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Welcome back in our number two Clay and Buck show. We appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Decent optimism in the markets as the highs for the day are hit as the ceasefire which remains fragile appears to be holding so far. And it is worth noting that stocks are not very far off of their all time record highs, just three and a half or so percent away from all time record highs. So we will continue to monitor the peace talk and how everything is going there. If there is any major breaking news. But Buck, I wanted to hit you with a positive news story and then I wanted to hit you with a negative news story and I think they are both connected and I want to get your thoughts on them. Let's start with the positive since I think in general I tend to be pretty optimistic, glass half full kind of guy. In Washington D.C. our nation's capital in the 250th anniversary year of our founding. Right now an extraordinary story is playing out that is receiving almost no media attention whatsoever. I mentioned it last night on Sean Hannity's television show and I have continued to track it with all of you for some time. And that is Buck. Washington D.C. as I am speaking to you right now, has seen a 68% decline in murders in the city compared to last year. I mean this is pretty crazy. There have only been 12 murders in Washington D.C. so far this year. Now again, as a show that loves life more than anyone, we wish that the murder rate in Washington, Washington D.C. was zero, but a 68% decline from last year. As we sit here in early April, Washington D.C. is on pace for the lowest recorded murder rate that it has ever experienced in any of our lives. This comes on the heels of 2025 being, according to the FBI, the safest year that we have ever seen when it comes to violent murders in this country in the life of basically, unless you were born in 1899, which I don't think anybody was, this is the safest year and still alive anyway, some people were born in 1899. This is the safest year that any of us alive have ever experienced in the United States. OK, so, Buck, 68% decline in Washington, D.C. murders. Almost no one is talking about it. Why is that significant? That is a positive. We've seen the same kind of decline in Memphis. Here's the negative. Irina Zarutskas, the innocent Ukrainian refugee who came to this country and was riding Charlotte, North Carolina, a beautiful young woman

Buck Sexton (6:00)

who fled the Ukraine war and was here working a job and trying to do things the right way and what she thought was safe and welcoming America,

Clay Travis (6:08)

was murdered on Charlotte public transit. You've all seen the video.

Buck Sexton (6:16)

She's just in the neck from behind. Yeah.

Clay Travis (6:19)

Sitting there on the Charlotte public transit and never really has any idea that she's in danger. A guy happens to be black, stabs her from behind. And that guy had been arrested over 12 times. I've seen reports of 12, I've seen reports of 15 times. And Charlotte local charges, they are now saying that he is not able to stand trial for reasons of insanity. And so they are not bringing forward and continuing the state charges. Now federal, they're saying they're going to continue to prosecute. He is being prosecuted on two different front state and federal charges. But, Buck, when I see this data, we now have pretty tangible evidence that if we commit the resources and if we allow police and all those supporting police to do their jobs, we can drive down murders even in the highest crime cities of America, places like Washington, D.C. which used to be the murder capital of the country, and places like Memphis, which did become the murder capital of the country, if we provide the resources and support, we can drive down murders by 50, 60, nearly 70% this year in Washington, D.C. but what we're seeing is, I'm afraid, in New York City, places like Charlotte, blue cities across the country, certainly Chicago, there is a refusal to just do the things that would save enormous amounts of life. And on top of that, Buck, as you well know, but the data reflects overwhelmingly the lives saved. They're going to be black because overwhelmingly and brown since Hakeem Jeffries and others. We're going to play that cut for you this hour. Want to talk about dei? Black lives matter. If black lives truly matter. President Trump has probably saved more black lives in Washington, D.C. and Memphis than any president ever has in the history of the office. And this, to me is evidence that we can do this everywhere. It's just, do we have the will to do it? This, if I were the Trump team, I would be focusing on this. I would be selling it. I would be saying we want to drive down murders to even levels that people didn't think were possible. And this is one of our federal goals over the next couple of years.

