November 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with a high-energy Friday broadcast, diving into breaking news and political analysis while weaving in personal anecdotes and cultural commentary. The lead story centers on widespread airline disruptions, with Clay sharing a firsthand account of receiving a warning from his airline about potential flight cancellations—highlighting growing travel chaos ahead of the Thanksgiving season.
The hour pivots to New York politics, where Clay and Buck react to Zohran Mamdani’s recent mayoral win and its implications for the state’s political future. They spotlight Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s announcement that she’s running for governor of New York, positioning her as a strong Republican alternative to incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul. The hosts argue that Hochul’s leadership has contributed to rising crime, unaffordable living conditions, and failed bail reform policies—making Stefanik’s candidacy a potential turning point for the Empire State.
National politics also take center stage, with Donald Trump’s blunt remarks on Nancy Pelosi’s retirement drawing praise from the hosts. They frame Pelosi’s departure as symbolic of a broader shift in power and discuss how Trump’s continued influence is reshaping the political landscape. The conversation expands into the ongoing government shutdown, with bipartisan frustration mounting over unpaid federal workers and travel disruptions. Surprisingly, Senator John Fetterman is praised for his pragmatic stance on reopening the government, prompting Clay to reflect on how Fetterman has emerged as a rational voice in Congress.
The hosts propose a filibuster reform that would require 60 Senate votes to shut down the government, aiming to prevent future gridlock. They also touch on concerns about court-packing and constitutional amendments, warning that Democrats may pursue radical changes if given the opportunity.
In a lighter segment, Buck celebrates his personal victory in the “100 MPH Tennis Serve Challenge,” achieving a 103 mph serve and earning praise from tennis legend John Isner and podcast host Karol Markowicz. The moment is framed as a win for middle-aged athleticism and becomes a viral highlight across social media. Clay also promotes his book Balls, sharing behind-the-scenes details about signing 500 new autographed copies and reflecting on the importance of deep reading in an AI-driven media landscape. The conversation turns to the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation, with Clay expressing concern about the erosion of original thought and the challenges facing future generations.
The hour wraps with listener calls, including a skeptical Trump supporter grading the president’s first year with an “F,” which Clay and Buck strongly dispute. They reaffirm their support for Trump’s performance and discuss the broader implications of voter turnout in recent elections.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Oh man, it's
a Friday Rejoice. But I'm looking up at all the news.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The airlines are just in an uproar. It is the
lead story right now on Fox. I got an email.
I was just joking with people off the air I
got an email from the airline I'm supposed to fly
in a little bit, and they were just like, hey,
basically in the email, we're not really sure the plane's
gonna go take off. You might want to consider other
(00:33):
airlines and just have backup plans in place. It's I
don't know that I've ever gotten emails like this. I mean,
it's one thing to have delays, it's another thing for
your airline to be like, hey, yeah, so we may
or may not be able to take off today. You
might want to have multiple airline flights a different airlines booked.
(00:55):
Oh boy, So I imagine that a lot of you
out there are dealing with this with and family as well.
So that chaos is underway. Let's give me a couple
of positives here, Buck. I know that w R listeners
in New York City have been unhappy with me because
I told you all that we were going to see
(01:16):
an absolute destruction of Curtis Liwa, and that occurred, and
that Mom Donnie was going to win unless he was
going head to head with only one person, even if
it was the awful Andrew Cuomo. But those of you
who have been listening for a while will remember that
I said there was a shining better day to come
(01:37):
for New Yorkers even if Mom Donnie won. And I
said because I really do think it will open the
door to winning a more significant office, which is the
governorship and the governorship of New York with the awful
Kathy Hokel in office, who basically decapitated Andrew Cuomo over
(02:00):
this sexual harassment scandal that wasn't actually in the grand
scheme of things that bad. I mean, what Cuomo did
during COVID was infinitely worse than any of the allegations
against him relating to sexual harassment. So now we have
the awful Kathy Hochel as governor, maybe the worst governor
in America, which is obviously JB. Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom.
(02:22):
There's a lot of people I think we could toss
out there and say are in that mix. But this
morning on Fox and Friends. I don't think it's coincidental
on her timing. Alis Stephonic, former New York Congressman. She
would have been the ambassador to the UN, but she
decided to go back to Congress to help because the
majority was not very substantial there. She has announced that
(02:43):
she is running for governor to make New York affordable
and safe. She did that this morning, Buck, this was
a positive Let's listen, cut one.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm running for governor to make New York affordable and safe.
We have seen decades of single party rule led by Democrats,
and Kathy Hokl is the worst governor in a mayora.
New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation,
with the highest taxes, the highest energy bills, the highest
utility bills. We also have a crime crisis because Kathy
Hochel has brought us failed bail reform and has embraced
(03:12):
the defrom the police, Democrats, and after this week Ainsley,
when we saw a raging anti semi prohamas communist who
wants to raise taxes and frankly he barely won the
majority of New York City voters. Kathy Hokl endorsed.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Him and vent the Nie.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
She has failed New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And so if you are a frustrated New York voter
right now, if you are a New York City area resident,
and you are thinking to yourself, oh my goodness, this
is awful. Next year the state gets the opportunity to
punch back and react to what happened in New York City.
And I do think that Alice Stephonic would be an
incredible choice for New York. She is infinitely better than
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Kathy Hochel. She's gonna be fighting an uphill battle. But
oftentimes election cycle swing from one direction to another, and
electing a communist in New York City, maybe you want
to elect then a decently reasonable, rational person to be governor.
So I wanted to start with that buck because I
(04:17):
wanted to start with at least some positivity after a
tough week.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
The positivity is I do think this helps a least
stefanic a great deal that Mom Donnie won. It would
be so nice for the Empire state to return to
a place of sanity. You're never going to get Texas
or Florida policies in New York. Although wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
But you will be able to, I think, have a
very close contest in the next governor's race, because one
HOCl is terrible and two Stefanic is a pretty talented
and solid choice that's right to run on the Republican side,
So that that is good. And also to your point
about how this has been a tough week. We lost
races we were supposed to lose. There was no big
(05:00):
shock or surprise at all, and that's just the way
it's going to go sometimes. So we dust ourselves off,
we move forward. Remember Trump is still in charge, He's
still doing great things, and one of them is just
pointing out this has cut three Clay that Nancy Pelosi's
retirement is perhaps the greatest act of patriotism she has
(05:22):
ever she has ever made. Play three.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I think she's an evil woman. I'm glad she's retiring.
