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Buck Sexton
Buck kicks off now with our buddy Ryan Gardusky, It's a Numbers Game is his podcast in the Clay and Buck network. And the numbers for the podcast are fabulous. Fantastic. Very much something that a lot of you are enjoying. You learn so much about the inside game of politics. Mr. Gardusky, always a pleasure to have you, sir.
Ryan Gardusky
Thank you for having me.
Buck Sexton
Let's start with if we could, first off, Virginia. The the state supreme court throwing out the the super gerrymandered map that would have given them a nine to one advantage in the state. What does this look like now when you start to do the math on the change in Virginia, plus the Republican gerrymandered states that have been a response to what they thought happened in Virginia. And there's a few pieces moving here at the same time. How's the GOP looking? What. What's the advantage looking like when they shift around these districts?
Ryan Gardusky
Yeah. So that with the spamberger 10 to 1 map being thrown out, Republicans have the advantage in 206 districts right now. There's a lot of. There's a guy named Chuck Edwards, he's in North Carolina. He just came out with an investigation against him for having an affair with the staffer, allegedly. So his district might be a little bit of trouble, but I'm gonna say it's 206 with his district. Then you get into the Florida districts. There are four redistricted districts in Florida that run desens put through. That's also in the middle of litigation. So depending on how the litigation goes, if Ron DeSantis is successful in that litigation, it bumps Republican numbers up to 209. Then you get into the south redistricting. The south is currently redistricting Tennessee South South Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana and maybe Mississippi this cycle. They may have been passed the date by the cycle. So a big question is, does Louisiana and Alabama go for all the districts or do they leave a Democratic district in those two? In those two states, if they decide to give the Democrats one seat in Alabama and one seat in Louisiana, you're between 213 to 216 seats. It's 218 to win a majority. So Republicans have really never been so close as they are right now to maintaining the majority. It is really, really, really slim. But they're in a shockingly strong position for a midterm election.
Clay Travis
Okay, so right now, thanks for coming on, Ryan. The poly market calds would give Republicans around a 25% chance to win the House. Based on what you are saying in that just analysis, you think it's better than 25% chance. When you look at the number Republicans contain, retain control of the House, yeah,
Ryan Gardusky
I would say it's close to a third, maybe a little more than a third. Here's the problem is that once you get to 216 to 15, depending on how these are districts go, and they're probably not weighing in those redistricting efforts yet, where do you go for the extra three seats? Right. Main second is an obvious one that is a, That's a Trump +11 seat. It's a seat that Susan Collins always WINS. The former governor Paul LePage is running as the Republican nominee. He's very favored to win there, and that should be an easy pickup. And then after that, it gets pretty, pretty dicey. You have three swing seats in Pennsylvania. You have one in New Jersey, one in Wisconsin, two in Iowa, one in Colorado and two in Arizona, and then one in New York. Those are really, that's really where you get to. If you think maybe one in Washington state, maybe you can make an argument that's a really swing district. But after that, it gets kind of dicey to find that extra seat or two. The two seats in South Texas seem pretty strong in favor of Democrats. There's been some internal polling saying Republicans have a chance to pick them up, and if they can win the South Texas seats, they're good. There's the Long island seat. There's a guy named Michael Apache running in New York's third district. That's a big pickup opportunity. It's a Trump+4 seat that a Democratic has. But really trying to find that extra two or three seats is difficult, but it's, it's absolutely possible.
Buck Sexton
So, Ryan, the conventional wisdom, I think, among a lot in the commentary class at least, was that Republicans can get away with all kinds of stuff in very red states and somehow are not held to account. That seemed to get a big slapdown in Indiana alongside the. Trump doesn't have the juice anymore to make a difference. Can you take us into Indiana a little bit with what happened there because of the refusal to gerrymander from some of their state senators, but also, can we extrapolate a little bit about just Trump's influence when he's not on the ballot?
