Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 3 2026

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Daily Review with Clay and Buck – March 3, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts
Date: March 3, 2026

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Overview

This episode covers breaking political and world news with a mix of analysis, humor, and candid guest interviews. Main topics include the 2026 Texas primary election, dramatic developments in Iran and the Middle East, U.S.-Israel strategies, and deeper commentary on American culture. Notable guests include Congressman Wesley Hunt (Texas Senate candidate) and Senator Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma), who discuss everything from geopolitics and campaign platforms to masculinity and the significance of staying physically fit.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. 2026 Primary Day Coverage

• Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina Primaries

  • Hosts stress the importance of voter turnout and discuss the contested races, especially in Texas where Republican and Democrat fields are crowded.
  • Anticipation of potential runoffs if no candidate gets over 50%.

• Texas Senate Race

  • Congressman Wesley Hunt appears as a major contender, touting military credentials and a platform of generational change and term limits.
  • Hunt criticizes longtime incumbent John Cornyn and pushes for fresh leadership.

2. Crisis and Conflict in Iran

• Israeli Strike on Iranian Leadership

  • Reporting on a significant Israeli operation that targeted a gathering of Iran’s Supreme Council, allegedly decimating high-level leadership as they met to elect a new Supreme Leader ([00:35–08:56]).
  • Notable Quote:
    • "If I were in Iran right now and I was told to go to a meeting that involved high level Iranian officials, I think I might have a stomachache or I might say, hey, maybe we can do this by phone. I can't believe that they are still showing up in person... it feels suicidal in nature." – Clay Travis, [02:56]

• Strategic Perspective

  • Hosts compare Iran’s vulnerability to historic police state regimes, speculate about possible U.S. and Israeli influence over the succession, and question the regime’s grip on power after such targeted attrition.

  • Buck Sexton: "We own their sky. We can blow up anyone, anywhere...you would think also gives you a lot of leverage." [06:23]

  • Morale & Power Dynamics

    • They quote Bane from The Dark Knight to question, “Do you feel in charge?” for Iran’s regime ([04:34]).

• Trump’s Decisive Policy

  • President Trump's public statements are reviewed, emphasizing a decisive shift toward eliminating Iran’s capacity to threaten global security with nuclear arms.
  • Clip & Quote:
    • "If we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would have had a nuclear war and they would have taken out many countries..." – Donald Trump, [09:55]

• Negotiation Stance & Nuclear Threat

  • Steve Witkoff’s account is played: Iranian negotiators admitted to enough enriched uranium for 11 nuclear bombs, using it as a point of leverage, which was met with resolve from the Trump administration ([10:05–11:03]).

• Future Scenarios in Iran

  • Hosts and guests discuss the likelihood of regime change, the possible rise of a U.S./Israel-friendly leader, and parallels to post-Maduro Venezuela ([11:03–14:50]).

3. Interview – Congressman Wesley Hunt

• Biography & Platform

  • Highlights his military background, family’s legacy of service, and advocacy for term limits ([17:49]).
  • Asserts that the Senate “is not a retirement community...24 years is long enough.”
  • Quote:
    • “I want to give the best years of my life back to my country.” – Wesley Hunt, [17:49]

• Criticism of the Left and ‘Soft Bigotry’

  • Extended critique of Democratic rhetoric, especially regarding minority achievement and identity ([19:37]).
  • Quote:
    • “Benevolent white liberals are some of the most racist people I’ve ever seen in my life. I call that the soft bigotry of low expectations.” – Wesley Hunt, [19:37]

• Foreign Policy and Military Strength

  • Praises Trump’s position on Iran as “peace through strength,” draws sharp contrast with Obama/Biden approaches ([22:04–22:53]).
  • Quote:
    • “You get pallets of missiles, not pallets of cash. That is the difference between this administration and Barack Obama and certainly Joe Biden...” – Wesley Hunt, [22:04]

• Cultural Commentary & Masculinity

  • Emphasizes his concern over gender ideology and male/female distinctions, celebrating “toxic masculinity” for building Western civilization ([24:31–27:11]).
  • Quote:
    • “Toxic masculinity is why this country exists...Brave men that stormed the beaches of Normandy...” – Wesley Hunt, [24:31]

• General Election Matchups

  • Discusses potential Democratic opponents (Talarico or Crockett), frames himself as an “option” representing excellence and unity instead of division ([27:40–29:49]).

4. Interview – Senator Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma)

• Military & Special Forces Perspective

  • Clarifies his background (special assignments, not uniformed military) and contextualizes the Iran action: “This isn’t Iraq, this isn’t Afghanistan... We’re getting rid of a regime that’s been hunting us for 47 years.” ([33:42–36:33])

• Trump’s Rarity as a Decisive President

  • Argues that Trump is “doing what seven presidents wouldn’t do” in tackling long-standing threats rather than “kicking the can down the road” ([37:29]).
  • Quote:
    • "The president says, why are we waiting? Why do we keep putting off to tomorrow what we can do today?" – Markwayne Mullin, [37:29]

• ‘America First’ & Foreign Policy Justification

  • Responds to conservative critiques about interventions in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, linking those actions directly to U.S. security and the economy ([39:40–42:58]).

• Physical Fitness & Leadership

  • Light-hearted commentary on masculinity, bench pressing (Sen. Mullin boasts a 405 lb bench at 187 lbs), fitness as mental health, and a new brand of “young, strong” GOP leaders ([42:58–47:08]).
  • “Anyone that could do 225 is very respectful. I have a ridiculous bench...my max is 405.” – Markwayne Mullin, [44:06]

• Senate Procedures – The SAVE Act

  • Brief, technical breakdown on voting procedure and the legislative future of immigration restrictions ([47:17–48:57]).

5. American Citizens in the Middle East

• Public service message about evacuation contacts for Americans stuck in war zones ([49:44–52:02]).

6. Light Moments & Cultural Trends

• Sparkling Water and Restaurant Economics

  • Hosts share playful banter about a personal “Costco addiction,” the rise of sparkling water/Pellegrino culture, and changing habits in dining – citing decreased alcohol consumption and increased restaurant reliance on water “upcharges” ([52:02–55:38]).

• Technological Transformation: Autonomous Vehicles

  • Extended discussion of Clay’s positive experience with Tesla’s self-driving features, predictions that driving will become obsolete within a generation.
  • Quote:
    • “I'm making a prediction here, team: I think the days of people driving cars are rapidly vanishing." – Clay Travis, [57:30]
  • Commentary on how safer, autonomous vehicles may change everyday life, extend elderly independence, and eventually make self-driving seem risky.

