the view,
you know what I mean, We're just like what Bee,
I've got the book coming out in eight days. I mean,
I would go on and they won't have me. I mean,
we reiterated it again. I told the Today Show, I
told all these places out there that you know probably
(05:37):
don't have audiences that are that responsive to me. I'll
come talk to you. And I mean, they really do
live in a universe of isolation. I gotta give you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Know.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Fox Play has lots of people on that they disagree with.
Oh yeah, they have my Donnie on. I mean they
don't have anybody on well. And also Fox has the
reach and the platform that people ignore their in politics
ignore at their peril if they're trying to unless they're
just trying to win leftist votes, like unless they're going
full Pelosi all the time. But Clay, I understand it
(06:09):
must be frustrating when you reach out to some of
these esteemed programs like The View and say, ladies, you
may have heard some things about me. You may have
heard that the two things that have never let me down.
You know what, I won't even get there. You can
google it yourself. However, as a serious author and public intellectual,
I just want to come on and talk about balls.
(06:30):
And I just don't know why they don't see that
this is a win win for everyone. I'm not going
to be on a book tour. But we're going to
have a vanity URL where and I made some suggestions.
It's not yet ready where you can go and I
will sign the book and it will include the name Clay,
Travis and Balls in some way. But I promise you
(06:53):
you will not get fired for going to this website.
And it is not in any way a an only
fan style page. Although I'm not above selling feet picks.
If people are willing to pay for feet picks, I
am happy to put them on the market. You know,
there was a time when white House dot gov is
obviously the White House site, but there was something very
(07:14):
close to White House that somehow someone bought. I know
about this because a message had to go out to
government employees to be careful if you went to the
wrong site typing yes you went, you went to the
really wrong site. And and that is a This is
in the old wild West days twenty years ago of
the Internet, where someone could buy a URL that's close enough.
So yes, indeed you can go to Clay Ball's book
(07:37):
or book.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
What is it? Is Balls official?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
The official vanity is not there, but the book is
up on Amazon. I would, I would, honestly appreciate you.
Have you recorded your new book yet? No, I'm recording
in December, so I read the entire thing. Buck is
going to find out that this is a hellish experience
where you sit there and there's somebody, especially for me,
who mispronounces wars. Every time you mispronounce a word, they
(08:02):
stop you. Every time you don't pause correctly, they stop you.
So you can get credit. You can listen to the book,
and it is me sitting by myself for two full
days in a padded, legitimately padded recording room. I recorded
the entire audiobook. So also we know it's gonna be
a good day because for those of you who are
watching on our stream, Clay and I are both wearing
(08:25):
Crockett Coffee team That's right, different colors, so at least
we don't look like twins. But Crocketcoffee dot Com my friends,
go check it out, join the coffee Revolution. If you haven't,
I would just ask you why. I guess you like
con Do you like mom Donnie coffee? Do you like
the coffee of this rejected theater kid who now wants
to ruin the greatest city in America? Because I'm telling
you he doesn't drink Crockett. Crockett is the anti mom
(08:48):
Donnie Coffee. So just keep that. And I watched that rally. Yes,
he hates Davy Crockett. He hates American history, so does AOC.
I mean that rally. We need to play some cuts
from it here in the first hour. They are crazy,
So we're going to dive into Kami Mamdani and all
that nonsense because the country is watching this. Because I
do think Democrats also do, unfortunately recognize what Clay has
(09:10):
been saying.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I agree with him.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It just makes me sad for New York that this
guy could be such a disaster that he becomes a
cautionary tale about voting Democrat going into the midterms, which
they don't want. But other stories we're going to get
to today. Just to give you a sense of the menu,
we have some data on the No King's Protest. Clay,
I'll ask this question, don't answer yet. What is the
(09:32):
single most represented demographic at the No King's Protest. I've
got a strong idea. Yeah, I think Clay has a
good idea on this one, and we'll get into that.
We also have it looks like there's at least the
basis of a framework of a China US trade deal.
This is one of these things that sounds boring until
you think about the implications of this for all of us,
(09:54):
for the cost of goods, for your business, for American industry,
for a whole range of things. This is the big one.
If Trump gets this trade deal done, I think you're
gonna see even more bulliance in this market that you
than you currently have. H that was something of a
play on words.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I think there.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I like that, So it was an accident, but I'll
take it. We've got that and the and oh the
East wing of the White House play. I'm sure you
saw this editorial. We've been saying this all along, guys.
It's not just because we think Trump is fantastic and
he's doing an amazing job. This is just objectively a
good idea with a good design and now kind of
(10:36):
creeping out a little bit into the public for the Democrats. Actually,
they really do need this, and all this stuff about
how he's a king and a dictator is nonsense. So Clay,
those are the those are the big places. I think
we're gonna be going here, at least in the in
the next you know, within the next hour or two,
and I will just tell you this, Maybe this is
a fitting way to set us up for what's coming next.
(10:57):
Your man, Curtis Sliwa will be on the Clay and
Buckshoe on all five hundred and sixty ish stations this Wednesday,
one pm Eastern time. It's going to be it's gonna
be feisty. It'll be a Donnybrook. And look, the voting
is underway. The voting is already underway. And I will
(11:18):
just tell you, mom, Donnie is setting record highs in
the prediction markets. These are not polls. This is where
people are betting on what the result is going to be.
Some of these guys can look at the data returns.
Ryan Gardusky was the guy who was really good at
us for this on twenty twenty four, and I remember
we had him on and we said, hey, when did
(11:39):
you know what the result was going to be? And
he said, you remember the answer as soon as Northern
Virginia suburbs came in and you could look and compare
what the results were there as the full totalities were
in compared to Biden twenty twenty, he said, you knew
Trump had won. And unless again those northern Virginia suburbs
(12:03):
were statistical outliers. There is record high early voting going
on right now, and that same thing I believe is
true in Virginia and New Jersey now. So people are
out there making their decisions, making their voices heard, as
we encourage all of you to do, and the gambling
markets are saying, Mom Damie is a prohibitive favorite. He's
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a bigger favorite than Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. And then
Mickey whatever her name is, the New Jersey gubernatorial candidate.
