August 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a dynamic mix of political analysis, cultural commentary, and listener engagement, highlighting key developments and controversies shaping the national conversation. The hour opens with a focus on Texas redistricting, where a Republican-led plan to add five seats has prompted Democratic lawmakers to flee to Illinois—ironically one of the most gerrymandered states. The hosts underscore the political tension and strategic implications for upcoming elections.
They then spotlight Nancy Mace’s gubernatorial bid in South Carolina and Derek Dooley’s Senate run in Georgia, framing both as emblematic of a broader Republican push to reclaim ground in battleground states. The Georgia Senate race receives particular attention, with Clay emphasizing the need for unity between Donald Trump and Governor Brian Kemp to defeat incumbent Democrat John Ossoff.
A major segment centers on the Sidney Sweeney controversy, where the actress faced backlash for starring in an American Eagle ad campaign. The ad’s tagline, “great Jeans,” was bizarrely compared to Nazi propaganda, sparking a cultural firestorm. The hosts defend Sweeney, noting her status as a registered Republican in Florida and arguing that the left sees her as a threat to their influence over young women. The discussion expands into the political implications of celebrity endorsements and the shifting dynamics of youth voter engagement.
Clay shares personal anecdotes from his teenage years working at American Eagle and Abercrombie, leading into a broader conversation about coaching youth sports, parental involvement, and the challenges of managing expectations on the field.
The hour also features a lively debate on beauty standards and evolutionary biology, including references to the golden ratio and Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. Clay and Buck explore how physical traits and reproductive dynamics have shaped societal perceptions of attractiveness, and how these ideas intersect with modern politics and media narratives.
Listeners call in to weigh in on topics ranging from Kamala Harris’s appearance to racial gerrymandering, with one caller from Alabama criticizing the hypocrisy of labeling Texas redistricting as racist while racial gerrymandering persists elsewhere. Another caller from Pennsylvania shares frustration over racial categorization in the census, advocating for a more unified American identity.
The hosts also reflect on the challenges of dating across political lines, sharing personal stories, and emphasizing the importance of shared values in relationships. Buck recounts his realization that dating someone with opposing political views was a “fool’s errand,” while Clay notes that politically mixed couples were more common in past decades.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in now number three Monday edition Clay Travis
buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
We've been having some fun today. Let's hit some news
off the top as we dive into one of my
favorite topics, evolutionary biology. It actually is something that I
am fascinated by. Texas redistricting. We have an offer out
(00:22):
to Texas Governor Greg Abbott. A plan to add five
Republican seats has led to the Democrats in the state
legislature of Texas fleeing to Illinois, which is among the
most jerry manderd of all states. The irony, of course
off the charts. Two news stories that I think are intriguing.
(00:48):
Nancy Mace, congresswoman from South Carolina, has announced that she
will be running for governor of South Carolina. Also, Derek Dooley,
this is my world's colliding former college football coach, has
announced that he will be running for the Senate in
the state of Georgia. This Georgia race is going to
(01:11):
be necessary to pay a great deal of attention to
because Republicans have lost three straight Georgia Senate races that really,
frankly should have been won all of them. Statewide. Republican
Party has been dominating. Brian Kemp and a company have
(01:32):
won everything, and not just one. They've won in the
state of Georgia. Brian Kemp beaten Stacy Abrams in twenty
twenty two by seven and a half points, So I
mean it wasn't even a very close race, despite the
fact that they spent way more money I think Stacy
Abrams did than Brian Kemp was able to spend in Georgia.
(01:53):
So my point on this is, if John Ossoff is
going to be beaten, it's going to take the end
higher Republican Party, Trump and Brian Kemp coming together and
working in conjunction in order to win.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That Senate seat.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Otherwise, Asoff, who doesn't even believe men should be banned
from competing against women in sports, he is not a
representative senator for the state of Georgia. Otherwise he's gonna win.
So this is going to be one to pay attention
to as that primary season pays out, plays out positive
and we need to get him on Buck. Michael Wattley,
(02:31):
who did a great job as the head of the
RNC in the state of North Carolina. Team let's make
sure we reach out to him, Let's get him on. Basically,
he is the nominee who is going to be running
against former Governor Roy Cooper to try to retain that seat.
There are going to be a lot of battle grounds
out there, Buck, I'm going up to Michigan in mid
(02:53):
to late September for their yearly convention, and I am
speaking to the Michigan Republican Party up at mcadaw Island
where I actually got engaged to my lovely wife, Laura.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I've heard of me.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Two years ago. Nice place, nice place here, fabulous. We
got engaged at the Grand Hotel on the grounds there.
Could barely afford a hotel room there twenty two years ago,
but it is a very cool place in northern Michigan.
And that is going to be another battleground because we
narrowly lost a Senate race in Michigan, we narrowly lost
(03:29):
a Senate race in Wisconsin, narrowly in Arizona, Georgia is
going to be on the board, narrowly in Nevada. A
lot to be done still, So those are news stories
that are out there to have to be paying attention to. Okay,
with that in mind, we were talking about do you
want to do an impression of Trump reading his Sydney
(03:51):
Sweeney ad. Now that we know it is one hundred
percent correct, I thought I kind of did. No, Oh,
did you already officially? Well, I'm thinking there might be
people in the audience Trump has weighed in. Now we
played the audio from the airplane Sidney Sweeney. It turns
out twenty seven year old actress well known, especially if
(04:13):
you're in your.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Twenties or your thirties.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I would say she is a registered Republican in Florida,
and she is now getting attacked as the I actually
think this makes total sense because I texted Buck this
Saturday morning. When I got up, it was trending that
people had looked up Sidney Sweeney's voter ID card and
she had registered as a Republican in the state of Florida.
(04:38):
It actually makes sense to me why they attacked her
like they did a lot of times. You don't see everything.
They see her as a big threat.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So if you're.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Getting young women to believe, hey, it's okay to vote Republican, Hey,
you are not an awful person.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
If you turn your back on.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The Democrat Party, that's a real threat to them because basically,
if you're a single woman, as Sidney Sweeney is, that
is the base of the Democrat Party. Now they've lost
young men, they've lost men. Overall, young women are the
base of the Democrat Party. And if you have someone
influential like Sidney Sweeney, who is seen as an aspirational
(05:17):
figure by many women, if she is saying, hey, I'm
voting Republican, I'm living in the state of Florida. I
love the leadership of Ron DeSantis governor. And she made
the decision to move to Florida in twenty twenty four
smartly based on the amount of money I assume that
she is making. Not having to pay state income taxes
doesn't stink if you make the kind of money that
(05:37):
she does. I think they see her as a huge threat.
