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August 3, 2026 36 mins

Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show shifted heavily into politics, culture, media accountability, and comedy, while continuing themes of government overreach, progressive policies, and public trust. The hour opened with an extended discussion of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for government-run grocery stores, which the hosts criticized as an example of socialist economic planning. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton focused on reports that shoppers would need identification to access discounted groceries at city-operated stores, arguing that the policy highlighted what they viewed as contradictions within Democratic positions on voter ID laws. The hosts examined the economics of taxpayer-subsidized grocery programs, debating whether such stores could function sustainably and suggesting that government-funded discounts would ultimately shift costs onto taxpayers while distorting normal market incentives.

The conversation expanded into a broader critique of government intervention in markets, with Clay and Buck arguing that Mamdani’s grocery proposal could create shortages, resale schemes, bureaucracy, and inefficiencies. They discussed the practical challenges of regulating customer eligibility, limiting purchases, and preventing arbitrage if groceries are sold below market rates. The hosts framed the issue as part of a larger national debate over capitalism, socialism, public subsidies, and economic policy, repeatedly suggesting that government-run retail operations historically struggle to compete with private-sector efficiency.

Another major segment centered on prominent Democratic commentator and entrepreneur Scott Galloway, who expressed concern about proposals associated with Mamdani involving taxation and the public identification of property owners. Clay and Buck highlighted Galloway’s criticism, arguing that some political and media figures are only now recognizing the potential consequences of policies they previously supported. The hosts discussed wealth taxes, privacy concerns, public disclosure of property ownership, and the broader rise of anti-wealth rhetoric within portions of the Democratic Party. They connected these debates to concerns about political extremism, public safety, and what they view as growing hostility toward successful individuals and business owners.

The hour also featured live reaction to comments from President Donald Trump, who criticized Mamdani’s grocery-store identification proposal while arguing in favor of voter ID requirements and proof-of-citizenship measures for elections. Clay and Buck discussed Trump’s remarks and tied them into ongoing national debates over election security, voting regulations, immigration, and government services.

Later in Hour 3, the program transitioned into a cultural and media-focused conversation with conservative comedian and commentator Arynne Wexler, who joined the show in studio. Wexler discussed her rise in conservative comedy, the challenges of performing politically themed stand-up in liberal entertainment environments, and her experiences building an audience through social media. She reflected on leaving New York City, described frustrations with how COVID-era policies were implemented, and argued that many Americans remain dissatisfied with how pandemic restrictions, messaging, and public health guidance were handled.

A significant portion of the interview focused on media trust and the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clay, Buck, and Wexler reacted to a tense exchange between Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CNN anchor Dana Bash, using the discussion as a springboard for broader critiques of pandemic-era journalism, expert authority, censorship concerns, and public skepticism toward institutions. The hosts argued that many Americans continue to question how COVID policies were justified and communicated.

The conversation with Wexler then expanded into the state of modern comedy, cancel culture, audience behavior, and ideological conformity within entertainment. Wexler described obstacles she faces in the comedy industry due to her political views and discussed performing for audiences across the political spectrum. She argued that many individuals who identify as politically moderate or center-left still respond positively to comedy that challenges progressive orthodoxy, suggesting there is a growing appetite for comedians willing to address controversial cultural topics.

The hour concluded with a broader discussion about the future of entertainment, political comedy, and cultural trends. Clay and Buck asked Wexler whether American comedy is moving beyond the era of identity politics and excessive political sensitivity. The hosts also previewed a special post-show YouTube discussion with Wexler, encouraging listeners to continue the conversation online.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Third hour, Clay and Bucket's going right now.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I don't forget our friend Aaron Wexler will be joining
us live on our YouTube stream, also of course on radio.
So if you're listening on screaming audio on the iHeart
app or on any of our five hundred and I
don't know seventy eighty.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Affiliates, stay with us. You'll be able to enjoy that.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
But remember there'll be a post show stream on YouTube
only with Aaron Wexler. She's hilarious, really interesting stuff. She's
been doing live comedy shows as a conservative woman. You
can imagine what that's gonna entail in terms of audience
response and everything.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
All over the country.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
She's been doing great, and she has a lot of
takes and some of them are spicy, so you will
want to be with us for that for sure. Speaking
of spicy, Mam Donnie's grocery stores, it's kind of a
rough turn there, but I figured go for it. Mam
Donnie's Marxist Mini Martz, he has decided, remember this is

