August 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a compelling blend of breaking political news, cultural commentary, and lighthearted sports banter. The hour opens with President Donald Trump speaking from the Oval Office, previewing his upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. The hosts discuss the geopolitical significance of Alaska, emphasizing its proximity to Russia and its strategic military assets, including missile intercepts and the largest Coast Guard presence in the U.S. Governor Mike Dunleavy joins the show to provide insight into the summit’s logistics, security measures, and the potential for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to join future peace talks. The governor praises Trump’s leadership and expresses optimism that the summit could mark a historic turning point in resolving the war in Ukraine.
The conversation shifts to Trump’s announcement that 275,000 non-citizens have been removed from the Social Security system, coinciding with the program’s 90th anniversary. The hosts highlight concerns about fraudulent claims and outdated records, including individuals listed as over 120 years old. Elon Musk’s commentary on the issue adds a tech-savvy perspective to the discussion. Trump also addresses crime in Washington, D.C., criticizing Democrats for downplaying the crisis and praising recent military-led arrests of repeat offenders. He calls for reform of cashless bail policies and urges bipartisan cooperation to combat urban violence.
In a fiery segment, Trump targets Senator Elizabeth Warren, reiterating his long-standing criticism of her claims to Native American heritage. He accuses Warren of career fraud and endorsing far-left candidates, calling her “mean” and “a nut job.” The hosts echo his sentiments, framing Warren’s influence as detrimental to financial institutions and rural communities.
The hour takes a humorous turn with a spirited debate over Buck Sexton’s claim that he can serve a tennis ball at 100 mph. Professional tennis legends Andy Roddick and John Isner weigh in, casting doubt on the claim and sparking playful banter about technique, athleticism, and tennis attire. Laura Travis, Clay’s wife, joins the conversation via talkback, laying out the terms of the bet and rooting for Buck to defy the odds. The segment draws comparisons to amateur sports challenges and includes reflections on training for the NFL Combine, highlighting the difference between raw power and refined skill.
Listeners are treated to a mix of serious analysis and comic relief, with Clay and Buck engaging fans through talkbacks and social media. The show wraps with a preview of the next day’s coverage of the Trump-Putin summit, promising exclusive insights and reactions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show President Trump.
As we speak in the Oval Office, he will be
headed to Alaska soon. We are going to talk with
the Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunlevy at the bottom of
this hour about the big meeting between Putin and Trump
that is scheduled to take place in Anchorage and what
(00:24):
he expects to see there. I can only imagine the
amount of security that will be in place for that
face to face meeting, and certainly we will be covering
that in earnest tomorrow. And we're going to have a
couple of cuts from inside of the Oval Office. It
is the ninetieth anniversary of the creation of Social Security.
A couple of things that Trump has said, just to
(00:45):
give you a little bit of a news bulletin here.
He has said that two hundred and seventy five thousand
illegal legal aliens, that is, non citizens, have been removed
from Social Security. So there were, according to President Trump,
a lot of people who are not citizens that were
enrolled to receive Social Security. And also that there remains
(01:09):
an inordinate number of people who are listed as receiving
Social Security or at least in the database. Over one
hundred and twenty years old. Elon Musk even weighed in
on that commentary. All this taking place from inside of
the Oval Office. Let me fill you in on the
Elon Musker response to what Trump said, but basically that
(01:34):
there are not very many people, as you would well imagine,
over the age of one hundred and so twelve point
four this according to Margo Martin, who does great work
for President Trump, twelve point four million names listed in
the Social Security database were over one hundred and twenty
(01:54):
years of age, and Elon Musker responded to that by
saying the oldest actually living American is one hundred and
fourteen years old. Now we got a couple of these
cuts to be able to play for you. Trump asked
for his message to Democrats, saying there's no crime in DC.
(02:16):
Cut twenty five. This just happened in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's another reason why the Democrats lost the election in
a landslide.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
They lie.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's just why I look, the crime.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Is very bad.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think that'd be much better off saying we want
to help President Trump with a crime because it's an epidemic.
It's a tragic situation.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It's the worst.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's ever been, and we want to help President Trump
with a crime as opposed to he's a dictator. He's
a dictator. People are so happy to see our military
going into DC and getting these thugs out. As you know,
we arrested a lot of people yesterday. We arrested a
lot of people. Today. We're getting people that have arrest
records that you wouldn't believe. Twenty eight arrests, fifteen arrests, brutal,
(02:58):
brutal people. And we're going to have to do something
about this cash list fail because people shoot somebody, they
kill somebody, and they're out on the street in less
than an hour.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Okay. He continued talking about that. We can also have
some fun and by the way, I've got some fun
coming for Buck here in a moment two on his
tennis game. But we're covering wide rages here. To start
the third hour, Elizabeth Warren coming in for maybe a
tomahawk chop from President Trump. This has cut twenty six.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Elizabeth Warren said she was an Indian. We call her Pocahontas.
She's a liar. She lied her whole career based on
the fact that she was an Indian. She was able
to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into
certain universities to work there. She's a liar and a
mean person. She's a nutjob.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I watched her the other night. She's all hopped up
endorsing a.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Communist in New York City, and she was all excited
and jumping up and down. She's got to take a
drug test, she really does. She's got to take a
drug test. There's no way somebody can act that way
and be normal. What she's done to a financial institutions.
He destroys people.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Do you know that you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Had a lot of great banks in the Midwest, and
banks that loan to farmers and others, and they went
out of business. She put them out of business.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Stone Cod mean, Okay, One last cut from the Oval Office.
This is what I said. About two hundred and seventy
five thousand illegal immigrants have been removed from the Social
Security program on its ninetieth anniversary cut twenty seven to
protect our benefits.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
We've already kicked nearly two hundred and seventy five thousand
illegal aliens off of the Social Security system. These are people,
many of them have already left the country, and yet
we were sending them checks all the time, and two
hundred and seventy five thousand, and that numbers now even
larger than that. Frank has its unbelievable job. And what
(04:51):
that's doing is making the system strong. It's making it strong.
Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined, and we're carrying
out historic deportations to remove many more illegals. Committee social
Security fraud. It's the social security fraud that was taking
place at levels that nobody's ever seen.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, all of that underway in the Oval office now.
Yesterday buck Sexton said that he could hit or maybe
a couple of days ago, that he could hit one
hundred mile an hour serve I one time. Just to
be clear, one time. This is not that I hit.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
This is a very important distinction, not that I hit
one hundred mile an hour serve regularly, that I could
do it one time.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
We now have some of the best tennis players in
the world, and.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Actually some of the greatest servers in terms of power
of all time. I mean, I think Andy Roddick is
probably the greatest server, one of the top five greatest
servers of all time and tennis. He has weighed in
on my middle aged man reck not even college level
tennis game.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well, first, let's start with John. Who is I think
didn't you tell us yesterday? John Isner, American tennis player.
I believe he went to the University of Georgia. I
know he's a big Georgia Bulldog fan. Really good dude.
He hopped on Twitter and said, I'm calling that serve
around ninety five miles per hour. My bet is no.
Now you might say, okay, John Isner, in addition to
(06:19):
being one of the greatest American tennis players of his generation,
he's got the second strongest serve. You said in like
the history of tennis. I believe that's correct. In terms
of serve speed.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
On the Pro Tour, there's like other people, I don't
count it when you're looking at the records. It has
to be someone did it in a match, right.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Not like the longest drive competition where you just get
to show up, like you have to actually be a pro,
I mean as a pro when it counts the fastest
serve you've ever hit.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I mean Roddick got over one forty and I mean, look,
I'll tell you guys this, like, I mean, getting over
ninety is for sure for those of you who don't know,
like I already know. I knew that before I took
the bet. Getting over one hundred. It is hard, though,
That's why I'm like, look this is I can do
it one time, I think, but over ninety, no question.
