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Buck Sexton
All right, welcome in third hour, the 15th hour of the week, Clay and Buck. Don't worry, there'll be 15 more hours next week, but we are excited to dive into more with all of you. Also, we like to go heavy on the talkbacks and the calls for the latter half of the third hour. Want to hear from all of you in all the ways that we can. So check that out and also subscribe to our YouTube. Everybody. We're going to be doing more and more video and hoping to even get closer and closer to more exciting video projects that will launch next year. That I hope that was vague but exciting. That's right, Clay. That's the way to do it. A little vague.
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Clay Travis
Vague but exciting is a great, great phrase.
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Buck Sexton
That's the move. That's how you got to do it immediately, all the time. It's a little bit like my my conspiracy podcast that I want to start where I just say the craziest stuff possible. When people ask me for my sources, I'm just like, I just have a feeling I've Heard from somebody who. Heard from somebody who had a feeling. I'm sorry, I can't reveal my sources to you. Like you just take people in wild directions, see what happens. But something else that is on my mind here as we had the designation of here. This was this. This actually happened today. The State Department from the official account. Here you go. Anarchist militants have waged terror campaigns in the United States and Europe conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western civilization through their brutal attacks. The State Department will designate these four antifa groups as FTOs. Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Antifa Aust is a terrorist organization based in Germany wielding hammers on unsuspecting victims. They were named a terrorist organization by Hungary after attacks in Budapest. The International Revolutionary Front in Italy. Coalition of violent Anarchists. Armed Proletarian Justice, A Greek anarchist group. Revolutionary Class Self Defense, also in Greece. So they're clay. They've named all these European antifa wings as foreign terrorist organizations. Fto. That's a. That means once you are at fto, the US government's ability and tools to deal with you are considerable. They are fearsome on the financial side and legal side and even on the kinetic side of things when. When the situation calls for it. So that is a major escalation. And the notion that Antifa. Remember when the FBI director under Biden said antifa was an idea.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
That was a particularly low moment for a very. Brought low. FBI. FBI under. Under. Under Patel and Bongino are. They're fixing things. I believe actually we'll have. Do we. Guys, do we have Director Patel on next week? We've been meaning to. Yes, we do. We have Director Cash. Patel will be with us next week. If you have questions that you want us to ask him, you can send those in, I might add. So we'll pick some of the best ones if we can. If we have time with him. He's a very busy man. They're trying to fix the FBI Clay. That's going on. Then there's also this and I think it ties in because ANTIFA is a bunch of anti civilization lunatics. John Fetterman. And this has been true for a while. I'll take a step back and say this. Remember when Elon said that wokeness was really just an excuse for. For nasty people to be cruel and feel self righteous about it? You know there was some version if you guys can find that quote for me. But it was. I think he was. That was his Babylon B podcast appearance with Seth Dillon. I think that's where he said it and I'M and that to me was, I was like this Elon guy. He gets it. That was. Yeah, he's a brilliant CEO. But do you remember that exchange?
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I do. I 100%. I 100% remember it. And I do think, look, there are a lot of mean people on the Internet and you and I both made our livings on the Internet, so we.
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Buck Sexton
Are quite nice to be fair. Like we, we poke fun and we call it out when we have to, but we don't get.
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Clay Travis
Also we don't say anything publicly that we would. There is no decision.
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Buck Sexton
You're a little saltier. Clay likes to mix it. Clay likes to sometimes break the beer bottle on the table and get into it with people. But you know, yeah, I don't mind.
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Clay Travis
When owning what they say under their real name, but one reason the Internet is so toxic is because so many people have anonymous accounts and just pile it all on. Having said that, I do think in the era that we live in now, the left is way meaner because there is a self righteousness that motivates their anger and their antipathy. And their idea is we're so right that we can be super mean to people. And Fetterman has seen it from both sides. And I thought this was a good clip.
