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The fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra Affair.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Nick Adams
And insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do.
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Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us, a lot of you weighing in. This was a heck of a weekend in terms of the incredible amount of news that just came pouring in. And I don't think we've played this cut yet, but I saw that the family of Edon Alexander, the last American hostage, and Buck, you and I have been talking about this forever. That the amount of attention that was being paid to, for instance, the El Salvadoran illegal by Democrats, most of whom had never acknowledged that there were Americans being held hostage. This was from the family over the weekend. Today on Mother's Day, and it's a picture of the family in New Jersey. We received the greatest gift imaginable. News that our beautiful son Edon is returning home after 583 days in captivity. We express our deepest gratitude to President Trump, Steve Witkoff and the US Administration for their tireless work to make this happen. We urge the Israeli government and the negotiating teams. Please don't stop. We hope our son's release begins negotiation for all 58 remaining hostages, ending this nightmare for them and their families. No hostage should be left behind. And Trump spoke out about this earlier today about the fact that that release was going to happen. It is Cut one. One of very many things that took place over the weekend that were all, I think, incredibly positive for all of us here. Listen to cut one.
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Nick Adams
Very happy to announce that Edan Alexander, an American citizen who until recently most thought was no longer living, thought was dead, is going to be released in about two hours, actually, or sometime today, let's say. And again, they thought he was dead just a short while ago. His parents are so happy.
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Buck Sexton
So buck. I mean, this is just stacking all these different things that Trump has done an amazing job getting Americans out of hostility and harm's way, whether it was in Venezuela, whether it was in Russia, whether it was in now in the Middle East. I mean, he has been uniquely focused on getting American citizens home.
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Clay Travis
And what you see, Clay, with these international wins and, or international progress on these issues, the narrative that we've been told for a long time, I know that we all of you know, it's nonsense, but the narrative has been something like this. Donald Trump is in Putin's pocket and he doesn't care about anything except where the next hotel is going to go, stuff like that. Right.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
And yet what you see with him as president already is helping to bring things to a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, two nuclear armed states that have a long history of problems between them. You see him celebrating the return of yet another hostage and working to get more hostages home, trying to get Putin and Zelensky to sit down for a ceasefire. And though that has been reported as well, I think on Thursday they're supposed to sit down so that that war can stop. Trying to get more international investment in America, trying to get things done, Clay, that anybody could say is a good thing and a win for the American people and win for humanity in the cases of trying to bring these conflicts to a cessation, if possible. So these are the realities of Trump, the president, and they are coming up against the fairy tales, the stories really the, the, you know, boogeyman tales, the, the nightmares that they told about what Donald Trump would do if he was in office. Again, which of these goals that he is pursuing, clearly, which of these goals is not a worthy one? Right. Which is the one where you look at this and you say, you know, if Donald Trump really cared about America, he would want the war to continue between Russia and Ukraine, he would want India and Pakistan to escalate and More people over there to die. Of course, I think we all understand he wants the hostages to come home. And the media is not going to argue against that as much as they may be favorable to Hamas in some newsrooms. So while all this is going on, we see the reality of Trump. Oh, and by the way, even China on the trade deal, yes, as I said, it's not just some maniacal Captain Ahab quest to get into it with China. He says it's about equalizing. That was the word he used this morning. It's about getting us to a better place with these countries. These are. Now, people can quibble about his style, of course, and they do. They, they can say that they wish it was more organized or his approach or whatever it is. These are good ideas that are doing good things for the American people. And the media that hates him is left to just sort of be in this position of rooting for failure, for things that everybody would benefit from. I guess high drug prices would be a good thing for America.
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Buck Sexton
Now, you and I have laughed about this for years now, but the argument that they basically return to, that Trump is Hitler, do you think Hitler spent a lot of time trying to get India and Pakistan to put down their arms? I mean, historically speaking, do you think that Zelensky, who everybody on the left has decided is the modern day version of Winston Churchill, Right, the indisputable, unbelievable hero. You see, Buck, he just said, can Trump please be in Turkey, in Istanbul to help with negotiating with Vladimir Putin? I don't even know how people respond to this who are on the left that have tried to argue, oh, Trump, is, is, is Hitler to have Zelensky publicly saying, hey, I hope in the middle of his Middle east trip that Trump will take the time to come and help to bring peace in Europe. Can you imagine? I mean, it's not going to get very much attention. But if Zelensky had begged Joe Biden to come and mediate a peace agreement, there would have been headlines everywhere. Instead, this is largely sliding under the radar. But it's indicative of a decent relationship between Trump and Zelensky that I think despite what happened in the Oval Office in February, a lot of people saw at the Pope's funeral the conversation that these two guys had. Trump is working the phones all the time, and Trump is trying to get a deal done. And sometimes that means he has to say bad things about Zelensky, and sometimes it means that he has to say bad things about Putin and good things about each as well. Because if you go in as we said, Buck, and you just say, Ukraine is the hero here, Ukraine is the good guy, Russia is evil. You're never going to get any kind of agreement. He's a mediator. And anybody who's ever been involved in mediation knows the mediator's going from one room to the other. And they don't always say everything that's being told behind closed doors.
