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Clay Travis
Welcome in Friday Edition Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Friday edition of the program. Lots of fun things coming your way. President Trump scheduled to have a media availability and an announcement in the Oval Office shortly. He has continued to discuss the rapid decline in DC's crime rate, including in an unscheduled visit to a local Trump past para paraphernalia, I guess it would say, Trump sort of souvenir shop near the White House. He went over in his Trump was right about everything hat and made an unscheduled visit a little bit earlier this morning. I am told part of the announcement that Trump is going to make today, not super significant, but is related to the World cup which the United States will be hosting next year. And we will have Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudy Giuliani, on the program in the third hour to discuss some of those details. All that coming your way as we are talking to you. The state of Texas is poised to remake the congressional map there. The battle with California now having a referendum to potentially remake their congressional map as well. This is a fight that might make sense for Gavin Newsom because it puts him more in the center of the national stage. But unfortunately for him, all of the blue states by and large have already redone their congressional districts to effectively box out many different parts of the of the overall landscape when it comes to red state voters being respected even in locations that are, you know, like Illinois, where you have 44% of the vote going for President Trump. And in Illinois, 14 of the 17 congressional seats are in Democrat hands. So ultimately, I think this is going to work to Republican favor. As I said before, study in the New York Times says that the congressional map is a Little bit slanted in favor of Democrats based on the results of the 2022 and 2024 elections. So we will discuss some of that as that decision is coming down. John Bolton, a raid this morning. We will break that down here momentarily. And we've got some fun language changes that the Democrat Party is discussing. We will have some fun with that. For words that they say that they no longer want to be included. But I would say probably the biggest story as we start off today is the fact that John Bolton's home was raided. Buck, this is an intelligence related story, so I'm going to tee it up for you as many different people are out there reacting to this. Bolton has been a prominent Trump critic and this raid seems designed to investigate whether he has been a source for the leaking of classified documents Both in Trump 1.0 and maybe beyond. Is that a fair assessment in your mind, Buck, of what exactly is going on here?
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Buck Sexton
Obviously, we need more details to really understand everything that's, that's going on with this. But I got to tell you, I mean, there's a few things that jump out at me right away. One is that there's. He wrote a book, right? And in this book he, he says he got it reviewed. And I mean, look, this is a former Trump guy too. So it's interesting because he was a Trump national security adviser. It's not a Democrat who had his house raid raided. So they've searched his home and his office of John Bolton. Have you ever done a hit with Bolton, Clay? I actually did.
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Clay Travis
I don't think so. I don't know him. I've never met him. I, I don't think I have any, any interaction with him in any way.
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Buck Sexton
Well, yeah, so I've, I've, I've met him a couple times. The investigation into Bolton, according to the New York Times here, seeks to determine whether he illegally shared or possessed classified information. And that's pretty much what we've got. There are a few things that could be at issue here. One is the book that he wrote and the book he says was cleared. I've been told that there's something about a verbal clearance that he received for it. Basically, there may be some dispute over whether the book went through. And this, I went through this process. For any of you who are wondering why has my book taken so long? It was many months of just pure bureaucratic delay. But I knew, Clay, I had to get under. And this is under both a, a NDA and under national security statute that I signed to go to the CIA 20 years ago that if I'm writing anything that touches on my CIA experience, classified information, etcetera, you have to submit. And I had to get this letter. It's almost like getting a clearance letter from a prosecutor. Like, you're good, you're not under, under investigation anymore. I had to get a clearance letter. Your book is fine without that letter. You are liable for anything that is in that book that the national security apparatus decides was classified. So the book could be at issue. That's part one. I do remember thinking, I have to go and check on this team. But I remember he got a book out very fast after he was done with the, his time in the Trump administration. So fast that I recall thinking maybe he had some kind of a buddy on the inside who moved it along for him. But maybe, maybe he played a little fast and loose. I don't know. The other possibility is that he had classified documents in his home. To me, that would be so stupid, it's unthinkable. Except Biden, as we all know from when he was vice president and when he was a senator. But, but to be fair, Biden did also have some dementia going on. So, you know, there is, we can't say he had dementia.
