November 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show wraps up the week with a fiery mix of political analysis, cultural commentary, and listener interaction. The central theme of the hour is the ongoing government shutdown, which the hosts firmly attribute to Democratic obstruction. They argue that Democrats are attempting to renegotiate previously agreed-upon funding terms, causing widespread disruption across federal services, especially in air travel and healthcare.
Donald Trump’s response to the shutdown is highlighted, with the former president refusing to allocate trillions in taxpayer dollars to cover healthcare for illegal immigrants. Trump also touts improvements in gas prices and inflation under Republican leadership, contrasting them with the economic chaos of the Biden years. Buck emphasizes that while affordability remains a concern, the country is moving in a better direction thanks to Trump’s policies.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy joins the conversation, defending his department’s decisions amid flight cancellations and staffing shortages. He urges critics to focus on reopening the government rather than blaming the FAA for safety-driven decisions. The hosts also discuss the broader implications of the shutdown, including delayed SNAP benefits and judicial overreach, with Vice President JD Vance criticizing a federal judge’s ruling that mandates executive action during the shutdown.
The Affordable Care Act comes under fire as Buck argues that Obamacare has made health insurance so expensive that many Americans now opt out entirely. He calls for transparency in government welfare programs and criticizes the euphemistic language used to describe food assistance, advocating for a return to plain terms like “food stamps.”
Listener calls and VIP emails add depth to the discussion, with federal employees urging Republicans to “hold the line” and praising Trump’s leadership. One caller rebukes a previous listener who gave Trump an “F” grade, citing improvements in gas prices and economic stability. On a lighter note, Buck celebrates his 103 mph tennis serve, earning praise from friends and colleagues, including Ben Ferguson and Chris Knowles. Clay is challenged to complete an Alcatraz swim as his own physical feat.
Make sure you never miss a second of the show by subscribing to the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton show podcast wherever you get your podcasts! ihr.fm/3InlkL8
For the latest updates from Clay & Buck, visit our website https://www.clayandbuck.com/
Connect with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton:
FB - https://www.facebook.com/ClayandBuck/
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
The third hour of Clay and book last hour before
send you off for we'll hopefully be absolutely wonderful weekends.
I really do love this time year. I'm a big
fan of October November nationwide. You have the excitement of
the holidays in the mix. You have end of year stuff,
(00:20):
you get into the Thanksgiving and then Christmas, Hanukkah, New
Year's season, parties, gatherings, maybe a little too much good food,
but all that stuff coming together. So I think it's
a great time of the year. And I think that
we have as Thanksgiving is approaching, a much to be
thankful for this year in general as individuals and as people,
(00:42):
but also as a country. I think overall, as I've said,
despite the call we got before, and I had a
furrowed brow as did Clay when we heard that one
of our callers, who said claim to be a Trump
voter gave Trump an F for this year, I mean,
I just think that's honestly an absurd Great people are
entitled to their opinion. I just am entitled to disagree
(01:03):
with it. I think Trump has done a phenomenal job
this year. I think the country is in such better shape.
I think back to what it was like as I
sit here now, Miami five, a little lean and mean
with an aerodynamic haircut. One hundred mile an hour plus
serve one hundred and three let's call it what it is,
one hundred and three mile an hour serve probably could
get to one hundred and five, maybe even one hundred
(01:23):
and ten before the end of the year, but we'll
talk about that another time. I remember what it was
like during the pandemic, the Biden years in New York. Yeah,
I look like teen wolf basically, you know, I had
crazy hair, couldn't shave or you couldn't get a haircut.
I could shave, couldn't get a haircut, couldn't go anywhere,
(01:44):
it couldn't do anything, and the country had just devolved
into madness. Madness. So just take stock of the good days.
I think it's so important. And I think that the
positive thinking that we can all engage in every day,
every day is an opportunity to do the best things
you can that day, to make yourself a little bit better,
and to be grateful for your blessings. And I think
(02:08):
as a nation of the country, we have a lot
of blessings right now. One of them, though, is not
a government that is currently open. I must call that
like it is. We do not have a government that
is open. And you have Trump clearly agitated and also
clearly not going to budge agitated with the Democrats and
(02:29):
their lies on this one. The shutdown is this is
a Democrat shutdown. They did this. There is no other argument.
There's no two ways about it. They prevented the funding
of the government because they have a demand that is
outside the scope of a continuing resolution, which is that
funding that they had already approved. So they're trying to
(02:52):
retrade the deal at the end. They're the ones that decided, oh,
I'm going to buy your house for four hundred thousand dollars.
Actually I'm only going to close if you give me
if you give it to me for three point fifty. Right,
They're the ones that are basically breaking the standard order
of things here and deciding we're not going to have government.
(03:13):
Trump sees this very clearly here He isn't cut six
lay it down.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They shut down is caused by the Democrats. And we're
not going to spend a trillion dollars or one and
a half trillion dollars on healthcare for people that came
into our country illegally, many of them from prisons, and
many of them drug dealers and murderers, eleven eight hundred
and eighty eight murderers. We're not doing that, so we'll
see about that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
We shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They should have, as they've done always in the past.
It should have just been extended. It could have been
extended or easily, it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Could have been extended very easily. They chose not to.
They chose not to, and now they're pretending like they
did not make that choice. This is one of the
things I find so frustrating about Democrats by trying to
debate them, trying to deal with them, they won't even
stand behind the decisions they make. So how can we
(04:04):
get to a place of accountability and better decision making.
They do something and say I did not do that thing,
and we know they did it, but they just refuse,
They just say no. And it's I think at that
point now where we should all understand the challenges that
exist because of this shutdown. I hope you are not
(04:27):
trying to fly somewhere this weekend. Our buddy Clay is
trying to get to the airport and get up in
the sky. It's so nice of the pilots or going
to help Clay escape New York. It does feel like
Escape from New York. Is that I'm going to share
something with you guys now that I wasn't expecting to.
But I feel like it's third hour, it's a Friday.
We're in the sharing zone. I'm a Kurt Russell fan.
(04:50):
I love Tombstone, Big Trouble in Little China. There's a
whole bunch of movies, Kurt Russell, big fan. I have
never seen Escape from New York. I bet producer, Mark A, producer, Greg, producer, Mike.
You've all seen it? Right? Is it good? Should I
make Carrie watch this with me? I might have? Oh ah,
(05:12):
there's a little bit of hesitation there, guys. Okay, okay,
a little bit of hesitation. You know. I was out too,
so that thank you. Thank you for saving me from
perhaps a Friday night. If my wife going this movie
is not good? Why are you making me watch this?
I was out with a dinner with a good friend
last night and his wife and Carrie and I was
(05:32):
and his son was there. His son is about ten
years old, and we were just talking, all of us
at the table and I realized I'm already I am
envious that my friend is at that point with his son. Speed.
Still he can say mamma. He can say mama. That's it.
He says it a lot. Now Mama gets a lot. Uh,
she has to move around the apartment real fast here
(05:54):
and get to the baby. She can say mamma. But
my friend gets just aren't introducing his son to the
movies that my generation, our generation thinks were great, because
those are the great movies. They aren't making great movies anymore,
they really aren't. I mean, they'll make a decent one
(06:15):
here or there occasionally, but really, overall, and especially if
you're talking about history and war movies things like that,
the great movies were made in the earlier part of
my lifetime. So I hope one day I get to
sit there with Speed and be like, well, son, it's
time for you to see Ghostbusters for the first time,
(06:36):
or it's time for you to see Saving Private Ryan
or Gladiator or any of these movies that hold up
really really well. So anyway, so that's all fun. Back
to the shutdown madness and what is going on there. So, yeah,
Clay is trying Trump's trying to escape from New York.
Clay is trying to escape from New York, which might
(06:57):
be more interesting today than even the movie he was.
