July 23, 2021 • 37 mins
PODCAST SUMMARY HOUR 3: Woke USA women’s soccer team kneels and gets blown out 3-0 by Sweden. What percentage of Americans are rooting against the woke US’s women’s soccer team? Clay and Buck quiz the EIB staff on the least popular sports in the Olympics. After 100 years, the Cleveland Indians change name to the Cleveland Guardians. Will they change the name of the Norte Dame Fighting Irish, is anyone offended by leprechauns? Buck makes a powerful new enemy: water polo players.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis. Here, I'm hanging
out with my guy Buck Sexton, and we are finishing
off the final hour of the week. I hope you
have hung out with us on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and that we are sending you in to an awesome weekend.
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Wherever you may be across this great country or maybe
around the world, you might be listening to us many
different places. Search out my name, Clay Travishing, search out
Buck Sexton's naming, and find us on social media. You
certainly can go subscribe to this podcast. Our number two
we talked with Congressman Jim Jordan of the great State
of Ohio. He was fantastic, as he often is. As
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we roll into the weekend, there are a couple of
stories that are getting an awful lot of attention. One
the Olympics. The opening ceremonies happened early this morning. Some
of you may have watched some of those ceremonies. The
Olympics are officially underway in Japan, and the Cleveland Indians
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have changed their nickname. This is not an Onion article.
Or a Babylon b article to the Cleveland Guardians. But Buck,
I saw something you tweeted earlier this week that I
was really entertained by the US women's soccer team, which,
by the way, in like twenty fifteen, when they won
the Women's World Cup, I was in Vancouver. I took
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my family. They were as beloved of an American sports
team as there could be. Everybody who loved the US women.
Over the last several years, their overall approval rate, I
think it's fair to say in the United States of
America has plummeted substantially. They lost three nothing to Sweden
after kneeling yet again, and you said, Buck Sexton, you
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were rooting for Sweden. You have abandoned the US women
and almost based entirely on politics, I'm presuming, and you
actually enjoy seeing them lose. The women's soccer team absolutely ghosts,
absolutely ghost Sweden. Fantastic to see those ladies, and I
gotta say, not not a hard team to root for
as a as a guy. Um, they're good looking women
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on the Swedist team that you might have noticed. I
can neither confirm nor deny, but I'm just saying he
gets offensive to judge women by their looks now, Buck,
how sexist of you to even notice a good looking woman?
I was. I was pretty astounded that, even in this
current era. You know, Boris Becker, who was one of
the tennis greats, and I did watch a fair amount
of tennis growing up. You know, he referred to a
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players girlfriend at Wimbledon, a fiance as pretty. And there
were people who were upset by this. Yes, yeah, if
this is utter madness, you know has happened a few
years ago. Brent Musberger, one of the Alabama quarterbacks girlfriends,
was in the crowd and he said something like, man,
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you quarterbacks, you all get the best looking girls. She's
a good looking woman. And by the way, quarterbacks do
didn't to do pretty well with girls based on you know,
all of recorded history of sports. Um. I actually remember Buck.
When I was a kid. I remember going we got
to sit down close for an Atlanta Braves game, I
think it was, and I was I was probably like
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ten or eleven, and I looked around. There were a
ton of really good looking women and I said to
my dad, why are there so many, you know, like
really pretty women here? And he said, well, this is
a lot of the players wives, and I remember saying, like, oh,
so baseball players in the major leagues they have good
looking wives, And my dad was like, yeah, they do
pretty well for themselves. Yes, but it is also funny.
This is also known as observing objective reality around you.
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But you're not allowed to do this anymore. And I'd
also note that our our friend Jesse Kelly, who's also
on on our network, he put out did you see
his list of the the ten most attractive members of Congress?
Did he get? Cried? Gosh? I mean, it's so fun
That was yesterday, unless it may have been and I'm
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quoting here the ten hottest women in Congress. I I
can't remember exactly the verbiage, but it was basically, an
attractive members of Congress should have put He should have
put like two dudes in there and just blown everybody's mind,
especially if he had a guy as the hottest part
member of Congress. That's that's how people were terrified. How
dare he noticed good looking? I just thought you were
allowed to say nice things, you know, like when people
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come up to me. You know we got yeah, we
got two radio hosts here with good hair, you know,
so when people come up to the street they're like, hey,
I like your radio show, but you've actually got good here.
That makes my day probably my week, you know, I'm
sure he feels say away. If people come up with you,
they're like, hey, you're a sports radio host, but you're
you're an athletic looking guy, and you know you got
a lovely wife and we like nice that. Anyway, This
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is I'm trying to tell everybody. Can we can we
all just take a compliment and roll with it When
we can't even agree on mascot's clay, that's another thing too. Well,
we're gonna get some mess. But I'm what percentage of
people do you think are rooting against the US women's
soccer team because they find them to be And let
me say this, by the way, big picture, what is
so frustrating to me about the US women's soccer team
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is they had an opportunity to use their platform in
twenty fifteen and in twenty nineteen to point out that
the reason they dominate buck. Do you know if you
look at every women's soccer match and just consider which
country has freer women, you can basically pick the winner
of the match. Because people say well, how come to
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us men are nowhere near as good as the US women.
That's because around the world, most good male athletes get
identified and they're able to expend their athleticism to the
fullest of their ability because men have advantages. But you know,
it's not a surprise that our women would do better
than women in let's say Iran, where they're not even
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allowed to play outside of Burkah's right. Basically, like, this
is not a big surprise that girls who can wear shorts.
It's kind of a decent symbol that they might be better. Instead,
they ripped America instead of trying to lift up the
world to believe in American If if, if you've taken me,
I'm rooting against you, and that's that's really what it
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comes out. You've taken me, I'm rooting against you. That's
that's just how it's gonna go from here on out,
and whether that's as a league or as a team
or as an individual. Because I'm sorry, it's I actually
I'm not sorry. I'm not sorry, and it's disrespectful. So yeah,
I was. I was psyched to see the Swedish ladies
doing well. And you know, I mean, maybe maybe they should.
Maybe they should follow us on Twitter and Instagram, maybe
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they should become fans of the show. I'm just putting
it out there. We're big in Sweden, especially with huge
in Tweeden, and so you got that insanity that's going on.
So do you think we were talking about this? I'm
not sure that there has ever been less interest in
an Olympics because usually the Olympics is kind of a
big deal. People come together, they want especially the Summer Olympics,
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because there have been so many big iconic stars. I
feel like this is landing on deaf ears to a
large extent. You have that sense, and when you've got
empty stadiums, even a part of this, you know, we
we hearken back in our minds. You're all the way
to you know, ancient Rome and the Colosseum and the
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theatricality of these events at the Olympics. Obviously ancient Greece
where the Olympics started. But I just mean I was
thinking Gladiator in my mind. You know, you think of
these events that happened with massive crowds and the energy,
and you know, honestly, watching really fast people run when
there's no crowd there, it's just a different spectator experience.
