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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Thanksgiving. Weird thankful for you on this Thanksgiving Day
for being a listener here on the Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. You're listening to the best of Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton. Welcome back in our number three
Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. So as you listen to the

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music that is bringing us back here at the top
of the hour, a lot of you have the same
reaction that we have had over the years. For decades,
Rush's theme song has reminded everyone out there truth and
clarity on the way. It's an iconic song forever that's
going to be attached to Rush Limbaugh and everything that
he represented. As we come up on the one year

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anniversary of this show, these songwrites are expiring and we
wanted to take this time. Buck and we talked a
lot about this behind the scenes. As this songwrites are expiring,
take the time to find a song for this show
that could be as iconic and irreplaceable in the future,

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and also that would feature a band that really loves
and respects what our political beliefs are. Because there's a
lot of you out there. Know there are a lot
of bands that do not respect what we believe in
every day, and so we spend a lot of time
on this book. And for us, this is really like

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retiring the jersey in sports, because Russia stem song is
forever attached to his memory, everything he built, and we
deeply honor that his legacy, and that song is a
part of his legacy. Of course, So with all of
that in mind, and given as we said that the
songwrites are expiring soon, we found this amazing band. Clay

(01:53):
is actually friends with the individuals in this band Lit.
You may know the band Lit. The song we've landed
on is called My Own Worst Enemy. It has tens
of millions of YouTube plays. There are hundreds and hundreds
of rock stations that we're playing it. When it first
came out in nineteen ninety nine, which I will say

(02:14):
is a great year, a phenomenal year, maybe the greatest
year of all time. And Clay, a really great thing
is it's rare to find a rock band that honestly
doesn't have the politics of a bunch of evil commies,
no matter how good their music may be. These guys
are patriots. They love America, you know them. They listen
to the show, Yeah, I listen. I know them personally,

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and so I'll give you a I'll give you a story.
They live here in Nashville. The band is lit again.
The song is My own Worst Enemy. If you are
a fan at all of nineteen nineties era music, this
is one of the most iconic songs that came out
of the nineties. I met these guys many times over
the years here in Nashville, and actually I was over

(02:55):
at their house once and I walked in and they
had a college football game on as Utah was playing,
and we're number one in Salt Lake City, so shout
out to the Utes, and I just thought that was interesting.
I watched every college football game, but they were they
had Utah on, and I walked in and Jeremy Popoff,
who is one of the members of the band, his

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son was a student manager for the Utah Utes football team.
So I got to know the family really well, and
in fact, their son was one of the interns for OutKick,
and I've gotten to know them so well. And we
were making this decision. Buck was really important to me
that we feature music from people who were respect and

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love and have the same political beliefs as us. These
guys moved to Tennessee from California because they were so
frustrated with the direction that California politics had gone, and
they are going to be long time listeners of this show.

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They woved Rush, and when we had this conversation with them, Buck,
I mean, you should have seen their faces and how
excited they were to be able to bring their music
to this audience and connect their brand and their spirit
with the spirit and the brand of the greatest radio

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show audience that has ever existed in American history. So
we spent a lot of time on this. When they
told us this song was expiring, that the contract was
running out, that they wanted to make sure that it
was forever iconic and connected to Rush, that we could
find our own version of this. And I'm confident that
you guys are going to like it in the same

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way my city was gone to find Rush again. I
think your analogy is a good one, Buck of retiring,
you know, sort of, the Jersey will always be proud
of our affiliation with Rush in that theme song, but
we hope that this new song will also be a
big part of our listening family. I think we're going
to day and on Monday. It may take some time

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for people to get used to, but we wanted to
directly address this with you instead of just flipping a
switch and suddenly you guys are like, what the world happened?
We we we live every day on this show to
serve this audience, the audience that Rush built, and everything
we do keeps in mind that legacy and all that
he built over decades. So we make decisions here with

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that as a as a load stars, as a guiding
point for us. And so with that in mind, we
are retiring the jersey. So to speak of a great song,
a song, let's be honest that Rush made great. Actually,
I think that that's fair to say. It is really
associated with Rush more than anything than anything else about

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that song. And now we're going to be introducing folks
to LIT and we think that they will. We hope
they'll enjoy it. We want to hear from you, by
the way, as we say we serve you. We serve
this audience every day. That's why we're here. And it's
an honor. Honestly, it is a privilege. And I've said
this before and I think you can tell Clay and
I feel the same way. We really mean it. We're
lucky to be able to do this show every day.

