The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast

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Clay and Buck recap their Independence Day weekend. Clay went to a baseball game in Atlanta. Buck enjoyed a more open NYC. Mask insanity still the norm on airplanes. Biden eats more ice cream. NPR and Rep. Cori Bush aren't fans of Fourth of July and freedom. New York Times says American flag is a symbol of division. C&B take calls from patriotic Americans.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us on what is,
let's be honest, a holiday for a lot of you.
We are working hard here. I hope you guys had
a fantastic Friday, Saturday Sunday. I hope wherever you are

(00:23):
across this great nation or around the world, you celebrated
the Fourth of July to your fullest. Maybe a little
bit maybe if you hangovers out there in the crowd today,
maybe some hangovers that are still being built as you
are listening to us today. I am Clay Travis, he
is Buck Sex. Then he can go follow us on
Twitter at Clay Travis, at Buck Sexton and Buck. I

(00:45):
was down in Atlanta, which was pretty fantastic. I went
to Major League Baseball games on Friday, Saturday Sunday. I'm
still fired up over Major League Baseball's decision to pull
the All Star Game out of Atlanta, but it wasn't
the Braves fault. They did not support this in any way,
and I got to be honest with you, full stadiums.
I almost saw. I don't even recall seeing a mask

(01:08):
in the entire three days really that I was going
to and from the stadium, all around the battery in
the Atlanta area. It felt like one hundred percent normalcy
from a sports perspective. I know you were back in
New York City for the holiday. What did the city
feel like and what was your vibe on What I

(01:29):
would say is the first holiday that felt like all
the way back to March that we haven't been being lectured, Oh,
this is going to be a super spreader event. Wait
for two weeks. They even had a barbecue at the
White House. Joe Biden was out eating ice cream, which
seems to be the only thing that the media will
almost cover him doing these days. What was your vibe
in New York? Did it feel normal? It felt like

(01:49):
the return of freedom at some level. There were lots
of folks at restaurants, lots of people out and about
without masks on. I will say, now only a few
places where you really feel those restrictions, even still in
New York City. It's gotten a lot better here. You
have it in these national ride share apps still, so

(02:10):
if you take if you take any of those Uberlift
any of those taxi drivers interesting. I think it's because
here in New York there's actually a partition. There's always
been a partition. So they're very lax about that for
the most part, because I see they don't they don't
wear them. They don't wear masks the same way you'll
see others. And you know, Uber will actually make you
take a photo of yourself to prove you're wearing a

(02:32):
mask if you get if you get hit once for
not being a mask wearer, they'll make you start taking
a selfie to prove your mask is on. But but
your broader point, look, restaurants wide open. You know, the
weather here was a little in New York over the weekend.
I know people had better weather in other places, or
perhaps they had similar situation, but I just say this.
We had a we had a Fourth of July celebration

(02:55):
where finally it felt like people could live their lives again.
And remember Biden told us if we were good, if
we were good little boys and girls and got to
seventy percent vaccination, right, Well he didn't get to the
seventy percent, But I think people finally Now, when I
say people, I think eighty percent of America is in
a much better place about all this stuff now. I

(03:17):
think about twenty percent of America is still so traumatized
that they're completely unreasonable about the COVID realities. I think
it's maybe it's more like ten or fifteen percent, but
they're a very vocal ten or fifteen percent. I think
that's right, and I keep waiting. So Nashville had the
biggest fireworks display of anywhere in the country on Sunday yesterday,

(03:41):
and I looked at the pictures. There was no social distancing,
there was no masking, And I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm curious
what you think about this, Buck that it's going to
be really hard given where the masses, I think, are
going to find themselves very quickly to go back to
the mask and shut down universe. My fear is as

(04:03):
it gets cold and the fall and the winter emerges,
they're gonna be some hot spots and the same people
who learned that they could have draconian authority over all
of us, the Gavin Newsome's and the Andrew Cuomos of
the world, may try to rear their ugly head and
reclaim control. Do you think that July fourth, like we

