August 1, 2025 • 36 mins
In Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the hosts deliver a dynamic and politically charged start to the weekend, diving deep into the latest headlines and cultural debates dominating America. This hour centers around Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s reemergence in the media spotlight via her extended interview with Stephen Colbert, marking her first public appearance since losing the 2024 election.
The hosts dissect Harris’s decision not to run for California governor, despite favorable polling, and her claim that the political system is “broken.” They argue this is a deflection from her long-standing role within that very system, suggesting her advisors see a gubernatorial run as a step backward. The conversation pivots to speculation about her potential presidential ambitions, with both hosts asserting that her candidacy would benefit Republicans due to her perceived lack of political effectiveness.
Throughout the hour, Clay and Buck critique Harris’s leadership, branding her as emblematic of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) politics and lacking substance. They highlight her vague response to questions about Democratic Party leadership, framing it as evasive and uninspiring. The hosts also scrutinize Stephen Colbert’s partisan bias, noting his history of hosting only Democratic guests and his derogatory remarks about President Donald Trump, whom they defend as the current president.
Drawing parallels between sports and politics, the hosts emphasize the value of meritocracy, fairness, and transparency, likening election integrity to the precision expected in professional sports. They argue that Americans crave authenticity and are increasingly rejecting artificial narratives pushed by media and corporate elites.
The hour also includes commentary on corporate missteps, such as Bud Light’s failed marketing campaign, which they attribute to a disconnect between brand executives and their actual consumer base. This leads to broader criticism of woke corporate culture, with calls for companies to return to traditional values and market realities.
Personal anecdotes, including Clay’s reflections on his children returning to school and his own journey back to Catholicism. The hosts discuss the resurgence of faith among younger generations, suggesting churches should leverage social media to engage authentically without compromising their core message.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It is a summer Friday. I hope you're all in a.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good mood because it's a great time in America, my friends,
a great time for this country, and I want you
to enjoy it. August first today. Can't believe how quickly
the time is going by. And we have a lot
of news to talk to you about. So we're going
to send you off for the weekend with everything you
need to know, everything that's going on, Clay, because I
(00:32):
am a team player, a dedicated co host, and somebody
who's willing to take one for the team, somebody who's
willing to take those slings and arrows. I didn't just
watch the Kamala Harris televised Colbert interview. Oh no, sir,
(00:52):
I watched the entire extended online version of the interview.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Which I appreciate you taking the bullet I have not
watched it. I mean I saw the clips all circulating.
This is the first interview. For those of you out
there who say, why would you pay attention, This is
the first interview she's done since basically she lost the election.
She vanished for what are we sitting on now, like
seven or eight months and now suddenly is showing back
up and she chooses, of course Colbert as her debut.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, and it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Is such a reminder now, Clay you, I want to
be clear here, Clave was not saying, and we have
a steak on this one, and I'm I'm still trying
to get back the world's most expensive steak that I
had to buy for Clay, right, so there's got to
be payback here. It was very good and there was
a whole light show that went along with it, so
we had some fun here in Miami Beach. I hear
about this place, Bourbon Steak in Nashville, which has incredible.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Views and is very change. To be fair, it's a
chain and I'm gonna make enemies today. But if you
were visiting Nashville and you were asking for where to
go steakhouse, because it's all the way at the top,
like forty third story, you can see the whole city,
I would suggest that that's the best steakhouse to go to.
I just now, as long as it's expensive, as long
(02:09):
as you have to take out that Clay credit card
and we do substantial damage, that's what I'm really looking
for because I'm still smarting over the Miami Beach steak.
But to be clear, Clay's thinking in a few years.
And we're not going to get too into the back
and forth on this today, but we did that yesterday
that Kamala is at least going to run. Yes, that's
not a crazy I think that that's not going to happen,
(02:30):
but that's obviously our bet. I think we both agree
if she runs, that's amazing for Republican or rather, if
she were the nominee and one, that would be amazing
for Republicans, which means I think we both see this
as this is one of the worst politicians to have
been at this level a vice president stepping in to
run as the nominee that we have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I just wanted to share with some of you so.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Clay and I could could have it do a little
joy riding here through the Colbert interview. Clay, you haven't
even heard all of these yet, because some of them
are from the I.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Wanted to react to them. In all honesty, I knew
this was going to happen. I knew we would lead
with it, and I want to react as if a
lot of you out there are two. I have not
heard one. I've seen the clips circulating, but I purposely
did not watch any of them because I knew we'd
be reacting to them.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I just want to point this, Why did I start
off today talking about it's a good time for the
country in it is? I saw the jobs numbers not great.
I understand it's one month, no big deal. Economy overall
doing really well, and we'll get into some of those
specifics here at a moment, but I think it's important
to remind you all that this person that we're about
to play the clips from could have been the President
(03:40):
of the United States, Okay, that we could be sitting
here talking about President Kamala six months into her administration
with a stalled out economy, a wide open border, rising
crime instead of the drops in crime that we're seeing
actually nationwide.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Now, never mind.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
All the the executive orders that are that a Harris administration,
the staffers who actually run it would have not It
would have been a nightmare. And I just think when
you start to listen clay to some of these Kamala clips,
I mean, first of all, we have her saying that
she's decided not to run for governor because the system
(04:20):
is broken.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Clay play cut this has cut five play.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Five announcement that you're not running for the governor of California. Correct,
even though in early polling you beat every other Candida
by double digits.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
You said you're gonna set this one out. Why are
you sitt this? Are you sitting yourself for a different office?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
That might be.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's what everybody was obviously, but obviously people will project onto.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
And honestly that it's it's more pats basic than that.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I am.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Listen, I am a devout public servant. I have spent
my entire career in service of the people, and I
thought a lot about running for governor.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I love my state. I love California.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I've served as just elected district attorney, Attorney General, and senator.
But to be very candid with you, I you know,
when I was a young, young in my career, I
had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with
my family.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
And one of the points that I made is why is.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
It then, when we think we want to improve a
system or change it, that we're always on the outside
on Ben Didnee or trying to break down the door.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Shouldn't we also be inside the system?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
And that has been my career, and recently I made
the decision that I just for now, I don't want
to go back in the system.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I think it's broken, broken because she didn't win Clay,
That's why it's broken.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I hate this. I hate this. She's been in the
system for her entire life. You and I and every
taxpayer out there has funded Kamala Harris's entire life. Has
she ever had a private sector job that means taxpayer
(06:15):
dollars are not funding her existence? I don't think so.