So Trump has weighed in said hey, good for her
stock price up twenty percent plus today alone. And if
you're wondering how did all this start, this all started
on the left when they made an ad for her
in jeans at a company called American Eagle that yours
(06:00):
truly used to work at when he was a teenager.
So I'm very familiar with this brand and did you
work at Abercrombie as ill I worked at both? Which
one was better to work at? Abercrombie is higher end,
meaning the clothes were more expensive. Uh, but as a
teenage boy, the thing that I cared about the most
(06:22):
was which store had more attractive girls shopping there on
a regular basis. Rivergate Mall American Eagle was heaven, I said,
I Buck, I don't know if you ever had a
job where you made no money, but you were like,
this is so much fun.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Uh, And I know we coaching coaching JV high school
soccer would definitely be the I maan die.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You get paid only what did? What did you get
paid to coach JV soccer? I think for the season
it was like three grand or something. Yeah, like basically
nothing like below minimum wage. Yeah, oh definitely, yeah yeah,
But you loved it. You just loved coaching it. It
was like fun, super fun. I mean, maybe maybe we
were eleven one and one.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Maybe it was the best team that that high school
had put out at the JV level in like twenty years.
I mean, I don't know who's counting play.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So my job that I would point to, I love
the jobs that we have now but we're adults. You've coached, right, Oh, yeah,
I've coached every sport. Yeah, because my boys played everything.
So I have coached basketball, I've coached baseball, I've coached soccer.
I've coached versions of those sports, right, like flag football.
The dad's ever a little sheepish about giving you advice
(07:30):
on the sports stuff because you know you do the
sports stuff or no, they just like.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
My boys should be, you know, playing third base, Like
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
To be fair, I've never had an issue. I'm probably
the you know, I'm the one who's gotten in trouble
for going after refs sometimes. I've never had a pan,
so I may be the troublemaker. I've never in any
of the coaching that we did. I don't think we've
ever had a bad parent, and I think that actually
is representative generally of the case.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I do think you coach and the kids get older,
there's probably more, sadly parental involvement sometimes because it gets
more serious when you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen year olds and
your kids are not maybe not getting on the field
and you think they should. I never had an issue
with a kid either, I mean all the kids that
we coached I thought were great, all the parents were.
(08:19):
I think that's probably representative of what most coaches find
out there. But yeah, I've coached basically every sport on
some level, not in super high end ability. But the
reason why I bring kind of all of this up
as we sort of cycle around is I got paid
four dollars and fifty cents an hour I worked at
American Eagle, so I have sold a lot of American
(08:41):
Eagle clothes over the years.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I loved that job. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And I go get Chick fil A for lunch, or
Petros or Pyramid Cafe at the Rivergate Mall in Goodletsville,
which I don't even hardly think is still open. Great
job for a teenager to have. So I know this
brand well, I know this company well. And the attacks
on Sidney Sweeney came out of the left, and they
came so aggressively that when I saw on Saturday, oh
(09:08):
she's a registered Republican, they basically ordered the code red
on her. I don't think it's coincidental. I think they
knew about this, and this is what Good Morning America said.
Some people are like, oh, this is not a story.
I don't know why this is getting so much tension.
It's what you saw if you're eating your breakfast. Last
week on Good Morning America.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
We begin with the backlash of our new ad campaign
featuring actress Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
The ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is
Sidney Sweeney has Great Genes Now. In one ad, the blondehair,
blue eyed actress talks about genes as in DNA, being
passed down from her parents.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda
with racial undertones.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
The coun good Genes activates a troubling historical associations for
this country. The American eugenics movement and it's prime between
like nineteen hundred and nineteen, weaponized the idea of good
genes just to justify white supremacism.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I don't think she's fun at cocktail parties. I'm just
gonna throw that out there, like I don't think that
lady whoever she is a barrel of laughs.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I just I hear about this, and they created this
entire backlash.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I saw.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
A report and I want to make sure I give
her credit for this. So I want to make sure
I got who did the one of the Savannah Hernandez
went to a women's rally and interviewed all these left
wing women and they just went off on Sidney Sweeney
in this ad.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So I think the.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Argument that people are not actually because this is one
of the things you'll hear, well, this is not really
a thing. It's not really that made up or it's
made up, it's not a real thing. Now that they
have turned this into a cultural battleground, and we'll take
some of your calls, and we'll take some of your talkbacks,
because we have a ton of them. Telling young men
that Sidney Sweeney is a Nazi is ensuring that no
(11:06):
young men are ever going to vote for you if
they are heterosexual at all. I'm just saying, and I
think increasingly young women are looking around and saying, wait
a minute, if we're the backbone of the Democrat party,
why would we attack young women like Sidney Sweeney, who
really it's not as if she's done things in her past,
(11:29):
meaning she's not a felon, she's not engaged in some
sort of crazy, awful behavior. She just did an ad
for a jeens company, and my mom just texted me
because she's walking around the mall near our house now
and they have huge billboard pictures inside of the American
Eagle store with Sidney Sweeney there, and the stock price
(11:51):
is up over twenty percent today. And I think there's
people out there listening to us right now who are
saying it's back to school season. My fifth grader went
back to school today. Hey, I'm going to go buy
my kids some of their back to school gear at
American Eagle. That maybe you wouldn't really have thought about
it very much before.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
A lot of people want to buy Sydney's big beautiful.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
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Speaker 3 (13:35):
Welcome back in here to play and Buck, thanks for
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Speaker 2 (13:39):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
We got a bunch of calls, a bunch of talkbacks.
Let's get to some right now, shall we Jim in Livingston,
Texas AA on the talkback.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Hit It Clay.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Only if you are extremely elderly, maybe seventy five, eighty ninety,
would you.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Find Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The least bit attractive?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
You gotta look past the facade, the fake hair.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Why why are you can't do it up all the time,
over over at Kamala, Like you're not the biggest Kamala
fan out there.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
All of my opinions, saying Kamala Harris isn't awful looking
is just driving people bonkers as politicians go. I mean,
we're not talking about supermodels here. I think Kamala Harris
is way better looking than the average female politician. Is
that a crazy take to have? I'm not saying that
(14:39):
I love her personality or her politics. Television is often
a purely cosmetic medium. In fact, some people even think
I don't dress well on television or don't even look
good on television, So clearly some people's brains are broken.
But I mean, is that crazy take? Kamala Harris is
(15:01):
better looking than the average female politician in America. That's
a no brainer. Yes, that's a no brainer. Yes, No,
you have to even sign off on this I.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Mean, I don't know. Maybe maybe there are a lot
of ugly politicians. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean, that's why they say Washington is Hollywood for
ugly people.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It's what's on the inside that counts. Clay. Beauty is
in the eye of the ball.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Lucky for me, Lucky for me, that's true. Let's get okay,
I gotta I'm gonna. I'm gonna take some lumps on
this one. Finally, it's not just Clay getting lumps today.
