August 26, 2025 • 36 mins
In Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the hosts dive into a dynamic mix of political commentary, cultural analysis, and audience engagement. The segment opens with lighthearted coverage of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement, which Clay argues is a culturally significant moment that reflects traditional values like marriage and family. He suggests Swift’s influence could inspire younger generations to embrace the nuclear family, despite her left-leaning political endorsements. This leads to a broader discussion on the intersection of pop culture and politics, with Clay asserting that “politics is downstream from culture,” while Buck counters that Trump has reversed that dynamic.
The hour’s political core centers on President Trump’s 2025 pivot to crime reduction as a key campaign issue. The hosts highlight Trump’s deployment of federal resources to Washington, D.C., and his calls to expand efforts to other high-crime blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore. They emphasize Trump’s success in reducing violent crime, securing the border, and stabilizing the economy—framing it all under the “EBC” strategy: Economy, Border, Crime. Trump’s critics, they argue, are more concerned with opposing him than solving real problems, even accusing him of “lowering crime too fast.” The hosts also touch on Trump’s stance against transgender athletes in women’s sports, citing overwhelming public support for his position.
Throughout the segment, Clay and Buck engage with listener feedback—some supportive, others dismissive—about the Swift-Kelce engagement and its cultural relevance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with the True Love edition of
the program. As Buck has just been glowing with the
news coming down that Taylor Swift and her football playing
boyfriend Travis Kelcey have become engaged.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh, True Love wins again.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We are running through a bunch of different stories out there.
The ongoing battle of Trump deploying resources to Washington, d C.
Crime coming down, the discussion about whether it should also
happen in Chicago, Baltimore, potentially other New York City. I
think he even mentioned potentially other Blue cities out there.
(00:45):
This is going to continue to be the battle as
Trump has made. Is that fair to say, Buck the
story of the summer twenty twenty five what he is
trying to do when it comes to violent crime. I
think it's fair to say that, given that the tariff
panic appears to be over, we have set all time
record highs in the stock market this summer, given that
(01:08):
the border is completely shut down. I said, and I
think you signed off on this for years, that the
election was as easy as EBC economy, border crime, The
border is secure. Now we're going through the process of
deporting many different illegals that we're here, but that scenario
(01:33):
of the border being wide open and millions of illegals
continuing to flood in as occurred under Joe Biden, that solved.
Trump has solved much of the border crisis. Crime is
the economy, with the tariffs now basically agreed to, with
the big beautiful bill passed which locked in the Trump
tax cuts for the next decade plus, the economy I
(01:55):
think is on very sound footing and continuing to get better.
And Trump has now pivoted his attention to a large
degree to crime, and he's managed to do the impossible.
He has managed for Democrats to now be arguing he's
trying to lower crime too fast. We are opposed to
(02:16):
his attempts to lower crime. That is where we are
right now. I wanted to play a couple of cuts of.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What is going on.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Trump has been doing his press conference, so our team
has been running on that, and we've got several different
Trump takes. Let me hit you with all of these.
Trump on the trans issue. As this has come back
to the forefront state of Virginia, win some seers running
against Abigail Spanberger, I believe there was today news about
(02:50):
Roanoke College allowing the women on the swimming team there
to sue for what they were put through. Here is
Trump reacting, I would imagine somewhat on that cut thirty one.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
They said, that's an eighty twenty. No, it's in ninety
seven three. It's ninety seven to three, like transgender for everybody,
they fought for it, that's still fighting for it. I
saw a guy today, a politician that you all know
very well, fighting like hell for men playing in women's sports.
You don't understand they're human beings. Also, well, I agree
the human beings, but you can't have a seven foot
(03:23):
guy playing basketball with the women and just one of
those little problems in life. And we all have a
place six Okay, I've got my place.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Too, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So that is Trump weighing in common sense issue that
I think is one that honestly put him into the
White House. That's the thesis of my new book that's
coming out in November. And then he got asked a
ton about crime. We played you the epic Times reporter
who pointed out, Hey, I had a gun pulled on me.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I was pistol whipped.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Now I appreciate everything you're doing to try to lower
crime in DC. Here is Trump saying, they say I'm
a dictator, but I'm just trying to stop crime.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Cut thirty two, and they're going.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
To fight me like this slab of a governor. You
have an Illinois poor This poor guy got thrown out
of his business by his family. Know, the family's partners
with the family and nice family. I like the family,
but he was no good. They threw him out. He's
governor of Illinois. And he goes about Trump, we don't
need his help. Chicago is the way. These places are
(04:29):
really bad. But then he goes on television he says, oh,
Trump is a dictator, he said, and a lot of
people in here. So the line is that I'm a dictator,
but I stopped crying.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So a lot of people say, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
If that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
But I'm not a dictator. I just had to stop crime.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And he will think that Illinois would have such a
problem with crime, such a bad governor. He should be
calling me and he should be saying, could you send
over the troops?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Was it's out of control?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, So this is the topic Trump has pivoted it
and buck Democrats are now arguing, as Trump said, he's
a dictator. He's working too hard to try to lower crime.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Yeah, I hope that Democrats continue on this because when
there's a problem, we would like to think that the
people who are empowered, politicians and others empowered to deal
with it would at least have an alternative solution to
what the Republicans have on this issue. Democrats just have
shut up. There is no problem, even though we all
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know there's a problem. And that's why this won't work.
And that's why Trump is right to continue to pound this,
continue to hammer this. You know, we hammer Democrats on
the border, and sure enough, that was a critical issue
in this last election cycle and one that we were
able to now with Trump in charge, prove beyond any
doubt was a choice not in inevitable reality, as in
(05:57):
the open border did not have to happen. Trump showed
that the people saying that it was a choice, that
was correct. It was a choice, and we've made another choice.
Now we can do the same thing with crime. And
this is I think a you see people say this
Clay online too. Hey, you know you can just do things.