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• “Do you feel in charge?” – referencing Bane, Nigeria's regime, [04:34]
• "We own their sky. We can blow up anyone, anywhere." – Buck Sexton on U.S./Israeli air power, [06:23]
• “If we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would have had a nuclear war and they would have taken out many countries...” – Donald Trump, [09:55]
• “Benevolent white liberals are some of the most racist people I’ve ever seen...soft bigotry of low expectations.” – Congressman Wesley Hunt, [19:37]
• "You get pallets of missiles, not pallets of cash." – Wesley Hunt, contrasting Trump and Obama/Biden policies, [22:04]
• “Toxic masculinity is why this country exists...Brave men that stormed the beaches of Normandy...” – Wesley Hunt, [24:31]
• "The president says, why are we waiting? Why do we keep putting off to tomorrow what we can do today?" – Markwayne Mullin, [37:29]
• “Anyone that could do 225 is very respectful. I have a ridiculous bench...my max is 405.” – Markwayne Mullin, [44:06]
• “I think the days of people driving cars are rapidly vanishing." – Clay Travis, [57:30]

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Section Timestamps

• 00:35–08:56: Iran Crisis and Israeli Strike
• 17:13–30:56: Interview with Congressman Wesley Hunt (Texas Senate race, culture wars, foreign policy)
• 32:56–49:03: Interview with Senator Markwayne Mullin (Iran, Trump, Venezuela, masculinity)
• 49:44–52:02: Info for Americans evacuating from the Middle East
• 52:02–55:38: Sparkling water, restaurant culture
• 57:30–63:29: Autonomous vehicles, changing tech culture

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Summary in Tone

The conversation stays sharp, direct, and at times irreverent—a mix of headline analysis, insider talking points, and cultural hot takes, always with their characteristic blend of candor, conservative viewpoint, and wry humor. Regular listeners get headline context and behind-the-scenes arguments; newcomers get a brisk catch-up on both the news and the mood of the day.

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Useful for New Listeners

This episode is essential listening for those interested in the interplay between American politics, foreign policy, and shifting cultural norms, framed with the wit and unfiltered commentary typical of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. If you want a primer on the stakes of the 2026 midterms, up-to-the-minute takes on Middle East turmoil, and how American conservative personalities see “strength,” change, and modern culture, this is a perfect entry point.

Transcript

[Clay Travis]

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[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

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[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

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[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Welcome back in our number two Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Reminder, as we have been talking about, today is primary day in the great state of Texas. Also in Arkansas and in North Carolina, the very first primaries for the 2026 election cycle. Why does that matter? Well, all of you should go vote and make sure that you get the best possible nominees across every state, but certainly in those three states in particular where the voting is going on right now. We will have results to talk about tomorrow. You just heard from Congressman Wesley Hunt, one of the three primary contenders running alongside of Ken Paxton and John Cornyn for the Republican nomination in the state of Texas on the Democrat side and Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico, one of those likely to win. We may have runoffs in May if Nobody gets to 50%. We are going to continue to track that story during the course of the day. Obviously Iran and the fallout of what is going on there remains paramount in terms of the overall interest and attention. We should mention, by the way, that Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma also going to join us in the third hour and maybe our friend Congressman Chip Roy who is running for the attorney general of Texas. He may give us a buzz before he's in the air right now, but before the the show ends, he wanted to reach out and make his case for ag, just FYI. But Buck, I wanted to play this. This was Trey Angst who is doing, let me just say, I don't know how much you're watching Fox News, but the amount of incredible coverage that Trey Angst is giving us from inside of Israel, where you can see during his broadcast legitimately, the the bombs that are coming in Tel Aviv is on a watch right now, but you'll see him reacting to as the bombs are hitting, going in and out of the bomb shelter, as many people all throughout Israel are doing. He reported a little bit earlier today, right before we came on air that the Iranian Supreme Council was counting votes to elect a new leader when Israel struck the meeting location. Here is that report cut 29. I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader. This is a significant development. And again speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war. They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new supreme leader. I don't know about you, Buck, but if I were in Iran right now and I was told to go to a meeting that involved high level Iranian officials, I think I might have a stomachache or I might say, hey, maybe we can do this by phone. I can't believe that they are still showing up in person and, and allowing these kind of attacks to happen. I mean, it feels suicidal in nature. I mean, you're a CIA guy, but I don't think you have to be a CIA guy at this point in time in Iran to say, hey, maybe big gatherings, not necessarily something we should be doing.

[Clay Travis]

Well, they're in a tough spot because if you can't gather and you can't decide who's in charge, how can you be in charge? And this is increasingly going to be the problem that the Muller Ocracy faces over there. Who is really calling the shots if you can't secure your own airspace enough to prevent the enemy, in this case US and Israel, from blowing up essentially anyone, anywhere they want at any time? Are you, you know, it reminds me of, of, of Bane in, in the, the Dark Knight Rises or whatever, when

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

he goes such a good.

[Clay Travis]

Do you feel, do you feel in charge? And, and you know, that's a, that's a, that's a chilling moment, if you remember what happens there. And this gives you power over me. That is pretty much where the Iranian leadership is right now. Do they feel in charge? Because they're not. I am hopeful that there is some burgeoning resistance movement within Iran that is going to come together. But this stuff is very hard, Clay. I mean, you look at what happened with Assad in Syria. There were various uprisings against the Assad regime before the huge Syrian civil war in which hundreds of thousands of people died starting around 2012. And the thing about despotic, tyrannical police state regimes is they're really good at being police state despotisms that stay in power. That's their primary focus. And they have a lot of contingency plans in place. And the whole system that they have is first and foremost concerned with that, not with a constitution or legitimacy or the welfare of the people or any such thing. It's how do we stay in charge? So when that is your maniacal focus, it. It takes a lot to knock a regime off that pedestal and to finally allow for there to be a different. A different paradigm of. Of leadership. But I'm hopeful. That much I can say. But we own their skies. I mean, all that stuff, all the, oh, they're gonna have Russian surface to air missile technology and, oh, they're gonna have. No, no, actually, we own their sky. We can blow up. And Trump can blow up anyone, anywhere he wants to in Iran right now, which you would think also gives you

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

a lot of leverage.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I think it seems quite clear to me that we are just gonna keep killing Iranian leaders until we reach a point that somebody is workable. And I'm gonna be honest with you, Buck. I kind of feel like whoever ends up in charge of Iran may be a Mossad guy, meaning he has been working with Mossad for some time.

[Clay Travis]

That's a little extreme, Clay. All of a sudden, the next ayatollah's name is Shlomo.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

No, no, no.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I don't mean that he is Jewish or from Israel. I mean that working with Israel behind the scenes, providing information. Have you seen all the stuff, by the way? Israel reportedly hacked the. The cameras. The. The traffic lights.

