August 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a dynamic and politically charged start to the Friday broadcast, packed with commentary on breaking news, cultural shifts, and historical reflection. The hour opens by marking the three-year anniversary of the Mar-a-Lago raid, framing it as a pivotal moment in American political history. Clay Travis discusses the Department of Justice investigations, including the appointment of Ed Martin as special prosecutor to probe alleged mortgage fraud involving Adam Schiff and Letitia James, and the implications of grand jury investigations in New York and Washington, D.C.
The show dives into the cultural fallout of the woke era, highlighting the cancellation of Grant Napear, former Sacramento Kings announcer, for tweeting “All Lives Matter.” Clay previews Napear’s upcoming appearance in Hour 2, emphasizing the broader collapse of the Hollywood woke industrial complex, including failures in the superhero movie genre and critiques of left-wing comedy figures like Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Howard Stern.
Clay also reflects on Buck Sexton’s vacation in the North Carolina mountains, contrasting the friendliness of conservative communities with Buck’s experiences in New York City. The segment underscores the cultural divide between urban liberal enclaves and heartland America, with anecdotes about college football fandom and regional hospitality.
A major theme throughout the hour is the political weaponization of the justice system, with Clay arguing that attempts to imprison President Trump backfired, strengthening his support and securing his return to the White House. He predicts a future media pivot, where Trump will be rebranded from “existential threat” to “most talented politician of our time,” especially as the 2027 election cycle approaches.
The hour closes with a powerful critique of the Black Lives Matter movement, asserting that its impact led to increased violent crime and job losses, while ignoring broader issues like the national murder rate. Clay calls for a renewed focus on common-sense solutions and cultural redemption, setting the stage for deeper conversations in the next hour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Friday edition Klay Travis buck Sexton show. Let's
have some fun. We're stacking wins in every direction. It
is the three year anniversary of the Mara a Lago raid,
for those of you who remember that day. I don't
think it's consequential that we have some breaking news today
(00:23):
on Department of Justice investigations. We are going to talk
about that and how all of these things rolled together.
We got a couple of really interesting guests. Grant Napier
for those of you out in the Sacramento area. Grant
was the play by play voice of the Sacramento Kings,
the NBA franchise out there. They fired him during the
(00:46):
days of BLM for simply tweeting All Lives Matter. It's
one of the most ridiculous cancelations that happened in a
several year span filled with many different ridiculous cancelations. Good
news he has got a new job. But I do
think that story is important to reflect upon, and I
(01:07):
think you will like the direction that Ed has taken
as a redemptive arc. We'll talk about that a little
bit in the second hour. He is set to join
us in the third hour. The sort of Hollywood woke
industrial complex is collapsing, and that's occurring even in superhero movies,
which used to be the flourishing elements of the Hollywood
(01:33):
establishment that was what made all their money. What's going
on there? Ian Miller has got an interesting piece about
the finances behind big Hollywood failures even in superhero movies,
and I thought that was kind of a fun Friday
right before we head out about two thirty near the
end of the show. The culture here is paramount, and
(01:55):
I think what we're seeing is so many different culture wins,
and much of what happened over what I would say
the woke era of the last decade that started. My
big theory here is this started all around the time
that social media took off and that suddenly everybody had
(02:16):
instantaneous news and video on their phones. I think it
drove the entire country crazy. And I think there is
more and more of an acknowledgment of this across the
political spectrum, particularly as it pertains to young people, where
basically every school in America is suddenly circling around and saying, boy,
it was crazy that we were letting kids sit around
(02:38):
in classrooms on social media, texting all day long, and
I really think that there is going to be an
examination of the social media just sort of induction into
this country and all of the toxicity that it unleashed
and all of the falsehoods that it allowed to be
(03:00):
embedded in the United States, in particular because the algorithms
being run out of Silicon Valley were so far left
wing that suddenly Americans thought the entire country was like
the faculty lounge of a Portland area college. And I
(03:22):
think what you've seen is a mass rejection of the
insanity and a return in many ways to common sense.
And so I'm going to break all this down. We
got a lot of fun scheduled for you during the
course of the show. Buck is in the mountains I
believe of North Carolina, not Ashville, but somewhere in the
vicinity of Ashville, and he texted this morning that he
(03:44):
is meeting many of our listeners there and that he
is in a very pro Clay and Buck community. I
think Buck is still scarred from living in New York City.
Producer Ali will remember this when I took him to
the old Miss Alabama game and he had never been
to a college football game as a kid. You know
(04:05):
grew up in New York City. He's always basically under
siege as a New York City Conservative, as a New
York City Republican voter. And I think he's still a
little bit in shock by how nice other parts of
the country are to him. I don't know if anybody
else gets that sent since, but Ali, do you remember
how Buck just couldn't believe how incredibly nice everybody was.
(04:26):
He'd never been to the state of Alabama before, he'd
never been to a college football game. And everywhere we went,
people coming up to us, big fans of the show,
big fans of the fact that he was visiting and
going to his first college football game. And I was like,
a whole different university he had never seen before. And
I know you live in New York City too, but
did you get that sense? And he still is. He
(04:47):
goes around to these other parts of the country, he's like, man,
you know, people really are nice outside of New York City.
When it comes to Bud being punked at first, he
was like, I could get used to this. Yes, yes,
it is like when you actually get outside of New
York in LA And I know we got a lot
of listeners in New York and LA. But this is
(05:09):
why to me, college football fans are the backbone of
American extraordinary awesomeness. And so I trust you, even if
you happen to have the gall or absolute ridiculousness to
vote for teams that they're playing against my University of Tennessee.
Buck is in the Highlands. I think that's a broad area.
(05:30):
I always hate to say for specific you know, vacation time.
Oh he's this exact location or whatever, but that is
where he is, and he says everybody is fabulous to him.
So if you happen to be in that area, you
might well see Buck walking around with with his wife
and their little baby. So he is out. He will
be back on Monday. But I wanted to dive into
(05:51):
this three year anniversary of the raid on mar A Lago.
And it is not coincidental that as I sit down
to talk to all of you Fox News first on Fox,
I'm reading from their Twitter account. This is fifteen minutes ago.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized a special prosecutor, Ed Martin.
