Hour 1 - Dirty Dem Playbook

Summary

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode Title: Hour 1 – Dirty Dem Playbook
Date: February 19, 2026
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this first hour, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton delve into the major news stories dominating the headlines—specifically the arrest of Prince Andrew in relation to the Epstein emails and the political uproar over the James Talarico interview on Stephen Colbert's show. The hosts discuss these stories with their signature mix of humor and political commentary, questioning media priorities, the fascination with the British royal family, and Democratic Party maneuvering. They also touch on Buck's new book, "Manufacturing Delusion," and briefly preview looming geopolitical news.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Buck Sexton's Book Success & Amazon Rankings

• Clay opens the show by highlighting the early success of Buck’s new book, Manufacturing Delusion, which has reached No. 4 on Amazon’s bestseller list.
• Clay jokes about the books ahead of Buck’s: Theo of Golden and Jelly Roll’s wife’s autobiography.
  • “So that’s a tremendous accomplishment. Thanks to everybody out there who has been buying it. Congrats to Buck and can you take it to number one?” — Clay Travis (03:40)
• The book’s visibility (or lack thereof) in bookstores is discussed, with Buck making pointed comments about bias in physical retail book placement.

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2. Prince Andrew’s Arrest and the Epstein Fallout

• The main news topic: Prince Andrew, King Charles’s brother, has been arrested, not for a sex crime, but for allegedly leaking classified or trade-related information connected to the Epstein files. (05:01 – 11:53)
• Clay and Buck emphasize that American news consumers are misinterpreting the story, expecting a sex crime charge:
  • “The royal—a bunch of inbred clowns. Who cares? This whole thing is absurd. And yet here we are.” — Buck Sexton (04:53)
  • “A lot of people are focusing on this in America and they're saying, oh, they're arresting him not for any sex related crime… It's for the idea that he might have disclosed inappropriately private information...” — Clay Travis (06:11)
• Discussion of UK laws: Buck explains the difference in speech protections and legal standards around "trade secrets" and the Official Secrets Act:
  • “The UK does not have freedom of speech…They can basically throw the book at you…they do not have a First Amendment." — Buck Sexton (10:51)
• They highlight public misperceptions:
  • "People are clicking on, 'Prince Andrew arrested,' and I think everyone is assuming they got him…on being, you know, a sex criminal, underage girls. It’s trade secrets." — Buck Sexton (11:53)

Royal Family Critique

• Both hosts take shots at the relevance of the royal family in America:
  • “These preposterous grifters…Meghan and Harry, the whole thing. Can we just stop with all this?” — Buck Sexton (12:42)
  • “They're original Kardashians on some level.” — Clay Travis (13:23)
  • "The King of England right now is a moron. Why do we care?" — Buck Sexton (13:26)
• Clay acknowledges the American fascination, especially among women, referencing his wife's consumption of British royal podcasts (15:00).

Implications for the Epstein Scandal

• They debate why the UK is acting on the emails while the U.S. is not:
  • “What it does do, Buck, is it keeps the Epstein story front and center.” — Clay Travis (11:53)
  • "They're not holding Prince Andrew responsible for anything having to do with Epstein sex crimes." — Buck Sexton (16:24)
• Relevant age of consent and legal angles are explained to illustrate why sex charges are not currently brought.

Notable Quote:

• “I have never seen a bigger threat to the future of the monarchy than what is unfurling right now.” — Piers Morgan, quoted/discussed by Buck and Clay (23:57)

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3. The “Dirty Dem Playbook” – Colbert, Talarico, and Party Manipulation

• Discussion moves to the James Talarico interview controversy: an interview with the Texas Democrat was kept off broadcast TV supposedly due to “equal time” rules, but the YouTube version gets millions of views after Stephen Colbert raises a stink.
• Clay argues it’s a manufactured controversy benefitting Talarico’s primary campaign—a “rig job” by Democratic elites (28:50).
  • “The real victim here is not Stephen Colbert or James Talarico…it's Jasmine Crockett.” — Clay Travis (29:48)
  • “There’s nothing that could have been more clear than this was an op.” — Buck Sexton (31:12)
• CNN’s Harry Enten data is cited to show Talarico’s spike in search interest and prediction market odds (30:08).
• Buck makes comparisons to previous Democratic Party moves against Bernie Sanders and media manipulations in Trump-era CNN coverage.
• The hosts predict Talarico will ultimately lose in Texas, likening him to Beto O'Rourke.

