July 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives deep into the most pressing political, technological, and cultural issues shaping America today. The hour kicks off with coverage of Donald Trump's visit to Pittsburgh, where he announced major artificial intelligence investments in Pennsylvania, signaling the growing importance of AI in the U.S. economy and national strategy. The hosts explore the transformative impact of AI on industries like agriculture, referencing concerns about John Deere's AI integration and Bill Gates' influence on food production.
A significant portion of the hour is dedicated to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with Trump’s recent remarks on Ukraine, NATO, and Vladimir Putin taking center stage. Clay and Buck analyze Trump's foreign policy stance, his criticism of President Biden’s handling of the war, and the broader implications of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, which has surpassed $200 billion. They question Putin’s strategic goals, speculate on potential territorial concessions, and debate the feasibility of a negotiated settlement.
The conversation also touches on media bias and cultural influence, particularly in sports journalism. The hosts react to a viral moment from the MLB All-Star Game press conference, where a reporter from Defector Media confronted MLB officials over Georgia’s voting laws. Clay and Buck criticize what they call “agenda journalism” and highlight the irony of punishing Atlanta—a majority Black city—for state-level legislation.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in our number three Tuesday edition, Clay Travis buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us
as we are rolling through the biggest stories in the
world and continuing to battle for truth, justice and the
American way. You know, they took that away on Superman.
No longer truth justice in the American Way. But we
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got a bunch of different stories to dive into with
You should mention Trump is on the ground or en
route to Pittsburgh for a big announcement there about major
AI related investments that are being made in the state
of Pennsylvania. He also recently took a huge medley of
(00:45):
questions from the White House Press Corps right before he
left on virtually every subject under the sun. And before
I dive into this clip that I think is going
to blow Buck's mind, this.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Audio that we're going to play for you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Are you still kind of surprised that nobody's talking about
the decision on Ukraine weapons when you compare it to
the huge debate we all had about what was appropriate
with Iran. Now Trump is saying hey, and I think
we may have that audio in at some point during
the next little bit. He said, hey, I've instructed Dolinski
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there not to reach into Russia and significantly attack there.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He's also obscuring through a really diplomatic slide of hand.
He is obscuring that these arms are it's American things
that go boom. But we're giving them to NATO to
give to Ukraine, and NATO is going to pay for them.
I think that's the way this has been set up.
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This is cut thirty three. This was from yesterday. Play
it you have, but Russia fifty days?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
What happens now? Have you talked about here?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
But at the end of fifty days, if we don't
have a deal, it's going to be uh too bad.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Should Lenski get more aggressive?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah? The terroriffs are going to go on and other
sanctions go on.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Should the Lensky target Moscow or deeper intro ruscial?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He shouldn't target Moscow.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Games not war.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I don't think fifty days is very long, and it
could be sooner than that. I don't think fifty days
is very long. You should have asked that same question
to Bite Why did he get us into this war?
You should ask that question, Yeah, and what did he
tell you? Why did he get us into this war.
You know why he got us in Because he's a dummy,
That's why. And you don't and you don't cover it, right,
but you should be asking that question to bite Why
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did he get us into this war? Because he's in
confident it would have never happened if.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I were president.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, this is all buck right outside the White House. Yes,
for Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
We had something else from yesterday, which was him talking
about how NATO was going to be the cutout if
you will, and we'll pay for it's not just to
cut out for these weapons. Uh. This was to he's
on the way to the Pittsburgh Artificial Intelligence and Energy Summit,
which is actually I find very interesting. I'm increasingly I
don't know, this isn't aside, this is bucking soliloqually on
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radio to all of you. I think that artificial intelligence
is going to become something increasingly that matters in our
day to day lives. And I don't mean in ten years,
I mean in ten months. I think this is going
to be happening much more rapidly than a lot of
people realize. Anyway, something we might be talking about more
on the show, because I do believe it's going to
be very important. I also think it's going to be
incredibly important for the economy and could bring about well,
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could bring about a tremendous boom in productivity and wealth
for us if we are in the right place and
use this the right way. Anyway, that's my aside on that,
But Clay, I think the Russia issue, I'm not surprised
by this that Trump is in a place now where
he has tried to get He has tried to get
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Putin to at least get to a ceasefire, and the
response hasn't just been stalling on the ceasefire. It has
been sure, let's talk, and I'm gonna get even more aggressive.
It feels a bit like the back of the hand
from Putin to Trump, you know. It feels a little
bit like he's trying to show Trump in this situation,
(04:20):
Putin's the boss.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I think that he may regret that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think that Putin may regret his aggressive approach to
his dealings with Trump on this one.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, and look, I think Trump has become We played
audio yesterday of Trump talking about his conversations with Milanya,
which I thought was interesting because I never really contemplated
Milanya with her Eastern European background, and what thoughts she
might have about Russia and other countries that are being impacted.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Lais right, Slovenian.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And I do think that Trump has become incredibly frustrated
with Vladimir Putin. And we asked this question, and I
do think it's a really good one that I haven't
heard anybody answer.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What does Putin actually want? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
What is the goal by which he will say, Okay,
we have achieved in some measure our desired outcome. Because
they're continuing to advance on Ukraine very slowly and with
much loss of life in the process. And yes, we're
in the summer right now, but it hits winter a
lot faster over there, and it comes very difficult to move.
