March 10, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show dives into fast‑moving political, cultural, and national‑security storylines as Clay and Buck break down the latest developments surrounding Iran, the economy, CNN media bias, autonomous vehicle innovation, and a brewing debate among listeners over firearms. The hour begins with the hosts reacting to the explosive cost of the North Carolina Senate race—an unprecedented $600 million battle that reflects the broader fight for congressional control heading into the midterms. They discuss the political stakes of potential Supreme Court vacancies, the uncertainty surrounding future Senate majorities, and why 2026 may be the last realistic window for President Donald Trump to confirm a like‑minded justice.
Breaking news emerges early in the hour as the hosts monitor reports of suspicious packages near Gracie Mansion in New York City following a series of politically charged protests. Clay and Buck highlight how rising tensions around radicalism, counter‑protests, and public safety are shaping the national conversation. This leads into a blistering critique of CNN’s framing of an incident involving homemade bombs thrown outside the home of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The hosts argue that CNN’s softened, narrative‑driven portrayal of the suspects reveals deep cultural bias within the network’s editorial process, reinforcing their long‑held belief that CNN’s institutional culture needs a complete overhaul.
The hour pivots to the broader media environment, with Clay and Buck praising Elon Musk and the transformation of Twitter into a platform that no longer suppresses stories unfavorable to the left. This launches a humorous sidebar about Gen Z slang terms like “glazing,” “mogging,” and “looksmaxxing,” as the hosts poke fun at generational language shifts and how social media influences cultural vocabulary. From there, the show transitions back to serious geopolitical analysis as Caroline Levitt delivers a White House briefing outlining President Trump’s strategy to stabilize global energy markets during the Iran conflict. Clay and Buck explain how the administration’s rapid response—including offering naval escorts for tankers, waiving certain sanctions, and providing political risk insurance—has helped reverse the temporary oil price spike that rattled markets the previous day.
The hosts then examine public opinion on the U.S. air campaign in Iran, noting that polls show strong support—over 75 percent—so long as the mission remains swift, decisive, and avoids any ground‑troop escalation. They emphasize that Trump is highly attuned to market reactions and economic sentiment, shaping his foreign‑policy decisions to preserve what they describe as a “Goldilocks economy” with low unemployment, falling interest rates, and stabilizing inflation. Clay predicts that by late spring or early summer, the positive effects of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will propel the economy forward at a rapid pace, creating ideal conditions heading into the midterms.
Autonomous vehicle technology becomes the next major focus of the hour, as the hosts discuss comments from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy about the race to dominate global self‑driving innovation. Clay passionately argues that autonomous vehicles are the future and compares skeptics to people in the early 1900s who refused to abandon horse‑drawn carriages. Buck adds humor by comparing old‑school car purists to fans of outdated firearms like the Colt 1911, creating a lively back‑and‑forth that spills into listener talkbacks. Callers and podcast listeners weigh in with detailed, technical arguments about 9mm vs. .45 caliber ammunition, shot placement, weapon ergonomics, and real‑world defensive use—turning the final stretch of Hour 3 into an animated debate within the show’s heavily firearms‑savvy audience.
The hour wraps with Clay and Buck continuing to monitor Caroline Levitt’s press briefing, discussing TSA staffing shortages caused by stalled DHS funding, and highlighting how airport security delays are impacting everyday Americans. They close by encouraging listeners to engage with the show through podcast talkbacks and video platforms as they prepare for even more content in the days ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third hour of play and Buck kicks off. Now show
is flying by, and we are covering so much ground.
A good time to remind you all. There's a podcast
of this program. You can go back and listen on
demand anytime you like the iHeartRadio app. Best place to
start wherever you get your podcast. Hour by hour the
show goes up, go listen to it. You missed hour one.
We had a great hour one. Some people say the
(00:20):
greatest hour one of any show this this week. Uh
so far, there's a great, great hour one of the show.
We're talking iron stuff, we're talking economy. We had Jim
Jordan on. We had Shannon Bream on Great Americans. We
had Michael Wattley on. I think he's gonna win that
race Clay in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I like Michael Wattley. He's a good man. They're gonna
they're money that's gonna be spending. It's just crazy how
much money is being spent by mostly Democrats, always around
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
He said, Buck, if you're watching on video my job,
it's rare that my jaw drops when I hear a number.
I was even projecting, Okay, it'll cost a couple. One
hundred million dollars six hundred million dollars for one Senate
seat is outrageous, but it's indicative of how much money
is going to be spent. And we just talked with
Shannon Bream about this. You can't be confident if you
(01:14):
are the White House right now that you are going
to have control of Congress. This might be your last opportunity.
This year might be the last opportunity of you, uh,
meaning the Republicans to be able to get anything through
the House and the Senate. And so if that's going
to be true, it makes all of these stakes that
(01:36):
much higher, including as we were just talking about the
possibility of could there be a Supreme Court vacancy, because Buck,
if you don't make the decision to go now in
twenty six, twenty seven, and twenty eight, if Republicans lose
control of the Senate, nothing's getting done.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And then in.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Twenty eight you have another election and you don't know
who's going to win. You might have a split, and
so you might not have certain on who your replacement's
going to be for four or five years, maybe longer.
If you're a seventy some odd year old Supreme Court Justice.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Also some breaking news here that Gracie Mansion, which is
the Mayor's residence in New York City, right like a
block or two for my little sister, actually went to school.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I know the area very well.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Gracie Mansion has well there's a report of the NYPD
responding to a device, a suspicious device. Not immediately clear
if it was a hoax or real or not. But
and then look, this is getting more attention on. There
was that protest and the counter protesters, remember a protest
(02:45):
about too many Islamic radicals in New York. So Islamic
radicals were like, how dare you and then threw a
bomb at them. Kind of tells you a lot as
we were discussing. And now there's another suspicious package that
has been found. You remember, Clay, I think it was
the New York Post held the contest for the name
(03:05):
of a strip club that at one point was going
to be opened a a all male strip club that
was going to be opened near the site of a mosque,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But you remembered, you know, I don't remember this story
at all.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I think it was New York Post and and and
and the winner was Suspicious Packages Uh, it's actually really funny.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Which was kind of a funny one.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
If you're gonna have a strip club across from a mosque, uh,
you know, because some guy wanted to make a point
that they won't allow a strip club near a mosque
an all male. It was like a Chippendale thing. This
is a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it wasn't
the Onion. I'm pretty sure it was a real thing,
but maybe it was the Onion. It's a funny story anyway.
Sometimes you know, when when the facts in the legend conflict,
you got to go with the legend. But whenever I
see suspicious packages now I always think of that story
(03:49):
or that uh, that urban legend, whatever it is. Now
we have the CNN reporting on this is is incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Uh and this is X.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I know we sound a little bit like Elon super
fans here. Maybe something I'll just speak for myself. I
want to actually clay with the tesla. I think it's
pretty big. I am, I am.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I think Elon is my My fifteen.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
My fifteen year old son the other day was just
would you stop You may or may not know this phrase,
would you stop with the Elon glaze Glaze is like
when you were giving somebody praise, I'm like, he's the
greatest capitalist in the history of the world. I mean,
I think it's fair to say that of anybody that's
alive today. I think he's probably done more in a
(04:39):
positive direction from a capitalist's perspective than almost anybody ever has.