Ryan Gardusky
Yeah. I mean, not only did. Well, it's two things. There's Trump's influence, And also there's $10 million of spending that also really goes a long way. The Republicans invested a lot to kick out these state senators, and it looks like they, they ousted all but two of them that refused to gerrymander. In Indiana, which would have given the Republicans those two seats. Had Indiana and Georgia gone, along with the redistricting, there really wouldn't be a question if they hold the majority or not anymore. So that's the big irony. They would have really had an amazing chance holding the majority. But Trump's opinion, especially in these, on these primary elections where such a small percentage of the population is voting, and he's really spent a lot of time and energy juicing them up to say they're going to cost us this, the majority, when that means I'm going to be impeached again. And Trump does have that incredibly loyal 30% of the country who votes in primaries, Republican base that are unmovable and unwavering. And that's really where he, he's been able to dominate in these primaries. And that's why you see loyalty for him that you haven't seen in past Republican presidents.
Clay Travis
Let's talk Senate for a second. In Maine, Graham Platner, the Nazi tattoo guy, is going to be the nominee for Democrats running against Susan Collins in Michigan. Increasingly, it looks like a guy named EL Sayed is going to knock out two moms that are trying to run in the. Abigail Spanberger. I'm a moderate, Lane. I'm curious how you would assess here. We still have to wait and see who the nominees are going to be in, in for instance, Texas, to, to, to look at this. But is there a possibility that Democrats are overreaching and going too far left? Because in Maine in particular, there is no pathway basically to Democrats winning the Senate back if they don't flip Susan Collins out in Maine. In Michigan, if Republicans flipped a seat there, that would be basically ending their chances. Is there a potential overreach going on in some of these candidate choices that the Democrats are making?
Ryan Gardusky
Yeah, I mean, the biggest person who's been the loser this entire time is Chuck Schumer, because Chuck Schumer's nominees have been going down one after the other. And these people, as much as they hate Israel, they also hate Chuck Schumer, all these Democrats running for office. You also miss Ms. Fleming, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, who's possibly the craziest of them all. Fleming actually makes all the rest of them look way more.
Clay Travis
She is. Or he is, whatever. This is the trans person, right?
Ryan Gardusky
She. No, no, it's a woman. She's. She identifies as a woman, but she is Native American.
Buck Sexton
He is Clay.
Clay Travis
Okay, this is not, this is not the crazy trans person in Minnesota that's popular, is it? Isn't one somebody high Ranking in Minnesota. Trans.
Ryan Gardusky
I don't know about the trans person, but she's definitely a woman.
Clay Travis
I want to look this person up. I thought this was a trans person. My bad.
Ryan Gardusky
So she knows she's three sheets the wind crazy. Look, the Democratic Party after Kamala Harris Lawson. We are sober now. We're serious. We're past the BLM stuff. We're past the pronouns. We're going to have a real adult party. And they nominate Graham Planner, who in his mid-30s was saying that he was a communist. It wasn't when he was like 19, he was in his, like mid-30s writing on Reddit that he was a communist. There's the candidate in Michigan who's nuts. The woman who's likely the next governor candidate in Wisconsin. I forget her name. Fong is, I think her last name. She's completely crazy. And Penny Flatigan is crazier than all of them. And there's just no way of showing that this is really where the Democratic Party is. And it's not going to go change or moderate. Really. In the case of a 2028 election cycle, this is who they are. It is the full. As Buck likes to say all the time, you cannot get a serious Democrat on here to say how many genders are there? They would not answer that question. That is fundamentally who they are. As far as the Senate goes, as far as can Republicans win this? There is not a single Democrat. There's not a single Democrat in a single state where Trump has won three times. So in order for them to do that to. For them to win this, they have to win North Carolina. They have. They have a very strong chance of winning.
Buck Sexton
So that was.
Ryan Gardusky
That would be the one. Alaska. It's 50.
Clay Travis
50.
