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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Second hour of Clay and Buck kick this off now,
And we had mentioned this, so we have to play
it for me. We can't just leave you hanging out there, right,
Chris Bion, I'm Mom Pool who has a sort of
English accent, but also it's like fancier than an English accent.
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What percentage of her professional success is related to her accent?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Buck?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
If she talked like you or me, not bad voices
we talk on the radio, would she be seventy five
percent less successful in her career?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
At least at least there.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Was a time when, and this is just fact, there
was a time when, especially in television, if you had
a British accent of any kind, people just assumed you
were smart and they should listen to you. In America,
which is weird, especially when you stop to think that
the GDP per capita of the UK is less than
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the per happita income of the poorest American state, Like,
why do we think they're so fancy over there?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You know what I mean? This is a weirds not
even it's not even past Buck.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
This.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think John Oliver Owes seventy five percent of his
career success to the fact that he's British. Well that's
not right, No, it isn't, kay you know, yeah, absolutely.
If these guys actually spoke like everybody else. John Oliver
had a Southern accent, he would have no career.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Exact, same, exact.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Same opinions, deep Southern accent.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
He does not have a media career.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's he owes everything to the British and the fact
that he doesn't have a deep Southern accent. What's funny
to me is I've tried to go to Clay into
giving me the most country Tennessee accent possible, and he does,
like it's it's not even the thing that's there.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I just feel like if you fake an accent, uh,
and I don't mean for comedic purposes. This is the
thing that dry me crazy. Every Southerner. We've talked about
this before. Politicians disrespect us so much because they pretend
that they're actually Southern whenever they come down here. That
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my mom and dad have deep Southern accents. But you
can't even you don't even code switch though you don't.
You don't do the code switch thing, Like it's not
like when you're in Nashville. But You're like, Hey, I'm
Clay Travis, y'all. You know, like that does not happen.
I don't believe in code switching, like I'm me for
better or worse, Like there is no distinction between me
on this microphone and when I walk outside and I'm
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on the sidewalk in Panama City, I will sound the
same exaccent. I can't act. I'm a last actor. I
was gonna say, you know, when I'm a Sheepshead Bay.
I'm showing Clay around in New York and I'm like, hey,
it's Buck. I'm a firefighter FDNY. You know, like Clay
doesn't even He's like, what's going on here? I'm don't
worrying with the locals we're talking, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know, like it's a different thing. He doesn't. I
want to even do it. I'm helping people get elected
in Tennessee. I just show up and talk like me. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Does it help that I'm from Tennessee and that people
know that I am. Yes, probably because there's so many
people who have moved in from other places and they
trust me because I'm a local.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But what we don't trust.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In the South, and I know there's tons of you
out there in the South listening nodding along is when
somebody who's not from here shows up and tries to
pretend like they are, which is every politician. Well, as
we've discussed, we actually do need to have a national dispensation.
Maybe Trump could sign an executive order whereby we all
just appropriate y'all because it is a better contraction you guys,
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which is really the Northeastern equivalent you guys. Y'all is
way better, easier to say, rolls off the tong better.
But none of us want to seem like posers by
taking your y'all. So I know some of you write
and say, buck, you can do it because I have
honorary Southern privileges, but we really should just as an
American thing get to everybody can say, all, is your
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honorary Southern privilege that you married a girl from the South.
Is that why you think you have the ability to
say y'all? Or is it the movement to Florida? What
if you had moved to Florida and just married another
New Yorker in Florida. No, I actually I think it's
just because I do this show, and Southerners, in their
graciousness it's like getting greedy to the city or something.
It's like an honorary PhD. I have honorary because we
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have such enormous audiences in Southern states and all.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
You know, Yeah, no, I think.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Look, my wife has been down in the South for
twenty four years and it took her a while to
get comfortable saying y'all. But it is a way better
word than the alternative, Like you guys, it's way more efficient,
way more effective, and so yeah, I think the whole
nation should adopt it. Now, back to Christiana Mour very fancy,
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but also very sorry because she said something really really stupid.
Let's start with the stupid thing that she said that
she had to apologize for.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Play that people who start to talk to the hostages
who have only just been released will find that it
will take a long long time for them to recover
physically but also mentally. It's been a terrible, terrible two
years for them because not only are they there, you know,
they're probably been treated better than the average garsen because
they are the horns and the chips that Hamas had.
