December 20, 2024 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in the final show of the year for Buck
and myself. Buck is out already getting ready for Christmas.
I know many of you are out and about because
two of my three kids are done with school and
the third may be coming home right now from finishing
his last exam, and it is bonkers everywhere with all
(00:22):
the kids out and all the holiday festivity underway. We
hope all of you are having a very merry Christmas.
There are going to be more shows, We will have
guest hosts. We've got a special Christmas Eve edition for
all of you that no one has heard at all,
and we have a bunch of best of Yes, there
are actually best of versions of this show. But I
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want to start off by saying thank you, thank you,
thank you for making twenty four, twenty twenty four, I think,
one of the best years in our nation's history and
culminating it by giving Donald Trump a landslide victory. And
I know I speak for both Buck and myself when
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I say it has been an incredible privilege to get
to spend twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
and now twenty twenty four with all of you, and
I think this audience made a tremendous difference when it
came to the twenty twenty four presidential election. So I
want to start off today's show by saying thank you.
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We lectured a lot about the importance of getting out
and voting, and you guys responded in a monumental fashion
this year, and it has been such an incredibly fun
journey with all of you, and I can't wait for
twenty twenty five because I think we're gonna have a
lot of fun. I think we're going to have a
lot of winning going on in this country, but today's show,
(01:49):
we're going to have a lot of fun. But also
I just want all of you to understand our profound
gratitude that we get to talk to you, the largest
radio audience in the country, and I know a lot
of you are listening to this on podcasts, so we
appreciate all of you and YouTube and however you find
this show. We say thanks to you. So let's talk
(02:10):
about some of the fun. I want to give you
a roadmap of where we're going. By the way, I'm
not diving in to will there be a shutdown or
won't there be a shutdown? I feel like we have
gone through this so many times. Eventually they're going to
sign off on the budget. They're going to spend too
much money, and we're going to come back in in
twenty twenty five and they're probably going to do the
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same thing again. So spoiler alert, there is going to
be no profound victory in this dispute. We're still going
to spend way too much money and we're going to
be two trillion dollars in debt in this year's budget
and next year's budget, and most people have decided that
deficits don't matter, and there seems to be no imperative
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or interest to try to solve them. But I'm not
going to be the Grinch today, gonna be Ba hug Bug.
I'm not gonna be Ebeneezer Scrooge. I'm gonna have some
fun with all of you. So let me give you
a roadmap of where we're gonna go. Uh start off
the show today. I want the worst takes that you
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heard in twenty twenty four. If you follow me on
social media, you know that I have shared my two already.
You can find me at Clay Travis. I'm going to
play them for all of you and It's not just
that they're the worst takes of twenty twenty four in
my opinion, But I want to hear all of yours
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eight hundred two eight two two eight a two Did
I get that right? Already screwed up the phone number,
But I want to hear from all of you what
you think the worst takes are. We're going to play
these for you. Then I'm gonna talk to you about
with Biden coming to a close in his tenure, mercifully,
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where does his presidency rank? And how would I rank
the residents that have existed for my lifetime? So I'm young,
but I'm going to give you the opportunity to weigh
in as well. An hour two and then you guys
know I was in Israel last week. I want to
end with an inspiring idea and a series of thoughts.
(04:19):
I'm working right now on a long form piece about
my trip to Israel. There's so many details to get right,
there's so many aspects to it. I'm gonna hopefully get
it up on OutKick on Monday. I know that a
lot of you Israel is on your bucket list. Jerusalem.
You would love to go visit my grandparents, my mom's
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parents were super, super religious, and on their bucket list
was to go to Jerusalem. They went in their retirement.
I know many of you would like to go as well.
I feel incredibly fortunate that I got to take that trip.
I'm going to try to share with you what I
learned and why I think is matters so much as
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it pertains to what's going on in the United States.
I'm going to try to make that case for you.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And of course we will be taking a variety of
calls throughout the course of the program as well. Eight
hundred and two two two eight eight two. Okay, worst
takes of twenty twenty four. I said yesterday that I
don't think Buck and I had any truly awful takes,
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meaning things that when you go back and everything's on
transcript and you listen to it, you think, oh, my goodness,
you guys are complete morons. That could happen? I do.
I love the sports gamble. Anybody who has ever bet
on a sporting event, you look like a moron basically
half the time, because you look at the game, you
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analyze it, you consider what you think is going to happen,
and then you put your wager down, and then it
might blow up completely in your face. And even if
you're the greatest gambler of all time, you only win
about fifty five percent of the time. Otherwise you're biff
in back to the future too, and you end up
the richest human who's ever existed. So most sports gamblers
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lose money. The greatest ever win fifty five percent of
the time. That means they lose forty five percent of
the time. That's the reality. Okay, So I'm open to
the idea some of you may have awful, big time
lunatic predictions that you remember from this program that we
got wrong. I don't think we had any We've gotten
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things wrong before, as anybody who makes predictions does. But
I think we almost nailed between the two of us
everything all year long that was likely to happen. We
got all the Trump law fair correct, We got the
election correct. I was right at least one of the
two of us was got a great stake for it
about whether or not Biden would be the nominee. Buck
(06:55):
got right that jd Vance would be the VP pick
when nobody was talking about jdvs as the VP pick.
So I think if you go back and assess this
show overall, you would have to say we got a
lot right. But open phone lines if you can think
of something that we got completely wrong. That is not
an opinion, you know, a prediction. For instance, some of
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you like to play flutes. The flute I think is
not an instrument that anybody should play. Don't think men
look particularly masculine play in the flute. That's my opinion.
I'm right, and if you disagree, you're wrong. But that's
not exactly what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about
something we told you that we just completely whipped on.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Like.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'll give you an example from a couple of years ago.
I thought that to twenty twenty two elections we would
have a red tsunami. I thought that herschel Walker would win.
I thought that Doctor Oz would win. I thought that
Carrie Lake would win. I was wrong on all those elections.
