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Welcome back. In the final hour of the week, 14 hours up, this is hour number 15. We'll take some of your reactions. We'll take some of your calls. We'll have some fun as we take you into the weekend. Buck is in Taiwan. Interviewed the president of Taiwan there. He will be back with you on Monday. I'll be back again on Thursday. It is fall break season for the kids, and this is one of the great things that they have created that did not exist when I was in school. Everybody had spring break. Fall break was not a thing. Now they have created fall break. And I'm going to be honest with you, traveling in October does not suck. So. But my boys, as is unfortunately often the case for those of you who have kids at multiple schools, different fall breaks. So we've got the oldest for a few days coming up, and then we'll start the youngest and then we'll have the oldest for the next week. So I'll be out a few days just hanging out with my family. I mentioned this the other day, encourage all of you to do the same. I'm looking around and realizing my boys are growing up really fast. And I've tried to do as many different events with them as I can, but I'm going to have a kid in college this fall. We're going through the college application process right now, and I want to travel and do as many fun things with them before they all start running off into their own lives and becoming adults. And so we're going to be doing some of that. So maybe out occasionally, but we will both. Buck or I will basically be in, as we always have for, I think, years and years to come. And we'll most of the time be together. But Buck will be back on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I'll be back with him on Thursday. And just giving you a little bit of an idea of where we're headed, Um, I mentioned. I don't think I've mentioned this on the show, but this idea of not holding Criminals responsible for what they do is, is not just a United States issue. It's an issue for all of Western civilization. I don't know how many of you paid attention or have followed. We haven't really talked about it on the program. There was a Manchester, England, terror attack. Couple of innocent, innocent Jewish people on the way to their local synagogue were murdered in cold blood by a anti Israel, anti Jewish activist. And news came out this morning as I was doing my prep, that's Manchester, England, that the guy who killed them both was out on bail for a rape charge. And we played the cut yesterday, I believe it was of the dad, Steven Federico, I believe was his name, talking about his daughter Logan, and the fact that she had been stabbed to death by a guy who had been arrested and charged with 29 different felonies prior to killing his daughter. And how many times did he need to be arrested in order for him not to be out on the streets? This idea that we have to be kinder to criminals is embedded, unfortunately, in left wing thought across the entire country. And during this past commercial break, as we finished the hour, I was scrolling through making sure that I'm on top of all the news, as we're constantly doing, and as if you watch a video, you'll see me always on the phone making sure, hey, we've got all the facts right, that we're on top of whatever the news may be. And Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, I've sent this in to, to producer Greg, but he says when a man does six or seven crimes, we don't know his life story. Maybe he was hungry, therefore I have zero desire to jail him. Uh, this is what toxic empathy leads to. And it's not a coincidence that the bluest of the blue cities, places like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, they refuse to actually hold criminal elements accountable. And as a result, the criminal elements continue to reign, to rule, to dominate the culture of their cities. And this is a part of what trying to be too empathetic leads to. Sometimes you just have to say, no, we're going to lock bad guys up and throw away the key. And that shouldn't be remotely controversial. And if you break the law, we're going to go out and we're going to arrest you. And I talked to start the show about Ryan Gardusky, our friend, part of the Clay and Buck podcast network. The podcast is continuing to explode. The network is doing fantastically well. That's because of all of you. Producer Ali does great work. If you're busy and you want a distilled version of the show for the weekend, for travel, or just because you're doing yard work and you want something to listen to. She is doing a great job of collating some of the 15 hours and synthesizing it and connecting everything there. But I said, if you look at Ryan Gardusky's reports that are out there, places that are left wing are having fewer and fewer children. He said 60.5% of the kids being born so far in America are red states, that is, states that Donald Trump won. And he said all of the top counties for most kids being born on a per capita basis have been won by Donald Trump. And that is, I think, a direct result of the Democrat Party having no vision. And to the extent that it does have a vision, it's an apocalyptic one. It is one where the climate devours the nation. It's one where the climate devours the world. It's one where everything is getting worse. And it would be irresponsible of you, as a result, to bring life into a world that is filled with darkness. Now, as someone with three kids, and I know many of you out there with kids and grandkids, the entire purpose of life, in my opinion, is to bring light to darkness. And I can't think of a better way to bring light to darkness than to raise children to be the shining lights combating the darkness, to rise up against evil and bring good. And I do think we are in a profoundly