October 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show kicks off with Clay leading the Friday edition while Buck is returning from Taiwan after interviewing the President of Taiwan, a conversation set to air Monday. The hour dives into major breaking news and cultural commentary, starting with the ongoing government shutdown and its political implications. Clay highlights the booming stock market, with the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 hitting record highs under President Trump’s economic policies, contrasting this success with prior predictions of economic collapse.
The discussion shifts to crime reduction efforts in Memphis, where the Trump administration has partnered with local leaders to combat one of the nation’s highest murder rates—a story largely ignored by mainstream media. Clay also previews an upcoming interview with journalist Nick Sorter, who was arrested in Portland while covering Antifa protests outside an ICE facility, sparking a federal investigation.
A major theme of the hour is cultural and demographic trends, including a striking statistic: 60.5% of babies born in 2025 so far are in Trump-voting states. Clay argues this reflects optimism and family values in conservative America, contrasting it with what he calls the Democratic Party’s “dark, nihilistic” messaging that discourages having children. He warns that this worldview fuels political violence and long-term electoral challenges for Democrats as population growth accelerates in red states.
The conversation then pivots to the economy, where Clay underscores strong GDP growth at 3.8% and low inflation under Trump, while acknowledging lingering frustration from Biden-era price hikes. He critiques socialist economic proposals, spotlighting New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan for city-run grocery stores, calling it “Cuban-style madness.” Clay dissects Mamdani’s savvy cultural strategy, including a viral Bachelor-themed campaign ad that resonates with young voters, warning conservatives not to underestimate the power of pop culture in politics.
The hour closes with listener calls, including a Navy veteran sharing a story about the show’s global reach and a discussion on why young voters feel capitalism has failed them. Clay emphasizes the importance of life experience in shaping sound decision-making, noting studies that show peak judgment occurs around age 57.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show Buck
is still in Taiwan. He may be flying back. That's
a long trip. I'm not sure exactly where he is,
but I know he interviewed the president of Taiwan and
he will be playing that for you on Monday. I'm
sure telling you much about what he has learned in
(00:20):
his overseas trip. We have got a loaded show with you.
There's a ton of different breaking news stories that we
are going to be tracking during the course of today's show.
Of course, the shutdown is still ongoing. The stock market
does not care. Some positivity to start off the day
(00:41):
on Friday, record highs across the board in the stock
market again. So if you are out there and you
just bought SNP five hundred index funds and you've said,
I don't know what the politicians are going to do,
but I'm just going to invest in American companies, Congratulations,
you have got more money than you ever have had
(01:03):
in the history of your four oh one K. The
stock market has continued to set new highs over the
past year. And remember it was only back in April
that all of the experts told you that the economy
was collapsing because of the decisions that President Trump had made. Instead,
go ahead, learn it they were wrong. The Dow to
(01:25):
a record high today as we are all talking, the
Nasdaq to a record high, and the S and P
five hundred all two record highs, along with many of
the stocks out there, including Nearly although it's come back
down a little bit. Tesla. Remember when Mike Walls, sorry
Tim Walls, whatever the heck his name is, the governor
(01:46):
of Minnesota, held up his phone and said, boy, does
anybody else get really excited when they see that Elon
Musk company stock is going down? Yeah, good move. I
hope you sold all your stock, you moron. Because Tesla
has continued to set new highs as we are rolling
through the early days of fall. So that is going on. Memphis.
(02:09):
I love this. I do think that if this were
a city where people paid more attention to from a
media perspective, the fact that the Trump administration has gone
into Memphis, the fact that many of the leaders of
Memphis have said, hey, we really need to help. Crime
is out of control. You heard some of our callers
yesterday from the Memphis area. One of the things you learn,
(02:32):
I know Rush talked about the drive by media all
the time. If it happens in New York City or Washington,
d C. Or LA, there are tons of media there
with microscopes basically just leaning right over and looking at
every little minute detail. If it happens in the middle
part of the country. And I say this as a
(02:52):
guy who's lived in the middle part of the country
pretty much my entire life, oftentimes people don't pay attention
to it. And so the fact that we actually they
have a partnership going on in Memphis designed to drive
down the murder rate in a city that, per capita
has one of the highest murder rates in the country,
is actually an incredibly successful and positive story. Of course,
(03:12):
not getting very much attention at all, there is to
a large degree as we enter I think it's day
three of the shutdown, there is also sort of a
recognition setting in. I think that Democrats have no idea
what they want to do, and they have no real message,
and there are a bunch of things I want to
talk about with that. By the way, also, ice protests
(03:35):
outside of a facility in Portland have spiraled out of control.
There was a reporter arrested who is getting a lot
of attention. They are now investigating somehow. The Portland police
can't investigate anyone. But this guy who saved a would
be burning American flag and was there reporting on it.
(03:56):
He is going to join us. Nick Sorter is his name.
He's going to join us at ten oh five Pacific,
that is one oh five on the East coast. He
is out in Portland, So we're going to talk about
what he is seeing on the ground. I know we
have a lot of you out in the Pacific Northwest refugees.
In many ways, you feel like from the insanity out
there that listen to this program. So we will be
(04:18):
talking with Nick about that. But I wanted to start
with this idea because I saw our friend Ryan Gerdusky
share a data point that some of you may have
also seen out there, and he said, hey, the only
place that's having babies is Trump voting areas. And that's
(04:41):
a little bit of an exaggeration. But here is Gurdusky's headline,
and I was reading it this morning as I was
getting ready. Among the counties with the highest fertility rate
so far in twenty twenty five, all of them voted
for Donald Trump. Sixty point five percent of the babies
born in twenty twenty five so far were in states
(05:03):
that voted for Trump in the last election, and he
dives into the data. And I was thinking about this
because my assistant Katie had her baby girl, and we
went to go visit Annie, who is one day old,
and I got to hold a one day old baby,
and I forgot I had three one day old babies
(05:24):
at one point in my household, but I just forgot
how small they are. And her in laws were there,
and she's doing great, and this is her second baby,
and everybody's very excited. And if you were fortunate enough
to have kids or grandkids that have recently joined your family,
you know that feeling of just optimism and excitement. And
we talked about this on the program because Buck's got
(05:45):
a six month old and it's hard not to be
optimistic about the future and also committed to building a
better future when you have a baby in your arms.