(01:01):
a signature issue for him, Cammi Mamdanni in America's largest city.
He has decided that now Clay, we had vas passports
in New York City, which I remember very well. Now
you might need a flex passport in New York City.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
If you will, you.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Have to provide identification to be able to buy groceries
in the Mam Donnie Mart play cut eight.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Our RFP makes very clear that this is a program
for New Yorkers to be able to put food on
the table, not a program for people to be able
to make a quick bunk through reselling. I'm going to
pass it over to our DC had GPAC to add
some additional details.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
So if you look at our URP for the operator,
we are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers,
whether it be a sort of a library card, askit.
And also we manage who's buying, and that is focused
on everyday New Yorkers, So we are mindful of that,
and so we're going to make sure that we have
all the place, all the things in place to make
sure that that does not happen.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Clay, I would just point out for anyone who thinks
that this is going to show, remember show that there's
some secret sauce going on here. There's some magic trick
that's being pulled. Mamdani is taking money from taxpayers, so
that he can give a thirty percent discount on food
to the people who show up at one of these

(02:27):
grocery stores that has not even been built yet. They
think it's going to take a couple of years and
thirty million dollars I think, or something like this just
to build them. This is his big plan, This is
his big proposal. I want to get into this before
we get into the PIAA tear tax and the revelation
that a Democrat pundit hat about his situation. But Clay,

(02:48):
you got to show ID to buy bread? Is now
where we are, So isn't this interesting? You shouldn't have
to show ID to vote, according to Democrats, but you
should have to show ID if you want that thirty
percent discount on milk.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Well, and yes, which is an unbelievable, obviously blatant hypocrisy.
So in order to get the benefits of living in
New York City, you have to be from New York City,
and you have to provide evidence that you're from New
York City. But in order to vote, all you have
to do is just show up. And so the voter

(03:21):
ID rules would seem to be racist based on all
the arguments that are out there that have been made before,
but also Buck. The other part of this is they're
acknowledging that the market based incentive here is actually quite clear.
It's that if they are, due to taxpayer subsidies, selling

(03:42):
groceries thirty percent cheaper than they would otherwise be elsewhere,
you're actually incentivized to go in and buy up everything
that you can and then take it out of the
grocery store and sell it for what the market rate
would be making money on the groceries yourself. So they're

(04:03):
going to have to simultaneously try to restrict who can
get in by providing your ID in order to enter,
but then also buck restricting how much of any product
you can buy, which seems difficult based on what the
prices are to ensure that you are buying only for
your own personal consumption and not for others. Well, how

(04:26):
will they do that? Why could you not go? Are
they gonna limit how often you can enter the store too?
Are they going to take down your name and your
contact because could you not go in the morning and
then at lunch and then in the evenings and buy
up as much of the products in the store as possible?
When they're at below market rates in order to be

(04:46):
able to profit off to them elsewhere. The whole thing is,
you can't beat markets. This is the challenge, and they
don't seem to recognize this.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
But let's see what the what the the idiot Mamdannie
masses will take from this experiment. First of all, it
hasn't even had It's all theoretical now, right. They have
to build these places, they have to staff them, they
have to get the groceries into them. And remember, it's
just a taxpayer subsidy for this stuff. So somebody who's
getting milk thirty percent cheaper at a Mamdanni mart there,

(05:18):
it's not that they found some better way to make milk,
you know, to milk the cow, to transport it, to
do all these things. No, you're just getting something. You're
just getting a freebie from taxpayers. That's all that's happening here.
But the Mamdani morons are going to say, see their
price gouging and grocery stores they you know, you see

(05:39):
what I mean, Clay. They're going to forget that this
is just a pure taxpayer funded subsidy and they're going
to act like, oh, why don't all grocery stores sell
it thirty percent cheaper. And you'll notice that already for
these stores. I think the budget's seventy million dollars out
of the city budget seven zero seventy million dollars for
these that's just going to be the slush fund for