Maybe when she claims to have worked at McDonald's as
a teenager, but as an adult she has worked inside
of the state apparatus at California and then inside of
the federal government apparatus as a senator and as a
(06:35):
Vice president. You don't get to work inside of a
system for thirty years, thirty five years, whatever the heck
the math is, and then suddenly step outside of it
for six months and say, hey, I don't want to
go back into it because it's broken. I think, and
I said this yesterday, and I am going to die
on this hill. I think her advisor said it's actually
(06:59):
a backward step for you to be governor because you've
already been a senator, you've already been a vice president.
You don't need to prove anything by being governor. And
so just take a little bit of time, Just take
a little bit of time off, and then you can
decide to run next year, a little bit after next year,
early twenty seven to be president.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, and if she lost, I think you and I
agree on this point, if she lost the California governor's race,
since she really is toast her career, she really is toast.
I still think that really what I'm seeing here with
this Colbert appearance. And by the way, this goes to
for anyone who's gonna say, and we're gonna get the
emails that momentarily, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Why are you talking with Kamala Harris. Who's the leader
of the Democrat Party?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Who is the leader right now? This matters? And in fact,
she was asked on the Colbert Show who the leader
of the Democrat parties? This has cut eight and you
got a very Kamala answer on this one.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Listen, who's leaving the Democratic Party? I'm just curious.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Lots of lead and it was generally all.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Leader of the Democratic Party, you know, like, oh, that's
a leader donator party.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Who comes to mind.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I think there are a lot of I'm not going
to go through names because then I'm gonna leave somebody
out and then I'm going to hear about it. But
let me just let me say this. I think it
is a mistake for us who want to figure out
how to get out and through this and get out
of it, to put it on the shoulders of any
(08:29):
one person.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
It's really on all of our shoulders.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It really is everything that she says.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Clay sounds like the HR person at the soulless company,
lecturing you as you're forced to have like an all
hands for HR purposes. It's all she speaks to everyone
like we're all morons and no one can escape the boring,
inane things that she.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Has to say. She is the EI personified. I do
think that leave aside her individuality, she is THEI personified.
She looks like what Californians think their leader should look like.
That is, you know, she's mixtuor ace, Asian mixtuor ace
black woman attractive, and she is that sort of portrait
(09:23):
on the wall of what California wants to see when
they see a leader. The problem is she really is
an empty suit. And that's I think largely what many
people out there have an issue with DEI best man
or best woman. Right, let's apply the meritocracy. It doesn't
matter what your background is, doesn't matter who your daddy
(09:44):
or and your mommy were. This is why I think
the sports analogy applies. Nobody gets to start with a
different score on the scoreboard, right, And I think that
that is why I'm making this argument in my new book.
And I'm curious if you could think of something. Is
there any thing in sports, anything in the world of
American life right now, that's more trusted than the scoreboard
(10:07):
where people just and if something's a little bit off right,
if somebody forgets to put a run up, or if
the clock's a little bit off, everybody's pointing at it.
It's a common foundational thing that everybody looks at it
and says, I trust that to reflect reality.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I would like to share some sports analysis here, Yes,
that would build on what you were saying, And that
is the desire to always get it right is reflected
in some of the recent rule changes. I mean to
me the fact that I can't remember now I should
know this, but it's either Wimbledon or the French Open.
In tennis doesn't yet have all of the like for serves,
(10:46):
it's still by the eye of the by the site
of the umps. There's actually technology now that can one
hundred percent get the lasers basically there. And they're like
this did or did not go in. They used to
work roll Garo's back in the day. They would look
at the clay marks, remember that that judge would get
up and look, yeah, and you're right, but.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I see this now.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Also in basketball, you should drive me insane as someone
who used to watch the NBA.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
People want it to.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Be what it should be because they want the better
team to win every time.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They want the truth to apply facts to matter. Everyone does, and.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You see it. It is true.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You see this with sports where there is a true
sense of outrage that people. I mean, I'm still outraged
about when the Los Angeles came. I mean when the
Sacramento Kings had the LA Lakers steal a series from
them and the Kings would have won that I think
this is like twenty years ago now.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, it was one of the most famous.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It's one of the most famous Lakers, Lakers, Kings, Volati, Divac, Bibby,
all those guys. Back in the day. That series just
kind of fell apart.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And I think we want to get back to feeling
in pollend. This goes to election integrity. This goes to
the honesty of the transparency. We're seeing the whole range
of things, Russia, collusion everything. We want to know what
the real scoreboard is in politics too, and what's going
on here and Kamala Harris coming out to give everybody
a lecture on how the system is broken after she
(12:15):
was the vice president for eight years. Why isn't she
telling us about how she fixed the system or fixes
she made to the system. No, it's all about bitterness,
which also goes to Colbert sitting there talk about bitter.
The whole thing was just so sad. It was two losers,
Colbert and Kamala, who were given far more than they deserve,
having a little cry session together because Trump is president.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, and I do think the symbolism of Kamala picking
Colbert as her first Back to the Grind interview to
the extended to Grind in any way, Colbert, if I
were sitting in Colbert's chair. I think the math came out.
They did the deep dive. He had one hundred and
twenty Democrat guests, and I believe it was zero Republican
(13:00):
guest sitting in that chair. If you are on CBS
like that, I don't begrudge Colbert getting Kamala, but he
should be begging for Trump to come on too, right.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
If that, I don't think a true.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Arbiter trying to appeal to everybody. We actually, we don't
have time for it now. Maybe if we want to play,
we come back. I don't think this again, I only
watched the extended, but I don't think this part of
it aired. You should hear what what what Colbert calls
the sitting president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
On his show that is supposedly.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
For all Americans to watch. I mean, you should hear
what he said about President Trump, so we can play
that for you. What he calls Trump on this show,
and how richly he deserves the cancelation and the humiliation
professionally that he has received. But Kamala Harris is the
most cringe inducing politician to have been at her level,
(13:50):
meaning the vice president that I can remember and it's
it's just it's funny to see that she's not the
leader of the Democrat Party. She may not even have
a future. We'll see, we'll see, but she may not
have a future in politics. And there is no leader
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Speaker 3 (15:27):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. All of
you are having fantastic Fridays. We roll you into the weekend. Buck,
I think this you know what I did yesterday one
of the many things that I was a part of yesterday.
This is going to blow a lot of people's minds
out there, particularly the people who don't like the way
I say appreciate y'all. School for my youngest starts back Monday.