When you're in power, you don't have to. Actually, you know,
(06:20):
Mother May I with the Democrats all the time. You
can find areas where things can be improved and just
do them and show people. And then that affects the
political outcome too, because results are nice. I think we
grew up in a political climate. Clay just very broadly
speaking of politicians, all lie, nothing ever gets done. It's
all a unit party. I think Trump has shattered that
(06:44):
narrative more than anybody else we've seen in our lifetime,
where it's just oh, it has to be this way,
go along, to get along, the Potomac two step, all
this stuff nonsense. And on this issue of crime, it's
by the way.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
The timing on this is perfect.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Now. Things are a little slowed down with the news Michael,
it's August. A lot of journals are on vacation. Less
stuff has happened, a lot of people in general are
on vacation, and all of Europe is on vacation. So
this is a great moment to bring focus to this
issue and to show people where the two sides stand.
So I mean saying he's a dictator, it's just so pathetic.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
After all, what is the dictatorship. What's the issue here? Really?
Ask this, what's the downside of what he has done?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
What are we gonna pretend the Democrats care about spending
all the all the overtime you know that's been spent
on this.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
H No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
This is this is where I come back to, both
politically and morally, this is the right choice. Politically, it's
smart because being against crime is something that the vast
majority of Americans are connected to and carry and care
a great deal about. So it's good to be on
this side. Morally, it's better if less people die, just
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especially young people who are overwhelmingly victims of violent crime.
We're talking about people with decades of their life. We
played the clip of the of the This even makes
me a little bit sick, and I bet it's gonna
make you sick to the stomach to even think about
two buck now that you're a dad. We to plague
the woman who talked about being a victim of violent
(08:15):
crime getting pistol whipped, and as she said, now she
feels very fortunate. She's pregnant and she's going to have
a baby, and she wants the city to be safer.
One of the worst things, and I'm going to be dark.
One of the worst things that could happen to anyone
out there is that your child is a victim of
violent crime. That woman in the press conference, and I
(08:38):
give her credit from the Epic Times, talked about the
psychic trauma that she still feels from the attack that
she had levied against her, the violent crime attempt. I
would also point out that anyone who loses a child
is dealing with psychic trauma for the rest of their lives.
And when you consider who tends to be the victims
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of violent crime, it is overwhelmingly young men and their
moms are never going to recover. So leave aside politics,
we should do everything we can to make it the
case that there are less victims of violent crime in America.
(09:20):
And I just I give tremendous credit to Trump for this,
because a lot of politicians assume that things should stay
as they are. Trump's radical gift is he looks at
problems and he actually tries to come up with solutions.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Hey, why don't we fix this?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And again I think it's the builder background, because any
of you out there that have worked in housing or building,
and it does by the way. It doesn't have to
be just a building.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It can be.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Building a business. All you do all day long is
find problems and try to solve them.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's how you build a business.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
A successful business is really just an exercise in problem solving.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
How do we increase margin, How do we.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Hire the right people, How do we look at this
situation and solve it to create a better situation. Trump
comes in with fresh eyes because he's not a lifelong politician,
and I think, frankly, when he looked at the data
and realized we have a thirty x murder rate in Washington,
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d C. Compared to London, in Paris, that's unacceptable. And
I think a lot of left wing journals. They're rich,
they live in gated communities, they oftentimes have security to
help protect them at their jobs. They don't want to
acknowledge the problem because Democrats aren't solving it. And if
Trump comes in and solves it like he solved the border,
(10:42):
it would require them being honest and giving him some credit.
And what's unique about this is Trump is actually trying
to save the lives of people in cities who either
didn't vote or were highly unlikely to vote for him,
based on statistics, so he's doing the right thing even
(11:03):
though it doesn't necessarily benefit his base. The reality is Washington,
d C. Voted more than any community in America against Trump,
and Trump's still saying, Okay, they may not have voted
for me, but I want them to be safer. I
want less of them to die. It's actually an incredibly
noble goal. Look when I lived in New York City
(11:23):
and bloom Look, Bloomberg was essentially a Democrat, I know,
who's technically ran as a Republican. But he was doing
a good job and he was keeping crime down, and
I was thankful for it. And I actually remember early
in my career saying some nice things about Mayor Bloomberg
as mayor, and people getting angry at me because, yeah,
is he bad?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You know? Was he a little nanny state on the
big SODA's? Sure? Is he horrible on guns? Sure is he?
Speaker 6 (11:48):
But did he keep the city running in a way
that it was efficient and safe? Yeah, And so that matters.
So you would think that there are some things that
can transcend just the most basic tribal power politics, Like
if you're doing a good job making me safer in
my city, I am thankful for that, and I approve
of or I agree with that. No Democrats, it's they
(12:09):
would rather be unsafe and Trump be wrong than be
safe and have to say thank you to Trump. I
think that's really an explanation of Trump's arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yes, I mean they had that one.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Did you see the lady that went viral where she
said in Chicago, I was attacked and my wrist was
broken in a violent assault, but I don't want crime
to decline because I don't want Trump to be involved.
And this isn't I didn't see that, but I just
I know that mentality is pervasive.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Unfortunately, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
This woman did a whole video that went megaviral where
she said I would rather be physically assaulted and have
my safety question than to have Trump in position of
power in any way in Chicago, And I think it
goes directly to your point. When you are actively supporting
policies that put you in your family in danger because
(13:01):
you disagree with the politician putting them in place, your
brain is broken and you are not behaving logically irrationally.
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(16:14):
I'm with Buck on celebrities, Clay and don't be a
Buckeye hater. Buck's wright, who gives it? You know what
about Travis and Taylor being married, that's a chick thing.
Dudes don't care. And Clay quit hating on my Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I didn't hate on him.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I just said they're going to lose to Texas, which
is going to happen on Saturday. And here's the thing,
I am cautiously optimistic that this is going to be
good because Taylor Swift's entire career has to this point
been about trying to find the right one, whatever you
want to classify that as. I believe she's around thirty
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five years old ish. I think she's going to get
married and immediately start having kids. And I think a
lot of Taylor Swift fans going to see that as
the fulfillment of her romantic journey, her quest, and I
think they're gonna want to have their own kids. So
I see this as ultimately beneficial. Whatever you want to
(17:12):
say about Taylor Swift, she didn't have kids out of wedlock.
