June 12, 2025 • 35 mins
The escalating national unrest, immigration enforcement, and cultural flashpoints shaping the political landscape under President Donald Trump. The hour opens with a critical analysis of the ongoing protests and riots across major U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York City. Clay and Buck emphasize the distinction between peaceful protests and violent riots, highlighting the media's reluctance to acknowledge the latter. A major focus is on President Trump’s immigration policy, particularly his promise to execute the largest deportation operation in American history. The hosts underscore that this initiative, which prioritizes the removal of violent criminal offenders, aligns with the working-class majority’s support. They also discuss the exploitation of illegal labor by elites and the need for stricter enforcement against employers hiring undocumented workers. The conversation shifts to the deteriorating conditions in Los Angeles, where Mayor Karen Bass admits the city is overwhelmed by graffiti and vandalism ahead of the 2026 World Cup. Clay and Buck argue that cities failing to maintain law and order should not be rewarded with global events. They advocate for holding vandals accountable by requiring them to clean up the damage they cause. The hosts also explore the psychological impact of urban decay, likening widespread graffiti to a visual symbol of lawlessness. They draw parallels between the current unrest and past left-wing protest movements like Occupy Wall Street and BLM, asserting that the left has cultivated a culture of protest and riot. A viral moment from New York City is discussed, where a black mother confronts white protestors blocking traffic, exposing the disconnect between activist ideology and everyday Americans trying to work. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is praised for his policy allowing drivers to protect themselves if surrounded by threatening mobs, reinforcing the state’s commitment to law and order. The hour also covers the reconciliation between President Trump and Elon Musk following a public dispute. Caroline Levitt confirms that President Trump has accepted Musk’s apology, and the hosts commend Trump’s statesmanlike response. They highlight Musk’s influence in fostering free speech through X (formerly Twitter), which has become a vital platform for open discourse. Finally, the segment touches on cultural shifts, including Stephen A. Smith’s recent comments supporting women’s sports and opposing male participation in female categories. This is framed as a sign of growing mainstream resistance to radical gender ideology, with figures like Simone Biles and Riley Gaines at the center of the debate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third hour of Clay and Buck, and we are continuing
to follow very closely these protests and riots. We're gonna
use those words interchangeably. There are protests and there are riots,
so you don't have to correct us when we say protests.
We're aware of both of these things, and protests is fine.
And as we learned from Caroline Levitt yesterday, it is
(00:20):
a stupid question for anyone in the press to say
it as President Trump. I like the way she handled that,
because that was just meant to be an insult. It's
like the President Trump even the Constitution, like, yeah, idiot,
ask a real question. So I like the way that
she handled that. That was great. Caroline Levitt, you know,
we were on the Levit train very early. Here I'm
just saying we were on the Levit train, which she
was running for Congress, so we knew she was going
(00:41):
to be a superstar, and here she is. But you
had the press trying to make something of this, trying
to make it seem like the American people aren't with
the Trump administration efforts to enforce the law, and some
very interesting things are going on with all this, with
(01:01):
these riots, with these protests, all that stuff. First of all,
I think on how this has gone over politically. Former
democrat has cut five. Batya Unger Sargon. We've talked about
her before here on that we had her on the
show recently, Yeah, we had her on the show. She
was on that CNN panel The only thing worth watching
(01:22):
at CNN. Doesn't this tell you something? Clay is the
occasional center right person, sometimes the center, sometimes truly right wing.
From Scott Jennings for Michael Singleton, Batya Unger, Sargon, Ben Ferguson.
The only thing watching worth watching is the conservative slapping
around the Libs at that table. Here is Batia talking
about the deportations and the truth of what Trump promised.
(01:45):
Play five.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I hear this talking point a lot from Democrats that
Donald Trump misled the American people and somehow said he
was only going to.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Deport violent criminals. Pizey single rally that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I watched, he said, we are going to have the
largest deportation operation in American history. And the reason he
did that is because that position has majority support with
the American people, and that position is what got him
the majority of working class people, because immigration is a
(02:18):
topic that divides the working class from the elites. The
elites are the consumers of low wage labor. And when
you guys say they're taking people from the community, what
you mean is they're taking people from the workforce, people
who undercut the wages of American workers, which is why
the working class flipped from the Democrats too.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Of the Republicans. Two important points she's making their clay. One,
Trump promised the biggest deportation operations in history. Prioritizing the
worst of the worst defenders doesn't give everyone else a
pass in this. It's just okay, Yeah, we're going to
focus on getting the you know, child molesters and you know,
(02:58):
gang members with blood on their hands, get them out
of the country who are legal aliens first. So that's
point one. Trump is doing exactly what he promised, which
is why I keep saying everyone says, who voted for Trump, Yeah,
I voted for this. I mean I voted for this.
And the second part of it is just the exploitation
of cheap labor and how central that is to the
donor class, to the elites. And this brings me to
(03:20):
they're going to have to start enforcing fines against employers
with this. They have to come at this from which
is going to be a little bit of a wake
up call, but it needs to happen. It is illegal
if you are employing large numbers or any numbers of
illegals in your business. You're not supposed to. Now, someone
will say, but they have fake solid security cards and
they have fake so it's a little more complicated. But
(03:42):
for the worst defenders you need to do some deterrence enforcement.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, and I do think that the degree to which
illegal immigrants have incredibly detailed fake SOID security cards. You say, okay,
well how does that happen? I don't know how they
get them made, but so Security then gets had money
that never go out. So that is some element out
(04:05):
there for people who say, okay, well how does this happen?
The money still goes in for payroll taxes, except the
numbers are not necessarily getting matched. Now, sometimes my understanding
is there is identity theft and fraud going on, and
it's a complicated aspect, but yes, that factors in. I
thought this was interesting too, because they tried to say
(04:26):
for a long time, well there's not actually riot's.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Going on in LA.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Remember Brian Stelter went on CNN and he said, remember
It's very important to note that ninety nine point nine
percent of Los Angeles is having no issue at all.