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It's a great blessing for all of us to be
able to talk to all of you. So I want
to hear for some of you. Of you are if
you know, lid, if you're excited about the prospect of
a little bit of some nineties music being thrown into
the mix here, you've already heard some nineties here and there.
I mean, we're you know, we want to keep it
just from an audio and music lover perspective, keep it,
keep it fresh and moving, and introduce you to new

(06:27):
things in general. And so if you have any thoughts
on this one eight two two two eight eight two,
we would love to chat with you about it and
hear what you think about it, and know that we
know that it's a transition and for some of you
might take a little bit of getting used to. But
we're excited about it and it will be I think
something we all look back on and say, this is
kind of a fun It's a fun thing. It's a

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fun thing to get to have a relationship with this
band this way and to have a sound that will
be associated with us in my neighborhood. Buck, I sent
you this video. We had a nineties tribute band come
out and play here in Nashville, and the very first
nineteen nineties song that the tribute band played was My
Own Worst Enemy, and so I took I mean, there's

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you know, several thousand people at this event. It was
great out here in Franklin and h and I took
a video of it. And actually in downtown Franklin probably
a couple of months ago, I was at a charity
event and Lit came and played My own and Worst Enemy,
and the entire place just went crazy. So I know,
everybody's got different musical interest and just different musical taste.

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And when you came of age, you may think is
the greatest music of all time, regardless of when you
came of age. So for Buck and Eye, the nineties
are basically the best era of music that ever exists.
And you know, we did a little testing. I mean,
I try to convince some maybe my acapella rendition of
the Machina would be a good way to go and
that would really fire people up. But apparently, you know,

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that wasn't really gonna make it quite as effect. I
don't think I've told you this, buck, but I am
tone deaf like I can't. This may not surprise people
because I don't necessarily do great when it comes to pronunciations.
But I was in chorus in high school and I
was so tone deaf in terms of being able to
sing that the chorus teacher said, you mouth the words.

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I've never heard of a chorus teacher doing this before.
He stood in front of the basis till he could
find out who was messing up the pitch, and he said,
you have a good speaking voice. He said, you will
announce from now on. In course, you had to take chorus.
You had to take an art to graduate. The mind
was chorus. He said, from now on, you will announce
the songs that we sing, but you will actually just

(08:37):
mouth the words. We don't need. You've ever heard of
anybody being told that who's a member of a choral group.
You announced you have a good voice, good speaking voice.
You could announce what we're going to sing, but you
can no longer sing. This reminds me of when I
was short for a short period time trying to play
ice hockey in the third grade, and they told him
and I told the counselor or the coach my helmet

(09:01):
was too small for my huge head, and it was
and he's like, no, it's not and he put it
on my head and he goes, yeah, I know it
is too small. So I couldn't. I had to sit
on the side because my big ass head would have
fit into that kill You could have been the next
Mark Messier done. That helmet issue was a monster issue.
I needed a different helmet and I never actually even

(09:22):
got it, and my ice hockey career didn't last fair.
I think it lasted about three weeks. So yeah, man,
we've all we've all got those memories, Clay. I just
have never heard of anybody being you know, they always
say like anybody can get better. I've never heard of
a chorus teacher. Mister Scandrick, God rest his soul. At
Martin Luther King Magnet in Nashville, there's a lot of
witnesses stopped right in front. You could just see his eyes.

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He was so disappointed Buck that the choral group in
the bases when he was standing in front of him
were not in unison singing well. But I did do
a really good job announcing all those songs that year.
So we all have our benefits, we all have our talents.
But in all seriousness, I'm telling you, the lit guys
are super excited and we will do an event. I
don't know when it will be good, but at some

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point we gotta we gotta get them to show up
and do live, live stuff for us in Nashville. We're
talking about, you know what we could do. I need
to get them on I need to text them and
see what their schedule looks like around the mid terms
because we're doing our event in Nashville to celebrate what
should be a red tide for the midterms. Need to
get the guys to show up and sing my own

(10:24):
worst enemy for us at that event. That would be
pretty badass. I need to see what their schedule is,
see what I am feeling better and better because we
we'd like to give you. We gotta tell you what's
going on and what the challenges are in the country.
And look the Biden administrations in charts. There's a lot
of stuff that's messed up right now, There's no question
about it. But we are planning a midterm election party,
not a call in you know, oh this state that

