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Mary Margaret Olahan
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Caller Philip
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
As a consumer, you decide which companies succeed with your purchasing power. PureTalk wants to say a heartfelt thank you for choosing them. Because of you, PureTalk had a record breaking year. You've helped them donate over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership and to help prevent veteran suicide. You also help provide 1000 hand sewn made in America, flags to veterans and you're supporting US jobs by choosing a proudly American company from the Pure Talk family. Thank you for your trust and God bless America. Third hour Clay and Buck kicks off now right before the weekend. My friends, so much to discuss, so much going on. Thank you for being here with all of us. We covered a lot of Iran. You can go listen to some of that on the podcast. Steve Yates Nation states Yates was with us talking about that. Also shared some random bits. You know, I always, I have a mantra here. We, Clay and I have a mantra, always want to make it worth your time. And I know that there are so many options for audio and for content out there. So we are honored and blessed that you hang out with us. Truly. Clay and I both love our jobs and we have a fantastic team and we love working for iHeartMedia. And so that's my way of saying I'm just always thinking about what's something cool, whether it's a personal story or a historical anecdote or where a word came from or whatever it is. And I just thought that advice because something that I get asked a fair amount by people is my son, my daughter's college age. What would you tell them? Or they're going into the workforce or what? How should they handle their college professors who are liberals, things like that. My son is too young for me to have. He's still working on words, so I can't give him too much in the way of that kind of advice. If he comes home, if my wife is listening. If you're home, honey, and speeds home, why don't you bring him up? We'll do a little speed showing in the third hour for those who are watching on video his cuteness, he's just so cute these days. But the the notion of just how important it is to be pleasant and to be a person that people want to be around in all things. And, and negativity is contagious. It's really true. Negativity is contagious. And I forget who it is. Was it it's one of one of the Stoics, Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius. The quality of your Seneca. The quality of your life is the quality of your thoughts. Guys, find out who this also could be one of those quotes that's attributed to some famous figure online. Then you find out it's just an online quote that people want to give more gravitas to. So they say it's some famous person from history, some great wise person from history and no one has all the answers in history, except for if you're a Christian, Jesus Christ. So that's why I point out to people, Marcus Aurelius was horrible to Christians, by the way, fed them to, fed them to lions and also raised Commodus. So don't think that the meditations of Marcus Aurelius have all the answers. Stoicism is lacking in a lot of, a lot of things. It is good to be able to have a stiff upper lip in life in general. But also being likable is really, really important. And I'm happy to see that there are. The media environment now is changing a lot very rapidly. Where when I came into this because we're almost. Guys, are we at the five year anniversary of the show today? Almost to the day. Almost to the day. We're at the five year anniversary of Clay and Buck right now. So we, it's really, it's been great and the show has been, thanks to all of you, very successful and we try to do honor to Rush every day. We're here on the radio stations in the house that Rush built. As you know, we're also going to be starting a streaming video. All three hours of the show is going to be something that you can watch on, on video soon. We have some big projects and things in the works for that. So when Clay comes back, we'll both be talking to you about some of the ways that Clay and Buck 2.0. I think we're also just gonna start always just calling it Clay and Buck. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show is kind of long, so we've been shorthand calling it Clay and Buck for a while. So you can see whether it's just on our branding. I mean those you watching the video already says Clay and Buck behind me on merchandise. We got to start making some cool T shirts, things like that. But we really are the Clay and Buck show and we really do think of all of you as our audio family and it's our great pleasure and honor to get to talk to you every day. But I was saying the media environment's changing. It used to be when I got into this that you would kind of write if you wanted to do conservative commentary, if you wanted to follow in the footsteps of, of Rush and, and, and Hannity and, and o'reilly and you know, the big names for when I was a Coulter, I mean the big authors, commentators, you know, the people who have been huge in the space and there's other names you can put in there too. But there was a pathway of sorts. And it was. You write for something like, by the way, it is. Yeah, it was a Marcus Aurelius Meditations quote. I was right. I should never doubt myself. