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Clay Travis
back in our number two Clay Travis Buck Sexton SHOW Reminder, as we have been talking about, today is primary day in the great state of Texas. Also in Arkansas and in North Carolina, the very first primaries for the 2026 election cycle. Why does that matter? Well, all of you should go vote and make sure that you get the best possible nominees across across every state, but certainly in those three states in particular where the voting is going on right now. We will have results to talk about tomorrow. You just heard from Congressman Wesley Hunt, one of the three primary contenders running alongside of Ken Paxton and John Cornyn for the Republican nomination in the state of Texas. On the Democrat side, Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico, one of those likely to win. We may have runoffs in May if Nobody gets to 50%. We are going to continue to track that story during the course of the day. Obviously, Iran and the fallout of what is going on there remains paramount in terms of the overall interest and attention. We should mention, by the way, that Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma also going to join us in the third hour and maybe our friend Congressman Chip Roy, who is running for the attorney general of Texas. He may give us a buzz before he's in the air right now, but before the the show ends, he wanted to reach out and make his case for ag, just FYI. But Buck, I wanted to play this. This was Trey Angst who is doing let me just say, I don't know how much you're watching Fox News, but the amount of incredible coverage that Trey Angst is giving us from inside of Israel, where you can see during his broadcast legitimately the bombs that are coming in. Tel Aviv is on a watch right now, but you'll see him reacting to as the bombs are hitting, going in and out of the bomb shelter, as many people all throughout Israel are doing. He reported a little bit earlier today, right before we came on air, that the Iranian Supreme Council was counting votes to elect a new leader when Israel struck the meeting location. Here is that report, cut 29. I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader. This is a significant development and again speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war. They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the Leadership was gathering to choose a new supreme leader. I don't know about you, Buck, but if I were in Iran right now and I was told to go to a meeting that involved high level Iranian officials, I think I might have a stomachache or I might say, hey, maybe we could do this by phone. I can't believe that they are still showing up in person and allowing these kind of attacks to happen. I mean, it feels suicidal in nature. I mean, you're a CIA guy, but I don't think you have to be a CIA guy at this point in time in Iran to say, hey, maybe big gatherings, not necessarily something we should be doing.
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Buck Sexton
Well, they're in a tough spot because if you can't gather and you can't decide who's in charge, how can you be in charge? And this is increasingly going to be the problem that the mulaocracy faces over there. Who is really calling the shots if you can't secure your own airspace enough to prevent the enemy, in this case US and Israel, from blowing up essentially anyone, anywhere they want at any time? Are you, you know, it reminds me of, of, of Bane in, in the, the Dark Knight Rises or whatever, when
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Clay Travis
he goes such a good.
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Buck Sexton
Do you feel, do you feel in charge? And, and you know, that's a, that's a, that's a chilling moment if you remember what happens there. And this gives you power over me. That is pretty much where the Iranian leadership is right now. Do they feel in charge? Because they're not. I am hopeful that there is some burgeoning resistance movement within Iran that is going to come together, but this stuff is very hard, Clay. I mean, you look at what happened with Assad in Syria, there were various uprisings against the Assad regime before the huge Syrian civil war in which hundreds of thousands of people died starting around 2012. And the thing about despotic, tyrannical police state regimes is they're really good at being police state despotisms that stay in power. That's their primary focus. And they have a lot of contingency plans in place. And the whole system that they have is first and foremost concerned with that, not with a constitution or legitimacy or the welfare of the people or any such thing. It's how do we stay in charge? So when that is your maniacal focus, it, it takes a lot to knock a regime off that pedestal and to finally allow for there to be a different, a different paradigm of, of leadership. But I'm hopeful that much I can say. But we own their skies. I mean, all that stuff, all the. Oh, they're gonna have Russian surface to air missile technology and, oh, they're gonna have. No, no, actually, we own their sky. We can blow up. And Trump can blow up anyone, anywhere he wants to in Iran right now, which you would think also gives you a lot of leverage.
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Clay Travis
I think it seems quite clear to me that we are just gonna keep killing Iranian leaders until we reach a point that somebody is workable. And I'm gonna be honest with you, Buck. I kind of feel like whoever ends up in charge of Iran may be a Mossad guy, meaning he has been working with Mossad for some time.
