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play and Buck kicks off now. Show is flying by and we are covering so much ground. A good time to remind you all there's a podcast of this program. You can go back and listen on demand anytime you'd like. The iHeartRadio app Best Place to start. Wherever you get your podcast, hour by hour, the show goes up. Go listen to it. You missed hour one. We had a great hour one. Some people say the greatest hour one of any show this this week so far. There's a great, great hour one of the show. We're talking Iran stuff. We're talking economy. We had Jim Jordan on, we had Shannon Bream on Great Americans. We had Michael Watley on. I think he's going to win that race, Clay in North Carolina. I really do. I like Michael Watley. He's a good man. They're going to their money that's going to be spent. It's just crazy how much money is being spent by most in Democrats, around $1 million.
Clay Travis
He said, Buck, if you were watching on video, my jaw, it's rare that my jaw drops. I hear a number I was even projecting, okay, it'll cost a couple of hundred million dollars. Six hundred million dollars for one Senate seat is outrageous, but it's indicative of how much money is going to be spent. And we just talked with Shannon Bream about this. You can't be confident if you are the White House right now that you are going to have control of Congress. This might be your last opportunity this year, might be the last opportunity of you, meaning the Republicans to be able to get anything through the House and the Senate. And so if that's going to be true, it makes all of these stakes that much higher. Including as we were just talking about the possibility of could there be a Supreme Court vacancy? Because Buck, if you don't make the decision to go now in 26, 27 and 28. If Republicans lose control of the Senate, nothing's getting done. And then in 28 you have another election and you don't know who's going to win. You might have a split and so you might not have certainty on who your replacement's going to be for four or five years, maybe longer if you're a 70 some odd year old Supreme Court justice.
Buck Sexton
Also some breaking news here that Gracie Manchin which is the mayor's residence in New York City, right Like a block or two for My little sister actually went to school. I know the area very well. Gracie Mansion has. Well, there's a report of the NYPD responding to a device, a suspicious device. Not immediately clear if it was a hoax or real or not. But look this is getting more attention on. There was that protest and the counter protesters remember a protest about too many Islamic radicals in New York. So Islamic radicals were like how dare you and then threw a bomb at them. Kind of tells you a lot as we were discussing. And now there's another suspicious package that has been found. You remember Clay, I think it was the New York Post held a contest for the name of a strip club that at one point was going to be opened. A all male strip club that was going to be open near the site of, of a mosque. You know. But you remember, do you know?
Clay Travis
I don't remember this story at all.
Buck Sexton
I think it was New York Post and, and, and, and the winner was Suspicious Packages. Actually really funny. Which I always thought was kind of a funny one.
Clay Travis
That's very.
Buck Sexton
If you're gonna have a strip club across from a mosque, you know, because some guy wanted to make a point that they won't allow a strip club near a mosque. An all male. It was like a Chippendales thing. This is a long time ago. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the Onion. I'm pretty sure it was a real thing. But maybe it was the Onion. It's a funny story anyway. Sometimes, you know when, when the facts and the legend conflict, you got to go with the legend. But whenever I see suspicious packages now I always think of that story or that, that urban legend, whatever it is. Now we have the, the CNN reporting on this is. Is incredible. And this is where X I, I know we sound a little bit like Elon superfans here. Maybe some or I'll just speak for myself. I want actually Clay with the Tesla. I think it's pretty big fan of Tesla.
Clay Travis
I am, I my 15, my 15 year old son the other day was just Would you stop? You may or may not know this phrase. Would you stop with the Elon Glaze? Glaze is like when you're giving somebody praise. I'm like, he's the greatest capitalist in the history of the world. I mean, I think it's fair to say that of anybody that's alive today, I think he's probably done more in a positive direction from a capitalist perspective than almost anybody ever has. And did we say this on the air? Was it off air? AOC was criticizing Elon Musk recently for being a billionaire who had never accomplished anything. And Elon Musk just did a star, you know, an asterisk and said trillionaire, which is. Elon is, if he's not already soon to be the first trillionaire in the history of the world. And I think it's because he's built pretty incredible products. So to cut you off, I might like Elon and be more of an Elon Glazer according to my own 15 year old than even you are. But so I'll sign on.
Buck Sexton
What is it called in Gen Z speak? Gen Z has some very interesting. First of all, I've noticed that we grew up saying dude. The way they say bro. Bro is now what dude was in the 90s. You'd be like, dude.
