November 30, 2025 • 49 mins
The December 2nd special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District is far more than a routine contest; it is a critical battleground for the conservative movement and the first true federal test following recent national elections. For conservatives, the stakes are existential: this race is a clear choice between Matt Van Epps‘ America First, principled conservatism and the radical, socialist-leaning agenda of the opposition.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts now.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I want to give a little bit of a lead
up Buck, because there is a race that is going
to happen eight days from now. They are one billion
percent relying on the fact that lots of Republicans are
not going to show up and vote. And this is
a race that the White House has gotten involved in
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that we don't have a very substantial majority in the House. Democrats,
coming off of the win in Virginia and the win
in New Jersey, are pouring money and resources like crazy
into this race. It is the Tennessee seventh Congressional district.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
This is a big district.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It stretches all the way up to basically Fort Campbell.
For many of you out there that are in the
military or have served, you know, Fort Campbell goes all
the way to the border basically with Kentucky, runs all
the way to the border with Alabama on the south side.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm in this district.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
They cut Nashville into three different congressional districts. I am
in this district. The congressman is retiring, Mark green All.
They are trying to pull off a huge upset. And
let me give you an idea Buck. This is a
headline right now in the Bulwark I'm reading from. This
is the What was the initial impetus of the Bulwark,
(01:30):
It was like, we're the Trump Republicans who the anti
Trump Republicans like that, the real Republicans. That was their
entire existence. Now now they're basically just like all they
do is vote for Democrats, right, I mean they basically
are a Democrat operative. Now, this is what they wrote.
(01:50):
This is a story up on their site. The seventh
Tennessee district is reliably Republican. Trump carried it by twenty
two percentage points in twenty for Green won his last
two races by a similar margin. It includes parts of
Williamson County, one of the wealthiest counties in the country.
The Fort Campbell Military Base also falls within the district,
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along with a vast swath of rural farmland. Perhaps most
tantalizing for Democrats listen to this, a number of MAGA
fire brands live in or near the district, like conservative
sports radio personality Clay Travis, YouTuber Brett Cooper, and right
wing podcaster Candice Owens. Imagine as an example, the psychic
(02:38):
shock of a Republican emerging victorious in the movie star
enclave of Beverly Hills, Tennessee. Seven isn't where the two
political parties tend to fight it out, but they have
poured tons of money in here. And here's what they're
relying on, and we're going to bring on the congressman
in the top of the next hour. They're relying on
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Republicans not showing up.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, this the crazy base of the Democrat Party,
the people who have the most fervent Trump derangement syndrome
on the planet. They show up for dog catcher races
to vote against Trump. They show up for every race.
Their base they are going to show up and vote,
(03:23):
and they're trying to steal this election to try to
diminish Republican control of the House.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So we got to show.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Up is a big deal because they're going to use
this as a if they can pull this off as
a rallying cry for the midterms, they're going to say
it's a harbinger for the midterms.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This shows where the momentum is.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
That's exactly right, this is and it's a It's one
of these things where even if they get close enough,
they're willing to pour all this money into it and
all this resource, all these resources in time, because they
feel like they're playing with house money. They'll get money
from on the coasts, so I'll get the big big
Democrat money will pour in if they can steal a
seat from Dare I say, Clay Travis's back yard my seat,
(04:10):
which is this is what but this is what I'm saying,
Like they're going right into your kitchen and they're trying
to eat your drumsticks, my friend, they're trying to drink
it right off your plate. And uh and you and
and what they said Brett Cooper, I mean, there's a
bunch Tommy Lair and.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Tommy texted me over the weekend fired up about this
because again the election.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You can go early vote right now in Tennessee seven. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And if you don't know, if this is your district
and they're counting on this too, Fort Campbell, all of
you guys who were up there, who are soldiers or
who have lived in the Clarksville area, it is likely
your district all the way down to the border with Alabama,
if you live in that range, this is likely your district.
If you're in the Franklin area, where I live, Brentwood, Nashville,
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many parts of Nashville, this is your district. It's a
little bit confusing, Buck, because even in my neighborhood they
divide it by street, so some people are represented by
one congressman, others by another, and it can be literally
it's divided in my neighborhood. So it's sometimes confusing for
people to know what district they're in. They're taking advantage
(05:18):
of this. If you're not sure, worst case scenario, show
up again, this is Mark Green's district, but a lot
of you out there you may not know because the lines,
especially in the Nashville area, are street to street in neighborhoods.
Worst is a case scenario you show up and they say, hey,
this is not your district.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I just don't. They're trying to take advantage of us.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, you gotta go all out here, my friend, because
the Democrat media narrative is going to be not even
play Travis and and Tommy taking shots.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And me already in the article right, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Saying if they win, then it's going to be see
how deflated Maga is. Even these big Maga James couldn't
couldn't help pull this off right, So this, uh, this
would be like if Republicans are trying to win a
congressional seat from the Democrats in Malibu.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And this hill was what Borg said. I mean, this
is our base, Like, we gotta show up. I'm fire
up about this because you're right, people are gonna attack
me if this happens. They're gonna say Clay Travis doesn't
even live in a Republican district anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
This is I mean, that'll be a headline.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You gotta just you know, you gotta talk to the
guy at Pegleg Porker, who was my favorite barbecue there.
And you gotta have like a big thing outdoor thing,
a rally, and you gotta get everybody to show up.
My friend, you gotta get the you gotta get the
turnout operation in full swing.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Matt Van Epps is gonna be on with us at
the top of the next hour. I talked to him
over the weekend. I'll say it again on the air,
but I told him, whatever you want me to do,
you want to do a rally, you want to do
an event.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I will show up. Obviously getting him on.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
The show is substantial. I've been sharing a bunch of
the clips. Buck, this chick is crazy, isn't She hates Nashville?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Isn't that?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
How do run if you hate a place? I don't
understand this. Actually no, that's what democrats do. They want
powers they can destroy the places they live.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
She was on MSNBC. I need to pull up the
sound bites. Do we have a couple of these things
just to kind of give you a sense of how
crazy this chick is. She was on MSNBC, Buck, this
is MSNBC. She didn't just say she wanted to defund
the police. She said she wanted to shut down the
Metro Nashville Police Department. She also said she supported people
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burning down police stations. MSNBC asked her about this This
is MSNBC cut sixteen.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
You said in those sinse deleted tweets that the Metropolitan
Nashville Police Department should be dissolved. Another shared on a
teachers union saying that defund the police should be a
requirement for schools reopening, and another saying good morning, especially
to the fifty four percent of Americans that believe burning
down a police station is justified. Do you still stand
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by those comments? And if not, is there anything you
want to clarify.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, I'm not going to engauge in kiber news talking points.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
So you don't want to clarify whether you still believe
that the police should be defunded.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Once again, I don't remember these tweets, but I'm what
I'm saying is is.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
That I'm not asking you if you remember, what is
your position today? How's that on this issue?
Speaker 8 (08:20):
I mean, once again, I'm here to talk about my race,
which is in literally nine days.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Clay, Clay, this chick is insane.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You you cannot allow this to happen. You have to
get everybody out.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's MSNBC asking her, do you still support defunding the police?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Buck?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
She cheered on the burning down of police stations. I mean, look,
there are democrats out there where you talk and you're like, man,
I don't agree with these perspectives. This chick is I'm
trying to avoid cursing crazy. She is absolutely insane. So
again they're counting on their base of crazies. Think about
how crazy she is. She won't even walk back saying
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that she wants to defund the police. I think we
got listened to this ad two Buck, she chased ice
agents around in Nashville to try to keep them from
being able to do their jobs.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I believe this is cut fifteen. Listen, aften ban says,
I'm a very radical person.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
So radical Bane thinks rioting is.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
A way for people to express themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The Worst Bang went on a midnight joy ride harassing
ice officers and state troopers.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
This is great.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
We've got our girl flat and we're bullying the ice.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Vehicles and state troopers.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
So this is like unhinged and it's really scary.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Stop aften Banged, so radical, it's scary.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
This is real. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I didn't even I have never heard have you met
anyone or heard of anyone before named Afton?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I didn't know this was a name.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
She's a rich kid from East Tennessee who went to
rich private schools. She's thirty five, think, unmarried. She is
the quintessential crazy left wing.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
She's a white left wing chick that's been able to
support herself in the upper upper echelons of society with
money made by other people her entire life, and has
no idea how the real world actually works, and has
insane ideas that would destroy civilization. Also known as the
base of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Cool good.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They're going to show up and vote for her. They're
going to show up and vote for her. This chick
makes Kamala Harris seem conservative. And Kamala Harris showed up
and tried to campaign for her, but she didn't want
to be seen with Kamala Harris, which is funny in
and of itself because there are a lot of people
in Nashville who are not big fans of Kamala Harris.
So my point on this, and we're gonna have Congressman
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Van Epps again. Early voting is going on right now.
They are pouring resources into this district like crazy because
the insane left wing often bane like thirty five year
old white wing women who have lost their minds. They've
already voted. They're showing up and this district again, it's
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a Trump district, but they think that Republicans aren't going
to show up because it's a December second, it's in
the middle of the Thanksgiving holiday. It is not ideal timing.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Are you are?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Are you getting Tommy all fired up over this? And
Candice lives in this area and.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
They're gonna have I'm gonna have a rally. Maybe you're
out you got to call the Avengers, buddy. You cannot
allow them to take it. You cannot allow them to
take this this congressional seat.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
This is nuts.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No, we got to get everybody together. I mean, this
is I went on Friday with Waura Ingram and talked
about it. I mean, this is gonna be I think,
a lead story nationwide over the next week. And uh again,
I'm just trying to wake people up because I think
a lot of people out there are not aware. I mean,
how often do you vote for a congressional seat on
December second?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Well, this is also why Democrats think that they can
pull this off, right, because everyone's going to be in
their turkey call too much on.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Thanksgiving and you might be on that road.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Some of you are not going to be back for
by December second. So if you're listening to me right now,
go vote early right now if you're not going to
be back and buck. The reason they think it is
they looked at the total turnout in the primary and
there were only about five thousand more Republicans who showed
up in the primary than Democrats, and so they looked
at that and said, wait a minute, if we.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Pour money in here, we can win this thing.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
There is a race eight days from now Tennessee's seventh
congressional district. It's going to surprise a lot of people
because Thanksgiving is this week, a lot of people out.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
On the road.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You can go vote early. This is my congressional district.
