Hour 2 - Megan Rapinoe is Washed Up

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show: “Hour 2 – Megan Rapinoe is Washed Up”

Date: July 17, 2026
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the aftermath of President Trump’s recent speech, focusing on the media’s reaction and refusal to broadcast it. They also dive into issues of press bias, foreign influence in American media, and broader culture war topics—culminating in a humorous critique of Megan Rapinoe’s public profile. The episode is marked by candid banter, topical references, and listener engagement through messages and social media feedback.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Media Refusal to Air Trump’s Speech

(Starts ~01:58)

• Clay and Buck express frustration at major networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC) refusing to air Trump’s speech in full.
• They present an audio montage of network commentators justifying their choice by claiming Trump spreads misinformation and their duty is to “fact check” and “contextualize.”
• The hosts argue this is evidence of deep media bias and a disservice to public discourse.

Notable Quote:

“None, Clay. None of them carried the President's address to the nation. Not a single one.”
— Buck Sexton (05:45)

Host Commentary:

• Clay: “They gave themselves Pulitzers for the Russia collusion hoax. It was all made up.” (06:13)
• Buck: “When you're wrong and you own it, people treat you... trust you more. No one has admitted to any wronghood.” (07:39)

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2. Press Bias and Self-Policing

(07:35 - 13:07)

• The hosts lampoon prominent journalists such as Brian Stelter for feigned neutrality and for refusing to admit past errors.
• Extended riff imagining Brian Stelter adopting a more masculine and conservative persona after testosterone therapy (TRT), poking fun at the “softness” of left-leaning media figures.
• Segment includes discussion on media control over narratives, implications for democracy, and corporate mergers (e.g., Warner Bros and Paramount, with commentary on CNN ownership).

Memorable Moments:

“He'd be sliding up in the bar, stealing your girl. Like you wouldn't even be able to go to get a… beer, next thing you know, Stelter's got your chick on his arm.”
— Buck Sexton (10:11)

On Editorial Choices:

“What you cover is the biggest editorial decision you make.”
— Clay Travis (13:07)

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3. Climate, Wildfire, and Masking Mandates

(17:30 - 21:20)

• Discussion shifts briefly to Canadian wildfires affecting the Northeast US, with specific mention of the World Cup final in NYC.
• Clay and Buck sharply criticize calls for mask-wearing due to air quality, linking it to “Pavlovian conditioning” by left-wing authorities.
• Comparison drawn between religious rituals and mask mandates as signals of group belonging.

“They just want people to keep doing the mask thing... it's the genuflection to the left wing orthodoxy.”
— Clay Travis (20:49)

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4. Foreign Influence and Journalistic Integrity

(23:00 - 29:46)

• The hosts react to Trump’s claims that US journalists have been paid by foreign governments like China to publish anti-Trump stories.
• They argue for heightened transparency and application of FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) to journalists accepting foreign funds.
• Discussion of whether news networks should suffer license revocation for deliberate editorial bias, especially when refusing to air presidential communications.

“It seems like we should hold a higher standard to people influencing politics based on foreign dollars than we do an Instagram influencer trying to get you to buy a new bathing suit.”
— Clay Travis (25:57)

“They use our public multi-billion dollar in value airways for absolutely no money... all we want is honesty in our elections and honesty in reporting.”
— Trump clip (28:54)

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5. The State of “News” vs. “Opinion” Channels

(29:46 - 32:45)

• Critique of media silos: NBC, ABC, CBS, and their varying degrees of opinion and news, with specific blame placed on corporate owners like Disney for steering coverage.
• Observation that MSNBC dropped “NBC” from branding to distance from journalistic standards and underscore its opinion orientation.
• Clay and Buck emphasize their own efforts to remain fair by inviting guests from all sides—even when Democrats decline.

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6. World Cup and Megan Rapinoe Segment

(32:45 - 35:57)

• Discussion turns to soccer: listeners debate relevance of the World Cup third-place match and US performance.
• Clay jokes that by 2031, the US women’s soccer team might be mostly “men pretending to be women,” lampooning transgender participation.
• Both hosts mock Megan Rapinoe’s complaint about losing sponsorships for being “too outspoken” against men in women’s sports, calling her “washed up” and of little commercial value except for niche products.
• Ongoing theme of “cancel culture” and how outspoken conservative stances can be penalized commercially.