It's gonna be a mess. It is a mess at
these airports. And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, you know, that's
one of those jobs that you take. And I know
I knew him when he was Congressman Duffy a little bit.
But Shawn and his wife are they're such nice people. Truly,
all of you would really like Sean and his wife.
(07:20):
They're just really, really good nice people. I think they
have nine kids too. They're such good, kind, wholesome people.
But Transportation secretary is one of those jobs where no
one's really I think I'm just speaking the truth here.
No one's really thinking a lot about what the Transportation
Secretary's up to until there's a problem, right, it's a
crisis situation. People are, you know, wondering what's going on,
(07:44):
and he's saying, look, he's doing what he can. The
money's gone. They've shut down the government. The Democrats have
shut down the government, and so there are limitations here.
This is cut ten. Secretary of Transportation Duffy, play it
one to second.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Guess what we're doing. Why we're doing it. I've done
all I can to minimize disruption in the airspace. I'm
trying to get people where they want to go and
get them there safely. If people want to question us,
I would go back at them. Open up the government.
You know, we have to take unprecedented action. Is because
we are in an unprecedented situation with a shutdown, and
so again I have a number one job of keeping
(08:22):
people safe.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I've looked at data.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I want to be preemptive and i want to make
sure people are safe in the system. By the way,
this is not a political decision. We did this with
a safety team at the FAA. We did it with
the administrator of the FAA. As that data came in,
we decided to, you know, make the decisions that we
thought were appropriate.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They don't really have a choice, and this is going
to get worse too. This isn't a temporary thing insofar
as until the government comes back on the shortages, the
over extended work hours and work schedule for these individuals,
it's all going to just continue, you on, and actually
be exacerbated with time. So there needs to be a
(09:06):
change here. There needs to be something done and I
think that that's it's coming. But Democrats are trying to
find some way to pull out a political win here
and I don't know how they do it. And Republicans.
If Republicans cave on this, what we will have seen,
(09:29):
without any question, in a way that is so clear
and so obvious that everyone would see it. It would
mean that just Democrats have stiffer spines in the Senate
than Republicans do. When push comes to shove. That's it.
Democrats hold together, they hold the line. Republicans get weak,
get weak on this issue. Something else, you know, Clay
(09:51):
and I were talking about this in the first hour
a bit, and it has to do with the concerns
about prices. Here is Trump. This is cut five. He's saying, look, everybody,
I understand prices are high. The things that we generally
measure that you can affect with government policy in a
(10:13):
relatively short term way, they are doing well, like gas
prices and things. They are coming down. But it's not
a perfect situation. It's never going to be per situation.
Cut five. Here's Trump.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I don't want to hear about the affordability because right
now we're much less If.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You look at energy. We're getting close to.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Two dollars a gallon gasoline with Biden, who was four
dollars and fifty cents five dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Another thing, inflation.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We had the worst inflation in the history of our country.
Now we have virtually no inflation at all. It sounded
a very low number and a very normal number. So
the affordability is much better with the Republicans. The only
problem is the Republicans don't talk about it, and Republicans
should start talking about it and use their heads because
we have great numbers, we have greater and they could
(11:01):
only get better.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I think that people really do need to remember what
it was like with the Biden team in charge, because
not only were things bad, they were only going to
get worse. There has to be some moment of gratitude
here where it's thank Heaven's Trump survived two assassination attempts,
four criminal prosecutions, multiple civil destruction suits of him that
(11:31):
were all just completely unfair. All that stuff, and the
media and Russia collusion and the insurrection, all these things
trying to take him off the ballot illegally, all the
things that he did. If that hadn't happened, happened, you
would have a Biden or Kamala. I mean, if Biden
hadn't done what he did, you know, maybe he would still,
(11:52):
but you would have had a Democrat administration making all
this stuff worse, making all this stuff worse. So, while
I understand, and the affordability issue is still hurting people,
and the cost of the stuff you need to live
your day to day lives is still higher than we
would all like it to be, it is moving in
the right direction, no question, and it is so much
(12:14):
better than it would be the same situation, the same cost,
the receipts that you're looking at right now, all of
that would be so much worse if Trump hadn't won
and saved us from the madness of a Democrat party
that never learns the lesson. It is so frustrating. Democrats
(12:35):
do not learn the lesson on crime, they do not
learn the lesson on the border, and they certainly don't
learn any lessons when it comes to economics. Just take
more from people who make it, give more to people
who don't, print more money with the treasury, get the
Fed to just start, you know, just get the printing
presses going and see what happens. It's all make believe.
(13:00):
If anyway, there's nothing really underneath all this money. There's
no actual products or productivity. It's whatever we say it is.
That is the democrat view, and it is so destructive.
So again, look at where we are, how things are
actually going, and the decisions that are being made. We
have in America that is at peace, in America that
(13:21):
is prosperous, in America that has secured its borders, that
cities are getting safer, that does not have the same
cultural and dei and crazy insanity when it comes to
colleges and when it comes to every aspect of our culture.
Things are getting better, and it's going to take time.
We need to stay focused, stay on it, and stay
(13:43):
supportive of the mission here. Yes there are some things
to critique. Yes there are some aspects of this administration
that you could say, I wish they had done this.
I wish there's more transparency in that. But let's keep
it real, folks. It's been an incredible go so far
for Trump year one, and I think we're just we're
(14:05):
just in the well. We are clearly the opening innings
because it's just the first year. Puretalk continues to maintain
the same low price on their monthly service that they've
had for five plus years, with nearly everything costing more,
pure Talk hasn't just changed their low pricing, They've added
much more service. You want a way to save money
every month without sacrificing and equality in your cell phone service,
(14:25):
Go with Puretalk. The average sized family of four saves
over one thousand dollars a year when they switch to
pure Talk. Puretalk gives you unlimited talk, text, and plenty
of data for just twenty five bucks a month on
Puretalk's lightning fast five G network. Plus right now, we'll
take an additional fifty percent off your first month. That's
immediate savings that you can take immediate action on. You
(14:48):
keep your phone and your number, of course, and you
start keeping more of your own money. Dial pound two
fifty Say the keywords clan, bucket. Puretalk's US customer service
team will switch you over in as little as ten minutes,
plus save fifty percent off your first month. Dial pound
two five zero say Clay and buck to switch to
America's wireless company, pure Talk. Sometimes all you can do
(15:11):
is laugh, and they do a lot of it.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
With the Sunday hang Join Clay and Buck as they
lap it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed
on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts and.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Welcome back into Clay en Buck. We got calls, we
got vip emails, we have talkbacks. Light us up on
all of the above. I definitely want to get to
a bunch of them as we're closing out our third
hour here in a little bit And Bob in Texas,
what have you got for us?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Hey? Yeah? First, I want to say thank you to
Clay for all that prize pick money he's won. Me
and my main topic was air traffic controllers. The airports
are obviously getting some nasty pr buis like that letter
they had to send to Clay. Why aren't they ponying
up the money to pay these guys temporarily like that
(15:59):
millionaire we did for our army, our billionaire and then
make a deal with Trump to get the money back
when everybody gets their act together.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh man, that sounds good, but it's probably far more
forward leaning and skillful then the people involved in these
decisions are are going to be able to pull off
anything like that. Yeah, I don't know. Thank you for
calling in. I think that this is going to get
(16:29):
It's gonna get messy at the airports for a while. Now,
it's gonna be a real problem. So something that we
all have to keep in mind. We've got some vip
emails here. Vip email from John Escape from New York
is one of John Carpenter's finest films. Kurt Russell is
amazing in it as well. It is a great look
at the future that we will all soon have under
(16:50):
Democrat control. I don't know, guys, I'm iffy on this one.
