October 18, 2024 • 37 mins
President Trump puts on tremendous performance at Al Smith dinner. Clips from Jim Gaffigan and Trump at the dinner. Kamala didn't show up, sent unfunny skit video mocking Catholics. Al Sharpton calls Trump's Al Smith routine "offensive." Dems continue to claim Trump is losing it. CNN's Stelter praises Trump speech. Caller wants to know if Clay wrote Trump's jokes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate
all of you hanging out with us. As voting continues
to grow all over the country, we encourage you to
get out cast your ballot as early as you possibly can,
get those absentee ballots in, get those early voting Donald
(00:22):
Trump votes in, get your friends and family out to
the polls. Next week will be two weeks and the
numbers are looking good. But we've got to keep pouring
on more and more steam, more and more momentum here
as we move throughout the course of the show, we're
gonna be having some fun with you on the Friday
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edition of the program, in particular, Buck, last night, have
you ever been to the Al Smith Dinner? Did you
do this at all when you were a kid? Know
anything about at all about it? Like, I mean, I'm
not fancy enough for the Al Smith Dinner? Will Yeah, Yeah,
I've never been. I I know it's a big event,
so let me kind of set the table. Trump last
night was at the Al Smith Dinner, which is a
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major Catholic fundraiser that basically has been going on, I
believe since the nineteen twenties and every president in the
last forty some odd years. Fifty sixty years has gone
except for Walter Mondale in nineteen eighty four, and we
know how crushed he ended up, being forty nine to one.
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The only state he won was Minnesota. So surprising to
a lot of people that Kamala Harris did not show up.
And I was sitting on Sean Hannity's show last night
and they went to watch the Jim Gaffigan jokes and
then they didn't think Trump was going to talk very long.
But I ended up watching the whole thing live as
I was on Sean Hannity's show, and I have to say,
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Trump absolutely killed it. And for those of you who
have not heard any of the jokes that he told
or watched the full twenty six minutes ESK I rarely
say this, I would encourage you to go watch this.
It's posted at clayanbuck dot com. It's on my Twitter
feed at Claytravis. You can go grab it. Your kids
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and your grandkids are gonna be talking about this because
it is going to ricochet through all of social media
because Trump was just so good and Kamala not being
there is yet another swing in a miss by her campaign,
which seems panicked and unaware of what strategy they are
(02:39):
going to deploy. But I thought we could start off
buck by just having some laughs. This was I thought
Trump at his absolute best. But before we get to that,
I thought Jim Gaffigan was actually decent as well. Here
he makes a joke. You can hear the audience grown
a bit about the Democrats claiming that they care a
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great deal about democracy and then feeling the need to
stage a coup to put Kamala in instead of Biden.
Listen to cut nine.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The Democrats have been telling us Trump Trump's reelection is
a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned
of this threat they staged a coup. I wasted there,
democratically elected incumbent and installed Kamala Harris. In other words,
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all her dreams have come true. It really makes you
consider the power of prayer, right, Cardinal Sometimes prayers take
three and a half years. And at George cloniop.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Ed, okay, so pretty good line there. I thought Gaffigan
was fine. His job is to make fun of everybody.
But I thought, Buck, there were a series of really
good jokes from Trump, and let's let's play some of
these because I think people will enjoy this. Trump said
(04:02):
he's not worried about white dudes for Harris. Why not
listen to cut fourteen.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
There's a group called white Dudes for Harris. Have you
seen this? White Dudes for Harris?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Anybody know some of you hear white dudes doesn't sound likeing.
But I'm not worried about them at all because their
wives and their wives lovers.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Are all voting for me. Every one of those people
are voting with me.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean, Buck, that is a really, really great line.
Here's another one that I loved. Here is Trump talking
about the fact that he didn't know men could have
periods until Democrats told him.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
This is cut fifteen.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I used to think that Democrats were crazy for saying
that men have periods, but then I met Tim Walls.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
A couple more buck that I loved. Kamala isn't there.
Trump gave his explanation for how they could have gotten
her to show up for this charity event. Cut sixteen.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Poles are indicating I'm leading big with the Catholic vote,
as I should be, as I should do.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But I don't think Kamala has given up yet. She hasn't.
Instead of attending tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
She's in Michigan receiving communion from Gretchen Whitmer.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
That's not a pretty sight.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
But Catholics, please don't be too insulted by Kamala's absence.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Democrats really wanted to have someone not be with us
this evening.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
They would have just sent Joe Biden.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
This was good stuff, Buck, I thought Trump did did
very well in the roast section of this. And it's
interesting for me as I was watching this morning the
various shows I watched Trump on Fox and Friends that
I saw a bit of mourning Joe to see how
real and upset they are.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
At Well, yeah, how did they cover it on Morning Joe?
I was actually curious what their response would be.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Oh there, They actually focused on how Trump is just
obsessed with the sixty minutes interview that Kamala did. I'm sorry,
with the Brett Baer interview that Kamala did still and
they I mean, I didn't watch all four hours, so
I didn't actually get to all the conversations they were
having about it. But I can just tell you the
Kamala's brave is the is the line of the week.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Kamala's brave for sitting down once.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
With Brett Bear from Fox News and they didn't really
want to get on too much into the Alsmith dinner.
I think Clay, because it's obviously weird that she's not there.
It's weird that she did not show up very much
show weird. And and she did a.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Canned prepared with Molly what's her name from Bomb and
he did it like a four minute video or something
that was super weird.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
It was it was true, truly horrible.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
It was.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It was cringe inducing. It was not funny.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
And I think that the only credit that I'll give
to Democrats is for every time now I want to
say Kamala should have been there, she should have shown up.
There's something that should have been different in this strategy.
Every time she shows up anywhere, it's horrible, no matter
how stage managed it is, no matter how much she
gets prepped for it. Every time Kamala is exposed to
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the public, the numbers start to go against her or
keep going against her. And so Clay, that's where I
think we're in a presidential election and this is going
to be the case. Well, I think for the foreseeable
where a degree of showmanship and media savvy is part
of the game.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
And I'm not just saying this Joe Biden.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
It's not just because Buck Island sunk into the depths
of the ocean and Biden let all Buck Island residents down.
For all of the dementia and all of the shouty
bully stuff that Biden does, he does know when to grid.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
He does have his lines.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
He does he has been trained for fifty years to
be this politician figure, and he's able to pull that off.
