December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show kicks off with a victory lap over Matt Van Epps’ nine-point win in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, marking the final election of 2025 and setting the stage for the 2026 midterms. Clay and Buck analyze key takeaways: Democrats dominated blue states while Republicans held strong in red states, but the looming question remains—how will GOP turnout look without Trump on the ballot? The hosts highlight Trump’s achievements on border security and crime reduction, citing record deportations and plummeting violent crime rates in cities like Memphis and Washington, D.C., while predicting that affordability and inflation will define the next election cycle.
The hour pivots to cultural and demographic trends, addressing fears that migration from blue states could “California” red states. Clay and Buck push back, citing data that COVID-era transplants to Florida, Texas, and Tennessee are making red states even redder, with Florida flipping from a Democrat registration advantage to a million-plus Republican lead. They mix in humor and generational slang, explaining terms like “Riz” and joking about “broccoli haircuts,” while engaging listeners on social platforms.
In a major geopolitical segment, the hosts dissect reports that President Trump has given Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro until Friday to step down, amid rumors of back-channel negotiations and heightened U.S. military presence in the Caribbean. They debate whether regime change could stabilize Venezuela and curb illegal immigration, drawing historical parallels to Operation Just Cause and Noriega’s ouster in Panama. Caller reactions add depth, with strong opinions on U.S. intervention and its potential impact on Latin America.
Hour 3 also features lively listener calls and VIP emails on topics ranging from urban liberal sprawl in places like Spokane to lifestyle debates over warm vs. cold climates. Clay shares personal anecdotes about skiing mishaps and why he prefers après-ski culture over hitting the slopes, while Buck critiques the unrealistic portrayal of Montana winters in the hit series Yellowstone. The conversation closes with lighthearted banter about man cards, raccoons raiding liquor stores, and defending Buck’s cozy habits.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Rejoice if you
are just joining us, First of all, what have you
been doing with the first last two hours of your life?
We have got a big win Tennessee seventh Congressional District.
Congratulations to Congressman elect Matt vn Epps. He has elected
been elected to represent my district here in Tennessee. He
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won by nine points, kicked the crazy Democrat.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
To the curb.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yes, turnout was down substantially, as it always is in
a special election, but people showed up to keep Democrats
from trying to steal this seat.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And now all.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Of the election results for twenty twenty five are in
the book, and we begin to turn the page to
twenty twenty six. And we have already been talking about
that with Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, who is with
us in our number two. So there are many different
lessons that can be learned potentially from twenty twenty five.
(01:04):
But Buck, now that we can kind of put a
bow on the twenty twenty five elections, I would say
the essential story is Democrats won in blue places and
Republicans won in red places. Now you can say, oh, well,
turnout was not great for Republicans, yes, but in general,
these special elections and these off year elections do not
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produce big turnout numbers. Now, if you want to be
a glass half empty person as opposed to a glass
half full as we celebrate the nine point win of
Matt Van Epps yesterday, then I think you can rightly
ask the question, which is going to be the biggest
question of twenty twenty six, what's turnout going to look
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like with Trump off the ballot. I think that is
a very valid concern as we sit here roughly eleven
months before the midterm election of twenty twenty six, and
I think secondarily the election and BLAC, I bet you
would sign off on this, although obviously many things can change,
but I would think that to a large extent, Trump
(02:12):
has solved issues with the border. I saw the White
House share information that they have conducted two million deportations
in this year. Two million people have been deported, in
addition to many people who have chosen to leave on
their own, and that on top of that, he has
taken care of crime. I mean, frankly, crime rates are plummeting.
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My home city of Nashville, sixty year low Memphis, where
we've served troops. We had Cash Mattela on last week.
Fifty five percent decline in the overall number of murders
that are taking place in Memphis. Unfortunately, where those two
National Guards troops were shot, were still praying for one
of those individuals to survive. Unfortunately, when you look at
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that attack, that is an awful one. But the overall
rate of iolent crime is down by some fifty some
percent in Washington, d C. I'm going up to Washington,
d C. Tomorrow. I'm excited that Washington, d C. Is
much safer now than it was when Trump came into office,
and I imagine many of you who have made trips
to our nation's capital or spend time in northern Virginia
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Maryland area are also excited about that. So this election
is going to be decided on affordability, which is a
lasting legacy of the Biden team, and that everything is
pretty much a kind of messy situation there, for lack
of a better way to describe it, as we continue
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to deal with all of the failures of everything that's
been done during the Biden administration. I did want to
play the crazy chick afton Baine who was kicked to
the curb, who will never ever hold elective off us
any higher than representing East Nashville, which is what she
does now. And she says that she sent a huge message,
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and I agree. I think that everyone out there should
support more Aften Veines, more Kami mamdanis more aocs. We
need more of these Democrats running nationwide.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Cut three. But this isn't the end of our story.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's not even close because what we have built here
in this district, this crossroots movement, is part of something
bigger that is happening across the South and is happening
across this country because we are tired of people outside
of this state telling us that the South is backwards,
that it's hopeless, and it's destined to be ruled by
the same powerful.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
People again and again.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The South is not silent because the South has something
to say.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And Tennessee we are leading the way. We haven't inspired
an entire country.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
They are with us tonight and they are so proud,
they are so proud of what we were able to do.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh my god, buck, what is the opposite of charisma?
Like what a the technical opposite? You know what charisma
is yes. This is the thing that is the direct
opposite direction of that. Look, I look at.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The fact that this chick thought she was going to
be able to go to Washington, d C. On behalf
of the state of Tennessee. Is a delusion that is
next level. I mean, everybody out there, I mean, if
you're watching me on video, I had to pull my
year piece out because of the screeching. I think that
if Democrats continue to nominate people like this chick, this
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crazy chick, they will never win an election. And look,
I do think big picture. Buck, you relocated from New
York City to Florida. I am a born and raised
Tennessee and there is in many red states, and I
know many of you are going to be nodding along.
If you live in Utah, if you live in Texas,
if you live in Tennessee, if you live in Florida,
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you live in North Carolina, Georgia battleground places that have
traditionally been read. There's a lot of concern that people
who are moving into these states are going to bring
their left wing politics from California or New York or Illinois,
and they're going to come to these jurisdictions and they're
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going to try to destroy them like they did everything there.
In other words, that they're basically locusts and they're coming
to bring a plague to the new places too.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm actually encouraged.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And I understand that this is somewhat controversial to say,
because people sometimes get mad at me about this, but
I say, this is a lifelong Tennesseean.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What the data is showing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Is the people who are moving to these states are
actually redder than the people who are already living there.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And you're an example the red where they absolutely everyone
knows now that they're the guys at my gun store
down here, Johnson's, which is a fantastic gunstan or run
by you know, great people patriots. It's funny because, you know,
when when we first came down here, I could tell
they were like, yeah, you guys are coming up from
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the Northeast. You know, you better kind of know what
you're doing here, buddy. And now they realize all the
guys who are show guys and gals who show up
who are transplants in the COVID and beyond era are
people who are not only you know, fleeing the communist
blue state tyranny. We are so adamant about keeping your
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wonderful Red states red that you know we will go
to the mat. So there's no worries on that Clay.