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Buck Sexton
That's a little extreme, Clay. All of a sudden, the next Ayatollah's name is Shlomo.
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Clay Travis
No, no, no. I don't mean that he is Jewish or from Israel. I mean, working with Israel behind the scenes, providing information. Have you seen all the stuff, by the way? Israel reportedly hacked the. The cameras. The. The traffic lights.
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Buck Sexton
Traffic cameras, yeah.
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Clay Travis
So that they were aware constantly of where everybody was traveling in Iran. I mean, the degree of knowledge that they had inside of Iran is incredible. My point on this is I actually think we probably have a list of guys that we think we could work with in Iran. And I don't know how far down the list they are, but I feel like at some point Israel is going to have, and by the extension the United States is going to have a good relationship with one of these guys. And we're basically looking for our version of Del C. Rodriguez, who is the Venezuelan leader that is in charge after Maduro left, that is going to be amenable to working for American. American interest, if that makes sense. And so. So we'll see exactly how this shakes out. But I. I don't see any way, when we have air superiority like this, to your point, I don't see any way that Iran is going to be capable of picking a leader who has any sort of staying power, given our ability with the United States and Israel to know everything that's going on in their country and be wiping people out. Every time they announce somebody new, it's like, what was the job? Al Qaeda number two. Like that. Basically, as soon as you got named the number two position of Al Qaeda, you got almost wiped out. Almost to the point where the press releases announcing the new guys in charge have barely gone out before they're already dead. That is the reality of what's going on.
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Buck Sexton
I just think, Clay, that there's something that Trump didn't. He hasn't necessarily given US the full details on this, and maybe he won't because of concerns over sources and methods and classified information. But it seems like something sparked this with him, something recent. And maybe it was the reports about the negotiating position of the Iranians recently dealing with, with Witkoff, where they essentially said, we got enough to get a whole bunch of nukes. And that's now the new reality. Deal with it. You know, we're not changing this, but maybe there was something else. This is cut 30 here. Trump is saying that if we didn't do something, we were heading toward a nuclear war, a nuclear exchange. Play 30. A big, big factor in this world and future factors. What we're doing right now with Iran, if we don't stop them, or if we didn't stop them, or if we didn't start, they've been decimated. But if we didn't do what we're doing right now, you would have had a nuclear war and they would have taken out many countries because you know what? They're sick people. They're mentally ill. Sick people. They're angry, they're crazy, they're sick. We have Witkoff's cut, actually, where he talks about this. I think we should play this for everybody. This is cut seven, where Steve Witkoff, as part of his negotiations with the Iranians, listen to what he learned from the Iranian side of the table. Play seven. In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%. And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs. And that was the beginning of their negotiating stance. So that's, that's. They were, they were proud of it. They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs. Seems like they told them, we're cheating and you can't stop us. And Trump was like, but I can,
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Clay Travis
I think, Buck, that one way to describe this might be by saying they think darkness is their ally, but in reality, they've merely adopted the darkness. And we in fact were born in it, molded by it. One of the all time great lines that I've just altered a bit for people out there, but it does come back to what I think is the ultimate question now. I think we are accelerating rapidly towards a resolution under which there is a new leader of Iran that the United States and Israel approve of. The question that will then exist is how stable is that new leader? Right? How much power does he have internally? And the second part of that I think will be how reliable is that relationship that the United States has with whoever that leader is? And I think this is significant. The reason they elevated Delsey Rodriguez was they didn't think the military was willing to turn entirely on the Maduro regime. And so they weren't going to be able to just pluck the. Maria Menudo. It's the wrong word, but Maria Tate, whatever the, the, the woman who was theoretically the democratically elected leader, the military was going to oppose her. And so they made a choice. This is not the most ideal option, but it is the best option given the circumstances. Who is the best option given the circumstances right now inside of Iran? And how many people do we have to kill? Frankly, there's a report that there were 88 people that were involved in that assembly of experts. That was basically the conclave of former experts that we just wiped out. Who even makes the decision now? If we've killed 49 high ranking people before this, if we just hit an assembly of experts of 88, you got to figure that dozens of those people are dead. If you look at that footage of that building, it doesn't seem very likely that very many people survived. Certainly very few people, if any, would have survived and not been severely injured. So who actually has authority in Iran and who has the authority such that the military, particularly the, the high ranking aspects of the military would listen to them? I'm sure that's a major calculation going on, which is why I came back, come back to, again, it feels to me like Israel knows and the United States knows who they can work on, work with. When will we get to the positions where those people we could work with are elevated? And I, I don't think it's going to take that long, honestly. But I mean, if we have complete air superiority and if we are continuing to wipe out all their leadership and every single hour, they have less ability to be able to send their drones or their missiles to hit other places. What does Iran have left? I, I just don't see how this could go on that long given what's already happened just since Saturday. That's, that's my take.
