Hour 3 - His Daughter Should be Alive

Summary

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Hour 3 – "His Daughter Should Be Alive"

Date: October 2, 2025
Host: Clay Travis (with Buck Sexton in Taiwan)
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show centers on the devastating consequences of rising violent crime in American cities, focusing particularly on Memphis, TN, and the broader national conversation about law enforcement, criminal justice, and political responsibility. The episode features impassioned listener calls and expert commentary, including a deeply emotional testimony from a father whose daughter was murdered by a repeat offender. The hosts argue for tougher stances on violent crime and question current political and community approaches to safety.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Program Announcements & Family Notes

• Clay shares schedule changes: Buck Sexton is in Taiwan interviewing the president; Clay will be out the following week spending time with family due to his boys' school breaks.
  • “My boys are getting older and I'm trying to make sure that I am spending as much time with them as I can. My oldest is going off to college next year...” (03:10)
• Multiplatform Expansion: The show is preparing to stream all three hours live on YouTube starting January, aiming to engage a younger and more diverse audience.

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2. Trump Administration’s Focus on Violent Crime

• Trump’s "Builder Mentality": Clay praises former President Trump’s approach to addressing spiraling crime in major cities, starting with Washington D.C. and potentially expanding to cities like Memphis and Baltimore.
  • "President Trump in Washington, D.C. looked around at the violent crime rate and he said something that should be uncontroversial. This is unacceptable." (07:13)
• Federal Resources in Memphis: Red state governors (including Bill Lee, TN) welcome federal intervention to combat crime; even some Democrats support this due to the necessity.

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3. The Toll of Crime: Memphis and Beyond

• Personal Safety Crisis: Many families are leaving Memphis because of safety concerns, according to Clay.
  • Story of buying a cell phone charger at 8pm and being cautioned about his safety—a sign of deep societal breakdown. (08:20)
• Crime Destroys Communities:
  • "Nobody argues that anymore because so many people have left Memphis because they don't feel safe for their family." (07:20)

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4. Steven Miller's Speech on Crime (Memphis)

• Call for Action: Stephen Miller addresses Memphis law enforcement and citizens, denouncing the normalization of dangerous neighborhoods:
  • “We are not going to live in an environment anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal…all that bulls*** is done. It's over, it's finished.” (09:17, Stephen Miller)

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5. Heartbreaking Personal Testimony: Steven Federico

• Case Summary: Logan Federico, 22, murdered during a visit to friends at Univ. of South Carolina by an offender with 39 previous arrests (25 felonies).
  • Powerful testimony from her father, Steven Federico:
    • “[He] was arrested 39 damn times, 25 felonies, was on the street. He should have been in jail for over 140 years…You woke up a beast and you pissed off the wrong daddy.” (12:50–13:55)
• Clay’s Reaction: Deeply affected, calls it "a profound sickness" that criminals are prioritized over protecting innocents.
  • “We do not have to tolerate murder. We do not have to allow toxic empathy to keep our prisons from being full.” (11:12)

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6. Listener Calls from Memphis: First-Hand Accounts of Crime

• Tom in Memphis:
  • Has lived in the city most of his life; recounts having three close friends murdered within 10 years.
  • Recent shooting on his front lawn at a pool party that spiraled into a mass shooting, with bullets missing his head by feet:
    • “My wife and I just walked down that hallway where the bullets came through…We lived there for 20 years, never had any problems.” (27:58)
  • Critiques absence of community leadership and parental guidance, especially for young Black men:
    • “Where are our leaders talking to these young kids in the schools that don’t have fathers or…to help these kids understand how to negotiate life without violence?” (31:53)
• Jonathan, Roofing Company Owner:
  • Describes daily work in Memphis’s most troubled neighborhoods; finds AR-15 bullets in roofs, even in homes of young children.
    • “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been on a roof and pulled out AR-15 bullets…I pulled them out of churches, residential houses…” (32:39)
  • Questions sustainability of National Guard/police surge:
    • "What do we do when they leave?" (34:03)

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7. Analysis: What’s Gone Wrong and What Should Be Done?

