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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in hour number two, Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Monday Edition. Want to encourage you? Go subscribe to the show wherever you may spend your time. On social media, we have a great and thriving YouTube channel, but we are on Instagram, we are on TikTok, we are on Twitter slash X. We are on Truth Social. We basically, if there is a social media outlet, we have got a good audience that you guys have joined up with us there. We're also individually everywhere. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton, search us out. Soon we hope to have all three hours of video available on YouTube, Rumble, wherever else people go to watch video. And that hopefully will be sometime after the first of the year. But in the meantime, we are coming up on the end of summer and the Democrat Party is not doing itself any favors. We have what I would say is I think you'd probably sign off on this, Buck, as we get close to Labor Day being officially upon us, three major elections to kind of pay attention to. We've got the governor of Virginia, we've got the governor of New Jersey. Both of those are traditionally, I think it's fair to say now, blue states. We'll see how Republicans are able to battle there. And then we have the New York City mayor's race where Zoran Momdami is. Momdani is the Democrat nominee. You still got Andrew Cuomo in, you still got Eric Adams in and you've still got Curtis Sliwa in. And basically every day, Mom, Donnie continues to create more space between him and the other candidates. At least if you use the prediction markets, he's nearly a 90% chance now to be elected the next mayor of New York City. And we're going to get into Mamdani and his overall actual physical weakness. But Harry Enton, who actually shares, I have to give credit to cnn, pretty interesting data on a regular basis, kind of diving into what the numbers say say. He wanted to put into context how the Democrat Party looked. And he kind of made an analogy with the cracker barrel rebrand. And this is what it sounded like.
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Harry Enton
The Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with the American voter as the cracker barrel rebrand has with the American consumers. Bad, bad, bad. What are we talking about here in terms of big party registration changes in, in the key swing states? Look at this Republican Party gains in party registration compared to this point back in 2017 during the Trump first administration. In Arizona, you got a Republican gain of three points. Okay, how about Nevada, a gain of six points. How about again, we come to the East Coast, North Carolina, a gain of eight points for the Republicans. And in the Keystone State in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Again, we're talking about a gain of eight points. My goodness gracious. For Republicans, they, they are converting old former Democrats to their side of the ledger as well as picking up new voters.
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Buck Sexton
So all of the data, we talked about this from the New York Times showing that, that all of this is moving in a very positive direction. And so much of this has to do with failure to appeal to young men. And we mentioned this in the first hour and you might say, okay, I don't particularly care about this because this doesn't have anything to do with policy. Why would you even focus on it? Momdani over the weekend decided to hop on a bench press at a public event and he was unable to do. I went back and looked at the pictures. It is 45 pound plates on each side and a bar traditionally 135 pounds. He couldn't do it one time. And I understand some of you may never have been in a gym. You may never have laid down on a bench press. You may never have done it at all. I do think this is emblematic of why young men are just completely rejecting the Democrat Party. I'll give you a story on this buck. Yesterday my 14 year old, he's a 9th grader, came home and he had been with a friend over the weekend and he said, dad, I just got 155 one time on my bench press. And he was so excited about it. And you know, I gave him a high five as, as dads do. He's playing football, he wants to lift, he wants to get stronger. All of his friends see saying someone is a Democrat as an insult. These are kids from all different backgrounds. And I do think that this inability to just connect with normal men is emblematic of Zoran Mandami's inability to bench. Am I making too much of this or do you think it's a symbol of Democrat weakness and also just an inability to understand average male voters? That, that is incredible weakness.
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Clay Travis
No, it took some time for it really to sink in. What the Democrat ideology and the talking points, the, the orthodoxy was around things like toxic, toxic masculinity. Remember I had this discussion on, on the Bill Maher show right before the election where I said, Trump is going to win and this is why. And this is one of the reasons why, sure enough, that was all correct, even though, and I would say the audience actually didn't boo. Really. Remember, I went back and watched this again. The audience is willing to hear it out because I think that they realized some of them knew at least the train that was coming down the tracks and the Trump train was already going to toot. I mean, it was on the way at that point. It was October. It was right before the election. But Clay, that we talked about toxic masculinity and masculinity in general. First of all, I remember one of the other panelists there maybe is still, maybe still has a job at cnn. I don't know. I'm being quite honest with you. I don't think so. I don't know, maybe as a contributor there. And she said, why are we talking about men? We should be talking about women and minorities. Basically. It's like, well, the topic is masculinity. So, you know, if that topic.