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Buck Sexton
And look, sometimes when you start off with groups or individuals that you're going to work with, it doesn't end up going your way anyway. So maybe having it come together. I'm just saying, you look at Afghanistan, we had the Northern alliance, we had, although they recognized the, the key leader in the Northern alliance was Ahmad Shah Massoud and they killed Massoud pretending to be journalists. Al Qaeda killed Massoud right before 9 11, I think maybe even a day or two before 911 because they were concerned that he would be a threat to them.
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Clay Travis
Afterwards.
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Buck Sexton
We would what would be our first call? Go to Massoud. Right. We would want to work with him in the Northern alliance. So they killed him. But then we did work with the Northern alliance pretty effectively. And our Special Forces and CIA worked very well in the weeks after the 911 attack. But we didn't win in Afghanistan. So there's no guarantees with any of this.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
in here to Clay and Buck. We have some talkbacks. Talkback E let's hit that one. Good afternoon gentlemen. This is Tim from Central Florida. I'm 50 and my co worker is 23 and today I was talking to him about the fact that so many of these military actions have been left open ended as Americans. I don't even know the last time we had a military action that was finished appropriately. Do you think Trump's going to do it? Do you think he's going to be the first to finish what he starts?
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Clay Travis
This is a good question. And my wife asked this question too the other day. What's the last country that the United States got involved with that is in better shape than if we had never gotten involved with them at all?
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Buck Sexton
Germany and Japan and Korea.
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Clay Travis
That's my answer. But that goes all the way back to World War II, the Marshall Plan and everything that came out of that in Eastern and Western Europe and saving
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Buck Sexton
South Korea from the, the atrocity of, of the Kim regime and Chinese communism and North Korea and all that was, that was, that was a solid move too. People never think about the Korean War,
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Clay Travis
so Vietnam to basically Iraq. We failed, but we have a decent history. Pre.
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Buck Sexton
No, dude, Grenada is way better. They got a lovely medical school there now. Grenada we saved.
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Clay Travis
Maybe Grenada's the answer.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show I want to help some of you to the extent was it Monday we got calls from some of our talkback listeners who were stuck in Israel. I know some of you listen from all around the world and you have friends and family that might have been in the Middle East. Let me hit you with this. The State Department is actively getting military aircraft and charter flights for American citizens who need to get out of the Middle East. You know, I know for instance, I had some friends that had a daughter who was studying in the Middle east and she and her classmates were stuck there. Let me give you this. And if you have friends and family, let me give you this contact because Dylan Johnson at the State Department just shared this. There are nearly 3,000Americans right now that they know of in the Middle east who are trying to get out of there as the war is going on. So if you got pens, paper, let me help you with this. American citizens should call 202-501-4444 for assistance with departure options. They are getting again, charter flights, jets, they are getting people out. So if you have friends or family and you've been worried about them, maybe they don't have great cell phone reception. The phone number is 202-501-4444. That is what they should call. Obviously, the country code is 1. So 120-250-14444. If you are trying to get your friends or family out of the Middle East. So we had several of you that have reached out to us that were stuck over there and hopefully you will be able to get some help there. Buck I you can well imagine when I'm just scrolling through to check news. I did not expect for one of the most devastating haymakers to be thrown by your wife in response to your assault on her Costco habit. This is if you need a little bit of a if you need a little bit of a laugh you had. Do you want to share what your request for assistance was and then what your lovely wife's response was?
