March 14, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 2 centers on the attempted terror attack outside Gracie Mansion, where two ISIS inspired attackers targeted protesters before being stopped by heroic NYPD officers, including one who famously leapt a barricade to tackle a suspect. His name is Chief Aaron Edwards, and he is the assistant chief at patrol Bureau Manhattan North. The hosts detail the attackers’ Islamic extremist motives and explosive device, while sharply criticizing CNN’s coverage for downplaying the terror motive and instead emphasizing Republican reactions to anti Islam protest comments. They also highlight NYPD frustration with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, noting outrage that he failed to honor the officers who confronted the bombers and instead hosted a protest figure at Gracie Mansion shortly after the attack. The discussion expands into media bias, free speech rights at protests, and political narratives surrounding extremism. The hour shifts to foreign policy as President Donald Trump outlines U.S. military operations that he says destroyed Iran’s Navy, Air Force, radar systems, and mine boats, framing the campaign as proof of overwhelming American military strength. Listeners then spark lighter segments: debates over 9mm vs. .45 ACP, the culture clash of Tesla vs. diesel truck ownership, and humorous riffs on masculinity, technology, and car culture. The hour closes with pop culture commentary on Scream, Fast & Furious, Back to the Future, and nostalgic car stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Second hour of Play and Buck kicks
off right now. Thanks for being here with us, everybody.
We're talking about Ron in the first hour, and now
let's turn our attention for a little bit to the
attempted terror attack in New York City. Now we've discussed
(00:22):
this with you after it happened. It was outside of
Gracie Mansion, which is the Mayor of New York City's residence.
Also holds events there, but it's the mayor's residence. I'll
never forget when Bloomberg preferred Clay his fifty million dollars
townhouse or whatever it was, so he lived there and
held only events at the That's quite a move when
(00:45):
the official residence of the Mayor of New York is like,
not quite up to your standards, but it's it's quite
a property. It's right on the East River, and there
was a protest there, people saying that they're worried, and
I don't know exactly what they said. They probably some
of them said some things that aren't so nice about Islam,
(01:06):
and they said that they're worried about the Islamification of
New York, et cetera, et cetera. A bunch of terrorists,
wannabes or I guess just terrorists now because they tried,
they're attempted terrorists showed up to throw bombs at them,
to throw a bomb at them. And there was this
fascinating series of events that occurred that we've seen now
many many times over the years, really over the decades
(01:30):
now where somehow, if you are a Democrat member of
the media, you have to take a shockingly pro Islamic
terrorist tone point of view. However, that is you say
that we can never know the real motive when the
guys you're like Allah who lockbart, we can never know
(01:51):
the real motive, right, We aren't really sure yet what's
going on here. If the guy happens to be of
like Middle Eastern or or clearly of Muslim descent, we
got to bury that as long as we can. If
we have to leave out things in the transcript, like
the guy, the terrorist saying that he pledge allegiance to
Isis and he's doing this for Allah, they'll do that too.
(02:13):
This is a clear pattern that has been in place
for a long time, and we saw this play out
in this case Clay with the CNN piece that was
you know, it could have been a lovely day. It
was eighty five degrees when two men traveled over from
Pennsylvania and then they threw a bomb at somebody. It's like, well,
hold on a second, why would you ever frame this
(02:36):
incident in that way as a news report? Like why
make it seem like everything was cool and fine? And
then they just kind of threw a bomb at some
guys and tried to kill them, Like, it's very strange.
CNN's Abby Phillip after this happens, after what I just
told you, and they pulled that tweet down, which is
very rare for CNN to admit we're idiots. We shouldn't
(02:58):
have done that. But it was so dumb, it was
so preposterous that they had to. Then cnn' Zabbey Phillip
goes on and this is now Clay, I saw you
point this out. This is off the teleprompter. Oh yeah,
so this was written by producers who went over this
script beforehand, and then she read it aloud. I want
you to listen closely to how CNN describes this attempted
(03:20):
Muslim terrorist attack in New York City. Outside the Mayor's residence.
Play two.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted
terror attack against New York's from Mayor zor On Mamdani,
and the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to
condemn those comments.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Uh oh, okay, notice what happened here, Clay, an attempted
terror attack against New York City Mayor zor On Mamdani.
It was an attack against him. It was an attack
by Muslims against the guys who say that Muslims have
too many terrorists in their midst, so we should probably
rethink how many of them were bringing into this country.
That's their position, protected by the First Amendment. By the way,
you can dislike it, you can hate it or not,
(04:02):
but it's clearly protected speech at a protest. But also, Clay,
I notice how the real problem isn't the guys who
tried to blow people up, naim them, have ball bearings,
you know, shot into their chests and in their eyes,
blind people, maybe, et cetera. That's not the big problem.
The big problem is the lack of Republican member of
(04:25):
Congress condemnation of the mean words the protesters said yeah,
And I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I'm
going to defend Abby Phillips here it even if we
play that again, she's reading off a teleprompter and it
seems like she recognizes that it's poorly drafted. And again,
(04:47):
this is being a TV nerd and understanding having hosted
some of these things before. Sometimes you read off the
prompter and you're like, this is not good, you know,
But as you're reading it, it appears that she is
going to tossed to a break. Play this again. I'll
take you into the weeds here. But what I think
a significant buck is whatever the culture is at CNN.
(05:09):
This much like that article that made it out of
through the editorial process and everything else. The errors you make,
and I will say this as a guy who has
run a media company, the errors you make reflect the
culture you create. And everybody's gonna screw up. Everybody's going
to be imperfect. You and I screw up. Sometimes we
(05:31):
don't have teleprompters, so we're not reading anything at any
point in time. I always hold it up. You can watch.
You can look at this on the YouTube channel. I
have a yellow legal pad like I have for most
of my career that I jot down notes on that
I read and run the entire show from And you
have a notepad in front of you, and you got
(05:52):
your computer, but there is no teleprompter. Play that for
us one more time. As she is reading it, you
can start to see she is thinking, Hey, this doesn't
feel right. But she has a commercial break that she's
trying to hit and this is the tease. But again,
the errors that you make reflect the culture that you create.
The culture that CNN has created is there is no
(06:14):
way that left wingers could ever be responsible for anything negative,
and that I think undergirds this error. Play it one
more time.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted
terror attack against New York's mayors or on Mamdani, and
the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn
those comments.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, And I saw an interesting comment and I I
can't remember who credited it. But a lot of people
believe that Mom Donnie was the victim of a terror
attack that is intentional. Lots of people on the left
who are not as engaged on stories as you are,
believe that Mam Donnie was the victim of a terror attack.
