Ben Shapiro (2:20)

Thanks for taking the time. Really appreciate it.

Buck Sexton (2:22)

Let's I want to dive into this one. I feel like you're, I feel like you're gonna have pretty sure you're gonna have some things to say on this. Not not hard to find topics there to talk talk with you about but Coldplay, now we could sit here and we could just make jokes about how Coldplay somehow went from cool to the band that even people who love Nickelback feel comfortable making fun of. Now I think. I think that's fair. But Coldplay had a concert going on, and Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, brought some people up on the stage. Now we have this sound, we have this audio. Let's let everyone hear. So this is the lead singer of Coldplay in front of, I don't know, 60,000 people, 100,000, whatever it is, whatever. However many people are in this arena. And here's how it goes. When he invites some just people, listeners on the stage with him. Play it. Oh, I thought. I thought we had this one in the mix. I'm sorry, producer Mark, tell me which one we have this uploaded as when you get a second. And there we go. Let's play it.

Chris Martin (Coldplay Lead Singer) (3:28)

Where did you come from today? From Israel. Okay, well, well, well, okay, well, listen, gonna say this. I'm very grateful that you're here as humans, and I'm treating you as humans on earth, regardless of where adult. Thank you for being here with Great guy. Thank you for being loving. And although it's controversial, I also want to welcome people in the audience from Palestine because we have a belief that we're all equal to.

Buck Sexton (4:00)

So just for everyone, it's kind of hard to hear that audio a little bit. But the lead singer says, you're here as humans. Thank you for being here as humans. And also thank you to all the Palestinians in the audience. That's kind of a weird way to approach this, Ben.

Ben Shapiro (4:12)

Yeah, well, as I've said, you know, you know, the Yiddish word for him is schmuck. He's terrible. I mean, when your second worst decision actually is marrying Gwyneth Paltrow, you know, things are going wrong for you. But, you know, Chris Martin doing this routine here, can you imagine any other group of people that he would do this for? Truly think of the situation reversed. You have a couple of people, he calls them up on stage, he says, where are you from? And they say, the Gaza Strip. And he says, well, I just want to make clear you're humans. So, first of all, Chris Martin is not the person who gets to bestow humanity on. Upon you, Chris Martin, that he's apparently.

Buck Sexton (4:44)

Not a Coldplay fan we've got here with Mr. Shapiro, but go ahead.

Ben Shapiro (4:47)

Yeah, no, Coldplay sucks. But also the idea that he's gonna, like, knight you as a human because you have come to a Coldplay concert and then to immediately swivel and say, oh, yeah, and by the way, the people who are on the other side of the war from the people that you're on the side of and who initiated, you know, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. We got some of those in the stadium as well. And I just want to acknowledge, if this were Palestinians, and they came up and said, we're from the Gaza Strip. Can you imagine a situation in which Chris Martin then turns around and says, and also to all the Israelis in the audience, I know it's contrary to all the Israelis, we're so happy to see you here. No way in hell. It just shows you that default leftism at this point has just turned to a sort of anti Israel, pro Hamas, Gaza sympathetic stance. And that's why he feels uncomfortable. I mean, that's the real question we should be asking is why does he feel so damn uncomfortable? Like, who cares? He's got a couple of fans. They come from Israel. If I were giving a concert and somebody came up and they said, I'm from Russia, I'd be like, okay, wouldn't start lecturing them about the Russia, Ukraine war. It's bizarre.

Clay Travis (5:49)

We're talking to Ben Shapiro. Ben, we were talking the last hour about the Graham Linehan situation in England. Five armed officers waiting for him as he comes off the airplane over tweets that the British government deemed worthy of investigation. How do we fix this? Because I think Western civilization, if we are in the position where countries that should be natural, American allies are sending police to investigate tweets. And I'm not talking about tweets where you say, hey, I'm going to kill the President of the United States. Obviously, direct threats of violence are different, but clear jokes. How do we fix this?