Ryan Gardusky
They were just ousted. The candidate running, the Democrat running was just ousted a year and a half ago. Will they vote for the person they just kicked out? Maybe, maybe not. Who knows? And aside from that, ohi Ohio is very difficult. Iowa is very difficult. It's hard to get that Thursday, even with Texas. It's very difficult with Talarico.
Clay Travis
By the way, the person, Lee Fink, I thought that was the person running. So whoever the trans person is, Lee
Buck Sexton
Fink, and I'm not sure apologizes to the non trans person for thinking that that person was trans.
Clay Travis
I thought that was a dude pretending to be a girl. It's actually just a girl. My apologies.
Buck Sexton
Clay thought this about Katie Porter, I think too. Clay's rough.
Clay Travis
I just, I'm very. They're very pro trans, so I can't even Keep up with who's actually male, who's actually female. I thought the Flanagan chick was actually
Ryan Gardusky
we can just guesses if someone's trans or not. That'd be great. That's. But yeah, but, but it's very difficult for them to find a third seat for them to win. Alaska would be the easiest of the options but after that Ohio, Iowa and Texas are very, very big stretches.
Buck Sexton
Ryan, can I ask you to just. And we're speaking to Ryan Garduski. It's a numbers game is this fantastic podcast which I highly recommend this weekend guys. Go listen to it as you're catching up on everything. You'll know more than all your friends about politics. Tell me about gas price as it this is now a thing. It's, it's a, it's a kind of like taken as a given that the gas price going to matter. It's going to matter. High, low, medium going to affect the midterms a lot historically. Is that how locked in is that? I mean if the gas prices are high, all other things looking like they do right now. Is it a tough night for Republicans, you think in November? I mean just because this is going to be something we're looking at month to month, day to day actually until then, does it matter a lot?
Ryan Gardusky
Yes. I mean but the redistricting effort does. The redistricting being successful the way it is, it definitely limits the pain than that we would normally that Republicans should have felt where it's not going to be a 2018 style, a 40 something seat landslide loss. It's just, there's just not enough swing seats for that to happen. But it, it absolutely matters. I mean gas prices are the thing that is an advertisement of inflation everywhere you go. It's what people, you know, use to, to go. They can't, people have to cancel some of vacation plans or can't go to the beach because they can't afford gas prices and gross at the same time. It absolutely negatively impacts them. There's just no other way around it. So yeah, they need to get gas prices lower. They need to get them lower as fast as possibly can. But there's kind of no other work way around there. And it kind of, it is a bit of how it is for, for the time being. But Trump probably, they probably have another month and a half before this really sinks in.
Clay Travis
Okay, so that would be my question for you. If you could give President Trump and his team one bit of advice right now, entirely political, would it be hey, gas prices is the thing we need them Back down.
Ryan Gardusky
Yeah. Holiday on gas tax would be a good. Would be a good start. Just do a holiday on the gas taxes nationwide would be. Would at least remedy the situation by a couple of cents. And then. Yeah. And then any. Which. Any other way you can get the gas to reduce. Because gas affects everything else. It affects your food. It affects, you know, transporting all of our goods and services to the middle of the country. It is. It is. Everything is the economy right now. Americans really don't care about many other things than the economy and kind of cutting. There was a. There was a talk about trying to cut the. The capital gains tax. That's not where people are. People are. Where can they. Can. Can they feed themselves, their family, pay mortgage, pay rent, and make sure that their kid has a summer vacation? And that's really. That's the entire. That's the game right there. So they can get gas prices down. And even if they start going down without reaching the level they were at before the war started, there would be a feeling of, okay, we're moving in the right direction. They just have to say, oh, things are actually starting to go in the right direction.
Clay Travis
Where do you come down on aliens? Big debate here on the show so far. Do you have a strong alien take as the UFO files are beginning to be released?
Ryan Gardusky
I do not believe in aliens. There is hardly intelligent life on this planet. I don't believe there's more on other planets.
