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November 30, 2024 37 mins
Truth: X is more ideologically balanced than it was as Twitter. Why working in media is not a real job and Clay’s career advice. Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA on getting out the youth vote this election cycle. Walmart is done with DEI. Be grateful for America. Let’s expand the tent! Happy Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome back in the final hour for either Buck or
me before Thanksgiving. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
Encourage you to download the podcast. You can take us
anywhere in the country or indeed around the world. You
search out my name, Clay Travis, search out Buck Sexton.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
You will not be missing a moment no matter where
you may be. We want all of you to be
safe as.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
You are driving and or flying around the country to
be with your friends and family for Thanksgiving. Eight hundred
and two eight two two eight eight two and taking
interesting calls from first time Trump voters. First time Trump
voters about what made you decide to vote for Trump.
I think it's interesting Arizona, Louisiana, and Florida. Three different

(00:50):
men in their late thirties and their fifties, nearly sixty
who had never voted before, all calling in to say
that they voted for Donald Trump. I thought that was
super interesting. Listen into the program. We appreciate all of
you would be intrigued to hear those calls continue for
this hour. At the bottom of the hour, we're going
to go talk with Charlie Kirk, who has worked really

(01:12):
hard with Turning Point to help flip all seven of
the swing states to Trump, and we will see what
he thinks was the ultimate dispositive factor, in particular why
young men out there moved in such massive magnitude towards Trump.
Encourage you to go listen to first couple hours of
the program. You will enjoy them, I think, including my

(01:33):
good buddy Joel Klatt at the top of the last hour,
particularly if you are a college football fan. Hearing from
him lots of fun as always. So I also want
to let you know that Buck will be back on Monday,
and he wanted to tell all of you to have
fantastic Thanksgivings. He is in New York City with his family,
will be speaking at the New York Republican Club tonight.

(01:56):
If you happen to be in the WR listenership, you
may get to see Buck tonight speaking in New York City.
So tell him Happy Thanksgiving. But in the meantime, he
wanted all of you to know that he wants you
to have fabulous Thanksgivings. Okay, media, one thing that I
think I got right. There are lots of things that

(02:16):
all of us get wrong in our professions. I talked
earlier in the program about how just try to be
pretty good, try to show up every day and get
a little bit better. If you do that, over time,
you will make gains in whatever you do, in whatever
aspect of life you pursue. You have to show up.
You have to put forward the effort. You have to

(02:37):
do it every day, whether it's get in shape. You
don't get in shape by only working out one day,
by only engaging in physical activity. You don't write a
book by sitting down and having one good day every
two weeks. You got to show up and do the
work every single day, and over time, if you're pretty good,
the advantages start to stack up in your favor. I

(02:58):
think sports is the perfect example of this, because you
don't win the game based on your performance on game day.
You win it based on how hard you're working in
advance of game days. I always say game days should
be fun. They shouldn't be stressful. Practice, if you're doing
it right, shouldn't be that much fun games themselves.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's why you go to practice. That's when you win.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
So I thought this was interesting my thesis when I
started OutKick in twenty eleven, ended up selling it a
decade later. Was in a social media era, the name
on the back of the jersey mattered.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
More than the name on the front of the jersey.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
And I want you to think about that as I
start to discuss some of these clips, because I think
many people out there in traditional media are just starting
to realize that now radio is a little bit different
than television, because radio has always been, as Rush discovered
when he started this showy some odd years ago, a

(04:02):
place where people come to hear individual talent that they like.
Buck and I get to sit at the Golden microphone now,
but we had to develop our own audiences before we
ended up here. For a long time, the CNNs of
the world, the msnbcs of the world, the espns of

(04:24):
the world, if they put you on their platform, they
could make you a star. And I'll use ESPN as
a particular example. They used to say, we don't care
if people leave us, because the platform is the star,
not the person on the platform. And I think that