I think she did the country a great service by retire.
I think she was a tremendous liability for the country.
I thought she was an evil woman who did a
poor job to cross the country a lot in damages
and in reputation. I thought she was terrible, Thank you
(05:47):
very much.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I like that he's just letting him rip. Look, she's retiring,
he's not.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
He's not at a at a at a situation here
where he has to say nice things, and he's not
going to say nice things because those would be untrue.
Nancy Pelosi has been deeply destructive to the country, and
I think it'll be a better place without her wielding
the iron fist of Pelosi over the Democrats in the House.
So let's see that Democrats really are without Pelosi running
(06:15):
cover and keeping them from being completely insane in public
before elections.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I do think.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It has to really gall Nancy Pelosi that she had
to step down as Trump is at his most descendant power.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's kind of a you know, chef's kiss.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
If I were Trump advisor there, I would say, you
know what, I love that Nancy Pelosi recognized that it's
time for her to step down, and I couldn't think
it's better for the country that she's leaving the fight
right as she recognizes that I've won all the battles.
I wish Nancy well in retirement, and the biggest loss
(06:57):
we're going to have with Nancy is I've been trying
to figure out how to be as good of an
investor as her.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We're all gonna do without having the Nancy Pelosi stock
tracker out there to make us all rich. She's the
Warren Buffett of Congress and really kind of gigger. But
I think Trump genuinely detests her, So that came across
in certainly the answer that he gave in that press
conference yesterday. They're also continuing to battle, by the way,
(07:28):
on the government shutdown, and we'll see. But my thought
is that when people get frustrated at airports, then it's Democrats,
it's Republicans, it's independents. A lot of people will put
up with political shenanigans until it starts directly impacting their
day to day existence. And for those of us who travel,
(07:51):
and those of us who are trying to pick people
up at airports, and those of us who were just
trying to get around the country, this thing. Can you imagine,
buck if this they extended for another few weeks and
we moved into the Thanksgiving travel season, that would be
absolutely bonkers. It's the most difficult time of year to
be traveling anyway, and then you're gonna layer it on
(08:14):
top of people not getting paid and all of the chaos.
And really the Democrat objectives here have always been very
difficult to explain in a succinct fashion. And they're the
ones shutting down the government. And I feel like they
got their No Kings protests, they got their election wins
in New Jersey and Virginia. There's zero doubt that Virginia
(08:36):
was aided because there's so many federal employees by the
fact that the government shut down happened. Now, let's go
ahead and just open the government back up. And in fact,
he's the same guy. This is exactly what John Fetterman said,
Buck play cut seven World.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Kitchens feeding government workers. We're in in my neighborhood in
Avy Yard. I mean, it's really impacting these folks. It's
like we've all been paid, but all these workers haven't
been paid. The Capitol police that are protecting here haven't
been paid. Our military. Boy, that's not controversial. Pay our military,
pay all these folks, and now I'll make sure everyone's fed. Now,
(09:15):
why would we put ourselves in that situation at this point?
You know, we've had the election. Now we can all
reopen and I'll find a way forward.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now, this is kind of crazy, Buck when you really
break it all down, that maybe the thing that we
were most wrong on the show in four years, aside
from the red Wave twenty twenty two, I never would
have ever believed, having watched the twenty twenty two Senate campaigns,
I never would have believed that John Fetterman would end
(09:44):
up one of the most irrational, reasonable, efficient, and effective
senators when it comes to just analyzing basic things like this,
would you have ever bought in, like if we went
back in time to when he was engaged in the debate,
when he was running against doctor I never would have
ever believed that this could be a situation where Fetterman
(10:06):
were lauding and saying, Hey, this guy is actually one
of the best truth tellers on Capitol Hill. But I
mean everything he just said was eminently reasonable, not particularly partisan,
and rational. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but
we need five or six more John Fetterman's in order
to get the country back up and running and get
(10:26):
the government open.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
What are the Democrats really achieving with all them? Well
that's the question.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
That's the thing that we're going to have to look
back on when this eventually ends. What have they gotten
I do not think Republicans can give them what they want,
because then you've said a president, I might add the
minority party can say I just want billions of dollars
that have nothing to do with the actual funding of
the government, or else I'm gonna take my ball and
go home, or else I'm I'm going to stop things
(10:55):
from happening in DC. You can't negotiate with terrorists. Friends,
This is congressional terrorism, so to speak. This is not
playing by the pre established rules. So eventually you're gonna
have to just see.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Who's got the grit, who stays together as a caucus,
and I'm hopeful Republicans stay with it. I do think
the one thing Trump keeps saying, hey, we need the filibuster.
You know, they've moderated the filibuster on an ending the filibuster.
They've moderated the filibuster on a great number of different aspects.
(11:30):
To me, there is a decent argument to be made,
and I think our friend Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin
has made this argument publicly for some time, and in fact,
if he's listening, he's welcome to call in and make
it better than I'm about to make it. But can
we just do away with the ability to shut down
the government and require there be sixty votes to reopen it.
(11:54):
That doesn't seem like the filibuster for many things makes sense.
Should we have a filibuster when it to whether you
can add Supreme Court justices or add senators from New Jersey,
senators from You can't have a minority of the Senate
say sorry, no government business till I get what I want.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That would seem like a solution. And look, Republicans may
be frustrated by that somewhere down the line, but the
majority party should be able to keep the government open.
That seems very basic to me, and so you know,
I would love to hear Senator Johnson explain exactly that perspective.
(12:32):
But it seems like a reasonable middle ground that doesn't
require eliminating the entirety of the filibuster, and instead would
just allow government to be open so that we can
all be able to take airplane flights safely, and so
that the soldiers can get paid, and so we make
sure that a lot of people out there who are
(12:55):
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Speaker 2 (14:35):
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Speaker 2 (14:51):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. You know it's a
very exciting day.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
It was, in fact true that I was challenged and
doubted by many in the tennis serve one hundred mile
per hour sweepstake. Dowters and haters abound out there of
the world, But overcame the challenge, can you please play.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
My things one hundred and three miles an hour? One
hundred and three miles an hour. My friends, it's Trusty
Rackett right here. It's a beautiful day on the court.