I might have to go watch the trailer. I feel
like I can tell ninety percent of the time after
watching a trailer whether I'll like a movie or not,
meaning nine out of ten times, if I thought I'd
like it based on the trailer, I do. If I
thought I wouldn't like it and I saw it for
some reason, I don't. So we'll see vip email from Steve.
(17:14):
So far, I give Trump an a grade for a plus.
He needs to assemble business leaders to raise money for
payroll loans to keep the airlines and controllers working, kind
of like what our caller is just talking about. By
the way, these cancelations are costing much more mister President,
tear down this shut down. Yes, I think that this
(17:38):
is going to test not just the Republican's resolve but
also the solution finding of this White House to the
degree that they can patch things up until the government
gets reopened. Like I said, more calls, more talkbacks, more
thoughts on everything going on today, coming up here momentarily.
(18:00):
But I want you to feel safe in your home,
and a really, really critical way to do that is
to have the right self defense tools. Now, a lot
of you are firearms owners. You've got two way You've
got that protection at home, and I certainly am one,
and I believe in that. But I also believe in
having non lethal options at my disposal too when the
situation calls for that, and my wife prefers non lethal
(18:21):
for self defense. Pepper spray, pepper gel, pepper projectile launchers.
Saber has safeguarded hundreds of thousands of Americans with their
non lethal self and home defense products. Their pepper projectile
launcher could just be your best choice. They've got a
bundle that you can go check out that'll get you
everything you need, including practice rounds for it, packs a
(18:41):
serious non lethal punch. Go to Saber radio dot com.
Sabre radio dot com, say fifteen percent of that website
that Saber radio dot com. Or call eight four four
eight two four safe eight four four eight two four safe.
All right, welcome back in. Give the little ass and
buck anything. You might be getting a call from play
(19:02):
in a minute, but you can call and ask me
whatever you want. How about that it's a Friday and
we're having a good time here. You, like I said,
Clay might be ringing us from the airport to let
us know what kind of chaos, what kind of a
mess it has all turned into there? It is. It
is tough. It is not going well here with the
(19:23):
shutdown situation. Jd Vance, This is twenty five. Jd Vance
is saying, now the pain start. It's one thing to
have a shutdown for a few days a week, ten days.
Now there's real consequences to this stuff. Play twenty five.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
The American people are unfortunately about to start suffering some
very real consequences because of the shutdown. In the past,
when you had a government shutdown, you would have go
under the Obama administration, they would lean into all of
the problems that was going to cause for the American people.
At the beginning of the shutdown, the President has told
us to keep as much going as humanly possible. But
(20:00):
after thirty days of this thing, forty days of this thing,
you're gonna start seeing very real travel delays. That's because
the Democrat government shut down. You're gonna start seeing snap
benefits run out. That's because the Democrat government shut down.
They should stop the charade and open up the government.
That's what we want them to do. We've been asking
them to do it for forty days. It's time.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Why not just open the government up and then say, hey, guys,
we also have to fix the Obamacare exchanges by funneling
billions of dollars of subsidies to them. Afterwards, Do they
really think that Republicans are going to allow people to
have forty thousand dollars a year in expense for some
of these Obamacare approved plans, which is what some of
(20:40):
these plans are going to cost for a family of four,
Just completely unaffordable stuff and stuff that will will destroy
people's finances. What you'll have is a lot of people
will refuse to get insurance. And remember, we don't have
those Obamacare fines anymore. Right, They got rid of that
so you'll just have a lot of people who go
on insurt. Isn't that the great irony of this Obamacare
(21:01):
will have made health insurance so expensive that without billions
of dollars of subsidies showered on it to just artificially
make people think the price has been decreased, Obamacare, the
quote Affordable Care Act, will have made healthcare so unaffordable
(21:23):
that people will choose not to have it. That's going
to become the legacy of the ACA. I think at
some level Democrats recognize this is going to be a
problem for them, This is going to be a problem
for their party, because this is still the single most transformational,
(21:44):
unfortunately in a very bad way, piece of legislation that
the Democrat Party has managed to get through. I'm probably
in twenty something years, I don't know, you have to
go back quite a while. The other big things the
Democrats have gotten that are wins are all just judicial fiat.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's the Supreme Court before the Trump appointees came on board,
handing them and in some cases even with the Trump
appointees handing Democrats the policy victories they could have never
gotten at the ballot box. And so there we have it. Oh,
speaking of judges, you also have this judge now who
has ruled this is what the administration must do on
(22:22):
snap food stamps. Notice that why would they change this?
Is this is meaningful? Why is it this supplemental nutritional
assistance program? Why not just call it food stamps? What's
wrong with that? We even call it something like food aid?
(22:44):
You know, why do we have to call it supplemented?
We come up with this science sounding the supplemental nutritional assistance.
It's buying free food for people. It is food welfare. Now,
there are reasons when people can be out on their luck.
Things happen. I get it. I do not think that
we should have no safety net. Well, if anything, we
(23:06):
should have a safety net where we take care of
each other. Or decency and charity as Americans means that
nobody would ever go hungry because we don't allow them to.
But I'm not opposed to a safety net. And I
understand that things can be difficult than people have challenges,
but I also think we should call things what they are.
I also think that when you're giving food welfare, we
(23:28):
should know as a people, that's what it is. You
hear that from welfare a lot less. All these bureaucracies
also that administer this stuff don't want people to think
of what they're doing as welfare because then they realize
that this is their money that's just being handed to people.
And also the bureaucracies are very wasteful and very bloated,
so they remember the bureaucracies take a cut because it's
(23:51):
government money going through government hands to get to the
people who are getting it for free. So yeah, we
should call it food stamps. The same way, they don't
want you to think of illegal aliens, somebody who is
not American, not supposed to be in the country undocumented.
What is undocumented even mean? Is it really a meaningless term?
(24:11):
The problem is that they lack a document. No, the
problem is that they're illegally in the United States and
they're in violation of our laws. So these things do matter.
The way we talk about this does make a difference.
But on the snap ruling, because this is now that's
the official government term for it, maybe Trump should change that,
call it call it food welfare. What's wrong with that?
(24:35):
All the different welfare forms we have, I might add,
you know, people were for of Section eight housing for example,
what does that mean? That could be anything Section eight housing,
we don't call the medicaid. We don't call anything really.
I mean, there's probably some exceptions, but we don't call
things welfare anymore because it's always supposed to be hidden
(24:58):
from the American people in the time payer, the size
and scope of the free stuff that we are giving
to people in a country where half the country pays
no income tax whatsoever. That's not a good and sustainable program,
is it. Here's vance on the judge's ruling about how
(25:22):
this is just a judge saying this is what the
federal government must do now the government shut down on
food stamps, Play twenty six.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
It's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge
effectively telling us what we have to do in the
midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like
to do is for the Democrats to open up the government,
of course, and then we can fund snap and we
can also do a lot of other good things for
the American people. But in the midst of a shutdown,
we can't have a federal court telling the president how
he has the triage of the situation. We're trying to
(25:50):
keep as much turned on. We're trying to keep as
much going as possible. The President and the entire administration
are working on that, but we're not going to do
it under the orders of a federal judge, or going
to do it according to what we think we have
to do to comply with the law, of course, but
also to actually make the government work for people in
the midst of the Democrat government shut down.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I mean, what if the judge just said, the Democrats,
I've got a better idea, Hey, judge, whatever you know,
Obama or Biden or maybe maybe probably not Clinton. That's
going back too far, but Obama Biden, Judge this is
or are the Democrats to reopen the government? How why
don't we try that one? If we're just gonna become
(26:33):
king for a day as a federal judge, let's just
have the government reopened by the fiat of a judge.