• Systemic Failure in Law Enforcement & the Courts: Clay argues for removing judges, DAs, and other officials in cases like Logan Federico’s—calls the recurrence of such crimes “an epidemic.” (15:30, 32:05)
• Community Responsibility: Emphasizes the importance of local leaders, especially within affected communities, in setting moral standards and intervening with youth.
• The Solution Is Not Complex:
  • “Go to the neighborhoods with the highest rates of violent crime and get the bad guys and put them behind bars and keep doing it…until you can feel comfortable walking down the street in these communities.” (37:05)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Stephen Miller (09:17):
  "We are not going to live in an environment anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal, where there is a neighborhood that belongs to a gang…this is Memphis. This is the United States of America. And all that bulls*** is done. It's over, it's finished."

• Steven Federico (12:50):
  "Think about your child…waking up, being dragged out of bed naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head, begging for her life…You woke up a beast and you pissed off the wrong daddy."

• Tom in Memphis (27:58):
  "My wife and I just walked down that hallway where the bullets came through. And yes, I live in a very nice neighborhood. The problem is, is that you don't hear…the community leaders standing up and saying, you know, what is going on in the black community?...when this happened, you know, in my front yard...Where are people saying, this is not how you solve issues?"

• Jonathan, Roofer (32:39):
  "Not only is the crime bad, but the living conditions are just atrocious. There was actually this one house where it was brick and somebody fired the night before and behind that brick is a two year old girl in a crib."

• Clay Travis (11:12):
  “We do not have to tolerate murder. We do not have to allow toxic empathy to keep our prisons from being full.”

• Clay Travis (37:05):
  "Go to the neighborhoods with the highest rates of violent crime and get the bad guys and put them behind bars and keep doing it…until, as Stephen Miller said, you can feel comfortable walking down the street.”

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Noteworthy Timestamps

• [07:13] – Trump’s “builder mentality” and law enforcement in DC/Memphis
• [09:17] – Stephen Miller’s speech to Memphis law enforcement
• [12:50] – Steven Federico’s testimony about his daughter’s murder
• [27:58] – Tom describes a recent mass shooting on his lawn in Memphis
• [32:39] – Jonathan (roofer) details daily encounters with dangerous crime scenes
• [37:05] – Clay’s actionable solution for violent crime: arrest and prosecute
• [41:00+] – Calls and comments on the issues, further reactions

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Tone & Atmosphere

• Direct and Passionate: Clay and callers express raw frustration and anger at systemic failures, maintaining a candid, often emotional tone.
• Sorrowful, Yet Urgent: The episode is marked by grief—especially in Federico’s testimony—but is ultimately a call to action.
• Community-Focused: Multiple voices from Memphis bring personal perspective, making these systemic concerns feel immediate and tangible.

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Episode Takeaways

• Violent crime is not isolated nor inevitable: The hosts argue it is a direct result of failed policies and a lack of accountability, and demand systemic change.
• Personal stories matter: The tragedy of individual victims and families is foregrounded, breaking through political rhetoric.
• Community leadership and responsibility are essential: Beyond federal intervention, neighborhoods and local leaders must own and address the crisis.
• Refusal to tolerate crime should guide policy: The hosts advocate for a strong, unapologetic crackdown on repeat violent offenders, regardless of political cost.

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For listeners, this hour provides an unfiltered look at the impact of crime in American cities, amplifies the voices of those directly affected, and issues a clarion call for meaningful reform.

