August 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into a dynamic mix of political analysis, cultural commentary, and listener engagement, anchored by breaking developments surrounding the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. The hosts explore the geopolitical implications of this high-stakes meeting, speculating on the potential for a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire, the economic ripple effects, and the strategic presence of key figures like Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s top cabinet officials.
The hour also features a humorous deep dive into Clay’s frequent use of the word “fabulous,” sparking a playful segment on language habits, word clouds, and listener critiques. This leads to broader reflections on modern communication trends, including the overuse of exclamation points, the role of emojis, and the need for a “sarcasm font” in digital discourse.
Listeners are treated to a lively debate on hyphenated last names, gender norms in marriage, and the cultural symbolism behind name choices. The hosts share personal anecdotes and light-hearted banter, including Clay’s mispronunciation of “KFAB” and the resulting listener feedback, which segues into a discussion on radio branding and the legacy of Nebraska football.
The episode also touches on the intersection of politics and sports, criticizing virtue signaling in international competitions and the treatment of Russian athletes in tennis and the Olympics. The hosts argue for depoliticizing sports and highlight the absurdity of flag censorship.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off and the
bear has landed is in Alaska. Trump is in Alaska.
This is uh the thrilla from Wasilla. That kind of worked, right, Wassilla?
Isn't that in Texas? In Alaska?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That's what I don't know. Oh wow, good for you.
That's actually a pretty good little sports or.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I think that kind of worked on the fly. There.
No one gave me that one. I just went with it.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So, uh yeah, So we got this this clash of titans,
these heavyweights who are going to be going up against
each other and trying to figure out hopefully a pathway
to ending a very very terrible war in uh you create.
So we've got that going on. We've also got your calls,
your talkbacks, and we wanted to take a moment to
(00:55):
revisit something from uh yesterday, and it is.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I am amazed.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
On the one hand, Clay, I will say this, we
joke around about the pronunciation police coming for us, usually
Clay but me too sometimes. But like they like to
pick on Clay, you know what, the pronunciation police like
to set up DUI checkpoints with Clay in mind. I
think that's where we really are you know this is true. Yeah,
you know they're like, I don't know, Clay. I think
I'm gonna have to put you through the uh follow
(01:23):
my finger and let's watch you, uh, you know, toe
to toe walk down the sidewalk. Here that's the pronunciation police.
Very rough on Clay, very rough.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Some people are saying.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And and yesterday they they also we have now word
choice police, which I that's a new thing and that
not really.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Heard word choice police before. And this is from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
This is uh podcast listener Steven, because we you know,
think about being on podcast here, guys, is I on radio?
But but this is all recorded so we can check,
we can run the numbers, we do the data. It's
like we're in the sports box with the football playing
stuff going on, and we have analytics, analytics to analyze
all of the things that are potentially alleged.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And here is yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
This is the allegation made by mister podcast listener Stephen
play aa Clay.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
This is Stephen in Orange County, California. Hey man, I'm
just trying to help you out, but if you really
want to stop being an unk, you need to quit
trying to channel Patsy Stone. You say fabulous way too much.
How thanks for all you guys do. But Clay gets
yourself in order.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know, he's he's clearly he's clearly a patriotic American
who loves this show and therefore has excellent taste.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
He's calling you on this one.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So to be fair, you could say we got the
speed gun out on this one too.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We decided we want to see what are we really
deal what are we really working with? Here?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You know what is what is Clay Mation cooking with
on this one? And here it is our team pulled
the every time Clay has said fabulous in the month
of all are we ready for this, Clay, I haven't
even heard it.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I haven't heard it. But yes, this is the research
team that went back and looked, and here are the
results taking you into what we hope is going to
be a fabulous weekend. We'll play a ton of your talkbacks.
We got some fabulous ones when we come back. Appreciate
all of you and the fabulous interactions. I think it's
a fabulous way to interact. And I'm told pre orders
(03:28):
are fabulous. The roof top of the Peninsula. Yeah, okay, fabulous.
Buck is in the Highlands. I think that's a broad area,
but that is where he is, and he says everybody
is fabulous to him. I like Colorado, It's a fabulous state.
Joe Kinzie who does fabulous work. There, a fabulous undisputed champion.
Lenora Sellers, fabulous quarterback for South Carolina. He was a
(03:49):
fabulous that he had made everything up. Fabulous coverage. I
love la it is a fabulous city. The Clay and
Buck podcast feed, which has a collection of fabulous member
I just think it's fabulous. Yeah, very fabulous. I love
all of you have fabulous weekends. Maybe and then, by
the way, you use the word fabulous once.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I think we have that audio. Maybe we don't. Maybe
we don't even have Okay, So I'm here.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Instinct, honor and pleasure of getting to a second with
you on Will Kine Show a couple of days ago,
and you were fabulous, by the way, all right, So
that's what Maybe we're on an eighteen to one ratio
right now. Clay said fabulous eighteen times in the month
of August. I said it once, so we know, maybe
fabulous of these two. Maybe I'm gay, Maybe the caller
(04:39):
was right. Maybe I'm gay and I didn't know it.
Because that's the implication on using the word fabulous. I
will say I've asked the team to do word clouds
to figure out what words we might say, because I
think you can plug this into AI now and determine.
I would say that my usage there is almost always
complementary of other people. In other words, this is just
(05:02):
demonstrative of how kind I am, consider it thoughtful. I
had them also run fabulous versus boobs to try to
give myself some heterosexuality.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I didn't know about this.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
This is so I haven't I haven't heard the results yet.
I haven't heard the results yet. I don't know if
they're in yet. But I would just say that I
probably am just incredibly happy, generous, kind and giving great
compliments here. So we did do a deep dive. Also
to your point, Buck, everybody remembers everything, and.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I know people out there.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
We have five hundred and fifty five I believe it
is stations, and if you had cameras on us, we
do liners all the time. And a liner is something
where we say, hey, welcome Missoula, Montana. We're excited to
have you on this station, whatever it is, and a
lot of times we don't know, necessarily as they're five
hundred and fifty five of them, how the station call
(06:01):
letters are pronounced, sometimes me in particular, I don't know
how the city's pronounced, so I gotta get help. And
this is all. We got a VIP email. But this
is all. And again, I'm not the kind of person
to throw you just heard how fabulous I am at
giving credit, not the kind of person to cast dispersions
or blame. This email is one hundred percent Alley's fault,
because she is the reason why I screwed this up.
