June 17, 2022 • 55 mins
Buckle Up! The Biden Recession Has Already Begun. On the 50th Anniversary of Watergate, Carl Bernstein Claims Jan. 6 Was Worse Than the Civil War. TN Senator Marsha Blackburn on the Importance of An Anti-Woke Military. Clay Pays Tribute to His Cousin Steve Travis, Taken Too Soon. Speed Sexton in da' House for Father's Day!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. We had a awesome night. You got
to meet a lot of our listeners as we celebrated
one year on the program last night in New York City.
Thanks to all who came out, and we are looking
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forward to rolling into year two and continuing to be
voices for sanity in an insane world. Hope all of
you are having a good early start to your weekends
and we are certainly prepared to power you right into
that afternoon evening fun of Friday. But there remains, unfortunately,
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the ongoing cloud of incompetence surrounding the Biden administration. As
we are speaking to you, the stock market, having one
of its worst weeks ever, is down one hundred and
twenty three points again today. It has been a real
drubbing that the stock market has been taking as our
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overall national economy tries to come to grips with the
overall inflation rates. And I would just say this, Buck,
I think we're already in a recession. This is my prediction.
It didn't get a great deal of attention. But if
you looked when we had the three quarter rate interest
interest rate hike, three quarter point interest rate hike that
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happened earlier this week, the Fed lowered its second quarter
predictions on GDP to zero zero point zero. The growth
rate had been point nine percent. It wasn't exactly a
sterling growth rate. But if they are now forecasting zero
point zero percent effectively, which is what they are, in
other words, just barely avoiding a negative number, it feels
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to me like we are probably already in a recession.
We know that in the first quarter GDP went down
two conceptive quarters of negative GDP is a recession, Buck,
I think we're in a recession. I want to play
you this audio because Joe Biden finally did an interview
and he talked with the AP in the Oval office,
and he said that a recession is not inevitable. I think, unfortunately,
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we're already in a recession. Lee play cut seven here
for you, as CNN is even interacting here with what
is going on and saying, it definitely feels like we're
already in a recession. Nobody knows when or if there
will be a recession. At some point, there will be
because we live in an economy that has business cycles. Right,
we don't know if there's one now, If there's one
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maybe some time next year. What we do know is
the markets are reacting like it. It's inevitable. And you've
got a majority of global CEOs now, according to the
Wall Street Journal, saying they think that we're either in
one or headed for one. That depends on where you live.
There's much more likely you'll see recessions in Europe than
in the United States. But no one knows for sure.
And the Fed is trying to navigate what it calls
a soft landing, trying to get out of this mess
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without too much damage to the US economy. But issue
number one here is inflation. They're trying to get inflation
under control, and the stock market, at least right now,
is adjusting to this new world of higher inflation, higher
interest rates, slower growth, and that's why you're seeing stocks react.
I'm sorry, but the Biden administration Clay doesn't get to
have it both ways. Six months ago, nine months ago,
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Biden himself was pointing to the stock market talking about
how it was just a function of build back. Better,
just spend another five or six trillion. We're going to
get ourselves out out of the ditch, the duldrums we
had been in. No, it turns out that the decisions
they made have had a dramatically negative impact on the economy,
and now they want to tell us that it was
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its cyclical right. So six months ago Biden saying, look
at the stock market, I'm amazing, And now the stock
market has just gotten crushed. You have less money in
your four oh one K and your retirement accounts or
your stock accounts in general than you did when Biden
took office. So that's eighteen months of gains wiped out,
and they want to tell you that this has nothing
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to do with Joe Biden. It just reminds me very
much of the explanation they give now for the high
price of gas, which of course is the putin price hike.
Greedy oil suppliers, greedy refiner all this is crap and nonsense.
It's worth reminding people that six months ago Biden was
saying it was a great economy, boasting about the jobs,
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boasting about the stock market, and now we see it's
all fallen apart. And eighteen months ago Biden was talking
about how if he Could he would ban all fuel,
all gas, all oil. Oh? Yeah. Would there be any
place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking in a
Biden administration, No? Would, We would work it out. We
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would make sure it's eliminated. And no more subsidies for
either one of those. No more subsidies for fossil filling industry,
No more drilling non federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore,
no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period.
I've argued against any more oil drilling or gas drilling
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on federal lands that we can and uh and and
and to stop that we are. We argue, if you're
rid of fossil fuels, if you're going to bad practing
all across America right now, I would love to Yeah,
I'd love to too. I'd love to make sure we
don't gas period. I think, I know, I feel I
know a lot more about foreign policy than I knew
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about um about the oil industry, Clay, Can he make
it any more clear that he hates the fossil fuel
industry at least when he wants Democrat votes. Can you
imagine how bad that montage is going to play in
many different jurisdictions right now, many different places. As people
are getting ready to go to the polls. We've talked
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a lot about what a red wave would look like,
or what a red tsunami would look like. And I
can't imagine when you're paying over five dollars a gas
uh for a gallon of gas, that the reaction to
any voters out there is going to be remotely positive
to Joe Biden trying to now say, oh, we've got
to increase oil and gas exploration, We've got to do
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more drilling, we've got to do when he ran on
the idea that he was going to stop that from happening.
So it's not just that Joe Biden has bad ideas,
it's that his ideas are so bad they make everything worse.
And this is why the essence, this is why they're
panicked right now, because we're rapidly coming up on July.
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Everybody's on their vacations right now during the summer, so
many people have saved up for the past couple of
years because of COVID related issues. People are out there
more than they have been in a long time. And
when you're driving your family around and you are paying
five dollars for a gallon of gas. It is just
an absolute kick in the teeth to people out there,
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and again from a parenting perspective, what it really does
is you don't get take your kids to the movies,
You don't get to take your kids out for dinner
like you ordinarily would. You may not even be able
to take a vacation like you would hope to be
able to do by presents as we come up and
get start to think about birthdays and all of all
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the holiday season, which isn't that far away. This is
an unmitigated disaster and it strikes people every single day,
all day long when you're looking at the price of gas.
And I think the Biden White House compounds everything that
you're talking about, which is the pain that people are
feeling economically. That's there. They can talk about eight million
jobs or whatever all day. The fact of the matter
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is that people are feeling financially stressed. The markets have turned,
and we are probably already in a recession, it's just
not officially yet. We've been talking about a recession here
for months. But on top of that, there's something so
dishonest about the Biden administration with regard to all of this,
which is why I think playing back clips of what
Joe Biden running for office was saying about the price
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about the gas fuel industry and how that affects the
price of gas now is obvious. Right. They did everything
they could to show the environmentalists left that they are
hostile to the fossil fuel industry, and now the price
of gas is high, and they say, oh, we didn't
do anything. When Donald Trump was in office, Democrats and
I know it was mostly about Russia collusion, which was
a lie, but Trump would say I want to do
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the following, or here's what we're doing, and Democrats could
and did obviously say that's bad, we hate that. Whatever.
But at least there is a clarity among Republicans with
we're gonna cut taxes, or we want to build the wall,
or we're going to do remain in Mexico, whatever it
may be. With Democrats, it's a game. They get what
they want under a certain promise, and then when it's disastrous,
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it's we never wanted that. We didn't think there are
consequences for the choices that we're making. Think about this
getting rid of remain in Mexico. Look at the southern
border now, defund the police. Look at crime in major cities,
open air drug markets in places like Portland, look at
the level of overdoses and cities and nation and wide
last year spending too much money, Look at inflation. They
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try to separate cause and effect, and people aren't buying
it because it's so obvious. Right, it's not a question
of I have a policy preference. They have a policy preference,
and we're going to argue out what could happen in
the future. We've seen the results, and that's why it's
going to be I believe, such a devastating red tsunami
because to your point, they made disastrous policy choices, some
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of the most disastrous policy choices in American history. I
really do believe that particularly would defund the police, certainly
with as you just said, what's going on in the border,
the money that they spent. What's amazing is everything is
coming home to roost so rapidly because their choices were
so awful that there wasn't to your point, you could
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sit around and argue about, hey, what should the corporate
tax rate be? And it might take five six years
to figure out what the exact impact is of a
corporate tax rate increase or decrease, because that's how long
the economy sometimes takes to put all this in motion.
We were just starting to see, for instance, the benefits
of the Trump tax cuts when COVID hit. We had
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the best economy in the history of the United States
in February of twenty twenty, as all of those Trump
economic policies were starting to roll into place. Buck, it
only took eighteen months of the Biden administration for all
of the disastrous early day decisions of Joe Biden the
chickens to proverbially come home to roost, and everything to
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fall apart. He's the worst president in any of our lives.
I think one of the most illuminating recent historical examples
we can look to or away that we can lay
this all out. We're eighteen months into the Biden presidency
and we're being told that it's not Biden's that the
economy is not Biden's fall. Yes, I remember we were
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eighteen months into the Trump presidency and do you remember
what they were saying, It's the Obama economy. Yes, So
when you're eighteen months into a really strong Republican economy,
it's the previous Democrat president who should get the credit.