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4. Media, Book Industry, and Manufactured Narratives

• Buck shares his own experience of being marginalized in big box bookstores compared to liberal authors.
  • “There’ll be like 15…there’s a huge display of Meacham. But my book, you can’t even find it… It’s almost like you’re going to buy, you know, the naughty book that you’re not supposed to know exists.” — Buck Sexton (34:22)
• Clay highlights an Amazon review he wrote for Buck’s book, keeping the tone light and bantering about literary culture and Taylor Swift (36:00).
• The conversation reflects broader themes of information control and manufactured popularity—tying in Buck’s book title.

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5. Geopolitical Tensions and Priorities in the News Cycle

• The absurdity of societal focus: Clay notes that while possible war with Iran looms, America’s media is fixated on the Prince Andrew story:
  • “We could go to war with Iran this weekend, but everyone wants to talk about Prince Andrew…” — Buck Sexton (17:47)
• Guests Steve Yates (on Iran) and Carol Markowitz (day’s issues) are teased for later hours (25:35).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the royals:
  "Just famous for being famous...they didn’t do anything and generally they're a bunch of losers and they're deeply unimpressed. I mean, the King of England right now is a moron. He's a…Why do we care?" — Buck Sexton (13:26)

• On media distraction:
  "We could go to war with Iran this weekend, but everyone wants to talk about Prince Andrew in the news right now." — Buck Sexton (17:47)

• On the Talarico controversy:
  "So we obeyed our network and put the interview on YouTube where it's gotten millions of views. And I can see why Talarico is an interesting guy… I wish we could have put it on the show where no one would have watched it." — Stephen Colbert, quoted by Clay Travis (28:10)

• On the “dirty Dem playbook”: "It's like the Democrat party ordered the hit. They used Colbert. And the real victim here…the bad guy is not Donald Trump...it's all Jasmine Crockett just getting dunked on by her own party." — Clay Travis (30:44)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | 02:36–04:51| Buck Sexton's book success, Amazon ranking discussion | | 05:01–14:41| Prince Andrew arrest and royal family/media analysis | | 14:41–17:53| Criticism of royal family, American fascination | | 23:09–24:20| Piers Morgan soundbite: monarchy under threat | | 25:35–32:46| Colbert/Talarico controversy, Dem primaries, media ops| | 33:48–37:04| Media bias in publishing, book industry experiences | | 41:21–47:21| Closing comments, audience call-ins, book promo |

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Conclusion

The episode examines the intersection of media priorities, elite narratives, and public fascination with tabloid stories over substantial geopolitics, highlighting how manufactured controversies benefit select political players. With their usual wit and skepticism, Clay and Buck expose the inner workings of the media and political ecosystem, all while keeping Buck’s book—and their listeners’ engagement—at the center of the conversation.

Transcript

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome in. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program. And I have to tell you, I have a challenge for everyone out there. Buck is going to benefit from this challenge, but the show will as well. Buck Sexton's book is presently the number four bestseller on all of Amazon.com for books. You'll probably get him beaten out by some other product. Number four, I have no idea. Do you know this book? Theo of Golden, a novel. Do you know anything about this book, Buck?

[Buck Sexton]

No, I do not.

[Clay Travis]

It has anything about 50,000 reviews, so it must be a perpetual bestseller because I can't imagine that it would get 50,000 reviews unless it was just everywhere. Number two is Jelly Roll's wife's autobiography, the Sunny XO.

[Buck Sexton]

Is she a former dancer?

[Clay Travis]

Stripper, I believe. Exotic dancer, as one might show.

[Buck Sexton]

A book by a former stripper is doing very well, apparently.

