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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.
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All right, third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now. Thanks for being here, everybody. And a couple things, some news items to discuss with you. We're gonna hang out for three hours. We gotta make sure we're all up to speed on the news. Right. Us, unfortunately lost 92,000 jobs in a
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what the Wall Street Journal is calling
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a widespread and unexpected downturn. There was a health care strike. Kaiser Permanente playing a role in this. So the Labor Department numbers reporting in January had 126,000 jobs gained. They were. Economists were expecting 50,000 jobs gained this month. They were wrong. Economists are wrong a lot. No surprise there. Unemployment rate at 4.4%. And there's a big change here in. In the health care hiring, which is a big part of this. We're also being told by the team, and I have to take your word for this, guys. Apparently, Clay and I'm sorry, I just can't speak to this. There's been some rough weather in other parts of the country. It's not 75 degrees. You guys aren't all walking around in flip flops making sure you get plenty of vitamin D. There are some places in the last month or so where has been a little cold, a little chilly, which is sad.
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Yeah, you Miami people are super cocky about the weather. You just always have to ask other people what the weather is. You go pretty quiet from about May, June to September. It's like, oh, it's 98 degrees.
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When I go to the grocery store, I have to swim through the air.
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Yeah, it's 98 degrees with 178% humidity. No talk. But as soon as it gets to be February, you're like, oh, it's cold. Other places, I will say, when I lived in warm places, I lived in the Caribbean for a couple of years as an attorney. Every time I saw bad weather. And I know you do this now because you live in Miami, I'm just like, what are these people even thinking dealing with bad weather? You know, where it's actually really cold or it's actually truly awful. When you live in really warm weather, maybe you even gone on vacation. You go on vacation, you look back at people in bad weather, and you just think that seems like a really poor choice by them. Which is why I've said before, if we had settled the country west to east instead of east to west, no one would live in the northeastern United States. Because by the Time we got here, people would have said, this is ridiculous. There's no.
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I think you. You under. You've never experienced. I think, and I'm not just saying this because we have some fantastic stations from New York and on up into the Northeast. Although doesn't hurt, I think that New England in the fall is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I think it's amazing. You got to eat it. You go into some of these parts of, of the Hudson Valley and Vermont and, and Massachusetts in September, October, the leaves are changing. There's a crisp air. It's beautiful.
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It's a beautiful south. It just happens in November, and it's great. I don't need, I don't need to get cold earlier. It's very pretty leaves down here too. I think this is big leaf that's gotten to you. Much like big leaf blower has gotten
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to
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destroy the brain function of a lot of people out there. Maybe there's something with the loudness of the leaf blower that has actually distorted their cognitive ability.
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Notice how angry people get in the leaf blower debate.
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As soon as I saw your tweet, I was like, oh, Buck doesn't know what he's done here. He big leaf blower is going to come for him.
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Really enjoy their leaf blowing. I feel like this is. I did not anticipate this. I thought it was just a loud, annoying chore that nobody would want to do. I think there are some leaf blower addicts out there who just, they just love the rush of all those decid, that deciduous tree, you know, residue just falling all over the place, and they're just blowing it everywhere, and they just, they're like a God among leaves and they love it. I'm surprised by this, but I think it's real.
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I look, if you crazy blower people want to live your leaf blowing infatuation, I'm fine with it. Just, you should not be able to do it before 9am Certainly on the weekend. And I think 9am Is a reasonable hour on many different weeks, like in residential neighborhoods. The number of times that I will think to myself, hey, you know what? I'm going to get to sleep in a little bit. I don't sleep very much. I'm like, you know what? I'm going to sleep in a little bit. The number of times that I am woken up by a leaf blower in Florida, I. It is an epidemic in Florida. You can't go anywhere in Florida without being woken up by a leaf blower at like 6:23 in the morning.
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I want to get into Miami. You got leaf blowers waking you up. You also have roosters in some neighborhoods. Wake.
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I've seen them running wild in your neighborhood.
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There's just roosters everywhere, just roosters running around. You're like, what are they doing? Who does that rooster belong to? We don't know, but he's loud. That is for sure. There's of plenty, plenty of that going on.