Kamala Harris is not good at this. She is not
somebody who, based on the merits of her political skills,
would have gotten ahead. I know, people say, well, how
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is she vice president?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
She was picked?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
You know, she was chosen, and she wasn't chosen because
she was so amazing and did some on the primary.
How did she become the presidential nominee? She was chosen?
How did she become the district attorney chosen? I mean,
you look at all these things in that case by
the Democrat apparatus, But she's not good.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
At winning people over. And I think as much as
it was weird, she wasn't there. What I'm trying to
say is.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I think it would have been worse if she was clay,
because that's how bad at this she is. She can't
be funny, she can't be likable, and we just got
to stay focused on the task at hand because victory
is within Trump's grass.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The only reason she wasn't there is, I think what
you hit on the fact that they thought she would
be so bad at this because Hillary showed up in
twenty sixteen and I thought was pretty good and certainly
everybody else. Let me hit you with a couple of
more of these jokes, because I really did think that
he dominated. Chuck Schumer was sitting next to him, and
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Trump turned to Chuck Schumer and said, this cut tin.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Chuck Schumer is here looking very glumb. This day looks
to love me. It looks love.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But look on the bright side, Chuck, considering how woke
your party has become. If Kamala loses, you used to
have a chance to become the first woman president.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And one more that I thought was just great, Trump
going after Doug m Hoff, Kamala's husband cut thirteen.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
A major issue in this his childcare, and Kamala has
put forward a concept of a plan.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
A lot of people don't like it.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
The only piece of advice I would have for her
and the event that she wins, would be not to
let her husband Doug anywhere near the netties.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Just keep them away. That's a nasty one.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
That's nasty. That was the only one where I got
to say. I was like, ooh, I want it. I
loved it. I loved it, and I loved that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
He said, oh, that's an I got one more for you,
because this is also tying in with New York City.
Eric Adams was there, and there were some good Eric
Adams jokes, but cut eleven. He said he had to
finish his roast for this reason.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well, I had better wrap up because Mayor Adams told
me earlier that I needed to make this one very quick,
especially the city has reserved this room for a large
group of illegal aliens coming in from Texas.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
That's right, They've reserved.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Many rooms, many rooms, a lot of rooms, too many rooms.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I like what he said, Mayor Adams sponsored by Turkish Airline.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That was really really funny. That was a great line
there was I mean, gaff I thought Gaffigan's best line
buck I wrote it down was uh.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
He said, uh.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
That basically ten million is a lot because they were
talking about the money they were raising there. Ten million
is a lot considering you can get a mayor for
two business class seats on Turkish airlines. I mean, that's
that's a pretty good line that that Jim Gann. That
was a gaffigan. Gaff I thought that he did. Remember
it's not supposed to be attack one side and not
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the other. I think he gave both sides some guff
I think he gave them both a little bit of
a razzing and uh and I think that he did
a very good job actually, and he kept it clean.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
There was nothing that you know, you didn't get a
sense that he was trying to get the you know, yes,
Queen left like clapping for him and everything else. He
actually did the task at hand. I thought he was
very I thought he was very good for what it
was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, and look, we talk about bravery from Kamala because
she set for Fox News. What about Trump rolling into
a room. Letitia James is on the rostrum there, Kathy Hochel,
Chuck Schumer, Kirsten gillibrand lots of people in New York
Democrat politics who have not only tried to bankrupt him.
(12:22):
They have tried to put him in prison for the
rest of his life. They have gone through every aspect
of his life with a fine tooth comb, looking for
the smallest possible detail to be able to exploit to
their political advantage. They have, in my mind, created a
situation where people feel like they need to kill him
because they have branded him as Hitler. And he rolled
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in there and delivered. I'm telling you, please go watch this.
You just heard a bunch of the jokes. But what
I thought was good was it mixed the humor with
somber reflection upon the fact that he felt fortunate to
be able to be there at the charity event because
he felt like it was a blessing from God that
he's not dead, and Milania was there with him, and
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I just thought it was a home run event for Trump.
And again, you know this, Buck, But I think our
audience needs to still kind of conceptualize the modern media environment.
Whatever happens happens, and people can watch it, but then
the reverberations, the echoes of all of these incidents play
out on social media for the next four or five days,
(13:31):
and people who never would have seen it before see
it and I'm telling you, these Trump jokes, the ones
that I played for you, for young voters out there,
are going to make him really hard to dislike.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I just thought this was a home run. Like it
reminded me a bit.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Remember when Ricky Gervais did that phenomenal open at the
Golden Globes where he showed up and just threw everything
right in Hollywood's face and they had to laugh with him.
Felt like that with Trump to me, Like showing up
right there in the heart of liberal New York City
and just owning the night felt like Ricky Gervais a
bit at the Golden Globe several years ago.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Although Trump is very much of them. And you know,
he's been a fixture at the Al Smith Dinner for
a long time, right, So he's not like the from
showbiz too.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I mean, I know, but.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I'm just saying, it's not like he came in there
and doesn't have a long I don't think Ricky Gervas
had ever hosted that thing before. I mean Trump. There
there are people who argue that Trump decided to run
because Barack Obama made fun of him at the Al
Smith Dinner, you know, I mean, there's a there's a
real history White House corresponding.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
But yes, that is yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
But but you know there's a real history of Trump
being at al Smith twenty sixteen against Hillary, right, I
mean this is yeah, and which he he referenced it. Look,
I thought I thought he did very very well. And
I don't know if this moves the needle in any way,
but it does just prove everything we say about Kamlin
Trump's ability with UH perform and connecting.
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Speaker 3 (16:42):
The vote you started to come in.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You got to get out and vote in Catholics, you gotta.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Vote for me history.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Remember you better remember I'm here and she's not. I
could have done that too, But you do something that's
incredible that Catholic church. You're helping the poor, educating children,
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Speaker 3 (17:01):
But if you really.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Wanted Vice President Harris to accept your invitation, I guess
you should have told her the funds we're going to
bail out the looters and writers in Minneapolis, and she
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Speaker 3 (17:17):
Guarantee.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
You know, I like that joke play, and I like it.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
It's a good joke, but also I think that should
be disqualifying for anyone to be running for president to
raise money for rioters in race riots in Minnesota that
burned down a police station and an entire neighborhood around it.
I'm amazed that, honestly, she hasn't gotten more blowback over that. Well,
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Speaker 5 (19:04):
We like the joke.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
They are echoing, reverberating all over the internet. People love them.