Notable Quotes:

“Who's signing up Megan Rapinoe for anything at this point? She's a washed up former athlete who is far left wing.”
— Clay Travis (35:43)

“Maybe not with Mercedes Benz, but someone's got to sell pink hair dye. You know what I mean?”
— Clay Travis (35:43)

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7. Listener Feedback: Daylight Saving Time and Cultural Grievances

(40:37 - 43:23)

• The hosts play listener voicemails and read emails with heated feedback on their takes about sports, daylight saving time, and the “Savannah Bananas” baseball team.
• Exchange on pros and cons of extending daylight hours, with humor about “vampire” listeners and practical issues for mail carriers.

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8. Cultural Commentary, Humor, and Pop Culture References

• Ongoing sardonic banter, including references to “Salem’s Lot” (vampire novel), Instagram influencers, masculinity, and internet culture.
• Recurring jokes about the embattled reputations of media figures and professional athletes.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• "None, Clay. None of them carried the President's address to the nation. Not a single one." — Buck Sexton (05:45)
• "When you're wrong and you own it, people trust you more. No one has admitted to any wronghood." — Clay Travis (07:39)
• "They just want people to keep doing the mask thing... it's the genuflection to the left wing orthodoxy." — Clay Travis (20:49)
• "It seems like we should hold a higher standard to people influencing politics based on foreign dollars than we do an Instagram influencer..." — Clay Travis (25:57)
• "Who's signing up Megan Rapinoe for anything at this point? She's a washed up former athlete who is far left wing." — Clay Travis (35:43)
• "Maybe not with Mercedes Benz, but someone's got to sell pink hair dye. You know what I mean?" — Clay Travis (35:43)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:58 – Episode main content starts; discussion of Trump’s speech and media blackout
• 04:55 – Montage of networks explaining non-coverage of Trump
• 09:28 – Satirical Brian Stelter “TRT transformation” skit
• 13:07 – Editorial decisions and media power in shaping public knowledge
• 20:34 – Mask mandates and cultural conditioning
• 23:00 – Foreign influence and Trump’s CIA claims
• 28:54 – Trump clip on press “fraud” and calls for license revocation
• 35:43 – Megan Rapinoe, cancel culture, and US women’s soccer
• 40:41 – Listener feedback segment, daylight saving time debates

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Conclusion

This episode exemplifies Clay and Buck’s blend of political commentary and irreverent humor, with major focus on media bias, transparency, and the intersection of politics and culture. Whether critiquing mainstream news coverage, mocking public figures, or fielding fiery listener voicemails, the hosts maintain a combative yet entertaining tone throughout. The show invites both serious reflection on press responsibility and a dose of lighter satire for their audience.

Transcript

[Clay Travis]

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[Clay Travis]

hour of clay and Buck kicks off right now. Thanks for being here everybody. Big news today. Still pulling apart all of the threads connected to last night's speech with President Trump or following on with the next steps here. We just spoke to Stephen Miller of the White House on a couple things. One, and I thought this was noteworthy Clay and I had the same reaction to it that you are at the highest deportation level day to day yet of the administration. So that is another way of saying it is ramping up the trajectory is going in that direction. So that is a good thing. There's also some updates from from Mark Wayne Mullen. I did you know, I was like do we want to do the media reaction to the Trump address? Clay yeah, it's a Friday.

[Buck Sexton]

We should do it.

[Clay Travis]

I think do we want to, do we want to dunk on some of the. Yes, sir.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, let's just say for a moment, Stephen Miller is, I think, the most effective person at actually implementing policy. And he has been obsessed with the border for a long time. He's been coming on with us for years. I think it's easy to point to things and say anytime anybody is in office, hey, this could be better. That could be better. Let me just say this. I don't know that the border could have been handled better than President Trump has handled the border. And you said securing the border.

[Clay Travis]

Yes, absolutely.

[Buck Sexton]

The likes of which I don't even think we could have predicted that it would be as successful as that. And now the degree of deportations are getting ramped up in a significant way. And so I do think sometimes it's worth going back and saying, hey, if we had told you in 2023, three, when millions of people were coming across our southern border illegally, that Trump would get into office and immediately shut down everything. Stephen Miller came on and told us exactly what they were going to do. They delivered on that on a level that I think sometimes it just gets overlooked because it was such a tremendous success. Now, the rate of deportations, that's another step and that's a bigger challenge at this point. But, but I do like that, that we're hitting a record high right now as we are moving into year two of Trump.