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Now Hamas has given up all its leverage, by the way,
by giving them all up.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Better that place, she said for better than I know,
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Probably why go back to the last fifteen seconds of that.
Can we cut through into that, because not only the
two things that she said there that I think are significant,
and actually she's telling on herself.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
One the hostages that were made.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
To dig their own graves, most of whom were actually
killed murdered by the people holding them. The people that
have not been above ground, some of them in years,
they're probably being treated better than the average person in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That's what she said.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
She also pointed out here or something she said, well,
this is a big risk for Hamas because they're giving
up their leverage.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
This is something that everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
She sounds like a homasage. She sounds like a Hamas negotiator. Honestly,
she sounds like she could be doing the Hamas back
and forth with trump Et cetera herself. And she's saying
that because Hamas has told her that right, she's not.
She has bought into the idea that Hamas, the average
person in Gaza is being treated way worse than the
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average hostage. Play that backside again and then we'll play
her apology where she tried to clean it up. But
sometimes you got to listen to people because they will
tell on themselves. And again, this was live television. Christian
naman par who owes seventy five percent of her entire career,
at least to the fact that she has an interesting
accent that makes her sound smarter than she is.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Listen, terrible, terrible two year them, because not only are
they there, you know they're probably been treated better than
the average garden because they are the pawns and the
chips that Hamas had. Now Hamas has given up all
its leverage, by the way, by giving them all.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Up, probably being treated better than the average garzen. Christiana
modpoor on how the hostages are being treated? Okay, that
was I'm glad we played that. Then she had to
clean it up because a lot of people saw that
clip and said, my god, how did that air? And
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here was clean up on ale Amanpour. This was CNN.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I noticed that for the hostages who are finally home,
it'll take a long time for them to recover mentally
and physically. But I regret also saying that they might
have been treated better than many gardens because Hamas used
these hostages as pawns and bargaining chips. But that was
insensitive and it was wrong. From speaking to many former
hostages and their families, Like everyone, I've been horrified at
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what Hamas has subjected them to over two long years.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Okay, the first the first version was what she really thinks,
just to be correct. The apology was by CNN corporate
leadership saying, you moron, we don't want to have to
fire you after thirty years of you being an overpaid
you know zero, but you better go out there and
clean this up right away. But she actually believed the
first thing that she said, because there are a lot
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of people who have adopted this narrative of the Kazas.
The casualty, the real casualty figures for Gaza are something
like one percent of the overall population. That's the actual
ca So ninety nine percent of gousands in a so
called genocide and starvation scenario, ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Percent of them are are not. We're not in any
way killed or more casual.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
The one percent is also important here, Buck, It's because
Hamasi was using them as human shield human shields, so
it's not the number. And look, Israel is imperfect as
everyone is in a time of war. But this was
probably the most targeted attack on bad guys that we
have ever seen in the history of modern warfare, of
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warfare at all. Remember, look at what they did in Iran,
some of the things that they did. They went into
apartment buildings and took out Iranian leaders in the nuclear
arms race and didn't even hit the rest of the apartment.
So when they're out there saying, oh my goodness, all
these people are innocent being killed. Some innocent people are
killed in times of war. That is unfortunate, that is
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a reality. But that's an intentional move by Hamas because
they put so many of their facilities under hospitals, under schools,
in places so they can point and say, no, there's
nothing wrong here. Remember Buck in the early days, remember
when every newspaper put that Israel hit a hospital, and
then it came out that it was actually Hamas that
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hit it, and it just kind of vanished.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, this also, though, is a reminder when we want
to talk about the moral clarity with which people should
look at this conflict. They could have avoided a single
Palestinian casualty if Hamas just didn't do what it did.
Didn't do October seventh, correct or even in the aftermath
of October seventh, that hamas leadership at the Palestinian people
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have been like, you know what, you take these bumps
and do with them whatever you want. They're out, and
we're giving you back your hostages, and you take our
hamas leaders and try them and execute those that, you
know whatever. They would have saved a lot of civilian
casualties that way too, but they chose to fight after
starting the fight. If you start a fight and then
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you choose to fight, you don't get to cry when
you lose the fight, which is exactly what has been
going on here the whole time. By the way, President
Trump just tweeted, we'll read this maybe when we come back.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He's been on the call with Putin our.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Whole show so far today, Buck, he just hung up
with Vladimir Putin, So he has been talking for Putin.