(06:12):
And pause here this is the Ed Martin that many
of you will remember we had on this program because
Democrats refused to elevate him to be the US Attorney
for Washington, d C. And so as a result, President
Trump put in place Judge Janine Piro, who is teeming
off left and right over the crime rate in DC.
(06:33):
And we'll talk about that more during the course of
the program. But ed Martin is now in as a
special prosecutor to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud involving Adam Schiff,
Senator from California and Leticia James, the Attorney General of
New York who prosecuted Trump. That is, according to Peter
(06:55):
dou See. Ed Martin was on with US May eighth.
That is an incredible decision and I think will work
out phenomenally well. We also have news that a grand
jury investigation has also been opened in New York into
Letitia James and her behavior surrounding the decision to come
(07:18):
after Trump for civil forfeiture relating to bank loans and
all of that. I believe she got a verdict of
four hundred and fifty million dollars something in that universe,
So that in and of itself is also turning into
a big story. But I wanted to take us back
in time a little bit because I believe this is
(07:39):
when Trump won the Republican nomination for president, and I
think historically this is going to be seen as one
of the biggest own goals, one of the most self
inflicted wounds. I think as soon as Biden and his
Department of Justice decided to try to put Trump in prison,
(07:59):
they actually put Trump back into the White House. I
think it would have been if they had not prosecuted.
I think they would have been in a better position
in the twenty twenty four election. But three days after
the mar A Lago raid, so this is a flashback.
A couple of days after the raid, Merrick Garland finally
had a press conference and said, this is rating the
(08:22):
former president of the United States is a faithful adherence
to the rule of law, and there is no politics
involved in this at all. Remember, Merrick Garland himself signed
off on an unprecedented raid of the former president's home
at Merrick Mara A Lago. Here's cut one.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock
principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy. Upholding
the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without
fear or favor, under my watch. That is precisely what
the Justice Department is doing. There are, however, certain points
(09:02):
I want you to know. First, I personally approved the
decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. Second,
the Department does not take such a decision lightly. Where possible.
It is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as
an alternative to a search, and to narrowly scope any
(09:22):
search that is undertaken.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right, this very interesting in and of itself because
I believe without a doubt, this is what put Trump
into the White House. And I also want to play
a couple of additional cuts that surround this. This was
everyone out there trying to tell you, hey, there's actually
(09:47):
nothing at all unacceptable about this raid. This is completely
and totally normal. This was again three years ago to
the date when I believe Trump officially became the nominee.
Here we go with let's see cut three, former at
the Federal Prosecutor Daniel Goodman saying we need to recognize
(10:11):
and praise Merrick Garland for following the rule of law.
Here's cut three.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Barrick Garland, who has said very consistently, much to the
frustration of some on the left, that he is following
the facts, and he's following the law wherever it goes.
And so he took this action because he had probable
cause to do so. And I'm sure he took this
action because it was a significant and necessary move as
(10:37):
part of this investigation. And if he doesn't take this
action because of the backlash, then it is a political decision.
So we need to recognize and praise Merrick Garland for
following the rule of law.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh my goodness, I mean now that we know also
just how much of a sham it was we thought
at the time. Remember they took the photo of the
classified documents on the ground, They even went through Milanya's
underwear drawer. I mean, this was absolutely bonkers. And now
that we have had that case tossed by thankfully the
(11:14):
federal District Court judge in South Florida, a lot of
people forget that case was even tossed in July of
twenty twenty four, before Trump even won the election, because
it was found to be illegitimate. I do think it's
worthwhile going back and listening to what all of the
talking heads, the left wing loons said, including the now
(11:34):
canceled Stephen Colbert this feels even a little bit more
delicious cut forth, we learned.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
The news of the FBI raid straight from the horse's
ass because the former president posted the news on social media.
These are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful
home mar A Lago and Palm Beach, Florida is currently
under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of
FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a
president of the US, the United States before.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, of course it hasn't.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
No president has ever been as criminal as you are.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Isn't it even more delicious that Stephen Colbert is gone
When you listen to a clip like that. He was
trying to tap dance on what he thought was the
political grave of Donald Trump, he told his unfortunate audience,
and maybe we can grab I don't think this is
in the cuts, guys, but can we grab the audio
I saw Bucker retweet this? Can we grab the audio
(12:31):
of John Oliver being upset at Jay Leno for saying
the job of comedy is to try to talk to
everyone and make fun of a variety of different groups,
and John Oliver just being like, no, it isn't. My
job is to be a left wing propagandist. It really
is amazing how Trump has broken the brains of so
(12:51):
many people in the comedic universe that I think, without
Trump may well have had much longer careers and certainly
would have had much more successful ones. Away. One of
those guys is Howard Stern. I saw the guy was
one of the most revolutionary, whatever you think about him,
one of the most revolutionary, aggressive, relentless in his risk taking.
(13:15):
And now he's turned into a complete and total pussy willow.
He's just a shill for Big That interview he did
with Joe Biden actually made me uncomfortably ill trying to
watch it because it was such ridiculous propaganda. But we
will talk about all that more. Plus, Sidney Sweeney is
(13:35):
still in the news. If you're in Las Vegas. American
Eagle not backing down. They put her on that brand
new massive sphere out there in her Genes. New York
Times has a story up about it. They quote me
in it. I mentioned that I had talked to the
New York Times. Go figure. Their article is dishonest. We
(13:56):
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
Welcome Back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I had
the team pull this. Jay Leno, John Oliver. I was
thinking about it because we played Stephen Colbert exulting for
his audience three years ago over the mar A Lago raid,
and Jay Leno sat down with the Ronald Reagan Institute recently,
(15:28):
and everyone on the left in comedy has been super
frustrated with what he said. But I thought what jay
Leno said was just good basic common sense. And I
think you just contrast what you're hearing from Colbert and
what you're hearing from John Oliver and what you're hearing
from left wing comedy in quotation writers, and listen to
(15:53):
what jay Leno said and tell me if it isn't
good old fashioned common sense here it is funny?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Is funny? You know, it's funny when someone who is
not when you make fun of their side and they
laugh at it. I just find getting out. I don't
think anybody wants to hear a lecture, you know. To me,
it's just when I was with Rodney, it was Alsoso
the Economy Awards. Get to the joke as quickly as possible.
Why shoot for just half an audience all that time?
You know, why not try to get the whole of
(16:21):
I mean, I like to bring people into the big picture.