When you're eighteen months into a Democrat administration and all
of a sudden, everything starts falling apart in all hell
breaks lose, it's Nobody's fault or actually Trump's fault, depending
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on which Democrat on which day. Remember they tried to
sell us on the idea of the Biden boom if
you read the New York Times in the first six
months of Joe Biden coming into office. Remember we were
up here in July of last year. It was going
to be a hot vack summer. Look At how incredible
Joe Biden is doing, getting the COVID shot rolled out.
Look At how the economy is booming. Look at the
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stock market. As you pointed out, Biden now doesn't want
to talk much about the stock market, but he was
certainly bragging about what had happened in the stock market
in the early days of his administration. And now the
consequences of the disastrous policies they have put in place
have arrived, and suddenly that Biden boom talk has vanished.
And I really do legitimately believe that we are in
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a recession right now. I think when we get the
second quarter GDP numbers. I believe they're going to be
negative and that will officially count as a recession. Now,
how long lasting is it going to be? Can we
come out of it in the third and fourth quarter
as we move through twenty twenty two? I don't know.
I do know voters are not going to have any
of that data because we're going to get the second
quarter GDP and people are going to look around and say,
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holy crap, things are awful. We're in the middle of
a recession. I almost have more respect in a way
for John Kerry. The climates are than all the other
top White House economic advisors, spokespersons and the rest, because
at least John Kerry is like, look, peasants, gas is expensive,
but we've got a planet to save, you know, at
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least he pretty much says it. The rest of them
all run around, Oh what do you mean we love
fossil fuel. It's like, oh, so you want the industry
to expand for the next five to ten years, and really,
would you like what really should be asked? Hey, listen,
Doucy over at Fox, this would be a great way
to throw out there if you could, buddy ask the
Biden regime. Would you like to see two years from
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now a fifteen to twenty percent increase in fossil fuel
production to that's a great question. Whether that's even possible
or not is irrelevant, But would you would you theoretically
like to see that? They will, because anybody right now
it's like, oh my gosh, even that would be as
as we can possibly produce. They will not say it
or say, you know, when Biden's running for reelection, would
he feel good about a fifteen percent increase in domestic
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fossil fuel production? Wouldn't that be a cool thing that
he want to run on? Will not say it. They
absolutely will not do it because they're frauds and they're
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ed Clay Turravis Fuck Sexton Show. It's the fiftieth anniversary
roughly of Watergate to the beginning of the end of
the Richard Nixon presidency, and certainly everything that has occurred
in terms of political scandals gets a gate affixed to it.
It's become so commonplace. But Carl Bernstein this obsession with
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trying to turn January sixth into the worst thing that
has ever happened in the history of the country. Karl
Bernstein says that January sixth was worse than the Civil War,
the secession that we saw from Jefferson Davis, who, when
he left to become the President of the Confederacy prior
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to that, had been a senator from Mississippi. Listen to this.
We don't know what Merrick Garland is going to do,
and there is a tremendous weight on his shoulders because
this is worse than Watergate. The Justice Department now has
to make a decision because it's very clear that the President,
Donald Trump violated the law, no question, There's no question
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about his seditious actions. The last sedition we had in
this country on any kind of scale was Jefferson Davis,
the president of the Confederacy. And Trump even outdid Jefferson Davis.
He committed the United States under him as the chief
officer of the United States government. He committed it to
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trying to stage an illegal coup. Oh stop, did Jefferson
Davis outdid the head of the Confederacy. We have made
fun of the fact on this show that I am
a huge Civil War history buff. I even went to
Civil War sleepaway camp. January sixth. Is nothing like the
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Civil War. And Jefferson Davis, who led the Confederacy as
the president of a country that was at war at
the time with the United States, is nothing like what
Donald Trump did. First of all, the continued attempt to
call this a coup is so outside the bounds of
reasonable discussion that it is an insult to anyone with
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now joining us from I believe, the great state of Tennessee.
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Although she may still be in Washington, DC. Senator Marsha Blackburn.
Senator Joe Biden's already left the White House for the day.
He's headed to his beach house. He didn't get in
till twelve thirty on Monday. But I was kind of thinking,
is it better for Joe Biden just not to be
in the White House at all? Since everything he seems
to be doing is such a disaster. Everything they are
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doing makes the line of Tennesseeans and the American people worse.
And when I talk with people here in Tennessee, Clay
they are saying, you know, I voted for Joe Biden,
or I didn't support Joe Biden, but I thought he
would be a moderate. I didn't expect Bernie Sanders. And
they're just so frustrated because inflation, the prices, punser prices
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a grow, restore the open border, drugs on the streets,
crime in the communities. The list goes on and on,
and they're really frustrated with what is coming out of
this administration. So maybe we just want to see Joe
go to the beach and stay there for the rest
of the summer and the Democrats not try to pass
one more bill because we're playing block and tackle every
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single day. Center Blackburne's Buck, thanks for being with us.
The latest that we saw was on the bill that's
supposed to be be bipartisan on gun control gun restrictions, that
it's running into some problems now and may not actually
go through the Senate. Have you any insight into that.
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You tell us more about that. Well, they have a framework,
they don't have legislative text, and there's a big difference.
And I'm one that has said, look, I will not
vote for anything that is going to infringe on anybody
Second Amendment rights. I am not going to vote for
anything that would give a platform that the federal government
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could establish some kind of national gun registry. And do
we need to harden schools? Yes, four months I've been
recommending that we use the one hundred billion dollars left
over from COVID in the Elementary and Secondary Schools Fund
so that schools can apply technology harden those schools. Also,
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for years, I have been recommending that we work with
retired law enforcement and veterans and deputize them so they
can take a shift and be the officer on duty
at every school, with schools having one one point of
entry into those schools. Those are common sense things that
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could be done. But you know, when you leave it
to the left, they want to do that. They want
to have red flag laws that they are going to
say they can incent the states, but then it turns
out to being a mandate and its coercive behavior on
behalf of the federal government. So for me, that is
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not something I'm going to support. Center Blackburn. You know this.
I mean, my kids live in Williamson County, just outside
of Nashville, and what you just referenced. They go to
public school. We have a security police officer there that
they love, Officer Show, who's been inside their school for years.
Kids all of her and they have one entry point.
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And I don't understand why that's remotely controversial. I also
want to thank you this absurd wokeification that's going on
with our military, where we spend more time talking about
diversity and inclusion than we do kicking people's ass. And
you've got a policy in place that you're working on
to try to dewokeify our military. What would that intent? Yes,
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I actually have two different bills. I had offered these
in our Defense Authorization Act markup that we had and Clay,
what this would do is, I think the military should
be focused on our adversaries and on fighting and winning wars.
We know that the new axis of evil is communist China, Russia,
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Iron and North Korea. They don't give a rippen flip
about how woke the US military is, but the American
people care desperately about defeating our enemies and our adversaries.
That is what the focus of the military should be. Readiness, training,
preparation to fight and to win. And the second provision
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that I have offered in and working on, is to
protect the children of military members when they are in
our DoD schools on military basis. It had come to
my attention that we had some teachers who were trying
to work with the student to hide the student wanting
to do gender fluidity or gender transition or have psychological care.
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The parents do not need to be kept in the
dark on this, and we do not need teachers on
our military basis encouraging children not to talk to their
parents and to hide things from them. And I found
out through this process, if there was not a DoD policy,
that parents needed to have the right to be involved
in these decisions. So I tried to push that forward
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and we're yet to get bipartisan agreement on that one.
Speaking of Senator Marsha Blackburne of Tennessee, Senator, if you
are in the majority come next year, which Clay and
I and certainly the audience are hoping is going to
be the case, what are some of the things that
you and your Senate colleagues in the Republic. Again, assuming
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a Republican majority would plan to do, Biden would still
be president, so that create some roadblocks. But what would
you like to see happen. We need to get the
country on the right track. And starting with that are
two things we need to do. Address the cost of
the pump, which means restarting the Keystone Pipeline, opening up
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Alaska offshore drilling, go back to fracking, and it's going
to mean that a Republican lighthouse and Senate is going
to have to take us up and push it forward
and to override Joe Biden and the leftist opinion on
this issue. The second thing is getting government spending under control.
And as y'all know, and as you've talked about, the
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two things, inflation, the prices upon the grocery store and
government spending have been the two drivers on this out
of control inflation rates that we're seeing. So we need
to freeze government spending. We need to freeze government hiring.
We need to freeze escalation rates in salaries of government employees.
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And then to require a supermajority to pass any spending
bill during times of high inflation. And that is legislation
I've had now this is the second year I've had it.
When inflation is high, we ought not to have these
bills flying through Congress. Just look at what the Biden
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administration has done. You've got six point eight trillion that
was spent on COVID, and then you had another two
trillions and one point nine trillion in infrastructure, and now
for his billback Brokagen to Biden, watch another two trillion
dollars in the economists saying stop spending government money. So
let's be smart about this, let's stop it, Sender Blackburn.
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You also have gone aggressively after the threats that have
been put forward against Supreme Court justices. The left wants
to pretend that a crazy lunatic didn't show up at
Justice Kavanaugh's house trying to assassinate him. It took forever
for the House to actually pass a bill to provide protection.