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Buck Sexton
This is really interesting. It's CNN's Dana Bash saying that the left. I'm sorry, Fetterman telling CNN's Dana Bash saying that the left is just crueler than people on the right in America that I play.
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Producer Ali
When I asked my digital team, I said, you know, you're. We're on all the platforms, you know, really what's, what's kind of the harshest, what's kind of the most? And the answer was immediate. He said, oh, blue sky.
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Buck Sexton
It's blue sky.
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Producer Ali
And the difference is, I mean the right would say really rough things and names, you know, some names I won't, I won't repeat on, on tv. But, but, but the. On the left, it was like they want me to die or that we're cheering for your next stroke or that's terrible that depression. Why couldn't it depression one and I hope your kids find you. I mean they even have like the graphic a gift where they have like a stroke, you know, you know, in your head. Yeah. And, and they said that. I remember one they claimed, oh, the doctor let us down and why did they have to save his life? I mean, just really like I just can't imagine people are, are wishing, you know, you. I wish he dies or I want him to die, you know, literally cheering for. For a stroke. And I don't know what the kind of a place where that comes from. I mean, that's. That's much different than just calling me a name, you know, and that's. That's really been consistent, you know, in that community online.
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Buck Sexton
Clay the online left embraces and celebrates a demonic viciousness that is reflected in the broader Democrat party. It is just reality.
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Clay Travis
Yes. And I think it has to do with the belief that they are good. Right. It's really scary sometimes. And. And I encourage people to think about it. If you become convinced that you are 100% right on everything, then you are willing to dehumanize a lot of people. And I think the left is more like, I question every day I look at facts and I say, boy, did I get that right. I'm open to the idea that I'm wrong. I think partly that's legal training, where you have to be willing to look at the whole argument. You have to contemplate it, you have to think about pressing it. I would encourage everybody out there be open to the possibility that you're wrong, because then you will analyze things in a fresh way as opposed to constantly reinforcing yourself. Buck I read. Since we're talking about Fetterman, I want to expand this conversation because I do think this is important. Fetterman said the day after he won the Senate race that he thought about throwing himself off the bridge because he was so depressed as he was walking. And I do think for everybody out there who is, you know, listening to us right now, that was probably what most people would consider to be the apex of John Fetterman's professional life. And on the day that he won Senate reelection, Senate election, he was walking on a bridge, and he significantly contemplated just throwing himself off of it. And he said the only reason he didn't do it was because ultimately he couldn't stop thinking about his kids and that they were important in helping him come through the dark place that he was. There are a lot of people out there in very, very dark places. And I do think the conversation that Fetterman has opened up of, hey, try to get yourself well mentally and physically. We talk a lot about the MAHA movement, which is. You've talked about this, Buck yourself like you got a young kid, hey, I want to be in shape. I want to be able to help raise that kid. I want to make sure that I'm trying to be the best version of myself. And all that stuff works from a physical perspective. Everybody's got to work on the mental, too. And I do think that a lot of people in the social media era, I think we're going to go back. Everybody always thinks, you know, when you look back and you see people smoking on airplanes, or for those of us who grew up sometimes with a mom or a dad, you know, just smoking in a car with the windows rolled up, or we went into restaurants and they were like, hey, this is the smoking section and this is the non smoking section. Like, my kids look at that stuff and they think about how silly it is. We assume that we're doing things that are not toxic to ourselves because we get used to them. I think social Media, I think 20 years from now, 30 years from now, people are going to be looking back at what social media did to this country and they're going to be saying, how in the world did we let this happen? And I just think if you use Fetterman as an example and this book that he's got, and we've invited him on the program, but imagine you win a Senate race and because of the toxicity surrounding you, your depression is such that you think about throwing yourself off a bridge. I don't think that his perspective in that way was different than a lot of other people might be. Even with success going on in life.
