March 12, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show launches with a deep dive into the rapidly intensifying Iran conflict, setting the tone for a news‑heavy and high‑stakes broadcast. Clay and Buck open by discussing breaking developments in Iran, including the condition of Mojtaba Khamenei—nicknamed “Little Mo”—who is reportedly in a coma and severely injured following U.S. airstrikes. The hosts analyze how the Iranian leadership is under unprecedented pressure as air campaigns continue to dismantle military assets and target key regime figures. They also address escalating attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the resulting volatility in global oil prices, and how President Trump is responding with aggressive measures, including tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and coordinating releases of hundreds of millions of barrels internationally to stabilize markets. The conversation highlights the dramatic price swings of crude oil and examines how Iran is trying to weaponize oil shipping routes to trigger economic turmoil.
The hosts then explore how American media outlets are selectively covering the surge in gas prices. Clay criticizes networks like CNN and MSNBC for ignoring declining fuel costs for more than a year but immediately amplifying short‑term price increases during the conflict. This flows into a broader media discussion about the differences between advertising‑driven outlets and subscription‑driven news models, with Clay noting that subscriber‑funded outlets—such as the New York Times—now cater to ideological expectations instead of broad audiences. Buck argues that Fox News at least acknowledges its editorial perspective, whereas CNN still pretends to be nonpartisan despite consistent ideological framing.
Hour 1 also brings political angles into focus, including an extended segment on Senator John Fetterman’s unexpectedly hawkish stance on Iran’s succession crisis. Fetterman shocks many by openly supporting the elimination of Mojtaba Khamenei if he attempts to assume command of the regime. Both hosts express surprise at Fetterman’s bluntness and praise him as one of the few Democrats showing clarity on Iranian extremism.
The hour then pivots to domestic controversy surrounding attacks on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, as critics claim he overspent on food for the military. Clay and Buck dismantle the narrative by explaining how ribeye steaks and occasional surf‑and‑turf meals have long been standard morale boosters for deployed troops—not luxury perks for Pentagon officials. Veterans and callers reinforce this point, describing how high‑quality food is essential for morale during long, grueling missions, particularly on submarines or in combat zones. Clay contrasts Democratic outrage over troop meals with their willingness to fund hotel stays and expensive benefits for illegal immigrants, arguing that critics are revealing a deeper contempt for the military.
Listener calls from submarine veterans round out the hour, providing firsthand accounts of life underwater for months at a time and affirming that good meals are one of the few morale‑boosting comforts service members receive. The hosts connect these stories back to the broader theme of respecting the military and rejecting media narratives designed to smear Trump‑aligned officials like Hegseth. The hour wraps by previewing major upcoming interviews with Bill O’Reilly and Senators Eric Schmitt and John Cornyn, reinforcing that Hour 1 set the stage with national security, foreign policy, media bias, military culture, and economic stability—all driving themes in the unfolding Iran crisis.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody. Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show, known to many as Clay and Buck,
that starts right now, and we got so much to
get to. Let me just give you a little bit
of an outline before we dive into all the biggest
stories today. Uncle Bill Bill O'Reilly joining us hour two.
Talk to him about how this whole Iran war thing
(00:21):
is going and the Save Act, Save America Act. Have
that discussion. Senator Eric Schmidt will be with us, and
we will also have Senator John Cornyn with us. I
would say to any of you who have we have
a lot of Texans who listen Texas or California. Well
those are the two biggest states by population, so it's
(00:42):
not really that surprising, but it's either Texas or California
is our biggest state for listenership. So we have a
lot of Texans, and we love all of you. Not
all of you are huge Cornin fans. Some of you
perhaps are. Send us your questions for Senator Cornyn and
we will see if we can get a couple of
them to him on the air today as he is
(01:03):
in this primary, this contested primary, wondering if there will
be a Trump endorsement. That's a lot of eyeballs on
this one, so we will get to that. Three guests today,
two Senators, Uncle Bill, and now we can get into
some of the news today. Clay Little Mo as Clay
calls him, Iran's new supreme leader much Taba Kamina has
(01:28):
issued a statement, but he is well. Someone has issued
a statement on his behalf. He is apparently in a
coma and missing a leg, so he got hit in
one of these air strikes and they are putting him
forward as the future of Iran. That certainly goes to
what level of pressure the leadership of Iran is under
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that even there next up at Bat is having to
have statements released from others around him because he's in
a coma from an air strike. So essentially, the next
person who raises their hand in Iran and says I'm
going to continue the Islamic revolution in this country and
i shall continue to fight against the Great Satan and
(02:11):
the Little Satan probably going to get blown up. That
is where we are right now, at least while these hostilities,
these aerial campaign continues. Clay oil price has surged a
bit and there are concerns as well, after two tankers
were attacked, and I believe are on fire in the
(02:34):
straight of horror moves. So they're continuing to try to
go after the oil, the global oil industry as their
choke point, as their way to hit back at US. Also,
Trump monitoring Iranian terror sleeper cells. A lot of concern
about that, and I think rightly concern concern about that,
(02:55):
and we shall discuss that. So Clay, I mean, first
one up here, we are in another day of this
aerial campaign. We now know that Munchtaba is in a coma.
Little mo is having a tough one. What do you
think about the latest here with the attacks on oil,
(03:17):
oil shipping and trying to make this a global environmental
and economic catastrophe to get this to stop, that's clearly
the Iranians play. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I think it actually is going to make President Trump angrier,
and I think it's actually going to result in a
worse outcome for Iran than if they allowed the oil
to transit without issues at all. And I'm pulling up
to check the oil price as we speak right now,
because it has been probably the number one story that
(03:46):
is out there, and it's hanging right around ninety dollars
a barrel, And you say, okay, Clay, where does that compare?
Is around sixty five dollars if I remember correctly, before
this war started, and now it's right around ninety dollars.
It went all the way up to one hundred and
twenty dollars Sunday in the opening hours of the of
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the market, beginning with danger and fear, and so then
it crashed all the way back down to like seventy five.
It's come back up to around ninety. It's bounced around
a lot, and I think the question is how safe
is the Strait of Hormuz and what does that mean
for overall pricing of oil and gas? Now President Trump
(04:31):
has released I think it's one hundred and eighty million
barrels is what I saw from this strategic reserve. There's
four hundred million worldwide being released. My understanding, Buck, is
that that takes a couple of weeks to actually come
into the marketplace as a whole, because it takes a
while for all of those all those barrels of oil
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to reach the marketplace.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, I stand corrected on that one. Chuck Schumer said,
do it, and Trump's actually doing it. Now. The Democrats
are going to hit him for having to do that,
but the oil shock seems severe enough that some effort
to soften the blow is a blow to your wallets
essentially is underway. So there you go, Chuck Schumer giving
some good advice to his opposition. Hey, Clay, even a
(05:18):
broken clock, you know, So I'll take the l on
that one. Trump's doing it. This has cut seventeen on
gas prices. Trump last night at joint Base, Andrews hit it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I say, the timeline on when you're planning to tap
this Thrateina petroleum reserve, a timeline of when that happen.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We're going to be doing it very quickly, and then
we'll fill it up. We'll fill up our reserves. You know,
if you remember I filled him up. And then I
had a deal to go at the highest level, a
level that's never been and Schumer and the Democrats but
twenty five dollars, and it was turned down. You remember that, Peter,
almost before your time, but not quite, but it was.