Twenty twenty four we finally got our red wave, our
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red tsunami. But twenty twenty two, I think it got
delayed by the Supreme Courts Dobbs decision, and Democrats were
able to take advantage of it. That would be my
thesis for how to shake out So if we've been
doing the show. At the end of twenty twenty two,
you certainly could have been like, hey, Clay, you totally
whiffed on that one. That was correct. But twenty twenty four,
I think we got almost everything right. You know who
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did not get almost everything right? Morning, Joe Joe Scarborough.
Well let's save that one. That is my number one
overall biggest whiff from any media member in twenty twenty four.
But let's go first to Nicole Wallace. This is my
running up the near champion. Joe Scarborough just barely edged
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out Nicole Wallace, both MSNBC prognosticators. In June of twenty
twenty four, after all these videos of Joe Biden clearly
being mentally and physically unable to do the job, we're
going viral all over the internet. Do you remember what
the decision was, what the talking points were back in
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June of twenty twenty four before the presidential debate between
Biden and Trump on June twenty seventh, If you recall,
the debate was were they or were they not? Cheap fakes?
Do you remember when they made up that phrase, They
said that the videos of Biden looking unable to do
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the job, were cheap fakes. One of the foremost proponents
Karine Jean Pierre, but she is at least a professional liar.
That's her job. To a certain extent, here was Nicole Wallace,
who likes to think she's smarter than everybody else in
the media, saying, you're being lied to the Klay Traviss,
the buck Sextons of the world, the ones telling you
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that Joe doesn't have the mental or physical capacity to
be president and the videos they're sharing, those are cheap fakes.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Listen, there's a growing and insidious trend in right wing
media broadcasts, print and social media. It is to take
highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly
from Republican National Committee social media accounts, and then use
those videos to spread messages virally to cast out on
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President Biden's fitness for office. Both the articles are based
on cheap fakes, videos of real events that are intentionally
manipulated to fool viewers, released on an R and C
opposition Research social media account. Is zero independent fact checking
by these so called journalists and spread throughout the right
wing ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Okay, they really tried to tell all of us that
they were cheap fakes, and that we were lying to
you with the stories that we were telling about Joe
Biden not being mentally or physically up to the job. Guys, gals,
this is the biggest lie of the twenty first century.
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I really do believe that Joe Biden was mentally and
physically capable of being president for the last couple of years.
That he was able was a lie, and it was
dangerous for our country. But to argue that he could
be president for four more years, that that man, I'm
not even sure he's going to be alive, That that
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man should be raising his right hand on January twentieth,
twenty twenty five, and be president until January of twenty
twenty nine. They tried to make that argument to you,
and they tried to lecture all of us who were saying,
this is dangerous. We need to be careful here. This
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guy doesn't have the mental and physical capacity to be president.
They went on MSNBC June of twenty twenty four and
tried to argue that the videos we were all seeing,
that they were actually cheap fakes, even though they were
from legitimate White House press events. They were arguing they
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weren't real. Okay. That is my run up nominee for
the absolute worst most dishonest take of twenty twenty four.
The winner's going to be Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
Final show of the year with either Buck or myself live.
We got some great shows coming your way, including a
Christmas Eve special next week. Got a lot of fabulous
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guest host variety of them going to be in during
the holiday season, and we can't wait to be back
with yet start of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
But we are talking worst takes of twenty twenty four
right now, and there are a lot of amazing emails
rolling in and I will read some of those going forward.
I also told the crew, and let me say this too.
By the way, we have got a really hard working staff,
behind the scenes. Producer. Ali is absolutely fantastic. She was
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on the road with me in Israel. She's been with
Rush prior to us taking over back in twenty twenty one,
for twenty years. I don't know if she's listening to
me right now or fielding calls. Ali. Are you sleeping yet,
because we had some tough jet lag over the return.
Have you gotten back to normal sleeping schedule yet.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, it's been about a week now, Clay, and I
got to say, the old we get, the longer the lag.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yes, it does take longer. I think that's for sure.
Was there anything that you saw let me bring in
the crew here, anything that you guys saw before I
play Scarborough at the bottom of the hour, which what
I think is the least honest, the most dishonest, would
be another way of saying that. Take of the entirety
of twenty twenty four, any nominees that you guys would have.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Greg is running in here right now.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Greg.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Hey, Clay, Yeah, I think thank you for all the work.
By the way, all you guys and everybody that's been
busting their ass on the show this year, we really
do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Thanks, no, no, it's our pleasure to be here and
do it for everybody listening. And you guys, the only
thing that I saw that possibly comes close is Katie
Porter talking about the Lake and Riley murder. And she
wasn't outraged by it at all, and she's you know,
she was saying that we shouldn't change our policy on
the border based on one event like Lake and Riley.
(16:01):
And that's just how out of touch can you possibly
be to have something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, and that's a good one too, because it wasn't
an outlier. It's actually important what you said, because so
often on social media, one thing can be found and
it can be used people overwhelmingly agree, Oh, you know what,
this is bad. I'll give you an example. George Floyd.
(16:28):
The George Floyd video was awful to watch. Now. I
actually think Michael Chauvin, they're talking about whether or not
they're going to be able to test the heart. Did
Michael Chauvin, the Derek Chauvin, sorry, the cop there, was
he actually responsible for the death of George Floyd. I
think there is a reasonable doubt as to whether or
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not he was. But the idea that that represented how
all white cops interact with black potential suspects was flagrantly untrue.
It was not representative at all, which is what made
it a story. Lake and Riley is actually incredibly representative
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of many different innocent people out there that are dealing
with acts of violence perpetrated by people who should have
never been legally in this country. And so as you
look at anecdotes, and we live in an anecdote driven era,
you have to be careful about whether or not the
anecdote is representative of a larger issue or actually just
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a complete and total outlier and not in any way
reflective of what general normal interactions are. Like George Floyd,
I would argue, is a complete and total outlier that
was used as evidence of why all cops are racist
and why we need to defund the police, and what
I think is one of the most destructive arguments of
all time. Lake and Riley, there's a Lake and Riley
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in every one of your see in every one of
your cities. She's representative of something that's happening all too often.
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My name Clay. Walk back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show.
