August 17, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show featured a wide-ranging mix of parenting stories, culture, politics, crime policy, media criticism, and listener interaction. The hour opened with a lighthearted but surprisingly emotional discussion about children's books, as Clay and Buck reacted to listener comments about the saddest books ever written. The hosts shared personal parenting experiences, bedtime reading routines, and the challenges of putting young children to sleep, with particular focus on the beloved but emotionally devastating children's classic Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. The conversation explored why certain books resonate more deeply with parents than children and included stories about parenting, family life, first-time parent anxieties, child health scares, and the joys of reading bedtime stories.
The discussion expanded into family dynamics and raising young children, with Clay reflecting on solo parenting while his wife was away, childhood development, and the emotional highs and lows of parenthood. The hosts exchanged humorous stories about children's reactions to affection between parents, growing up, and family experiences, while also touching on generational differences and the universal fascination many young children have with dinosaurs.
The political focus of Hour 2 centered on the Michigan U.S. Senate race between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers. Clay and Buck analyzed El-Sayed’s rhetoric, particularly his use of online terms such as “NPC” and “sock puppet,” arguing that such hyper-online language may not resonate with average voters. They examined President Donald Trump’s role in the race and discussed campaign messaging, voter outreach, political communication, and the broader impact of social media culture on modern elections.
The hosts then revisited previous comments from El-Sayed regarding American history, manifest destiny, slavery, Native American history, and football. This led to an extended conversation about identity politics, historical grievances, the 1619 Project, race relations, victimhood narratives, education, and political strategy within the Democratic Party. Clay and Buck argued that progressive political messaging often emphasizes systemic victimization and historical injustice, while they advocated for themes of personal responsibility, accountability, ambition, and self-determination. The segment included discussion of college history courses, comparisons of how slavery and the Holocaust are taught, and the role historical narratives play in contemporary politics.
The show also shifted into entertainment and pop culture, with a lengthy critique of HBO’s House of the Dragon. The hosts argued that the series lacks the humor, character dynamics, and storytelling strengths that helped make Game of Thrones successful. They praised characters from the original series and contrasted the current production with other successful television portrayals of powerful historical figures. The conversation later moved to Netflix’s Outer Banks, which they described as a fun, family-friendly adventure series reminiscent of The Goonies, teen dramas, and classic coming-of-age television.
A major news and politics segment focused on law enforcement, crime reduction, and Department of Justice priorities under Attorney General Todd Blanche. Clay and Buck highlighted reported declines in violent crime and murder rates, arguing that stronger law enforcement policies and federal-state-local cooperation are producing results. They compared crime trends in cities such as Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, while criticizing Democratic crime policies and arguing that public safety remains one of the most important quality-of-life issues for voters. The hosts discussed FBI resource allocation, the legacy of January 6 investigations, law enforcement strategy, criminal justice policy, and the political implications of declining crime rates heading into future elections.
The hour also featured human-interest stories and listener engagement. The hosts praised a young lifeguard recognized by President Trump in the Oval Office for saving a child’s life, celebrated acts of heroism, and discussed the Tunnel to Towers Foundation’s support for families of fallen first responders. Listener calls and messages prompted more reflections on Love You Forever, with parents and grandparents sharing emotional reactions to the book. The program closed with humorous exchanges about Alaska, Subaru ownership, regional stereotypes, outdoors culture, and audience feedback, ending the second hour on a lighter note while teasing the topics ahead in Hour 3.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in to Clay and Buck. Appreciate you all
being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And for those who are joining on the YouTube livestream,
let me just say Clay has started something that I
don't know how to put it into it, and that
is all of you writing your saddest children's books in
the live stream, which is bringing back every time as
a kid, you know, the beloved postgress. Oh my gosh,
(00:28):
everyone's going through all the different you know, when you're
when the protagonists best friends, you know, Oh, it's it's
heartbreakers left and right. You guys, we got to get
back to talking about super Let me let me get
you at this, Buck, because I couldn't remember the name
of this. And I just will say, when you are
reading books to a one.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And a half year old right now, as you continue
to do that, and many of the parents and grandparents
out there right now have done this where you put
yourself to sleep sometimes instead of the kid going to sleep,
like you will read a book and you basically will
fall asleep. The number of times that you may have
come in and seen your spouse or uh or you know,
(01:12):
I just remember sometimes coming in and like kids wide
awake and my wife is out or I'm out and
the kids wide awake. Uh ready for more books and
more stories? And are you gonna tell me about the
about what is this the Giving Tree? Is this the
one that these are? Those are older books. I'm just
gonna tell everybody out there. And I've been a bunch
of bunch of you have experienced this. You go through
(01:32):
a bunch of books, and you were talking about getting
led over the middle and getting decked. I had no
idea what I was doing. I picked up this book,
Love You Forever, and it's a real kid's book. I'm
not talking about like Where the Red Fern Grows, which
is a book that you can read, or The Bridge
to Tear a Bethia.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Those are kind of sad kids books that you might
read when you're eight or nine years old. This is
a book that you read to your kids. I don't
know how it ended up in the pile of books
that we could read. I started reading this book. By
the way, I was published in nineteen eighty six by
a guy named Robert Munch, and I'm probably mispronouncing his
(02:13):
last name. M you nscch. It had me balling. By
the end of the kids book, Buck had I had
no idea why I was let over the middle, no
idea what I was reading. It is the saddest children's
book that you read to a kid that has ever
been written in the history of children's literature. I'm telling you,
(02:36):
if you have not read Love You Forever You now,
you might not because you're going to be aware of
what you're stepping into.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You're entering the thunderdome.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I had no idea what I was doing, no idea
what the plot of this thing was. It was just
in a pile for one of my kids. I was
balling by the end of it, buck tears streaming down
my face.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We have that in the speedstack. Have you read it?
I haven't yet. It's in the speed stack. I'm a
lit no.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know you're gonna be prepared. You're gonna put on
your parental armor as you begin this read. Many of
you out there now will know if you didn't already.
I went in blind. I just thought, this is like
the Berenstein Bears. I don't know what I'm stepping into.
It's good night Moon. I'm gonna be okay. I left
that that book read just like I had seen the
(03:30):
sadness of life. I mean, it was like, it was unbelievable.
I don't even I don't. I guarantee you there are
tons of parents out there right now who are have
experienced this exact thing. You had no idea what you
were stepping into. It's the saddest children's book ever written
in the history of the world.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Okay, well, all the happy things. I will say Carrie
or Carrie does most of it during the week, but
I will take over sometimes. Putting Speed to bed, putting
your reading your kid bedtime story is like one of
the greatest things I think in human experience.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I was really great if they will go to sleep.
Sometimes Speed's a little fussy about it, but all you
can you confess what you said on Thursday now because
you were responsible for bedtime all by yourself when you
came on the show. Yeah, he was up every hour
for the entire night and had a mild fever and
I was alone and it was just Dad, which is
(04:24):
the I'm the substitute teacher. Like, let's be clear about that.
