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Buck Sexton
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Ice Cube
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Clay Travis
Welcome in our number three Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you rolling through the program with me. I so many people wake in, we're going to have some fun. On my contention that you cannot take a first date out and pay for it on a gift certificate, which I would continue to to hammer home Some news that is out there on the Caroline Levitt has been having a press availability, a White House press conference, and she has confirmed that the big meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will occur in Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska coming up on Friday will be a huge story for what exactly we will hope to be a successful meeting. And as we told you yesterday, President Trump will know relatively quickly whether he says there is a deal to be made here or he is still kind of getting yanked around for lack of a better phrase, to explain why this ongoing negotiation continues. Some positive news. The inflation report that came out this morning continues to be low inflation at 2.7%. The stock market has surged as a result of that report as inflation came in lower than expected for I think the fifth month in the last six. There has not been a major inflation impact at all from so far, President Trump's tariffs. And we have new stock market records all over the NASDAQ, all over the S P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial. And if you have a 401K, your stocks are setting record highs. So your retirement is doing very, very well. And I'll continue to echo if you were just not a panicker, if you did not panic in April when everybody tried to tell you, oh my goodness, these tariffs are going to destroy the economy. There's no way to, to continue to live this way. It is the case that I believe the Trump economy is starting, starting to fire on all cylinders. Growth in wages is outpacing growth in cost, which is the most important, I would say measurement economically because it means you have more money in your pocket. Now, I know many of you out there are still very frustrated by the price of goods which skyrocketed during the Biden administration when we got to over 9% inflation. I understand when people say, hey, things still feel like they cost too much. Unfortunately, inflation is embedded. We very rarely ever go backwards in price. So the best thing you can hope for is that prices stop growing at exponential rates, which is again where we are. We've got a bunch of people who want to weigh in on a variety of topics. Let me hit you with one bit of news. I should have hit this last week. I kind of missed it. I think it happened Thursday after the show. I didn't talk about it on Friday, but I think it is an important cultural hallmark here. Gina Carano Buck, did you ever watch the Mandalorian on Disney plus?
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Buck Sexton
I thought the first season was excellent and then it kind of kind of crashed into the planet.
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Clay Travis
Laura My wife watches all these shows and she watches them generally with with our boys. They love the Mandalorian. It was a Disney plus Star wars related show. Disney fired Gina Carano for having very what I would say is just a little bit right of center opinions on social media. She later sued. They fired her in 2021 Friday last week they Disney apologized to her and basically said hey, we're going to rehire you. We talk about these things because I do think the cultural significance of them and is becoming more and more Paramount. And Buck, I'll add this. I saw this story up at Mediaite and also up at Outkick. Sydney Sweeney, the ad that was so controversial we were all told only 12% of Americans, according to a big poll that was conducted, actually found this ad in any way offensive. 40% thought that it was a very successful ad. A lot of other people didn't care at all one way or the other. But it is interesting how the left wing, I think their ability to bully and try to force people not to not to be able to say, hey, you know, being a white girl with blue eyes and blonde hair is a perfectly fine advertisement. The way that they ran and hid from this and tried to they've gotten used to being able to bully people into apologizing and not doing ads like this. I do think the best advice I have for anyone out there is do the opposite of what's popular on Twitter and very often your business will thrive because Twitter is not real life. And I think this is yet more evidence of that being true.
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Buck Sexton
Well, Twitter acts now is a lot more reflective of real life than it than it used to be. You Know, I remember it. It's funny. Ever since the social justice communists were kicked out of there by Elon, I never get dragged. They used to call it piled on publicly by, you know, some. Some random writers from Vox or something. You know, this just doesn't happen anymore.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
And I think there was a tremendous amount of both suppression and amplification in favor of communist madness that I know. Well, we know there was. I mean, we. That's. Elon bought it and we saw that and that was real. Yeah. They're honestly so many of these people who a decade ago love to be all tough on Twitter. They're all. They're all leftist cowards. They don't pick fights anymore. They don't want to because they know now that they don't have the rigged game in effect. So I'm very grateful that has changed.
