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Clay Travis
Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, also known as Clay and Buck. Get started right now.
Buck Sexton
Thanks for being here.
Clay Travis
We had some really interesting stuff to discuss, to break down, to make sense
Buck Sexton
of, to have some fun with, depending on the topic.
Clay Travis
CNN had a California debate last night over the governor's race. And wow, does California need Steve Hilton to win that governor's race. These other people are nuts. These are a bunch of wackos. California, a perfect example of an amazing place. And I still, I still love California.
Buck Sexton
I just the people in charge doing everything they can to make it as unlivable as possible. Marco Rubio taking on job number 16 yesterday of being a press briefer. And we have some very interesting updates from him on Operation Epic Fury.
Clay Travis
All that, that whole Iran situation.
Buck Sexton
Barack Obama sat down with Stephen Colbert. Meh. But Barack Obama praises Oran Momdani. So that's something that you want to keep on your radar.
Clay Travis
We've got some other things. Ted Turner passed away.
Buck Sexton
Rest in peace, Ted Turner. We might talk a bit about not
Clay Travis
just that legacy, but also the future
Buck Sexton
of CNN and cable news. And Clay, I this one really hit home for me.
Clay Travis
Ken Griffin not, not letting bygones be bygones with the mom Don the momdani.
Buck Sexton
Hey, I'm going to like just target
Clay Travis
this guy as an individual, show up at his home, basically at his building and say, look at this rich guy who lives here.
Buck Sexton
What a jerk.
Clay Travis
So now Ken Griffin's like, that's cool. Doubling down on Miami, doubling down on
Buck Sexton
Florida gonna cost New York. Oh my gosh.
Clay Travis
Over the, over the full course of what Citadel would have brought, it's billions of dollars. Billions of dollars gonna go to Florida
Buck Sexton
instead of New York here, Clay.
Clay Travis
So do you want to do California debate or you're going to do Ken Griffin?
Bianco
First?
Clay Travis
I'll actually throw this.
Bianco
You pick door number one. Door number. I think the Ken Griffin situation is more significant, honestly.
Clay Travis
So I do too. But, but I, I wanted to make sure That I wasn't being Florida man on this one.
Bianco
Because this is another moment, just Florida, man. I think it's New York City. I think this actually ties in with California. I think all of these are connected. And I'm spending a lot of time thinking about it because of where I live in Tennessee. But this is emblematic, I think, of the ongoing Covid fallout and you're seeing it with redistricting. And I think it's a big picture thing that is impacting everything you and I talked about. If we were giving advice to kids these days, where would you move? Where's a good place to go start a career you'd like to be somewhere where a rising tide can lift all boats. It's easier to be successful in a city that is growing in a state that is successful. And so I think the Democrats are getting everything wrong. And the momdani decision, it directly impacts why you left New York City. New York City needs as many of yous as they can have.
Buck Sexton
They need a lot of buck sex.
Bianco
Not trying to blow you up too much. But look, in order for that city to work, you need as many people with as much money, success as possible to fund all of the big government excess. It's not coming from poor people. You need rich people. And this is the very idea that you would taunt someone who is investing the money that he has into New York City is emblematic of a broken understanding of basic capitalism.
Clay Travis
So a couple of things. One I also want to put on our radar.
Buck Sexton
We will talk about what happened in Indiana last night.
Bianco
Oh, yeah.
Buck Sexton
Where a bunch of Indiana state senators just.
Clay Travis
We had a busy news day.
Buck Sexton
But don't worry, we're not going to forget about this one.
Clay Travis
Those Indiana state senators who were like, we're not going to do redistricting because it's mean. Not a smart career move. If you wanted to stay in the Indiana Senate, put it that way. Trump and the MAGA grassroots.
Buck Sexton
MAGA grassroots came after them and look,
Clay Travis
they deserve to lose their jobs. It's that simple. Made a really bad move, really bad move. They got fired. I hope they enjoy, you know, selling real estate or building lawnmowers or whatever they plan to do going forward. But they're not going to be in the. Not going to be in the state Senate anymore. And now we're going to get to that story in a little bit. We've also, as we said, got this
Buck Sexton
momdani situation in New York and it's emblematic.