(04:44):
was certainly true at New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC.
A question that I have been asking recently, and i'd
like for you guys to think about, is is there
anybody on MSNBC or CNN that have such strong audience
connections that if they left those platforms they would be

(05:04):
able to make even one tenth of their salary. I
think the answer is no. The platform is still the
star some places, but these platforms are collapsing. They're icebergs
which are slowly melting, and people are fighting as hard
as they can to stay on a diminishing surface. Okay,

(05:28):
So the guy that I would say is actually developing
an audience for himself on CNN right now is Scott Jennings.
And he went on CNN and he said something interesting
which I think is true. He said, X under Elon
Musk is actually much more of a cosmopolitan place. That is,

(05:51):
it's not just a left wing focused social media company
as many of them have been. It is actually balanced
between Democrats and Republicans. It is, in other words, a
reflection of the larger population as opposed to a left
wing idiolog focused crazy town. That's the change. This is

(06:14):
what it sounded like on CNN. I want you to
be able to hear it, as he's immediately called out
on CNN for saying that Twitter X is no longer
a supremely left wing biased company.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Listen, I heard what you're saying about X. I saw
a survey this week.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
It's now the most ideologically balanced platform.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Stop it's too early. I just saw.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
You cannot say that.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
What I find we reported it.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
On this network.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Okay, who's your source? He says, we reported it on
the network? Who questioned him? O woman named Carrie Champion
who used to be on ESPN but got fired because
even ESPN said she's too woke. Now she's showed back
up on CNN and she's not doing her basic homework,

(07:09):
just like she didn't do her basic homework when she
was on ESPN. Of Hey, actually, everything that he's saying
is true. And he said, she said, what's your source?
And he said our network, which is an amazing answer.
We actually aired it on CNN and he shared earlier
Scott Jennings did the receipts. But this is Harry Inton

(07:30):
on CNN saying exactly what Scott Jennings said that under
Elon Musk, instead of having a profound left wing lean,
Twitter actually reflects roughly the American population.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
Listen, look at this the party idea among those who
regularly use x slash Twitter for news.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Back in twenty.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Twenty two, sixty five percent of those who regularly used
Twitter slash x for news were Democrats, just thirty one
percent Republicans. Look at where we are today, just a
completely different picture.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Now it's basically split between.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Democrats at forty eight percent Republicans at forty seven percent.
And what I should know, mister Berman, is this now,
this new overall makeup.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Matches the overall electorate far better.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, so matches the overall electorate far better. This ties
in with a recent speech that Jim van de Hay,
who runs Axios, gave where he ridiculed the idea that
Elon Musk put forward, which is all of you and
me and all of us are the media now and

(08:35):
that's what Twitter represents. Listen to Van de Hay and
think about why he feels so attacked by that idea.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk is on
Twitter every day or x today saying like we are
the media, you are the media. My message to Elon
Musk is both, you're.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Not the media. You having.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
You having a blue check mark a Twitter handle. In
three hundred words of cleverness, It doesn't make you a reporter.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Anymore than me looking at your head and seeing that
you have a brain and telling you have an awesome
set of tools makes me a damn neurosurgeon. You don't
proclaim yourself to be a reporter like this nonsense, like
being a reporter's.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Hard, really hard.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
You have to care, you have to do the hard work,
you have to skit.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Up every single day and say I want to.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Get to the closest approximation of the truth without any fear,
without any favoritism. You don't even do that by popping
off on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Okay, I think Elon Musk is right, and I think
most people who do media for a living don't have
any idea how hard real jobs are.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
I mean not honestly. I'm not saying I don't work hard.
I do.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I work really really hard to do this job well,
but it's not anywhere near as physically demanding as many
of the jobs that you guys do. That's the truth.
That's why I've never had a sick day in my
entire radio career. There are some days I don't feel well.
There are some days maybe i'll I'll probably inevitably get

