C (10:34)

Cut to I think, you know, I traveled with the president yesterday in Pennsylvania to a fantastic church in Mo with a service that lifted us all right out of our seats. And the president was well spirited. He worked from a notebook. I know the teleprompter argument goes on. He worked nicely from a notebook. We also were together in front of folks who were organizers on the campaign side and labor, where the president spoke without any notes. And he was terrific. He was just fine.

A (11:07)

Terrific. Joe Biden July 2024. Just fine. Terrific. Well spirited. Didn't need any notes. He was teleprompter. He was terrific. That is July 2024. Madeline. Madeline Dean on Joe Biden. Here is Madeline Dean last night on cnn. She says Trump is. She's sorry. She says Trump is aging and in the grips of cognitive decline. Cut one as an unwell again. What do you mean by that?

C (11:39)

Well, he's aging. Aren't we all? I think we can very much notice that he's a different man than he was in his first term. He's slower. He's a little more lethargic.

A (11:53)

He's in the midst of cognitive decline. So this is where I say, hey, if she had called out Joe Biden and she had said, hey, here's the deal, I don't think anybody over the age of 70 should be president of the United States, Democrat, Republican or Independent. And if she had called out Joe Biden and then she came back and she said, hey, Trump's aging, he's slowing down, he shouldn't be in office either, then she would at least be consistent on her argument. She argued that Joe Biden, who clearly was in the midst of cognitive decline and was not physically capable of the United States presidency, was terrific and doing an incredible job. And now she is arguing that Trump is too old and in the midst of cognitive decline and can't do the job. How can you trust her on anything? We talked about that question yesterday. Who do you trust in media? Not who do you agree with? Because sometimes I probably more often me. And sometimes Buck will say things on this program and you might be, you might hear it and you say, I disagree completely. You guys are wrong on that issue. Clay, you're wrong. Buck, you're wrong. So I'm not expecting you to agree with me or him or any one person all the time. In fact, you shouldn't, in my opinion, because you should trust. But verify, work through things in your own mind, figure out does it make sense. Wait, is this a good argument, bad argument? Are there supporting facts? Be aggressive in the way that you analyze the arguments that I make, the arguments that Buck makes, the arguments that anybody out there who's trying to argue that you, that they deserve your vote that they make, but you should trust. What I care about more is not whether you agree with me. I care about whether you trust me. Because we're going to agree or disagree on a ton of things over the course of 15 hours a week on radio and over the course of days and weeks and months. And years now together on radio. You're not going to agree with everything I say. Sometimes you're going to think that I'm crazy. But I believe over time you have come to trust me. Not to always agree with me, but to trust me. How many people can you say about that in media? How many people can you say about that in politics? People who will sometimes say the unpopular thing because it is necessary in order to continue to stand on principle. There's hardly any of them in politics. And so when you hear that side by side, separated by a year, whatever you think about Donald Trump, the guy does rolling press conferences all day long, basically every day, answering every question under the sun. You might disagree with him. But the idea that he's not capable of being President of the United States is, on its face, absurd. And if you argued that Joe Biden was terrific, never in the rest of your political career, in my opinion, can you ever analyze the mental or physical state of any other president and be trusted to any degree at all. Because I already know you lied to me when you told me that Joe Biden was terrific and that he was doing just fine as President of the United States. I can't trust you anymore for the rest of your career. And she, unfortunately, is emblematic of many other people who made the same arguments. All right, this weekend we are coming up on nearly the two year anniversary of October 7th. And the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews said, what can we do to honor those 1200 people who lost their lives and the continued war that is going on in Gaza, Hamas seems is going to reject the peace plan. Kind of interesting how they keep claiming that they're being treated unfairly and they're trying to wipe them off. And every time there's a peace plan, Hamas says, no, we can't, we can't sign on to that. Even though it now appears the vast majority of people in Gaza want that peace plan to be signed off on. If you want to stand with the truth, with justice, with the people in the Middle east who would bring peace, not war, you need to stand with Israel. And the Flags of Fellowship is our way of showing support for Israel and its people. On the second anniversary of October 7th, that's the day 1200 Israelis lost their life. 250 more were taken hostage. There are still 48 hostages in captivity in Gaza. You can be a part of the Flags of Fellowship movement by going to ifcj.org that's ifcj.org one more time. Ifcj.org sometimes all you can do is laugh.