(06:24):
But wow, Willis writes in and says, Clay, you might
be gay.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
About a year ago, Clay did a promo for k
FAB in Oklahoma and Omaha. He pronounced it as KFAB
like it was a bubblegum station playing Taylor Swift songs short.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
For fabulous, K fabulous. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Clay re recorded the promo, pronounced it as k FAB
a news station. Clay, you might be gay? Best, w
Now here's the deal. Far be it for me to
tell the people of Omaha how they should sell their
radio station. K FAB is way easier to say, and
it also connotes that the station which I'm sure is true,
(07:10):
is fabulous. That's how I would have done it if
nineteen AFA is A is a great heritage radio station
of tremendous history reach and I met all these all
these fabulous people in Omaha, and I'm just saying I'm
gonna do it even more now. I'm just saying that
(07:33):
if I had been alive in Nebraska in nineteen fourteen
when this radio station was founded, they would be known
as k FAB and it would be because the station
is fabulous and everybody because your favorite.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Word is fabulous. So this is this is really where
you're you're tying it all together. You just stuck the
landing on this one.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And I think the station, as I'm sure it is
fabulously successful already, would actually be even more fabulously success
if it were branded as KFAB. So uh that is ah.
But I do want to see the word cloud. My
bet is this is fun for us. If they do
you word cloud versus me word cloud, who do you
(08:13):
think's word choice would look happier? I think I would
be the happier word cloud, oh for sure. Fair yeah
yeah yeah, grumpier, grumpier, more dour. In general, I think
there would be more hype. And I want to confess
to everybody that this has got me a little rattled.
You know what I've been doing recently, and I'm not
(08:34):
proud of myself. I've been using exclamation points and I
hate exclamation points, but it feels like everyone uses exclamation points,
and if I get.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
To get pressured into it, because it's like dinner, thanks
for having us over. Dinner was great. No exclamation point,
it's like dinner. Oh he's lying, Yeah he didn't like it.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I was just at a dinner last night and I
had to respond with exclamation to exclamation point points.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Absolutely great night. Dinner was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I feel like we have seen inflations on exclamation points
and I have bought in, and I hate myself for it.
I think I've still never used an emoji, primarily because
I don't know how to do emojis as an unk.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't know how to do that on my phone.
Do you do emojis? I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I use I use emojis, Yeah, I use them. That's
because you were dating younger girls. See, You've got all
these habits that you had to follow because you're communicating.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Clay just throwing people under the bus here left and right.
Producer Ali me, I'm not complaining.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
If I had been single, and you know, thirty two
in New York dating twenty five year olds, I would
have done whatever I had to do to make them
think that I was hip. But I uh, probably by
not using the word hip and the only time to
figure an unk, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That's for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But I will tell you, and I know this has
happened and everybody else. I despise exclamation points because to me,
it makes me feel like I'm telling you how you
have to react to something that I am telling you,
because it's it's like I'm demanding that you be excited
when you read my commentary, but all of you have
(10:10):
gone so full exclamatory that, to Buck's point, if you
don't go exclamation it's like, hey had an awesome time period,
Well then you're a jerk and you didn't have an
actual awesome time. So there are many things that I
think in communication have gotten out of sorts the use
of the exclamation point. I would also suggest everything needs
(10:31):
a sarcasm font because the other day, you remember this
when I said that Kamala should definitely run in twenty
eight and she was a fabulous candidate. I thought everyone
who read that tweet would understand that I was being sarcastic.
The number of people fighting in the mentions about whether
this was my true opinion, all these all these blue
(10:51):
blue check mark Kamala fans were sharing it like see
even even Clay Travis Recondelly, And there were layers of sarcasm,
and eventually I couldn't even tell what was true or
false anymore. So I would like to remove exclamation points
from the conversation, and I would also like to add
a sarcasm font. And one final thought, I want to
(11:12):
do away with apostrophes. While I'm solving the English language
right now, I feel like apostrophes have gotten too complicated,
and there are lots of words that I don't even
know whether the apostrophe s is right or wrong or
anything else, And so I think that they are unnecessary
and excessively used and too complicated, and I think we
(11:34):
basically don't need any of them.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So, while we're going way off the beaten path here,
because we can't update you on the Putin rush of
the Putin Trump conversation because it hasn't started yet. They're
both in Alaska. It's the biggest news item of the
day by far. So we're doing a little, uh, you know,
little dance about here. I need to know something. Can
we just get a can we get a ruling? You
think that hyphenate like hyphenated words, you go with the hyphen,
(11:58):
you go without the hyphen. I don't want anyone correcting
me with a hyphenated word because or like a compound,
wherebert the hyphen in it?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I think it should be user's
choice on this one. I don't think it should be.
There's a you know, we shouldn't be policing this, if
you will, it shouldn't shouldn't be policing the hyphens.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Are you ready for my most controversial take of the day.
You shouldn't ever have a last name with a hyphen
in it. There's very few things where if I win,
I've been married for twenty one years. Yesterday, if Laura,
on our first date had said, Hey, our kids are
gonna have to have a dash. It's gonna be my
(12:37):
name and your name, God forbid she suggested that we
take her last name, I would be out. Have you
seen this trend lately, Buck, where bride and groom choose
the last name and are sometimes taking the girl's last name.
I mean, I've I've heard of this.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I just I just would hope that the groom is
okay with his bride's boyfriend picking the name too.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So not good I am. I am very anti hyphenated
last names. And if you ever have a guy who
is willing to give up his last name and take
the girl's last name, I think that the marriage is
doomed to failure from the moment it starts.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I think everyone knows that that guy's asking his wife
to open his ketchup bottles for.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Him, you know what I mean, Well, that's probably true.
That's probably also a metaphor for other things that he's asking.
So it's a bad sign if you have to ask
your wife to open a ketchup bottle and your arm's
not broken or both your arms are broken, that's the
only time I could see that being the exception.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But yeah, the height wives, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Actually we are the same height, I mean within an inch,
and our wives are the same height I think within
an inch inch and a half. I mean they're basically
so you and I are the same height, and our
wives are the same height. Does your wife ever hug
you and and and show surprise that you and her
are not the same height. Sometimes it's like I always
think of us as being almost the same height. I
(14:03):
have to be like, no, honey, no, Well is that
partly because the heel thing. Women are very good at
disguising what actual height they are. They don't know what
height they are because they wear four inch heels five inch.