(10:17):
sick super sick on Monday or something. Now that I'm
saying this, I've never had a sick day. I've done
the show with COVID, I've done the show where I
do take breaks and throw up. Why Because my grandfather
worked in a coal mine in Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
I bet that sucked.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I bet it wasn't very fun to go way underground
in the dark and work in a coal mine. I
know it wasn't very fun because the reason he came
to Nashville, Clay Travis, I was named after him, is
from Yuhlenberg County, Kentucky. There's probably some of you listening
right now, is because he wanted to find a better job.
He ended up working his whole life basically at DuPont

(10:57):
the factory in Old Hickory, Tennessee. But I think the
arrogance of people who get to make a living sitting
and air conditioning typing on a laptop is the same
arrogance that many of you felt during COVID, when people
who were in positions of privilege said, just stay home.

(11:19):
It's not that hard, you don't need to work. Just
stay home and order your food and they'll deliver.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
It to you. Just stay home.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
All of the people that have real jobs that actually
make our country work. Truck drivers, grocery store stockers, people
in gas stations, people with real jobs, they still had
to go out and do them. All of these rich
journalists without very difficult jobs lectured to all of you

(11:54):
about how you needed to just stay home and protect
yourself because they don't know the real world. And I
got to tell you, you don't need to go to
college to be a journalist. All you have to do
is be somewhat interested in pursuing the truth. And you
know what's interesting, an awful lot of you were way

(12:17):
more accurate than an awful lot of the so called
experts over the past several years. And I think the
threat that Vanda he is speaking to and the reason
why all those CNN panelists got so upset is they
don't provide much of additional value. You know, I always
think about things from an employer employee perspective. My advice

(12:40):
to you is always find out what your boss's boss does,
and if you can figure out a way to make
him happy, then you're probably going to have a job forever.
And oh, by the way, if you really want to
have a career, if your boss's boss doesn't have a
job that you would aspire to have someday, you need
to find something new to do. It's always my advice.

(13:01):
People say, oh, how do you end up doing well
before you figure out a lot of people say, oh,
I want to make this much money or I want
to Oh that's all fine, I'm ambitious. I want you
to be ambitious. But if you're pursuing something that you
have no interest in doing, you're.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Going to lose.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
So I always say, if you're in a profession right now,
and by the way, not everybody gets to pursue something
that they want to do. I understand lots of you
have to do jobs. I've been there to pay the
mortgage or put your kids through school, all those things.
But if you're a kid right now and you're listening
to me, and you're twenty years old, and you're thinking
about what career you're gonna chase, find out what your

(13:42):
boss's boss does. If you don't want to do that,
you need to find something new to do, because if
you're not aspiring to be at different rungs than where
you are right now. The reason I left the practice
of law was I saw what my boss's boss did,
and I said, I it really doesn't seem something I
have that much desire to do. I could have done

(14:02):
it if I had been older and I had kids,
I would have kept doing it, because once you have kids,
in my opinion, your loyalty is no longer to your
own individual ambition. It's to take care of your family.
You ever hear the cliche you want to employ a dad,

(14:23):
you want to employ a mom. They got something at
stake that's beyond them. They're typically gonna show up if
they're decent parents, and bust their ass, not for themselves,
as many of you are doing out there, as many
of you are doing now for your grandkids, not for
your own achievement, but to provide the opportunity to the

(14:44):
next generation, which ties in with my opening of the
show today. I think the reason why so many people
are moving towards the Republican Party, Black, White, Asian, Hispanic
is because the Republican Party actually sells hope, they actually
sell achievement, They actually believe in the meritocracy. Those are
all things that if you have kids or grandkids, you

(15:05):
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see like rats on a sinking ship, so many of
these people attacking others like Elon Musk, who are giving

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(16:59):
Play Travis your happy Thanksgiving from all of us at
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Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'll get to some of your calls. To close out
the program, We're going to talk to Charlie Kirk. But
first a listener talkback. First time voter why he voted.