And meanwhile, yesterday La Mayor Karen Bass said the city
has so much graffiti that the vandalism is so extensive.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They won't be ready for the World Cup next year.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Listen to this cut because it definitely calls into question
the talking point that this this is a small issue of.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Violent and the illegal behavior. Cut eight.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The graffiti that is just blanketing a number of blocks
has been extensive. We are one year away from the
World Cup. This is about beautifying our city and bringing
our city together, and so I am calling on business leaders,
community leaders, faith leaders to come together downtown in the
(05:27):
next few days to talk about how we are going
to clean up the city. Obviously, city workers are already
out there removing the graffiti, but this is so extensive
it's going to take community wide involvement. We had launched
a program called Shine La a couple of months ago
in preparation for the World Cup, and now we are
(05:47):
called on to direct that citywide. We need people from
all over the city to come to downtown and to
help with this effort.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Okay, I got a crazy idea for you, Bock, maybe
the people who did the graffiti, as a part of
paying penance for their crimes, should have to clean up
the graffiti that they created instead of asking good people
in Los Angeles who had nothing to do with this
and LA area taxpayers to clean up the mess that
they created and frankly that the mayor and the governor
(06:15):
allowed to occur. Second part on this, I actually think
Trump could come out and say, why does Los Angeles
deserve to host the World Cup? I mean, there are
lots of cities in red states that are not rioting.
You live in Florida, there's a whole heck of a
lot about we'll talk about how Florida we're going to
play that cut in a sec from Ron desanteis governor.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But there's a whole heck of a lot of places.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I know some of these cities are already hosting the
World Cup, but there are a lot of Red states
out there where I think Trump could say, why should
you reward a city that wasn't able to keep itself
from rioting with a World Cup host?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You got a year away. There's a lot of stadiums
where you could host games. Well. I also think as
somebody who saw firsthand what a visual virus graffiti can
be in New York. And this is you go back
to these movies, whether it's the Charles Bronson death Wish
movies or just I think Warriors with the Gangs. I mean,
(07:14):
all these different there was just graffiti everywhere. And when
I was a kid in the city, you know, early nineties,
there was in the nicest neighborhoods, there was graffiti everywhere,
and it was a constant psychological menace of degradation, of barbarism.
(07:35):
I know, people say, oh, it's just no, no, no,
it's destruction of property, it's lawlessness, it's criminality, and it's
just a sign of the criminality that is constantly all
around you. It is a visual reminder, the same way
that masks during COVID were so important to left because
it was a visual reminder of who is in charge
(07:56):
and your mandatory obedience. Right, that's what it was, edians
training for the masses. When you have graffiti everywhere, it
is the psychological you know, the psychological assault of you're
in a lawless place. You are in a place where
people don't respect property, where the authorities can't actually protect you,
(08:18):
and so I am so adamantly anti graffiti as a
as a thing. I do not take it lightly. I
think that it gets worse and worse and worse in
places that allow. I know that it does because I
see and you can turn it around. But you got
to be to your point and you got to be
harsh with people who do it. And one of the
best ways to do it is, you know what, you
can either go to prison or you can spend every
(08:40):
weekend for the next six months cleaning up graffiti. How
about that. That absolutely is the way that it should be.
But it also just goes the mentality of these people
who are involved in these pres because if it's all
over the city, we're talking to a lot of people
who are doing this obviously, uh, and they think that
the laws don't apply to them, and they're often right. Unfortunately. Well,
(09:01):
I'm hoping that Trump is going to show that at
least when it comes to immigration, and I think he
is showing this, and this is the whole point. The
laws do apply to them, but I'm seeing more. I
even saw somebody on Twitter suggesting this says, yeah, this
is what I say if these people, if you don't
have to be legal in this country, I don't have
to pay taxes. Increasingly this has and you can make
(09:22):
the same arguments my tax dollars do. I'm a nice person,
I don't hurt anybody, but you don't need my tax
The Treasury Department isn't going to go bankrupt without my taxes.
You're gonna lock me up. You're gonna separate me from
my family if I don't pay taxes. Same kind of
arguments you can make about illegal immigration, except they're making
it for tens of millions of people. But this is
the same argument. I'm not hurting anybody, well, but you're
(09:44):
actually breaking the law, and you're making a choice to
break the law.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I also think buck the way that the far left
is coming together on these rallies and these riots. This
cut we have here from Seattle. There are other cities
where people are starting to riot.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I don't know how well you'll be able to hear this,
but SPD, Seattle Police Department KKK. We all know what
the KKK is, Ku kuk Klan, and then the IDF,
the Israeli Defense Forces, they're all the same. This is
a chant right now that's going on in Seattle. This
is part of their worldview on the left, connecting all
(10:23):
these different aspects of the world. Listen to cut for Okay,
not necessarily the easiest slogan to chant, but buck this
(10:44):
is indicative of the global worldview that they are trying
to bring together.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We'll talk about this a bit more.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
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Speaker 3 (12:11):
Awesome show so far, lots of fun. Jay Feely was
in with us. We've got a super busy schedule in Washington, DC.
There are many different topics we've been diving into. But
we've been talking here at the top of this third
hour about the continued fallout of the protests and their growth,
and we played chant from Seattle Seattle Police Department kkk IDF.
(12:35):
They're all the same as we were rolling through there.
We also want to play for you as there are
now protests in many different parts of the country. The
idea of these being connected to what happened on October seventh,
and trying to connect that with the ice raids and
with the police departments and everything else. This is a
(12:56):
goal of the left right now. And I saw this
that went megaviral in New York City. Protesters, and these
protesters happen to be white, are blocking the street and
keeping people who are trying to drive to work from
being able to get to work. And this is a
black mom who confronts these white protesters and says, hey,
(13:19):
I've got to get to work. Just listen to how
arrogant they are when she is simply trying to get
to her job. I think this connects very much with
so many people out there listen to cut two no work, you.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Don't care about stop black people.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
From me.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I don't know if you could hear the guy, oh no,
not work? Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And I know again there's an audio in the background.
You could hear the chanting. But I do think this
is representative of the arrogance of left wing protesters. Most
people in this country have to work, and I know
a lot of you are out there working right now.
