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Clay Travis
Welcome back in our number three, Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through breaking down all of the news of the day. And we are joined now by our friend Eric Trump. He's got a brand new book out today. It's called Under Siege. It is burning up the bestseller ranks. I think I saw it posted that it is the number one release on Amazon today, which is a super impressive accomplishment already. And we'll get into the book in a minute, Eric, but we appreciate you coming on with us. Having said that, we'll get to the book. But are you still kind of processing how incredible what yesterday was like in the Middle east and your dad having the 36 hours that he had where even as we started off the show, msnbc, cnn, heck, Colbert and Kimmel came out and said, hey, he did something really impressive. You know, when msnbc, CNN and the late night hosts are praising you that your dad must have really accomplished something. What was that like for you to watch?
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Eric Trump
Well, guys, a year ago he was literally serving French fries at McDonald's and now he just served Middle East. Literally. It was exactly a year ago yesterday he was doing the french fry routine and riding around in a garbage truck. And you know, he just solves Middle east for peace. And I think the most impressive part to me, let's say you look at almost at every conflict around the world, whether it's, you know, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korea, right? You had kind of a winner and you had a loser of those wars as predetermined. And here it actually feels like everybody won, right? I mean, you have, you have people on both sides of the conflict coming out and thanking him and thanking him profusely for ending the madness, ending the death and destruction. And then you have an entire world that's kind of coalesced around this victory. And I just think that's really beautiful thing and one of those things that only he could, could pull off. And I'm proud, I'm proud of him as a son. I mean, listen, you know, we're going to talk about the siege at some point, you know, today. But you know, everything that we've, we've gone through, everything that they tried to do to destroy us, guys, it all became worth it for me yesterday, right? I mean, there were times when you couldn't quite, you know, couldn't quite get there, right? Was it worth it? Was it not? It was brutal. They tried to destroy your life. And then you see A man up there with the entire world respecting America. You know, the death and destruction and evilness has ended. Conflicts all over the world are ending. You know, peace is being brought. You know, some son will go back to their mother tonight who would have otherwise not gone back. She would have been finding out that that person was dead had it not been for his actions. And I think that makes this all worth it.
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Buck Sexton
The book is under siege. My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation. We're with Eric Trump now talking about it. And, Eric, I have a longtime law enforcement friend who, as you're. He's a big Trump supporter. And as the whole situation was playing out, the. The effort to use unprecedented lawfare, not just against your dad, as you have pointed out before, against the Trump Organization, against Trump family members, against all of you, really. Anyone named Trump became a target. As you're going through that, he kept saying a normal. And by this, I just mean an everyday. An everyday person would be broken by one federal indictment, meaning, oh, my gosh, how will I ever be able to fight this? And. And, well, you know, what. What is going to do? My reputation, your dad and your family are going through four nonsense criminal indictments and some of the civil stuff that you were having to deal with, including from Letitia James, which we were just discussing her situation. What was that like day in and day out? Did it just feel surreal? Did it feel like your dad was prepared for it and was able to be a happy warrior through the whole thing? I mean, bring us into that?