Clay Travis
Remember, Mamdani is being held up as someone And I think he's increasing, going
Buck Sexton
to be more of a brand within the Democrat Party. He can't run for president because he wasn't born here. But Barack Obama praises him. You know, he's getting a lot of attention.
Clay Travis
But now people are starting to say, hold on a second, he's slick, he's a smooth talker, but what is he actually doing in New York City?
Buck Sexton
How is that going for the city of New York? Here is Ken Griffin, who is a billionaire many times, I think tens of times over. And here he's saying at a, at
Clay Travis
a conference, look, New York, it's really straightforward. The leadership of New York City has
Buck Sexton
said, you are not really welcome here. So we're going to make a different choice.
Clay Travis
Play 14.
Ken Griffin
When we moved from Chicago, there was a debate between New York and Miami. It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice. I'll leave it at that. It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice. And now what the Mayor of New York has made clear to my partners, and principally my New York partners, my New York partners, is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami because we want to be in a state that embraces, that embraces business, that embraces education, that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people having an opportunity to live the American dream.
Buck Sexton
Excellence, Clay.
Clay Travis
That's one way to put it. A state that welcomes and celebrates excellence and tries to make it more possible
Buck Sexton
for everybody in their own way to achieve excellence.
Bianco
I tweeted this. If you are a small business owner who is hoping to build a medium sized business and one day maybe a large business, I wouldn't want to found one in New York or California right now. I founded businesses, I've been involved in them. I've said this on the show, but I had a conversation recently with an accountant and he's been doing this for a long time and he said, oh, I presume that you will be filing your LLC in Delaware. And I said, you presume wrong. Because I don't want any blue states to have access directly to my companies. I want them based here in Tennessee, where I feel like we have good leadership and I know the people that are going to be making decisions in the generation ahead and you're in Florida, I feel very comfortable and I'm going to have a decent amount of business interest in Florida. Same thing in Texas. And look, there are other states as well. But to me, the story of Texas, Tennessee and Florida versus California, Illinois and New York is going to be one that plays out generationally. Used to be New York City, Chicago, Louisiana, People wanted to be there. I think Miami, Nashville, multiple cities. Dallas, Houston, Austin, whichever ones you want to point to in Texas are going to surge in the next generation even more than they already have because just what you just said, excellence is being attacked. The meritocracy is being attacked. Most of us are never going to become billionaires, but we should celebrate those who do because they make all of American life better than it would be without billionaires. I know it's really popular with AOC or Bernie to run around and say billionaires are bad. I mean, what do they even mean? Think about this, Buck. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, those guys have very different personalities. But what they have in common is they built incredible American businesses that have made, I really do believe this, all of our lives better than they would have been if those businesses did not exist. And that should be encouraged. And I, I just feel like what the Democrat party is becoming is a resentful, angry party that attacks success. Now the irony here is billionaires actually fund most of the anti billionaire propulsion from inside of the Democrat Party, which is its own irony. Um, but this is emblematic and representative of what happened. Buck, do you remember, I'm sure you remember it well, when Amazon wanted to put one of its headquarters in New York City and AOC and others didn't understand the concept of tax, basically tax abatements to allow people to build and, and said we're giving them billions of dollars. And you're like no, no, no, you're giving them tax breaks because they're bringing a ton of business. Should understand basic economics. She ran them off. And this to me, running Ken Griffin off is connected to that which is just a fundamentally anti business mindset that has taken root in New York City that I think is going to destroy the under underlying budget.
Clay Travis
Resentment politics is very good for getting
Buck Sexton
people to listen to you and to maybe gain personal brand support to just play on resentment class warfare.