And I was thinking about this in the context of
the government shutdown and putting all this together, or as
I was doing my reading and getting ready for the
show today, and I was thinking about, what is the
(06:07):
message that democrats are selling such that the most ardent
of all Democrat supporters have decided that they should not
have children, that kids are too much of a drain
on the climate, that we are headed for some form
of apocalyptic future, and if you add children to the mix,
(06:29):
that somehow you are making things worse, and you are
throwing them basically into the proverbial boiling pot, and there's
no hope. And I was thinking about that in the
context of the shutdown, and I think one of the
real challenges that the Democrat Party has is not that
(06:50):
its messaging is being unheard. It's that its message is
being heard, and it's so profoundly dark that even the
people who buy into the message are making decisions that
are worse than if they never listen to the message
at all. Well, this is a big picture analysis, but
I think it all kind of ties together. If you're
(07:13):
not willing to have children, you are effectively saying, I
don't believe in the future. I don't buy into the
idea that humanity is going to lead us to a
better place. And I think it ties in with one
of the questions that we asked that was so important
in the aftermath of Trump's big win in November, that
(07:37):
so many of you and us all contributed to. It
was what is the Democrat Party going to do with this?
They had two options. They could look in the mirror
and they could say the nation heard our message and
they overwhelmingly rejected it. Or they could argue, as Kamala
(07:58):
Harris is now doing in her book A Hundred in
seven Days, which Buck is reading and I cannot wait
to hear his review of. Or they could argue, as
Kamala Harris did, we just didn't have enough time. Our
message didn't get out there, it wasn't able to be
heard by the American public. And Democrats are still focused
(08:18):
on number two. They're focused on the message not being
heard loud enough. But I think that's profoundly wrong. I
think the message of what they are selling is being
heard and rejected, and it's being rejected by huge swaths
of the population white, Black, Asian, Hispanic, reasonable, common sense,
family oriented voters out there across the nation of a
(08:40):
wide variety of backgrounds. Remember all fifty states moved towards
Trump in twenty twenty four. But it's not just that
their message is being rejected by the American voter. It's
that the people that are hearing their message and acting
on it, are actually making worst decisions for their lives.
(09:04):
Think about that for a moment, because I don't know
that we've ever really lived in an era where something
like that could happen. Democrats that are the most committed,
the most left wing in the country, they are hearing
what their party is arguing, and they are saying things
are so bad now. America is so awful that I
(09:24):
don't want to bring children into this country. They are
hearing what Democrats are arguing, and they are saying, we
have to kill President Trump because he is hitler. They
are hearing what Democrats are arguing, and they are saying,
we have to go kill Charlie Kirk. We can't argue
against his message. His words are violence that we have
(09:47):
to answer with violence of our own. They're burning down churches,
They're going into schools, and they are killing innocent children
at Christian schools in Minneapolis, in Nashville. They're trying to
show up and kill Supreme Court justices because they're concerned
(10:07):
about what their rulings are going to do on the
Roe v. Wade issue. You stitch all this together, and
the nation thankfully is rejecting the arguments being made by
the Democrat Party, but the shutdown is being led by
the far left of this party, the part of the
party that is just angry and just demands that they're
(10:29):
be conflict and confrontation. And yet that element of the
party is toxic and sick, and it's now infecting not
only their political beliefs, but it's impacting in a very
negative way the larger society around them, such that if
you voted for Kamala Harris, you don't want to have kids.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Long range, this is a very self defeating proposition, because,
as Ryan Gardusky is saying twenty twenty five, if sixty
point five percent of kids are being born in Trump
States and if Trump counties are overwhelmingly seeing population growth, well,
this is a lot of babies being born for freedom.
(11:15):
And the overall structural problems that confront the Democrat Party
actually are profoundly more challenging going forward, because theoretically, those
families are going to raise their kids to be proud
of America and to support freedom and to support the
overall American way of life. But as they fall further behind,
(11:40):
and as their worldview becomes darker and more nihilistic. I
think we have to all prepare ourselves for way more violence.
And I don't think all of this has been put
together necessarily, and a lot of people have thought about it.
But the next census is going to make base make
(12:00):
it impossible for Democrats to win a presidential election. No
one is talking about this, but the only way Kamala
could have won in twenty twenty four was by winning Pennsylvania, Michigan,
and Wisconsin, and she came about two hundred and twenty
thousand votes ish away from winning those states. If she had,
(12:22):
she would have won the electoral college two seventy to
two sixty eight. Twenty twenty eight. We still have the
existing census that's broken and didn't get things correct twenty
thirty two. That pathway has gone forever because way more
electoral votes are shifting to the red states. And even
(12:44):
if the Republican candidate in twenty thirty two lost the
so called blue Wall of the Midwest, which I'm skeptical
would happen. But even if that happened, that wouldn't be
a pathway for the Democrat Party to win. Sooner or later,
they have to come down to the South, and they
have to start winning Southern states where I live, and
I just don't think that's going to happen. From a
cultural perspective, I think those states where I live are
(13:07):
all moving redder in a rapid fashion. And so this
awful worldview that they are selling that leads right now
to the government being shut down, and they don't really
have any argument for why it needs to be shut down.
They're just angry. This awful worldview that does not create
babies like the baby I just went to go see,
(13:28):
does not create optimism, does not create American ingenuity and
an embrace of the human spirit, and just basic optimism.
