Hour 1 - I'm Getting a Bad Vibe

Summary

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Hour 1: "I'm Getting a Bad Vibe"

Date: December 16, 2025
Host: Buck Sexton (Clay Travis absent)
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this solo-hosted, news-driven episode, Buck Sexton tackles recent national security incidents, focusing especially on the shooting at Brown University and the broader themes of how media and law enforcement handle politically sensitive acts of violence. Sexton analyzes the facts, reports on emerging details, and critiques the tendency of institutional actors to conceal uncomfortable truths from the public. He also weighs in on the implication of "Islamophobia" in terrorism discussions and draws on his counter-terrorism experience for context and clarity.

Overall Tone:
Candid, skeptical, analytical, and occasionally irreverent; Buck openly shares speculation while distinguishing it from verified fact.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Personal and Show Update [02:22]

• Buck Sexton is hosting solo: Buck explains Clay Travis is absent due to the passing of Clay's uncle, a Vietnam War veteran.
  • "Clay is at the service today and I am here helming the show solo as a result."
• Buck himself is under the weather from a cold he attributes to staying out late at his Christmas party.
  • Light-hearted banter about aging and partying

2. Review of Major Headlines [03:50–05:10]

• Main stories to address:
  • Brown University shooting (primary focus)
  • Recent actions by Secretary of War Hegseth (drug boats, Pacific)
  • Ongoing US border crisis and its national security consequences
  • Media reactions to Trump’s comments about Rob Reiner
  • Updates on the Bondi Beach shooting

3. Critique of Media Analysis & Commitment to Transparency [05:10–08:50]

• Buck emphasizes show’s approach:
  • Contrasts “forward-leaning analysis” with sensational, reckless commentary found elsewhere.
  • “We try to do something different here where we do forward-leaning analysis. We'll say, okay, this is where I think something is likely to go. But here's the evidence, here's the proof, here's my level of certainty or lack thereof. Just essentially total honesty.”
  • Points out radio advice from Glenn Beck: treat the audience as trusted friends.

4. Analysis of the Brown University Shooting [08:50–17:46]

a. Emerging Narrative

• The victim, Ella Cook, was vice president of the College Republicans at Brown, reportedly targeted.
• Speculation and third-hand reports (from media sources like Mark Halpern) suggest a potential political motive.
• The shooter remains at large; law enforcement is withholding key details about the assailant's words at the scene.
• Buck highlights this opacity as a pattern in “liberal” cities and institutions.

Mark Halpern (09:21):
"People are telling me the family of Ella Cook... has been told that she was the target of what happened at Brown. I have no idea whether that's true... but probably most of you don't even know that that's being alleged..."

b. Suspicion about Law Enforcement Secrecy

• Brown is “the most left-wing Ivy League school”; very few conservatives, making coincidence seem unlikely if the victim was targeted.
• Providence Police Chief, Oscar Perez, withholds what the shooter yelled (11:21–12:37).
• Buck’s analysis: withholding these facts may reflect political considerations.

Buck Sexton (12:42):
“He knows that they yelled something or that the guy yelled something. He knows. He knows what was yelled too... So we know that something was yelled. Again, going into my—is this just a totally random act or is this a targeted political killing?”

c. Broader Implications

• If “political targeting” is confirmed, Buck argues this fits a pattern of leftist or radical violence getting downplayed.
• Cites the Charlie Kirk assassination as another example.
• Buck questions the local system’s willingness to acknowledge politically inconvenient motivations.

d. Theory & “Spidey Sense”

• Buck openly says he’s “getting a bad vibe”—the title theme—suggesting “they don't want people to know what really happened here” (16:15).

5. Social Media and Citizen Journalism vs. Mainstream Media [20:17–22:00]

• Comparison of accuracy:
  • Buck notes that independent sources (Libs of TikTok, Mark Halpern) often provide more accurate, timely info than mainstream press (AP).
  • Social media reports suggest the shooter yelled “Allahu Akbar”; officials still have not confirmed.
  • Buck’s frustration: law enforcement delay is a tactic so the news cycle’s focus moves on.

Buck Sexton (20:17):
“What’s the difference now between the AP and someone like Libs of TikTok? Well, Libs of TikTok is more accurate...”

