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Karen Kilgariff
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Eric Adams
Hey, Buck, one of my kids called me an unk the other day.
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Buck Sexton
An unk?
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Eric Adams
Yep. Slaying, evidently. For not being hip, being an old dude.
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Buck Sexton
So how do we un Unk you.
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Eric Adams
Get more people to subscribe to our YouTube channel. At least that's what my kids tell me.
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Buck Sexton
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Eric Adams
Takes less than five seconds to help un me.
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Buck Sexton
Do it for Clay, do it for freedom, and get great content while you're there. The Clay, Travis and buck Sexton Show YouTube channel. Welcome in, everybody, to the second hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Mama Donnie mania. Sweeping the Democrats all across this land of ours. And we all know from yesterday that this guy, Zoran Mamadani, is the Democrat nominee for the mayor of New York City. Now that's not a done deal. There are some long bomb in the end zone hopes that maybe Eric Adams could pull this off, or maybe there's some Cuomo deal. Although I think Cuomo now is just considered a loser. Right? The comeback, Clay. The comeback has, has not worked out the way that Cuomo wanted.
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Eric Adams
These.
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Buck Sexton
The spaghetti and meatballs was not as good as he was hoping for. It's gonna get.
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Eric Adams
This was a total whiff by me, Buck. I mean, I really thought that they had rolled out the red carpet for him. I thought he was going to win the mayoral race and would then use it as the jumping off point to be a candidate in 2028. Instead, I think his political career is over. I think. I think he gave up the political ghost, so to speak, in that loss in the way that he lost.
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Buck Sexton
So now here's again, I have to. I bring this to your attention because so go with New York City. So go with a lot of other Democrat cities. I think this is going to be viewed. So if you live in Texas, you're like, well, that's New York's problem. Yeah, but, you know, you live in a city like Houston or Dallas, which is Democrat majority, unfortunately, this might affect you. You know, obviously, if you live in California, you're in a Democrat enclave. Statewide, you know, there's a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff that, that will filter out from this. And I think it's an interesting test case because you already have national level Democrats. You had Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, I didn't even know he was on Twitter. He was like, hey, I hear you're a socialist. You love those pretty ladies. I like pretty ladies, too. We should talk. You know, Bill Clinton all of a sudden giving his congratulations. Khomeini himself. Just kidding. Khomeini didn't congratulate him, but it would have been funny if he had comedy did say that they've won the war, though. That is. I do have that one here. We'll get to that later. Bill Clinton, congratulations to Zoron on your victory. Wishing you success. Yeah, yeah. Nothing really interesting there, but if Bill Clinton weighed in AOC and Bernie, there's really a decision that's being made with AOC within the Democrat Party. There's the aoc, Bernie pathway, and then there's the, you know, somebody who's the Democrat in charge of Kentucky. What's that guy? I'm forgetting blanking on Andy Bashir. You know, there's like the Bashir or the governor of Maryland or the, you know, there's that, like, I'm a Democrat, but I'm not like one of those crazy Democrats. They'll do whatever Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi tell them, but they pretend not to be right. Right now, you've just had a big win. Go up on the board for the crazy AOC wing of the Democrat Party. And I understand you might say, buck, they'll never be able to win a national election. Kamala lost by. In the Electoral College, which is what matters. A couple hundred thousand votes, really. Right. Meaning I understand she lost by a lot more. She lost the popular vote. I'm not taking away from Trump's enormous victory. It was fantastic. But if you were able to shift a couple hundred thousand votes in half a dozen states, really less than half a dozen states, Kamala Harris would have been president. So don't. Let's not get complacent about the fact that the worst presidential candidate in my lifetime is somebody who wasn't that far. It was not like a, you know, Mondale absolute thrashing. Okay? This was something that was closer than it should have been. Now, let's just. Just because of why. I don't want you to think, oh, this is just New York City's problem. This is. That's like saying Soros prosecutors were New York's problem. Oh, wait, hold on a second. They were in every major city in the country for a while. There were soros Prosecutors in St. Louis and in. And in Philly and in LA and in Atlanta. You get on the list, right? Chicago, Soros money all over the country. So you have to watch these trends. Clay, let's get into some of the crazy stuff here. Socialist Democrat Zoran Mamdani, something that he says he wants to do. This is cut nine. This guy says he wants to 800% increase hate, hate crime prevention play this.