I don't understand why you would alienate one particular group,
you know, or just don't do it at all. I'm
not saying you have to throw your support or whatever,
but just just do what's funny.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What John Oliver said is comedy can't be for everyone.
It's inherently subjective. I don't think comedy it's just what
people want. I think our show clearly comes from a
point of view. Most of these long stories we do
are not party political. They're about systemic issues. I mean,
I'm rolling my eyes at that. The reality is Jay
(16:58):
Leno is right, ye, And I do think maybe this
is the next book I need to write. I do
think if you go back and look at everyone that
was culturally ascendant in the eighties and the nineties, whether
it was Michael Jordan in sports, whether it was Jay
Leno in late night television and Johnny Carson before him,
(17:19):
whether it was Bill Cosby. Leave aside the allegations against him,
but in terms of the Cosby Show, all of them,
whether it was Sylvester Stallone or Mel Gibson or Arnold Schwarzenegger,
all of them had one thing in common. They believed
America was the greatest country in the history of the world.
(17:40):
I really do think we have a lot of people
of cultural influence now that would argue against that, and
may well even argue that American history isn't even good
at all. And I think that's one of the inherent
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and Buck. Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton Show.
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're rolling
through the Friday edition of the program. A lot of
(19:06):
reaction rolling in. But I do think it is not
a coincidence that the Trump administration, on the three year
anniversary of the mar A Lago raid, is upping the
political pressure on all of his opponents. And I think
the people that he is putting in charge of all
of these different investigations are I believe, a really impressive
(19:29):
collection of legal minds. And I think there's a lot
of nervousness that is quietly starting to set in as
these investigations play themselves out again. Grand juris potentially in
New York, Grand Juris potentially in DC, Grand Jury's potentially
in Florida. Now, there are lots of complexities with all
(19:50):
of these cases. So understand that there are statues of
limitation issues that there are questions. Some people have tried
to say, well, all of Russia is tomorrow Lago, it's
one grand conspiracy, and I've tried to say, well, I
think that's actually a very difficult legal case to make.
So some of these grand jury investigations may not lead
(20:11):
to indictments. In fact, the jury, especially in places like DC,
which is overwhelmingly Democrat, might actually choose not to indict.
But even then, this is becoming I think a significant
story at a minimum for rectifying the historical record. And
(20:32):
some will say, hey, it's sometimes hard to judge history.
In fact, anyone with a functional brain should say this,
it's hard to judge the impact of history when we're
often in the midst of history. And I've told you
guys a lot of times. Boy, I would love to
read books about the twenty twenty four election that will
(20:53):
be written fifty years from now, one hundred years from now,
after the passions of the moment have faded away, and
the story itself can just be told to see how
people in the future will view all of this. I
think that Trump is going to end up being seen
as an incredible heroic figure, and I think his response
(21:15):
to the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania on July thirteenth is
going to go down as one of the most iconic,
indestructibly badass, frankly moments in the history of the American presidency.
In the short term, however, people are so fired up
about Trump that they can't take a step back and
think about what that said about America, what his response
(21:38):
said about America. I can guarantee you one hundred years
from now there will be people running for the presidency
of America that will reference Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania as
a kind of toughness and fortitude that they aspire to
represent in the future in this country. But I think
you can already start to see that using your power
(22:03):
to try to put your political opponent in prison blew
up in the face of the Democrat Party and actually
made Trump stronger. What is the lesson going to be
going forward? Well, if Kamala had gotten into office, the
lesson I think would have been try to put all
(22:23):
of your political opponents in prison for the rest of
your life. And some will say, well, that's what Trump's
trying to do right now, So maybe the lesson didn't
really take I don't think so, because Trump isn't able
to run for political office again, and right now at
least no one that Trump is focused on is his
chief political adversary going forward. What Joe Biden did, what
(22:47):
Merrick Garland allowed to happen, is unprecedented in the history
of American politics. Joe Biden knew his chief political adversary
was Donald Trump, and he decided the best way for
him to beat Trump was to try to put Trump
in prison. Trump is not doing that. The focus on
Barack Obama. Barack Obama's political career is over, and we've
(23:09):
told you he has presidential immunity, likely because of the
Trump precedents, and therefore Obama is not going to actually
face charges. Some people out there with big shows will
tell you that he is. They try to get everybody
riled up. I don't believe that's true. I think the
evidence is virtually certain that Barack Obama will not face charges.
Hillary Clinton's political career is over. If she were to
(23:31):
face some form of charges, that is not ending her
political career. This is very different than what Biden did
and what Merrick Garland did. Now Trump can't run again,
but pretend that by the way. I don't. One of
the challenges is it's hard to even project who the
chief opponent of President Trump would be in twenty twenty eight,
(23:52):
that is, who would the nominee be. But this would
be akin to if Trump were still in his first term,
if he tried to put his chief political opponent in
prison for the rest of his life. That's not what
he's doing. He's investigating what they did to him, and
he's trying to get some form of justice associated with it.
(24:12):
So that is what is underway in the process right
now as we sit here, three years after that Mara
Lago raid. And I believe history is going to show
that Merrick Garland was the worst Attorney general in most
of our lives, That he allowed the Department of Justice
(24:33):
to be taken over by far left wing activists, that
he didn't have a spine and backbone to stand up
to them. That Joe Biden either directly led or was
so mentally and physically out of it that he was
unable to really control the direction of his White House
directly read directly led all of these prosecutions. And I
(24:56):
believe if Joe Biden were not eighty two years old
or whatever, the heck he is. I think you would
see right now that Joe Biden would be almost assuredly
facing charges for a variety of different crimes. I think, honestly,
have you noticed Trump isn't really focusing on Biden at all.
(25:17):
I think Trump, deep down feels a little sad for Biden.
There's not any think about that. There's no all of
the apparatus that Trump has a raid in his Department
of Justice right now, hardly any of it is directed
at Joe Biden himself. It's all the advisors surrounding Biden.
I think Trump sees Biden frankly as a dementia riddled
(25:37):
old man and feels a little bit sad for him.
And I can't say honestly that it's that much different
the way he responded to Hillary when he came in.