(15:51):
So yesterday we yes my ten year old goes back
to school, full time public school Nashville area on Monday,
and we had like the popsicle meet with the that's
a fun event. They have a great school and went
to go meet with his teacher and they have all
the kids in for elementary school and they get popsicles
(16:12):
and they can see their classrooms and everything else. So
I was doing that yesterday and there's a lot of
people who have moved from different parts of the country.
And it's probably ninety five degrees yesterday, and I was
talking to a couple of the dad's kids are running
around the playground everything else, and they're like, I just
I never believed that August would be a school month,
like legit, the whole month. So my kids, my youngest,
(16:35):
not my two others, are going to go back a
little bit later. But school is officially back in session
on Monday in the Travis household. So I think that
is one of the main you know, there's still major
cultural differences that maybe people aren't grappling with. You're gonna
get used to this having moved New York to Florida,
but I think that's one of those things. So many
(16:56):
people have relocated to Tennessee, Texas, Florida, different parts of
the country. I know, listening to us school going back
this early is definitely one of those moments. My wife's
from Michigan and she still can't get over August. What
is that going to be? August? Fourth boom, full day.
Kids are back in session, So so it's officially a
new school year.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Wow, I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's why it starts that So I guess I remember sports,
if you were trying out or playing on teams, that
they usually started around this time in August. But they
get these kids in school sortly what time your boys finish?
I always feel like school days were too long.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, so well, first of all, the ones that play
sports like the day never ends. I mean, they have
unbelievable days by the time you're getting to middle school
in high school and they have to play sports and
want to play sports. But my youngest gets out at
three fifty. He starts at right around nine for elementary school,
gets out at three fifty. So I usually take him
to school, pick him up a lot. That seems like
(17:53):
a reasonable day. But I just I even I was
a little bit stunned. Like Monday, back to school. So
you won't hear kids screaming as often in the background
playing video games as you do. During the summer.
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I want to take your calls eight hundred and two
(19:06):
eight to two two eight eight two. And let's see,
oh I had mentioned this. I just want to play it.
This is from the Colbert Kommla interview. This has cut
six where I actually think Clay has as a very
sound analysis on this point. But here is what these remember,
this is supposed to be a show that makes everybody
laugh across the country.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Obviously it failed, That's why it's getting canceled. But here
is how Colbert refers to the current president of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Play it.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Less than a year ago, things were very joyful.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
There was there was actually a lot of hope associated
with your campaign. There was a lot of promise that
we might actually not only keep this absolute barbarian out
of the White House, but also we might actually make
progresses as a.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Country with the type of people that.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
We wanted to see in office and a younger, more vital,
revived political consciousness in America.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You know, whatever can enough enough enough barbarian Clay, which
tell everybody, I agree with your sense of how Trump
would view this.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I mean, if you told me that I was going
to be insulted by someone calling me a barbarian, would
actually be one of the nicest insults you could have.
I mean, Conan the Barbarian is a big, beastly individual
fighting for truth and justice, and calling me a barbarian
would not be an insult. I would run away from.
(20:30):
I think you've seen that movie, right, It's I think
it's a fun movie. Yeah, yeah, of course, Like I
think Trump would actually embrace this. The Trump social media
team is very witty and funny, and I can see
them taking a cut of Colbert saying that and like
putting Trump super ripped, you know, like kind of throwing
things around. I think Trump would actually like that. But
(20:51):
I do think the point is important here that if
Stephen Colbert wants to be involved in politics, then he
should run for political office, or he should go take
over Meet the Press, or he could work inside of
you know, CBS News or if they were still employing him,
(21:13):
or whatever face the nation I guess is the CBS
Morning Show. But this is particularly pernicious, I think because
and some of you may disagree with this, but I
actually think that one way to make America saying is
to have places where politics aren't imposed upon us all
(21:33):
day long, every day. And that's not to say that
there's wrong for having political base shows. I mean, this
is a political base show, but as a sports fan,
like I'm sitting watching the Atlanta Braves play the Cincinnati
Reds last night, they're going to do a big, cool
Bristol takeover, biggest Major League Baseball game attendance of all
(21:54):
time at the Bristol Racetrack. I don't want anything having
to do with politics to be affiliated with that, right.
I think one of the particularly toxic elements of Colbert
is he has infiltrated in a world that you talked about,
Jay Leno, where everybody kind of got made fun of,
even Lee, and people could just chill, get in bed
(22:17):
and go to bed and laugh a little bit. Now
it is just Anderson Cooper's show by another name. And
I think we lose as a society when more and
more of that happens, and I think it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I think that it would be nice to have a
return to the old ways where we could turn on
the TV and people who are comedians are telling jokes
that anybody could listen to. And maybe now the market
is speaking on this. I will say, you know, there
was a moment where the big brands we talked about this.
The big brands were willing to start to maybe play
(22:54):
a little bit nicer with the conservative media. I've also
started to pick up the now they're a little more
sitting on the fence. I've started to pick up that
they're like, well, maybe Trump, maybe the eye of Trump
won't turn on us.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
And so we can get away with business as usual.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think that's I think that could be a dangerous
brand game for them, especially with what we're seeing with
Sydney Sweeney. I think it'll just continue to be clear
that some companies and some brands want to sell to
everybody and work with everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Is true of late night comedy, it's true of people
who sell lawnmowers, whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And others are still trying to cling more a little
more quietly, but cling to their woke ways. So we
might have to make examples out of some that I
think that's where this is going. You might have to
you might have to bud light some of these companies
that are trying to have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Two things. One, I think what Trump has done is
for a lot of executives out there that became afraid
of the people that worked under them. They now have
with Trump to come after the DEI universe that has
unfortunately grown inside of their companies. And I think this
(24:07):
is so important. I know we have a lot of
small business owners out there, and I know we have
a lot of larger business owners that listen and consume
content on this show. You are creating what's the line
from Ghostbusters, buck, choose.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
The most the form of your destructive choose.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
The form of your destruction. When you allow the trojan
horse of DEI inside of your company, you have people
who start to devour the company from the inside. And
I think the larger metaphor is this is what DEI
has done to the country as a whole, because when
you start promoting people not based on excellence meritocracy, then
your company is devouring itself from the inside because you're
(24:46):
elevating people who don't have the skill set to create
value for the company going forward. And I think a
lot of ceo saw that, but they were making decisions
not in the best interest of the company, but in
the best interest of preserving their jobs. And that is
very often a very different dynamic. And what Trump gave
them his cover there to try and change that second
(25:07):
part of this, those people inside of the companies should
be fired if your goal is to appeal to a
market that does not exist. Bud Light is a perfect
example of this. And wrote about this a lot in
my book because I've thought about it a lot. If
bud Light were correct and there were a huge market
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of trans people out there that were otherwise not drinking
light beer but would if they were addressed correctly, the
market would have soared. When suddenly they go get that
Dylan mulvaney ad and start doing it right. What I
think is fascinating is when you actually look at the numbers.