(05:32):
A part of me wonders, and we can put a
flag in this one or a pin in this one,
whether his goal at this point is just to advance
as far as he can in the summer and then
maybe negotiate some sort of settlement in the winter when
the overall lines are much more difficult to advance upon,
because otherwise then you're moving into what would it be
(05:55):
a fourth year, fifth year of actual war.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
In Ukraine, if you're going to re.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Re begin the process of attack in twenty twenty six,
and maybe this is where he can get to and
then negotiated settlement. I don't know if that's the answer,
but I do wonder because we haven't really been told
early It was oh, he wants to take all of Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
He wants, but that's not going to happen. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It just seems like we're battling out to get to
a point where there's going to be a negotiated new
boundary that is drawn, new border that is drawn between
these two countries. And in the meantime, I have to
believe that Trump is of the opinion that basically he
wants a stalemate, and if we don't give Ukraine more weapons,
a stalemate's harder to hold. And maybe this guts us
(06:44):
through into November when things start to slow down. That's
my analysis. I don't know if you sign off differently
as I try to look at this chessboard and figure
out what exactly they are attempting to do.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I mean, there's going to be they want territorial sessions, right,
so you're talking about the formalized recognition of the annexation
of Crimea, which was taken back twenty fourteen, and you're
gonna have the eastern regions, which were really the first
part of this conflict to see combat, the eastern regions
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of Ukraine which have been de facto annexed, become officially
part of Russia. And I think a guarantee backed by
NATO's signatures or whatever, that we're not going to ever
try to get any part of Ukraine into NATO, and
(07:40):
probably an end to sanctions. That would be my sense
of what. But maybe Putin thinks he can pretty much
take everything up to and including Kiev and then leave
kind of a rump state behind.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You know, that's the more aggressive, more total approach for Putin.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But the fact that this conflict is raging on it
as it has without any end in sight. Look, we
talked to Trump about this when was it claimed mar
A Lago a couple of years ago, and he said
he would end it in a day. Now we knew
that was Trump selling it. We weren't like Trump's really
going to end this in a day.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That's how Trump speaks.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Sometimes he's a little bombastic about things, or he's trying
to maybe put it out there into the universe and
the hopes that it happens.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
He's always selling.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But now we've reached the point where it's been months
of negotiating and there's nothing to show for it. And
if anything, I think this is going to be a
challenge because Trump really doesn't you know, he could say
Biden got us into this, and that's true, and Biden
was a screw up, and that's true. It's his deal now,
you know, he's the commander in chief, just like it's
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his economy.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
US support to the Ukrainian military is in the hands
of Donald Trump, whether it's escalated, de escalated, whether however
this thing goes. So I think he deserves the leeway
to well, he has the leeway obviously to figure this
out the way that he sees fit. But I think
that there's gonna be there's a recalibration right now. This
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thing is not coming to a need and tidy end
because of Trump's diplomatic overtures. I think the only way now.
And the problem is you're gonna have a lot of
people that have been critical of the Trump base on
this are gonna say, see, we told you so, which
is not going to be helpful, but I think there
will be this clay. The only way to get Putin
(09:33):
to stop is to bloody him even more, to raise
the cost. Now, some people on the MAGA side of
this are going to say, well, that's an even worse
idea because then things can really get out, you know, escalation.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
This is tricky. This is tricky stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I don't think anybody has clear answers to it, but
you know, I would love to. Maybe we could reach
out to I don't know, we know the Secretary of
Defense pretty well, Yeah, get Pete Heggs.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And Secretary of State, so we can probably get some
of those guys on to tell us where those I
just think that the decision and the goal is if
you're going to figure out how to resolve something on
some level. And look, I'm not saying that our administration
doesn't have this answer, but have you heard anybody articulate
(10:22):
in a way that you are impressed by what Vladimir
Putin's actual goals are at this point in time, because
I have not. And if you're trying to do a
negotiated settlement on some level, you have to know what
the most aspirational outcome of one side of the table
is we know what Zelenski wants. His aspirational goal is
Russia returns, he gets all of his territory back, and
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there's no issue that's not going to happen. So what
is a negotiated settlement that Vladimir Putin would agree to.
I don't have a sense for what his strategic ambition
is at this point, and maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's
waiting just see how much more lay and he can get.
But until you know what his overall ambition is, I
think it's very difficult to figure out how to resolve this.
(11:07):
Having said that, I do think we should talk about
what's going on in Ukraine. Given how much attention we
paid to Iran and Israel and everything associated with that show,
with that situation and what should happen. I just don't
think hardly anybody has discussed the Ukraine situation or a
potential acceleration that could be occurring as we are providing
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them with more weaponry. In fact, I think that we
have spent a pinprick of the time talking about this
story compared to the blowup that they had in the
Oval Office, which when this is I think far more
consequential than that blowup was. We're a couple of hundred
billion dollars of US expenditures that are official.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
This isn't.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Under the intelligence auspices. I'm sure there's a lot more
going on here, but there's a couple one hundred billion
dollars that's already been appropriated and given to Ukraine, mostly
just weapons, but yeah, some cash too.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
That's you know, two hundred billion dollars. Let's call it.
It's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's about how much Trump's going to bring in tariffs
this year. So basically all the tariff dollars we got,
we've rolled back out to Ukraine. I mean to contextualize it. Yeah,
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in general.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Of the country.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But you know, I'm also I go back and forth
on that because she does have some things going for her.
And here is Trump. He just waded in today on AOC.
Did you see this. This is cut thirty six. The
Commander in Chief has some thoughts and he agrees with
buck which is not a surprise player, you know AOC.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Look, I think she's very nice, but she's very low IQ,
and we really don't need low IQ between her and Bucket.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
We're gonna give them both.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
An IQ test to see who comes out fast.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I took my test.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I took a real test at Walter Reed Medical Center, and.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I haste it.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I got every one of all those questions.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Right now, it's time for them to take a test.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
When you say she's very nice but she's also very
dub that is very vintage Trump. And I would just
point out that right now, the top Democrat according to
polling from the state of Texas in the Senate race
next year is Jasmin Crockett. Can you imagine run Jasmine run.
(16:15):
I think the people of Texas need to hear all
of your arguments more fully articulated and developed, and I
think you would be a sterling representative of the Democrat
Party in the lone Star state. But that is the potential.
I mean a lot of people, I think are stunned
to find out that Jasmin Crockett is from Texas because
you think of Texans as not Jasmin Crockett. HEO see
(16:37):
New York. I think a lot of people are like, yeah,
that's New York. And obviously there is.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
No there's no spokesperson or brand affiliation with Crockett Coffee,
just to be clear, totally separate venture, we have nothing
to do with because you know, Trump's referring to Crockett there.
I would love it if he was talking about the
great American coffee company of Crockett Coffee, but different, different situation,
and there's no.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
No relation that we're aware of between Jasmine Crockett and
Davy Crockett, and certainly no relationship with the Crockett Coffee Company.
She is definitely in the state of Texas. Detracting from
the overall brand appeal of the Davy Crockett brand by
being the most prominent Crockett in the state.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
We come back, buck.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I am going to play you a clip from Atlanta
that I think is going to nearly make your brain
explode surrounding the All Star game that happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And I have got all the details.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
On it and it is absolutely ridiculously indefensible. So that
is going to be really pretty fantastic, I think for
everybody out there.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, that's quite a that's quite a tease. That's quite
a tease, it is.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
That's impressive.
