September 30, 2025 • 36 mins
In Hour 1 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, Clay dives into a packed lineup of major stories shaping the news cycle. With Buck reporting from Taiwan this week, Clay opens by discussing the geopolitical significance of Taiwan and its role as a potential flashpoint in global affairs. The hour also covers the looming government shutdown, which Clay argues is overhyped and unlikely to significantly impact most Americans.
A major highlight is President Trump’s announcement on prescription drug pricing, revealing that Pfizer will now offer medications at “most favored nation” prices, a move aimed at reducing costs for American consumers.
Clay then shifts to a fiery cultural debate sparked by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s speech to military leaders, emphasizing a return to strict physical standards and meritocracy in the U.S. Armed Forces. Hegseth rejects DEI mandates and insists on combat readiness over diversity quotas, sparking a broader conversation about whether elite positions in the military—or any field—should reflect demographics or prioritize performance. Clay uses examples from Olympic basketball and the National Spelling Bee to argue that excellence rarely mirrors population diversity and that merit should always come first.
The hour also features an in-depth discussion on JK Rowling’s viral takedown of Emma Watson and the gender ideology debate. Clay praises Rowling’s courage in standing against what she calls “gender insanity,” reading excerpts from her powerful statement that has garnered tens of millions of views. He challenges wealthy and influential Americans to show similar bravery in defending truth and common sense.
Finally, Clay reacts to Joy Reid’s controversial comments on taxation and fascism, mocking the claim that limiting government power equates to authoritarianism. The segment underscores the ideological divide on economic freedom and government overreach.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in hope all of you are having fantastic Tuesdays
wherever you are across the country or around the world.
We have got a ton of different stories to dive
into with you.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Buck is in.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Taiwan, as I said yesterday, for the entire week, so
he will be back on Monday. I'll read a couple
of the tweets that he has shared as he has
been over there doing meetings and checking out what could
become one of the major geopolitical flashpoints in the world.
He is there for this week and like I said,
we'll be back on Monday. A couple of guests coming
(00:38):
your way in the third hour, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
of Oklahoma and Steve Scalise will join us as well
as the looming government shutdown, the years closer inches closer
and closer. Big speech this morning by Secretary of War
Pete Hegseth. It can be some up as don't be fat.
(01:02):
If you are a general or an admiral, you should
be in decent shape. And also the job of the
military is to kick ass and so if you can't
fulfill basic standards for health and fitness and lethality, then
you shouldn't be serving in our armed forces and is
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very well received speech. We may play a couple of
cuts of that for you eventually. President Trump also spoke
and has been basically speaking all day so far, and
a lot of it focused on both the military and
also now on the cost of prescription drugs. And he
is right now in the process of letting everyone know
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that he is doing his best to bring down the
cost of prescription drugs. So all of that is underway.
We are waiting news on whether Hamas is going to
agree to the Middle East peace plan that was laid
out yesterday near the end of the program, and we
will continue to monitor the looming as I said, government shutdown,
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which is likely to not impact very many of you
very substantially. And again I'm sorry for being cynical on this,
but eventually they're going to reach an agreement. It's going
to lead to deficits increasing, and nobody's life is really
going to be that impacted. I feel like they've overplayed
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their hand on the government shutdown as a major narrative
that people care about. It's been going on for the
first time I really remember becoming a major issue was
in the Clinton White House, and maybe the most significant
aspect of the Clinton government shutdown issues were that that
was when Clinton initially met Monica Lewinsky and ended up
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engaging in salacious behavior in the Oval office. Maybe put
it mildly, that may be the most consequential thing that
happened from the government shutdowns back in the nineties was
the Clinton impeachments and the Monica Lewinsky freakas. But again,
this is eventually going to get it It's eventually going
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to get itself fixed. So let's play a couple of
things just off the top that I do think are
significant of the news. Here is Trump announcing that Pfizer
will offer prescription drugs to Americans at most Favored nation prices.
This just happened cut thirty two today through to.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Announce that one of the world's largest onemosivital manufacturers are
one of the best anywhere in the world. Pfizer has
agreed to offer capitalists prescription medications and major discounts in
the United States. There's a result of the most Favored
nation drug pricing runners that we established earlier this year.
You know, the United States is face sometimes ten times
(04:03):
more than other countries for drugs, and a lot of
excuses were made for that been well for many years,
many many years, decades, and I'm just not going on
any longer where that we're paying the lowest press. You know,
we're going to be paying whatever the lowest prices favorite nations.
This will save American tax per years and consumers hundreds
of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Okay, So that is what's going on right now. Let
me play some of these because I do think the
cuts from Pete hag Seth earlier today talking to his
generals and his admirals is significant because what it's coming
to represent is we are pushing back aggressively against the
idea basically that diversity is our strength, or that men
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and women are the same, and that the ability of
someone basically to kick ass is not paramount in of
the military. Egg Seth is saying, Look, our job is
to kick ass, and we're going to do everything that
it takes to make sure that everyone in the military
is capable of doing that. Let's listen to a couple
(05:12):
of these cuts, because I do think culturally this is significant.
Pete Hegseth cut fifteen today.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
At my direction, each service will ensure that every requirement
for every combat MOS, for every designated combat arms position
returns to the highest male standard. Only because this job
is life or death, standards must be met, and not
just met at every level, we should seek to exceed
the standard.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
This is important because I know a lot of you
are in the service and they have developed this idea
that there is a male standard for physicality and a
female standard for physicality, and if your job is to
kick ass, the standard should just be the kick ass standard.
Not Hey, men have to do this to qualify, and
women have to do this lesser of bills to qualify.
