August 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a dynamic blend of political analysis, cultural commentary, economic updates, and listener interaction, making it a must-listen for conservative talk radio fans. This segment kicks off with Clay’s humorous take on dating etiquette, arguing that using a gift certificate on a first date is a surefire sign the relationship won’t last—a lighthearted debate that sparks listener feedback throughout the hour.
Top Political Headlines include White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirming a major diplomatic meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. The hosts also dissect the latest economic news, celebrating a 2.7% inflation rate and record highs across the Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Dow Jones—crediting Trump’s tariffs and economic policies for the market surge and wage growth.
In cultural news, Clay and Buck discuss Disney’s apology and rehiring of Gina Carano after her 2021 dismissal, and the backlash surrounding Sydney Sweeney’s ad, which polls show was largely well-received despite media outrage. The conversation pivots to social media censorship, with praise for Elon Musk’s overhaul of Twitter (now X), which they say has curbed leftist bullying and restored free speech.
The hour also dives into New York City politics, spotlighting the rise of mayoral candidate Mamdani, described as a “straight-up communist.” The hosts debate George Will’s assertion that Democrats should face the consequences of their policies, with Buck pushing back, arguing that defeat doesn’t teach lessons—especially to the left.
Listeners are treated to exclusive commentary on the upcoming UFC fight at the White House planned for July 4, 2026, in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Dana White confirms the event, and Clay speculates that Trump’s push to clean up Washington, D.C. is tied to the historic celebration.
The segment also features listener call-ins and talkbacks, including tennis trash talk, critiques of Clay’s beard, and a spirited debate over male cheerleaders in the NFL.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in hour number three Clay Travis buck Sexton show.
I appreciate all of you rolling through the program with me.
So many people. Way again, we're gonna have some fun
on my contention that you cannot take a first date
out and pay for it on a gift certificate, which
(00:21):
I would continue to hammer home. Some news that is
out there on the Caroline Levitt has been having a
press availability, a White House press conference, and she has
confirmed that the big meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir
Putin will occur in Anchorage Anchorage, Alaska coming up on Friday.
(00:46):
Will be a huge story for what exactly we will
hope to be a successful meeting, And as we told
you yesterday, President Trump will know relatively quickly whether he
says there is a deal to be made here or
he is still kind of getting yanked around, for lack
(01:07):
of a better phrase to explain why this ongoing negotiation continues.
Some positive news, The inflation report that came out this
morning continues to be low, inflation at two point seven percent.
The stock market has surged as a result of that report,
(01:28):
as inflation came in lower than expected for I think
the fifth month in the last six. There has not
been a major inflation impact at all from so far
President Trump's tariffs, and we have new stock market records
all over the Nasdaq, all over the S and P
five hundred, the dal Jones Industrial. If you have a
(01:51):
four to oh one k, your stocks are setting record highs.
So your retirement is doing very, very well. And I'll
continue to echo if you were just not a panicker,
if you did not panic in April when everybody tried
to tell you, oh my goodness, these tariffs are going
to destroy the economy, there's no way to continue to
(02:14):
live this way. It is the case that I believe
the Trump economy is starting starting to fire on all cylinders.
Growth in wages is outpacing growth in cost, which is
the most important I would say measurement economically because it
means you have more money in your pocket. Now. I
(02:36):
know many of you out there are still very frustrated
by the price of goods, which skyrocketed during the Biden
administration when we got to over nine percent inflation. I
understand when people say, hey, things still feel like they
cost too much. Unfortunately, inflation is embedded. We very rarely
ever go backwards in price, so The best thing you
can hope for is that prices stop growing at exponential rates,
(03:00):
which is again where we are. We got a bunch
of people who want to weigh in a variety of topics.
Let me hit you with one bit of news. I
should have hit this last week. I kind of missed it.
I think it happened Thursday after the show. I didn't
talk about it on Friday. But I think it is
an important cultural hallmark here, Gina Carano, Buck, did you
ever watch The Mandalorian on Disney Plus. I thought the
(03:23):
first season was excellent and then it kind of kind
of crashed into the planet Laura. My wife watches all
these shows, and she watches them generally with our boys.
They loved the Mandalorian. It was a Disney Plus Star
Wars related show. Disney fired Gina Carano for having very
(03:44):
what I would say is just a little bit right
of center opinions on social media. She later sued they
fired her in twenty twenty one Friday last week, they
Disney apologized to her and basically said, hey, we're going
to rehire you. We talk about these things because I
do think the cultural significance of them is becoming more
(04:05):
and more Paramount and buck. I'll add this. I saw
this story up at Mediaite and also up at OutKick
Sidney Sweeney the ad that was so controversial. We were
all told only twelve percent of Americans, according to a
big poll that was conducted, actually found this ad in
(04:28):
any way offensive. Forty percent thought that it was a
very successful ad. A lot of other people didn't care
at all, one way or the other. But it is
interesting how the left wing I think their ability to
bully and try to force people not to not to
be able to say, hey, you know, being a white
(04:49):
girl with blue eyes and blonde hair is a perfectly
fine advertisement. The way that they ran and hid from
this and tried to They've gotten used to being a
to bully people into apologizing and not doing ads like this.
I do think the best advice I have for anyone
out there is do the opposite of what's popular on Twitter,
(05:10):
and very often your business will thrive because Twitter is
not real life, and I think this is yet more
evidence of that being true. Well, twit x now it's
a lot more reflective of real life than it used
to be. You know, I remember it. It's funny. Ever
since the social justice. Communists were kicked out of there
(05:31):
by Elon. I never get dragged. They used to call
it piled on publicly by you know, some some random
writers from Vox or something. You know, this just doesn't
happen anymore. Yes, And I think there was a tremendous
amount of both suppression and amplification in favor of communist madness.
I know, well, we know there was. I mean we
(05:52):
that's Elon bought it and we saw that and that
was real. Uh yeah, they're they're honestly, so many of
these people who a decade ago love to to be
all tough on Twitter, they're all they're all leftist cowards.
They don't they don't pick fights anymore. They don't want
to because they know now that they don't have the
rigged game in effect. So I'm very grateful that that
(06:13):
that has changed. Let me play a couple of clips
for you that are starting to echo throughout the Internet ecosystem.
The chief of police for the police for DC, they
had a press conference. Mayor Muriel Bowser was also there.
The chief of police had absolutely no idea what the
(06:36):
phrase chain of command was and uh and and had
listen just listen to this clip and think to yourself,
does this sound like a person who should be in
charge of keeping people safe in d C. The mayor
then has to step in, and I think it's evidence
of what we have kind of told you, which is,
I think the mayor does want additional resources. Politically, it's
(06:57):
just hard for her to endorse the decision made by
Donald Trump. But listen to this clip. Is what the
shaane of command is? Now, what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, is it Cam Bondi's free.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Or so at The executive order is clear the President
has requested MPD services, and our Home Rule Charter outlines
the process. The President designated Attorney General Bondi as his
proxy to request services through me.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Okay, so I know that's a little bit confusing. The
video makes it easier. The chief of police did not
seem to understand the concept of chain of command, and
so she had to step back, and then the mayor
came in and kind of explained how this was laying out,
which is, the President is at the top of the
chain of command in DC as it pertains to it's
a federal leadership there, which I do think is is
(07:55):
kind of important. All right. I wanted to play this
for you, Buck, because you just came back from New
York City recently. You were up there with your family.