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Clay Travis
And I think this is important. By the way, after the Trump and Biden classified document scandals, if by chance you worked in former intelligence and you were like, oh, I've still got some of these, you probably burned them or shredded them or got ready, rid of them if you have a remotely functional brain, right? I mean the idea that you would continue to possess those is crazy.
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Buck Sexton
It's, it's not hard to get rid of them. To keep them would be, that's what I mean, it would be reckless beyond. Look, General Petraeus got hit on this one. Four star general and former CIA director. He got hit for having classified outside of proper chance. So it does happen. There was a CIA director a long time ago, even though he's the director, not allowed to just kind of have the papers all over his office at home. So that's possible. I would think Bolton is too clever for that, but maybe I'm giving him too much credit. The other thing, which is probably the likeliest clay, but the hardest to prove is was he feeding information, classified information to reporters to undermine Trump who he had just been working for as National Security adviser. I think that's the likeliest, personally just the likeliest scenario of what the investigation is focused on. But look, man, you never want those FBI guys and windbreakers coming to your house and I'm sure we'll get more on this one. And it's, it's just showing you Cash Patel, the director of the FBI, tweeted out, no one's above the law. Trump's taking that serious or his team is taking that seriously. Trump said he has, he has no knowledge of this.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I don't believe that. But I would say, if I were the president, I'm saying, yeah, yeah, I would say the same thing. If I were president the United States, I'll be like, man, you know, they got independence. I don't know anything about it, but that's exactly what I would say. I do think we should play the flashback here. Here is John Bolton. For anybody out there that is freaking out, here is John Bolton saying, after Trump's home at Mar A Lago was raided, hey, let's just wait and let the process play itself out. Cut five. I don't think he cared about the classification system. I don't think he appreciated the sensitivity of this information and he didn't appreciate the sensitivity of how it was often acquired, the so called sources and methods. So this had been briefed to him before I arrived. It was repeated frequently. I think it simply had no impact on him. Whatever. It's very hard to speculate on motive other than that he liked cool things, he saw things that he, so he wanted to take them and he was pretty much able to take them. And not just on classified information matters, on all kinds of things that crossed his desk. Some days he liked to eat a lot of French fries. Some days he took classified documents. He wanted them. Why did he want them? Because he could get them. Oh, maybe he wanted them because he could get them. Let me also clarify what I said. I don't know that Trump is getting updated on every raid like this. I think Trump knows the process which led to these raids are going to happen. And I would say probably Cash Patel doesn't walk in and say, hey, tomorrow morning early, we're going to be doing a raid. I'm not sure Trump is getting the minute updates like that.
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Buck Sexton
I don't think on, I think on his former National Security adviser, Clay, he probably is now, I think, Clay, I.
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Clay Travis
Think telling him the exact moment that they're going to happen, which allows Trump to say, I didn't know about it.
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Buck Sexton
I think that Trump, maybe it wasn't in the decision making process to do the raid. I think that AG Bondi and Cash Patel probably were handling that. Look, this is also, we see this with the DOJ and with special Counsel stuff and all this. They work for the President, but there's this belief that they kind of don't work for the president, but there's a Chinese wall, so to speak, between them and the president. But no, not really, you know, so, so it's a strange place for things to be. I have to wonder if this is actually going to, to wonder, you know, what, what the basis for this is. Because to do this and to have it go nowhere here, by the way, here is Trump. Let's hear Trump talking about this play. Cut one, Go for it.
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Donald Trump
No, I don't know about it. I saw it on television this morning. I'm not a fan of John Bow. He's a real sort of a low life. When I hired him, he served a good purpose because as you know, he was one of the people that forced Bush to do the ridiculous bombings in the Middle East. He wants to always kill people and he's very bad at what he does. But he worked out great for me because every time he doesn't talk, he's like a very quiet person. Except on television he could say something bad about Trump, he'll always do that. But he really doesn't talk, he's quiet. And I'd walk into a room with him with a foreign country and the foreign country would give me everything because they said, oh no, they're going to get blown up because John Bolton is there. He's a not a smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic. I mean, we're going to find out. I know nothing about it. I just saw it this morning. They did a raid.
