Hour 3 - Cuba Goes Dark, Again

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Hour 3: "Cuba Goes Dark, Again"

Date: March 23, 2026
Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show (iHeartPodcasts)

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Episode Overview

In this lively third hour, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle several major topics in news and politics, focusing particularly on:

• The symbolism and controversy of installing a Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds,
• Ongoing struggles in Cuba as the country faces another island-wide blackout,
• Critiques of “hate America” narratives and the defense of Western civilization,
• The real-world impact of border/immigration policy, highlighted by a tragic murder in Chicago allegedly committed by an illegal immigrant,
• Listener engagement leading to actual policy action (TSA backlogs remedied by ICE agent deployments) and ongoing crime reduction in Memphis and Washington, D.C.

The hosts blend sharp political commentary and humor, foster interactive audience participation, and critique left-leaning narratives in history, immigration, and crime.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Restoration of the Christopher Columbus Statue

(04:00 – 07:30)

• The White House installs a replica of the Columbus statue that was toppled in Baltimore (2020), as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
• Clay and Buck frame this as a win for the preservation of American history and an antidote to “iconoclasm” driven by the political left.
• Both host praise the symbolic importance of recognizing Columbus, describing him as a hero of Western civilization.
• Memorable moment: Light-hearted recollection of Clay’s failed attempt to enter the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in flip-flops and “Tommy Bahama shirt.”

Notable Quote:

“Columbus is the original American hero. This is all from the White House press release on this. A giant of Western civilization, one of the most gallant and visionary men ever to walk the face of the earth.”
— Buck Sexton [05:55]

2. Debate Over American History and Western Civilization

(07:30 – 10:32)

• The conversation shifts to the broader battle over how history is framed, particularly whether America has been a force for good.
• Buck emphasizes the “luxury” of Western civilization:

  “The incredible luxury of capitalism... produces so much free time that people have the opportunity to sit around and argue about whether Western civilization and American capitalism is a good thing.” [08:08]

• Clay points out that the critics of American history often have a one-sided view of pre-Columbian America and indigenous cultures.

3. Cuba Blackout and Climate Change Ironies

(10:32 – 12:08)

• Cuba experiences a total blackout, “in literal and metaphoric darkness.”
• Buck and Clay discuss how leftist influencers—and even climate activist Greta Thunberg—pivot to argue for sending oil to Cuba, despite their usual anti-fossil fuel stance.
• The hosts argue, somewhat satirically, that Cuba’s darkness should count as a climate victory if CO2 really is the existential threat some claim, exposing what they see as climate dogma’s inconsistencies.

Notable Quote:

“If Cuba going into darkness is clearly and metaphysically, metaphorically and literally, it is in darkness. But if Cuba were in darkness, that would cut down the CO2 footprint dramatically. They should be hailing this as a huge victory.”
— Buck Sexton [10:32]

4. Critique of “Hate America First” Historiography

(12:08 – 16:10)

• The hosts explore the tendency of the left to fixate solely on the faults of historical figures like Columbus, while ignoring or excusing serious failings in liberal icons.
• Clay references new allegations against Cesar Chavez and the left’s willingness to keep his name on schools despite such scandal.
• The double standard in how historical figures are judged and memorialized is a recurring theme.

Notable Quote:

“[The left] want to trash Columbus because he didn’t have the right policy on the trans community or because he was too mean to the natives. The natives were mean too. Like, everybody was trying to conquer everybody back then.”
— Clay Travis [13:10]

5. Myths of Pre-Columbian Harmony / The Reality of Tribal Warfare

(16:10 – 18:10)

• The hosts provide examples (Crow Creek massacre, Tasmanian fire-making) to argue indigenous societies were often “living in the Stone Age” and in a “constant state of warfare.”
• They challenge sentimentalized portrayals of Native American societies as entirely peaceful or “living in harmony.”