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Buck Sexton
I May have been carting, and I do mean carting. Like I was a longshoreman or something, like I was a stevedore. I was moving large boxes even late last night from the back of my vehicle. All courtesy of the great deals at
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Clay Travis
Costco, my favorite place to shop.
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Buck Sexton
I was just wondering aloud, I said, is there some kind of 12 step program for wives who have a Costco addiction? I was just curious in case someone might need that help, someone might need that information. And then I see, making all kinds of assumptions, my own beautiful wife suggesting that it is my addiction to Pellegrino. In fact, large glass bottles, cases of Pellegrino that is the cause of these Costco runs. And I just want to say, scurrilous, scurrilous accusation. Yes, I drink a lot of Pellegrino, but I have nothing more to say on the matter.
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Clay Travis
I, I got to say this. When did it become standard that you don't just get normal water because of people like you with all the sparkling waters and everything else? I don't remember. Many years, like two years ago or something. All of a sudden you get asked now when you're at restaurants, and it's not just me going to fancier restaurants because this happens at not very fancy places where they now come. And instead of just giving you standard water, they now give you all sorts of Pellegrino and everything else. Has there been a surge in Pellegrino drinking in general, do you think, or is this in my imagination?
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Buck Sexton
No, I think that's real, actually. Yeah, I know. I think you were assuming you were being, you were being a little supercilious. But I think that what's really gone on is that the, the drinking habits of especially younger people have changed pretty dramatically. People are drinking a lot less alcohol. And for a lot of restaurants, that's really where the margin is. That's really where they make their money.
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Clay Travis
Think they're trying to make their money now on upgrading off of regular water, because that's the, that's an interesting angle.
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Buck Sexton
I will tell you. I actually feel a little guilty if I don't at least get, like I was at a dinner for six or seven people on Sunday. We must have gone through, I'm just going to admit this on the radio, I guess eight bottles, maybe 10 bottles of Pellegrino. And I think they charge us, you know, eight or ten dollars a bottle. So, you know, you're adding, let's say you're adding 80, 100 bucks onto the bill for water.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Now I understand that for a lot of people you'd be saying, well, that's egregious.
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Clay Travis
That's our.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, but none of us are drinking. I was with a table full of adults, none of whom were drinking booze. And so the restaurant really wants you to. There's a reason why there are wine glasses on the table when you sit down. There are reasons why they always hand you a wine list when you sit down.
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Clay Travis
Oh, yeah.
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Buck Sexton
You know, I mean, if you're Clay, you just order your natty light and they have to kind of scurry around back to be like, what is this? He drinks natural light beer. Like, what is that? But for a lot of people, Clay, they go to the wine list. And that is how these places make their money. So I, I think that now water, I just, I don't want them pushing booze on me if I don't want it. So I'm happy to be upcharged for water. And I think I'm not the only one. This is happening more and more.
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Clay Travis
I just. It is something. I think you're right. I think it is that they're not consuming as much alcohol. Profit margins in restaurants are slim. And so they're now up charging, basically water. And a lot of people are doing it. I thought about you, by the way. I was at, at church on Sunday and they did the, you know, the, they brought around the, the wine and the, and the bread. And on the, on the screen it said, it's gluten free. I, I've never seen this before. If you were doing the Lord's supper, if you were taking it, it said on the big screen there, hey, this is gluten free. Now, I was thinking you must have a really bad gluten allergy if, you know a shot of grape juice and a tiny pin prick of bread is going to break your world. But I did notice that. Here's another bit of news. People want something positive. I bought a Tesla, Buck, partly because I think Elon Musk had been unfairly attacked. And so I've got teenage boys and I want a super safe car. And we went and I did the, the. They let you just kind of drive around and you can see the, the autonomous driving of a Tesla vehicle. You can just legitimately go in. They don't even have somebody sit with you. They let you go out and you can just ride around. You pick a place, you type it in. I'm in the future now, Buck. This morning I took my 15 year old to school. I typed in his school Address. It's super early in the morning because he's lifting with lacrosse team, football team, they have to be there early in the morning. And, and so I just typed it in. I let the car drive us to and from his school to drop him off. I'm going to make a prediction here, team. You can flag it. I think the days of people driving cars are rapidly vanishing. I think that if you have a baby right now, like my assistant Katie has a baby girl that she brings to the house most days, I think her baby girl will not drive cars. Like I think if you have a 12 year old, you may still teach them how to drive a car, but it's going to become like riding a horse. I think autonomous vehicles are going to be everywhere certainly within a generation. It's the, it's the biggest change in terms of day to day that I have seen that I'm convinced is going to happen.
