Hour 2 - Trump Believes in AMERICA

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show – "Trump Believes in AMERICA"

Hour 2 | October 31, 2025 | iHeartPodcasts

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Overview

In this lively hour, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the impending New York City mayoral election, broader political polarization, and the persistent allure (or delusion) of far-left policies in urban settings. Joined by Carol Markowitz, they draw on personal experiences, dig into voter behavior and motivations, and dissect the evolving attitudes among city residents—especially in New York. They also explore how national debates from Trump vs. Biden to climate change hysteria are echoing locally, lacing the show with humor, cultural references, and a dose of skepticism about left-wing orthodoxy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The New York City Mayoral Race: Realistic Hopes and Blue Realities

• Voter Mobilization & Sliwa's "Miracle" Chances

  • Buck Sexton urges New Yorkers to vote, but admits a Sliwa (Republican) win would require "something unprecedented" given deep polling deficits.
  • Dissects Mamdani's remarks that wealthy residents will stay or flock to NYC under his administration, dismissing it as "delusional."

    "That is crazy talk… People with tremendous mobility, usually that means people with tremendous resources—for them to stay and/or choose to be there, that is crazy talk."
    (Buck, 04:14)

• Polling & Cuomo’s Prospects

  • Discussion of polling history: Mamdani leads by 17 points – "Would require the polls to be more wrong… than they have ever been" for a surprise upset.

    "[It] would require the polls to be more wrong by far, by an order of magnitude more than they have ever been in the history of polling New York City mayors races."
    (Buck, 08:11)

• Legacy of Democrat Leadership

  • Buck criticizes Cuomo's leadership during COVID as "authoritarian" and blames him for setting the template for harsh policy.

    "Cuomo…is the worst governor. You could argue that during the COVID period, Cuomo was the worst governor in America…setting the tone in so many ways of authoritarianism."
    (Buck, 09:29)

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2. Nationalization of Local Politics: Trump, Democrats, and Authoritarian Accusations

• Democratic Warnings about Trump

  • Alyssa Slotkin, Democratic senator and presidential hopeful, claims Trump follows an authoritarian playbook and is accumulating power to protect himself.
  • Buck mocks the "projection," listing actions the Democrats took against Trump as the real authoritarian overreach.

  "No, you, you did the things, you did all the things. You tried to lock Trump up. There were multiple assassination attempts against Trump...What was the thing that they didn't try?"
  (Buck, ~10:40)

• Refuting the 'Trump is a Dictator' Narrative

  • Buck insists Trump operates within legal bounds, and Democrats' fear stems from their own failed attempts to stop him.
  • Points out Trump’s personal motives are rooted in mission and patriotism, not personal gain or power.

  "He believes in this mission. He believes in this agenda…it's working. And that also upsets the Democrats."
  (Buck, ~14:59)

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3. Listener Interactions: New York Identity, Halloween Candy, and Pop Culture

• Accent Debate & New York Roots

  • Buck reflects on his "New Yorker" accent, referencing listener feedback from the Curtis Sliwa interview and his time growing up on the Upper East Side.

• Candy & 90s Nostalgia

  • Light-hearted banter on best and worst Halloween candies (“Tootsie Rolls are trash!”), and the legitimacy of the "Tootsie Roll" song/dance.
  • Playful debate over pop culture memories, with Buck recalling radio and pop music in 90s NYC.

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4. Guest Segment: Carol Markowitz on New York's Trajectory

• On "Voting for Cuomo" from Florida

  • Carol admits she’d ironically prefer Cuomo over Mamdani, despite leaving New York due to Cuomo’s governance.

    "Andrew Cuomo is why I live in Florida... I would be voting for Andrew Cuomo, crazy as that is. But I think Mamdani runs away with this."
    (Carol, 26:45)

• The Ideological Shift

  • She distinguishes between traditional liberals and a new wave of hard-left activists, especially in places like Park Slope and the Upper West Side.
  • Discusses how the rhetoric of "defund the police" and socialist policies are trendy among wealthy progressives who feel insulated from real-world consequences.