I don't know that there's a single trans person in
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America who was thinking I would drink bud Light. But
their humor is too fratty for me, and therefore I'm
not consuming light beer. That marketplace that you're trying to
address doesn't exist, right. The market for light beer is
dudes like me who want to not get as fat
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as we otherwise would while sitting and watching sports after
our day of work is done. That is every light
beer in America's market. All right, I'm sorry, everybody who
drinks a bud Light instead of a Budweiser is a
little bit too fat. All of you know this to
be true. And wishes they were a little bit skinnier,
but still wants to have a beer while they watch
a sporting event. I think the challenge that so many
(26:33):
of these companies got into buck is they don't know
who actually consumes their product, and they started sort of
sitting around mythologically thinking from their Brooklyn coffee houses that, oh,
let's address a marketplace that doesn't actually exist. Instead of
going to Ohio State Michigan and going around to tailgates
(26:56):
and seeing what beer people were drinking, or going to
Alabama Auburn and walking around to a college football game
or Buffalo Orchard Park to watch what Bills fans are drinking,
or even San Francisco to watch what forty nine er
fans are drinking. They lost touch with the basic consumer
who actually buys their product, and started addressing a figment
in their minds of what the world wanted. And I
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think all of this is rooted in a fundamental misapprehension
of the American public. Because social media was all bs
and so many of these people started to treat it
as the holy Grail and constantly bow down to whatever
was trending, and I think it just created a systematic
artificiality in American life that is being destroyed now by
(27:41):
people who are angry overlooking around and not recognizing the
world that's around them anymore and saying, how in the
world did it turn into a situation where suddenly a
pretty girl in a genes ad is considered to be
a Nazi? Like, what on earth is going on here?
Eyes are gonna like beer, They're gonna like pretty girls,
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They're gonna like cleavage. The world didn't change overnight. And
I think a lot of these fourteen, fifteen, sixteen year
old kids and some of the eighteen and nineteen year
olds who voted for the first time, they're over the bs.
They know they were lied to, and they're rebelling against
the woke universe and saying it's okay to be male,
it's okay to like pretty girls. I can't believe the
Democrat Party has decided that they're going to put themselves
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on the side of there's too many pretty, blonde, blue
eyed girls with great boobs and ads. Good luck getting
young men with that pitch good.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
But I'm thinking about this a lot as I say
good luck to the Clay at Buck show getting through
one day without Clay using the bo b words.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I'm going to be sure we don't give up boobs
in this country. I'll die on that hill. And you know,
it's funny.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I think I mentioned the lack of corrective mechanism for
Democrats earlier in the week. That's the part of this
where I look around and I think to myself, how
does this change? Like you can usually see with Democrats
where the pivot is going to come going into a midterm,
all of a sudden, they're gonna start paying Oh, we
don't really want to raise taxes on everybody.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
We just want to raise taxes on the billionaires.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah right, bro, we agree, we want border security, we
just want comprehend you know that they start to do
on some of these issues though, the trans stuff, the
pretty girls aren't allowed to be in ads anymore stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
The Democrat base is ferocious.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
The moment that you start to see anyone within that
party push back on this, and we've seen like a
little bit here, a little bit there, and some Democrat
will try to make them. Let look at Kavin Newsom.
I think Gavin Newsom has played foot see with this
a little bit. He goes, you know, yeah, it's just
so hard with the transports. You know, it's unfair on
both sides.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
You're doing this whole thing an evil.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Keanu is gonna get slapped out if he gets a
a little too clear about that. So I don't see
how they can turn these things around, even to do
the usual headfake for the midterms.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I think, and here's my thesis on this. In general,
the gap between public and private is seismic right now
in the Democrat Party. Think about this as a broad thesis.
In general, the most authentic person wins. Trump was for
whatever you think of Trump, Trump was far more authentic
than Kamala was. Right, Trump was far more authentic than
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Hillary was. If you and I were not talking on
the microphone, like sooner or later, there's going to be
a screw up. Sometimes it happens. I think you went
out before you had told anybody that you were having
a baby. The mic happened to beyond you. Remember this,
and like some people heard you saying that you were
going to have a baby. Uh, that one didn't slip out, Yes,
(30:53):
that one slipped out like we were I think recording
advertisements or something, and they left the mic open. And
fuck of all the things that he could have been
overheard saying announced to the nation that he was having
a baby before he wanted to announce he was having
a baby. Sometimes there are going to be clips of
us talking that go out. It's inevitable.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's not very much. They might be a little bit
salty your language, but it's not very much different than
what you would normally hear of our discussion. And I
think you would say, and I think most of you
would recognize, there's really not very much difference between what
I would say in public at a restaurant or a
bar and what I would say on the mic, for
better or worse, and so it's hard to attack people
(31:33):
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if we were having a nice glass of Charnay at
the French laundry with him, he would one billion percent
say the whole trans stuff in sports is totally ridiculous.
It's indispensible, and most male Democrat office holders would all
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When the masses the general public recognizes that you're not
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Speaker 3 (33:59):
Welcome back in Travis Buck Sexton Show. Our talkback function,
I am told, is down right now, so if you
are sending them to us, we are not ignoring you,
and we'll find out when the talkback is back up.
And we have some from yesterday that are stacked up,
so we're going to hit some of those. But I
got a couple of calls that that I think are interesting.
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Pastor John in Saratoga Springs, New York, fire Away Pastor John.
Speaker 9 (34:27):
Hey, guys, longtime listener. And actually I heard by the
way that somebody said that they still have Rush in
their phone as well, so do I.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
But love you guys.
Speaker 9 (34:39):
I had a question. I really want your thoughts on
how do you how would you come down on the
side of marketing in terms of a.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Church for what age group?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
For what age group of you mean talking to try
about how to get new people into the church.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
Yeah, well, we're on and we try. We have podcasts
and we do different things, and we're how do we
appeal when it comes to lack of business because we
are a business. The bottom line is, I mean, we're
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preach the word, we don't compromise from the pulpit, But
how do we appeal to people that are on different
(35:21):
sides of the aisle politically? Of course, we don't preach
politics from the platform, But how do we do that
in terms of we want a bigger we want a
chunk of the population to come to hear what we
say about the Lord. Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Okay, So, first of all, I am not an expert
in how to create a larger congregation for any of
the many pastors that are out there listening right now.