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Zoran Mamdani
I know that Jewish New Yorkers like Jewish Americans are. Are fearful in this moment of anti Semitism. And ultimately, it's through the conversations I've had with Jewish New Yorkers that I have developed a proposal for the Department of Community Safety that would include an 800% increase in funding for hate crime prevention programs. Because ultimately, we cannot simply say that anti Semitism has no home in this city or no place in this country. We have to do more than talk about it. We have to tackle it. And that's what we will do. Through this funding and through this commitment, we will root out bigotry across the five boroughs.
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Buck Sexton
Let me just throw this out there, Clay. This is going to absolutely not work at all to stop any bigotry, but it will be a way to fund left wing indoctrination programs in community centers, schools, and etc. All the rest of it.
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Eric Adams
Yeah. And look, I think what you're saying is so important because a lot of people think, oh, New York City, that doesn't really impact my life in a substantial way. I think who the mayor of New York City is impacts all of our lives. Even if you live in the smallest town in Alabama or the most remote part of Utah, the decisions made in New York City, given its primacy as the financial capital of the world, have a major resonance. And the idea that New York City is going to potentially elect a guy like Mom Donnie should be a clarion call for sanity to ring forth. And I think maybe some of these parents that are subsidizing all their kids to live in New York City, Producer Allie made a good point yesterday. But I do think it's true that a lot of Mom Donnie's voters are young, under 30s, who otherwise wouldn't be living in New York City, but for the fact that their parents are helping to pay their rent and they have decided they like socialism, the parents like capitalism, because that's how they can afford to. To take care of their kids. But I do think that there's a generational divide here. And I think as you break all of this down, unfortunately. Look, I don't know that the Democrat Party. This is a good question for you. Buck is still in a powerful enough position that they would be able to knock out a Bernie Sanders candidacy now, that they would be able to knock out an AOC candidacy now. I think the party is so fractured and so broken, and you might say, okay, well, that's good. The problem is they could win. I don't think it's a crazy idea that Bernie Sanders could, if he weren't 83 or 84 or whatever the heck he is that he could catch fire. Someone like him could catch fire and end up as the president. I don't think it's a crazy, ridiculous idea.
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Buck Sexton
I'm gonna tell you something. I watched a lot of these Momdani videos, and the guy is. The guy is very slick. He understands social media. He comes across as just objectively, he comes across as affable and pretty humble and a guy who just wants to talk to people. He did this whole video. It's now gone pretty viral, Clay, where he goes around talking to, like, you know, people call them like, halal carts, like the meat. Meat and rice carts that are in New York City. Asking them, like, why is it so expensive? Like, why is it 10 or $12 now for this? Wouldn't. Couldn't be less. And he has these guys, he goes right in and they're saying, oh, it's because of city permitting. The city permitting process is corrupt and takes too long and it's too expensive. And he goes, oh, we're gonna fix that. You know, say what you will about the fact that he, you know, freezing. There's a whole. Bill Ackman has a whole takedown of this guy freezing rent prices is just gonna make the housing shortage worse. Worse, because it means that, you know, there are expenses that are already baked in and people have to build more, and they don't want to build more if they can't actually charge the market rate anyway. So he's an economic illiterate, but he understands Mamdani, understands story, and he understands social media and how to connect with an audience. I, you know, don't. Don't sleep on this guy. Everybody, you know, we have this thing, you know, and I know we've done this with AOC too. Oh, you know, jeez. This guy doesn't strike me as dumb. Wrong, yes. Dumb, no. He doesn't strike me as dumb. And, you know, horrible ideas, certainly. But this is the other. You know, the option the Democrats have is not. Is to say, we're not going to go toward the center and try to reform our crazy. We're going to double down on crazy. We're just going to package it better.
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Eric Adams
Oh, I think AOC sees this and says, I'm running for president now in 2028.
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Buck Sexton
Absolutely. I've said this all along. You asked me right after this election who's going to be the leader of Democrat Party. I said, well, I said AOC at one point. And then I've also mentioned West Moore, the governor of Maryland. But those are the pathways. There's the aoc, hard left, socialist. Just say the stuff that you want to say, as, as. And then there's the, oh, I'm not like them, I'm more normal. And then you get the AOC policies, but you get somebody who pretends to be something else during the election cycle. And that's the approach.
