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Clay Travis
Home here from overseas, the Middle east, down into Texas with our man, the czar of talk, Michael Berry, the czar of talk joins us now. Mr. Barry, fantastic to have you, as always. First, actually, before we get into the primary.
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Michael Berry
So can I just say, that's a very aggressive opening. It's very aggressive music you've chosen.
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Clay Travis
Oh, the opening music. Yeah, we like.
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Michael Berry
We like high energy choice, but it's very aggressive, well lit.
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Buck Sexton
The band here. I might see him tonight, actually. Interesting that you admit it, that you bring it up, because I'm doing a big charity songwriting event tonight.
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Clay Travis
Not.
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Buck Sexton
Not me, but I'm going. And they typically come out and perform and they are huge fans of Rush, and you probably are not going to be surprised, Michael. And they're fans of this show, too, because they have great taste radio. But a lot of musicians, when you ask to use their music and then they find out what your politics are, they either try to refuse to allow you to use the music, or, as we have seen happen, they start to extort you and how much you're going to have to pay in order to lose their music. So. So. So they're fine with the politics, but you're going to have to pay a lot more. And so we wanted to find a band and a song, My Own Worst Enemy, that was a little bit youthful in the 90s. That is a popular song now for a lot of kids coming up. Now it's cycled back as well, but also from people that we knew would never say, hey, we're going to extort you because we hate your politics. We wanted guys that were behind us squarely in the band. Lit is.
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Michael Berry
So I remember when. When y'. All. And you kind of explained the choice. I thought it was. It was an inspired choice because it wasn't so obvious. And it is a good. It's good pacing for the show. It's high energy. You know, you guys are young and aggressive and I mean, it says everything you want to say. So anyway, sorry to interrupt you, but.
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Clay Travis
It's okay, Mr. Czar. No, I mean, do you want to also help us figure out how to solve midi's piece and maybe get some good Republicans out of this primary in your state? You know, I don't want to detract from our music discussion, but.
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Michael Berry
Sorry, we're talking college football and music, things that you weren't. We could Talk about the CIA, if that'll make you happy. But that's later this week.
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Clay Travis
No, that's pretty much what everyone's talking about right now, Michael. But let's take you into Texas and tell us about this primary, which is going to be unfortunately a little overshadowed by a lot of bombs dropping overseas. Okay, but big primary in Texas. What are the main races? What are you watching? What are you seeing so far?
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Michael Berry
Well, interestingly, you know, what happened in Iran has, is, is sucking up all the energy in the room. This show, Fox and everywhere else. Right. Because this is what people want to talk about. This is a big. But then we had kind of an aftermath shooting in Austin. My son's at ut, as you know. And so every parent of a UT kid and everybody that lives in the Austin area concerned about this. And the guy's wearing a Property of a LA sweatshirt. So we expect to see these terror cell killings and these sort of reaction killings. So those two things are going to affect a turnout that was expected to be about 40% of our total turnout. So we're watching that very closely because that could mean that the turnout is lower and the late impact is reduced. But the biggest race is the US Senate race where four term Senator John Cornyn, who Trump doesn't care for, did not endorse, called on Trump not to run. He's part of the kind of John Thune, Mitch McConnell and really even Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski Cabal. And the Texas base has had enough of him. He has not one, but two strong challengers, Wesley Hunt, a congressman, and Ken Paxton, who's leading the race, who's a Trump beloved Attorney general. So we're hoping to bounce John Cornyn and send the swamp a message. We've got another Congressman, Dan Crenshaw, who I worked my tail off to get elected in 2018. And he's turned on everybody from Trump to his, to his district. And we're hoping to bounce him as well. And it's the only Republican incumbent congressman that Trump didn't endorse in that race too. So a couple of big themes going on there with, with the base saying, and much to my delight that we've had it with, with the insiders who go to D.C. and promise one thing but vote the other way.
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Buck Sexton
Michael, a big discussion that we've been having on the program is last week we had a ton of people calling in saying that they were voting in the Democrat primary because they wanted Jasmine Crockett to be the nominee. It seems to me likely you tell me, if I'm wrong, that the Republican nominee is not going to be selected in the Senate because I think it requires over 50%. And as you just said, there are three candidates that are running, so there probably is going to be a runoff in late May. Let me know if I get any of this wrong. Whereas it's likely that the Democrats are going to be picking their Senate nominee tomorrow. So would you advise or tell people not to do it, that they should vote in the Senate on the Democrat side? I know there's a lot of other races, but what have you been telling your audience? How would you analyze that?