  "These people, yeah, they…think that when they say eat the rich, they don't mean them somehow."
  (Carol, 30:50)

• Jewish Community and Voting Patterns

  • Acknowledges that most Russian Jews are conservative, whereas American Jews (especially those distanced from historical strife) veer left.
  • Polls show an increasing share of Jewish voters rejecting hard-left candidates.
  • Laments left-leaning Jews supporting a candidate hostile to both police and Israel.

  "Polling has the number at around 18 to 20%. Listen, let me not kid myself here. One out of every five Jews in New York City voting for Mamdani is still high. But…Donald Trump got somewhere in the 40% of Jewish vote. That has never happened before."
  (Carol, 32:27)

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5. Climate Change & Liberal Groupthink

• Bill Gates' Climate Retreat
  • Carol and Buck observe how Gates' recent remarks ("climate change is no longer a big issue") mark a stunning reversal after years of alarmism.
  • Discuss the performative nature of elite concern—like Gates or DiCaprio flying private jets while preaching doom.

  "If I'm Bill Gates and I really believe in climate change, I can't possibly keep using my private plane. So then that means he does not believe it."
  (Carol, 37:26)

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6. Personal Asides and Humor

• NYC Neighborhood Rivalries
  • Buck and Carol banter about reputations of various Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods for their political leanings (“Upper West Side vs. Park Slope”).
  • Carol clarifies her South Brooklyn, Russian-Jewish roots and contrasts real conservatives from recent Park Slope dwellers.
• Halloween Costumes
  • They swap stories about kids' costumes and dressing up pets, injecting levity into the conversation.

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• "It would require the polls to be more wrong by far, by an order of magnitude more than they have ever been in the history of polling New York City mayors races."
  — Buck Sexton, 08:11

• "Andrew Cuomo is why I live in Florida... I would be voting for Andrew Cuomo, crazy as that is."
  — Carol Markowitz, 26:45

• "They think that when they say eat the rich, they don't mean them somehow."
  — Carol Markowitz, 30:50

• "You did all the things. You tried to lock Trump up. There were multiple assassination attempts against Trump... What was the thing they didn't try?"
  — Buck Sexton, ~10:40

• "If I'm Bill Gates and I really believe in climate change, I can't possibly keep using my private plane. So then that means he does not believe it."
  — Carol Markowitz, 37:26

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Timestamps – Noteworthy Segments

• NYC Mayoral Election, Polls, & Migration: 02:57–09:29
• Democratic Rhetoric On Trump & Authoritarianism: 09:29–16:55
• Listener Calls, Pop Culture, Candy Debate: 19:31–25:27
• Carol Markowitz Interview (New York, Voter Behavior, Jewish Vote, Climate Change): 25:27–39:01
• Extended Talkbacks & Wrap-up: 44:14–48:26

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Memorable Moments

• The candid reckoning with leftward shifts in NYC politics and the sense of futility about moderate or right-leaning candidates' chances.
• Carol’s acknowledgment of her own political journey: fleeing Cuomo-era New York, only to now support him over a more-likely radical successor.
• The lighthearted cultural disputes over 90s music and Halloween candy, serving as a ballast to more sobering political analysis.
• Buck’s persistent jabs at elite hypocrisy on climate change and wealth.

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, witty, often sardonic.
• Deeply personal observations from hosts and guest (both proud former New Yorkers now in Florida).
• Alternating between sharp political critique and playful banter—giving substance without losing entertainment value.

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For listeners and non-listeners alike, this hour offers both rich insight and engaging cultural commentary on how the national political climate collides with one of America's bluest cities—and how individuals, even as they relocate, remain closely tied to the fate of their hometowns.