Some people are saying the most beautiful day. There's video.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
There's a speed gun one hundred and three mile an
hour serve right up the tea. I might add definitely
would have been an ace, beautiful, lovely, the most beautiful serve.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And I'm in the one hundred.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Mile an hour plus club officially at one oh three,
top top number and play.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I just want to say I appreciate the encouragement via doubt.
So there we go.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
We've got We've got the challenge accepted and challenge met.
We'll put the video up at clayanbuck dot com. It
has posted on x under my account on x or
on Facebook if you want to check it out. And
we also had some fun with the meme. We have
my my team, my hype squad. If you will make
an appearance in the video, so I think you'll enjoy
that one. I have to give credit to your wife, Carrie.
(16:16):
The cinematography of this of the serve is pretty spectacular
because we see the serve, we see the one to
oh three, We then see that she is on the
court with your son in the in the in the
what the baby carriage, I guess, which he has no
idea what a you just was witnessed to. But in
(16:38):
the years ahead, as that video continues to circulate, he's
going to have even more respect for his dad's natural,
raw athleticism powering one hundred and three mile an hour
serve I got. I gotta tell you, Uh, I just
feel like I struck a blow for all the middle
aged guys with elastic waistbands and new balance sneakers out there.
You know, people doubt us, guys. People think we can't
(17:00):
relive our glory days when we were eighteen twenty twenty five. No,
my friends, no, we can still do it. We can
still climb that hill, climb that mountain. So very very
exciting stuff there. And by the way, that's definitely a
wife's job to show up with you on the tennis
court where I'm not gonna pretend like that was my
first serve. My friends, you could see the joy in
(17:21):
my face. I was stuck ninety ninety four, ninety two
eighty seven. I mean, over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
How long did that take? You also changed up the
outfit because you were getting criticized for the all white,
so I noticed.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You went with the blue blue.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, people were harsh, you know, they're like, yeah, Tennis
all white. I mean, that wasn't even sometimes I wear
white sometimes I don't. I mean, it's just basically like
whatever tennis outfit I have ready. But I'm just saying, guys,
you know, don't doubt the buckster one hundred and three
miles an hour victory.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
It tastes so sweet.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I haven't heard yet from Laura Travis, who was foremost
among the doubters, so to hear what she has to say.
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Speaker 1 (18:54):
Clay Travis Buck Sexton show producer Ali is the witness
I think could see it. You might have been able
to see it just a bit on video. In addition
to Buck being an unbelievable star of the Center Court,
I just signed you, guys are great, another five hundred
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(19:20):
is now available in bookstores everywhere, and if you want
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(19:41):
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(20:04):
completed them here in the studio. They are going out,
So five hundred more Claytravisballs dot com. Once those are gone,
they are gone. I sound like a QBC host, but
this is what Buck is going to be doing in
a couple of a couple of months. Selling a book
is Buck. It's a lot of a lot of work.
(20:26):
I mean, the amount of media that I've done, in
addition to all the stuff that we already do is
just buckle up come February. Because the amount of time
that I have spent telling people to go buy this book.
It's great and I appreciate it, and I love all
of you that have bought it, but it is a
It is a lot of work in addition to everything else.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I just think that people also are so used to
everything short form now that it's really difficult for anyone
to not anyone, but it's hard and harder to get
people to say, I'm going to spend twelve hours eight hours.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I wonder about this a lot. With your content.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
I'm a big believer still, despite all the videos and
short form and podcasts and everything. I'm a big believer
in book reading. Yes, as a habit, as a thing
to do daily. If you can certainly weekly have a book.
I do kindles and hard you know, physical books. I
(21:26):
just think that it should be a part of everyone's life.
You should have things that you are reading that are
not news tweets, social media posts, whatever, it's idio different.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You're just sitting around watching videos mindlessly on Instagram. There
is a depth of learning that I think happens. And
I don't know if science supports this, but I'm going
to make an argument that I think science should support
if they haven't done this. There is a depth of
knowledge that comes from reading that does not come from
(22:00):
watching videos or certainly clicking on tweets. And I was
talking about this last night. I was at the Patriot Awards.
They were awesome. Erica Kirk got an award, Milania Trump
got an award that Fox News puts on out in
New York. But I was talking with one of the
top Fox News editors and we were talking about how
(22:21):
AI is impacting writing going forward and what that's going
to look like. And I just think in an AI
era the depth of knowledge, You're going to have a
lot of people with surface level ability to analyze things.
There's going to be no depth. And I'm concerned about
(22:42):
what the future of even written articles. Fuck, did you
see the story from Axios? Over fifty percent of articles
on the Internet already are AI. Where are the actual
original thoughts? What are arguments going to come from in
an AI era? I'm legitimately concerned about it. And also,
(23:04):
if we thought disinformation misinformation spread quickly before AI, can
you imagine when there are going to be entire AI
universes created to spread awful things. Have you seen the
stuff about Robbie Starbuck. He's been filing a bunch of lawsuits.
Who probably should get him on at some point to
talk about this, But somewhere in the Google world, somebody
(23:27):
just decided they hated him and they have been seeding
these stories in AI that say the most awful things
about him. It's all untrue. But how do you get
that lie unraveled once it takes root? I do think
this is something that a lot of people are not
grappling with, and certainly for your kids. My kids, I
(23:50):
spend so much time trying to get them to read,
and I think it's going to become more and more challenging.
So I hope that you are going to end up
uh with the ability to read this book and not
my book lots of other books.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
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for one my friends, short video of the most beautiful
one hundred and three mile an hour serve in tennis
any of you will ever see?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Would I would argue uh?
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Today you can do.
