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Clay Travis
Edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I don't know if Buck is even aware, but chaos in the College Football Playoff rankings was my weekend festivities. Buck I was in Indianapolis, got to meet a bunch of our listeners at the Big Ten title game. Had an awesome time up there. India is a great, just a great city to walk around downtown. They've done a fantastic job of making that just a very accessible spot. They had a ton of different events going on. I don't think I'm putting them on blast too much, but one of the officials, as I was walking around the field for the Big Ten title game, walked over and sought me out just to say that he loves the radio show and he listens every day. So he's in his full officiating gear getting ready for the Big Ten, Big Ten championship game. You never know who is a Clay and Buck listener out there. And we had a nice chat. So I appreciate him coming over and, and, and talking. I was all over the place. I was in D.C. i met a bunch of our people for the FIFA draw, called in for that, and then Indy. And now I'm back home and excited to, to, to be with all of you. So there's a bunch of stuff out there. Buck as we come up on Christmas and as things typically start to slow down a bit, there's actually some big stories out there that I thought we could, could have some fun with. All of you with front page story, today's New York Times. Ukraine, huge grift. There is billions and billions, probably frankly hundreds of billions of dollars that suddenly on the front page of the New York Times, they acknowledge has been intentionally set up to allow theft.
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I think that when we look at Ukraine and Russia and the peace plan that is moving through there. Buck I think one of the challenges is Ukrainians are increasingly becoming aware of that. There is a great deal of corruption surrounding everything having to do with Zelensky. How much he's personally involved and andor benefiting remains to be seen. But it is the case that yet another conspiracy has been proven to be true, that people who are have been arguing, hey, a ton of our money that we've been sending there is not being spent on defending Ukraine or fighting Russia. It's actually lining the pockets of elite people in power in Ukraine. That has a hundred percent been proven to the extent that now even the New York Times is willing to put it on the front page of the newspaper. So we can get into that 60 Minutes interviews. Marjorie Taylor Greene as soon as you decide that you want to rip Trump, suddenly you are worthy of a 60 Minutes profile. But I actually think this story is more significant than maybe many would realize. And it's going to play out over the next year and it's going to be a big decision for the Trump administration, DOJ and for the antitrust to analyze. And that is that Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers. The HBO essential portion of Warner Brothers, the Harry Potter film franchise, the Game of Thrones, anything that you've watched on hbo. Netflix is trying to buy Paramount, which has been acquired by the Ellison family. Paramount has put in a larger bid to buy the entirety of Warner Brothers, which would include cnn. So if you are out there right now and you're listening to me and Buck and you're saying, okay, you know, maybe you subscribe to Netflix, maybe you watch HBO occasionally, but you're saying, clay, why should I care who owns this company? I think it's actually super important. And if you are of the opinion that there should be a middle of the road, rational media out there, notwithstanding the criticism I just levied against 60 minutes, I think if Netflix buys HBO, that it is a mostly left wing organization. Netflix is, I think that CNN will be left to continue to be a left wing organization. I personally, Buck, like the idea of Paramount acquiring the entirety of Warner Brothers, including cnn, and trying to run CNN as what it used to be. You know, you worked at CNN back in the day before they went full crazy. Buck.
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Buck Sexton
But I witnessed the, the transition to full crazy. Just, I was there when, you know, in Freddie, if you Star wars nerds, when the emperor all of a sudden, like his face changes and he gets all scary. I witnessed that at cnn.
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Clay Travis
So for those of us who are old enough to remember it, and I imagine that's a lot of the people out there listening. It was not that long ago in the grand scheme of things, when during the Gulf War, for instance, CNN made a name for itself and everybody trusted CNN to be on the ground and really legitimately report the news that was going on. Heck, even whatever you thought of Larry King back in the day, Larry King wasn't some, I mean, he got married nine or ten times, whatever the heck it was. So personally, he had some issues. But in terms of his show on a nightly basis, you may feel differently. Buck. I thought it was very middle of the road, right? He got good guests, they had conversations.
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CNN lost its way. And I do think that if CNN ends up staying super left wing, that is not a good thing for the country. And so that's why I think this is significant.