Transcript

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Of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And let's talk New York City mayor's race a little bit here. Look, Election Day is Tuesday. It is upon us, my friend. The day of reckoning for the Big Apple will be here soon and I really hope that the callers who are lighting up our line saying that there will be a Sliwa miracle are onto something. I would not bet money on it, but I am hopeful it can only happen if all of you listening get out there or W O R listeners. So so many of you in the five boroughs, please get out there, get it done and just let's all hope and pray that you don't have this commie momdani who's going to be in charge because it will be really bad for the city. It's funny because on the other side of things, way down here about 900 miles to yourself, I think that was 1,000 miles, 900 miles, something like that. We have the Florida real estate market and when people are putting their money where their mouth is, I tend to listen more. And there is certainly a belief that real estate in particularly south Florida, it is Ron DeSantis shared this out. I it's kind of funny. I've learned this too since moving here. If you are from the Midwest and you move to Florida, particularly Chicago, Great Lakes, that whole area, if you're from there and you move to Florida, you go on the Gulf Coast. If you are from the Northeast, you do the Atlantic coast. And really from Jupiter, Florida down to Miami, where I am, that that tends to be the breakdown here. So there's a belief that there's going to be a bunch of New Yorkers fleeing again to my neck of the woods. Mamdani I bring this up because Mamdani of course rejects this. He actually thinks people will move to New York City if he wins. Play 19 the fiscal policy Institute here in New York City did a study that found that the top 1% leave at 1/4 the rate of other income brackets in New York City. And when they do leave, it's often to other high tax states as they're described as well as for the reason of quality of life. I say all this to say that I'm confident that New Yorkers will choose to not only remain here, but also that others will choose to join us in this city. That is delusional. A Lot of illegals and foreigners will move to New York as they have been. That will happen. And unfortunately there'll be people who get a job opportunity that they can't pass up or they have family in New York that they can't leave. I know what that's like. I got family that doesn't want to leave New York because they have family in New York. That is a reality. That can happen. But people with tremendous mobility, usually that means people with tremendous resources for them to stay and or choose to be there. That is crazy talk. Problem is, it's not the only one putting crazy talk out there. CNN's budget Ryan Graduski, Harry Entin. I'm sure he's a nice guy. We just like ryan more this cut 20 he is saying that Team Cuomo, they are living in a fantasy land. Over in Cuomo land. Play 20 the question is right, are the Cuomo folks living in a fantasy land, the fans of Cuomo living in a fantasy land, that maybe they can overco this large polling leap for Zaram Hamdani? Well, at this particular point, it to me suggests no based upon history, they are living in a bit of a fantasy land. If you think you're going to be overcoming the polling, why Mamdani leads by 17 points right now, I look back at all of the final polling dating all the way back since 1989. The largest final polling average error was 11 points in 2005. 11 points is way less than 17 points. So at this point, it would take something unprecedented for Andrew Cuomo to overcome. On Donny's lead, Mandani has the ball. It looks like he's running right for the end zone with no tacklers in front of him. Yikes. That's not good. Okay, here's what he's saying because I understand. And please, the Sliwa callers out there just don't, don't bother calling. I've said get out there and vote for Sliwa. I've said get out there and don't worry about the numbers or anything else. Already said this, but we are looking at reality here. We are a talk radio program and I'm going to tell you what's really going on. Sometimes voting may feel like an irrational act because what difference does one vote make but get out there and vote. If everyone thought that, nothing would change, right? So get out there and vote. Do your thing. But please don't call in and be like Curtis is going to win. I, I, I hope he does Okay. I don't, I'm not betting on it, but I hope he does. It would be though, to Harry Enthan's point, it's not that it would require the polls to be wrong for Curtis to win. It would require the polls to be more wrong by far, by an order of magnitude more than they have ever been in the history of polling New York City mayors races. Right. This isn't a, oh, it's, it's a 49, 48 race and everyone thinks that the person who's 49 is going to win for some reason like Hillary Clinton, 2016, Trump.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