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Clay Travis
Let me play a couple of clips for you that are starting to echo throughout the. Throughout the Internet ecosystem. The chief of police for police for D.C. they had a press conference. Mayor Muriel Bowser was also there. The chief of police had absolutely no idea what the phrase chain of command was. And. And had. Listen. Just listen to this clip and think to yourself, does this sound like a person who should be in charge of keeping people safe in D.C. the mayor then has to step in. And I think it's evidence of what we have kind of told you, which is I think the mayor does want additional resources. Politically, it's just hard for her to endorse the decision made by Donald Trump. But listen to this clip.
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Buck Sexton
That's what the chain of command is now.
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Clay Travis
What does that mean? Well, is it Pam Bondi speaking to the mayor?
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Buck Sexton
How does this work?
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Lisa Booth
So the executive order is clear. The president has requested NPD services in our home rule charter, outlines the process. The president designated Attorney General Bondi as his proxy to.
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Buck Sexton
To.
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Clay Travis
To request services through me. Okay, so I know that's a little bit confusing. The video makes it easier. The chief of police did not seem to understand the concept of chain of command. And so she had to step back. And then the mayor came in and kind of explained how this was laying out, which is, the president is at the top of the chain of command in D.C. as it pertains to. It's a federal leadership there, which I do think is. Is kind of important. All right, I wanted to play this for you, Buck, because you just came back from New York City recently. You were up there with your family. You're born and raised in New York City. George Will, I think he's still at the Washington Post, one of the foremost conservative columnists of the last 40 years probably was on with Bill Maher and he said the same thing that I said recently, which is sometimes you just have to let Democrats deal with the consequences of their choices. And so this argument is starting to spread a little bit. And I want to get your take because I don't know that you've talked about what you saw in New York City and how the city felt, but listen to this.
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Buck Sexton
Here you have Trump, who is the Republican who is aggrandizing more power than anybody, as we just talked about. And on the other side you have the guy running in New York, Mandami. Right. Okay. Who's like a straight up communist. I mean, he is, he talks about, you know, the things that communists say. I mean, he wants free grocery stores, free buses. I want him to win. You want him to win? Yeah, I think every 20 years or so. Wait, we need. Every 20 years or so we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again.
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Clay Travis
Okay, Buck, you were just in New York City. It seems like there's sort of a slow moving panic setting in because Mamdani is remaining in the lead even though he's clearly got communist opinions. Neither Cuomo, Eric Adams nor Curtis Sliwa has been able to say, hey, this is going to be the primary adversary. What's the vibe there so far as you could tell? And what do you think of George Will's argument?
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Buck Sexton
Well, the vibe is, is the slow growth of the panic in mindset. I think that Mamdani is going to win.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
Because the, the alternatives to him, none of them are good. And they're all very good at canceling each other out. And I know, please don't send me the Curtis, Lewa Curtis. Sure. Curtis is a great guy. I've interviewed him before. He's not going to be the mayor of New York City. Okay. It's just not going to happen. So I wish that was not the case, but this is a bit like when libertarians once every four years send me the. Our candidate's going to win the presidency. No, he's not. Ok. It's not going to happen. So please don't send me those emails. And I think that unfortunately Mamdani is going to be the mayor and that's going to result in and some real problems for the city. As for George Will, I mean, look, I cannot abide my what is still my hometown and I cannot abide the largest city in America being burned down as some Kind of a message, because the communists never get the message. It's not like they're going to learn. It's a bit like dealing with children, Clay, when you have to tell them, you know what, you can't actually just have like ice cream and pizza every night for dinner and you're going to eat good food. Like, we just have to be in charge and the leftists have to not be in charge. They never learn the lesson. They will keep burning their hand touching the stove when it's hot. They never learn the lesson. So I disagree with George, who by the way, lives in Chevy Chase, talking about Chevy Chase before. So he lives in a very rich, very affluent suburb of D.C. and it's easy for him with a little bow tie on, who has been wrong about everything Trump related, I might add. He's been one of those. One of those. And you know, Trump wouldn't get into his country club, I'm sure. But you know, it's, it's, I think that it's a bad, it's a bad idea because the lessons aren't learned. I mean, look at, look at San Francisco. They dial it back a little bit. But it's not like the Democrats have said, you know what? San Francisco governance was a bad idea. We're going to change our. No, the communist never gets tired of being a communist because it's not about what is. It's about what makes them feel. And that's why I think New York City as a lesson, very easy for George Will to say, but I don't think New York City as a lesson will actually have the intended result. I'd rather us just move in the other direction and get points on the board. Right. You know, because I don't, I don't think his thing about it being an example is true. It'd be one thing if it actually was going to be, oh, the whole country will learn. You know what happened in New York City, Giuliani came in and fixed the city. That was the lesson they didn't learn from previous Democrat hellscape experiments in New York. They didn't learn from Dinkins and Koch and you know, yada yada, go back. So you want victory, you don't want defeat. Defeat is not a good teacher. Unfortunately, my only argument in this case in general, it can be, but my.