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Clay Travis
Well, again, look at the results. Look at the results that Biden achieved, that we saw when he was president on the world stage, to the degree that he was actually calling any of the shots and that he was aware of where he was and, you know, put aside all of the dementia concerns for. Or at least know that we know about those. Right. So, you know, you have to refer to the Biden administration. I understand that some of you are going to point out, but Joe wasn't really. Ok, but the machine, this is what Biden's team and the Biden machinery managed. What do they manage with Russia, Ukraine? Nothing other than the perpetuation of bloodshed, massive expense to the US Taxpayer and no end in sight. And a lot of people feeling tough about themselves, putting Ukraine flags up on their Facebook profiles or on Twitter, whatever. That. That doesn't actually help anybody. That. That was not. I haven't even gotten to Afghanistan, the Afghanistan withdrawal. I mean, you look at the results of the Biden approach on the world stage, that's supposed to be his strong suit. Mind you, Biden was put on the Obama ticket back in 2009, believe it or not, for his steady hand and knowledge in foreign policy. Probably the worst record, and I really mean this, the worst record on the world stage of any statesman from America, at least in our lifetime. I mean, Joe Biden was catastrophically wrong about everything at every point that it mattered. And everybody in D.C. has always known that, just like they knew that he had dementia. But put, as I said that aside for a moment, look at what Trump is achieving. Look at what Biden is, or look at what Biden achieved. And that's, you know, putting it in a way that I think we probably should find other words for. And this is why I think they're left doing stuff like this here. Clay, we've got. They're upset over this, this report that Cutter is going to be giving some kind of act. You know, they're going to be giving a plan. I have to read more of the details of this, to be honest with you, because I've seen some conflicting reports, but this is cut 26. Play it.
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Buck Sexton
Mr. President, what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as.
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RFK Jr.
A personal gift to you, why not leave it?
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Nick Adams
You're ABC Fake news, right?
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Leon Nayfak
It's only.
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Nick Adams
Only abc. Well, a few of you would let me tell you, you should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us. I want to pay you a billion, or 400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say, thank you very much. You know, there was an old golfer named Sam Sneed. Did you ever hear of him? He won 82 tournaments. He was a great golfer. And he had a motto. When they give you a putt, you say, thank you very much. You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole. A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on putting it. And then they putt it and they miss it, and their partner gets angry at them. You know what? Remember that Sam's need. When they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say, thank you very much.
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Buck Sexton
Have you ever been given a gift worth millions of dol and then not receive.
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Nick Adams
Not a gift to me. It's a gift to the Department of Defense. And you should know better because you've been embarrassed enough and so has your network. Your network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster.
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Buck Sexton
I just think this is going to be the focal point and this is how it goes with Trump. We're going to get $1 trillion in investment commitment capital from the Middle east, according to the reports that I have read. And the government overwhelmingly is going to focus on this qatar jet now. $400 million reported jet again, to me, this is emblematic of Trump's frustration with Boeing and their inability to actually get the new Air Force One jets completed. The government's fleet, and I understand people are going to be concerned. They're going to say, hey, is this the right choice to make? To me, it's not worth the negative attention. This would be my general proposition on it, because there's so much positivity. But also, Trump actually knows airplanes pretty well. And I was on Air Force One, and it feels like an air. It's a very cool aircraft. I'm not trying to get a shot at it, but it feels like something that was built in the 1980s. We shouldn't have gone 40 years between new Air Force One aircraft. That is a huge failure of Boeing. Trump is just fed up with the speed of government. And what he's doing is he's saying, well, why can't we have a better quality, safer aircraft? And if we're not going to have it, then I'll use this one in the meantime and maybe it'll pressure Boeing to finally finish the new generation of Air Force One craft, which was supposed to be done like a decade ago. Buck. I mean, it is kind of indefensible that Boeing has been paid billions of dollars and still hasn't delivered.
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Clay Travis
Boeing has had huge problems for many years, as you know, and it's unfortunately, I think, indicative of some of the high level manufacturing decline in this country. And really look, Boeing used to be the gold standard of making planes that are incredibly safe. And it has lost some steps. And there are a few reasons why. I think one of them is the financialization, if you will, of Boeing moving it away. I think what initially was in Seattle, right. And then they moved it to Chicago. The headquarters became a little bit too focused on quarterly stock price and not as much on making the best, safest planes and other things imaginable. And then of course there's the DEI component of it as well, which people can talk about and decide how much they think that's influenced it. But yeah, again, I wonder at this point, so if Qatar is going to give use of this plane or are going to give this plane so that it can be transferred into Air Force One, people would rather the administration pay for it. Is that, is that what is the position of the criticism or those who are critiquing this is he shouldn't accept this on behalf of the presidency because it's buying off his interest toward Qatar or rather it's making him too favorable toward Qatar. Is that really like what is the.
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Buck Sexton
Primary, the only argument, and you would know better than me, is allowing a foreign company to make a jet could create security related concerns. Right. And I'm assuming that we have high level sweeping that takes place before the President gets on anything. But I'm talking about listening devices, things like that. That's the only criticism of this I can see having any basis in fact. I'm not saying that I buy it because I think we'd be able to vet the plane before the President goes on, as they vet every plane before the President gets, goes on. But that's the only thing I can possibly think could be played here.
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Clay Travis
I just, I mean, you know, maybe we should give back the Statue of Liberty too. You know, France bought us off France, you, you scoundrels, with your Statue of Liberty that sits in New York harbor paid for by the people of France. We didn't, we didn't pay for the Statue of Liberty. I'm just saying, got to get it back.
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Buck Sexton
It is funny that we're going to get a trillion dollars in benefit from this travel. And a $400 million jet is going to be the headline for huge numbers of legacy media.
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Clay Travis
Another thing that's tiresome is Trump is worth billions of dollars. The idea that any country or any person is going to be able to just do some, some thing that is a mind, you know, not going to change Trump's life in any meaningful way whatsoever, but they're going to buy him off, I just think is preposterous.
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Buck Sexton
The wealthiest president we've ever had is the least susceptible, in my opinion, to being bought off than any president we've ever had. This is one of the reasons Trump had such appeal, I think initially when he came down the escalator in 2015. Buck is because I think a lot.
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Clay Travis
Of people that's like Elon said about Putin.
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Buck Sexton
That's right.
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Clay Travis
Can Putin be. Can Putin buy off Elon? No, because he can't afford him. Okay. Because Elon has more money than anyone on the planet.
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Buck Sexton
Such a baller line for people who missed that. Elon said I can't be bought off because Putin doesn't have enough money, which is amazing.
