Hour 3 - Democrats Causing Airport Chaos

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Episode: Hour 3 – Democrats Causing Airport Chaos
Date: March 19, 2026
Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into current controversies affecting politics, media, and American daily life, with a focus on recent airport chaos linked to Democratic policies, hypocrisy in media coverage of political scandals, cultural double standards, and the lighter side of March Madness. Clay and Buck offer candid opinions, humor, and real-world examples, weaving through politics, social commentary, and sports.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Media Hypocrisy and Scandal Double Standards

[00:20–06:25]

• Trump's Pearl Harbor Joke & Jake Tapper's Response

  • Clay ridicules CNN’s Jake Tapper for "fact-checking" Trump’s obvious joke about Pearl Harbor, highlighting media’s tendency to take Trump literally and seriously.
  • Clay Travis: “Tapper is a super jerk…he really had a habit of going after conservatives on Twitter when Twitter was also a left wing funhouse…” [01:46]

• Social Media Outrage and Lack of Original Thought

  • Buck Sexton: Social media exposes lack of original thought among mainstream media personalities: “Don’t have original thoughts and are also morons, which is a very bad combination.” [02:26]

• Controversy Surrounding Mayor Mamdani’s Wife

  • Clay unpacks the controversy involving New York City Councilman Mamdani’s wife and her history of anti-Semitic, racist, and homophobic statements, questioning how media should cover such stories given her non-elected status.
  • Emphasizes the difference between judging adolescent mistakes and consistent adulthood behavior.
  • Clay Travis: “My general rule is we should not go back in time and judge people on moronic things they tweeted at 15 or 16…” [03:03]
  • However, in this case, she continued her rhetoric into adulthood.

• Left-Wing Campus Radicalism

  • Both hosts agree such radicalism is common among left progressives, downplaying the uniqueness of the story.
  • Clay Travis: “She is a standard campus radical, anti-Semite ... like all of them do, basically.” [06:25]

• Selective Outrage and Double Standards

  • The hosts highlight how the left excuses or ignores bigotry within its own ranks, especially depending on race or perceived victim status.
  • Clay Travis: “If you’re brown, you’re allowed to be anti-gay and you’ll get away with it. And you’re certainly allowed to be anti-Semitic and you’ll get away with it.” [11:28]

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2. The Economics and Politics of Urban Flight

[08:07–10:59]

• Democratic Mismanagement and Tax Flight

  • Discussion of how high-tax, poorly managed Democrat-run cities (notably New York) push residents (like Buck and Sean Hannity) to relocate to lower-tax states like Florida.
  • Buck Sexton: “They turned both of us... into Florida refugees.” [10:20]

• Failure to Learn Lessons

  • Despite the exodus, Democratic leaders persist with failed policies, hoping to lure wealthy former residents back for tax revenue.
  • Buck Sexton: “They still think... just keep squeezing people, keep taxing people, say it’s all about the rich, don’t pay attention to economics.” [10:42]

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3. Cancel Culture, Context, and First Amendment Issues

[11:50–14:39]

• Context Matters for Cancelled Speech

  • Defense of nuanced understanding regarding offensive language or slurs, particularly around quoting versus direct use.
  • Buck Sexton: “Context matters, right? Like screaming a racial slur at someone... and quoting a rap lyric is different.” [12:08]
  • Clay Travis: “Quoting somebody else who said a slur is not racist.” [12:08]

• The Asymmetrical Application of Social Justice Rules

  • The left’s “rules” are wielded as tools of power, not ethics.
  • Clay Travis: “No grace, no fairness, no context. It’s just power.” [14:19]

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4. Pop Culture Tangent: Obsession with the Kennedys

[15:28–16:16]

• Riff on the popularity of TV dramas about the Kennedys, comparing it to the fascination with the British royal family.
• Lighthearted banter about their own spouses’ and the nation’s obsession with such series.

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5. March Madness and Bracket Banter

[17:38–22:42]

• Clay and Buck celebrate major upsets and historical moments in the NCAA tournament (e.g., TCU beats Ohio State; Nebraska wins its first-ever tournament game).
• Jokes about bracket picks and regional allegiances, with some rivalry and self-deprecating humor.

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6. TSA Chaos and Airport Security ("Democrats Causing Airport Chaos")

[22:52–29:43]

• Listener E-mail: TSA Worker Struggles

  • VIP listener shares that many TSA employees cannot afford to work, threatening regional airport closures.
  • Clay Travis: “Many TSA workers work paycheck to paycheck...you’re correct. This is indefensible.” [22:52]

• Professionalism within TSA

  • Clay’s positive experience with TSA agents over the years, suggesting criticism is often unfair.

