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Jack Armstrong
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Joe Getty
He's Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Joe Getty
How about something about a comedic tone?
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Jack Armstrong
We have winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Jack Armstrong
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do. To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Joe Getty
Hey Buck, one of my kids called me an unk the other day. An Unk? Yep. Slaying, evidently. For not being hip, being an old dude.
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Jack Armstrong
So how do we un unk you?
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Joe Getty
Get more people to subscribe to our YouTube channel. At least that's what my kids tell me. That's simple enough. Just search the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show and hit the subscribe button. Takes less than five seconds to help unk me. 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. Welcome back in Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program. Hope all of you had a fabulous Memorial Day weekend and we are certainly in remain, as we said on Friday, thankful for everyone out there who made the ultimate sacrifice so that all of us could have the freedoms that far too often we take for granted. And I hope you took some time with your family and friends over the weekend to contemplate that. And if you were back with us today, we appreciate all of you. I know a lot of people still out. Buck has got the flu, so he is out today. He says he will be back tomorrow. I will be out. I'm going on a family vacation before all the kids obligations begin to stack up in earnest. So I will be on the road with them. I'll be out the rest of this week and some of next week and then I will be back and then we'll be up in Washington, D.C. for a little while doing the show. Gonna be a lot of fun there. Several other stories that are out there and I encourage you to go download the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a moment. Great guest hits with Riley Gaines and with Dr. Marty McCary you just heard from in the second hour. It's just us here in the third hour and there's several different things that I want to hit that I think are particularly important coming out of the weekend. So I'm going to play several of these things. But I want to start with Democrats Are Now. This is from the New York Times doing a deep dive on what went wrong in 2024. And they have decided that they need to do a better job of pursuing young men. And this is this in many ways sounds like what you would say when you discover a new tribe that has never had contact with the outside world before. Democrats just sound completely broken when it comes to understanding how to have a conversation with normal men out there. And I saw this story over the weekend in the New York Times and I just thought to myself, yes, we should definitely focus on this. Democrats, you'll nail it. This is from the New York Times. The prospectus for one new $20 million effort obtained by the Times aims to reverse the erosion of Democrat support among young men, especially online. And again, I'm reading from the New York Times. It is codenamed S A M, short for Speaking with American Men. A Strategic Plan and promises investment to, quote, study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces. It recommends buying advertisements in video games, among other things. Um, I have talked about this quite a lot and this is what my new book is about. It's about how Democrats lost young men. And I want to tell you a couple of analogies that are in the book. You can go buy it. Some of you are going to gasp a bit when you hear what it's called. Uh, but let me first thank President Trump for his endorsement. Some of you may have seen this over the weekend. Uh, he posted this is President Trump. Clay Travis has a great all caps new book coming out November 4, 2025. Balls How Trump Young Men and Sports Saved America. Clay is a highly talented commentator who is tough, smart and gifted with all caps common sense. He studied our historic movement from the very beginning. Truly gets maga. MAGA loves him. Pre order your copy today with a link. Again, the book is called Gonna be out in November, but you can get it for 14 bucks I think right now on Amazon. Balls. How Trump Young Men in Sports Saved America. And the COVID of the book has two basketballs on the COVID And some of you are going to say, oh my God, like, you're so immature. And yes, that probably is somewhat true, but I also want for people to be gripped by the argument. And the COVID of a book is, not surprisingly, an opportunity to grab people and make them think about something or see something that they may not have seen before. And so I've spent a great deal of time in the last several months diving into the data, analyzing what exactly is going on with young men. And I want to hit you with a couple of stories that really are in the book. And again, the book's going to be out in November. I think you guys are really going to like it. If you're audiobook people, I'll be reading it. Buck has got a great new book that's going to be out In January, too. So we'll have a couple of good books. And I imagine that he's going to be reading his book, too. So for those of you that are going to be on the road and don't necessarily want to read the book itself, you can get the audio version, but it's up on Amazon. It's only 14 bucks and it'll be right