May 17, 2024 • 36 mins
CNN freaks out over Trump's poll numbers with African-Americans. Will black vote swing election to Trump? Biden spokesman claims voters are "psyched" about Biden. Biden speech at NAACP. NFL sells out of Harrison Butker jerseys in all female sizes. Melee between MTG, AOC, Jasmine Crockett during House hearing. Clay and Buck's 4-hour photo shoot.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third hour, clay In Buck kicks off. Now we're gonna
talk to you about a couple things.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
One is quite ah, a flurry of insults on Capitol Hill,
flying all over the place, a bit of squabbling going
on between various members of our esteemed legislative body.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We will bring you that audio. It was.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I mean, I'm talking about we're at the level of
making ugly jokes basically, and you know you're ugly or
you're you know this and that.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I it was real grade school childish kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And it was flying. It was flying.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We'll get you can just hear some of that. I
don't know what is going on over there, but we'll
bring it to you because it is. These These are
our elected representatives, everybody. We are paying their salaries, and
this is what's going on down there. But first up,
I thought we should we should dive into this. As
you know, Joe Biden, if he does not do very well,
(01:02):
let's put this simply and plainly, if he does not
do very well with the black community in this election,
he loses and by very well ninety percent and above
support from the black community. And this is in part
why Biden I think he was just at what was
he He's at a meeting. He came out today, Yes,
(01:24):
he's at the NAACP today and came out and said
he's a lifetime member. Let's let's just hear Biden pandering
as per usual. Ope, maybe not so put that aside
for a second. We'll skip Biden, because yes, he just
was talking about how he is such a big member
(01:45):
of the NAACPR has a longtime member of the NAACP. Meanwhile,
over at CNN, they're a little concerned because President Trump
is doing better at this point then certainly they expected
he would with members of the black community.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
This has cut Ford. Do we have this one?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Look at this number for Donald Trump, twenty two percent.
Where was Donald Trump at this point four years ago?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
In the pulse he.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Was just nine percent of the vote.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
So he's seen more than a doubling in his support
among African Americans. This margin, which was in the seventies
just four years ago, look where it is now sixty
nine minus twenty two. That puts it in the forties.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
My goodness, gracious. If this held through the general election, this.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Would be by far the best performance for Republican candidate
among black voters in a generation, two generations, probably since
nineteen sixty and Richard Nixon against John F.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
That's how long we're really talking about. When we're looking
at this margin here, this could be a truly historic margin.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's quite a troubling sign for the Biden campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, CLEI let me start with this. I think it
is way too early to celebrate on these numbers. And
as we've always said, it'd be great. You know, in
a perfect world, the Republicans would get ninety percent of
the black or one hundred percent of the black vote.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We don't live in a perfect world.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
So I don't think this is necessarily going to translate
to election day in a way that would be meaningful.
But but the numbers right now say that it does.
So I can't have it both ways right right now,
and that's why CNN's freaking out right now. The numbers
do indicate that it would be enough to sway the election,
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swing the election just the black communities vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And and so.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
There is the possibility here that the president that they
have called a white supremacist and a racist, and that
Joe Biden claims, as you point out regularly, that he
had to run because of Charlottesville and the white supremacist
marched there, and Donald Trump saying but which he did
not say that there were good white supremacists, but put
that aside.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Joe Biden lied about that. We all know that there's
the possibility of that black.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Community maybe the deciding vote theoretically that puts Joe Biden
out of office and Donald Trump into office, because if
twenty percent of them go for trumpet's all over.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
And not only does it change potentially the outcome of
twenty twenty four, it destroys the entire identity politics coalition
of the Democrat Party. And we've talked about the clear
conflict that exists right now between Jewish voters and Arab
voters on the issue of Israel and whether or not,
for instance, Israel at the latest can go into Rafa.
(04:35):
I would mention that they have found three dead bodies
of hostages in the last twenty four hours in the
tunnels of Gaza, including one of the women that they
kidnapped and raped at that Rave festival. Her image went viral.
She has now been found dead. Israel has still not
(04:56):
gotten back around one hundred that we know of hostile
just many of whom are probably dead, unfortunately, including five Americans.
But put that aside. So you have israel and Jewish
and Arab voters going head to head in the United
States who tended to be a part of the Biden coalition.
You've had now seven eight years of the media saying
(05:17):
Trump is an awful racist, and right now Trump is
poised to do better than any Republican with the black vote,
based on these CNN numbers and based on what we
just shared with you that audio, than any Republican candidate
since Richard Nixon in nineteen sixty, before the Civil Rights
movement even began. And Bucket's not just black voters. There
(05:37):
are polls out there showing Trump leading with Hispanic voters
or at least very close, and Asian voters are moving
in Trump's direction too. The Identity Politics coalition is on
the verge of taking a knockout punch.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I wouldn't say a knockout punch. I would say it's
taken some hits to the face. It's pretty durable. I mean,
if you even get an eighty twenty vote of the
black from the black community for Biden and Trump, you
still have a huge supermajority of Black voters who are
who are still Democrats, but it absolutely changes the dynamics.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Of how they could put that coalition to get the.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Calculus doesn't work, even though it's still a big favor.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, I'm saying you'd have to now you'd be looking
at a Democrat party that would have to start looking
at winning back working class white voters or you know,
you know, middle middle to lower middle income white voters
would be where the votes could be made up. That's
what Donald Trump did in twenty sixteen. That's how he
expanded the vote where he needed to and delivered that
(06:37):
that victory.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
But there's another part of this, of course as.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, right, and that is who is not only is
it a problem of Biden, who is the national level
black Democrat politician who really has has connection to and
extremely high levels of support. I think the members of Congress,
(07:02):
you can, but you know, there's no one who has
the same the same you know, stature numbers and and
kind of support that Barack Obama did among the you know,
among the black community and the Democrat Party right now,
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Michelle Obama is the answer I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Gonna I'm gonna jump out a window right now, I'm
gonna jump out a window. Kamala Harris does not have it. Okay,
she doesn't have it. You know, look at some of
the other prominent level black Democrat politicians. Corey Booker does
not have that same level of support, and in the Kim.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Jeffries, there's a lot of high ranking black politicians that
don't particularly connect that well with the Black community. And
building on this book question for you, I think what
you're seeing here, and they didn't break it down by race,
but remember we've had this discussion for a while. I
think it's black men. I think black men are rebelling
against the Democrat Party as many men are in jail
(08:00):
because of cultural issues.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, we'll see that.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What I what I meant to say, or what I
meant to get to, is that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You don't have that that national level unifying black politician
for the black community, as you obviously did with Obama.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
For eight years.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And you have Joe Biden who is trying to be
the person and with Kamala Harris as his VP, of course,
who has all these you know, uh bona fidez with
the black community. You know, I'm your guy Joe Biden says,
I'll do what needs to be done. And I think
that's really falling flat. I mean, here we have the
(08:38):
Director of the Office for Public Engagement, that is quite
a quite a title, Steve Benjamin, who's.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Like, oh, there's a there's a there's a lot of
support for Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Don't worry about a lot of support for Joe Biden
in the African American community.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is five jenelvan.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Psiasm for the president in the African American community.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
What do you top that lethargie up to?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
You know, I will tell you again, I can only
speak Francesca to my to my experience. And when I
get out there and we talk to people about the
amazing successes of the administration and the leadership of the
president vice president, people are psyched. I mean they're they're
they're they're they're happy about these meaningful of developments that
(09:21):
are helping change the lives of people all across this country.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Now, look, he's got an impossible job. To be fair, Right,
to be fair, mister Steve Benjamin's job is impossible because
nobody is psyched about Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And I really mean this.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I have never met a Democrat who jumps for joy
over Joe Biden. I have met Democrats who do that
for Hillary. A lot of them were women for Barack Obama,
to be sure, for Bernie Sanders, for Elizabeth Warren. I
have met Democrats and no Democrats who truly get excited
about the I have never met somebody, just from my
(09:55):
own experience, who goes, you know, who's amazing Joe Biden.