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Buck Sexton
And Buck Sexton telling it like it is. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Leon Nayfak
Of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Clay Travis
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir? No one was let go.
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Leon Nayfak
It became known as the Iran Contra.
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Nick Adams
Affair, and I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Leon Nayfak
I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast Fiasco Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Nick Adams
And intense, insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do.
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Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
We want to get to a lot of your talkbacks and calls later on this hour, so light up those lines as we make our way through the news of the day and also the talkbacks. We love your Talk Facts. We hear all of them. We play as many as we can. But go to the Clay and Buck page on the iHeartRadio app, which is also where you can listen to our great podcast network, and you send us basically a Voicemail, little microphone. That's something that we've lost as well. The whole world has lost it. The coming home from the office or whatever and having, you know, you have seven messages, you know, it's like, so.
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Buck Sexton
This is a little bit of a super exciting. You didn't know it was blinking. You're like, hey, who was this? And now it was invariably like a.
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Clay Travis
Bill collector or something. And you're like, this is sad. You know, male. Actual physical mail has just turned into a point of anxiety for me. With the exception of now the baby's born. We got a lot of gifts from so many people. Is very kind. We appreciate that. But the mail that goes into your mailbox, it's never good. It's never anything that I want really. It's always just garbage, you know, it belongs a la poo bell.
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Buck Sexton
So I remember. I'm old enough to remember. Buck. I don't know if there was something that would come in the mail that you were super excited to get back in the day. For me, Sports Illustrated. I want, like, who was going to be on the COVID Which issue?
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Clay Travis
Which issue, Clay?
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Buck Sexton
The swimsuit issue, of course, was a. Was a. Was a hot point in February when it comes out.
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Clay Travis
That got banned at my high school. So did.
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Buck Sexton
They wouldn't allow it. Just killer one.
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Clay Travis
Not allowed to have. Of course, you could have the one with like Barry Bonds on the COVID Right, right, right.
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Buck Sexton
You would not allow.
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Clay Travis
Yep. The dean. They had to do a special announcement. No Maxim, no stuff. No Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, you know, edition. A little totalitarian. I was kind of living in North Korea for a while there, Clay. Except it was Jesuits instead of the Kim family.
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Buck Sexton
I 1980s, early 1990s, pre Internet. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue was absolutely iconic. And I know there's a lot of people out there listening right now that remember that very well. You'd be. You were super excited to go down and get it. But every week, leave aside the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, who was on the COVID used to be a monster deal. One of your favorite players, one of your favorite teams. You couldn't wait to see who was going to be the COVID of Sports. I don't even know how many times they published Sports Illustrated now. You know, I looked into trying to buy it when they. We kicked the tires on that company and what it was going to cost. But it's not a very good business right now.
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Clay Travis
So back to our talk Back sentence. The talkbacks on whatever you want today and the best ones are the most insightful or funniest. We'll play them for you the back of this hour, back in the next hour. Okay. We talked first hour about this. I think this is very interesting. First of all, as you know, beginnings of a trade deal framework with China market rallying hostage return from Hamas today. A lot of wins, right? A lot of wins. But a story that Trump has also put into the news cycle here has to do with the resettling of some refugees from South Africa. Now, the administration had spoken about this before Trump signed an EO on this, and it's very interesting to see the objections to this. I, I want to spend a little time on this clay because I think this is a fascinating issue. And let me just tell you, first off, I think 50 of them have been. Are. Are in the process. 5, 050. Okay. Are in the process of being re. Resettled. I think, you know, we, we've seen that guy tied to ms.13. He had like 8 people in the car when the cops pulled them aside. Abrego Garcia. And they were saying that, the police said they believed that he was a human trafficker. 50 people is not a lot of people. But the media is very, very iffy on this, very concerned about this. A lot of questions. All of a sudden, after 10 plus million people piled into the country falsely claiming by the numbers, go look at the court cases, over 90% of them not actually worth or, you know, should not get asylum, not actually people deserving of asylum. Fifty South Africans show up and there's a problem with this because they're white. And you say, you sit here, you go a whole lot of. So is our policy that you can't be a white refugee. That certainly would have been news to a lot of Ashkenazi Jews during the Second World War. Like you can't be a white refugee. This is Trump Speaking about this play 25.
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Nick Adams
Now South Africa Leadership is coming to see me. I understand. Sometime next week. And you know, we're supposed to have a guess, a G20 meeting there or something, but we're having a G20 meeting. I don't know how we can go unless that situation's taken care of. But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about. But it's a terrible thing that's taking place. And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they're white or black makes no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa. And the newspapers and the media, television Media doesn't even talk about it. If it were the other way around, they talk about it. That would be the only story they talk about. I don't care who they are. I don't care about their race, their color. I don't care about their height, their weight. I don't care about anything. I just know that what's happening is terrible. I have people that live in South Africa. They say it's a terrible situation taking place. So we've essentially extended citizenship to those people.
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Clay Travis
Clay, the media has generally written more skeptical and even critical coverage of 50 white South. 50 white South Africans being resettled in this country under, under refugee status than they did for four years of Biden with 10 plus million illegals being cartel human trafficked across the border. What is going on? I think we. I mean, I think we know what's going on totally.
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Buck Sexton
And look, this, this goes into. We talked about what an incredible weekend Trump had in so many different positive results. And we should mention, basically, the stock market is now back at the price that it was in January. Stock prices surging today. And I hope that a lot of you did not buy into that fear that they tried to drive. Oh, the stock market's gonna collapse. The government, you know, our economy's gonna collapse. All that stuff we told you to stay calm. Either buy more if you had the ability to do it, or at least hold onto your stocks. I hope you guys did. I hope you didn't let the panic get to you. But the thing that they're not talking about at all, to your point, Buck, the southern border is one of the biggest successes that I can remember any president ever saying, I will fix it. We hear a lot from politicians who basically make a living saying, I will fix it. And then they get into office and nothing really changes. Can you remember in 100 days, and it even took less than 100 days, it only took 30. Can you remember anything that a president has ever fixed faster than what Trump did at the border, such that nobody even talks about it now. Now it's just a huge story.