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Buck Sexton
There are some broader trends as well, though, that CNN got caught up in. For example, when you mentioned the Gulf War and CNN's absolute heyday, which I would say is the 90s era, CNN, Clay, that was really pre or early stage. Internet people can get information from anywhere now, right? This is what. Like what. What do we do here that they don't do in the AP headlines? We entertain, we engage, we bring a point of view, we bring life stories, we bring, you know, a conversation, right? We're with our friends talking about these things. We're not breaking news on the. The latest ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia because by the time somebody does that, it's on the global Internet and everybody's right. It doesn't really. That's a thing that I think is ongoing, by the way. There's fighting between those two countries, in case you didn't know. So that's something that's going on. We are in an era now, Clay, where storytelling, connection to audience analysis and trustworthiness of the person, not of the entity, but of the people or person speaking to you is the currency of the news media. And so how does CNN operate in an era where that's the case? If they did straight news, they wouldn't really have an audience. I think this is the challenge that they run into because just news without opinion isn't going to engage either side and they don't have an information advantage anymore. Everyone is putting the news up instantaneously. So we've entered a new era of news and information online. And there's some great parts about that. There are some not great parts about that, but CNN I think, and that model is going to get largely. I don't think it can ever come back, is my position on this. I don't actually think CNN is salvageable as what it was in the 90s because the world has changed. Part of why they went so insane is because.
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Clay Travis
What?
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Buck Sexton
Well, it was mostly because Jeff Zucker hated Trump and it was personal. But beyond that, you know, they brought in that other guy who got fired for doing the Vanity Fair piece, basically. Was it Vanity Fair, I think, or the Atlantic?
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Clay Travis
I can't remember.
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Buck Sexton
He was trying to make it not insane. There's not really an audience for a CNN that's not full of lunatics.
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Clay Travis
Here's my concern. As we look at the landscape of media, the people who are in positions of power are going to be more powerful maybe than we have seen in a very, very long time in terms of the dollars that they have. And I'm very thankful that Elon Musk has had a commitment to free speech and that he decided to buy Twitter, renamed it X. But he could have just as easily decided that he was a super left winger. And at that point in time, we are in significant difficulty. And so I think right now the framework for how these media companies are going to be owned, distributed everything associated with it. If you're not paying attention to what happens to Warner Brothers, I think you're missing potentially an incredibly important media story that is going to play out over the next year. And I think if you voted for Trump, it is in much better your interest for Paramount to end up buying Warner Brothers than for Netflix to buy Warner Brothers. I really think that's true. And, and so this is a big story. This is an important one. I understand it's a little bit in the weeds because then it's going to involve antitrust law and it's going to get very complicated and it's going to take place over the next 18 months. But I just wanted to put that on the horizon for everybody out there. There's also right now Buck, a huge presidential power case which could implicate many of these things over the next three years of Trump, but certainly for the next several generations of presidents. And it has to do with where exactly does the President's power extend and how is it controlled going forward. So we're coming up on the end of the year, but there are a lot of things that I think are massively consequential that are all coming together, right. That may slide under the radar because everybody's got Christmas parties. You got a Christmas party on Thursday that I'm going to be at. I'm excited to get down to Miami and be in warm.
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Buck Sexton
You know what? We're stocking up on Buddy Rose. Clay's coming into town. So we got to make sure plenty of Rose to go around. Some people are saying a big rose drinker, Kayleigh McEnany calling him out in absentia, I might add. That is absentia.
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Clay Travis
Devastating. This reminds me of when Riley Gaines brought a two by four to me on Sean Hannity show. I am 40, flying to Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game. So I was in the air unable to do Kaylee's show. And then I looked down at my phone and recognized that I have suddenly been savagely attacked on Fox News for my alcohol drinking habits.
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Buck Sexton
We can you guys pull that, pull that one up.
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Clay Travis
Cause we got.