Florida went from a two hundred and fifty thousand Democrat
registration advantage pre Dysantis, Yes, who in this year of
the Dysantis era of Florida a million Republican advantage in registration.
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That is what your migration was. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Look, and if you remember twenty eighteen, DeSantis won by
a round three fifty thousand votes. Eventually he won what
did he win in twenty twenty two by nineteen votes
or whatever it was for nineteen points? Yeah, yeah, a
huge margin swing. I just want to say, breathe a
little bit because there is I hear this from all
the time, because I think maybe people who are native
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to areas feel more comfortable talking to other Native Nashvillians
or Native Tennesseeans. There's a lot of fear. There's a
lot of fear for people who come in. There's bumper stickers,
don't California my my Tennessee. Don't California my Texas. Don't
California my Florida. Maybe that exists. It's a bigger trip.
But I know, don't California my Tennessee and don't California
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my Texas a big thing.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They're actually making the red redder.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That's what the data is reflecting, and that is now
it comes with its own complexities because if you're let's say,
you're at least dephonic and you're trying to win to
kick the awful Kathy Hochel out of New York, there
are a lot of red voters who are now part
of the strong bastion of Florida or Texas or Tennessee
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that would have otherwise been in New York or Illinois
or California. So it's making blue bluer potentially because people
are just fed up and saying I gotta get out.
And we've talked about this with Steve Hilton, who's trying
to win in uh in California. But I do think
that's significant. By the way, I should have gotten this
because the boys. Do you know that the term riz buck?
(09:26):
Do you know the term?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Of course? I'm cool, sure, yeah, unk Clay.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I learn a lot of words now through my boys
because they will. You know, the lingo changes as it does,
riz which is derived from charisma is you are filled
filled with like the ladies love you or or whatever.
So you have a high riz quotient. You're really good
with the opposite sex. I should have gotten this because
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I've heard it used as an insult among my boys, rizzless.
If you have no riz, you are rizz So that
would be the opposite of charisma in the modern lingo,
you are rizzless. And so I would say after Bane, rizzless.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Now I just have to get one of those like
broccoli haircuts. I think they're called right now where you
know that's my boys have the broccoli hair. You gotta
like it's like short on the sides and then you
just grow out this sort of poofy almost like a
like a muffin top or something that's just there. Yes,
that's what the cool kids are wearing.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So three other boys have the same haircut. Two of
my three, the two teenage boys, both have the broccoli hair. Now,
it helps that they have curly hair like their mom.
But if you're out there and you're like, what is
broccoli hair, think of a stock stalk of broccoli and
it's just a ridiculous kind of curly hair mop on
top of their head. That is my My youngest has
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got hair more like me, so it is very like
he can't really get the broccoli hair. It's very straight,
so it helps to have a little bit curly here
in some way. But yes, Afton Bane Rizzless, put clip
this and make sure that this goes up on the YouTube,
because I'm the you and me discussing riz and rizzless
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qualities will certainly play with the young kids.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We were showing we are not hunks. We are full
of rizz On, Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
By the way, you should go subscribe, click like and
subscribe on our YouTube channel for more of this frivolity.
And honestly, because more and more of the show is
now available on video and we get the email on
the social platforms and how many followers we have and
the show is growing quite a lot on every front,
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so I should probably mention it more frequently.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
But wherever there are.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Social media accounts, I don't think we have a Blue
Do we have a Blue Sky account. I don't think
we have a blue Sky account. I don't think we
have a Threads account. But if it's moderately not crazy
left wing, we are out there where you can find us.
You can find us on Instagram. I've been spending a
little time on my Instagram story. I'll just post things
of where I am. I don't necessarily this is evidently popular,
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and then obviously on Twitter that's me for better or worse.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So we want to be.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Where you are and where everyone is to be able
to win the arguments, and therefore we hope that you
will find us there.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Totally agree.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
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Speaker 2 (14:02):
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We have
a bunch of vip emails I want to get to.
We're also doing a lot of learning today on the show,
including about things like riz and rizzless and broccoli haircuts.
Because we like to stay with the beat of America's youth.
(14:22):
The cool kids, and that's what we do. I'm pretty
sure if you ever refer to the cool kids, you
probably are not among them. But we are trying here,
We're trying to stay up with the trends. We have
a VIP email from Susan in Spokane where we actually
have a very robust, the Spokane area, very robust audience.
(14:43):
I need to correct you, she writes to us. Not
a good start, Susan, but we'll see where this goes.
The morons in Spokane elected a liberal for mayor, Lisa Brown,
known as Sanda Nista. Lisa, and I've elected a very
liberal moron city council there, destroying this once safe, beautiful
city that was family friendly. Sandinista Lisa serve as the
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director of Okay Blah blah blah blah blah. Transplanted Seattle
people have ruined this city. The saddest part of this
is that families who have been here since the very
late eighteen hundreds are leaving. I will also be leaving
for Texas soon. Okay, First of all, Lisa, the good
news is you're gonna love Texas. Second of all, I
think there's I think this is a distinct I don't
disagree with what with what Susan is saying here. I'm
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sorry I say I think I said Lisa. Lisa's the Sandinista.
Susan is our esteemed vip emailer and Susan. But what
you are describing is really is movement within the state
and people who are maybe changing up their their address
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a little bit, and you can have this sprawl that
occurs of libs. You know, the people who are living
in Jersey City are just New York who want to
pay less rent. That's all, isn't what I mean. They're
technically living in New Jersey, but they didn't make a
big move. They just got the U haul and went
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down the street. Essential they got movers probably to get
them to go down the street. That's a different thing.
