October 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into a fast-paced, opinionated breakdown of the latest political, cultural, and media headlines, with a strong emphasis on conservative commentary and humor. The show opens with reflections on the ongoing government shutdown, now in its 21st day, framing it as a result of Democratic obstructionism. Clay and Buck also discuss President Donald Trump's $250 million White House ballroom renovation, joking about Clay’s dancing skills and the broader implications of the renovation.
A major segment focuses on the broken ceasefire in Gaza, with Buck emphasizing that Hamas remains unchanged and peace is impossible while its leadership remains intact. The hosts also highlight Judge Jeanine Pirro’s defense of Edward “Big Balls,” a man who intervened in a carjacking incident, portraying him as a patriotic hero.
The show then shifts to political media, mocking Karine Jean-Pierre’s book and criticizing the broader trend of Biden administration officials publishing memoirs. Clay and Buck argue that these books reveal a lack of awareness or integrity regarding President Biden’s cognitive decline.
A significant portion of Hour 1 centers on the heated New York City mayoral race. Curtis Sliwa refuses to drop out despite pressure, which Clay argues will ensure the election of progressive candidate “Mamdani.” The hosts debate whether Andrew Cuomo would be a better alternative and explore the strategic implications for the Republican Party. They suggest that a Momani victory could benefit national GOP efforts by making far-left politics more visible and unpopular in battleground states. The discussion includes commentary on Bill Ackman, down-ballot Republican candidates, and the broader impact on upstate New York.
The hosts also analyze the “No Kings” protest against Trump, dismissing it as ineffective and self-indulgent. They argue that the protest lacks clear messaging and fails to persuade undecided voters, instead serving as a form of social media virtue signaling. Batya Ungar-Sargon is quoted criticizing the protest as anti-democratic, noting that Trump is simply enacting the agenda he campaigned on.
Additional segments include listener call-ins, such as a trucker’s critique of collectivism and authoritarianism, and a humorous debate over whether teachers should be allowed to moonlight as strippers. Clay shares a personal anecdote about his son dropping a phone in the toilet and Alabama defeating Tennessee, adding a lighthearted close to the hour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Everybody Tuesday edition. I'll be Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton show kicks off right now, day twenty one
of the shutdown. It's a real shutdown situation they are
having here. We will get into some of the back end.
Ford pretty straightforward Democrats view the obstructions what they used
(00:21):
to call it when you didn't do whatever President Obama wanted.
You'll remember that obstruction is their only game plan right now,
and if that means that they don't have anything beyond it,
so be it. We can have a conversation about that.
President Trump is doing a two hundred and fifty million
dollars White House ballroom renovation, which most exciting of all
(00:45):
is that it's just a matter of time before mister
Clay Travis puts on his dancing shoes and shows you
all the crazy, funky moves that he's got at some
White House function. You know he's gonna step on the
dance floor. Make John Travolta in his prime. Look. I
would just say for.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Radio show host particularly white guys who are radio show host,
I would put myself in the top five percent best dancers.
I don't know who else is actually really talented and
by the way, I'm not you. I wasn't practicing TikTok
dance moves by myself in my apartment during COVID. So
it may be the case that you're in the one
percent or the point one percent, But I don't think
(01:26):
that radio show host are renowned for their elite dance ability.
So I feel confident. Much like when you came into
the sports broadcasting the press boxes and I said, hey,
it doesn't take a lot to be a decent looking
sports writer, I don't think it takes a lot to
be a decent dancer in the radio world either.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, there might be a forget a stake bet, there
might have to be a dance on video, put it
on social and TikTok bet at some point. Now that
we got the White House ballroom going, but that's part
of Trump's renovation of the White House that has been underway.
We've got that discussion. Hamas has broken the ceasefire. That
is not a surprise to me, I would assume to
(02:10):
any of you. Hamas is going to continue on doing
what it does. It has not changed anything about what
it is, and there's going to have to be a
further reckoning. They cannot allow Hamas leadership to stay in place.
There can be no peace with Hamas. That is what
we are seeing. That is not something that, like I said,
(02:31):
comes out of the blue for anybody who's been paying
attention to the region. But we can have some updates
for you on that as we go. Also, Judge Janine
is taking it, taking it to the mat in defense
of mister big Balls. What's his actual name?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I know him as only as big Balls, so things
to be known as I guess in the grand scheme
of things. But yes, let me see if I can
find his It's very funny what his actual name is.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
He was beaten up in the in the attacks, and yeah,
he's a great American. He stepped in to help somebody
who's being carjacked. Carjacked by teenagers, mind you, a mob
of them, Edward Chorsteine Chorustine. There we go aka big Ball. Yes,
sud Janine is having none of it. We shall discuss
that Karine Jean Pierre is out there making the case
(03:28):
for her book to people. I think all these Biden books.
You notice, Clay, You're not even hearing anyone talking about
Kamala's book anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You're trolling who read it one hundred and seven days? Yeah,
that's called being a team player, Clay. Some of us
are out there. Some of us are out there in
the grove or whatever at Old Miss, partying and enjoying football,
surrounded by great Americans and beautiful ladies. Some of us
want a gouger eyeballs out with a spoon because we
(03:58):
are stuck.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Reading one hundred and seven days. So I'm just saying,
you know, there are those of us who are on
the all expenses cruise and those of us who are
taking grenades in the trenches on this one. Nonetheless, nobody,
nobody is talking about Kamala's book and Creie Jean Pierre's
book comes down to I am so incapable of assessing
(04:21):
what is going on around me that I really had
no idea that Joe Biden had dementia. I really just
didn't know. I almost think that's worse. I think it
would be better to say, you know what, I believe
that Trump is so bad for America that I was
willing to be a part of a big lie. At
least there'd be some integrity in admitting that. Pretending you
are so out of it and really kind of dumb
(04:44):
that you have no idea that anyway, Well, I don't.
We can get more into that discussion. I'm gonna start
with this. People are getting very testy over Some people
are getting testy over the New York City mayor's race
situation as the oncoming collectivist freight train of Mamdaniism is
(05:04):
getting closer and closer to my beloved New York City,
and Curtis Sliwa is staying in all the calls, including
from a lot of New York based commentators play. A
lot of people are saying, Curtis, look, you gotta save
New York from from quote, I mean from a Mamdani
(05:25):
Cuomo's not great, but it will be better. Uh, Clomo's
actually pretty awful. This is really trading an F student
for like a C minus student, I think is the
fairest way to put it. Here is what Sliwa has
to say about. First of all, Bill Ackman, a billionaire activist,
h centrist guy. I wouldn't say he's right wing. Uh
(05:45):
here he is. Well, Slee was saying he that guy
needs to go take a long walk off a short
pier play seven.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well number one. Ackman is a jerk as he been right.