This is going to be my congressperson. And there is
a crazy left winger, Afton Baine, who is running on
the other side and on the side of truth justice
in the American way.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I want all of you to go vote for him.
He is Matt Van Epps.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
He is early voting as underway Tennessee seventh Congressional district.
If you don't know if it's your district, go online
you can look. You can also just show up and
just be be honest. Say hey, sometimes this is confusing
Matt Van Epps with us.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Now you know this too, because they redrew the lines.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Nashville is actually now split three different ways. By in
my neighborhood in Franklin, you can be one congressman, different district.
A lot of people still don't know. Tell us why
this race is so important. Hopefully soon to be Congressman
Matt Van Epps and what Democrats are trying to do
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by stealing this seat.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Hey Ley, great to be on with you, Matt manps here.
So first and foremost, as you mentioned, my opponent Apton
Baine is a crazy left wing radical. If you don't
want to hire taxes, defunding a police jennersies for minors
without parental consent, you must vote to stop this person.
And that's the only way to do it is to
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vote to stop her. So we're asking everybody to get
out and vote. I'm a husband, father, combat veteran. I'm
a West Point Brad serve nine combat tours. I've let
small business operations, serve in the state government as Commissioner
of General Services, where I like to say we were
doing Doge before Doge. And I'm still serving in a
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Tennessee Army National Guard today and I'm excited to fight
for Nashville, for Davison County, in all of our fourteen counties.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
So what is it looking like in terms of awareness
even for this race coming up here? I got to
tell you this is a particularly difficult to sandwich in
this election between Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years. What
can you do to help This is Buck, by the way,
the other guy. What can you do to help get
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the word out? And how are you seeing that actually
in play out? Given that I think there's been a
total lack of focus was while the Democrats are so
very honed in on trying to sneak this one.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
That's right, and Buck, thanks for the question. Great to
be with you. We just we've got to get out.
We're telling everybody right now. Early voting goes through the
twenty sixth through Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and then the elections
on December second, So we just need everyone to get
out and vote. You know, my opponent is she is
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a crazy radical left winger. She supported Mamdonnie and would
be lockstep in that socialist agenda. Matter of fact, she's
endorsed by the socialists because she's one of them. She
fought against the largest tax cutting in state history and
proposed new taxes. She'll make it more expensive for working
families and farmers. And I think when people both know
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that about her and that they can early vote right
now through this one and election day December second, that
will turn out the vote and it will winness decisively.
On December second, for.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
People out there, how much do you think the Democrat
plan is just relying on a lot of traditional Republican
voters not being aware this election is happening.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Because I said in the.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
First hour, their base of crazy left wing Frankly Afton Bane,
you know, like mirror image voters is going to show
up for everything.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
They're really plugged in here.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's basically the Democrats strategy, right, is that people are
just going to be busy and not be aware this
is actually going on.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
That's that's right. We you know, we had we had
a great win in the primary. We have great momentum
endorsed by the President, back by the Speaker. We have
over forty local endorsements from sheriffs and county mayors, highway superintendents, farmers,
business leader, and so that momentum we're carrying forward. What
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we can't have happened is people take it for granted.
We've got to have our side to get out there
and vote. The Democrats are hoping that we don't turn out,
and we've got to fight against this just crazy radical
left wing agenda. It's not right for Tennessee, it's not
right for America. And we do that when people show up,
put the jersey on, get on the field, end vote.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Affordability is going to be a huge thing, Matt in
the midterms, and you're going to be Your race is
certainly going to be if the well Heaven forbid. But
if the Democrats pulled this off, they'll say that it
is indicative of the GOP's lack of focus on the
affordability issue. Right now, I wanted you to speak to
that because there are a lot of people that are
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still feeling that the pinch of high prices at the pump,
at the grocery store. You know, the whole discussion here
in Florida about property tax, a lot of things that
are making people feel like they can and get ahead.
What do you think could be done in the congressional
side to help with that? And just as a general
philosophical issue, how do you want to approach affordability if
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in fact you're successful in this election.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Absolutely, and that is top of mind for so many
of our voters. And I agree. We stand for battling inflation,
secure borders, tax cuts, protecting our kids, cheaper gas, supporting
veterans and law enforcement, ending wars around the globe, and
the affordability piece here is top of the top of
the agenda, and I think time tim pro nuclear. I
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think we need to unleash America's nuclear power and energy.
Tennessee is leading with the first small modular reactor at
the Clinch River site in East Tennessee. That should be
online in twenty thirty two. And so we've got to
promote oil and gas in nuclears so that we drive
down the cost of the pump, we drive down utilities.
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Healthcare is really important. I think a good example is
in Carstill, Tennessee, when when government gets out of the
way in the in the private sector is put into play.
We have we have two new hospitals going in at
clarks So that's going to increase access, increase competition, drive
out costs, and ultimately increase outcomes. And you're absolutely right
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on housing, We've we've got to keep property taxes low.
I think from a from a federal standpoint, that's no
unfunded mandates. We've got to work with states and local
governments to ensure that we have workforce housing at close
proximity to the workplace. And we've got to we've got
to work continue to work to keep taxes low and
to cut red tape.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We're talking to who I hope is going to be
my next congressman, Matt Van Epps. Can you tell everybody
out there listening right now because we have a ton
of affiliates. One of the confusing things is your district
runs from basically all the way at Kentucky all.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The way down to Alabama.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Can you run through some communities so people who are
out there listening and say, oh, wait a.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Minute, that's me.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Because these district lines are still new, a lot of
people out there listening right now may not be aware
that this race is even going on. So I'll start
with you Fort Campbell area, Clarksville area, a huge part
of you, guys. You are voting for your congressman now
and on December second, Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, different parts of
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the Nashville area. Nashville is split up into three different
congressional districts. And then on down south where else What
communities should know they are in this district that you
need them to turn out?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Absolutely so on the north side, Stewart, Montgomery and Robertson
is really important. Our western boundary be indicator. We've got Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Perry,
and Wayne, Cheatham County. And then on the on our
eastern boundary there, as you mentioned, we've got Davidson County,
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Williamson County. It's part of Davidson as part of Williamson
is border to border, and we need everyone to get
out and vote. It's just it's so incredibly important. It's
really it's all fourteen counties. We need everyone from every
county on our side to get out and vote. Don't
take it for granted. And when we do that, we're
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going to stop this radical ideology from trying to come
into Tennessee, and we're going to advance affordability. We're going
to support working families, farmers, military and veterans, and we're
going to keep moving America in the right direction, in
the America first direction.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And you said early voting ends on Wednesday, right before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Is that right? And then the.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Actual election day is Tuesday, December second, Just for people
out there, that's.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Right, Yeah, absolutely right. Early voting through Wednesday to twenty sixth,
and then December second is election day.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And for people out there who may not even live
in the district, but I hope everybody in the district's
going to go vote, but they want to help and
they just want to ensure that Democrats don't steal this race.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
How can they find you online?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Yeah, so it's Matt FORPN dot com. That's Matt FORPN
dot com. And would be honored to have have fots
support and their vote, and together we're going to get
this done and we're going to win decisively on the
summer second.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Amen, Thank you. That's Matt Van Epps.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Everybody in my district, everybody listening in the Nashville area,
in the Franklin area, Clarksville, all the way down to
the border. You heard all the different counties that are involved.
We got to get out, We got to show up
and make sure that the Democrats don't steal a seat.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Congressman.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I hope Matt Van Epps may have you on election
day next week, just to reinforce again that the election
is happening. That is eight days from now, but you
can vote early today, tomorrow and Wednesday in advance of
the Thanksgiving Thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Thanks Helm, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck
Big race one week from today in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Matt Van Epps is running in the seventh Congressional district
of Tennessee. I was doing my reading this morning getting
ready for the show. It's not going to shock you,
but they are outspending the Republican in this race by
at least stay two to one margin, and I think
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it's important. Matt Van Epps, West Point grad dad, combat veteran,
really outstanding choice.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You should go vote for him. This is my congressional district.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
The election itself is Tuesday, and Democrats are trying to
steal this seat. The Republicans won this seat by around
twenty points in twenty twenty four, so it is a
very rock ribbed red district. But they are really on
the fact that a lot of you are traveling for Thanksgiving,
that a lot of you work, that this actual election
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is taking place, and people don't really know what's happening.
So if you live in the Nashville area, if you
live in the Franklin Brentwood area, if you live north
of town in Clarksville, if you live all the way
down to near the border with Alabama, this is a
sliver of the of that region and we need you
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to get out and vote. So here are and if
you're saying to yourself, okay, what could the difference really be?
Clay this chick that the Democrats have nominated, she makes
AOC seem sane.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
This is how wild she is. Cut nine. This is Afton.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Baine saying she hates Nashville. This is in February of
twenty twenty. She wants to represent Nashville. This is her
on a podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Cut nines.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
They've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because
I hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes, I hate
the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all
of the things that make Nashville barely and h's city
to the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
But I hate it.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Okay, babe, that doesn't seem I deal. Can we replay that.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I don't know that I've ever heard a candidate be
more specific about hating a place that she wants to
represent and many of the things that help to give
the city its character.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Uh, listen to it. Listen to it again.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
It's been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because
I hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes, I hate
the pedal taverns. I hate country music.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
I hate all of.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
The things that make Nashville apparely and h's city to
the rest of the country, but.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I hate it. I hate country music should.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Immediately keep you from being able to be elected to
any office in any degree in the entire state of Tennessee.