Even Kamala Trump's barely mentioned her. Most of his anger
is directed at Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton still for what
(25:58):
they did of people want to weigh in. Jerry from
New York w R Radio. What you got for us,
Jerry E. E.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Some people forget is when Trump first announced, which is
his run for presidents, almost a decade ago, Helbert had
him on and loved him, and you know, people like
Morning Joe, you know, shows like Morning Joe couldn't get
enough of him because they figured they'd send him to
the slaughterhouse against against Hillary is the easiest opponent. But
if you was so corrupt, the fact that they would
(26:26):
promote him makes them the corrupt ones.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah. Well, look, I mean we've talked a lot about
this program. They didn't realize what Trump was, or what
I think is his unique political abilities until it was
too late for them. And this is why I've said
on the show, and I will I will go to
the mat for it twenty twenty seven, as soon as
the midterms are over, because you're going to hear a
lot of oh my goodness, we have to win the
(26:51):
House of Representatives because Trump is Adolf Hitler. Trump is
a dictator. Trump is an authoritarian. We know what the
Democrat message is going to be. They're going to run
it like crazy all the way through twenty twenty six,
and then as soon as the midterms are over, they
may come out and try to impeach Trump, but we
all know that's just political show. If they win the
(27:12):
House of Representatives, but very quickly in twenty twenty seven,
as all of the Democrats start to announce, and as
the Republicans that are going to run for president get
prepared to announce, You're going to see a massive pivot
in media. You're going to see it from the Democrat Party.
You're going to see it all start to take place.
And what they are going to say is something very
(27:34):
different than what they've said for the first twelve years
of Trump. They are going to say he is one
of the most talented politicians of any of our lives,
and Republicans are never going to be able to replace
the vote tallies that Trump produced. Some of you think
that I'm crazy on this. I said this on Fox
Business yesterday, I think with Stuart Varney on his show,
(27:57):
and he thought it was a crazy argument. I'm telling
you you they think it sounds crazy. But they are
going to pivot almost overnight as soon as the midterms
are over from Trump is Hitler to Republicans are never
going to be able to have as talented as a
politician as Donald Trump for the rest of their lives.
They're going to say it doesn't work for jd Vance.
(28:18):
They're going to say it doesn't work for Marco Rubio,
for Ted Cruz, for anybody else that's thinking about running.
They are going to say none of them are going
to be able to approach Trump's appeal. You're going to
move very quickly from Trump is Hitler to Trump is
one of the most talented politicians in any of our lives,
and Republicans are never going to be able to replace him.
I'm just telling you exactly how it's going to go.
(28:40):
Sometime about May or June of twenty twenty seven, you're
going to look up and you're going to say, holy crap,
Clay was exactly right. They have pivoted overnight from Trump
is an existential threat to our country. He's going to
get us into World War three. He is hitler. He
hates black people, he hates Hispanic people, he hates Asian people.
To Overnight boy, he's one of the most skilled politicians
(29:03):
we've ever seen. We'll take some of your calls. By
the way, it is Friday, eight hundred two two two
eight eight two. As I said, I really think you're
gonna enjoy this conversation we're going to have at the
top of the next hour with Grant Napier, who is
was formerly a basketball announcer fired for simply saying all
lives matter. And I do think that the conversation that
(29:23):
we had yesterday was an interesting one. Think about how
much different all of the BLM era would have been
if instead of focusing on black lives that were in
some way implicated or taken by police officers. Imagine if
we had actually had all lives protest conversations, all lives
(29:46):
matter protests, because that was considered racist back in twenty
twenty to say all lives matter, it was detracting from
Black lives matter. What isn't it crazy that we had
that entire twenty twenty era. So many people lost their
jobs and the overall violent crime rate skyrocketed. Thousands of
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additional people who should be alive today were murdered, most
of them were black, and all of that happened because
of Black Lives Matter protests. I don't think there is
a single positive that came out of the Black Lives
Matter protest. Even the Black Lives Matter organization itself, which
raised hundreds of millions of dollars, basically squandered all that money.
(30:30):
And imagine if we had a national conversation back in
twenty twenty if we had just said, hey, let's really
try to address violent crime. Let's try to prove that
all lives matter by having a massive attempt to cut
the murder rate in half. Do you know who would
(30:50):
benefit the most by the murder rate being cut in half?
Black people? Yet we didn't have that conversation. Instead, if
you said all lives matter, let's try to have less death,
Let's try to have less violent crime across the entire
racial spectrum. Let's have less murder, which I would think
(31:11):
everybody would be in favor of. You got fired. It's
one of the craziest things I've ever heard of, ever seen.
That is how that is how bonkers the entire country
went in the summer of twenty twenty and one of
the biggest penalty cancelation stories that was out there was
(31:35):
Grant Napier, who simply was no longer allowed to work
in sports. It's not even like he was a politician
for simply tweeting all lives matter. That conversation the next hour,
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
So welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate
all of you hanging out with us. As we were
rolling through the Friday edition of the program, a lot
of you weighing in, so I'm gonna try to take
as many of these reactions and your calls as I can.
Jerry from we just had this one right or is
(33:58):
that a different one? I'm caught up in my numbers here.
Let's see Teddy from Greensboro, North Carolina DD fire Away.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
If he's in Highlands, he needs to go to bust
your butt falls and jump off to Cliff. I'm a
sixty two year old man and I did it for
the first time this past summer. He should try.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I have no idea what he's talking about I have
never been to the Highlands, but people in Colorado are
upset because I said that Buck was in the mountains
and that they're not the real mountains. Here is cc
Donnie from Colorado. Hey, Clay Donny from Colorado.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Love the show. You guys are doing great.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
When you said Buck was in the mountains, I was like,
oh cool, maybe I'll run into him.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
He's in Tennessee. Those aren't mountains. I love to laugh
at the end? Is it now? I mean they're called
the Great Smoky Mountains. Klingland's dome is pretty high up
in the sky. I don't know. Is this height shaming?
Is this even allowed? Are people from Colorado able to
(35:06):
just call in and ridicule the idea that other people
can go to the mountains? Is no other mountain? I mean,
I like Colorado. It's a fabulous state. I wish it
was not run by communists. But I gotta tell you,
I feel like the Great Smoky Mountains the most visited
national park in the entire country. I think Colorado guy there,
(35:28):
I think you come to the Great Smoky Mountains with
that kind of take. I'm just gonna say, you might
be running down the Mountain, the Great Smoky Mountain from
Klingman's Dome, amazingly high in the sky with your tail
tuck between your legs. I think people in the mountains
of Tennessee, the mountains of North Carolina would take offense
(35:48):
to your mountain shaming because you happen to live in Colorado.