[Clay Travis]

Let them. Which has sold 4 billion copies. I don't know how this, this, this. Let Them author. She's swimming. Swimming and money. She's Scrooge McDuck diving. That book has been at the top of bestseller list for everywhere and then manufacturing delusion number four overall. So is it possible to drive it to number one? That would be an incredible accomplishment. Congratulations to Buck on the launch so far. So a stripper, a Theo of Golden. I know nothing about this. And a Let Them theory only between Buck Sexton and number one overall on Amazon. So that's a tremendous accomplishment. Uh, thanks to everybody out there who has been buying it. Congrats to Buck and can you take it to number one? I'll start the show with that. Now, unfortunately for Buck, starting the show in a positive way, but there is a story involving the royal family that is right now the number one story in all of America. And when I woke up and I got this alert from the Wall Street Journal and I read it, my first thought was Buck is going to be so upset that the royal family is at the top of the news cycle

[Buck Sexton]

that we have to talk about this at all. Correct?

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

The royal. A bunch of inbred clowns. Who cares? This whole thing is absurd. And yet here we are.

[Clay Travis]

Prince Andrew, that is the brother of King Charles, has been arrested in association with the emails that were released as part of the 3 million emails that were published by the Department of Justice in The Epstein revelations. Now he has not been arrested for any sex crime related issue. He has in fact been arrested for basically leaking classified information, allegedly. And that is the story here. And so.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, well, I was good. So this is pretty obviously you embarrassed us, meaning Andrew for the uk, Right. Andrew embarrassed the Royal Family. Andrew embarrassed the establishment of the United Kingdom. He's in that photo that everyone has seen a million times now and they're, they're going after him here. I've never heard of someone in the UK being prosecuted. This has to do with trade secrets or something like that. I mean this is, it's not like he was giving. Go ahead.

[Clay Travis]

Some of these emails that he was alleged to have been involved in leaking. But a lot of people are focusing on this in America and they're saying, oh, they're arresting him not for any sex related crime. It's for the idea that he might have disclosed inappropriately private information that should not have been released via the email showing him sharing this information.

[Buck Sexton]

And this is also where if you just, even on the Daily Mail, you know, huge UK website, they'll point this out. The age of consent nationally in the UK is 16. So as a UK national he would not have. Yes, as a UK national, he would not have committed any sex crime specifically because of the age of Virginia Guthrey when she was in the uk. If now the trafficking component of it, if he knew that she was being coerced or if she was paid, you know, that, that may be where he does get eventually prosecuted on this. But the age issue, you'll notice because, because otherwise why, why wouldn't that have charge have been brought a long time ago? So the UK, the age of consent is 16. So it would be on a trafficking or a minor paid for prostitution. Again, those things are also illegal in the us they would be illegal in the uk. You know, those are the ways that he may get hit because they're looking right now, apparently they're going through all of his stuff. So they may bring some kind of a sex related charge against him. But it is interesting that Clay, right now he's being charged because of something in the Epstein files that has to do with trade secrets, has nothing to do with actual sex crimes. It just shows you this is where this situation is right now. I mean, I think there's a, there's a, there's a real desire to just start making examples of some of these individuals. Even if you, it's like getting Capone on taxes, maybe even if you have to get them on something unrelated to the actual, you know, severe crime committed.

[Clay Travis]

And last night the Wall Street Journal had a story that said there was someone who was prepared to potentially basically turn in Jeffrey Epstein. And it went into details, I didn't realize this Epstein basically owned a modeling agency in conjunction with this guy that, that was involved in the alleged story. And so if you're wondering where did a lot of these women come from, they recruited them and signed them through the modeling agency. Many of them were Ukrainian and Russian. And then Epstein would bring these models into his world. And based on the emails he was saying and sending to some of these men, hey, I've got a new 25 year old. Here she is. These were not kids, according to the email from the Wall Street Journal. These were models that were brought over young women, but of age women. And there was involvement with Prince Andrew allegedly with meeting a lot of these different women. So I think Buck, this story by and large is actually less complicated than I think many of the conspiracy theories have suggested. Basically Jeffrey Epstein had created a world where he had access to very young attractive women, most of whom, at least based on the stories that I have seen, most of whom were adults. And remember, for people who say, well, he was a, he was a pedophile, what he was convicted of was engaging in sexual activity with a 17 and a half year old in the state of Florida. And so that is what made him a so called sex offender for purposes of his felony. That was the charge that he pled guilty to. That's what we've actually had his attorney at the time on to discuss with, on, on this program. For those of you who remember, Alan Dershowitz was on. Alan Dershowitz is his attorney who's been on to talk about that. So all of this continuing to spiral out, but Prince Andrew arrested, to Buck's point, now they're doing a search. Maybe they will find out that there are other crimes that he could have been involved in. But the crime that he's being basically investigated for is leaking classified information. What this.

