October 13, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a dynamic blend of historical reflection, political analysis, and continued celebration of President Donald Trump’s landmark Middle East peace agreement. Buck Sexton leads the hour solo, diving into the cultural and geopolitical significance of the day, which he dubs both “Middle East Peace Day” and “Columbus Day.”
The hour begins with a spirited defense of Columbus Day, pushing back against progressive efforts to rebrand it as Indigenous Peoples Day. Buck critiques Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2021 remarks on colonialism, arguing that conquest and conflict are universal aspects of human history—not unique to European explorers. He highlights the brutality and tribal warfare among pre-Columbian civilizations such as the Incas and Aztecs and challenges the modern narrative that vilifies European exploration while ignoring indigenous practices like slavery and cannibalism.
Transitioning to current events, Buck celebrates the Trump administration’s success in brokering peace between Israel and Hamas, calling it the “dawn of a new Middle East.” He plays audio from President Trump’s speech in Egypt, where Trump declares this moment the beginning of a “golden age” for Israel and the region. Buck emphasizes that this achievement—coming in year one of Trump’s second term—is a testament to Trump’s growth, focus, and the strength of his new team. He credits Trump’s strategic leadership and deal-making skills for bringing together unlikely Arab and Muslim partners to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages and agreeing to peace.
The hour features a heartfelt interview with Robin Van Etten, U.S. CEO and global COO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. She shares the emotional impact of the hostage returns, the role of faith and prayer in the process, and the fellowship’s efforts to support families through medical and psychological care. Robin praises Trump and Netanyahu for their tireless work and acknowledges the unwavering support of millions of Christians worldwide.
Buck also addresses critics who question whether supporting Israel aligns with “America First” principles. He argues that regional stability benefits the U.S. by reducing global terrorism and preventing future attacks like 9/11, Madrid, and London. He contrasts Trump’s success with the failures of past Democratic administrations, particularly under Obama and Biden, and calls out the left’s misguided foreign policy elitism.
Toward the end of the hour, Buck previews upcoming political races, including the Virginia gubernatorial contest, the New Jersey governor’s race, and the New York City mayoral election. A caller highlights key moments from a recent Virginia debate, expressing optimism about Republican candidate Winsome Sears. Buck promises deeper coverage in future episodes.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now it is Middle East Peace Day, everybody, which we
will continue to talk about, but it is also Columbus Day,
as in Christopher Columbus sailing on the Nina, the Pinta
and the Santa Maria, discovering the new world.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Some people are saying, the very beautiful world it was.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And it's a moment where we can also say thank
you for this Trump administration, because while you and I
can sit and talk about Columbus Day and know that
this is also being supported from our federal government, that
there is a willingness and a desire to make this
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holiday about Columbus Day. Once again that was not necessarily
going to be the case. And if you want a
little throwback, here I have for you. In twenty twenty one,
then Vice President Terris speaking to the National Congress of
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American Indians on Columbus Day, which they tried to rebrand
as Indigenous People's Day. Listen to what was a window
into our future should a Kamala Harris administration have come
to pass?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Play it.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Since nineteen thirty four, every October, the United States has
recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed
on the shores of the Americas. But that is not
the whole story. That has never been the whole story.
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Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations,
perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not
shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed
light on it and do everything we can to address
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the impact of the past on Native communities today.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't think so. I think we can actually just
celebrate Columbus Day. How about that nice work, Christopher Columbus.
Nice job, very impressive, sailing across the Ocean Blue in
fourteen hundred and nineteen two ninety two. I don't think
we actually have to sit around and cry about everything
that happened to the indigenous peoples thereafter. You know something
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that's fascinating as it begins to unfold here, you're seeing
more and more of this.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
There have been.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There has been some advances in science that allow us
to see increasingly that the so called indigenous in places
all over the world replaced people, generally by conquest, that
were there before them. This has been the nature of
human existence in certainly the pre modern age forever that
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people come along and unfortunately we are Ultimately, it has
been said, we are mammals. We are more than mammals,
but we are mammals, and we come along and we
decide that we're going to fight over resources, and we're
going to fight over territory, and that's.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
A messy business.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
But to pretend that this is something that is unique
to European explorers is nonsense. And I think we've all
had enough of this. And if we're going to start
to talk about the situation of the indigenous peoples as
we arrive here in America, or as the Europeans arrived
in America.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Let's really talk about it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
How many of you even would, for example, know offhand
that by the historical record, there were there was a
whole number, I mean really in the dozens of Native
American tribes, and I don't even like that term Native
American because they weren't part of America. America was actually
the creation of the European explorers who arrived here. It
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was just a undiscovered by the rest of the world
land mass with people living with Stone Age implements. Fact,
go ask any anthropologist had not discovered the wheel did
not have written language.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You know, if this.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Were anywhere else in the world, they would have long
since been conquered. Because there were oceans in between them,
they lasted quite a bit longer. But how many people
would even know offhand that there were dozens of cannibal tribes,
or rather tribes that practice cannibalism.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right here in America.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We've heard more about the Aztecs and the Incas and
their massive empires of slavery built on slavery, yes, that
is true, and human sacrifice, including child sacrifice, that's better
known when we arrived.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I shouldn't say we, but.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
When the Spanish conquistadors arrived, specifically in what is now Peru, Ecuador,
the northwest of South America. When Pizarro and his band
of conquistadors got there, it had only been a pretty
recent phenomenon that the regime in place, the Incas who
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had taken over had in fact been the ruling entity there.