Just trample off, trample on the executive I mean, the
legislative branches, prerogative, just forget about all that. You're the judge,
you're the emperor in the black robes, and just do
your thing. There's way too much of this, way too
(26:56):
much of this stuff going on to try to stop
this inministration, to order around this administration, to dictate to
the Trump team from these judges. And notice that Trump
just the way he handles it is to go to court,
go through the process, go through the process. That's not
how kings do things. For the no Kings protest, Honestly,
(27:17):
I don't know how people. I don't know how you
can take yourself seriously if you go to a no
King's protest, Oh no Kings. It is so pathetic. But
people would rather continue to be sanctimonious and wrong than
be self effacing and right. So common, unfortunately, it's so common.
(27:41):
I hate being wrong. Clayt and I share this. We
both if we get any fact wrong, anything we say.
When I say wrong, inaccurate right, predictions, you know, you
win some, you lose something. We like to have fun
with predictions. But no one can predict the future. So
that's that is what it is. That's more of a
parlor game than anything else. But accuracy really can. Accuracy
really matters. It bothers me to be inaccurate. But also analysis.
(28:05):
If I'm really wrong on a point of analysis, I
try to go back admit that first off, and then
try to understand why. The great part of being a
Democrat is never admitting you're wrong, never admitting that your
policies are dumb, that your ideas are idiotic, that it's destructive,
that you make everything worse for everyone, including yourself, with
most of the things that you want to have happen.
(28:28):
You know, the walk back from climate change is the
biggest existential threat in the world, which is happening a
little bit quietly, but with Bill Gates and then others too.
Why are they making more movies about how I'm in Florida.
Go try to get a deal on Florida, Florida beachfront
real estate right now, Okay, especially given what just happened
(28:48):
in New York, Go try to get a deal. Say somebody,
you know what, I'm going to help you out. You're
right here on the beach, very close to those rising oceans.
I'm going to give you twenty percent of what you
think this place is worth. I'll tak make it off
your hands. See what happens. Let me know how that
goes for you. Of course, it was all nonsense, It
was all lies. They were all wrong. All that climate
change stuff is absurd, and yet they never have to
(29:10):
stop and think, you know what, Hm, maybe there's a
problem there, say anything with the government shutdown, I might add,
as soon as we end this government shutdown, or rather
it ends, democrats are going to pretend like this wasn't
a thing that they did, and the suffering that people
had because of it was not their fault. They're just
going to lie about all of it. And lies. Unfortunately,
(29:32):
as they're very destructive, they're also a very powerful. Lies
are a very effective tool of power because if you
can always lie to people about what you do, you
can never be held responsible for what you do, and
therefore you can convince the masses of whatever you need
to to stay in power just by lying to them.
That's why when Gavin Newsom said he hates politicians who lie,
(29:52):
everyone across the country with an IQ above fifty was
like laughing out loud. But Gavin, we do protest too
much on that one. We're gonna close out with calls, talkbacks, VIPs,
all that good stuff coming up here momentarily, and also
to tell you here about Legacy Box, which is honestly
(30:13):
just awesome. Some of the best family moments are when
you relive those historical moments that you've had together, and
few things can bring those memories back to life more
than old home movies. If you've got family movies on
video cassettes, the contents of those of the stuff legends
are made of, and if you've got a bunch of them,
this is the time to digitally transfer them. With Legacy
(30:35):
Boxes help that way, the memories are preserved forever. If
you move fast, you can have your tapes digitized and
put onto a thumb drive, onto the cloud and ready
in time for this Christmas season when the family is together.
Reliving those great memories is guaranteed to bring laps, amazement, tears,
every possible emotion. The whole experience makes for a great gift.
Clay has done this, I have done this. We love
(30:56):
Legacy Box. Right now get early access to Legacy Boxes
Black Friday sale. Digitize your memories for just nine dollars
per take. That's sixty six percent off regular pricing. Just
nine dollars to preserve and share your precious memories. We've
relied on Legacy Box in years past to digitize our
family's memories. This nine dollars deal won't last long. Head
Legacy box dot com slash buck for early access to
(31:18):
our best deal of the year or to the Legacy
Box today and have it wrapped up in plenty of
time for Christmas. Legacybox dot com, slash Buck, Legacy Box
dot com, slash b u c K.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history
on the Team forty seven podcast. Playin Book Highlight Trump
Free plays from the week Sundays at noon Eastern. Find
it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Closing up shop on clay in Buck. Make sure you
drink some Crocket Coffee friends, go to Crocket Coffee dot com. Subscribe.
We're gonna have great book deals for subscribers coming out
here in the weeks and months ahead. So that's awesome. Uh,
and it's deliciou coffee i'mdrinking right now. Got my over
Mountain Club mug Crockett Cooffee dot com. Please subscribe, go
check it out, you'll love it now. My friend Ben Ferguson,
(32:07):
who's a great radio host many of you know him,
a great radio host and podcaster, also played d one tennis,
he says, so he was one of my coaches behind
the scenes here with John Isner, the greatest server of
all time in terms of speed and maybe just in general.
And here is mister ben Ferguson on my one hundred
(32:28):
and three mile an hour serve win play.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
Bb fuck, welcome to the one hundred mile club. I
never had any doubts as your friend and leg mentor.
I just want to be very clear about that now, Clay.
Let's be honest. He had his doubts. There's a lot
of others out there that had their doubts, maybe even
family members of yours that had their doubts. But I
(32:52):
personally knew what a stellar athlete you were. You're not
just a brilliant mind. You had it in you. We
just had to find it. So one hundred and three, congratulations.
We still have, you know, hills to climb. One oh
eight that's gonna be the next one. Okay, one oh eight,
job well done. And uh well we'll keep just driving
those legs. I get your leg press for the for
(33:14):
the studio in between commercial breaks.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Maybe we can get it sponsored. Congratulations. You know, maybe
I'm gonna get one ten before the end of the year.
You know, I'm not trying to get a little little,
uh a little too high falluton here. Maybe one ten,
one hundred ten miles an hour. We'll see, but I'm
not making any promises that one ten is really fast.
I'm not making any promises in that one. Uh. Now
we have uh oh, Chris Knowles, the Great Chris Knowles,
(33:38):
a producer at friend of mine from Newsmax AA play it.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Fuck get your boy, Chris, And I gotta tell you
that is a rocket of a serve. Not that I
ever doubted you, uh, but I mean power and precision,
all while maintaining your your boyish good looks and charms.
I personally, I don't know how Clay recovers from this,
as sure as he'll know that he'll never be.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Able to return something like that. Congratulations, I knew you
could do it. Thank you, mister Chris Noles. I appreciate you, sir.
I would also say that all that I require here
for mister Clay is an Alcatraz swim. Now you know
I did my I did my physical challenge challenge except
the challenge met and I am looking forward to being
(34:25):
in the little launch boat that is there to make
sure that Clay is safe, make sure that when the
sharks get close, I'm not gonna do anyth about it.
But I'm gonna say, Clay, there's a shark, so I'm
gonna help him out. I'm looking out for my buddy there. Hey, Clay,
I think that might be a great white. It's about
ten yards behind you, So go a little faster. I
will be there for him and make sure that he
(34:46):
at least has a fighting chance to make it back
to land from Alcatraz. That's the kind of guy. That's
the kind of co host. I am a caller RD
from Oklahoma. He's on furlough as a federal employer. You
what's up?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
R D?
Speaker 9 (35:02):
Hey Buck, thanks for taking my call, sir, Good afternoon.
So yeah, I'm a furlough fellow employee here in Oklahoma,
and uh, I'm just calling to uh TO to encourage
our Republican friends to hold the line. UH Senator's Poon
and Johnson and you guys are doing a great job.
Do not ben do not give anything, don't show weakness,
(35:25):
keep doing it. We those of us who most of
us here, understand that this is a democratic shut down.
And the Republicans, even if you go, even if they
offer something, they're they're not going to accept it anyway.
So so so that's number one, and number two the
the jackwagon that called in a little over an hour
ago and gave the president f you obviously don't know
how government works.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
That's number one. Number two.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
You know, my my, how how short your memory is.