Ben Shapiro (6:28)

Well, I mean, I think that there are definitely levers of pressure that we can exert on the UK I think that obviously we have a lot of military cooperation, economic cooperation with the UK And President Trump is very fond of using leverage in a lot of these different situations, up to and including things like, for example, tariffs. And I don't think that that would be a bad policy here, saying to the UK listen, we cannot do proper commerce with a country that, by the way, will actually pass laws that have an effect on American commerce. Because whatever is the free speech code in Britain, which apparently does not include bad old tweets, if that is the standard, they will apply that to tech companies in the United States. They'll apply that to X, they will apply that to Facebook. This has been like a very hot and fraught topic for the tech companies, the social media companies. How do you even operate in countries in Europe that have different speech standards? If it is now going to be a prosecutable offense. If you tweet something, then how exactly is Twitter supposed to set its policies for the United States?

Clay Travis (7:24)

Good point.

Ben Shapiro (7:25)

And so I do think that the government does have some areas of leverage here, but it does more deeply speak to this cultural rot at the heart of Western civilization now, the kind of importation of people who hate the principles of the country and then a pandering to precisely those principles. Because the same exact country that is now prosecuting a comedian for making bad tweets over trans topics is the same country that covered up, you know, actual Muslim grooming gangs in the UK and that is currently, by the way, attempting to now import apparently thousands of of Gazans from the Gaza Strip. That's something that was announced by Yvette Cooper, the home Secretary, literally yesterday. So good luck to a civilization that is so intense on committing suicide. My goodness.

Buck Sexton (8:05)

Talk to us, Ben, if you would, about the book, which I know just came out yesterday, and it's got a premise that this audience is going to want to hear about. Lions and Scavengers, the True Story of America. Walk us through a little bit of this.

Ben Shapiro (8:19)

Sure. So the basic idea is that humanity at this point is divided between lions, people who wish to build, who wish to uphold and strengthen important institutions like family, church, balance of power, private property. Right, Those are the lions, the people who wish to build and make the world a better place. And then there are scavengers, people who are creatures of envy, who just want to tear everything down. They see problems in their life, they attribute it to the systems that they've actually benefited from and then decide they want to tear it down. And one of the points that I make in the book is that this isn't just a question of populations and groups. It's also a question inside the human heart that, that every morning we all have to get up and decide whether to be a lion or a scavenger. We all have problems in our lives. Do we decide to attribute that to some outside conspiratorial, malign force and then tilt to windmills and make our life worse? Or do we decide to get up and actually make our life better by taking the duty bound moral action that's a civilization that takes the lions, the innovators, the defenders of the civilization, the people who build the social fabric and then basically attacks them because they are too successful, because they're the oppressors or the exploitative? Is a civilization doomed to failure. And I think that we are as a civilization, facing that possibility.

Clay Travis (9:28)

Ben, how should we handle. Buck and I were just talking about this, and I do think in the wake of COVID and in the wake of so much cultural shift, I'm sure you saw Malcolm Gladwell come out and say, hey, basically I got everything wrong on the trans issue. Of course men shouldn't be able to compete in women's sports. But he said at the Sloan conference at MIT the exact opposite. A few years ago on a panel, I shared that there were direct consequences for me and my media company when it comes to companies that would advertise with us or not, because I said the truth, that men shouldn't be able to compete with women. But if you are on the wrong side of that issue or any issue, public statements like Gladwell, how should we take them? Convenient and real? Or is this an attempt to acknowledge that all humans get things wrong and sometimes we should publicly point that out?

Ben Shapiro (10:24)

So, you know, I think that forgiveness is usually the better alternative here. Magnanimity, Magnanimity in victory, I think is probably the best alternative. But now he's in a trust but verify situation. If we run up against another one of these things and Gladwell takes the wrong side of it, then I think it's fair to ask him the question, are you doing this because of the public pressure that you are receiving? Because obviously you've done that before. I think it's better. We actually want to incentivize people to do this right. Just as a movement, we want to incentivize people to come forward and say, I got it wrong. I never should have caved to this sort of pressure. And we want to create incentive structure so they don't cave to the pressure again. If we just kind of take their. Their apology and then bootstomp them, then what we are actually doing is encouraging people not to reverse themselves, not to correct the mistakes of the past.