[Buck Sexton]

But even not even national security information. Trade information.

[Clay Travis]

Trade information, which.

[Buck Sexton]

Which by the way, the UK has extremely, when it wants to. The UK does not have freedom of speech. And I know this feels like a digression, but just stay with me for a second. Everyone in the uk, if you say something that hurts the national interest, they can basically throw the book at you, right? I mean they're, they're law. They do not have a true free, they do not have a first amendment. Obviously we have a different constitution. Etc. But they. There's like the. I think it's called the Official Secrets act and they can just hammer you with this and it covers a whole range of things and they don't have that same. That same free speech protection that we do here. So it seems like he may have run afoul of that, but people are clicking on. Prince Andrew arrested. And I think everyone is assuming they got him and they got him on, on. On being, you know, a sex criminal, underage girls. It's trade secrets. Yeah, it is actually right now. Not anything having to do with sex at all that may change.

[Clay Travis]

What it does do, Buck, is it keeps the Epstein story front and center. And what we're going to see is is there a continuing demand for further aspects of this, these arrests to occur? This is the. According to the Daily Mail and I. Even though I am interested in the Royal family, this is the first royal family member arrested in 400 in England.

[Buck Sexton]

Wasn't he like de. Royaled, like defrocked?

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. So I don't know if he officially still counts as a royal, but. But they're counting him still as a member of the royal family. I think he was still in line, eighth or ninth in line to the throne. So I think they have stripped a title, but I still think he's like,

[Buck Sexton]

not all the titles. This whole thing is. So just. Can we just take. Or take put aside the Epstein component of the story for a second because I just want to lay into this whole royal family. This whole royal family thing in the UK is so stupid. Ok? These, these preposterous grifters, Meghan and Harry, the whole thing. Can we just stop with all this, everyone? I know they're not our royals, but we need to, in America, not care about this at all. There are other royal families in Europe and you never hear about them. And that's a good thing. You know, they maybe show up at a couple of functions once or twice in. In like Spain or Sweden or something. No one cares. Not a big deal. The fascination with the UK royal family, they're basically the original, like, you know, global. Oh, sorry.

[Clay Travis]

They're original Kardashians on some level.

[Buck Sexton]

Just. Just famous for being famous. I know they're famous for being royals, but they didn't do anything and generally they're a bunch of losers and they're deeply unimpressed. I mean, the King of England right now is a moron. He's a. Why do we care?

[Clay Travis]

The guy is honestly a good show crown is a really good crown is A good show.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm not hating on the crown. That's a good piece of entertainment. I'm saying the elevation of the royal family as someone that anyone in America or anywhere should care about is preposterous. And every time I hear some sort of say, oh, history and, and the unity under the blood. No, I'm sorry, the head of the Church of England. The whole thing is, is just, it's ridiculous. We all see this. I don't know what it's going to take but event but it's going away. Can I just be clear? It's just a question of when. There's no way you can keep this going. Where people get. They have like tens of millions of

[Clay Travis]

dollars a year in allowance and all

[Buck Sexton]

these mansions just so they can show up at parties and people can pretend that they have something to say. And I think Meghan and Harry have done a great job making people realize what a clown show this whole thing is. So now separate from the specifics of the Andrew situation. But I just, I can't help myself. You know, the Daily Mail obviously runs all these because it's UK based paper and it does actually do a lot of good coverage of things. Just constant stuff on the royals. I'm like, who cares?

[Clay Travis]

I will say in the book selling business right now, Prince Harry's book sold an ungodly amount of copies in the United States when it was released. There is an insane. And I'm going to be. I'm going to throw her under the bus here.

[Buck Sexton]

This is a book, the book called Spare because this is. They don't really need him. It's really spare.