It just doesn't feel like it has the same the
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same energy behind it. And you know, this is I
think there's also just a lot of people right now
feel like, you know, is there the possibility that their
weird covid resdictions could actually become a problem for some
of these teams. And but I'll be honest, I'm not
really a big Olympics guy. It was just not a
surprise to you, I'm sure, but I'm not a huge
Olympic I watched, like the person who wins the fastest
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one hundred meter dash whatever, That's what I watch. Yeah,
And even that, you know, you Saint Bold, who is Jamaican,
he's retiring, Michael Phelps, who's one of the greatest Olympians ever.
You know, people could have a rooting interest for him
over the last whatever his twenty years. It feels like
that he's been representing the United States. And then you
toss in what I think is a pretty significant factor,
the time difference of what time it is in Japan
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versus the United States, and I just I feel like
these are going to be this is my prediction. I
think this is going to be the least watched Olympics
that has ever existed in the United States because for
so long this was something that united everyone. I think
there are a lot of people out there listening to
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us right now that are with you and not rooting
for the US women over politics and statements that they're making.
But also I think that there's just a general despair
about the idea of how many women are going too
and men are going to protest, and people are like,
I just don't have time for it. Do you know
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that the trampoline is an Olympic event? I was just
checking this was well, what the you know trampoline? I
mean water polo is, which I think watching water polo
maybe the most boring spectator sport. That's ride water polo fans,
you can come at me. I'll take it. But looking
at because come on, you can't even see what's going
on right you look at some of the I'm looking
at the list of all the different sports that they have,
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and I have them bipopularity. Let me see if I
can get you to guess what do you think the
most anticipated event is at the Tokyo Olympics. Basketball? No, really,
basketball is this is the morning consult? A pole that
they did of Americans most anticipated events at the Olympics.
I'll give you the hands here. Basketball is sixth, sixth
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on the sports that much. I would that's much lower
than that I thought it would have been. I mean,
I love tennis, but that's probably not even the top
ten Tennis is tennis? Is ten Okay? Well let's see
I was pretty close. Yeah, um, I have honestly, is it?
Is it? Track and field? Track and field is fourth?
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What's number one? You're keeping number one? I think I
think I think you'll get that. Then when I say it,
you'll be like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Gymnastics, right,
there is a massive dudes that surprise you, that does
surprise me. I wouldn't think gymnastics. Gymnastics one destroys everything else.
What two? Second most beloved or anticipated event at the
Tokyo Olympics swimming, which surprised me a little bit. I
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would have gotten. Gymnastics I wouldn't have gotten. But these
are for Americans, right, I think we've gotten used to
because Michael Phelps is just in this other category of
winner that I think that that's what's made swimming so
popular for us, because we just love those medals. We're Americans.
We like winning. This surprised me too. Third most popular diving,
which feels like it's kind of swimming, but it is
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kind of cool to watch from those super high dives,
like how perfect people land in the water. And also
the fact that you convince yourself that you know, like
what a good dive is and what a dive is not.
I see that's interesting me because these are also events
where it's, you know, the fastest runner is not a
there's not a judge decide like that. This is just reality. Yes,
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so these are things where the judges are making determinations
about who. It's a subjective let's be honest. Those are
you know, Gymnastics is a subjective event. Diving is a
subjective event. That's interesting to me. Track and field, which
you got is four. This one also surprised me. Basketball
you got at at six. Beach volleyball. Oh, yes, there's
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a lot of good looking girls. I think that probably
I don't have to say these things out loud, Buddy,
I say it out loud. I say it out loud. Volleyball.
Maybe I appreciate this beach volleyball too. Yeah, well that's yes,
I'm sure By the way, do we have ratings on
which one is more watched? Oh? I bet women's beach
volleyball way more watched than But here's the question. As
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we get ready to go to break, I'll come back.
What are the least popular sports according to Americans that
they are least interested in. I doubt very many people
will guess these, but I will tell you the sports
that Americans are not interested in watching. I gave you
the top five six. I think my beloved table tennis
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also known as ping pong has probably gone that list
because I am, for an amateur, freakishly good at ping pong,
and it makes me very sad that that's the one
that doesn't get the proper love in this country. That
I think. Should we bring in the crew and let
them guess? Ali is texting me right now? Oh yeah, no,
I'd I'd love to hear. I'd love to hear from
our team here from the East. But the squad. Yes,
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let's bring in the EIB squad and we will see
if any of them can get one of the three
least popular sports at the Olympics. And let's also bring
in all of you are EIB fam all across the
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the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Um, Buck, Clay
and I are getting into the Olympic situation here and
we've got our EIB team that is telling us what
is the least watch of the Olympic sports? The least
popular at least by viewership? Producer producers Alie, Greg, Mojoe, Crash, All,
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dub All waiting in. Ali says fencing. Greg says skateboarding,
Mojo says speedwalking, dub says handball. I guess it all
depends on the shorts. Crash says, do you see that
There was a controversy because they wouldn't wear some of
the ladies wouldn't wear the I did see that, which
kind of crazy, and Crash says the marathon because it's exact.
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I think the mar thon's actually fun to watch. You
just got to watch the very end of it, though,
but in person, I've never watched it on TV, to
be fair. So here are the so is it Ali
who said fencing, Yes, that is the fifth least popular
according to Americans, sport that is out there. Here are
the button and by the way, your water polo is
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the sixth least popular sport, counting down handball. Dub I
think said handball, it is the it is the third
least popular, sorry, fourth least popular. Uh here modern pentathlon.
I'm not even sure exactly what is in the pit?
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Like you swim, you ski, you shoot. Isn't that like
all the different things. I don't even know. I don't
know what is a modern I don't know what they
do that that sounds accurate. I think there's five right, pentathlon.
You're the sports guy, but I don't know the pentathlon.
Clay Travis has to know everything about sports. I think
it's the five events. I don't know what the five
events would be in the pentathlon. Field hockey Do men play?
(16:05):
I don't think you play field hockeyeld hockey, sir. Really
it's big in South Asia? Oh yeah, oh, I didn't
know that. Yeah play, yeah. I know girls play in America,
but do we We don't play field hockey in America,
do we men? I mean that all depends women are
I know it's a big sport. For women, especially on
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the East Coast. But I don't remember there being men
who play field hockey. I always thought that, like, well,
I don't know, I don't think we do. And then
the least popular the least Popley's kind of surprised me.
The rugby sevens is the least popular American Olympic sport.
According to uh, these are the most anticipated. Maybe there's
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some that are not included here, but those are the
least anticipated events in this graphic that I am looking at,
I'm I'm surprised, but I've never I've never been a
rugby watcher in general, as rugby sets, is that a
specific kind of rugby is like I'm swing it's seven
on seven, but I don't know, I don't even know
how many people are usually on a rugby Uh yeah,
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dub says seven man rugby. By the way, the pentathlon
dubbed buck is fencing, swimming, equestrian pistol, shooting, and running.