CC Jim in New York City hit this. He's a
w R listener.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Whoa, whoa, whoa buckster?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Nothing ever?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Good comes an old school Now.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I deliver stuff to people all day long, mostly packages,
stuff that Ups.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And FedEx can't even reach.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, I know we bring irs, Yeah, I know we
bring this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Summons is and god forbid you get freaking jury duty anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
He'll be so rough on us letter carriers.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Bro all right, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna take
may it kulpa, may a kulpa. I'm gonna go for
a mulligan on this one. It is the letters. Postal
delivery can be very good. Things too, nice packages, and
you know, and postcards from your your an ethol who's
in Abitha reliving her her glory days or whatever. But generally,
(16:32):
when you have to open old school, it's bills, it's bills,
and it's junk mail. So that that's what I'm refer
But you know, we love you mail carriers, a lot
of you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I didn't mean to smirch that there are some happy
I said wedding invitations, and then because I like to
be cynicalized that even those aren't that fun. Depends on
the wedding.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
But Clay, overall you get when you when you get
a pile of mail. But does your wife do all
the mail? Who goes through your mail? I usually go
through the mail. I don't get that much mail anymore.
I mean, it's a lot of I would say. I mean,
I love my mail carriers. I get death threats in
the mail.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I get bills in the mail, and I get ads
for products that I have zero interest in ever actually
being involved in. Now my wife buys. The amount of
Amazon packages delivered to our house weekly blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
My living room is an Amazon warehouse. Okay, an Amazon
warehouse in my home. That's what that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I buy Kirkland brand products at Costco, and I buy books.
I almost buy nothing else. I'm sometimes buy my amazing
looking jackets, which are extraordinary well received on television by all.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But by and large, I don't hardly buy anything.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It amazes me how good of a delivery system Amazon
has created, such that I wonder how much we actually
need the traditional mail to be fair.
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are powering through the Monday edition of the program. Have
(19:07):
all of you had awesome weekends? Uh, and are ready to.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Roll with us again?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
A bunch of you wanted to weigh in on a
variety of different topics. Uh, let's start James up in Louisville.
What you got for us?
Speaker 10 (19:20):
James Hey claim Buck the beauty Bucks said that the
beauty is in the out of the holder, but it's
really not. There's an objective standard for it and it
goes way back.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Hold on, I was I was kidding. Just pause, he was, yeah,
he was having it was a joke going yes.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Of course, of course, but I was just playing off
of it. Beauty actually does have a standard, and there
is an objective mathematical formula one plus the square of
five five all over two and it's called the Golden
ratio and the number is one point six one eight
to one. It's a It's been used in nature. You'll
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find it all over nature.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well, I can tell you every time I've gone up
to a lady in a bar when I was singing
and I said, hey, you're really nailing the golden ratio
over here.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I did not get a phone number. It's very sad
for me.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
But to be fair, and again this goes to my
evolutionary biology thing which I'm fascinated by. This is basically
the Vitruvian man.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So if you go and look at symmetry as a
sign of beauty objectively, it's Leonardo right who drew the
Vitruvian man. If you go back and look the circle
with the arms extended and the legs extended, it is
in many ways a reflective of the golden ratio, which
is what he just referred to, and it is often
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a sign of natural beauty being observed. And this is
where I think evolutionary biology is so interesting, and I've
read all about it because I'm always of the opinion,
why does something that exists exist? And you sit back
and you think about it. I'll give you an example
why would men be able to have children their entire
(21:08):
lives and women would not. Pure Again, I'm not trying
to get into analyzing this, I'm just saying purely, from
a biological perspective, the general goal of a species is
almost entirely propagation. That is your job, my job, everybody's job,
from a biological perspective, is to lead to more of
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us in the future. And the answer is, I think
quite simply. If you think about it, men who are
older tend to be prominent and or wealthier, and younger
women see that and in their mind biologically they think,
my children are going to have advantages in the caves.
That meant that your kids were more likely to survive.
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There was going to be more food, there was going
to be more opportunity for that child to flourish. Therefore,
older men continued to be able to have children. Older
women did not. Also, obviously, the physical aspects of childbirth
and delivery were very dangerous historically, and so it was
better for youth to be able to be delivering a child.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It makes total sense. There is studies out there. Why do.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Good looking couples, as you objectively standardize it, tend to
have more daughters. Why would that be Because beauty is
more valuable for women than it is for men. Not
to say that they are not incredibly handsome men, but
beauty is more valuable biologically for women than it is
for men. Height is more valuable biologically for men than
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it is for women.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Like, all of this makes.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Sense purely from an evolutionary biology perspective. And when they
try to argue against all of these things, that is
where I sit back and I just say, I mean,
athletics is a good example of this. There's a reason
we separated men women at lex throughout history.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yep, yep. Tom and Tom and Mobile Alabama? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Tom?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You want to talk redistricting? Oh? There we go?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
All right. I'm sorry, I'm in a.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Mobile, Alabama area, and I wanted to talk about the
hypocrisy of calling what's going on in Texas racist because
I'm in what is now Alabama's congressional District two, and
the district itself, I wasn't one. And the reason I'm now.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
In two is because they specifically and explicitly created District
two to make sure that a certain racial group could
elect their own over anything else.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Look, I mean racial jerrymander has become a thing. They're
actually going to have a Supreme Court opinion on this
very issue, which may end racial jerrymandering as well. And
this is where Buck we were talking about in Texas.
One of the most interesting parts of the Texas redistricting
is actually there are some majority minority districts with Hispanics
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that would be electing Republicans. And as soon as there
is no racial dynamic in Hispanic voting, Asian voting, whatever
it would be, then your ability to racially jerrymander is
going to be tossed on the scrap heap. I think
there's a chance that they examined this and toss it
away sooner rather than later in this Supreme Court decision
(24:30):
that they're going to be analyzing hearing oral arguments for
in October, and it's not getting a lot of attention yet,
but I think it could very much.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Anyone else on the lines there.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
We needed to get to Ray Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
There we go.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yes, hey, Fellas, I love your show.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Rush say me in nineteen eighty from drinking that kool
leg But in Pennsylvania where I've lived when they came
and did the census.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I put down as a Christian American and they came
back and they told me, being a black America, I
have to choose what race. I said, why can I
just be a Black? Why can I be an American Christian?
Speaker 8 (25:17):
These people are.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Full of cramp in America. But I love your show.
Keep doing what she's doing. I'm miss rushed, but I
love you guys too.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Thank you. We appreciate that very much. Thank you so much.