Notable Quote:

“No, that’s actually not how it was… If they could wipe out their adversaries, man, woman and child, they would do it regularly.” — Clay Travis [17:24]
“There were basically constant wars.” — Buck Sexton [17:36]

6. Immigration Policy & the TSA Crisis

(23:10 – 31:30)

• The murder of Loyola student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago, allegedly by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant, is tied to failures in border security and policy.
• Clay contends these tragedies are “the price Democrats are willing to pay” to maintain what he sees as political advantage via the illegal immigrant constituency.
• The listener Linda from Green Valley, Arizona is celebrated for a call the previous Friday, suggesting ICE agents should fill in for TSA agents—an idea rapidly adopted by the Trump administration.

Notable Quote:

“No matter how many of these stories we tell, Democrats will not change their minds on this issue because they think that illegals and their position on illegals benefit their power. That’s it. They don’t care about the casualties...”
— Clay Travis [24:57]

7. Audience Engagement & Impactful Listener Calls

(26:40 – 31:30)

• Linda is brought back as a caller and thanked for her creative advocacy. She discusses travel hardships, her family, and the satisfaction of seeing positive change.
• The hosts note how quickly the Trump administration acted on her idea—a rare example of direct and democratic feedback-loop in government.

Notable Exchange:

“Well, Donald Trump is the kind of president that listens to the American people. ... It doesn’t have to go through a committee for six months or a year before you can actually come up with a good idea.”
— Linda, listener caller [30:33]

8. Crime Drops in Memphis and Washington, D.C.; Trump at Graceland

(31:30 – 37:40)

• Trump is at Graceland, celebrating major crime reductions in Memphis and DC, attributed to law enforcement strategies and Trump administration policies.
• Clay and Buck emphasize these declines as concrete, objectively measured successes ignored by left-wing media and politicians reluctant to embrace “tough-on-crime” policies.

Notable Quote from Trump (32:29):

“We’ve achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded... a 70% reduction in murders from the peak in this place.”

Host Reflection:

“You would think so. Trump has racked up... the most secure border in our lifetime and the biggest crime drops in some major American cities in the shortest period of time that we have ever seen.”
— Clay Travis [36:10]

9. Host Reflections on Urban Life, Mobility, and Walking

(38:53 – 40:11)

• Lighthearted banter about stolen scooters, urban crime, walking for health, and how modern constraints (“Zoom culture”) impact daily routines.

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Memorable Quotes & Timestamps

• “[Democrats] are willing to have other people, innocent people, pay those costs so that they can continue to grasp at power.”
   — Clay Travis [24:57]

• “If Cuba going into darkness is clearly and metaphysically, metaphorically and literally, it is in darkness... They should be hailing this as a huge victory.”
   — Buck Sexton [10:32]

• “The natives were mean too. Like, everybody was trying to conquer everybody back then.”
   — Clay Travis [13:10]

• “There were basically constant wars.”
   — Buck Sexton [17:36]

• “Well, Donald Trump is the kind of president that listens to the American people. And he’s also the type of person, as a businessman who gets things done…”
   — Linda, listener caller [30:33]

• “We’ve achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded…”
   — Donald Trump [32:29]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Christopher Columbus statue, cultural history — [03:40 – 07:30]
• Debate over American/western historical legacy — [07:30 – 10:32]
• Cuba blackout & climate change critique — [10:32 – 12:08]
• Historical figures & left-wing double standards — [12:08 – 16:10]
• Pre-Columbian warfare & reality check — [16:10 – 18:10]
• Chicago killing & border policy failures — [23:10 – 24:57]
• Linda’s call, TSA solution & listener engagement — [26:40 – 31:30]
• Trump crime stats, Graceland visit — [31:30 – 36:10]

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Conclusion

This action-packed episode sees Clay and Buck decrying what they see as historical revisionism, critiquing both progressive and mainstream narratives about immigration, crime, and energy, and championing grassroots engagement in national policy. Their signature banter, real-life examples, and audience interaction highlight how the show aims to empower listeners and contribute to ongoing debates in American political life.