Buck Sexton (8:50)

Isn't it interesting when you think about the amount of time that most of the Democrat corporate media spent on how much black lives matter during the 2020, 2021 period. George Floyd, the sanctification of St. George Floyd. They cared so much. We were all supposed to put up the black squares. A lot of black lives are being saved disproportionately, you could say. A lot of black lives are being saved by these Trump policies. And let's understand what's really happening here. You have federal law enforcement surging resources, federal prosecutors working to use the statutes that they already have at their disposal to put away violent, dangerous career criminals using the federal guidelines, which by the way, there's no parole in the federal system. So they're locking up dangerous people. And for the state and local level, they are co locating. And my understanding, Clay, is in Memphis, they're putting federal officers in squad cars or whatever they call it, Memphis PD alongside Memphis pd and so they're giving them additional manpower, additional resources, access to the federal system when that's called for. And you're just seeing law enforcement synergy between federal and state and local for the most important, highest profile stuff. Ok? No one's getting thrown in prison forever because they're smoking a joint on a corner. You know, all the libertarian fear mongering from back in the day, sorry, libertarians, we listened to you too much on some of this stuff. It got way, way too far in the other direction. And it works. This stuff is working. People are safer. They feel better about their community. They feel better about walking down the street. Where is the media? Why isn't CNN having roundtables on, hey, wow, what a great, what a great turnaround in D.C. amazing in Memphis. Think of all the young black men of promise who will now grow up and can become dads and business owners and, you know, and productive members of their community who are alive because of this policy. We all know why they're not doing it though. Clay.

Clay Travis (11:01)

Yes.

Buck Sexton (11:02)

Can't celebrate the saving of black lives if Donald Trump is gonna get even a hint of the credit for it. But doesn't that tell you whether they really care about these people? Do the CNN multimillionaire anchors, do they care about men from, you know, black men from low income communities in Memphis and you know, really the outskirts of, well, southeast D.C. and then parts of like Prince George's county, which is in Maryland. That's where a lot of the violence had been happening traditionally. So do they care? They don't care, Clay. It's all just a political foil to attack Trump. That's what really matters to them. It's pretty sick when you break it down, but I don't see a way, I don't see a counter argument that's compelling. I think that's what we see.

Clay Travis (11:47)

I just, I look at, at this and I. If we had an honest media, if we had an honest.

Buck Sexton (11:55)

Real quick, this is working better than I even thought it would. And I thought it was going to work bigly. Sorry, go ahead.

Clay Travis (12:00)

Yes. No, I mean, if you had told me that we were going to be able to drive down murders in Washington D.C. by 68% in from. And by the way, they were low. We're talking about 2025, which was a low year for Washington D.C. to begin with. In other words, Trump's moves drove down the murder rates substantially last year. So we're talking about an already low number and we have since driven it down by 68%. 12 murders in Washington D.C. memphis down. I think it's 50 some odd percent from its highs. Why on earth would we not roll out this nationwide? What is it, around 20,000 people, ish. Die of murder every year in the United States. You talk about the psychic impact of the murders and what that does to communities. Imagine if we could drive that number down nationwide to 7 or 8,000. Like, imagine if we could do to the nation what we have done for Washington D.C. what that would mean for everybody, just in terms of safety. Imagine for all of you with daughters, I mean, just knowing that they go for a jog in a neighborhood and that they're going to be fine.

Buck Sexton (13:19)

You know, I'm fond of saying this, but it's because it's so we've run the experiment, we've seen here what works and doesn't work. We know there's no other side to this. We know, I'm sorry, libs, that you're all wrong and you've always been wrong on this. But we know, we have the results. We have the data. El Salvador should be talked about way more in this context for a country to go from on a per capita basis, a top three homicide place in the world to a top three safe place in the Western Hemisphere in what, five years, 10 years maybe on the, I mean, whatever timeline you want to lay out very rapidly. What did Bukele do in El Salvador? Oh, you're a gang member, you're a predator in your community. You want to harm people. You don't want to play by the rules. You go into a cell and it's only about 1% or less of the overall El Salvadoran community that is affected by that move. So you can keep 99% of your population incredibly safe by being willing to incarcerate less than 1% of your population. And we're not willing to do that. And I haven't even gotten into. We need to be executing a lot more people and we should bring back firing squads in this country. But that's a broader, that's, that's a whole next level of the conversation. We're a ways from there. I hope we get back there as a, as a nation. But certainly on incarceration, we need to lock up more people for longer actually, but just lock up people that are actually doing really bad things. You know, this is, this is the game they like to play, not people that walked in and took a photo of themselves on January 6th. No, that's not what we should be doing.