No, this still maybe that maybe they are, maybe they are the most wrong they've ever been. I don't want to tell you, but I also think that if you look at what this will do to the Democrat Party increasingly, I believe, well, you know, we'll, we'll do an after action analysis here of how it's all going in New York City and how the Democrats are handling all this once we know what's actually happened. I don't want to get to, I think it's fair to say I don't want to get too far, too far down the line here on this one. I don't want to get too far ahead of things because we simply don't know yet. I do wish that Cuomo was not it would be better if he was a boring Democrat that I didn't, I wasn't very familiar with his decision making and suffered from it as a New York resident for over 30 years. I'm very aware that Cuomo, I think, is the worst governor. You could, you could argue that during the COVID period, Cuomo was the worst governor in America because he also set the tone in so many ways of authoritarianism, of capriciousness and of unnecessary panic that was seized upon by all the others. It was Newsom and Whitmer who were following in the footsteps of Cuomo. So I would argue that he is the absolute worst. Meanwhile, the Democrats are still insane. That hasn't changed. And you have a presidential hopeful here on the Democrat side, a Senator Alyssa Slotkin, who is out there doing the usual thing that Democrats do right now, which is tell everybody that while the country is actually doing just fine, in fact country's doing, I think, way better than it. I think we have just had a better year under Trump than we have had then. We certainly had under any year of Biden. I actually, I know the year's not over, it's only Halloween, but I think that this has been one of the best years that we have had in my adult lifetime. Truly think about what has gone on this year in, in America overall. There's always bad things, there's always tragedy, there's a school shooting and there's always stuff that's going to happen that's bad. But if you look at this in the totality of the big macro issues, war and peace, the economy, the border trends on crime, this is one of the best years America has had. And yet Alyssa Slotkin is out there telling everybody that Trump is trying to turn himself into a full on maduro, like, if you will, dictator play. Cut to legitimate issues. In our case, the cost of living. Once in office, surround yourself with people loyal to you, accumulate power and influence and then start using it against your perceived enemies. But here's the kicker. There comes a time in every authoritarian playbook where you hit a tipping point. You accumulate so much power that you realize if you ever lose and your opponent gets elected, they could use that very power against you. So you hold onto it with everything you have. That seems to be Trump's approach right now. Yeah, Trump is pulling a third world. I can never relinquish power because then they'll do terrible. They tried to do terrible things to him when they were in power. This is what, the Democrats haven't gotten the memo on this. They haven't figured this one out yet. That we have figured out that all the things that they are turning to, to say, well, if you do this, well, just wait till we're in power again. No, you, you did the things, you did all the things. You tried to lock Trump up. There were multiple assassination attempts against Trump. You tried to lock up his friends, his allies, his advisors. You, you brought all these phony baloney prosecutions. You had civil suits. You had Letitia James, alleged criminal, bringing a case to bankrupt his organization. What else was there left for them to do? What? What was the thing that they didn't try? In what way did Democrats at any point within the apparatus that they had. In what way did they hold back? Find me the area, you can say, well, you know what? At least Democrats didn't cross that Rubicon. They left that one undone. What would that be? The raid of Mar A Lago with FBI agents to find dusty boxes of papers that mean nothing and no one cares about. And he was president and he had every right to declassify and take and do with as he saw fit. A raid, An FBI raid, really? What was the thing that Democrats said? That's going too far. Can't do that. Joe Biden, in between bouts of dementia and his advisers running the government on his behalf and preparing to pardon his own criminal family, was rooting for the imprisonment of Donald Trump, a sitting president, excited about the prospect that his own team, his own people, were going to throw his, his political rival into a cell for the rest of his life. And now they want to, they want to lecture us on fair play. They want to tell us, like, oh, my gosh, you better back off or else we're going to get really rough the next time. No, you went all out Democrats. I'm sorry you came at the king and you missed. But we have a no kings protest. Well, too bad Donald Trump is running things. And yes, of course, he's not a king. Kings don't allow the government to be shut down when they want it to be open. Kings don't go to court when there are bad faith, judicial blocks to his agenda. Trump is doing everything that he's doing within the bounds of the law of the presidency and of the executive branch. But it is pretty funny that a lot of their desperation is coming directly from they tried everything and they couldn't stop this guy. And so they've now created a momentum in their own minds of Donald Trump can't be stopped. So he's just going to be president forever. And the guy's almost 80 years old. He does actually want to, at some point just play golf and be with his kids and his grandkids. It's, it's a real thing. Trump has a happy life outside of politics, a life that he enjoys living. Anyone who spent time around him knows that. But he wants to do what he's doing for the country. He believes in this mission. He believes in this agenda that he is implementing, and it's working. And that also upsets the Democrats. That also drives them to these new points of insanity. All right. The Tunnel of the Towers foundation honors America's heroes and their families when tragedy strikes. This effort started just days after 911 as a direct result of seeing the lives of so many first responders lost in the effort to save the lives of innocent men and women attacked that day. Since then, the Tulipa Towers foundation has done all they can to help families that have lost their hero in the line of duty. Your generosity has provided mortgage free homes to thousands of families worried about the roof over their head. 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[Clay Travis]