I'm just gonna say I'm not amused. I'm basically tone deaf.
I know a lot of country music singers because I'm
born and raised in Nashville. Most of the time when
I'm with those country music singers, I don't know anything
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about music. We just talk about college football because every
country music singer, at least all the men, they're all
huge college football fans. So I just sit around talk
college football with them. But this is the kind of
arrogance that they are trying to foist upon us. She's
not even trying to hide. She's saying out loud all
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the crazy things that left wingers try to keep hidden.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
When they're running for office. Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
She says, women who get married and start families are
deep products of patriarchical structures. That she never wanted to
have kids. All she cared about was power. Is this
someone you want representing you, Nashville. Listen to cut ten.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
Dream I've had is standing up in a cafeteria full of.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Women, I don't know why I was there or whatever,
and saying I don't want children, I want power, and
just screaming it at the top of my lungs. And
where I am now with seeing the consequences and the
ramifications of women having kids and being in the political
field and what they're able to.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
Achieve because we don't offer. You know, it's like the
political field hasn't met the challenge of working moms.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
They really haven't.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
But also the deeply patriarchal structures that these women are
involved with because they've chosen marriage and they've chosen to
raise children. And I think in the South it's incredibly
difficult to shake those, especially if you've grown up here
and that's all you've been told is the definition of success.
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The metrics of success is how many kids you have,
the square footage of your house, and where are kids
go to school?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Okay, I disagree with everything basically she just said there.
I don't understand what you would even classify as a
successful life. If you are denigrating people who decided to
get married and have kids. Now I understand everybody doesn't
have kids. That's a lifestyle choice, sometimes not even a choice.
(28:21):
We've talked about on the program. This is why I
think and President Trump has been great on this. This
is why I think we need as much support as
we can possibly give for IVF. I give credit to
the New York Times for actually writing some stories about
this that a lot of these women that thought they
hated Trump. IVF is incredibly expensive, and the stress and
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the mental aspects of trying to get pregnant, of getting
pregnant and then not knowing whether you're going to be
able to carry that child all the way. I feel
very fortunate to have three kids, but anyone who has
gone through a challenging process of having children to have
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someone say that it's deeply patriarchal and that if you
grow up in the South and you look at getting
married and having kids and being concerned about where your
kid's going to school as some sort of failure, this
is blonkers. This chick is crazy. Now, the only thing
I'll give her credit for is she's saying out loud
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what a lot of left wingers believe, and so I
respect when you have a crazy opinion, don't hide from it.
Just tell us and let us judge it. This chick
is crazy. She also were not done yet. By the way,
she hates Nashville, she hates country music, she hates moms
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who get married and decide to have kids, and she
also thinks men can give birth.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
This is cut eleven.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
This is the chick that they are are trying to
get Nashville to elect.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
This is my congressional district.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
So if you're out there and you're like wow, this,
there's all not very many national races still to come
before twenty twenty six, so the amount of money and
attention has been legion getting thrown in here. We had
Matt van EPs on yesterday. Tommy Larin, who works with
me at OutKick, is having him on today. Tommy texted
me on Sunday, I think over Saturday night, She's like,
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are you seeing this crazy chick that they're trying to
elect in Nashville. I was like, yeah, we got to
do everything we can to make people aware there's an
election going on, but also to hear what she actually believes,
because we got to wake people up. A lot of
people out there are not aware of the fact that
they have to vote. You can vote early right now, today, tomorrow.
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I'm gonna go vote on election day. My wife works
the polls. I gotta be be careful with that phrasing.
She works at the polls. She volunteers to help people
vot vote, and so I'm going to be going on
Tuesday to go vote.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
She'll be working there all day.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
But a lot of people just don't know because it's
a non traditional time to vote. It's December. Second, it's
coming out of Thanksgiving. If you're still in town, go
vote Tuesday Wednesday. A lot of you don't even know
what district potentially you are in. This chick Afton Bane,
the crazy Democrat. She believes that men can get pregnant.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
This is cut eleven as.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
An organizer and as an activist, like, we really have
an opportunity here in this country to talk about what
type of policy, progressive policies we want to see as
young women, and I think we have, you know, as
as birth, you know, as women who can give birth,
men and women who can give birth. We could maybe
leverage that as collective bargaining, which is the basis of
(31:49):
this book that I'm not I've just started reading but
called birth strike and how we can really leverage collective
bargaining when it comes to having children in this and
so for example, like I'm not going to give birth
until the United States government concedes ABCD.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Like I want to pull my hair out.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
This chick should lose ninety to ten if people show
up and actually understand what she's saying. Look, Democrats are
trying to steal this race. They are out spending the Republican.
This is a Republican district. This is my district. This
is going to be my congressperson. I cannot have this
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crazy chick representing me. This is personal wake up from
the north of Tennessee near Clarksville. A while of y'all
work and live near Fort Campbell, you may not know
this is your district all the way through the Nashville
suburbs on the north side, all the way down through
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parts of Nashville, parts of Franklin, parts of Brentwood, all
the way down to the border with Alabama. You guys
are listening to me all over that region.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Go vote.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
This is not a hard call. This chick is. She
makes AOC look reasonable, and she's trying to represent Tennessee.
She hates country music, she hates the city of Nashville.
She hates women who get married and have kids. She
thinks that men can get pregnant. Yesterday we played the
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cuts where she can we pull that cut again because
I want to play it again, because again, getting people
aware this race is happening is why we're talking about
it so much. We're gonna have Matt Van Epps, the
Republican candidate, on again next week because this is gonna,
unfortunately potentially be a closer race shouldn't be, but they're
counting on Republicans not showing up. They're counting on a
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lot of you out there not being aware that this
special election is happening. She even got asked on on
the MSNBC, hey, do you still support defund the police?
Do you still support burning down police stations? And she
wouldn't answer their questions. On MSNBC, she got asked about this,
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I mean, this is Bonker's level crazy. So I want
all of you to be aware of it again. Recognition,
awareness of the fact that this race is happening is
probably the most important thing going on right now. We'll
take some of your calls. Eight hundred and two A
two to eight A two A lot of you want
to weigh in on a variety of different topics. Are
Buddy Ryan Gardski joining us at the bottom of the hour,
(34:36):
I'll ask him what he thinks about this race. I
looked at the gambling market, you guys know, I like
to look at the gambling markets. They said there's about
a twenty percent chance that she wins. Are you kidding me?
This is a Trump plus twenty district. It's because they
don't think that Republican voters are going to show up.
She nearly got as many votes in the primary as
the Republican candidates did combine the Democrats did. And that's
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why they're pouring money in here. They're trying to steal
this district. We cannot allow it to happen, given how
tight the margins are already in the House, to say
nothing of on a personal level, I can't have this
crazy chick repping me. I can't live in this crazy
chicks district for any days at all. I told you yesterday.
They're already writing articles saying send Clay Travis a message,
(35:22):
Send Clay Travis a message, Send Tommy layer In a message,
Send Candice Owens a message, Send Brett Cooper a message,
Send Matt Walsh a message.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
This is all our district. They want to put a
crazy chick in. Cannot happen.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
This is Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
We are joined by Ryan Gerdusky. Now are data nerd.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You can find him in the Clay and Buck podcast network. Ryan,
happy early Thanksgiving to you. Before we get into your data,
what is your position on people reclining seats on airplanes?
Speaker 10 (35:57):
Oh, they're awful. I mean it's not that hard. It
up straight like ghosts to like. It's not that bad.
It's awful. It's totally awful. I never reclaimed my seat ever.
I'll sleep stress sending up. It's like, calm down, it's
a two hour flight. Yah, Susan, you get set up
the whole time.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I now will agree with every opinion. Ryan Gurdusky gives
the rest of this interview because he's one billion percent
right with everything he just said. He is not a
travel terrorist, unlike a lot of you. Okay, let's go
into Ryan. I am terrified because this election that's taking
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place next week. Democrats have legitimately put forward an absolutely
insane woman for the Tennessee seventh Congressional district. This is
my district. So if this crazy chick wins, she will
be my congresswoman. I personally cannot allow this to happen.
I am imploring everyone out there to show up to
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vote for Matt van Epps. How nervous do you think
I should be one week from election day because Democrats
are pouring a ton of resources behind this crazy chick.
Speaker 10 (37:08):
So the district is a district's a comprom congress of
Mark Greens district. It's ablican. Mark Green won up by
twenty one points. Trump won it by twenty two points.
It's pretty republican. There's two basic concentrations of Democratic voters.
That's Clarksville, Tennessee, and some suburbs of Nashville. The suburbs
of Nashville are very liberal about you know, probably D
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plus sixty one most the areas around it, though the
rest of the state is pretty Republican, almost extremely strongly republican.
So far in the early vote. This was as of
just two hours ago. Nineteen percent of the twenty twenty
four vote is already voted in the early vote. Right,
that's that's a tremendous amount. About sixty three thousand ballots
(37:50):
have already been cast. Of the three hundred and thirty
six thousand number casts in twenty twenty four, a lot
are coming from Clarksville and Nashville, which are the two
Democratic centers. I will say the good sign is that
the exurbs of Nashville, which are very Republican, also have
extremely high turnout. Now, the district runs all the way
from the north part of Tennessee and it kind of
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slivers down to the southern part of Tennessee. The southern
part is very very Republican, and they are having some
of the worst turnouts so far. So especially the southern
area really needs to pick up momentum and come out.
But I will say, given us the Republican excerbs of
this district, I have pretty strong turnout. I think it'll
be enough to sit there and kind of counter whatever
Clarksville and Nashville sit there and so row at them.
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I'm not that well. It would take really a monsoon.