Let's go back just two three years ago, even, you know,
just even a year ago, and look at gas prices,
look at the price of age, and you know, you know,
the president can't do it. And you know in ten
months it took four years to screw it up. A
little longer, and so you know it's gonna take a
little longer to fix it.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
But he's doing a great job.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I gave him an a plus.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Thank you, all right, fantastic, my friend, thank you for
calling it. By the way, a lot of our Clay
and Buck truckers have been saying, look at diesel prices,
because that someone doesn't get talked about nearly enough. But
diesel prices are are pretty high right now, three seventy
five at gallon.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And that is something that also factors in to a
lot of what we see with the cost of goods
and services and everything else, because obviously, without truckers, the
whole country comes to a halt. So I'm gonna play
some tennis this weekend, be putting some fire out there
on the court with the serve. It's gonna be good
times everybody. Thank you for all the believers, and for
(36:48):
all the doubters and the haters. I love you too,
The third hour of Clay and book last hour before
send you off for we'll hopefully be absolutely wonderful weekends.
I really do love this time year. I'm a big
fan of October November nationwide. You have the excitement of
the holidays in the mix. You have end of year stuff,
(00:20):
you get into the Thanksgiving and then Christmas, Hanukkah, New
Year's season, parties, gatherings, maybe a little too much good food,
but all that stuff coming together. So I think it's
a great time of the year. And I think that
we have as Thanksgiving is approaching, a much to be
thankful for this year in general as individuals and as people,
(00:42):
but also as a country. I think overall, as I've said,
despite the call we got before, and I had a
furrowed brow as did Clay when we heard that one
of our callers, who said claim to be a Trump
voter gave Trump an F for this year, I mean,
I just think that's honestly an absurd Great people are
entitled to their opinion. I just am entitled to disagree
(01:03):
with it. I think Trump has done a phenomenal job
this year. I think the country is in such better shape.
I think back to what it was like as I
sit here now, Miami five, a little lean and mean
with an aerodynamic haircut. One hundred mile an hour plus
serve one hundred and three let's call it what it is,
one hundred and three mile an hour serve probably could
get to one hundred and five, maybe even one hundred
(01:23):
and ten before the end of the year, but we'll
talk about that another time. I remember what it was
like during the pandemic, the Biden years in New York. Yeah,
I look like teen wolf basically, you know, I had
crazy hair, couldn't shave or you couldn't get a haircut.
I could shave, couldn't get a haircut, couldn't go anywhere,
(01:44):
it couldn't do anything, and the country had just devolved
into madness. Madness. So just take stock of the good days.
I think it's so important. And I think that the
positive thinking that we can all engage in every day,
every day is an opportunity to do the best things
you can that day, to make yourself a little bit better,
and to be grateful for your blessings. And I think
(02:08):
as a nation of the country, we have a lot
of blessings right now. One of them, though, is not
a government that is currently open. I must call that
like it is. We do not have a government that
is open. And you have Trump clearly agitated and also
clearly not going to budge agitated with the Democrats and
(02:29):
their lies on this one. The shutdown is this is
a Democrat shutdown. They did this. There is no other argument.
There's no two ways about it. They prevented the funding
of the government because they have a demand that is
outside the scope of a continuing resolution, which is that
funding that they had already approved. So they're trying to
(02:52):
retrade the deal at the end. They're the ones that decided, oh,
I'm going to buy your house for four hundred thousand dollars.
Actually I'm only going to close if you give me
if you give it to me for three point fifty. Right,
They're the ones that are basically breaking the standard order
of things here and deciding we're not going to have government.
(03:13):
Trump sees this very clearly here He isn't cut six
lay it down.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They shut down is caused by the Democrats. And we're
not going to spend a trillion dollars or one and
a half trillion dollars on healthcare for people that came
into our country illegally, many of them from prisons, and
many of them drug dealers and murderers, eleven eight hundred
and eighty eight murderers. We're not doing that, so we'll
see about that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
We shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They should have, as they've done always in the past.
It should have just been extended. It could have been
extended or easily, it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Could have been extended very easily. They chose not to.
They chose not to, and now they're pretending like they
did not make that choice. This is one of the
things I find so frustrating about Democrats by trying to
debate them, trying to deal with them, they won't even
stand behind the decisions they make. So how can we
(04:04):
get to a place of accountability and better decision making.
They do something and say I did not do that thing,
and we know they did it, but they just refuse,
They just say no. And it's I think at that
point now where we should all understand the challenges that
exist because of this shutdown. I hope you are not
(04:27):
trying to fly somewhere this weekend. Our buddy Clay is
trying to get to the airport and get up in
the sky. It's so nice of the pilots or going
to help Clay escape New York. It does feel like
Escape from New York. Is that I'm going to share
something with you guys now that I wasn't expecting to.
But I feel like it's third hour, it's a Friday.
We're in the sharing zone. I'm a Kurt Russell fan.
(04:50):
I love Tombstone, Big Trouble in Little China. There's a
whole bunch of movies, Kurt Russell, big fan. I have
never seen Escape from New York. I bet producer, Mark A, producer, Greg, producer, Mike.
You've all seen it? Right? Is it good? Should I
make Carrie watch this with me? I might have? Oh ah,
(05:12):
there's a little bit of hesitation there, guys. Okay, okay,
a little bit of hesitation. You know. I was out too,
so that thank you. Thank you for saving me from
perhaps a Friday night. If my wife going this movie
is not good? Why are you making me watch this?
I was out with a dinner with a good friend
last night and his wife and Carrie and I was
(05:32):
and his son was there. His son is about ten
years old, and we were just talking, all of us
at the table and I realized I'm already I am
envious that my friend is at that point with his son. Speed.
Still he can say mamma. He can say mama. That's it.
He says it a lot. Now Mama gets a lot. Uh,
she has to move around the apartment real fast here
(05:54):
and get to the baby. She can say mamma. But
my friend gets just aren't introducing his son to the
movies that my generation, our generation thinks were great, because
those are the great movies. They aren't making great movies anymore,
they really aren't. I mean, they'll make a decent one
(06:15):
here or there occasionally, but really, overall, and especially if
you're talking about history and war movies things like that,
the great movies were made in the earlier part of
my lifetime. So I hope one day I get to
sit there with Speed and be like, well, son, it's
time for you to see Ghostbusters for the first time,
(06:36):
or it's time for you to see Saving Private Ryan
or Gladiator or any of these movies that hold up
really really well. So anyway, so that's all fun. Back
to the shutdown madness and what is going on there. So, yeah,
Clay is trying Trump's trying to escape from New York.
Clay is trying to escape from New York, which might
(06:57):
be more interesting today than even the movie he was.
It's gonna be a mess. It is a mess at
these airports. And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, you know, that's
one of those jobs that you take. And I know
I knew him when he was Congressman Duffy a little bit.
But Shawn and his wife are they're such nice people. Truly,
all of you would really like Sean and his wife.
(07:20):
They're just really, really good nice people. I think they
have nine kids too. They're such good, kind, wholesome people.
But Transportation secretary is one of those jobs where no
one's really I think I'm just speaking the truth here.
No one's really thinking a lot about what the Transportation
Secretary's up to until there's a problem, right, it's a
crisis situation. People are, you know, wondering what's going on,
(07:44):
and he's saying, look, he's doing what he can. The
money's gone. They've shut down the government. The Democrats have
shut down the government, and so there are limitations here.
This is cut ten. Secretary of Transportation Duffy, play it
one to second.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Guess what we're doing. Why we're doing it. I've done
all I can to minimize disruption in the airspace. I'm
trying to get people where they want to go and
get them there safely. If people want to question us,
I would go back at them. Open up the government.