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Eric Adams
The Democrat Party has the ability to slap down someone like Bernie Sanders, if he were running today, which, if I'm looking at aoc, I'm saying Mamdani just ran through. What did mom Donnie do? Well, he's pretty good on social media, you may think, and I certainly think that AOC is economically illiterate and a moron. There's a huge audience for what she puts out on social media and she's skilled at that. Now, I don't. I hope that her overall policies are so crazy and she would do such a poor job even of defending those policies that she would not be capable of winning an election. But I think you're starting to see that the Democrat Party had two pathways. They could wake up and be somewhat more sane, or at least pretend to be more sane and take the more moderate path as they move towards 2026 and 2028, or they could double, triple and quadruple down on crazy. And it seems to me that the early returns, based on what we saw in New York City, are that they're going to double, triple, quadruple down on crazy. And, you know, now we're in a situation where Eric Adams is the savior of New York City. And that's only if they can get Cuomo to officially drop out. If they can find a way to kind of corral this strange coalition that potentially he would be able to bring to bear. And that would require black voters, interestingly, deciding that they had to show up in a monster number for Eric Adams in order to offset a lot of these young white voters that have fallen in love with socialism.
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Buck Sexton
So you've got Mamdani Talking about the 800% increase in the anti bigotry forces, not police, like, I don't know what they're going to be bigotry prevention programs. Also, as we know in New York, talking about, if you're talking about anti Semitic or anti Asian bigotry. Yeah, probably not gonna. If you're leftist, you're not gonna like the demographics that are disproportionately targeting those groups. This is just a matter of fact, a matter of numbers and data. But put that aside for a moment. Here is really at the heart of it, Mamdani saying that our criminal justice system, this is cut 8 is just straight up racist.
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Zoran Mamdani
The alternatives are things that we must look to immediately both with regards to neighborhood groups who do anti violence work and are shown to be more effective than the police. But also asking, you know, if we have an understanding that our criminal justice system is racist, which is a quite a general understanding now it seems to be shared by many, many people, then how can we simultaneously be investing in it as the way we both judge and determine the futures of so many people in our state?
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Buck Sexton
Now that was 2020, granted, but the criminal justice system in this country is actually not racist. It is not racist. I know that this is something Democrats love to say, but the laws are.
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Eric Adams
The laws and we have talked about this before and to me the way that this gets destroyed is if you just push back. Anybody who says this, just nod and say super sexist too. Why are men charged with crimes?
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Buck Sexton
Men do all the murders. Really unfair those murder laws. Men do all the murders. This is my favorite argument, Clay. We've been making it here for a long time because they don't know what to say because they have to admit, yeah, men commit more murders. We just do. Sorry guys, we're the ones who kill people. Does that mean we should change the murder laws? Does that mean that murder laws are sexist? It does not. It's pretty strong argument.
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Eric Adams
It's good one to use on your kids or grandkids if they bring that home with you sometime instead of immediately combating them there. Say, you know what, I've been thinking about this a lot. Why are men in prison at such higher rates than women? I think maybe we need to go back and look at all of our laws. They're very sexist and see how your kids respond.
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Karen Kilgariff
And Georgia from My Favorite Murder. Thanks to Hyundai, we got to take a post show drive in the Ionic five.
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iHeart Podcast Host
We had snacks, laughs and we even recorded a special episode featuring some Unforgettable car themed stories.
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Karen Kilgariff
Take a listen. The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Success was dependent on the action and dedication of many individuals. Of course today we're going to focus on the work of one of those people in particular, a woman in her 30s and yes, I love her name, it's Georgia Gilmore.
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Karen Kilgariff
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Eric Adams
Cuomo still has to make a decision about whether he's going to drop out or not. But the man, the myth, the legend, Eric Adams is now potentially. Sorry, now potentially the savior of New York City. He's running as an independent. He saw the train coming down the tracks. He stepped out of the way before mom Donnie flattened him. And he now says momdani. He's a snake oil salesman. Listen to this. Cut 12.