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Clay Travis
Only argument is I think it makes it more likely that we win the House if people like Mamdani and AOC are the face of the Democrat Party by 2026. So I, this is my argument. Will did not make it thoroughly, but that we sometimes have to sacrifice the, you know, the tigers running out there and you got to outrun the tiger. And I don't think, See, I think.
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Buck Sexton
That mom Donnie would. Maybe this will help you, which could be important. Maybe this will help you with some New York state congressional seats. I don't, I don't think that in purple states you're going to, there's not going to be some momdani effect of people who live in like the, he's.
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Clay Travis
Not well enough known in your mind for people to even react to it.
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Buck Sexton
And people aren't, people in the rest of the country aren't going to care about what the mayor of New York is doing when they're voting for Congress. I don't think so in that sense, I don't see. And also, he just doesn't have the national profile. You know, AOC and Bernie, it's funny, they are still the biggest draw that the Democrats have, but I wonder if they really are going to have the negative effects on Democrats in the midterms that people would like to see. I, I'm curious, I'm curious about it. But yeah, George Will, George Will. George Will could use a little, little dose of humility, I think. You know, George Will writing for that Washington Post communist slop for a long time, being all smug with his little bow tie on. You know, you know what, buddy? You know, back of the room, you know, I know you're old guy, but back of the room, you got some things to learn. I'm, I'm, I'm not impressed. So, you know, wrong on everything Trump related. Just gonna say, just, just as dug in on Trump and as anti Trump as anyone can be. And for what? For what? So the communists can run amok? So we can all learn a lesson while George is playing croquet. Sorry, not a fan. All right. Because so, because of you and so many other generous people like you, Preborn has rescued over 38,000 unborn babies this year alone. Preborn is a long standing nonprofit organization with the goal of saving the lives of as many unborn children as possible. Challenge of abortion has now reached the home front at exponential levels because of the abortion pill. It's easy to take, taking a toll on so many lives, innocent lives, day in and day out. But through preborn pregnant mothers who are facing that decision about whether to give life or to have an abortion, they are so often now choosing life because of what Preborn is doing. It starts with this ultrasound process. Because when mom meets the tiny baby growing in her womb. The choice is so much easier. For just $28, you can introduce at risk babies to their mothers through this ultrasound. That's the gift that Preborn provides to pregnant moms in each of their clinics nationwide. Please donate a gift of any amount you can $5 $500 whatever you can do goes toward the mission, but a great way to do it is that $28 a month and just set it up. Recurring monthly donation. I know that adds up, but think of the lives you can be saving in the process. Dial pound 250. Say the keyword baby. That's 250. Say baby or go to preborn.com buck preborn.com V U C K Sponsored by.