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I hope that they're going to want to come back and hang out with mom and dad after they're in college, but I don't know. I think they're probably going to recognize that things are pretty expensive and mom and dad taking them places and being able to do things with them is a good buy when they're still in their 20s before they get married and have families of their own. But I don't know. I'm not risking it. So we're trying to do as much as we can with them. So if I'm out, it's almost 100% of the time, unless it's a charity event, probably going to be something affiliated with with my family because the boys are getting older. So just FYI. But Buck is in Taiwan right now. He sat down with the Taiwan president. He will have some of that for you on Monday and we'll be back together on Thursday. But. But I'll be out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and be out a little bit during the fall with my family. With the boys having different holidays, they all get fall breaks now. 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Now, I understand some of you are saying, I don't really need to see you guys and so I'm going to keep listening on radio. I understand some of you are going to say that. But for younger people out there, for people who consume media in different ways, we want to be everywhere. And, and so we are going to be on YouTube and you will be able, you can go find clips now. And we love it. And we'd like for you to go subscribe at YouTube because that is where, frankly, every young man spends his time. Now, if my kids could only pick one media source, they would pick YouTube. And, and so we want to be there. We want to be in front of Everybody. We're on TikTok. We're on Instagram. We are where the audience is, whether that's on your radio dial or on YouTube. And just where watch for us to be increasingly more and more places. I live in Nashville. You guys know that the deadliest city in America, according to some per capita stats, is Memphis, Tennessee. And President Trump in Washington, D.C. looked around at the violent crime rate and he said something that should be uncontroversial. This is unacceptable. And he said, we're going to fix it. And Even though Washington, D.C. is a 95% Democrat city, a lot of good, reasonable people, including Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C. have said, Boy, Trump, bringing more resources to bear in our nation's capital has made a big difference. Violent crime has plummeted as there has been more enforcement of the law in Washington, D.C. and President Trump used Washington, D.C. as a test case. And he's now been looking around the country and saying, okay, where else can I go? Maybe it's going to be Baltimore, maybe it's going to be Chicago. Maybe it's going to be Portland. And to their credit, several red state governors, including Louisiana and my home state of Tennessee, Bill Lee, the governor here, said, hey, Memphis, crime's out of control. How about we get some federal resources there? And to their credit, a lot of people in Memphis, even Democrats, said, yeah, we need help. Crime is out of control. And this is a story of what crime can do. It can destroy a community. When I was a kid growing up, Nashville and Memphis had a huge rivalry. I've told this story. And if you were a Nashville kid or you were a Memphis kid, you would kind of argue back and forth about which city was the best. If you're listening to us in Texas, this is like what you all do in Houston and Dallas. Sometimes cities inside of states have rivalries over which one is better. Florida, goodness, Tampa always feels disrespected compared to Miami. Jacksonville feels disrespected compared to everybody. This happens in many different states where there are multiple different communities. Raleigh and Charlotte, where you kind of go back and forth about, hey, where's the better place to live? Nobody argues that anymore because so many people have left Memphis because they don't feel safe for their family. The neighborhood that I live in right now, I have a bunch of friends born and raised in Memphis. They got out of Memphis and just said, I've got a family, it's not safe there. I've told the story about going out to buy a cell phone charger because I forgot mine. And the front desk clerk saying, be careful, I'm a grown man and it's 8 o' clock at night and she's worried for me about going to a gas station. Shouldn't happen. And Stephen Miller been on this program a lot. Longtime friend of the show. Stephen Miller went down to Memphis and he addressed the community of Memphis and all of the law enforcement officers there and he said, hey, we're going to make everyone in this city feel safe. Cut 18 Listen, we are not going.

[Tom]

To live in an environment anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal, where there is a neighborhood that belongs to a gang, where there is any physical space anywhere that belongs to anyone other than the law abiding citizens and families of Memphis.

[Clay Travis]

The idea that there is a square.

[Tom]

Inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable. This is Memphis. This is the United States of America. And all that bull is done. It's over, it's finished.

[Clay Travis]

I love this. I love this. Why have we grown used to the idea that we just accept violence? Why? One of the things I love about Trump is he has a builder mentality and he looks at things that are screwed up and he thinks, why don't we just fix this? One of the things that frustrates me about politicians is tons of them don't really want to do anything. They like the power. They like the fact that they get their black car Escalades or Suburbans to drive them all over the place. They like the fact that they can get reservations in restaurants that they can pick up the phone and get on the phone with people in industry and commerce in America, but they don't actually want to change anything. Trump has a builder mentality because he looks at things that why, why would we allow this to happen? Why wouldn't we try to fix this? And the example of Washington D.C. and Memphis is an incredible one. This should be happening everywhere. Why do we accept 20,000 murders a year in the United States? Why don't we just say, okay, that's gonna happen. We could fix it. There is a solution. We do not have to tolerate murder. We do not have to allow toxic empathy to keep our prisons from being full. And if you wonder what the impact is of not putting violent criminals behind bars, their stories in every community, every one of y' all out there, no matter what city or state you are in, you can point to a story like the one I'm just about to play. This is hard, but I think you need to hear it. This is Steven Federico. You may have heard his story. He was the dad of a 22 year old girl who was brutally murdered by a guy who had been arrested. I believe the number is 39 times she begged for her life. College girl visiting her girlfriends. I believe this is from South Carolina team. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm going to make sure I get this right. In fact, before we play it, this guy who killed her had been arrested. You're going to hear it from the dad 39 times. 25 of those times he was arrested for a felony. Logan Federico, that is the daughter here. The 22 year old was visiting friends at the University of South Carolina on May 3rd when this guy broke in and shot her to death, stole her credit cards and and went on a shopping spree. 39 previous arrests, 25 felonies. Imagine if this happened to your daughter. I bet you would sound something like this.

