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Clay Travis
Welcome in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show Wednesday Edition. The primary in Texas is over. Continued discussion of the war in Iran. Our buddy Jesse Kelly will join us in the second hour. In the third hour, we are hoping that maybe Yael Eckstein will be able to join us. She she is from the ifcj. As missiles are raining down on Israel, we will see whether that ends up happening or not. But we appreciate all of you hanging out with us. And let's go right to it. I've said before, Buck, that I love early morning press conferences and I understand that people in media do not like to get up early in the morning. I had five years of early morning radio. Nobody else was awake. I love making media members get up early and have to go cover events I've talked about at the White House. I particularly love that the Secretary of War and the the that everybody there is doing early morning press conferences because it sets the entire agenda of the day. And here is what I thought was the most significant aspect of what Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that basically. And Buck, I want you to analyze this as well. We are close to having complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Here is Cut six. US And Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's
Buck Sexton
over and Iran will be able to do nothing at all about it. B2s, B52s, B1s, Predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets, death and destruction from the sky. All day long. We're playing for keeps. Our war fighters have maximum authorities granted
Clay Travis
personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise
Buck Sexton
and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down,
Clay Travis
which is exactly how it should be. All right, we're finishing them. Would be another way of pointing this out. Buck, let me hit you with another couple of pieces of data Raising Cain, as Trump calls him. General Kane says Iran's. This is a direct quote, ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of, of fighting. 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours. One way attack drones down 73% from the opening salvos that were fired. Why is this significant? Because what we are seeing is Iran's ability to fire back is diminishing in a hurry. And I, I understand that, that the talking points are this war has just begun. Uh, I think that is largely to, to try to drive Iran towards an agreement on who the next leader will be. But to me, the story now, and you correct me if, if, if you see anything else here is Iran's ability to fire back sort of indiscriminately, which they've been doing, peppering many different Gulf states with drones, with missiles, is basically vanishing. Soon it will be gone. And when that occurs, America's air superiority will be even more pronounced. And then it's really just a question of to what extent is Iran willing to negotiate with us to determine what their new government will look like and who the leaders are. Is that a fair assessment in your mind?
Buck Sexton
Well, mostly, yes. Except negotiate with. With whom. This is the problem is that there really is not a sort of set and clear alternative to what we currently have, which is now gone, or rather is mostly gone. And there's a lot of factionalism. This is where you get into. This is a large and complicated country. We've thought of it as in this country. I think a lot of the media coverage has made people think of it more as a monolith. People refer to all Iranians as Persians. Well, Persians are just one ethnic group
Clay Travis
actually in Iran, 60% according to the numbers that I saw. Buck.
Buck Sexton
There are, there are Kurds, there are Azeris, there are Turkmen, there are. I mean there are so many different ethnic factions that otherwise that I can't name them. There's a, there's a dozen or more that will make the list. There's a lot of them is the point. And when you actually talk about a resistance forming from within, I think what we, what we want. Clay, the lesson of Iraq is you cannot remove everybody who had any function in the pre previous government unless you want bloody anarchy, which is what we ended up getting. We, you cannot have every person who ever held a gun for and received a paycheck from a government that is was run by the Ayatollah or formerly run by the Ayatollah. You can't get Rid of all of them. You need somebody from within who has enough wasta, I think they would say in Arabic in the Middle East. You need somebody with enough juice that they can say, all right, we can calm things down. We can approach America or American intermediaries directly. There's already reporting out there. I mean, there's reporting up on CNN of. I mean, this is the CNN report. It says, CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, according to sources. Is that true? Is that not true? This is what. This is what CNN is reporting. I can tell you this. That's. That comes with a lot. The whole Kurdish thing. We went through this in Iraq, and the Kurds are often a pretty reliable allies. They fight. They kept northern Iraq very stable even during the worst periods of the Iraqi insurgency. Anybody who was. If you went from, you know, Baghdad or Ramadi or Mosul to Erbil, in the military, military side, it felt like you were in a completely different country if you were in what they called Kurdistan. But the Turks get very aggravated because there's a lot of. Lot of Kurds in Turkey, and they. They have their own separatist problem in Turkey. So it's just.
Clay Travis
You're.
Buck Sexton
You're getting into Mideast factionalism here. What you need is someone who is a rational actor from within the existing apparatus, not an ideologue, not bloodied substantially by. Engaged in, you know, irgc, quds for stuff or whatever. Does this person exist? I don't know. You know, we talked about Venice. Venezuela is different. Venezuela has had democratic elections until quite recently. And yes, there's oppression, and there's been the. You know, the Maduro regime stole the last election. And yes, they've been thuggish, but, Clay, you. You don't have to go back very far for there to be something resembling a real election in Venezuela. You go back to 2012. Right, right. And that's when Chavez took. Took charge, I believe.
Jesse Kelly
Right.
Buck Sexton
Wasn't it? 2012, 2011. 2012. So in the Islamic Republic, you got to talk rather, you know, in Iran, you got to go back to 1979, and even then, they didn't have elections. They had a shah. So what is the game plan for all of this? I think it's being figured out on the fly. But I think that Secretary warhegsett's plan is we're gonna completely defang the snake, and then we'll see if the snake wants to play ball. But the snake will have no fangs, that is for sure.
Clay Travis
And I just. Let me. Let me Make a suggestion, because I know we got a lot of people in the administration who listen, I think one of the most compelling arguments they can make and buck again. Tell me if you think this is crazy. I made it yesterday, but I haven't seen it, because now the argument is. Well, they haven't really been able to give us a full throated explanation of what the motivation is. Well, the motivation is clearly to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. That's the motivation for all of this. This is basically doing to Iran what we should have done to North Korea in the 1990s. The world would be infinitely better if that crazy fat dictator in North Korea did not have nuclear weapons. And now that he does, we can't really do anything. The world is unstable because of him. Do we want a. Now, the only thing I will say in favor of Kim Jong Un should probably get clipped. People will be like, Clay Travis loves Kim Jong Un.
Buck Sexton
Clay Travis loves Kim Jong Un. Loves all the big posters, the pot belly, all of it.
Clay Travis
Big Kim Jong Un guy here. He's not a religious fundamentalist. That's the only thing I think you can say in his favor.
Buck Sexton
North Korea.
Clay Travis
I don't think he's a religious fundamentalist, is he?
Buck Sexton
Oh, no, he's. He's just. He's just God. But that's. This is a whole other conversation.
Clay Travis
He thinks he's God. But. Yeah, well, that's. But my point.