[Clay Travis]

Can we make fun of Brian Stelter now, please?

[Buck Sexton]

Yes, now we can.

[Clay Travis]

Clay, could you stop talking about the border so we can talk about how upset we are after last night's speech?

[Buck Sexton]

We were, we're not even going to cover it at cnn.

[Clay Travis]

We're not even going to run it. They were just, they're so angry about what Trump did. Here is a montage. Producer Greg High 5. A montage of networks all just doing the hand wringing thing over. We're not going to just cover that Trump propaganda. It's, it's not like we're a news, a news channel and it's the president, so that means that it's news. We do something else here.

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Play 15.

[Buck Sexton]

We'll be monitoring what the President says tonight, as we always do, but aren't taking it live, given the President has a well documented history of saying blatantly false things about elections. There is an argument that it's irresponsible to air the President's speech tonight. But this speech will be made, it will be news, and it's our job to cover the news. We may pull out of the speech at any moment.

[Clay Travis]

And we are going to watch this

[Buck Sexton]

with a group of experts who are prepared to combat the lies and dismantle the conspiracies right away.

[Clay Travis]

This is the Americas no Whammies.

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A new episode of Press yous Luck starts now on abc.

[Buck Sexton]

That, I presume, is what they were showing. Instead, I just. Good job by producer Greg there.

[Clay Travis]

We had cbs, abc, NBC, CNN, and Ms. Now all lined up with why. None, Clay. None of them carried the President's address to the. To the nation. Not a single one.

[Buck Sexton]

I just find all of these people insufferable. I'm sorry. No one thinks that they have a more important job than journalist. And yet, Buck, they are wrong on almost everything. And I don't mean wrong on opinions. Right. Like all of us can be wrong. I. Some people have even pointed out that I was wrong about what I thought was going to happen in the World cup when I said that France was going to beat Spain. 2. Nothing. If you want to be entertained, Spain won 2. Nothing. Go into those comments and read all of the reactions. Right. Opinions. It's okay to be wrong on, Buck. All of their errors relating to 2016. They gave themselves Pulitzers. They gave themselves Pulitzers for the Russia collusion hoax. It was all made up. They did. They told us that. Remember when NPR said we're not going to spend time on stories that are so untrue, like the Hunter Biden laptop, which has all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. They aren't even good remotely at trying to analyze truth and falsehood to then get out here and lecture us after they told us that. $100,000 in Facebook ads. $100,000 in Facebook Ads. Someone look up what Facebook does in revenue every year in advertising. I think it's like $500 billion, $100,000 in Facebook ads influencing the 26 election.

[Clay Travis]

This would be like giving Elon Musk a baloney sandwich and be like, I own you now.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes. I don't think. Not even a full baloney sandwich like a bite of your kids peanut butter and jelly sandwich and saying, now you work for me, Elon. I mean, it is. They're so wrong on everything. And yet you know what I find, Buck? When you're wrong and you own it, people treat you more, trust you more. When you, when you just come out and say, hey, I blew that one. Hey, I could have handled that better. Hey, I got that one wrong. People trust you more. No one has admitted to any wrong hood falsehood. And then they come out Here and they wag their fingers and they lecture us about how you can't take a speech from the President of the United States. I just, it is, I find them insufferable, thoroughly insufferable in their arrogance as to deigning to tell us what we should be able to even see or hear. And you might say, okay, well how does this matter? A lot of people just don't know basic truths still because they just don't cover things. And so it's frustrating. And this is what I said last night. I mean, the same people who spent years covering Russia collusion in 2016 and told us that it was the most important story of all of their journalistic careers, they're now going to say everything that President Trump alleged in any of that address last night is all lie and we shouldn't pay any attention to it at all.

[Clay Travis]

Brad Stelter is like, we're going to have to keep it reality based or else we'll have to cry. Talk about, you know, Brian should start covering the DOD TRT program. Brian, TRT's calling your name.