(06:02):
some people to get cheaper groceries. So Mamdani can say, see,
cheaper groceries are possible, and he hopes that no one
looks behind the curtain to see it's possible for one
tenth of one percent of the shoppers in New York City.
Oh and by the way, your everyone else is paying for.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
That, yes, And also if the budget is seventy million,
I hadn't seen what the budget is going to be.
They're gonna run out of money here very quickly. I mean,
think about what it costs some of you out there work, uh,
in groceries. Seventy million dollars in groceries sounds like a
lot to someone that has never actually purchased the constant,

(06:42):
rolling amount of groceries that you need in order to
keep a place in stock, right, I mean, it is
an inordinate amount of money that's required in order to
make this happen. And the cities have tried this before,
Buck they all fail because you can't subsidize lower costs forever.

(07:04):
It just doesn't add up, and it's expensive. And you
know this better anybody. How much money does it take
to get stuff into New York City compared to other places? Well, yes,
it's one thing that no one even thinks about in
New York is that the incredibly efficient ticket writing, which
they're very good at. And if for any of you visitors,
let me tell you, do not think, oh, I'll just

(07:24):
leave my car here for fifteen they will nail you.
The one thing New York is really good at is
taking money from people. New York City is incredible, whether
it's finding you in some other state and trying to
come after you for taxes or writing a ticket on
the windshield of your car. That they're really really good at.
But that's another tax on deliveries essentially, because all these
delivery trucks send up double parking and they get they

(07:47):
all get tickets, they all get these fines and it
turns into by the way ups and like FedEx, they
end up paying millions of dollars a year to the
City of New York.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
But that just gets passed on to the customer. Let
me just point out, but the the crazy thing here is, well,
there's a lot of crazy things here that people aren't
going to follow along the story long enough. I think
Klay to realize that this whole thing is a shell game, essentially,
that he's not actually delivering better products at a lower price,

(08:19):
he's just having everybody else. This is a little bit
like a rent control situation. If you have rent control,
good for you. Everybody else is paying for your rent control. Okay,
if you have medicaid, good for you, kind of, but
everybody else who's paying taxes, who's paying taxes, is paying
for your medicaid.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's there's no free, right. This is the most basic stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
There's no free Imagine what it's going to be like
when you go into mom Donni Mart.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
And you have a problem.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Does anybody think you want to talk about the customer
service experience being somewhat lacking? I mean, they're going to
make the American Airlines help desk look like a Swiss watch,
A rather American Airlines help desk will look like a
switchwasp watch by comparison in terms of efficiency. No one's
gonna care who is going to be working at the
Mamdani mart. Do you think if they care whether you

(09:06):
show up or don't. What are you gonna do to say,
I'm gonna go to some other grocery store. Do they
have thirty percent cheaper groceries because of taxpayer funds?

Speaker 6 (09:13):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
So the whole thing is just it's all going to collapse,
but it will take enough time for it to collapse
that he will take the pr win of c I'm
delivering groceries to New Yorkers at thirty percent cheaper. This,
this is all it's going to turn into. But it
might work for a time. I mean that concept of
I'm making it cheaper for New Yorkers to buy groceries,

(09:37):
even though what it really proves is you can't do that.
And the whole thing is a scam. And this is
going to be the breadline bodegas that we've all expected
all along. So do you want to do Scott Galloway here?
You want to wait for that?

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yeah, let's do Scott. Well, let's play Scott Galloway because
I do think this is also interesting where a lot
of left wingers convince themselves, Oh, he may say crazy thing,
but he's not actually going to do them. You know,
he's just trying to win an election. He's not going
to do the five million dollar tax. He's not going

(10:09):
to publish everybody's home. It's not going to impact me.
This is Scott Galloway. Buck I would say, Scott Galloway,
what do you think?

Speaker 1 (10:17):
I mean?

Speaker 5 (10:18):
He makes millions of dollars a year. I think off
his podcast he does with kra Swisher.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Certainly millions at least.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Maybe he's probably in the in the eight figure territory now. Yeah,
so he may be making ten million dollars a year,
living very very well. He can afford to sit around
and say, oh, I don't know what you're complaining about. Well,
until they decided that they were going to tax him
and they published his address Listen, I've been doxed.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
He's been doxed. What tell me?