Speaker 7 (17:14):
Hey, Clay, this is Mike and Phoenix. I voted the
first time ever. I'm fifty three, and I voted for Trump.
The main reason I never voted before is because I
didn't believe in the voting system. It's pretty much rigged.
I feel that Trump is going to actually make a
difference instead of voting for somebody who just wants to

(17:35):
keep the same regime going. Because to me before it
was always voting for the lesser of the two evils.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Now it's the better man.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
I gotta tell you, the number of people that we're
hearing from who have never voted before and voted for
Trump out there in the audience is honestly incredible. I
just I know. I asked for first time Trump voters.
I didn't realize how many of you you in your thirties, forties, fifties,
and sixties, never voted before voted for trumpets.

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(19:09):
by Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA. The final numbers from
Arizona just came out. Trump is gonna win Arizona for
about five and a half points. Charlie's a big reason why.
But before we get into that, Charlie, you and I
ran into each other at mar Lago recently.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
What's the first thing you wanted to talk about?

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Oh, college football. That's the only thing I want to
talk about. Great to be here, Clay, I mean, I
talked politics all day long. It's refreshing to talk to
somebody that is as informed or even better informed than
me on the most the more important thing that happens
in the fall, not the election, but our tradition of
college football. So great to be here. We had a
great time catching up and talking about how the organ

(19:48):
Ducks should win the national championship this year.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
All right.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
So I have told Buck for some time, Buck is
out for Thanksgiving already, that I trust college football fans
immediately more than other people before, or I even know
anything else about them. You've been all over the country
working in battleground states, Big ten, SEC, A PAC twelve
used to be obviously Big twelve. All of the different

(20:12):
ACC conferences out there were their battlegrounds. Do you also
trust college football fans more than anybody else?

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Oh, without a doubt. Now when you say all these conferences,
I don't know what you're talking about. You're talking about
the a SEC powerhouse of cal Berkeley. I mean, it's
very confusing.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
So taking a shot at your old PAC twelve arrivals,
I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
More about conference realignments. It's just the whole thing is
so goofy. But no, Yes, if someone that's a passion
for college football, I have something like inherently and deep
in common with them, more so than almost anything.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
So you speaking of college football, A lot of young
men are college football fans. The campaign that was just run,
if you had to point to one group that moved
most massively from plus fourteen for Biden to plus fourteen
for Trump to at least one Wall Street Journal poll
that I saw. Why did young men, in your mind,
people that you have been reaching out to aggressively move

(21:07):
so substantially in this election.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
I'd say, I think it's because they want to be
part of a political movement that doesn't hate them. Over
the last couple of years, you started to see the
woke stuff that was really incubated in twenty twenty start
to germinate and metastasize and grow into all of our institutions.
And one of the core orthodoxies of woke is what
we call DEI is really a hatred of Christian white

(21:34):
straight men. And I hate to be that blunt about it,
but it is. It's the orthodox of it, the orthodoxy
of it, and young men, why am I being part
of this? Exactly? I want to be part of a
political movement that at least acknowledges that there is men
and women and says that it's a good thing to
be a man and that masculinity is not inherently toxic.
And I think top of that though, go ahead, police.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, no, I was just going to say, I think
what's interesting, and you may have been going there too,
is it starts with white men are the problem. But
the problem with that is eventually it has to grow.
And I think black guys, Hispanic guys, Asian guys looking
around like, hey, I don't think masculinity is toxic. I
think that men and women are different. And suddenly you
can't say that'd be a democrat correct.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
And then it even grows deeper into this kind of
tyranny of political correctness, which at its core is like
toxic femininity, which is that we're going to police all
of your speech. The left has become a bunch of skolds,
of hall monitors, of people that do not believe in
free expression or dialogue or discourse. And you know what
we've seen in the last couple of years is now

(22:39):
a backlash of that where if there is anyone in
the quote unquote manisphere, you know, you say, Joe Rogan,
the Fio Vaughn, it's not that they're conservative, but they're
inherently anti left, that they're against the kind of new
left wing dogma and doctrine that believes that there needs
to be speech code, that you know, this trans nonsense.