And did we say this on the air? Was an
off air AOC was criticizing Elon Musk recently for being
a billionaire who had never accomplished anything. And Elon Musk
just did a star, you know, an asterisk and said trillionaire,
which is Elon is if he's not already soon to
(05:02):
be the first trillionaire in the history of the world.
And I think it's because he's built pretty incredible products.
So to cut you off, I might like Elon and
be more of an Elon Glazer, according to my own
fifteen year old than even you are.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But so I'll sign on call you this in gen
Z speak. Gen Z has some very interesting First of all,
I've noticed that we grew up saying dude the way
they say bro. Bro is now what dude was in
the nineties. You'd be like, dude, everything is bro. Yeah,
That's one thing I've noticed about the gen Z. I
have a gen Z babysitter, and I listened very closely
(05:40):
to her lexicon, to her verbiage. And I'm learning things
all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
The oldest man way to describe how a young I
listened to her lexicon to or verbiage. How old is
your gen z lass? That is that is a babysitter.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
One year old.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
She just got out of the just got out of
the IDF actually twenty two years old, and she was
serving over in Israel. Now she's here and as she's great,
she's great with great, with speech, fantastic. But I'm learning
from the way that she speaks. And there's a thing mogging. Oh, mogging. Oh,
I've learned this thing. So so when Clay and I
(06:23):
took a photo years ago with Tommy Laren, and Tommy
looked like Tommy Laren and Clay and I both looked
particularly schlubby, even for us, we were mogged by Tommy.
This is with it, right, that's the correct It's like
when someone completely overshadows you in a photo because they're like,
(06:44):
they're so good looking. I think that's what Basically you
can mog people in all respects, but typically it is
applied for physical Like if you went to the beach
and I went to the beach and like Arnold Schwarzenegger,
you know, mister Olympian stopped was there at the beach,
he would be totally mogging us, Like we would be
the fat, slubby guys at the beach and they I.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Mean, now he's pretty wrinkly and old. But yeah, so
who is the most who's a super ripped guy? Now,
there aren't as many famous ripped guys. I mean, I
know there's tons of wrestlers and things like that. I
think super bodybuilders have become. Did you see the guy
who was, like I think won the Arnold Classic. The
photos that we're going around does not even look like
a human musculature. I mean, it looks like another species
(07:27):
or it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
How Jack is.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, well, some of those guys can't put a shirt on.
So it's hard to be like, oh, you're the strongest
man on them. Like I'm not kidding, Like they can't
take a shirt off and take a shirt on because
they're so muscular, Like their shoulders don't work.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They can't just like do normal things.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Right, And while you're taking massive doses of anabolic steroids
to get to that. And that's just known. I mean,
there's this isn't like some sea everyone that you're not
hiding it. You can't be a bodybuilder, a male bodybuilder competitor.
It's interesting, the most competitive of the female body And
I'm in Miami, which is I think now probably the
bodybuilding capital of the country, or certainly South Florida's got
(08:04):
to be up there. South Florida is the attractiveness capital
of the United States by far. Everybody's good looking, everybody's
in shape, Like I La is probably number two in
terms of people who are just in great Miami's now
number one. Your fitness level in South Florida is a
minus three compared to the American average. So if you
(08:24):
think you are like a seven out of ten in
terms of fitness for your age category, you come to
South Florida, you're like a four or five. It's just
the way it looks. It applies to me too, trust me.
I was like I came down here, I was like,
I'm the fattest guy in the whole gym.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Like it's tough down here well, and also it's tough form,
so people wear less clothes, so it's hard to hide,
Like you can't wear a bulky jacket. You don't get
like if you're the fat guy in Miami, everybody knows
you're the fat guy in Miami.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah you don't.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I mean around here, it's it's a whole different thing
with the year around beach where.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, okay, so looks mogging. We've explained to you.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Now for gen Z speak, most of you, it's gonna
be your grandkids and your kids that will know what
mogging is. And you explained, you explained glazed. There's some
other gen Z terms that I'll think of that are
very very common.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Usage these days.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But anyway, going back to CNN here for a moment, Oh,
why who are we glazing Elon?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Because Elon's incredible? He is, And you were saying the
reason we knew this story from CNN to a large
extent is because of Twitter and the way that exchanged culturally. Yeah,
I mean Twitter used to.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Be a left wing propaganda platform and allowed conservatives on,
but it actually was nefarious because it was always suppressing.
You know, it's if you're in a race, what's worse. Hey,
I'm the fast. This is a race to determine who
the fastest person in the world is. But I'm going
to exclude like most of the fastest people and then
(09:49):
give a gold medal to somebody who's actually not the fastest.
Or if you put everybody in the race, and then
you have the actual fastest people you know, running with
like shackles on their legs or running.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Or so they might even run faster barefoot.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But anyway, you get what I'm saying, right Like, it's
actually mornaferies to pretend it's a honest platform. X now
does not operate as a left wing propaganda platform, and
it's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it was.
And so CNN has had to put this out. A
post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs
(10:24):
outside of New York City Mayor Zora On Mamdani's home
failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching
the editorial standards we require for.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
All our reporting.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It has therefore been deleted now just to share with
everybody what.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The tweet was.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
This is some CNN's official account, which has millions and
millions of followers. Still two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New
York City Saturday morning for what could have been a
normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But
in less than an hour, their lives would be drastically
changed as they would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs
(11:01):
during an anti Muslim protest outside of Zoron Mamdani's home. Clay,
that construct of how to tell this story is like
clinically insane. I mean, you could do this with anybody,
you know. It's like Osama bin Laden was having just
another day eating some chunks of goat in a cave
in Afghanistan, thinking about a Puranic verse, and then I
(11:24):
mean though them all of a sudden on his TV
the planes ran into the buildings, like what.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And this is where it becomes significant to me. A
lot of times people can screw up. I've written a lot,
you've written a lot. We talk a lot four hours
plus every day, variety of different topics. To me, what
is an utter indictment of what you just read that
when viral this morning is it's a product of the
(11:51):
culture of CNN. In other words, you know this articles
don't go up on cnn dot com without having been
vetted by multiple editors, and I would submit that a
CNN account does not tweet something out without it having
the ability to have been overseed by multiple editors, which
is a good thing.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You don't want CNN suddenly tweeting out one hundred percent
inaccurate news because it could be very traumatic to the
nation as a whole. Right if suddenly CNN said, hey,
something awful has happened to President Trump and it's not
true at all, it could alter the marketplace people see
on stock markets everything else. By the way, Caroline Levitt
(12:34):
has started a briefing and we will be updating you
on what she is saying there. But all of that
is to say, this is the culture of CNN that
must be ripped out, root and branch. And this is
why for those of you out there who didn't care
about who was going to buy Warner Brothers, I did care.