D (16:25)

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A (17:37)

Welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton Show I believe we have the audio from this is the Seattle mayor's debate last night. And this was the current mayor of Seattle talking about the fact that he does not want to actually end up putting people in prison. This is Bruce Harrell. I read the quotes, but I want you to hear them for yourself because I think they tie in well with the discussion we've been having about Portland and about violent crime running rampant and our tolerance of that violent crime nationwide. Cut 34 the criminal system has had.

F (18:11)

A disparate impact on black and brown communities. Let me lead with that. So when this person is committing six or seven crimes, I don't know his or her story. Maybe they were abused as a child. Maybe they're hungry. So my, my remedy is to find their life story to see how we could help first. I have no desire to put them in jail.

A (18:35)

I mean, this is what I'm talking about. First of all, there's a disparate impact on violent crime arrests because black and brown people commit way more violent crimes. So the disparity is the rate of violence. And the fact that this is just even allowed to occur as an argument is patently absurd. This is why you have to go look at the murder rates. Okay. Who commits murders? Well, roughly, that data is going to correspond to who gets arrested for murder. Murder is the most significant crime that can be committed in our criminal justice system. Now, if you want to talk about disparities in crime for jaywalking, okay, we can have that conversation. But violent crime is where the focus needs to be. And the only way to make people safe is to put violent criminals behind bars. And I don't see that as a remotely partisan perspective. Democrat, Republican, independent. Bad guys, they're overwhelmingly bad guys need to go to jail. 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Welcome back in Clay. Travis BUCK SEXTON SHOW all right, let's hit you with some positives here on the final 30 minutes of the week. The stock market is at an all time high and if you have simply held on to your stocks and, and not done anything at all, you have never had more money in the stock market than you have right now. So congratulations on that. Several other stories that are out there that I believe are actually very positive. If you voted for Donald Trump, you're having more babies. That is, according to Ryan Gardusky, the Cracker Barrel has fired. I don't think I've mentioned this yet. The marketing agency that nearly destroyed the 50 year old brand of the. Of the stock market there. Sorry. Of the Cracker Barrel and led to a huge stock market collapse. American Eagle sold out of all of the Sydney Sweeney jeans and the Sydney Sweeney coat. And the stock price has soared simply because they said, hey, let's put a pretty girl in denim instead of an androgynous dude with a almost cursed dude with a penis who is pretending to be a chicken. Uh, and we are in the midst of a lockdown that is having Almost no impact. And many people nationwide are realizing that the Democrats stand for absolutely nothing that is actually in any way a positive. Now, those are all things that are stringing together. I am asking you guys to do something for me. I mentioned this yesterday. My book is out in exactly one month. It's called Balls. A ton of you went and bought this yesterday. I'm telling you that I want this book to be out there everywhere. I want you to give it to your grandson. I want you to give it to your granddaughter. I want you to give it to your son or daughter. Because I think they are going to respond favorably to many of the arguments that I make, because I'm making them from a cultural perspective that they will understand. We have to win. Young people. This is the great genius of Charlie Kirk going into college campuses. This is something that I think about all the time. I'm going to be on another college campus this weekend. I'm going to be at Florida State. I have for the last 20 years basically been on college