Clay Travis (15:01)

20,000 murders. If we did to the nation what has been successful in Washington, D.C. we would take the numbers from 20,000 murders a year to 6,400. That means you would have 13,600 lives saved every year. Why wouldn't that be a huge story? Why isn't that a completely compelling, achievable statistic based on what we have seen in Washington, D.C. and to Buck's point, if you want to look writ large, El Salvador, which was one of the most dangerous places in the world, is now one of the safest places. And just think of, leave aside for a moment, obviously the benefit of saving lives. Think about what that does economically for the country if we start eliminating violent crime, murders being of course, the most violent violent crimes. Think about what it does for making neighborhoods safer, which allows businesses to thrive. Think about what it does for overall, you know, just general growth of economic situations in the country. It's, it, it's transformative and I think it's achievable. And those are two things that often aren't combined together. And I think we should be talking about more how consequential this potentially could be. So we'll take some of your talk back, some of your calls. By the way, next hour we're going to talk with Steve Yates. I don't know if we mentioned this earlier, but Steve Yates is going to join us to talk about the situation in Iran. And then at 2:30, Congressman Brandon Gill with what's going on on Capitol Hill and more. All that still to come. But that's next hour. We'll take some of your calls and talk backs in this hour. Look Online reviews for Rapid Radios are fantastic and they're worth reading sometimes. A grandfather bought a pair of Rapid Radios so he could stay in touch with his 10 year old granddaughter when she came for visits and wanted to play outdoors with friends. Uh, we have done this with our 11 year old. Give him that. Because he doesn't have a cell phone yet. We want to be able to stay in touch with him, but we also want him to be able to run around and play with his friends. Rapid Radio is trusted by more than half a million users nationwide and they can make a tremendous difference for you and your family no matter what they the age of your parents are, what the age of your kids might be. You can stay in touch with your entire family and right now they're including over 300 in free gear with your order of a Rapid Radio, a tactical radio bag, a USB charger, an EMP Faraday bag. Plus every order includes a 30 day money back guarantee. When you make our purchase, use code radio for 5% off and free shipping from Michigan when you need to be heard, no matter where or when, go to rapidradios.com that's rapidradios.com code radio for 5% off rapidradios.com, code radio. We love it. You will too. Sign up today.

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in here to Clay and Buck. We want to take your calls, your talk facts hear from all of you across this great land of ours. And we got some talkbacks here. Let's get to Corey in St. Augustine. Not, as my wife has explained to me, their true Floridian St. Augustine, Florida thank you for sending us this podcast. I'm rather this Talk Back play a Buck. I love that you are a realist and you give us the right information on this Iran war among other things. Of course you don't give us exactly what we want to hear or what the media wants to tell us. You give us facts whether we like it or not. You give us the real situation and that's why I come here. I get real news every day from you guys. Thank you. Have a great day Appreciate that. I would say for Clay and for me, you know, we've never had to come on here and say I promise you this is going to happen or I guarantee this is going to happen. And whiffed by like a mile, you know, meaning on something big like World War three is coming. No, no, no. And then that's a big thing to whiff on, you know, it's a big whiff. When you say that something could be a cataclysm killing tens of millions of people and actually it's like not at all. So yeah, we try to give it to you straight. Right, Clay?