You know, we have to take unprecedented action. Is because
we are in an unprecedented situation with a shutdown, and
so again I have a number one job of keeping
(08:22):
people safe.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I've looked at data.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I want to be preemptive and i want to make
sure people are safe in the system. By the way,
this is not a political decision. We did this with
a safety team at the FAA. We did it with
the administrator of the FAA. As that data came in,
we decided to, you know, make the decisions that we
thought were appropriate.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They don't really have a choice, and this is going
to get worse too. This isn't a temporary thing insofar
as until the government comes back on the shortages, the
over extended work hours and work schedule for these individuals,
it's all going to just continue, you on, and actually
be exacerbated with time. So there needs to be a
(09:06):
change here. There needs to be something done and I
think that that's it's coming. But Democrats are trying to
find some way to pull out a political win here
and I don't know how they do it. And Republicans.
If Republicans cave on this, what we will have seen,
(09:29):
without any question, in a way that is so clear
and so obvious that everyone would see it. It would
mean that just Democrats have stiffer spines in the Senate
than Republicans do. When push comes to shove. That's it.
Democrats hold together, they hold the line. Republicans get weak,
get weak on this issue. Something else, you know, Clay
(09:51):
and I were talking about this in the first hour
a bit, and it has to do with the concerns
about prices. Here is Trump. This is cut five. He's saying, look, everybody,
I understand prices are high. The things that we generally
measure that you can affect with government policy in a
(10:13):
relatively short term way, they are doing well, like gas
prices and things. They are coming down. But it's not
a perfect situation. It's never going to be per situation.
Cut five. Here's Trump.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I don't want to hear about the affordability because right
now we're much less If.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You look at energy. We're getting close to.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Two dollars a gallon gasoline with Biden, who was four
dollars and fifty cents five dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Another thing, inflation.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We had the worst inflation in the history of our country.
Now we have virtually no inflation at all. It sounded
a very low number and a very normal number. So
the affordability is much better with the Republicans. The only
problem is the Republicans don't talk about it, and Republicans
should start talking about it and use their heads because
we have great numbers, we have greater and they could
(11:01):
only get better.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I think that people really do need to remember what
it was like with the Biden team in charge, because
not only were things bad, they were only going to
get worse. There has to be some moment of gratitude
here where it's thank Heaven's Trump survived two assassination attempts,
four criminal prosecutions, multiple civil destruction suits of him that
(11:31):
were all just completely unfair. All that stuff, and the
media and Russia collusion and the insurrection, all these things
trying to take him off the ballot illegally, all the
things that he did. If that hadn't happened, happened, you
would have a Biden or Kamala. I mean, if Biden
hadn't done what he did, you know, maybe he would still,
(11:52):
but you would have had a Democrat administration making all
this stuff worse, making all this stuff worse. So, while
I understand, and the affordability issue is still hurting people,
and the cost of the stuff you need to live
your day to day lives is still higher than we
would all like it to be, it is moving in
the right direction, no question, and it is so much
(12:14):
better than it would be the same situation, the same cost,
the receipts that you're looking at right now, all of
that would be so much worse if Trump hadn't won
and saved us from the madness of a Democrat party
that never learns the lesson. It is so frustrating. Democrats
(12:35):
do not learn the lesson on crime, they do not
learn the lesson on the border, and they certainly don't
learn any lessons when it comes to economics. Just take
more from people who make it, give more to people
who don't, print more money with the treasury, get the
Fed to just start, you know, just get the printing
presses going and see what happens. It's all make believe.
(13:00):
If anyway, there's nothing really underneath all this money. There's
no actual products or productivity. It's whatever we say it is.
That is the democrat view, and it is so destructive.
So again, look at where we are, how things are
actually going, and the decisions that are being made. We
have in America that is at peace, in America that
(13:21):
is prosperous, in America that has secured its borders, that
cities are getting safer, that does not have the same
cultural and dei and crazy insanity when it comes to
colleges and when it comes to every aspect of our culture.
Things are getting better, and it's going to take time.
We need to stay focused, stay on it, and stay
(13:43):
supportive of the mission here. Yes there are some things
to critique. Yes there are some aspects of this administration
that you could say, I wish they had done this.
I wish there's more transparency in that. But let's keep
it real, folks. It's been an incredible go so far
for Trump year one, and I think we're just we're
(14:05):
just in the well. We are clearly the opening innings
because it's just the first year. Puretalk continues to maintain
the same low price on their monthly service that they've
had for five plus years, with nearly everything costing more,
pure Talk hasn't just changed their low pricing, They've added
much more service. You want a way to save money
every month without sacrificing and equality in your cell phone service,
(14:25):
Go with Puretalk. The average sized family of four saves
over one thousand dollars a year when they switch to
pure Talk. Puretalk gives you unlimited talk, text, and plenty
of data for just twenty five bucks a month on
Puretalk's lightning fast five G network. Plus right now, we'll
take an additional fifty percent off your first month. That's
immediate savings that you can take immediate action on. You
(14:48):
keep your phone and your number, of course, and you
start keeping more of your own money. Dial pound two
fifty Say the keywords clan, bucket. Puretalk's US customer service
team will switch you over in as little as ten minutes,
plus save fifty percent off your first month. Dial pound
two five zero say Clay and buck to switch to
America's wireless company, pure Talk. Sometimes all you can do
(15:11):
is laugh, and they do a lot of it.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
With the Sunday hang Join Clay and Buck as they
lap it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed
on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts and.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Welcome back into Clay en Buck. We got calls, we
got vip emails, we have talkbacks. Light us up on
all of the above. I definitely want to get to
a bunch of them as we're closing out our third
hour here in a little bit And Bob in Texas,
what have you got for us?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Hey? Yeah? First, I want to say thank you to
Clay for all that prize pick money he's won. Me
and my main topic was air traffic controllers. The airports
are obviously getting some nasty pr buis like that letter
they had to send to Clay. Why aren't they ponying
up the money to pay these guys temporarily like that
(15:59):
millionaire we did for our army, our billionaire and then
make a deal with Trump to get the money back
when everybody gets their act together.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh man, that sounds good, but it's probably far more
forward leaning and skillful then the people involved in these
decisions are are going to be able to pull off
anything like that. Yeah, I don't know. Thank you for
calling in. I think that this is going to get
(16:29):
It's gonna get messy at the airports for a while. Now,
it's gonna be a real problem. So something that we
all have to keep in mind. We've got some vip
emails here. Vip email from John Escape from New York
is one of John Carpenter's finest films. Kurt Russell is
amazing in it as well. It is a great look
at the future that we will all soon have under
(16:50):
Democrat control. I don't know, guys, I'm iffy on this one.
I might have to go watch the trailer. I feel
like I can tell ninety percent of the time after
watching a trailer whether I'll like a movie or not,
meaning nine out of ten times, if I thought I'd
like it based on the trailer, I do. If I
thought I wouldn't like it and I saw it for
some reason, I don't. So we'll see vip email from Steve.
(17:14):
So far, I give Trump an a grade for a plus.
He needs to assemble business leaders to raise money for
payroll loans to keep the airlines and controllers working, kind
of like what our caller is just talking about. By
the way, these cancelations are costing much more mister President,
tear down this shut down. Yes, I think that this
(17:38):
is going to test not just the Republican's resolve but
also the solution finding of this White House to the
degree that they can patch things up until the government
gets reopened. Like I said, more calls, more talkbacks, more
thoughts on everything going on today, coming up here momentarily.
(18:00):
But I want you to feel safe in your home,
and a really, really critical way to do that is
to have the right self defense tools. Now, a lot
of you are firearms owners. You've got two way You've
got that protection at home, and I certainly am one,
and I believe in that. But I also believe in
having non lethal options at my disposal too when the
situation calls for that, and my wife prefers non lethal
(18:21):
for self defense. Pepper spray, pepper gel, pepper projectile launchers.