You're born and raised New York City. George will I
think he's still at the Washington Post, one of the
foremost conservative columnists of the last forty years, probably was
on with Bill Maher and he said the same thing
(08:16):
that I said recently, which is, sometimes you just have
to let democrats deal with the consequences of their choices.
And so this argument is starting to spread a little bit.
And I want to get your take because I don't
know that you've talked about what you saw in New
York City and how the city felt. But listen to this.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Here you have Trump, who is the Republican who is
aggrandizing more power than anybody, as we just talked about.
And on the other side, you have the guy running
in New York Mendami, right, Okay, who's like a straight
up communist. I mean he is. He talks about, you know,
the things that communists say. I mean, he wants free
(08:55):
grocery stores, free buses.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I want him to win.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You want them to win. Yeah, I think every twenty
years or so, Wait, we need.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Every twenty years or so.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
We need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we
can crack it up again.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Okay, Buck, you were just in New York City. It
seems like they're sort of a slow moving panic setting
in because Mam Donnie is remaining in the lead even
though he's clearly got communist opinions. Neither Cuomo, Eric Adams
nor Curtis Lee Whi has been able to say, Hey,
this is going to be the primary adversary. What's the
(09:37):
vibe there so far as you could tell, And what
do you think of George Well's argument? Well, the vibe
is the slow growth of the Pannikin mindset. I think
that Mam Donnie is gonna win, yes, because the alternatives
to him, none of them are good, and they're all
(09:58):
very good at canceling each other out. And I know it.
Please don't send me the Curtis Sliwa Curtis. I'm sure
Curtis is a great guy. I've interviewed him before. He's
not going to be the mayor of New York City. Okay,
it's just not gonna happen. So I wish that was
not the case. But this is a bit like when
libertarians once every four years, send me the our candidate's
gonna win the presidency. No he's not. Okay, it's not
(10:19):
gonna happen, So please don't send me those emails. And
I think that unfortunately, mom, Donnie's going to be the mayor,
and that's going to result in some real problems for
the city. As for George Will, I mean, look, I
cannot abide my what is still my hometown, and I
(10:40):
cannot abide the largest city in America being burned down
as some kind of a message because the communists never
get the message. It's it's not like they're gonna learn.
It's a bit like dealing with children, Clay, when you
have to tell them, you know what, you can't actually
just have like ice cream and pizza every night for dinner,
and you're to eat good food, Like we just have
(11:01):
to be in charge, and the leftists have to not
be in charge. They never learn the lesson. They will
keep burning their hand touching the stove when it's hot.
They never learned the lesson. So I disagree with Georgia, who,
by the way, lives in Chevy Chase talking about Chevy
Chase before. So he lives in a very rich, very
affluent suburb of DC. And it's easy for him with
(11:22):
a little bow tie on who's been wrong about everything
Trump related? I might add he's been one of those,
one of those. And you know Trump wouldn't get into
his country club, I'm sure. But you know it's it's
I think that it's a it's a bad idea because
the lessons aren't learned. I mean, look at look at
(11:42):
San Francisco. They dial it back a little bit, but
it's not like the Democrats have said, you know what,
San Francisco governance was a bad idea. We're going to
change our win now. The communist never gets tired of
being a communist because it's not about what is. It's
about what makes them feel. And that's why I think
New York City has a lesson. Very easy for George
Will to say, but I don't think New York City
(12:03):
has a lesson will actually have the intended result. I'd
rather us just move in the other direction and get
points on the board, right, you know, because because I don't,
I don't think his thing about it being an example
is true. It'd be one thing if it actually was
going to be. Oh, the whole country will learn. You
know what happened in New York City. Giuliani came in
and fixed the city. That was the lesson. They didn't
(12:24):
learn from previous Democrat hellscape experiments in New York. They
didn't learn from Dinkins and Koch and you know, YadA, YadA,
go back. So you want victory, you don't want defeat.
Defeat is not a good teacher, unfortunately my u in
this case. In general, it can be. But my only
argument is I think it makes it more likely that
we win the House if people like Mom Donnie and
(12:46):
AOC are the face of the Democrat Party by twenty
twenty six. So this is my argument. Will did not
make it thoroughly, but that we sometimes have to sacrifice
the you know, the tigers are running out there, and
you got to outrun the tiger. And I don't think
see I think that Mam Donnie would maybe this will
help you, which could be important. Maybe this will help
(13:08):
you with some New York State congressional seats. I don't.
I don't think that in purple states you're gonna there's
not gonna be some Mam Donnie effect of people who
live in like the He's not well enough known in
your mind for people to even react to it, and
people want people in the rest of the country aren't
going to care about what the mayor of New York
is doing when they're voting for Congress. I don't think
(13:29):
uh so in that sense. I don't see. And also
he just doesn't have the national profile you know, AOC
and Bernie. Uh It's funny. They are still the biggest
draw that the Democrats have. But I wonder if they
really are going to have the negative effects on Democrats
in the midterms that people would like to see. I'm curious.
I'm curious about it. But yeah, George Will, George Will,
(13:53):
George Will could use little dose of humility. I think
you know, George Will writing for that Washington Post communist
slop for a long time, being all smug with his
little bow tie on.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You know what, buddy, you know back of the room,
you know, I know you're an old guy, but back
of the room you got some things to learn. I'm
not impressed. So you know, wrong on everything Trump related.
Just gonna say, just just as dug in on Trump
and as anti Trump as anyone can be, and for
what for what? So the communists can run amok, so
we can all learn a lesson whill George is playing croquet. Sorry,
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Speaker 1 (15:56):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're talking about Mom
Donnie the Kami in New York City. And just to
if you want to know where he stands on, uh, well,
the issue of Trump. This will not be a surprise.
He is launching a five Burrows against Trump tour play
twenty two.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Donald Trump does not respond well to cowardice, to collaboration.
He requires a response that showcases the ability to fight
back against that same agenda. And that's what I would
do if and when he makes these kinds of threats
with regards to New York City. I describe my administration
as being his worst nightmare.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Trump's worst nightmare. You guys, all the prosperity and secure
border and peace insanity that's going on, Mom, Donnie hates
all of that, So pretty clear where he stands. Yeah,
and did you see he's starting to get caught. He
was having and living in a reduced rate apartment. I
give credit to Andrew Cuomo for starting to kind of
(16:55):
throw some punches and that he wouldn't or shouldn't have
been quite quied for that reduced rate apartment. The problem
is Cuomo actually supported, you know, a policy that has
taken tons of apartments out of the mix. What I'm
hearing is I was reading about this tons of landlords
(17:16):
and some of you in New York City probably are
very well versed in it. Some of you may be
doing this have actually just taken some of these apartments
out of the circuit because they can't make money because
of the rates that they're allowed to charge on some
of these units, and so they're just saying, screw it,
I'd rather have it sit vacant, which obviously drives up
the overall costs because there aren't enough apartments available. We'll
(17:39):
see whether some of these illegals now being forced out
of the country can start to have an impact on
what everybody has to pay for apartments going forward. We'll
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Travis Buck Sexton show. We got a lot of feedback
rolling in on the first two and a half hours
of the program. Positive let me, let me give you
(19:06):
a positive. I mentioned that July fourth, next year, which
is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America's independence,
is going to include a UFC fight on the south
lawn of the White House. I had seen that report.
