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Clay Travis
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through what promises to be a very significant overall week of action. Buck in particular, we are soon going to have a mayor elected in New York City who it looks like is going to be basically a communist. We also are having big elections in Virginia and in New Jersey, up and down the ballot. This is going to be a week of massive impact across the country. The first election that we have seen since Trump was elected almost exactly one year ago. And I'm up in New York City, Buck, your hometown. And I was out to dinner last night and by myself in the hotel as one does. And my waitress came up and she is a huge fan of the program and she said I listened to you and Buck all the time. She said do you really believe that New York City is going to elect this crazy Marxist? And I said unfortunately yes. And so Suzette, if you are listening, thank you for doing a great job being my waitress last night. I am sorry, but this is the reality, I think of where we are headed and the numbers out there. We're going to talk with Mark Simone, our W O R buddy. He's going to come in studio with me and then we're going to talk with the guy running for governor in New Jersey, Frank Cittarelli, Right, Jack. Jack Cittarelli, right before the election actually takes place and he may win.
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Buck Sexton
To be clear, Jack, Jack is Chitterelli is in Very close contention here. There's a very serious possibility that Citterelli is going to be able to pull this out the last minute. So that definitely matters.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, look, I mean he is going to be the guy who is the most likely to win. Now, up and down ballot, remember still in Virginia. Virginia we've got Jason Miares, who is the Attorney general candidate. We've got a lieutenant governor's race. And so there are a lot of different aspects of this that are at play, but this is the first real verdict on Trump 2.0 we've gotten. Now keep in mind, this is a situation where we are dealing with a state, New Jersey, that voted for Kamala by roughly 5. We are in Virginia, a state that voted for Kamala by roughly 5 as well. And certainly in New York City, we are talking about a jurisdiction that is overwhelmingly featuring Democrat voters. And in fact, Buck, I flagged this, uh, because as we were, as I was doing my prep this morning, this is the final New York City early voting breakdown by party, huge numbers and we'll maybe we need to get our guy Gardusky on again. Cuz I saw him tweet that this might be the most votes that have ever been cast for mayor in New York City based on the early voting numbers that are out. But I don't know if you saw this, Buck. Here was the data. Final New York City early voting party breakdown. Democrat voters 540,671. That was right at 74% of the overall votes cast early. Other that is somebody from another political party. 106,201 14.5% Republican voters 85,994. Right around 12% of the overall electorate. So I know what the people out there are still mad at me in the New York area. Probably gonna meet some of you that are Democrats showed up in big numbers. There are not enough Republican voters. I would love to be wrong and wear my Curtis Sliwa red beret. Buck, you've been telling people for some time. I think unfortunately what we're going to see when we wake up on Wednesday or late on Tuesday night is mom Donnie is not going to win the majority. Maybe he will, but I don't think he is. And the anti mom Donnie vote is going to be split between Cuomo and Sliwa. And that's the thing we've been worried about from the get go.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah man. This is where we are, where we thought we'd be. So unfortunately it's playing out pretty much as expected. Some other interesting Things just put on the radar the ha. We have the, the Span burger looking like a likely win, but really the margin is going to determine whether or not Miarres gets through as the Attorney General there in Virginia. Momdani. If Mamdani does not win the mayor's race in New York at this point, it would be the craziest, widest margin upset of the data that I think I've ever seen. People keep saying, what about Trump in 2016? The miscalculation in 2016, which was considerable, but it was. Everything that's close will go to Hillary. Right? I mean, if it's, if it was within two or three points, Hillary clearly has it. Everyone just assumed no one was saying Hillary was going to win by 30 points. Okay. That's a different, that's a different thing. Although I saw. Clay, you shared that pollster and Seltzer shared her, her, her Kamala up three to then lose by 13 in Iowa, which is a pretty remarkable. That, that's, I mean, that's a career. Just to be clear, that's a career ending poll Ms.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
That she said, you know what? I think I'm done here.