Saber has safeguarded hundreds of thousands of Americans with their
non lethal self and home defense products. Their pepper projectile
launcher could just be your best choice. They've got a
bundle that you can go check out that'll get you
everything you need, including practice rounds for it, packs a
(18:41):
serious non lethal punch. Go to Saber radio dot com.
Sabre radio dot com, say fifteen percent of that website
that Saber radio dot com. Or call eight four four
eight two four safe eight four four eight two four safe.
All right, welcome back in. Give the little ass and
buck anything. You might be getting a call from play
(19:02):
in a minute, but you can call and ask me
whatever you want. How about that it's a Friday and
we're having a good time here. You, like I said,
Clay might be ringing us from the airport to let
us know what kind of chaos, what kind of a
mess it has all turned into there? It is. It
is tough. It is not going well here with the
(19:23):
shutdown situation. Jd Vance, This is twenty five. Jd Vance
is saying, now the pain start. It's one thing to
have a shutdown for a few days a week, ten days.
Now there's real consequences to this stuff. Play twenty five.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
The American people are unfortunately about to start suffering some
very real consequences because of the shutdown. In the past,
when you had a government shutdown, you would have go
under the Obama administration, they would lean into all of
the problems that was going to cause for the American people.
At the beginning of the shutdown, the President has told
us to keep as much going as humanly possible. But
(20:00):
after thirty days of this thing, forty days of this thing,
you're gonna start seeing very real travel delays. That's because
the Democrat government shut down. You're gonna start seeing snap
benefits run out. That's because the Democrat government shut down.
They should stop the charade and open up the government.
That's what we want them to do. We've been asking
them to do it for forty days. It's time.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Why not just open the government up and then say, hey, guys,
we also have to fix the Obamacare exchanges by funneling
billions of dollars of subsidies to them. Afterwards, Do they
really think that Republicans are going to allow people to
have forty thousand dollars a year in expense for some
of these Obamacare approved plans, which is what some of
(20:40):
these plans are going to cost for a family of four,
Just completely unaffordable stuff and stuff that will will destroy
people's finances. What you'll have is a lot of people
will refuse to get insurance. And remember, we don't have
those Obamacare fines anymore. Right, They got rid of that
so you'll just have a lot of people who go
on insurt. Isn't that the great irony of this Obamacare
(21:01):
will have made health insurance so expensive that without billions
of dollars of subsidies showered on it to just artificially
make people think the price has been decreased, Obamacare, the
quote Affordable Care Act, will have made healthcare so unaffordable
(21:23):
that people will choose not to have it. That's going
to become the legacy of the ACA. I think at
some level Democrats recognize this is going to be a
problem for them, This is going to be a problem
for their party, because this is still the single most transformational,
(21:44):
unfortunately in a very bad way, piece of legislation that
the Democrat Party has managed to get through. I'm probably
in twenty something years, I don't know, you have to
go back quite a while. The other big things the
Democrats have gotten that are wins are all just judicial fiat.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's the Supreme Court before the Trump appointees came on board,
handing them and in some cases even with the Trump
appointees handing Democrats the policy victories they could have never
gotten at the ballot box. And so there we have it. Oh,
speaking of judges, you also have this judge now who
has ruled this is what the administration must do on
(22:22):
snap food stamps. Notice that why would they change this?
Is this is meaningful? Why is it this supplemental nutritional
assistance program? Why not just call it food stamps? What's
wrong with that? We even call it something like food aid?
(22:44):
You know, why do we have to call it supplemented?
We come up with this science sounding the supplemental nutritional assistance.
It's buying free food for people. It is food welfare. Now,
there are reasons when people can be out on their luck.
Things happen. I get it. I do not think that
we should have no safety net. Well, if anything, we
(23:06):
should have a safety net where we take care of
each other. Or decency and charity as Americans means that
nobody would ever go hungry because we don't allow them to.
But I'm not opposed to a safety net. And I
understand that things can be difficult than people have challenges,
but I also think we should call things what they are.
I also think that when you're giving food welfare, we
(23:28):
should know as a people, that's what it is. You
hear that from welfare a lot less. All these bureaucracies
also that administer this stuff don't want people to think
of what they're doing as welfare because then they realize
that this is their money that's just being handed to people.
And also the bureaucracies are very wasteful and very bloated,
so they remember the bureaucracies take a cut because it's
(23:51):
government money going through government hands to get to the
people who are getting it for free. So yeah, we
should call it food stamps. The same way, they don't
want you to think of illegal aliens, somebody who is
not American, not supposed to be in the country undocumented.
What is undocumented even mean? Is it really a meaningless term?
(24:11):
The problem is that they lack a document. No, the
problem is that they're illegally in the United States and
they're in violation of our laws. So these things do matter.
The way we talk about this does make a difference.
But on the snap ruling, because this is now that's
the official government term for it, maybe Trump should change that,
call it call it food welfare. What's wrong with that?
(24:35):
All the different welfare forms we have, I might add,
you know, people were for of Section eight housing for example,
what does that mean? That could be anything Section eight housing,
we don't call the medicaid. We don't call anything really.
I mean, there's probably some exceptions, but we don't call
things welfare anymore because it's always supposed to be hidden
(24:58):
from the American people in the time payer, the size
and scope of the free stuff that we are giving
to people in a country where half the country pays
no income tax whatsoever. That's not a good and sustainable program,
is it. Here's vance on the judge's ruling about how
(25:22):
this is just a judge saying this is what the
federal government must do now the government shut down on
food stamps, Play twenty six.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
It's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge
effectively telling us what we have to do in the
midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like
to do is for the Democrats to open up the government,
of course, and then we can fund snap and we
can also do a lot of other good things for
the American people. But in the midst of a shutdown,
we can't have a federal court telling the president how
he has the triage of the situation. We're trying to
(25:50):
keep as much turned on. We're trying to keep as
much going as possible. The President and the entire administration
are working on that, but we're not going to do
it under the orders of a federal judge, or going
to do it according to what we think we have
to do to comply with the law, of course, but
also to actually make the government work for people in
the midst of the Democrat government shut down.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I mean, what if the judge just said, the Democrats,
I've got a better idea, Hey, judge, whatever you know,
Obama or Biden or maybe maybe probably not Clinton. That's
going back too far, but Obama Biden, Judge this is
or are the Democrats to reopen the government? How why
don't we try that one? If we're just gonna become
(26:33):
king for a day as a federal judge, let's just
have the government reopened by the fiat of a judge.
Just trample off, trample on the executive I mean, the
legislative branches, prerogative, just forget about all that. You're the judge,
you're the emperor in the black robes, and just do
your thing. There's way too much of this, way too
(26:56):
much of this stuff going on to try to stop
this inministration, to order around this administration, to dictate to
the Trump team from these judges. And notice that Trump
just the way he handles it is to go to court,
go through the process, go through the process. That's not
how kings do things. For the no Kings protest, Honestly,
(27:17):
I don't know how people. I don't know how you
can take yourself seriously if you go to a no
King's protest, Oh no Kings. It is so pathetic. But
people would rather continue to be sanctimonious and wrong than
be self effacing and right. So common, unfortunately, it's so common.
(27:41):
I hate being wrong. Clayt and I share this. We
both if we get any fact wrong, anything we say.
When I say wrong, inaccurate right, predictions, you know, you
win some, you lose something. We like to have fun
with predictions. But no one can predict the future. So
that's that is what it is. That's more of a
parlor game than anything else. But accuracy really can. Accuracy
really matters. It bothers me to be inaccurate. But also analysis.
(28:05):
If I'm really wrong on a point of analysis, I
try to go back admit that first off, and then
try to understand why. The great part of being a
Democrat is never admitting you're wrong, never admitting that your
policies are dumb, that your ideas are idiotic, that it's destructive,
that you make everything worse for everyone, including yourself, with
most of the things that you want to have happen.