I mean what, we've been talking for an hour and
twenty minutes already before started the show.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
He was on the call with Putin.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well, hold on here, I have just concluded my telephone
conversation with President Putin of Russia. Very productive one. President
Putin congratulated me in the United States on the great
accomplishment of peace in the Middle East, something that he
said has been dreamed about for centuries. I actually believe
the success in the Middle East will help in our
negotiation and attaining it into the war with Russia Ukraine.
(11:24):
President Putin thanked First Lady in Milanya for her involvement
with children. Very appreciative, said this will continue. We also
spend a great deal of time talking about trade between
Russia and the United States when the war with Ukraine
is over. At the conclusion of the call, we agreed
there will be a meeting of our high level advisors
next week the United States. Initial meetings will be led
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by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other
people to be designated a meeting location to be determined.
President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed
upon location Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring
this this inglorious war between Russia and Ukraine to an end.
President Zelensky and I will be meeting tomorrow in the
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Oval Office, where we will discuss my conversation with President
Putin and much more. I believe great progress was made
with today's telephone conversation. That is, President Trump two minutes ago.
I hope President Trump is right. Let's see, that's I
think where we have to be. We'll continue to look
at the details and see if we can get a
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Speaker 2 (14:08):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Look, this
is funny. Buck was just talking to him. We were
talking about it off air. We're giving you all these
opinions on how to end the war in Ukraine. Hey,
what are the strategic implications of the oil and gas
industry as it pertains to India? And and what should
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Trump do about Tomahawk missiles? And we just read and
everybody has inundated us with our takes on accents and
and so I'm going to pop a couple of these
because they're fun, because we can do multiple different things.
We can talk about serious things and also have fun,
which I hope we do a good job of on
this show. Every day, Dan in the Twin Cities, he
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says he can tell that I'm from the South.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Let's see, gg.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
You can hear Clay's accents when he says things like
the baseball felled, or I set down in the chair,
or any word that has the letter R in it,
like world or word. That's super intense analysis of my accent.
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But people do listen to you for three hours a day.
They do actually have expertise in this. I notice people
who are from the South, even if they do not
have pronounced Southern accents, based on how they pronounce o's.
If you listen closely, I can always tell, even people
in different parts of the country, the word the letter O,
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how the sound is made in a story. That's where
I pick up on it. Bob and Houston HH maybe
Bob and Houston HG is not there. We do have
a lot of your talkbacks. We talked about We'll hit
this maybe Buck some the toxic femininity. Catching up with
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all the different all the different talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Let me go.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Into the intense number of talkbacks relating to not very
serious things which are still simultaneously all very funny. Let's
go to a a on the talkbacks.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Hi, guys, my husband and I caught most of your
show yesterday, then went for baby back ribs at Saltgrass Steakhouse.
During the meal, my husband started coughing after a bite
of food. What I should have asked him was are
you okay? Instead, I said, please don't prove Clay right.
At least let's get the great white shark in here
if you're going to die. We had a great laugh together,
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and of course, had he really been choking and able
to breathe, things would have been a bit more serious intense.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Think about that buck.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Her husband starts to choke to death, and her first
thought is, please don't prove Clay right by dying here
on the baby back ribs. It's a fair point, you know,
she wrenched the great white shark thing. You know how
I told you that my brother's friend was in that
race from Catalina Island and there was a shark attack.
He was wondering why the guy was okay because the
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great white shark that attacked him or bid him was
four feet long. Those things can be twenty feet long,
so four foot it was basically a baby. A baby
great white bid him. Now it's still scary, but I'm
not getting in that water, is all I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
This has really made me.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Really, I am very confident that I could make the swim,
but the idea of getting eaten by a shark has
now gotten into my head to such an extent that
I'm not even worried about the physical nature of the swim.
I'm worried about getting eaten by a shark like that
guy almost did on the Catalina Island swim. They do
this at night too, Yeah, I don't understand indeed, blackness
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of the water. The only reason I think they would
do it at night buck, in my mind, would be
are they In fact, I can't even think of why
they would do it at night. That seems like an
awful idea. You know what's a good idea, rapid radios.
They can help you stay in touch with your family member.
They can help keep a charge for five days in
times of catastrophe. I don't want to jinx it, and
(18:06):
I'm probably jinxing it by saying that. But so far
we have had a very calm hurricane season. I'm down
here on the beach, buck is on the beach every day.