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That doesn't make any sense when the job actually requires
ass kicking. And so I think this is significant. It
also ties in with this Cut eighteen biology matters. Men
and women are different, listen to Cut eighteen.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
As foolish and reckless as the Woke Department was, those
officers were following elected political leadership. An entire generation of
generals and admirals were told that they must parrot the
insane fallacy that quote our diversity is our strength. Of course,
we know our unity is our strength. They had to
put out dizzying DEI and LGBTQI plus statements They were
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told females and males are the same thing, or that
males who think they're females totally normal. They were told
that we need a green fleet and electric tanks. They
were told to kick out Americans who refused an emergency vaccine.
They followed civilian policies set by foolish and reckless political leaders.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You know, this is all so a standard that Heseth
is applying going forward when it comes to the generals
and the admirals as well, in terms of what do
you want your leadership to look like?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Cut sixteen. The New War.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Department golden rule is this, do onto your unit as
you would have done onto your own child's unit. Would
you want him serving with fat or unfit or undertrained troops,
or alongside people who can't meet basic standards, or in
a unit where standards were lowered so certain types of
troops could make it, in in a unit where leaders
were promoted for reasons other than merit performance and war fighting.
(07:41):
The answer is.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Not just no, it's hell though.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Okay, this is important, and the military is symbolic of
this in many ways. What the Trump administration is advocating
for is a simple and basic return to the idea
of the meritocracy that is, the best man or the
best woman should have the most success, not the person
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who looks a certain way, and that we don't need
to have and I think this is essential integral even
we don't need to have our nation directly reflecting what
the population looks like as a whole when it comes
to elite jobs. And I'll give you an example from
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the world of sports that I've been hammering for a
long time. What Pete Hexas said, diversity is not our strength.
I think that's one hundred percent truth. Not diversity of
thought matters in many respects, but what matters is that
the most elite are able to achieve at the highest
possible level. Let me give you an example. The Olympics
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are next year. The United States men's basketball team may
not have any white, Asian or Hispanic athlete on it.
Think about that for a minute. Black men represent around
six percent of the overall population. They are going to
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have one hundred percent potentially of our US men when
it comes to the Olympic team that we put on
the court next year. And if they don't have one
hundred percent, they're going to have ninety percent or eighty
eight percent or whatever. The math is overwhelming numbers. That
is one of the foremost examples of a lack of
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diversity at elite positions anywhere in the United States. Yet
those guys are the best. If we said we need
a men's basketball team that accurately reflects the American population,
we would have sixty percent white guys.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We would have.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Thirteen fourteen percent. Hispanic guys we would have right around
twelve percent. This is assuming, by the way, that we're
willing to acknowledge, there's a biological difference in not saying
that women should be on the team too, because that
would more perfectly reflect.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The American population.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Right, But let's say for the US men's basketball team,
we're only going to have men because men are better
at basketball than women. That would mean if we did
a perfect snapshot of America, you'd have to fire a
lot of black guys. In fact, nine probably black guys
on the roster would lose their job and they would
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be replaced by other basketball players that are not as good.
And the result would be our basketball team would perfectly
reflect American diversity, majority white, same number of Hispanic guys
as black guys, Asian guy and boy. It would be
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a cosmetically beautiful photo. But we get ours kicked, probably
by a lot of other countries, because in trying to
perfectly reflect American diversity on our basketball team, we would
actually end up with a far less meritocratic team. That is,
the best players wouldn't actually make the US men's basketball team.
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It's a great example for those of you out there
that have to deal with DEI all the time in
your own jobs. There's no DEI in basketball. Basketball is
actually among the least diverse high earning jobs in America.
Nobody points to it. Nobody says, hey, what's wrong here.
They're getting this wrong. This basketball team doesn't look like America.
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There's way too many black guys on it. You'd ever
hear it said. And in fact, if the basketball team
looked like America, we'd all be worse.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I think you could make that argument in the military too.
Don't we want the baddest ass war fighters on the
planet to rise to levels of command and to rise
to the levels of the most significant ranks in our military.
We don't want Admiral Levine, that dude pretending to be
(12:20):
a chick trying to lead our troops. That isn't actually
a strength at all. In fact, it's I would argue
an example of mental illness inside of the military, that
that is someone who is in a position of authority.
We should want in all facets of American life the
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absolute best, most talented people with the most significant jobs.
We got to bring back the meritocracy in America, and
sometimes that might mean that the positions at the absolute
apex don't one hundred percent reflect America. There's a lot
(13:01):
more Asian dudes working at a high level in Silicon
Valley right now than there are Asian dudes in the country.
Is that racism, No, it's that those guys have a
skill set that they are putting to work in Silicon
Valley that vastly over exceeds as a population per capita percentage,
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what you would expect to see the best men or
the best women should be at the absolute apex in
this country. That hasn't been true in the military. So
I give credit to Pete Hegseth for that speech that
he gave. Why I think it's significant culturally is it
represents a major pivot point from Joe Biden saying I'm
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going to put a black woman on the Supreme Court.
I'm going to pick a woman to be my vice president.
You're not saying you're picking the best person for the job.
You're telling us that you're checking a box, and in
the process, you're actually delegitimizing the people that you are picking.
This is a real decision that has to be made.
The best man or the best woman, not the best
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man pretending to be a woman, should be on the
metal stand when it comes to the end of every
sporting event, and the best man or the best woman,
or some combination thereof, should be in leadership everywhere. We're
gonna dive into this. I'm gonna go back yesterday I
mentioned JK Rowling and what I thought was so profound
about what she said.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I want to dive into that.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'm gonna play some of the cuts from my Paul
Fine Mom interview that went everywhere. Don Lemon and Joy
Reid have some thoughts on race in America, and I
think you're gonna enjoy those. And by enjoy those, I
mean you're gonna fall off your chairs. You're gonna have
to grip the steering wheel tighter because you're gonna look
around and say I can't believe that this is what
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passes for thought leadership on the left in this country.