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Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yes for sure. All right, let me dive in here, buck.
All Star Game. You may not even really remember this,
because I think it was early in when we were
starting the show. Might have even been right before we
started the show. Major League Baseball pulled the All Star
Game out of Atlanta. We talked about this yesterday with
Governor Brian Kemp because they said that Stacy Abrams and
(20:26):
Joe Biden were right and that Jim Crow two point zero,
actually Jim Eagle was what it was described as was
necessary and they were not allowing minorities to vote, and
it's been proven to be one hundred percent not true,
because the number of voters grew in twenty twenty two,
and the number of voters grew in twenty twenty four,
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and all the state of Georgia did was strengthen the
overall elections. So a reporter decided that she was going
to ask a question of the straight sports event that
was going on yesterday, the All Star Game preview. And
this is absolutely bonkers, but I want to play this
(21:09):
for all of you. This was a mask wearing a
mask wearing reporter to this day, far left wing reporter
covering sports, someone named Jen Ramos Eisen writes for a
website called Defector, and this person decided that they were
(21:30):
going to take over an All Star Game press conference
with this question.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Buck get ready.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
There is a law on the books here in Atlanta
that is a voter suppression law that Joe Biden has
called Jim Crow of the twenty first century Dave in
twenty twenty one the MLB Network special, You said, it's
about being relentless with our voices and speaking up. And
this is not an isolated moment, and it needs to
be something talked about on an ongoing basis and being
(21:57):
relentless with it. What happened to being relentles us with
our voices? And why are we in Atlanta when this
law is still on the books and it is a
dangerous situation to be a journalist in Atlanta because Atlanta
has attained the most journalists by Ice.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Respect and appreciate the way you feel about it. And
I would assume that there was a reason or some
conversation that was had by the MLB and the state
that all parties thought that this would be a wonderful
host city for the All Star Game. And I think
everybody is all very excited to be back in the
beautiful city of Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
So that was Pat McAfee trying to answer the question
that was the host of the event.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
He works at ESPN.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Can you believe that is an All Star press conference,
buck All Star game for Major League Baseball? And this
crazy left winger says, how are we here when ICE
is arresting journalist and how in the world can you
play a game here when basically this Jim Crow law,
which has not which has been proven to be a lie.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Decreased voting, actually voting as in crease substantially. I know
I have blown your mind several times about sports media
and how left wing they are.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Can you believe?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
That was the second question at the Major League Baseball
All Star Game event yesterday.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Okay, So I'm just confused a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Where was this person?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
What publication was she from?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
We do something?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, OutKick has a story because they dove in to
figure out, like who is this person? That person is
a writer for a website called Defector. She showed up,
which I guess does some sports. I don't know how
they got credentialed candidly, but I guess they do some sport.
And that person has a wore a mask. So this
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is not Some people out there are saying, hey, and
I'm one of them. Major League Baseball should have to
issue a public apology to State of Georgia, to the
City of Atlanta, brace fans for pulling the game out
under false pretenses. Right, they were wrong and they've never
acknowledged it. But that's not this. This is hey, this
was the right decision. Why are you guys back here?
(24:09):
And oh, by the way, how can you even come
here when journalists are being arrested by ice. Well, imagine
if you imagine if you banned Atlanta from holding sporting
events and then open yourself up to the fact that
Atlanta's is a as a city. I believe it's about
fifty percent. It's a majority black city. So you're actually
harming black people here when you don't have big events
(24:30):
in the city.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You're so so the theory among the left or among
some of these this journalist or whatever, this must be
an idea that's out there is let's punish a great
American city that is also majority black, and but we
will punish the city because it is the state of
(24:53):
Georgia is racist, right, That's that's where that's where we are.
We're gonna We're gonna hurt Atlanta, which is a great city,
which is a ma already black city. We're gonna hurt
Atlanta because you want to show that we disagree with
the law in the State of Georgia. Like, I don't
even know how that holds together. I mean, put aside
that the whole thing is absurd and that actually there's
been greater black voter turnout than ever before, and there
(25:16):
is no voter suppression law in Georgia, and that's all
a lie and the statistics show about it. But this is,
you know, Clay, some people just want to be mad
about things. And I guess this is this journalists had
a mask on. Did you tell me that too?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, she had a mask on, and Ali I I
Defector is an employee owned sports and culture website brought
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Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh is the okay communy evil communists. She's an evil communist,
a dead Spin evil communists. I know it used to
work there, right.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Was, but well back in the day. For this is
taking people back into the history of the internet. Back
in like eight oh nine when I was there, dead
Spin was just kind of a bro culture website, like, hey,
let's have fun. Let's kind of laugh about sports. Their
trajectory from sports are fun. Let's laugh about them and
like them more to now this Defector site, which is
(26:08):
a spin off of dead Spin too, We're going to
send an employee in a mask because she's worried about COVID.
I guess to grill major League Baseball about. I mean,
there are so many people whose brains have been broken
that this could be allowed to have occurred. Is actually
it's a fascinating story to kind of look at the
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way they took over the culture of sport through sports
media members who are far more left wing than the
average fan, and allowed those sports media members to terrorize
so many people from speaking out that we really got
to the point where dudes are winning women's championships. I
don't think it's coincidental that they tried to take over
the culture and they're still trying.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I mean, look, just to be clear, I also could
tell stories here. Do you know that the Huffington Post,
because the media landscape was very different. You were saying
dead Spin was different when were there?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You know that uff Post Live used to invite me
on It doesn't surprise me Live as a conservative. It
happened a couple of times because they thought they were like,
they're like, well you're you may be a conservative, but
you're smart. That was always the backhanded thing they would
say to me, uh, like the different hosts that would
have me on, and I was like, well, a lot
of us are smart.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I think we're smarter than you guys are.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
But anyway, put that aside, huff Post Live do you
remember the site, Mike mic Mike dot com. I probably, yeah,
I do, vegue, I do vaguely. I do vaguely remember
that site. They they brought me in because they wanted
alternate voices, and they talked to me about writing a
column for them. This is like, again, this would have
been when you were were were Dead's when you were
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twenty eleven or something, or twenty ten or how far back, oh,
even even younger. I mean the site launched. I think
I was there in like eight oh okay, I was
still in my twenties. So I'm saying when I when
I started doing this stuff, which was twenty eleven, even
I was like a HuffPost wanted to talk to me,
Mike dot com. I remember they asked me for my
thoughts on police vie, so like what would you run
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on police funds? And this was the early it was
the early days of Ferguson, So maybe this was like
twenty twelve or twenty eleven, I can't remember now, And
I was like, you guys, I remember being there. I
never ended up writing anything for them. I remember just
thinking I was like, you guys are insane. Yeah, And
they had all this venture capital funding and everything else,
Like the people who work here are crazy, but there
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was this game of they would have alternate voices and things.