[Clay Travis]

It is not uncommon. When I get in the car and Laura Travis has been listening to a podcast. Hopefully it is this show which you should subscribe to on podcast. But it is not uncommon. Buck, when I get into a car that there is a British voice speaking. And it is the latest drama surrounding the royal family that Laura Travis is choosing to pursue. So I think a lot of women love this and a lot of women hate Meghan Markle. I would put my wife into this camp and just cannot stop consuming content about how awful.

[Buck Sexton]

Megan, Meghan Markle, Lauren and Carrie could do a podcast just about the awfulness of Meghan Markle. That would be a thing. Actually.

[Clay Travis]

You know how shocking it is for me when I get into. If I get into her car and immediately there's just a British voice talk. I'm like, what is this? And she's like, oh, you know, I'm listening to British podcasts about how awful Meghan Mark. How awful Meghan Markle is. So there is a big market still for the royals. Now, I do think more significantly, going forward, a lot of people are going to say, why is England holding people accountable for what they did in the Epstein emails? And the United States is not. What you and I would circle back on is I still haven't seen and I've read a lot of the coverage. I still haven't seen someone point and say, this is 100% a crime. Now, we're going to.

[Buck Sexton]

Hold on a second. They're not really. Just to be clear, they're not holding Prince Andrew right now or they're not trying to hold Prince Andrew. There's a. I guess there's a presumption of innocence over there too, right? In the legal system. They're not holding him responsible for anything having to do with Epstein sex crimes.

[Clay Travis]

Correct. But.

[Buck Sexton]

But this could have been. This is like payback for that in a sense. Right. And for the embarrassment. But I'm just saying this is a completely separate. You know, this is almost like they're prosecuting him for insider trading in the stock market. It has nothing to do with sex crimes. Nothing.

[Clay Travis]

And by the way, some people are being like the Wasserman guy that they're trying to get to step down from. The LA 2028 Olympic Committee is under fire for flirting with. For flirting with Ghislaine Maxwell 20 years ago. So he didn't even email Epstein. He just flirted with Jelaine Maxwell 20 years ago. And they're like this. He's selling his agency in Los Angeles because when he was 28 and she was 41, they had flirtatious emails back in the day. I mean, this is real. Like they're making. They made him sell his agency. And the mayor of Los Angeles just said he can no longer be involved in the Olympic Committee. But I mean, this is kind of indicative. We'll take your calls. A lot of people are probably going to want to weigh in. Iran news potentially coming. Can you take Bucks book?

[Buck Sexton]

We could go to war with Iran this weekend, but everyone wants to talk about Prince Andrew in the news right now.

[Clay Travis]

This is where we are as a

[Buck Sexton]

society with a country with 90 million people and a lot of missiles. And that might happen, but Andrew's a scumbag. Let's talk about that. That's where the news cycle is right now.

[Clay Travis]

Ed, take Bucks Book, the number one, which is our news cycle. I want to say.

[Buck Sexton]

Manufacturing delusion. Manufacturing delusion.

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back into Clay and Buck.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, good point from the team here. Producer Craig saying that in the UK you get you get thrown in prison for writing the wrong thing on Facebook about immigrants. So, yeah, there's no, there's no free speech there. That is a real thing. But they can also throw you in prison for a whole range of things. Piers Morgan, who follows the royals very closely. Here he is, cut eight. That was a terrible. Piers Morgan cut eight. Here he is talking about how this is the biggest threat to the monarchy. Play it.

[Clay Travis]

King Charles has seen that these were lies, realizes that Andrew was lying, realized

[Buck Sexton]

the severity of this scandal and the

[Clay Travis]

potential danger to the monarchy itself. You know, Ainsley and I, we've done a lot of stuff together in the

[Buck Sexton]

UK of big royal events, from coronations

[Clay Travis]

to funerals in the last few years.

[Buck Sexton]

And previously we will have all covered

[Clay Travis]

things like the death of Princess Diana. These are huge, seismic moments in the royal family's history. I have never seen a bigger threat to the future of the monarchy than what is unfurling right now.

[Buck Sexton]

By the way, he's right. He's realizing the monarchy is a bunch of jerks and it's absurd and it's unearned and it's anachronistic and it should go away. That's what people are actually realizing. Slowly but surely.

[Clay Travis]

I think that Buck, Prince William is popular enough that it's not going to be an issue for the future for him. But we'll see.