(05:54):
We had a deal at twenty five dollars. Think of that,
twenty five dollars a barrel, and the Democrats turned that.
We're gonna tap it out like it's never a bit,
But they turned that down and now it's a.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Lot higher, played Trump, of course, saying Democrats had no
foresight on this issue. Not a surprise, but there's enough
of a jolt of the oil markets that there's serious
and immediate action being taken to stabilize things. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Look, and I think this is where the average American
is going to feel to the extent we do anything
going on with Iran is in oil and gas prices.
And I would just point out that two years of
oil and gas prices coming down, by and large was
not a story that is almost I watch these television
(06:45):
broadcasts of the news almost every at least three hours
every day.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
While I'm talking to all of you.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I have never seen CNN or MSNBC do a story
on boy, President Trump has really brought down gas prices
during his tenure in office. Never seen a story about
gas prices going down for year and a half. And
now gas prices have gone up for a week and
it's the lead story on MSNBC and CNN. And by
(07:12):
the way, Buck, it vanished when oil and gas prices
went back down to seventy five. Now that they've come
back up to ninety. We're back to covering oil and
gas prices again. And they put the picture of the
oil and gas prices in the corner of the screen.
Right now, the talk talking point on CNN is oil
and gas prices, and talking point on MSNBC is oil
(07:33):
and gas prices. So I do think when it's a
good story, right for the year and a half that
the prices came down, not one mention of it for
the one week they've gone back up. Oh my goodness,
this is a story that we have to cover well.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
As we know, journalism in America has foury fully morphed
into it's not about what you should know, it's about
telling the audience what they want to know. Yeah, what
they want to hear, what they want to watch. And
that's really the case over at CNN, at MSNBC, at
MS now it's the case of Fox too. I don't
live in some delusional world. I mean, Fox is going
(08:07):
to have a right of center point of view. But
there's more, there's so much more honesty about that. I mean,
their primetime lineup, our opinion hosts. CNN still pretends, CNN
still pretends that they're just journalists, just Anderson Cooper could
vote either way. Who knows? Does he love Trump? Does
he hate Trump? Oil prices important today, unimportant yesterday? I
(08:28):
wonder why.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I also think this is important, and I think it
has been under discussed and it continues to be under discussed.
You can criticize Fox, and you can criticize them. You know,
they have sixty six percent of the news audience whatever
the heck. It is sixty percent on any given day,
bigger than MSNBC and CNN combined. Their entire business is
(08:50):
based on advertising, so their audience responds to things and
they cover it. That used to be the overarching way
that everybody made money. Now the New York Times makes money.
Washington Post makes money off subscriptions, and that's a very
different business model because subscribers want to be told that
(09:11):
their worldview is correct. When you're pegged to advertising, you're
trying to reach the biggest possible audience because that's how
you get paid. We get paid based on advertising, So
the bigger the audience is, the more money this show makes.
We're not making money off subscriptions. The New York Times.
Subscription changes the calculus of how the business is run.
(09:32):
And I was just looking. This just came across the line.
Buck New York Times has stunned me. Has doubled the
number of journalists that employees in the last ten years.
They have twenty three hundred journalists now, doubled what they
had just ten years ago. And that's to serve subscribers,
it's not to provide the best possible outcome to the
(09:56):
media ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I also, though, think that there's and this has been
the case for a long time. This has been an
argument that I've been making since before I was in media.
There's a fundamental honesty with Fox News that which which
I think is part of why the audience is so durable,
sticky if you will, And it stays with Fox Watch.
There's a fundamental honesty about Yeah, of course, like the
(10:18):
opening mind, like Jesse Waters isn't sitting there like I
don't have any opinions. I'm just I'm just presenting the
objective news. Like that's insane. These other channels have been
doing this game of we're just we're just news. Yeah,
I'm not the same thing with ABC News and these
other things. Same thing with those They're just lying. They're
just lying to people, and eventually the lies got to
be too much. But back to the oil price situation,
(10:41):
I think Clay again, this is gonna be relatively short term,
and as long as that's the case, it will be fine.
Here's Energy Secretary Chris Wright, though we've had him on
the show. Very interesting guy. This is cut eighteen. He's saying, look,
the Biden administration was playing all kinds of politics with
this and not even using it for this is an
emergency situation. They were just using it to try to
(11:03):
to try to goose the numbers to look better. Play eighteen.
We have about four.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Hundred and fifteen million barrels in storage right now. Very unfortunately,
the Biden administration drained almost three hundred million barrels out,
mostly the lower gasoline prices for a midterm election without
disruptions and energy flows.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's not what the SPR is about.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
The SPR is about this, when we have short term
disruptions and flows to replace those flows, but data, we
will simultaneously sell this oil in the near term when
it's needed and buy long term oil, meaning say twelve
months down the road, and we'll pull out one hundred
and seventy million barrels and we'll put back in two
hundred million barrels in the next year, so we'll actually
(11:44):
have more oil in our spr a year from now
than we do today.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That's the responsible way to use it. There you go again.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
And what I think is so important about this is
the only reason this isn't a major, huge treformative danger
for us is because we actually produced so much more oil.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Were the energy superpower of the world. You want to
know why your grocery prices aren't skyrocketing and they're on
oil lines. Go thank and oil man, Go thank somebody
who works for Texico or whatever. I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
That's because in the nineteen seventies, for those of you
who lived through it, we were able to be held
hostage effectively, both literally in the sense of what happened
with Iran with our embassy there, but they were able
to hold this hostage. Those of you who remember lining
up and having difficulty getting oil and gas, heck buck,
I'm reading right now. I love reading about World War two.
(12:38):
You know that during World War two, Americans were restricted
to four gallons of gas a week, so people barely
drove anywhere because of the huge shortage and the amount
of oil and gas we needed in order to fight
that war. At least they were in Iowa where I'm
reading about. Anyway, I love all of this, but the
reason we now have energy and dependent is because we
(13:01):
have unleashed the full economic spirit capitalistic success of our
oil and gas industry in a way that frankly didn't
exist in the forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties. For
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wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Play Travis
Buck Sexton show. Most Democrats have been crazy on iran,
reflexively opposed to anything going on there. I got to
give him credit. John Fetterman, who is the sanest democrat
on the planet. He's coming under fire right now because
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he decided to speak out and say that we need
to take out moch Taba Kamini Kamane aka Little Mo.