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Podcast Announcer
Do you expect the DOJ to brief you on this?
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Donald Trump
Yeah, they'll be, they'll brief me probably today, sometime and more.
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Clay Travis
Mr.
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Donald Trump
I don't want, I tell Pam and I tell the group, I don't want to know, but just you have to do what you have to do. I don't want to know about it. It's not necessary. I could know about it. I could be the one starting it. I'm actually the chief law enforcement officer, but I feel that it's better this way.
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Clay Travis
Let me say this too, Buck. I would say on this front, I think Trump may not want to know about some of this stuff because he doesn't want to be blamed if it gets leaked. You ever in that scenario where you, I, I hate sometimes knowing information that I know is not public yet because I'm like, eight people know this. If it gets leaked, somebody's going to be like, oh, he's the one who talked. Right. And so I think one thing Trump learned about during his first term, in addition to knowing that people like John Bolton, who, frankly, he just didn't have the knowledge to know who to surround himself with as staff, I think also he learned that a lot of these briefings are being done so that they can leak that they briefed the president. That makes use to brief the president. But I think one of the things that Trump found so frustrating was his intelligence agencies would brief him, and then 20 minutes later, it's a story in the New York Times, and he's like, man, they set me up on this. Remember, our buddy, Senator Ron Johnson has talked about this. I don't think it's gotten enough attention. But he got briefed so the FBI could say they briefed him on the Hunter Biden laptop story. If I remember correctly, they leaked that they had briefed him about the fact that Russian disinformation might be going on so they could make it look like he was somehow a target or involved in this. And so I think Trump may not want those briefings because he just knows that the stories come out and they're trying to paint him into a corner.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We got a lot going on here on this Friday so please weigh in with us 800-282-2882 on the phone lines and also if you want to do a talk back, get that iHeartRadio app. It's fabulous. Some people are saying the most fabulous app and you can send us a talk back there. Also we're gonna focus in on more of what's going on Here with with D.C. trump spoke about this. I think this is, I think this is pretty remarkable and you can start looking at the data if they can keep this streak going. It gets Clay harder and harder for the anti Trump media to to explain this right? I mean it's like we talk about Clay very brave anti murder and I stand right there with him. We both sit there, we do not.
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Clay Travis
For this. I got, of all the things that I've ever said in my life in media in 20 years, being in favor of a reduction in violent crime as a negative headline, I never would have believed could be possible.
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Buck Sexton
You could say a lot of things about Clay, but he's not afraid to say that. Heinous criminal murders of fellow human beings, something he's afraid to stand against. And I, and I, like I said, I'll back him up on this. We are both decidedly anti murder and yet the national media that is opposed to Trump, not even really the national, it's just the Democrat media in different places. It's really The New York, D.C. somewhat l a based media. Well, I guess there's a lot of Democrat cities where they're all anti Trump, but you get what I'm saying, they're in a tough spot because the numbers keep getting better for Trump. This is cut too. He talks about what's already happening in D.C. listen to the big guy himself.
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Donald Trump
Look, D.C. is a miracle. What's happened. I mean, they can come up with fake numbers like the mayor is doing. Oh, no, it was going down for 20 years. You didn't live here. You know, have you been mugged? Okay, D.C. was a hellhole and now it's safe. And in fact, I put out this morning, I said, I hate to say this because it doesn't sound very good, but there have been no murders in D.C. in the last week. That's the first time anybody's memory that you haven't had a murder in a week. And I think the mayor has to get on the ball because we have a situation and she's a nice woman, but I'll tell you what, she's got to get on the ball. We have. I don't want to see phony numbers. DC hit an all time high last year, year of absolute total crime and it continued pretty bad. And then we put some strength, some strength into it, got the numbers down a little bit, but we brought in the D.C. national Guard and we coupled them with the police and it has been amazing.