[Clay Travis]

Traffic cameras, yeah.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

So that they were aware constantly of where everybody was traveling in Iran. I mean, the degree of knowledge that they had inside of Iran is incredible. My point on this is I actually think we probably have a list of guys that we think we could work with in Iran. And I don't know how far down the list they are, but I feel like at some point Israel is going to have, and by the extension the United States is going to have a good relationship with one of these guys. And we're basically looking for our version of Del C. Rodriguez, who is the Venezuelan leader that is in charge after Maduro left, that is going to be amenable to working for American. American interest, if that makes sense. And so. So we'll see exactly how this shakes out. But I don't see any way when we have air superiority like this, to your point, I don't see any way that Iran is going to be capable of picking a leader who has any sort of staying power, given our ability with the United States and Israel to know everything that's going on in their country and be wiping people out every time they announce somebody new. It's like, what was the job? Al Qaeda number two? Like that. Basically, as soon as you got named the number two position of Al Qaeda, you got almost wiped out. Almost to the point where the press releases announcing the new guys in charge have barely gone out before. They're already dead. That is the reality of what's going on.

[Clay Travis]

I just think, Clay, that there's something that Trump didn't. He hasn't necessarily given us the full details on this, and maybe he won't because of concerns over sources and methods and classified information. But it seems like something sparked this with him, something recent. And maybe it was the reports about the negotiating position of the Iranians recently dealing with, with Witkoff, where they essentially said, we got enough to get a whole bunch of nukes. And that's now the new reality. Deal with it. You know, we're not changing this, but maybe there was something else. This is cut 30 here. Trump is, is saying that if we didn't do something, we were heading toward a nuclear war, a nuclear exchange. Play, play 30. A big, big factor in this world and future factors. What we're doing right now with Iran,

[Buck Sexton]

if we don't stop them or if we didn't stop them, or if we

[Clay Travis]

didn't start, they've been decimated.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

But if we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would have had a nuclear war and they would have

[Clay Travis]

taken out many countries because you know what?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

They're sick people.

[Buck Sexton]

They're mentally ill. Sick people.

[Clay Travis]

They're angry, they're crazy, they're sick. We have Witkoff's cut, actually, where he talks about this. I think we should play this for everybody. This is cut seven where Steve Witkoff, as part of his negotiations with the Iranians, listen to what he learned from the Iranian side of the table. Play seven. In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly with, you know, no, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%. And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs. And that was the beginning of their negotiating stance. So that's, that's. They were, they were proud of it. They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs. Seems like they told them, we're cheating and you can't stop us. And Trump was like, but I can,

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I think, Buck, that one way to describe this might be by saying they think darkness is their ally. But in reality, they've merely adopted the darkness. And we, in fact, were born in it, molded by it. One of the all time great Lines that I've just altered a bit for people out there. But it does come back to what I think is the ultimate question now. I think we are accelerating rapidly towards a resolution under which there is a new leader of Iran that the United States and Israel approve of. The question that will then exist is how stable is that new leader? Right? How much power does he have internally? And the second part of that I think will be how reliable is that relationship that the United States has with whoever that leader is. And I think this is significant. The, the reason they elevated Delsey Rodriguez was they didn't think the military was willing to turn entirely on the Maduro regime. And so they weren't going to be able to just pluck the. Maria Menudo. It's the wrong word, but Maria Tate, whatever. The, the, the woman who was theoretically the democratically elected leader, the military was going to oppose her. And so they made a choice. This is not the most ideal option, but it is the best option given the circumstances. Who is the best option given the circumstances right now inside of Iran? And how many people do we have to kill? Frankly, there's a report that there were 88 people that were involved in that assembly of experts that was basically the conclave of former experts that we just wiped out. Who even makes the decision now? If we've killed 49 high ranking people before this, if we just hit an assembly of experts of 88, you got to figure that dozens of those people are dead. If you look at that footage of that building, it doesn't seem very likely that very many people survived. Certainly very few people, if any, would have survived and not been severely injured. So who actually has authority in Iran and who has the authority such that the military, particularly the high ranking aspects of the military, would listen to them? I'm sure that's a major calculation going on, which is why I came back, come back to. Again, it feels to me like Israel knows and the United States knows who they can work on, work with. When will we get to the positions where those people we could work with are elevated? And I, I don't think it's going to take that long, honestly. But I mean, if we have complete air superiority and if we are continuing to wipe out all their leadership and every single hour they have less ability to be able to send their drones or their missiles to hit other places, what does Iran have left? I just don't see how this could go on that long given what's already happened just since Saturday. That's, that's my take.

[Clay Travis]

And look, sometimes when you start off with groups or individuals that you're going to work with, it doesn't end up going your way anyway. So maybe having it come together. I'm just saying, you look at Afghanistan, we had the Northern Alliance. We had. Although they recognized the. The key leader in the Northern alliance was Ahmad Shah Massoud. And they killed Massoud pretending to be journalists. Al Qaeda killed massoud right before 9 11, I think maybe even a day or two before 911 because they were concerned that he would be a threat to them.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Afterwards. We would.

[Clay Travis]

What would be our first call? Go to Massoud. Right. We would want to work with him in the Northern alliance. So they killed him. But then we did work with the Northern alliance pretty effectively. And our Special Forces and CIA worked very well in the weeks after the 911 attack. But we didn't win in Afghanistan. So there's no guarantees with any of this.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Congressman Wesley Hunt is with us right now. Congressman, you are running in a very important primary in Texas for the Senate seat. And we want you to be, you know, we invited all the top contenders on. You are here with us now. I think for some of the audience, not our Texas audience, but it might be one of the first times that they are hearing from you.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

Why?

[Clay Travis]

Let's just jump into it. It's election time in Texas or primary time in Texas. Why are you the guy?

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

I am the guy because I believe it is time for the next generation of leadership to step into the future and lead the great state of Tex, Texas and lead this country. I am a West Point graduate. I flew 55 combat air mission Baghdad as an Apache helicopter pilot. I am a war fighter. Both my brother, sister and I all went to and graduated from West Point. There's 60 years with the military service just in my immediate family. And is that kind of mentality that I believe we need leading us to the future, that service mentality, the idea of putting the American public. And I gotta tell you something else too, the United States Senate is not a retirement community. It is time for the next leaders, next generation to step in. Now look at John Cornyn who has been around for 24 years. That is long enough. My part of my campaign is to run on term limits. Two terms, 12 years. That is enough. I have a seven, a five and a three year old at my house. I want to get home and raise them as they get older. But first of all, I want to give the best years of my life back to my country. We live in the greatest country in the world. And what I realized is that as a war and I've literally been shot at, I've been taking a lot of hits online, taking a lot of hits on tv. But it means we are right over the target zone and we are a threat. And I know the people of Texas are going to make sure that we finish up strong. And term limit, a 24 year incumbent.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

You've been on with us before, Congressman. Appreciate the time. And I was watching with you this week. You talked and did an interview with Stephen A. Smith and you went after Gavin Newsom. And I loved it over his comments I believe he made in Atlanta, where he said, hey, I'm a 9 60s SAT guy. For people who did not hear what you said about Gavin Newsom, what was your reaction when you saw that clip? And, you know, basically he said, I can't read a book. I'm just like you.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