Yet here's a guy who goes to Newport, Rhode Island
and thinks he's a professional penance player. Come on, acman,
stay in lane. Does he know anything about politics?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Does he live in New York City, No, he lives
in Chaprika, the whitest suburb of America where even the
lawn jockey's are white. He may know Wall Street, he
may know Hedge funds. He has been wrong every step
of the way with the billionaires. So let's say people
come to the conclusion if somehow I lose and we
know Andrew Como's lost, he's already tossed in the town.
(06:29):
Oh it's because of you, Curtis, Because it really it's
because of the Democrats. Let me say, who created Rohan Montmy,
who embraced him, who nursed him, who supported him?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Clay, he is not buying into the argument you have
been making, among many others, for the necessity of his dropout.
He's saying, Look, it's all the democrats fault. I'm staying
in it to win it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
He's not wrong about it being all the Democrats' fault.
What he is wrong about is if if he stays
in it. All he's doing is guaranteeing Mamdanni is going
to be elected the next mayor of New York City
here in thirteen days. And I've made the argument, I
really do believe this that Mamdanni winning is simultaneously the
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worst thing that could happen to New York City and
the best thing that could happen to the rest of
the country, because it makes Mamdanni in AOC the face
of the Democrat Party socialist communists in New York City,
and New York City, as nice of a place as
it is, does not play well in all of the
battleground states, the places where control of the Senate is
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going to be determined, and the place is where control
of the House is going to be determined. So with
that in mind, there is an argument that Kurtisly was
actually doing what is best for the Republican Party by
refusing to drop out. I don't think there's any argument
at all that he's doing what is best for New
York City because his continued uh involvement in this race
(08:02):
has continued.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Staying in this race.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Ensures that Mam Donnie is going to be elected the
next mayor of New York City, and then it becomes
a case buck of you just have to hope that
Mam Donnie is so incompetent that he isn't able to
implement the things that he has promised he is going
to be implemable.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
This is my silver This is my silver lining. That's
the only silver lining is that he's so unfortunately. I
think Eric Adams had a similar but different problem in
that he had some good ideas on public safety but
lacked the bureaucratic skills to implement them. Mam Donnie, it's
it's a different problem. What he wants to do is bad,
(08:44):
but he may be incapable of doing it. Here we
have Curtis lee With continuing on this is Hot Tip
Nate Friedman podcast. I've never heard of Nate, but here
this is from his podcast. But here's Curtis Leewa making
his case Clay that this idea that all the Cuomo
people the rather that his people will just vote Cuomo,
is also detached from what he sees as reality play eight.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And how dare you people who know nothing about politics
suggest that everybody who's going to vote for me is
suddenly gonna be reborn. We love Angel Cuomo. He killed
all these elderlys, that sexual harassment. He told conservatives and
Republicans in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
If you're a conservative and you believe in right.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
To life and the Second Amendment, you have no place
in New York.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You need to leave.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
This is the result of the Democrat self destruction.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So I'm supposed to help them. How come they don't
help themselves? Clay, what do you make of that? Again?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I don't disagree with anything that he's arguing. The question
is is Cuomo likely to be better for New York City,
as awful as he has been in the past than
Mom Donnie.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I think the answer is yes.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do I think that Republicans should have to save Democrats
from the consequences of their own choices?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And again this is where I come back, and I
understand we got a lot of wr listeners. This is
where I come back to. It can simultaneously be the
best and worst thing for the Republican Party for Mamdani
to win. I think it's the worst thing for anyone
who is saying in New York City. I think it's
arguably the best thing that could happen for anyone who
(10:28):
is saying in the country. And this is why I've said,
sometimes you just got to let the island go under
the water. Best case scenario to your point, Buck, he's
so incompetent that he can't actually change anything or implement
any of his ideas. Worst case scenario he does in
New York City, really, as one of the crown jewels
of America, starts to reflect some of the same issues
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that we have seen happen in many of the top
capitals across the West, which is all of the choices
they're making are fine. He's starting to catch up with them.
Whether it's London, whether it's Paris, you name the big
Western civilization capitals. I think they're making increasingly left wing
choices that are bad for the overall populations there.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Part of the problem is that leftists have a much
higher tolerance for inflicting pain on the masses than a
lot of the sane people us realize.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
San Francisco should have known twenty years ago, hey what
are you doing. You're ruining a great American city. Now
it seems they finally have a more sane mayor finally,
but it took way too long. I worry that something
that that'll happen in New York. But here, just for
one last, one last bit of the argument, Clay, here's
Curtis Sliwa telling Andrew Cuomo that it's on him to
(11:45):
go out and convert Sliwa voters. Play nine.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Andrew Cuomo failed to everybody in that primary.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
He even admitted it.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Now he's basically saying, I can't win without Sliwa votes.
Where are your votes? Why did you spend your money
and things? Got millions from the billionaires millions? Go out
get your on vote convertly, we're voters. But for me
to drop out, I represent a major party line. I
have people running under me, counsel people, judges. They put
(12:12):
their heart and soul into it. They support me. I
have more more donations than Andrew Cmo does, matching funds.
So you know something.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
This is called voting.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Since when do we not let people vote billionaires determine
the next mayor. If they don't like it, they can leave.
They have options. Blue Coylar working class people don't. Those
are the people I'm representing, not Andrew Cmo play.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
His best argument, I think is actually what he said
about the down ticket on the Republican side, or rather
the one that we hadn't really discussed here, And I
do think there's merit to that, But he's also going
to make sure that Mam Donnie wins the selection. That's
the problem.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
A part of me makes me think he spends so
much time attacking Cuomo, has Mom Donnie promised him some
sort of job. It sounds crazy, but is there something
I don't think is there something that curtisly wants in terms?
And I don't even think it would be bad politics
from Mom Donnie? Why otherwise, why would you stay in
(13:15):
It's It then becomes almost entirely a vanity project.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Maybe he hates personally Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Maybe they've had a relationship in the past. That is
a lot of people do just to a lot of
people really personally dislike Andrew, So he may not personally
dislike Mom Donnie. And this may be personal on Curtis
Lee's behalf. But again, in thirteen days, the data is
going to be out there and I think you can
look at it and we'll see whether Mom Donnie wins
(13:43):
a majority of this trio or does the Do the
numbers reflect that if there had been a one v
one Mom Donnie would have lost because right now, as
we're speaking to all of you, Mom, Donnie keeps setting
new highs buck in the life likelihood of being able
to be the nominee and to win this race. And
(14:05):
so long as that continues, I think that we're in
a really, really tough spot for the city of New York.