When it comes to these things. There are some things
where I can step up and you know, ball throwing,
eventually probably teaching him how to wrestle or you know,
things like that. But when it comes to preparation for
the sixteen month old to get into bed, I am
definitely the I'm the Sioux chef. I am not the
executive chef. And Carrie was in New York visiting family
(04:47):
for my family for a couple of days, and uh, yeah,
it was. It was a tough night, that's all I
can tell you. It's good. I got a few friends
who are doctors that I'm always able to send in
real time now, and between them and groc usually it
just has to calm me down because you know, your
first kid. I don't know if you had this, but
the first kid, anything starts to go even a little
bit wrong, like he has a tiny rash on his arm,
(05:08):
and I'm like, what do I have to do?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You know what, when they start to talk and can
tell you how they feel or what their issue is,
it is as a parent much better because when they're
not verbal yet, it's very very difficult. You feel stressed
about every little thing and you don't know how to
know even what the problem is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I will say one of my favorite things I've discovered. Sorry,
we were going to talk politics, and I'll say we
will in a second, guys. But one of my favorite
things is when I give mommy slash wife y a kiss.
He thinks it's hysterical. If he sees the two of
us give a big kiss, he just starts laughing and laughing.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He thinks it's the best thing. So I got to
moving quickly.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
He will go into the gross because that that is
like I don't know what age that will be, but dad,
mom will become like an icky thing. It reminds me
of when my son was about four. We had a
Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in the house and he saw it.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Four year old.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He's now about to be sixteen, but he he was.
He was just like, what these girls they got to
put more clothes on?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Dad. I just remember him being like, really.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
That there was yeah, that there was a magazine and
all the girls hardly had any clothes on. I think
the phrase that he said was they're barely covering their privates,
which was very, very funny for a for a little
kid back then. All right, what do you want to
tell us about abdul l s Yeah, I was gonna say,
let's let's do a hard turn at Abdul l say
Ed here.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
He is losing a little bit of ground, I think
right now because people are paying more attention to his
Michigan Senate race against Mike Rodgers. We had Mike on
to talk about this. This is Abdul al say Ed's
take on the situation and how Trump is involved. This
has cut twelve hit it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
He's going to turn me into the main character of
the midterms, which I'm totally cool with because my whole
argument about Mike Rodgers is he's always been an NPC.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He is like an amalgam of somebody. He's a sock puppet.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, like it Really the question is who inserts themselves
in him and then controls his mouth, and you know,
Donald Trump can help himself, so party's like, come for me,
bro see what happens.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
First of all, he speaks very quickly, and that's so
you might have missed some of that. And that's not
unusual because he's speaking very fast.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
There.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He said an NPC, which is a non playable character,
which I know what this is because from video game Lord,
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
The people.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Let's pause here for a minute because I think this
is one of the evidence. Abdula. I'll say ADS forty one.
That's hyper online language. If you and I came on
and started talking about n PCs, ten percent of this
audience would have any idea what NPC stood for. The
people who decide elections in Michigan have no idea what
an NPC is. I do think that's significant, just jumping
(07:52):
in right off the top there in the way that
he is speaking. So he's also saying that Mike Mike
Rogers is a sock puppet, and that's like a fake
account that someone creates that then could be used for things.
So that's what So he's using online terminology there that
only people that are usually a certain age or involved
(08:15):
in online discourse are going to get what that stuff is.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But here's something that everybody's gonna get. Play.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
This is a flashback to February twenty twenty three. We've
mentioned this. I don't think we have played this yet
on the program, but Abdul I'll say it talking about
in one quote, he's trashing Manifest Destiny and Football Play thirteen.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You think about all the wars that we fight abroad,
all of the sordid history of oppressing other people in
the name of this American idea right, whether it was
quote manifest destiny and destroying Native Americans, or it was
the Transatlantic slave trade, where you know folks who quote
founded this country on the backs of Native folks that
they destroyed, then captured people, enslaved them, and had them
(09:02):
work their fields because they thought it was their right right,
and all of this, like a lot of these narratives
you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Clay, how is the Transatlantic slave trade echoed in the
ethos of football?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It isn't at all.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I think what this does represent, though, is there
is an inability of anyone in the Democrat Party to
escape connecting everything in America with the fact that slavery
once existed. And I remember back in the day when
(09:43):
I went to GW buck in the late nineties, every
class it felt like that we took a GW which
had one of the largest Jewish populations in the any
history class which had one of the largest Jewish population
is in the country. It felt like every history class
(10:03):
in some way involved the Holocaust. And I even remember
when it was Black history, African American history. I was
a history major, so I took every possible history course. Basically,
the GW offered the end paper was compare and contrast
(10:25):
which was worse the Holocaust or slavery in a black
history course, And so you're trying to analyze which was
the worst of the traumatic, awful experiences of minority groups.
And I just remember thinking, even back then, this is
(10:46):
kind of crazy that we would end up in this
sort of this sort of distilled argument. But it feels
like the Democrat Party, because they have made slavery existing
in the United States, which was the foundational premise of
the sixteen nineteen project, they are unable to escape connecting
(11:08):
any and everything in their party to slavery having existed
at some point in time in the United States, and
this is what progressives demand. I also think Buck this
is evidence of Lsied recognizing that he didn't do well
with black voters, and so the way you convinced black
(11:29):
people to vote for you in the Democrat Party is
by telling them how awful they have it, how racist
the country is, how unbelievable victims they are. And I
think this is one of the reasons that identity politics
is particularly pernicious and toxic, because it basically teaches young kids, oh,
you can't succeed because all the world is allied against you.
(11:51):
But even other minority groups have to tell you you're the
ultimate victim. Just this is going to be a huge
part of this campaign on it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well, think about in any context in America today where
these victim narratives become extremely powerful politically, and they have
been for some time. It's because, on the one hand,
a victim narrative can absolve people today based on what
(12:19):
happened a long time ago or historically of accountability and
decision making and everything. You know, it's not anything that
you could do differently if you are frustrated with your circumstance,
whatever that means, by the way, because this can include
very wealthy, very successful people. But if you are frustrated
with your circumstance with your life, there there's a built
(12:40):
in excuse for or it was something else that happened
before you were even born, and therefore nothing is your fault.
Nothing could be different. But it also gives you a
hold on good people. You know, you have a power
over good people who want to make things right. So
it's a very powerful tool. Oh, I'm a victim because
(13:01):
of historical circumstance. Nothing today is my fault could be changeable.
I'm a victim of the circumstances. And by the way,
if you're a good person, an ethical person, who would
of course have opposed those bad things that happened in
the past, the only thing that you can do now
is give me what I want now, because that's what
being a good person requires. This is the way it
(13:21):
is deployed. I mean, it makes good people think I
have to do this, or ethical people think I have
to do this now to make up for what was
done in the past.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's very powerful, I would submit to you.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
The opposite is also very powerful, which is in your
own life. Presume that you are the reason that everything
happens good or bad. Oh yeah, because as soon as
you take personal responsibility for your own individual success or failure,
and you don't have that safety net to point to
(13:53):
someone else and say they are the reason why I'm
not succeeding, that's when I have seen a lot of
people unlock different levels of success. It takes a lot
of personal accountability to accept that you, not someone else,
not some external factor, are the captain of your ship.