We're having some fun talking about the worst takes of
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twenty twenty four. I'm going to get to some of
your calls here in a moment, because some of you do,
in fact have bad calls. You think that Buck or
myself made eight hundred and two two eight a two.
But my take for the single worst opinion that was
shared in twenty twenty four, Joe Scarborough on Buck's Favorite
(19:27):
Morning Joe program said, in March of twenty twenty four, FU,
if you don't see this is the best version of
Biden there has ever been. This is real. It is
not unfortunately spectacular.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Listen tape right now, because I'm about to tell you
the truth and f you if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close second.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And I've known him for years. The Prazenskis have known
him for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I
wouldn't say it. That's the worst take of twenty twenty four.
Whatever you think of Joe Biden, the idea that in
March of twenty twenty four he was the best intellectual
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and analytical version of himself that he had ever been
is such an unbelievable lie that to be willing to
say it is evidence of your complicity in spreading absolute
and total propaganda. There's no way to defend that if
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you consume that product, when you know that the people
that you trust to bring you the news are lying
to you, you can no longer trust them anymore. And
I think that's really what's happening with MSNBC and CNN's
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audience overnight vanishing. This audience keeps growing in really pretty
massive numbers, and I think it's because over time, you
weigh whether you can trust people or not. In other words,
and when I sit down in front of this mic,
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am I an actor? Am I a propagandist? Am I
someone who is trying to sell you something that they
don't believe at all? You can't fake radio. I don't
really think you can. People say, hey, what's the difference
between TV radio TV? I think there are good actors
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and they can fake it on some level. You put
on makeup, you put on dress up clothes, you sit
down and read off glass in front of you. It's
a very cosmetic thing. Now you are watching the video
version of me right now, but you can see I'm
in a T shirt. I certainly don't have makeup on.
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I'm not even particularly bathed in good lighting, and I'm
sitting in an old red chair that my family has
had for twenty years. This is not something where people
look at a think, boy, you know, that Klay Travis.
He looks compelling. He's a dashingly handsome man on this
video version. I sit down in front of the mic
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and I tell you every day exactly what I think.
My wife says, the reason that I have never needed
therapy is because I've gotten to do radio for the
last twenty years, and whatever opinions I have, I tell
you in the mic, and when I'm done, I've got
no weight on my shoulders. I feel light as a feather.
I got to say exactly what I think. And trust me,
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I know that's a privilege, because you know what. The
number one thing I hear from you guys out and
about is you say what I wish I could say.
Thank you. That's the number one thing you guys tell
me when I see you out and about who listen
to the program. And I don't take that for granted,
because trust me, I know what it feels like to
have to grin and bear it inside of a company
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working for people you may not be that impressed by,
because you got to make sure that you pay that mortgage,
because you've got to make sure that you are doing
whatever you can to help your kids get into the
right school to be able to pay for it. Heck,
to put Christmas presents under the tree right now. That
is the ultimate loyalty. That's the ultimate duty that many
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of you feel for your kids or your grandkids to
try to make their lives a little bit better. So
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact
that I get to speak for so many of you
who don't feel like you are able to say what
you really think. And I think that's a huge part
of why Donald Trump won because we live in such
a fundamentally dishonest place. But you know, Warren Buffett, Warren
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Buffett said investing ultimately comes down to weighing the value
of a company, and he said, if you really look
at the stock market over time, I love this analogy.
He said, it's really just a weighing mechanism. You can
fake things for a little while, but eventually the value
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of a company is realized over time. And I think
that's true of people who do what we do for
a living too. All of you every day are busy
and you are weighing. Hey, can I trust that person not?
Do I agree with that person all the time? Because
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my argument is you should never agree with anybody all
the time. You should even question your own opinions. If
you're being honest with yourself every single day, you should
be willing to consider new data. You should welcome the
idea that you might be wrong, because that will lead
to you having stronger opinions instead of just making a
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decision and deciding no matter what the evidence shows that
you're going to stick to it. That's my advice for
all of you. Because there's so much news every day,
there's so much data, you need to constantly be challenging yourself.
But Joe Scarborough in that take the best intellectually, the
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best analytical version of Biden. It's so dishonest. I don't
even know even if you were a left wing zelot,
how could you hear that? Watch Biden in the debate
on June twenty seventh, and ever trust Joe Scarborough again.
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Remember he didn't just say, Hey, I'm making this opinion
from a distance. He said his wife Mika has known
Biden for fifty years. He said he himself has known
Biden for a long time too. He's telling you I
know and see things that you do not, and he
is still telling you that the best intellectual and analytical
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version of Biden is the one that's going on right now. Now.
You saw how quickly everybody abandoned both the Nicole Wallace
take and the Joe Scarborough case as soon as they
had the June twenty seventh debate. But make no mistake
about what was going on there. They would have gone
to the mat for Joe Biden and argued that for
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their audience all the way through the election, just like
they tried to tell you. As soon as Biden dropped out,
they pivoted, and Kamala Harris was no longer the least
popular vice presidential candidate of all time. She was a
sterling representative of the Democrat Party who could not have
done a better job. Heck, Joey Reid said, Kamala Harris
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ran a flawless campaign. She said that on election night,
after everybody recognized that Kamala was going to lose. These
people lied to you, and they lied to you in
so many direct ways that it's impossible to ignore. And
I think ultimately that's why their audience is collapsing, because
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you know, if they would tell you that Biden was
the best version of himself and that videos you saw
that question that were cheap fakes. You can't trust them
on anything. And ultimately, I tell my team all the time,
what I have found that works is smart, original, funny,
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and authentic. SOFA smart, original, funny, and authentic. If you
got kids or grandkids that want to get into media,
those are the four hallmarks. Not everybody can do all four,
but you got to make at least one of those smart, original, funny,
or authentic your basis for your career. You can do
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all four, Congratulations, you're going to be super rich because
if you can replicate that and keep doing it over
and over against very rare. But you got to have
all four of those. And I think what you're seeing
is at places like CNN, at places like MSNBC, they're propagandists.