6. Counterterrorism Perspective & Debate over Islamophobia [24:00–32:32]

a. Buck’s credentials

• Shares experience as a CIA Counterterrorism Center analyst – to lend authority to his analysis.
• Points out lack of Buddhist, Sikh, or Christian terrorist attacks in the US to emphasize a unique problem with radicalization in the Islamic context—argues this isn’t about race or “Islamophobia,” but about confronting a societal issue.

Buck Sexton (27:10):
"Anybody who says otherwise is ignorant. They don't know what they're talking about, ok?"

b. Critique of Label “Islamophobia”

• Argues the term is “meant to shut down free and fair debate and discussion.”
• “Islam is an ideology, not a skin color. It is not an ethnicity.”

c. Radical Islam’s Resurgence & Media Denial

• Notes Taliban control in Afghanistan as evidence of resurgent Islamic extremism.
• Cites US media and government tendency post-attacks to downplay Islamist motivation (example: Pulse nightclub shooting, Florida, 2016).

7. Confirmation of Shooter's Reported Statement & Political Reaction [32:32–33:20]

GOP Strategist (32:32):
“At least five students that I have seen have confirmed on the record in media interviews saying that he yelled 'Allahu Akbar.' Well, I think that that's pretty relative information...”

• Buck highlights that details are being withheld because they “look bad” for the political left.
• References Pulse Nightclub and the Obama FBI’s redactions; argues such withholding of info is common practice when attacks don’t fit preferred media narratives.

8. Open Lines, Listener Feedback [42:20–42:54]

• Caller "Matt from Columbus":
  • Notes Ohio State campus police are increasing patrols in response to the Brown shooting but lack critical details.

Matt (Columbus) [42:20]:
“If they knew what that individual said in Brown, they might be able to get their resources in better places instead of just randomly across the campus.”

• Buck’s Response:
  • Points out “security theater” and misplaced priorities arise when officials withhold key facts—contributes to public distrust.
  • Questions about the narrative of “diversity is our strength” when data and transparency get suppressed.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• On transparency:

  "We try to do something different here where we do forward-leaning analysis... just essentially total honesty." – Buck Sexton [05:10]

• On the Brown shooting coverage:

  “Is this just a totally random act or is this a targeted political killing, essentially another assassination on a college campus?” – Buck Sexton [12:42]

• On independent journalism:

  "What’s the difference now between the AP and someone like Libs of TikTok? Well, Libs of TikTok is more accurate.” – Buck Sexton [20:20]

• On withheld information:

  "Why can't he tell us what was shouted? ... I think because it's very possible, I should say that it is because they don't, they don't like what the implication is of what was said." – Buck Sexton [13:20]

• On debates about Islam and terrorism:

  "Anybody who says otherwise is ignorant. They don't know what they're talking about, ok?" – Buck Sexton [27:10]

• On the prevailing narrative:

  "This is a one way street, my friends. ... It only, only one side is doing this stuff." – Buck Sexton [33:20]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [02:22] – Buck opens solo, explains Clay’s absence
• [03:50] – Headlines rundown
• [05:10] – Discussion on show’s honest approach and media critique
• [08:50] – Brown University shooting focus; introduction of key facts
• [09:21] – Mark Halpern’s report on targeting of Ella Cook
• [11:21–12:37] – Providence Police Chief hedges on shooter’s shouted words
• [13:20] – Analysis of police/media motivation
• [16:15] – Buck’s “bad vibe” and speculation about a cover-up
• [20:17] – Rise of citizen journalism, social media as more reliable sources
• [24:00] – Buck draws on CIA counterterrorism background
• [27:10] – Monologue on “Islamophobia” as rhetorical weapon
• [32:32] – GOP strategist: eyewitnesses confirm “Allahu Akbar” was yelled
• [33:20] – Political motivations for withholding info
• [42:20] – Listener “Matt from Columbus” on campus security and withheld info

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Conclusion

In this episode, Buck Sexton rigorously dissects the official narrative surrounding the Brown University shooting, asking why crucial details are visibly withheld and challenging the often-politicized response to acts of radical violence. He leans on his national security background to debunk claims of “Islamophobia” and urges listeners to seek out factual, independent journalism over establishment media sources. Throughout, Buck maintains his signature blend of skepticism and transparency, keeping listeners informed and armed with arguments to cut through the noise.