Now positive is there does seem to be some good
momentum for Cidarelli on the Jersey Race, and certainly Jason
Miarez and win. Some seers I think have made up
(14:25):
some ground in the state of Virginia as that race
is going. But right now you have a ninety three
percent chance in all of the sort of prediction markets
that Mamdanie's gonna win. And if you think Sliva was
gonna win, because we get these calls every time, you
can one hundred times your money in thirteen days. So
(14:47):
this would be one of the most epic upsets in
the history of upsets. All of you should go vote,
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be heard, and they're going to be put a Communist
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Speaker 1 (16:28):
Appreciate all of you. This is a good.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Point, Tim, upstate New York. Let's get to him quickly here.
I will say another positive is I think if Mom
Donnie is elected, it will help at least staphonics potential
gubernatorial campaign. But Tim, you're pointing out upstate New York
will be impacted by Mom Donnie as well.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Oh yes, that is correct, right for decades, upstate New
York president. So everything we pay taxes up here, Rofney
has been funneling a lot of it down to the city.
And with his current projection for what he's gonna need
for free busting and everything else, he's gonna have to
tap into the rest of the state of New York,
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and we're all gonna suffer, not just the city.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think there's a lot of thank you for the call.
I think there's a lot of truth to that again,
trying to be positive. If in thirteen days, Mom Donnie wins,
I do think Stephani's campaign would say that is a
very positive. And obviously Kathy Hokel has been awful, so
buck as a former New Yorker, maybe that's another bit
of shining light. In the event that this happens, like
(17:37):
we anticipate, will it's all gonna be okay, It's all
gonna be okay. All right, it might take a while,
but gonna it's gonna be fun. New York's a very
resilient place. The Big Apple starts spreading the news. All right,
we'll come back in this year in a second.
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something like that. I appreciate you being here with us.
Fit some of your talkbacks and some of you some
of your calls here. Shortly, apparently there's some talkbacks about strippers. Clay,
this is what happens. I leave, I'm gone for one
hour to go to the doctor with my baby, and
there's stripper talking.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I thought that I had given the least controversial take
of my career, that you could fire someone for violating
the morality cause of their contract as a teacher, even
if they were doing something legal. And I used as
an example, I don't think most people would want their
(19:40):
kindergarten teacher or second grade teacher, third grade teacher to
also moonlight as a stripper. And then one of our guys,
a former Navy guy, called in and told me I
was one hundred percent wrong on that, and so people
are still fired up about Dan calling that. I think
it was Dan Dan, twenty year Navy vet called in
and said, hey, be a stripper and a elementary school
(20:02):
teacher at the same time, and people are still fire
up about that. I thought I had said the least
controversial thing on the show. And there's some good talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I know the talkbacks will be interesting when I'm out
because all of a sudden, it's can strippers also be
kindergarten teachers? And what is the worst way to die?
I'm like, oh, oh, okay, some things. Some things were
discussed in my absence, But anyway, we will get to
some of those fantastic talkbacks. And just a little bit,
just something I wanted to close the loop on Clay
(20:31):
the on the no Kings protest situation. I think that
they're trying so hard, but I think they're also realizing
this just doesn't have punch. This doesn't have the I
don't care how they can tell me that seven million,
they can tell me seventy million. I don't It doesn't
matter how many individuals with nothing better to do. I
(20:53):
think your take on this, which I saw, went viral,
and I understand why I did. I liked it. I
like it. It was a good take. If this is
the best thing you have to do with your weekend,
you should really think more about what you have to
deal with your weekend. Yes, this is a This is
not a worthwhile usage of anyone's time. They're trying to
over at MSNBC Nicole Wallace, this is cut twenty two.
(21:14):
He's trying to say that this is member. Former Republican
bush Person Nicole Wallace says that this is the new
opposition in America, led by the people, Play twenty two.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
It is the people's right to exercise free speech and
to criticize their elected leaders at the top of their lungs,
and that that very thing is what makes America great.
That is what makes America America, is what makes us
special all around the world. Until right now, Donald Trump
showed the world what he thinks of the American people
by literally broadcasting an image of himself pouring feces all
(21:48):
over America and the American people the note Kings protest
clearly getting deep under Donald Trump's skin over the weekend.
But more importantly, the protests show the contours of a
new opposition in America, one led by the people.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
According to the.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Organizers, seven million people came out to protest Donald Trump
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Clay. Notice how we're not even sure what they're protesting
other than Trump, who's not going to be president a
beyond the next three years, not even running again. And
the notion that they're getting under Trump's skin with is no,
actually you want to. We know Trump both in the
from his work but also as a guy, he thinks
that these people are just sad. He actually thinks that
(22:28):
they're sad and silly, even if so. I think there's
several things here. One I personally happen to believe, if
you wasted a beautiful fall Saturday protesting Donald Trump, you
are a huge loser. I think most people out there
saw this and saw the protesters and said, you're all
(22:49):
huge losers too. Here is a secondary part of this.
What is the goal of a protest?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
To me? The goal of a protest is to bring
attention to an issue and get people to recognize that
you are correct. I don't think that's the goal of
this protest because I think in a social media era,
protests used to be about trying to persuade people to
(23:18):
reconsider their position and join another one. Now, I think
protest is just brand extension for people who already hate
Trump to take photos of themselves and post on Facebook
or Instagram or Twitter or wherever they're active blue sky
showing how much they hate Trump. Buck Around seventy million
(23:41):
people voted against Trump in the twenty twenty four election.
Let's say that that number that they put out there
is accurate, and seven million people nationwide showed up to
protest Trump. That would mean that ninety percent of the
people who voted against Trump had some thing better to
do than show up on Saturday and continue to protest Trump.
(24:04):
That to me is what kind of stands out. And
did those seven million people persuade anyone that Trump was
a king and that they should oppose him. No, I
think they actually probably created more Trump supporters, which is
why I come to the purpose of this protest is
about allowing the protesters to feel better about themselves, not
(24:25):
to change any trajectory of the country.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You remember when you were a kid and you would
say to somebody maybe or you would hear someone say,
you're not the boss of me? Yes, And I think
that that's generally not a good way to approach things
because by saying it, the implication is that maybe somebody,
including that person, could think they are the boss of you. Yeah,
you know, like you are getting bossed around. The no
(24:48):
kings thing, we're not. No one's saying that he's a
king except for the people who hate him, which to
me is coming at this from a position of weakness.
It's also coming at it from a position of absurdity.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It would be like if they said Trump's not like
king of the you know, emperor of the universe like
or you know, master of the universe, remember that from
the old de Man days. No he's not. But why
are you taking it there? It's a strange place just
psychologically to go. And Batia Ungar Sargon, this is twenty three.
She is she's not having any of this either, because
(25:21):
they're saying the guy's not a king. He just won
massively a free and fair election. So why are we
even talking about him being a king. It's like the
guy's the fastest one in the race, and you're saying, well,
is he really the fastest? Yeah, he is, Play twenty three.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
She is a person who is enacting the exact agenda
he promised he was going to enact while he was campaigning,
and so what they're actually protesting is the absolute perfection
of American democracy, where a person campaigned on an agenda,
won the popular vote, and is now enacting that agenda.