(06:56):
You can hear Abby Phillips, she recognizes I think that
that is not an accuratees that she is reading, But
somehow that made it through CNN editorial, somehow that I
believe ended up on her teleprompter. And what this is
reflective of is an attempt to obfuscate, to hide, to
keep people unaware of what actually happened here, which is
(07:18):
to Muslim motivated terrorists decided to try to throw IEDs
and kill people who were protesting the number of Muslims
that have been allowed into our country, and brave NYPD
police officers ran towards the bombs and were able to
tackle the guys who were responsible for this.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And this.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Is James Gogliano, former director of the FBI NYC Division, says,
the rank and file are furious because Mom Donnie has
in no way honored the NYPD officers that actually ran
towards these bombs and caught the bad guys, which again
goes to the intentional cultural hiding of this story in
(08:04):
the way that it's been covered. Cut twenty four the.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Other night, instead of hosting the two star police chief
who leaped over the barricades and ran this guy down
who had thrown the bomb. The mayor decides that Gracie
Mansion to host mackmood Khalil. I mean, he's senting such
an awful, awful message here to the rank and file.
And remember the mayor when he was a private citizen
(08:28):
who had commented on Twitter then that he saw cop
crying in his car and nature was healing. This is
something that again, the men and women of the NYPD.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Will do the right thing.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
They're going to enforce the laws, they're going to show
up for work, but they understand that this man on
the screen right now does.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Not have their back. I think that's the key Bock.
And you're a New York City born and bred kid.
The fact that this NYPD cop who jumped if you
haven't seen the iconic photo of this cop jumping a
barricade to chase down the guys who had thrown bombs,
bombs that at any moment could have gone off. He
(09:06):
ran towards danger, He arrested and tackled the culprits here, Mom, Donnie.
To my knowledge, Buck hasn't said a word in favor
of this officer's bravery and what he actually did. Instead,
he brought the Columbia protester in and gave him a
meal and took pictures of it. Well, you have to
remember that Mam Donnie's base very much is comprised of
(09:31):
and includes in considerable number the kind of people who
agree with everything that those terrorists feel and say. But
they have to technically draw the line at actual violence
because that's against the law in a way that people
notice and get upset about. So his base is very
(09:52):
supportive of the people who show up and want to
silence the anti you know, we didn't really have a
good term for them. They call them white nationalists. To
this I still haven't seen anything white nationalists. I've only
seen anti immigration and anti Now people can argue if
they think that's white nationalists, but there are plenty of
people who are concerned about the massive immigration into this country,
(10:15):
particularly legal immigration who aren't white, including legal immigrants, by
the way, huge numbers of minorities that have legally immigrated
to the country, Like we're good, we have enough. Yeah,
we've had enough here for a little while. So that's
not actually a white nationalist belief per se. They can
try to make make that case, but I think that
(10:35):
that's made in bad faith. My point here being that, yeah, Mamdanni,
like left wing radical lunatics are Mamdanni's buddies, so he
doesn't want to upset them. But he does have to say,
all right, like, don't try to blow up the white
nationalists quote unquote, just you know, spit in their faces
and do what ANTIFA usually does. But don't do that,
(10:57):
because then I have to let the NYPD tackle some
of them and do the things. I'm going to tell
you this right now. By the way, it's gonna take
some time. The sentence that these guys get is going
to be enragingly light guaranteed in real now, they're gonna
they're gonna be punished because they they know there are
(11:17):
limits here to how crazy the system can be in
New York when before people really start to freak out
and leave. But Clay, I mean, you're gonna see remember
the guys who during BLM. Wasn't there a guy It
was a lawyer. Actually, there you go, a lawyer who
threw a Molotov cocktail into a cop car. They got
slap on the wrist. Yeah, I remember that slap on
(11:39):
the wrist. Yeah, I remember that story because I think
it was a lawyer at a prominent law firm, and
I remember thinking, how do you find yourself in a
situation where you're lighting a Molotov cocktail as a lawyer
on fire and throwing it into a cop car. Uh,
that's how deranged everybody became on the left in particular
(11:59):
in twenty twenty, probably got a tenured professor precision position
waiting for him at some local university, local college in
New York. I wouldn't be surprised at all. Look, we
had a blackout the other night. That's why I didn't
last me anything. Most of you were nice in the AMA,
some of you not so nice. Most of you were nice.
(12:20):
Blackout in the building that was not fun. I was
taking the stairs, the lights were all out. It was
a miner, would only lasted a few hours. But it
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couple of cuts. President Trump was just outside the White
House and he was responding to members of the press
(13:47):
as he walked to the helicopter. President Trump is going
to be in Ohio and Kentucky today, Buck, so he
is about to embark on some early twenty twenty six campaigning.
Just fyi so Ohio and Kentucky. He is probably in
the air en route right now. A reporter asked Trump
(14:09):
when he's going to announce mission accomplished. This is cut
twenty five. Listen, Well, we've.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Knocked out that Navy, We've knocked out the Red Force,
We've knocked out all of their anti defense. We've taken
out sixty mine boat fifty mind vote. Nobody has ever
seen like we have the greatest military in the world
by far, not even closing. You know what, they've been
(14:43):
flicking forty seven years worth of damage to the world.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Big produ.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Couple more buck, He says, we need more of the
same in order for the Iran operation to officially be
over cut twenty six.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yes, you know where doing something that nobody ever thought
was possible to do.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Our military is the best, it's the.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Most powerful in the world.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
And they're hitting him very hard. This is forty seven
years of abuse and killing, lots of people, killing and
naming lots of people. What is it, Peter, What board
you need to do militarily for this operation to end?
More the same and we'll see how that all comes.
Right now, they are they've lost their navy, they've lost
(15:30):
their air force. They have no anti aircraft apparatus at all, they.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Have no radar.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Their leaders are gone, and we.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Could do a lot worse. We're leaving certain.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Things that if we take them out, or we could
take them out by this afternoon, in fact within an hour,
they literally would never be able to build that country better.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
All right, one more buck. He's saying he thinks oil
companies should be using the straight of horror moves that
has helped to inflate the overall price of oil and
gas Cut twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Talking to CEOs of various oil companies, encouraging them to
use this straight upright.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Right, they should.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I think they should. I think they should use them
on you.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Look, we took out just about all of their mind shifts,
and one night we're up to both number sixty. I
didn't realize that that big a navy. I would say
it was big and ineffective.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
But every one of the shifts, this about all of
the navy is gone and the bottom.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Of this over.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Okay, So that is the latest from President Trump. Navy's gone,
air force is gone. He can declare victory whenever he
feels like they have finished their targeting. Anything surprised you
from any of that, buck, I mean, obviously, the president
is very confident about his ability to do whatever he
feels like he needs to do. No, that's where we've
been saying. The situation is right now, it's essentially pulling
(17:02):
apart the Iranian military apparatus piece by piece and just
just dismantling it. And that is that has been effective.