[Steven Federico]

Think about your child coming home from a night out with her friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and wake them and drag her out of bed naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father. Me, that couldn't be there. She was five foot three, she weighed 115 pounds.

[Tom]

Bang.

[Steven Federico]

Dead, gone.

[Clay Travis]

Why?

[Steven Federico]

Because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested 39 damn times, 25 felonies, was on the street. He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600 days in 10 years.

[Jonathan]

He.

[Steven Federico]

He's only 30 years old. Her name's Logan Federico, not Irina. And you will not forget her, I promise you. You will be sick and tired of my face and my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You woke up a beast and you pissed off the wrong daddy.

[Clay Travis]

I mean, it is hard to hear that for dads and moms out there. What are we doing? 39 arrests, 25 felonies. And this 22 year old girl, you just heard it. Five foot three, 115 pounds, visits friends at the University of South Carolina and she's dead. Can you imagine getting that call if you're the mom or the dad, you just heard from the dad. Can you imagine if that was your son, your daughter away at college, just visiting friends for a night out. And a monster who's been arrested 39 times, 25 of them for felonies, never spent hardly any time, as you heard, in prison over the last decade, kills her in cold blood and then goes on a shopping spree. What are we doing? What are we doing that we are constantly allowing this to happen? And again, every single one of you, in every single state, there is a story just like Logan Federico. 22 year old girl, completely innocent, never done anything to anybody, murdered in cold blood because we didn't take her killer off the streets and put his ass behind bars. I give credit to her dad for speaking out. I can't imagine how angry you would be. The grief has to be unimaginable, but then it has to turn into anger because it's not just some random tragedy. That's when you're filled with grief. Your kids driving, something awful happens, they turn off the road, next thing you know they've died in a car accident. That's grief. That's awful. This is something much worse than that. Something much worse, and I think illustrative of a profound sickness that we've allowed to take over the country. We care way more about making sure that criminals aren't held responsible for their jobs than we do protecting the innocent people of this country. And it has to end. And I see it directly tied in with what Stephen Miller just said in Memphis. I see it with what President Trump is doing in Washington D.C. violent crime being tolerated is a choice. And we should not make the choice to tolerate it. We should end it. And the way we end it is by putting the people that are actually violent criminals in prison for the rest of their life and throwing away the keys. I don't Know what the number should be, but it sure as hell ain't 25 felony arrest. That guy should have never been out on the streets to take this guy's daughter should never been able to happen. It's a failure. It's profound. We had honest media all of these stories. Everyone involved in these cases would end up losing their jobs. You shouldn't be able to be a DA if this happens. You should be able to be a judge. If this happens. You should lose your jobs too. There should be consequences for you. This young girl and so many other like her are dying in vain right now because we have incompetent people who should be trying to protect the innocent and are not. And I think like many of you, I'm just completely fed up with it. But I think we need to share these stories. And so I give credit to Steven Federico for speaking out so passionately there and striking so many of you as he did in the process, hopefully striking many of you and waking up a lot of people out there that are failing the young people of this country. Look, you just heard how awful crime is. You probably want as much as you can inside of your home to help protect you, to help protect your kids. Unfortunately, they got jobs. They're off to college. They're out driving around communities. They're out after dark. Unfortunately, when may not be safe. That's what Saber's all about. Non lethal protective devices sold on their website. Number one, pepper spray trusted by law enforcement. You can go get hooked up today by checking them [e-mail] we've got every one of their products in the Travis household. You can have them as well. Saberradio.com is the number is the website. Saberradio.com s a b r e radio.com Again, these are non lethal pepper sprays. Also pepper spray projectile launchers. Just go check out this website. I guarantee you you'll love it. We've got them all too. You can call 844-824-SAFE. That's 844-824-SA safe saberradio.com News and politics, but also a little comic relief. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Tom]

