August 17, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show covered a wide-ranging mix of politics, culture, immigration, sports, media, and listener feedback, with the hosts kicking off the program by welcoming listeners across terrestrial radio, YouTube, SiriusXM, and podcast platforms. The hour began with a discussion surrounding a WNBA controversy after a mother and daughter were reportedly asked to remove “XXXY” shirts at an Atlanta arena. Clay and Buck used the incident to launch a broader conversation about biological sex, women’s sports, gender politics, and free expression, arguing that debates over chromosomes and competitive fairness continue to be major flashpoints in American culture.
The show then pivoted to Florida politics and the upcoming primary elections, with Clay expressing optimism about several races and joking about an on-air wager involving longtime caller “Light ‘Em Up Linda.” The hosts reflected on the end of primary season and argued that Republicans should shift their focus toward the general election campaign. This led into a broader discussion about the political landscape, including criticism of what they described as the growing influence of socialist ideas within the Democratic Party.
A significant portion of Hour 1 focused on a recent television interview with Florida congressional candidate Oliver Larson, whom the hosts described as an avowed socialist. Clay recounted appearing on Fox News’ Big Weekend Show and detailed an extended exchange with Larson over immigration policy, amnesty, border security, ICE enforcement, taxpayer burdens, and the question of whether there should be any practical limit to illegal immigration. The hosts repeatedly argued that progressive immigration advocates often fail to provide specific thresholds or numerical limits when discussing immigration reform. The conversation expanded into debates about citizenship, federal spending, immigration from Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti, as well as Donald Trump’s immigration policies and the future role of border enforcement.
The immigration discussion evolved into a larger critique of progressive political messaging, with Clay and Buck arguing that many contemporary left-wing positions rely on slogans and talking points rather than concrete policy answers. They cited estimates of roughly 20 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States and debated the economic, demographic, and political implications of that figure. The hosts also sparred over the logic of abolishing ICE, amnesty proposals, and the relationship between economic conditions abroad and migration patterns into the United States.
Media, technology, and publishing became another major topic during Hour 1. The hosts discussed artificial intelligence’s growing influence on the publishing industry, including reports of AI-generated books, plagiarism detection software, and controversies involving authors whose work was scrutinized for AI usage. They examined how AI tools are increasingly exposing plagiarism and changing how publishers evaluate manuscripts. This conversation expanded into broader commentary about the modern media ecosystem, podcast culture, online fame, and the way name recognition increasingly drives politics and public life.
The hour also included discussion of academic scandals and credibility in higher education, including renewed criticism of former Harvard President Claudine Gay and other high-profile plagiarism controversies. Clay and Buck argued that advances in AI-powered detection tools are revealing academic misconduct that might previously have gone unnoticed.
Listener interaction played a major role throughout the hour. The hosts revisited an ongoing discussion about Subaru vehicles and their long-standing marketing association with LGBTQ consumers, particularly lesbians. A listener email from a longtime conservative audience member named Mary generated significant on-air conversation, with the hosts joking about the volume of reaction they had received from listeners regarding the Subaru debate. They also reflected on prior controversies involving comments about Simone Biles, public reactions to their opinions, and the challenges of hosting a daily national talk radio program.
Florida politics returned later in the hour, with discussion of Byron Donalds, Jay Collins, gubernatorial politics, prediction markets, election odds, voting behavior, and the future of Republican leadership in the Sunshine State. The hosts praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ tenure and questioned whether gubernatorial term limits make sense when successful governors remain popular with voters. Comparisons were drawn between executive term limits and the absence of congressional term limits.
The latter portion of Hour 1 became more lighthearted, featuring discussions about
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in. It is a Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We hope all of you had spectacular weekends. We are
here to make your Monday a bit better than it
otherwise would have been a lot of stories to chase.
We appreciate all of you on the five hundred and
fifty some odd AMFM stations from coast to coast across
the country. And also hello to all of you watching
(00:25):
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click like on YouTube, and certainly you can find us
(00:47):
on podcasts and everywhere else under the sun. Okay, let's
dive into a bunch of different stories that are out there. Buck,
We're gonna have some fun with this. I for those
of you who are watching on video and wearing an
xxxy T shirt. Buck, I don't know if you saw this,
but at a WNBA game over the weekend, a mom
(01:11):
and daughter who wore an xxxy T shirt. The WNBA
does not know what a woman is, but wearing a
T shirt which shows the chromosomes xx as women x
Y as men for those of you who have forgotten
your high school biology. They demanded that the woman and
(01:32):
her daughter, the mom and the daughter take their shirts
off and change because they said the shirts were offensive.
So the WNBA can't tell you what a woman is,
but if you wear a T shirt that reflects biological reality,
this is our friend, Jen says company. By the way,
full disclosure, I am an investor in this company. I
(01:54):
believe that biology matters in sports. I can't believe this
is where we are, but I am wearing this shirt
which is not allowed to be worn in a w
NBA arena, at least in Atlanta, where this was the
latest flashpoint.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think anyone who gets in trouble for wearing the
shirt should just be able to say, I'm giving you
the answers to the test. I'm helping you out here. Yes,
it's like you're blanking during bioclass and the teachers called
on you and I'm whispering in your ear x x
x Y.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's really an act of got your back, helping you out,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So we are chasing a bunch of different things. Tomorrow
in bucks state of Florida is the primary. I feel good,
maybe we can pull the audio. I think I'm gonna
smoke our good friend Light Them Up Linda on.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Our wager that we made on the air.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're gonna be having a delicious bloomin onion at the
Outback Steakhouse in Orlando courtesy of the Light Them Up
Linda fund.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I think I don't remember exactly what my bet with
Light Them Up Lindo was, So if we can pull
the audio, I am feeling very optimistic on the eve
of the primary. And finally, Buck, I will say this.
I know there are several Northeastern states Delaware, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire that have I believe it's September primaries, but basically
(03:21):
this is the end of primary season tomorrow with big
state battles in Florida, and I am here to tell
you I am so glad to be done with primary
season and on to the general election season, where we
can stop this inter party fighting and people angling for
every small advantage they can get, and we can turn
(03:44):
our focus to the real enemy. I believe in the
political landscape right now, which is the Democrat Socialist community.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Also, Clay, we really should have introduced the show today
as the Clay and Buck Show, not yet sponsored by super.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So many people are fired up about our super ru discussion.
Can we get Mary's email which I was not able
to finish reading because somehow Mary loves you who brought
up the super Root topic, but hates me, So I've
got to figure out what I did.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Usually, this is.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Great, this is great. There's a general perception that any
topic that is a bit edgy or body is your fault,
even when I'm the cause of it, you get to blame.
So this is just going to encourage more salty topic
selection from the Bucks side of the equation. Because I
get people saying, you got to tell Clay to stop
talking about this. I'm like, yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Clay Travis with the super Root talk, I'm on it.
So I want to get that email as well. We
closed out the show Friday. For those of you who
are listening, We'll have some fun with that. But Buck,
I was in New York City over the weekend. I
did the big weekend show with our friends Tommy Layer
and Lisa Booth and Joey Jones.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
We were on for three hours, and then I did
Shannon Breem's story and I sat on the couch on
Fox and Friends. So I did a lot of seven
day work. I guess we could say, I don't think
you've heard this yet, but tomorrow there is, as we
just said, the primary in Florida, and one of the
individuals running in Florida is a gentleman named Oliver Larson.