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Clay Travis
And she literally retired after getting a poll wrong by 16 points. She walked off with the worst performance of her entire career as a pollster. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Instead of a walk off home run, it's like a walk off after the bat slips out of your hands and knocks out the ball boy in the dugout.
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Clay Travis
It wasn't good. Yeah. I just, I can't even imagine what that felt like for her as all those results came in. Maybe we should grab that audio. I don't know if we had it. Do we have MSNBC exalting for that poll coming out? We'll find it.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, they were desperate. Obviously they were desperate. But anyway, we're getting a little desperate here for New York City. We're hoping something good comes out of this with the best possible likely situation. Now, people are going to say, to be fair, Clay, a lot of Republicans are going to show up on election day. I mean, you'd have to have like three times as many Republicans show up on election day as anyone has ever seen registered in the city of New York and voting for Sliwa. But, you know, maybe, you know, maybe, ok, we'll do the maybe, ok situation here. Get out there, vote for Sliwa, vote for Cuomo, do whatever you got to do. Just don't vote for Mondame, for heaven's sakes. So that's going to be a close one. They have deployed Obama, which I just think is such an interesting commentary, Clay, on where the Democrat Party is right now. Obama's still the closer to them. Obama is the guy that they think is able to push people over the line. What's fascinating about that is Barack Obama.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
He won two wide margin presidential elections for himself from when he came into the Democrat Party to when he left as president. I think they went from like 59 Senate seats down to, you know, they lost like 10 Senate seats or something. They lost 50 seats in the House and they lost dozens of governor's mansions. It was actually a disaster for the Democrats, the, the reign of Obama, other than Obama winning. But they still think that he somehow has the magic touch here at the very end, that he's going to get it all through. The Trump 60 Minutes interview was also quite interesting. Now there's the hour long version. Clay, they do what you say to do.
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Clay Travis
Amen. This is something that I think is.
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Buck Sexton
Going tell everybody what it is.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. This is something that I think is going to actually long extend past Trump. Stop editing interviews. I mean, I love live radio, I love live television because they can't edit anything. Trump talked to 60 Minutes for 72 minutes. I believe that's a long time. But post the whole thing. Let me actually have the opportunity. And I would also post the full transcript for people that would rather read than watch. Make everything that you produce actually visible and instead of cutting and deciding what you think is newsworthy, give us everything. I got on this for a long time from the law background. I want to read the transcript myself. And so this is a legacy, I think, of the settlement that Trump got from 60 Minutes.
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Buck Sexton
Well, you've been saying, and this, I've always agreed with you, when Clay has a good idea, I say he has a good idea, which is that if you're going to sit with hostile media and Trump, we all know who that is. You have to have your own copy of it. Yes, absolutely.
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Clay Travis
Because they will edit it to crush you in unfair ways otherwise.
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Buck Sexton
This was actually really the technique that the Daily show with Jon Stewart. I know people say, oh, it's comedy.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
But it was actually just propaganda with jokes. Right. They would take these interviews and especially if they had a Republican or somebody who was considered on the right, and they would splice it up to make the person look like an abject moron. And what people didn't realize was, well, they've spliced it so much that you're not even, they're not even giving the answer. To the question he gave. They're putting in pauses, but. But because it was comedy, they were allowed to fabricate whatever they wanted. But everyone thought, oh, well, this is how the interview went. The audience didn't think, they're cutting this to make the pause five seconds instead of, remember Katie Couric got annihilated once because she did this thing when she was interviewing people who are pro gun. I don't know if you remember this, Clay. She tried to do some documentary. This is when, like, no one cared who Katie Couric was anymore. She left the corporate media. I think she was like post Yahoo era. And they edited it in. So all these people in this panel, you know, just everyday Americans who were pro gun, she said, well, you know, why do you think the Second Amendment's important? That wasn't the question or something like that. And they did the whole long pregnant pause and then they just moved on to something else. The real video, the guy jumps in, he's like. Because I believe as a defense against tyranny, it was just like he had an A plus answer, but it was just propaganda. That's why Trump has an hour version of this 60 Minutes interview and why they can't play the same games they used to, because not only do they have it Clay, they put it out so you can watch the whole thing.