Buck Sexton
I think you're a fundamentalist when you're God. But. Yeah, okay, fair enough.
Clay Travis
Well, my point is he's not reading a book because convinced that everybody else who is not a member of that religion is an infidel. And he's not trying to impose his religion. I don't think so. I.
Buck Sexton
Look, you're coming too hard after my boy Kim Jong Un here. I'm pretty familiar with North Korea stuff. And I got to tell you, they. They have the most crazy.
Clay Travis
They're absolutely racist.
Buck Sexton
You know, like we are vermin. Non Koreans are considered vermin in North Korean propaganda. I mean, actually subhuman.
Clay Travis
And.
Buck Sexton
And they'd use all kinds of.
Clay Travis
But.
Buck Sexton
So they.
Clay Travis
But it's a. It's a crazy place. We agree. We. We wish that they did not have nuclear weapons. My point is, to my knowledge, North Korea has been unable to in some way or even demonstrate that they're going to enact terror upon the rest of the world in a substantial way. I know they had the one attack on the subway.
Buck Sexton
No, no, they do terror. They do the terrorism thing, too.
Clay Travis
So your. Your point is. That basically you're going rogue. I' positive here in saying that I think Iran having nuclear weapons is even more dangerous than North Korea. But the argument should be that North Korea having nuclear weapons is absolutely awful for the world. And if we had been smart in the early 90s, we would have wiped out their ability to ever have nuclear weapons. That's what we're doing with Iran. And I think Iran is even more dangerous than North Korea based on what they have demonstrated for 50 years now that they want to wipe many countries off the world, including Israel, but also death to America, everything else. So the argument to me is pretty clear. It is President Trump is making a determination that for the next 40 years or 50 years or who knows how long, we're not going to have to deal with a nuclear Iran because it destabilizes the rest of the world and even more than North Korea does now. And if we could go back in time into the 90s, we would have wiped out North Korea's nuclear ambitions. I haven't heard anybody make that argument. I think that's the best argument for what we're doing with Iran right now.
Buck Sexton
We certainly didn't want another nuclear standoff like what we had with North Korea. But North Korea has already been, whether it's for proliferation or destabilizing activity, support of terrorism, assassinations, kidnappings. The North Korean intelligence service operates like a, a nation state backed, you know, basically terrorist operation.
Clay Travis
So you're my argument of trying to be kind and say that Iran is a more dangerous North Korea. You actually think North Korea might be more.
Buck Sexton
North Korea is the craziest place. North Korea is the craziest place on planet Earth by far.
Clay Travis
I was too kind. I was too kind to Kim Jong Un.
Buck Sexton
It's really.
Jesse Kelly
They're really.
Clay Travis
But it would be good, it would be good if we didn't have a North Korean twin with nuclear weapons. That to me is a really.
Buck Sexton
That we co signed that we did
Clay Travis
not need to understand.
Buck Sexton
I co signed that we did not need a country with totalitarian dictatorship that also believes if we have a massive war it will harken the return of the 12th Imam and there is religious prophecy that will come out of the nuclear flames. But North Korea does want to kill everybody in South Korea and probably America too.
Clay Travis
So do you think they really do or is that just a delusional crazy person? More so like the apparatus around executing
Buck Sexton
senior generals of the North Korean regime with anti aircraft pieces just to make a point.
Clay Travis
They're pretty bad. He's crazy. He's crazy. It's bad that he has nuclear weapons. I just, I look at North Korea and say, if Kim Jong Un was gone, I think North Korea actually could reconciliate with South Korea. And there is a way in which that country eventually could return to normalcy in the world. And much of it is a cult of personality driven around one person. And maybe I'm just too kind to North Korea. There is the possibility, maybe the headlines Clay is too kind to North Korea.
Buck Sexton
You're going to, you're going to get an invite to Pyongyang at this rate. You and Dennis and Dennis Rodman, we're
Clay Travis
going to be just chilling, playing a basketball game with, with my boy Kim Jong Un. I will say the stories of what they did when that movie was made about the assassination of Kim Jong Un, the interview, I think with, with James, who did that movie back in the day. Do you remember that movie where they.
Buck Sexton
James Franco.
Clay Travis
James Franco and Seth Rogen.
Buck Sexton
That led to the hacking of Sony, which was a huge problem by the way. Just the point about North Korea, Clay. They also operate as nation state backed global hackers trying to steal everything from crypto to state secrets to. And what are you going to do? You're going to go to Interpol and say, hey, we think that we traced the source to North Korea. Good luck with that one.
Clay Travis
But if we could go back in time and wave a magic wand and we wiped out North Korea's ability to ever have nuclear weapons, North Korea might not exist as a country today. Right. Like I think that's probably true.
Buck Sexton
That.
Clay Travis
So the analogy here of we're trying to avoid creating another North Korea, to me, I think is a really good one. Have you heard anybody making that argument? I haven't heard it anywhere.
Buck Sexton
Well, the argument you will hear people make is the, is the Gaddafi lesson isn't reconcile with America if you're a dictator, it's get nukes as fast as you can. Because otherwise that's, that's the other side, by the way.
Clay Travis
That's the rational choice to make. And if you question it, Ukraine wouldn't have gotten invaded by Russia if they hadn't given up their nukes.
Buck Sexton
That's also true. And we promised them that that would never happen.
Clay Travis
We would protect them and never allow that to happen.
Buck Sexton
The Budapest memorandum. Yeah, not good. Not good. All right. Our partners at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews are on the ground in Israel right now. They're preparing large scale distributions of life saving food, first aid and emergency essentials for security personnel. The IFCJ is also helping ensure hospitals, emergency rooms and shelters are are stocked with critical medical supplies when Israeli residents are in need. The the IFCJ is there to help. They focus on Israel's most vulnerable, the sick, the elderly, children and families in great need. But the fellowship needs your most generous gift today to make this work possible. Now is the time to stand with Israel's most vulnerable. To rush your gift, call 888-488-IFCJ. That's 888-488-IFCj. Or go online to ifcj.org that's ifcj.org Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton.
Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Is that the only country, Buck, that with your CIA expertise you think might be crazy enough to actually take an American hostage? And I mean, somebody.
Buck Sexton
They've done it before.
Clay Travis
Yeah, but I mean, like an actual media person. Because a lot of times, you'll see.
Buck Sexton
I wouldn't go to Russia. I wouldn't go to Russia either. I know there are some Americans, including on the right, who have been there in recent. I wouldn't go to Russia because you, you just. If they decide that there's something they don't like. I've been to China.