That's a pretty crazy collection of that far off. So
that's that's kind of that. That's close. I will be
stole shooting. I didn't know that. I mean, that's kind
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of wild. Yeah, I didn't know that. Um, well, yeah,
I didn't know that was a part of it. I'd
also say that whenever you watch, if you've watched, if
you like me, if you grew up watching karate movies
and then you actually see the Olympics. By karate movies
you mean karate kid. Well, no, no, I mean catalog buddy. Okay,
we can have a whole martial arts conversation here, but yeah,
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the karate you see in the Olympics is not as cool.
Unfortunately rugby usually has, by the way, fifteen people on it.
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Facebook dot com, slash, Buck Sexton and Clay. The Cleveland
Indians are no more now they are the Cleveland Guardians,
which I didn't even know, Like, what is what is
what is a I know what the what a guardian
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is what it means, But how are you supposed to
get excited? I guess it doesn't matter. They're just gonna
rebrand it. But this one, to me seems a little
seems a little silly. There there were some mascots that
I thought should change then, I'll be honest with you,
very few, but a couple that were a little Oh,
I don't know about that. I what's funny to me
is they just decided, hey, we're gonna keep like most
of the name because Indians. They just kept the D
(20:29):
I A N S right and added guard you know,
in front of it, so that it still kind of
sounds the same Cleveland Indians Cleveland Guardians. Like okay, but
it's just a really weird move. And by the way,
your you went to Amherst, which, by the way, big
nerd there. But they have they have changed their mascot, right, Yeah,
(20:50):
we went from the Lord Jeffrey Amherst, who was an actual,
I mean our mascot at games was a guy who
was dressed like one of the bad guys for the
movie The Patriot, you know British. He's got the wig one,
he's got this thatches and everything, and he would dance
around and you know, the whole thing. But there's this
story I think it's apocryphal, but there's a story that
(21:12):
Lord Jeff Amherst. You know, it was tough. He had
a lot of things going on, and he gave blankets
to the natives, to a native tribe. And they think
that the blankets, this is just a story. I don't
even know how they would know. They didn't understand microbiology,
but they say that they were quote smallpox blankets and quote,
and so this was considered the first usage of bioweapons
(21:36):
on This is actually what the active has said, bioweapons
on US soil. So now we're the mastodons or no,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the mammoths another large furry elephant.
Were the men like the wooly mammoths. Yep uh okay,
I mean that's I actually think that's a better mascot.
So the Indians have changed their name. I went to
(21:56):
for college the George Washington Colonials, and of course we
were called the Colonials because it was the colonial army
and kids on my campus now are obsessed with changing
colonials because they think it's connected to colonizing. And it's like,
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you have to talk to these no, no no, no, no.
We were the colonies and we fought for our independence.
That's what the colonial army was doing. But they are
so indoctrinated with the idea that colonizing is a bad
thing that they want to change the name of the
mascot George Washington colonials. Now that the thing about this
(22:36):
is I'm kind of with you. If you could put
me in you and whoever else, like, we could sit
across the table from the Wokes and say, okay, let's
just end the mascot controversy once and for all. You
give us a list of names, will negotiate, will agree
to change X number of names, and then we'll be
done with this forever. But that's not how this works,
(22:59):
because in order to be woke, you always have to
find something new that's offensive, right, doesn't end. And this
is what this is what I say, I mean even
because what would be people poses to me, they say,
what do you really think of the of the Redskins
football team name? And you know I mean this, this
(23:19):
is you know there, there are there are limits, right,
But then I say, okay, well what about the Vikings.
They say, what do you mean, there's nothing offensive about
the Vikings. Then I get to sit there and say, really,
the great sea wolves of history with their rape and
pillage and slavery, because that's what the Vikings actually did.
When they'd go out with those, people think of them like, oh,
you know, they're kind of just going around on the
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long boats and they've got these cool sports. Yeah, there
was a whole There was a whole culture basically built
on slavery, enslaving people, pillaging, looting. So I don't think
that's you know, that's not not only that. I mean,
the one that gets talked about now is the fighting Irish,
right Notre Dame is the fighting Irish, And people are like,
oh that this is just got Irish people. As speaking
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from the Irish American community, speaking as a member of it,
we are a sturdy and fearsome lot who find life
to be funny in many ways and can take a
joke as well as a shot of whatever you put
in front of us. And the Irish Irish I will see,
on the other hand, a bunch of commists it's unfortunate,
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but it's true. The actual Irish are super left wing
and very woke. Well, and that's why some people say
that fighting Irish is going to one day give up
the ghost. And there's probably people out there. Look, you
have the Atlanta Brave, Chicago Blackhawks, Florida State Seminoles, the
Kansas City Chiefs. They just move on right. Redskins is gone. Now,
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Indians like a prospect on the chopping proper name of
a tribe. And this is this has come up because
there have been tribes and I know people already know
this who say, no, we actually Reorida State is an
example of that. Well, but we are. We already have,
like we've had tribes that come forward and say, when
you're calling like one of the most fearsome pieces of
rotary aircraft ever with the Apache, yea, when you're when
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you're calling it that like to honor our prowess as warriors.
You're not degrading us or mocking us. So like that's cool.
Now I'm the Apache one. By the way, that's actually
not a specific example, but I'm using it as there
have been other times where there have tribes to have
come forward, you know, and if you know it's I don't.
I don't know how. The Seminoles, as an example, they
are honored that Florida state because they were a warring
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tribe that fought for itself in the state of Florida.
They're like, hey, we consider it to be an honor
that you call yourself the Seminoles. We want you to
continue to do that. Yeah, I mean the fighting Irish thing. Yes,
the guy's a LEPrecon. No one's offended by leprecons. No
one to actually gets Wow, that's it. Dwarves. And you
can't say midgets anymore. I just said it. But you're
(25:55):
not supposed to say midget. I think you're supposed to
say little people now right. You can't say Eskimo, do
you know that? Like that's no, no, no, no. I
Actually there's a very important, very important point on this one.
You can say Eskimo, but it refers only to one
of I believe five native tribes. They so they don't like. Rather,
the native tribes don't like that all are referred to
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as Eskimo, because there's Eskimo, Inuit and a bunch of
other I think Alot is one of them, but don't
quote me on that one. They're like the Aleutian Islands.
I think there are a few different tribes. So Eskimo
is not like a slur or anything. It's just used
too broadly. This was explained to me buy an Alaskan, who,
of course, what's the first question in New Yorker asked
any Alaskan have you ever done the like dangerous catch
(26:36):
fishing ship thing? And this guy the deadliest catch? Yes,
all right, we got everyone, We got folks that want
to wear We're having too much fun, and we gotta
bring everybody else in here for a second. I gotta
let Charles from North Carolina in here because he's got it.