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Transcript

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[Buck Sexton]

Welcome in everybody to the Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. It is just going to be me today and I'm sorry to say you will pick it up in my voice. I have a cold. No surprise I stayed out till 10pm one night like a crazy man. 10 o' clock Eastern. Nuts. How can you do that, Buck? Well, it was my Christmas party. Now I'm paying the price. I have, I have gotten the cold that has been ripping around Florida and I guess probably the whole East Coast. And also we have Clay out today because his uncle passed away. So he is going to his uncle Kenneth, 84 years old, a Vietnam War vet, Clay's mother's brother sadly passed away. It was something that they knew was likely imminent. But it's always, always so difficult when you lose a family member. It's Clay's mom's only sibling. So Clay is at the at the service today and I am here helming the show solo as a result. We do have a lot of news to get to. I apologize if my voice breaks at some point when I'm talking about it, but I am going to be hydrating with as much Crockett coffee as I possibly can. Maybe I need to start making Crockett tea, but that's something we'll work on. So we have updates on a few things that I wanted to spend time with you on. The big stories, The Brown University shooting, Secretary of War Hegseth responding to another strike. This one of the eastern Pacific think off the coast of Mexico, eastern Pacific blowing up more of those drug boats. That continues the border situation and the realities of national security with an open border. A conversation that I want to have a lot of people going to outrage level 11 on Trump's comments on Rob Reiner. You know, I don't know what they think they're going to accomplish by making this a huge thing, but there's a lot of reaction. This has become now the anti Trump story of the week, it seems is the Trump truth about Rob Reiner. And we've got some Trump comments from yesterday in the Oval Office also on health care, on a whole range of things. So. Oh, and I mentioned the Bondi beach shooting. We have some updates on that for you as well, on the perpetrators of that. So we have a very busy show, something I thought was interesting. Look, there are a lot of people out there right now who in the commentary sphere who have a approach where they just say the most outlandish thing, usually the fastest or the first, and then if it turns out to be totally wrong, who cares? People paid attention when they did and then they just move on. We try to do something different here where we do forward leaning analysis. We'll say, okay, this is where I think something is likely to go. But here's the Evidence, here's the proof, here's my level of certainty or lack thereof. Just essentially total honesty. I mean, I speak and Clay, when we're here on this, on the show together, I speak to you in the same way. This is actually how I was trained to do radio going, going back to when I worked for Glenn Beck at the Blaze. Glenn told me this. His program director, Dom Theodore told me this. They said, you are talking to a dear and trusted friend. That is radio. And that is what we do every day. I talk to you the same way that I speak to my brothers, who I talk to pretty much every day. My parents carry about these issues, right. About these issues. And that means that when I think something is, you know, tingling my Spidey sense, I'll tell you. And then if it turns out not to be the case, well then, all right, fine. For example, when I was doing the terrorism analysis, and I've done a lot of on air terrorism analysis in the past, particularly actually at cnn, although Fox News as well, and in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist attack, sometimes while it's even still unfolding, in part I've had to say this is what I think is happening. And I've never been really wrong. I haven't been always spot on, but I've never been so off that I felt like, oh my gosh, I missed that. And generally I nail it dead center of the bullseye. Just saying more often than not that has been the case. Something was worth bringing up with you yesterday and I still can't entirely verify this, but there is more pushing in that direction. Something very weird is going on here where the Brown University shooting. And just in case you aren't aware, Brown University is maybe for an a quote, elite school. And we're going to talk about this whole notion of elite institutions and elite schools later on. An incredible piece on DEI over the last decade and what it has done to these places was written in Tablet magazine. Incredible piece which I want to get to basically destroyed. The notion of these places are prestigious is a joke now to anybody who's paying attention. But Brown University may be the most left. It's the most left wing Ivy League school and I think proudly so. And it's among the most left wing universities in the country. Just as context. So when you have somebody on that campus, Ella Cook in this case, who was targeted and was killed, you what is the chance this is a coincidence that she is the vice president of the College Republicans? That had nothing to do with that. Maybe. And like I said, if it Turns out there's no connection whatsoever. Well then I'll come back and say, hey guys, we're leaning in this direction. Didn't report it as fact. I'm just saying this is where the analysis is leading me. But Mark Halpern, who is a reliable source in his media reporting, I cannot think of a time certainly in recent years when Halpern face planted on something. I think he usually is. He was very good. He was the only left of center guy who, the only Democrat really who was who nailed the Trump election. This last Trump election. I was telling people for months we were playing him on the show because I was saying, see, he knows Trump's gonna absolutely destroy the competition, but here he is saying that he has been told. So again, this is a little bit like a game of telephone. This is a third hand source now, not even secondhand. But he has been told that the Brown University attack was targeting Ella Cook, a prominent conservative on campus. Play cut to.