Clay Travis
But would you go now?
Buck Sexton
I would, yes. I would go back to China, but I would be very nervous about it. I would be. I would not. I would not be having a great time checking out all the temples and the, the history and everything else. I would be. When I went in, Clay, I didn't bring a single piece of electronics with me.
Clay Travis
Yeah.
Buck Sexton
And that was because I knew from my old life what the Chinese do. And I, I didn't even bring a Kindle. I mean, nothing if it had electricity, did not bring it. I brought a wind up watch. That was it. And then I rented a phone there. Guess what?
Clay Travis
That.
Jesse Kelly
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Buck Sexton
I rented a phone in country to use and just knew that everything, everything was being monitored and everything was being tracked. And that is the way that that country functions. And that, by the way, that is. That is not paranoia. That is reality.
Clay Travis
There. There's.
Buck Sexton
No, it's not.
Clay Travis
Oh, maybe. Oh, no.
Buck Sexton
I was being monitored for sure. So that, That's. That's a country that I would go back to under the. Sir. On behalf of the U.S. government.
Clay Travis
Absolutely.
Buck Sexton
As a civilian.
Clay Travis
Probably.
Buck Sexton
I. Russia. No way. I would go as a civilian. I'd go on behalf of the US Government, but only in an official capacity. And North Korea, certainly only in an official capacity, not as a. Not as a civilian. Because, you know, everyone thinks that our government's going to have their back and take care of things. The State Department's pretty busy. You do not want to be relying on some embassy bureaucrat somewhere to be getting your case in front of the president asap.
Clay Travis
Although hopefully, Clay could call Trump and
Buck Sexton
be like your good friend Buck. He's. He's in Pyongyang in a dungeon. We got to get him out. We got to get him out. Some people are saying, you know, I don't think Trump would let you or me rot in a Pyongyang dungeon, but it might take him a few days to get us out. So I would rather not do that. All right, let's get into. Let's get into. Oh, can I also add, by the way, a Biden administrator. I would feel differently going as a civilian under Trump that I would under Under a Democrat, we actually feel good
Clay Travis
because we like the Trump White House. And I do think Trump would get us out, but I don't know that Biden would know that.
Buck Sexton
I think Biden would let us rot for a while. I really do. I think either of us. I think that's just the nature of America today, unfortunately, that the Democrats are so partisan on this stuff that they would want to make an example anyway. So, yes, Clay, don't. Don't go to North Korea. And in the meantime, we got James Talarico. What does that have to do with anything? Well, he's now the Democrat nominee for that Senate contest in Texas, and he has said some interesting things. He has said some interesting things. We talked about this in the last hour. We mentioned we would get to this in the last hour. By the way, we're hoping that Yael Eckstein of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews will join us during the third hour. She's in Israel. Calm situation there. Can be a little difficult getting all of our Internet stuff lined up, but we'll see if we can get her. We'll certainly be talking to her soon about what the sense is from the ground in Israel, given the war with Iran going on. Of course, Israel's a participant in. Israel's engaged in these airstrikes, too. So here we have Talarico. This was back in 2021 when he was a state rep. This is cut 29. Listen to this. I want us all to be aware of, is that. That modern science obviously recognizes that there
Clay Travis
are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six, which, honestly, Representative Hefner surprised me. Surprised me, too, because I, I, you know, am not well versed in this, this issue area. I'm not a scientist.
Buck Sexton
I'm a politician.
Clay Travis
A lot worse than a scientist.
Buck Sexton
There are six sexes.
Clay Travis
Would you even know what they would be? I'm going to say I have two. Have a good guess.
Buck Sexton
Somebody would have been great to just push him on this thing. Be like, okay, since you think there are six, what are the six? Do you think you and I could come up with male, female, now? Playing their crazy game trans, non binary? That's four. Ok, we got. We got two more, buddy. I'm, I'm blanking out right here.
Clay Travis
But is trans even one that you would acknowledge? I thought the whole thing with trans was.
Buck Sexton
I'm sorry, Clay, are you erasing trans people right now?
Clay Travis
Yes, of course. I think I'm actually making the pro trans. I thought the whole trans argument is that they're Actually just the sex that they claim they are. You.
Buck Sexton
This is fascinating because you are correct. And yet I think it is recognized as one of the six in the Talarico construct world.
Clay Travis
Yes. So it could be trans. So trans female, trans male would be two. Even though they're arguing that they're actually the same.
Buck Sexton
Right.
Clay Travis
That, that. That this is not a tr. Like so. And then inner would intersex be one. Like where you're actually a mix of male, female, which is a biological reality.
Buck Sexton
Probably that. That is a very rare. It used to be called macrodite.
Clay Travis
Is that a bad word now? I don't know what.
Buck Sexton
No, no, no.
Clay Travis
That you still use now in that context. Not sure what's appropriate.
Buck Sexton
And then with hermaphrodites, often there is. We're talking science here, folks. So I'm just trying to be. Often it's. There's more of one set of gonads than the other. And usually a hermaphrodite will have, for example, a micro penis, which is a real thing. It is.
Jesse Kelly
It is.
Buck Sexton
I know a lot of you want to make jokes about Democrats right now, but there's a real thing I made. It is. Yep. There's a. There's. There's a thing called a micro penis. And that hermaphrodite. This is science. I can hear. I can just feel some of them laughing as this is science. You call me Fauci.
Clay Travis
You are a hermaphrodite. They treat you as a woman and pump you full of estrogen. Right. Isn't that typically the way I think
Buck Sexton
you are generally more female than male as a hermaphrodite. Hence the micropenis reality, which. Which I think they. Because it is. It is truly like a vestigial. And so it can be removed and you get into whether your gonads are internal or external. Obviously external gonads would be male genitalia. I believe hermaphrodites tend to have the internal genitalia, which is why they are all. For a whole bunch of reasons. They're more female than male. And that is how they go. But. Ok, but back to the six sexes. So we're here.
Jesse Kelly
We're on the gauge.
Clay Travis
This is not going to play well in Texas, Buck.
Jesse Kelly
The six sexes.
Buck Sexton
What the heck is Buck talking about? Internal gonads, external gonads.
Clay Travis
I'm just saying the six sexes. When they put this ad up and he's wearing a mask and he's testifying under oath that there are actually six genders or six sexes. Most Texans are going to say what is going to become rapidly clear as these ads start to run. This guy is not some moderate middle of the road religious democrat, which is the way that they are going to try to contextualize him. He's actually as crazy as most Democrats are, maybe even crazier.
