Hour 3 - Culture Matters

Summary

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 3 – Culture Matters
Date: August 20, 2025
Host: Clay Travis & Buck Sexton
Producer: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this third hour titled "Culture Matters," Clay Travis and Buck Sexton dive into how culture shapes current political trends and societal outcomes. The hosts analyze recent headlines, heated debates about crime, affirmative action, race, family structure, and the generational shifts in values and attitudes. They blend humor with sharp critique, taking listener calls and soundbites from viral debates, ultimately arguing for the importance of individual responsibility and cultural values in addressing America's challenges.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Democrats Losing Support Nationwide

[02:05] Clay Travis:

• Highlights a New York Times cover story showing Democrats losing registered support in all 30 states where voter affiliation is tracked.
• Sees diminishing Democratic support as an outcome of current party policies, especially on crime and social issues.

2. Crime, Urban Safety, and Political Double Standards

[02:51] Clay Travis:

• Describes an incident where left-leaning protestors disrupted a Union Station crime reduction event featuring Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller.
• Satirizes the idea that some on the left are opposed to reducing crime, especially when such measures are seen as targeting minority communities.
• Critiques LA Mayor Karen Bass's remarks implying that cracking down on crime disproportionately impacts "black and brown people," questioning why protecting black and brown communities from criminals is not the focus.

[05:19] Buck Sexton:

• Jokes about targeting "cat owners" and lampoons the stereotype of "unmarried women with cats" being the Democratic Party’s base.
• Cites data showing most pet owners—except single women with cats—lean Republican.

3. Media Narratives and Racial Preference Debates

[07:02] Joy Reid (quoted):

• Accuses Trump allies of seeking to "delete" black and brown competition in elite admissions and jobs. [07:49] Buck Sexton:
• Responds that such rhetoric is “crazy person talk,” dismisses the notion that criminals awaiting trial for violent crime are being denied Ivy League opportunities.
• Argues that affirmative action’s biggest losers have been Asian and white students, referencing Joy Reid’s own Harvard education.

Notable Quote:
Buck Sexton [07:55]: "If you're shooting people in Washington D.C., you weren't on the precipice of discovering the cure for cancer... that's a crazy person talk."

[09:14] Buck Sexton:

• Recalls how boomers implemented racial preference regimes they never had to endure themselves.
• Calls for honest discourse about the impact of racial admission preferences.

4. Elite University Admissions and American Priorities

[10:35] Clay Travis:

• Quotes Mike Gallagher’s Wall Street Journal op-ed raising concerns over high proportions of foreign undergraduates at elite U.S. universities (30% at Harvard, 40% at Columbia).
• Questions why U.S. taxpayer-funded universities prioritize non-citizens.

Notable Quote:
Buck Sexton [11:29]: "They're training kids from Beijing who go back to Beijing. And they're doing this on US soil with US taxpayer subsidies."

5. Viral Debate: Reparations, Achievement, and Violent Crime

[13:11] & [14:27] Viral Video

• Viral clips: A young Black conservative debates Amanda Seals on the root causes of Black advancement, violent crime, and the difference between Asian and Black American experiences.
• He argues culture and choices matter more than reparations or systemic obstacles.
• Amanda Seals rebuts, questioning the validity and interpretation of statistics.

Notable Quote:
Young Black Conservative [13:53]: "Stats don't lie though."

[15:20] Clay Travis:

• Frames this viral moment as evidence that more young people (across races) are challenging official narratives in search of truth.

6. Listener Calls: Fitness, Family, and Responsibility

[20:18]–[22:23] Listener Segments:

• Listeners debate the plausibility of fitness claims (50 pull-ups/100 push-ups), providing humor and relatable anecdotes.

7. Union Station Protests and the Left's Activist Base

[24:08] Stephen Miller (audio clip):

• Blames "elderly white hippies" from out of town for anti-policing protests in DC.
• Clay and Buck mock the notion of protesting against crime reduction.

[25:15] Clay Travis:

• Points out that many traditional explanations for crime (poverty, racism) fail to account for differences across minority groups—Asian immigrants, for instance, have low crime rates despite being poor.

8. Culture and Mentorship in Youth Success

[28:17] Clay Travis and Buck Sexton:

• Share the story of NFL rookie Cam Ward, who is motivated by his father's work ethic—linking family culture to success.
• Tie this example into the broader argument about the importance of fathers and positive role models.