Speaker 7 (10:48):
Uh So, I don't know if you've heard, but Mayor
Mom Donnie has decided to release a list of the
nine hundred and fifty thousand residences with addresses and names
that might be for his pied tary attack. I came
out in favor of this tax. This is a definition
he's taken a legitimate source of tax revenue, and he's

(11:09):
turning it into a wanted poster. And the question I
would have is other than trying to identify and imply
these people have done something wrong. And then eighteen months
after a healthcare ceo was executed in the street and
then published the list, what is the upside here? Why
is he doing this?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
This? To me?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I always try to be honest about this.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Scott Gallery seems like a very a very smart guy,
seems like a high IQ guy. He actually has some
very good takes on some things as well. He agrees
about the biological men and women's or just men and
women's sports thing. He's very good on the issue of
Israel and defending itself against Hamas for example. So I
agree with Scott and he's good about men in the
position that men are put in this country.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
He actually has some very good takes. He has some
very terrible takes.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Does he really is he surprised Clay that this is
what Mamdannie does?

Speaker 1 (12:03):
How can you be surprised that Kami Mamdanni is going
COMI look.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
All he did was reiterate when Ken Griffin he went
outside of Ken Griffin's place and he basically announced this
policy by taunting Ken Griffin. I agree with everything Scott
Galloway said in that take. In fact, it's things that
we have said on this program. The difference between us is,
we told you this was going to happen, and so

(12:30):
it did not surprise us when he did it. Look,
United Healthcare CEO got executed in cold blood on the
streets of Manhattan, just down from where our radio studio is.
As soon as Mamdanni went outside of Ken Griffin's home
in New York City, we came on this program and
we said, all he's doing is encouraging further executions. And

(12:51):
when he published this list, we came on and we said,
this is basically a hit list for left wingers to
know where people of wealth that they have decided or
evil are living. And so, look, this is one of
the big differences between I think what has gone on
in the Democrat Party and what's going on right now.
In the past, and we've talked about this, there used

(13:13):
to be capitalists. There used to be a lot of
pro growth Democrats. You may I not have agreed with
them on taxes and things like that, but they understood
basic market rates and capitalism. Now you have a world
where so few people have lived through the collapse of
communism that we've cycled back around to, well, maybe communism
would work, Maybe it would. And there's lots of kids

(13:36):
out there that frankly should have to go stay in
Cuba for six months, or should have to go to
North Korea for six months, or should have to go
to many of the countries out there that have embraced
the most left wing systems imaginable and live as the
average person does there to see what they take for granted.

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Speaker 5 (14:54):
Welcome back in Clay and Buck. We are going to
be joined by our friend Aaron Waxler here at the
bottom of the hour. If you want to laugh, hopefully
we will be able to make you laugh. And if
we can't, she should be able to because she is
a comedian. Lots of talkback, So let's try to hit
some of these in a moment before we're done. Actually,
we know what, We'll roll those over because Trump has

(15:16):
just teed off. Also on Mom Donnie in a press conference,
President Trump speaking now taking questions inside of the White House.
Cut thirty is Trump going after Mom Donnie.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
New York City Mayor's zor on Mom Donnie is requiring
an ID to access his government run grocery stores. What then,
is your message to Democrats who do not want to
pass the Save America Act?

Speaker 1 (15:39):
And ensure you know ID on the balloon office was
just a news I heard about it.

Speaker 8 (15:45):
Yeah, Well, I wish they'd have an ID to access
the voting booth. You know, they don't want to access
to voting booth with any identification.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
We want voter ID and we want proof of citizenship.

Speaker 8 (15:58):
Well, he also had anything, we have two different IDs
to shovel snow ready.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, I remember the IDs for shoveling snow. By the way,
good news out there. The stock market for both the
S and P five hundred and the Dow is near
all time record highs could hit record highs today.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Just to update you.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
In the event you're not regularly paying attention to the markets,
your four oh one k's are worth more than they
ever have.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Been basically ever before.