So those of you who are saying I served sixty
(07:06):
miles an hour, your math is bad. But like I said,
I'm gonna I got the speed gun. It arrived and
we're gonna have some speed gun. I'm trying to get
to it this weekend, but I'll certainly get to it
sometime next week so we'll have some more video proof.
And I won't wear all white. Some people are like,
that's just I was. It was literally laundry day over here,
and people were white when they played tennis. I don't
know why that's such a weird thing for people, like
(07:28):
people wear white. I don't know is why is that
very weird? Why why if I went if I wear
if I wear all black in Miami, that would be
weird because I would melt more than I already did.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I will sometimes say when I see a friend wearing
the same color top and bottom, that hey, I guess
you're I mean, like, I will make fun to be
fair like if you came in, if we went to
I bet Carrie would make fun of you if you
were doing anything other than playing tennis. Yeah, and you
walked in in the exact same top and bottom. So
(08:01):
but that's the most traditional. I mean, wearing whites to
play tennis is not some weird thing. This is just
like a standard thing. There are a lot of country
acquired and require it. Yeah, so that's why people like,
why are you wearing all white? I was like, I
don't know, because it's my tennis gear that I happened
to have today. But I promise next time it won't
be all in white. People are very fussy. John Isner,
awesome dude. Andy Rotick I worked with a lot at Fox.
(08:25):
Absolutely awesome guy. Just a genuinely really really good dude,
great sense of humor. Also happens to be the best
American tennis player. What the last twenty years.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Probably this is this is the this is the tennis
equivalent though of if if you know, years ago Rush
Limbaugh had weighed in on some guy who had like
started a podcast on the weekend, like his monologue. Yeah,
that's that's to have Isner and Rotick like weighing in
on my serve is kind of like it would be
like Rush being like, hey, this is your first radio show,
(08:55):
like you got some you got some pipes.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know, you're working on encouraging. But Andy Roddick said
one hundred miles per hour less certain. Uh, but he
did say the fact that he put on full ankle
braces just to serve is the real issue here.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So oh no, but I was That's okay. Well, to
be clear, that wasn't That's not I was playing. That
was a lesson. So I was actually playing tennis. I
just stopped for a minute to do to do a serve. Well,
I just think Andy is a very funny guy. So
he was he used to wear the ankle braces. Tell Andy, he's.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Lighting me up.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I have I have excuse me, mister Rodick, I have
cao Veri's feet, which means that I have.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
A sorry, I had to knock off my getting worse.
This is getting worse, which means that I have Michaels.
This is like telling Michael Jordan when he asked why
you're wearing an arm sleeve that you have, you know,
hypertension in your elbow. What if I what of my buddies?
Used to say, I used to play I used to
play pick up basketball, and his line, and I think
(09:54):
it's an all time line. He said, if you have
any brace, you have to be twice as good as
the worst player on the court. And I just think
that's such an amazing line. He's like, if you show
up for pickup basketball and you got like an elbow
sleeve on, or you've got ankle braces, or you have
like a knee knee thing, He's like, you better be
(10:14):
twice as good as the worst player on the court
because everybody's just gonna be looking at you, like I just.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You have to tell mister Roddick, okay, who is who
is a tennis serve and tennis god in general, But
you have to tell him that I was playing tennis.
I just stopped to take a serve.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I wasn't. I was.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It was in the middle of of like a you know,
hitting session or whatever. It wasn't just I didn't just
put them on just serve. Okay, that's not fair, all right,
I am, I'm translucent on that video.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Not the two best uh tennis players we basically of
their generation have now weighed in. Also, Laura Travis out
on the road, who has initially made the one hundred
mile an hour serve bet, has said I have a
heard this. She sent in a talkback to produce her
ali and so get ready, this is zz from Lara,
(11:09):
my wife.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Fuck it's Lara. The speed gun has to read a
hundred or higher. Your bet was that you could crush
the ball on a serve one hundred or higher. Ninety
eight is not one hundred. The bet isn't that you
can get it close to one hundred, it's that you
can hit it one hundred.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You also said that the speed gun has an air
rate of a plus or minus three miles per hour,
So if you hit it ninety eight, that means it
actually could have only been ninety five. If you hit
it one hundred, the speed gun reads a hundred, We're
going to give it to you, but it has to
read a hundred or higher without you faulting through your
feet or on the other side of the net in
the serve box.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
And also, even.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Though I'm a doubter, I know I'm actually rooting for
you because so many people are rooting against you and
doubting you that if you hit this serve one hundred
or higher. You're going to be like the Rocky of
amateur tennis serves. And I think if you make it happy,
you should have a gold medal celebration on air, play
the Rocky music and just live it up.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Turn of life. I appreciate into believers.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I appreciate that I am the rudy. I am the
rudy rudiger of rec tennis, serving by the people who
are who are also I'm getting those people in on me,
Like I played D one tennis and I could serve
one hundred and five or one hundred and ten, and
I'm like, yeah, because you play D one tennis. I'm
just a guy who likes to play tennis on the weekends.
I don't even play tennis in college.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Guy who feels compelled to tell you that he's amazing
at something that he should be really good at as
always like, and I'm skeptical because I don't see, uh,
you know, like the greatest hedge fund manager of all
time doesn't hop in Warren Buffett's mentions and be like, well,
in two thousand and eight, I had a forty two
percent return, right, Like I do think it's very funny
(12:51):
that people who are elite at something decide that they
need to let you know that they're elite at something. Well,
this is why I like these guys. I have a
lot of humor about it.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Like they routinely serve and if you want to know
this is all true, you can check this. At that level,
the pros, their first serves are one hundred and twenty
plus usually one hundred and twenty five plus is an average,
and they can get up into the one thirties pretty
pretty easily, right, And that's every single serve, every single
switch spin too. It's not even just like a straight
(13:21):
like they're like annihilating the ball. Your your humble radio
server and is saying, with like fifty balls, and I'm
gonna try with fifty balls, can I get over one
hundred one time?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay? Which is not easy?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I mean, like, if you're not a college player, that's
actually like a college level player, that's not easy to do.
People who don't play tennis probably think they can do it.
Zero chance zero, that's one hundred percent true. I also
think I'm wondering.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You know, so I trained for the NFL Combine to
write a book about the NFL Combine. You did, Oh yeah,
so and so you can self assess, but you can't
run more than like two forties without your speed going down.
