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Clay Travis
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. Iran, Iran, Iran very much the center of the news and information space right now. People focused in on a whole range of aspects of the campaign in Iran. We're not calling it a war. It is ongoing strikes overseas, kinetic activity kind of like a war. But we are seeing now concerns over the Strait of Hormuz rising. We had Carg island was, was hit over the weekend by us where they refined the oil and we didn't hit the oil infrastructure. We're hitting military targets. Is the latest on this. But showing that we can hit that island if we choose to do so. Trump is speaking about the mission set here, talking about what the plan is. People are asking more and more questions about this. The oil price is something that you're going to be watching in the days ahead and it is likely to go up considerably as you have a major bottleneck at the Strait of Hormuz because ships do not want to enter. Nobody wants to be the first oil tanker to get blown to smithereens by Iranian missiles, drones. They have a whole bunch of stuff. Clay. I believe at the narrowest the Strait of Hormuz is three miles across. That is a puddle for the purposes of military targeting and technology of today. I mean that is couldn't be any easier. There's no, oh, we're going to, you know, back in the day in the age of wooden, wooden ships and sail, maybe you could try to make a run for it across a three month. No. So there's a lot of concern over this one. The energy secretary talking about short term price disruption. Trump saying the mission is getting more and more accomplished. But we'll also. There were the Oscars last night. We'll just make fun of them because it was really sad. The Oscars sad watch exclamation Oscars at all the last 10 minutes because Carrie wanted to. The last 10 minutes, yes.
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Buck Sexton
I'm going to be honest, I did not watch the a single moment. I don't even think. I've seen hardly a clip. I watched the World Baseball Classic, which was fantastic, but I didn't even watch a single minute. I haven't seen anything.
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Clay Travis
We will get into that stuff later because I know many of you will start groaning rightfully so if we talk Oscars instead of Iran because this is actually important. The Oscars is only worth talking about the. Because it is so clearly unimportant now. It's pretty funny. All right, let's look at where we are with this. First of all, Clay Strait of Hormuz. Caroline Levitt spoke out about where the administration on the is on this one. This is cut one from the White House. Listen to where things stand. Hit it.
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Caroline Levitt
Yes, the president is speaking with our allies in Europe and also many of our partners in the Gulf and Arab world to encourage them to step up, to do more to open the Strait of Hormuz. And our NATO allies especially need to step up. Look, President Trump has been very, very frank with our friends in NATO for a very long time. He got them to increase their defense spending up to 5% and now he's calling on them to do the right thing because again, the United States of America is leading the way not just to support and protect our American assets and bases in the Middle east, but also to defend Europe in the Middle east and the rest of the world from the rogue Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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Clay Travis
Clay the anti Trump media very happy with so far places like Germany putting out very clear statements saying things like this is not our war, we did not start it, we are not getting involved in it. Trump administration still trying to get more allies outside of the immediate allies in the region on board. How do you think this is going? I mean, we're starting to get into how do you think this is going territory and how long is this going to keep going?
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Buck Sexton
I think it's gone incredibly well. And I understand people out there. I was, I finished my book in North Africa, which I encourage everybody to read. I encourage more history, history reading. I had a lot of time here. I read the Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson, huge biography over the weekend. So I, I've just been basically reading down here in Florida and I think there is an expectation that military attacks cost no lives and are immediately successful or you're going to now attack people for being involved in them. And look, we've lost 13 lives. I wish that there had not been any loss of life at all. But I think relative to what we have accomplished, that is a cost that I think if the United States had been modeling this, they would have said, hey, we expect for Iran to be more successful than they have been in terms of implementing casualties. And again, that doesn't mean that you want or don't think casualties are significant. It's just in all of this buck you model out what we did in Iraq, there were thousands and thousands of casualties of a very significant nature. And, and I would argue we had a pinprick of the immediate success that we have seen Here, I actually think that if necessary, we should say we talked about this, and then we saw the attacks on the Card Island. We talked about this on Friday. I actually think putting boots on the ground on Carge island and letting Iran know we now control all of your oil is not an awful choice. And I understand some people out there get nervous about this, but I don't think Iran has any ability to strike back, really, against us. I think if you look at what we have done in terms of interdicting the drones and the missiles that Iran has. Has been able to fire, we're down 90 or 95% in their capability. They have just been firing them scattershot. There's been very limited success rates. And if you think that the way Iran responded to this doesn't make you think even more, boy, I'm glad they don't have nuclear weapons because they've been so haphazard and so reckless in the way that they've used the weaponry that they do have. I actually think if you had to give a grade, and I know we're still in the early days of this couple of weeks in a. I suspect, and I suspect that this has always been the plan, Buck, that the expectation was they would be done before President Trump went to China. And I still feel like that is likely to be the case. And so Iran knows now that we can strike them at any point in time, that we can kill anybody in their country that we decide to. There are now stories coming out that nobody has any idea where Mojtaba Khamenei is. He may be gay.