there. And I appreciate President Trump for endorsing the book. They said, hey, how do you want to announce the book? And I said, well, I'd like for President Trump to announce it. I didn't know if he would, but on Sunday night they popped me and said, hey, President, just he's going to be endorsing your book. He loves it. He's excited about the concept. And Trump gets it right. Trump gets young men. But I want to talk to you. If you got kids or grandkids, I want to hit you with a couple of stories. Sometimes we don't see the world through the eyes of people who are of different ages than us, even though we might see many of the same things that they do. And I've got two stories that are examples and anecdotes that are in the book that really kind of crystallize the world for me. My you guys know I have three boys, so I think about this quite a lot. Right now. They are 17, 14 and 10. Got one who's going to be a rising senior, rising ninth grader, rising fifth grader. So fairly different ages. But in the COVID era, in 2020, my then 9 year old, my middle son, like a lot of your kids or grandkids, was obsessed with football cards, basketball cards, baseball cards. I loved them when I was a kid. My boys got really into them as well. YouTube has really, I think, fueled this because you unpack, you open these, you break, as they call it, these cards and you go through and you look at them and, and they have all sorts of special cards. Really very cool. I mean, it takes me back in time every time I walk into a card shop with my boys and just reminds me of being in the 1980s, 1990s for many of you, 60s, 70s, whenever you were into thousands, 2000s baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards. And we were going to Target. During the COVID era, everything, you know, by and large shut down. My kids are really fired up about cards even more. This is when YouTube, it kind of took off. People card value skyrocketed. A lot of people sitting around watching. And we walked into Target and this is before the Target tuck bathing Suits went crazy before Target's Pride month insanity. We walked in and my nine year old points to the very first clothing display in our local Target. This is Franklin, Tennessee. This is a red county in a red state. I'm not talking about walking in on in Times Square or something into a Target. This is Franklin, Tennessee, where I live in Williamson county, just south of Nashville, Tennessee. Red county, red state. And he just said they would never have anything like, and I'm paraphrasing him, they would never have that for us. And I didn't really know what he was talking about. We looked over, he said they would never. And there's this huge display, all of girl power T shirts. Girls rule. Girls, you know, dominate, whatever it is. And girl power, he said they would never sell boy power shirts. Dad, I thought, you know, it's really very, I mean, I hadn't thought about it because I'm a generation older than him. And the generation that I grew up in is boys and girls should be equal. Boys and girls should all be able to be doctors or lawyers. You should all be able to pursue whatever career you want to. We should allow, regardless of whether you're a boy or girl, girls and boys to have equal success. And I went to law school at Vanderbilt, met his mom there. There were more girls in my law school class than boys. And there are way more girls now that graduate from college than boys who graduate from college. Like 60, 40. And you can imagine if 60% of college degrees still went to men instead of women, we would hear about it all the time. It would be one of the top talking points. Oh, look how sexist. Look how the patriarchy still dominates. I mean, we're talking about 60% of college degrees go to women. And the majority now of graduate degrees go to women too. And yet you walk into a Target store according to my then 9 year old, and they get the message all the time, girls rule. Boys basically stink. And they would never have a boy power T shirt. And he was right. And shortly thereafter they go to public school K to 6. All my boys have. One of their friends came in to the house and he was talking about they had been having a history lesson at school. And the history lesson that he had taken as a young white kid was white people, white boys, white men ruin everything. And he was kind of jokingly sitting around and he was like, you know, Mr. Clay, they tell us that we have all this power. And he's like, my mom doesn't even let me pick what I get to eat for dinner. And it's funny, but it's also kind of sad because we've raised this entire generation of boys that has been told, not just white kids, black kids, Asian kids, Hispanic kids, hey, being a man, being a boy, there's something wrong with it. Your masculinity is toxic. And what I grapple with in this book is imagine that we raised an entire generation of boys, and we told them that their identity was toxic, and then we shut down their schools, and we shut down their sports teams, and we told them that Covid was dangerous, and masculinity is toxic. And they didn't get to go to prom, and they didn't get to finish their basketball season or their soccer seasons. And young girls are part of this, too. But I think boys in particular is what I focused on because of the data. They're profoundly angry. Young white, Hispanic, Asian, and black men are profoundly angry. And I really think that Trump, even though he's their grandfather, channels their anger at the establishment that took away part of their youth, that told all of them at birth, hey, you're toxic because you're masculine. Is