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Clay Travis
It was. It was a huge concern of the American people going into this last election, as we know, right alongside the economy, it was really one and two. Economy, one, border two. And in some polls, border could even outstrip the economy. Depends because the border and the economy are tied together, too. There's a lot. A lot of these things are seen side by side. But remember, it's not just Clay that he fixed it so quickly. It's that he came in and fixed it so quickly. And the previous occupant of the Oval Office had spent four years through his surrogates and through the media telling us, it's so hard, it's so complicated. We can't do anything to fix this. Which was always a lie because of course they could. One of the biggest changes isn't just the enforcement mechanisms at the border. It is that. What do we say a million times here, Clay? We talk about the border. It's about the incentives. If you think you can get in and stay, a lot of people will come. People now think, hold on a second. Do I want to pay a coyote 5, 10, 15 grand? Do I want to deal with the cartels and show up in Mexico and, you know, spend time in an immigration facility in America and all this stuff. If I don't think I'm going to get to stay, I might get sent home. Completely changes the calculation. But I did want to bring us back, Clay, to why is there such. I mean, here's the Associated Press CENA reporting on this. Episcopal Church says it will not help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status in the U.S. episcopal Church's migration Service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status. Citing the church's long standing commitment to racial justice and reconciliation, Presiding Bishop Rowe announced that after 49 South Africans departed their homeland, bound for new homes in the U.S. episcopal migration ministries will halt its decades long partnership with the government. The Episcopal Church is refusing to help with. After 40 years of, oh yeah, give it, you know, anybody, we'll help anybody come into this place and resettle them. They won't help these South Africans be resettled. They are subject to state sponsored. Now they see, this is why this is so hold on, what's going on in South Africa? You start to look at this, what's happening in South Africa? Clay? South Africa is actually a. It has become a sort of final stage, you know, affirmative action state, if you will, where they have actual hard quotas so that, you know, companies like the board of a company has to be 85% black and, you know, the employees of a company have to be 85. Whatever. I'm making up the numbers, something like that. And the government also is constantly flirting with more ways to take land from white farmers in that country. And this has caused a tremendous amount of dysfunction. The government is insanely corrupt, by the way. It has economically been reduced to a horrible rate of growth and there's a lot of poverty and crime and all these things. But there is open racial discrimination by the state. That's what it is. Our own, our own Supreme Court said, you actually can't do this in Harvard admissions. Well, you also shouldn't be able to do this anywhere else. You shouldn't be able to discriminate on the basis of race. And that's why there's such an outrage here to bringing 550 white South Africans into this country under refugee status because they are being discriminated against.
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Buck Sexton
This country is so unsafe that they don't make women stop at red lights after dark in many parts of the country. I mean, think about how unfortunate that is. Any country where you just say it, everybody just kind of accepts it. Hey, if you're driving at night and you're a woman, you don't have to stop at a red light. Is a country that has been completely taken over by criminal elements. And it's unfortunate that that has occurred. And, you know, I know when they had the World cup, the amount of security that was required for the teams was off the charts. They basically put all of the different teams at the World cup that South Africa hosted behind prison, you know, walls almost in many ways to keep them from being able to even go out in many parts of the country because they were so concerned about the safety of the players from all the different countries. That's a sign, obviously, that, that things have fallen apart. And I think it's gotten worse there in terms of safety for all people since. And it is unfortunate. And the fact that you would make that the, the focal point, again, the point is none of the successes get talked about and anything that they can put in a negative light becomes a huge part of the focus.
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Clay Travis
Here's how this, this issue is covered, for example, at the New York Times. I want you to. I'm going to read this so you know. Exactly. And this was, let me see. Yeah, this is about a year or two ago. New York Times. Kill the boar. Boar is a reference to white South Africans. Kill the Boar song fuels backlash in South Africa. And us right wing commenters claim that an old apartheid chant is a call to anti white violence. But historians and the left wing politicians who embrace it say, don't take it literally. They have songs in stadiums about killing the white people in their country and they're allowed to chant and sing this. And the New York Times is like, hold on, everybody. Maybe we just shouldn't take it literally. And given what's going on in the country, it's not like everyone's getting along great and the country's functioning really well and yet they will take that position on this. I just think what you see here is that we have the left in this country has decided that our immigration policy is first and foremost about taking people from the impoverished third world nations that are non white. And that is actually the focus of our immigration. Because otherwise why 50 migrants? 50 migrants is I saw 300 migrants coming into the US at one time across the border. 50 migrants.
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Buck Sexton
We took 10 million illegals in four years. So yeah, it's kind of amazing what the focal point is. And that's now been stopped. And so this becomes a story. We'll take some of your calls by the way and we'll also play some of your talk backs coming forward. 800-282-2882. I want to tell you though, a mother's strongest instincts protect her young. That's why the time, the term mama bear, no joke. Over the weekend my wife Laura, you know what she wanted to do? She wanted to fire guns that she has bought and she wanted our boys to be instructed and in how to handle firearms as well. That's legitimately what we did yesterday. And Sabre is the number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. You know what, I'm going to put my 14 year old on blast. He got caught sneaking back into the house after hours, set off the alarm and my wife was like, oh goodness, who is this? If you ever have a teenager in your home and you're worried about what time that teenager might be coming back, we've got two in the house or are they going to make curfew? Are they going to be sneaking in and out? Maybe you got college age kids, maybe you're worried about protecting your home, but you don't want to use something lethal. That's why pepper can make such a huge difference. The pepper spray provided by Sabre family owned business, been manufacturing safety products for 50 years. You should go check it out. We've got it all types. The non lethal pepper spray that they have is absolutely amazing. It's like a projectile launcher will not be lethal in any way but will protect you. If you got kids, family members coming in at all hours and you're a little bit nervous, maybe the alarm goes off. Saberradio.com spelled S A B R E website saberradio.com you'll save 15 off. One more time. Saberradio.com go check it out. They're fabulous. Everything you could want from pepper spray to projectile pepper launchers to just alarms that you can put inside your house, we've got them all. You'll love them. Saberradio.com 844-824 safe. That's 844-824-S a f e. Stories of freedom, stories of America. Inspirational stories that unite us all each day. Spend time with Clay and Buck. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. Australia's Manliest Man. At least that support supports Donald Trump. Crocodile Hunter's dead. I think it may be you is with us now. Nick Adams got a brand new book out. We'll ask him about that. Who would you say as an Australian is the manliest man in Australia right now? Because I think it might have been the croc Crocodile Hunter back in the day. Right? Steve Irwin. But who would you say is the manliest man in Australia now? Is that a title that you would be happy to aspire to?