Clay Travis
But it always fails as policy. So it's good as politics in the sense that you say like yeah, the fat cats this by the way, Bernie Sanders whole career is based off that. I mean there's, there's all these different politicians, Elizabeth Warren's whole career. Elizabeth Warren took her Tomahawk to Spirit Airlines and scalped it. You know, this is where we are. These people pretend to care about people that are frustrated, that feel like they're in a tough spot. And the horrible irony is the Very policies pushed by people like aoc, like Bernie, like Elizabeth Warren, make things harder for the people who are actually trying
Buck Sexton
to earn their way builders and get
Clay Travis
ahead the middle class of America. And so this is something, Clay, that it's not just for New York. You're right. It's all across the country.
Buck Sexton
We keep seeing this play out. But Ken Griffin, I think is really hammering this home.
Clay Travis
Because when you think about what Mamdani did, Ken Griffin's a private, I mean, he's a, you know, public in the sense, but he's just a guy. He's not a politician. He wasn't picking a fight with Mamdani. He was getting ready to build a multibillion dollar headquarters in New York. And Mamdani is going to pick a fight with him.
Bianco
I mean, well, yeah, I think all that's right. We should also, I don't think we can overlook he doxxed where he lives, which is not very far from where the UnitedHealthcare CEO was murdered in cold blood.
Buck Sexton
That is pointed out by Ken Griffin during his sit down.
Clay Travis
This is cut 15. Listen to what he says.
Ken Griffin
You literally look at the first time you're like, you gotta be kidding me. Okay. And then the second time you're like, you know what? This is actually, this has gone from creepy to actually not really creepy. This has gone frightening. You know, Mondavi is making it really clear New York doesn't welcome success. Are these states trying to push away from their populations those who really do believe in the merits of capitalism, the merits of a free society, the importance of education?
Clay Travis
The answer is yes. Yeah, he's a socialist. The answer is yes. These people can call themselves Democrats all day. They are socialists. We already have a massive welfare state in this country. And in New York specifically, Clay, they have massive tax burdens. They have unbelievable amounts of waste, fraud and abuse. And so many people who are getting a free ride and a free lunch off of other people. And it's not enough because it's never enough.
Bianco
Let me also point out ken Griffin donated $450 million to a New York area hospital. $450 million donation. So in addition to all the taxes that he is paying, and I don't know Ken Griffin, I don't have any relationship with him, good or ill. Right. I, I've never met the guy, but New York should want as many Ken Griffins as possible. New York should want as many Buck Sextons as possible. I, I, I just, it is, they are, they are completely destroying the fabric of what New York Was made great. By which to a large extent, Buck, was Wall street finance guys getting super rich thanks to capitalism and then paying a ton of taxes. And we've talked about this. And then they go out and they pay a ton for their kids schools and they have all this different, what I call the penumbra of success, the number of people they employ, from maids to gardeners to restaurants that they go and they spend money in. I just. It is, it is. Again, I think the Democrat Party has lost all ability to understand basic business and that wasn't always the case. Who is a really pro business Democrat now? There's almost not an existing one. They're all the Elizabeth Warrens, the Bernie Sanders of the world. They have all of this wealth because of capitalism and they're angry about capitalism. I don't know if they know better or not, but they're certainly, to your point, willing to trade on it because class resentment, economic warfare, identity politics, anger that you don't have. What others have is the foundation of the Democrat Party now. And it's, it would be bad if that were just the case. But Buck, they're also celebrating murders. Luigi Mangione is wildly popular. There are going to be, unfortunately, others that try to kill President Trump. They want violence to occur for successful Republicans. And look at what happened to Charlie Kirk. They're going to create more and more of it. We'll take your calls on this. But I do think this is a big story because it's, it's where we're all headed. And I think a lot of you have to make decisions. Where do you want to live over the next generation? Where should your kids and grandkids live? Increasingly, my answer would not be New York, Chicago or la. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews have a dedicated team working hundreds of communities throughout Israel. They do remarkable work, which I've witnessed firsthand, fueled by donations from private individuals. And just last night, it's not just in Israel. A mob in New York City of anti Israel protesters clashed with law enforcement outside a synagogue on the Upper east side. Hundred protesters could be heard yelling Israel should not exist. Stop the sell of stolen land. Turn violent. Police officer was hurt. Some of you may have just seen me right before the show started. I was talking about this on Harris Faulkner show on Fox. You can join Bucking me and take a stand against violence and hate. Give $45 right now at ifcj.org that's ifcj.org you can also call 888-488ifcj. That's 888488 ifcj laugh, learn and hang with the guys. Clay and Buck preset on the iHeart app.