That's why they do it at the NFL combine twice
because most people you can't. It's not like you're gonna
get better on your third. I don't know the answer
(14:13):
on this. I don't know how many times you could
serve in a row where you start to just go
down because your body's getting physically tired right your shoulder.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Like, because I'm in this is more than anyone ever
thought they'd hear about tennis on the show.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But for for for fun, everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
This is now we have like the biggest names in
the tennis world weighing in on the Clean Buck Show
tennis feud. But yeah, I'm somebody who's gonna rely much
more on muscle than technique. I mean this also might
surprise some of the people, but like the women on
the Pro Tour, I can lift a lot more weight
than they can. They just have one hundred times better
(14:49):
technique and weight transfer and elasticity in their you know,
in their movement than I do. So that's why they
can routinely do it one hundred So it's not it's
a little bit like golf. It's not. If you watch
Happy Gilmore you think, oh, like I can just hit
a slap shot, like I've hit golf balls a couple
of times. I'm absolutely horrible, So I know I can't
do that at all. You can swing as hard as
(15:09):
you want, like you can get somebody who can bench
press five hundred pounds, can't hit a golf ball. It's
it's a skill thing, not a muscle thing. And so
this is why I really have to work on the
technique more than anything else to actually get it to
the level. Because you'll see text there are literal women
who are five There are women who are Laris size
on the pro tour who can hit a you know,
(15:30):
one hundred and ten mile an hour, serve like pretty regularly,
and they have like tiny little arms, and they weigh
one hundred and ten pounds, but they have perfect body mechanics,
perfect technolo. By the way, we're going to head up
to Alaska at the bottom of this hour. I'm sure
the talkbacks are going to be extraordinary on this. We'll
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(15:53):
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putting you in the Taylor Swift role there. And I
actually I thought that this is only this is only
fair in college football, which I had never seen or
(16:14):
watched until I was partner partnered here with Clay. I
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Speaker 1 (17:30):
Uh and uh do we call it Servegate? Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I don't think it's a scandal, so that wouldn't really
make sense. But this is now that the greatest tennis players,
some of them who have ever lived, are giving me tips.
I feel like the Annie has been up a little bit.
But we'll get into also some more of the latest
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
Welcome again, Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show head up to
Alaska now to talk with the Governor of Alaska, Mike
Dunlevy on the eve of I would imagine one of
the biggest events to ever happen in Alaska, certainly in
the modern era, to have the President of the United
States and the President of Russia meeting for an incredibly
(19:21):
potentially significant and impactful summit on the future of Ukraine,
Russia and the war there. We bring in now the
Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunlevy, Is that a fair characterization
that as these things go, I would imagine the amount
of preparation, the amount of security, and the amount of
potential historical significance at play here is really unprecedented, not
(19:45):
just for Alaska, but frankly for almost every state.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
No.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I agree, it's incredible, it's exciting. We're glad to be
hosting it here in Alaska. Makes sense given our proximity
to Russia. We're only about two and a half miles
between two islands controlled by the US, Alaska and one
controlled by Russia, but fifty miles between the mainland. So no,
we're excited. And it's not the first time President Trump's
been up here. He's been up here many times. He
(20:10):
refuels here at the same base. They're going to have
the sum of that on his way to Asia, and
we've had the opportunity to get on board. Air Force
want to have meetings with him. But President Trump is
really looking out for Alaska, obviously really looking out for
the country, and in this case, we're hoping for the
best that at least this will start some serious talks
on getting this war in Ukraine result sooner than later.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Governor, if you can give us a sense of this,
you know, there's I think more geostrategic importance, and particularly
on the national security side. We think of Alaska and
energy for sure a lot. But on the national security side,
given its proximity to Russia, as we all know the
line from Saturday Night Live can see Russia from my house.
Not quite true, but very close in terms of the
(20:56):
actual distance between Alaska and Russia. What are some of
the national security implications and also your state has substantial
military resources.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, we're the most strategic state in the country by far.
We are obviously an Arctic state, that's what makes American
an Arctic country, but we're also a North Pacific sovereign
and a Western Pacific sovereign. And to give you some perspective,
we are so far west. I know, we think of
Hawaii being west, but we are so far west that
we're one thousand miles closer to Australia than California is.
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So we are by ship, we're eight hours to Tokyo
by from Moscow. By plane, we're two hours. We're two
hours closer to Moscow than Washington, DC is going that direction.
So we live in a neighborhood that's got some interesting neighbors, Russia, China,
North Korea. We as you mentioned, we have robust military
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resources up here. We have the largest coast guard presence
in the country here, we have missile intercepts here, we
have bases with F thirty five at twenty two's rapid
deployment forces, with our army, army assets up here, and
so you know, a lot of people also forget that
Alaska was actually invaded during World War two the Lutian
Islands by the Japanese and it took a joint Canadian.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
American tATu island, right.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yeah, we call it at too, Yeah, at too Prisca, Yeah,
And so very strategic location for the arc, the very
loc strategic location for the Pacific, So yeah, we take
great pride in that and probably have more retired military
individuals per capita than the other state in the country.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Can you tell us anything about the location, what it
will look like, what the process will be. And the
reason I bring it up is obviously there's going to
be immense media attention. I mean, the number of media
that are traveling to Alaska. I'm sure we'll set an
all time record for people that have been in Alaska
frankly covering anything for one particular time, unless there's some
(22:57):
major historic event that I can't think of that that
that this will look like. Will this be on the
base I think you mentioned. Will it be in some
sort of conference room? I mean, I imagine this is
a little bit like a debate in that both sides
sort of hash out all the details before the respective
presidents show up there. What should we expect in terms
(23:19):
of the actual process of the meeting and what that's like.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Well, it's definitely on the base, and the base is
a large base, so there's there's many buildings there that
would be conducive to these conversations, not just between the
president Trump and President Putin, but there they're associates and
aids that are coming up with them. So the base
is well positioned from a security perspective, but also a
privacy perspective and the ability for the these two individuals
(23:47):
to have a discussion. It's my anticipation, and this is
based upon what President Trump has talked about the new
tier recently, that it's really a it's going to set
the stage for further discussions. Uh. And depending on how
it go, oh, how well it goes, who knows, they
may extend it and stay here. They may decide to
(24:08):
schedule a follow up summit pretty quick.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
There's always rumors floating around that President Zelensky could be
invited here if things are going well. So we you know,
we're playing it by ear. I think the President is
going to do is best to look put in the
eye and really figure out if the individual is serious
about peace and to what degree. And so, like the
rest of the world, we are eagerly anticipating what the
outcome is going to be in this summit. But we're
(24:32):
glad to host it, and it's an honor to have
President Trump up here again.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Well, we were used to seeing the governor. The security
of a president, especially this president given what he's been
through in recent years, as we all know, substantial secret
Service presidence, a lot of coordination with state, local, federal
law enforcement. All hands on deck for our president. Obviously
on US soil. Are people will be responsible as well
(24:56):
for the safety of the Russian premiere. I'm just wondering
how many are there. Are there a ton of Russians
who show up too as part of his security detail,
or is this largely he trusts in, you know, the
American people and the American leader here, Donald Trump, that
it's safe as can be for Putin to just show
up in Alaska and we've you know, we've we've got
him protected for this meeting.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Yeah, it's a combination. I mean, there's no doubt that
our security apparatus is second to none. And I'm sure
that the President Putin's going to bring his entourage, including
security with him as well. I have no doubt They've
been coordinating every day since this announcement, maybe even before
the announcement was made, on the security measures that are
going to be taken here in Alaska. But having this
(25:38):
on a secure base, and again Alaska is isolated. As
you know, we're at the top of the world, so
a small population, it is tough to get here for folks,
especially in the we're having it's our tourist season, so
it's hard to get lodging and hard to get on
a plane. But nonetheless, I think it's an ideal spot
geopolitically in terms of location, security wise, and and having
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it on the base I think is a wise idea.
So I'm hoping for a successful summit. I'm hoping once
again that what comes out of this is going to
be a lasting just piece for the people of Ukraine.