CBS News was a mess. I think CBS News has
(12:56):
gotten better under new ownership. I think that similarly, CNN
needs to be reimagined and redefined and rehabilitated based on
the way that the culture of their news has broken.
And that tweet and that story is a perfect example
of a culture that's broken.
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Speaker 2 (14:50):
We have got right now.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Caroline Levitt updating the White House Press Corps on the
absolute latest in Iran as well as arguing for the
Save Act to be passed. Every one of the news
networks is taking Caroline Levitt live right now, which is
a sign that is somewhat rare because usually MSNBC doesn't
(15:15):
carry these White House Press briefings. They instead decide to
carry something that they believe makes Trump look bad. But
right now they're actually carrying the press briefing across the board.
Buck we talked about earlier Something that I love that
has been I think very smartly done is Pete Hagseth,
(15:36):
Secretary of War, is doing these morning press conferences which
dominate the news agenda we paid. We played several of
those as we began the show today, and I do
think it's an important and smart move to set the
agenda before the media can really decide what the agenda is.
(15:58):
And it's amazing how quickly these things can change, because
yesterday the story was, oh my goodness, the stock market
is collapsing, the price of oil and gas is skyrocketing.
We're never going to be able to afford anything. And
since that time, the price of oil and gas has
dropped nearly forty dollars. MSNBC has taken the ticker off
(16:19):
the screen as stock market prices are back near record
highs and up again today and again the SNP five
hundred is near an all time record high and.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Up a little bit today as well.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So I think the Trump White House has done a
good job of taking back control of the agenda the
discussion point over the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Absolutely, I think that you're going to see things continue
to move in the direction of the Trump administration on
the economy. I think that they know what the red
lines are for Iran, and you know there's You have
to remember, there's an unreasonable degree, an unreasonable degree of
(17:03):
negativity that is brought to any media assessment of something
going on to the Trump administration. There are a lot
of people who really, really, really want Trump to fail,
and that affects the way that they will leap on
things because it's not even that they're not aware that
could be wrong, Clay. Their audience is desperate for anti
(17:25):
Trump content. Their audience is desperate to believe that they're
smart when they voted for Biden and then voted for
Kamala and that Trump can't do anything right, even though
that is a delusion, a manufactured delusion at that, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
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Speaker 1 (18:51):
Back into Clay and Bok. Caroline Levitt addressing the nation
from the West wing of the White House. So plenty
to dive into their Let's get to some of the
top issues. This is just breaking news now she is
telling the press where the White House stands on a
whole range of critical issues. Let's do cut thirty first here, guys,
this is on Iran and the US air campaign against
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the regime.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Play thirty.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
As for the oil, President Trump fully expected the rogue
Iranian regime to try and disrupt the global markets. That's
why President Trump and his energy team have been planning
for this long before the strike and have moved quickly
to address.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
These temporary disruptions.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Thus far, the Trump administration has offered political risk insurance
to tankers operating in the Gulf, the Treasury temporarily waived
certain oil related sanctions, and the Commander in Chief has
offered the US Navy to escort tankers when necessary. The
President and his energy team are closely watching the markets,
speaking with industry leaders, and the US military is jarring
(19:54):
up additional options following the President's directive to continue keeping
the straight up her.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Mood open.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Play.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I think they're very aware that everyone is watching this
and that the American people are okay with this, and
this is what all the polling shows, as long as
it does not drag on and we don't have mission creep.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yes, That to me is one of the most interesting
parts of the polling so far has been as long
as this is done in a month or six weeks,
it has about seventy five seventy six percent approval across
the nation, if it drags on, if there's boots on
the ground, if you start putting other permutations of this
in place, then people start to feel differently. And this
(20:46):
is one thing that I would say doesn't get talked
about enough, but we have discussed with all of you.
President Trump is acutely aware of what economic reaction is
to his decisions. And for people out there who constantly
buy into the fact, oh my goodness, this happened, and
so President Trump is going to ride. The stock market's
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going to drop forty percent and gas prices are going
to go up three hundred percent. In all these things
that never happens because the president looks at the way
markets respond and he adjusts his reaction to the markets
as well. So this is why I've said from the
get go, President Trump wants the stock market to be up.
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He wants to be able to walk in front of
the cameras and say, all of your four oh one
k's are doing better. And so if there is the
threat of something severely impacting in a negative way the
economic situation, President Trump will adjust in real time. And
so far we have seen kind of a Goldie Locks
(21:49):
like economy. What do I mean by that unemployment has
stayed very low, interest rates have been coming down, inflation
has not gone up. You know, when we had the
perfect economy block, I bet you February twenty twenty, we
had right at one point eight percent inflation, if I
remember correctly, we had three percent mortgages. We had a
(22:11):
growth rate of the market that was on fire. Boom
COVID happens. I think what you're going to see is,
as this spring summer takes in place, the impact of
the President's big beautiful bill is going to become a parent,
and we are going to see this economy taken off
like Jeff with like it has Jef fuel. I really do.
I am insanely optimistic about where we're going to be
(22:33):
in the summer. And I think that's President Trump's ultimate
goal as we move into the midterms, is that the
economy is becoming strong enough that even middle of the
road people who have not been committed to his agenda
look around and say, hey, you know what, this is
pretty good. And that's why I think to your point,
he has to get the resolution in Iran completed by
(22:55):
I don't know, May June at the latest.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You could say this economy is going to take off
like a Tesla on mad Max mode. Perhaps it's what
you've learned, Yeah, which you've learned. See a lot of
education on this program.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
They had an autonomous vehicles.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Thing with Sean Duffy, Secretary Duffy today, as I think
these autonomous vehicles are going to take off, we got
another Caroline Levitt clip.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, let's get to Carolina and then we can do
the Duffy. Actually, that's it. I didn't even mean for
that to be a smooth transition there, but that could
have worked. Let's do Caroline on oil though the price
of oil, it is important Play thirty one constructive.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
To continue keeping the straight up from Moose open.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
As for the oil, President Trump fully expected the rogue
Iranian regime to try and disrupt the global markets.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
That's why President Trump.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
And his energy team have been planning for this long
before the strike and have moved quickly to address.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
These temporary disruptions.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Thus far, the Trump administration has offered political risk insurance
to tankers operating in the Gulf, the Treasury temporarily waves
certain oil related sanctions, and the Commander in Chief has
offered the US Navy to escort tankers when necessary. The
President and his energy team are closely watching the markets,
speaking with industry leaders, and the US military is jarring
(24:14):
up additional options following the President's directive to continue keeping
the straight up from Moose open.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
What do you think I think it's going to work?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Look, I mean, I think in many ways, the run
up to one twenty dollars on Sunday, I think looks suspicious.