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Eric Trump
Yeah, well, listen, you know, honestly, I was. I was the tip of the spear with that whole thing, right? My father had certain constitutional protections that kept a lot of the subpoenas away from him. Right? And so guess what? They did. You know, at 33 years old, he sat me down, he goes, honey, I want you to run the company. I want, you know, you're the guy. You love real estate, you love building, you love everything we do. You've built so many of our projects. You run everything. You run our team teams. I want you to carry this forward, because obviously, I'm going to Washington, D.C. and I said, no problem. And, guys, I thought I was gonna have this great time again building hotels, running great organization. I never would have thought that 99% of my time, for a period of four years, really, a period of eight years, was going to be dealing with subpoenas. I became the most subpoenaed person in American history simply because I was the conduit to everything that he had ever built because I was the guy running the organization that had Trump on the front door. And so they came after us mercilessly. And thank God we had two things. We had a loud voice, and we had enough zeros on the back of our name that we could literally spend. I mean, guys, I've said this plenty of times. We've spent about $400 million fighting off the lunatics. And this is the dirty dossiers. This is the made up Russia collusion. I was the guy that got the call from the FBI saying, I hear you have secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating directly with the Kremlin. We didn't have servers in the basement of Trump Tower. It was all a lie. It was all made up by Hillary Clinton. It was all made up by Barack Obama. We didn't have damn servers. But they wanted to put us under siege, right? They needed a reason. You know, they wanted their October surprise, obviously, to get, you know, Hillary three more votes. But then when she failed so miserably against, you know, a bunch of ragtag individuals who didn't know a damn thing about politics, that is our family. She needed a reason to justify her loss. Hence the reason they made this up. And they wanted to have this, you know, the shadow loom over my father the entire time. They wanted this shadow government to try and take him down at every single step of the way. And then they leaked his tax returns. I mean, not only did they leak my father's tax returns, every tax return he had. This is the irs. They leaked all my tax returns. They leaked Don's tax returns, the entire family. You know, then they leaked all the tax returns of all the employees, all our corporate employees. You know, then they silenced us. They took us off of Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. Then they gag ordered us. A lot of times you'd see me speaking on the front steps of the, you know, of the courthouses around the country. Why? Because some of those cases I wasn't gag ordered in, but my father was. And so I had to be the person to go out and talk about, you know, the judge's daughter, who, you know, apparently works for the, you know, Democratic Party and is one of the biggest, you know, digital media people in New York state while her father is presiding over a trial against my father. Right? And then they take him off the ballot of Maine, they take him off the ballot of Colorado. They do everything they can. They call up every bank and they try and get us deplatformed, debanked. I mean, guys, this was a non stop Siege against our family. But it wasn't just against our family. It was against the Republican Party. It was against you guys. It was against everybody. Everybody who wanted free speech. They tried to hold all of us down. They tried to take away our voice. They wanted to destroy the greatest political movement ever made. And it's really amazing that we can be sitting here exactly one year later, one year after those court trials and everything else, having been vindicated in all of them, seeing what's happening to Leticia, seeing Letitia's case get thrown out literally five zero by the appellate court, seeing Middle east peace, you know, inflation go down to nothing, energy prices go down to nothing. You know, I mean, like, what vindication this is after everything that we've been through.
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Buck Sexton
And I just want to ask as a follow up, Eric, it's amazing to me to see what your dad has gone through and just observing him in public. Also, we've, Clay and I have been fortunate to spend a fair amount of time with him in interviews and, you know, one on or, you know, in a person to person, face to face setting. Your dad, I have never seen him look scared once. And this is somebody who was shot in the ear and somebody else tried to shoot soon after. And that is. It almost seems superhuman to a lot of us observing. And I truly mean that he is superhuman.
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Eric Trump
But the guy's this guy I've known my entire life. I mean, he's always been this Energizer Bunny, you know, on steroids, wearing a red tie. Right. And a dark suit. That's always been my father. Everything that he's ever wanted to do, he's always, you know, he's always charged and it's his only focus. He becomes, people don't realize he becomes very myopically focused on whatever he wants to do. If it's building the greatest building, he becomes myopically focused on. If it's building a great course, he becomes myopically focused on it. His real estate career, if it was the Apprentice, he becomes myopically focused on it. Well, he did the same thing with politics. I mean, he just did this turn and just dedicated his entire life to politics and winning a race. He became myopically focused on it and never, I mean, I can't tell you how many people have lost money betting against Donald Trump. Don't bet against a guy because he's going to beat you every single time. And he became myopically focused when he came to the Middle east peace. I mean, that's the one thing that he always wanted to achieve. And that was probably the greatest achievement of all. It's something that everybody was laughing at. This will never happen. These societies hate each other. They've been warring for thousands of years. They'll never come together. And he goes, no, I want peace in the Middle East. I want the Abraham Accords. I want people to be kind of prosperous. But he does not back down. He does not mince words. He's politically incorrect. And frankly, it's what people adored about him. I mean, you'd watch his primary debates, guys, in 2016, 2017, and all those soundbites were rehearsed. Right. I mean, Hillary Clinton. Well, it's very lucky that Donald Trump isn't running the legal system of the United States. Right. He's throwing out these zingers. Yeah. Because you'd be in jail for the rest rest of your life. Right. And he's doing it off the cuff. And people like somebody who was finally real, somebody who wasn't PC, Somebody who's willing to go out there and fight like hell, and somebody who's willing to work hard because you just don't have that in politics. I mean, most of the politicians are lazy. They're canned, they're scripted, they're inauthentic, and they lose Americans. And that's why there was never any excitement in politics. Before my father came into the race, no one was excited about Jeb Bush. No one gave a damn about Jeb Bush. And now you watch these rallies where 30,000, 50,000 people show up to these rallies. People are excited. And by the way, a lot of those people are young kids who are engaged in kind of the democratic process for the first time. It's a beautiful thing to witness.