It's leading the Democrat Party to a very dark place
where unfortunately, I think we have to prepare ourselves for
more Charlie Kirks. Because it's not that the Democrat message
(13:51):
isn't being heard. It's being heard and rejected by saying
people all across the United States, which is why all
fifty states move towards Trump. But it's particularly being heard
by the toxic base of the Democrat Party, and they
are acting out in an angry fashion because the dark,
dystopian vision that is being shared by the Democrat Party
(14:14):
is now motivating direct acts of political violence, and just
outrageous attacks on the idea of government even being open
itself when there's nothing that they're even arguing for. It's
just a anger, a lash out, the petulant fit of
a child. That's where we are, and I think it's
(14:35):
important to put all these things together and recognize where
that's going to lead us. So that's what I was
thinking about this morning. We'll take some of your calls
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(16:21):
of you as always hanging out with us. On the
Friday edition of the program, a lot of people weighing
in on the situation going on in Portland, and I
want to give you a little bit of a preview.
This is going to be at the top of the
next hour. Portland is an amazing place, and we have
a great radio affiliate in Portland, and we appreciate all
(16:44):
of you who are listening there in that in that
city and in the surrounding communities. But they let of
all the cities out there, maybe other than Minneapolis, which
obviously was directly connected to George Floyd. They let the
crazy people take over the city of Portland, and as
(17:05):
a result, it's been incredibly destructive to quality of life there.
And the battles are still ongoing. And a journalist by
the name of Nick Sorterer was there just covering what
Antifa is doing in Portland outside of the ICE facilities,
and they tried to burn a United States flag. He
grabbed the flag, wouldn't allow them to do it, and
(17:26):
later these Antifa lunatics attacked him and the Portland police
arrested him for not allowing a flag to be burned
and for being beaten up by Antifa in Portland. And
so the United States Pambondi, the Attorney General, has announced
an investigation into his arrest. He's going to join us
(17:47):
at the top of the next hour and just tell
us the story of what he is seeing out there
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The economy growing currently at three point eight percent rate
inlation still yet to rear its ugly head. I'm just
telling you the Trump economy is starting to take flights,
and I hope that all of you are aware of that.
I understand that the lingering impact here's the biggest challenge.
(19:17):
People say, Okay, what what is the biggest challenge right
now in the economy as you see it. I think it's,
frankly just that the lingering impact of how awful Biden's
economic picture was is hard to get past because a
lot of you still feel and I feel it and
(19:38):
when I buy things too, that things just all cost
too much. And it's going to take years for the
rapid increase in prices that occurred during Biden's era to
actually normalize itself out. The reality is we need probably
five years of two percent two and a half percent
inflation in order for us to kind of normalize and
(20:02):
get used to the rapid increase in prices that occurred
during the Biden administration. And other than oil and gas,
which the prices have come back down, and that's a
more fluctuating commodity price. The reality is, once you have
embedded inflation, prices don't come back down. They don't ever
go negative. So the reason I think there is a
(20:27):
disconnect between what is rapidly becoming a very strong economy
and what still feels frustrating every time you buy something
is I just I don't think most people out there
really understood how bad Biden managed the economy. And I
wasn't alive back then, or at least was so young,
(20:49):
I certainly had no impressions. My bet is those of
you who lived through the rapid inflation of the nineteen seventies,
pricing normal didn't really return to you until the second
term of Ronald Reagan, where finally the rapid price increases
that occurred during Jimmy Carter's tenure came back down to
(21:13):
a form of normalcy. Now, I mentioned off the start
of the program about the fact that Democrat message was
being heard and they recognize that it's hard to stand
for left wing policies because those left wing policies actually
end up costing everyone. New York City is going to
(21:37):
bear the cost of this because there is an articulate
and charismatic and young and attractive socialistic candidate that is
saying things that people want to hear without understanding any
of the economic realities that underpin this. Remember Zorn Mandami said,
(21:57):
the way to deal with higher grocery prices is for
the city of New York to be in charge of groceries.
Let me just tell you something. There has never been
a successful city or state sponsored grocery in the history
of mankind that I'm aware of. This is what they
do in Cuba. So the idea that suddenly things are
(22:19):
going to get cheaper, if a much more inefficient method
of bringing produce and bringing product to the city is
going to be put in place, is madness. And many
of you out there understand this because you understand basic business.
And the reality is there are very few businesses on
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the planet that have a lower profit margin than grocery stores.
We're talking about grocery stores making one two percent. They
sell a lot of product, but it's a volume based
business with very tiny margins. So the idea that you're
going to be able to somehow cut into the profit
margin of grocery stores and make way more money is
(23:03):
frankly bonkers. It's insane. It's a form of just absolute madness,
which unfortunately has overtaken as I laid out, much of
the left in this country. But Mamdanni is an eloquent
advocate for awful policies. And I saw this and I
(23:23):
said I should share this because sometimes you guys complain.
I don't know why you talk about culture so much.
Tell me more about how the flat tax intersects with
the larger geopolitical ramifications of a bearing street energy pipeline
and how that's going to Okay, you can talk super
(23:47):
specific policy. Super specific policy doesn't win elections. I'm sorry,
it doesn't. You have to tap into the culture. And
I saw this and I said, this is how Mamdanni's
doing it. The a Bachelor is back on air. Okay,
The Bachelor. You may not watch. I think it's the
Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
This is an old guy meeting with older women and
it's wildly popular in pop culture and zoron Mam Donnie
made a New York City ad that aired during The
Bachelor this week, and this is what you would have heard.
And so for those of you have ever watched The Bachelor,
the concept of the show is at the end of
(24:29):
the show, a host a bachelorette two is A version
of this gives the contestants a rose if they get
to continue to compete to win the true love of
the Bachelor or the Bachelorette. Mam Donnie speaks the language
of young, disaffected voters. It's important you go where they are.
You don't ask them to come where you are. And
(24:51):
this is the ad. He ran. I think it's ridiculous.
I think it's absurd. Guess what it works. Listen.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You deserve that. You deserve to be able to raise
your family here, to be safe, you need to travel
where you need to. If you have costs and worry,
you deserve someone who works as hard as you do,
who thinks about you every second of the day.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's the kind of mayor I promised to be New York.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Will you accept this rose?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Okay? I get it. A lot of you are rolling
your eyes. Producer Ali was so mad when I sent
her this. She said, Oh, it works. The reason he's
gonna win is he's glib. He connects on the culture.