• Debate: Could You Fly Without TSA?

  • Both hosts agree that, despite frustrations, security needs justify TSA’s existence due to the vulnerability of aircraft.
  • Buck Sexton: “Planes are an inherently vulnerable, soft target...” [26:16]
  • Refer to failed bomb plots as justification for tight airport security (Shoe Bomber, Underwear Bomber).

• Real ID Rant and Government Red Tape

  • Buck details his struggles to obtain a Real ID due to his work schedule, learning that for $45 anyone can bypass the requirement for ten days, calling into question its true purpose.
  • Clay Travis: “This real ID thing seems like a total sham to me.” [30:39]

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7. Listener Calls & TSA Pay Controversy

[33:18–34:25]

• Call from Michael, Navy Veteran
  • Michael shares his concern for underpaid Coast Guard personnel and their families during government shutdowns.
  • Michael: “As a second class petty officer, I had to get a second job just to help feed my family. I know it’s bad today for these junior enlisted Coast Guard people and their families.” [33:29]
  • Clay and Buck strongly agree that requiring people to work without pay is a governmental failure.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Media Hypocrisy:
  “The ignominious decline of CNN and along with it, the oh so serious taking himself oh so seriously. Jake Tapper is, it's justice, my friend. It's the way it should be.” – Clay Travis [01:46]

• On Cancel Culture Double Standards:
  “If you’re brown, you’re allowed to be anti-gay and you’ll get away with it... you’re certainly allowed to be anti-Semitic and you’ll get away with it.” – Clay Travis [11:28]

• On Real ID Absurdity:
  “If real ID is so important for our security, why... you just pay $45, it lasts for 10 days and they let you through... This real ID thing seems like a total sham.” – Clay Travis [29:43, 30:39]

• On Flying Without TSA:
  “Planes are an inherently vulnerable, soft target...you can bring down a plane. Even with the...shoe bomber, underwear bomber...” – Buck Sexton [26:16]

• On Democratic Governance:
  “They still think that this is the way to do business. Just keep squeezing people, keep taxing people, say it’s all about the rich, don’t pay attention to economics.” – Buck Sexton [10:42]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:20 – Jake Tapper fact-checks Trump, media critique
• 03:03–06:25 – Mamdani’s wife controversy and media precedent
• 08:07–10:59 – Tax flight, NY to Florida narrative
• 11:50–14:39 – Cancel culture, context, and double standards
• 15:28–16:16 – Kennedys drama TV show tangent
• 17:38–22:42 – NCAA March Madness banter and updates
• 22:52–29:43 – TSA crisis, listener email, Real ID woes
• 33:18–34:25 – Military family call-in about shut-down hardships

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Tone and Style

The show features Clay and Buck’s signature blend of sharp-tongued humor, skepticism toward left-wing politics, and a conversational, relatable approach. There’s camaraderie, frequent asides, and willingness to dissect the seriousness of policy and politics with both gravity and comic relief, blending listener engagement with news analysis.

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Transcript

[Clay Travis]

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[Clay Travis]

Tapper is a, is a super jerk. This is a guy who, when CNN was feeling flush with power during the Obama years, was really nasty, really had a habit of going after conservatives on Twitter when Twitter was also a left wing funhouse that was always helping people, you know, on the left and Democrats all the time at the expense of conservatives. So the ignominious decline of CNN and along with it, the oh so serious taking himself oh so seriously. Jake Tapper is, it's justice, my friend. It's the way it should be.

[Buck Sexton]