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Buck Sexton
Clay, how long, how long before the numbers. You know what, I know what they're going to say. You know what they're going to say, right? They don't trust Trump's the way they're going to delay the story. I think Trump's numbers are correct on this stuff, but they're going to say you can't trust Trump's numbers. We need more study on the numbers.
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Clay Travis
I know we got red state governors and red state governor offices that listen to this program. I think if Trump continues with this, I think a lot of red state governors with blue cities that have massive rates of violent crime, like my home state of Tennessee with Memphis, I think a lot of them are going to say, wait a minute, why can't I do something like this, drive down violent crime in my state too? I think it would be fantastic. Also fantastic. Saving a bundle. When it comes to your cell phone bill, pure talk to what we use to stay in touch with my 17 year old and my 14 year old. You can use it to stay in touch with your family too. And you can save up to $1,000 over the life of a year. How much difference would that make for you? As we start to move a little bit closer to the end of summer as we got the holiday season now on the horizon, it gets here faster and faster the older I get. You can save a bundle, keep your same phone number, keep your same phone. If you would like $25 a month, they have plans that can save you tremendously. £250American owned company with American customer service. £250 say clay and buck to make the switch today. 50% off your first month. That's £250 say clay and Buck. Let's go ahead and talk economy here for a minute because I know this impacts you guys a lot. Stock market is setting another all time high today. That is if you have a 401k, if you have a retirement account. It wasn't very long ago that there was a full fledged panic out there in the financial markets. In fact, it was in April and we said on this program, hey, keep your head down, hold onto your stocks. If you did, you're in great place. Tom, if you had money on the sideline, as we said, it was a good time to buy. You now have made since April. This is pretty extraordinary. 30% return. That's about as much as you statistically would make in a three or four year window. So if you bought the dip, you are now up over 30% again. If you had dry powder, if you had money sitting on the sidelines, new record highs, pretty much every stock is surging right now. And that's happening today because, and this is significant, Jerome Powell, who was I believe out in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for a yearly summer event there, he said basically, yeah, we're gonna have a rate cut in September. That would mean your mortgages would be cheaper. If you're thinking about buying a home, that would mean your, your rates on credit card, your rates on cars, whatever you are borrowing, that would theoretically make a big difference for you. Trump has been right about inflation not surging and the fact that it's time for rate cuts. And here is Jerome Powell basically acknowledging that this morning In Wyoming, cut 10, our policy rate is now 100 basis points closer to neutral than it was a year ago. And the stability of the unemployment rate and other labor market measures allows us to proceed carefully as we consider changes to our policy stance. Nonetheless, with policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance. That is a lot of gobbly good for many of you out there, but it is basically acknowledging that, hey, there's going to be a rate cut. And let me pull up the actual, the actual projections out there on the gambling markets. They do a really good job, generally speaking, of forecasting this. And there now is a basically 90% chance that you're going to see a rate cut on September 17th. So that would then mean, again, lower borrowing costs for many of us out there who own homes. Thinking about buying homes, if you're taking out an interest rate on buying a car or your credit card rates, whatever they are, looks like a quarter point decrease, although there's a possibility of a 50 basis point decrease. So that is the expectation, also an expectation that there may be rate cuts in October as well. So that is an economic outlook for you, and that is what is propelling stocks to record highs across the board here. Yet another thing, Buck the experts, experts in quotation marks, I feel like I need to say that got wrong because they had a lot of people panicking in April and I bet, sadly, you know, you know, they are panicked.
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Buck Sexton
You know who didn't panic in his suspenders and his French cuff with his monogram R. I'm trying to remember your actual name. Richard Clay.
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Clay Travis
Richard Clay. Travis.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, Richard Clay. Travis Clay. Travis didn't panic. I didn't panic either, but Clay didn't panic. He was like, stay with it, stay with it. And it was good advice. Trump said, I mean, I'd never heard this before. The President's. Was it, was it Trump or who was it? No, it might have been one of his. I think it might have been the president. One of his top advisors basically said, tesla's on sale. Buy it. You never hear somebody, that senior government. By the way, Tesla was on sale.