That's just like the sprawl of a Democrat city. Well
we're talking about here, and maybe this is the distinction
that I'm just making up as I go along, but
as one does. But what we're talking about here is
when somebody who lives in Washington State or New York,
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or Connecticut or Illinois says I'm done, I'm moving to Texas,
Tennessee or Florida, maybe some other red states in that
conversation too. But really it's Texas, Tennessee, and Florida. That's
a big move. Clay.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, look, it's four hours Seattle to Spokane, so it
is a decent drive.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And but I did not know that, so that is
also helpful. Sorry, but I should have worked on my
Washington geography.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Mouth for state representation, whether you live in Seattle or
Spokane is not necessarily changing your Senate vote or your
governor vote, right because you're still in the state.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
In the same state. It's an intra state move. Now, the.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Cultural shift from a New Yorker like you who moves
to Texas or Tennessee or Florida is more profound, and
that tends to be the bigger fear. Like I don't
hear people saying in Nashville, oh man, we're really worry
now somebody moved from Memphis or Jackson or Knoxville or
Chattanooga inside.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Of the state.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's the transplants out of the state that has created,
I think and often does create a great deal of
fear for the culture of a state.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I just keep telling you to all the Texans, Tennesseeans,
and Floridians, the COVID refugees and your mixed are like
the Praetorian Guard of Freedom. They are hardcore. Okay, I
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
Welcome back in klay T having Buck Sexton show. We
are having some fun celebrating tenth Tennessee seventh Congressional District
matthan fs winning twenty twenty five. In the books, we
start to look towards twenty twenty six and see what
happens there. Let's go take some calls. Let's have some
fun with you guys. Let's see John in Oklahoma. We
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talked some about what do you think? Let then pause
John for a second if we could, guys, what do
you think is gonna happen in Venezuela. Buck, There are
reports out there that Trump has given has given the
leader of Venezuela, Maduro, until Friday to leave. I was
reading front page article in the New York Times. They
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had seven sources. Take it for what you will, that
Maduro is no longer sleeping in the same locations, that
he is changing his cell phones every day, that he
has a collection of Cuban I thought this was interesting.
Bodyguards that are following him everywhere in the wake of
threats that are coming from the United States to his rule.
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Reports are that he lost the election even though he
stayed in office by forty points, and that the UH
that that his overall support in Venezuela has crumbled significantly.
Do we do anything? What do you think happens? Put
your CIA analyst cap on here. What do you think
they're telling Trump? What do you think is likely to happen?
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I think he's gonna go? You do I think volunteer?
You think voluntarily he's gonna leave?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Or do you think?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I mean, I understand it's not completely voluntary if we're
forcing him out, But do you think he leaves of
his own volition, gets on a plane with his family
or how does that go?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I think there's there's there's back channel negotiation. That's that's
happening with him. The question is where does he go?
So that I think is is very you know, very interesting,
Like where would be a safe harbor place? Cuba comes
to mind, but Cuba's gonna have a lot of problems
if Venezuela isn't subsidizing them with their oil. Russia comes
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to mind. But if you're Venezuelan man, those Moscow winners,
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Blankets to put only say,
I don't think cozy earth ships the Moscow but maybe,
but he's going to be in a rough spot, so yeah,
I don't I don't really know where he goes or
who would take him in, but the administration has to
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if the Administration grants safe conduct. It's a little bit
like what happened with Asad, when it's finally, when you
know you can't win, it's time to go. I think
that that's getting closer and closer to being a reality here.
We don't have all this military power in the Caribbean
just to take out these boats.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
What do you think the average Venezuelan who now lives
in South Florida thinks on this? Obviously they hate Maduro
by and large if they live in the United States.
But I think the question is how aggressively should the
United States go when it comes to removing Maduro. But
I say all that as the prelude to John and Oklahoma,
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who had a take on the Venezuela situation. John, what
you got for us?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Hey, Mary, Christmas guys January nineteen ninety operation just cause
Manuel Noriego is just like this crazy guy in Venezuela.
So there's a game Plan eighteenth. Their borne Corps went
in and kicked ass and took names.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
A lot of people will remember that back in nineteen
ninety with what happened there. What I would say some
people will I said earlier in the week, I think
Maduro has to go. And I understand people out there say, oh,
this is an awful idea regime change, It never makes sense.
I don't think things can get worse than they are
right now in Venezuela. I think they are major strategic
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interests for the United States in Latin America. I think
there's a lot of green shoots of positivity in many
of those relationships. But I think Maduro has to go.
And I actually think it would be stabilizing to illegal
immigration in this country because tons of people came from
Venezuela into this country. I think if Venezuela stabilized and
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went back to a rational, democratic country, I think a
lot of people who have taken refuge in other countries
would go back to Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
So I think it would be very, very positive.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Bonnie in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, Bonnie,
what you got for us?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Well, guys, I asked Alexa what the opposite of charisma was.
Do you want to hear what she said? Yes, disagreeableness, distapefulness, obnoxiousnessness, repulsionness, offensiveness,
and unpleasantness.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I think all those work. I think all those describe
after in Vain. I think they would also apply to
Kamala Harris. Thank you for the call, Bonnie. Let's see
Carle out in Colorado, Carly, what you got?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
What I have is you guys are always talking about
warm weather, blah blah blah. You could not see me
to live in Florida. I love the snow. In fact,
I'm in Colorado. It's twenty six degrees. I probably have
six inches of new snow since last night. There are
millions of us like that, Buck, millions of us. And
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if you like the hot weather so much, why do
you wear you a little blanket at night watching TV?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
You know?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Is that because you have the air on?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I want you to know.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Excuse me. I will have you know that the no
sums here are vicious and that I cannot just have
the windows open because the no seums would come and
get me and they bite and they're very mean. Uh, Carley,
where in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Are you Hyland's Ranch. I'm gonna go out and play
with the snow with my dog. I mean, I'm out
for snow constantly. Love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So Laura, my wife loves skiing, snowboarding, all of the
winter weather activities that one engages in. She's got our boys.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I don't think humans are meant to play an ice.
I don't think so. I think they're you know, we're
not polar bears. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I think Colorado is amazing in the summer when I've
been out there, and I will say this, a lot
of cold weather is brutal because there's not enough sunshine.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Colorado has tons of sun.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Right, so it's one of the great places people don't
think about. You know, Denver, for instance, has so many
sunny days. My wife when we started this is true.
I don't know I've told you this buck. My wife
and I we started dating. She said, I want to
get you into skiing because she loves it. She's done
it her whole life. She's from Michigan. She's now snowboards,
which is cooler, or at least used to be cooler
(25:41):
with gen X. So she's a really really good snowboarder.
She's like, I want to get you into skiing. When
I was in law school, we went on a trip
to Snowshoe, West Virginia. Great place, great snow up there.
I hit a tree. I hit a tree, not going
that fast, but fast enough that when I hit the tree,
I thought, you know what, I like every sport. If
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I seriously injured myself trying to learn how to ski
or snowboard, would I be thinking to myself, Hey, you
know what, I'm glad I was trying to do this.