I think social media has demonstrated how many people in media and there's lots of things it's demonstrated, but it's, it's largely demonstrated how many people in media don't have original thoughts and are also morons, which is a very bad concept and a very bad combination. But anyway, if you were out there, President Trump made a great joke about, about Pearl harbor earlier today with the prime minister of Japan in the Oval Office when he was asked why they did not notify everyone in advance before the surprise attack on Iran. And that was, I thought, quite well said by President Trump. But I wanted to bring this up, Buck, as we're working through the final hour here, the Thursday edition, Mayor Mamdani's wife, there have now been a lot of people going into her social media background. And starting at about the age of 15, and she is 28 years old now, she's about to turn 29, so she's still relatively young. But starting at about the age of 15, when she got on social media for the first time, she began to celebrate the death, the murder of Jews. Um, she also used some, let's say it, inappropriate language, racial slurs, anti gay language. And I'm curious what your take is on this, Buck. And I've got several different breakdowns on this, and I would be curious to hear from a lot of parents and grandparents out there. My general rule is we should not go back in time and, and judge people on moronic things that they tweeted when they were 15 or 16 years old. And so I don't like the idea of when somebody suddenly 26 years old and they're a famous athlete for the first time and they just won a gold medal. Somebody goes back and they say, oh, my God, when they were 15 years old, they quoted rap lyrics or they had anti gay slurs, or they had inappropriate behavior on social media, and we retroactively castigate them for things that they did when they were young. That's my general proposition. But specifically with Mamdani and his wife, she has said the exact same thing since she got online at 15 years old, all the way up to 28, soon to be 29 years old. She has consistently celebrated the murder of Jews, including the murder and rape of Jews on October 7, 2023. Mayor Mamdani has responded to this in New York City by saying, well, my wife is not a public figure, except she's been on the COVID of magazines. She set for very, you know, beneficial hagiographic articles about her that I'm sure her PR team set up where all of the left wing media can fawn over her. What is your take on what should happen? What should a honest media do with a story like this and how should they cover it? What would you say if we, like, how do you analyze this? She's not the elected official. She is the wife. It started at the age of 15. If you were the ombudsman in charge of analyzing coverage here, or the editor in chief, let's say, of CNN and your actual goal was to be fair and Set a precedent for how to cover these stories. What would you say should happen here, Buck?

[Clay Travis]

Hmm? I'm king for a day of the media.

[Buck Sexton]

You get to drive all coverage of the Donny Wife story. Your. But you have to. We're trying to be consistent here. So the precedent that you set for her would be applied into the future for years to come for other figures which we know is dishonest and does not actually happen. But let's pretend that they were trying to do that.

[Clay Travis]

She's. I don't think it's a big story for the following reason. She is a standard campus radical, anti Semite, meaning that this is now common on the left. I mean, this isn't some. Oh, my gosh, you mean that there's someone who holds these radical progressive views and also hates Israel and the Jews? Yeah, like all of them do, basically.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Including some Jews, I might add, who are radical left progressive. So this is not a yeah, to your point.

[Buck Sexton]

I wish she would just say, yeah, I said it and I meant it, and just, like, own it. Right? Like, because then you can be like, okay, she hates Jewish people, and she's owning it. What I. What she's. But she's not willing to do that right today. And so they're trying to hide her to avoid having to address the situation.

[Clay Travis]

I've been very curious, guys, can we see. Did Momdani. What percentage of the Jewish vote that vote? Do we have any? I don't know if we have even enough data on that to know, but I'd be curious to see what percentage of the Jewish vote based on, I guess, exit polls Mamdani may have gotten.

[Buck Sexton]

But.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I don't think it's a. It's an interesting story, Clay. To some degree, it's not surprising. And it's not going to stick, and it's not going to do anything to Mamdani because he's screwing things up, I think so royally on things that really matter, that the fact that his wife is a repugnant imbecile, you know, de Blasio's wife, I might add, lost almost a billion dollars, or I should say spend almost a billion dollars on mental health. And I interviewed her about this, and no one knew where the money was, of course. Like, there was just. It was just, you know, kind of moved around to some NGOs or some. A billion dollars in a city budget's a lot of money.

[Buck Sexton]

And the way this money gets spent is true. We were talking about this with the homelessness thing yesterday. Yeah, it's unbelievable that we've just come.

[Clay Travis]

Does anyone think that the mental health situation of the. Of New York City got better? Because Charlotte, I think Charlene was her name, de Blasio was in charge of $1 billion of taxpayer funds that just got completed. Look, we all the money goes to people. It goes to bureaucrats who vote Democrat, who have no metrics, who have self, you know, paced jobs that they can show up for or not show up for basically. And, and that's, and it's a great way to buy yourself a lot of votes with taxpayer money and tell yourself you're a good person in the process. This is, this is what I'm saying. The first lady of New York, I guess that's what we call her. We got bigger problems with Mamdani driving away. Well, not, not a big problem for Florida. Come on in, boys and girls. The water's warm down here. It's lovely, lovely this time of year in Florida. They're destroying. I mean, this is why they have the governor of New York begging. And I will say, I think it was Charles Cook of National Review shared this out, you know, that the governor of New York was saying just a few years ago, you're not a real New Yorker. Get out of here. Take your, you're not going to.