The district hasn't voted for a Democrat in the statewide
election since twenty eighteen. It's been it's pretty it's not
a it's not a district that sorry it's not even
twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen. Still as a Republican, I thought
it actually did. Twenty eighteen, Marshall Blackbirn versus Phil Bredstein,
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who was the governor, Marshall Blackburn carried the district yo
point five percent. So no, it hasn't voted for a
Democrat in a very very long time. Nashville is going
to be very very strong about a D plus sixty
eight is what they're thinking. But the other areas, the
rural areas, all the rest of it will be probably
enough to sit there and counter it.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
So for people who don't know, because this is confusing,
and even I didn't know, and I should know because
I do this for a living Ryan when they added
one additional district seat, the Republicans did, they redistricted After
twenty twenty, they cut Nashville into three different congressional seats.
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So the fifth, I believe, the fifth, sixth, and seventh,
and if I'm wrong on that, I know the fifth,
and I know the seventh. I think it's five, sixth,
and seven all have different parts of the Nashville area.
And so where I lived, I didn't even know what
district I was in until I went to go vote
in twenty twenty two because my district had.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Changed then by street.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
In other words, it's one of these rare situations doesn't
happen that often, where one congressman can represent one street
in a neighborhood and a different congressman can represent a
different street in that neighborhood. That's legitimately how they sliced it.
So some people out there, you guys, may not know
that this is your district still because again it flipped
in twenty two. A lot of people show up to
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vote straight Republican ticket in twenty four Trump one Tennessee.
I don't know by thirty five points or whatever.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
The heck? It was all right, Ryan, when.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You look obviously this is one week again, everybody go vote.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I can't be repped by this crazy chick.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
When you look at the you know, we're basically eleven
months out from twenty twenty six. Any tea leaves anything
that we can look at, when will you start to think, hey,
maybe we get a sign. Is it some of these primaries?
Is there anything you're watching to kind of have your
eye on. Early in twenty twenty six, for instance, what
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Texas got a primary early March twenty twenty six. When
do we start to get a sign on what the
tea leaves, what the overall voting market place is going
to look like.
Speaker 10 (41:01):
Well, I mean, we're starting to see some things about
these early elections. I One, the intensity in which Democrats
are showing up right, these special elections, they don't necessarily
show what the overall basic baseline of the election is
going to be, but they do show an enthusiasm and
Democrats certainly have an enthusiasm. That's why the seat in
Texas and Tennessee that you're mentioning, which is an R
plus twenty seat, is causing some heartburn among Republicans. David Shore,
(41:25):
who is a very brilliant progressive data analyst, he did
one of the smartest post twenty twenty four election analysis
there were. So he did a mid mid year you
know what issues are people trusting voters on. Republicans still
have the advantage of trust on a lot of issues.
Here's the problem for Republicans. Because Trump solved the border
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security issue, it is still the most trusted issues Republicans have,
but it's much lower on the list of what people
care about. The issues of Medicare of healthcare are making
increasingly important and much more trusted at bong dem and
Democrats are gaining tremendously on issues like the economy, cost
of living, inflation and taxes and AI, which is the
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thing that no one's really talking about yet, but where
Democrats are starting to gain a lot of trust on
is AI. And I think that when that happens, when
people start trusting them on these issues and Democrat issues
become a more important issue, it's definitely going to lead
to a higher turnat among Democratic voters. So I would
sit there and say that those tea leaders have already
(42:27):
started to gather. It's not just New Jersey, it's not Virginia,
it's not the New York City mayor's race, it's not
one special election. It's all the specials. And when you
have that accumulation, you really see how the enthusiasm looks.
I will say, before anyone should get excited, we really
have to see where these primaries go and who wins
the nominations. For example, most important center election of the
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year is probably Michigan, not only because they have a
Democratic primary and a Republican who's very popular who's running
for the election, but the Democratic I'm really pitch of
Bernie Sanders flash you know, zoramund Donnie type, rather against
a centrist Democrat who has the party backing and the
money for them, the progressive candidate, the Bernie Sanders candidate,
(43:13):
who's really more like Zora Mundanna than Bernie. I don't
want to say Bernie, but it's like mom Donnie candet.
If he wins, it really increases the Republicans' chances, and
Republicans are pulling ahead not only for that race but
also for the governor's race. So Michigan is really key.
But I would like to see who is actually the
Democratic nominee ahead of the election before making any prognostication.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
This is not super serious, but it is important. This
is fun President Trump advocated. I don't know if you've
seen this yet, Ryan, President Trump advocated for Rush Hour
four to be greenlit and hold on, this is break
hold on, this is breaking news. Paramount just greenlit it. Yeah,
(43:59):
I'm not kidding about this. Sunday night, there was a
report from Semaphore that President Trump behind It's so funny
that President Trump behind the scenes. For those of you
who don't remember, this is Chris Tucker and Jackie chan
I'd forgotten they made three different Rush Hour movies. This
is a buddy cop with a black guy and an
(44:20):
Asian guy. Trump is evidently a huge fan of the
buddy cop genre, and he said, we got to make
a Rush Hour four. They have now agreed to make
Rush Hour four. Can you think of any movies that
you would like to see a sequel that you think
President Trump should advocate for.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Oh god, that's a really tough question. You know, most
of my most of my favorite movies, I don't want
sequels up, So that's it's a hard one to sit
there and say which one should get a sequel? I think, yeah,
it's been done, so they're doing so badly. The worst
is like I love the movie Arthur from nineteen eighty
with Dudley Moore, great great comedy, but they made it
sequel and as it was terrible. So there's no point
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of making a sequel with you his child or whatever,
because it wouldn't be any good. That's the hard thing
to sit there and say, what should a sequel? I'd
rather see an original thing for the first time. But
I love that there's a new rush Hour because my first.
My first intern I ever had is like Chinese Immigrant.
The only movie he loved to watch was Rush Hour,
So on our work breaks we would go watch it
(45:23):
like every single day, and he texted me. I didn't
talk to him in two years, text me and said,
Trump's the greatest president who ever lived because of this
Rush Hour movie. So I'm very gung ho on Rush Hour.
But I can't even think I would sit there and say,
you have to make a sequel, love I.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Everybody, hold on, sorry, cuts off. I want everybody to
give me your talkbacks. Producer Ali just had a great one.
She wants a sequel to The Lost Boys. I this
is a great idea. I don't want to remake. I
want to know what happened to Starr. I want to
know what happened to the shirtless saxophone player.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Is he still ripped?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Can he still be the shirtless saxophone player? This very
specific because I told everybody a couple of years ago. Ryan,
one of the great things about being a dad is
getting to show your kids all of the all of
the movies that you grew up watching in the eighties
and nineties and having them realize how awesome they are.
I've got one. Is there a play? I know he's
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not healthy one hundred percent? Is there Back to the
Future play? Is there is there another Back to the
Future out there that could make sense? I one, two
and three, One and two were amazing, three a little bit.
If he we know what happened with Indiana Jones, we
know what happens with Star Wars.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
But is there what movies would.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
You like President Trump to advocate since he saw them everything?
Speaker 10 (46:41):
I just thought, what was the Matt Damon Leonardo DiCaprio
movie with The Departed? One with just Matt Damon's character
who lives because I DiCaprio dies, But that I would actually.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Spoiler alert Ryan, there's people out there right now, like, Hey,
you know what I'm gonna do. I'm finally out of work.
I'm gonna sit and I'm gonna watch The Departed and
years ago.
Speaker 10 (47:00):
If we haven't watched now, I don't know what to
do for you.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
What else, Ryan, is out there that we should know?
There was a Back to the Future Broadway show that
it closed.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 8 (47:13):
It was awful.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Yeah, I know there's a Stranger Things Broadway show. I
went and saw the Harry Potter Broadway show that was
actually really good. What else should we know from your perspective?
He is Ryan Gardesky, He's with a numbers game. What
else should we know?
Speaker 10 (47:29):
So the one thing you should know is that there's
this big commentary in the media right now, and it's
completely a lie that President Trump's immigration policies are the
reason that he's having problems with Hispanics. It is not true.
It is not true in any way, shape or form.
When they sat then they pulled Hispanics. This is right
after This is an Equis poll right after the elections
(47:49):
in New Jersey and Virginia. Top issues going into it
for Hispanics, immigration didn't make the top five. Then they
did a poll by it was the Kaiser Family Foundation,
and the New Times came with a poll specifically on Hispanics,
breaking them down by immigration status citizens naturalize here legally
or undocumented or illegal rather, and they ask them how
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he's doing on things like deep mass deportations basically legal
immigrants and naturalized Hispanics. And second, Hunty's Hispanics are where
the entire country is an immigration which is one of
Trump's still his best issues. They're not swung heavily against
him on things like mass deportations. It's and they don't
like some of the mass agents. But they don't they
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like the idea of deporting illegal aliens who are not here.
The only thing is it's the economy. The economy that's
with sinking him right now with all these voters, immigration
is not the issue that is moving them. It is
the economy right now.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Last question, another important one, what is your top draft
pick on Thanksgiving meals?
Speaker 3 (48:51):
Is what would you go to first? Your number one.
Speaker 10 (48:54):
Part for food? Yeah, I'm not a big Turkey person.
I really prefer him on Thanksgiving and then that's sacrilegious,
but I'm not a huge turkey person.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
I don't think that's a bad idea. I liked that
you went food because were you going to say alcohol?
Was that your first draft pick?
Speaker 10 (49:09):
No? Now when I my family doesn't drink, so I
one how you make it through by myself? I do eat? Yeah,
I know, I'm I'm I et my calories over drinking.
I'm not wash. See if I was waspy, I would
be drinking. But I'm athnic, so I eat. Like that's
the difference. If you're a wap there's no food of Thanksgiving.
It's just different versions of alcohol.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Ryan, We appreciate the time. Thank you for coming with us.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Sorry, I'm just pouring my coffee out here and I
didn't realize how loud it was going to be.