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Look, Meditations has a lot of great stuff. Unfortunately, it was Bill Clinton's favorite political treatise. So take that as you will. I love those meditations. Not a lot of pretty ladies in the Meditations, but I still like it. But the happiness of your life does depend on the quality of your thoughts in many ways. So that's a good, a good one to have in mind. But for younger people out there, and by younger, when you're in the essential, we have our podcast audience, which I think tends to be 30s, 40s, 50s radio audience, which tends to be 50s, 60s and up. I'm talking about majority, right? I mean, you know, we have, I know we have some high school kids who listen with their parents on the radio at home. But in terms of the numbers, the platforms tend to have a little bit of a difference. And that's true as well of say TikTok and Instagram, which skew young. And YouTube, which are, are now the platforms for people under 30 they do not watch. No one under 30 that I know of watches, for example, cable news. The good thing about audio is that audio is it is, it is what it is. Whether you're listening to, whether you're watching and listening on YouTube or you're watching and listening on one of our fantastic almost 600 radio stations, the product is still what we are producing here, which is our thoughts and spoken word. But the younger generations of now, they call them influencers, I guess they used to call them. I never hear the term pundits really anymore. Something I was reflecting on the five year anniversary. Do you really hear someone called a pundit? They're commentators, they're creators on YouTube, influencers on social media. So even the names of people that have aspirations to make a living by sharing their thoughts, that is changing. But I see that the next generation of commentator for conservatism is really largely an online phenomenon. And so I follow what's going on with Tick tock and, and YouTube increasing, although we're going to be on YouTube more and more and video more and more as well because these audiences already exist in these different places. So it's just like me. I mean, there are some things that I watch on streaming, some things I listen to on, on On Old School Radio. You know, when I was for example, in New York and I was just, I just had W, you know, W.W. o R NYC on all the time, I listen to Mark Simone when I was prepping for my own show. You know, I know that there, you know, a lot of us are multi platform and so by expanding to those platforms, I think you just expand the, the ears and now eyes that you can reach, which is very important for us because I think that some on the right have lost their way. You know, we don't get into this. We don't get into the, the, the mud with people who are, broadly speaking, ideologically on our side. One is because I don't think it's a particularly good usage of your time. And as I said, our goal here, Clay, and my goal is to always make it worth your time. It's something we absolutely have to do. Make it worth your time. And I think that, you know, getting into personal petty squabbles and stuff, you know, we don't do that and we really have that as a mantra here. It is a way to get clicks and attention online. I will tell you, people that really do get nasty even with other people on the right, I'm not getting into that either because like who started it and who's responding and everything else. You know, I would just note, you know, we saw our friend Sean Hannity yesterday and I just think that it's, you know, Sean just continues to do things in a patriotic and excellent and classy way. Just note that. And he's, you know, he's just so consistent in that and been so consistent in this space for, for decades now. And I think it's really admirable. There are a lot of people that are out there now, big names and not only do I disagree, it's not just that I disagree with them on some issues, which that's fine. Although there's disagree and there's. Have you lost your mind? You know, those are different, those are different things. But, but there are people that also the way that the conduct and the way they're talking about other people on the right, I'm like, this is not, you know, people's parents listen to this. You know what I mean? Like, this is. And I will say that we give a rough time. Sorry, Ginger just. She's curled around my feet right now. You know, we give a rough time to politicians and occasionally I'll call people dumb or some people really deserve to be called dumb, or I'll say what they're doing is Evil. And if I say that, it's because I really mean it. But we really never try to be. As I reflect on roughly the five year anniversary of the show, we really make an effort to never be mean here. We don't punch down, we don't say things that we wouldn't say to somebody in person, which I think separates. This is true of Clay and it is true of me. Anything that we would say here, we would say if the person was standing in the room with us, meaning that we stand behind it and we think it needs to be said. You know, we don't take cheap shots, certainly on our own side, but on the other side, because I've, like I said, as, as you've been doing, as we've been doing this now for a number of years together, we really have created a body of work and a brand and an expectation here. And when many of you call in and say, I think Rush would be proud of you, that's really meaningful to us. It's the simplest answer for me in the world. People say, how, how did you learn talk radio? Well, listening to Rush, it's kind of like saying, how did you learn basketball? Well, I just watched a lot of tape of Michael Jordan and