In my opinion, Buck is in the mountains, not the
Colorado Mountains. I verage I think about the Colorado mounta
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we come back. One of the most ridiculous casualties of
the BLM era. If you said all lives matter in
the summer of twenty twenty, you could lose your job.
(36:30):
Think about how bonkers that is. And was this guy
lost his job for that? Grant Napier. He was the
radio announcer for the Sacramento Kings. I think you guys
are going to want to hear this story, and I
think it's important to remember just how crazy those communists
were we'll talk about it next
Welcome in Friday edition Klay Travis buck Sexton show. Let's
have some fun. We're stacking wins in every direction. It
is the three year anniversary of the Mara a Lago raid,
for those of you who remember that day. I don't
think it's consequential that we have some breaking news today
(00:23):
on Department of Justice investigations. We are going to talk
about that and how all of these things rolled together.
We got a couple of really interesting guests. Grant Napier
for those of you out in the Sacramento area. Grant
was the play by play voice of the Sacramento Kings,
the NBA franchise out there. They fired him during the
(00:46):
days of BLM for simply tweeting All Lives Matter. It's
one of the most ridiculous cancelations that happened in a
several year span filled with many different ridiculous cancelations. Good
news he has got a new job. But I do
think that story is important to reflect upon, and I
(01:07):
think you will like the direction that Ed has taken
as a redemptive arc. We'll talk about that a little
bit in the second hour. He is set to join
us in the third hour. The sort of Hollywood woke
industrial complex is collapsing, and that's occurring even in superhero movies,
which used to be the flourishing elements of the Hollywood
(01:33):
establishment that was what made all their money. What's going
on there? Ian Miller has got an interesting piece about
the finances behind big Hollywood failures even in superhero movies,
and I thought that was kind of a fun Friday
right before we head out about two thirty near the
end of the show. The culture here is paramount, and
(01:55):
I think what we're seeing is so many different culture wins,
and much of what happened over what I would say
the woke era of the last decade that started. My
big theory here is this started all around the time
that social media took off and that suddenly everybody had
(02:16):
instantaneous news and video on their phones. I think it
drove the entire country crazy. And I think there is
more and more of an acknowledgment of this across the
political spectrum, particularly as it pertains to young people, where
basically every school in America is suddenly circling around and saying, boy,
it was crazy that we were letting kids sit around
(02:38):
in classrooms on social media, texting all day long, and
I really think that there is going to be an
examination of the social media just sort of induction into
this country and all of the toxicity that it unleashed
and all of the falsehoods that it allowed to be
(03:00):
embedded in the United States, in particular because the algorithms
being run out of Silicon Valley were so far left
wing that suddenly Americans thought the entire country was like
the faculty lounge of a Portland area college. And I
(03:22):
think what you've seen is a mass rejection of the
insanity and a return in many ways to common sense.
And so I'm going to break all this down. We
got a lot of fun scheduled for you during the
course of the show. Buck is in the mountains I
believe of North Carolina, not Ashville, but somewhere in the
vicinity of Ashville, and he texted this morning that he
(03:44):
is meeting many of our listeners there and that he
is in a very pro Clay and Buck community. I
think Buck is still scarred from living in New York City.
Producer Ali will remember this when I took him to
the old Miss Alabama game and he had never been
to a college football game as a kid. You know
(04:05):
grew up in New York City. He's always basically under
siege as a New York City Conservative, as a New
York City Republican voter. And I think he's still a
little bit in shock by how nice other parts of
the country are to him. I don't know if anybody
else gets that sent since, but Ali, do you remember
how Buck just couldn't believe how incredibly nice everybody was.
(04:26):
He'd never been to the state of Alabama before, he'd
never been to a college football game. And everywhere we went,
people coming up to us, big fans of the show,
big fans of the fact that he was visiting and
going to his first college football game. And I was like,
a whole different university he had never seen before. And
I know you live in New York City too, but
did you get that sense? And he still is. He
(04:47):
goes around to these other parts of the country, he's like, man,
you know, people really are nice outside of New York City.
When it comes to Bud being punked at first, he
was like, I could get used to this. Yes, yes,
it is like when you actually get outside of New
York in LA And I know we got a lot
of listeners in New York and LA. But this is
(05:09):
why to me, college football fans are the backbone of
American extraordinary awesomeness. And so I trust you, even if
you happen to have the gall or absolute ridiculousness to
vote for teams that they're playing against my University of Tennessee.
Buck is in the Highlands. I think that's a broad area.
(05:30):
I always hate to say for specific you know, vacation time.
Oh he's this exact location or whatever, but that is
where he is, and he says everybody is fabulous to him.
So if you happen to be in that area, you
might well see Buck walking around with with his wife
and their little baby. So he is out. He will
be back on Monday. But I wanted to dive into
(05:51):
this three year anniversary of the raid on mar A Lago.
And it is not coincidental that as I sit down
to talk to all of you Fox News first on Fox,
I'm reading from their Twitter account. This is fifteen minutes ago.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized a special prosecutor, Ed Martin.
(06:12):
And pause here this is the Ed Martin that many
of you will remember we had on this program because
Democrats refused to elevate him to be the US Attorney
for Washington, d C. And so as a result, President
Trump put in place Judge Janine Piro, who is teeming
off left and right over the crime rate in DC.
(06:33):
And we'll talk about that more during the course of
the program. But ed Martin is now in as a
special prosecutor to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud involving Adam Schiff,
Senator from California and Leticia James, the Attorney General of
New York who prosecuted Trump. That is, according to Peter
(06:55):
dou See. Ed Martin was on with US May eighth.
That is an incredible decision and I think will work
out phenomenally well. We also have news that a grand
jury investigation has also been opened in New York into
Letitia James and her behavior surrounding the decision to come
(07:18):
after Trump for civil forfeiture relating to bank loans and
all of that. I believe she got a verdict of
four hundred and fifty million dollars something in that universe,
So that in and of itself is also turning into
a big story. But I wanted to take us back
in time a little bit because I believe this is
(07:39):
when Trump won the Republican nomination for president, and I
think historically this is going to be seen as one
of the biggest own goals, one of the most self
inflicted wounds. I think as soon as Biden and his
Department of Justice decided to try to put Trump in prison,
(07:59):
they actually put Trump back into the White House. I
think it would have been if they had not prosecuted.