I mean, it's crazy to me how much different they can.
Lara sometimes walks in a room and I'm like, you're
a different human. You know, you put on the heels suddenly.
But we married twenty one years, so that hasn't happened.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Some breaking news, gambling markets surging. Remember I told you
it was like a two percent chance that Russia Ukraine
we're going to enter into a ceasefire. Money is now
pouring in forty percent chance of a ceasefire by the
end of today. That's pretty significant movement in terms of
where the gambling markets gamble on it. Where is this like,
(14:47):
where could you gamb poly market? Poly market klshi. I
think these prediction markets are extraordinary I've talked about them
some on the show. Not for you necessarily to have
to place wagers, but when you put real money down,
so many poles or bs real money down, I think
(15:07):
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Speaker 3 (16:39):
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Sally's got my back. I have to chime in on
your current discussion. Clay, you are the least gay person
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Wow, look at that saying just just change them by
the state. You think he's done there, and then he
just gives the knife one more shove right at the end.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Look at that whole state.
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Speaker 2 (18:55):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Big news of the
hour of the day, of the moment.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Is this a high stake summit of Trump and putin
meeting in Alaska, and I would say one one part
of this, as we're looking to see I really everybody
the same way that Clay has taken a very brave
stand recently that he is anti murder. I am he
(19:21):
you know, it was bold, it was bold. Clay does
not like the the killing of of of somebody in
a crime for no reason.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's bad. It's bad. And I know what I'm gonna
I co sign with him on that one. I'm not.
I'm not gonna leave him out on there alone.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I think also, ending a a war over territory that
is killing hundreds of thousands of people is something that
any human being could.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Just very much be in favor of. Right.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
This is very obvious, very easy stuff to root for,
is not It's not controversial. It's one of those rare
things that really isn't, or I should say, shouldn't be partisan,
even though in this case it has been made very partisan.
And I'm hopeful of this will come to an end.
I would also say, though Clay, the possibility here of
(20:08):
I think a really nice again, most important, I just
want to say all that stuff because the most important
thing is that you know, young Ukrainian men, young Ukrainian
young Russian men are not just just getting blown up
for what right this is happening every day.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
But something else that could be an additional benefit of
all this is it'd be good for business and the economy,
which matters.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
For a whole lot of people all over the world too.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
If Russia wasn't doing this, if Russia's war it's aggressive
war here, and the sanctions that are in place and
all the rest.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So Clay, I think there's a possibility.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That this could have some nice movement in the markets too,
if it comes to what feels like a real move forward.
It can't just be some empty words from putin this time.
But if it looks like it's really going in the
right direction, you know, we're heading to a place where
the Iran nuclear program is not something anyone cares about
(21:08):
right now. I mean, in general, I know there are
people in the Pentagon and such you care, but it's
not something that is worrying anybody. I think we're reaching
the end here pretty soon of Israel's counter strike against
Hamas in Gaza. I think that's going to be everyone
can see it's coming to a final phase, and now
(21:31):
you have this, and if this were to be taken
off the table as just a geopolitical flashpoint, as a
point of instability for national security, but also on the
economic front energy, how it affect the energy prices.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's just to be a huge win all around.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's such a big win that if he pulls it
off Hillary, I know she said it in a snarky way,
but she would even I think she should be held
to this.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
If he pulls us off, he should get the Nobel
Peace Price.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I don't think there's any doubt. Some news on the meetup,
it was unclear who exactly would be in the room.
The room is a trio from the United States, reportedly
Steve Witkoff, who is Trump's friend, billionaire advisor who has
been trying to negotiate peace around the world. Marco Rubio
(22:20):
obviously Secretary of State, and Donald Trump. We know putin
on the Russia side. We don't know the exact three
v three setup that will be taking place, but that
Witcoff is a Miami beach guy.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
By the way, he's my name. Yeah, he's my neighbor.
I could I could walk to wit Coff's house in
like a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
He's been all over the world trying to bring peace.
I mean, he's basically Trump's global emissary for peace. So
you've got that trio. I do think this is smart
strategically because if it were Trump putin one on one,
then there would be a lot of discussion about, oh,
they're you know, trying to Manchurion Canada, Trump all these
(23:04):
different things. Rubio has been one of the best. There's
been a bunch, but one of the best cabinet secretary picks.
I think it's fair to say of Trump. I mean,
I think Marco Rubio has been just fabulous, just incredible.
Steve Witkoff obviously, but I think three v three is
not a bad It's not big enough number where there's
(23:24):
tons of people talking and there's lots of conflicting voices,
which is always a challenge in these negotiations. But it
lets you know, Okay, here are the guys, and I
presume it'll be six men. Here are the guys that
are going to be determining what the parameters of a
potential peace deal could be. Now you know, it's just
as a bad I'm sorry, go ahead, no, I was
just gonna say, we've talked a lot about the Trump side.
(23:48):
I think Trump's motivations are pretty clear. Hey, let's have
less people dying. To your point, I think it's very
hard to say something negative about Trump as it pertains
to this story, even if you're trying. Why would Putin
go all the way to Anchorage, come to the United
States and not have the intent of advancing talks in
some way. It's not like Trump and Putin meet face
(24:09):
to face all the time. I don't think Putin has
met with a president in years and years. He hasn't
been to the United States in eight years or something.
Seems a little bit unlikely to me that he would
travel all this way and spend all this time with
no intent to advance towards peace or a negotiated settlement
in some way, just trying to analyze it from his perspective,
(24:31):
it doesn't add up to me that he would go
all the way face to face to tell Trump, hey.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Screw you, we're not going to come to any kind
of agreement.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
At some level, I think you could arg I think
people might argue Clay on that one. I tend to
agree with you that there's clearly some motivation here for
Putin to he's feeling some pressure and there's a desire
to at least look like he wants to have some
kind of a conversation about this. But I also think
that there's the uh, he's legitimized on the world stage
(25:00):
as not just like the Russian bad guy, but ahead
of state he's meeting with Trump. You know, it goes
to the propaganda of oh, well, like Putin's actually he's
trying to you know, he's reasonable. He Russian, Russian aims
in this war are not are not beyond the pale.