Notable Quote:
Cam Ward (audio, paraphrased by Clay Travis): "If my dad can get up at 4:30 in the morning for a job he doesn’t like, then I can get up early for a job I love."

Buck Sexton [30:44]: "The life that you want is right there. You just have to do the difficult things you know you need to do to get it."

9. Accountability, the Family, and Individual Responsibility

[33:40] Listener Call (Dan from Cleveland):

• Attributes high crime rates to fatherless households, not poverty.
• Hosts expand: Democratic Party rhetoric, they claim, encourages a lack of accountability.

Notable Quote:
Buck Sexton [34:57]: "The Democrat Party is absolutely devoted to no accountability for anyone as long as they vote Democrat."

10. Humor, Cat Owners, and Closing Moments

[41:50] Buck Sexton & Clay Travis:

• Joke about Clay’s household being ‘outvoted’ into adopting two cats.
• End with humor and a dark but memorable call about cat owners and suicide prevention, quickly course-corrected by the hosts.

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Notable Quotes

• Buck Sexton [07:55]: "If you're shooting people in Washington D.C., you weren't on the precipice of discovering the cure for cancer... that's a crazy person talk."
• Young Black Conservative [13:53]: "Stats don't lie though."
• Clay Travis (paraphrasing Cam Ward) [29:11]: "If my dad can get up at 4:30 in the morning for a job he doesn’t like, then I can get up early for a job I love."
• Buck Sexton [34:57]: "Unfortunately, the Democrat Party is absolutely devoted to no accountability for anyone as long as they vote Democrat."
• Buck Sexton [30:44]: "The life that you want is right there. You just have to do the difficult things you know you need to do to get it."

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Segment Timestamps

• 02:05 — Episode theme, Democrats losing support
• 05:19 — “Cat lady” jokes, Democratic base demographics
• 07:02 — Joy Reid's comments on race, affirmative action critique
• 10:35 — University admissions, foreign students
• 13:11, 14:27 — Viral debate on reparations, crime, group achievement
• 20:18–22:23 — Listener fitness challenge calls
• 24:08 — Stephen Miller on Union Station protests
• 28:17–31:53 — Culture, mentorship, Cam Ward NFL rookie story
• 33:40–35:31 — Listener calls about crime, family, and responsibility
• 41:50 — Closing: cat owner jokes, memorable signoff

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Memorable Moments

• Humorous ribbing: Clay’s family "outvoting" him on cat adoption ([42:14])
• Sharp critique: "Elderly white hippies" and the futility of protests against crime reduction ([24:08])
• Viral debate analysis: Young Black conservative challenges racial victimhood narratives ([13:11])
• Inspiration: NFL rookie Cam Ward on learning work ethic from his father ([29:11])
• Final signoff: Dark but memorable cat-related suicide-prevention story, turned quickly back to the show’s signature upbeat, irreverent tone ([42:52])

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Tone and Language

Clay and Buck are witty, irreverent, and direct, balancing satire with serious cultural critique. They rely on empirical data, personal anecdotes, viral media moments, and listener participation to build their arguments—all while maintaining a conversational, accessible style.

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For listeners, this episode offers:

• A deep dive into how culture, family, and policy intersect in today's political climate
• Entertaining, unfiltered takes on current headlines and viral online debates
• A consistent through-line urging individual responsibility over victimhood narratives

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Transcript

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in our number three Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. We appreciate all of you on our 555 some odd stations in all 50 states. Also encourage you to go subscribe. You can search out my name Clay Travis. You can search out Buck Sexton. You can subscribe on podcast. You can subscribe on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Basically wherever there are audiences that exist, you can find the show there and we appreciate all of you finding us all over the place. We have been talking about a variety of different stories. We started off today talking about the New York Times huge front page story on Democrats losing support in 30 different states. All 30 where you can register as a Republican, Democrat or an independent. All 30 states Democrats are losing ground. We have talked about the crime issue and indeed, as we were talking to you in the last few minutes, Pete Hegseth and JD Vance and Stephen Miller had a publicly available event at Union Station where left wingers showed up and screamed at them for having the audacity to try to lower crime in our nation's capital, which again, is kind of staggering just to think about that we would be in a position where one major political party would have decided, hey, we're opposed to crime being lowered in our nation's capital, but that is where they are. And I do think the conversation that we were having near the end with Karen Bass saying, hey, well, the problem with enforcing crime laws is too many black and brown people get arrested. How about all the people that live in majority black and brown communities that have to deal with criminals not being arrested? This is a very easy counter. If you wondered whether journalists are doing their job, that is a very easy question that begs itself based on that statement and the fact that we haven't gotten questions like that, I think is why we are in a position where basically there aren't real questions asked of anybody in positions of prominence. Speaking of which, Joy Reid also, given the fact that Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth were just addressing the media, says this is about deleting. I can't believe that these people have jobs, black and brown people, so white people don't have to compete with them. Joy Reid is so crazy that Ms. Now no longer MSNBC. Ms. Now, Buck, my suggestion for that, that network's rebrand, and I think this is a good one, is to rebrand it as menopause because most of their audience is postmenopausal women and, and spell pause P A W S for the cat ladies out there. I think it is a brilliant rebrand. I just say if I look at.