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Michael Berry
You know, look, from when Rush did operation chaos in 2008, especially in Pennsylvania, it was a blast because we were saying to support Hillary over Barack, which was kind of ironic and it lot of fun. But we already had our Republican nominee. In this case, we don't. And we have a chance to bounce a swamp creature who's a really bad guy. So I tell people, vote in our primary, we're not seeing that number. Republican primary voting is up 25% this time. It's up 250% or a time and a half over what it was the Democrats from 2022. So Democrats are very energized, which is quite odd here. I would like to see Jasmine Crockett win because I think she's a terrible general election candidate. But we have this whole theme, Clay, going on. They call it Black girl magic, where you've got these black women who are kind of this type of character who are now running with a huge base of support. But the question is, can they win a general election race? No. They're going to scare the hell out of Texans who are going to say, oh, my goodness, we cannot have Jasmine Crockett as the Senate candidate. But I think Talarico is beatable as well. I want people to vote to beat Cornyn. That's. That's my hope. And there are a lot of other races that are really important. We've got some. Some bellwether cases of the base, the Tea Party, the MAGA, the America first versus swamp candidates in the state House, Senate and U.S. congress.
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Clay Travis
What did Cornyn do? We're talking to Michael Barry, czar of talk. You all know him from, well, all of his fantastic hours on radio. What did Cornyn do? Or just give us some sense when you're talking about the Swamp Creatures. Right, Cornyn. And do you also put Dan Crenshaw on there? Because Dan, I gotta say, I don't know Dan Crenshaw.
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Buck Sexton
I Have.
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Clay Travis
No. I've never met him. I don't even think I've ever interviewed him. Maybe once, but I don't remember ever interviewing him. No personal beef with him at all. For a wounded Navy SEAL vet to be a Republican member of Congress from Texas and have so many people in the base so really angry at him, there's gotta be something going on, and I can't speak to what it is. I really don't know. All I know is that whenever I see Crenshaw's name pop up among people who are all in on. On maga, I hear a lot of criticism, a lot of he. We can't trust him. What happened there?
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Clay Travis
Tell me about Crenshaw and Cornyn because you're saying it's important to get better candidates.
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Michael Berry
I busted my butt to get Dan Crenshaw elected, and I have regretted it from three months after that fact. He's turned every Navy SEAL that's public out there, from Sean Rya to David Goggins to Eddie Gallagher, he's turned on them. He's arrogant. His stock trading history is highly questionable. When you bring it up, he threatens to sue you, you decease and desist. I've gotten them as well. He was for red flag laws which shocked people. He's had these moments. He screamed at a little girl at a town hall meeting, 10 years old, in his district when she asked him about a quote he gave about Jesus Christ being an archetype like Superman and just time after time. I think he's got anger management issues. I think he's got some personal demons, to be honest. And I think he got there and he bought the hype after the SNL moment with Pete Davidson when it went to his head. And he's just. The base doesn't like him. As regards Cornyn, he's been there for 24 years. He's been in public life for 41 years. He's out of touch terribly in 2024. Great example. He called on Trump to drop out of the race and not run. And he said it was time for America to move past Donald Trump. His moment had passed. He's got a real high rating for voting with the Democrats and for Texas Republicans. That's not a good thing. He seems to support Ukraine more than he does Texas. He was against the border wall and openly against the border wall, much like John McCain. Think of John McCain amongst the base and you've got that. He's incredibly out of touch with the base on a number of issues. The anti Trump stuff was Bad. He's a red flag guy. He, he's very, very soft on amnesty and he was against the border wall. I think those things are sort of typical of a guy that's been up there a long time and forgot where he came from.
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Buck Sexton
We have, we should mention.
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Michael Berry
Let me give you one other example. He came out and said that he was worried that he, that if he didn't win it was because too many radicals voted in the Republican primary. If you are Tea Party, if you are maga, if you are American, first he considers you a radical. That tells you he's a swamp creature.