(05:23):
Oliver Larson is running in the Democrat primary as an
avowed socialist, and so we had him on the big
weekend show on Fox, and everybody asked their questions of him,
and then it got to me, Buck, and I want
to just play this because I think you will enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
There's a lot of cross talk, and I don't want
Grandma's to be mad at me, but I felt compelled
to push back about a lot of what Oliver Larson
was saying. And so this is what it sounded like
if you were watching the show yesterday. This is sorry
Saturday evening, this is part one Oliver Larson socialist.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Listen, what is a number where you Oliver in South
Florida would say, you know what, We've got too many
people who aren't citizens of the United States right now?
It's twenty million? Is that not enough?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Would you do fifty million? Would you do one hundred million?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
How many people do you think the United States should
take in? And how many of them do you think
we should provide free college for? What's the number? When
would you, Oliver say, you know what, that's too many.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I think that we should follow in the footsteps of
Ronald Reagan's immigration policy and grant amnesty to.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
The case all the twenty million people.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Xes So you're going to give twenty million currently in
America illegally citizenship, But wouldn't that incentivize hundreds of millions
of more people to come into America. I'm just asking,
when is the number that you, Oliver Larkin would say, Hey,
there are too many illegals coming in this country. Should
we bring in all of Mexico? Should we bring in
all of Venezuela?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Like? What is the number where you would say, hold on,
and this.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Is getting a little bit too expensive for the fifty
percent of Americans who actually pay federal income taxes to
be paid.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
I don't expect we're going to see much more immigration
from Mexico.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
When you think they tracing home ownership.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's part one buck it continues, this is just what
is a number that would be too much? Maybe forty
five seconds more enjoy But you think than we are here.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You think life in Mexico is so good that Mexicans.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Are going to stop coming here.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
What I'm saying is that there are governments outside of
the United States that are investing in their people, borders
that we have, that we have safe immigration.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Because Donald.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Those countries coming here. I don't understand your argument. You
think Cuba has more civil rights than the United States.
Why are people getting on floating rafts and risking their
lives to get here if those countries are so well run.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Because Donald Trump has the Navy blockading the island of Cuba.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
For me, doesn't even logically makes sense.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
It just means that material what we're talking about here.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
And of course, of course what what we need in
the United States is for Donald Trump and this administration,
the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think you should run for president. See how your
campaign because.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Chess holders from Haiti that are living in Florida that
Donald Trump and Christinum are ripping away.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Really strong socialist continue to discuss Okay, honestly, Clay who
this guy's a moron? Where'd you guys find him?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Where you potentially going to be the Democrat nominee in
Florida for Congress? I believe team look it up. I
think it's Florida nineteen. He has a chance to go
to Congress. Oh, so that's what we had a couple
of Florida nineteen contenders on recently. It's that district I
might be let me pull up district this guy is
(09:01):
in exactly, they're in a primary on the Democrat side,
and he is. Let me pull up where he's running.
But Buck, this all started, so everybody's asking questions, and
he says that he believes that ice we should abolish ice,
and so I think, again, the logical follow up question
(09:21):
to abolish ice is to me and this is just
a very logical question. This is something that I think
you guys can ask people who say things like this,
what is a number of illegal immigrants that you think
would be too many? There are three hundred and fifty
million people in the United States. Eight billion people live
in the United States at what point? And that the reason
(09:42):
I use twenty million is because Tom Homan told me.
He believes there are twenty million illegals right now in
the United States. That's a number that he said on
this show. You can say it's higher, you can disagree
with him, but I'm using him as someone who is
I think it's fair to say an expert on.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That it has to be at least twenty million, because
Clay they've set eleven million for about the last twenty years,
and we know that Biden let in over ten million,
So it's got to.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Be twenty million, right. Twenty million is a baseline number now,
and some people would say that's low. But again I
asked Tom Holman this direct question, how many people do
you think are illegally in the United States? He said
twenty million. So the question then becomes what would be
a number that is too many? And he can't answer
the question. And that is I think the essence of
(10:31):
how these guys, when you get them off their talking
points a little bit. You heard he goes back Trump's
awful blockades. We need more empathy, we need more compassion.
But when you actually push them on it, I think
this is what you have to do with the WNBA
two follow their argument to its logical conclusion say, I
agree with you. What is a number though where you
(10:51):
would change your opinion as it exists now? And there
is no answer. It's just their robots. He's also he
was also dumb too.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
There was just there are some people that are socialists
that are at least clever or know how to make
their points. He clearly has the most superficial understanding of
even his own side. And he was outgunned on that show.
Was you and Tommy larn against him? No, it's just
me talking there, but everybody interviewed him. By the way,
he is running for Florida's twenty fifth district, So nineteen
(11:26):
was in southwest Florida. Yeah, that's name that he made
that Fyron Donald's old district in Naples. Yeah, he may, yes, right,
this is a different one. He may be the congressman
who wins. This is supposedly and some of you are
way more knowledgeable on the new Florida districts than I am.
But he is challenging, has a very good chance to
(11:48):
potentially win. And he's a moron. There are a lot
of morons in polities unfortunately. So the answer that he
would give if you knew what answer he's supposed to
give to the How many is too many is? There's
no such thing as too many because illegals coming into
the country are actually better than Americans biding they're better
than the American people. So somehow the best, wealthiest, strongest
(12:11):
country in the world is comprised of people, according to
leftists in America, who are inferior to anyone and everyone
who arrives here illegally from anywhere else in the world.
That is the actual underlying philosophy of the Democratic Party today.
It's not just a fringe belief. I mean that is
what they have believed for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Running against I will give you more details on who
this guy is running against, but you just heard that
was what it sounded like on Fox News on Saturday.
And all the socialists are coming on Fox News and
not making very good cases for themselves, but being attacked
by Fox News they see as ultimately beneficial to their
overall campaigns.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Oh, of course, Well, it's just it's publicity. I mean, increasingly, Clay,
I think we're in a political era where because of
the media eco system and the online ecosystem as a
huge as a growing piece of it, as well as
an already large piece of it. It just all turns
into a big name recognition game. So the more you
can get it out there that people know who you are,
(13:15):
not only are you in a better position to run
for that particular office, but I mean, everyone just wants
to start a podcast these days. It's pretty amazing. Everybody
just wants to be a streamer with a podcast. Nobody
wants to do a job anymore. And that comes from
two guys who have been streamers with podcasts for some time,
or at least we started streaming recently. We've been doing
this for fifteen years. Everybody wants to do this now.
People don't even want to be in congress anymore. They
(13:36):
want to run for Congress so they can have a podcast.
