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Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Monday edition of the program. As I know many of you are likely to be on the road, I would encourage you, as always, go download the podcast. You can search out my name, Clay Travis, you can search out Buck Sexton, and you will be well on your way to being able to take us with you anywhere. We also have a fabulous podcast network with voices that range the spectrum from moms like Carol Markowitz and Mary Kathryn Ham who have a great show, to badass former special forces like David Rutherford. You will be able to find as much as you would like from that perspective and beyond. And you'll be able to take us with you wherever you may be, if you're on the road and you need something good to listen to. I was listening to some podcasts on my drive down to the Gulf of America on Saturday. I was in the car for about nine hours, lots of traffic, and got through a lot of different cool podcasts. So I know a lot of you are going to be on the road. And Buck, as we went to break at the end of that first hour, we were talking about some of the situation that's going on in New York City where Mamdani, this crazy left wing, effective communist, has won the nomination for the Democrat side of the mayoralty. Uh, there has not yet been a decision by Andrew Cuomo about whether he's going to run as an independent or dropout. To me, and, and I'm just kind of assessing this from afar, the decision has to be Eric Adams versus Mom Donnie. I think that's the only way Mom Donnie loses. If there's multiple independents, if you have a Republican nominee like Curtis Lewa running aggressively, I just don't. The more opposition there is to Mom Donnie, the better it is for his likelihood. But I bet you were like me over the weekend, a lot of deep dives into his videos started to go public. And these are, I would say, truly outrageous perspectives that he has adopted publicly and I know you've been following it. You've got some. You want to kind of shine a spotlight on shame.
Ryan Seacrest
Because I keep hoping that New York is going to wake up and go through a Giuliani Bloomberg golden era again. But you have a lot of people that know nothing about that era. That's part of the problem. The people like me who grew up in very dangerous New York City and people always say, oh no, it was very dangerous in the 70s. The most dangerous was the late 80s, early 90s by the numbers, no question. Go check it out for yourself. Over 2000 murders in New York City when I was in grammar school in 1990, 1991, 2000 plus murders. Think about that. All right. New York City has gotten down as low as I think below 300 at one point in the last decade. So massive, massive. And people say, well that's just murders. Yeah, but murders are a very, very solid proxy for overall particularly violent crime. But crime in general, it's tough to hide dead bodies and people are upset about them. Right. Burglaries don't necessarily get reported or investigated. I mean there's other things, ways you can mess with the stats. Murders are murders. So the, a lot of people Clay who voted for Mamdani are either too young, you know, he got, because he was huge with Gen Z, or they came here in the last 15 or 20 years. They don't know. They're, they're, they're foreigners who have become, you know, green card holders or they maybe become citizens. And now they're saying, oh yeah, I like this guy. I like what he's saying. He's going to make, you know, he's going to make food cheaper in the kebab stands. He's going to make groceries cheaper in the, he's talking about all this stuff. Let's get into some of the things that this guy has actually said. The commie momdani here he is. I mean we got so many of these. I'll start with, with this one. He talked about increasing. Well here, let's do this one first. Billionaires. We shouldn't even have. This is cut seven. We shouldn't even have billionaires Play seven.
Georgia Hardstark
You are a self described democratic socialist. Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?
Mamdani
I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country. And I look forward to Work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.
Ryan Seacrest
I hate this so much because we can sit here, Clay, and we will, and make all the arguments about how you could take all the money from the, I don't know, hundred, two hundred billionaires, whatever it is, in New York City, or a few hundred billionaires, maybe maximum. You could take all the money they have and try to redistribute it. You wouldn't solve poverty in New York City for a year, OK? It wouldn't change. They're spending 14 billion a year just on the illegals in New York City. 14 billion a year on special care for illegals. You think you're going to seize a few hundred billion dollars from New York's billionaires? You're going to fix the problems. But even beside that, clearly the whole argument here is just one about envy. It's one about emotion. It doesn't. This is why it's so pernicious and why communism keeps creeping up wherever, you know, wherever there's prosperity in the West. And it's because it just makes people who are upset feel better about themselves to think that there's some other person who's their problem.