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Speaker 1 (24:27):
Thank you, Clay Travisballs dot Com. Autograph copy signed in
studio here for all the witnesses to see. No autopen
scandal coming on the books, Claytravisballs dot com. All right,
our friend Karine Jean Pierre speaking a book tour she
did not write her book. She is not smart enough
to write her book. I would wager massive amounts of money. Buck,
(24:48):
what would if you heard that Karine Jean Pierre wrote
her entire book? How stunned beyond belief?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Would you be? Would you? I mean, what odds would
you have to get that? Correc zero? One zero. I
don't think she's capable.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Zero, There's no, it's not even It's not a bet
I could make because it's just I know she didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's zero.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
So she's on her book tour for the book that
she did not write, demonstrating every day why she is
too dumb to have written a book. She says, I
don't know if you saw this yet, Buck, that the
media isn't tough enough on Trump. They would have been
and were way tougher on Obama than I mean, there's
a double stand. I mean, listen to this. I can't
(25:31):
believe this is real.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Cut twenty eight to your question about where we are
at the media. I think there's a Trump standard. You know,
there's a Trump standard that there's He's just covered differently
and it is insane. I mean President Obama said it
perfectly recently. He said, can you imagine if I did that,
you imagine, And so there is a double standard there.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
She's right that there's a double standard, all right, So
in her credit, the problem is she's misapplied what the
double standard is.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
The media is too kind of Trump. I just some
of these people, I.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Don't even understand what world you could live in. Even
people who hate Trump look at this and say, Trump
has been the most attacked by media president in any
of our lives. And I don't even who with Nixon
maybe the second closest I wasn't alive, you weren't alive,
certainly Trump for our lives is I don't even know
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who else would even be in the stratosphere. And Nixon
obviously was forced out of office, but I mean, no
one else is here there. I think you're bringing up Nixon, though,
is important because there has been for your your life,
my life. This belief, truly among the DC Beltway media
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that Republican presidents better watch themselves because they took one
presidency down and they could do it again if they
have to, if they want to. And I truly believe
that that was for most of the establishment journals in
DC and at New York Times, LA times across the country,
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at these these kinds of places, they had this belief
that when the time comes, or if a Republican steps
out a line I don't mean, does something terrible, just
gets a little too uppity with the agenda and with
the mission that they're pursuing, they could end that presidency.
And I think they tried. I think that's what Russia
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collusion was, yes, to end a presidency through nefarious, underhanded
and dishonest means, and failed. And then I think they
tried again, with.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
The help of the prosecutions and the various legal legal
maneuvers they did, rooting for this the whole time and
saying that Trump was an insurrectionist and all this stuff,
and they failed a second time. And now the myth
of invincibility for the media and their their power to
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end to presidency is gone. I think that's right gone.
I think all that's one hundred percent right. By the way,
loaded lines.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
People want to weigh in already on a lot of
what we've been talking about. Caleb in Ohio, I've heard
this argument out there. We asked yesterday, Hey, why did
six hundred thousand people who voted Trump and Virginia and
New Jersey not show up. Caleb is in Ohio. Obviously
Ohio is not voted again. But Caleb, thanks to call
what you got for us?
Speaker 10 (28:35):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, Well, I mean there's a lot of stuff that
like campaign promises, stuff that he said in his campaign,
like what happened to the Epstein files, what happened to doge?
And cutting spending. I think that that's gone up what
two trillions since he took off us.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And spending is actually hold on, spending is actually down
the we're going to spend. I mean, it's still too high,
but we are spending less under or Trump then we
spent under Biden.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Absolutely, but there hasn't been anything meaningful. But that's still
going up. And now we're what happened to know new wars.
We're now threatening Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So you're unhappy with the first year? Hold on, you're
unhappy with the first year of.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Trump, very unhappy. And I mean, did you vote for Trump?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I have voted for him three times?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Okay, so you voted for Trump three times? Hold On,
let me just ask you a couple of questions. So
you think Trump has done a poor job in the
first year, and you think that's why people in New
Jersey and Virginia didn't show up and vote for the
Republican candidates.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Absolutely, undoubtedly.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Okay, then, so what hold on? What letter grade would
you give Trump in the first ten months?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
An F?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Okay? Thanks? Bye?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Look, I mean you could call in. I don't believe
that Caleb voted for Trump three times. You can call
in and say, hey, I think, first of all, Buck,
I would give Trump an A. And I can't think
of a first year that a president has delivered more
on exactly what he said he would do than Trump
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two point zero. I don't understand how you could vote
for Trump in sixteen, and how you could vote for
Trump in twenty and how you could vote for Trump
in twenty four and actually give him an F on
the first year. I don't believe that's real. Yeah, I
don't believe it's really either. So you know, we can
leave that as it is.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
We have also calling in Neil and Miami wants to
talk Philibuster issue.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
What's going on?
Speaker 11 (30:36):
Neil? Hey, Happy Friday, guys, it's a beautiful day in
Miami Springs. I just wanted to call in. Yesterday you
guys were talking about the Philipbuster. If we were to
do away with a philipbuster, why couldn't we add an
amendment to the Constitution stating putting a cap on the
Supreme Court, for instance, so when the Democrats come in,
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they can't pack it.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well. Amending the Supreme Court is a tremendous well.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Amending the Constitution, yes, sorry, Amending the Constitution to fix
the Supreme Court is a tremendous undertaking that I think
would be very difficult to actually make reality.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I do think the danger there of the Democrats. Biden
tiptoed up to it. My concern is Gavin Newsom might
run directly on I'm going to add for Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Court packing has been talked about since Roosevelt, right back
in the thirties when he got upset about the fact
that that so many of his plans were being torn
asunder by the Supreme Court. So court packing has been
talked about for nearly one hundred years and not happened.
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But I think Democrats are crazy enough that they could
do it, and I think they're upset because we have
a six' to three conservative majority that could last for
a very very long time into the. Future so all of,
THAT i think is a valid.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Question.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Again to, me the solution on the filibuster is not
to do away with, it BECAUSE i would be concerned
about what might happen going, forward because Eventually democrats are
going to be in control. Again to, me the solution would,
be you can't shut down the government and require there
be Sixty senate votes to reopen. IT i don't think
that's a good, move whether you're A democrat or A,
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republican AND i think there's a lot of people out
there who would agree with. That from a it's a
middle ground between doing away with it completely and. Not all, Right,
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Right we'll do some news when we come, BACK i prom,
congrats
Welcome in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Oh man, it's
a Friday Rejoice. But I'm looking up at all the news.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The airlines are just in an uproar. It is the
lead story right now on Fox. I got an email.
I was just joking with people off the air I
got an email from the airline I'm supposed to fly
in a little bit, and they were just like, hey,
basically in the email, we're not really sure the plane's
gonna go take off. You might want to consider other
(00:33):
airlines and just have backup plans in place. It's I
don't know that I've ever gotten emails like this. I mean,
it's one thing to have delays, it's another thing for
your airline to be like, hey, yeah, so we may
or may not be able to take off today. You
might want to have multiple airline flights a different airlines booked.