Who are these people that just decide, hey, I want
(14:34):
to keep you from being able to work, and you know,
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is let it be known, we're
not going to stand for this. And in fact, I
believe he was on with our friend Dave Rubin and
H and he talked about the fact that, look, if
there are protesters in your way, you aren't obligated in
(14:56):
Florida to have to deal with all of this. In fact,
this this is cut twenty five. He says, Floridians they're
allowed to drive over protesters in the street if they
feel like their life is in danger. Listen to cut
twenty five.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We also have a policy that if you're driving on
one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds
your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to
flee for your safety. And so if you drive off
and you hit one of these people, that's their fault
for impinging on you. You don't have to sit there
and just be a sitting duck and let the mob
(15:32):
grab you out of your car and drag you through
the streets.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You have a right to defend yourself in Florida. Thank god, Buck.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I mean, I know you're in Florida now, but that's
a pretty big disconnect that's like your life view. We
had the New York City, oh no, not work, and
then we have Ron de Santis saying, hey, if you're
fearing for your.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Safety, you don't have to sit there and deal with this.
He is the best governor in America. Still love to
hear it. And we'll get into more of this year
in just a second and tell you about how this
is being handled right in some places, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
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(17:53):
I think that's fair to say. Actually so here we
are doing our thing, trying to figure out what's all
going on. Here. A couple things that have made it
onto our radar wanted to bring to your attention. One is,
we had spoke about this, and there have been some
funny memes, and I think everyone has calmed down about
this quite a bit, and most importantly Elon has calmed down.
(18:13):
Trump handled this very well, in a very mature and
dare I say statesman like fashion play when someone comes
out and says, I, honestly, this is a time where
I think Trump handled this better in his shoes in
terms of more calm in the face of an insult
than I would have. I'm not sure I would be
as magnanimous as Trump is being right now on this
(18:37):
is He's taking this very well. And here is Caroline
Levitt when she was asked about the Elon Musk apology.
This is from the White House past briefing yesterday, play
sixteen about Elon Musk.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Can you shoot an apology this morning? Has the President
accepted the apology or does he think it's too little,
too late.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
The President acknowledged to the statement that Elon put out
this morning, and he is appreciative of it. And we
are continuing to focus on the business of the American people.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
And has the administration started a review of Musk's government
contracts something that the President said he's considering. What do
you mean by that? Has the administration started a review
of the contracts that Musk and his companies currently have.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
No efforts have been made on that front as far
as I am aware, and I don't think any efforts
will be because Elon's company. Look, Elon is a genius
at what he has been doing that made him the
richest man in the world. That's obvious, right. This is
not something I think that needs much debate. He tried
to help on the government side. I think the government
was a bigger beast and a different beast than he anticipated.
(19:46):
And it's not just do this or else. He's The
biggest thing is you actually can't just fire people in
the government. This is what he really ran into. When
you can fire people, you have cause and effect to
get the desired result. This is all of us who
are work in the private sector know what this is like.
You know, if you don't do what your boss says,
you can get fired. It's actually not the case in
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government under law and we are a society of laws.
As crazy as this may be, he had to deal
with that reality well. And this is where I think
Elon probably would acknowledge that he learned government isn't in
any way like business to your point, and the reason
he's been successful is he can address issues, and he
(20:28):
sees the government deficit as an issue. I think got frustrated.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I think this was the culmination of many different issues,
and thankfully it appears a week later that most of
the smoke surrounding the fire of the Trump a Elon
relationship has been put out. And I do think we
shouldn't underrate the impact that Elon has had simply by
creating a platform in Twitter slash x where there is
(20:56):
more of a marketplace of ideas than ever existed before,
and I think that's been impactful. I was reading yesterday
in the newspapers book that YouTube remember when YouTube would
take down our interview with President Trump.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I couldn't believe yes happened. They took down our interview
with Rand Paul.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yes, I remember, because they didn't like what they said
in response to our questions. And whatever you think about elections,
you should be able to hear everything that every candidate
says about what he or she believes, because that's how
election decisions are made. And now everybody is following Twitter
slash X and having a little bit more relaxed moderation policies,
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and the result is a better marketplace of idea. I
think X is now where Elon hoped to take it
in the promise of and now there's a lot more
that he hopes to do with it, to be clear,
But in terms of what you're getting into the marketplace
of ideas, the free exchange of ideas, it's pretty straightforward. Essentially,
if you're doing speech and the speech is legal. We
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do have some laws around each. But if you have
a platform where you're allowing people to share their thoughts
unless they are breaking the law, you know, threatening to
kill somebody, things like that, you know that, or at
least have very clear rules of the road, because then
you talk about things like doxing. And as long as
that's where you're operating, I think things are are good
(22:19):
and that's the way it should be.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
But here is Kevin O'Leary. This is kind of my
attitude about it as well. So mister wonderful Kevin O'Leary,
this is fifteen. He's just like, look, we got bigger
fish to fries. So does Trump. Elon's going to do
his company. It's not a big deal. Play play fifteen.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
I'm pretty happy that these two have started to reconcile
their differences. I mean, you know, this is a classic
case of poop poo happens, but they really need each other.
And but you think about why this matters. Number one,
Elon is the number one industrialist in America with many
of these technologies the envy of the world. I don't
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care if it's EVS or it's robotics or neurosurgery, incredible stuff.
They talk about, SpaceX. All this stuff is the cutting
edge of American tech. And Trump wants to have that
in his back pocket. The most powerful man on Earth
wants the richest man on Earth for a million reasons.
And so if they have a little fight for a
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week or two, so what.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
That's how I feel. So so what I mean, Elon's
not working for Trump anymore. He's apology. He has apologized
and said he shouldn't have said the things that he said,
and Trump, in his very Trump way, it's like, all right,
let's just move on and keep doing what we're doing.
And I think I made the analogy last time definitely
for work, yeah, but I mean it's and I think it.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Is an emotional mechanism sometimes as opposed to a logic mechanism.
And the analogy I made was we're up here in DC.
Abraham Lincoln, back in the day when the way you
would communicate by and largeres by written letter, would write
a letter when he was angry at somebody, put it
in his desk and wait twenty four hours to see
if he still wanted to send it. Most of the
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time he found that his anger dissip paid it over
the twenty four hours and he never needed to send it.
