October 2, 2025 • 36 mins
In Hour 3 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, Clay Travis zeroes in on one of America’s most pressing issues: violent crime and public safety. With Buck Sexton still in Taiwan, Clay leads a powerful discussion on why the U.S. must stop tolerating skyrocketing crime rates and what real solutions look like.
The hour begins with Clay highlighting President Trump’s crime-fighting strategy, which started in Washington, D.C., where federal intervention dramatically reduced violent crime. Trump now plans to replicate this success in other high-crime cities like Memphis, Baltimore, and Chicago. Clay praises Trump’s “builder mentality,” contrasting it with career politicians who enjoy perks but fail to deliver real change.
Clay then shares a heartbreaking story from South Carolina: 22-year-old Logan Federico was brutally murdered by a man with 39 prior arrests and 25 felony charges, yet he spent only 600 days in prison over a decade. Clay plays an emotional clip from Logan’s father, who vows to fight for justice and accountability. This tragedy sparks a broader conversation about soft-on-crime policies, broken justice systems, and the urgent need to prioritize victims over criminals.
Listeners from Memphis call in with chilling firsthand accounts of violence in their neighborhoods. One caller describes a mass shooting at a pool party that left an Ole Miss football recruit dead and bullets flying into his home. Another caller, a roofing contractor, details working in some of Memphis’ most dangerous areas, pulling AR-15 rounds from rooftops and witnessing families living in fear. Both callers stress the lack of community leadership and moral guidance, pointing to family breakdown and cultural decay as root causes.
Clay argues that the solution is clear: target the small percentage of repeat offenders driving most violent crime, lock them up, and restore law and order. He calls for ending “toxic empathy” that prioritizes criminals over innocent citizens and urges a national crackdown on violent offenders.
The hour wraps with lighter moments, including listener talkbacks on trusted media voices, suggestions for charities to receive proceeds from Clay’s upcoming book Balls: How Trump, Young Men, and Sports Fans Saved America, and even a quick sports question about Arkansas football’s next head coach. Clay reiterates his commitment to donating all book profits to charity and thanks listeners for their support.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back. In our number three Thursday edition of the program,
Buck is still in Taiwan. He will be back on Monday.
By the way, I'll be out so he'll lose your
minds Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I'll be back on Thursday with Buck.
I'm gonna be down in Florida. Can't wait. In the
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Panhandle area of Florida, where we spend a lot of time.
We've got a couple of boys having their fall breaks
different times. Of course, that always ends up happening. It
feels like I'm gonna be honest with you guys. My
boys are getting older, and I'm trying to make sure
that I am spending as much time with them as
(00:43):
I can. My oldest is going off to college next year,
and then they're gonna be headed out sooner rather than later,
so I'm trying to make sure that we pack as
much as we can before they are off to college.
I hope that they're going to want to come back
and hang out with mom and dad after they're in college,
(01:05):
but I don't know. I think they're probably going to
recognize that things are pretty expensive, and mom and dad
taking them places and being able to do things with
them is a goodbye when they're still in their twenties
before they get married and have families of their own.
But I don't know. I'm not risking it. So we're
trying to do as much as we can with them.
So if I'm out, it's almost one hundred percent of
the time, unless it's a charity event, probably going to
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be something affiliated with my family because the boys are
getting older. So just fyi. But Buck is in Taiwan
right now. He's set down with the Taiwan President. He
will have some of that for you on Monday and
we'll be back together on Thursday. But I'll be out Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and be out a little bit during the fall
with my family. With the boys having different holidays, they
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all get fall breaks. Now I don't remember getting fall break.
It's actually kind of an awesome time to go anywhere
in October because it's typically not super hot yet or
not still super hot, and it's not as crowd it
everywhere else, so it should be a lot of fun.
So we are on top of that. But just fyi,
I wanted to dive into a couple of different stories.
(02:11):
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(02:32):
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(02:53):
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(03:16):
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of everybody. We're on TikTok, We're on Instagram. We are
where the audience is, whether that's on your radio dial
or on YouTube. And just watch for us to be
increasingly more and more places. I live in Nashville. You
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guys know that the deadliest city in America, according to
some per capita stats, is Memphis, Tennessee. And President Trump
in Washington, d C looked around at the violent crime
rate and he said something that should be uncontroversial. This
is unacceptable, and he said, we're going to fix it.
And even Washington d C is a ninety five percent
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Democrats city, a lot of good, reasonable people, including Mayor
Muriel Bowser of Washington, d C, have said, boy, Trump,
bringing more resources to bear in our nation's capital has
made a big difference. Violent crime has plummeted as there
has been more enforcement of the law in Washington, d C.
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And President Trump used Washington d C as a test case.
And he's now been looking around the country and saying, Okay,
where else can I go. Maybe it's going to be Baltimore,
Maybe it's going to be shot Chicago. Maybe it's going
to be Portland. And to their credit, several red state governors,
including Louisiana and my home state of Tennessee, Bill Lee,
the governor here, said hey, Memphis, crime's out of control.
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How about we get some federal resources there. And to
their credit, a lot of people in Memphis, even Democrats,
said yeah, we need help. Crime is out of control.
Role and this is a story of what crime can do.
It can destroy a community. When I was a kid
growing up, Nashville and Memphis had a huge rivalry. I've
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told this story, and if you were a Nashville kid
or you were a Memphis kid, you would kind of
argue back and forth about which city was the best.
If you're listening to us in Texas, this is like
what y'all do in Houston and Dallas. Sometimes cities inside
of states have rivalries over which one is better. Florida goodness,
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Tampa always feels disrespected compared to Miami. Jacksonville feels disrespected
compared to everybody. This happens in many different states where
there are multiple different communities, Raleigh and Charlotte where you
kind of go back and forth about, hey, where's the
better place to live. Nobody argues that anymore because so
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many people have left Memphis because they don't feel safe
for their family, the neighborhood that I live in right now.
I have a bunch of friends born and raised in Memphis.
They got out of Memphis and just said, I've got
a family, it's not safe there. I've told the story
about going out to buy a cell phone charger because
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I forgot mine, and the front desk clerk saying, be careful,
I'm a grown man and it's eight o'clock at night
and she's worried for me about going to a gas station.
Shouldn't happen? And Steven Miller been on this program a lot,
longtime friend of the show. Stephen Miller went down to
Memphis and he addressed the community of Memphis and all
(06:40):
of the law enforcement officers there, and he said, Hey,
we're going to make everyone in this city feel safe.