practice, and practice and practice. You got to do the practice part. Now. I've been doing radio for 15 years, so that certainly helps. But learning from the greatest is, is something that is a special thing as well. And I know many of you learn so much about politics and about just the world around you from having Rush keep you, be your friend and be with you for, for in some cases, what, 30 years. So, yeah, it's been five years and we've, I think really we've, we've accomplished in those five years what we set out to on the show and, and I hope that you all feel like we also bring a consistency. You know what you're getting when you join us here. We're, we're both, we're trying to tackle the most important and, and weighty issues when necessary, give you the news, but also entertain you and have fun where we can. We do have a mission to have fun every day. This is not a three hour sociology lecture at, you know, Bryn Mawr College. This is, this is your time and we value it. And so we want you to have fun when you come here and we want you to learn about cool products from our sponsors and also to bring your voice in. We love the live calls, but the talkbacks that we do as well has been such a really fun innovation. Because it keeps it, we know it keeps it tight. We love all of our callers. We do. We love you callers. We love you very much. You're beautiful callers. But some of you go, hey, how's the weather down there in Florida? I'm like, no, no, no, let's get right to it. Let's get right to it. But so the talkbacks has been a really fun innovation and as we have video, we even have some designs about maybe being able to work in some video on the, on the YouTube channel of Clay and Buck as we expand that out. So really I just wanted to take a moment because we had a big event, an IHEART event yesterday. And I will tell you, Clay gave a fantastic speech about some of the lessons he's learned in media and where we are. And I felt really, it's a great group of people, not just on our radio team, but we do have the best radio slash just overall team on Clay and Buck, I think, in the business, but iheart as well. And our leadership at iheart, they're super smart people and super good people, which I can tell you is not the case in all of media. You see what's going on over, like at cbs, by the way, not a shot at Barry, but at her predecessors and what happened at CNN under Jeff, Jeff Zucker. And you know, there are a lot of very big names in media with a lot of power who are neither neither good nor wise individuals. And, and the leadership at iHeart is really absolutely top notch. And it's, it's an honor to work for the company because of the way that it views itself as talent first and really just creating great audio for, for people all over the country. So I think we're in a unique space five years in and that we've got nothing but clear skies and sunshine ahead. As far as we're concerned with all of you going to continue to do our very best every day. And, and I will say, you know, yeah, Clay sold. Clay sold out kick. As you all know, it's known for a lot of money and he shows up with an incredible work ethic every day and a great, by the way, you want to talk about positive attitude, don't tell him I said this. One of Clay's superpowers is he has, in five years of working with that guy, he has never once showed up to do this show off air or on air, but off air with, you know, with a snide or a pessimistic or whatever approach at all, which in five years, I Gotta say, is pretty remarkable. And for a guy who truly could just sit on the beach at one of his houses anywhere and and just hang out and not do anything to show up with the dedication that he does every day, it's because he loves talking to all of you. I love talking to all of you. We view this as a gift. Every day I get to do this show is a gift. And we only have it because you listen. So thank you, truly. Thank you. Speaking on behalf of myself, of Clay and of the whole team, we're pretty much at five years and honestly couldn't have gone any better. And we appreciate each and every single one of you. Even when you write in and you say buck, Clay was right about that. I still like you when you say that. It's okay. I like it better when you say Clay's crazy. Buck. Buck is right on this one. But we appreciate all of you. All right. Do you own a business? Well, then you know all about business insurance. It's not your favorite topic, but when it's needed, it can be a business saver. But like anything else, your business requires knowing what you're covered for and not should be the easiest part of the insurance policy purchase. But that's not often the case. Super sure is a company changing all of that. 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Buck Sexton
welcome back in here to Clay and Buck, everybody. We're going to be joined just a few minutes here by Mary Margaret Olahan of the Daily Wire. She's the White House correspondent. Got some interesting stories to talk to her about. Do we still have Philip in Minnesota? Guys, let's take, let's talk to Philip. What's going on?
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Caller Philip
I want to say it Buck Clay's crazy and you're right. I'm planning my flag on the new and improved Buck Island. That being that Newsom is going to be the nominee. But I want to take that a step further and predict who I think will be his running mate. That would be Susan Rice, if he's smart. If I were advising evil Keanu Reeves.
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Buck Sexton
Interesting.