And again, I think one of the most encouraging things
about the entirety of Trump's twenty twenty four election. It's
actually the most diverse coalition ever to vote in terms
of Black, White, Asian, Hispanic race. It was really kind
of fascinating. Again, has not gotten very much attention. The
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only group really that Kamala did better with in the
twenty twenty four election than Biden did white women. She
increased white women's support a little bit lost support in
basically every other racial group out there, which is how
Trump has built a pretty interesting diverse racial coalition Historically.
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On Mom, Donnie, this is gonna come down to Buck.
We have talked about it a great deal. It is
one of the most important elections of this fall. Is
there going to be an ability to find one guy
to run against him? Curtis Leewa, Eric Adams and Andrew
Cuomo all in the race right now. As long as
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all three are in, mam Donnie's gonna win. I mean,
came back, Donni wins. I think Ma'm Donnie wins probably
no matter what. Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say it, New York.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I'm sorry. It actually pains me. Clay is being is
being nice about it today, but it pains me to
say this. I think Ma'm Donnie is probably gonna be
your next mayor. Uh and and that's that's a shame.
But this is the problem in blue states, or rather
in blue cities, is that they can control a whole
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state and certainly the city itself. In the case of Mamdani,
you're gonna have You're gonna have problems. You're gonna have problems.
And this is why the water's warm down here in Florida, everybody,
it's very nice.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Those are the Northeast and some of these.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Democrat enclaves. We got plenty of room down here. The
real estate's a little too pricey these days, but we
got plenty of room down here.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
We got some funny responses. We will play them for
you when we come back. My evidently incredibly dangerous opinion,
controversial opinion on Kamala's looks is continuing to lead to
a flurry.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
We'll break all that down for you.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
But I want to tell you, coming out of the weekend,
how many of you are just flat out a little
bit tired on this Monday. How many of you even
felt maybe a little bit like Joe Biden when you
went to the beach or headed to the beach this summer,
dragging around every step could be your last. Next step,
you know you're gonna to be face planted in the
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sand if that sounds like you.
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Speaker 3 (29:25):
Hi, welcome back in Close it up Shop today on
Clay and Buck. Little programming notes, I am going to
the Highlands, not of Scotland this time. That was a
couple of summers ago, which I highly recommend. By the way,
I love Scotland. Even though if you love the movie
Braveheart and you go to Scotland. It would be like, oh,
so that whole movie was filmed in Ireland, not in Scotland,
pretty much some parts, but pretty much Ireland. So now
(29:47):
i gotta go to Ireland. But I'm going to the
Highlands of actually kind of out toward you, Clay, or
in your general direction. It's western North Carolina, so Carry
and I will be up in that area for the weekend.
So Clay is going to be rocking the show Thursday
and Friday. I'm going to be enjoying some cool air
at night.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It gets me so excited. It's been so hot, I'm
melting down here all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So it's actually cooled off some parts of the country
now after the hot streak. It's been kind of awesome
the last several days, at least in the Nashville area,
and I know it's cooled off a lot of other
places too. But soon we'll be wishing for the warmth,
which you will have when it comes to December and
January and everybody else is freezing. You'll be living in
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the best climate in America.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Then that's true.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Patty in San Diego, she wants to agree with Clay
on something.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
This is ee hit. It Hi. I would love to
agree with Clay because I agree that she is a
prolatively attractive woman and she.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Wore the suit great. So Clay, you scored one today.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Who knew that I could be getting praise for being
kind to Kamala quicklick Nick from Minnesota also wants to
weigh it.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Ff play.
Speaker 12 (31:03):
You're one hundred percent correct, Kamala Harris or a woman
of her age and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Is good looking?
Speaker 12 (31:10):
You know, if we want to be the side of honesty,
I mean, you just gotta lay it out there and
be honest about it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I think you're right, man. You know it's the most.
Speaker 12 (31:20):
Unreasonable people would say your politics make you ugly, maybe
in character wise, but not in physical features. I mean,
I'll be honest, man. You know, if you're on a
different side of life, you don't mean you're ugly.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Block How often did you have to date girls who
were on different sides politically.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Until I realized that it was a fool's errand and
always going to result in tears and sadness, which which
was the case. I definitely in my twenties and then
into my early thirty By the time I hit thirty,
I want to say thirty four, thirty three, thirty four,
I realized I am very right wing and I cannot
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date somebody who is not also right wi Freder was wondering,
my wife came from Fox News, so you know, Carrie,
that was an easy That was an easy easy match there,
that was an easy match, like, honey, what do you
think let's get married?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Like, yep, cool.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
She worked for Tucker, she worked with Brian Kilmead, so
she's worked on with some of the greats over there.
But yeah, you need to have a similar life philosophy
and outlook, I think, and politics certainly plays plays a
large role in that.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I do.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Do you know any do you personally know any politically
opposed couples that totally make it work.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
I know.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
One or two that I think pull it off.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I think it actually used to be more common. Does
that make sense? My parents they did. They've been married
for like twenty years. They are not the ones that
I'm thinking of. They've been married a long time. So
I think it was different then. Historically sometimes voted different ways,
And I think men and women voting different ways was
actually more common back in like the sixties, seventies, eighties,
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maybe more so than it is now because I don't
know very many couples now. Again, sometimes people may be dishonest,
they may not be one hundred percent telling the truth.
But I don't know that many couples vote differently and
like cancel each other out as soon as they go vote.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
This show is like therapy for me and for Clay.
I feel like I can tell all of you just
the truth, you know, my innermost secrets, and now that
I'm a halply married man, and my son, you know,
gives me so much joy every day, and my wonderful
wife and her dog and everything else. I can look
back and laugh at moments in my life, like when
I used to just have to tell chicks that I
was a libertarian so they wouldn't throw a drink in
my face. You know, like you got to pull the
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libertarian car when you're a young guy in New York.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You're twenty eight. You know, you don't have any cash
to throw around.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
You're like, hey, I'm economically conservative, but socially liberal.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
You could say I'm kind of a libertarian.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Well, it also factored in where you lived, because there's
a lot of people out there that do not have
to deal with knocking out sixty five percent of the
overall dating public.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Immediately, I was.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Gonna say people were being super kind, and then I
just looked down.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh, I see this remails. Yeah, yeah, I think Let
me handle this one for you, buddy. VIP email from Graham. Hey, Clay,
where do you buy your jackets? I've been looking but
can't find anywhere that stocks seventies curtain material. Oh the
range is hot, buddy, the range is hot.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Thanks Graham, all over the place.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
By the way, Okay, a couple of more talkbacks because
you guys have been awesome on the talkbacks. Carroll Terrell
is maybe Terrell Owens from Northeast Florida.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
What's he got for us? BB?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
You have got to check out the movie The Boyeurs
with Sidney Sweeny. Every man will love it and every
woman will want to be it.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I don't know what that movie members remember, I should
check it out. Let's see here. Christopher me Tampa Oka.