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Welcome in everybody to the third hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. We've got stuff to talk about with Iran. Still updating on that. Also, the TSA backlog created by Democrats on behalf of illegal aliens who are a Democrat. Let's just be honest, foreigners in this country illegally are a Democrat constituency, one that the Democrats are very devoted to. And that is why some of you have dealt with horrific lines at airports. And it is why some of you are canceling travel, including spring break plans, because you can't get where you have to go. Because they want to make sure that ICE does not continue its enforcement mission. We will talk about all that. But Clay, something else I wanted to note here. On the on the good news side of things, a statue of Christopher Columbus has been put up outside of a federal office building on White House grounds. This is a replica of a statue that was toppled in Baltimore in 2020 during the George Floyd Mass Race Panic or racial justice protest, as CNN calls it here. And this is outside the eob. EEOB rather Eisenhower Executive Office Building. This is where Clay was barred for showing up in flip flops and a Tommy Bahama shirt. You know they said, no, Mr. Travis, you are not at the beach. And Clay Clay was like, but I'm Clay Travis. This is how I roll. Nonetheless, the next time you go to the White House, Clay will have proper attire and proper identification, which was the real issue, as we know. Cause for some reason, Clay, you know the governor, you should ask your governor, why don't he doesn't get you guys Real IDs. I don't want to get into the Real ID feud right now, but why can't Tennessee just have real compliant id, you know, the real id?

[Buck Sexton]

That's a great question. I think maybe now they are, but I, I can't keep up with all the real ID shenanigans.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, Clay was like, hey, man, I'm wearing a puka shell necklace. I'm here to see the big guy. What's going on? They're like, Excuse me, Mr. Clay. Not today, sir. All right, but so outside the eeob, they have a Christopher Columbus statue that has gone in. And I have to say this is the White House saying it's proud to honor Columbus. Celebrating our nation's 250th anniversary of independence. The White House honors Christopher Columbus's legendary life and legacy with a well deserved statue on White House grounds. Columbus is the original American hero. This is all from the White House press release on this. A giant of Western civilization, one of the most gallant and visionary men ever to walk the face of the earth. 13 foot tall statue, copy of the one thrown into Baltimore harbor by the lunatic iconoclasts of the George Floyd cult. And Clay I. This is one of these things that Trump does and it's really a side quest. Like this isn't the main of. Trump is obviously trying to fix the airports with the tsa, he's trying to

[Buck Sexton]

win the Iran war.

[Clay Travis]

He's got some big things he's working on right now. This is a side quest, but it's a beautiful side quest. Absolutely love this. Standing up for Columbus, putting it on White House grounds, putting the statue up on White House grounds. In this way, we were losing so much in this cultural and really this battle over history and the way that history affects our culture today. The explorers, I find that period in history fascinating. And what the explorers did clearly changed the world. These were amazing men. Columbus was, was an amazing individual and accomplished a tremendous amount. And Democrats hate all of that. And so the fact that they hate it means clearly Trump is doing the right thing here

[Buck Sexton]

for sure. And, and again, I, I think whoever is able to set the parameters of historical discussion in this country to a large extent is determining the biggest question which is, is America a force for good in the history of the world or not? And as a secondary aspect of that question, and is Western civilization overall good for America or not, and good for the world or not? And to me, and for most anybody out there that has ever studied history, the answer is beyond a shadow of a doubt. It is the reason why people have the luxury and the time and the resources and the ability to argue that Western civilization is awful and that America has been a force for evil is largely because the exact opposite is true. And it is the, the incredible luxury of capitalism and maybe its ultimate flaw, that it produces so much luxury and so much free time that people have the opportunity to sit around and argue about whether Western civilization and American capitalism is a good thing. I'm watching right now. Cuba's in darkness again, Buck. They do not have the ability to produce electricity on the entire island. Did you see they said all those influencers to go visit and argue that Cuba deserved all this different support. Even Greta, the, the, the young Berg.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, Greta, who chases whatever left wing flavor of the moment is Greta, who