Hopefully we continue all the way through. I think it's
mid November when the hurricane season officially is over. Fingers
crossed that we're going to manage not to have awful
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hurricanes this year, but you know they're gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Bucks.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Sister in lawger a Hurricane Helene, even in North Carolina.
She had rapid radios and she was able to get
in touch when everything else got knocked out. Go to
rapid radios dot com use code radio. You can get
a radio for your kids, for your family members, for
your family in times of catastrophe, keeps a five day charge,
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com code radio one is Some of you have been
saying that feedermen voted to keep the government open. There's
been a lot of these votes, and until there's agreement
from the Democrats side, it's really just a going through
the motions gesture. But in a recent vote, as I
see here two days ago, six senators did not vote
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to reopen the government, including Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania,
So at least in a recent one, he didn't vote. Now,
I guess he's been vocally supportive of reopening the government
as well. But you know, let me see Fetterman statement
on the government is not the reason the government is
shut down. Look, the reality is, you got to get
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to sixty and I don't believe we've gotten to more
than fifty five or fifty six so far. I think
they need four more Democrats in order to open the government.
According to Fetterman, he voted yes to extend the ACA
tax credits, but he won't vote for the shuttering of
the government, so he voted in favor of House and
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Senate Democrats Alternative Continuing Resolution in the Demo. Anyway, whatever, guys,
he's gone in the middle of this one. There's been
a bunch of different votes here. I'm just trying to see. Yeah,
he voted with the Democrats on this, but I guess
he says he wouldn't have vote.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I don't know, I like it, I find Let me
just say this, Eventually, the government is going to reopen
and we are going to run unfortunately massive deficits for years.
They're going to take a lot of our money and
they are going to continue to spend it, and none
of us are going to be happy about it. So yeah,
I also I want to throw this out there if
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anyone of you have done we have a lot of
California listeners. If any of you have done the Catalina
Island Channel swim, please call in.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I want to hear what it's like. I look this
up because I was wondering.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Also because to me, swimming at night you're generally advised.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Maybe I'm a little too freaked out about sharks. Okay,
maybe we've established that I have a shark attack phobia
or something.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
But I've seen Jaws too many times.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
In fact, I've seen all of them, and they get
really bad after Jaws too. I mean, even Jay, a
lot of money grabs going on. Yeah, yeah, they the
Jaws movies. Really they they sink to the bottom of
the ocean if you ask me. But the the reason
they do it at night Generally you don't want to
swim at night because it's harder to find you rip
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rip tides.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And also sharks, sharks some more active feeding at night.
But the reason they do it is because of all
the heavy boat traffic. Boat boat traffic exactly, so, which
is even a bigger risk to swimmers because there's a
lot of boats that are moving in that area and
you don't want obviously any problems with that. So that's
why they do it at night. Okay, clarified that the
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Federman vote thing sounds like he's trying to play a
little bit of both sides on it, but nonetheless, Uh,
that's where we are. So with that, sir, I wanted
to where you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Wanted to dive into your boy.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Mom. Donnie was on with here Martha McCall yesterday afternoon
on Fox News. Not born in him America, so cannot
be president. Glad we clarified. I had forgotten that he
was Ugandan. Yep, you know. I actually random side note here.
I had a good friend in college who was Ugandan,
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and his father came home one day and said, pack
a bag to his family, to his two sons and
his wife, pack a bag right now, we are going
to the airport.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And his.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Father was a lawyer in Uganda at the time of
Idiomin's reign as president but really as dictator, right he
was effectively the dictator of Uganda who was making perceived
enemies disappear. And the story that again my friend told me,
was that his father showed up to the law firm
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late one day he had some other business or whatever,
and all the partners had been detained into appeared.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah wow yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
So uh anyway, you Ganda, if you have, I've told you. Hey,
he and the family got out of there.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
They got out. Yeah, he made it this out. You
knew him.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
His dad became a professor in this country. By the way,
actual refugees right, actual asylum seeker slash refugee situation.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That's what it's for.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's for someone's trying to kill me just because I,
you know, am like an educated member of the political opposition.