They had been fighting for a long time to subjugate
other tribes, so the Incas were not like this cohesive,
and there were tens of millions of them. The Inca
empire was actually much larger by population than the Aztec Empire,
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and the Aztec Empire, because it's closer to us, was
is better known, more famous. We know stuff about Mexico
more than we do about Peru and Ecuador in this
country because it's right next door. But the Inca Empire
was much larger by area, went on for like a
thousand miles and north south all along what we think
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of now as the Andes, the spine of the Andes,
if you will. Everything up in the Andes to the
west of it that was inhabited was the Incas. When
in the early sixteenth century the European, well Spanish conquistadors
slash explorers, arrived there, but they were engaged in their
own conquest. This is just the nature of human history
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up to this point, and the pretense that there was
peace and harmony and that people just got along and
then we showed up, we being Europeans. Then Europeans showed
up and they were the bad guys in all of this,
and there was no benefit that came from it. I mean, look, yes,
did a lot of people die of smallpox. A lot
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of people died of smallpox, but that was going to
happen at some point, meaning there was no way to
prevent these diseases from spreading, and they had been spreading
in much of the rest of the world for many centuries.
You know, there's this group. They're in the Indian Ocean.
It's I think it's North Sentinel Island is the name
of the island. And they have these individuals, not very
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many of them, who are considered uncontacted. So it's a
little tiny island in the Indian Ocean that has people
living there, and they have rudimentary stone age tools and
they have spears and things like that, and no one
is allowed to go to the island because if they
do well, one they've actually killed people who visited the island.
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But you know, I could understand they'd be free. I'd
be freaked out too if I were them, you know,
I had never seen other human beings anywhere. But also
they would die from disease right away because they don't
have their immune systems, are not not capable of handling
the diseases that modern modern everybody else in the rest
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of the world can handle. So we had something similar
on a much larger scale when the European explorers arrived
in the in the Americas and the vast majority of
the population losses that occurred over ninety percent, were not
due to genocide. We're not due to a policy of
active violence. It was the spread of disease, and that
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was certainly the case in Pizarro's conquest of the Incas
as well. There was always that component of it, and
it was true for the Aztecs, or rather for Cortes
and the Spaniards who conquered there. But I just think
that if we're going to start to have a conversation
about what things were really like and what was really
going on in these areas of the country, or rather
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in these parts of the new World, let's really have
that conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Let's really be allowed to.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Do this, and to do this the right way, which
is to be honest about what was going on and
what wasn't so that you would not have gotten that
under a Kamala Harris administration. That is for sure. I
do agree with what Tony Sopranos says in this House.
In this House, Columbus is a hero. I think that
what Columbus did was an incredible act of bravery that
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changed the world. That's not to say that Columbus as
an individual was some great guy, you know, and if
we're going to put this in the modern context, I
don't know what Columbus's position on trans rights was. I
don't know what his position on well, actually I think
we could surmise his position on open borders would have been.
But a whole lot of modern sensibilities that you cannot
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just transpose onto people.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
From five hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But if we're going to start to do that, we
also have to look at the reality and the savagery
that was dominant among so many of the native population
in what is now America, or rather North America and
South America, and how this was the reality of all
of human history before we arrived. So I I just
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think that's all part of the discussion. And the notion
that we should have Indigenous People's Day is interesting to
me because why doesn't have to be on the same day. Well,
the reason it's the same day is to take away
from Columbus Day. The reason that they wanted to have
these things be two sides of the same coin is
to undermine it because you could pick any other day
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and nobody would care pick some other day that's Indigenous
People's Day. And also, do individuals really feel like they
are celebrated by the very broad term Indigenous People's Day.
Is that really, who is that benefiting? No, it's all
meant as a swipe, and it's meant to undermine the
celebration of the European exploration of the Americas and how
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it brought about the world that we live in. And
what an amazing, what an amazing situation it was when
Columbus arrived. And the fact of the matter is that
we can celebrate Columbus without denigrating anybody else. And we
don't have to denigrate Columbus to make people feel better
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about themselves. These are things that are possible simultaneously and
in a Trump administration, in Trump's era of America, it's
nice that we can finally say yay Christopher Columbus. What
he did was remarkable. And a lot of people get
the day off.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
As you can tell, I do not get the day off.
Clay gets part of the day off, but I do
not get the day off.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
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Speaker 2 (13:00):
So it's a big day of celebration for Trump on
the Middle East peace plan that he has put into action.
And this is one of these moments where even the
Trump detractors out there are saying, this is only possible
because of the Big Guy, only happened because of him.
We all have seen that this is Trump's moment, and
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here he is, this is cut twelve saying that this
is going to be remembered, this day that you and
I sitting here are enjoying together. My friends, this day
will be remembered in generations as the beginning of a
golden age.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Play it and they also convey my tremendous appreciation for
all of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world
that came together to press some as to set the
hostages free and to send them home.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
We had a lot of help. We had a lot
of help from a lot of people that you wouldn't suspect,
and I want to thank them very much for that.
It's an incredible triumph for Israel in the world to
have all of these nations working together as partners in peace.
And it's pretty unusual for you to see that, but
it happened in this case. This was a very unusual
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point in time, a brilliant point in time. Generations from now,
this will be remembered as the moment that everything began
to change and change very much.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
For the better.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Like the USA right now, it will be the golden
age of Israel and the Golden Age of the Middle East.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It's going to work together.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Golden age for Israel, Golden age for the Middle East.
Trump party kicked off the Golden age for America when
he took office. So you're noticing a theme. And I
am very, very pleased that we're all able to sit
here and in the first year, I mean imagine this
could have been the crowning achievement. And in year four
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of Trump's second term, and any honest observer historian, to
degree there are honest historians these days, would have to
say well, that's a pretty remarkable way to close things out.
It's still year one, everybody, it's not even one year yet.
We are not tired of winning. It's that simple. Trump's
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not tired of winning. And so much of this, I
think really does come down to he has learned a lot.
