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Buck Sexton
All right, third hour. Clay and Buck kicks off now. Everybody, thank you so much for being here with us. We've got much to discuss. Trump weighing in on the economy and talking about how things are heading and how things are going in that direction. And you know, one, one thing, Clay, that I know, we don't want to spend, I want to get to the economy and what Trump said about that and specifically how so much of the hiring that's gone on has been government employees. This is non productive work. You do need some government employees, to be clear. Yeah, obviously we need police and firemen. We're talking about federal. But when you're looking at federal employees in agencies that are bloated to begin with, where are all these jobs coming from? I, I, I tweeted this out and I gotta tell you, everyone that I know within the intelligence community would agree with this. At least half, maybe more like 70 or 80% of the intelligence agency personnel could be gone tomorrow and nobody would know the difference. There, there would be no downside to this. There would be, it wouldn't even be like when you cut the park rangers budget or something and all of a sudden they're, oh, we can't unlock the parks. You're like, really? Really? I mean, we can't figure out how to do that a little more efficiently. No, I don't think anybody would know the difference. In fact, I think that Tulsi Gabbard, she's not going to say this, but I think Tulsi Gabbard as DNI should spend four years cleaning up the intel community and then lobby for the congressional nuking of her role, of her job. There should not be a Director of National Intelligence. It is superfluous. Now she has a job to do that I just laid out, which is to clean it up and to, you know, get rid of all the deep state nonsense and everything else. But it should be a bit like, you know, Maximus at the end of Gladiator Clay, when his last act is to hand back power to the Senate. You know, instead of trying to become Maximus the dictator, he hands power, I know he's, he's dying, put that aside. But he hands power back to the Senate. It's very Shakespearean, if you will, at the end. And that, I think would be the perfect way for Tulsi Gabbard to end her tenure. Clean up the intel community for, I don't know, if she needs four years, maybe she only needs two or three, and then go to Congress and say this DNI thing should not exist anymore. And I mean, the whole office of the dni, NCTC should not exist. The Defense Intelligence Agency, sorry. This isn't just because CIA and DIA have like a whole rivalry thing. A big part of it probably shouldn't exist. I mean, there's a lot that should just go. So that's a major aspect of this all. But to give everyone a sense of what things are really like under the Biden administration before this story has not gotten nearly enough attention. So there. I don't know that much about space. I actually want to learn more. I feel like I'm not as up on the space race and that whole world as I need to be because this is going to become increasingly important. But there are American astronauts who are stranded at the International Space Station, and Elon has spoken about this publicly. He could have gotten them with SpaceX home many months ago. And it is not good for them to be up there as long as they are. There's problems with bone density being your zero gravity environment, all this stuff. Trump spoke about this as well. Elon had to go get the astronauts. Well, first, let's just play. Here's Trump talking about sending him because Biden didn't want to give Elon a win. Play it.
Donald Trump
We're going to get them out. We're coming up to get you. I've authorized Elon. I said, can you get them out? Because, you know, they've been left up there. I hope they like each other, but they've been. Maybe they'll love each other, I don't know, but they've been left up there. Think of it. And I see the woman with the wild hair, good solid head of hair. She's got. There's no kidding. There's no games with her hair. But. And you know, there's a danger up there, too. Have some failures up there that would be very bad. You got to get them out. So I've always authorized Elon. A week ago I said, you know, we have two people up there that Biden and Kamala left up there and he knows it very well. I said, are you equipped to get him? He said, yeah, he's got a starship and they're preparing it right now. And so Elon is going to go up Clay.
Buck Sexton
Elon could have gotten them. And Elon has told us this and the astronauts have confirmed this, too. Biden didn't want to bring them home sooner because he didn't want to show that Elon could do something that Biden and NASA couldn't.