How much less fighting on social media would there be
if you had to wait twenty four hours to post
what you think.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It always in the back of your mind, like.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
In whatever you do most of the time, being angry
on social media is not is not a good look
for you now making arguments that you think are important,
all those things that social media has been great for us.
But just being angry oftentimes is going to lead to
what I think happened with Elon, even as successful as
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he is, which is posting something that in retrospect you
wish that you had not done.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So there's that, and there's also I think Kevin O'Leary,
mister Wonderful's analysis of these LA riots which we have
been discussing in detail, and that is this Clay. I
think the left, there's a protest and riot culture on
the left. And we have to remember this it was
Aki Pie Wall Street BLM one point one point zero,
(25:04):
you know, BLM two point zero. I mean that they
seize on these issues and they mobilize, and you have Antifah,
and you have these like Seiu Union thug type shown
up at these places too. All this stuff that goes on.
This is a part of left wing politics, an important
part of left wing politics in America, and a very
destructive one. And this time around, though, I think they
(25:27):
overestimated the support that they would have in trying to
or in taking to the streets and lighting things on
fire and doing the graffiti and looting stores. And I
think this has gone against Gavin Newsom even in his
own state. Here's mister Wonderful play fourteen.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
I'm thinking about what Gavin Newsom his problem right now,
and I say to his campaign manager, right now, you're
making the b role for the guy who're going to
be competing with that wants to take you on as
the leader of your party, this b role. I'm watching
the local news here. This is nasty, nasty berol. Here's
the attack ad twenty four months from now. Do you
(26:05):
want this guy leading our party or running our country
with images of firebombs.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Going all over the place.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Yeah, the guy waving the Mexican flag over the burning car.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I mean, that's just gonna.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Drill bad, bad, bad imagery, really bad imagery.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And again, you spoke about X and the sharing of
this stuff, Clay, It's not like you have to rely
on the imagery that the New York Times or the
AP chooses to share. Everyone's putting up imagery everywhere, and
then what resonates is what gets shared. Well.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I mean, we played the clip from Karen Bass. If
this were not a minor thing, if this were a
minor thing, would she be demanding and requesting huge amounts
of support to remove the graffiti. Her actions told you
that her.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Statements were untrue.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
And sometimes you have to look at what people do
as opposed sometimes to what they're saying. You don't put
a curfew in if you think you got things under control,
you don't say that an event a year from now
is going to be challenged because of graffiti related issues
if the graffiti is relatively inconsequential in nature.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And look, you don't move every WAYMO.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
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feel like it's safe now.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Is it true, as.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
It often is, that even in times of crisis, hurricanes, tornadoes, riots,
parts of cities are not suffering in a massive way. Yes,
but that doesn't mean that the mostly peaceful protests are occurring.
I think the mostly peaceful thing has so played itself
out that people are ridiculing it with every opportunity.
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When the Battle of the sum was going on, the
butchery on the First World War, there were people sitting
around in cafes in Paris drinking wine. Yes that was.
You know. You can do this with really any situation,
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Buck is going to be headed back home to Miami
tomore and then you've got to go to I can't
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all the places that when that I would have expected
you to be. You're making fun of me for having
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shirt and the beret and it will be a man.
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So you fly to the biggest AD sales conference basically
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Speaker 1 (30:14):
You'll be with me tomorrow. What do you expect to
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Speaker 3 (30:17):
Do you have any idea what you're walking into here?
How scheduled? Is your day going to be very full days?
I know that Paris Hilton will be there. Oh, because
they talked about notables and it was it was funny.
It was famous people I saw in this list and
then there was my name on there and I was like, ah,
I'm not really, I don't know which of these things
is not like the other. You know, It's like it's
like Paris Hilton, Ryan Seacrest and Buck Sexton. Will you
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I'm more a schooner guy. But yes, no, I think
there will be some yacht so you will be doing
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(32:35):
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So we'll see. Two things.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
One, are you nervous about whether I'm going to be
allowed in the White House? Based on the fact that
I was not allowed in the White House yesterday? We're
supposed to be this afternoon with President Trump in the
Oval Office. I have my passport today. But are you nervous,
having seen me get rejected yesterday, that somehow I'm going
to not make it in today?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yes, But I could also see you going full Clay
here and showing up a second time, being like, guys,
don't make President Trump walk over and wave me in himself.
Don't make him do it.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
But yeah, I think Trump has a real id. I
do think the President just gets to walk through, right,
But I mean, I don't think they've pat him down.
They're like you, they don't check his hair.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Is it real? I'm assuming he has.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
A Florida driver's license even though he doesn't drive anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So maybe he got the real ID. He does drive,
drives a mean golf cart.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
He does drive golf carts, so I'm curious if he
I'm gonna ask him if he has a real ID.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Second part here we were just this is really maybe
we can spend more time on this tomorrow. I saw
this headline and this morning as I was getting ready,
and I couldn't couldn't stop laughing about it. Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban Buck is upset because Blue Sky, which is
like the super crazy left wing you have to wear
a mask while you tweet sight on the internet.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yes, yes, says quote.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
The lack of diversity of thought on Blue Sky is
pushing him back to X and so this was like,
I have you spent any time at all. I have
no idea what people say on Blue No, it's just
a thing that we make fun of because it's so
absurd that you would have to just because people are
no longer throttled than banned because they say that, you know,
men and women, men men can't be women or whatever
(34:19):
it is. They don't dead name somebody, or they do
dead name somebody that you would run to another site
where everyone can just talk about what their pronouns are.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
This was inevitable and.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Also miserable because it's just a lot of people policing
and trying to cancel each other. On the left, speaking
of David Hogg, we haven't even gotten into this potentially
being forced out, but I did.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Maybe we can dive into that tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I also wanted to mention this, this is a little
bit of a tease for tomorrow, steven A Smith, We're
going to talk about this more because I do think
the Simone Biles Riley Gaines cultural connotation and impact is
so substantial. Steven A Smith, who's the highest paid person
at ESPN, came out and said for the first time,
I think men should and be in women's sports, and
(35:01):
we're going to play that audio for you tomorrow. But
some owe Biles having to apologize for the argument that
she made, and also the attacks on Riley and then
other people with prominent audiences feeling like they can now
say things that normal, sane people are saying. Is I
do believe a major marker of cultural change that continues
(35:21):
to advance the side of sanity and what has often
been an insane world, particularly as it pertains to gender
related discussion.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That's it. Everybody will have more of you on our
DC visit tomorrow
Third hour of Clay and Buck, and we are continuing
to follow very closely these protests and riots. We're gonna
use those words interchangeably. There are protests and there are riots,
so you don't have to correct us when we say protests.