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Clay Travis
We're talking to Eric Trump. The book is under siege. My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation. It's available everywhere. Eric, you just talked about your dad and his unique sensibilities when it comes to politics. You're a builder, you're a business person. So is Jared Kushner, so is Steve Witkoff, obviously, your dad. How much do you think being a business guy made it possible to get a deal as opposed to a straight politics guy in the Middle East? I love this because dealmakers look at solutions or situations and just try to get to. Yes. Whereas it feels like a lot of politicians get bogged down in things that don't matter. How much do you think business and deal making really was the foundation of what Jared, what Steve and what your dad were able to do? And how much do you see that in your own world, from a business perspective, as looking at politics as a series of deals, as opposed to getting bogged down in sometimes these intractable issues.
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Eric Trump
By the way, it's a great question I'm not sure if I've ever gotten asked, but it's 100% being a dealmaker. I mean, listen, Obama ran on what? Hope, right? I like hope. Hope doesn't get you anywhere in business. You know what hope gets you? Hope gets you bankrupt. You don't. You don't hope for something. You. You go out and you effectually change, right? And. And that's what Jared did. So great. That's what Wyckoff. I mean, Steve Wyckoff's one of my closest friends. I love him to death. But I mean, these, you know, and guys like me, right? I'm out of business if we don't, you know, if we don't get results, you don't get things across the finish line. You are out of business, right? Like that. That's what business is about. Making the deal, right? Getting things accomplished, getting things done. Whereas Barack Obama was about hope. Hope isn't a strategy. You know, results are a strategy. And that's what my father demands. He demands results. Everything he does, every word he says is about getting a result. Right? You know, and that's a calculated result. Everything he does, every press conference, every meeting, every. Every call he makes, every time he pushes his cabinet, everything he does, every person that he appoints, it's about getting results. And that's what motivates my father, and that's what motivates people in the business world. And so I think that's why all of a sudden, you had this kind of ragtag group of people, once again, who didn't know anything about politics, might not have even known that much about Middle east peace, but was able to go in there, build relationships, negotiate well, get everybody to a table, and actually effectuate change versus, you know, these career bureaucrats who talk about how much they know about foreign policy, and yet they're incapable of getting anything done. I mean, how many more times do you. Do you have to hear? Do you remember in 2016, 2017? Well, Donald Trump does not know anything about foreign policy. It's like, yeah, they didn't know anything about foreign policy either, you know, and guess what? It's a really smart guy who could figure it out in about three and a half seconds, bring people to the table and actually get something accomplished. And, you know, it always makes me so happy when I see him just run circles around these people who claim to know something about foreign policy, yet they haven't progressed the ball in the last, you know, three decades.
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Buck Sexton
Well, it's been amazing to see and especially to watch a lot of your dad's critics eat a hefty dose of humble pie because of the huge win in the Middle East. So congrats to you. Congrats to your family and to the president. I have one last one for you, Eric. You and I are roughly the same age. Clay's a little bit older, but we. We grew up with the same movies, you and I, Eric. And your book is Under Siege, My family's Fight to Save Our Nation, which is already number one. Everyone should go get a copy of it. Does the Steven Seagal, by the way, a vocal Trump supporter, does Steven Seagal's Under Siege make your top 10 action movies all time list?