The team did a good job and grabbed it. Here
(19:26):
is cut thirty three Dana White confirming that.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
There is talk of a July fourth, go ahead fight
America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday next summer. We're at
the White House, a pretty big venue.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Is that going to happen?
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Daniel?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
What can you tell us it is.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Definitely going to happen. Oh, I talked to him last night,
him being the president, and I'm flying out there at
the end of this month and I'm going to sit
down and walk him through, you know, all the plans
and the renderings, and we're going to start deciding what
he wants and doesn't want. But yeah, it's definitely gonna happen. Well,
think about this, when you were just asking me, you know,
(20:04):
at the beginning, how I felt about You know, where
we are today, July fourth, two hundred and fiftieth birthday
of the United States of America, live on CBS from
the White House.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Fuck that is going to be pretty awesome. And Trump
throwing the two hundred and fiftieth birthday party in general
is going to be phenomenal. But to have all of
these different cool events, I'm sure there will be a
deluge of awesomeness descending onto DC. And hopefully it's a
much safer DC by then. And I thankfully it won't
(20:37):
be ten degrees outside like it was during the inauguration,
because that was a little rough. It might be one
hundred ten degrees. Because it'll be the July fourth event.
I would take I would take that over what we
were subjected to an inauguration. It was I looked like
Leonardo DiCaprio in that movie where he gets attacked by
the bear. You know that the remnant wearing like oh
(20:58):
ten bear skins to walk around in is very, very
very cool. I will say that I don't think a
lot of people have talked about this, at least I
haven't seen it. To me, Trump's decision to clean up Washington,
DC is likely very connected to the fact that there
will be many two hundred and fiftieth anniversary events going
on in DC, and he wants DC to have its
(21:19):
best look about it as people are coming in from
all over the world and certainly all over the country
to celebrate. So I do think there's probably a connection
between the timing of Trump's decision on DC and our
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. All Right, we got a
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E and I she has this to say.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Fuck, did Clay just say he's surprised or shocked that
anyone dated you in New York while you were riding
your scooter. This is coming from a man whose appearance
has been compared to that of a homeless person, and
who has openly stated he doesn't know how to operate
an oven or any kitchen appliance.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
This is all Try to be fair. To be fair,
your appearance has not been compared to a homeless person.
Your wardrobe has been has been compared to a homeless person.
My recollection is that emailer said that I had the
beard of a homeless person. If you remember that emailer
and your stand I stand corrected. I rushed to your defense,
youre SERVI now I realized I've been I've been mowed
(22:58):
down by the machine gun nest. So yeah, okay, yeah,
she's right. That emailer said he criticized every aspect of
my physical appearance, and then closed with if I remember correctly,
and your beard has the appearance of a homeless person's beard.
I'm paraphrasing, but I think, Look, that's a lot of attacks.
(23:20):
When she started, she sounded so nice and librarian like,
and then, much like with many criticisms, as she layered
one sentence upon another, it continued to get progressively worse
for me. So thank you, Pam. Now you're not without
not without attack. Here, let's see. Let me there's a
lot of good ones out there. Is this hh you
(23:43):
want to get to Glen and Ohio. This is, I
would say, an unprovoked attack, maybe the Pearl Harbor of
the Show style attack. Listen to Gigi to aj Buck.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
This is Glenn from Ohio. I'm a sixty six year
old tennis player. I still think I can compete with you,
even though you just got rid of your dad body
and you just put on a new tennis grip. I'm
surprised you don't use tennis over wraps, but maybe you
don't like them. Let's get together if you're not afraid
oh im in all right, I.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Got this guy by twenty five years bucket. He's talking
trying to settle down here. We gotta sell that. First
of all, this is a turner grip over grip, all right,
just to be clear. And and this is my Wilson
Pro staff. So I like a stiff racket, you know,
that requires you to hit in the sweet spot, not
one of these super light rackets with a giant sweet spot,
because you know, trying to actually have some technique out there.
(24:34):
And I'm just gonna say this to you, Glenn. You're
sixty six years old. Unless you were on the pro tour,
you would get smoked. Oh meaning unless you're a former
pro tennis player at sixty six, I think I think
you're toast, my man. I'm just telling you, I'm not
gonna back down on this one. The wheels that I've
got and then the forehand, the accuracy that I can
do inside out. You know, You're just I'm gonna run
(24:56):
you around that cork, Glenn, and I'm gonna have to
probably stop and check on you. It's not going to
be good for you, buddy, So sorry. Challenge accepted. Basically
just said he would put you in the hospital. Glenn,
Senior citizen trash talk. What is your speed on your serve?
What do you mean your head? Pikes is I'm more
of a I'm more of a consistency guy. I mean
(25:16):
I could I could juice it up to about one
hundred and undred and fifteen. Oh that's oh that's ridiculous.
Over one hundred miles an hour on your serve. Oh absolutely, yeah,
Oh wow, Oh that's really the Glenn has no change.
I know, one hundred miles an hour on his serve
is pretty rare, isn't it in tennis? No, No, that's
that's not that's actually not that fast. I mean you said,
how fast can I, sir? How fast do I serve?
(25:38):
Probably more like a hundo one hundred, But you know
there are the pros now serve routinely one twenty five,
one thirty. I mean that's like not but yeah, I
could probably do. I would say I serve on average
about one hundred, and I could get it up to
one ten if I wanted to throw a little shoulder
into it. But it's clay. It's all all about what's
up here, buddy. It's all about what's between the years.
(25:59):
You know, it's a hey, it's a mind game. It's consistency.
I don't think that many tennis players who are not
really elite tennis players hit the ball one hundred miles
an hour, right, I mean that's a pretty Now every
every college, every college player is hitting the ball a
lot of them. I mean, do you like I mean,
basically if you want to not have basically like the
level of a D three college player when I was younger.
(26:20):
I mean I've beaten people who played D three college
pretty you know that. That's happened many times in the past. Yeah.
But D three college tennis, I would think their drop
off is not that significant, right, because tennis it is closer.
It depends on the school, this is the thing. It
depends very much on the school. D three racket sports
can actually, like I think Trinity College in Hartford had
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the best squash team in the country for a while
and it's a D three school. Yeah, I mean they
would have soccer. This happens too, right, where you could
be the D three soccer team, whereas if you played
like D three football or basketball, you would get smoked. No,
I think soccer you I think soccer you get pretty
Now it's really the racket sports where I think the
it's very close. It's also those are individual sports too,
(27:02):
so the team dynamic matters matters less. But yeah, squash tennis,
you can definitely have D three players who are really competitive.