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Clay Travis
I think this is also why legacy media is losing overall value, because the hypocrisy is way easier to cut and display side by side. And we've got some examples of that for you. And so their editorial power, and we've talked about this for years on the program, the power isn't so much what they say, it's how they choose what a story is. And when you have to post the full transcript, you lose the power of saying, this is what matters from this particular interview. And I don't begrudge Trump at all for doing these interviews. I actually think this may be a positive take. I don't know if you would subscribe to it. The power of live is surging. Live. We are live with you every day for three hours, unfiltered. If you look, you know, we had a game seven in the World Series. Congratulations to the LA Dodgers out there. Buck. It set a Saturday night viewing record for sports going all the way back to 1996. People are craving. I think in this social media era, we live in authenticity and live. You can't fake, for better or worse, big events. People still, they want to get around and talk with their friends and family about something. That we shared from a communal experience. And it's great to watch a streaming series on Netflix or Paramount or Amazon or whatever the heck it is, but everybody watches it in different times, which is why when you talk about your favorite show, you might have to say, what season are you in? There's a craving, I think, for live. And so I would argue that 60 Minutes should be doing a live interview version of the program where they say, hey, we're going to sit for 60 minutes straight and we're going to talk with somebody. Now, it makes the anchors nervous because they are then on the hook. Right. Their questions have to be good. You can't fake it. But I think this is one of the legacies that we're going to see going forward of the impact.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I also think it was funny because some of the commentary around Nora, Norah o', Donnell, she knows that they have a copy of this, too.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
And she knows she's dealing with Trump. Her audience primarily wants her to go in there and challenge him, go after him. And it's I. But she's not an idiot. I mean, well, maybe she's not that smart, but she knows that she, she has to actually play by the set of rules now that the interaction is the interaction. You're not going to have this post edit cleanup situation where if Trump kicks your butt, I mean, I'll never forget, I think I told you, Clay, Brian Stelter had me on to debate why I thought somebody was a jihadist once on his show and he got absolutely smoked. And they just never aired it. They just never, they just pretended like it didn't. And the producers, this was cnn. The producers didn't even pretend like there was some reason. They're like, yeah, we just decided that we're never airing that. So, I mean, if they can do that, right. He was like, why do you know that they're Muslim jihadists? I'm like, I don't know. I was in the CIA counterterrorism center and the guy was yelling Allahu Akbar like he got his ass kicked. And they didn't want to hear it. The same kind of thing, though, and see, if she has a bad exchange with Trump, it's going to be out there even if they don't choose to highlight it. Right? So that's why she has to mind her P's and Q's a little bit. She has to be a little more respectful and deferential because if she comes at him and, and he slats her down with a, which we know he can do you know what I'm saying?
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Clay Travis
I think. I think it's going to outlive the Trump presidency in a big way, and I actually think it's a very good positive. So we'll talk some about that 60 Minutes interview. Again, we're talking a lot about the New York City mayor's race and the double races in Virginia and New Jersey taking place tomorrow. All of you, go vote. Nothing that we should ever say or do on this program should strip away that number one thing. Go vote. Right.
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Buck Sexton
I just voted for Miami beach mayor and a bunch of local commissioners on Friday. Okay. If I can vote for the mayor of Miami beach, you can.
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Clay Travis
I went to go vote Buck for the Franklin alderman, the Franklin, Tennessee, alderman race last week. So go vote. Go vote. Go vote.
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Buck Sexton
That guy. That guy is, you know, probably focusing on the same issues as, like, the local country club. There have been ladies with crop tops by the pool. Unacceptable.
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Clay Travis
Kids are playing their music too loud in the streets.