This was on Fox News and this is John Fetterman
saying no, like this guy can't be allowed to become
the ruler of Iran.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Listen, he said that you are confident that the world
is better after the death of Iran Supreme leader, the
Ayatola Haminae.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
But his son, his son, member of their leadership.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Well, his son is now in charge, and he's considered
even or have a hard line.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
They should kill They should kill him too. He hasn't
been able to produce a video or seen in public
at all. Why why Maybe maybe they're seriously injured. It
could be very hard to just sit down and even
do a video and have them put that out. So
hopefully he is significantly wounded and if he does recover,
you know, I do absolutely support having Israel to just
(16:24):
eliminate him all right.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
By the way, that was News Nation Elizabeth Vargas asking
that question. Uh, I think I said Fox News Buck
we mentioned this yesterday. I think Fetterman's right, mom, dad, wife,
and son all killed in an attack, maybe the one
that that moch Tabas survived.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I don't see any of these guys are forever. This
is there's no way we're gonna be a work with him.
But can I just say I really get a little
bit of a of a tingle here of office space
the movie when the guy goes through hypnosis and he
just after being kind of like a schlub who's like
man like getting ordered around, he's like, I'm just gonna
do whatever I want. He turns into like this cool,
(17:05):
confident guy, and that's the rest of the rest of
the movie. He's just and he got damn it feels
good to be a gangster going to the background. It's like,
that's what happened to Fetterman. It's crazy. He's you know
the guy. I mean, look, I know he had a
serious medical issue, but he's he's the best Democrat senator.
He's the best Democrat senator on the scene right now.
(17:26):
I think, by far, I don't know who else would
be in that conversation. So credit where it's due. I mean,
I was I'm shocked, but credit where it's due. We
got this one wrong. I thought that he would be
an awful senator. We campaigned against him on the show,
I mean doctor Oz ran against him. For those of
you remember he was basically unable to talk back in
twenty twenty two, he's recovered.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
He seems to be in better shape, and he's the
sanest democrat in the country by far.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
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actually gold that you can hold in your hand, you
can store in your safe. But others like to put
gold in their IRA or four oh one K and
they like to see how gold is doing over time
with those monthly statements with their balance. Either way, gold
(18:17):
grows in value because gold has always been a store
of value, up sixty five percent last year, and because
of all the money printing going on and the big
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ninety eight, ninety eight. So we were talking about how
the Democrats are trying to pounce on this. Democrats pounce,
They would say Republicans pounce, But now I feel self
(19:00):
conscious about it, so I'm saying Democrats pounce. But they
are leveraging the very short term so far, because it's
been a few days spiking gas prices to be like,
oh my gosh, this guy's falling. I thought they wanted
us to use less gas clay. I thought they wanted
more yeahs. I thought climate change was gonna kill us all.
What happened to these people?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
This is the thing.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
This is how you know you're dealing with a Democrat
with a leftist. There's just no accountability. There's no accountability.
They can say anything, change their mind the next day,
contradict themselves in the same sentence, and if you try
to point this out, they just scream at you more loudly.
You know, they just get more like unhinged. So it's
very difficult. People say, you know, how do you convince
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the Democrats in your life. I'm like, I don't know.
I'm a unless they seem reasonable, and then they're already
halfway there because they're reasonable. Unless they seem reasonable, just
don't waste your time. So here's the one thing that's
going on that they're trying to make a big deal
of gas prices. Another thing that's going on. I couldn't
believe the story. I was actually gonna send out a
fiery tweet on this one, but I got I think
(20:00):
speed was like, you know, biting my ankle or something,
so I got distracted. But I was just going to
send out a fiery tweet on this one. Clay the
story that like Pete hegg Seth as Secretary of War.
By the way, they're going to make fun of us
all for calling the secretary of war if they if
the Democrats win back the presidency, they're going to go
back to calling secretary of Defense. Guarantee, by the way,
(20:23):
I actually guarantee they may change the name to Secretary
of Peace. I just felt my estrogen level.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I'm just telling them, actually they might jump right over
Secretary of Defense and go to Secretary of peace. In
response to second.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You actually sounded like Brian Stelter there for it, just
as you said those words.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I'm just telling you people for what might happen if
if Democrats get back in power.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Imagine of the people. Yeah, it's just a good cry.
He just needed a good cry. He did a good
cry and covid I was crying. It was so sad. Okay,
so yeah, But back to the Secretary of where heckxeth
uh So they said that he spent millions and millions
(21:09):
of dollars on food and then they went and circled
the food items that seem like they're you know, extravagant
to them. And you have people like Paul Mgala, who
has honestly just always been one of these people who
is only around because he's been around so long. I've
never heard any impressive analysis from this guy. I don't
(21:30):
know him. It's not personal, but I just not an
impressive guy. But he's comes from that Clinton era of
TV where it's like, if you're willing to show up
and you know, put on a blue blazer and you know,
rap squawk at people. You can get on TV here
here he is talking about this and he's going up
against Scot Jennings. So you have an idea of how
that's going to go play it. That's not important. You
know what's important.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
He has spent fifteen million dollars in one month for
Ribbi's steak, six point nine million for lobster tail, two
hundred and twenty five million dollars for furniture. He's spent
more in the month of September than most countries on
Earth spent in their defause.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Do you believe you or himself lobster tails?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating
all the lobster.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
Well, he can't eat, oh rob Oh really, the troops
are getting frequently.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Troops that are going to wall A getting a lobster
You are this Internet do something. I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna raise my hand here because I used to
eat in military facilities overseas in Iraq in a war zone.
And yes they do have Ribbi steak. Yes they do
have once a week or a couple times a month,
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they'll have like surf and turf night and have some
lobster tails. Or there's two parts of this clay. On
the one hand, is Paulagalla really that stupid that he
like a million dollars of ribbi? You couldn't eat Pete
Hegsach could eat ribbi three meals a day for the
next three hundred years, okay, and he wouldn't eat eighteen
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million dollars of ribbi or whatever it is. It's obviously
for the troops. But the other side of this is,
notice how quickly democrats and look, there are democrats you
know who serve and there are democrats who are pro
military and I have to but democrats in elected office,
democrats and media, they are so quick to dismiss, to
cast aside. It's like, what are we supposed to feed
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our troops?
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Cruel?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
The troops don't deserve a ribby steak once or twice
a week, like the troops were the richest country in
the history of the world. We can't feed our military. Well,
we're only supposed to give them spam in a can.
Like the elitism is just dripping from these libs on
this issue.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, and look, I would submit that political consultants are
a lot like coaches who happen to get good quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
They make them look good. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
So, Paul mcgaull, whatever you think of Bill Clinton, he
made his entire career off being an advisor. If I
remember correctly, to Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton's a really good politician.
So whatever political consultants surround him, they get to they
get to be burnished by his success, right, And a
lot of this is, I think, proximity to someone who
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is talented. Same thing, by the way, for President Trump,
he's a uniquely talented political figure, and so the political
consultants around him do they help, certainly? But are they
basking in the reflective glow of his political ascendancy and success? Yes,
one hundred percent. This is such a moronic take. If
you told me, hey, what are you going to get
(24:35):
upset about that our government is spending money on feeding troops? Well,
is the four billiant thing that I would point to
and say, let's investigate this. And on Scott Jennings credit
here buck, they actually went and the troops are posting
how excited they were to get a surf and turf meal.