Clay Travis
Now it's bro. Everything is bro.
Buck Sexton
Yeah. That's one thing I've noticed about the Gen Z. I have a Gen Z babysitter and I listen very closely to her lexicon, to her verbiage, and I'm learning things all the time.
Clay Travis
Oldest man way to describe how a young. I listened to her lexicon, to her verbiage. How old is. Is your Gen Z lass? That is, that is a babysitter.
Buck Sexton
22 year old, just got out of the. Just got out of the IDF, actually 22 years old and she was serving over in Israel. Now she's here and she's great. She's great with. Great with speech. Fantastic. But I'm learning from the way that she speaks. And there's a thing mogging. Oh, mogging. Oh, I. I've learned this thing.
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So when Clay and I took a photo years ago with Tommy Lahren and Tommy looked like Tommy Lahren and Clay and I both looked particularly schlubby. Even for us. We were mogged by Tommy. This is with it.
Clay Travis
Right?
Buck Sexton
That's the correct. It's like when someone completely overshadows you in a photo because they're like, they're so good looking.
Clay Travis
I think that's what basically you Can MOG people in all respects, but typically it is applied for physical. Like if you went to the beach and I went to the beach and like Arnold schwarzenegger, you know, Mr. Olympian style was there at the beach, he would be totally mogging us. Like we would be the fat schlubby guys at the beach.
Buck Sexton
And I mean, I mean now he's pretty wrinkly and old, but yeah.
Clay Travis
So who is the most. Who is a super ripped guy now? There aren't as many famous ripped guys. I mean, I know there's tons of wrestlers and things like that.
Buck Sexton
I think super bodybuilders have become. Did you see the guy who was like, I think won the Arnold Classic? The photos and we're going around does not even look like a human musculature. I mean, it looks like another species. It's crazy how jacked.
Clay Travis
Yeah, well, some of those guys can't put a shirt on. So it's hard to be like, oh, you're the strongest man on the like, when I'm not kidding. Like they can't take a shirt off and take a shirt on because they're so muscular. Like their, their shoulders don't work. They can't just like do normal things. Right?
Buck Sexton
Well, you're taking massive doses of, of anabolic steroids to get to that. And that's just known. I mean this isn't like some see everyone that you're not hiding it. You can't be a bodybuilder. A male bodybuilder competitor is interesting, the most competitive of the female body. And I'm in Miami, which is I think now probably the bodybuilding capital of the country or certainly South Florida has got to be up there.
Clay Travis
South Florida is the attractiveness capital of the United States by far. Everybody's good looking, everybody's in shape. Like I, LA is probably number two in terms of people who are just in great. Miami is now number one.
Buck Sexton
Your fitness level in South Florida is a minus three compared to the, the American average. So if you think you are like a 7 out of 10 in terms of fitness for your age category, you come to South Florida, you're like a four or five. It's just the way it is. Look, I, it applies to me too. Trust me. I was like, I came down here, I was like, I'm the fattest guy in the whole gym. Like, it's tough down here.
Clay Travis
Well, and also it's warm, so people wear less clothes. So it's hard to hide. Like you can't wear a bulky jacket. You don't get like if you're the fat guy in Miami, everybody knows you're the fat guy in Miami.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, you don't. I mean around here it's, there's, it's a whole different thing with the year round beach where ok, so looks mogging, we've explained to you now for Gen Z speak, most of you it's going to be your grandkids or your kids that will know what mogging is. And you explains, you explained glazed. There's some other Gen Z terms that I'll think of that are very, very common usage these days. But anyway, going back to CNN here for a moment. Oh, why who are we glazing? Elon. Because Elon's incredible. He is.
Clay Travis
And you were saying the reason we knew this story from CNN to a large extent is because of Twitter and the way that it's changed culturally.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, I mean Twitter used to be a left wing propaganda platform. It allowed conservatives on, but it actually was nefarious because it was always suppressing. You know, if you're in a race, what's worse, hey, I'm the, this is a race to determine who the fastest person in the world is. But I'm going to exclude like most of the fastest people and then give a gold medal to somebody who's actually not the fastest. Or if you put everybody in the race and then you have the actual fastest people, you know, running with like shackles on their legs or running barefoot or so they might even run faster barefoot. But anyway, you get what I'm saying, right? Like it's actually more nefarious to pretend it's a honest platform. X now does not operate as a left wing propaganda platform. And it's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it was. And so CNN has had to put this out, a post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City. Mayor Zoran Mamdani's home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted. Now, just to share with everybody what the tweet was, this is from CNN's official account, which has millions and millions of followers. Still, two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would be drastically changed as they would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti Muslim protest outside of Zoran Mamdani's home. Clay that construct of how to Tell this story is like clinically insane. I mean, you could do this with anybody. It was, you know, it's like Osama bin Laden was having just another day eating some chunks of goat in a cave in Afghanistan, thinking about a Quranic verse and then boom, all of a sudden on his TV the planes ran into the buildings like, what are you doing?