[Buck Sexton]

Sean Hannity played those clips for me last night on his show Buck where. Cause Sean is a perfect example. You're a perfect example of this. You did what the mayor, the governor told you to do. You left and went to Florida. And now she's begging for everybody who left and went to Florida to come back and help pay taxes.

[Clay Travis]

It's funny actually, Sean and I, there's, there's some real similarity here in, we're talking two guys, Irish Catholics from the New York City area. I'm, you know, I grew up in the five boroughs. I think Sean's a Long island guy, but just outside the city who love New York. I mean, I, I know Sean was a guy who loved New York, spent so much of his career there. I was, I thought everybody who didn't live in New York was like, you know, lying to themselves about how. Where they were was great. I mean, this is a very New York mentality. They turned both of us, two guys from different generations of I heart New York so much, they turned both of us into Florida refugees.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

What else do you have? I mean, and not like we're the only ones. You go. There's a whole list of people from our business and a whole list of people from other Businesses, too. And Clay, they're not. The Democrats are not learning the lesson. They aren't changing a thing. They still think that this is the way to do business. Just keep squeezing people, keep taxing people, say it's all about the rich, don't pay attention to economics. And so this is what I mean, though. I mean, the first la. Like, what? You know, how big a story is it, Clay? What are we going to do? She's a horrible idiot. But you know what? There have been plenty of horrible idiot first ladies already in New York. Like, who cares?

[Buck Sexton]

Well, the one part that I think is interesting is they've now got her saying anti black racial slurs.

[Clay Travis]

I didn't see that. Now, that. That actually is a.

[Buck Sexton]

That's what I'm saying.

[Clay Travis]

Among Democrats, that's a little more of a problem. I didn't know. I didn't see that.

[Buck Sexton]

And homophobic language now.

[Clay Travis]

Nah. That they'll, they'll excuse that. If she's. She's. She's. She's brown, right? There's rules.

[Buck Sexton]

She's Palestinian, I think. I mean.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, yeah. She's like Arab or something, right? Yeah, she's brown.

[Buck Sexton]

She's allowed. I think she's.

[Clay Travis]

If you're brown, you're allowed to be anti. These are the rules the Democrats set up. If you're brown, you're allowed to be, you know, anti gay and you're. You'll get away with it. And you're also allowed to be. You're certainly allowed to be anti Semitic and you'll get away with it. Anti black. Like real racist stuff against black people that the left even get. That's. That's a tougher one for them to

[Buck Sexton]

make vote is their base. So they have to pretend that they're perpetually offended there. Now, here, I can't believe I'm going to defend her. Context matters, right? Like screaming a racial slur at someone that is intended to be negative. And quoting a rap lyric is different. Right.

[Clay Travis]

I know the most rap lyric is not racist. Quoting somebody else who said a slur is not racist. I know that. By the way, people say, well, buck you, would you do it? No, because we have these rules that are imposed on us. People are. This is wrong. This is wrong. Calling someone a slur is a bad and immoral thing. Referring to a word in a certain context that someone else may have said or that appears in a song that you are quoting or that appears in a work of literature that you are reading aloud is not racist. And this bending the knee thing to it has got to stop this like mass hysteria. George Floyd, ism of. Oh, my gosh. Surely wrong, but we haven't broken through on this yet. That's not to say that calling someone a racial slur is okay. I already said that is unethical, immoral, and a stupid thing to do. But there should not be words that. By the way, Christopher Hitchens agreed with me on this. Yeah, well, look, totally agreed on this. He had a whole article on the pernicious effect of banning words for some people. Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

I think that unfortunately for the mayor's wife, our defense of her is it is not Cancel People lyrics. When you're 15 or 16 years old on your social media accounts, I think context is the key. Right. Look at the F word, which is the most popular curse word in America. Sometimes it's actually a very positive thing.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

And we use context to distinguish between someone threatening someone by using a curse word and someone saying, hey, that's amazing. Right. Using the F word as an adjective to express amazement.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

And so I do think she could be in a little bit more peril over the fact that she has used the word. Did she use a version of the word? Yes.

[Clay Travis]

Oh. Oh, yes.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She is like, very naughty of the mayor's wife. And so I think she should have to answer for this. I do. And again, my argument would be he's

[Clay Travis]

going to hide behind that. She's not an elected official thing. You know, she's going to hide behind.

[Buck Sexton]

I get. But if she were 15 or they do it for freaking football players. Yeah, but they hold players. They hold them to a higher standard than her.