[Buck Sexton]

This would be an excellent test. What if Stelter just got mega ripped and just went crazy right wing? What if like in six months, if

[Clay Travis]

you took Stelter, Stelter's probably about 220 nanograms a decaliter. Okay. I'm going to guess. That would be my guess. My estimate, you took him up to like a nice 7 or 8 hundo. 7 or 800 on the, on the, on the scale. I'm telling you, Stelter would all of a sudden be like wearing a MAGA hat. Totally changed the guy. He'd be.

[Buck Sexton]

It would be a great test to, to just give everybody testosterone. Who votes Democrat for like a year and a half and see how they voted in 2028.

[Clay Travis]

All of a sudden, his voice, would he be like, yo, what's up, Clay and Buck? Like, what's going on? You know, it'd be a totally different dude. Be a totally different.

[Buck Sexton]

He'd be a bro, your girl. He'd be sliding up in the bar, stealing your girl. Like you wouldn't even be able to go to get a. You wouldn't be able to leave, go get a beer. Next thing you know, Stelter's got your chick on his arm. He's just walking out of the bar with her.

[Clay Travis]

Dude, bro, Stelter would be like, I'm gonna arm wrestle Bonino. Like all of a sudden, like he would be throwing down, you know, he'd be like, let's go with a guy

[Buck Sexton]

Needs we get some push ups in here. Hey guys, crowded. Let's clear some space. I gotta get some more reps in.

[Clay Travis]

But here is, here is no TRT. Stelter play 16.

[Trump Speech / Clip Speaker]

NBC and ABC did the same thing

[Buck Sexton]

as this network, CNN last night. The newsrooms monitored the speech, evaluated what was actually newsworthy, looked at the documents Trump was declassifying and then reported on what happened. NBC and ABC both went on the air with special reports to explain that

[Trump Speech / Clip Speaker]

the speech had happened and to summarize

[Buck Sexton]

what Trump had said. But most importantly to contextualize it and

[Trump Speech / Clip Speaker]

fact check it justice CNN did.

[Buck Sexton]

Now Trump was ominously claiming that the networks were part of a plot. But the only real plot here, the only intention is to remain reality based and truth based. I didn't, I thought they fired him. Is he now back at cnn? Didn't they, they just take away his show? I mean Stelter has come back from the dead like Kane. For all the memes that you've seen of the WWE of Kane coming out of the coffin, I just again, first of all, there's no audience here and I do think Buck, we can tie in. Let me, let me make an argument here because right now there is a court hearing going on. California and 11 other states are suing to stop the Warner Brothers merger acquisition by Paramount. That lawsuit alleging antitrust violation is almost entirely based on cnn because while it is true that ABC and NBC didn't air this speech at all, CBS did air part of it. And I think that the reason they aired that is entirely because Ellison, David Ellison, I believe has bought this company and cnn. I really do believe this would have aired the Trump speech if this merger had taken place. And it is important to get as much into the public arena as possible, in my opinion. And that's really what these lawsuits are based on because they recognize the ability to, to control stories and control what you cover is the primary power at this point in time of any network, any news organization. You get to decide what is worthy of being considered to be news.

[Clay Travis]

We say this all the time. What, what you cover is the biggest editorial decision you make.

[Buck Sexton]

Really what by far, and I was watching last night, I don't know where you watched the speech. They led from Jesse Waters. Fox News did Jesse Waters. They were playing a funny clip about a grandma in Texas for Florida who has got a squeeze ass license plate which we're gonna have some fun with in our three, I promise you. And then they went straight to the President of the United States. Sean Hannity came on for like 30 seconds it was straight from Waters debating the squeeze ass Florida license plate to Sean Hannity for 30 seconds straight to the President United States Fox News has got every audience dominant because they have fun and they also then are able to cover the actual news. The audience trusts them, to make them laugh and also to encourage them. As many of you we hope on this show enjoy hanging out with us, but also trust us to bring you the most important news when we do. And they if you watch Ms. Now or whatever the heck it's called now, or you read the New York Times or you read the Washington Post, you have no utter idea about any of these details. And I think that's by design.

[Clay Travis]

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[Clay Travis]

Physical violence against me, forcing the mask on my face. Like they'd have to actually throw me on the ground, I think handcuff me, put the mask on my face. And you know, it would, it would take. It would take that at this point,

[Buck Sexton]

bite from a radioactive spider and you become new Spider man, like superhero status. You'd wear a mask. But, but actual masking.