Cut eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Listen, we are not going to live in an environment
anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal,
where there is a neighborhood that belongs to a gang,
where there is any physical space anywhere that belongs to
anyone other than the law abiding citizens and families of Memphis.
The idea that there is a square inch of block
in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable.
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This is Memphis, this is the United States of America.
And all that building is done, it's over, it's finished.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I love this. I love this. Why have we grown
used to the idea that we just accept violence? Why?
One of the things I love about Trump is he
has a builder mentality, and he looks at things that
are screwed up and he thinks, why don't we just
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fix this. One of the things that frustrates me about
politicians is tons of them don't really want to do anything.
They like the power, They like the fact that they
get their black car escalades or suburbans to drive them
all over the place. They like the they can get
reservations in restaurants, that they can pick up the phone
and get on the phone with people in industry and
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commerce in America. But they don't actually want to change anything.
Trump has a builder mentality because he looks at things
that why would we allow this to happen? Why wouldn't
we try to fix this? And the example of Washington,
DC and Memphis is an incredible one. This should be
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happening everywhere. Why do we accept twenty thousand murders a
year in the United States? Why don't we just say, Okay,
that's going to happen. We could fix it. There is
a solution. We do not have to tolerate murder. We
do not have to allow toxic empathy to keep our
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prisons from being full. And if you wonder what the
impact is of not putting violent criminals behind bars, their
stories in every community, every one of y'all out there,
no matter what city or state you are in, you
can point to a story like the one I'm just
about to play. This is hard, but I think you
need to hear it. This is Stephen Federico. You may
(09:13):
have heard his story. He was the dad of a
twenty two year old girl who was brutally murdered by
a guy who had been arrested. I believe the number
is thirty nine times she begged for her life, college
girl visiting her girlfriends. I believe this is from South Carolina.
(09:37):
Team correct me if I'm wrong. I'm gonna make sure
I get this right in fact before we play it.
This guy who killed her had been arrested. You're gonna
hear it from the dad thirty nine times. Twenty five
of those times he was arrested for a felony. Logan Federico.
(09:57):
That is the daughter here. The twenty two year old
was visiting friends at the University of South Carolina on
May third when this guy broke in and shot her
to death, stole her credit cards, and went on a
shopping spree. Thirty nine previous arrest twenty five felonies. Imagine
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if this happened to your daughter, I bet you would
sound something like this.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Think about your child coming home from the night out
with her friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody
come in the room and wake them and drag her
out of bed, naked, forced on her knees with her
hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for
(10:49):
her hero. Her father me that couldn't be there. She
was five foot three, she weighed one hundred and fifteen pounds.
Bang dead gone. Why because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was
(11:10):
arrested thirty nine damn times, twenty five felonies, was on
the street. He should have been in jail for over
one hundred and forty years for all the crimes he committed.
You know how much time he's spent in prison, a
little over six hundred days in ten years.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
He's only thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Her name's Logan.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Federico, not Irena, and you will not forget her. I
promise you. You will be sick and tired of my face
and my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight
until my last breath for my daughter. You woke up
a beast, and you pissed off the wrong daddy.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I mean, it is horrid to hear that. For dads
and moms out there. What are we doing? Thirty nine arrests,
twenty five felonies, and this twenty two year old girl
you just heard it, five foot three, one hundred and
fifteen pounds, visits friends at the University of South Carolina
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and she's dead. Can you imagine getting that call if
you're the mom or the dad you just heard from
the dad? Can you imagine if that was your son,
your daughter away at college, just visiting friends for a
night out, and a monster who's been arrested thirty nine times,
twenty five of them for felonies, never spent hardly any time,
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as you heard in prison, over the last decade, kills
her in cold blood and then goes on a shopping spree.
What are we doing? What are we doing that we
are constantly allowing this to happen. And again, every single
one of you, in every single state, there is a
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story just like Logan Federico, twenty two year old girl,
completely innocent, never done anything to anybody, murdered in cold
blood because we didn't take her killer off the streets
and put his ass behind bars. I give credit to
her dad for speaking out. I can't imagine how angry
you would be. The grief has to be unimaginable, but
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then it has to turn into anger, because it's not
just some random tragedy. That's when you're filled with grief.
Your kids driving, something awful happens, They turn off the road,
next thing you know, they've died in a car accident.
That's grief. That's awful. This is something much worse than
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That's something much worse, and I think illustrative of a
profound sickness that we've allowed to take over the country.
We care way more about making sure that criminals aren't
held responsible for their jobs than we do protecting the
innocent people. Of this country and it has to end.
And I see it directly tied in with what Stephen
Miller just said in Memphis. I see it with what
President Trump is doing in Washington, d C. Violent crime
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being tolerated is a choice, and we should not make
the choice to tolerate it. We should end it. And
the way we end it is by putting the people
that are actually violent criminals in prison for the rest
of their life and throwing away the keys. I don't
know what the number should be, but it's sure as
hell ain't twenty five felony arrest. That guy should have
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never been out on the streets to take this guy's
daughter should never been able to happen. It's a failure.
It's profound. We had an honest media all of these stories.
Everyone involved in these cases would end up losing their jobs.
You shouldn't be able to be a da if this happens.
You should be able to be a judge. If this happens,
your jobs too. There should be consequences for you. This
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young girl and so many others like her are dying
in vain right now because we have incompetent people who
should be trying to protect the innocent and are not.
And I think, like many of you, I'm just completely
fed up with it. But I think we need to
share these stories. And so I give credit to Stephen
Federico for speaking out so passionately there and striking so
many of you as he did in the process, hopefully
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striking many of you and waking up a lot of
people out there that are failing the young people of
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Welcome back in Claytravis buck Sexton Show. We'll take your
calls and your talkbacks close out the final half hour.
But let's get one really quick in here. Tom and Memphis.
We were just talking about things in your community. Fire away.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
I've lived in Memphis most of my life, and over
the last ten years I've had probably well three close
friends murdered in Memphis, just different situations, just crazy things happening,
and you don't think it's going to happen to you.