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Buck Sexton
Completely expected. Right. That she would immediately say, I don't know why we're talking. Yeah. Why are you talking about this? Well, it's the topic.
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Clay Travis
And, and then, and then when I try to get into it, I said, if you look at masculine virtues, you're not allowed to talk about masculine virtues. As a Democrat, Democrats are not allowed to say, you can't say things like courage, bravery. Because they'll say, what do you mean? Well, women have that too. It's like, okay, yeah, but we're trying to, you know, we're trying to look at what is true generally, genetically about men and women in the aggregate. And fundamentally, men and women are different. And this is what the Democrat Party decided they were going to just, they were going to destroy this difference. They were going to destroy it with the trans issue, but also more generally, they were going to destroy it. Women should conduct themselves like men, should pursue the same ends as men, should have the same life aspirations as men. And, you know, this is where you can get into the, it's fine if a woman doesn't want to have a family. Of course it's fine if a woman wants to choose a career first, of course, and they should have that full right to do. But as a society, generally speaking, some things tend to be true about men and women about the careers they choose, about the hours they put in about the. And it's okay to promote that. It's okay to say, hey, this is actually a good thing for men to do, or this is a good thing for women to do in general. And Democrats ran it ran against all of that. And you find, you find yourself thinking, you know, they also just, they got rid of a lot of the words that you would use to describe wimpy men or wimpy. You know, I don't even really know how you're supposed to talk, talk about this anymore. But this is, this is where they found themselves as, as a party. And they won't walk back from this. They're starting to try. I said Gavin Newsom is putting out like he put out. Ok, here's a perfect example. Gavin Newsom put out or his team put out. Same thing. A photo, right? You saw this Clay of him in high school. He's got like a long scarf on. He's got like, you know, slick hair and he's like, hey. And you know, and J.D. vance looking a little bit like a doofus. But, you know, it's high school. A lot of us look like doofuses in high school. And the whole thing I guess is like, I'm like handsome, cool Gavin Newsom, unlike this guy who was like a dork in high school. And it's like, well, he's a vice president, United States. You know, he's been incredibly successful. He actually looks great now. I think he would kick Gavin Newsom's ass in a fight. Not that that matters. But if we're talking about this stuff and every time they try to do this clay, it rings hollow. Every time they try to go down the masculinity pathway, it rings hollow because Democrats will tear down what they're saying.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. And Gavin Newsom is almost 60. I was cool in high school is not something that I think appeals very much to people when they look at a 60 year old. I think that men are not above criticism. And this is why I look at the Zoran Momdami attempted bench press. And for those of you who don't know 135 pounds is a goal that a 14 or 15 year old boy who is trying to play football would aspire to. Right. I think for people out there who don't know one plate on each side of 45, which is the typical top weight, is a goal that young, young boys, I would say maybe some of you out there haven't been able to do it yet. I'd say that's, that's a good goal. You want to be able to have at least one plate. And then for you and me, I bet it was when I'm, you know, 20 years old or 19 or whatever I was, I want to get two plates, right. I want to be able to do 225, which is a lot of weight to bench press. But if you ever go into a gym, that is the goal. That's how most men in some women, but most men would progress. They'd say, I want to get one plate on each side, and then eventually I want to play.
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Clay Travis
And I can both bench press 225. And so for any of you who are doubters or haters out there, that video will be. Could be forthcoming very quickly. We could both bench 225. OK, so you. Before, before all the snark comes flying our way.
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Buck Sexton
I, by the way, to be fair, don't know how many reps on 225 I would get. But I can definitely, you'll notice I.
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Clay Travis
Said we can bench it. You can bench it, I can bench it. We can both do 225 as we're having this Mamdani conversation.
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Buck Sexton
So when I look at it, I just think to myself, the criticism of men, to me that I would give is that men are not masculine enough and that the failure of masculinity is that men are not strong enough, both mentally and physically, to take on the responsibilities that we as men should. And so when I see someone who is physically weak like Mamdani, it doesn't make me think, oh, this is someone who believes in strong men. Is it symbolic? Yes. Are there people who are incredibly weak that are very strong mentally? Certainly that occurs. But when you are 33 years old, like mom Donnie, and it looks to me like you, you don't even know how to hold a bench. Hold the bar. You've never been on a bench before. It is a sign, I think, of weakness mentally and physically. When it comes to the masculine ideal.