good versus evil struggle for the moral soul of the nation right now. I don't think that's hyperbolic. But ultimately, winning requires optimism, because if you believe that the future is despotic and authoritarian and filled with, with, with no freedom, that's the future you're going to create. And honestly, it's the future being advocated for by a huge position, huge, huge percentages of the Democrat Party. And a big part of this is just, I, I don't think that Bernie Sanders is right. I think he's wrong on virtually every major issue. But I respect the fact that he's out advocating for his positions. And he's actually somewhat consistent. He's wrong, but he's wrong and at least consistent, so far as I can tell, in the positions that he adopts. I respect that he is in some way principled, a principled man of the left. And I, I think this is why, if you guys remember in 2016 in New Hampshire, when Donald Trump was running and trying to become the nominee for the Republicans and Bernie was running and trying to become the nominee for the Democrats and may well have become the nominee but for the fact that Hillary rigged the DNC in her favor. A lot of people out there voting in the primaries were trying to decide, hey, am I a Bernie guy or a Trump guy? And many people were trying to decide between the two because there was a principle underlying what they were speaking to in 2016, which was America is not addressing the concerns of huge majorities of the United States population. And I think Bernie is addressing it in the wrong way. I think the Fight the oligarchy tour actually makes it more likely that more people are in positions of poverty than would be if we embrace capitalism and allow the full growth and flourishment of capitalism in this country to lead us to a higher standard of living across the board. Yes, rich people are going to be rich. Rich people have always been rich. What matters is, is the floor being lifted, Is everybody having a higher quality of life? That, to me, is what capitalism offers. But there's a consistency of argument at least. Even if I disagree with the principles of Bernie Sanders, it's actually rare. In fact, I wanted to play this for you because I think it is emblematic of the deep lies that we are told and why, frankly, Gallup found this week that trust in media has hit an all time low of 28%. It's because of people like this. Okay, this is, I don't even know this chick. Representative Madeline Dean. She's a Democrat from Pennsylvania. On July 8, 2024, after the first presidential debate of June 27, when Joe Biden last year, a little bit over a year ago, when Joe Biden fell flat on his face and anyone with a functional brain could look at this and say that guy is not qualified to be president of the United States. She said on. Was it cnn? Tell me where she was. She said Biden was well spirited and just fine. This is Representative Madeline Dean, Democrat of Pennsylvania. Last year, after Joe Biden fell flat on his face in the worst debate performance of any president in any of our lives, this is what she went on the air and said.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Listen, going to ESPN cost us the best guest that we had, right? Which is Clay Trav.
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The people at ESPN don't always love me. I've never admitted that.
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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.
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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.
Episode: Hour 3 – Clay Donates to Turning Point
Date: October 3, 2025
Host: Clay Travis
Producer: iHeartPodcasts
Co-host Buck Sexton is on assignment in Taiwan for this episode.
In this hour, Clay Travis addresses a wide range of issues, focusing on crime policy in American cities, media trust, generational divides in political engagement, and the importance of messaging to younger generations. He weaves personal anecdotes with national news, highlights the need for principled argumentation, announces his book’s charitable proceeds, and reflects on his family upbringing and media experiences. Throughout, Clay maintains his signature blend of opinionated analysis and humor while encouraging listeners to engage, support charity, and consider his new book aimed at influencing young minds.
Condemns lenient crime policies in U.S. and U.K. cities.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s stance dissected.
Calls out media and politicians for inconsistency and spin.
On media trust:
Announces all profits from new book “Balls” will be donated (notably to Turning Point).
“I'm donating 100% of the money that I make from this book to charity... a lot of that’s going to go to Turning Point because I think Charlie [Kirk] has done tremendous work…” (25:14)
Cites the need to reach people outside the “choir” and persuade undecided or oppositional young people.
“The only way you win is by convincing people that you’ve got the best arguments. You have to find people when they're not looking for you.” (26:59)
Offers practical details: $9 off at Books A Million with code “Travis”; urges listeners to put the book in front of young, persuadable audiences.
“I'm not trying to make money off this. In fact, I'm going to donate all the money... to a variety of worthy charitable causes right now.” (29:13)
Personal family roots:
Clay Travis delivers commentary with conviction, humor, and a clear ideological stance. He relates national stories to personal anecdotes, invites audience participation, and repeatedly encourages action (charity, civic engagement, buying his book for a cause). The hour balances criticism of political and media figures with calls for optimism, resilience, and persuasive outreach, particularly toward younger audiences.