So yeah, I mean I was probably at like a
bad D three college player level to be fair, and
you know, I'd say I could do.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Am.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I gonna have to post some Clay am I gonna
if I have to get the serve gun out. I
feel like Clay is a little suspicions. So now I'm
actually impressed. Although my mom, speaking of senior citizen trash
talk evidently, and I don't know because I have not
watched him play lately, my fourteen year old nephew is
one of the best players in the state of Tennessee,
and my mom just said he could beat you. This
(27:41):
is mom's If he's a state level fourteen year old,
he absolutely would beat me. Yeah really, oh yeah, yeah, sure,
I've not watched him play lately, but I've played enough
tennis and enough like open matches and enough places to
kind of know what the what the levels are. I mean,
if by sixteen in tennis you can be a straight
up pro, you can. Mean people have won wimbled than
at seventeen. So and I think Martina Hingis won wimbled
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in at sixteen. I think you're fourteen, you've got the
you know, for fourteen you can be. Didn't Copriotti start
playing when she was fourteen on the professional tour? That
made me very Yeah, definitely, you can be a teenager
on the pro tour for sure, and not like you know,
seventeen and six months. I mean, you can be fourteen.
Fifty golf was like a sixteen year old. I know,
(28:24):
the Venus and Serena Williams. Well, this is why college
tennis generally, this has changed a little bit recently, but
college tennis generally has if you were going to be
like world class, you actually don't go to tennis. You
don't go to college to play tennis because you're already
on the tour. Usually that's changed a little bit. You've
got like James Blake went to Harvard and he was
a top player. There's a little bit more of this.
(28:44):
There are some others, but traditionally, especially in the foreign players.
They they're pro by and they've been training, by the way,
NonStop since they were like five. That's right, by the way,
here's some funny. Well, well, let's come back and we'll
close out. Lots of reaction to my which I'll stand by.
No one has ever gotten married if a man used
(29:06):
a gift certificate on the very first date with the girl.
It's never happened, and I do not believe it has
happened in the history of the world. But a lot
of people weighing in on my he's not that into
you theory if he's using a gift certificate on the
very first date. I'm not talking about date six or
date eight, or saving money because you're gonna get married
or whatever. I'm talking about the first date. You have
(29:27):
upset the thrifty contingent of our audiencer, which is considerable.
People like value. They like a good deal. My wife,
I don't know if anything other than like seeing our
baby smile or playing fetch with Ginger out in the yard.
I don't know if anything makes Kerry happier than getting
a great deal. I will tell you this, if you
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had taken Carrie out on a date. Where did you
go on your first day? Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, of course at Peninsula Hotel, like to like the
rooftop of the Peninsula. Yeah, okay, fabulous where jesse can
Ali maxed out your credit card on eighty dollars shots
of tequila. Yes, that's right. I will say, I don't
know that they have gift certificates at the Peninsula Hotel,
so I don't even know. They probably don't even sell
gifts to That's a super high end place. Well done
(30:14):
by you. We went on our first date to bowling.
Very romantic guy that I am. Laura Travis and I
Were you better than her? Because your wife is very athletic.
She is, I'm not sure that I would put money
on you to beat her in bowling necessary. I'm actually
a really good bowler. Oh it is Oh looking a
(30:35):
couple of bowling leagues. I was over over two hundred.
It never told me this. You were like the big
Lebowski guy. You were on the bowling team. I was
in a bowling league. I was, you know, getting it
up near. I think I had have one eighty five
average or something like that, which is pretty good. I mean,
it's not like, so this is why you went first
date bowling. You were like, let me show you how
(30:56):
I roll a lady literally, and it's now been torn
down that bowling alley. But I do think if I
had taken her to Chili's and I've been like, boom,
I got whatever you wanted. Chili's mom gave me this
gift certificate, I don't think we'd be married. I think
she she might have found it so funny that she
(31:17):
was willing to hang around. But we didn't have any
money of any significant nature we started dating, So maybe
she would have been more forgiving than not. Maybe she's
listening right now, she can text me. I think it
would have been a I think it would have been
a big no. And I think, again, guys out there,
I'm trying to save you. I'm trying to get you married,
have kids, live happily ever after. Don't use the gift
(31:38):
certificate on the very first date, because the girl's gonna
be like, he didn't even think I was worthy of
actual credit card, actual cash. I'm just telling you. I
think I think there's a little bit a little bit
of filibustering going on here of all of the people
who want to make their case play that the gift
certificate on the first date is fine. So we're gonna
let them. We're gonna let their voices be heard when
we come back, because they're they're they're not they're not feeling, uh,
(31:59):
what you're putting down on this one. I'm just gonna
say this, and I'm glad that I'm not directly in
the blast radius of Clay's elitist anti gift certificate take
on the first date. So there's that. Actually, no, I
think I agreed with you. Damn it. I think I
agree with you. Of course you agreed with me, because
any man out there think about this, sir, can I
take the bill? Yes, it's first of all, the gift
(32:21):
certificates inevitably look way too ridiculous, right, They're really bright,
and they have like they're very noticeable, and then you
typically don't have enough on the gift certificate, so you're like,
put part of it on the gift certificate, but also
whatever's left, I'll take care of myself. Like the girls like,
why did he not value me enough to actually not
(32:42):
have his mom's gift certificate paying for our day? Well,
maybe he just seeks out value wherever he is. Our Look,
if I use a gift certificate, you know what she
may think. She may think that I need some chalk. Actually,
she's like, this guy get it together, needs a little
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
First of all, I didn't know about this. This is
podcast listener Brian from Jacksonville. JAYJ. Hit it Hey, Clay
Buckets is Brian from Jacksonville.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
I want to get Clay's opinion on the fact that
the Minnesota Vikings just hired a male cheerleader as their
lead cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
NFL is going woke. What is that? I just that's
not That's not I I don't know. I do know
that they have been putting gay slash trans slash dudes
and look to be fair, there is a difference between
a male cheerleader who is like a stunter and is
throwing a girl up in the air and she's doing
like flips and everything else, and a guy who is
(34:54):
like in sparkles and sequins and is dancing with the
girls the first one. If you have those kinds of cheerleaders,
more power to him. They can't do the stunts without them. No,
no negativity. Let's colleges have that. Some NFL teams do
the whole guy in a sequence like dancing around is crazy,
by the way, So I'm very anti that my wife
went in. She said, I think it really depends on
(35:16):
the stage your are in life. You and I were
broke and living on law school loans and we started dating,
so I likely would have forgiven the use of a
gift certificate. But by today's standards, I'm not sure I
would accept a gift certificate on a first date. Also,
your nephew is actually fifteen, not fourteen. And she says
she's skeptical that buck can serve one hundred miles an hour.
(35:37):
Oh okay, okay, now it's on Laura. Now it's on.
There's gonna be video. There's gonna be video of this.
It has to happen, and it probably has to happen.
Some people are saying, Buck's serving in tennis. I want
to see you doing one hundred miles an hour. Also,
in my defense, the kid had a birthday like three
months ago. That's pretty close. Like he's now fifteen, but
(35:59):
like in May he turned. I think I get a
pass on that if you're an uncle and you're within
like a couple of months of how old your nieces
or nephews are, Like, I don't think that's a big
whiff by me. But he's fifteen. Now, we got a
bunch of talkbacks. Let's roll these over. We're gonna get
this guy drug tested too. He's older than we fought.