He got a bone to pick. What's up, Charles? Welcome,
Hey guys. Hey, I just want to letus to know
that in a few short weeks, you guys have made
me a fan. So I'm enjoying this so quite a bit.
(26:58):
Thank you. Go to work. But I have to take
issue with your disparaging comments about water polo, because any
man or woman who plays water polo will take you
out very strong, very athletic, very capable. I was a
gymnast and a water polo athlete, and the water polo
is much harder than the gymnastics was. Yeah, I agree.
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I think Bucks in trouble, you're gonna be walking down
the street in New York. Out of nowhere door opens.
Water polo players is gonna flatten you. I was gonna say,
first of all, water polo ladies, I'm sure are absolutely fantastic,
and Charles, I wasn't saying that it's not a difficult sport,
or that it's not that you guys are hardcore. I
wrote crew in college, believe it or not, which is
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misery but also very good for you. But watching it
is not the most I'm in From a spectator perspective,
I just feel like you can't see what's going on
in a water pole. It's a lot of splashing. It
looks it looks like a lot of thrashing, like one
of those you know, Aroba sized classes for some folks
in the water. You know, that's what it looks like.
I don't think I don't think you're helping yourself here now,
amics instructors, yeolos. Maybe next time you go swimming. I'm
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telling you, if somehow I don't show up for the
show one day and they find a yellow water polo
ball next to my head on the street and I'm
knocked out. We'll know what happened. But thank you for
thank you for calling him man. We appreciate it. Your
boy Will Kine is a former water polo player. I
believed Pepper nine. He's gonna definitely take you out. He is,
he's gonna take it. Well, no, but he does he
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agree with me that it's not a good spectator sport.
You know, is it is a good question? Is it
fun to watch on TV? Didn't we win like the
gold medal and water polo because we brought over in
East and you don't even know. I don't know every
Olympic team. Listen to this next thing. People are gonna
find out that you actually played soccer to you you
I I right, he's player. I think we brought in
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an Eastern European like crazy man water polo coach doub
can look that up. I think he led us to
like a gold medal um and he's the total Will
like freakish dude. We will continue our Friday open line
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton. We are rolling
through the final segment here of the week fifteen hours,
as we do every single week, encouraging to download the podcast.
Thank you for hanging out with us on our four
hundred plus AMFM stations listening along live all fifty states.
We are talking about a variety different subjects. By the way,
(30:35):
Congressman Jim Jordan joined us in the second hour was
really great. The Olympics are underway, a lot of you
may or may not be watching them. This weekend. We
got mascot controversies and by the way, we were talking
about bucket wiped out by water polo. We did. We
hired a water polo beast of a coach. His name
is Dejon. You to vote chick, and I'm probably mispronouncing that.
(30:57):
He is the former head coach of Serbia and he
has led us into a powerhouse status where previously in
Serbia he developed and built a dominant franchise. So just
keep your head on swivel buxexing. You never know, man,
those water polo players all of a sudden, big shoulders,
They're pretty rapped. That's a tough job, yeah, but you
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can usually in their man bikinis, you can see him
coming from a while away, you know what I mean.
It's like I see that he's got the little little
cap on his little goggles. I know, I know who's
coming from me. Water polo players can in Cleveland, Ohio, though,
has has some update for us on the Cleveland Guardians
Ken Welcome. How you guys doing. Um? Yeah, the name
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has local interest. There's a bridge downtown built back around
the Great Depression that linked the two sides of the
city and on the corners of those there are these
stone pillars and they're called the Guardians of Transportation. It
was supposed to honor at that point Cleveland was a
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hub of you know, travel across the country. So do
you like the move or you don't like the move? No? No,
I don't. I think having to change it is stupid.
But locally it was of interest to people to make
sure that the name had a link to Cleveland. Yeah,
not just some you know, tigers, bobcats or something. You know.
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They wanted to have it be something that was going
to be linked to here. So in that I guess
they succeeded. But still I think it's a stupid they
had to change the name in the first place. But
I'm a little worried too. I gotta say, I don't
want I don't want to lose one of the greatest
sports movies of all time. Now, which Major League Oh
it's so good. What happens? Are we gonna have to
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like dub this over? And they're like the guardians, I mean,
is that really what's going to go on here? Because
that that offensiveness is going to be something that I'm
sure people complain about. And I'm just like, I think
you argue a top five sports movies all time. Oh,
it's an amazing movie. Major League one and Major League
Baseball too, both phenomenal movies. And you know, it's funny
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you mentioned like kind of you're satirizing the absurdity of
this woke culture. But do you remember when they started
for computer games that people play, like with Civil War
in the wake of the shooting at Charleston, the tech
companies started photo shopping out the Confederate flag from video
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games about the Civil War. You know, like there aren't
two sides, you know, they both had flags. Yeah, well
that's I mean, the ultimate absurdity would be if you
took these things to their their logical conclusion, we would
start canceling people for dressing up as Nazis in movies. Right,
it doesn't matter you you we so we got you.
(33:44):
We saw you pretending to be Hitler in that celebrated film,
by the way, Downfall, which is in German. If you
want a good World War two movie on the reel,
one of the best ones of all time. You know
what's crazy about that buck when you think about the
idea of sanitizing, that's what happened with the Dukes of Hazard, right,
Like the General Lee, their car had the Confederate flag
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on the top of it and they basically it's Dukes
of Hazard back on television now, I don't even know
if it's allowed to be seen. I'm like scared to
even say that I've ever seen it. Isn't that that was?
That was my favorite show when I was a kid.
Bow and Luke, Duke Daisy Show Jr. And Columbus Ohio,
What's up? Jr? Mega Dittos? Uh tell Hey, Clay m
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just just assume this the rest of your life. Your
wife and children will outvote you for the next forty years.
You're yes, I'm done. You're right, and I don't mean
to su from what I'm going to ask, but my
son was varsity water polo at one of the top
You're in trouble, Buck, he is a beast. He is
(34:51):
a beast. I'll send in Bucks address. He can knock
on the door. Pleasure heart. So anyway, U, if my
father was still alive, he was Army infantry, he would
be shaking his head every day we had lunch and
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then saying, is everyone taking crazy pills? Yeah? This does
not make sense. And I can tell you right now,
Clay and Buck. I did not raise my children that
way and they know the difference. But boy, it's a
hard So you don't like the Cleveland Indian name change?
Is that? That's what I'm sorry? God, oh god, this
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is a big picture that Sorry sir, Sorry, No, it's right,
you're fired up. We get it. So I used to
live in Cleveland. I sat in the dog pound all
the time. So I started calling or texting my friends
up there, and they are ticked. They are kid. I
think the Cleveland Indians is want to thank you so much,
(35:55):
Colin and Jed Clay. I think it's one of the
things that people most associate with that city. Actually, I
don't think there's any doubt at all. And the Indians,
obviously the Guardians, sorry, they haven't won a title in Cleveland. Sorry, Indians, fans, Guardians, fans,
whatever you want to call the professional baseball team there
in a long time. And so that's a long suffering,
well supporting franchise. And it's just such a ridiculous decision.