What I would say in general, Buck, and I bet
you would sign off on this is for the younger generation.
You're starting to see a lot of young men come
back into the church. To be not the case. I
(36:01):
think a lot of young men in particular are looking
for answers on a larger scale, and they're searching in
many ways, including the church.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
So I was raised in a very Catholic household, meaning
we went to church. Church was important, did all the
into everything, Confirmation, all my siblings, everybody went to college.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Fell away a little bit after college.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And now that I'm with the birth of my son, Clay,
Karen and I have started going every Sunday again. So
I'm part of the return to Catholicism that's going on
in a lot of places across the country. Maybe part
of a larger discussion for later, but makes a lot
of sense.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yeah, I think. Look, I have been going to church
now with my kids far more than I did. You know,
when I was a single guy, for sure, and when
I was younger. And I do think a lot of
people are out there looking for answers. The younger you are,
I would try to reach out to them where they
are Social media in particular,
Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It is a summer Friday. I hope you're all in a.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good mood because it's a great time in America, my friends,
a great time for this country, and I want you
to enjoy it. August first today. Can't believe how quickly
the time is going by. And we have a lot
of news to talk to you about. So we're going
to send you off for the weekend with everything you
need to know, everything that's going on, Clay, because I
(00:32):
am a team player, a dedicated co host, and somebody
who's willing to take one for the team, somebody who's
willing to take those slings and arrows. I didn't just
watch the Kamala Harris televised Colbert interview. Oh no, sir,
(00:52):
I watched the entire extended online version of the interview.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Which I appreciate you taking the bullet I have not
watched it. I mean I saw the clips all circulating.
This is the first interview. For those of you out
there who say, why would you pay attention, This is
the first interview she's done since basically she lost the election.
She vanished for what are we sitting on now, like
seven or eight months and now suddenly is showing back
up and she chooses, of course Colbert as her debut.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, and it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Is such a reminder now, Clay you, I want to
be clear here, Clave was not saying, and we have
a steak on this one, and I'm I'm still trying
to get back the world's most expensive steak that I
had to buy for Clay, right, so there's got to
be payback here. It was very good and there was
a whole light show that went along with it, so
we had some fun here in Miami Beach. I hear
about this place, Bourbon Steak in Nashville, which has incredible.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Views and is very change. To be fair, it's a
chain and I'm gonna make enemies today. But if you
were visiting Nashville and you were asking for where to
go steakhouse, because it's all the way at the top,
like forty third story, you can see the whole city,
I would suggest that that's the best steakhouse to go to.
I just now, as long as it's expensive, as long
(02:09):
as you have to take out that Clay credit card
and we do substantial damage, that's what I'm really looking
for because I'm still smarting over the Miami Beach steak.
But to be clear, Clay's thinking in a few years.
And we're not going to get too into the back
and forth on this today, but we did that yesterday
that Kamala is at least going to run. Yes, that's
not a crazy I think that that's not going to happen,
(02:30):
but that's obviously our bet. I think we both agree
if she runs, that's amazing for Republican or rather, if
she were the nominee and one, that would be amazing
for Republicans, which means I think we both see this
as this is one of the worst politicians to have
been at this level a vice president stepping in to
run as the nominee that we have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I just wanted to share with some of you so.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Clay and I could could have it do a little
joy riding here through the Colbert interview. Clay, you haven't
even heard all of these yet, because some of them
are from the I.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Wanted to react to them. In all honesty, I knew
this was going to happen. I knew we would lead
with it, and I want to react as if a
lot of you out there are two. I have not
heard one. I've seen the clips circulating, but I purposely
did not watch any of them because I knew we'd
be reacting to them.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I just want to point this, Why did I start
off today talking about it's a good time for the
country in it is? I saw the jobs numbers not great.
I understand it's one month, no big deal. Economy overall
doing really well, and we'll get into some of those
specifics here at a moment, but I think it's important
to remind you all that this person that we're about
to play the clips from could have been the President
(03:40):
of the United States, Okay, that we could be sitting
here talking about President Kamala six months into her administration
with a stalled out economy, a wide open border, rising
crime instead of the drops in crime that we're seeing
actually nationwide.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Now, never mind.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
All the the executive orders that are that a Harris administration,
the staffers who actually run it would have not It
would have been a nightmare. And I just think when
you start to listen clay to some of these Kamala clips,
I mean, first of all, we have her saying that
she's decided not to run for governor because the system
(04:20):
is broken.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Clay play cut this has cut five play.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Five announcement that you're not running for the governor of California. Correct,
even though in early polling you beat every other Candida
by double digits.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
You said you're gonna set this one out. Why are
you sitt this? Are you sitting yourself for a different office?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
That might be.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's what everybody was obviously, but obviously people will project onto.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
And honestly that it's it's more pats basic than that.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I am.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Listen, I am a devout public servant. I have spent
my entire career in service of the people, and I
thought a lot about running for governor.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I love my state. I love California.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I've served as just elected district attorney, Attorney General, and senator.
But to be very candid with you, I you know,
when I was a young, young in my career, I
had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with
my family.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
And one of the points that I made is why is.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
It then, when we think we want to improve a
system or change it, that we're always on the outside
on Ben Didnee or trying to break down the door.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Shouldn't we also be inside the system?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
And that has been my career, and recently I made
the decision that I just for now, I don't want
to go back in the system.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I think it's broken, broken because she didn't win Clay,
That's why it's broken.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I hate this. I hate this. She's been in the
system for her entire life. You and I and every
taxpayer out there has funded Kamala Harris's entire life. Has
she ever had a private sector job that means taxpayer
(06:15):
dollars are not funding her existence? I don't think so.
Maybe when she claims to have worked at McDonald's as
a teenager, but as an adult she has worked inside
of the state apparatus at California and then inside of
the federal government apparatus as a senator and as a
(06:35):
Vice president. You don't get to work inside of a
system for thirty years, thirty five years, whatever the heck
the math is, and then suddenly step outside of it
for six months and say, hey, I don't want to
go back into it because it's broken. I think, and
I said this yesterday, and I am going to die
on this hill. I think her advisor said it's actually
(06:59):
a backward step for you to be governor because you've
already been a senator, you've already been a vice president.
You don't need to prove anything by being governor. And
so just take a little bit of time, Just take
a little bit of time off, and then you can
decide to run next year, a little bit after next year,
early twenty seven to be president.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, and if she lost, I think you and I
agree on this point, if she lost the California governor's race,
since she really is toast her career, she really is toast.