[Mark Halpern]

People are telling me that the family of Ella Cook, the Alabama young woman who was a sophomore, has been told that she was the target of what happened at Brown. I have no idea whether that's true. There's other theories about why the person did what they did, but now that we don't know who the assailant is, it's going to be harder to say. But if it's true that she was targeted, that's a big story because she was one of the most visible conservatives on that campus. Don't know that it's true. But probably most of you don't even know that that's being alleged because you'd have to follow certain accounts on X or have sources, as I do, who are telling me that.

[Buck Sexton]

So like I said, it certainly would be very coincidental that a prominent conservative, a known conservative on a campus that is also among the most radical left wing campuses in the entire country, doesn't. They don't have grades there. I don't know if you know this. I had an aunt who went to Brown many decades ago. She wouldn't like me saying many decades, but decades ago I had an aunt who went to Brown. They don't do grades. And so it's a, it's a kind of a woo woo, left wing place. I bring that up only because not a lot of conservatives there. Okay. Even for a college campus, very rare. So you're, you're whittling down, you're looking at the percentages, you're whittling down the coincidence factor here piece by piece. Then there's something else that makes me think about this. The gunman said something. The gunman said something. And the Providence police chief. This is cut five. Oscar Perez will not tell the. They're still looking for the guy. They haven't found him. There's like photo of him out there that they've released. His stocky build. They won't say what he said. Play five. There's a report the shooter yelled something right before he shot came in. Could you tell us what that. What that was?

[Providence Police Chief]

Yeah, it's a part of the investigation, John, and we'll.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah.

[GOP Strategist]

The only reason I asked that though is for instance, like with the Unabomber.

[Buck Sexton]

His brother recognized the writing.

[GOP Strategist]

So is it.

[Buck Sexton]

It's possible a friend or family member might recognize if the person said something that was significant other than the 9 millimeter. Is there anything else inside that auditorium that you can tell us?

[Providence Police Chief]

No, that's correct. And listen, like I said earlier, investigations will bring us to evidence that we need to collect in order to be able to prosecute that. With that being said, with that being said, we're going to continue to collect evidence and if he leads us to something to that nature that's going to be extremely helpful for us to identify somebody will be the first ones to put it out.

[Buck Sexton]

Did the suspect yell like has been reported and there's been some erroneous reporting, but did he yawn in the classroom? And how valuable have witness statements been from those who survived?

[Providence Police Chief]

Listen, my heart goes out to the victims. It goes out to the families. And I'll tell you that their, their, their cooperation has been extremely helpful and that with that being said, we'll continue and I'm going to respect the fact that. And I hope that they get better in my heart and soul goes out to them.

[Buck Sexton]

So, so that's something.

[Providence Police Chief]

That's something that we're investigating. We took statements and we have to.

[Buck Sexton]