(04:24):
just had and this weekend travel, by the way, it
was impossible to drive all over the place because people
were out on the roads in massive numbers, flying in
big numbers, biggest crowds in airports since March of last
year when everything got shut down. Do you feel like
big days like this helped to fight the battle if
we can't ever go back again? Well, can I tell

(04:46):
you my spirit airline story? Can I tell everybody would
have there all about this on Friday? Yeah? And also
just for everybody we've we've got remember of Congress who
didn't want to celebrate the fourth that Clai and I
are going to dive into the anti Americanism, the laugh
for fourth of July. We're going to dive into that momentarily.
And there's a lot of news stories, big thing, a
big kerfuffle. I don't know if that's the technical that's

(05:08):
not perfect a word out of thank you out of ESPN.
We can talk about that in a moment. So we
got a bunch of things we'll get to this hour,
but I just I'll give you the abbreviated version. So
I'm sitting there, Clay and I had at a first
two great weeks in Nashville, and everyone's feeling good. We're
going off the holiday weekend, and yes, the only flight,
because every keeps said it's like, I don't know, Clay,
people send me a text. Do you know that Spirit
Airlines is a budget carrier? Yes, but I'm not I'm

(05:31):
not fancy. I just want to get somewhere where I
have to go, and I want to get time you pick,
you pick time over flight airline, right. I feel like
most people probably do that exactly so, so in this case,
I'm flying Spirit once again. And I wasn't even gonna
name the well, I guess I did in the in
the Twitter thread that went kind of viral over the weekend.
But I'm sitting there and I'm I'm you know, it's

(05:52):
it's kind of you know, I'm right next to where
the the airline attendants gather in the front, you know,
as they do, and you know, hello, welcome and hello,
how are you and all that stuff. But instead of that,
there's a lot of like, pull your mask out, honey,
pull your mask out, honey too. And I'm not not
two adults well I mean that too, but two small children,
so small that at one point the attendant says can

(06:13):
you pull your mask up? And the parents says, my kids,
like not even two yet, and there was kind of
a okay, I guess we'll let that slide. I mean,
they're telling basically two year olds and remember not that
their mask is off, pull it up over your nose,
because that's really going to save us. So then we
get to I mean, you've seen this when you fly.
This is still airlines is where you deal with this.

(06:33):
And I always tell everybody that flying in general is
like taking a time warp to the Soviet Union circa
nineteen seventy five or something. The rules are stupid. We
all know the rules are dumb. We have to obey
them because otherwise we get into trouble. They know it's dumb.
We know they know it's dumb, but yeah, we still
have to do it. So I'm sitting there and the
people are people are coming on a plane, and then

(06:55):
the woman who has been telling everybody to mask up
pulls her ask down for the entirety of the announcements.
Now play I am not a master's in public health
or a PhD in epidemiology or an MD, and I
accept that, but I am pretty sure that there is
no special exception for I want to be able to

(07:17):
say something more loudly. So the virus is not being expelled,
not that I think the virus is even they're all
by the way, they're all vaccinated. That actually I could
hear their whole conversation because I was right there. What's
wild about this is all of it's a sham, and
you hit it correctly. But anybody out there who's got
a parent, there've been a few videos go viral of
people with two year olds and three year olds or

(07:39):
whatever it is, trying to get their kids to wear
their masks, and that's virtually impossible. But the moment they said, hey,
you can eat or drink on the airplane and pull
your mask down, any argument they were making about mask
wearing was invalid. And I actually wonder how much longer
are we to go with what I think is clearly

(08:02):
cosmetic theater as it pertains to the airports, because you know, Buck,
you were in Nashville, the only place anybody is wearing masks,
and like the states of Florida, Tennessee, Texas, a lot
of the country now is when you go into an
airport and when you walk through a turninal so how
long do we keep the cosmetic theater in the charade going.
And for everyone who's listening, who's in a place where

(08:23):
they don't do this or you're not worried about this,
understand that as long it's like an infection that hasn't
been cleared, I think that's a pretty good analogy here.
As long as some of this stuff lingers, it will
come back. There will be whether it's this flu season
or you know, this COVID season it's combined or the
next time. Until we all understand that this stuff to