She's getting engaged. Her music, in the larger context of music,
is very upbeat and not particularly nasty.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
It's degenerate. A lot of the music that out there
is Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I actually, look, I understand that you might be annoyed
by her because of her politics.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I don't agree with her.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Own politically, but her lifestyle so far to me, she
seems to me to be very much someone who talks
left and lives right. And when she gets married to
Travis Kelcey and they have kids, I think even more so.
The nuclear family and living on the right side of
the cultural equation even when you talk left, is going
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to connect with her audience.
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Kley, Travis and buck Sexton on the front Lines of Truth.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. All right,
I am going to make an argument here that is
potentially going to blow some people's minds, and we'll probably
have some fun responses.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
We already have some salty emails about your fixation on
the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey news.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So I'm going to tell you why this matters.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I believe that one of the truest phrases of all time,
I think Andrew Breitbart was credited with it is politics
is downstream from culture.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It is what you are seeing from young men right now,
I believe is directly connected to the way that the
culture has shifted around them.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I don't want to interrupt your train here. I just
wanted to say I think that Trump has actually reversed
that maximum. But that's a whole I think that's a
culture is now downstream of politics in the Trump era.
But yes, well that's actually a super interesting concept because
my argument would be Trump has co opted much of
the trends that he is intuitive enough to have seen,
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and accelerated and exacerbated them to a degree that they
are impossible to miss. But in general, whatever you think
about this, there are one hundred million girls today right now.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Women.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Every woman in your life who is fourteen to forty
right now has got a girlfriend texting her about the
Taylor Swift endorsement. I mean engagement, and that is I
bet the number one thing being texted about all over
(20:39):
the country right now. And I guarantee you and may
not be hey, they're excited about it. It may be like, hey,
are they going to get divorced? Or can you believe this?
Every woman fourteen to forty has got a girlfriend right
now texting her about this, And.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It may be twelve to forty. I'm telling you, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Every one play wants to see if I'm just gonna
like take a break from video and just jump out
the window and see if I'm okay, you know, if
I can land in the bushes or something, just anything
to escape.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Every single one, every single one, all right that has
a phone. Maybe there's some out there, and if they don't,
if they don't have a phone, they're calling each other
right now about it. They're sending emails, carrier pigeons flying
across the night sky right now?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
All right? Why is it?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What is the lesson that this that they are taking
from this? Taylor Swift has spent her entire career singing
about trying to find her mister Wright. She's become a billionaire.
I actually respect Taylor Swift. She writes her own songs.
As I said earlier, if you wanted to pick someone
in pop culture for your daughter to aspire to emulate,
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which I'm not saying is healthy, but we all know happens,
Taylor Swift might be just about the best role model
there could be for a little girl out there in
pop culture. Okay, she's never had scandal associated with her
that she hasn't had. I just I'm singing her praises
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as an individual. And what she's doing, bucket bucks. What
she is doing is she is pursuing a conservative lifestyle
while saying she supports left wing politics. And I think
when you see this, you cannot escape it. So many
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people out there on the left, they talk left, but
they live right. What did Taylor Swift want a man
to marry so she could have kids? She wants her
ultimate aspirational goal is a nuclear family. This is what
she's been seeking her entire life. Buck Her entire career
(22:46):
is about finding a guy she can marry and have
babies with. It's actually very conservative and positive. She didn't
have kids out of wedlock. She hasn't been married and
divorced four times now. She's waited, yes into her thirties
to get married. I think they will have bunches of babies.
I think they will have them soon. And I think
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there are going to be generations of girls that will
look at Taylor Swift and seek in their own lives
to emulate her. I also think that when she gets married.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I've been critical of Travis Kelcey because I think I
know Travis kelce I covered sports. He is a lovable
doult not a particularly smart guy, not a particularly savvy guy,
but a guy who likes to laugh and is energetic
and is a good locker room guy. Every business has
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a Travis Kelcey in it. Every team, if they're successful,
has Travis Kelsey's in it. I think that's what attracted
Taylor Swift, and I think that she is going to
become more conservative. She may still say the things that
they say in Hollywood about hey, I'm endorsing Kamala Harris
and all these things, but I believe that ultimately she
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went and got a football playing dude instead of dating
all these male feminists. And I think it's going to
be ultimately a net positive. As politics is downstream from culture,
I think a lot of little girls and a lot
of teenage girls, and a lot of girls in their
twenties and thirties looking for mister Wright want what Taylor
Swift has found, and the nuclear family is ultimately the
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salvation of America. There you go, Buck, that's a very
positive take. You may not ascribe to any of it.
I'm telling you, I think it's significant.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
It's yeah, obviously, the family and having kids and not
being married five times and not being a degenerate. I mean,
those are all good things. But that's the most intricate
analysis of Swift Travis Kelsey I've ever heard. I'm telling you,
that was like, that was like the Gettysburg address of
Kelsey's Swift analysis.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I mean, that was just.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Telling you for all time, probably probably the best take
humbly that will happen on the Travis Kelcey Taylor Swift
marriage engagement and why it matters now if they end
up not getting married and she goes off and she
has eight kids out of wedlock, then it will not
have actually materialized. As I am telling you, but I
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guarantee you with me, with my voice, my connection.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
The wrong off the way.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Hold on a second, just to set the record straight here, buddy,
weren't you wrong about this relationship from the get go?
Shudn't we actually have Lara Trump said, I'm sorry, Lara Travis,
not Trump, the other Laura, Lara Travis sending us a
talk back about what's going to happen here because she
knew this would work.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
You, sir, were a doubting clay.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's true. That's very well played. By the way.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
All of that is true, and that's why when the
live on the air, when this news broke, I lost.
I've been arguing that Travis Kelsey was too dumb for
Taylor Swift. But when the facts change and the facts
are changed, they are now engaged. I am telling you
that this is the big takeaway, and I'm there is
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not a single fourteen to forty years every over the
lines and see anybody who react.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Let's let's let's see what the people think about this one,
all right, Clay, Let's let's see what the people think.
The vip emails are flowing in. Just to be sporting
about it. I'll let you choose which one of the
all caps shouting at you emails you would like to read.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Right now, these are old dudes who don't understand modern culture.