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton

[Buck Sexton]

show

[Clay Travis]

We've got a lot of different stories that we're following. Bucket. It is funny that we may go to war with Iran. We're going to talk with Steve Yates at 1 in like 30 minutes roughly about the possibility of war with Iran. Our friend Carol Markowitz will join us in the next hour to talk about issues of the day. But Prince Andrew being arrested has taken over the news cycle as opposed to whether we might go to war in the Middle East. And there are other news cycle moments that I think are worthy of discussion and one of them just so happens to be us being completely right about the made up James Talarico interview. I know Buck, you yesterday had FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on the team pulled a bunch of different cuts here. But here is a flashback from Tuesday's edition of the show where I said this is going to be so much more beneficial to Talarico in the Texas primary than running the actual interview was. It feels like a rig job. Here is cut 11. When I hear and see this controversy emerging, I say, my goodness, this is elite Democrat power brokers deciding to set up this James Talarico interview. If it airs, it's a huge bonus to him. But if it gets shut down under this FCC equal time doctrine, I would argue it's an even bigger bonus for him because most people would have never seen this but for the fact that Stephen Colbert went on and attacked his bosses for not letting him have on James Talarico. So guess who now is saying this? Stephen Colbert himself went on and said way more people watch this than ever would have seen it. This was on the Late show with Stephen Colbert, cut 10, whatever. Talking to me, the corporation put out this press release, this statement. In it they say the Late show was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Representative James Talarico. The show has provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal time rule for two other candidates, including Representative Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. The Lay show decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal time options. So we obeyed our network and put the interview on YouTube where it's gotten millions of views. And I can see why Talarico is an interesting guy. I don't know what if he should be the senator, but it was a good discussion. I wish we could have put it on the show where no one would have watched it. Okay, so Buck Here is the other thing on this is Harry Enton, CNN data guru, sharing all the data. And again, this feels like such a rigged job. The real victim here is not Stephen Colbert or James Talarico. Buck. And I can't believe I'm saying this, it's Jasmine Crockett.

[Buck Sexton]

They're treating her clay is pro royal family, pro Jasmine Crockett today I'm taking

[Clay Travis]

all, I'm taking all the tough arguments today, pro royal family and, and j, I'm defending Jasmine Crockett here because they're terrified she would be the nominee the Democrat Party and this reminds me of what they did to Bernie Sanders when they did the rig job for Hillary Clinton. Jasmine Crockett is not allowed to go on with Colbert doesn't get to make the case to the Texas Democrat Senate primary voters. And meanwhile, listen to Harry Entonic. This is a huge story. The overall interest in Talrico has skyrocketed. This is CNN pointing out, hey, the controversy is way better than if he had just been able to go on the program in the first place. You know, I'm going to quote one of my favorite singers and actresses, Barbra Streisand. There's a real Barbra Streisand effect going on here. What are we talking about here? Well, take a look here. Google searches for James Tall rico in the US up 49, 100% today versus Monday. How about in Texas where you have that key Senate race going on there up like a rock and we're talking about up 1150%. So this has actually been very good news for James Talarico. You want that attention. You have that primary going on in a few weeks and he's absolutely gotten it both nationwide and of course very importantly in the state of Texas as well. The highest on record. So if you look at the gambling markets, right, the prediction markets as it were, and you're curious, okay, what is the impact here? Talarico's chances since this story came out buck of winning the primary in Texas have skyrocketed in this, in this prediction market. He was starting to fade. Jasmine Crockett was rising. And it's like the Democrat party ordered the hit. They used Colbert. And the real victim here, the, the, the bad guy is not Donald Trump. It's not cbs, it's not some executive who rightly pointed out the conflict here. It's all Jasmine Crockett just getting dunked on by her own party. I, I, this is all I could think, it feels so self evident to me.

[Buck Sexton]

There's nothing that could have been more clear than this was an op. And you know, you called it out right away. And I think it was, it was definitely apparent to anyone seeing how this was going to go. But it's a, it reminds me of the old days with CNN and the Trump first term with Jim Acosta when it was, you know, oh my gosh, like they're shutting down the First Amendment. Look at how mean they're being to journalists. There's nothing better for his career than when Trump would make fun of him. There's nothing better for a CNN anchor than when Trump would go after them because their audience loves to see that.