[Buck Sexton]

You third hour of the show taking, taking shots at the cat owners of a clay, you know what happens to our inbox? You know, this is, it's going to turn into a kitty litter box. Now, what have you done to us?

[Clay Travis]

I will say this is, you know, J.D. vance got criticized for saying that Democrat Party is basically the party of childless cat ladies. Do you know when the data came out, they Cross tabbed it with pet owners. It will not shock you that people who have dogs vote Republican and people who have dogs and cats vote Republican too. In other words, most pet owners are Republican voters. The only pet owner group that votes for Democrats are unmarried women with cats. That is the base of the Democrat Party. I know there are probably some of you unmarried women with cats out there that we appreciate you being in the audience too.

[Buck Sexton]

But Ms. Now's audience is. I didn't know this. 62%. I just did a quick AI search here, but 62% women. Yeah, that it's a majority female audience. That is definitely. I mean, I can just guess that is not the case with FOX News.

[Clay Travis]

Well, I think that the challenge that the Democrat Party has is it really is just a party for unhinged leftist women, most of them, frankly, college educated white women, which is now the base of the Democrat Party. And here is Joy Reid saying all that Stephen Miller and President Trump and Pete Hegseth are trying to do is delete black and brown people. Cut 22.

[Mary Kathryn Ham]

The people who now no longer have to worry about competition to get into Harvard and Columbia and Yale or to get the jobs they want or the military appointments that they want or the jobs in the Trump administration that they want. They don't have to worry about competition from black and brown people because Stephen Miller and Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth from Fox and all the other people who are unqualified for their jobs are deleting all the blacks and the brains and making sure that they all get deported and locked up so that they don't have to compete and cannot compete with the people who frankly aren't qualified but have the right complexion for the connection when it comes to maga, she.

[Buck Sexton]

Actually has it entirely backwards. I find this.

[Clay Travis]

Od, this little rant.

[Buck Sexton]

She gave was odious in so many ways. First of all, yeah, people are getting locked up, otherwise they'd be going to Harvard. Please give me a break, okay? Like, you know, if you're shooting people in Washington D.C. you weren't on the, you weren't on the precipice of discovering the cure for cancer or, or waiting for your miis. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. So, so that is just insane and that's a crazy person talk. But what she's actually addressing here is we are finally, and I'm going to say this, boomers didn't deal with this. You boomers, you actually now not you listening, but boomers in general created this world of racial preferences, but they didn't have to themselves deal with that world of racial preferences in college admissions. Like when your dad, Clay and my dad and when they were going to schools and trying to apply for jobs, there were. Elizabeth Warren's routine wasn't something that they were as concerned with. Ok, I mean, it was the beginnings of these things, but it ramped up dramatically whereby you had people. And I also, I want to. When did Elizabeth Warren check Native American on that? Was it in the 90s? Was it in the 80s? You know, when did you check as.

[Clay Travis]

Soon as she could get an advantage competitively on her career that she said she was a Native American?

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, you know, boomers and the silent generation, they didn't deal with this. Let me just point this out. What, what Joy, Joy Reid doesn't understand the basic reality of what affirmative action was, which was the affirmative action regime that you and I, when we applied to college was very strongly in place, meant that in my class, black and Latino students in my scholarship school, for example, where the average income was actually the average household income, which in New York means half really of the average household income. A lot of low income kids in my, in my class, if you were black and Latino, it was, which Ivy League school do you want to go to? Basically, just just by being in that class, there was an assumption that you were going to get into an Ivy League school. Some of them would get into all the Ivy League schools. If you were Asian or white, it was, do you have a 1500 plus in the SAT? If not, don't even think about it. Would Joy Reid, and she went to Harvard, of course. What Joy Reid is lamenting here is the end of students who have 1100 on the SAT who are black getting into Harvard. That's what she's actually lamenting. That was racist then, it is racist now. That should not happen. But that's what was happening for decades. So let's just call it what it is. No more Latino and black students who are in the middle range nationally of SATs going to a top five school. That's ending now, or it should be ending now based on the law.