(23:03):
And so young men in particular kind of led the
rebellion towards a political movement one rooted in common sense patriotism, liberty,
and freedom.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Were you surprised by how well Trump did in the
battleground states or were the results almost exactly what you expected.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
I didn't get into prediction business. You know, I'll tell
you the weekend before I modeled out a way where
we could win and that we could lose. You never
quite know, because polling is such a guest to it.
I will say this though, you know, visiting a lot
of these schools, we did these campus events that were
just massive and had millions and millions of people online
when we did them. One in particular at the University
of Georgia, where we had five thousand people show up,

(23:43):
and I turned to my team, I said, guys, this
is not normal, Like this is not anything I've seen before.
I think we might win, and I think might win
really big and win with young people. Same at Penn
State we had thirty five hundred young people, Arizona State University.
I mean, we were all across the country, and so
I it all makes sense now that the dust is settled.
But i'd be lying to you, claive. I didn't say

(24:04):
that they didn't have any some anxiety and on ease.
We are up against the most powerful thing ever to exist.
I mean, look what they did, the Trump They try
to put them in prison for seven hundred years. They
lied this mirror, they slandered, they censored, and the American
people defeated that. And even to the very end, I
was a little bit paranoid, I'll acknowledge it, because we've
kind of been beaten into submission the last couple of
years that can we really win and is there going

(24:26):
to be shenanigans? Is there going to be tom foolery?
And so I'm not surprised by how what we do
with young men, but pleasantly surprised at the let's just say,
the common sense of the American people.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well, look, the work you did was tremendously important. And
I actually think, and I don't know if you're picking
up on this, but I've got a sixteen or fourteen
and a ten year old. I think the generation that
hasn't even voted yet is going to be more anti
woke than even the people that have started voting already.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Correct and the left is showing almost no course correction
and almost no remorse. I mean, there's some elements of
that but the more they lean into this, the more
that they continue to be part of the more radical
portions of their party, just opens up a great opportunity
for us. I am seeing that Clay big time. I
think that gen Z and whatever after them, Jen Alpha,

(25:16):
it's going to be some of the most conservative generations
in history. And who would have thought it right. We
were told that the young people are all Marxists and
there's only going to be you know, let's say, radical
things to come. But President Trump won the youth vote
in Michigan, nearly one at Wisconsin, nearly one it in Pennsylvania,
and that was one of the key ingredients to his victory.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I know you're busy. I appreciate you coming on. Last
question for you. If somebody's never been to an Oregon
Ducks game, what are they missing?

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Well, I'll tell you what. I got trolled online because
I wore earplugs at Austin Stadium.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Be ready to lose your hearing.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
I could not hear for days after even with the earplugs,
and I'll tell you it's like one hundred and thirty
five decibels. I don't want to make any predictions, but
I think Oregon is going to do very very well
against Washington this weekend. Go twelve and zero. That is
going to be a trench fight in Indianapolis against Ohio State.
I don't know. I think Ohio State might take this
one and then we'll see him again in the playoff.

(26:10):
I can make a really good argument though, based on
the current Kings Big configuration. I'm sure you broke this
down play being the one seed is actually not the
best thing based on the current way the bracket is forming,
where you actually might get a better placement to be
a four or five seed, host a home game at home,
a five seed, you know, host at Austin, get some
momentum heading into the bowl series in late December.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
You just hit on it.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
I think having the five seed in the college football
Playoff is the best spot. By the way, potentially Boise
State getting the four two so you get a home game,
then you would.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, Oregon already beat him.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Good luck to the Ducks, not too much luck if
they play My University of Tennessee volunteers, Charlie, really appreciate
the work. Keep up all the outstanding stuff. You guys
are doing. A turning point.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Great to see it. Thanks Clay, touch to Sham.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, he is, by the way, I think incredibly important
in turn terms of what I am seeing as a
cultural realignment. I think this show has been very helpful
for that because I think Buck and I can speak
to a younger generation. We're not super old relative to media.