You know, it's the idea of benevolent white liberals are some of the most racist people I've ever seen in my life. I call that the soft bigotry of low expectations. This is literally what they think about us. You know, not only do they think that we can't read and we can't do well on our sat, they also think that we are too stupid to have an ID to vote. That's what this whole thing is about. They think so little of people of color and black and brown people that they have to pander to us in the same way that Hillary Clinton walked around with her hot sauce, in the same way that Joe Biden said, if you don't vote for me, then you ain't black. All of their issues are put on full display. And I hate to break it to people that it's not the Republican Party that I'm a part of today. I represent a white majority district and a suburb of Houston, Texas, that President Trump would have won by 20 points and I won by 25 points. I have the honor of running for the United States Senate, and we are trending in the top three no matter what when this day ends. A black man that's in his early 40s, that is the great, great grandson of a man who was born on a plantation. Running as a conservative is being judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And that is just not the Democrat Party. So I took huge defense, huge offense for what he said because, again, I caused a soft bigotry of low expectations. And I'm here to tell him that as a family that had three West Corners in one house, my brother earned his master's degree from Harvard Business School. I earned three master's degrees from Cornell University. I'm here to tell you we don't. We don't fit that mold. We believe in excellence, not just for black people, but for all Americans. I am sick of the division along racial lines.

[Clay Travis]

From the left, we're speaking to Congressman Wesley Hunt, and he is running for that open Senate seat now in this great state of Texas. And Congressman, or the one that's up for grabs, I should say, Congressman, appreciate very much you being here with us, obviously you have a military background. You've been talking about that service to the nation. It's very early. And so I'm not asking for you to solve the situation in Iran, but as somebody who has been downrange, who has had the bullets flying in both directions, just, I wanted your thoughts on how you're viewing what's going on right now. With the ongoing air campaign, the Trump administration deciding the red line had been crossed. Time to bring the fight to the malaccracy in Tehran.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

This is the definition of peace through strength. We now have a president who is in charge. When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. When a red line is drawn. And I think they got the hit last year when we bombed them and ridded their ability to have a nuclear weapon. And that they never listened. They continued on their path. They continued on the path of funding terror. They depended on their path of hurting our allies. And guess what the red line is now. You get pallets of missiles, not pallets of cash. That is the difference between this administration and Barack Obama and certainly Joe Biden, who wouldn't have any idea what was going on. These two strengths is this. It doesn't mean that we do nothing. What it means is that when it is time to posture, when it is time to attack, and when it is time to be strategic in the way in which we do it, we must do it to keep our allies and

[Buck Sexton]

to keep us safe.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

My heart goes out. My heart goes out. And I prayed for these soldiers last night that did not make it home. I pray for because I know what it feels like and I've been there. But also, I will tell you, that's what we signed up for. If we're in harm's way, sometimes it does mean our lives. But what I loved about what Pete Hegset said yesterday was this. Ignore the left, left. This is not World War 3. This is a strategic move to weaken them and not allow them to harm us or harm other nations. And also they cross the red line. And these are the consequences. President Trump has always, always campaigned on and talked about not getting into more endless wars that cost us $3 trillion, our sons and daughters lives, and of course, 10 years. He doesn't want to do that. He never will. But we also have to ensure that we are respected across the world.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

When you look at your state of Texas, you're talking about your background. I think it's a really compelling story and your service for the country. But I think also your age is important here. Because what we saw in 2024 is a lot of men, and I know women, a lot of women out there listening, too, but a lot of men, white, black, Asian, and Hispanic, are just over. The cultural BS that the Democrat Party is putting out your candidacy, I think, is an important marker of that. But just speaking as a normal guy, how often are you traveling around in Texas and just meeting people who are not particularly political, but the cultural issues of the Democrat Party, men and women's sports, the effeminate nature, frankly, of the party itself, a lot of dudes of all backgrounds, particularly younger guys, are just saying, yeah, this is not for me. I'm out.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

Yeah, we are. We are finding out that common sense is not so common. And that's a great point, especially young men that I have seen as I have traveled all over this state, I've done over 50 stops all over Texas over the course of the past few months, has been incredible to see just all people, different races, religions, colors and creeds that are actually coming toward the side of common sense. You are exactly right. We are dealing with people that cannot tell you the difference between a man and a woman. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. And if you can't come up with that simple reason and rationale, if you don't understand the difference between a man and a woman, then I don't want to hear anything about your thoughts and feelings on policy. And look, they talk about guys like me and toxic masculinity. Well, I tell you what about toxic masculinity. Toxic masculinity is why this country exists. You see, there are brave men that storm the beaches of Normandy into a barrage of machine gun fire to ensure that the entire world didn't speak German. That's called toxic masculinity. And we need more of it in this country. We need men to be men. We need women to be women. And look, I'm the kind of guy, and I got two. I got three babies, I got two little girls and a little boy, and I know who I am raising them, raising him in the ways of Christ. We know the difference between a man and a woman, but we also understand that we have to respect one another and respect each other's strengths and weaknesses, but also understand that there is a construct here. And that construct of knowing when it's time to be a real man is exactly what the Republican Party stands for. And quite frankly, it's why President Trump was reelected. You don't have to question that. What you. You don't you know, you don't have to question President Trump's masculinity. You don't have to question Marco Rubio's or JD Vance's masculinity. These are strong men. And also, Suzy Wiles, who is the chief of staff, is a strong woman who I also know well, at the end of the day, we need to have common sense. And the cultural wars, the division, the division along racial lines, the division along gender ideology. Also here in Texas, we're dealing with the Islamification of Texas and understanding that this is America. And by the way, you can have whatever religion that you want to celebrate and you want to use in your own home, but you don't get to move to a place, start up your own enclave, and then live under Sharia law. We have our own Constitution and our own set of laws. I am the person that's saying that's got to stop. We are not going to do that, because when you come to our country, you must assimilate through our laws and our rules, just like we have to assimilate to another country's laws and rules when we go visit them or we go live in their country. These things are common sense. And this is what the Republican Party stands for today. This is, this is my platform. And what I really hope is that people continue to see just how crazy the left is. And as long as they continue to behave this way, we're going to. We're going to continue to win elections.