Speaker 5 (16:29):
Brian in Orlando, Florida news radio w FLA.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Playing the History Show. I've never disagreed with your brother,
and I could every week. I'm when is you going
to take it to the next level in this week?

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (16:45):
The WNBA thame.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
I've thought about this all my buddies have, and you
came out and said it.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Bro. We love you. There is nobody effing better than
you on radio. Bro period man.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Yeah it Orlando, Tommy and Sacramento KFBK.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'll make this quick.

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ago that I am a fifty five year old man
and two rock bands with long hair, and I want
to be a girl Scout troop leader and I want
you guys to legally stop me.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I want to take your girls camping. See if they
like that.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Yeah, it's crazy. I mean a lot of this is crazy.
Thomas in Phoenix, Arizona cut e.

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Yeah?

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I don't really understand why they keep playing with a
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Bill, their hands are smaller.

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Speaker 1 (18:55):
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
We're doing something new and exciting here on the show.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
We got an in studio guest Clay here in Miami, Florida.
Aaron Wexler joins us now. She is a comedian, She
is a political commentator like me. She is a refugee
from New York City down to Florida, Clay.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
And she's also gonna be.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Our first post show YouTube extra, meaning that we're going
to continue the show on YouTube after the show ends today,
So go subscribe on YouTube and check it out.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Aaron, welcome, great to have you here. Thank you, Clay.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I wanted to start with RFK Junior because this was
just such a Catharsis for so many of us, certainly
Aaron two, because I know she lived through the craziness
of New York City during the lockdowns we haven't played
this year on the show.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Everybody listened to this. Here is RFK Junior with Dana Bash.
She's getting bashed. It's rough listen to this.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
Or or not.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
I guess what happened, Clay. Oh, we need the number.
Sorry here, Well, we'll pull up the number of the
of the clip.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Clay.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
You just talk about for a second. Here we go,
twelve twelve, There we go.

Speaker 10 (20:11):
You are the HHS secretary and you are talking about
things that lead to vaccine hesitancy in this country, and
it is something that causes problems for people. I mean,
when there is not anything let.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Me ask you something.

Speaker 11 (20:27):
Do you see your job as ending vaccine, hesdency or
do you see your job it's telling the truth.

Speaker 10 (20:34):
I see my job as telling the truth, and the
truth is that there is is study after study after study.
It's one of the most study things out there in science,
and it is different.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Like a parrot.

Speaker 11 (20:49):
So I actually read science, but you don't want to.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
You don't want to debate.

Speaker 10 (20:54):
So I'm not debating this view, of.

Speaker 11 (20:56):
Course, you know, because I'm not seeing how to do
repeat things that people told you and say trust the experts.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
That's what you do.

Speaker 11 (21:04):
During COVID, now we know that anthy Fauci, who was
the expert, was lying about everything about mass about the
social distancing, about natural immunity, about the transmission from the vaccine,
about the source of COVID. He was lying, And you
were punishing people for not trusting the experts. And now

(21:24):
you're rolling out the experts again to talk about something
that you have no personal knowledge of.

Speaker 10 (21:30):
Okay, well guess what that is my job to talk
to people? Yes, yes, And my job is as much
information as I can.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
And what we were doing, what.

Speaker 11 (21:42):
We were doing for skepticism, what.

Speaker 10 (21:44):
We were doing in COVID, and still with regard to
these vaccines, is getting the best information, the best science
that we can and putting it out there.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
What do you make of it?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Eric?

Speaker 12 (21:57):
What do I make of it? I mean, I love
how much they try to make with everything that happened.
A big reason why I left New York is because
I will never forget and never forgive how people in
that city acted to other people. But one of my
favorite things that's memory hole is remember when they thought
it would be better for them to say no, no, no.
It wasn't a lablique that we actually funded that we

(22:17):
were kind of aware of. Actually, Chinese people are so
disgusting they eat raw bat soup, and that was less racist.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
We all the other theories.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
We all looked up penglin. I mean, I think I'm
pretty good. I think I'm pretty good in the animal kingdom,
Like I am pretty you know, I would do well
in trivia. I did not know what a pengulin was
until we were told that that was where the virus came.