Confirm that he knows that they yelled something or that the guy yelled something. He knows. He knows what was yelled too. Oh, what, a witness to the shooting who almost died himself or herself is gonna make it up? So we know that something was yelled. Again, going into my. Is this just a totally random act or is this a targeted political killing, essentially another assassination on a college campus? Because that's what targeting a prominent conservative on a left wing campus would constitute. I don't know if that's what this is, but I do know that there are some things happening here that make me think that is increasingly likely. Why can't he tell us what was shouted this is a bit like when I went on TV to talk about the national, the shooting of those two National Guardians soldiers in D.C. i was told it wasn't confirmed, so I didn't want to say it on the air, but I was told by sources in the military that he yelled allahu Akbar. You pretty much know what you're dealing with when someone's killing someone and they yell Allah bar, Right? So what did this guy yell, by the way? I'm not saying it was a Lawu Akbar. I'm just saying sometimes what they yell when they're shooting somebody is a big clue as to what happened here and why they did it. Why isn't law enforcement telling us? I think because it's very possible, I should say that it is because they don't, they don't like what the implication is of what was said. Providence, very left wing town. Rhode island, very left wing state. Democrats run the whole thing top to bottom. Do you think that the system there wants to deal with the fact that there may have been a high profile, again, if this was the case, a high profile assassination on a college campus of another conservative mere months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk? No. They recognize the problems that that would constitute. So we'll continue to follow this. We don't have this. The shooter in custody yet. They still haven't been able to find him. Seems like some level of real incompetence here at work with the Providence Police Department. But they haven't been able to find this individual, this shooter. And perhaps there's, you know, it could be, it could have had a personal grudge. You know, it could have been, for all. It could have been any number of things. And I understand that. But I just. As we move along here, the delay from law enforcement in telling us what was said added to the fact that this happened to be a prominent conservator on campus. It's certainly worth noting, isn't it? And if we find out that my theory here based on the facts, if this does come true, as in this is where I'm leaning. I haven't said this is what happened, but where I am leaning comes to pass, then we'll know that they played political games with this. Well, no, and that's why, that's why it's worth saying this now so that you know and we know that we understand what has gone on here, but we have to see where the facts take us. We have to see what the assailant, the alleged murderer here, well, who was he and what was he all about? But we'll continue to follow this because I'm starting to get that, oh, they don't want people to know what really happened here vibe. Starting to get that in a big way. All right. From all the years I spent in D.C. and now in the media world, I've seen how important it is to understand how politics can move the markets. Insiders have always had a head start until now. This is why I began Money and Power, an E newsletter that's totally separate from this program, by the way. It's a project I'm doing on the side. I do it with my, with my brother who is a Ivy League trained former hedge fund stock analyst. And we look at, we have a portfolio. We look at the stories that really matter in politics and translate them into investment opportunities and we publish the portfolio. So you can see how have those recommendations done. I would just tell you, take a look at how they've done recently for yourself. Now we translate what's happening in D.C. into clear, actionable research you can use to get ahead. It's boots on the ground financial intelligence designed to help you move before the crowd. You can join Money and Power, read these really incredible stories and learn what investment opportunities we think are out there. For 82% off the regular price, go to joinbuck.com today. That's joinbuck.com and get your first alert before the next policy. Shock hits paid for by Paradigm Press. Saving America One thought at a time. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Shh.

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[Buck Sexton]

Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Definitely want to take a lot of your calls because one, I love hearing from you and two, you'll help me save some of my voice because it's coming in and out a little bit as I have a cold. Like I said, you stay out till 10 o', clock, you get, you know, you get what you ask for. I was, I was partying until maybe it might have even been 10:15. I'm a wild man. A lot of people I think in Miami have dinner at 10:15 and go out until, you know, sunrise, but not me. We have all of, all of your calls and talkbacks to get to later on. I would also say I didn't even know this until the team pointed it out to me. So this is one of those. Oh yeah, that's what I'm thinking is going on here. That Libs of TikTok, Ahaya of Lives of TikTok, among others are saying, reporting. What's the difference now between the AP and someone like Libs of TikTok. Well, lives of TikTok is more accurate. You know, it's amazing, isn't it? What is verification? Now, you have a lot of people who are independent voices out there who are very. I said Mark Halpern, he's even Democrat. I cannot remember Mark Halpern saying something that was factually, very wrong, reporting on something factually, very wrong. So there that's. You know, he was told that this woman was targeted on Brown University campus. But beyond that, libs of TikTok and others are saying eyewitnesses said the guy who shot her. Now, again, notice how I'm putting this. See, I'm trying to show you how the responsible way, like how we would do this, not even when I was in the government, but also the way that media should do it, telling you everything so you know everything. So if something turns out to be different or new facts come in, you've never been on the wrong side of this or told something is true that isn't. I've just told you. This is what has been said. This is where we are. Libs of TikTok claiming that eyewitnesses heard the guy yell Allahu Akbar. Well, why wouldn't the mayor of Providence, who was. Was speaking with a pretty thick accent there, why wasn't the mayor. Why doesn't the mayor of Providence want to just tell the public that very important fact and they'll say, oh, but it doesn't matter. It'll eventually come out. No, no, no, no. If they hold that for a week or longer, the whole point is people will have moved on to something else and this will just be another shooting, and we won't stop to think. Hold on a second. You mean another person that the left, another ideology that the left either coddles or supports was behind this? Yeah. Who's really responsible for the political violence in America if you pay attention to sports? Right. You've heard of Prize Picks, the app that makes watching sports more fun. Even the casual sports fan, which I definitely would classify as likes to. To test their sports knowledge with this. The prizepix app is free to download, easy to use. You'll be having fun with it in seconds. 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As you know, I was a CTC analyst, a CIA officer, a CTC analyst, which is the Counterterrorism center, which was stood up really as the anti Al Qaeda unit of the Central Intelligence Agency. It had a different name before it was ctc and then it became CTC and it was really at the, at the center of the action on a lot of what the CIA did and did quite well post 911 in the war on terror. Tracking down these targets all over. Well, the places that you know about Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Philippines, a place we're going to talk about here shortly, where there's still Islamic terrorism. Is it interesting there are. If I sat here and asked you, excuse me. If I sat here and asked you to name a Christian terrorist group, you could think for a few minutes, I don't know, maybe you'd come up with something. If I maybe, I don't know. I can't. But if I said come up with a Christian terrorist group all over the world, in pretty much every country where there's any concentration of Christians, you definitely wouldn't be able to do that. Right. Isn't that an interesting exercise? You might say, oh, but Buck, that sounds, oh, Islamophobic. It sounds so racist. Hold on a second. If I asked you to come up with a Buddhist terrorist group, lot of Buddhists all over the world. In fact, there are about as many Buddhists in America as there are Muslims. How many Buddhist terrorist attacks can you think about on U.S. soil? How many of those have happened? Can you think of one? I did this for a living and I can't. Sikhs. Sikhs are from South Asia. They are generally brown. They therefore are ethnically the same as a lot of or look very similar to a lot of Muslims from the South Asia, including Pakistanis and Afghanis and people from India. I know there's all kinds of variation and everything else, but I'm just saying generally speaking, how Many Sikh terrorist attacks have occurred in the United States in your memory, where a Sikh was just, you know, he, he took out his working blade as Sikhs are supposed to carry, and just started running around stabbing every 00. Not a single one. 99% of Sikhs are non white. About a million Sikhs live in America. Not a single Sikh terror attack. Now, why am I going through this exercise? Because the people who tell you that there isn't something that is uniquely problematic to Islam in the 21st century, or the 20th century for that matter, when it comes to terrorism, are delusional. We all know