The Senate acted much faster on that. But to your point,
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what in the world is going on with this lack
of protection for Supreme Court justices? What should happen in
your mind? I know you've been pretty outspoken and active
about this. When it comes to our justices and their families,
they need to have round the clock protection. That is
the bill we moved out of the Senate, and then
Pelosi sat on it for a month, and then you
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had the squad and the leftists in the House vote
against it, but they are in mind, every lasting one
of them. Every one of them voted for extra protection
for themselves after January sixth, So they want to protect themselves,
but they don't want to protect the justices and the
justices families. The other thing is these protesters that are
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out in front disturbing the peace, messing up the neighborhoods
where these justices live or where they go to church.
They be marched down the city hall and they should
be booked on violation of eighteen USC. One five h seven,
because it is illegal to go out and protest at
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a judge's home and try to influence a seederal judge
on the outcome of a decision. It is an illegal act.
So I think that DJ and FBI need to get
out here and they need to do their job, and
they need to make certain that they are very carefully
what is happening with these protests in these communities, because
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many of these protesters, in these groups that are sponsoring
the protest is y'all know, they have been saying, you're
going to have a summer of rage if we don't
get the opinion we want from the Supreme Court. That
is illegal. Chuck Schumer ought to go out here and
he ought to apologize to Gorstchenco and offer calling him
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out on the steps of the Supreme Court some months
ago and saying you have unleashed the whirlwind. That is inappropriate.
He should be out there apologizing. We need to protect
the court. We need to protect the justices on the court.
Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee Senator always appreciate you coming by.
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with us. We're about to be joined by Buck's dad.
It is Father's Day weekend. I hope all the dad's
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out there are having a fantastic early start to your weekend.
I've got three boys of my own. I cannot wait
to hang out with them the course of this weekend.
My dad was scheduled to be on with us, but
yesterday I just want to kind of fill you guys
in Yesterday, near the end of the show, I got
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some awful news. My first cousin, Steve Travis, he's sixty
two years old, died unexpectedly yesterday. It's my dad's nephew.
He is incredibly broken up about it. He didn't feel
like he could come on and talk about Father's Day
because of this death we just had in the family.
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But I just wanted to tell you a little bit
about Steve here as we roll in. He's a father himself.
His daughter Jennifer, is absolutely fantastic, and he is a
thirty plus year listener of the Russian Limboss show. He
was a huge fan of Rush and when I got
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the offer from Julie Talbot, who was Bucking Eyes Boss,
and she's fantastic to come and be able to take
over this show, I only called a couple of people
to ask them about it, and Steve was one of
them because he was such a diehard Rushed Limbaugh fan.
And it's been really fun the last year because he
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listened every day and he would text during segments and
share his opinions and thoughts as someone who had been
listening to this show for a really long time. And
yesterday he had been in perfect health. He was outside
early in the morning working in his yard. Like I said,
sixty two years old, had just recently been to the doctor,
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gotten a clean bill of health, and he just collapsed
and died. And so my family is still stunned. We'd
asked for your prayer, certainly for Steve's close family, his
daughter and his wife, but my dad, who is again
it's his nephew and they kind of grew up together.
He was just so broken up over this that he
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didn't think he could come on and talk about Father's Day.
So what I would just say to everybody out there is,
you know, if you've got a dad, hug him grandpa.
If sometimes you know, families don't get along, none of
us are guaranteed anything at all, right, And so I
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would just say, you know, as all of us are
celebrating Father's Day, I know Mother's Day just happened. If
you got people in your family that you care about,
don't ever neglect telling them how much you care. And
I know that things can be controversial and difficult on
a day to day basis. Certainly no family is perfect,
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but I do think on times like these and everybody
has unexpected awful things that happen in their family that
none of us can control. But I do think that
I would just want to say to everybody out there,
First of all, you know, Steve was an incredible long
time Russian Limbaugh listener, and I am honored to have
known him, and and he is one of you to
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his core and to his soul, and he's a big
reason why you're listening to me talk on this show
right now. And for everybody out there who is who
is certainly getting ready for Father's Day, just take the
time to tell the people in your life that you
love them, because none of us are guaranteed any day,
any hour, and things can happen at any point. We're
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going to be joined by Buck's dad, who is phenomenal.
I don't want to make the whole show, certainly any
kind of down, or we're gonna have a lot of
fun to close out this Friday edition. But I just
wanted to mention why my own dad was not going
to be on. He didn't think he could make it
through segments talking about Father's Day after what happened yesterday
in our family. So Buck, look, you know this, and
everybody else out there knows. You never know when something
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tragic might happen in your life, and so we love
spending time with all of you. We know that your
families are incredibly important. And I would just say, as
we head into the final thirty minutes of the show
Father's Day weekend, if you get the opportunity, got a
loved one out there, maybe haven't talked to him in
a while, take the opportunity to reach out and uh,
and try to make sure that you don't take anything
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for granted when it comes to the important relationships in
your life, your family, your friends, everything else. A lot
of thoughts and prayers for you and yours, Clay, and uh,
we will obviously have to have your dad on on
another Yea, he will want to meet Papa Travi. He will,
he will come on. He just I really he is
an incredibly emotional guy. He would have broken down thirty
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seconds into the Father's Day discussion, and we weren't that
confident to be honest in his cell phone, as I've
said for a while, So I'll bring him into the
Nashville studio. That'll be He's excited to meet you and
he loves Obviously, my dad listens to the show every
single day, so he wants to come on. Our moms
were on, my dad will be on at some point.
But coming up next we are going to be joined
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by Buck's dad here in the New York City studio.
It's gonna be a lot of fun in honor of
Father's Day. Is it a fun hour? People ask me this,
and you're asking this too, like do your parents listen?
And I almost do they listen? They listen every day? Yeah, yeah,
your mom was saying last night we were meeting, and
my mom listens to every minute. She just texted me.
She's driving back from Florida, where she's been down with
my sister for a while, and she said, hey, we've
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been able to pick you up for the first two hours,
just driving in the car all over Florida. You're all
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Clay in Buck Show and some special father's day time
here on the air Underway, joined by my dad, Mason
Speed Sex at in studio and here with Clay Clays
of course a dad in his own right. Dad, How
you doing well? It needless to say, a great honor
to be here with to the obviously most talented and
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hardest working men in media and um. It's sort of
the culmination of a dream to be here. Buck See,
We've got we got a well trade. He's already saying
nice things about I've always known I loved your dad.
I got to meet you guys last night, you and
your wife and our one yr anniversary party. So I'm curious.
You've got four kids, that's correct. What is your favorite
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thing about Father's Day? Is there anything that is a
tradition in the Sexton household or family that has has
built up over the years. Well, you know you we
were just talking about your dad getting emotional. I'm going
to get emotional now. Um. No, we're just a very
close family. Yeah, and got three sons and a daughter, right,
we love being together. Um. There was actually a question
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here that was sent in from a caller asking about
what get into all that. I understand, but I you
know it don't mean to preempted, but to say that
asking what did I like to do with you? Buck?
And and really, you know what, our favorite thing is
just to hang out. We have a big terrace in
our apartment fortunately, and and and we love just to
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hang out together, have dinner together, yep, and and talk
you know, politics going in people's lives, and and that's it.
We just we love being together. That's pretty much it.
Age I'm curious because I've got a fourteen and eleven
and a seven year old. I've got three boys. You
now are grandfather as well, so congratulations on that. But
as a dad, what ages did you like Buck and
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his brothers and his sister? What age range did you
find to be the most fun as a parent? Was
there one era that stands out? Boy, that's an interesting question.
I think it was different for each child. You know,
be honest with you, You know it all. It all
passes so quickly, and I don't remember a bad time.
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It all seems like it was all, you know, pretty special,
and I felt really blessed to have such outstanding children.
That's that's really the truth. So we got some VIP emails.
We've also got some calls, Dad from people that want
to speak to you. And again, we were gonna have
Clay's dad, but we're have Clay's dad. On a future show,
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Alfie in New York City said, Buck and Clay display
real leadership qualities. I love that. Our team. Yeah, look,
everybody's fantastic, how everybody loves us, But Bucket Clay display
real leadership qualities. I'm wondering if they were naturally liked
that as kids, for example, were the class president, heads
of any clubs at school, capital of a sports team,
or in the cub Scouts of Clay we just said,
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were you president, I was your president of the school.
You are too right. We were both presidents of the
student body at our respective schools. So I guess that's
a good sign. Yeah, I mean I think that, you know,
to some degree, says at all buck you know started out.
I think he's told the story of his speech impediment
and how that you know, held him back in early school,
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first and second grade, and then he he got you know,
we got him to a speech pathologist who really helped
him and buy the third or fourth grade, he was
the top student in his class. And from then on,
you know, he really was, you know, sort of a
leader of his peer group going forward from then on,
I mean, right through high school. Uh to a lesser
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degree in college. Only because uh, perhaps of the political
vagaries of her knows he knows that, you know, I
got I got picketed. Dad knows this story. For a
Sanco de Mayo party, I mean there was actual yeah, yeah,
and and it was everyone just came down on the
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Buckster because like I like to throw a party and
have a good time calling my mom and dad. I'm
like everyone's coming down on me. The good news was
that there was so there was a flyer that was made,
and the flyer was considered offensive defensive, and there was
a lot of cultural appropriation going on. I was just
in charge of booze procuring. I was not involved tequila
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and and fortunately the the young woman who was my
classmate who made the offensive flyer was a female from
South Asia, and therefore they were far less inclined to
kick her out of school than a white guy. I
had to have meetings with all the diversity unselers. I
had threats of picketing. They said they were going to
call the police on us for the school said they
would call actual police on us for underage drinking. And
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so we had to just like beg forgiveness and drink
ar tequila behind closed doors. That is an amazing story.