You know what else is? What else is in this?
I was definitely rigging the game here. I thought he
(36:20):
was fourteen. My son is fourteen. He uh this his nephew,
his Clay's fourteen year old nephew. Nephew shows up. He's
got like a beard, tattoos on his arms. Get fetched
three hundred. He's like, hey, lay tennis, he's got three kids,
mortgage already served a tour and nomu when we come
back tomorrow. We got a ton of great talkbacks. You
(36:40):
can go download the app. You don't have to wait
in line. You can just record something. We'll play and
producer Greg let's listens through them. Love you guys. We'll
have more fun to mar
Welcome in hour number three Clay Travis buck Sexton show.
I appreciate all of you rolling through the program with me.
So many people. Way again, we're gonna have some fun
on my contention that you cannot take a first date
out and pay for it on a gift certificate, which
(00:21):
I would continue to hammer home. Some news that is
out there on the Caroline Levitt has been having a
press availability, a White House press conference, and she has
confirmed that the big meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir
Putin will occur in Anchorage Anchorage, Alaska coming up on Friday.
(00:46):
Will be a huge story for what exactly we will
hope to be a successful meeting, And as we told
you yesterday, President Trump will know relatively quickly whether he
says there is a deal to be made here or
he is still kind of getting yanked around, for lack
(01:07):
of a better phrase to explain why this ongoing negotiation continues.
Some positive news, The inflation report that came out this
morning continues to be low, inflation at two point seven percent.
The stock market has surged as a result of that report,
(01:28):
as inflation came in lower than expected for I think
the fifth month in the last six. There has not
been a major inflation impact at all from so far
President Trump's tariffs, and we have new stock market records
all over the Nasdaq, all over the S and P
five hundred, the dal Jones Industrial. If you have a
(01:51):
four to oh one k, your stocks are setting record highs.
So your retirement is doing very, very well. And I'll
continue to echo if you were just not a panicker,
if you did not panic in April when everybody tried
to tell you, oh my goodness, these tariffs are going
to destroy the economy, there's no way to continue to
(02:14):
live this way. It is the case that I believe
the Trump economy is starting starting to fire on all cylinders.
Growth in wages is outpacing growth in cost, which is
the most important I would say measurement economically because it
means you have more money in your pocket. Now. I
(02:36):
know many of you out there are still very frustrated
by the price of goods, which skyrocketed during the Biden
administration when we got to over nine percent inflation. I
understand when people say, hey, things still feel like they
cost too much. Unfortunately, inflation is embedded. We very rarely
ever go backwards in price, so The best thing you
can hope for is that prices stop growing at exponential rates,
(03:00):
which is again where we are. We got a bunch
of people who want to weigh in a variety of topics.
Let me hit you with one bit of news. I
should have hit this last week. I kind of missed it.
I think it happened Thursday after the show. I didn't
talk about it on Friday. But I think it is
an important cultural hallmark here, Gina Carano, Buck, did you
ever watch The Mandalorian on Disney Plus. I thought the
(03:23):
first season was excellent and then it kind of kind
of crashed into the planet Laura. My wife watches all
these shows, and she watches them generally with our boys.
They loved the Mandalorian. It was a Disney Plus Star
Wars related show. Disney fired Gina Carano for having very
(03:44):
what I would say is just a little bit right
of center opinions on social media. She later sued they
fired her in twenty twenty one Friday last week, they
Disney apologized to her and basically said, hey, we're going
to rehire you. We talk about these things because I
do think the cultural significance of them is becoming more
(04:05):
and more Paramount and buck. I'll add this. I saw
this story up at Mediaite and also up at OutKick
Sidney Sweeney the ad that was so controversial. We were
all told only twelve percent of Americans, according to a
big poll that was conducted, actually found this ad in
(04:28):
any way offensive. Forty percent thought that it was a
very successful ad. A lot of other people didn't care
at all, one way or the other. But it is
interesting how the left wing I think their ability to
bully and try to force people not to not to
be able to say, hey, you know, being a white
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girl with blue eyes and blonde hair is a perfectly
fine advertisement. The way that they ran and hid from
this and tried to They've gotten used to being a
to bully people into apologizing and not doing ads like this.
I do think the best advice I have for anyone
out there is do the opposite of what's popular on Twitter,
(05:10):
and very often your business will thrive because Twitter is
not real life, and I think this is yet more
evidence of that being true. Well, twit x now it's
a lot more reflective of real life than it used
to be. You know, I remember it. It's funny. Ever
since the social justice. Communists were kicked out of there
(05:31):
by Elon. I never get dragged. They used to call
it piled on publicly by you know, some some random
writers from Vox or something. You know, this just doesn't
happen anymore. Yes, And I think there was a tremendous
amount of both suppression and amplification in favor of communist madness.
I know, well, we know there was. I mean we
(05:52):
that's Elon bought it and we saw that and that
was real. Uh yeah, they're they're honestly, so many of
these people who a decade ago love to to be
all tough on Twitter, they're all they're all leftist cowards.
They don't they don't pick fights anymore. They don't want
to because they know now that they don't have the
rigged game in effect. So I'm very grateful that that
(06:13):
that has changed. Let me play a couple of clips
for you that are starting to echo throughout the Internet ecosystem.
The chief of police for the police for DC, they
had a press conference. Mayor Muriel Bowser was also there.
The chief of police had absolutely no idea what the
(06:36):
phrase chain of command was and uh and and had
listen just listen to this clip and think to yourself,
does this sound like a person who should be in
charge of keeping people safe in d C. The mayor
then has to step in, and I think it's evidence
of what we have kind of told you, which is,
I think the mayor does want additional resources. Politically, it's
(06:57):
just hard for her to endorse the decision made by
Donald Trump. But listen to this clip. Is what the
shaane of command is? Now, what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, is it Cam Bondi's free.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Or so at The executive order is clear the President
has requested MPD services, and our Home Rule Charter outlines
the process. The President designated Attorney General Bondi as his
proxy to request services through me.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Okay, so I know that's a little bit confusing. The
video makes it easier. The chief of police did not
seem to understand the concept of chain of command, and
so she had to step back, and then the mayor
came in and kind of explained how this was laying out,
which is, the President is at the top of the
chain of command in DC as it pertains to it's
a federal leadership there, which I do think is is
(07:55):
kind of important. All right. I wanted to play this
for you, Buck, because you just came back from New
York City recently. You were up there with your family.
You're born and raised New York City. George will I
think he's still at the Washington Post, one of the
foremost conservative columnists of the last forty years, probably was
on with Bill Maher and he said the same thing
(08:16):
that I said recently, which is, sometimes you just have
to let democrats deal with the consequences of their choices.
And so this argument is starting to spread a little bit.
And I want to get your take because I don't
know that you've talked about what you saw in New
York City and how the city felt. But listen to this.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Here you have Trump, who is the Republican who is
aggrandizing more power than anybody, as we just talked about.