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RFK Jr.
Well, Clay, look, it certainly was me up until 2016. Given that I am now an American. I really.
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Buck Sexton
So you relinquish. You had to relinquish the title of Manliest man in Australia to become an American?
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RFK Jr.
I did. I did, actually. And even though I relinquished the title, it was still an upgrade, Clay. So I believe I'm firmly in contention for the manliest man in America now too. Up there with you, of course, and our good friend Buck. But it's a tight competition, but I hopefully will pip you boys at the post.
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Clay Travis
Nick, appreciate you being here with us. From Mar a Lago to Mars, President Trump's great American comeback. What are you telling everybody about in the book that they need to hear? What is the, I mean, I think we have a sense of where it's going because of what the title is. But what for you is the most, the most salient points about what Clay and I have turned that I'm sure you'd agree, the greatest political comeback in history.
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RFK Jr.
Definitely the greatest political comeback in history. Look, Buck, the reality is I've written a few books, but this is the first book I've written that is as much a self help book as it is a political and historic Americana book. This is a book that really provides a manual for people to win on the battlefield that we call life. All based on what we saw President Trump do over the last three to four years. How he managed to not just survive, but thrive despite the unparalleled adversity that he was subjected to. I mean, let's just think about it. He was censored, he was deplatformed. He. They tried to bankrupt him, they impeached him twice arrested, sued, indicted, they tried to kill him twice that we know of. This is a man that had so much thrown at him, and yet he never, ever once compromised even an inch, never retreated, never, ever went back on anything that he said, even though it would have been much more expedient, much easier for him to do so. He's never stopped fighting for the American people, for the people that have been forgotten and abandoned by America's political elite. And there is a Donald Trump, I think, in all of us. And that's what I wanted to capture in From Mar a Lago to Mars, the President, President Trump's Great American Comeback. I wanted to really get people to understand that you, too, can get through life if you apply the principles that Donald Trump has of being able to turn every setback into a setup for a comeback, through positive thinking, through just never, ever giving up. And I think that there are so many things that we can learn from Donald Trump.
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Buck Sexton
Nick, why do you think white, black, Asian, Hispanic, young men are breaking towards Trump in such a degree? Certainly, we saw this in the 2024 election. You spend a lot of time talking to younger guys through social media. What do you think is attracting them to Trump? And why do you think we're seeing this cultural shift that's so prominent not only among young, you know, white, black, Asian, Hispanic men, but also among athletes where supporting Trump has become cool in a way that it was not in Trump 1.0?
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RFK Jr.
Clay he's the ultimate man's man. He doesn't apologize. He is authentic. He is bold. He has what I like to coin testicular fortitude, a term that you and I are very, very familiar with. And young men relate to that. Young men love that. And those that can't relate to it aspire to have it and are attracted to it. So that's the reason that I think young men turned out in record numbers last year, in 2024, to bring President Trump back to the White House, because they saw someone that reminded them of what men used to be and of what a man can still be if they're prepared to never take a backward step to own who they are, to be unapologetically them. That's what's so incredible about Donald Trump. No matter where he goes, Clay it doesn't matter if he's speaking in a rural area in the Midwest. He doesn't put on a pair of jeans and a flannel shirt and a cowboy hat. He's always wearing that same distinctive dark blue suit with the solid tie. He doesn't change his accent like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama and Barack Obama and all of those other fake, phony Democrats. He's always got that same distinctive queen's accent. And there is nothing more masculine about somebody that just is who they are and couldn't care less whether you like it or not. And if you don't like it, they're more than prepared to tell you to go and pound sand or jump in the lake.
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Clay Travis
So I wanted to have you react, Nick, to this Bill Maher clip that got a lot of attention over the weekend. It has to do with the status of the Democrat Party and men and masculinity and just the way the Democrats have completely devolved into a party of emotionally destabilized wackos. Here is he's still a Democrat, but not as crazy as some of them. Bill maher, this is cut 24. Play it. If the thought leaders in the Democratic Party keep encouraging and not rebuking the idea that America is cringe and the people who run Gaza are great, the Democrats are doomed. Alyssa Slotkin's right. Liberals are weak and woke, especially the white ones, and they indulge in all sorts of nonsense from their kids, a pattern that then continues on in the Democratic Party. Last election it was all the gender stuff, the insistence that men can have babies and such. And now I fear that we like the terrorists is the new that liberals need to push back on the dumb ideas that come from their children. The Democrats problem is the energy of the party is with the young and the young are with the terrorists. That's not good. I don't think, Nick, the Democrats are actually pushing back on this stuff, though. I think that they're just hoping they can sell it better the next time around.
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RFK Jr.
The Democrats buck have become the party of criminals, illegal aliens and perversion. That's really pretty much all they stand for. And for as long as they stand for that, they're not gonna have any kind of electoral success. And Donald Trump really is now owning so many issues that used to be the domain of the left of the Democrats. And it's, it's a wonderful thing to see. The Democrats have completely lost their way. Donald Trump broke them. And it's something that I point out in in my book From Mar a Lago to Mars, he broke them. Now to a point where you look, politics is cyclical. Democrats, of course, are going to recover in some form, but for a while now, they are really going to struggle to get out under the the entire mess that they have built for themselves.