But first I want to tell you the two year
anniversary of October seventh, twenty twenty three in Israel is
rapidly approaching. And this Sunday you're gonna witness a show
of support for Israel in this nation and you haven't
like one.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You haven't seen in a very long time.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Grassroots effort to honor the memory of those lost two
years ago in the brutal Hamas terrorist attack. You'll see
Israeli flags on display and yard storefronts, cars everywhere. It's
a movement of support for the people in Israel called
the Flags of Fellowship, and it's organized by the International
Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Millions of Americans across our
nation will display an Israeli flag in honor and solidarity
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with the families and victims of that Hamas terror attack.
You can be a part of this movement too. Go
online to IFCJ dot org send a message stand with Israel,
Join the Flags of Fellowship movement. Visit the Fellowship online
at IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ dot org.
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Speaker 1 (15:56):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. One correction there.
I think I said the Olympics were next year. The
Winter Olympics are coming up, Summer Olympics twenty twenty eight.
The World Cup is next year too, So we got
a lot of big sporting events coming up soon. But
I think in my analogy, I said in the Summer Olympics,
Summer Olympics twenty twenty eight, Winter Olympics were about to have,
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and the World Cup we're about to have. But I
think that's a really difficult argument to get past. Why
should we assume that elite talent perfectly reflects the actual
population of the United States in all categories. Well, I
(16:38):
give you another example. There are almost almost no spellers
who are non Indian. You ever watch the spelling Bee,
Indian kids they dominate the spelling bee. I would suggest
(16:59):
that's because Indian kids are uniquely committed to the spelling bee, right,
and so if you watch it means a train harder
at it. That's I mean the number of hours that
you have to just pull out a dictionary and memorize
how to spell everything. You go watch the finals of
the Spelling Bee. They aren't remotely reflective of the population
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of the United States. Is that a sign of racism?
Is that a sign of the failure of the country
to engage in high level success?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It's just that elite levels of performance across many different
disciplines are rarely perfect snapshots of America.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And that's okay.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
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In Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Yesterday, I spent some
time talking about how I have so much admiration for
jk Rowling because she is, I would argue, one of
the most fearless women in the world, one of the
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most fearless people on the planet.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And you say, okay, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Clay jk Rowling became a billionaire because of the Harry
Potter books. Once you become a billionaire, you basically have
no risk in life remotely anymore. If you decide to
have any easy life. That is, all of the all
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of the things that most of us worry about on
a day to day basis, they're all eliminated from your
life as a billionaire. I'm not saying that everything in
life is perfect when you have a certain amount of money,
because health can be an issue. You're fa family's health
can be an issue. There are lots of things that
no matter how much money you have, there can still
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be issues in your life. But in general, billionaires do
not have the same concerns that you and me and
most of the rest of us would have. And what
has often frustrated me is lots of billionaires may agree
with everything I say on this radio program or everything
you think out there listening, but they're so concerned about
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what other people think about them that they don't say
what they really think. And to me, the only reason
to have money is to have no constraints on what
you are able to say, because otherwise you're just putting
on a pair of golden handcuffs. You ever hear that
(20:51):
phrase golden handcuffs? Such an interesting phrase. I never heard
it because I didn't grow up with substantial amounts of money.
The first time I ever heard it was in law
school because young lawyers, you come out and you make
a lot of money, and I remember somebody saying the
money's great, But really it's just a form of golden handcuffs.
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Somebody a little bit older than me, I said, what
do you mean so Well, in order to make that money,
you are selling your labor to the law firm, and
you are giving up much of your life in exchange
for the money that they're going to give you. You don't
have as much freedom when you become a young lawyer
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as you do when.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You're a last student.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Now you have way more money, but you have way
more responsibilities, way more obligations. And I bet a lot
of you, as you have grown in life, have come
to understand that concept. Maybe you bought a house that's
a little bit too much expensive for you. That's a
form of golden handcuffs. It's a beautiful home, but can
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you pay the mortgage every month? Maybe you bought car
that's a little bit too expensive. Oh it looks good.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh can you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Imagine what the girls are gonna think when you pull
up at the bar in this one? Can you imagine
what everybody in the neighborhood is going to think when
you're rolling down the street in that car. Oh, but
you know, there's a pretty big payment that comes with
that car.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
It's golden handcuffs.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Maybe you got a kid and you're excited because they
just got into a good college or a good private school,
but you're looking at that tuition bill. It's golden handcuffs.
You have to keep working harder and harder. Your things
may be getting nicer, but you don't really feel that
free because your expenses often are growing at the same
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rate as your income, sometimes exceeding it. So you'll look
back and you'll be like, man, I I thought if
I ever made twice as much money as I do now,
I'd be fine. But somehow you have just as little
money making twice as much money as you did before.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And there are all sorts of financial consultants out there
that'll say, oh, well, it's all about budgeting, and there's
a lot of truth to that. But in life metaphorically,
if you are too concerned about what people think about you,
you are putting golden handcuffs on yourself because you may
not speak out and say what you really think. And
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it seems to me a lot of billionaires do that.
And that's why I am so impressed with JK.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Rowling.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
She could have just done the Hollywood circuit where everybody
kisses her ass for the rest of her life. She
could have just relaxed on the fact that she wrote
this seven book series Harry Potter, and they built this
fabulous Universal Studios world Harry Potter, which is truly unbelievable
and spectacular. If you've got young kids who like to
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read these books, an entire generation of kids she inspired
to read. She could have just kind of rode on
the path of genius and wealth and only people would
have said nice things about JK.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Rowling for the rest of her life.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
She was on that path. But she saw this gender
insanity and she said, I can't stay quiet about this.
She saw everybody suddenly arguing men can become women, and
she was the person who said, actually, that's not true.