Will you please take in my family? It is not hey,
I just crossed the border and I want to make
more money here slash get access to your welfare anyway,
But if you have on the Uganda front, sorry to
remind you, mom, Donnie's middle name is Kwame. Remember we
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talked about this and he tried to pretend that he
was black for purposes of or mixed race for purposes
of his Columbia application when he African American on the
I know a lot of people have stopped talking about that,
but he did that because he was born in Uganda
and his middle name, he's Zorn Quame mom Donnie, and
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so he was hoping I think that the admissions counselors
would think, oh, how many Quames from Africa are not
partly black, and that he would help him get into Columbia,
which did not work. By my Ugandan friend was most
certainly black, and uh yes and yes uh and he fled.
And I would say, if you have not seen Last
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King of Scotland, that is a which deals with this.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It's a fictionalized but.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It derees with with idiomine and what it was like
under his reign, and it is a It is a
great movie, underrated I think, and kind of forgotten now,
but a really really good watch. Although the Christ Whittaker
is the star in that movie, right, really really he
plays them. I also think, yeah, I think of as
an underrated actor in general. Also, I think Forrest Whittaker,
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you know, people who know know that he's actually really good,
really good actor, and he was phenomenal in that role.
But yeah, he's Yeah, some of the scenes are you're
will kind of traumatize you. I kind of wish they
actually had toned it down a little bit with some
of the brutality. But anyway, it's a very very good
movie and there we have it.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Now, Zoron Mumdani born in Uganda. Zoron Mumdani. Here he
is when he sat down with Marta McCallum. She got
the exclusive yesterday to sit down.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
With him on Fox.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And I will note that you're going to see clay
more Democrats who realize they have to do this now.
They have to be willing to sit down with not
puff media that's just going to tell them how amazing
they are because they don't have the same media ecosystem
dominance that they used to. So you're gonna have to
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go in and talk to people at Fox News, you know. Increasingly.
I'm not saying it's gonna be everywhere, but you're gonna
see more of this. Look, Gavin Newsom's doing it obviously
because he wants to. He does want to run for president.
But he was asked Ormum Donnie was asked about hamas
and whether they should lay down their arms.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
This is cut twenty two. This is what he said.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I have no issue with critiquing Hamas or the Israeli
government because my critiques all come from a place of
universal human rights. And my focus, however, is right here
in New York City and transforming the most expensive city
in America into one that's affordable for each.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And ever new Yorker.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Okay, and I want to get to that absolutely. But
do you believe that Hamas should lay down their weapons
and leave the leadership in Gaza.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I believe that any future here in New York City
is one that we have to make sure that's affordable
for all, and as it pertains to Israel and Palestine,
that we have to ensure that there is peace, and
that is the future that we have to fight for.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
But you won't say that Hamas should lay down their
arms and give up leadership in Gaza.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas
and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and
the fact that anything has to abide by international law,
and that applies to Hamas, that applies to Israeli military,
applies to anyone.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You could ask me about Clay.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It sounds a little bit like Abigail's span being asked
about the trans issue, where you hear a bunch of
words but you don't get much of an answer. Martha
is I think one of the best interviewers in news,
and that's a very direct question. Should the terror organization
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lay down their arms or not so we can have
peace in the Middle East. That's effectively what Martha is asking.
And he, to your point, went full Abigail Spanburger and
just talked his way out of having to answer that question. Look, mom,
Donnie is really glib, he is really articulate.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
He is a handsome guy.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
He's way better at saying nothing than Abigail Spanberger is.
And he smiles, and he knows how to play the
television game. And I am glad that he was born
in Uganda because earlier, when you were talking about it,
I've thought through this. He would one hundred percent have
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an American presidential future in his horizon if he had
been born in the United States, because he is that
good at being disarming. He's wrong about everything, I want
to be clear, wrong about everything, but talks a good game.
And there are a lot of people out there that
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if you smile, I have talked about this with people
on television for years. You can deliver absolute missiles if
you smile while you're do it, and if the better
looking you are, the more you can get away with it.
I joked about this with Tommy Laren, who works at
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out Kick Go listen to some of the some of
the bullets that Tommy Laren metaphorically is firing, but she
is so good at smiling while she does it, and
she is gutting people and they don't even realize it.
And Donnie is a handsome, good looking telligenic disciple of
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all the wrong messaging, but he does it so well
that a lot of people just don't even recognize what
he's arguing.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And then there are other things.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That really appeal to young people. Hey, groceries are too expensive.