And when I saw it happening, a part of me thought,
in the back of my mind, is this an attempt
to try to gobble the the global oil market, to
(24:48):
gobble up the pricing, to drive up in an effort
to try to create economic issues for the United States,
which is probably Iran's best, best method by which to
end this. And so it feels strange. It feels, I
guess I should say it directly. It feels a bit
manipulated in the way that the gas oil and gas
(25:10):
market went from eighty dollars almost overnight to one hundred
and twenty dollars back down to eighty dollars. That doesn't
feel organic and natural to me. Now you can say, well,
there's different stories out there that precipitated this, but for
a fifty percent run up and a fifty percent collapse
to occur. It reminds me buck of meme stocks. Remember
when game Stop and all these other different stocks, the
(25:32):
fundamentals of them did not change, but the price skyrocketed
and plummeted and skyrocketed and plummeted because they were being
artificially manipulated in many different ways. Oil and gas, it
feels to me like that's what happened in the last
twenty four hours. It's not normal to see a fifty
percent increase in a fifty percent collapse in the space
of twenty four hours. It just doesn't happen. And that's
(25:54):
basically what we have seen, a crazy roller coaster of
oil and gas pricing.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Like I said, it's people speculating around this and placing
financial bets and that moving the markets much more than
anything else. So it's not reflective necessarily at all of
a true and sustained supply shock.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Or anything like that. So I think that's important. Do
you learn to do some autonomous vehicles? Look, I love
autonomous vehicles. Every time I talk about autonomous vehicles, people
send me messages to me. But I'm sorry, I'm living
in the future, and you guys are living in the past.
And if radio shows that existed back in the days
of cars starting to surpass carriages, some of you out
(26:35):
there would have been reaching out and saying, the horseless
carriage is never going to be a thing. Clay, I'd
rather rely on my horse and buggy. I know what
my whip in my hand is going to do to
a horse. I have no idea what a steering wheel
might do. Do you think that women are ever going
to be able to drive cars? They go way too
(26:56):
fast for women. All of these arguments would have been
cast at me in like nineteen oh six, when I
would have said, hey, I think this car is gonna
be a big deal. And now you guys are living
in this current age are basically the equivalent of horseless
carriage detractors, and I'm living in the future.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
He's basically saying that you non autonomous vehicle people are
like the cold nineteen eleven fans of the gun community,
stuck in one hundred years ago and don't want it,
don't want to change with the times and the technology.
I don't know what to say. I just it's fine
if you want to. You know, some people like to
dress up and do like revolutionary eraic cosplay, you know,
(27:38):
the muskets. You can have your cold nineteen eleven and
your musket. That's fine. I'm an American. I believe that
you have this choice. I just personally think that we've
improved on the musket, like we've improved on the nineteen eleven,
like we've improved on cars with autonomous driving.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Now you see there's a pattern here, my friends, there's
a trend.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Some of you like hoop skirts and talking about like
Antebellum hoopskirts.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
It was a good look back in eighteen sixty four.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
And the truth of the matter is autonomous vehicles are
the future, and I'm living in the future. Another way
to put it, buck in current parlance, might be that
my car is mogging your car. So Clay's car looks macking,
looks maxing, while a car maxing your vehicle, he's carmaxing.
I think that's Actually isn't that a site? Oh yeah,
(28:27):
probably should be, Well, yeah it is. Yeah, Yeah, that's
a good name.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Actually, yeah, there you go, h news max CarMax a
lot of max out there. Okay, Duffy, was that an
autonomous vehicle This is the Sean Duffy of Transportation Administration
Secretary fame. One way to put it here, he is
Sewan Duffy autonomous vehicle safety. For him, play cut one
(28:52):
during a race.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Right.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Everyone is trying to have the best technology that will
be deployed around the world. And I want the technology
to be developed in America. I want the jobs in America,
and I want the rest of the world to use
American technology. I don't want to see a foreign competitor
(29:14):
slash foreign adversary slash Communist Party beat America and have
their technology deployed.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Around the world.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
This is a national security issue, this is an economic issue,
this is a safety issue.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
There go look, Secretary Duffy gets it. And I'm just
going to say it. Every single one of you that
gets in the car and lets the car drive for you,
who has never done it before, who listens to this program,
it's going to say, I'll be damned, Clay Travis was one, right,
because you're going to feel like you are in the
future too, and you're going to recognize how much better
(29:53):
it is.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I just need the autonomous driving to also get one
of the little robots that you see that just gives
me a BackRub while I'm in the seat, you know
what I mean. So I'm being driven around while a
little robot is rubbing my shoulders.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I mean they do have uh, they do have the
seat massagers. I think in a lot of different I
think my car. I think my autonomous vehicle also massages.
I think basically you can kind of take care of
everything pretty soon. It's gonna be paying my taxes while
I'm just sitting there watching watching videos, letting it drive
me around.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
And I do think this is one big prediction.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
The way that cars are designed completely gonna change with
autonomous vehicles, the idea that you need to have four
or forward facing seats. We're just gonna be rolling around
in basically living rooms on the car. You're gonna be
able to sleep, You're gonna be able to watch movies.
You're gonna be able to have a big screen in
the middle that everybody watches together like a jumbo tron.
It's gonna be super cool. I'm optimist.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Here's Sean Duffy continuing on at the autonomous vehicle safety
for him cut to play it.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
We want to make sure we have the right regulatory
structure to meet the innovation that's happening not just in
America but around the world, and so we want to
drive safety but also allow those innovators to innovate. We
want the next generation of vehicles which are going to
be autonomous, to be American made. We don't want to
see these as Chinese made Chinese technology. We wanted American technology,
(31:20):
and so revnue Form today a lot of you can
see maybe behind me, a lot of our top innovators
from from Waimo Zooke's Tesla are here and we're gonna
have a day long conversation about again how we can
have the right rule set to keep our safety mandate
but also allow them to continue to innovate.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Very important this ev competition with China because it has
to go with market penetration all over the world, and
it also is about the innovations that will come along
with autonomous driving. Hey, guess what, the best autonomous driving
technology is also going to be the best autonomous tank
brigade technology, the best drone coordination technology. I mean you
(32:05):
start to add these things up and you go, oh,
it's actually quite important that we are at the forefront
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Welcome back in Caroline Levitt, still speaking at the White
House press briefing, she just said, to the one hundred
thousand employees out there struggling without a paycheck, to any
American out there showing up to an airport facing incredibly
long wait times, call your Democrat member of Congress, tell
them to fund DHS again. The TSA agents, many of
(33:49):
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Speaker 2 (33:57):
They're not getting paid.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
And this is the third time I think that they've
had to deal with disruptions to their pay. That's I
think a failure of the entire political process, but in
particular during this time when we know there's an elevated
risk of terror attack. The idea that we would have
fewer TSA employees working, but there are some of them
(34:20):
that are saying, hey, I've got to make money, right now,
so they're doing other jobs rather than showing up for
their TSA jobs because they have to get money in
their pocket. And this is just a failure and it's
indefensible anytime, but I think particularly now.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Let's go to podcast listener John. This is a on
our talk back list. He wanted to weigh in on
a controversial topic that nineteen.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
Eleven guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Top surgeons
in the country cannot tell the difference between.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
A nine milimeter and a forty five on the operating table.