But on MSNBC Al Sharpton Buck said that this was
offensive Cut twenty one.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
I think it's been clear for those of us that
have known and dealt with Donald Trump, throw and con
for years that he is really, in many ways not
the Donald Trump that we fought or that we dealt with.
No energy, There no sound bites that make sense. He's
lost it, and I think that it's almost like pushing
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an old boxer back in the ring that you know
he can't fight, but just tell them the hold on
to the tenth round, and they're trying to make him
hold on and he just doesn't have it.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
He's sitting in the stool.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
Saying, I don't want to go back out there. I
mean last night his appearance at the Alfred E.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Smith dinner was ridiculous.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
It was offensive, and it was way off the mop.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I like some of these arguments.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You could make arguments about Trump that you don't like him,
things like that. I don't know that I've ever seen
Trump more on the mark in terms of humor, in
terms of working the room. Listen to what Kamala's team
put out after she did that awful, stupid video. Donald
Trump struggled to read scripted notes written by his handlers,
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repeatedly complained that he couldn't use a teleprompter. He stumbled
over his words, lashed out when the crowd wouldn't laugh
with him. The rare moments he was off script, he
went on long incomprehensible rambles, reminding Americans how unstable he's become.
And of course he made it all about himself. He
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may refuse to release his medical records, but every day
he makes it clear to the American people he's not
up to the job. I watched the entire speech. It
is crazy to me that that could be what anyone
could take away from this. And Buck, I can't believe
I'm gonna say this. Brian Stelter on CNN actually made sense.
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I can't believe I'm saying it. Buck listened to Cut
twenty two. Brian Stelter, fresh off his fresh cry over COVID.
He went on and said, Trouble's pretty good.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Oh no, don't ask me. First, I thought he was funny.
I thought he actually got a few great jokes in.
I thought the best moment was we talked about the
assassination attempts and made light of what he's experienced, because
I think he's experiencing real trauma, real PTSD as a
result of the shootings. But he's still able to have
a light moment in this room, and he took advantage
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of the fact that Kamala Harris wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Stelter, right, I can't believe it much hold on other
than the pt Yeah, I have a theory.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Okay, you may have seen recently that Mark Zuckerberg has
put on a little muscle, been doing some jiu jitsu,
grown a beard, is a little more dare I say, masculine.
And now it could just be you know, higher protein intake,
going to the gym or whatever. But as that has happened,
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he has also gotten a little more to the right.
He's not right wing, but he is certainly tacking toward
the right. Brian Stelter, is it possible?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Is he hitting some chalk, Is he hitting maybe a
little little trt you know, maybe taking some peptides or something.
Is is he going against the trend of Stelter's particular
lack of masculinity by saying, you know what, I'm gonna
man up and I finally have a little bit of
intestinal fortitude.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I'm just throwing it out.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
There's a theory because as people get as people get
a little more masculine, they get a little more right wing.
Tends to be what we see happening in public.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I love the idea of having testosterone level test for
Trump and Commala voters who are male, because I think,
much as the NPR guys like tested off the charts
on the far end of basically having no testosterone, I
think that most of the white dudes for for Harris,
and the black dudes for Harris, and the Asian dudes
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for Harris, and the Hispanic dudes for Harris, I think
a lot of them have tiny, tiny testosterone levels.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
But can I just tell you quite like I.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Think if you had a real like, if you did
some the same way, you can pull the relatively small
group and extrapolate from that. I think if you did
of just of men, I think you would find that
there is in fact a standard deviation difference in age
correlated right And you know, a twenty year old Kamala
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male Kamala voter is going to have more testoster than
you and me, because you know when you're when you're
in your twenties, that's really when you're at your absolute
peak age. Correlated, I think that men voting for Kamala
have a standard deviation or you know, a substantially statistically
significant degree lower testoster. I think that's true, and I
think that's why they're so sensitive about the masculinity conversation,
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which I got caught up in the Bill Mars show.
I think it's reality. I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
By the way, Cameron in Virginia wants to call in.
She got a question for us. Cameron, what's up?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Hey, guys. First of all, love the show, listen every
day while my kids are at school. And I have
a theory. I was listening to the Al Smith's remarks
from Trump last night and I looked at my husband
and I said, Clay Travis wrote these jokes that would
be you last week. You do comedy and those were
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your jokes. That was your material and it was funny.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I did not write thank you for the call, Cameron.
I do think the jokes are really funny.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I was not involved in writing the jokes. I did
do the comedy show with Adam Carolla in Zany's last
week and we had a lot of fun. His podcast
is up. We had Adam Carolla on the program. We
have bought video of Clay doing stand up because this
needs to go up on clayanbuck dot com. I don't
know if there's that's a great question, and it wasn't
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really stand up, but he was on a stool. I
was on a stool. We were kind of just making jokes,
going back and forth. But I said before and I
would do this, I should do another. I should do
a stand up performance. I think I again, I think
I could kill it after the election, when things calm down.
I think that would be a really fun thing to do,
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just to go out. I'm not gonna test the material, right. So,
the one advantage that comedians have, Buck, is you can
figure out how to organize your joke based on how
the crowd responds. I would argue this is what Trump
does so well. He has an intuitive sense for how
to work a crowd and work a room, and you
could hear it with that Al Smith event last night,
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and he is able to craft a speech that works
well based on knowing how the crowd responds. And that's
basically what comedians do. I mean, they got a lot
of jokes and they figure out how to put them together.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Look from a purely entertainment and comedia comedian or comedic
appreciation point of view, we gotta have Trump for four
more years because everyone knows I would JD. I was
like the original conductor on the JD Vans for VP train. Okay,
but not as funny as Trump. No one's gonna be
(26:22):
as funny as Trump. As Trump and politics and it's
not that big of a deal. But I'm just saying
it's gonna be whoever it is going forward, it's gonna
be a letdown. And I don't just mean funny, I
mean entertainment value. Like think of all the jobs created
by Trump. Just in terms of Trump impersonators. That guy
Shane Gillis. I've never seen a clip go as viral
(26:43):
of any comedy thing I think in my life as
him doing beautiful Dogs and talking about you know, the
raid on back Daddy he cried, I said, don't cry
a boot like that whole thing that was incredible. Trump
has brought this whole component to American politics of the
great entertainer mixed with the political leader which I mean
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Reagan back in the day funny, but Reagan was always
Reagan like he wasn't a stand up guy.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Also, this is why I've always found the Trump as
Hitler attack line to be so patently absurd. And I
was kind of making a joke about it, but maybe
I've missed it. Maybe Lenny reef install in her Triumph
of the Will movie, like on the cutting room floor,
was Hitler just dominating with jokes.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I don't think this is a.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Minor point you make, and I think my point. I
think it's important because tyrants don't have a sense of humor.