He is more focused than ever before. What's happened to Trump,
the indictments, the bullet in his ear, all these things,
all these incredible trials and tribulations that he's been through,
I think has made him.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
More of a.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Man of destiny than ever before. I think he has
an understanding of where he is in history and that
he has fated to do many of these things, that
God has called him to do many of these things,
and we are seeing joining the results of that in
so many ways. Also, the team around him is just
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this is the team, and we were saying it to
you all here on this show from the very beginning.
He did not have the right personnel on the first administration.
He knows that he had a fire a lot of them.
There was a learning curve. One of the questions that
some people who were Trump voters but maybe felt a
little eh, but you know, I was hearing out there
when before the mar A Lago raid, before all the indictments,
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people are saying, Okay, look, I'm a Trump guy or gal,
but has he really learned some of the lessons of
the first four years and will he implement And I
think we see, yeah, he has the team around him
is getting it done. They are the right people for
these jobs. There are results driven and they really are
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taking to this internet meme of you can just do things.
You can just do things. You don't have to sit
around despair and be useless like so many government officials
and agencies have been. It is possible to have major
goals in mind and to achieve them and then to
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keep going. And I think we are seeing that play
out here. Fully have open eyes about what the pitfalls are.
You are dealing with Hamas. They are evil barbarians. The
leadership of Hamas are bad people who Israel would have
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been fully justified in eliminating, taking them out, killing them.
I mean, that is the reality of the war they
were fighting. Now Israel is going to abide by this peace.
Will Hamas abide by the peace, and will Arab partners
in the region and Turkish and others hold them to account.
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This is the end of the age of terror and
death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope,
end of God. It's the start of a grand concord
and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of
what will soon be a truly magnificent region.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I believe that so strongly.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Dawn of a new Middle East.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
That was President Trump speaking to well, everything that's going
on right now, we're talking about today, and we're joined
by Robin van Eaton. She is the US CEO and
Global COO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,
which is a much appreciated partner here on the show.
Robin played a pivotal role in our trip, or rather
Clay and Ali's trip Israel last December and accompanied them
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to Hostage Square and the Kandesset. Clay met with Speaker
Amir o'hanna and the IFCJ and Robin were instrumental in that,
and Speaker o'hanna was standing right next to Trump today. Robin,
thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Oh, thank you, Claive. I'm sorry, thank you back for
having me. It's so wonderful to be with you on
this incredibly historic day.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Just share with us, if you would, the feelings of
those who well at the fellowship and the supporters and
people you're speaking to in Israel, and I just wanted
your perspective on what today really means. You heard President
Trump there saying the dawn of a new Middle East
is upon us.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Yes, it's really incredible. We just came off an event
on the mall in Washington, d C. Where we literally
had tens of thousands of Christians praying for Israel and
thanking God for their return. And I think about my
colleagues in Israel and over the last two years who
had told me time and time again that they could
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never move forward, they could never have closure, they could
never really start to rebuild their lives and rebuild their
nation until those hostages were returned. And to see that
day they finally arrive as just truly a miracle, and
it is a testament to the faith of so many.
But certainly want to say thank you to President Trump
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and to Prime Minister net Yahoo as well as their teams,
who I know worked tirelessly for months to make this happen.
But I also want to acknowledge the millions of Christians
who have stood by Israel during these last two years,
have never wavered in their support. It has been their love,
their commitment to Israel and the Jewish people, who I
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believe have played a pivotal role in getting us to
this moment.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I know that you and the Fellowship had a lot
of contact with the families of the hostages that are
being held, and now twenty of them have returned home
as of today. To their families, what initial process you've
been speaking to them, I know they've been through a
horrific ordeal. Are they going to go so far as
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to say that they believed that President Trump was the
one who was able to make this happen.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
I can't speak to the specifically to the hostage families,
but from what I have certainly seen in many interviews
with family members, they have definitely expressed that. I think
we've seen it on the streets and at Freedom of
Freedom Square now in Tel Aviv, where they have overwhelmingly
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acknowledged that President Trump that this could not have happened
without his leadership and then and making this happen. I
think from the beginning, when we first saw the first
hostage this come home, it has really been a testament
to his tenacity to make sure and even on this
last round where he said, no, we're not going to
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have him, you know, another two or three hostages here
and there. We want all twenty as well as the
deceased returned. And it happened, and so he deserves a
tremendous amount of credit, and we have. The Fellowship has
supported the hostage families since October seventh. We've provided nearly
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a million dollars in direct aid to those families. And
we're also really focusing now on how do we help
those families start to recover, and it's about now renewal
and certainly their resilience. But we have invested quite significantly
and what we're calling a Return to Life Center at
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Shiva Medical Center. This will provide holistic care, medical, psychological,
and social for the return for the hostages that return
their families. It is a world class hospital and we
are so proud to be a part of supporting their
efforts and renovating and providing equipment for this to be
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hopefully a home and a center to help these families
and these hostages restore their lives and wishing nothing but
the best for all of them, and may they just
rest of their lives, be full, prosper and be full
of good memories and many blessings.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Robin Van Eeden, US CEO and Global CEO of the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Robin really appreciate you joining us. Thanks for being here today.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Thank you so much. Puck really appreciate I just want
to also say thank you to you and to Clay
for being such staunch supporters as well, never wavering, always
being committed. And I can't tell you how important your
voice has been over the last two years. So just
a personal thank you for me and from the Fellowship.
We are deeply grateful for the support that I know
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you will continue to give Israel the Jewish people. But
thank you for everything.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yes, thanks, thank you well. You're very welcome, Robin, and
thank you for being here with us. And it was
an easy thing to do because it was the right.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Thing to do.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
And that always simplify the equation. When you know what
is right, when you know who the good guys are,
so to speak, and what they are up against, it's
not hard to lend your voice.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
To to their cause. You know.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I have seen some of the commentary, even on the
right I've seen some of the commentary from people saying,
how can it be, how can it be America First
to be so concerned with what's going on in Israel.