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Buck Sexton
We're talking about mom, Donnie the commie in New York City. And just if you want to know where he stands on, well, the issue of Trump, this will not be a surprise. He is launching a five boroughs against Trump tour. Play 22. Donald Trump does not respond well to cowardice, to collaboration.
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Clay Travis
He requires a response that showcases the.
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Buck Sexton
Ability to fight back against that same agenda. And that's what I would do if.
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Lisa Booth
And when he makes these kinds of threats.
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Buck Sexton
With regards to New York City, I describe my administration as being his worst nightmare. Trump's worst nightmare. You guys, all the prosperity and secure border and peace and sanity that's going on. Mom, Donnie hates all of that. So pretty clear where he stands.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. And did you see he's starting to get caught? He was having and living in a reduced rate apartment. I give credit to Andrew Cuomo for starting to kind of throw some punches and that he wouldn't or shouldn't have been qualified for that reduced rate apartment. The problem is Cuomo actually supported, you know, a policy that has taken tons of apartments out of the mix. What I'm hearing is I was reading about this, tons of landlords and some of you in New York City probably are very well versed in it. Some of you may be doing this, have actually just taken some of these apartments out of the circuit because they can't make money because of the rates that they're allowed to charge on some of these units. And so they're just saying, screw it, I'd rather have it sit vacant, which obviously drives up the overall cost because there aren't enough apartments available. We'll see whether some of these illegals now being forced out of the country can start to have an impact on what everybody has to pay for apartments going forward. We'll have some fun. A lot of talk backs rolling in when we come back. On the flip side. In the main meantime, I want to tell you all about Pure Talk. Pure Talk can save you $1,000 over the course of a year. All you have to do is switch to PureTalk. You can have the same great wireless service as many of the big guys, just at a fraction of the cost. I have my 17 year old and my 14 year old on PureTalk phones. I trust Pure Talk to stay in touch with them and also help save me a bundle. You can do the same. You can keep your same phone, although you can get an upgrade if you would like. And you can keep your same phone number, which lots of people are concerned about. How do you save up to $1,000 over the course of a year, money that might come in very handy at the end of the year as you get ready for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's and all of the inevitable costs that come with the end of the year as the holidays, believe it or not, start to move closer and closer by saying Clay and Buck, when you hit £250 on your cell phones right now, that is £250, say Clay and Buck, you can save $1,000. £250, say Clay and Buck. Welcome back in Clay. Travis. Buck Sexton show we got a lot of feedback rolling in on the first two and a half hours of the program. Positive. Let me let me give you a positive. I mentioned that July 4th next year, which is the 250th anniversary of America's independence, is going to include a UFC fight on the south Lawn of the White House. I had seen that report. The team did a good job and grabbed it. Here is cut 33, Dana White confirming that there is talk of a July 4th, go ahead, fight, America's 250th birthday next summer.
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Buck Sexton
Where at?
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Clay Travis
Where at the White House, a pretty big venue. Is that gonna happen? Dana, what can you tell us? It is definitely gonna happen.
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Buck Sexton
I talked to him last night, him.
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Ice Cube
Being the president, and I'm flying out.
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Clay Travis
There at the end of this month.
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Buck Sexton
And I'm going to sit down and walk him through, you know, all the plans and the renderings, and we're going to start deciding what he wants and doesn't want.
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Clay Travis
But yeah, it's definitely going to happen.
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Buck Sexton
Well, think about this. When you were just asking me, you.
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Clay Travis
Know, at the beginning how I felt.
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Buck Sexton
About, you know, where we are today, July 4th, 250th birthday of the United States of America, live on CBS from the White House.
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Clay Travis
Buck, that is going to be pretty awesome. Trump throwing the 250th birthday party in general is going to be phenomenal. But to have all of these different cool events, I'm sure there will be a deluge of awesomeness descending onto D.C. and hopefully it's a much safer D.C. by then. And I think hopefully it won't be.
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Buck Sexton
10 degrees outside like it was during the inauguration because that was a little rough.
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Clay Travis
Well, it might be 110 degrees because it'll be the July 4th event.