You are responsible for whether you succeed or fail. But
(14:15):
that's the opposite of what democrats are selling. They are
selling that society and by the way, I think unfortunately
a lot of young people are buying into it. And
what it does buck is it destroys ambition, because if
you think you can't succeed because of external forces against you,
it's often true because you don't work as hard as
you otherwise would have.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
We also, as we are becoming a society where everyone
is expecting more and more material wealth in their data
and is experiencing that, whether people want to and that
we could talk about how and why. The easiest way
to do this is compare yourself. Compare the food you eat,
the clothing you wear, the car you drive to somebody
(14:56):
in the night, to the richest person in America in
nineteen fifty, you are, in material terms, getting better healthcare,
eating better food, everything you know. That is wealth versus status,
which we talk about. Okay, I gotta do speaking of wealth.
I gotta do some commerce here. But we can continue
this discussion because Clay, it also plays out in the
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
Clay and Buckning dear wait.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Welcome back in Clay and Buck. Appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. I was giving a confession the
children's book that broke me Love You Forever. Podcast listeners
Juliana in San Diego cut E says it also broke
her listen day.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
My kids are twenty eight, twenty six and the book
that I cannot read should not read to.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Them without crying. It makes me cry now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's like I'll love you forever.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
It's a story about when the mom brings home the
baby and they go through life and then into last
chapters when the kid is taking care of them all.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm a mess.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'm a med.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
This is this is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It is It is a the most devastatingly sad children's
book ever written in.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
The history of children's literature.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I think most people are like me, Like Buck.
If I hadn't given you a heads up, you would
have sat down, because it's just in a pile of
books that otherwise you're gonna jump into that you wouldn't
have had any preconceived notions for what you might be
stepping into, and I'm telling you it would have utterly
wrecked you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You know, what I do think is amazing how much
little kids love dinosaurs. How much they react to dinosaurs
when you were little. Yeah, oh of course, big yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah. And my little nephew and now my son.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It is kind of fascinating dinosaurs, like of all the things. Yeah,
I mean probably boys more so than girls.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh gendering.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh no, it is kind of wild to think about it.
I hadn't really thought about it, but yes, they all do.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
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Speaker 1 (18:50):
Welcome back to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
And before we dive into national crime policy, the new
Attorney General, Todd blanche voted in he is the ag
for Trump Trump World. Very pleased about this. Got percent
of confirmation. Before we get into all of that serious seriousness,
I just want to show you, Clay, look what I found.
Oh no, there it is love you. I mean, look
(19:13):
at that cover. I mean this, this cover does not scream.
I'm going to be crying later when I read this
to speed at least to me. And it's thin. By
the way, this is not a big This is not
like it's not war in peace over here.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You know what I mean. They're leading you over the middle.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I'm telling you, I bet we're gonna get more talkbacks
from moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas who were
like me and just had no idea where we were headed.
I looked at a book. It's a kit picture of
a kid who for those who did not see it,
a kid who's like, made a mess in a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It looks kind of laughy.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Oh, it's gonna be some story about a kid who
made a mess and the mom still loves them. Next
thing you know, you're just sitting there in a puddle
of your own tears, like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Like kids? It doesn't end pack them as much.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Again, it is the saddest, the saddest book for children,
little kids that has ever been written in the history
of children's literature.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Copyright nineteen eighty seven. So it's been around for a bit. Okay,
I'm gonna check this. This is right at the top
of the speed stack, so I will have you now.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Are going in with parental armor on, so you're gonna
be aware that you're where you're headed.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
This is like the Red Wedding of children's literature. Okay,
all right, well we'll see you said the Red Wedding.
You think it's one thing. Next thing, you know, the
the storyline has changed markedly.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Also another side note, but I'm almost done with the
latest season of House the Dragon.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's just not good. It's just not good.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Did they lost so much of the and it's you know,
the different writers, the writers that might be a little
DEI involved here, different writers, different director. The lead actress
is a they them in real life by the way
that you know that are they them? And you know
(21:14):
she's just not very appealing. I didn't know that until yesterday.
But the whole time it been like, she's just not
very good. It's not very appealing in the role and
and comes across as like trying to be a girl
boss and rule like a man. And doesn't you know
Kate Blanchette in Elizabeth, which by the way, is a
fantastic movie in my opinion, great great movie. Uh we're
(21:35):
if you haven't seen it, work going about Kate Blanchette
as Queen Elizabeth. You know, it's it's not that there
aren't great lady rulers depicted on film and scream as
film and scream in a way that is, uh, you know,
really profound and powerful. It just doesn't house the dragon.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Just not very good.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And it's I'm such a Game of Thrones fan that
I was willing to sit through a lot, but I
sit here and I go, you know, it's just not
very good.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
All right, let's talk crime. There was no fit. You
want to you want to give me your say.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The thing that they are missing on House of the
Dragon after three seasons is there is no humor. You
can get away with a lot if you bring humor
associated to serious topics, there is none.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I will tell you a lot of.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
People with the humor from Game of Thrones, they'll they'll
talk about about Tiriyan Lanister, who, of course is is
I think for most people was probably the favorite character
over the whole season. I would guess that that he
was the favorite character. I mean maybe for the ladies
it was like one of the Stark boys because they're
so handsome. But overall, I think Tyrian Lanister is is
(22:41):
a is a great, great character. But even like Brown,
the cell Sword, incredible ads, humorous notes, the Hound, who's
a very stark.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Character, even even the Jamie Lanister character at times very
very funny, there is no one that can make you
laugh in that. And I would contrast it with King
of the Seven Kingdoms or whatever it's called The Night
of the Seven Kingdoms.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Which was very good, fun very which they did that
was a very watchable So they can do Game of
Thrown spinoffs that are worth I just don't know why
House the Dragon. Like HBO, the execs you put the
wrong people in charge, the people writing it are not
very good, and the director's not very good. That's just
it's very straightforward.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
This is probably gonna I don't know how many people
out there watch it Thursday. Outer Banks Season five. I
cannot wait. My kids are fired up for it. It
is an utterly ridiculous program. It's on Netflix, but I
watched it. It came out COVID year twenty twenty. It
(23:46):
is kind of what I would say is Goonies meets
Dawson's Creek would be the way that I would describe it.
It's something that you can actually watch with your parents.
Do you remember back in the day everybody kind of
watched the same shows, Like your mom and dad might
not have liked Beverly Hill nine O two one oh
when we were growing up, but there's probably a decent
chance that they would have watched a show like that
(24:06):
with their kids.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Outer Banks to me is like that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I'm not saying it's perfect, because inevitably people say, oh,
there's you know, bad behavior.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
They're teenagers. By the way, if.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You remember back in the day, I remember one of
the great lines that they had in my church when
I was a kid. They used to have all the
teenager teenagers sit up front in the in the right
underneath the pulpit, and I remember the minister coming out
and saying, the reason why he likes the teenagers so
close to the front is he likes the sinners where
he can see them really well. Uh so, I mean,
(24:38):
look very good line. Teenagers get into a lot of trouble.