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Clay Travis
You threw it in there pretty fast. I thought you were gonna. You were gonna really make a thing of this because we're now at the place where he may not be alive. And Trump was apparently briefed on Mojtaba, was considered to be a bad leader to follow up for Khamenei.
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Buck Sexton
By his dad.
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Clay Travis
By his own father. And it is believed that Mojtaba is gay.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but in Iran, that. That could be an issue.
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Buck Sexton
Now, to be fair, this is also probably successful intelligence propaganda, even if it were not true, because I would imagine most Iranians who are religious do not want a gay ayatollah just tossing it out there. Doesn't seem to me like Iran is a very progressive country when it comes to gay rights. I'll just. I think that's a fair assessment.
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Clay Travis
Their robes may get much more fashionable.
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Donald Trump
They.
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Clay Travis
You know what I'm saying? There could be some upside here.
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Buck Sexton
This is a. This is a great point. Like, we could have a. A rainbow Iranian, you know, burqa. That would be glorious.
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Clay Travis
The decor of the Tehran palace, probably going to get a whole lot nicer.
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Buck Sexton
Music. Music probably going to improve. Just gonna say.
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Clay Travis
I'm just saying there's gonna.
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Buck Sexton
There.
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Clay Travis
There's some real upside here that Mujtabaz detractors may not see. That would just be very possible, depending on whether or not this, this rumor is true. But back to the realities here of the Iran conflict. I think that this is going to drag. I believe that this will be over before April Fools. That's my sense right now. So I think it'll be this month and this month only. And what's going to happen is Trump is going to wake up. We're going to find a way. The biggest challenge, I think, right now is to get ships going back to the Strait of Hormuz. And as much as we've decimated the infrastructure of the Iranian military, you don't need to have much. An oil tanker across a choke point like this is not a hard thing to hit for any, Any military outfit. So once we get the boats flying, flowing through again, I think Trump's gonna wake up and say, ok, we taught them a lesson, mission accomplished. We'll talk to them at some point in the future about when they're willing to be a normal country, and that'll be that. I think that's where this is most likely heading. I do. You've noticed you're hearing nothing about some spontaneous uprising, some opposition taking over. Regime change is not even in the discussion, really, right now. It's just not. I'm not. I'm not seeing anything about it. Not hearing anything about it.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. And again, this is the question we've asked, and I do think it's a significant one. Leave aside the fact that the gay Ayatollah may be in charge, I think there's a real question about whether he's alive. And I would continue to echo the questions that we asked last week, which is to what extent are they using him as a figurehead to try to protect other people who may be actually making decisions in Iran.
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Clay Travis
Trump's talking about it right now. Let's go to him live for a few minutes. You can hear from the President himself. Go live. Go to it.