The problem is when you let and this is my
real takeaway for all of you, you're like, why are
you telling us this media history?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
No one needs to know.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
When you let any leftist into an entity, as I
always say, it is like in nature, an invasive species.
They will not just multiply, they will multiply and intentionally
block out those who are not leftists. Right, So the
problem with the European house sparrow. Fun fact for all
(28:50):
of you is that the European house sparrow not only
is very hardy it as a species, but also will
destroy the eggs and the nests of others. Yeah, so
that it will outcompete them in the area. If you
let a leftist into your media organization, or you let
enough leftists get a toe hold, they will take it over.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
This happened at CNN.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
They will take it over and make it completely insane,
totally correct. And this is something I've been thinking about
a lot, because, to your point, the culture used to
not be like this, and I'm hoping that we're going
to come out of it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And return.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
But I think the only way we can do that
is by ridiculing stories like these and making it so
clear where look, if this person wants to share her opinion,
then write her opinion. But what she's trying to do
is launder her opinion through more famous people and hold
their feet to the fire and make them attached to
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her opinion. Right, my opinion, I'm speaking as if I
was this crazy chick. My opinion is that Atlanta should
never be able to host the All Star Game because
they passed this voting bill and also because a journalists
aren't safe because Ice is going to arrest them. Okay,
write that opinion, don't ask people who are famous to
endorse your opinion and turn. Does that make sense? It's
(30:11):
agenda journalism, and I think people see it now. But
this has been building for a decade or more, and
the goal I think is quite clear. It's to try
to take over big parts of culture and mold them
in your direction, as opposed to just let people be normal.
So I wanted to play that for you because I
heard it even I was like, oh, the second question
at the Major League Baseball All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
But you also ask yourself is what does this person
even want so that this is what I meant by
you're going to punish Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
No, The tangible result of what her position would be
would be that a majority black city is not able
to host a big sporting events huge sure to take
take money out of the hands of black business owners
in a great American city because you're a misanthrope or
a malcontent who just doesn't want to be celebrating anything.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
You're a Spans conference, for Heaven's sake.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And is wrong like whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Like you could at least make that argument before the
twenty twenty two election and twenty twenty four election happened.
Now we know that all that bill did was strengthen
the law and that they have actually been proven wrong.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
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Closing up shop today on clay in Buck. We'll take
some calls here to close us out in a second.
Also get some of your VIP emails. But I just
want to say you know, if there's any thoughts today,
and I don't know, maybe if there's a topic that
you particularly want us to discuss tomorrow, you can let
us know that if there was anything that was not
discussed today you think is important throwing that out there.
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Grant in North Dakota wants to chat.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
What's going on?
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Grant, Hey, Clay and Buck Love you show a longtime listener,
and I'm coming to you from the great Northern Plains
of North Dakota. Yes, growing wheat, corn, soybeans, flowers, and
a couple other varieties. Say when Deer is working on
this AI project, John dear, I mean, and if they
start controlling the machines that put everything in the ground
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and harvest them, which they're doing via data harvesting. And
Bill Gates is the largest shareholder of John Deere, just
so you know, they will control the food commodities, and
they will control the farms, and they will be it's
a very dangerous combination. So we must really think about
how we want to go about this.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Thank you for the call. Look, I don't think it's
just farming AI is going to trend. I think it
could be totally wrong. I think AI is going to
be transformative for a lot of the jobs that many
of you out there listening to us right now have,
including potentially our own.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Well, you know there's a band my brother Mason, who's
very tech tech savvy and has an entrepreneurial spirit. He
explained to me, I can't remember the name of it
right now. You know, there's a band that is an
AI band, and people didn't know that they're necessarily I
think they have a million or two million followers now
(34:31):
on TikTok. Think about this, everybody. It's a band and
I heard them yesterday. They kind of sound like the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'm just saying, you actually know, I was reading I
was reading an article. I couldn't believe it. Somebody created
a fake, really attractive woman and sent her to Wimbledon
on AI and the girl went megaviral. She did not exist,
like they just created a super pretty girl on AI
(35:01):
plugged her in as if she were sitting in the
crowds at Wimbledon, and she went megaviral.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
And it's called Clay. This band called Velvet. The band
is called Velvet Sundown. A million plays on Spotify. I mean,
that's a great way to give you. On Spotify alone,
a million people listen to this AI. The whole thing
is computer.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
There is no band, so you know, even in places
that are creative, or even in places where people typically
you know, you have models that are popular and things
like that. I think this is going to be transformative
on so many different levels. And the real debate I
was reading this morning is going to be is it
going to create as oftentimes technology does, an entire new
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cadre of jobs, or is it going to just eliminate
a lot and suddenly a lot of us are not
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
With out Clay that if space aliens were to land
on Earth, producer Greg is astutely bringing to our attention
that they would have no way of knowing. They would
think that Clay Travis was a sports and radio ficionado
with a world class flute playing games as well. You know,
(36:15):
they have no way of knowing because of all the
AI imagery of you with a flute that has now
flooded the internet. So to be fair, they're kind of
changing perception and reality with that, and I don't know
how we can turn that one around.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So I think it's going to be maybe as big
as the Internet. And by the way, the internet kind
of a big deal. There's your big take, hot take
for the show. We'll be back tomorrow. I'll be at
the All Star Game. I can't wait to watch and
see how it goes. I know many of you are
going to be watching it. I hope you enjoy it.
Major League Baseball needs to apologize to Atlanta, to Georgia,
(36:50):
Andrew Braves fans, and MLB fans everywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
See all tomorrow.