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I mean, it's just it doesn't end. And that's the
biggest problem. You got your homework from Clay and Buck.
Over the weekend, do something fun, think about something to
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
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Wherever you may be across this great country or maybe
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we roll into the weekend, there are a couple of
stories that are getting an awful lot of attention. One
the Olympics. The opening ceremonies happened early this morning. Some
of you may have watched some of those ceremonies. The
Olympics are officially underway in Japan, and the Cleveland Indians
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have changed their nickname. This is not an Onion article.
Or a Babylon b article to the Cleveland Guardians. But Buck,
I saw something you tweeted earlier this week that I
was really entertained by the US women's soccer team, which,
by the way, in like twenty fifteen, when they won
the Women's World Cup, I was in Vancouver. I took
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my family. They were as beloved of an American sports
team as there could be. Everybody who loved the US women.
Over the last several years, their overall approval rate, I
think it's fair to say in the United States of
America has plummeted substantially. They lost three nothing to Sweden
after kneeling yet again, and you said, Buck Sexton, you
(01:49):
were rooting for Sweden. You have abandoned the US women
and almost based entirely on politics, I'm presuming, and you
actually enjoy seeing them lose. The women's soccer team absolutely ghosts,
absolutely ghost Sweden. Fantastic to see those ladies, and I
gotta say, not not a hard team to root for
as a as a guy. Um, they're good looking women
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on the Swedist team that you might have noticed. I
can neither confirm nor deny, but I'm just saying he
gets offensive to judge women by their looks now, Buck,
how sexist of you to even notice a good looking woman?
I was. I was pretty astounded that, even in this
current era. You know, Boris Becker, who was one of
the tennis greats, and I did watch a fair amount
of tennis growing up. You know, he referred to a
(02:33):
players girlfriend at Wimbledon, a fiance as pretty. And there
were people who were upset by this. Yes, yeah, if
this is utter madness, you know has happened a few
years ago. Brent Musberger, one of the Alabama quarterbacks girlfriends,
was in the crowd and he said something like, man,
(02:54):
you quarterbacks, you all get the best looking girls. She's
a good looking woman. And by the way, quarterbacks do
didn't to do pretty well with girls based on you know,
all of recorded history of sports. Um. I actually remember Buck.
When I was a kid. I remember going we got
to sit down close for an Atlanta Braves game, I
think it was, and I was I was probably like
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ten or eleven, and I looked around. There were a
ton of really good looking women and I said to
my dad, why are there so many, you know, like
really pretty women here? And he said, well, this is
a lot of the players wives, and I remember saying, like, oh,
so baseball players in the major leagues they have good
looking wives, And my dad was like, yeah, they do
pretty well for themselves. Yes, but it is also funny.
This is also known as observing objective reality around you.
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But you're not allowed to do this anymore. And I'd
also note that our our friend Jesse Kelly, who's also
on on our network, he put out did you see
his list of the the ten most attractive members of Congress?
Did he get? Cried? Gosh? I mean, it's so fun
That was yesterday, unless it may have been and I'm
(03:59):
quoting here the ten hottest women in Congress. I I
can't remember exactly the verbiage, but it was basically, an
attractive members of Congress should have put He should have
put like two dudes in there and just blown everybody's mind,
especially if he had a guy as the hottest part
member of Congress. That's that's how people were terrified. How
dare he noticed good looking? I just thought you were
allowed to say nice things, you know, like when people
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come up to me. You know we got yeah, we
got two radio hosts here with good hair, you know,
so when people come up to the street they're like, hey,
I like your radio show, but you've actually got good here.
That makes my day probably my week, you know, I'm
sure he feels say away. If people come up with you,
they're like, hey, you're a sports radio host, but you're
you're an athletic looking guy, and you know you got
a lovely wife and we like nice that. Anyway, This
(04:43):
is I'm trying to tell everybody. Can we can we
all just take a compliment and roll with it When
we can't even agree on mascot's clay, that's another thing too. Well,
we're gonna get some mess. But I'm what percentage of
people do you think are rooting against the US women's
soccer team because they find them to be And let
me say this, by the way, big picture, what is
so frustrating to me about the US women's soccer team
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is they had an opportunity to use their platform in
twenty fifteen and in twenty nineteen to point out that
the reason they dominate buck. Do you know if you
look at every women's soccer match and just consider which
country has freer women, you can basically pick the winner
of the match. Because people say well, how come to
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us men are nowhere near as good as the US women.
That's because around the world, most good male athletes get
identified and they're able to expend their athleticism to the
fullest of their ability because men have advantages. But you know,
it's not a surprise that our women would do better
than women in let's say Iran, where they're not even
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allowed to play outside of Burkah's right. Basically, like, this
is not a big surprise that girls who can wear shorts.
It's kind of a decent symbol that they might be better. Instead,
they ripped America instead of trying to lift up the
world to believe in American If if, if you've taken me,
I'm rooting against you, and that's that's really what it
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comes out. You've taken me, I'm rooting against you. That's
that's just how it's gonna go from here on out,
and whether that's as a league or as a team
or as an individual. Because I'm sorry, it's I actually
I'm not sorry. I'm not sorry, and it's disrespectful. So yeah,
I was. I was psyched to see the Swedish ladies
doing well. And you know, I mean, maybe maybe they should.
Maybe they should follow us on Twitter and Instagram, maybe
(06:31):
they should become fans of the show. I'm just putting
it out there. We're big in Sweden, especially with huge
in Tweeden, and so you got that insanity that's going on.
So do you think we were talking about this? I'm
not sure that there has ever been less interest in
an Olympics because usually the Olympics is kind of a
big deal. People come together, they want especially the Summer Olympics,
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because there have been so many big iconic stars. I
feel like this is landing on deaf ears to a
large extent. You have that sense, and when you've got
empty stadiums, even a part of this, you know, we
we hearken back in our minds. You're all the way
to you know, ancient Rome and the Colosseum and the
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theatricality of these events at the Olympics. Obviously ancient Greece
where the Olympics started. But I just mean I was
thinking Gladiator in my mind. You know, you think of
these events that happened with massive crowds and the energy,
and you know, honestly, watching really fast people run when
there's no crowd there, it's just a different spectator experience.
It just doesn't feel like it has the same the
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same energy behind it. And you know, this is I
think there's also just a lot of people right now
feel like, you know, is there the possibility that their
weird covid resdictions could actually become a problem for some
of these teams. And but I'll be honest, I'm not
really a big Olympics guy. It was just not a
surprise to you, I'm sure, but I'm not a huge
Olympic I watched, like the person who wins the fastest
(08:00):
one hundred meter dash whatever, That's what I watch. Yeah,
And even that, you know, you Saint Bold, who is Jamaican,
he's retiring, Michael Phelps, who's one of the greatest Olympians ever.