Buck Sexton
See, I was gonna say Ryan only focuses on illegal aliens and deal with deported.
Ryan Gardusky
That is absolutely true. Yeah, I don't believe. I'm not a believer in aliens. I. I can't.
Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Can I jump in? Actually, Clay, I know you're supposed to bring us in, but I just is eye of the tiger all in the greatest psych you up song of all time. Is it the most get you fired up for like a sporting event. Getting it, getting after it in the gym. It's long, long ride, long run. Whatever it may be.
Clay Travis
It's tough to beat the Eminem, you know, Vomit on my sweater that, that Eminem to get people fired up, I think. Yeah, old school, old school. Eminem I think is really good. Now you got me thinking. I like Blur Song two, which is just the Woohoo song, which is there's not a lot to it, but it's super great. All I Do Is Win by DJ Khaled is pretty awesome as a get fired up song. Off the top of my head, if I'm thinking through things that I hear
Buck Sexton
you're trending toward a little bit more urban music than I would have Anticipated. I'm. I'm. I'm very intrigued here.
Clay Travis
Yes, well, Blur is rock. DJ Khaled and Eminem. I'm trying to think of other. Other songs that you would put on the playlist to get fired up for.
Buck Sexton
Hero by Foo Fighters would be very high.
Clay Travis
That is. That is.
Buck Sexton
That would be. For me, that's the eye of the. That's the 90s version of Eye of the Tiger for the 80s.
Clay Travis
You know where that song initially became famous. Hero, of course.
Buck Sexton
The original Friday Night Lights movie, which was. I'm sorry, no. The original Varsity Blues movie. Pardon me. Which is kind of a Friday Night Lights ripoff, which is what I was thinking of it.
Clay Travis
It's so good. Varsity Blues, back in the day, whipped cream bikini. Ali Larder, now of Landman fame. But she initially became famous. For those of you who remember that scene when James Vander Beak's character is propositioned by her in a whipped cream bikini. So great. Look. All right. Look, Buck. Speaking of not great looks, right now there is a woman screaming incoherently outside the Virginia Supreme Court building. This is real. It is arguably spectacular as well. Cut. 26.
Buck Sexton
Shame.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
But this is.
Buck Sexton
I can't hear.
Clay Travis
I'm.
Buck Sexton
This is our show and I can't hear it. I don't think anyone can hear.
Clay Travis
It's just some screaming shame. The video is very funny. This is. She is walking around on the sidewalk by herself screaming shame at the building over the decision rendered by the Virginia Supreme Court. We got a bunch of fun talkbacks. We'll hit those for you. It is the Friday edition of the program Buck, you and I were talking about off air. This is what Democrats do to their base. They convince them of things that don't end up happening, and then those people lose their minds and they're just walking around screaming on the streets like crazy people.
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Clay Travis
Listening to this. Yes. I was going to ask you if you remember where this became super icon.
Buck Sexton
Yes.
Clay Travis
Shooting guard six six North Carolina. Mighty. A lot of you out there have heard this as the introduction for Michael Jordan in the Chicago Bulls. That was old school, but that's great.
Buck Sexton
Alan Parsons Project who did that song. That's pretty cool. No, did another one. VIP email from the best hype songs out there. VIP email from Jason Here's a song when you absolutely have to kick ass. You're the best around by Joe Esposito which was featured in the original Karate Kid. That is a great, that is a great song. And you go right into the karate tournament when you hear that song. I don't care if you've seen that movie, which all of us have, you are ready to do the crane kick, which might be by the way, the least effective martial arts technique ever devised. By going up on one leg and lifting.
Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Abs Absolutely. I would love to get into some of these talkbacks. Let's see, we have. Well, let's start with C in Houston, Texas. Jeff Hit it, Clay.
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Buck Sexton
down this new map as unconstitutional. But the Supreme Court of the United
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States has ruled it constitutional everywhere else.