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You ever notice how you've probably been in a room
where somebody has said something that you know is not
true and most people won't call it out.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
You may have been it.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Maybe it was at church, maybe it was at business,
maybe it was at a PTA meeting. Somebody says something
that everybody knows is untrue, but everybody just feels like
they have to stay quiet because they're afraid of everybody
looking at them.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
JK.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Rowling was like, actually, I dissent right. If you watch
Curby your enthusiasm. One of the funny things about the
Larry David series, which I love, even though he's a
super left wing liberal, is that he actually says a
lot of what everybody else thinks. I think I have
an element of that in my life. What JK Rowling did, though,
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was super rare. Minute men can become women? Oh yeah, yeah,
this is oh good for you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You go girl.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
She said, no, no, this is actually not true and
worse than that, but it's actually anti feminist when you
say a man can become a woman, and the first
flipping year he's a woman, he gets Woman of the Year.
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It's not even the first movie he was in. He's
got a penis. He can't be the woman of the year.
What are you chick's doing? You're crazy. A lot of
women just went along with it. JK Rowling said, no,
excuse me, this is not right. And this Emma Watson
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Hermione Granger for all of you out there who watched
the movie, she's been going after JK Rowling for years
now over these gender issues, and yesterday JK Rowling was
woke up and she just said, I'm sorry, I'm gonna
end this bitch. And I got to read some of
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what she tweeted yesterday because this is one hundred percent true.
Last night, when I was getting ready for bed, I
turned to my wife for getting her lights her out
almost I pulled my I was like, did you see
what JK Rowling said about Emma Watson. Wife's like, no,
I didn't see it yet, and I was like, well,
let me just read some of this for you that
because I went back last night before I was going
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to bed to reread this because it was so well said,
and I just want to hit you with a couple
of these segments. Emma Watson and her co stars have
every right to embrace gender identity ideology. This is the
words of JK.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Rowling.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to
see any of them threatened with loss of work or
violence or death because of them. But she says Emma
and some of the other kids that grew up on
the Harry Potter set have ripped her to shreds. And
she says years after they finished acting in Potter.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
They continue to assume.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
The role of the de facto spokespeople for the world
I created. Well, some of these sentences, I mean, are
just again they continue to assume the role of de
facto spokespeople for the world I created, says jk Rowling.
I think she may have a future in writing. I
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think she may one day be able to make a
decent living when you've not this is jk Rowling continuing.
When you've known people since they were ten years old,
it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently,
I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children
who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in
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a big scary film studio. For the past few years,
I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma.
I told the producers I didn't want her to be
hounded as the result of anything I said. And then
she continues. Emma asks someone to pass on a handwritten
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note from her to me, which contained the single sentence
I'm so sorry for what you're going through. She has
my phone number. This was back when the death, rape,
and torture threats against me were at their peak, at
a time when my personal security measures had to be
tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family safety.
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Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames,
yet thought a one line expression of concern from her
would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness. And
then this paragraph buckle up. Like other people who've never
experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has
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so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how
ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's
never going to be placed on a mixed sex public
hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a
high street changing room since childhood. Her public bathroom is
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single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard
outside the door. Has she had to strip off in
a newly mixed sex changing room at a council run
swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state
run rape crisis center that refuses to guarantee an all
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female service to find herself sharing a prison cell with
a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison. I
wasn't a multi millionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty
while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore
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understand from my own life experience what the trashing of
women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means
to women and girls without her privileges. Adults can't expect
to cozy up to an activist movement that regularly calls
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for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the
former friend's love as though the friend was in fact
their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me,
and indeed to discuss her feelings about me and public.
But I have the same right, and I finally decided
(31:20):
to exercise it wholely crap. That thing has fifty eight
million views right now on Twitter, and the reason I
wanted to share it was twofold. One. We need more JK. Rowlings,
more people who are fearlessly willing to stand for what
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is right, particularly those of you out there. And this
is directly addressed to you who have the money and
wherewithal to do so. Why are you such cowards? Why
do you continue to try and stay behind the scenes
because you're worried about what people might say to you
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when you know that they are wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Two.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I think there are a lot of you that are
parents and grandparents that can particularly connect with what jk
Rowling said There, you have gone through struggles that your
kids and your grandkids, if you are fortunate enough to
have built for them, can never even comprehend. They don't
(32:31):
even know what they don't know. And I just I love.
I've never met jk Rowling. I don't know that I
ever will, but when I read that, it is so
perfectly said on so many different levels that I wanted
to make sure that I shared it with all of you.
We'll link it on Clay and Buck, but I think
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if you go read it for yourself, most of us
are not going to write best selling novels and become
multi billionaires, but all of us in our lives are
going to be dealing with young people who are oftentimes
standing on the shoulders of giants, and they have no
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idea that that's what's going on. Another way of putting
it is they're standing on third base and they think
they hit a triple. They've got no idea what actually
has to happen in life for them to have had
the opportunity they have been given. So Earlier in the show,
I came out against DEI I'm also against people who
haven't achieved anything thinking that they are the greatest in
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their line of work. As she said, she had no
money when she wrote the book that made Emma Watson famous.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
So well said JK.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Rolling again, I wanted to make sure that I read
that for all of you, because I see it as
a personal opportunity to challenge all of you out there
with the resources like JK Rolling. You're listening right now,
you're watching right now. Where's your spine? Where is your bravery?
Why is JK Rolling willing to put everything that she
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has on the line to stand for truth and you
are still hiding in the shadows because you're worried about
what some charity board's.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Going to say.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
If you come out and speak the truth, I hope
you can have some of the bravery, just a smidge
that JK Rolling showed in that post, and that she
has shown in the past several years of her life.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
A challenge from her to all of you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
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Speaker 1 (35:42):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. I wanted
to play this clip and we're going to have some
fun with some of your reactions. But Joy Reid says
fascism is actually the government not being able to take
more of your money.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Listen to it.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
If you go back before the twentieth century, there were
no income taxes, there were no regulations on business. You
could earn as much money as you want, leave one
hundred percent of it to your children with no taxes.