They want to be a governor so they can have
a podcast. It's pretty crazy. A lot of people, also,
by the way, are looking at the impact that AI
is having on books that used to be that people
play would sort of choose whether they're going to be
more speaking, TV focused or writing. You know, you remember
(13:57):
this in the early days, back in the day, fifty
years ago, big piece of the Wall Street Journal. Today,
AI is completely upending the publishing industry I mean the
book that I wrote, which I actually wrote and did
not use a single second of AI four. Uh, this
is like the last gasp of people writing books before
every book is going to have to be run through
(14:19):
AI identification software. And then some of the publishers are
also saying, well, why should AI necessarily like if people
like the book, who cares?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They just this turned into a huge controversy. Recently a
guy got a two million dollar advance and he's a found.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Ormous that's like a almost a presidential memoir advance. That
is a huge advance.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And then they found out that much of the book
had been run through AI. He happens to be black.
He immediately said it was racist.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Of course, Wait, how did you get a two million
Had anyone heard of this guy before?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It was?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He run a fiction book and got a bidding war started.
Uh you know, work of fiction. Never heard again a
million dollar advance for a fiction. Most fiction books saw
like three hundred copies. Yeah, it's crazy, I know. So anyway,
there's a big st I've been reading about that. But
they're starting to find out and we just had the
big Cambridge situation where their esteemed black scholar ended up.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Harvard you're talking about. Oh, no, I'm sorry, A Cambridge's
different different.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, And the guy, it sounds like, killed himself over
the weekend as the information was revealed about his past,
and I was reading all about it in New York
Times over the weekend. They actually had a somewhat fair
write up associated with all the things that he was
caught lying about, including that he was autistic and didn't
(15:41):
speak until he was eleven years old. Like all, he
ran thirty five marathons. So I just assumed you were going,
I didn't even know about this story this is going
to be. I assume we were talking about Remember Claudie
and Gay at Harvard.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The president of Harvard.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Just plagiarizing all kinds of stuff. The president of Harvard
was a plagiarist. Yes, and so she got fired from that.
She kept sure million dollars eight hundred thousand dollar year
salary though, and stayed on staff at Harvard.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Oh, she's getting paid very very well. But they're catching
a lot more people because because of it. Again Thesis
and an Ai, and it turns out people are just
copying other people's work and it wasn't caught before.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I mean yeah, I look, Clay, I was so sorry.
We got to we got to go to the next
We got to do commerce here right now, Let's do
some commerce and let's come back.
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We've got a super quick turn here, so let's just
line this up for where we're going next. Clay is
going to be leading us to discussion. I don't know, Clay,
you want to talk a little bit at the WNBA
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Could also have some fun with your We got the
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She's on the clock here. Because I feel good about
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Speaker 2 (18:49):
Welcome back. In many different things to run through, should
we hit this one? Buck brought up lesbians and SuPAR
us on Friday and we have been inundated with more
comments than anything other than the WNBA over the course
of the summer, and I appreciate Mary. Mary reached out
(19:10):
and said, I'm sitting here listening to your opinion that
females owning Subaru's are lesbian. Clay, you are so arrogant
and stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Buck. I love you, I love my hold on. That's
the first half what. I didn't even bring it up.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
This is all Buck.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Why are you so mad at me?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Mary?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I love my safe Subaru and that's the reason I
bought it. I've been a conservative all my life. I've
listened to your show since its inception. I'm done now
You're an idiot, and why would I think anything you
say is relevant?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
So I do think this is interesting. First of all,
Mary loves Buck, even though.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Barry's a great taste, amazing taste.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Mary has listened to everything that we have said on
this show for five years, everything, and she was like,
I was all in, and then you made fun of
lesbians driving subarus and I can no longer listen to
the pro They're like, whatever opinions you have across the landscape?
What do you how many opinions do you think we
(20:18):
have shared on this program in five years between.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
The two of us, a lot tens of thousands of
This reminds me. This reminds me of when I got
I got Uh? What what is it when you throw
like a wobbly pass and the guy gets hit in
the foot?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
From the like is it the boy you must get decked?
You just let him over the middle, and they just
let him over the middle. That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yes, I got led over the middle here when I said,
I don't know that we have to celebrate somebody being
brave for not feeling like they want to finish an
athletic competition like it's fine. And then all of a sudden,
it's like media eye, Bill Marshall, I'm getting crushed everywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I'm like, I didn't even I didn't think that was
like a controvertible files for not continuing as a as
an olympian.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I didn't even.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I didn't even rip.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
All I said was I don't think you have to
celebrate it as brave, Like it's fine if she doesn't
want to do it. But you know, you celebrate finishing
the competition as brave. I don't think you celebrate stepping
out of a competition as brave.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
But oh we all know.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh it's like, you know, special circumstance and we're talking
about a special person.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So so yeah, you got you got ripped for the
Simone Biles. But it is funny to think five years
Mary was with us all sorts of thousands of controversial opinions,
thousands of them and then it was Hey, Clay made
fun of the fact that lesbians tend to drive super rus,
which is actually true because they have directed their marketing
(21:39):
to it.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I don't even think that we weren't even we weren't
either making fun of either of those. We're just saying
that this is a real thing, that this perception that
there was a popularity among the l of the LGBTQ
community they happened to like suber us. I will also
say that Mary, First of Mary, you have fantastic taste,
thank you. Second of all, she's just assuming because ninety
nine percent of the time, if the topic on this
(22:01):
program involves the word lesbians, Clay is probably the one
that has introduced that subject matter. It turns out this
time turns out this time around, I am the guilty party.
But I would say this, it was really funny to
see all of the talkbacks and everything from over the
weekend because this is completely all of our inbox. This
is what all of you are writing in about. You
can tell me you want me to talk about the
(22:22):
Iran War. Buck put on the CIA had talk about
the Iran War. Clay put on the legal hat. What's
going on with the WNBA getting sued. All of our
stuff was about Suberus and lesbians and our inbox all weekend.
And it was funny though, because it was overwhelmingly people saying, look,
say what you will about the Superaru and the demographics.
That's a great reliable car for the money. So many
(22:43):
of you were just you were doubling down on your
super Us. So we've probably sold a bunch of them.
Here just talking about how people love them so much.
They don't care, they don't care what the branding is.
They just think that they're great cars.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Okay, we've also got it is the eve of the primary,
and I trying to reflect what was the bet that
I made with our friend down in Florida. Light him up, Linda,
if you're not remembering, Light him up, Linda, She previously
called previously called in when there was a controversy surrounding
(23:16):
whether we had double tapped or triple tapped alleged drug
dealers in the ocean out in the Caribbean area, if
I remember correctly, and they were hanging on to boats
and we were talking about, hey, at what point would
you not go back and shoot them again?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And light him up?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Linda was just saying, hey, it doesn't it doesn't matter
how many times. Just smoke them.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
She is tough, so light them up.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Called in was it last week or the week before last,
saying Byron Donald's was not going to be the next
governor of Florida, and she teed off on me.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Here was our bet.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
We don't want Byron Donalds.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
He may be good in Washington, but he's not good
for governor of Florida.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Linda. What part of Florida are you in again? Orlando,
Seconal County.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Okay, light them up, Linda. I will put a I'll
put a meal on the line with you. I'll be
in Orlando at some point, probably in the next year
or two. I got kids, will be at Universal Studios
or something. I will take you out for a steak dinner.