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So there's evidence of them eating steak and lobster and
being so excited that they had a special meal and
were being rewarded for the hard work that they put in.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I mean, there's actual tangible evidence of this.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And to your point, basic math, it's impossible for anybody
to spend this much money on food for themselves for
his family. I mean, this is this is such a
dumb argument. And by the way, it's been to the
credit of people who were actually journalists. They went back
and looked, and the spending is very similar no matter
who the president is, because the troops get rewarded sometimes
(25:36):
with great meals.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Look, I'll tell you this that the food and the
the food and some of the major fobs in Iraq
and in Afghanistan, and darn right is it that you
were there, isn't it the least you could do.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
That's exactly my care of people who are in danger
of dying, like feeding in the zone.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay, yeah, we had people, the people who were running,
even the ones who were like me, who are basically fobbits,
I mean, who were stuck on the base most of
the time or you know, somewhere all the time. I
got to get off. But point is, you know, you
had to run and do duck and covers because of
the incoming mortar rounds and different places. Like I think
we can afford to give like decent ribbi. I don't
think we have to give cat food to our soldiers,
(26:19):
thank you very much. But the contempt, the the sort
of the we have to we have to feed these
soldiers in uniform with with ribbi and occasionally some seafood
like huh, can you imagine, like I just this, But
this is where you see how democrats know about it.
Democrats think they're Look, don't we pay for their mr?
(26:39):
They should just eat mrs all the time. They don't
get they don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
How about the same people were defending illegal immigrants getting
taxpayer funded four star hotel rooms, not citizens, not putting
their lives on the line coming here and taking our
actual tax dollars. Oh, it's this is just what America
has to do. We have to be generous. We have
to give everybody four star hotel rooms and unlimited Wi
(27:05):
Fi and let anybody in the world who wants to
come here know this. And then meanwhile, but we can't
feed our soldiers well, and to try to make this
a line of political attack I think this really does
blow up on them. And I think Pete Hegseth, I mean,
you know how sometimes the counter punch is more successful
than the punch. If the Secretary of War and his
(27:26):
team are listening, I think this is an unbelievable opportunity
for a counter punch that could flatten the people who.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Are criticizing him over this. I got to tell you
the things that heg Seth has done and said in office.
They want to come after him so badly, but they
realize that the arguments that they would have to make.
He's saying things like, let's focus on lethality. Let's have
a military that does the mission, that doesn't get bogged
(27:55):
down in identity politics and isn't sitting around giving people
lectures on how you have to like, you know, do
transgender surgery with taxpayer dollars, or you're a bad person.
All this stuff that was going on, by the way,
going on the CIA, going on in the intel community too.
Democrats hate what he's doing, but they don't really want
(28:16):
to go out there and say, you know what we
really need for We know what we really need for,
you know, the seal teams to function better. We need
more trans seals. We need more chicks actually who can't
do two pull ups joining the seals and seeing how
that helps for their operational readiness. And they can't actually
make these arguments publicly. And so that's why Pete I think,
(28:40):
just by doing what he does, Secretary of War, heag
Seth is spiking the football in the faces of the
hard left in this country day in and day out.
And they don't really know what but that's why they're
so desperate to hit him. That's why they're saying eighteen
million dollars of lobster till frozen seafood for our troops.
You have a problem with this. I couldn't believe it.
I mean, they're not paying but to feed them caviare
(29:02):
I mean, you know, if it's food, it's great. Soldier
should have excellent food. If anything, I'd probably get pissed off.
I felt like the food wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Enough, right, And I mean feeding your troops well, for
those of us who are military historians, is the number
one way to ensure that your troops are the best
at their jobs. Right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The Napoleon that an army marches on its stomach.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I think that's exactly right, that's the quote boom, that's
a good that's a good company, by the way, but
I also think this is their frustration. I bet you
would sign off on this. We know a lot of
these guys. Trump jd Vance, Rubio heg Seth. I would
argue that QUAD is leave aside the politics. I would
(29:46):
argue that QUAD is the smartest quad that we have
had in positions of leadership in any of our lives.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Again, Trump, jd Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I think that that is an incredibly intelligent group, and
one of the challenges they have is they're also very
good at communication, so the attacks on them often don't land,
and frankly are downright moronic, much like our boy Eric Swalwell,
who we were talking about on the flip side as
being one of the dumbest politicians that is out there
(30:20):
in America today. Right now, you got us going to
break buck. We'll take some of your talkbacks. We got
some funny ones, a bunch of people wanting to weigh in.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Callers.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
By the way, some of you may be soldiers who've
been serving and actually have eaten the steak in the lobster.
If anybody out there has had the steak and lobster meal,
you could call in let us know what.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I remember. I remember my grandfather. He didn't you know what,
Especially he got older, he would talk about he's on
the USS Batan in World War two, which is one
of these converted carriers, kind of like a short carrier,
if you will. And I remember him talking about how
when they would go into port and they would get
some actual like fresh oh stuff, and just like what
(31:00):
a morale boost it was for these guys. And they're
out at sea, they got Japanese kamakazis flying at them,
They're taking you know, machine gun fire across the deck,
all this stuff. I think we should get them ribbised
when we can, Like, I think that's a pretty I
think America can afford defeated soldiers. Well, wow, democrats of
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of callers want away in variety of different topics that
we've talked about so far. Let's go into some of
these calls. Let me go to Matthew down in Gadsden, Alabama.
(32:52):
You were on submarines and you can refer to the
impact of a nice surf and turf meal.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Was that experience like, uh yes, sir.
Speaker 10 (33:03):
I mean, you know, you spend in a three month
patrol out and say just under the water doing circles
and you know you get a good meal, lobster and state.
We had surf and turf in the middle of the patrol.
You know, it's something different help morale. I mean submarine
and you did a ship anyway, but it was, you know,
something still keep morale going.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Thank you for the call, Bucket out. We're just talking
about off air. There are a lot of jobs out
there in the military that are tough. I think being
under the water four months at a time, I could
not the people who can get on submarines and do
that job, I would lose it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I would Submariners, I think is one of the toughest
things to sign up for just psychologically. I think they
do additional testing before you can get down there for
a long periods of time. That would be a that
would be a challenging one. And it's amazing too, you know,
the nuclear nuclear submarines we have part of the nuclear triad.
Among our very most impressive weapons period Yes, among the
(34:05):
most important strategically and just also it's incredible what they
can do. They can stay underwater for so long, they
can fire so much nuclear missile firepower if they decide
to them. It's crazy what they can do.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
So Jeff and Dover, Florida, also a former submariner. Jeff,
what do you remember about that experience? And a lot
of people weighing in on the fact that they were
getting steak and lobster long before Pete Hegseth was Secretary
of War.
Speaker 11 (34:33):
Yeah, I was on submarines from eighties up into the
nineties and part of the recruitment they talked to us
about was submarine duty was very arduous, but the food
was excellent. And you can even look in any like
Navy website. I mean this goes back to World War Two,
where you know they serve submariners. The quality of food
(34:53):
and it's known as some of the best food in
the military because it's a very arduous duty. You know,
we were underwater seventy some days at a time. I
was fast attack sub and to have that, to have that,
it just felt so nice to have a really good meal.