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Clay Travis
It all ties in too, with, with the ideology, because victim ideology. That's not fair. Let's not compete. Everybody gets a trophy. You go down all of these thoughts, all these talking points, these Democrats embrace this stuff, right?
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
Everybody gets a trophy. Competitiveness is wrong. Oh, I'm a victim. My choices don't matter. I'm not accountable. Other people hold me down. I'd be stronger, I'd be thinner, I'd be smarter, I'd be more successful if somebody else, somebody else wasn't doing what they're. You know, this is very central to the, the modern Democrat party ethos and for people to say, well, what about all the lib billionaires? First of all, look at Jeff Bezos. Guy gets rich enough and, you know, he's taken enough steroids to, you know, probably give a horse a heart attack. So, you know, there's. They want to be strong too, in some cases. And by the way, I think he's gotten a little bit more right wing as he's gotten stronger. So I'm actually all for it and you look at.
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Buck Sexton
Which actually goes to your point, which I think is well taken, that if you just measure testosterone levels, as testosterone goes up, Republican voting becomes more likely.
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Clay Travis
I think it would be. I think it would be the. One of the strongest indicators if you did blood tests of every American man walking into a voting booth. There would be some. There would be some exceptions. There would be. I think particularly, I think the correlation would break down among some minority voters where it wouldn't, you know, it would. But I think among. Among white men, you would have probably a pretty high, you know, just because of the. I think you'd have probably a pretty high correlation with low T and voting Democrat. Yes, I think that is true. I think that is true. And it might be true of the broader male population as well. I just have to think about, you know, voting allegiance, cultural influences. There's other things too. But if you just walk around and you had a good sense as to what the average testosterone level of a room is, I think you'll have a pretty good. A pretty good sense again, it's not perfect, but a pretty good sense about. About the politics.
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Buck Sexton
I tweeted that if you only allowed people who could bench their body weight to vote, Republicans would win 95. 5. I don't think it would be close like if you just said, hey, Instead of being 18, new rule, you have to be able to bench your body weight to be able to vote. I think it would be a massive Republican landslide.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, well, strength is something that. And, and you know, generally physical fitness, I'd say, but strength is something where you either can or you can't. And it forces you to at least think in the real world, better version of can, can someone kick your ass or not? A lot of guys, you sit down and by the way, you don't always know. That's certainly the case. But guys generally will think about this. Like, if I had to take this guy, could I take this guy? It's a very right wing thought. Left wing is not to embrace, not to even engage, I think, in this kind of thinking. And to assume that the world does not revolve at some level around these power dynamics and power relationships, which it still does, even if the left and the collectivists don't want it to. All right? Cell phones are meant to last a long time, but not a lifetime. You've had a cell phone that's lost its battery power, one that lost its ability to process data at a quick speed. So you know that that cell phone needs to get replaced. Thanks to Pure Talk, you can replace your cell phone with a new one without having to pay hundreds of dollars. When you switch to Pure Talk this month you're going to get a Samsung Galaxy A36 for free with a $35 a month qualifying plan. That's just 35 bucks a month for unlimited talk text and sorry for talk text and data and a free Samsung phone with scratch resistant Gorilla glass and a battery that lasts all day. All on America's most dependable 5G network. Look, supporting companies like PureTalk is a good thing and and you win by cutting your cell phone bill in half. They win by hiring more Americans and helping veterans in the process too. Make the switch in as little as 10 minutes. Dial £250, say the keywords clay and Buck to get your free phone today. That's £2 5 0, say Clay and Buck to switch to America's wireless company PureTalk.
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Clay Travis
All right, welcome back into Clay and Book. Got a lot of calls coming in. Want to take talk facts too? Remember The Talkback? The iHeart app download that. You should have it. It's great app. I listen to it every day. And you can use the Talkback feature at the clay and buck page. Little microphone you send us like a voicemail. We love it. It's great. We'll all stake live calls. We've got some of those. Bob up in Bangor, Maine, wants to talk Momdani. What's going on, Bob?
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Caller
Well, guys, I heard you on the radio. I'm a little disgusted with that guy down there. He can't even bench press 135 pounds. My grandson, he's 10 years old, can do that. Come on.
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Clay Travis
I think that honestly they helped him in the video. I think if he hadn't had a spotter that basically lifted the whole thing, I think that weight could have dropped on him and he, you know, it might have. It might have crushed him like a little bird or something. I don't think he could handle it.