So I understand that you might not like all of
the hygiens, but it is a show that you can
watch together Thursday. I cannot wait for this. I'm excited.
My boys are fired up. So uh that is a show.
I think I've said this before on the program that
you It's it's nine oh two one oho like for
this era, mixed between Goony.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Zo two and z On along the Carolina Coast. Basically
is that.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
The way that also, I would say is it's Goonies
because there's treasure hunting, and it is also Dawson's Creek
because it's got the high jinks of the relationships and
everything else. But anyway, that's coming Thursday on Netflix. I'm
excited for it.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
All right, we we'll check that out now. We're going
to talk about serious policy matters that affect the United States,
and crime is something that we should have a discussion about. Here,
Todd Blanche, who's the AG. I think there's a well,
one thing is played. There's there's a media blackout for
the anti Trump media on how successful some of these
(25:41):
anti crime programs have been. The numbers speak loudly. The
numbers are are irrefutable. I think it is fair to
say on things like the Memphis forty drop in murders
since the Trump policies went into place. I remember, the
policies are just federal law enforcement with the full backing
of the White working with state and local law enforcement
(26:03):
to do something that everyone should be on board with,
lowering the violent crime rate, making as few murders as
possible happen in a city, taking people who are a
danger to their fellow human beings who have chosen a
life of crime off the streets, and prosecuting them and
being serious about this. Here's Todd Blancheclay, the newly installed
(26:25):
and confirmed AG.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
This cut six. Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
He and I share the exact same goals for this
country when it comes to the Department of Justice. It's
restoring it's restoring the rural law to this country, combating
crime bring and that's what we saw. We were in
Long Island together celebrating really and we have a lot
more work to do, but celebrating the most historic drop
in violent crime since they started keeping the stat And
so we have a lot of good things happening at
(26:50):
the Department of Justice, and I'm excited to really get
going over the next several months and continuing to do
the job.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Can I just say, Clay, this should be one of
the true areas of bipartisan celebration. Of course they refuse to.
Democrats refuse to celebrate it because it would mean that
it's a Trump promise that he has delivered on, that
he is right, that they are wrong, that violence interrupters
and letting people go after serious crime after serious crime,
(27:20):
not profit. None of that actually helps. It doesn't heal society,
It doesn't make anyone safe for it makes things more
dangerous for all of the law abiding and and it's
a one of the one of the things that the
Biden administration did that I think.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Doesn't hasn't really gotten.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The just appalled reaction that deserves the Biden administration had
one in three FBI agents. I mean, you see, you know,
if you have access social media, you see carjacking's going on,
gang members here, shooting people there, Rapes are happening, murders.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff for law enforcement
to deal with. One in three FBI agents involved in
Genuiny six prosecute January sixth, investigation and prosecution called thirty
(28:04):
or forty percent of the FBI's manpower devoted to January
sixth by the Biden administration. I mean, I think these
people are insane. They're dangerous, and they're insane.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yes, And you know, because you worked in the CIA,
the direction from your boss, and now all of you
who know this, whatever the boss decides should be the focus,
people will tell them and provide that as the focus.
So when you're saying something like the most important threat
in America today is is violent anti democracy extremist, then
(28:42):
you're going to pour all your resources into it. I
think the story deserves far more intention than it has received.
I'm pulling up right now in real time, what the
data is on Washington, d C. For the overall for
the overall murder rate. I was just checking it over
the weekend. But I'm gonna look at it right now
(29:03):
in real time. Compared to last year, Buck, the murder
rate in Washington, DC is down thirty two percent. Last
year was a tremendous collapse in the overall murder rate.
It is down thirty two percent. Nationwide, the murder rate
is down about eighteen percent. I think it would be
incredible in twenty twenty eight if a Republican candidate ran on,
(29:29):
We're gonna drive murders down fifty percent. I'm gonna put
all of the resources in because and some of you
can say, Okay, Clay, what what's your impact there? Think
about what it does to the average quality of life
in every major city in America. If murder declines fifty percent,
everything gets better. Every single thing gets better because the
(29:53):
violent crime rate is going to collapse as the murder
rate does too. And look, I shared the data because
I I thought it was pretty amazing. I talked about
this last week. Right now. Through June, Orlando, Miami and
Tampa had twenty nine total murders. Orlando, Miami, Tampa Miami had.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Eight eight murders.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I talked about this with you, Buck, because when I'm
with you in Miami, I'll walk to your studio and
I'll do the show. Sometimes we have a dinner to
go to for advertisers or whatever else. Every I like
to walk and the weather's decent. Everywhere I go in Miami,
I feel one hundred percent safe when you're walking on
(30:37):
the streets. It just feels like a city where you
don't need to be concerned at all about any violent
crime occurring to you.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
That's a choice.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
And Miami, Orlando, and Tampa James uth Meyer, who's the
ad Ron DeSantis who's been governor for the last eight years,
they just said, we're not going to deal with this anymore.
Chicago has two hundred and eleven murders. Chicago by itself
nearly ten times as many people murdered through June as Orlando,
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Miami and Tampa combined.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That's a choice. JB.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Pritzker the governor, Brandon Johnson the mayor. They're willing to
have hundreds of people killed who could still be alive
because they don't want to embrace the policies that Florida has.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Again, it is a choice, and they should all be
pushed on this. And if we had an honest political media, which,
of course we don't know. It's a silly thing to say,
but if we had one going into this midterm, this
would be This is very important. It's especially important for
people who are running for sake, governor or people who
are running at the state level for office like attorney general.
(31:49):
Why would anybody think that they can make a serious
case that Biden era Democrat policies on crime makes sense
based on the data they said they don't. I mean,
it's simply a function of pandering and pandering to certain
demographics and refusing to accept that the right, the Trump
(32:10):
Maga Republican right is correct on this issue. It just
just objectively correct. This is not like should the tax
rate be thirty five percent or thirty seven percent? One
side is right, one side is wrong. The Democrats are wrong,
and they just won't give it up. Well, it's kind
of like they would admit what a woman is either right.
This is not the only thing where they are intransigent
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Welcome back in Play and Buck.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
We are rolling through the Monday edition of program of
the Clay and Buck Program. Thank you for everybody watching
on YouTube. We've got a lot of different topics. President
Trump right now, by the way in the Oval Office,
meeting with the hero sixteen year old lifeguard who a
viral video of the sixteen year old saving the life
(33:59):
also of a ten year old. Both of them are
in there right now, let's see. And the family of
the kids also there. Britney in uh Moore Park, California.