Kuran did not have a sense didn't Binlan did not
have a sense of humor. Stalin did not have a
sense of humor. Hitler did not have a sense of
sense of Paul Pott go on the list. These people
are not funny. I've read their biography, so I'm actually
being serious about reviewing their lives. They do not have
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a sense of humor. They are not amusing. Trump is hilarious.
So someone just square that one for me.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, and it is important, and I'm using it a
kind of a funny way to talk about the Hitler comparison.
But it does go to what the person is like.
When you are a totalitarian dictator, any mockery of you
is seen as a threat to the republic. This is
why totalitarians typically grab comedians and throw them in prison,
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because satire and mockery is an affront to them, because
it questions their tottal complete control of power. Trump actually
has a great sense of humor and he's willing to
be the butt of a joke. I was watching a
clip of him recently before he was a politician on
SNL at playing a role against somebody else. He's really
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got a great sense of humor, and I think this
is one of the reasons why as people spend more
time watching him, and this is why some of you say, oh,
this is a stupid Al Smith dinner. I don't know
what you care about this, Clay. I think it's important
if you've got a grandson or you've got a granddaughter
out there that's a young voter, have them watch that
twenty six minute clip with you of Trump at the
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Al Smith dinner. I think it's very hard to dislike
him now. If you want to disagree with some of
his policies, I think he's right on policy. But most
of the time they don't even go after his policy anymore.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
They just attack him on his persona and his personal
peccadillos and all these things, as opposed to focusing on
he's actually a pretty decent dude who has a sense
of humor and just thinks the country's on the wrong track.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Well, I was getting toward this in the Bill Maher
overtime Clay. I don't know if I mean, if you
saw that part of it, but I said, you know, Bill,
you've got a big bankroll.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Let's put a bet on this.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Because the panel, the entire panel, the three of them
versus me, it was He's going to end the country.
And I just, in all honesty, look, I'm like, guys,
this is just it's childish, it's insane. He's not going
to end the country. He's not going to destroy America.
And I looked at Bill, I was like, you got
a big bank roll. Bill makes a lot of money
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for that show. Can we place a big bet on
this and establish what does destroyed the country? I mean,
can we all agree that if America has gone through
four years of a above average to excellent economy and
a much more secure border and no new wars and
a free and fair election in twenty eight Will you
then agree that Trump didn't destroy the country, Like, can
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you stop with this nonsense? And I'll tell you I
would put a lot of money down on this one
because I think they wouldn't do it, because I think
a lot of them don't believe what they say. And
Chuck Schumer's sitting there kind of smiling something.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Signing some buck that was important. He doesn't hate Trump,
he knows it's bs. The other thing is. And I
think your point is so well made. This is why
Democrats saw COVID as their salvation. They don't want to it,
but they know that Trump would have wiped the floor
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with Biden but for their ability to rig the election
with all the ballots and everything else. But more importantly
than even leave aside, that they terrified. This is why
I can't forgive them. They terrified a lot of people
that they were going to die, and they were going
to die because of the way Trump was responding to COVID.
And they put Biden in the basement and they said
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he'll bring things back to normal. And the reality is
if COVID had hit in twenty one as opposed to twenty,
which is why. Frankly, the fact that it came out
of the Chinese lab when it did has always been
suspicious to me, But the fact that it hid in
twenty enabled them to attack Trump. It was like this
virus was the physical manifestation of the evil rot that
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they believe Trump represented, and they leaned into it to
grab as much power as they could. And now I
think you're seeing what may well have happened. If twenty
twenty COVID hadn't occurred, Trump would have won, and I
think you would have won comfortably and Buck looking at
these trend lines, I gotta tell you, I went to
bed with a great smile on my face because of
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those Trump jokes. I appreciate Cameron giving me credit for them,
but it wasn't me. But you know what, I am
so confident with y'all out there early voting. We'll talk
about some of these North Carolina numbers here a little
bit later in the show. There are great signs of
Arizona that Trump supporters, Republicans, patriots are getting to the polls. Go, go, go,
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take some of your calls here coming up in just
a second. But also, you know, last night was the
Al Smith dinner, a big Catholic dinner. And one thing
that as a Catholic who is pro life is honestly
always just a shock to me, even though I know
this has been the case for a long time, is
how many far left democrat Catholics there are who don't
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want to stand for life and who think that there's
no reason to protect the lives of the unborn in
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The point here, my friends, is that day in and
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Speaker 6 (34:53):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck coming up here. We've
got some new numbers. People are starting to get very
nervous on the Democrat side of the equation going to
this election. We are not over confident. We are frosty, calm, cool,
collected and focused. It's looking good though, That's what I
tell you. It was fun. Yesterday I was getting I'm
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getting old, so I've hurt my knee and I had
to get an MRI done and I told Clay this
right after.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I was in the MRI office and a.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Group of lovely Cuban American ladies in there, I would
guess forties to fifties who were working in the office,
you know, sort of the admin side of the house.
They're like, I know who you are, and they're like,
I love the show. I love you and Clay we
listened and I was like.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Oh, this is great, this is great.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
So we've got some hometown love here in the Miami
area for Clay and Buck from I mean Cuban Americans
are fantastic. There are just a great group of people
and it was really fun to have them listening. I
also want to say, Clay, this week has been so
inspiring and gratifying on the Crockett Coffee side. First of all,
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thank you so much for stepping up. The left wing
lunatics were attacking us, trying to write bad reviews, attacking
our brand, saying mean things to Megan, our customer service
reps like the nicest lady on the planet. You know,
she just wants to tender farm and sell Crockett Coffee
and help us out. And you know she lives. She
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credit because he moved to Miami and we have tripled
the audience in Miami. A lot of great numbers all
over the country. We think many of you out there,
but thanks to people like the Cuban ladies who are
working on your knee getting back to normal. The audience
has just exploded. Good sign as we roll into early voting,
(36:54):
a lot of you out there listening nationwide, getting ready
for big Trump win
Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate
all of you hanging out with us. As voting continues
to grow all over the country, we encourage you to
get out cast your ballot as early as you possibly can,
get those absentee ballots in, get those early voting Donald
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Trump votes in, get your friends and family out to
the polls. Next week will be two weeks and the
numbers are looking good. But we've got to keep pouring
on more and more steam, more and more momentum here
as we move throughout the course of the show, we're
gonna be having some fun with you on the Friday
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edition of the program, in particular, Buck, last night, have
you ever been to the Al Smith Dinner? Did you
do this at all when you were a kid? Know
anything about at all about it? Like, I mean, I'm
not fancy enough for the Al Smith Dinner? Will Yeah, Yeah,
I've never been. I I know it's a big event,
so let me kind of set the table. Trump last
night was at the Al Smith Dinner, which is a
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major Catholic fundraiser that basically has been going on, I
believe since the nineteen twenties and every president in the
last forty some odd years. Fifty sixty years has gone
except for Walter Mondale in nineteen eighty four, and we
know how crushed he ended up, being forty nine to one.