Buck Sexton
Look, I really do think it sums up the flaw of capitalism is it creates wealth and leisure, which leads to the illusion that capitalism is unnecessary. And the reason we have the wealth and the leisure that exists in this country. And by leisure, I mean you don't have to constantly be in a mad scramble to have water or food or the ability to. You know, the poor people in the United States are not actually poor relative to the standards for what poverty looks like in the rest of the world. Our poor people. I think one of the great stats that kind of brings this home, even in a country like India. The poorest people in the United States would be in the top 20% richest in India. That's true for almost every country that is, that is in the world. The poorest people here would be among the wealthiest anywhere else. And if you wonder why people are risking their lives to come through the Darien Gap during the Biden era or come across the Rio Grande, it's because even being poor in the United States makes you wealthy in many other countries. And that's an incredible degree that we have.
Ryan Seacrest
But the poverty comes along with obesity in this country, which is in excess, for example, of food. There's a correlation between poverty and obesity. There were times actually like all of human history to the last hundred or so years, where poverty and starvation were actually what were correlated.
Buck Sexton
And actually being fat was a sign of tremendous wealth because it meant that you had to. Your point?
Ryan Seacrest
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Buck Sexton
You go back and look at all the kings, you know, in England back in the day, for instance, when they became super wealthy, they were often very fat because that meant that you had the ability to have too much to eat, which was a rarity. But the billionaire thing to me is, it's, it's, it's so important for everybody to focus on. First of all, I want there to be way more billionaires. I want there to be way more millionaires. I want the overall pie of economic wealth in the United States to grow massively. And I want everybody to be able to feast on economic success, whatever your current status of life is. But this is so important. And I, I think you're a perfect example of this, because what this happens is. And you're going to start to see this in earnest. I think I would even argue this is a generational story that you need to put a pin in and pay attention to. People who have success in life, who have wealth, are far more mobile in general than people who do not have success in life and do not have great opportunity, right? With wealth comes the ability to go to different places to relocate your life. And what a lot of people found out during COVID is they could move to different parts of the United States or even the world, and they would have never tested it but for Covid. And they found out, hey, I can be running Wall street from Miami just as well as I can from Greenwich, Connecticut, or a super luxury pad somewhere in a high rise building overlooking Central Park. And what you are going to see, and I want all of you to kind of think about this because it's going to happen. LA, Chicago, NY City, they are going to increasingly tax the successful people in these communities. And mom Donnie is reflective of this. And the successful people, the most successful people in this, in those communities. You just saw Ken Griffin Citadel. He just up and said, screw it, Chicago's not safe. I'm moving all my people to Miami. You are going to see. I just mentioned Buck, born and raised New York City kid who probably would love to have stayed in New York City. But you start to have success and you look at other parts of the country and they're, they're grabbing so much of your money that at some point you just say, enough, I can't deal with this anymore, even in a city that you may have grown up in and loved.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah. And it's frustrating because you can also see the recent history of cities that have gone down this pathway. And it is universally a bad idea. It universally creates more negative things, whether it's crime, disorder, filth on the streets, economic flight from the city. We go through this over and over again. But this brings me back, Clay. The reason I'm concerned about Mamdani is that he is good. He is slick. He is adept at appealing to people's emotions who are frustrated and who don't want to even get into the merits of the argument. They want an excuse. It is the politics of envy. Somebody else has it better than me, by the way. You don't even know. I mean, there's some of the happiest people I know lead some of the most humble and basic lives, and truly some of the most miserable people I know have the most money and the most influence and the most power, and they just can't escape their daily misery. But put that aside for a second, and I know that sounds like a cliche. I swear it is true. Ok. I mean, I could go through chapter and verse. People who have, you know, having a very sort of, you know, not moderate is not the word I'm looking for. What do you call modest, Very modest life in America. And they're very, very happy. And people who have incredible lives of extravagance and they're truly miserable. But again, aside, Clay, this is the politics of somebody is excusing all of my choices and says they're going to make my problems go away, and it never works. It never works. It's not going to work this time. It has never worked before. But people like to believe this is why socialism is actually a religion. I mean, communism is a religion. This is not an economic system. Because the economics can't work. We just went through it. You can take all the money from the rich people in New York. It's not going to pay for all the poor people stuff forever. It's not going to make the poor people not poor. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. They want this, they feel this. And Mamdani feeds it to them. He gives it to them. He makes it seem like none of this is anyone's fault. No one's station in life is the result of choices. No one's. It's the system.