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we're gonna let other people do that. They can sit
there at the decision desk or whatever, and they can
make their calls. We're gonna be rocking out and maybe
really rocking out, because it is looking like it will
at least be a restoration of sanity in the November election.
I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves,
but it's looking pretty good right now, and so if
we could have Lit play there, I mean, honestly, I

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don't know if there is a band that can transport
you to the late nineties faster with a song. I mean,
they're right, you know, you're right up there. It's iconic
in the way that like Bittersweet Symphony and some of
those other great songs. We'll play it for you. If
it's not already hute up. I hope it is. We'll
see if we can play it for you coming out
of the next break as we come in for the

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next segment. If you guys haven't yet heard or not
exactly sure of what that song sounds like, it's the
choral right that you will hear as we start each
of the hours going forward, I believe on Monday. So
I just want to let you know where it was
coming from why it was happening the background there. And
we continue to thank you guys for supporting the show

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as we continue to grow and continue to fight the
battles that Rush would be fighting himself if he were
still with us today. Welcome back everybody to play and
Buck loved the movie Top Gun, Maverick, as you will know,
and we said, you know, we should get somebody who
actually know something. There was a whole heck of a
lot about flying. Joining us now is Joe Flatley. He

(12:10):
was a real life Top Gun fighter pilot instructor. He's
a third generation naval aviator, retired Navy FA eighteen Strike
and Fighter pilot and F five adversary pilot. Joe, thanks
for calling into Clay and back. We appreciate it. Oh yeah,
I'm glad to be here. Thanks. So what was you
actually were the guy or among the guys I should say,

(12:33):
training folks in Top Gun. What was some of the
best stuff that you saw in the movie, I mean
in terms of the flying, the way they depicted the program.
We just want to know what did you think? Yeah, Well,
it was a good movie. It was a great, great
sequel to the first one, which came out when when
I was just going through advanced jet training, so just
about to finish up pilot training and getting ready to

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go off to fly F eighteen. So yeah, it was
the first movie was and this was a great sequel,
and and the flying scenes in this I thought were
much better. Um, yes, it was kind of hard to
tell actually how much CGI was going on there. Obviously
some of the flying scenes well not obviously probably to
the labor person, but you know, the airplanes, the proximity

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they had in the movie, they air planes to each
other they were fighting, Probably not that realistic, but for
cinemagraphic reasons, that's that's the way you have to present it.
But still very very well done. I thought kind often
hard to tell what the CGI was in there, except
maybe in a couple of instances. So if there was something,
I'm sure there was. So Joe. When nineteen eighty six,

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when the original Top Gun came on on, I believe
the overall naval recruiting for went up like five hundred percent.
For people who have forgotten what an unbelievable hit that
movie was back in nineteen eighty six, as a guy
who was training as a Top Gun pilot, back in
nineteen eighty six, What was it like for that movie

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V two come out? And did everybody think you were
lying when you were out at the bars and you
would say, Hey, you know, I'm actually a top gun
fighter pilot. Because I imagine that became a pretty popular
line for guys to be dropping all over the place. Yeah,
I think you know, it gave us all sund be
full of ourselves about not that we weren't all ready
but um, but yeah, it was the timing was good

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for a guy like me. And then then and like
you said, recruiting boom and m and that lasted a while.
And it's funny. After that, I got to go to
the premiere out in San Diego and it was it
was all Navy, some civilians. We're out there, but basically
they ran the premiere for the Navy people that put
it on. And one of the discussions afterwards was was

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that this was probably gonna be another boost for for
naval aviation, with the comment being that that you know,
this war that we're we're now pretty much out of,
um the beginning or all through actually fairly good recruiting
for special ops, whether or you know, share service. It
was and that I don't know that naval aviation has suffered,

(15:05):
but I think they're right for another recruiting boom. Now
with this movie, Joe, what do you tell us about
the selection process into Top Gun? I mean, since you
were a top Gun instructor, obviously you had a number
of people coming through in those classes. How does one
I mean for some of them. We probably have some
people listening right now. By the way, we have a
huge military audience, both active and former military, current and

(15:27):
former military, so we might have somebody who's you know,
fifteen sixteen listening goes you know, I want to go
into a top gun program. How does that work? Well?
Just to clarify, it was a top Gun trained adversary pilot.
Then they run course and I don't know what the
latest is on timing wise, but back in my day
it was a ten week course and then I went

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through the first five weeks as an adversary pilot. Then
I was qualified to go out and teach as an
adversary on the adversary. So adversary being we're the bad guys.
We drew out and simulate enemy forces is whether Russian
or or whatever, tactics and and we were right now
like Merlin in the original movie, right, isn't that there?