Welcome in our number three Tuesday edition, Clay Travis buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us
as we are rolling through the biggest stories in the
world and continuing to battle for truth, justice and the
American way. You know, they took that away on Superman.
No longer truth justice in the American Way. But we
(00:25):
got a bunch of different stories to dive into with
You should mention Trump is on the ground or en
route to Pittsburgh for a big announcement there about major
AI related investments that are being made in the state
of Pennsylvania. He also recently took a huge medley of
(00:45):
questions from the White House Press Corps right before he
left on virtually every subject under the sun. And before
I dive into this clip that I think is going
to blow Buck's mind, this.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Audio that we're going to play for you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Are you still kind of surprised that nobody's talking about
the decision on Ukraine weapons when you compare it to
the huge debate we all had about what was appropriate
with Iran. Now Trump is saying hey, and I think
we may have that audio in at some point during
the next little bit. He said, hey, I've instructed Dolinski
(01:20):
there not to reach into Russia and significantly attack there.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He's also obscuring through a really diplomatic slide of hand.
He is obscuring that these arms are it's American things
that go boom. But we're giving them to NATO to
give to Ukraine, and NATO is going to pay for them.
I think that's the way this has been set up.
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This is cut thirty three. This was from yesterday. Play
it you have, but Russia fifty days?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
What happens now? Have you talked about here?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
But at the end of fifty days, if we don't
have a deal, it's going to be uh too bad.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Should Lenski get more aggressive?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah? The terroriffs are going to go on and other
sanctions go on.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Should the Lensky target Moscow or deeper intro ruscial?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He shouldn't target Moscow.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Games not war.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I don't think fifty days is very long, and it
could be sooner than that. I don't think fifty days
is very long. You should have asked that same question
to Bite Why did he get us into this war?
You should ask that question, Yeah, and what did he
tell you? Why did he get us into this war.
You know why he got us in Because he's a dummy,
That's why. And you don't and you don't cover it, right,
but you should be asking that question to bite Why
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did he get us into this war? Because he's in
confident it would have never happened if.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I were president.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, this is all buck right outside the White House. Yes,
for Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
We had something else from yesterday, which was him talking
about how NATO was going to be the cutout if
you will, and we'll pay for it's not just to
cut out for these weapons. Uh. This was to he's
on the way to the Pittsburgh Artificial Intelligence and Energy Summit,
which is actually I find very interesting. I'm increasingly I
don't know, this isn't aside, this is bucking soliloqually on
(03:12):
radio to all of you. I think that artificial intelligence
is going to become something increasingly that matters in our
day to day lives. And I don't mean in ten years,
I mean in ten months. I think this is going
to be happening much more rapidly than a lot of
people realize. Anyway, something we might be talking about more
on the show, because I do believe it's going to
be very important. I also think it's going to be
incredibly important for the economy and could bring about well,
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could bring about a tremendous boom in productivity and wealth
for us if we are in the right place and
use this the right way. Anyway, that's my aside on that,
But Clay, I think the Russia issue, I'm not surprised
by this that Trump is in a place now where
he has tried to get He has tried to get
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Putin to at least get to a ceasefire, and the
response hasn't just been stalling on the ceasefire. It has
been sure, let's talk, and I'm gonna get even more aggressive.
It feels a bit like the back of the hand
from Putin to Trump, you know. It feels a little
bit like he's trying to show Trump in this situation,
(04:20):
Putin's the boss.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I think that he may regret that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think that Putin may regret his aggressive approach to
his dealings with Trump on this one.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, and look, I think Trump has become We played
audio yesterday of Trump talking about his conversations with Milanya,
which I thought was interesting because I never really contemplated
Milanya with her Eastern European background, and what thoughts she
might have about Russia and other countries that are being impacted.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Lais right, Slovenian.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And I do think that Trump has become incredibly frustrated
with Vladimir Putin. And we asked this question, and I
do think it's a really good one that I haven't
heard anybody answer.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
What does Putin actually want? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
What is the goal by which he will say, Okay,
we have achieved in some measure our desired outcome. Because
they're continuing to advance on Ukraine very slowly and with
much loss of life in the process. And yes, we're
in the summer right now, but it hits winter a
lot faster over there, and it comes very difficult to move.
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A part of me wonders, and we can put a
flag in this one or a pin in this one,
whether his goal at this point is just to advance
as far as he can in the summer and then
maybe negotiate some sort of settlement in the winter when
the overall lines are much more difficult to advance upon,
because otherwise then you're moving into what would it be
(05:55):
a fourth year, fifth year of actual war.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
In Ukraine, if you're going to re.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Re begin the process of attack in twenty twenty six,
and maybe this is where he can get to and
then negotiated settlement. I don't know if that's the answer,
but I do wonder because we haven't really been told
early It was oh, he wants to take all of Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
He wants, but that's not going to happen. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It just seems like we're battling out to get to
a point where there's going to be a negotiated new
boundary that is drawn, new border that is drawn between
these two countries. And in the meantime, I have to
believe that Trump is of the opinion that basically he
wants a stalemate, and if we don't give Ukraine more weapons,
a stalemate's harder to hold. And maybe this guts us
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through into November when things start to slow down. That's
my analysis. I don't know if you sign off differently
as I try to look at this chessboard and figure
out what exactly they are attempting to do.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I mean, there's going to be they want territorial sessions, right,
so you're talking about the formalized recognition of the annexation
of Crimea, which was taken back twenty fourteen, and you're
gonna have the eastern regions, which were really the first
part of this conflict to see combat, the eastern regions
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of Ukraine which have been de facto annexed, become officially
part of Russia. And I think a guarantee backed by
NATO's signatures or whatever, that we're not going to ever
try to get any part of Ukraine into NATO, and
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probably an end to sanctions. That would be my sense
of what. But maybe Putin thinks he can pretty much
take everything up to and including Kiev and then leave
kind of a rump state behind.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You know, that's the more aggressive, more total approach for Putin.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But the fact that this conflict is raging on it
as it has without any end in sight. Look, we
talked to Trump about this when was it claimed mar
A Lago a couple of years ago, and he said
he would end it in a day. Now we knew
that was Trump selling it. We weren't like Trump's really
going to end this in a day.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That's how Trump speaks.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Sometimes he's a little bombastic about things, or he's trying
to maybe put it out there into the universe and
the hopes that it happens.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
He's always selling.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But now we've reached the point where it's been months
of negotiating and there's nothing to show for it. And
if anything, I think this is going to be a
challenge because Trump really doesn't you know, he could say
Biden got us into this, and that's true, and Biden
was a screw up, and that's true. It's his deal now,
you know, he's the commander in chief, just like it's
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his economy.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
US support to the Ukrainian military is in the hands
of Donald Trump, whether it's escalated, de escalated, whether however
this thing goes. So I think he deserves the leeway
to well, he has the leeway obviously to figure this
out the way that he sees fit. But I think
that there's gonna be there's a recalibration right now. This
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thing is not coming to a need and tidy end
because of Trump's diplomatic overtures. I think the only way now.