(08:45):
borrow from you is just cosmetic, it's just theater. It's
the address. But but just to finish, you know, it's
going to come back, but to finish what happens. So
then I'm sitting there the woman poser mask down to
do the whole you know, buckle your seatbelts, which again
it's the Soviet Union flying planes commercial as you know,
and let's just say it's spirit. They're not exactly it's
like fly the Fauci Skies. You know, they're they're very

(09:08):
strict and they don't really care. And I I hear
them then have a conversation about how we've got we've
got non compliance, and I'm like, you gotta be kidding me,
and that they have this, and a bunch of them gather,
you know, they're the stewardesses or the attendants or whatever
the proper nomenclatures. They gather and they say, there are
three people who are not wearing their masks, and so
now the hope, by the way, plane it's holiday weekend

(09:28):
plane is absolutely packed, not not an empty seat on
the whole plane. And there are three people that they
say have their masks down below their noses. And they've
already told them, you know, once or twice or whatever
it is, but now we all have to wait there
while they go through the removal procedure. They actually removed
three people. How are the people that are getting removed?
Buck they're they were in there, I'd say their twenties,

(09:50):
in their ty Were they making a conscious stand here? Like?
Were they drunk? Like how would you assess there like
three of them? I theoretically they would want to go
to New York right for the weekend? Like what's causing
all of this consternation? They had to be told pull
it up over your nose too many times for these
attendance liking, oh, my god. And so then because I

(10:10):
heard the negotiation going on behind me, and they were like, no, no, no,
we'll wear them. We promise, we probably, we're good. We promised,
and it was like sorry, third strike. Now the airplane people,
not the attendance. They bring on these other people, not police,
but like I don't know what I you know, supervisor security.
And then they have to negotiate with them and have

(10:31):
to start saying you either come with us or the
police will come and arrest you. So let me go
through the whole thing. Delay the flight about forty minutes.
We're also, didn't the girls have to walk off like
purp while yes, style, they took they took three of them.
I had photos of the whole thing. They took the
three of them off the plane, and then at the
jetway because remember you have to clear the jetway before
they can pull away, they're negotiating about how they want

(10:54):
to get back on the plane. So so you got
I don't know one hundred and forty people give or take,
I don't know how many you are a kind of
a plane, but let over a hundred people are all
sitting there for over forty minutes because some attendants are
annoyed about the lack of perfect mask compliance while they're
shouting on us with their masks pulled down about mask compliance.
If this wasn't the encapsulation of fauciite madness, Clay, I

(11:19):
don't know what is. But I didn't make it to
New York City one piece, so I was happy about that.
So what do you think I mean? In all honesty,
what happens to those girls? Are they banned from spirit
Are they able to get on a later flight like
in theory? I would like to hear their story because
they want to go theoretically right to New York City.
They're in their twenties, they have virtually no risk. They
may be vaccinated for all we know. And the flight

(11:41):
attendants just decide you weren't masking appropriately, so we're going
to demand that you exit the plane after they've already boarded.
They probably have checked bags, buck, you know, they're already
sitting there. What sense does any It's all cosmetic kabuki
theater nonsense. I would refuse by nullification of these orders

(12:02):
if I work for the airline, meaning I don't understand
people don't want to lose their jobs. I think the
same honorable thing to do is just pretend like you
don't see it. If someone's mask is down below their nose,
who cares? Stop being crazy libs, That's what I want
to say to them. Stop being crazy and people need
to non comply people in positions of authority with this stuff.