And that was part of what they told us. Hey,
you get the best food in the military, and it
(35:14):
was surf and turf.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Thank you for the call. Thank you for the service.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Colleen in Upstate New York, Colleen fire Away, Hi, I just.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Wanted to reiterate what the last two callers said. My
husband spent twenty five years serving on submarines, and he
missed birthdays, he missed high school graduations, he missed all
sorts of stuff. So I think the least we can
do for these these men, and I guess in the
future women would be to feed them well. So I
get tired of people making a big fuss about it.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, thank you for the call. Yeah, they're not giving
out like rolls, royces and diamond encrusted you know, watches.
Here we're talking about good food for the people who
are keeping the country safe. It's a bare minimum obligation.
Chris and Ohio has a point. Chris, you got for us, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
If the DAMS have a problem with a good meal
for the military, would they be willing to eliminate lobster
and stake off the SNAP Benefits card, or better yet,
only send MRIs out to SNAP recipients across the country,
just like just like the military gets when they're at war.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I think that's a good argument.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Like I said, people staying in four star hotels on
our taxpayer dime who were illegal immigrants at Democrats saying
we had an obligation to do that. I think most
of you out there saying, hey, if we're going to
be spending money feeding the military, well that's an expense
that actually makes sense from a tax perspective.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
When we come.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Back, Bill O'Reilly will join us friend of the program,
longtime media legend.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
That's next on Clay and back.
Welcome in everybody. Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show, known to many as Clay and Buck,
that starts right now, and we got so much to
get to. Let me just give you a little bit
of an outline before we dive into all the biggest
stories today. Uncle Bill Bill O'Reilly joining us hour two.
Talk to him about how this whole Iran war thing
(00:21):
is going and the Save Act, Save America Act. Have
that discussion. Senator Eric Schmidt will be with us, and
we will also have Senator John Cornyn with us. I
would say to any of you who have we have
a lot of Texans who listen Texas or California. Well
those are the two biggest states by population, so it's
(00:42):
not really that surprising, but it's either Texas or California
is our biggest state for listenership. So we have a
lot of Texans, and we love all of you. Not
all of you are huge Cornin fans. Some of you
perhaps are. Send us your questions for Senator Cornyn and
we will see if we can get a couple of
them to him on the air today as he is
(01:03):
in this primary, this contested primary, wondering if there will
be a Trump endorsement. That's a lot of eyeballs on
this one, so we will get to that. Three guests today,
two Senators, Uncle Bill, and now we can get into
some of the news today. Clay Little Mo as Clay
calls him, Iran's new supreme leader much Taba Kamina has
(01:28):
issued a statement, but he is well. Someone has issued
a statement on his behalf. He is apparently in a
coma and missing a leg, so he got hit in
one of these air strikes and they are putting him
forward as the future of Iran. That certainly goes to
what level of pressure the leadership of Iran is under
(01:51):
that even there next up at Bat is having to
have statements released from others around him because he's in
a coma from an air strike. So essentially, the next
person who raises their hand in Iran and says I'm
going to continue the Islamic revolution in this country and
i shall continue to fight against the Great Satan and
(02:11):
the Little Satan probably going to get blown up. That
is where we are right now, at least while these hostilities,
these aerial campaign continues. Clay oil price has surged a
bit and there are concerns as well, after two tankers
were attacked, and I believe are on fire in the
(02:34):
straight of horror moves. So they're continuing to try to
go after the oil, the global oil industry as their
choke point, as their way to hit back at US. Also,
Trump monitoring Iranian terror sleeper cells. A lot of concern
about that, and I think rightly concern concern about that,
(02:55):
and we shall discuss that. So Clay, I mean, first
one up here, we are in another day of this
aerial campaign. We now know that Munchtaba is in a coma.
Little mo is having a tough one. What do you
think about the latest here with the attacks on oil,
(03:17):
oil shipping and trying to make this a global environmental
and economic catastrophe to get this to stop, that's clearly
the Iranians play. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I think it actually is going to make President Trump angrier,
and I think it's actually going to result in a
worse outcome for Iran than if they allowed the oil
to transit without issues at all. And I'm pulling up
to check the oil price as we speak right now,
because it has been probably the number one story that
(03:46):
is out there, and it's hanging right around ninety dollars
a barrel, And you say, okay, Clay, where does that compare?
Is around sixty five dollars if I remember correctly, before
this war started, and now it's right around ninety dollars.
It went all the way up to one hundred and
twenty dollars Sunday in the opening hours of the of
(04:09):
the market, beginning with danger and fear, and so then
it crashed all the way back down to like seventy five.
It's come back up to around ninety. It's bounced around
a lot, and I think the question is how safe
is the Strait of Hormuz and what does that mean
for overall pricing of oil and gas? Now President Trump
(04:31):
has released I think it's one hundred and eighty million
barrels is what I saw from this strategic reserve. There's
four hundred million worldwide being released. My understanding, Buck, is
that that takes a couple of weeks to actually come
into the marketplace as a whole, because it takes a
while for all of those all those barrels of oil
(04:52):
to reach the marketplace.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, I stand corrected on that one. Chuck Schumer said,
do it, and Trump's actually doing it. Now. The Democrats
are going to hit him for having to do that,
but the oil shock seems severe enough that some effort
to soften the blow is a blow to your wallets
essentially is underway. So there you go, Chuck Schumer giving
some good advice to his opposition. Hey, Clay, even a
(05:18):
broken clock, you know, So I'll take the l on
that one. Trump's doing it. This has cut seventeen on
gas prices. Trump last night at joint Base, Andrews hit it.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I say, the timeline on when you're planning to tap
this Thrateina petroleum reserve, a timeline of when that happen.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We're going to be doing it very quickly, and then
we'll fill it up. We'll fill up our reserves. You know,
if you remember I filled him up. And then I
had a deal to go at the highest level, a
level that's never been and Schumer and the Democrats but
twenty five dollars, and it was turned down. You remember that, Peter,
almost before your time, but not quite, but it was.
(05:54):
We had a deal at twenty five dollars. Think of that,
twenty five dollars a barrel, and the Democrats turned that.
We're gonna tap it out like it's never a bit,
But they turned that down and now it's a.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Lot higher, played Trump, of course, saying Democrats had no
foresight on this issue. Not a surprise, but there's enough
of a jolt of the oil markets that there's serious
and immediate action being taken to stabilize things. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Look, and I think this is where the average American
is going to feel to the extent we do anything
going on with Iran is in oil and gas prices.
And I would just point out that two years of
oil and gas prices coming down, by and large was
not a story that is almost I watch these television
(06:45):
broadcasts of the news almost every at least three hours
every day.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
While I'm talking to all of you.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I have never seen CNN or MSNBC do a story
on boy, President Trump has really brought down gas prices
during his tenure in office. Never seen a story about
gas prices going down for year and a half. And
now gas prices have gone up for a week and
it's the lead story on MSNBC and CNN. And by
(07:12):
the way, Buck, it vanished when oil and gas prices
went back down to seventy five. Now that they've come
back up to ninety. We're back to covering oil and
gas prices again. And they put the picture of the
oil and gas prices in the corner of the screen.