He's good on social media, he's handsome on Instagram. He's
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good at cutting through the noise because oh he watches
The Bachelor too. He's giving us a rose. How bad
of a guy, could he be. He's gonna make my
rent lower, and he's gonna build grocery stores and I'm
gonna be able to get all of my hair care
products and all of my face creams so much cheaper.
(26:04):
He's so great. I love so running mom, Daddy. That works.
It works. You have to go where people are and
you have to confront them. These girls saw that ad
and they're like, Oh, he's where we are. He's watching
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The Bachelor too. He's gonna make my I don't know,
I don't even know what people buy face. He's gonna
make I buy books and I buy like Kirkling products
at Costco. So I'm not very good at thinking about
how everything's gonna be cheaper. He's gonna make my uh
ug boots that's popular with the girls, right, He's gonna
make my ug boots so much cheaper. Oh my god,
(26:47):
He's so amazing. Like like, like you think this is crazy,
I'm telling you, this Bachelor ad is echoing all through who,
all through this young voting public, which overwhelmingly thinks socialism works. See.
One of the challenges of capitalism is it so good
(27:13):
that people start to take for granted how good it is.
This is true of anything in life that is really great.
At some point in time, you forget how important it
is to have solid foundational values in place, because solid
foundational values work so well that you can start to think, hey,
(27:35):
what if we just didn't care about this anymore. The
ultimate flaw of capitalism is capitalism works so well people
start thinking that other forms of government might work too.
All these kids that are mostly having their rent paid
for by mom and dad living in New York City
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because they can't afford their own rent, They have no
economic basis in reality whatsoever. But Mam Donnie looks like
the kind of person that they think should be their politician.
This is how Kamala's entire career happened. Kamala Harris was
smart enough to realize, hey, you know, the average left
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wing California voter wants someone who looks like me to
be in a position of prominence in this state. And
she wrote that almost all the way to the White House.
I'm not sure what Kamala Harris has ever done well
in her entire life, but she looks like the kind
of person that makes rich white women feel better about
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themselves in California, and she can win an election based
on it. Mom, Donnie looks like the kind of person
that rich white liberals want to represent them in New
York City, and then he shows up at the places
that they care about, conversant in the pop culture language.
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And you may think it's ridiculous that this thirty four
year old socialist Ugandan out of nowhere is suddenly showing
up with a rose telling New York City that he
should be their mayor. But according to the gambling markets
right now, he's at ninety percent likelihood to win. He's
really good at marketing himself. He's got a genius for
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selling the product, and the product is him, and it's
awful and everything that he supports is wrong. But there
is no alternative for him in New York City right now.
And I got to give him credit because again, a
lot of you are going to say, oh, this is Cringeoe,
(29:46):
this is ridiculous. You're not the target. You're not the target.
Everybody who watches The Bachelor, I bet the Bachelor in
New York City. I bet the people watching The Bachelor
in New York City vote Democrat ninety ten. It's an
overwhelmingly young female audience. They see Mom Donnie with that rose,
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their hearts melt. Oh, look at that handsome guy. This
is the kind of guy I would like today. Oh
he'll take care of the city just like he would
take care of me. And they go vote for him.
And then meanwhile, a bunch of people who don't understand
how to compete in the modern cultural wars are just
sitting around like, I don't know who cares about the Bachelor. Yeah,
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we did just elect the most successful Republican twenty first
century political candidate with a landslide election, who is famous
to a large extent because he was on a reality
television show. You can say a lot of things about
Donald Trump. People get mad sometimes when he comments on
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Taylor Swift getting engaged, or when he comments on what
the NFL kickoff rules are. You go to people where
they are and that's how you win. And Mom Donni's
showing up on the freaking Bachelor. I don't know that
any politicians ever done an ad like this before. And
it's gonna work. And New York City is in trouble
(31:12):
because Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo, neither one of whom
has a chance at all of winning. Are both gonna
end up in a what's it like when you're It
reminds me of like a fight where you're both wrestling
and you're sinking underground. You're both just gonna drown, and
the guy's just sitting in the boat, not even having
(31:33):
to get in a fight with you. You're both wrestling
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who can do the best job to come in second place,
and the guy who's gonna win is just sitting up
there in the boat with a rose between his teeth,
just kicking his feet up and enjoying the boat ride.
That's kind of the metaphorical sense of what I have
for where New York City is headed. And again I
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you. Let's see we got a bunch of calls.
Let's see Bob in Minnesota. Bob, what you got?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Hey been listening since nineteen ninety two? Love the show.
Two things First, one on the on capitalism. You got
to put your yourself in the mind of a twenty
five year old in New York City. Capitalism doesn't work
for them. Tuition has been too high, inflation, rent, everything else.
They don't know capitalism, the capitalism they know doesn't work
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for them, So why not try something else. I'm sixty,
I get it, but a twenty five year old, we
really need to put ourselves in their mind. That's fine
for that one, and then go ahead.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
No, you go ahead, finish your second point, and then
I'll react.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
The second point. I got a story for you that
I gave Rush about the reach of your program that
he didn't understand. Open line Friday, if you want it,
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
No, go So, look, we try to have open line Fridays,
get as many people to talk. What is your story
about the reach of the program?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
All right? Nineteen ninety two Clinton got elected. I was
driving a submarine in the Navy. Well underneath the ocean.
We put an antenna up and I'd be driving the
boat and I'd get buzzed by the captain. Come left
thirty degrees, come right twenty degrees, come left ten degrees.
Steer this course. For the next three hours, he was
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copying the rush Limbaugh program from several hundred feet under
the oceans.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
That is amazing. That thank you so much for the call.
That is absolutely incredible. We never forget we see the data.
Tons of you listen on bases overseas and we are
a little bit of a snapshot into home for so
many of you, and we don't forget that. I don't
disagree about the twenty five year old. Here is the problem,
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and certainly the older you get, the more you understand it.