She's got a take on I Love You Forever.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
I was gifted I Love You Forever when I was
pregnant and I read it one time and I put
the book so far away that it can never be
seen again because I was a bawling mess. That book
should be illegal.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Buck, I saved you. I don't know, you're not like
a real emotional guy. I think you might possibly have
had a single tier rolling down your cheek like a
you know, like a killer they do like in the
movies when the killer, like or like the guy who's
had to serve too long in prison, like sees the
(34:51):
daughter that he hasn't seen in eighteen years, and they
like put a hand up on the glass. You know,
there's always that scene where they're like, oh and like
a single tier come rolling down the cheek of the
of the otherwise hardened criminal living behind bars.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
That might be I'm vay, well, that was the last
time you asked a little rough?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well, I'm just what was the last time you actually cried?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Okay? Well, so like a pop culture that doesn't mean
I'm the guy from Silence of the Lambs claim, No.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I'm just saying, like, I think I would be more
likely to choke up. I think of the two of
us like you can't even remember, like I will be
in a movie or I'll be in obviously I'm reading
this book, but I do think this book is the
most devastating, uh, the tear jerking children's book ever written
in the history of mankind. Pam and Anchorage also has
(35:45):
a feedback cut f hey buck.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Based on your observations or belief, just want to share
that almost the entire state of Alaska is comprised of lesbians,
including myself, which is not the case. I was just wondering,
could Alaska get an exemption from your statement or No.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
She's asking about the super Rus. Evidently, super Rus are
super popular in Alaska. I have no idea on a
per cap at a basis, but maybe there's just lots
of lesbians who like to go hiking in.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Your way outdoors. Wow, look at this.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Superarus, according to AI, are the most popular personal vehicle
driven in the state of Alaska. So who knew that
everybody who wears flannel, plays softball, and drives a Super
rou has moved to Alaska.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I did not know this.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Let's impressive. When do we come back? Final hour of
the Monday edition next
Welcome back in to Clay and Buck. Appreciate you all
being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And for those who are joining on the YouTube livestream,
let me just say Clay has started something that I
don't know how to put it into it, and that
is all of you writing your saddest children's books in
the live stream, which is bringing back every time as
a kid, you know, the beloved postgress. Oh my gosh,
(00:28):
everyone's going through all the different you know, when you're
when the protagonists best friends, you know, Oh, it's it's
heartbreakers left and right. You guys, we got to get
back to talking about super Let me let me get
you at this, Buck, because I couldn't remember the name
of this. And I just will say, when you are
reading books to a one.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And a half year old right now, as you continue
to do that, and many of the parents and grandparents
out there right now have done this where you put
yourself to sleep sometimes instead of the kid going to sleep,
like you will read a book and you basically will
fall asleep. The number of times that you may have
come in and seen your spouse or uh or you know,
(01:12):
I just remember sometimes coming in and like kids wide
awake and my wife is out or I'm out and
the kids wide awake. Uh ready for more books and
more stories? And are you gonna tell me about the
about what is this the Giving Tree? Is this the
one that these are? Those are older books. I'm just
gonna tell everybody out there. And I've been a bunch
of bunch of you have experienced this. You go through
(01:32):
a bunch of books, and you were talking about getting
led over the middle and getting decked. I had no
idea what I was doing. I picked up this book,
Love You Forever, and it's a real kid's book. I'm
not talking about like Where the Red Fern Grows, which
is a book that you can read, or The Bridge
to Tear a Bethia.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Those are kind of sad kids books that you might
read when you're eight or nine years old. This is
a book that you read to your kids. I don't
know how it ended up in the pile of books
that we could read. I started reading this book. By
the way, I was published in nineteen eighty six by
a guy named Robert Munch, and I'm probably mispronouncing his
(02:13):
last name. M you nscch. It had me balling. By
the end of the kids book, Buck had I had
no idea why I was let over the middle, no
idea what I was reading. It is the saddest children's
book that you read to a kid that has ever
been written in the history of children's literature. I'm telling you,
(02:36):
if you have not read Love You Forever You now,
you might not because you're going to be aware of
what you're stepping into.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You're entering the thunderdome.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I had no idea what I was doing, no idea
what the plot of this thing was. It was just
in a pile for one of my kids. I was
balling by the end of it, buck tears streaming down
my face.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We have that in the speedstack. Have you read it?
I haven't yet. It's in the speed stack. I'm a
lit no.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know you're gonna be prepared. You're gonna put on
your parental armor as you begin this read. Many of
you out there now will know if you didn't already.
I went in blind. I just thought, this is like
the Berenstein Bears. I don't know what I'm stepping into.
It's good night Moon. I'm gonna be okay. I left
that that book read just like I had seen the
(03:30):
sadness of life. I mean, it was like, it was unbelievable.
I don't even I don't. I guarantee you there are
tons of parents out there right now who are have
experienced this exact thing. You had no idea what you
were stepping into. It's the saddest children's book ever written
in the history of the world.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Okay, well, all the happy things. I will say Carrie
or Carrie does most of it during the week, but
I will take over sometimes. Putting Speed to bed, putting
your reading your kid bedtime story is like one of
the greatest things I think in human experience.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I was really great if they will go to sleep.
Sometimes Speed's a little fussy about it, but all you
can you confess what you said on Thursday now because
you were responsible for bedtime all by yourself when you
came on the show. Yeah, he was up every hour
for the entire night and had a mild fever and
I was alone and it was just Dad, which is
(04:24):
the I'm the substitute teacher. Like, let's be clear about that.
When it comes to these things. There are some things
where I can step up and you know, ball throwing,
eventually probably teaching him how to wrestle or you know,
things like that. But when it comes to preparation for
the sixteen month old to get into bed, I am
definitely the I'm the Sioux chef. I am not the
executive chef. And Carrie was in New York visiting family
(04:47):
for my family for a couple of days, and uh, yeah,
it was. It was a tough night, that's all I
can tell you. It's good. I got a few friends
who are doctors that I'm always able to send in
real time now, and between them and groc usually it
just has to calm me down because you know, your
first kid. I don't know if you had this, but
the first kid, anything starts to go even a little
bit wrong, like he has a tiny rash on his arm,
(05:08):
and I'm like, what do I have to do?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You know what, when they start to talk and can
tell you how they feel or what their issue is,
it is as a parent much better because when they're
not verbal yet, it's very very difficult. You feel stressed
about every little thing and you don't know how to
know even what the problem is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I will say one of my favorite things I've discovered. Sorry,
we were going to talk politics, and I'll say we
will in a second, guys. But one of my favorite
things is when I give mommy slash wife y a kiss.
He thinks it's hysterical. If he sees the two of
us give a big kiss, he just starts laughing and laughing.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He thinks it's the best thing. So I got to
moving quickly.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
He will go into the gross because that that is
like I don't know what age that will be, but dad,
mom will become like an icky thing. It reminds me
of when my son was about four. We had a
Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in the house and he saw it.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Four year old.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He's now about to be sixteen, but he he was.