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Buck Sexton
He's a snake oil oil salesman. He would say and do anything to get elected. Think about this for a moment. He wants to raise 1%. He wants to raise tax on 1% of New Yorker's high income earners. As the mayor, you don't have the authority to do that. You know who has the authority to do that? An assemblyman, which he is. He wants to do free buses. He could have done it at assemblyman. He doesn't understand the power of government and how you must making sure you improve your economy, raise the standard of living. And this is what we've done in the city. And I'm looking forward to being on the campaign trail and showing New Yorkers we can't go backwards. Eric Adams has got a second life here as a guy who a lot of people are going to be turning to in New York and saying, look buddy, you're not great, but you're better than the psycho socialists. So what can you do for us?
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Eric Adams
Well, and I think, I mean, far be it from us. I mean, Eric Adams has been better than Bill de Blasio, I think. But you mentioned yesterday, is it Jessica Tisch who is now basically running the nypd?
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Buck Sexton
She's the commissioner running it. Yeah.
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Eric Adams
I mean, they have done a pretty good job pushing back against the numbers that skyrocketed during COVID in the first couple of years after. And if they put Momdani back in. We have an interesting data set of what happens when you decide you won't let the police do their jobs. Traffic, I mean, crime skyrockets. I mean, we know what you need.
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Buck Sexton
What you really need now. And you know, Tish is Jessica Tisch is a part of this, but so was Bloomberg before that. You need the, the Bruce Wayne effect in Gotham of people who now don't wear a Batman costume and beat up, you know, thugs that would be cool, but that's not gonna happen. But people who are of the elite and think that they need to step in and, and help the city and not leave it to honestly the, you know, a lot of the sort of low IQ from the machine of New York City politics people to take over because they're just not good enough at this.
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Eric Adams
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Buck Sexton
About a month in the, in the Forget file, Clay. Okay, you've made some great calls. This one, this one didn't quite work out as we thought, but it's okay.
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Eric Adams
What's the best. Let's pretend that you were giving advice to Andrew Cuomo. Is it to now get behind mom Donnie and just kind of step off to the side or is it to try to run as an independent and maybe have a secret deal behind the scenes? Because if he runs as an independent and Eric Adams runs, then Mom Donnie is definitely going to win because they will split the Mom Donnie opposition vote.
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Buck Sexton
I think he's a two time loser. And that means the best thing that he can do is to get an agent and find his way onto an episode of Law and Order where he plays a probably elderly mobster or something along those lines, maybe a corrupt politician. I do not think that he has a future in New York politics anymore after this. I don't see it because you know, you can't win the. You know he'll just be playing spoiler at that point, if I'm a New Yorker and I, I'm. I'm New York adjacent in my heart, right? I mean, if I'm a New Yorker, still, the voting, you know, I talk to my family about this all the time, and I want what's best for New York, not just for all of our fantastic WOR listeners and podcast listeners in the New York area. We want the best for all of you. But also my own family is there. So when we talk about safe streets in New York, I'm thinking about my mom, my dad, my sister. You know, I'm thinking about people who I love and mean a lot to me. So that means that I want what's best. Now, in what way is Andrew Cuomo an improvement over Eric Adams? I have to say, I don't think he is. And so that's where the pro. You've got a guy who's already mayor, already in the job. Not horrible. Okay. He's not good. You know, I think Eric Adams, and let me know W O R listeners if you want, if you think this is a fair grade. I think he's a. You know, if de Blasio was an F, I think Mayor Eric Adams is probably a C minus, maybe a C. You know, I think that's, that's a fair. You know, he's not intentionally maliciously destroying New York. He's just not a very good manager. He was good on the issue. Let's take a few things. He tried to help on the crime issue, brought in somebody good here with Jesse Tisch to run the NYPD as commissioner. He spoke out in a way that I think was really important for the Trump campaign. Actually, he didn't speak on behalf of them, but when he said guys were flooded with all these migrants, this is crazy. He was honest about that and said he didn't want any more. So he did do some things that are. There's nothing I can. De Blasio did nothing that is good. Everything de Blasio did was in my. In my mind. Every decision he made was against the interests of New Yorkers, and we can just forget about him. But, you know, didn't he run for president, by the way? Did he run for president? For a second? I think he did. Wasn't he one of those guys was like, I'm also on the stage. Everyone was like, get out of here. So, Clay, I think that Eric Adams is the non mom Downey hope of New York now. And is that enough? And people who are going to tell me, buck, you can get behind Curtis Sliwa. You can get behind Curtis Sliwa, obviously. I agree with Curtis. I like Curtis.