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Buck Sexton
Does that make sense? And how can you not have a deep human sympathy that completely supersedes politics for somebody who's going through that? Anyone who's ever been around, someone who is close to them or they themselves have dealt with real depression, you would think, and I think that's almost. Once you get to a certain age, it's hard not to be in that category of somebody who's at least experienced, someone who is dealing with that. You would think that they would understand that there's a basic human connection, that we all have, a sympathy for people, a revulsion at others suffering and pain. And for someone to not like Fetterman, stand on Israel and publicly wish him to have another stroke or to die or whatever these things are that he's pointing out, it goes to a lack of humanity. It's not about political disagreement anymore. It is. You have traded something from your soul. And this is why I went on Blue sky the night after Charlie, or the night of rather Charlie's assassination. I had to see it for myself. It was a. A deeply dark and disturbing rummaging through the wreckage of people's souls. It was really bad, Clay. It was really ugly. And that was people, a lot of them, under their Own names, publicly. Some of them, you know, have, have followings, have platforms. I mean, to, to, to see what happened to Charlie. A father, a husband, a, a son, an American, a patriot. And this is the. If, if they're, God forbid, if there was a high profile assassination of a prominent Democrat activist or a prominent Democrat politician, and people of any note on the right were saying, you know, celebrating it in some capacity, I assure you that, including on this program, their own side, our side, would say, that's disgusting. You're, you're a disgrace to the movement. You know, don't ever do something like that again.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
None of that on the left. None of it. They pretend like it doesn't happen or, or they pretend that they're on board. They're on board with it. Not even pretend they're on board with it.
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Clay Travis
And Fetterman himself, I mean, I think I'm glad we played that clip because I flagged that earlier this week. I saw it. You can say, okay. He has uniquely been in the crosshairs of criticism in both directions. I mean, look, I've said this on the program. I thought, and I said that he would be a completely ineffective senator and Dr. Oz should have won. I still think Dr. Oz would be a better representative for Pennsylvania, but I think John Fetterman is a reasonable, rational Democrat voice. And when he says even people who Opposed him politically, I.e. republicans, have treated him better than Democrats, I take his word for it. I, I, I think it's true. And, and I do think that for anybody out there, what is it? Buck 21? Veterans kill themselves every day. I think much of the story that Fetterman is telling in this book is about how to deal with depression. Almost all those people are men. You can criticize John Fetterman for a lot. He seems like a normal dude in many respects, and I think that's why he has the appeal that he does in, in Pennsylvania, he almost threw himself off a bridge, according to his own book, the day after he won the Senate race because of the immense cloud of depression that descended upon him. You know, get help. We, we've got a lot of resources out there. I think it's 21 veterans a day, almost all men. And, and look, I mean, there are people out there that will help you. And if you're in that world right now listening to us, get yourself well, there's nothing wrong with it.
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Buck Sexton
One of the sacrifices that our veterans have made that we all, as Americans benefit from, obviously our freedom, our civilization, our, our way of life, our day to day lives. But also no community has done more in our generation, Clay, to destigmatize mental health problems, getting mental health assistance than the veterans.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
No one has done more because if they need help for what they saw, it's okay. You know, it's okay for everybody to get help. It's okay for anyone to have problems because the bravest and the best of us, even they sometimes can require assistance. So it's one of those things that I know the people have very strong opinions about the G wad and what we did in Afghanistan, Iraq and all the rest of it. But one aspect of that sacrifice our veterans made that was, that has been, I think, very, very powerful and very positive for all of us is that you can say, I need help and it's mental and that's okay and you should get it. And it's not weakness and it's not something that. But that brings me back to the Fetterman conversation where that's actually a mental manifestation of it. Well, talking about the stroke, that's a mental manifestation of a physical ailment.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
And his own side is. Is saying that wishing that he was dead. It's madness. Madness.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. And the toxicity out there is real. So just be conscious of that. I. And look, I give him credit for speaking out as a somewhat voice of sanity in the Democrat party when there are very few of those. Is there a better shipment right now than one you can get at home from good ranchers? I don't think so. I look, I love looking in the, in the fridge as I just did, looking in the freezer as I just did when I ran downstairs to get my smoothie. We've got a ton of good ranchers stacked up there and I know that means that we've got great tasting steaks, burgers, pork chops, bacon, salmon, all of it coming via overnight shipping, arriving right at the house, just perfectly preserved to take Amazing taste, amazing on your plate. A hundred percent of the food coming from American ranchers doing the hard work of raising all of these, all of these products. Taste of the meal is going to be amazing and it is phenomenal. You can become a subscriber today. Come straight to your home. You can pick the exact box that you want. 25 off every box delivered. Free shipping, free gift in every order for life to get hooked up right now, if you go to goodranchers.com and you order before December 1st, first time subscribers, a hundred dollars off plus free meat for life. Again, goodranchers.com My name Clay C. L A Y this is a great American company. A hundred bucks off goodranchers.com code clay that's goodranchers.com code Clay sometimes all you can do is laugh and they do a lot of it with the Sunday hang. Join Clay and Buck as they laugh it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Friday Edition James in Texas. He's got a feedback on what you can call California.