If Byron Donald's is not the governor of Florida, you
will have to call in. So I will take you
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out for dinner. You will have to call in, and
you will have to say to Buck, you know what, Buck,
You're new to the state. But I'm giving you the
light them up, Linda seal of approval, because you better
deduced Florida voting patterns than I did longtime resident.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah, he Buck, you need to do your homework on
Byron Donald.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So wait or did we make a bet or not?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Linda?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Are you make a bet?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
For sure? We'll make a bet.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So tomorrow is the primary.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I looked up the Polymarket odds this morning, Buck, Byron
Donald is all of you should go vote. We're gonna
talk with Paul Renner later in the program. Byron Donald's
is ninety nine point five percent according to Polymarket, and
Calshi to be the Republican nominee for governor in Florida. Now,
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I don't know. We need to get light him up
on the on the line. Is she gonna root for
the Democrat so that she can try to win her bet?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Can I just say, I don't know why I got
lit up by light them up?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Linda?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I just why am I the Byron guy? I mean,
I like Byron, but I just thought it was kind
of funny because I live in Florida. I'm catching the
I'm catching the crossfire on this one. Also, she's got
to call in if it turns out that Byron wins
this thing. She's gonna say, you know what, Buck, I
should not I was wrong to light you up, I
should win, Gentle on the air. This is the question though,
that I think is going to be out there. Hold
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on a sec. It was a governor race, so is
light them up gonna now be on the side of
the Democrat nominee, whoever crazy person they put forward in
order to try to win a meal with me? Or
is she going to.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Call in and say, you know what, Byron Donalds might
not have been my guy, but he's the nominee and
so I'm gonna stick by him.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I don't know what why.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I'm just picking up because this is fun for us,
because we have so many different ways, all these different
platforms coming together. We have the live chat going with
our live stream on YouTube, which please tell your kids,
tell your grand kids if they're on the YouTube, this
is how they can hang out with they're on the YouTube.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
If they're on the Information super Highway, if they know
how to get on the internet.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
We got We've got a couple of things though, a
lot of Jay Collins fans in the chat right now.
I'm just gonna tell you Jake Collins, Jake Collins all
over the place. And then also one of our guys
rights very funny, My daughter's boyfriend is a Special Forces soldier.
He drives a super rue. I laughed when he came
into our house. Be careful, I would just say, but
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you know, he probably just recognizes great value for the
money for we'll drive very durable, comfortable. So you know
they do they do not.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
So there's a lot of J Collins p Lieutenant God.
If you are a J. Collins person, you can right
now get him at two hundred to one to be
the nominee in the state of Florida in the Republican primary.
Two hundred and one. That means you put down a dollar,
you get back two hundred. That is incredible odds. So
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I don't know the last time I saw a two
hundred and one political bet available at this stage of
something before the actual votes were cast. So that's that's
a that's not a vote of confidence for us.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Let me put.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Let me put I like J Collins. I think Jay
Collins a great guy. I just don't think you who
has to vote Florida. You're the one who has to vote.
I don't have to vote. I like everybody. I'm a
fan of aspect. Why I have to tell people who
I vote for in a primary, I feel like, is
that private?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I don't? I always tell did did? I mean, I'm
trying to think.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
About what the rules are here. We don't endorse in
a primary. But you know what, I'm just gonna plead
the fifth on this one for now. I haven't voted yet.
I got to go vote tomorrow's so I'm planning on
doing that. But a lot of NFL training camps are underway.
I went and looked, you can get the New York
Jets to win the Super Bowl at one hundred to
one right now. So j Collins is twice as unlikely
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in the prediction markets to be the next to win
the Republican primary tomorrow as the Jets and the My
unfortunate I'm a season ticket holder of Titans, but the Jets,
everybody knows are awful. The Jets are twice as likely
to win the Super Bowl according to the prediction markets
as Jay Collins is to win the Republican primary for governor.
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I would also say that because of the strength in
the in the Florida House, in the Florida Legislature for
the state, the governor as long as the governor and
this is not a knock on Byron or on Collins,
or on any of the other candidates, as long as
the governor is reasonably competent in the role and adheres
to the most basic DeSantis Ean principles, if you will,
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like continues on a lot of this state is doing great.
So that's it. This is this is a just come
in and this is a do no harm political situation
for Florida. You don't have to be a superstar. This
isn't Trump draining the swamp. Just just keep doing what
we've got going here, make some little adjustments here and there.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'm gonna throw a grenade right now and blow up everything.
Is DeSantis not being able to run for re election
a sign that term limits often don't make sense. Because
DeSantis has done I think and a plus plus plus
whatever highest level grade you can give.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Best governed America, I'll just say it, I think best
governor in the United States right now?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Doesn't he deserve to be governor for basically as long
as he wants to be governor of Florida? If why
do we need term limits for governor?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I mean, why why I can Nancy Pelosi be in
Congress since World War One? And he can't be governor
for another term. I understand there's different there's a state
law versus the federal but as a matter, but just.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
As a general as a general question, I think DeSantis
would easily win reelection probably would not even really be
challenged in the Republican Party were he eligible to run again.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Does it and I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
There's a good question for the team to look up.
I think every state has term limits on how long
the governor can be in office, and some of them
are crazy, right like in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, you can't
serve two consecutive terms. So now we got the Abigail
Spanberger insanity. When I think if Glenn Youngkin had been
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able to continue to run, that he would have been
the overall would have been the overall winner in that
race in twenty twenty five, if I'm remembering correctly all
the math. I think that's right. Twenty twenty five is
when he r in. I do think that's an interesting question.
Just on a more philosophical level. We don't have any
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term limits at all for Senate and House. I would
argue that's more necessary and yet for great governors, for
executive of states, that have huge approval ratings, that have
done amazing jobs. Regardless of who you're voting for tomorrow,
I think most people voting would love to be able
to keep Ron DeSantis in office as governor.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I think a lot of them. And look, we'll see
how the voting comes down tomorrow. We also may even
be joined by a technical Florida gubernatorial candidate on the
show who believes he's going to have the most statistically
improbable come from behind victory maybe in the history of
American gubernatorial politics. But you never know, so we'll be
(31:55):
talking to him in a little bit too. So we
got all kinds of things going on here, and that
is a good thing. What do you have for us,
mister Clay.
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Speaker 3 (33:15):
Welcome back into play and Buck. We have a lot
we're going to talk to you about the next hour
and we're looking forward to all of that. Of course
we haven't really gotten to the WNBA today. But also
Todd blanche who is now the new Attorney General. The
vote did go through. He is good to go. Some
important policy updates and discussion from him. Also, Abdul al
(33:40):
sayed running into some interference, running into some challenges here
after things that he has said have gotten a whole
lot more attention. So those are all things that we
will be discussing here coming up in just a little bit. Also, Trump,
by the way, was at a police academy, which reminds
me the Police Academy movies. I feel like not as
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celebrated at this stage of the game as I would
have assumed twenty years ago. Remember they made like eight
of them or something.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
They were great back in the back the early eighties.
That would have been a staple. Steve Gutenberg was the
if I remember the Star of the Police Academy. Another
movie that really faded. Remember Three Men and a Baby,
So you're popular. I never even see it playing anywhere anymore.