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Eric Adams
We've had him on the show several times.
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Buck Sexton
Had him on the show. You know, He's. It's an 8020 Democrat city, guys. It's not. It's just not going to happen. It's just not going to happen. I wish, you know, that that wasn't the case. But you just had the most radical leftist win the Democrat primary. You're not about to win over a lot of Democrats. To be a Republican, that's not going to happen. To vote for a Republican.
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Eric Adams
A part of me wonders whether there might be such a panic setting in among the Wall street universe that somebody with hundreds of millions of dollars a la of Bloomberg Ackman is by saying.
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Buck Sexton
He'S going to spend huge money. Bill Ackman, who's the. Who's kind of.
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Eric Adams
We need to get him on the show because I think that would be an interesting conversation. But he is. He has been tweeting that. That there are people out there that he thinks he could help to persuade. The challenge is whoever is opposed to mom Donnie, everybody else has to drop out. And there has to be one focal point of, hey, this is the guy or the gal, as the case may be, who is going to go head to head against mom Donnie. And everybody has to get behind this person. My concern is, I think Cuomo's ego is involved here. Now Eric Adams, I don't think there's any way he's going to drop out. And then Curtis Sliwa, you. You start getting all these different groups and it's hard to get 50% plus one when you've got this many different splintered individuals running De Blasio's presidential campaign. By the way, good research by Ali. He ran from May 16, 2019 to September 20, 2019, spent $1.4 million and everybody just kind of laughed him out of the arena because even New Yorkers were like, this is one of the craziest things you have ever seen that a guy who's this. Didn't the guy this unpopular would decide to run, did it? Bill de Blasio make news most recently Buck, because he and his wife announced that they were going to basically have an open marriage. Am I wrong about this?
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Buck Sexton
I think I know this and tried to forget it because I don't really need to know this stuff, but I believe there's something like that that has occurred.
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Eric Adams
Yeah, they made a public statement that they were staying married, but they were going to be with other people. I mean, what a ridiculous guy that dude was. The fact that he could get elected actually makes me terrified because, Mom, Donnie, to your point, Buck is actually a super articulate, smart, charismatic guy who's just wrong about everything. But he's not an unlikable person, if that makes sense. He's wrong about everything, but not unlikable. And also smart and savvy when it comes to trying to understand how to make arguments on social media.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, I think that he's more formidable than a lot of people looking from the outside are assessing right now. And that's something to keep in mind as we go forward. So, look, I'm totally. I hope, I hope I'm wrong on this one, and I hope that this is something that, you know, that does not come to pass. But here is, let me see, we've got Tom Homan laying down the law here. You know, there's this whole separation of powers thing. And here is Tom Homan saying, look, you can't kick ICE out of New York, buddy. It's called federal law. Play 16. He's vowed to kick the, quote, fascist ICE out of New York City.
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Eric Adams
Okay, so how do you intend to deal with that? Because I would guess there are going.
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Buck Sexton
To be a lot of criminals and Iranian cells and whatnot in New York City.
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Eric Adams
The job's not done there. What do you say to this guy?
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Buck Sexton
Good luck with that, Governor. Law trumps him every, every, every, every day, every hour of every minute. We're going to be in New York City, matter of fact, because it's a sanctuary city. President Trump made it clear a week and a half ago, we're going, we're going to double down and triple down sanctuary cities. If we can't arrest a bad guy in a county geo. One agent wrestling one bad guy, they released a him in the streets like New York does every day. We got to send whole team to look at this guy. Yeah, that, that's going to be a showdown that I don't think is going to go well for Mamdani, by the way. I don't think that he, he wants to be on the other side of Tom Holman on the immigration issue. Because first of all, legally, Homan's right. And second of all, if there's anything that looks like a showdown, this Mamdani guy is going to shrink away from that fight very quickly.
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Eric Adams
I'm not sure anybody in the entire Trump team is working harder right now than Tom Holman is. I mean, if you look at that.
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Buck Sexton
Stephen Miller, I mean, when we saw him. Stephen Miller looks like. He looks like he lives on a cot on the White House floor right now. I mean, he's, he's going through a lot.