[Clay Travis]

I just little, little paper face masking. It's. It's Pavlovian conditioning, as I write about in my book Manufacturing Delusion, which all of you should buy. If you have not gotten it, please get a copy because it explains this in detail.

[Buck Sexton]

The.

[Trump Speech / Clip Speaker]

They.

[Clay Travis]

That's why they want you to do it. They just want people to keep doing the mask thing because it's been. It's the genuflection to the left wing orthodoxy. It's like just checking in, make sure you do the mask thing, you know? You know, like sometimes. And I mean this in a positive sense, like religions will have like a fasting period and it's to bring you closer to God. And it's a ritual and the whole thing. But the point is. Well, yeah, that's for your religion, their religion, the left's religion is put a mask on.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Just do it occasionally to make sure that you know that you got to put a mask on when we tell you to.

[Buck Sexton]

By the way, this news just breaking on cnn, a huge earthquake they say has hit in Southern Mexico. Just FYI, we had the earthquake that was substantial in Venezuela, what, two weeks ago or something like that. This is somewhat close in terms of it's the furthest part of southern Mexico. Lead story right now. We'll see exactly how bad that is going to end up being. But just FYI, as we go to

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[Trump Speech / Clip Speaker]

His strategy included efforts to use Chinese contacts with big U.S. companies to influence U.S. business leaders to turn against the President of the United States of America. The Chinese government sought to identify US Journalists who had reported negatively on the US President and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him, as many as they could. And they didn't care what they said. The Chinese government wanted US President to lose the next election. And the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them. Charged them billions and billions of dollars worth of tariffs and built the strongest military anywhere in the world. We have the strongest military anywhere in the world. The world. These are exact quotes from the CIA reporting.

[Clay Travis]

So, Clay, a few things here. One is, I think we need to know if people are being paid large amounts of money by a foreign government. Now maybe he's going to say, oh well, there's some like privacy issues or something there because maybe they collected this using. Oh well then why are we talking about it? You know, I mean, if you're not going to declassify it, we should know who this is. I mean, I want to know if people are being paid large amounts of money by a foreign government to be involved in American politics, I do think that Farah might come into play. So it is actually a law enforcement related issue. I mean, this is. Now, the people would make First Amendment arguments. And you know, if you write, if you write a piece for the BBC, no one thinks that you're like a foreign agent.

[Buck Sexton]

Right?

[Clay Travis]

So there's a. But if someone's giving you, if someone's paying you 100 grand and they're China and they're saying attack the, you know, attack the Trump administration or attack the Trump campaign for us, that, you know, if they're directing what you're saying, I mean, that does start to feel like foreign agent territory. Right. And Pharaoh would seem to apply. So I just think that that leaves a lot of, a lot of open territory. But Trump is also. We just, did, we just do 13 guys because as he, he's threatening to revoke licenses of NBC and ABC for fraudulent reporting. And he also. I think the view has started to get a little bit of heat. Clay, we're going to have FCC commissioner car on with us on Monday because we, we need to dive into this some more. Some of these big broadcast networks, they've been getting a free ride on being essentially left wing Democrat operations, pretending that they're news operations.

[Buck Sexton]

Look, I think both of these stories are actually really important. First of all, I feel like you and I might be the only people almost on the planet who aren't getting paid by foreign actors. I really do think this matters a great deal if you are on your social media being paid. And by the way, I mean being paid in a way where you're trying to hide it, right? If, if I go on social media and I say, hey, here's a link to a, to a sports gambling company, like, you kind of have an idea, like, right, we have a, a relationship. Right? I understand ads. Somebody tweeted the other day and I don't remember who it was, but I, I thought it was well said that if you go on Instagram, there's more truth and honesty from Instagram influencer girls. Like, hey, go check out my new bathing suit. It's brought to you by insert brand here. Hey, go to this restaurant. They're great. And they always take like, you know that Instagram influencers who are posting on behalf of brands are doing so for the brands. You don't know. If someone you follow for political analysis is being paid to advocate for a particular political perspective, it seems to me that we should Hold a higher standard to people influencing politics based on foreign dollars than we do an Instagram influencer trying to get you to go buy a new bathing suit. It seems like we have that reversed now on the View. I think we're and we'll talk with Brendan Carr, FCC chair on Monday. But I think this is 100% fair. If you only if you claim to be a bonafide news network and you will not have Republicans by and large on but you have Democrats on all the time that is an in kind contribution to them. And we on this program are producer alley. We are keeping track. We are inviting Democrats on this program all the time. Most of them won't come on but that's their choice. We're trying to show that we are a bonafide news organization when it comes to the guests that we have on. If we have on a Republican, we invite the Democrat on. Now they won't come on because they don't want to get tough questioning. But that's the opposite of the View where we reached out to the View. They said oh no conservatives will come on this program. And then we reached out and we said hey, you know Buck or Clay, happy to come on. And they said oh okay, what did they say, Ali? Oh, we'll get back to you. But they're waiting that we're still waiting. Busy schedules. Yeah, busy schedule. I think we have that cut to play that you were just referencing, Buck, which is cut 7 on the FCC licenses and how those could be impact.

