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The newsletter link is waiting for you in the show notes. I'm Rodney Williams. And I'm Travis Holloway. Welcome to the wealthbreak Podcast, a real conversation about finance. Let's be honest, building wealth doesn't look the same for everyone. I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have to revisit that and we're not stopping at success stories. What happens when it doesn't go right? How do you cope with it? Because wealth isn't just about money. It's about creating A life where you thrive and help others do the same. Listen to the Wealth Break podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome in our number three Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate everybody hanging out with us off the top again. Biggest news over the weekend for the Clay and Buck show. Buck and Carrie gave birth. I guess Carrie gave birth. Buck was there to James. They are happy and healthy. Mom and son are doing well. Buck right now says he expects to be back on the program tomorrow. So we will be back together and Buck will be a new dad doing his first ever radio show as a parent. We will see how massively had it changed him, if at all. But in all seriousness, it is an awesome feeling. You guys have been fabulous online. I know a lot of you asking questions. I was seeing it on social media. The baby came in Friday evening after we were off the air. Pictures are up@clayandbuck.com you can go to Buck's Twitter and Instagram feeds and see a picture of mom and baby as well. Everything going fantastically well. Look forward to hearing more details about that from him tomorrow or if he's not able to come in tomorrow, whenever he's able to return to the air. But just fabulous all around. Very exciting. And for any of you out there that recall or remember or maybe even are planning soon to become parents, you know what a transformative life experience that is. And as I said on Wednesday, I think was Buck's last day before he left. It is hard to hold a baby in your arms and not be optimistic about the future. It just really is. And I think that's true whether you're a dad or a mom or a grandma or grandpa or aunt, uncle, cousin, whatever you are. Babies are incredible gifts of joy, lots of work and I'm sure Buck and Carrie are going to be learning that out. I tried to tell him there's people out there. You just really can't tell anybody what it's like till you actually have a baby of your own. But people say, oh, you know, we got a dog and you know, that's we're training for being parents one day. Like, okay, not really the same at all. And once you have a child, you are going to understand that there is nothing you can do to prepare for being a parent except be a parent yourself. And so I'm excited for them. I know it's going to be awesome. And he is thankful for all of the fabulous responses that you guys have already given, all the tremendous congratulations. And so we will hopefully be talking about that in more detail soon. So far in the program encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a moment. You can find me Clay Travis, you can find Buck Sexton. You can find a lot of people in our podcast network, millions of you downloading the podcast every single month. We thank all of you for listening there as well as on the 550 some odd stations across the nation. But in the first couple of hours, we talked about George Clooney and his new play suggesting that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute, which did not happen. We talked about Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's house, the attempt to burn it down and how to me it's symptomatic of a larger failure to distinguish between good and evil in this country today. We just played a lot of cuts for you of Bill Maher talking about his visit with Donald Trump and how similar his reflections are to my own, having spent a decent amount of time hanging out with President Trump over the past several years. Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post journalist, talking about her love for a man accused of murdering a dad in cold blood, shooting him in the back in a wash in a Manhattan street. And there are a couple other things that I wanted to hit with you here. Off the top, third hour espn. Stephen A. Smith went around and did a lot of interviews now saying that he is thinking about running for president of the United States in 2028. I told all of you that Trump was going to create a lot of copycats, that there were going to be other people out there who have had success in a variety of different fields that saw Trump with no political past getting elected and they were going to try to be the next Trump. Democrats in particular, I think are desperate for a new leader because so many of their old leaders have said absolutely insane things. And Kamala Harris, while getting raked over the coals for the absurdity of her position to give transgender illegal immigrants sex change surgeries. That was what she believed. With taxpayer money, she thought that should