Who.

[Buck Sexton]

Guys who did the Macarena song. I don't even know there because look, I grew up listening to a great station in New York City, Z100. So I knew a lot of the pop music then because I was. I had the Z100 on my radio when I. All through grammar school and high school, all the time. So I know, I know some of the cool things. Mark my words on this. Once Halloween passes, you're gonna see every retail store full of Christmas displays. You're gonna hear Christmas music. The holiday season is gonna be on full blast. Smart companies are getting in front of this. Ready for the early shoppers with rapid radios. This is the company making modern day walkies. Talkies that keep you connected with your family. Particularly when you experience service disruptions caused by natural disasters or power outages. These devices are small. They fit in the palm of your hand, but they're powerful. They go five days without a charge. And they connect to anyone anywhere in the US that also has a rapid radio. They work on a nationwide LTE network. Storms don't wait for the right time. Emergencies, don't send invitations. Having rapid radios is super convenient for your business. For standing contact with relatives, also part of your preparation plan, go to rapidradios.com use code radio. You'll get 65% off total when you do that. Rapidradios.com code radio tootsie roll. It was in fact a song. It is, in fact a dance from the 90s back when I used to listen to the music, music on the radio. To the left. Tootsie. That's a great. That's a great tune, everybody. I'm just glad that the team pulled this one together for me on the fly because I was sounding like a crazy person talking about the magic Tootsie Roll song that didn't exist. It does exist. Thank you. Thank you for this one. Carol Markowitz joins us now. Carol, do you in fact remember that fantastic song about the Tootsie Roll?

[Carol Markowitz]

I do not. I don't. I want to. I'm, like, trying to rack my brain and think about it. I saw the dance. I. None of this is familiar to me at all.

[Buck Sexton]

Wow. I am on an island here that I was not expecting to be. I thought you were going to tell me that this was a very famous dance in the early 90s, but. All right. Well, I thought so. But, you know, then Again, apparently I'm no. 1 in the studio in New York. Even they thought I was, like, having, like, a Biden moment or something. I was just talking nonsense. So it turns out there is a Tootsie Roll song. And I got to say, when that funky beat came on, my moves, my moves and grooves started to get going over here. All right, Carol Markowitz, you like me. We're in a weird position here, Carol. Let's be honest about this, okay? Because we're going to talk about New York City with a lot of native knowledge of New York having both lived there between the two of us for like 60 years. I mean, a very long time between the two of us. And yet some of our New York area listeners will point out we now both live in South Florida. So there's that. I just wanted to get. I wanted to get that out there as we express our love for New York. This mom Donnie situation. 30,000 foot view. What do you see happening? Where are you on all this, you.