it any wonder that they would be deeply searching for purpose in life? And then you downgrade religion? You tell them that being a provider is somewhat toxic, too, that they should be beta male versions of themselves. They are fundamentally rejecting what I would call is the girl power era. And they're saying, there's nothing wrong with being a boy. There's nothing wrong with growing up to be a man. And I think that a lot of moms out there right now are listening because you're raising boys. And I think a lot of grandmas are looking around like, when did all the men in the world turn into pussy willows? And I think that Trump has channeled that anger. And I also think that the younger boys are actually more conservative than the young boys who broke in huge numbers. And there's a big data analysis in this book. Balls. And again, you got to grab people's attention. There's a big part in the book. Do you know the two Trumpiest voting groups in America in the 2024 election were men over the age of 65 and young men 24 and younger. I bet never in history have young men and older men been more aligned than they are right now. And the older men are like, this whole generation is bs. But you know what the younger men are saying? You're right, Grandpa. This whole generation is bs. Now, people like me are kind of in the middle, right? Because I think we grew up in the era of hey, women should be able to be successful. Yeah, good. Go be a doctor. Go be a lawyer. That's fine. But I think this younger generation, it's moved from women should be successful to men are bad. We have dragged down men to elevate women. And I think they see it, they feel it, they're being taught it. And so this book that I wrote is a complete examination of that era. And I don't think anybody else has told the story again. Comes through the world of sports. Covid, all of it rolls together to create what may be the most conservative generation that any of us have ever seen in terms of young men. And I see it as a dad because the younger men are moving even more conservative. And the line of demarcation to me is Covid. Covid was the breaking point, the point in time where a lot of these young men said, no, we're being lied to. If you lied to me about COVID why should I listen to you about gender issues? Why should I trust you on anything? And I think Trump and his disruptive bravery. I'll talk about that in a sec when I come back. Connects with them on a visceral level. White, black, Asian, Hispanics, not just white kids. It's young men of all ages. The data is reflecting. Let's talk about it when you come back. 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Jack Armstrong
You listen to Armstrong and Getty on Demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Joe Getty
He's Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy.
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Joe Getty
Modern world about something about a comedic tone.
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Jack Armstrong
We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You geti on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Jack Armstrong
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Joe Getty
No.
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Buck Sexton
No one was letting.
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Clay Travis
It became known as the Iran Contra.
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Jack Armstrong
Affair, and I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Clay Travis
I'm Leon Naifak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast Fiasco Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Jack Armstrong
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do. To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Joe Getty
Joe in Milwaukee. You're reacting to the story that I think is quite clear, which is young men and why they're breaking for Trump. The data is clear. They're doing it. I think the book that I'm writing, that I've written that's going to be out in November, lays it out, but it's similar to something you've done. What do you got for us?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, and so I was a high school football coach, middle school teacher, 1998. And I'm like, what is going on with these boys? Even my two young boys at that time and a young daughter, and my wife is like, yeah, what is going on with these boys? Like, what's going on? So I kind of did a dive into it from one of my master's degrees I was doing, and it was called the Pancification of the American Male. And it was like, what's happening to boys? And the things that popped out, you know, this is a long time ago. The boy Scouts were now being run by moms, girls were in sports, and a boy was told like, we'll be nice to that girl. So if the girl stole the ball, the boy was made fun of so they need to tax the girl. And then he'd be made fun of for beating up a girl in advanced classes in my school we'd be going through and like, well, that boy can't be in there because he's just, he's too wild. He'll disrupt the classroom. But that girl who's not as smart, she really behaves and works hard. So we'll put her in the advanced classes. So it really became. And then political correctness was just starting, the wokeness of it all. And so it really became to tell boys, listen, if I want to advance and we had a very high performing school district, I have to act like the girls. I have to be more like the girls. You know, teachers are 70% white women, they expect, they talk and like, do you understand what a boy is like at all? Like, you boys are all wiggly.