All of the Democrats are favored as you would expect
that they should be, considering these are all blue in
the case of New York City deep blue, and then
blue states in New Jersey and Virginia that we're trying
(12:47):
to flip back. Get into all that here coming up,
and also your calls, your talkbacks. If you'remat at Clay,
just be nice, be nice some of the Clay. You
have upset parts of Brooklyn that you do not want
to mess with. You have you have ticked off some
areas of Staten Island where I'm gonna have to be
your your security detail if you go. I'll be in
(13:08):
New York next week for the election. I may have
to stay in my hotel and just order room service
in Manhattan. You're in Manhattan, You're fine. They love Kami
Mamdani there, so you're you're good to go. They don't
even I don't even know who Curtis Sleeway is. In
most parts of Manhattan, it's a shame. But in some
of those other boroughs, you're in Curtistown, all right. Look,
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Speaker 1 (15:03):
Welcome back in play treatis buck Sexton show. A lot
of you already loading up the phone lines. Let's go
to Josh in New York City. Josh, what you got for.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Us, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Tremendous show. And I'm gonna throw my cards right on
the table. I'm sporting Curtis Lee with the Mayor of
New York City that breaking records the early voting. One
hundred and sixty thousand people voted Saturday and Sunday, and
Curtis Leewa, let me just tell the people out there
and you can verify this. The New York Post June four,
twenty twenty, Curtis Lee were and ten of the Guardian
(15:38):
Angels were out confronting the looters in New York City,
the famous ones in front of one of the famous
speaker places. Curtis ended up with a broken jaw and
one of the other guys, who was not a young dude,
ended up with a broken eye socket and a broken nose.
But let me tell the folks out there. When the
sun came up that morning, Curtis Sleewa and the Guardian
(16:00):
Angels was still standing.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Thank you for the call that we lose him there
for a sec all right, here is a fun discussion
for all of you. I believe that Momdannie is going
to win, and I think Curtisle is going to get
smoked now he's going to make the argument to us
on Wednesday. I am always willing to acknowledge that I
could be wrong. I also should I play is going
(16:26):
to basically put it to Curtis like that, knowing Clay
as well as I do, He's not going to be
like so, Curtis, it's really it's really close, so get
ready right, So I think he's going to lose. What
should I have to do if if if I am wrong?
Where what if I am red beret for a whole
week of this show and tweet out a photo of
you with the red beret on? I will That's a
(16:49):
good one. I will do the entire I'll do a
full week of shows in Curtis's red beret. I'll get
my own red beret and I will here and I
will do the show. I will go on Fox News
at least once wearing the red beret as well. That
is a good one. I am open to other suggestions
(17:10):
out there. I don't think just spoiler alert, I don't
think I'm gonna look that good in a beret. To
be fair, anybody really pull off the bra Have you
ever seen someone in a beret Special Forces and but
you thought they looked better than if they didn't have
the beret flint back in the day? Gi Joe, I mean, yeah, dude,
they look badass in they look bad ass in thera.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I know they're badasses.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm just not sure that the beret is necessarily the
hat where people see them in it and think everyone
looks better. I will tell you I will not look
good in the beret. I will not be someone that
looks very good. Are you going to be painting and
are you going to be twirling your mustache and speaking
in French?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Because then you'd pull it off. I might.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I might move to Molmontra and be a painter on
the hills in Paris. Can't believe that pronunciation. I think
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welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're making sense of
all the craziness going on, and my, oh my, there's
(18:57):
plenty of that with this New York City man race happening.
It's a signal, I think, or it could be a
symbol of things to come and not good ones, not
good ones for the city of New York, very very frustrating.
So we will continue to make sense of this one.
We got do we still have Josh and NYC. We
(19:21):
already played We already talked with Josh and in sorry
not Josh, John and John and oh no, that's we
already got to Okay, let's get into some We'll get
to Missouri later on the east wing. Sorry about that. Well,
let's get into the clips here, all right. We have
this Clay. If we're picking the worst, if we're picking
the worst clip of Mom Donnie, that's a tough one.
(19:42):
That's a tough one. Though there are said, definitely some
that are now rising to the top. This is a
flashback to twenty twenty, and you really see who these
Democrats are in twenty twenty talking about this across the board,
because that's when it was the They thought it was
maximum political advantage to showing you just how left winging
(20:04):
and saying they are. Here is Mamdanni back in twenty
twenty about the lesson that he learned from nine to
eleven and his remembrance of it played too.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I want to use this moment to speak to the
Muslims of New York City. I want to speak to
the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway
after September eleventh because she did not feel safe in
her hit Jem.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Clay, that's the three thousand people died. A war was
launched with a horrific terrorist attack against US, and Mamdani's
concern is and I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Just gonna say this.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
People are already pointing out that this doesn't seem like
it even adds up with whether his aunt was actually
in New York, whether she actually wore.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
A hit job.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But this guy will say anything but for nine to
eleven to be about your aunt creating this fear. You know,
this Islama phone a thing, the truth of nine to eleven,
and this, you know, talking to New Yorkers the whole country,
Americans were incredibly tolerant and decent toward Muslim Americans after
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nine to eleven, in ninety nine point nine nine nine
percent of cases. You you find me another society where
someone suffers a massive terrorist sneak attack that kills thousands
of people that is responsible entirely by one religious group
with one ideology, and trust me, it would not have
(21:36):
gone the way that it went in this country. So
the American tolerance after nine to eleven is actually a
shiny example of how decent and reasonable the American people are.
In my opinion, I think that's all one hundred percent accurate.
I would also point out that claiming that someone is
opposed to you because of your identity is not actually
(21:57):
an argument for or a against anything. And I think
where a lot of you come down on this issue,
why Black Asian Hispanic who are out there listening is
make me an argument that is a good, sound, well
constructed argument. You can't make an argument because it makes
me uncomfortable. Is a part of the reason why Democrat
(22:21):
party brand has collapsed. And so first of all, I
think he's probably lying. Okay, let's start with that second part.