We've been able to do that. The Iranians don't really
have a countering capability. The only counter and capability they
would have at this point is something people are concerned about,
which is sells operational cells going on terrorist attacks against
(17:25):
soft targets here at home or around the world. That's
something we have to be aware of. Although if we
trace that back to Iran, you know, we're who wants
to be involved in that kind of stuff on Irani
and soil. Right now, we can blow up anyone anywhere basically,
So I think that that's all it all lines up, Clay,
But I also think that we're going to walk away
(17:45):
without there being a different government in Iran. I do
think that's where this is going to happen or this
is going So that's an interesting situation. I'm not really
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A lot of you weighing in. We appreciate that, so
we want to get your thoughts, your calls, your email. Remember,
you can send us a talk back on the iHeart app.
Make sure you have that iHeart app downloaded your phone.
It's free, it's great. I use it every day. It's
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(19:17):
that you know your local flavor. You can listen to
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(19:40):
which you go to Clay and buck page you press
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long they are, so we can always fit them into segments.
Sometimes some of the calls, as much as we love you,
we start get into like how's the weather where you are? Yeah? Good?
You know, we sometimes burn time and we don't have
the time to get you to say the full thing
you want to say. So podcast listen or Kevin from Florida,
(20:02):
this is cut D. He's weighing in on something a
real controversy that's been kicking up around here. Hit it.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I just heard the guy talking about the kick of
a nine mil or the recoil and everything I have.
You know, I'm a two thousand and three three gun
state championship winner out of Texas, and I use a
forty five ACP the whole time because a nine mel
wouldn't knock over to steal plates. It's the kinetic energy
it counts.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Buddy. I love your gun war here that you have
started with gun guys just called. By the way, that
guy sounds like what I would expect a Texas shooting
champion to sound like. Correct. Yes, I mean, if you
know Trump always talks about somebody out of Central casting,
that is the voice of a expert Texas shooter. I
(20:48):
would think Kevin may live in Florida.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He still wears a cowboy hat, let's be honest, still
wears a cabin and no one questions it because he's Kevin'
from Texas. By the way, we've got more people just
weighing in. I'm taking body blows left and right for
continuing to talk about how awesome my tesla is. This
is Robert podcast listener cut g Clay.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I think that all of your sports talk, tough manliness talk,
it's just a facade to cover up for the fact
that you drive an electric car. My favorite thing to
do is get in front of a Tesla with the
f two to fifty break check them, then throw the
hammer down, roll some coal and leave them in a
cloud of toxic diesel fumes. Enjoy going to pick up
(21:30):
the tampons in the electric.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Car there, Bye, wow, harsh? Why so anty? Look, just
because I live in the future and you live in
the past doesn't mean you have to be angry at me.
You know, like back in the day there were a
lot of Biff. Was a Biff Henderson the foil of
a Martymack future? Ye yeah, yeah, yeah. There are a
lot of Biffs out there, you know, rolling around the
(21:55):
nineteen fifties with your sleeves rolled up, not understanding the
flux capacitor and the future. Sure that was coming your
way in one of the Fly, right McFly, If anyone
ever did that to your head, and like did the
Knock Knock, I think you should be allowed to punch them.
That is I think one of the greatest movies that's
ever been made. Across board and it still holds up.
(22:16):
And here's something it's gonna single most beloved by Rotten
Tomatoes of the eighties is back Is that true? Actually
it is back to the future. Yes, okay, so this
is actually a popular opinion. This is kind of wild.
If they were putting back to the future, we were
going back in time, uh from the modern day. I
(22:37):
believe I am correct in this. We would be setting
back to the future now in nineteen ninety six. Think
about that when we were kids, when we were kids,
and all of you out there who watch Back to
the Future, I believe Back to the Future was set
in nineteen fifty four ish, so it was made in
(22:57):
like nineteen eighty four, so it was going back thirty
and I remember just thinking watching that, you know, that's
my parents' generation that grew up and just thinking, man,
that world is so much different. Think about that now.
If they made back to the future today and they
went back in time the same amount, they would be
going back to nineteen ninety six. That that really kind
(23:19):
of is boggling my mind to think about. And I
actually think that would be a great That would be
a great premise for reviving the back of the Future franchise,
right if you brought back then if with the current generation,
you did the parents. Your parents are dressing like Ross
and Chandler from Friends, and everyone's watching Seinfeld and you're
(23:41):
listening to like Nirvana, and maybe you know that's basically
the you know. I went and saw and I don't
know if I talked about it on the show, because
I knew you were going to be angry about it,
But I went and saw Scream seven, which is so
angry about this take, It's insane. This is when this
is when I look at Clay. I'm like, like, how
you're so a student, so many things you think? Anyway,
(24:01):
go ahead. I went. So I went and watched Scream
seven in the movie theater, and I've watched all the
Scream movies. The original Scream movie was set in nineteen
ninety six, so to your point, they now have made
thirty years later. Nev Campbell, who is the star of
the Scream franchise, it has been thirty years since the
(24:23):
original Scream movie was made, so there is a nostalgic,
iconic throwback esque element to Scream seven, which I enjoy.
I think the original screen movie is for a I
really consider it more thriller than horror because it's there's
nothing supernatural. It's really just a you like the original
screen the original is an excellent movie for what it is.
(24:43):
It really an excellent movie. Yeah, I mean there's look,
usually when they make seven of something, there are exceptions.
Maybe this is coming from the two Electric car guys.
I'm just gonna lean into this for a second. The
fact that The Fast and the Furious franchise is like
maybe the most successful movie franchise of all time by
box office receipts is complete madness. To me. I would
(25:08):
rather watch an endless loop of sham Wou and George
Foreman grill commercials. I cannot understand how anyone thinks The
Fast and Furious movies are worth watching, and yet I
am clearly clearly in the minority on this one. I
think they made nine or something how many of Yeah. Now,
to be fair, I think the Fast and the Furious
(25:29):
movies were a perfect distillation of the international appeal of
movies because they don't have to talk very much, and
so I mean, I mean the dialogue, we don't need
to actually speak. But I mean, if you look at
what is popular internationally, it's often just really fast racing cars.
(25:50):
And I think the Fast and the Furious movies back
when China was allowing movies to actually be aired in China,
you know, they started cutting back on a lot of
American films, but they to basically do away with dialogue
and just have a lot of big, explosive pyrotechnics, and
I think those movies are a perfect distillation of that.