Or would I think as I was laying there amid
the branches in the tree, this was really dumb. You know,
I grew up in the South. I like every other
sport I can do without skiing. So now you know
what I do. Kids go ski, I go to either
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I work, which is what I do most of the time,
or I just hang out in the in the ski lodges,
which isn't a bad place.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You're big into the what they call aprey ski. Yes,
I don't do the ski. I just go straight to
the opery ski. So I have the.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Drinks, I have the hot tubbing, I have all of
the good things that people do to recover from skiing,
except I never actually ski which and I like the
ski village thing. I think that's very cool, Like we're
at Park City, awesome place like I like going.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I don't need to be on the slopes. I don't
need to be out in the cold.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I don't need to be worrying about wind gusts or
you know, like hitting trees, and that feels like a
good solution to me.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I do remember going sledding in Central Park when I
was a kid a few times, and it was all
fun and games until you got a little too aggressive
and you hit that icy bump at the bottom and
you took off and you had about two seconds of
launch time in the air, where as a twelve year
old or a ten year old or whatever, you thought
that you were heroic, and then it all came truly
(27:28):
crashing down, and you know, you have those scrape marks
all over your hands, maybe a little bloody nose from
taking a head first right into right into the snow bank.
No good.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Colorado, though in the summer, I think much like I say,
Northern Michigan. To me, Northern Michigan is the most underrated
place in the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
In the summer.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And every time I say this, people in northern Michigan say, Clay,
don't talk about it. Don't tell people about it. It's
like fight club. You can't talk about how great northern
Michigan is. And I would have never known if I
hadn't married a girl from Michigan. Colorado in the summer,
to me, is way better than Colorado in the winter.
And that's because I'm not a skier. But if you
told me, hey, you can go visit all these beautiful
places in Colorado in the summer or the winter, it's
(28:15):
not even a tough call to me. I one hundred
percent would rather be in Colorado in the summer. It's
spectacular out there in the summer. Well, this is like
when people watch the show Yellowstone. I've actually seen some
funny online things about how a lot of people watch Yellowstone.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Oh yeah, and they're like, hey, you know what, I
want to buy a house in Bozeman or in the
area of Bozeman, or you know whatever, and they stop.
They never stop to think Yellowstone. You'll notice it's always
summertime on that show. I have some problems with that show.
I could get into this at some length, like they
(28:52):
just murder people who don't want to be cowboys anyboy
anymore and bury the bodies like that's not cool, like
that's the guy thing to do, Like hey, I don't
want to be a cattle rancher anymore or whatever, like oh,
we got to put one in the back of your head. Fuck.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I love that they go to Wyoming and just dump
bodies in a ravine and no one, no one has
ever thought to look in the ravine for all the
dead bodies. It would seem to me that that would
create a stir in Wyoming, which doesn't happen to make
a population Wyoming.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I'm pretty sure they do have laws there against murder.
I'm pretty sure. Uh, you know. And and but the
whole show, I mean, it's again fun to watch. It's
kind of like the movie The Rock. It's fun to watch,
but it's the whole thing is preposterous. Okay, and Yellowstone,
the whole thing is absolutely preposterous. And the funniest part
about it is Montana is the coldest state in America
(29:39):
on average in the winter. Okay, it's Montana and Alaska, yes,
because Alaska gets now, this is space somewhere people live
because it gets the but it gets the coastal effect. Right.
So the population of Alaska doesn't live really in the
interior or like way up in the you know those
I don't know what it's called. But in those other
places they live in place like anchorage near the water,
(30:01):
and so they get some kind of a coastal effect.
So it's actually generally not quite as bad. Montana is
freakishly cold in the winter time, and you know, everyone
in Yellowstone is walking around, it's beautiful, it's sunny, it's
seventy five, and they're like, you know, just wearing They're
wearing their stetchin and their jean shirt.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
There are two television shows that have been very popular
that hit on exactly what you said. They never have
winter shoots in anything having to do with the Yellowstone show.
Remember Deadwood, great show on HBO, fantastic HBO show. Yeah,
one of the great characters of all time, Al Sweringen
in the television show Deadwood always filmed in the summer
(30:43):
because it's like a Hollywood production and they don't want
to have to spend the money on all the snow.
But if you think about the culture of those places,
the winter, I would argue defines them far more than
the few good months of whether they get and uh
and and so boat shows I really enjoy. But it
(31:04):
is funny to your point. Lots of this this you're
talking about transplants Montana. The number of people from southern
California who decide that they want to be ranchers and
they get to Montana and they walk outside in December,
January or February and they're like, yeah, maybe I don't
want to be a rancher as much. I mean, ranching
in July is a lot different than ranching in uh
(31:26):
in February. But they're buying up land. They have no
idea what they're walking into and uh, and that is
a very big lifestyle change.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It's think it's so Avera's watching yellow Stow. They're like,
oh man, it's so beautiful three months of the year,
Like what is what is it?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Like?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What is that guy?
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What's this? What's who's the guy who's always wearing black?
It was got the glasses who was like the regulator
on the ranch, you know what I mean, the guy
what's rip Yeah, let's see rip in like uh, you know,
like an Eskimo suit in January because that's actually how
it would be. I'm just saying, I know some of
you are getting to be like, why are you saying
this about my favorite show? Because it's filmed in Utah
(32:04):
in the summer. That's why it has nothing to do
with actual Montana Rancher life. Just thrown it out there.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
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Closing up shop here on play and Buy. I appreciate
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(34:18):
be red solo cups on the ground, discarded every everyone's
gonna have a slight headache. You know, it's gonna be
like very bright lights and just like random Speaking of.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Slight headaches, by the way, did you see the raccoon
that got loose in the liquor store and got wasted
and passed out in the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Is that real or is that AI?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
It's have I now brought to millions of people. It
totally made it. I read it and I totally like,
I assumed it was real. Uh, maybe we could have
some fun with that tomorrow. If you didn't see the story,
A raccoon got loose, knocked over some bottles of bourbon,
got wasted, and then passed out in the bathroom, and
(34:59):
there's video footage and pictures of the raccoon. I'm told
the raccoon is fine. I don't know if raccoons get
headaches after a bourbon festivities.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
You know, I obviously have a fondness for animals. Raccoons
are amazing little creatures. They are incredibly smart and really
have problem solving intelligence, and they can. They're much more
agile than a lot of people realize. So, but you
don't want them in your trash can. People call them
trash pandas. I don't think that's the preferred nomenkledge. But
they don't like to be called trash pandas, but they
(35:31):
are in fact called trash pandas. Kk Bert who listens
on seven to ten wor a New Yorker, let's go,
let's hear it.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Hey, bougie Buck, I'm going to defend you, my man.
It's not your fault that you're a product of your environment,
growing up in the mean speech of the Upper east Side,
and you have posters of Andrea Ogussy and who's that
boy there, Greg Luganis on your walls growing up you're
still a manual though you mean to a synchronized platform
diving and what a polo on guys?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Whoa whoa Loudani's fire.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I wasn't expecting that lou Gainis he hit his head
on the diving board back at eighty eight car remember correctly. Yeah,
I was a big Andre Agassy fan, so he's definitely
he sees what I've what I've got going on here.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
He's true, That's that's correct. Uh JJ, truck driver Gibbs,
another trucker. Let's hear him JJ.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Play it, gentlemen, this is Gibbs. Truck drive him out
here in Wisconsin. At the moment I had to come
to Bucks defense. I'm not sacrificing his man card because
he's pleasing a woman. My house stays a sixty eight
degrees year round because that's the way my wife likes it.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
And Clay, my wife picked up your balls the other day.