I think they would have been in a better position
in the twenty twenty four election. But three days after
the mar A Lago raid, so this is a flashback.
A couple of days after the raid, Merrick Garland finally
had a press conference and said, this is rating the
(08:22):
former president of the United States is a faithful adherence
to the rule of law, and there is no politics
involved in this at all. Remember, Merrick Garland himself signed
off on an unprecedented raid of the former president's home
at Merrick Mara A Lago. Here's cut one.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock
principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy. Upholding
the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without
fear or favor, under my watch. That is precisely what
the Justice Department is doing. There are, however, certain points
(09:02):
I want you to know. First, I personally approved the
decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. Second,
the Department does not take such a decision lightly. Where possible.
It is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as
an alternative to a search, and to narrowly scope any
(09:22):
search that is undertaken.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right, this very interesting in and of itself because
I believe without a doubt, this is what put Trump
into the White House. And I also want to play
a couple of additional cuts that surround this. This was
everyone out there trying to tell you, hey, there's actually
(09:47):
nothing at all unacceptable about this raid. This is completely
and totally normal. This was again three years ago to
the date when I believe Trump officially became the nominee.
Here we go with let's see cut three, former at
the Federal Prosecutor Daniel Goodman saying we need to recognize
(10:11):
and praise Merrick Garland for following the rule of law.
Here's cut three.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Barrick Garland, who has said very consistently, much to the
frustration of some on the left, that he is following
the facts, and he's following the law wherever it goes.
And so he took this action because he had probable
cause to do so. And I'm sure he took this
action because it was a significant and necessary move as
(10:37):
part of this investigation. And if he doesn't take this
action because of the backlash, then it is a political decision.
So we need to recognize and praise Merrick Garland for
following the rule of law.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh my goodness, I mean now that we know also
just how much of a sham it was we thought
at the time. Remember they took the photo of the
classified documents on the ground, They even went through Milanya's
underwear drawer. I mean, this was absolutely bonkers. And now
that we have had that case tossed by thankfully the
(11:14):
federal District Court judge in South Florida, a lot of
people forget that case was even tossed in July of
twenty twenty four, before Trump even won the election, because
it was found to be illegitimate. I do think it's
worthwhile going back and listening to what all of the
talking heads, the left wing loons said, including the now
(11:34):
canceled Stephen Colbert this feels even a little bit more
delicious cut forth, we learned.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
The news of the FBI raid straight from the horse's
ass because the former president posted the news on social media.
These are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful
home mar A Lago and Palm Beach, Florida is currently
under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of
FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a
president of the US, the United States before.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, of course it hasn't.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
No president has ever been as criminal as you are.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Isn't it even more delicious that Stephen Colbert is gone
When you listen to a clip like that. He was
trying to tap dance on what he thought was the
political grave of Donald Trump, he told his unfortunate audience,
and maybe we can grab I don't think this is
in the cuts, guys, but can we grab the audio
I saw Bucker retweet this? Can we grab the audio
(12:31):
of John Oliver being upset at Jay Leno for saying
the job of comedy is to try to talk to
everyone and make fun of a variety of different groups,
and John Oliver just being like, no, it isn't. My
job is to be a left wing propagandist. It really
is amazing how Trump has broken the brains of so
(12:51):
many people in the comedic universe that I think, without
Trump may well have had much longer careers and certainly
would have had much more successful ones. Away. One of
those guys is Howard Stern. I saw the guy was
one of the most revolutionary, whatever you think about him,
one of the most revolutionary, aggressive, relentless in his risk taking.
(13:15):
And now he's turned into a complete and total pussy willow.
He's just a shill for Big That interview he did
with Joe Biden actually made me uncomfortably ill trying to
watch it because it was such ridiculous propaganda. But we
will talk about all that more. Plus, Sidney Sweeney is
(13:35):
still in the news. If you're in Las Vegas. American
Eagle not backing down. They put her on that brand
new massive sphere out there in her Genes. New York
Times has a story up about it. They quote me
in it. I mentioned that I had talked to the
New York Times. Go figure. Their article is dishonest. We
(13:56):
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
Welcome Back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I had
the team pull this. Jay Leno, John Oliver. I was
thinking about it because we played Stephen Colbert exulting for
his audience three years ago over the mar A Lago raid,
and Jay Leno sat down with the Ronald Reagan Institute recently,
(15:28):
and everyone on the left in comedy has been super
frustrated with what he said. But I thought what jay
Leno said was just good basic common sense. And I
think you just contrast what you're hearing from Colbert and
what you're hearing from John Oliver and what you're hearing
from left wing comedy in quotation writers, and listen to
(15:53):
what jay Leno said and tell me if it isn't
good old fashioned common sense here it is funny?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Is funny? You know, it's funny when someone who is
not when you make fun of their side and they
laugh at it. I just find getting out. I don't
think anybody wants to hear a lecture, you know. To me,
it's just when I was with Rodney, it was Alsoso
the Economy Awards. Get to the joke as quickly as possible.
Why shoot for just half an audience all that time?
You know, why not try to get the whole of
(16:21):
I mean, I like to bring people into the big picture.
I don't understand why you would alienate one particular group,
you know, or just don't do it at all. I'm
not saying you have to throw your support or whatever,
but just just do what's funny.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What John Oliver said is comedy can't be for everyone.
It's inherently subjective. I don't think comedy it's just what
people want. I think our show clearly comes from a
point of view. Most of these long stories we do
are not party political. They're about systemic issues. I mean,
I'm rolling my eyes at that. The reality is Jay
(16:58):
Leno is right, ye, And I do think maybe this
is the next book I need to write. I do
think if you go back and look at everyone that
was culturally ascendant in the eighties and the nineties, whether
it was Michael Jordan in sports, whether it was Jay
Leno in late night television and Johnny Carson before him,
(17:19):
whether it was Bill Cosby. Leave aside the allegations against him,
but in terms of the Cosby Show, all of them,
whether it was Sylvester Stallone or Mel Gibson or Arnold Schwarzenegger,
all of them had one thing in common. They believed
America was the greatest country in the history of the world.