I walk past someone today in a gold Ferrari and
(26:15):
I just have to say, do you think you could
pull off being the owner of a gold Ferrari. I mean,
it clearly had been repaid. I don't think they offer
that as a factory color, but it was well, this
is this is a fun question. What would you think
if the next time I came to Miami, we did
the show and then I said, hey, I've got to
(26:36):
run out because there is a Ferrari dealership not far
from where you are, because I've seen them like, and
I was like, I got to go pick up my Ferrari.
Would you be like this is the most outrageous because
let me tell you this, Ferrari is the most profitable
car in the world per Ferrari because they treat them
like paintings, like they only do make like three thousand
(26:59):
Ferrari He's a year or something. It's an extraordinarily profitable
brand as a result. Look, I actually think that Ferraris
are They are works of art, and they are beautiful
to their they're in credit. I mean, I'm not a
car guy, but I respect Ferrari has sort of created
the the ultimate in in in the you know, in vehicle,
(27:20):
uh racing luxury. But if you told me that you
were picking up your gold plated I would be calling
Laura and be like, Laura, I think Clay's having a
mid life crisis. We got to get him some help.
Like probably would be accurate. Here's the answer. I would
be nervous to drive a car that nice, whether you
could pull it off or not, because I don't care
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how much money I had. I would be so terrified
of hitting a curb in a Ferrari or somebody bumping
into me while I was driving it that I couldn't
ever enjoy the process of driving a Ferrari. I would
be terrified if something going wrong. I was I was
own for my incredible wheels. In college, I had a
(28:04):
wood paneled Buick Roadmaster station wagon in a pale blue
with the wood paneling with like ninety thousand miles on it,
and we called it the Shagan Wagon. There was no
shaging in this wagon, but that was what we called it.
Big Austin Powers fan back of the day, and this thing,
(28:24):
let me tell you you, it was like indestructible. There
was nothing, you know, you could do whatever. You have
to have to worry about parking it, leaving it. Nobody's
gonna steal it, Like you know, I to worry if
the car doors are locked. I'm not a huge car
guy either. It handled sort of like a like a
ferry boat that would take you between islands or something. Yes,
(28:45):
it had that kind of a turn radius. However, however,
a little ding on the wood paneling, You're like, eh,
it's not real wood? Is that the worst car you
ever had? The worst car I ever had was when
Waa and I first got married. We bought a Chevy
Malibu convertible, which is the worst purchase of my life.
That's that's like a Michael Scott from the office kind
(29:07):
of a purchase, a Chevy Chevy Malibu convertible. I thought
having a convertible would be nice. The thing had a
turn radius you had if you just made like even
Chevy Malibu. Laura grew up. Laura grew up knowing cars
because she grew up in the fun of the Chevy
(29:28):
Malibu more than the electric car you own now. Tell
But by the way I had, I had no money, So,
I mean, it's not like when we got married. I was,
you know, twenty five or whatever. It's not like I
was out there and I could say, Hey, you know
what I'm gonna buy. I mean, I bought a used
Chevy Malibu. The guy who sold it was probably like,
I can't believe somebody gave me money for this. I
think it was like seven thousand dollars or something. It
(29:50):
was not very much. Mine have any money. And it's
the worst car I've ever driven. You could not turn
the thing, Like, what did you think The number one
thing you would think if you had a convertible would
be man, that thing would handle really well. You had
to make like seventy eight different turns to reverse direction
(30:11):
to make a turn in that car. It had the
worst turn radius of any vehicle ever made. And it's
the worst purchase that I ever made. And it was
only like seven grand. But I was like, as soon
as I started driving it, I was like, this is
a really bad decision we made. I also liked that
people would sometimes see me driving by and they would
just start going holiday. You know. They reminded them of
(30:32):
the car from National Lampoons, although it's actually a different
Also a great movie that holds up that original Vacation
and the one that I think is even better, which
is rare. Christmas Vacation is the best of the of
the Vacation franchises, and that one came out like twenty
years later. Did you see I'm not letting you get
off the hook so easy with this? Did you see
all seven Screen movies? Oh? Yeah, which was the worst one?
(30:57):
I think Scream four probably was the worst. Maybe Screen five,
I remember when I Six was not good either. Really
seven was better than I would say four, five, and six.
Do you remember the leprechan movies? Oh? Of course I
(31:19):
Do you know that Jennifer Aniston was in the first one.
It was actually her screen debut. Uh but casting move
by them, by the way, Yes, that's an elite pick
elite draft Parry, very very budget horror movie. But Warwick Davis,
who was also the good guy in Willow he plays.
He's a well known little person actor, the best known
(31:41):
little person actor before Tierry and Lanister. That guy came
along forget his name in real life, but that that
guy's a cocky bastard. I don't really like him. He's
not very likable. I mean, he's a little big for
his breitches. If we're gonna be honest, yes, And nonetheless,
we had great in Game of Thrones though, I mean
(32:03):
really talent. It's fantastic in the role. Full credit for that.
But Warwick Davis the Leprechaun movies, they made five of
them play and I saw several of the sequels. There
is a leprechaun in the Hood movie, which is what
you think it is. It is like Boys in the Hood,
but they drop a leprechaun in the middle of the
(32:24):
movie and it is a thing. So you know, I
don't know. They don't make movies like they used to.
That I could tell you. And they certainly don't make
them like Scream seven. By the way, Peter Dinklice should
be incredibly humble because he happened to get the best
midget character that has ever exists. For midget characters, and
(32:47):
yet he didn't accept that role from George R. R. Martin.
I mean, Terry and Lanister is the greatest midget character
in I think person or dwarf. You're throwing me at
some point. It's some point is that the m more
now like I'm sticking with midget, Like everybody knows what
it is. He got the greatest midget role ever. And
(33:08):
instead of being incredibly thankful, do you know, remember this,
Like he said it would be offensive when they remade
the snow White Woke snow White, they had to do
computer animated dwarves because he said it would be offensive
to cast midgets to play the Remember this if you're
a little person actor. The guy just stole the seven
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greatest roles that are going to exist in your career
because he's a cocky bastard. I don't like that, dude,
Peter Dinklice, I there's one of the few people in
media that I'm like. He seems like a total I'm
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the frivolity that everybody's angry on social media a lot.
It feels like, I would say, anger is the predominant media.
I like to laugh, and so there's a lot of
great humor from many of you on social media on
a regular basis, So more humor, less anger. I think
happy warrior doom typically wins. And I wanted to make
sure that I mentioned this guy's name because we talked
(35:37):
about him in the fact that he was a hero
and he's not getting any credit from Mamdani at all.