I'm trying to explain to you how to win. I
understand if you're seventy year old dude listening to us
right now, you don't get why Travis Kelsey and Taylor
Swift matters. Your granddaughters are texting about this right now,
and they're gonna be talking about it at Thanksgiving. And
(26:45):
because you just heard my breakdown, you steal that and
you're gonna be the coolest grandpa on the planet when
you deliver it at your Thanksgiving. Me.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'm just telling you, they're gonna be like Grandpa, how
did you? How did you nail this?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You say, Clay, Travis perfectly encapsulated why this matters as
a cultural moment. But you don't have to give me credit.
You can just be like, well, I've been paying attention
to the cultural trends. Oh my god, Clay says rose Marie.
Let me just say this, Buck, what are the odds
that Rose Marie I knew you were gonna do this. Well,
I'm just saying there is not anyone under fifty named
(27:22):
rose Marie in the country.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Rose Marie is.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Not Clay not I'm not not a negative. You know, Ethyl,
all the ethols out there, I'm sure to get fabulous.
Usually I don't think they I don't think they go
by ethel. But all this, all.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
The ethols out there, it's fabulous name. They're eighty year older,
and it'll cycle back. My grandmother was named Ruth, great name.
Its cycled all the way back. But Rose Marie here.
If Rose Marie is thirty four, I will eat a
hat live on the show. I guarantee you. Rosemare who
just wrote in is retired. And she said, oh my god, Clay,
(27:59):
enough about swifty. You are a closet leftist.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Vomit.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
None of my friends texted all caps, all CAFs. None
of my friends texted me about her engagement.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
We do not care.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay again, I said women fourteen to forty. I didn't
say that women who are retired are all reacting to this,
but the ones who are texting their granddaughters are.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And I will.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Also say this, It doesn't tell me that you do
not care when you say we do not care. When
you write we do not care, you actually care deeply,
as much of America does about this.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Randy, Randy from Colorado wants to weigh in on this one,
one of our esteemed listeners.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Randy, what's going on so listening?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Really?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Who cares? So you called in to tell us that
you don't care.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I don't care about that at all.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That pretty more important such a life. Well that's true,
but you do realize there's an irony in how many
times you called the show?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Uh, probably six times over a year. How many times
have we had you on the air.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Twice?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, well that's pretty good. So you have called the
show only six times in four years, yet you were compelled,
you jumped out of your chair, you grabbed your phone,
you left it. Do you have granddaughters? Do you have granddaughters?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yes, sir, Randy?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Can I just say we appreciate you being a loyal
listener to the program, and we appreciate the time you
spent on the hole to get on the air.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Clay feels that way as well.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, but Randy, more importantly, you go back and you
listen to that incredible monologue I delivered about why it
matters so much. You pretend it's like Romeo and Juliet
and you're playing the role of Romeo in the school play.
You memorize it, you deliver it at Thanksgiving dinner to
your teenage granddaughters. You're gonna be the coolest grandpa of
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all time, and you can completely take credit for it,
because they're gonna have no idea that you stole it
from me.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
My gift to you, I'd rather.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, okay, that's fine. I mean I understand when you
pete with music trying to make Randy the coolest grandpa
of all time. That's my goal.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
And we have let's see Clay, you now the entire
inbox has has been now overtaken.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
By Jerald Gerald. Here we go f Taylor and Travis.
I could care less and I both and I find
them both annoying as hell. Maybe she will go away
and her fans will be crying in their I con
genuinely look, I am I the only person who would
(30:54):
people get engaged. I say, I hope they get married
and stay married and have lots of babies, like does
everybody else here and see engagements and be like Gerald
here and say, maybe she will go away and her
front fans will be crying in their loneliness.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
That feels a little dark to me.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I mean, fuck, even even you, the grint who stole
the engagement here, Maybe she will go away and her
fans will be crying in their loneliness feels a little
intense to me. Gerald feels a little Philip feels and
to drop an f bob on him really feels a
little aggressive.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
All right, what else? What else do we have here?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
We gotta do a read for you? Can you do
the reading.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Up?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Woof?
Speaker 6 (31:40):
We all can take a breather here. Maybe we'll come
back and do some news talk about saving the republic.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Here they're saving the republic.
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Speaker 5 (33:49):
All right, welcome back in.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
We're closing up chopp here on Clay on Buck just
in time after Clay has kicked the hornet's nest of
those who don't want to hear about Taylor Swift and
Travis Kel She's engagement they do not care. Some other people,
A lot of people. Some people are saying they care
a lot. In fact, President Trump has been asked about
this just now. This has cut thirty nine. Let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I have to tell you the biggest top culture news
of the year broke while we were in.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
This cabinet meeting.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged in.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Hurt.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Well, I wish him a lot of love. Yeah, I
think it's I think he's a great player. I think
he's a great guy, and I think that she's a
terrific person. So I wish them a lot of.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Love very much at this. I mean, yeah, they're nice
from Trump, that's right, Trump.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
I wish him a lot of luck. I mean, I think,
you know, as you know, Travis's gonna have his hands
full here. But I got so many things that I
could say. What I would say in general is Trump
gets this right.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Uh. Can you imagine Joe Biden in a press conference
being asked about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. I do
think you hit on it, Buck, But we got a
little bit of a different take on how the political
universe impacts the larger cultural environment. Trump is uniquely aware
of what people are talking about, and he has an
(35:17):
intuitive sense for how to cut through the noise. That
Trump take that he just gave in the middle of
a press conference. It's not like he knew that this
was happening, and he's answering questions about everything under the
sun is going to be everywhere, and it is the
right take, I think to give. And I think there
are a lot of people increasingly becoming aware that their
(35:39):
whole Trump is Hitler angle is going up in smoke
because he's actually just kind of a nice grandpa. I
mean what you and I have been saying for some time. Yeah,
he's a little bit ordinerary at times, as all of
us can be, especially some.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Of our.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Some of the emailers are a little ornery right now,
Clay ornery.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Is the talkbacks tomorrow are gonna be I'm just gonna
tell you, I'm predicting this amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
If you want to be entertained.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
I mean, if Travis and Taylor really want to bring
the country together, they should, you know, ask if Trump
can like officiate the wedding for them, you know what
I mean, just just go all in, you know, bring
America together, make marriage great again.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
If they put this marriage on television streaming, it would
be the most watched wedding since Princess die and Prince Charles. Now,
unfortunately that wedding didn't go after that well, living happily
ever after. But I do wish them well, and I
wish all of you well in your talkbacks, which undoubtedly
(36:44):
are going to be incredible. Go subscribe, follow us on
social media. Love you guys.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
We will see all of you tomorrow.