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Buck Sexton
Clay was struggling trying to find the right word to describe the geography and just the natural beauty of California. Of course, there's only one word for that. Fabulous.
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Clay Travis
He's right.
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Buck Sexton
Fair.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, he nailed Geographical fabulousness for sure when it comes to the natural beauty of California.
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Clay Travis
I actually am concerned that, like, just being eavesdropped on. And sometimes it's like. But yes, when I'm in some place, like, there's a good chance that I'm gonna have it on speaker because I just can't hear. I. I don't think that. And. And also, earbuds, like, they. They redefined. This is me getting old, man. But they changed the input so that the earbuds are now wireless. But I didn't mind actually plugging in the. So I got. I'm fired up on this. So you were giving an opinion on this? Let me just mention this before we get into this open table thing, almost zero criticism of our Epstein analysis. People are furious at me about my take on the penny. This is really, really funny. My take on change. First of all, I'm right in general, other than the quarter, which I will defend the quarter because there's lots of vending machines that require quarters. I think we should do away with the penny, with the nickel, and with the dime.
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Buck Sexton
Well, really, though, it's. The question is, should we make more? It's not that they take them out of circulation entire. It's not.
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Clay Travis
We're not.
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Buck Sexton
They're not hunting down rogue pennies here. Okay? This. This isn't.
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Clay Travis
You know, I'm not going to show up beating on your door. Like, I heard there's some pennies in here.
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Buck Sexton
There's going. There are rules, you know, like, we get it. Like, if you have pennies, that's fine. No one's coming for your change jar. This isn't. The pennies will be taken from my cold, dead hand. Like, no, we get it. You can keep your pennies, but they're not making more pennies. That's where. That's where that is. But, yes, if you're angry about that, even though I actually agree with Clay, you get mad at Clay because he loves when people are mad at him. I get sad. But OpenTable, this is what I want to talk about, because this is bigger than OpenTable. Maybe you use Rezi or maybe use one of these other things. If you use Uber Eats, if you use. Well, Uber, if you use any number of these apps on a pretty regular basis, and if you're in a city in particular, these things are. They're omnipresent now in day to day life. I mean, there are a lot of places where you really can't get a cab, but you can get an Uber, right? I mean that's. Oh, yeah, in New York you can, you know, you can always get a yellow cab pretty much still. But in a lot of places, if you're not using an app to get a ride share.
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Clay Travis
When I go anywhere, 20s in Nashville, Buck, I was so I didn't want. I want to go out to a bar. I don't want to worry about getting a dui. So I would try to get picked up by a cab. Getting picked up by a cab in Nashville was impossible. Once you got to a bar, there would be cabs. There were not enough. Your experience in New York City is a rarity where you could always get a cab. Back in the day. Uber and Lyft fundamentally, I think made America way safer. There's no excuse now to ever get a dui. Like you can always easily get a car if you have a couple of drinks too much or whatever. So they made the world much better. But there are some downsides associated with the how the world is now set up.