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Buck Sexton
I would take, I would take that over what we were subjected to an inauguration. It was, I looked like Leonardo DiCaprio in that movie where he gets attacked by the bear. You know that the revenant wearing like, oh, yeah, 10 bear skins to walk around in is very cold, very cold.
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Clay Travis
I will say that I don't think a lot of people have talked about this. At least I haven't seen it. To me, Trump's decision to clean up Washington, D.C. is likely very connected to the fact that there will be many 250th anniversary events going on in D.C. and he wants D.C. to have its best look about it as people are coming in from all over the world and certainly all over the country to celebrate. So I do think there's probably a connection between the timing of Trump's decision on D.C. and our 250th anniversary. All right, we got a lot of talk backs. Let me hit some of these, by the way, 800-282-2882. You can go subscribe on YouTube, go sign up for Crockett Coffee, get an autographed copy of a book you, if you go to crockettcoffee.com, use code book, get hooked up. It's the best coffee out there. We are celebrating soon the 250th anniversary of the country, but it's only the second anniversary of the coffee company. So we got a lot of years to go. But that's because of you guys. Crockettcoffee.com and subscribe on all the social media channels. Pam in Alaska, where we have got the big meeting between Putin and Trump now scheduled for Friday in Anchorage. Newsradio 6:50. Ken I she has this to say.
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Buck Sexton
Buck, did Clay just say he's surprised or shocked that anyone dated you in New York while you were riding your scooter?
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Lisa Booth
This is coming from a man whose.
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Buck Sexton
Appearance has been compared to that of.
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Lisa Booth
A homeless person and who has openly.
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Buck Sexton
Stated he doesn't know how to operate an oven or any kitchen appliance.
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Clay Travis
Is all true.
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Buck Sexton
To be fair. To be fair, your appearance has not been compared to a homeless person. Your wardrobe has been, has been compared to a homeless person.
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Clay Travis
My recollection is that emailer said that I had the beard of a homeless person. If you remember that emailer, I and.
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Buck Sexton
Your beard, I stand, I stand corrected. I, I, I rushed to your defense here Sir, I realize I've been mo. I've been mowed down by the machine gun nest too. So. Yeah, okay. Yeah, she's right.
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Clay Travis
That emailer said he criticized every aspect of my physical appearance and then closed with, if I remember correctly, and your beard has the appearance of a homeless person's beard. I'm paraphrasing, but I think, look, that's a lot of attacks. When she started, she sounded so nice and librarian like. And then much like with many criticisms, as she layered one sentence upon another, it continued to get progressively worse for me. So thank you, Pam. Now you're not without. Not without attack here, let's see. Let me. There's a lot of good ones out there.
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Buck Sexton
Is this HH you want to get to Glenn?
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Clay Travis
Glenn in Ohio? This is, I would say an unprovoked attack. Maybe the Pearl harbor of the show. Style attack. Listen to GG.
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Buck Sexton
This is Glenn from Ohio. I'm a 66 year old tennis player, but I still think I can compete with you. Even though you just got rid of your dad body and you just put on a new tennis grip. I'm surprised you don't use tennis over wraps, but maybe you don't like them. Let's get together if you're not afraid.
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Clay Travis
All right, we got this guy by 25 years bucket. He's talking trash.
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Buck Sexton
We gotta settle down here. We gotta sell that. First of all, this is a Turner grip over grip. All right, Just to be clear. And, and this is my Wilson pro staff. I like a stiff racket, you know, that requires you had a hit in the sweet spot, not one of these super light rackets with a giant sweet spot because, you know, trying to actually have some technique out there. And I'm just going to say this to you, Glenn, you're 66 years old. Unless you were on the pro tour, you would get smoked. Meaning unless you're a former pro tennis.
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Clay Travis
Player at 66, I think, I think.
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Buck Sexton
You'Re toast, my man. I'm just telling you, I'm not going to back down on this one. The wheels that I've got and then the forehand, the accuracy that I can do inside out, you know, you're just. I'm going to run you around that court, Glenn, and I'm going to have to probably stop and check on you. It's not going to be good for you, buddy. So sorry. Challenge accepted.