Buck Sexton (11:07)

Ben, I have a couple of just grab bag but important questions to throw your way as well. And remember, everyone, Ben's book has just come out yester and it is lions and scavengers. So Ben, first of all, because you would have some experience with this because of your friend and colleague, Mr. Matt Walsh, Kamala Harris is going to Clay's hometown of Nashville to give a book tour. And the audience seems very. The audience of this show is very convinced that it is Clay's duty, I would argue his duty to wear a futurist female T shirt and put his hair up in a Matt Walsh homage style man bun and go to the VIP section of the Kamala book tour. Event in Clay's hometown of Nashville. Where do you, sir, as also someone who spends a lot of time in Nashville, come down on this issue?

Ben Shapiro (11:55)

I mean, I'm shocked that you're even asking the question. Of course, he has a moral. Perhaps a biblical obligation to that. Actually, I would say that he may be consigned to the everlasting flames of hell if he doesn't. I think that that's on the table. If he doesn't do this, I think that pretty clearly he has to do it. No.

Buck Sexton (12:12)

I just wanted Ben to get on the record with millions of people listening, Clay, that the future is female T shirt. We know what the future is of this mission. And now Ben has weighed in heartily on the side of the audience and yours truly, which is. I think this needs to happen.

Ben Shapiro (12:26)

And God himself. God himself. I'm not sure where it's actually written in the Bible, but if you have to bet, put it in Leviticus.

Clay Travis (12:33)

$500 is the cheapest ticket to go watch Kamala Harris in Nashville, which I still can't believe, and it goes all the way up to $2,700.

Ben Shapiro (12:41)

Clay, you're super rich. Give me.

Buck Sexton (12:44)

One more thing on this, though, Ben, because. Because help us with this. Clay and I have a little bet going. We're not gonna be able to solve it for a while. Is Kamala Harris going to run again for president? We will mark this down. We will have this clip for you when you come back in a few years, and we know the answer. Is she going to run again, or.

Clay Travis (12:59)

Was it too disastrous?

Buck Sexton (13:00)

And she even. She knows it.

Ben Shapiro (13:02)

Yeah.

Buck Sexton (13:02)

Not.

Ben Shapiro (13:02)

Not. Not in 2028. I mean, there are so many wineries in California. She has to get through first.

Clay Travis (13:07)

That's a good line. All right, so here's a. Here's a big, big picture question. This is what my book, which is out in November, that I've spent a lot of time grappling with. I know you've got young kids. I've got the three boys. How do Democrats, like, let's leave aside big structural issues that they clearly have, but how do Democrats get back to where men, just normal dudes, do not see their party as a party of feminized absurdity? How do they get back to where a regular guy who wants to have a beer and go watch a game would vote Democrat? Because I think that's the biggest issue that they actually face. Leaving aside the particulars of what their policies are, what would you think they need to do?

Ben Shapiro (13:54)

I mean, the fact that we even have to ask the question means that there's not really an easy way out for them because that's like, how do you cosplay masculinity? And the answer is, I mean, you really don't have to if you're just a dude. So how about you start with men should not play in women's sports. Duh. Men are not women. And a Rahm Emanuel actually is now coming out and saying that. How about you like, just go act in the world as a man and get caught on camera acting in the world as a man unapologetically. You don't have to ask President Trump or J.D. vance what it's like to be a man, because they're just doing kind of man things, which I'm not even talking about, like picking up heavy weights and walking around, you know, bare chested or something. Just like being a normal dude actually isn't that difficult for those of us who are dudes. But Democrats seem to have a very tough time with that and they keep apologizing for. By the way. Gotta give you big credit right there, Clay, for pumping your own book in a spot where you're supposed to be pumping mine. That is a bold move.

Clay Travis (14:43)

I didn't know Ben was gonna call.

Buck Sexton (14:44)

You out for that, but I'm glad he did.

Clay Travis (14:46)

I'm just gonna say this.

Buck Sexton (14:47)

I'm glad he's got a book.

Clay Travis (14:48)

Ben has got a book. Scavengers and Lions. I encourage you to all buy it while you're there. My book is called Balls. It's not out till November, but you can pre order it and you can buy them together, which seems like a brilliant idea by the way. Buck's got a book out in January. You can three books at one time. It's just brilliant.

Buck Sexton (15:06)

It's just the brilliant spundle.