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Caller Philip
Like females, you know, she counters your, hey look, she was in the Obama administration. She knows her way around the bureaucracy. She's got a good education. She's not Jasmine Crockett and she's not Jewish. So she's got that going for her too. So there you go.
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Buck Sexton
Thank you for calling. Thank you for calling in. Philip. Welcome to, welcome to Buck Island. Great to have you. Great to have you with us. And hopefully this one won't sink under the waves again. I still think it's unfair that I had to take the L on the whole Biden. He would. Guys, he, he stayed in the race for like, like a month and a couple of weeks or something after his dementia performance during the debate. He was so close. And I called that two years in advance. I said they're going to stick with Biden. They're going to stick with Biden. I know. I'm still bitter that I lost that one. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews or the ifcj is one of those non profit organizations determined to make a real difference in the lives of those they help. They receive so many donations from those of the Christian faith, compelled to help those of the Jewish faith, building a bridge between faith as competent as the IDF is in defending Israel, there are tens of thousands of people in need of medical resources, food and water. It's been this way for the better part of nearly three years now. Ditto. And Ukraine. Ukraine, with the ifcj, is also on the ground. Living in America, we sometimes take for granted our relative peace and freedom. Compared to other parts of the world, Israel doesn't have nearly enough allies, and our nation is the most committed to their safety. As America celebrates its 250th anniversary and Israel pursues its own freedoms, the IFCJ recognizes this relationship. This month, they've created a USA Israel flag pin. Get your own flag pin by being in touch with IFCJ. Visit flagpinifcj.org that's flagpinifcj.org welcome back in, everybody to Clay and Buck. Mary Margaret o' Lehan is the Daily Wires White House correspondent, and she joins us now to talk about all kinds of very interesting things going on in our nation capital. Mary Margaret, thank you for being here.
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Mary Margaret Olahan
Hey, Buck, thanks for having me.
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Buck Sexton
I heard something exciting. You were in a skiff, which is a secure compartmented information facility, everybody, which is where they can have the sensitive stuff this morning. Wait, was she really in a skiff, guys? Well, anyway, that's what they told me on the phone yesterday.
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Mary Margaret Olahan
Yesterday?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I'm sorry. Yesterday. Yesterday. And you were briefed on UAPs, and you've got some very cutting edge, important stuff to tell us about unidentified aerial phenomena, also known to the uninitiated as UFOs. Aliens. You know, take me to your leader. What do you know? What did you see?
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Mary Margaret Olahan
So this was so cool. We had a briefing in this GIF with senior intelligence officials, and they broke down a lot of what was in the files that came out today@war.gov and there was some crazy stuff in there. Buck, I'm not going to lie. I. I've never really been one to believe in aliens. I am not, you know, I'm not an alien truther. But they described these glowing orbs that they've seen not only in the Northeast, but also in Colorado, in another undisclosed location in the West. And these are creepy. They're like two glowing orbs that you can see moving side by side through the sky together. They. In the northeast situations, there were red glowing orbs that people took cell phone footage of on their phones from their backyard. Husband and a wife both saw them and photographed this. That's on my Twitter. You can see it. I posted those videos. We also post them at The Daily Wire and then out in Colorado, those are the really crazy stories that I was really blown away by, where one intelligence officer who was in a helicopter with two other pilots, he describes this wild story about coming up right next to dozens of these orbs that were kind of fiery looking, which again, this is. Sounds very fantastical, right? Like a movie. But these supposedly and the Northeast situations to be credible eyewitness accounts. And they also talked to a bunch of guys in Colorado who were leaving their office building and see this massive thing in the sky that they described as kind of like a potato shape. They said it was translucent, but it had kind of scaly looking vibes to it. And they described this in great detail to the FBI as well. That just kind of vanished after they stared at it for about two minutes. And the FBI made a rendering of that, which, you know, you can see online. Obviously it's just a fictitious drawing of something that people said they saw, but all of this together, pretty interesting. And it's something that the United States is literally investigating and looking into. And I should note too, these incidents happened in 2025, 2026, all the way back, I believe, to 2021. So these are recent incidents. And as we know, Buck from the UAP designator, this means that we don't know what it is. We don't know that it's, you know, another country, another drone. But according to authorities, they've established that they are fairly certain it is not these things. So it's unidentified. It's an unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the kind of the modern fancy name for a ufo. And there's been a lot of sightings of them in recent years. So that was my, my wake up shock today was going through these files that the War Department released, writing about them. Did a big story@dailywire.com Again, I am not a alien truther, but this is some fascinating stuff. No one has said that it is aliens per se. That's really up to everyone's judgment. See for themselves. But you can, and you can look at the files, you can look at my story, you can look at the videos. And I for one, am very fascinated by this and will be keeping track of it in the future because I don't think this story is going away.