We're aware of both of these things, and protests is fine.
And as we learned from Caroline Levitt yesterday, it is
(00:20):
a stupid question for anyone in the press to say
it as President Trump. I like the way she handled that,
because that was just meant to be an insult. It's
like the President Trump even the Constitution, like, yeah, idiot,
ask a real question. So I like the way that
she handled that. That was great. Caroline Levitt, you know,
we were on the Levit train very early. Here I'm
just saying we were on the Levit train, which she
was running for Congress, so we knew she was going
(00:41):
to be a superstar, and here she is. But you
had the press trying to make something of this, trying
to make it seem like the American people aren't with
the Trump administration efforts to enforce the law, and some
very interesting things are going on with all this, with
(01:01):
these riots, with these protests, all that stuff. First of all,
I think on how this has gone over politically. Former
democrat has cut five. Batya Unger Sargon. We've talked about
her before here on that we had her on the
show recently, Yeah, we had her on the show. She
was on that CNN panel The only thing worth watching
(01:22):
at CNN. Doesn't this tell you something? Clay is the
occasional center right person, sometimes the center, sometimes truly right wing.
From Scott Jennings for Michael Singleton, Batya Unger, Sargon, Ben Ferguson.
The only thing watching worth watching is the conservative slapping
around the Libs at that table. Here is Batia talking
about the deportations and the truth of what Trump promised.
(01:45):
Play five.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I hear this talking point a lot from Democrats that
Donald Trump misled the American people and somehow said he
was only going to.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Deport violent criminals. Pizey single rally that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I watched, he said, we are going to have the
largest deportation operation in American history. And the reason he
did that is because that position has majority support with
the American people, and that position is what got him
the majority of working class people, because immigration is a
(02:18):
topic that divides the working class from the elites. The
elites are the consumers of low wage labor. And when
you guys say they're taking people from the community, what
you mean is they're taking people from the workforce, people
who undercut the wages of American workers, which is why
the working class flipped from the Democrats too.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Of the Republicans. Two important points she's making their clay. One,
Trump promised the biggest deportation operations in history. Prioritizing the
worst of the worst defenders doesn't give everyone else a
pass in this. It's just okay, Yeah, we're going to
focus on getting the you know, child molesters and you know,
(02:58):
gang members with blood on their hands, get them out
of the country who are legal aliens first. So that's
point one. Trump is doing exactly what he promised, which
is why I keep saying everyone says, who voted for Trump, Yeah,
I voted for this. I mean I voted for this.
And the second part of it is just the exploitation
of cheap labor and how central that is to the
donor class, to the elites. And this brings me to
(03:20):
they're going to have to start enforcing fines against employers
with this. They have to come at this from which
is going to be a little bit of a wake
up call, but it needs to happen. It is illegal
if you are employing large numbers or any numbers of
illegals in your business. You're not supposed to. Now, someone
will say, but they have fake solid security cards and
they have fake so it's a little more complicated. But
(03:42):
for the worst defenders you need to do some deterrence enforcement.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, and I do think that the degree to which
illegal immigrants have incredibly detailed fake SOID security cards. You say, okay,
well how does that happen? I don't know how they
get them made, but so Security then gets had money
that never go out. So that is some element out
(04:05):
there for people who say, okay, well how does this happen?
The money still goes in for payroll taxes, except the
numbers are not necessarily getting matched. Now, sometimes my understanding
is there is identity theft and fraud going on, and
it's a complicated aspect, but yes, that factors in. I
thought this was interesting too, because they tried to say
(04:26):
for a long time, well there's not actually riot's.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Going on in LA.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Remember Brian Stelter went on CNN and he said, remember
It's very important to note that ninety nine point nine
percent of Los Angeles is having no issue at all.
And meanwhile, yesterday La Mayor Karen Bass said the city
has so much graffiti that the vandalism is so extensive.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They won't be ready for the World Cup next year.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Listen to this cut because it definitely calls into question
the talking point that this this is a small issue of.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Violent and the illegal behavior. Cut eight.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The graffiti that is just blanketing a number of blocks
has been extensive. We are one year away from the
World Cup. This is about beautifying our city and bringing
our city together, and so I am calling on business leaders,
community leaders, faith leaders to come together downtown in the
(05:27):
next few days to talk about how we are going
to clean up the city. Obviously, city workers are already
out there removing the graffiti, but this is so extensive
it's going to take community wide involvement. We had launched
a program called Shine La a couple of months ago
in preparation for the World Cup, and now we are
(05:47):
called on to direct that citywide. We need people from
all over the city to come to downtown and to
help with this effort.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Okay, I got a crazy idea for you, Bock, maybe
the people who did the graffiti, as a part of
paying penance for their crimes, should have to clean up
the graffiti that they created instead of asking good people
in Los Angeles who had nothing to do with this
and LA area taxpayers to clean up the mess that
they created and frankly that the mayor and the governor
(06:15):
allowed to occur. Second part on this, I actually think
Trump could come out and say, why does Los Angeles
deserve to host the World Cup? I mean, there are
lots of cities in red states that are not rioting.
You live in Florida, there's a whole heck of a
lot about we'll talk about how Florida we're going to
play that cut in a sec from Ron desanteis governor.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But there's a whole heck of a lot of places.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I know some of these cities are already hosting the
World Cup, but there are a lot of Red states
out there where I think Trump could say, why should
you reward a city that wasn't able to keep itself
from rioting with a World Cup host?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You got a year away. There's a lot of stadiums
where you could host games. Well. I also think as
somebody who saw firsthand what a visual virus graffiti can
be in New York. And this is you go back
to these movies, whether it's the Charles Bronson death Wish
movies or just I think Warriors with the Gangs. I mean,
(07:14):
all these different there was just graffiti everywhere. And when
I was a kid in the city, you know, early nineties,
there was in the nicest neighborhoods, there was graffiti everywhere,
and it was a constant psychological menace of degradation, of barbarism.