Buck Sexton
And what's going to happen is the system is going to have a lot less money. Because when you go dive into the actual revenue produced by taxation. The billionaires that Mamdani claims shouldn't exist. In fact, if New York wants to have the best quality of life, they should have way more billionaires. They're going to leave and then that's going to create a vicious cycle because you're going to have to increase taxes in order to try to replicate the services that the taxes are creating now. The tax dollars are going to leave. They're going to go to states like Florida, Tennessee, Texas, where there's zero state income tax. I mean, again, this is a generational flaw of Democrats that I think is going to be exposed in a big way. And again, if you make a million dollars, let's say you make a million dollars a year. Not that many people make a million dollars a year, but let's say you do. You're paying $150,000 extra for the privilege of living in New York City. Okay? If you make 10 million, you're paying $1.5 million for the privilege of living in New York. You're getting up to the high levels, above $10 million. Think about even at a million dollars, you can pay an entire mortgage living in Tennessee or Texas or Florida. That increases your assets compared to what you're paying. And people would say, okay, well, well, there's a benefit to living in New York City, right? Or Chicago or la. I'm here to tell y' all, I've spent a lot of time in all these places. It's fun to visit. There's no city in America I would pay $150,000 extra of my tax dollars to live in compared to Florida, Tennessee or Texas.
Ryan Seacrest
I know you guys have, you guys have good food in Nashville too. I can't even, I can't even throw shade at some of these other cities. Thirty years ago, New Yorkers, I'm just telling you guys the truth. New Yorkers could be like, honestly, we just have better food than you guys. And that was true of most cities in America 30 years ago, maybe even 20 years ago. Nashville, Charleston, you know, Atlanta, I mean, you just look, you know, Phoenix, these places, these places all have great food now. I mean, it's great food.
Buck Sexton
I'm not even cool enough to know good restaurant stuff. I've never even noticed that. But I am told that the foodie scene for people who love restaurants in a city like where I live, Nashville is out of control. You can't even keep up.
Ryan Seacrest
Well, in Nashville, Nashville punches way above its weight. But every, every decent mid sized city and above in America has Great food now. So I'm saying some of the advantages that New York used to have as a place, New York, Chicago and LA used to just have better job opportunities and better food than most of the rest of the country. And it just, you can say you want to live in a rural area, that's great, that's fine. But if you're looking to work at a top law firm and you want to go to a Michelin three star restaurant, those were really. And San Francisco too, those are really the choices that you had. It's just not true anymore. To your point, you can do these jobs from wherever, everywhere has got great food. You can buy anything anywhere you want now thanks to the Internet. But Clay, I mean, we can make these arguments all day. Here's a, Here's a stat. 1% of New Yorkers pay 50% of New York City's tax rate. 1%. 1 in 100 people are paying for 50 people. And Mamdani's like, that's not enough. It's unequal. How much more does it have to be? How much more is there going to be? Look, this is the problem, friends, is these budgets can get out of control and the Democrats want to keep spending us into oblivion. You need to take action. Next week, the US dollar is going to be at the center of a debate among nations. Gathering in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the BRIC nations are meeting. Ok, now these nations want to move away from the US dollar as the reserve currency. They're trying to do this slowly but surely. If that happens, our quality of life takes a huge hit and the dollar takes a bath. It's going to be rough. You should prepare for this possibility today and also just diversify because inflation is going to continue slowly but surely. I know Trump's doing a great job with it, but in the next 10, 15 years, going to chip away at that dollar. How can you protect your IRA or 401k? It's on you to take action. By the way, you can't rely on the government to protect you here. How can you protect your IRA or 401k gold with the Birch Gold Group? Diversify with Birch Gold. Gold has been a safe haven in times of economic uncertainty all throughout history. Birch Gold is who I buy my gold from and they will treat you well. Get a free info kit on tax shelter Gold IRAs by texting my name. Buck to 9898 98. Arm yourself with info to diversify your retirement Savings. Text Buck to 989898 and go with Birch Gold.