Clay Travis (15:09)

You know better than anybody, Ben, you have to be shameless to cut through the noise on ABC in this day.

Ben Shapiro (15:14)

And always be closing, my buddy.

Buck Sexton (15:16)

The books. One last thing for you. Also helping us settle another bet. The greatest fictional children's series of all time. Chronicles of Narnia or the, the little, you know, wizard boy books by Harry Potter. Ellington.

Ben Shapiro (15:31)

Harry Potter. So I mean, honestly, I'd go off, off the board. There's. There's a series called the Edward Eager series that is fantastic. From the 50s. That's worth the read. But you got to go. Chronicles of Narnia.

Buck Sexton (15:42)

Boom.

Ben Shapiro (15:43)

Having said that, Travis, I mean, does it religious thematics? Come on. I mean, you're learning like, doesn't Christianity while you're reading about Lions. It's cool.

Clay Travis (15:51)

You're both wrong. It's good. I enjoyed it. But Harry potter's better. Doesn't J.K. rowling deserve a lot of credit? She's a billionaire. She didn't need to step into the gender identity battles, but she just couldn't keep her mouth shut because she saw this as being foundational. In many ways, I find her to be one of the true heroes. We talked about the comedians getting arrested in Britain, but I find her to be one of the true heroes. Actually right now, totally unexpectedly. I never would have would have anticipated this occurring.

Ben Shapiro (16:19)

I totally agree with this. I mean, she really did not have to put herself out there. And the fact that she did, and then she's on Twitter every day defending it in the most, you know, aggressive way. She's awesome. Like, really kudos to her.

Buck Sexton (16:31)

Ben Shapiro's book is out and it is Lions and Scavengers. And get yourself a copy and maybe pick up other books as you go. We'll leave that up to you. But go get Lions and Scavengers. Ben, thanks for making the time for us.

Ben Shapiro (16:42)

Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.

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Clay Travis (19:17)

Welcome back. In thanks to Ben Spiro. Book is out right now. We got a lot to to dive into. But let me set the table for this story that is just starting to percolate on the social media streets. Reports that the Trump administration may be offering New York City Mayor Eric Adams a job in the administration in exchange for which he would potentially drop out of the mayor's race. That would still leave Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo, but it would potentially make Mom Donnie a little bit more of a potential target here.

Buck Sexton (19:54)

I, I look, first of all, if I'm Eric Adams advisory team or whatever. Yeah, take it. You're not going to become, you're not going to be mayor. You're not going to win. You have the worst numbers of any of the candidates right now, I think, including Sliwa, or at least I believe it's very close. Now. Sleep was a Republican, so it's not a slight on him, but I'm just saying he's not going to be, he's not going to be mayor either. The fact that Andrew Cuomo, though, is supposed to be the savior here, Clay, as a New Yorker who was living in New York during Cuomo's tenure as governor, that's very, that's a very tough pill to swallow. I will, he will be marginally better than Mamdani on a few things. He was a horrifying governor during COVID Horrifying.

Clay Travis (20:38)

All of that is true. I do think this is one of those situations Trump and Cuomo have known each other for 50 years. So whatever they might say publicly, I think this is an example of somebody that Trump feels like he knows. And even it's a sign of how bad Mamdani is that Cuomo could be the savior in any situation. But it appears that Eric Adams is on the verge of dropping out. What does Curtis Sliwa do? What should he do? Uh, we'll talk about that when we come back.

Buck Sexton (21:11)

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Clay Travis (25:16)

The funniest job they could give him would be ambassador to Turkey. Trump does have a decent sense of humor. If he made Eric Adams the ambassador to Turkey, it would be absolutely hysterical. We probably have an ambassador to Turkey already. So whoever that is, I apologize. But I do think the comedy value of him in Turkish Airlines, you know, would take care of him. But. But, yeah, like, the. The corruption they went after him for was absurd.