[Clay Travis]

I. I got. I got to bring you into, like, the real world here for a second, my friend. You keep coming into this. Like, these people have any standards whatsoever about what's fair and unfair. The whole point is that their side gets to say and do whatever they want and get away with it. And our side is held to extreme rules. No grace, no fairness, no context. It's just power. That's all this whole thing is. And by the way, the whole.

[Buck Sexton]

You can't use.

[Clay Travis]

Yes, yeah. You can't use the word. I can use the word because I am, you know, a different skin color than you. That's just about power, too. That's. There's no ethics based. There's no ethics in that. There's no right. There's no rationality in that. It's. I can do it. You can't. Yes, you shut up and don't say that word under any Circumstance, okay? We got to bend the knee. That's what it's. It's about power. It's power dynamics, pure and simple. And the left, of course, they get away with this stuff. I mean, don't even get me started on this whole Kennedy thing. This Kennedy show. The Kennedys. The Kennedys are like the worst clan of scumbags in the history of America. Okay? Top. The top to bottom. Look, I'm glad that RFK Jr. You know, works out without a shirt on and wants us not to have food dye in. He's made some mistakes, too. I'll leave it at that with him. He's made some mistakes, too.

[Buck Sexton]

This is funny because we were talking about off the air. Lara Travis and Kerry Sexton are obsessed with this new JFK Carolyn Bessette story that everybody is. Every girl is watching on the planet.

[Clay Travis]

Whenever I walk through the living room and she's watching the show, I'm just like, oh. She's like, I know what you're going to say, aren't you? I'm like, they're such scumbags. They're all RFK Jr. What's his name? The. Or JFK Jr. The guy was a dumbass. People are brats.

[Buck Sexton]

I don't understand why anybody cares about them at all. It's a number one show in America. It's all women. But I don't understand. They're all watching it.

[Clay Travis]

It's almost as silly as caring about the British royal family, Clay.

[Buck Sexton]

No, the royal family, actually, the Crown is an amazing show, I'll have you know. By the way, that's a good show,

[Clay Travis]

but that's not the same as caring about the. Sorry, we're going to run into a break. I got so fired up at the Kennedys.

[Buck Sexton]

Go to the. Go to the break. But by the way, your data before you go to the break. 63%, according to Exit polls from a variety of sources, voted. Of Jewish voters in New York Corporation, Cuomo, 33%.

[Clay Travis]

Mom.

[Buck Sexton]

Donnie.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We'll get some of your calls and talk backs here in a moment. Clay is watching a basketball game in the background that is apparently part of this March Madness thing. I have filled out a bracket and I have sent it into our team for safekeeping because kind of like the story of the two runners and the bear. I'm not trying to outrun the bear. I'm just trying to outrun the other runner. I just want to beat Clay in my bracket challenge because then I can get bragging rights. And I'm bringing Clay, all of my extensive knowledge of NCAA basketball programs to my bracket. So you better watch out.

[Buck Sexton]

We just had a game end. TCU has beaten Ohio State. We have massive audiences in the state of Ohio and in the state of Texas. So tcu, on behalf of the state of Texas, advancing to the second round, came down to a last second shot attempt from Ohio State. I'm a little bit out of breath, Buck, because I just ran up from up from upstairs. So you take us.

[Clay Travis]

Fortunately, my friend, I'm the one who

[Buck Sexton]

has the read here.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

Rapidradios.com welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Buck has completed his March Madness brackets. We have now got a result in the books. Like we said, TCU gets the win. Buck picked it correctly. This is very funny. You were filling out your bracket after the games had started and you were concerned about whether that was allowed. And I said, you have no idea who's playing. Like you're good to go. And he did it.

[Clay Travis]

So it just calls me out like that.

[Buck Sexton]

Now.

[Clay Travis]

He was correct but but still called out.

[Buck Sexton]

We have a huge audience in Omaha, Nebraska. KFAB Land. Congratulations. This is pretty cool, Buck. Nebraska has never won an NCAA tournament basketball game for a school of that size with an athletic department of that history of success. Unbelievable. They have just one. There's a minute and a half left but they're up 30. They have just won their first ever NCAA tournament game. So congrats to long suffering Nebraska Cornhusker fans out there. If you are listening to us and wondering how things might be going, there you go. We also have a monster audience in two other cities that are playing right now in Wisconsin, which is a state, but we are huge in Milwaukee. The Badgers are up two at the half on High Point, which Buck, any idea where High Point is located? This is one of the funds of fun things about the NCAA tournament.