[Clay Travis]

There's actually, I want to play a cut here in a sec, but this is building on Mike Gallagher, who we've had on the show before, used to be a congressman from the Green Bay Area, I think, of Wisconsin, has a really good piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning which says, hey, while we're examining all these Ivy League admission rates, maybe we should have a national conversation about why 30% of all Harvard undergrad admits are foreigners and why 40% of Colombia admits are foreigners. If we are giving all of these universities such huge federal subsidies and if we believe that their educational merit and value is so extreme that it is a tremendous opportunity to get into these schools, shouldn't we be educating American citizens instead of educating kids from other places around the world and sending them back to their home?

[Buck Sexton]

I find this, this is an absolute betrayal by our American university system. It's a, Paul, like, I do not give a dollar to my college. I will not give a dollar to my college. I disagree. And people say, oh, but look what they did for you. My parents paid like $60,000 a year for me to go to that place. We're good, okay? We're square. I don't give them any money. I disagree with what they do. I disagree with their philosophy. But that's true of so many of these schools, Clay. A lot of these so called elite institutions, they're training. And especially when you get into the higher technology and higher math and physics institutions out there like MIT and CAL in these places, they're training kids from Beijing who go back to Beijing. And they're doing this on US soil with US taxpayer subsidies, massive subsidies for the whole thing.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, it's a, it's a big deal and it should be talked about more. I knew the numbers were substantial. 40% of Colombia is foreigners. When you wonder how in the world do they end up being so profoundly anti Semitic and who are the kids that are taking over that campus and protesting and everything else? A lot of them are foreign, but I wanted to play this because we talked about young men and sort of the cultural awakening that is happening for white, Asian, Hispanic, black, young men. This clip has gone viral. I don't know if you've seen it, Buck. There's a couple of segments here. This is Amanda Seals, who is a black radical, getting absolutely schooled by a young black conservative in one of these debate setups. Listen to this kid. Just absolute. Let. Absolutely let her have it. Here is the first one. Cut 26.

[Young Black Conservative]

You can give everyone here like a $50,000, especially people that are in the streets who are committing violent crimes, consistently, a $50,000 check. It's not going to fix anything. It's not going to increase the median household income the next 10 years by 10% or 20%. For example, we have the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882. We prevented Chinese people from getting citizenship and even entering the country. We discriminate against them and basically put them under apartheid. Even here in the United States, yet they have the highest median household income. How is that possible? How come they don't complain and feel entitled consistently to beg for reparations and beg for this when they are killing each other 90% of the time, which is the rate that black people kill each other according to the FBI.

[Mary Kathryn Ham]

Oh, young Matt.

[Young Black Conservative]

Yet white people are the oppressors.

[Mary Kathryn Ham]

I'm not sure where your education came from, but they lied to you.

[Young Black Conservative]

Stats don't lie though.

[Mary Kathryn Ham]

Statistics lie all the time. So let's start there. Particularly when the statistics are coming from these sources that gain from the statistics being shown a different way.

[Clay Travis]

Listen to this second part too, Buck. So he's saying the truth, which is, as Heather McDonald laid out, hey, black people are actually being killed by black people. Why is the focus on white oppression? And he also pointed out Asian people have been discriminated against quite a lot in this country and actually are the highest earning income group of anybody in America. Cut 27. Play this too.

[Mary Kathryn Ham]

Comparing Chinese people who are immigrants that made a choice to come to the United States and comparing the continued effort of black people to ground themselves in a nation that continues to make impediments for them to show and live and exist in their true citizenship is a false equivalency.

[Young Black Conservative]

I don't believe that happens at all. No one here is.