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Buck Sexton
Nick I know you're an American citizen now, but there are a lot of people out there in Australia, there are a lot of people in England. There are a lot of people who don't feel seen in these countries. And certainly all over Europe, we've seen it as well. How important, do you think, as somebody who is from a different country but now lives here, that America's position and Donald Trump's particular positions are not just significant for the United States, but also, frankly, for all of Western civilization?
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RFK Jr.
Look, if the world is a spider web, Clay, America is right in the center of it, and any kind of movement and the entire web shakes. I think there was someone famous that once said that if. If America gets a cough, the world catches a cold. And that still remains the case. It is very important that people in Australia and England and Canada and all across the world, even in the non English speaking countries, they see the strength and the courage and the devotion that Donald Trump has, and they hope for it in their own leadership. Because here in America, we know what weak and stupid leaders are. I mean, we got used to it. And now we have a president like President Trump who's tough and smart, the absolute antithesis. And as a result, America is winning. I mean, look at President Trump's undefeated season. It's incredible what's going on in the country right now. It's like waking up every morning and it's Christmas. And I know that there are people in other countries that may not have the freedoms that America does. They don't have a First Amendment, really. They don't have a Second Amendment at all. And these people are hoping to get a leader that has the courage and has the strength and has the wisdom and has the willingness to sacrifice, which is really what is just so remarkable about. Remarkable about Donald Trump. He's just so willing to sacrifice everything for what he believes in. And that's why I think about American history. Clay and buck and America is so lucky compared to other countries. We had General Washington at the start of our country. We had President Lincoln at the rebirth of our country. And now we have President Trump at the rejuvenation of our country on the eve of the 250th anniversary, a time when most historians will tell you great superpowers are really in survival mode. And I think it's a wonderful thing. He is a once in a century, at bare minimum type of leader. I'm proud to have supported him from the 16th of June, 2015 when he came down the escalator. I've been with him from day one. This is a, this is a very, very special guy. I've been very blessed. Talk about an immigrant, an immigration story. I mean, for me to come over here and at the age of 32, to be on Air Force One, being appointed to the president to different boards, to have a personal relationship with him. I was just in the Oval Office with him last month. You know, he is somebody that we will be studying for centuries to come and that's why I wrote this book. From Mar a Lago to Mars. President Trump's Great American Comeback.
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Clay Travis
You can pre order it, you can pre order your copy. Comes out May 20th. Preorder it today on Amazon. Get those book numbers skyrocketing for our friend, American friend, Nick Adams. So now he just is an American Clay with a cool accent. Like, you know, he's got that Miranda Devine accent, no doubt.
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Buck Sexton
Tremendous difference. Nick, good luck on the book tour and we look forward to talking to you down the line.
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RFK Jr.
Thanks, boys. It's always a pleasure. Stay strong.
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Buck Sexton
Will do. For sure. It's Nick Adams. Check out the book out May 20, I believe is that date From Mar a Lago to Mars. Stop paying Verizon AT&T and T mobile way too much. Switch your cell phone service today to Pure Talk. Qualifying plan started. Just 35 bucks a month. Unlimited talk text, 15 gigs of data mobile hotspot as well in America's most dependable 5G network coverage. Just as good because PureTalk utilizes the same towers and networks. And if you make the switch today, they'll give you a brand new Samsung Galaxy with a qualifying plan. I trust PureTalk to keep in touch with my 14 year old. With my 17 year old. You can get hooked up. Now dial pound 250, say the keywords Clay and Buck. PureTalk's US customer service team can help you switch in as little as 10 minutes. Right now, 35 bucks a month. Cut your cell phone bill in half and a brand new Samsung Galaxy for free. Dial £250, say the keywords clay and Buck to make the switch to Pure Talk today. That's £250, say clay and Buck. Making America great again isn't just one man, it's many. The Team 47 podcast Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Leon Nayfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Clay Travis
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Buck Sexton
No.
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Leon Nayfak
It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Nick Adams
And I'm not taking any more questions.
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Clay Travis
In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Leon Nayfak
I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Fiasco Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Nick Adams
And insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do.
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Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Then we bring in a new part of the Clay and Buck Podcast Network. We are super excited to bring her in. She is a mother as well as an expert on many different fields of medicine. Dr. Nicole Safire New podcast is going to be called Wellness Unmasked. It's in the Clay and Buck Podcast Network. It will debut tomorrow and we'll get into that in a sec. But I believe you have two boys, if I'm not mistaken. Dr. Sapphire, how was your Mother's Day? Did you do anything fun?
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
Hey, guys, thanks so much for having me on. I actually have three boys, three by me. Then you throw in the husband and the dogs. I have a lot more boys.
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Buck Sexton
Who takes more? My wife says that I take more mothering and taking care of in terms of difficulty than the boys do. I don't know if that's true or not, but is your husband more of a challenge or the three boys?
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
You know what? I think they all have their equal parts difficult days and good days, but everybody contributes and I love it. This was a perfect weekend, Mother's Day weekend. We had phenomenal weather in the Northeast, which is a shock because we have had pretty bad weather for what feels like months. And so we were essentially outside all day, every day, Saturday and Sunday, and it was glorious, no doubt.
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Buck Sexton
Okay, tell us about the podcast, which we're super excited to have off and running.