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Thank you. Thank you for the call. I think, look, I think that masculinity is in crisis and I think it starts with boyhood. And by the way, men are partly to blame too because there's a lot of absent fathers and as a result you got moms trying to do both jobs. To be both man and woman in the household, that's very hard to do. Stay connected with your kids this summer and out there, out of school or about to be, need to reach your kids instantly. Rapid Radios, Walkie talkie, make it easy. Just the push of a button. You can stay in touch with them whether they're at practice, hanging out with friends. We had these at the Indy 500 because we weren't sure how well the Overall cell phone, 350,000 people there, how well you're going to be able to send messages, how well you're going to be able to talk. Thanks to nationwide LTE coverage, Rapid Radio is 100% private. No monthly fees or subscriptions. You can rely on them to keep your kids connected with you at all time, whether they're out and about or at home. Get hooked up now. Rapid Radios, they keep a charge for five days. Great. In the event, unfortunately of catastrophe. Great. Rapidradios.com save up to 60% free UPS shipping from Michigan. Code radio for an extra 5% off. That's rapidradios.com code radio. Buck will be back tomorrow. I'll be out. My kids are out of school and scheduling things with them has gotten increasingly more difficult because somehow they're busier than I am and I'm pretty busy. But so Anyway, we're gonna be out for a few days. Then we got a big event that we're doing down in Palm beach with the show. So I'll be back for that. But I wanted to play this. We are in the middle, obviously, of graduation season, and as a part of graduation season, you get a lot of commencement speeches, some better than others. I'm gonna be at a graduation tonight and we have got a ridiculous speech from an elite school. I don't know what Wake Forest is thinking to bring in Scott Pelley, a 60 Minutes correspondent. Is he team do research? Is he a graduate of Wake Forest? I don't know if I, if I went to Wake Forest and they were like, hey, you know who your commencement speaker this is this year? They're like, no, the eighth most famous guy on 60 Minutes. I don't know that I'd be like, yes, score. This is going to be an unbelievable validation of the four years that I spent as a Demon Deacon. We got the 8th most important guy on 60 minutes to come talk to us. Do any of these 20 year olds watch 60 Minutes in the first place? Probably not. Unless, as is the case with me, it happens to come on right after an NFL game ends, which is the only reason anybody watches 60 Minutes. It has the best time slot on the planet. He. So he didn't even go to. He didn't even go to Wake Forest. So congratulations, Demon Deacons. You could have gotten me for free. At least I'm one of the two best people on Clay and Buck, as opposed to the eighth best guy who is on 60 Minutes. But Scott Pelly went off. Buck may weigh. Weigh in on this tomorrow too, because I saw him sharing some tweets. They were really good about this. But let me play. This is what you happen to see. And I bet some of you who are listening were there because we got a big audience in North Carolina and Wake, as I said, fabulous school. Here he is going off about Trump and the insidious fear that he has created. Here's cut 18.
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Jack Armstrong
In this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack.
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Joe Getty
Journalism is under attack.
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Jack Armstrong
Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak in America.
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Joe Getty
What in the. Sometimes I hear this stuff and I'm like, what is the world that you live in? Did Scott Pelley make any of these comments when Joe Biden was censoring people through his administration on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, when you said things like the COVID shot is worthless, they would demonetize you, they would ban you. And now we know the COVID shots are worthless because the data reflected it. Where was Scott Pelley during all of that? He continued, by the way, Trump is demonizing diversity, equity, and inclusion. But, I mean, this is what you heard. If you were graduating from Wake Forest, shame on Wake Forest. Honestly, who in the world? First of all, you picked a loser. You picked the 8th most famous guy at 60 minutes, and then you let him get up there and rip to shreds the sitting President of the United States. Now, again, I don't think you should. Once you decide that somebody is a commencement speaker, I don't think that you should censor what they want to say. So I don't blame Wake Forest for what he said. I. I blame them for being so lame that this was their pick and that this is what you had to sit through if you happen to be graduating from Wake Forest in the state of North Carolina, which Trump won comfortably, I might add. Here's cut 19.
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Jack Armstrong
Power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives. They can make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. Power can change the definition of the.
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Joe Getty
Words we use to describe reality.
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Jack Armstrong
Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.