(12:25):
You know, yeah, if someone else on the plane is
going to complain, you can kind of, But I mean
to call to call in the authorities. It was it
was total madnessplay. So to threaten them with a rest
buck And also you're a flight attendant, Like, do you
think that flight attendants overwhelmingly skew corona bro obsessive with
mask wearing, or do you think to your point, they've

(12:46):
just been so hammered on this over the past year
that it's it's it's some sort of drunk power authority
that they feel because it's your point, they all were vaccine.
It's not like they actually feel at risk. No, I
think it's because they are afraid that they will be
complaints made. This is what I've been told by. I
have airline attendants who leased to listen to me on

(13:07):
my previous show, and they would write in and say
that it's because they're afraid that they will get called
out for lack of enforcement, and so if they don't
enforce the crazy then they become the problem and they
could have professional sanctions. But look, overall, I don't want
this to overshadow the fact that I think everybody had
a really good free Fourth of July weekend. We've made

(13:29):
huge progress. We're just not done with the fight. Clay
and you know that this isn't over. And then there's
also people who didn't have a really great Fourth of
July weekend, some very prominent folks, elected officials, big newspapers.
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(14:58):
Welcome back to the Clay Trap Us end Buck Sexton Show.
I am Buck here with my man Clay and talking
about the weekend. We had a great time. We love America,
You love America. You celebrated. We celebrated. That's the way
it's supposed to be. And yet not everybody was really
feeling it, so to speak. There were some folks out there,

(15:18):
some news organizations, members of Congress, pundits, etc. That had issues.
Let's just start with one here, Clay two hundred and four.
This is from NPR. Have we crushed their podcast yet?
By the way, because that's a thing that we have
to do. We definitely need to crush their podcast because
of this ridiculousness. If you love America as we continue

(15:41):
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nprs apt And let me just say, if you had
any any possible qualms about you're like, oh, but NPR.
I love when they talk about how to make the
best summer salads or whatever. This is the kind of
stuff that NPR puts out over our for many their

(16:02):
favorite American holiday, right, And I mean some people go Thanksgiving,
and I don't want to split our Thanksgiving peeps from
our Fourth of July folks. They're both great holidays, great
things going on. Clay, you don't wait, you don't have
an opinion on this one, right, You love them both.
You love both of your holidays equally. I try not
to make a choice, but I will tell you this, Buck,
as you get ready to read, I find myself and

(16:22):
I bet a lot of our listeners due to wanting
to be more pro America than even I was before,
for the people who I feel like our anti America
does that make sense. It makes I feel even stronger
that I want to wear the most ridiculous pro America
gear imaginable on the fourth and on the fourth weekend.
I absolutely agree. Two hundred and forty years ago today,

(16:43):
NPR tweeted leaders representing thirteen British colonies signed a document
to declare independence. It says that all men are created equal,
but women, enslaved people, indigenous people, and many others were
not held as equal at the time. Okayn, PR, we know,
we know that we have studied history. We are aware

(17:03):
of this. This is a part of it. They go, oh,
we're just trying to tell the history. It's like, you know,
do you know if you got a friend named Bob
who maybe drinks a little bit too much, maybe don't
show up on Bob's birthday and be like, you know,
I know we're supposed to celebrate today, but you're actually
an alcoholic who's messed up your life, right, Like, there's
there are limits here, I think, to time and place

(17:25):
that we should all understand. And in case that one
go ahead, well, I was just gonna say, it's the
best man and best you know, made of honor speech.
You don't air the dirty laundry. In the best Man
and the Maid of honor speech, you don't be like, well,
remember when they broke up for two months because we
went to Vegas and uh and and Johnny over here
made the mistake of hooking up with a cocktail waitress

(17:47):
and then it got back like you don't that might
have happened, and it might be an incredibly awkward part,
but you don't share it during the toast. Otherwise your
best man has to stand up and say, I think
who my friend here is trying to say? Is that
love is blind? Yeah, that's right, is amazing line. Yes,
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Legacy Box today. You're listening to Clay Travis and Buck
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Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm Buck Happy July fifth.
I hope you enjoyed your fourth of July weekend, Independence

(19:34):
Day weekend the number here. We're gonna take some reactions
to a pretty straightforward question that Clay pose an important question,
which is do you feel like you should be even
more outward in your patriotism given that patriotism shows of
it at least are under assault from the left. It's
very obvious that that's happening. I mean, we have plenty

(19:56):
of proof of evidence of instances to point to we
mentioned before members of Congress. I mean, here's one. This
is on four fourth of July weekend, Corey Bush, member
of Congress Rights. When they say that the fourth of
July is about American freedom, remember this. The freedom they're
referring to is for white people. This land is stolen land,