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Buck Sexton
Were you even born yet when the X Files first started, by the way? I feel like that's a different generation than you.
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Mary Margaret Olahan
You. Hey, you're not supposed to ask a lady her age. That's. That's not allowed. Right.
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Buck Sexton
Okay. That's fair. Wow. I just. She Just threw that one right back at me. I'm just saying I don't think it sounds to me like you are not quite Scully and not quite Molder. You're somewhere in between. You're not a total skeptic, but you're also not a full blown believer in. In this UAP stuff. And I'm looking
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Mary Margaret Olahan
like signs with Mel Gibson.
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Buck Sexton
Is that M. Night Shyamalan?
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Mary Margaret Olahan
I think so.
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Buck Sexton
Is that right? Yeah, I never saw that one. I'm looking right now at this. Just, you know, see, she's got Mary Margaret has this on her, on her social media, on X. And it's described as I would. Okay, hold on. The center of the light was hovering. This is from July 25, 2025, approximately 25ft off the ground below a tree line, neither near the center of their backyard and an estimated distance of 90ft. Eyewitness exited their vehicle briefly before retrieving their phone to record the event. Spouse of the eyewitness came outside to assess the situation, described it as a brilliant red sphere about 1 meter in diameter. Center of the red sphere appeared to be a white plasma sun about the size of a basketball. Well, does anyone offer up in the, in the documents that you've seen about this and the releases what this could be, other than something inexplicable? Meaning are there some theories that are already out there about. Well, this could, you know, it's like a Chinese weather balloon or something, you know, or is that. Or do they have nothing?
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Mary Margaret Olahan
I mean, I've heard a lot of theories thrown around. I've heard obviously China people joked about Russia, that this could be drones, that this could be, you know, jokes as aliens. I think the Vice President is the one who said a couple months ago that he thinks that alien activity is actually demonic activity or, you know, UFO activity, could be demons. Obviously this was before these files came out. So we don't know what the Vice President saw or didn't see. But there's a lot of theories out there about what this kind of thing could be. This in particular, what I did not like the most about it was the kind of fiery connotation to these orbs. I think one of the person, one of the people that I read in the FBI files who talked about them, said it was one of the most beautiful red colors that they had ever seen. Another person said that they were fiery in nature, glowing, and that in one instance, this individual was in a helicopter with two pilots and came up right against a bunch of these orbs, according to what they told the FBI. And the orbs kind of went out the way a fire would go out, slowly. But in that situation, and that's kind of a detailed one that we wrote about for the site. They're in that helicopter and they see these orbs. They told the FBI that there were people on the ground who told them. They're calling them and texting them and saying, there's something underneath you. And in that situation, they said this was a dark object that was underneath them. They were near a military base, so they had some F16s coming near them and they called in for backup for these guys to come investigate what was going on. Well, as those planes were nearing them, according to this FBI report, there were a bunch of orbs too, that appeared by each F16. So that's two people in each F16 that also saw all of this. Two pilots in the helicopter, one senior intelligence official in a helicopter with them. That's a lot of people. And you know, they observed all of this, spoke to the authorities about it. So it's not like it's one guy saying, hey, I saw orbs in this guy. This is a large amount of people who are detailing this and talking to federal officials about it.
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Buck Sexton
Do you believe in aliens?