Or what was the movie with Johnny five?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Is Alive?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The Robot?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
You know?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
And it wasn't that also a Gutenberg movie?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
You know?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
The robot that that you love the robot because he'd
become he gets struck by lightning and then he has
oh yeah, are you know what I'm talking about? Yeah,
short circuit. Short circuit to that movie when they hurt
the robot. I got so sad. It's always interesting, isn't it.
Some of the harshest stuff you'll see in any movie
is when you fall in love with a dog, definitely,
but like anything bad happened to an animal or the
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beloved robot, even.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What you really most devastated? You ever were reading a
book as a young kid. Do you remember I got
my answer.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Give me your answer and let me that's a very
specific I was gonna say, Well, watching a movie Old Yeller,
I'm still traumatized, still traumatized by Old Yeller from when
I was a kid. What do you have from the book.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
For a kid, Where the Red Fern Grows? Just a
devastating book. I don't know how many of you read
Where the Red Fern Grows. Probably a you know, eight
or nine year old kid book. It's about dogs as well.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Probably Charlotte's Web and I hate spiders, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Charlotte. You know, I don't know that they still do
the kid books that are utterly devastating.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I'll tell you Buck.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, I mean I think they they realized that that
was so traumatic for young kids. You know, when Bamby
spoiler alert gets shot in the Big Bambi's Mom, that's
pretty tough. What's the children's book that's like the saddest
children's book. I try to read it once to my
kids and I just like started crying halfway through.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Have you seen this.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Book about no? I'm trying to remember what the what
the no? I'll figure out what the saddest kids book
of all. I'm talking about little kids book like you
read it to.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
What do you think is the ultimate kid's book at
this stage of the game, Because for me, I have
to say, speeds Preference for Where the Wild Things Are
is remarkable to me how much he loves that book.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Good Night Moon, I think was the one that my
boys when they were about speeds age, were obsessed with.
It's one that is like the lynchpin of trying to
get kids to go to bed. I was really big
into James and the Giant Peach. I feel like that
one's falling off with that's a little bit more advanced.
These are like three and four year old prereading
Welcome in. It is a Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
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on podcasts and everywhere else under the sun. Okay, let's
dive into a bunch of different stories that are out there. Buck,
We're gonna have some fun with this. I for those
of you who are watching on video and wearing an
xxxy T shirt. Buck, I don't know if you saw this,
but at a WNBA game over the weekend, a mom
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and daughter who wore an xxxy T shirt. The WNBA
does not know what a woman is, but wearing a
T shirt which shows the chromosomes xx as women x
Y as men for those of you who have forgotten
your high school biology. They demanded that the woman and
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her daughter, the mom and the daughter take their shirts
off and change because they said the shirts were offensive.
So the WNBA can't tell you what a woman is,
but if you wear a T shirt that reflects biological reality,
this is our friend, Jen says company. By the way,
full disclosure, I am an investor in this company. I
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believe that biology matters in sports. I can't believe this
is where we are, but I am wearing this shirt
which is not allowed to be worn in a w
NBA arena, at least in Atlanta, where this was the
latest flashpoint.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think anyone who gets in trouble for wearing the
shirt should just be able to say, I'm giving you
the answers to the test. I'm helping you out here. Yes,
it's like you're blanking during bioclass and the teachers called
on you and I'm whispering in your ear x x
x Y.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's really an act of got your back, helping you out,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So we are chasing a bunch of different things. Tomorrow
in bucks state of Florida is the primary. I feel good,
maybe we can pull the audio. I think I'm gonna
smoke our good friend Light Them Up Linda on.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Our wager that we made on the air.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're gonna be having a delicious bloomin onion at the
Outback Steakhouse in Orlando courtesy of the Light Them Up
Linda fund.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I think I don't remember exactly what my bet with
Light Them Up Lindo was, So if we can pull
the audio, I am feeling very optimistic on the eve
of the primary. And finally, Buck, I will say this.
I know there are several Northeastern states Delaware, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire that have I believe it's September primaries, but basically
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this is the end of primary season tomorrow with big
state battles in Florida, and I am here to tell
you I am so glad to be done with primary
season and on to the general election season, where we
can stop this inter party fighting and people angling for
every small advantage they can get, and we can turn
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our focus to the real enemy. I believe in the
political landscape right now, which is the Democrat Socialist community.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Also, Clay, we really should have introduced the show today
as the Clay and Buck Show, not yet sponsored by super.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So many people are fired up about our super ru discussion.
Can we get Mary's email which I was not able
to finish reading because somehow Mary loves you who brought
up the super Root topic, but hates me, So I've
got to figure out what I did.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Usually, this is.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Great, this is great. There's a general perception that any
topic that is a bit edgy or body is your fault,
even when I'm the cause of it, you get to blame.
So this is just going to encourage more salty topic
selection from the Bucks side of the equation. Because I
get people saying, you got to tell Clay to stop
talking about this. I'm like, yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Clay Travis with the super Root talk, I'm on it.
So I want to get that email as well. We
closed out the show Friday. For those of you who
are listening, We'll have some fun with that. But Buck,
I was in New York City over the weekend. I
did the big weekend show with our friends Tommy Layer
and Lisa Booth and Joey Jones.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
We were on for three hours, and then I did
Shannon Breem's story and I sat on the couch on
Fox and Friends. So I did a lot of seven
day work. I guess we could say, I don't think
you've heard this yet, but tomorrow there is, as we
just said, the primary in Florida, and one of the
individuals running in Florida is a gentleman named Oliver Larson.
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Oliver Larson is running in the Democrat primary as an
avowed socialist, and so we had him on the big
weekend show on Fox, and everybody asked their questions of him,
and then it got to me, Buck, and I want
to just play this because I think you will enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
There's a lot of cross talk, and I don't want
Grandma's to be mad at me, but I felt compelled
to push back about a lot of what Oliver Larson
was saying. And so this is what it sounded like
if you were watching the show yesterday. This is sorry
Saturday evening, this is part one Oliver Larson socialist.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Listen, what is a number where you Oliver in South
Florida would say, you know what, We've got too many
people who aren't citizens of the United States right now?
It's twenty million? Is that not enough?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Would you do fifty million? Would you do one hundred million?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
How many people do you think the United States should
take in? And how many of them do you think
we should provide free college for? What's the number? When
would you, Oliver say, you know what, that's too many.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I think that we should follow in the footsteps of
Ronald Reagan's immigration policy and grant amnesty to.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
The case all the twenty million people.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Xes So you're going to give twenty million currently in
America illegally citizenship, But wouldn't that incentivize hundreds of millions
of more people to come into America. I'm just asking,
when is the number that you, Oliver Larkin would say, Hey,
there are too many illegals coming in this country. Should
we bring in all of Mexico? Should we bring in
all of Venezuela?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Like? What is the number where you would say, hold on,
and this.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Is getting a little bit too expensive for the fifty
percent of Americans who actually pay federal income taxes to
be paid.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
I don't expect we're going to see much more immigration
from Mexico.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
When you think they tracing home ownership.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's part one buck it continues, this is just what
is a number that would be too much? Maybe forty
five seconds more enjoy But you think than we are here.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You think life in Mexico is so good that Mexicans.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Are going to stop coming here.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
What I'm saying is that there are governments outside of
the United States that are investing in their people, borders
that we have, that we have safe immigration.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Because Donald.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Those countries coming here. I don't understand your argument. You
think Cuba has more civil rights than the United States.