It is kind of funny, though, that the the venue
(25:22):
for this negotiation is the place where America made the second.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Best land deal in its history.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
What was eighteen sixty seven seven million bucks sewards folly
they called it, right, is so Alaska is after the
Louisiana purchase, yep, which is really just because he deals
of all time.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, the number one, number one greatest land deal ever done.
I'm sorry Trump. I know Trump's done some great deals,
but I think Louisiana purchase, I think we got to
give credit probably the greatest, probably the greatest deal for
land of all time, but buying Alaska from the Russians
for seven million bucks.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That one.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
In retrospect, that was quite a deal. That's quite a move.
We want to talk to the art of the deal.
You get all that now. Of course, this is before
the discovery of oil, right, so there's that people didn't
recognize that oil is going to be the most valuable
in some ways or one of the most valuable natural
commodities in the world, natural resources in the world. But yeah,
(26:29):
America really showed Russia what's up back in eighteen sixty seven.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
All right, there's going to be some I love that.
We're going to get the history NERD contingent firing away.
The purchase of Manhattan for some trinkets probably a pretty
good deal, was it? Twenty three dollars in trinkets? It
turned out to be a pretty good value back in
the seventeen hundreds, if I'm remembering correctly. Eighteen oh three
(26:54):
Louisiana purchase. Can I just throw this out there, though?
That was that's the Dutch, right, the Dutch did it?
Oh we were a country yet, So yeah, that's a
good distinction for.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
To pull that one off. So we're talking about American
land deals here. Baby.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That was the Dutch who were like, you know, they
kind of faded after that. That was their high that
was their high point.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
The by the way, one update on the meeting, I said,
I'm reporting this is Caitlin Collins from CNN who put
this out three v three.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
They're also then going to expand at a working lunch.
This is I mean, I think the psychology on this
is do you really eat?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I mean, are people like working?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Can you imagine you're trying to hammer out the biggest
peace treaty since World War Two and they're standing in
line at a buffet or maybe they're getting delivered food
on the base.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Do you really eat?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
The working lunch element to this is really kind of
they're like, hey, guys, maybe we don't have the hamburgers.
Maybe we just kind of focus on trying to hammer
out the peace deal. But the bilateral working lunch is
going to be Trump, Rubio, Hegseeth Bessant. So that's the
Secretary's of State, of the Defense and of the Treasury,
(28:11):
as well as Scott Lutnick, who is Secretary of Commerce,
Witkoff and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. My point again
on this that I would reiterate is that's basically everybody
who matters at the top levels of the United States government.
All of them have traveled all the way to Anchorage,
Alaska for this meeting. We don't know exactly who Putin
(28:33):
is bringing, but that's not the kind of crew you
roll with if this is supposed to be some sort
of formality and not a significant discussion. Again, we don't
know what the outcome is going to be, but Trump
basically is bringing the five or six most significant people
in the administration to meet face to face with Russia's
(28:55):
leadership as well. And I presume Putin must be bringing
all of his top guys as well, uh, in order
for this meeting to take place. But yeah, lunch, working lunch.
I mean that seems kind of hard.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I just weird Trump is gonna Do you think they
brought some some big Max and Diet Cokes for Trump?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He's a fan.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think I think he's probably gonna just roll out,
you know, quarter pounders. Although that's a cultural statement as well.
Since McDonald's had to pull out of Russia. That's one
thing that I think is actually very interesting about all
of this. How do we de sanctify Russia. We took
all Western assets effectively out of the country they gave
(29:36):
them all to in deer.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
How do we sanction how do we de sanction them?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Take the sanctions off at this yea, how do we
How do we like do they go back to McDonald's
in Subway instead of the Russian You know, not not
to open it, not to open up the tennis conversation again,
but I will say this, I've seen this because there
are a lot of great Russian tennis players.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's a sport where Russians are.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I think that and probably ice hockey are the places
where you got the highest Russian uh, you know, Russian
level athletes at the top level.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Am I missing one?
Speaker 5 (30:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I was just gonna say to your point, it's a
good one. Remember we're hosting the Olympics in twenty eight.
Russian involvement could be significant. Historically, Russian American competition in
the Olympics has been a very significant geopolitical flashpoint. So
I wonder if that might get mentioned.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Here and and and beyond that though, I just think this, uh,
not having the Russian flag for Russian players in tennis,
but having this little.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Empty square is ridiculous. It's dumb.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
It's not the player's fault, that's their nationality. This is
this is like virtue signaling, you know, idiocy. Okay, it's
you're you're you're identifying the nationality of the player. You're
not bowing down and saying Russia is great and playing
the Russian national anthem before every tennis match. So I
just think that this but this goes to this mentality
where people a lot of the stuff you see around
(30:54):
the Russian Ukraine war in this country is just posturing
by people who like to think that they're braver than
they are on issues where they're not taking any stand. Really,
they just want everyone to think they're taking some kind
of a stand. I mean, what, like what why punish
the Russian players they're not, they didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Maybe don't put in racism in the end zone for
NFL stadiums, like right. I mean, I think all of
this political posturing in the world of sports is absurd.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I sign off on that.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I mean, the idea that you can't have the flag
by the way breaking news coming down, Trump told Brett Baher,
I won't be happy Fox News is Brett Baer, I
won't be happy if I walk away without some form
of ceasefire. So I would just say he's raising a
bit expectations for what this meeting will actually result in.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
So heck, I mean stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I mean obviously Sean Hannity is in Alaska and will
be live right after us. I don't know when this
is gonna officially we'll get breaking news on this, but
headed into the weekend, this is potentially gonna be good.
I'm gonna throw producer ally to the bus again. By
the way, you know, I hate to do this before
the weekend. Clay twice harsh within the same hour. Producer, Ali,
(32:08):
do you want to come up on the mic? You
told us that Air Force one landed like an hour
and a half before Air Force one actually landed. Thankfully,
air Force one has landed safely. Would you like to
apologize to this massive audience for your failures not only here,
but also forgetting me to say kyfab.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Yes, I am crouched in the fetal position under.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
The bus, I said.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
During a break, I was like, Ali, there, Brett Bayer
just tweeted, Hey, we just landed in Alaska and we
said it. I thought, because I saw Trump taking off,
how did they get there that fast?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
So producer Ali, I mean, all right, I blame a. I.
You know, we're trying to do to find this information
for you fast. I relied on AI and it failed me.