Every everybody knows that he was the candidate that they
had when they were able to run an anti Trump campaign.
If you were to ask somebody right now, or rather,
how about this, if somebody said to me, make the
best case you can for what Joe Biden has delivered
(10:16):
for the black community in his first term, I do
you have something?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
And I really mean this.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
If someone said, you know, I'll give you a million dollars,
make the best case for Joe Biden to point to
the thing that Joe Biden has done for the Black
community that has really delivered. I am not aware of it,
and I just basically read about politics all the time.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I think you could make that case for almost anyone
in America. And that really kind of I think speaks
to how Biden has failed. And you asked why he
has this the position that he does, It's because he's
seen as Barack Obama's kind of doddering friend.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Well, you know, he's like his wingman and a million.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, it's not even really a wingman. It's like kind
of a you know, like in the Buddy Cop movies.
He's not even it's not like he's Riggs and Murtaw
in lethal Weapon. I hope I got those guys' names right.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
He's like the Joe Pesci character, you know who they
eventually added on, kind of the lovable Yes there you
gets Leo gets. He's the Leo gets of. And in fact,
I think we have this audio you called for it
a little bit earlier, but it's cut thirty. Even when
he's talking to the n Double ACP today, he still
(11:32):
seems to be referring to himself as the vice president
and Biden as the president.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Listen to that.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
My name is.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Joe Biden and I'm a lifetime member the NAACP. But
I said that the president said, are your dues paid up?
I got a check?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Okay, that could be fair. The president of the double
ACP is who he's referring to I took it as
the President Obama, but I think he's talking about the
president in the NAACP. First of all, he said he
didn't want his kids to go to.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
School in jungle.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Does that sound like a lifetime believer of the NAACP.
And he claimed that he got arrested on the porch
while protesting. But yes, they'll they'll like.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Let me tell you, I remember when when that that
moment happened, and it did feel a little surreal at
the time. People forget now because you know, we got
a lot going on in the world. He wasn't the
leading candidate until all of a sudden Congressman Clyburn South Carolina.
The black community and particularly I mean the black community's
(12:34):
most you know, the the voting block that determines the
most is the black female primary voter. They essentially, once
Clyburn gave his blessing, made the decision Joe Biden's going
to be the guy. And I remember talking to a
few friends of mine around that time who are Black Democrats,
because I honestly am curious about what the what the
(12:56):
feeling was about this, and at least what they told me.
A couple of them told me was it's not that
they think that Joe Biden. They know that Joe Biden's
not some great hero or anything for the black community.
But they think it's it's transactional. They think we put
him in place, you know, meaning the black community gives
this to Joe Biden. He's going to deliver for the
(13:19):
Black community in you know, a variety of ways while
he's in office. I think that implicit bargain has clearly
not been met by Joe Biden. And that's why. So
for any Black voters for whom Biden was a transactional
and look, you can argue all politicians, right, you're voting
for them because you want to get certain stuff. But
(13:40):
I don't think that they believed in the mythology the
Biden campaign was pushing. At least a lot of them
didn't believe in that. I think they just figured Joe
Biden will get it done for us, because you know,
because we're getting it done for him.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
And that has not happened. I will mention two things
that he did.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
One, he put Kamala Harris on the ticket, which black
women might see even though it's not necessarily and then
the second one is similar. It's DEI based. He gave
the trintology Brown Jackson on Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I don't you know that those two moves again, those
two moves, if you're a you know, a a black
female pH d at an Ivy League school or something,
you go, oh my gosh, like look what he's doing.
I don't think that that really moves the needle very
much in a lot of in a lot of black communities.
I don't think a lot of black communities, you know,
(14:28):
in the South, for example, that are dealing with the
day to day problems of paying, you know, affording things, jobs,
you know, substance abuse, I mean, all the things that
come especially if you're living in a city environment.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I don't think they.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
View the Supreme Court pick as enough, do you know
what I mean? I think that that's I mean, you're right,
those would be the things that he could point to.
But I think that you know, remember Trump, you always
talk about the wage and job growth and low real
unemployment in the black and Latino community.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
When he was present, that was one of his biggest
points of pride.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
This is why I bet you a stake that black
men are going to twenty five percent. Bet vote for
twenty five twenty five percent of black men, just black men.