You know, people could have a rooting interest for him
over the last whatever his twenty years. It feels like
that he's been representing the United States. And then you
toss in what I think is a pretty significant factor,
the time difference of what time it is in Japan
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versus the United States, and I just I feel like
these are going to be this is my prediction. I
think this is going to be the least watched Olympics
that has ever existed in the United States because for
so long this was something that united everyone. I think
there are a lot of people out there listening to
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us right now that are with you and not rooting
for the US women over politics and statements that they're making.
But also I think that there's just a general despair
about the idea of how many women are going too
and men are going to protest, and people are like,
I just don't have time for it. Do you know
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that the trampoline is an Olympic event? I was just
checking this was well, what the you know trampoline? I
mean water polo is, which I think watching water polo
maybe the most boring spectator sport. That's ride water polo fans,
you can come at me. I'll take it. But looking
at because come on, you can't even see what's going
on right you look at some of the I'm looking
at the list of all the different sports that they have,
(09:27):
and I have them bipopularity. Let me see if I
can get you to guess what do you think the
most anticipated event is at the Tokyo Olympics. Basketball? No, really,
basketball is this is the morning consult? A pole that
they did of Americans most anticipated events at the Olympics.
I'll give you the hands here. Basketball is sixth, sixth
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on the sports that much. I would that's much lower
than that I thought it would have been. I mean,
I love tennis, but that's probably not even the top
ten Tennis is tennis? Is ten Okay? Well let's see
I was pretty close. Yeah, um, I have honestly, is it?
Is it? Track and field? Track and field is fourth?
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What's number one? You're keeping number one? I think I
think I think you'll get that. Then when I say it,
you'll be like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Gymnastics, right,
there is a massive dudes that surprise you, that does
surprise me. I wouldn't think gymnastics. Gymnastics one destroys everything else.
What two? Second most beloved or anticipated event at the
Tokyo Olympics swimming, which surprised me a little bit. I
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would have gotten. Gymnastics I wouldn't have gotten. But these
are for Americans, right, I think we've gotten used to
because Michael Phelps is just in this other category of
winner that I think that that's what's made swimming so
popular for us, because we just love those medals. We're Americans.
We like winning. This surprised me too. Third most popular diving,
which feels like it's kind of swimming, but it is
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kind of cool to watch from those super high dives,
like how perfect people land in the water. And also
the fact that you convince yourself that you know, like
what a good dive is and what a dive is not.
I see that's interesting me because these are also events
where it's, you know, the fastest runner is not a
there's not a judge decide like that. This is just reality. Yes,
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so these are things where the judges are making determinations
about who. It's a subjective let's be honest. Those are
you know, Gymnastics is a subjective event. Diving is a
subjective event. That's interesting to me. Track and field, which
you got is four. This one also surprised me. Basketball
you got at at six. Beach volleyball. Oh, yes, there's
(11:39):
a lot of good looking girls. I think that probably
I don't have to say these things out loud, Buddy,
I say it out loud. I say it out loud. Volleyball.
Maybe I appreciate this beach volleyball too. Yeah, well that's yes,
I'm sure By the way, do we have ratings on
which one is more watched? Oh? I bet women's beach
volleyball way more watched than But here's the question. As
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we get ready to go to break, I'll come back.
What are the least popular sports according to Americans that
they are least interested in. I doubt very many people
will guess these, but I will tell you the sports
that Americans are not interested in watching. I gave you
the top five six. I think my beloved table tennis
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also known as ping pong has probably gone that list
because I am, for an amateur, freakishly good at ping pong,
and it makes me very sad that that's the one
that doesn't get the proper love in this country. That
I think. Should we bring in the crew and let
them guess? Ali is texting me right now? Oh yeah, no,
I'd I'd love to hear. I'd love to hear from
our team here from the East. But the squad. Yes,
(12:43):
let's bring in the EIB squad and we will see
if any of them can get one of the three
least popular sports at the Olympics. And let's also bring
in all of you are EIB fam all across the
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the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Um, Buck, Clay
and I are getting into the Olympic situation here and
we've got our EIB team that is telling us what
is the least watch of the Olympic sports? The least
popular at least by viewership? Producer producers Alie, Greg, Mojoe, Crash, All,
(14:37):
dub All waiting in. Ali says fencing. Greg says skateboarding,
Mojo says speedwalking, dub says handball. I guess it all
depends on the shorts. Crash says, do you see that
There was a controversy because they wouldn't wear some of
the ladies wouldn't wear the I did see that, which
kind of crazy, and Crash says the marathon because it's exact.
(14:59):
I think the mar thon's actually fun to watch. You
just got to watch the very end of it, though,
but in person, I've never watched it on TV, to
be fair. So here are the so is it Ali
who said fencing, Yes, that is the fifth least popular
according to Americans, sport that is out there. Here are
the button and by the way, your water polo is
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the sixth least popular sport, counting down handball. Dub I
think said handball, it is the it is the third
least popular, sorry, fourth least popular. Uh here modern pentathlon.
I'm not even sure exactly what is in the pit?
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Like you swim, you ski, you shoot. Isn't that like
all the different things. I don't even know. I don't
know what is a modern I don't know what they
do that that sounds accurate. I think there's five right, pentathlon.
You're the sports guy, but I don't know the pentathlon.
Clay Travis has to know everything about sports. I think
it's the five events. I don't know what the five
events would be in the pentathlon. Field hockey Do men play?
(16:05):
I don't think you play field hockeyeld hockey, sir. Really
it's big in South Asia? Oh yeah, oh, I didn't
know that. Yeah play, yeah. I know girls play in America,
but do we We don't play field hockey in America,
do we men? I mean that all depends women are
I know it's a big sport. For women, especially on
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the East Coast. But I don't remember there being men
who play field hockey. I always thought that, like, well,
I don't know, I don't think we do. And then
the least popular the least Popley's kind of surprised me.
The rugby sevens is the least popular American Olympic sport.
According to uh, these are the most anticipated. Maybe there's
(16:48):
some that are not included here, but those are the
least anticipated events in this graphic that I am looking at,
I'm I'm surprised, but I've never I've never been a
rugby watcher in general, as rugby sets, is that a
specific kind of rugby is like I'm swing it's seven
on seven, but I don't know, I don't even know
how many people are usually on a rugby Uh yeah,
(17:10):
dub says seven man rugby. By the way, the pentathlon
dubbed buck is fencing, swimming, equestrian pistol, shooting, and running.
That's a pretty crazy collection of that far off. So
that's that's kind of that. That's close. I will be
stole shooting. I didn't know that. I mean, that's kind
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of wild. Yeah, I didn't know that. Um, well, yeah,
I didn't know that was a part of it. I'd
also say that whenever you watch, if you've watched, if
you like me, if you grew up watching karate movies
and then you actually see the Olympics. By karate movies
you mean karate kid. Well, no, no, I mean catalog buddy. Okay,
we can have a whole martial arts conversation here, but yeah,
(17:54):
the karate you see in the Olympics is not as cool.