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Well, I would think this is gonna be an incredible segue. I'm patting myself on the back in advance. Many leaf blowers are powered by gasoline, and gasoline prices, Buck, are beginning to spike. And I told you this, we talked about it earlier this week. They're going to pivot. Just wait for it. If you're not noticing it already, Democrats are going to pivot from. Well, the ayatollah was a bad guy, but we took him out. We shouldn't have done that. Which is a hard argument to make, Right. If you're gonna say, well, this guy's responsible for hundreds of American deaths, destabilizing the Middle east, funding terrorism throughout the world, but it was wrong to kill him. That story is that. That's a tough argument to make, but I'm telling you, they have already begun the pivot, and the data is starting to reflect that. Gas prices are going up. Now. My take is gas prices are going to go up and then come back down very quickly, because I think we're going to have success in the Middle east faster than people anticipate. Much like. Have you noticed how nobody's talking about Venezuela now? We're establishing normal relations. There's more gas coming out of Venezuela than ever before. It seems to have been one of the most orderly transitions of power that we have seen in a modern era so far. And so the pivot here, Buck, is going to be Trump's war in Iran is making everybody poorer because gas prices are up.
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Just give it time. By the time you get into. I would. I would say within 10 years and maybe within five years. This is kind of a wild prediction, but I don't think it's that crazy. There'll be American women doing bachelorette parties in Caracas. You watch, it'll turn into Leave Nashville
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and they're going to start going to Caracas instead.
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Well, no, there was. What I'm thinking of is that Cartagena for a while was a direct JetBlue flight.
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Bachelor parties, very popular for. Yeah, because you could.
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You know, it has that sort of Latin flair, and then you're out of the country, but it's an easy flight and the food's great and there's lots of dancing. So give it, give it 10 years in Caracas. If it stays on this trajectory, will be, will be a boom town because Venezuela is a great country and the Venezuelan people are a great people. They've just gotten screwed by bad, bad leadership.
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It's, by the way, already starting to happen. It's gotten safer. There was, of all places, I believe I was reading in the New York Times about how cocktail bars are starting to take off now and that people are complaining because the prices of cocktails have gone up. And some, some stake. You know, they've had such crazy inflation and continue to have such crazy inflation in Venezuela. They've destroyed the entire economy since Chavez was elected in 2012 or 2013. As many of you listening to us who have friends, family or yourselves are from Venezuela, but already buck the capitalist infusion of just having basic support from the government to be able to make money. The overall food and dining scene, which is an early arbiter on how do people feel about the economy, is starting to skyrocket in popularity. The New York Times had a big article about going out in Caracas in the wake of the removal of Maduro and how so many different bar owners and restaurant owners are saying things are a lot better already.
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This is what I mean.
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This.
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You can just tell things are moving in the right direction there. And that's a great thing. We'll see in Iran. By the way, you mentioned energy prices. Here's Secretary of Energy Secretary Wright. This is cut nine. He's saying, look, the gas price thing, it's a little spike. It's the speculators, it's the concerns over the Strait of Hormuz play nine, when will there be some relief for folks at the pump? Do we expect this to last weeks
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or do you think, you know, with the mitigation that the administration is putting
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in place right now, that we should see the gas prices start to come back down?
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Yeah, I think it's of order. Weeks, I would say in the worst case. But it's weeks, not months. And look, Iran has been an escalator of energy prices 47 years, the whole history of their regime. We've got a little bit of an interruption right now to finally put an end to, to their ability to wreak havoc, to kill Americans and to terrorize their neighbors. Clay, I term pain, long term gain is the pitch.
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I think that that's correct. I do not think this is going to turn into some, you know, Long term, you know, 1970s style. Oh my gosh, the oil, it's not nothing like that's going to happen. They're going to get this thing figured out pretty quickly and oil prices are going to continue to come down. And look, everyone's very aware it's an election year and no matter what people do are people are unhappy with the party in power if gas prices are high. That is just the truth. That is just the way it is. So this administration, the Trump team, they're attuned to that. They recognize it. So that's why they're going as fast as they can now. I mean, they are treating this whole thing like they are on a clock, which is a smart way to approach it.