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Buck Sexton
We'll play it in the, in the next segment. I just want to, I Want to be clear, I have my man Clay's back. Or I said, I think he's doing sports stuff somewhere, which is, by the way, it's a weekend was probably the. Probably the right answer. And Kaylee was like, I don't know. I hear wine tasting maybe. Maybe sniffing for the aromas of the rose before he swills it around and talks about the notes of black currant and vanilla that he's. That he's picking up. I don't know.
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Clay Travis
This is just what I'm hearing. Clay. I was out Friday night with our friend Alexi Lawless because they had the FIFA and Andrew Giuliani, who was. Who's basically in charge of the FIFA event. Yeah, it was a fun group, but. But Alexi was. Was questioning my alcohol choices. And thankfully, someone with us, another man, ordered an espresso martini, which was more attackable, worthy. So I was able to shift. Sometimes you don't have to be right. Somebody else just has to screw up worse. Ben, who was with us, ordered an espresso martini. And you duck out of the line of fire there. But my rose consumption has. Has now led to. To multiple daily attacks. We're gonna have to get Kaylee back on to talk about that. And I understand if you're out there and you say, I can't trust anything saying now, Clay, because you voluntarily consumed rose. So. So there's that as well.
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Buck Sexton
By the way, we just bring you the news. We bring you the news here.
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Clay Travis
I think I sent in a talk back, but we did get a great draw for the World Cup. If you want positive news, theoretically, even the US Men's soccer team can't screw up the draw that we got on Friday. We should be in the knockout stages. That should be. That should be fantastic going forward. So some good news out there, but I do. I do think again. It's easy to get kind of your. Your eyes to roll back into your head sometimes if you're not a nerd like I am when it comes to media and big media mergers and what the impact could be for how we discuss issues in this country. I think if you're a Trump voter, you. You want Paramount to buy Warner Brothers. If you are a left winger, I think that you want the. The opposite to happen.
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Buck Sexton
All righty. We'll take calls. We'll get into all this. We'll also talk about the Somali American fraud. We'll discuss Obamacare premiums going up. We'll talk about the New York Times writing that Biden screwed up immigration big time. Bigly bigly. We will get to all of that here, my friends. Coming up in just a bit. I can make almost anything look real these days. And cyber thieves, unfortunately, are taking full advantage. Whether it's a bogus website, an ad that lures you to make an online purchase, or emails with special offers, you got to be extra careful. One way to do that is getting Lifelock. Lifelock monitors hundreds of millions of data points a second for threats to your online identity. That's way more than you or anyone can do on their own. And Lifelock alerts you right away if anything pops up. And if you do become a victim of identity theft, you get your own restoration specialist at Lifelock who will fix identity theft, guaranteed or your money back. Having Lifelock saves you countless hours, not to mention your mental sanity.
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Clay Travis
This is where mindset comes in.
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Buck Sexton
Into Clay and Buck. We are live and it's always in motion. On this show. We have a surprise guest in our New York City studio. I don't even know who it is. I truly do not. They just said he's mic'd up. So, sir, mystery guest, you are on the air.
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Sean Hannity
I'm holding a book. It's called balls and you have to have a lot of those to write that book and call it that title, How Trump Young Men in Sports Saved America right there. Of course, that would be Clay Travis's book. Clay and Buck, what's going on, man? Good to talk to y'.
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Buck Sexton
All. Good. We're good. And Mr. Mr. Sean Hannity, it is fantastic to have you with us. I've. I've been hearing a little bit that my buddy Clay here, he owes you a little money. You know, he's like turning into the guy who runs away in a Bronx tail.
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Sean Hannity
You know me, thousands. What I. You know, the ironic part is Clay, he's way more knowledgeable in sports than I am. Although I love sports and like everybody else, I find it a great distraction. But I love our gladiator sports. In particular, I love ufc. I love football. I love ice hockey. I'm a big Florida Panthers fan. I have seasons tickets. And what I love is that he'll be on TV or we'll be on this show. We'll Just be talking and I'll say, who do you think is going to win? And I always take the other team, and he always loses.
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Clay Travis
Wow.
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Buck Sexton
You run the reverse. The reverse Clay prediction algorithm.