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Joe Getty
Oh, this guy. I mean, shame on Wake Forest for picking this Trump deranged lunatic to be your speaker. And I feel bad for Wake Forest grads who are like, who's this old guy yelling at us about Trump when, as we just talked about, a lot of the young men, I guarantee you, that are sitting out there at that graduation voted Trump. And I don't. Look, let me just tell you this. I don't think you should have any commencement speaker who's just sharing his political philosophy. And certainly I don't want to be lectured by 60 Minutes, which just featured a laudatory story some of you remember because we talked about it on the program of Germany, where they followed a German police raid on people who were posting things on social media that they didn't like. Don't lecture me about journalism under attack when you just spent four years telling me that Joe Biden was the best Biden he'd ever been. And to my knowledge, at 60 minutes, you didn't cover Biden's mental and physical decline at all for four years. And now after four months of Trump, suddenly you're Scott Pelley and you're terrified of what's coming in the world. Look, the only reason people watch 60 Minutes is because it comes on right after NFL games. That's it. If they put 60 minutes on at 10 o' clock at night on CBS, nobody would watch it. They spend tons of money on it. It's far left wing propaganda like this lunatic Scott Pelly and Wake Forest. They probably paid him 50k to come give this stem winding, absurd, indefensibly bad take on the current state of freedom in America. And I just, I wanted to play it for you because I do think it's deeply emblematic of the broken brain that many people have in America. And I think it also ties in with the fact that our taxpayer dollars are expected to subsidize a lot of this stuff. You know, NPR is suing. That story came out today because the Trump administration has decided that they do not want for there to be our tax dollars going for left wing propaganda. And look, I think NPR should have the right to exist in the American marketplace of ideas. They compete with us. We're on 550 some odd stations, I bet several hundred of those stations. I bet we are directly competing with npr. And that's fine. If you like NPR more than that, this show, then they should beat us. They should make more advertising dollars. They should be higher rated. By the way, they aren't in almost all of our competing markets. But if they were, that's fine. That's how the marketplace goes. NPR tweeted out, why haven't you seen any stories about the New York Post Hunter Biden story? Because, quote, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. And, and we don't want to waste the listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distractions. That is Terence Samuels, NPR's managing editor for news on the Hunter Biden story. Well, why that's fine. They're wrong. And Hunter Biden has now pled guilty to crimes that were included on that laptop, which fortunately Miranda Devine and the team at the New York Post wrote about and covered. But what in the world is defensible in any way on my tax dollars and your tax dollars going to subsidize this Clay and buck doesn't get subsidized by left wing tax dollars. And I would, I would understand if people were upset. If you're a hardcore Democrat and you see this show growing and you see the influence that we are having and you found out that we were getting tens of millions of dollars in funds, some of which would be coming from the left, I would understand you say, wait a minute, why can't that show compete in the marketplace without getting taxpayer funded support? That would be a very fair criticism that I would say, you know what, you're right. But why should we be competing with your tax dollars going for NPR when we're kicking their ass in ratings all over the place and we don't get that benefit? And for people out there always say, you know what they say, well, it's not that much money. Okay, then why are you suing over it? If we lost an advertiser and it was a relatively true small part of the overall revenue here, we're not gonna be filing lawsuits over it. We'll just find a new advertiser. Don't listen to what they say. Look at what they do. This is a huge part of their funding or else they wouldn't be filing lawsuits over it. Now they argue about how's the money coming in, but it goes to support a lot of the propaganda that they put out. It shouldn't be existing, not with taxpayer support. Republicans have talked about this forever. Now that we're eliminating the penny, they should not get one red cent. They should also not get one dollar. They should not get one dollar of American taxpayer support. If they want to compete in the marketplace of ideas in the media universe with this show and other shows, they should. More power to them. But not with our federal taxpayer dollar in support behind it. We'll take some of your calls to close up shop on the program today. As I mentioned, Buck getting better. He should be back tomorrow. I've got a graduation to go to. 8th grade graduation. I don't remember, by the way. I didn't have an 8th grade graduation. I didn't have a kindergarten graduation. I didn't have a fifth grade graduation. We got major graduation inflation going on. I look, more power to you. You graduate from high school, that's a big deal. You graduate from college, that's a big deal. Does anybody fail kindergarten? Is there a huge roster of kids? You're like, man, I didn't know if he was gonna make it or not. That crossing his knees and sitting on the, on the rug. I was. It was touch and go whether he was gonna nail that or not. I didn't know if he was gonna get past r in the ABCs. He got to S. And then he, after a little bit of work got to V. And then once we got to the xyz cause it rhymed. We were feeling pretty good, but we didn't know it was really touch and go there. You're worried about getting through Kindergarten, the kids got a lot of issues going forward. All right, fifth grade. I don't remember a lot of people that were like, hey, I don't know if he's going to make it to sixth grade. We're just. Did we really need these graduations eighth grade, when you're already at the same school like my kids are? Yeah, he's going to go from one classroom to the next classroom next year. We're going to let you keep paying tuition for him, and we're not going to stop him in eighth grade. I think we're overdoing the graduation thing. I don't remember a kindergarten graduation. I certainly didn't have a fifth grade graduation or an eighth grade graduation. Let's. Okay high school. Even high school. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of an accomplishment. Not really like you screwed up if you didn't graduate from high school, but at least it's 13 years of schooling that we're celebrating in theory. From kindergarten to 12th grade. I don't know what's next. I've been to kindergarten. I've been to fifth grade. I've been to eighth grade. I haven't even been to a high school graduation yet. For my kids. I think we got to dial back all the celebrations. Does that make me sound like a old grump, or is almost everybody else out there kind of quietly nodding along? Maybe some of you are pretending that you don't agree because your significant other may be widely committed, strongly committed to what an incredible accomplishment it is. You made it through kindergarten. Congrats, kid.