Speaker 6 (49:34):
We will.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
We will see you again, hopefully soon. Encourage you to
go subscribe Numbers Game. Ryan Gardeski part of the Clay
and Buck podcast Network.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 10 (49:43):
Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
Thanks for listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts now.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I want to give a little bit of a lead
up Buck, because there is a race that is going
to happen eight days from now. They are one billion
percent relying on the fact that lots of Republicans are
not going to show up and vote. And this is
a race that the White House has gotten involved in
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that we don't have a very substantial majority in the House. Democrats,
coming off of the win in Virginia and the win
in New Jersey, are pouring money and resources like crazy
into this race. It is the Tennessee seventh Congressional district.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
This is a big district.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It stretches all the way up to basically Fort Campbell.
For many of you out there that are in the
military or have served, you know, Fort Campbell goes all
the way to the border basically with Kentucky, runs all
the way to the border with Alabama on the south side.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm in this district.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
They cut Nashville into three different congressional districts. I am
in this district. The congressman is retiring, Mark green All.
They are trying to pull off a huge upset. And
let me give you an idea Buck. This is a
headline right now in the Bulwark I'm reading from. This
is the What was the initial impetus of the Bulwark,
(01:30):
It was like, we're the Trump Republicans who the anti
Trump Republicans like that, the real Republicans. That was their
entire existence. Now now they're basically just like all they
do is vote for Democrats, right, I mean they basically
are a Democrat operative. Now, this is what they wrote.
(01:50):
This is a story up on their site. The seventh
Tennessee district is reliably Republican. Trump carried it by twenty
two percentage points in twenty for Green won his last
two races by a similar margin. It includes parts of
Williamson County, one of the wealthiest counties in the country.
The Fort Campbell Military Base also falls within the district,
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along with a vast swath of rural farmland. Perhaps most
tantalizing for Democrats listen to this, a number of MAGA
fire brands live in or near the district, like conservative
sports radio personality Clay Travis, YouTuber Brett Cooper, and right
wing podcaster Candice Owens. Imagine as an example, the psychic
(02:38):
shock of a Republican emerging victorious in the movie star
enclave of Beverly Hills, Tennessee. Seven isn't where the two
political parties tend to fight it out, but they have
poured tons of money in here. And here's what they're
relying on, and we're going to bring on the congressman
in the top of the next hour. They're relying on
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Republicans not showing up.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, this the crazy base of the Democrat Party,
the people who have the most fervent Trump derangement syndrome
on the planet. They show up for dog catcher races
to vote against Trump. They show up for every race.
Their base they are going to show up and vote,
(03:23):
and they're trying to steal this election to try to
diminish Republican control of the House.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So we got to show.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Up is a big deal because they're going to use
this as a if they can pull this off as
a rallying cry for the midterms, they're going to say
it's a harbinger for the midterms.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This shows where the momentum is.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
That's exactly right, this is and it's a It's one
of these things where even if they get close enough,
they're willing to pour all this money into it and
all this resource, all these resources in time, because they
feel like they're playing with house money. They'll get money
from on the coasts, so I'll get the big big
Democrat money will pour in if they can steal a
seat from Dare I say, Clay Travis's back yard my seat,
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which is this is what but this is what I'm saying,
Like they're going right into your kitchen and they're trying
to eat your drumsticks, my friend, they're trying to drink
it right off your plate. And uh and you and
and what they said Brett Cooper, I mean, there's a
bunch Tommy Lair and.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Tommy texted me over the weekend fired up about this
because again the election.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You can go early vote right now in Tennessee seven. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And if you don't know, if this is your district
and they're counting on this too, Fort Campbell, all of
you guys who were up there, who are soldiers or
who have lived in the Clarksville area, it is likely
your district all the way down to the border with Alabama,
if you live in that range, this is likely your district.
If you're in the Franklin area, where I live, Brentwood, Nashville,
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many parts of Nashville, this is your district. It's a
little bit confusing, Buck, because even in my neighborhood they
divide it by street, so some people are represented by
one congressman, others by another, and it can be literally
it's divided in my neighborhood. So it's sometimes confusing for
people to know what district they're in. They're taking advantage
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of this. If you're not sure, worst case scenario, show
up again, this is Mark Green's district, but a lot
of you out there you may not know because the lines,
especially in the Nashville area, are street to street in neighborhoods.
Worst is a case scenario you show up and they say, hey,
this is not your district.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I just don't. They're trying to take advantage of us.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, you gotta go all out here, my friend, because
the Democrat media narrative is going to be not even
play Travis and and Tommy taking shots.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And me already in the article right, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Saying if they win, then it's going to be see
how deflated Maga is. Even these big Maga James couldn't
couldn't help pull this off right, So this, uh, this
would be like if Republicans are trying to win a
congressional seat from the Democrats in Malibu.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And this hill was what Borg said. I mean, this
is our base, Like, we gotta show up. I'm fire
up about this because you're right, people are gonna attack
me if this happens. They're gonna say Clay Travis doesn't
even live in a Republican district anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
This is I mean, that'll be a headline.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You gotta just you know, you gotta talk to the
guy at Pegleg Porker, who was my favorite barbecue there.
And you gotta have like a big thing outdoor thing,
a rally, and you gotta get everybody to show up.
My friend, you gotta get the you gotta get the
turnout operation in full swing.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Matt Van Epps is gonna be on with us at
the top of the next hour. I talked to him
over the weekend. I'll say it again on the air,
but I told him, whatever you want me to do,
you want to do a rally, you want to do
an event.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I will show up. Obviously getting him on.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
The show is substantial. I've been sharing a bunch of
the clips. Buck, this chick is crazy, isn't She hates Nashville?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Isn't that?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
How do run if you hate a place? I don't
understand this. Actually no, that's what democrats do. They want
powers they can destroy the places they live.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
She was on MSNBC. I need to pull up the
sound bites. Do we have a couple of these things
just to kind of give you a sense of how
crazy this chick is. She was on MSNBC, Buck, this
is MSNBC. She didn't just say she wanted to defund
the police. She said she wanted to shut down the
Metro Nashville Police Department. She also said she supported people
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burning down police stations. MSNBC asked her about this This
is MSNBC cut sixteen.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
You said in those sinse deleted tweets that the Metropolitan
Nashville Police Department should be dissolved. Another shared on a
teachers union saying that defund the police should be a
requirement for schools reopening, and another saying good morning, especially
to the fifty four percent of Americans that believe burning
down a police station is justified. Do you still stand
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by those comments? And if not, is there anything you
want to clarify.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, I'm not going to engauge in kiber news talking points.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
So you don't want to clarify whether you still believe
that the police should be defunded.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Once again, I don't remember these tweets, but I'm what
I'm saying is is.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
That I'm not asking you if you remember, what is
your position today? How's that on this issue?
Speaker 8 (08:20):
I mean, once again, I'm here to talk about my race,
which is in literally nine days.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Clay, Clay, this chick is insane.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
You you cannot allow this to happen. You have to
get everybody out.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's MSNBC asking her, do you still support defunding the police?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Buck?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
She cheered on the burning down of police stations. I mean, look,
there are democrats out there where you talk and you're like, man,
I don't agree with these perspectives. This chick is I'm
trying to avoid cursing crazy. She is absolutely insane. So
again they're counting on their base of crazies. Think about
how crazy she is. She won't even walk back saying
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that she wants to defund the police. I think we
got listened to this ad two Buck, she chased ice
agents around in Nashville to try to keep them from
being able to do their jobs.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I believe this is cut fifteen. Listen, aften ban says,
I'm a very radical person.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
So radical Bane thinks rioting is.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
A way for people to express themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The Worst Bang went on a midnight joy ride harassing
ice officers and state troopers.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
This is great.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
We've got our girl flat and we're bullying the ice.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Vehicles and state troopers.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
So this is like unhinged and it's really scary.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Stop aften Banged, so radical, it's scary.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
This is real. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I didn't even I have never heard have you met
anyone or heard of anyone before named Afton?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I didn't know this was a name.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
She's a rich kid from East Tennessee who went to
rich private schools. She's thirty five, think, unmarried. She is
the quintessential crazy left wing.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
She's a white left wing chick that's been able to
support herself in the upper upper echelons of society with
money made by other people her entire life, and has
no idea how the real world actually works, and has
insane ideas that would destroy civilization. Also known as the
base of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Cool good.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They're going to show up and vote for her. They're
going to show up and vote for her. This chick
makes Kamala Harris seem conservative. And Kamala Harris showed up
and tried to campaign for her, but she didn't want
to be seen with Kamala Harris, which is funny in
and of itself because there are a lot of people
in Nashville who are not big fans of Kamala Harris.
So my point on this, and we're gonna have Congressman
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Van Epps again. Early voting is going on right now.
They are pouring resources into this district like crazy because
the insane left wing often bane like thirty five year
old white wing women who have lost their minds. They've
already voted. They're showing up and this district again, it's
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a Trump district, but they think that Republicans aren't going
to show up because it's a December second, it's in
the middle of the Thanksgiving holiday. It is not ideal timing.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Are you are?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Are you getting Tommy all fired up over this? And
Candice lives in this area and.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
They're gonna have I'm gonna have a rally. Maybe you're
out you got to call the Avengers, buddy. You cannot
allow them to take it. You cannot allow them to
take this this congressional seat.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
This is nuts.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No, we got to get everybody together. I mean, this
is I went on Friday with Waura Ingram and talked
about it. I mean, this is gonna be I think,
a lead story nationwide over the next week. And uh again,
I'm just trying to wake people up because I think
a lot of people out there are not aware. I mean,
how often do you vote for a congressional seat on
December second?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Well, this is also why Democrats think that they can
pull this off, right, because everyone's going to be in
their turkey call too much on.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Thanksgiving and you might be on that road.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Some of you are not going to be back for
by December second. So if you're listening to me right now,
go vote early right now if you're not going to
be back and buck. The reason they think it is
they looked at the total turnout in the primary and
there were only about five thousand more Republicans who showed
up in the primary than Democrats, and so they looked
at that and said, wait a minute, if we.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Pour money in here, we can win this thing.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
There is a race eight days from now Tennessee's seventh
congressional district. It's going to surprise a lot of people
because Thanksgiving is this week, a lot of people out.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
On the road.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You can go vote early. This is my congressional district.