(16:08):
There you go? Perfect? Yeah, that was exactly. It's flying
the F five, which which was which the bad guys
are flying in the first movie, so which is still
being flown as an adversary today. But um, so that's
what I did. But yeah, to get there, you know,
obviously it's the cream of the crop and the top
gun instructors themselves or next level. You know, probably a

(16:29):
terrible comparison, but it would be like you know, a
doctor specialist versus positions assistant the family practice, you know,
terrible comparison, but the top gun instructor versus an instructor
like myself. But to get there, you know, selection you've
got to do well. You've got to be um basically

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recommended for that job, and then you got to get
through it. And that's a pretty arduous, arduous program those
guys go through just to teach the classes that they
teach from the top gun program. Joe Flatley, everybody, mister Flatley,
thank you very much, sir for calling into Clay and Buck.
We appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me that that

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you beer, Thanks so much. Third Generation Fighter pilot. That's
pretty badass. Buck, that's as badass as it gets. Yeah,
I mean that's crazy to think about, right, Your grandfather
fought against the Japanese and the Pacific and then all
the way up through the movies today and everything else.
I mean, that's your grandfather was in the Navy, but
he was on the USS Batan, so he was at

(17:32):
lat Gulf. Didn't talk about it very much until later on.
Then he would talk about it occasionally. Second hour of
the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show starts now. Thanks
everybody for joining or for hanging with us. If you're
with us in the first hour, remember the Clay and
Buck podcast a great place to catch up if you
missed any part of what we're talking about here. Clay

(17:54):
and Buck dot com also for transcripts and all the rest.
But if you go to the Clay Traps and Buck
Sexton Show on the iheartapp great thing to do a
bit of general advice, and it is whenever you see
that there is a show with a ninety plus percent
audience score and sub fifty on the critics, it's a

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show you want to see because it means that everyone
loves it. But the critics hated for some reason that
has nothing to do with whether or not it's entertaining,
and an example of this would be Clay. Have you
seen The Terminal List yet? I've heard it's great. No,
I have not. Have you watched it? I have watched
every episode of The Terminal List. Jack Carr is a friend.

(18:38):
I've known Jack for a few years. So explain, Explain
this show, because I bet there's a lot of our
audience that would like it. Explain this show for people
like me who know it exists but have no concept
of what it's about. So it's a The main character
is played by Chris Pratt, is a Navy seal named
James Reese who comes home after some special operations abroad.

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They're ambush. I don't want to give much away, but
there's a sinister plot that goes to the heart of
the military industrial complex, and basically Chris Pratt is running
around taken out bad guys. Lots of the tactical sequences
are very well done. They bring in seals and people
with similar expertise so that the actual gun battles and

(19:24):
everything look really cool. I mean, they do a good
job with that. As entertainment but they they hate it
because there's there's no wokeness. Okay, there's no there's no
social it's in that way. It's like Top Gun Maverick,
which has been in theaters for some odd seventy some
odd days and is now the most successful paramount movie

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of all time. It passed Titanic, that's how successful it is.
But I mean, even that movie Clay, just to be fair,
who's the bad guy. It's like a make believe country
in Eastern Europe or something. I mean, you know, they work.
Look they're going for the global market. I get it.
And apparently we don't make movie anymore. We're fighting other countries.
It wasn't woked. Even in the original Top Gus, we

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didn't know who the bad guy was. It was, I
mean everyone, it was the Soviet Union right with the
red star on the helmets. But um yeah, I'm just
saying it's it wasn't woke. But it wasn't like, it
wasn't Team America World Police either, you know what I mean.
It wasn't. It wasn't going too hard with the stars
and stripes, uh and the and the flag. But okay,
but so so Rotten Tomatoes ninety four percent audience score