To this, I just say, first of all, President Trump,
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who built the America First movement, is the one who
is now taking the much deserved victory lapse for bringing
about this piece which is a good thing for everyone
all over the place in the Middle East here at home,
a destabilized Middle East with ascendant terror groups. Yes, it
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results in instability over there. It also results in a
buses full of passenger blowing up in London. It results
in trains exploding in Madrid during rush hour, It results
in trucks running people over in the south of France,
almost one hundred at a time, and of course in
our country a lot of Jihadis terror attacks, including nine
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to eleven and others. So, yeah, we don't want to
be dealing with this mess and this nonsense and stabilization
of the region and putting reliable and reasonable partners in
positions to be able to do their own housekeeping, so
to speak. They're talking about the Saudis, the Amoradies.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Again, I'm not saying it's perfect. I'm not looking at
this with rose colored glasses, but at least now there's
a realistic prospect of things getting substantially better, and that
hasn't been the case in a very long time.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I think about the years.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Of the Obama administration Middle East, with the rise of
ISIS and the Syrian Civil War.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I mean, just a disaster. The whole thing was just
a giant disaster.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Joe Biden, you have to go back, and it's hard
to even believe this Joe Biden was the Obama era
foreign policy brain.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Think about that for a second.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, Joe Biden, even without the dementia, didn't know his
his you know, brain from his butt. I mean, it's
crazy that this guy was supposed to be the architect
of foreign policy, specifically in the Middle East. I mean,
not just as the bag man for Hunter to go
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to Ukraine and get lots of cash, That Joe Biden
was supposed to be involved in this kind of diplomacy
and strategy. It just goes to show you how utterly
unseerious the Democrats are on this and everything else too,
because they fancy see themselves. New York Times subscribers and
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citizens of the world. They have this completely outdated and
I would say unsubstantiated belief that they, meaning the Democrats
and the left in this country, are more worldly and
therefore more insightful, more responsible on foreign policy. And all
we have seen is the exact opposite of that. Over
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and over again. All of the evidence points against that perception,
all of it, and even some of these supposed leading
lights of the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton, hello, Barack Obama.
They are supposed to be the ones that were capable
of getting deals like this, and actually all they did
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was make everything worse. Trump with no foreign policy experience
within the government system right, obviously a lot of international
deals and travel and deal making, but before he becomes president,
no foreign policy experience, and look what his team is accomplishing.
Look what they have been able to do. And he
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has laid out all these different conflicts that aren't getting
nearly as much attention as this, but calming things down
in Southeast Asia, in South Asia, in with meat, with
Armenia and Azerbaijan. He's going in there, He's saying, hey, guys,
let's really do let's really do this, so that it's
done and people stop dying. This is where you start
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to have to think about this as Trump is a
great humanitarian. He's a great businessman, but he's a great
humanitarian too, because his business dealings and background and acumen
are allowing are really the cause of and allowing these
kinds of agreements to be reached which result in fewer
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people dying for no darn good reason, and all these
different conflicts all over the place.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Right So, I.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Think that we do have to give credit where it
is due here, and and that means letting Trump take
a healthy bow on this and understand that, yes, tomorrow
is another day. There are still challenges. It's the Middle East.
Things could get messed up fast. But I have not
thought that there was even the the a sentilla of
(30:23):
the basis for optimism in that region anywhere near what
we are seeing right now. I've never seen anything like it.
And you're not just hearing me on that. A lot
of people are saying this, including people who just hate Trump,
Trump's guts, but they have to they have to say
what is so manifestly true. So yeah, it's just you know,
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take take take the good ones, my friend. We got
to be where you're talking about the upcoming Virginia governor's race.
I'm gonna tell you the Democrat candidate there is a
train wreck. I'm still worried she's gonna win.
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Train wreck.
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Closing up shop today on Clay and Buck Klobe back tomorrow.
We just have a fantastic week of shows for you
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So that's something to look forward to. Also want to
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Sure he is. He's out there, and uh, what was
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He Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a great
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that's a great tip and that you would get from the.
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Speaker 2 (34:52):
Uh see, we have Ben in Indiana wants to talk
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (35:00):
Hey, thanks for having me on the show. It's my
first time Colin. I wanted to switch gears a little
bit and talk about the Virginia gubernatorial race because often
that race is a bell weather for the midterms the
following year, as it was in twenty eighteen. For sure,
I was a little worried until the debate last week
between Winston Sears and Abigail Spanburger. During that debate, Winston
(35:26):
Sears had her Ronald Reagan moment, was able to link
her to the far and crazy left by two things.
By two points one, Abigail's Spanburger, it's still in favor of,
you know, chemical castration in the transine of children. Number two,
she still endorses Jay Jones for Attorney General in Virginia.
(35:50):
That's the guy, if you're not aware, who wished death
on his political opponent and his children. So both of
those things were highlighted. They came out during the debate
for the first time. I have some hope in this
Virginia race.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Well, we're gonna get into this tomorrow, my friend, I
can assure you of that. That's why you got to
tune into the Clay and Buck Show every day, because
you know, every day is a new and exciting adventure,
and the Virginia governor's race is going to be part
of tomorrow's adventure, among other things, so make sure you
join us for that up. But yes, I agree with you,
it's very, very important to see how that one goes.
We've also got the New Jersey governor's race and the
(36:26):
mayor's race in New York City, and we are just
a couple of weeks away from decision.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Day on all that.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
So, oh yeah, we're gonna have politics for you here.