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Caller
That's a. You know, as a man, that, that's embarrassing. But then again, we are talking a Democrat or he just. I mean, this is crazy, man. I mean. Yeah, I just don't, I don't understand it. I mean, why would you even say if you couldn't do that. Why would you even even try or just think of it?
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Buck Sexton
You know, I agree. I mean I think with a lot of men out there it evokes Dukakis in the tank style remembrance. And again, I understand people say, well, I'm not that strong and but it does I think speak to the failure of the Democrat party to connect with young men. And you may think that it's ridiculous to have RFK Jr doing push ups and Pete Hegseth and all these things, but I do think that there is a masculine ideal, has been since the Greeks and the Romans to be both strong of mind and body. And Democrats have given up on that and they've lost men in the process.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. And I don't know how they get them back.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
I read through it on Friday because I did will show so I had to go through the transcript. Yep.
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Buck Sexton
So did you have any super takeaway? We haven't talked about this. I mean my take was nothing that she said was particularly surprising. Did anything stagger or surprise you from her commentary?
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Clay Travis
No, I think she's lying.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
I mean I think that there are parts of it. Parts of it are true, parts of it aren't. I think where she says nobody knew anything was amiss with that. She didn't know. I. Just to be clear, she didn't know anything was going wrong with Epstein. I mean, some of the girls that were going over to that house, if memory serves, were. They were underage. They were very underage, too. So there's just no way that I think she was unaware of everything she could. But, you know, there's no upside for her saying that she was aware of things. She's trying to angle for a. Pardon. What I understand, right. Comm. A commutation and. But no, there was nothing that. The part of it also that didn't add up for me reading through that transcript was where she says he was doing these. Like, he was paid money to get money for people that they couldn't otherwise get. Like, sort of. He was almost like he was given bounties, huge amounts of money because he would be able to negotiate. I'm like, why would he be able to do that? What is it about this guy? I don't buy. I just don't buy it. I don't buy that he made money through the value he brought in the actual marketplace. I do not believe that. So I don't think he's worth. He was worth $800 million because he was so smooth at handling markets that I.
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Buck Sexton
This is. This is where we've talked about. Just the way that he got so wealthy still remains mysterious to me because usually you have to found a company or you have to run a hugely prominent hedge fund or private equity fund in order to have those kind of dollars associated with you. I will say, and I know this was controversial when I said it before, but I do think the craziness has died down. I don't think there is anybody out there that is being protected based on the evidence that is available.
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Clay Travis
Well, that you think Trump is choosing to protect or his DOJ is choosing to protect.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, even Ghislaine Maxwell at this point in time would probably be benefited by saying, oh, Bill Clinton was doing all sorts of illegal things, and I know about them. She said that she didn't have any knowledge of him doing illegal things. Um, as she also said, she had no knowledge of Trump behaving in any way inappropriately. Now, to your point, Buck, that is awfully convenient because she's hoping to somehow get beneficial treatment from Trump. So I think the value of her commentary is questionable. There is an incentive for her to lie. But again, I just come back to. And I wanted to make sure we updated this because it happened Friday after we went off the air. I just come back to The Merrick Garland and Pam Bondi agree on almost nothing. The odds that they would in some way be conspiring to protect people related to Epstein I think is highly, highly unlikely. So I think the evidence as more of it comes out and they've tried to get the full grand jury transcripts released, it hasn't happened yet. But I think as more and more of this comes out, you're going to see that what Cash Patel and Dan Bongino have said publicly is in fact true. So anyway, that has come out and I actually think the Trump team is doing their best to try to get as much of that out as they possibly can. Did you, I don't know if you saw this buck. I got ripped. I went on Fox News and on Sunday on Media Buzz with Howard Kurtz and there was a discussion about the Smithsonian and Trump's commentary about the different exhibits.
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Clay Travis
We didn't talk about the Smithsonian on the, just I meant to get to that last week. Do you want to just set the table that for a second? Because I think that's, there's the commentariat has been way more on this than the general, I think news reading population.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. Even if we want to go to this in the third hour because I do think I've got my take was getting attacked by the left. But I do think this goes to Trump's desire to try to uplift American history as opposed to define us all by the worst of our history. And let's talk about that some in the third hour because I think we got some good discussion. This is funny, the amount of grammar police that we have. Producer Greg, are you there? Have you done a transcript review?