this. We all know this. I told you when I worked. Again, manufacturing delusions. Speaking of delusions, my book. Please go buy copies. I need all of you to buy copies. The conservative book market has been falling apart. You know that. Because people who used to listen to, or rather who have listened to shows like this one and listen to Rush and others, there's not as many good books out there. I know this is gonna. This is self serving. Make no mistake about it. You helped me get to number one of the New York Times bestseller list by particularly buying advanced copies coming out February 17th of Manufacturing Delusion. You helped me. You know what that does everybody, all the other conservatives that you like out there right now, especially my contemporaries, you know, yeah, there have been, you know, Mark Levin's been fantastically successful selling books and Bill O'Reilly. I'm talking about the lower gen, the younger generation, they're not writing books. You know why? Because you can't make any money. Because people aren't buying books. And then what happens? And then people just start hiring ghostwriters. I poured my blood, sweat and tears into this book. If you help me make this successful, I am telling you there will be other people, maybe people that you even like more than me, which would be sad, but possibly they will be like, oh, okay, the book market is alive and well. The book market is. It is in a rough spot. Part of this also ties into the DI D stuff I want to talk about later. That's on the publisher side. But manufacturing delusion. Go get a copy. Buy it on Amazon, buy it wherever you can. Buy it now because that is the first printing. Buy it now because that. It's all about the first week. What is that number that then determines the momentum and everything else. But I talk about these things. I talk about. This is why I'm thinking about this right now. The arguments you'll hear about Islamophobia. I worked the NYPD Intelligence Division now Intelligence Bureau. Why am I bringing that up because just for the sake of making everybody feel like it wasn't the Islamic Terrorism unit, which it was, but we couldn't call it that. What were the real plots against New York City? It was always some crazy Muslim guy who wanted to shoot up a synagogue or blow up a subway. Always, always, always. We had a, like a white supremacist unit and we had an antifa unit and we had a. You know, they were really, really bored. But I give you, I want to arm you with this argument about. About why Islamophobia is a nonsense term meant to shut down free and fair debate and discussion. It's an ideology. It is not a skin color. It is not an ethnicity. Anybody who says otherwise is ignorant. They don't know what they're talking about, ok? They have no idea. Some of the craziest jihadis you will ever see in your life are absolutely as white as I am because they come from the Caucasus Mountain area, like Caucasian. I mean, this is. You'll see Kurds with blonde hair and blue eyes. Now, the Kurds tend to be great and wonderful people, but technically, you know, I'm just saying, not a lot of jihadis coming out of Kurdistan. But you get that they're the. They're Muslims. They're not ethnically. There's no ethnic similarity. They want to make it about race because they want to make you not think about what's going on here. And so to anybody who says, I've even run through this exercise, because this is going to start to come up more, my friends, Islam, radical Islam. We killed off a lot of the worst terrorists. We did. With all the special operators and the drone strikes and everything. We paid a huge price for it. Was it worth it? Was it not? That's a whole other conversation. But we killed off Al Qaeda leadership all over the world. Truly. We killed off whole generations of foreign fighters. Truly. They can say we made them. I don't know. If you grow up in London and you decide you want to go blow yourself up in Iraq. I think you probably had problems before we invaded, but this is what is going on right now. There is a resurgence. You're seeing it, the beginnings of it, a resurgence of radical Islam. The Taliban controls Afghanistan. We have this problem. And the same voice, you're going to be saying, oh, the real issue here is Islamophobia. No, it's not. It's not. The real issue is people need to see what's going on and speak openly and honestly about it. And this is why I say you'll notice there's no Buddha phobia in America. They'll only talk about Islamophobia. Why is that? Most Buddhists are non white. I mean, there's like some, you know, Malibu moms who become Buddhists. But generally speaking, most Buddhists are non white. And there's no terrorist attacks here from Buddhists. Or if there is, there's one or something. I'm sure somebody's going to find one on the Internet. But they don't cause this problem from within the Islamic community. From within the same. Roughly the same number Muslim Americans, Buddhist Americans, one of them is causing a whole lot of terrorist attacks. The other is not. And they're not. And they're both non white. So what is going on here? Okay, I just wanted to get that out of the way, or rather arm you with that, because as we talk more about this now, we have, for example, a GOP strategist who went on TV and said straight up that there are students who have gone on the record saying this is cut 35, that the shooter on Brown University yelled Allahu Akbar, play 35.