Buck Sexton
Won't they do the same here?
Clay Travis
No. So this is like this is me getting into the legal weeds here. So what the Supreme Court ruled in the Louisiana Calais case is that you cannot redistrict based on race. You can redistrict based on partisan related issues. But the challenge is the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the Virginia Constitution has been violated by the referendum that they put in place. In other words, this is not a US Constitutional issue that is being examined. This is a state constitutional issue. And generally speaking, I say generally, generally speaking, the United States Supreme Court would defer to the interpretation of the Supreme Court of estate. Now, to be fair, in Colorado, Buck, as we talked about the Colorado Supreme Court, people forget, ruled that Donald Trump's name couldn't be on the ballot because he had violated the US Constitution. And therefore, I know this is getting into weeds, but a lot of people have forgotten about this case. Therefore, he shouldn't be allowed to appear on the Colorado Supreme Court. But that was an interpretation of the United States Constitution that was misattributed by the Colorado Supreme Court. And that was the 90 decision that the United States Supreme Court said, you can't take Trump's name off the ballot. So this is diving into the weeds. The easiest way maybe to explain it, Buck, for people out there is this is a Virginia state constitutional violation according to the Virginia Supreme Court. It does not implicate the United States Constitution in its ruling. I do not think that there is any likelihood at all that the United States Supreme Court is going to weigh in on Virginia state constitutional law.
Buck Sexton
Did you go into a similar legal monologue the first time you were trying to get Laura's phone number? Because, wow. Let me tell you, the ladies out there right now are like, give me some more of that state versus federal constitutional analysis, baby.
Clay Travis
I will say I did meet my wife in law school, and she may have been impressed with my ability to analyze constitutional dicta. Little bit of legal humor there for
Buck Sexton
you on a Friday. There you go.
Clay Travis
Allison in California. That's a little dad humor and lawyer humor all rolled into one, don't question my dicta. Allison in California. Hey, guys. Two quick things, Buck. You don't have to worry about losing your man card over an espresso martini. You've lost your man card a very long time ago. And two, you guys should definitely do a cruise. Rush did. One, I went on a couple with Reason foundation, and I think the Weekly Standard, and they were a blast.
Buck Sexton
Well, first of all, it's very nice about the cruise. Can I just say, I feel like I was just in the. In the grocery store with my shopping cart and. And Allison just clotheslined Me out of nowhere, you know, like what. What happened there? I just lost. Didn't. Didn't even explain. I. I get no way to try to regain man card. It just swiped and gone forever. Allison, that's harsh.
Clay Travis
It is tough to drink an espresso martini and look super masculine. I will say. Doesn't mean the drink isn't great. I'm. For instance, I'm a fan of sangrias. Nobody's ever seen a guy drinking a sangria and been like, that's a badass.
Buck Sexton
It depends if you're. If your name is like Alonzo Alfonso and you have a shirt all the way unbuttoned down to your navel, then the sangria can be very masculine. The.
Clay Travis
The cruise ship idea, they asked us a while back, they said, hey, would you guys be willing to do a show from a cruise? And I said yes. Now I want us to be within sight. I like the idea of a river cruise more than an ocean cruise.
Buck Sexton
Meet me too. And you just want a hantavirus free cruise is really what you're.
Clay Travis
That's. That's. Now I get nervous because I, I. Can you imagine if the Clay and Buck cruise had a hantavirus breakout and we're just unable to go back to land? That's my hell is being on a boat that you cannot leave. I don't like going anywhere that I can't leave doesn't mean that I have to leave. I get a little bit claustrophobic with. I'm on a boat is basically a boat is basically a flo floating prison. You can't leave. You can't jump off and swim to land. That's where they used to put them all the day. Back in the day. You know, Buck, the debtors prisons were just boats offshore that they would put people in. You couldn't leave.