Speaker 12 (22:40):
They were like, some Chinese peasant went to a west
marked and like Chinese people eat raw bats, which is true,
but like but that they pins it on that and
then they called us racist for everything around BLM and
we could and stop Asian hate stopped because we couldn't
talk about who's beating up Asians that happened from them
telling us that people were eating and wet markets in China.

(23:01):
So I mean, I just don't think that America's really
had a true reckoning of what happened during COVID. And
I'm glad RFK is pushing back, but like, so what
I don't know, Like this to me is like I
do appreciate what RFK said, but it's also inconsequential.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
In the end, I am seeing your clips pop on
Instagram reels in a big way, and every now and
then I'll text you and I'll be like, oh my god,
like this is everywhere. How does the reaction on social
media compare, as a comedian to the reaction that you
get in person? And can you gauge in any way

(23:37):
who is responding? Who's watching these, you know, comedic clips
that you're putting out that are getting hundreds of thousands,
if not millions of us? Do you have a sense
of who that's appealing to?

Speaker 12 (23:48):
Yes, it's well, first the online the videos are appealing
to over half the country, and I think I have
for more than half the country because there are reasonable liberals,
reasonable people that are center left, just not leftists, who
also acknowledge a lot of the truth of my jokes.
In person, it's all very friendly. So all the hate

(24:09):
that I get, which I really I don't care about
and ignore it and a lot of its bots, but
that's contained entirely to the online sphere, and in person
it's just so positive. You wouldn't believe the people who
come up to me. I mean, it's I get Hispanic
people in Miami. I had like an Asian taxi driver
in New York City. I had an ambiguously a black

(24:29):
guy at Soho House when I was in New York,
you know, like you have all kinds of people. And
actually that guy at Soho House said to me. I said,
I was like, are you right wing? And he said,
what are you talking about? And I was like, what
are you talking about?

Speaker 5 (24:42):
What do you mean?

Speaker 12 (24:43):
Because I think my stuff is inherently right wing? Or
like because I started and our friendship started because I
was doing political commentary on the right.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, what would you would you? Why don't you share
the origin story? Actually we were going to say serve
with the YouTube.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Clay, I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
If you know this, Aaron, you are now You're now
you know, a comedy and online phenomenon. And by the way,
she is a comments set up with a like I
love Nate Bargatsy, but he just does jokes. He's not
necessarily political and comedian. He's yeah, I love Nate Bargatsy,
he's very funny.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
But you actually tick off the left in a big way.
But tell everybody how we even got here, because I
think your origin story both the flight from New York
to South Florida and then of course you're being discovered
how it all happened.

Speaker 12 (25:25):
Okay, sure, Well the reason I'm here when I'm really
supposed to be taking August off and I made an exception,
is because your wife, your wonderful wife, Carrie saw my
very first viral tick too, which was within two and
a half three weeks of when I started posting online,
and Carrie saw it sent it to you and you
guys noticed the background and said, I think this girl

(25:46):
lives right near us in Miami.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, like like one hundred yards from us, by the way,
like across the street.

Speaker 12 (25:51):
Yeah, two seconds for a bird to fly between our It.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Looked like she had filmed it in our living room
because the backdrop was the same as her living room.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
So we were like, hold on a second.

Speaker 12 (25:58):
Yeah, And Buck and I we met for coffee and
you told me you're like, keep going, keep doing this.
And Buck was the first person in right wing media
to reach out and to see the very clear talent
that I am.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I don't know if that ever could see. I'm doing
a little Trump dance over here, Clay. Very exciting. Yeah,
but you're doing great with the comedy circuit, which we
love to see because you know, we had the young
clan I, we had the young Washington director on Friday,
and we're so encouraging. Although we have to be active
in the culture. We have to have people who, yes,
you're out there your clips now. So the clips, that's
just if audience likes it. I mean, Clain I were

(26:34):
talking about this, but the comedy clubs some gatekeeping going on.
If you're conservative, tell everybody yes.