(20:19):
and black people still aren't free. Clay, There's a lot
that I would like to say about this, and I
know you would too, but I think we should just
start with the top line. Yer. First of all, to
refer to freedom in the present tense as freedom only
for white people, she says, they're referring to freedom for

(20:41):
white people. This is This is stunningly not just divisive,
but it's also just a dumb thing to say. I'm sorry,
it's it's just a wrong and an nasty thing to
inject into American society on Independence Day weekend. It's also,
as you mentioned, wildly historically inaccurate and to me for

(21:06):
a congresswoman to be putting that out. And I feel
like we talked about this some buck. Are we playing
into the hands of stupid people by giving them attention,
because the reality is, this is a congresswoman that neither
you nor I would be paying attention to. Otherwise our
audience wouldn't be exposed to her. But look, she makes
one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a year as

(21:26):
a congresswoman. She is directly profiting off of our tax dollars.
That is the exact opposite of a lack of freedom.
She is so free that she can be elected to
the highest body in the land, in the House of Representatives,
a member of our Congress, and she has the privilege

(21:47):
to be able to rip a country in a way
that truly unfree countries would never allow. Right, you can't
do this in China, you can't do this in Iran,
you can't do this in North Korea, you can't do
it in the vast majority, i would say, of countries
in the world. But the historical inaccuracy of it, to

(22:09):
your point earlier, and when we were making the analogy
of if you're doing a best man or the maid
of Honor speech, our democracy was imperfect at its founding,
But the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson ceded a full
fruition of democracy in that document itself. Has America always
lived up perfectly to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence? No,

(22:33):
but we have become a more perfect union every day,
every week, and every month, I would say, basically since
July fourth, seventeen seventy six, which we celebrated yesterday and
continue to celebrate with a holiday to day. So it's
just so transparently trollworthy, but also historically inaccurate that it
discussed me. And I would add that we celebrate the

(22:56):
principles of yes, the founding, not the belief in a perfection.
That's actually not That's not something that is out there now.
No one holds that we were a perfect country in
seventeen seventy six, nor are we a perfect country today.
So there's the creation of a massive straw man by
the laughter, the creation of an argument that does not
really exist. That's not being said, which reminds me of

(23:19):
what's being said about CRT now as well. If you
will pose CRT, you wippose the teaching of the history
of this country that involves slavery and involves the mistreatment
of Native Americans. You know, that's just not true, That's
not the argument, the argument issue, we'll be teaching racial
Marxism to kids in school. By the way, the biggest
teachers union in the country, it came out over the weekend,

(23:42):
is pushing explicitly for that. Now. They will will come
to that one later, But I just wanted that to
get on everyone's radar, that this is now, that the
CRT battle. There's a reason why they didn't want people
paying attention, because it's a central issue for the left.
But Clay, there was a piece in the New York
Times that you and I were texting about over the weekend.
A Fourth of July symbol of unity that may no

(24:04):
longer unite. We're not talking about Uncle Sam costumes with red,
white and blue pants. We're not talking about you know,
top hats with the you know, the flag pattern on them,
the flag itself. In this New York Times piece they
bring up and they did fortunately get trounts for this,
as they should. But let me just a little bit

(24:25):
of this piece for everyone to hear. The American flag
flies in paint on the south side of Peter Treiber's
Potato truck Local Landmark Park permanently on County Route forty
eight in Long Island. He thought he was drawing attention
to his family's farm until he tried to sell his
produce at a local green market, where he sells things
like bergamot, honey and sunflowers. He had trouble striking deals

(24:47):
until he said he let his liberal leaning slip out
in conversation with a customer. She said, oh, oh, few,
you know, I wasn't so sure about you. I thought
you were some flag waving something or other and quote,
can we just be very clear? And they go through
more examples of this there are. Now, if you're a
if you're an MSNBC wearing triple masked critical race theory,

(25:11):
loving climate change is going to murder us all in
five years leftist, you are triggered by the American flag.
That's where we are as a country now, and it's
a disgrace. I think that we have managed to get here.
And I when I read this piece we were texting
about over the weekend in New York Times, Bucks saying
that basically the American flag has been has been considered