[Buck Sexton]

was the climate change obsessive, is now saying that it is immoral for the United States not to allow oil to be shipped to Cuba. So she. I just think that's very, very funny. And Greta Thunberg's ideal world, we should all live basically in the Stone Ages. So we don't overall, you know, the price, the, the temperature around the world. So now she's arguing that it is immoral not to allow oil and gas to be delivered to Cuba. And all of these influencers, according to reports, Buck were staying at a luxury hotel in Havana, which was the only place in Havana with power.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, wow. What a shock. You know what else is really shocking? It turns out that if climate change is an existential threat to all of humanity, which Barack Obama used to say, as if he was some genius for saying it in formal speeches while he was president, including at the Coast Guard Academy graduation. Biggest national security threat we face is climate change. Not Russia, not China. No, no climate change, Clay. This is a point of such stupidity. They continue on with this, but it's a religious belief, so it's unfalsifiable. If Cuba going into darkness is clearly and metaphysically, metaphorically and literally, it is in darkness. But if Cuba were in darkness, that would cut down the CO2 footprint dramatically. They should be hailing this as a huge victory.

[Buck Sexton]

Right?

[Clay Travis]

You know, Cuba, the Cuban people can just, they, they can, they can build windmills and ask China to send Them some solar panels, right? Oh, no. It turns out that without fossil fuels, you live in effectively dire poverty. That is the reality. You can't live in a modern civilization. You can't live in a modern world currently without fossil fuels, as we're seeing from the focus on this trade of Hormuz and the need to keep the oil flowing from that region. But, yeah, back to Christopher Columbus for a second. The. The celebration of American history now and going into the 250th anniversary is a very, very important thing. They did a lot of damage to America's sense. And I mean, this. The Democrats, the left, all the. All the hate America first historiography and all the stuff that was going on, they did a lot of damage to our unity and to our sense of heroes of the past and things that we can. Again, what do we admire about Columbus? I'm not saying that Columbus was great on LGBTQ rights, but that's not actually why there's a statue of him. He had some areas where he was tremendous. Okay. And I'm. I would note something. MLK had some areas where he was great and some areas that we know about and you've talked about this Martin Luther King Jr. That were very far from great. We just even saw recently. We didn't talk about it last week. Cesar Chavez, a hero, quote unquote, of the labor movement in California. A labor guy. Well, it turns out now multiple allegations of raping children. And there are over a hundred schools named for this individual. I think, like 120 schools across America.

[Buck Sexton]

That's crazy. I didn't realize that we had named that.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, well, I mean, I'm sure they're almost all in California because they're lunatics there. But yes, Clay, this guy is. He's accused of raping a 12 year old. That is what has come out now. I mean, this. This is heinous stuff. You know, this isn't adults at a party and somebody grabs somebody after too many cocktails. This is being a predator of children that he is accused of. And I would just note that. Is the left gonna change all these? Are they gonna say, oh, well, there was no trial? Or, you know, it's. It's. Look at some of the people that they elevated. They've elevated Harvey Milk. You know, you look at these individuals, the left is willing to elevate, but they want to trash Columbus because he didn't have the right policy on the. On the trans community or because he was too mean to the natives. The natives were mean too. Like, everybody was trying to conquer everybody back then.

[Listener Caller]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

And if you're a history person, I would encourage you to go read some of the age of exploration books because what those guys did, it really does boggle the mind. The risk that they took, the bravery that they showed, the courage that was in not only from them, but also from their entire crews. And I think this is important. We found people basically living very often in Stone Age style civilizations.

[Clay Travis]

No, literally, literally Stone Age level advancement. This was true. It was true in the Americas.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes.

[Clay Travis]

People were living in the Stone Age and they'll say, oh, but look at the Aztecs.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

What kind of tools were they using? Why. Why were the Spanish soldiers so invincible to them? Horses, steel, gunpowder. In a very limited fashion, it was just horses and steel.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes. And you go and stop. I mean, heck, I mean, even not that long ago, I got to take the awesome trip to Australia with my family a couple of years ago. The Aboriginal people were living in squalor in the 1780s and had no connection with the larger world.

[Clay Travis]

I believe the inhabitants, the original inhabitants of Tasmania, the island off of Australia, when the European explorers first arrived, the inhabitants of Tasmania didn't have a reliable way to start fire.