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Conversation about New York and amenities and things like, certainly for jobs and professions. But I was pointing out when I was a kid we'd take a trip to New York every, I don't know, I probably went two or three times from, you know, when I was a 12, 13 year old to 18 year old, something like that.
Ryan Seacrest
We were probably ships passing in the night of the arcade, you know.
Buck Sexton
But bookstores for me was a huge deal when I was a kid growing up, I tried to read and I still read all the time. But we had Walden Books. Walden Books doesn't exist anymore. But those of you who grew up around my age or a little bit older will remember you would go to a mall and there was a bookstore and they had a relatively limited collection of books and I wanted to read all the time. You didn't have Amazon. It was hard to order books back in the day. What amenities other than Broadway, what amenities does New York City offer that you can't find in Dallas or Houston or Nashville or Miami? There's not very many anymore because the world has evolved in a big way. You mentioned restaurants, bookstores. The cultural benefits of a big city when you're paying 15% are not what they once were. And I think a lot of people are recognizing that.
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Buck Sexton
I don't remember. By the way, I don't even think New York. I don't even think New York City's top five American cities anymore.
Ryan Seacrest
You're killing me, Clay. You're killing me.
Buck Sexton
I mean, seriously, I don't dislike New York City. I just.
Ryan Seacrest
Going through a rough patch. It's like New York is gaining 10 pounds and needs a shave. But it's still beautiful. It's still beautiful. Okay, so. All right, here we go. I'm trying to remember the. I can't believe I can't remember the name of Lord of the Rings city, but it's. That was my Return of the King reference. We do have to talk about greatest movie of the 21st century. I might mean it's Tirith. Is that right? That was the name of the city. Yeah, I guess that is the name of the city. Thank you, producer Greg.
Buck Sexton
That is a super nerd pull by producer Greg. I had never. I would not get that.
Ryan Seacrest
Producer Greg had my back on that one. I knew he was going to get that one fast. So, yeah, I think that eventually New York is going to be awesome. And I'm going to return. We're going to play the song Return of the Mac, which is one of the greatest, greatest anthems of the 1990s.
Buck Sexton
That is a great song. We agree on that.
Ryan Seacrest
It's a fantastic song. And we. We're all going to. All of us who have fled. Maybe we're not going to move back to New York, but we will go back at some point in the future when sanity reigns. It's a beautiful, wonderful place. It'll be like the golden age under Giuliani slash Bloomberg. I'm hoping. I'm hoping that's going to happen. In the meantime, we got to deal with the madness of Mamdani the Commie. And here he is on. Now, this goes for some of you who are like, Buck, it's just this one city. And it's not going to affect me a few things. First of all, New York, California, these are places that have the kind of political poll where if they keep running into huge financial problems, you know what they're going to want? Federal bailout, which they're not going to get under Trump. But you don't think they'll get that under a Democrat administration. Clay, you know, California's budget deficit this year, something like $30 billion.
Buck Sexton
Oh, yeah, 30.
Ryan Seacrest
They don't have a. They don't have a printing press in California. They can't just, you know, inflate that away. They're going to want the federal government to help them out at some point if they keep this madness up. So. And New York's budget's way too big. As I said, 240 Gondor. Thank you, friend. That's Gondor. What is mean?