That's the world they want back, and to get it back,
they need society change. They need people to be less modern,
they need people to want fewer things.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Wait, fascism is just the government taking less of my money.
It is really very funny. These people have the intellectual
capability of particularly daft bats.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
They have no idea what they're even arguing. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Love if the government took less of my things. You
know what that isn't fascism. Totalitarian governments, they're never really
great when it comes to freedom for you and your property.
When we come back, we'll talk more about Fine bomb
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Welcome in hope all of you are having fantastic Tuesdays
wherever you are across the country or around the world.
We have got a ton of different stories to dive
into with you.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Buck is in.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Taiwan, as I said yesterday, for the entire week, so
he will be back on Monday. I'll read a couple
of the tweets that he has shared as he has
been over there doing meetings and checking out what could
become one of the major geopolitical flashpoints in the world.
He is there for this week and like I said,
we'll be back on Monday. A couple of guests coming
(00:38):
your way in the third hour, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
of Oklahoma and Steve Scalise will join us as well
as the looming government shutdown, the years closer inches closer
and closer. Big speech this morning by Secretary of War
Pete Hegseth. It can be some up as don't be fat.
(01:02):
If you are a general or an admiral, you should
be in decent shape. And also the job of the
military is to kick ass and so if you can't
fulfill basic standards for health and fitness and lethality, then
you shouldn't be serving in our armed forces and is
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very well received speech. We may play a couple of
cuts of that for you eventually. President Trump also spoke
and has been basically speaking all day so far, and
a lot of it focused on both the military and
also now on the cost of prescription drugs. And he
is right now in the process of letting everyone know
(01:50):
that he is doing his best to bring down the
cost of prescription drugs. So all of that is underway.
We are waiting news on whether Hamas is going to
agree to the Middle East peace plan that was laid
out yesterday near the end of the program, and we
will continue to monitor the looming as I said, government shutdown,
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which is likely to not impact very many of you
very substantially. And again I'm sorry for being cynical on this,
but eventually they're going to reach an agreement. It's going
to lead to deficits increasing, and nobody's life is really
going to be that impacted. I feel like they've overplayed
(02:33):
their hand on the government shutdown as a major narrative
that people care about. It's been going on for the
first time I really remember becoming a major issue was
in the Clinton White House, and maybe the most significant
aspect of the Clinton government shutdown issues were that that
was when Clinton initially met Monica Lewinsky and ended up
(02:56):
engaging in salacious behavior in the Oval office. Maybe put
it mildly, that may be the most consequential thing that
happened from the government shutdowns back in the nineties was
the Clinton impeachments and the Monica Lewinsky freakas. But again,
this is eventually going to get it It's eventually going
(03:18):
to get itself fixed. So let's play a couple of
things just off the top that I do think are
significant of the news. Here is Trump announcing that Pfizer
will offer prescription drugs to Americans at most Favored nation prices.
This just happened cut thirty two today through to.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Announce that one of the world's largest onemosivital manufacturers are
one of the best anywhere in the world. Pfizer has
agreed to offer capitalists prescription medications and major discounts in
the United States. There's a result of the most Favored
nation drug pricing runners that we established earlier this year.
You know, the United States is face sometimes ten times
(04:03):
more than other countries for drugs, and a lot of
excuses were made for that been well for many years,
many many years, decades, and I'm just not going on
any longer where that we're paying the lowest press. You know,
we're going to be paying whatever the lowest prices favorite nations.
This will save American tax per years and consumers hundreds
of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Okay, So that is what's going on right now. Let
me play some of these because I do think the
cuts from Pete hag Seth earlier today talking to his
generals and his admirals is significant because what it's coming
to represent is we are pushing back aggressively against the
idea basically that diversity is our strength, or that men
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and women are the same, and that the ability of
someone basically to kick ass is not paramount in of
the military. Egg Seth is saying, Look, our job is
to kick ass, and we're going to do everything that
it takes to make sure that everyone in the military
is capable of doing that. Let's listen to a couple
(05:12):
of these cuts, because I do think culturally this is significant.
Pete Hegseth cut fifteen today.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
At my direction, each service will ensure that every requirement
for every combat MOS, for every designated combat arms position
returns to the highest male standard. Only because this job
is life or death, standards must be met, and not
just met at every level, we should seek to exceed
the standard.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
This is important because I know a lot of you
are in the service and they have developed this idea
that there is a male standard for physicality and a
female standard for physicality, and if your job is to
kick ass, the standard should just be the kick ass standard.
Not Hey, men have to do this to qualify, and
women have to do this lesser of bills to qualify.
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That doesn't make any sense when the job actually requires
ass kicking. And so I think this is significant. It
also ties in with this Cut eighteen biology matters. Men
and women are different, listen to Cut eighteen.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
As foolish and reckless as the Woke Department was, those
officers were following elected political leadership. An entire generation of
generals and admirals were told that they must parrot the
insane fallacy that quote our diversity is our strength. Of course,
we know our unity is our strength. They had to
put out dizzying DEI and LGBTQI plus statements They were
(06:38):
told females and males are the same thing, or that
males who think they're females totally normal. They were told
that we need a green fleet and electric tanks. They
were told to kick out Americans who refused an emergency vaccine.
They followed civilian policies set by foolish and reckless political leaders.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You know, this is all so a standard that Heseth
is applying going forward when it comes to the generals
and the admirals as well, in terms of what do
you want your leadership to look like?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Cut sixteen. The New War.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Department golden rule is this, do onto your unit as
you would have done onto your own child's unit. Would
you want him serving with fat or unfit or undertrained troops,
or alongside people who can't meet basic standards, or in
a unit where standards were lowered so certain types of
troops could make it, in in a unit where leaders
were promoted for reasons other than merit performance and war fighting.