And I think this is going to be another example
where President Trump brings two sides together, which he seems
to be doing quite often throughout the world, to end
these wars. Because we all know, I mean, wars are
(26:23):
bad period, and it's bad for the economy, it's bad
for international relations. And so we're all hopeful, and.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
You know, there's the possibility that this could be referred
to if this is very successful, right, this could be
the kind of summit that people talk about for many
years to come. It could be in the history books.
You know, It's something that I think could be viewed
really as a turning point. So with all of that,
and now that we've established the national security implications and
(26:50):
everything else, just focusing on Alaska for a second. Mister
Clay Travis has not yet been and we were just
discussing fishing, and you were wonderful. I have been up there.
I am unlike Tennis. I have no illusions of grandeur.
I'm not a good fisherman. How long would it take you,
Governor or or I don't know if I'm assuming you
can do one, I don't know to get Clay semi
(27:12):
decent at fly fishing if he were to come up
and visit next summer.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Well, I'm I don't know the depth of Clay's current
skills when it comes to fly Let's.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Let's assume zero, Governor, let's assume zero pre zoom limited.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Okay, it might take a little bit of work, but
we're willing to take him under our wing, taking them uh,
you know, we'll take him to uh. We might want
to start out taking him over to like bass Pro
shop and he could fish in the tanks there to
get you know, get I.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Like my odds. I like my odds at catching stuff
at a bess Pro shop. You.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Even the worst of fishermen can catch fish up here,
Sam and Hallib, but you name it so Clay, Uh,
you need to come up here. If you're an outdoors
type of guy, you're gonna be I think as dound
that at not just the beauty, but the opportunities up
here as well.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I can't wait to visit. I'm going to bring my
whole family up. One more quiquestion for you, Governor, notwithstanding
the fact that I likely would struggle immensely on the
fly fishing. On a more serious front, you actually mentioned
that Zolensky, who knows you know, Trump, has said, hey,
we'd like to have tripartite talks. Potentially if these things
go well, does the governor get a phone call and
(28:17):
they just tell you, hey, so Zolensky's also coming and
maybe we're going to need some extra food and beds.
What is the protocol for something like that. I'm sure
there's not a lot of experience in any state. But
do you just look down and they're like, oh, man,
you know, Zolensky's on his way in too, Like, how
does that process work?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Well, you know, that's an interesting question, right because there's
really not a template for this. But going back to
when President Trump announced that he was coming up here,
we immediately were engaged with the White House. There are
advanced teams and others associated with the White House on
not just security measures, but venues et cetera, et cetera.
So they have a pretty good handle now and I
(28:58):
ascertain what the assets are pure for a potential arrival
of President Zelinsky. I would say this though, that if
Prision Zelinsky does come here, that means that there was
some significant movement in a direction that could be conducive
to a just piece. And so that's one of the
things to watch for if he does. If he does
come up, I mean the other thing to watch for.
(29:18):
Who knows the meeting might be over in an hour,
and that also is telling. So we're all, you know,
we're all waiting to see what's going to happen. We
hope for nothing but the best. But if President Zilinsky
does end up coming, we would also do everything we
can to provide for him as well as the you know,
the White House people will also make sure that that
trip is safe and secure and productive.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well, we appreciate the time Governor Mike Dunlevy. We also
want to say thank you. By the way, Governor, I'm
sure you know these stations well, news Radio six point
fifty in Anchorage, News Radio nine seventy and Fairbanks and
News Radio ninety seven point five and catch a can.
We know we have a big audience of Alaskan listeners
up there. I look forward to seeing some of you
(30:00):
in person at some point. And good luck with the
big summit going on tomorrow, Governor, we know how busy
you are.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Absolutely thanks guys for having me on.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
For sure. That's Governor Mike Dunlevy of Alaska. And tomorrow
Buck's going to be a really interesting show because who
knows how this is going to go. And I think
we'll probably be going off the air about time that
they're coming for that press conference, joint press conference that
is scheduled, So a lot of news coming tomorrow that
(30:30):
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Speaker 1 (31:46):
Welcome into Clay and Buck here. It's been quite a day.
Everybody quite it.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And look, tomorrow is going to be a big day
at real day of moment or a momentous day, I
should say, for the country with this effort to end
the or in Ukraine and well drill down on that.
There's been more sports talk and particularly racket sport talk
today on the show that I ever thought would happened
in my entire career of media.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
But such as life, and that's where we are. Let's
get to some of your talkbacks.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Also Clay's word choice, so you know, throw a little
heat Clay's way today. All right, I've been getting lit
up online for twenty four hours straight here. But Clay,
we've got some people who want to point out that
they clearly listen to you a lot because they know
which words you like. This is podcast listener Rob in
acron gg an observation on the show, no one says
(32:34):
the word universe more than Clay Travis, not Neil.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
De grasse Tyson, not Carl Sagan, not both of those
guys combined. Clay, let's grab a phisaurus mix it up
a little bit. All right, buddy, what is another galaxy?
I mean for universe? What other word would there be?
Virgo supercluster. I mean galaxy. I guess I could say,
but then it sounds like I'm talking about Star Wars.
(33:00):
I think Nilda grass Tyson and I would go head
to head. I don't know that that one's true. The
guy who called in.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Earlier, Nilda grass Tyson not sure that men are tend
to be stronger than women. He's a scientist who's not
sure about biology.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
That's right. That was not a proud moment for Nilda
grass Tyson on behalf of scientists. This other talkback. This
is what I if you missed it, my wife called
in to make sure that Buck needed to know that
the hundred miles an hour meant a hundred is good.
A hundred is good. We've said that was the original bet.
Just to be very it's one hundred. It's not one
hundred and one or one hundred two. It's a hundred.
(33:36):
And she said ninety eight doesn't count. And Nick from Minneapolis,
can we just take a moment here.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Ninety eight even though the speed guns aren't perfect, doesn't count.
I mean she is a stickler, she is not working around.
Welcome to my life. You don't want to be the
Travis boys?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Can we can we assign her.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Can we get her to like work with Judge Janine
to clean up DC because like the laws the law, Yeah,
she would not be a lenient judge from Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
What you got for us?
Speaker 6 (34:03):
This is why we listen to you and we love
you guys, because this miss Travis.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
She is bringing truth to power. Man, we love this.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
This is this is good radio.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I'm glad we're just putting politics aside for a minute.
This is this is good levity. This is the real,
the real deal, good stuff we want here. Thank you
for Nick. Look, I will say this. Some people, boxers,
for instance, you know how they have entourages and they're
all hype men. You know, they kind of walk around
like you're the greatest, You're the best ever. I have
(34:35):
what is the opposite of a hype man? Laura is
the opposite of a hype man. For me, she is like,
you know, it's your anniversary. No, come on, today is
our twenty fifth first anniversary. But I'm just saying, like,
there's the there's the hype guy. Like she keeps you
grounded out of a deep and abiding love for the
totality of Clay. And some would say that I do
(34:59):
need grounding because I don't think that I lack for
confidence in general, one might suggest, But I do love
that we got John I Isner and Andy Roddick now weighing
in on your tennis server. I believe we.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Will also have Riley Opelka, who is seven feet tall
and routinely serves like one hundred and forty miles an hour,
will have his take on this tomorrow. I have an
intermediary who says that he's seen the video, So this
is this is this is out there for sure, this
is out there. Vip Wayne writes, play if bucks over
on both you buy the most expensive steak. If he's under,
(35:32):
he buys, have prize picks, keep the tally, no money involved,
just sign up. I like the prize picks, you know,
throw in there.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Very nice. Yeah, I love the idea of getting prize
picks involved here. Actually this is my wife's bead. I
didn't even jump in. I was more of you were like,
maybe you can. Lara was like, there's absolutely no chance.