Buck Sexton
This, this is, this is producer, producer Greg, I think just pulled this for us. So in this case his six sexes, he's talking about chromosomal abnormalities. So it's actually not, they're talking, he's talking about sex in the context of chromosomes, not gender identity. So we went to gender, you know, this is the, we went to gender identity. He's talking about things like XY is male, XX is female, just X is Turner syndrome, XXY is Klinefelter syndrome, XYY is Jacob's syndrome and xxxy. Ok, by the way, these are all scientific or medical realities. They're very, very rare. None of this has anything to do with the gender identity discussion or debate that the left is obsessed with.
Clay Travis
Correct.
Buck Sexton
So, so the only one that would, you'd have to look at here, I don't even know what all these different, I mean team look up how common are these things.
Clay Travis
And by the way, that's only five. So I don't think again, he didn't further answer to your point. This is one where the follow up question should have been, okay, sorry, what are the six genders? This is just them looking this up and giving us five. Here is, here is, wait, but hold
Buck Sexton
on a second, hold on a second. Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition in males.
Clay Travis
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Buck Sexton
This is not, this is not a, this is not, this doesn't mean you're a different.
Clay Travis
He's talking about the gender identity stuff and they.
Buck Sexton
But no, but he's trying to conflate it is my point. He's playing games here because this is what I was going to say. I was saying if you, if you have an extra chromosome, you have some, you generally have low fertility and maybe this is why he knows so much about this low testosterone. But you're a guy. No one thinks you're not a guy. You just have a chromosomal issue, right? So you're not a different sex.
Clay Travis
Here are a couple of other examples of this guy being crazy, by the way. And this is why I think again, his trans takes here are going to be everywhere and most Texans are going to say this guy's crazy. He says trans people need abortions too. Woman is not an exhaustive term. Cut 27. Does this sound like a Texan moderate to you? I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol, and you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that, too. So when I use the word woman, it should not be understood as an exhaustive term, but rather as a. As a lens through which to understand, examine, and interrogate patriarchy. Oh, my God. This dude's crazy. Buck.
Buck Sexton
No, this guy's.
Jesse Kelly
He's a.
Buck Sexton
He's a preacher of Moloch. I mean, he is somebody who cloaks himself in biblical verse in order to promote the teachings of the Antichrist. I don't know what else to say. I mean, this guy is out of his mind. The stuff that he's saying is completely what Christian faith does he say that he represents or how does he get here? You need. You need to have trans kids. You need to have abortion all nine months of a pregnancy. You know, what else does he want to add into the mix? How does he feel about polyamory? How does he feel about having nine wives? I just, I can't wait to see him start to explain that one to us. You know, what about a throuple? He could, I guarantee you this guy could find you a biblical justification for being in a throuple.
Clay Travis
It's not a surprise that all of this is coming out now. I would just say I think there's been a little bit of play and possum when it comes to Talarico, and Democrats have been saying, oh, he's a very moderate, middle of the road guy. There's actually a lot of crazy out there from him. And I don't think it's coincidental that he wins the nomination and suddenly you're starting to see all of the opposition research that's been done on him. Again, I think Democrats, I would encourage them, spend tens of millions of dollars, flood the Texas economy with a lot of your dollars from outside the state. And let's see what Texans think of this, because I don't think this race is going to be close whether Ken Paxton or John Cornyn ends up being the. The nominee. By the way, Caroline Levitt has just taken the podium for a White House press briefing. We will continue to monitor that and make sure that we bring you any news that comes from that event. In the meantime, buying a new roof, not something you think about every day, but it's very important. And if you think about replacing your roof here, go to eriehome.com Clay Erie Home is a 50 year old company specializing in making sure your roof is in excellent shape. You want to make sure to protect your most expensive. Purchase your home and with the help of Erie Home, you'll get a roof with a 50 year warranty, one that's transferable. Take advantage of their offer. They'll inspect your roof for any problems free of charge using a 25 point inspection they've developed over their many years in business. If your roof needs a replacement, Erie Home will offer all kinds of options, including newer metal materials made to mimic the look of the roof you likely have now. These will make sure that your roof will last two to three times longer. Schedule your free inspection at ErieHome.com Clay and get up to 50% off installation and that's Erie Home.com Clay E R I E Home.com/Clay get an incredible offer up to 50% off and you will be glad that you did it@eriehome.com Clay
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in hour number three. Clay Travis Buck Sex Austin show it is a significant news Wednesday, as many of these days often are. Let's take you back into exactly what has transpired. We had a very powerful press conference as we discussed earlier in the show from Pete Hegseth on the situation in Iran. We will update you on that. But the big takeaway is that we are close to complete and total air superiority in Iran and that I do believe things are going better and faster than anticipated. If they had tried to forecast how this attack was going to go. We'll come back to that in a sec and play a couple more of those cuts from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. But in Texas, as we told many of you was likely to be the case. Uh, we had James Talarico beat our good friend Jasmine Crockett. It pains me, as we said earlier in the program, to see the Texas Democrat party engage in such blatant racism. Buck for a white man to to beat a black man like the a black woman like this. Can I just point out it's painful to my heart.
Buck Sexton
Can I just point out that Clay was suddenly wearing his Crockett gear a whole lot more. All all I'm seeing Crockett T shirts, Crockett sweatshirts. He says it's for the coffee company that we own. But I thought it was a little suspicious that right when Jasmine Crockett was in the political Fight of her life. Clay was Mr. Crockett all of a sudden. I'm just saying.
Clay Travis
So Jasmine Crockett goes down. We talked about this earlier in the show. We had some deep dive into it. Buck. I think the reality is this is kind of what you wanted. And msnbc, or Ms. Now, whatever the heck they're called, cnn, the View, they're all gonna be throwing money at Jasmine Crockett to become a television personality. Her congressional career is over. And the other big name, I would say that went down, as we discussed earlier in the program as well, Buck, is Dan Crenshaw. I did not know Dan Crenshaw well, but he had quite the public profile. Have we ever had him on the program? I think maybe we did.
Buck Sexton
I don't think think so. I think that Clay, before you and I teamed up, I might have interviewed him one time early on. And I remember. Look, I'm just going to say it. There was so much enthusiasm around, because you go, oh, gosh, this guy is. Is a combat veteran, Navy seal, wounded veteran. You know, this is just like what you would create in a, you know, conservative laboratory of congressional excellence. Like, well, this is the guy we want in Congress. And I have tremendous respect, obviously, for what he did as a seal. And I. None of that changes. But, man, the base turned on him. And we had. And neither you nor I have. Look, you guys know when we don't like somebody, I try to, you know, I try to be honest about it, but also be fair about it. You know, if we don't like somebody, I never met the guy. I have no beef with him, no problem with him. So many people I know in politics and in media despise that guy. And I, I. It's just strikes me as how, you know, I mean, I. We asked Michael Berry. Michael Berry was not holding back on it. You can go back and listen to the interview.