They're willing to get talking points and just go out
and say them, even if there's no basis in reality
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for them. All Right, we come back. You guys can
weigh in eight hundred and two two eight a two.
Some of you are saying we had some bad takes.
We'll take those calls in the meantime, Prize picks get
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the guys PA find them on the iHeart apt or
wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay, Travis
buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with
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us as we get ready for Christmas. Once you went
a way in, I was telling you what I think
the two worst takes that I saw, and they were connected,
both having to do with the why that Biden was
physically and mentally capable to be president of the United
States Nicole Wallace on MSNBC and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC,
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And I said, hey, you have an opportunity to tell
us did we get anything wrong? In a big way?
Open phone lines eight hundred and two eight two two
eight eight eight two. Robert in Corpus Christy, what you
got for.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Us, Gray Clay. Great to talk to you. A beautiful
day down here in South Texas. Taking out a little
time from butchering the deer. Heard your show, listened to
it most every day, love it, And I said, I've
got a little bit different spin.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
On this scar By the way, how big is the deer?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Nice point? Nice ten points?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh wow, well done.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Country always produces. So got it right here on my
family farm two hundred and six acres.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh that's awesome. Well, congrats to you and enjoy the east.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Thanks a bunch a beautiful day. But no, my spent
on this Scarborough take is he did get it right.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Not for the.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Analytical and intellectual reasons, but in general. This was unfortunately
the best Biden ever because if you look at the
prior versions of Biden, Ashley Biden says, oh, he showered
with me inappropriate, gave rise to the belief I was molested.
All that stuff that's in her diary. Later it's Tara reed,
look what she alleged Biden raped me. Later he's hooking
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up with the Grand Dragon, passing bad legislation. Then he's
said even later he's influenced peddling, setting up the scheme
to make his family millions. Selling out our secrets is
selling out to the Chinese the way senile, you know,
totally decrepit, barely able to walk. Biden, he sleeps all
but six hours a day. His unfortunately, the best version
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because he's doing the least amount of damage compared to
all the earlier versions of Biden.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Thank you for the call. That's a heck of an angle. Yeah,
Biden being senile and dementia riddled is actually the best
version of Biden because he can do the least damage
the problem. And that's a very funny take. Good luck
with that, dear. The problem is Joe Scarborough said that
intellectually and analytically, this was the best version of Biden. Now,
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I don't know exactly what age your mental and physical
capacities peak. I don't think very many people would argue
it's eighty. Maybe it's fifty, Maybe it's forty, maybe it's
thirty five. I don't know the exact agent. Oh athletes
usually peak around twenty seven twenty eight in terms of
just raw physical ability raw mental ability. I think there's
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a study out. I was reading the Wall Street Journal.
It's said that for most people, the best peak mental
performance is fifty seven years old. When it comes to
decision made again, for most people, they said, and it
was why is that they said at fifty seven, you've
got enough wisdom, That is, you've lived enough life to
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have learned from your life experiences, but you haven't lived
so long that your mental faculties have begun to decline. Now,
I think everybody's different. I mentioned Warren Buffett earlier. He's
in his nineties still making incredibly elite decisions. Trump is
going to be in his eighties and be president. Still
seems incredibly sharp to me compared to Biden. So everybody's different.
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But that article I thought was somewhat interesting, saying fifty
seven is when decision making peaks for most people on average,
based on life experience. Been in Junction City, Ohio. What
you got for us? Ben?
Speaker 9 (33:47):
On the things we got wrong this past year? One
of you two was saying the same things I was saying,
And my twenty year old son said, I was in
mister politics. My son, he said I was an idiot,
and that that come January we were going to be
swearing in Madame Michelle Obama that she was going to
be Biden's replacement on the ticket.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Well, I said, I thought they would thank you for
the call. You're right, I said, I thought Biden would
be gone. But I thought they would go Michelle Obama,
and my thesis on that I think is actually sound,
because I didn't see any way they could get past
Kamala Harris being a black woman without being called racist
and sexist unless they got another black woman, and they
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got one that was actually much more liked than Kamala Harris.
And I do wonder if Biden had dropped out earlier,
which he should have done, and they had had a
mini primary, what that would have looked like, because I
think they would have ended up with a better candidate
than Kamala Harris. But I thought the only way they
could get past Kamala was by going with another black woman,
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because otherwise, by identity politics standards of the of the Democrat,
it would be almost impossible. Is Laurie and Ohio still there, Laurie,
what you got for us? Good afternoon, Clay.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
It's a pleasure to speak with you. Hey, I wanted
to chat a little bit about the whole Joe Scarborough
take on Biden's being the best intellectual and analytical self.
Looking at that a little bit differently, A lot of
things that we hear people say that don't sound that
that sounds absolutely crazy. There's a ounce of truth to it.
(35:30):
So I wonder if Morning Joe wasn't perhaps a little
more sincere than we give him credit for. We haven't
heard President Biden in his gas machine about racial jungles
and slight Indian accents lately, and perhaps that might be
something that Joe was referring to.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Oh that's interesting. I mean, thank you for the call. Now,
I would argue that, first of all, Biden is still
a gas machine, and there were actually a lot of them.
The media just covered them up. But that's one reason.
If you read the Wall Street Journal, they said that
they limited Biden's interaction because they were aware of how
bad he was, and they were trying to limit the
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viral moments that might happen. Ken in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
You're a flute player, Yes, Clay, I'm a first from
the first listener to the Clay and Buck Show, agree
with you ninety something percent of the time. But I
got to take keep the task for dissing on us
male flute players.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You think flute players are badasses, You get all the women.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
Look look uh. When I was in middle school, I
went to go to the band to figure out a
instrument to play. The only section was all female was
the flute section, so it was a natural choice.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So you thank you for TheCall. That's the best defense
of the flute I've ever heard. Hey, all the chicks
are playing it. I'm going where the chicks are. Appreciate
y'all be back second hour next
Welcome in the final show of the year for Buck
and myself. Buck is out already getting ready for Christmas.
I know many of you are out and about because
two of my three kids are done with school and
the third may be coming home right now from finishing
his last exam, and it is bonkers everywhere with all
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the kids out and all the holiday festivity underway. We
hope all of you are having a very merry Christmas.