Twenty four years ago when nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, like the.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Actual victims when we're still cleaning up. This is the
great Norm MacDonald clip. If I remember correctly from.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Back in tweet. Was it a tweet or yeah, like
it might have been both, but I always remember the tweet.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Just imagine if America got hit with a nuclear bomb
in one of our cities.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Just think of all the Islamophobia.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yes, and I mean the whole idea that the people
who are victims here are not the people that actually died,
but the people who in some way were looked on
suspiciously after other people who embraced the same religion decided
to fly airplanes into three different iconic American structures, I mean,
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or two different American iconic structures. I mean, I guess
again that actually goes into was the World Trade Center one?
You know this is like one discrete event or another.
That's the lawyer in me going back. But the discrete
tear attacker two. I think you look at at all
of this and I just I watched that rally Buck
(23:48):
because I said, I want to make sure that I'm
not missing anything. The fourteen thousand people were in a
stadium setting, they had AOC they had Momdanni, and we
got different clips from that, and I think we should
play it. But my big takeaway was, no, I'm not
missing anything here. This is a crazy person's campaign that
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is taken over in New York City and he's according.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
To the odds. I know Sleeve was gonna pull it out.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You tell me, fine, but according to the odds, he's
looking like the odds on favorite and then some and
I would say, what we're seeing, Clay.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And one of the reasons why nationally this.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Is getting attention, why people in Texas and California and
Missouri and everywhere who are with us right now are
at least observing this race with some degree of interest,
is this is what left wing populism in America looks
like I think they are beginning to move away a
(24:47):
little bit, and it's a temporary, tactical retreat. They have
not repudiated, they have not given up on what many
of us now call race communism at all, but they
are going back toward a more class warfare communism really
the original communism, and making this all about rich have
to pay more, government has to give me more. And
(25:10):
unfortunately very straightforward, everybody thinks that Santa Claus is good
when Santa Claus is giving them stuff, and that there's
no downside, and that only the rich people who won't
notice it are going to pay. These are all the
usual lies. But this is at the heart of this
whole left wing populist movement. I mean, here is at
(25:30):
the Sunday Bernie rally you had or sorry, Mamdani rally, right,
but it's Bernie aoc Mamdani.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I mean, these right now.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Are the three I was going to say shining lights,
but what would be a what's a I have to
think of some other These are the three commissars in
chief of the American Democrat commedi movement. And here they
are listen to what the crowd is channing play cut.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
For God's fire enough.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
High.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I can hear you.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, what a stirring speech from New York Governor hkle There, Okay,
I can hear you. But just so you all know,
that crowd is chanting tax the rich, tax the rich.
You know who's listening in New York City right now?
High earners who are like, hey Buck, how's South Florida?
Hey Clay, they got some extra houses in Franklin, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I'd leave.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I mean, I respect the fact that New York City
has been a great American town, uh for hundreds of years.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
If I were.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
One of the people that is having a great living
and made a great living in New York City, that
you know they are going to come for and they
are going to tax you to excess. There's lots of
great American cities. Maybe in nineteen sixty or nineteen eighty
you felt like you had to stay in New York City.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Trust me.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Nashville is awesome, Miami is awesome, Dallas pretty great, Houston
pretty great. No state income tax in any of those
big cities. You can get everything that you want in
New York except you can have a gun and you
can have zero per state income tax. That's a pretty
good trade.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
A gun is in one place you.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Can't even you can't even have a gun in New
York City, like no, I know, but I'm saying in
these other places you're not gonna happen. You can have
it in time. You can have an entire arsenal, but
you can have a gun. I mean, there are lots
of restricted rights in New York City. And I think
New York City is fine to visit. And I know
you still have a ton of family there, and Ya
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is awesome. And Mamdanti's not going to single handily ruin
the city forever, but he's going to make some decisions that,
unfortunately the New Yorkers are going to pay a price.
The best case scenario for mom donni best case scenario
if he wins, is that he's so incompetent because he's
never managed anything in his life. He's never had any
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success in life prior to this moment. And you can
go back, you live through it. Buck, It's not a
surprise to me that the people who have been the
best mayors have tended to have a lot of experience
in management or business that has prepared them to be
able to take on the leviathan that is the New
York City government. So I think the best case scenario
(28:44):
is Mam Donnie is so incompetent that he is not
politically able to enact the agenda that he has run
to say that he will enact. And speaking of that agenda,
this has been recently released by the Mam Donnay campaigns.
So my understanding is this is not like deep OPO
research that we're latching onto here or something. Here is Mamdani.
(29:09):
I mean, the campaign's like, look at mom Donnie, look
at ugradies. Here he is talking about how when you
get the problem on buses. And I have ridden on
New York City buses many many times.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
My high school are sports teams used to have to
travel the games because we had a very limited budget.
It was a scholarship school. We would travel on public buses,
city buses in your city bus forms. You would just
get on with like your yeah, we would get on
with like fifteen of us or whatever, and we would
get on the city bus. I've been on buses many, many,
many times. Here is Mamdani. This is cut three saying
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if we just make all the buses free, some of
the problems we see will get better.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Play it you have a fair box on a bus,
it increases the site of tension, of conflict, of assaults
when you reduce when you remove that farebox. Rather, what
you find is a safer experience, not just for the
riders but also for the operators.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Clay, this is like saying, hey, you know what the
problem is in all these drug stores in New York
that have to have everything locked up. They expect to
be paid for this stuff. You don't what erase the conflict.
Let's just let them take whatever they want for free.
Then all of a sudden, there's no problem. This is
lunacy from this guy. Lunacy and what you really need
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to have for people who don't pay the fare get
a big fine.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I have to do it again.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
They get arrested, and if they assault the guy who's
actually driving the bus, they go to prison. I have
done public transportation a lot in my life as well.
I rode the public Nashville school bus, public Nashville City
bus when I was a kid from my school. You
know what people care about the most, safety and cleanliness.