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Clay Travis
Basically just said he would put you in the hospital, Glenn. Senior citizen trash talk. What is your speed on your serve? What do you mean? Your apex is I'M I'm more of.
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Buck Sexton
A. I'm more of a consistency guy. I mean, I could. I could juice it up to about 100, 110, 115.
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Clay Travis
Oh, that's. Oh, that's ridiculous. Over a hundred miles an hour on your serve.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, absolutely, yeah.
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Clay Travis
Oh, wow. Oh, that's really the. Glenn has no chance. No. A hundred miles an hour on a serve is pretty rare, isn't it, in tennis?
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Buck Sexton
No, no, that's not. That's not. That's actually not that fast. I mean, you said how fast can I serve? How fast do I serve? Probably more like a hundo. A hundred, but you know, it. There are the pros now serve routinely 125, 130. I mean, that's like not. But yeah, I could probably do. I would say I serve on average about 100, and I could get it up to 110 if I wanted to throw a little shoulder into it. But it's clay. It's all about what's up here, buddy. It's all about what's between the ears. You know, it's a height, it's a mind game. It's consistency.
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Clay Travis
I don't think that many tennis players who are not really elite tennis players hit the ball 100 miles an hour.
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Buck Sexton
Right.
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Clay Travis
I mean, that's a pretty.
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Buck Sexton
No, every. Every college. Every college player is hitting the ball. A lot of them are. I mean, like. I mean, I basically, if you want to know.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
But basically like the level of a D3 college player. When I was younger, I mean, I've beaten people who play D3 college pretty. You know that. That's happened many times in the past.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. But D3 college tennis, I would think their drop off is not that significant. Right. Because tennis, it is closer.
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Buck Sexton
It depends on the school. This is the thing. It depends very much on the school. D3 Racket sports can actually like. I think Trinity College in Hartford had the best squash team in the country for a while. And it's a D3 school.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. I mean, they would have soccer. This happens too, right. Where you could be the D3 soccer team. Whereas if you played like D3 football or basketball, you would get smoked.
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Buck Sexton
No, I think soccer. I think soccer you get now it's really the racket sports where I think the. It's very close. It's also. Those are individual sports too, so the team dynamic matters. Matters less. But yeah, squash, tennis, you can definitely have D3 players who are really competitive. So, yeah, I mean, I was probably at a. At like a. A bad D3 college player level, to be fair. And you know, I'd say I, I could do. Am I gonna have to post some video Clay? Am I gonna. If I have to get the serve gun out. I feel like Clay is a little suspicious.
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Clay Travis
No, no, I'm, I'm actually impressed. Although my mom, speaking of senior citizen trash talk evidently. And I don't know because I have not watched him play lately. My 14 year old nephew is one of the best players in the state of Tennessee and my mom just said he could beat you. This is.
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Buck Sexton
Mom, if he's a state level 14 year old, he absolutely would beat me. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
Really?
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Buck Sexton
Oh yeah.
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Clay Travis
I have not watched him play lately.
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Buck Sexton
But I've played enough tennis and enough like open matches and enough places to kind of know what the, what the levels are. I mean if by 16 in tennis you can be a straight up pro, you can. People have won Wimbledon, it's 17 so. And I think Martina Hingis won Wimbledon at, at 16.
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Clay Travis
I think you're right.
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Buck Sexton
14, you've got the, you know, for 14 you can be.
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Clay Travis
Didn't Jennifer Capriotti start playing when she was 14 on the professional tour?
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Buck Sexton
That made me very. Yeah, definitely. You can be a teenager on the pro tour for sure and not like you know, 17 and six months. I mean you can be 14, 15.
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Clay Travis
Coco Golf was like a 16 year old. I know the, the Venus and Serena Williams.