[Clay Travis]

There's nothing better for Don Lemon than getting, as we said on this program, the idea that he was going to bear consequences was just not true. It's the best thing that ever happened to his career.

[Buck Sexton]

And, and so this is, this, this victim narrative that they create. It's all just self serving nonsense, as we know. But the good news for everybody is James Talarico is going to get smoked in the Senate race. I mean, he's not going to come close. I think it's going to be, he's Beto 2.0. Remember Beto? Wasn't he on the COVID of Vanity Fair? It's like, oh, he's like so handsome. I think he married a rich woman. Like, this guy doesn't even have a real job. You know, he's one of these people. He married a woman whose family has money and you know, he wears jeans and he's like, we're gonna like take all your AR15s and like, we're gonna make a big pile of them and like light them on fire. And all the libs on the coast are like, he's amazing. And he wears Wrangler jeans and cowboy boots. So Texas will love him. And Texas was like, no, actually, no. So, yeah, I think this is. Talarico is going to be just like Beto and it's not going to work for him. So that's the good news.

[Clay Travis]

Now I do think the question here going forward is I know they're going to toss to the curb. Colbert show in May, I think is over. And in the meantime, as we could well have expected, he's throwing as many fits as he can, kicking and screaming on the way out to his show ceasing to exist. And then guess what's going to happen, Buck Spotify or someone like Spotify is going to give Stephen Colbert $100 million to do a podcast. And Stephen Colbert is not going to be a victim. And then every single left wing legacy media outlet in the country is going to do a huge story about how Stephen Colbert was a victim. I can tell you exactly how this is going to play out. His podcast going to be highly rated because they're going to promote it like crazy. And he's going to do basically the exact same show on podcast and he's going to make more money and it'll be on YouTube and they'll promote it and they'll do a huge story about how Stephen Colbert is the big success and CBS are the losers. I can tell you exactly how the next year of Stephen Colbert's life is going to play out.

[Buck Sexton]

Which reminds me, they manufacture his popularity and they manufacture delusions, which is a fantastic book manufacturing delusion that all of you who have not already purchased your copies should go purchase a copy of. Because this first week we have to be Jon Meacham's book. You know, Clay, I am getting Jon Meacham. For those you don't know, he's a former, he's a presidential historian. You know, there's a lot of books about these presidents. Ok, but he became the go to historian on Morning Joe alongside Beschloss to be like Trump is Hitler and he's going to destroy America. I have people sending me their because our books came out on the same day that if you go to, let's just say a large brick and mortar retailer with many stores across the country in places you will see that there will be like 15. There's a huge display of Meacham. But my book, you can't even find it. You have to like go. It's almost like you're going to buy, you know, the, the like the naughty book that you're not supposed to know exists. They may like who makes this decision? Corporate libs in these places. Because this, because our books are neck and neck in sales. He has a giant display. Mine doesn't exist in physical copy. Unless you go and know the secret handshake for the guy, you know, stocking in the back. This is what they do. So, you know, help me out here. Show the, show the communists that they don't get to just keep doing this nonsense.

[Clay Travis]

Go buy manufacturing delusion through a book, an airport. They will give you unbelievable placement at the front of a store for your left wing book. You all see it. I will say I'm in Amazon right now. Best review that I've seen so far. Phenomenal book analyzing how delusion has taken over this country. I just wish the author had More respect for Taylor Swift, the Beatles of her generation. Most like review so far, that is from me inside of Amazon and I am a verified purchaser. To be fair, you can see that I, if you, if you doubted whether I paid my own money for Buck's book, it is in my Amazon account. I am Richard Clay Travis. Just so you know, I don't, I'm actually nervous now that I've said that. I'm like, have I reviewed anything else? No, only a couple of things. So I don't have. I was like, oh no, like what, what have I else have I reviewed on Amazon? Only a couple of books. Another one was like 15 years ago, somebody asked me to review it. So that's the only reviews that are on my Amazon account. But that is my actual Amazon account. Go buy your copy of the book. And oh yeah, Ali saying they used to turn Rush's book over upside down. Look, what I would say is in the marketplace of ideas, I think about this all the time. How do you reach people that otherwise might not be aware of your arguments? We are incredibly thankful for all of you out there that are listening to us every day. And every day there's a few more of you than there were the day before. And that's been the case for each of the last five years. And that's a credit to the staff and the fact that we try to do a good job with this show. But there's also tens of millions of people that would like our arguments and do not get exposed to them. And so hopefully I hope that they are going to see your book and, and become aware that there are arguments like these being made.