So it was actually a protest of democracy. All of
(25:56):
which is to say, the only way to greet such
a preposterous proposition calling this a no King's rally when
it's actually an anti democracy rally is to crap on it,
I'm sorry, is to basically make fun of it. And
I think that that has been the Trump administration's approach.
They didn't try to stop it, God forbid, because he's
not a king. They allowed them to have their say,
they allowed them to go out there, and then they
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made fun of them.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I don't agree with the bathroom humor necessarily approach, but
but mocking it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I also think this goes to we talked about during
the twenty twenty four election, that calling somebody Hitler and
calling somebody a Nazi wasn't working. So they tried to
move and say he's a fascist, and I said, fascist
is not going to work because frankly, it's a complicated word.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
People don't even know what it means.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
They certainly most people can't spell fascist, probably in America.
And now they've moved on to no kings. But I
don't think king has a super negative connotation. So even
if you were trying to persuade people, no dictators, okay,
I might say, hey, no dictators, no kings. I just
(27:05):
I think their messaging is really bad. Does that make sense?
Like if you tell me somebody's Hitler and then you
move from their Hitler to well, maybe not Hitler, but
they're Nazis, to well, maybe not Nazis, but fascist, maybe
not fascist.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But kings.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Every step down actually the assault, the attack becomes less
inflammatory and less negative. Right, Like if I had to say, hey, Hitler, Nazi, fascist, king,
a king is not that awful, right, There've been pretty
good kings over the years. Some king's really good. And
(27:44):
so I just they're failing at messaging. They don't really
know they're just kind of flailing around. This shutdown is
a perfect example because I can't even really figure out
what they want, and I don't think they know what
they want, and so all of this has just turned
into I think a huge ridiculous mess, and I think
(28:08):
it ultimately benefits Trump, and I don't think that they're
motivating or influencing anybody. Isn't that kind of interesting to
think about ninety percent of even the people who voted
against Trump had something better to do on October eighteenth,
on a fine Saturday, then show up in protest against Trump.
They can't even get the people who voted against Trump
(28:28):
to show up ten months later and talk about how
awful Trump is. So I think this is just yet
another failure. You know, what we want to have is
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Speaker 1 (30:24):
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Speaker 6 (30:26):
A couple of regular guys, Clay, Travis and Buck Sext
Today find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever
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Speaker 2 (30:36):
Welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Let's take some of your calls in some of your talkbacks.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Eight hundred and two A two two eight A two
truck driver Don and Iowa's got a pretty good argument
here on the No Kings Rally Fire.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Don.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
We hope you're getting us coast to coast fire away.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
I pick you guys up in all forty eight states,
so thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
That is all awesome to hear. We love you. Don.
You got a good argument here.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, Jesse Kelly's argument is the perfect argument. He says,
if you're a king, the government can't be shut down
on you, and obviously the Democrats have taken that authority
away and shut down the government. Also, do these Democrats
that they are all walking around with their furry costumes on,
(31:25):
do they realize that it is the Communist Party that
is financing their movement and their ultimate goal of the
Communist Party is ultimate control, which would be bizarre, and
that's what they want. So they're missing the point.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Oh so that's very astute observation. Well, collectivism always required
by the way, don a fantastic I love our truckers,
trucker Don, thank you for listening, thank you for calling.
An excellent call all the way around. But collectivism always
requires authoritarianism because the collectivists ignores the basic truths we
know of human beings, which are that human beings acting
(32:04):
their own interest. Human beings, you know, have to there
have to be incentives in place for them to do things. Uh.
That this is why you know, to each from each
according to his ability, to each according to his need
is an absurdity. Uh, I mean, it's it's a delusion, really,
And so the idea that you're going to have. You're
going to have like broad spectrum collectivist policy that doesn't
(32:28):
have a heavy hand of the state to make all
these arbitrary determinations and actually become much more tyrannical than
when individuals are allowed to make their own determinations via
the market or via other free mechanisms. Yeah, it's a
lot worse. This. This should this should be more apparent
to them than it is. But you know, the people
figure this out. With Mamdani Judy on.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
The podcast listening, Oh, I got two funny comments, Buck
one a friend, UH sent this through my wife. I'm
listening to yesterday show. Please tell Clay he's right on weddings. Also, you, Buck,
My two sisters and I all three got married in
less than two years, three huge weddings my dad paid for.
(33:16):
He's still pissed about how much they cost to this day.
Listen to this, Buck. He actually made us sign a
contract that if each of our marriages did not last
at least five years, we had to pay him back
for what the wedding cost. Completely true story, Valerie, how
I this right? No problem, no problem with that at all,
(33:38):
No problem with that at all. Sure you're gonna you
want all the bells and whistles.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
If you're not gonna make this a real union that
goes to test that last the distance, you got to
pay that money back.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I am team dad. I've never heard of any dad
that did this before. But he had three daughters and
he had to pay for all of them within two years.
And dad just said, hey, if they don't last five years,
you're on the hook to pay back for this.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I don't have a daughter. You don't have a daughter,
but you know, we're still trying. So maybe we'll get
a daughter here over at over in Team Buckland. And
I would just say this, Clay, if I was in
that situation, you know, let's say twenty years down the line,
after having a baby girl, I would I would take
the let's sit down. I'll give you a budget. Yeah,
(34:20):
and the budget is twofold. It's a wedding budget and
a down payment on your house budget. Yep.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Allocate the resources as you see fit exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You get to make the determination. But I think that
that puts it very you know, especially you get a
lot of people out of millennials priced out of expensive
member the price out of expensive markets people can live
in the Tulsa suburbs in a nice place, no problem.
But everybody that's complaining about this, the millennials. They want
to live you know, at the like you know, the
Navy Yard in DC, or they want to live in
(34:51):
uh well, Beacon Hill in Boston. I don't know where
do fancy people in Boston live. I just don't want
to say the upperast Side in Beverly Hills because those
are only fancy neighborhoods that come down.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Look in Nashville, there are tons of places you can
live very affordably. All the kids want to live in
the Gulch, they want to live in Music Row, they
want to live in twelve South right, and you could
live very cheaply in Gallatin right by and large, you
could live very cheaply in lots of suburban areas. But
I love your idea. Hey, let's sit down. Here is
(35:20):
your budget. If you're fortunate enough to have resources to
be able to help with the down payment on a home,
make a smart, rational decision.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
But Dad there was like, Hey.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
If this don't go fight, if this doesn't go five years,
you're gonna have to pay me back.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Judy is weighing in. AA, let's see what she had
to say.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
So I've never actually called the talk show before, but
I did just listen to Clay talk about the fact
that he didn't get to watch any football and not
his Tennessee volunteers loss.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
So I'm really sorry to see you this. But roll time, Jude,
they did was she's spiking the football right in your heart, Clay.