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Mary Margaret Olahan
I don't know, Buck. Before, before the last couple days, I probably would have been with the Vice President, but now I'm not so sure. This stuff is creep. And you know, NASA has said, other agencies have said we don't have any proof that aliens exist, the extraterrestrial stuff exists. But I for one would like to know what these are. Because the way they move, the way they're appearing near certain military facilities and areas, that's fascinating to me. And if they're not man made, I would like to know what they are.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I mean, if these orbs could fold my laundry, do advanced mathematical calculations for me, like maybe they have some use. If we could just befriend them, I don't know, we could reach out somehow establish some kind of a light based language for them or something. And the orbs might become use. Might become useful to us. This is the thing. I was like, why is it just some weird light? Like, why would it just be some weird light? Wouldn't it be a little spaceship full of some kind of a. Something that would arrive here? I don't know.
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Mary Margaret Olahan
Yeah, I'm too, I'm. You know, the light part confused me as well, because you would think that if there was. Let's just say these are extraterrestrial alien objects. Interesting. That they would want to be seen was my first thought. But, you know, I'm no. I'm no expert on this. I'm just reading what the FBI says they were told.
- [35:18]
Buck Sexton
What do you think it's like to be an FBI guy or gal sitting there and being told this stuff? Like, this is your job. Your job is to sit there and take down someone telling you that basically they saw some unexpected uap, but maybe some life form that we have not yet established exists, but maybe it does.
- [35:39]
Mary Margaret Olahan
Well, look, these. These FBI reports, they literally say, we established that this person was a credible eyewitness. So you're reading this and you're like, okay, well, they just told you they saw glowing orbs in the sky. That's kind of wild, right? That you would read that report and the FBI would say, this is a credible eyewitness. So they believe them. And that part was really interesting to me, especially when you read this report by the intelligence official who was in the helicopter. Wild stuff. And he was deemed to be a credible eyewitness as well. And he's actually a current intelligence official, so he's still doing his. His investigating. And he's, you know, as a senior intelligence official. So he's clearly highly trusted and highly informed on these topics.
- [36:29]
Buck Sexton
Well, the truth is out there, and Mary Margaret Olahan of the Daily Wire is going to try to find it for us. Come back when you have more about the little green men and the spaceships. Yes, Agreed.
- [36:41]
Mary Margaret Olahan
Yes. We got it. We'll do it.
- [36:43]
Buck Sexton
Thank you. Thank you so much. Guys, go check out Mary Margaret's reporting over at the Daily Wire, where she's the White House correspondent, and we'll talk to you soon.
- [36:52]
Mary Margaret Olahan
Thanks for having me.
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Buck Sexton
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Mary Margaret Olahan
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Buck Sexton
Dad? Lingokids, please. When did we become the Lingokids house? No idea.
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Mary Margaret Olahan
This week it's Lingokids.
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Buck Sexton
Why Lingokids?
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Mary Margaret Olahan
Because it's the best thing ever. We can play games with astronauts, wild animals and superheroes.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back into Clay and Buck, everybody. To close us out, we do have speed, also known as Jimmy Speed. He is sitting here on my lap. You want to say dad.
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Caller Philip
Dad for everybody.
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Buck Sexton
Say dad.
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Caller Philip
Dad.
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Buck Sexton
Dad.
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Caller Philip
Dad.
- [41:02]
Buck Sexton
You were being so good a second ago. Okay, dad. Dad, dad, dad. Well, he's grabbed the mic. He's no longer saying dada apparently, but he's enjoying being here in the studio with me because there are a lot of lights, a lot of things to look at and oh, I don't know what. Yes, this is a microphone. He's, he's, he's verbal, not really quite words yet, but he's, he's trying to say a lot of things. And if he's, if he's hitting the microphone, I apologize. Those who are listening. There we go. Say dad. Dad. Say dad. You guys wanted Jimmy Speed on the video and look at him. He's becoming such a big boy. He's, he's robust, which we like. He's well fed, thanks to mommy. Dad. There we go. We gave a dad. You guys got a dad. Dad before the week. Let me tell you, that is special stuff. Not he doesn't always say data, but he. Stop playing with the mic.
- [41:57]
Caller Philip
What are you doing?
- [41:59]
Buck Sexton
All right, let's. Do we have any, any live callers here? He's about to take over this whole situation. I just realized I've kind of committed to this now. Kind of committed to having little man in my lap while we finish out the show. You clapping? You gonna clap?
- [42:14]
Caller Philip
Clap.
- [42:15]
Mary Margaret Olahan
Clapper.