This said, twenty two percent of black voters overall. I
think one in four black men are going to vote
for Donald Trump. I don't think black women are going
to move as much. I think black men are jumping
on board. I really do. And that's why I think
(15:26):
he's going to pick Tim Scott. I think that's why
he The other.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Part of this, too, is that the notion that Donald
Trump is I mean, we've known this all along on
the right, the notion that the left is obsessed with
that Donald Trump is some big racist.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It's just a lot. It's just a lie. He's just
not a racist.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You can say some things about him that aren't complimentary,
Donald Trump is actually not a racist, one hundred percent right.
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And I really thought he did a great job in
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Speaker 1 (19:02):
Things got a little a little feisty, a little a
little saucy on the house. In the house, I should say,
as an house of representatives, and this is I've never
seen anything quite like this.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I have to say. You have.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Congresswoman Crockett, Shasmin Crockett, I believe right, it's her name
on one side.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yes, she is getting into getting to getting into quite
an exchange with it, seems particularly Marjorie.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Taylor Green here.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And you know, I think it might just be best
if you kind of hear it.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
So this is some of what was going on.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
You don't want to talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I think your fake eyelashes are messing.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Up on that is absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
How dare you, I mean, are your feelings her words down.
Oh girl, baby girl, Oh really, don't even play, baby girl.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We are gonna move and we're gonna take your words down.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Why don't you debate me.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You're not you're not.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You don't have enough intelligence, recognizes mister Perry.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Okay, I'm not apology to a better understand your ruling.
If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's
bleach blonde, bad built, butch body, that would not be
engaging in personalities. Correct, what now, We're not going to
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do this like you guys earlier. Literally just you just voted,
voted or trying to get clarification, get calmed down. You please,
can me to calm down because y'all talk.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And then you're out of control. Yes, it is so.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The congresswoman's very upset because she says that some of
the Republicans talked noise about her and and she does
not appreciate the personal insults. Can I just say, congresswomen,
Congresswoman Crockett there engaged in This is a good example
of this a rhetorical technique known as preeda rizzio. You
(21:24):
familiar with this one, Preda rizzio would be you know,
I could talk about how my opponent here is an
imbecile and is quite ugly. But I'm not going to
do that because I'm a better person than that.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That's it's it's the tactic of talking about it by
not talking about it, or you know, I don't want
to say anything bad about about the fact that you
know you are a horrible person, so I'm just going
to avoid it. She did that with Marjorie Taylor Green
and went after it quite personally. I just want to note, Clay,
this is a meeting of the House Oversight Committee looking
(21:59):
into Merrick Garland, and it just turned into panemonium.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I mean, it's the Real Housewives of Washington, DC. And
I bet that your wives watch at least one of
the Real Housewives shows if they're between the ages of
twenty and sixty, I would bet. I just I first
of all, bleached blonde hair is not really that good
(22:28):
of an insult. I'm just going to toss it out there.
It tends to work quite well for both men and women,
just tossing it out there. Also, though, would you feel
comfortable if any of these people had to pay your bills,
your personal bills, not your nation's bills, because we know
it is sure as hell can't do that. If you
(22:50):
told me that any of these Congress people was in
charge of my expenses and my taxes that I have
to pay personally, I would to go to prison. We
are not electing the smartest and most accomplished people in
our country to represent us. Are you saying we're not
sending Congress our best I don't even think it's close,
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and I think this is my theory.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I'm curious if you would buy this buck.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Back in the day, there wasn't that much difference between
what somebody might make as say a congress person or
a senator, and what you could make being really successful
in other facets of life. I'll give you an example.
I don't agree with a lot of the ways that
Bob Eiger has run Disney, but Bob Iger is making
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thirty five million dollars a year to be the CEO
of Disney. If he decided to go represent the state
of California, he would go and make one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I think we are so drastically underpaying public servants relative
to what highly skilled, competent people can make in other
fields that we're no longer getting intelligent people who want
to give back because they say, Hey, I can make
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thirty million dollars a year doing this job, or I
can get dragged through the mud not really feel like
I'm making that much of a difference, and get paid
one hundred and seventy five. And I'm not saying that
one hundred and seventy five is no money. I'm just
saying for a lot of the most talented people, it
isn't close to what their market value would be. And
I just think it's frowned upon. I don't think we
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get high capacity leadership like we would have in prior eras.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Does that make sense, Well.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
If you look at it, If you look at it
this we yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And if you look at the way that it ends
up working out. For members of Congress who are not
independently wealthy, a lot of them have to have a
residence in DC because they spend all lot of time
in DC, Yeah, and then back in their home district.
So unless you're fortunate enough like Joe Biden to ride
the chu chuo all the time, you have to go
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back and forth between the two places. And ask anybody
you know who lives in Oklahoma and somebody else who
lives in California or New York. The pay that you
get in d C goes a heck of a lot
less far than the pay does in a lot of
rehtor states in this country. I mean, DC is an
expensive city. So yeah, I think your fundamental point is
(25:32):
correct in that there's well, when you have people coming
out of law school and going to law firms, and
I think average lawyer, well I shouldn't say average, but
at the big firms paying like two thirty now or
something like that, you.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Make way more money as a twenty five year old lawyer.
This is crazy for a lot of people to think
about than you do as a Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, And so there's a mismatch I think there. And
so what it means is it's almost like how people
used to criticize summer internships that were unpaid. There's a
lot of reasons to criticize them, by the way, and
I always thought it was very did you did you
think I thought when I was doing free internships that
it was exploitative even when I was doing them, like
when I was, you know, nineteen twenty years old, did you.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
See it felt like that a little bit, but I
was so focused on, Hey, this is basically me paying
my dues to be able to learn something that you know,
when I worked in a law firm, for instance, I
knew that I wasn't making them money. Or when I
worked on Capitol Hill, I didn't have the skill set
to be able to return dollars. I definitely thought, hey,
(26:36):
I would like to be getting paid for this, but
in my mind, I was like, the thing that I'm
gaining is more valuable than the four dollars and fifty
cents an hour at that time that I could have
been making.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's a very a very mature view you were taking them.
American Eagle.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I worked at American Eagle was one of my first jobs,
and then Abercrombie and Fitch, and then.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Media at the Averagetown because, as everybody knows, you could
only work at Abercrombie. So Clay and my wife worked
at Abercrombie because you gotta be good looking.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
I was good looking enough, like I'm good looking for
a radio guy, I'm good looking for a sports writer.