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Buck Sexton
Buck day before election day and we are following it all very closely to be sure that that big mayor's race in New York with mom Donnie. For anyone saying, well it's just New York City, it's the biggest by population and the most important financial center still on the planet, I think it matters if the mayor of 8.5 million people in New York is a, essentially a communist, I mean we can say socialist. I love to point this out. So he's not a communist, Clay. He's a socialist. The original communists call themselves socialists. So can we stop with these word games that people are saying? And also the actual communists out there in the world. And you look at China, the Chinese Communist Party in some ways acts like, you know, hyper mercantilists. So it's not really a definitional thing. Ok. The guy is spiritually a commie. And then you have the other Democrats running. The woman who's running in New Jersey, is it Mikey Sheryl? Right, Mikey Sheryl I think that's right. And then I've heard people say it different ways. And then also Spamberger, like the two most boring establishment female Democrat candidates imaginable, just hoping to lurch across the finish line here at the end. Well, we're gonna do what we can to tell you the truth about what's going on here. Some good news for gold owners. Well, honestly, there's been a lot of good news for gold owners. It's up over 50% this year. That's reality. I've got some gold, my friends. I've been a long time gold holder. My dad gave me my first gold coin like 15 years ago. So trust me, that gold coin has done very well for me and I've added a lot to my gold reserves over the years. Central banks all over the world are buying up gold. Money printing continues. Inflation's a problem. Gold is good, it's solid. The long term thesis on gold makes sense. And by the way, Birch Gold Group, that's who you want to get your gold and silver from. They can also help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA in gold. You don't pay a dime out of pocket. Birch Gold Group, that's who you want. Text Buck to 98.9898 for your free info kit from Birch Gold. Text buck to 98. 98, 98 today.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton SHOW all right. We got a lot that we are tracking, news that just broke in the last few minutes. Buck Nancy Pelosi has announced that she is officially retiring. She is not going to seek reelection. She is hanging it up at 85 years old and there will be a 85. Yes, 85.
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Buck Sexton
85.
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Clay Travis
85 years old. Nancy Pelosi is hanging it up. So she will be, she'll be out. So Trump is going to outlast Nancy Pelosi, one of his top foes. And she will retire next year. And that will be interesting to interesting to see. All right. A couple of other things that are out there. I mentioned this. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the An Seltzer poll where she had Kamala winning Iowa by three points. Of course, unfortunately for Kamala, she ended up losing by 13 points in Iowa and losing all seven battleground states. But this is Rachel Maddow one year ago and a day buck gleefully celebrating. Oh my goodness, it looks like every one is surging towards Kamala. This is msnbc basically one year ago.
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iHeart Radio Announcer
You have seen Ann Seltzer basically as a living bullseye. And that's why lots of people had strong reactions when the Des Moines Register Anseller Iowa poll was posted last night. This is that poll and it is a shock result. It shows Kamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump by three points in Iowa. And the reason this is consequential to our psyche is that if this is accurate and if anybody is accurate, it's likely to be an Seltzer in the Iowa poll. If this is accurate, this implies that Harris might be winning Iowa. Three points granted is within the margin of error here, but it's three points. Iowa is a state where neither campaign has spent any time or resources since the primaries. They don't have a ground game there. They don't have ads up there. Trump won Iowa by eight points last time and nine points the time before that. Nobody thinks of it as a swing state. A Democratic presidential candidate hasn't won Iowa since Barack Obama in 2012.
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Clay Travis
Oh, that's fun, Buck. And that she would be that far off is like you said, a really tough way for an Seltzer to ride off into the sunset. But that is where we were basically one year ago. Democrats watching msnbc. And you may remember some in your family who sent you that poll and said your boy Trump's in trouble, not so much.
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Buck Sexton
Nope, not in fact the case. But this is not to say that we think that there's going to be a massive Republican upset tomorrow. We will see. By the way, there's a very nice story. The would be governor, Republican governor of New Jersey, Jack Schiattiarelli. His son just came back from deployment. So that's an acceptable reason to tell us. He surprised him. The son surprised him that he is maybe going to join us for a little bit later on on the show, but we'll have to see cause things got a little crazy. Very nice video though circulating of the son return. What was he in Kuwait, I think. Is that right?