[Buck Sexton]

Think about that. So you're talking about. Yes, it's a clash of civilizations, but it's really Western civilization, which was on an entirely different level. And the idea that Columbus. I mean, maybe we can pull the. I know we've played this a couple of times. I think we played on Columbus Day a lot. But the Sopranos episode, which is a very funny one, where they decide that they're going to go after Christopher Columbus. I just came back from Italy last year, Buck. One of the coolest things among many when you tour the Vatican is you can get a sense for they have all these maps of the, of the new World because if you go back in time and you think what was the most valuable asset for intelligence purposes in the 141500s was maps. And you would protect maps as huge state secrets because as the age of exploration was taking place, figuring out how to get to the right location was. Was incredibly valuable. And even knowing where it was. And so I think it's important to push back here in all ways. And to your point, Buck, this was a. I think it's so symbolic. This was a toppled statue from during the George Floyd protest that I believe was thrown into a harbor. I think is the story on this Columbus statue and it's now been reclaimed and it's put up outside the old executive Office building.

[Clay Travis]

Hundreds of Years before. Some of the South Dakotans listening to this will know what I'm talking about right away. Hundreds of years before Columbus even arrived, there was a mass grave site that was really just a massacre where they piled all the bodies together. The Crow Creek site. Men, women and children killed, scalped, mutilated. Hundreds of years before Columbus even got to the. So my point here being these tribes all lived in a constant state of warfare. There was no Christian or Judeo Christian or even Islamic morality that was taught and imposed. It was just, I got my tribe, we got other tribes. If you got to kill everybody in that tribe and take their stuff because you got a cold winter ahead, that's what you do. Men, women and children. There were no rules. There was no nothing. Now, yes, I know everybody is. Everybody is capable of extreme cruelty. All different races, all different religions. That is obvious from all of history. But it is only the Native Americans, Clay, who get this treatment of. They were living in harmony. It was like the Pocahontas movie. They were. They were just like all dancing around in beautiful fields of, you know, amber waves of grain, talking to the sparrows and the raccoons. No, that's actually not how it was.

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[Buck Sexton]

There were basically constant wars.

[Clay Travis]

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[Clay Travis]

No matter how many of these stories we tell, Democrats will not change their minds on this issue because they think that illegals and their position on illegals benefit their power. That's it. They don't care about the casualties, they don't care about the murders, the rapes or whatever. Stopping it by enforcing immigration law, not, not in the cards for them, unwilling to do it. We'll continue to tell you about this, but I just think you should note that this isn't a policy decision the Democrats have made that comes without the most extreme consequences. But they are willing to pay the. They know the costs. They are aware, and they are willing to have other people, innocent people, pay those costs so that they can continue to grasp at power. All right. There's something really gratifying about giving it everything you've got in the spirit of competition in any forum, for that matter, when you have the energy to finish strong, it's a great feeling. That's why we love chalk supplements here. Now, chalk is spelled choq. When you include chalk's male vitality stack in your daily routine, you'll notice a huge difference in just a few months time. One of the leading ingredients has been proven to increase testosterone levels considerably. And that's a huge source of energy, drive and stamina for all men. The ingredients in chalk are all natural.

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code buck welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Linda from Green Valley, Arizona online. She is the reason we believe that there are ICE agents in 13 different airports across the country because of this call from Friday's show. Listen, Linda in Green Valley, Arizona, what you got for us?

[Listener Caller]

Okay, I think I have a solution to the TSA problem. What we need to do is we need to supplement where we're missing out on TSA agents who can't afford to work for us anymore. We need to bring in ICE agents and fill in. And I think that that would push the Democrats to sign the Homeland Security bill. I think it would set their hair on fire. But I mean, you know, we're already paying for our, they're already funded. So they're part of Homeland Security along with gsa. And I think we just need to bring in the ICE agents and fill in. And I also agree that the senators and congressmen need to wait in line.

[Buck Sexton]

Thank you for the call, Linda. That's, I'm going to say it's kind of a brilliant idea. What Linda is correct about is the ICE agents are being fully paid. And so if we started to supplement when the TSA agents were not there with ICE agents, oh my goodness, Democrats would go absolutely insane. Okay, that was Friday. Linda, you are now calling back in from Green Valley, Arizona. So let's start with this brilliant idea. As we said on Friday, what has your phone been like? Have people recognized you and your friends in community circles? What did you think when you saw the president announce on Saturday, hey, I'm making this move.