I was not good looking, I don't think for an
Abercrombie employee. But my first salary was four dollars and
fifty cents an hour, So that was the work of retail.
I don't know what they pay now. I remember being
super excited that I got time and a half to
(27:29):
work at the Abercrombie and Fitch Pentagon City Mall while
I was in college, and I made eight dollars in
like fifty cents, and I thought to myself, I don't
know how people, I mean, this is an amazing amount
of money. Like I remember thinking that, like, oh my this,
I'm gaking so much money now. And so yes, I
(27:49):
never really thought I was an intern on Capitol Hill
and I never really thought, Hey, you know what, I've
an incredible skill set that I'm bringing to bear here.
Do you remember feeling, because I definitely did outring when
you saw your first real full time job paycheck and
the amount of money that the government took from you
even though your your earnings were meager. I think I
was making I was making thirty eight grand at the time,
(28:11):
and I saw what they were taking out in taxes,
and I was like ready to start the Boston tea party.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Man. I was flipping out.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I lived in Washington, d C. And I remember looking
because in Tennessee, at least you don't have a state
income tax. And I remember getting the paycheck where they
were I meane, you know, six dollars an hour or
whatever the heck it was, and the fact that d
C was taking money out of my paycheck even though
I worked in Virginia. I remember being particularly outraged by that.
(28:37):
I would take the subway from Foggy Bottom in d
C up to Pentagon City and to go to work,
and I remember thinking, this doesn't feel right, Like I'm
going into Virginia and they're taxing me back in d
C because I happened to live here because that's where
I'm in college.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yeah, let's take some calls to close it out here.
Eight hundred two A two two eight A two Light
us up.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
No doubt.
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different rates depending on where they are. I said, uh, Oh,
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it's wwiffleballs again. I'm gonna have to get up on
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My kids getting wiffleballs up in the gutter. Maybe it's
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Find it on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show,
closing up shop here on the weekly episode Buck, Let's
be honest as we go in. You and I spent
four hours yesterday at a photo shoot for PR for
(31:09):
the show here in Nashville. That's why you came to town.
How many hours of live radio would you rather do
than a four hour photo shoot? I'm not gonna lie.
I was so tired after that photo shoot. I think
I'd rather do three days of radio than one day
(31:31):
of a four hour photo shoot.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
What about you?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I would speak until my vocal cords turned to actual.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Mush before I would keep doing that. And I when
they you know, I'm not good at to make love
to the camera, like, that's not it's not my skill set.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I try.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I have a weird crooked smile that looks like a smirk.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
You know. It's yeah, just.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I will tell you, and I told you this yesterday
my way my wife. I told her, hey, I've got
the photo shoot. She gave me two garment bags of clothes.
She didn't even ask me what I thought I should wear.
I had no idea what she had packed until I
opened it up and there were handwritten notes in there
(32:17):
of what was supposed to be paired together. Because she
didn't even trust me to unzip it and put on
the appropriate clothing. That's how little I was involved in
the choice of my attime.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I'm going to share something a little behind the scenes, okay,
because I had to point this out.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I was told.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I was told for at least the more formal shots,
no boat shoes. Now I feel called out by that
a little bit, okay, because I am known and have
been for a long time. I've been wearing boat shoes
since I think I was six years old. I've wearn
so many pairs. Always Sparry, by the way, the real,
the original.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
They were not very cool for a long time. Then
they became super cool. Whendy, they become super cool. Yeah
they are.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
They are in style right now. And so I tried
to bring this up to my wife, who then pointed
out to me, No, you're not on trend because you're
so off trend for so many years that the trend
finally comes in your direction. I was like, but, but,
but the broken clock. It's apparently with fashion you're not
allowed to do that. Like I can't take a victory
(33:21):
lap because I've been wearing shoes that are meant for
cuddly grandpa's mostly or people that are on yachts, but
really mostly cudly grandpas. They are my favorite form of footwear.
They are now truly check it out. Don't take my
word for it. In style, I accident. I am very
fessilo nab and yet I was told I have to
(33:43):
wear like big boys shoes and I did, so there
we go.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It was.
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a few.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Cut thirty one out there is one of our listeners
responding on the Harrison Butker situation.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I believe listen to this.
Speaker 7 (34:49):
I think that Harrison Bucker happens to be the most
beautiful man in this country right now. And I ran
across his commencement speech on my phone and I cried.
I'm seventy eight years old and I cried.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Oh, it's very, very touching. Just say to this caller
saying that Harrison's most people from man in the country.
You didn't see Clay Rocket all of his looks yesterday
at the photo shoot. I'm just saying Clay's been working.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Out these photo I know I'm gonna I don't even
I know Rush used to say this too, and I'm
sure you see this as well. The percentage of the
time that I do video that people don't comment about
anything I said at all, it's all cosmetic continues to
(35:47):
stagger me. And I know I shouldn't because I've been
doing live television for like a decade now, But whenever
I jump in the comments, the amount that has nothing
whatsoever to do with anything that I've said blows my mind.
I understand that I can't be trusted to dress myself,
which is certainly an indictment of my fashion sense, but
I just I'm blown up, Like, how many guys that
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you know really spend a lot of time on fashion?
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Is it a high percentage? It doesn't seem to me
yet on social.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Media, it's like all these guys spend a time ton
of time on this stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
And what people don't realize is that in our in
the industry, meaning like TV news and such, all the
big names you know, pretty much, they all.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Have people that dress them as a job.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
That's very common. They have style, Yes I didn't.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
All the networks have stylists that are picking their clothing
and line of so if you're like, oh, so and
so is so well dressed over at CNN, no, the
professional fashion person that picks out their clothing make sure
they're well dressed. Clay and I get our own flip flops,
our own baggy shorts, and our own faded T shirts together.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Thank you, no doubt. Y'all have amazing weekends. We'll be
back with all of you on Monday.