Buck Sexton
That one makes. Well, I gave producer Greg way too much credit to that one I've heard of. I was like the name that he came up with, I didn't recognize.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, producer. Producer Greg went like too deep in the nerd dome there. Meanest here. I think that's like the Castle or something. I don't think that's actually. Yeah, Gondor. Thank you to One of our listeners, for esteemed listeners, for, for hooking me up there. So I think I'll return like Aragorn to Gondor to New York at some point because it still has a lot of great stuff. Essentially. Clay always has. You always have fun when we're in New York. You're being.
Buck Sexton
I actually sketched out my top five cities in America right now, pro sports cities, because I don't want people getting mad at me, you know, like, I'm picking pro sports team.
Ryan Seacrest
If you leave out, like, if, you know, like, like Louisville can't count because Louisville doesn't have a sports pro sports team. Is that right?
Buck Sexton
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm just saying, like at some point you have to decide like a city because I know we have a lot of people who live in smaller towns and I'm not like taking a shot at them. But I think you have to consider the 50 biggest cities in America. For instance, what is your top?
Ryan Seacrest
What is your top Five, you heathen. What is your top?
Buck Sexton
So number one is Nashville and that broader community too, because we have a moron mayor. Right. But I'm born and raised. I'm going to be a little bit biased. Nashville is the best city in America in my always humble and unbiased opinion. Phoenix. I've got his number two.
Ryan Seacrest
Phoenix.
Buck Sexton
Oh, Phoenix is fabulous.
Ryan Seacrest
I've never been, so I can't. I can neither confirm nor deny, but I've never.
Buck Sexton
I'm counting suburban areas of these cities too. So like Scottsdale, which I think is an amazing place. Phoenix. I've got Miami, where you live at 3. I really like South Florida. Broadly again, South Florida. And then I've got. I really like Salt Lake City. I, I think Salt Lake City is a jewel. Underrated.
Ryan Seacrest
Salt Lake City.
Buck Sexton
Oh, yeah, it's fabulous.
Ryan Seacrest
You're really getting, you're really getting frisky.
Buck Sexton
And then, and then in the five spot, this is where I'm going to be a little bit.
Ryan Seacrest
I, I think he's just going with places, by the way, where our ratings are through the roof. You got to throw Milwaukee in there just because we get so much Milwaukee love on the ratings.
Buck Sexton
I love Milwaukee in the summer. I love Traverse City, where I just was the northern Michigan area. I'm not a cold weather guy, so I'm admittedly telling all of you I would not live in these places. I'm being a little bit, a little bit of a coward here, to be fair. And then I've got. Because these cities hate each other and they have A perpetual rivalry. Houston slash Dallas. Houston slash Dallas. They hate each other, but that would be my five. These are my five biggest, best places. And you'll notice they are all in now. Again, Arizona voted red.
Ryan Seacrest
We happen to be number one in Houston and have. I see what Clay. I like this. Clay's like, hey, where do we have the largest? Where do we have sports arena sized audiences listening right now? He's like, I love you, Houston. I mean, I love you Houston too, because so many of you listen. But I don't know enough about the city to put it on my list.
Buck Sexton
So that'd be my top five. And again, I admit that I am biased against cold weather locations and I'm also biased against blue states and blue cities. I'm not willing, I would not be willing to live in a blue state, blue city environ right now. I just don't trust the decisions they're making.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, I mean, it's the top five. Five is hard for me. I mean, for me, the top cities in America right now. For me, for me, everyone can disagree. This is, this is like favorite ice cream flavor, which we all know should be pistachio. Unlike Clay.
Buck Sexton
I don't even know that, like, pistachio is such a rich kid ice cream choice. Like, I, I don't even know how many average ice cream shops even have pistachio. Like, does Does Baskin Robbins, 31 Flavors was one of them. Pistachio. I was actually talking about this with my wife the other day.
Ryan Seacrest
First of all, you make it worse when you say pistachio. Okay, Pistachio.
Buck Sexton
I don't even know how to pronounce it.