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Do you know what making all public transportation buses in particular,
say free is going to do decrease safety and increase
the going to mac City bus is mobile homeless shelters. Yes,
that's what this will become, which, by the way, already
is the case in the New York City subway system
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where people just jump the fair. But as you know,
if you jump the fair in the subway, you know
someone doesn't necessari see if you jump the fair on
the bus, everybody sees and they know you haven't paid,
and you're on video right that it's easier to jump
the fare in the subway system, but there are whole
clay I have experienced this so many times. Producer Ally,
you can weigh in on this either now or we
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come back from the break.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You'll be like, oh my gosh, the subway is so crowded,
play so crowded. Oh man, look at this. There's a
there's an empty subway car just for me.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And you will go on that subway car and it
will smell worse than any smell you've ever come across
in your life, because it is being used by homeless
people who are deeply mentally ill.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
As a toilet.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, and I would also point out people say, well,
why do you care about people jumping the turnstiles everything
else relatively low level crime. Well, the percentage of times
that people are jumping the turnstiles, a lot of those
guys have outstanding crimes. Right, So when you are arresting
somebody who is jumping a turnstyle, you oftentimes are going
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to find out that they have a criminal history. On
top of that, to say nothing of the evidence supports
that when you don't enforce the law, you encourage more
law breaking. And producer Alley rides subway all the time.
I haven't been on the subway in a long time.
I was trying to think of the last time I
was on the New York City subway. I think it
was when we were I had my whole family up
(32:35):
buck and my middle son, who was obsessed with Ghostbusters,
wanted to tour the city of New York to see
all the Ghostbuster places dressed as a Ghostbuster, which is
kind of awesome, pretty awesome. Yeah, Yeah, that was a
lot of fun. Look, I want to tell you prize
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Speaker 2 (32:50):
We lost.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
We had an easy win, and Caleb Williams couldn't throw
a touchdown pass on multiple first and goal situations. As
a result, no touchdown pass from the Chicago Bears. Not
for the first time. Chicago, let us down. But we
will have another pick for you on Thursday. And you
know what today is, Buck, Today is the sports Equinox.
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Do you know what that means? What is the sports Equinox?
We have NFL, we have NBA, Major League Baseball, and
the NHL.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
It is the only day all.
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Speaker 4 (34:04):
Clay, Travis and buck Sexton telling it like it is.
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
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Speaker 1 (34:12):
And were welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show
Jacqueline in Brooklyn. She wants to update it. She is
a poll worker in Brooklyn. What have you seen so far?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Hi, Clay. Yeah, I'm actually an inspector at one of
the poll sites and I worked yesterday and voter turnout
was very high, as is being reported. A lot of
people that came in, I didn't ask them anything. They
voluntarily told me. They were so excited like kid's in
a candy store. They said, I just want to vote
for mayor. I just want to vote for Curtis. I
haven't voted in a long time, but I just want
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to vote for mayor. And I just want to vote
for Curtis. So and this also I heard from my
colleagues that worked on Saturday. I'll also be working tomorrow
and throughout the rest of the election and on election
Day as well. So do not under estimate Curtis people,
you know, the polls. As far as the betting websites,
I understand that they use the same criteria they were
(35:08):
lawing on the information from the polls. The polls polled
seventy five percent of Democrats. Only thirty percent collectively Republicans, conservatives,
and independents were polled. So garbage in, garbage out.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Okay, So you think I'm going to be in a
red beret.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I think you should really have to come to New
York and clean subway toilets. When Cardiff twins.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
I am not, I am not.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's a great suggestion. I will not clean subway toilets.
I gotta draw the lines. I can't. I can't get sick.
I mean, in my own health would be on the line.
I have to have an important job. I have to
be able to talk on the microphone. I will wear
a red beret. Maybe other funny things I don't want
to do. An maybe maybe you would go on the subway.
I'll be your your bodyguard, slash hype man videoing you
(35:55):
on the subway with your red beret and just begging
forgiveness from all Curtis voters you pass on the subway
for doubting our man. Curtis sliwa for the huge come
from behind victory that he has. If it has, I
want to hear from you by the way buck what
the people who showed up at the new No King's
Rally had in common? And there's a big new study
(36:17):
that just dropped. Democrats are trying to figure out why
does everybody hate us? Seriously, they have commissioned their own
study and you're probably not going to be surprised at
the results. But it is very funny to contemplate democrats
looking at voters like they're in a zoo or something
and they're trying to figure out who are these people
out there. We'll have some fun with that too when
(36:40):
we come back. Thanks for hanging with us on the
Monday edition of Plane Book
Welcome in everybody to the Monday edition of The Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And we are stacked, my friends,
with so much to discuss from over this weekend. We
are a week and a day away from election day
elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and probably getting more attention
(00:22):
than any other good old and yc my hometown. That
is going to be the difficult one. I'm sorry to say.
I think that one's not going to be fun. But
we shall have some discussion about that. To be sure,
Clay's already grinning a little bit. It's okay, he's just
grinning because of the helpful lessons that America will learn
(00:46):
from the suffering of Manhattan. And I don't think I
have a good shot of being elected mayor of New
York City.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Let's just say there's lots of New Yorkers we got
some fun talkbacks that are not happy with me, so
we will continue to feature. I'm sure you have to understand,
my fellow New Yorkers. When Clay went to GW, as
someone born and raised in Nashville, he was like an
alien species. There were not a lot of Nashvillians at GW,
(01:12):
so did some of the New Yorkers at gw ask
Clay if he played a banjo. Probably were there some
who said, Hey, Clay, do you come from the long
line of moonshine makers. I think so, and so now
twenty some odd years later, Clay gets his revenge on
the Big Apple for all their misperceptions. Sometimes we have
to let New York City sink beneath the waves in
(01:35):
order for the rest of the country to thrive. And unfortunately,
I don't think that we're going to have a good result.
But Curtis Leiwa has agreed to come on the program
yes on Wednesday, and he will make the case to
all of you why I am a moron and he
is going to win and so you can be looking
forward to that on the Wednesday edition of this fine program. Cuomo,
(01:59):
probably because we have accurately called him the worst governor
in the State of New York's history based on the
way that he responded to COVID producer Ali, despite abundant requests,
has not been willing to come on this program, even though,
to be honest, if he has any hope of winning,
he should come on this program and talk to I mean,
(02:21):
how many New Yorkers that vote are listening to us
right now. Tens of thousands just in New York City
at this exact moment are listening to us in wo R.
So if you're really trying to win, he should let
bygones be bygones, acknowledged that he screwed up COVID and
beg for everyone's vote that's listening to this right now.