Aaron Edwards buck is the name of the NYPD officer
that has gone viral with a photo of him jumping
over a barricade to tackle these two would be terrorists
outside of Gracie Mansion. Aaron Edwards, So thank you from us.
(35:58):
I know we have a lot of them YPD listeners
out there in the WR listening audience, and I know
a lot of you are nodding along too that. Unfortunately,
it is a sign of the culture that has been
embraced from New York City that people who are protesting
at Columbia get to eat dinner in the mayor's residence
and not the people that are actually keeping us all
(36:19):
safe from the looney ben criminals out there. So thank
you to Aaron Edwards of the NYPD. We come back, Buck.
Our friend Ashley Brassfeld is going to join us with
the absolute latest on the Georgia primary, including the race
to replace Marjorie Taylor Green that is getting a lot
of attention right now. And then also in the third hour,
we'll be joined by Senator Tommy Tubberville of Alabama. All
(36:41):
that coming your way in the next hour, plus your reactions.
Thanks for hanging with us on Claim Buck,
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Second hour of Play and Buck kicks
off right now. Thanks for being here with us, everybody.
We're talking about Ron in the first hour, and now
let's turn our attention for a little bit to the
attempted terror attack in New York City. Now we've discussed
(00:22):
this with you after it happened. It was outside of
Gracie Mansion, which is the Mayor of New York City's residence.
Also holds events there, but it's the mayor's residence. I'll
never forget when Bloomberg preferred Clay his fifty million dollars
townhouse or whatever it was, so he lived there and
held only events at the That's quite a move when
(00:45):
the official residence of the Mayor of New York is like,
not quite up to your standards, but it's it's quite
a property. It's right on the East River, and there
was a protest there, people saying that they're worried, and
I don't know exactly what they said. They probably some
of them said some things that aren't so nice about Islam,
(01:06):
and they said that they're worried about the Islamification of
New York, et cetera, et cetera. A bunch of terrorists,
wannabes or I guess just terrorists now because they tried,
they're attempted terrorists showed up to throw bombs at them,
to throw a bomb at them. And there was this
fascinating series of events that occurred that we've seen now
many many times over the years, really over the decades
(01:30):
now where somehow, if you are a Democrat member of
the media, you have to take a shockingly pro Islamic
terrorist tone point of view. However, that is you say
that we can never know the real motive when the
guys you're like Allah who lockbart, we can never know
(01:51):
the real motive, right, We aren't really sure yet what's
going on here. If the guy happens to be of
like Middle Eastern or or clearly of Muslim descent, we
got to bury that as long as we can. If
we have to leave out things in the transcript, like
the guy, the terrorist saying that he pledge allegiance to
Isis and he's doing this for Allah, they'll do that too.
(02:13):
This is a clear pattern that has been in place
for a long time, and we saw this play out
in this case Clay with the CNN piece that was
you know, it could have been a lovely day. It
was eighty five degrees when two men traveled over from
Pennsylvania and then they threw a bomb at somebody. It's like, well,
hold on a second, why would you ever frame this
(02:36):
incident in that way as a news report? Like why
make it seem like everything was cool and fine? And
then they just kind of threw a bomb at some
guys and tried to kill them, Like, it's very strange.
CNN's Abby Phillip after this happens, after what I just
told you, and they pulled that tweet down, which is
very rare for CNN to admit we're idiots. We shouldn't
(02:58):
have done that. But it was so dumb, it was
so preposterous that they had to. Then cnn' Zabbey Phillip
goes on and this is now Clay, I saw you
point this out. This is off the teleprompter. Oh yeah,
so this was written by producers who went over this
script beforehand, and then she read it aloud. I want
you to listen closely to how CNN describes this attempted
(03:20):
Muslim terrorist attack in New York City. Outside the Mayor's residence.
Play two.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted
terror attack against New York's from Mayor zor On Mamdani,
and the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to
condemn those comments.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Uh oh, okay, notice what happened here, Clay, an attempted
terror attack against New York City Mayor zor On Mamdani.
It was an attack against him. It was an attack
by Muslims against the guys who say that Muslims have
too many terrorists in their midst, so we should probably
rethink how many of them were bringing into this country.
That's their position, protected by the First Amendment. By the way,
you can dislike it, you can hate it or not,
(04:02):
but it's clearly protected speech at a protest. But also, Clay,
I notice how the real problem isn't the guys who
tried to blow people up, naim them, have ball bearings,
you know, shot into their chests and in their eyes,
blind people, maybe, et cetera. That's not the big problem.
The big problem is the lack of Republican member of
(04:25):
Congress condemnation of the mean words the protesters said yeah,
And I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I'm
going to defend Abby Phillips here it even if we
play that again, she's reading off a teleprompter and it
seems like she recognizes that it's poorly drafted. And again,
(04:47):
this is being a TV nerd and understanding having hosted
some of these things before. Sometimes you read off the
prompter and you're like, this is not good, you know,
But as you're reading it, it appears that she is
going to tossed to a break. Play this again. I'll
take you into the weeds here. But what I think
a significant buck is whatever the culture is at CNN.
(05:09):
This much like that article that made it out of
through the editorial process and everything else. The errors you make,
and I will say this as a guy who has
run a media company, the errors you make reflect the
culture you create. And everybody's gonna screw up. Everybody's going
to be imperfect. You and I screw up. Sometimes we
(05:31):
don't have teleprompters, so we're not reading anything at any
point in time. I always hold it up. You can watch.
You can look at this on the YouTube channel. I
have a yellow legal pad like I have for most
of my career that I jot down notes on that
I read and run the entire show from And you
have a notepad in front of you, and you got
(05:52):
your computer, but there is no teleprompter. Play that for
us one more time. As she is reading it, you
can start to see she is thinking, Hey, this doesn't
feel right. But she has a commercial break that she's
trying to hit and this is the tease. But again,
the errors that you make reflect the culture that you create.
The culture that CNN has created is there is no
(06:14):
way that left wingers could ever be responsible for anything negative,
and that I think undergirds this error. Play it one
more time.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted
terror attack against New York's mayors or on Mamdani, and
the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn
those comments.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, And I saw an interesting comment and I I
can't remember who credited it. But a lot of people
believe that Mom Donnie was the victim of a terror
attack that is intentional. Lots of people on the left
who are not as engaged on stories as you are,
believe that Mam Donnie was the victim of a terror attack.