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with the True Love edition of
the program. As Buck has just been glowing with the
news coming down that Taylor Swift and her football playing
boyfriend Travis Kelcey have become engaged.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh, True Love wins again.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We are running through a bunch of different stories out there.
The ongoing battle of Trump deploying resources to Washington, d C.
Crime coming down, the discussion about whether it should also
happen in Chicago, Baltimore, potentially other New York City. I
think he even mentioned potentially other Blue cities out there.
(00:45):
This is going to continue to be the battle as
Trump has made. Is that fair to say, Buck the
story of the summer twenty twenty five what he is
trying to do when it comes to violent crime. I
think it's fair to say that, given that the tariff
panic appears to be over, we have set all time
record highs in the stock market this summer, given that
(01:08):
the border is completely shut down. I said, and I
think you signed off on this for years, that the
election was as easy as EBC economy, border crime, The
border is secure. Now we're going through the process of
deporting many different illegals that we're here, but that scenario
(01:33):
of the border being wide open and millions of illegals
continuing to flood in as occurred under Joe Biden, that solved.
Trump has solved much of the border crisis. Crime is
the economy, with the tariffs now basically agreed to, with
the big beautiful bill passed which locked in the Trump
tax cuts for the next decade plus, the economy I
(01:55):
think is on very sound footing and continuing to get better.
And Trump has now pivoted his attention to a large
degree to crime, and he's managed to do the impossible.
He has managed for Democrats to now be arguing he's
trying to lower crime too fast. We are opposed to
(02:16):
his attempts to lower crime. That is where we are
right now. I wanted to play a couple of cuts of.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What is going on.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Trump has been doing his press conference, so our team
has been running on that, and we've got several different
Trump takes. Let me hit you with all of these.
Trump on the trans issue. As this has come back
to the forefront state of Virginia, win some seers running
against Abigail Spanberger, I believe there was today news about
(02:50):
Roanoke College allowing the women on the swimming team there
to sue for what they were put through. Here is
Trump reacting, I would imagine somewhat on that cut thirty one.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
They said, that's an eighty twenty. No, it's in ninety
seven three. It's ninety seven to three, like transgender for everybody,
they fought for it, that's still fighting for it. I
saw a guy today, a politician that you all know
very well, fighting like hell for men playing in women's sports.
You don't understand they're human beings. Also, well, I agree
the human beings, but you can't have a seven foot
(03:23):
guy playing basketball with the women and just one of
those little problems in life. And we all have a
place six Okay, I've got my place.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Too, Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So that is Trump weighing in common sense issue that
I think is one that honestly put him into the
White House. That's the thesis of my new book that's
coming out in November. And then he got asked a
ton about crime. We played you the epic Times reporter
who pointed out, Hey, I had a gun pulled on me.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I was pistol whipped.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Now I appreciate everything you're doing to try to lower
crime in DC. Here is Trump saying, they say I'm
a dictator, but I'm just trying to stop crime.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Cut thirty two, and they're going.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
To fight me like this slab of a governor. You
have an Illinois poor This poor guy got thrown out
of his business by his family. Know, the family's partners
with the family and nice family. I like the family,
but he was no good. They threw him out. He's
governor of Illinois. And he goes about Trump, we don't
need his help. Chicago is the way. These places are
(04:29):
really bad. But then he goes on television he says, oh,
Trump is a dictator, he said, and a lot of
people in here. So the line is that I'm a dictator,
but I stopped crying.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So a lot of people say, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
If that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
But I'm not a dictator. I just had to stop crime.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And he will think that Illinois would have such a
problem with crime, such a bad governor. He should be
calling me and he should be saying, could you send
over the troops?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Was it's out of control?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, So this is the topic Trump has pivoted it
and buck Democrats are now arguing, as Trump said, he's
a dictator. He's working too hard to try to lower crime.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Yeah, I hope that Democrats continue on this because when
there's a problem, we would like to think that the
people who are empowered, politicians and others empowered to deal
with it would at least have an alternative solution to
what the Republicans have on this issue. Democrats just have
shut up. There is no problem, even though we all
(05:34):
know there's a problem. And that's why this won't work.
And that's why Trump is right to continue to pound this,
continue to hammer this. You know, we hammer Democrats on
the border, and sure enough, that was a critical issue
in this last election cycle and one that we were
able to now with Trump in charge, prove beyond any
doubt was a choice not in inevitable reality, as in
(05:57):
the open border did not have to happen. Trump showed
that the people saying that it was a choice, that
was correct. It was a choice, and we've made another choice.
Now we can do the same thing with crime. And
this is I think a you see people say this
Clay online too. Hey, you know you can just do things.
When you're in power, you don't have to. Actually, you know,
(06:20):
Mother May I with the Democrats all the time. You
can find areas where things can be improved and just
do them and show people. And then that affects the
political outcome too, because results are nice. I think we
grew up in a political climate. Clay just very broadly
speaking of politicians, all lie, nothing ever gets done. It's
all a unit party. I think Trump has shattered that
(06:44):
narrative more than anybody else we've seen in our lifetime,
where it's just oh, it has to be this way,
go along, to get along, the Potomac two step, all
this stuff nonsense. And on this issue of crime, it's
by the way.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
The timing on this is perfect.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Now. Things are a little slowed down with the news Michael,
it's August. A lot of journals are on vacation. Less
stuff has happened, a lot of people in general are
on vacation, and all of Europe is on vacation. So
this is a great moment to bring focus to this
issue and to show people where the two sides stand.
So I mean saying he's a dictator, it's just so pathetic.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
After all, what is the dictatorship. What's the issue here? Really?