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Clay Travis
Well, I don't know. He might be in progress. Hello.
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Buck Sexton
You have, have you done a pro? Here is the email. Gary in Cape cod says around 12:29 today, one of you use the word resound when I think you meant redound. You were discussing the ramifications of actions taken by an individual in the flow of political dynamics. Love you both. I think that was me.
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Clay Travis
It was.
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Buck Sexton
What did I say? What did I say?
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Clay Travis
We can play it for you. We can play it for you if you'd like to hear it.
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Buck Sexton
We actually, let's play it and see if I, if I screwed up or if I, if this works. Was, was, was Gary and Cape Cod right or was I right? Let's play it. Graham. The fact that we are in a position where Democrats are essentially having to argue lower violent crime is a bad thing, which is what Trump's goal is in Chicago or Baltimore or Washington, D.C. he's just gotten them bucked to paint themselves into a corner in such an untenable position. They can't argue anything that resounds in the favor for them in the general public. There is almost no Trump opposition because they're arguing for indefensible positions. I think. I think I'm okay here. I think you could use either. I was.
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Clay Travis
Honestly, I was excited to stand there idly by while the Grammar Police pepper sprayed you. Honestly, I was. I was excited for this Monday for that to happen, but I think I've got to call a foul on that. I think. I think you actually. Your usage of it in that context was correct. But now, by the way, if the Grammar Police doubles down and brings the Grammar SWAT team, we're both getting sprayed.
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Buck Sexton
Now, you have signed on to my use of resound as opposed to redound. I'm not gonna say it was perfect.
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Clay Travis
Like, I wouldn't have been my word choice, but I don't think it's incorrect.
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Buck Sexton
I think you could actually. I think you could actually use either there. But again, Grammar Police, everybody can. Can come swarming us. And let's get a little old lady.
- [30:54]
Clay Travis
On the Grammar Police. She's about to roll some flashbangs into the studio right now. It's gonna be crazy, but we'll see.
- [31:00]
Buck Sexton
We got some funny talkbacks. Let's hit some of these. Tom in Tennessee Talk Radio, 98.3 BB.
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Clay Travis
Hey, guys. Love the show. This is Tom in Tennessee, not too far south from Clay. The only way Mondame is getting up that bench press is with socialism. He could have all his friends get on each side, and maybe together they can lift it. Love you guys. Great show is a good point.
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Buck Sexton
It.
- [31:27]
Clay Travis
It was. It was actually a collective lift. It was a collective effort there. It was him. It was the spotter, other people around him, and that's. That's what it takes. So do you want to be a guy that needs other people to lift the bar with you, or do you want to say I did lift that bar? I.
- [31:42]
Buck Sexton
You want a confession? This is probably. This is before I saw the mom, Donnie. So maybe this was me. I actually pinned myself at the gym on Saturday. Saturday morning, I was. I have a usual lift. I don't have a spotting partner. And I was on 185, and I was going for my sixth rep, which is what I try to do, and I clipped the edge of the. The bench like the. The support, and I didn't get the thing all the Way up. And then I could, I didn't have anything left. It was my final rep of the set. I pinned myself like I was laying there on. Have you ever done this? Have you ever gotten actually pinned by weights ever before on the bench?
- [32:27]
Clay Travis
I can't.
- [32:28]
Buck Sexton
Never in your life. Really?
- [32:30]
Clay Travis
Oh, I've, I may have been distracted once a long time ago in the CIA gym on a treadmill and completely wiped out in front of everybody. Like, ejected like a hamster that fell asleep on the wheel off the. I've seen that happen.
- [32:44]
Buck Sexton
I mean, people have actually gotten seriously injured getting.
- [32:46]
Clay Travis
Oh, you could really mess yourself up. Oh, yeah, I know that. But I, I, I got, I got expelled from the back of the treadmill during a sprint session and just got sent. That happened.
- [32:56]
Buck Sexton
How did you, how did that happen?
- [33:01]
Clay Travis
There was a secretary in the office who sometimes would, would dress, I think, inappropriately.
- [33:06]
Buck Sexton
Oh, the office. You got distracted by a cute girl and almost killed yourself pretty much in the gym.
- [33:11]
Clay Travis
Yeah, I got distracted. Yep. Yeah.
- [33:13]
Buck Sexton
That is, it was the Lord.