By the next one, by the way, Yeah, Gabby and
Beacon New York says, uh we I mentioned that we
met last night and Buck's mom has already been on Uh.
I know, Miss Sexton was an actress. Question here from Gabby,
were you ever a hair model, because you still have
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a heck of a head of hair on you your son. Obviously,
this is Gabby and Beacon, New York. I'm reading directly.
This is her question, not mine. Were Gabby anyway, Uh No,
of your day? I mean you just you were you
were a stockbroker, right, You just went to your fiftieth
and reunion business school reunion, just got back from it. Yeah,
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it was quite an experience, I'll be honest with you.
For a lot of reasons, I don't want to go
on a huge tangent, but basically, they're about of of
my class of seventy five that started in the class
of nineteen seventy two, twenty percent of past and that's
a very sobering reality. And then of the remaining sixty
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or so in that are still alive, about twenty one
or twenty two showed up for the reunion with their
significant others, wives and so on. And it was in
many ways the best reunion by far, because all the
competition that you usually you know when you show up
at your tenth or your twentieth, those that was all gone.
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It's all about you know, your health, your grandchildren, your family,
and there was a real sense of camaraderie and love
and special you know, affection within the group. And I
thought that was that was really something I didn't really anticipate,
but I found, you know, really really rewards. Remember how
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much at Harvard Business School costs when you went there, Well,
it's funny because when I started, it was thirty five
hundred dollars. Yeah, I think that's right. But the funny
part about it was that there was actually a protest
with signs and you know everything else. Uh, when they
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raised a tuition to five thousand dollars of my second year,
so you can imagine Harvard Business School students protesting, And
we were just speaking about the campus radicalism thing that
I you know that I doubt, which was just people.
It was like the movie PCU for our listeners, which
if you have not seen, you absolutely would have fun watching.
You guys have all seen PCU, right politically correct university.
(44:41):
You haven't unacceptable. It's even more timely, I would say
now than ever. It was that you were at Columbia
when the students seized the buildings, broke right, T tell
us about this was crazy? Well, again, I was. I
graduated from Columbia nineteen sixty nine. But in nineteen sixty eight,
my junior year, the students for a Democratic Society, a
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young man named Mark Rudd, some of you remember, literally
shut the university down completely and radicalized you know, all
the students that remained on campus. And they were really
far left radicals. I mean in the mathematics building, you know,
you had you know, real Marxists. I wanted to I
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wanted to literally burn the university down. So after about
two weeks of shutting down the university, finally I think
it was Grayson Kirk, who was the president, called in
the New York Police Department, and that was an incredible experience.
I happened to work at the time for Whitney north
Seymour Junior, who was became the Southern District Attorney. And anyway,
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real real quickly, I got word that the police were
coming in at two a m. That night, and so
I had a friend who had an apartment on the
fourth floor at one hundred and sixteenth Street and Amsterdam,
so I could watch the main gate and these that
they call them the Tactical Police Force. They're all on
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these big horses and they're all, you know, got helm
Ris here right, the whole thing. Anyway, it was, it
was a real war. Three people died during that. Oh wow,
you saw actual violence from the comedy of the batons
the whole thing. Oh yeah, No. I saw somebody jump
from one of the buildings onto the back of a policeman,
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broke his back and he subsequently died in the hospital.
So does nineteen sixty eight, by the way, remind you
now the world that we're in now, does that does
that congruency historically resonate for you? Or are they totally
different in your mind? Well, I think they're certainly parallels. Um.
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You know, clearly we have a very far left radical
Democratic Party now that is prone to violence and is
using you know, obviously Antifa and these other sort of
you know, auxiliary movements to enforce whatever ideas they're trying
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to enforce and intimidate people. Um so yeah, I look,
I what what people don't understand is how close we
are always to civil unrest. You know, it doesn't take much,
you know, a crowd of two or three hundred people
that is willing to go to jail or will willing
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to you know, break and burn can be a formidable force. See,
we got, we got, we got anti communists here in
New York City, Clais, We're gonna we're gonna bring you
back to close it out and honor a father's day.
And I want to ask you a question here in
a minute when we come back now that you're a grandfather.
Is being a grandfather? I know it's Father's Day coming up.
I'll let you answer when we come back out of
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this next break, But it's being a grandfather more fun
than being a father? Think about it. We'll get your answer.
I know there's a lot of people out there that
have gotten to experience both. And I'm curious the difference.
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Sexton show some Father's Day fun to kick you off
for the Father's Day weekend with my dad here. Mason
Speed Sexton a very cool name. I was, in fact
with him in a car when maybe we were going
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a little fast and the police officer pulled them over
and said, your literally your middle name is literally speed.
He thought that was funny. I don't know if we
got a warning or a ticket. I was a kid,
but that did actually happen. Um, dad, we got we
got all kinds of questions coming from people all over
the country. Um, let's first hold on, I'm sorry, question
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got to do it. There's lots of dads, there's lots
of granddads out there listening right now. How would you
describe being both? Which do you like more? Well? I
like both to be honest you. I'm so blessed to
have an amazing little grandson. His name is ron I
in Mason Kumar and we call him Rai, Rai the
rock Star. And uh, he's twenty months and he's completely
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changed my life. Um, you know, my perspective has gone
from you know, just worrying about retirement and health and
those issues, and now it's really a focus on I
want to make sure he has every opportunity that I
can possibly provide him, including with his parents of course.
And um, you know, just watching him grow up and
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spending time with him is incredibly special. And you know,
in some ways it's better because I don't have the
direct responsibility. But in other ways, uh, you know, there's
nothing like you know, having having your own children, you know,
and and and being a hopefully a model of behavior.
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You guys, because you had the four of us. Dad
by the time, when do you had us four? When
you were what mid mid thirties right now, I'm marrying
mother when I was thirty and she was twenty and
then by about forty three, forty four. I think I
had four children, because Clay got married at twenty five.
He's got three kids. He's forty three. Yeah, I had
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twenty eight, twenty eight years old as when I had
my first. So I've got a fourteen year old, the
eleven year old in the seven year old. Busy stuff.
We got Barney from Pokeepsie. He's actually got a question.
He called it on the lines we had the Father's
Day line. Let's play it. This is Barney from Potkeepsie.
I just wanted to know from Buck's dad, what were
his thoughts when Bucks joined the CIA. Well, that's a
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great question. And obviously you have remember the time that
he joined the CI. It was after nine eleven, and
he joined it to his credit as a you know,
I think, a show of patriotism and concern for his country.
He had been studying Middle Eastern affairs and had some
knowledge of Arabic, so he was in some ways an
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ideal candidate, uh for the CIA. But uh, you know
when he went away and and said, Dad, I can't
tell you where we're going. It's top secret. That that's
a concern. And when we found out, you know that
it was we obviously suspected it was Iraq and ultimately Afghanistan.
I will tell a quick story. Um, there was an
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article in the New York Times about the fact that
five senior Al Qaeda leaders had been liquidated in Moselle,
m mosel I'm sorry, and I had just had a
feeling that Folk was involved, and as it turned out,
he could neither confirm nor deny. It turned out show
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up here now is dad spilled some but some friends
who were very badass door kicker folks. I might have
tried to help point them in the general vicinity. Um. Anyway,
so we were incredibly proud, of course, uh for for
buck service and still are. Yeah, we have a Thelma
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from Thelma from Seattle, and I don't want to have
Clay has got to throw a sports question because just
the sex he raised, he used to take me. He
took me to Giants games, took me to Knicks games. So,
you know, because I think this audience thinks like I
played the sports, I saw the sports. I still like
to play the sports. I'm just not I don't really
watch the professional leagues very much. Anyway. We'll get to
that a second. This is Thelma from Seattle. Let's play it.
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This is Thelma from Seattle. I was just curious. The
Sexton family has some interesting names. Speed Buck, what are
the origins? Well, the Speed family, excuse me, the Speed
is a family name. It was my mother's maiden name.
The Speed family, I was just telling Clay here because
he's from Nashville, is a prominent family in Louisville, Kentucky.
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The Speed Museum is an internationally well known museum, Speed Institute.
And then of course Farmington, which is the family home,
which was designed by Jefferson, is a National Historic Landmark.
So the Speed name in Louisville in particular is a
you know, it's a historically important name. The if you Go,
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if you Go back ultimately to John Speed was a
cartographer to Queen Elizabeth, the real Queen Elizabeth, and then
Joshua Speed was Lincoln's best friend and advisor during his
entire political career. And then ultimately James Speed, his brother,
was the second Attorney General in or was his Attorney
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general in his second term. So, um, that tells you
a little bit of the Speed name. Your favorite team
in the world of sports is Gosh, it has been
the it has been the Giants, but I gotta tell you,
I think the Jets are are going to be ascendant
this year. Oh really yeah, I'm very very positive on
Saila and the Jets. Here we go OutKick news story
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right here. Speed Sexton calls the it's big in the
next season. Jed, love you. Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's
Day to all the dad's out there all play. Happy
Father's Day to you you all rock. Thanks for hanging
with us.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. We had a awesome night. You got
to meet a lot of our listeners as we celebrated
one year on the program last night in New York City.