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Buck Sexton
I got to tell you what's going to happen in my mind the shift that is coming here is that it will go from oh, I don't know, I'm nervous about the autonomous driving to as more and more people do it and the data sets get larger and larger, it will be considered dangerous. Dangerous to self drive at some point in the future or I should say more dangerous. I'm not saying it's so dangerous, people don't do it. But, but the, but the conventional wisdom will be well, auto drive is way safer than you know. And really you should only be self driving if you're off roading or you're doing it for some form of sport or fun or you're tracking your car but just getting around on the highway because it's going to become a function of zeros and ones. There's going to be programs, there's going to be data and the data is going to show you are way safer. Because you know what a self driving car doesn't do? It doesn't look down at its cell phone to check out the latest sports scores.
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Clay Travis
Guilty. Yeah, I mean I, I, I, I agree with you 100%. I think it's going to be transformative. It's going to drive down insurance costs. I think one way it's going to move towards autonomous is if you, the data is going to reflect that if you are driving yourself, your likelihood of being in an accident is much higher. I also think this is something that's very positive. I think if you're elderly and you are listening to us right now and maybe you're nervous about driving after dark, maybe you just get nervous because you're going to the grocery store and things like that. And you, you are 80 plus, let's say. I think it's going to allow people to continue to live in their homes for longer because you're going to get in your car, you're going to program it in. I also think, Buck, drunk driving. I think drunk driving is basically going to vanish because you can either. Obviously, Ubers are going to exist and everything else in cabs, and those are good choices. But I think we're going to get to a point where you can get in your car and it will just take you home and you are not operating it at all.
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Buck Sexton
You know what Elon's vision is, right? That your car that you have now is going to be a car that effectively replaces Ubers, as in, you're not using it. That car can make you money and go around and take other people wherever they need to go. And then when you need the car, it comes back to you. I think. Think about this. I mean, the increases in productivity that are going to happen as a result of this, it's going to be remarkable. And I say this. You got two guys here who I know a lot of you try to take our man cards away on this, BC we're honest with you. We don't pretend we're not like, oh, I love. I like to take a sprocket out of the carburetor and get all grease on my hands. I don't know anything, all right? I don't know anything. I get into a car, if I push that, if I push that pedal and it doesn't go vroom, vroom, and start going, I have no idea what is happening.
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Clay Travis
I have zero.
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Buck Sexton
I know nothing about cars. I want to be, you know, I want to be in like, a big comfy seat that's giving me like an. Like a, you know, a back rub, basically. While I can fall asleep and be taken anywhere, I have no interest in sitting there fighting through traffic, doing all this stuff. I hate all that. Clay's also. Clay's with me on this one, so
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Clay Travis
I would rather work. Here's the other thing, Buck. The charging. I thought it was going to be complicated. My charger plugs into the wall in our garage like a cell phone charger. And by the way, I'm not getting paid anything. One of the most ridiculous things about five years of this show that Buck and I have done together. Am I correct, Buck? I don't think we've ever made a dollar in car advertisements. Not that I'm legitimately. In five years, we haven't been paid a single dollar to tell you, hey, go buy this car. So I'm not getting paid anything at all just because inevitably people are gonna be like, how much is Elon paying you? Nothing. It's amazing. I feel like I'm in the future. I was not an E vehicle guy, but my car is charging in my garage right now. It's basically plugged in. Like it's a cell phone. And the self driving vehicle aspect of this, the car, by the way, let me say this too. Cars are super expensive. You can get. I'll tell you exactly what I paid. I got a Model 3 and I got a couple of different upgrades on it. It was $50,000. Okay. And they have 1% interest for seven years. So I think I put down five grand, six grand for a brand new car that is as nice of a car as is out there. Very affordable. And I can pay it off over seven years for basically no interest. So this is not like some people are going to say, oh, you've got tons of money. This is a rich person thing. This is actually one of the most affordable cars on the market.