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[Young Black Conservative]

Do you believe I'm telling the truth? There's no, there's no systemic racism that I've experienced here in America. What system is racist? I think the only racism we've actually seen recently, systemic racism that we've seen is the application of systemic racism against white people. The University of Western Washington, for example, has been trying to segregate dormitories using black only dormitories because black people feel safer amongst each other, but they're more likely to kill each other than white people are ever to kill them. That's just the truth. You have King Von rapping about killing other black men. Why should I think that the white man is the oppressor when black men are more likely to kill me?

[Clay Travis]

This conversation has gone mega viral. I just wanted to play a cut for you. There are lots of young men out there that in the wake of COVID I think this is tied in. Buck feel like they have been lied to by positions of power. People in positions of power and they're looking for the data themselves. And you heard that woman say, well, statistics lie. And he's just sharing the actual factual data. There are tons of them out there. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, desperately searching for the truth. And a lot of the truth they're finding is different than what they've been told and they are rebelling against those in power. And I think that's really what you're seeing from this younger generation.

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[Buck Sexton]

All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. We have some some updates that just happened for purple haired communists shouting at Stephen Miller and Vice President Vance outside of Union Station. You know, Union Station, depending on the time period. I knew people who had their prom.

[Clay Travis]

Oh yeah, I know, I know.

[Buck Sexton]

They really put so much money into it. And then the demo communists decided to just let vagrants sleep and pee and everything all over the place and panhandle and harass people and guess what? No more proms at Union Station. Although maybe the Trump is going to change that. We'll get into some of that here in a second. We've got some, some good stuff and, and we've got some great talkbacks here. Let's start with this is aa Doug listens on WJNO in West PA Beach. Hit it. I am your typical average man. I am 6ft tall, 215 pounds and I could easily do 100 push ups probably in 10 or 15 minutes. And trying to do 50 pull ups.

[Clay Travis]

Maybe if you gave me 24 hours.

[Buck Sexton]

I could do that.

[Clay Travis]

But I just don't see it being possible.

[Buck Sexton]

And for the average American man either.

[Clay Travis]

I'm all with Clay on this one.

[Buck Sexton]

I, I would, I would agree with this Clay. I, I've, the, the push ups doesn't, that doesn't phase me at all. I, I, I would be very confident. I'm also six feet tall though. Now I'm 195 pounds. But the pull ups is tough. Pull ups are tough.

[Clay Travis]

We talked about this yesterday. For those of you who didn't, didn't hear. And I think Jesse Waters asked RFK Jr. Why he works out in jeans and boots. And I think we have this audio. I know the Jesse Waters team asking the biggest questions. The one that we were talking about yesterday. Play it.

[Buck Sexton]

I have to ask you a question.

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[Buck Sexton]

Well, I just started doing that a long time ago because I would go hiking in the morning and then I go straight to the gym and I found it was convenient and now I'm used to it, so I just do it.

[Clay Travis]

You buy it, Buck? Or do you think Big Jeans has gotten to RFK Jr?

[Buck Sexton]

I think, I think he might have little old man chicken legs. That's what I think. And he, and he's, and he's, cause he's got all that TRT and stuff going for the upper body strength. But I think maybe it hasn't been able to, to transfer. I don't know, man. It's, I don't buy that. Come on.

[Clay Travis]

Jeans.

[Buck Sexton]

You couldn't pay me to work out in jeans.

[Clay Travis]

I, and a belt. I, I agree with, by the way, our caller. Most, I don't think most men can do an actual pull up.

[Buck Sexton]

I think that's fat. By the way, I believe a vast majority of men cannot, especially middle aged men cannot do a pull up.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have it.

[Clay Travis]

And by the way, most of the.

[Buck Sexton]

Citizens who live in Washington D.C. are black. This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations. And President Trump is the one who is fixing that with the support of the Metropolitan Police Department, the support of the national park and our federal law enforcement officers.

[Clay Travis]

So we're going to ignore these stupid.

[Buck Sexton]

White hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're.

[Clay Travis]

All over 90 years old.

[Buck Sexton]

And we're going to get back in the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington.

[Clay Travis]

Newsom I know the audio wasn't perfect, but he said all the Protesters are over 90 years old. They need to go home and take a nap. Buck I will say when we were up for the inauguration, a lot of the protesters were old and it was cold. We've talked about this. I kind of just felt sad for them.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, no, we felt bad driving by them. They were not, they were looking like they needed some, some warm milk and maybe a blanket. It was not a, you know, a ruckus. Bunch.