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The only state he won was Minnesota. So surprising to
a lot of people that Kamala Harris did not show up.
And I was sitting on Sean Hannity's show last night
and they went to watch the Jim Gaffigan jokes and
then they didn't think Trump was going to talk very long.
But I ended up watching the whole thing live as
I was on Sean Hannity's show, and I have to say,
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Trump absolutely killed it. And for those of you who
have not heard any of the jokes that he told
or watched the full twenty six minutes ESK I rarely
say this, I would encourage you to go watch this.
It's posted at clayanbuck dot com. It's on my Twitter
feed at Claytravis. You can go grab it. Your kids
(02:17):
and your grandkids are gonna be talking about this because
it is going to ricochet through all of social media
because Trump was just so good and Kamala not being
there is yet another swing in a miss by her campaign,
which seems panicked and unaware of what strategy they are
(02:39):
going to deploy. But I thought we could start off
buck by just having some laughs. This was I thought
Trump at his absolute best. But before we get to that,
I thought Jim Gaffigan was actually decent as well. Here
he makes a joke. You can hear the audience grown
a bit about the Democrats claiming that they care a
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great deal about democracy and then feeling the need to
stage a coup to put Kamala in instead of Biden.
Listen to cut nine.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
The Democrats have been telling us Trump Trump's reelection is
a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned
of this threat they staged a coup. I wasted there,
democratically elected incumbent and installed Kamala Harris. In other words,
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all her dreams have come true. It really makes you
consider the power of prayer, right, Cardinal Sometimes prayers take
three and a half years. And at George cloniop.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Ed, okay, so pretty good line there. I thought Gaffigan
was fine. His job is to make fun of everybody.
But I thought, Buck, there were a series of really
good jokes from Trump, and let's let's play some of
these because I think people will enjoy this. Trump said
(04:02):
he's not worried about white dudes for Harris. Why not
listen to cut fourteen.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
There's a group called white Dudes for Harris. Have you
seen this? White Dudes for Harris?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Anybody know some of you hear white dudes doesn't sound likeing.
But I'm not worried about them at all because their
wives and their wives lovers.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Are all voting for me. Every one of those people
are voting with me.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean, Buck, that is a really, really great line.
Here's another one that I loved. Here is Trump talking
about the fact that he didn't know men could have
periods until Democrats told him.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
This is cut fifteen.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I used to think that Democrats were crazy for saying
that men have periods, but then I met Tim Walls.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
A couple more buck that I loved. Kamala isn't there.
Trump gave his explanation for how they could have gotten
her to show up for this charity event. Cut sixteen.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Poles are indicating I'm leading big with the Catholic vote,
as I should be, as I should do.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But I don't think Kamala has given up yet. She hasn't.
Instead of attending tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
She's in Michigan receiving communion from Gretchen Whitmer.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
That's not a pretty sight.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
But Catholics, please don't be too insulted by Kamala's absence.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Democrats really wanted to have someone not be with us
this evening.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
They would have just sent Joe Biden.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
This was good stuff, Buck, I thought Trump did did
very well in the roast section of this. And it's
interesting for me as I was watching this morning the
various shows I watched Trump on Fox and Friends that
I saw a bit of mourning Joe to see how
real and upset they are.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
At Well, yeah, how did they cover it on Morning Joe?
I was actually curious what their response would be.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Oh there, They actually focused on how Trump is just
obsessed with the sixty minutes interview that Kamala did. I'm sorry,
with the Brett Baer interview that Kamala did still and
they I mean, I didn't watch all four hours, so
I didn't actually get to all the conversations they were
having about it. But I can just tell you the
Kamala's brave is the is the line of the week.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Kamala's brave for sitting down once.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
With Brett Bear from Fox News and they didn't really
want to get on too much into the Alsmith dinner.
I think Clay, because it's obviously weird that she's not there.
It's weird that she did not show up very much
show weird. And and she did a.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Canned prepared with Molly what's her name from Bomb and
he did it like a four minute video or something
that was super weird.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
It was it was true, truly horrible.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
It was.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
It was cringe inducing. It was not funny.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
And I think that the only credit that I'll give
to Democrats is for every time now I want to
say Kamala should have been there, she should have shown up.
There's something that should have been different in this strategy.
Every time she shows up anywhere, it's horrible, no matter
how stage managed it is, no matter how much she
gets prepped for it. Every time Kamala is exposed to
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the public, the numbers start to go against her or
keep going against her. And so Clay, that's where I
think we're in a presidential election and this is going
to be the case. Well, I think for the foreseeable
where a degree of showmanship and media savvy is part
of the game.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
And I'm not just saying this Joe Biden.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
It's not just because Buck Island sunk into the depths
of the ocean and Biden let all Buck Island residents down.
For all of the dementia and all of the shouty
bully stuff that Biden does, he does know when to grid.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
He does have his lines.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
He does he has been trained for fifty years to
be this politician figure, and he's able to pull that off.
Kamala Harris is not good at this. She is not
somebody who, based on the merits of her political skills,
would have gotten ahead. I know, people say, well, how
(08:23):
is she vice president?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
She was picked?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
You know, she was chosen, and she wasn't chosen because
she was so amazing and did some on the primary.
How did she become the presidential nominee? She was chosen?