(07:41):
The answer is.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Not just no, it's hell though.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Okay, this is important, and the military is symbolic of
this in many ways. What the Trump administration is advocating
for is a simple and basic return to the idea
of the meritocracy that is, the best man or the
best woman should have the most success, not the person
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who looks a certain way, and that we don't need
to have and I think this is essential integral even
we don't need to have our nation directly reflecting what
the population looks like as a whole when it comes
to elite jobs. And I'll give you an example from
(08:28):
the world of sports that I've been hammering for a
long time. What Pete Hexas said, diversity is not our strength.
I think that's one hundred percent truth. Not diversity of
thought matters in many respects, but what matters is that
the most elite are able to achieve at the highest
possible level. Let me give you an example. The Olympics
(08:49):
are next year. The United States men's basketball team may
not have any white, Asian or Hispanic athlete on it.
Think about that for a minute. Black men represent around
six percent of the overall population. They are going to
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have one hundred percent potentially of our US men when
it comes to the Olympic team that we put on
the court next year. And if they don't have one
hundred percent, they're going to have ninety percent or eighty
eight percent or whatever. The math is overwhelming numbers. That
is one of the foremost examples of a lack of
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diversity at elite positions anywhere in the United States. Yet
those guys are the best. If we said we need
a men's basketball team that accurately reflects the American population,
we would have sixty percent white guys.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We would have.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Thirteen fourteen percent. Hispanic guys we would have right around
twelve percent. This is assuming, by the way, that we're
willing to acknowledge, there's a biological difference in not saying
that women should be on the team too, because that
would more perfectly reflect.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The American population.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Right, But let's say for the US men's basketball team,
we're only going to have men because men are better
at basketball than women. That would mean if we did
a perfect snapshot of America, you'd have to fire a
lot of black guys. In fact, nine probably black guys
on the roster would lose their job and they would
(10:33):
be replaced by other basketball players that are not as good.
And the result would be our basketball team would perfectly
reflect American diversity, majority white, same number of Hispanic guys
as black guys, Asian guy and boy. It would be
(10:55):
a cosmetically beautiful photo. But we get ours kicked, probably
by a lot of other countries, because in trying to
perfectly reflect American diversity on our basketball team, we would
actually end up with a far less meritocratic team. That is,
the best players wouldn't actually make the US men's basketball team.
(11:21):
It's a great example for those of you out there
that have to deal with DEI all the time in
your own jobs. There's no DEI in basketball. Basketball is
actually among the least diverse high earning jobs in America.
Nobody points to it. Nobody says, hey, what's wrong here.
They're getting this wrong. This basketball team doesn't look like America.
(11:45):
There's way too many black guys on it. You'd ever
hear it said. And in fact, if the basketball team
looked like America, we'd all be worse.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I think you could make that argument in the military too.
Don't we want the baddest ass war fighters on the
planet to rise to levels of command and to rise
to the levels of the most significant ranks in our military.
We don't want Admiral Levine, that dude pretending to be
(12:20):
a chick trying to lead our troops. That isn't actually
a strength at all. In fact, it's I would argue
an example of mental illness inside of the military, that
that is someone who is in a position of authority.
We should want in all facets of American life the
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absolute best, most talented people with the most significant jobs.
We got to bring back the meritocracy in America, and
sometimes that might mean that the positions at the absolute
apex don't one hundred percent reflect America. There's a lot
(13:01):
more Asian dudes working at a high level in Silicon
Valley right now than there are Asian dudes in the country.
Is that racism, No, it's that those guys have a
skill set that they are putting to work in Silicon
Valley that vastly over exceeds as a population per capita percentage,
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what you would expect to see the best men or
the best women should be at the absolute apex in
this country. That hasn't been true in the military. So
I give credit to Pete Hegseth for that speech that
he gave. Why I think it's significant culturally is it
represents a major pivot point from Joe Biden saying I'm
(13:42):
going to put a black woman on the Supreme Court.
I'm going to pick a woman to be my vice president.
You're not saying you're picking the best person for the job.
You're telling us that you're checking a box, and in
the process, you're actually delegitimizing the people that you are picking.
This is a real decision that has to be made.
The best man or the best woman, not the best
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man pretending to be a woman, should be on the
metal stand when it comes to the end of every
sporting event, and the best man or the best woman,
or some combination thereof, should be in leadership everywhere. We're
gonna dive into this. I'm gonna go back yesterday I
mentioned JK Rowling and what I thought was so profound
about what she said.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I want to dive into that.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'm gonna play some of the cuts from my Paul
Fine Mom interview that went everywhere. Don Lemon and Joy
Reid have some thoughts on race in America, and I
think you're gonna enjoy those. And by enjoy those, I
mean you're gonna fall off your chairs. You're gonna have
to grip the steering wheel tighter because you're gonna look
around and say I can't believe that this is what
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passes for thought leadership on the left in this country.
But first I want to tell you the two year
anniversary of October seventh, twenty twenty three in Israel is
rapidly approaching. And this Sunday you're gonna witness a show
of support for Israel in this nation and you haven't
like one.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You haven't seen in a very long time.
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Grassroots effort to honor the memory of those lost two
years ago in the brutal Hamas terrorist attack. You'll see
Israeli flags on display and yard storefronts, cars everywhere. It's
a movement of support for the people in Israel called
the Flags of Fellowship, and it's organized by the International
Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Millions of Americans across our
nation will display an Israeli flag in honor and solidarity
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with the families and victims of that Hamas terror attack.
You can be a part of this movement too. Go
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. One correction there.