campuses every weekend for big college football games, talking to a lot of young people. Some of you listening to me right now are now no longer young, because I'm now no longer young. But when I started doing this, I was very young, 25 years old. Now I'm 46. You now have raised your own kids. Heck, I'm going to have a kid in college next year as well. I'm writing this book to try to influence the next generation. I have written books in the past and I've told you about this Dixieland Delight on Rocky Top, when I didn't have any money, when I had a super negative net worth, when I had tons of law school loans out there, when I had a big mortgage. I have lived. When you're looking around, you're like, man, this is gonna be a tough month. It's gonna be a tough year. I've been through it. I'm now in a spot where I am not having to struggle financially. That's a credit to the fact that the market has responded very well to the messages that I put out there. And that's a credit to you guys listening every day and. And how the last 20 years has gone. So I am donating 100% of the money that I make from this book to charity. And I have decided that based on some of the arguments, ton of you sent me emails, a lot of that's going to go to Turning Point because I think Charlie has done tremendous work and I want to give back to the organization that he supported and the arguments that I'm making in this book he helped to popularize out there going around to college kids, we all have to lift up. We all have to make arguments better. I want this book in the front of bookstores. You wonder how do you change hearts and minds? Sometimes you have to find people when they're not looking for you. The argument that I made that I talked about was the older I get, the more I see it. My grandparents, Richard K. Fox and Ruth Fox. 8 Trenton Street, Red Bank, Tennessee, just outside of Chattanooga. House is still there near the Bojangles, near the the Red Bank High School. Super specific. Could be any community out there in America because there's lots of people doing what they did. My grandfather worked combustion engineering, worked in a factory much of his life. My grandmother was a schoolteacher in Georgia. She drove into Georgia because they paid a little bit better than Tennessee. Grandfather played football at the University of Tennessee. Wouldn't buy gas in the state of Georgia because there were too many Georgia Bulldog fans and he didn't want to support him. This is, this is where I come from. They retired and spent the rest of their life ministering to people in prison and trying to get them to become Christians. They didn't go and preach to the choir. There's nothing wrong with preaching to the choir, but the reason that phrase exists is it's easy to convince people who already agree with you that they should agree with you. That's not how you win, and there's a role for that. I'm not disparaging the importance of preaching to the choir. You can make the die hards more die hard. You can deliver for the diehards. As many of you out there that are a part of congregations have seen ministers, preachers, priests do for generations. It's not how you win. I think about winning all the time, way too much. The only way you win is by convincing people that you've got the best arguments. And that means, as I was talking about earlier, that means you have to find Zoran Mandani is doing it, guys. He bought a freaking ad during the Bachelor and stands there with a rose. Every one of his arguments is wrong, but he's going to where people are and convincing them that he has the answer for them. And a lot of people are responding. We have to take the fight to people who don't even understand that we're in a battle yet. We have to win hearts and minds. That's how you convert people. And Donald Trump, I think the math is I write about this A lot in the book got 64 million votes roughly the first time he ran for president in 2016. He just got over 77 million in 2024. How'd that happen? Some of you, God bless you, Trump people. 