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Jack Armstrong
All right.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Joe Getty
He's Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Joe Getty
How about something about a comedic tone?
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Jack Armstrong
We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Jack Armstrong
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Joe Getty
No.
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Buck Sexton
No one was let go.
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Clay Travis
It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Jack Armstrong
And I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I am going.
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Clay Travis
To ask Attorney General, I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Fiasco Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Jack Armstrong
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do. To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Joe Getty
Welcome back in Clay Charavis, Buck Sexton Show. A lot of you weighing in on excessive graduations, most of you agreeing with me. Doug in Grand Rapids, Michigan. You gotta take what you got for me. Hey, Clay, I'm with you 100%. I have a daughter graduating 8th grade on Monday and I have always, always joked with my wife that if we ever had a kid and had to go through the 8th grade process of graduation, I would either one not go because it's a farce or two, stand in the back with my thumbs down, yelling boo the whole time. How has that been received by your wife?
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Buck Sexton
She knows I'm kidding, but she also.
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Joe Getty
Knows that I, deep down inside, think that a graduation at every level of school is ridiculous. Thank you. 3. High school, college, and college. You know, hey, I'm with you. I don't understand. There are lots of things that happen, and I'm like, how do we get here? Kindergarten graduation. Really? Really? Fifth grade, eighth grade. I think it's a part of just an overpraising of basic, basic achievement. It's fine if you're on the ropes on kindergarten or fifth grade. Maybe the rest of your life is going to be so tough that it doesn't even matter. But I just think in general. Let's see. Do we still have. Do we still have Tracy in South Carolina? She's still there. Or no Tracy in South Carolina. You want to weigh in?
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Tracy
Yeah. Hey, thanks for taking my call. I had a couple things about your book, but going to graduations. My son graduated UMass Amherst in 2020, and I heard you talking earlier with Riley Gaines about the virtual graduation.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Tracy
And if anything good came out of 2020, it was the virtual graduation for UMass Amherst. As a parent, I was so afraid. I think the year before, Elizabeth Warren was their keynote speaker. And I don't know, I think I could trade the virtual graduation for that keynote speaker any day.
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Joe Getty
But you also wanted to weigh in on Boys Under Siege.
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Tracy
Yeah, for sure, for sure. Thank you so much for writing your book. I've been dealing with this. My sons are 26 and 28. I've been watching that throughout their whole lives. You know, kindergarten, being told to sit down and be quiet all through school. Boys aren't made to do that. And next thing you know, they're getting diagnosed and, you know, putting. Put on ADHD medication and.
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Joe Getty
Amen. I think that we have failed so many of our young boys. Buck should be back tomorrow. I'll be at the amusement park with my kids. Love you guys.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
He's Joe Getty.
- [43:35]
Jack Armstrong
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world.
- [43:39]
Joe Getty
How about something about a comedic tone?
- [43:44]
Jack Armstrong
We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [43:53]
Clay Travis
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
- [44:05]
Jack Armstrong
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you.
- [44:10]
Clay Travis
Please do. To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jack Armstrong
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.