There are going to be more shows, We will have
guest hosts. We've got a special Christmas Eve edition for
all of you that no one has heard at all,
and we have a bunch of best of Yes, there
are actually best of versions of this show. But I
(00:43):
want to start off by saying thank you, thank you,
thank you for making twenty four, twenty twenty four, I think,
one of the best years in our nation's history and
culminating it by giving Donald Trump a landslide victory. And
I know I speak for both Buck and myself when
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I say it has been an incredible privilege to get
to spend twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
and now twenty twenty four with all of you, and
I think this audience made a tremendous difference when it
came to the twenty twenty four presidential election. So I
want to start off today's show by saying thank you.
(01:26):
We lectured a lot about the importance of getting out
and voting, and you guys responded in a monumental fashion
this year, and it has been such an incredibly fun
journey with all of you, and I can't wait for
twenty twenty five because I think we're gonna have a
lot of fun. I think we're going to have a
lot of winning going on in this country, but today's show,
(01:49):
we're going to have a lot of fun. But also
I just want all of you to understand our profound
gratitude that we get to talk to you, the largest
radio audience in the country, and I know a lot
of you are listening to this on podcasts, so we
appreciate all of you and YouTube and however you find
this show. We say thanks to you. So let's talk
(02:10):
about some of the fun. I want to give you
a roadmap of where we're going. By the way, I'm
not diving in to will there be a shutdown or
won't there be a shutdown? I feel like we have
gone through this so many times. Eventually they're going to
sign off on the budget. They're going to spend too
much money, and we're going to come back in in
twenty twenty five and they're probably going to do the
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same thing again. So spoiler alert, there is going to
be no profound victory in this dispute. We're still going
to spend way too much money and we're going to
be two trillion dollars in debt in this year's budget
and next year's budget, and most people have decided that
deficits don't matter, and there seems to be no imperative
(02:55):
or interest to try to solve them. But I'm not
going to be the Grinch today, gonna be Ba hug Bug.
I'm not gonna be Ebeneezer Scrooge. I'm gonna have some
fun with all of you. So let me give you
a roadmap of where we're gonna go. Uh start off
the show today. I want the worst takes that you
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heard in twenty twenty four. If you follow me on
social media, you know that I have shared my two already.
You can find me at Clay Travis. I'm going to
play them for all of you and It's not just
that they're the worst takes of twenty twenty four in
my opinion, But I want to hear all of yours
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eight hundred two eight two two eight a two Did
I get that right? Already screwed up the phone number,
But I want to hear from all of you what
you think the worst takes are. We're going to play
these for you. Then I'm gonna talk to you about
with Biden coming to a close in his tenure, mercifully,
(03:56):
where does his presidency rank? And how would I rank
the residents that have existed for my lifetime? So I'm young,
but I'm going to give you the opportunity to weigh
in as well. An hour two and then you guys
know I was in Israel last week. I want to
end with an inspiring idea and a series of thoughts.
(04:19):
I'm working right now on a long form piece about
my trip to Israel. There's so many details to get right,
there's so many aspects to it. I'm gonna hopefully get
it up on OutKick on Monday. I know that a
lot of you Israel is on your bucket list. Jerusalem.
You would love to go visit my grandparents, my mom's
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parents were super, super religious, and on their bucket list
was to go to Jerusalem. They went in their retirement.
I know many of you would like to go as well.
I feel incredibly fortunate that I got to take that trip.
I'm going to try to share with you what I
learned and why I think is matters so much as
(05:02):
it pertains to what's going on in the United States.
I'm going to try to make that case for you.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And of course we will be taking a variety of
calls throughout the course of the program as well. Eight
hundred and two two two eight eight two. Okay, worst
takes of twenty twenty four. I said yesterday that I
don't think Buck and I had any truly awful takes,
(05:28):
meaning things that when you go back and everything's on
transcript and you listen to it, you think, oh, my goodness,
you guys are complete morons. That could happen? I do.
I love the sports gamble. Anybody who has ever bet
on a sporting event, you look like a moron basically
half the time, because you look at the game, you
(05:49):
analyze it, you consider what you think is going to happen,
and then you put your wager down, and then it
might blow up completely in your face. And even if
you're the greatest gambler of all time, you only win
about fifty five percent of the time. Otherwise you're biff
in back to the future too, and you end up
the richest human who's ever existed. So most sports gamblers
(06:12):
lose money. The greatest ever win fifty five percent of
the time. That means they lose forty five percent of
the time. That's the reality. Okay, So I'm open to
the idea some of you may have awful, big time
lunatic predictions that you remember from this program that we
got wrong. I don't think we had any We've gotten
(06:33):
things wrong before, as anybody who makes predictions does. But
I think we almost nailed between the two of us
everything all year long that was likely to happen. We
got all the Trump law fair correct, We got the
election correct. I was right at least one of the
two of us was got a great stake for it
about whether or not Biden would be the nominee. Buck
(06:55):
got right that jd Vance would be the VP pick
when nobody was talking about jdvs as the VP pick.
So I think if you go back and assess this
show overall, you would have to say we got a
lot right. But open phone lines if you can think
of something that we got completely wrong. That is not
an opinion, you know, a prediction. For instance, some of
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you like to play flutes. The flute I think is
not an instrument that anybody should play. Don't think men
look particularly masculine play in the flute. That's my opinion.
I'm right, and if you disagree, you're wrong. But that's
not exactly what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about
something we told you that we just completely whipped on.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Like.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'll give you an example from a couple of years ago.
I thought that to twenty twenty two elections we would
have a red tsunami. I thought that herschel Walker would win.
I thought that Doctor Oz would win. I thought that
Carrie Lake would win. I was wrong on all those elections.
Twenty twenty four we finally got our red wave, our
(07:59):
red tsunami. But twenty twenty two, I think it got
delayed by the Supreme Courts Dobbs decision, and Democrats were
able to take advantage of it. That would be my
thesis for how to shake out So if we've been
doing the show. At the end of twenty twenty two,
you certainly could have been like, hey, Clay, you totally
whiffed on that one. That was correct. But twenty twenty four,
I think we got almost everything right. You know who
(08:20):
did not get almost everything right? Morning, Joe Joe Scarborough.