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Clay Travis
He also said, don't be a panic. Meaning again, I know, because there's so much noise every day, it's easy to get fired up. This is my public Address, announcement for the day. You're going to make about 9% a year if you buy index funds and you hold on to them. Now that doesn't mean you're gonna make 9% every year. You need to have a horizon 5, 10, 15, 20 years. Overwhelmingly this is the truth. When you try and time the market, you tend to sell low and buy high. That's an average person out there. And so when you get like that frenzy, that drumbeat, what is the great line? I'm gonna paraphrase it from Warren Buffett.
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Donald Trump
Be.
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Clay Travis
Be. Oh, I'm not even going to say it. Well, I'm going to look up the quote because I want to make sure be greedy when others are, when others are scared. And scared when others are greedy basically is his investing maxim. And guy's the greatest investor in the history of the United States. So when everybody else is screaming buy, be nervous when everybody else is screaming sell. It's the best possible time to go buy. That's a general contrarian index, but it tends to be true. And I think in general what this means is the housing market. Hopefully my biggest hope is that by next year we have unfrozen that housing market. And those of you out there that got 7% mortgages are able to refi back into the 5% range. And some of you out there with 2 and 3% mortgages, with mortgages back around 5, you're willing to make that shift. Maybe you put your house on the market, maybe you move to a new neighborhood because you got kids that are school age or your kids have left for college and you're moving back to a smaller home. We just need to unfreeze the entire pipes for lack of a better way of the housing market because I think that will unlock a lot of growth in our national economy.
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Buck Sexton
You know, we had that conversation earlier this week about how so much of what you want in life is entirely attainable if you just do the things you know you should do that are not easy to do, but you know you should do them. It applies to certainly, you know, your health and fitness. Like last night I discovered that the Jenny's Gooey Butter cake ice cream in the freezer was in fact gluten free. This was not good knowledge for me to have. Clay was not.
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Clay Travis
I, I, it's funny you mentioned this because I had my sons at the Atlanta Braves, you know, to go watch games a few weeks ago right at, right before school started, I had this exact flavor of Jenny's ice cream. They have a Jenny's Ice cream right by the Atlanta Braves stadium. And I gotta tell you, it is.
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Buck Sexton
Unbelievable how shockingly good. It's like, what are they putting in this? I can't stop eating it, and I don't even want to look at it after. Look, you know, last night I went. I went off plan. As I say, that's what I tell my wife. I tell Carrie. I said, honey, I went off plan.
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Clay Travis
Is ice cream your thing you eat and you just can't say no to it because it's not necessarily mine? Like, what is your guilty sin when it comes to food where you're just like, I just couldn't stop eating it.
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Buck Sexton
Chocolate, cheese, and ice cream, which is a deadly triad, let me tell you.
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Clay Travis
Tough trio.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. That is.
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Clay Travis
I'll tell you why I can't. Like, I went last night. My son played his first football game of the season. They played ninth grade football. So we kicked off here in Tennessee for his school. And then we went to dinner after the game, we went to go get Mexican food. I don't think I can stop eating chips and salsa. I don't know how much chips and salsa I would have to eat for me to be like, you know what? I can't take another chip. I don't. I don't think it's possible to fill up on chips and salsa.
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Buck Sexton
Like, I'm. I love Mexican food. I'm. I'm not a. Not a controversial take. A lot of us do. Guacamole is a meal, everybody. This is the problem with it. It's delicious. It's amazing. But this thing of like, oh, I'm just going to have, like a big bowl of guacamole before my meal. Unfortunately, guacamole is like green ice cream. It is really calorie dense.