Buck Sexton
I've gone on a. On a Revolutionary War kick lately. For my. My reading list, I'm reading a biography of Ethan Allen. I'm also. I've got a Samuel Adams biography that I'm about to dive into. Clay. And it's just a reminder to everybody, first of all, there were some moments with the British where now the patriot does a pretty good job of this, the movie. But we always think of the British were kind of like, oh, we'll meet you in the field of battle. Oh, no bayonets on. Sometimes they're like, we're just going to kill all of you. You, you know, down.
Clay Travis
Burn down your entire city. I mean that was a real thing. The Revolutionary War was Way bloodier than.
Buck Sexton
And.
Clay Travis
And people think.
Buck Sexton
Just because we think of the weapons as outdated and the silly costumes. They were brutal. There was some. There was some really rough stuff that happened even. Even like right after Bunker Hill, what the. What the redcoats did. But the. Speaking of Revolutionary war era, I think people forget about, like, the worst thing imaginable was to be captured alive, actually, and put on one of the prison barges which were just in the waters off of Manhattan and Brooklyn, essentially.
Clay Travis
Yeah, right.
Buck Sexton
The British had a major prison barge there, and you were essentially just left in abject squalor to slowly freeze. Freeze and. Or starve and or, you know, succumb to whatever diseases were on that ship. I mean, it was almost a death sentence. It was. It was horrible just to be on that ship. So it wasn't all tea and crumpets is what I'm saying. Wasn't all tea and crumpets.
Clay Travis
New York listener wor. He's also teeing off on you, Buck. Cut e. Hey, Clay and Buck.
Buck Sexton
Men should only be drinking brown liquor and beer. The only clear liquor is the choice of the marines is ever clear. That's the only clear liquor. Have a great day, man. Simplify.
Clay Travis
It's a really. I appreciate the marine call in vodka. I don't think that many people are like, hey, vodka is a total loser drink. Some tequilas are quite clear. In general, yes, Buck is a wuss for his drink choice, but I'm going to have to throw a little bit of flag here on the wr.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, no. Beer is supermanly. If you want to elevate your estrogen levels, drink empty calories, and get man boobs. But other than that, beer is totally the fluid of masculine.
Clay Travis
You want to be the fat guy on the boat. I'm going to be the fat guy on the boat tomorrow in Miami. With all.
Buck Sexton
We are going boating tomorrow. There's going to be some boating happening, which we're looking forward to. We did Larry.
Clay Travis
I think we have not played Larry yet. Larry.
Buck Sexton
Oh, we've not played Larry. F. Larry. Larry. Going once, going twice. Oh, okay. Well, let's try G. Matt in Minnesota.
Ryan Gardusky
Yeah, I agree with Buck. My thoughts on the alien thing is the same as my thoughts on the flat earth thing. So let's say that tomorrow they prove that the earth is flat. Okay, cool. I still got to go to work on Monday and gas is still $4.30.
Clay Travis
So you're saying this is a.
Buck Sexton
This is a bit of. What I. What I think is that even if the stuff that they're saying it's a little bit of who cares? Like, ok, so there's some little blip on a screen that doesn't do anything that nobody knows about. There's a lot of stuff that we can, we don't, we don't understand, as I was saying before.
Clay Travis
Well, I think if we find out that alien life exists, the first question that is of paramount importance is is it benevolent alien life that is just going to observe us from afar or is there potential of alien life deciding to impact in some way our own life? I think that's the, the number one question you would have. If it's just some sort of advanced species that is occasionally observing us, then that's different than, hey, this is something that the government has in some way interacted with or we have had communication with.
Buck Sexton
Do I think we might find like on an asteroid somewhere some kind of bacteria or single celled organism? Sure, maybe. And will people be like, oh my gosh, like extraterrestrial life until there's little green men running around going beep beep, beep, beep beep, and have like little laser guns and stuff? I don't really care. I'm just here to tell you the truth. I don't really care, you know, until, until all the aliens show up looking like Sydney Sweeney. You're not really going to get that much out of me.