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Buck Sexton
So we joked around about this. But you know that, that in particular on Uber you get. There's a rating for you as the user. And so it's not. You always see the driver rating, although the ratings now are. So it's like everybody has 4.9 stars who's a driver. So, you know, is my Uber rating a little higher than Clay's maybe? Don't worry about it. You know, am I just a little more trustworthy for these guys picking me up and being on time? I don't know, maybe, you know, neither here nor there. But they also like that. I don't mind if they drive like an old man because some of us Clay prioritize safety.
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Clay Travis
I will say my Uber drivers drive like super old men. The number of times that they stop on yellows, the number of time that I'm just sitting there like go, go, go, and they're going too slow. I need a James Bond style personal driver who is just going to get me everywhere as rapidly as possible. Buck is. By the way, we were talking about this Yesterday. Buck is a 4,9 5 on his Uber rating. 4.95 out of 5. I am a 4.94. Now, you guys know we've well established that I don't like to cast blame or aspersions. I'm going to throw the Travis boys under the bus here because my kids are also now connected to my Uber account. And I had a better Uber rating before.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, get at it. Look at Ally.
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Producer Ali
Look at.
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Buck Sexton
First he throws producer Ali under the bus, now his own children.
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Clay Travis
Now I'm not somebody to blame other people. My Uber rating has come down since my kids have been connected to my Uber account. I don't know what's happened. I think that they aren't always as prompt as they should be. And I think your boy is taking the L for. For the kids now. So I would have been above Buck but for the Travis boys. Again, not a blame guy, but they're the reason. They are the reason why my Uber rating has declined.
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Buck Sexton
You know that. What's that, like, rock song is. It's a Metallica where they're like, faster, faster. That's like Clay in the back of the Uber just yelling, you have to drive faster, faster. So, you know, maybe they. Maybe some of the Uber drivers don't like that. OpenTable, Uber, these apps have all of this data about you is the point. And people are starting to realize, in the case of OpenTable, and this was the piece that I had mentioned from the New York Post, they know things like your wine preferences before you do any. The restaurant just can have this now has access to this data because OpenTable gives us them. Your wine preference or do you even drink wine, Your dietary preferences. You know all these things. And then it starts to add in things like, are you late a lot? Do you cancel same day? Are you a chronic canceler of your restaurant reservations? And this is where I get a little more mixed on this. I feel like. I feel like behavior assessment has to go both ways with these things. Right? I think that it's only fair that if a restaurant can get dinged for, you know, making you wait too long or whatever in the review. Clay, should the review system that increasingly we all live with, should it go both ways? Should any app that you use be able. Should it share with the producer of the goods or service what the consumer is actually like? As a consumer, I. I got so.
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Clay Travis
Many thoughts on this. First of all, you've been a. You were a single guy for a long time. You probably were on top of reservations forever. I never had reservations for anything. And maybe it's a little bit different in Nashville than. Than other places. I feel like you should just be able to walk in a lot of places now. I get reservations everywhere. He just walks in.
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Buck Sexton
He's like, you out kick fans thought.
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Clay Travis
I'm saying I'm saying I've been through a lot of Valentine's Days. Poor Laura Travis, where you could always tell, like, the guy who plans the Valentine's dinner, like, you know, months in advance. He's got the table, he's got the restaurant. I have been Valentine's Day guy walking in like, well, we'll just try three or four different places. Somebody will see this.
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Buck Sexton
Ooh, Ooh, man. Not only are you getting dinged with the worst prefix, they're going to do all year the most expensive with the worst food, which is what most restaurants do on Valentine's Day. This is why it's such a scam. But you're also going to probably do a little waiting.