[Listener Caller]

Only one friend actually noticed it. And she sent me a note and she said that she had just heard that the president was going to put PSA agents in the airports. And she said, way to go. So only one person has commented so far.

[Clay Travis]

Linda, you may have changed the world. You know this, right? Like this. We can't prove this, but you may have changed the trajectory of this election year, of the Trump administration and perhaps the world as we know it, that that's just reality. How does that feel?

[Listener Caller]

Well, it felt great. I've been trying to call in for over 15 years and I never got in before, so.

[Clay Travis]

Well, it was a good, it was a good call to get in.

[Buck Sexton]

No telling how many other ideas you've had that could have changed the world. Okay, so this idea, sometimes we get, as we said earlier, ideas, and I'm like, yeah, that's an interesting idea, but it's actually not, you know, feasible. How did you have this idea? When did it come to you? Were you listening to the show and you thought of it? Where did the idea come from? So far as you can, you can trace it.

[Listener Caller]

It. Well, actually, I have grandkids who were traveling for spring break. And so I was texting my granddaughter and I asked her how the lines were, and so she was sharing with me. And I thought, this is really stupid. Why don't we just fill in with the ICE agents? Because they're all the same agency.

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, it's brilliant. Now we're working. We're going to get you an autographed copy of President Trump's One of his hats. We're going to work on that. That might be. Take a little bit of time. What we definitely can get you is much less desirable but autographed copies of both Buck and myself's books to thank you for helping to come up with this idea. And what does it say? What do you think? When President Trump I talked about your idea on Fox News on Friday night as well. What does it say that the president is able to make something like this happen so quickly that by Monday, there would be ICE agents helping TSA agents in 13 different airports?

[Listener Caller]

Well, Donald Trump is the kind of president that listens to the American people. And he's also the type of person, as a businessman who gets things done and he knows how to get things done. It doesn't have to go through a committee for six months or a year before you can actually come up with a good idea. He knows how to do that.

[Buck Sexton]

You said you had a great. You were talking with your grandkids. How many kids and how many grandkids do you have?

[Listener Caller]

I have two adult children and I have five adults grandchildren, and my husband is a retired Marine.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, this is awesome. Well, you can tell them that they have an awesome grandma, an awesome mom. I'm sure they already know it, but thank you so much for listening. And you've got the bat phone now, so you, you have a special job. Now. If you've got ideas, if you have

[Clay Travis]

any thoughts on the Federal Reserve, how to open the Strait of Hormuz, Linda, you know where to reach us.

[Listener Caller]

Okay, thank you.

[Buck Sexton]

That is Linda in Green Valley, Arizona, who called in brilliant idea and just said, hey, what if we used. Because they're actually being paid Some ICE agents to help tsa. And right now, as I speak to you, Buck, lead headline on CNN is ICE agents among at several airports, Trump administration deploys ICE agents. Also the lead story on msnbc. Now Fox is actually Fox News. Trump is at Graceland and they are showing him several different pieces of Elvis memorabilia as he is touring Graceland. I think we have audio of Trump saying that he's in Memphis to celebrate the fact that crime is down massively at a 25 year low. Do we have the audio? I think we do. Of Trump discussing the decline in crime. Do we have that, guys? 32.

[Donald Trump]

But just as we have in D.C. here in Memphis, we've achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded. So that's something, right? Ever recorded. In fact, you're a half a percentage point away from the record. So we'll catch them in the next month or two. All right, I think that's going to happen. But that includes a 60% drop in in robberies, a 74% drop in carjacking and motor vehicle thefts. We have always achieved numbers that are good. These numbers are right online to be among the best that we've done. So we've achieved a 70% reduction in murders from the peak in this place. In total, we've arrested 7,000 criminals, seized more than 1,100 illegal guns, taken more than £1,000 of illicit narcotics and rescued more than 150 missing children, making their parents beyond happy.