How did she become the district attorney chosen? I mean,
you look at all these things in that case by
the Democrat apparatus, But she's not good.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
At winning people over. And I think as much as
it was weird, she wasn't there. What I'm trying to
say is.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I think it would have been worse if she was clay,
because that's how bad at this she is. She can't
be funny, she can't be likable, and we just got
to stay focused on the task at hand because victory
is within Trump's grass.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The only reason she wasn't there is, I think what
you hit on the fact that they thought she would
be so bad at this because Hillary showed up in
twenty sixteen and I thought was pretty good and certainly
everybody else. Let me hit you with a couple of
more of these jokes, because I really did think that
he dominated. Chuck Schumer was sitting next to him, and
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Trump turned to Chuck Schumer and said, this cut tin.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Chuck Schumer is here looking very glumb. This day looks
to love me. It looks love.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But look on the bright side, Chuck, considering how woke
your party has become. If Kamala loses, you used to
have a chance to become the first woman president.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And one more that I thought was just great, Trump
going after Doug m Hoff, Kamala's husband cut thirteen.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
A major issue in this his childcare, and Kamala has
put forward a concept of a plan.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
A lot of people don't like it.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
The only piece of advice I would have for her
and the event that she wins, would be not to
let her husband Doug anywhere near the netties.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Just keep them away. That's a nasty one.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
That's nasty. That was the only one where I got
to say. I was like, ooh, I want it. I
loved it. I loved it, and I loved that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
He said, oh, that's an I got one more for you,
because this is also tying in with New York City.
Eric Adams was there, and there were some good Eric
Adams jokes, but cut eleven. He said he had to
finish his roast for this reason.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well, I had better wrap up because Mayor Adams told
me earlier that I needed to make this one very quick,
especially the city has reserved this room for a large
group of illegal aliens coming in from Texas.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
That's right, They've reserved.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Many rooms, many rooms, a lot of rooms, too many rooms.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I like what he said, Mayor Adams sponsored by Turkish Airline.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That was really really funny. That was a great line
there was I mean, gaff I thought Gaffigan's best line
buck I wrote it down was uh.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
He said, uh.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
That basically ten million is a lot because they were
talking about the money they were raising there. Ten million
is a lot considering you can get a mayor for
two business class seats on Turkish airlines. I mean, that's
that's a pretty good line that that Jim Gann. That
was a gaffigan. Gaff I thought that he did. Remember
it's not supposed to be attack one side and not
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the other. I think he gave both sides some guff
I think he gave them both a little bit of
a razzing and uh and I think that he did
a very good job actually, and he kept it clean.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
There was nothing that you know, you didn't get a
sense that he was trying to get the you know, yes,
Queen left like clapping for him and everything else. He
actually did the task at hand. I thought he was
very I thought he was very good for what it
was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, and look, we talk about bravery from Kamala because
she set for Fox News. What about Trump rolling into
a room. Letitia James is on the rostrum there, Kathy Hochel,
Chuck Schumer, Kirsten gillibrand lots of people in New York
Democrat politics who have not only tried to bankrupt him.
(12:22):
They have tried to put him in prison for the
rest of his life. They have gone through every aspect
of his life with a fine tooth comb, looking for
the smallest possible detail to be able to exploit to
their political advantage. They have, in my mind, created a
situation where people feel like they need to kill him
because they have branded him as Hitler. And he rolled
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in there and delivered. I'm telling you, please go watch this.
You just heard a bunch of the jokes. But what
I thought was good was it mixed the humor with
somber reflection upon the fact that he felt fortunate to
be able to be there at the charity event because
he felt like it was a blessing from God that
he's not dead, and Milania was there with him, and
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I just thought it was a home run event for Trump.
And again, you know this, Buck, But I think our
audience needs to still kind of conceptualize the modern media environment.
Whatever happens happens, and people can watch it, but then
the reverberations, the echoes of all of these incidents play
out on social media for the next four or five days,
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and people who never would have seen it before see
it and I'm telling you, these Trump jokes, the ones
that I played for you, for young voters out there,
are going to make him really hard to dislike.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I just thought this was a home run. Like it
reminded me a bit.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Remember when Ricky Gervais did that phenomenal open at the
Golden Globes where he showed up and just threw everything
right in Hollywood's face and they had to laugh with him.
Felt like that with Trump to me, Like showing up
right there in the heart of liberal New York City
and just owning the night felt like Ricky Gervais a
bit at the Golden Globe several years ago.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Although Trump is very much of them. And you know,
he's been a fixture at the Al Smith Dinner for
a long time, right, So he's not like the from
showbiz too.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I mean, I know, but.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I'm just saying, it's not like he came in there
and doesn't have a long I don't think Ricky Gervas
had ever hosted that thing before. I mean Trump. There
there are people who argue that Trump decided to run
because Barack Obama made fun of him at the Al
Smith Dinner, you know, I mean, there's a there's a
real history White House corresponding.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
But yes, that is yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
But but you know there's a real history of Trump
being at al Smith twenty sixteen against Hillary, right, I
mean this is yeah, and which he he referenced it. Look,
I thought I thought he did very very well. And
I don't know if this moves the needle in any way,
but it does just prove everything we say about Kamlin
Trump's ability with UH perform and connecting.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'll put it this way. Do you remember Adolf Hitler
ever killing at a charity event with great jokes? Don't
remember that as part of the Nazi parties Adolf Hitler World. No,
the furor was not known for stand up. That is true. Yes,
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Speaker 3 (16:42):
The vote you started to come in.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You got to get out and vote in Catholics, you gotta.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Vote for me history.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Remember you better remember I'm here and she's not. I
could have done that too, But you do something that's
incredible that Catholic church. You're helping the poor, educating children,
and supporting the vulnerable.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
But if you really.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Wanted Vice President Harris to accept your invitation, I guess
you should have told her the funds we're going to
bail out the looters and writers in Minneapolis, and she
would have been here guaranteed, she.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Guarantee.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
You know, I like that joke play, and I like it.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
It's a good joke, but also I think that should
be disqualifying for anyone to be running for president to
raise money for rioters in race riots in Minnesota that
burned down a police station and an entire neighborhood around it.
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Speaker 1 (19:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
We like the joke.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
They are echoing, reverberating all over the internet. People love them.
But on MSNBC Al Sharpton Buck said that this was
offensive Cut twenty one.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
I think it's been clear for those of us that
have known and dealt with Donald Trump, throw and con
for years that he is really, in many ways not
the Donald Trump that we fought or that we dealt with.