Speaker 9 (34:54):
It's all about shot placement, especially with modern hallow point ammunition.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
The wound channels different are negligible.
Speaker 9 (35:01):
You get more chances with a nine, more record control,
more fun to shoot. Yeah, nineteen elevens are cool guns,
but they're not practical to carry because they're much heavier.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I'd rather have some type of polymer nine milimeter.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Listener John, just coming down heavy with an elbow from
the top rope on the nineteen eleven community. There also
the level of detail that this audience can bring to
the tissue damage from various calibers fired from a gun
conversation is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I am completely out of my depths on this discussion.
So I the fight that you have brought to bear
here is one that I don't even have a strong
take to be able to weigh in and throw punches on.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Oh, he keeps going. Podcast listener b John play.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
It firstly said, I don't fear the man that knows
ten thousand kicks, but the man that has practiced ten
one kick ten thousand times. It's all about those neuropathways
called muscle memory. Nine milimeters easier on well, it easier
on the hands, more fun to shoot.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Therefore, you're going to get much more repetitions on the
worst day of your life. You can do it automatically
without thinking about it.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
All these forty five caliber guys like oh, and those
are the guys that never out there shooting.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
They just have them in their gun safe.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Woof ooh ooh. Throwing shade at the forty five caliber community.
Oh my gosh, this is gonna get feisty. Clay feisty.
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so far, there's a great, great hour one of the show.
We're talking iron stuff, we're talking economy. We had Jim
Jordan on. We had Shannon Bream on Great Americans. We
had Michael Wattley on. I think he's gonna win that
race Clay in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I like Michael Wattley. He's a good man. They're gonna
they're money that's gonna be spending. It's just crazy how
much money is being spent by mostly Democrats, always around
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
He said, Buck, if you're watching on video my job,
it's rare that my jaw drops when I hear a number.
I was even projecting, Okay, it'll cost a couple. One
hundred million dollars six hundred million dollars for one Senate
seat is outrageous, but it's indicative of how much money
is going to be spent. And we just talked with
Shannon Bream about this. You can't be confident if you
(01:14):
are the White House right now that you are going
to have control of Congress. This might be your last opportunity.
This year might be the last opportunity of you, uh,
meaning the Republicans to be able to get anything through
the House and the Senate. And so if that's going
to be true, it makes all of these stakes that
(01:36):
much higher, including as we were just talking about the
possibility of could there be a Supreme Court vacancy, because Buck,
if you don't make the decision to go now in
twenty six, twenty seven, and twenty eight, if Republicans lose
control of the Senate, nothing's getting done.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And then in.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Twenty eight you have another election and you don't know
who's going to win. You might have a split, and
so you might not have certain on who your replacement's
going to be for four or five years, maybe longer.
If you're a seventy some odd year old Supreme Court Justice.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Also some breaking news here that Gracie Mansion, which is
the Mayor's residence in New York City, right like a
block or two for my little sister, actually went to school.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I know the area very well.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Gracie Mansion has well there's a report of the NYPD
responding to a device, a suspicious device. Not immediately clear
if it was a hoax or real or not. But
and then look, this is getting more attention on. There
was that protest and the counter protesters, remember a protest
(02:45):
about too many Islamic radicals in New York. So Islamic
radicals were like, how dare you and then threw a
bomb at them. Kind of tells you a lot as
we were discussing. And now there's another suspicious package that
has been found. You remember, Clay, I think it was
the New York Post held the contest for the name
(03:05):
of a strip club that at one point was going
to be opened a a all male strip club that
was going to be opened near the site of a mosque,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
But you remembered, you know, I don't remember this story
at all.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I think it was New York Post and and and
and the winner was Suspicious Packages Uh, it's actually really funny.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Which was kind of a funny one.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
If you're gonna have a strip club across from a mosque, uh,
you know, because some guy wanted to make a point
that they won't allow a strip club near a mosque
an all male. It was like a Chippendale thing. This
is a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it wasn't
the Onion. I'm pretty sure it was a real thing,
but maybe it was the Onion. It's a funny story anyway.
Sometimes you know, when when the facts in the legend conflict,
you got to go with the legend. But whenever I
see suspicious packages now I always think of that story
(03:49):
or that uh, that urban legend, whatever it is. Now
we have the CNN reporting on this is is incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Uh and this is X.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I know we sound a little bit like Elon super
fans here. Maybe something I'll just speak for myself. I
want to actually clay with the tesla. I think it's
pretty big. I am, I am.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I think Elon is my My fifteen.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
My fifteen year old son the other day was just
would you stop You may or may not know this phrase,
would you stop with the Elon glaze Glaze is like
when you were giving somebody praise, I'm like, he's the
greatest capitalist in the history of the world. I mean,
I think it's fair to say that of anybody that's
alive today. I think he's probably done more in a
(04:39):
positive direction from a capitalist's perspective than almost anybody ever has.
And did we say this on the air? Was an
off air AOC was criticizing Elon Musk recently for being
a billionaire who had never accomplished anything. And Elon Musk
just did a star, you know, an asterisk and said trillionaire,
which is Elon is if he's not already soon to
(05:02):
be the first trillionaire in the history of the world.
And I think it's because he's built pretty incredible products.
So to cut you off, I might like Elon and
be more of an Elon Glazer, according to my own
fifteen year old than even you are.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But so I'll sign on call you this in gen
Z speak. Gen Z has some very interesting First of all,
I've noticed that we grew up saying dude the way
they say bro. Bro is now what dude was in
the nineties. You'd be like, dude, everything is bro. Yeah,
That's one thing I've noticed about the gen Z. I
have a gen Z babysitter, and I listened very closely
(05:40):
to her lexicon, to her verbiage. And I'm learning things
all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
The oldest man way to describe how a young I
listened to her lexicon to or verbiage. How old is
your gen z lass? That is that is a babysitter.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
One year old.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
She just got out of the just got out of
the IDF actually twenty two years old, and she was
serving over in Israel. Now she's here and as she's great,
she's great with great, with speech, fantastic. But I'm learning
from the way that she speaks. And there's a thing mogging. Oh, mogging. Oh,
I've learned this thing. So so when Clay and I
(06:23):
took a photo years ago with Tommy Laren, and Tommy
looked like Tommy Laren and Clay and I both looked
particularly schlubby, even for us, we were mogged by Tommy.