Ye what happened?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
She was?
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Now I got to watch some football, but I was
saying that I spent six hours because my Alabama fan
son of all dropped his phone in the toilet and
we had to go get the Evidently, eventually we found
out we had to replace the battery that was wired
out or buzzed out or whatever it did. And so
I unfortunately did watch Alabama beat Tennessee. But yes, we
(36:20):
were in ancient Rome. They would say that this was
an omen and that his dropping of the phone was
like dropping the Vall's hopes. On that day, I thought
that that would actually be the case, except he is
an Alabama fan, and so he both tormented me by
having me spend six hours getting his phone fixed, and
then as soon as the game was over, I picked
(36:42):
him up where he had been hanging out with a
bunch of his friends, and he said roll Tide, Dad,
Tennessee sucks and I was like, dude, I spent six
hours getting your phone repaired
Welcome in Everybody Tuesday edition. I'll be Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton show kicks off right now, day twenty one
of the shutdown. It's a real shutdown situation they are
having here. We will get into some of the back end.
Ford pretty straightforward Democrats view the obstructions what they used
(00:21):
to call it when you didn't do whatever President Obama wanted.
You'll remember that obstruction is their only game plan right now,
and if that means that they don't have anything beyond it,
so be it. We can have a conversation about that.
President Trump is doing a two hundred and fifty million
dollars White House ballroom renovation, which most exciting of all
(00:45):
is that it's just a matter of time before mister
Clay Travis puts on his dancing shoes and shows you
all the crazy, funky moves that he's got at some
White House function. You know he's gonna step on the
dance floor. Make John Travolta in his prime. Look. I
would just say for.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Radio show host particularly white guys who are radio show host,
I would put myself in the top five percent best dancers.
I don't know who else is actually really talented and
by the way, I'm not you. I wasn't practicing TikTok
dance moves by myself in my apartment during COVID. So
it may be the case that you're in the one
percent or the point one percent, But I don't think
(01:26):
that radio show host are renowned for their elite dance ability.
So I feel confident. Much like when you came into
the sports broadcasting the press boxes and I said, hey,
it doesn't take a lot to be a decent looking
sports writer, I don't think it takes a lot to
be a decent dancer in the radio world either.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, there might be a forget a stake bet, there
might have to be a dance on video, put it
on social and TikTok bet at some point. Now that
we got the White House ballroom going, but that's part
of Trump's renovation of the White House that has been underway.
We've got that discussion. Hamas has broken the ceasefire. That
is not a surprise to me, I would assume to
(02:10):
any of you. Hamas is going to continue on doing
what it does. It has not changed anything about what
it is, and there's going to have to be a
further reckoning. They cannot allow Hamas leadership to stay in place.
There can be no peace with Hamas. That is what
we are seeing. That is not something that, like I said,
(02:31):
comes out of the blue for anybody who's been paying
attention to the region. But we can have some updates
for you on that as we go. Also, Judge Janine
is taking it, taking it to the mat in defense
of mister big Balls. What's his actual name?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I know him as only as big Balls, so things
to be known as I guess in the grand scheme
of things. But yes, let me see if I can
find his It's very funny what his actual name is.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
He was beaten up in the in the attacks, and yeah,
he's a great American. He stepped in to help somebody
who's being carjacked. Carjacked by teenagers, mind you, a mob
of them, Edward Chorsteine Chorustine. There we go aka big Ball. Yes,
sud Janine is having none of it. We shall discuss
that Karine Jean Pierre is out there making the case
(03:28):
for her book to people. I think all these Biden books.
You notice, Clay, You're not even hearing anyone talking about
Kamala's book anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You're trolling who read it one hundred and seven days? Yeah,
that's called being a team player, Clay. Some of us
are out there. Some of us are out there in
the grove or whatever at Old Miss, partying and enjoying football,
surrounded by great Americans and beautiful ladies. Some of us
want a gouger eyeballs out with a spoon because we
(03:58):
are stuck.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Reading one hundred and seven days. So I'm just saying,
you know, there are those of us who are on
the all expenses cruise and those of us who are
taking grenades in the trenches on this one. Nonetheless, nobody,
nobody is talking about Kamala's book and Creie Jean Pierre's
book comes down to I am so incapable of assessing
(04:21):
what is going on around me that I really had
no idea that Joe Biden had dementia. I really just
didn't know. I almost think that's worse. I think it
would be better to say, you know what, I believe
that Trump is so bad for America that I was
willing to be a part of a big lie. At
least there'd be some integrity in admitting that. Pretending you
are so out of it and really kind of dumb
(04:44):
that you have no idea that anyway, Well, I don't.
We can get more into that discussion. I'm gonna start
with this. People are getting very testy over Some people
are getting testy over the New York City mayor's race
situation as the oncoming collectivist freight train of Mamdaniism is
(05:04):
getting closer and closer to my beloved New York City,
and Curtis Sliwa is staying in all the calls, including
from a lot of New York based commentators play. A
lot of people are saying, Curtis, look, you gotta save
New York from from quote, I mean from a Mamdani
(05:25):
Cuomo's not great, but it will be better. Uh, Clomo's
actually pretty awful. This is really trading an F student
for like a C minus student, I think is the
fairest way to put it. Here is what Sliwa has
to say about. First of all, Bill Ackman, a billionaire activist,
h centrist guy. I wouldn't say he's right wing. Uh
(05:45):
here he is. Well, Slee was saying he that guy
needs to go take a long walk off a short
pier play seven.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well number one. Ackman is a jerk as he been right.
Yet here's a guy who goes to Newport, Rhode Island
and thinks he's a professional penance player. Come on, acman,
stay in lane. Does he know anything about politics?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Does he live in New York City, No, he lives
in Chaprika, the whitest suburb of America where even the
lawn jockey's are white. He may know Wall Street, he
may know Hedge funds. He has been wrong every step
of the way with the billionaires. So let's say people
come to the conclusion if somehow I lose and we
know Andrew Como's lost, he's already tossed in the town.
(06:29):
Oh it's because of you, Curtis, Because it really it's
because of the Democrats. Let me say, who created Rohan Montmy,
who embraced him, who nursed him, who supported him?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Clay, he is not buying into the argument you have
been making, among many others, for the necessity of his dropout.
He's saying, Look, it's all the democrats fault. I'm staying
in it to win it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
He's not wrong about it being all the Democrats' fault.