(17:40):
I really do think we have a lot of people
of cultural influence now that would argue against that, and
may well even argue that American history isn't even good
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and Buck. Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton Show.
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're rolling
through the Friday edition of the program. A lot of
(19:06):
reaction rolling in. But I do think it is not
a coincidence that the Trump administration, on the three year
anniversary of the mar A Lago raid, is upping the
political pressure on all of his opponents. And I think
the people that he is putting in charge of all
of these different investigations are I believe, a really impressive
(19:29):
collection of legal minds. And I think there's a lot
of nervousness that is quietly starting to set in as
these investigations play themselves out again. Grand juris potentially in
New York, Grand Juris potentially in DC, Grand Jury's potentially
in Florida. Now, there are lots of complexities with all
(19:50):
of these cases. So understand that there are statues of
limitation issues that there are questions. Some people have tried
to say, well, all of Russia is tomorrow Lago, it's
one grand conspiracy, and I've tried to say, well, I
think that's actually a very difficult legal case to make.
So some of these grand jury investigations may not lead
(20:11):
to indictments. In fact, the jury, especially in places like DC,
which is overwhelmingly Democrat, might actually choose not to indict.
But even then, this is becoming I think a significant
story at a minimum for rectifying the historical record. And
(20:32):
some will say, hey, it's sometimes hard to judge history.
In fact, anyone with a functional brain should say this,
it's hard to judge the impact of history when we're
often in the midst of history. And I've told you
guys a lot of times. Boy, I would love to
read books about the twenty twenty four election that will
(20:53):
be written fifty years from now, one hundred years from now,
after the passions of the moment have faded away, and
the story itself can just be told to see how
people in the future will view all of this. I
think that Trump is going to end up being seen
as an incredible heroic figure, and I think his response
(21:15):
to the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania on July thirteenth is
going to go down as one of the most iconic,
indestructibly badass, frankly moments in the history of the American presidency.
In the short term, however, people are so fired up
about Trump that they can't take a step back and
think about what that said about America, what his response
(21:38):
said about America. I can guarantee you one hundred years
from now there will be people running for the presidency
of America that will reference Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania as
a kind of toughness and fortitude that they aspire to
represent in the future in this country. But I think
you can already start to see that using your power
(22:03):
to try to put your political opponent in prison blew
up in the face of the Democrat Party and actually
made Trump stronger. What is the lesson going to be
going forward? Well, if Kamala had gotten into office, the
lesson I think would have been try to put all
(22:23):
of your political opponents in prison for the rest of
your life. And some will say, well, that's what Trump's
trying to do right now, So maybe the lesson didn't
really take I don't think so, because Trump isn't able
to run for political office again, and right now at
least no one that Trump is focused on is his
chief political adversary going forward. What Joe Biden did, what
(22:47):
Merrick Garland allowed to happen, is unprecedented in the history
of American politics. Joe Biden knew his chief political adversary
was Donald Trump, and he decided the best way for
him to beat Trump was to try to put Trump
in prison. Trump is not doing that. The focus on
Barack Obama. Barack Obama's political career is over, and we've
(23:09):
told you he has presidential immunity, likely because of the
Trump precedents, and therefore Obama is not going to actually
face charges. Some people out there with big shows will
tell you that he is. They try to get everybody
riled up. I don't believe that's true. I think the
evidence is virtually certain that Barack Obama will not face charges.
Hillary Clinton's political career is over. If she were to
(23:31):
face some form of charges, that is not ending her
political career. This is very different than what Biden did
and what Merrick Garland did. Now Trump can't run again,
but pretend that by the way. I don't. One of
the challenges is it's hard to even project who the
chief opponent of President Trump would be in twenty twenty eight,
(23:52):
that is, who would the nominee be. But this would
be akin to if Trump were still in his first term,
if he tried to put his chief political opponent in
prison for the rest of his life. That's not what
he's doing. He's investigating what they did to him, and
he's trying to get some form of justice associated with it.
(24:12):
So that is what is underway in the process right
now as we sit here, three years after that Mara
Lago raid. And I believe history is going to show
that Merrick Garland was the worst Attorney general in most
of our lives, That he allowed the Department of Justice
(24:33):
to be taken over by far left wing activists, that
he didn't have a spine and backbone to stand up
to them. That Joe Biden either directly led or was
so mentally and physically out of it that he was
unable to really control the direction of his White House
directly read directly led all of these prosecutions. And I
(24:56):
believe if Joe Biden were not eighty two years old
or whatever, the heck he is. I think you would
see right now that Joe Biden would be almost assuredly
facing charges for a variety of different crimes. I think, honestly,
have you noticed Trump isn't really focusing on Biden at all.
(25:17):
I think Trump, deep down feels a little sad for Biden.
There's not any think about that. There's no all of
the apparatus that Trump has a raid in his Department
of Justice right now, hardly any of it is directed
at Joe Biden himself. It's all the advisors surrounding Biden.
I think Trump sees Biden frankly as a dementia riddled
(25:37):
old man and feels a little bit sad for him.
And I can't say honestly that it's that much different
the way he responded to Hillary when he came in.
Even Kamala Trump's barely mentioned her. Most of his anger
is directed at Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton still for what
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they did of people want to weigh in. Jerry from
New York w R Radio. What you got for us,
Jerry E. E.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Some people forget is when Trump first announced, which is
his run for presidents, almost a decade ago, Helbert had
him on and loved him, and you know, people like
Morning Joe, you know, shows like Morning Joe couldn't get
enough of him because they figured they'd send him to
the slaughterhouse against against Hillary is the easiest opponent. But
if you was so corrupt, the fact that they would
(26:26):
promote him makes them the corrupt ones.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah. Well, look, I mean we've talked a lot about
this program. They didn't realize what Trump was, or what
I think is his unique political abilities until it was
too late for them. And this is why I've said
on the show, and I will I will go to
the mat for it twenty twenty seven, as soon as
the midterms are over, because you're going to hear a
lot of oh my goodness, we have to win the
(26:51):
House of Representatives because Trump is Adolf Hitler. Trump is
a dictator. Trump is an authoritarian. We know what the
Democrat message is going to be. They're going to run
it like crazy all the way through twenty twenty six,
and then as soon as the midterms are over, they
may come out and try to impeach Trump, but we
all know that's just political show. If they win the
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House of Representatives, but very quickly in twenty twenty seven,
as all of the Democrats start to announce, and as
the Republicans that are going to run for president get
prepared to announce, You're going to see a massive pivot
in media. You're going to see it from the Democrat Party.