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Clay Travis
I just feel such. In my deep in my soul, I feel bad for both the guy walking in who's, like, didn't make the reservation and the woman who's dressed up, and she's like, this is the most important night of the year. This is the night when I know if this is the relationship that's going to go or not. You know, Buck, you've probably been through some of these. You know, like on New Year's Eve, there's always the girls dressed up in their fanciest dress just crying outside of a restaurant because the boyfriend or sometimes the husband, like, did not deliver at to her expected desire. On that didn't go perfect, right? Like, she's got the perfect dress, she's got the perfect hair, perfect makeup, everything. And then it went awry.
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Buck Sexton
You never. This is true of weddings. It's true of date night. It's true. You never hold things up as it's going to be perfect, because nothing is perfect. You just got to learn to roll with things. That's true.
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Clay Travis
Everything in life, women, women on Valentine's and on New Year's Eve, they build in their mind that this is going to be the perfect night. And then it goes awry and they have a couple of drinks. And the number of times that you will see a pretty girl just crying. Yes. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Well, that also. This is also Santa Con. I remember in New York, it always ends with some girl dressed up as kind of one of Santa's naughty elves, just with, like, mascara running down her face and, like, her boyfriend, like, passed out in a Santa suit, like, thrown up on himself. Like, that's not what Santa looks like. Like, Santa Khan is a mess. That is amateur hour. I don't know if you guys know this is a big thing in New York. Everyone dresses up like Santa or Santa's helpers and everyone just gets obliterated more. So I think it's even more so than St. Patty's Day. It is like Santa Khan is a bacchanal. And it's not really what I think Santa in his workshop would have in mind for the holiday. Producer. Ali, can I ask you this?
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Clay Travis
Was it your.
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Buck Sexton
Because you were a bartender. I think you were also a server, right? In previous. Previous life. I know you were a bartender. Oh, yes.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
So when you're server. I will say this. From my single guy days, I would tend to go to the same places because you want to go tip for all the guys out there. You want to go places where you already kind of know the menu, already are comfortable, already know the scene. You don't want to walk in, not really know anything. Seem like you don't know what the heck's going on. Don't try new places on a first date.
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Producer Ali
I'm.
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Buck Sexton
That's my. My way. But, Ali, if somebody. If I went to a restaurant and some guy or gal who is a server did anything that was kind of along the lines of like, hey, like, oh, man, great to see you again. You know, whatever. The tip meter skyrocketed. It was like. It was. That was if you made someone feel like a regular because now you're giving them that social verification. Huge. On the first date. That was. You saw that, too? Oh, absolutely. That is definitely the most.
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Clay Travis
Is that how you got Moby?
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Buck Sexton
Oh, my God.
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Clay Travis
I knew he was going to go.
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Buck Sexton
Right for the Moby thing.
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Clay Travis
You were like, moby, it's good to see you again. I'm sorry that Eminem is making fun of you so aggressively. You need a shoulder to cry on because we're the same height.
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Buck Sexton
Hey, Clay, you got to get to your read now. Oh.
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Clay Travis
Just trying to send us to a commercial break so she doesn't have to deal with her past relationships. But.
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Buck Sexton
But don't. Don't you think, though, it's. It's for back to the reservation thing. I get all these notices from restaurants when I make a reservation. I've got a date night with Carrie coming. See, I do plan these things in advance. Gentlemen, do yourself a favor. Get the app plan in advance. The ladies love it. The ladies love it. But I get all these like, are you coming? Are you sure you're coming? Are you confirmed to come? Are you sure? I always show up. I'm the show up guy. And they should know that from the app. So I don't. Because they'll call too. They want verbal confirmation at some of these places, you're actually going to show up. So I feel like this benefits those of us. It's a little bit like a credit score. This benefits those of us who do what we say or do what we're supposed to do. So I, I don't have. I know if people get freaked out about the Chinese, you know, social credit system thing, I think the restaurant credit system is probably a good thing.