What he is wrong about is if if he stays
in it. All he's doing is guaranteeing Mamdanni is going
to be elected the next mayor of New York City
here in thirteen days. And I've made the argument, I
really do believe this that Mamdanni winning is simultaneously the
(07:15):
worst thing that could happen to New York City and
the best thing that could happen to the rest of
the country, because it makes Mamdanni in AOC the face
of the Democrat Party socialist communists in New York City,
and New York City, as nice of a place as
it is, does not play well in all of the
battleground states, the places where control of the Senate is
(07:38):
going to be determined, and the place is where control
of the House is going to be determined. So with
that in mind, there is an argument that Kurtisly was
actually doing what is best for the Republican Party by
refusing to drop out. I don't think there's any argument
at all that he's doing what is best for New
York City because his continued uh involvement in this race
(08:02):
has continued.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Staying in this race.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Ensures that Mam Donnie is going to be elected the
next mayor of New York City, and then it becomes
a case buck of you just have to hope that
Mam Donnie is so incompetent that he isn't able to
implement the things that he has promised he is going
to be implemable.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
This is my silver This is my silver lining. That's
the only silver lining is that he's so unfortunately. I
think Eric Adams had a similar but different problem in
that he had some good ideas on public safety but
lacked the bureaucratic skills to implement them. Mam Donnie, it's
it's a different problem. What he wants to do is bad,
(08:44):
but he may be incapable of doing it. Here we
have Curtis lee With continuing on this is Hot Tip
Nate Friedman podcast. I've never heard of Nate, but here
this is from his podcast. But here's Curtis Leewa making
his case Clay that this idea that all the Cuomo
people the rather that his people will just vote Cuomo,
is also detached from what he sees as reality play eight.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And how dare you people who know nothing about politics
suggest that everybody who's going to vote for me is
suddenly gonna be reborn. We love Angel Cuomo. He killed
all these elderlys, that sexual harassment. He told conservatives and
Republicans in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
If you're a conservative and you believe in right.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
To life and the Second Amendment, you have no place
in New York.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You need to leave.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
This is the result of the Democrat self destruction.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So I'm supposed to help them. How come they don't
help themselves? Clay, what do you make of that? Again?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I don't disagree with anything that he's arguing. The question
is is Cuomo likely to be better for New York City,
as awful as he has been in the past than
Mom Donnie.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I think the answer is yes.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do I think that Republicans should have to save Democrats
from the consequences of their own choices?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And again this is where I come back, and I
understand we got a lot of wr listeners. This is
where I come back to. It can simultaneously be the
best and worst thing for the Republican Party for Mamdani
to win. I think it's the worst thing for anyone
who is saying in New York City. I think it's
arguably the best thing that could happen for anyone who
(10:28):
is saying in the country. And this is why I've said,
sometimes you just got to let the island go under
the water. Best case scenario to your point, Buck, he's
so incompetent that he can't actually change anything or implement
any of his ideas. Worst case scenario he does in
New York City, really, as one of the crown jewels
of America, starts to reflect some of the same issues
(10:52):
that we have seen happen in many of the top
capitals across the West, which is all of the choices
they're making are fine. He's starting to catch up with them.
Whether it's London, whether it's Paris, you name the big
Western civilization capitals. I think they're making increasingly left wing
choices that are bad for the overall populations there.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Part of the problem is that leftists have a much
higher tolerance for inflicting pain on the masses than a
lot of the sane people us realize.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
San Francisco should have known twenty years ago, hey what
are you doing. You're ruining a great American city. Now
it seems they finally have a more sane mayor finally,
but it took way too long. I worry that something
that that'll happen in New York. But here, just for
one last, one last bit of the argument, Clay, here's
Curtis Sliwa telling Andrew Cuomo that it's on him to
(11:45):
go out and convert Sliwa voters. Play nine.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Andrew Cuomo failed to everybody in that primary.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
He even admitted it.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Now he's basically saying, I can't win without Sliwa votes.
Where are your votes? Why did you spend your money
and things? Got millions from the billionaires millions? Go out
get your on vote convertly, we're voters. But for me
to drop out, I represent a major party line. I
have people running under me, counsel people, judges. They put
(12:12):
their heart and soul into it. They support me. I
have more more donations than Andrew Cmo does, matching funds.
So you know something.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
This is called voting.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Since when do we not let people vote billionaires determine
the next mayor. If they don't like it, they can leave.
They have options. Blue Coylar working class people don't. Those
are the people I'm representing, not Andrew Cmo play.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
His best argument, I think is actually what he said
about the down ticket on the Republican side, or rather
the one that we hadn't really discussed here, And I
do think there's merit to that, But he's also going
to make sure that Mam Donnie wins the selection. That's
the problem.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
A part of me makes me think he spends so
much time attacking Cuomo, has Mom Donnie promised him some
sort of job. It sounds crazy, but is there something
I don't think is there something that curtisly wants in terms?
And I don't even think it would be bad politics
from Mom Donnie? Why otherwise, why would you stay in
(13:15):
It's It then becomes almost entirely a vanity project.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Maybe he hates personally Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Maybe they've had a relationship in the past. That is
a lot of people do just to a lot of
people really personally dislike Andrew, So he may not personally
dislike Mom Donnie. And this may be personal on Curtis
Lee's behalf. But again, in thirteen days, the data is
going to be out there and I think you can
look at it and we'll see whether Mom Donnie wins
(13:43):
a majority of this trio or does the Do the
numbers reflect that if there had been a one v
one Mom Donnie would have lost because right now, as
we're speaking to all of you, Mom, Donnie keeps setting
new highs buck in the life likelihood of being able
to be the nominee and to win this race. And
(14:05):
so long as that continues, I think that we're in
a really, really tough spot for the city of New York.
Now positive is there does seem to be some good
momentum for Cidarelli on the Jersey Race, and certainly Jason
Miarez and win. Some seers I think have made up
(14:25):
some ground in the state of Virginia as that race
is going. But right now you have a ninety three
percent chance in all of the sort of prediction markets
that Mamdanie's gonna win. And if you think Sliva was
gonna win, because we get these calls every time, you
can one hundred times your money in thirteen days. So
(14:47):
this would be one of the most epic upsets in
the history of upsets. All of you should go vote,
don't listen to us, make your voice heard. But I
think the voices of New York are unfortunately going to
be heard, and they're going to be put a Communist
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Saving America, one thought at a time. Clay Travis and
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Speaker 2 (16:25):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Appreciate all of you. This is a good.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Point, Tim, upstate New York. Let's get to him quickly here.
I will say another positive is I think if Mom
Donnie is elected, it will help at least staphonics potential
gubernatorial campaign. But Tim, you're pointing out upstate New York
will be impacted by Mom Donnie as well.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Oh yes, that is correct, right for decades, upstate New
York president. So everything we pay taxes up here, Rofney
has been funneling a lot of it down to the city.