Clay Travis
I think this story hasn't gotten enough attention. My understanding is they were supposed to go for eight days and instead they've been up there for eight months. I give credit to the astronauts and the crew. You can confirm that that is accurate, but that they were supposed to be up there for just a little bit over a week and they haven't been able to get back and they're still there right now. And Trump is right, the woman does have incredible hair, which in zero gravity looks even better. But the fact, can you imagine, I give them credit psychologically because if you had prepared yourself to go away to space for eight days and your family and then for eight months you had been stuck there because we didn't have the ability to get you back. And there again the astronauts have said this is true too. The Biden team, because Elon was campaigning for Trump, decided they didn't want to give Elon a win and, or potentially help Trump. So they made them stay there. I, I would lose my mind. I, I think I would. I mean, if you've ever been stuck somewhere that you didn't want to be, it takes a great deal to say nothing of being stuck in space. I mean, it takes a great deal of mental fortitude to be able to handle something like this. And I also think this is the complexity of where we are with our space program right now that Elon Musk is better at sending rockets to space than NASA is, despite NASA having a 70 some odd year head start on him. And here are cut 32, the astronaut confirming that Biden didn't want to bring them home because it would have required using Elon.
Astronaut
Elon Musk has said that he made the offer to bring you guys back earlier and that it was denied. My first question is, is that true? And if so, what would that have looked like? Was he offering to make another flight, push seats on another flight? Could you give us some background there?
NASA Representative
I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says is absolutely factual. I have no, we have no information on that though, whatsoever. What was offered, what was, what was not offered, who it was offered to, how that processes went, that's information that we simply don't have. So I believe him. I don't know all those details and I don't think any of us really can give you the answer that maybe that you would be hoping for.
Clay Travis
Can you imagine, Buck, if something bad happened to these astronauts and Biden's team had chosen not to bring them back because they were worried about the political implications that might arise, Almost like the.
Buck Sexton
Health bureaucracy Deciding that they're not going to tell everybody that there's a vaccine for Covid, put aside how well it worked or not until after the election in 2020, you know. Yeah, well, this is, you know, you start to see how the truth about some of these, some of these individuals and their judgment comes out in ways that can be very ugly. And, yeah, Biden, you know, it was all about whatever was going to help the Democrats. And anything that. That's the way the situation is. Anything that makes Elon Musk look good, as far as Democrats are concerned, was something that needed to be stopped. Also, Elon would be under multiple federal investigations right now. Maybe early stage, maybe mid stage. If Biden had actually. Or, sorry, if Kamala had actually won, Elon would be getting harassed by the whole. And he knows that.
Clay Travis
Do you think? I'm glad you brought up the cause. I do think when we talk about the 2020 election, there's a lot of discussion about the 51 intelligence agents who lied about the censorship of the Hunter Biden story and his relationship, Joe Biden's illicit business dealings. Very few people talk about what you just mentioned, which is the fact that they had, and we know now, the vaccine was not a vaccine that many of us wanted to take or were very happy with, but that they knew and were able. When did they announce it? Like six days after the election. Do you think if they had announced that they had a Covid shot before the election, when they actually had that information and they could have released it, that it was effective, that it was going to work according to them? Again, I'm not talking about what we later found out about it. Do you think Trump would have won the 2020 election? Because I do. I think that would have been such a huge October surprise that given how close it was, and we talked about how close even 2024 was, but you're talking about just a, you know, a hundred thousand or so people in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin determining the outcome of the race. I think Trump would have won in 2020 if simply they had released that information about the shot. Do you?
Buck Sexton
Probably, yeah, I think it would have.
Clay Travis
Which is why they held it right, because they knew it was going to be beneficial for him.
Buck Sexton
Well, this is why when you think about the social media rigging of the election that occurred, the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop, the delay of the operation, warp speed result, you know, put aside what it looked like a year later in terms of the vaccine, the fact is that was a thing at that time that people were Very happy to hear about when it came out. And you can add that to a whole bunch of other things as well. Bottom line here, Clay, is, yeah, they went absolutely scorched earth in 2020 to put a dementia patient in the Oval Office. And so that's why everything that you see now with their despair, they earned it. And it's good for them. This is good for the Democrats. They deserve the sense of, like I said, the sense of despair. They also, I think, are becoming better people by having to suffer through the humiliations and the tribulations of their favorite media outlets crumbling and their narratives being mocked and all of this. This is good for them. So everybody, not only can we all laugh about it, but it actually makes them better people on their side. They need to suffer through this because of what they've done.