[Clay Travis]

Speaking of Congressman Wesley Hunt, he's running for Senate in Texas. You're just talking about the crazy left. Let's talk a little more about the crazy left. There are some Democrats who, if you were to come through this primary, you would be facing one of them. It would be either Talarico or Crockett, from what I can gather. What do you make of it? Which matchup do you prefer? But what is it? Also tell the people of Texas that those are the options the Democrat Party puts forward.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

Well, let's look at. My guess is, if I had to guess, it's looking like it's going to be James Talarico. But please know that I would much rather Jasmine Crockett. Quite frankly, I would dream of debating her here in Texas. I think that would be hilarious. You have two black people that are roughly the same age, and one has one vision of America in Texas. And I certainly have a different vision of America in Texas. One is a victim. I am a Victorian. I want to talk about how amazing this country is and talk about our progress and Those two are the kinds of candidates that want to take this country back backwards. All they run on is race, all they run on is division. And all they run on is some of this nonsensical, non common sense stuff that we were just talking about regarding the difference between a man and a woman and men playing at women's sports and just, and not understanding what it means to be an American and keeping our culture intact. And so I again, I got in this race here in Texas because I wanted to give the people of Texas an option. I want to give them an option of somebody who was young, who believes in term limits, who is a combat veteran, who was the first person in the country to endorse President Trump this last cycle. I was one of his top surrogates when he was running in the most consequential election of our lifetime. I could win this primary and I could win the general against Jasmine, against Jasmine Crockett or James Talarico without there being really any issues. I'm already outperforming both Ken and John head to head against either one of them because the matchup between me and them is a nightmare matchup for the Democrat Party. What do they say when someone like Wesley Hunt comes out of the Republican primary? Someone who, who believes in this country, loves this country, is black, is a combat veteran, is a believer in Christ. Most importantly what do, what do they say about me? How are they possibly going to attack me? And I got this race because I wanted to give the people of Texas an option and win, lose or draw, I am always a winner because I am a believer in Christ. But today I really do pray and hope that the people of Texas get out, get this right. At a minimum we term limit a 24 year incumbent who is a Bush era Lincoln project Republican that's been around for way too long. It is time to move on and it's time for the next generation of

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

leadership to step up and the expectation. Last question for you and we know you're busy again. Everybody out there in Texas get out and vote. Today is primary day is that there will be two advance from the Republican Senate race. It's going to be hard for somebody to get over 50%. Do you expect to be one of those two when the ballots are finally counted at the end of the day.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

Hey sir, I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe that number one is going to be Ken Patrick. General Patterson is going to be going to finish in first place. So this is about who finished in second. Is it going to be me or is it going to be John? I got in this race because I actually want to give the people of Texas a choice between two real conservatives. And if it ends up being General Paxton, that's fine. At least we know how he votes and he is not going to vote with the unit party. That's the end of discussion. So I do believe that I'm going to finish in second place to have a runoff with Ken Paxton. We can have a healthy, spirited debate. But the good thing is, is you know that you're going to have two people that have a liberty score higher than 54% like John Cornyn.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Thank you for the time, sir. Appreciate the the campaign and we'll watch and see what the results are. I'm sure we'll have you again on sometime soon.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

God bless you, brother. Thank you very much for having me on. I really appreciate it.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

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[Clay Travis]

All right, third hour of play and Buck kicks off now. And we're joined by Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Senator, good to have you back on the program.

[Buck Sexton]

Hey, brother, how are you doing?

[Clay Travis]

Pretty good, pretty good. Obviously, a lot of people caught between feelings of ebullience, maybe relief that a lot of very bad people in Iran have been taken off the chessboard. But there's also concern about where this goes and the next steps. You are a veteran. You understand war. What do you make of what we're seeing so far? The Trump administration decision to go in alongside Israeli forces and take out these targets. What are you seeing and how do you think this should play out?

[Buck Sexton]

Well, first of all, let me clear. I did special assignments outside of dod Now, Dow. I never wore the uniform or the flag on my, on my shirt.

[Clay Travis]

Pardon me. Pardon me.

[Buck Sexton]

Go ahead. Same area, but too totally the guys that the guy that signed the contract was. I got to work alongside of those guys. And they're phenomenal individuals. So, you know, I think with the, with where we moved today, people that think this is another Iraq is just not understanding that's not even close to where we're at. They think that's another Afghanistan. It's not even close where we're at. We're not hunting for Saddam Hussein. We're not hunting for, you know, for Osama bin Laden. That hunt ended within an hour. What we're doing is getting rid of regime that's been hunting us for 47 years. This regime has attacked us since November of 1979, all the way up to the last attack of June of 2005. They have killed or injured thousands of Americans and they had chanted death to America and declared war on us a long time ago. This is the president. Trump, though, is the first president out of the, the last seven to actually stand up and say, we're going to eliminate this threat. We're not going to allow them to continue to build their arsenal, to continue to attack our assets and one day possibly have the ability to attack us here on the homeland. Because it wouldn't be a matter of if, it'd be a matter of when. This regime that's been the number one sponsor of terror around the world and their biggest target has been us and why? Diplomacy. President tried diplomacy. I mean, during the 12 Day War, he was very clear. He came out and said, listen, we've destroyed your nuclear capability. We know where you're at. If we wanted to take you out. We would. But now we just ask that you. I mean, I'm paraphrasing this now. We ask that you don't rebuild it. They decided to start rebuilding it. And then just recently, the information that's now open source during the negotiations, which some of us is already aware of this, but Wyckoff put it out publicly that they said they had enough enriched uranium to make 11 nuclear bombs. That made the threat even more deadly. And the president had his assets in the area. He had worked with General Kaine and Secretary Hexseth to have assets available. And when the target finally presented itself, we went and eliminated the threat and continue to eliminate the threat today. So this isn't Iraq, this isn't Afghanistan. This is going after the terrorist organization that has been there for a long time. And make it very clear we're not at war with Iraq, we're not at war with the Iranian people. We want a relationship with them. This is to eliminate the threat that continued to come after us for 47 years.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

We're talking to Senator Markway Mullen of Oklahoma. One of the things is, I'm sure you well know, that politicians get criticized for, is only being concerned with the next election. President Trump doesn't have a next election. It would be easy, it would be super easy for him to have just said, hey, you know what? I'm going to do enough so that Iran is not an issue for the rest of my term, but I'm just going to kick the can down the road and leave it to whomever my successor is to potentially deal with it. President Trump seems to me, and I'm curious because you spend quite a bit of time with him, talk to him quite a lot, to have decided that he's going to do everything in his power, whether it's build a new ballroom or get a new leader in Iran to solve issues for the next 20, 40, 60 years. Isn't that incredibly commendable and actually rare for an American president to be doing that's right.

[Buck Sexton]

The president says, why are we waiting? Why do we keep putting tomorrow when we can do something today? And that's where he's at. He's like, I'm not going to continue to deal with these problems. That's been there forever. I mean, you think about it. People question me when I said seven presidents, but think about this. You had Carter, you had Reagan, you had Bush, you had Clinton, you had Bush, you had Obama, and you had Biden. Every single one of these had an opportunity to deal with this. Threat, and they chose not to. Even Maduro, you had Obama and you had Biden that could have dealt with that threat. They chose not to. The president is like, why do this? At some point, someone's got to do something with this threat and with the ayatollah. He did it. And yet the Democrats are upset because they can't deny that they have killed thousands and injured thousands of Americans for 47 years. They can't deny that they've declared war on us. They can't deny the fact that they sponsored the war on terror, which were their number one target. They can't deny that the only thing they're upset about is that the president supposedly did something illegal or supposedly did something unconstitutional. But that's their go to because they can't name specifics because these same Democrats didn't complain about Obama when he dropped 26,000 bombs in 2016 alone and bombed six different countries. They're just upset that the president is having any type of success. And at this point, you can't reason with crazy. And that's where the Democrat Party is today.