[Trump Speech / Clip Speaker]

In a rare move, NBC and ABC Fake News have both said that they would not cover this speech. They knew what it was about because of the fact that they don't like the topic because they know how corrupt our system is and they don't want to reveal it. They and others in the media are part of a plot. They want to continue this fraud. For whatever reason, they want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left. They can't have a great country and that's true. You can't have a great country without free and fair elections. Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses. They use our public multi billion dollar in value airways for absolutely no money. They pay nothing. All we want is honesty in our elections and honesty in reporting.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, again I would point out CBS carried a decent amount of Trump speech. ABC and NBC did not. I think this is a direct result of who owns the company. And we've got to have better owners of a lot of these media outlets. And this is, I mean, you know who distributes the view? Disney. You know who is consistently the most left wing of the entertainment companies, in my mind that have broadcast licenses? Disney. I don't think this is coincidental. Look, Buck, I don't think it's coincidental. It's not MSNBC anymore. They pulled NBC's name off of MSNBC because I think they believed that the MSNBC brand, the NBC connection, was actually destructive to the idea that they're a journalistic organization.

[Clay Travis]

Well, I know you can't have what you. What you had there for a while was people would sometimes appear on NBC News who were msnb. There was a bit of a bleed over and back and forth and they would for their election coverage and stuff like that. So whatever pretend wall there was between those entities was a joke in the first place. And NBC News was still playing the. Honestly, just to boomers, but playing the we're a news organization game, whereas MSNBC will allow a little more opinion. They all think the same thing. It's just a question of whether they try to do a little bit more of the dishonest, oh, we're a, we're journalists thing, which NBC News is doing. It's all the same thing. They all believe the same thing. They're all Democrats, they're all left wing. There's no. They're all pulling the exact same levers in the same ways, the whole thing. So I'm not surprised at all of that is what ended up happening there. But yeah, I wonder if there's going to be any follow through on that. Speaking of follow through, I thought this was. We've got a bunch of things here to discuss. One of them is on the remittance thing. But first, actually listener from I think his name is how this is K on the talkbacks guys from South Carolina play it. Would you both agree that the third place game in the World cup is really the game everybody wanted to see as the World Cup? It depends on who you ask. You know, this is. I would have much rather seen France, England in the final, but England got their asses kicked by. By Argentina and Argentina has somehow been able to just turn it on in the second half and just destroy anybody who's come close to beating them. And Spain, look, Spain's the highest rated team in Europe and Argentina is the highest rated team in South America or the Americas overall. So you could make an argument actually, Clay, that this is probably the best, the best pairing in a sense. But I'm still sad for jolly old not, not so jolly anymore England.

[Buck Sexton]

I will say the third place game in general feels to me like a relic making. When you lose, your goal is to win the World Cup. Losing the World cup in the Final Four and then playing a third place game. I mean if you use the Final Four in college basketball as an example, no one would want to play in a third place game. I, I feel like this is just

[Clay Travis]

like, well, how much money, how much money is there up for, like what I would want to know is how much money is up for grabs. Right. Because if it's, if the consolation prize is everybody on the team if you win third place.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, that's a good question.

[Clay Travis]

They all get a half a million bucks or something or they get a million, whatever it is.

[Buck Sexton]

Okay.