You're going to see it all start to take place.
And what they are going to say is something very
(27:34):
different than what they've said for the first twelve years
of Trump. They are going to say he is one
of the most talented politicians of any of our lives,
and Republicans are never going to be able to replace
the vote tallies that Trump produced. Some of you think
that I'm crazy on this. I said this on Fox
Business yesterday, I think with Stuart Varney on his show,
(27:57):
and he thought it was a crazy argument. I'm telling
you you they think it sounds crazy. But they are
going to pivot almost overnight as soon as the midterms
are over from Trump is Hitler to Republicans are never
going to be able to have as talented as a
politician as Donald Trump for the rest of their lives.
They're going to say it doesn't work for jd Vance.
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They're going to say it doesn't work for Marco Rubio,
for Ted Cruz, for anybody else that's thinking about running.
They are going to say none of them are going
to be able to approach Trump's appeal. You're going to
move very quickly from Trump is Hitler to Trump is
one of the most talented politicians in any of our lives,
and Republicans are never going to be able to replace him.
I'm just telling you exactly how it's going to go.
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Sometime about May or June of twenty twenty seven, you're
going to look up and you're going to say, holy crap,
Clay was exactly right. They have pivoted overnight from Trump
is an existential threat to our country. He's going to
get us into World War three. He is hitler. He
hates black people, he hates Hispanic people, he hates Asian people.
To Overnight boy, he's one of the most skilled politicians
(29:03):
we've ever seen. We'll take some of your calls. By
the way, it is Friday, eight hundred two two two
eight eight two. As I said, I really think you're
gonna enjoy this conversation we're going to have at the
top of the next hour with Grant Napier, who is
was formerly a basketball announcer fired for simply saying all
lives matter. And I do think that the conversation that
(29:23):
we had yesterday was an interesting one. Think about how
much different all of the BLM era would have been
if instead of focusing on black lives that were in
some way implicated or taken by police officers. Imagine if
we had actually had all lives protest conversations, all lives
(29:46):
matter protests, because that was considered racist back in twenty
twenty to say all lives matter, it was detracting from
Black lives matter. What isn't it crazy that we had
that entire twenty twenty era. So many people lost their
jobs and the overall violent crime rate skyrocketed. Thousands of
(30:09):
additional people who should be alive today were murdered, most
of them were black, and all of that happened because
of Black Lives Matter protests. I don't think there is
a single positive that came out of the Black Lives
Matter protest. Even the Black Lives Matter organization itself, which
raised hundreds of millions of dollars, basically squandered all that money.
(30:30):
And imagine if we had a national conversation back in
twenty twenty if we had just said, hey, let's really
try to address violent crime. Let's try to prove that
all lives matter by having a massive attempt to cut
the murder rate in half. Do you know who would
(30:50):
benefit the most by the murder rate being cut in half?
Black people? Yet we didn't have that conversation. Instead, if
you said all lives matter, let's try to have less death,
Let's try to have less violent crime across the entire
racial spectrum. Let's have less murder, which I would think
(31:11):
everybody would be in favor of. You got fired. It's
one of the craziest things I've ever heard of, ever seen.
That is how that is how bonkers the entire country
went in the summer of twenty twenty and one of
the biggest penalty cancelation stories that was out there was
(31:35):
Grant Napier, who simply was no longer allowed to work
in sports. It's not even like he was a politician
for simply tweeting all lives matter. That conversation the next hour,
I think is an important one that we need to
have all of that headed that this direction. But in
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Speaker 5 (33:28):
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
So welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate
all of you hanging out with us. As we were
rolling through the Friday edition of the program, a lot
of you weighing in, so I'm gonna try to take
as many of these reactions and your calls as I can.
Jerry from we just had this one right or is
(33:58):
that a different one? I'm caught up in my numbers here.
Let's see Teddy from Greensboro, North Carolina DD fire Away.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
If he's in Highlands, he needs to go to bust
your butt falls and jump off to Cliff. I'm a
sixty two year old man and I did it for
the first time this past summer. He should try.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I have no idea what he's talking about I have
never been to the Highlands, but people in Colorado are
upset because I said that Buck was in the mountains
and that they're not the real mountains. Here is cc
Donnie from Colorado. Hey, Clay Donny from Colorado.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Love the show. You guys are doing great.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
When you said Buck was in the mountains, I was like,
oh cool, maybe I'll run into him.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
He's in Tennessee. Those aren't mountains. I love to laugh
at the end? Is it now? I mean they're called
the Great Smoky Mountains. Klingland's dome is pretty high up
in the sky. I don't know. Is this height shaming?
Is this even allowed? Are people from Colorado able to
(35:06):
just call in and ridicule the idea that other people
can go to the mountains? Is no other mountain? I mean,
I like Colorado. It's a fabulous state. I wish it
was not run by communists. But I gotta tell you,
I feel like the Great Smoky Mountains the most visited
national park in the entire country. I think Colorado guy there,
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I think you come to the Great Smoky Mountains with
that kind of take. I'm just gonna say, you might
be running down the Mountain, the Great Smoky Mountain from
Klingman's Dome, amazingly high in the sky with your tail
tuck between your legs. I think people in the mountains
of Tennessee, the mountains of North Carolina would take offense
(35:48):
to your mountain shaming because you happen to live in Colorado.
In my opinion, Buck is in the mountains, not the
Colorado Mountains. I verage I think about the Colorado mounta
by the way, I think about Cores light. I wouldn't
mind a Cores light right now. It was a great
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people want to drink beer instead of made people want
to take your beer and throw it at television. Screed
we come back. One of the most ridiculous casualties of
the BLM era. If you said all lives matter in
the summer of twenty twenty, you could lose your job.
(36:30):
Think about how bonkers that is. And was this guy
lost his job for that? Grant Napier. He was the
radio announcer for the Sacramento Kings. I think you guys
are going to want to hear this story, and I
think it's important to remember just how crazy those communists
were we'll talk about it next
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