Right now, the talk talking point on CNN is oil
and gas prices, and talking point on MSNBC is oil
(07:33):
and gas prices. So I do think when it's a
good story, right for the year and a half that
the prices came down, not one mention of it for
the one week they've gone back up. Oh my goodness,
this is a story that we have to cover well.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
As we know, journalism in America has foury fully morphed
into it's not about what you should know, it's about
telling the audience what they want to know. Yeah, what
they want to hear, what they want to watch. And
that's really the case over at CNN, at MSNBC, at
MS now it's the case of Fox too. I don't
live in some delusional world. I mean, Fox is going
(08:07):
to have a right of center point of view. But
there's more, there's so much more honesty about that. I mean,
their primetime lineup, our opinion hosts. CNN still pretends, CNN
still pretends that they're just journalists, just Anderson Cooper could
vote either way. Who knows? Does he love Trump? Does
he hate Trump? Oil prices important today, unimportant yesterday? I
(08:28):
wonder why.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I also think this is important, and I think it
has been under discussed and it continues to be under discussed.
You can criticize Fox, and you can criticize them. You know,
they have sixty six percent of the news audience whatever
the heck. It is sixty percent on any given day,
bigger than MSNBC and CNN combined. Their entire business is
(08:50):
based on advertising, so their audience responds to things and
they cover it. That used to be the overarching way
that everybody made money. Now the New York Times makes money.
Washington Post makes money off subscriptions, and that's a very
different business model because subscribers want to be told that
(09:11):
their worldview is correct. When you're pegged to advertising, you're
trying to reach the biggest possible audience because that's how
you get paid. We get paid based on advertising, So
the bigger the audience is, the more money this show makes.
We're not making money off subscriptions. The New York Times.
Subscription changes the calculus of how the business is run.
(09:32):
And I was just looking. This just came across the line.
Buck New York Times has stunned me. Has doubled the
number of journalists that employees in the last ten years.
They have twenty three hundred journalists now, doubled what they
had just ten years ago. And that's to serve subscribers,
it's not to provide the best possible outcome to the
(09:56):
media ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I also, though, think that there's and this has been
the case for a long time. This has been an
argument that I've been making since before I was in media.
There's a fundamental honesty with Fox News that which which
I think is part of why the audience is so durable,
sticky if you will, And it stays with Fox Watch.
There's a fundamental honesty about Yeah, of course, like the
(10:18):
opening mind, like Jesse Waters isn't sitting there like I
don't have any opinions. I'm just I'm just presenting the
objective news. Like that's insane. These other channels have been
doing this game of we're just we're just news. Yeah,
I'm not the same thing with ABC News and these
other things. Same thing with those They're just lying. They're
just lying to people, and eventually the lies got to
be too much. But back to the oil price situation,
(10:41):
I think Clay again, this is gonna be relatively short term,
and as long as that's the case, it will be fine.
Here's Energy Secretary Chris Wright, though we've had him on
the show. Very interesting guy. This is cut eighteen. He's saying, look,
the Biden administration was playing all kinds of politics with
this and not even using it for this is an
emergency situation. They were just using it to try to
(11:03):
to try to goose the numbers to look better. Play eighteen.
We have about four.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Hundred and fifteen million barrels in storage right now. Very unfortunately,
the Biden administration drained almost three hundred million barrels out,
mostly the lower gasoline prices for a midterm election without
disruptions and energy flows.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's not what the SPR is about.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
The SPR is about this, when we have short term
disruptions and flows to replace those flows, but data, we
will simultaneously sell this oil in the near term when
it's needed and buy long term oil, meaning say twelve
months down the road, and we'll pull out one hundred
and seventy million barrels and we'll put back in two
hundred million barrels in the next year, so we'll actually
(11:44):
have more oil in our spr a year from now
than we do today.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That's the responsible way to use it. There you go again.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
And what I think is so important about this is
the only reason this isn't a major, huge treformative danger
for us is because we actually produced so much more oil.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Were the energy superpower of the world. You want to
know why your grocery prices aren't skyrocketing and they're on
oil lines. Go thank and oil man, Go thank somebody
who works for Texico or whatever. I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
That's because in the nineteen seventies, for those of you
who lived through it, we were able to be held
hostage effectively, both literally in the sense of what happened
with Iran with our embassy there, but they were able
to hold this hostage. Those of you who remember lining
up and having difficulty getting oil and gas, heck buck,
I'm reading right now. I love reading about World War two.
(12:38):
You know that during World War two, Americans were restricted
to four gallons of gas a week, so people barely
drove anywhere because of the huge shortage and the amount
of oil and gas we needed in order to fight
that war. At least they were in Iowa where I'm
reading about. Anyway, I love all of this, but the
reason we now have energy and dependent is because we
(13:01):
have unleashed the full economic spirit capitalistic success of our
oil and gas industry in a way that frankly didn't
exist in the forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties. For
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Buck Sexton show. Most Democrats have been crazy on iran,
reflexively opposed to anything going on there. I got to
give him credit. John Fetterman, who is the sanest democrat
on the planet. He's coming under fire right now because
(15:26):
he decided to speak out and say that we need
to take out moch Taba Kamini Kamane aka Little Mo.
This was on Fox News and this is John Fetterman
saying no, like this guy can't be allowed to become
the ruler of Iran.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Listen, he said that you are confident that the world
is better after the death of Iran Supreme leader, the
Ayatola Haminae.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
But his son, his son, member of their leadership.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Well, his son is now in charge, and he's considered
even or have a hard line.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
They should kill They should kill him too. He hasn't
been able to produce a video or seen in public
at all. Why why Maybe maybe they're seriously injured. It
could be very hard to just sit down and even
do a video and have them put that out. So
hopefully he is significantly wounded and if he does recover,
you know, I do absolutely support having Israel to just
(16:24):
eliminate him all right.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
By the way, that was News Nation Elizabeth Vargas asking
that question. Uh, I think I said Fox News Buck
we mentioned this yesterday. I think Fetterman's right, mom, dad, wife,
and son all killed in an attack, maybe the one
that that moch Tabas survived.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I don't see any of these guys are forever. This
is there's no way we're gonna be a work with him.
But can I just say I really get a little
bit of a of a tingle here of office space
the movie when the guy goes through hypnosis and he
just after being kind of like a schlub who's like
man like getting ordered around, he's like, I'm just gonna
do whatever I want. He turns into like this cool,
(17:05):
confident guy, and that's the rest of the rest of
the movie. He's just and he got damn it feels
good to be a gangster going to the background. It's like,
that's what happened to Fetterman. It's crazy. He's you know
the guy. I mean, look, I know he had a
serious medical issue, but he's he's the best Democrat senator.
He's the best Democrat senator on the scene right now.