[Buck Sexton]

I buck, this weekend I was down in Florida, but I met some people from Memphis, multiple different people from Memphis. When I meet somebody from Memphis, I just say, hey, how much of a difference can you tell? And they say that it is transformative. I mean, that, that what has happened in Memphis, which have become one of our nation's most dangerous cities, that it has made an unbelievable difference. Now, President Trump right now touring Graceland, as many of you probably have done. He told us all about Elvis a little bit earlier too. This is cut 31.

[Donald Trump]

You know, I'm going to see Graceland after this, I think. Is that right? I love Elvis. I never met Elvis. Everyone said, did you? I met them all. I met Sinatra. I knew all of them. I never met Elvis. Sometimes I feel I should tell a little fibs that I knew him well. I love Elvis, but I never met him. But I'm going to go see Graceland after this. I think. I'm sure it's not going to be a very long stay, but I want to see that.

[Buck Sexton]

Have you ever been to Graceland, Buck ever toured it.

[Clay Travis]

I've never been to Memphis.

[Buck Sexton]

Ever, Ever.

[Clay Travis]

I'd like to go. I'd like especially to go now.

[Buck Sexton]

I think we're number one in Memphis. I know we have a huge audience there. Graceland is a really cool place to tour. What I would say is it does feel weird to tour somewhat modern homes. Right. When you tour a. A home, Mount Vernon, for instance, or someplace like that, that is very historic and old. It feels strange to walk through a relatively modern day home. But it is still a very, very cool opportunity if you get the chance to go tour it. And I remember it being a bit. I don't want Memphis people to get mad at me. I remember it being in a bit of a sketchy neighborhood. I haven't been in like 15, 20 years. My wife, we were dating at the time, really wanted to tour Graceland, so we went. It's been 20 over 20 years, but they have a. Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of a suburban, ish neighborhood back in the day. I don't think it's so suburban anymore, but, but kind of, kind of wild. So, again, pretty cool that Trump is there. And again, he is touting this incredible decline in violent crime. He said murders are down 70% from their peak. We talked about this earlier. You can go look at it yourself if you want to know what Washington, D.C. crime looks like. Murders are down 65% there. These are real, tangible outcomes, Great results, lots of lives saved. Seems like something we should talk about more everywhere, collectively as a country.

[Clay Travis]

You would think so. Trump has racked up in year one now, in a few months into year two, the most secure border in our lifetime and the biggest crime drops in some major American cities in the shortest period of time that we have ever seen. Honestly, these aren't even. Well, the border was a huge thing for him. But these are things that also, I think, would be considered the biggest achievement of another administration. And that would be fine because this is major stuff. Trump is just getting started. I mean, there's a lot else. And we haven't even talked about tariffs. I mean, there's a whole bunch of things that have gone on that I think are really praiseworthy and show that this administration is getting it done in a lot of ways on important stuff, on stuff that affects all of us. So, Clay, the crime drop issue I still, though, keep coming back to. And so Democrats don't want to. They don't want to say, you know what, you're right, guys, let's make all the cities safer. Yeah, they're not going to do it. They're not going to do it. They would rather have people continue to get shot. 50% more in this city, 70% more in that city, 40% more. They'd rather have, you know, 20 year olds having funerals with their whole family shattered and the cycle of violence and communities ruined and all this stuff. They'd rather have all of that than have law enforcement policies that left wing maniacs think are racially insensitive. That's the truth.

[Buck Sexton]

In Chicago, we just mentioned this poor 18 year old girl who was murdered, Sheridan Gorman, by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant. Brandon Johnson has fought to keep President Trump from bringing more security to the city of Chicago. We know that if they had not let this illegal immigrant into the country, this girl would still be alive. We know that if they had merely deported him after he was arrested, she would still be alive twice released. This 18 year old college student is dead. And Brandon Johnson in Chicago has directly fought against the same kind of decline in violent crime occurring in Chicago that has happened in Memphis. Results should matter. Facts should matter. Data should matter. This is all objective. You can go look it up for yourself. Pull up the Washington D.C. violent Crime and we focus, we tend to focus on murders on this show because you can fudge other numbers. We have to talk about bucks. Poor scooter Crime got so bad in New York City when they stole Buck's scooter, he didn't even think to call New York Police Department. He just had to deal with the fact that his scooter was gone.