He was just like, what these girls they got to
put more clothes on?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Dad. I just remember him being like, really.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
That there was yeah, that there was a magazine and
all the girls hardly had any clothes on. I think
the phrase that he said was they're barely covering their privates,
which was very, very funny for a for a little
kid back then. All right, what do you want to
tell us about abdul l s Yeah, I was gonna say,
let's let's do a hard turn at Abdul l say
Ed here.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
He is losing a little bit of ground, I think
right now because people are paying more attention to his
Michigan Senate race against Mike Rodgers. We had Mike on
to talk about this. This is Abdul al say Ed's
take on the situation and how Trump is involved. This
has cut twelve hit it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
He's going to turn me into the main character of
the midterms, which I'm totally cool with because my whole
argument about Mike Rodgers is he's always been an NPC.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
He is like an amalgam of somebody. He's a sock puppet.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, like it Really the question is who inserts themselves
in him and then controls his mouth, and you know,
Donald Trump can help himself, so party's like, come for me,
bro see what happens.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
First of all, he speaks very quickly, and that's so
you might have missed some of that. And that's not
unusual because he's speaking very fast.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
There.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He said an NPC, which is a non playable character,
which I know what this is because from video game Lord,
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
The people.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Let's pause here for a minute because I think this
is one of the evidence. Abdula. I'll say ADS forty one.
That's hyper online language. If you and I came on
and started talking about n PCs, ten percent of this
audience would have any idea what NPC stood for. The
people who decide elections in Michigan have no idea what
an NPC is. I do think that's significant, just jumping
(07:52):
in right off the top there in the way that
he is speaking. So he's also saying that Mike Mike
Rogers is a sock puppet, and that's like a fake
account that someone creates that then could be used for things.
So that's what So he's using online terminology there that
only people that are usually a certain age or involved
(08:15):
in online discourse are going to get what that stuff is.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But here's something that everybody's gonna get. Play.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
This is a flashback to February twenty twenty three. We've
mentioned this. I don't think we have played this yet
on the program, but Abdul I'll say it talking about
in one quote, he's trashing Manifest Destiny and Football Play thirteen.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You think about all the wars that we fight abroad,
all of the sordid history of oppressing other people in
the name of this American idea right, whether it was
quote manifest destiny and destroying Native Americans, or it was
the Transatlantic slave trade, where you know folks who quote
founded this country on the backs of Native folks that
they destroyed, then captured people, enslaved them, and had them
(09:02):
work their fields because they thought it was their right right,
and all of this, like a lot of these narratives
you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Clay, how is the Transatlantic slave trade echoed in the
ethos of football?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It isn't at all.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And I think what this does represent, though, is there
is an inability of anyone in the Democrat Party to
escape connecting everything in America with the fact that slavery
once existed. And I remember back in the day when
(09:43):
I went to GW buck in the late nineties, every
class it felt like that we took a GW which
had one of the largest Jewish populations in the any
history class which had one of the largest Jewish population
is in the country. It felt like every history class
(10:03):
in some way involved the Holocaust. And I even remember
when it was Black history, African American history. I was
a history major, so I took every possible history course. Basically,
the GW offered the end paper was compare and contrast
(10:25):
which was worse the Holocaust or slavery in a black
history course, And so you're trying to analyze which was
the worst of the traumatic, awful experiences of minority groups.
And I just remember thinking, even back then, this is
(10:46):
kind of crazy that we would end up in this
sort of this sort of distilled argument. But it feels
like the Democrat Party, because they have made slavery existing
in the United States, which was the foundational premise of
the sixteen nineteen project, they are unable to escape connecting
(11:08):
any and everything in their party to slavery having existed
at some point in time in the United States, and
this is what progressives demand. I also think Buck this
is evidence of Lsied recognizing that he didn't do well
with black voters, and so the way you convinced black
(11:29):
people to vote for you in the Democrat Party is
by telling them how awful they have it, how racist
the country is, how unbelievable victims they are. And I
think this is one of the reasons that identity politics
is particularly pernicious and toxic, because it basically teaches young kids, oh,
you can't succeed because all the world is allied against you.
(11:51):
But even other minority groups have to tell you you're the
ultimate victim. Just this is going to be a huge
part of this campaign on it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well, think about in any context in America today where
these victim narratives become extremely powerful politically, and they have
been for some time. It's because, on the one hand,
a victim narrative can absolve people today based on what
(12:19):
happened a long time ago or historically of accountability and
decision making and everything. You know, it's not anything that
you could do differently if you are frustrated with your circumstance,
whatever that means, by the way, because this can include
very wealthy, very successful people. But if you are frustrated
with your circumstance with your life, there there's a built
(12:40):
in excuse for or it was something else that happened
before you were even born, and therefore nothing is your fault.
Nothing could be different. But it also gives you a
hold on good people. You know, you have a power
over good people who want to make things right. So
it's a very powerful tool. Oh, I'm a victim because
(13:01):
of historical circumstance. Nothing today is my fault could be changeable.
I'm a victim of the circumstances. And by the way,
if you're a good person, an ethical person, who would
of course have opposed those bad things that happened in
the past, the only thing that you can do now
is give me what I want now, because that's what
being a good person requires. This is the way it
(13:21):
is deployed. I mean, it makes good people think I
have to do this, or ethical people think I have
to do this now to make up for what was
done in the past.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's very powerful, I would submit to you.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
The opposite is also very powerful, which is in your
own life. Presume that you are the reason that everything
happens good or bad. Oh yeah, because as soon as
you take personal responsibility for your own individual success or failure,
and you don't have that safety net to point to
(13:53):
someone else and say they are the reason why I'm
not succeeding, that's when I have seen a lot of
people unlock different levels of success. It takes a lot
of personal accountability to accept that you, not someone else,
not some external factor, are the captain of your ship.
You are responsible for whether you succeed or fail. But
(14:15):
that's the opposite of what democrats are selling. They are
selling that society and by the way, I think unfortunately
a lot of young people are buying into it. And
what it does buck is it destroys ambition, because if
you think you can't succeed because of external forces against you,
it's often true because you don't work as hard as
you otherwise would have.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
We also, as we are becoming a society where everyone
is expecting more and more material wealth in their data
and is experiencing that, whether people want to and that
we could talk about how and why. The easiest way
to do this is compare yourself. Compare the food you eat,
the clothing you wear, the car you drive to somebody
(14:56):
in the night, to the richest person in America in
nineteen fifty, you are, in material terms, getting better healthcare,
eating better food, everything you know. That is wealth versus status,
which we talk about. Okay, I gotta do speaking of wealth.
I gotta do some commerce here. But we can continue
this discussion because Clay, it also plays out in the
criminal justice realm. When things are good, people don't remember
how good they are, and the agitators can always find
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
Clay and Buckning dear wait.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Welcome back in Clay and Buck. Appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. I was giving a confession the
children's book that broke me Love You Forever. Podcast listeners
Juliana in San Diego cut E says it also broke
her listen day.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
My kids are twenty eight, twenty six and the book
that I cannot read should not read to.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Them without crying. It makes me cry now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's like I'll love you forever.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
It's a story about when the mom brings home the
baby and they go through life and then into last
chapters when the kid is taking care of them all.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm a mess.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'm a med.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
This is this is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It is It is a the most devastatingly sad children's
book ever written in.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
The history of children's literature.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I think most people are like me, Like Buck.