Why are people getting on floating rafts and risking their
lives to get here if those countries are so well run.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Because Donald Trump has the Navy blockading the island of Cuba.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
For me, doesn't even logically makes sense.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
It just means that material what we're talking about here.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
And of course, of course what what we need in
the United States is for Donald Trump and this administration,
the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think you should run for president. See how your
campaign because.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Chess holders from Haiti that are living in Florida that
Donald Trump and Christinum are ripping away.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Really strong socialist continue to discuss Okay, honestly, Clay who
this guy's a moron? Where'd you guys find him?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Where you potentially going to be the Democrat nominee in
Florida for Congress? I believe team look it up. I
think it's Florida nineteen. He has a chance to go
to Congress. Oh, so that's what we had a couple
of Florida nineteen contenders on recently. It's that district I
might be let me pull up district this guy is
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in exactly, they're in a primary on the Democrat side,
and he is. Let me pull up where he's running.
But Buck, this all started, so everybody's asking questions, and
he says that he believes that ice we should abolish ice,
and so I think, again, the logical follow up question
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to abolish ice is to me and this is just
a very logical question. This is something that I think
you guys can ask people who say things like this,
what is a number of illegal immigrants that you think
would be too many? There are three hundred and fifty
million people in the United States. Eight billion people live
in the United States at what point? And that the reason
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I use twenty million is because Tom Homan told me.
He believes there are twenty million illegals right now in
the United States. That's a number that he said on
this show. You can say it's higher, you can disagree
with him, but I'm using him as someone who is
I think it's fair to say an expert on.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That it has to be at least twenty million, because
Clay they've set eleven million for about the last twenty years,
and we know that Biden let in over ten million,
So it's got to.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Be twenty million, right. Twenty million is a baseline number now,
and some people would say that's low. But again I
asked Tom Holman this direct question, how many people do
you think are illegally in the United States? He said
twenty million. So the question then becomes what would be
a number that is too many? And he can't answer
the question. And that is I think the essence of
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how these guys, when you get them off their talking
points a little bit. You heard he goes back Trump's
awful blockades. We need more empathy, we need more compassion.
But when you actually push them on it, I think
this is what you have to do with the WNBA
two follow their argument to its logical conclusion say, I
agree with you. What is a number though where you
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would change your opinion as it exists now? And there
is no answer. It's just their robots. He's also he
was also dumb too.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
There was just there are some people that are socialists
that are at least clever or know how to make
their points. He clearly has the most superficial understanding of
even his own side. And he was outgunned on that show.
Was you and Tommy larn against him? No, it's just
me talking there, but everybody interviewed him. By the way,
he is running for Florida's twenty fifth district, So nineteen
(11:26):
was in southwest Florida. Yeah, that's name that he made
that Fyron Donald's old district in Naples. Yeah, he may, yes, right,
this is a different one. He may be the congressman
who wins. This is supposedly and some of you are
way more knowledgeable on the new Florida districts than I am.
But he is challenging, has a very good chance to
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potentially win. And he's a moron. There are a lot
of morons in polities unfortunately. So the answer that he
would give if you knew what answer he's supposed to
give to the How many is too many is? There's
no such thing as too many because illegals coming into
the country are actually better than Americans biding they're better
than the American people. So somehow the best, wealthiest, strongest
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country in the world is comprised of people, according to
leftists in America, who are inferior to anyone and everyone
who arrives here illegally from anywhere else in the world.
That is the actual underlying philosophy of the Democratic Party today.
It's not just a fringe belief. I mean that is
what they have believed for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Running against I will give you more details on who
this guy is running against, but you just heard that
was what it sounded like on Fox News on Saturday.
And all the socialists are coming on Fox News and
not making very good cases for themselves, but being attacked
by Fox News they see as ultimately beneficial to their
overall campaigns.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Oh, of course, Well, it's just it's publicity. I mean, increasingly, Clay,
I think we're in a political era where because of
the media eco system and the online ecosystem as a
huge as a growing piece of it, as well as
an already large piece of it. It just all turns
into a big name recognition game. So the more you
can get it out there that people know who you are,
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not only are you in a better position to run
for that particular office, but I mean, everyone just wants
to start a podcast these days. It's pretty amazing. Everybody
just wants to be a streamer with a podcast. Nobody
wants to do a job anymore. And that comes from
two guys who have been streamers with podcasts for some time,
or at least we started streaming recently. We've been doing
this for fifteen years. Everybody wants to do this now.
People don't even want to be in congress anymore. They
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want to run for Congress so they can have a podcast.
They want to be a governor so they can have
a podcast. It's pretty crazy. A lot of people, also,
by the way, are looking at the impact that AI
is having on books that used to be that people
play would sort of choose whether they're going to be
more speaking, TV focused or writing. You know, you remember
(13:57):
this in the early days, back in the day, fifty
years ago, big piece of the Wall Street Journal. Today,
AI is completely upending the publishing industry I mean the
book that I wrote, which I actually wrote and did
not use a single second of AI four. Uh, this
is like the last gasp of people writing books before
every book is going to have to be run through
(14:19):
AI identification software. And then some of the publishers are
also saying, well, why should AI necessarily like if people
like the book, who cares?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They just this turned into a huge controversy. Recently a
guy got a two million dollar advance and he's a found.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Ormous that's like a almost a presidential memoir advance. That
is a huge advance.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And then they found out that much of the book
had been run through AI. He happens to be black.
He immediately said it was racist.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Of course, Wait, how did you get a two million
Had anyone heard of this guy before?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
It was?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He run a fiction book and got a bidding war started.
Uh you know, work of fiction. Never heard again a
million dollar advance for a fiction. Most fiction books saw
like three hundred copies. Yeah, it's crazy, I know. So anyway,
there's a big st I've been reading about that. But
they're starting to find out and we just had the
big Cambridge situation where their esteemed black scholar ended up.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Harvard you're talking about. Oh, no, I'm sorry, A Cambridge's
different different.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, And the guy, it sounds like, killed himself over
the weekend as the information was revealed about his past,
and I was reading all about it in New York
Times over the weekend. They actually had a somewhat fair
write up associated with all the things that he was
caught lying about, including that he was autistic and didn't
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speak until he was eleven years old. Like all, he
ran thirty five marathons. So I just assumed you were going,
I didn't even know about this story this is going
to be. I assume we were talking about Remember Claudie
and Gay at Harvard.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The president of Harvard.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Just plagiarizing all kinds of stuff. The president of Harvard
was a plagiarist. Yes, and so she got fired from that.
She kept sure million dollars eight hundred thousand dollar year
salary though, and stayed on staff at Harvard.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Oh, she's getting paid very very well. But they're catching
a lot more people because because of it. Again Thesis
and an Ai, and it turns out people are just
copying other people's work and it wasn't caught before.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I mean yeah, I look, Clay, I was so sorry.