happen. That's not out of line for Democrats. That's not outrageous. They have said every seated elected Democrat right now truly ridiculous things, absolutely ignorant, indefensible things like men should be able to win women's championships, which virtually every Democrat somehow has lined up behind. Like cutting waste and fraud from the government is a bad thing. Like putting violent criminals in prison and holding them there is a bad thing. They have lined up and said all sorts of crazy things. So I don't think that Stephen A. Smith is particularly well versed in the political universe. But I do believe that there will be some outsiders who try to run for president of the United States as Democrats, and they might in some way have a measure of success doing it. But here is Stephen A. Smith out on Let me make sure where I get where this took place, because I want to make sure that I, that I attribute it correctly here says he has no choice but to contemplate a run for president of the United States. And he said it while going around and doing the interviews on all of the different morning shows. He now is pretty firmly putting his foot forward. Let's listen to what he had to say. This is on ABC's this Week with John Carl. This is what you're about to listen cut 22 are you really thinking about running for president? Is this something you think, listen, I've been, I have no choice because I've had elected officials and I'm not going to give them names, elected officials coming up to me. I've had folks who are pundits come up to me. I've had folks that got a lot of money, billionaires and others that have talked to me about exploratory committees and things of that nature. Not a politician. I've never had a desire to be a politician. I just signed a contract extension with espn. I couldn't be happier. But here's the reality. People have walked up to me, including my own pastor, for crying out loud, who has said to me, you don't know what God has planned for you. At least show the respect to the people who believe in you, who respect you, who believe that you can make a difference in this country, to leave the door open for any possibilities two to three years down the line. And that's what I've decided to do. Okay, so that is Stephen A. Smith, Buck has pointed out, and I do think there's some truth to it, who has run for president of the United States and actually ended up in a worse position than they were before? It's, it's an interesting question. I obviously you can lose, but is Kamala Harris, for instance, who just lost as president to Donald Trump, is she really in that much of a worse position than, than if Joe Biden had run and they had lost? Maybe you could say, oh, she could be the nominee in 2028 if Joe Biden had lost, maybe. But by and large, most people who run for president of the United States end up making more money and having more influence than they would if they had never run at all. And if your side wins, you may well end up in the Cabinet, you have an opportunity to do something that is fairly substantial even if you're not elected President of the United States. Now, most people do not pull a Stephen A. Smith and walk away from a $20 million a year salary to run for President of the United States. So that's why I don't think he's gonna do it. I don't think he's gonna walk away from $20 million. And he's not independently wealthy. To be fair, running for President of the United States cost Trump money. But it wasn't a direct salary like a Stephen A. Smith has. Most really wealthy guys or gals who run for President of the United States are former executives. They have huge amounts of assets, they have tons of stock, tons of property, and they're still making a lot of money even if they're not working, because most of their money is mailbox money. It's not labor money. I'm a labor guy. I work to get paid. Most of you work to get paid. Most of you don't have tremendous amounts of mailbox money where you could stop work and your income wouldn't change that much. That's why I'm a little bit skeptical. I do, however, think that Stephen A. Smith is emblematic of of a cadre of candidates that are likely to arise on the Democrat side that are coming from outside of politics because the Democrat Party has gone so insane that anyone elected to a statewide office, to the Senate, to the governor's race, is actually likely to have a series of really poor positions that they've taken out that would be very difficult to run on on a national level. And Eve, that's even true for governors, which is why I think they're gonna have to go with somebody outside. And I do think that Stephen A. Smith would do better with male voters because he has the sports bonafide in the background. The challenge for Stephen A. Smith is I don't think he's actually that knowledgeable about anything outside of sports. And I don't mean is he going to get up on the stage and when he's asked a question about trade policy, turn it into a conversation about whether Jordan or LeBron are better. And I'm not trying to take a shot at him because he's