(07:35):
I know, people say, oh, it's just no, no, no,
it's destruction of property, it's lawlessness, it's criminality, and it's
just a sign of the criminality that is constantly all
around you. It is a visual reminder, the same way
that masks during COVID were so important to left because
it was a visual reminder of who is in charge
(07:56):
and your mandatory obedience. Right, that's what it was, edians
training for the masses. When you have graffiti everywhere, it
is the psychological you know, the psychological assault of you're
in a lawless place. You are in a place where
people don't respect property, where the authorities can't actually protect you,
(08:18):
and so I am so adamantly anti graffiti as a
as a thing. I do not take it lightly. I
think that it gets worse and worse and worse in
places that allow. I know that it does because I
see and you can turn it around. But you got
to be to your point and you got to be
harsh with people who do it. And one of the
best ways to do it is, you know what, you
can either go to prison or you can spend every
(08:40):
weekend for the next six months cleaning up graffiti. How
about that. That absolutely is the way that it should be.
But it also just goes the mentality of these people
who are involved in these pres because if it's all
over the city, we're talking to a lot of people
who are doing this obviously, uh, and they think that
the laws don't apply to them, and they're often right. Unfortunately. Well,
(09:01):
I'm hoping that Trump is going to show that at
least when it comes to immigration, and I think he
is showing this, and this is the whole point. The
laws do apply to them, but I'm seeing more. I
even saw somebody on Twitter suggesting this says, yeah, this
is what I say if these people, if you don't
have to be legal in this country, I don't have
to pay taxes. Increasingly this has and you can make
(09:22):
the same arguments my tax dollars do. I'm a nice person,
I don't hurt anybody, but you don't need my tax
The Treasury Department isn't going to go bankrupt without my taxes.
You're gonna lock me up. You're gonna separate me from
my family if I don't pay taxes. Same kind of
arguments you can make about illegal immigration, except they're making
it for tens of millions of people. But this is
the same argument. I'm not hurting anybody, well, but you're
(09:44):
actually breaking the law, and you're making a choice to
break the law.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I also think buck the way that the far left
is coming together on these rallies and these riots. This
cut we have here from Seattle. There are other cities
where people are starting to riot.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I don't know how well you'll be able to hear this,
but SPD, Seattle Police Department KKK. We all know what
the KKK is, Ku kuk Klan, and then the IDF,
the Israeli Defense Forces, they're all the same. This is
a chant right now that's going on in Seattle. This
is part of their worldview on the left, connecting all
(10:23):
these different aspects of the world. Listen to cut for Okay,
not necessarily the easiest slogan to chant, but buck this
(10:44):
is indicative of the global worldview that they are trying
to bring together.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We'll talk about this a bit more.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
We also have an unbelievable woke white protester that we're
going to play for you from New York City.
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Speaker 3 (12:11):
Awesome show so far, lots of fun. Jay Feely was
in with us. We've got a super busy schedule in Washington, DC.
There are many different topics we've been diving into. But
we've been talking here at the top of this third
hour about the continued fallout of the protests and their growth,
and we played chant from Seattle Seattle Police Department kkk IDF.
(12:35):
They're all the same as we were rolling through there.
We also want to play for you as there are
now protests in many different parts of the country. The
idea of these being connected to what happened on October seventh,
and trying to connect that with the ice raids and
with the police departments and everything else. This is a
(12:56):
goal of the left right now. And I saw this
that went megaviral in New York City. Protesters, and these
protesters happen to be white, are blocking the street and
keeping people who are trying to drive to work from
being able to get to work. And this is a
black mom who confronts these white protesters and says, hey,
(13:19):
I've got to get to work. Just listen to how
arrogant they are when she is simply trying to get
to her job. I think this connects very much with
so many people out there listen to cut two no work, you.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Don't care about stop black people.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
From me.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I don't know if you could hear the guy, oh no,
not work? Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And I know again there's an audio in the background.
You could hear the chanting. But I do think this
is representative of the arrogance of left wing protesters. Most
people in this country have to work, and I know
a lot of you are out there working right now.
Who are these people that just decide, hey, I want
(14:34):
to keep you from being able to work, and you know,
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is let it be known, we're
not going to stand for this. And in fact, I
believe he was on with our friend Dave Rubin and
H and he talked about the fact that, look, if
there are protesters in your way, you aren't obligated in
(14:56):
Florida to have to deal with all of this. In fact,
this this is cut twenty five. He says, Floridians they're
allowed to drive over protesters in the street if they
feel like their life is in danger. Listen to cut
twenty five.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We also have a policy that if you're driving on
one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds
your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to
flee for your safety. And so if you drive off
and you hit one of these people, that's their fault
for impinging on you. You don't have to sit there
and just be a sitting duck and let the mob
(15:32):
grab you out of your car and drag you through
the streets.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You have a right to defend yourself in Florida. Thank god, Buck.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I mean, I know you're in Florida now, but that's
a pretty big disconnect that's like your life view. We
had the New York City, oh no, not work, and
then we have Ron de Santis saying, hey, if you're
fearing for your.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Safety, you don't have to sit there and deal with this.
He is the best governor in America. Still love to
hear it. And we'll get into more of this year
in just a second and tell you about how this
is being handled right in some places, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
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here that we would be in a position where we
would be rewarding Los Angeles for what they've allowed to happen,
or New York City or Seattle when it comes to
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I think that's fair to say. Actually so here we
are doing our thing, trying to figure out what's all
going on. Here. A couple things that have made it
onto our radar wanted to bring to your attention. One is,
we had spoke about this, and there have been some
funny memes, and I think everyone has calmed down about
this quite a bit, and most importantly Elon has calmed down.
(18:13):
Trump handled this very well, in a very mature and
dare I say statesman like fashion play when someone comes
out and says, I, honestly, this is a time where
I think Trump handled this better in his shoes in
terms of more calm in the face of an insult
than I would have. I'm not sure I would be
as magnanimous as Trump is being right now on this
(18:37):
is He's taking this very well. And here is Caroline
Levitt when she was asked about the Elon Musk apology.