- [42:16]
Buck Sexton
Say dad. Dad. Mama. Dad. Dad. Mama. Can you give me some dad and mama? Jimmy Speed. Maybe he's trying. Here we have a. We'll take a talk back while I'm trying to wrestle the mic back from my, from my 14 month old here. Let's hear e people talking about Kevin and Home Alone. Hit it.
- [42:37]
Mary Margaret Olahan
Everybody knows it's Kevin from Home Alone is the most famous Kevin.
- [42:43]
Buck Sexton
The most famous Kevin is Kevin McAllister. What about Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. Kevin. The most famous Kevin is Kevin in Home Alone. The most famous Kevin is from Home Alone. Don't forget you have Kevin McAllister from Home Alone. I'd say the most famous Kevin is actually a character and it'd be Kevin on Home Alone. Remember the lady screaming his name? Kevin, Kevin, Kevin. You guys, a lot of you thought that it was Kevin from from Home Alone. And that actually had not occurred to me before. Now technically that's a character's name, not actually a person. I was. If we're going to be sticklers for the rules, I was saying the most famous Kevin to have been, you know, I think like an actual person. But Kevin from Home Alone was clearly a famous individual. Producer Greg, by the way, has written it's likely that life exists somewhere else on the universe. Unfortunately, we will never know. Space is so vast and physics are such that it is super unlikely for aliens to find us. Let alone overcome the vast space and time restrictions on traveling here. So Jimmy Speed, what do you think? Are there aliens? Buddy, you want to weigh in on this one? I know, I guess you don't know what alien what aliens quite are. And we will see what he is able to come up with here. We also have talkback g Jill from St. Michael, Minneapolis. Hit it.
- [44:13]
Mary Margaret Olahan
Hi, this is Jill from St. Michael and I am a CI girl. I'm just chuckling over you guys, not having any idea what kind of cylinder counts you have. Your lawnmower would be one. Your car is going to be four or six, maybe eight depending on what you have. If you say it out loud on the show, I'm sure there's a few of us who would call in and let you know.
- [44:42]
Buck Sexton
Well, thank you for that. I don't know. Speed is getting very excited over here because he knows it's the end of the show everybody. And this is a great time to tell you should subscribe on YouTube because there are fun Jimmy Speed appearances as well as Ginger Spice. You'll have to show up soon. Clay will be back with all of you on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday I'm going to be out. I'm spending some time with family. We're looking forward to that. Jimmy Speed is currently grabbing at all of the electronics in my very highly designed and studio. So hopefully the lights don't all go off before the end of the show or the microphone cord doesn't get pulled. But he wants to say to all of you, have a Jimmy Speed tell everyone. Have a great weekend. Have a great week. Weekend everybody. Yay. Dad, dad, Mama. Say dad, dad, Mom. Whatever that means. We love you all. I'll talk to you guys. Sometime next week. Have a Great weekend.
- [45:42]
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- [46:11]
Buck Sexton
mom,
- [46:12]
Mary Margaret Olahan
can I have Lingokids?
- [46:13]
Buck Sexton
Dad, Lingokids, please. When did we become the Lingokids house? No idea.
- [46:18]
Parent Listener
Last week it was Dinosaurs.
- [46:19]
Mary Margaret Olahan
This week it's Lingokids.
- [46:21]
Buck Sexton
Why Lingokids?
- [46:22]
Mary Margaret Olahan
Because it's the best thing ever. We can play games with astronauts, wild animals and superheroes.
- [46:27]
iHeart Podcast Announcer
With more than 4,000 interactive games, songs and shows, LingoKids is the number one
- [46:32]
Buck Sexton
entertainment platform for young kids. So no dinosaurs and dinosaurs. Lingo kids. Everything kids love. Download it for free.
- [46:42]
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- [46:51]
Buck Sexton
It is like electricity blowing through your veins.
- [46:55]
TNA Wrestling Announcer
Don't miss the adrenaline, the drama and the total non stop action.
- [46:59]
Buck Sexton
No one can ever be as good as this right here.
- [47:03]
TNA Wrestling Announcer
Don't miss the action of TNA Thursday Night Impact every week on AMC. For showtimes and more information, visit TNA
- [47:10]
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