Well let's save that one. That is my number one
overall biggest whiff from any media member in twenty twenty four.
But let's go first to Nicole Wallace. This is my
running up the near champion. Joe Scarborough just barely edged
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out Nicole Wallace, both MSNBC prognosticators. In June of twenty
twenty four, after all these videos of Joe Biden clearly
being mentally and physically unable to do the job, we're
going viral all over the internet. Do you remember what
the decision was, what the talking points were back in
(09:07):
June of twenty twenty four before the presidential debate between
Biden and Trump on June twenty seventh, If you recall,
the debate was were they or were they not? Cheap fakes?
Do you remember when they made up that phrase, They
said that the videos of Biden looking unable to do
(09:27):
the job, were cheap fakes. One of the foremost proponents
Karine Jean Pierre, but she is at least a professional liar.
That's her job. To a certain extent, here was Nicole Wallace,
who likes to think she's smarter than everybody else in
the media, saying, you're being lied to the Klay Traviss,
the buck Sextons of the world, the ones telling you
(09:48):
that Joe doesn't have the mental or physical capacity to
be president and the videos they're sharing, those are cheap fakes.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Listen, there's a growing and insidious trend in right wing
media broadcasts, print and social media. It is to take
highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly
from Republican National Committee social media accounts, and then use
those videos to spread messages virally to cast out on
(10:18):
President Biden's fitness for office. Both the articles are based
on cheap fakes, videos of real events that are intentionally
manipulated to fool viewers, released on an R and C
opposition Research social media account. Is zero independent fact checking
by these so called journalists and spread throughout the right
wing ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Okay, they really tried to tell all of us that
they were cheap fakes, and that we were lying to
you with the stories that we were telling about Joe
Biden not being mentally or physically up to the job. Guys, gals,
this is the biggest lie of the twenty first century.
(11:03):
I really do believe that Joe Biden was mentally and
physically capable of being president for the last couple of years.
That he was able was a lie, and it was
dangerous for our country. But to argue that he could
be president for four more years, that that man, I'm
not even sure he's going to be alive, That that
(11:26):
man should be raising his right hand on January twentieth,
twenty twenty five, and be president until January of twenty
twenty nine. They tried to make that argument to you,
and they tried to lecture all of us who were saying,
this is dangerous. We need to be careful here. This
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guy doesn't have the mental and physical capacity to be president.
They went on MSNBC June of twenty twenty four and
tried to argue that the videos we were all seeing,
that they were actually cheap fakes, even though they were
from legitimate White House press events. They were arguing they
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weren't real. Okay. That is my run up nominee for
the absolute worst most dishonest take of twenty twenty four.
The winner's going to be Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
Final show of the year with either Buck or myself live.
We got some great shows coming your way, including a
Christmas Eve special next week. Got a lot of fabulous
(14:03):
guest host variety of them going to be in during
the holiday season, and we can't wait to be back
with yet start of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
But we are talking worst takes of twenty twenty four
right now, and there are a lot of amazing emails
rolling in and I will read some of those going forward.
I also told the crew, and let me say this too.
By the way, we have got a really hard working staff,
behind the scenes. Producer. Ali is absolutely fantastic. She was
(14:35):
on the road with me in Israel. She's been with
Rush prior to us taking over back in twenty twenty one,
for twenty years. I don't know if she's listening to
me right now or fielding calls. Ali. Are you sleeping yet,
because we had some tough jet lag over the return.
Have you gotten back to normal sleeping schedule yet.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, it's been about a week now, Clay, and I
got to say, the old we get, the longer the lag.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yes, it does take longer. I think that's for sure.
Was there anything that you saw let me bring in
the crew here, anything that you guys saw before I
play Scarborough at the bottom of the hour, which what
I think is the least honest, the most dishonest, would
be another way of saying that. Take of the entirety
of twenty twenty four, any nominees that you guys would have.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Greg is running in here right now.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Greg.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Hey, Clay, Yeah, I think thank you for all the work.
By the way, all you guys and everybody that's been
busting their ass on the show this year, we really
do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Thanks, no, no, it's our pleasure to be here and
do it for everybody listening. And you guys, the only
thing that I saw that possibly comes close is Katie
Porter talking about the Lake and Riley murder. And she
wasn't outraged by it at all, and she's you know,
she was saying that we shouldn't change our policy on
the border based on one event like Lake and Riley.
(16:01):
And that's just how out of touch can you possibly
be to have something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, and that's a good one too, because it wasn't
an outlier. It's actually important what you said, because so
often on social media, one thing can be found and
it can be used people overwhelmingly agree, Oh, you know what,
this is bad. I'll give you an example. George Floyd.
(16:28):
The George Floyd video was awful to watch. Now. I
actually think Michael Chauvin, they're talking about whether or not
they're going to be able to test the heart. Did
Michael Chauvin, the Derek Chauvin, sorry, the cop there, was
he actually responsible for the death of George Floyd. I
think there is a reasonable doubt as to whether or
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not he was. But the idea that that represented how
all white cops interact with black potential suspects was flagrantly untrue.
It was not representative at all, which is what made
it a story. Lake and Riley is actually incredibly representative
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of many different innocent people out there that are dealing
with acts of violence perpetrated by people who should have
never been legally in this country. And so as you
look at anecdotes, and we live in an anecdote driven era,
you have to be careful about whether or not the
anecdote is representative of a larger issue or actually just
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a complete and total outlier and not in any way
reflective of what general normal interactions are. Like George Floyd,
I would argue, is a complete and total outlier that
was used as evidence of why all cops are racist
and why we need to defund the police, and what
I think is one of the most destructive arguments of
all time. Lake and Riley, there's a Lake and Riley
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in every one of your see in every one of
your cities. She's representative of something that's happening all too often.
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My name Clay. Walk back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show.