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Eric Trump
Yeah, by the way, 100%, right? I mean, Steve Seagal is like a legend for us, right? As, you know, as was Jean Claude Van Damme, as you remember very well. I mean, my father, of course, my father and I used to watch Larry Bloodsport every single weekend. I mean, we love. We love that movie. We.
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Buck Sexton
We watched that too. You know, it's Stephen Miller's favorite movie. He told us that on the show, number one, all time Buck.
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Eric Trump
You remember the kumite and everything, right? We love that. I mean, how can you not, you know, you had. You had, you know, Gary Busey of all things. Gary Busey ended up being on the Apprentice with us for years. You had Steven Seagal. He was, you know, tossing people around the. The Missouri, remember the battleship. And, you know, it was. It was a great movie. But no, never, never did. I think that would come into a literal, you know, fashion in my life. I mean, listen, anybody roughly our age, I'm 41. Anybody roughly our age had seen Under Siege. But they literally, guys, they put us under siege. You know, they tried to destroy us. They. They tried to do everything they could to cut us off, to. To silence our voice, to. To bankrupt us, to deprive us, to weaponize the media, to weaponize the government, to weaponize the doj, to weaponize every right to make up dirty osseas, to impeach him, to go after, you know, I mean, his Supreme Court justices, his inner circle, his family, to try and screw up his marriage, to try and screw up his family, to try and steal his businesses from him. That is the definition of a siege. And the good news is. And by the way, and they did that to all of America, right? They tried to go after Americans and mainly conservatives vis a vis the irs. They went after their churches, they went after their religious institutions. They went after their children. They taught them revisionist history. They tried to confuse their gender identities. This is the siege that they put this country through. And we won the siege, guys. We won it. We won every aspect of it based on the fact that we had the most resounding victory in American political history, winning the popular vote, winning every swing state, having every state in the country tacked to the right. And so, guys, they put us all under siege and we won. The greatest political movement in the history of this country won. And so the book, as ugly as some of the topics are in there, actually is beautiful because you can beat the mainstream media and you can beat the weaponization of government, and we can win as a collective of Americans who love this country and love God and love our Constitution and love our flag. And that's exactly what we did together. Amen.
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Clay Travis
Book under siege. Encourage you guys to go check it out. Appreciate the time, Eric. Look forward to crossing paths down the road.
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Eric Trump
Guys, thanks so much for having me.
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Clay Travis
Look, we've had a phenomenal news out of Israel all week long. You just heard us talking about it with Eric Trump. You've heard us talking about it all week. It's been incredible to be able to, to, to chase and to see lasting peace a great thing. In same spirit, it's worth mentioning our longtime partners and what they've been able to do. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. For over 440 years, the fellowship has brought Christians and Jews together to solve big problems facing the Jewish people in places like Israel, but also the former Soviet Union. Feeding the hungry, helping those without means. Day after day, IFCJ teams are on the ground, hand delivering boxes of nutritious food to feed and comfort the poor, particularly the elderly, including the last of the Holocaust survivors alive in Israel. I've seen for myself the work the IFCJ does on the ground. It's tremendous. It's an absolute gift and it's because of the work and the, the kind generosity of so many of you out there. Put your faith into action by taking part in the IFCJ's mission. To find out how, visit ifcj.org that's ifcj.org Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Mic drops that never sounded so good. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in everybody.