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I think that's why they have made the moves that they did in Venezuela and in Iran at the time in the year that we did remember, it wasn't very long ago, Buck, when they said the midterms are going to be decided by Minneapolis and we have. When's the last time we heard anything about what happened in Minneapolis? I knew that was going to blow over, truly. But things move so rapidly. I think they made a conscious decision because if you had gone in in September, let's say, and taken out the ayatollah or taken out Maduro and it hadn't gone well, then the impact in November is likely to be more substantial. Right. You're within a couple of months of the election. People pay attention to gas prices. We're very early in March. Again, I've said this before, but gas prices go up in the summer and then they tend to come down in the fall. That's the general trajectory of gas prices. I think by the time we get to August, September, and people are actually voting and people are starting to fill out their ballots and get the early votes in, I think gas prices will be back down and people will not be talking about gas prices at all.
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Yes, I think that's all true. I think the economy is going to be a very strong place for the Republicans overall. Politically. There is this always this possibility of some issue with the war in Iran escalating a bit. So we can continue to, we will continue to watch that closely. But here is CNN's this is cut 20 guys, CNN's data guru, their version of Ryan Gardusky, Harry Entin, who is saying that if you look at President Trump at this point of his presidency compared to other two termers in their second term. Well, listen to the man himself play 20.
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Republicans love Donald Trump more than any President's own party supporters loved him at this particular point. Just take a look here. Okay. Own Party supporters, 21st century President's Own party approval about at this point, the second term, Bush was at 77%. Obama was at 77%. Look at this. 86% of Republicans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing at this point. That is higher than either Obama or Bush had within their own party. At this point. We're going to look at these same presidents again. Strong approval among your own party's base. What you see is Trump is the only one who, who gets a majority at this point in their presidency. Obama was at 48%. Bush was at 47%. You see her Trump at 53%. Not as high as overall approval rating, but still getting a majority of the Republican base.
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He's getting it done. Just compare the numbers, see where he is. See where the Republican base is right now. People can get very easily frustrated and exasperated with those in power because maybe, well, the party out of power tends to create unrealistic expectations and take cheap shots and all of that. But overall, Trump is going into his second year of term two in a very strong position.
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I think also this is important primarily in the context of there's a desperate attempt at cnn, msnbc, New York Times, Washington Post, whatever outlet you want to point to on the legacy left wing perspective to constantly argue, oh, there's a few, Trump's base is turning against him. There is never going to be a time where that is true. They have been wishing it, trying to wish it into existence for a decade now. People may not agree with everything that Trump does, but the idea that people are going to suddenly, by mass amounts who voted for Trump two or three times over the last decade suddenly say, hey, I don't agree with President Trump, it's just not going to happen. But, but pay attention to the fact that they're going to constantly try to attempt it. Okay, we got some stuff to react to. By the way, did you see the mayor's wife Buck when we come out of this next break. Mom, Donnie's wife celebrated the October 7, 2023 terror attacks with likes on her social media accounts for the deaths, the murders that occurred. Not a surprise. But this is. I did not see that. That I want to share with people. We got some funny things from James Talarico who is just an utter, utter, just disaster for Democrats. And it may be the case that I have misspoken and I may no longer be able to live in the state of Tennessee. We will Discuss this and more as we continue with the third hour of the Friday edition of the program. But look, you can lose power. We've seen it happen a lot. A lot of people in my home state of Tennessee, my home city of Nashville, lost power and a lot of you are constantly dealing with this, whether it's during hurricane season, tornado season, snow and ice season. So many different things can go wrong that knocks out your power and you may need to stay in touch. This is what happened with Buck's sister in law when Asheville got hit. She was able to stay in touch with everybody through rapid radios. If you want to stay in touch with your friends and family, ensure that you're able to connect and that you have a charge that will last five days without needing to recharge in the event that you do lose power, this is what rapid radio is all for. We had a bunch of people reach out after the ice storms in Nashville and went all the way down into Mississippi. One of our listeners wrote and said, hey, the only way I was able to get in touch with my daughter at Ole Miss at the University of Mississippi down there was because she had rapid radios. It was a purchase we made in the event of disaster, natural disaster, and we were able to stay in touch with her. If you want to prepare yourself for the worst, you need to have rapid radios. We have them. They're fully charged, ready to go. In the Travis household when the world goes quiet, make sure you don't communication redefine. That's Rapid Radio Radios dot com. Check them out today. Rapidradios.com. The holidays are all about connection. Good food, good friends and those cozy moments. This season, skip boring mocktails and celebrate with RK the world's first zero proof spirits. All the taste and warmth the of of your favorite holiday pours with zero alcohol, zero guilt and the patented war molecule for that festive kick. Perfect for toasting, hosting or gifting. Celebrate freely with RK0 proof. Visit rkbeverages.com all right, you guys have caught me. I may not be able to return to my home state of Tennessee. Here is the here's the talk back from Bay calling me out. I thought he was wrong, but let's play it.