[Clay Travis]

We're speaking to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Senator, how do you address when a constituent comes up to you? And I'm sure you're getting this, maybe not necessarily in person, but you're certainly getting emails, calls to your office because there are some people who are three time Trump voters. We got some calls and emails from them today who are all in all on board on the agenda. But they're saying Cuba, Venezuela, Iran. This stuff doesn't look like America first to me. What's your response to them?

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, so let me, I'll break that down for you. Let's look at Venezuela. Venezuela is American first because Venezuela was allowing drug cartels to poison our streets, kill our family members, kill our friends and destroy our towns and our cities because Venezuela became the number one hub for drug exports into the United States. We tried to get them to stop. It wasn't that we were trying to run the country. We just wanted them to quit allowing the cartels to be able to use their ports to ship drugs into the United States. And that does affect us directly. It affects everybody. Every one of your listeners, including you and I talking, we know somebody that's been affected by fentanyl and the drug overdoses because we lost more people last year alone to drug overdoses than we did in the entire Vietnam War for American personnel. And so that's the first one on Venezuela. Cuba has been a constant staging ground for Russia and now China, that is. It's 90 miles off the coast of Florida. It is a huge threat to us and it can create complete destabilization. We saw it during the Cuban crisis, missile crisis and what happened to the United States. The President is laser focused on our hemisphere. He's not really interested in the rest of the hemispheres unless it happens to us. He's pulled the resources or he pulled the resources to protect our hemisphere, which is why he secured the border. Securing our border is the same thing as securing our hemisphere because the overflow coming to Cuba could be dangerous. So securing our border in Cuba, in that hemisphere is important. When you start looking at IR Iran, let's just see what's happening right now with the shipping lanes. We've seen oil surge at the highest, quicker than it has in recent years. It jumped up an average of $0.11. You've seen the shipping lanes that have, that have been closed because insurance companies won't allow shipping to go through the Suez Canal, which in the straits and through the canal, 20% of the world's oil flows. And the destabilization that can take place because we are in a world economy regardless of people think we all are not. Our economy is tied to the world, which is why the dollar is the number one currency around the world. And what happens in that region is very important. With Iran becoming a nuclear power, they would destabilize that entire area. And at any given time, they could threaten to shoot a nuke and they could shut down those shipping lanes and cause extreme volatility in our economy. And there's no way to get around it because their ability to reach out so far, they had missiles that could reach all of our assets. And if you just want to know how important that area is, look at how many bases that we have just in that immediate region because of how important it is to the United States economy and our interest. And then our allies all the way into Europe and they were trying to get a nuclear weapon that fit the United States. If we didn't deal with them now, dealing with a nuclear Iran would have been a much worse issue. And it would have destabilized our economy not for weeks, but destabilized it for years or maybe decades, because we may not have had another president with a backbone that President Trump did. Remember, seven presidents passed on a problem they knew they were going to deal with at some point.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

All this is very serious. But I'm sure you saw the video of Secretary of War Pete hegseth bench pressing 315 pounds yeah. Yeah. Okay. So did Buck. So we're gonna. We're gonna put you. You. I want to hear what you bench, because I remember I, I saw the video of you doing the, the pull ups and the. And the. And the push ups, and then we. I remember the crazy video where you did, like, a mile worth of lunges, which is one of the most insane things I've ever seen anybody do. Did you see that video?

[Clay Travis]

I think Clay might have said that guy's a freak of nature or something along those lines.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I mean, a mile of lunges is. Is. Is my personal hell. I, I think that that's like the baton death march for me, if you maybe do it. So did you. Do you think the 315 was legit?

[Buck Sexton]

If 315 is very respectful. Listen, anyone that could do 225 is very respectful. I have a ridiculous bench. I, you know, I, I do reps to 315. I, I. So my max is probably. I have a max in a while. That's. My max is 405.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

But what do you weigh, like 225?

[Buck Sexton]

No, I weigh one. This morning I weighed 187.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Holy. So how many reps are you doing on 315?

[Buck Sexton]

I do reps of five.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Okay.

[Buck Sexton]

Fifteen. Yeah.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

All right.

[Clay Travis]

So do you think our Secretary of War is maybe rocking a little trt? I'm just throwing it out there. I'm just throwing out there.

[Buck Sexton]

Listen, whatever he's rocking, it's working and all, right? And I told him, I called him, and I said. I said, I called. We're friends. So I called him Pete. But all due respect, Secretary Hegseth, but I said, big brother, I'm doing a good job. I mean, the way those, Way those men and women around you started getting so excited. The Secretary of War. I mean, when was the last time the Secretary War even walked into a gym like that, much less throw up? 3. 15. He's pretty excited. But I told him, I said, but listen, I do reps with that. He says, I knew you were going to call me.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I do think that, that getting guys in the gym to bench weight is a good idea to use free weights in general. Let me ask you this. Who is the strongest Democrat? Like, if we had a bench off right now in Congress, how many Democrats can even do 225 now?

[Buck Sexton]

I, I don't. Maybe Jimmy Panetta.

[Clay Travis]

There's not. The guy who pulled the. Jamal Bowman, the fire alarm guy.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

He's out now. He was a strong dude.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, he's out. Okay.

[Buck Sexton]

That guy, that guy couldn't do 10 push ups. I'd say maybe Jimmy. There's not a senator. I know that. But Jimmy I think could do 225. I've seen him in the gym. He works out with me every now and then. Josh Gunheimer. I give him a hard time because I mean he may be able to shoot 25 but he's only, I mean it's only like a 18 inch travel. And by the way, he's a really good friend of mine so I can make fun of fun of him, but I don't know, I mean it's not, We've been kind of blessed and I mean that our party is, you know, I've elected some young people. I mean, I tell you who knows, another person is a freak of nature. Is Tim Sheehy. I mean that guy, stout as styles, an ox too. He can, he can throw up some serious weight.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

It is, I mean it's, it's fun to talk about. But isn't being physically fit or at least attempting to put in the time to do it for men in particular a good message to be sending?