(20:27):
for this. Um, it's a good show because one thing
that Carrie and I have been struggling with is we're
trying to find a show to watch that we can
both enjoy together, and it's you watch, you watch stuff
and you go, am, I is everything just green lit
by the editorial team and MSNBC. Now, I mean, it's
all so, it's such trash. It's so and ten years ago,

(20:47):
I feel like Netflix and HBO there was this golden
age where they were just making amazing program They're just
making great series. Uh you know, whether Breaking Bad and
Game of Thrones and Narcos and you know, they're making
all these great shows. Now, of course, the corporations that
are behind all this or oh we want to be
progressive and social justice and their show suck, which is

(21:08):
not surprising. But I will say in fairness, we did
find one show that I A one movie I should
say that I would recommend to everybody. I made Carrie
watch this movie The Outfit a couple of weeks ago
that wasn't really worth That was okay. It was like
a B minus, wasn't woke, but just wasn't really that good.
It was okay, but we watched this thirteen lives. Have

(21:30):
you seen this? Are you familiar with this one? It's
about the Tie Youth boys. Yeah, I was fascinated by
that story. For everybody out there. This was the soccer
team that got caught in the cave and they flooded
and they weren't able to get out. How is the
Ron Howard made this one right? The movie is excellent, Yeah,
highly highly watchable, really moves along. And the way they

(21:54):
film this that they originally as I read a little
bit about Excel, I was curious they were actually trying
to film a lot of it in the caves, but
they weren't able to do that for reasons I don't
even know now, So they moved that I think to
Queensland in North Australia because the obviously the actual cave
is in Thailand. But it's amazing. I'll say this, there
are a few things in the world that I would

(22:16):
find more terrifying than having to spend six hours underwater
five and a half six hours underwater in a cave
with fast moving currents where at some points the cave
is about shoulder width, so you've got darkness, claustrophobia, the

(22:37):
imminent prospect of death when you if you run out
of oxygen, or if you just you know, hit your head,
and I mean there's any number. It is really well done.
I've I've been trying to tell folks about it. I
remember that story. The story is even more in any
ways unbelievable and in the in the end inspiring that
I remembered it from the news reports. It's crazy what

(22:59):
they did to get I mean, not crazy as I
mean they should have done anything, but I mean what
they managed to pull off with those kids to get them.
I don't want to give it all away. Is I
think everybody knows the kids Yeah that's a true story,
because it's a true story. But but yeah, that story
was captivating to follow and such an ennobling story because
every day you thought, oh, they're going to find the

(23:21):
kids and they're not going to be alive. That was
sort of the subtext of this is a flooded cave.
There's no way these kids are going to have survived
for this long. And when they finally found them, then it's, oh,
my goodness, how in the world are we ever going
to get them out of here? And they managed to
do it. Speaking of the Terminal List. I was there's
an article up at OutKick one of our good writers

(23:43):
that we hired recently, David Hookstead. If you haven't already,
we had an incredible month. But OutKick is kind of
like Mona from Heaven. If you're a sports fan or
just a fan of pop culture and you think everything
has gone woke, they've got we've got a good article
about it. If that went up today about the Terminal List,
one point six billion minutes of viewership on Netflix only

(24:05):
show was the most recent show, Stranger Thing season four
is the only show that's beaten it in terms of popularity.
So I'll just point this out. Culture is important in
terms of what it's saying about what society is interested
in right now. Yellowstone is by far the most popular
show on television other than Sports. Doesn't get nominated for

(24:28):
any Emmy's wildly popular Terminal List, evidently on Netflix, insanely popular,
Top Gun, Maverick. What do all three of those movies
and or shows have in common? Relatively limited woke material
and or USA USA USA, right, That is what they

(24:52):
are overall selling is United States excellent, and I think
there's a huge demand for that. You can tell very
quickly in a lot of these shows. I mean, to
this point, Clay, I could even take a I think
there's a step even before that, when you're talking about
is the manifestation of or the way that the show
actually tells the story? Right? Is that it folcus in

(25:12):
on those things. I think it really also comes down
to when they're sitting in the writer's room, is the
most important thing that they want to intain, entertain and
engage the audience or is it that they want to
get a pat on the back for the agenda and
the messaging behind this, because I think you see a
lot of shows where they start with a premise which is, oh,

(25:33):
let's make this about you know, let's make this about
some left wing, woke agenda item instead of is this
going to be a good story? Is this going to
really bring people in? And you know, you brought up
what was the huge show that everyone's oh my gosh,
why is it such a success? Similar numbers I think
to Yellowstone from years ago was The Walking Dead? Right?