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Clay Travis
If I had been on and we had been going back and forth over Alabama, Georgia, I did hit my blood bank guarantee on Georgia. I know you've got Alabama connections, right? That was a beat down that the Bulldogs put on the top.
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Sean Hannity
But I didn't take that back because.
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Clay Travis
I knew they were going to lose.
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Sean Hannity
I'm like, I just. When you know somebody's going to lose, you don't make that bet. You just don't.
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Buck Sexton
John, do you have. Do you have a Super bowl prediction that you always make, or are you willing to make one now on the air? Clay, do you have one? I'm. Since I have both of you gentlemen.
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Sean Hannity
Super bowl is a little bit early to make that prediction, but I do think. I don't know. I honestly would love to see the New England Patriots back in it. Maybe. I'm an oddball out on this. I've known Robert Kraft for decades, so I like him personally, and he is a great, great guy. He recently sent me a pair of sneakers. You know, he wears sneakers all the time.
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Clay Travis
I saw him, Sean, at the FIFA event. He was there for the World cup draw.
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Sean Hannity
So I would like to see them get back. I think they can. They might have found the next Tom Brady, this guy.
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Buck Sexton
Okay, wait, I also. Sean, do you talk about soccer on your show at all? Because Clay hijacked the show last week for, like, an hour to talk about FIFA, which Ali calls. FIFA. Which FIFA.
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Sean Hannity
FIFA. Ali's not that wrong. You know, the ironic part is I was always a good athlete in school before. I once had a shoulder injury, a rotator cuff injury. I always had a slingshot arm. I was a pitcher in baseball. Love sports. And I was, you know, and then because it was a small school, they. My teachers were the coaches of the teams. And it was soccer, and then it was basketball, and then it was baseball. Baseball I liked the most at the time, but I was always hockey player, too. And they are like, okay, you can play. You're going to play, or you're going to fail. So I had a choice. But it did improve my grades in high school if I would play. Play these sports. They made me play soccer for four years in high school, and I hated it. And not only position, real quick, center halfback, which means you run up and down the field. And then like in between periods, I'd be smoking a cigarette Sean Hannity.
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Clay Travis
He'll be on on many of these stations, pretty much all of them right after us. Sean, I'll get to you next time I see you. I promise. Money's coming.
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Sean Hannity
All right. Super Bowl, Beck coming.
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Clay Travis
Super bowl bet we'll take it. That is Sean Hannity. Fantastically successful show after this one and perfect lead in prize picks. Now look, I don't always win. In fact, often I lose, as you just heard from Sean Hannity. But I do love to see, sit around and watch over the weekend, as Sean said, kick my feet up, have a drink and watch games. I spent all day on Sunday watching NFL games with my boys. I was on the road. I'm going to give you a pick on Thursday. You can play along with us in 40 states. If you go to prizepix.com Code Clay that is prizepix.com Code clay. You get $50 in your account when you play five pricepix.com Code clay. Welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton. Show some positivity. More positivity for everybody out there. I know as many of you will be traveling for the holidays for Christmas for New Year's. The price of gas is now below $3 a gallon in 37 states. This is according to the Trump team. In 22 states it's now below $2.75 a gallon and in five states it is below $2 and 50 cents a gallon. That is a multi year low that it is costing you to fill up your gas tank. So as I know many of you are, when you're looking at those credit card bills and you're like do we really need to be buying all of these gifts? Do we really need to be going to all these different parties and all these different things that end up costing a lot of money as we come down the home stretch? Hopefully you are at least being able to save some money as you go around for your holiday shopping and your holiday travels. So I do think this is significant. It goes to what I think is going to be the biggest issue in 2026, buck, it's cost of goods. And if you look at the price of gas in the context of inflation because Biden drove up inflation to such a rapid degree, were at nearly historic all time lows for prices of gas augusted adjusted for inflation. And every time I say this, somebody emails us and says this morning it was $3 and 48 cents at, you know, look, I understand if you're in San Francisco right now, you're paying a lot more than if you're in Mobile, Alabama, for instance. So I understand that everybody's prices are different, which is why I hit so many different states. And by the way, one reason your price for gas, for instance, in California is so high is because they tried to create.