Third hour, clay In Buck kicks off. Now we're gonna
talk to you about a couple things.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
One is quite ah, a flurry of insults on Capitol Hill,
flying all over the place, a bit of squabbling going
on between various members of our esteemed legislative body.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We will bring you that audio. It was.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I mean, I'm talking about we're at the level of
making ugly jokes basically, and you know you're ugly or
you're you know this and that.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I it was real grade school childish kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And it was flying. It was flying.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We'll get you can just hear some of that. I
don't know what is going on over there, but we'll
bring it to you because it is. These These are
our elected representatives, everybody. We are paying their salaries, and
this is what's going on down there. But first up,
I thought we should we should dive into this. As
you know, Joe Biden, if he does not do very well,
(01:02):
let's put this simply and plainly, if he does not
do very well with the black community in this election,
he loses and by very well ninety percent and above
support from the black community. And this is in part
why Biden I think he was just at what was
he He's at a meeting. He came out today, Yes,
(01:24):
he's at the NAACP today and came out and said
he's a lifetime member. Let's let's just hear Biden pandering
as per usual. Ope, maybe not so put that aside
for a second. We'll skip Biden, because yes, he just
was talking about how he is such a big member
(01:45):
of the NAACPR has a longtime member of the NAACP. Meanwhile,
over at CNN, they're a little concerned because President Trump
is doing better at this point then certainly they expected
he would with members of the black community.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
This has cut Ford. Do we have this one?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Look at this number for Donald Trump, twenty two percent.
Where was Donald Trump at this point four years ago?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
In the pulse he.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Was just nine percent of the vote.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
So he's seen more than a doubling in his support
among African Americans. This margin, which was in the seventies
just four years ago, look where it is now sixty
nine minus twenty two. That puts it in the forties.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
My goodness, gracious. If this held through the general election, this.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Would be by far the best performance for Republican candidate
among black voters in a generation, two generations, probably since
nineteen sixty and Richard Nixon against John F.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
That's how long we're really talking about. When we're looking
at this margin here, this could be a truly historic margin.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's quite a troubling sign for the Biden campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, CLEI let me start with this. I think it
is way too early to celebrate on these numbers. And
as we've always said, it'd be great. You know, in
a perfect world, the Republicans would get ninety percent of
the black or one hundred percent of the black vote.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We don't live in a perfect world.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
So I don't think this is necessarily going to translate
to election day in a way that would be meaningful.
But but the numbers right now say that it does.
So I can't have it both ways right right now,
and that's why CNN's freaking out right now. The numbers
do indicate that it would be enough to sway the election,
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swing the election just the black communities vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And and so.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
There is the possibility here that the president that they
have called a white supremacist and a racist, and that
Joe Biden claims, as you point out regularly, that he
had to run because of Charlottesville and the white supremacist
marched there, and Donald Trump saying but which he did
not say that there were good white supremacists, but put
that aside.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Joe Biden lied about that. We all know that there's
the possibility of that black.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Community maybe the deciding vote theoretically that puts Joe Biden
out of office and Donald Trump into office, because if
twenty percent of them go for trumpet's all over.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
And not only does it change potentially the outcome of
twenty twenty four, it destroys the entire identity politics coalition
of the Democrat Party. And we've talked about the clear
conflict that exists right now between Jewish voters and Arab
voters on the issue of Israel and whether or not,
for instance, Israel at the latest can go into Rafa.
(04:35):
I would mention that they have found three dead bodies
of hostages in the last twenty four hours in the
tunnels of Gaza, including one of the women that they
kidnapped and raped at that Rave festival. Her image went viral.
She has now been found dead. Israel has still not
(04:56):
gotten back around one hundred that we know of hostile
just many of whom are probably dead, unfortunately, including five Americans.
But put that aside. So you have israel and Jewish
and Arab voters going head to head in the United
States who tended to be a part of the Biden coalition.
You've had now seven eight years of the media saying
(05:17):
Trump is an awful racist, and right now Trump is
poised to do better than any Republican with the black vote,
based on these CNN numbers and based on what we
just shared with you that audio, than any Republican candidate
since Richard Nixon in nineteen sixty, before the Civil Rights
movement even began. And Bucket's not just black voters. There
(05:37):
are polls out there showing Trump leading with Hispanic voters
or at least very close, and Asian voters are moving
in Trump's direction too. The Identity Politics coalition is on
the verge of taking a knockout punch.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I wouldn't say a knockout punch. I would say it's
taken some hits to the face. It's pretty durable. I mean,
if you even get an eighty twenty vote of the
black from the black community for Biden and Trump, you
still have a huge supermajority of Black voters who are
who are still Democrats, but it absolutely changes the dynamics.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Of how they could put that coalition to get the.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Calculus doesn't work, even though it's still a big favor.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, I'm saying you'd have to now you'd be looking
at a Democrat party that would have to start looking
at winning back working class white voters or you know,
you know, middle middle to lower middle income white voters
would be where the votes could be made up. That's
what Donald Trump did in twenty sixteen. That's how he
expanded the vote where he needed to and delivered that
(06:37):
that victory.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
But there's another part of this, of course as.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, right, and that is who is not only is
it a problem of Biden, who is the national level
black Democrat politician who really has has connection to and
extremely high levels of support. I think the members of Congress,
(07:02):
you can, but you know, there's no one who has
the same the same you know, stature numbers and and
kind of support that Barack Obama did among the you know,
among the black community and the Democrat Party right now,
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Michelle Obama is the answer I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Gonna I'm gonna jump out a window right now, I'm
gonna jump out a window. Kamala Harris does not have it. Okay,
she doesn't have it. You know, look at some of
the other prominent level black Democrat politicians. Corey Booker does
not have that same level of support, and in the Kim.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Jeffries, there's a lot of high ranking black politicians that
don't particularly connect that well with the Black community. And
building on this book question for you, I think what
you're seeing here, and they didn't break it down by race,
but remember we've had this discussion for a while. I
think it's black men. I think black men are rebelling
against the Democrat Party as many men are in jail
(08:00):
because of cultural issues.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, we'll see that.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What I what I meant to say, or what I
meant to get to, is that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You don't have that that national level unifying black politician
for the black community, as you obviously did with Obama.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
For eight years.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And you have Joe Biden who is trying to be
the person and with Kamala Harris as his VP, of course,
who has all these you know, uh bona fidez with
the black community. You know, I'm your guy Joe Biden says,
I'll do what needs to be done. And I think
that's really falling flat. I mean, here we have the
(08:38):
Director of the Office for Public Engagement, that is quite
a quite a title, Steve Benjamin, who's.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Like, oh, there's a there's a there's a lot of
support for Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Don't worry about a lot of support for Joe Biden
in the African American community.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is five jenelvan.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Psiasm for the president in the African American community.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
What do you top that lethargie up to?