And on the other side, you have the guy running
in New York Mendami, right, Okay, who's like a straight
up communist. I mean he is. He talks about, you know,
the things that communists say. I mean, he wants free
(08:55):
grocery stores, free buses.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I want him to win.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You want them to win. Yeah, I think every twenty
years or so, Wait, we need.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Every twenty years or so.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
We need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we
can crack it up again.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Okay, Buck, you were just in New York City. It
seems like they're sort of a slow moving panic setting
in because Mam Donnie is remaining in the lead even
though he's clearly got communist opinions. Neither Cuomo, Eric Adams
nor Curtis Lee Whi has been able to say, Hey,
this is going to be the primary adversary. What's the
(09:37):
vibe there so far as you could tell, And what
do you think of George Well's argument? Well, the vibe
is the slow growth of the Pannikin mindset. I think
that Mam Donnie is gonna win, yes, because the alternatives
to him, none of them are good, and they're all
(09:58):
very good at canceling each other out. And I know it.
Please don't send me the Curtis Sliwa Curtis. I'm sure
Curtis is a great guy. I've interviewed him before. He's
not going to be the mayor of New York City. Okay,
it's just not gonna happen. So I wish that was
not the case. But this is a bit like when
libertarians once every four years, send me the our candidate's
gonna win the presidency. No he's not. Okay, it's not
(10:19):
gonna happen, So please don't send me those emails. And
I think that unfortunately, mom, Donnie's going to be the mayor,
and that's going to result in some real problems for
the city. As for George Will, I mean, look, I
cannot abide my what is still my hometown, and I
(10:40):
cannot abide the largest city in America being burned down
as some kind of a message because the communists never
get the message. It's it's not like they're gonna learn.
It's a bit like dealing with children, Clay, when you
have to tell them, you know what, you can't actually
just have like ice cream and pizza every night for dinner,
and you're to eat good food, Like we just have
(11:01):
to be in charge, and the leftists have to not
be in charge. They never learn the lesson. They will
keep burning their hand touching the stove when it's hot.
They never learned the lesson. So I disagree with Georgia, who,
by the way, lives in Chevy Chase talking about Chevy
Chase before. So he lives in a very rich, very
affluent suburb of DC. And it's easy for him with
(11:22):
a little bow tie on who's been wrong about everything
Trump related? I might add he's been one of those,
one of those. And you know Trump wouldn't get into
his country club, I'm sure. But you know it's it's
I think that it's a it's a bad idea because
the lessons aren't learned. I mean, look at look at
(11:42):
San Francisco. They dial it back a little bit, but
it's not like the Democrats have said, you know what,
San Francisco governance was a bad idea. We're going to
change our win now. The communist never gets tired of
being a communist because it's not about what is. It's
about what makes them feel. And that's why I think
New York City has a lesson. Very easy for George
Will to say, but I don't think New York City
(12:03):
has a lesson will actually have the intended result. I'd
rather us just move in the other direction and get
points on the board, right, you know, because because I don't,
I don't think his thing about it being an example
is true. It'd be one thing if it actually was
going to be. Oh, the whole country will learn. You
know what happened in New York City. Giuliani came in
and fixed the city. That was the lesson. They didn't
(12:24):
learn from previous Democrat hellscape experiments in New York. They
didn't learn from Dinkins and Koch and you know, YadA, YadA,
go back. So you want victory, you don't want defeat.
Defeat is not a good teacher, unfortunately my u in
this case. In general, it can be. But my only
argument is I think it makes it more likely that
we win the House if people like Mom Donnie and
(12:46):
AOC are the face of the Democrat Party by twenty
twenty six. So this is my argument. Will did not
make it thoroughly, but that we sometimes have to sacrifice
the you know, the tigers are running out there, and
you got to outrun the tiger. And I don't think
see I think that Mam Donnie would maybe this will
help you, which could be important. Maybe this will help
(13:08):
you with some New York State congressional seats. I don't.
I don't think that in purple states you're gonna there's
not gonna be some Mam Donnie effect of people who
live in like the He's not well enough known in
your mind for people to even react to it, and
people want people in the rest of the country aren't
going to care about what the mayor of New York
is doing when they're voting for Congress. I don't think
(13:29):
uh so in that sense. I don't see. And also
he just doesn't have the national profile you know, AOC
and Bernie. Uh It's funny. They are still the biggest
draw that the Democrats have. But I wonder if they
really are going to have the negative effects on Democrats
in the midterms that people would like to see. I'm curious.
I'm curious about it. But yeah, George Will, George Will,
(13:53):
George Will could use little dose of humility. I think
you know, George Will writing for that Washington Post communist
slop for a long time, being all smug with his
little bow tie on.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You know what, buddy, you know back of the room,
you know, I know you're an old guy, but back
of the room you got some things to learn. I'm
not impressed. So you know, wrong on everything Trump related.
Just gonna say, just just as dug in on Trump
and as anti Trump as anyone can be, and for
what for what? So the communists can run amok, so
we can all learn a lesson whill George is playing croquet. Sorry,
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Speaker 1 (15:56):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're talking about Mom
Donnie the Kami in New York City. And just to
if you want to know where he stands on, uh, well,
the issue of Trump. This will not be a surprise.
He is launching a five Burrows against Trump tour play
twenty two.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Donald Trump does not respond well to cowardice, to collaboration.
He requires a response that showcases the ability to fight
back against that same agenda. And that's what I would
do if and when he makes these kinds of threats
with regards to New York City. I describe my administration
as being his worst nightmare.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Trump's worst nightmare. You guys, all the prosperity and secure
border and peace insanity that's going on, Mom, Donnie hates
all of that, So pretty clear where he stands. Yeah,
and did you see he's starting to get caught. He
was having and living in a reduced rate apartment. I
give credit to Andrew Cuomo for starting to kind of
(16:55):
throw some punches and that he wouldn't or shouldn't have
been quite quied for that reduced rate apartment. The problem
is Cuomo actually supported, you know, a policy that has
taken tons of apartments out of the mix. What I'm
hearing is I was reading about this tons of landlords
(17:16):
and some of you in New York City probably are
very well versed in it. Some of you may be
doing this have actually just taken some of these apartments
out of the circuit because they can't make money because
of the rates that they're allowed to charge on some
of these units, and so they're just saying, screw it,
I'd rather have it sit vacant, which obviously drives up
the overall costs because there aren't enough apartments available. We'll
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see whether some of these illegals now being forced out
of the country can start to have an impact on
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rolling in on the first two and a half hours
of the program. Positive let me, let me give you
(19:06):
a positive. I mentioned that July fourth, next year, which
is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America's independence,
is going to include a UFC fight on the south
lawn of the White House. I had seen that report.
The team did a good job and grabbed it. Here
(19:26):
is cut thirty three Dana White confirming that.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
There is talk of a July fourth, go ahead fight
America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday next summer. We're at
the White House, a pretty big venue.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Is that going to happen?