But two months ago, I guess about two months ago,
there was an old miss player that was killed. I'm
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going to shootout in mass shooting in Memphis. I don't
know if you heard that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It was a real clat Oh yeah, yeah for sure, and.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
It actually yep, that happened in my front yard.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
I live in a.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Neighborhood outside of Memphis, in a very nice community, never
had any problems. A pool party gets put out on
the internet and one hundred and fifty people show up.
And I come home with my wife from my kid's house,
and I mean, we're in the living room and all
of a sudden, lamps start flying off, bullets come home.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Hold on, stick stick with me. We got to go
to a break stick with him. I want to hear
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Sexton show reactions rolling in from a variety of different
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angles on all types of topics. This is an important one.
Dave has written in your comments on Jesse Kelly hit
me the wrong way. You disrespected millions of bald men.
Apologies are in order. There are other choices to listen
to than you. Well. Look, I want to be clear.
(19:25):
I'm sorry that Dave, you and Jesse Kelly are both bald.
I wish that you had hair. If you did, you
would probably look way better, But unfortunately you are bald.
So I apologize to your hair follicles for no longer
wanting to stay on top of your head. And I
hope you will accept this apology with the deepest sincerity
(19:48):
with which it was intended. I'm sorry, Dave, God bless
your dearly departed hair. Just want to know, just want
you to know that. You know, there are plenty of
bald men out there that look fabulous. Michael Jordan, that's
the end of the list. But you know, mister Clean,
I mean he was look, he was like every woman's dream.
(20:10):
Other than being bald, he would clean. Other than being bald,
everyonoeman loved him. Maybe you're tall like Jesse at least.
All right, we've got a lot of different people like
I said, that want to way in. And now from
that we go back to the very serious call that
we were just having with Tom in Memphis, who actually
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was telling us about the crime that he's experienced. And Tom,
before you get back into your story about this old
Miss situation, what I hear from so many people, and
I don't think this is just a Memphis story, but
in particular in Memphis, but I think many of you
out there, in the different communities in which you live,
have experienced this. You said your neighborhood you felt safe.
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What I hear from people who have eventually left Memphis
is it got to the point where no neighborhood felt safe,
where anything could happen. And you're saying this old Miss
football player, he died on your front lawn.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Well, he was shot at my front lawn and down
the street four others were shot, and two bullets came
in knocked the lamps off the you know, the table
behind my couch where I was sitting. I missed bullets
by literally two or three feet. My wife and I
just walked down that hallway where the bullets came through.
And yes, I live in a very nice neighborhood. The
problem is is that you don't care. And I've lived
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in Memphis almost my entire life. I went to the
University of Tennessee. But I've had family. I have three
kids that are grown, live in Memphis, have jobs and careers,
and I'm not moving because my family's here. But you
do not hear the people that need to stand up,
the community leader standing up and saying you know what
is going on in the black community. When I look
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out my dining room window and I look out and
it looks like there is a war outside with people
running in front of my dining room window with AK
forty sevens and AR fifteens and screaming and yelling at
each other, shooting bullets in a neighborhood. These are five six,
one hundred thousand up to a million dollar you know
homes in this neighborhood. We lived there for twenty years,
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never had any problems. But where are the leaders in
the Memphis area that that are talking to the kids
and these young people about You don't go to a
pool party with AK forty sevens and AR fifteen's and
expect that that is going to solve something. I mean
we I mean Trump can send the National Guard, and
yes it might cool things off for a bit, but
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where are those in the black community that are You
don't hear it. You do not hear them going into
the schools talking to these kids about how to solve issues.
And I think that it's it's you know, single family homes,
and it's not poverty, it's morals. It's somebody coming in.
I mean I went to a private school. I got
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beat in high school with you know solved and half
baseball bats, and I never did the thing, you know,
for just not bringing my pe uniform. I mean, you
can't touch these kids when they come to school and
they're disrespectful to the teachers or to themselves nobody. I mean,
if I was part of the black community, I'm a
white guy, but if I was part of that community.
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I would be out talking to these kids and these
youngsters and saying, this is how we need to solve issues,
not bring guns.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Has got how much worse? Sorry to cut you off,
but you've lived to Memphis your whole life, basically? How
much worse has it gotten? Do you remember a point
in time? I mean you're talking about a neighborhood where
traditionally you said you felt safe. Do you remember a
point in time because this is what I've heard people
say where I mean, there's bullets legitimately coming into your home.
You're fortunate, We're glad you and your wife are safe,
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but there is was there a point in time? Has
it accelerated since twenty twenty? When did you look around
and say, boy, this is not even the Memphis that
I grew.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Up in, probably about ten years ago. And like I said,
in the last ten years, I've had three three friends
that if you lost a wife, a husband, or a
child for sense, I mean, those are personal friends that
I know that I grew up with, kids, went to
my school at houses that I had friends with. You
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know that are friends with for you know, Saint Saint Jude,
you know event and a guy gets murdered for wallet.
I mean, you know so I think in the longs.
But the problem is is you don't have the community
leaders talking in the schools, out in the public. Where
are they when this when this happened, you know, in
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my front yard? Where where was the conversation? Where are
people saying this is not how you solve issues. There's
nobody is talking in the black community to their own people.
And I have neighbors that were horrified, that are black
in my community, you know, in my neighborhood, and they're
saying the same thing. Where is where are our leaders
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talking to these young kids in the schools that don't
have fathers or you know, they don't have fathers and
the home to help these kids understand how to you know,
negotiate life without violence? Because it's an epidemic.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Thank you for the call. It is an epidemic. And
again it's a willingness to accept a certain level of violence.
That's where the country is right, That's what democrats are
basically arguing, Well, we have to be willing to accept
twenty thousand plus murders a year should occur because we're
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not willing to do what's necessary to actually crack down
and limit violent crime in a significant way. Jonathan, in Memphis,
you own a roofing company. What is it like? What
do you see?
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Hey, Clay, good to talk to you again. So, yeah,
I do own a roofing company, and I'm down and
probably some of the worst areas of Memphis every single day.
We're talking Frasier, Orange Mound, Hickory Hill, And not only
is the crime bad, but the living conditions are just atrocious.