Buck Sexton (25:42)

Yeah. And you look at actual Democrat corruption out there that they're willing to turn a total blind eye to. You look at Hunter Biden selling half million dollar paintings, ok? Like, we know that they'll do anything for power and sort of pretend that flight upgrades. My point here, Clay, is that Eric Adams was. Now, maybe he saw down the line that there was an opportunity here that's, that's playing flat 4D chess a bit, that there could be this situation playing out. I think it's more likely that he just realized, this is a mess. They're making a mess of my city with this illegal influx problem that's been going on with Biden. And he played an important. So, you know, if they could find the right spot for him in the administration, I think that he performed an important national public service, even if he wasn't a very good mayor by speaking the truth about illegals.

Clay Travis (26:31)

I also think they would have to find a job for Curtis Sliwa. And I understand that everybody says, I'm not leaving the race. I'm all in for it. And I understand why Sliwa would say I'm the better option than Cuomo. Look at how bad Cuomo was during COVID This guy doesn't deserve the job. But if there's anything other than one actual opposition to Momdani, Momdani wins. So you have to rely upon people to do what may be not at the peak of their own best interest in order to advance the city of New York's best interests. And a lot of politicians aren't willing to do that.

Buck Sexton (27:10)

Just to be clear. I, I would. I, I mean, I'm basically right on this. I, I knew I was directionally right. Adams is the weakest. Sliwa has more support in most of the polls because he's the Republican and there's a decent number of Republicans in the five boroughs. He has more support than Adams. The Clay. That's another way of saying the existing mayor of New York is doing the worst in this mayoral election. So whatever job the Trump administration is thinking of offering Eric Adams, it's probably a pretty good deal for Eric Adams.

Clay Travis (27:44)

May not even need a Trump job. To be fair to Eric Adams, I would think there are a lot of people in New York City who could hire Eric Adams to come work inside of their company, pay him way more than a government job pays to effectively be a lobbyist in New York City. I mean, the guy has. Whatever you think about him, the guy has tons of connections to help get things done in New York City. And for some of these billionaires that are out there that really desperately care about the future of New York City. Having Eric Adams, one of a thousand people, on their payroll, is not a bad decision either. By the way, same thing could be said about Curtis Lewa. If you look at the gambling markets right now, zo run momdani, 80% chance of being elected mayor of New York city. Andrew Cuomo, 18%. Eric Adams, less than 1%. Curtis Sliwa, less than 1%. So what the markets are telling us here is it's Cuomo or it's mom Donnie, and basically nobody else has a chance. I just.

Buck Sexton (28:48)

I know mom Donnie's a mom. Donnie is a commie. And the stuff he's saying. Cuomo's awful, though. I don't. Cuomo is the guy behind. I know. I focus on the COVID part of this. And you know, him doing the. Oh, let's do a press conference. Let's talk about Cuomo chips. If you're going to sit at a bar, you need to order food. Like, he went through all. I was watching these day in and day out.

Clay Travis (29:11)

Yeah.

Buck Sexton (29:12)

And Clay, he's the jailbreak.

Clay Travis (29:14)

They gave him an Emmy. Do you remember that? They gave him a special Emmy for his press conferences.

Buck Sexton (29:22)

Yeah, that was. It was must see TV in New York at the time because of the theatrics around all the things that he was demanding we do. And I would just say, yeah, that was bad. But also, he was the jailbreak guy. The jailbreak bill up in Albany, the no cash bail, a lot of the criminal justice problems that New York then had to deal with and just sort of disorder and decay on the streets were directly pushed by Cuomo. So, I mean, he is. Yeah, he's not a communist. Ok. So would he be better for the business environment? Sure. You know, are there. I recognize. But, man, is he not an exciting alternative, Even based, you know, he's better than Mamdani, but barely, is what I'm saying. Like, it's not great if he becomes the mayor. It's not like New Yorkers should celebrate it that much.

Clay Travis (30:11)

And this is where I come back to the argument I've made related to New York City's mayor. Let him make a bad choice.

Buck Sexton (30:18)

All right, Nashville, man. That's enough. That's enough out of you. That's enough.

Clay Travis (30:22)

I want Mamdani to be one of the faces of the Democrat party in 2026. And if that means that we have to pick an awful leader for New York City, why should all the sane people of New York have to band together to Protect Democrats from the choice that they made.