There you go, Rock Rock letter astray, Uh come back.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Let's dive
into a few of your talkbacks as we take you
into the weekend. Pam from Alaska where the big talks
are going on. Lookout Buck, she just brought it two
by four.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
KK.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Hey, Buck, I've been listening to you for years, dating
back to the plays. If we're being honest, there was
a time you were pretty keen on Taylor's oh, very
highly of her and just simply lamented her politics.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Wow, woa comes out? Whoa clause it swifty? Thank you,
thank you for holding him accou.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think I might have thought, as a young man
in my thirties, I might.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Have referred to her as I thought she was attracted.
I don't think I was a fan of the music
per se. But I have to go back.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
It is football season and Buck is bailing. The backpedal
happening in a hurry here. I gotta drop back in
punt on that one. I got a corner that was tough.
We got one more. No, we don't have time.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I don't think we have time. We'll roll some of
these over to Monday.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
I think we're gonna be talking significant outcomes, potentially from Alaska.
We will see Stay tuned, Sean Hannity, many of these
same stations going to be up next, and I know
he's in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Have fabulous weekends
Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off and the
bear has landed is in Alaska. Trump is in Alaska.
This is uh the thrilla from Wasilla. That kind of worked, right, Wassilla?
Isn't that in Texas? In Alaska?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That's what I don't know. Oh wow, good for you.
That's actually a pretty good little sports or.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I think that kind of worked on the fly. There.
No one gave me that one. I just went with it.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So, uh yeah, So we got this this clash of titans,
these heavyweights who are going to be going up against
each other and trying to figure out hopefully a pathway
to ending a very very terrible war in uh you create.
So we've got that going on. We've also got your calls,
your talkbacks, and we wanted to take a moment to
(00:55):
revisit something from uh yesterday, and it is.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I am amazed.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
On the one hand, Clay, I will say this, we
joke around about the pronunciation police coming for us, usually
Clay but me too sometimes. But like they like to
pick on Clay, you know what, the pronunciation police like
to set up DUI checkpoints with Clay in mind. I
think that's where we really are you know this is true. Yeah,
you know they're like, I don't know, Clay. I think
I'm gonna have to put you through the uh follow
(01:23):
my finger and let's watch you, uh, you know, toe
to toe walk down the sidewalk. Here that's the pronunciation police.
Very rough on Clay, very rough.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Some people are saying.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And and yesterday they they also we have now word
choice police, which I that's a new thing and that
not really.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Heard word choice police before. And this is from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
This is uh podcast listener Steven, because we you know,
think about being on podcast here, guys, is I on radio?
But but this is all recorded so we can check,
we can run the numbers, we do the data. It's
like we're in the sports box with the football playing
stuff going on, and we have analytics, analytics to analyze
all of the things that are potentially alleged.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And here is yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
This is the allegation made by mister podcast listener Stephen
play aa Clay.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
This is Stephen in Orange County, California. Hey man, I'm
just trying to help you out, but if you really
want to stop being an unk, you need to quit
trying to channel Patsy Stone. You say fabulous way too much.
How thanks for all you guys do. But Clay gets
yourself in order.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know, he's he's clearly he's clearly a patriotic American
who loves this show and therefore has excellent taste.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
He's calling you on this one.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So to be fair, you could say we got the
speed gun out on this one too.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We decided we want to see what are we really
deal what are we really working with? Here?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You know what is what is Clay Mation cooking with
on this one? And here it is our team pulled
the every time Clay has said fabulous in the month
of all are we ready for this, Clay, I haven't
even heard it.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I haven't heard it. But yes, this is the research
team that went back and looked, and here are the
results taking you into what we hope is going to
be a fabulous weekend. We'll play a ton of your talkbacks.
We got some fabulous ones when we come back. Appreciate
all of you and the fabulous interactions. I think it's
a fabulous way to interact. And I'm told pre orders
(03:28):
are fabulous. The roof top of the Peninsula. Yeah, okay, fabulous.
Buck is in the Highlands. I think that's a broad area,
but that is where he is, and he says everybody
is fabulous to him. I like Colorado, It's a fabulous state.
Joe Kinzie who does fabulous work. There, a fabulous undisputed champion.
Lenora Sellers, fabulous quarterback for South Carolina. He was a
(03:49):
fabulous that he had made everything up. Fabulous coverage. I
love la it is a fabulous city. The Clay and
Buck podcast feed, which has a collection of fabulous member
I just think it's fabulous. Yeah, very fabulous. I love
all of you have fabulous weekends. Maybe and then, by
the way, you use the word fabulous once.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I think we have that audio. Maybe we don't. Maybe
we don't even have Okay, So I'm here.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Instinct, honor and pleasure of getting to a second with
you on Will Kine Show a couple of days ago,
and you were fabulous, by the way, all right, So
that's what Maybe we're on an eighteen to one ratio
right now. Clay said fabulous eighteen times in the month
of August. I said it once, so we know, maybe
fabulous of these two. Maybe I'm gay, Maybe the caller
(04:39):
was right. Maybe I'm gay and I didn't know it.
Because that's the implication on using the word fabulous. I
will say I've asked the team to do word clouds
to figure out what words we might say, because I
think you can plug this into AI now and determine.
I would say that my usage there is almost always
complementary of other people. In other words, this is just
(05:02):
demonstrative of how kind I am, consider it thoughtful. I
had them also run fabulous versus boobs to try to
give myself some heterosexuality.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I didn't know about this.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
This is so I haven't I haven't heard the results yet.
I haven't heard the results yet. I don't know if
they're in yet. But I would just say that I
probably am just incredibly happy, generous, kind and giving great
compliments here. So we did do a deep dive. Also
to your point, Buck, everybody remembers everything, and.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I know people out there.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
We have five hundred and fifty five I believe it
is stations, and if you had cameras on us, we
do liners all the time. And a liner is something
where we say, hey, welcome Missoula, Montana. We're excited to
have you on this station, whatever it is, and a
lot of times we don't know, necessarily as they're five
hundred and fifty five of them, how the station call
(06:01):
letters are pronounced, sometimes me in particular, I don't know
how the city's pronounced, so I gotta get help. And
this is all. We got a VIP email. But this
is all. And again, I'm not the kind of person
to throw you just heard how fabulous I am at
giving credit, not the kind of person to cast dispersions
or blame. This email is one hundred percent Alley's fault,
because she is the reason why I screwed this up.