Speaker 12 (26:40):
So people have no idea when they look at my clubs.
And that's part of the magic, right. A lot of
what we do in content creation, what you guys do
hosting a show, there's a lot of nitty gritty behind
the scenes that we don't want people to see because
we want them to. People have tough lives that are
full of friction, and I just want to give them
what they come to me for. But people should know
that when you see me on that stage, I am

(27:03):
kicking down so many doors to be on that stage.
I am fighting for that stage time, and I'm dealing
with defamation after. So I've all kinds of things going on.
One example is there's a club, a comedy club that's
very well known in New York, and I'm not allowed
back to one of their locations because of a trans
server who was offended just by my existence. When I performed,

(27:27):
I didn't even make any trans jokes.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
But now I wish I had to go back.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
I have to go back.

Speaker 12 (27:35):
And I actually went to the club to talk to
the booking manager who's not allowing me back, and I
asked him because I had no idea why I wasn't allowed back,
and I am a very confrontational person, so I went
to ask him what was going on, and he said,
you offended a trans server and I said, well, I
didn't even realize there were any trans servers. Is that
not gender affirming care?

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Is that is that?

Speaker 12 (27:56):
And I asked what kind of trans are we talking about?
And he's said, it's a born a woman now a
male and he is very upset, and I was like,
well she is very upset. He's like, well, if this
person wants to convince us that they're a man, maybe
they should stop acting like a little girl.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
So this is a perfect segue, Clay.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I got to hand this to you because Clay is
now shocking the whole internet and going viral because he
has a transsports team franch play.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Just you tell her what's going on.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
Yeah, so, by the way, we may need to get
her audio one hundred percent queued up according to the chat.
But I will tease this as we go to uh
as we go to the break here, I think, Aaron,
you're aware of this, but the WNBA has now said
publicly that men are allowed to play in the WNBA,
which feels like such a comedic wheelhouse for you. But

(28:49):
I'm actually curious. I want to get your take on
why women are so quick to give up what is
unique about being a woman men in general? I think
most of us out there kind of feel sad for
a woman who wants to identify as a man, because
that person is never going to be as big, as strong,
as fast as a normal man would be. I mean,

(29:11):
that's just the reality. And yet women are so quick
to say, oh, you're just like us. I want to
figure out why that is. Get your take on it.
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Speaker 2 (30:27):
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your podcasts.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
Welcome back in Clay and Buck. By the way, this
is going.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
To be really cool.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
We are going to roll with Aaron on into our
YouTube channel, so if you want a YouTube exclusive, we're
gonna start doing some of this cool stuff. We had
record audience today and we're gonna continue to roll with
with Aaron going forward.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
You'll be able to see it on the YouTube.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
It's YouTube. Just to give everybody the URL in case
they don't have a YouTube. Dot com slash clay and
buy slash live.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Click on the live tab. Okay, so I was asking
you this men, I don't think there's the same level
of issue with trans related issues because most men just
kind of feel sorry for a woman who is deciding
that she wants to identify as a man. Women seem
compelled to just give away all that being a woman

(31:22):
represents and say, oh, you're just like us.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Why what are they doing? What has happened here?

Speaker 12 (31:30):
There are a few things. First, thank you for asking
me in a short segment on the radio to explain
why women are the way we are. Thank you for
that wonderful setup play. I do think some of it is,
you know, a gad sad suicidal empathy. Women definitely have
more empathy than men, which is good and bad. Right,
It's good for dealing with children while men are supposed
to hunt and fight wars, and it's bad when it
comes to allowing illegals into your country and trannies into

(31:54):
your sports. But I mean we see this in comedy too, right,
Like women like they hate themselves a lot of the time.
Like a lot of these female comics will go up
and talk about how terrible men are and how much
better women are. Meanwhile, they're dressed like men, and they're
trying to talk like men and sound like them. Like
I go on stage, I'm like in a skirt, I'm
an address like, I'm not trying to dress like some

(32:16):
androgynis fratbro. So I mean, we see this everywhere. But
if they're gonna allow men into the WNBA, then it
might actually be worth watching. So I'm looking forward to that.
And also, I actually think there were studies at one point,
but I can't be certain. It may have been made up,
but I think there's a study that says that when
men are intersversed with women in workplaces, they behave better
because they want to look they want to act nice