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Buck Sexton
Well, this is why college tennis generally, this has changed a little bit recently, but college tennis generally has. If you were going to be like world class, you actually don't go to tennis. You don't go to college to play tennis because you're already on the tour. Usually that's changed a little bit. You've had like James Blake went to Harvard and he was a top player. There's a little bit more of this. There are some others but traditionally especially in the foreign players, they, they're pro by and they've been training by the way, non stop since they were like five.
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Clay Travis
That's right. By the way, here's some funny. Well, let's come back and we'll close out. Lots of reaction to my. Which I'll stand by. No one has ever gotten married. If a man used a gift certificate on the very first date with a girl, it's never happened. I do not believe it has happened in the history of the world. But a lot of people weighing in on my he's not that into you theory. If he's using a gift certificate on the very first date, I'm not talking about date 6 or date 8 or saving money because you're gonna get married or whatever. I'm talking about the first date.
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Buck Sexton
You have upset the thrifty contingent of our audience, sir, which is considerable. People like value. They like a good deal. My wife, I don't know if anything other than like seeing our baby smile or playing fetch with Ginger out in the yard. I don't know if anything makes Carrie happier than getting a great deal.
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Clay Travis
I will tell you this. If you had taken Carey out on a date. The vet. Where did you go on your first day? Do you remember?
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Buck Sexton
Oh, yeah, of course. Peninsula Hotel.
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Clay Travis
Like to like the rooftop of the Peninsula.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
Okay.
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Buck Sexton
Fabulous. Where Jesse Kelly maxed out your credit card on $80 shots of tequila.
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Clay Travis
Yes, that's right. I will say, I don't know that they have gift certificates at the Peninsula Hotel, so I don't even know. They probably don't even sell gift certificates. That's a super high end place. Well done by you. We went on our first date to bowling. Very romantic guy that I am. Laura Travis and I.
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Buck Sexton
Were you better than her because your wife is very athletic.
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Clay Travis
She is.
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Buck Sexton
I'm not sure that I would put money on you to beat her in bowling. Necessary.
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Clay Travis
I'm actually a really good bowler. It is.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, look at.
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Clay Travis
I was in this couple of bowling leagues. I. I was over. Over 200.
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Buck Sexton
You never told me this. You were like the Big Lebowski guy. You were on the bowling team.
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Clay Travis
I was in a bowling league. I was, you know, getting it up near. I think I had a 185 average or something like that, which is pretty good. I mean, it's not like.
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Buck Sexton
So this is why you went first date bowling. You were like, let me show you how I roll, lady.
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Clay Travis
Literally. And it's now been torn down that bowling alley. But I do think if I had taken her to Chili's and I've been like, boom, I got whatever you want at Chili's. Mom gave me this gift certificate. I don't think we'd be married. I think she. She might have found it so funny that she was willing to. To hang around. But we didn't have any money of any significant nature. We started dating. So maybe she would have been more forgiving than not. Maybe she's listening right now. She can text me. I think it would have been a. I think it would have been a big no. And I. I think again, guys out there, I'm trying to save you. I'm trying to get you married, have kids. Live happily ever after. Don't use the gift certificate on the very first date because the girl's gonna be like, he didn't even think I was worthy of actual credit card, actual cash. I'm just telling you.
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Buck Sexton
I think. I think there's a little bit. A little bit of filibustering going on here. Of all of the people who want to make their case, Clay, that the gift certificate on the first date is fine. So we're gonna let them. We're gonna let their voices be heard when we come back because they're. They're. They're not. They're not feeling what you're putting down on this one. I'm just gonna say this. And I'm glad that I'm not directly in the blast radius of Clay's elitist anti gift certificate take on the first date. So. So there's that. I'm actually. No, I think I agreed with you. Damn it, I think I agree with you.
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Clay Travis
Of course you agreed with me. Because any man out there think about this. Sir, can I take the bill? Yes.
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Buck Sexton
It's.