So that that got me fired up. I knew. I mean,
this is the thing. I mean, I know for.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
I've been clocked at ninety the I know that I
can do in the nineties one hundred though. Okay, I
mean this is this is the mountain that I have
to climb. This is what I have signed up for.
So we'll see. And you know, for anyone who is wondering,
go out there and serve a tennis serve a tennis
ball on a court, just for fun, and put it
on video.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
You can put it into.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Grock and it'll give you within like five or ten
miles an hour, a pretty good estimate.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
That's really cool. AI. I saw people suggesting you to
use the AI, so you did that. And now you've
got a radar gun. And uh, we're gonna find out
and tomorrow. And I never thought I would own a
radar gun. I'm gonna be honest with you. This is
like a new thing for me. So you can sit
in your in your house too, and just look and
see if people are driving too quickly from your window. Tomorrow,
(36:43):
crazy show. We'll see how it goes. Because the meeting
between Putin and Trump, thank y'all. See you then,
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show President Trump.
As we speak in the Oval Office, he will be
headed to Alaska soon. We are going to talk with
the Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunlevy at the bottom of
this hour about the big meeting between Putin and Trump
that is scheduled to take place in Anchorage and what
(00:24):
he expects to see there. I can only imagine the
amount of security that will be in place for that
face to face meeting, and certainly we will be covering
that in earnest tomorrow. And we're going to have a
couple of cuts from inside of the Oval Office. It
is the ninetieth anniversary of the creation of Social Security.
A couple of things that Trump has said, just to
(00:45):
give you a little bit of a news bulletin here.
He has said that two hundred and seventy five thousand
illegal legal aliens, that is, non citizens, have been removed
from Social Security. So there were, according to President Trump,
a lot of people who are not citizens that were
enrolled to receive Social Security. And also that there remains
(01:09):
an inordinate number of people who are listed as receiving
Social Security or at least in the database. Over one
hundred and twenty years old. Elon Musk even weighed in
on that commentary. All this taking place from inside of
the Oval Office. Let me fill you in on the
Elon Musker response to what Trump said, but basically that
(01:34):
there are not very many people, as you would well imagine,
over the age of one hundred and so twelve point
four this according to Margo Martin, who does great work
for President Trump, twelve point four million names listed in
the Social Security database were over one hundred and twenty
(01:54):
years of age, and Elon Musker responded to that by
saying the oldest actually living American is one hundred and
fourteen years old. Now we got a couple of these
cuts to be able to play for you. Trump asked
for his message to Democrats, saying there's no crime in DC.
(02:16):
Cut twenty five. This just happened in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's another reason why the Democrats lost the election in
a landslide.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
They lie.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's just why I look, the crime.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Is very bad.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I think that'd be much better off saying we want
to help President Trump with a crime because it's an epidemic.
It's a tragic situation.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It's the worst.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's ever been, and we want to help President Trump
with a crime as opposed to he's a dictator. He's
a dictator. People are so happy to see our military
going into DC and getting these thugs out. As you know,
we arrested a lot of people yesterday. We arrested a
lot of people. Today. We're getting people that have arrest
records that you wouldn't believe. Twenty eight arrests, fifteen arrests, brutal,
(02:58):
brutal people. And we're going to have to do something
about this cash list fail because people shoot somebody, they
kill somebody, and they're out on the street in less
than an hour.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Okay. He continued talking about that. We can also have
some fun and by the way, I've got some fun
coming for Buck here in a moment two on his
tennis game. But we're covering wide rages here. To start
the third hour, Elizabeth Warren coming in for maybe a
tomahawk chop from President Trump. This has cut twenty six.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Elizabeth Warren said she was an Indian. We call her Pocahontas.
She's a liar. She lied her whole career based on
the fact that she was an Indian. She was able
to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into
certain universities to work there. She's a liar and a
mean person. She's a nutjob.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I watched her the other night. She's all hopped up
endorsing a.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Communist in New York City, and she was all excited
and jumping up and down. She's got to take a
drug test, she really does. She's got to take a
drug test. There's no way somebody can act that way
and be normal. What she's done to a financial institutions.
He destroys people.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Do you know that you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Had a lot of great banks in the Midwest, and
banks that loan to farmers and others, and they went
out of business. She put them out of business.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Stone Cod mean, Okay, One last cut from the Oval Office.
This is what I said. About two hundred and seventy
five thousand illegal immigrants have been removed from the Social
Security program on its ninetieth anniversary cut twenty seven to
protect our benefits.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
We've already kicked nearly two hundred and seventy five thousand
illegal aliens off of the Social Security system. These are people,
many of them have already left the country, and yet
we were sending them checks all the time, and two
hundred and seventy five thousand, and that numbers now even
larger than that. Frank has its unbelievable job. And what
(04:51):
that's doing is making the system strong. It's making it strong.
Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined, and we're carrying
out historic deportations to remove many more illegals. Committee social
Security fraud. It's the social security fraud that was taking
place at levels that nobody's ever seen.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, all of that underway in the Oval office now.
Yesterday buck Sexton said that he could hit or maybe
a couple of days ago, that he could hit one
hundred mile an hour serve I one time. Just to
be clear, one time. This is not that I hit.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
This is a very important distinction, not that I hit
one hundred mile an hour serve regularly, that I could
do it one time.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
We now have some of the best tennis players in
the world, and.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Actually some of the greatest servers in terms of power
of all time. I mean, I think Andy Roddick is
probably the greatest server, one of the top five greatest
servers of all time and tennis. He has weighed in
on my middle aged man reck not even college level
tennis game.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well, first, let's start with John. Who is I think
didn't you tell us yesterday? John Isner, American tennis player.
I believe he went to the University of Georgia. I
know he's a big Georgia Bulldog fan. Really good dude.
He hopped on Twitter and said, I'm calling that serve
around ninety five miles per hour. My bet is no.
Now you might say, okay, John Isner, in addition to
(06:19):
being one of the greatest American tennis players of his generation,
he's got the second strongest serve. You said in like
the history of tennis. I believe that's correct. In terms
of serve speed.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
On the Pro Tour, there's like other people, I don't
count it when you're looking at the records. It has
to be someone did it in a match, right.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Not like the longest drive competition where you just get
to show up, like you have to actually be a pro,
I mean as a pro when it counts the fastest
serve you've ever hit.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I mean Roddick got over one forty and I mean, look,
I'll tell you guys this, like, I mean, getting over
ninety is for sure for those of you who don't know,
like I already know. I knew that before I took
the bet. Getting over one hundred. It is hard, though,
That's why I'm like, look this is I can do
it one time, I think, but over ninety, no question.
So those of you who are saying I served sixty
(07:06):
miles an hour, your math is bad. But like I said,
I'm gonna I got the speed gun. It arrived and
we're gonna have some speed gun. I'm trying to get
to it this weekend, but I'll certainly get to it
sometime next week so we'll have some more video proof.