I think I said the Olympics were next year. The
Winter Olympics are coming up, Summer Olympics twenty twenty eight.
The World Cup is next year too, So we got
a lot of big sporting events coming up soon. But
I think in my analogy, I said in the Summer Olympics,
Summer Olympics twenty twenty eight, Winter Olympics were about to have,
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and the World Cup we're about to have. But I
think that's a really difficult argument to get past. Why
should we assume that elite talent perfectly reflects the actual
population of the United States in all categories. Well, I
(16:38):
give you another example. There are almost almost no spellers
who are non Indian. You ever watch the spelling Bee,
Indian kids they dominate the spelling bee. I would suggest
(16:59):
that's because Indian kids are uniquely committed to the spelling bee, right,
and so if you watch it means a train harder
at it. That's I mean the number of hours that
you have to just pull out a dictionary and memorize
how to spell everything. You go watch the finals of
the Spelling Bee. They aren't remotely reflective of the population
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of the United States. Is that a sign of racism?
Is that a sign of the failure of the country
to engage in high level success?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It's just that elite levels of performance across many different
disciplines are rarely perfect snapshots of America.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And that's okay.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Merit matters not your skin color, or your sexual identity
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going to talk about this in the context of JK.
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In Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Yesterday, I spent some
time talking about how I have so much admiration for
jk Rowling because she is, I would argue, one of
the most fearless women in the world, one of the
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most fearless people on the planet.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And you say, okay, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Clay jk Rowling became a billionaire because of the Harry
Potter books. Once you become a billionaire, you basically have
no risk in life remotely anymore. If you decide to
have any easy life. That is, all of the all
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of the things that most of us worry about on
a day to day basis, they're all eliminated from your
life as a billionaire. I'm not saying that everything in
life is perfect when you have a certain amount of money,
because health can be an issue. You're fa family's health
can be an issue. There are lots of things that
no matter how much money you have, there can still
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be issues in your life. But in general, billionaires do
not have the same concerns that you and me and
most of the rest of us would have. And what
has often frustrated me is lots of billionaires may agree
with everything I say on this radio program or everything
you think out there listening, but they're so concerned about
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what other people think about them that they don't say
what they really think. And to me, the only reason
to have money is to have no constraints on what
you are able to say, because otherwise you're just putting
on a pair of golden handcuffs. You ever hear that
(20:51):
phrase golden handcuffs? Such an interesting phrase. I never heard
it because I didn't grow up with substantial amounts of money.
The first time I ever heard it was in law
school because young lawyers, you come out and you make
a lot of money, and I remember somebody saying the
money's great, But really it's just a form of golden handcuffs.
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Somebody a little bit older than me, I said, what
do you mean so Well, in order to make that money,
you are selling your labor to the law firm, and
you are giving up much of your life in exchange
for the money that they're going to give you. You don't
have as much freedom when you become a young lawyer
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as you do when.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You're a last student.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Now you have way more money, but you have way
more responsibilities, way more obligations. And I bet a lot
of you, as you have grown in life, have come
to understand that concept. Maybe you bought a house that's
a little bit too much expensive for you. That's a
form of golden handcuffs. It's a beautiful home, but can
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you pay the mortgage every month? Maybe you bought car
that's a little bit too expensive. Oh it looks good.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh can you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Imagine what the girls are gonna think when you pull
up at the bar in this one? Can you imagine
what everybody in the neighborhood is going to think when
you're rolling down the street in that car. Oh, but
you know, there's a pretty big payment that comes with
that car.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
It's golden handcuffs.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Maybe you got a kid and you're excited because they
just got into a good college or a good private school,
but you're looking at that tuition bill. It's golden handcuffs.
You have to keep working harder and harder. Your things
may be getting nicer, but you don't really feel that
free because your expenses often are growing at the same
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rate as your income, sometimes exceeding it. So you'll look
back and you'll be like, man, I I thought if
I ever made twice as much money as I do now,
I'd be fine. But somehow you have just as little
money making twice as much money as you did before.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
And there are all sorts of financial consultants out there
that'll say, oh, well, it's all about budgeting, and there's
a lot of truth to that. But in life metaphorically,
if you are too concerned about what people think about you,
you are putting golden handcuffs on yourself because you may
not speak out and say what you really think. And
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it seems to me a lot of billionaires do that.
And that's why I am so impressed with JK.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Rowling.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
She could have just done the Hollywood circuit where everybody
kisses her ass for the rest of her life. She
could have just relaxed on the fact that she wrote
this seven book series Harry Potter, and they built this
fabulous Universal Studios world Harry Potter, which is truly unbelievable
and spectacular. If you've got young kids who like to
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read these books, an entire generation of kids she inspired
to read. She could have just kind of rode on
the path of genius and wealth and only people would
have said nice things about JK.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Rowling for the rest of her life.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
She was on that path. But she saw this gender
insanity and she said, I can't stay quiet about this.
She saw everybody suddenly arguing men can become women, and
she was the person who said, actually, that's not true.
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You ever notice how you've probably been in a room
where somebody has said something that you know is not
true and most people won't call it out.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
You may have been it.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Maybe it was at church, maybe it was at business,
maybe it was at a PTA meeting. Somebody says something
that everybody knows is untrue, but everybody just feels like
they have to stay quiet because they're afraid of everybody
looking at them.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
JK.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Rowling was like, actually, I dissent right. If you watch
Curby your enthusiasm. One of the funny things about the
Larry David series, which I love, even though he's a
super left wing liberal, is that he actually says a
lot of what everybody else thinks. I think I have
an element of that in my life. What JK Rowling did, though,
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was super rare. Minute men can become women? Oh yeah, yeah,
this is oh good for you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You go girl.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
She said, no, no, this is actually not true and
worse than that, but it's actually anti feminist when you
say a man can become a woman, and the first
flipping year he's a woman, he gets Woman of the Year.