(00:55):
Oh boy, So I imagine that a lot of you
out there are dealing with this with and family as well.
So that chaos is underway. Let's give me a couple
of positives here, Buck. I know that w R listeners
in New York City have been unhappy with me because
I told you all that we were going to see
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an absolute destruction of Curtis Liwa, and that occurred, and
that Mom Donnie was going to win unless he was
going head to head with only one person, even if
it was the awful Andrew Cuomo. But those of you
who have been listening for a while will remember that
I said there was a shining better day to come
(01:37):
for New Yorkers even if Mom Donnie won. And I
said because I really do think it will open the
door to winning a more significant office, which is the
governorship and the governorship of New York with the awful
Kathy Hokel in office, who basically decapitated Andrew Cuomo over
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this sexual harassment scandal that wasn't actually in the grand
scheme of things that bad. I mean, what Cuomo did
during COVID was infinitely worse than any of the allegations
against him relating to sexual harassment. So now we have
the awful Kathy Hochel as governor, maybe the worst governor
in America, which is obviously JB. Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom.
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There's a lot of people I think we could toss
out there and say are in that mix. But this
morning on Fox and Friends. I don't think it's coincidental
on her timing. Alis Stephonic, former New York Congressman. She
would have been the ambassador to the UN, but she
decided to go back to Congress to help because the
majority was not very substantial there. She has announced that
(02:43):
she is running for governor to make New York affordable
and safe. She did that this morning, Buck, this was
a positive Let's listen, cut one.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm running for governor to make New York affordable and safe.
We have seen decades of single party rule led by Democrats,
and Kathy Hokl is the worst governor in a mayora.
New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation,
with the highest taxes, the highest energy bills, the highest
utility bills. We also have a crime crisis because Kathy
Hochel has brought us failed bail reform and has embraced
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the defrom the police, Democrats, and after this week Ainsley,
when we saw a raging anti semi prohamas communist who
wants to raise taxes and frankly he barely won the
majority of New York City voters. Kathy Hokl endorsed.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Him and vent the Nie.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
She has failed New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And so if you are a frustrated New York voter
right now, if you are a New York City area resident,
and you are thinking to yourself, oh my goodness, this
is awful. Next year the state gets the opportunity to
punch back and react to what happened in New York City.
And I do think that Alice Stephonic would be an
incredible choice for New York. She is infinitely better than
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Kathy Hochel. She's gonna be fighting an uphill battle. But
oftentimes election cycle swing from one direction to another, and
electing a communist in New York City, maybe you want
to elect then a decently reasonable, rational person to be governor.
So I wanted to start with that buck because I
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wanted to start with at least some positivity after a
tough week.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
The positivity is I do think this helps a least
stefanic a great deal that Mom Donnie won. It would
be so nice for the Empire state to return to
a place of sanity. You're never going to get Texas
or Florida policies in New York. Although wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
But you will be able to, I think, have a
very close contest in the next governor's race, because one
HOCl is terrible and two Stefanic is a pretty talented
and solid choice that's right to run on the Republican side,
So that that is good. And also to your point
about how this has been a tough week. We lost
races we were supposed to lose. There was no big
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shock or surprise at all, and that's just the way
it's going to go sometimes. So we dust ourselves off,
we move forward. Remember Trump is still in charge, He's
still doing great things, and one of them is just
pointing out this has cut three Clay that Nancy Pelosi's
retirement is perhaps the greatest act of patriotism she has
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ever she has ever made. Play three.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I think she's an evil woman. I'm glad she's retiring.
I think she did the country a great service by retire.
I think she was a tremendous liability for the country.
I thought she was an evil woman who did a
poor job to cross the country a lot in damages
and in reputation. I thought she was terrible, Thank you
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very much.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I like that he's just letting him rip. Look, she's retiring,
he's not.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
He's not at a at a at a situation here
where he has to say nice things, and he's not
going to say nice things because those would be untrue.
Nancy Pelosi has been deeply destructive to the country, and
I think it'll be a better place without her wielding
the iron fist of Pelosi over the Democrats in the House.
So let's see that Democrats really are without Pelosi running
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cover and keeping them from being completely insane in public
before elections.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I do think.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It has to really gall Nancy Pelosi that she had
to step down as Trump is at his most descendant power.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's kind of a you know, chef's kiss.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
If I were Trump advisor there, I would say, you
know what, I love that Nancy Pelosi recognized that it's
time for her to step down, and I couldn't think
it's better for the country that she's leaving the fight
right as she recognizes that I've won all the battles.
I wish Nancy well in retirement, and the biggest loss
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we're going to have with Nancy is I've been trying
to figure out how to be as good of an
investor as her.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
We're all gonna do without having the Nancy Pelosi stock
tracker out there to make us all rich. She's the
Warren Buffett of Congress and really kind of gigger. But
I think Trump genuinely detests her, So that came across
in certainly the answer that he gave in that press
conference yesterday. They're also continuing to battle, by the way,
(07:28):
on the government shutdown, and we'll see. But my thought
is that when people get frustrated at airports, then it's Democrats,
it's Republicans, it's independents. A lot of people will put
up with political shenanigans until it starts directly impacting their
day to day existence. And for those of us who travel,
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and those of us who are trying to pick people
up at airports, and those of us who were just
trying to get around the country, this thing. Can you imagine,
buck if this they extended for another few weeks and
we moved into the Thanksgiving travel season, that would be
absolutely bonkers. It's the most difficult time of year to
be traveling anyway, and then you're gonna layer it on
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top of people not getting paid and all of the chaos.
And really the Democrat objectives here have always been very
difficult to explain in a succinct fashion. And they're the
ones shutting down the government. And I feel like they
got their No Kings protests, they got their election wins
in New Jersey and Virginia. There's zero doubt that Virginia
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was aided because there's so many federal employees by the
fact that the government shut down happened. Now, let's go
ahead and just open the government back up. And in fact,
he's the same guy. This is exactly what John Fetterman said,
Buck play cut seven World.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Kitchens feeding government workers. We're in in my neighborhood in
Avy Yard. I mean, it's really impacting these folks. It's
like we've all been paid, but all these workers haven't
been paid. The Capitol police that are protecting here haven't
been paid. Our military. Boy, that's not controversial. Pay our military,
pay all these folks, and now I'll make sure everyone's fed. Now,
(09:15):
why would we put ourselves in that situation at this point?