Buck Sexton (30:41)

And now I know how you Alabama football fans feel. Clay, just when he's just poking you to poke you. You know what I mean? He's just sort of poking the bear here. We don't want New York to have a communist mayor who ruins the place. It's going to be very, very bad for a lot of people and it could spread. You think the big miss. What was the Bush phrase? Misunderstimated. I almost did it there. The biggest.

Clay Travis (31:07)

Underestimation.

Buck Sexton (31:09)

Underestimation. Thank you. Misunderstand. It's fun to say. Yeah.

Clay Travis (31:13)

Great word.

Buck Sexton (31:14)

Yeah. Is it a word?

Clay Travis (31:16)

I know. It is not a word.

Buck Sexton (31:17)

No, no.

Clay Travis (31:18)

But it's not a word. Underestimate the combination of the two is. It kind of makes sense to create. Yes.

Buck Sexton (31:25)

Yeah, I agree. You know, Bush. Bush was, you know, was. Was a wordsmith by accident. So I would say the. The problem we've seen in a lot of these cities, look at Chicago, perfect example. You could have argued Lori Lightfoot. You need to have Lori Lightfoot's administration, which is anti cop business as usual for the corrupt daily machine of Chicago, go down the list, all this stuff, and then people will figure it out. Clay, they went even crazier with the next mayor.

Clay Travis (31:54)

Yeah, they did.

Buck Sexton (31:57)

So.

Clay Travis (31:57)

And I just think New York City might need to. Might need to. Sometimes you got to let the kids make the bad decision.

Buck Sexton (32:06)

W. Or listeners. You hear this. He wants. He just thinks that you need to feel the pain. He thinks that you need to like, like Bruce Wayne's parents in Gotham. Watch your back when you're going to a Broadway show. You know, this is not the way we want it.

Clay Travis (32:19)

I. I appreciate everybody who is smart enough not to vote for Mom. Donnie, they're already listening to us. A lot of them know they're nodding along right now saying sometimes experience is the best teacher and sometimes Democrats need to experience the consequences of their own choices in order to recognize that it's a poor decision. You can only tell people for so long. And I was reading. I mean, this is actually super sad. I was reading over the weekend, getting ready for the show this week. The number of people out there that are landlords, you know, they want to talk about freezing rent. You know what doesn't get frozen most of the time? Property taxes. So the number of landlords, I mean, some of you who own buildings, they think they try to turn it into. Oh, everybody's so rich if they're landlords. They had a. I give the New York Times Credit a really good profile on a woman in the Bronx who was a landlord, can't afford to pay her mortgage because they won't allow her to raise the rent, but yet her property taxes keep going up. And so she actually is losing money based on what she's allowed to charge her residence. And the property basically makes no sense. And so this is the reality of when you stop people from being able to charge the rents that they should. Sometimes you are creating situations where the loss basically goes straight to the property owner in exchange of the renter.

Buck Sexton (33:52)

This is why Ron DeSantis, and this is very important for the state of Florida and Governor DeSantis, I think, is completely correct on this, and this should be getting more attention. This is why Ron DeSantis is trying to get through the. The state house, state legislature in Tallahassee. A change in the way. Look, he's trying to end property tax. There's some more specifics to it. But the problem you have in Florida right now, and there's a lot of people on fixed income here, a lot of retirees here. We all know that. And you have property values have, because of supply and demand, gone up dramatically, but they do it as a percentage of your assessed value.

Clay Travis (34:27)

Yeah.

Buck Sexton (34:27)

So you get all these Florida. You get all these people that are like, I was living in a, you know, a three or four hundred thousand dollars house and I was perfectly happy and maybe even my mortgage was paid off. Now I have to pay taxes on a $1.2 million house.

Clay Travis (34:41)

Yeah. No. How is that.

Buck Sexton (34:43)

Or the state will take my home. How is that fair? You're renting your house now from the state. It's crazy.