Clay Travis
I think it also ties in with, in, in a larger picture here, the lies that they told. But also I, I come back to Joy Reed, who now Buck is doing a substack. So she has gone from making millions of dollars a year to be on television, only having to compete with CNN and Fox News, right? There's only three people she's competing with in any given hour to now having to compete with a hundred thousand different writers online. Do you think that Joy Reid has such unique, unique perspective and such, such unswerving intelligence that she's going to be able to compete with a hundred thousand or so Internet writers? She couldn't beat two other people on a TV program competition. And I think she's going to completely vanish because she had the rig job in her favor. It still didn't help her enough. And now she's not going the rig job in her favor.
Buck Sexton
Look, look at your, at your favorite sports commentator other than yourself, Clay, Mr. Keith Olbermann, who was basically, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if we had seen him out there with the hashtag resistance, Inauguration weekend with the three ladies and the one drum like that would have been very, yes, climate change is real. And then Keith Oliver, like, Free Palestine, climate change, you know, you know, covered in. He could be, he could be out there wearing something that he knit himself, you know, surrounded by a bunch of cats that would be on brand.
Clay Travis
But it is true, they vanished. They had the rig jobs. They had everything set to their favor. The algorithms have collapsed and they don't know how to actually win on the Internet when the rig job is not in their favor. And I think as a result, one of the reasons why Trump is winning is not just because he's got better arguments and he's got a sophisticated staff and they're making good decisions. It's also because his opponents are like the Washington Generals going up against the Harlem Globetrotters back in the day. They're just incredibly incompetent on their own right, and they are constantly lighting themselves on fire such that all Trump has to do is just back away.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Jennifer C. Is gonna join us here at the bottom of the hour in a moment. But first, a variety of different talkbacks. Buck, let's go to bb. I said that I'm gonna be at spring break. I'm gonna be out in Steamboat Springs and BB wanted to make an offer. Let's listen.
Listener Caller
Hey, Clay, my name's Chris. I live in Steamboat. Give me a call when you get to town. I'll take your kids skiing. Me and my kid are going this weekend as well. You guys do a good show. Love you guys.
Clay Travis
Later I appreciate the offer, Buck. I do not think that Laura Travis would be well received by me, allowing my kids to go skiing with a stranger who called into the radio show to offer to go with them. But I do appreciate that, to be.
Buck Sexton
Fair, our people are overwhelmingly great people.
Clay Travis
That is true. That is also and very trustworthy. DD Wants to weigh in. I mentioned that we had awesome steaks last night that were cooked by Laura Travis and he has a bone to pick with me.
Listener Caller
So Clay, you said that your wife Laura grilled some great steaks last night for you and the family. That's great. You've also said in the past that you've never cooked anything. You don't think you've ever cooked anything in your life. So does that also mean you don't grill? You don't grill anything either. Is that, could that possibly be correct for a man to say he doesn't grill anything? Maybe the flute lessons take too long.
Buck Sexton
Can I just. The, the, the contempt with which he spits out. Are you telling me that you don't grill? Was. Was remarkable? I have to say it was impressive. He was truly horrified at the notion.
Clay Travis
He also dropped there at the end. Maybe the flute lessons take up too much of your time. I've said this before. I don't cook. I can use the microwave. I. There are some things that I just have no ability. If there's pre made food, I'm good at it. I otherwise am useless when it comes to cooking. So the good ranchers, which I encourage all of you to go. Subscribe for goodranchers.com My name Clay. You get 25 bucks off the steaks were amazing, but I am not the cook. So they did a great job.
Buck Sexton
You know Chef Andrew Gruel, right? I'm going to name, I'm going to name check him right now because I think Andrew Gruel is a great American, a fantastic chef and, and a patriot. But he put out a list of the best cuts of red meat and number one on his list at Chef Gruel or at Chef Andrew Gruel, number one on his list was hanger steak, which I actually agree with the. The most overlooked and priced and well priced for what it is. Steak, in terms of tenderness is that hanger steak is fantastic. But he put filet very low on the list. It was. He put it at 15 out of 20. And I'm getting a lot of heat from people. They're like, filet has no taste. I'm like, guys, there's a reason it's so expensive. Filet is a great cut. I mean, I usually go with the ribeye from good ranchers, for example. I love their rib eyes, but filet is a very nice cut as well.