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Clay Travis
I just sat there and look, I can't say no. I mean, that is my flaw. I also, like, I don't even know if this is a combo that a lot of other people are into, but I can avoid it more. So peanut butter and crackers is one of the greatest combos in the history of. Of mankind. Peanut butters and graham crackers, if you like the Graham that probably just made everybody fat. Now that's a combo. That's one of the greatest combos to ever exist. But I feel like I can eat those all day, too. But the chips and salsa combo, I bet I ate 10 pounds of chips and salsa last night. I never don't have to get multiple refills on the chips bowl. And usually it's not my Wife and my kids that are pounding it. It's fat dad here.
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Buck Sexton
So. So what I was saying, though, is that. Yes, okay, that's funny that you had that flavor of Jenny's ice cream that was so good. I don't know. It was like. It was one of the. Honestly, I would throw pistachio under the bus for that Jenny's ice cream. I would push pistachio ice cream under the waves and. And pull that Jenny's ice cream up into the rowboat with me if I had to.
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Clay Travis
You are getting called out by producer Greg because this stuff is evidently very expensive, the Jenny's ice cream. But it is so good.
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Buck Sexton
It is. So I. Look, producer Greg, you know what? I can. If I have to eat my Jenny's ice cream with a top hat and a monocle on, I'll do it. I don't know what to tell you. If the butler has to say.
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Clay Travis
You have Nancy Pelosi taste when it comes to ice cream here. I didn't know it was this expensive. $12. $12 a pint. So.
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Buck Sexton
So the Pelosi reference I remember this well was when Pelosi was doing her. Like, it's okay that everyone's locked at home. You can't go out during COVID but you have all. She opened. I think it was like a $15,000 Viking freezer unit. Okay. The most. One of the most expensive freezer units you could possibly have, like, more than a lot of people's cars. And then opened a giant freezer drawer with like, 10 pints of 12 or $15 Jenny's ice cream in it. And she was like, it's not that bad during COVID And everyone's like, you know, everyone was completely freaking out. So that's why it's the Pelosi.
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Clay Travis
It's the Pelosi ice cream. It is on this one. You're right. It's so good.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. So what I was saying, though, about. About on the financial side of it is think of it a little bit like ice cream or a little bit like, you know, eating healthy food, you know, what works. The clay speaks to you on this all the time. And, you know. You know what? The. If you look at the. The vast majority of people, over 90% of people, just being disciplined and putting money in the market and not touching it until you really need it, and hopefully you don't need it for 10, 15, 20 years. That is the pathway to success. It's like eating a, you know, a mixed and varied diet of whole foods of something that either Comes from the earth or had a mom and dad. Sorry. It's kind of a weird way to put it, but it's true. You know, you. You either want to eat an animal or something that grows, and that's for the most part, the way to do it. And if you do it, good things happen, right? So it's like that with finance because you try to pick stocks and you think you're going to be Gordon, the second coming of Gordon Gekko. You got to remember, Gordon Gekko was cheating and went to prison in the movie. So you don't want to do that.
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Clay Travis
Most people who beat the market are cheating because it's really, really hard to beat the market. And usually in order to beat the market, you have to have information that the rest of the market does not have, which allows you to value the market prices better than other people would, at least historically, over time, it's hard to do. Some people, like Warren Buffett, brilliant, able to do it.
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Buck Sexton
Now, this is going to be a bit of a term, but I think it's so important, we have to get into it. And that is the conversation about how to save children to be from abortions. Little babies in the womb to bring them into this world to save them from abortion. What can we do right now? So many states have abortion. As you know, abortions actually went up after. Went up nationally after Roe v. Wade was overturned. So it's a question of giving moms better options and help and support and love. And that's where preborn comes in. The preborn clinics are out there all over the country. And they've been doing this for decades. And they are giving moms love, support, care, assistance. And they started out with a free ultrasound because they know that when that mother to be meets the tiny baby growing in her womb, sees the heartbeat, and has a conversation about how this is going to be an incredible decision for her of life and then she's gonna have a little boy or girl. It's saving lives every day. That's what preborn is doing. 350,000 babies have been saved through this life giving work. And so many mothers have an entirely new outlook and have love in their hearts because of the help that they got from preborn and the amazing little boy or girl that they brought into this world. This is happening every day, but they need your support. They don't get a dollar from the government and they're competing against the abortion industrial complex, which is so well funded and has had so much government money, it's crazy. So help save babies right now. You can do it yourself. Dial pound250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound250. Say baby or go to preborn.com buck preborn.com b u c K Geek out.