(06:24):
But wow, Willis writes in and says, Clay, you might
be gay.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
About a year ago, Clay did a promo for k
FAB in Oklahoma and Omaha. He pronounced it as KFAB
like it was a bubblegum station playing Taylor Swift songs short.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
For fabulous, K fabulous. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Clay re recorded the promo, pronounced it as k FAB
a news station. Clay, you might be gay? Best, w
Now here's the deal. Far be it for me to
tell the people of Omaha how they should sell their
radio station. K FAB is way easier to say, and
it also connotes that the station which I'm sure is true,
(07:10):
is fabulous. That's how I would have done it if
nineteen AFA is A is a great heritage radio station
of tremendous history reach and I met all these all
these fabulous people in Omaha, and I'm just saying I'm
gonna do it even more now. I'm just saying that
(07:33):
if I had been alive in Nebraska in nineteen fourteen
when this radio station was founded, they would be known
as k FAB and it would be because the station
is fabulous and everybody because your favorite.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Word is fabulous. So this is this is really where
you're you're tying it all together. You just stuck the
landing on this one.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And I think the station, as I'm sure it is
fabulously successful already, would actually be even more fabulously success
if it were branded as KFAB. So uh that is ah.
But I do want to see the word cloud. My
bet is this is fun for us. If they do
you word cloud versus me word cloud, who do you
(08:13):
think's word choice would look happier? I think I would
be the happier word cloud, oh for sure. Fair yeah
yeah yeah, grumpier, grumpier, more dour. In general, I think
there would be more hype. And I want to confess
to everybody that this has got me a little rattled.
You know what I've been doing recently, and I'm not
(08:34):
proud of myself. I've been using exclamation points and I
hate exclamation points, but it feels like everyone uses exclamation points,
and if I get.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
To get pressured into it, because it's like dinner, thanks
for having us over. Dinner was great. No exclamation point,
it's like dinner. Oh he's lying, Yeah he didn't like it.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I was just at a dinner last night and I
had to respond with exclamation to exclamation point points.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Absolutely great night. Dinner was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I feel like we have seen inflations on exclamation points
and I have bought in, and I hate myself for it.
I think I've still never used an emoji, primarily because
I don't know how to do emojis as an unk.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't know how to do that on my phone.
Do you do emojis? I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I use I use emojis, Yeah, I use them. That's
because you were dating younger girls. See, You've got all
these habits that you had to follow because you're communicating.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Clay just throwing people under the bus here left and right.
Producer Ali me, I'm not complaining.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
If I had been single, and you know, thirty two
in New York dating twenty five year olds, I would
have done whatever I had to do to make them
think that I was hip. But I uh, probably by
not using the word hip and the only time to
figure an unk, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That's for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But I will tell you, and I know this has
happened and everybody else. I despise exclamation points because to me,
it makes me feel like I'm telling you how you
have to react to something that I am telling you,
because it's it's like I'm demanding that you be excited
when you read my commentary, but all of you have
(10:10):
gone so full exclamatory that, to Buck's point, if you
don't go exclamation it's like, hey had an awesome time period,
Well then you're a jerk and you didn't have an
actual awesome time. So there are many things that I
think in communication have gotten out of sorts the use
of the exclamation point. I would also suggest everything needs
(10:31):
a sarcasm font because the other day, you remember this
when I said that Kamala should definitely run in twenty
eight and she was a fabulous candidate. I thought everyone
who read that tweet would understand that I was being sarcastic.
The number of people fighting in the mentions about whether
this was my true opinion, all these all these blue
(10:51):
blue check mark Kamala fans were sharing it like see
even even Clay Travis Recondelly, And there were layers of sarcasm,
and eventually I couldn't even tell what was true or
false anymore. So I would like to remove exclamation points
from the conversation, and I would also like to add
a sarcasm font. And one final thought, I want to
(11:12):
do away with apostrophes. While I'm solving the English language
right now, I feel like apostrophes have gotten too complicated,
and there are lots of words that I don't even
know whether the apostrophe s is right or wrong or
anything else, And so I think that they are unnecessary
and excessively used and too complicated, and I think we
(11:34):
basically don't need any of them.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So, while we're going way off the beaten path here,
because we can't update you on the Putin rush of
the Putin Trump conversation because it hasn't started yet. They're
both in Alaska. It's the biggest news item of the
day by far. So we're doing a little, uh, you know,
little dance about here. I need to know something. Can
we just get a can we get a ruling? You
think that hyphenate like hyphenated words, you go with the hyphen,
(11:58):
you go without the hyphen. I don't want anyone correcting
me with a hyphenated word because or like a compound,
wherebert the hyphen in it?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I think it should be user's
choice on this one. I don't think it should be.
There's a you know, we shouldn't be policing this, if
you will, it shouldn't shouldn't be policing the hyphens.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Are you ready for my most controversial take of the day.
You shouldn't ever have a last name with a hyphen
in it. There's very few things where if I win,
I've been married for twenty one years. Yesterday, if Laura,
on our first date had said, Hey, our kids are
gonna have to have a dash. It's gonna be my
(12:37):
name and your name, God forbid she suggested that we
take her last name, I would be out. Have you
seen this trend lately, Buck, where bride and groom choose
the last name and are sometimes taking the girl's last name.
I mean, I've I've heard of this.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I just I just would hope that the groom is
okay with his bride's boyfriend picking the name too.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So not good I am. I am very anti hyphenated
last names. And if you ever have a guy who
is willing to give up his last name and take
the girl's last name, I think that the marriage is
doomed to failure from the moment it starts.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I think everyone knows that that guy's asking his wife
to open his ketchup bottles for.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Him, you know what I mean, Well, that's probably true.
That's probably also a metaphor for other things that he's asking.
So it's a bad sign if you have to ask
your wife to open a ketchup bottle and your arm's
not broken or both your arms are broken, that's the
only time I could see that being the exception.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But yeah, the height wives, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Actually we are the same height, I mean within an inch,
and our wives are the same height I think within
an inch inch and a half. I mean they're basically
so you and I are the same height, and our
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But we married twenty one years, so that hasn't happened.