Clay Travis
Yeah. And this is where it becomes significant to me. A lot of times people can screw up. I've written a lot. You've written a lot. We talk a lot, four hours plus every day, variety of different topics. To me, what is an utter indictment of what you just read that went viral this morning is it's a product of the culture of cnn. In other words, you know, this articles don't go up on CNN.com without having been vetted by multiple editors. And I would submit that a CNN account does not tweet something out without it having the ability to have been overseed by multiple editors. Which is a good thing, Right? You don't want CNN suddenly tweeting out 100% inaccurate news because it could be very traumatic to the nation as a whole. Right? If suddenly CNN said, hey, something awful has happened to President Trump and it's not true at all, it could alter the marketplace people see on stock markets, everything else. By the way, Caroline Levitt has started a briefing and we will be updating you on what she is saying there. But all of that is to say this is the culture of CNN that must be ripped out root and branch. And this is why for those of you out there who didn't care about who was going to buy Warner Brothers, I did care. CBS News was a mess. I think CBS News has gotten better under new ownership. I think that similarly CNN needs to be reimagined and redefined and rehabilitated based on the way that the culture of their news has broken. And that tweet and that story is a perfect example of a culture that's broken.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We have got right now Caroline Levitt updating the White House press corps on the absolute latest in Iran as well as arguing for the SAVE act to be passed. Every one of the news networks is taking Caroline Levitt live right now, which is a sign that is somewhat rare because usually MSNBC doesn't carry these White House press briefings. They instead decide to carry something that they believe makes Trump look bad. But right now they're actually carrying the press briefing across the board. Buck, we talked about it earlier. Something that I love that has been, I think, very smartly done is Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, is doing these morning press conferences which dominate the news agenda. We paid, we played several of those as, as we began the show today. And I do think it's an important and smart move to set the agenda before the media can really decide what the agenda is. And it's amazing how quickly these things can change because yesterday the story was, oh my goodness, the stock market is collapsing, the price of oil and gas is skyrocketing. We're never going to be able to afford anything. And since that time, the price of oil and gas has dropped nearly $40. MSNBC has taken the ticker off the screen as stock market prices are back near record highs and up again today. And again, The S&P 500 is near an all time record high and up a little bit today as well. So I think the Trump White House has done a good job of taking back control of the agenda. The discussion point over the last couple of days, absolutely.
Buck Sexton
I think that you're going to see things continue to move in the direction of the Trump administration on the economy. I think that they know what the red lines are for Iran. And you know, there's, you have to remember there's an unreasonable degree, an unreasonable degree of negativity that is brought to any media assessment of something going on in the Trump administration. There are a lot of people who really, really, really want Trump to fail. And that affects the way that they will leap on things because they're, it's not even that they're not aware that could be wrong. Clay. Their audience is desperate for anti Trump content. Their audience is desperate to believe that they're smart when they voted for Biden and then voted for Kamala and that Trump can't do anything right. Even though that is a delusion, a manufactured delusion at that, no doubt.
Clay Travis
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All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. Caroline Levitt addressing the nation from the West Wing of the White House. So plenty to dive into there. Let's get to some of the top issues. This is just breaking news now. She is telling the press where the White House stands on a whole range of critical issues. Let's do cut 31st here, guys. This is on Iran and the US air campaign against the regime. Play 30.
Clay Travis
As for the oil, President Trump fully expected the rogue Iranian regime to try and disrupt the global markets. That's why President Trump and his energy team have been planning for this long before the strike and have moved quickly to address these temporary disruptions. Thus far, the Trump administration has offered
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political risk insurance to tankers operating in the Gulf.
Clay Travis
The treasury temporarily waived certain oil related sanctions and the commander in chief has offered the US Navy to escort tankers when necessary. The President and his energy team are closely watching the markets, speaking with industry leaders. And the US Military is drawing up additional options following the president's directive to continue keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.