[Clay Travis]

No. And here, by the way, just to give you a sense, these are the protesters. And remember, these are people protesting. There being too many people trying to decrease violent crime. Here they are, cut 32. If you wonder, why are Democrats hemorrhaging support? As the front page of the New York Times put it, it's because of people like this. Cut 32.

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[Clay Travis]

I mean, these are broken brain people.

[Buck Sexton]

Did you hear the shouting about. About climate justice too, that, that may be VMO's brainless slogan. What does that. I know it just means communism, but what does it really mean to the person who's saying it?

[Clay Travis]

You know, middle of the day, imagine you're like, hey, what are you going to do? Well, you're going to go to work. No, what are you going to do? I'm going to go protest because there's too many police trying to drive down the violent crime rate in Washington D.C.

[Buck Sexton]

You know, the only, the only protest that I remember thinking I would go out and march was during COVID when they made it illegal to protest. They made it illegal to protest everybody. They said, you can't gather, sorry, until.

[Clay Travis]

George Floyd, when they then said everybody should go protest.

[Buck Sexton]

And that was when any person capable of thinking for themselves would have known, if they didn't know already. Oh, this whole thing is just a political power grab. That's all this is. But yeah, you couldn't, you were not allowed. I would have joined protesters outside during the. You know, Clay, it's so interesting. Sorry. I know I get on Covid stuff and some of you are like, why? It's one of the most important lessons of our lifetime. I mean, that and 911 are the two biggest impact, I think, you know, Trump is really in many ways a corrective of, of both of those events. The expansive wars in the Middle east and then also dealing with the Democrat authoritarianism of COVID But Clay, I just think that there's this, there's a podcast out now. I'm forgetting what it is, but it's all about how basically fresh air and sunshine are actually truly important for your health. And it was on the Diary of a CEO podcast I was listening to. It's very good podcast. And they stripped us of that while we were all getting sick. This is why the public. I'm a little disappointed. I have not seen the sledgehammer taken to the CDC and the NIH yet. Something we'll come back to later. I don't want to divert from this. We're talking Union Station protesters, but I need those Places to feel the fury. You know, there needs to be real bureaucratic reform, real political accountability for what those health agencies did.

[Clay Travis]

This is not directly Union Station. I'm going to get to some of your talkbacks in a sec, but I think you're going to like this bucket. Ties in with what we were talking about at the first segment at the end of the last hour about the importance of dads in the household. I saw this. This is Cam Ward. He was the number one overall draft pick in the NFL. Tennessee Titan quarterback. Remains to be seen how good he's going to be in the NFL. But he gets to work really, really early, before dawn. And they asked him about that. Why do you go work so early in the morning? And I want to play this cut for you guys. He said, if my dad can get up at 4:30 in the morning for a job he doesn't like at all, then I can get up really early in the morning for a job that I love. And, and I think it goes to culture. It goes to the importance of dads. Listen to that answer. I think you guys are going to appreciate it.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm just a big person on work. I say yes. I've grown up, watched my dad wake up at 4:30 doing a job he didn't like. So, you know, if I can't wake up early and do what I need to do for a job I do like, I shouldn't be playing football. And that goes for everybody. Locker room. If you can't have the expectation for yourself that you want to be with a good or a great player and want to put the work in, I just, I just think that how it should go. I just think good things only come to those who work.

[Clay Travis]

Okay, it's very simple. But culture, I was talking about this last night. In Chattanooga, you develop in your household a culture. And the culture can be, hey, I'm always going to whine and point at somebody else. You develop in your team a culture. You develop in your place of employment, place of work, a culture. And over time, I really believe this. I like to think on this show we have developed a culture over time. Culture breeds success. And so if your culture is telling you, hey, you can't do it, then your culture is right. Most of the time you're not going to be able to do it. And if your culture is, man, I don't like my job, but I respect that. In order to take care of my family, I'm going to bust my ass and I'm going to get up at 4:30 every morning when that alarm goes off. I just love that answer. I just, I love the answer of if my dad can get up for a job he doesn't like at 4:30 in the morning, then by God, I can get up early for a job I really like.