Clay Travis
Filet is phenomenal. I guess maybe people want more flavor, flavor with more fat. But I mean, if you're just trying to just have all the meat, the entire thing that you can eat, the filet is the choice beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through the Friday edition of the program and in our New York City studio right now, Jennifer say she is the former top executive at Levi's, also a top United States gymnast. She is the founder of XXXY Athletics. Seven time member US Women's National Team one. Let's see. Was the US Women's all round national champion in gymnastics. You have a video up about women's sports. We'll get into that in a moment. But you lived in California for a long time. You're a friend of mine, friend of the show. Jennifer, you've been fighting this battle for hey, crazy idea. Women's athletics should only be made up of women. What did you make of California Governor Gavin Newsom's comments yesterday about men and women's sports?
Jennifer Say
Hi guys. Thanks for having me back. It's been almost a Year Gavin. Even when I was a Democrat and lived in California, I couldn't stand Gavin. He is the slimiest political creature of all political creatures. He has no principles. You know, the way I view it is one he said, obviously it's not fair. We heard that, right?
Clay Travis
Yep.
Jennifer Say
And then he went on to hem and ha about how, yeah, but these guys are gonna kill themselves if we don't let them do it. That's basically what he said. So to my mind, what he was saying was, you know, I want to seem sort of reasonable and moderate because, you know, I want to run for president in 2028, but I'm not gonna do anything about this because these poor guys really, you know, need to compete in women so they feel good about themselves. So, ladies, you're just gonna have to take it. You're gonna have to suck it up. That was how I kind of took the whole thing. He's had no awakening. He has no morals or principles. He is the most just. He's slimy. Look at him. I don't know how anybody takes this man seriously. Honestly.
Buck Sexton
Jennifer, I'm sure you saw at the joint address to Congress that President Trump gave, there was a mention of the young woman who was brain damaged, so severely injured, playing volleyball. Now, just to be clear, we all know volleyball is not considered a sport where you generally have to worry about much more than maybe, you know, a sprained ankle or, you know, it's not a sport where people get brain damage. And for a high school age or college age girl to have that risk because a biological male crushes the ball at her is something that I would think all Americans would see how absurd and really just wrong and nasty it is for to allow something like that to happen. And yet Democrats just in the Senate voted against the changes necessary to protect women like that. What is it going to take? I mean, how much more of this do you think they can continue to pretend isn't happening before they have to finally see reality?
Jennifer Say
I think it's going to take us a while. I hate to say it. Even though 80% of Americans agree with us. I mean, the Democrats are digging in their heels. I think Gavin's little sort of, you know, foray yesterday is not an indication that they're going to change course. I don't know what they actually believe. I don't care what they actually believe. I don't try getting inside their heads. They're not going to admit they were wrong and they're not going to back away from this. You know, at some point Something will change and there'll be like a little crack. And then all of a sudden, it'll happen so slowly and then all at once. But my goal with this brand is to change the cultural conversation. Because if the 80% of people with basic common sense that agree with us stood up and said it, that's when things would change. But you know as well as I do, I mean, you guys talk to people all day that probably are very comfortable being loud and proud about this issue. But most people that agree with us aren't saying anything. They're too afraid of the names they'll be called, and they're afraid of being shunned by their friends. So we need the 80%, that majority to stand up and say it. And I think our brand is and can be part of that, you know, changing the cultural conversation. But I think we have a long way to go. Look at what, you know, the Senate vote, zero Democrats, two employees in the federal government in Congress have voted in favor of protecting women's sports. Zero Democrats stood for Peyton McNabb, the athlete you just referred to. I mean, I don't know what's wrong with these people, but we have a long way to go. And then I would just add to that. Sorry, this is a long answer. You know, even if the Protect Women in Sports act were to pass, that impacts federally funded programs, right? Like within Title IX jurisdiction, that's in K through 12 schools and universities. It does not impact sports in the Olympic movement. Private club sports. I only competed in the Olympic movement. I never competed under Title IX governance. Two thirds. I think it's two times as many athletes are competing in the US in the Olympic movement than in Title IX governance. So that's like a whole other can of worms we have to solve for. So, again, I think it's the culture that has to change. And then these governing bodies will have to do what the people want.