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Buck Sexton
We have a quick turn here because we want to spend some extra time with our friend Eric Trump and talk about his book Under Siege, what his family's been through. Incredible story. Happy ending to that story. Certainly up to this point. The huge success of the Trump movement and Trump Organization and Trump family. But we're going to get into some fun talkbacks here in a second. The campers of America have spoken and the hikers and the hunters and the fishermen. So we'll dive into that. Look, we were talking about how you want to be sleeping on a nice bed at night. You also want good sheets on that bed. The best sheets you can get. Cozy earth, my friends. They make the most comfortable, luxurious, softest sheets that I have ever slept on. Their bamboo sheets will transform your sleep. Cozy Earth offers a variety of styles and colors, even sheets for baby cribs. We've got a set here in our nursery for baby speed. They're not just the softest sheets you've slept on but also temperature regulating and moisture wicking so you'll sleep cooler. Try them risk free with a 100 night sleep trial and a 10 year warranty means you get three months and then some. To make sure these Cozy Earth sheets are the best sheets you've ever slept on, upgrade the place you spend the most time your bed go to cozy earth.com use my name Buck for 20% off. That's cozy earth.com code Buck get these sheets Carrie also loves. They've got this blanket that's now on my couch all the time. It's Carrie's favorite blanket. Go check it out. Cozyearth.com code buck because home isn't just where you live, it's how you feel.
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Clay Travis
Cozy Earth welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show okay, let's have some fun. A lot of serious topics, things going amazing all over the country. I hope you have a moment every morning when you wake up or at night when you go to bed where you have it. Just a thought of gratitude and you say thanks for all of the awesomeness going on but it's probably going to shock you. But there are some people out there that do not agree with, with everything that we say on the program. And in fact, let's start to run through some of those a lot of great talkbacks. Um, let's see. Jack in Phoenix FF. He's listening on News Talk. 550 K. FYI. Bucky's got a question for you.
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Caller
I just want to let Buck know that, hey, if you owe Jesse Kelly a dinner at Red Lobster, then I don't think you're gonna have to be in danger of any 75 shots coming down like Clay got stuck with. Okay. Hey, you guys have a great day. You have a great, great show.
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Buck Sexton
Thanks.
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Clay Travis
What is the most expensive drink that Jesse could order at Red Lobster? Do you have any idea? Bu. What do you think?
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Buck Sexton
I bet Jesse could put away those like my ties that are, you know, two, two feet high off the table with the little umbrellas or whatever. He'd probably drink some of those at Red Lobster.
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Clay Travis
The what is the. That is a fun question. What is the most expensive bottle that Red Lobster has on the shelf? What could Jesse drive up the cost with? I bet the most expensive drink on The Red lobster menu is 1499. That's my bet. 14. That's a hot. That's a lot to me to spend on a drink. Some sort of mixed drink. I bet there's a $15 mixed drink. I think that's the highest he could go.
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Buck Sexton
The nicest tequila. I think there might be some Jose Cuervo Silver going on. I think that's about it.
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Eric Trump
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
The. Let's see. Here we go. Jj, we got a lot of responses to my suggestion that you should never sleep on the ground. There's always motels or places available. We've. We've ascended. We've ascended as a species from needing to sleep on the ground. Well, this is a little bit different. Central Florida. He's listening on wfla, our Orlando affiliate. This is kind of high end, I think. I think he's trying to brag as if he's been roughing it. But listen, I'm listening to your show. Camping on my pontoon boat. I have a tent set up on.
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Buck Sexton
The deck and I'm in a lake.
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Clay Travis
Pretty much in the middle of nowhere in central Florida.
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Eric Trump
Okay.
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Clay Travis
We appreciate everybody who listens everywhere. That's not really roughing it.
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Buck Sexton
No, I was going to say when you're, when you're on the boat, because the boat's got bathroom, hot and cold running water, refrigeration. By the way, somebody could get me out on. On the boat tent situation as long as we had a gator watch going on there. Because Orlando is gator town, my friend. There's a lot of gators in that water.
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Clay Travis
I also not a fan of sleeping on boats. Just going to go out there like I did the Disney cruise. I don't like being anywhere. I can't leave. So I'm okay with boats. If I can see land where I'm like, hey, I could swim in or I don't want to go anywhere. I can't leave. So in the middle of the wilderness, if I can't leave, I'm not in favor of it. We got on the Disney cruise.
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Buck Sexton
Tell you something, actually, some of my. Some of the worst experiences of my life involve being on boats with seasickness. I mean, truly worst experiences of my life. And one that always sticks out is in. We did a, a class trip in the eighth grade. I remember this. To Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. Right.