And with his current projection for what he's gonna need
for free busting and everything else, he's gonna have to
tap into the rest of the state of New York,
(17:13):
and we're all gonna suffer, not just the city.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think there's a lot of thank you for the call.
I think there's a lot of truth to that again,
trying to be positive. If in thirteen days, Mom Donnie wins,
I do think Stephani's campaign would say that is a
very positive. And obviously Kathy Hokel has been awful, so
buck as a former New Yorker, maybe that's another bit
of shining light. In the event that this happens, like
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we anticipate, will it's all gonna be okay, It's all
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and all of the news that fit to chat aback
(19:01):
something like that. I appreciate you being here with us.
Fit some of your talkbacks and some of you some
of your calls here. Shortly, apparently there's some talkbacks about strippers. Clay,
this is what happens. I leave, I'm gone for one
hour to go to the doctor with my baby, and
there's stripper talking.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I thought that I had given the least controversial take
of my career, that you could fire someone for violating
the morality cause of their contract as a teacher, even
if they were doing something legal. And I used as
an example, I don't think most people would want their
(19:40):
kindergarten teacher or second grade teacher, third grade teacher to
also moonlight as a stripper. And then one of our guys,
a former Navy guy, called in and told me I
was one hundred percent wrong on that, and so people
are still fired up about Dan calling that. I think
it was Dan Dan, twenty year Navy vet called in
and said, hey, be a stripper and a elementary school
(20:02):
teacher at the same time, and people are still fire
up about that. I thought I had said the least
controversial thing on the show. And there's some good talkbacks.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I know the talkbacks will be interesting when I'm out
because all of a sudden, it's can strippers also be
kindergarten teachers? And what is the worst way to die?
I'm like, oh, oh, okay, some things. Some things were
discussed in my absence, But anyway, we will get to
some of those fantastic talkbacks. And just a little bit,
just something I wanted to close the loop on Clay
(20:31):
the on the no Kings protest situation. I think that
they're trying so hard, but I think they're also realizing
this just doesn't have punch. This doesn't have the I
don't care how they can tell me that seven million,
they can tell me seventy million. I don't It doesn't
matter how many individuals with nothing better to do. I
(20:53):
think your take on this, which I saw, went viral,
and I understand why I did. I liked it. I
like it. It was a good take. If this is
the best thing you have to do with your weekend,
you should really think more about what you have to
deal with your weekend. Yes, this is a This is
not a worthwhile usage of anyone's time. They're trying to
over at MSNBC Nicole Wallace, this is cut twenty two.
(21:14):
He's trying to say that this is member. Former Republican
bush Person Nicole Wallace says that this is the new
opposition in America, led by the people, Play twenty two.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
It is the people's right to exercise free speech and
to criticize their elected leaders at the top of their lungs,
and that that very thing is what makes America great.
That is what makes America America, is what makes us
special all around the world. Until right now, Donald Trump
showed the world what he thinks of the American people
by literally broadcasting an image of himself pouring feces all
(21:48):
over America and the American people the note Kings protest
clearly getting deep under Donald Trump's skin over the weekend.
But more importantly, the protests show the contours of a
new opposition in America, one led by the people.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
According to the.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Organizers, seven million people came out to protest Donald Trump
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Clay. Notice how we're not even sure what they're protesting
other than Trump, who's not going to be president a
beyond the next three years, not even running again. And
the notion that they're getting under Trump's skin with is no,
actually you want to. We know Trump both in the
from his work but also as a guy, he thinks
that these people are just sad. He actually thinks that
(22:28):
they're sad and silly, even if so. I think there's
several things here. One I personally happen to believe, if
you wasted a beautiful fall Saturday protesting Donald Trump, you
are a huge loser. I think most people out there
saw this and saw the protesters and said, you're all
(22:49):
huge losers too. Here is a secondary part of this.
What is the goal of a protest?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
To me? The goal of a protest is to bring
attention to an issue and get people to recognize that
you are correct. I don't think that's the goal of
this protest because I think in a social media era,
protests used to be about trying to persuade people to
(23:18):
reconsider their position and join another one. Now, I think
protest is just brand extension for people who already hate
Trump to take photos of themselves and post on Facebook
or Instagram or Twitter or wherever they're active blue sky
showing how much they hate Trump. Buck Around seventy million
(23:41):
people voted against Trump in the twenty twenty four election.
Let's say that that number that they put out there
is accurate, and seven million people nationwide showed up to
protest Trump. That would mean that ninety percent of the
people who voted against Trump had some thing better to
do than show up on Saturday and continue to protest Trump.
(24:04):
That to me is what kind of stands out. And
did those seven million people persuade anyone that Trump was
a king and that they should oppose him. No, I
think they actually probably created more Trump supporters, which is
why I come to the purpose of this protest is
about allowing the protesters to feel better about themselves, not
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to change any trajectory of the country.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You remember when you were a kid and you would
say to somebody maybe or you would hear someone say,
you're not the boss of me? Yes, And I think
that that's generally not a good way to approach things
because by saying it, the implication is that maybe somebody,
including that person, could think they are the boss of you. Yeah,
you know, like you are getting bossed around. The no
(24:48):
kings thing, we're not. No one's saying that he's a
king except for the people who hate him, which to
me is coming at this from a position of weakness.
It's also coming at it from a position of absurdity.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It would be like if they said Trump's not like
king of the you know, emperor of the universe like
or you know, master of the universe, remember that from
the old de Man days. No he's not. But why
are you taking it there? It's a strange place just
psychologically to go. And Batia Ungar Sargon, this is twenty three.
She is she's not having any of this either, because
(25:21):
they're saying the guy's not a king. He just won
massively a free and fair election. So why are we
even talking about him being a king. It's like the
guy's the fastest one in the race, and you're saying, well,
is he really the fastest? Yeah, he is, Play twenty three.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
She is a person who is enacting the exact agenda
he promised he was going to enact while he was campaigning,
and so what they're actually protesting is the absolute perfection
of American democracy, where a person campaigned on an agenda,
won the popular vote, and is now enacting that agenda.
So it was actually a protest of democracy. All of
(25:56):
which is to say, the only way to greet such
a preposterous proposition calling this a no King's rally when
it's actually an anti democracy rally is to crap on it,
I'm sorry, is to basically make fun of it. And
I think that that has been the Trump administration's approach.
They didn't try to stop it, God forbid, because he's
not a king. They allowed them to have their say,
they allowed them to go out there, and then they
(26:16):
made fun of them.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I don't agree with the bathroom humor necessarily approach, but
but mocking it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I also think this goes to we talked about during
the twenty twenty four election, that calling somebody Hitler and
calling somebody a Nazi wasn't working. So they tried to
move and say he's a fascist, and I said, fascist
is not going to work because frankly, it's a complicated word.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
People don't even know what it means.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
They certainly most people can't spell fascist, probably in America.