And I won't wear all white. Some people are like,
that's just I was. It was literally laundry day over here,
and people were white when they played tennis. I don't
know why that's such a weird thing for people, like
(07:28):
people wear white. I don't know is why is that
very weird? Why why if I went if I wear
if I wear all black in Miami, that would be
weird because I would melt more than I already did.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I will sometimes say when I see a friend wearing
the same color top and bottom, that hey, I guess
you're I mean, like, I will make fun to be
fair like if you came in, if we went to
I bet Carrie would make fun of you if you
were doing anything other than playing tennis. Yeah, and you
walked in in the exact same top and bottom. So
(08:01):
but that's the most traditional. I mean, wearing whites to
play tennis is not some weird thing. This is just
like a standard thing. There are a lot of country
acquired and require it. Yeah, so that's why people like,
why are you wearing all white? I was like, I
don't know, because it's my tennis gear that I happened
to have today. But I promise next time it won't
be all in white. People are very fussy. John Isner,
awesome dude. Andy Rotick I worked with a lot at Fox.
(08:25):
Absolutely awesome guy. Just a genuinely really really good dude,
great sense of humor. Also happens to be the best
American tennis player. What the last twenty years.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Probably this is this is the this is the tennis
equivalent though of if if you know, years ago Rush
Limbaugh had weighed in on some guy who had like
started a podcast on the weekend, like his monologue. Yeah,
that's that's to have Isner and Rotick like weighing in
on my serve is kind of like it would be
like Rush being like, hey, this is your first radio show,
(08:55):
like you got some you got some pipes.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know, you're working on encouraging. But Andy Roddick said
one hundred miles per hour less certain. Uh, but he
did say the fact that he put on full ankle
braces just to serve is the real issue here.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So oh no, but I was That's okay. Well, to
be clear, that wasn't That's not I was playing. That
was a lesson. So I was actually playing tennis. I
just stopped for a minute to do to do a serve. Well,
I just think Andy is a very funny guy. So
he was he used to wear the ankle braces. Tell Andy, he's.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Lighting me up.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I have I have excuse me, mister Rodick, I have
cao Veri's feet, which means that I have.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
A sorry, I had to knock off my getting worse.
This is getting worse, which means that I have Michaels.
This is like telling Michael Jordan when he asked why
you're wearing an arm sleeve that you have, you know,
hypertension in your elbow. What if I what of my buddies?
Used to say, I used to play I used to
play pick up basketball, and his line, and I think
(09:54):
it's an all time line. He said, if you have
any brace, you have to be twice as good as
the worst player on the court. And I just think
that's such an amazing line. He's like, if you show
up for pickup basketball and you got like an elbow
sleeve on, or you've got ankle braces, or you have
like a knee knee thing, He's like, you better be
(10:14):
twice as good as the worst player on the court
because everybody's just gonna be looking at you, like I just.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You have to tell mister Roddick, okay, who is who
is a tennis serve and tennis god in general, But
you have to tell him that I was playing tennis.
I just stopped to take a serve.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I wasn't. I was.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
It was in the middle of of like a you know,
hitting session or whatever. It wasn't just I didn't just
put them on just serve. Okay, that's not fair, all right,
I am, I'm translucent on that video.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Not the two best uh tennis players we basically of
their generation have now weighed in. Also, Laura Travis out
on the road, who has initially made the one hundred
mile an hour serve bet, has said I have a
heard this. She sent in a talkback to produce her
ali and so get ready, this is zz from Lara,
(11:09):
my wife.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Fuck it's Lara. The speed gun has to read a
hundred or higher. Your bet was that you could crush
the ball on a serve one hundred or higher. Ninety
eight is not one hundred. The bet isn't that you
can get it close to one hundred, it's that you
can hit it one hundred.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You also said that the speed gun has an air
rate of a plus or minus three miles per hour,
So if you hit it ninety eight, that means it
actually could have only been ninety five. If you hit
it one hundred, the speed gun reads a hundred, We're
going to give it to you, but it has to
read a hundred or higher without you faulting through your
feet or on the other side of the net in
the serve box.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
And also, even.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Though I'm a doubter, I know I'm actually rooting for
you because so many people are rooting against you and
doubting you that if you hit this serve one hundred
or higher. You're going to be like the Rocky of
amateur tennis serves. And I think if you make it happy,
you should have a gold medal celebration on air, play
the Rocky music and just live it up.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Turn of life. I appreciate into believers.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I appreciate that I am the rudy. I am the
rudy rudiger of rec tennis, serving by the people who
are who are also I'm getting those people in on me,
Like I played D one tennis and I could serve
one hundred and five or one hundred and ten, and
I'm like, yeah, because you play D one tennis. I'm
just a guy who likes to play tennis on the weekends.
I don't even play tennis in college.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Guy who feels compelled to tell you that he's amazing
at something that he should be really good at as
always like, and I'm skeptical because I don't see, uh,
you know, like the greatest hedge fund manager of all
time doesn't hop in Warren Buffett's mentions and be like, well,
in two thousand and eight, I had a forty two
percent return, right, Like I do think it's very funny
(12:51):
that people who are elite at something decide that they
need to let you know that they're elite at something. Well,
this is why I like these guys. I have a
lot of humor about it.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Like they routinely serve and if you want to know
this is all true, you can check this. At that level,
the pros, their first serves are one hundred and twenty
plus usually one hundred and twenty five plus is an average,
and they can get up into the one thirties pretty
pretty easily, right, And that's every single serve, every single
switch spin too. It's not even just like a straight
(13:21):
like they're like annihilating the ball. Your your humble radio
server and is saying, with like fifty balls, and I'm
gonna try with fifty balls, can I get over one
hundred one time?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay? Which is not easy?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I mean, like, if you're not a college player, that's
actually like a college level player, that's not easy to do.
People who don't play tennis probably think they can do it.
Zero chance zero, that's one hundred percent true. I also
think I'm wondering.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You know, so I trained for the NFL Combine to
write a book about the NFL Combine. You did, Oh yeah,
so and so you can self assess, but you can't
run more than like two forties without your speed going down.
That's why they do it at the NFL combine twice
because most people you can't. It's not like you're gonna
get better on your third. I don't know the answer
(14:13):
on this. I don't know how many times you could
serve in a row where you start to just go
down because your body's getting physically tired right your shoulder.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Like, because I'm in this is more than anyone ever
thought they'd hear about tennis on the show.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But for for for fun, everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
This is now we have like the biggest names in
the tennis world weighing in on the Clean Buck Show
tennis feud. But yeah, I'm somebody who's gonna rely much
more on muscle than technique. I mean this also might
surprise some of the people, but like the women on
the Pro Tour, I can lift a lot more weight
than they can. They just have one hundred times better
(14:49):
technique and weight transfer and elasticity in their you know,
in their movement than I do. So that's why they
can routinely do it one hundred So it's not it's
a little bit like golf. It's not. If you watch
Happy Gilmore you think, oh, like I can just hit
a slap shot, like I've hit golf balls a couple
of times. I'm absolutely horrible, So I know I can't
do that at all. You can swing as hard as
(15:09):
you want, like you can get somebody who can bench
press five hundred pounds, can't hit a golf ball. It's
it's a skill thing, not a muscle thing. And so
this is why I really have to work on the
technique more than anything else to actually get it to
the level. Because you'll see text there are literal women
who are five There are women who are Laris size
on the pro tour who can hit a you know,
(15:30):
one hundred and ten mile an hour, serve like pretty regularly,
and they have like tiny little arms, and they weigh
one hundred and ten pounds, but they have perfect body mechanics,
perfect technolo. By the way, we're going to head up
to Alaska at the bottom of this hour. I'm sure
the talkbacks are going to be extraordinary on this. We'll
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actually I thought that this is only this is only
fair in college football, which I had never seen or
(16:14):
watched until I was partner partnered here with Clay. I
know the other sports ball very well. Okay, I know
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Speaker 1 (17:30):
Uh and uh do we call it Servegate? Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I don't think it's a scandal, so that wouldn't really
make sense. But this is now that the greatest tennis players,
some of them who have ever lived, are giving me tips.