Clay Travis (34:49)

This is what Californians had to deal with and why they basically put in place, I think, I mean, the propositions have passed that don't allow property values to be raised at, you know, exorbitant rates. Relative to your point, there's a lot of people who bought homes. I mean, this is sadly one of the results of the fires in Los Angeles. A lot of people were living in those homes for decades. They could never have afforded them if they were buying them in real time. House burns down and basically nothing is getting rebuilt there. I mean, have you seen some of the helicopter footage of. I know, the immediate aftermath of the natural disaster? Eventually the attention kind of goes away. By and large, they have not been able to get back to building those homes, back to where they were. I mean, it's. It's just sadly, what one party rule has created is everything is broken. Much of it in California. Look tomorrow we've got the NFL returning. We were talking about this. I was talking about it earlier with with fanduel who decides to support you. Matters a lot. And prize picks a great business. They just want everybody to play. Doesn't don't really care what your politics are. They just like people who like football. And that is the case whether you're interested in watching Eagles Cowboys tomorrow night or Friday night. You got the Chiefs Chargers down in Brazil. You can download the Prize Picks app. We're going to give you a pick tomorrow for Thursday Night Football. We'll give you a hookup with the Cowboys. Going up against the Eagles. You get $50 when you play $5 right now you can play in California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, all over the country. Download the Price Picks app. Use my name Clay as the code. You get $50 instant instantly when you play $5. That's code CLAY on price picks $50 instantly when you play $5. Win or lose, you'll get 50 bucks just for playing. Guaranteed. That is pricepix.com code clay one more time pricepix.com code clay keep up with.

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Clay Travis (38:37)

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Let's send you off into your Wednesday with a fun story. The full video is up@clayandbuck.com but in Jacksonville, Florida, a five year old boy woke up before his parents did on a, I think it was a weekend and decided that he was going to go get himself breakfast at Chick Fil? A. Walked, still dressed in his bed clothes down to Chick Fil? A where the police were called, showed up, found the kid, said, hey, where do you live? Where's mom and dad? The whole thing is on the body cam that has been released from, from the Jacksonville Police Department. They show up at mom and dad's house, they ring the doorbell. Mom and dad have no idea the 5 year old has left the house. And it is quite the funny positive story. It goes to Buck's point about in general they much more seriously. But they had a shooting in Florida and they tried to say, oh, this was unjustified. Every time it feels like the actual body cam comes out. By and large you see that the police are justified in actually doing a pretty good job. And this one much less seriously is a fun story.

Buck Sexton (39:58)

Yeah, it's up@clanbuck.com. you can check out the video there. Clay also shared it. It's gotten millions of views there. I, I just, it's, it's funny to me because I feel like I remember one time trying to go to, trying to walk to school when I was way too young to do so. When I was a kid, I think I got one block and turned around. You know, this is a thing that sometimes happens but that this kid actually, this video, if he actually showed up in the Chick Fil A.

Clay Travis (40:20)

Yes.

Buck Sexton (40:21)

Five years old, he's just a little guy showed up in the Chick Fil?

Clay Travis (40:24)

A.

Buck Sexton (40:24)

He's very excited to get his chicken sandwich, I suppose. Or does Chick Fil A do a specific breakfast? I don't know enough about Chickfila. Oh, do they?

Clay Travis (40:31)

Oh yes, they got your great chicken. I mean again, they should really sponsor the show. But they've got a great chicken biscuit. They've got a very specific. They got the hash browns. Circle hash browns. Not like the big ones like McDonald's. Chick fil a is flawless all day long. But yes, they have a specific breakfast to offer.

Buck Sexton (40:52)

Are they, is that, is it all in your favorite, your favorite fast food.

Clay Travis (40:55)

Chain Chick not even a. Not even a close second. The number of times I'm driving on a Sunday and I think, man, I'd like to get Chick Fil A and then realize, oh, it's Sunday. They're not. They're. They're closed. Especially after a college football Saturday. Maybe a few drinks the night before. I Chick Fil A is by far my favorite. You have a favorite?

Buck Sexton (41:13)

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I can't have gluten, obviously, so. So that makes Chick Fil A a little more complicated. Although I love their grilled nuggets and their waffle fries are phenomenal. So I do eat Chick Fil A. I'm a big fan. I know it's going to make me sound like Kami Mamdani Clay, but I'm a Shake Shack guy. Love Shake Shack. Just a little left wing. A little left wing politics at the top there, unfortunately.

Clay Travis (41:33)

Got to go. Chick Fil A. We love all of you. Thanks for hanging with us. We'll be back tomorrow with you on Thursday.

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