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Eric Adams
There are a lot of guys who are working unbelievable hours because they see this as the 18 months when Trump is able to be his most effective and efficient version of himself. But the amount of media that is out there that Tom Holman is doing on a day to day basis and the amount of success that he is having is frankly unparalleled. And I know we talk about this on this program and try to make sure that we reference it often. I'm not sure in our lives that there has ever been anything that government has fixed faster and more effectively than the border under Trump, when you consider historic failure under Biden. And it was as if a light switch just got flipped or got turned off, whichever direction you want to go. And overnight everything changed and it became flawless. And, you know, that's the case because it suddenly isn't talked about anywhere. But my goodness, this is the number one thing Trump said he would fix and they don't want to give him any credit for it. But Tom Holman and the team and Stephen Miller is a part of this, too. They've just been unbelievable on this front.
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Buck Sexton
Also want to bring this to your attention again, because I know, you know, we talk about this and it's like, oh, we're so New York focused and bucks from New York. And maybe that's why a lot of people are focused in on this all over the country right now, because it's a playbook that I think you're going to see replicated elsewhere. And you could even see replicated in the 2028 election cycle, which I know feels like an eternity away, but it's not. I'll be here before you know it. And socialist Mamdani Kami Mamdani. This is cut 10 is saying, yeah, what I did. This should be the playbook. This absolutely will work in other cities, in other states across America. Play it. You're a proud Democratic socialist. Do you think that is a platform that would work for other candidates running in other parts of the country?
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Zoran Mamdani
Absolutely. I think ultimately this is a campaign about inequality, and you don't have to live in the most expensive city in the country to have experienced that inequality because it's a national issue. And what Americans coast to coast are looking for are people who will fight for them. And part of how we got to this point was through the endorsements of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders who've been leading this fight against oligarchy across the country. And I think that in focusing on working people and their struggles, we also return back to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats in the first place.
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Buck Sexton
Not shying away from it at all. Clay, I think you will see more people try to play this. Remember the whole thing about socialism is that all you have to do, you find as many people as possible who are unhappy with some aspect of their day to day life and you tell them it's not your fault, there's nothing that you can do to change this. Other people are the reason for this. I'm going to hurt those other people, usually financially, sometimes more than that, but I'm going to hurt those other people and take their stuff and give it to you and make your problems go away. It's very appealing. It works for a reason. And so I don't. We have not seen the end of this. You know, on the right we yell socialism and act like it's some kind of argument ender. A lot of people, a lot of you, especially Gen X and Gen Z, they love their socialism. They don't know what it is, but sounds good to them.
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Eric Adams
The biggest flaw of capitalism is it provides the wealth and luxury to think you don't need capitalism anymore.
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Buck Sexton
I.
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Eric Adams
It's just the lesson out there is you have to have the freedom and the time and the wealth in order to make these arguments. And I look at those Mom Donnie celebration partners. Those aren't poor kids celebrating Mom Donnie winning. That is not people struggling to put food in their mouth.
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Buck Sexton
I know, I know who they are. I know who they are. I used to socialize in New York with a lot of people that would fall into the Mom Donnie category. But Clay, you know, I often mentioned Naval Ravikant. Did you see this? I just thought this was a perfect one liner on this whole situation. He wrote, socialism is the suicide pact of mediocrity. It is absolutely true. And that really gets the psychology of it. If there are people that have more than me, people work, you know, that are doing more than me, people that are happier and enjoying more than me. I want a system of power that will pull them down and promises to pull me up. And even if it doesn't pull me up, as long as it pulls them down, I'll be happy.
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Eric Adams
This is why I thought sports was such an important battleground. Because sports is the ultimate meritocracy. Best man or best woman wins. And as soon as they can start to create the idea that there's something wrong with that or that a boy can be a girl's champ and all this other stuff. They destroy the underbelly of much of success in the meritocracy in the country, which is embedded in sports. You know, I made this argument something fun for you guys to think about. Is there anything more trusted in America today than the scoreboard? Think about that for a minute as and where everybody sits around and argues about everything. The scoreboard in a game, if it's a little bit off, everybody's standing up like, hey, that bucket was just made. Now, you may be upset with officials every now and then, but I would argue that the scoreboard might be the most trusted symbol in America today. That we trust it to be able to tell us who's winning and who's losing. And at the end of a game, everybody says, you know what? That team won or that team lost. Think about it for a minute. I. I really think it might be number one. Look, I want to tell you about James Kerry. He joined the United States Marine Corps after being inspired by his grandfather who also served our nation. James loved being a marine, but his life would change forever during a training exercise when he lost consciousness and nearly drowned. The incident resulted in a brain injury that left James blind and unable to use his body susceptible to memory loss, and it even brought on dementia. Tunnel the Towers foundation built James a specially adapted smart home to enable him to live more independently. Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, the lives of America's heroes and their families are being improved. James Kerry and so many other service members and first responders have paid a high price to keep our country and our community safe. Through Tunnel to Towers, friends like you have said thank you not only through words, but through actions. America's heroes need your help now more than ever. Help heroes like James and their families donate $11 a month to tunnel the towers at t2t.org that's t the number two t dot org.