(27:16):
I think OutKick has, I think Joe Rogan has. I
think he mentioned THEO Vaughn. I think there are a
lot of different outlets that speak to a predominantly male
audience that are seeing the profound disconnect that exists for
these young guys. And I mentioned this, but I do
think it's important. You know, Target stock dropped twenty one

(27:37):
percent the other day. I don't know how many of
you saw that after Target missed its earnings. I think
a lot of moms and dads when they had the
tuck bathing suits and they were like, hey, we want
your young kids pretending to be different genders. And you're saying,
I just want to go to Target and get a
good value on the products that I need from my home.

(27:58):
I think a lot of you turned away from Target.
And I don't know how many of you saw that
Walmart officially announced they're done with DEI I don't shop much.
This is not going to shock you. For those of
you who see the clothes that I wear. Basically I
go to Costco. Otherwise I buy almost nothing. I don't
think I talked about this. I went with my wife
because we had to buy chairs to go sit and

(28:19):
watch our sons on the sideline of games, and we
needed new.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Chairs, and so I went with her to Walmart.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Recently, I walked in that place and I felt like
I was like an immigrant who didn't realize how amazing
America was. You know a lot of times people who
moved from foreign countries. I remember one of my buddies
said that his dad had come from India, and I
got two good stories about this. Dad came from India

(28:46):
where almost no one had a television, and he walked
into an electronics store in America, and the like, the
fact that you could just walk in and have a
normal job and buy a television.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Blew his mind. Really, there is a value. I've argued
this for years.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
If we made every high school graduate in America, certainly
every college graduate, but if we made every high school
graduate in America have to go overseas and live in
a poor country for a year, you would kiss the
ground when you got off the airplane to come back here,
because so many of the people who denigrate America have

(29:24):
no idea what the rest of the world is like,
and how incredibly thankful we all should be in this week,
of all weeks, that we get to live in America.
But that bank of televisions that was for an immigrant
population could not believe just how sheer amount of wealth
that existed here. The other one was I've got a

(29:47):
friend recently and he was talking about his dad coming
here and his dad being upset that people were taking
ubers everywhere, and he told me his dad went off
on him recently. He's like, you know, we couldn't afford cars,
and now you kids are so spoiled that you're like, Oh,
I don't want to have to drive my car, and

(30:08):
it's going to be hard to find a parking place
for my car. And I want to be able to
go out to the bar or go out to dinner
and just get dropped off right in front, and I'm
gonna pay somebody to do that. He's like, Americans are
so spoiled that we won't even drive our cars anymore
because it's too difficult to have to park them when

(30:29):
we can get dropped off directly in front of the
place that we're going to go. And I just thought
both of those stories were really interesting, and it tied
in with somebody's got to see the world through somebody
else's perspective and try to do your best to think
about the larger landscape of America. There's three hundred and
thirty million people here. What have we got seven eight
billion people in the world. Everybody's got different perspectives. I

(30:52):
told this story. My ten year old walked into Target.
This is like four years ago, so he's fourteen now,
but he wanted to get I think we were getting
football cards. Loves to get football cards. Walked in the
whole front of Target where we live in Franklin, Tennessee.
It's not exactly you know, left wing America Williamson County, Tennessee,

(31:13):
where I live.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Very dark red area.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Whole front of Target in Franklin, Tennessee is all girl
Power shirts. And he walked in to me, I don't
even notice that stuff because I'm so used to it.
But he walked in and he said, Dad, they would
never sell boy Power shirts. And I thought to myself.
You know, it's really interesting now if you're young. We

(31:39):
were just talking to Charlie Kirk about this, if you're
a young man, or if you are raising young men
like I am, they basically have been taught for their
whole lives that they're the reason why everything.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
In America is not perfect.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
And it's not just white men, not just white boys.
It's now expanded Asian, Hispanic, black, white young kids out there.
Boys are being told, hey, you're toxic because you're masculine,
and they're rebelling against it because they don't believe it,