Ask this, what's the downside of what he has done?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
What are we gonna pretend the Democrats care about spending
all the all the overtime you know that's been spent
on this.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
H No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
This is this is where I come back to, both
politically and morally, this is the right choice. Politically, it's
smart because being against crime is something that the vast
majority of Americans are connected to and carry and care
a great deal about. So it's good to be on
this side. Morally, it's better if less people die, just
(07:54):
especially young people who are overwhelmingly victims of violent crime.
We're talking about people with decades of their life. We
played the clip of the of the This even makes
me a little bit sick, and I bet it's gonna
make you sick to the stomach to even think about
two buck now that you're a dad. We to plague
the woman who talked about being a victim of violent
(08:15):
crime getting pistol whipped, and as she said, now she
feels very fortunate. She's pregnant and she's going to have
a baby, and she wants the city to be safer.
One of the worst things, and I'm going to be dark.
One of the worst things that could happen to anyone
out there is that your child is a victim of
violent crime. That woman in the press conference, and I
(08:38):
give her credit from the Epic Times, talked about the
psychic trauma that she still feels from the attack that
she had levied against her, the violent crime attempt. I
would also point out that anyone who loses a child
is dealing with psychic trauma for the rest of their lives.
And when you consider who tends to be the victims
(09:00):
of violent crime, it is overwhelmingly young men and their
moms are never going to recover. So leave aside politics,
we should do everything we can to make it the
case that there are less victims of violent crime in America.
(09:20):
And I just I give tremendous credit to Trump for this,
because a lot of politicians assume that things should stay
as they are. Trump's radical gift is he looks at
problems and he actually tries to come up with solutions.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Hey, why don't we fix this?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And again I think it's the builder background, because any
of you out there that have worked in housing or building,
and it does by the way. It doesn't have to
be just a building.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It can be.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Building a business. All you do all day long is
find problems and try to solve them.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's how you build a business.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
A successful business is really just an exercise in problem solving.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
How do we increase margin, How do we.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Hire the right people, How do we look at this
situation and solve it to create a better situation. Trump
comes in with fresh eyes because he's not a lifelong politician,
and I think, frankly, when he looked at the data
and realized we have a thirty x murder rate in Washington,
(10:21):
d C. Compared to London, in Paris, that's unacceptable. And
I think a lot of left wing journals. They're rich,
they live in gated communities, they oftentimes have security to
help protect them at their jobs. They don't want to
acknowledge the problem because Democrats aren't solving it. And if
Trump comes in and solves it like he solved the border,
(10:42):
it would require them being honest and giving him some credit.
And what's unique about this is Trump is actually trying
to save the lives of people in cities who either
didn't vote or were highly unlikely to vote for him,
based on statistics, so he's doing the right thing even
(11:03):
though it doesn't necessarily benefit his base. The reality is Washington,
d C. Voted more than any community in America against Trump,
and Trump's still saying, Okay, they may not have voted
for me, but I want them to be safer. I
want less of them to die. It's actually an incredibly
noble goal. Look when I lived in New York City
(11:23):
and bloom Look, Bloomberg was essentially a Democrat, I know,
who's technically ran as a Republican. But he was doing
a good job and he was keeping crime down, and
I was thankful for it. And I actually remember early
in my career saying some nice things about Mayor Bloomberg
as mayor, and people getting angry at me because, yeah,
is he bad?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You know? Was he a little nanny state on the
big SODA's? Sure? Is he horrible on guns? Sure is he?
Speaker 6 (11:48):
But did he keep the city running in a way
that it was efficient and safe? Yeah, And so that matters.
So you would think that there are some things that
can transcend just the most basic tribal power politics, Like
if you're doing a good job making me safer in
my city, I am thankful for that, and I approve
of or I agree with that. No Democrats, it's they
(12:09):
would rather be unsafe and Trump be wrong than be
safe and have to say thank you to Trump. I
think that's really an explanation of Trump's arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yes, I mean they had that one.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Did you see the lady that went viral where she
said in Chicago, I was attacked and my wrist was
broken in a violent assault, but I don't want crime
to decline because I don't want Trump to be involved.
And this isn't I didn't see that, but I just
I know that mentality is pervasive.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Unfortunately, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
This woman did a whole video that went megaviral where
she said I would rather be physically assaulted and have
my safety question than to have Trump in position of
power in any way in Chicago, And I think it
goes directly to your point. When you are actively supporting
policies that put you in your family in danger because
(13:01):
you disagree with the politician putting them in place, your
brain is broken and you are not behaving logically irrationally.
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gotta worry about the Let's allow them to have it.
All right, Let's get to very very important here. We
have a VIP email in Clay. Let's see wait where
to go? VIP email from Steve in Pennsylvania. He says,
(16:14):
I'm with Buck on celebrities, Clay and don't be a
Buckeye hater. Buck's wright, who gives it? You know what
about Travis and Taylor being married, that's a chick thing.
Dudes don't care. And Clay quit hating on my Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I didn't hate on him.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I just said they're going to lose to Texas, which
is going to happen on Saturday. And here's the thing,
I am cautiously optimistic that this is going to be
good because Taylor Swift's entire career has to this point
been about trying to find the right one, whatever you
want to classify that as. I believe she's around thirty
(16:50):
five years old ish. I think she's going to get
married and immediately start having kids. And I think a
lot of Taylor Swift fans going to see that as
the fulfillment of her romantic journey, her quest, and I
think they're gonna want to have their own kids. So
I see this as ultimately beneficial. Whatever you want to
(17:12):
say about Taylor Swift, she didn't have kids out of wedlock.
She's getting engaged. Her music, in the larger context of music,
is very upbeat and not particularly nasty.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
It's degenerate. A lot of the music that out there
is Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I actually, look, I understand that you might be annoyed
by her because of her politics.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I don't agree with her.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Own politically, but her lifestyle so far to me, she
seems to me to be very much someone who talks
left and lives right. And when she gets married to
Travis Kelcey and they have kids, I think even more so.