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Karen Kilgariff
Hey, it's Karen and Georgia from My favorite Murder. Thanks to Hyundai we got to take a post show drive in the Ionic five.
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iHeart Podcast Host
We had snacks, laughs and we even recorded a special episode featuring some unforgettable car themed stories.
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Karen Kilgariff
Take a listen. The Montgomery Bus Boycott Success was dependent on the action and dedication of many individuals of course. But today we're going to focus on the way work of one of those people in particular, a woman in her 30s. And yes, I love her name. It's Georgia Gilmore.
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iHeart Podcast Host
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Karen Kilgariff
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Clay Travis
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who went down that day. It's for the families of those who didn't make it.
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Clay Travis
I'm J.R. martinez. I'm a U.S. army veteran myself and I'm honored to tell you the stories of these heat on the new season of Medal of Stories of Courage from Pushkin Industries and I Heart podcast from Robert Blake, the first black sailor to be awarded the medal to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice. These are stories about people who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor going above and beyond the call of duty. You'll hear about what they did, what it meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Eric Adams
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Donna in North Carolina wants to weigh in on a the Pete Hegseth press conference that we were talking about to start off the show a couple hours ago. Donna, thanks for listening.
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J.R. Martinez
It's a, it's a privilege to talk to you guys and you're welcome. And I'll be quick because I know I have a short Runway here. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I am a conservative Christian. I'm a girl raised in the South, a disabled or retired veteran. I love Trump, voted for him all three times. I was enjoying the verbal spanking that Pete Hegseth was given to the media today. And I love how feisty he is because honestly, I believe that's what we need in a leader like him and like Trump. And I've been following the comment on the. Being a veteran, I fought a lady sometimes. A lady. I've been following the comment about the boys and the bomber and I thought, well, you know, didn't bother me. I'm like the last caller. Being called one of the boys in many ways could be a privilege. But, you know, he's a feisty guy and he's, he's, he's up against all those people who are against him when he's talking to him. And I think given that this was something that was first posed as a question about the referring to them, the boys and the bomber, you know, didn't bother me. And I thought that's a missed opportunity. So just kind of like was watching social media and seeing everybody say stop, stop, stop being word policing this. Like, I recognize that the left weaponizes languages and they try to redefine things all the time and they love soundbite. But I just kind of feel like it was a missed opportunity because he could have blunted that message somewhat by saying, you know, I think those who serve in the military understand that we're not trying to slight the women, you know, that this was a historic lady pilot who did something that's never been done.
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Eric Adams
Okay, we're going to coming up on an end of the hour. Thank you for the call. I think the challenge is Buck and we'll maybe build on this a bit in the third hour. The question wasn't coming from a place of goodness. It was designed to attack him.
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Karen Kilgariff
Hey, it's Karen and Georgia from my favorite Murder. Thanks to Hyundai. We got to take a post show drive in the Ionic five.
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iHeart Podcast Host
We had snacks, laughs, and we even recorded a special episode featuring some unforgettable car themed stories.
- [50:26]
Karen Kilgariff
Take a listen. I'm going to tell you a story today, Karen. It's about a pivotal role that cars played in none other than the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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iHeart Podcast Host
Okay, well, yes, it's right there in the title, right. This episode is brought to you by the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5.
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Clay Travis
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who went down that day.
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Clay Travis
On Medal of Honor Stories of Courage. You'll hear about these heroes and what their stories tell us about the nature of Bravery. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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iHeart Podcast Host
This is an iHeart podcast.