(06:56):
You can hear Abby Phillips, she recognizes I think that
that is not an accuratees that she is reading, But
somehow that made it through CNN editorial, somehow that I
believe ended up on her teleprompter. And what this is
reflective of is an attempt to obfuscate, to hide, to
keep people unaware of what actually happened here, which is
(07:18):
to Muslim motivated terrorists decided to try to throw IEDs
and kill people who were protesting the number of Muslims
that have been allowed into our country, and brave NYPD
police officers ran towards the bombs and were able to
tackle the guys who were responsible for this.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And this.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Is James Gogliano, former director of the FBI NYC Division, says,
the rank and file are furious because Mom Donnie has
in no way honored the NYPD officers that actually ran
towards these bombs and caught the bad guys, which again
goes to the intentional cultural hiding of this story in
(08:04):
the way that it's been covered. Cut twenty four the.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Other night, instead of hosting the two star police chief
who leaped over the barricades and ran this guy down
who had thrown the bomb. The mayor decides that Gracie
Mansion to host mackmood Khalil. I mean, he's senting such
an awful, awful message here to the rank and file.
And remember the mayor when he was a private citizen
(08:28):
who had commented on Twitter then that he saw cop
crying in his car and nature was healing. This is
something that again, the men and women of the NYPD.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Will do the right thing.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
They're going to enforce the laws, they're going to show
up for work, but they understand that this man on
the screen right now does.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Not have their back. I think that's the key Bock.
And you're a New York City born and bred kid.
The fact that this NYPD cop who jumped if you
haven't seen the iconic photo of this cop jumping a
barricade to chase down the guys who had thrown bombs,
bombs that at any moment could have gone off. He
(09:06):
ran towards danger, He arrested and tackled the culprits here, Mom, Donnie.
To my knowledge, Buck hasn't said a word in favor
of this officer's bravery and what he actually did. Instead,
he brought the Columbia protester in and gave him a
meal and took pictures of it. Well, you have to
remember that Mam Donnie's base very much is comprised of
(09:31):
and includes in considerable number the kind of people who
agree with everything that those terrorists feel and say. But
they have to technically draw the line at actual violence
because that's against the law in a way that people
notice and get upset about. So his base is very
(09:52):
supportive of the people who show up and want to
silence the anti you know, we didn't really have a
good term for them. They call them white nationalists. To
this I still haven't seen anything white nationalists. I've only
seen anti immigration and anti Now people can argue if
they think that's white nationalists, but there are plenty of
people who are concerned about the massive immigration into this country,
(10:15):
particularly legal immigration who aren't white, including legal immigrants, by
the way, huge numbers of minorities that have legally immigrated
to the country, Like we're good, we have enough. Yeah,
we've had enough here for a little while. So that's
not actually a white nationalist belief per se. They can
try to make make that case, but I think that
(10:35):
that's made in bad faith. My point here being that, yeah, Mamdanni,
like left wing radical lunatics are Mamdanni's buddies, so he
doesn't want to upset them. But he does have to say,
all right, like, don't try to blow up the white
nationalists quote unquote, just you know, spit in their faces
and do what ANTIFA usually does. But don't do that,
(10:57):
because then I have to let the NYPD tackle some
of them and do the things. I'm going to tell
you this right now. By the way, it's gonna take
some time. The sentence that these guys get is going
to be enragingly light guaranteed in real now, they're gonna
they're gonna be punished because they they know there are
(11:17):
limits here to how crazy the system can be in
New York when before people really start to freak out
and leave. But Clay, I mean, you're gonna see remember
the guys who during BLM. Wasn't there a guy It
was a lawyer. Actually, there you go, a lawyer who
threw a Molotov cocktail into a cop car. They got
slap on the wrist. Yeah, I remember that slap on
(11:39):
the wrist. Yeah, I remember that story because I think
it was a lawyer at a prominent law firm, and
I remember thinking, how do you find yourself in a
situation where you're lighting a Molotov cocktail as a lawyer
on fire and throwing it into a cop car. Uh,
that's how deranged everybody became on the left in particular
(11:59):
in twenty twenty, probably got a tenured professor precision position
waiting for him at some local university, local college in
New York. I wouldn't be surprised at all. Look, we
had a blackout the other night. That's why I didn't
last me anything. Most of you were nice in the AMA,
some of you not so nice. Most of you were nice.
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Blackout in the building that was not fun. I was
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couple of cuts. President Trump was just outside the White
House and he was responding to members of the press
(13:47):
as he walked to the helicopter. President Trump is going
to be in Ohio and Kentucky today, Buck, so he
is about to embark on some early twenty twenty six campaigning.
Just fyi so Ohio and Kentucky. He is probably in
the air en route right now. A reporter asked Trump
(14:09):
when he's going to announce mission accomplished. This is cut
twenty five. Listen, Well, we've.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Knocked out that Navy, We've knocked out the Red Force,
We've knocked out all of their anti defense. We've taken
out sixty mine boat fifty mind vote. Nobody has ever
seen like we have the greatest military in the world
by far, not even closing. You know what, they've been
(14:43):
flicking forty seven years worth of damage to the world.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Big produ.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Couple more buck, He says, we need more of the
same in order for the Iran operation to officially be
over cut twenty six.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yes, you know where doing something that nobody ever thought
was possible to do.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Our military is the best, it's the.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Most powerful in the world.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
And they're hitting him very hard. This is forty seven
years of abuse and killing, lots of people, killing and
naming lots of people. What is it, Peter, What board
you need to do militarily for this operation to end?
More the same and we'll see how that all comes.
Right now, they are they've lost their navy, they've lost
(15:30):
their air force. They have no anti aircraft apparatus at all, they.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Have no radar.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Their leaders are gone, and we.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Could do a lot worse. We're leaving certain.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Things that if we take them out, or we could
take them out by this afternoon, in fact within an hour,
they literally would never be able to build that country better.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
All right, one more buck. He's saying he thinks oil
companies should be using the straight of horror moves that
has helped to inflate the overall price of oil and
gas Cut twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Talking to CEOs of various oil companies, encouraging them to
use this straight upright.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Right, they should.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I think they should. I think they should use them
on you.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Look, we took out just about all of their mind shifts,
and one night we're up to both number sixty. I
didn't realize that that big a navy. I would say
it was big and ineffective.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
But every one of the shifts, this about all of
the navy is gone and the bottom.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Of this over.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Okay, So that is the latest from President Trump. Navy's gone,
air force is gone. He can declare victory whenever he
feels like they have finished their targeting. Anything surprised you
from any of that, buck, I mean, obviously, the president
is very confident about his ability to do whatever he
feels like he needs to do. No, that's where we've
been saying. The situation is right now, it's essentially pulling
(17:02):
apart the Iranian military apparatus piece by piece and just
just dismantling it. And that is that has been effective.