Clay Travis (21:54)

No doubt. And that is the, that's the intent every day doesn't mean we're going to be perfect or even always agree, but we're always going to be honest. Gracie in Arizona, this is a fun one because they were complaining on MSNBC that Pete hag Seth said no man left behind.

Hakeem Jeffries (22:12)

She.

Clay Travis (22:12)

She has a take on that. As a former member of our armed forces, Gracie, fire away. Cup beef.

Buck Sexton (22:19)

Hey guys. As a former special ops person and served in the Gulf War in combat, I take no offense whatsoever to no man left behind. It's absurd, the pickiness because they have nothing else to be upset about. I even like Lawrence o'. Donnell. Who I haven't heard that guy's name in a few years. So I think that this is one of those Clay where he just wants some MAGA attention because no one's talking about Lawrence these days. Oh, wow.

Clay Travis (22:51)

I mean, it is kind of crazy that in the middle of all of that's going on that you would decide that you need to cover the phrase no man left behind and claim that you are offended about the fact that that phrase would be used. I mean even to even think, hey, I'm going to do this. I can't even imagine there's anybody at MSNBC that's actually upset about this. We'll continue to take your calls. More details coming. Maybe Little Mo Gayetola will even give us an idea what he might be thinking. To the extent that he is still alive, living in Tennessee, not a year goes by without a tornado touchdown. High winds, occasional significant thunderstorm. All of that can extract a huge toll on your roof. And Erie Home is a company with 50 years of experience, hundreds of thousands of repaired or new roofs installed. And right now you can take advantage of a great offer. So they'll inspect your roof for any problems free of charge using a 25 point inspection they've developed over many years in business. And if your roof needs Replacement Erie Home offers all kinds of options, including newer metal materials made to mimic the look of the roof you likely have. Now. Your new roof from Erie Home comes with a 50 year transferable warranty. So if you sell your home, you're providing even more value in the sales process when it comes to home roofs. The company we recommend Erie home right now $1200 off@eriehome.com Clay welcome back in Clay. Travis BUCK Sexton SHOW I mentioned that I wanted to play this for you, Hakeem. Jeff. First of all, Buck, I think a lot of this goes to if you're wrong about everything on the objective, factual measures. And we were just saying the Washington, D.C. murders are down 68%. Memphis murders have collapsed. The people who told us, oh, we don't need help, things aren't that bad. And because that's what they're still saying in Chicago. Right. That's what J.B. pritzker would be saying. That's what Brandon Johnson, the mayors of mayor and governor of Chicago, they're just saying things are fine here. We don't need the president's help. President could come into Chicago and murders I legitimately believe would collapse almost 50% overnight. So people in Chicago, because of politics, are allowing some of their citizens to murder others at a level that should not occur, period. OK, so Washington D.C. down 68%. If you're wrong on the facts, what do you argue? Well, Hakeem Jeffries is now arguing the same thing that Mamdani argued, which is the biggest issue America faces today is dei. And remember, Buck, it wasn't very long ago, do you remember when Joe Biden had the big speech and said the biggest issue that America faced was white supremacy? The biggest issue that the country faced, according to Joe Biden, was white supremacy. And now the argument if you're wrong on all the facts, you just have to play on emotions. And this is Hakeem Jeffries deciding to attack Pete Hegseth, the secretary of War. Here is what that sounded like.

Hakeem Jeffries (25:59)

When you attack diversity, equity and inclusion, you attack the United States of America. And here's the other thing that we know that this effort attacking DEI is not a serious effort. It's not about celebrating merit. That's what they tell you. They're not trying to celebrate merit. They're trying to elevate mediocrity. Not trying to celebrate merit, they're trying to elevate mediocrity. Here's how we know that's the case. Just look at who they put in charge of the attack. On dei, Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in American history. You don't have the standing to lecture anyone. This guy can't organize a two car funeral. He was a Fox News host and now he's the Secretary of Defense. No wonder things are turning out so horrifically over in the Middle East. Pete Hegseth leading the attack on diversity, equity and inclusion. Those are American values.