Clay Travis
Well, so that's the big upset, I would say, that came out of the Republican primary. We told you that this was likely to happen as well. And, man, get your two by fours. Cause I think it's going to get even nastier. Ken Paxton and John Cornyn basically ran dead even in the Texas Republican Senate primary. So Talarico has advanced it. He is the Democrat nominee. He's way more radical. Go figure. Than they have let you know. And we will certainly dive into that race as it gets closer to November. But in the meantime, John Cornyn, current incumbent Senator, and Ken Paxton are going to go, both of them around 41, 42% of the vote Wesley Hunt, who we had on the program yesterday, got around 13 or 14% in third place. So he is eliminated and now tons of money will get spent. I would imagine both Paxton and Cornyn are going to be asking President Trump for an endorsement. So far, President Trump has not endorsed anybody in this race. We'll see what he does. He in late May. So a little over two months from now, we will officially have a Republican nominee. So I was texting with Buck some as these results came in. No big surprises in Arizona, sorry, Arkansas or North Carolina. Our friend Michael Watley is going to run against former Governor Roy Cooper. We got an invite out. We almost had him scheduled the other day. I'm sure Michael Watley is going to be hugely important as we look towards the Senate because that is a Republican seat in North Carolina and Democrats have to flip four Senate seats given JD Vance having the tiebreak, Buck, in order to be able to take back control of the U.S. senate.
Buck Sexton
We had Cornyn scheduled and they just said they had a schedule conflict. Maybe that is the case. But you would think he would come on this show at some point, given the primary that he's in now, you know, the extended primary. And if he doesn't, I think it's telling us something that I will say, look, schedule stuff comes up, even if it's very last minute and even if it's after our good friend Michael Berry throws a roundhouse kick with his cowboy boots on right to the face of your campaign. However. However, maybe it was just a little change, but we'd like him to come on at some point. We have some questions for Mr. Cornyn.
Clay Travis
Well, it's only fair. And again, we also invited Talarico and Jasmine Crockett because unlike cbs and I do think this is a big story, Buck in general, again, the CBS attempt, it may well have been the difference maker for Talarico, who outspent Jasmine Crockett by 5 to 1. I think it was 25 million to 5 million, something like that. And that added raise of money that he got from the censorship that they claimed on Colbert might have been what propelled him to the victory. I mean, he won by a relatively slim amount. I mean, it was very close. And I know some of you flipped over and voted in the in the Democrat side, but tell rico won by about 6,7 points with 93% of the vote in at least. And I do think that that is maybe the part of the result is that they helped rig it for him and the Democrat Party.
Buck Sexton
I would say, Clay, that in the interest of fairness because we have invited Talarico on. I still would love to have Jasmine Crockett on. I will leave if Jasmine Crockett comes on. Unless there's some ethics thing with. She's in Congress. There's all these weird, you know, ethics rules in Congress now. You basically can't buy someone more than a coffee and it causes a pretty. I was going to say I'll send her a Crockett sweatshirt. Like, I would love to have Jasmine Crockett on the show. We would have a very fun conversation. But for James Talarico, I'll even give him the questions in advance. It's like he's getting a little sneak peek of the test. I would first want to ask him is the future female James? I just want to hear what he has to say to that. And then, Clay, if you wanted to follow up with can a Man become a Woman? I feel like we'd have a robust conversation with James Talarico about this. And then you could ask him about whether God is non binary, which also came up recently. He said that.
Clay Travis
He also said, and again, this, he's, he's got a lot of clips, by
Buck Sexton
the way, that's so I'm triggered by this. God is clearly trans. James.
Clay Travis
We all know God is non binary. He also said that basically we should have a wide open southern border. So again, the fever dream of the Democrat Party has been that they can flip Texas. They've been trying to do it for a long time now. They have not won a statewide race in the state of Texas since 1994. But that is at least worth contemplating how that's going to shake out. Your good buddy Joe Scarborough said, boy, Republicans really blew it. Here is cut three, how MSNBC is covering all of, all of this, the outcome in the Texas primary. Cut three.
Buck Sexton
Here's yet another example. I swear, I just wish these Republicans weren't so stupid. I wish they'd listen to me. I'm trying to help them out a little bit here just to make it
Clay Travis
a fair fight in the fall.
Buck Sexton
But what did we say? What did we say, first of all, when they took Colbert off the air, you're going to pay for it.
Clay Travis
They did pay for it with south
Buck Sexton
park three or four days later deciding they're going to lean in even harder. Right? And so here they try to keep Talarico off the show. What happens?
Clay Travis
They give him a boost.
Buck Sexton
If you talk to Jasmine Crockett, she'll say the same thing. I was ahead until that controversy. So the very person they were trying to defeat the very person whose message scared them is the very person who
Clay Travis
they helped win this race.
Buck Sexton
His political analysis is what you would expect from a guy who told us in 2024 that Joe Biden was the sharpest he had ever been in his entire life. Clay, this is not, this is not a surprise that Joe Scarborough doesn't know his ass from his elbow.
Clay Travis
This is so dumb that it honestly kind of blows my mind that either he is really, really legitimately not informed on this story or, or he is intentionally lying. There's only two options here because Republicans had nothing to do with this. Nothing at all. The Colbert show, for those of you have forgotten, set up a fake story which was, we're going to have James Talarico on. CBS's lawyer said, hey, if you're going to have Talarico on, you need to have Jasmine Crockett on as well, because she is a contender in this race on the equal time doctrine. And maybe arguably you should also have Republicans on. But that's a whole nother debate. And they pitched a fit. All they had to do was put on Jasmine Crockett too. This is one where I think Jasmine Crockett actually is legitimately had a rig job run against her. But this was all a Democrat operation. They desperately wanted Tal Rico. What he's got backward is a lot of us would have preferred Jasmine Crockett because Jasmine Crockett had a 0% chance of winning. I think Tal Rico has a 5 to 10% chance of winning. Still low, but 0 to 5 to 10. If you gave me a choice between the two options and I was wanted the Republicans to win, I'd take the zero.