[GOP Strategist]

The police did a press conference yesterday, and they would not confirm what the shooter yelled out before he started shooting. So you had a room of 60 students, 11 which have been shot. Two are now dead. But that means that there are, you know, at least they said somewhere around 60, 40 students who were in there who could confirm what this man shot. At least five students that I have seen have confirmed on the record in media interviews saying that he yelled Ali U Akbar. Well, I think that that's pretty relative information. I think that that would matter as there's a massive search for the shooter. Did he yell Ali Akbar? Because then we should be looking for a, you know, Free Palestine terrorist. And Reddit yesterday, by the way, had to shut down the Brown University board because Free Palestine students were celebrating Ella Cook's death.

[Buck Sexton]

Will you look at that? Now you see, what they're going to do is assuming that this all lines up. The libs in charge here, the lib, you know, police chief here, you can tell this guy's a lib. The libs who run Providence, the libs in the media, the people that are always making excuses for radical Islam, it's our fault. We didn't assimilate them well enough. It's our Islamophobia. Whatever. Also, this plays very much into the politics of the moment because this would be, like I said, another high profile political assassination on a college campus within four months of the Charlie Kirk assassination. This Is a one way street, my friends. It only, only one side is doing this stuff. And it ain't Trumpers, it ain't secure, it ain't people who are security focused on the right. No, that's not who's doing this stuff. You know, national security hawks, you know, people who college Republicans. No, we're not the ones that are causing this kind of violence. We're not the ones that are doing this. So that's why they don't want you to know it. And this all lines up as well. I will never forget under the Obama administration, the Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida and some jihadist lunatic goes into a gay nightclub and starts just murdering and slaughtering as many people as possible. It's just horrific beyond imagination, beyond words. And the FBI under Obama blacks out. On the official transcript, they release him saying allahu Akbar. Him saying, I did this for isis. Him saying, you know, this is what the true Muslims do or something. All that stuff blacked out. We all knew what was there. Why would they hide that from us? Because they think you can't be trusted with the truth. And I'm getting a lot of that from what happened here at Brown University. And they do this for a reason. They tell themselves or they'll tell you. It's because we, we're waiting for all the facts to come in or we, you know, we don't want there to be innocent people targeted because of bigotry or whatever. But really what's going on here is this looks bad for their team, roughly speaking, the left, the Democrats, the other side of our political divide. And you can say, oh, but why? This guy's a radical Muslim. If you're a radical Muslim in America today, are you going to vote Republican or Democrat? In fact, if you're looking for a radical Islamic elected official in today's America, is it going to be a Democrat or Republican? We all know what's going on here, so I think we need to speak honestly and truthfully about it. Even if they try to say things to you. But like I said, always walk anyone who says you're being Islamophobic, you know, and I could do all the throat clearing, you know, it's less than 1% of Muslims in this country have any affiliation with any kind of an extremist group. And you know, I could, but we all know that. But unfortunately, Even if it's 1/10 of 1%, if you're talking about millions and millions of people, that's a big problem. If that includes people who are going to go out and shoot up dozens of people or, you know, blow up subway cars or whatever it is. That's a big problem. And think about how much time they spent on the other side under the Biden years, in particular telling you that the real threat of extremism was right wing extremists. Nobody gets on a plane and says, you know, I'm worried that one of the MAGA guys is going to sneak a bomb on this thing. Nobody, not even the jihadists, nobody thinks that. But we have to pretend. I've never pretended. So I was gonna say I'm done pretending, but I've never pretended. I've always been very honest on this. This is why I started to get in trouble at cnn because they would try to have their experts come out and talk to me about this and I would smoke them like the fools they are, because I know more than them and they're on the wrong side. So I want you to know this stuff. I want you to be equipped with these arguments because it's going to come up more. It's going to. Do you think that all these students that have gone on the record misheard what was said? Possible? Likely. No. All right. For every single day in America, we lose close to 3,000 unborn babies to abortion. It is a tragedy. But there is a group out there that's doing something right now to save those lives. The team at preborn. They're on the front lines of saving life. They meet pregnant mothers in their darkest hours who are leaning toward a decision to abort their unborn baby. But preborn says, hold on a second. Let's give you love, acceptance, understanding and support right now. 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[Buck Sexton]

Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck and we're going to get to some of your talkbacks and some of your calls here. Let's get to Matt in Columbus, Ohio. This is Talkback cc. Hit it. This is Matt out of Columbus, Ohio. Just heard on the news radio that the Ohio State Campus Police are increasing their patrols on campus this weekend. Sounds good. But if they knew what that individual said in brown, they might be able to get their resources in better places instead of just randomly across the campus.

[Providence Police Chief]

Thanks.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, but they are going to go through the security theater of, oh yeah, we're going to deploy more cops on campus. Well, who was this guy and what did he do? If you don't know that, you don't know anything. You know, for all they know, it could be, you know, a disgruntled lab partner or something. I mean, they. Now, I don't think that's what happened. I've explained what I think is going on here, but I'm just saying the cops are acting like we know nothing about this. And the fact that this chief of police, this guy, is holding back information from the public on a matter of public safety. This is why people don't trust the system. And this is why people are really sick of being lectured about how diversity is our strength. If diversity is our strength, why do they have to lie about things like this? This. Why do they have to protect us from the truth about what our, quote, diversity costs us sometimes? This is just where we are now. Amazing. We're finally allowed to talk about this stuff now. I've been talking about it for a long time. In fact, the team is trying to find me smacking around some CNN libs a decade ago after a terrorist attack. We'll see if we get that for you. But speaking of terror attacks, more on the Bandai terror attack. Those guys were yelling Allahu Akbar. Killed a lot of people. What are the Australian authorities saying about it? And what do we know about the shooters? We'll get into that and more coming up. Shh.

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