[Buck Sexton]

Look, there are a lot of variations on this quote or this, this maxim, this truism, but the life that you want is right there. You just have to do the difficult things, you know, you need to do to get it. That's it. Yeah, whatever that may be. I mean, overwhelmingly people know what they should be doing. Right. Work hard, be, you know, focus, be honest with yourself, be a team player, show up, show up on all these different things. It's hard to do those things.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

You know, it's easier to not do those things. And so any, any messaging that you get that encourages you to do the hard things that you know, you need to do to get where you want to get is great. I mean, I think this, this player, I'd never heard of him before, which is not a surprise to anybody. I don't follow these things that close.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

But I love what he just said. So, yeah, he's totally spot on and that, that should be so encouraged like that. Well, his statement should be something that young men across the country. Hear, hear. And there's a focus on and not, you know, the system. I'm not even talking about race issues here, but you know, the system is rigged against you or, you know, men are toxic or all these negative things that you hear.

[Clay Travis]

I also think again, you're, as a dad, young men can be an uncle, you can be a grandpa, are looking to you because they're trying to find a purpose in life. And when you tell men your purpose in life is not to be a dad, not to be a father, not to provide for your family, you are stripping away a huge amount of their purpose. And so when you tell them that the things that make them male historically and throughout centuries are toxic, you are basically telling them, we don't want you to be a part of society. And I think there's a lot of men and women out there that are becoming aware that we have told young men that, and I think they are overwhelmingly rebelling against that idea. There's a big difference between men and women are equal. And girl power is a great thing in the girl boss era. You can lift up women without tearing down men. And I think we've missed on that to a large extent. Let's have some fun. These are some funny talkbacks by the way, Eric in San Diego, listening out there on Kogo. Is it Kogo or do I have to say Kogo? It should be Kogo in San Diego.

[Buck Sexton]

Listen, the left would never allow Newsom and Scarborough to run at the same time because it would create a worldwide hair gel shortage. And the antifa type that spikes their hair would just go off the deep end, creating a dystopian universe that would look worse than Mad Max and then causing World War three to happen. So they're going to have to find somebody who is either bald or has a natural hairstyle.

[Clay Travis]

It's very funny. Maybe they can get Jesse Kelly to run. He's bald. FF Dan in. Dan in Cleveland, Ohio on wtam. What you got for us?

[Buck Sexton]

Just want to chime in on this thing about the black and Hispanic crime. I believe a lot of it has to do with the families. No fathers at home.

[Clay Travis]

Tell them what's right and wrong.

[Buck Sexton]

I really do believe poverty has nothing.

[Clay Travis]

To do with it.

[Buck Sexton]

I grew up poor as dirt. I ain't killed nobody yet. Don't plan on killing nobody.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I mean it is a, it is a, they have to explain how it happens without allowing individual responsibility to factor in. And so what they have decided to settle on is poverty and racism creates violent crime. But as you pointed out, Buck, when you actually dive into poverty and, and, and crime data in New York City, what you will see is some of the poorest immigrant communities, particularly Asian, have some of the lowest violent crime rates in the city. Well, if poverty creates crime, how do you explain it? And if minorities are uniquely susceptible, well, why does racism not seem to impact Asian people? And those become very difficult conversations. What it ultimately comes back to is individual responsibility, which to me is the foundation in many ways of the Republican Party.

[Buck Sexton]

Unfortunately, the Democrat Party is absolutely devoted to no accountability for anyone as long as they vote Democrat. You're not accountable for ruining cities. You're not accountable for wide open borders. You're not accountable for, go down the list, the destruction of the family, all these things. There's no accountability. Just vote Democrat and it's always somebody else's fault. Whoever you are, whether you're the purple haired antifa maniac or, you know, you're, you're a female minority primary voter who shows up. Nothing, nothing in your life that you don't like is your fault. If you're a Democrat, it's somebody else's fault. Vote Democrat.

[Clay Travis]