No other man could say that. So congratulations, kudos.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Here we go doing a great job. We love trucker Gibbs.
Thank you, sir, and Clay. He's right, man, you know
what I mean. I the man card. Do you keep
the wife happy? That's worth any man card.
Back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Rejoice if you
are just joining us, First of all, what have you
been doing with the first last two hours of your life?
We have got a big win Tennessee seventh Congressional District.
Congratulations to Congressman elect Matt vn Epps. He has elected
been elected to represent my district here in Tennessee. He
(00:25):
won by nine points, kicked the crazy Democrat.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
To the curb.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yes, turnout was down substantially, as it always is in
a special election, but people showed up to keep Democrats
from trying to steal this seat.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And now all.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Of the election results for twenty twenty five are in
the book, and we begin to turn the page to
twenty twenty six. And we have already been talking about
that with Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, who is with
us in our number two. So there are many different
lessons that can be learned potentially from twenty twenty five.
(01:04):
But Buck, now that we can kind of put a
bow on the twenty twenty five elections, I would say
the essential story is Democrats won in blue places and
Republicans won in red places. Now you can say, oh, well,
turnout was not great for Republicans, yes, but in general,
these special elections and these off year elections do not
(01:28):
produce big turnout numbers. Now, if you want to be
a glass half empty person as opposed to a glass
half full as we celebrate the nine point win of
Matt Van Epps yesterday, then I think you can rightly
ask the question, which is going to be the biggest
question of twenty twenty six, what's turnout going to look
(01:50):
like with Trump off the ballot. I think that is
a very valid concern as we sit here roughly eleven
months before the midterm election of twenty twenty six, and
I think secondarily the election and BLAC, I bet you
would sign off on this, although obviously many things can change,
but I would think that to a large extent, Trump
(02:12):
has solved issues with the border. I saw the White
House share information that they have conducted two million deportations
in this year. Two million people have been deported, in
addition to many people who have chosen to leave on
their own, and that on top of that, he has
taken care of crime. I mean, frankly, crime rates are plummeting.
(02:36):
My home city of Nashville, sixty year low Memphis, where
we've served troops. We had Cash Mattela on last week.
Fifty five percent decline in the overall number of murders
that are taking place in Memphis. Unfortunately, where those two
National Guards troops were shot, were still praying for one
of those individuals to survive. Unfortunately, when you look at
(02:59):
that attack, that is an awful one. But the overall
rate of iolent crime is down by some fifty some
percent in Washington, d C. I'm going up to Washington,
d C. Tomorrow. I'm excited that Washington, d C. Is
much safer now than it was when Trump came into office,
and I imagine many of you who have made trips
to our nation's capital or spend time in northern Virginia
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Maryland area are also excited about that. So this election
is going to be decided on affordability, which is a
lasting legacy of the Biden team, and that everything is
pretty much a kind of messy situation there, for lack
of a better way to describe it, as we continue
(03:43):
to deal with all of the failures of everything that's
been done during the Biden administration. I did want to
play the crazy chick afton Baine who was kicked to
the curb, who will never ever hold elective off us
any higher than representing East Nashville, which is what she
does now. And she says that she sent a huge message,
(04:08):
and I agree. I think that everyone out there should
support more Aften Veines, more Kami mamdanis more aocs. We
need more of these Democrats running nationwide.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Cut three. But this isn't the end of our story.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's not even close because what we have built here
in this district, this crossroots movement, is part of something
bigger that is happening across the South and is happening
across this country because we are tired of people outside
of this state telling us that the South is backwards,
that it's hopeless, and it's destined to be ruled by
the same powerful.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
People again and again.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The South is not silent because the South has something
to say.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And Tennessee we are leading the way. We haven't inspired
an entire country.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
They are with us tonight and they are so proud,
they are so proud of what we were able to do.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh my god, buck, what is the opposite of charisma?
Like what a the technical opposite? You know what charisma
is yes. This is the thing that is the direct
opposite direction of that. Look, I look at.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The fact that this chick thought she was going to
be able to go to Washington, d C. On behalf
of the state of Tennessee. Is a delusion that is
next level. I mean, everybody out there, I mean, if
you're watching me on video, I had to pull my
year piece out because of the screeching. I think that
if Democrats continue to nominate people like this chick, this
(05:35):
crazy chick, they will never win an election. And look,
I do think big picture. Buck, you relocated from New
York City to Florida. I am a born and raised
Tennessee and there is in many red states, and I
know many of you are going to be nodding along.
If you live in Utah, if you live in Texas,
if you live in Tennessee, if you live in Florida,
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you live in North Carolina, Georgia battleground places that have
traditionally been read. There's a lot of concern that people
who are moving into these states are going to bring
their left wing politics from California or New York or Illinois,
and they're going to come to these jurisdictions and they're
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going to try to destroy them like they did everything there.
In other words, that they're basically locusts and they're coming
to bring a plague to the new places too.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm actually encouraged.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And I understand that this is somewhat controversial to say,
because people sometimes get mad at me about this, but
I say, this is a lifelong Tennesseean.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What the data is showing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Is the people who are moving to these states are
actually redder than the people who are already living there.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And you're an example the red where they absolutely everyone
knows now that they're the guys at my gun store
down here, Johnson's, which is a fantastic gunstan or run
by you know, great people patriots. It's funny because, you know,
when when we first came down here, I could tell
they were like, yeah, you guys are coming up from
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the Northeast. You know, you better kind of know what
you're doing here, buddy. And now they realize all the
guys who are show guys and gals who show up
who are transplants in the COVID and beyond era are
people who are not only you know, fleeing the communist
blue state tyranny. We are so adamant about keeping your
(07:31):
wonderful Red states red that you know we will go
to the mat. So there's no worries on that Clay.
Florida went from a two hundred and fifty thousand Democrat
registration advantage pre Dysantis, Yes, who in this year of
the Dysantis era of Florida a million Republican advantage in registration.
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That is what your migration was. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Look, and if you remember twenty eighteen, DeSantis won by
a round three fifty thousand votes. Eventually he won what
did he win in twenty twenty two by nineteen votes
or whatever it was for nineteen points? Yeah, yeah, a
huge margin swing. I just want to say, breathe a
little bit because there is I hear this from all
the time, because I think maybe people who are native
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to areas feel more comfortable talking to other Native Nashvillians
or Native Tennesseeans. There's a lot of fear. There's a
lot of fear for people who come in. There's bumper stickers,
don't California my my Tennessee. Don't California my Texas. Don't
California my Florida. Maybe that exists. It's a bigger trip.