Unfortunately rugby usually has, by the way, fifteen people on it.
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Facebook dot com, slash, Buck Sexton and Clay. The Cleveland
Indians are no more now they are the Cleveland Guardians,
which I didn't even know, Like, what is what is
what is a I know what the what a guardian
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is what it means, But how are you supposed to
get excited? I guess it doesn't matter. They're just gonna
rebrand it. But this one, to me seems a little
seems a little silly. There there were some mascots that
I thought should change then, I'll be honest with you,
very few, but a couple that were a little Oh,
I don't know about that. I what's funny to me
is they just decided, hey, we're gonna keep like most
of the name because Indians. They just kept the D
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I A N S right and added guard you know,
in front of it, so that it still kind of
sounds the same Cleveland Indians Cleveland Guardians. Like okay, but
it's just a really weird move. And by the way,
your you went to Amherst, which, by the way, big
nerd there. But they have they have changed their mascot, right, Yeah,
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we went from the Lord Jeffrey Amherst, who was an actual,
I mean our mascot at games was a guy who
was dressed like one of the bad guys for the
movie The Patriot, you know British. He's got the wig one,
he's got this thatches and everything, and he would dance
around and you know, the whole thing. But there's this
story I think it's apocryphal, but there's a story that
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Lord Jeff Amherst. You know, it was tough. He had
a lot of things going on, and he gave blankets
to the natives, to a native tribe. And they think
that the blankets, this is just a story. I don't
even know how they would know. They didn't understand microbiology,
but they say that they were quote smallpox blankets and quote,
and so this was considered the first usage of bioweapons
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on This is actually what the active has said, bioweapons
on US soil. So now we're the mastodons or no,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the mammoths another large furry elephant.
Were the men like the wooly mammoths. Yep uh okay,
I mean that's I actually think that's a better mascot.
So the Indians have changed their name. I went to
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for college the George Washington Colonials, and of course we
were called the Colonials because it was the colonial army
and kids on my campus now are obsessed with changing
colonials because they think it's connected to colonizing. And it's like,
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you have to talk to these no, no no, no, no.
We were the colonies and we fought for our independence.
That's what the colonial army was doing. But they are
so indoctrinated with the idea that colonizing is a bad
thing that they want to change the name of the
mascot George Washington colonials. Now that the thing about this
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is I'm kind of with you. If you could put
me in you and whoever else, like, we could sit
across the table from the Wokes and say, okay, let's
just end the mascot controversy once and for all. You
give us a list of names, will negotiate, will agree
to change X number of names, and then we'll be
done with this forever. But that's not how this works,
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because in order to be woke, you always have to
find something new that's offensive, right, doesn't end. And this
is what this is what I say, I mean even
because what would be people poses to me, they say,
what do you really think of the of the Redskins
football team name? And you know I mean this, this
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is you know there, there are there are limits, right,
But then I say, okay, well what about the Vikings.
They say, what do you mean, there's nothing offensive about
the Vikings. Then I get to sit there and say, really,
the great sea wolves of history with their rape and
pillage and slavery, because that's what the Vikings actually did.
When they'd go out with those, people think of them like, oh,
you know, they're kind of just going around on the
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long boats and they've got these cool sports. Yeah, there
was a whole There was a whole culture basically built
on slavery, enslaving people, pillaging, looting. So I don't think
that's you know, that's not not only that. I mean,
the one that gets talked about now is the fighting Irish,
right Notre Dame is the fighting Irish, And people are like,
oh that this is just got Irish people. As speaking
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from the Irish American community, speaking as a member of it,
we are a sturdy and fearsome lot who find life
to be funny in many ways and can take a
joke as well as a shot of whatever you put
in front of us. And the Irish Irish I will see,
on the other hand, a bunch of commists it's unfortunate,
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but it's true. The actual Irish are super left wing
and very woke. Well, and that's why some people say
that fighting Irish is going to one day give up
the ghost. And there's probably people out there. Look, you
have the Atlanta Brave, Chicago Blackhawks, Florida State Seminoles, the
Kansas City Chiefs. They just move on right. Redskins is gone. Now,
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Indians like a prospect on the chopping proper name of
a tribe. And this is this has come up because
there have been tribes and I know people already know
this who say, no, we actually Reorida State is an
example of that. Well, but we are. We already have,
like we've had tribes that come forward and say, when
you're calling like one of the most fearsome pieces of
rotary aircraft ever with the Apache, yea, when you're when
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you're calling it that like to honor our prowess as warriors.
You're not degrading us or mocking us. So like that's cool.
Now I'm the Apache one. By the way, that's actually
not a specific example, but I'm using it as there
have been other times where there have tribes to have
come forward, you know, and if you know it's I don't.
I don't know how. The Seminoles, as an example, they
are honored that Florida state because they were a warring
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tribe that fought for itself in the state of Florida.
They're like, hey, we consider it to be an honor
that you call yourself the Seminoles. We want you to
continue to do that. Yeah, I mean the fighting Irish thing. Yes,
the guy's a LEPrecon. No one's offended by leprecons. No
one to actually gets Wow, that's it. Dwarves. And you
can't say midgets anymore. I just said it. But you're
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not supposed to say midget. I think you're supposed to
say little people now right. You can't say Eskimo, do
you know that? Like that's no, no, no, no. I
Actually there's a very important, very important point on this one.
You can say Eskimo, but it refers only to one
of I believe five native tribes. They so they don't like. Rather,
the native tribes don't like that all are referred to
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as Eskimo, because there's Eskimo, Inuit and a bunch of
other I think Alot is one of them, but don't
quote me on that one. They're like the Aleutian Islands.
I think there are a few different tribes. So Eskimo
is not like a slur or anything. It's just used
too broadly. This was explained to me buy an Alaskan, who,
of course, what's the first question in New Yorker asked
any Alaskan have you ever done the like dangerous catch
(26:36):
fishing ship thing? And this guy the deadliest catch? Yes,
all right, we got everyone, We got folks that want
to wear We're having too much fun, and we gotta
bring everybody else in here for a second. I gotta
let Charles from North Carolina in here because he's got it.
He got a bone to pick. What's up, Charles? Welcome,
Hey guys. Hey, I just want to letus to know
that in a few short weeks, you guys have made
me a fan. So I'm enjoying this so quite a bit.
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Thank you. Go to work. But I have to take
issue with your disparaging comments about water polo, because any
man or woman who plays water polo will take you
out very strong, very athletic, very capable. I was a
gymnast and a water polo athlete, and the water polo
is much harder than the gymnastics was. Yeah, I agree.
(27:20):
I think Bucks in trouble, you're gonna be walking down
the street in New York. Out of nowhere door opens.