You know, we've had the election. Now we can all
reopen and I'll find a way forward.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now, this is kind of crazy, Buck when you really
break it all down, that maybe the thing that we
were most wrong on the show in four years, aside
from the red Wave twenty twenty two, I never would
have ever believed, having watched the twenty twenty two Senate campaigns,
I never would have believed that John Fetterman would end
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up one of the most irrational, reasonable, efficient, and effective
senators when it comes to just analyzing basic things like this,
would you have ever bought in, like if we went
back in time to when he was engaged in the debate,
when he was running against doctor I never would have
ever believed that this could be a situation where Fetterman
(10:06):
were lauding and saying, Hey, this guy is actually one
of the best truth tellers on Capitol Hill. But I
mean everything he just said was eminently reasonable, not particularly partisan,
and rational. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but
we need five or six more John Fetterman's in order
to get the country back up and running and get
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the government open.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
What are the Democrats really achieving with all them? Well
that's the question.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
That's the thing that we're going to have to look
back on when this eventually ends. What have they gotten
I do not think Republicans can give them what they want,
because then you've said a president, I might add the
minority party can say I just want billions of dollars
that have nothing to do with the actual funding of
the government, or else I'm gonna take my ball and
go home, or else I'm I'm going to stop things
(10:55):
from happening in DC. You can't negotiate with terrorists. Friends,
This is congressional terrorism, so to speak. This is not
playing by the pre established rules. So eventually you're gonna
have to just see.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Who's got the grit, who stays together as a caucus,
and I'm hopeful Republicans stay with it. I do think
the one thing Trump keeps saying, hey, we need the filibuster.
You know, they've moderated the filibuster on an ending the filibuster.
They've moderated the filibuster on a great number of different aspects.
(11:30):
To me, there is a decent argument to be made,
and I think our friend Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin
has made this argument publicly for some time, and in fact,
if he's listening, he's welcome to call in and make
it better than I'm about to make it. But can
we just do away with the ability to shut down
the government and require there be sixty votes to reopen it.
(11:54):
That doesn't seem like the filibuster for many things makes sense.
Should we have a filibuster when it to whether you
can add Supreme Court justices or add senators from New Jersey,
senators from You can't have a minority of the Senate
say sorry, no government business till I get what I want.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That would seem like a solution. And look, Republicans may
be frustrated by that somewhere down the line, but the
majority party should be able to keep the government open.
That seems very basic to me, and so you know,
I would love to hear Senator Johnson explain exactly that perspective.
(12:32):
But it seems like a reasonable middle ground that doesn't
require eliminating the entirety of the filibuster, and instead would
just allow government to be open so that we can
all be able to take airplane flights safely, and so
that the soldiers can get paid, and so we make
sure that a lot of people out there who are
(12:55):
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Speaker 2 (14:51):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. You know it's a
very exciting day.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
It was, in fact true that I was challenged and
doubted by many in the tennis serve one hundred mile
per hour sweepstake. Dowters and haters abound out there of
the world, But overcame the challenge, can you please play.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
My things one hundred and three miles an hour? One
hundred and three miles an hour. My friends, it's Trusty
Rackett right here. It's a beautiful day on the court.
Some people are saying the most beautiful day. There's video.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
There's a speed gun one hundred and three mile an
hour serve right up the tea. I might add definitely
would have been an ace, beautiful, lovely, the most beautiful serve.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And I'm in the one hundred.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Mile an hour plus club officially at one oh three,
top top number and play.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I just want to say I appreciate the encouragement via doubt.
So there we go.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
We've got We've got the challenge accepted and challenge met.
We'll put the video up at clayanbuck dot com. It
has posted on x under my account on x or
on Facebook if you want to check it out. And
we also had some fun with the meme. We have
my my team, my hype squad. If you will make
an appearance in the video, so I think you'll enjoy
that one. I have to give credit to your wife, Carrie.
(16:16):
The cinematography of this of the serve is pretty spectacular
because we see the serve, we see the one to
oh three, We then see that she is on the
court with your son in the in the in the
what the baby carriage, I guess, which he has no
idea what a you just was witnessed to. But in
(16:38):
the years ahead, as that video continues to circulate, he's
going to have even more respect for his dad's natural,
raw athleticism powering one hundred and three mile an hour
serve I got. I gotta tell you, Uh, I just
feel like I struck a blow for all the middle
aged guys with elastic waistbands and new balance sneakers out there.
You know, people doubt us, guys. People think we can't
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relive our glory days when we were eighteen twenty twenty five. No,
my friends, no, we can still do it. We can
still climb that hill, climb that mountain. So very very
exciting stuff there. And by the way, that's definitely a
wife's job to show up with you on the tennis
court where I'm not gonna pretend like that was my
first serve. My friends, you could see the joy in
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my face. I was stuck ninety ninety four, ninety two
eighty seven. I mean, over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
How long did that take? You also changed up the
outfit because you were getting criticized for the all white,
so I noticed.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You went with the blue blue.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, people were harsh, you know, they're like, yeah, Tennis
all white. I mean, that wasn't even sometimes I wear
white sometimes I don't. I mean, it's just basically like
whatever tennis outfit I have ready. But I'm just saying, guys,
you know, don't doubt the buckster one hundred and three
miles an hour victory.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
It tastes so sweet.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I haven't heard yet from Laura Travis, who was foremost
among the doubters, so to hear what she has to say.
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Welcome back in.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Clay Travis Buck Sexton show producer Ali is the witness
I think could see it. You might have been able
to see it just a bit on video. In addition
to Buck being an unbelievable star of the Center Court,
I just signed you, guys are great, another five hundred
copies of Balls, my majestic work of literary genius that
(19:20):
is now available in bookstores everywhere, and if you want
an autograph copy. They sold out of all the initial run.
They were very very happy. They said, will you please
sign five hundred more? And I said yes, and I
just signed them in the studio. So if you bought
autograph copies of the book Claytravisballs dot Com, I promise
(19:41):
you will not go to prison. If you click on
that link or put it in if you want autograph
copies for Christmas. They are done. Five hundred more of them.