[Clay Travis]

I do not know where High Point.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm pretty sure it's North Carolina. The team can correct me if I'm wrong on that. And then Louisville, where We are number one overall, is up 10 on South Florida. South Florida, despite being named South Florida actually located in Tampa. Does that qualify as South Florida in your mind now that you are a South Floridian? I don't think so.

[Clay Travis]

It is not. It is Central Florida and unfortunately that's looking like a tough one for the Buckster there.

[Buck Sexton]

My bracket is going to be perfect it looks like after the first four games. So Kalshee was giving out a billion dollars if you got every game correct. And so I'M going to be four. No. So we need, I don't know, about 100. What is it? Only need 64 more games. Correct. Or whatever the math is. And I will be well on my way to winning a bundle. I guess it would be 59 if I'm right. I think I'm right. Okay, let's see a couple of other things. We got some great talkbacks and emails, and I wanted to make sure that I hit those. A lot of you reacting to the TSA discussion. Let me go ahead and pull these.

[Clay Travis]

Can I just. Excuse me. Excuse me.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes.

[Clay Travis]

Producer Greg just. Just, like, sent me a reminder that Louisville's in Kentucky. All right. Like, I know where Louisville is.

[Buck Sexton]

I think it was a joke. I think that was.

[Clay Travis]

I know, I know. But, you know, we're. We're getting a little. We're getting a little saucy around here. Sorry, I don't know where, like, you know, Southeast Christian University is or whatever, you know, I don't know, but I know where Louisville is. For heaven's sakes. Come on.

[Buck Sexton]

High Point, North Carolina. All right, let's see.

[Clay Travis]

The people of High Point are mad at me for missing. They're like, yeah, we're kind of obscure. Like, they. They know.

[Buck Sexton]

Hey, guys. This is from a VIP listener. My husband works for tsa, and it's getting way out of hand. Many of the people who work for him can't come to work because they can't afford to. Many have kids, can't afford the childcare, and cannot afford the gas to come to work. You're correct. Many TSA workers work paycheck to paycheck. He works at a smaller airport in the south, and they might have to shut them down and. And the TSA would move to the nearest airport. Thanks. Love you all again, this is indefensible to me, and I understand a lot of people say, oh, you get frustrated when you go through tsa. And I understand that it's not exactly the job that leaves everybody agog with. With praise. Very often. We. I know this because I fly a lot out of Nashville. Huge numbers of the TSA agents in Nashville listen to this show and our fans, because I. I talk to them every time I'm flying. They're not getting paid. They're showing up. And I don't care what job you do, if you are showing up and not getting paid. I. I just think it's a failure of the government now.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I haven't. I haven't had a rude or. Now, I know some of you are going to completely freak out at me. I'm just saying from my personal experience, I haven't had a rude or unprofessional TSA agent in, in, in years now. It has been years. In the early days, I think it

[Buck Sexton]

was a lot worse.

[Clay Travis]

And I, I had, I did have some, some bad experiences, you know, going back, I don't know, 15 years or something now. But I haven't had, I, I have had TSA be very professional in my, I'll tell you, I got a lot more beef with the airline attendants who were doing the. You're not masking up fast enough. Yes, haven't forgotten about them. So, yeah, I, I have not, I have no problem with the tsa. I think that, well, maybe it should be privatized, yada, yada. But I'm just saying, I, I've, I, they get, they get a really hard time from people. And most of the ones that I've dealt with overwhelmingly in, in recent years have been, they've been professional, they've been reasonable.

[Buck Sexton]

I still buy. I don't think I told you this. You'll appreciate it because you've been ridiculing me for.

[Clay Travis]

Would you get on a plane with no tsa, by the way? Would you just, if, if you had the option of TSA line walk straight to the, walk straight to a different plane line, would you feel comfortable just going to the walk straight to the different plane line?

[Buck Sexton]

No. I mean, I think at this point in time, unfortunately, we have to have TSA like, I, you know, see, this

[Clay Travis]

is what I'm saying, right? That's really the test. It's not, you know, it's not like, oh, you know, people are like, oh, what about NCTC book? There's plenty of people in the CIA seeing exactly the same stuff NCTC is and putting them in the same brief, it's going to the same president, etc. Okay. I don't DSA, you actually need TSA.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, I don't think TSA agents are perfect because inevitably anytime you say this, people send emails, any bureaucracy, I mean,

[Clay Travis]

I'm probably going to get like, you know, double frisk the next time I go now as like, as a, you know, punishment for me saying nice things.