Buck Sexton
I'm with you though. I just, I feel like I need to go find a safe space and to weep some liberal tears about all the mansplaining and the racism. I'm sorry, I thought the future was female. James Talarico, Joe Scarborough, Stephen Colbert. Apparently not. If we're talking Jasmine Crockett. You know, you have a black woman who could be the next standard bearer of the Democrats. And they did everything they could. They Bernie Sanders her.
Clay Travis
Totally true.
Buck Sexton
Bernie Sanders her.
Clay Travis
They totally Bernie Sanders her. And you know what is actually also funny about this story on the national political stage? Kamala endorsed Jasmine Crockett on Sunday, I believe, this weekend and did a robo call and said, everybody get out and vote for Jasmine Crockett. Jasmine Crockett then lost and Kamala now has flipped and endorsed, endorsed Talarico. I. I just think it's you, when you endorse a person and then the next day you endorse the other person, basically, that's a tough, that's a tough situation to find yourself in. She could have just set out the whole thing. I'm sure that Kamala's advisors got in her ear and they said, hey, this is another black woman who's running for office. You need to, you know, continue to lock down black female support, speak out for her, but do it late. So the, the impact will be minimal if she loses, people won't talk about it as much and then immediately flip and endorse the white guy once the black woman loses. I mean, it is very funny that we ended up in this situation. All of the people doing absolutely fantastic work at the ifcj. Air sirens going right now across Israel constantly. Basically, missiles coming in from Iran, from Hezbollah, lives lost as a result. The ifcj, they are committed to just trying to keep as many people safe in Israel as possible. They have large scale distributions of food for people who are in need. They have first aid. They are constantly building more bomb shelters. They, you know, if you're driving down the road in Israel, you get an alert on your phone that there are missiles coming in. This is how people live in Israel. You just pull off the side of the road as close as you can to the nearest bomb shelter and then you just find yourself clustering in that bomb shelter with tons of people you don't even know. That is the life that they lead on a regular basis. Just completely normal. Hey, there's about to be missiles that land. Go get in your bomb shelters. The IFCJ builds those for people of all different backgrounds in Israel. You can join Buck and myself and Rush a gift to help during this time of war. 888488 IFCJ. That's 888488 IFCJ. You can also go online at IFCJ.org that's IFCJ.org welcome back into Clay and Buck.
Buck Sexton
We were talking Texas. We spoke to our friend Michael Berry and we couldn't leave out our other favorite Texan, our friend Jesse Kelly, who joins us now. Syndicated radio host on Premier Networks, host of the Jesse Kelly Show, a man of both tremendous insight and tremendous humility, joins us now. Mr. Jesse Kelly, you are welcome as always, sir.
Jesse Kelly
It is a somber, somber day here in Texas. As a radio host and TV host, I don't endorse political candidates. It's not something I've ever done, but I broke that rule in Texas yesterday. And I endorsed Jasmine Crockett as the Democrat nominee in Texas. And I wake up today and find out that Jazzy did not win her primary. This is an outrage. There had to be cheating of some kind. I don't even know how I'm going to go on, but I was pulling for big time.
Buck Sexton
It's just racism, Jesse. I think that's very obvious. Democrats are very racist, very sexist, and they don't want the future to be female. And they see a powerful black woman and they stand. They threw everything in her way, these Democrats. It was dirty. It was underhanded. And I'm sad, too. I can see how we're both in. Clay is in a state of mourning.
Clay Travis
I was hard for me to get out of bed. I just. It's racism, racism, racism. Texas Democrats should be ashamed. The white guy wins again. And another talented black woman, black girl magic. It just. I believed in it. I'm like you, Jesse, and it just didn't come through.
Jesse Kelly
Yeah.
Clay Travis
All right. Let me ask you this, by the way, more seriously. This just came down. President Trump has posted, because we have a runoff now, right now between John Cornyn, current senator in Texas, and Ken Paxton. And President Trump has just posted that he is going to be endorsing soon and he expects the other candidate to drop out. And we don't know exactly how that endorsement would go or what that might be, but James Talarico, we've been playing cuts from him. We'll play a few more for you during the course of the show. He is like a crazy left winger. It feels like Democrat Republicans have been playing possum a little bit here because he got the nomination and suddenly there's 20 videos of him saying crazy things that are immediately out. What's your read on this? Regardless of who the Republican nominee is, is Talarico a threat?
Jesse Kelly
No, Talarico is not a threat at all. He's one of these guys. He's a state rep here. People aren't going to know him, but they'll start to know him now that he's going to get national recognition. But he's well known here as being a far left loon. His little district is far left. He's been a far left loon his entire time here in the Texas state legislature. And because he's been in the legislature, he's on camera saying all of these things. He is going to get curb stomped in November, has no chance whatsoever. The things he says will go over like a turd in a punch bowl in Texas. He has no Chance whatsoever. We, we all just have to sit back right now and hope and cross our fingers that Donald Trump doesn't do what I'm very worried he might do for all the things he does well. He might be the worst endorser of candidates in the history of the Republican Party. He will find the biggest rhino swamp rat loser and repeatedly endorse these people. We have a real opportunity to take a rhino scalp and remove John Cornyn from the gop, which he should have been removed a long time ago. And if Donald Trump kneecaps those efforts, I am going to be so irate, I might just spike my microphone off the desk if he does it. I hope he's not going to do it. I very much worry that he is
Buck Sexton
going to do it. What happened with Dan Crenshaw, Jesse? He's right. He's pretty close to, I mean, you're a Houstonian, which Houston is like, is like the size of Switzerland. The place is freaking huge. So I don't, I don't know, you know, if he's close to you in terms of the geography of his district, but he is in your general neck of the woods. Guys, out. You know what happened there?
Jesse Kelly
Well, this is this old saying in politics, really, honestly, in life, business, no matter what you're in, there's no ability. Like, like, it's just the fact you want to walk in the room and have everybody like you. And if you're, whether you're at your job or in politics, things are generally going to go well for you. It's served. Look, Bill Clinton, right, Bill Clinton, we love to hate the Clintons, and I hate the Clintons as much as anybody else. Bill Clinton walked in the room and everybody liked him. Everyone wanted to be around him. He was patting everybody on the back. He got. He rode that to two presidential terms. Dan Crenshaw rubs people the wrong way. He's a bristly person who can't help himself. He talks down to people in person. He'll talk down to constituents in person and tell you what a freaking moron you are. And you just can't do that and stay in politics long term. If it didn't end this time, it was going to end two years from now or two years from then. You cannot be that bristly guy. Everyone's a moron but me. And stay around when you depend on people, on people's votes, it just won't work.