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Bianco
you for hanging out with us talking off air as we often do, but here's a little bit of basic math for you, and I'm curious. I'd like to get some some feedback, but let's say you live in New York City and you make $10 million a year. There are not very many $10 million a year earners, but many of them would be associated with Ken Griffin. So let's think about that for a minute. You pay a New York City buck, you well know, not because you're making 10 million, but because you've had to pay these taxes 114%. If you make $10 million, that's $1.4 million a year that you are paying in New York City and federal taxes, that is 1.4 million a year. It doesn't take very many guys. They're mostly men, but can be some gals too, but who make $10 million or more. Deciding screw it, I'm moving to Tennessee, Texas or Florida. You get a $1.4 million pay raise on a $10 million salary. Think about that. You can move to Nashville, Miami, you can move to Houston.
Clay Travis
Thinking about it in terms of a lot of money.
Buck Sexton
But Clay, think about it in terms
Clay Travis
of, I mean, you know, for people,
Buck Sexton
that's an extreme high earner, that's a.01% earner. But in New York City people are going to hear this, they're going to go nuts.
Clay Travis
But making 5, 6, 700 grand, that's,
Buck Sexton
that's very standard for finance for people who aren't even particularly senior.
Clay Travis
And you, that extra hundred grand that you get matters a lot to those usually.
Bianco
But, but I mean think about it. There aren't that many of those guys. And when you leave, you take that 1.4 million a year or that $140,000 a year or that 50k a year that you otherwise were paying, it's gone forever. And, and you extrapolate that into the future and I just. It is devastating for public policy. New York has what, a 5 billion shortfall now? And Mamdani's response to that was I'm going to tax the people who are successful even more such that now he has run out of town one of the most successful people to have connection in New York City. It is suicide. It is political suicide. It is suicide for those cities. And I think again this New York, California, Illinois, get out of town. You guys are in trouble. I'm telling you. If you can. Florida, Tennessee and Texas, we are going to thrive in these states the likes of which you have never seen. Just tell them, just wait for it. It's going to be crazy to see. I'm telling you, it's a big one. If your roof starts falling apart, you know it's, it's your home. What you don't know is who to trust to shoot you straight on what needs to be done to fix it. The company you can rely on is Erie home. Erie Home 50 year old company specializing in roof repair maintenance. They start by providing you with a free roof inspection using a 25 point inspection. If your roof needs replacement. Erie Home offers all kinds of options including newer metal materials. You're going to love it. Your new roof from Erie Home comes with a 50 year transferable warranty. So if you sell your home, even more value coming in the sales process. Go to eriehome.com clay that's E R I E home.com clay for twelve hundred dollars off. That's twelve hundred dollars off at eriehome.com clay all right, welcome back in here
Buck Sexton
to Clay and Buck.
Clay Travis
Let's switch coasts, shall we?
Buck Sexton
Sorry, whole middle of the country. We're putting our focus from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Clay Travis
For the moment, California and what's going
Buck Sexton
on over there in New York you have Kami Mamdani doing what we all knew he would do.
Clay Travis
None of this is surprising.
Buck Sexton
That's the other Part of this too.
Clay Travis
It's not the least bit of a
Buck Sexton
shock that he's as inept at governance as we all said he was.
Clay Travis
That's why we said it would be the case.
Buck Sexton
But beyond that, you have in California, a state that should be the just undisputed jewel of America. And you know, I give it credit where it's due, it's still a beautiful place and has a lot going for it, but it is just a mess in terms of governance and the budgets and the taxes and the housing situation, the homelessness.