A twenty five year old doesn't understand the larger scope
of life because you think you understand everything at twenty five,
but your life experience is actually very very much limited.
I saw a study recently and I thought it was
really well done. And it doesn't mean that it's true
for everybody. But you know what age decision making peaks.
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You think about athletics, most of us were probably the
best strongest version of ourselves. If you're male around twenty
seven or twenty eight, that's if you continue to work out,
you think about where talent kind of goes, and you
think about athletics. For instance, Tom Brady, you try to
play till you're forty five, and you just try to
balance it all out at Decision making peaks on average
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at fifty seven years old. Well, why is that there's
a study. This is on average. There's people who are
older that are smarter. There's people who are younger. Average
age best decision making fifty seven because you have lived
long enough to have learned by fifty seven, and you
have not lived so long that your overall brain function
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has began to decline. Most people peak at fifty seven
years old. Twenty five year olds. They need thirty two
more years of life experience to understand how much they
didn't know when they thought they knew it all more
Next
Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show Buck
is still in Taiwan. He may be flying back. That's
a long trip. I'm not sure exactly where he is,
but I know he interviewed the president of Taiwan and
he will be playing that for you on Monday. I'm
sure telling you much about what he has learned in
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his overseas trip. We have got a loaded show with you.
There's a ton of different breaking news stories that we
are going to be tracking during the course of today's show.
Of course, the shutdown is still ongoing. The stock market
does not care. Some positivity to start off the day
(00:41):
on Friday, record highs across the board in the stock
market again. So if you are out there and you
just bought SNP five hundred index funds and you've said,
I don't know what the politicians are going to do,
but I'm just going to invest in American companies, Congratulations,
you have got more money than you ever have had
(01:03):
in the history of your four oh one K. The
stock market has continued to set new highs over the
past year. And remember it was only back in April
that all of the experts told you that the economy
was collapsing because of the decisions that President Trump had made. Instead,
go ahead, learn it they were wrong. The Dow to
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a record high today as we are all talking, the
Nasdaq to a record high, and the S and P
five hundred all two record highs, along with many of
the stocks out there, including Nearly although it's come back
down a little bit. Tesla. Remember when Mike Walls, sorry
Tim Walls, whatever the heck his name is, the governor
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of Minnesota, held up his phone and said, boy, does
anybody else get really excited when they see that Elon
Musk company stock is going down? Yeah, good move. I
hope you sold all your stock, you moron. Because Tesla
has continued to set new highs as we are rolling
through the early days of fall. So that is going on. Memphis.
(02:09):
I love this. I do think that if this were
a city where people paid more attention to from a
media perspective, the fact that the Trump administration has gone
into Memphis, the fact that many of the leaders of
Memphis have said, hey, we really need to help. Crime
is out of control. You heard some of our callers
yesterday from the Memphis area. One of the things you learn,
(02:32):
I know Rush talked about the drive by media all
the time. If it happens in New York City or Washington,
d C. Or LA, there are tons of media there
with microscopes basically just leaning right over and looking at
every little minute detail. If it happens in the middle
part of the country. And I say this as a
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guy who's lived in the middle part of the country
pretty much my entire life, oftentimes people don't pay attention
to it. And so the fact that we actually they
have a partnership going on in Memphis designed to drive
down the murder rate in a city that, per capita
has one of the highest murder rates in the country,
is actually an incredibly successful and positive story. Of course,
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not getting very much attention at all, there is to
a large degree as we enter I think it's day
three of the shutdown, there is also sort of a
recognition setting in. I think that Democrats have no idea
what they want to do, and they have no real message,
and there are a bunch of things I want to
talk about with that. By the way, also, ice protests
(03:35):
outside of a facility in Portland have spiraled out of control.
There was a reporter arrested who is getting a lot
of attention. They are now investigating somehow. The Portland police
can't investigate anyone. But this guy who saved a would
be burning American flag and was there reporting on it.
(03:56):
He is going to join us. Nick Sorter is his name.
He's going to join us at ten oh five Pacific,
that is one oh five on the East coast. He
is out in Portland, So we're going to talk about
what he is seeing on the ground. I know we
have a lot of you out in the Pacific Northwest refugees.
In many ways, you feel like from the insanity out
there that listen to this program. So we will be
(04:18):
talking with Nick about that. But I wanted to start
with this idea because I saw our friend Ryan Gerdusky
share a data point that some of you may have
also seen out there, and he said, hey, the only
place that's having babies is Trump voting areas. And that's
(04:41):
a little bit of an exaggeration. But here is Gurdusky's headline,
and I was reading it this morning as I was
getting ready. Among the counties with the highest fertility rate
so far in twenty twenty five, all of them voted
for Donald Trump. Sixty point five percent of the babies
born in twenty twenty five so far were in states
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that voted for Trump in the last election, and he
dives into the data. And I was thinking about this
because my assistant Katie had her baby girl, and we
went to go visit Annie, who is one day old,
and I got to hold a one day old baby,
and I forgot I had three one day old babies
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at one point in my household, but I just forgot
how small they are. And her in laws were there,
and she's doing great, and this is her second baby,
and everybody's very excited. And if you were fortunate enough
to have kids or grandkids that have recently joined your family,
you know that feeling of just optimism and excitement. And
we talked about this on the program because Buck's got
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a six month old and it's hard not to be
optimistic about the future and also committed to building a
better future when you have a baby in your arms.
And I was thinking about this in the context of
the government shutdown and putting all this together, or as
I was doing my reading and getting ready for the
show today, and I was thinking about, what is the
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message that democrats are selling such that the most ardent
of all Democrat supporters have decided that they should not
have children, that kids are too much of a drain
on the climate, that we are headed for some form
of apocalyptic future, and if you add children to the mix,
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that somehow you are making things worse, and you are
throwing them basically into the proverbial boiling pot, and there's
no hope. And I was thinking about that in the
context of the shutdown, and I think one of the
real challenges that the Democrat Party has is not that
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its messaging is being unheard. It's that its message is
being heard, and it's so profoundly dark that even the
people who buy into the message are making decisions that
are worse than if they never listen to the message
at all. Well, this is a big picture analysis, but
I think it all kind of ties together. If you're
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not willing to have children, you are effectively saying, I
don't believe in the future. I don't buy into the
idea that humanity is going to lead us to a
better place. And I think it ties in with one
of the questions that we asked that was so important
in the aftermath of Trump's big win in November, that
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so many of you and us all contributed to. It
was what is the Democrat Party going to do with this?