We're having some fun talking about the worst takes of
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twenty twenty four. I'm going to get to some of
your calls here in a moment, because some of you do,
in fact have bad calls. You think that Buck or
myself made eight hundred and two two eight a two.
But my take for the single worst opinion that was
shared in twenty twenty four, Joe Scarborough on Buck's Favorite
(19:27):
Morning Joe program said, in March of twenty twenty four, FU,
if you don't see this is the best version of
Biden there has ever been. This is real. It is
not unfortunately spectacular.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
Listen tape right now, because I'm about to tell you
the truth and f you if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close second.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And I've known him for years. The Prazenskis have known
him for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I
wouldn't say it. That's the worst take of twenty twenty four.
Whatever you think of Joe Biden, the idea that in
March of twenty twenty four he was the best intellectual
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and analytical version of himself that he had ever been
is such an unbelievable lie that to be willing to
say it is evidence of your complicity in spreading absolute
and total propaganda. There's no way to defend that if
(20:44):
you consume that product, when you know that the people
that you trust to bring you the news are lying
to you, you can no longer trust them anymore. And
I think that's really what's happening with MSNBC and CNN's
(21:06):
audience overnight vanishing. This audience keeps growing in really pretty
massive numbers, and I think it's because over time, you
weigh whether you can trust people or not. In other words,
and when I sit down in front of this mic,
(21:26):
am I an actor? Am I a propagandist? Am I
someone who is trying to sell you something that they
don't believe at all? You can't fake radio. I don't
really think you can. People say, hey, what's the difference
between TV radio TV? I think there are good actors
(21:47):
and they can fake it on some level. You put
on makeup, you put on dress up clothes, you sit
down and read off glass in front of you. It's
a very cosmetic thing. Now you are watching the video
version of me right now, but you can see I'm
in a T shirt. I certainly don't have makeup on.
(22:07):
I'm not even particularly bathed in good lighting, and I'm
sitting in an old red chair that my family has
had for twenty years. This is not something where people
look at a think, boy, you know, that Klay Travis.
He looks compelling. He's a dashingly handsome man on this
video version. I sit down in front of the mic
(22:28):
and I tell you every day exactly what I think.
My wife says, the reason that I have never needed
therapy is because I've gotten to do radio for the
last twenty years, and whatever opinions I have, I tell
you in the mic, and when I'm done, I've got
no weight on my shoulders. I feel light as a feather.
I got to say exactly what I think. And trust me,
(22:51):
I know that's a privilege, because you know what. The
number one thing I hear from you guys out and
about is you say what I wish I could say.
Thank you. That's the number one thing you guys tell
me when I see you out and about who listen
to the program. And I don't take that for granted,
because trust me, I know what it feels like to
have to grin and bear it inside of a company
(23:13):
working for people you may not be that impressed by,
because you got to make sure that you pay that mortgage,
because you've got to make sure that you are doing
whatever you can to help your kids get into the
right school to be able to pay for it. Heck,
to put Christmas presents under the tree right now. That
is the ultimate loyalty. That's the ultimate duty that many
(23:37):
of you feel for your kids or your grandkids to
try to make their lives a little bit better. So
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact
that I get to speak for so many of you
who don't feel like you are able to say what
you really think. And I think that's a huge part
of why Donald Trump won because we live in such
a fundamentally dishonest place. But you know, Warren Buffett, Warren
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Buffett said investing ultimately comes down to weighing the value
of a company, and he said, if you really look
at the stock market over time, I love this analogy.
He said, it's really just a weighing mechanism. You can
fake things for a little while, but eventually the value
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of a company is realized over time. And I think
that's true of people who do what we do for
a living too. All of you every day are busy
and you are weighing. Hey, can I trust that person not?
Do I agree with that person all the time? Because
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my argument is you should never agree with anybody all
the time. You should even question your own opinions. If
you're being honest with yourself every single day, you should
be willing to consider new data. You should welcome the
idea that you might be wrong, because that will lead
to you having stronger opinions instead of just making a
(25:06):
decision and deciding no matter what the evidence shows that
you're going to stick to it. That's my advice for
all of you. Because there's so much news every day,
there's so much data, you need to constantly be challenging yourself.
But Joe Scarborough in that take the best intellectually, the
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best analytical version of Biden. It's so dishonest. I don't
even know even if you were a left wing zelot,
how could you hear that? Watch Biden in the debate
on June twenty seventh, and ever trust Joe Scarborough again.
(25:47):
Remember he didn't just say, Hey, I'm making this opinion
from a distance. He said his wife Mika has known
Biden for fifty years. He said he himself has known
Biden for a long time too. He's telling you I
know and see things that you do not, and he
is still telling you that the best intellectual and analytical
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version of Biden is the one that's going on right now. Now.
You saw how quickly everybody abandoned both the Nicole Wallace
take and the Joe Scarborough case as soon as they
had the June twenty seventh debate. But make no mistake
about what was going on there. They would have gone
to the mat for Joe Biden and argued that for
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their audience all the way through the election, just like
they tried to tell you. As soon as Biden dropped out,
they pivoted, and Kamala Harris was no longer the least
popular vice presidential candidate of all time. She was a
sterling representative of the Democrat Party who could not have
done a better job. Heck, Joey Reid said, Kamala Harris
(26:56):
ran a flawless campaign. She said that on election night,
after everybody recognized that Kamala was going to lose. These
people lied to you, and they lied to you in
so many direct ways that it's impossible to ignore. And
I think ultimately that's why their audience is collapsing, because
(27:18):
you know, if they would tell you that Biden was
the best version of himself and that videos you saw
that question that were cheap fakes. You can't trust them
on anything. And ultimately, I tell my team all the time,
what I have found that works is smart, original, funny,
(27:40):
and authentic. SOFA smart, original, funny, and authentic. If you
got kids or grandkids that want to get into media,
those are the four hallmarks. Not everybody can do all four,
but you got to make at least one of those smart, original, funny,
or authentic your basis for your career. You can do
(28:02):
all four, Congratulations, you're going to be super rich because
if you can replicate that and keep doing it over
and over against very rare. But you got to have
all four of those. And I think what you're seeing
is at places like CNN, at places like MSNBC, they're propagandists.