I even offered to interview Cuomo as Cuomo, but he
(02:44):
would not take me up on this offer, so we try.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That would be great, great rate.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Would have been far more effective as the governor during COVID,
just if you could have that's there. I'll even let
him get all quote Italian on me and put his
hand on my on my ribcage or whatever it is
he got in trouble, for whatever it takes to get
him to get him to come on the show.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I am just Italian and affectionate.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
A lot of the Italian Americans listening are like, I
don't know, man, I've never gotten fired from my job
for groping people, and I'm plenty of Italian. Anyway, we're
kissing people a lot. I mean, I it seems a
little aggressive. Do you remember the smooch press conference. He's like,
here is a photo of me giving a smooch. Is
smooching sexual harassment? Not if you can trace your lineage
(03:31):
ton Police, Sicily and the following places. And again Italian
Americans were like, you're terrible, that's that's not actually a thing.
But nice, try though, nice, try to throw all of
us under the bus together. Nonetheless, we have we have
the New York City Mayor's race to get into, which
we shall some other very interesting things going on here.
(03:52):
Gavin Newsom gets a little a little street.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You notice this.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
He all of a sudden, Gavin Newsom is like, hey man,
I was on these mean streets making it.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm sure you saw this clip of the of course,
of course I saw this.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I mean, he's the even for Democrat liars. He is
just next he does. I think he does it pretty well.
I think he convinces himself of these lies as he
is telling them. He is so shameless, uh that it
is an advantage, that is for sure. That's true of
many Democrats. But he's particularly good. He is a particularly
(04:26):
liquacious liar. Okay, but let's get back into just just
to give you the menu here, because otherwise we're just
gonna sit and make fun of Cuomo and Mondami the
whole time. And also just a quick note, we are
having Curtis Sliwa on this week. For anyone who's writing in,
are you guys scared to have on fill in the blank?
I promise you the answer is no. Even if I'm
a little bit like, I don't know about it, Clay
(04:47):
will Clay will fight with anybody.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So if I'm like.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I think there might be too much cross talk or
it could get a little two heated, Clay's like, let's
do this. So I promise you it's never that any
It's never that the show is scared of having somebody on.
We ask for everyone. We would go on to the
view in a heartbeat if they let us. There is
no such thing as platform or person worth talking to
and either one of us unwilling to do it. It's
(05:14):
just a two way street, right, I mean, we can't
just show up, although it would be fun if if
we just got in the in the audience of the view,
you know what I mean, We're just like what Bee,
I've got the book coming out in eight days. I mean,
I would go on and they won't have me. I mean,
we reiterated it again. I told the Today Show, I
told all these places out there that you know probably
(05:37):
don't have audiences that are that responsive to me. I'll
come talk to you. And I mean, they really do
live in a universe of isolation. I gotta give you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Know.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Fox Play has lots of people on that they disagree with.
Oh yeah, they have my Donnie on. I mean they
don't have anybody on well. And also Fox has the
reach and the platform that people ignore their in politics
ignore at their peril if they're trying to unless they're
just trying to win leftist votes, like unless they're going
full Pelosi all the time. But Clay, I understand it
(06:09):
must be frustrating when you reach out to some of
these esteemed programs like The View and say, ladies, you
may have heard some things about me. You may have
heard that the two things that have never let me down.
You know what, I won't even get there. You can
google it yourself. However, as a serious author and public intellectual,
I just want to come on and talk about balls.
(06:30):
And I just don't know why they don't see that
this is a win win for everyone. I'm not going
to be on a book tour. But we're going to
have a vanity URL where and I made some suggestions.
It's not yet ready where you can go and I
will sign the book and it will include the name Clay,
Travis and Balls in some way. But I promise you
(06:53):
you will not get fired for going to this website.
And it is not in any way a an only
fan style page. Although I'm not above selling feet picks.
If people are willing to pay for feet picks, I
am happy to put them on the market. You know,
there was a time when white House dot gov is
obviously the White House site, but there was something very
(07:14):
close to White House that somehow someone bought. I know
about this because a message had to go out to
government employees to be careful if you went to the
wrong site typing yes you went, you went to the
really wrong site. And and that is a This is
in the old wild West days twenty years ago of
the Internet, where someone could buy a URL that's close enough.
So yes, indeed you can go to Clay Ball's book
(07:37):
or book.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
What is it? Is Balls official?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
The official vanity is not there, but the book is
up on Amazon. I would, I would, honestly appreciate you.
Have you recorded your new book yet? No, I'm recording
in December, so I read the entire thing. Buck is
going to find out that this is a hellish experience
where you sit there and there's somebody, especially for me,
who mispronounces wars. Every time you mispronounce a word, they
(08:02):
stop you. Every time you don't pause correctly, they stop you.
So you can get credit. You can listen to the book,
and it is me sitting by myself for two full
days in a padded, legitimately padded recording room. I recorded
the entire audiobook. So also we know it's gonna be
a good day because for those of you who are
watching on our stream, Clay and I are both wearing
(08:25):
Crockett Coffee team That's right, different colors, so at least
we don't look like twins. But Crocketcoffee dot Com my friends,
go check it out, join the coffee Revolution. If you haven't,
I would just ask you why. I guess you like
con Do you like mom Donnie coffee? Do you like
the coffee of this rejected theater kid who now wants
to ruin the greatest city in America? Because I'm telling
you he doesn't drink Crockett. Crockett is the anti mom
(08:48):
Donnie Coffee. So just keep that. And I watched that rally. Yes,
he hates Davy Crockett. He hates American history, so does AOC.
I mean that rally. We need to play some cuts
from it here in the first hour. They are crazy,
So we're going to dive into Kami Mamdani and all
that nonsense because the country is watching this. Because I
do think Democrats also do, unfortunately recognize what Clay has
(09:10):
been saying.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I agree with him.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It just makes me sad for New York that this
guy could be such a disaster that he becomes a
cautionary tale about voting Democrat going into the midterms, which
they don't want. But other stories we're going to get
to today. Just to give you a sense of the menu,
we have some data on the No King's Protest. Clay,
I'll ask this question, don't answer yet. What is the
(09:32):
single most represented demographic at the No King's Protest. I've
got a strong idea. Yeah, I think Clay has a
good idea on this one, and we'll get into that.