If I hadn't given you a heads up, you would
have sat down, because it's just in a pile of
books that otherwise you're gonna jump into that you wouldn't
have had any preconceived notions for what you might be
stepping into, and I'm telling you it would have utterly
wrecked you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You know, what I do think is amazing how much
little kids love dinosaurs. How much they react to dinosaurs
when you were little. Yeah, oh of course, big yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah. And my little nephew and now my son.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It is kind of fascinating dinosaurs, like of all the things. Yeah,
I mean probably boys more so than girls.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh gendering.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh no, it is kind of wild to think about it.
I hadn't really thought about it, but yes, they all do.
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Speaker 1 (18:50):
Welcome back to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
And before we dive into national crime policy, the new
Attorney General, Todd blanche voted in he is the ag
for Trump Trump World. Very pleased about this. Got percent
of confirmation. Before we get into all of that serious seriousness,
I just want to show you, Clay, look what I found.
Oh no, there it is love you. I mean, look
(19:13):
at that cover. I mean this, this cover does not scream.
I'm going to be crying later when I read this
to speed at least to me. And it's thin. By
the way, this is not a big This is not
like it's not war in peace over here.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You know what I mean. They're leading you over the middle.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I'm telling you, I bet we're gonna get more talkbacks
from moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas who were
like me and just had no idea where we were headed.
I looked at a book. It's a kit picture of
a kid who for those who did not see it,
a kid who's like, made a mess in a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It looks kind of laughy.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Oh, it's gonna be some story about a kid who
made a mess and the mom still loves them. Next
thing you know, you're just sitting there in a puddle
of your own tears, like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Like kids? It doesn't end pack them as much.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Again, it is the saddest, the saddest book for children,
little kids that has ever been written in the history
of children's literature.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Copyright nineteen eighty seven. So it's been around for a bit. Okay,
I'm gonna check this. This is right at the top
of the speed stack, so I will have you now.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Are going in with parental armor on, so you're gonna
be aware that you're where you're headed.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
This is like the Red Wedding of children's literature. Okay,
all right, well we'll see you said the Red Wedding.
You think it's one thing. Next thing, you know, the
the storyline has changed markedly.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Also another side note, but I'm almost done with the
latest season of House the Dragon.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's just not good. It's just not good.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Did they lost so much of the and it's you know,
the different writers, the writers that might be a little
DEI involved here, different writers, different director. The lead actress
is a they them in real life by the way
that you know that are they them? And you know
(21:14):
she's just not very appealing. I didn't know that until yesterday.
But the whole time it been like, she's just not
very good. It's not very appealing in the role and
and comes across as like trying to be a girl
boss and rule like a man. And doesn't you know
Kate Blanchette in Elizabeth, which by the way, is a
fantastic movie in my opinion, great great movie. Uh we're
(21:35):
if you haven't seen it, work going about Kate Blanchette
as Queen Elizabeth. You know, it's it's not that there
aren't great lady rulers depicted on film and scream as
film and scream in a way that is, uh, you know,
really profound and powerful. It just doesn't house the dragon.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Just not very good.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And it's I'm such a Game of Thrones fan that
I was willing to sit through a lot, but I
sit here and I go, you know, it's just not
very good.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
All right, let's talk crime. There was no fit. You
want to you want to give me your say.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The thing that they are missing on House of the
Dragon after three seasons is there is no humor. You
can get away with a lot if you bring humor
associated to serious topics, there is none.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I will tell you a lot of.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
People with the humor from Game of Thrones, they'll they'll
talk about about Tiriyan Lanister, who, of course is is
I think for most people was probably the favorite character
over the whole season. I would guess that that he
was the favorite character. I mean maybe for the ladies
it was like one of the Stark boys because they're
so handsome. But overall, I think Tyrian Lanister is is
(22:41):
a is a great, great character. But even like Brown,
the cell Sword, incredible ads, humorous notes, the Hound, who's
a very stark.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Character, even even the Jamie Lanister character at times very
very funny, there is no one that can make you
laugh in that. And I would contrast it with King
of the Seven Kingdoms or whatever it's called The Night
of the Seven Kingdoms.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Which was very good, fun very which they did that
was a very watchable So they can do Game of
Thrown spinoffs that are worth I just don't know why
House the Dragon. Like HBO, the execs you put the
wrong people in charge, the people writing it are not
very good, and the director's not very good. That's just
it's very straightforward.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
This is probably gonna I don't know how many people
out there watch it Thursday. Outer Banks Season five. I
cannot wait. My kids are fired up for it. It
is an utterly ridiculous program. It's on Netflix, but I
watched it. It came out COVID year twenty twenty. It
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is kind of what I would say is Goonies meets
Dawson's Creek would be the way that I would describe it.
It's something that you can actually watch with your parents.
Do you remember back in the day everybody kind of
watched the same shows, Like your mom and dad might
not have liked Beverly Hill nine O two one oh
when we were growing up, but there's probably a decent
chance that they would have watched a show like that
(24:06):
with their kids.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Outer Banks to me is like that.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I'm not saying it's perfect, because inevitably people say, oh,
there's you know, bad behavior.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
They're teenagers. By the way, if.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You remember back in the day, I remember one of
the great lines that they had in my church when
I was a kid. They used to have all the
teenager teenagers sit up front in the in the right
underneath the pulpit, and I remember the minister coming out
and saying, the reason why he likes the teenagers so
close to the front is he likes the sinners where
he can see them really well. Uh so, I mean,
(24:38):
look very good line. Teenagers get into a lot of trouble.
So I understand that you might not like all of
the hygiens, but it is a show that you can
watch together Thursday. I cannot wait for this. I'm excited.
My boys are fired up. So uh that is a show.
I think I've said this before on the program that
you It's it's nine oh two one oho like for
this era, mixed between Goony.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Zo two and z On along the Carolina Coast. Basically
is that.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
The way that also, I would say is it's Goonies
because there's treasure hunting, and it is also Dawson's Creek
because it's got the high jinks of the relationships and
everything else. But anyway, that's coming Thursday on Netflix. I'm
excited for it.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
All right, we we'll check that out now. We're going
to talk about serious policy matters that affect the United States,
and crime is something that we should have a discussion about. Here,
Todd Blanche, who's the AG. I think there's a well,
one thing is played. There's there's a media blackout for
the anti Trump media on how successful some of these
(25:41):
anti crime programs have been. The numbers speak loudly. The
numbers are are irrefutable. I think it is fair to
say on things like the Memphis forty drop in murders
since the Trump policies went into place. I remember, the
policies are just federal law enforcement with the full backing
of the White working with state and local law enforcement
(26:03):
to do something that everyone should be on board with,
lowering the violent crime rate, making as few murders as
possible happen in a city, taking people who are a
danger to their fellow human beings who have chosen a
life of crime off the streets, and prosecuting them and
being serious about this. Here's Todd Blancheclay, the newly installed
(26:25):
and confirmed AG.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
This cut six. Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
He and I share the exact same goals for this
country when it comes to the Department of Justice. It's
restoring it's restoring the rural law to this country, combating
crime bring and that's what we saw. We were in
Long Island together celebrating really and we have a lot
more work to do, but celebrating the most historic drop
in violent crime since they started keeping the stat And
so we have a lot of good things happening at
(26:50):
the Department of Justice, and I'm excited to really get
going over the next several months and continuing to do
the job.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Can I just say, Clay, this should be one of
the true areas of bipartisan celebration. Of course they refuse to.