Clay Travis
Well, first of all, I am very favor in favor of alien life interacting with us if they look like Sydney Sweeney. In fact, that may be one way to get our birth rate up. Larry in Ohio is now with U.S. news Radio 640 WH. Hey, Clay, it's Larry from Ohio. If you're drinking a James Bond martini, then yes, you lose man points because he's drinking it shaken, not stirred. And so he's diluting the gin with the broken ice. And it's a weaker, wimpier martini. I didn't expect for James Bond to be attacked.
Buck Sexton
I know. As I think someone just swiped James Bond's man card there. Is that what just happened?
Clay Travis
If anybody deserves the man card, I think it would be James Bond. But yes, evidently, unless we're misunderstood, Larry.
Buck Sexton
We didn't know that Larry from Ohio was such an Odd Job fan, but he was rooting for Odd Job the whole time. Apparently.
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Travis Buck Sexton show Oh my God. We got so many loaded lines here right now. Let's run through really quickly. Each of you get 30 seconds. Let's see Eric in OH Aspen, Colorado. Not a bad place to be. Thanks for listening to us Eric.
Buck Sexton
That's not too bad of a place to be. We're still building stuff like crazy over here but the songs that get that really get. Get me going like as far as the sports game goes or whatever. Dire Straits money for nothing.
Clay Travis
I need to thank you for the call. I'm gonna. People are gonna be so mad at me. That does not immediately register with me as a song that I can even think of what it sounds like now. I'm not great with song names. Do you have the Somebody on the team can pull that in Chicks for
Buck Sexton
Free I believe is how it goes.
Clay Travis
So I need to hear that if we can play it in the background at some point. Inner Sandman. I know this one. This is a great call. Jay in Utah.
Buck Sexton
Yeah Inner Sandman is one I'll turn on every time before. Before a basketball game. I love that song by Metallica.
Clay Travis
Thank you. Jay in Utah. That is a perfect example of a. Of a great one. Sandstorm. Some of the teams run on to the sandstorm which is pretty great. Trevor in Alabama
Buck Sexton
you to drink real
Ryan Gardusky
drink down here in Alabama moonshine.
Buck Sexton
I'll put some hair on your chest right there.
Clay Travis
So Trevor, all you drink is moonshine.
Buck Sexton
Oh I drink some moonshine. Especially when it's warm in the cold season.
Clay Travis
I like. I'm from Tennessee. We drink a lot of. There's a lot of moonshine here Buck and and thank you for the call Trevor.
Buck Sexton
I love Trevor from Alabama man.
Clay Travis
You know the song Rocky Top which is one of the great all time songs for certainly association with any say any state. I would say Country Roads. I know it's technically not West Virginia but John Denver Rocky Top for Tennessee. Is this a song in the background that I didn't know. Okay, play that a little bit louder please.
Buck Sexton
It's gonna take a sec. It's a long build up. It's gonna take a minute.
Clay Travis
I don't know this. Am I. No one is gonna trust me anymore. I don't know this song. I don't think unless there's some moment where it actually gets going. This is what this guy wants to run out to
Buck Sexton
has a. It like you know builds up but it's. This would not be my choice because you Got to hang out for like three minutes before anything happens.
Clay Travis
I mean, did he lose every game? This is what I would play in the. In the visitor locker room if I was trying to psych him down.
Buck Sexton
This is what you listen to. Alone in the car in the parking lot after you get your ass kicked. She doesn't want to go out anymore. Anymore.
Clay Travis
Yeah. Is he trying to make the whole team cry together? I mean, I. I don't even know what's going. It's going. This is the worst hype song of all time. I switched all they have any hype.
Buck Sexton
Okay, here we go. It's coming. It's about to drop. Couple more minutes.
Clay Travis
I'm. I'm telling you, the game's over by the time this is the one. Come back Monday, maybe you'll be fired up. Another to play in a game.