Clay Travis
Clay, did we even get to yesterday? This is a little bit of an aside. The guy who burned down the Palisades, it was arson. It was not climate change. Was a fan of Luigi the Assassin.
Buck Sexton
Yes.
Clay Travis
And basically a left wing loon. Essentially. Yeah. I mean this is, this should be
Buck Sexton
a much more prominent news story than
Clay Travis
it is, but of course it does
Buck Sexton
not serve the interests of the left. So the Democrat media doesn't want to spend any time on it. But we just wanted to note there
Clay Travis
are people, I mean there are major newspapers that when that fires happen like this is because we don't take climate change seriously. No, actually a left wing maniac who probably watches some of these or listens
Buck Sexton
to some of these, you know, insane
Clay Travis
left wing podcasters out there started a fire and burned down an entire part of a city. A beautiful historic part of a city. Yes, Clay.
Bianco
No, to your point, they also haven't gotten to rebuild. Yeah, I mean, as this is a crazy left winger burned down. To your point, it wasn't climate change. He was inspired by Luigi Mangione and he wanted to be a hero like he, he was broken brain. But when you see people be praised for awful events like this, they still aren't letting people rebuild. And I love la. I do. And we have a big audience, people listening in la. I have spent more time in LA probably than any city other than Nashville because Fox Sports is based out there. I traveled to LA over, I was moved there 10 years ago.
Clay Travis
I was, I was looking at homes in LA a decade ago. I really thought about it.
Bianco
It's a beautiful place. To your, to Buck's point. California. I think this is the perfect analogy. California is a super attractive woman, a super hot chick that gets away with all sorts of awful decisions because of the natural beauty.
Clay Travis
And she always ends up stumbling into the Uber, like about to pu.
Buck Sexton
Duke because she's made bad decisions, you
Bianco
know, and people make beautiful excuses. People make excuses because it's such a beautiful place to live. But my Goodness, it is incompetent. And when I see the California debate, to your point, Buck, last night on cnn, the idea that someone like Katie, remember they were going to elect Swalwell, he was the big favorite. And then they, they code Reddit him because of all the things that he had been doing.
Buck Sexton
And now you've got Katie Porter, Tom
Clay Travis
Steyer, these are the two leading lights
Buck Sexton
of the California Democrats.
Clay Travis
Let's, let's start with, with, actually, I want to start with Katie Porter. I was going to go to Stier. Let's start with Katie Porter here. As you know, perhaps most famous for throwing a boiling pot of potatoes at
Buck Sexton
her now ex husband, I believe, and
Clay Travis
she is absolutely just astonished that anybody would want to talk about her temperament play, too.
Katie Porter
I can't believe that on a stage with 30 minutes of interrupting and bickering and name calling and shouting and disrespect for everyone up here who's stepping into public service that anyone wants to talk about my temperament.
Clay Travis
You were actually interrupting them, too. I don't know why you want to act like you weren't. Oh, cowboy Steven, I, Steve and I sat here smiling at each other because we're just watching you all prove to everyone why they can't vote for a Democrat.
Buck Sexton
Nice work by Bianco there. Credit where it's due. Jumping in to say, I think Clay,
Clay Travis
Katie, Katie Porter here is indicative, I
Buck Sexton
think, of the state of the Democrat
Clay Travis
party, which is a bit of just, just constant gaslighting. Constant gaslighting about what we know about
Buck Sexton
these people, what they've done.
Clay Travis
I mean, Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom is really, and this is going to probably
Buck Sexton
hit too close to home.
Clay Travis
He's the guy who gets cheating on, he gets caught cheating on his wife with the maid by his wife who
Buck Sexton
a day later is like, honey, what are you talking about?
Bianco
That was a bad dream.
Clay Travis
Like he'll say anything.
Bianco
But speaking of say anything, listen to cut three. This is again, just how broken California politics are. Should illegal aliens get free health care? Katie Porter just says, yes, that's what Californians deserve. This is what happened last night. They try to argue, oh, we don't want free health care for illegal immigrants. Except she was directly asked and she said she does. Cut three. Congresswoman Porter, your thoughts on the idea of funding healthcare for undocumented immigrants statewide?