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Clay Travis
My concern. No, no, I'm just trying to think it through. My concern is like, Uber, Uber now has an issue. I have noticed it lately where. And some of you may have noticed it. I don't know if Lyft does, because I use Uber almost exclusively. When you book an Uber, if the driver doesn't move and you're looking down and they're like, hey, it's going to be seven minutes. And you wait five minutes and it's still seven minutes and you cancel, they will pay. You get charged. As the consumer, you get charged a cancellation fee. I think that people are gaming the system, some of these drivers, and they're choosing to just stay in a parking lot and keep accepting Uber rides and making money off the cancellations without moving. I think it's a flaw in the system. To your point, Buck, my concern is there should be a mutuality of obligation in some way. So in your situation, you should get better treatment as a diner if you regularly show up and fulfill your dining reservation. But if so, I want there to be a positive connotation as opposed to just the restaurant gets the power on a negative to ding you. Right? The only time side.
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Buck Sexton
The only time I've gotten the real like, like the Goodfellas treatment where, you know, he shows up to impress his then girlfriend who becomes his wife, remember this? And they make a table appear out of nowhere and they put him in the front row and they have that whole. It's a very famous scene from the movie Goodfellas, if you haven't seen it, when they go out to the nightclub and clearly the, you know, the mob guys are very connected at this place. Only thing I've ever really experienced that was actually with Clay, but it wasn't for Clay. It was when soccer superstar Alexi Lawless was with us in D.C. for the inauguration. And we went into a bar restaurant very well known, Billy Martin's Tavern on Wisconsin. It was a freezing cold night because the coldest inauguration ever. I didn't even want to go. Clay wanted to go. Whole other story. Freezing cold night. And we're like, oh, my gosh, all we want is just, you know, some drinks and some chili and whatever. They told us a two hour wait. And then one of the bar backs who was from Central America recognized Alexi Lawless. I have never seen a trend. They had like five guys come out of the kitchen, all want to take photos with him, all so excited for Alexi Lawless, the soccer guy. And they gave us the best table in the restaurant. Right away we went from two hour wait to best table in the restaurant in the window.
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Clay Travis
It's 100% true. We were with Alexi, awesome guy. Probably listening to this on podcast at 2x speed. He we walk in the and not only that, Buck, the entire restaurant staff posed for him, like wanted to get a picture. And we went from it'll be a two hour wait to we'll have the best table ready for you in 10 minutes in the snap of fingers at inauguration weekend in D.C. which is probably the busiest weekend of the year in D.C. just about for restaurants, certainly restaurants that, that are like Billy Martin's Tavern, which is super cool place where JFK reportedly proposed to Jack to Jackie Kennedy. But it's an old school place in Georgetown. Very cool. And yeah, that happened. It happened in a hurry. We were treated just like producer Ali treated Moby back in the day when they were in a great relationship. Price Picks is the best place you can go to have a little bit more fun with sports. If you are ready for the weekend of college football. I am. If you were ready for the weekend of the NFL, I am. Heck, if you're just ready to have a little bit more fun in your life with sports, whether it's basketball, college basketball is underway. NBA is underway. All you have to do is go to prizepix.com my name Clay. You can also download the Prize Picks app. You can play in California, you can play in Texas, you can play in Georgia. You can play down in Florida where buck is 40 plus states and this is super interesting, 40 plus states and they now are starting prediction markets so you can go in to the Prize Picks app and you can see, hey, what are the odds who's going to win a governor's race? We just talked with Steve Hilton who's going to be winning the Senate. What about the House? If you're as intrigued by these markets as I am, they now are in the Prizepix app in many states as well. Super cool. Lots of Fun. You get $50 in your account when you play. $5 at prizepix.com code clay, keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history on the team 47 podcasts Clay and Buck highlight Trump replays from the week, Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jim (iHeart Advertising Client)
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Clay Travis
In April and now I have customers out the door.
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Jim (iHeart Advertising Client)
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Buck Sexton
Hi.
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Buck Sexton
Business is booming. That's why I'm working on a Saturday.
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