No energy, There no sound bites that make sense. He's
lost it, and I think that it's almost like pushing
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an old boxer back in the ring that you know
he can't fight, but just tell them the hold on
to the tenth round, and they're trying to make him
hold on and he just doesn't have it.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
He's sitting in the stool.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
Saying, I don't want to go back out there. I
mean last night his appearance at the Alfred E.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Smith dinner was ridiculous.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
It was offensive, and it was way off the mop.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I like some of these arguments.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You could make arguments about Trump that you don't like him,
things like that. I don't know that I've ever seen
Trump more on the mark in terms of humor, in
terms of working the room. Listen to what Kamala's team
put out after she did that awful, stupid video. Donald
Trump struggled to read scripted notes written by his handlers,
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repeatedly complained that he couldn't use a teleprompter. He stumbled
over his words, lashed out when the crowd wouldn't laugh
with him. The rare moments he was off script, he
went on long incomprehensible rambles, reminding Americans how unstable he's become.
And of course he made it all about himself. He
(20:45):
may refuse to release his medical records, but every day
he makes it clear to the American people he's not
up to the job. I watched the entire speech. It
is crazy to me that that could be what anyone
could take away from this. And Buck, I can't believe
I'm gonna say this. Brian Stelter on CNN actually made sense.
(21:10):
I can't believe I'm saying it. Buck listened to Cut
twenty two. Brian Stelter, fresh off his fresh cry over COVID.
He went on and said, Trouble's pretty good.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Oh no, don't ask me. First, I thought he was funny.
I thought he actually got a few great jokes in.
I thought the best moment was we talked about the
assassination attempts and made light of what he's experienced, because
I think he's experiencing real trauma, real PTSD as a
result of the shootings. But he's still able to have
a light moment in this room, and he took advantage
(21:43):
of the fact that Kamala Harris wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Stelter, right, I can't believe it much hold on other
than the pt Yeah, I have a theory.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Okay, you may have seen recently that Mark Zuckerberg has
put on a little muscle, been doing some jiu jitsu,
grown a beard, is a little more dare I say, masculine.
And now it could just be you know, higher protein intake,
going to the gym or whatever. But as that has happened,
(22:13):
he has also gotten a little more to the right.
He's not right wing, but he is certainly tacking toward
the right. Brian Stelter, is it possible?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Is he hitting some chalk, Is he hitting maybe a
little little trt you know, maybe taking some peptides or something.
Is is he going against the trend of Stelter's particular
lack of masculinity by saying, you know what, I'm gonna
man up and I finally have a little bit of
intestinal fortitude.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I'm just throwing it out.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
There's a theory because as people get as people get
a little more masculine, they get a little more right wing.
Tends to be what we see happening in public.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I love the idea of having testosterone level test for
Trump and Commala voters who are male, because I think,
much as the NPR guys like tested off the charts
on the far end of basically having no testosterone, I
think that most of the white dudes for for Harris,
and the black dudes for Harris, and the Asian dudes
(23:13):
for Harris, and the Hispanic dudes for Harris, I think
a lot of them have tiny, tiny testosterone levels.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
But can I just tell you quite like I.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Think if you had a real like, if you did
some the same way, you can pull the relatively small
group and extrapolate from that. I think if you did
of just of men, I think you would find that
there is in fact a standard deviation difference in age
correlated right And you know, a twenty year old Kamala
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male Kamala voter is going to have more testoster than
you and me, because you know when you're when you're
in your twenties, that's really when you're at your absolute
peak age. Correlated, I think that men voting for Kamala
have a standard deviation or you know, a substantially statistically
significant degree lower testoster. I think that's true, and I
think that's why they're so sensitive about the masculinity conversation,
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which I got caught up in the Bill Mars show.
I think it's reality. I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
By the way, Cameron in Virginia wants to call in.
She got a question for us. Cameron, what's up?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Hey, guys. First of all, love the show, listen every
day while my kids are at school. And I have
a theory. I was listening to the Al Smith's remarks
from Trump last night and I looked at my husband
and I said, Clay Travis wrote these jokes that would
be you last week. You do comedy and those were
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your jokes. That was your material and it was funny.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I did not write thank you for the call, Cameron.
I do think the jokes are really funny.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I was not involved in writing the jokes. I did
do the comedy show with Adam Carolla in Zany's last
week and we had a lot of fun. His podcast
is up. We had Adam Carolla on the program. We
have bought video of Clay doing stand up because this
needs to go up on clayanbuck dot com. I don't
know if there's that's a great question, and it wasn't
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really stand up, but he was on a stool. I
was on a stool. We were kind of just making jokes,
going back and forth. But I said before and I
would do this, I should do another. I should do
a stand up performance. I think I again, I think
I could kill it after the election, when things calm down.
I think that would be a really fun thing to do,
(25:28):
just to go out. I'm not gonna test the material, right. So,
the one advantage that comedians have, Buck, is you can
figure out how to organize your joke based on how
the crowd responds. I would argue this is what Trump
does so well. He has an intuitive sense for how
to work a crowd and work a room, and you
could hear it with that Al Smith event last night,
(25:49):
and he is able to craft a speech that works
well based on knowing how the crowd responds. And that's
basically what comedians do. I mean, they got a lot
of jokes and they figure out how to put them together.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Look from a purely entertainment and comedia comedian or comedic
appreciation point of view, we gotta have Trump for four
more years because everyone knows I would JD. I was
like the original conductor on the JD Vans for VP train. Okay,
but not as funny as Trump. No one's gonna be
(26:22):
as funny as Trump. As Trump and politics and it's
not that big of a deal. But I'm just saying
it's gonna be whoever it is going forward, it's gonna
be a letdown. And I don't just mean funny, I
mean entertainment value. Like think of all the jobs created
by Trump. Just in terms of Trump impersonators. That guy
Shane Gillis. I've never seen a clip go as viral
(26:43):
of any comedy thing I think in my life as
him doing beautiful Dogs and talking about you know, the
raid on back Daddy he cried, I said, don't cry
a boot like that whole thing that was incredible. Trump
has brought this whole component to American politics of the
great entertainer mixed with the political leader which I mean
(27:08):
Reagan back in the day funny, but Reagan was always
Reagan like he wasn't a stand up guy.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Also, this is why I've always found the Trump as
Hitler attack line to be so patently absurd. And I
was kind of making a joke about it, but maybe
I've missed it. Maybe Lenny reef install in her Triumph
of the Will movie, like on the cutting room floor,
was Hitler just dominating with jokes.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I don't think this is a.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Minor point you make, and I think my point. I
think it's important because tyrants don't have a sense of humor.