- [33:14]
Clay Travis
It was the Lord. By the way, this is 20 years ago, okay? I was a single man, but it was a lord telling me, no ogling. Ok. Eyes, Eyes are eyes in front of you, sir. Look at, look at the CNBC on the screen like everybody else.
- [33:27]
Buck Sexton
So did, did everyone just notice when you went flying off the treadmill?
- [33:32]
Clay Travis
Yeah. No. No one. I don't think anyone realized anything other than I got, I got ejected. Yeah, I got ejected off the treadmill. So that happened to me once. So when I see it happen to other people, I both laugh but also feel sympathy for them.
- [33:43]
Buck Sexton
Well, I had a qu. I had a decision. So I don't put clamps on the bar for this exact reason, because, because.
- [33:49]
Clay Travis
Then you can really, really. You got, you got to do the, you got to do the wobble. You got to do the wobble. Yeah.
- [33:54]
Buck Sexton
But then I was like, I. Nobody noticed. I'm just telling on myself. Nobody noticed that I had pinned myself. So I laid there for a minute and I thought, I can wait and get the strength potentially to, you know, get the additional rep done. I can do the wobble, and all the weights are then going to hit boom, boom, boom, boom. Or I can roll it down off my, off my body. So I elected to roll it down to my hips to where I could stand up. But I was thinking about this, and I made fun of Mom. Donnie. I was like, of all the times I haven't, I don't know that I've ever gotten myself pinned like that before. So it did feel like a certain level of irony. So full disclosure, I did get myself pinned, but I did use resound and redound correctly. So we got a balancing error here. Let's get a couple more of these really quick. Matt from Milwaukee News Talk 11:30. What you got for us, Matt? CC hey, clan book.
- [34:49]
Clay Travis
I'm 62 years old. My warmup weight on the bench is 135. I think an average male of average strength should be able to lift 135 at least 10 to 15 times as a bare minimum. Thanks guys. You're doing a great job. I will say. Thank you for calling it. I will say it's funny. This is like the clay and buck brocast today. You know, weights.
- [35:12]
Buck Sexton
I warm up with 1:35 too. I don't know what you warm up with.
- [35:17]
Clay Travis
You know, I, I actually clay, I've, I've switched now that I've, I've hurt my, you know, I've, I've like impinged my shoulder enough times that I, I do machines now. I'm a machine guy. I've, I've gone to that. Oh, I know, I know.
- [35:29]
Buck Sexton
No, I wish people could see my face. Oh.
- [35:34]
Clay Travis
That'S what, probably why I don't get pinned on the bench because I use the, I use the, you know, the Cybex machines or whatever, the, it's all about size. Like I think I probably could have benched more a year ago than I can now because I've dropped a lot of weight. And with that you lose some lean muscle. So if you weigh 200 pounds, it's really about what can you bench relative to your weight. Right? And a lot of women who are very, very strong, you know, if you're 130 pound woman and you can bench press 150, 160 pounds, I mean that's like very impressive. You know, that's considerably more than your.
- [36:03]
Buck Sexton
Body weight, which is what Darcy from Houston says on DD to close out with here.
- [36:09]
Clay Travis
Hey guys, this is Darcy. I'm from Houston, Texas. I listen on KTRH and I wanted to let you know, let's really put this in perspective. I am a 56 year old female and I can bench press 145 times. And I'm not stacked, I'm not a bodybuilder or anything like that, but I.
- [36:32]
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- [36:37]
Clay Travis
Lame.
- [36:38]
Buck Sexton
It's embarrassing. It's totally.
- [36:41]
Clay Travis
Probably can throw up some weight because he's got both rage and old man strength. I bet Cuomo could throw those weights around a little bit. You combine those two things. You know, he's, he's got, he's an angry.
- [36:51]
Buck Sexton
Andrew. Andrew Cuomo.
- [36:53]
Clay Travis
Andrew. Oh, no, no. Chris Cuomo is Jack.
- [36:55]
Buck Sexton
Chris Cuomo is a monster.
- [36:56]
Clay Travis
Yeah, he's actually just straight Jack. No, I mean the guy who wants to be mayor instead of mom, Donnie, his brother, old man Cuomo. I think he's, I think he's got enough rage that he could probably do, do decently on the bench. And I'm, and I'm sure Curtis Lewo could throw around some weight too. So mom, Donnie is definitely at the, at the low end of the strength pool.