This is how we roll on Clay and Buck, we
do Middle East peace, cooking tips, governor's races.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
We cover it all. Friends. Honored to have you hanging
out with us more tomorrow
Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now it is Middle East Peace Day, everybody, which we
will continue to talk about, but it is also Columbus Day,
as in Christopher Columbus sailing on the Nina, the Pinta
and the Santa Maria, discovering the new world.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Some people are saying, the very beautiful world it was.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And it's a moment where we can also say thank
you for this Trump administration, because while you and I
can sit and talk about Columbus Day and know that
this is also being supported from our federal government, that
there is a willingness and a desire to make this
(00:44):
holiday about Columbus Day. Once again that was not necessarily
going to be the case. And if you want a
little throwback, here I have for you. In twenty twenty one,
then Vice President Terris speaking to the National Congress of
(01:07):
American Indians on Columbus Day, which they tried to rebrand
as Indigenous People's Day. Listen to what was a window
into our future should a Kamala Harris administration have come
to pass?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Play it.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Since nineteen thirty four, every October, the United States has
recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed
on the shores of the Americas. But that is not
the whole story. That has never been the whole story.
(01:43):
Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations,
perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not
shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed
light on it and do everything we can to address
(02:05):
the impact of the past on Native communities today.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't think so. I think we can actually just
celebrate Columbus Day. How about that nice work, Christopher Columbus.
Nice job, very impressive, sailing across the Ocean Blue in
fourteen hundred and nineteen two ninety two. I don't think
we actually have to sit around and cry about everything
that happened to the indigenous peoples thereafter. You know something
(02:34):
that's fascinating as it begins to unfold here, you're seeing
more and more of this.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
There have been.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There has been some advances in science that allow us
to see increasingly that the so called indigenous in places
all over the world replaced people, generally by conquest, that
were there before them. This has been the nature of
human existence in certainly the pre modern age forever that
(03:08):
people come along and unfortunately we are Ultimately, it has
been said, we are mammals. We are more than mammals,
but we are mammals, and we come along and we
decide that we're going to fight over resources, and we're
going to fight over territory, and that's.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
A messy business.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
But to pretend that this is something that is unique
to European explorers is nonsense. And I think we've all
had enough of this. And if we're going to start
to talk about the situation of the indigenous peoples as
we arrive here in America, or as the Europeans arrived
in America.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Let's really talk about it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
How many of you even would, for example, know offhand
that by the historical record, there were there was a
whole number, I mean really in the dozens of Native
American tribes, and I don't even like that term Native
American because they weren't part of America. America was actually
the creation of the European explorers who arrived here. It
(04:08):
was just a undiscovered by the rest of the world
land mass with people living with Stone Age implements. Fact,
go ask any anthropologist had not discovered the wheel did
not have written language.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You know, if this.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Were anywhere else in the world, they would have long
since been conquered. Because there were oceans in between them,
they lasted quite a bit longer. But how many people
would even know offhand that there were dozens of cannibal tribes,
or rather tribes that practice cannibalism.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right here in America.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We've heard more about the Aztecs and the Incas and
their massive empires of slavery built on slavery, yes, that
is true, and human sacrifice, including child sacrifice, that's better
known when we arrived.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I shouldn't say we, but.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
When the Spanish conquistadors arrived, specifically in what is now Peru, Ecuador,
the northwest of South America. When Pizarro and his band
of conquistadors got there, it had only been a pretty
recent phenomenon that the regime in place, the Incas who
(05:21):
had taken over had in fact been the ruling entity there.
They had been fighting for a long time to subjugate
other tribes, so the Incas were not like this cohesive,
and there were tens of millions of them. The Inca
empire was actually much larger by population than the Aztec Empire,
(05:41):
and the Aztec Empire, because it's closer to us, was
is better known, more famous. We know stuff about Mexico
more than we do about Peru and Ecuador in this
country because it's right next door. But the Inca Empire
was much larger by area, went on for like a
thousand miles and north south all along what we think
(06:04):
of now as the Andes, the spine of the Andes,
if you will. Everything up in the Andes to the
west of it that was inhabited was the Incas. When
in the early sixteenth century the European, well Spanish conquistadors
slash explorers, arrived there, but they were engaged in their
own conquest. This is just the nature of human history
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up to this point, and the pretense that there was
peace and harmony and that people just got along and
then we showed up, we being Europeans. Then Europeans showed
up and they were the bad guys in all of this,
and there was no benefit that came from it. I mean, look, yes,
did a lot of people die of smallpox. A lot
(06:49):
of people died of smallpox, but that was going to
happen at some point, meaning there was no way to
prevent these diseases from spreading, and they had been spreading
in much of the rest of the world for many centuries.
You know, there's this group. They're in the Indian Ocean.
It's I think it's North Sentinel Island is the name
of the island. And they have these individuals, not very
(07:11):
many of them, who are considered uncontacted. So it's a
little tiny island in the Indian Ocean that has people
living there, and they have rudimentary stone age tools and
they have spears and things like that, and no one
is allowed to go to the island because if they
do well, one they've actually killed people who visited the island.
(07:32):
But you know, I could understand they'd be free. I'd
be freaked out too if I were them, you know,
I had never seen other human beings anywhere. But also
they would die from disease right away because they don't
have their immune systems, are not not capable of handling
the diseases that modern modern everybody else in the rest
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of the world can handle. So we had something similar
on a much larger scale when the European explorers arrived
in the in the Americas and the vast majority of
the population losses that occurred over ninety percent, were not
due to genocide. We're not due to a policy of
active violence. It was the spread of disease, and that
(08:15):
was certainly the case in Pizarro's conquest of the Incas
as well. There was always that component of it, and
it was true for the Aztecs, or rather for Cortes
and the Spaniards who conquered there. But I just think
that if we're going to start to have a conversation
about what things were really like and what was really
going on in these areas of the country, or rather
(08:40):
in these parts of the new World, let's really have
that conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Let's really be allowed to.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Do this, and to do this the right way, which
is to be honest about what was going on and
what wasn't so that you would not have gotten that
under a Kamala Harris administration. That is for sure. I
do agree with what Tony Sopranos says in this House.