This is with it, right, that's the correct It's like
when someone completely overshadows you in a photo because they're like,
(06:44):
they're so good looking. I think that's what Basically you
can mog people in all respects, but typically it is
applied for physical Like if you went to the beach
and I went to the beach and like Arnold Schwarzenegger,
you know, mister Olympian stopped was there at the beach,
he would be totally mogging us, Like we would be
the fat, slubby guys at the beach and they I.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Mean, now he's pretty wrinkly and old. But yeah, so
who is the most who's a super ripped guy? Now,
there aren't as many famous ripped guys. I mean, I
know there's tons of wrestlers and things like that. I
think super bodybuilders have become. Did you see the guy
who was, like I think won the Arnold Classic. The
photos that we're going around does not even look like
a human musculature. I mean, it looks like another species
(07:27):
or it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
How Jack is.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, well, some of those guys can't put a shirt on.
So it's hard to be like, oh, you're the strongest
man on them. Like I'm not kidding, Like they can't
take a shirt off and take a shirt on because
they're so muscular, Like their shoulders don't work.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They can't just like do normal things.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Right, And while you're taking massive doses of anabolic steroids
to get to that. And that's just known. I mean,
there's this isn't like some sea everyone that you're not
hiding it. You can't be a bodybuilder, a male bodybuilder competitor.
It's interesting, the most competitive of the female body And
I'm in Miami, which is I think now probably the
bodybuilding capital of the country, or certainly South Florida's got
(08:04):
to be up there. South Florida is the attractiveness capital
of the United States by far. Everybody's good looking, everybody's
in shape, Like I La is probably number two in
terms of people who are just in great Miami's now
number one. Your fitness level in South Florida is a
minus three compared to the American average. So if you
(08:24):
think you are like a seven out of ten in
terms of fitness for your age category, you come to
South Florida, you're like a four or five. It's just
the way it looks. It applies to me too, trust me.
I was like I came down here, I was like,
I'm the fattest guy in the whole gym.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Like it's tough down here well, and also it's tough form,
so people wear less clothes, so it's hard to hide,
Like you can't wear a bulky jacket. You don't get
like if you're the fat guy in Miami, everybody knows
you're the fat guy in Miami.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah you don't.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I mean around here, it's it's a whole different thing
with the year around beach where.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, okay, so looks mogging. We've explained to you.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Now for gen Z speak, most of you, it's gonna
be your grandkids and your kids that will know what
mogging is. And you explained, you explained glazed. There's some
other gen Z terms that I'll think of that are
very very common.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Usage these days.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But anyway, going back to CNN here for a moment, Oh,
why who are we glazing Elon?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Because Elon's incredible? He is, And you were saying the
reason we knew this story from CNN to a large
extent is because of Twitter and the way that exchanged culturally. Yeah,
I mean Twitter used to.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Be a left wing propaganda platform and allowed conservatives on,
but it actually was nefarious because it was always suppressing.
You know, it's if you're in a race, what's worse. Hey,
I'm the fast. This is a race to determine who
the fastest person in the world is. But I'm going
to exclude like most of the fastest people and then
(09:49):
give a gold medal to somebody who's actually not the fastest.
Or if you put everybody in the race, and then
you have the actual fastest people you know, running with
like shackles on their legs or running.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Or so they might even run faster barefoot.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But anyway, you get what I'm saying, right Like, it's
actually mornaferies to pretend it's a honest platform. X now
does not operate as a left wing propaganda platform, and
it's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it was.
And so CNN has had to put this out. A
post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs
(10:24):
outside of New York City Mayor Zora On Mamdani's home
failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching
the editorial standards we require for.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
All our reporting.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It has therefore been deleted now just to share with
everybody what.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The tweet was.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
This is some CNN's official account, which has millions and
millions of followers. Still two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New
York City Saturday morning for what could have been a
normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But
in less than an hour, their lives would be drastically
changed as they would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs
(11:01):
during an anti Muslim protest outside of Zoron Mamdani's home. Clay,
that construct of how to tell this story is like
clinically insane. I mean, you could do this with anybody,
you know. It's like Osama bin Laden was having just
another day eating some chunks of goat in a cave
in Afghanistan, thinking about a Puranic verse, and then I
(11:24):
mean though them all of a sudden on his TV
the planes ran into the buildings, like what.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And this is where it becomes significant to me. A
lot of times people can screw up. I've written a lot,
you've written a lot. We talk a lot four hours
plus every day, variety of different topics. To me, what
is an utter indictment of what you just read that
when viral this morning is it's a product of the
(11:51):
culture of CNN. In other words, you know this articles
don't go up on cnn dot com without having been
vetted by multiple editors, and I would submit that a
CNN account does not tweet something out without it having
the ability to have been overseed by multiple editors, which
is a good thing.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You don't want CNN suddenly tweeting out one hundred percent
inaccurate news because it could be very traumatic to the
nation as a whole. Right if suddenly CNN said, hey,
something awful has happened to President Trump and it's not
true at all, it could alter the marketplace people see
on stock markets everything else. By the way, Caroline Levitt
(12:34):
has started a briefing and we will be updating you
on what she is saying there. But all of that
is to say, this is the culture of CNN that
must be ripped out, root and branch. And this is
why for those of you out there who didn't care
about who was going to buy Warner Brothers, I did care.
CBS News was a mess. I think CBS News has
(12:56):
gotten better under new ownership. I think that similarly, CNN
needs to be reimagined and redefined and rehabilitated based on
the way that the culture of their news has broken.
And that tweet and that story is a perfect example
of a culture that's broken.
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Speaker 2 (14:50):
We have got right now.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Caroline Levitt updating the White House Press Corps on the
absolute latest in Iran as well as arguing for the
Save Act to be passed. Every one of the news
networks is taking Caroline Levitt live right now, which is
a sign that is somewhat rare because usually MSNBC doesn't
(15:15):
carry these White House Press briefings. They instead decide to
carry something that they believe makes Trump look bad. But
right now they're actually carrying the press briefing across the board.
Buck we talked about earlier Something that I love that
has been I think very smartly done is Pete Hagseth,
(15:36):
Secretary of War, is doing these morning press conferences which
dominate the news agenda we paid. We played several of
those as we began the show today, and I do
think it's an important and smart move to set the
agenda before the media can really decide what the agenda is.
(15:58):
And it's amazing how quickly these things can change, because
yesterday the story was, oh my goodness, the stock market
is collapsing, the price of oil and gas is skyrocketing.