I feel like the Annie has been up a little bit.
But we'll get into also some more of the latest
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
Welcome again, Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show head up to
Alaska now to talk with the Governor of Alaska, Mike
Dunlevy on the eve of I would imagine one of
the biggest events to ever happen in Alaska, certainly in
the modern era, to have the President of the United
States and the President of Russia meeting for an incredibly
(19:21):
potentially significant and impactful summit on the future of Ukraine,
Russia and the war there. We bring in now the
Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunlevy, Is that a fair characterization
that as these things go, I would imagine the amount
of preparation, the amount of security, and the amount of
potential historical significance at play here is really unprecedented, not
(19:45):
just for Alaska, but frankly for almost every state.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
No.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I agree, it's incredible, it's exciting. We're glad to be
hosting it here in Alaska. Makes sense given our proximity
to Russia. We're only about two and a half miles
between two islands controlled by the US, Alaska and one
controlled by Russia, but fifty miles between the mainland. So no,
we're excited. And it's not the first time President Trump's
been up here. He's been up here many times. He
(20:10):
refuels here at the same base. They're going to have
the sum of that on his way to Asia, and
we've had the opportunity to get on board. Air Force
want to have meetings with him. But President Trump is
really looking out for Alaska, obviously really looking out for
the country, and in this case, we're hoping for the
best that at least this will start some serious talks
on getting this war in Ukraine result sooner than later.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Governor, if you can give us a sense of this,
you know, there's I think more geostrategic importance, and particularly
on the national security side. We think of Alaska and
energy for sure a lot. But on the national security side,
given its proximity to Russia, as we all know the
line from Saturday Night Live can see Russia from my house.
Not quite true, but very close in terms of the
(20:56):
actual distance between Alaska and Russia. What are some of
the national security implications and also your state has substantial
military resources.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, we're the most strategic state in the country by far.
We are obviously an Arctic state, that's what makes American
an Arctic country, but we're also a North Pacific sovereign
and a Western Pacific sovereign. And to give you some perspective,
we are so far west. I know, we think of
Hawaii being west, but we are so far west that
we're one thousand miles closer to Australia than California is.
(21:30):
So we are by ship, we're eight hours to Tokyo
by from Moscow. By plane, we're two hours. We're two
hours closer to Moscow than Washington, DC is going that direction.
So we live in a neighborhood that's got some interesting neighbors, Russia, China,
North Korea. We as you mentioned, we have robust military
(21:52):
resources up here. We have the largest coast guard presence
in the country here, we have missile intercepts here, we
have bases with F thirty five at twenty two's rapid
deployment forces, with our army, army assets up here, and
so you know, a lot of people also forget that
Alaska was actually invaded during World War two the Lutian
Islands by the Japanese and it took a joint Canadian.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
American tATu island, right.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yeah, we call it at too, Yeah, at too Prisca, Yeah,
And so very strategic location for the arc, the very
loc strategic location for the Pacific, So yeah, we take
great pride in that and probably have more retired military
individuals per capita than the other state in the country.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Can you tell us anything about the location, what it
will look like, what the process will be. And the
reason I bring it up is obviously there's going to
be immense media attention. I mean, the number of media
that are traveling to Alaska. I'm sure we'll set an
all time record for people that have been in Alaska
frankly covering anything for one particular time, unless there's some
(22:57):
major historic event that I can't think of that that
that this will look like. Will this be on the
base I think you mentioned. Will it be in some
sort of conference room? I mean, I imagine this is
a little bit like a debate in that both sides
sort of hash out all the details before the respective
presidents show up there. What should we expect in terms
(23:19):
of the actual process of the meeting and what that's like.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Well, it's definitely on the base, and the base is
a large base, so there's there's many buildings there that
would be conducive to these conversations, not just between the
president Trump and President Putin, but there they're associates and
aids that are coming up with them. So the base
is well positioned from a security perspective, but also a
privacy perspective and the ability for the these two individuals
(23:47):
to have a discussion. It's my anticipation, and this is
based upon what President Trump has talked about the new
tier recently, that it's really a it's going to set
the stage for further discussions. Uh. And depending on how
it go, oh, how well it goes, who knows, they
may extend it and stay here. They may decide to
(24:08):
schedule a follow up summit pretty quick.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
There's always rumors floating around that President Zelensky could be
invited here if things are going well. So we you know,
we're playing it by ear. I think the President is
going to do is best to look put in the
eye and really figure out if the individual is serious
about peace and to what degree. And so, like the
rest of the world, we are eagerly anticipating what the
outcome is going to be in this summit. But we're
(24:32):
glad to host it, and it's an honor to have
President Trump up here again.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Well, we were used to seeing the governor. The security
of a president, especially this president given what he's been
through in recent years, as we all know, substantial secret
Service presidence, a lot of coordination with state, local, federal
law enforcement. All hands on deck for our president. Obviously
on US soil. Are people will be responsible as well
(24:56):
for the safety of the Russian premiere. I'm just wondering
how many are there. Are there a ton of Russians
who show up too as part of his security detail,
or is this largely he trusts in, you know, the
American people and the American leader here, Donald Trump, that
it's safe as can be for Putin to just show
up in Alaska and we've you know, we've we've got
him protected for this meeting.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Yeah, it's a combination. I mean, there's no doubt that
our security apparatus is second to none. And I'm sure
that the President Putin's going to bring his entourage, including
security with him as well. I have no doubt They've
been coordinating every day since this announcement, maybe even before
the announcement was made, on the security measures that are
going to be taken here in Alaska. But having this
(25:38):
on a secure base, and again Alaska is isolated. As
you know, we're at the top of the world, so
a small population, it is tough to get here for folks,
especially in the we're having it's our tourist season, so
it's hard to get lodging and hard to get on
a plane. But nonetheless, I think it's an ideal spot
geopolitically in terms of location, security wise, and and having
(26:00):
it on the base I think is a wise idea.
So I'm hoping for a successful summit. I'm hoping once
again that what comes out of this is going to
be a lasting just piece for the people of Ukraine.
And I think this is going to be another example
where President Trump brings two sides together, which he seems
to be doing quite often throughout the world, to end
these wars. Because we all know, I mean, wars are
(26:23):
bad period, and it's bad for the economy, it's bad
for international relations. And so we're all hopeful, and.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
You know, there's the possibility that this could be referred
to if this is very successful, right, this could be
the kind of summit that people talk about for many
years to come. It could be in the history books.
You know, It's something that I think could be viewed
really as a turning point. So with all of that,
and now that we've established the national security implications and
(26:50):
everything else, just focusing on Alaska for a second. Mister
Clay Travis has not yet been and we were just
discussing fishing, and you were wonderful. I have been up there.
I am unlike Tennis. I have no illusions of grandeur.