They have got them, they are shipping them out. I
signed them all here on camera. Producer Ali can attest
you can raise her right hand and swear under oath.
I did not autopenant Joe Biden's style. I just signed them,
(20:04):
completed them here in the studio. They are going out,
So five hundred more Claytravisballs dot com. Once those are gone,
they are gone. I sound like a QBC host, but
this is what Buck is going to be doing in
a couple of a couple of months. Selling a book
is Buck. It's a lot of a lot of work.
(20:26):
I mean, the amount of media that I've done, in
addition to all the stuff that we already do is
just buckle up come February. Because the amount of time
that I have spent telling people to go buy this book.
It's great and I appreciate it, and I love all
of you that have bought it, but it is a
It is a lot of work in addition to everything else.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I just think that people also are so used to
everything short form now that it's really difficult for anyone
to not anyone, but it's hard and harder to get
people to say, I'm going to spend twelve hours eight hours.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I wonder about this a lot. With your content.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
I'm a big believer still, despite all the videos and
short form and podcasts and everything. I'm a big believer
in book reading. Yes, as a habit, as a thing
to do daily. If you can certainly weekly have a book.
I do kindles and hard you know, physical books. I
(21:26):
just think that it should be a part of everyone's life.
You should have things that you are reading that are
not news tweets, social media posts, whatever, it's idio different.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You're just sitting around watching videos mindlessly on Instagram. There
is a depth of learning that I think happens. And
I don't know if science supports this, but I'm going
to make an argument that I think science should support
if they haven't done this. There is a depth of
knowledge that comes from reading that does not come from
(22:00):
watching videos or certainly clicking on tweets. And I was
talking about this last night. I was at the Patriot Awards.
They were awesome. Erica Kirk got an award, Milania Trump
got an award that Fox News puts on out in
New York. But I was talking with one of the
top Fox News editors and we were talking about how
(22:21):
AI is impacting writing going forward and what that's going
to look like. And I just think in an AI
era the depth of knowledge, You're going to have a
lot of people with surface level ability to analyze things.
There's going to be no depth. And I'm concerned about
(22:42):
what the future of even written articles. Fuck, did you
see the story from Axios? Over fifty percent of articles
on the Internet already are AI. Where are the actual
original thoughts? What are arguments going to come from in
an AI era? I'm legitimately concerned about it. And also,
(23:04):
if we thought disinformation misinformation spread quickly before AI, can
you imagine when there are going to be entire AI
universes created to spread awful things. Have you seen the
stuff about Robbie Starbuck. He's been filing a bunch of lawsuits.
Who probably should get him on at some point to
talk about this, But somewhere in the Google world, somebody
(23:27):
just decided they hated him and they have been seeding
these stories in AI that say the most awful things
about him. It's all untrue. But how do you get
that lie unraveled once it takes root? I do think
this is something that a lot of people are not
grappling with, and certainly for your kids. My kids, I
(23:50):
spend so much time trying to get them to read,
and I think it's going to become more and more challenging.
So I hope that you are going to end up
uh with the ability to read this book and not
my book lots of other books.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
But you can also go to Clayanbuck dot com two
for one my friends, short video of the most beautiful
one hundred and three mile an hour serve in tennis
any of you will ever see?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Would I would argue uh?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
And you can click on Balls right below it and
get your copy of Balls. So Clayanbuck dot com one
stop shop for all your good things.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Today you can do.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
The short video thing and then the whole book thing
by Clay's book Balls.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Thank you, Clay Travisballs dot Com. Autograph copy signed in
studio here for all the witnesses to see. No autopen
scandal coming on the books, Claytravisballs dot com. All right,
our friend Karine Jean Pierre speaking a book tour she
did not write her book. She is not smart enough
to write her book. I would wager massive amounts of money. Buck,
(24:48):
what would if you heard that Karine Jean Pierre wrote
her entire book? How stunned beyond belief?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Would you be? Would you? I mean, what odds would
you have to get that? Correc zero? One zero. I
don't think she's capable.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Zero, There's no, it's not even It's not a bet
I could make because it's just I know she didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's zero.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
So she's on her book tour for the book that
she did not write, demonstrating every day why she is
too dumb to have written a book. She says, I
don't know if you saw this yet, Buck, that the
media isn't tough enough on Trump. They would have been
and were way tougher on Obama than I mean, there's
a double stand. I mean, listen to this. I can't
(25:31):
believe this is real.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Cut twenty eight to your question about where we are
at the media. I think there's a Trump standard. You know,
there's a Trump standard that there's He's just covered differently
and it is insane. I mean President Obama said it
perfectly recently. He said, can you imagine if I did that,
you imagine, And so there is a double standard there.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
She's right that there's a double standard, all right, So
in her credit, the problem is she's misapplied what the
double standard is.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
The media is too kind of Trump. I just some
of these people, I.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Don't even understand what world you could live in. Even
people who hate Trump look at this and say, Trump
has been the most attacked by media president in any
of our lives. And I don't even who with Nixon
maybe the second closest I wasn't alive, you weren't alive,
certainly Trump for our lives is I don't even know
(26:30):
who else would even be in the stratosphere. And Nixon
obviously was forced out of office, but I mean, no
one else is here there. I think you're bringing up Nixon, though,
is important because there has been for your your life,
my life. This belief, truly among the DC Beltway media
(26:53):
that Republican presidents better watch themselves because they took one
presidency down and they could do it again if they
have to, if they want to. And I truly believe
that that was for most of the establishment journals in
DC and at New York Times, LA times across the country,
(27:14):
at these these kinds of places, they had this belief
that when the time comes, or if a Republican steps
out a line I don't mean, does something terrible, just
gets a little too uppity with the agenda and with
the mission that they're pursuing, they could end that presidency.
And I think they tried. I think that's what Russia
(27:34):
collusion was, yes, to end a presidency through nefarious, underhanded
and dishonest means, and failed. And then I think they
tried again, with.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
The help of the prosecutions and the various legal legal
maneuvers they did, rooting for this the whole time and
saying that Trump was an insurrectionist and all this stuff,
and they failed a second time. And now the myth
of invincibility for the media and their their power to
(28:07):
end to presidency is gone. I think that's right gone.