[Clay Travis]

These guys are professional athletes. Like they're going to show up. I mean there's the bragging rights. But if it's just because. Yeah, then I, then I won. And these guys are all super rich from playing soccer.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. That whatever they're going to make, the pride thing is more impactful to them, pride of country than I think the dollars. I would just suggest humbly that FIFA do away with the third place game. And if they want to expand the, the overall number of, of teams, they're talking about 64 now all those things. By the way, reports are that the US is going to get the 2031 Women's World cup, which is the next World cup up for grabs. And you know what's really exciting, buck, is by 2031, our women's team might be majority men pretending to be women, which is really exciting because we'd really dominate then.

[Clay Travis]

The nice thing about watching the Women's World cup is if you're ever confused about what's going on, it's at half speed. So you can really see everything.

[Buck Sexton]

That means, oh man. No, it's kind of mean, I think, but it is, it might be a quarter speed. I, I, I, I don't. What did you see?

[Clay Travis]

Two out of shape, middle aged radio hosts. Everyone's going to get in the comments now.

[Trump Speech / Clip Speaker]

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[Buck Sexton]

Did you see Megan Rapinoe is complaining because she's losing now. She says advertising opportunity, sponsorship opportunity because she's been too outspoken for men and women's sports. And I'm like, first of all, who's signing up Megan Rapinoe for anything at this point? She's a washed up former athlete who is far left wing who's buying any product that Megan Rapinoe tries to push. That would be my first question. Second for years, people wouldn't work with me because they said I was too controversial, among other things. What was I controversial for? Saying men shouldn't be able to play in women's sports, including sports gambling companies. So we can't work with Klay Travis. What's the reason? Well, he's too outspoken on men and women's sports. You're a sports gambling company. You want to give me a rig job? I'll bet on every dude to win every women's sport on the planet.

[Trump Speech / Clip Speaker]

I mean, it.

[Clay Travis]

Also, I'm sure there are sponsorships for her. I mean, maybe not with Mercedes Benz, but someone's gotta sell pink hair dye. You know what I mean?

[Buck Sexton]

Pink hair dye, nose rings. She's got a real, real opportunity.

[Clay Travis]

There's a market. There's a market there for the pink

[Buck Sexton]

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Wait, hold on a second. What did I do? I don't even know what a Savannah banana is.

[Buck Sexton]

I think you're just getting unfairly maligned based on, on your connection to me.

[Clay Travis]

Yet another time where the grenade thrown for Clay, the shrapnel hits the buck.

[Buck Sexton]

To be fair, the douchebag comment might not include you. It could include other douchebags not intending to be you. I also got an angry email about soccer. You know nothing about soccer. You're trash. And Trump cost the USA the match, you fool. Now, no. No commas. No. I just went into Instagram, I was like, hey, I wonder if anything's going on on Instagram. And people are mad at me for all different sorts of things, but that is a, a wide cross path here. Also, a lot of people are fired up yesterday about the, about the, including Tommy Lahren who came out. She was wrong. She was like, I I like it being dark late, early in the afternoon. That person does look just like meatloaf. By the way, here is Tiffany in Northern California.

[Clay Travis]

Cut B. Clam Buck.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm just calling because of the daylight savings time conversation. Not everybody is on board because for folks like us who live in California, Northern California, Oregon, Washington state, if you leave the daylight in the afternoon, afternoon, it's still dark around 9 00am and it's not safe for kiddos to go

[Clay Travis]

to school like that.

[Buck Sexton]

I don't understand why it's safe for kids to come home in the dark, but it's not safe for kids to go to school in the dark. Like there's going to be dark on one side or the other. You're either going to be coming home in the dark in many parts of the country or you're going to be going to school in the dark. The data, I think, reflects people, generally speaking, would rather have more light. Like our boy Monty in Spokane.

[Clay Travis]

Cut C, Clay and Buck. I'm a mail carrier, so the more daylight at the end of the day, the better. In December, when we have the most mail volume because of Christmas, I'm delivering in the dark starting at 3:30 or 4:00 clock and I'm working until 5:36 in the dark.

[Buck Sexton]

Would somebody just please think of Monty the mail carrier? I agree with him. I want Monty to be safe. I want.

[Clay Travis]

I just know that I'm worried after you upset some of our vampire listeners, that you might not show up for radio and Laura may just find you slumped over in your studio with two little holes, a little blood in your neck. Danger. The vampires want the darkness.

[Buck Sexton]

By the way, good vampire book recommendation. Old school Salem's Lot. Terrifying.

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[Clay Travis]

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