Clay Travis
Jesse, I bought a Tesla. I have no idea how you're going to react, but I feel like I should disclose to you and give you an opportunity to respond.
Jesse Kelly
Yeah, no, I. Clay, I know you're thinking that I'm going to make fun of you for that. I. Absolutely not. Every man needs something to hop in when he has to go pick up some tampons at cvs. I'm glad that you got yourself an electric car. Now. I hope you have a save the planet bumper sticker on the back of it. I think it's just. It's the most Clay Travis thing I've ever heard in my life. It's just picturing you nancing around town in your Tesla. I hope it's hot pink, because, look, it should be. It should be.
Clay Travis
I. Here's the deal. When you come to Nashville, I'm going to put you in the Tesla, and I'm going to let the Tesla drive. And notwithstanding the fact that you are 8ft tall and probably don't fit very well in my sports vehicle that I purchased, you are going to say, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. And also, I'm going to send you in to buy the tampons.
Jesse Kelly
Why. Why would I want my car to drive for me? I prefer to be in control. I want to accelerate when I want to accelerate and break the way I want. I want to turn the way I want to turn. I don't want anyone to drive for me. I don't want a professional driver, and I definitely don't want my fruity electric car to be driving me around either.
Buck Sexton
Well, I want to ask you serious questions, but Clay. Clay is waving me off, just so you know. So we're not going to fix world peace. Go ahead, Clay. Go ahead.
Clay Travis
I want to follow up and point out that since you only drink water and carry around a jug of water to drink all day, like the effeminate person that you are, this actually has a place to store your. Your jug of water so, you know, you could sip out of a long straw and make sure that you're fluidating. Well, I. I would think you would love that.
Jesse Kelly
No, look, in all seriousness, I. I am a. I'm a big fan of Elon Musk. I shouldn't say a fan, but I like that he bought Twitter. I. I think he's one of these highly intelligent people. A better place. And I have friends who have Tesla's. It's. It's the charging time that gets me in the Kelly household. Everyone knows we don't. We don't really stop, even for bathroom breaks. Every three hours, you are allowed to stop. It will be 10 minutes at the gas station, get in, go pee, get a Mountain Dew while dad fills up the car and then we're gone. I am not waiting in line to spend a half hour at a charging station. It's never going to happen.
Clay Travis
I respect that. I'm not driving this on a phone far distance. It charges at the house. All right, Buck, back to the serious world order here.
Buck Sexton
You see how he leaves it to me to be like, womp, womp, like, you guys get to have fun. It's like, it's like one of these brocasts where everyone's having a great time falling. And I'm like, jesse, the current situation in Iran. But all right, I, It's. It falls upon me to bring this back to being a news and commentary show. Former Marine Jesse Kelly, Pete Hegseth is coming out. He's like, we're blowing up all their stuff. And the more stuff we blow up, the more of it we're going to blow up. They're on the ground, we're kicking them in the ribs. We're finishing this fight before they can even get started. What do you think about these moves?
Jesse Kelly
Yeah, they're being completely annihilated and overwhelmed. It's already over. Once you've lost air superiority, especially to a country like the United States of America that can force project clear across the the globe. I mean, we can fly planes from Iowa and bomb Iran. It's. It's staggering what we are capable of, what our navy's capable of. Iran is finished. The, the regime is finished. We, we clearly know where everyone is, where everything of significance. Significance is right now. It's going to be a very enjoyable television show for Americans. We should keep in mind we already have Americans who lost their lives to this. Keep their families in our prayers. I will just emphasize the point I made. I'm still cautious and hesitant right now, but not because I'm concerned about our military success over there. It's easy to break things. It's hard to make things. It's not hard for the United States of America to wipe out the Ayatollah and every single scumbag in Iran. We want to. It is another thing entirely to install a government friendly to us and acceptable to the people. That will be when it gets a little dicey.
Clay Travis
How much do you think I know? You're a military history guy, too. Buck and I both love to read about military history. The degree to which war now takes place. Basically like a video game where for many people we experience it, we see, hey, we Dropped this bomb. The number of boots on the ground, entanglements seems to have diminished. You got even, even in. And I know they have the lines of battle in Ukraine and Russia, but much of that is now being fought by drones. How much do you think? There is a huge difference in the mind of many people out there between, hey, we're putting a lot of people on the ground, we're building bases. To Buck's point the other day, suddenly you have, you know, a McDonald's in Iran on an American military base versus we're just bombing from above or sending in drones from above. How much different does that strike the American public in your mind?
Jesse Kelly
I think that we as a people, as a whole, I think we enjoy the video of it. And especially when we're winning and slapping people around you, that's the kind of thing that makes you want to wave your American flag. Hey, we got Maduro. Hey, we're bombing the crap out of Iran. And what is it? As you mentioned, it's on your phone, right? It's on Twitter, it's on Facebook or wherever, wherever you get social media, you're watching it happen in real time. And when you're the one doing the winning, it feels really, really good. I also think we are probably, for worse, a very flighty people now. Probably for a variety of reasons where people get bored of things. People will move on. I think Iran is going to be hot for a week, and then no matter what else is still going on, the American people are going to move on. The television show is going to get old. How many times do you have to watch something get blown up before you're like, okay, I've seen this movie before. I'm going to go complain about something else. I think people have a very short attention stage span now. And the Trump administration, I'm sure, understands that. He's been excellent at foreign policy. I'm sure he understands this thing needs to get wrapped up as quickly as possible.
Clay Travis
Jesse, one last. One last question for you.
Jesse Kelly
Oh, sorry.
Buck Sexton
I just, I was off for a second.
Clay Travis
I was in there and he had his mic off for a moment.
Buck Sexton
No, I was just saying I was actually quite good. I was like, I felt like the raging Cajun and old school. And he's like, that was perfect.
Clay Travis
Let me ask you this. As we, as we go out, normal guys, when you see the way that the Democrats and sports media and legacy media responded to the US Men's hockey team, does that resonate, do you think? There's lots of normal guys just kind of Looking around like, so the president calling because we want a gold medal. Now is is a huge story or is it like you just said, stories vanish so quickly that most people don't even know about the blowback.