Are you like GG or HGG? I want to do
ah because someone's gonna disagree with you.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Hh. Terry from Toledo.
Speaker 9 (35:03):
Come on, Clay, you get Taulci Gabbert and Christine Nome,
Tudor Dixon. They're tens compared to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Kamala's bas a, well you miss he said, he said,
Kama's agreed, He's.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's not hard, that's uh GG basically says the same
thing disagreeing with something I didn't even say.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
G Clay.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Seriously, bober.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Luna Mace, the same category is hairs.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
This is just this is just all made up.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I just want all of you know it's all Clay's fault. Okay,
whatever it is, it's Clay's fault,
Welcome back in now number three Monday edition Clay Travis
buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
We've been having some fun today. Let's hit some news
off the top as we dive into one of my
favorite topics, evolutionary biology. It actually is something that I
am fascinated by. Texas redistricting. We have an offer out
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to Texas Governor Greg Abbott. A plan to add five
Republican seats has led to the Democrats in the state
legislature of Texas fleeing to Illinois, which is among the
most jerry manderd of all states. The irony, of course
off the charts. Two news stories that I think are intriguing.
(00:48):
Nancy Mace, congresswoman from South Carolina, has announced that she
will be running for governor of South Carolina. Also, Derek Dooley,
this is my world's colliding former college football coach, has
announced that he will be running for the Senate in
the state of Georgia. This Georgia race is going to
(01:11):
be necessary to pay a great deal of attention to
because Republicans have lost three straight Georgia Senate races that really,
frankly should have been won all of them. Statewide. Republican
Party has been dominating. Brian Kemp and a company have
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won everything, and not just one. They've won in the
state of Georgia. Brian Kemp beaten Stacy Abrams in twenty
twenty two by seven and a half points, So I
mean it wasn't even a very close race, despite the
fact that they spent way more money I think Stacy
Abrams did than Brian Kemp was able to spend in Georgia.
(01:53):
So my point on this is, if John Ossoff is
going to be beaten, it's going to take the end
higher Republican Party, Trump and Brian Kemp coming together and
working in conjunction in order to win.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That Senate seat.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Otherwise, Asoff, who doesn't even believe men should be banned
from competing against women in sports, he is not a
representative senator for the state of Georgia. Otherwise he's gonna win.
So this is going to be one to pay attention
to as that primary season pays out, plays out positive
and we need to get him on Buck. Michael Wattley,
(02:31):
who did a great job as the head of the
RNC in the state of North Carolina. Team let's make
sure we reach out to him, Let's get him on. Basically,
he is the nominee who is going to be running
against former Governor Roy Cooper to try to retain that seat.
There are going to be a lot of battle grounds
out there, Buck, I'm going up to Michigan in mid
(02:53):
to late September for their yearly convention, and I am
speaking to the Michigan Republican Party up at mcadaw Island
where I actually got engaged to my lovely wife, Laura.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I've heard of me.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Two years ago. Nice place, nice place here, fabulous. We
got engaged at the Grand Hotel on the grounds there.
Could barely afford a hotel room there twenty two years ago,
but it is a very cool place in northern Michigan.
And that is going to be another battleground because we
narrowly lost a Senate race in Michigan, we narrowly lost
(03:29):
a Senate race in Wisconsin, narrowly in Arizona, Georgia is
going to be on the board, narrowly in Nevada. A
lot to be done still, So those are news stories
that are out there to have to be paying attention to. Okay,
with that in mind, we were talking about do you
want to do an impression of Trump reading his Sydney
(03:51):
Sweeney ad. Now that we know it is one hundred
percent correct, I thought I kind of did. No, Oh,
did you already officially? Well, I'm thinking there might be
people in the audience Trump has weighed in. Now we
played the audio from the airplane Sidney Sweeney. It turns
out twenty seven year old actress well known, especially if
(04:13):
you're in your.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Twenties or your thirties.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I would say she is a registered Republican in Florida,
and she is now getting attacked as the I actually
think this makes total sense because I texted Buck this
Saturday morning. When I got up, it was trending that
people had looked up Sidney Sweeney's voter ID card and
she had registered as a Republican in the state of Florida.
(04:38):
It actually makes sense to me why they attacked her
like they did a lot of times. You don't see everything.
They see her as a big threat.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So if you're.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Getting young women to believe, hey, it's okay to vote Republican, Hey,
you are not an awful person.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
If you turn your back on.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The Democrat Party, that's a real threat to them because basically,
if you're a single woman, as Sidney Sweeney is, that
is the base of the Democrat Party. Now they've lost
young men, they've lost men. Overall, young women are the
base of the Democrat Party. And if you have someone
influential like Sidney Sweeney, who is seen as an aspirational
(05:17):
figure by many women, if she is saying, hey, I'm
voting Republican, I'm living in the state of Florida. I
love the leadership of Ron DeSantis governor. And she made
the decision to move to Florida in twenty twenty four
smartly based on the amount of money I assume that
she is making. Not having to pay state income taxes
doesn't stink if you make the kind of money that
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she does. I think they see her as a huge threat.
So Trump has weighed in said hey, good for her
stock price up twenty percent plus today alone. And if
you're wondering how did all this start, this all started
on the left when they made an ad for her
in jeans at a company called American Eagle that yours
(06:00):
truly used to work at when he was a teenager.
So I'm very familiar with this brand and did you
work at Abercrombie as ill I worked at both? Which
one was better to work at? Abercrombie is higher end,
meaning the clothes were more expensive. Uh, but as a
teenage boy, the thing that I cared about the most
(06:22):
was which store had more attractive girls shopping there on
a regular basis. Rivergate Mall American Eagle was heaven, I said,
I Buck, I don't know if you ever had a
job where you made no money, but you were like,
this is so much fun.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Uh, And I know we coaching coaching JV high school
soccer would definitely be the I maan die.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You get paid only what did? What did you get
paid to coach JV soccer? I think for the season
it was like three grand or something. Yeah, like basically
nothing like below minimum wage. Yeah, oh definitely, yeah yeah,
But you loved it. You just loved coaching it. It
was like fun, super fun. I mean, maybe maybe we
were eleven one and one.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Maybe it was the best team that that high school
had put out at the JV level in like twenty years.
I mean, I don't know who's counting play.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So my job that I would point to, I love
the jobs that we have now but we're adults. You've coached, right, Oh, yeah,
I've coached every sport. Yeah, because my boys played everything.