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Buck Sexton
So this is also though, where we have to have Clay speak honestly with all of you because you can pick your autonomous driving style, if you will. And for example, I would like to
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Clay Travis
Driving miss Daisy mode. Yes, they call it swath.
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Buck Sexton
I want nice. I want no herky jerky. I want to get there safely. Clay likes mad Max mode, which is surprising to no person who has ever been in a vehicle with Clay. Travis.
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Clay Travis
It is the fastest mode that they offer. Mad Max. They actually have a sloth. And I was sitting there doing the self drive and I was like, what are we doing? Go, go, go. So I've already gone up to the mad Max speed on the self drive. Not gonna let the kids get there, but for me, it's pretty incredible. So I don't know how many of you have Teslas. I. I never really had spent that much time on it. But I'm all in on autonomous vehicles. I've taken the waymos. I've done all this. I'm telling you, your grandkids lives. They're gonna look at you when you talk about driving a car like you might have back in the day when suddenly grandma and grandpa gave up the horse and they got the new. Got the new car. New model T was out in the road and somebody was saying, idle. What's this horseless carriage? This is ridiculous. Well, I'm telling you, the fact that we drove cars is going to seem crazy to your grandkids. Price picks available in all 50 states including California, Texas, Florida, Georgia. Everywhere. All 50 states. We got March Madness. We're officially into March. Many of the different conference basketball tournaments have started for college basketball. Major League Baseball not very far away. I believe March 26th is opening day for Major League Baseball. Super easy app. You pick more or less from your different athletes out there and two or more of those athletes you can go all the way up to six. You can play $5, you can win a bundle, but when you play $5 you get $50 deposited in your account. All you have to do is go to prizepix.com use my name Clay for $50 deposited in your account. Win or lose 50 bucks in lineup in all 50 states pricepix.com code Clay that's pricepix.com code C L A Y News you can count on and some laughs too.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
into Clay and Buck Manufacturing Delusion. Still on bookshelves everywhere. Still on Amazon my friends. Go get your copy. Keep me high up on that list as long as you can is now a New York Times bestseller and it is a very timely book for the craziness we face in the world today. Go get yourself a copy. Let's get some calls in here. Lisa in New Jersey wants to talk Costco. What's going on Lisa? Hi Clay and Buck. How are you? Fantastic Lisa.
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Clay Travis
How are you?
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Buck Sexton
I heard you talking about Costco. Buck was in the club getting his bubbly, right? It reminds me of that old sog. You can find me in the club bottle full of Bob from the 90s. It's a great song, 50 Cent. But I have, I have to confess something, Lisa. Carrie. Carrie doesn't invite me to Duck Club. She goes to Costco solo. It is her sanctuary. I've never been, I have never been invited to Duck Club. I mean, this weekend on social media, it's a couple and they're getting out of their, their vehicle. They're in their 40s and you know, they're Dr. Dressed like they were gonna go to the nightclub. And then the caption is, this is what the club is today.
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Clay Travis
I thank you for the call. I, I love Costco and I don't, I don't really shop anywhere. I don't know how to. I shop at Amazon and I shop at Costco legitimately. The only two places that I go on a regular basis.
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Buck Sexton
Have you ever gotten like a gallon sized drum of Cheetos or something? Like, have you ever just.
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Clay Travis
Of course I have. Did you see the bunny that I bought? I bought a 10 pound chocolate bunny because my, my son was like, oh, dad, look at this huge 10 pound chocolate bunny. We have to get this. And I said, of course we do. So I always interrupt a lot of stuff.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, you have to get the, you got to get the chocolate bunny. We've got more coming up here, updates on it on the Iran war situation. Also a big Supreme Court decision. Also we've got Senator Mark Wynne. We'll talk to him coming up.
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Clay Travis
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