Jesse Kelly
I think normal guys do care. For a short time, as we just said, for 24, 48 hours, the American media, most definitely the sports media reminded everybody how much disdain they have for just normal dudes. Not even hardcore political people like us. Like everybody listening right now, just normal dudes who want to have a beer and watch a football game. The hockey team laughed at a pretty innocent joke the President made and the media had to make it a big I am woman hear me roar story. And for normal people, well, look at the Democrat numbers with men. This is why men have fled the Democrat party. They continue to flee the Democrat party. They're tired of being talked down to for just being a normal dude. It's fine to take a call from the President and laugh at a quick little joke. Everybody's happy. But for these humorless scold Karen feminists driving their Subarus in the American media, they always have to talk down to somebody and scold somebody. Like Starbucks screwed up their half caf latte and it's absolutely brutal for its chafing on normal people.
Clay Travis
Amen. Jesse Kelly nationwide on many of these same stations. You can listen to him in the evening. And Jesse, I appreciate you joining us and I hope your product is working.
Jesse Kelly
You're a bad person, Clay. Good fellas.
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This episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into the most pressing political headlines and controversies of the day, including the fallout from the recent Texas primaries, ongoing developments in the Iran war, and a spirited discussion on cultural issues such as gender identity and the state of the Democrat party. The hosts are joined by guest Jesse Kelly, who adds his trademark humor and blunt analysis to discussions about Texas politics and U.S. foreign policy.
Timestamps: 00:35–04:26; 10:00–16:07; 55:03–58:45
Press Conference Highlights: Clay praises early morning press briefings by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, emphasizing American and Israeli dominance:
“US and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over and Iran will be able to do nothing at all about it. ... We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be.” (Buck, 02:18–02:51)
Effectiveness of Air Campaign:
Regional Factionalism & Post-War Governance:
Buck discusses Iran’s ethnic diversity and warns against mistakes of Iraq’s de-Baathification, advocating for a pragmatic, internal stabilizing force:
“You cannot remove everybody who had any function in the previous government unless you want bloody anarchy, which is what we ended up getting.” (Buck, 05:10)
Strategic Motivation – Preventing a Nuclear Iran:
Clay compares Iran to North Korea and underscores the war’s principal goal:
“This is basically doing to Iran what we should have done to North Korea in the 1990s. ... If we could go back in time into the 90s, we would have wiped out North Korea's nuclear ambitions. I haven't heard anybody make that argument. I think that's the best argument for what we're doing with Iran right now.” (Clay, 12:31)
Debate on Nuclear Proliferation:
Buck points out the “Gaddafi lesson”—that dictators see nuclear arms as a deterrent after the fall of non-nuclear regimes (15:41).
Jesse Kelly on Military Campaign:
“Once you've lost air superiority, especially to a country like the United States ... Iran is finished. The regime is finished. ... It is easy to break things, but hard to make things.” (Jesse Kelly, 55:38)
Timestamps: 34:16–44:42; 47:11–53:50
Major Outcomes:
Identity Politics Satire: The hosts lampoon Democrat rhetoric around identity, gender, and diversity when discussing the race between Talarico (a white male) and Crockett (a Black woman):
“It's racism, racism, racism. Texas Democrats should be ashamed. The white guy wins again. And another talented black woman, black girl magic ... it just didn't come through.” (Clay, 48:32)
Analysis of Talarico’s Vulnerability:
Jesse Kelly on Talarico:
“He's one of these guys, he's a state rep here ... a far left loon his entire time. ... The things he says will go over like a turd in a punch bowl in Texas. He has no chance whatsoever.” (Jesse Kelly, 49:46)
Dan Crenshaw’s Loss:
Jesse pinpoints personality and approach:
“Dan Crenshaw rubs people the wrong way. ... If it didn't end this time, it was going to end two years from now ... You cannot be that bristly guy … when you depend on people's votes.” (Jesse Kelly, 51:27)
Timestamps: 22:57–28:59; 29:47–32:51
Notable Quote:
“Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.” (Rep. James Talarico, replayed by the hosts, 22:57)
Hosts' Reactions: Buck and Clay mock Talarico's claim, exposing the confusion between biological anomalies and gender identity:
“He's talking about chromosomal abnormalities ... None of this has anything to do with the gender identity discussion ... the left is obsessed with.” (Buck, 27:54)
Political Implications:
The issue is expected to be campaign fodder:
“When they put this ad up and he's wearing a mask and he's testifying under oath that there are actually six genders or six sexes, most Texans are going to say ... this guy's crazy.” (Clay, 26:21)
Talarico's Radical Positions:
Another quote aired:
“Trans people need abortions too. Woman is not an exhaustive term ... but a lens to interrogate patriarchy.” (Talarico, 29:47)
Jesse sums up:
“He is going to get curb stomped in November, has no chance whatsoever.” (49:46)
Timestamps: 19:05–21:46
“The State Department's pretty busy. You do not want to be relying on some embassy bureaucrat ... to be getting your case in front of the president ASAP.” (Buck, 20:41)
Multiple Timestamps
On Clay’s Tesla Purchase:
Jesse Kelly:
“Every man needs something to hop in when he has to go pick up some tampons at CVS. ... I hope you have a save-the-planet bumper sticker on the back of it.” (Jesse Kelly, 52:39)
Mocking “Moderate” Democrats:
“He's actually as crazy as most Democrats are, maybe even crazier.” (Clay, 26:21)
Banter About the 2021 Movie 'The Interview' and North Korean Retaliation:
On Air Dominance in Iran:
“We're finishing them. Would be another way of pointing this out.” (Clay, 02:51)
On Nuclear Deterrence:
Clay: “Iran having nuclear weapons is even more dangerous than North Korea.” (12:31)
Buck: “North Korea is the craziest place ... on planet Earth by far.” (13:08)
On the Democrat Primary:
“Kamala endorsed Jasmine Crockett on Sunday ... and did a robocall ... then immediately flip and endorse the white guy once the black woman loses. ... It's very funny that we ended up in this situation.” (Clay, 44:44)
On Voters' Short Attention Spans:
“People have a very short attention … span now. ... Iran is going to be hot for a week and then ... the American people are going to move on.” (Jesse Kelly, 57:39)
| Topic | Start Time | |------------------------------------------|-------------| | Iran war update, U.S. air dominance | 00:35 | | Iran’s retaliatory reduction stats | 02:51 | | Iran’s post-war governance challenges | 04:26 | | Preventing nuclear Iran discussion | 08:54, 12:31| | Texas Primary results & identity issues | 34:16 | | James Talarico’s ‘6 sexes’ claim | 22:57 | | Jesse Kelly on Talarico & state politics | 47:37, 49:46| | Humor: Clay buys a Tesla | 52:39 | | American hostages risk abroad | 19:05 | | Attention spans & video game warfare | 57:39 |
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