But I know, don't California my Tennessee and don't California
(08:39):
my Texas a big thing.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They're actually making the red redder.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
That's what the data is reflecting, and that is now
it comes with its own complexities because if you're let's say,
you're at least dephonic and you're trying to win to
kick the awful Kathy Hochel out of New York, there
are a lot of red voters who are now part
of the strong bastion of Florida or Texas or Tennessee
(09:04):
that would have otherwise been in New York or Illinois
or California. So it's making blue bluer potentially because people
are just fed up and saying I gotta get out.
And we've talked about this with Steve Hilton, who's trying
to win in uh in California. But I do think
that's significant. By the way, I should have gotten this
because the boys. Do you know that the term riz buck?
(09:26):
Do you know the term?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Of course? I'm cool, sure, yeah, unk Clay.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I learn a lot of words now through my boys
because they will. You know, the lingo changes as it does,
riz which is derived from charisma is you are filled
filled with like the ladies love you or or whatever.
So you have a high riz quotient. You're really good
with the opposite sex. I should have gotten this because
(09:52):
I've heard it used as an insult among my boys, rizzless.
If you have no riz, you are rizz So that
would be the opposite of charisma in the modern lingo,
you are rizzless. And so I would say after Bane, rizzless.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Now I just have to get one of those like
broccoli haircuts. I think they're called right now where you
know that's my boys have the broccoli hair. You gotta
like it's like short on the sides and then you
just grow out this sort of poofy almost like a
like a muffin top or something that's just there. Yes,
that's what the cool kids are wearing.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So three other boys have the same haircut. Two of
my three, the two teenage boys, both have the broccoli hair. Now,
it helps that they have curly hair like their mom.
But if you're out there and you're like, what is
broccoli hair, think of a stock stalk of broccoli and
it's just a ridiculous kind of curly hair mop on
top of their head. That is my My youngest has
(10:52):
got hair more like me, so it is very like
he can't really get the broccoli hair. It's very straight,
so it helps to have a little bit curly here
in some way. But yes, Afton Bane Rizzless, put clip
this and make sure that this goes up on the YouTube,
because I'm the you and me discussing riz and rizzless
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qualities will certainly play with the young kids.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We were showing we are not hunks. We are full
of rizz On, Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
By the way, you should go subscribe, click like and
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And honestly, because more and more of the show is
now available on video and we get the email on
the social platforms and how many followers we have and
the show is growing quite a lot on every front,
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so I should probably mention it more frequently.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
But wherever there are.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Social media accounts, I don't think we have a Blue
Do we have a Blue Sky account. I don't think
we have a blue Sky account. I don't think we
have a Threads account. But if it's moderately not crazy
left wing, we are out there where you can find us.
You can find us on Instagram. I've been spending a
little time on my Instagram story. I'll just post things
of where I am. I don't necessarily this is evidently popular,
(12:11):
and then obviously on Twitter that's me for better or worse.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So we want to be.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Where you are and where everyone is to be able
to win the arguments, and therefore we hope that you
will find us there.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Totally agree.
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Speaker 2 (14:02):
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We have
a bunch of vip emails I want to get to.
We're also doing a lot of learning today on the show,
including about things like riz and rizzless and broccoli haircuts.
Because we like to stay with the beat of America's youth.
(14:22):
The cool kids, and that's what we do. I'm pretty
sure if you ever refer to the cool kids, you
probably are not among them. But we are trying here,
We're trying to stay up with the trends. We have
a VIP email from Susan in Spokane where we actually
have a very robust, the Spokane area, very robust audience.
(14:43):
I need to correct you, she writes to us. Not
a good start, Susan, but we'll see where this goes.
The morons in Spokane elected a liberal for mayor, Lisa Brown,
known as Sanda Nista. Lisa, and I've elected a very
liberal moron city council there, destroying this once safe, beautiful
city that was family friendly. Sandinista Lisa serve as the
(15:05):
director of Okay Blah blah blah blah blah. Transplanted Seattle
people have ruined this city. The saddest part of this
is that families who have been here since the very
late eighteen hundreds are leaving. I will also be leaving
for Texas soon. Okay, First of all, Lisa, the good
news is you're gonna love Texas. Second of all, I
think there's I think this is a distinct I don't
disagree with what with what Susan is saying here. I'm
(15:28):
sorry I say I think I said Lisa. Lisa's the Sandinista.
Susan is our esteemed vip emailer and Susan. But what
you are describing is really is movement within the state
and people who are maybe changing up their their address
(15:49):
a little bit, and you can have this sprawl that
occurs of libs. You know, the people who are living
in Jersey City are just New York who want to
pay less rent. That's all, isn't what I mean. They're
technically living in New Jersey, but they didn't make a
big move. They just got the U haul and went
(16:11):
down the street. Essential they got movers probably to get
them to go down the street. That's a different thing.
That's just like the sprawl of a Democrat city. Well
we're talking about here, and maybe this is the distinction
that I'm just making up as I go along, but
as one does. But what we're talking about here is
when somebody who lives in Washington State or New York,
(16:33):
or Connecticut or Illinois says I'm done, I'm moving to Texas,
Tennessee or Florida, maybe some other red states in that
conversation too. But really it's Texas, Tennessee, and Florida. That's
a big move. Clay.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, look, it's four hours Seattle to Spokane, so it
is a decent drive.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And but I did not know that, so that is
also helpful. Sorry, but I should have worked on my
Washington geography.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Mouth for state representation, whether you live in Seattle or
Spokane is not necessarily changing your Senate vote or your
governor vote, right because you're still in the state.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
In the same state. It's an intra state move. Now, the.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Cultural shift from a New Yorker like you who moves
to Texas or Tennessee or Florida is more profound, and
that tends to be the bigger fear. Like I don't
hear people saying in Nashville, oh man, we're really worry
now somebody moved from Memphis or Jackson or Knoxville or
Chattanooga inside.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Of the state.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's the transplants out of the state that has created,
I think and often does create a great deal of
fear for the culture of a state.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
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and Floridians, the COVID refugees and your mixed are like
the Praetorian Guard of Freedom. They are hardcore. Okay, I
am one of them, and and we we know what
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
Welcome back in klay T having Buck Sexton show. We
are having some fun celebrating tenth Tennessee seventh Congressional District
matthan fs winning twenty twenty five. In the books, we
start to look towards twenty twenty six and see what
happens there. Let's go take some calls. Let's have some
fun with you guys. Let's see John in Oklahoma. We
(19:24):
talked some about what do you think? Let then pause
John for a second if we could, guys, what do
you think is gonna happen in Venezuela. Buck, There are
reports out there that Trump has given has given the
leader of Venezuela, Maduro, until Friday to leave. I was
reading front page article in the New York Times. They
(19:44):
had seven sources. Take it for what you will, that
Maduro is no longer sleeping in the same locations, that
he is changing his cell phones every day, that he
has a collection of Cuban I thought this was interesting.