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Donald Trump
Wonderful group of very, very smart, talented patriots at this table. Our powerful military campaign to end the threats posed by the Iranian regime continued in full force over the past few days. They have been literally obliterated The Air Force is gone, the Navy is gone. Many, many ships have been sunk. They're war fighting ships, but I guess they didn't know how to use them. And anti aircraft is decimated. Their radar is gone and their leaders are gone. Other than that, they're doing quite well. They've been a terror for 47 years. And now I guess the world through the United States, with the help of Israel is doing what should have been done many years ago. Should have been done many years ago. Since the beginning of the conflict, we've struck more than 7,000 targets across Iran. And these have been mostly commercial and military targets. We've achieved a 90% reduction in their ballistic missile launches and a 95% reduction in drone attacks. The missiles are trickling in now at very low levels because they don't have too many missiles left. We've also attacked the manufacturing plants where, the places where they manufacture the missiles and the drones and that's going on today. We just hit three of them today and it's getting very hard for them to manufacture. More than 100 Iranian naval vessels have been sunk or destroyed over the last week and a half. That has to be some kind of a record. Additional strikes continue to launch from all directions every single hour. And as you know, we attacked Carg island and knocked it, knocked it literally destroyed everything on the island except for the area where the oil is. I call it the pipes. We left the pipes. We didn't want to do that, but we will do that. We can do that on five minutes notice. It'll be over. But for purposes of someday rebuilding that country, I guess we did the right thing. But it's, it may not stay that way. Just one simple word and the pipes will be gone too. But it'll take a long time to rebuild that. We are aggressively dismantling Iran's defense industrial base. And ability to rebuild its missiles and drone capability is getting down to close to zero. And we're hammering their capacity to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. With more than 30 mine laying ships destroyed, we hit to the best of our knowledge all of their mine laying ships. Now they can put them on other types of ships, I guess and drop them in. But we don't know that any have even been dropped in. We're not sure that any have been. That's a big negative for them. If they do, it's a form of suicide. But we don't know that they have dropped any in. But we've, we've hit all 30 of their ships and destroyed them. They're all at the bottom of the sea. We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the Strait far more than ours. You know, we get less than 1% of our oil from the Strait and some countries get much more. Japan gets 95%. China gets 90%. Many of the Europeans get quite a, quite a bit. South Korea gets 35%. So we want them to come and help us with the straight. We have it in very good shape, the countries. I said we've already taken care of Iran. But now because of the fact that literally a single terrorist can put something in the water or shoot something or shoot a missile, a small missile, and it's fairly close range because it is a tight area and which is one of the reasons they've always used that as a weapon. Iran has always used that as an economic weapon.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show President Trump addressing the media right now. We'll continue to keep updates on that. In the meantime, President Trump has also just posted this Susie Wiles, the Chief of Staff of the White House and the person who led President Trump's campaign in 2024 I'm reading from President Trump's post, has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, has decided to take on this challenge immediately. She has a fantastic medical team, her prognosis is excellent. During the treatment, she will be spending virtually full time at the White House and he says that that is an incredible testament to her and tells you everything you need to know about her. Susie, as one of my closest and most important advisors, tough and deeply committed to serving the American people, she will soon be better than ever. Melania and I are with her in every way. Look forward to working with her on many big and wonderful things happening for the benefit of the country But I do think this is significant, Buck, because I mean, first of all, everybody should be praying for, for Susie Wiles as she is dealing with breast cancer. I would imagine it's going to be very difficult for her to keep up the same schedule because in general the White House schedules are incredibly difficult in terms of hours and stress. And for those of you who have ever gone through any form of chemotherapy, you know what that takes away from you. And so we will keep you updated on that. But certainly she's in our prayers. I want to also tell you Erie Home is doing an amazing job of putting in as many different roofs as they can. You can save up to $1200 by getting hooked up with Erie Home right now. 50 year transferable warranty on your home. So if you sell your home, you're providing even more value in the selling process. You can schedule a free inspection@eriehome.com Clay today Get a discount on the installation price. That's E r I e home.com Clay Discount maximized at twelve hundred dollars valid on new roofing installations only. That's ErieHome.com Clay for a big discount of twelve hundred dollars. ErieHome.com Clay I think that this conflict
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright
will certainly come to the end in the next few weeks. Could be sooner than that, but the conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks and we'll see a rebound in supplies and a p of prices after that. But yes, we were very aware that we would have short term disruption. We would cause a little bit of increased prices on Americans. Prices today are still far below what they were in the Biden administration where they were begging, bartering and bribing Iran to behave better. We had $5 gasoline in the middle of the Biden administration. We hope we don't get there this time. But at least this increase in gasoline prices is for something that's going to change the geopolitical situation in the world for forever.
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Clay Travis
So there you have Energy Secretary Chris Wright laying out a few things. One, the timeline that the White House, Trump himself has been hammering. And I just said that I think that that's probably going to be the timeline which is a few weeks from now. I think it's going to be two weeks or less. We'll see. But there's an artificial disruption in supply that is happening right now because of that. Energy secretary sounds like he's confident that supply will come back online. Prices will start to drop from there. That is certainly the hope and I think that that is very possible. Clay the question that we look at now, though, is what exactly. What exactly the end state here is supposed to look like. It's starting to feel more and more like the destruction of Iran's military and then just walking away and saying we can do that again if we want to is the goal here. There is not really much talk of regime change. John Fetterman, the senator, weighed in on this one and the state of things in Iran. This is cut three. Listen to Senator Fetterman.