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Some breaking news, gambling markets surging. Remember I told you
it was like a two percent chance that Russia Ukraine
we're going to enter into a ceasefire. Money is now
pouring in forty percent chance of a ceasefire by the
end of today. That's pretty significant movement in terms of
where the gambling markets gamble on it. Where is this like,
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some on the show. Not for you necessarily to have
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Big news of the
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Speaker 1 (19:00):
Is this a high stake summit of Trump and putin
meeting in Alaska, and I would say one one part
of this, as we're looking to see I really everybody
the same way that Clay has taken a very brave
stand recently that he is anti murder. I am he
(19:21):
you know, it was bold, it was bold. Clay does
not like the the killing of of of somebody in
a crime for no reason.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's bad. It's bad. And I know what I'm gonna
I co sign with him on that one. I'm not.
I'm not gonna leave him out on there alone.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I think also, ending a a war over territory that
is killing hundreds of thousands of people is something that
any human being could.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Just very much be in favor of. Right.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
This is very obvious, very easy stuff to root for,
is not It's not controversial. It's one of those rare
things that really isn't, or I should say, shouldn't be partisan,
even though in this case it has been made very partisan.
And I'm hopeful of this will come to an end.
I would also say, though Clay, the possibility here of
(20:08):
I think a really nice again, most important, I just
want to say all that stuff because the most important
thing is that you know, young Ukrainian men, young Ukrainian
young Russian men are not just just getting blown up
for what right this is happening every day.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
But something else that could be an additional benefit of
all this is it'd be good for business and the economy,
which matters.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
For a whole lot of people all over the world too.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
If Russia wasn't doing this, if Russia's war it's aggressive
war here, and the sanctions that are in place and
all the rest.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So Clay, I think there's a possibility.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That this could have some nice movement in the markets too,
if it comes to what feels like a real move forward.
It can't just be some empty words from putin this time.
But if it looks like it's really going in the
right direction, you know, we're heading to a place where
the Iran nuclear program is not something anyone cares about
(21:08):
right now. I mean, in general, I know there are
people in the Pentagon and such you care, but it's
not something that is worrying anybody. I think we're reaching
the end here pretty soon of Israel's counter strike against
Hamas in Gaza. I think that's going to be everyone
can see it's coming to a final phase, and now
(21:31):
you have this, and if this were to be taken
off the table as just a geopolitical flashpoint, as a
point of instability for national security, but also on the
economic front energy, how it affect the energy prices.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's just to be a huge win all around.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's such a big win that if he pulls it
off Hillary, I know she said it in a snarky way,
but she would even I think she should be held
to this.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
If he pulls us off, he should get the Nobel
Peace Price.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I don't think there's any doubt. Some news on the meetup,
it was unclear who exactly would be in the room.
The room is a trio from the United States, reportedly
Steve Witkoff, who is Trump's friend, billionaire advisor who has
been trying to negotiate peace around the world. Marco Rubio
(22:20):
obviously Secretary of State, and Donald Trump. We know putin
on the Russia side. We don't know the exact three
v three setup that will be taking place, but that
Witcoff is a Miami beach guy.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
By the way, he's my name. Yeah, he's my neighbor.
I could I could walk to wit Coff's house in
like a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
He's been all over the world trying to bring peace.
I mean, he's basically Trump's global emissary for peace. So
you've got that trio. I do think this is smart
strategically because if it were Trump putin one on one,
then there would be a lot of discussion about, oh,
they're you know, trying to Manchurion Canada, Trump all these
(23:04):
different things. Rubio has been one of the best. There's
been a bunch, but one of the best cabinet secretary picks.
I think it's fair to say of Trump. I mean,
I think Marco Rubio has been just fabulous, just incredible.
Steve Witkoff obviously, but I think three v three is
not a bad It's not big enough number where there's
(23:24):
tons of people talking and there's lots of conflicting voices,
which is always a challenge in these negotiations. But it
lets you know, Okay, here are the guys, and I
presume it'll be six men. Here are the guys that
are going to be determining what the parameters of a
potential peace deal could be. Now you know, it's just
as a bad I'm sorry, go ahead, no, I was
just gonna say, we've talked a lot about the Trump side.
(23:48):
I think Trump's motivations are pretty clear. Hey, let's have
less people dying. To your point, I think it's very
hard to say something negative about Trump as it pertains
to this story, even if you're trying. Why would Putin
go all the way to Anchorage, come to the United
States and not have the intent of advancing talks in
some way. It's not like Trump and Putin meet face
(24:09):
to face all the time. I don't think Putin has
met with a president in years and years. He hasn't
been to the United States in eight years or something.
Seems a little bit unlikely to me that he would
travel all this way and spend all this time with
no intent to advance towards peace or a negotiated settlement
in some way, just trying to analyze it from his perspective,
(24:31):
it doesn't add up to me that he would go
all the way face to face to tell Trump, hey.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Screw you, we're not going to come to any kind
of agreement.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
At some level, I think you could arg I think
people might argue Clay on that one. I tend to
agree with you that there's clearly some motivation here for
Putin to he's feeling some pressure and there's a desire
to at least look like he wants to have some
kind of a conversation about this. But I also think
that there's the uh, he's legitimized on the world stage
(25:00):
as not just like the Russian bad guy, but ahead
of state he's meeting with Trump. You know, it goes
to the propaganda of oh, well, like Putin's actually he's
trying to you know, he's reasonable. He Russian, Russian aims
in this war are not are not beyond the pale.
It is kind of funny, though, that the the venue
(25:22):
for this negotiation is the place where America made the second.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Best land deal in its history.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
What was eighteen sixty seven seven million bucks sewards folly
they called it, right, is so Alaska is after the
Louisiana purchase, yep, which is really just because he deals
of all time.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, the number one, number one greatest land deal ever done.
I'm sorry Trump. I know Trump's done some great deals,
but I think Louisiana purchase, I think we got to
give credit probably the greatest, probably the greatest deal for
land of all time, but buying Alaska from the Russians
for seven million bucks.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That one.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
In retrospect, that was quite a deal. That's quite a move.
We want to talk to the art of the deal.
You get all that now. Of course, this is before
the discovery of oil, right, so there's that people didn't
recognize that oil is going to be the most valuable
in some ways or one of the most valuable natural
commodities in the world, natural resources in the world. But yeah,
(26:29):
America really showed Russia what's up back in eighteen sixty seven.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
All right, there's going to be some I love that.