They had two options. They could look in the mirror
and they could say the nation heard our message and
they overwhelmingly rejected it. Or they could argue, as Kamala
(07:58):
Harris is now doing in her book A Hundred in
seven Days, which Buck is reading and I cannot wait
to hear his review of. Or they could argue, as
Kamala Harris did, we just didn't have enough time. Our
message didn't get out there, it wasn't able to be
heard by the American public. And Democrats are still focused
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on number two. They're focused on the message not being
heard loud enough. But I think that's profoundly wrong. I
think the message of what they are selling is being
heard and rejected, and it's being rejected by huge swaths
of the population white, Black, Asian, Hispanic, reasonable, common sense,
family oriented voters out there across the nation of a
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wide variety of backgrounds. Remember all fifty states moved towards
Trump in twenty twenty four. But it's not just that
their message is being rejected by the American voter. It's
that the people that are hearing their message and acting
on it, are actually making worst decisions for their lives.
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Think about that for a moment, because I don't know
that we've ever really lived in an era where something
like that could happen. Democrats that are the most committed,
the most left wing in the country, they are hearing
what their party is arguing, and they are saying things
are so bad now. America is so awful that I
(09:24):
don't want to bring children into this country. They are
hearing what Democrats are arguing, and they are saying, we
have to kill President Trump because he is hitler. They
are hearing what Democrats are arguing, and they are saying,
we have to go kill Charlie Kirk. We can't argue
against his message. His words are violence that we have
(09:47):
to answer with violence of our own. They're burning down churches,
They're going into schools, and they are killing innocent children
at Christian schools in Minneapolis, in Nashville. They're trying to
show up and kill Supreme Court justices because they're concerned
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about what their rulings are going to do on the
Roe v. Wade issue. You stitch all this together, and
the nation thankfully is rejecting the arguments being made by
the Democrat Party, but the shutdown is being led by
the far left of this party, the part of the
party that is just angry and just demands that they're
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be conflict and confrontation. And yet that element of the
party is toxic and sick, and it's now infecting not
only their political beliefs, but it's impacting in a very
negative way the larger society around them, such that if
you voted for Kamala Harris, you don't want to have kids.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Long range, this is a very self defeating proposition, because,
as Ryan Gardusky is saying twenty twenty five, if sixty
point five percent of kids are being born in Trump
States and if Trump counties are overwhelmingly seeing population growth, well,
this is a lot of babies being born for freedom.
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And the overall structural problems that confront the Democrat Party
actually are profoundly more challenging going forward, because theoretically, those
families are going to raise their kids to be proud
of America and to support freedom and to support the
overall American way of life. But as they fall further behind,
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and as their worldview becomes darker and more nihilistic. I
think we have to all prepare ourselves for way more violence.
And I don't think all of this has been put
together necessarily, and a lot of people have thought about it.
But the next census is going to make base make
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it impossible for Democrats to win a presidential election. No
one is talking about this, but the only way Kamala
could have won in twenty twenty four was by winning Pennsylvania, Michigan,
and Wisconsin, and she came about two hundred and twenty
thousand votes ish away from winning those states. If she had,
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she would have won the electoral college two seventy to
two sixty eight. Twenty twenty eight. We still have the
existing census that's broken and didn't get things correct twenty
thirty two. That pathway has gone forever because way more
electoral votes are shifting to the red states. And even
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if the Republican candidate in twenty thirty two lost the
so called blue Wall of the Midwest, which I'm skeptical
would happen. But even if that happened, that wouldn't be
a pathway for the Democrat Party to win. Sooner or later,
they have to come down to the South, and they
have to start winning Southern states where I live, and
I just don't think that's going to happen. From a
cultural perspective, I think those states where I live are
(13:07):
all moving redder in a rapid fashion. And so this
awful worldview that they are selling that leads right now
to the government being shut down, and they don't really
have any argument for why it needs to be shut down.
They're just angry. This awful worldview that does not create
babies like the baby I just went to go see,
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does not create optimism, does not create American ingenuity and
an embrace of the human spirit, and just basic optimism.
It's leading the Democrat Party to a very dark place
where unfortunately, I think we have to prepare ourselves for
more Charlie Kirks. Because it's not that the Democrat message
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isn't being heard. It's being heard and rejected by saying
people all across the United States, which is why all
fifty states move towards Trump. But it's particularly being heard
by the toxic base of the Democrat Party, and they
are acting out in an angry fashion because the dark,
dystopian vision that is being shared by the Democrat Party
(14:14):
is now motivating direct acts of political violence, and just
outrageous attacks on the idea of government even being open
itself when there's nothing that they're even arguing for. It's
just a anger, a lash out, the petulant fit of
a child. That's where we are, and I think it's
(14:35):
important to put all these things together and recognize where
that's going to lead us. So that's what I was
thinking about this morning. We'll take some of your calls
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
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of you as always hanging out with us. On the
Friday edition of the program, a lot of people weighing
in on the situation going on in Portland, and I
want to give you a little bit of a preview.
This is going to be at the top of the
next hour. Portland is an amazing place, and we have
a great radio affiliate in Portland, and we appreciate all
(16:44):
of you who are listening there in that in that
city and in the surrounding communities. But they let of
all the cities out there, maybe other than Minneapolis, which
obviously was directly connected to George Floyd. They let the
crazy people take over the city of Portland, and as
(17:05):
a result, it's been incredibly destructive to quality of life there.