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A world to dissuade you from driving gas powered vehicles. So that is out there kind of monitoring what the storylines are. They're still going after Pete Hegseth over the Venezuelan strikes buck on msnbc, but I feel like in the wake of the testimony from the Admiral and the fact that many people were able to see the videos, that story has essentially started to vanish. It's a sign of desperation that that's probably the best thing they think they can.
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Buck Sexton
You're going to see, I think, more of a focus on this. I've seen this bubbling up. The strikes on these boats, the ones at least that are happening in the Caribbean, some happen in the eastern Pacific, so that would be off the coast of Mexico on the way into the U.S. but the strikes, I believe that's where those strikes have been. I mean, they're certainly in that general vicinity. The ones in the Caribbean though, they're. Now you're going to see more people asking, well, is this fentanyl or is it cocaine? Is it cocaine that's meant to be trans shipped to the European market mostly? If that's the case, why aren't we being told that you're going to hear more of this too? I actually do want the Department of War to, to make this more clear because I think otherwise it will become a louder question, which is we're being told this is to stop people. We're not having 100,000 or 80,000 cocaine overdose deaths a year. That's not what's happening. So is this mostly cocaine in these boats that are being, is it entirely cocaine or is it fentanyl? Because if it's not fentanyl, people are going to start to ask, I think more, well, why aren't we going after the fentanyl, which is a overwhelmingly Mexican cartel over land issue? That's how the fentanyl is actually getting into the United States. So you may see a switch, I think a pivot to that. Not just the laws of war issue, but the, well, what's the primary target issue?
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Clay Travis
I think that's going to come into play. And also again in my New York Times reading, I do it so you don't have to really detailed breakdown of about 12 different names. Maybe it was a 12, maybe it was eight or nine that they think could Take over when Maduro is out. It feels like there is an expectation that Maduro may just decide to take refuge in a foreign country. And one big part of the Venezuela story, Buck, is I do think it's connected to Iran. These countries made choices about who they wanted to be allied with and now nobody has their back.
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Sean Hannity
Right.
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Clay Travis
One significant impact of essentially the, the sterilization of Iran's influence in much of the Middle east and the attack that we dropped on them is Iran is completely powerless right now. They are a state without influence even in their own borders to a large extent, but certainly beyond their borders. Cuba is, I mean look nonexistent as a viable force. Russia has had no ability to extend a hand in any direction at all to try to prop up some of these different assets. And China's neutered China to a large degree. Buck has not been willing to step in to help Venezuela to help Iran. So this so called axis of evil that has existed for some time and obviously North Korea is powerless but there is virtually no impact in terms of these anti American unified actors when they are able to unite. Venezuela is out there floating on its own. No one is in any way able to even support them. And again, if we could get peace in Ukraine, Russia's oil comes back on the national.
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National market really rapidly. I started off by talking about the good news of oil prices. They would come down even more because I do think that they would, they would collapse even more than they already have. And again we're at multi year lows in gas prices. That makes a difference when you're out there unfortunately having to stack up a lot of different presence and a lot of expenses that maybe you weren't as excited about putting on the, the table out there. Speaking of putting on the table, do we want to play this egregious attack that I was subjected to on Fox News Airways?
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Buck Sexton
We were going to, we never break a tease of course, but I mean Sean wanted to come hang out. He was in the studio. So we got to take Sean when he wants to hang out. But I did. So I'm going to tell you how this happened. They said to me, they said Buck, because they know I don't like to work weekends. Ok, I just don't, I generally don't like it. But, but for Kayleigh McEnany who's a dear friend of many, many years. I like to point this out, Clay. I will have been doing, I'll be in my either 15th or 16th year of like working in media starting in June. That's when I left the government in 2011, I think. So it's coming up right. I've known Kelly almost that whole time. I think I met her the second or third year. I bring it up because I'm willing to do Kelly's show on the weekends because she's a great American and it's a great program. But sometimes they even will say, buck, you gotta do the show. We're gonna have you and Clay on together and it's going to be oh, so much fun. So I'm waking up. I'm leaving Baby Speed with Carrie. I got my Crockett coffee at the table, smelling and tasting delicious crockettcoffee.com. you want to go subscribe this holiday season, my friends. Uh, we'll get back to that. But I leave and I'm expecting that there, there's, there's going to be some dynamic duo action. It's going to be Mr. Clay Travis up there. And sure enough, they say right before I go in the air, actually, Buck, it's just going to be you this Saturday. Clay is too cool for school. He's busy. And Kaylee and her team decided that they were going to have at it. They're going to let you know what they think about this absence from our Saturday coffee session, if you will. And here. Well, some of us drink Rose. Here is how that went. Play it.