Democrats refuse to celebrate it because it would mean that
it's a Trump promise that he has delivered on, that
he is right, that they are wrong, that violence interrupters
and letting people go after serious crime after serious crime,
(27:20):
not profit. None of that actually helps. It doesn't heal society,
It doesn't make anyone safe for it makes things more
dangerous for all of the law abiding and and it's
a one of the one of the things that the
Biden administration did that I think.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Doesn't hasn't really gotten.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The just appalled reaction that deserves the Biden administration had
one in three FBI agents. I mean, you see, you know,
if you have access social media, you see carjacking's going on,
gang members here, shooting people there, Rapes are happening, murders.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff for law enforcement
to deal with. One in three FBI agents involved in
Genuiny six prosecute January sixth, investigation and prosecution called thirty
(28:04):
or forty percent of the FBI's manpower devoted to January
sixth by the Biden administration. I mean, I think these
people are insane. They're dangerous, and they're insane.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yes, And you know, because you worked in the CIA,
the direction from your boss, and now all of you
who know this, whatever the boss decides should be the focus,
people will tell them and provide that as the focus.
So when you're saying something like the most important threat
in America today is is violent anti democracy extremist, then
(28:42):
you're going to pour all your resources into it. I
think the story deserves far more intention than it has received.
I'm pulling up right now in real time, what the
data is on Washington, d C. For the overall for
the overall murder rate. I was just checking it over
the weekend. But I'm gonna look at it right now
(29:03):
in real time. Compared to last year, Buck, the murder
rate in Washington, DC is down thirty two percent. Last
year was a tremendous collapse in the overall murder rate.
It is down thirty two percent. Nationwide, the murder rate
is down about eighteen percent. I think it would be
incredible in twenty twenty eight if a Republican candidate ran on,
(29:29):
We're gonna drive murders down fifty percent. I'm gonna put
all of the resources in because and some of you
can say, Okay, Clay, what what's your impact there? Think
about what it does to the average quality of life
in every major city in America. If murder declines fifty percent,
everything gets better. Every single thing gets better because the
(29:53):
violent crime rate is going to collapse as the murder
rate does too. And look, I shared the data because
I I thought it was pretty amazing. I talked about
this last week. Right now. Through June, Orlando, Miami and
Tampa had twenty nine total murders. Orlando, Miami, Tampa Miami had.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Eight eight murders.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I talked about this with you, Buck, because when I'm
with you in Miami, I'll walk to your studio and
I'll do the show. Sometimes we have a dinner to
go to for advertisers or whatever else. Every I like
to walk and the weather's decent. Everywhere I go in Miami,
I feel one hundred percent safe when you're walking on
(30:37):
the streets. It just feels like a city where you
don't need to be concerned at all about any violent
crime occurring to you.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
That's a choice.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
And Miami, Orlando, and Tampa James uth Meyer, who's the
ad Ron DeSantis who's been governor for the last eight years,
they just said, we're not going to deal with this anymore.
Chicago has two hundred and eleven murders. Chicago by itself
nearly ten times as many people murdered through June as Orlando,
(31:09):
Miami and Tampa combined.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That's a choice. JB.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Pritzker the governor, Brandon Johnson the mayor. They're willing to
have hundreds of people killed who could still be alive
because they don't want to embrace the policies that Florida has.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Again, it is a choice, and they should all be
pushed on this. And if we had an honest political media, which,
of course we don't know. It's a silly thing to say,
but if we had one going into this midterm, this
would be This is very important. It's especially important for
people who are running for sake, governor or people who
are running at the state level for office like attorney general.
(31:49):
Why would anybody think that they can make a serious
case that Biden era Democrat policies on crime makes sense
based on the data they said they don't. I mean,
it's simply a function of pandering and pandering to certain
demographics and refusing to accept that the right, the Trump
(32:10):
Maga Republican right is correct on this issue. It just
just objectively correct. This is not like should the tax
rate be thirty five percent or thirty seven percent? One
side is right, one side is wrong. The Democrats are wrong,
and they just won't give it up. Well, it's kind
of like they would admit what a woman is either right.
This is not the only thing where they are intransigent
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Welcome back in Play and Buck.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
We are rolling through the Monday edition of program of
the Clay and Buck Program. Thank you for everybody watching
on YouTube. We've got a lot of different topics. President
Trump right now, by the way in the Oval Office,
meeting with the hero sixteen year old lifeguard who a
viral video of the sixteen year old saving the life
(33:59):
also of a ten year old. Both of them are
in there right now, let's see. And the family of
the kids also there. Britney in uh Moore Park, California.
She's got a take on I Love You Forever.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
I was gifted I Love You Forever when I was
pregnant and I read it one time and I put
the book so far away that it can never be
seen again because I was a bawling mess. That book
should be illegal.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Buck, I saved you. I don't know, you're not like
a real emotional guy. I think you might possibly have
had a single tier rolling down your cheek like a
you know, like a killer they do like in the
movies when the killer, like or like the guy who's
had to serve too long in prison, like sees the
(34:51):
daughter that he hasn't seen in eighteen years, and they
like put a hand up on the glass. You know,
there's always that scene where they're like, oh and like
a single tier come rolling down the cheek of the
of the otherwise hardened criminal living behind bars.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
That might be I'm vay, well, that was the last
time you asked a little rough?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well, I'm just what was the last time you actually cried?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Okay? Well, so like a pop culture that doesn't mean
I'm the guy from Silence of the Lambs claim, No.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
I'm just saying, like, I think I would be more
likely to choke up. I think of the two of
us like you can't even remember, like I will be
in a movie or I'll be in obviously I'm reading
this book, but I do think this book is the
most devastating, uh, the tear jerking children's book ever written
in the history of mankind. Pam and Anchorage also has
(35:45):
a feedback cut f hey buck.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Based on your observations or belief, just want to share
that almost the entire state of Alaska is comprised of lesbians,
including myself, which is not the case. I was just wondering,
could Alaska get an exemption from your statement or No.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
She's asking about the super Rus. Evidently, super Rus are
super popular in Alaska. I have no idea on a
per cap at a basis, but maybe there's just lots
of lesbians who like to go hiking in.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Your way outdoors. Wow, look at this.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Superarus, according to AI, are the most popular personal vehicle
driven in the state of Alaska. So who knew that
everybody who wears flannel, plays softball, and drives a Super
rou has moved to Alaska.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I did not know this.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
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