Thanks to all who came out, and we are looking
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forward to rolling into year two and continuing to be
voices for sanity in an insane world. Hope all of
you are having a good early start to your weekends
and we are certainly prepared to power you right into
that afternoon evening fun of Friday. But there remains, unfortunately,
(00:45):
the ongoing cloud of incompetence surrounding the Biden administration. As
we are speaking to you, the stock market, having one
of its worst weeks ever, is down one hundred and
twenty three points again today. It has been a real
drubbing that the stock market has been taking as our
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overall national economy tries to come to grips with the
overall inflation rates. And I would just say this, Buck,
I think we're already in a recession. This is my prediction.
It didn't get a great deal of attention. But if
you looked when we had the three quarter rate interest
interest rate hike, three quarter point interest rate hike that
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happened earlier this week, the Fed lowered its second quarter
predictions on GDP to zero zero point zero. The growth
rate had been point nine percent. It wasn't exactly a
sterling growth rate. But if they are now forecasting zero
point zero percent effectively, which is what they are, in
other words, just barely avoiding a negative number, it feels
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to me like we are probably already in a recession.
We know that in the first quarter GDP went down
two conceptive quarters of negative GDP is a recession, Buck,
I think we're in a recession. I want to play
you this audio because Joe Biden finally did an interview
and he talked with the AP in the Oval office,
and he said that a recession is not inevitable. I think, unfortunately,
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we're already in a recession. Lee play cut seven here
for you, as CNN is even interacting here with what
is going on and saying, it definitely feels like we're
already in a recession. Nobody knows when or if there
will be a recession. At some point, there will be
because we live in an economy that has business cycles. Right,
we don't know if there's one now, If there's one
(02:37):
maybe some time next year. What we do know is
the markets are reacting like it. It's inevitable. And you've
got a majority of global CEOs now, according to the
Wall Street Journal, saying they think that we're either in
one or headed for one. That depends on where you live.
There's much more likely you'll see recessions in Europe than
in the United States. But no one knows for sure.
And the Fed is trying to navigate what it calls
a soft landing, trying to get out of this mess
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without too much damage to the US economy. But issue
number one here is inflation. They're trying to get inflation
under control, and the stock market, at least right now,
is adjusting to this new world of higher inflation, higher
interest rates, slower growth, and that's why you're seeing stocks react.
I'm sorry, but the Biden administration Clay doesn't get to
have it both ways. Six months ago, nine months ago,
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Biden himself was pointing to the stock market talking about
how it was just a function of build back. Better,
just spend another five or six trillion. We're going to
get ourselves out out of the ditch, the duldrums we
had been in. No, it turns out that the decisions
they made have had a dramatically negative impact on the economy,
and now they want to tell us that it was
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its cyclical right. So six months ago Biden saying, look
at the stock market, I'm amazing, And now the stock
market has just gotten crushed. You have less money in
your four oh one K and your retirement accounts or
your stock accounts in general than you did when Biden
took office. So that's eighteen months of gains wiped out,
and they want to tell you that this has nothing
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to do with Joe Biden. It just reminds me very
much of the explanation they give now for the high
price of gas, which of course is the putin price hike.
Greedy oil suppliers, greedy refiner all this is crap and nonsense.
It's worth reminding people that six months ago Biden was
saying it was a great economy, boasting about the jobs,
(04:23):
boasting about the stock market, and now we see it's
all fallen apart. And eighteen months ago Biden was talking
about how if he Could he would ban all fuel,
all gas, all oil. Oh? Yeah. Would there be any
place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking in a
Biden administration, No? Would, We would work it out. We
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would make sure it's eliminated. And no more subsidies for
either one of those. No more subsidies for fossil filling industry,
No more drilling non federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore,
no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period.
I've argued against any more oil drilling or gas drilling
(05:08):
on federal lands that we can and uh and and
and to stop that we are. We argue, if you're
rid of fossil fuels, if you're going to bad practing
all across America right now, I would love to Yeah,
I'd love to too. I'd love to make sure we
don't gas period. I think, I know, I feel I
know a lot more about foreign policy than I knew
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about um about the oil industry, Clay, Can he make
it any more clear that he hates the fossil fuel
industry at least when he wants Democrat votes. Can you
imagine how bad that montage is going to play in
many different jurisdictions right now, many different places. As people
are getting ready to go to the polls. We've talked
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a lot about what a red wave would look like,
or what a red tsunami would look like. And I
can't imagine when you're paying over five dollars a gas
uh for a gallon of gas, that the reaction to
any voters out there is going to be remotely positive
to Joe Biden trying to now say, oh, we've got
to increase oil and gas exploration, We've got to do
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more drilling, we've got to do when he ran on
the idea that he was going to stop that from happening.
So it's not just that Joe Biden has bad ideas,
it's that his ideas are so bad they make everything worse.
And this is why the essence, this is why they're
panicked right now, because we're rapidly coming up on July.
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Everybody's on their vacations right now during the summer, so
many people have saved up for the past couple of
years because of COVID related issues. People are out there
more than they have been in a long time. And
when you're driving your family around and you are paying
five dollars for a gallon of gas. It is just
an absolute kick in the teeth to people out there,
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and again from a parenting perspective, what it really does
is you don't get take your kids to the movies,
You don't get to take your kids out for dinner
like you ordinarily would. You may not even be able
to take a vacation like you would hope to be
able to do by presents as we come up and
get start to think about birthdays and all of all
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the holiday season, which isn't that far away. This is
an unmitigated disaster and it strikes people every single day,
all day long when you're looking at the price of gas.
And I think the Biden White House compounds everything that
you're talking about, which is the pain that people are
feeling economically. That's there. They can talk about eight million
jobs or whatever all day. The fact of the matter
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is that people are feeling financially stressed. The markets have turned,
and we are probably already in a recession, it's just
not officially yet. We've been talking about a recession here
for months. But on top of that, there's something so
dishonest about the Biden administration with regard to all of this,
which is why I think playing back clips of what
Joe Biden running for office was saying about the price
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about the gas fuel industry and how that affects the
price of gas now is obvious. Right. They did everything
they could to show the environmentalists left that they are
hostile to the fossil fuel industry, and now the price
of gas is high, and they say, oh, we didn't
do anything. When Donald Trump was in office, Democrats and
I know it was mostly about Russia collusion, which was
a lie, but Trump would say I want to do
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the following, or here's what we're doing, and Democrats could
and did obviously say that's bad, we hate that. Whatever.
But at least there is a clarity among Republicans with
we're gonna cut taxes, or we want to build the wall,
or we're going to do remain in Mexico, whatever it
may be. With Democrats, it's a game. They get what
they want under a certain promise, and then when it's disastrous,
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it's we never wanted that. We didn't think there are
consequences for the choices that we're making. Think about this
getting rid of remain in Mexico. Look at the southern
border now, defund the police. Look at crime in major cities,
open air drug markets in places like Portland, look at
the level of overdoses and cities and nation and wide
last year spending too much money, Look at inflation. They
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try to separate cause and effect, and people aren't buying
it because it's so obvious. Right, it's not a question
of I have a policy preference. They have a policy preference,
and we're going to argue out what could happen in
the future. We've seen the results, and that's why it's
going to be I believe, such a devastating red tsunami
because to your point, they made disastrous policy choices, some
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of the most disastrous policy choices in American history. I
really do believe that particularly would defund the police, certainly
with as you just said, what's going on in the border,
the money that they spent. What's amazing is everything is
coming home to roost so rapidly because their choices were
so awful that there wasn't to your point, you could
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sit around and argue about, hey, what should the corporate
tax rate be? And it might take five six years
to figure out what the exact impact is of a
corporate tax rate increase or decrease, because that's how long
the economy sometimes takes to put all this in motion.
We were just starting to see, for instance, the benefits
of the Trump tax cuts when COVID hit. We had
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the best economy in the history of the United States
in February of twenty twenty, as all of those Trump
economic policies were starting to roll into place. Buck, it
only took eighteen months of the Biden administration for all
of the disastrous early day decisions of Joe Biden the
chickens to proverbially come home to roost, and everything to
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fall apart. He's the worst president in any of our lives.
I think one of the most illuminating recent historical examples
we can look to or away that we can lay
this all out. We're eighteen months into the Biden presidency
and we're being told that it's not Biden's that the
economy is not Biden's fall. Yes, I remember we were
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eighteen months into the Trump presidency and do you remember
what they were saying, It's the Obama economy. Yes, So
when you're eighteen months into a really strong Republican economy,
it's the previous Democrat president who should get the credit.
When you're eighteen months into a Democrat administration and all
of a sudden, everything starts falling apart in all hell
breaks lose, it's Nobody's fault or actually Trump's fault, depending
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on which Democrat on which day. Remember they tried to
sell us on the idea of the Biden boom if
you read the New York Times in the first six
months of Joe Biden coming into office. Remember we were
up here in July of last year. It was going
to be a hot vack summer. Look At how incredible
Joe Biden is doing, getting the COVID shot rolled out.