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I go to houses with no running water, you know,
no central air, and I can't tell you how many
times I've been on a roof and pulled out ar
fifteen bullets. I pulled them out of churches, residential houses,
and on the siding as well. There was actually this
one house where it was brick and somebody fired the
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night before and behind that brick is a two year
old girl in a crib. So you know it's there
are so many great people down here, and they do
talk about when I'm with them, I do talk about
They do talk about the crime. But like the Gentleman
was saying before, nobody's offering solutions, I guess, or speaking
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out about it.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I really feel like, do you feel like the surge
is going to have an impact. Are you optimistic that
what is being done by the federal government, state National
Guard resources, all of that being mobilized, are you optimistic
it's going to make a difference.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Well, uh, we did have the We had one hundred
state troopers coming here on two forty. So if you
ever driven on to forty, that is pretty crazy. I
seem like ten cars pulled under. But in respects to
the National Guard, yes, I'm glad that they're coming. The
only thing I'm worried about is what do we do
when they leave? You know, the guys will, you know,
(27:33):
try to control the prime and I'm not sure exactly
what all they would be doing, but but yeah, I
mean this, you'd be shocked if you went to some
of these areas that I go to. And I'm not
trying to say I'm some kind of saint, but a
lot of roofers won't go there, but I'll go there
because there's business to be had and people still need
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a root. And another sad thing is people have houses
that are dilapidated but they don't have the money to
fix them, and that's just heartbreaking. I try to help
people out as much as I can, but I just
see it getting worse and worse. And the guy said
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before ten years, I'd say in the last five years,
it's really really gotten bad. And over there at Bartlett
they have bars on the windows and stores. Before COVID
they didn't have that. And I can't tell you how
many times somebody has told me to be safe. This
is like a daily thing. Yeah, you know, I'll leave
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the house, be safe, be safe, you know, And I'm like,
I'll try to be so Yeah. I mean, it's just
a really sad situation. And I hope the guard can
do something, but I'm just thinking, what do they do
after they leave?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, no, thank you for the calls. Thank you guys
for the calls. Look, we have at times the number
one radio show in Memphis, and so I appreciate from
hearing from all of you in Memphis. Heck, we have
number one radio show in Louisville. We have number one
radio show in Birmingham. We have the number one radio
show in a lot of cities high up in Saint Louis,
Kansas City, a lot of the cities that have the
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highest rates of violent crime. A lot of you are
listening every day and again, I think there's a lot
of demand from large segments of the population to say, hey,
let's be honest, how many people do you think they
would need to arrest in order for Memphis to be
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seventy five percent safer? Three thousand people, two thousand, fifteen hundred.
I mean, I don't know the exact number, but we're
talking about a city with over a million people in
this surrounding community. Maybe it's five thousand. My point is
it's a small pinprick of the actual city that is
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being taken over by that criminal element. And so the
solution here is not revolutionary. It's go to the neighborhoods
with the highest rates of violent crime and get the
bad guys and put them behind bars, and keep doing it,
and keep doing it until, as Stephen Miller said, you
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can feel comfortable walking down the street in these communities.
And maybe that means you have to lock up five
thousand people, And I get, hey, that's tough, but you
know what, why would you let a few thousand bad
apples spoil what should otherwise be a splendid city tolerating criminals?
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It should be unacceptable, And again, this is what being
concerned about. Oh, we're being too mean to criminals, leads
to I mean that guy, I mean so many of
you are reacting to Stephen Federico the dad. Now that
was a story out of South Carolina, but you just
heard a story out of Memphis. And we could open
up phone lines and I could say, Hey, Birmingham, tell
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me what you see. Hey, Louisville, tell me what you see. Hey, Milwaukee,
tell me what you see. Hey, Roley, tell me what
you see. Sacramento, San Diego, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Houston, Nashville,
where I am, every single one of you. If we
open up phone lines could say hey, I want you
to tell me the worst violent act that you've seen
or has happened to one of your friends or family,
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and all of you would have stories. Why Why are
we tolerating this? We shouldn't. Time for tolerance is over.
Let's go after violent crime. I give credit to President Trump,
Stephen Miller, everybody involved in trying to make this end.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, Welcome into
all of you for the close of the program, and
we have got a ton of talkbacks. Let's see how
many of these we can get through. We start off
the show talking about how Gallup had a poll out
saying that there was a record low of approval for
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overall overall media and there were a ton of reactions.
Let me see how many of these I can hit
Ken in New York City w R Radio fire Away.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Hey, Clay, I like Breadbear on Fox News, only none
of the others. Also, I'd like to know your take
on who Arkansas will hire for a new head coach.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I didn't expect Ken from New York City to sound
like a Southerner. And then also want to know who
Arkansas is going to hire. Arkansas fans have been struggling
for a long time. I mean, this is one of
the most cursed fan bases out there. I think they
want to give Bobby Petrino a chance, he's the interim coach,
and then I think they will either go younger, in
(33:49):
which case there are a lot of guys out there,
or I think they may roll the dice and give
believe it or not. John Gruden a Chance formerly from
the NFL. Tim from eau Claire was con j WM
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Speaker 8 (34:05):
A good place for your charity to donate for your book?
My suggestion would be the Marines Toys for Todd's. The
late Rush Limbaugh loved it because ninety percent of all
donations went directly to the kids.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I love that idea. We've got a lot of suggestions
coming in about places. Again, if you could go buy
the book. I am donating all the proceeds. I want
the arguments out there. The books called balls one month
from publication I was talking about earlier. I'm in a
spot now where I feel very fortunate, do not have
to worry about paying my mortgage, do not have to
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worry about feeding my family, and so I just want
the arguments out there, and I want to use the
proceeds from the book to make things a little bit better.
That's my goal. John and Cogo Radio, big audience out
in San Diego. He's got a good idea. KK.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
I believe that if you're going to be doing a
charity and toward the youth, how about turning point.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I think that would be a fantastic charity to consider.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Thank you. It's a great it's a great idea too.
In honor of Charlie Kirk. I mean, you guys have
got so many absolutely phenomenal suggestions. LLL. Tom in New
York also listening on w O R.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I would give the money from the book to a
veterans foundation. Absolutely help homeless veterans. And if you're gonna
split it up a little bit, you tell a little
to turning Point USI, and then you talk amongst your
wife and your children and see what they think. That's
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my advice to you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It's good advice. MM podcast listeners, Stan fire Away.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
Clay, I trust everyone in the Premier network. I'm a
truck driver in Texas. I listened even early morning to
Michael Dale Jarno, then Glenn Beck, You Clay and Buck,
Sean Hannity and Michael Barry. Kelly is questionable with those
seventy five dollars shots I'm in.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I can't trust a man who will order seventy five
dollars quila shots. That's what all this started. Jesse Kelly
said he trust himself the most in media and me
the least. And I just said, I think it's important
for you guys to remember that he ordered seventy five
dollars quila shots and he's bald, and that bald guy,
Dave Dave is really fired up. I wish you had hair, Dave,
I really do. I weep for your follicles. Leaving you
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gets me in the art, my soul every single day.