The nuclear family and living on the right side of
the cultural equation even when you talk left, is going
(17:58):
to connect with her audience.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
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Kley, Travis and buck Sexton on the front Lines of Truth.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. All right,
I am going to make an argument here that is
potentially going to blow some people's minds, and we'll probably
have some fun responses.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
We already have some salty emails about your fixation on
the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey news.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So I'm going to tell you why this matters.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I believe that one of the truest phrases of all time,
I think Andrew Breitbart was credited with it is politics
is downstream from culture.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It is what you are seeing from young men right now,
I believe is directly connected to the way that the
culture has shifted around them.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I don't want to interrupt your train here. I just
wanted to say I think that Trump has actually reversed
that maximum. But that's a whole I think that's a
culture is now downstream of politics in the Trump era.
But yes, well that's actually a super interesting concept because
my argument would be Trump has co opted much of
the trends that he is intuitive enough to have seen,
(20:00):
and accelerated and exacerbated them to a degree that they
are impossible to miss. But in general, whatever you think
about this, there are one hundred million girls today right now.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Women.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Every woman in your life who is fourteen to forty
right now has got a girlfriend texting her about the
Taylor Swift endorsement. I mean engagement, and that is I
bet the number one thing being texted about all over
(20:39):
the country right now. And I guarantee you and may
not be hey, they're excited about it. It may be like, hey,
are they going to get divorced? Or can you believe this?
Every woman fourteen to forty has got a girlfriend right
now texting her about this, And.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It may be twelve to forty. I'm telling you, I'm
telling you.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Every one play wants to see if I'm just gonna
like take a break from video and just jump out
the window and see if I'm okay, you know, if
I can land in the bushes or something, just anything
to escape.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Every single one, every single one, all right that has
a phone. Maybe there's some out there, and if they don't,
if they don't have a phone, they're calling each other
right now about it. They're sending emails, carrier pigeons flying
across the night sky right now?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
All right? Why is it?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What is the lesson that this that they are taking
from this? Taylor Swift has spent her entire career singing
about trying to find her mister Wright. She's become a billionaire.
I actually respect Taylor Swift. She writes her own songs.
As I said earlier, if you wanted to pick someone
in pop culture for your daughter to aspire to emulate,
(21:45):
which I'm not saying is healthy, but we all know happens,
Taylor Swift might be just about the best role model
there could be for a little girl out there in
pop culture. Okay, she's never had scandal associated with her
that she hasn't had. I just I'm singing her praises
(22:06):
as an individual. And what she's doing, bucket bucks. What
she is doing is she is pursuing a conservative lifestyle
while saying she supports left wing politics. And I think
when you see this, you cannot escape it. So many
(22:26):
people out there on the left, they talk left, but
they live right. What did Taylor Swift want a man
to marry so she could have kids? She wants her
ultimate aspirational goal is a nuclear family. This is what
she's been seeking her entire life. Buck Her entire career
(22:46):
is about finding a guy she can marry and have
babies with. It's actually very conservative and positive. She didn't
have kids out of wedlock. She hasn't been married and
divorced four times now. She's waited, yes into her thirties
to get married. I think they will have bunches of babies.
I think they will have them soon. And I think
(23:07):
there are going to be generations of girls that will
look at Taylor Swift and seek in their own lives
to emulate her. I also think that when she gets married.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I've been critical of Travis Kelcey because I think I
know Travis kelce I covered sports. He is a lovable
doult not a particularly smart guy, not a particularly savvy guy,
but a guy who likes to laugh and is energetic
and is a good locker room guy. Every business has
(23:37):
a Travis Kelcey in it. Every team, if they're successful,
has Travis Kelsey's in it. I think that's what attracted
Taylor Swift, and I think that she is going to
become more conservative. She may still say the things that
they say in Hollywood about hey, I'm endorsing Kamala Harris
and all these things, but I believe that ultimately she
(24:02):
went and got a football playing dude instead of dating
all these male feminists. And I think it's going to
be ultimately a net positive. As politics is downstream from culture,
I think a lot of little girls and a lot
of teenage girls, and a lot of girls in their
twenties and thirties looking for mister Wright want what Taylor
Swift has found, and the nuclear family is ultimately the
(24:26):
salvation of America. There you go, Buck, that's a very
positive take. You may not ascribe to any of it.
I'm telling you, I think it's significant.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
It's yeah, obviously, the family and having kids and not
being married five times and not being a degenerate. I mean,
those are all good things. But that's the most intricate
analysis of Swift Travis Kelsey I've ever heard. I'm telling you,
that was like, that was like the Gettysburg address of
Kelsey's Swift analysis.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I mean, that was just.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Telling you for all time, probably probably the best take
humbly that will happen on the Travis Kelcey Taylor Swift
marriage engagement and why it matters now if they end
up not getting married and she goes off and she
has eight kids out of wedlock, then it will not
have actually materialized. As I am telling you, but I
(25:17):
guarantee you with me, with my voice, my connection.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
The wrong off the way.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Hold on a second, just to set the record straight here, buddy,
weren't you wrong about this relationship from the get go?
Shudn't we actually have Lara Trump said, I'm sorry, Lara Travis,
not Trump, the other Laura, Lara Travis sending us a
talk back about what's going to happen here because she
knew this would work.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
You, sir, were a doubting clay.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's true. That's very well played. By the way.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
All of that is true, and that's why when the
live on the air, when this news broke, I lost.
I've been arguing that Travis Kelsey was too dumb for
Taylor Swift. But when the facts change and the facts
are changed, they are now engaged. I am telling you
that this is the big takeaway, and I'm there is
(26:06):
not a single fourteen to forty years every over the
lines and see anybody who react.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Let's let's let's see what the people think about this one,
all right, Clay, Let's let's see what the people think.
The vip emails are flowing in. Just to be sporting
about it. I'll let you choose which one of the
all caps shouting at you emails you would like to read.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Right now, these are old dudes who don't understand modern culture.
I'm trying to explain to you how to win. I
understand if you're seventy year old dude listening to us
right now, you don't get why Travis Kelsey and Taylor
Swift matters. Your granddaughters are texting about this right now,
and they're gonna be talking about it at Thanksgiving. And
(26:45):
because you just heard my breakdown, you steal that and
you're gonna be the coolest grandpa on the planet when
you deliver it at your Thanksgiving. Me.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'm just telling you, they're gonna be like Grandpa, how
did you? How did you nail this?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You say, Clay, Travis perfectly encapsulated why this matters as
a cultural moment. But you don't have to give me credit.