Look At how the economy is booming. Look at the
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stock market. As you pointed out, Biden now doesn't want
to talk much about the stock market, but he was
certainly bragging about what had happened in the stock market
in the early days of his administration. And now the
consequences of the disastrous policies they have put in place
have arrived, and suddenly that Biden boom talk has vanished.
And I really do legitimately believe that we are in
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a recession right now. I think when we get the
second quarter GDP numbers. I believe they're going to be
negative and that will officially count as a recession. Now,
how long lasting is it going to be? Can we
come out of it in the third and fourth quarter
as we move through twenty twenty two? I don't know.
I do know voters are not going to have any
of that data because we're going to get the second
quarter GDP and people are going to look around and say,
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holy crap, things are awful. We're in the middle of
a recession. I almost have more respect in a way
for John Kerry. The climates are than all the other
top White House economic advisors, spokespersons and the rest, because
at least John Kerry is like, look, peasants, gas is expensive,
but we've got a planet to save, you know, at
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least he pretty much says it. The rest of them
all run around, Oh what do you mean we love
fossil fuel. It's like, oh, so you want the industry
to expand for the next five to ten years, and really,
would you like what really should be asked? Hey, listen,
Doucy over at Fox, this would be a great way
to throw out there if you could, buddy ask the
Biden regime. Would you like to see two years from
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now a fifteen to twenty percent increase in fossil fuel
production to that's a great question. Whether that's even possible
or not is irrelevant, But would you would you theoretically
like to see that? They will, because anybody right now
it's like, oh my gosh, even that would be as
as we can possibly produce. They will not say it
or say, you know, when Biden's running for reelection, would
he feel good about a fifteen percent increase in domestic
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fossil fuel production? Wouldn't that be a cool thing that
he want to run on? Will not say it. They
absolutely will not do it because they're frauds and they're
along to all of you. But you know that, folks,
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ed Clay Turravis Fuck Sexton Show. It's the fiftieth anniversary
roughly of Watergate to the beginning of the end of
the Richard Nixon presidency, and certainly everything that has occurred
in terms of political scandals gets a gate affixed to it.
It's become so commonplace. But Carl Bernstein this obsession with
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trying to turn January sixth into the worst thing that
has ever happened in the history of the country. Karl
Bernstein says that January sixth was worse than the Civil War,
the secession that we saw from Jefferson Davis, who, when
he left to become the President of the Confederacy prior
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to that, had been a senator from Mississippi. Listen to this.
We don't know what Merrick Garland is going to do,
and there is a tremendous weight on his shoulders because
this is worse than Watergate. The Justice Department now has
to make a decision because it's very clear that the President,
Donald Trump violated the law, no question, There's no question
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about his seditious actions. The last sedition we had in
this country on any kind of scale was Jefferson Davis,
the president of the Confederacy. And Trump even outdid Jefferson Davis.
He committed the United States under him as the chief
officer of the United States government. He committed it to
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trying to stage an illegal coup. Oh stop, did Jefferson
Davis outdid the head of the Confederacy. We have made
fun of the fact on this show that I am
a huge Civil War history buff. I even went to
Civil War sleepaway camp. January sixth. Is nothing like the
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Civil War. And Jefferson Davis, who led the Confederacy as
the president of a country that was at war at
the time with the United States, is nothing like what
Donald Trump did. First of all, the continued attempt to
call this a coup is so outside the bounds of
reasonable discussion that it is an insult to anyone with
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a functional brain that this would still be going on.
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Make sure you don't miss a single moment. I know
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now joining us from I believe, the great state of Tennessee.
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Although she may still be in Washington, DC. Senator Marsha Blackburn.
Senator Joe Biden's already left the White House for the day.
He's headed to his beach house. He didn't get in
till twelve thirty on Monday. But I was kind of thinking,
is it better for Joe Biden just not to be
in the White House at all? Since everything he seems
to be doing is such a disaster. Everything they are
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doing makes the line of Tennesseeans and the American people worse.
And when I talk with people here in Tennessee, Clay
they are saying, you know, I voted for Joe Biden,
or I didn't support Joe Biden, but I thought he
would be a moderate. I didn't expect Bernie Sanders. And
they're just so frustrated because inflation, the prices, punser prices
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a grow, restore the open border, drugs on the streets,
crime in the communities. The list goes on and on,
and they're really frustrated with what is coming out of
this administration. So maybe we just want to see Joe
go to the beach and stay there for the rest
of the summer and the Democrats not try to pass
one more bill because we're playing block and tackle every
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single day. Center Blackburne's Buck, thanks for being with us.
The latest that we saw was on the bill that's
supposed to be be bipartisan on gun control gun restrictions, that
it's running into some problems now and may not actually
go through the Senate. Have you any insight into that.
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You tell us more about that. Well, they have a framework,
they don't have legislative text, and there's a big difference.
And I'm one that has said, look, I will not
vote for anything that is going to infringe on anybody
Second Amendment rights. I am not going to vote for
anything that would give a platform that the federal government
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could establish some kind of national gun registry. And do
we need to harden schools? Yes, four months I've been
recommending that we use the one hundred billion dollars left
over from COVID in the Elementary and Secondary Schools Fund
so that schools can apply technology harden those schools. Also,
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for years, I have been recommending that we work with
retired law enforcement and veterans and deputize them so they
can take a shift and be the officer on duty
at every school, with schools having one one point of
entry into those schools. Those are common sense things that
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could be done. But you know, when you leave it
to the left, they want to do that. They want
to have red flag laws that they are going to
say they can incent the states, but then it turns
out to being a mandate and its coercive behavior on
behalf of the federal government. So for me, that is
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not something I'm going to support. Center Blackburn. You know this.
I mean, my kids live in Williamson County, just outside
of Nashville, and what you just referenced. They go to
public school. We have a security police officer there that
they love, Officer Show, who's been inside their school for years.
Kids all of her and they have one entry point.
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And I don't understand why that's remotely controversial. I also
want to thank you this absurd wokeification that's going on
with our military, where we spend more time talking about
diversity and inclusion than we do kicking people's ass. And
you've got a policy in place that you're working on
to try to dewokeify our military. What would that intent? Yes,
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I actually have two different bills. I had offered these
in our Defense Authorization Act markup that we had and Clay,
what this would do is, I think the military should
be focused on our adversaries and on fighting and winning wars.
We know that the new axis of evil is communist China, Russia,
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Iron and North Korea. They don't give a rippen flip
about how woke the US military is, but the American
people care desperately about defeating our enemies and our adversaries.
That is what the focus of the military should be. Readiness, training,
preparation to fight and to win. And the second provision
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that I have offered in and working on, is to
protect the children of military members when they are in
our DoD schools on military basis. It had come to
my attention that we had some teachers who were trying
to work with the student to hide the student wanting
to do gender fluidity or gender transition or have psychological care.
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The parents do not need to be kept in the
dark on this, and we do not need teachers on
our military basis encouraging children not to talk to their
parents and to hide things from them. And I found
out through this process, if there was not a DoD policy,
that parents needed to have the right to be involved
in these decisions. So I tried to push that forward
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and we're yet to get bipartisan agreement on that one.
Speaking of Senator Marsha Blackburne of Tennessee, Senator, if you
are in the majority come next year, which Clay and
I and certainly the audience are hoping is going to
be the case, what are some of the things that
you and your Senate colleagues in the Republic. Again, assuming
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a Republican majority would plan to do, Biden would still
be president, so that create some roadblocks. But what would
you like to see happen. We need to get the
country on the right track. And starting with that are
two things we need to do. Address the cost of
the pump, which means restarting the Keystone Pipeline, opening up
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Alaska offshore drilling, go back to fracking, and it's going
to mean that a Republican lighthouse and Senate is going
to have to take us up and push it forward
and to override Joe Biden and the leftist opinion on
this issue. The second thing is getting government spending under control.
And as y'all know, and as you've talked about, the
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two things, inflation, the prices upon the grocery store and
government spending have been the two drivers on this out
of control inflation rates that we're seeing. So we need
to freeze government spending. We need to freeze government hiring.
We need to freeze escalation rates in salaries of government employees.
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And then to require a supermajority to pass any spending
bill during times of high inflation. And that is legislation
I've had now this is the second year I've had it.
When inflation is high, we ought not to have these
bills flying through Congress. Just look at what the Biden
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administration has done. You've got six point eight trillion that
was spent on COVID, and then you had another two
trillions and one point nine trillion in infrastructure, and now
for his billback Brokagen to Biden, watch another two trillion
dollars in the economists saying stop spending government money. So
let's be smart about this, let's stop it, Sender Blackburn.
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You also have gone aggressively after the threats that have
been put forward against Supreme Court justices. The left wants
to pretend that a crazy lunatic didn't show up at
Justice Kavanaugh's house trying to assassinate him. It took forever
for the House to actually pass a bill to provide protection.