Ryan Seacrest
Pistachio.
Buck Sexton
You know, I, I was talking about this with my wife because there's tons of ice cream shops. Now when I was it because we were talking about, like, you had Dairy Queen and after Dairy Queen you would get in the back of some dad's pickup truck and they just drive you or get arrested for that. Now, there was hardly any ice cream shops when I was a kid growing up. Baskin Robbins was it. Now they're everywhere. We go for ice cream all the time.
Ryan Seacrest
Oh, I'm just telling you, if you look on top 10, top 20 lists, Pistachio generally sneaks in there around, you know, 18 of the list. Yeah, something like that.
Buck Sexton
I don't even know. I never even know that was an ice cream flavor.
Ryan Seacrest
My beloved parents, my wonderful parents love strawberry ice cream.
Buck Sexton
That's a good choice.
Ryan Seacrest
Just, that's number three. It goes chocolate, vanilla, strawberry in the.
Buck Sexton
Rankings for 90 people. I think they now, I would say cookie dough has surged up the rankings. That didn't exist when I was a kid. It's, it's really, really good. Cookie dough ice cream is a killer. You know, like, game changer app. That's the only real, I would say, flavor that has taken. I bet cookie dough is, like, top six, seven now. And then they have the Superman, which every kid likes.
Ryan Seacrest
I think you're leaving out. As we're going into this holiday weekend, too, we're giving you all these great ideas for ice cream. You know, my wife makes homemade ice cream, which I like to blame for some of my weight gain that occurred a couple years ago.
Buck Sexton
Yeah. And I had, I had the ice cream. What flavor did she make that? I was like, this is maybe the best ice cream I've ever had.
Ryan Seacrest
I think she made toasted almond cherry when you were here. I think that's what she made.
Buck Sexton
It was, it's, it's legitimately. I told her, I said, this is maybe the best ice cream I've ever.
Ryan Seacrest
Yes, she makes the best ice cream. It's. Once you start making homemade ice cream, it's amazing because you're going to love it, but also, it's dangerous. It's dangerous. All of a sudden, you're just like, this is the best ice cream I've ever had. All right, let's get back to Commie mum. Wait. I was going to give you my top cities, then we'll talk Commie Mumdani. For me, it's, it's. I can't even give it an. New York's on the injured reserve list right now. New York has, like you said, it.
Buck Sexton
Was still the best. Now you're not making it number one.
Ryan Seacrest
It's, it's, it's the, it's the franchise player Clay, but has a strained Achilles. You know, it's like, it's like Halliburton or whatever from, from the Pacers. Like strained Achilles or, or pulled Achilles. New York on injured reserve still in the top five. I, I, I have to agree. Nashville's a top five city. Miami for me, obviously, very high on that list. I have a real soft spot for Charleston, and I always want to say Charleston, slash, doesn't count because they're similar to me.
Buck Sexton
Doesn't count. See there? I'm eliminating it because it doesn't have pro sports, so you got to go top 50. So. Yeah, look, Greenville, amazing place.
Ryan Seacrest
No, no, I, I went rogue there. I forgot, I forgot about the rules. I went rogue, man. I, I'D have to. I have to think beyond the. Beyond the top three. I have to think about you do your list.
Buck Sexton
I. San Diego.
Ryan Seacrest
San Diego is in California, but San Diego is an awesome city.
Buck Sexton
It's amazing place. But I'm eliminating blue city in blue states because I don't trust the people running those places. You. I'll go blue city in a red state because at least you have the balance of the larger.
Ryan Seacrest
Yeah, Austin should be. You know, Austin, I think 20 years ago would have definitely been on my top five. But man, the commies have run wild in that place. So. All right, let's get. Speaking of commies, let's get back to Mom. Donnie, this is. Here we go. How far left is this guy? Well, he's somebody who likes to talk about globalizing the intifada. This is from Meet the Press over the weekend, play 16. I want to give you an opportunity to respond here and now.
Georgia Hardstark
Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?