[Buck Sexton]

I think it's good for everybody. I think it's mental more for me it's mental health, right? It's my morning cup of coffee, I get up and go after it. But it's also self confidence. Like I don't have to go out there and prove myself to anybody. I don't have to go in there and try to mix words with you, even though I will. The truth is when I'm walking around, I feel confident I can handle my situation that comes in. And so it's, it's like some things that happen around here. Occasionally you have protests that happens and people start, they literally say, I fear for my life, I fear for my life. And I think if you have a little bit of self confidence about you and you realize that you can handle things, you don't have to walk into a situation but if a situation happens, you feel confident enough to be able to handle yourself.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I know this is. Come back to this because I bet we're going to. I should have asked you about this earlier. SAVE act. We got a quick turn here, but how optimistic are you of anything happening with it?

[Buck Sexton]

I think we vote on it in the next week or two. I've been expecting it to come up and I think it would already came up. We didn't have this DHS issue we're dealing with. The SAVE act will, I mean we'll get over 50 votes on it, I just don't know where it's at. I don't know how many votes we'll get on it, but we'll get over 50. We won't hit 60. Then the question is, is what do you do with it? You know, people talk about the talking filibuster. The talking filibuster. Mike Lee and I just, we, we, we have had a lot of conversations. And Mike Lee's man, he's brilliant. Brilliant. But the way that I understand it, talking to parliamentary. And the reason why this hasn't happened is because in the last hundred. The reason why we haven't done it last hundred years is because you basically to cede the floor to the Democrats when you, when you do this. And at any given time, 2 o' clock in the morning, as they're doing their speeches, they can call a quorum call if a quorum's not present. So the Republicans have to be on the floor to answer the quorum call or they start their debate time all over again. And every time they call up an amendment, it's like a filibuster that has no end time. Like a filibuster, or not a filibuster, but a vote of Roma, meaning that every senator can talk two times on any issue and they can continue to bring up the issues which you could at that time, I mean, completely poison. The SAVE act, for instance. It doesn't have to be germane since every, since it doesn't have to be germane because of the way the talking filibuster is. Every Amendment is a 51 vote threshold. So this thing, if we get into Roe v. Wade, the whole abortion issue again, there could be some real consequential votes that take place on that because now you're only hitting 51.

[Clay Travis]

Senator Mullen, we gotta leave it. We gotta leave it there. We're at time. Thank you so much. From Oklahoma. Great to have you, sir. We'll talk to you soon.

[Congressman Wesley Hunt]

All right, thank you.

[Clay Travis]

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[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Welcome back in Clay. Travis, BUCK SEXTON SHOW I want to help some of you to the extent was it Monday we got calls from some of our TALK Back listeners who were stuck in Israel. I know some of you listen from all around the world and you have friends and family that might have been in the Middle East. Let me hit you with this. The State Department is actively getting military aircraft and charter flights for American citizens who need to get out of the Middle East. You know, I know for instance, I had some friends that had a daughter who was studying in the Middle east and she and her classmates were stuck there. Let me give you this. And if you have friends and family, let me give you this contact because Dylan Johnson at the State Department just shared this. There are nearly 3,000Americans right now that they know of in the Middle east who are trying to get out of there as the war is going on. So if you got pens, papers, let me help you with this. American citizens should call 202-501-4444 for assistance with departure options. They are getting, again, charter flights, jets, they are getting people out. So if you have friends or family and you've been worried about them, maybe they don't have great cell phone reception. The phone number is 202-501-4444. That is what they should call. Obviously the country code is 1. So 1, 2025014444. If you are trying to get your friends or family out of the Middle East. So we had several of you that have reached out to us that were stuck over there and hopefully you will be able to get some help there. Buck I you can well imagine when I'm just scrolling through to check news. I did not expect for one of the most devastating haymakers to be thrown by your wife in response to your assault on her Costco habit. This is if you need a little bit of a if you need a little bit of a laugh, you had. Do you want to share what your request for assistance was and then what your lovely wife's response was?

[Clay Travis]

I may have been carting, and I do mean carting like I was a longshoreman or something, like I was a stevedore. I was moving large boxes even late last night from the back of my vehicle, all courtesy of the great deals

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

at Costco, my favorite place to shop.

[Clay Travis]

I was just wondering Aloud I said, is there some kind of 12 step program for wives who have a Costco addiction? I was just curious in case someone might need that help, someone might need that information. And then I see, making all kinds of assumptions, my own beautiful wife suggesting that it is my addiction to Pellegrino. In fact, large glass bottles, cases of Pellegrino that is the cause of these Costco runs. And I just want to say. Scurrilous, scurrilous accusation. Yes, I drink a lot of Pellegrino, but I have nothing more to say on the matter.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I, I gotta say this. When did it become standard that you don't just get normal water because of people like you with all the sparkling waters and everything else? I don't remember many year, like two years ago or something. All of a sudden you get asked now when you're at restaurants. And it's not just me going to fancier restaurants. Happens at not very fancy places where they now come. And instead of just giving you standard water, they now give you all sorts of Pellegrino and everything else. Has there been a surge in Pellegrino drinking in general, do you think, or is this in my imagination?

[Clay Travis]

No, I think that's real, actually. I know, I think you were assuming you were being, you were being a little supercilious. But I think that what's really gone on is that the, the drinking habits of especially younger people have changed pretty dramatically. People are drinking a lot less alcohol and for a lot of restaurants, that's really where the margin is.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

That's really where they think they're trying to make their money now on upgrading off of regular water because that's the, that's an interesting angle, I will tell you.

[Clay Travis]

I actually feel a little guilty if I don't at least get like I was at a dinner for six or seven people on Sunday. We must have gone through, I'm just going to admit this on the radio, I guess eight bottles, maybe 10 bottles of Pellegrino. And I think they charge us, you know, eight or $10 a bottle. So you know, you're adding, let's say you're adding 80, 100 bucks onto the bill for water.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Now I understand that for a lot of people you'd be saying, well, that's egregious.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

That's our.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, but none of us are drinking. I was with a table full of adults, none of whom were drinking booze. And so the restaurant really wants you. There's a reason why there are wine glasses on the table. When you sit down, there are reasons why they always hand you a wine list when you sit down.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Oh, yeah.

[Clay Travis]

You know, I mean, if you're Clay, you just order your Natty light and they have to kind of scurry around back to be like, what is this? He drinks natural light beer. Like, what is that?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

That.