a very talented guy when it comes to talking about sports, but he's never done a show that is about, to a large extent, something other than talking about sports. I think you could have asked the same question for me before I started doing this show four years ago. And this show is a lot less significant. Significant, but it's a lot less significant than running for President of the United States. But I think over time you've said you've been able to see, okay, Clay has a strong position on what's going to happen at the Masters. Congratulations to Rory McElroy. But also there's a coherent political philosophy behind a lot of his arguments. I also went to law school, so that doesn't hurt in terms of being able to analyze complicated legal related issues. Stephen A. Smith I don't buy that he would be able to be the nominee, but I actually think not having political background is going to be an asset because it allows you to change positions publicly without having to be a total hypocrite like Gavin Newsom when he tried to finally say, oh yeah, it's completely unfair for men to compete in women's sports. But the problem is he had said the opposite for some time before. There is an advantage to having a blank slate sometimes when it comes to political positions. And I'll tell you, Trump took advantage of this. The first time that I thought to myself, hey, you know what? Donald Trump is an intriguing candidate was not when he came down the escalator at Trump Tower to me, it was when, remember that first debate with Megyn Kelly when everybody watched it on Fox News and Trump was so commanding of that debate stage was actually the part that made me say, oh, this is a new kind of guy, was when he criticized the Republican decision to go to war in Iraq because prior to him saying it in the summer of 2015, nobody would say it. And the reason why Trump said it was one, he was right. We should have never, I don't know if anybody will even defend it now. We should have never spent trillions of dollars going to war in Iraq, just like we shouldn't have shut down schools. For Covid, the decision to go to war in Iraq and spend trillions of dollars to get rid of Saddam Hussein was a disaster. George W. Bush was wrong. Dick Cheney was wrong. I think most Republicans now believe that even if you supported it 15 or 20 years ago, it was a poor decision. Trump was the first person to point that out. It's the first time I said, oh, this is a different kind of Republican candidate. It's the first time it really got my attention. A Democrat would have the ability to turn his or her back on orthodoxy if that Democrat were not a longtime political candidate and didn't have a huge record that everybody could pick apart in the past. The attack is they don't have enough experience, but a lot of people out there saying, is the experience our politicians have actually that valuable? If you've got experience making really bad decisions for decades, does that mean you deserve a promotion? For Joe Biden, that was the argument. Got everything wrong for years. Gets promoted. I don't know that it's going to work for a traditional politician to get the nomination in 2028. And that's where I think Stephen A. May have a little bit of an argument. But I think there are other people out there who have better experience in business or media that might be running as Democrats against Stephen A United States concealed Carry Association. That's the USCCA, over 860,000 responsible gun owners as members across the country. I want to talk for just a sec about how challenging this can be. If you have guns in your house, if you have a concealed carry permit and you're driving around, what if somebody comes after you and you feel compelled to defend yourself? I've been as a lawyer in all day seminars analyzing the decisions that gun owners might have to make in a fraction of seconds. And suddenly if you are getting charged because you were trying to defend yourself, do you know how much it could cost to try to go get the right lawyer? Hundreds of dollars an hour, maybe thousands of dollars. Might cost you 50, 100, $150,000 to defend yourself if you discharge your weapon and get charged with a crime for it. That's what the USCCA can do. They will find you a lawyer to defend you if you are a member. They'll also help to teach you about the law of concealed carry and a family defense guide. If you own a home, if you own a weapon and you have a concealed carry permit, you need to go look at this website right now. This is why they have hundreds of thousands of members. You can ensure that basically you are protected and have the right legal representation if, God forbid, you ever need it. Uscca.com clay go check it out. Right now. You can get a free concealed carry and family defense guide, but you should join me. You should join Buck and become a member today. Uscca.com Clay for the best possible deals out there, your membership backed money back, bulletproof guarantee. Uscca.com Clay News you can count on and some laughs too. Clay Travis at Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. 