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Clay Travis
I think that sounds like a super high end class trip. We went to like Mammoth Cave.
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Buck Sexton
No, no, no, no. This was not. This was. This is like going to the aquarium. Clay. This is not Super. This is like pretty because I live in New York City, so Mystic is like a, you know, hour and a half drive or something. It's not that far, but I just remember we did whale watching. We did a whale. Maybe it was the Cape Cod trip, I can't remember, but we did a whale watching trip at the school. And I remember being out on this boat and it wasn't just us, there were other people that paid a whale watch. And everybody on this boat, basically, it was cold, choppy, everybody started to get seasick and it was like a six hour tour. Forget a three hour tour, like Gilligan, this was a six hour tour. And, and everybody was tossing cookies. It was nightmare. Nightmare. Fuel.
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Clay Travis
The worst. I don't want, I don't want to ever be on a boat where I can't see land. I'm okay if, like, I just, I.
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Buck Sexton
Mean, look, we're sounding wimpier and wimpier with each passing segment here.
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Clay Travis
I appreciate the fact that at some point in time my ancestors got on a boat and they were on it for months. They did enough boating without being able to see the, the land for me. For my entire life. I, I did this cruise and Buck, I wish you could have seen my face. We were supposed to. It was. We had three. We had the Disney cruise. We had like a six year old, a three year old and basically like a baby. And they may have been a little bit older, but they were young. All five of us in the same tiny little cabin. And we were supposed to stop in Jamaica. The only reason to go on a cruise is so you can get off the boat. All right? I'm not one of those people who enjoys being on the boat, okay? So you go to the island, you dock, and you get to leave the boat. And, and they came on and they said, hey, tough news, you know, it's too choppy, Caesar. Too choppy for us to port in Jamaica. We can't go back to land for three days. I, I would have gotten on a helicopter and gone to any land at that point in time. I wish you could have seen my face. I don't ever want to be stuck on a boat. If I can see the land, then worst case scenario, I can jump in. We all know I'm a great swimmer and I'll be fine. I'll be able to get to the land. But much like Alcatraz, I don't. And I lived on an island. I lived in the Caribbean for two years, so I have no problem being on an island. Even a small island, like Gilligan's Island.
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Eric Trump
It's.
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Clay Travis
I just. I like the earth. I like the soil beneath my feet.
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Buck Sexton
I. We. We see this. See this with the same. The same eyes. Jeff from Texas. KK on the talk back. Hey, Clay and Buck. This is Jeff from Humble, Texas.
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Caller
I spent 10 years in the army.
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Buck Sexton
Infantry back in the 80s and 90s. I camped everywhere. Now I consider camping is when my hotel stops room service at 11pm Instead of 2am Love you guys. Take care. We love you too. Let me say, I co sign that I'm like, if the room Service is not 24 hours, what are we even doing here? What kind of place is this?
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Clay Travis
I kind of. I like room service. One of my big fears is choking to death. I get nervous when I have food and no one else is around. Am I the only person who thinks this? Like, if you're in the room, you never thought, what if I choked to death? Like, what?
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Eric Trump
What if?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. No, no. I trust people.
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Clay Travis
The worst way to go. I think there are lots of awful ways to go would be you just go to Red Lobster and you just take a bite of a delectable shrimp and next thing you know, it's caught in your throat and you die. Like, people. That happens like a hundred times a year. People just choke to death. Not all at Red Lobster could be Applebee's, and that's the end. And it just feels like that's the worst way to go imaginable because you're otherwise healthy. If you had just simply not taken a bad bite of.
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Buck Sexton
Choking on is not the worst way.
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Clay Travis
It's the worst way to go. It is the worst way to go. What is worse than choking on food?
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Buck Sexton
This is. Clay, there's a million things that are worse than choking on on food.
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Clay Travis
It is the worst way to go because otherwise, if you had just bitten your food better, you would still be alive. Instead, you choke to death on food. You might be like 25 years old in the prime of your life, and you're just dropping dead at Logan's Roadhouse because you couldn't swallow correctly. It is the worst way to go. What else?