When we come back tomorrow, we'll have some fun as
we roll through the Friday edition of the program and
all seriousness. Love hanging out with you guys every day.
If you can help support the book, I'm going to
do some good work with the proceeds from the book.
But the argument's getting out there. Balls how Trump, young
men and sports fans saved America. It's about the twenty
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twenty four election and so many more elections to come.
Love you guys, I'll see you tomorrow.
Welcome back. In our number three Thursday edition of the program,
Buck is still in Taiwan. He will be back on Monday.
By the way, I'll be out so he'll lose your
minds Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I'll be back on Thursday with Buck.
I'm gonna be down in Florida. Can't wait. In the
(00:22):
Panhandle area of Florida, where we spend a lot of time.
We've got a couple of boys having their fall breaks
different times. Of course, that always ends up happening. It
feels like I'm gonna be honest with you guys. My
boys are getting older, and I'm trying to make sure
that I am spending as much time with them as
(00:43):
I can. My oldest is going off to college next year,
and then they're gonna be headed out sooner rather than later,
so I'm trying to make sure that we pack as
much as we can before they are off to college.
I hope that they're going to want to come back
and hang out with mom and dad after they're in college,
(01:05):
but I don't know. I think they're probably going to
recognize that things are pretty expensive, and mom and dad
taking them places and being able to do things with
them is a goodbye when they're still in their twenties
before they get married and have families of their own.
But I don't know. I'm not risking it. So we're
trying to do as much as we can with them.
So if I'm out, it's almost one hundred percent of
the time, unless it's a charity event, probably going to
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be something affiliated with my family because the boys are
getting older. So just fyi. But Buck is in Taiwan
right now. He's set down with the Taiwan President. He
will have some of that for you on Monday and
we'll be back together on Thursday. But I'll be out Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and be out a little bit during the fall
with my family. With the boys having different holidays, they
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all get fall breaks. Now I don't remember getting fall break.
It's actually kind of an awesome time to go anywhere
in October because it's typically not super hot yet or
not still super hot, and it's not as crowd it
everywhere else, so it should be a lot of fun.
So we are on top of that. But just fyi,
I wanted to dive into a couple of different stories.
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(02:32):
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we love the growth that we are seeing on YouTube
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(03:16):
spends his time. Now, if my kids can only pick
one media source, they would pick YouTube, and so we
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of everybody. We're on TikTok, We're on Instagram. We are
where the audience is, whether that's on your radio dial
or on YouTube. And just watch for us to be
increasingly more and more places. I live in Nashville. You
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guys know that the deadliest city in America, according to
some per capita stats, is Memphis, Tennessee. And President Trump
in Washington, d C looked around at the violent crime
rate and he said something that should be uncontroversial. This
is unacceptable, and he said, we're going to fix it.
And even Washington d C is a ninety five percent
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Democrats city, a lot of good, reasonable people, including Mayor
Muriel Bowser of Washington, d C, have said, boy, Trump,
bringing more resources to bear in our nation's capital has
made a big difference. Violent crime has plummeted as there
has been more enforcement of the law in Washington, d C.
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And President Trump used Washington d C as a test case.
And he's now been looking around the country and saying, Okay,
where else can I go. Maybe it's going to be Baltimore,
Maybe it's going to be shot Chicago. Maybe it's going
to be Portland. And to their credit, several red state governors,
including Louisiana and my home state of Tennessee, Bill Lee,
the governor here, said hey, Memphis, crime's out of control.
(04:47):
How about we get some federal resources there. And to
their credit, a lot of people in Memphis, even Democrats,
said yeah, we need help. Crime is out of control.
Role and this is a story of what crime can do.
It can destroy a community. When I was a kid
growing up, Nashville and Memphis had a huge rivalry. I've
(05:11):
told this story, and if you were a Nashville kid
or you were a Memphis kid, you would kind of
argue back and forth about which city was the best.
If you're listening to us in Texas, this is like
what y'all do in Houston and Dallas. Sometimes cities inside
of states have rivalries over which one is better. Florida goodness,
(05:32):
Tampa always feels disrespected compared to Miami. Jacksonville feels disrespected
compared to everybody. This happens in many different states where
there are multiple different communities, Raleigh and Charlotte where you
kind of go back and forth about, hey, where's the
better place to live. Nobody argues that anymore because so
(05:56):
many people have left Memphis because they don't feel safe
for their family, the neighborhood that I live in right now.
I have a bunch of friends born and raised in Memphis.
They got out of Memphis and just said, I've got
a family, it's not safe there. I've told the story
about going out to buy a cell phone charger because
(06:16):
I forgot mine, and the front desk clerk saying, be careful,
I'm a grown man and it's eight o'clock at night
and she's worried for me about going to a gas station.
Shouldn't happen? And Steven Miller been on this program a lot,
longtime friend of the show. Stephen Miller went down to
Memphis and he addressed the community of Memphis and all
(06:40):
of the law enforcement officers there, and he said, Hey,
we're going to make everyone in this city feel safe.
Cut eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Listen, we are not going to live in an environment
anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal,
where there is a neighborhood that belongs to a gang,
where there is any physical space anywhere that belongs to
anyone other than the law abiding citizens and families of Memphis.
The idea that there is a square inch of block
in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable.
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This is Memphis, this is the United States of America.
And all that building is done, it's over, it's finished.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I love this. I love this. Why have we grown
used to the idea that we just accept violence? Why?
One of the things I love about Trump is he
has a builder mentality, and he looks at things that
are screwed up and he thinks, why don't we just
(07:44):
fix this. One of the things that frustrates me about
politicians is tons of them don't really want to do anything.
They like the power, They like the fact that they
get their black car escalades or suburbans to drive them
all over the place. They like the they can get
reservations in restaurants, that they can pick up the phone
and get on the phone with people in industry and
(08:07):
commerce in America. But they don't actually want to change anything.