- [37:15]
Buck Sexton
Oh, and also Mayor Adams certainly. I mean he, I'm sure he's in decent shape.
- [37:19]
Clay Travis
He's in good shape. Yeah, yeah. You know, he's, is, his suits I think are cut so that you can see that he is a man of considerable upper body strength. In fact, I would wager so much. All right, we're going to get back to like politics and stuff here in a second. That's coming up. Nearly 16 million PayPal users credentials have allegedly been posted for sale on the dark web. PayPal disputes that there has been a breach. But look, if this is true and a lot of big time breaches have happened, it would just be the latest high profile hack of a trusted company with a lot of technology hackers claim they exposed. The exposed info includes email addresses and passwords obtained just in May of the past year. If exploited criminals can use this information to commit online identity theft with the info that they have scored again, there's no confirmation of this from PayPal, only a dispute and a denial. But it just raises your attention, our attention about how these things can happen to big companies and expose a lot of your data. Having your online identity stolen is a real thing folks. It happens tens of millions of times a year. It's important to understand how cyber crime and identity theft affect all of us. That's why you need Lifelock. You want to have lifelocks online Identity theft protection. It's your best defense. And if you do become a victim of identity theft and you're a Lifelock member, you can rely on a dedicated US based restoration specialist will work to fix it. Guaranteed of your money back. Become a LifeLock member. Join now. Say 40% off your first year with promo code Buck. Call 1-800-LIFELOCK or go online to lifelock.com and use My Name Buck as your promo code for 40% off terms apply.
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Buck Sexton
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Carol Markowitz
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Clay Travis
High importance, I will say, meeting with the president of South Korea today and he will give you some updates on that as we come up here in a little bit. Some interesting happenings from that meeting with Trump. Trump has been going for quite a while and that, that's something we'll dive into also.
- [41:57]
Buck Sexton
We.
- [41:57]
Clay Travis
I want to get to it last week, Clay, so it's, I'm glad you brought it up. I'm glad that people were all sassy with you online about it to the Smithsonian. It's really more about these national museums or these, you know, federally, you know, federally funded or the big, the big museums everyone thinks of, especially in D.C. like the Smithsonian.
- [42:20]
Buck Sexton
There.
- [42:21]
Clay Travis
The wokeness that is in a lot of these exhibits and that now is, is pervasive. Trump is pushing back on it and we should talk about that. We will get into that here in a few minutes. Clay pushed back on it and guess what? They were upset with him. The Communists. They, they came at him with their nose rings and their dyed purple hair and they're, they're very upset. Very upset. We'll get to it. Brent in St. Petersburg, Florida, he wants to commiserate with, with Clay over getting pinned.
- [42:51]
Caller
Hey, guys. Hey, Clay. Buck. Clay, don't feel bad. You know what? I've been bodybuilding for 15 years. I'm 54. I had 225 on the bench. I was feeling good. I was in my third set. I think I was. I wanted to crank out four more. I was by myself. There's people in the room, you know. But I dropped that last one down and I couldn't get it up. I was stuck. I didn't.
- [43:14]
Buck Sexton
What did you do?
- [43:15]
Caller
Clips on the sides. I got the clips on the side. I started putting my head back, bending back, looking for somebody, like just got the strength to pull this thing up and I just, I had to give up, man. I had to pull some over. It was like pushed on my chest. I could not get it up. Had a guy come over and help me lift it up and put it back on the thing. First time that's ever happened to me in 15 years. But Clay, don't feel bad.
- [43:36]
Clay Travis
It happens. That's where you got to get up afterwards. You shake it off. You're like, oh, it was one in a million. It's never happened before. You know, you got to play.
- [43:43]
Buck Sexton
Honestly, I'd been afraid. I'm glad he called in, because when you don't have a spotter, that's why I've never put the clamps on the edge because, because a worst case scenario, you can just have them roll off. But there, I didn't want to terrify everybody and so I just slowly rolled it down my body till it got to my hips. And I got to tell you, I got a lot of bruises today from that. That slow roll of it was only 185. It wasn't 225. Some of these numbers get up so big that the numbers can can hit you. All right, Buck, I got ripped. People are going to enjoy this. I got ripped for my analogy on the Smith Smithsonian on Fox News. Did I back away? Of course not. But we'll dive into this. What should the Smithsonian do about good and bad moments in history? We'll discuss next. I couldn't even believe it was real.
- [44:29]
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