We've been able to do that. The Iranians don't really
have a countering capability. The only counter and capability they
would have at this point is something people are concerned about,
which is sells operational cells going on terrorist attacks against
(17:25):
soft targets here at home or around the world. That's
something we have to be aware of. Although if we
trace that back to Iran, you know, we're who wants
to be involved in that kind of stuff on Irani
and soil. Right now, we can blow up anyone anywhere basically,
So I think that that's all it all lines up, Clay,
But I also think that we're going to walk away
(17:45):
without there being a different government in Iran. I do
think that's where this is going to happen or this
is going So that's an interesting situation. I'm not really
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Speaker 7 (20:07):
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You know, I'm a two thousand and three three gun
state championship winner out of Texas, and I use a
forty five ACP the whole time because a nine mel
wouldn't knock over to steal plates. It's the kinetic energy
it counts.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Buddy. I love your gun war here that you have
started with gun guys just called. By the way, that
guy sounds like what I would expect a Texas shooting
champion to sound like. Correct. Yes, I mean, if you
know Trump always talks about somebody out of Central casting,
that is the voice of a expert Texas shooter. I
(20:48):
would think Kevin may live in Florida.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He still wears a cowboy hat, let's be honest, still
wears a cabin and no one questions it because he's Kevin'
from Texas. By the way, we've got more people just
weighing in. I'm taking body blows left and right for
continuing to talk about how awesome my tesla is. This
is Robert podcast listener cut g Clay.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I think that all of your sports talk, tough manliness talk,
it's just a facade to cover up for the fact
that you drive an electric car. My favorite thing to
do is get in front of a Tesla with the
f two to fifty break check them, then throw the
hammer down, roll some coal and leave them in a
cloud of toxic diesel fumes. Enjoy going to pick up
(21:30):
the tampons in the electric.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Car there, Bye, wow, harsh? Why so anty? Look, just
because I live in the future and you live in
the past doesn't mean you have to be angry at me.
You know, like back in the day there were a
lot of Biff. Was a Biff Henderson the foil of
a Martymack future? Ye yeah, yeah, yeah. There are a
lot of Biffs out there, you know, rolling around the
(21:55):
nineteen fifties with your sleeves rolled up, not understanding the
flux capacitor and the future. Sure that was coming your
way in one of the Fly, right McFly, If anyone
ever did that to your head, and like did the
Knock Knock, I think you should be allowed to punch them.
That is I think one of the greatest movies that's
ever been made. Across board and it still holds up.
(22:16):
And here's something it's gonna single most beloved by Rotten
Tomatoes of the eighties is back Is that true? Actually
it is back to the future. Yes, okay, so this
is actually a popular opinion. This is kind of wild.
If they were putting back to the future, we were
going back in time, uh from the modern day. I
(22:37):
believe I am correct in this. We would be setting
back to the future now in nineteen ninety six. Think
about that when we were kids, when we were kids,
and all of you out there who watch Back to
the Future, I believe Back to the Future was set
in nineteen fifty four ish, so it was made in
(22:57):
like nineteen eighty four, so it was going back thirty
and I remember just thinking watching that, you know, that's
my parents' generation that grew up and just thinking, man,
that world is so much different. Think about that now.
If they made back to the future today and they
went back in time the same amount, they would be
going back to nineteen ninety six. That that really kind
(23:19):
of is boggling my mind to think about. And I
actually think that would be a great That would be
a great premise for reviving the back of the Future franchise,
right if you brought back then if with the current generation,
you did the parents. Your parents are dressing like Ross
and Chandler from Friends, and everyone's watching Seinfeld and you're
(23:41):
listening to like Nirvana, and maybe you know that's basically
the you know. I went and saw and I don't
know if I talked about it on the show, because
I knew you were going to be angry about it,
But I went and saw Scream seven, which is so
angry about this take, It's insane. This is when this
is when I look at Clay. I'm like, like, how
you're so a student, so many things you think? Anyway,
(24:01):
go ahead. I went. So I went and watched Scream
seven in the movie theater, and I've watched all the
Scream movies. The original Scream movie was set in nineteen
ninety six, so to your point, they now have made
thirty years later. Nev Campbell, who is the star of
the Scream franchise, it has been thirty years since the
(24:23):
original Scream movie was made, so there is a nostalgic,
iconic throwback esque element to Scream seven, which I enjoy.
I think the original screen movie is for a I
really consider it more thriller than horror because it's there's
nothing supernatural. It's really just a you like the original
screen the original is an excellent movie for what it is.
(24:43):
It really an excellent movie. Yeah, I mean there's look,
usually when they make seven of something, there are exceptions.
Maybe this is coming from the two Electric car guys.
I'm just gonna lean into this for a second. The
fact that The Fast and the Furious franchise is like
maybe the most successful movie franchise of all time by
box office receipts is complete madness. To me. I would
(25:08):
rather watch an endless loop of sham Wou and George
Foreman grill commercials. I cannot understand how anyone thinks The
Fast and Furious movies are worth watching, and yet I
am clearly clearly in the minority on this one. I
think they made nine or something how many of Yeah. Now,
to be fair, I think the Fast and the Furious
(25:29):
movies were a perfect distillation of the international appeal of
movies because they don't have to talk very much, and
so I mean, I mean the dialogue, we don't need
to actually speak. But I mean, if you look at
what is popular internationally, it's often just really fast racing cars.
(25:50):
And I think the Fast and the Furious movies back
when China was allowing movies to actually be aired in China,
you know, they started cutting back on a lot of
American films, but they to basically do away with dialogue
and just have a lot of big, explosive pyrotechnics, and
I think those movies are a perfect distillation of that.
I walk past someone today in a gold Ferrari and
(26:15):
I just have to say, do you think you could
pull off being the owner of a gold Ferrari. I mean,
it clearly had been repaid. I don't think they offer
that as a factory color, but it was well, this
is this is a fun question. What would you think
if the next time I came to Miami, we did
the show and then I said, hey, I've got to
(26:36):
run out because there is a Ferrari dealership not far
from where you are, because I've seen them like, and
I was like, I got to go pick up my Ferrari.
Would you be like this is the most outrageous because
let me tell you this, Ferrari is the most profitable
car in the world per Ferrari because they treat them
like paintings, like they only do make like three thousand
(26:59):
Ferrari He's a year or something. It's an extraordinarily profitable
brand as a result. Look, I actually think that Ferraris
are They are works of art, and they are beautiful
to their they're in credit. I mean, I'm not a
car guy, but I respect Ferrari has sort of created
the the ultimate in in in the you know, in vehicle,
(27:20):
uh racing luxury. But if you told me that you
were picking up your gold plated I would be calling
Laura and be like, Laura, I think Clay's having a
mid life crisis. We got to get him some help.