(25:54):
And The Walking Dead's a show where you take a
graphic novel and you're just trying to make the most
engaging entertainment possible. There's some broader lessons about parenting and
you know, survival and other things in their right. But
overall you're not getting a political lecture. You know, with
The Walking Dead, you're just watching something that's meant to
entertain you. Whenever they do that, their success when they're

(26:15):
giving you a lecture about walk politics. People. Increasingly you're saying,
I just don't want to watch this. Yep, And I'll
give you. I know, we got people who listen in Hollywood,
We've got a big audience in la I'll continue to
give this out. If you want to look like a
genius and you want to have the number one streaming
show or the number one television show, the number one

(26:36):
show in America, turn on Daunted Courage by Steven Ambrose,
a phenomenal book about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Turn
it into a mini series, into a I believe it
would be a television event the likes of which we
have not seen twenty years. Right in terms of a

(27:01):
historical connection to America pro America, Now you can say
Game of Thrones was a television event. I love that show. Yeah,
it's a fantastical show about you know, about dragons, and
medieval times. Effectively, I'm talking about something that is rooted
in American history, that is unabashedly patriotic, that tells a
triumphal story of an overwhelming difficult and success. I'm sorry,

(27:25):
Clay to get this made. The Meriwether Lewis is going
to have to be a gender fluid pan sexual and
William William Clark is going to have to go around
begging forgiveness from the Native peoples for the future disrespect
and betrayal of the colonists. Even otherwise, we can't make
that show. Politics is downstream of culture, which is a

(27:48):
great quote from Andrew Brypart, and I do think it's
true if you're out there and you're looking at what
the political message is coming through the cultural success stories
out there, whether it's Terminal Lists, whether it's Yellowstone, whether
it is Certainly, as you break it down, how much
demand there has been for Top Gun Maverick, the most

(28:09):
successful movie of all time from Tom Cruise's history, it's
because people want pro America, anti woke programming, and there
isn't enough of it. Did you see I know you're
on vacation and you're having a great time with the
fan which was very important. You've come back rested in
the fight. But did you happen to catch because I
see you sneaking on to Twitter a little bit when
you're on vacation. I was, I still have to manage

(28:29):
out Kick. Yeah, I didn't do TV, I didn't do radio,
but I'm still managing our stories at out So you
probably saw that they had a ninety million dollar right
off with a completed filmagirl. I mean, how now the
thing is, I want to see that movie so badly
because they wrote down when they took over, they three

(28:50):
hundred million dollars CNN plus they said this is an
unmitigated disaster. It's done, and now ninety million dollars Batgirl.
And you know how popular superhero movies are, you could
basically get one hundred million dollars. I would think just
by advertising a lot to get people to come watch.
I screenwriter or a producer making a superhero movie and

(29:11):
you lose basically one hundred million dollars on it, you
really should learn to code, like you should find another
profession you should would be equivalent to. It's a great point.
You're making a superhero movie. The studios are all behind it.
You almost cannot fail because there's such demand for superhero movies.

(29:32):
And they watched your superhero movie and they said it
was so bad, we're just going to take a ninety
million dollar right off. They didn't even put it on
the streaming service. That's one thing if they say, hey,
this is not worthy of going to the movie theaters.
They said it's so bad that they don't even want
their brand associated with it. In other fields, I'm not

(29:53):
even sure I can think of an equivalent. I could
just I could just see this though, like like a
Batgirl movie where Batgirl swoops in the bank robbers and
they're like, hey, look at this. Look at this Broad.
We're in a costume. She's like, excuse me, sir, Broad,
are you assuming my pronouns? Like you could actually do
a great send up of this thing. I mean you
could do a great Uh. There's a little bit of

(30:15):
send up of the overall culture that goes on in Deadpool,
which has been very popular as as a movie. But buck,
think about all the people that are cast in this movie.
They're saying, Hey, this is gonna be career altering for you.
You can't go wrong. You get into a superhero movie,
or the next Robert Downey Junior. I can completely do
the pitch that they would have been getting in their
Hollywood talent agencies, and then they get a call and