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Clay as a fellow born and raised Tennessee and I'm shaking my head that
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you called Davy Crockett a legendary Texan. He was born in Tennessee, dude. All right, I said there's no way I said that. Evidently, unfortunately there is tape. And the team went back because they hate me and they found it and this is cut 21 we've been saying for some time Crockett Coffee not connected to Jasmine Crockett named after the legendary Texan Davy Crockett. Oh no, this is not good. Buck. I am done in Tennessee. Tac ads gonna come soon. I did however think that there was a benefit. Thanks to AI. This is what the transcript now reflects. This is like Joe Biden's team cut 21A we've been saying for some time, Crockett Coffee not connected to Jasmine Crockett named after the legendary Tennessee and Davy Crockett. There you go. Seamless fit.
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Amazing.
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Nobody's even going to note this is
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the crazy world we live in now that it's just so hard to tell the difference. And it's so clearly not producer Greg's voiceover that corrected that for you. So I'm glad to see that. I'm glad to see it. We are going to get into more talk backs and more of your emails and all of that good stuff here shortly. You know, Clay, you know, with age comes wisdom. You know what else happens? You get aches and pains. I have tennis elbow, but not from tennis, from Padel, which I have started to play down here in Miami.
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Between this and your what's that? Pistachio ice cream. And what's the type of water that you drink now?
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Hey, Buck. One of my kids called me an unk the other day.
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An unk?
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Yep. Slaying, evidently. For not being hip, being an old dude.
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So how do we un unk you?
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Get more people to subscribe to our YouTube channel. At least that's what my kids tell me.
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That's simple enough. Just search the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show and hit the subscribe button.
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Takes less than five seconds to help un unk me.
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Do it for Clay, do it for freedom. And get great content while you're there. The Clay Travis and buck Sexton Show YouTube channel. Before we get into this Mamdani story, which is interesting stuff, mom, Donnie's wife, actually, Clay, why don't you tell everybody what you're doing in D.C. man? You know, what's, what's going, what's going on there?
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The reason I was late, I flew up to D.C. i'm only up here down and back. Same day on my beloved Southwest Airlines. There's actually a really cool panel on the future of college sports. And I know a lot of you are big college sports fans, but basically, as players have begun to be paid, it has created an absolute mess that I think most fans out there agree needs to be fixed. And, and this gets into the weeds a little bit. But it is going to require, if we want to fix it, I think congressional action now, I don't know if Congress can pass anything right now, to be frank, but President Trump, in addition to building ballrooms and victory arches and doing, engaging in actions in Venezuela and maybe Cuba and certainly Iran, is trying to fix everything out there. And so people from Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, a lot of different people affiliated with college sports are going to be at the White House. I'm going to be on a panel. I think it's going to be carried live on fox News at 4pm Eastern. And the president's trying to put together a plan to solve many of the issues bedeviling college sports right now. And I'm going to be a part of it. So with my background in media and politics and law, hopefully I can be somewhat helpful so that that's what's going on. I'm going to go to the panel and then go home, pick up my kid at a lacrosse match and head, head into the house for the weekend. But hopefully we can make some progress on trying to fix the mess that is college athletics right now.
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I'm already hearing more about how here in Florida, because of our lovely climate and the ability to play outdoor sports pretty much year round, that there's a surge in interest in kids going to essentially sports first academies, with the idea being you don't even have to go pro anymore. And it's not just about getting recruited to a college. You might be able to make seven figures now you say, okay, well, maybe you can only do that for a few years. Yeah. Starting out life in your early 20s. If you're making a half million dollars a year for I think my first job, I made 30 grand. So, yeah, you know, that's pretty good deal.