I still think that really what I'm seeing here with
this Colbert appearance. And by the way, this goes to
for anyone who's gonna say, and we're gonna get the
emails that momentarily, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Why are you talking with Kamala Harris. Who's the leader
of the Democrat Party?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Who is the leader right now? This matters? And in fact,
she was asked on the Colbert Show who the leader
of the Democrat parties? This has cut eight and you
got a very Kamala answer on this one.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Listen, who's leaving the Democratic Party? I'm just curious.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Lots of lead and it was generally all.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Leader of the Democratic Party, you know, like, oh, that's
a leader donator party.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Who comes to mind.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I think there are a lot of I'm not going
to go through names because then I'm gonna leave somebody
out and then I'm going to hear about it. But
let me just let me say this. I think it
is a mistake for us who want to figure out
how to get out and through this and get out
of it, to put it on the shoulders of any
(08:29):
one person.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
It's really on all of our shoulders.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It really is everything that she says.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Clay sounds like the HR person at the soulless company,
lecturing you as you're forced to have like an all
hands for HR purposes. It's all she speaks to everyone
like we're all morons and no one can escape the boring,
inane things that she.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Has to say. She is the EI personified. I do
think that leave aside her individuality, she is THEI personified.
She looks like what Californians think their leader should look like.
That is, you know, she's mixtuor ace, Asian mixtuor ace
black woman attractive, and she is that sort of portrait
(09:23):
on the wall of what California wants to see when
they see a leader. The problem is she really is
an empty suit. And that's I think largely what many
people out there have an issue with DEI best man
or best woman. Right, let's apply the meritocracy. It doesn't
matter what your background is, doesn't matter who your daddy
(09:44):
or and your mommy were. This is why I think
the sports analogy applies. Nobody gets to start with a
different score on the scoreboard, right, And I think that
that is why I'm making this argument in my new book.
And I'm curious if you could think of something. Is
there any thing in sports, anything in the world of
American life right now, that's more trusted than the scoreboard
(10:07):
where people just and if something's a little bit off right,
if somebody forgets to put a run up, or if
the clock's a little bit off, everybody's pointing at it.
It's a common foundational thing that everybody looks at it
and says, I trust that to reflect reality.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I would like to share some sports analysis here, Yes,
that would build on what you were saying, And that
is the desire to always get it right is reflected
in some of the recent rule changes. I mean to
me the fact that I can't remember now I should
know this, but it's either Wimbledon or the French Open.
In tennis doesn't yet have all of the like for serves,
(10:46):
it's still by the eye of the by the site
of the umps. There's actually technology now that can one
hundred percent get the lasers basically there. And they're like
this did or did not go in. They used to
work roll Garo's back in the day. They would look
at the clay marks, remember that that judge would get
up and look, yeah, and you're right, but.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I see this now.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Also in basketball, you should drive me insane as someone
who used to watch the NBA.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
People want it to.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Be what it should be because they want the better
team to win every time.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They want the truth to apply facts to matter. Everyone does, and.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You see it. It is true.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You see this with sports where there is a true
sense of outrage that people. I mean, I'm still outraged
about when the Los Angeles came. I mean when the
Sacramento Kings had the LA Lakers steal a series from
them and the Kings would have won that I think
this is like twenty years ago now.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, it was one of the most famous.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It's one of the most famous Lakers, Lakers, Kings, Volati, Divac, Bibby,
all those guys. Back in the day. That series just
kind of fell apart.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And I think we want to get back to feeling
in pollend. This goes to election integrity. This goes to
the honesty of the transparency. We're seeing the whole range
of things, Russia, collusion everything. We want to know what
the real scoreboard is in politics too, and what's going
on here and Kamala Harris coming out to give everybody
a lecture on how the system is broken after she
(12:15):
was the vice president for eight years. Why isn't she
telling us about how she fixed the system or fixes
she made to the system. No, it's all about bitterness,
which also goes to Colbert sitting there talk about bitter.
The whole thing was just so sad. It was two losers,
Colbert and Kamala, who were given far more than they deserve,
having a little cry session together because Trump is president.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, and I do think the symbolism of Kamala picking
Colbert as her first Back to the Grind interview to
the extended to Grind in any way, Colbert, if I
were sitting in Colbert's chair. I think the math came out.
They did the deep dive. He had one hundred and
twenty Democrat guests, and I believe it was zero Republican
(13:00):
guest sitting in that chair. If you are on CBS
like that, I don't begrudge Colbert getting Kamala, but he
should be begging for Trump to come on too, right.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
If that, I don't think a true.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Arbiter trying to appeal to everybody. We actually, we don't
have time for it now. Maybe if we want to play,
we come back. I don't think this again, I only
watched the extended, but I don't think this part of
it aired. You should hear what what what Colbert calls
the sitting president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
On his show that is supposedly.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
For all Americans to watch. I mean, you should hear
what he said about President Trump, so we can play
that for you. What he calls Trump on this show,
and how richly he deserves the cancelation and the humiliation
professionally that he has received. But Kamala Harris is the
most cringe inducing politician to have been at her level,
(13:50):
meaning the vice president that I can remember and it's
it's just it's funny to see that she's not the
leader of the Democrat Party. She may not even have
a future. We'll see, we'll see, but she may not
have a future in politics. And there is no leader
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Speaker 3 (15:27):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. All of
you are having fantastic Fridays. We roll you into the weekend. Buck,
I think this you know what I did yesterday one
of the many things that I was a part of yesterday.
This is going to blow a lot of people's minds
out there, particularly the people who don't like the way
I say appreciate y'all. School for my youngest starts back Monday.
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So yesterday we yes my ten year old goes back
to school, full time public school Nashville area on Monday,
and we had like the popsicle meet with the that's
a fun event. They have a great school and went
to go meet with his teacher and they have all
the kids in for elementary school and they get popsicles
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and they can see their classrooms and everything else. So
I was doing that yesterday and there's a lot of
people who have moved from different parts of the country.
And it's probably ninety five degrees yesterday, and I was
talking to a couple of the dad's kids are running
around the playground everything else, and they're like, I just
I never believed that August would be a school month,
like legit, the whole month. So my kids, my youngest,
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not my two others, are going to go back a
little bit later. But school is officially back in session
on Monday in the Travis household. So I think that
is one of the main you know, there's still major
cultural differences that maybe people aren't grappling with. You're gonna
get used to this having moved New York to Florida,
but I think that's one of those things. So many
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people have relocated to Tennessee, Texas, Florida, different parts of
the country. I know, listening to us school going back
this early is definitely one of those moments. My wife's
from Michigan and she still can't get over August. What
is that going to be? August? Fourth boom, full day.