Trump has a builder mentality because he looks at things
that why would we allow this to happen? Why wouldn't
we try to fix this? And the example of Washington,
DC and Memphis is an incredible one. This should be
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happening everywhere. Why do we accept twenty thousand murders a
year in the United States? Why don't we just say, Okay,
that's going to happen. We could fix it. There is
a solution. We do not have to tolerate murder. We
do not have to allow toxic empathy to keep our
(08:50):
prisons from being full. And if you wonder what the
impact is of not putting violent criminals behind bars, their
stories in every community, every one of y'all out there,
no matter what city or state you are in, you
can point to a story like the one I'm just
about to play. This is hard, but I think you
need to hear it. This is Stephen Federico. You may
(09:13):
have heard his story. He was the dad of a
twenty two year old girl who was brutally murdered by
a guy who had been arrested. I believe the number
is thirty nine times she begged for her life, college
girl visiting her girlfriends. I believe this is from South Carolina.
(09:37):
Team correct me if I'm wrong. I'm gonna make sure
I get this right in fact before we play it.
This guy who killed her had been arrested. You're gonna
hear it from the dad thirty nine times. Twenty five
of those times he was arrested for a felony. Logan Federico.
(09:57):
That is the daughter here. The twenty two year old
was visiting friends at the University of South Carolina on
May third when this guy broke in and shot her
to death, stole her credit cards, and went on a
shopping spree. Thirty nine previous arrest twenty five felonies. Imagine
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if this happened to your daughter, I bet you would
sound something like this.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Think about your child coming home from the night out
with her friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody
come in the room and wake them and drag her
out of bed, naked, forced on her knees with her
hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for
(10:49):
her hero. Her father me that couldn't be there. She
was five foot three, she weighed one hundred and fifteen pounds.
Bang dead gone. Why because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was
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arrested thirty nine damn times, twenty five felonies, was on
the street. He should have been in jail for over
one hundred and forty years for all the crimes he committed.
You know how much time he's spent in prison, a
little over six hundred days in ten years.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
He's only thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Her name's Logan.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Federico, not Irena, and you will not forget her. I
promise you. You will be sick and tired of my face
and my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight
until my last breath for my daughter. You woke up
a beast, and you pissed off the wrong daddy.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I mean, it is horrid to hear that. For dads
and moms out there. What are we doing? Thirty nine arrests,
twenty five felonies, and this twenty two year old girl
you just heard it, five foot three, one hundred and
fifteen pounds, visits friends at the University of South Carolina
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and she's dead. Can you imagine getting that call if
you're the mom or the dad you just heard from
the dad? Can you imagine if that was your son,
your daughter away at college, just visiting friends for a
night out, and a monster who's been arrested thirty nine times,
twenty five of them for felonies, never spent hardly any time,
(12:43):
as you heard in prison, over the last decade, kills
her in cold blood and then goes on a shopping spree.
What are we doing? What are we doing that we
are constantly allowing this to happen. And again, every single
one of you, in every single state, there is a
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story just like Logan Federico, twenty two year old girl,
completely innocent, never done anything to anybody, murdered in cold
blood because we didn't take her killer off the streets
and put his ass behind bars. I give credit to
her dad for speaking out. I can't imagine how angry
you would be. The grief has to be unimaginable, but
(13:31):
then it has to turn into anger, because it's not
just some random tragedy. That's when you're filled with grief.
Your kids driving, something awful happens, They turn off the road,
next thing you know, they've died in a car accident.
That's grief. That's awful. This is something much worse than
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That's something much worse, and I think illustrative of a
profound sickness that we've allowed to take over the country.
We care way more about making sure that criminals aren't
held responsible for their jobs than we do protecting the
innocent people. Of this country and it has to end.
And I see it directly tied in with what Stephen
Miller just said in Memphis. I see it with what
President Trump is doing in Washington, d C. Violent crime
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being tolerated is a choice, and we should not make
the choice to tolerate it. We should end it. And
the way we end it is by putting the people
that are actually violent criminals in prison for the rest
of their life and throwing away the keys. I don't
know what the number should be, but it's sure as
hell ain't twenty five felony arrest. That guy should have
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never been out on the streets to take this guy's
daughter should never been able to happen. It's a failure.
It's profound. We had an honest media all of these stories.
Everyone involved in these cases would end up losing their jobs.
You shouldn't be able to be a da if this happens.
You should be able to be a judge. If this happens,
your jobs too. There should be consequences for you. This
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young girl and so many others like her are dying
in vain right now because we have incompetent people who
should be trying to protect the innocent and are not.
And I think, like many of you, I'm just completely
fed up with it. But I think we need to
share these stories. And so I give credit to Stephen
Federico for speaking out so passionately there and striking so
many of you as he did in the process, hopefully
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Welcome back in Claytravis buck Sexton Show. We'll take your
calls and your talkbacks close out the final half hour.
But let's get one really quick in here. Tom and Memphis.
We were just talking about things in your community. Fire away.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
I've lived in Memphis most of my life, and over
the last ten years I've had probably well three close
friends murdered in Memphis, just different situations, just crazy things happening,
and you don't think it's going to happen to you.
But two months ago, I guess about two months ago,
there was an old miss player that was killed. I'm
(17:25):
going to shootout in mass shooting in Memphis. I don't
know if you heard that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It was a real clat Oh yeah, yeah for sure, and.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
It actually yep, that happened in my front yard.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
I live in a.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Neighborhood outside of Memphis, in a very nice community, never
had any problems. A pool party gets put out on
the internet and one hundred and fifty people show up.
And I come home with my wife from my kid's house,
and I mean, we're in the living room and all
of a sudden, lamps start flying off, bullets come home.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Hold on, stick stick with me. We got to go
to a break stick with him. I want to hear
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Sexton show reactions rolling in from a variety of different
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angles on all types of topics. This is an important one.
Dave has written in your comments on Jesse Kelly hit
me the wrong way. You disrespected millions of bald men.
Apologies are in order. There are other choices to listen
to than you. Well. Look, I want to be clear.
(19:25):
I'm sorry that Dave, you and Jesse Kelly are both bald.
I wish that you had hair. If you did, you
would probably look way better, But unfortunately you are bald.
So I apologize to your hair follicles for no longer
wanting to stay on top of your head. And I
hope you will accept this apology with the deepest sincerity
(19:48):
with which it was intended. I'm sorry, Dave, God bless
your dearly departed hair. Just want to know, just want
you to know that. You know, there are plenty of
bald men out there that look fabulous. Michael Jordan, that's
the end of the list. But you know, mister Clean,
I mean he was look, he was like every woman's dream.