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It's not even the first movie he was in. He's
got a penis. He can't be the woman of the year.
What are you chick's doing? You're crazy. A lot of
women just went along with it. JK Rowling said, no,
excuse me, this is not right. And this Emma Watson
(26:13):
Hermione Granger for all of you out there who watched
the movie, she's been going after JK Rowling for years
now over these gender issues, and yesterday JK Rowling was
woke up and she just said, I'm sorry, I'm gonna
end this bitch. And I got to read some of
(26:34):
what she tweeted yesterday because this is one hundred percent true.
Last night, when I was getting ready for bed, I
turned to my wife for getting her lights her out
almost I pulled my I was like, did you see
what JK Rowling said about Emma Watson. Wife's like, no,
I didn't see it yet, and I was like, well,
let me just read some of this for you that
because I went back last night before I was going
(26:55):
to bed to reread this because it was so well said,
and I just want to hit you with a couple
of these segments. Emma Watson and her co stars have
every right to embrace gender identity ideology. This is the
words of JK.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Rowling.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to
see any of them threatened with loss of work or
violence or death because of them. But she says Emma
and some of the other kids that grew up on
the Harry Potter set have ripped her to shreds. And
she says years after they finished acting in Potter.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
They continue to assume.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
The role of the de facto spokespeople for the world
I created. Well, some of these sentences, I mean, are
just again they continue to assume the role of de
facto spokespeople for the world I created, says jk Rowling.
I think she may have a future in writing. I
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think she may one day be able to make a
decent living when you've not this is jk Rowling continuing.
When you've known people since they were ten years old,
it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently,
I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children
who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in
(28:20):
a big scary film studio. For the past few years,
I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma.
I told the producers I didn't want her to be
hounded as the result of anything I said. And then
she continues. Emma asks someone to pass on a handwritten
(28:41):
note from her to me, which contained the single sentence
I'm so sorry for what you're going through. She has
my phone number. This was back when the death, rape,
and torture threats against me were at their peak, at
a time when my personal security measures had to be
tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family safety.
(29:05):
Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames,
yet thought a one line expression of concern from her
would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness. And
then this paragraph buckle up. Like other people who've never
experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has
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so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how
ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's
never going to be placed on a mixed sex public
hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a
high street changing room since childhood. Her public bathroom is
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single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard
outside the door. Has she had to strip off in
a newly mixed sex changing room at a council run
swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state
run rape crisis center that refuses to guarantee an all
(30:13):
female service to find herself sharing a prison cell with
a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison. I
wasn't a multi millionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty
while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore
(30:35):
understand from my own life experience what the trashing of
women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means
to women and girls without her privileges. Adults can't expect
to cozy up to an activist movement that regularly calls
(30:58):
for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the
former friend's love as though the friend was in fact
their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me,
and indeed to discuss her feelings about me and public.
But I have the same right, and I finally decided
(31:20):
to exercise it wholely crap. That thing has fifty eight
million views right now on Twitter, and the reason I
wanted to share it was twofold. One. We need more JK. Rowlings,
more people who are fearlessly willing to stand for what
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is right, particularly those of you out there. And this
is directly addressed to you who have the money and
wherewithal to do so. Why are you such cowards? Why
do you continue to try and stay behind the scenes
because you're worried about what people might say to you
(32:03):
when you know that they are wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Two.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I think there are a lot of you that are
parents and grandparents that can particularly connect with what jk
Rowling said There, you have gone through struggles that your
kids and your grandkids, if you are fortunate enough to
have built for them, can never even comprehend. They don't
(32:31):
even know what they don't know. And I just I love.
I've never met jk Rowling. I don't know that I
ever will, but when I read that, it is so
perfectly said on so many different levels that I wanted
to make sure that I shared it with all of you.
We'll link it on Clay and Buck, but I think
(32:54):
if you go read it for yourself, most of us
are not going to write best selling novels and become
multi billionaires, but all of us in our lives are
going to be dealing with young people who are oftentimes
standing on the shoulders of giants, and they have no
(33:14):
idea that that's what's going on. Another way of putting
it is they're standing on third base and they think
they hit a triple. They've got no idea what actually
has to happen in life for them to have had
the opportunity they have been given. So Earlier in the show,
I came out against DEI I'm also against people who
haven't achieved anything thinking that they are the greatest in
(33:38):
their line of work. As she said, she had no
money when she wrote the book that made Emma Watson famous.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
So well said JK.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Rolling again, I wanted to make sure that I read
that for all of you, because I see it as
a personal opportunity to challenge all of you out there
with the resources like JK Rolling. You're listening right now,
you're watching right now. Where's your spine? Where is your bravery?
Why is JK Rolling willing to put everything that she
(34:11):
has on the line to stand for truth and you
are still hiding in the shadows because you're worried about
what some charity board's.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Going to say.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
If you come out and speak the truth, I hope
you can have some of the bravery, just a smidge
that JK Rolling showed in that post, and that she
has shown in the past several years of her life.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
A challenge from her to all of you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
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to play this clip and we're going to have some
fun with some of your reactions. But Joy Reid says
fascism is actually the government not being able to take
more of your money.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Listen to it.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
If you go back before the twentieth century, there were
no income taxes, there were no regulations on business. You
could earn as much money as you want, leave one
hundred percent of it to your children with no taxes.
That's the world they want back, and to get it back,
they need society change. They need people to be less modern,
they need people to want fewer things.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Wait, fascism is just the government taking less of my money.
It is really very funny. These people have the intellectual
capability of particularly daft bats.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
They have no idea what they're even arguing. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Love if the government took less of my things. You
know what that isn't fascism. Totalitarian governments, they're never really
great when it comes to freedom for you and your property.
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