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Clay Travis
That's right. He was serving overseas. Prized his dad unexpectedly getting back to be able to be there, which is super cool for sure. And again all of you in New Jersey, Buck, this is what the numbers reflect. We need a huge Republican turnout. There is a Democrat lead of about 250,000 votes. If Republicans show up in big numbers, then he's going to win.
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Buck Sexton
If enough Republicans show up in New Jersey, the New Jersey governor can be a Republican. He can win. If there's a miracle and space aliens land from some other dimension. You could have Curtis Lewa win in New York City, but it is really unlikely. Cittarelli very much in the game if Republicans show up. Sliwa, we hope, but it is just hope at this point. It would have to be something the likes of which we have never seen in modern American politics. And I think unfortunately Mamdani, the turnout for Momdani is looking pretty strong. Anyway, we're not, we're not doing, doing voter suppression. I'm not doing voter suppression. New York City, I lived there for 30 plus years. It's full of lunatic libs.
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Clay Travis
Everybody.
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Buck Sexton
Do you not like what we are outnumbered. Do you think, do you think some right wing guy is going to win the mayor's office in San Francisco? You say, oh, Rudy Giuliani, that was 30 something years ago.
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Clay Travis
OK?
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Buck Sexton
It's been a long time and he.
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Clay Travis
Only had one opponent. The problem with Sliwa is if, if Cuomo had not run as an independent then we could have spent a lot of time out there saying hey, it's a head to head battle. Is there an opportunity for reasonable people to cross over? This is why we've been going after Sliwa cannot win. Everyone go vote. I don't want to hear from anybody ever at any point in time. Every now and then we get, oh, if you talk about the elections, you're every single person. We've said this all in the midterms. 2022, we said it in the election. 2024. Let nothing that we say dissuade you in any way from going to vote. We just said, buck, you voted. Miami Beach's mayoral election. I went and voted in the Franklin Alderman race last week. There was, I showed up, no one showed up.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I just realized we both showed up probably wearing flip flops like no one even paying attention to what's going on, you know, because it's a really low key affair. But I voted because I want clean, safe streets. I want to Reelect Minor, who is the mayor here in Miami beach, because the guy's done a good job, and I don't want to have to sit around and say, oh, well, I didn't actually do the mi. The one thing I could do. If we get some lunatic communist who.
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Clay Travis
Wins here next month, I've got a congressional race. I'm in the Tennessee 7th. I've got a congressional race that I'm going to be voting in. That's a special election. There's not very many people that are going to show up. I'm going to show up. So always go vote. And let me just tell you this. I don't ask for a lot. I. All right, for the next two days, I'm going to be shameless about this, because I want this book to be everywhere. I have got a book out tomorrow. Buck's got one that's coming out in January. You basically have to be shameless this day and age to get anyone to buy books you guys read. I would deeply appreciate if you would go buy a copy. I'm holding it up on video right now, of my book. I would love for this to be the bestselling book in America this week because I think the arguments that I make in it. It's got a funny title. It's going to have appeal, I think, for a lot of people out there. The book is called Balls. B A L L S. You know my name. It is Clay Travis. This will be in bookstores everywhere. But if you could go buy it right now, it would matter to me tremendously. I don't ask for very much. In fact, I'm in a good spot where I'm going to donate the proceeds from this book to charity. So I don't. I've been Buck before when I wrote books, man, I didn't have any money. And I've been in that situation out there where I got nothing and the book sells. Help to get my kids fed and help me to pay my mortgage. I'm in a good spot where I don't have to have that. I feel incredibly fortunate, which is why I'm going to donate the proceeds. But I do want the arguments here to get out. So the book is balls. You can go buy it on Amazon. There's a link up on my Twitter profile page if you want the audiobook. Buck hasn't done this yet. I sat in a windowless room and I read the entire book. Every word written by me, every word read by me. So if you're not a reader, if you're like my wife and you drive kids around all day and you listen to audiobooks. It is me reading this entire book again. I'm going to talk about it today. I'm going to talk about it tomorrow. You're going to see me on every Fox news show. You're going to see me on media everywhere. I'm going to be on with Glenn Beck in the morning. I'm going to be on with Jesse Kelly in the evenings on premiere. Should we reach out to Hannity? I'll be on Hannity's TV show. I probably should be on Hannity's radio show to. The book is Balls. It has two big basketballs on the COVID It is. Should be everywhere. Please go buy it. It would mean a ton to me. I think you'll enjoy it. Your kids, your grandkids, if you got young men, it's all about that.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. Question, Question. First of all, go get balls.