This is going to be my congressperson. And there is
a crazy left winger, Afton Baine, who is running on
the other side and on the side of truth justice
in the American way.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I want all of you to go vote for him.
He is Matt Van Epps.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
He is early voting as underway Tennessee seventh Congressional district.
If you don't know if it's your district, go online
you can look. You can also just show up and
just be be honest. Say hey, sometimes this is confusing
Matt Van Epps with us.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Now you know this too, because they redrew the lines.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Nashville is actually now split three different ways. By in
my neighborhood in Franklin, you can be one congressman, different district.
A lot of people still don't know. Tell us why
this race is so important. Hopefully soon to be Congressman
Matt Van Epps and what Democrats are trying to do
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by stealing this seat.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Hey Ley, great to be on with you, Matt manps here.
So first and foremost, as you mentioned, my opponent Apton
Baine is a crazy left wing radical. If you don't
want to hire taxes, defunding a police jennersies for minors
without parental consent, you must vote to stop this person.
And that's the only way to do it is to
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vote to stop her. So we're asking everybody to get
out and vote. I'm a husband, father, combat veteran. I'm
a West Point Brad serve nine combat tours. I've let
small business operations, serve in the state government as Commissioner
of General Services, where I like to say we were
doing Doge before Doge. And I'm still serving in a
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Tennessee Army National Guard today and I'm excited to fight
for Nashville, for Davison County, in all of our fourteen counties.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
So what is it looking like in terms of awareness
even for this race coming up here? I got to
tell you this is a particularly difficult to sandwich in
this election between Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years. What
can you do to help This is Buck, by the way,
the other guy. What can you do to help get
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the word out? And how are you seeing that actually
in play out? Given that I think there's been a
total lack of focus was while the Democrats are so
very honed in on trying to sneak this one.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
That's right, and Buck, thanks for the question. Great to
be with you. We just we've got to get out.
We're telling everybody right now. Early voting goes through the
twenty sixth through Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and then the elections
on December second, So we just need everyone to get
out and vote. You know, my opponent is she is
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a crazy radical left winger. She supported Mamdonnie and would
be lockstep in that socialist agenda. Matter of fact, she's
endorsed by the socialists because she's one of them. She
fought against the largest tax cutting in state history and
proposed new taxes. She'll make it more expensive for working
families and farmers. And I think when people both know
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that about her and that they can early vote right
now through this one and election day December second, that
will turn out the vote and it will winness decisively.
On December second, for.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
People out there, how much do you think the Democrat
plan is just relying on a lot of traditional Republican
voters not being aware this election is happening.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Because I said in the.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
First hour, their base of crazy left wing Frankly Afton Bane,
you know, like mirror image voters is going to show
up for everything.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
They're really plugged in here.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's basically the Democrats strategy, right, is that people are
just going to be busy and not be aware this
is actually going on.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
That's that's right. We you know, we had we had
a great win in the primary. We have great momentum
endorsed by the President, back by the Speaker. We have
over forty local endorsements from sheriffs and county mayors, highway superintendents, farmers,
business leader, and so that momentum we're carrying forward. What
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we can't have happened is people take it for granted.
We've got to have our side to get out there
and vote. The Democrats are hoping that we don't turn out,
and we've got to fight against this just crazy radical
left wing agenda. It's not right for Tennessee, it's not
right for America. And we do that when people show up,
put the jersey on, get on the field, end vote.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Affordability is going to be a huge thing, Matt in
the midterms, and you're going to be Your race is
certainly going to be if the well Heaven forbid. But
if the Democrats pulled this off, they'll say that it
is indicative of the GOP's lack of focus on the
affordability issue. Right now, I wanted you to speak to
that because there are a lot of people that are
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still feeling that the pinch of high prices at the pump,
at the grocery store. You know, the whole discussion here
in Florida about property tax, a lot of things that
are making people feel like they can and get ahead.
What do you think could be done in the congressional
side to help with that? And just as a general
philosophical issue, how do you want to approach affordability if
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in fact you're successful in this election.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Absolutely, and that is top of mind for so many
of our voters. And I agree. We stand for battling inflation,
secure borders, tax cuts, protecting our kids, cheaper gas, supporting
veterans and law enforcement, ending wars around the globe, and
the affordability piece here is top of the top of
the agenda, and I think time tim pro nuclear. I
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think we need to unleash America's nuclear power and energy.
Tennessee is leading with the first small modular reactor at
the Clinch River site in East Tennessee. That should be
online in twenty thirty two. And so we've got to
promote oil and gas in nuclears so that we drive
down the cost of the pump, we drive down utilities.
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Healthcare is really important. I think a good example is
in Carstill, Tennessee, when when government gets out of the
way in the in the private sector is put into play.
We have we have two new hospitals going in at
clarks So that's going to increase access, increase competition, drive
out costs, and ultimately increase outcomes. And you're absolutely right
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on housing, We've we've got to keep property taxes low.
I think from a from a federal standpoint, that's no
unfunded mandates. We've got to work with states and local
governments to ensure that we have workforce housing at close
proximity to the workplace. And we've got to we've got
to work continue to work to keep taxes low and
to cut red tape.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We're talking to who I hope is going to be
my next congressman, Matt Van Epps. Can you tell everybody
out there listening right now because we have a ton
of affiliates. One of the confusing things is your district
runs from basically all the way at Kentucky all.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The way down to Alabama.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Can you run through some communities so people who are
out there listening and say, oh, wait a.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Minute, that's me.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Because these district lines are still new, a lot of
people out there listening right now may not be aware
that this race is even going on. So I'll start
with you Fort Campbell area, Clarksville area, a huge part
of you, guys. You are voting for your congressman now
and on December second, Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, different parts of
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the Nashville area. Nashville is split up into three different
congressional districts. And then on down south where else What
communities should know they are in this district that you
need them to turn out?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Absolutely so on the north side, Stewart, Montgomery and Robertson
is really important. Our western boundary be indicator. We've got Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Perry,
and Wayne, Cheatham County. And then on the on our
eastern boundary there, as you mentioned, we've got Davidson County,
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Williamson County. It's part of Davidson as part of Williamson
is border to border, and we need everyone to get
out and vote. It's just it's so incredibly important. It's
really it's all fourteen counties. We need everyone from every
county on our side to get out and vote. Don't
take it for granted. And when we do that, we're
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going to stop this radical ideology from trying to come
into Tennessee, and we're going to advance affordability. We're going
to support working families, farmers, military and veterans, and we're
going to keep moving America in the right direction, in
the America first direction.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And you said early voting ends on Wednesday, right before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Is that right? And then the.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Actual election day is Tuesday, December second, Just for people
out there, that's.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Right, Yeah, absolutely right. Early voting through Wednesday to twenty sixth,
and then December second is election day.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And for people out there who may not even live
in the district, but I hope everybody in the district's
going to go vote, but they want to help and
they just want to ensure that Democrats don't steal this race.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
How can they find you online?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Yeah, so it's Matt FORPN dot com. That's Matt FORPN
dot com. And would be honored to have have fots
support and their vote, and together we're going to get
this done and we're going to win decisively on the
summer second.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Amen, Thank you. That's Matt Van Epps.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Everybody in my district, everybody listening in the Nashville area,
in the Franklin area, Clarksville, all the way down to
the border. You heard all the different counties that are involved.
We got to get out, We got to show up
and make sure that the Democrats don't steal a seat.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Congressman.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I hope Matt Van Epps may have you on election
day next week, just to reinforce again that the election
is happening. That is eight days from now, but you
can vote early today, tomorrow and Wednesday in advance of
the Thanksgiving Thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Thanks Helm, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck
Big race one week from today in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Matt Van Epps is running in the seventh Congressional district
of Tennessee. I was doing my reading this morning getting
ready for the show. It's not going to shock you,
but they are outspending the Republican in this race by
at least stay two to one margin, and I think
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it's important. Matt Van Epps, West Point grad dad, combat veteran,
really outstanding choice.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You should go vote for him. This is my congressional district.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
The election itself is Tuesday, and Democrats are trying to
steal this seat. The Republicans won this seat by around
twenty points in twenty twenty four, so it is a
very rock ribbed red district. But they are really on
the fact that a lot of you are traveling for Thanksgiving,
that a lot of you work, that this actual election
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is taking place, and people don't really know what's happening.
So if you live in the Nashville area, if you
live in the Franklin Brentwood area, if you live north
of town in Clarksville, if you live all the way
down to near the border with Alabama, this is a
sliver of the of that region and we need you
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to get out and vote. So here are and if
you're saying to yourself, okay, what could the difference really be?
Clay this chick that the Democrats have nominated, she makes
AOC seem sane.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
This is how wild she is. Cut nine. This is Afton.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Baine saying she hates Nashville. This is in February of
twenty twenty. She wants to represent Nashville. This is her
on a podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Cut nines.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
They've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because
I hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes, I hate
the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all
of the things that make Nashville barely and h's city
to the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
But I hate it.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Okay, babe, that doesn't seem I deal. Can we replay that.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I don't know that I've ever heard a candidate be
more specific about hating a place that she wants to
represent and many of the things that help to give
the city its character.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Uh, listen to it. Listen to it again.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
It's been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because
I hate the city. I hate the bachelorettes, I hate
the pedal taverns. I hate country music.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
I hate all of.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
The things that make Nashville apparely and h's city to
the rest of the country, but.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I hate it. I hate country music should.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Immediately keep you from being able to be elected to
any office in any degree in the entire state of Tennessee.
I'm just gonna say I'm not amused. I'm basically tone deaf.