And now they've moved on to no kings. But I
don't think king has a super negative connotation. So even
if you were trying to persuade people, no dictators, okay,
I might say, hey, no dictators, no kings. I just
(27:05):
I think their messaging is really bad. Does that make sense?
Like if you tell me somebody's Hitler and then you
move from their Hitler to well, maybe not Hitler, but
they're Nazis, to well, maybe not Nazis, but fascist, maybe
not fascist.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But kings.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Every step down actually the assault, the attack becomes less
inflammatory and less negative. Right, Like if I had to say, hey, Hitler, Nazi, fascist, king,
a king is not that awful, right, There've been pretty
good kings over the years. Some king's really good. And
(27:44):
so I just they're failing at messaging. They don't really
know they're just kind of flailing around. This shutdown is
a perfect example because I can't even really figure out
what they want, and I don't think they know what
they want, and so all of this has just turned
into I think a huge ridiculous mess, and I think
(28:08):
it ultimately benefits Trump, and I don't think that they're
motivating or influencing anybody. Isn't that kind of interesting to
think about ninety percent of even the people who voted
against Trump had something better to do on October eighteenth,
on a fine Saturday, then show up in protest against Trump.
They can't even get the people who voted against Trump
(28:28):
to show up ten months later and talk about how
awful Trump is. So I think this is just yet
another failure. You know, what we want to have is
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Let's take some of your calls in some of your talkbacks.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Eight hundred and two A two two eight A two
truck driver Don and Iowa's got a pretty good argument
here on the No Kings Rally Fire.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Don.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
We hope you're getting us coast to coast fire away.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
I pick you guys up in all forty eight states,
so thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
That is all awesome to hear. We love you. Don.
You got a good argument here.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, Jesse Kelly's argument is the perfect argument. He says,
if you're a king, the government can't be shut down
on you, and obviously the Democrats have taken that authority
away and shut down the government. Also, do these Democrats
that they are all walking around with their furry costumes on,
(31:25):
do they realize that it is the Communist Party that
is financing their movement and their ultimate goal of the
Communist Party is ultimate control, which would be bizarre, and
that's what they want. So they're missing the point.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Oh so that's very astute observation. Well, collectivism always required
by the way, don a fantastic I love our truckers,
trucker Don, thank you for listening, thank you for calling.
An excellent call all the way around. But collectivism always
requires authoritarianism because the collectivists ignores the basic truths we
know of human beings, which are that human beings acting
(32:04):
their own interest. Human beings, you know, have to there
have to be incentives in place for them to do things. Uh.
That this is why you know, to each from each
according to his ability, to each according to his need
is an absurdity. Uh, I mean, it's it's a delusion, really,
And so the idea that you're going to have. You're
going to have like broad spectrum collectivist policy that doesn't
(32:28):
have a heavy hand of the state to make all
these arbitrary determinations and actually become much more tyrannical than
when individuals are allowed to make their own determinations via
the market or via other free mechanisms. Yeah, it's a
lot worse. This. This should this should be more apparent
to them than it is. But you know, the people
figure this out. With Mamdani Judy on.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
The podcast listening, Oh, I got two funny comments, Buck
one a friend, UH sent this through my wife. I'm
listening to yesterday show. Please tell Clay he's right on weddings. Also, you, Buck,
My two sisters and I all three got married in
less than two years, three huge weddings my dad paid for.
(33:16):
He's still pissed about how much they cost to this day.
Listen to this, Buck. He actually made us sign a
contract that if each of our marriages did not last
at least five years, we had to pay him back
for what the wedding cost. Completely true story, Valerie, how
I this right? No problem, no problem with that at all,
(33:38):
No problem with that at all. Sure you're gonna you
want all the bells and whistles.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
If you're not gonna make this a real union that
goes to test that last the distance, you got to
pay that money back.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I am team dad. I've never heard of any dad
that did this before. But he had three daughters and
he had to pay for all of them within two years.
And dad just said, hey, if they don't last five years,
you're on the hook to pay back for this.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I don't have a daughter. You don't have a daughter,
but you know, we're still trying. So maybe we'll get
a daughter here over at over in Team Buckland. And
I would just say this, Clay, if I was in
that situation, you know, let's say twenty years down the line,
after having a baby girl, I would I would take
the let's sit down. I'll give you a budget. Yeah,
(34:20):
and the budget is twofold. It's a wedding budget and
a down payment on your house budget. Yep.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Allocate the resources as you see fit exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You get to make the determination. But I think that
that puts it very you know, especially you get a
lot of people out of millennials priced out of expensive
member the price out of expensive markets people can live
in the Tulsa suburbs in a nice place, no problem.
But everybody that's complaining about this, the millennials. They want
to live you know, at the like you know, the
Navy Yard in DC, or they want to live in
(34:51):
uh well, Beacon Hill in Boston. I don't know where
do fancy people in Boston live. I just don't want
to say the upperast Side in Beverly Hills because those
are only fancy neighborhoods that come down.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Look in Nashville, there are tons of places you can
live very affordably. All the kids want to live in
the Gulch, they want to live in Music Row, they
want to live in twelve South right, and you could
live very cheaply in Gallatin right by and large, you
could live very cheaply in lots of suburban areas. But
I love your idea. Hey, let's sit down. Here is
(35:20):
your budget. If you're fortunate enough to have resources to
be able to help with the down payment on a home,
make a smart, rational decision.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
But Dad there was like, Hey.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
If this don't go fight, if this doesn't go five years,
you're gonna have to pay me back.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Judy is weighing in. AA, let's see what she had
to say.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
So I've never actually called the talk show before, but
I did just listen to Clay talk about the fact
that he didn't get to watch any football and not
his Tennessee volunteers loss.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
So I'm really sorry to see you this. But roll time, Jude,
they did was she's spiking the football right in your heart, Clay.
Ye what happened?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
She was?
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Now I got to watch some football, but I was
saying that I spent six hours because my Alabama fan
son of all dropped his phone in the toilet and
we had to go get the Evidently, eventually we found
out we had to replace the battery that was wired
out or buzzed out or whatever it did. And so
I unfortunately did watch Alabama beat Tennessee. But yes, we
(36:20):
were in ancient Rome. They would say that this was
an omen and that his dropping of the phone was
like dropping the Vall's hopes. On that day, I thought
that that would actually be the case, except he is
an Alabama fan, and so he both tormented me by
having me spend six hours getting his phone fixed, and
then as soon as the game was over, I picked
(36:42):
him up where he had been hanging out with a
bunch of his friends, and he said roll Tide, Dad,
Tennessee sucks and I was like, dude, I spent six
hours getting your phone repaired
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