Clay Travis (26:54)

Okay, he. There's a lot in there. But the fact that he said that things are turning out horrifically. 13 people dead, 13 service members dead in a six week air campaign that obliterated the Iranian navy, the Iranian air force and the Iran's ability to launch ballistic missiles in a significant way and hopefully has significantly curtailed, if not ended their pursuit of nuclear weapons. Even if all those things are not 100% true, the definition of horrifically is crazy. But also what is Hakeem Jeffries accomplished such that he would deserve to be speaker of the House? I don't. Hakeem Jeffries not a good communicator. I wouldn't hire Hakeem Jeffries to do a show at a media company. I don't think I heart would hire Hakeem Jeffries to do shows across its network. What has Hakeem Jeffries himself ever actually accomplished? If he's going to attack other people,

Buck Sexton (28:03)

he, he's attacking Pete Hegseth. Ok, no, I'm not somebody that runs to the academic pedigree to make the case because I think that a lot of the time, well, because of dei, it's actually destroyed the reputation of the, of these institutions for being primarily very high iq, very cognitively elite individuals. That's just the fact that Harvard doesn't really mean what it used to because, well, why'd you get in? Did you get in because you were so good at academics, at, you know, math, science, reading? Or did you get in because you're a, you know, a three legged Eskimo who says that he's trans? I mean, this is the reality of our. And by the way, the Supreme Court agrees with me. Right? This is. Now we're allowed to talk about this. We're allowed to say this. They were discriminating against white whites and Asians. The too many whites, too many Asians getting high scores, getting high grades. Gotta change the standard. But that's the whole school thing. But Pete went to Princeton. I think he also got a master's from the Harvard Kennedy School. Pete served in the military. And this idea that because now obviously we're a little Biased on this one because you're a very successful media commentator. You, you know what, what's the job that he's supposed to have that puts him in such better stead? To be able to do this, you have to be a total military careerist. A lot of people will tell you that it's one thing to serve for five to seven years, but the people who often rise to the top. I've never served the military. Military members, correct me if you think this is wrong. Call in, light us up, whatever. But they say the war fighters come in and do their thing and they serve. The people that often get the most stars on their shoulders over 20 or 30 years are basically politicians inside the military. Okay, it's not. Oh, this guy. It's not. This guy's a three star general. So he was the, he was the bravest and the most kick ass and

Clay Travis (29:56)

the best at his job.

Buck Sexton (29:56)

And if. No, it's. He kissed the right asses a lot of the time to get ahead in the Pentagon. This is what I have been told. Again, any war fighter wants to call in and correct the record. You guys know more about this than I do. But I did see some of this. I briefed General Austin in Iraq, I'll tell you that. Not a smart guy. And he was the last Secretary of Defense before Pete. Is he a good person? I think he's probably a nice guy.

Clay Travis (30:20)

I think he's a patriot.

Buck Sexton (30:21)

He served his country. I respect that. Is he somebody that I think should have been in charge of the Pentagon? No. Do I think that they advanced him beyond what he was capable of because of dei? Yes. So, you know, what are we doing here, folks? Let's be honest about these things.

Clay Travis (30:36)

Yeah, I just think I looked up Hakeem Jeffries resume, as it were. He is favored right now to be speaker of the House next year. One of what is that the third in line to be president? Right.

Hakeem Jeffries (30:50)

Yes.

Buck Sexton (30:51)

Yes.

Clay Travis (30:51)

So he is, you know, two heartbeats in theory, away from being President of the United States. He went to SUNY Binghamton undergrad and then he went to NYU for law school. He did six years in private law practice and now he is doing what he is doing. Why is that?