Clay Travis
Yes, yes.
Bianco
And, and to, and that's, by the
Katie Porter
way, what I think Californians deserve.
Bianco
Not hemming and hawing, no. Like attempting to argue. Oh, there's some subtlety here. No, your tax dollars should go. By the way, if you're like, well that's just California. Where do you think a lot of those tax dollars come from? Us because of the way that this is paid out. And it wasn't just Katie Porter who was one of the Democrat leading candidates was also Tom Steyer who is a billionaire. And here is what he had to say. He says ice, it's a criminal operation. And just listen to how crazy this answer is. This is what California Democrats believe. Cut 1.
Tom Steyer
The governor of California should hold people accountable who break the laws of California, specifically including ICE agents and the people who send them to racially profile, which is illegal and use violence against Californians, which is illegal. And it should go up the chain to the supervisors, right up to Stephen Miller. If he's sending people to racially profile and hurt Californians or kill Californians, he should be held liable. It is not legal for federal agents to come to California and break the law. It is absolutely critical that California's governor does stand up for everyone in California. That in fact ICE to me is a criminal operation. I've said all along we should abolish ice. It's breaking the law. It is coming here deliberately to break the law.
Clay Travis
All you have to know about Tom Steyer is that this is a guy
Buck Sexton
who is so disconnected from reality that he thinks that climate change is the biggest threat we face. There's very few.
Clay Travis
He's now the Japanese soldier a few
Buck Sexton
years after the end of World War II on the island who they find him and he still thinks he's.
Clay Travis
Very few people are on the climate
Buck Sexton
change as an existential threat train these days.
Clay Travis
He's one of them. And he says ICE is a criminal operation. Absurd. Absurd.
Bianco
Sorry, I, I got fired up. Tennessee has just buck so all of that is. I, I co sign with all that. I was just trying to catch up. Tennessee has officially released their map with nine Republican districts. So my phone has blown up with all the map pictures. We need to get into that, that impact with Indiana and everything else. But at the same time, I mean I think this ties in with the way we open the show. You have California floundering in incompetence. You have far left wing ideas being espoused by Tom Steyer. Katie Porter. We believe Bianco Hilton. My goodness, it would be great if those were the two finalists. Steve Hilton we've had on this program a ton. He's a friend. I love the guy. I think he would be an unbelievable governor for California. If I were in California and I were voting in three weeks I would personally be voting for Steve Hilton and I would be ecstatic if he were able to do to get that job. Cause I think California needs a lot of fixing. This also ties in with Spencer Pratt, who I don't even know what Spencer Pratt's politics are. But in Los Angeles with Karen Bass up for reelection, there's just a genuine distaste and anger over what blue cities have allowed to be doing. Meanwhile, meanwhile, your state of Florida has just released a map that will give theoretically Republicans a 24, 4 advantage. My home state of Tennessee has just released a map that will give Republicans a 90 advantage. And in Indiana last night Indiana voters went out in their primary and said we don't want these soft, weak kneed leadership in Indiana that's going to say, hey, a state that Trump won by 20. We've got to make sure that we protect Democrat seats. And all of the senators, by and large, I think six of them, five of them for sure, it looks like a sixth as well, all lose their seats in the Indiana state Senate because people in Indiana are fed up. So really Buck, what you have is the story of the coasts imploding. New York, Louisiana. I think unfortunately for people in Illinois, Chicago has to be considered a coastal community. And then, and they are on the coast of the Great Lakes. And then on the flip side, you've got states in the middle part of the country that are making rational, reasonable decisions to make them even more rock, ribbed, red and buck. They're going to thrive over the next 20 years. It's really kind of a fascinating time in our American political culture because you have two divergent paths being taken. And I think Republicans are on the right side of all this. And the question is, can someone saying like Steve Hilton in California get enough of a coalition? Can Spencer Pratt, is there any real opposition to the Mamdanis and Hochuls of the world in New York? I think people there are in for a world of hurt. I just really do. And it's why if I could give advice, if you can leave, I would leave. I just think a lot of what you love about the place that you call home is vanishing in a hurry out there. And I hope some people who are staying, like Steve Hilton, can fight and win. But I just think the overall trend lines are incredibly difficult for a lot of people out there.