[Clay Travis]

When the loss of a scooter goes without, without consequence, without punishment, what does that say about society? Clay, what kind of a place are

[Buck Sexton]

you living in means? Oh man, I had a good joke. I think I can say it means that, you know, heterosexual men, heterosexual men have to learn how to walk again. They can't just scoot, scoot around on their scooters.

[Clay Travis]

I actually think I got, I think I gained weight because the scooter, because I started scooting everywhere instead of walking. I'm being totally serious by the way. Walking is so important. Walk. I tell everybody this. I'm so. It's a big part of it. Walking is so important. You need to, you set a step counter up on your phone, on your watch or whatever you can. 10,000 a day. Really want to get to more like 12,000 to 15,000 steps a day.

[Buck Sexton]

Every day I try to walk when the weather's good and make phone calls. Now some people think you look a little bit ridiculous. Walking around in your neighborhood just making phone calls. But the other option is you sit in your house and you're no, I do that too.

[Clay Travis]

I want to take calls. This is the only thing I hate about Zoom now. Well, there are a lot of things probably I hate about Zoom, but I just want to be able to take calls while I'm walking. You have my total attention. I just don't want to be getting slowly fatter and dying more quickly over time because I have to sit. Sitting all day is bad.

[Buck Sexton]

Sitting all day is bad. I'm being mocked, I'm told, in the New York City studio for sounding like Michael Scott when I dropped my great joke from the office. One of the all time great comedies that frankly I'm not sure they could make anymore because it's such a good comedy that there's lots of things as great comedies have that might be a little bit offensive to people at times. That's why Republicans should be the party that likes jokes, let me tell you. Price picks Amazing weekend. Did you watch 1 second of the NCAA tournament buck 1 second of basketball that took place Just announced the largest audiences of all time watching in the NCAA tournament Opening Thursday. Games Friday. Games. I told you there were kids screaming in the background. All good. They were just watching. My kids were just watching the NCAA tournament going on. You can play. Sweet sixteen is now set Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Coming up this weekend we will have the final four set with games taking place all over the country. The final 16 teams. Congratulations to the state of Nebraska. Their Cornhuskers finally got an NCAA tournament win and then they beat my alma mater the Vanderbilt Commodores in a walk off incredible final run. You can get hooked up right now if you go to prizepix.com use code clay prizepix.com code C L A Y. You will get $50 in credits when you play. $5 you can play in all 50 states. You're gonna love it. Prizepix.com code clay that is prizepix.com code c L-Y making America great again isn't just one man, it's many. The Team 47 podcast Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Our thanks to Linda in Green Valley, Arizona. Awesome story. TSA agents are now deployed because I really do believe this of her call on Friday. They are now deployed at airports all over the country. And I do think this is a good opportunity for us to say thank you because I found out about the Linda results. A couple of buddies texted me as soon as President Trump's truth comment went up, but they had been listening to the program and knew what Linda said. But also then in the mentions, every time this story comes up, you guys have flooded the mentions saying, I was listening to Clay and Buck when the Linda story happened. This is a direct result of that. And I do think it speaks to the rapidity with which Trump and his team can hear an idea and act upon it is unprecedented in modern political history. Usually what happens, Buck, you know, you worked in the government. Somebody has an idea. There's six months of meetings about what the implications of the idea might be. There's no actual action that's ever taken. And as a result, good ideas just die inside of government because the bureaucracy kind of smothers them. Here we've got a direct, tangible, I think positive result of an idea that one of y' all had brought it to the show and helped to get it into the White House ecosystem and the brain trust made it happen.

[Clay Travis]

Talk back. D this is Teresa from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Play it.

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[Listener Caller]

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[Clay Travis]

69. There we go. We got a Clay Travis Fed. No surprise.

[Buck Sexton]

Let's see. Podcast listener Kurt port say Port St. Lucie, Florida I gotta say, that caller

[Clay Travis]

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