16, 2024, that's great. But that means at a minimum, 13 million people who weren't willing to vote Trump in 2016 showed up and voted Trump in 2024. Probably more than that, because the reality is a decent number of the 64 million that voted Trump in 2016, they weren't with us by 2024. So probably 20 million new voters showed up and somehow pushed that button, wrote down that name, pulled that lever for Donald Trump. How did that happen? Convincing people of the rightness of the arguments, going to people who are not already in the congregation and saying, hey, it's the right choice for you. How do you get a majority of Hispanic men? How do you get 21% of black men? How does Asian support skyrocket? You know the only group Kamala Harris did better with in 2024 than she did 2020 white women. This book, I'd like to think a lot of young white women are going to read and they're going to say, you know what? These are good arguments. I'm asking you to help me get this book out to as many people as can possibly see it. And I'm donating all the proceeds. The arguments I make here, I think are really important. I'm not trying to make money off this. In fact, I'm going to donate all the money that I make to a variety of worthy charitable causes right now. Books. A million. They heard me talking about this yesterday. They said, hey, we're going to give you a 30% discount if you go on the Books A Million website and you use the code Travis, it's $9 off. The thing's 20 bucks. If you've got somebody in your life that maybe you think could be influenced, maybe they're a reader, they're not a video watcher, maybe they're a thinker and they're open to persuasion. I'm asking you to get this book in their hands. And I want people to see this if they're walking through an airport. That's why the COVID has two big balls on it, because a lot of people do judge a book by its cover. And the first thing you have to do is sometimes punch them in the mouth and make them think, wait a minute, is he really saying that? Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. The Republican Party has balls, Democrats don't. It's a metaphor, somewhat figuratively accurate if you've watched Tim Walls walk around with spirit fingers. But I think I can cut through the noise and convince a lot of people of the importance of being engaged. And we all have to do more in the wake of what happened to Charlie. And so I'm willing to do as much as it can possibly take. And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. Certainly I've been willing to put my time down. I write the whole book. I don't have ghostwriters sitting there in front of my laptop by myself after I finish this show every day, grinding, trying to make arguments that I think matter. So go to Books A Million Use code Travis my last name. $9 off books a Million website. If you just want to go to Amazon, I would love you to go there too. Tons of you. My publisher called me yesterday. He was like, this is incredible. Thousands of people went and bought the book yesterday after you asked them to do on the show. So I'm asking you favor to me, but I'm donating all the proceeds for me. But for more importantly, the arguments in this book, please go get it. The reason why I'm saying it now a month before publication is I hope people go out to bookstores and get it in a month. This is when they decide where to put your book. Do you get to be on the front tables? Do you get to be in the airport when you're walking down the aisle and there's a Hudson Bookstores there? Do you get to be in Costco? Do you get to be in Walmart? Do you get to go to where people are, get the book in front of them and have them think, oh, what is this? Let me pick this up and see whether or not I'm gonna buy in. And so that is my request for you would mean a ton to me personally. One month out, show up on your doorstep on the Tuesday if you read it, pass it on to somebody else. Word of mouth is valuable, but please, I'm asking you, go buy a copy. $9 off right now at Books A million. You can get them in Amazon, free shipping if you're part of Amazon prime, as I know a lot of you are. Mark in Salt Lake city listening on 105.9 KNRS. GG. What you got for us, Mr. Clay?