This is from the White House past briefing yesterday, play
sixteen about Elon Musk.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Can you shoot an apology this morning? Has the President
accepted the apology or does he think it's too little,
too late.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
The President acknowledged to the statement that Elon put out
this morning, and he is appreciative of it. And we
are continuing to focus on the business of the American people.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
And has the administration started a review of Musk's government
contracts something that the President said he's considering. What do
you mean by that? Has the administration started a review
of the contracts that Musk and his companies currently have.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
No efforts have been made on that front as far
as I am aware, and I don't think any efforts
will be because Elon's company. Look, Elon is a genius
at what he has been doing that made him the
richest man in the world. That's obvious, right. This is
not something I think that needs much debate. He tried
to help on the government side. I think the government
was a bigger beast and a different beast than he anticipated.
(19:46):
And it's not just do this or else. He's The
biggest thing is you actually can't just fire people in
the government. This is what he really ran into. When
you can fire people, you have cause and effect to
get the desired result. This is all of us who
are work in the private sector know what this is like.
You know, if you don't do what your boss says,
you can get fired. It's actually not the case in
(20:06):
government under law and we are a society of laws.
As crazy as this may be, he had to deal
with that reality well. And this is where I think
Elon probably would acknowledge that he learned government isn't in
any way like business to your point, and the reason
he's been successful is he can address issues, and he
(20:28):
sees the government deficit as an issue. I think got frustrated.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I think this was the culmination of many different issues,
and thankfully it appears a week later that most of
the smoke surrounding the fire of the Trump a Elon
relationship has been put out. And I do think we
shouldn't underrate the impact that Elon has had simply by
creating a platform in Twitter slash x where there is
(20:56):
more of a marketplace of ideas than ever existed before,
and I think that's been impactful. I was reading yesterday
in the newspapers book that YouTube remember when YouTube would
take down our interview with President Trump.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I couldn't believe yes happened. They took down our interview
with Rand Paul.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Yes, I remember, because they didn't like what they said
in response to our questions. And whatever you think about elections,
you should be able to hear everything that every candidate
says about what he or she believes, because that's how
election decisions are made. And now everybody is following Twitter
slash X and having a little bit more relaxed moderation policies,
(21:37):
and the result is a better marketplace of idea. I
think X is now where Elon hoped to take it
in the promise of and now there's a lot more
that he hopes to do with it, to be clear,
But in terms of what you're getting into the marketplace
of ideas, the free exchange of ideas, it's pretty straightforward. Essentially,
if you're doing speech and the speech is legal. We
(21:58):
do have some laws around each. But if you have
a platform where you're allowing people to share their thoughts
unless they are breaking the law, you know, threatening to
kill somebody, things like that, you know that, or at
least have very clear rules of the road, because then
you talk about things like doxing. And as long as
that's where you're operating, I think things are are good
(22:19):
and that's the way it should be.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
But here is Kevin O'Leary. This is kind of my
attitude about it as well. So mister wonderful Kevin O'Leary,
this is fifteen. He's just like, look, we got bigger
fish to fries. So does Trump. Elon's going to do
his company. It's not a big deal. Play play fifteen.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
I'm pretty happy that these two have started to reconcile
their differences. I mean, you know, this is a classic
case of poop poo happens, but they really need each other.
And but you think about why this matters. Number one,
Elon is the number one industrialist in America with many
of these technologies the envy of the world. I don't
(22:54):
care if it's EVS or it's robotics or neurosurgery, incredible stuff.
They talk about, SpaceX. All this stuff is the cutting
edge of American tech. And Trump wants to have that
in his back pocket. The most powerful man on Earth
wants the richest man on Earth for a million reasons.
And so if they have a little fight for a
(23:16):
week or two, so what.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
That's how I feel. So so what I mean, Elon's
not working for Trump anymore. He's apology. He has apologized
and said he shouldn't have said the things that he said,
and Trump, in his very Trump way, it's like, all right,
let's just move on and keep doing what we're doing.
And I think I made the analogy last time definitely
for work, yeah, but I mean it's and I think it.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Is an emotional mechanism sometimes as opposed to a logic mechanism.
And the analogy I made was we're up here in DC.
Abraham Lincoln, back in the day when the way you
would communicate by and largeres by written letter, would write
a letter when he was angry at somebody, put it
in his desk and wait twenty four hours to see
if he still wanted to send it. Most of the
(23:58):
time he found that his anger dissip paid it over
the twenty four hours and he never needed to send it.
How much less fighting on social media would there be
if you had to wait twenty four hours to post
what you think.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It always in the back of your mind, like.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
In whatever you do most of the time, being angry
on social media is not is not a good look
for you now making arguments that you think are important,
all those things that social media has been great for us.
But just being angry oftentimes is going to lead to
what I think happened with Elon, even as successful as
(24:36):
he is, which is posting something that in retrospect you
wish that you had not done.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So there's that, and there's also I think Kevin O'Leary,
mister Wonderful's analysis of these LA riots which we have
been discussing in detail, and that is this Clay. I
think the left, there's a protest and riot culture on
the left. And we have to remember this it was
Aki Pie Wall Street BLM one point one point zero,
(25:04):
you know, BLM two point zero. I mean that they
seize on these issues and they mobilize, and you have Antifah,
and you have these like Seiu Union thug type shown
up at these places too. All this stuff that goes on.