(17:26):
I think, by far, I don't know who else would
be in that conversation. So credit where it's due. I mean,
I was I'm shocked, but credit where it's due. We
got this one wrong. I thought that he would be
an awful senator. We campaigned against him on the show,
I mean doctor Oz ran against him. For those of
you remember he was basically unable to talk back in
twenty twenty two, he's recovered.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
He seems to be in better shape, and he's the
sanest democrat in the country by far.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's amazing stuff. You never know. For those of us
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the Democrats are trying to pounce on this. Democrats pounce,
They would say Republicans pounce, But now I feel self
(19:00):
conscious about it, so I'm saying Democrats pounce. But they
are leveraging the very short term so far, because it's
been a few days spiking gas prices to be like,
oh my gosh, this guy's falling. I thought they wanted
us to use less gas clay. I thought they wanted
more yeahs. I thought climate change was gonna kill us all.
What happened to these people?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
This is the thing.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
This is how you know you're dealing with a Democrat
with a leftist. There's just no accountability. There's no accountability.
They can say anything, change their mind the next day,
contradict themselves in the same sentence, and if you try
to point this out, they just scream at you more loudly.
You know, they just get more like unhinged. So it's
very difficult. People say, you know, how do you convince
(19:39):
the Democrats in your life. I'm like, I don't know.
I'm a unless they seem reasonable, and then they're already
halfway there because they're reasonable. Unless they seem reasonable, just
don't waste your time. So here's the one thing that's
going on that they're trying to make a big deal
of gas prices. Another thing that's going on. I couldn't
believe the story. I was actually gonna send out a
fiery tweet on this one, but I got I think
(20:00):
speed was like, you know, biting my ankle or something,
so I got distracted. But I was just going to
send out a fiery tweet on this one. Clay the
story that like Pete hegg Seth as Secretary of War.
By the way, they're going to make fun of us
all for calling the secretary of war if they if
the Democrats win back the presidency, they're going to go
back to calling secretary of Defense. Guarantee, by the way,
(20:23):
I actually guarantee they may change the name to Secretary
of Peace. I just felt my estrogen level.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I'm just telling them, actually they might jump right over
Secretary of Defense and go to Secretary of peace. In
response to second.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You actually sounded like Brian Stelter there for it, just
as you said those words.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I'm just telling you people for what might happen if
if Democrats get back in power.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Imagine of the people. Yeah, it's just a good cry.
He just needed a good cry. He did a good
cry and covid I was crying. It was so sad. Okay,
so yeah, But back to the Secretary of where heckxeth
uh So they said that he spent millions and millions
(21:09):
of dollars on food and then they went and circled
the food items that seem like they're you know, extravagant
to them. And you have people like Paul Mgala, who
has honestly just always been one of these people who
is only around because he's been around so long. I've
never heard any impressive analysis from this guy. I don't
(21:30):
know him. It's not personal, but I just not an
impressive guy. But he's comes from that Clinton era of
TV where it's like, if you're willing to show up
and you know, put on a blue blazer and you know,
rap squawk at people. You can get on TV here
here he is talking about this and he's going up
against Scot Jennings. So you have an idea of how
that's going to go play it. That's not important. You
know what's important.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
He has spent fifteen million dollars in one month for
Ribbi's steak, six point nine million for lobster tail, two
hundred and twenty five million dollars for furniture. He's spent
more in the month of September than most countries on
Earth spent in their defause.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Do you believe you or himself lobster tails?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating
all the lobster.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
Well, he can't eat, oh rob Oh really, the troops
are getting frequently.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Troops that are going to wall A getting a lobster
You are this Internet do something. I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna raise my hand here because I used to
eat in military facilities overseas in Iraq in a war zone.
And yes they do have Ribbi steak. Yes they do
have once a week or a couple times a month,
(22:39):
they'll have like surf and turf night and have some
lobster tails. Or there's two parts of this clay. On
the one hand, is Paulagalla really that stupid that he
like a million dollars of ribbi? You couldn't eat Pete
Hegsach could eat ribbi three meals a day for the
next three hundred years, okay, and he wouldn't eat eighteen
(22:59):
million dollars of ribbi or whatever it is. It's obviously
for the troops. But the other side of this is,
notice how quickly democrats and look, there are democrats you
know who serve and there are democrats who are pro
military and I have to but democrats in elected office,
democrats and media, they are so quick to dismiss, to
cast aside. It's like, what are we supposed to feed
(23:21):
our troops?
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Cruel?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
The troops don't deserve a ribby steak once or twice
a week, like the troops were the richest country in
the history of the world. We can't feed our military. Well,
we're only supposed to give them spam in a can.
Like the elitism is just dripping from these libs on
this issue.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, and look, I would submit that political consultants are
a lot like coaches who happen to get good quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
They make them look good. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
So, Paul mcgaull, whatever you think of Bill Clinton, he
made his entire career off being an advisor. If I
remember correctly, to Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton's a really good politician.
So whatever political consultants surround him, they get to they
get to be burnished by his success, right, And a
lot of this is, I think, proximity to someone who
(24:14):
is talented. Same thing, by the way, for President Trump,
he's a uniquely talented political figure, and so the political
consultants around him do they help, certainly? But are they
basking in the reflective glow of his political ascendancy and success? Yes,
one hundred percent. This is such a moronic take. If
you told me, hey, what are you going to get
(24:35):
upset about that our government is spending money on feeding troops? Well,
is the four billiant thing that I would point to
and say, let's investigate this. And on Scott Jennings credit
here buck, they actually went and the troops are posting
how excited they were to get a surf and turf meal.
(24:58):
So there's evidence of them eating steak and lobster and
being so excited that they had a special meal and
were being rewarded for the hard work that they put in.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I mean, there's actual tangible evidence of this.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And to your point, basic math, it's impossible for anybody
to spend this much money on food for themselves for
his family. I mean, this is this is such a
dumb argument. And by the way, it's been to the
credit of people who were actually journalists. They went back
and looked, and the spending is very similar no matter
who the president is, because the troops get rewarded sometimes
(25:36):
with great meals.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Look, I'll tell you this that the food and the
the food and some of the major fobs in Iraq
and in Afghanistan, and darn right is it that you
were there, isn't it the least you could do.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
That's exactly my care of people who are in danger
of dying, like feeding in the zone.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay, yeah, we had people, the people who were running,
even the ones who were like me, who are basically fobbits,
I mean, who were stuck on the base most of
the time or you know, somewhere all the time. I
got to get off. But point is, you know, you
had to run and do duck and covers because of
the incoming mortar rounds and different places. Like I think
we can afford to give like decent ribbi. I don't
think we have to give cat food to our soldiers,
(26:19):
thank you very much. But the contempt, the the sort
of the we have to we have to feed these
soldiers in uniform with with ribbi and occasionally some seafood
like huh, can you imagine, like I just this, But
this is where you see how democrats know about it.
Democrats think they're Look, don't we pay for their mr?