We also have it looks like there's at least the
basis of a framework of a China US trade deal.
This is one of these things that sounds boring until
you think about the implications of this for all of us,
(09:54):
for the cost of goods, for your business, for American industry,
for a whole range of things. This is the big one.
If Trump gets this trade deal done, I think you're
gonna see even more bulliance in this market that you
than you currently have. H that was something of a
play on words.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I think there.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I like that, So it was an accident, but I'll
take it. We've got that and the and oh the
East wing of the White House play. I'm sure you
saw this editorial. We've been saying this all along, guys.
It's not just because we think Trump is fantastic and
he's doing an amazing job. This is just objectively a
good idea with a good design and now kind of
(10:36):
creeping out a little bit into the public for the Democrats. Actually,
they really do need this, and all this stuff about
how he's a king and a dictator is nonsense. So Clay,
those are the those are the big places. I think
we're gonna be going here, at least in the in
the next you know, within the next hour or two,
and I will just tell you this, Maybe this is
a fitting way to set us up for what's coming next.
(10:57):
Your man, Curtis Sliwa will be on the Clay and
Buckshoe on all five hundred and sixty ish stations this Wednesday,
one pm Eastern time. It's going to be it's gonna
be feisty. It'll be a Donnybrook. And look, the voting
is underway. The voting is already underway. And I will
(11:18):
just tell you, mom, Donnie is setting record highs in
the prediction markets. These are not polls. This is where
people are betting on what the result is going to be.
Some of these guys can look at the data returns.
Ryan Gardusky was the guy who was really good at
us for this on twenty twenty four, and I remember
we had him on and we said, hey, when did
(11:39):
you know what the result was going to be? And
he said, you remember the answer as soon as Northern
Virginia suburbs came in and you could look and compare
what the results were there as the full totalities were
in compared to Biden twenty twenty, he said, you knew
Trump had won. And unless again those northern Virginia suburbs
(12:03):
were statistical outliers. There is record high early voting going
on right now, and that same thing I believe is
true in Virginia and New Jersey now. So people are
out there making their decisions, making their voices heard, as
we encourage all of you to do, and the gambling
markets are saying, Mom Damie is a prohibitive favorite. He's
(12:25):
a bigger favorite than Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. And then
Mickey whatever her name is, the New Jersey gubernatorial candidate.
All of the Democrats are favored as you would expect
that they should be, considering these are all blue in
the case of New York City deep blue, and then
blue states in New Jersey and Virginia that we're trying
(12:47):
to flip back. Get into all that here coming up,
and also your calls, your talkbacks. If you'remat at Clay,
just be nice, be nice some of the Clay. You
have upset parts of Brooklyn that you do not want
to mess with. You have you have ticked off some
areas of Staten Island where I'm gonna have to be
your your security detail if you go. I'll be in
(13:08):
New York next week for the election. I may have
to stay in my hotel and just order room service
in Manhattan. You're in Manhattan, You're fine. They love Kami
Mamdani there, so you're you're good to go. They don't
even I don't even know who Curtis Sleeway is. In
most parts of Manhattan, it's a shame. But in some
of those other boroughs, you're in Curtistown, all right. Look,
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Speaker 1 (15:03):
Welcome back in play treatis buck Sexton show. A lot
of you already loading up the phone lines. Let's go
to Josh in New York City. Josh, what you got for.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Us, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Tremendous show. And I'm gonna throw my cards right on
the table. I'm sporting Curtis Lee with the Mayor of
New York City that breaking records the early voting. One
hundred and sixty thousand people voted Saturday and Sunday, and
Curtis Leewa, let me just tell the people out there
and you can verify this. The New York Post June four,
twenty twenty, Curtis Lee were and ten of the Guardian
(15:38):
Angels were out confronting the looters in New York City,
the famous ones in front of one of the famous
speaker places. Curtis ended up with a broken jaw and
one of the other guys, who was not a young dude,
ended up with a broken eye socket and a broken nose.
But let me tell the folks out there. When the
sun came up that morning, Curtis Sleewa and the Guardian
(16:00):
Angels was still standing.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Thank you for the call that we lose him there
for a sec all right, here is a fun discussion
for all of you. I believe that Momdannie is going
to win, and I think Curtisle is going to get
smoked now he's going to make the argument to us
on Wednesday. I am always willing to acknowledge that I
could be wrong. I also should I play is going
(16:26):
to basically put it to Curtis like that, knowing Clay
as well as I do, He's not going to be
like so, Curtis, it's really it's really close, so get
ready right, So I think he's going to lose. What
should I have to do if if if I am wrong?
Where what if I am red beret for a whole
week of this show and tweet out a photo of
you with the red beret on? I will That's a
(16:49):
good one. I will do the entire I'll do a
full week of shows in Curtis's red beret. I'll get
my own red beret and I will here and I
will do the show. I will go on Fox News
at least once wearing the red beret as well. That
is a good one. I am open to other suggestions
(17:10):
out there. I don't think just spoiler alert, I don't
think I'm gonna look that good in a beret. To
be fair, anybody really pull off the bra Have you
ever seen someone in a beret Special Forces and but
you thought they looked better than if they didn't have
the beret flint back in the day? Gi Joe, I mean, yeah, dude,
they look badass in they look bad ass in thera.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I know they're badasses.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm just not sure that the beret is necessarily the
hat where people see them in it and think everyone
looks better. I will tell you I will not look
good in the beret. I will not be someone that
looks very good. Are you going to be painting and
are you going to be twirling your mustache and speaking
in French?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Because then you'd pull it off. I might.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I might move to Molmontra and be a painter on
the hills in Paris. Can't believe that pronunciation. I think
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welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're making sense of
all the craziness going on, and my, oh my, there's
(18:57):
plenty of that with this New York City man race happening.
It's a signal, I think, or it could be a
symbol of things to come and not good ones, not
good ones for the city of New York, very very frustrating.
So we will continue to make sense of this one.
We got do we still have Josh and NYC. We
(19:21):
already played We already talked with Josh and in sorry
not Josh, John and John and oh no, that's we
already got to Okay, let's get into some We'll get
to Missouri later on the east wing. Sorry about that. Well,
let's get into the clips here, all right. We have
this Clay. If we're picking the worst, if we're picking
the worst clip of Mom Donnie, that's a tough one.