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Buck Sexton
Sorry, we're talking to Michael Berry right now. We should mention we have ken Paxton at 2:30 Eastern. That is next hour. Today we have John Cornyn. We've also reached out to Wesley Hunt. Have not heard back from him. Those are the three primary Republican challengers. We also, Michael Berry, have reached out to Jasmine Crockett and to James Talarico to invite all five Senate candidates on because we are fair and balanced, unlike many late night television show hosts. So just FYI, we have invited everyone on to make their case. So what do you expect? Is my analysis of this likely to be? Let me tell you what I think the data is lining up to show you. Tell me if I'm wrong. Unless Jasmine Crockett gets a huge turnout tomorrow, I think James Talrico is going to be the Democrat nominee. It appears to me that we are going to have a runoff, most likely between Ken Paxton and John Cornyn, which will take place in May. Would you sign on to both of those things as the most likely outcome? And again, we encourage all of you that have not voted in Texas to get out and vote tomorrow.
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Michael Berry
I think, I think Paxton leads going into a runoff, which is 10 weeks away. Hard to believe with Cornyn. I think that's the most likely thing to happen. Cornyn and the D.C. swamp did a number on Wesley Hunt and it's been hard for him to keep up. So I think you've got Paxton leading Cornyn going into a runoff. I don't know that the Talarico win is as certain as the Talarico people tell you it is. Every poll consistently had her winning, had her leading by 5 to 12 percentage points. Those numbers are coming out of Talarico's community. And that came after Stephen Colbert jumped in to kind of rescue him and that whole little hoax that they put together there. I think it's still very possible that, that Jasmine Crockett wins. In fact, I predict she wins because the Turnout level amongst the base, especially amongst the black base is going to be heavier than expected. And I predict she wins.
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Clay Travis
Well if the czar saith it's such
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Buck Sexton
the czar make it room for white
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Michael Berry
liberals in the Democrat party in Texas any longer.
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Buck Sexton
And Jasmine Crockett, is it fair to say, I said if she's the nominee that there is a 0% chance she could win in Texas. Would you go? You know the state of Texas. Well, is 0% the right number? If Jasmine Crockett is the nominee, Texas
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Michael Berry
is the prize for Democrats and Beto o' Rourke was the best candidate they had. Kind of a Gavin Newsom kind of guy that you know can get the young vote and he's cool and he's hip and hopefully you can mobilize blacks. Blacks don't vote for a guy like that. And there aren't enough white liberals and moderates left. So Talarico is still from that mold. He can quote the Bible as to why abortion is good and that thrills them. But I don't think you win come November and I think that it's still kind of a very polarized and there is just no room left for a white liberal in the Democrat party. Those folks have had to gravitate. White labor, white farmer. They've all moved over to the Republican Party. They've had to. The party changed too much.
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Clay Travis
Well I'm happy to hear that Fortress Texas is holding strong for freedom in America. Although sounds like you're not going to be moving to Florida anytime soon. Czar. That's, that's the only downside to come
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Michael Berry
visit you on your birthday.
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Clay Travis
There we go my friend.
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Caller
Thank you.
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Clay Travis
Great to see you and thanks for being here with us. Michael Bear everybody. Go check him out. Go listen to the Michael Berry show and make sure you get out there and vote Texans. We got a lot of Texans listening, no doubt.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show we are breaking down everything having to do with Iran and also we thought that the primary which is taking place in Texas, also North Carolina and I believe Arkansas, this is the first actual voting taking place for the 2026 midterm cycle that is going on tomorrow. And so we want to make sure that we are updating you on that and Texas of those states is going to be the first significant opportunity for people to weigh in. But obviously we are covering the situation in Iran aggressively. A couple of things Buck, that I do think are significant oil prices, a lot of oil and gas concerns about obviously Middle Eastern uncertainty. So far the oil prices have not moved a ton. They're up about 5%. That is relatively benign in terms of its overall impact. And so so we hope that that will stay the case. But I do think that's significant because a lot of people are gonna say okay, what is that gonna do to the price that I'm paying for oil and gas? Now remember in the summer oil and gas prices tend to go up. They tend to come down around the end of the year. Just FYI, the driving season when everybody gets on the road, usually May, June, July, those prices go up a bit. Just keep that in mind. But prices are not adjusting substantially right now. Also, as I am speaking to all of you, stock market basically unmoved. So the. Despite the fact that we have begun a war with Iran, there is virtually no movement in the equity marketplace at all. S&P 500 up, literally. Let me look at this. Cause it's so tiny. One point, the Dow basically unmoved as well. Nasdaq up actually. So again, there is no major economic swing that has occurred as a result of this. I think it's significant to keep that in mind. We come back. Buck, I think this is an interesting question. What is the Democrat argument? Because if you un. Unpack it a little bit, it seems to be, yes, the Ayatollah Khamenei was an awful guy and we agree that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, but this was not the way to stop that from happening. Which seems to me to be an actually difficult argument to make.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, the argument is they hate Trump and anything he does, they're going to oppose, even if it is something that is a huge win for America and for the whole world because their hatred of Trump is more important to their sense of. But we should unpack that a bit because that seems crazy, doesn't it? Cyber thieves capitalize on massive data breaches. Email records contain all kinds of data that give cyberhackers the means to steal your online identity and make a fast buck. Researchers looking out for online identity recently learned about 3 billion emails are being traded on the dark Web. Look, it's so important to see how cybercrime and identity theft are affecting our lives. Just as it's important to know that you have a LifeLock membership and that that is the single best way to protect your online identity. LifeLock monitors millions of data points a second for risks to your identity, detects and alerts you to potential identity threats. You may not spot on your own. When they see evidence that your identity might be in the wrong hands, they're in touch with you immediately. And if you do become a victim of identity theft, a dedicated US based restoration specialist will fix it, guaranteed, or your money back.
