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Welcome in. Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Laughing as I come into our number two. By the way, Buck is in Taiwan. He interviewed the president of Taiwan there. He will have for you on Monday some of those interview segments. I'm laughing as an as I come back in out of break because I shared the Gallup poll about trust in media that a lot of you are reacting to on social media as well. And the comments there are really pretty great. And you guys are giving me a lot of talkbacks, a lot of calls about who you trust. And as I was reading to make sure that I'm updated on all the news during the commercial break, I come across our good friend Jesse Kelly, who many of you are going to hear on 6pm or later versions of the premier radio network. He is down in Houston. He responded to my question of who do you trust to be honest with you and not lie by saying, Jesse Kelly, did I trust me the most? You dead last. So, Jesse Kelly, I've got to respond. I haven't had time yet. But I'm going to say this is exactly the response I would expect from someone who ordered $75 shots at tequila. You know, you know, that's true. We were on, we were in New York City for those of you who may have forgotten and need to understand why you can't trust anything Jesse Kelly says. And we were having a nice, we're on the rooftop, great restaurant, everybody's having drinks, everybody's having a good time. Jesse decides we need a round of tequila shots. A round of tequila shots. I don't know. There were like six of us. I don't know, what should that cost? Seven, eight dollars each. I understand that I'm getting old, but at most, and I'm not talking about a dingy, you know, college bar, because I will, I will tell you this. If you, whatever your financial situation is, if you go into like an SEC college bar for a big game weekend, you will never feel richer than when you order like five beers. What they come back and say, I was, I was out recently and I went to the bar and, you know, it's crowded and last thing I want to do is stand in a crowded bar line. And so, you know, I'll try to buy, I'm an old man now, an unk, as my kids will call me. And so I'll try to get a bucket or some so I don't have to get back in line very fast. And I'll say, hey, you know, give me six Coors Light, six Miller Lights. I'm still not willing to order. Bud Light, whatever it is, an easy bar, you know, tab order. And the last time I did that, the girl came back and she was like, yeah, that'll be $21. And I was like, oh, this I. It's been so long since I went anywhere and somebody charged me something. And I thought, man, that's a lot less than I expected. Do you guys know, you know what I'm talking about? Like, everything costs too much relative to what I think it should cost now because of the Biden inflation, everything just went up like 25 or 30% at least. And so everything you order, it feels like it's way more expensive than it should be. And I think that's the angst and the anger and the being upset. But this was the second time in my life, the first time I was in New York. Producer Ali, you'll probably know where this place was. It was, I think after my first, maybe my second year of law school and my current wife, then girlfriend Laura, we were in New York. I think it was like the. So what's the really fancy hotel in Soho? The Soho House? Is it the Soho? Is that the name of the hotel? The Soho House? Would that be like, you walk in and there's kind of this cool bar and I don't know, it's probably like a 15 story place. I think that's where it is. I heart has a studio near there, right like that Ryan Seacrest used to use the Tribeca Grand. Tribeca grand, that's what it is. Yeah, the Tribeca Grand. Really nice place. Okay. I am 23, I have no money. And I remember I went to the bar in the Tribeca grand to get four beers and I think the bill was like $62, something like that. And I just remember thinking, I'm going to be the first person to ever go bankrupt ordering a round of beers in the history of mankind. I just couldn't believe what it cost at the Tribeca Grand. This same thing happened with Jesse Kelly. We're at, I think it was the Peninsula Hotel. We're on the rooftop. Everybody's having a good time. They bring six shots, $75 each. $75 each. Jesse Kelly ordered shots on my tab at the table. I didn't even know there was a $75 shot drink anywhere on the planet that should come with a gold bar. That should come with stock in the hotel. So when Jesse says he trusts me, the le the least of everybody, I just think it's important for all of you to know that he's balding and also that he's the kind of person who orders $75 shots of tequila. Um, so, Trusted Media, tons of you reacting to that story. Uh, and we're going to continue to take your reactions to that. But I think one reason trusted Media has collapsed is a lot of people in media are charlatans. A lot of people in media are completely dishonest, and they don't have a lot of gratitude. I am every single day. I encourage all of you to think, try to do this, too. Every single day, when I wake up, the first thing I think, before I even reach over and get my phone, before I see whatever the frenzy of the day is, I think, boy, here are two or three things that I are that I am very grateful for. And most time it has to do with my. My boys, my wife, my family, the jobs that I feel very fortunate to have. Before I do anything else, before I get out of bed for about 30 seconds, one minute, I just lay in bed, and I think, hey, here are the things that I am grateful for, because I think gratitude is probably the most underutilized and the most important of all emotions in the world at large. How many people in media do you think are grateful for the jobs that they have? Feel incredibly fortunate to be able to live in this country and make a living saying exactly what we think every single day. When I sit down, I put on my headset for about 10 seconds. I think, boy, this is an incredible privilege. I am so grateful that I get to do what I am doing today every single day for about 10 seconds. I think that when I put the headset on, and I've done that for 20 years, when I did local sports talk radio in Nashville, I remember sitting down thinking, man, I'm getting paid to do this. And I used to get paid nothing to do with this. My first job in radio, I made $0 to do a radio show, and then I got $50 to do a radio show. So I've legitimately done this for no money because I felt so excited to be able to do it. Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow. Do they seem grateful that they get to have media jobs that pay them millions of dollars to say whatever they think? This clip is going viral, and I wanted to share it with you because I do think that in addition to Facts versus Feelings, we were talking about with Ben Shapiro, who I think has done a really good job of making that his hallmark, his calling card, Republicans seem to me in general to be Profoundly thankful and filled with gratitude that we all get to live in this country. Now, I'm not saying that there aren't things every day where you wake up and you think, boy, this has not been a day. This has not been a week. This has been really hard. I'm not saying that it means that there aren't challenges or that you aren't sometimes frustrated and upset about the trajectory of the country. I just mean that as a general rule. Do you feel immense gratitude every day that you wake up for the privilege, for the good fortune that you live in the United States? I do. Warren Buffett has a great example of this, by the way. What are there 7 billion of us? It's really good. Illustrative. I think you could use it with your kids and your grandkids. He says, if you live in the United States today, pretend that every 7 billion people in the entire world were in a jar and you were represented by a marble. And you could reach into that jar of 7 billion people, and you could pull out any other marble. You could end up the Prince of England. You could end up the President of Taiwan who Buck just spoke to. No idea what you might draw as your fate. But he said, you know what? No one in America should ever change their marble. Think about that. We are also fortunate and privileged to live in this country, that no matter whether you are the richest or the poorest person in America Today, your marble, one of 330 million ish marbles, you should never, ever risk putting your marble in and drawing a new one, because the chances that you would end up in a better place and a better position than where you are right now relative to the world at large are very, very slim. And so I was thinking about that when I watched this clip this morning from Joy Reid. And Joy Reid said, this is From March of 2025, when my mom came here from Guyana. She's an immigrant. She realized it was not a land of opportunity for people like us. Cut 28. My father was from the Congo, and my mother was from Guyana. And so they were the immigrants who came here on purpose. And they got the rude awakening. My mother got the rude awakening. Like, oh, it's racist, Terry. That's weird. For some reason, she was talking to me. Why not crush it all? Yeah, tell me this is the land of opportunity, but not for me. So her dad was from Congo and her mom was from Guyana. And they're laughing. Ha ha. This is not the land of opportunity. Not for us. Boy, this is a super racist country. Why didn't you go back? I mean, that's the immediate reaction that I have. If you're not born here and you came to the United States, you could go back to Congo, you could go back to Guyana if you think it's super, super racist place and there's no opportunity for you here. By the way, Joy Reid got to go to Harvard and makes millions of dollars a year in politics just to share her opinion. Why wouldn't you go back? If I had been born in Denmark or South Korea or Botswana and I came to the United States and I got here and I said, boy, I expected it to be a lot better, this sucks. I'd go back to the country I was born in. Wouldn't you? How is the immediate reaction here? Not, boy, that's a tremendous lack of gratitude. How much money do you make, JOY Reed? Millions of dollars a year. You make more money than 99.9% of Americans. You got to go to Harvard, a place that 99.9% of Americans will never be able to attend. You got to do that as a first generation American. Would you have become a multimillionaire in the Congo? Would you have become a multimillionaire in Guyana? Would you have gotten to go to Harvard if you had been born in either of those countries? I think the answer is no. For all of that, where is your gratitude? Where is your thanks for the incredible good fortune that you had to be born in the United States because your parents came here? I don't think she even believes this. I think she's telling a lie. And I think she's telling a lie because Democrats are ungrateful for the country that exists here. And if you are ungrateful for the country that exists here, you have no problem tearing it down. They, at their essence, hate America and are not grateful for the immense gratitude benefits that have been lauded upon us. And I think that really goes to the essence of the two political parties. One party is grateful, the other is not. Now the Republican Party is not perfect. It still has people like Jesse Kelly who buy $75 shots when you could buy a normal cost shot. And then you're not even grateful when somebody like me foots the bill. I mean, really, I'm not saying Republicans are perfect, but there aren't many, very many Joy reads in this party. We come back, we'll take some more of your talkbacks feedbacks. Remember, we're going to be talking with John James, Michigan gubernatorial candidate at the bottom of the hour and he just got called out by the Reverend Al Sharpton. We'll have some fun with that. But in the meantime, this weekend coming up, we are soon going to be on the anniversary of the two year terror attack that happened in Israel on October 7, 2023. And a lot of you, including me, are going to show your support for Israel, the country that was Savagely attacked on October 7, 2023 by putting out flags. This is a nationwide effort to show that everybody out there should have support for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and the work that they're doing to help honor and remember the day that 1200 Israelis lost their life and 250 more were taking hostages. What they're doing is called Flag of Fellowship. It's organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. If you'd like to join millions of Americans across the country standing in solidarity with the victims of the Hamas terror attacks, go to IFCJ.org the flags of fellowship movement open to everyone. Join this powerful and symbolic movement by going to ifcj.org that's ifcj.org stories of freedom, stories of America. Inspirational stories that unite us all. Each day. Spend time with Clay and Buck. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.