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Buck Sexton
People get eaten by Komodo dragons, Clay. Like, there are worse ways to go.
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Clay Travis
Komodo dragon, though, is. Is a violent animal and you shouldn't have been in the. You shouldn't have been risking things near the Komodo dragon. But that dragon kills you, Buck. Your own inability to swallow kills you. When you die on choking on your food, it's the worst way to go.
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Buck Sexton
I. This, this is a crazy take from Cloud. This is.
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Clay Travis
I'm 100% right, by the way. We got some good emails. You can tell me if I'm wrong, but you're all wrong if you disagree like Buck is. This is from Tom, my dad. Greetings from Alice beach, one of the fabulous places on in the country. My dad fought in World War II, European theater. When my two brothers and sister would say, dad, please, please take us camping. His reply? I slept on the ground in North Africa, all throughout Italy and into France and Germany, so you would never have to. As a young history nut, I had no comeback. That is your dad. I mean, thank you for his service. That is a great fricking response, Susanna. It is amazing to me that we spend our lives working our ass off. Oh, I actually hit the wrong button there. What happened? There it is. We the working our ass off to have a beautiful, comfortable home, but then spend thousands of dollars on equipment to cook and sleep outside as if we were pioneers or members of the Corps of Discovery. I'm one of those silly people. I've come to terms with that cognitive dissonance and thoroughly enjoy hiking and sleeping in the wilderness.
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Buck Sexton
I'm surprised that we've had so few people come actually come at us. I. You know what I love to do? I love to find a place that's reasonably level ground and doesn't have that many rocks that are going to stick into my back over the course of the night. And then I'm gonna put down one of those thin. Those thin mats that you blow into. And no matter how hard you're blowing into it, it feels like it takes forever for this thing to fill up with air. Clay. And you have this thin little thing and you're gonna lie in your sleeping bag on this thin little thing on the ground and tell yourself that this is comfort. I will be laughing at you off wrapped in my cozy earth sheets and enjoying life.
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Clay Travis
By the way, cozy earth sheets are amazing. I and you should be on a bed, not on the ground. They're saying now that thousands of people choke to death every year. Thousands?
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Buck Sexton
Yes, of course.
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Clay Travis
You think it's thousands. I said hundreds. It's a very my argument. Even better. This is the worst way to die. Choking to death when you're just eating a normal meal.
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Buck Sexton
This is very common for babysitters. Actually, one of the things that people will ask through the is, well, CPR for kids. Oh, sorry, I'm not cp. Well, not cpr. I meant Heimlich. Can you do a Heimlich maneuver for Kids for choking. It's very common. So, yeah, Clay, choking is.
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Clay Travis
Well, the young kids thing is even worse. This is. I think it's the worst way. I would rather be eaten by a great white shark than choked to death at Red Lobster.
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Buck Sexton
This is your worst take ever. And I think. I think everyone agrees with me. This might actually be your worst.
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Eric Trump
Your worst.
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Clay Travis
No, because the shark I'm not going to win a fight with. When you lose a fight with your fork, it's a. It's the worst way to go, Clay.
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Buck Sexton
You're essentially a giant sea monster biting off your leg, bleeding to death over the course of minutes while it circles you in the water. And you know, that is. That is way worse than choking on a chicken. Tender.
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Clay Travis
The shark is designed to kill you. Your meal is not designed to kill you. You've lost a battle with something you didn't even know you were fighting against.
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Eric Trump
I don't.
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Buck Sexton
I don't. You know, I'm. I don't even.
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Clay Travis
It's like losing a fight to a midget as opposed to losing a fight to, like, a UFC fighter. I would expect that the UFC fighter would choke me out. If the midget choked me out and I died, then I would be like, this is a big upset. I shouldn't have gotten killed by a midget.
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Buck Sexton
No, I think they prefer to be called little people. There we go. Yes, sir. Thank you. That's the preferred nomenclature, sir. The preferred nomenclature. We're going to take some more of your calls. Talk facts to close us out. You can tell Clay this is probably his worst take ever. I think this is number one all time worst take that Clay has ever had on the program, that choking is the worst. Choking on food is the worst way to die.