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Daniel?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
What can you tell us it is.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Definitely going to happen. Oh, I talked to him last night,
him being the president, and I'm flying out there at
the end of this month and I'm going to sit
down and walk him through, you know, all the plans
and the renderings, and we're going to start deciding what
he wants and doesn't want. But yeah, it's definitely gonna happen. Well,
think about this, when you were just asking me, you know,
(20:04):
at the beginning, how I felt about You know, where
we are today, July fourth, two hundred and fiftieth birthday
of the United States of America, live on CBS from
the White House.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Fuck that is going to be pretty awesome. And Trump
throwing the two hundred and fiftieth birthday party in general
is going to be phenomenal. But to have all of
these different cool events, I'm sure there will be a
deluge of awesomeness descending onto DC. And hopefully it's a
much safer DC by then. And I thankfully it won't
(20:37):
be ten degrees outside like it was during the inauguration,
because that was a little rough. It might be one
hundred ten degrees. Because it'll be the July fourth event.
I would take I would take that over what we
were subjected to an inauguration. It was I looked like
Leonardo DiCaprio in that movie where he gets attacked by
the bear. You know that the remnant wearing like oh
(20:58):
ten bear skins to walk around in is very, very
very cool. I will say that I don't think a
lot of people have talked about this, at least I
haven't seen it. To me, Trump's decision to clean up Washington,
DC is likely very connected to the fact that there
will be many two hundred and fiftieth anniversary events going
on in DC, and he wants DC to have its
(21:19):
best look about it as people are coming in from
all over the world and certainly all over the country
to celebrate. So I do think there's probably a connection
between the timing of Trump's decision on DC and our
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. All Right, we got a
lot of talkbacks. Let me hit some of these. By
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E and I she has this to say.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Fuck, did Clay just say he's surprised or shocked that
anyone dated you in New York while you were riding
your scooter. This is coming from a man whose appearance
has been compared to that of a homeless person, and
who has openly stated he doesn't know how to operate
an oven or any kitchen appliance.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
This is all Try to be fair. To be fair,
your appearance has not been compared to a homeless person.
Your wardrobe has been has been compared to a homeless person.
My recollection is that emailer said that I had the
beard of a homeless person. If you remember that emailer
and your stand I stand corrected. I rushed to your defense,
youre SERVI now I realized I've been I've been mowed
(22:58):
down by the machine gun nest. So yeah, okay, yeah,
she's right. That emailer said he criticized every aspect of
my physical appearance, and then closed with if I remember correctly,
and your beard has the appearance of a homeless person's beard.
I'm paraphrasing, but I think, Look, that's a lot of attacks.
(23:20):
When she started, she sounded so nice and librarian like,
and then, much like with many criticisms, as she layered
one sentence upon another, it continued to get progressively worse
for me. So thank you, Pam. Now you're not without
not without attack. Here, let's see. Let me there's a
lot of good ones out there. Is this hh you
(23:43):
want to get to Glen and Ohio. This is, I
would say, an unprovoked attack, maybe the Pearl Harbor of
the Show style attack. Listen to Gigi to aj Buck.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
This is Glenn from Ohio. I'm a sixty six year
old tennis player. I still think I can compete with you,
even though you just got rid of your dad body
and you just put on a new tennis grip. I'm
surprised you don't use tennis over wraps, but maybe you
don't like them. Let's get together if you're not afraid
oh im in all right, I.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Got this guy by twenty five years bucket. He's talking
trying to settle down here. We gotta sell that. First
of all, this is a turner grip over grip, all right,
just to be clear. And and this is my Wilson
Pro staff. So I like a stiff racket, you know,
that requires you to hit in the sweet spot, not
one of these super light rackets with a giant sweet spot,
because you know, trying to actually have some technique out there.
(24:34):
And I'm just gonna say this to you, Glenn. You're
sixty six years old. Unless you were on the pro tour,
you would get smoked. Oh meaning unless you're a former
pro tennis player at sixty six, I think I think
you're toast, my man. I'm just telling you, I'm not
gonna back down on this one. The wheels that I've
got and then the forehand, the accuracy that I can
do inside out. You know, You're just I'm gonna run
(24:56):
you around that cork, Glenn, and I'm gonna have to
probably stop and check on you. It's not going to
be good for you, buddy, So sorry. Challenge accepted. Basically
just said he would put you in the hospital. Glenn,
Senior citizen trash talk. What is your speed on your serve?
What do you mean your head? Pikes is I'm more
of a I'm more of a consistency guy. I mean
(25:16):
I could I could juice it up to about one
hundred and undred and fifteen. Oh that's oh that's ridiculous.
Over one hundred miles an hour on your serve. Oh absolutely, yeah,
Oh wow, Oh that's really the Glenn has no change.
I know, one hundred miles an hour on his serve
is pretty rare, isn't it in tennis? No, No, that's
that's not that's actually not that fast. I mean you said,
how fast can I, sir? How fast do I serve?
(25:38):
Probably more like a hundo one hundred, But you know
there are the pros now serve routinely one twenty five,
one thirty. I mean that's like not but yeah, I
could probably do. I would say I serve on average
about one hundred, and I could get it up to
one ten if I wanted to throw a little shoulder
into it. But it's clay. It's all all about what's
up here, buddy. It's all about what's between the years.
(25:59):
You know, it's a hey, it's a mind game. It's consistency.
I don't think that many tennis players who are not
really elite tennis players hit the ball one hundred miles
an hour, right, I mean that's a pretty Now every
every college, every college player is hitting the ball a
lot of them. I mean, do you like I mean,
basically if you want to not have basically like the
level of a D three college player when I was younger.
(26:20):
I mean I've beaten people who played D three college
pretty you know that. That's happened many times in the past. Yeah.
But D three college tennis, I would think their drop
off is not that significant, right, because tennis it is closer.
It depends on the school, this is the thing. It
depends very much on the school. D three racket sports
can actually, like I think Trinity College in Hartford had
(26:41):
the best squash team in the country for a while
and it's a D three school. Yeah, I mean they
would have soccer. This happens too, right, where you could
be the D three soccer team, whereas if you played
like D three football or basketball, you would get smoked. No,
I think soccer you I think soccer you get pretty
Now it's really the racket sports where I think the
it's very close. It's also those are individual sports too,
(27:02):
so the team dynamic matters matters less. But yeah, squash tennis,
you can definitely have D three players who are really competitive.
So yeah, I mean I was probably at like a
bad D three college player level to be fair, and
you know, I'd say I could do.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Am.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I gonna have to post some Clay am I gonna
if I have to get the serve gun out. I
feel like Clay is a little suspicions. So now I'm
actually impressed. Although my mom, speaking of senior citizen trash
talk evidently, and I don't know because I have not
watched him play lately, my fourteen year old nephew is
one of the best players in the state of Tennessee,
and my mom just said he could beat you. This
(27:41):
is mom's If he's a state level fourteen year old,
he absolutely would beat me. Yeah really, oh yeah, yeah, sure,
I've not watched him play lately, but I've played enough
tennis and enough like open matches and enough places to
kind of know what the what the levels are. I mean,
if by sixteen in tennis you can be a straight
up pro, you can. Mean people have won wimbled than
at seventeen. So and I think Martina Hingis won wimbled
(28:03):
in at sixteen. I think you're fourteen, you've got the
you know, for fourteen you can be. Didn't Copriotti start
playing when she was fourteen on the professional tour? That
made me very Yeah, definitely, you can be a teenager
on the pro tour for sure, and not like you know,
seventeen and six months. I mean, you can be fourteen.