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Caller
When is the last Time you saw people in Israel and Iran dancing on
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Buck Sexton
the streets in excitement.
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Caller
And when is the last time you've
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Buck Sexton
ever heard of a country coming out and dancing because they're excited that foreign
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Caller
powers are attacking them?
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Clay Travis
It's a great day for Iran and Iranians everywhere. It's a great day for freedom and it's a very emotional night.
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Buck Sexton
I love you, Trump. I love you, Trump. He did. Totally.
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Sponsor Voice
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Buck Sexton
We say, no, this is not a reform movement.
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Clay Travis
This is not a movement.
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Buck Sexton
This is not a protest Islamic republic.
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Sponsor Voice
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
So there you had a collection of voices, Iranian Americans speaking to cnn, some Iranians outside the Iranian embassy in London. And there was a lot of jubilation, as I said here in Miami Beach. There were fireworks. There were people high fiving and smiling. And you had a combination of people who are Iranian, you know, Iranian by ethnicity and by nationality, but who live in the west now, very happy about this. A lot of Jewish Americans, a lot of Americans with deep ties to Israel very happy about this. And just some Americans who think that Iran getting hit this way after all this time makes a whole lot of sense and is a smart thing for us. I understand there's a lot of debate about this still, and I understand that there it is absolutely one of these moments where people of the best faith, not just people in good faith, but people of the best faith will look at this and say, I have concerns. Where is that? Where is this going and how is this going to continue on? Completely valid and we don't really know yet. I will also point out, Clay, on the one hand, there's all the jubilation and all this. There are still the echoes of painful lessons learned from the region. In fact, in this case, a neighboring country, many people forget Afghanistan is right next door to Iran. This was from cnn, Clay. Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued a decree that makes sodomy punishable by death and lets men beat their wives so long as they don't break bones. That is the government in charge of Afghanistan after we were there for 20 years and tried to rebuild that country. And that's not changing anytime soon. That is the government for the foreseeable cle I I that's the no nation
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Buck Sexton
building very well spent, I think it's fair to say.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, but, but the no nation building people, you got a point. We, you know, you have a lot of allies on the right in the we can do some stuff without doing all this stuff. And we don't want to try to do all this stuff because we've seen. Right. The lesson, I think has been learned or should have been learned. I think Trump certainly has learned that lesson as well.
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Buck Sexton
I think also Iran is not like Afghanistan or Iraq necessarily, in that the Persian element of its culture in history is more prevalent often than the Arab element of its history. And this is a comparatively very well educated Middle Eastern society. And the reason I bring it up is if you look historically at the Persian people, they have been committed to education on a level that is pretty extraordinary. And so it's the dissent. I mean, did you see some of these videos? I shared one of them of what Iran was like in the 1970s before the revolution, the Islamic revolution took over. I mean, it was a very westernized country in that women walked around in skirts and high heels. They, they lived a very westernized existence. And again, the reason why I've opened up phone lines and we got some callers here I want to hear from is it seems like the general expat community of Iranians in the United States is very much in favor of some form or fashion of the royal family being used as a bridge towards a new leadership. In words, if you gave them a magic wand and they could go back in time, it would, I think, be royal family driven and, and in some way a nostalgic, you know, bringing back of the 1970s era before frankly, what, 50 years basically of awfulness descended on the country. But let's hear from some of these, some of these callers here. Nami and Bowling Green, Kentucky. What is your friend and family discussion like? What is the reaction to Trump's actions and what do you think should happen going forward?