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Clay Travis
At a normal meal, you're just. And then you're dead.
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Buck Sexton
You're like, hey, what if it's not the Last Supper?
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Clay Travis
It's different. I mean, it's like, hey, the choice you made was, I'm going to have another onion ring and then you die. That is the worst way to go. You could have just not had the onion ring and you still be alive.
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Buck Sexton
People, people. You know, people like slipping. People fall off of roofs. Be very careful. Everybody all the time, because they think they can do the roofing stuff, but.
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Clay Travis
You understand the risk that you have taken on the roof when you're just putting a fork into your mouth. You don't think, this is it. This is the last act of my life. I'm right on this.
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Buck Sexton
I get a single person who agrees with you on this. I will, I will. I'll be shocked by the way Trump has weighed in on Alyssa Farah and the MAGA hat. We might have time for that. We come back.
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Clay Travis
Yes, he used to work. He knows her. He knows her.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis BUCK SEXTON show I'm right, Buck's wrong. Worst way to go is choking. Another worst way to go might be abandoning President Trump right before he won a landslide victory than going on your radio, going on your television show and saying, hey, if he gets the hostages back, I'll wear a MAGA hat. And then refusing to do so. Well, that's Alyssa Farah Griffin who is now on the View. And she used to work in the Trump White House. And President Trump was asked communications director.
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Buck Sexton
She had a pretty senior role in the Trump White House.
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Clay Travis
She he was asked about her promise to wear the hat and her refusal to do so on the View. This has just happened in the Oval Office. Cut 32 President Trump.
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Caller
Well, she used to work for me. So she used to work here. I'll tell you about Alyssa. She worked here. She gave me the most beautiful letter. When you know the administration, the time came up, the election was rigged. I left. She gave me the most beautiful letter you've ever seen. I was a great president. What a great job. Some of the letters been quoted. This is Alyssa, who I never thought was very outstanding. I figured she would not make it. And she didn't have a big role here either. And then we had January 6th and she left after that or before that. But she gave me the most beautiful letters. And then even Months after she left, and while we weren't here any longer, she sent another letter, glowing letter, beautiful letter. And then she got hired by the View and they gave her a couple of bucks and she changed her view very quickly. I never thought, thought she'd make it. Never thought she had what it took in any way. You know what that means. But she's on the View. But it just shows what a fraud the View is, because this woman gave me letters and statements. She said I was the greatest president in her lifetime. Now, she's not that old, so I didn't consider it a great compliment.
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Buck Sexton
He's hilarious. Can I say something, though, about this? I think, I think that Trump should offer to various media figures, he should offer a, like, media amnesty where, you know what, you know what? If you're willing to say, I'm sorry, I was wrong, will Maga please let me back into the tent? I bet there are people who would take it. Now, some people may not like this idea, but I'm just saying it would be kind of funny to watch if Trump was like, let's, Well, I, I, I'll always flip an enemy to an ally. I will open a one time, this first year of my administration, media amnesty for the anti Trumpers out there and see who decides to show up. By the way, I'm not sure Joe Scarborough wouldn't be one of them.
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Clay Travis
I will say this, by the way, I'm right about the worst way to die. And before we go, just let me think, let me hit you with this. I'm sure we're gonna have tons of reactions to this. Imagine you are one day in heaven. We hope everybody listening ends up in heaven one day. And you are sitting around and everybody's having a conversation, as I would imagine people in heaven often do. And you're sitting around, somebody says, hey, how did you go? Somebody's like, cancer. Cancer got me. You're like, man, yeah, can see that. Somebody else like, heart attack. And then somebody else like, great white. Everybody's like, man, tell me about that. Where were you? What happened? And then another guy pipes up and he was like, my 16th coconut shrimp at Red Lobster. Which one do you, oh, that's the worst way you could possibly go. Cancer, Heart attack. Great white coconut shrimp at Red Lobster.
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Buck Sexton
Worse than falling downstairs. I do not understand this line of arguing.
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Clay Travis
Because you did it. The fort defeated you.
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