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Look, the balancing act is going to be complicated because you want people to be compensated for their talent. I'm a capitalist, but I always say, and it takes people sometimes a minute to think about it, but in sports, the business is the competition and the quality of the competition is what dictates the success of the sport. And so if you're creating competition that is not ideal and you're breaking the competitive balance in the process in the long range, that is not a good solution. So got to figure this out if people are curious about it. My Twitter handle, I laid out some of the complex issues on it, but a lot of our friends, Senator Ted Cruz is going to be there. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Trump, clearly, Eric Schmidt, Senator from Missouri. A lot of people that have an understanding of many different complex issues here. Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, who have had history in coaching. So I'm looking forward to it. I have no idea truly what to expect fully, but it'll be live at the White House. I'm looking forward to getting over there and seeing everybody in about 30 minutes. So I'm going to be headed over there.
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And now let's hear about the first
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lady of New York State. Crockett Air. Yeah. So this is not going to surprise people, Buck, but I was reading this morning and I want to give credit to the group that wrote about this, but Momdani has tried to. Has tried to lean into, I think, what, I think what it's fair to say, a lot of negative connotations surrounding Jewish people. I think that's being very kind to him in New York City. And he has tried to argue, oh, that's just being misconstrued. That's being mischaracterized. I don't actually believe these things. Jewish Insider.com a reporting site, has a story up. I shared it. I am retweeting it right now. If you are interested in reading it, it'll be up @clay and buck.com, too. Uh, mayor Momdani's wife liked many different social media posts celebrating the October 7 terror attack that led to 1200 Israeli deaths and 250 people being taken hostage. Now, everyone out there who is married, I understand, and I do think it's fair to say, hey, husbands and wives don't agree on everything. I think it's pretty unlikely that there's very many husband and wives where one of them says, yay, I'm so happy that Hamas killed a bunch of Jews, and the other one is the exact opposite opinion. So there are certain things where maybe husbands and wives, married couples, the dating couples can differ. And all of you have. Who have spouses can acknowledge this. Certainly my wife does not want to be held accountable for everything that I say. Trust me. Um, but I don't think there's very many couples where, again, would you sign onto this, Buck? One of them is like, yeah, I'm so glad that a bunch of Jews got murdered. Let me go celebrate October 7th. And the other partner is absolutely horrified by that. I don't think that's very common. I'm. Donnie has not commented on this. It's his wife, not him. But she went on social media and liked a ton of celebratory post for the murder of innocent Israelis on October 7th.
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I mean, he's horrible. She's horrible.
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Let me put it in this context, Buck. If Melania Trump had done this, do you think people would say, oh, President Trump had nothing to do with it?
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No. I mean, of course the media would be all over it. I just. This is what you get in New York when you have some communist that you decide you're gonna put in charge of the city, and he's gonna have people around him who are. Who are anti Semites. Keep in mind, there are Jewish New Yorkers who are very pro Mamdani. They don't care about this stuff. They think that the hatred of Israel is somehow entirely separate from hatred of them as Jews. I can tell you, everyone I've ever heard talking about how much they hate Israel, especially remember, we're not talking about criticizing Israeli policy. You're celebrating October 7th. You hate Israelis. I mean, you want Israelis to hate.
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You hate Jewish people.
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You hate Jewish people, too. And this is a very. It's very obvious, right? We don't need to play this game that they want us to play of like. No, it's different. I only cheer when the Zionists are being brutally murdered for no reason in the street. Not when Jews. No, no. Jews they hate Jews. And so, yeah. Is she an anti Semite? She is, but there are Jewish liberals in New York who support Mamdani and probably support her anyway. You know, it's the. It's the old enemy of my enemy is my friend thing with them. They don't really care as long as they're pulling down the load bearing walls of Western civilization, going full commie. They're. They're fine with it.
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I do think, look, if we're gonna play fair stakes here. If you paid attention when President Trump shared the meme video, which was designed to be humorous about Barack and Michelle Obama, and it just played on a recording. For those of you who remember that controversy, it was front page news. I think the wife of the mayor in New York City celebrating the murder of 1200 innocent Jews in the captivity of 250 other innocent Jews, many of whom would be murdered while they were in captivity, should be. And I know I'm old school because I was reading the newspaper on my flights up to D.C. today. I know that this should be the front page of the New York Times and certainly the New York Times, but also the Washington Post, based on the way they cover Trump's social media post. Will it. Will any of you see this covered anywhere other than a show like this or a site like the one that covered it?