[Buck Sexton]

But you can miss, you can miss on the, on the job, right? I mean, somebody could get a weapon through, somebody could fail. But I do think it's a huge deterrence factor because I think many people who would do harm to us if they could expect that there's a high likelihood that they would get caught by the tsa and as a result, don't engage in behavior like that.

[Clay Travis]

Planes are an inherently vulnerable, soft target because you don't need. If you bring an explosive device into a crowded place, you know, it depends on how it's made, how much explosive, a shrapnel and all these things. I mean, yes, you can obviously hurt a lot of people, and it's terrible, but you don't have to bring much of an explosive at all on a plane to kill 200 people. It's hard to kill 200 people with an explosive that you're just carrying on you. You know, it's hard, thankfully, to do that with. With a. With, you know, with a car bomb. Different. But with an explosive you're carrying on you, you can bring down a plane. I mean, even with the. Remember Richard Reed, the shoe bomber?

[Buck Sexton]

The shoe bomber.

[Clay Travis]

If he had actually, if those shoes had gone, he might have taken down that whole plane.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was the underwear bomber. This is during the Obama administration, I think, 2009, 2010. I can't remember the year. But remember, this guy tried to light his underwear on fire because he had brought explosives in, like, the seams of the underwear. He ended up just lighting himself on fire. But that might have brought down the plane, too. You don't need a lot. And if you. And if the plane, obviously, if the fuselage fails, everyone's dying, basically. So this is why planes are vulnerable, and this is why we have special security for planes. Like, there. There is a. There is a reason for all of this.

[Buck Sexton]

Let me ask you this, because I don't know that you saw it. It happened to me. I still do not have a real id. I am.

[Clay Travis]

What is. What is going on with you, dude? You're gonna get blocked. We're going to go to the White House again this spring when it's nice in D.C. and you're going to look at me. I can already. I'm telling you right now, I'm just calling my shot on this clay. Look at me like, oh, dude, I totally was going to get a real id, but, you know, and I have to try to negotiate with the guards, with the Secret Service.

[Buck Sexton]

I. I don't. Because of our show, it's almost impossible for me to go to the dmv, and people are going to say, what do you mean by that? I can't get. Our show starts at 11am Central. There is almost nowhere I can go in the morning that I know I can get a real ID before 11. And be able to get back home to do the show. And there's almost nowhere that I can go after two and get done before the DMV shuts shuts down. So I don't want to take a full day off of work to go to the dmv, which is what this would require. Unless there's somebody out there that is super DMV fan of Clay and Buck in the Nashville area. And then I would be happy to hear from you, but I forgot my passport, which is what I've been using, because if you don't have a real id, you can use your passport. Here's a. This seems like a flaw. If you don't have real ID, you pay $45, and for 10 days, you just get to go through. Do you know that this is the new catch all provision of real id? If real ID is so important for our security, why they have an app? You just click on a picture. I didn't have my. I was like, oh, no, I took the wrong bag. I don't have my passport. I don't have a real ID phone photo. I can pay $45. It lasts for 10 days and they let you through. How? What? Tell me what. I have TSA Precheck. Tell me what, other than the government getting more of my money, what the real ID is based for if you can just pay $45 and you don't have to have it.

[Clay Travis]

I'm not like Captain real ID over here.

[Buck Sexton]

No, I just. I'm just saying, like everybody said, oh, this is incredibly important for airport security, which I understand. And then the. The current situation is if you don't have it at all, you just pay $45 and you go through. I have TSA Precheck. I have a passport. Like, the government knows everything that they want to know about me. Probably way more than I want them to know. Candidly, I think when you look at the way they've been going after all these Republicans phones, 100 billion percent. They've gotten some of our text messages to congressmen or senators based on the fact that they've been doing a dragnet on these guys. So what. What is the government protecting me from with real ID when I can pay $45 and just go through? And by the way, this is for anybody. I could be an illegal immigrant and pay $45 and just go through. This real ID thing seems like a total sham to me.

[Clay Travis]

I just. I'm a Floridian man. We got real IDs here. I don't know why. Why Can't Tennessee.

[Buck Sexton]

I don't know why Tennessee didn't include it, but I don't have it on my license. And so if somebody's in the DMV and they want to send me a DM and they want to say hey Clay, I'll guarantee you that you can get in and out afternoon or morning, then I will go do it.