The Senate acted much faster on that. But to your point,
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what in the world is going on with this lack
of protection for Supreme Court justices? What should happen in
your mind? I know you've been pretty outspoken and active
about this. When it comes to our justices and their families,
they need to have round the clock protection. That is
the bill we moved out of the Senate, and then
Pelosi sat on it for a month, and then you
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had the squad and the leftists in the House vote
against it, but they are in mind, every lasting one
of them. Every one of them voted for extra protection
for themselves after January sixth, So they want to protect themselves,
but they don't want to protect the justices and the
justices families. The other thing is these protesters that are
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out in front disturbing the peace, messing up the neighborhoods
where these justices live or where they go to church.
They be marched down the city hall and they should
be booked on violation of eighteen USC. One five h seven,
because it is illegal to go out and protest at
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a judge's home and try to influence a seederal judge
on the outcome of a decision. It is an illegal act.
So I think that DJ and FBI need to get
out here and they need to do their job, and
they need to make certain that they are very carefully
what is happening with these protests in these communities, because
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many of these protesters, in these groups that are sponsoring
the protest is y'all know, they have been saying, you're
going to have a summer of rage if we don't
get the opinion we want from the Supreme Court. That
is illegal. Chuck Schumer ought to go out here and
he ought to apologize to Gorstchenco and offer calling him
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out on the steps of the Supreme Court some months
ago and saying you have unleashed the whirlwind. That is inappropriate.
He should be out there apologizing. We need to protect
the court. We need to protect the justices on the court.
Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee Senator always appreciate you coming by.
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with us. We're about to be joined by Buck's dad.
It is Father's Day weekend. I hope all the dad's
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out there are having a fantastic early start to your weekend.
I've got three boys of my own. I cannot wait
to hang out with them the course of this weekend.
My dad was scheduled to be on with us, but
yesterday I just want to kind of fill you guys
in Yesterday, near the end of the show, I got
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some awful news. My first cousin, Steve Travis, he's sixty
two years old, died unexpectedly yesterday. It's my dad's nephew.
He is incredibly broken up about it. He didn't feel
like he could come on and talk about Father's Day
because of this death we just had in the family.
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But I just wanted to tell you a little bit
about Steve here as we roll in. He's a father himself.
His daughter Jennifer, is absolutely fantastic, and he is a
thirty plus year listener of the Russian Limboss show. He
was a huge fan of Rush and when I got
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the offer from Julie Talbot, who was Bucking Eyes Boss,
and she's fantastic to come and be able to take
over this show, I only called a couple of people
to ask them about it, and Steve was one of
them because he was such a diehard Rushed Limbaugh fan.
And it's been really fun the last year because he
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listened every day and he would text during segments and
share his opinions and thoughts as someone who had been
listening to this show for a really long time. And
yesterday he had been in perfect health. He was outside
early in the morning working in his yard. Like I said,
sixty two years old, had just recently been to the doctor,
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gotten a clean bill of health, and he just collapsed
and died. And so my family is still stunned. We'd
asked for your prayer, certainly for Steve's close family, his
daughter and his wife, but my dad, who is again
it's his nephew and they kind of grew up together.
He was just so broken up over this that he
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didn't think he could come on and talk about Father's Day.
So what I would just say to everybody out there is,
you know, if you've got a dad, hug him grandpa.
If sometimes you know, families don't get along, none of
us are guaranteed anything at all, right, And so I
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would just say, you know, as all of us are
celebrating Father's Day, I know Mother's Day just happened. If
you got people in your family that you care about,
don't ever neglect telling them how much you care. And
I know that things can be controversial and difficult on
a day to day basis. Certainly no family is perfect,
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but I do think on times like these and everybody
has unexpected awful things that happen in their family that
none of us can control. But I do think that
I would just want to say to everybody out there,
First of all, you know, Steve was an incredible long
time Russian Limbaugh listener, and I am honored to have
known him, and and he is one of you to
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his core and to his soul, and he's a big
reason why you're listening to me talk on this show
right now. And for everybody out there who is who
is certainly getting ready for Father's Day, just take the
time to tell the people in your life that you
love them, because none of us are guaranteed any day,
any hour, and things can happen at any point. We're
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going to be joined by Buck's dad, who is phenomenal.
I don't want to make the whole show, certainly any
kind of down, or we're gonna have a lot of
fun to close out this Friday edition. But I just
wanted to mention why my own dad was not going
to be on. He didn't think he could make it
through segments talking about Father's Day after what happened yesterday
in our family. So Buck, look, you know this, and
everybody else out there knows. You never know when something
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tragic might happen in your life, and so we love
spending time with all of you. We know that your
families are incredibly important. And I would just say, as
we head into the final thirty minutes of the show
Father's Day weekend, if you get the opportunity, got a
loved one out there, maybe haven't talked to him in
a while, take the opportunity to reach out and uh,
and try to make sure that you don't take anything
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for granted when it comes to the important relationships in
your life, your family, your friends, everything else. A lot
of thoughts and prayers for you and yours, Clay, and uh,
we will obviously have to have your dad on on
another Yea, he will want to meet Papa Travi. He will,
he will come on. He just I really he is
an incredibly emotional guy. He would have broken down thirty
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seconds into the Father's Day discussion, and we weren't that
confident to be honest in his cell phone, as I've
said for a while, So I'll bring him into the
Nashville studio. That'll be He's excited to meet you and
he loves Obviously, my dad listens to the show every
single day, so he wants to come on. Our moms
were on, my dad will be on at some point.
But coming up next we are going to be joined
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by Buck's dad here in the New York City studio.
It's gonna be a lot of fun in honor of
Father's Day. Is it a fun hour? People ask me this,
and you're asking this too, like do your parents listen?
And I almost do they listen? They listen every day? Yeah, yeah,
your mom was saying last night we were meeting, and
my mom listens to every minute. She just texted me.
She's driving back from Florida, where she's been down with
my sister for a while, and she said, hey, we've
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Clay in Buck Show and some special father's day time
here on the air Underway, joined by my dad, Mason
Speed Sex at in studio and here with Clay Clays
of course a dad in his own right. Dad, How
you doing well? It needless to say, a great honor
to be here with to the obviously most talented and
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hardest working men in media and um. It's sort of
the culmination of a dream to be here. Buck See,
We've got we got a well trade. He's already saying
nice things about I've always known I loved your dad.
I got to meet you guys last night, you and
your wife and our one yr anniversary party. So I'm curious.
You've got four kids, that's correct. What is your favorite
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thing about Father's Day? Is there anything that is a
tradition in the Sexton household or family that has has
built up over the years. Well, you know you we
were just talking about your dad getting emotional. I'm going
to get emotional now. Um. No, we're just a very
close family. Yeah, and got three sons and a daughter, right,
we love being together. Um. There was actually a question
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here that was sent in from a caller asking about
what get into all that. I understand, but I you
know it don't mean to preempted, but to say that
asking what did I like to do with you? Buck?
And and really, you know what, our favorite thing is
just to hang out. We have a big terrace in
our apartment fortunately, and and and we love just to
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hang out together, have dinner together, yep, and and talk
you know, politics going in people's lives, and and that's it.
We just we love being together. That's pretty much it.
Age I'm curious because I've got a fourteen and eleven
and a seven year old. I've got three boys. You
now are grandfather as well, so congratulations on that. But
as a dad, what ages did you like Buck and
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his brothers and his sister? What age range did you
find to be the most fun as a parent? Was
there one era that stands out? Boy, that's an interesting question.
I think it was different for each child. You know,
be honest with you, You know it all. It all
passes so quickly, and I don't remember a bad time.
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It all seems like it was all, you know, pretty special,
and I felt really blessed to have such outstanding children.
That's that's really the truth. So we got some VIP emails.
We've also got some calls, Dad from people that want
to speak to you. And again, we were gonna have
Clay's dad, but we're have Clay's dad. On a future show,
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Alfie in New York City said, Buck and Clay display
real leadership qualities. I love that. Our team. Yeah, look,
everybody's fantastic, how everybody loves us, But Bucket Clay display
real leadership qualities. I'm wondering if they were naturally liked
that as kids, for example, were the class president, heads
of any clubs at school, capital of a sports team,
or in the cub Scouts of Clay we just said,
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were you president, I was your president of the school.
You are too right. We were both presidents of the
student body at our respective schools. So I guess that's
a good sign. Yeah, I mean I think that, you know,
to some degree, says at all buck you know started out.
I think he's told the story of his speech impediment
and how that you know, held him back in early school,
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first and second grade, and then he he got you know,
we got him to a speech pathologist who really helped
him and buy the third or fourth grade, he was
the top student in his class. And from then on,
you know, he really was, you know, sort of a
leader of his peer group going forward from then on,
I mean, right through high school. Uh to a lesser
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degree in college. Only because uh, perhaps of the political
vagaries of her knows he knows that, you know, I
got I got picketed. Dad knows this story. For a
Sanco de Mayo party, I mean there was actual yeah, yeah,
and and it was everyone just came down on the
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Buckster because like I like to throw a party and
have a good time calling my mom and dad. I'm
like everyone's coming down on me. The good news was
that there was so there was a flyer that was made,
and the flyer was considered offensive defensive, and there was
a lot of cultural appropriation going on. I was just
in charge of booze procuring. I was not involved tequila
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and and fortunately the the young woman who was my
classmate who made the offensive flyer was a female from
South Asia, and therefore they were far less inclined to
kick her out of school than a white guy. I
had to have meetings with all the diversity unselers. I
had threats of picketing. They said they were going to
call the police on us for the school said they
would call actual police on us for underage drinking. And
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so we had to just like beg forgiveness and drink
ar tequila behind closed doors. That is an amazing story.