I know a lot of country music singers because I'm
born and raised in Nashville. Most of the time when
I'm with those country music singers, I don't know anything
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about music. We just talk about college football because every
country music singer, at least all the men, they're all
huge college football fans. So I just sit around talk
college football with them. But this is the kind of
arrogance that they are trying to foist upon us. She's
not even trying to hide. She's saying out loud all
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the crazy things that left wingers try to keep hidden.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
When they're running for office. Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
She says, women who get married and start families are
deep products of patriarchical structures. That she never wanted to
have kids. All she cared about was power. Is this
someone you want representing you, Nashville. Listen to cut ten.
Speaker 9 (27:00):
Dream I've had is standing up in a cafeteria full of.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Women, I don't know why I was there or whatever,
and saying I don't want children, I want power, and
just screaming it at the top of my lungs. And
where I am now with seeing the consequences and the
ramifications of women having kids and being in the political
field and what they're able to.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
Achieve because we don't offer. You know, it's like the
political field hasn't met the challenge of working moms.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
They really haven't.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
But also the deeply patriarchal structures that these women are
involved with because they've chosen marriage and they've chosen to
raise children. And I think in the South it's incredibly
difficult to shake those, especially if you've grown up here
and that's all you've been told is the definition of success.
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The metrics of success is how many kids you have,
the square footage of your house, and where are kids
go to school?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Okay, I disagree with everything basically she just said there.
I don't understand what you would even classify as a
successful life. If you are denigrating people who decided to
get married and have kids. Now I understand everybody doesn't
have kids. That's a lifestyle choice, sometimes not even a choice.
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We've talked about on the program. This is why I
think and President Trump has been great on this. This
is why I think we need as much support as
we can possibly give for IVF. I give credit to
the New York Times for actually writing some stories about
this that a lot of these women that thought they
hated Trump. IVF is incredibly expensive, and the stress and
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the mental aspects of trying to get pregnant, of getting
pregnant and then not knowing whether you're going to be
able to carry that child all the way. I feel
very fortunate to have three kids, but anyone who has
gone through a challenging process of having children to have
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someone say that it's deeply patriarchal and that if you
grow up in the South and you look at getting
married and having kids and being concerned about where your
kid's going to school as some sort of failure, this
is blonkers. This chick is crazy. Now, the only thing
I'll give her credit for is she's saying out loud
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what a lot of left wingers believe, and so I
respect when you have a crazy opinion, don't hide from it.
Just tell us and let us judge it. This chick
is crazy. She also were not done yet. By the way,
she hates Nashville, she hates country music, she hates moms
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who get married and decide to have kids, and she
also thinks men can give birth.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
This is cut eleven.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
This is the chick that they are are trying to
get Nashville to elect.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
This is my congressional district.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
So if you're out there and you're like wow, this,
there's all not very many national races still to come
before twenty twenty six, so the amount of money and
attention has been legion getting thrown in here. We had
Matt van EPs on yesterday. Tommy Larin, who works with
me at OutKick, is having him on today. Tommy texted
me on Sunday, I think over Saturday night, She's like,
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are you seeing this crazy chick that they're trying to
elect in Nashville. I was like, yeah, we got to
do everything we can to make people aware there's an
election going on, but also to hear what she actually believes,
because we got to wake people up. A lot of
people out there are not aware of the fact that
they have to vote. You can vote early right now, today, tomorrow.
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I'm gonna go vote on election day. My wife works
the polls. I gotta be be careful with that phrasing.
She works at the polls. She volunteers to help people
vot vote, and so I'm going to be going on
Tuesday to go vote.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
She'll be working there all day.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
But a lot of people just don't know because it's
a non traditional time to vote. It's December. Second, it's
coming out of Thanksgiving. If you're still in town, go
vote Tuesday Wednesday. A lot of you don't even know
what district potentially you are in. This chick Afton Bane,
the crazy Democrat. She believes that men can get pregnant.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
This is cut eleven as.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
An organizer and as an activist, like, we really have
an opportunity here in this country to talk about what
type of policy, progressive policies we want to see as
young women, and I think we have, you know, as
as birth, you know, as women who can give birth,
men and women who can give birth. We could maybe
leverage that as collective bargaining, which is the basis of
(31:49):
this book that I'm not I've just started reading but
called birth strike and how we can really leverage collective
bargaining when it comes to having children in this and
so for example, like I'm not going to give birth
until the United States government concedes ABCD.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Like I want to pull my hair out.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
This chick should lose ninety to ten if people show
up and actually understand what she's saying. Look, Democrats are
trying to steal this race. They are out spending the Republican.
This is a Republican district. This is my district. This
is going to be my congressperson. I cannot have this
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crazy chick representing me. This is personal wake up from
the north of Tennessee near Clarksville. A while of y'all
work and live near Fort Campbell, you may not know
this is your district all the way through the Nashville
suburbs on the north side, all the way down through
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parts of Nashville, parts of Franklin, parts of Brentwood, all
the way down to the border with Alabama. You guys
are listening to me all over that region.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Go vote.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
This is not a hard call. This chick is. She
makes AOC look reasonable, and she's trying to represent Tennessee.
She hates country music, she hates the city of Nashville.
She hates women who get married and have kids. She
thinks that men can get pregnant. Yesterday we played the
(33:32):
cuts where she can we pull that cut again because
I want to play it again, because again, getting people
aware this race is happening is why we're talking about
it so much. We're gonna have Matt Van Epps, the
Republican candidate, on again next week because this is gonna,
unfortunately potentially be a closer race shouldn't be, but they're
counting on Republicans not showing up. They're counting on a
(33:53):
lot of you out there not being aware that this
special election is happening. She even got asked on on
the MSNBC, hey, do you still support defund the police?
Do you still support burning down police stations? And she
wouldn't answer their questions. On MSNBC, she got asked about this,
(34:15):
I mean, this is Bonker's level crazy. So I want
all of you to be aware of it again. Recognition,
awareness of the fact that this race is happening is
probably the most important thing going on right now. We'll
take some of your calls. Eight hundred and two A
two to eight A two A lot of you want
to weigh in on a variety of different topics. Are
Buddy Ryan Gardski joining us at the bottom of the hour,
(34:36):
I'll ask him what he thinks about this race. I
looked at the gambling market, you guys know, I like
to look at the gambling markets. They said there's about
a twenty percent chance that she wins. Are you kidding me?
This is a Trump plus twenty district. It's because they
don't think that Republican voters are going to show up.
She nearly got as many votes in the primary as
the Republican candidates did combine the Democrats did. And that's
(35:00):
why they're pouring money in here. They're trying to steal
this district. We cannot allow it to happen, given how
tight the margins are already in the House, to say
nothing of on a personal level, I can't have this
crazy chick repping me. I can't live in this crazy
chicks district for any days at all. I told you yesterday.
They're already writing articles saying send Clay Travis a message,
(35:22):
Send Clay Travis a message, Send Tommy layer In a message,
Send Candice Owens a message, Send Brett Cooper a message,
Send Matt Walsh a message.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
This is all our district. They want to put a
crazy chick in. Cannot happen.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
This is Team forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
We are joined by Ryan Gerdusky. Now are data nerd.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You can find him in the Clay and Buck podcast network. Ryan,
happy early Thanksgiving to you. Before we get into your data,
what is your position on people reclining seats on airplanes?
Speaker 10 (35:57):
Oh, they're awful. I mean it's not that hard. It
up straight like ghosts to like. It's not that bad.
It's awful. It's totally awful. I never reclaimed my seat ever.
I'll sleep stress sending up. It's like, calm down, it's
a two hour flight. Yah, Susan, you get set up
the whole time.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I now will agree with every opinion. Ryan Gurdusky gives
the rest of this interview because he's one billion percent
right with everything he just said. He is not a
travel terrorist, unlike a lot of you. Okay, let's go
into Ryan. I am terrified because this election that's taking
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place next week. Democrats have legitimately put forward an absolutely
insane woman for the Tennessee seventh Congressional district. This is
my district. So if this crazy chick wins, she will
be my congresswoman. I personally cannot allow this to happen.
I am imploring everyone out there to show up to
(36:57):
vote for Matt van Epps. How nervous do you think
I should be one week from election day because Democrats
are pouring a ton of resources behind this crazy chick.
Speaker 10 (37:08):
So the district is a district's a comprom congress of
Mark Greens district. It's ablican. Mark Green won up by
twenty one points. Trump won it by twenty two points.
It's pretty republican. There's two basic concentrations of Democratic voters.
That's Clarksville, Tennessee, and some suburbs of Nashville. The suburbs
of Nashville are very liberal about you know, probably D
(37:29):
plus sixty one most the areas around it, though the
rest of the state is pretty Republican, almost extremely strongly republican.
So far in the early vote. This was as of
just two hours ago. Nineteen percent of the twenty twenty
four vote is already voted in the early vote. Right,
that's that's a tremendous amount. About sixty three thousand ballots
(37:50):
have already been cast. Of the three hundred and thirty
six thousand number casts in twenty twenty four, a lot
are coming from Clarksville and Nashville, which are the two
Democratic centers. I will say the good sign is that
the exurbs of Nashville, which are very Republican, also have
extremely high turnout. Now, the district runs all the way
from the north part of Tennessee and it kind of
(38:11):
slivers down to the southern part of Tennessee. The southern
part is very very Republican, and they are having some
of the worst turnouts so far. So especially the southern
area really needs to pick up momentum and come out.
But I will say, given us the Republican excerbs of
this district, I have pretty strong turnout. I think it'll
be enough to sit there and kind of counter whatever
Clarksville and Nashville sit there and so row at them.
(38:32):
I'm not that well. It would take really a monsoon.