[Clay Travis]

I just feel like this isn't really that complicated. You can get yourself, you know, you can, you can take the time. We'll get you a real.

[Buck Sexton]

I don't think I. I don't want to take a day off work to go to the dmv. That's the worst day off work in the history of mankind. Other than go taking a day off work to have surgery. I'm not sure there's a worst day to have a worse day off than to go to the dmv. I'm going to go sit at the dmv.

[Clay Travis]

Jury duty. I'll see you.

[Buck Sexton]

Raise you.

[Clay Travis]

Jury duty here.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, you've had jury duty before.

[Clay Travis]

Yep, yep, yep, yep. Jury.

[Buck Sexton]

That's, that's not a great. That's not a great great day off work either. I agree.

[Clay Travis]

You know, not my favorite.

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We'll get some calls and talk backs. Let's do it. Michael in Wisconsin. Michael, I see you serve 23 years in the Navy. You want to make an important point here? Go for it.

[Michael (Caller)]

Yes, sir. I really appreciate you and you, Clay and Buck. I pray for the TSA agents and their families and the other Homeland Security personnel. But my major concern is for the junior enlisted in the US Coast Guard and their families. As a junior enlisted, back in the day, back in Carter's days, I had to, as a second class petty officer, I had to get a second job just to help feed my family. I know it's bad today for these junior enlisted Coast Guard people and their families.

[Buck Sexton]

Look, Amen. Thank you for the call. Every single person that is not being paid and being forced to work because there is a difference, Buck. Like some of these guys, when you know you're going to get paid eventually and we have a word for being

[Clay Travis]

forced to work without being paid. It's, it's a pretty intense, yes.

[Buck Sexton]

But some people, like when the whole government shut down, some people just took months off. They just said, hey, I'm gonna just, and you know you're gonna get paid eventually if you have the ability to have the resources for that. To require people to work full time and not pay them should not be allowed. It just, it shouldn't exist. It's a failure of the government and in this particular case, Democrats are throwing a hissy fit and they have decided to make TSA agents, some Coast Guard people, everybody who's having to work and not being paid.

[Clay Travis]

I can tell that our, our listeners want to send me off for my weekend here with a smile because they're just, they're just coming at Clay with all kinds of stuff right now. For example, Jason from New Hampshire, this is, is G. He has some words for you, Clay, about your Real ID issue. Play it.

[Buck Sexton]

Hey Clay, it's Jason from New Hampshire Listening on AM610. I'm pretty sure you can either call or go online and make an appointment to get your real id. So you're out of excuses, bud. Go get one. I don't think this was true. I. When there were. It was like six months. Wait. When I looked at the TSA and different states are different. Like many of them make real ID standard. I don't know why Tennessee didn't, but I haven't. You don't get a real ID as the standard thing, at least if you've had a license for a while. So if I can now go without a multi month backlog, then I will look into that. Still not sure I can get in in the morning or get in in the afternoon and not miss the show. How long does it take?

[Clay Travis]

Okay, but if we're going to go hang out with with the President, etc. Sometime this spring, you better have that passport on you, buddy. That's all I'm telling you. All right. You bet. Yeah, we can't do this thing again where you're. You're banned by the Secret Service for the day because you don't have proper identification.

[Buck Sexton]

I have a great defense that I was not being leaked information by Joe Kent because the meeting that you had with Tulsi and Joe Kent, I wasn't even allowed to go in because I didn't have the real id. They said, sorry, sir, even you're disallowed to go into the. The meeting on. On the White House grounds. So I have been unable to enter. That's my defense. The hell of a defense.

[Clay Travis]

There we go. There we go. So hopefully they'll get this stuff squared away soon with psa because at some point, well, I don't know, I just feel like this is Democrats acting like spoiled jerk and making people suffer for it who shouldn't be suffering. And that's not right. Clay is going to have you solo tomorrow on Friday and it's going to be a fantastic show. I am traveling up north here to North Florida, actually. So that's where I'm heading out for the weekend. And I hope people will pick up a copy of Manufacturing Delusion in my absence because it is now 25 for the hardcover. Amazon is back in stock. And play what else. What are you going to tease everyone with what's coming up tomorrow?

[Buck Sexton]

California tried to build a bridge, Buck. I think we're going to have some fun with this on Friday so that animals could cross the bridge. It cost over $100 million and the bridge is still not finished. Welcome to Gavin Newsom's California. We'll have fun.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

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