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And so by Sunday I was trying to sit up straight, tighten my tie and look at the camera more. So that was my mom's feedback. You can give me your feedback as well. 800-282-2882. We'll take some of your calls to close up shop here on the Monday edition of the program. And I want to tell you, however, in the meantime that we need to make sure that you are taken care in the event that you might need a radio. When you say, what do I need a radio for? Well, what if your overall communication goes down? We've had a ton of tornadoes rolling through the Nashville area where I live of late. Our power went down and my wife has these radios charged in the event that we lose power and need to be able to communicate because cell phone networks are down. And we also use it because we don't want to give my 10 year old a cell phone. 14 years old is the age that kids get cell phones here. But if you remember back in the day, we used to have the GI Joe radios. 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I just, I mean, and I pointed to me kind of the ultimate just checkmate move. And I want all of you to think about this. Imagine if Santa Claus dyed his beard. You've got a white bearded guy sitting in the mall, big red fluffy outfit, big black belt, white bearded Santa Claus. All of you will stand in line to put your kids on his lap and take a photo. If Santa dyes his beard black and tries to sit in the mall and have kids sit on his lap, you would demand that he get arrested. Santa Claus is my trump card. You can't dye your beard. I said this a while back about Ohio State football coach Ryan Day. I said he dyes his beard. I'm sorry, it's too midnight black. I Don't buy it. It looks fresh for every new game. I said this is why Ohio State fans don't trust him. His wife has now jumped in my mentions and she is fervently denying that he dyed his beard. And the lead story on a sports site right now called Awful Announcing is Ryan Day's wife denies Clay Travis's accusation. He dies his beard. This is how we make America great again. We stop dying beards and we start letting them go gray. Because Gandalf, hey, white bearded man is the most trusted man in America. White, black, Asian, Hispanic, white beard connotes trust. Dyed beard, can't trust him at all. All right. Lot anyway, that's fun that just happened as I was scrolling through social media. So you never know what's going to become news. And that is the news right now. Also news there was an earthquake. I, I gotta rely on the team when Buck's not here too. I don't get to spend as much time checking all the news. The team tells me that there was an earthquake in San Diego. We are number one right now in San Diego. So I hope all of you are okay. 5.2 earthquake 30 or so miles northeast of San Diego. I've been in two earthquakes in my life. This is something that everyone who's not from California is terrified of. I'm going to be honest with you. First time I started going to California, I thought I was going to die of an earthquake. People who come from California to where I live, they think they're going to die of a tornado. Whatever. Calamity, weather wise, doesn't exist where you are. You presume that you're going to die of it if you move to that area. I've been in two, probably the two biggest earthquakes that have happened in like the last 20 years in California. One of them was in San Diego. I was, I had a two year old. I believe my wife was pregnant with our second. We were taking a vacation to San Diego. Fabulous place. What is it? The gaslight district in San Diego. Did I get that right? Lantern district. I can't remember what it's called. Some method by which you put light on is really fabulous in San Diego. I haven't been there in a while. By the Padre Stadium. Looks really nice too. I love the way that they built that there. All right, so San Diego, we're staying in a hotel pretty high up. Our two year old's nap time wife is laying down with the two year old. As Buck will find out, you suddenly have to take a lot more naps. When you have a little kid. So I think I decided to take a nap too. All three of us are in the bed, afternoon nap time. And the bed starts shaking like crazy. There's a two year old in bed and it's going like we're swinging from one side to the other and I don't know what to do. They were probably on like the 15th floor and this would have been sometime around maybe 2010. You can look it up. It was like in category 8 earthquake, I think 7.8, something like that. And I get up and I say to my wife, we're supposed to stand. I don't know why this would help really. You're supposed to stand underneath the archway and look, we're in a hotel room. There aren't really any archways. But I'm like, I get my 2 year old and I go and stand underneath the archway. And the. If you're high up at all, I mean, the hotel is really swinging. I mean it is swaying like crazy. And I'm like, we got to get underneath the archway. I, you know, the whole thing collapses. I don't know that you're much safer