[Carol Markowitz]

Know, I'm holding out hope that Andrew Cuomo is going to beat him. That's where we are right now. I mean, Andrew Cuomo is why I live in Florida. And so there's some irony to the fact that if I were in New York right now, I would be voting for Andrew Cuomo, crazy as that is. But I think Mamdani runs away with this. I think New York is a very blue city. It's an off year election. Donald Trump is president. All of these factors are going to play into the Democratic candidate winning like as usual. The only difference is this Democratic candidate is really far left. He is a self proclaimed socialist. I would call him a communist. He wants government run grocery stores. He wants government to take over private buildings. I mean, he is really far left. I hope that he loses. Let's start with that. I don't think that's happening though. And then if he wins, I hope that he's unable to implement his policies, which seems likely. I don't think he's going to be able to do many of the things he wants to do. I root for New York to turn it around, but every day they move closer, further away from the great place that it used to be. People always say to me like, well, why did you take so long to leave New York? And I say, it was amazing. It was so great, it was so safe, it was so clean. It was in such good shape during the Bloomberg years that it took Bill de Blasio several years to destroy that. And that's where New York is right now.

[Buck Sexton]

Now I most, you know, first and foremost, I think I identify with the neighborhood that I grew up in and I went to St. David's in Regis. So I identify with the Upper east side. Like that's my, if I had to pick my home neighborhood in New York, I'm an Upper east side guy at heart. And there was always, I think, I think that was the Upper east side. When was it? Joe, Joe Lotto ran back years ago. I'm trying to remember now. It was Staten island and the Upper east side were like two of the only places that were red in that election. So the Upper east side has had a little, little, little tinge of sanity that's I think gotten less and less with time. You are a, you're Park Slope person, right?

[Carol Markowitz]

No, no. Buck Sexton. How dare you. I am a South Brooklyn person and if you look at the map of Brooklyn, it's South Brooklyn is, I mean, Donald Trump won South Brooklyn and it's, you know, I was born in the Soviet Union. I grew up in, like, we called it the Russian community in Brooklyn. Even though a lot of us are not Russian. It's. That community is super conservative. And I lived in Park Slope towards the end of my stay.

[Buck Sexton]

Okay. She throws that in there at the end, like, I'm a crazy person. I'm so. I'm sorry. You only most recently were a Park Sloper?

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah, Look, Park Slope is for anybody listening who doesn't know it's a super left area, that it's crazy that we live there at all.

[Buck Sexton]

Maybe. Would you agree with me? Would you agree? I think if you're trying to pick, I think Upper west side and Park Slope probably two of the bluest of all of the five boroughs. Right. I mean, you're even bluer.

[Carol Markowitz]

It's even further left. I mean, they're both very Democrat. But when I moved to Park Slope from the Upper west side, actually, what I found was, like, on the Upper west side, if they want to build a homeless shelter, all the liberal Upper West Siders, like, no, I don't want a homeless shelter in my block in Park Slope. They wouldn't do that. They would say, look, obviously we need a homeless shelter, but, you know, we're just worried about the carbon footprint and, like, the transportation issues around it. Like, they would completely sandbag the conversation and make it something else entirely. So that's the difference, I think, between liberalism and leftism.

[Buck Sexton]

So this is. I want you to take us. Take us into the mentality here a little bit, because you lived around this and you know these people and you're still in contact with the. With the ultra deep blue elements of New York City. Yeah, the. The people with like, you know, three to $6 million townhouses in and around the Park Slope area who are going to vote for Mom. Donnie, what the heck is wrong with them? Like, explain to me what they are thinking.