So I have coached basketball, I've coached baseball, I've coached soccer.
I've coached versions of those sports, right, like flag football.
The dad's ever a little sheepish about giving you advice
(07:30):
on the sports stuff because you know you do the
sports stuff or no, they just like.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
My boys should be, you know, playing third base, Like
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
To be fair, I've never had an issue. I'm probably
the you know, I'm the one who's gotten in trouble
for going after refs sometimes. I've never had a pan,
so I may be the troublemaker. I've never in any
of the coaching that we did. I don't think we've
ever had a bad parent, and I think that actually
is representative generally of the case.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I do think you coach and the kids get older,
there's probably more, sadly parental involvement sometimes because it gets
more serious when you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen year olds and
your kids are not maybe not getting on the field
and you think they should. I never had an issue
with a kid either, I mean all the kids that
we coached I thought were great, all the parents were.
(08:19):
I think that's probably representative of what most coaches find
out there. But yeah, I've coached basically every sport on
some level, not in super high end ability. But the
reason why I bring kind of all of this up
as we sort of cycle around is I got paid
four dollars and fifty cents an hour I worked at
American Eagle, so I have sold a lot of American
(08:41):
Eagle clothes over the years.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I loved that job. It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And I go get Chick fil A for lunch, or
Petros or Pyramid Cafe at the Rivergate Mall in Goodletsville,
which I don't even hardly think is still open. Great
job for a teenager to have. So I know this
brand well, I know this company well. And the attacks
on Sidney Sweeney came out of the left, and they
came so aggressively that when I saw on Saturday, oh
(09:08):
she's a registered Republican, they basically ordered the code red
on her. I don't think it's coincidental. I think they
knew about this, and this is what Good Morning America said.
Some people are like, oh, this is not a story.
I don't know why this is getting so much tension.
It's what you saw if you're eating your breakfast. Last
week on Good Morning America.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
We begin with the backlash of our new ad campaign
featuring actress Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
The ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is
Sidney Sweeney has Great Genes Now. In one ad, the blondehair,
blue eyed actress talks about genes as in DNA, being
passed down from her parents.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda
with racial undertones.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
The coun good Genes activates a troubling historical associations for
this country. The American eugenics movement and it's prime between
like nineteen hundred and nineteen, weaponized the idea of good
genes just to justify white supremacism.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I don't think she's fun at cocktail parties. I'm just
gonna throw that out there, like I don't think that
lady whoever she is a barrel of laughs.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I just I hear about this, and they created this
entire backlash.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I saw.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
A report and I want to make sure I give
her credit for this. So I want to make sure
I got who did the one of the Savannah Hernandez
went to a women's rally and interviewed all these left
wing women and they just went off on Sidney Sweeney
in this ad.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So I think the.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Argument that people are not actually because this is one
of the things you'll hear, well, this is not really
a thing. It's not really that made up or it's
made up, it's not a real thing. Now that they
have turned this into a cultural battleground, and we'll take
some of your calls, and we'll take some of your talkbacks,
because we have a ton of them. Telling young men
that Sidney Sweeney is a Nazi is ensuring that no
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young men are ever going to vote for you if
they are heterosexual at all. I'm just saying, and I
think increasingly young women are looking around and saying, wait
a minute, if we're the backbone of the Democrat party,
why would we attack young women like Sidney Sweeney, who
really it's not as if she's done things in her past,
(11:29):
meaning she's not a felon, she's not engaged in some
sort of crazy, awful behavior. She just did an ad
for a jeens company, and my mom just texted me
because she's walking around the mall near our house now
and they have huge billboard pictures inside of the American
Eagle store with Sidney Sweeney there, and the stock price
(11:51):
is up over twenty percent today. And I think there's
people out there listening to us right now who are
saying it's back to school season. My fifth grader went
back to school today. Hey, I'm going to go buy
my kids some of their back to school gear at
American Eagle. That maybe you wouldn't really have thought about
it very much before.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
A lot of people want to buy Sydney's big beautiful.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
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Speaker 3 (13:35):
Welcome back in here to play and Buck, thanks for
rolling with us.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
We got a bunch of calls, a bunch of talkbacks.
Let's get to some right now, shall we Jim in Livingston,
Texas AA on the talkback.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Hit It Clay.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Only if you are extremely elderly, maybe seventy five, eighty ninety,
would you.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Find Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The least bit attractive?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
You gotta look past the facade, the fake hair.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Why why are you can't do it up all the time,
over over at Kamala, Like you're not the biggest Kamala
fan out there.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
All of my opinions, saying Kamala Harris isn't awful looking
is just driving people bonkers as politicians go. I mean,
we're not talking about supermodels here. I think Kamala Harris
is way better looking than the average female politician. Is
that a crazy take to have? I'm not saying that
(14:39):
I love her personality or her politics. Television is often
a purely cosmetic medium. In fact, some people even think
I don't dress well on television or don't even look
good on television, So clearly some people's brains are broken.
But I mean, is that crazy take? Kamala Harris is
(15:01):
better looking than the average female politician in America. That's
a no brainer. Yes, that's a no brainer. Yes, No,
you have to even sign off on this I.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Mean, I don't know. Maybe maybe there are a lot
of ugly politicians. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean, that's why they say Washington is Hollywood for
ugly people.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It's what's on the inside that counts. Clay. Beauty is
in the eye of the ball.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Lucky for me, Lucky for me, that's true. Let's get okay,
I gotta I'm gonna. I'm gonna take some lumps on
this one. Finally, it's not just Clay getting lumps today.
CC Jim in New York City hit this. He's a
w R listener.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Whoa, whoa, whoa buckster?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Nothing ever?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Good comes an old school Now.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I deliver stuff to people all day long, mostly packages,
stuff that Ups.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
And FedEx can't even reach.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, I know we bring irs, Yeah, I know we
bring this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Summons is and god forbid you get freaking jury duty anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
He'll be so rough on us letter carriers.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Bro all right, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna take
may it kulpa, may a kulpa. I'm gonna go for
a mulligan on this one. It is the letters. Postal
delivery can be very good. Things too, nice packages, and
you know, and postcards from your your an ethol who's
in Abitha reliving her her glory days or whatever. But generally,
(16:32):
when you have to open old school, it's bills, it's bills,
and it's junk mail. So that that's what I'm refer
But you know, we love you mail carriers, a lot
of you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I didn't mean to smirch that there are some happy
I said wedding invitations, and then because I like to
be cynicalized that even those aren't that fun. Depends on
the wedding.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
But Clay, overall you get when you when you get
a pile of mail. But does your wife do all
the mail? Who goes through your mail? I usually go
through the mail. I don't get that much mail anymore.