(19:42):
That's a tough one. Though there are said, definitely some
that are now rising to the top. This is a
flashback to twenty twenty, and you really see who these
Democrats are in twenty twenty talking about this across the board,
because that's when it was the They thought it was
maximum political advantage to showing you just how left winging
(20:04):
and saying they are. Here is Mamdanni back in twenty
twenty about the lesson that he learned from nine to
eleven and his remembrance of it played too.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I want to use this moment to speak to the
Muslims of New York City. I want to speak to
the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway
after September eleventh because she did not feel safe in
her hit Jem.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Clay, that's the three thousand people died. A war was
launched with a horrific terrorist attack against US, and Mamdani's
concern is and I'm.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Just gonna say this.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
People are already pointing out that this doesn't seem like
it even adds up with whether his aunt was actually
in New York, whether she actually wore.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
A hit job.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But this guy will say anything but for nine to
eleven to be about your aunt creating this fear. You know,
this Islama phone a thing, the truth of nine to eleven,
and this, you know, talking to New Yorkers the whole country,
Americans were incredibly tolerant and decent toward Muslim Americans after
(21:16):
nine to eleven, in ninety nine point nine nine nine
percent of cases. You you find me another society where
someone suffers a massive terrorist sneak attack that kills thousands
of people that is responsible entirely by one religious group
with one ideology, and trust me, it would not have
(21:36):
gone the way that it went in this country. So
the American tolerance after nine to eleven is actually a
shiny example of how decent and reasonable the American people are.
In my opinion, I think that's all one hundred percent accurate.
I would also point out that claiming that someone is
opposed to you because of your identity is not actually
(21:57):
an argument for or a against anything. And I think
where a lot of you come down on this issue,
why Black Asian Hispanic who are out there listening is
make me an argument that is a good, sound, well
constructed argument. You can't make an argument because it makes
me uncomfortable. Is a part of the reason why Democrat
(22:21):
party brand has collapsed. And so first of all, I
think he's probably lying. Okay, let's start with that second part.
Twenty four years ago when nine to eleven happened.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, like the.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Actual victims when we're still cleaning up. This is the
great Norm MacDonald clip. If I remember correctly from.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Back in tweet. Was it a tweet or yeah, like
it might have been both, but I always remember the tweet.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Just imagine if America got hit with a nuclear bomb
in one of our cities.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Just think of all the Islamophobia.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yes, and I mean the whole idea that the people
who are victims here are not the people that actually died,
but the people who in some way were looked on
suspiciously after other people who embraced the same religion decided
to fly airplanes into three different iconic American structures, I mean,
(23:24):
or two different American iconic structures. I mean, I guess
again that actually goes into was the World Trade Center one?
You know this is like one discrete event or another.
That's the lawyer in me going back. But the discrete
tear attacker two. I think you look at at all
of this and I just I watched that rally Buck
(23:48):
because I said, I want to make sure that I'm
not missing anything. The fourteen thousand people were in a
stadium setting, they had AOC they had Momdanni, and we
got different clips from that, and I think we should
play it. But my big takeaway was, no, I'm not
missing anything here. This is a crazy person's campaign that
(24:10):
is taken over in New York City and he's according.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
To the odds. I know Sleeve was gonna pull it out.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You tell me, fine, but according to the odds, he's
looking like the odds on favorite and then some and
I would say, what we're seeing, Clay.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And one of the reasons why nationally this.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Is getting attention, why people in Texas and California and
Missouri and everywhere who are with us right now are
at least observing this race with some degree of interest,
is this is what left wing populism in America looks
like I think they are beginning to move away a
(24:47):
little bit, and it's a temporary, tactical retreat. They have
not repudiated, they have not given up on what many
of us now call race communism at all, but they
are going back toward a more class warfare communism really
the original communism, and making this all about rich have
to pay more, government has to give me more. And
(25:10):
unfortunately very straightforward, everybody thinks that Santa Claus is good
when Santa Claus is giving them stuff, and that there's
no downside, and that only the rich people who won't
notice it are going to pay. These are all the
usual lies. But this is at the heart of this
whole left wing populist movement. I mean, here is at
(25:30):
the Sunday Bernie rally you had or sorry, Mamdani rally, right,
but it's Bernie aoc Mamdani.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I mean, these right now.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Are the three I was going to say shining lights,
but what would be a what's a I have to
think of some other These are the three commissars in
chief of the American Democrat commedi movement. And here they
are listen to what the crowd is channing play cut.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
For God's fire enough.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
High.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I can hear you.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, what a stirring speech from New York Governor hkle There, Okay,
I can hear you. But just so you all know,
that crowd is chanting tax the rich, tax the rich.
You know who's listening in New York City right now?
High earners who are like, hey Buck, how's South Florida?
Hey Clay, they got some extra houses in Franklin, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I'd leave.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I mean, I respect the fact that New York City
has been a great American town, uh for hundreds of years.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
If I were.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
One of the people that is having a great living
and made a great living in New York City, that
you know they are going to come for and they
are going to tax you to excess. There's lots of
great American cities. Maybe in nineteen sixty or nineteen eighty
you felt like you had to stay in New York City.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Trust me.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Nashville is awesome, Miami is awesome, Dallas pretty great, Houston
pretty great. No state income tax in any of those
big cities. You can get everything that you want in
New York except you can have a gun and you
can have zero per state income tax. That's a pretty
good trade.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
A gun is in one place you.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Can't even you can't even have a gun in New
York City, like no, I know, but I'm saying in
these other places you're not gonna happen. You can have
it in time. You can have an entire arsenal, but
you can have a gun. I mean, there are lots
of restricted rights in New York City. And I think
New York City is fine to visit. And I know
you still have a ton of family there, and Ya
(28:01):
is awesome. And Mamdanti's not going to single handily ruin
the city forever, but he's going to make some decisions that,
unfortunately the New Yorkers are going to pay a price.