And the problem is you're gonna have a lot of
people that have been critical of the Trump base on
this are gonna say, see, we told you so, which
is not going to be helpful, but I think there
will be this clay. The only way to get Putin
(09:33):
to stop is to bloody him even more, to raise
the cost. Now, some people on the MAGA side of
this are going to say, well, that's an even worse
idea because then things can really get out, you know, escalation.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
This is tricky. This is tricky stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I don't think anybody has clear answers to it, but
you know, I would love to. Maybe we could reach
out to I don't know, we know the Secretary of
Defense pretty well, Yeah, get Pete Heggs.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And Secretary of State, so we can probably get some
of those guys on to tell us where those I
just think that the decision and the goal is if
you're going to figure out how to resolve something on
some level. And look, I'm not saying that our administration
doesn't have this answer, but have you heard anybody articulate
(10:22):
in a way that you are impressed by what Vladimir
Putin's actual goals are at this point in time, because
I have not. And if you're trying to do a
negotiated settlement on some level, you have to know what
the most aspirational outcome of one side of the table
is we know what Zelenski wants. His aspirational goal is
Russia returns, he gets all of his territory back, and
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there's no issue that's not going to happen. So what
is a negotiated settlement that Vladimir Putin would agree to.
I don't have a sense for what his strategic ambition
is at this point, and maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's
waiting just see how much more lay and he can get.
But until you know what his overall ambition is, I
think it's very difficult to figure out how to resolve this.
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Having said that, I do think we should talk about
what's going on in Ukraine. Given how much attention we
paid to Iran and Israel and everything associated with that show,
with that situation and what should happen. I just don't
think hardly anybody has discussed the Ukraine situation or a
potential acceleration that could be occurring as we are providing
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them with more weaponry. In fact, I think that we
have spent a pinprick of the time talking about this
story compared to the blowup that they had in the
Oval Office, which when this is I think far more
consequential than that blowup was. We're a couple of hundred
billion dollars of US expenditures that are official.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
This isn't.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Under the intelligence auspices. I'm sure there's a lot more
going on here, but there's a couple one hundred billion
dollars that's already been appropriated and given to Ukraine, mostly
just weapons, but yeah, some cash too.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
That's you know, two hundred billion dollars. Let's call it.
It's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's about how much Trump's going to bring in tariffs
this year. So basically all the tariff dollars we got,
we've rolled back out to Ukraine. I mean to contextualize it. Yeah,
let me tell you about wills and trust. Right now,
it's middle part of the year. I know you're probably
not thinking about the end of the year. You're probably
not thinking about every decision that you've got to make.
(12:32):
There's all so many decisions that stack up. But I
bet what you do really care about is taking care
of your family. In fact, I bet the one thing
that everybody has in common who is listening to us
right now is they are trying to make the life
as good as they possibly can. For everybody in your
family and provide them with the best possible options in life.
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Value of having a will time after time has been
proven to be a lot of fights happen when you're gone.
Your family may not know what your goal is, what
your desires are. You spend a lot of time trying
to mediate concerns. You spend a lot of time trying
to mediate conflict in your family. Have you ensured that
when you're gone, there isn't conflict over what you want done.
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Speaker 3 (14:59):
I just want to I have some fun with this
one because we spoke about AOC before and I said,
I think she's too dumb to be the Democrat leader
in general.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Of the country.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But you know, I'm also I go back and forth
on that because she does have some things going for her.
And here is Trump. He just waded in today on AOC.
Did you see this. This is cut thirty six. The
Commander in Chief has some thoughts and he agrees with
buck which is not a surprise player, you know AOC.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Look, I think she's very nice, but she's very low IQ,
and we really don't need low IQ between her and Bucket.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
We're gonna give them both.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
An IQ test to see who comes out fast.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
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Speaker 4 (15:40):
I took my test.
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I took a real test at Walter Reed Medical Center, and.
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I haste it.
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Right now, it's time for them to take a test.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
When you say she's very nice but she's also very
dub that is very vintage Trump. And I would just
point out that right now, the top Democrat according to
polling from the state of Texas in the Senate race
next year is Jasmin Crockett. Can you imagine run Jasmine run.
(16:15):
I think the people of Texas need to hear all
of your arguments more fully articulated and developed, and I
think you would be a sterling representative of the Democrat
Party in the lone Star state. But that is the potential.
I mean a lot of people, I think are stunned
to find out that Jasmin Crockett is from Texas because
you think of Texans as not Jasmin Crockett. HEO see
(16:37):
New York. I think a lot of people are like, yeah,
that's New York. And obviously there is.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
No there's no spokesperson or brand affiliation with Crockett Coffee,
just to be clear, totally separate venture, we have nothing
to do with because you know, Trump's referring to Crockett there.
I would love it if he was talking about the
great American coffee company of Crockett Coffee, but different, different situation,
and there's no.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
No relation that we're aware of between Jasmine Crockett and
Davy Crockett, and certainly no relationship with the Crockett Coffee Company.
She is definitely in the state of Texas. Detracting from
the overall brand appeal of the Davy Crockett brand by
being the most prominent Crockett in the state.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
We come back, buck.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Well, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I am going to play you a clip from Atlanta
that I think is going to nearly make your brain
explode surrounding the All Star game that happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And I have got all the details.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
On it and it is absolutely ridiculously indefensible. So that
is going to be really pretty fantastic, I think for
everybody out there.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, that's quite a that's quite a tease. That's quite
a tease, it is.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
That's impressive.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
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Yes for sure. All right, let me dive in here, buck.