Why doesn't the city of New York just run its
own grocery store and then everything will be cheaper. Hey, man,
rent's really expensive. We should just freeze rent. That'll solve
all the problems. When you lack basic economic knowledge, you
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come up with lots of answers to challenging situations that
actually make the challenging situation worse, but they have the
illusion of success for people who are often too young
or too ignorant to recognize that they're going to end
up in a worse shape. You know, who doesn't get
frozen buck mortgage. The more mortgages that the landlords have
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to pay, like their rates of payments don't get helped.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I mean, it's all broken.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You're leading right into what I wanted to dive into,
which is as somebody who lived in New York and
had to deal with I mean, I was like thirty
and had four roommates, right, I mean, this is it's
a very tough place to make it go of it.
But the reasons for it are not lack of government intervention.
The reasons for it are largely I would argue government
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doing too many things the wrong way and thinking that
it can just create by Fiat market conditions, right, and
then those market conditions that actually exist after the government
intervention happens are in the same thing in California housing,
by the way, California, it's like, why is housing so expensive?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Why is a house so expensive in California?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Well, it's because there's all these regulations and all these
permits and all these things that go in the process.
You know, recently they did an analysis, Clay, and I
think it was in Canada, another very liberal place, right
left wing place, and something like fifty percent of the
cost of a new house in Canada is purely regulation,
taxes and permits fifty percent. And I mean, if you
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looked at what it is in California. Remember when they
were gonna build a million dollar porta potty essentially, I
think it was in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
They were gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Spend a million dollars on a public, single occupancy bathroom. Everybody,
that's a porta potty. How do you spend a million
dollars on a porta potty California? Yeah, the newsom, how's
an answer for you? New York City, Clay. Twenty percent
of New Yorkers, something like a one point four million
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people are in subsidize almost free, depends on which kind
of subsidized housing. And then they make it very expensive
and very difficult to create new housing. Guess what this
makes market conditions where everything is priced year. The two
percent surcharge that Mam Donnie says he's going to charge
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on incomes to make life less expensive for people is
a joke.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
It is not even scratching at the problem.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
It also reminds me of your bathroom analogy. You remember
when they were going to build a nationwide network of
charging stations for all the e vehicles and then the
numbers came out that they had spent billions of dollars
and somehow added like seven charging stations. The government can't
do anything efficiently or effectively, which is why we need
to get the government out of as much as we
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possibly can. We'll play a couple more of these, mam
donni cuts, because I do think they're very significant. Also,
we got Obama coming into the Virginia governor's race, and
I saw this aoc on masculinity. But also Buck, did
you see that AI articles now make up the majority
of articles published on the internet already, just in the
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you know, two years, AI has taken off. I think
this is the book industry, which you and I are
still in for what it's worth.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I don't know what's going to happen now. It's gone
from ghostwriters to AI writers. Is what you're going to see.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I can tell you I wrote my book, and I
know Clay wrote his book because I know the people
in the publishing industry who are reading these things. That's
unfortunately going to become a vanishingly small number of books
that you're actually able to buy, no doubt. Look, next week,
I'm going to be in New York City participating in
a charity golf event for Tunnel to Towers.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
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Speaker 2 (34:50):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. For those
of you watching on video, we have a special guest,
six month old James Speed Sexton is on mic right now.
He is very entertained by it. He may or may
not make may or may not make a sound, but
super cute baby on the camera. We are not already
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smiling now we got a big smile. But that's mom
in the background being able to get him to smile.
And so are we shamelessly using baby videos to encourage
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you are there, you go you if you want to
see and hear a very happy baby six months old,
it will be up on YouTube. And he is awesome
(35:35):
and starting to sleep a little bit better. I'm told
sources that's true as mommy is is a mommy superstar
and and we're getting him getting whoa, we just pulled
by your you're off so Clay, I can't hear you,
but yeah, ow.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
He's also able to grip and hit now, which is new.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
So this is a very exciting stage in his in
his development, he's a fuck old. They start to really
really get fun. You get a lot back from them,
is what I recall. And he is a super cute kid.
So you can check him out right now on video.
We come back. Obama stepping into the governor's race in Virginia.
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AOC has strong takes on masculinity more from our buddy
mom Donnie. In his interview with Martha McCollum, all of
that headed this way, Buck, take us to the break
with your son there. Yeah, Well, he just speed says
to everybody that he loves America and he loves all
of you who listen to the show because you have
(36:35):
great taste in radio.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
And also Maga as all these are the things that
he's saying right