(32:15):
and they know they're being lied to. And you know
who also is rebelling against it. A lot of you
moms out there who are raising boys like you don't
want weak men, You don't want to raise poor husbands
like It's an insult to you too, which is why
the most successful ad that was run during the presidential

(32:36):
campaign was that they them. If you watch football, you
saw this ad all the time. Kamala is for them,
Trump is for us, Trump is for you. Trump is
for you was the lie. You know who wrote that ad?
I know him because he's one of my buddies from school.
A Ukrainian immigrant wrote that ad for Trump. He came

(33:01):
from Ukraine, saw that and said, that speaks to the
audience out there. Do you know who that audience spoke to.
That ad spoke to the best. Fascinating Hispanic men, black men,
white moms in.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
The suburbs all tested off the charts on that ad.
Think about that.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Black men, Hispanic men, white moms in the suburbs. They
were all like, uh uh, this is bs. It's a
real thing. This tide is only going to grow. I
really do believe. And I want to tell you one
reason the dides growings because we got some educational institutions
that are actually doing a good job speaking to the

(33:45):
American public on a day to day basis, like Hillsdale College.
Back in April, I went out to Hillsdale College and
I was their keynote speaker at an event they did
in Seattle. I sat next to their president, doctor Larry
arn I love the guy. In fact, I thought after
I said next to him, you know what, I want
my kids to apply to this school because I love
the education that they are being provided through Hillsdale. And

(34:07):
some of you may have seen an imprimis, their free
newsletter that sent to millions of people. They just took
the address that I gave and turned it into their
lead story. I heard from so many of you out
there that you had read my speech and imprimis that
they just transcribed and put on the front page of
their newsletter that went out to millions of people. I

(34:30):
want you to get hooked up with Hillsdale right now
and make sure that you are aware of the incredible
work that they are doing, because right now all they
need is they would like to hear from you. For
just thirty seconds watch a short video so that you
can learn about what their mission is at Clayanbuck for
Hillsdale dot com. That's Clayanbuck for Hillsdale dot com. Trust

(34:53):
me check it out Clayanbuck for Hillsdale dot com. You'll
be glad that you did.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Hey, it's Buck Sexton from our home to yours. Have
a wonderful Thanksgiving from the Clay and Buck Show.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
We are thankful for all of you. I wanted to
make sure that I spoke on behalf of both Buck
and myself. This has been an amazing year that we've
been able to spend with you, several amazing years that
we've been able to spend with you. We want you
to stay safe with your friends and family this holiday season,
beginning with Thanksgiving. I'm going to hop a flight go
meet up with my family tonight. You will have a

(35:35):
guest host tomorrow, and then there will be a best
of on Thursday and Friday. I know that many of
you are not going to be able to have any
time off because you have to work take care of
your friends and family. We certainly thank all of you
for everything that you're doing. I thought this was interesting.
I put up this poll. I just retweeted it. If
you guys want to vote in yourselves, and I just

(35:56):
asked a simple question, Well, someone at your Thanksgiving dinner
have voted for a presidential candidate different than you. Sixty
four percent of you said yes, So nearly two out
of three of you are going to be at a
Thanksgiving dinner with someone who voted different than you. What
I would ask of you is, first of all, your

(36:18):
friends and family should come first, way more than whoever
someone voted for. But if you want to have a conversation,
I would ask you to share this show with your
friends and family and say, hey, one reason I voted
the way that I might have voted is because I
like to listen to Clay and Buck and you should

(36:39):
check them out.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
They're in all fifty states.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Most powerful form of advertising is word of mouth, and
if you guys are enjoying this program, we want to
expand the tent. You've heard so many people calling in
today who had never voted before, who had never voted
for Trump before.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
The only way.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
We can take back this country is by growing the
people who believe a mayor is the greatest country ever.
I'm thankful for you, I'm thankful for this country.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
God bless it. Y'all have fantastic Thanksgiving. Flee Travis and
Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.

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