Clay Travis
What do you think would happen, Jennifer, if somebody like Caitlin Clark or Angel Reese, women's basketball players, came out and just said, this is wrong? Current women's athletes, Simone Biles, someone that has a huge following as a result of that. They all know this, right? You come from the world of women's athletics. You were a incredibly successful gymnast. The people who compete in athletics know this more than the general public does. Why do you think so many women's athletes have been afraid to speak?
Jennifer Say
The same reason regular people are afraid to speak. They're afraid of the names they'll be called. They'll be afraid of being called. Right Wing, alt, right, fascist, Nazi. They're afraid they'll lose their endorsement deals, which for female athletes, more than prize money, is really how they make their money. Um, they're afraid of being shunned by their friends. I mean, these. This is, you know, this is what happens if you have sort of professed a lefty kind of leaning publicly, you will be shunned by all of the institutions that support you. That said, if one of those women. Two of those women, Serena Williams, Megan Rapinoe. That one's a joke. I know. I say that as a joke. Simone Biles. If just one stood up and said it, the cascade would start. That's the cascade. That's the chink in the armor that would kind of start this whole thing. And somebody's going to eventually. But we need to hit some sort of critical mass. You know, 80% of people agree, but probably only 5% of those actually speak up. If we got to 20, 30%, it would start to feel safer.
Listener Caller
And.
Jennifer Say
And some brave, not that brave, semi brave athlete will speak out. But you're right. I mean, look, if you look at gymnastics, the events in men's aren't even the same. Right. Men do six events. Men do rings. Women don't have rings. Why is that?
Clay Travis
Upper body strength for men.
Jennifer Say
Yeah, exactly. I couldn't do an iron cross when I was a gymnast, and I was really strong. I weighed very little and I was very strong, but men just have greater upper body strength. Pommel horse is the same thing. It's so obvious. Here's another example. The Boston Marathon, which you probably know, just qualified a man in the women's division for April's race. I don't know if you saw that. Did you know the women's qualifying time is 16% slower than the men's?
Buck Sexton
Sure. I mean, yeah.
Clay Travis
Makes total sense.
Jennifer Say
Right? Right. So they just. They know it. They reveal themselves with, you know, with the rules and the regulations and all of it, but they just haven't. They're not gonna make a change. I think we have a really long way to go, and I'm just gonna keep hammering at the culture part of it versus the legislation. But we need federal legislation. We need state by state legislation. We're trying to get a bill on the ballot. You know, we're trying to get something on the ballot in Colorado, where I live. I know they're doing the same in Nebraska right now. I just went and spoke there. So we need all of it. And then we need the USOPC to change their governance. The NCAA Wrote a G garbage policy off of the EO that's filled with loopholes. That has to change. I think they need to light it on fire, set it in the garbage and start over. And then the Boston Marathon is governed independently. It's an independent board with corporate sponsors, funded by corporate sponsors. They get to do whatever they want. But you can bet that if the culture changed and the athletes running and all the people said, this is garbage, you can't do this anymore, that eventually it would start to change. But I think Jennifer years ahead.
Buck Sexton
Sorry, no, we're speaking to Jennifer. Nope. Okay. Speaking of Jennifer, say former pro gymnast and Levi's executive founder of XXXY Athletics, in your role on the corporate side of this, trying to speak honestly about what's going on. Are you coming under a lot of heat? I feel like the left knows boycotts. It really was never they could do boycotts. They would threaten, and then the. Then the corporations would cave. Right. That was the way it actually worked. It wasn't that they had to even stay organized and really have a boycott. They just said, we're going to boycott, and they would, you know, spam someone's Facebook page for their business. Are you. Are you coming up against people that are attacking you? I mean, I know you have a lot of people like us who support you, or have you noticed a decline in that a little bit? I mean, are they a little less. Are the crazies a little less on offense now about this?