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Clay is absent today. I don't know where in the world is Clay, but we put this poster together for him. Where is Clay Travis? Well, I have a theory. Okay, sports, but Buck, I have a theory. I told him next time he comes on, I'm going to unleash a picture of him drinking a female rose at the Patriot Awards. Jesse Waters team has asked me for that picture. I said, nope, I'm holding it for the next time Clays on here. I think he's not. He doesn't want that picture out.
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Buck Sexton
Look, the man enjoys a nicely chilled rose. We even had discussions on our radio show about how perhaps when he comes to visit Miami beach next, there could be some froze in his future. Frozen Rose, for those who are uninitiated in some of these fancier ways. So there is that. I will tell you. I was out with Clay and Jesse Travis. Sorry, Clay. Clay Travis and Jesse Kelly. Once another radio host and Jesse Kelly ordered $70 tequila shots at a hotel we were at. Now, he claims to not know that they were $70 each. But I'm just going to tell you, some of these radio guys, they're quite fancy in Their taste for booze. And Clay is going to have to explain to the masses. He became a rose guy in between SEC football and drinking beer out of solo cups. I don't know what happened.
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Buck Sexton
This is. This is on our Fox News show. This is nationwide. I'm just gonna say this. Notice how I try to just throw Jesse Kelly under the bus as a. As a distraction to run some cover for you. I just want this to be clear. I'm trying. They didn't tell me they were gonna. They put a wanted poster for Clay up on the screen. I. I was doing the best I could with what I had. Jesse is very tall, so it's hard to shove him under the bus. But I tried.
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Clay Travis
$75 tequila shots, I might add. The 70 would have been a bargain compared to what Jesse ordered. I was in the air. I was in the air on the way to the Big Ten title game. Never been to the Big Ten title game before. Been to the SEC championship game a lot. It was a great game. Congratulations. Indiana Hoosiers got the big win over Ohio State, and it was an awesome game. But, yeah, in the air. I looked down at my phone and there's just attacks raging in every direction. Did you really not know that I was. That I was not going to be. Did you think that I was sitting down to be on. I forgot.
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Buck Sexton
I thought you were joining. Yes, they. They did send me something saying, you and Clay will be on together. And I. And I was. So. Then, of course, there was sadness. Sadness descended upon the lamb. And it was going to be just me on Saturday. You know, I could have been going for a walk on the beach, drinking some froze, but instead, I was in my home studio getting ready to do the hit. But it was very much, very much a great chance to sit there, sit there and chat with this Kelly Mack and who's doing fantastic stuff and her dad has been who Listens day. So we got to bring our a game. Cause Mr. McEnany. McEnany Senior is. Is telling us that we got to make sure the show is entertaining.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, no doubt. And I bet he was watching the football games. So there you go. That was what. That's my excuse. Maybe I'll be on this Saturday. I'll try to. Me. I'll be down in Miami. Maybe they'll. Maybe they'll have me on to defend Myself from, from Miami. But in the meantime, by the way, this is interesting.
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We've got the, the, the now hostile takeover bid. CNN is now forced to cover a hostile takeover bid from people who want to buy the network and actually make it sane. And I just bring that up because again, this is going to be a story that is, I think dominating much of the, the newscast going forward and we will see what the, what's going to transpire there. But I really do think if you're a Trump voter, you should want Paramount to tweeted that. And I think this is going to be an important battle when it comes to media consolidation and power.