Water polo players is gonna flatten you. I was gonna say,
first of all, water polo ladies, I'm sure are absolutely fantastic,
and Charles, I wasn't saying that it's not a difficult sport,
or that it's not that you guys are hardcore. I
wrote crew in college, believe it or not, which is
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misery but also very good for you. But watching it
is not the most I'm in From a spectator perspective,
I just feel like you can't see what's going on
in a water pole. It's a lot of splashing. It
looks it looks like a lot of thrashing, like one
of those you know, Aroba sized classes for some folks
in the water. You know, that's what it looks like.
I don't think I don't think you're helping yourself here now,
amics instructors, yeolos. Maybe next time you go swimming. I'm
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telling you, if somehow I don't show up for the
show one day and they find a yellow water polo
ball next to my head on the street and I'm
knocked out. We'll know what happened. But thank you for
thank you for calling him man. We appreciate it. Your
boy Will Kine is a former water polo player. I
believed Pepper nine. He's gonna definitely take you out. He is,
he's gonna take it. Well, no, but he does he
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agree with me that it's not a good spectator sport.
You know, is it is a good question? Is it
fun to watch on TV? Didn't we win like the
gold medal and water polo because we brought over in
East and you don't even know. I don't know every
Olympic team. Listen to this next thing. People are gonna
find out that you actually played soccer to you you
I I right, he's player. I think we brought in
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an Eastern European like crazy man water polo coach doub
can look that up. I think he led us to
like a gold medal um and he's the total Will
like freakish dude. We will continue our Friday open line
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton. We are rolling
through the final segment here of the week fifteen hours,
as we do every single week, encouraging to download the podcast.
Thank you for hanging out with us on our four
hundred plus AMFM stations listening along live all fifty states.
We are talking about a variety different subjects. By the way,
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Congressman Jim Jordan joined us in the second hour was
really great. The Olympics are underway, a lot of you
may or may not be watching them. This weekend. We
got mascot controversies and by the way, we were talking
about bucket wiped out by water polo. We did. We
hired a water polo beast of a coach. His name
is Dejon. You to vote chick, and I'm probably mispronouncing that.
(30:57):
He is the former head coach of Serbia and he
has led us into a powerhouse status where previously in
Serbia he developed and built a dominant franchise. So just
keep your head on swivel buxexing. You never know, man,
those water polo players all of a sudden, big shoulders,
They're pretty rapped. That's a tough job, yeah, but you
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can usually in their man bikinis, you can see him
coming from a while away, you know what I mean.
It's like I see that he's got the little little
cap on his little goggles. I know, I know who's
coming from me. Water polo players can in Cleveland, Ohio, though,
has has some update for us on the Cleveland Guardians
Ken Welcome. How you guys doing. Um? Yeah, the name
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has local interest. There's a bridge downtown built back around
the Great Depression that linked the two sides of the
city and on the corners of those there are these
stone pillars and they're called the Guardians of Transportation. It
was supposed to honor at that point Cleveland was a
(32:00):
hub of you know, travel across the country. So do
you like the move or you don't like the move? No? No,
I don't. I think having to change it is stupid.
But locally it was of interest to people to make
sure that the name had a link to Cleveland. Yeah,
not just some you know, tigers, bobcats or something. You know.
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They wanted to have it be something that was going
to be linked to here. So in that I guess
they succeeded. But still I think it's a stupid they
had to change the name in the first place. But
I'm a little worried too. I gotta say, I don't
want I don't want to lose one of the greatest
sports movies of all time. Now, which Major League Oh
it's so good. What happens? Are we gonna have to
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like dub this over? And they're like the guardians, I mean,
is that really what's going to go on here? Because
that that offensiveness is going to be something that I'm
sure people complain about. And I'm just like, I think
you argue a top five sports movies all time. Oh,
it's an amazing movie. Major League one and Major League
Baseball too, both phenomenal movies. And you know, it's funny
(33:04):
you mentioned like kind of you're satirizing the absurdity of
this woke culture. But do you remember when they started
for computer games that people play, like with Civil War
in the wake of the shooting at Charleston, the tech
companies started photo shopping out the Confederate flag from video
(33:24):
games about the Civil War. You know, like there aren't
two sides, you know, they both had flags. Yeah, well
that's I mean, the ultimate absurdity would be if you
took these things to their their logical conclusion, we would
start canceling people for dressing up as Nazis in movies. Right,
it doesn't matter you you we so we got you.
(33:44):
We saw you pretending to be Hitler in that celebrated film,
by the way, Downfall, which is in German. If you
want a good World War two movie on the reel,
one of the best ones of all time. You know
what's crazy about that buck when you think about the
idea of sanitizing, that's what happened with the Dukes of Hazard, right,
Like the General Lee, their car had the Confederate flag
(34:05):
on the top of it and they basically it's Dukes
of Hazard back on television now, I don't even know
if it's allowed to be seen. I'm like scared to
even say that I've ever seen it. Isn't that that was?
That was my favorite show when I was a kid.
Bow and Luke, Duke Daisy Show Jr. And Columbus Ohio,
What's up? Jr? Mega Dittos? Uh tell Hey, Clay m
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just just assume this the rest of your life. Your
wife and children will outvote you for the next forty years.
You're yes, I'm done. You're right, and I don't mean
to su from what I'm going to ask, but my
son was varsity water polo at one of the top
You're in trouble, Buck, he is a beast. He is
(34:51):
a beast. I'll send in Bucks address. He can knock
on the door. Pleasure heart. So anyway, U, if my
father was still alive, he was Army infantry, he would
be shaking his head every day we had lunch and
(35:12):
then saying, is everyone taking crazy pills? Yeah? This does
not make sense. And I can tell you right now,
Clay and Buck. I did not raise my children that
way and they know the difference. But boy, it's a
hard So you don't like the Cleveland Indian name change?
Is that? That's what I'm sorry? God, oh god, this
(35:34):
is a big picture that Sorry sir, Sorry, No, it's right,
you're fired up. We get it. So I used to
live in Cleveland. I sat in the dog pound all
the time. So I started calling or texting my friends
up there, and they are ticked. They are kid. I
think the Cleveland Indians is want to thank you so much,
(35:55):
Colin and Jed Clay. I think it's one of the
things that people most associate with that city. Actually, I
don't think there's any doubt at all. And the Indians,
obviously the Guardians, sorry, they haven't won a title in Cleveland. Sorry, Indians, fans, Guardians, fans,
whatever you want to call the professional baseball team there
in a long time. And so that's a long suffering,
well supporting franchise. And it's just such a ridiculous decision.
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I mean, it's just it doesn't end. And that's the
biggest problem. You got your homework from Clay and Buck.
Over the weekend, do something fun, think about something to
do with the family or with some friends, or even
by yourself. Get out there and do the thing you've
been wanting to do this summer and haven't done yet.
And maybe even send us an email or a Facebook
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