Jennifer Say
I think they're more. Because they feel like they might be losing. It's gotten a little worse for me personally, in the last few weeks in terms of the crazy. I mean, I get weird mail to my house, which is weird, because then they know where you live. Although I think it's just neighbors, which is alarming. I think it's ramping up, honestly, because they're a little bit panicked that they might be losing. I don't know. What do you guys think?
Clay Travis
I think it's so interesting because for men, I think men think this is completely ridiculous. And I've never even seen hardly any man speaking out and saying, oh, I'm in favor of this. They made state might stay quiet.
Jennifer Say
Right.
Clay Travis
I think women's empathy's being taken advantage of and they're mobilizing women.
Jennifer Say
I could not agree with you more. I. I say all the time they weaponize our empathy because women want to be nice. I don't know if men. My husband doesn't really care that much about being.
Buck Sexton
I. I don't think. I don't think, Jennifer, you could find a guy who has normal testosterone level for his age who would make the case in person to you, to me, to Clay, that what's going on makes sense. Like, I think they only can do this in echo chambers and then have the anonymous online activist cadres come after people and affect, you know, DEI and WOKE corporate policies, things like that. But I don't think you could get a normal. Certainly if you asked a male professional athlete to come forward and explain this to people, they would look foolish. So they can't actually make the argument out in public.
Clay Travis
Even male brands like Bud Light is primarily a beer that was consumed by men, Right? I don't think there are that many women like, oh, I love Bud Light, right? I mean, I know they drink it because it's there and things like that. But men, when they did that stupid. I don't even remember that person's name. Yeah, they did the Dylan Mulvaney beer can. Men just said, yeah, you know, I'll drink Coors Light or I'll drink Miller Light. Now, partly that's Bud Light's fault because the brand doesn't taste that much different than another. And people are gonna get fired up at me about this. Light beers, generally speaking, when they are mass produced, whether it's Bud Light bill or light Coors Light, there's not some massive difference. Not like this was a Guinness or a Heineken or something where if you're a beer drinker, you're like, oh, that tastes substantially different. But men just said, we're not going to stand for this. And I think, Jennifer1, I love your brand, and I would encourage people to go check it out because you are doing this. You're fighting back against it. But I do think women are taken advantage of in many ways over this issue in a way that men just are like, yeah, we're not doing this.
Jennifer Say
No, I couldn't. I couldn't agree with you more. Women, we want to be nice. We don't want to exclude anyone. We don't want anyone to hate us. I mean, I did this for years. And this makes people mad. They think the first they think the names they call you will get you to stop talking. Then they realize you won't stop talking. And so they do it to signal strongly to others that they better keep their mouth shut or else the same thing that happened to Jen will happen to you. You might have to move out of your city that you love. You might have to change jobs. You might have to find new friends. You know, all These things, your family might not talk to you. And for most women, that's enough, disincentive you. And while women want to be nice and they want to be liked and they want to be inclusive, they also can be, I think women are the cancel culture leaders because they can also be really nasty. And they tend not to do it the way that men do it, which is, you know, get in your face. They do it behind your back, which is really what cancel culture is. So it's a really, you know, messed up, ugly dynamic. And to your point, women will literally advocate against their own self interest here. They'll say, oh, oh, yeah, of course this guy can compete against my daughter and he can have her trophy because I'm nice. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. I want to be nice. Well, you know what? Screw that. I will not advocate against my own best interest or my daughter's best interest. But almost more importantly, I will not say a lie. And the fact is, men cannot become women. Men are faster and stronger. That's why women's sports exist. It's all very simple. And I will tell you, at some point in the future, I don't know if it's two years or five years or 10, everybody will acknowledge this and pretend they never said the dumbest stuff you can imagine right now.