(25:33):
by a certain group of left wingers, which I think
is fairly substantial, twenty five thirty percent of people that
I think genuinely hate America. I also read this Buck.
Remember when the New York Times had their editorial, she
went on MSNBC and she said she was really upset
on Memorial Day because she went out to Long Island
and she saw all the flags and it made her think,

(25:54):
oh my god, there's a lot of Trump supporters out
here in Long Island. I read this piece is basically
a defense of her being triggered by the flag being
waved proudly, And to be honest with you, Buck, my
response there and I'm coming out of, by the way,
going to the Atlanta Braves baseball game on Friday, Saturday

(26:15):
and Sunday, which was bathed in patriotism and United States flags.
But I'm more likely now to wear American flag gear
and to support America on July fourth and as patriotic
of a method and fervor as I possibly could. And
I bet there's a lot of people responding to this
America hate by doubling down on America love. Right. It's

(26:38):
crazy that we're in this position. And you and I
both know that when you see a home anywhere in
America right now that proudly displays an American flag out front,
here's what you know that home. Whoever that without seeing
anything about who lives inside or who they are, they're
not going to subscribe to the America as an awful

(27:00):
country rhetoric we're hearing. They're not going to be super woke,
they're not going to be super left. And so what
you find is that increasingly fashionable anti Americanism is entirely
a symptom a problem of the Democrat Party and the left,
and they can't really hide from this. Now find me
one Republican of prominent substance with a following over Independence

(27:25):
Day weekend. One conservative doesn't even have to be a
geop specific thing. Who's saying American flags make me uncomfortable?
I don't like it's because of our history of genocide
and oppression and all the rest of it. You won't
This only exists on the left. And this is why
the historian in me and I say historian and quotation marks.
I was a history major, but I am a history nerd,

(27:46):
as we've talked about on this show already. I was
reading an interesting study Buck, Do you know what percentage
there is an obsession with slavery in America that I
don't think really this anywhere else in the world on
the degree and to the degree it does in America
right now, as if the entire American experience is only

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defined by slavery. I thought this was interesting. Do you
know what percentage of slaves buck that came from Africa
and became enslaved around the world actually ended up in
the United States of America? Like I found this to
be really fascinating. What percentage of African slaves who were
brought to a country or to a part of the world,

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what percentage of them ended up in America? Do you
have any idea would I know it would be an estimate.
And I know what percentage of Southerners pre secession actually
owned slaves. I think that's one thing that people don't
tend to know. By the way, that's like two percent,
one in fifty Southerners had slaves. So what's the estimate
globally for four percent of all of the African slave

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trade ended up in the United States? Yet I bet
the way that it's covered a huge percentage of our
audience is like almost all of those slaves ended up
in America. Four percent. If you asked a school age
and I mean somebody who's let's say, you know, junior high,
high school age, why did we have our first Why
did America fight it's first foreign war? I can almost

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guarantee that less than one percent, and I'm talking about
kids that you know, do all their homework and are
squared away, less than one percent of them would be
able to tell you we fought our first foreign war
because of the enslavement of Americans by North African Berber
Muslim pirates. Very few people know that why did we
go to the shores of Tripoli? And there's a whole

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conversation here about the hundreds of years of what was
effectively the white slave trade by North African states, which
I bring this off and people say that's not They
went as far as Iceland and Ireland, grabbing slaves off
the coast and then selling them into slavery. For I mean,
we can talk about all over the world slavery practices.

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So really every single person bucks already to cut you off,
but every single person in their history has slavery in
their history, every single one of them. And yet we
focus on the eighty years from seventeen eighty three to
eighteen sixty three when slavery was legal in the United States,
as if it's the sum total of slavery around the world.