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Clay Travis
Thank you.
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Buck Sexton
You gotta have ball.
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Clay Travis
You gotta have balls. I hate being shameless and just having to be a salesperson, but this is what is demanded in book sales today. You.
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Buck Sexton
You hate being shameless. This is always like our family. You know what I mean?
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Clay Travis
Let's.
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Buck Sexton
Let's enforce directly for me.
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Clay Travis
It's rare that I come on and I say, hey, please go buy this book directly for me.
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Buck Sexton
We gotta. We gotta get. We gotta get Clay on that bestseller list for sure. So please go out there, get your copy and. And we'll do all kinds of fun stuff here on the show about it. I was gonna ask you a question, though, as we are selling copies of balls. So, you know, I know Glenn pretty darn well because I worked for Glenn. He started my media career as everyone knows who listens to me. And I worked for Glenn for six years, so I knew Glenn pretty well. Glenn knows less about professional athletics than I do. Sean strikes me as very much like a bro. Like a dude.
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Clay Travis
Sean's a big fan.
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Buck Sexton
He's a big sport.
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Clay Travis
I was.
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Buck Sexton
He's a big sports fan. Because I actually, I've never talked to Sean about that, so I have no idea if he's a big sports guy. He's a big sports guy. Makes sense.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. Yeah. I would say even if you're not a big sports person, if you have kids, sports sometimes can be the hook to get them to pay attention. So there are a lot of aspects of sports here, really. This is about young men. I would say the thesis of the book is why have we lost masculinity in America and how do we potentially get it back. What does it mean to be a strong man? This is not an anti woman book, but I feel like we have spent. There's a lot of women out there that get it. You have kids, you have grandkids, and there's a lot of women that have had to deal with weak men in their life. So I think a lot of them will appreciate this, too. But. But how did we go from, hey, it's good for men and women to be equal to toxic masculinity as a thing and being a man as a bad thing. And part of this was a response in the 2024 election. I think Trump felt this, but it's sort of an examination of gender roles and how we've decided that in order to elevate women, we have to tear down men. And I think it's an important conversation. I think a lot of moms feel it because you're raising boys. And I think a lot of you out there that are dads or granddads, you feel it because you look around and you think. And certainly if you've got young men, this is who the book is really trying to get in their head. And there's a part. You know, I've been thinking about this a lot, Buck, but this whole idea that white men destroyed America, I mean, if you're a young white kid, it's now spread into young black kids and Hispanic kids and Asian kids. Being a man, being a young man is seen as somehow lesser. And how do we get men to be strong men? That is really kind of the essence of the book. And why has Trump become this avatar, in many ways, of. Of a masculine man for young men who don't have a lot of male role models? And partly, a lot of the book goes after men, too, Buck, because there's a lot of absent dads, and absent dads, I think, create weak young men because the men who create life are not doing a good job of instilling backbone and toughness and endurance and all of these masculine virtues, because they're absent. And so how do we build stronger, more masculine men who are capable of taking on the role of men in America? And certainly, I think it's happening all around the world, but this is focused on our country. So I spend a lot of time thinking about it. Three young boys. And so this was an important story, I think, to examine for me.