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We've got a super quick turn here, so let's just
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Speaker 2 (17:42):
Could also have some fun with your We got the
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them up.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
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Speaker 2 (17:49):
She's on the clock here. Because I feel good about
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Speaker 2 (18:49):
Welcome back. In many different things to run through, should
we hit this one? Buck brought up lesbians and SuPAR
us on Friday and we have been inundated with more
comments than anything other than the WNBA over the course
of the summer, and I appreciate Mary. Mary reached out
(19:10):
and said, I'm sitting here listening to your opinion that
females owning Subaru's are lesbian. Clay, you are so arrogant
and stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Buck. I love you, I love my hold on. That's
the first half what. I didn't even bring it up.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
This is all Buck.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Why are you so mad at me?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Mary?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I love my safe Subaru and that's the reason I
bought it. I've been a conservative all my life. I've
listened to your show since its inception. I'm done now
You're an idiot, and why would I think anything you
say is relevant?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
So I do think this is interesting. First of all,
Mary loves Buck, even though.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Barry's a great taste, amazing taste.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Mary has listened to everything that we have said on
this show for five years, everything, and she was like,
I was all in, and then you made fun of
lesbians driving subarus and I can no longer listen to
the pro They're like, whatever opinions you have across the landscape?
What do you how many opinions do you think we
(20:18):
have shared on this program in five years between.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
The two of us, a lot tens of thousands of
This reminds me. This reminds me of when I got
I got Uh? What what is it when you throw
like a wobbly pass and the guy gets hit in
the foot?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
From the like is it the boy you must get decked?
You just let him over the middle, and they just
let him over the middle. That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yes, I got led over the middle here when I said,
I don't know that we have to celebrate somebody being
brave for not feeling like they want to finish an
athletic competition like it's fine. And then all of a sudden,
it's like media eye, Bill Marshall, I'm getting crushed everywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I'm like, I didn't even I didn't think that was
like a controvertible files for not continuing as a as
an olympian.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I didn't even.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I didn't even rip.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
All I said was I don't think you have to
celebrate it as brave, Like it's fine if she doesn't
want to do it. But you know, you celebrate finishing
the competition as brave. I don't think you celebrate stepping
out of a competition as brave.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
But oh we all know.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh it's like, you know, special circumstance and we're talking
about a special person.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
So so yeah, you got you got ripped for the
Simone Biles. But it is funny to think five years
Mary was with us all sorts of thousands of controversial opinions,
thousands of them and then it was Hey, Clay made
fun of the fact that lesbians tend to drive super rus,
which is actually true because they have directed their marketing
(21:39):
to it.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I don't even think that we weren't even we weren't
either making fun of either of those. We're just saying
that this is a real thing, that this perception that
there was a popularity among the l of the LGBTQ
community they happened to like suber us. I will also
say that Mary, First of Mary, you have fantastic taste,
thank you. Second of all, she's just assuming because ninety
nine percent of the time, if the topic on this
(22:01):
program involves the word lesbians, Clay is probably the one
that has introduced that subject matter. It turns out this
time turns out this time around, I am the guilty party.
But I would say this, it was really funny to
see all of the talkbacks and everything from over the
weekend because this is completely all of our inbox. This
is what all of you are writing in about. You
can tell me you want me to talk about the
(22:22):
Iran War. Buck put on the CIA had talk about
the Iran War. Clay put on the legal hat. What's
going on with the WNBA getting sued. All of our
stuff was about Suberus and lesbians and our inbox all weekend.
And it was funny though, because it was overwhelmingly people saying, look,
say what you will about the Superaru and the demographics.
That's a great reliable car for the money. So many
(22:43):
of you were just you were doubling down on your
super Us. So we've probably sold a bunch of them.
Here just talking about how people love them so much.
They don't care, they don't care what the branding is.
They just think that they're great cars.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Okay, we've also got it is the eve of the primary,
and I trying to reflect what was the bet that
I made with our friend down in Florida. Light him up, Linda,
if you're not remembering, Light him up, Linda, She previously
called previously called in when there was a controversy surrounding
(23:16):
whether we had double tapped or triple tapped alleged drug
dealers in the ocean out in the Caribbean area, if
I remember correctly, and they were hanging on to boats
and we were talking about, hey, at what point would
you not go back and shoot them again?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And light him up?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Linda was just saying, hey, it doesn't it doesn't matter
how many times. Just smoke them.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
She is tough, so light them up.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Called in was it last week or the week before last,
saying Byron Donald's was not going to be the next
governor of Florida, and she teed off on me.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Here was our bet.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
We don't want Byron Donalds.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
He may be good in Washington, but he's not good
for governor of Florida.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Linda. What part of Florida are you in again? Orlando,
Seconal County.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Okay, light them up, Linda. I will put a I'll
put a meal on the line with you. I'll be
in Orlando at some point, probably in the next year
or two. I got kids, will be at Universal Studios
or something. I will take you out for a steak dinner.
If Byron Donald's is not the governor of Florida, you
will have to call in. So I will take you
(24:27):
out for dinner. You will have to call in, and
you will have to say to Buck, you know what, Buck,
You're new to the state. But I'm giving you the
light them up, Linda seal of approval, because you better
deduced Florida voting patterns than I did longtime resident.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah, he Buck, you need to do your homework on
Byron Donald.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So wait or did we make a bet or not?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Linda?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Are you make a bet?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
For sure? We'll make a bet.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So tomorrow is the primary.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I looked up the Polymarket odds this morning, Buck, Byron
Donald is all of you should go vote. We're gonna
talk with Paul Renner later in the program. Byron Donald's
is ninety nine point five percent according to Polymarket, and
Calshi to be the Republican nominee for governor in Florida. Now,
(25:15):
I don't know. We need to get light him up
on the on the line. Is she gonna root for
the Democrat so that she can try to win her bet?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Can I just say, I don't know why I got
lit up by light them up?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Linda?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I just why am I the Byron guy? I mean,
I like Byron, but I just thought it was kind
of funny because I live in Florida. I'm catching the
I'm catching the crossfire on this one. Also, she's got
to call in if it turns out that Byron wins
this thing. She's gonna say, you know what, Buck, I
should not I was wrong to light you up, I
should win, Gentle on the air. This is the question though,
that I think is going to be out there. Hold
(25:47):
on a sec. It was a governor race, so is
light them up gonna now be on the side of
the Democrat nominee, whoever crazy person they put forward in
order to try to win a meal with me? Or
is she going to.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Call in and say, you know what, Byron Donalds might
not have been my guy, but he's the nominee and
so I'm gonna stick by him.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I don't know what why.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I'm just picking up because this is fun for us,
because we have so many different ways, all these different
platforms coming together. We have the live chat going with
our live stream on YouTube, which please tell your kids,
tell your grand kids if they're on the YouTube, this
is how they can hang out with they're on the YouTube.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
If they're on the Information super Highway, if they know
how to get on the internet.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
We got We've got a couple of things though, a
lot of Jay Collins fans in the chat right now.
I'm just gonna tell you Jake Collins, Jake Collins all
over the place. And then also one of our guys
rights very funny, My daughter's boyfriend is a Special Forces soldier.