In this House, Columbus is a hero. I think that
what Columbus did was an incredible act of bravery that
(09:09):
changed the world. That's not to say that Columbus as
an individual was some great guy, you know, and if
we're going to put this in the modern context, I
don't know what Columbus's position on trans rights was. I
don't know what his position on well, actually I think
we could surmise his position on open borders would have been.
But a whole lot of modern sensibilities that you cannot
(09:33):
just transpose onto people.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
From five hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But if we're going to start to do that, we
also have to look at the reality and the savagery
that was dominant among so many of the native population
in what is now America, or rather North America and
South America, and how this was the reality of all
of human history before we arrived. So I I just
(10:00):
think that's all part of the discussion. And the notion
that we should have Indigenous People's Day is interesting to
me because why doesn't have to be on the same day. Well,
the reason it's the same day is to take away
from Columbus Day. The reason that they wanted to have
these things be two sides of the same coin is
to undermine it because you could pick any other day
(10:21):
and nobody would care pick some other day that's Indigenous
People's Day. And also, do individuals really feel like they
are celebrated by the very broad term Indigenous People's Day.
Is that really, who is that benefiting? No, it's all
meant as a swipe, and it's meant to undermine the
celebration of the European exploration of the Americas and how
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it brought about the world that we live in. And
what an amazing, what an amazing situation it was when
Columbus arrived. And the fact of the matter is that
we can celebrate Columbus without denigrating anybody else. And we
don't have to denigrate Columbus to make people feel better
(11:07):
about themselves. These are things that are possible simultaneously and
in a Trump administration, in Trump's era of America, it's
nice that we can finally say yay Christopher Columbus. What
he did was remarkable. And a lot of people get
the day off.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
As you can tell, I do not get the day off.
Clay gets part of the day off, but I do
not get the day off.
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Speaker 2 (13:00):
So it's a big day of celebration for Trump on
the Middle East peace plan that he has put into action.
And this is one of these moments where even the
Trump detractors out there are saying, this is only possible
because of the Big Guy, only happened because of him.
We all have seen that this is Trump's moment, and
(13:24):
here he is, this is cut twelve saying that this
is going to be remembered, this day that you and
I sitting here are enjoying together. My friends, this day
will be remembered in generations as the beginning of a
golden age.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Play it and they also convey my tremendous appreciation for
all of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world
that came together to press some as to set the
hostages free and to send them home.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
We had a lot of help. We had a lot
of help from a lot of people that you wouldn't suspect,
and I want to thank them very much for that.
It's an incredible triumph for Israel in the world to
have all of these nations working together as partners in peace.
And it's pretty unusual for you to see that, but
it happened in this case. This was a very unusual
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point in time, a brilliant point in time. Generations from now,
this will be remembered as the moment that everything began
to change and change very much.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
For the better.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Like the USA right now, it will be the golden
age of Israel and the Golden Age of the Middle East.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
It's going to work together.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Golden age for Israel, Golden age for the Middle East.
Trump party kicked off the Golden age for America when
he took office. So you're noticing a theme. And I
am very, very pleased that we're all able to sit
here and in the first year, I mean imagine this
could have been the crowning achievement. And in year four
(15:01):
of Trump's second term, and any honest observer historian, to
degree there are honest historians these days, would have to
say well, that's a pretty remarkable way to close things out.
It's still year one, everybody, it's not even one year yet.
We are not tired of winning. It's that simple. Trump's
(15:21):
not tired of winning. And so much of this, I
think really does come down to he has learned a lot.
He is more focused than ever before. What's happened to Trump,
the indictments, the bullet in his ear, all these things,
all these incredible trials and tribulations that he's been through,
I think has made him.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
More of a.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Man of destiny than ever before. I think he has
an understanding of where he is in history and that
he has fated to do many of these things, that
God has called him to do many of these things,
and we are seeing joining the results of that in
so many ways. Also, the team around him is just
(16:08):
this is the team, and we were saying it to
you all here on this show from the very beginning.
He did not have the right personnel on the first administration.
He knows that he had a fire a lot of them.
There was a learning curve. One of the questions that
some people who were Trump voters but maybe felt a
little eh, but you know, I was hearing out there
when before the mar A Lago raid, before all the indictments,
(16:32):
people are saying, Okay, look, I'm a Trump guy or gal,
but has he really learned some of the lessons of
the first four years and will he implement And I
think we see, yeah, he has the team around him
is getting it done. They are the right people for
these jobs. There are results driven and they really are
(16:53):
taking to this internet meme of you can just do things.
You can just do things. You don't have to sit
around despair and be useless like so many government officials
and agencies have been. It is possible to have major
goals in mind and to achieve them and then to
(17:13):
keep going. And I think we are seeing that play
out here. Fully have open eyes about what the pitfalls are.
You are dealing with Hamas. They are evil barbarians. The
leadership of Hamas are bad people who Israel would have
(17:33):
been fully justified in eliminating, taking them out, killing them.
I mean, that is the reality of the war they
were fighting. Now Israel is going to abide by this peace.
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This is the end of the age of terror and
death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope,
end of God. It's the start of a grand concord
and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of
what will soon be a truly magnificent region.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I believe that so strongly.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Dawn of a new Middle East.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
That was President Trump speaking to well, everything that's going
on right now, we're talking about today, and we're joined
by Robin van Eaton. She is the US CEO and
Global COO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,
which is a much appreciated partner here on the show.