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Clay Travis]

It's outstanding.

[Buck Sexton]

It's scaring the heck out of me. I appreciate your work. Thank you so much. Thank you. Gilbert from Arizona who listens on 550k. FYI Joseph in upstate New York, a WGY listener. Let's go, B. Afternoon, gentlemen. I want to let you know I ordered Bucks Audiobook. Got that all set. I do a lot of commuting to and from work. Currently delivering mail up here in upstate New York. I want to get a hard copy, but I'm waiting for the autograph. Copy through Crockett Coffee. I get myself some mushroom coffee and a great book. Thanks, guys. Have a great day. I'm gonna be writing some autographs.

[Clay Travis]

Buck's gonna be signing a lot of autographs. Code [e-mail] Let me say this, too. We're going to keep playing the audios. The Crockett Coffee.com success story is it's pretty phenomenal. And I'm super excited about how we're going to continue to grow this. But Buck's brother Mason has done an awesome job running the business side of. Of Crockett Coffee. I think we're gonna get somebody to write a story telling you how well it's been doing lately. But thousands and thousands of you have signed up. And I just think the Runway for this, now that we know coffee, which I gave up soda a while ago, right? My wife had been on me for a long time. I drank Mountain Dew like crazy. When we started this show, I was still pounding Mountain Dews. My wife's like, it's just sugar water. Don't drink it. So I went to coffee, and now I'm going to live forever. Evidently, Buck, because they keep coming out with this data saying 25% decline in your overall Alzheimer's likelihood. When you drink coffee and the age of which you are, your longevity continues to grow. And so anyway, I'm super excited about what we're doing with it, but Buck's gonna have to sign a lot of copies. And if you haven't signed up yet, if you haven't subscribed, go to crocketcoffee.com Marie in Florida listening to us on Newsradio WFLA. Doc, it's Marie from Florida. I just wanted to say I'm trying to help you with your ranking there. I bought a hard copy of Manufacturing Delusion, as well as the audible book is on Amazon.

[Buck Sexton]

So I Can hear your lovely voice

[Clay Travis]

reading the whole thing to me while I go on a run. Have a great day guys.

[Buck Sexton]

That's fantastic. Thank you so much. That's like, that's, that's getting it done at all angles and I really appreciate it. Also for those of you who have read the book, it's, it's pretty, it's a pretty quick read. And we did that on purpose actually cut clay. I think I ended up writing 50% more than what actually made it into the book. Yeah, I got, I mean they had to, they had to shut me down a little bit.

[Clay Travis]

What did I tell you about editing is, is the worst part of the entire book writing basis.

[Buck Sexton]

I got so deep into Ivan Pavlov. I have like a thousand page biography of Pavlov that I use for part of the research of this. And actually the author of that, who's the premier Pavlov historian, his country, I reached out to and had questions for him. He was very nice, Professor Todis. He just answered my questions about Pavlov so I could really understand things. And he's I think a professor emeritus now. But I mean I was getting. The Pavlov thing was fascinating to me because he hated the Soviets. He was doing this incredible research for the time, all this breakthrough stuff. And the Soviets let him basically be one of the very few. He was so important to them, pretending that they were like a new scientific approach to government essentially that they couldn't kill him, they needed him. So he would say things about them that clay would have gotten anyone else in the Soviet Union put up against the wall. So it was this very interesting back and forth between them that I, that I anyway. Oh, that didn't make, that really didn't make it into the book because they're like buck, chapter two is like 800 pages, like 50 pages long.

[Clay Travis]

So when we come back, Steve Yates. Okay, we talked all about the Prince Andrew, the Talarico Senate race. The Republicans and Democrats go vote. You can vote now. March 3rd is the primary in Texas. It's the very first primary. Steve Yates, what's going to happen in Iran? When do we get an outcome? All of that headed your way next. Thanks for hanging with us on Clay and Buck

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