underneath the archway. Some of you are probably structural engineers. I think you're screwed. If you're on the 15th floor and a hotel collapses, I don't think you got a lot of hope. But I was underneath the archway with my 2 year old. He wakes up, of course, because the bed's like moving because the whole floor is shaking. My wife is standing there and I say, boy, this is really a big earthquake. And instead of recognizing that the building is legitimately swaying and we're from Tennessee, my wife says, how would you know? She's arguing with me about the severity of the earthquake. While we are standing in a hotel room with the hotel swinging from one side to the other. If that's not marriage, I don't know what is. This is a really big earthquake. Well, how would you know? Well, because the building might be about. We might be about to die. Is the final thing that you want to have ever said to me is, well, how would you know? Because I'll tell you what, if the building starts to collapse as we're hurtling to our death, you know what I'm gonna say? Told you so might be the last thing I ever get to say, but it would be a good one to go out on. I told you it was a big earthquake. So I did that one in San Diego, survived it. And then I think it was July 4th. This is where we need a Real time fact checker to make sure that I get everything right. I think it was July 4th in LA. I remember it pegged to sports. The, the earthquake in San Diego happened the same time that Butler was playing against Duke in the national title game and Gordon Hayward almost banked in a three to win. Do you remember that game? That was the year the San Diego earthquake happened when I was there. And this is also not ideal when you're married and like you can't remember anything, but you have, if you're a sports fan like I do, you don't remember years anymore, but you can remember specific games and their connection to life events. So that was that. When the one happened in San Diego, the other one. I'm at the top of the Intercontinental Hotel in West la. The used to be the Intercontinental Hotel. I think they shut it down. It overlooks the Fox lot. We pico and motor. For those of you who've been out to LA at all on like the 15th floor of that hotel, Kawhi Leonard decides to leave. If I remember correctly, the Raptors and go to the LA Clippers. Shocking decision. And LA has a big earthquake. And so also on like the 15th floor, I believe that is the biggest earthquake that LA has had in the last 10 or 12 years. I was on the 15th level there too. And when it's. When the building you are in is multi level and it is swaying, I don't care what part of the country you're in, it's pretty terrifying. So both of the major earthquakes that have hit California, San Diego and LA in the last 15 or so years, I somehow managed to be on the 15th level of a hotel. And this was my worst nightmare. The same time everybody was on the Fox lot because we were doing television. That's why I was staying out there. You have all these big lights that are in the ceiling in the studio and I believe there's video of the anchors just going directly underneath the desk because you're thinking, I don't want the big lights to fall on me. But they were live on the air and everybody just panicked. Of course the most famous live on the air moment of all time is 1988, I believe, when they had the earthquake during the base series between the Giants and the and the A's. And Al Michaels, if I remember correctly, says we're having an earth and then he gets cut off and nobody has any idea what happened. I mean that in a social media age would be an unbelievable moment to have that happen. Yes, There you go. 2010. Good work by the team. 7.2 magnitude earthquake south of San Diego. That was in 2010. Math was roughly right there. And then they had the one in LA around Kauai. I've been there for both of them. A lot of you want to weigh in on a variety of different topics, but when I found out they had a 5, 2 in San Diego, it took me back to my reminiscences of being in the middle of earthquakes. We'll take your calls to close up shop. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Been having an awesome time here. 800-282-2882. Take your calls. Look at the VIPs react to those as well to close out when we return. And I'll also play. Well, let me play this for you because I do think this is emblematic of the incredible vibe shift that we have had as it pertains to the President. This was Trump at 2am on Air Force One right after UFC 314. The guy's been working all day. He's on the. He's on the plane on Air Force One with his granddaughter Kai, who is going to be a golfer at the University of Miami come this next year. She's going to be a freshman. And I thought this was great. He introduced her to him and said, you know, the fake news. This is the fake News. This is cut 11. What Trump was doing 2am Having a. Having an interview. Biden had been asleep for 14 hours by now, but here was Trump at 2am okay, come on over. You know the fake news. This is the fake news. Hey, what's up, everyone? How