We're never going to be able to afford anything. And
since that time, the price of oil and gas has
dropped nearly forty dollars. MSNBC has taken the ticker off
(16:19):
the screen as stock market prices are back near record
highs and up again today and again the SNP five
hundred is near an all time record high and.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Up a little bit today as well.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So I think the Trump White House has done a
good job of taking back control of the agenda the
discussion point over the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Absolutely, I think that you're going to see things continue
to move in the direction of the Trump administration on
the economy. I think that they know what the red
lines are for Iran, and you know there's You have
to remember, there's an unreasonable degree, an unreasonable degree of
(17:03):
negativity that is brought to any media assessment of something
going on to the Trump administration. There are a lot
of people who really, really, really want Trump to fail,
and that affects the way that they will leap on
things because it's not even that they're not aware that
could be wrong, Clay. Their audience is desperate for anti
(17:25):
Trump content. Their audience is desperate to believe that they're
smart when they voted for Biden and then voted for
Kamala and that Trump can't do anything right, even though
that is a delusion, a manufactured delusion at that, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
We'll take some of your calls, We'll continue to play
some talkbacks, and will monitor what Caroline Leavitt has to
say to see whether or not we're getting any additional
news of substance out of this event. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1 (18:51):
Back into Clay and Bok. Caroline Levitt addressing the nation
from the West wing of the White House. So plenty
to dive into their Let's get to some of the
top issues. This is just breaking news now she is
telling the press where the White House stands on a
whole range of critical issues. Let's do cut thirty first here, guys,
this is on Iran and the US air campaign against
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the regime.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Play thirty.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
As for the oil, President Trump fully expected the rogue
Iranian regime to try and disrupt the global markets. That's
why President Trump and his energy team have been planning
for this long before the strike and have moved quickly
to address.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
These temporary disruptions.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Thus far, the Trump administration has offered political risk insurance
to tankers operating in the Gulf, the Treasury temporarily waived
certain oil related sanctions, and the Commander in Chief has
offered the US Navy to escort tankers when necessary. The
President and his energy team are closely watching the markets,
speaking with industry leaders, and the US military is jarring
(19:54):
up additional options following the President's directive to continue keeping
the straight up her.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Mood open.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Play.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I think they're very aware that everyone is watching this
and that the American people are okay with this, and
this is what all the polling shows, as long as
it does not drag on and we don't have mission creep.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yes, That to me is one of the most interesting
parts of the polling so far has been as long
as this is done in a month or six weeks,
it has about seventy five seventy six percent approval across
the nation, if it drags on, if there's boots on
the ground, if you start putting other permutations of this
in place, then people start to feel differently. And this
(20:46):
is one thing that I would say doesn't get talked
about enough, but we have discussed with all of you.
President Trump is acutely aware of what economic reaction is
to his decisions. And for people out there who constantly
buy into the fact, oh my goodness, this happened, and
so President Trump is going to ride. The stock market's
(21:08):
going to drop forty percent and gas prices are going
to go up three hundred percent. In all these things
that never happens because the president looks at the way
markets respond and he adjusts his reaction to the markets
as well. So this is why I've said from the
get go, President Trump wants the stock market to be up.
(21:28):
He wants to be able to walk in front of
the cameras and say, all of your four oh one
k's are doing better. And so if there is the
threat of something severely impacting in a negative way the
economic situation, President Trump will adjust in real time. And
so far we have seen kind of a Goldie Locks
(21:49):
like economy. What do I mean by that unemployment has
stayed very low, interest rates have been coming down, inflation
has not gone up. You know, when we had the
perfect economy block, I bet you February twenty twenty, we
had right at one point eight percent inflation, if I
remember correctly, we had three percent mortgages. We had a
(22:11):
growth rate of the market that was on fire. Boom
COVID happens. I think what you're going to see is,
as this spring summer takes in place, the impact of
the President's big beautiful bill is going to become a parent,
and we are going to see this economy taken off
like Jeff with like it has Jef fuel. I really do.
I am insanely optimistic about where we're going to be
(22:33):
in the summer. And I think that's President Trump's ultimate
goal as we move into the midterms, is that the
economy is becoming strong enough that even middle of the
road people who have not been committed to his agenda
look around and say, hey, you know what, this is
pretty good. And that's why I think to your point,
he has to get the resolution in Iran completed by
(22:55):
I don't know, May June at the latest.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You could say this economy is going to take off
like a Tesla on mad Max mode. Perhaps it's what
you've learned, Yeah, which you've learned. See a lot of
education on this program.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
They had an autonomous vehicles.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Thing with Sean Duffy, Secretary Duffy today, as I think
these autonomous vehicles are going to take off, we got
another Caroline Levitt clip.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, let's get to Carolina and then we can do
the Duffy. Actually, that's it. I didn't even mean for
that to be a smooth transition there, but that could
have worked. Let's do Caroline on oil though the price
of oil, it is important Play thirty one constructive.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
To continue keeping the straight up from Moose open.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
As for the oil, President Trump fully expected the rogue
Iranian regime to try and disrupt the global markets.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
That's why President Trump.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
And his energy team have been planning for this long
before the strike and have moved quickly to address.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
These temporary disruptions.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Thus far, the Trump administration has offered political risk insurance
to tankers operating in the Gulf, the Treasury temporarily waves
certain oil related sanctions, and the Commander in Chief has
offered the US Navy to escort tankers when necessary. The
President and his energy team are closely watching the markets,
speaking with industry leaders, and the US military is jarring
(24:14):
up additional options following the President's directive to continue keeping
the straight up from Moose open.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
What do you think I think it's going to work?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Look, I mean, I think in many ways, the run
up to one twenty dollars on Sunday, I think looks suspicious.
And when I saw it happening, a part of me thought,
in the back of my mind, is this an attempt
to try to gobble the the global oil market, to
(24:48):
gobble up the pricing, to drive up in an effort
to try to create economic issues for the United States,
which is probably Iran's best, best method by which to
end this. And so it feels strange. It feels, I
guess I should say it directly. It feels a bit
manipulated in the way that the gas oil and gas
(25:10):
market went from eighty dollars almost overnight to one hundred
and twenty dollars back down to eighty dollars. That doesn't
feel organic and natural to me. Now you can say, well,
there's different stories out there that precipitated this, but for
a fifty percent run up and a fifty percent collapse
to occur. It reminds me buck of meme stocks. Remember
when game Stop and all these other different stocks, the
(25:32):
fundamentals of them did not change, but the price skyrocketed
and plummeted and skyrocketed and plummeted because they were being
artificially manipulated in many different ways. Oil and gas, it
feels to me like that's what happened in the last
twenty four hours. It's not normal to see a fifty
percent increase in a fifty percent collapse in the space
of twenty four hours. It just doesn't happen. And that's
(25:54):
basically what we have seen, a crazy roller coaster of
oil and gas pricing.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Like I said, it's people speculating around this and placing
financial bets and that moving the markets much more than
anything else. So it's not reflective necessarily at all of
a true and sustained supply shock.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Or anything like that. So I think that's important. Do
you learn to do some autonomous vehicles? Look, I love
autonomous vehicles. Every time I talk about autonomous vehicles, people
send me messages to me. But I'm sorry, I'm living
in the future, and you guys are living in the past.