Bodyguards that are following him everywhere in the wake of
threats that are coming from the United States to his rule.
(20:08):
Reports are that he lost the election even though he
stayed in office by forty points, and that the UH
that that his overall support in Venezuela has crumbled significantly.
Do we do anything? What do you think happens? Put
your CIA analyst cap on here. What do you think
they're telling Trump? What do you think is likely to happen?
(20:31):
I think he's gonna go? You do I think volunteer?
You think voluntarily he's gonna leave?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Or do you think?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I mean, I understand it's not completely voluntary if we're
forcing him out, But do you think he leaves of
his own volition, gets on a plane with his family
or how does that go?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I think there's there's there's back channel negotiation. That's that's
happening with him. The question is where does he go?
So that I think is is very you know, very interesting,
Like where would be a safe harbor place? Cuba comes
to mind, but Cuba's gonna have a lot of problems
if Venezuela isn't subsidizing them with their oil. Russia comes
(21:10):
to mind. But if you're Venezuelan man, those Moscow winners,
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Blankets to put only say,
I don't think cozy earth ships the Moscow but maybe,
but he's going to be in a rough spot, so yeah,
I don't I don't really know where he goes or
who would take him in, but the administration has to
(21:32):
if the Administration grants safe conduct. It's a little bit
like what happened with Asad, when it's finally, when you
know you can't win, it's time to go. I think
that that's getting closer and closer to being a reality here.
We don't have all this military power in the Caribbean
just to take out these boats.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
What do you think the average Venezuelan who now lives
in South Florida thinks on this? Obviously they hate Maduro
by and large if they live in the United States.
But I think the question is how aggressively should the
United States go when it comes to removing Maduro. But
I say all that as the prelude to John and Oklahoma,
(22:11):
who had a take on the Venezuela situation. John, what
you got for us?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Hey, Mary, Christmas guys January nineteen ninety operation just cause
Manuel Noriego is just like this crazy guy in Venezuela.
So there's a game Plan eighteenth. Their borne Corps went
in and kicked ass and took names.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
A lot of people will remember that back in nineteen
ninety with what happened there. What I would say some
people will I said earlier in the week, I think
Maduro has to go. And I understand people out there say, oh,
this is an awful idea regime change, It never makes sense.
I don't think things can get worse than they are
right now in Venezuela. I think they are major strategic
(22:52):
interests for the United States in Latin America. I think
there's a lot of green shoots of positivity in many
of those relationships. But I think Maduro has to go.
And I actually think it would be stabilizing to illegal
immigration in this country because tons of people came from
Venezuela into this country. I think if Venezuela stabilized and
(23:14):
went back to a rational, democratic country, I think a
lot of people who have taken refuge in other countries
would go back to Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
So I think it would be very, very positive.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Bonnie in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, Bonnie,
what you got for us?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Well, guys, I asked Alexa what the opposite of charisma was.
Do you want to hear what she said? Yes, disagreeableness, distapefulness, obnoxiousnessness, repulsionness, offensiveness,
and unpleasantness.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I think all those work. I think all those describe
after in Vain. I think they would also apply to
Kamala Harris. Thank you for the call, Bonnie. Let's see
Carle out in Colorado, Carly, what you got?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
What I have is you guys are always talking about
warm weather, blah blah blah. You could not see me
to live in Florida. I love the snow. In fact,
I'm in Colorado. It's twenty six degrees. I probably have
six inches of new snow since last night. There are
millions of us like that, Buck, millions of us. And
(24:20):
if you like the hot weather so much, why do
you wear you a little blanket at night watching TV?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
You know?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Is that because you have the air on?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I want you to know.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Excuse me. I will have you know that the no
sums here are vicious and that I cannot just have
the windows open because the no seums would come and
get me and they bite and they're very mean. Uh, Carley,
where in Colorado.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Are you Hyland's Ranch. I'm gonna go out and play
with the snow with my dog. I mean, I'm out
for snow constantly. Love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So Laura, my wife loves skiing, snowboarding, all of the
winter weather activities that one engages in. She's got our boys.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I don't think humans are meant to play an ice.
I don't think so. I think they're you know, we're
not polar bears. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I think Colorado is amazing in the summer when I've
been out there, and I will say this, a lot
of cold weather is brutal because there's not enough sunshine.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Colorado has tons of sun.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Right, so it's one of the great places people don't
think about. You know, Denver, for instance, has so many
sunny days. My wife when we started this is true.
I don't know I've told you this buck. My wife
and I we started dating. She said, I want to
get you into skiing because she loves it. She's done
it her whole life. She's from Michigan. She's now snowboards,
which is cooler, or at least used to be cooler
(25:41):
with gen X. So she's a really really good snowboarder.
She's like, I want to get you into skiing. When
I was in law school, we went on a trip
to Snowshoe, West Virginia. Great place, great snow up there.
I hit a tree. I hit a tree, not going
that fast, but fast enough that when I hit the tree,
I thought, you know what, I like every sport. If
(26:03):
I seriously injured myself trying to learn how to ski
or snowboard, would I be thinking to myself, Hey, you
know what, I'm glad I was trying to do this.
Or would I think as I was laying there amid
the branches in the tree, this was really dumb. You know,
I grew up in the South. I like every other
sport I can do without skiing. So now you know
what I do. Kids go ski, I go to either
(26:26):
I work, which is what I do most of the time,
or I just hang out in the in the ski lodges,
which isn't a bad place.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You're big into the what they call aprey ski. Yes,
I don't do the ski. I just go straight to
the opery ski. So I have the.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Drinks, I have the hot tubbing, I have all of
the good things that people do to recover from skiing,
except I never actually ski which and I like the
ski village thing. I think that's very cool, Like we're
at Park City, awesome place like I like going.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I don't need to be on the slopes. I don't
need to be out in the cold.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I don't need to be worrying about wind gusts or
you know, like hitting trees, and that feels like a
good solution to me.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I do remember going sledding in Central Park when I
was a kid a few times, and it was all
fun and games until you got a little too aggressive
and you hit that icy bump at the bottom and
you took off and you had about two seconds of
launch time in the air, where as a twelve year
old or a ten year old or whatever, you thought
that you were heroic, and then it all came truly
(27:28):
crashing down, and you know, you have those scrape marks
all over your hands, maybe a little bloody nose from
taking a head first right into right into the snow bank.