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Other than being bald, he would clean. Other than being bald,
everyonoeman loved him. Maybe you're tall like Jesse at least.
All right, we've got a lot of different people like
I said, that want to way in. And now from
that we go back to the very serious call that
we were just having with Tom in Memphis, who actually
(20:31):
was telling us about the crime that he's experienced. And Tom,
before you get back into your story about this old
Miss situation, what I hear from so many people, and
I don't think this is just a Memphis story, but
in particular in Memphis, but I think many of you
out there, in the different communities in which you live,
have experienced this. You said your neighborhood you felt safe.
(20:51):
What I hear from people who have eventually left Memphis
is it got to the point where no neighborhood felt safe,
where anything could happen. And you're saying this old Miss
football player, he died on your front lawn.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Well, he was shot at my front lawn and down
the street four others were shot, and two bullets came
in knocked the lamps off the you know, the table
behind my couch where I was sitting. I missed bullets
by literally two or three feet. My wife and I
just walked down that hallway where the bullets came through.
And yes, I live in a very nice neighborhood. The
problem is is that you don't care. And I've lived
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in Memphis almost my entire life. I went to the
University of Tennessee. But I've had family. I have three
kids that are grown, live in Memphis, have jobs and careers,
and I'm not moving because my family's here. But you
do not hear the people that need to stand up,
the community leader standing up and saying you know what
is going on in the black community. When I look
(21:45):
out my dining room window and I look out and
it looks like there is a war outside with people
running in front of my dining room window with AK
forty sevens and AR fifteens and screaming and yelling at
each other, shooting bullets in a neighborhood. These are five six,
one hundred thousand up to a million dollar you know
homes in this neighborhood. We lived there for twenty years,
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never had any problems. But where are the leaders in
the Memphis area that that are talking to the kids
and these young people about You don't go to a
pool party with AK forty sevens and AR fifteen's and
expect that that is going to solve something. I mean
we I mean Trump can send the National Guard, and
yes it might cool things off for a bit, but
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where are those in the black community that are You
don't hear it. You do not hear them going into
the schools talking to these kids about how to solve issues.
And I think that it's it's you know, single family homes,
and it's not poverty, it's morals. It's somebody coming in.
I mean I went to a private school. I got
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beat in high school with you know solved and half
baseball bats, and I never did the thing, you know,
for just not bringing my pe uniform. I mean, you
can't touch these kids when they come to school and
they're disrespectful to the teachers or to themselves nobody. I mean,
if I was part of the black community, I'm a
white guy, but if I was part of that community.
(23:12):
I would be out talking to these kids and these
youngsters and saying, this is how we need to solve issues,
not bring guns.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Has got how much worse? Sorry to cut you off,
but you've lived to Memphis your whole life, basically? How
much worse has it gotten? Do you remember a point
in time? I mean you're talking about a neighborhood where
traditionally you said you felt safe. Do you remember a
point in time because this is what I've heard people
say where I mean, there's bullets legitimately coming into your home.
You're fortunate, We're glad you and your wife are safe,
(23:42):
but there is was there a point in time? Has
it accelerated since twenty twenty? When did you look around
and say, boy, this is not even the Memphis that
I grew.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Up in, probably about ten years ago. And like I said,
in the last ten years, I've had three three friends
that if you lost a wife, a husband, or a
child for sense, I mean, those are personal friends that
I know that I grew up with, kids, went to
my school at houses that I had friends with. You
(24:12):
know that are friends with for you know, Saint Saint Jude,
you know event and a guy gets murdered for wallet.
I mean, you know so I think in the longs.
But the problem is is you don't have the community
leaders talking in the schools, out in the public. Where
are they when this when this happened, you know, in
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my front yard? Where where was the conversation? Where are
people saying this is not how you solve issues. There's
nobody is talking in the black community to their own people.
And I have neighbors that were horrified, that are black
in my community, you know, in my neighborhood, and they're
saying the same thing. Where is where are our leaders
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talking to these young kids in the schools that don't
have fathers or you know, they don't have fathers and
the home to help these kids understand how to you know,
negotiate life without violence? Because it's an epidemic.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Thank you for the call. It is an epidemic. And
again it's a willingness to accept a certain level of violence.
That's where the country is right, That's what democrats are
basically arguing, Well, we have to be willing to accept
twenty thousand plus murders a year should occur because we're
(25:30):
not willing to do what's necessary to actually crack down
and limit violent crime in a significant way. Jonathan, in Memphis,
you own a roofing company. What is it like? What
do you see?
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Hey, Clay, good to talk to you again. So, yeah,
I do own a roofing company, and I'm down and
probably some of the worst areas of Memphis every single day.
We're talking Frasier, Orange Mound, Hickory Hill, And not only
is the crime bad, but the living conditions are just atrocious.
(26:05):
I go to houses with no running water, you know,
no central air, and I can't tell you how many
times I've been on a roof and pulled out ar
fifteen bullets. I pulled them out of churches, residential houses,
and on the siding as well. There was actually this
one house where it was brick and somebody fired the
(26:30):
night before and behind that brick is a two year
old girl in a crib. So you know it's there
are so many great people down here, and they do
talk about when I'm with them, I do talk about
They do talk about the crime. But like the Gentleman
was saying before, nobody's offering solutions, I guess, or speaking
(26:52):
out about it.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I really feel like, do you feel like the surge
is going to have an impact. Are you optimistic that
what is being done by the federal government, state National
Guard resources, all of that being mobilized, are you optimistic
it's going to make a difference.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Well, uh, we did have the We had one hundred
state troopers coming here on two forty. So if you
ever driven on to forty, that is pretty crazy. I
seem like ten cars pulled under. But in respects to
the National Guard, yes, I'm glad that they're coming. The
only thing I'm worried about is what do we do
when they leave? You know, the guys will, you know,
(27:33):
try to control the prime and I'm not sure exactly
what all they would be doing, but but yeah, I
mean this, you'd be shocked if you went to some
of these areas that I go to. And I'm not
trying to say I'm some kind of saint, but a
lot of roofers won't go there, but I'll go there
because there's business to be had and people still need
(27:54):
a root. And another sad thing is people have houses
that are dilapidated but they don't have the money to
fix them, and that's just heartbreaking. I try to help
people out as much as I can, but I just
see it getting worse and worse. And the guy said
(28:15):
before ten years, I'd say in the last five years,
it's really really gotten bad. And over there at Bartlett
they have bars on the windows and stores. Before COVID
they didn't have that. And I can't tell you how
many times somebody has told me to be safe. This
is like a daily thing. Yeah, you know, I'll leave
(28:37):
the house, be safe, be safe, you know, And I'm like,
I'll try to be so Yeah. I mean, it's just
a really sad situation. And I hope the guard can
do something, but I'm just thinking, what do they do
after they leave?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, no, thank you for the calls. Thank you guys
for the calls. Look, we have at times the number
one radio show in Memphis, and so I appreciate from
hearing from all of you in Memphis. Heck, we have
number one radio show in Louisville. We have number one
radio show in Birmingham. We have the number one radio
show in a lot of cities high up in Saint Louis,
Kansas City, a lot of the cities that have the
(29:16):
highest rates of violent crime. A lot of you are
listening every day and again, I think there's a lot
of demand from large segments of the population to say, hey,
let's be honest, how many people do you think they
would need to arrest in order for Memphis to be
(29:37):
seventy five percent safer? Three thousand people, two thousand, fifteen hundred.