[Carol Markowitz]

Well, they're the same people who had the defund police signs in their windows in 2020. And that's the kind of thing that pushed us out. We couldn't live with that hypocrisy. And these people, yeah, they. They think that they're socialist warriors and they think that when they say eat the rich, they don't mean them somehow, you know, so you have like Billie Eilish, for example, talking yesterday or two days ago about how billionaires shouldn't exist, but she's a multimillionaire. Who does she think, like, is next after they get rid of the billionaires? Yeah, these People don't think it applies to them. I think that they are, you know, safely and const from the surrounding area and they don't worry about there being no police, for example. They think I'll just get private security if I have to. It's, it's another level of just insanity over there now.

[Buck Sexton]

Now another part of this, you're Jewish. There are and you know, we have all these South Florida Jewish friends in common who are all very sane, sound thinkers about all these things. And then I have to sometimes think back to when I lived in New York and there were some right wing Jews who I agreed with on all things political. And then you have the far left Jewish contingent and they're gonna be voting for mom Donnie in substantial numbers. All the polling shows you're going to have people who are Jewish, who are self described Jews in New York, who are voting for a guy who says when the NYPD has its boot on your neck, the IDF is lacing up the shoes. Like this is crazy.

[Carol Markowitz]

The thing is, okay, so there's two things about that. One, you can say you're Jewish even if you're totally not Jewish. If you have like one Jewish relative somewhere down the line and it happens to be on your mom's side, you can say you're Jewish. And that's what a lot of these people do. They don't do anything that makes them Jewish. You know, they think that bagel and cream cheese is Jewish. So these people are A, not Jewish, but B, every poll that I've seen in the last two weeks has had the number at around 18 to 20%. Which listen, let me not kid myself here. One out of every five Jews in New York City voting for Mamdani is still high. But look, 20% of Jews voting for the Democrat and 80% not voting for the Democrat is actually a huge shift for the Jewish community. And Donald Trump got somewhere in the 40% of Jewish vote. That has never happened before. I hope that number continues to climb. I hope my neighborhood, not my neighborhood, but my people continue to wake up because Russian Jews have been conservatives all along. It's, you know, the American Jews who have been here for 100 plus years, who never had any strife, who don't know what the world is like. Those are the people who are on the left and they're breeding themselves out and the ones that aren't are coming over to the right.

[Buck Sexton]

Speaking of Carol Markowitz, her show is on the Clay and Buck podcast network. Go check out the Carol Markowitz show. And also normally which she co hosts with Mary Kathryn Ham. Great to listen to over this weekend. What are some of the things on the most recent normally podcast?

[Carol Markowitz]

Well, Mary Kathryn and I are talking about all the things that are in the news. We cover Tucker and Fuentes, we get into the shutdown. All the news that you're hearing, Mary Katherine and I are on it on normally. We talked Bill Gates saying that climate change is no longer a big issue. Thanks so much for that, Bill. After destroying so many lives along the way, we cover all that with humor.

[Buck Sexton]

I can I tell you, you know, I had a friend in New York, an older guy, played tennis with, very, very wealthy guy. And, and you know, he was, I would say a Democrat, but like a reasonable Democrat. And one day we got crossing, you know, on the tennis court. We're like, you know, waiting to switch sides. We're sitting down on the bench and I started talking to him and he asked me about climate change. And he was. And I just did my usual. I've been the same since I was like 12, right. So I just launched into my thing. This is 20 years ago. I'm like, it's absurd. We're not all gonna melt. The polar bears aren't drowning. No one actually believes this. No one's getting a deal on Martha's Vineyard real estate because it's all gonna be underwater. Like, this is all garbage. He thought. And he had heard all my other right wing stuff. He thought I was nuts. Like, he actually was like, are you? Like, it really unsettled him to those people who think that way now that one of their, one of the high priests of this total delusion, Bill Gates, is like, yeah, it's actually not that big of a deal. Barack Obama gave a speech at the Coast Guard Academy saying it was the biggest national security threat we faced. Carol, climate change. Do we get any apologies from these people for being idiots? Like, how does this go?