And I think again, this is why I'm so optimistic. And I know I tend to be optimistic in general. But I just see so many young men starting to ask the question, have I really been. Have I lied to. And I think Covid was a big part of it. Because if they shut down your school and you didn't get to go to prom or finish your basketball season, or you didn't get to play soccer or whatever sport you love, they get to play football. And then you find out that you were never in danger from COVID and that what they told you about why you couldn't be in school. Well, guess who got to be in school? The rich kids at the private school. Guess who got to go to restaurants. Gavin Newsom didn't miss many meals. He got to hang out at the French laundry with all his buddies, have their nice glasses of chardonnay. And you start to think, wait a minute, maybe I need to do my own research on what the facts are. And I think more and more smart young men and young women, but particularly young men, are rejecting a lot of the. The lessons that they have been taught. Do something smart for your family if you haven't already. Get. How about a will and a trust? I have this. Buck has this. I hope we have a lot of years still to come, but if we don't, we've taken care of our families, and families know exactly what we want to happen when we are no longer here. Maybe you're like Buck and you just had your first baby. Maybe you're like me and you got a couple, two, three kids out there. Maybe you're a grandma or grandpa. Have you gone through the process of letting your family know what you want to happen after you are gone? Maybe you're out there and you're saying, I am the peacemaker. I'm the reason why Aunt Gladys and Uncle Phil can sit together at the same table for Thanksgiving. Because otherwise they're going to be at everybody's throat. They're going to be after each other. Can you imagine what will happen when you rely on those knuckleheads to try to figure out issues relating to your legacy? Don't you want to take it out of their hands and just be able to make the choices that are right for you and your family to help keep peace of mind in place when you're not there to help make peace of mind happen? That's what entirely a will and a trust is designed to do. You can go to trust and will.com clay right now and you'll get 20% off their experts in creating personalized trust and wills that will protect your legacy. It's affordable. You don't have to have a lawyer to do it, but it is something that you should take the time to [e-mail] Clay that's trustinwill.com Clay keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history on the Team 47 podcast Clay and Buck Highlight Trump replays from the week Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Buck Sexton]

Closing up shop on Clay and Buck for the day. Want to remind you all we've got this exciting thing that we're building out now called YouTube, the YouTube channel of clay and Buck show. We are all systems go on this one, but first we wanted to get to 550 stations, grow that podcast, do some very important things. But now our focus is on getting as many of you as we can to also be able to watch the video. And there's additional content. There's stuff that's gonna be going up there that you will not find anywhere else. So go to YouTube.com lay and buck. That is what you type in at Clay and Buck and you subscribe to that channel. We're over 100,000 now. Thank you so much for that. It is very exciting. And with that, the claws are out for Clay.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, no. Once again, oh, no.

[Buck Sexton]

Clay, who owns cats, let me just.

[Clay Travis]

Say, literally, the claws are out.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. I think Clay should always say, speaking as a cat owner, and then he could talk about cats. I've seen them. They, they, they, they just sort of appear instantaneously, then disappear again. I've been in Clay's house. I was like, wait, what was that? He's like, oh, yeah, it's one of the cats. Like, he's never that excited when they appear, but they are there.

[Clay Travis]

I was the only vote against cats in the household. For those of you who don't know when Covid shut down everything, my wife had all three boys do a persuasive speech on why we needed to get cats in the household. All three boys and her. I was outvoted four to one. I couldn't say no to my five year old, to my, what, nine year old and my 12 year old or whatever the heck they were. It was an Awful decision. So I am a double cat owner and I am not a fan of the cats, but cat ladies are mad at me.

[Buck Sexton]

Cat ladies claws are out. Talk back. GG hit it.

[Clay Travis]

I worked on suicide hotline four years.

[Buck Sexton]

Took over 15,000 calls. High percentage of those were women.

[Clay Travis]

The one way it would assure me they were going to be safe because they had to be alive to feed their cat so they would be safe. Suicide. Oh, that's kind of a. That was kind of a dark talk back there. I was expecting like a humor and like I.

[Buck Sexton]

When he started, guys, you kind of let us across the middle there and I just got taken out.

[Clay Travis]

We don't want anybody to get killed. Violent crime also. We don't want anybody to kill themselves. So I want a downer.

[Buck Sexton]

Who's.

[Clay Travis]

Who's responsible for leading us over the middle there on this, the final, final moment of the show.

[Buck Sexton]

That was. That was bleak.

[Clay Travis]

I know. That was dark. I mean, was that producer Greg? Producer Greg. To put him in the stocks. He's in trouble for that one. I was expecting to get made fun of.

[Buck Sexton]

I know exactly. Sorry. I totally would. Booster Greg, you're getting a code red for that one. Oh, that was good. Rough. Okay.

[Clay Travis]

Well, hey, hopefully, you know, you're still alive tomorrow and if you are, we'll be back here.

[Buck Sexton]

We do a radio show. We got a radio show. It's called Clay and Buck. It's usually informative and entertaining and we try to limit the womp. Womps.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. Don't kill yourself. Don't kill anybody. I wasn't expecting that to be be the tag as we left today. We'll see you tomorrow, kids.

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