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It's. But honestly, Clay, it's tough. She's not an elected office.
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Will they even ask him? Will they even ask him about it? I mean, I think that's fair to say. Hey, your wife was celebrating the murder of Jews. Do you think maybe that's a little bit wrong? I mean, I get it.
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He'll just.
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It's not.
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He'll say, my wife Jews and my wife is allowed to have opinions and he'll just move.
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Move on.
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I'm just.
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I don't even think he'll.
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You're not gonna. He won't get asked. But if he did get asked, he would just say, my wife loves Jewish people. And this is what they just gaslight you. They ignore. It doesn't matter. The evidence doesn't matter. Someone should write a book about this. Maybe somebody did, called Manufacturing Delusion, which you should go get a copy of this weekend if you have not already available on Amazon or wherever you get your books. Because, Clay, they.
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The.
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The game with them is just say you didn't see the thing you saw or. Yeah, what I said doesn't matter. This is. It's just like with Gavin Newsom. It's all. It's all this, it's all the same stuff and unfortunately it works with people and it works, works well enough in New York City. They're just going to figure out the hard way that this guy is the mayor of New York and everything that he says he's going to do that's a positive, he will make worse. He came into office to make people's lives more affordable, he's going to make them less affordable and they still won't learn the lesson. You know why? Because whatever he does, they'll say he didn't do enough of it. That's the problem. This was the whole thing with, with like Obama and all the spending after the, after the Great Recession because it caused, it was all kinds of waste and inflation and everything else and it was always, well, he just didn't spend, it's not that he spent too much money on Democrat priority. He didn't spend enough. That's why we had this is they have a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell. This is how Democrats are with everything. That's why we just can't let them be in charge. We just had on Brianna Lyman from the Federalists talking about the you elect Republicans, fewer people die. Elect Republicans to run your city and fewer people will die by the numbers. Do you think any Democrats care?
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No.
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Whatever happened, if it saves one life, they use that when they want, but of course they never mean it.
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This is the unfortunate consequence of there being a non consequential right. Actual bad policy doesn't seem to change people from rooting for what team they decided to root for. And you would think in many of these blue cities where violence has skyrocketed, thankfully it's coming back down because of President Trump's decisions that that would change, but it just hasn't. And I think again the Mamdani argument as you just laid out, is a very difficult one to make in the grand scheme of things. Look, I want to tell you all about chalk here in the nation's capital. Fast paced, a lot going on. If you're going to thrive in the city, you need stamina and energy. And if you want more of it, naturally you can find that in the great products made by the American patriots. At chalk that's spelled C H O Q. When you include chalk, smell, vitality, stack in your routine and you can be like Buck Sexton and even handle a little bit the PDEL issues associated with it. Leading ingredient in this supplement, it's been proven to increase testosterone by 20% in just three months time. Manufactured here in the U.S. chalk's herbal supplements are clinically proven to have game changing effects on your energy, focus and mood. Visit chalk.com to unlock Chalk's spring special when you subscribe. With my name Clay as the promo code, Chalk will pack a free $99 bag of chocolate powder with your first delivery. That choq.com code clay chalk.com code C L A Y. Let's run down a list of a bunch of these talkbacks. You guys are great. You can always talk back to the show through the iHeart app. We encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast and also to go subscribe to the YouTube channel podcast listener Bill from Claremont, Florida and he's fired up about I think I said that Heath Ledger was amazing as the Joker and he's not happy F Everybody knows that
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Jack Nicholson played the best Joker. I mean I like Heath Ledger and all, but nobody can. Nobody plays the Joker like Jack Nicholson. I imagine your second favorite role of Heath Ledgers is in Brokeback Mountain.
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Just throwing in a shot there. He pledges better than Jack Nicholson.
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Yeah, I, I gotta, I gotta back, I gotta back my partner on this one here. Heath Ledger is a better Jack Nicholson. Very good. It's a very good Joker performance. It's not. There's no, no shaded him but I think Heath Ledger, the one that I actually thought people might take issue with is the Joaquin Phoenix Joker.