[Clay Travis]

But for a lot of people, Clay, they go to the wine list and that is how these places make their money. So I think that now water, I just, I don't want them pushing booze on me if I don't want it. So I'm happy to be upcharged for water. And I think I'm not the only one. This is happening more and more.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I just. It is something. I think you're right. I think it is that they're not consuming as much alcohol. Profit margins in restaurants are slim. And so they're now up charging, basically water. And a lot of people are doing it. I thought about you, by the way. I was at, at church on Sunday and they did the, you know, the, they brought around the, the wine and the, and the bread. And on the, on the screen it said it's gluten free. I, I've never seen this before. If you were doing the Lord's supper, if you were taking said on the big screen there, hey, this is gluten free. Now I was thinking you must have a really bad gluten allergy if, you know a shot of grape juice and a tiny pin prick of bread is going to break your world. But I, I did notice that. Here's another bit of news. People want something positive. I bought a Tesla Buck, partly because I think Elon Musk had been unfairly attacked. And so I've got teenage boys and I want a super safe car. And we went and I did the. They let you just kind of drive around and you can see the, the autonomous driving of a Tesla vehicle. You can just legitimately go in. They don't even have somebody sit with you. They let you go out and you can just ride around. You pick a place, you type it in. I'm in the future now, Buck. This morning I took my 15 year old to school. I typed in his school address. It's super early in the morning because he's lifting with lacrosse team, football team. They have to be there early in the morning. And, and so I just typed it in. I let the car drive us to and from his school to drop him off. I'm going to make a prediction here, team. You can flag it. I think the days of People driving cars are rapidly vanishing. I think that if you have a baby right now, like my assistant Katie has a baby girl that she brings to the house most days. I think her baby girl will not drive cars. Like I, I think if you have a 12 year old you may still teach them how to drive a car, but it's going to become like riding a horse. I think. Autonomous vehicles are going to be everywhere certainly within a generation. It's the, it's the biggest change in terms of day to day that I have seen that I'm convinced is going to happen.

[Clay Travis]

I got to tell you what's going to happen in my mind the shift that is coming here is that it will go from oh, I don't know, I'm nervous about the autonomous driving to as more and more people do it and the data sets get larger and larger, it will be considered dangerous, dangerous to self drive at some point in the future or I should say more dangerous. I'm not saying it's so dangerous people don't do it. But, but the, but the conventional wisdom will be well, auto drive is way safer than you know. And really you should only be self driving if you're off roading or you're doing it for some form of sport or fun or you're tracking your car but just getting around on the highway because it's, it's going to become a function of, of zeros and ones. There's going to be programs, there's going to be data and the data is going to show you are way safer because you, you know what a self driving car doesn't do? It doesn't look down at its cell phone to check out the latest sports scores.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Guilty. Yeah, I mean I, I, I, I agree with you. 100. I think it's going to be transformative. It's going to drive down insurance costs. I think one way it's going to move towards autonomous is if you, the data is going to reflect that if you are driving yourself, your likelihood of being in an accident is much higher. I also think this is something that's very positive. I think if you're elderly and you are listening to us right now and maybe you're nervous about driving after dark, maybe you just get nervous because you're going to the grocery store and things like that and you, you are 80 plus, let's say. I think it's going to allow people to continue to live in their homes for longer because you're going to get in your car, you're going to program it In. I also think, Buck, drunk driving. I think drunk driving is basically going to vanish because you can either. Obviously, Ubers are going to exist and everything else in cabs, and those are good choices. But I think we're going to get to a point where you can get in your car and it will just take you home, and you are not operating it at all.

[Clay Travis]

You know what Elon's vision is, right? That your car that you have now is going to be a car that effectively replaces Ubers. As in, you're not using it. That car can make you money and go around and take other people wherever they need to go. And then when you need the car, it comes back to you. I think. Think about this. I mean, the increases in productivity that are going to happen as a result of this, it's going to be remarkable. And I say this. You got two guys here who I know a lot of you try to take our man cards away on this, but you see, we're honest with you. We don't pretend we're not like, oh, I love. I like to take a sprocket out of the carburetor and get all grease on my hands. I don't know anything, all right? I don't know anything. I get into a car, if I push that. If I push that pedal and it doesn't go, vroom, vroom, and start going, I have no idea what is happening. I have zero. I know nothing about cars. I want to be, you know, I want to be in, like, a big, comfy seat that's giving me like an. Like a. You know, a back rub, basically, while I can fall asleep and be taken anywhere. I have no interest in sitting there fighting through traffic, doing all this stuff. I hate all that. Clay's also. Clay's with me on this one, so

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I would rather work. Here's the other thing, Buck. The charging. I thought it was going to be complicated. My charger plugs into the wall in our garage like a cell phone charger. And by the way, I'm not getting paid anything. One of the most ridiculous things about five years of this show that Buck and I have done together. Am I correct, Buck? I don't think we've ever made a dollar in car advertisements. Not that I'm legitimately. In five years, we haven't been paid a single dollar to tell you, hey, go buy this car. So I'm not getting paid anything at all. Just because inevitably people are gonna be like, how much is Elon paying you? Nothing. It's amazing. I feel like I'm in the future. I was not an e vehicle guy, but my car is charging in my garage right now. It's basically plugged in like it's a cell phone. And the self driving vehicle aspect of this, the car, by the way, let me say this too. Cars are super expensive. You can get. I'll tell you exactly what I paid. I got a Model 3 and I got a couple of different upgrades on it. It was $50,000. Okay. And they have 1% interest for seven years. So I think I put down five grand, six grand for a brand new car that is as nice of a car as is out there, Very affordable. And I can pay it off over seven years for basically no interest. So this is not like some people are going to say, oh, you've got tons of money. This is a rich person thing. This is actually one of the most affordable cars on the market.

[Clay Travis]

So this is also though, where we have to have Clay speak honestly with all of you because you can pick your autonomous driving style, if you will. And for example, I would like to

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

driving miss daisy mode.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

They call it swath.

[Clay Travis]

I want nice. I want no herky jerky. I want to get there safely. Clay likes mad Max mode, which is surprising to no person who has ever been in a vehicle with Clay. Travis.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

It is the fastest mode that they offer Mad Max. They actually have a sloth. And I was sitting there doing the self drive and I was like, what are we doing? Go, go, go. So I've already gone up to the mad Max speed on the self drive. Not gonna let the kids get there, but for me, it's pretty incredible. So I don't know how many of you have Teslas. I. I never really had spent that much time on it, but I'm all in on autonomous vehicles. I've taken the waymos. I've done all this. I'm telling you, your grandkids lives. They're gonna look at you when you talk about driving a car like you might have back in the day when suddenly grandma and grandpa gave up the horse and they got the new. Got the new car. New model T was out on the road and somebody was saying, I don't. What's this horseless carriage? This is ridiculous. Well, I'm telling you, the fact that we drove cars is going to seem crazy to your grandkids. Price picks available in all 50 states, including California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, everywhere. All 50 states. We got March Madness. We're officially into March. Many of the different conference basketball tournaments have started for college basketball Major League Baseball not very far away, I believe. March 26th is opening day for Major League Baseball. Super easy app. You pick more or less from your different athletes out there, and two or more of those athletes you can go all the way up to six. You can play $5, you can win a bundle. But when you play $5, you get $50 deposited in your account. All you have to do is go to prizepix.com use my name Clay for $50 deposited in your account. Win or lose 50 bucks in lineup Clay $5 in all 50 states pricepix.com code Clay that's pricepix.com code C L A Y News you can count on, and some laughs too. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Clay Travis]

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