Kids are back in session, So so it's officially a
new school year.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Wow, I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's why it starts that So I guess I remember sports,
if you were trying out or playing on teams, that
they usually started around this time in August. But they
get these kids in school sortly what time your boys finish?
I always feel like school days were too long.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, so well, first of all, the ones that play
sports like the day never ends. I mean, they have
unbelievable days by the time you're getting to middle school
in high school and they have to play sports and
want to play sports. But my youngest gets out at
three fifty. He starts at right around nine for elementary school,
gets out at three fifty. So I usually take him
to school, pick him up a lot. That seems like
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a reasonable day. But I just I even I was
a little bit stunned. Like Monday, back to school. So
you won't hear kids screaming as often in the background
playing video games as you do. During the summer.
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I want to take your calls eight hundred and two
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eight to two two eight eight two. And let's see,
oh I had mentioned this. I just want to play it.
This is from the Colbert Kommla interview. This has cut
six where I actually think Clay has as a very
sound analysis on this point. But here is what these remember,
this is supposed to be a show that makes everybody
laugh across the country.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Obviously it failed, That's why it's getting canceled. But here
is how Colbert refers to the current president of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Play it.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Less than a year ago, things were very joyful.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
There was there was actually a lot of hope associated
with your campaign. There was a lot of promise that
we might actually not only keep this absolute barbarian out
of the White House, but also we might actually make
progresses as a.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Country with the type of people that.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
We wanted to see in office and a younger, more vital,
revived political consciousness in America.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You know, whatever can enough enough enough barbarian Clay, which
tell everybody, I agree with your sense of how Trump
would view this.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I mean, if you told me that I was going
to be insulted by someone calling me a barbarian, would
actually be one of the nicest insults you could have.
I mean, Conan the Barbarian is a big, beastly individual
fighting for truth and justice, and calling me a barbarian
would not be an insult. I would run away from.
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I think you've seen that movie, right, It's I think
it's a fun movie. Yeah, yeah, of course, Like I
think Trump would actually embrace this. The Trump social media
team is very witty and funny, and I can see
them taking a cut of Colbert saying that and like
putting Trump super ripped, you know, like kind of throwing
things around. I think Trump would actually like that. But
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I do think the point is important here that if
Stephen Colbert wants to be involved in politics, then he
should run for political office, or he should go take
over Meet the Press, or he could work inside of
you know, CBS News or if they were still employing him,
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or whatever face the nation I guess is the CBS
Morning Show. But this is particularly pernicious, I think because
and some of you may disagree with this, but I
actually think that one way to make America saying is
to have places where politics aren't imposed upon us all
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day long, every day. And that's not to say that
there's wrong for having political base shows. I mean, this
is a political base show, but as a sports fan,
like I'm sitting watching the Atlanta Braves play the Cincinnati
Reds last night, they're going to do a big, cool
Bristol takeover, biggest Major League Baseball game attendance of all
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time at the Bristol Racetrack. I don't want anything having
to do with politics to be affiliated with that, right.
I think one of the particularly toxic elements of Colbert
is he has infiltrated in a world that you talked about,
Jay Leno, where everybody kind of got made fun of,
even Lee, and people could just chill, get in bed
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and go to bed and laugh a little bit. Now
it is just Anderson Cooper's show by another name. And
I think we lose as a society when more and
more of that happens, and I think it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I think that it would be nice to have a
return to the old ways where we could turn on
the TV and people who are comedians are telling jokes
that anybody could listen to. And maybe now the market
is speaking on this. I will say, you know, there
was a moment where the big brands we talked about this.
The big brands were willing to start to maybe play
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a little bit nicer with the conservative media. I've also
started to pick up the now they're a little more
sitting on the fence. I've started to pick up that
they're like, well, maybe Trump, maybe the eye of Trump
won't turn on us.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
And so we can get away with business as usual.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think that's I think that could be a dangerous
brand game for them, especially with what we're seeing with
Sydney Sweeney. I think it'll just continue to be clear
that some companies and some brands want to sell to
everybody and work with everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Is true of late night comedy, it's true of people
who sell lawnmowers, whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And others are still trying to cling more a little
more quietly, but cling to their woke ways. So we
might have to make examples out of some that I
think that's where this is going. You might have to
you might have to bud light some of these companies
that are trying to have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Two things. One, I think what Trump has done is
for a lot of executives out there that became afraid
of the people that worked under them. They now have
with Trump to come after the DEI universe that has
unfortunately grown inside of their companies. And I think this
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is so important. I know we have a lot of
small business owners out there, and I know we have
a lot of larger business owners that listen and consume
content on this show. You are creating what's the line
from Ghostbusters, buck, choose.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
The most the form of your destructive choose.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
The form of your destruction. When you allow the trojan
horse of DEI inside of your company, you have people
who start to devour the company from the inside. And
I think the larger metaphor is this is what DEI
has done to the country as a whole, because when
you start promoting people not based on excellence meritocracy, then
your company is devouring itself from the inside because you're
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elevating people who don't have the skill set to create
value for the company going forward. And I think a
lot of ceo saw that, but they were making decisions
not in the best interest of the company, but in
the best interest of preserving their jobs. And that is
very often a very different dynamic. And what Trump gave
them his cover there to try and change that second
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part of this, those people inside of the companies should
be fired if your goal is to appeal to a
market that does not exist. Bud Light is a perfect
example of this. And wrote about this a lot in
my book because I've thought about it a lot. If
bud Light were correct and there were a huge market
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of trans people out there that were otherwise not drinking
light beer but would if they were addressed correctly, the
market would have soared. When suddenly they go get that
Dylan mulvaney ad and start doing it right. What I
think is fascinating is when you actually look at the numbers.