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
Well, I am beyond thrilled to announce Wellness Unmasked. It's part of your network. We are going to be talking all things health and wellness. You know, people say some people don't like to talk politics, some people don't like to talk sports. But I can tell you, everyone at some point in their life cares about their health, and there's so much information coming out of us out of everywhere. You don't know what's true, what's not true. I mean, we all really learned that during COVID I mean, follow the Science, Listen to the experts. Well, it turned out they were wrong in a lot of things. And I am known for kind of looking at the science myself, reading the data myself and giving an honest opinion, an honest, unfiltered opinion. And I want to continue to do that. Whether we're talking about cold plunges or we're talking about the latest research, when it comes to the foods that we're eating and potential disease, I mean, all you have to do is turn on the radio, turn on the TV days, and you see RFK Jr. Or someone else. Help is a huge topic these days. And it is important that we sift through it all and we kind of break it down so it's no nonsense.
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Clay Travis
Dr. Safire, thanks for being with us and welcome to the Podcast network. What is your reaction when you see this, this big move from Trump over the weekend and more details on it today on prescription drug prices? Because again, for those of us not actually prescribing and not having to know the names of the drugs and what they do and operating in that world, it just seems pretty straightforward that there's something wrong with, as Trump says, the fat shot, quote, unquote. But drugs costing a whole lot more here than they do in a lot of other countries, including very wealthy countries. Yeah.
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
So anybody who has been following President Trump since his first term knows that he has been focused on reducing the cost of prescriptions here in the United States. I mean, in 2024 alone, Americans spent $98 billion out of pocket on prescription drugs. That's 25% increase in just the last five years. During his first term, he went the old fashioned route and he went through legislation and he tried to pass bills to reduce drug costs. Well, what happened? Well, Big pharma, the lobbyists, they all pushed back. And a lot of the changes that he tried to make, the Biden administration did not continue. And so here we are again in the first few months of his administration and he is going hard after these drug companies and it's going to be unpopular because drug companies are one of the biggest lobby powerhouses. They spend a lot on campaigns. So a lot of your politicians out there get money from drug companies. But what President Trump is doing, which is different than what Biden was doing, so people will say, well, President Biden was also working on lowering drug companies. And that is true, he was. But he was specifically just doing a few select drugs specifically for those who are on Medicare. So people who are 65 and older, what President Trump is saying is we want to make sure that Medicare is able to negotiate with these drug companies, but we also want to expand that to Medicaid as well as the private insurance companies, because why should just the elderly have. Have more affordable drug prices? What about everybody else? And so that is why this is a very big executive order, what he's saying. We have 30 days to come to the table drug companies. You're going to negotiate with RFK Jr. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, and you are going to figure out how we can lower the cost of prescription medications here in the United States. Now, you think that people are going to come out and criticize this? I mean, I think people would look pretty bad criticizing the idea of wanting to decrease pharmaceutical costs to Americans that'll make them look bad. But these are really big goals. And so we want to make sure that it's not all talk and that they are able to follow through with this. And so it will take a lot of negotiations, but there's going to be a lot of legal hangups, especially when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry. They're going to tie this up in the legal system, uncertain of it.
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Buck Sexton
Nicole, Dr. Safire, Dr. Nicole Safire with us right now. How would you assess, from a doctor perspective, the start of the RFK Jr. Tenure? Because it's been very controversial. I know we've got a new Surgeon General nominee potentially coming. How would you assess what doctor, what RFK Jr. Is focused on and doctor means, I think, who has now been potentially elevated as the next Surgeon general. How well do you think he has done? What do you think he could do better?
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
I think that the impetus between the Make America healthy again movement, RFQ Jr. And everything that they're focusing on right now is all everything that the United States needs. We need to be looking at our chronic illness epidemic. I've been talking about this pre Covid. During COVID we saw Americans were not doing well once they got infected with COVID because we had such an overweight population, because we have so much chronic illness. And so that rendered us vulnerable. And so to actually look at that and not just say, well, let's just create more medications to treat the illness, but let's figure out why we've gotten this looking at what's in our food supply. Specifically, we hear RFQ Jr say all the time, he's talking about seed oils. Well, if you actually look at seed oils, there's good data, including a new study that just came out of Cornell, linking linoleic acid, which is in one of the seed oils, directly to cancer Formation. How do we have these in our food here in the United States, but they're not allowed in food elsewhere throughout the world? So I do applaud them at looking at some of these things and really looking at the root cause of our illness and not just focusing on expanding access to treatment. You want to have both there. The, I guess we could call it drama surrounding the Surgeon General nominee pick certainly has been played out online. And I actually did respond to it myself. I put out a video because I was getting a million text messages, phone calls, people stopping me in the hospital, asking me what my opinion was. And when it comes to a Surgeon General pick, I think they need to fit three boxes. The first box, they have to be aligned with the Make America Great Again movement and President Trump. That means that this person needed to speak out during COVID some way or the other. They had to either speak out to say we should be trying everything in terms of treating this illness when we don't have known treatments, whether it was hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin. They needed to speak out when it was clear natural immunity and the vaccine induced immunity were having similar effects. And when they started pushing the mandates and vaccinations for kids, they needed to speak out and say, let's pump the brakes for a second and see if there is really a risk benefit ratio there that would indicate these kids should be vaccinated against Covid. If they didn't do that, if they weren't a part of any of that, then they don't fit that BRICS box. The second box is to make America Healthy Again. It doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be aligned or have worked with RFK Jr. In the past, but they have to have been speaking about chronic illness and prevention as well as some more natural ways to prevent illness. And they can't just be doing it right now because it's trendy. They have to have been doing it before. And now the last one, and this is what I find very important. Our healthcare system, our medical industry, public health, we're all completely fractured since COVID because we've lost a lot of trust, and rightfully so. And so we need to unify our medical professionals and we also need to unify patients across the United States. And so we need someone who is respected enough in the industry that physicians are going to look to them because the Surgeon General is essentially a public figure where they are going to be espousing the Make America Great Again and the Make America Healthy Again talking points. But if they don't have the respect of their peers, then no one's going to listen to them. And that message is not going to get very far, and it's certainly not going to last beyond an administration. My biggest concern about the current nominee, Dr. Casey Means, is while she may be very intelligent and she's very well spoken, she didn't even finish medical school. So therefore, she's never actually. I'm sorry, she finished medical school. She didn't finish her medical training, her residency training. And so because she didn't finish her training, she's never been an actively practicing physician. She doesn't fit that first box of the Make America Grady Again, because she wasn't seeing patients, she wasn't treating patients, and she didn't necessarily speak out against Covid during that time. She absolutely is aligned with Make America Healthy Again. She is. I believe she and RFK Jr are actually very close, and she doesn't necessarily fit that third box in the sense that a lot of medical professionals are not going to look to someone who never even completed their medical training to lead them. So those are my big concerns. I think we need to be unifying right now, and I'm not sure this is the way to go.