Robin played a pivotal role in our trip, or rather
Clay and Ali's trip Israel last December and accompanied them
(19:46):
to Hostage Square and the Kandesset. Clay met with Speaker
Amir o'hanna and the IFCJ and Robin were instrumental in that,
and Speaker o'hanna was standing right next to Trump today. Robin,
thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Oh, thank you, Claive. I'm sorry, thank you back for
having me. It's so wonderful to be with you on
this incredibly historic day.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Just share with us, if you would, the feelings of
those who well at the fellowship and the supporters and
people you're speaking to in Israel, and I just wanted
your perspective on what today really means. You heard President
Trump there saying the dawn of a new Middle East
is upon us.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Yes, it's really incredible. We just came off an event
on the mall in Washington, d C. Where we literally
had tens of thousands of Christians praying for Israel and
thanking God for their return. And I think about my
colleagues in Israel and over the last two years who
had told me time and time again that they could
(20:49):
never move forward, they could never have closure, they could
never really start to rebuild their lives and rebuild their
nation until those hostages were returned. And to see that
day they finally arrive as just truly a miracle, and
it is a testament to the faith of so many.
But certainly want to say thank you to President Trump
(21:10):
and to Prime Minister net Yahoo as well as their teams,
who I know worked tirelessly for months to make this happen.
But I also want to acknowledge the millions of Christians
who have stood by Israel during these last two years,
have never wavered in their support. It has been their love,
their commitment to Israel and the Jewish people, who I
(21:32):
believe have played a pivotal role in getting us to
this moment.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I know that you and the Fellowship had a lot
of contact with the families of the hostages that are
being held, and now twenty of them have returned home
as of today. To their families, what initial process you've
been speaking to them, I know they've been through a
horrific ordeal. Are they going to go so far as
(22:01):
to say that they believed that President Trump was the
one who was able to make this happen.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
I can't speak to the specifically to the hostage families,
but from what I have certainly seen in many interviews
with family members, they have definitely expressed that. I think
we've seen it on the streets and at Freedom of
Freedom Square now in Tel Aviv, where they have overwhelmingly
(22:29):
acknowledged that President Trump that this could not have happened
without his leadership and then and making this happen. I
think from the beginning, when we first saw the first
hostage this come home, it has really been a testament
to his tenacity to make sure and even on this
last round where he said, no, we're not going to
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have him, you know, another two or three hostages here
and there. We want all twenty as well as the
deceased returned. And it happened, and so he deserves a
tremendous amount of credit, and we have. The Fellowship has
supported the hostage families since October seventh. We've provided nearly
(23:11):
a million dollars in direct aid to those families. And
we're also really focusing now on how do we help
those families start to recover, and it's about now renewal
and certainly their resilience. But we have invested quite significantly
and what we're calling a Return to Life Center at
(23:33):
Shiva Medical Center. This will provide holistic care, medical, psychological,
and social for the return for the hostages that return
their families. It is a world class hospital and we
are so proud to be a part of supporting their
efforts and renovating and providing equipment for this to be
(23:54):
hopefully a home and a center to help these families
and these hostages restore their lives and wishing nothing but
the best for all of them, and may they just
rest of their lives, be full, prosper and be full
of good memories and many blessings.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Robin Van Eeden, US CEO and Global CEO of the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Robin really appreciate you joining us. Thanks for being here today.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Thank you so much. Puck really appreciate I just want
to also say thank you to you and to Clay
for being such staunch supporters as well, never wavering, always
being committed. And I can't tell you how important your
voice has been over the last two years. So just
a personal thank you for me and from the Fellowship.
We are deeply grateful for the support that I know
(24:45):
you will continue to give Israel the Jewish people. But
thank you for everything.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yes, thanks, thank you well. You're very welcome, Robin, and
thank you for being here with us. And it was
an easy thing to do because it was the right.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Thing to do.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
And that always simplify the equation. When you know what
is right, when you know who the good guys are,
so to speak, and what they are up against, it's
not hard to lend your voice.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
To to their cause. You know.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I have seen some of the commentary, even on the
right I've seen some of the commentary from people saying,
how can it be, how can it be America First
to be so concerned with what's going on in Israel.
To this, I just say, first of all, President Trump,
(25:32):
who built the America First movement, is the one who
is now taking the much deserved victory lapse for bringing
about this piece which is a good thing for everyone
all over the place in the Middle East here at home,
a destabilized Middle East with ascendant terror groups. Yes, it
(25:55):
results in instability over there. It also results in a
buses full of passenger blowing up in London. It results
in trains exploding in Madrid during rush hour, It results
in trucks running people over in the south of France,
almost one hundred at a time, and of course in
our country a lot of Jihadis terror attacks, including nine
(26:18):
to eleven and others. So, yeah, we don't want to
be dealing with this mess and this nonsense and stabilization
of the region and putting reliable and reasonable partners in
positions to be able to do their own housekeeping, so
to speak. They're talking about the Saudis, the Amoradies.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Again, I'm not saying it's perfect. I'm not looking at
this with rose colored glasses, but at least now there's
a realistic prospect of things getting substantially better, and that
hasn't been the case in a very long time.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I think about the years.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Of the Obama administration Middle East, with the rise of
ISIS and the Syrian Civil War.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I mean, just a disaster. The whole thing was just
a giant disaster.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Joe Biden, you have to go back, and it's hard
to even believe this Joe Biden was the Obama era
foreign policy brain.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Think about that for a second.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, Joe Biden, even without the dementia, didn't know his
his you know, brain from his butt. I mean, it's
crazy that this guy was supposed to be the architect
of foreign policy, specifically in the Middle East. I mean,
not just as the bag man for Hunter to go
(27:41):
to Ukraine and get lots of cash, That Joe Biden
was supposed to be involved in this kind of diplomacy
and strategy. It just goes to show you how utterly
unseerious the Democrats are on this and everything else too,
because they fancy see themselves. New York Times subscribers and
(28:02):
citizens of the world. They have this completely outdated and
I would say unsubstantiated belief that they, meaning the Democrats
and the left in this country, are more worldly and
therefore more insightful, more responsible on foreign policy. And all
we have seen is the exact opposite of that. Over
(28:24):
and over again. All of the evidence points against that perception,
all of it, and even some of these supposed leading
lights of the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton, hello, Barack Obama.