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Senator John Fetterman
I largely agree with what the President said, that Iran has essentially been defeated. And why don't the West, Western medias just demand that Iran provide proof of life of the ayatollah? Because I think the Iranians are doing kind of like a weekend at ayatollahs and they're trying to pretend this guy is functional or even alive at this point. And I think we just call them out and realize that they're a nation that's been effectively defeated and they don't have any leadership. They're unwilling to even provide proof to refute that. Overall, I think it's entirely appropriate to remind the world that if you want their oil, you know, you need to help us to reopen the Straits weekend
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Clay Travis
at Ayatollah, as he says, Clay, maybe he's a listener.
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Buck Sexton
We need to. Producer Ali, do we have an invite recently that we've given to John Federman? I don't know if we have. We should extend one to him as well to come on the program because he's making a lot of sense. And the most recent data that I've seen, Buck says that Federman now is more popular with Republicans in Pennsylvania than he is with Democrats. So we should definitely reach out to him. Producer Ali will and invite him on the program. As you were hearing, President Trump, Buck, you're talking about, like, what are the long range goals? He said that based on the numbers, we have seen a 95% reduction in Iran's drone attacks and a 90% reduction in their missile attacks. And he said, quote, they don't have many missiles left at this point. And so essentially they are wiped out. And I think the question is, who is their leader? We said earlier that there were reports. There's actually been two reports. One is that the Mojtaba had to go to Europe for months to be treated for impotence so that he could have children. Just leaving it here for a moment. Now they're saying that he was gay. Is it possible that the impotence just was with the women? My point on this is I think More and more there is a likelihood that he is unable to be leader and that they are just using him as a figurehead Now Buck, I don't know if you saw this. There's even some reports that he's not in Iran, that he is potentially in Russia, that he may be in China, that he may be in a different country right now and that Iran is using him as a figurehead. We still have not heard his voice. We haven't seen any video from him at all. They released a statement. They showed up for a celebratory raising ascension I guess of him to the leadership of Iran and danced around with a cardboard cutout of him. None of these things inspire confidence that he is okay. And I wonder again used to do all this analysis. I'm sure there's. How many people do you think are working in the CIA right now on whether Little Mo is still alive? Like if a thousand. Like how many people are looking at every single aspect of evidence out there and writing up reports on this? How big would that group be right now, you think?
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Clay Travis
I mean it's, I don't say it's a thousands, a lot. It's a lot of people that are going to be pouring over all of the different collection that the intel agencies have access to to try to figure this out. But again, even if he's, let's say he's dead. Okay, so what, so then what? Right. The next step is still is not clear. We don't have an opposition that looks like they're willing to take over and we haven't heard about any so called moderate from within the existing governance infrastructure of Iran that could maybe be a more moderate future for the country. So I, I just feel like we're, we're gonna, we're taking away all the Ayatollah's toys, are blowing up all their stuff. We are killing thousands of their soldiers in this process, I might add. People don't really talk about that. But there are, there are people on these ships, there are people operating these trucks and these manpads and such. So we are, we are just to know when people say it's not really war, we're blowing up thousands of their soldiers. This is a war. Let's always make sure that we have that obligation to speak truthfully about this stuff. It's not a boots on the ground all in war, but it's a war. If somebody was doing this to us, we would certainly think of it as a war. So we're in a short term war with Iran, a conflict. And, and I think that we're going to, like I said, Trump is going to wake up one day and look at the, look at the numbers and the charts and everything else and say, all right, we've punished them enough. Now let's see if they want to be more reasonable going forward. I will add, I don't think they will be more reasonable going forward. This is the other part of this, right? This is, this is an intractable problem. It's like dealing with North Korea. Everything that you would think would work on a country that has even the most baseline reason, morality, all these kinds of things. If you look at it from the perspective of, well, of course they should do that because we would do that. No, it's not how they do things. It's certainly not how they do things in Iran. And from a leadership perspective. And, you know, I think everyone should just gauge their expectations with this in mind. There's no opposition faction that has emerged. We're not seeing any protests on the streets or anything like that at all. And yeah, I think Trump's going to wrap this up. We're going to say their military is essentially gone. And we'll see what he will say. And I mean this like a quote. Trump will be like, we'll see what happens. That's going to be where this ends.