(28:28):
You know, the walk back from climate change is the
biggest existential threat in the world, which is happening a
little bit quietly, but with Bill Gates and then others too.
Why are they making more movies about how I'm in Florida.
Go try to get a deal on Florida, Florida beachfront
real estate right now, Okay, especially given what just happened
(28:48):
in New York, Go try to get a deal. Say somebody,
you know what, I'm going to help you out. You're
right here on the beach, very close to those rising oceans.
I'm going to give you twenty percent of what you
think this place is worth. I'll tak make it off
your hands. See what happens. Let me know how that
goes for you. Of course, it was all nonsense, It
was all lies. They were all wrong. All that climate
change stuff is absurd, and yet they never have to
(29:10):
stop and think, you know what, Hm, maybe there's a
problem there, say anything with the government shutdown, I might add,
as soon as we end this government shutdown, or rather
it ends, democrats are going to pretend like this wasn't
a thing that they did, and the suffering that people
had because of it was not their fault. They're just
going to lie about all of it. And lies. Unfortunately,
(29:32):
as they're very destructive, they're also a very powerful. Lies
are a very effective tool of power because if you
can always lie to people about what you do, you
can never be held responsible for what you do, and
therefore you can convince the masses of whatever you need
to to stay in power just by lying to them.
That's why when Gavin Newsom said he hates politicians who lie,
(29:52):
everyone across the country with an IQ above fifty was
like laughing out loud. But Gavin, we do protest too
much on that one. We're gonna close out with calls, talkbacks, VIPs,
all that good stuff coming up here momentarily, and also
to tell you here about Legacy Box, which is honestly
(30:13):
just awesome. Some of the best family moments are when
you relive those historical moments that you've had together, and
few things can bring those memories back to life more
than old home movies. If you've got family movies on
video cassettes, the contents of those of the stuff legends
are made of, and if you've got a bunch of them,
this is the time to digitally transfer them. With Legacy
(30:35):
Boxes help that way, the memories are preserved forever. If
you move fast, you can have your tapes digitized and
put onto a thumb drive, onto the cloud and ready
in time for this Christmas season when the family is together.
Reliving those great memories is guaranteed to bring laps, amazement, tears,
every possible emotion. The whole experience makes for a great gift.
Clay has done this, I have done this. We love
(30:56):
Legacy Box. Right now get early access to Legacy Boxes
Black Friday sale. Digitize your memories for just nine dollars
per take. That's sixty six percent off regular pricing. Just
nine dollars to preserve and share your precious memories. We've
relied on Legacy Box in years past to digitize our
family's memories. This nine dollars deal won't last long. Head
Legacy box dot com slash buck for early access to
(31:18):
our best deal of the year or to the Legacy
Box today and have it wrapped up in plenty of
time for Christmas. Legacybox dot com, slash Buck, Legacy Box
dot com, slash b u c K.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history
on the Team forty seven podcast. Playin Book Highlight Trump
Free plays from the week Sundays at noon Eastern. Find
it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Closing up shop on clay in Buck. Make sure you
drink some Crocket Coffee friends, go to Crocket Coffee dot com. Subscribe.
We're gonna have great book deals for subscribers coming out
here in the weeks and months ahead. So that's awesome. Uh,
and it's deliciou coffee i'mdrinking right now. Got my over
Mountain Club mug Crockett Cooffee dot com. Please subscribe, go
check it out, you'll love it now. My friend Ben Ferguson,
(32:07):
who's a great radio host many of you know him,
a great radio host and podcaster, also played d one tennis,
he says, so he was one of my coaches behind
the scenes here with John Isner, the greatest server of
all time in terms of speed and maybe just in general.
And here is mister ben Ferguson on my one hundred
(32:28):
and three mile an hour serve win play.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
Bb fuck, welcome to the one hundred mile club. I
never had any doubts as your friend and leg mentor.
I just want to be very clear about that now, Clay.
Let's be honest. He had his doubts. There's a lot
of others out there that had their doubts, maybe even
family members of yours that had their doubts. But I
(32:52):
personally knew what a stellar athlete you were. You're not
just a brilliant mind. You had it in you. We
just had to find it. So one hundred and three, congratulations.
We still have, you know, hills to climb. One oh
eight that's gonna be the next one. Okay, one oh eight,
job well done. And uh well we'll keep just driving
those legs. I get your leg press for the for
(33:14):
the studio in between commercial breaks.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Maybe we can get it sponsored. Congratulations. You know, maybe
I'm gonna get one ten before the end of the year.
You know, I'm not trying to get a little little,
uh a little too high falluton here. Maybe one ten,
one hundred ten miles an hour. We'll see, but I'm
not making any promises that one ten is really fast.
I'm not making any promises in that one. Uh. Now
we have uh oh, Chris Knowles, the Great Chris Knowles,
(33:38):
a producer at friend of mine from Newsmax AA play it.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Fuck get your boy, Chris, And I gotta tell you
that is a rocket of a serve. Not that I
ever doubted you, uh, but I mean power and precision,
all while maintaining your your boyish good looks and charms.
I personally, I don't know how Clay recovers from this,
as sure as he'll know that he'll never be.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Able to return something like that. Congratulations, I knew you
could do it. Thank you, mister Chris Noles. I appreciate you, sir.
I would also say that all that I require here
for mister Clay is an Alcatraz swim. Now you know
I did my I did my physical challenge challenge except
the challenge met and I am looking forward to being
(34:25):
in the little launch boat that is there to make
sure that Clay is safe, make sure that when the
sharks get close, I'm not gonna do anyth about it.
But I'm gonna say, Clay, there's a shark, so I'm
gonna help him out. I'm looking out for my buddy there. Hey, Clay,
I think that might be a great white. It's about
ten yards behind you, So go a little faster. I
will be there for him and make sure that he
(34:46):
at least has a fighting chance to make it back
to land from Alcatraz. That's the kind of guy. That's
the kind of co host. I am a caller RD
from Oklahoma. He's on furlough as a federal employer. You
what's up?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
R D?
Speaker 9 (35:02):
Hey Buck, thanks for taking my call, sir, Good afternoon.
So yeah, I'm a furlough fellow employee here in Oklahoma,
and uh, I'm just calling to uh TO to encourage
our Republican friends to hold the line. UH Senator's Poon
and Johnson and you guys are doing a great job.
Do not ben do not give anything, don't show weakness,
(35:25):
keep doing it. We those of us who most of
us here, understand that this is a democratic shut down.
And the Republicans, even if you go, even if they
offer something, they're they're not going to accept it anyway.
So so so that's number one, and number two the
the jackwagon that called in a little over an hour
ago and gave the president f you obviously don't know
how government works.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
That's number one. Number two.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
You know, my my, how how short your memory is.
Let's go back just two three years ago, even, you know,
just even a year ago, and look at gas prices,
look at the price of age, and you know, you know,
the president can't do it. And you know in ten
months it took four years to screw it up. A
little longer, and so you know it's gonna take a
little longer to fix it.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
But he's doing a great job.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I gave him an a plus.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Thank you, all right, fantastic, my friend, thank you for
calling it. By the way, a lot of our Clay
and Buck truckers have been saying, look at diesel prices,
because that someone doesn't get talked about nearly enough. But
diesel prices are are pretty high right now, three seventy
five at gallon.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And that is something that also factors in to a
lot of what we see with the cost of goods
and services and everything else, because obviously, without truckers, the
whole country comes to a halt. So I'm gonna play
some tennis this weekend, be putting some fire out there
on the court with the serve. It's gonna be good
times everybody. Thank you for all the believers, and for
(36:48):
all the doubters and the haters. I love you too,
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show News
Hosts And Creators
Clay Travis
Buck Sexton
Show Links
WebsiteNewsletterPopular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com