I'm not a good fisherman. How long would it take you,
Governor or or I don't know if I'm assuming you
can do one, I don't know to get Clay semi
(27:12):
decent at fly fishing if he were to come up
and visit next summer.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Well, I'm I don't know the depth of Clay's current
skills when it comes to fly Let's.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Let's assume zero, Governor, let's assume zero pre zoom limited.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Okay, it might take a little bit of work, but
we're willing to take him under our wing, taking them uh,
you know, we'll take him to uh. We might want
to start out taking him over to like bass Pro
shop and he could fish in the tanks there to
get you know, get I.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Like my odds. I like my odds at catching stuff
at a bess Pro shop. You.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Even the worst of fishermen can catch fish up here,
Sam and Hallib, but you name it so Clay, Uh,
you need to come up here. If you're an outdoors
type of guy, you're gonna be I think as dound
that at not just the beauty, but the opportunities up
here as well.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I can't wait to visit. I'm going to bring my
whole family up. One more quiquestion for you, Governor, notwithstanding
the fact that I likely would struggle immensely on the
fly fishing. On a more serious front, you actually mentioned
that Zolensky, who knows you know, Trump, has said, hey,
we'd like to have tripartite talks. Potentially if these things
go well, does the governor get a phone call and
(28:17):
they just tell you, hey, so Zolensky's also coming and
maybe we're going to need some extra food and beds.
What is the protocol for something like that. I'm sure
there's not a lot of experience in any state. But
do you just look down and they're like, oh, man,
you know, Zolensky's on his way in too, Like, how
does that process work?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Well, you know, that's an interesting question, right because there's
really not a template for this. But going back to
when President Trump announced that he was coming up here,
we immediately were engaged with the White House. There are
advanced teams and others associated with the White House on
not just security measures, but venues et cetera, et cetera.
So they have a pretty good handle now and I
(28:58):
ascertain what the assets are pure for a potential arrival
of President Zelinsky. I would say this though, that if
Prision Zelinsky does come here, that means that there was
some significant movement in a direction that could be conducive
to a just piece. And so that's one of the
things to watch for if he does. If he does
come up, I mean the other thing to watch for.
(29:18):
Who knows the meeting might be over in an hour,
and that also is telling. So we're all, you know,
we're all waiting to see what's going to happen. We
hope for nothing but the best. But if President Zilinsky
does end up coming, we would also do everything we
can to provide for him as well as the you know,
the White House people will also make sure that that
trip is safe and secure and productive.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well, we appreciate the time Governor Mike Dunlevy. We also
want to say thank you. By the way, Governor, I'm
sure you know these stations well, news Radio six point
fifty in Anchorage, News Radio nine seventy and Fairbanks and
News Radio ninety seven point five and catch a can.
We know we have a big audience of Alaskan listeners
up there. I look forward to seeing some of you
(30:00):
in person at some point. And good luck with the
big summit going on tomorrow, Governor, we know how busy
you are.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Absolutely thanks guys for having me on.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
For sure. That's Governor Mike Dunlevy of Alaska. And tomorrow
Buck's going to be a really interesting show because who
knows how this is going to go. And I think
we'll probably be going off the air about time that
they're coming for that press conference, joint press conference that
is scheduled, So a lot of news coming tomorrow that
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Speaker 1 (31:46):
Welcome into Clay and Buck here. It's been quite a day.
Everybody quite it.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And look, tomorrow is going to be a big day
at real day of moment or a momentous day, I
should say, for the country with this effort to end
the or in Ukraine and well drill down on that.
There's been more sports talk and particularly racket sport talk
today on the show that I ever thought would happened
in my entire career of media.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
But such as life, and that's where we are. Let's
get to some of your talkbacks.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Also Clay's word choice, so you know, throw a little
heat Clay's way today. All right, I've been getting lit
up online for twenty four hours straight here. But Clay,
we've got some people who want to point out that
they clearly listen to you a lot because they know
which words you like. This is podcast listener Rob in
acron gg an observation on the show, no one says
(32:34):
the word universe more than Clay Travis, not Neil.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
De grasse Tyson, not Carl Sagan, not both of those
guys combined. Clay, let's grab a phisaurus mix it up
a little bit. All right, buddy, what is another galaxy?
I mean for universe? What other word would there be?
Virgo supercluster. I mean galaxy. I guess I could say,
but then it sounds like I'm talking about Star Wars.
(33:00):
I think Nilda grass Tyson and I would go head
to head. I don't know that that one's true. The
guy who called in.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Earlier, Nilda grass Tyson not sure that men are tend
to be stronger than women. He's a scientist who's not
sure about biology.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
That's right. That was not a proud moment for Nilda
grass Tyson on behalf of scientists. This other talkback. This
is what I if you missed it, my wife called
in to make sure that Buck needed to know that
the hundred miles an hour meant a hundred is good.
A hundred is good. We've said that was the original bet.
Just to be very it's one hundred. It's not one
hundred and one or one hundred two. It's a hundred.
(33:36):
And she said ninety eight doesn't count. And Nick from Minneapolis,
can we just take a moment here.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Ninety eight even though the speed guns aren't perfect, doesn't count.
I mean she is a stickler, she is not working around.
Welcome to my life. You don't want to be the
Travis boys?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Can we can we assign her.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Can we get her to like work with Judge Janine
to clean up DC because like the laws the law, Yeah,
she would not be a lenient judge from Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
What you got for us?
Speaker 6 (34:03):
This is why we listen to you and we love
you guys, because this miss Travis.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
She is bringing truth to power. Man, we love this.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
This is this is good radio.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I'm glad we're just putting politics aside for a minute.
This is this is good levity. This is the real,
the real deal, good stuff we want here. Thank you
for Nick. Look, I will say this. Some people, boxers,
for instance, you know how they have entourages and they're
all hype men. You know, they kind of walk around
like you're the greatest, You're the best ever. I have
(34:35):
what is the opposite of a hype man? Laura is
the opposite of a hype man. For me, she is like,
you know, it's your anniversary. No, come on, today is
our twenty fifth first anniversary. But I'm just saying, like,
there's the there's the hype guy. Like she keeps you
grounded out of a deep and abiding love for the
totality of Clay. And some would say that I do
(34:59):
need grounding because I don't think that I lack for
confidence in general, one might suggest, But I do love
that we got John I Isner and Andy Roddick now weighing
in on your tennis server. I believe we.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Will also have Riley Opelka, who is seven feet tall
and routinely serves like one hundred and forty miles an hour,
will have his take on this tomorrow. I have an
intermediary who says that he's seen the video, So this
is this is this is out there for sure, this
is out there. Vip Wayne writes, play if bucks over
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(35:32):
he buys, have prize picks, keep the tally, no money involved,
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Speaker 1 (35:40):
Very nice. Yeah, I love the idea of getting prize
picks involved here. Actually this is my wife's bead. I
didn't even jump in. I was more of you were like,
maybe you can. Lara was like, there's absolutely no chance.
So that that got me fired up. I knew. I mean,
this is the thing. I mean, I know for.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
I've been clocked at ninety the I know that I
can do in the nineties one hundred though. Okay, I
mean this is this is the mountain that I have
to climb. This is what I have signed up for.
So we'll see. And you know, for anyone who is wondering,
go out there and serve a tennis serve a tennis
ball on a court, just for fun, and put it
on video.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
You can put it into.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Grock and it'll give you within like five or ten
miles an hour, a pretty good estimate.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
That's really cool. AI. I saw people suggesting you to
use the AI, so you did that. And now you've
got a radar gun. And uh, we're gonna find out
and tomorrow. And I never thought I would own a
radar gun. I'm gonna be honest with you. This is
like a new thing for me. So you can sit
in your in your house too, and just look and
see if people are driving too quickly from your window. Tomorrow,
(36:43):
crazy show. We'll see how it goes. Because the meeting
between Putin and Trump, thank y'all. See you then,
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