(32:37):
around the men. So I actually think we might get
a massive improvement in behavior from the ladies.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
I will tell you something, Clay, and Clay's gonna make
fun of me. In fact, everyone listening is gonna make
fun of me. But I want to contribute to this conversation,
and it reminds me of something.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
I like.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
This game which is catching on in popularity called paddle now.
I have had tell people call it both just to
be clear, in this country, it's more pad.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Padell, but invented by Jews in Mexico, I do know it.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Was invented by Jewish, very prominent in Spain too. But
for those who don't know, this is there's New York City.
There are thousands and thousands of these courts now opening
across the country. I bring it up because people can
get a little too intense on the paddle court. But
it's always doubles. So if you have a mixed double situation,
the guys are always better behaved, doesn't matter even if

(33:24):
they don't know the women or whatever, because there's like
a you know, round robin tournaments and things, but when
there's four dudes, it turns into fistfights. The guys actually
behave better when there are girls on the court.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I will say.

Speaker 12 (33:35):
I actually just think what we're saying is the world
works in a balance when there are men and women.
And right now, what the left has effectively done is
make everyone androgynous, and so we're just like all weighted
in the middle as bisexual.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
Harry Potters, speaking of I want to give a positive
I said I was going to do this buck. We
can talk about it tomorrow. I'm curious if you have
seen this movie yet, Aaron spider Man said in all
I'm record for movies, it's right up there with The
Avengers End Game.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
It's phenomenal.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
I'm just gonna be honest, a lot of times we
come on here and we say negative things.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
So the dog is currently attacking Aaron, just so you
know that's what's going on over here. Keep going, Clay,
the movie is really really good.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Aaron.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
You're in comedy, and again I would encourage you go
see Spider Man.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
It's good?

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (34:26):
Are we going to emerge from this era? I would
say we haven't really had a great comedic film in
almost fifteen years.

Speaker 7 (34:33):
Right.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
You go back and you watch the early two thousands.
I've got boys. I put them on and they're like,
oh my god. You can say that, like they just
lose their mind watching the early two thousands, to say
nothing of the eighties and the nineties. How does comedy
get back to just being funny? Does it require defeating
identity politics? What do you see in the comedic universe?
Are you optimistic or pessimistic for where we're headed?

Speaker 12 (34:57):
I am both optimistic and pessimistic about it, because what
I will say is, actually I really enjoy performing in
blue cities and in blue states first, because the Republicans
they're so deeply repressed, and so I'm like a pressure
release valve for them when they come to my shows.
But I perform in New York in showcases where you'll
have a bunch of comics lined up. People aren't there
specifically for me. They're just there for the club and

(35:18):
to watch comedy. And I go in there knowing that
it's a liberal audience and I get them laughing, and
it's because like they actually want to laugh at a
lot of the same things, and they just need to
be given the opportunity and without that preemptive you know, oh,
this is a right wing comedian. They just see that
I'm a comedian and the things that I'm saying are
different than what they typically hear, and so there's certainly

(35:40):
an appetite for it with more than half the country.
But with that said, what we were talking about earlier
in the program, it may have been hard to hear
me because my audio was a little trick messed up,
but you know, a lot of the servers and the
managers and it's actually like just the infrastructure behind comedy
is what's keeping people like me from.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
So I just want to tell everybody speaking of audio
and technology, Clay, we are going to continue this conversation
with Aaron on a YouTube stream, So those of you
who are listening on a radio station. If you would like,
go check us out YouTube dot com, slash play, and fuck,
we're gonna talk to Aaron about movies.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Do you even have an Odyssey take for us?

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Probably, we'll talk to her about the Odyssey play, will
give his his I was gonna say.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
X men his Spider Man review.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Aaron will tell us about the meanest heckle she's ever received,
the best heckl response she's ever given as a comedian.
There'll be live questions from those of you who are
joining us. You can ask Aaron keep it clean, guys.
You can ask Aaron questions in the live stream and
this will be a fun thing. We're gonna do for
like about a half hour after the show today, So
play a great radio program turning into now a little

(36:46):
post show on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Anything else from you.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
No, keep hanging in with us. This is a fun experiment.
It may or may not work, but we're cautiously optimist
and keep herrolling.

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