I think all that's one hundred percent right. By the way,
loaded lines.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
People want to weigh in already on a lot of
what we've been talking about. Caleb in Ohio, I've heard
this argument out there. We asked yesterday, Hey, why did
six hundred thousand people who voted Trump and Virginia and
New Jersey not show up. Caleb is in Ohio. Obviously
Ohio is not voted again. But Caleb, thanks to call
what you got for us?
Speaker 10 (28:35):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, Well, I mean there's a lot of stuff that
like campaign promises, stuff that he said in his campaign,
like what happened to the Epstein files, what happened to doge?
And cutting spending. I think that that's gone up what
two trillions since he took off us.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And spending is actually hold on, spending is actually down
the we're going to spend. I mean, it's still too high,
but we are spending less under or Trump then we
spent under Biden.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Absolutely, but there hasn't been anything meaningful. But that's still
going up. And now we're what happened to know new wars.
We're now threatening Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So you're unhappy with the first year? Hold on, you're
unhappy with the first year of.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Trump, very unhappy. And I mean, did you vote for Trump?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I have voted for him three times?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Okay, so you voted for Trump three times? Hold On,
let me just ask you a couple of questions. So
you think Trump has done a poor job in the
first year, and you think that's why people in New
Jersey and Virginia didn't show up and vote for the
Republican candidates.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Absolutely, undoubtedly.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Okay, then, so what hold on? What letter grade would
you give Trump in the first ten months?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
An F?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Okay? Thanks? Bye?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Look, I mean you could call in. I don't believe
that Caleb voted for Trump three times. You can call
in and say, hey, I think, first of all, Buck,
I would give Trump an A. And I can't think
of a first year that a president has delivered more
on exactly what he said he would do than Trump
(30:11):
two point zero. I don't understand how you could vote
for Trump in sixteen, and how you could vote for
Trump in twenty and how you could vote for Trump
in twenty four and actually give him an F on
the first year. I don't believe that's real. Yeah, I
don't believe it's really either. So you know, we can
leave that as it is.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
We have also calling in Neil and Miami wants to
talk Philibuster issue.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
What's going on?
Speaker 11 (30:36):
Neil? Hey, Happy Friday, guys, it's a beautiful day in
Miami Springs. I just wanted to call in. Yesterday you
guys were talking about the Philipbuster. If we were to
do away with a philipbuster, why couldn't we add an
amendment to the Constitution stating putting a cap on the
Supreme Court, for instance, so when the Democrats come in,
(30:57):
they can't pack it.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well. Amending the Supreme Court is a tremendous well.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Amending the Constitution, yes, sorry, Amending the Constitution to fix
the Supreme Court is a tremendous undertaking that I think
would be very difficult to actually make reality.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I do think the danger there of the Democrats. Biden
tiptoed up to it. My concern is Gavin Newsom might
run directly on I'm going to add for Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Court packing has been talked about since Roosevelt, right back
in the thirties when he got upset about the fact
that that so many of his plans were being torn
asunder by the Supreme Court. So court packing has been
talked about for nearly one hundred years and not happened.
(31:56):
But I think Democrats are crazy enough that they could
do it, and I think they're upset because we have
a six' to three conservative majority that could last for
a very very long time into the. Future so all of,
THAT i think is a valid.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Question.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Again to, me the solution on the filibuster is not
to do away with, it BECAUSE i would be concerned
about what might happen going, forward because Eventually democrats are
going to be in control. Again to, me the solution would,
be you can't shut down the government and require there
be Sixty senate votes to reopen. IT i don't think
that's a good, move whether you're A democrat or A,
(32:33):
republican AND i think there's a lot of people out
there who would agree with. That from a it's a
middle ground between doing away with it completely and. Not all, Right,
buck get your Pen and a lot of people were
reacting obviously when you said that you are a big
fan Of George. PICKLES i couldn't stop laughing because a
(32:54):
bunch of people reached in and they, said, boy If
buck was going to mispronounce a, name he definitely doesn't
need to miss announced this. One Michael, Pinnox, pinnix Pe, Nix,
buck that's AN x on the. End you don't want
to say you're a fan Of Michael. Penis that's a
very different. Person Michael pennox more than one half passing
Touchdown Trevor lawrence more than one half passing, Touchdown Pryce
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Success you could say the resurrection in a sense Of
Buck island has occurred many, calls many talkbacks about the
one hundred miles per hour tennis. Challenge we got so. Many,
here let's hear from our Friend Carol MARKOWITZ. Cc play that, One,
Hi clay And.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
Buck It's Carol markowitz of The Carol markowitz and normally
podcasts on your. NETWORK i don't know anything about. TENNIS
i have never played the. GAME i don't know how
fast that ball. GOES i don't need to know anything about.
IT i know one thing you do not bet Against Buck.
SEXTON i knew he'd get that ball over one hundred an.
HOUR i didn't need to know anything else other Than
(35:02):
Buck sexton was doing. IT i bet on book AND i,
won of.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Course you know WHAT i.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Mean, clay you, know is a brilliant lady with a
huge podcast that's doing very.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
WELL i Love carol's. Voice she should Be Carol, marko
which should be the voice of one of these Like
ways apps or you know, that just to make you
feel calmer because you're rushed and stressed and everything. Else
that she just sounds very, calming you know when she's
talking totally.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Agree you, know we also GOT i got some. Tips
this is.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
True true story online From John, isner formerly of The
Pro tour and the fastest tennis server of all. Time
one of the greatest tennis servers of all. Time this
is true and the fastest. EVER i think it was
like one hundred and fifty ish miles an.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Hour he also played in the longest match In wimbledon.
History that sounds.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Right he sent in a little Congratulations john Is ner
himself fastest server ever with the talkback PLAY hh.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
All, right buck as arguably the greatest server of all
time and the record holder for the fastest serve of all.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
TIME i gotta hand it to.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
You that was a nice, serve a nice, delivery everything
about it was quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Perfect, wow That's.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Brad that's like maybe the greatest praise that anybody's gotten
for anything on the show in four plus.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Years i'm just telling, you the greatest server of all.
Time John isn't that's, real. Everybody he's just, saying great,
serve Mister. Buckster so you, know, everybody you just Gotta
it's just it's all in the it's all in the.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Whip you, know you gotta take it.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Out you gotta just just let it rip, there all,
Right we'll do some news when we come, BACK i prom,
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