We're going to get the history NERD contingent firing away.
The purchase of Manhattan for some trinkets probably a pretty
good deal, was it? Twenty three dollars in trinkets? It
turned out to be a pretty good value back in
the seventeen hundreds, if I'm remembering correctly. Eighteen oh three
(26:54):
Louisiana purchase. Can I just throw this out there, though?
That was that's the Dutch, right, the Dutch did it?
Oh we were a country yet, So yeah, that's a
good distinction for.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
To pull that one off. So we're talking about American
land deals here. Baby.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That was the Dutch who were like, you know, they
kind of faded after that. That was their high that
was their high point.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
The by the way, one update on the meeting, I said,
I'm reporting this is Caitlin Collins from CNN who put
this out three v three.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
They're also then going to expand at a working lunch.
This is I mean, I think the psychology on this
is do you really eat?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I mean, are people like working?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Can you imagine you're trying to hammer out the biggest
peace treaty since World War Two and they're standing in
line at a buffet or maybe they're getting delivered food
on the base.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Do you really eat?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
The working lunch element to this is really kind of
they're like, hey, guys, maybe we don't have the hamburgers.
Maybe we just kind of focus on trying to hammer
out the peace deal. But the bilateral working lunch is
going to be Trump, Rubio, Hegseeth Bessant. So that's the
Secretary's of State, of the Defense and of the Treasury,
(28:11):
as well as Scott Lutnick, who is Secretary of Commerce,
Witkoff and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. My point again
on this that I would reiterate is that's basically everybody
who matters at the top levels of the United States government.
All of them have traveled all the way to Anchorage,
Alaska for this meeting. We don't know exactly who Putin
(28:33):
is bringing, but that's not the kind of crew you
roll with if this is supposed to be some sort
of formality and not a significant discussion. Again, we don't
know what the outcome is going to be, but Trump
basically is bringing the five or six most significant people
in the administration to meet face to face with Russia's
(28:55):
leadership as well. And I presume Putin must be bringing
all of his top guys as well, uh, in order
for this meeting to take place. But yeah, lunch, working lunch.
I mean that seems kind of hard.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I just weird Trump is gonna Do you think they
brought some some big Max and Diet Cokes for Trump?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He's a fan.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think I think he's probably gonna just roll out,
you know, quarter pounders. Although that's a cultural statement as well.
Since McDonald's had to pull out of Russia. That's one
thing that I think is actually very interesting about all
of this. How do we de sanctify Russia. We took
all Western assets effectively out of the country they gave
(29:36):
them all to in deer.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
How do we sanction how do we de sanction them?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Take the sanctions off at this yea, how do we
How do we like do they go back to McDonald's
in Subway instead of the Russian You know, not not
to open it, not to open up the tennis conversation again,
but I will say this, I've seen this because there
are a lot of great Russian tennis players.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's a sport where Russians are.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I think that and probably ice hockey are the places
where you got the highest Russian uh, you know, Russian
level athletes at the top level.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Am I missing one?
Speaker 5 (30:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I was just gonna say to your point, it's a
good one. Remember we're hosting the Olympics in twenty eight.
Russian involvement could be significant. Historically, Russian American competition in
the Olympics has been a very significant geopolitical flashpoint. So
I wonder if that might get mentioned.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Here and and and beyond that though, I just think this, uh,
not having the Russian flag for Russian players in tennis,
but having this little.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Empty square is ridiculous. It's dumb.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
It's not the player's fault, that's their nationality. This is
this is like virtue signaling, you know, idiocy. Okay, it's
you're you're you're identifying the nationality of the player. You're
not bowing down and saying Russia is great and playing
the Russian national anthem before every tennis match. So I
just think that this but this goes to this mentality
where people a lot of the stuff you see around
(30:54):
the Russian Ukraine war in this country is just posturing
by people who like to think that they're braver than
they are on issues where they're not taking any stand. Really,
they just want everyone to think they're taking some kind
of a stand. I mean, what, like what why punish
the Russian players they're not, they didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Maybe don't put in racism in the end zone for
NFL stadiums, like right. I mean, I think all of
this political posturing in the world of sports is absurd.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I sign off on that.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I mean, the idea that you can't have the flag
by the way breaking news coming down, Trump told Brett Baher,
I won't be happy Fox News is Brett Baer, I
won't be happy if I walk away without some form
of ceasefire. So I would just say he's raising a
bit expectations for what this meeting will actually result in.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
So heck, I mean stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I mean obviously Sean Hannity is in Alaska and will
be live right after us. I don't know when this
is gonna officially we'll get breaking news on this, but
headed into the weekend, this is potentially gonna be good.
I'm gonna throw producer ally to the bus again. By
the way, you know, I hate to do this before
the weekend. Clay twice harsh within the same hour. Producer, Ali,
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do you want to come up on the mic? You
told us that Air Force one landed like an hour
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Speaker 7 (32:24):
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Speaker 2 (32:27):
The bus, I said.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
During a break, I was like, Ali, there, Brett Bayer
just tweeted, Hey, we just landed in Alaska and we
said it. I thought, because I saw Trump taking off,
how did they get there that fast?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
So producer Ali, I mean, all right, I blame a. I.
You know, we're trying to do to find this information
for you fast. I relied on AI and it failed me.
There you go, Rock Rock letter astray, Uh come back.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Let's dive
into a few of your talkbacks as we take you
into the weekend. Pam from Alaska where the big talks
are going on. Lookout Buck, she just brought it two
by four.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
KK.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Hey, Buck, I've been listening to you for years, dating
back to the plays. If we're being honest, there was
a time you were pretty keen on Taylor's oh, very
highly of her and just simply lamented her politics.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Wow, woa comes out? Whoa clause it swifty? Thank you,
thank you for holding him accou.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think I might have thought, as a young man
in my thirties, I might.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Have referred to her as I thought she was attracted.
I don't think I was a fan of the music
per se. But I have to go back.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
It is football season and Buck is bailing. The backpedal
happening in a hurry here. I gotta drop back in
punt on that one. I got a corner that was tough.
We got one more. No, we don't have time.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I don't think we have time. We'll roll some of
these over to Monday.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
I think we're gonna be talking significant outcomes, potentially from Alaska.
We will see Stay tuned, Sean Hannity, many of these
same stations going to be up next, and I know
he's in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
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