Like probably would be accurate. Here's the answer. I would
be nervous to drive a car that nice, whether you
could pull it off or not, because I don't care
(27:42):
how much money I had. I would be so terrified
of hitting a curb in a Ferrari or somebody bumping
into me while I was driving it that I couldn't
ever enjoy the process of driving a Ferrari. I would
be terrified if something going wrong. I was I was
own for my incredible wheels. In college, I had a
(28:04):
wood paneled Buick Roadmaster station wagon in a pale blue
with the wood paneling with like ninety thousand miles on it,
and we called it the Shagan Wagon. There was no
shaging in this wagon, but that was what we called it.
Big Austin Powers fan back of the day, and this thing,
(28:24):
let me tell you you, it was like indestructible. There
was nothing, you know, you could do whatever. You have
to have to worry about parking it, leaving it. Nobody's
gonna steal it, Like you know, I to worry if
the car doors are locked. I'm not a huge car
guy either. It handled sort of like a like a
ferry boat that would take you between islands or something. Yes,
(28:45):
it had that kind of a turn radius. However, however,
a little ding on the wood paneling, You're like, eh,
it's not real wood? Is that the worst car you
ever had? The worst car I ever had was when
Waa and I first got married. We bought a Chevy
Malibu convertible, which is the worst purchase of my life.
That's that's like a Michael Scott from the office kind
(29:07):
of a purchase, a Chevy Chevy Malibu convertible. I thought
having a convertible would be nice. The thing had a
turn radius you had if you just made like even
Chevy Malibu. Laura grew up. Laura grew up knowing cars
because she grew up in the fun of the Chevy
(29:28):
Malibu more than the electric car you own now. Tell
But by the way I had, I had no money, So,
I mean, it's not like when we got married. I was,
you know, twenty five or whatever. It's not like I
was out there and I could say, Hey, you know
what I'm gonna buy. I mean, I bought a used
Chevy Malibu. The guy who sold it was probably like,
I can't believe somebody gave me money for this. I
think it was like seven thousand dollars or something. It
(29:50):
was not very much. Mine have any money. And it's
the worst car I've ever driven. You could not turn
the thing, Like, what did you think The number one
thing you would think if you had a convertible would
be man, that thing would handle really well. You had
to make like seventy eight different turns to reverse direction
(30:11):
to make a turn in that car. It had the
worst turn radius of any vehicle ever made. And it's
the worst purchase that I ever made. And it was
only like seven grand. But I was like, as soon
as I started driving it, I was like, this is
a really bad decision we made. I also liked that
people would sometimes see me driving by and they would
just start going holiday. You know. They reminded them of
(30:32):
the car from National Lampoons, although it's actually a different
Also a great movie that holds up that original Vacation
and the one that I think is even better, which
is rare. Christmas Vacation is the best of the of
the Vacation franchises, and that one came out like twenty
years later. Did you see I'm not letting you get
off the hook so easy with this? Did you see
all seven Screen movies? Oh? Yeah, which was the worst one?
(30:57):
I think Scream four probably was the worst. Maybe Screen five,
I remember when I Six was not good either. Really
seven was better than I would say four, five, and six.
Do you remember the leprechan movies? Oh? Of course I
(31:19):
Do you know that Jennifer Aniston was in the first one.
It was actually her screen debut. Uh but casting move
by them, by the way, Yes, that's an elite pick
elite draft Parry, very very budget horror movie. But Warwick Davis,
who was also the good guy in Willow he plays.
He's a well known little person actor, the best known
(31:41):
little person actor before Tierry and Lanister. That guy came
along forget his name in real life, but that that
guy's a cocky bastard. I don't really like him. He's
not very likable. I mean, he's a little big for
his breitches. If we're gonna be honest, yes, And nonetheless,
we had great in Game of Thrones though, I mean
(32:03):
really talent. It's fantastic in the role. Full credit for that.
But Warwick Davis the Leprechaun movies, they made five of
them play and I saw several of the sequels. There
is a leprechaun in the Hood movie, which is what
you think it is. It is like Boys in the Hood,
but they drop a leprechaun in the middle of the
(32:24):
movie and it is a thing. So you know, I
don't know. They don't make movies like they used to.
That I could tell you. And they certainly don't make
them like Scream seven. By the way, Peter Dinklice should
be incredibly humble because he happened to get the best
midget character that has ever exists. For midget characters, and
(32:47):
yet he didn't accept that role from George R. R. Martin.
I mean, Terry and Lanister is the greatest midget character
in I think person or dwarf. You're throwing me at
some point. It's some point is that the m more
now like I'm sticking with midget, Like everybody knows what
it is. He got the greatest midget role ever. And
(33:08):
instead of being incredibly thankful, do you know, remember this,
Like he said it would be offensive when they remade
the snow White Woke snow White, they had to do
computer animated dwarves because he said it would be offensive
to cast midgets to play the Remember this if you're
a little person actor. The guy just stole the seven
(33:29):
greatest roles that are going to exist in your career
because he's a cocky bastard. I don't like that, dude,
Peter Dinklice, I there's one of the few people in
media that I'm like. He seems like a total I'm
trying to avoid a jerk. I'm trying to avoid using
the wrong word. By the way, fast growing trees one
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(35:17):
the frivolity that everybody's angry on social media a lot.
It feels like, I would say, anger is the predominant media.
I like to laugh, and so there's a lot of
great humor from many of you on social media on
a regular basis, So more humor, less anger. I think
happy warrior doom typically wins. And I wanted to make
sure that I mentioned this guy's name because we talked
(35:37):
about him in the fact that he was a hero
and he's not getting any credit from Mamdani at all.
Aaron Edwards buck is the name of the NYPD officer
that has gone viral with a photo of him jumping
over a barricade to tackle these two would be terrorists
outside of Gracie Mansion. Aaron Edwards, So thank you from us.
(35:58):
I know we have a lot of them YPD listeners
out there in the WR listening audience, and I know
a lot of you are nodding along too that. Unfortunately,
it is a sign of the culture that has been
embraced from New York City that people who are protesting
at Columbia get to eat dinner in the mayor's residence
and not the people that are actually keeping us all
(36:19):
safe from the looney ben criminals out there. So thank
you to Aaron Edwards of the NYPD. We come back, Buck.
Our friend Ashley Brassfeld is going to join us with
the absolute latest on the Georgia primary, including the race
to replace Marjorie Taylor Green that is getting a lot
of attention right now. And then also in the third hour,
we'll be joined by Senator Tommy Tubberville of Alabama. All
(36:41):
that coming your way in the next hour, plus your reactions.
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