Yeah, I've lived in Memphis most of my life and over the last 10 years I've had probably, well, three close friends murdered in Memphis. Just different situations, just crazy things happening and you don't think it's going to happen to you. But two months ago, I guess about two months ago, there was an Ole Miss player that was killed in a shootout, a mass shooting in Memphis. I don't know if you heard that.

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[Tom]

And it actually, yep, it happened in my front yard. I live in a, in a neighborhood outside of Memphis, very nice community, never had any problems. A pool party gets put out on the Internet and 150 people show up and I come home with my wife from my kids house and I mean we're in the living room and all of a sudden lamps start flying off.

[Clay Travis]

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[Tom]

Well, he was shot in my front lawn. And down the street, four others were shot. And two bullets came in, knocked the lamps off the, you know, the table behind my couch where I was sitting. I missed bullets by literally 2 or 3ft. My wife and I just walked down that hallway where the bullets came through. And yes, I live in a very nice neighborhood. The problem is, is that you don't hear. And I've lived in Memphis almost my entire life. I went to the University of Tennessee. But I've had family. I have three kids, are grown, live in Memphis, have jobs and careers. And I'm not, I'm not moving because my family's here. But you do not hear the people that need to stand up, the community leaders standing up and saying, you know, what is going on in the black community? When I look out my dining room window and I look out and it looks like there is a war outside with people running in front of my dining room window with AK47s and AR15s and screaming and yelling at each other, shooting bullets in a neighborhood. These are 5, 600,000 up to a million dollar homes in this neighborhood. We lived there for 20 years, never had any problems. But where are the leaders in the Memphis area that are talking to the kids and these young people about, you don't go to a pool party with AK47s and AR15s and expect that that is going to solve something. I mean, Trump can send the National Guard and yes, it might cool things off for a bit, but where are those in the black community that are. You don't hear it. You do not hear them going into the schools, talking to these kids about how to solve issues. And I think that it's, you know, single family homes and it's not poverty, it's morals. It's somebody coming in. I mean, I went to a private school, I got beat in high school with, you know, solid and half baseball bats. And I never did the thing, you know, for just not bringing my PE uniform. I mean, you can't touch these kids when they come to school and they're disrespectful to the teachers or to themselves. Nobody. I mean, if I was part of the black community, I'm a white guy, but if I was part of that community, I would be out talking to these kids and these youngsters and saying, this is how we need to solve issues, not bring guns.

[Clay Travis]

I just don't got how much worse. Sorry to cut you off, but you've lived in Memphis your whole life. Basically. How much worse has it gotten? Do you remember a point in time? I mean, you're talking about a neighborhood where traditionally you said you felt safe. Do you remember a point in time? Because this is what I've heard people say where, I mean, there's bullets legitimately coming into your home. Uh, you're fortunate. We're glad you. You and your wife are safe. But there is. Was there a point in time? Has it accelerated since 2020? When did you look around and say, boy, this is not even the Memphis that I grew up in?

[Tom]

Probably about 10 years ago. And like I said, in the last 10 years, I've had three. Three friends that have either lost a wife, a husband or a child.

[Clay Travis]

Unbelievable.

[Tom]

For. Since. I mean, those are personal friends that I know that I grew up with kids, went to my school at houses that. With, you know, that are friends with, for, you know, St. Jude, you know, event. And a guy gets murdered for wallet. I mean, you know, so I think in the. But the problem is, is you don't have the community leaders talking in the schools, out in the public. Where are they when this, when this happened, you know, in my front yard. Where. Where was the conversation? Where are people saying, this is not how you solve issues? There's. Nobody is talking in the. To their own people. I have neighbors that were horrified that are black in my community, you know, my neighborhood, and they're saying the same thing. Where is. Where are our leaders talking to these young kids in the schools that don't have fathers or, you know, that don't have fathers in the home to help these kids understand how to, you know, negotiate life without violence? Because it's an epidemic.