Speaker 8 (09:00):
You know, I will tell you again, I can only
speak Francesca to my to my experience. And when I
get out there and we talk to people about the
amazing successes of the administration and the leadership of the
president vice president, people are psyched. I mean they're they're
they're they're they're happy about these meaningful of developments that
(09:21):
are helping change the lives of people all across this country.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Now, look, he's got an impossible job. To be fair, Right,
to be fair, mister Steve Benjamin's job is impossible because
nobody is psyched about Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And I really mean this.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I have never met a Democrat who jumps for joy
over Joe Biden. I have met Democrats who do that
for Hillary. A lot of them were women for Barack Obama,
to be sure, for Bernie Sanders, for Elizabeth Warren. I
have met Democrats and no Democrats who truly get excited
about the I have never met somebody, just from my
(09:55):
own experience, who goes, you know, who's amazing Joe Biden.
Every everybody knows that he was the candidate that they
had when they were able to run an anti Trump campaign.
If you were to ask somebody right now, or rather,
how about this, if somebody said to me, make the
best case you can for what Joe Biden has delivered
(10:16):
for the black community in his first term, I do
you have something?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
And I really mean this.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
If someone said, you know, I'll give you a million dollars,
make the best case for Joe Biden to point to
the thing that Joe Biden has done for the Black
community that has really delivered. I am not aware of it,
and I just basically read about politics all the time.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I think you could make that case for almost anyone
in America. And that really kind of I think speaks
to how Biden has failed. And you asked why he
has this the position that he does, It's because he's
seen as Barack Obama's kind of doddering friend.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Well, you know, he's like his wingman and a million.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, it's not even really a wingman. It's like kind
of a you know, like in the Buddy Cop movies.
He's not even it's not like he's Riggs and Murtaw
in lethal Weapon. I hope I got those guys' names right.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
He's like the Joe Pesci character, you know who they
eventually added on, kind of the lovable Yes there you
gets Leo gets. He's the Leo gets of. And in fact,
I think we have this audio you called for it
a little bit earlier, but it's cut thirty. Even when
he's talking to the n Double ACP today, he still
(11:32):
seems to be referring to himself as the vice president
and Biden as the president.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Listen to that.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
My name is.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Joe Biden and I'm a lifetime member the NAACP. But
I said that the president said, are your dues paid up?
I got a check?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Okay, that could be fair. The president of the double
ACP is who he's referring to I took it as
the President Obama, but I think he's talking about the
president in the NAACP. First of all, he said he
didn't want his kids to go to.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
School in jungle.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Does that sound like a lifetime believer of the NAACP.
And he claimed that he got arrested on the porch
while protesting. But yes, they'll they'll like.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Let me tell you, I remember when when that that
moment happened, and it did feel a little surreal at
the time. People forget now because you know, we got
a lot going on in the world. He wasn't the
leading candidate until all of a sudden Congressman Clyburn South Carolina.
The black community and particularly I mean the black community's
(12:34):
most you know, the the voting block that determines the
most is the black female primary voter. They essentially, once
Clyburn gave his blessing, made the decision Joe Biden's going
to be the guy. And I remember talking to a
few friends of mine around that time who are Black Democrats,
because I honestly am curious about what the what the
(12:56):
feeling was about this, and at least what they told me.
A couple of them told me was it's not that
they think that Joe Biden. They know that Joe Biden's
not some great hero or anything for the black community.
But they think it's it's transactional. They think we put
him in place, you know, meaning the black community gives
this to Joe Biden. He's going to deliver for the
(13:19):
Black community in you know, a variety of ways while
he's in office. I think that implicit bargain has clearly
not been met by Joe Biden. And that's why. So
for any Black voters for whom Biden was a transactional
and look, you can argue all politicians, right, you're voting
for them because you want to get certain stuff. But
(13:40):
I don't think that they believed in the mythology the
Biden campaign was pushing. At least a lot of them
didn't believe in that. I think they just figured Joe
Biden will get it done for us, because you know,
because we're getting it done for him.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
And that has not happened. I will mention two things
that he did.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
One, he put Kamala Harris on the ticket, which black
women might see even though it's not necessarily and then
the second one is similar. It's DEI based. He gave
the trintology Brown Jackson on Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I don't you know that those two moves again, those
two moves, if you're a you know, a a black
female pH d at an Ivy League school or something,
you go, oh my gosh, like look what he's doing.
I don't think that that really moves the needle very
much in a lot of in a lot of black communities.
I don't think a lot of black communities, you know,
(14:28):
in the South, for example, that are dealing with the
day to day problems of paying, you know, affording things, jobs,
you know, substance abuse, I mean, all the things that
come especially if you're living in a city environment.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I don't think they.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
View the Supreme Court pick as enough, do you know
what I mean? I think that that's I mean, you're right,
those would be the things that he could point to.
But I think that you know, remember Trump, you always
talk about the wage and job growth and low real
unemployment in the black and Latino community.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
When he was present, that was one of his biggest
points of pride.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
This is why I bet you a stake that black
men are going to twenty five percent. Bet vote for
twenty five twenty five percent of black men, just black men.
This said, twenty two percent of black voters overall. I
think one in four black men are going to vote
for Donald Trump. I don't think black women are going
to move as much. I think black men are jumping
on board. I really do. And that's why I think
(15:26):
he's going to pick Tim Scott. I think that's why
he The other.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Part of this, too, is that the notion that Donald
Trump is I mean, we've known this all along on
the right, the notion that the left is obsessed with
that Donald Trump is some big racist.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It's just a lot. It's just a lie. He's just
not a racist.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You can say some things about him that aren't complimentary,
Donald Trump is actually not a racist, one hundred percent right.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Tunnel.