You can just be like, well, I've been paying attention
to the cultural trends. Oh my god, Clay says rose Marie.
Let me just say this, Buck, what are the odds
that Rose Marie I knew you were gonna do this. Well,
I'm just saying there is not anyone under fifty named
(27:22):
rose Marie in the country.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Rose Marie is.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Not Clay not I'm not not a negative. You know, Ethyl,
all the ethols out there, I'm sure to get fabulous.
Usually I don't think they I don't think they go
by ethel. But all this, all.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
The ethols out there, it's fabulous name. They're eighty year older,
and it'll cycle back. My grandmother was named Ruth, great name.
Its cycled all the way back. But Rose Marie here.
If Rose Marie is thirty four, I will eat a
hat live on the show. I guarantee you. Rosemare who
just wrote in is retired. And she said, oh my god, Clay,
(27:59):
enough about swifty. You are a closet leftist.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Vomit.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
None of my friends texted all caps, all CAFs. None
of my friends texted me about her engagement.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
We do not care.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay again, I said women fourteen to forty. I didn't
say that women who are retired are all reacting to this,
but the ones who are texting their granddaughters are.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And I will.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Also say this, It doesn't tell me that you do
not care when you say we do not care. When
you write we do not care, you actually care deeply,
as much of America does about this.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Randy, Randy from Colorado wants to weigh in on this one,
one of our esteemed listeners.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Randy, what's going on so listening?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Really?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Who cares? So you called in to tell us that
you don't care.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I don't care about that at all.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That pretty more important such a life. Well that's true,
but you do realize there's an irony in how many
times you called the show?
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Uh, probably six times over a year. How many times
have we had you on the air.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Twice?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, well that's pretty good. So you have called the
show only six times in four years, yet you were compelled,
you jumped out of your chair, you grabbed your phone,
you left it. Do you have granddaughters? Do you have granddaughters?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yes, sir, Randy?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Can I just say we appreciate you being a loyal
listener to the program, and we appreciate the time you
spent on the hole to get on the air.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Clay feels that way as well.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, but Randy, more importantly, you go back and you
listen to that incredible monologue I delivered about why it
matters so much. You pretend it's like Romeo and Juliet
and you're playing the role of Romeo in the school play.
You memorize it, you deliver it at Thanksgiving dinner to
your teenage granddaughters. You're gonna be the coolest grandpa of
(30:05):
all time, and you can completely take credit for it,
because they're gonna have no idea that you stole it
from me.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
My gift to you, I'd rather.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, okay, that's fine. I mean I understand when you
pete with music trying to make Randy the coolest grandpa
of all time. That's my goal.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
And we have let's see Clay, you now the entire
inbox has has been now overtaken.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
By Jerald Gerald. Here we go f Taylor and Travis.
I could care less and I both and I find
them both annoying as hell. Maybe she will go away
and her fans will be crying in their I con
genuinely look, I am I the only person who would
(30:54):
people get engaged. I say, I hope they get married
and stay married and have lots of babies, like does
everybody else here and see engagements and be like Gerald
here and say, maybe she will go away and her
front fans will be crying in their loneliness.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
That feels a little dark to me.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I mean, fuck, even even you, the grint who stole
the engagement here, Maybe she will go away and her
fans will be crying in their loneliness feels a little
intense to me. Gerald feels a little Philip feels and
to drop an f bob on him really feels a
little aggressive.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
All right, what else? What else do we have here?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
We gotta do a read for you? Can you do
the reading.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Up?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Woof?
Speaker 6 (31:40):
We all can take a breather here. Maybe we'll come
back and do some news talk about saving the republic.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Here they're saving the republic.
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Speaker 5 (33:49):
All right, welcome back in.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
We're closing up chopp here on Clay on Buck just
in time after Clay has kicked the hornet's nest of
those who don't want to hear about Taylor Swift and
Travis Kel She's engagement they do not care. Some other people,
A lot of people. Some people are saying they care
a lot. In fact, President Trump has been asked about
this just now. This has cut thirty nine. Let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I have to tell you the biggest top culture news
of the year broke while we were in.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
This cabinet meeting.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged in.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Hurt.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Well, I wish him a lot of love. Yeah, I
think it's I think he's a great player. I think
he's a great guy, and I think that she's a
terrific person. So I wish them a lot of.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Love very much at this. I mean, yeah, they're nice
from Trump, that's right, Trump.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
I wish him a lot of luck. I mean, I think,
you know, as you know, Travis's gonna have his hands
full here. But I got so many things that I
could say. What I would say in general is Trump
gets this right.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Uh. Can you imagine Joe Biden in a press conference
being asked about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. I do
think you hit on it, Buck, But we got a
little bit of a different take on how the political
universe impacts the larger cultural environment. Trump is uniquely aware
of what people are talking about, and he has an
(35:17):
intuitive sense for how to cut through the noise. That
Trump take that he just gave in the middle of
a press conference. It's not like he knew that this
was happening, and he's answering questions about everything under the
sun is going to be everywhere, and it is the
right take, I think to give. And I think there
are a lot of people increasingly becoming aware that their
(35:39):
whole Trump is Hitler angle is going up in smoke
because he's actually just kind of a nice grandpa. I
mean what you and I have been saying for some time. Yeah,
he's a little bit ordinerary at times, as all of
us can be, especially some.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Of our.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Some of the emailers are a little ornery right now,
Clay ornery.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Is the talkbacks tomorrow are gonna be I'm just gonna
tell you, I'm predicting this amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
If you want to be entertained.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
I mean, if Travis and Taylor really want to bring
the country together, they should, you know, ask if Trump
can like officiate the wedding for them, you know what
I mean, just just go all in, you know, bring
America together, make marriage great again.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
If they put this marriage on television streaming, it would
be the most watched wedding since Princess die and Prince Charles. Now,
unfortunately that wedding didn't go after that well, living happily
ever after. But I do wish them well, and I
wish all of you well in your talkbacks, which undoubtedly
(36:44):
are going to be incredible. Go subscribe, follow us on
social media. Love you guys.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
We will see all of you tomorrow.
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