The best case scenario for mom donni best case scenario
if he wins, is that he's so incompetent because he's
never managed anything in his life. He's never had any
(28:21):
success in life prior to this moment. And you can
go back, you live through it. Buck, It's not a
surprise to me that the people who have been the
best mayors have tended to have a lot of experience
in management or business that has prepared them to be
able to take on the leviathan that is the New
York City government. So I think the best case scenario
(28:44):
is Mam Donnie is so incompetent that he is not
politically able to enact the agenda that he has run
to say that he will enact. And speaking of that agenda,
this has been recently released by the Mam Donnay campaigns.
So my understanding is this is not like deep OPO
research that we're latching onto here or something. Here is Mamdani.
(29:09):
I mean, the campaign's like, look at mom Donnie, look
at ugradies. Here he is talking about how when you
get the problem on buses. And I have ridden on
New York City buses many many times.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
My high school are sports teams used to have to
travel the games because we had a very limited budget.
It was a scholarship school. We would travel on public buses,
city buses in your city bus forms. You would just
get on with like your yeah, we would get on
with like fifteen of us or whatever, and we would
get on the city bus. I've been on buses many, many,
many times. Here is Mamdani. This is cut three saying
(29:44):
if we just make all the buses free, some of
the problems we see will get better.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Play it you have a fair box on a bus,
it increases the site of tension, of conflict, of assaults
when you reduce when you remove that farebox. Rather, what
you find is a safer experience, not just for the
riders but also for the operators.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Clay, this is like saying, hey, you know what the
problem is in all these drug stores in New York
that have to have everything locked up. They expect to
be paid for this stuff. You don't what erase the conflict.
Let's just let them take whatever they want for free.
Then all of a sudden, there's no problem. This is
lunacy from this guy. Lunacy and what you really need
(30:24):
to have for people who don't pay the fare get
a big fine.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I have to do it again.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
They get arrested, and if they assault the guy who's
actually driving the bus, they go to prison. I have
done public transportation a lot in my life as well.
I rode the public Nashville school bus, public Nashville City
bus when I was a kid from my school. You
know what people care about the most, safety and cleanliness.
(30:49):
Do you know what making all public transportation buses in particular,
say free is going to do decrease safety and increase
the going to mac City bus is mobile homeless shelters. Yes,
that's what this will become, which, by the way, already
is the case in the New York City subway system
(31:11):
where people just jump the fair. But as you know,
if you jump the fair in the subway, you know
someone doesn't necessari see if you jump the fair on
the bus, everybody sees and they know you haven't paid,
and you're on video right that it's easier to jump
the fare in the subway system, but there are whole
clay I have experienced this so many times. Producer Ally,
you can weigh in on this either now or we
(31:31):
come back from the break.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You'll be like, oh my gosh, the subway is so crowded,
play so crowded. Oh man, look at this. There's a
there's an empty subway car just for me.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And you will go on that subway car and it
will smell worse than any smell you've ever come across
in your life, because it is being used by homeless
people who are deeply mentally ill.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
As a toilet.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, and I would also point out people say, well,
why do you care about people jumping the turnstiles everything
else relatively low level crime. Well, the percentage of times
that people are jumping the turnstiles, a lot of those
guys have outstanding crimes. Right, So when you are arresting
somebody who is jumping a turnstyle, you oftentimes are going
(32:14):
to find out that they have a criminal history. On
top of that, to say nothing of the evidence supports
that when you don't enforce the law, you encourage more
law breaking. And producer Alley rides subway all the time.
I haven't been on the subway in a long time.
I was trying to think of the last time I
was on the New York City subway. I think it
was when we were I had my whole family up
(32:35):
buck and my middle son, who was obsessed with Ghostbusters,
wanted to tour the city of New York to see
all the Ghostbuster places dressed as a Ghostbuster, which is
kind of awesome, pretty awesome. Yeah, Yeah, that was a
lot of fun. Look, I want to tell you prize
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We had an easy win, and Caleb Williams couldn't throw
a touchdown pass on multiple first and goal situations. As
a result, no touchdown pass from the Chicago Bears. Not
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Do you know what that means? What is the sports Equinox?
We have NFL, we have NBA, Major League Baseball, and
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Speaker 1 (34:12):
And were welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show
Jacqueline in Brooklyn. She wants to update it. She is
a poll worker in Brooklyn. What have you seen so far?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Hi, Clay. Yeah, I'm actually an inspector at one of
the poll sites and I worked yesterday and voter turnout
was very high, as is being reported. A lot of
people that came in, I didn't ask them anything. They
voluntarily told me. They were so excited like kid's in
a candy store. They said, I just want to vote
for mayor. I just want to vote for Curtis. I
haven't voted in a long time, but I just want
(34:47):
to vote for mayor. And I just want to vote
for Curtis. So and this also I heard from my
colleagues that worked on Saturday. I'll also be working tomorrow
and throughout the rest of the election and on election
Day as well. So do not under estimate Curtis people,
you know, the polls. As far as the betting websites,
I understand that they use the same criteria they were
(35:08):
lawing on the information from the polls. The polls polled
seventy five percent of Democrats. Only thirty percent collectively Republicans, conservatives,
and independents were polled. So garbage in, garbage out.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Okay, So you think I'm going to be in a
red beret.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I think you should really have to come to New
York and clean subway toilets. When Cardiff twins.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
I am not, I am not.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's a great suggestion. I will not clean subway toilets.
I gotta draw the lines. I can't. I can't get sick.
I mean, in my own health would be on the line.
I have to have an important job. I have to
be able to talk on the microphone. I will wear
a red beret. Maybe other funny things I don't want
to do. An maybe maybe you would go on the subway.
I'll be your your bodyguard, slash hype man videoing you
(35:55):
on the subway with your red beret and just begging
forgiveness from all Curtis voters you pass on the subway
for doubting our man. Curtis sliwa for the huge come
from behind victory that he has. If it has, I
want to hear from you by the way buck what
the people who showed up at the new No King's
Rally had in common? And there's a big new study
(36:17):
that just dropped. Democrats are trying to figure out why
does everybody hate us? Seriously, they have commissioned their own
study and you're probably not going to be surprised at
the results. But it is very funny to contemplate democrats
looking at voters like they're in a zoo or something
and they're trying to figure out who are these people
out there. We'll have some fun with that too when
(36:40):
we come back. Thanks for hanging with us on the
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