This is a part of left wing politics, an important
part of left wing politics in America, and a very
destructive one. And this time around, though, I think they
(25:27):
overestimated the support that they would have in trying to
or in taking to the streets and lighting things on
fire and doing the graffiti and looting stores. And I
think this has gone against Gavin Newsom even in his
own state. Here's mister Wonderful play fourteen.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
I'm thinking about what Gavin Newsom his problem right now,
and I say to his campaign manager, right now, you're
making the b role for the guy who're going to
be competing with that wants to take you on as
the leader of your party, this b role. I'm watching
the local news here. This is nasty, nasty berol. Here's
the attack ad twenty four months from now. Do you
(26:05):
want this guy leading our party or running our country
with images of firebombs.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Going all over the place.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Yeah, the guy waving the Mexican flag over the burning car.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I mean, that's just gonna.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Drill bad, bad, bad imagery, really bad imagery.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And again, you spoke about X and the sharing of
this stuff, Clay, It's not like you have to rely
on the imagery that the New York Times or the
AP chooses to share. Everyone's putting up imagery everywhere, and
then what resonates is what gets shared. Well.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I mean, we played the clip from Karen Bass. If
this were not a minor thing, if this were a
minor thing, would she be demanding and requesting huge amounts
of support to remove the graffiti. Her actions told you
that her.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Statements were untrue.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
And sometimes you have to look at what people do
as opposed sometimes to what they're saying. You don't put
a curfew in if you think you got things under control,
you don't say that an event a year from now
is going to be challenged because of graffiti related issues
if the graffiti is relatively inconsequential in nature.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And look, you don't move every WAYMO.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Vehicle, these autonomous vehicles out of Los Angeles. If you
feel like it's safe now.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Is it true, as.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
It often is, that even in times of crisis, hurricanes, tornadoes, riots,
parts of cities are not suffering in a massive way. Yes,
but that doesn't mean that the mostly peaceful protests are occurring.
I think the mostly peaceful thing has so played itself
out that people are ridiculing it with every opportunity.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
When the Battle of the sum was going on, the
butchery on the First World War, there were people sitting
around in cafes in Paris drinking wine. Yes that was.
You know. You can do this with really any situation,
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Buck is going to be headed back home to Miami
tomore and then you've got to go to I can't
believe you're gonna go to can by the way of
all the places that when that I would have expected
you to be. You're making fun of me for having
the cigarelloads or whatever and the and the uh.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I know I'm gonna be chef to be dancing in
the moonlight within accordion and the black and white striped
shirt and the beret and it will be a man.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So you fly to the biggest AD sales conference basically
in the world, and you're gonna be out all next week.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You'll be with me tomorrow. What do you expect to
see him? Can? Like?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Do you have any idea what you're walking into here?
How scheduled? Is your day going to be very full days?
I know that Paris Hilton will be there. Oh, because
they talked about notables and it was it was funny.
It was famous people I saw in this list and
then there was my name on there and I was like, ah,
I'm not really, I don't know which of these things
is not like the other. You know, It's like it's
like Paris Hilton, Ryan Seacrest and Buck Sexton. Will you
(30:41):
be with this guy? Will you be on a yacht
at some point? Because I picture can as just being
big yacht parties.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I'm more a schooner guy. But yes, no, I think
there will be some yacht so you will be doing
yacht parties. You'll be drinking pink champagne. That's the thing, right,
the pink Rose champagne.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yes, thing, sure, And you're gonna need a lot of
Crockett with you because I bet you're gonna have early mornings,
late nights.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
It's not really your thing. Early morning when you're drinking
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of you pointed out I'd forgotten. Yes, you know, it's
like we there is coffee grown in Hawaii. Is there
coffee grown in like Guam? There's probably some other US
territory we have where there's coffee grown, but we do
there's great coffee in Hawaii. We are looking to see
if we can add a Hawaii so it would be
an all American, all American blend because its very rare
(32:12):
to have that. You know. The the employees live in America,
are are all of our products and services, everything done
in America. But the coffee beans tend to come from
coffee growing regions. Uh So we're looking to we're looking
to do that, and we'll see. And I just hope
that when people realize that they're Hawaii coffee, because it's
a Democrat, left wing state, I'm sure it's going to
be very expensive. Okay, this is the this is what
(32:35):
the market will bear out of out of the big island.
So we'll see. Two things.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
One, are you nervous about whether I'm going to be
allowed in the White House? Based on the fact that
I was not allowed in the White House yesterday? We're
supposed to be this afternoon with President Trump in the
Oval Office. I have my passport today. But are you nervous,
having seen me get rejected yesterday, that somehow I'm going
to not make it in today?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yes, But I could also see you going full Clay
here and showing up a second time, being like, guys,
don't make President Trump walk over and wave me in himself.
Don't make him do it.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
But yeah, I think Trump has a real id. I
do think the President just gets to walk through, right,
But I mean, I don't think they've pat him down.
They're like you, they don't check his hair.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Is it real? I'm assuming he has.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
A Florida driver's license even though he doesn't drive anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So maybe he got the real ID. He does drive,
drives a mean golf cart.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
He does drive golf carts, so I'm curious if he
I'm gonna ask him if he has a real ID.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Second part here we were just this is really maybe
we can spend more time on this tomorrow. I saw
this headline and this morning as I was getting ready,
and I couldn't couldn't stop laughing about it. Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban Buck is upset because Blue Sky, which is
like the super crazy left wing you have to wear
a mask while you tweet sight on the internet.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yes, yes, says quote.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
The lack of diversity of thought on Blue Sky is
pushing him back to X and so this was like,
I have you spent any time at all. I have
no idea what people say on Blue No, it's just
a thing that we make fun of because it's so
absurd that you would have to just because people are
no longer throttled than banned because they say that, you know,
men and women, men men can't be women or whatever
(34:19):
it is. They don't dead name somebody, or they do
dead name somebody that you would run to another site
where everyone can just talk about what their pronouns are.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
This was inevitable and.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Also miserable because it's just a lot of people policing
and trying to cancel each other. On the left, speaking
of David Hogg, we haven't even gotten into this potentially
being forced out, but I did.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Maybe we can dive into that tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I also wanted to mention this, this is a little
bit of a tease for tomorrow, steven A Smith, We're
going to talk about this more because I do think
the Simone Biles Riley Gaines cultural connotation and impact is
so substantial. Steven A Smith, who's the highest paid person
at ESPN, came out and said for the first time,
I think men should and be in women's sports, and
(35:01):
we're going to play that audio for you tomorrow. But
some owe Biles having to apologize for the argument that
she made, and also the attacks on Riley and then
other people with prominent audiences feeling like they can now
say things that normal, sane people are saying. Is I
do believe a major marker of cultural change that continues
(35:21):
to advance the side of sanity and what has often
been an insane world, particularly as it pertains to gender
related discussion.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That's it. Everybody will have more of you on our
DC visit tomorrow
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