All Star Game. You may not even really remember this,
because I think it was early in when we were
starting the show. Might have even been right before we
started the show. Major League Baseball pulled the All Star
Game out of Atlanta. We talked about this yesterday with
Governor Brian Kemp because they said that Stacy Abrams and
(20:26):
Joe Biden were right and that Jim Crow two point zero,
actually Jim Eagle was what it was described as was
necessary and they were not allowing minorities to vote, and
it's been proven to be one hundred percent not true,
because the number of voters grew in twenty twenty two,
and the number of voters grew in twenty twenty four,
(20:46):
and all the state of Georgia did was strengthen the
overall elections. So a reporter decided that she was going
to ask a question of the straight sports event that
was going on yesterday, the All Star Game preview. And
this is absolutely bonkers, but I want to play this
(21:09):
for all of you. This was a mask wearing a
mask wearing reporter to this day, far left wing reporter
covering sports, someone named Jen Ramos Eisen writes for a
website called Defector, and this person decided that they were
(21:30):
going to take over an All Star Game press conference
with this question.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Buck get ready.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
There is a law on the books here in Atlanta
that is a voter suppression law that Joe Biden has
called Jim Crow of the twenty first century Dave in
twenty twenty one the MLB Network special, You said, it's
about being relentless with our voices and speaking up. And
this is not an isolated moment, and it needs to
be something talked about on an ongoing basis and being
(21:57):
relentless with it. What happened to being relentles us with
our voices? And why are we in Atlanta when this
law is still on the books and it is a
dangerous situation to be a journalist in Atlanta because Atlanta
has attained the most journalists by Ice.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Respect and appreciate the way you feel about it. And
I would assume that there was a reason or some
conversation that was had by the MLB and the state
that all parties thought that this would be a wonderful
host city for the All Star Game. And I think
everybody is all very excited to be back in the
beautiful city of Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
So that was Pat McAfee trying to answer the question
that was the host of the event.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
He works at ESPN.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Can you believe that is an All Star press conference,
buck All Star game for Major League Baseball? And this
crazy left winger says, how are we here when ICE
is arresting journalist and how in the world can you
play a game here when basically this Jim Crow law,
which has not which has been proven to be a lie.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Decreased voting, actually voting as in crease substantially. I know
I have blown your mind several times about sports media
and how left wing they are.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Can you believe?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
That was the second question at the Major League Baseball
All Star Game event yesterday.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Okay, So I'm just confused a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Where was this person?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
What publication was she from?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
We do something?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, OutKick has a story because they dove in to
figure out, like who is this person? That person is
a writer for a website called Defector. She showed up,
which I guess does some sports. I don't know how
they got credentialed candidly, but I guess they do some sport.
And that person has a wore a mask. So this
(23:48):
is not Some people out there are saying, hey, and
I'm one of them. Major League Baseball should have to
issue a public apology to State of Georgia, to the
City of Atlanta, brace fans for pulling the game out
under false pretenses. Right, they were wrong and they've never
acknowledged it. But that's not this. This is hey, this
was the right decision. Why are you guys back here?
(24:09):
And oh, by the way, how can you even come
here when journalists are being arrested by ice. Well, imagine
if you imagine if you banned Atlanta from holding sporting
events and then open yourself up to the fact that
Atlanta's is a as a city. I believe it's about
fifty percent. It's a majority black city. So you're actually
harming black people here when you don't have big events
(24:30):
in the city.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You're so so the theory among the left or among
some of these this journalist or whatever, this must be
an idea that's out there is let's punish a great
American city that is also majority black, and but we
will punish the city because it is the state of
(24:53):
Georgia is racist, right, That's that's where that's where we are.
We're gonna We're gonna hurt Atlanta, which is a great city,
which is a ma already black city. We're gonna hurt
Atlanta because you want to show that we disagree with
the law in the State of Georgia. Like, I don't
even know how that holds together. I mean, put aside
that the whole thing is absurd and that actually there's
been greater black voter turnout than ever before, and there
(25:16):
is no voter suppression law in Georgia, and that's all
a lie and the statistics show about it. But this is,
you know, Clay, some people just want to be mad
about things. And I guess this is this journalists had
a mask on. Did you tell me that too?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, she had a mask on, and Ali I I
Defector is an employee owned sports and culture website brought
to you by the former staffers of dead Spin.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh is the okay communy evil communists. She's an evil communist,
a dead Spin evil communists. I know it used to
work there, right.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Was, but well back in the day. For this is
taking people back into the history of the internet. Back
in like eight oh nine when I was there, dead
Spin was just kind of a bro culture website, like, hey,
let's have fun. Let's kind of laugh about sports. Their
trajectory from sports are fun. Let's laugh about them and
like them more to now this Defector site, which is
(26:08):
a spin off of dead Spin too, We're going to
send an employee in a mask because she's worried about COVID.
I guess to grill major League Baseball about. I mean,
there are so many people whose brains have been broken
that this could be allowed to have occurred. Is actually
it's a fascinating story to kind of look at the
(26:29):
way they took over the culture of sport through sports
media members who are far more left wing than the
average fan, and allowed those sports media members to terrorize
so many people from speaking out that we really got
to the point where dudes are winning women's championships. I
don't think it's coincidental that they tried to take over
the culture and they're still trying.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I mean, look, just to be clear, I also could
tell stories here. Do you know that the Huffington Post,
because the media landscape was very different. You were saying
dead Spin was different when were there?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You know that uff Post Live used to invite me
on It doesn't surprise me Live as a conservative. It
happened a couple of times because they thought they were like,
they're like, well you're you may be a conservative, but
you're smart. That was always the backhanded thing they would
say to me, uh, like the different hosts that would
have me on, and I was like, well, a lot
of us are smart.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I think we're smarter than you guys are.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
But anyway, put that aside, huff Post Live do you
remember the site, Mike mic Mike dot com. I probably, yeah,
I do, vegue, I do vaguely. I do vaguely remember
that site. They they brought me in because they wanted
alternate voices, and they talked to me about writing a
column for them. This is like, again, this would have
been when you were were were Dead's when you were
(27:40):
twenty eleven or something, or twenty ten or how far back, oh,
even even younger. I mean the site launched. I think
I was there in like eight oh okay, I was
still in my twenties. So I'm saying when I when
I started doing this stuff, which was twenty eleven, even
I was like a HuffPost wanted to talk to me,
Mike dot com. I remember they asked me for my
thoughts on police vie, so like what would you run
(28:00):
on police funds? And this was the early it was
the early days of Ferguson, So maybe this was like
twenty twelve or twenty eleven, I can't remember now, And
I was like, you guys, I remember being there. I
never ended up writing anything for them. I remember just
thinking I was like, you guys are insane. Yeah, And
they had all this venture capital funding and everything else,
Like the people who work here are crazy, but there
(28:21):
was this game of they would have alternate voices and things.