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Buck Sexton
Look, the message that we have sent to Iran is, first of all, we got to figure out who the leader is. And I think it's not a surprise that they don't want us to know who the leader is because they're aware that we could kill whoever the leader is. And we have established that. That is the fact. I think one of the challenges going forward for Iran will be they now know that we can take out their leadership whenever we want. And so how do you stand up in any way to, to anyone in the United States or Israel with that knowledge? I'll also point this out. There are reports, and I think this is super significant and it has not been talked about enough. There are reports that Saudi Arabia's leader is calling President Trump and saying, keep hitting them. This is MBS. He is the leader, 43, 44 year old, relatively young leader of Saudi Arabia, the crown prince there who has effectively taken on the power. This is not a United States and Israel against the Middle east war. The Middle Eastern powers, Saudi Arabia, the uae, Qatar, the ones that actually have developed and functional economies, they're all saying, hit Iran. So what I think is going to be the legacy that comes out of this is with Iran, neutered with Iran without any significant weaponry. I think the uae, Bahrain, all of these different places, including Saudi Arabia, Buck are going to sign on. Saudi Arabia in particular, who has not done it yet to the Abraham Accords. And we're going to see a level of peace start to emerge in the Middle east that frankly, we haven't seen in generations. And that piece is not going to be based on Arab versus Jew. It's going to be based on countries that want to have functional, growing economies and countries that don't. You know, the real part that I think has to be galling to Iran is if you study Middle Eastern history, Iran was one of the economic powers of this region for hundreds of years. Now they've been overwhelmingly surpassed by, by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the uae, certainly Israel. And if you're a proud, educated member of Iran's, you know, middle class, which is fairly substantial, don't you have to look around and ask what you've gotten for the last 47 years? Do you feel like, hey, life is better now than it was before the Islamic Republic came into power? The one thing they sold Buck was we are a military power and we can punch above our weight. And they just got completely defanged in almost no time at all. What have you actually gotten that's positive after 47 years?
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Clay Travis
This is one of the very sad but true things about authoritarian regimes and why they're so intractable. They can rely on the phobia of the population, the extreme fear of the population. Who wants to be the person, Clay, from the Iranian educated classes, you know, not part of the government infrastructure. Who ends up the first one dangling from a crane by their neck in the neighborhood? It's very tough. Yeah. People have families. People want to live. They don't want to die. And, you know, you're thinking about this, where does this go? This was one of the huge problems we had in Afghanistan was even. Even the Afghans, who were brave enough and there were many of them to fight alongside Americans at different times against the Taliban. They were like, you guys, you guys aren't going to leave us.
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Buck Sexton
At some point you have our back, right? And then what do we do?
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Clay Travis
You're going to stay and you're going to. You're going to make sure that this. We're in this fight till the end, right? Yeah. You can imagine with the Iranians right now, ok, we're blowing up the military. There's still a lot of bad guys with AK47s and probably, you know, scimitars or something like it machetes walking around the neighborhood and this is what, what are we offering on that? And the answer is not a whole heck of a lot. So I don't see this changing this on the ground reality changing in any meaningful way. Which just means that we're in a little bit of, like I said, the mow the grass phenomenon with the Iranian military. We're going to blow up all their stuff. And now whatever they do also, if, when they get enough stuff back, meaning military capability or even just paramilitary capability, terrorist capability, essentially, they decide to hit us, it'll be like, well, yeah, you guys blew up all of our ships and all of our stuff. And you know, you can see how this is going to go. Right. We're not in a place where you, I, I, like you are more optimistic about the long term prospects here than I, I'm very optimistic about Venezuela and have it all along, to be clear. Very optimistic. I think it was the right move, a great move. Iran, I'm still sitting here like, I want to see what the, I think I know what the end state is and we can go back and play this in a few weeks. It's going to be Trump saying, all right, we destroyed their military, we showed them what's up. Maybe we'll talk in the future. That's it. I think that's where this is heading. I don't see it heading some other way.