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Buck Sexton
I certainly think that it's going to play out in a way that we will have to pay close attention to. I didn't, I don't know, I don't really have a much of a take on the corporate machination.
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Clay Travis
And so I think it's super, super significant how exactly this is going to play itself out.
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Buck Sexton
Why do you think Paramount's going to be so much better than Netflix? That's why I, to me it's like.
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Clay Travis
I think that they are going to, I think for. This is some, this is some faith in Larry Ellison and David, David Ellison who would basically, David Ellison will be running Paramount. I think that they look at the way CNN is and say this left wing craziness that we have allowed to exist at cnn, we are going to adjust. I think that's a huge part of their decisions. I think culturally Paramount has sane owners. Netflix is very left wing and that's pretty sure, pretty announced left wing. So I think if they buy these assets, it will make them a stronger left wing element here. And so look, would I prefer obviously that that Fox or yours truly got the opportunity to make decisions editorially for cnn. Do I think that would be better? Insaner? Yes, I think they'll do a better job.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
In here to Clay and Buck. We will be diving in shortly here to a couple things. One of them is this, this article in the New York Times that I just think is fascinating about how the Biden administration completely fell apart on the issue of immigration. I think it's all cleanup on I'll Biden actually. I don't think that this was just a thing that happened. They're basically saying Biden screwed up. They didn't pay enough attention to this. Totally disagree. They knew exactly what was going on. They were briefed. They were told this was what they wanted. What they don't want is the American people to realize that the Democrat Party chose to let 10 million people take advantage of us, come into our country and help themselves to our welfare benefits and everything else. Right. That they don't want people to remember going into the midterms. The Democrat Party chose to completely abrogate, to abandon our sovereignty. So we'll get into that here coming up in a few minutes. We've also got some talk backs and calls and wonderful things like that that we like to address here. Let's do. Oh, here we go. Alan from New Orleans who listens on the fantastic WRNO play BB Whoa, Clay.
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Sean Hannity
If I was out at a beautiful.
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Clay Travis
Event like you are sitting at a.
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Buck Sexton
Table with Kaylee McEnany, Emily Compagno and.
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Clay Travis
Tommy Lauren, I'm drinking with dad.
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Sean Hannity
Drinking and I don't care what anybody says, says. So you go forward.
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Buck Sexton
Don't worry about it.
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Clay Travis
Well, I, I appreciate that, that endorsement there. It has been neglected to point out that again, Kaylee, Tommy and Emily all at the same table with me and Kaylee, to my recollection says, hey, I want to, I don't want to drink the red wine at the table because I do think there was some red wine because she was worried about staining her teeth. She had to get up on the stage and present an award. And so that was I think the. The impetus to Whispering angel being poured for everyone around the table. It's not like they had bottles of bourbon or vodka or any, even any beer availability. So I appreciate Alan having my back. Bill in New Jersey. Cece. Nothing wrong with those roses, fellas.
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Buck Sexton
They're just red grapes that have had the skins peeled off, mashed up, and.
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Clay Travis
Made into the wine. Especially if they're a zinfandel or a Pinot Noir. Either of those roses are very nice.
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Buck Sexton
Full flavored like the reds, only without some of that little extra bite that the tannins sometimes get. Anyways, good stuff. Flavorful, enjoyable. I didn't know we're gonna have a regional distributor for Whispering angel in our.
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Clay Travis
Audience today, but apparently there definitely should be a wine. I mean, I've said this a lot about different programs. I think alcohol being a sponsor of the show would not be a bad idea. I don't think we've had any. No beer, no liquor, no. No wineries. I think that could make a lot of sense for. For 2026. That would be a smart decision. I think if you're out there and you're in the alcohol market, maybe reach out to our team Buck when we come back. We can also talk about the Supreme Court cases that are ongoing relating to President.
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I bet you talked about this some on Friday. The decision by the Trump administration to say Europe's on the brink of civilizational erasure, which is a big story that unfortunately is very significant with the decline of the overall population when it comes to comes to just births in general. We'll break all that down more. Take some of your calls. 800-282-2882. Thanks for hanging with us.
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Clay Travis
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