By the next one, by the way, Yeah, Gabby and
Beacon New York says, uh we I mentioned that we
met last night and Buck's mom has already been on Uh.
I know, Miss Sexton was an actress. Question here from Gabby,
were you ever a hair model, because you still have
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a heck of a head of hair on you your son. Obviously,
this is Gabby and Beacon, New York. I'm reading directly.
This is her question, not mine. Were Gabby anyway, Uh No,
of your day? I mean you just you were you
were a stockbroker, right, You just went to your fiftieth
and reunion business school reunion, just got back from it. Yeah,
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it was quite an experience, I'll be honest with you.
For a lot of reasons, I don't want to go
on a huge tangent, but basically, they're about of of
my class of seventy five that started in the class
of nineteen seventy two, twenty percent of past and that's
a very sobering reality. And then of the remaining sixty
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or so in that are still alive, about twenty one
or twenty two showed up for the reunion with their
significant others, wives and so on. And it was in
many ways the best reunion by far, because all the
competition that you usually you know when you show up
at your tenth or your twentieth, those that was all gone.
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It's all about you know, your health, your grandchildren, your family,
and there was a real sense of camaraderie and love
and special you know, affection within the group. And I
thought that was that was really something I didn't really anticipate,
but I found, you know, really really rewards. Remember how
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much at Harvard Business School costs when you went there, Well,
it's funny because when I started, it was thirty five
hundred dollars. Yeah, I think that's right. But the funny
part about it was that there was actually a protest
with signs and you know everything else. Uh, when they
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raised a tuition to five thousand dollars of my second year,
so you can imagine Harvard Business School students protesting, And
we were just speaking about the campus radicalism thing that
I you know that I doubt, which was just people.
It was like the movie PCU for our listeners, which
if you have not seen, you absolutely would have fun watching.
You guys have all seen PCU, right politically correct university.
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You haven't unacceptable. It's even more timely, I would say
now than ever. It was that you were at Columbia
when the students seized the buildings, broke right, T tell
us about this was crazy? Well, again, I was. I
graduated from Columbia nineteen sixty nine. But in nineteen sixty eight,
my junior year, the students for a Democratic Society, a
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young man named Mark Rudd, some of you remember, literally
shut the university down completely and radicalized you know, all
the students that remained on campus. And they were really
far left radicals. I mean in the mathematics building, you know,
you had you know, real Marxists. I wanted to I
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wanted to literally burn the university down. So after about
two weeks of shutting down the university, finally I think
it was Grayson Kirk, who was the president, called in
the New York Police Department, and that was an incredible experience.
I happened to work at the time for Whitney north
Seymour Junior, who was became the Southern District Attorney. And anyway,
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real real quickly, I got word that the police were
coming in at two a m. That night, and so
I had a friend who had an apartment on the
fourth floor at one hundred and sixteenth Street and Amsterdam,
so I could watch the main gate and these that
they call them the Tactical Police Force. They're all on
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these big horses and they're all, you know, got helm
Ris here right, the whole thing. Anyway, it was, it
was a real war. Three people died during that. Oh wow,
you saw actual violence from the comedy of the batons
the whole thing. Oh yeah, No. I saw somebody jump
from one of the buildings onto the back of a policeman,
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broke his back and he subsequently died in the hospital.
So does nineteen sixty eight, by the way, remind you
now the world that we're in now, does that does
that congruency historically resonate for you? Or are they totally
different in your mind? Well, I think they're certainly parallels. Um.
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You know, clearly we have a very far left radical
Democratic Party now that is prone to violence and is
using you know, obviously Antifa and these other sort of
you know, auxiliary movements to enforce whatever ideas they're trying
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to enforce and intimidate people. Um so yeah, I look,
I what what people don't understand is how close we
are always to civil unrest. You know, it doesn't take much,
you know, a crowd of two or three hundred people
that is willing to go to jail or will willing
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to you know, break and burn can be a formidable force. See,
we got, we got, we got anti communists here in
New York City, Clais, We're gonna we're gonna bring you
back to close it out and honor a father's day.
And I want to ask you a question here in
a minute when we come back now that you're a grandfather.
Is being a grandfather? I know it's Father's Day coming up.
I'll let you answer when we come back out of
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this next break, But it's being a grandfather more fun
than being a father? Think about it. We'll get your answer.
I know there's a lot of people out there that
have gotten to experience both. And I'm curious the difference.
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Sexton show some Father's Day fun to kick you off
for the Father's Day weekend with my dad here. Mason
Speed Sexton a very cool name. I was, in fact
with him in a car when maybe we were going
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a little fast and the police officer pulled them over
and said, your literally your middle name is literally speed.
He thought that was funny. I don't know if we
got a warning or a ticket. I was a kid,
but that did actually happen. Um, dad, we got we
got all kinds of questions coming from people all over
the country. Um, let's first hold on, I'm sorry, question
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got to do it. There's lots of dads, there's lots
of granddads out there listening right now. How would you
describe being both? Which do you like more? Well? I
like both to be honest you. I'm so blessed to
have an amazing little grandson. His name is ron I
in Mason Kumar and we call him Rai, Rai the
rock Star. And uh, he's twenty months and he's completely
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changed my life. Um, you know, my perspective has gone
from you know, just worrying about retirement and health and
those issues, and now it's really a focus on I
want to make sure he has every opportunity that I
can possibly provide him, including with his parents of course.
And um, you know, just watching him grow up and
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spending time with him is incredibly special. And you know,
in some ways it's better because I don't have the
direct responsibility. But in other ways, uh, you know, there's
nothing like you know, having having your own children, you know,
and and and being a hopefully a model of behavior.
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You guys, because you had the four of us. Dad
by the time, when do you had us four? When
you were what mid mid thirties right now, I'm marrying
mother when I was thirty and she was twenty and
then by about forty three, forty four. I think I
had four children, because Clay got married at twenty five.
He's got three kids. He's forty three. Yeah, I had
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twenty eight, twenty eight years old as when I had
my first. So I've got a fourteen year old, the
eleven year old in the seven year old. Busy stuff.
We got Barney from Pokeepsie. He's actually got a question.
He called it on the lines we had the Father's
Day line. Let's play it. This is Barney from Potkeepsie.
I just wanted to know from Buck's dad, what were
his thoughts when Bucks joined the CIA. Well, that's a
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great question. And obviously you have remember the time that
he joined the CI. It was after nine eleven, and
he joined it to his credit as a you know,
I think, a show of patriotism and concern for his country.
He had been studying Middle Eastern affairs and had some
knowledge of Arabic, so he was in some ways an
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ideal candidate, uh for the CIA. But uh, you know
when he went away and and said, Dad, I can't
tell you where we're going. It's top secret. That that's
a concern. And when we found out, you know that
it was we obviously suspected it was Iraq and ultimately Afghanistan.
I will tell a quick story. Um, there was an
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article in the New York Times about the fact that
five senior Al Qaeda leaders had been liquidated in Moselle,
m mosel I'm sorry, and I had just had a
feeling that Folk was involved, and as it turned out,
he could neither confirm nor deny. It turned out show
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up here now is dad spilled some but some friends
who were very badass door kicker folks. I might have
tried to help point them in the general vicinity. Um. Anyway,
so we were incredibly proud, of course, uh for for
buck service and still are. Yeah, we have a Thelma
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from Thelma from Seattle, and I don't want to have
Clay has got to throw a sports question because just
the sex he raised, he used to take me. He
took me to Giants games, took me to Knicks games. So,
you know, because I think this audience thinks like I
played the sports, I saw the sports. I still like
to play the sports. I'm just not I don't really
watch the professional leagues very much. Anyway. We'll get to
that a second. This is Thelma from Seattle. Let's play it.
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This is Thelma from Seattle. I was just curious. The
Sexton family has some interesting names. Speed Buck, what are
the origins? Well, the Speed family, excuse me, the Speed
is a family name. It was my mother's maiden name.
The Speed family, I was just telling Clay here because
he's from Nashville, is a prominent family in Louisville, Kentucky.
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The Speed Museum is an internationally well known museum, Speed Institute.
And then of course Farmington, which is the family home,
which was designed by Jefferson, is a National Historic Landmark.
So the Speed name in Louisville in particular is a
you know, it's a historically important name. The if you Go,
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if you Go back ultimately to John Speed was a
cartographer to Queen Elizabeth, the real Queen Elizabeth, and then
Joshua Speed was Lincoln's best friend and advisor during his
entire political career. And then ultimately James Speed, his brother,
was the second Attorney General in or was his Attorney
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general in his second term. So, um, that tells you
a little bit of the Speed name. Your favorite team
in the world of sports is Gosh, it has been
the it has been the Giants, but I gotta tell you,
I think the Jets are are going to be ascendant
this year. Oh really yeah, I'm very very positive on
Saila and the Jets. Here we go OutKick news story
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right here. Speed Sexton calls the it's big in the
next season. Jed, love you. Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's
Day to all the dad's out there all play. Happy
Father's Day to you you all rock. Thanks for hanging
with us.
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