Buck Sexton
Clay I think they're very aware that everyone is watching this and that the American people are okay with this. And this is what all the polling shows, as long as it does not drag on and we don't have mission control. Concrete.
Clay Travis
Yes. That, to me, is one of the most interesting parts of the polling so far has been as long as this is done in a month or six weeks, it has about 75, 76% approval across the nation. If it drags on, if there's boots on the ground, if you start putting other permutations of this in place, then people start to feel differently. And this is one thing that I would say it doesn't get talked about enough. But we have discussed with all of you, President Trump is acutely aware of what economic reaction is to his decisions. And for people out there who constantly buy into the fact, oh, my goodness, this happened. And so President Trump is going to ride. The stock market's going to drop 40% and gas prices are going to go up 300%. All these things that never happens because the president looks at the way markets respond and he adjusts his reaction to the markets as well. So this is why I've said from the get go, President Trump wants the stock market to be up. He wants to be able to walk in front of the cameras and say, all of your 401 s are doing better. And so if there is the threat of something severely impacting in a negative way the economic situation, President Trump will adjust in real time. And so far, we have seen kind of a Goldilocks like economy. What do I mean by that? Unemployment has stayed very low. Interest rates have been coming down. Inflation has not gone up. You know, when we had the perfect economy Buck, I bet you do. February 2020, we had right at 1.8% inflation, if I remember correctly. We had 3% mortgages. We had a growth rate of the market that was on fire. Boom. Covid happens. I think what you're going to see is as this spring summer takes in place, the impact of the president's big, beautiful bill is going to become apparent. And we are going to see this economy taking off like Jeff with, like it has jet fuel. I really do. I am insanely optimistic about where we're going to be in the summer. And I think that's President Trump's ultimate goal as we move into the midterms is that the economy is becoming strong enough that even middle of the road people who have not been committed to his agenda look around and say, hey, you know what, this is pretty good. And that's why I think to your point, he has to get the resolution in Iran completed by, I don't know, May, June at the latest.
Buck Sexton
You could say this economy is going to take off like a Tesla on Mad Max mode, perhaps.
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Buck Sexton
A lot of education on this program.
Clay Travis
You know, they had an autonomous vehicles thing with Sean Duffy, Secretary Duffy today, as I, I think these autonomous vehicles are going to take off. We've got another Caroline Levitt clip.
Buck Sexton
Let's get to the Carolina, then we can do the Duffy actually that's a, I didn't even mean for that to be a smooth transition there, but that could have worked. Let's do Caroline on oil, though the price of oil, it is important.
Clay Travis
Play 31 directive to continue keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. As for the oil, President Trump fully expected the rogue Iranian regime to try and disrupt the global markets. That's why President Trump and his energy team have been planning for this long before the strike and have moved quickly to address these temporary disruptions. Thus far, the Trump administration has also
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Clay Travis
The treasury temporarily waived certain oil related sanctions and the commander in chief has offered the US Navy to escort tankers when necessary. The president and his energy team are closely watching the markets, speaking with industry leaders. And the US Military is jarring up additional options following the president's directive to continue keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.
Buck Sexton
What do you think?
Clay Travis
I think it's going to work. Look, I mean, I think in many ways the run up to $120 on Sunday I think looks suspicious. And when I saw it happening, a part of me thought in the back of my mind is this an attempt to try to gobble the, the global oil market, to gobble up the pricing, to drive up in an effort to try to create economic issues for the United States, which is probably Iran's best, best method by which to end this. And so it feels strange. It feels, I guess I should say it directly. It feels a bit manipulated in the way that the gas, oil and gas market went from $80 almost overnight to $120, back down to $80. That doesn't feel organic and natural to me. Now you can say, well, there's different stories out there that precipitated this. But for a 50% run up and a 50% collapse to occur. It reminds me, buck, of meme stocks. Remember when GameStop and all these other different stocks, the fundamentals of them did not change, but the price skyrocketed and plummeted and skyrocketed and plummeted because they were being artificially manipulated in many different ways. Oil and gas. It feels to me like that's what happened in the last 24 hours. It's not normal to see a 50% increase and a 50% collapse in the space of 24 hours. It just doesn't happen. And that's basically what we have seen, a crazy roller coaster of oil and gas pricing.
Buck Sexton
Like I said, it's people speculating around this and placing financial bets and that moving the markets much more than anything else. So it's not reflective necessarily at all of a true and sustained supply shock or anything like that. So I think that's important. Do you want to do some autonomous vehicles?