Clay Travis
I'll give you an example for people just kind of bring this home. Any woman who decides to identify as a man is never getting voted man of the Year the first year that they're a man. Men would just not stand for it. There are lots of men who decide to become a woman that have been named woman of the year in the very first year that they're even claiming to be a woman. And that has become very common. Jennifer, for people who agree with you, what is your brand? Where should they go?
Jennifer Say
You go to xx-xyathletics.com check it out. We are growing our product line every day. We just dropped a bunch of new stuff today. We do have a ton of men's stuff. We've got great high performing performance product. There's stuff with big brow, you know, loud branding. There's stuff that's more quietly branded. If you're not quite ready to kind of blast to the world, check it out. We have five stars. I mean, I think on average we have thousands of reviews. I think 4.9 out of 5 stars is the average. So people love the product. They come for the mission and they stay for the product.
Clay Travis
Product's great. My wife loves it. She Wears it all over the place. Jennifer, keep up the fight. Have a good weekend.
Jennifer Say
Thanks. You guys, too.
Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back into Clay and Bucks. All right, whatever. Clay's. Are you out next week? The whole week, right?
Clay Travis
I'm out the whole week. I'm on spring break. This is my last segment, so the boys and I will be out in Colorado with Laura. Can't wait. Should be a lot of fun.
Buck Sexton
I'm going to be taking you all through next week, so we will. We will miss Clay, but we'll be wishing him and Laura and the boys a fantastic vacation. And you know what? Here, let's. Let's go. We're gonna. We're gonna. You know, because you brought in the adorable baby and I don't have a baby yet. We're a month away. But here. No, you can bring her around. Honey, it's fine. You walk in front of the camera. We're gonna get a little ginger spice for those watching the video. Oh, there.
Clay Travis
Buck is bringing in a gorgeous dog. An Australian labradoodle.
Buck Sexton
So cute. She's a good girl to try to.
Clay Travis
Fight back after I had a nice baby. You're really going to have a trump card when the baby comes in a month.
Buck Sexton
I'm going to have a. I'm going to have a newborn and a puppy to put on the camera for everyone to see, which is exciting, no doubt.
Clay Travis
Well, hey, you hold down the fort. I'm excited to get out to Colorado. Kids are excited to go ski and snowboard. It is their spring break. I'll be back, whatever it is, like the 17th or something. Just in time for March Madness. But until then, you got us.
Summary of "Hour 3 - Standing Up for Women" from The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Release Date: March 7, 2025
In the third hour of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton engage in a multifaceted discussion addressing significant political and societal issues. The episode primarily revolves around government efficiency, the politicization of space operations, and a focused segment on the integrity of women's sports in the context of transgender participation. The conversation is enriched with expert insights, notable quotes, and guest contributions, offering listeners a comprehensive overview of these pressing topics.
The episode opens with Buck Sexton expressing concerns about the recent hiring trends within the federal government, particularly emphasizing the productivity of government employees.
Buck Sexton [00:45]:
"When you're looking at federal employees in agencies that are bloated to begin with, where are all these jobs coming from?... At least half, maybe more like 70 or 80% of the intelligence agency personnel could be gone tomorrow and nobody would know the difference."
Buck critiques the expansion of federal agencies, questioning the necessity and efficiency of such growth. He suggests that a significant reduction in intelligence community staffing could occur without noticeable impacts, highlighting potential redundancies within the system.
Clay Travis builds upon Buck’s points by discussing former President Donald Trump's stance on the intelligence community. He advocates for substantial reforms, including the elimination of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) position.
Clay Travis [01:45]:
"There should not be a Director of National Intelligence. It is superfluous... Tulsi Gabbard as DNI should spend four years cleaning up the intel community and then lobby for the congressional nuking of her role."
Clay draws parallels to fictional narratives, suggesting that Tulsi Gabbard could emulate a transformative leadership role by cleaning up the intelligence sector before relinquishing her position, thereby reducing government overreach and inefficiency.
The conversation shifts to the plight of American astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS), criticizing the Biden administration's handling of their return.