Buck Sexton (31:10)

He went to NYU Law School. I want to see his LSATs. If I'm supposed to be impressed that he went to NYU Law School, which is a very elite law school, to be clear, as Clay knows better than better than I do, but. Right, Clay, very. That's like a top 10, maybe top five law school. Actually, it's very elite. Maybe top. Top 10. I think it's top 10. But it's a very good law school. And I want to see what his else answer, because if I'm supposed to be impressed that he went there, I think that should be something we're all allowed to know. And by the way, if you got low LSATs, doesn't mean he's a bad person or it doesn't even mean that he's dumb. It just means don't tell me I have to be so impressed that he went to NYU because he got into NYU in part because he's black. This is reality.

Clay Travis (31:47)

But also, is his resume such that you would look at that and say he should be speaker of the House?

Buck Sexton (31:52)

No.

Clay Travis (31:53)

Like, if you're going to be someone who is attacking other people based on their resumes, you better have been like, leave aside where you went to school, you better have been a CEO or a founder of some company that's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Billions of dollars. Like, if I looked at Hakeem Jeffries resume, he went to, okay, undergrad, good law school, then went six years in a law practice. Okay. And now he's three potentially going to be two heartbeats away from the presidency. What has he done in his career that would justify him being that close to the presence he represents one district, you know, he's never been elected statewide.

Buck Sexton (32:38)

And I think that Trump has actually really been clarifying in this regard because, you know, what really justifies you for these jobs? The will of the people as expressed via an election, or the power of the president as exercised from his office.

Clay Travis (32:55)

Yeah.

Buck Sexton (32:56)

We can talk about whether somebody has a resume that we like or something. But at the end of the day, Clay, Ronald Reagan was an actor, and people say, oh, but he also ran the Screen Actors Guild. Yeah. And then he became governor, and then he became president. Governor of California, which I always think is so interesting because it used to be California became beautiful paradise and a place where Hollywood was built and all these things when it was a Republican state. So we remember that even when it got going with Silicon Valley, it was still a lot closer in the early 90s anyway. The, you know, before they just filled it with the Third World and made it into the communist place that it is right now. It's race communism. But, Clay, the truth is that what makes somebody qualified to be president is what the American people decide what they vote on. That's it. Right. This is really now where we are, I think. So all this stuff about qualifications, you can pitch Qualifications in, you know, who you should vote for. But at the end of the day, what are we really talking about with what's acceptable for someone to be president? If you can get 70 million, or in the case of Joe Biden, 130 million or whatever the number is to vote for you, you should, you know, that's enough. It's the same way that people, I think this is kind of interesting, isn't it? People that are elected off as like members of the Senate, you know, they get an automatic security clearance. So many of them wouldn't qualify for a security clearance, but they're just, they're cleared because of the will of the people as expressed through the election. That's the way that it goes. They don't have to get background checks, they just get access to the stuff.

Clay Travis (34:21)

I actually think too now we have a year and change to actually look at Hegseth ability in the job. He's done a pretty incredible job. I mean the Venezuela Maduro raid, maybe the most impressive raid that has ever occurred in the history of the United States military. I mean when you really comprehend what had to occur there, I'm talking about just raid, not full on invasion or anything like that. When you look at the law, the, the buck. If we had said, if I had said on this program we're gonna bomb Iran pretty much consistently for six weeks and we are going to destroy their navy and we're going to destroy their air force and we are going to be running missions through Iran for six weeks and Iran's going to be able to respond. And I had predicted that we would lose 13 soldiers again. I wish it was zero. Everybody out there would have said I was crazy. They would have said it's impossible to do six weeks of military operations against a country of 90 million people that has been chanting death to America for two generations and do all the things that we did in Iran and only lose 13American soldiers. I would have, most people out there would have said that is an outrageously low figure. I mean there are a lot of people with very big audiences that said thousands and thousands of American soldiers will die immediately. This will be a bloodbath. And I think you have to give Pete Hegseth a lot of credit for that.