I mean, it's a lot of I would say. I mean,
I love my mail carriers. I get death threats in
the mail.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I get bills in the mail, and I get ads
for products that I have zero interest in ever actually
being involved in. Now my wife buys. The amount of
Amazon packages delivered to our house weekly blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
My living room is an Amazon warehouse. Okay, an Amazon
warehouse in my home. That's what that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I buy Kirkland brand products at Costco, and I buy books.
I almost buy nothing else. I'm sometimes buy my amazing
looking jackets, which are extraordinary well received on television by all.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
But by and large, I don't hardly buy anything.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It amazes me how good of a delivery system Amazon
has created, such that I wonder how much we actually
need the traditional mail to be fair.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But I do have to tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
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appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we
are powering through the Monday edition of the program. Have
(19:07):
all of you had awesome weekends? Uh, and are ready to.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Roll with us again?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
A bunch of you wanted to weigh in on a
variety of different topics. Uh, let's start James up in Louisville.
What you got for us?
Speaker 10 (19:20):
James Hey claim Buck the beauty Bucks said that the
beauty is in the out of the holder, but it's
really not. There's an objective standard for it and it
goes way back.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Hold on, I was I was kidding. Just pause, he was, yeah,
he was having it was a joke going yes.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Of course, of course, but I was just playing off
of it. Beauty actually does have a standard, and there
is an objective mathematical formula one plus the square of
five five all over two and it's called the Golden
ratio and the number is one point six one eight
to one. It's a It's been used in nature. You'll
(20:01):
find it all over nature.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well, I can tell you every time I've gone up
to a lady in a bar when I was singing
and I said, hey, you're really nailing the golden ratio
over here.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I did not get a phone number. It's very sad
for me.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
But to be fair, and again this goes to my
evolutionary biology thing which I'm fascinated by. This is basically
the Vitruvian man.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So if you go and look at symmetry as a
sign of beauty objectively, it's Leonardo right who drew the
Vitruvian man. If you go back and look the circle
with the arms extended and the legs extended, it is
in many ways a reflective of the golden ratio, which
is what he just referred to, and it is often
(20:46):
a sign of natural beauty being observed. And this is
where I think evolutionary biology is so interesting, and I've
read all about it because I'm always of the opinion,
why does something that exists exist? And you sit back
and you think about it. I'll give you an example
why would men be able to have children their entire
(21:08):
lives and women would not. Pure Again, I'm not trying
to get into analyzing this, I'm just saying purely, from
a biological perspective, the general goal of a species is
almost entirely propagation. That is your job, my job, everybody's job,
from a biological perspective, is to lead to more of
(21:32):
us in the future. And the answer is, I think
quite simply. If you think about it, men who are
older tend to be prominent and or wealthier, and younger
women see that and in their mind biologically they think,
my children are going to have advantages in the caves.
That meant that your kids were more likely to survive.
(21:52):
There was going to be more food, there was going
to be more opportunity for that child to flourish. Therefore,
older men continued to be able to have children. Older
women did not. Also, obviously, the physical aspects of childbirth
and delivery were very dangerous historically, and so it was
better for youth to be able to be delivering a child.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It makes total sense. There is studies out there. Why do.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Good looking couples, as you objectively standardize it, tend to
have more daughters. Why would that be Because beauty is
more valuable for women than it is for men. Not
to say that they are not incredibly handsome men, but
beauty is more valuable biologically for women than it is
for men. Height is more valuable biologically for men than
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it is for women.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Like, all of this makes.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Sense purely from an evolutionary biology perspective. And when they
try to argue against all of these things, that is
where I sit back and I just say, I mean,
athletics is a good example of this. There's a reason
we separated men women at lex throughout history.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yep, yep. Tom and Tom and Mobile Alabama? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Tom?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You want to talk redistricting? Oh? There we go?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
All right. I'm sorry, I'm in a.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Mobile, Alabama area, and I wanted to talk about the
hypocrisy of calling what's going on in Texas racist because
I'm in what is now Alabama's congressional District two, and
the district itself, I wasn't one. And the reason I'm now.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
In two is because they specifically and explicitly created District
two to make sure that a certain racial group could
elect their own over anything else.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Look, I mean racial jerrymander has become a thing. They're
actually going to have a Supreme Court opinion on this
very issue, which may end racial jerrymandering as well. And
this is where Buck we were talking about in Texas.
One of the most interesting parts of the Texas redistricting
is actually there are some majority minority districts with Hispanics
(24:07):
that would be electing Republicans. And as soon as there
is no racial dynamic in Hispanic voting, Asian voting, whatever
it would be, then your ability to racially jerrymander is
going to be tossed on the scrap heap. I think
there's a chance that they examined this and toss it
away sooner rather than later in this Supreme Court decision
(24:30):
that they're going to be analyzing hearing oral arguments for
in October, and it's not getting a lot of attention yet,
but I think it could very much.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Anyone else on the lines there.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
We needed to get to Ray Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
There we go.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yes, hey, Fellas, I love your show.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Rush say me in nineteen eighty from drinking that kool
leg But in Pennsylvania where I've lived when they came
and did the census.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I put down as a Christian American and they came
back and they told me, being a black America, I
have to choose what race. I said, why can I
just be a Black? Why can I be an American Christian?
Speaker 8 (25:17):
These people are.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Full of cramp in America. But I love your show.
Keep doing what she's doing. I'm miss rushed, but I
love you guys too.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Thank you. We appreciate that very much. Thank you so much.
And again, I think one of the most encouraging things
about the entirety of Trump's twenty twenty four election. It's
actually the most diverse coalition ever to vote in terms
of Black, White, Asian, Hispanic race. It was really kind
of fascinating. Again, has not gotten very much attention. The
(25:49):
only group really that Kamala did better with in the
twenty twenty four election than Biden did white women. She
increased white women's support a little bit lost support in
basically every other racial group out there, which is how
Trump has built a pretty interesting diverse racial coalition Historically.
(26:09):
On Mom, Donnie, this is gonna come down to Buck.
We have talked about it a great deal. It is
one of the most important elections of this fall. Is
there going to be an ability to find one guy
to run against him? Curtis Leewa, Eric Adams and Andrew
Cuomo all in the race right now. As long as
(26:29):
all three are in, mam Donnie's gonna win. I mean,
came back, Donni wins. I think Ma'm Donnie wins probably
no matter what. Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say it, New York.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I'm sorry. It actually pains me. Clay is being is
being nice about it today, but it pains me to
say this. I think Ma'm Donnie is probably gonna be
your next mayor. Uh and and that's that's a shame.