Buck Sexton [03:00]:
"...there are American astronauts who are stranded at the International Space Station, and Elon has spoken about this publicly. He could have gotten them with SpaceX home many months ago. And it is not good for them to be up there as long as they are."
Clay Travis underscores the psychological and physical toll on astronauts who were scheduled for an eight-day mission but ended up staying for eight months due to delays in transportation back to Earth.
Clay Travis [06:30]:
"If you've ever been stuck somewhere that you didn't want to be, it takes a great deal to say nothing of being stuck in space."
He highlights Elon Musk's offered assistance through SpaceX, which was allegedly declined by the Biden administration to prevent granting Musk a public victory.
The hosts delve deeper into the implications of political decisions on space operations, drawing comparisons to misinformation tactics used during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Buck Sexton [09:40]:
"They went absolutely scorched earth in 2020 to put a dementia patient in the Oval Office. And so that's why everything that you see now with their despair, they earned it."
This segment criticizes the administration's prioritization of political optics over efficiency and effectiveness, suggesting that such decisions are detrimental to national interests and public welfare.
The episode transitions to a focused discussion on women's sports, featuring Jennifer Say, a former top executive at Levi's and founder of XXXY Athletics. Jennifer brings expertise from her background as a U.S. women's national gymnast and her role in advocating for fair competition in women's athletics.
Jennifer passionately critiques California Governor Gavin Newsom's recent statements regarding men's participation in women's sports, accusing him of lacking principles and undermining female athletes.
Jennifer Say [20:19]:
"What he was saying was, you know, I want to seem sort of reasonable and moderate because, you know, I want to run for president in 2028, but I'm not gonna do anything about this because these poor guys really, you know, need to compete in women so they feel good about themselves."
She interprets Newsom's remarks as a facade for political ambition, indicating a reluctance to enact meaningful change to protect women's sports.
The discussion highlights the inherent physical differences between male and female athletes, arguing that allowing biological males to compete in women's categories compromises the fairness and safety of competitions.
Jennifer Say [32:30]:
"Men cannot become women. Men are faster and stronger. That's why women's sports exist. It's all very simple."
Clay reinforces this argument by citing examples like the Boston Marathon's distinct qualifying times for men and women, underscoring the importance of maintaining gender-specific standards to ensure equitable competition.
Jennifer emphasizes the necessity for both cultural shifts and legislative action to address the challenges faced by women's athletics:
Jennifer Say [25:54]:
"We need the 80%, that majority to stand up and say it, that's when things would change."
She advocates for federal and state legislation to enforce policies that preserve the integrity of women's sports, alongside a broader cultural movement to support these changes.
Jennifer shares experiences of backlash and threats faced by those opposing the inclusion of transgender women in women's sports, highlighting the societal pressures that stifle open dialogue and advocacy.
Jennifer Say [28:35]:
"It's ramping up... they might be losing."
She calls for a critical mass of voices to overcome the intimidation tactics employed by opposing factions, aiming to create a safer environment for honest discussions.
As the episode nears its conclusion, Clay and Buck encourage listeners to support Jennifer's initiative, XXXY Athletics, and to engage with educational resources aimed at fostering informed discussions about women's sports.
Clay Travis [34:13]:
"That's Jennifer, say XX XY Athletics. She's fighting back against men, trying to take over women's sports. Great brand."
They also promote Hillsdale College's online courses, emphasizing self-education and personal growth as tools for societal improvement.
The hosts intersperse the heavy discussions with personal stories and lighthearted banter, including offers from listeners and humorous exchanges about domestic activities like grilling and skiing. These segments serve to humanize the hosts and provide a balanced listening experience amidst the intense topics.
Conclusion
"Hour 3 - Standing Up for Women" of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show offers a robust exploration of critical issues ranging from governmental efficiency to the integrity of women's sports in the face of evolving gender norms. Through incisive commentary, expert insights from Jennifer Say, and engaging dialogue, the episode underscores the necessity for both legislative action and cultural transformation to address the perceived threats to women's athletic competitions. The hosts adeptly balance serious discourse with personal anecdotes, maintaining an engaging and informative narrative throughout the hour.