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Clay Travis
First of all, the gift certificates inevitably look way too ridiculous, right? They're really bright and they have like, they're very noticeable and they. Then you typically don't have enough on the gift certificate. So you're like, put part of it on the gift certificate, but also whatever's left. I'll take care of myself. Like, the girl's like, why did he not value me enough to actually not have his mom's gift certificate paying for our date?
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Buck Sexton
Well, maybe he just seeks out value wherever he is. Our. Look, if I use a gift certificate, you know what she may think? She may think that I need some. Some chalk, actually. She's like, this guy, get it together, needs a little bit of chalk in his life. Choq, my friends Clay and I are talking this. We're both. We're both middle aged guys now and we're trying to be healthy. More walks. But I'm also a big believer in proper supplementation. I was just texting Seaton the CEO yesterday about my chalk stack. What I'm taking daily from chalk. It's fantastic stuff. I've got it right here at the desk so I never forget to take it. Look. The male vitality stack, for example, can boost testosterone by 20% in just three months time. And testosterone is critical, guys. And it gets. It goes down as you get older. That's just biology. That's how it works. Boosting testosterone can help with so many things. Energy, drive, focus, muscle sleep. Go check out what they've got at chalk and also you've heard me talk about chad mode. I just sent a bunch of chad mode to my in laws because they just use it to get a lot of stuff done around the house. In fact my mother in law Clay loves chad mode for getting chores done. She turns into the chore terminator like will not be denied will not stop until that house is clean. Chalk Cho Q.com use my name Buck. You'll get a massive discount on any subscription for life. Go check them out. Chalk choq.com and use my name Buck for that big discount on subscriptions.
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Clay Travis
Hired a male cheerleader as their lead cheerleader.
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Ice Cube
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Clay Travis
What is that?
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Buck Sexton
That's not. That's not.
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Clay Travis
I don't know. I do know that they have been putting gay slash trans slash dudes. And look, to be fair, there is a difference between a male cheerleader who is, like, a stunter and is throwing a girl up in the air and she's doing, like, flips and everything else, and a guy who is, like, in sparkles and sequins and is dancing with the girls. The first one. If you have those kind of cheerleaders, more power to them. They can't do the stunts without them. No, no negativity. Lots of colleges have that. Some NFL teams do. The whole guy in a sequence, like, dancing around is crazy, by the way. So I'm very anti that. My wife weighed in. She said, I think it really depends on the stage you are in life. You and I were broke and living on law school loans, and we started dating. So I likely would have forgiven the use of a gift certificate, but by today's standards, I'm not sure I would accept a gift certificate on a first date. Also, your nephew is actually 15, not 14, and she says she's skeptical that Buck can serve 100 miles an hour.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, she is firing. Okay, okay, now it's on, Laura. Now it's on. There's gonna be video. There's gonna be video of this. It has to happen. It probably has to happen. Some people are saying Bucks serving in tennis.
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Clay Travis
I want to see you doing 100 miles an hour. Also in my defense, the, the kid had a birthday like three months ago. That's pretty close. Like he's now 15, but it like in May he turned. I think I get a pass on that. If you're an uncle and you're within like a couple of months of how old your niece is or nephews are like, I, I don't think that's a big whiff by me. But he's 15. Now we got a bunch of talkbacks. Let's roll these over.
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Buck Sexton
We're gonna have to get this guy drug tested too. He's older than we thought.
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Clay Travis
You know, what else is it?
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Buck Sexton
What else is in the.
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Clay Travis
I was definitely rigging the game here. I thought he was 14. My son is 14. He, this, his, his nephew.
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Buck Sexton
Clay's 14 year old nephew shows up, he's got like a beard, tattoos on his arms.
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Clay Travis
Get bench 300.
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Buck Sexton
He's like, hey, I play tennis.
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Clay Travis
He's got three kids, mortgage, already served a tour in Nam. When we come back tomorrow, we got a ton of great talkbacks. You can go download the app. You don't have to wait in line. You can just record something. We'll play him. Producer Greg let's listens through them. Love you guys. We'll have more fun tomorrow.
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Ice Cube
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Buck Sexton
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