The district hasn't voted for a Democrat in the statewide
election since twenty eighteen. It's been it's pretty it's not
a it's not a district that sorry it's not even
twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen. Still as a Republican, I thought
it actually did. Twenty eighteen, Marshall Blackbirn versus Phil Bredstein,
(38:52):
who was the governor, Marshall Blackburn carried the district yo
point five percent. So no, it hasn't voted for a
Democrat in a very very long time. Nashville is going
to be very very strong about a D plus sixty
eight is what they're thinking. But the other areas, the
rural areas, all the rest of it will be probably
enough to sit there and counter it.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
So for people who don't know, because this is confusing,
and even I didn't know, and I should know because
I do this for a living Ryan when they added
one additional district seat, the Republicans did, they redistricted After
twenty twenty, they cut Nashville into three different congressional seats.
(39:32):
So the fifth, I believe, the fifth, sixth, and seventh,
and if I'm wrong on that, I know the fifth,
and I know the seventh. I think it's five, sixth,
and seven all have different parts of the Nashville area.
And so where I lived, I didn't even know what
district I was in until I went to go vote
in twenty twenty two because my district had.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Changed then by street.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
In other words, it's one of these rare situations doesn't
happen that often, where one congressman can represent one street
in a neighborhood and a different congressman can represent a
different street in that neighborhood. That's legitimately how they sliced it.
So some people out there, you guys, may not know
that this is your district still because again it flipped
in twenty two. A lot of people show up to
(40:16):
vote straight Republican ticket in twenty four Trump one Tennessee.
I don't know by thirty five points or whatever.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
The heck? It was all right, Ryan, when.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You look obviously this is one week again, everybody go vote.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I can't be repped by this crazy chick.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
When you look at the you know, we're basically eleven
months out from twenty twenty six. Any tea leaves anything
that we can look at, when will you start to think, hey,
maybe we get a sign. Is it some of these primaries?
Is there anything you're watching to kind of have your
eye on. Early in twenty twenty six, for instance, what
(40:51):
Texas got a primary early March twenty twenty six. When
do we start to get a sign on what the
tea leaves, what the overall voting market place is going
to look like.
Speaker 10 (41:01):
Well, I mean, we're starting to see some things about
these early elections. I One, the intensity in which Democrats
are showing up right, these special elections, they don't necessarily
show what the overall basic baseline of the election is
going to be, but they do show an enthusiasm and
Democrats certainly have an enthusiasm. That's why the seat in
Texas and Tennessee that you're mentioning, which is an R
plus twenty seat, is causing some heartburn among Republicans. David Shore,
(41:25):
who is a very brilliant progressive data analyst, he did
one of the smartest post twenty twenty four election analysis
there were. So he did a mid mid year you
know what issues are people trusting voters on. Republicans still
have the advantage of trust on a lot of issues.
Here's the problem for Republicans. Because Trump solved the border
(41:46):
security issue, it is still the most trusted issues Republicans have,
but it's much lower on the list of what people
care about. The issues of Medicare of healthcare are making
increasingly important and much more trusted at bong dem and
Democrats are gaining tremendously on issues like the economy, cost
of living, inflation and taxes and AI, which is the
(42:07):
thing that no one's really talking about yet, but where
Democrats are starting to gain a lot of trust on
is AI. And I think that when that happens, when
people start trusting them on these issues and Democrat issues
become a more important issue, it's definitely going to lead
to a higher turnat among Democratic voters. So I would
sit there and say that those tea leaders have already
(42:27):
started to gather. It's not just New Jersey, it's not Virginia,
it's not the New York City mayor's race, it's not
one special election. It's all the specials. And when you
have that accumulation, you really see how the enthusiasm looks.
I will say, before anyone should get excited, we really
have to see where these primaries go and who wins
the nominations. For example, most important center election of the
(42:50):
year is probably Michigan, not only because they have a
Democratic primary and a Republican who's very popular who's running
for the election, but the Democratic I'm really pitch of
Bernie Sanders flash you know, zoramund Donnie type, rather against
a centrist Democrat who has the party backing and the
money for them, the progressive candidate, the Bernie Sanders candidate,
(43:13):
who's really more like Zora Mundanna than Bernie. I don't
want to say Bernie, but it's like mom Donnie candet.
If he wins, it really increases the Republicans' chances, and
Republicans are pulling ahead not only for that race but
also for the governor's race. So Michigan is really key.
But I would like to see who is actually the
Democratic nominee ahead of the election before making any prognostication.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
This is not super serious, but it is important. This
is fun President Trump advocated. I don't know if you've
seen this yet, Ryan, President Trump advocated for Rush Hour
four to be greenlit and hold on, this is break
hold on, this is breaking news. Paramount just greenlit it. Yeah,
(43:59):
I'm not kidding about this. Sunday night, there was a
report from Semaphore that President Trump behind It's so funny
that President Trump behind the scenes. For those of you
who don't remember, this is Chris Tucker and Jackie chan
I'd forgotten they made three different Rush Hour movies. This
is a buddy cop with a black guy and an
(44:20):
Asian guy. Trump is evidently a huge fan of the
buddy cop genre, and he said, we got to make
a Rush Hour four. They have now agreed to make
Rush Hour four. Can you think of any movies that
you would like to see a sequel that you think
President Trump should advocate for.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Oh god, that's a really tough question. You know, most
of my most of my favorite movies, I don't want
sequels up, So that's it's a hard one to sit
there and say which one should get a sequel? I think, yeah,
it's been done, so they're doing so badly. The worst
is like I love the movie Arthur from nineteen eighty
with Dudley Moore, great great comedy, but they made it
sequel and as it was terrible. So there's no point
(45:01):
of making a sequel with you his child or whatever,
because it wouldn't be any good. That's the hard thing
to sit there and say, what should a sequel? I'd
rather see an original thing for the first time. But
I love that there's a new rush Hour because my first.
My first intern I ever had is like Chinese Immigrant.
The only movie he loved to watch was Rush Hour,
So on our work breaks we would go watch it
(45:23):
like every single day, and he texted me. I didn't
talk to him in two years, text me and said,
Trump's the greatest president who ever lived because of this
Rush Hour movie. So I'm very gung ho on Rush Hour.
But I can't even think I would sit there and say,
you have to make a sequel, love I.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Everybody, hold on, sorry, cuts off. I want everybody to
give me your talkbacks. Producer Ali just had a great one.
She wants a sequel to The Lost Boys. I this
is a great idea. I don't want to remake. I
want to know what happened to Starr. I want to
know what happened to the shirtless saxophone player.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Is he still ripped?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Can he still be the shirtless saxophone player? This very
specific because I told everybody a couple of years ago. Ryan,
one of the great things about being a dad is
getting to show your kids all of the all of
the movies that you grew up watching in the eighties
and nineties and having them realize how awesome they are.
I've got one. Is there a play? I know he's
(46:19):
not healthy one hundred percent? Is there Back to the
Future play? Is there is there another Back to the
Future out there that could make sense? I one, two
and three, One and two were amazing, three a little bit.
If he we know what happened with Indiana Jones, we
know what happens with Star Wars.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
But is there what movies would.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
You like President Trump to advocate since he saw them everything?
Speaker 10 (46:41):
I just thought, what was the Matt Damon Leonardo DiCaprio
movie with The Departed? One with just Matt Damon's character
who lives because I DiCaprio dies, But that I would actually.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Spoiler alert Ryan, there's people out there right now, like, Hey,
you know what I'm gonna do. I'm finally out of work.
I'm gonna sit and I'm gonna watch The Departed and
years ago.
Speaker 10 (47:00):
If we haven't watched now, I don't know what to
do for you.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
What else, Ryan, is out there that we should know?
There was a Back to the Future Broadway show that
it closed.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 8 (47:13):
It was awful.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Yeah, I know there's a Stranger Things Broadway show. I
went and saw the Harry Potter Broadway show that was
actually really good. What else should we know from your perspective?
He is Ryan Gardesky, He's with a numbers game. What
else should we know?
Speaker 10 (47:29):
So the one thing you should know is that there's
this big commentary in the media right now, and it's
completely a lie that President Trump's immigration policies are the
reason that he's having problems with Hispanics. It is not true.
It is not true in any way, shape or form.
When they sat then they pulled Hispanics. This is right
after This is an Equis poll right after the elections
(47:49):
in New Jersey and Virginia. Top issues going into it
for Hispanics, immigration didn't make the top five. Then they
did a poll by it was the Kaiser Family Foundation,
and the New Times came with a poll specifically on Hispanics,
breaking them down by immigration status citizens naturalize here legally
or undocumented or illegal rather, and they ask them how
(48:11):
he's doing on things like deep mass deportations basically legal
immigrants and naturalized Hispanics. And second, Hunty's Hispanics are where
the entire country is an immigration which is one of
Trump's still his best issues. They're not swung heavily against
him on things like mass deportations. It's and they don't
like some of the mass agents. But they don't they
(48:32):
like the idea of deporting illegal aliens who are not here.
The only thing is it's the economy. The economy that's
with sinking him right now with all these voters, immigration
is not the issue that is moving them. It is
the economy right now.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
Last question, another important one, what is your top draft
pick on Thanksgiving meals?
Speaker 3 (48:51):
Is what would you go to first? Your number one.
Speaker 10 (48:54):
Part for food? Yeah, I'm not a big Turkey person.
I really prefer him on Thanksgiving and then that's sacrilegious,
but I'm not a huge turkey person.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
I don't think that's a bad idea. I liked that
you went food because were you going to say alcohol?
Was that your first draft pick?
Speaker 10 (49:09):
No? Now when I my family doesn't drink, so I
one how you make it through by myself? I do eat? Yeah,
I know, I'm I'm I et my calories over drinking.
I'm not wash. See if I was waspy, I would
be drinking. But I'm athnic, so I eat. Like that's
the difference. If you're a wap there's no food of Thanksgiving.
It's just different versions of alcohol.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Ryan, We appreciate the time. Thank you for coming with us.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Sorry, I'm just pouring my coffee out here and I
didn't realize how loud it was going to be.
Speaker 6 (49:34):
We will.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
We will see you again, hopefully soon. Encourage you to
go subscribe Numbers Game. Ryan Gardeski part of the Clay
and Buck podcast Network.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 10 (49:43):
Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
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