[Clay Travis]

Thank you for the call. It is an epidemic. And again, it's a willingness to accept a certain level of violence. That's where the country is. Right. That's what Democrats are basically arguing. Well, we have to be willing to accept 20,000 plus murders a year should occur because we're not willing to do what's necessary to actually crack down and limit violent crime in a significant way. Jonathan In Memphis, you own a roofing company. What is it like? What do you see?

[Jonathan]

Hey Clay, good to talk to you again. So, yes, I do own a roofing company and I'm down in probably some of the worst areas of Memphis every single day. We're talking Frazier, Orange Mound, Hickory Hill. And not only is the crime bad, but the living conditions are just atrocious. I go to houses with no running water, you know, no central air. And I can't tell you how many times I've been on a roof and pulled out AR15 bullets. I pulled them out of churches, residential houses, and on the siding as well. There was actually this one house where it was brick and somebody fired the night before and behind that brick is a two year old girl in a crib. So, you know, it's, there are so many great people down here and they do talk about, when I'm with them, I do talk about, they do talk about the crime. But like the gentleman was saying before, nobody's offering solutions, I guess, or speaking out about it, but I really feel like too many.

[Clay Travis]

Do you feel like the surge is going to have an impact? Are you optimistic that what is being done by the federal government, state, National Guard resources, all of that being mobilized, Are you optimistic it's going to make a difference?

[Jonathan]

Well, we did have the, we had 100 state troopers coming here on 240, so if you ever driven on 240, that is pretty crazy. I seen like 10 cars pulled over. But in respects to the National Guard, yes. I'm glad that they're coming. The only thing I'm worried about is what do we do when they leave? You know, the guys will, you know, try to control the crime and I'm not sure exactly what all they would be doing, but. But yeah, I mean this, you'd be shocked if you went to some of these areas that I go to. And I'm not trying to say I'm some kind of saint, but a lot of roofers won't go there, but I'll go there because there's business to be had and people still need a roof. And another sad thing is people have houses that are dilapidated but they don't have the money to fix them. And that's just heartbreaking. I try to help people out as much as I can, but I just see it getting worse and worse. And the Guy said before 10 years, I'd say in the last five years it's really, really gotten bad. And over there at Bartlett, they have bars on the windows of stores before COVID they didn't have that. Yeah. And I can't tell you how many times somebody has told me to be safe. This is like a daily thing.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Jonathan]

You know, I'll leave the house, be safe. Be safe. You know, And I'm like, I'll try to be. So, yeah. I mean, it's. It's just a really sad situation, and I hope the guard can do something, but I'm just thinking, what do they do after they leave?

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. No, thank you for the call. Thank you guys for the calls. Look, we have at times the number one radio show in Memphis. And so I appreciate from hearing from all of you in Memphis, heck, we have number one radio show in Louisville. We have number one radio show in Birmingham. We have the number one radio show in a lot of cities, high up in St. Louis, Kansas City. A lot of the cities that have the highest rates of violent crime. A lot of you are listening every day. And again, I think there's a lot of demand from large segments of the population to say, hey, let's be honest. How many people do you think they would need to arrest in order for Memphis to be 75% safer? 3000 people? 2000? 1500? I mean, I don't know the exact number, but we're talking about a city with over a million people in the surrounding community. Maybe it's 5,000. My point is, it's a small pinprick of the actual city that is being taken over by that criminal element. And so the solution here is not revolutionary.

[Tom]

It's not.

[Clay Travis]