Clay Travis
Look, I love autonomous vehicles. Every time I talk about autonomous vehicles, people send mean messages to me. But I'm sorry, I'm living in the future and you guys are living in the past. And if radio shows that existed back in the days of cars starting to surpass carriages, some of you out there would have been reaching out and saying, the horseless carriage is never going to be a thing, Clay. I'd rather rely on my horse and buggy. I know what my, what my whip in my hand is going to do to a horse. I have no idea what a steering wheel might do. Do you think that women are ever going to be able to drive cars? They go way too fast for women. All of these arguments would have been cast at me in like 1906 when I would have said, hey, I think this car is going to be a big deal. And now you guys living in this current age are basically the equivalent of horseless carriage detractors. And. And I'm living in the future.
Buck Sexton
He's basically saying that you non autonomous vehicle people are like the Colt 1911 fans of the gun community stuck in 100 years ago and don't want to, don't want to change with the times and the technology. I don't know what to say. I just. It's fine if you want to. You know, some people like to dress up and do like revolutionary era. You know, they must get. You can, you can have your cold 1911 and your musket. That's fine. I'm An American. I believe that you have this choice. I just personally think that we've improved on the musket. Like, we've improved on the 1911. Like, we've improved on cars with autonomous driving. Now, you see, there's a pattern here, my friends. There's a trend.
Clay Travis
Some of you like hoop skirts, and I'm talking about, like, antebellum hoop skirts. It was a good look back in 1864. And the truth of the matter is autonomous vehicles are the future, and I'm living in the future. Another way to put it, Buck, in current parlance, might be that my car is mogging your car.
Buck Sexton
So Clay's car looks macking, looks maxing, while it.
Clay Travis
I'm car maxing your vehicle.
Buck Sexton
He's carmaxing. I think that's actually. Isn't that a site?
Clay Travis
Oh, yeah. Probably should be. Whoa. Yeah, it is. Yeah.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, it is.
Clay Travis
That's a good name, actually.
Buck Sexton
Yeah. There you go. Newsmax. Carmax. A lot of max out there. Okay, Duffy, was that an autonomous vehicle? This is the Sean Duffy of Transportation administration Secretary fame. It's one way to put it. Here he is, Sean Duffy. Autonomous Vehicle Safety Forum. Play cut one during a race, right?
Clay Travis
Everyone is trying to have the best technology that will be deployed around the world. And I want the technology to be developed in America. I want the jobs in America, and I want the rest of the world to use American technology. I don't want to see a foreign competitor, slash foreign adversary, slash Communist party beat America and have their technology deployed around the world. This is a national security issue. This is an economic issue. This is a safety issue. There you go. Look, Secretary Duffy gets it. And I'm just gonna say it. Every single one of you that gets in the car and lets the car drive for you, who has never done it before, who listens to this program is going to say, I'll be damned, CLAY Travis was 100% right. Because you're going to feel like you are in the future, too, and you're going to recognize how much better it is.
Buck Sexton
I just need the autonomous driving to also get one of those little robots that you see that just gives me a back rub while I'm in the seat. You know what I mean? So I'm being driven around while a little robot is rubbing my shoulders.
Clay Travis
I mean, they do have. They do have the seat massagers, I think, in a lot of different. I think my car. I think my autonomous vehicle also massages, I think basically can kind of take care of everything. Pretty soon, it's Going to be paying my taxes while I'm just sitting there watching, watching videos, letting it drive me around. And I do think this is one big prediction. The way that cars are designed, completely going to change with autonomous vehicles. The idea that you need to have four forward facing seats. We're just going to be rolling around in basically living rooms on the car. You're going to be able to sleep, you're going to be able to watch movies, you're going to be able to have a big screen in the middle that everybody watches together like a Jumbotron. It's going to be super cool. I'm optimist.
Buck Sexton
Here's Sean Duffy continuing on at the autonomous vehicle safety forum. Cut to play it dot.
Clay Travis
We want to make sure we have the right regulatory structure to meet the innovation that's happening not just in America, but around the world. And so we want to drive safety, but also allow those innovators to innovate. We want the next generation of vehicles which are going to be autonomous, to be American made. We don't want to see these as Chinese made, Chinese technology. We wanted American technology. And so we're having a forum today. A lot of you can see maybe behind me a lot of our top innovators from, from, from Waymos, Zoox, Tesla are here. And we're gonna have a day long conversation about again, how we can have the right rule set to keep our safety mandate, but also allow them to continue to innovate.
Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in. Caroline Levitt, still speaking at the White House press briefing. She just said to the 100,000 employees out there struggling without a paycheck. To any American out there showing up to an airport facing incredibly long wait times, call your Democrat member of Congress. Tell them to fund dhs. Again, the TSA agents, many of whom listen to this program. A lot of the TSA guys and gals at Nashville Buck because I fly in and out. A lot are listeners and they're not getting paid. And this is the third time I think that they've had to deal with disruptions to their pay. That's I think, a failure of the entire political process. But in particular during this time when we know there's an elevated risk of terror attack, the idea that we would have fewer TSA employees working Buck. There are some of them that are saying, hey, I've got to make money right now. So they're doing other jobs rather than showing up for their TSA jobs because they have to get money in their pocket. And this is just a failure. And it's indefensible anytime. But I think particularly now, let's go
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to podcast listener John. This is a on our Talk back list, he wanted to weigh in on a controversial topic. That 1911 guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Top surgeons in the country cannot tell the difference between a 9 millimeter and
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Buck Sexton
It's all about shot placement. Especially with modern hollow point ammunition.
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Buck Sexton
You get more chances with a nine.
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More recoil control, more fun to shoot.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, 1911s are cool guns, but they're not practical to carry because they're much heavier. I'd rather have some type of polymer 9 millimeter. Listener John just coming down heavy with an elbow from the top rope on the 1911 community there. Also, the level of detail that this audience can bring to the tissue damage from various calibers fired from a gun conversation is pretty remarkable.
Clay Travis
I am completely out of my depths on this discussion. So I, I the the fight that you have brought to bear here is one that I don't even have a strong take to be able to to to weigh in and throw punches on.
Buck Sexton
Oh, he keeps going. Podcast listener B. John play it. Bruce Lee said, I don't fear the man that knows 10,000 kicks, but the man that has practiced 101 kick 10,000 times. It's all about those neural pathways called muscle memory. 9 millimeters easier on the wallet, easier
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Buck Sexton
You can do it automatically without thinking about it. All these. 4045 caliber guys like oh, and those are the guys that never out there shooting.
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Buck Sexton
oh, oh. Throwing shade at the 45 caliber community. Oh my gosh, this is gonna get feisty, Clay. Feisty.
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In this dynamic third hour, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the day’s breaking news and deeper political currents. The conversation revolves around explosive political spending, media misrepresentations, the Trump administration’s responses on Iran and the economy, and lively debates on Gen Z slang and technology—especially the rise of autonomous vehicles. With a blend of sharp analysis and characteristic humor, the hosts also dissect shifting language, gun debates, and the ever-present specter of media bias in coverage of current events.
Senate Race Spending
Supreme Court Vacancy
Trump Administration’s Response to Iran Crisis
Market Reaction
On Political Spending:
“Six hundred million dollars for one Senate seat is outrageous, but it's indicative of how much money is going to be spent.”
— Clay Travis [03:56]
On Media Spin:
“That construct of how to Tell this story is like clinically insane… You could do this with anybody.”
— Buck Sexton, critiquing CNN [13:37]
On Gen Z Slang:
“We were mogged by Tommy...That’s the correct term.”
— Buck Sexton [09:27]
On Elon Musk:
“He’s the greatest capitalist in the history of the world.”
— Clay Travis [07:16]
On Autonomous Tech:
“This is a national security issue. This is an economic issue. This is a safety issue.”
— Secretary Sean Duffy [36:47]
On Oil Markets:
“It feels a bit manipulated in the way that the gas, oil and gas market went from $80 almost overnight to $120, back down to $80. That doesn’t feel organic and natural to me.”
— Clay Travis [32:16]
This hour showcases the unique Clay and Buck blend: breaking political analysis, media criticism, old-school vs. new-school banter, policy implications on economy and security, and the lighter side of cultural evolution, all with a wry edge and open phone/text lines. Whether parsing the culture at CNN, deconstructing market volatility, hyping Elon Musk, or arguing for the future of American innovation, the hosts keep the pace lively and the tone engaging.
You don’t need to have heard previous shows to jump right in—whether you care about how political money sloshes through DC, want to decode Gen Z talk, wonder why oil prices whiplashed, or simply enjoy sharp skepticism of mainstream narratives, Clay and Buck keep it both fun and thought-provoking.