They're willing to get talking points and just go out
and say them, even if there's no basis in reality
(28:23):
for them. All Right, we come back. You guys can
weigh in eight hundred and two two eight a two.
Some of you are saying we had some bad takes.
We'll take those calls in the meantime, Prize picks get
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us as we get ready for Christmas. Once you went
a way in, I was telling you what I think
the two worst takes that I saw, and they were connected,
both having to do with the why that Biden was
physically and mentally capable to be president of the United
States Nicole Wallace on MSNBC and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC,
(30:29):
And I said, hey, you have an opportunity to tell
us did we get anything wrong? In a big way?
Open phone lines eight hundred and two eight two two
eight eight eight two. Robert in Corpus Christy, what you
got for.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Us, Gray Clay. Great to talk to you. A beautiful
day down here in South Texas. Taking out a little
time from butchering the deer. Heard your show, listened to
it most every day, love it, And I said, I've
got a little bit different spin.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
On this scar By the way, how big is the deer?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Nice point? Nice ten points?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Oh wow, well done.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Country always produces. So got it right here on my
family farm two hundred and six acres.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh that's awesome. Well, congrats to you and enjoy the east.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Thanks a bunch a beautiful day. But no, my spent
on this Scarborough take is he did get it right.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Not for the.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Analytical and intellectual reasons, but in general. This was unfortunately
the best Biden ever because if you look at the
prior versions of Biden, Ashley Biden says, oh, he showered
with me inappropriate, gave rise to the belief I was molested.
All that stuff that's in her diary. Later it's Tara reed,
look what she alleged Biden raped me. Later he's hooking
(31:40):
up with the Grand Dragon, passing bad legislation. Then he's
said even later he's influenced peddling, setting up the scheme
to make his family millions. Selling out our secrets is
selling out to the Chinese the way senile, you know,
totally decrepit, barely able to walk. Biden, he sleeps all
but six hours a day. His unfortunately, the best version
(32:01):
because he's doing the least amount of damage compared to
all the earlier versions of Biden.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Thank you for the call. That's a heck of an angle. Yeah,
Biden being senile and dementia riddled is actually the best
version of Biden because he can do the least damage
the problem. And that's a very funny take. Good luck
with that, dear. The problem is Joe Scarborough said that
intellectually and analytically, this was the best version of Biden. Now,
(32:27):
I don't know exactly what age your mental and physical
capacities peak. I don't think very many people would argue
it's eighty. Maybe it's fifty, Maybe it's forty, maybe it's
thirty five. I don't know the exact agent. Oh athletes
usually peak around twenty seven twenty eight in terms of
just raw physical ability raw mental ability. I think there's
(32:47):
a study out. I was reading the Wall Street Journal.
It's said that for most people, the best peak mental
performance is fifty seven years old. When it comes to
decision made again, for most people, they said, and it
was why is that they said at fifty seven, you've
got enough wisdom, That is, you've lived enough life to
(33:10):
have learned from your life experiences, but you haven't lived
so long that your mental faculties have begun to decline. Now,
I think everybody's different. I mentioned Warren Buffett earlier. He's
in his nineties still making incredibly elite decisions. Trump is
going to be in his eighties and be president. Still
seems incredibly sharp to me compared to Biden. So everybody's different.
(33:32):
But that article I thought was somewhat interesting, saying fifty
seven is when decision making peaks for most people on average,
based on life experience. Been in Junction City, Ohio. What
you got for us? Ben?
Speaker 9 (33:47):
On the things we got wrong this past year? One
of you two was saying the same things I was saying,
And my twenty year old son said, I was in
mister politics. My son, he said I was an idiot,
and that that come January we were going to be
swearing in Madame Michelle Obama that she was going to
be Biden's replacement on the ticket.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Well, I said, I thought they would thank you for
the call. You're right, I said, I thought Biden would
be gone. But I thought they would go Michelle Obama,
and my thesis on that I think is actually sound,
because I didn't see any way they could get past
Kamala Harris being a black woman without being called racist
and sexist unless they got another black woman, and they
(34:30):
got one that was actually much more liked than Kamala Harris.
And I do wonder if Biden had dropped out earlier,
which he should have done, and they had had a
mini primary, what that would have looked like, because I
think they would have ended up with a better candidate
than Kamala Harris. But I thought the only way they
could get past Kamala was by going with another black woman,
(34:53):
because otherwise, by identity politics standards of the of the Democrat,
it would be almost impossible. Is Laurie and Ohio still there, Laurie,
what you got for us? Good afternoon, Clay.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
It's a pleasure to speak with you. Hey, I wanted
to chat a little bit about the whole Joe Scarborough
take on Biden's being the best intellectual and analytical self.
Looking at that a little bit differently, A lot of
things that we hear people say that don't sound that
that sounds absolutely crazy. There's a ounce of truth to it.
(35:30):
So I wonder if Morning Joe wasn't perhaps a little
more sincere than we give him credit for. We haven't
heard President Biden in his gas machine about racial jungles
and slight Indian accents lately, and perhaps that might be
something that Joe was referring to.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Oh that's interesting. I mean, thank you for the call. Now,
I would argue that, first of all, Biden is still
a gas machine, and there were actually a lot of them.
The media just covered them up. But that's one reason.
If you read the Wall Street Journal, they said that
they limited Biden's interaction because they were aware of how
bad he was, and they were trying to limit the
(36:10):
viral moments that might happen. Ken in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
You're a flute player, Yes, Clay, I'm a first from
the first listener to the Clay and Buck Show, agree
with you ninety something percent of the time. But I
got to take keep the task for dissing on us
male flute players.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You think flute players are badasses, You get all the women.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
Look look uh. When I was in middle school, I
went to go to the band to figure out a
instrument to play. The only section was all female was
the flute section, so it was a natural choice.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So you thank you for TheCall. That's the best defense
of the flute I've ever heard. Hey, all the chicks
are playing it. I'm going where the chicks are. Appreciate
y'all be back second hour next
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