I mean, I don't know the exact number, but we're
talking about a city with over a million people in
this surrounding community. Maybe it's five thousand. My point is
it's a small pinprick of the actual city that is
(30:01):
being taken over by that criminal element. And so the
solution here is not revolutionary. It's go to the neighborhoods
with the highest rates of violent crime and get the
bad guys and put them behind bars, and keep doing it,
and keep doing it until, as Stephen Miller said, you
(30:21):
can feel comfortable walking down the street in these communities.
And maybe that means you have to lock up five
thousand people, And I get, hey, that's tough, but you
know what, why would you let a few thousand bad
apples spoil what should otherwise be a splendid city tolerating criminals?
(30:44):
It should be unacceptable, And again, this is what being
concerned about. Oh, we're being too mean to criminals, leads
to I mean that guy, I mean so many of
you are reacting to Stephen Federico the dad. Now that
was a story out of South Carolina, but you just
heard a story out of Memphis. And we could open
up phone lines and I could say, Hey, Birmingham, tell
(31:04):
me what you see. Hey, Louisville, tell me what you see. Hey, Milwaukee,
tell me what you see. Hey, Roley, tell me what
you see. Sacramento, San Diego, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Houston, Nashville,
where I am, every single one of you. If we
open up phone lines could say hey, I want you
to tell me the worst violent act that you've seen
or has happened to one of your friends or family,
(31:25):
and all of you would have stories. Why Why are
we tolerating this? We shouldn't. Time for tolerance is over.
Let's go after violent crime. I give credit to President Trump,
Stephen Miller, everybody involved in trying to make this end.
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Speaker 1 (32:45):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, Welcome into
all of you for the close of the program, and
we have got a ton of talkbacks. Let's see how
many of these we can get through. We start off
the show talking about how Gallup had a poll out
saying that there was a record low of approval for
(33:07):
overall overall media and there were a ton of reactions.
Let me see how many of these I can hit
Ken in New York City w R Radio fire Away.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Hey, Clay, I like Breadbear on Fox News, only none
of the others. Also, I'd like to know your take
on who Arkansas will hire for a new head coach.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I didn't expect Ken from New York City to sound
like a Southerner. And then also want to know who
Arkansas is going to hire. Arkansas fans have been struggling
for a long time. I mean, this is one of
the most cursed fan bases out there. I think they
want to give Bobby Petrino a chance, he's the interim coach,
and then I think they will either go younger, in
(33:49):
which case there are a lot of guys out there,
or I think they may roll the dice and give
believe it or not. John Gruden a Chance formerly from
the NFL. Tim from eau Claire was con j WM
e q JJ, which got.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
A good place for your charity to donate for your book?
My suggestion would be the Marines Toys for Todd's. The
late Rush Limbaugh loved it because ninety percent of all
donations went directly to the kids.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I love that idea. We've got a lot of suggestions
coming in about places. Again, if you could go buy
the book. I am donating all the proceeds. I want
the arguments out there. The books called balls one month
from publication I was talking about earlier. I'm in a
spot now where I feel very fortunate, do not have
to worry about paying my mortgage, do not have to
(34:38):
worry about feeding my family, and so I just want
the arguments out there, and I want to use the
proceeds from the book to make things a little bit better.
That's my goal. John and Cogo Radio, big audience out
in San Diego. He's got a good idea. KK.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
I believe that if you're going to be doing a
charity and toward the youth, how about turning point.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I think that would be a fantastic charity to consider.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Thank you. It's a great it's a great idea too.
In honor of Charlie Kirk. I mean, you guys have
got so many absolutely phenomenal suggestions. LLL. Tom in New
York also listening on w O R.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I would give the money from the book to a
veterans foundation. Absolutely help homeless veterans. And if you're gonna
split it up a little bit, you tell a little
to turning Point USI, and then you talk amongst your
wife and your children and see what they think. That's
(35:38):
my advice to you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It's good advice. MM podcast listeners, Stan fire Away.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
Clay, I trust everyone in the Premier network. I'm a
truck driver in Texas. I listened even early morning to
Michael Dale Jarno, then Glenn Beck, You Clay and Buck,
Sean Hannity and Michael Barry. Kelly is questionable with those
seventy five dollars shots I'm in.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I can't trust a man who will order seventy five
dollars quila shots. That's what all this started. Jesse Kelly
said he trust himself the most in media and me
the least. And I just said, I think it's important
for you guys to remember that he ordered seventy five
dollars quila shots and he's bald, and that bald guy,
Dave Dave is really fired up. I wish you had hair, Dave,
I really do. I weep for your follicles. Leaving you
(36:27):
gets me in the art, my soul every single day.
When we come back tomorrow, we'll have some fun as
we roll through the Friday edition of the program and
all seriousness. Love hanging out with you guys every day.
If you can help support the book, I'm going to
do some good work with the proceeds from the book.
But the argument's getting out there. Balls how Trump, young
men and sports fans saved America. It's about the twenty
(36:48):
twenty four election and so many more elections to come.
Love you guys, I'll see you tomorrow.
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