Mamdani
That's not language that I use. The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights. And ultimately that's what is the foundation of so much of my politics. The belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that to have meaning, have to be applied to all people, and that includes Israelis and Palestinians, is like Clay.
Ryan Seacrest
Did you hear a condemnation of globalized the intifada from that guy? I didn't hear a condemnation. I heard. I heard a lot of swerving around there. I heard locking up the brakes on the ice and trying not to go off the road.
Buck Sexton
Yeah. And by the way, this is sad news, but I think it directly ties in with why this is important. The 82 year old woman in Boulder who was a victim of that sort of Molotov cocktail attack, she's just died. I mean, that news has just come down. So I just want you to think about everybody out there. How much did you hear about the death of the woman in Charlottesville, Virginia during that protest versus how much you've heard about this Boulder Protest and the 82 year old woman who died there? I bet that there has been, I bet 1,1000 of the overall media coverage of the Boulder Molotov cocktail attack compared to what happened in Charlottesville? I mean, they talked about Charlottesville for years. Joe Biden said that the whole reason he ran for president was because of what happened in Charlottesville. And he's constantly propagating the very fine people hoax.
Ryan Seacrest
But all of this, what you're establishing is that the Democrat Party has space for treating Hamas as though Hamas is better than white nationalists. And Hamas is actually a deeply evil entity that has horrible, racist, anti Jewish, not just ideology. It's based on really anti Jewish ideology. It's based on anti Semitism.
Buck Sexton
I mean, from the river is about eradicating the entire nation of Israel.
Ryan Seacrest
The truth is Hamas has far more blood on its hands and is far scarier than white nationalists have been in America in a very, very.
Buck Sexton
In any of our lives. In any of our lives.
Ryan Seacrest
You'd have to go back a long ways for white nationalists to be as scary as Hamas actually is. And yet one of them is allowable discourse at some level in the Democrat Party. And this is why Mamdani won't say he's got a problem with it. Let's play 17 once again. He won't condemn globalize the Intifada, which he used to say, do you condemn.
Georgia Hardstark
That phase, Globalize the Intifada, which a.
Ryan Seacrest
Lot of people hear is a call to violence against Jews.
Mamdani
I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in colder Boulder, in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of anti Semitism in our country and in our city. And I've heard those fears and I've had those conversations. And ultimately they are part and parcel of why in my campaign I've put forward a commitment to increase funding for anti hate crime programming by 800%. I don't believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech in the manner especially of that of Donald Trump, who has put one New Yorker in jail, who's just returned to his family, Mahmoud Khalil, for that very supposed crime of speech.
Ryan Seacrest
Just, just a bunch of gibberish. He won't upset his base, which includes people who hate Israel and want the Jewish state to be destroyed. And that's just. He won't upset them. I'm not saying he necessarily is totally aligned with them, although maybe. But he will not upset them.
Buck Sexton
Well, and I think what you said is really important as we go to break here to think about, think about how much time the media has spent. Any time anybody says anything that could be considered white supremacy adjacent, it is immediately connected to the Republican Party and there's an immediate rush out to every Republican and they say, will you condemn? Right. The amount of time that they do the coverage on, will you condemn?
Ryan Seacrest
Well, look at The David Duke thing?
Buck Sexton
Yes.
Ryan Seacrest
I don't even know. I swear the last time they asked Trump about David Duke, I think, was 2016. I didn't even know the guy was still alive. I had no idea. If you had told me David Duke was dead, I would've said, yeah, totally. He probably died 15 years ago. I have no idea. Have to ask. In a presidential election, do you condemn David Duke?