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Clay Travis
Dr. Nicole Safire with us now. She's launching a podcast tomorrow here on the Clean Block Network, wellness unmasked. And Dr. Safire, if I could for a moment. Sorry. I'm now turning into the guy at the cocktail party who's like, you know, my elbow kind of hurts. What do you think it could be? I want to do a quick. I'm sure you get that right. Like, hey, doc, you know what's wrong with my eye? You know, but quick lightning round. A couple of things I just want to throw out to you, and you can just. Saunas. Important. Good. Yay or nay? Where are we on saunas?
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
So I love saunas. I especially like infrared saunas. I literally have. It looks like a sleeping bag in my house that I lay myself in and I put my body in because he is really good for chronic inflammation and pain. And it's a really good way to detoxify your body. It also can help you increase your metabolism. It can help you sleep if you use it in the evening time. I'm a huge fan of saunas.
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Clay Travis
Okay. So good.
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
Yes. Yes, you can.
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Clay Travis
They're. They're every. They're everywhere here in South Florida now. So I'm always kind of wondering, cold plunge, is it really going to turn me into, you know, the, the best version of myself if I jump into cold water.
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
All right, I can tell you that I have not jumped on the cold plunge bandwagon the way that you should. From a scientific standpoint. Absolutely. By doing that, it does have health benefits. It decreases inflammation, and it stimulates your cardiovascular system. I hate being cold, personally, which is bizarre that I live in the Northeast, so I'll go sit in the sauna any day. But don't talk to me about cold plunging.
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Clay Travis
Clay, do you have a lightning round? Are you good?
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Buck Sexton
Well, no, I was just going to say I convinced Buck. I love the cold plunge. Now, when we were in Miami, we jumped in this. I mean, but I don't know how cold you need to go. And I have my family in the cold plunge with me.
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Clay Travis
We were at the gym, and Clay went into the coldest plunge, which I think is like 45 degrees or something. And I was like, clay, you do you. Man, I can't. I can't do that.
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
Hey, listen, there are health benefits to it, and you know what? It's trendy. I do hate to join in on the trends, but, yeah, no, I can get behind the health benefits of it. But for me, I think there are other ways to decrease that inflammation and stimulate the body without being freezing cold.
- [62:41]
Clay Travis
So if you guys listen to Dr. Safire's podcast, Wellness Unmasked, you'll get all kinds of great health advice and tips, as well as know what's going on in the world of health medicine policy, all the rest. So, Dr. Safire, honored to have you with us. Thank you so much, and we'll be talking to you again soon.
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Dr. Nicole Sapphire
Thanks for having me, guys.
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Buck Sexton
That's the car. Dr. Nicole Sapphire, now a part of the Clay and Black podcast network, which.
- [63:03]
Clay Travis
Kind of a madman in that cold plunge like you stayed in law. I'll be honest with you. I would have bet against you staying in the cold plunge as long as you did. You know, they have this stuff now at some of these gyms in Florida where you go the cold plunge and they got the sauna and they got all these things, and I was. I was a little bit impressed. I was totally wimping out on that one.
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Buck Sexton
You know what's funny is if you tell me somebody else has done it, then I immediately know that I can do it.
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Clay Travis
I.
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Buck Sexton
We were in Strawberry. Strawberry Springs or something like that out in Steamboat Springs, and somebody. My. My wife was like, well, Joe Rogan does this for, like, five minutes at a time. Because I was only doing like two minutes. And I was like, joe Rogan does it five. I can do five minutes in this. And then I stayed in for five minutes. I think I could do pretty well in the cold plunge. And we're now adding a cold plunge, the new house, because the boys were like super interested in it. So I love it. I'm glad Dr. Sapphire's got to get on, get with the ball. Not just the sauna. You got to go sauna, cold plunge, back and forth. Look, Israel, special place. I was over in December. It's one of the most incredible trips I have ever taken. I felt incredibly fortunate to be able to spend a week there, going all the way to the north, near Lebanon, all by the all alongside the Gaza Strip. We went all over the place and I saw firsthand the work that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews does. They help to protect people in danger. They build bomb shelters. They help to put together food packs. We worked to help get different food packs out for those in need. They do incredible work. And for just 25 bucks, you can provide a food box. We help to seal these food boxes. We help to create them. I think there's videos up of us doing this. For $335, you can provide someone with hot meals for an entire year. Incredible the work that they do. To check it out, go to ifcj.org that's ifcj.org you can also find the information at Clay and Buck on our sponsor page. You can also call them 888-488-IFCJ. That's 888-488-4325 ifcj.org go today, that's ifcj.org news you can count on and some laughs, too.
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Clay Travis
Clay Travis at Buck Sexton.
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Buck Sexton
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Made in America means something to us. When you invest 700 billion annually in American companies and the 13 million workers and families they support, you're investing in the success of Main Street. That's money powering growth in manufacturing, tech, energy and innovation.
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Leon Nayfak
And it's.
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Clay Travis
It starts with private equity backing American ambition. Learn how private equity keeps American businesses.
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Leon Nayfak
Growing@Investmentcouncil.Org paid for by the American Investment Council. In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra Affair.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Nick Adams
And insane, I can't begin to tell.
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Clay Travis
Please do.
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Leon Nayfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.