Fifty golf was like a sixteen year old. I know,
(28:24):
the Venus and Serena Williams. Well, this is why college
tennis generally, this has changed a little bit recently, but
college tennis generally has if you were going to be
like world class, you actually don't go to tennis. You
don't go to college to play tennis because you're already
on the tour. Usually that's changed a little bit. You've
got like James Blake went to Harvard and he was
a top player. There's a little bit more of this.
(28:44):
There are some others, but traditionally, especially in the foreign players.
They they're pro by and they've been training, by the way,
NonStop since they were like five. That's right, by the way,
here's some funny. Well, well, let's come back and we'll
close out. Lots of reaction to my which I'll stand by.
No one has ever gotten married if a man used
(29:06):
a gift certificate on the very first date with the girl.
It's never happened, and I do not believe it has
happened in the history of the world. But a lot
of people weighing in on my he's not that into
you theory if he's using a gift certificate on the
very first date. I'm not talking about date six or
date eight, or saving money because you're gonna get married
or whatever. I'm talking about the first date. You have
(29:27):
upset the thrifty contingent of our audiencer, which is considerable.
People like value. They like a good deal. My wife,
I don't know if anything other than like seeing our
baby smile or playing fetch with Ginger out in the yard.
I don't know if anything makes Kerry happier than getting
a great deal. I will tell you this, if you
(29:48):
had taken Carrie out on a date. Where did you
go on your first day? Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, of course at Peninsula Hotel, like to like the
rooftop of the Peninsula. Yeah, okay, fabulous where jesse can
Ali maxed out your credit card on eighty dollars shots
of tequila. Yes, that's right. I will say, I don't
know that they have gift certificates at the Peninsula Hotel,
so I don't even know. They probably don't even sell
gifts to That's a super high end place. Well done
(30:14):
by you. We went on our first date to bowling.
Very romantic guy that I am. Laura Travis and I
Were you better than her? Because your wife is very athletic.
She is, I'm not sure that I would put money
on you to beat her in bowling necessary. I'm actually
a really good bowler. Oh it is Oh looking a
(30:35):
couple of bowling leagues. I was over over two hundred.
It never told me this. You were like the big
Lebowski guy. You were on the bowling team. I was
in a bowling league. I was, you know, getting it
up near. I think I had have one eighty five
average or something like that, which is pretty good. I mean,
it's not like, so this is why you went first
date bowling. You were like, let me show you how
(30:56):
I roll a lady literally, and it's now been torn
down that bowling alley. But I do think if I
had taken her to Chili's and I've been like, boom,
I got whatever you wanted. Chili's mom gave me this
gift certificate, I don't think we'd be married. I think
she she might have found it so funny that she
(31:17):
was willing to hang around. But we didn't have any
money of any significant nature we started dating, So maybe
she would have been more forgiving than not. Maybe she's
listening right now, she can text me. I think it
would have been a I think it would have been
a big no. And I think, again, guys out there,
I'm trying to save you. I'm trying to get you married,
have kids, live happily ever after. Don't use the gift
(31:38):
certificate on the very first date, because the girl's gonna
be like, he didn't even think I was worthy of
actual credit card, actual cash. I'm just telling you. I
think I think there's a little bit a little bit
of filibustering going on here of all of the people
who want to make their case play that the gift
certificate on the first date is fine. So we're gonna
let them. We're gonna let their voices be heard when
we come back, because they're they're they're not they're not feeling, uh,
(31:59):
what you're putting down on this one. I'm just gonna
say this, and I'm glad that I'm not directly in
the blast radius of Clay's elitist anti gift certificate take
on the first date. So there's that. Actually, no, I
think I agreed with you. Damn it. I think I
agree with you. Of course you agreed with me, because
any man out there think about this, sir, can I
take the bill? Yes, it's first of all, the gift
(32:21):
certificates inevitably look way too ridiculous, right, They're really bright,
and they have like they're very noticeable, and then you
typically don't have enough on the gift certificate, so you're like,
put part of it on the gift certificate, but also
whatever's left, I'll take care of myself. Like the girls like,
why did he not value me enough to actually not
(32:42):
have his mom's gift certificate paying for our day? Well,
maybe he just seeks out value wherever he is. Our Look,
if I use a gift certificate, you know what she
may think. She may think that I need some chalk. Actually,
she's like, this guy get it together, needs a little
bit of chalk in his life. Choq. My friends Clay
and I are talking this. We're both we're both middle
aged guys now and we're trying to be healthy more walks.
(33:05):
But I'm also a big believer in proper supplementation. I
was just texting see it in the CEO yesterday about
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
First of all, I didn't know about this. This is
podcast listener Brian from Jacksonville. JAYJ. Hit it Hey, Clay
Buckets is Brian from Jacksonville.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
I want to get Clay's opinion on the fact that
the Minnesota Vikings just hired a male cheerleader as their
lead cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
NFL is going woke. What is that? I just that's
not That's not I I don't know. I do know
that they have been putting gay slash trans slash dudes
and look to be fair, there is a difference between
a male cheerleader who is like a stunter and is
throwing a girl up in the air and she's doing
like flips and everything else, and a guy who is
(34:54):
like in sparkles and sequins and is dancing with the
girls the first one. If you have those kinds of cheerleaders,
more power to him. They can't do the stunts without them. No,
no negativity. Let's colleges have that. Some NFL teams do
the whole guy in a sequence like dancing around is crazy,
by the way, So I'm very anti that my wife
went in. She said, I think it really depends on
(35:16):
the stage your are in life. You and I were
broke and living on law school loans and we started dating,
so I likely would have forgiven the use of a
gift certificate. But by today's standards, I'm not sure I
would accept a gift certificate on a first date. Also,
your nephew is actually fifteen, not fourteen. And she says
she's skeptical that buck can serve one hundred miles an hour.
(35:37):
Oh okay, okay, now it's on Laura. Now it's on.
There's gonna be video. There's gonna be video of this.
It has to happen, and it probably has to happen.
Some people are saying, Buck's serving in tennis. I want
to see you doing one hundred miles an hour. Also,
in my defense, the kid had a birthday like three
months ago. That's pretty close. Like he's now fifteen, but
(35:59):
like in May he turned. I think I get a
pass on that if you're an uncle and you're within
like a couple of months of how old your nieces
or nephews are, Like, I don't think that's a big
whiff by me. But he's fifteen. Now, we got a
bunch of talkbacks. Let's roll these over. We're gonna get
this guy drug tested too. He's older than we fought.
You know what else is? What else is in this?
I was definitely rigging the game here. I thought he
(36:20):
was fourteen. My son is fourteen. He uh this his nephew,
his Clay's fourteen year old nephew. Nephew shows up. He's
got like a beard, tattoos on his arms. Get fetched
three hundred. He's like, hey, lay tennis, he's got three kids,
mortgage already served a tour and nomu when we come
back tomorrow. We got a ton of great talkbacks. You
(36:40):
can go download the app. You don't have to wait
in line. You can just record something. We'll play and
producer Greg let's listens through them. Love you guys. We'll
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