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Buck Sexton
Absolutely. And I know that we separately, you talked about this. One day I was out, and then I just brought it up. And you've been focused on this. But Just by way of. And I knew this would be something like the list we've talked about the positive role models for, I think for dads out there, meaning competent, strong, good dads in pop culture, in media. And if you just do. I just did a, a Google search, so it's Google, you know, you know what comes up. Carl Winslow. Family matters, by the way. I mean, he's, you know, he's like overweight and it's a little bit of a.
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Clay Travis
But he was a cop.
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Buck Sexton
But he's a cop and a good guy. No, I, I, I, I watch that show religiously. I give that Phil Dunphy. He's likable, but he's a little bit, you know, he does a little bit of the nerd thing, you know, from a Modern Family. And I think there's a lot of left wing propaganda in Modern Family, although it's very clever. The Andy Griffith Show, Little House on the Prairie. I mean, you, you're going back now, when were those shows even on the air? And that's the first stuff that comes up. And then they, for movies. To Kill a Mockingbird again. When was that out? It's been a long time. And the other movies I see here, I've never even heard of some of these movies. So we can't, we can't have like, you can't have a dad that is in pop culture that you also as a dad can look at and be like, yeah, that's how we do it. That's the way it gets done.
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Clay Travis
I mean, I think we took the idea that men could be heroes of stories away in the 21st century. And I mean, yes, pop culture is a huge part of this. I mean, the fact that you have to go back to, to Michael, what was his name, the star of Little House on the Prairie, as a great father figure. Paw on the Ingalls family. I mean, that's crazy that we would have to go all the way back to there. And yeah, this is a big part of what the book is, so please go buy it. It would mean a lot to me. I want this book to be everywhere. I want people to have to have this conversation, even on CNN and msnbc. So we got a provocative title. But it's a good book. Balls. Look, this past weekend, Halloween and football and I don't know about you, but we put my youngest kid on his bike. He doesn't have a cell phone. He doesn't have any ability for us to track him. Unlike his older brothers, we give him rapid radio. It's a walkie talkie that allows him to stay in touch with us no matter where he is. Rapid Radios work on a nationwide LTE network. They connect to anyone in the US and they make such a huge difference. Battery can last up to five days without a charge. No monthly fees. No complicated setup. I hear from people all the time, hey this thing worked when nothing else was working for me. What do you have to lose? Try them out. Go to rapidradios.com to make sure that all of you can have a way to get in touch with your family. We use it for my mother in law. We use it for my youngest son out there. You're going to love it. Rapidradios.com code radio that's rapidradios.com code radio Sign up today. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. When disaster strikes, will you be able to reach your loved ones? Rapid Radios delivers peace of mind when it matters most. Hurricane Helene wiped out electricity in parts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. It's taking a long time to recover from those hardships.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck, and we're gonna dive into some of the biggest takeaways from President Trump's sit down over the weekend with 60 Minutes. He covered a whole wide range of topics. We'll dive into some of that here coming up shortly. We're obviously still thinking very much and analyzing in depth the New York City mayor's race and the two governor's races that we care about in Virginia and New Jersey. And we'll get to some of your calls, some of your talkbacks, all of that good stuff to be sure. Let's see. Oh, Dennis in California wants to throw something in the mix. Go ahead, Dennis. Hi, guys. I just wanted to make sure we don't neglect the big ballot measure, the Proposition 50 in California. This is related to redistricting and we need to vote no on Prop 50 to make sure that we override Newsom's attempt to steal five Republican congressional seats. Absolutely huge for Congress. All right, good point. Californians. A lot of Republicans in California and a lot of them listen to the show. You got to get out there for Prop 50.
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Clay Travis
All right?
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Buck Sexton
You know, you gotta mobilize, clay.
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Clay Travis
Very important, 100%. Again, let nothing we say on this program ever dissuade you from going to vote Buck and I just talked about local elections. Oftentimes all of the big stories are about the national or statewide elections. But as you all know, who's on your school board, who's on your local town councils, it often matters immensely to your quality of life. Up and down the ballot always go vote across this nation. Please drive up turnout everywhere. If you listen to us, you should be voting. When we come back, we'll break down more on the races.
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