are you guys? Good morning. We're just doing a little news conference. You want to partake? I'll ask them. So she's a great athlete, actually. Great golfer. Yeah. And great student, actually. So that is Trump, Grandpa Trump, who is super proud of his grandkids, which is what comes to mind very often, because I have seen him interacting with those grandkids before, and this is what he's like. I don't know that Hitler liked to brag about his grandkids, but. But that's what Trump is. He's just a grandpa. That is probably the overwhelming vibe that you have. And he is fantastic in many respects, but the fact that he had that much energy at 78 years old, goes to a UFC event in Miami and then comes and takes questions from the press at 2am on the back of Air Force One. What an incredible shift it is between Joe Biden, who certainly never walked into the ufc, but would have been asleep a long time ago. I went to Israel in December. As many of you know, we did the show from there and life is anything but normal or easy in Israel these days. While the events of the Hamas terrorist attack were 18 months ago, that doesn't mean life's gotten easier for Israelis. 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Keep up the great work. My mom said if you guys were not listening earlier, I did Fox and Friends weekend. Rachel was great, Charlie was great. A lot of fun. Six to 10. That's the most time I've been in a television studio. Eight hours total. Four on Saturday, four on Sunday. And my mom said that I need to look at the camera more, sit up straight and tighten my tie. Chape in Columbus, Ohio. Agreed with mom. Here was his take. Hey, Clay, this is cheap from Ohio. I thought the same thing about eye contact. Keep up the good work and we have a. Thank you. We also have a Santa Claus that wants to. That wants to weigh in on my question that I think ends the can you dye your beard and be trustworthy question once and for all. Because he says, I say, like, imagine Santa with a dark beard. If he asked your kid to sit on his lap, you would want him arrested. You would not trust dark bearded Santa Claus. Got to have a white beard. Jay is Fort Myers. You play Santa Claus during Christmas? I am a Santa portrayal artist. Yet what? A Santa portrayal artist. So does that mean you have kids? That seems like a very fancy way to put, say, play Santa Claus. Do you have kids? Sit on your lap and ask them. Like in a mall. Like, where's your typical location? My typical location is I do the tree lighting for downtown Fort Myers. I've done it for the Mighty Muscles baseball baseball team. I've done it for resorts in Naples, all over southwest Florida. Okay, so what do you think the reaction would be? Well, if you refuse to dye your beard, I agree. But I am. I come from the other end. I have to bleach my beard so that it is pure white. So does the coloring that you're talking about just adding color or taking color away? How old are you? You're talking about the authenticity of the beard. What about Santa's that use designer beards that. Are they any less. Do they have any less heart for Santa than a real bearded Santa? I think by using Santa, you're touching on a very difficult subject. Thank you for the call. I think Santa has to grow a real beard. In my opinion, if you want to be a legit Santa Claus, you can't wear one of those Cheap ones that a kid can pull down. I mean, come on. And my point is, it's the, it's the gray, it's the white beard of Santa Claus that makes him trustworthy. Santa wouldn't even exist as a major cultural figure if they had tried to be like, oh, Santa Claus has a black beard, he'd be in prison forever. Gail in North Carolina, what you got for me? Hello, Clay. I just wanted to call in very quickly. Thanks for taking my call. Number number two. Thank you for sharing all the information on Buck and congratulations to him and his family. Amen. Lastly, I want. I wanted to say you did an excellent job on Fox and Friends. I'm telling you, you are perfect on that couch. I've been telling everybody. And I just want you to hear this. Listen to your mom, because I did text our first cousin and say, look at the camera, Clay. Look at the camera. Thank you for the. Gail. Well, let me explain the camera thing. On Fox Sports, they find you. And I wanted to make it clear that I was listening to my co host, but you have to look at the camera more from the couch. I learned it. You also have to sit up straight. Buck will be back tomorrow. Congrats to he and Carrie on the baby. Love you all. See you tomorrow. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have supervision, enhanced hearing, extraordinary reflexes? To be, dare we say, superhuman? Well, Roku's new Pro series TV can't do any of that for you. But with a 4K screen, side firing speakers and a blazing fast refresh rate, it'll sure feel like it. Elevate your entertainment using all your favorite apps like iHeart and Play all your music, radio and podcasts. With the new Roku Pro series, your senses aren't better. Your TV is. 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