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in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I am Clay TRAVISI
is Buck Sexton. We're taking some of your calls, by
the way to finish off the first hour special July
fifth edition of the program eight hundred two eight two
twenty eight eighty two. We're asking the question, are some
of you, in the wake of suddenly at being called
divisive to be in favor of the American flag and

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patriotism actually being more outspoken in your patriotism as a result.
I know I do feel like that in many ways.
It's crazy to think that you could be rebellious by
putting out an American flag, but that's kind of what
the New York Times has created in this world right now, Buck,
and we're gonna go to some of the calls out there,
Stella and POKEPSI New York Stella, what you got for us? Hi? Yes,

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I wanted to tell you that absolutely after the New
York Times editorial, I am now using a flag in
my car, we have it in our home. And it's
simply because I think we've been conditioned to just let
it go and not say anything, and we need to

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be more visual about things, how we feel, and that's
how we're going to fight back, and especially when something
so ridiculous as not wanting the American flag around Stella,
it's it's Buck here. I just want to I just
want to know are you Are you comfortable with your
friends and neighbors though knowing that you love America and

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like to show patriotism not only on Independence Day weekend,
but just in general, are you ready to take the
heat on loving America in all fairness most I am
in a neighborhood that is very pro American. Here we go,
so come that said, yes, I am becoming. Rather than

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to just sit back and say, Okay, they had their opinion,
I will if somebody starts telling me their opinion, they
will hear back from my opinion. And no one certain
terms anymore, only because the American flag is beyond presidency.
Who's the president, what they're doing? It should not even

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be a question. Thank you, sell. I appreciate you listening.
We got a lot of people who want to weigh in,
not surprisingly. Let's go to Jim in Twin Cities, Wisconsin.
What you got for us? Jim? Hi, guys, Yeah, I
live in western western Wisconsin, but I work a lot
in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. So Minneapolis, Saint Paul,

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I'm a rush limball baby. You know them thirty years
You guys are doing great. I really appreciate you taking
over and basically what I did last year for my
birthday in May of twenty twenty, I was so fed
up with what the government was doing. I put a
tattoo on my arm that said live free or Die
on my right forearm. On my left forearm, I'm going
to get a WE the People tattoo with the Constitution

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around it. I think my buddy Pete hegseth Over at Fox,
I think I think our friend Pete has those same tattoos.
By the Are you aware he has a WE the
People tattoo on one arm and a I think live
free or Die on the other. So you're in good company.
I put live Free or Die on even before Sean
Hannity came up with the book. And so that's what
I'm doing. And I have a flag. I wear hats

(35:32):
and t shirts with flags everywhere. Yes, I've lost family
members and I've lost friends because I'm too patriotic. I'm
too far right, and I don't understand that my dad's
a Vietnam bad I don't get how can you be
too patriotic? I just don't get it. I don't know,
especially a man. You know what's amazing, Clay, and thank
you so much. Jim is. You know, you'll meet people
from other parts of the world, and look, I'm not
going to name any countries here, but there are other

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countries where you'll meet people and they are so fiercely
proud and no one ever is that. And we could
sit here. We could sit here and say, well, you know,
you guys have like, uh, some problems with authoritarianism and
you know, indoor plumbing or not enough electricity. Here we
could get into some things, but no, that's not nice
because they love their country and that's cool, and people

(36:17):
should be allowed to love their country, you know what
I mean. But here it's not fashionable if you're leftist,
not allowed. Well just think what happened when Trump criticized
other countries. People were like, oh, you can't say that.
Remember what he said? Yeah, the craphole country's basically kept.
By the way, let's get Kevin and DC. He was
on the Washington Mall yesterday for July fourth. You gotta
be fast with us, Kevin. But what was the vibe

(36:38):
like there? Yeah, overall, the vibe was really good. A
lot of people enjoying the holiday. But the one problem
I had was some crazy lady running up and down
the mall screaming about climate change and how we're all
going to die in this country and stuff. I can
assure you she's wrong, that I could tell you we're
not all gonna die from climate change despite what they're saying.

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We got to come back and talk about some responses
here to the antipatriotism of the laugh some some excellent
voices weighing in on that. Plus we want to hear
from you. Eight hundred two eight two two eight A two.
That's eight hundred two a two two eight a two
Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Here. We are just getting
started on this wonderful July fifth with all of you.
We'll be back in just a moment. You're listening to Clay,

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