But this is the problem in blue states, or rather
in blue cities, is that they can control a whole
(26:59):
state and certainly the city itself. In the case of Mamdani,
you're gonna have You're gonna have problems. You're gonna have problems.
And this is why the water's warm down here in Florida, everybody,
it's very nice.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Those are the Northeast and some of these.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Democrat enclaves. We got plenty of room down here. The
real estate's a little too pricey these days, but we
got plenty of room down here.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
We got some funny responses. We will play them for
you when we come back. My evidently incredibly dangerous opinion,
controversial opinion on Kamala's looks is continuing to lead to
a flurry.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
We'll break all that down for you.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
But I want to tell you, coming out of the weekend,
how many of you are just flat out a little
bit tired on this Monday. How many of you even
felt maybe a little bit like Joe Biden when you
went to the beach or headed to the beach this summer,
dragging around every step could be your last. Next step,
you know you're gonna to be face planted in the
(28:01):
sand if that sounds like you.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Unfortunately, if you feel.
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Like Biden, maybe you could use a little bit of
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for Trump. It is now echoing throughout. Other Republicans are
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Speaker 3 (29:25):
Hi, welcome back in Close it up Shop today on
Clay and Buck. Little programming notes, I am going to
the Highlands, not of Scotland this time. That was a
couple of summers ago, which I highly recommend. By the way,
I love Scotland. Even though if you love the movie
Braveheart and you go to Scotland. It would be like, oh,
so that whole movie was filmed in Ireland, not in Scotland,
pretty much some parts, but pretty much Ireland. So now
(29:47):
i gotta go to Ireland. But I'm going to the
Highlands of actually kind of out toward you, Clay, or
in your general direction. It's western North Carolina, so Carry
and I will be up in that area for the weekend.
So Clay is going to be rocking the show Thursday
and Friday. I'm going to be enjoying some cool air
at night.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It gets me so excited. It's been so hot, I'm
melting down here all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So it's actually cooled off some parts of the country
now after the hot streak. It's been kind of awesome
the last several days, at least in the Nashville area,
and I know it's cooled off a lot of other
places too. But soon we'll be wishing for the warmth,
which you will have when it comes to December and
January and everybody else is freezing. You'll be living in
(30:30):
the best climate in America.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Then that's true.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Patty in San Diego, she wants to agree with Clay
on something.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
This is ee hit. It Hi. I would love to
agree with Clay because I agree that she is a
prolatively attractive woman and she.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Wore the suit great. So Clay, you scored one today.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Who knew that I could be getting praise for being
kind to Kamala quicklick Nick from Minnesota also wants to
weigh it.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Ff play.
Speaker 12 (31:03):
You're one hundred percent correct, Kamala Harris or a woman
of her age and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Is good looking?
Speaker 12 (31:10):
You know, if we want to be the side of honesty,
I mean, you just gotta lay it out there and
be honest about it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I think you're right, man. You know it's the most.
Speaker 12 (31:20):
Unreasonable people would say your politics make you ugly, maybe
in character wise, but not in physical features. I mean,
I'll be honest, man. You know, if you're on a
different side of life, you don't mean you're ugly.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Block How often did you have to date girls who
were on different sides politically.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Until I realized that it was a fool's errand and
always going to result in tears and sadness, which which
was the case. I definitely in my twenties and then
into my early thirty By the time I hit thirty,
I want to say thirty four, thirty three, thirty four,
I realized I am very right wing and I cannot
(31:59):
date somebody who is not also right wi Freder was wondering,
my wife came from Fox News, so you know, Carrie,
that was an easy That was an easy easy match there,
that was an easy match, like, honey, what do you
think let's get married?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Like, yep, cool.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
She worked for Tucker, she worked with Brian Kilmead, so
she's worked on with some of the greats over there.
But yeah, you need to have a similar life philosophy
and outlook, I think, and politics certainly plays plays a
large role in that.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I do.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Do you know any do you personally know any politically
opposed couples that totally make it work.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
I know.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
One or two that I think pull it off.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I think it actually used to be more common. Does
that make sense? My parents they did. They've been married
for like twenty years. They are not the ones that
I'm thinking of. They've been married a long time. So
I think it was different then. Historically sometimes voted different ways,
And I think men and women voting different ways was
actually more common back in like the sixties, seventies, eighties,
(33:04):
maybe more so than it is now because I don't
know very many couples now. Again, sometimes people may be dishonest,
they may not be one hundred percent telling the truth.
But I don't know that many couples vote differently and
like cancel each other out as soon as they go vote.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
This show is like therapy for me and for Clay.
I feel like I can tell all of you just
the truth, you know, my innermost secrets, and now that
I'm a halply married man, and my son, you know,
gives me so much joy every day, and my wonderful
wife and her dog and everything else. I can look
back and laugh at moments in my life, like when
I used to just have to tell chicks that I
was a libertarian so they wouldn't throw a drink in
my face. You know, like you got to pull the
(33:38):
libertarian car when you're a young guy in New York.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You're twenty eight. You know, you don't have any cash
to throw around.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
You're like, hey, I'm economically conservative, but socially liberal.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
You could say I'm kind of a libertarian.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Well, it also factored in where you lived, because there's
a lot of people out there that do not have
to deal with knocking out sixty five percent of the
overall dating public.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Immediately, I was.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Gonna say people were being super kind, and then I
just looked down.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh, I see this remails. Yeah, yeah, I think Let
me handle this one for you, buddy. VIP email from Graham. Hey, Clay,
where do you buy your jackets? I've been looking but
can't find anywhere that stocks seventies curtain material. Oh the
range is hot, buddy, the range is hot.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Thanks Graham, all over the place.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
By the way, Okay, a couple of more talkbacks because
you guys have been awesome on the talkbacks. Carroll Terrell
is maybe Terrell Owens from Northeast Florida.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
What's he got for us? BB?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
You have got to check out the movie The Boyeurs
with Sidney Sweeny. Every man will love it and every
woman will want to be it.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I don't know what that movie members remember, I should
check it out. Let's see here. Christopher me Tampa Oka.
Are you like GG or HGG? I want to do
ah because someone's gonna disagree with you.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Hh. Terry from Toledo.
Speaker 9 (35:03):
Come on, Clay, you get Taulci Gabbert and Christine Nome,
Tudor Dixon. They're tens compared to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Kamala's bas a, well you miss he said, he said,
Kama's agreed, He's.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's not hard, that's uh GG basically says the same
thing disagreeing with something I didn't even say.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
G Clay.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Seriously, bober.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Luna Mace, the same category is hairs.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
This is just this is just all made up.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I just want all of you know it's all Clay's fault. Okay,
whatever it is, it's Clay's fault,
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