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Caller
Clay, Buck, thank you so much for having me. I am so grateful. I want to say that I was basically in cry all Saturday just being so grateful to Trump and so grateful to our country here. I've been here for 40 years now, came after the revolution in 1984 and I saw all the destruction that happened in Iran and my heart and I became a believer in Jesus Christ. And I've been back now about seven, eight times. But last time I was in Iran, it was back in 2014. They actually helped me there. They wanted to know what I'm doing there and they wanted to root all the Christians going there. But that country has exploded in faith and so many of Iranian people are accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. I am so grateful because I'm Looking, I want to go back, tell the people of Iran how much they are loved and how much United States has cherished and just the fact that we have gone in and wanting to elevate this country and get this cancer out of that country. And I can tell you, all the leaderships in Iran, they are evil and they are going to, they're going to give everything they have to come against, against the world. And because they have been botched with this lie that if they create chaos in the world, they will, they will usher the bringing of their Imam, which is Imam Mahdi, which is all. It's all lies that have been, that have been.
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Buck Sexton
Sorry to cut you off, but in general, do you think their support for the reinstallation of the royal family, when you talk to your friends and family.
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Caller
Yes, yes, we are all for it. I think Reza Pahlavi, the son of the previous Shah, I think he is the most qualified to come in and actually resurrect Iran.
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Buck Sexton
Thank you for the call. Ali in Sacramento says he's been here since 1997 but still has a lot of family in Iran. What is the reaction from your friends and family? Have you been able to get in touch with, with your friends and family back in Iran since the attack started?
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Caller
Thanks for having me. Yeah, I talked to my mom about two days ago before the Internet of phones get shut off. And they were, they were actually excited to be honest, which is kind of weird with any war. But I told them, don't go out, you know, just stay safe, you know, have some food, whatever, you know, stored in at home. And yeah, I mean, everybody's happy, man. I mean, 90% of my family lives there. And I lived there till I was 18. And I've been through this since we were a kid. They were brainwashing. Kids all say, death to Israel, Israel is our enemy. And you grow up with that mentality. And then when you come here with the thanks to Internet, you know, generation and everybody's waking up and they understand there was all bunch of like, you know, nonsense they feed us, you know, since they were kids. And now people are changing. I never seen Iranian community so united and all for one goal, just to free Iran. They can go back. And people are sad right now in Iran are the ones that connected to the government and they're getting free oil money basically. And that's what it is. And I hope people understand this is a war against the terrorist regime that's supporting terror. Everybody knows that. But some people still don't understand why this attack happened. So when we get rid of this Islamic regime, the world's going to be better placed 100% because a taxpayer is going to save a lot of money. So there's not many wars going to happen after this. Hamas be gone. You know, Hezbollah is going to be gone. All those, you know, people that wishing death for other countries, they're all going to be eliminated. Nobody's going to support him anymore. So they're all going to be slowly going to go away. So, yeah, we're celebrating yesterday on the street in Roseville and everybody's excited, man, I know we lost a lot of young kids. 50,000 people, more has been killed by this regime and we're still sad about that. But again, it's a necessary evil, in my opinion.
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Buck Sexton
Thank you for the call very much. Buck, it's worth mentioning, you studied this a lot, that Iran is basically the money behind and funding almost all terror attacks in the Middle East. When you really dive into it, yes,
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Clay Travis
Iran was even willing to work with Sunni Muslim terrorist groups and give support to groups like Hamas, for example. Iran was the single greatest state sponsor of terror in the world. There was no question about that. Iran was harboring members of Al Qaeda for a long time. Iran was doing everything that it could to make the world a more dangerous and unstable and honestly, just frightening place for everybody who in every country that wants to live in freedom and doesn't want the nonsense of the Islamic revolution shoved down their throats all the time. So. And they obviously work very closely with Russia and with China and North Korea, by the way, a lot of the Iranian oil was being sold to China. Guess what? Things are changing now. It would actually be quite helpful, I think, to remove some of China. There's a lot of geostrategic implications of this stuff. But to remove the heavily subsidized oil from the market that China can get access to. You know, China's been buying Russian oil, but buying Iranian oil and at a cut rate price. So that's I think, also a win in this whole process. And I think that, that there's the possibility here of a transformational moment for certainly the country of Iran. And the ramifications for the whole region would be amazing. I mean, the ramifications for Lebanon, the ramifications for Syria, the ramifications for Yemen, I mean, you go down this list, Iran's tentacles have stretched into all these places. And all they do is just bring radicalism, death and despair everywhere, of course, against Israel constantly. Oh, we have to kill everybody in Israel, kick them into the sea, the whole, you know, this. This can stop. I'm not saying it will. I'm not saying it's gonna work out great. I don't pretend to be able to tell the future, but I do know that Trump is on a win streak right now. I mean, Trump is at a point, Clay, where he's just going on first down for 40 yards into double coverage. Cause he's hit it the last five times. He just. He just can't be stopped right now. It's incredible to watch. And let's be honest. Who else would do something like this?