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Buck Sexton
I think it's one, yeah. This is a interesting conversation. I'm optimistic only in the sense of it's one thing for Israel to do well. It's another thing for the United States to do well. A lot of times it's when people who are similar to you that start doing well, where you, you really start to question the decision making that you have, have embraced.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
It's one thing if Elon Musk gets richer. It's another thing if a guy you went to school with is suddenly a billionaire and you're looking around saying, wait a minute, what did he do? We had made the same grades. Everything else, Iran's neighborhood, the Middle East, a lot of these countries are thriving. Yeah, they used to look down on Saudi Arabia, they used to look down on Qatar, they used to look down on, you know, Bahrain, all these countries. And they used to think, hey, those guys are backwoods. And now all those countries are thriving, the people are rich, they're building huge, incredible edifices all over those countries. And meanwhile, Iran keeps falling further behind. And I do wonder how much looking at your neighbors and how much success they're going to have makes the antagonism and the anger more prevalent in Iran. That's one of the things that I just keep coming back to. It's one thing again us, Israel, they've already been always been richer but now what about the people used to be better then. I want to tell you I love trees. My wife makes fun of how much I love trees. I like old trees. I like different types of trees. I walk around and look at trees a great deal. And that's why I was so excited about our new sponsor, Fast Growing Trees, an amazing online nursery. They have more than 1200 different varieties of trees, shrubs and plants. Plants. And given the fact there's less than 900 tree types in the US that tells you how complete their offerings are. It's a popular website. It's just fun. As we get into spring, go check it out for yourself and see all of the different products that they have, all the different types of trees. You don't even have to have a yard. They've got things that make sense to grow inside of your apartment, inside of your condo, inside of your town home. Fast Growing Trees. They'll let you know what grows well in your neighborhood. You just plug, plug in your address. They tell you which are the plants that make the most sense around you. They ship directly to your home and you can do the planting. But the plants and trees, they do the rest. Give them your zip code, everything you order backed by their alive and thrive guarantee. That's how well they've nurtured your news. New trees and plants. Fast growing trees.com My name Clay as the promo code for 20 off. That's fast growing trees dot com. My name C L A Y for 20 off. Go go check them out today. Fast growing trees dot com My name clay as the promo code for 20% off. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton SHOW we are rolling through the Monday edition of the program. I was it will play a couple of cuts. I haven't honestly hardly seen anything from the Oscars, but I did. When I saw the story about the argument that Mojtaba Khomeini is gay. I definitely started thinking there's HBO is going to make a gay Ayatollah show. And it's, it's gonna be like as
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Clay Travis
a serious, as a serious show or
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Buck Sexton
as a yes, no, it's like a serious show. I could see like hbo. I mean somebody should do, like, a mock up of, like, a funny version of this, like the Gay Ayatollah, which probably wouldn't be called the Gay Ayatollah, but I could 100% see them doing a story from, like, inside of Iran. And although they, the Muslims might be willing to kill them for doing it, so maybe that would be the reason that they don't do it. But it definitely feels like a spin on.
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Clay Travis
We got a caller who play. Wants to real quick, wants to weigh in on this one. Which one is it? Justin in New Jersey. Go for it.
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Caller Justin from New Jersey
Yeah, clam box. I got two quick ones for you. First, of course, they're hiding the Ayatollah. I mean, the Democrats hit Joe Biden for four years, so that's not surprising. And second, Clay, you have a layup right here. How are you not calling it the gay Atolla? It's right on a silver platter for you.
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Clay Travis
It's good.
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Buck Sexton
I'm going to take it the gay Atolla. And again, there's nothing wrong with being gay. Probably a little bit being wrong with being the leader of Iran and being gay in the minds of the Iranians, I welcome.
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Clay Travis
Considering that they'll execute gays in Iran as part of the regime, it would be a little bit of a weird deal for the actual guy in charge of all that to be gay.
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Buck Sexton
That is indeed. So hopefully the gay Atollah is. Is doing well. And we will continue to break down the latest on Iran. President Trump.
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Donald Trump
You know what?
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Clay Travis
I know for sure, by the way. You know what? You know for sure the Ayatollahs do not have a good sense of humor. These are not. These are not funny guys. That much I can assure you.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, that is very much so.
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Clay Travis
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