(30:37):
they say, yeah, this movie is so bad that even
though we spent ninety million dollars, we're basically just going
to burn it. I guarantee you we we could write
a better screenplay than whenever that was which in the
two of us in forty eight hours. Honestly, that's why
I want to see I feel cold play Travis buck
Sexton show. We appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

(31:01):
Buck Sexton is now an engaged man. Congratulations, Buck, I
believe based on the photo that I saw you did
it from? Is that your apartment building in New York
City that I have seen amazing view up there? What
was it like to actually you've never proposed before, Nope,

(31:21):
you are a forty year old man who has never
been engaged, never married. What was the experience like and
how quickly has the wedding apparatus shifted into full speed?
Because I'll tell you, when I got engaged many years ago,
the thing that most stunned me about it was how
much knowledge women all carry in their head about weddings

(31:44):
that I had never given a thought to. How quickly
that process was underway soon after I got engaged. Give
you a couple of things, and then I promised, we'll
talk about the news for everybody. People are good, people
want to hear about this, Yes, they do. So. Uh.
The one thing I will say is pretty pretty funny.
But she had absolutely no idea. So I had met

(32:05):
with her dad because I went asked for the hand.
I went down to Asheville, where her family has a home. Yes,
and obviously Asheville was a memorable experience for many reasons,
and I asked for her hand from her father. I
would do that. By the way, how did you end
up isoed? Were you asked him to take me to
see a piece of property that they were thinking about? Smart? Yeah,

(32:27):
we kind of went the woods, yeah, you know. Yeah,
and uh, so I asked for the hand and then, uh.
The plan was to just find a perfect sunset on
the rooftop when nobody nobody would be up there. Yeah,
and uh and I you know, I went up there.
She had no idea. So I went down was Saturday night?
Is this Saturday after Saturday night? Saturday night. Yeah, it

(32:48):
was really nice. I actually saw two listeners who were
visiting New York City from Chicago on our way to
the restaurant and they're like, hey, Buck, I was like,
I just got engaged, Like we listened all the times.
That was great. We had some visitors from I saw
the picture go out on social media too. You texted
Ali who also, by the way, we should mention engaged
like last week too. I know love is in the
air on the Clay and Buck Show. Yeah, there's producer

(33:09):
Ali is engaged a couple of weeks ago. I'm engaged now.
So as for the wedding stuff, I will tell you, man,
the our basic approach to this and and then we
have to start trashing Joe Biden. Our basic approach to
this is, we're gonna try to throw a big, fun
engagement party at New York City for everybody. You'll be invited,
the team, you know, We'll just we just want to

(33:30):
throw a big party in New York and then we're
gonna have a immediate family and you know, best man,
best what do you not best one? What do you
call it? And brought made of honor or whatever. Yeah,
but like just very small ut at a church suoner
rather than later, Like what's the time frame, like get
in the next six months, which is the next six months?

(33:51):
I mean, because this is my understanding, and I'm sure
a lot of people out there listening know this. This
is the busiest year for weddings on record. I believe.
I actually was down when I was at Rosemary Beach
one of the times Buck I was working out in
the gym and the guy next to me was a
big fan and he owned wedding venues all over the country,

(34:12):
West Coast primarily, and he was talking so, I know,
working out there in the in the gym, I was
designed him for fifteen or twenty minutes on the machine
and uh, and he was talking about how busy all
of it is every day of the week. Basically, people
are getting married now because so many people couldn't in
twenty twenty twenty twenty one because of COVID, and twenty

(34:32):
twenty two is supposedly the biggest wedding year ever. So
this is this is stressing me out a little bit. Now, Yeah,
you know, I'll figure all this stuff out, but yeah,
we canna get married, so there we go. So let's go, Well, congratulations.
The pictures are up on social media. They should be
up on Clay and buck dot com if they're not already.
If you want to go see Buck proposing to the

(34:54):
Lovely Carry and Carry as a producer at Fox News
for anyone who's wondering. So that's how Carrie and I
that's that's that's the connection, that's how we know each other,
and that's how it all got going. That's awesome. Well,
and her dad is a third generation fighter pilot. So
you thought you were kind of a badass because you're
a CIA analyst formerly, and good to be humbled in
law is way bigger of a badass, let's be honest.

(35:14):
Good to be humbled. So

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