[Carol Markowitz]

Right? Exactly. We don't get any apologies from these people. They just get to walk back their ridiculous comments and what we're all supposed to take it. I mean, Bill Gates is saying what I think even, you know, everybody's been saying for the last decade plus, even people from the liberal side. I think of Constantine kissing, for example. He made this point that, you know, stopping poverty is the most important thing, not climate change. And if you're somebody who lives somewhere without indoor plumbing and your kids, you know, need to eat, eat, you're not going to care about climate change. And he said, you know, he made this point and that's What Bill Gates ended up saying, you know, three days ago, it's like, wake up, this is not new. It's crazy. And I had the same experience in New York. Like people who thought I was reasonable when I, whenever we get into climate change, you know, I would say to them, well, who's your favorite climate scientist? And of course they would have no idea because they don't actually study the climate science. They just say they find whatever the New York Times says about it.

[Buck Sexton]

They parrot preferred slogan. It was funny to me because it was. One of the big differences for me was on other things, like if I was talking to somebody about, about guns, I understand, like, guns matter to me, like firearms, the Second Amendment. And for them it's terrifying. But at least we're having a discussion about something that's worth discussing. Like, I want to explain to them why the right to bear arm is so important. And they, they think that it's going to make all the mean, bad crime go away. If the scary AR guns, which no one actually really uses to kill anybody. 90 of the time it's pistols on climate change. I'm like, I don't even want to. I don't even know what we're talking about here. This is. There was. I don't care at all. Like, there's no discussion to be had. And yet for years they're going to totally rewrite the history on this for years. It's one of the areas, I think, where libs would go the most insane on you at a cocktail party.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah, yeah, that's right. And you know, one of my points about it was always like, if I'm Bill Gates and I really believe in climate change, I can't possibly keep using my private plane. But he. So then that means he does not believe it. There's no reason in the whole world. It doesn't matter how many people talk to you on the commercial flight, if you really believe you're flying on a private plane causes climate change, then you wouldn't do it. And it's same thing with like Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore. All of these people just seem like they don't believe what they're actually saying.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, total frauds. Total frauds. What are your kids for Halloween, Carol?

[Carol Markowitz]

The youngest one is going to be a 1920s gangster with me and my husband. He thought he was going to be a 1990s gangster and he started using the west side gang sign. Yeah, we had to tell him that wasn't that kind of gangster. Middle son is going to be some kind of like I don't even know, camouflage guy. And the 15 year old girl, she's too cool. I don't know what she's going to be, if she's going to be anything.

[Buck Sexton]

Okay.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah, well, the kids, they really stop doing what you want after a certain time. So get, get all the dressing up in now.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, we have my dog dressed up as a Miami Heat, you know, Miami Heat jersey. That's as, that's as festive as we get over. Your Ginger has a Miami Heat jersey. That's about all.

[Carol Markowitz]

We love it.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. Good times.

[Carol Markowitz]

Everybody dressing up.

[Buck Sexton]

Who? Speed. No, we're not. No, no, he's, he's. Yeah, he's a. He's. Speed doesn't roll like that. You know what I mean? He's a distinguished fellow already. Check out the Carol Markowood show this weekend. Carol, give Shia hug from me and we'll talk to you soon.

[Carol Markowitz]

Talk to you soon.

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Happy Halloween to everybody. I am at Midway Airport in Chicago. I thought to myself, I'm definitely going to make it home to trick or treat with my kids. So here early. Everything is cataclysmic. It seems like there's all sorts of delays everywhere. So I'm a couple of hours late. Hopefully I'll still be home in time for Halloween, but I actually plan for things to be awful, so I think I've still got time. But this is pretty ridiculous at this point.

[Buck Sexton]

Are they telling you it's air. Air traffic control, Is that what's. What's holding everything up? What's the problem?

[Clay Travis]

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