(26:39):
They should just eat mrs all the time. They don't
get they don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
How about the same people were defending illegal immigrants getting
taxpayer funded four star hotel rooms, not citizens, not putting
their lives on the line coming here and taking our
actual tax dollars. Oh, it's this is just what America
has to do. We have to be generous. We have
to give everybody four star hotel rooms and unlimited Wi
(27:05):
Fi and let anybody in the world who wants to
come here know this. And then meanwhile, but we can't
feed our soldiers well, and to try to make this
a line of political attack I think this really does
blow up on them. And I think Pete Hegseth, I mean,
you know how sometimes the counter punch is more successful
than the punch. If the Secretary of War and his
(27:26):
team are listening, I think this is an unbelievable opportunity
for a counter punch that could flatten the people who.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Are criticizing him over this. I got to tell you
the things that heg Seth has done and said in office.
They want to come after him so badly, but they
realize that the arguments that they would have to make.
He's saying things like, let's focus on lethality. Let's have
a military that does the mission, that doesn't get bogged
(27:55):
down in identity politics and isn't sitting around giving people
lectures on how you have to like, you know, do
transgender surgery with taxpayer dollars, or you're a bad person.
All this stuff that was going on, by the way,
going on the CIA, going on in the intel community too.
Democrats hate what he's doing, but they don't really want
(28:16):
to go out there and say, you know what we
really need for We know what we really need for,
you know, the seal teams to function better. We need
more trans seals. We need more chicks actually who can't
do two pull ups joining the seals and seeing how
that helps for their operational readiness. And they can't actually
make these arguments publicly. And so that's why Pete I think,
(28:40):
just by doing what he does, Secretary of War, heag
Seth is spiking the football in the faces of the
hard left in this country day in and day out.
And they don't really know what but that's why they're
so desperate to hit him. That's why they're saying eighteen
million dollars of lobster till frozen seafood for our troops.
You have a problem with this. I couldn't believe it.
I mean, they're not paying but to feed them caviare
(29:02):
I mean, you know, if it's food, it's great. Soldier
should have excellent food. If anything, I'd probably get pissed off.
I felt like the food wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Enough, right, And I mean feeding your troops well, for
those of us who are military historians, is the number
one way to ensure that your troops are the best
at their jobs. Right.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
The Napoleon that an army marches on its stomach.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I think that's exactly right, that's the quote boom, that's
a good that's a good company, by the way, but
I also think this is their frustration. I bet you
would sign off on this. We know a lot of
these guys. Trump jd Vance, Rubio heg Seth. I would
argue that QUAD is leave aside the politics. I would
(29:46):
argue that QUAD is the smartest quad that we have
had in positions of leadership in any of our lives.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Again, Trump, jd Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I think that that is an incredibly intelligent group, and
one of the challenges they have is they're also very
good at communication, so the attacks on them often don't land,
and frankly are downright moronic, much like our boy Eric Swalwell,
who we were talking about on the flip side as
being one of the dumbest politicians that is out there
(30:20):
in America today. Right now, you got us going to
break buck. We'll take some of your talkbacks. We got
some funny ones, a bunch of people wanting to weigh in.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Callers.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
By the way, some of you may be soldiers who've
been serving and actually have eaten the steak in the lobster.
If anybody out there has had the steak and lobster meal,
you could call in let us know what.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I remember. I remember my grandfather. He didn't you know what,
Especially he got older, he would talk about he's on
the USS Batan in World War two, which is one
of these converted carriers, kind of like a short carrier,
if you will. And I remember him talking about how
when they would go into port and they would get
some actual like fresh oh stuff, and just like what
(31:00):
a morale boost it was for these guys. And they're
out at sea, they got Japanese kamakazis flying at them,
They're taking you know, machine gun fire across the deck,
all this stuff. I think we should get them ribbised
when we can, Like, I think that's a pretty I
think America can afford defeated soldiers. Well, wow, democrats of
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Welcome back and play Travis buck Sexton show. A lot
of callers want away in variety of different topics that
we've talked about so far. Let's go into some of
these calls. Let me go to Matthew down in Gadsden, Alabama.
(32:52):
You were on submarines and you can refer to the
impact of a nice surf and turf meal.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Was that experience like, uh yes, sir.
Speaker 10 (33:03):
I mean, you know, you spend in a three month
patrol out and say just under the water doing circles
and you know you get a good meal, lobster and state.
We had surf and turf in the middle of the patrol.
You know, it's something different help morale. I mean submarine
and you did a ship anyway, but it was, you know,
something still keep morale going.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Thank you for the call, Bucket out. We're just talking
about off air. There are a lot of jobs out
there in the military that are tough. I think being
under the water four months at a time, I could
not the people who can get on submarines and do
that job, I would lose it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I would Submariners, I think is one of the toughest
things to sign up for just psychologically. I think they
do additional testing before you can get down there for
a long periods of time. That would be a that
would be a challenging one. And it's amazing too, you know,
the nuclear nuclear submarines we have part of the nuclear triad.
Among our very most impressive weapons period Yes, among the
(34:05):
most important strategically and just also it's incredible what they
can do. They can stay underwater for so long, they
can fire so much nuclear missile firepower if they decide
to them. It's crazy what they can do.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
So Jeff and Dover, Florida, also a former submariner. Jeff,
what do you remember about that experience? And a lot
of people weighing in on the fact that they were
getting steak and lobster long before Pete Hegseth was Secretary
of War.
Speaker 11 (34:33):
Yeah, I was on submarines from eighties up into the
nineties and part of the recruitment they talked to us
about was submarine duty was very arduous, but the food
was excellent. And you can even look in any like
Navy website. I mean this goes back to World War Two,
where you know they serve submariners. The quality of food
(34:53):
and it's known as some of the best food in
the military because it's a very arduous duty. You know,
we were underwater seventy some days at a time. I
was fast attack sub and to have that, to have that,
it just felt so nice to have a really good meal.
And that was part of what they told us. Hey,
you get the best food in the military, and it
(35:14):
was surf and turf.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Thank you for the call. Thank you for the service.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Colleen in Upstate New York, Colleen fire Away, Hi, I just.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Wanted to reiterate what the last two callers said. My
husband spent twenty five years serving on submarines, and he
missed birthdays, he missed high school graduations, he missed all
sorts of stuff. So I think the least we can
do for these these men, and I guess in the
future women would be to feed them well. So I
get tired of people making a big fuss about it.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, thank you for the call. Yeah, they're not giving
out like rolls, royces and diamond encrusted you know, watches.
Here we're talking about good food for the people who
are keeping the country safe. It's a bare minimum obligation.
Chris and Ohio has a point. Chris, you got for us, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
If the DAMS have a problem with a good meal
for the military, would they be willing to eliminate lobster
and stake off the SNAP Benefits card, or better yet,
only send MRIs out to SNAP recipients across the country,
just like just like the military gets when they're at war.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I think that's a good argument.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Like I said, people staying in four star hotels on
our taxpayer dime who were illegal immigrants at Democrats saying
we had an obligation to do that. I think most
of you out there saying, hey, if we're going to
be spending money feeding the military, well that's an expense
that actually makes sense from a tax perspective.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
When we come.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Back, Bill O'Reilly will join us friend of the program,
longtime media legend.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
That's next on Clay and back.
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