And if radio shows that existed back in the days
of cars starting to surpass carriages, some of you out
(26:35):
there would have been reaching out and saying, the horseless
carriage is never going to be a thing. Clay, I'd
rather rely on my horse and buggy. I know what
my whip in my hand is going to do to
a horse. I have no idea what a steering wheel
might do. Do you think that women are ever going
to be able to drive cars? They go way too
(26:56):
fast for women. All of these arguments would have been
cast at me in like nineteen oh six, when I
would have said, hey, I think this car is gonna
be a big deal. And now you guys are living
in this current age are basically the equivalent of horseless
carriage detractors, and I'm living in the future.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
He's basically saying that you non autonomous vehicle people are
like the cold nineteen eleven fans of the gun community,
stuck in one hundred years ago and don't want it,
don't want to change with the times and the technology.
I don't know what to say. I just it's fine
if you want to. You know, some people like to
dress up and do like revolutionary eraic cosplay, you know,
(27:38):
the muskets. You can have your cold nineteen eleven and
your musket. That's fine. I'm an American. I believe that
you have this choice. I just personally think that we've
improved on the musket, like we've improved on the nineteen eleven,
like we've improved on cars with autonomous driving.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Now you see there's a pattern here, my friends, there's
a trend.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Some of you like hoop skirts and talking about like
Antebellum hoopskirts.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
It was a good look back in eighteen sixty four.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
And the truth of the matter is autonomous vehicles are
the future, and I'm living in the future. Another way
to put it, buck in current parlance, might be that
my car is mogging your car. So Clay's car looks macking,
looks maxing, while a car maxing your vehicle, he's carmaxing.
I think that's Actually isn't that a site? Oh yeah,
(28:27):
probably should be, Well, yeah it is. Yeah, Yeah, that's
a good name.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Actually, yeah, there you go, h news max CarMax a
lot of max out there. Okay, Duffy, was that an
autonomous vehicle This is the Sean Duffy of Transportation Administration
Secretary fame. One way to put it here, he is
Sewan Duffy autonomous vehicle safety. For him, play cut one
(28:52):
during a race.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Right.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Everyone is trying to have the best technology that will
be deployed around the world. And I want the technology
to be developed in America. I want the jobs in America,
and I want the rest of the world to use
American technology. I don't want to see a foreign competitor
(29:14):
slash foreign adversary slash Communist Party beat America and have
their technology deployed.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Around the world.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
This is a national security issue, this is an economic issue,
this is a safety issue.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
There go look, Secretary Duffy gets it. And I'm just
going to say it. Every single one of you that
gets in the car and lets the car drive for you,
who has never done it before, who listens to this program,
it's going to say, I'll be damned, Clay Travis was one, right,
because you're going to feel like you are in the
future too, and you're going to recognize how much better
(29:53):
it is.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I just need the autonomous driving to also get one
of the little robots that you see that just gives
me a BackRub while I'm in the seat, you know
what I mean. So I'm being driven around while a
little robot is rubbing my shoulders.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I mean they do have uh, they do have the
seat massagers. I think in a lot of different I
think my car. I think my autonomous vehicle also massages.
I think basically you can kind of take care of
everything pretty soon. It's gonna be paying my taxes while
I'm just sitting there watching watching videos, letting it drive
me around.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
And I do think this is one big prediction.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
The way that cars are designed completely gonna change with
autonomous vehicles, the idea that you need to have four
or forward facing seats. We're just gonna be rolling around
in basically living rooms on the car. You're gonna be
able to sleep, You're gonna be able to watch movies.
You're gonna be able to have a big screen in
the middle that everybody watches together like a jumbo tron.
It's gonna be super cool. I'm optimist.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Here's Sean Duffy continuing on at the autonomous vehicle safety
for him cut to play it.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
We want to make sure we have the right regulatory
structure to meet the innovation that's happening not just in
America but around the world, and so we want to
drive safety but also allow those innovators to innovate. We
want the next generation of vehicles which are going to
be autonomous, to be American made. We don't want to
see these as Chinese made Chinese technology. We wanted American technology,
(31:20):
and so revnue Form today a lot of you can
see maybe behind me, a lot of our top innovators
from from Waimo Zooke's Tesla are here and we're gonna
have a day long conversation about again how we can
have the right rule set to keep our safety mandate
but also allow them to continue to innovate.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Very important this ev competition with China because it has
to go with market penetration all over the world, and
it also is about the innovations that will come along
with autonomous driving. Hey, guess what, the best autonomous driving
technology is also going to be the best autonomous tank
brigade technology, the best drone coordination technology. I mean you
(32:05):
start to add these things up and you go, oh,
it's actually quite important that we are at the forefront
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Speaker 3 (33:25):
Welcome back in Caroline Levitt, still speaking at the White
House press briefing, she just said, to the one hundred
thousand employees out there struggling without a paycheck, to any
American out there showing up to an airport facing incredibly
long wait times, call your Democrat member of Congress, tell
them to fund DHS again. The TSA agents, many of
(33:49):
whom listen to this program, A lot of the TSA
guys and gals at Nashville buck Ause I fly in
and out a lot our listeners, and.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
They're not getting paid.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
And this is the third time I think that they've
had to deal with disruptions to their pay. That's I
think a failure of the entire political process, but in
particular during this time when we know there's an elevated
risk of terror attack. The idea that we would have
fewer TSA employees working, but there are some of them
(34:20):
that are saying, hey, I've got to make money, right now,
so they're doing other jobs rather than showing up for
their TSA jobs because they have to get money in
their pocket. And this is just a failure and it's
indefensible anytime, but I think particularly now.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Let's go to podcast listener John. This is a on
our talk back list. He wanted to weigh in on
a controversial topic that nineteen.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
Eleven guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Top surgeons
in the country cannot tell the difference between.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
A nine milimeter and a forty five on the operating table.
Speaker 9 (34:54):
It's all about shot placement, especially with modern hallow point ammunition.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
The wound channels different are negligible.
Speaker 9 (35:01):
You get more chances with a nine, more record control,
more fun to shoot. Yeah, nineteen elevens are cool guns,
but they're not practical to carry because they're much heavier.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I'd rather have some type of polymer nine milimeter.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Listener John, just coming down heavy with an elbow from
the top rope on the nineteen eleven community. There also
the level of detail that this audience can bring to
the tissue damage from various calibers fired from a gun
conversation is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I am completely out of my depths on this discussion.
So I the fight that you have brought to bear
here is one that I don't even have a strong
take to be able to weigh in and throw punches on.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Oh, he keeps going. Podcast listener b John play.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
It firstly said, I don't fear the man that knows
ten thousand kicks, but the man that has practiced ten
one kick ten thousand times. It's all about those neuropathways
called muscle memory. Nine milimeters easier on well, it easier
on the hands, more fun to shoot.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Therefore, you're going to get much more repetitions on the
worst day of your life. You can do it automatically
without thinking about it.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
All these forty five caliber guys like oh, and those
are the guys that never out there shooting.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
They just have them in their gun safe.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Woof ooh ooh. Throwing shade at the forty five caliber community.
Oh my gosh, this is gonna get feisty. Clay feisty.
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