No good.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Colorado, though in the summer, I think much like I say,
Northern Michigan. To me, Northern Michigan is the most underrated
place in the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
In the summer.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And every time I say this, people in northern Michigan say, Clay,
don't talk about it. Don't tell people about it. It's
like fight club. You can't talk about how great northern
Michigan is. And I would have never known if I
hadn't married a girl from Michigan. Colorado in the summer,
to me, is way better than Colorado in the winter.
And that's because I'm not a skier. But if you
told me, hey, you can go visit all these beautiful
places in Colorado in the summer or the winter, it's
(28:15):
not even a tough call to me. I one hundred
percent would rather be in Colorado in the summer. It's
spectacular out there in the summer. Well, this is like
when people watch the show Yellowstone. I've actually seen some
funny online things about how a lot of people watch Yellowstone.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Oh yeah, and they're like, hey, you know what, I
want to buy a house in Bozeman or in the
area of Bozeman, or you know whatever, and they stop.
They never stop to think Yellowstone. You'll notice it's always
summertime on that show. I have some problems with that show.
I could get into this at some length, like they
(28:52):
just murder people who don't want to be cowboys anyboy
anymore and bury the bodies like that's not cool, like
that's the guy thing to do, Like hey, I don't
want to be a cattle rancher anymore or whatever, like oh,
we got to put one in the back of your head. Fuck.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I love that they go to Wyoming and just dump
bodies in a ravine and no one, no one has
ever thought to look in the ravine for all the
dead bodies. It would seem to me that that would
create a stir in Wyoming, which doesn't happen to make
a population Wyoming.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I'm pretty sure they do have laws there against murder.
I'm pretty sure. Uh, you know. And and but the
whole show, I mean, it's again fun to watch. It's
kind of like the movie The Rock. It's fun to watch,
but it's the whole thing is preposterous. Okay, and Yellowstone,
the whole thing is absolutely preposterous. And the funniest part
about it is Montana is the coldest state in America
(29:39):
on average in the winter. Okay, it's Montana and Alaska, yes,
because Alaska gets now, this is space somewhere people live
because it gets the but it gets the coastal effect. Right.
So the population of Alaska doesn't live really in the
interior or like way up in the you know those
I don't know what it's called. But in those other
places they live in place like anchorage near the water,
(30:01):
and so they get some kind of a coastal effect.
So it's actually generally not quite as bad. Montana is
freakishly cold in the winter time, and you know, everyone
in Yellowstone is walking around, it's beautiful, it's sunny, it's
seventy five, and they're like, you know, just wearing They're
wearing their stetchin and their jean shirt.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
There are two television shows that have been very popular
that hit on exactly what you said. They never have
winter shoots in anything having to do with the Yellowstone show.
Remember Deadwood, great show on HBO, fantastic HBO show. Yeah,
one of the great characters of all time, Al Sweringen
in the television show Deadwood always filmed in the summer
(30:43):
because it's like a Hollywood production and they don't want
to have to spend the money on all the snow.
But if you think about the culture of those places,
the winter, I would argue defines them far more than
the few good months of whether they get and uh
and and so boat shows I really enjoy. But it
(31:04):
is funny to your point. Lots of this this you're
talking about transplants Montana. The number of people from southern
California who decide that they want to be ranchers and
they get to Montana and they walk outside in December,
January or February and they're like, yeah, maybe I don't
want to be a rancher as much. I mean, ranching
in July is a lot different than ranching in uh
(31:26):
in February. But they're buying up land. They have no
idea what they're walking into and uh, and that is
a very big lifestyle change.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It's think it's so Avera's watching yellow Stow. They're like,
oh man, it's so beautiful three months of the year,
Like what is what is it?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Like?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
What is that guy?
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
What's this? What's who's the guy who's always wearing black?
It was got the glasses who was like the regulator
on the ranch, you know what I mean, the guy
what's rip Yeah, let's see rip in like uh, you know,
like an Eskimo suit in January because that's actually how
it would be. I'm just saying, I know some of
you are getting to be like, why are you saying
this about my favorite show? Because it's filmed in Utah
(32:04):
in the summer. That's why it has nothing to do
with actual Montana Rancher life. Just thrown it out there.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
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Speaker 2 (33:57):
Closing up shop here on play and Buy. I appreciate
you all being with us, and we're gonna have a
fantastic schur for you tomorrow. And then it's gonna be
just me on Friday. It's gonna be a wild Friday.
Shown me anything goes crazy. Clay is gone. We're throwing
a keg party here on Clay and Buck Friday, so
that will be interesting. He's gonna come back. There's gonna
(34:18):
be red solo cups on the ground, discarded every everyone's
gonna have a slight headache. You know, it's gonna be
like very bright lights and just like random Speaking of.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Slight headaches, by the way, did you see the raccoon
that got loose in the liquor store and got wasted
and passed out in the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Is that real or is that AI?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
It's have I now brought to millions of people. It
totally made it. I read it and I totally like,
I assumed it was real. Uh, maybe we could have
some fun with that tomorrow. If you didn't see the story,
A raccoon got loose, knocked over some bottles of bourbon,
got wasted, and then passed out in the bathroom, and
(34:59):
there's video footage and pictures of the raccoon. I'm told
the raccoon is fine. I don't know if raccoons get
headaches after a bourbon festivities.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
You know, I obviously have a fondness for animals. Raccoons
are amazing little creatures. They are incredibly smart and really
have problem solving intelligence, and they can. They're much more
agile than a lot of people realize. So, but you
don't want them in your trash can. People call them
trash pandas. I don't think that's the preferred nomenkledge. But
they don't like to be called trash pandas, but they
(35:31):
are in fact called trash pandas. Kk Bert who listens
on seven to ten wor a New Yorker, let's go,
let's hear it.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Hey, bougie Buck, I'm going to defend you, my man.
It's not your fault that you're a product of your environment,
growing up in the mean speech of the Upper east Side,
and you have posters of Andrea Ogussy and who's that
boy there, Greg Luganis on your walls growing up you're
still a manual though you mean to a synchronized platform
diving and what a polo on guys?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Whoa whoa Loudani's fire.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I wasn't expecting that lou Gainis he hit his head
on the diving board back at eighty eight car remember correctly. Yeah,
I was a big Andre Agassy fan, so he's definitely
he sees what I've what I've got going on here.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
He's true, That's that's correct. Uh JJ, truck driver Gibbs,
another trucker. Let's hear him JJ.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Play it, gentlemen, this is Gibbs. Truck drive him out
here in Wisconsin. At the moment I had to come
to Bucks defense. I'm not sacrificing his man card because
he's pleasing a woman. My house stays a sixty eight
degrees year round because that's the way my wife likes it.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
And Clay, my wife picked up your balls the other day.
No other man could say that. So congratulations, kudos.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Here we go doing a great job. We love trucker Gibbs.
Thank you, sir, and Clay. He's right, man, you know
what I mean. I the man card. Do you keep
the wife happy? That's worth any man card.
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