It's go to the neighborhoods with the highest rates of violent crime and get the bad guys and put them behind bars and keep doing it and keep doing it until, as Stephen Miller said, you can feel comfortable walking down the street in these communities. And maybe that means you have to lock up 5,000 people. And I get, hey, that's tough. You know what? Why would you let a few thousand bad apples spoil what should otherwise be a splendid city? Tolerating criminals. It should be unacceptable. And again, this is what being concerned about. Oh, we're being too mean to criminals. Leads to. I mean, that guy. I mean, so many of you are reacting to Steven Federico, the dad. Now, that was a story out of South Carolina, but you just heard a story out of Memphis. And we could open up phone lines, and I could say, hey, Birmingham, tell me what you see. Hey, Louisville, tell me what you see. Hey, Milwaukee, tell me what you see. Hey, Raleigh, tell me what you see. Sacramento, San Diego, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Houston, Nashville, where I am Every single one of you, if we open up phone lines could say hey, I want you to tell me the worst violent act that you've seen or has happened to one of your friends or family. And all of you would have stories. Why? Why are we tolerating this? We shouldn't. Time for tolerance is over. Let's go after violent crime. I give credit to President Trump, Stephen Miller, everybody involved in trying to make this in time of year. Lots of leaves. You're going to want leaffilter, America's number one gutter protection company. You can protect your home from flooding, roof damage, rotting and foundation issues. Right now you can get a free inspection free estimate. Save up to 30% off your entire purchase at leaffilters website. That's leaffilter.com clay a leaf filter Trusted Pro will clean out, realign, seal your gutters before installing leaff filters and it's going to make a big difference. And by the way, might not just be leaves. I talk about this all the time. Wiffle balls, Nerf footballs, they have all ended up in the gutters of my house. Probably if you have kids or grandkids running around, same thing has happened to you. Leaf Filter can make a huge difference for you. Schedule your free inspection 30 off your entire purchase at leaffilter.com clay that's leafilter.com clay 30% off leaffilter.com clay See representative for warranty details. Want to be in the know when you're on the go? The Team 47 podcast Trump highlights from the week, Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Clay Travis]

Buck Sexton show welcome in to all of you for the close of the program and we have got a ton of talkbacks. Let's see how many of these we can get through. We started off the show talking about how Gallup had a poll out saying that there was a record low of approval for overall overall media and there were a ton of reactions. Let me see how many of these I can hit. Ken in New York City W Radio Fire away Clay. I like bread bear on Fox News.

[Tom]

Only none of the others.

[Clay Travis]

Also, I'd like to know your take on who Arkansas will hire for a new head coach. I didn't expect Ken from New York City to sound like a southerner and then also know want to know who Arkansas is going to hire. Arkansas fans have been struggling for a long time. I mean this is one of the most cursed fan bases out there. I think they want to give Bobby Petrino a chance. He's the interim coach and then I think they will either go younger in which case there are a lot of guys out there or I think they may roll the dice and give believe it or not, Jon Gruden a chance formerly from the NFL Tim from Eau Claire, Wisconsin W me Q JJ what you got a good place for your charity to donate for your book? My suggestion would be the Marines Toys for Tots. The late Rush Limbaugh loved it because 90% of all donations went directly to the kids. I love that idea. You got a We've got a lot of suggestions coming in about places again if you could go buy the book, I am donating all the proceeds. I want the arguments out there. The book's called Balls. One month from publication, I was talking about earlier. I'm in a spot now where I feel very fortunate. Do not have to worry about paying my mortgage. Do not have to worry about feeding my family. And so I just want the arguments out there and I want to use the proceeds from the book to make things a little bit better. That's my goal. John and Kogo Radio, big audience out in San Diego. He's got a good idea. Kk.

[Tom]

I believe that if you're doing a charity aimed toward the youth, how about Turning Point? I think that'd be a fantastic charity to consider.

[Jonathan]

Thank you.

[Clay Travis]

It's a great. It's a great idea, too. In honor of Charlie Kirk. I mean, you guys have got so many absolutely phenomenal suggestions. LL Tom in New York, also listening on W O R. I would give.

[Jonathan]

The money from the book to a veterans foundation. Absolutely. To help homeless veterans.

[Tom]

And if you're going to split it.

[Jonathan]

Up a little bit, you throw a little to Turning Point USI or.

[Tom]

And then you talk amongst your wife.

[Jonathan]

And your children and see what they think. That's my advice to you, my friend.

[Clay Travis]

It's good advice. Mm. Podcast listener Stan. Fire away, Clay. I trust everyone in the premier network. I'm a truck driver in Texas. I listen even early morning and to Michael Del Giorno, then Glenn Beck, you.

[Tom]

Clay and Buck, Sean Hannity and Michael Berry.

[Clay Travis]

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[Tom]

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