I don't know that there's a single trans person in
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America who was thinking I would drink bud Light. But
their humor is too fratty for me, and therefore I'm
not consuming light beer. That marketplace that you're trying to
address doesn't exist, right. The market for light beer is
dudes like me who want to not get as fat
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as we otherwise would while sitting and watching sports after
our day of work is done. That is every light
beer in America's market. All right, I'm sorry, everybody who
drinks a bud Light instead of a Budweiser is a
little bit too fat. All of you know this to
be true. And wishes they were a little bit skinnier,
but still wants to have a beer while they watch
a sporting event. I think the challenge that so many
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of these companies got into buck is they don't know
who actually consumes their product, and they started sort of
sitting around mythologically thinking from their Brooklyn coffee houses that, oh,
let's address a marketplace that doesn't actually exist. Instead of
going to Ohio State Michigan and going around to tailgates
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and seeing what beer people were drinking, or going to
Alabama Auburn and walking around to a college football game
or Buffalo Orchard Park to watch what Bills fans are drinking,
or even San Francisco to watch what forty nine er
fans are drinking. They lost touch with the basic consumer
who actually buys their product, and started addressing a figment
in their minds of what the world wanted. And I
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think all of this is rooted in a fundamental misapprehension
of the American public. Because social media was all bs
and so many of these people started to treat it
as the holy Grail and constantly bow down to whatever
was trending, and I think it just created a systematic
artificiality in American life that is being destroyed now by
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people who are angry overlooking around and not recognizing the
world that's around them anymore and saying, how in the
world did it turn into a situation where suddenly a
pretty girl in a genes ad is considered to be
a Nazi? Like, what on earth is going on here?
Eyes are gonna like beer, They're gonna like pretty girls,
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They're gonna like cleavage. The world didn't change overnight. And
I think a lot of these fourteen, fifteen, sixteen year
old kids and some of the eighteen and nineteen year
olds who voted for the first time, they're over the bs.
They know they were lied to, and they're rebelling against
the woke universe and saying it's okay to be male,
it's okay to like pretty girls. I can't believe the
Democrat Party has decided that they're going to put themselves
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on the side of there's too many pretty, blonde, blue
eyed girls with great boobs and ads. Good luck getting
young men with that pitch good.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
But I'm thinking about this a lot as I say
good luck to the Clay at Buck show getting through
one day without Clay using the bo b words.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I'm going to be sure we don't give up boobs
in this country. I'll die on that hill. And you know,
it's funny.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I think I mentioned the lack of corrective mechanism for
Democrats earlier in the week. That's the part of this
where I look around and I think to myself, how
does this change? Like you can usually see with Democrats
where the pivot is going to come going into a midterm,
all of a sudden, they're gonna start paying Oh, we
don't really want to raise taxes on everybody.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
We just want to raise taxes on the billionaires.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah right, bro, we agree, we want border security, we
just want comprehend you know that they start to do
on some of these issues though, the trans stuff, the
pretty girls aren't allowed to be in ads anymore stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
The Democrat base is ferocious.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
The moment that you start to see anyone within that
party push back on this, and we've seen like a
little bit here, a little bit there, and some Democrat
will try to make them. Let look at Kavin Newsom.
I think Gavin Newsom has played foot see with this
a little bit. He goes, you know, yeah, it's just
so hard with the transports. You know, it's unfair on
both sides.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
You're doing this whole thing an evil.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Keanu is gonna get slapped out if he gets a
a little too clear about that. So I don't see
how they can turn these things around, even to do
the usual headfake for the midterms.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I think, and here's my thesis on this. In general,
the gap between public and private is seismic right now
in the Democrat Party. Think about this as a broad thesis.
In general, the most authentic person wins. Trump was for
whatever you think of Trump, Trump was far more authentic
than Kamala was. Right, Trump was far more authentic than
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Hillary was. If you and I were not talking on
the microphone, like sooner or later, there's going to be
a screw up. Sometimes it happens. I think you went
out before you had told anybody that you were having
a baby. The mic happened to beyond you. Remember this,
and like some people heard you saying that you were
going to have a baby. Uh, that one didn't slip out, Yes,
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that one slipped out like we were I think recording
advertisements or something, and they left the mic open. And
fuck of all the things that he could have been
overheard saying announced to the nation that he was having
a baby before he wanted to announce he was having
a baby. Sometimes there are going to be clips of
us talking that go out. It's inevitable.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's not very much. They might be a little bit
salty your language, but it's not very much different than
what you would normally hear of our discussion. And I
think you would say, and I think most of you
would recognize, there's really not very much difference between what
I would say in public at a restaurant or a
bar and what I would say on the mic, for
better or worse, and so it's hard to attack people
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for being what they are. Your point on Gavin Newsom,
if we were having a nice glass of Charnay at
the French laundry with him, he would one billion percent
say the whole trans stuff in sports is totally ridiculous.
It's indispensible, and most male Democrat office holders would all
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When the masses the general public recognizes that you're not
being honest with them, they revolt against you. And I
think your question is what are they going to do?
Because the gap between what they say and what they
actually believe is larger than maybe it's ever been, particularly
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Speaker 3 (33:59):
Welcome back in Travis Buck Sexton Show. Our talkback function,
I am told, is down right now, so if you
are sending them to us, we are not ignoring you,
and we'll find out when the talkback is back up.
And we have some from yesterday that are stacked up,
so we're going to hit some of those. But I
got a couple of calls that that I think are interesting.
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Pastor John in Saratoga Springs, New York, fire Away Pastor John.
Speaker 9 (34:27):
Hey, guys, longtime listener. And actually I heard by the
way that somebody said that they still have Rush in
their phone as well, so do I.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
But love you guys.
Speaker 9 (34:39):
I had a question. I really want your thoughts on
how do you how would you come down on the
side of marketing in terms of a.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Church for what age group?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
For what age group of you mean talking to try
about how to get new people into the church.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
Yeah, well, we're on and we try. We have podcasts
and we do different things, and we're how do we
appeal when it comes to lack of business because we
are a business. The bottom line is, I mean, we're
not a mainline denomination. We're in assemblies of God. We
preach the word, we don't compromise from the pulpit, But
how do we appeal to people that are on different
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sides of the aisle politically? Of course, we don't preach
politics from the platform, But how do we do that
in terms of we want a bigger we want a
chunk of the population to come to hear what we
say about the Lord. Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Okay, So, first of all, I am not an expert
in how to create a larger congregation for any of
the many pastors that are out there listening right now.
What I would say in general, Buck, and I bet
you would sign off on this is for the younger generation.
You're starting to see a lot of young men come
back into the church. To be not the case. I
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think a lot of young men in particular are looking
for answers on a larger scale, and they're searching in
many ways, including the church.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
So I was raised in a very Catholic household, meaning
we went to church. Church was important, did all the
into everything, Confirmation, all my siblings, everybody went to college.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Fell away a little bit after college.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And now that I'm with the birth of my son, Clay,
Karen and I have started going every Sunday again. So
I'm part of the return to Catholicism that's going on
in a lot of places across the country. Maybe part
of a larger discussion for later, but makes a lot
of sense.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yeah, I think. Look, I have been going to church
now with my kids far more than I did. You know,
when I was a single guy, for sure, and when
I was younger. And I do think a lot of
people are out there looking for answers. The younger you are,
I would try to reach out to them where they
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