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Buck Sexton show. You want some good news, Buck, the
NFL has sold out of Harrison Butker's jersey in all
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women's sizes. You cannot find the Harrison Butker jersey. Not
talking about in men's sizes. For those of you out
there who know they make women's fitted jerseys, they have
sold out in every size. Again, speaking truth, you might
take a lot of slings and arrows, but really there
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is a huge pent up demand for it. And when
I see stories like these happen, I think we should
share them. We talked a lot about the controversy, but
many of you out there are responding in a way
that I say is really great. Use your capitalism to
dictate what you speak for. So congratulations to any woman
(17:37):
who managed to get one of those. They're sold out.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Now, that's excellent.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And I really thought he did a great job in
that speech overall. And yeah, I think we should see
more of this, especially from people who can afford to
take the heat, which he certainly can. We'll come back
and talk about the melee in the Congress in just
a second. But you know there's a documentary have to see.
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Speaker 3 (18:58):
All right, welcome back in. We had mentioned this. I
think you should hear it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Things got a little a little feisty, a little a
little saucy on the house. In the house, I should say,
as an house of representatives, and this is I've never
seen anything quite like this.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I have to say. You have.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Congresswoman Crockett, Shasmin Crockett, I believe right, it's her name
on one side.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yes, she is getting into getting to getting into quite
an exchange with it, seems particularly Marjorie.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Taylor Green here.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And you know, I think it might just be best
if you kind of hear it.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
So this is some of what was going on.
Speaker 9 (19:49):
You don't want to talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I think your fake eyelashes are messing.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Up on that is absolutely unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
How dare you, I mean, are your feelings her words down.
Oh girl, baby girl, Oh really, don't even play, baby girl.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We are gonna move and we're gonna take your words down.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Why don't you debate me.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You're not you're not.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You don't have enough intelligence, recognizes mister Perry.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Okay, I'm not apology to a better understand your ruling.
If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's
bleach blonde, bad built, butch body, that would not be
engaging in personalities. Correct, what now, We're not going to
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do this like you guys earlier. Literally just you just voted,
voted or trying to get clarification, get calmed down. You please,
can me to calm down because y'all talk.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And then you're out of control. Yes, it is so.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The congresswoman's very upset because she says that some of
the Republicans talked noise about her and and she does
not appreciate the personal insults. Can I just say, congresswomen,
Congresswoman Crockett there engaged in This is a good example
of this a rhetorical technique known as preeda rizzio. You
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familiar with this one, Preda rizzio would be you know,
I could talk about how my opponent here is an
imbecile and is quite ugly. But I'm not going to
do that because I'm a better person than that.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That's it's it's the tactic of talking about it by
not talking about it, or you know, I don't want
to say anything bad about about the fact that you
know you are a horrible person, so I'm just going
to avoid it. She did that with Marjorie Taylor Green
and went after it quite personally. I just want to note, Clay,
this is a meeting of the House Oversight Committee looking
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into Merrick Garland, and it just turned into panemonium.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I mean, it's the Real Housewives of Washington, DC. And
I bet that your wives watch at least one of
the Real Housewives shows if they're between the ages of
twenty and sixty, I would bet. I just I first
of all, bleached blonde hair is not really that good
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of an insult. I'm just going to toss it out there.
It tends to work quite well for both men and women,
just tossing it out there. Also, though, would you feel
comfortable if any of these people had to pay your bills,
your personal bills, not your nation's bills, because we know
it is sure as hell can't do that. If you
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told me that any of these Congress people was in
charge of my expenses and my taxes that I have
to pay personally, I would to go to prison. We
are not electing the smartest and most accomplished people in
our country to represent us. Are you saying we're not
sending Congress our best I don't even think it's close,
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and I think this is my theory.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I'm curious if you would buy this buck.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Back in the day, there wasn't that much difference between
what somebody might make as say a congress person or
a senator, and what you could make being really successful
in other facets of life. I'll give you an example.
I don't agree with a lot of the ways that
Bob Eiger has run Disney, but Bob Iger is making
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thirty five million dollars a year to be the CEO
of Disney. If he decided to go represent the state
of California, he would go and make one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I think we are so drastically underpaying public servants relative
to what highly skilled, competent people can make in other
fields that we're no longer getting intelligent people who want
to give back because they say, Hey, I can make
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thirty million dollars a year doing this job, or I
can get dragged through the mud not really feel like
I'm making that much of a difference, and get paid
one hundred and seventy five. And I'm not saying that
one hundred and seventy five is no money. I'm just
saying for a lot of the most talented people, it
isn't close to what their market value would be. And
I just think it's frowned upon. I don't think we
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get high capacity leadership like we would have in prior eras.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Does that make sense, Well.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
If you look at it, If you look at it
this we yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And if you look at the way that it ends
up working out. For members of Congress who are not
independently wealthy, a lot of them have to have a
residence in DC because they spend all lot of time
in DC, Yeah, and then back in their home district.
So unless you're fortunate enough like Joe Biden to ride
the chu chuo all the time, you have to go
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back and forth between the two places. And ask anybody
you know who lives in Oklahoma and somebody else who
lives in California or New York. The pay that you
get in d C goes a heck of a lot
less far than the pay does in a lot of
rehtor states in this country. I mean, DC is an
expensive city. So yeah, I think your fundamental point is
(25:32):
correct in that there's well, when you have people coming
out of law school and going to law firms, and
I think average lawyer, well I shouldn't say average, but
at the big firms paying like two thirty now or
something like that, you.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Make way more money as a twenty five year old lawyer.
This is crazy for a lot of people to think
about than you do as a Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, And so there's a mismatch I think there. And
so what it means is it's almost like how people
used to criticize summer internships that were unpaid. There's a
lot of reasons to criticize them, by the way, and
I always thought it was very did you did you
think I thought when I was doing free internships that
it was exploitative even when I was doing them, like
when I was, you know, nineteen twenty years old, did you.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
See it felt like that a little bit, but I
was so focused on, Hey, this is basically me paying
my dues to be able to learn something that you know,
when I worked in a law firm, for instance, I
knew that I wasn't making them money. Or when I
worked on Capitol Hill, I didn't have the skill set
to be able to return dollars. I definitely thought, hey,
(26:36):
I would like to be getting paid for this, but
in my mind, I was like, the thing that I'm
gaining is more valuable than the four dollars and fifty
cents an hour at that time that I could have
been making.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's a very a very mature view you were taking them.
American Eagle.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I worked at American Eagle was one of my first jobs,
and then Abercrombie and Fitch, and then.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Media at the Averagetown because, as everybody knows, you could
only work at Abercrombie. So Clay and my wife worked
at Abercrombie because you gotta be good looking.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
I was good looking enough, like I'm good looking for
a radio guy, I'm good looking for a sports writer.