The problem is when you let and this is my
real takeaway for all of you, you're like, why are
you telling us this media history?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
No one needs to know.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
When you let any leftist into an entity, as I
always say, it is like in nature, an invasive species.
They will not just multiply, they will multiply and intentionally
block out those who are not leftists. Right, So the
problem with the European house sparrow. Fun fact for all
(28:50):
of you is that the European house sparrow not only
is very hardy it as a species, but also will
destroy the eggs and the nests of others. Yeah, so
that it will outcompete them in the area. If you
let a leftist into your media organization, or you let
enough leftists get a toe hold, they will take it over.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
This happened at CNN.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
They will take it over and make it completely insane,
totally correct. And this is something I've been thinking about
a lot, because, to your point, the culture used to
not be like this, and I'm hoping that we're going
to come out of it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And return.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
But I think the only way we can do that
is by ridiculing stories like these and making it so
clear where look, if this person wants to share her opinion,
then write her opinion. But what she's trying to do
is launder her opinion through more famous people and hold
their feet to the fire and make them attached to
(29:49):
her opinion. Right, my opinion, I'm speaking as if I
was this crazy chick. My opinion is that Atlanta should
never be able to host the All Star Game because
they passed this voting bill and also because a journalists
aren't safe because Ice is going to arrest them. Okay,
write that opinion, don't ask people who are famous to
endorse your opinion and turn. Does that make sense? It's
(30:11):
agenda journalism, and I think people see it now. But
this has been building for a decade or more, and
the goal I think is quite clear. It's to try
to take over big parts of culture and mold them
in your direction, as opposed to just let people be normal.
So I wanted to play that for you because I
heard it even I was like, oh, the second question
at the Major League Baseball All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
But you also ask yourself is what does this person
even want so that this is what I meant by
you're going to punish Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
No, The tangible result of what her position would be
would be that a majority black city is not able
to host a big sporting events huge sure to take
take money out of the hands of black business owners
in a great American city because you're a misanthrope or
a malcontent who just doesn't want to be celebrating anything.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
You're a Spans conference, for Heaven's sake.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And is wrong like whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Like you could at least make that argument before the
twenty twenty two election and twenty twenty four election happened.
Now we know that all that bill did was strengthen
the law and that they have actually been proven wrong.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
The data doesn't lie. Look.
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Closing up shop today on clay in Buck. We'll take
some calls here to close us out in a second.
Also get some of your VIP emails. But I just
want to say you know, if there's any thoughts today,
and I don't know, maybe if there's a topic that
you particularly want us to discuss tomorrow, you can let
us know that if there was anything that was not
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Grant in North Dakota wants to chat.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
What's going on?
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Grant, Hey, Clay and Buck Love you show a longtime listener,
and I'm coming to you from the great Northern Plains
of North Dakota. Yes, growing wheat, corn, soybeans, flowers, and
a couple other varieties. Say when Deer is working on
this AI project, John dear, I mean, and if they
start controlling the machines that put everything in the ground
(33:29):
and harvest them, which they're doing via data harvesting. And
Bill Gates is the largest shareholder of John Deere, just
so you know, they will control the food commodities, and
they will control the farms, and they will be it's
a very dangerous combination. So we must really think about
how we want to go about this.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Thank you for the call. Look, I don't think it's
just farming AI is going to trend. I think it
could be totally wrong. I think AI is going to
be transformative for a lot of the jobs that many
of you out there listening to us right now have,
including potentially our own.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Well, you know there's a band my brother Mason, who's
very tech tech savvy and has an entrepreneurial spirit. He
explained to me, I can't remember the name of it
right now. You know, there's a band that is an
AI band, and people didn't know that they're necessarily I
think they have a million or two million followers now
(34:31):
on TikTok. Think about this, everybody. It's a band and
I heard them yesterday. They kind of sound like the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'm just saying, you actually know, I was reading I
was reading an article. I couldn't believe it. Somebody created
a fake, really attractive woman and sent her to Wimbledon
on AI and the girl went megaviral. She did not exist,
like they just created a super pretty girl on AI
(35:01):
plugged her in as if she were sitting in the
crowds at Wimbledon, and she went megaviral.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
And it's called Clay. This band called Velvet. The band
is called Velvet Sundown. A million plays on Spotify. I mean,
that's a great way to give you. On Spotify alone,
a million people listen to this AI. The whole thing
is computer.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
There is no band, so you know, even in places
that are creative, or even in places where people typically
you know, you have models that are popular and things
like that. I think this is going to be transformative
on so many different levels. And the real debate I
was reading this morning is going to be is it
going to create as oftentimes technology does, an entire new
(35:47):
cadre of jobs, or is it going to just eliminate
a lot and suddenly a lot of us are not
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
With out Clay that if space aliens were to land
on Earth, producer Greg is astutely bringing to our attention
that they would have no way of knowing. They would
think that Clay Travis was a sports and radio ficionado
with a world class flute playing games as well. You know,
(36:15):
they have no way of knowing because of all the
AI imagery of you with a flute that has now
flooded the internet. So to be fair, they're kind of
changing perception and reality with that, and I don't know
how we can turn that one around.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So I think it's going to be maybe as big
as the Internet. And by the way, the internet kind
of a big deal. There's your big take, hot take
for the show. We'll be back tomorrow. I'll be at
the All Star Game. I can't wait to watch and
see how it goes. I know many of you are
going to be watching it. I hope you enjoy it.
Major League Baseball needs to apologize to Atlanta, to Georgia,
(36:50):
Andrew Braves fans, and MLB fans everywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
See all tomorrow.
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