Buck Sexton
I won't give up hope for New York.
Clay Travis
California, you may be on your own. Just kidding. But I'm hopeful that there's some semblance
Buck Sexton
of sanity that will come to these places. D.C. i didn't even get into the mayor of Seattle.
Bianco
Oh, she's a whack. She's a whack.
Clay Travis
She's just a whack job. What is wrong with people who live in Seattle? How do they not? Honestly, I want some crazy libs from Seattle to call in, explain to me why you think having this idiot in charge of things that affect your day to day life, specifically safety. She's like, we shouldn't have cameras in public places to capture crime. That's bad. It's a public place. Don't you want people to be safe? Don't you want crimes to be solved? By the way, the answer is no. Because she's not going to like who's committing the crimes. Because it's not guys wearing red MAGA hats who are carrying pocket constitutions. That's not who's committing the crimes. The violent ones in Seattle. So she doesn't want there to be
Buck Sexton
cameras, Clay, these people are insane.
Clay Travis
They're insane.
Bianco
Look, 100%, I will say this, thank the Lord for all the cameras. You, I think articulately and succinctly pointed out that body cameras on cops basically ended blm. Because now we see every time, every time they try to turn something into a story, it is almost always that they were a danger.
Clay Travis
I'd say three out of four times now when someone tries to make an issue this stuff, Clay, I say, oh,
Buck Sexton
I would have shot that person sooner if I were the cop.
Bianco
3 showing often great restraint. And by the way, if they don't, everybody sees it and they say, you know what? That cop committed a crime. That's rare, but it's very easy. But I actually like the fact that we have videos like this because that 77 year old guy, we wouldn't have even, they would have just said, oh, that didn't happen. He tripped and fell. We didn't hit him. Yeah, right. And then we see the video and it's awful. Same thing happened with the Minneapolis shooting. They have video of the crazy guy. Remember when everybody said, oh, Minneapolis going to be the issue that defines the midterms. And then we found out that both of the people that got shot were crazy and one of them had been screaming at ICE agents and kicking their rear of their car and he was carrying around the gun and the other one showed up and was. Anyway, all of this, the videos that come out confirm very often what you and I and many of our listeners out there know, which is the left in this country has gone insane. And the choices they're making are making their lives worse, not better. I understand anger. Making poor choices when you're angry often puts you in a worse position than you would be in if you did nothing at all.
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Bianco
We're talking about east and west coast life and the people in the middle part of the country. I would say Florida obviously has east coast vibes, but people in red states making rational decisions. People in blue states making poor ones. I was reading about the current situation on San Diego beaches, which I was in disbelief over because I've been talking with my wife. I don't know, 20 years ago we went to Condado and we couldn't afford to stay on the. I guess it's what the Hotel Coronado, which is beautiful on in San Diego, one of the nicest hotels in the country, couldn't afford to stay there. It was beautiful. We went around the facilities and. And we were like, man, this is incredible. Maybe one day we can come back, we can stay in a hotel this nice. And we're going to be in Southern California some this summer. And I was thinking about places to go, Buck. Many of the beaches, I didn't even realize this. And some of you in San Diego are probably dealing with this and you're like, thankfully, somebody's talking about this on a national level. Mexican untreated sewage is so bad in Southern California now. And I'm talking about deep Southern California, the San Diego area, that hundreds of days a year the beaches are shut down because it's too toxic to go into the water hundreds of days a year at that hotel.
Clay Travis
Raw sewage?
Bianco
Yes.
Clay Travis
They're putting poop in the water. Yes.