He drives a super rue. I laughed when he came
into our house. Be careful, I would just say, but
(26:51):
you know, he probably just recognizes great value for the
money for we'll drive very durable, comfortable. So you know
they do they do not.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
So there's a lot of J Collins p Lieutenant God.
If you are a J. Collins person, you can right
now get him at two hundred to one to be
the nominee in the state of Florida in the Republican primary.
Two hundred and one. That means you put down a dollar,
you get back two hundred. That is incredible odds. So
(27:21):
I don't know the last time I saw a two
hundred and one political bet available at this stage of
something before the actual votes were cast. So that's that's
a that's not a vote of confidence for us.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Let me put.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Let me put I like J Collins. I think Jay
Collins a great guy. I just don't think you who
has to vote Florida. You're the one who has to vote.
I don't have to vote. I like everybody. I'm a
fan of aspect. Why I have to tell people who
I vote for in a primary, I feel like, is
that private?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I don't? I always tell did did? I mean, I'm
trying to think.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
About what the rules are here. We don't endorse in
a primary. But you know what, I'm just gonna plead
the fifth on this one for now. I haven't voted yet.
I got to go vote tomorrow's so I'm planning on
doing that. But a lot of NFL training camps are underway.
I went and looked, you can get the New York
Jets to win the Super Bowl at one hundred to
one right now. So j Collins is twice as unlikely
(28:17):
in the prediction markets to be the next to win
the Republican primary tomorrow as the Jets and the My
unfortunate I'm a season ticket holder of Titans, but the Jets,
everybody knows are awful. The Jets are twice as likely
to win the Super Bowl according to the prediction markets
as Jay Collins is to win the Republican primary for governor.
(28:40):
I would also say that because of the strength in
the in the Florida House, in the Florida Legislature for
the state, the governor as long as the governor and
this is not a knock on Byron or on Collins,
or on any of the other candidates, as long as
the governor is reasonably competent in the role and adheres
to the most basic DeSantis Ean principles, if you will,
(29:04):
like continues on a lot of this state is doing great.
So that's it. This is this is a just come
in and this is a do no harm political situation
for Florida. You don't have to be a superstar. This
isn't Trump draining the swamp. Just just keep doing what
we've got going here, make some little adjustments here and there.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'm gonna throw a grenade right now and blow up everything.
Is DeSantis not being able to run for re election
a sign that term limits often don't make sense. Because
DeSantis has done I think and a plus plus plus
whatever highest level grade you can give.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Best governed America, I'll just say it, I think best
governor in the United States right now?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Doesn't he deserve to be governor for basically as long
as he wants to be governor of Florida? If why
do we need term limits for governor?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I mean, why why I can Nancy Pelosi be in
Congress since World War One? And he can't be governor
for another term. I understand there's different there's a state
law versus the federal but as a matter, but just.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
As a general as a general question, I think DeSantis
would easily win reelection probably would not even really be
challenged in the Republican Party were he eligible to run again.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Does it and I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
There's a good question for the team to look up.
I think every state has term limits on how long
the governor can be in office, and some of them
are crazy, right like in Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, you can't
serve two consecutive terms. So now we got the Abigail
Spanberger insanity. When I think if Glenn Youngkin had been
(30:48):
able to continue to run, that he would have been
the overall would have been the overall winner in that
race in twenty twenty five, if I'm remembering correctly all
the math. I think that's right. Twenty twenty five is
when he r in. I do think that's an interesting question.
Just on a more philosophical level. We don't have any
(31:10):
term limits at all for Senate and House. I would
argue that's more necessary and yet for great governors, for
executive of states, that have huge approval ratings, that have
done amazing jobs. Regardless of who you're voting for tomorrow,
I think most people voting would love to be able
to keep Ron DeSantis in office as governor.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I think a lot of them. And look, we'll see
how the voting comes down tomorrow. We also may even
be joined by a technical Florida gubernatorial candidate on the
show who believes he's going to have the most statistically
improbable come from behind victory maybe in the history of
American gubernatorial politics. But you never know, so we'll be
(31:55):
talking to him in a little bit too. So we
got all kinds of things going on here, and that
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Speaker 3 (33:15):
Welcome back into play and Buck. We have a lot
we're going to talk to you about the next hour
and we're looking forward to all of that. Of course
we haven't really gotten to the WNBA today. But also
Todd blanche who is now the new Attorney General. The
vote did go through. He is good to go. Some
important policy updates and discussion from him. Also, Abdul al
(33:40):
sayed running into some interference, running into some challenges here
after things that he has said have gotten a whole
lot more attention. So those are all things that we
will be discussing here coming up in just a little bit. Also, Trump,
by the way, was at a police academy, which reminds
me the Police Academy movies. I feel like not as
(34:01):
celebrated at this stage of the game as I would
have assumed twenty years ago. Remember they made like eight
of them or something.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
They were great back in the back the early eighties.
That would have been a staple. Steve Gutenberg was the
if I remember the Star of the Police Academy. Another
movie that really faded. Remember Three Men and a Baby,
So you're popular. I never even see it playing anywhere anymore.
Or what was the movie with Johnny five?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Is Alive?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The Robot?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
You know?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
And it wasn't that also a Gutenberg movie?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
You know?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
The robot that that you love the robot because he'd
become he gets struck by lightning and then he has
oh yeah, are you know what I'm talking about? Yeah,
short circuit. Short circuit to that movie when they hurt
the robot. I got so sad. It's always interesting, isn't it.
Some of the harshest stuff you'll see in any movie
is when you fall in love with a dog, definitely,
but like anything bad happened to an animal or the
(34:53):
beloved robot, even.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What you really most devastated? You ever were reading a
book as a young kid. Do you remember I got
my answer.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Give me your answer and let me that's a very
specific I was gonna say, Well, watching a movie Old Yeller,
I'm still traumatized, still traumatized by Old Yeller from when
I was a kid. What do you have from the book.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
For a kid, Where the Red Fern Grows? Just a
devastating book. I don't know how many of you read
Where the Red Fern Grows. Probably a you know, eight
or nine year old kid book. It's about dogs as well.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Probably Charlotte's Web and I hate spiders, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Charlotte. You know, I don't know that they still do
the kid books that are utterly devastating.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I'll tell you Buck.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, I mean I think they they realized that that
was so traumatic for young kids. You know, when Bamby
spoiler alert gets shot in the Big Bambi's Mom, that's
pretty tough. What's the children's book that's like the saddest
children's book. I try to read it once to my
kids and I just like started crying halfway through.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Have you seen this.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Book about no? I'm trying to remember what the what
the no? I'll figure out what the saddest kids book
of all. I'm talking about little kids book like you
read it to.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
What do you think is the ultimate kid's book at
this stage of the game, Because for me, I have
to say, speeds Preference for Where the Wild Things Are
is remarkable to me how much he loves that book.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Good Night Moon, I think was the one that my
boys when they were about speeds age, were obsessed with.
It's one that is like the lynchpin of trying to
get kids to go to bed. I was really big
into James and the Giant Peach. I feel like that
one's falling off with that's a little bit more advanced.
These are like three and four year old prereading
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