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Buck Sexton
This.
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Clay Travis
Who else has been willing to do a third of what Trump has done on the world stage in one year?
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Buck Sexton
I. All of that is true. I also think maybe we'll talk about this a little bit at the top of the third hour. The Democrat response has been nonsensical. But remember, all of this is a direct result of October 7, 2023. And I think what you are seeing is the expectation of what that attack would do. And the reality of what it's done is. Is pretty seismic. And I think, again, it is one of the greatest strategic miscalculations that we have ever seen, at least so far. Look, I want to tell you, we've got a brand new sponsor, Fast Growing Trees, America's largest most trusted online nursery. Yes, an online tree nursery. It's 2026. Fast growing trees delivers trees, shrubs, indoor plants, along with their incredible expertise. They ship it to your front door. Healthy, ready to grow. We're going to use their services. We just moved to a new house and my wife makes fun of me. I love trees, just absolutely love trees. And so I am super excited to be adding more trees to my yard here that we just moved into. They have 2 million happy customers. I met with these guys at the Super Bowl. Their business is booming and they're excited to join us. No matter where you are or what you're dreaming for, this is important. They have it set up. You put in your zip code, you put in your geographic location. They will tell you what trees make the most sense in your particular area of the country. And maybe you're living. They said one of their biggest sellers right now is New York City. People want indoor plants. Lemon trees, for instance, are super popular in New York City. They sell a ton of them. So even if you don't have an outdoor yard, this can be. If you live in an apartment, if you live in a city, maybe you got kids who do. This can be something to provide a little bit of greenery inside of your home. You're gonna love them. Everything you order backed by their alive and thrive guarantee. That's how well they've nurtured these trees and plants. They make sure that they're going to to be great when they arrive at your home. Fast growing trees.com Let me tell you that name again. Fast growing trees.com Perfect for the spring. Up to 50 off trees and plants when you use My name Clay plus an additional 20 off whatever they are offering. My name Clay that is fast growing trees.com use my name Clay Clay Check it out. You're gonna love this website. Lots of fun. Spring is here. Spring some excitement into your home with fast growingtrees.com my name clay2guys walk up to a mic. Anything goes. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're going to get to a couple more of your calls. We'll dive into some of the big discussions surrounding Iran. Let me hit you with a small one, Buck. There is talk right now that Iran, which qualified for the World cup, may not be able to compete in the United States over what's going on. Again, this is a small thing, but I think it would be very smart of President Trump and his team. Remember President Trump's been very involved with the World cup which is going to be taking place in the United States. I think it'll be super smart of his team to say we want Iran to compete. The people of Iran are not our adversaries. Soccer is hugely important in that country. The team making it as you know, making the World cup is a huge deal for these countries. It's also a little bit funny. I don't even talked about this on the program. Do you know Seattle is having a gay rights soccer match? Have you heard about this? This is 100% true. They are having a pro gay rights World cup soccer match that they have scheduled. Do you know who is playing in the pro gay rights soccer game in Seattle? Egypt and Iran. You want to talk about one of the funniest possible draws that the left wingers in Seattle could have ever gotten for their super gay soccer game? They got got Egypt and Iran to play in the gay gay rights World cup game. I want this match to happen just because I think it will be one of the funniest of all consequences. But in all seriousness, I think it would be smart of President Trump to say, hey, we want Iran to play. Our feud is not with the Iranian people. This, this team qualified and I think it would be a smart. We'll take some of your calls. We got several Iranians who want to weigh in on what they are hearing. We appreciate them listening and calling and buck, we're going to dive into this question. Democrats immediately made this political but what is their actual argument? They're in a tough spot here when it comes to trying to make their case.
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Clay Travis
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