Kuran did not have a sense didn't Binlan did not
have a sense of humor. Stalin did not have a
sense of humor. Hitler did not have a sense of
sense of Paul Pott go on the list. These people
are not funny. I've read their biography, so I'm actually
being serious about reviewing their lives. They do not have
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a sense of humor. They are not amusing. Trump is hilarious.
So someone just square that one for me.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, and it is important, and I'm using it a
kind of a funny way to talk about the Hitler comparison.
But it does go to what the person is like.
When you are a totalitarian dictator, any mockery of you
is seen as a threat to the republic. This is
why totalitarians typically grab comedians and throw them in prison,
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because satire and mockery is an affront to them, because
it questions their tottal complete control of power. Trump actually
has a great sense of humor and he's willing to
be the butt of a joke. I was watching a
clip of him recently before he was a politician on
SNL at playing a role against somebody else. He's really
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got a great sense of humor, and I think this
is one of the reasons why as people spend more
time watching him, and this is why some of you say, oh,
this is a stupid Al Smith dinner. I don't know
what you care about this, Clay. I think it's important
if you've got a grandson or you've got a granddaughter
out there that's a young voter, have them watch that
twenty six minute clip with you of Trump at the
(29:14):
Al Smith dinner. I think it's very hard to dislike
him now. If you want to disagree with some of
his policies, I think he's right on policy. But most
of the time they don't even go after his policy anymore.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
They just attack him on his persona and his personal
peccadillos and all these things, as opposed to focusing on
he's actually a pretty decent dude who has a sense
of humor and just thinks the country's on the wrong track.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Well, I was getting toward this in the Bill Maher
overtime Clay. I don't know if I mean, if you
saw that part of it, but I said, you know, Bill,
you've got a big bankroll.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Let's put a bet on this.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Because the panel, the entire panel, the three of them
versus me, it was He's going to end the country.
And I just, in all honesty, look, I'm like, guys,
this is just it's childish, it's insane. He's not going
to end the country. He's not going to destroy America.
And I looked at Bill, I was like, you got
a big bank roll. Bill makes a lot of money
(30:09):
for that show. Can we place a big bet on
this and establish what does destroyed the country? I mean,
can we all agree that if America has gone through
four years of a above average to excellent economy and
a much more secure border and no new wars and
a free and fair election in twenty eight Will you
then agree that Trump didn't destroy the country, Like, can
(30:31):
you stop with this nonsense? And I'll tell you I
would put a lot of money down on this one
because I think they wouldn't do it, because I think
a lot of them don't believe what they say. And
Chuck Schumer's sitting there kind of smiling something.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Signing some buck that was important. He doesn't hate Trump,
he knows it's bs. The other thing is. And I
think your point is so well made. This is why
Democrats saw COVID as their salvation. They don't want to it,
but they know that Trump would have wiped the floor
(31:05):
with Biden but for their ability to rig the election
with all the ballots and everything else. But more importantly
than even leave aside, that they terrified. This is why
I can't forgive them. They terrified a lot of people
that they were going to die, and they were going
to die because of the way Trump was responding to COVID.
And they put Biden in the basement and they said
(31:26):
he'll bring things back to normal. And the reality is
if COVID had hit in twenty one as opposed to twenty,
which is why. Frankly, the fact that it came out
of the Chinese lab when it did has always been
suspicious to me, But the fact that it hid in
twenty enabled them to attack Trump. It was like this
virus was the physical manifestation of the evil rot that
(31:49):
they believe Trump represented, and they leaned into it to
grab as much power as they could. And now I
think you're seeing what may well have happened. If twenty
twenty COVID hadn't occurred, Trump would have won, and I
think you would have won comfortably and Buck looking at
these trend lines, I gotta tell you, I went to
bed with a great smile on my face because of
(32:10):
those Trump jokes. I appreciate Cameron giving me credit for them,
but it wasn't me. But you know what, I am
so confident with y'all out there early voting. We'll talk
about some of these North Carolina numbers here a little
bit later in the show. There are great signs of
Arizona that Trump supporters, Republicans, patriots are getting to the polls. Go, go, go,
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take some of your calls here coming up in just
a second. But also, you know, last night was the
Al Smith dinner, a big Catholic dinner. And one thing
that as a Catholic who is pro life is honestly
always just a shock to me, even though I know
this has been the case for a long time, is
how many far left democrat Catholics there are who don't
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want to stand for life and who think that there's
no reason to protect the lives of the unborn in
the womb, because that's what they're poly tics tell them.
The point here, my friends, is that day in and
day out, lives are being lost. We're waging the battle
politically and ideologically to convince people of supporting lives. But
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Speaker 6 (34:53):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck coming up here. We've
got some new numbers. People are starting to get very
nervous on the Democrat side of the equation going to
this election. We are not over confident. We are frosty, calm, cool,
collected and focused. It's looking good though, That's what I
tell you. It was fun. Yesterday I was getting I'm
(35:13):
getting old, so I've hurt my knee and I had
to get an MRI done and I told Clay this
right after.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I was in the MRI office and a.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Group of lovely Cuban American ladies in there, I would
guess forties to fifties who were working in the office,
you know, sort of the admin side of the house.
They're like, I know who you are, and they're like,
I love the show. I love you and Clay we
listened and I was like.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Oh, this is great, this is great.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
So we've got some hometown love here in the Miami
area for Clay and Buck from I mean Cuban Americans
are fantastic. There are just a great group of people
and it was really fun to have them listening. I
also want to say, Clay, this week has been so
inspiring and gratifying on the Crockett Coffee side. First of all,
(35:59):
thank you so much for stepping up. The left wing
lunatics were attacking us, trying to write bad reviews, attacking
our brand, saying mean things to Megan, our customer service
reps like the nicest lady on the planet. You know,
she just wants to tender farm and sell Crockett Coffee
and help us out. And you know she lives. She
lives in the Midwest, and and you guys have stepped up.
(36:19):
So please join join this during this revolution of coffee
and tell the communists what you think of them. Go
to Crocketcoffee dot com Clay plus code Book. You got
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Speaker 1 (36:30):
Codebook as many of you are using. You get a
sign copy when you subscribe. Also want to give Buck
credit because he moved to Miami and we have tripled
the audience in Miami. A lot of great numbers all
over the country. We think many of you out there,
but thanks to people like the Cuban ladies who are
working on your knee getting back to normal. The audience
has just exploded. Good sign as we roll into early voting,
(36:54):
a lot of you out there listening nationwide, getting ready
for big Trump win
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