Bianco
Untreated raw sewage from Tijuana, from Mexico has got San Diego beaches. You can't go in the water hundreds of days a year. The smell is so bad now often, Buck, for people who live on the coast that they can't open their windows. What are we doing? And I understand that's Mexico that is creating an issue in California. You're telling me that California can't figure out how to get poop away from its beaches so that people can use it in San Diego. I don't even want to stay at that hotel now. I certainly don't want to get in the water. There has to be tons of you out there thinking, what is going on? On. This is crazy town. Yeah.
Buck Sexton
Why is Mexico such a mess? That's a whole other conversation.
Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Bianco
That's right.
Buck Sexton
We have some things to talk to him about. We've also got Clay leading us on a journey, perhaps to Indiana, perhaps to the election results from last night, where
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a bunch of weak Republicans got their comeuppance.
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In this episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, joined by frequent contributor Bianco, deliver a lively, critical, and humor-tinged analysis of current political events, focusing mainly on failings of Democratic leadership in blue states (particularly New York and California), the growing trend of wealth and business flight to red states, and the intensifying culture war dynamics shaping America's political and economic landscape. The hour features spirited commentary on Ken Griffin’s public feud with New York’s political establishment, the chaos of recent primary races, contentious episodes in California politics, and heated reactions to left-wing governance in major US cities.
[03:23 - 15:08]
[06:52 - 07:39] & [33:15 - 36:53]
[04:11 - 14:42, 41:27 - 44:27]
[03:23, 25:35 - 33:06, 44:27 - 46:38]
[37:03 - 39:34]
[36:53 - 39:34, recurring theme]
Ken Griffin on relocating to Miami
(08:25):
“It’s unquestionably true that we made the right choice. And now what the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners... is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami because we want to be in a state that embraces business, ... personal freedom and liberty...”
Bianco on blue state decline
(23:38):
“When you leave, you take that [$1.4 million in taxes] with you. ... It is suicide. It is political suicide. ... New York, California, Illinois, get out of town. You guys are in trouble.”
On the California political scene
Bianco (28:02):
“California is a super attractive woman, a super hot chick that gets away with all sorts of awful decisions because of the natural beauty.”
Clay Travis, red vs. blue advice
(36:53):
“If I could give advice, if you can leave, I would leave. I just think a lot of what you love about the place that you call home is vanishing in a hurry out there.”
| Time | Topic | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:23 | CA Governor’s race debate; far-left candidate critique | | 04:47 | Ken Griffin v. NY: Relocation, business climate, taxes | | 08:25 | Ken Griffin: Miami/NY statement (clip) | | 09:15 | Business climate: Blue vs. Red state analysis | | 12:35 | Resentment/class warfare politics | | 14:42 | Mamdani, “Democrats = Socialists” critique | | 23:14 | Economic consequences of wealth flight from blue states | | 25:36 | Switch focus to California; governance crisis | | 28:02 | California = “super hot chick” analogy | | 29:20 | Katie Porter defends temperament (clip) | | 31:01 | Katie Porter: Healthcare for undocumented immigrants (clip) | | 31:46 | Tom Steyer: ICE as criminal operation (clip) | | 33:15 | Primary results, Indiana redistricting, red state advantage | | 36:53 | Big-picture red/blue state contrast and migration | | 37:11 | Seattle: Critique of mayor, surveillance, public safety | | 45:48 | San Diego beaches/Sewage scandal |
The style is fast-paced, irreverent, and relentlessly critical of progressive politics. The hosts blend data and anecdotes with colorful metaphors, open mockery of political opponents, and a noted sense of grievance about the direction of America’s blue states. They champion red states as bastions of reason, prosperity, and traditional values.
This episode offers a comprehensive, punchy take on America’s state-level political realignment, with a particular focus on tales of business flight, Democrat infighting, and failed governance in New York and California. Through vivid analogies, policy deep-dives, and a barrage of memorable one-liners, Clay, Buck, and Bianco position their show as both a rallying cry and a warning for listeners navigating the turbulent world of American culture, politics, and economics.
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