And the battles are still ongoing. And a journalist by
the name of Nick Sorterer was there just covering what
Antifa is doing in Portland outside of the ICE facilities,
and they tried to burn a United States flag. He
grabbed the flag, wouldn't allow them to do it, and
(17:26):
later these Antifa lunatics attacked him and the Portland police
arrested him for not allowing a flag to be burned
and for being beaten up by Antifa in Portland. And
so the United States Pambondi, the Attorney General, has announced
an investigation into his arrest. He's going to join us
(17:47):
at the top of the next hour and just tell
us the story of what he is seeing out there
in Portland. I think it's going to be very eye
opening for many of us in the rest of the country.
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The economy growing currently at three point eight percent rate
inlation still yet to rear its ugly head. I'm just
telling you the Trump economy is starting to take flights,
and I hope that all of you are aware of that.
I understand that the lingering impact here's the biggest challenge.
(19:17):
People say, Okay, what what is the biggest challenge right
now in the economy as you see it. I think it's,
frankly just that the lingering impact of how awful Biden's
economic picture was is hard to get past because a
lot of you still feel and I feel it and
(19:38):
when I buy things too, that things just all cost
too much. And it's going to take years for the
rapid increase in prices that occurred during Biden's era to
actually normalize itself out. The reality is we need probably
five years of two percent two and a half percent
inflation in order for us to kind of normalize and
(20:02):
get used to the rapid increase in prices that occurred
during the Biden administration. And other than oil and gas,
which the prices have come back down, and that's a
more fluctuating commodity price. The reality is, once you have
embedded inflation, prices don't come back down. They don't ever
go negative. So the reason I think there is a
(20:27):
disconnect between what is rapidly becoming a very strong economy
and what still feels frustrating every time you buy something
is I just I don't think most people out there
really understood how bad Biden managed the economy. And I
wasn't alive back then, or at least was so young,
(20:49):
I certainly had no impressions. My bet is those of
you who lived through the rapid inflation of the nineteen seventies,
pricing normal didn't really return to you until the second
term of Ronald Reagan, where finally the rapid price increases
that occurred during Jimmy Carter's tenure came back down to
(21:13):
a form of normalcy. Now, I mentioned off the start
of the program about the fact that Democrat message was
being heard and they recognize that it's hard to stand
for left wing policies because those left wing policies actually
end up costing everyone. New York City is going to
(21:37):
bear the cost of this because there is an articulate
and charismatic and young and attractive socialistic candidate that is
saying things that people want to hear without understanding any
of the economic realities that underpin this. Remember Zorn Mandami said,
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the way to deal with higher grocery prices is for
the city of New York to be in charge of groceries.
Let me just tell you something. There has never been
a successful city or state sponsored grocery in the history
of mankind that I'm aware of. This is what they
do in Cuba. So the idea that suddenly things are
(22:19):
going to get cheaper, if a much more inefficient method
of bringing produce and bringing product to the city is
going to be put in place, is madness. And many
of you out there understand this because you understand basic business.
And the reality is there are very few businesses on
(22:40):
the planet that have a lower profit margin than grocery stores.
We're talking about grocery stores making one two percent. They
sell a lot of product, but it's a volume based
business with very tiny margins. So the idea that you're
going to be able to somehow cut into the profit
margin of grocery stores and make way more money is
(23:03):
frankly bonkers. It's insane. It's a form of just absolute madness,
which unfortunately has overtaken as I laid out, much of
the left in this country. But Mamdanni is an eloquent
advocate for awful policies. And I saw this and I
(23:23):
said I should share this because sometimes you guys complain.
I don't know why you talk about culture so much.
Tell me more about how the flat tax intersects with
the larger geopolitical ramifications of a bearing street energy pipeline
and how that's going to Okay, you can talk super
(23:47):
specific policy. Super specific policy doesn't win elections. I'm sorry,
it doesn't. You have to tap into the culture. And
I saw this and I said, this is how Mamdanni's
doing it. The a Bachelor is back on air. Okay,
The Bachelor. You may not watch. I think it's the
Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
This is an old guy meeting with older women and
it's wildly popular in pop culture and zoron Mam Donnie
made a New York City ad that aired during The
Bachelor this week, and this is what you would have heard.
And so for those of you have ever watched The Bachelor,
the concept of the show is at the end of
(24:29):
the show, a host a bachelorette two is A version
of this gives the contestants a rose if they get
to continue to compete to win the true love of
the Bachelor or the Bachelorette. Mam Donnie speaks the language
of young, disaffected voters. It's important you go where they are.
You don't ask them to come where you are. And
(24:51):
this is the ad. He ran. I think it's ridiculous.
I think it's absurd. Guess what it works. Listen.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You deserve that. You deserve to be able to raise
your family here, to be safe, you need to travel
where you need to. If you have costs and worry,
you deserve someone who works as hard as you do,
who thinks about you every second of the day.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's the kind of mayor I promised to be New York.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Will you accept this rose?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Okay? I get it. A lot of you are rolling
your eyes. Producer Ali was so mad when I sent
her this. She said, Oh, it works. The reason he's
gonna win is he's glib. He connects on the culture.
He's good on social media, he's handsome on Instagram. He's
(25:43):
good at cutting through the noise because oh he watches
The Bachelor too. He's giving us a rose. How bad
of a guy, could he be. He's gonna make my
rent lower, and he's gonna build grocery stores and I'm
gonna be able to get all of my hair care
products and all of my face creams so much cheaper.
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He's so great. I love so running mom, Daddy. That works.
It works. You have to go where people are and
you have to confront them. These girls saw that ad
and they're like, Oh, he's where we are. He's watching
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The Bachelor too. He's gonna make my I don't know,
I don't even know what people buy face. He's gonna
make I buy books and I buy like Kirkling products
at Costco. So I'm not very good at thinking about
how everything's gonna be cheaper. He's gonna make my uh
ug boots that's popular with the girls, right, He's gonna
make my ug boots so much cheaper. Oh my god,
(26:47):
He's so amazing. Like like, like you think this is crazy,
I'm telling you, this Bachelor ad is echoing all through who,
all through this young voting public, which overwhelmingly thinks socialism works. See.