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Clay Travis
With the guys on the Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck podcast a new episode every Sunday. Find it on the iHeart app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Clay Travis
Bugged? Wait, Jamie, what's going on?
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Clay Travis
Ah, I think I need to get back to you on that. Do you know what you want? Yeah, I do now.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Listen, I don't want to get in your business, but if that's all she paid for it, I'll have what she's having.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
In here to Clay and Buck and appreciate you all being with us. I am drinking cracked Coffee and I have my overmountain club mug. So many of you are joining. Month after month we get more and more of you. But I just want to know why aren't for all of you coffee drinkers out there, and that is millions of people, you should be drinking Crockett coffee in the spirit of Davy Crockett, a great brand celebrating American history that also gives 10% of all profits at all the Towers Foundation. And this stuff is delicious. It is actually the best coffee we could find for you absolutely anywhere. We took like a year to find the right coffee, so it's delicious. And also if you use code book, they're almost all out because Clay's new book will be coming out. You are November, I'm in January. So you're gonna have to buy both books and pre order everybody. That's where you're just gonna have it. It's like, you know, get it. Two birds, one stone. Two books, one stone, so to speak. It'll be fantastic. So yeah, everything, everything come along with Crockett Coffee.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. And look, it is, I think, important increasingly. We had some fun with this yesterday and I imagine we'll have some fun with it today as it's Friday. Look at how many businesses out there actually hate you if you vote Trump. Even still, I mean, Cracker Barrel basically decided, hey, we don't like the people that are consuming our product, let's alienate them. We would rather be trying to appeal to Brooklyn lesbians than red state Trump voters in much of the country. And that's a business that entirely is related and reliant upon you. This kind of got us fed up back in the day. And I'm not saying you're going to agree with everything you hear me or Buck say. Certainly on a day to day basis, I can tell you we're never going to turn our back on the idea that American history is something to be celebrated and that this is the greatest country in the history of the world. And you will for the entire history of this brand. So long as Buck or I are involved, I can't imagine us not never being involved. Will never turn our backs on you. And I think that's what you want from a brand. You want to just be honest about what you believe and why you believe it. We named the brand after Davy Crockett for a reason. It's a great American hero. And we believe in great American heroes and honoring them with our commerce. And so that's what we're trying to do. We got a bunch of talkbacks let's see. Trisha. BB Well, I don't know. Everybody's weighing in. I'll read this instead of Lisa says you two are a great combo, entertaining and informative. Thanks as always for a great show. First time subscriber but multi year listener. Well, that's nice. And then we got calls. You want to hit some of these calls? We'll do that in the next hour maybe, because I don't know if we can rush them in. 800-282-2882. What have you got for us? Coming back at the top of the next hour, Buck, where do you want to take us?
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Buck Sexton
Oh, to all of the exciting places that one can go.
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Clay Travis
Has Trump had an event yet in the White House, by the way, wasn't he supposed to be live ago?
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Buck Sexton
We're going to update everybody on that clay. Yeah. And we're going to be scouring the the latest updates on it. In the meantime, we're going to dive into it together. We'll talk about more of the federalization of D.C. the redistricting war that not only are Republicans on the right side of on the argument. I think also if this continues, they'll be on the right side of it overall. And we've got other exciting things to, to talk about. I mean, all basic, all of the exciting things going to be fabulous show. That's kind of where we are. Oh, the Trump administration said there are they're looking at 55 million people on visas for potential deportation violations. Did you know there were 55 million people here on visas?
- [48:52]
Clay Travis
Crazy.
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Buck Sexton
55 million. Is that like the population of Germany? I mean that's a lot of people.
- [48:59]
Clay Travis
No doubt.
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