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Correct.
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Versus the Heath Ledger joker.
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Yes. And that performance also there's three, you know, elite Academy Award winning esque performances. Delinda from Katy, TX KTRHG hey guys.
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Delinda from Katy, Texas. Speaking of Davy Crockett, Today was the fall of the Alamo. So remember the Alamo. And a great way to remember the Alamo is to subscribe to the only coffee sold in the Alamo Crockett coffee. Go to crockettcoffee.com we have delicious coffee and you should subscribe and we're going to be doing for subscribers a signed book giveaway of Manufacturing Delusion. So subscribe now and you'll be on that email list for when it comes out. We have that in process as well, so it's very exciting.
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Tim in Huffman, Texas Cut H Clay Buck y' all are wrong on the
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leaf blowing before 9am I live on Gulf coast of Texas. In the summertime you get out there
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early in the morning and get your
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yard work done because by 10 o' clock you ready to be back in the house and be done.
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Do it in the evening. Do it in the evening. That's my Suggestion to you, Tim. Get back out in the evening. Nice summer glow. And also, there's not as many leaves down in general in the summer as there is in the fall, which is when primary leaf blowing.
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These leaf blowers are an intransigent bunch. Really, really dug in on their leaf blowing positions here. Anytime, anywhere, as long as they want. You know, I don't know. I think the leaf blowers might need to rethink some of this stuff.
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Podcast. I agree with Buck, but send all your angry comments to Buck, because he's the one you're really going to be mad at. Podcast listener Chris from San Antonio. What you got for us, Jay?
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Today, March 6th. Surprised you haven't mentioned it yet, since you guys are all about coffee as
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a actually the last day of the
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Alamo, final day of the of the siege.
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So you guys are both pretty big history buffs.
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You may know that, but it needs to get mentioned on your program.
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No doubt. Let's go on and go to crockett coffee.com for legendary Tennessee and and mythical Texan Davy Crockett, podcast listener. We just hit Chris. How about, let's see, K, who's a podcast listener? K. No name that has a history lesson for all of us.
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Hey, I'm just trying to get you back, man, here. Davy Crockett got voted out of office twice by Tennessee and he told them to go to hell. He was going to Texas, I'm sure. Texans claiming you're clear, my man.
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That is very. I appreciate back. And again we've got AI we cleared it up. Nobody can tell the difference now. Buck, I hope you survived Padel this weekend. I hope all of you have.
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Oh, no, I'm, I'm on, I'm on injured reserve.
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Oh, you're actually out.
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I can't, man. My elbow's all swollen up. And dude, once you get to be, once you get to be old like me, things just start to break down on you, buddy. You know, I need to, I need to go do some dry needling, some cupping. These are the things you do now in pt. You ever done any of this stuff? It's funky.
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The, the. I have not. I, I, I barely do anything to be healthy.
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Some people listening to this are also like, you could try whiskey, Buck. That would work too.
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Which is a fair point.
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That is a fair point.
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That is a fair point indeed. Look, I hope everybody has a great weekend. We'll be back on Monday, breaking down the absolute latest on the war in Iran and more. And we appreciate all of you.
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You got it. You don't have a movie or a book rec for everybody for this weekend.
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I went to go see. I went to go see Scream 7. But I guarantee you that you hate the entire Scream franchise, so I didn't even bring it up.
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No, Scream 1 is good. Scream 1 is good. But I'm sure in descending order, by the time you get to scream scream7, you wish that the bad guy would knife you in the audience. Like you just can't handle it anymore.
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I didn't think it was bad. It was a nostalgic callback to much of what happened all the way back in 1996.
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You're too nice about movies. What is the last movie you saw that you would actually agree is trash? What is the last movie?
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Watch that Begonia movie, which is, I think, nominated for an Academy Award. And I was like, this whole thing is just. I. I didn't enjoy it at all. I thought it was awful. And they nominated it for Academy Award. So obviously I can't be trusted on movies.
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You might have to take like a shot of intramuscular testosterone after watching that. That's tough.
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I know. It was a Laura choice, not mine. Scream seven's not bad. Speaking truth and having fun, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.