Buck Sexton
Like this is all they do all the time. How often do they ask, will you condemn globalize the Intifada? Will you condemn language which clearly embraces Hamas? Heck, will you condemn people walking through the streets of New York City with Palestinian flags? Never those questions get asked. Look, Amazon Prime Days have been a huge online shopping event for years now. And next week, Tuesday through Friday, is the Amazon Prime Day and there's a great deal that's coming. Cardio Mobile 6L world's first FDA cleared personal EKG. It can detect afib, a leading cause of stroke. Small enough to hold in the palm of your hand or slip it into your pocket. Kardiamobile. The perfect way to manage your heart health. At home, between doctor's visits. Easy to use. Records right to your phone. You get six views of your heart, six times the data of any smartwatch at a fraction of the cost. Give yourself peace of mind. Save 10% off on Amazon and Kardia's website. K A R D I A dot com on Amazon, use the code 10 6L CLAY. That's the number. 10 as in 10% off the Kardia Model 6L CLAY to get 10% off your Kardia Mobile 6L. That's the number. 10 as in 10% off the Kardia model 6L CLAY 10% off. Do it today.
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I think this is going to be classified as the nerdiest correction that has ever existed in the history of the program. Producer Greg is fired up. Lots of you VIP nerds are also fired up. I'm just going to read this. I have no idea what any of this means. Aragorn returned to Minas Tirith after the Battle of the Pelenar Fields. He sailed to the city with his forces after defeating the Corsairs of Umbar at Pelagir. This is where he was crowned King Elessar, the first High King of the reunited kingdom. I am sorry for being even required to read that, but the nerd army out there has risen up over your. Your. My. I don't know any of this. I read the books back in the day.
Ryan Seacrest
Gondor is the name of the kingdom. Minas Tirith is the city. The fake kingdom and the fake city. But yes, okay, sorry nerds. I'm a nerd too. But sorry, fellow nerds, in this particular.
Buck Sexton
Occasion, what I would say is I like pretty girls and therefore I do not know any of that.
Ryan Seacrest
So we got like 10 email. We got like 10 emails about this in. In a couple of minutes. Like people. Really? That's a lot of emails on one topic.
Buck Sexton
Some of you are really worried about your message board cred. You don't like pretty girls, but that's okay. So nerds out there who like to be on message boards and like to argue about sci fi, I apologize to you all. I'm evidently getting lit up. Also over my top five cities list, which I'm gonna tweet out and it's gonna provoke a firestorm. We'll get into this. There's a bunch of stuff going on. Ditty. Jury deliberations are underway. The General League jumped a fountain in Kentucky. This is amazing.
Ryan Seacrest
You and I both think Diddy either hung jury or not guilty. Right? That's where we are.
Buck Sexton
That's right.
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I think we're.
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Yes, Mayor Pete, we got some fun with this. And AOC getting lit up all that final hour. Next.
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Summary of "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show" – Episode: Hour 2 - Socialism is a Religion
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The episode delves into the provocative concept of socialism being likened to a religion. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton explore how socialism has transcended its economic roots to become a belief system that shapes political agendas and public sentiments.
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A significant portion of the discussion centers around New York City's mayoral race, highlighting the candidacy of the left-wing contender, Mamdani. Clay and Buck analyze the political dynamics, potential outcomes, and the implications of Mamdani's policies on the city's future.
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Clay and Buck contrast capitalism's ability to generate wealth and offer economic mobility against socialism's perceived emphasis on equality through redistribution.
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The hosts address recent events involving anti-Semitism and the differential media coverage between incidents involving white nationalists and groups like Hamas.
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The conversation shifts to the international stage, discussing how BRIC nations' efforts to move away from the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency could impact the American economy.
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In a lighter segment, Clay and Buck reflect on their favorite American cities, blending personal anecdotes with broader cultural observations.
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Wrapping up, Clay and Buck reiterate their central thesis that socialism functions as a modern religion, driven by emotional grievances rather than pragmatic economic solutions. They caution against policies that undermine capitalism's foundational strengths, advocating for economic policies that foster growth and individual success.
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In this episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton provide a robust critique of socialism, framing it as a quasi-religious ideology that threatens economic stability and personal prosperity. Through the lens of New York City's political landscape and broader economic trends, they argue for the preservation and enhancement of capitalist principles to ensure continued growth and individual success.