They are supposed to be the ones that were capable
of getting deals like this, and actually all they did
(28:46):
was make everything worse. Trump with no foreign policy experience
within the government system right, obviously a lot of international
deals and travel and deal making, but before he becomes president,
no foreign policy experience, and look what his team is accomplishing.
Look what they have been able to do. And he
(29:07):
has laid out all these different conflicts that aren't getting
nearly as much attention as this, but calming things down
in Southeast Asia, in South Asia, in with meat, with
Armenia and Azerbaijan. He's going in there, He's saying, hey, guys,
let's really do let's really do this, so that it's
done and people stop dying. This is where you start
(29:28):
to have to think about this as Trump is a
great humanitarian. He's a great businessman, but he's a great
humanitarian too, because his business dealings and background and acumen
are allowing are really the cause of and allowing these
kinds of agreements to be reached which result in fewer
(29:50):
people dying for no darn good reason, and all these
different conflicts all over the place.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Right So, I.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Think that we do have to give credit where it
is due here, and and that means letting Trump take
a healthy bow on this and understand that, yes, tomorrow
is another day. There are still challenges. It's the Middle East.
Things could get messed up fast. But I have not
thought that there was even the the a sentilla of
(30:23):
the basis for optimism in that region anywhere near what
we are seeing right now. I've never seen anything like it.
And you're not just hearing me on that. A lot
of people are saying this, including people who just hate Trump,
Trump's guts, but they have to they have to say
what is so manifestly true. So yeah, it's just you know,
(30:47):
take take take the good ones, my friend. We got
to be where you're talking about the upcoming Virginia governor's race.
I'm gonna tell you the Democrat candidate there is a
train wreck. I'm still worried she's gonna win.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Train wreck.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So we're gonna get back into some of these things
here probably tomorrow. So that's why I'm telling you. In
the meantime, really let yourself take in what has happened here,
what's gone on here. So Clay is out for this hour,
so I cannot share with you any particular picks. I
(31:22):
do know that mister Sequan is a phenomenal athlete and
very good for the sports, but I don't know much
beyond that because I don't watch football. But Prize Picks
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Closing up shop today on Clay and Buck Klobe back tomorrow.
We just have a fantastic week of shows for you
this week. I can tell you that much right now.
So that's something to look forward to. Also want to
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Tutor Dixon, Ryan Gerdusky. Oh, Chef Gruel launched his podcast
(33:20):
with us because we got we even got concerned. We
got right wing chefs everybody. We we are we are
building out the roster and you so you get you
get excellent. He's a fantastic chef. You get excellent cooking
tips and a little dose of right wing cultural sanity
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(33:40):
I'm he's he's launched with us already, right, I'm not
getting ahead of this, yes, okay, just making.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Sure he is. He's out there, and uh, what was
one of the.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
He Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a great
tip from Chef Gruel. I'm attributing it to him, but
just to give you a sense of this, because I
hadn't even really thought of this. I have tended to
be in my cooking excursions, which are frequents, I tend
to be a salt at the end guy, because first
(34:10):
of all, if you put too much cracked peppers. I'm
thinking about meats now, like not polish sausage, all right,
smarty pants, I'm talking like steaks, things like that, you
put too much of the pepper on it and you
can actually burn pepper corns. From what I understand, you
don't want to do that. Do you want to pepper
and salt at the end for sure with your steaks, burgers,
things like that. But Chef Gruhl says, make sure that
(34:32):
you salt as you go with different things, because if
you're going to be mixing it in especially you know,
if you're making like turkey burgers or something, you don't
want to just salt the at the end. You want
to season and salt as you go. I was like,
that's a great tip and that you would get from the.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Podcast with Chef Gruels, So go check that out.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Uh see, we have Ben in Indiana wants to talk
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (35:00):
Hey, thanks for having me on the show. It's my
first time Colin. I wanted to switch gears a little
bit and talk about the Virginia gubernatorial race because often
that race is a bell weather for the midterms the
following year, as it was in twenty eighteen. For sure,
I was a little worried until the debate last week
between Winston Sears and Abigail Spanburger. During that debate, Winston
(35:26):
Sears had her Ronald Reagan moment, was able to link
her to the far and crazy left by two things.
By two points one, Abigail's Spanburger, it's still in favor of,
you know, chemical castration in the transine of children. Number two,
she still endorses Jay Jones for Attorney General in Virginia.
(35:50):
That's the guy, if you're not aware, who wished death
on his political opponent and his children. So both of
those things were highlighted. They came out during the debate
for the first time. I have some hope in this
Virginia race.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Well, we're gonna get into this tomorrow, my friend, I
can assure you of that. That's why you got to
tune into the Clay and Buck Show every day, because
you know, every day is a new and exciting adventure,
and the Virginia governor's race is going to be part
of tomorrow's adventure, among other things, so make sure you
join us for that up. But yes, I agree with you,
it's very, very important to see how that one goes.
We've also got the New Jersey governor's race and the
(36:26):
mayor's race in New York City, and we are just
a couple of weeks away from decision.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Day on all that.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
So, oh yeah, we're gonna have politics for you here.
This is how we roll on Clay and Buck, we
do Middle East peace, cooking tips, governor's races.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
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