G (31:15)

Travis, this is Mark in Salt Lake. Just wanted to tell you when I first started hearing you on the radio, you drove me absolutely nuts. But I've come to find out that you and I are a lot, a lot more alike than we are not. And I absolutely love that you're such a family man and that you talk about your kids and the things that they're doing and how involved you are with them. Keep up the good work.

A (31:43)

Well, thanks for the. Look, there is no difference between what I say on the mic and what I will see if I ever see you in person. Some people are great performers, some people are incredible actors. That is not me. I sit down in front of a mic and same thing when I sit down and write and say exactly what I think. That's rare because most people tiptoe up to their opinions. They're afraid of what other people might think. They're sensitive about the responses to what they say. That's normal. I don't have those genes for whatever reason. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. But I like to think, and certainly my radio career is reflected. The more you listen, the more people start to think, hey, you know, I kind of agree with a lot of what this guy says, or at least somewhat entertained. Moses, Moses from Western Montana. He's going to lead us to the promised land. What you got for us?

H (32:34)

Look, I've got a son, two sons, one daughter and five grandchildren that live in the greater Portland area. And I am telling you what martial law needs to get imposed. My last two visits there. It gets worse and worse. It's the smell, it's the scudge, it's the homeless and the cops do nothing.

A (33:00)

I, I think what he said is actually so important there. The left is not beautiful. And, and I don't mean that necessarily physically beautiful. I mean the things that they embrace, look at what they do to their body. Look at the lack of beauty and buildings. There's something rotten at the core of the left that manifests itself physically in the structures in the bodies. I, I, I do think that it then also certainly degrades the streets. They're dirty, they're disgusting, they're filthy. It's a physical manifestation, I think, of a hole in the soul that many in the left don't even realize that they have. And again, I think this is where you come back to arguments. You just hope that you can convince people these are not good choices being made for you or your families. And I do think over time we're winning this argument. But it's going to be a long battle, and it's not going to end when Donald Trump leaves office. Not going to end in 2026 or 2028. We need a generation of healing, I think in this country and it's going to take a lot of us fighting for a long time to come. When we come back, we'll take some of your calls and close up shop on the week. But I want to tell you fun I'm going to be at the Florida State Miami game in Tallahassee this weekend. Looking forward to being there. Going to be down on the Florida Gulf Coast, God's country, and it's a great game. Miami on the road against Florida State had an awesome time in Doe Campbell Stadium. Seminole fans were fantastic. I know we got a lot of Miami people that are listening right now. Probably some of you are going to be at that game, but if you're not going to be at that game, you may be a big college football fan. You may just want to have some fun. That's what Prize Picks is all about. And look, these guys came on and they said, hey, we love you Clay. I know the founder built a great American business University of Georgia grad and price picks just makes sports more fun than it otherwise would be. We got the major league playoffs underway, We've got NFL college football and I've got a winner. We're trying to win for the fourth time in five weeks. Cam Ward less than 179 and a half total passing yards. CJ Stroud, Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield all to throw a touchdown pass. If I am right, 2.8 times. Pay out there and we will have four winners in five weeks. That is $10 turns into 28. A hundred dollars turns into 280. You get $50 when you play $5. California, Texas, Georgia if you love sports like I do, price picks make sports more fun. Use Code Clay when you sign up and let's see if we can make it four out of five victories. That's Code Prize Pick Sorry Prize picks code clay prizepix.com and the app code clay for 50 bucks when you play five.

D (35:54)

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A (37:09)

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Also, by the way, if you're watching on video, I am now dressed in a nice shirt and a nice jacket because I'm immediately going to be on Martha McCollum show as soon as this program ends. I try to do and generally do do Fox News most days and that's because I'm trying to win arguments and everywhere trying to be wherever the audience is. And I'm impressed by the way I mentioned the number of you who bought the book yesterday after I said it's one month out, publisher said tons of you are buying the audiobook. That counts. From my perspective as reading, I read the whole thing. So I'm going to give you credit for reading it. To trust me, when you sit in a studio and you have to read an entire book, you have lots of time to be sitting there thinking about yourself, particularly me who mispronounces so many words, as you guys well know. Um, want to play one? Cut. Speaking of the difficulty of winning arguments, remember, I'm banned on cnn. I'm also banned on espn. And if you guys ever doubted it, my friend Paul Feinbaum, we had a big interview that made a lot of news this week. I meant to play this earlier. He said, yeah, ESPN came in and told me I can no longer have you on the air because they're unhappy with some of the things that you say.

I (38:25)

Listen, going to ESPN cost us the best guest that we had, right? Which is Clay Trav.

A (38:35)

The people at ESPN don't always love me. I've never admitted that.

I (38:38)

But, you know, I think it would be, it would be disingenuous. For one time I literally called you and said, by the way, I know you may think we don't like you. We can't have you on anymore.

A (38:47)

I was banned. I'm still banned at cnn. Maybe one day ESPN will decide they like me. So, I mean, this is where we are. If people don't like the arguments that they make. They don't argue against you. They try and keep you from being able to make those arguments to the public. So I try to go to audiences wherever they will have me, whether it's books, whether it's television, whether it's radio. And I am so thankful that we have had you for the last four plus years and many more years to come. And I'm very thankful to iheart and Julie Talbot, who is the best boss that I have ever had. All right. You will literally see me on television in five minutes on FOX News. I'm dressed nicely. I'm stepping over to the TV side of the equation. Buck will have you back on Monday. Have fantastic weekends. I'll see some of you at Miami, Florida State. This is an iHeart podcast.