I was not good looking, I don't think for an
Abercrombie employee. But my first salary was four dollars and
fifty cents an hour, So that was the work of retail.
I don't know what they pay now. I remember being
super excited that I got time and a half to
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work at the Abercrombie and Fitch Pentagon City Mall while
I was in college, and I made eight dollars in
like fifty cents, and I thought to myself, I don't
know how people, I mean, this is an amazing amount
of money. Like I remember thinking that, like, oh my this,
I'm gaking so much money now. And so yes, I
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never really thought I was an intern on Capitol Hill
and I never really thought, Hey, you know what, I've
an incredible skill set that I'm bringing to bear here.
Do you remember feeling, because I definitely did outring when
you saw your first real full time job paycheck and
the amount of money that the government took from you
even though your your earnings were meager. I think I
was making I was making thirty eight grand at the time,
(28:11):
and I saw what they were taking out in taxes,
and I was like ready to start the Boston tea party.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Man. I was flipping out.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I lived in Washington, d C. And I remember looking
because in Tennessee, at least you don't have a state
income tax. And I remember getting the paycheck where they
were I meane, you know, six dollars an hour or
whatever the heck it was, and the fact that d
C was taking money out of my paycheck even though
I worked in Virginia. I remember being particularly outraged by that.
(28:37):
I would take the subway from Foggy Bottom in d
C up to Pentagon City and to go to work,
and I remember thinking, this doesn't feel right, Like I'm
going into Virginia and they're taxing me back in d
C because I happened to live here because that's where
I'm in college.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yeah, let's take some calls to close it out here.
Eight hundred two A two two eight A two Light
us up.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
No doubt.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
And in the meantime, you may be out there thinking
to yourself like I am, ooh, gutters, it's been raining
like crazy here. I was actually sitting down the first
floor when the storms hit last weekend, and my wife
looked out and she said, Uh, oh, those gutters look
clap clogged. Look at how the water's coming down in
different rates depending on where they are. I said, uh, Oh,
(29:21):
it's wwiffleballs again. I'm gonna have to get up on
the roof. I'm gonna have to go through all the gutters.
My kids getting wiffleballs up in the gutter. Maybe it's
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get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show,
closing up shop here on the weekly episode Buck, Let's
be honest as we go in. You and I spent
four hours yesterday at a photo shoot for PR for
(31:09):
the show here in Nashville. That's why you came to town.
How many hours of live radio would you rather do
than a four hour photo shoot? I'm not gonna lie.
I was so tired after that photo shoot. I think
I'd rather do three days of radio than one day
(31:31):
of a four hour photo shoot.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
What about you?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I would speak until my vocal cords turned to actual.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Mush before I would keep doing that. And I when
they you know, I'm not good at to make love
to the camera, like, that's not it's not my skill set.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I try.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I have a weird crooked smile that looks like a smirk.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
You know. It's yeah, just.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I will tell you, and I told you this yesterday
my way my wife. I told her, hey, I've got
the photo shoot. She gave me two garment bags of clothes.
She didn't even ask me what I thought I should wear.
I had no idea what she had packed until I
opened it up and there were handwritten notes in there
(32:17):
of what was supposed to be paired together. Because she
didn't even trust me to unzip it and put on
the appropriate clothing. That's how little I was involved in
the choice of my attime.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I'm going to share something a little behind the scenes, okay,
because I had to point this out.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I was told.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I was told for at least the more formal shots,
no boat shoes. Now I feel called out by that
a little bit, okay, because I am known and have
been for a long time. I've been wearing boat shoes
since I think I was six years old. I've wearn
so many pairs. Always Sparry, by the way, the real,
the original.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
They were not very cool for a long time. Then
they became super cool. Whendy, they become super cool. Yeah
they are.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
They are in style right now. And so I tried
to bring this up to my wife, who then pointed
out to me, No, you're not on trend because you're
so off trend for so many years that the trend
finally comes in your direction. I was like, but, but,
but the broken clock. It's apparently with fashion you're not
allowed to do that. Like I can't take a victory
(33:21):
lap because I've been wearing shoes that are meant for
cuddly grandpa's mostly or people that are on yachts, but
really mostly cudly grandpas. They are my favorite form of footwear.
They are now truly check it out. Don't take my
word for it. In style, I accident. I am very
fessilo nab and yet I was told I have to
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wear like big boys shoes and I did, so there
we go.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It was.
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Cut thirty one out there is one of our listeners
responding on the Harrison Butker situation.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I believe listen to this.
Speaker 7 (34:49):
I think that Harrison Bucker happens to be the most
beautiful man in this country right now. And I ran
across his commencement speech on my phone and I cried.
I'm seventy eight years old and I cried.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Oh, it's very, very touching. Just say to this caller
saying that Harrison's most people from man in the country.
You didn't see Clay Rocket all of his looks yesterday
at the photo shoot. I'm just saying Clay's been working.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Out these photo I know I'm gonna I don't even
I know Rush used to say this too, and I'm
sure you see this as well. The percentage of the
time that I do video that people don't comment about
anything I said at all, it's all cosmetic continues to
(35:47):
stagger me. And I know I shouldn't because I've been
doing live television for like a decade now, But whenever
I jump in the comments, the amount that has nothing
whatsoever to do with anything that I've said blows my mind.
I understand that I can't be trusted to dress myself,
which is certainly an indictment of my fashion sense, but
I just I'm blown up, Like, how many guys that
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you know really spend a lot of time on fashion?
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Is it a high percentage? It doesn't seem to me
yet on social.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Media, it's like all these guys spend a time ton
of time on this stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
And what people don't realize is that in our in
the industry, meaning like TV news and such, all the
big names you know, pretty much, they all.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Have people that dress them as a job.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
That's very common. They have style, Yes I didn't.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
All the networks have stylists that are picking their clothing
and line of so if you're like, oh, so and
so is so well dressed over at CNN, no, the
professional fashion person that picks out their clothing make sure
they're well dressed. Clay and I get our own flip flops,
our own baggy shorts, and our own faded T shirts together.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Thank you, no doubt. Y'all have amazing weekends. We'll be
back with all of you on Monday.
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