Buck Sexton (35:55)

Well, also that's. You've walked us into something else too, which is look at what Pete's done as on the job. He wasn't an easy confirmation, to be clear. He was not an easy. It was a 50 50. And then the JD Vance had to come in as a Tie break. Because Pete had had some things in his, he had had some challenges in his past matter of public record. I know Pete personally. Clay knows Pete personally. He's a very good guy. But he's had some challenges. I mean he's had some personal challenges. Ok, so there were some qualms about that. The Democrats just hate him because Trump likes him as we know. And you know they would have over they Democrats would overlook a mass murderer as long as it would upset Trump in some way. They don't care. But what has he done in the office? What has he done in the job? I have to say I really like everything that Pete Hegseth has been, has been doing. Not just the benching 315 I mean the whole change of the ethos, the, the effort to make streamlining appropriations, making the Pentagon more nimble and adept and forward leaning on getting the best gear, my friends. Gear will be who wins the wars Gear and technology and manufacturing. Who has the most brave guys who can do the most push ups is going to matter less in 20 years. Some people may not like hearing that that is the truth. I thought you're about to get wild.

Clay Travis (37:18)

No, you were on a roll there. I think at some point you have to pivot from this person doesn't deserve the job to looking at what they have done in 16 months, 14 months, whatever the heck it is and judging how they've done. And to me, I think by the

Buck Sexton (37:35)

way, Trump's a phenomenal example of this. Trump's first four years show somebody who did a lot of really great things for the country and a booming economy and then they used the whole Covid catastrophe and the mass hysteria from that and all that, you know. But I think Trump did a great job as president. I think he did very smart things that made the country better and safer and more prosperous. I think Joe Biden did the opposite. I don't even think Joe Biden was running the country. So it's even worse.

Clay Travis (38:00)

Here's, here's an easy way to sum this up. Are you impressed with the overall quality of politician Republican, Democrat, independent when it comes to their ability to not only succeed in politics but also to succeed in other facets of American life? If they weren't politicians. I am not. In other words, I do not think we are being led by the best, the most skilled and the brightest among us. I think a lot of those people tend to go into the private sector over the public sector. So when I hear Hakeem Jeffries ripping Pete Hegseth who has had success in the private sector. It's not easy to be successful in media. It's not easy certainly to have had the success that he did in uniform and on. Couple that with the fact that he was smart enough to get into Princeton. I think we need more Pete Hegseths and less Hakeem Jeffries.

Buck Sexton (38:55)

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Buck Sexton (42:27)

welcome back into Clay and Buck. Let's take John in Oklahoma City. Retired military wants to talk to us. What's going on, John?

John (Caller) (42:37)

Hey Buck, the other day you did a great segment with RFK Jr on peptides. I got to tell you, I'm a walking testimony about what you're advocating there. Or maybe not according to the FDA, but I'm 100% disabled combat vet with a whole stack of issues. When I retired five years ago, six months ago, my doctor, one of his cash only docs, put me on peptides, BPC 157, TB 500 and then the two neuro ones, Celink and Simax. And I'm telling you, 90% or better of my issues are not just are not just better. They're healed. It's not like taking a Tylenol. It's like completely healed.

Buck Sexton (43:18)

Brother, I'm first of all, thank you for your service and I'm so happy to hear that. And and RFK Jr clearly is. His heart's alongside yours on this one, but he's got to walk that line of legality and and regulation. But I hear the, the story you're telling me. I've heard similar stuff from so many people.

Clay Travis (43:36)

How old are you, John?

John (Caller) (43:38)

36?

Clay Travis (43:39)

56. So how did you even come. We're coming up on the end here. But how did you come to even try these peptides? Dr. Idea or you did the research yourself?

John (Caller) (43:49)

I went in for some testosterone treatment and we started talking about, about optional treatments. And then he threw out the peptide card and I did a whole bunch of research. You know, there's a lot of great docs out there that are advocating for it. There's some, there's a couple of quacks too. But you know, you just gotta use your brain.

Clay Travis (44:06)

Thank you. I mean, buck this. You've talked about this some on air and some off air that you think this could be revolutionary health wise for a lot of people.

Buck Sexton (44:14)

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