Buck Sexton
Here you go.
Clay Travis
This is what your Knicks have been listening to for 40 years, Buck. This is why they've never won a series until now. Okay, yeah, now I recognize this, but it took four minutes to get there. You got to skip the whole intro.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, it wouldn't be my. It's a little too slow for my, for my, my taste on this one. Who else we got here, by the way, Enter the Sandman. It's a little, little, little intense, you know, it's like scaring the children away that, that song, you know, it's like.
Clay Travis
I mean, it's kind of intense to run on the field. They're modern day gladiators, Buck. They're trying to scare the women and children away. There's not chicks on the football field. Except for cheerleaders. No, but. Sorry, the cheerleaders. Also to that Minnesota woman that I thought was a man. Tough one. Speaking truth and having fun. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
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This hour of "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show" is a whirlwind blend of sharp political analysis and lighthearted debate. The main focus is on the political landscape heading into the midterms, especially the battle for the House and Senate, the effects of redistricting, and candidate selection. In addition, there’s an offbeat discussion on UFOs, hype songs for sporting events, and playful listener interactions about manly drinks and cruise vacations. Guests include political analyst Ryan Gardusky, with his signature data-driven insights.
Guest: Ryan Gardusky, host of "It’s a Numbers Game"
Virginia Supreme Court Throws Out Gerrymandered Map
Potential House Math
Finding the Last Few Seats
Trump’s Influence & Indiana Case Study
Concerns about Democratic Senate Nominees
Party Identity Crisis
Senate Math for Dems
Historical Context
Strategic Advice for Trump
Debate Over UFO Reports
Listener Callbacks
Clay’s Closing Thought:
| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------| | 03:32 | "With the Spamberger 10-to-1 map being thrown out, Republicans have the advantage in 206 districts right now." | Ryan Gardusky | | 05:14 | "(House control is) close to a third, maybe a little more than a third... it's absolutely possible.” | Ryan Gardusky | | 07:08 | "Trump does have that incredibly loyal 30%... unmovable and unwavering.” | Ryan Gardusky | | 09:59 | "...they nominate Graham Platner, who in his mid-30s was saying he was a communist..." | Ryan Gardusky | | 13:12 | "Gas prices are the thing that is an advertisement of inflation everywhere you go." | Ryan Gardusky | | 15:26 | "I do not believe in aliens. There is hardly intelligent life on this planet. I don't believe there’s more on other planets." | Ryan Gardusky | | 20:28 | "Is Eye of the Tiger... the greatest psych you up song of all time?" | Buck Sexton | | 25:02 | "You’re the best around by Joe Esposito... featured in the original Karate Kid. That is a great song." | Buck Sexton | | 30:05 | "It is tough to drink an espresso martini and look super masculine." | Clay Travis | | 33:30 | "Beer is super manly. If you want to elevate your estrogen... get man boobs." | Buck Sexton | | 34:43 | "If we find out that alien life exists...is it benevolent or is there potential...to impact our own life?" | Clay Travis | | 35:22 | "Until all the aliens show up looking like Sydney Sweeney, you're not really going to get that much out of me." | Buck Sexton | | 44:56 | "This is what you listen to, alone in the parking lot after you get your ass kicked..." | Buck Sexton |
The hosts blend sharp political insight with irreverent, humorous banter, encouraging listener participation and not shying away from both earnest debate and playful self-deprecation. Gardusky delivers wonkish clarity, while Clay and Buck keep it fun and approachable, seamlessly transitioning from election math to arguments over cocktails and 90s movies.
This hour of the show is a rollercoaster: one moment dissecting the intricacies of redistricting litigation, the next arguing whether “Enter Sandman” scares children, all before joking about alien sex appeal and the dangers of cruise ships. Clay, Buck, and Ryan balance substance and satire, making even complex political forecasting both lively and comprehensible.