One of the challenges of capitalism is it so good
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that people start to take for granted how good it is.
This is true of anything in life that is really great.
At some point in time, you forget how important it
is to have solid foundational values in place, because solid
foundational values work so well that you can start to think, hey,
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what if we just didn't care about this anymore. The
ultimate flaw of capitalism is capitalism works so well people
start thinking that other forms of government might work too.
All these kids that are mostly having their rent paid
for by mom and dad living in New York City
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because they can't afford their own rent, They have no
economic basis in reality whatsoever. But Mam Donnie looks like
the kind of person that they think should be their politician.
This is how Kamala's entire career happened. Kamala Harris was
smart enough to realize, hey, you know, the average left
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wing California voter wants someone who looks like me to
be in a position of prominence in this state. And
she wrote that almost all the way to the White House.
I'm not sure what Kamala Harris has ever done well
in her entire life, but she looks like the kind
of person that makes rich white women feel better about
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themselves in California, and she can win an election based
on it. Mom, Donnie looks like the kind of person
that rich white liberals want to represent them in New
York City, and then he shows up at the places
that they care about, conversant in the pop culture language.
(29:02):
And you may think it's ridiculous that this thirty four
year old socialist Ugandan out of nowhere is suddenly showing
up with a rose telling New York City that he
should be their mayor. But according to the gambling markets
right now, he's at ninety percent likelihood to win. He's
really good at marketing himself. He's got a genius for
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selling the product, and the product is him, and it's
awful and everything that he supports is wrong. But there
is no alternative for him in New York City right now.
And I got to give him credit because again, a
lot of you are going to say, oh, this is Cringeoe,
(29:46):
this is ridiculous. You're not the target. You're not the target.
Everybody who watches The Bachelor, I bet the Bachelor in
New York City. I bet the people watching The Bachelor
in New York City vote Democrat ninety ten. It's an
overwhelmingly young female audience. They see Mom Donnie with that rose,
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their hearts melt. Oh, look at that handsome guy. This
is the kind of guy I would like today. Oh
he'll take care of the city just like he would
take care of me. And they go vote for him.
And then meanwhile, a bunch of people who don't understand
how to compete in the modern cultural wars are just
sitting around like, I don't know who cares about the Bachelor. Yeah,
(30:31):
we did just elect the most successful Republican twenty first
century political candidate with a landslide election, who is famous
to a large extent because he was on a reality
television show. You can say a lot of things about
Donald Trump. People get mad sometimes when he comments on
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Taylor Swift getting engaged, or when he comments on what
the NFL kickoff rules are. You go to people where
they are and that's how you win. And Mom Donni's
showing up on the freaking Bachelor. I don't know that
any politicians ever done an ad like this before. And
it's gonna work. And New York City is in trouble
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because Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo, neither one of whom
has a chance at all of winning. Are both gonna
end up in a what's it like when you're It
reminds me of like a fight where you're both wrestling
and you're sinking underground. You're both just gonna drown, and
the guy's just sitting in the boat, not even having
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to get in a fight with you. You're both wrestling
with each other as you slowly sink underwater to see
who can do the best job to come in second place,
and the guy who's gonna win is just sitting up
there in the boat with a rose between his teeth,
just kicking his feet up and enjoying the boat ride.
That's kind of the metaphorical sense of what I have
for where New York City is headed. And again I
(31:56):
give credit to mom Donnie, not because he's right on
any issue, but because, man is he good at making
people think that he is an unthreatening face of socialism.
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you. Let's see we got a bunch of calls.
Let's see Bob in Minnesota. Bob, what you got?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Hey been listening since nineteen ninety two? Love the show.
Two things First, one on the on capitalism. You got
to put your yourself in the mind of a twenty
five year old in New York City. Capitalism doesn't work
for them. Tuition has been too high, inflation, rent, everything else.
They don't know capitalism, the capitalism they know doesn't work
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for them, So why not try something else. I'm sixty,
I get it, but a twenty five year old, we
really need to put ourselves in their mind. That's fine
for that one, and then go ahead.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
No, you go ahead, finish your second point, and then
I'll react.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
The second point. I got a story for you that
I gave Rush about the reach of your program that
he didn't understand. Open line Friday, if you want it,
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
No, go So, look, we try to have open line Fridays,
get as many people to talk. What is your story
about the reach of the program?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
All right? Nineteen ninety two Clinton got elected. I was
driving a submarine in the Navy. Well underneath the ocean.
We put an antenna up and I'd be driving the
boat and I'd get buzzed by the captain. Come left
thirty degrees, come right twenty degrees, come left ten degrees.
Steer this course. For the next three hours, he was
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copying the rush Limbaugh program from several hundred feet under
the oceans.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
That is amazing. That thank you so much for the call.
That is absolutely incredible. We never forget we see the data.
Tons of you listen on bases overseas and we are
a little bit of a snapshot into home for so
many of you, and we don't forget that. I don't
disagree about the twenty five year old. Here is the problem,
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and certainly the older you get, the more you understand it.
A twenty five year old doesn't understand the larger scope
of life because you think you understand everything at twenty five,
but your life experience is actually very very much limited.
I saw a study recently and I thought it was
really well done. And it doesn't mean that it's true
for everybody. But you know what age decision making peaks.
(35:46):
You think about athletics, most of us were probably the
best strongest version of ourselves. If you're male around twenty
seven or twenty eight, that's if you continue to work out,
you think about where talent kind of goes, and you
think about athletics. For instance, Tom Brady, you try to
play till you're forty five, and you just try to
balance it all out at Decision making peaks on average
(36:12):
at fifty seven years old. Well, why is that there's
a study. This is on average. There's people who are
older that are smarter. There's people who are younger. Average
age best decision making fifty seven because you have lived
long enough to have learned by fifty seven, and you
have not lived so long that your overall brain function
(36:32):
has began to decline. Most people peak at fifty seven
years old. Twenty five year olds. They need thirty two
more years of life experience to understand how much they
didn't know when they thought they knew it all more
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