Hour 3 - The Lost Generation

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Episode: Hour 3 – The Lost Generation
Date: December 16, 2025
Host: Buck Sexton (Clay Travis absent this hour)

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Episode Overview

In this hour, Buck Sexton dives into current events and societal trends gripping America, with particular focus on political violence, false moral equivalence in media narratives, the interplay of diversity hiring (DEI) and generational opportunities, and reactions to terrorism and cancel culture. With intelligence and humor, Buck challenges mainstream media narratives and articulates the real-world impacts of ideological trends—especially on millennials. The episode's anchor is the idea of a “lost generation” derailed by institutional priorities that, in Buck's view, value diversity over merit.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Political Violence, Media Reactions, and Trump Criticism

[02:35–12:10]

• Brown University Shooting & Bandai Terrorist Attack: Buck recaps recent events—an unresolved shooting at Brown University (potentially a targeted assassination of a Republican student leader) and a terror attack in Bondai by a father-son duo with connections to Islamic radicalism in the Philippines.

  • “…there's Islamic radicalism in the southern part of the Philippines that has been long, long since well established. It's likely that that's why they were there…” [03:12]

• Trump’s Controversial Statement about Rob Reiner: Buck addresses the uproar over Trump’s comments regarding Rob Reiner’s death, clarifying that while he would not have made those remarks himself, Trump’s style is inherently combative and different from his own.

  • “…he's a little more of a brawler than I am with the words…But…sometimes you really need that. That all said, you know, I didn't think this was right. I didn't like it.” [04:15]

• Calls for Basic Sympathy & Humanity Across the Political Aisle: Buck argues that, in instances of real tragedy (such as the murder of Rob Reiner or Charlie Kirk), sympathy should transcend partisanship.

  • “There are things that are so terrible and so sad that just as a human being, I think you would extend your sympathy to someone or their family, regardless of the political rhetoric that they have used in the past.” [05:14]

• Rob Reiner on Forgiveness after Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Audio plays of Rob Reiner expressing horror and forgiveness following another high-profile political murder, underscoring the theme of shared humanity.

  • Rob Reiner: "It's beyond belief what happened to him, and that should never happen to anybody. I don't care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable… I believe in forgiveness." [08:45]

2. The False Moral Equivalence “Both Sidesism”

[10:58–18:54]

• Questioning Charlie Kirk’s Widow: Buck highlights a moment where the widow of Charlie Kirk is pressed to condemn Trump’s rhetoric as equivalent to left-wing political violence. He rails against what he sees as a contrived moral equivalence.

  • “The false moral equivalency gets me very fired up because it is a game that the left plays constantly to…evade accountability at all costs.” [12:10]

• January 6 and Media Double Standards: Buck contrasts the media’s endless focus on January 6 with their relatively muted response to the left-wing BLM riots, asserting that only Trump supporters died as a result of violence that day.

  • “There was one riot that involved Trump supporters and the only person who died was a Trump supporter, Ashley Babbitt, shot in the neck…The left had gone through months and months of far more destructive violent rioting and they celebrated it…” [15:20]

3. How DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Policies Created “The Lost Generation”

[21:04–41:12]

• Overview of Matthew Schmitz’s “The Lost Generation” (CompactMag.com): Buck praises Schmitz’s article, highlighting how DEI hiring essentially punished a swath of white millennial men, locking them out of career opportunities.,

  • “…this is the story of a generation derailed by DEI. This is what I have observed… they did everything possible to avoid hiring white millennial men.” [32:01]

• Personal Insights: Buck recounts how diversity hiring usually targeted entry-level positions, not executive/boomer ranks, and how friends in sectors like finance and academia were squeezed out of opportunities.

  • “…all the guys who were at the very top, once they started doing this stuff 10 years ago, the people who were the fat cats who were making the big bucks, they got to stay. No, no, diversity did not mean we were replacing the CEO.” [34:06]

• Cultural Impact: He ties the decline in TV, movies, publishing, and academia to prioritizing DEI over talent.

  • “These institutions…became a lot less impressive because they got rid of standards. They started making decisions not based upon excellence at the craft or the ability that one has, but on skin color, explicitly racist policies.” [35:06]

• Concluding Thought: Buck frames this as both an economic and cultural tragedy—millennial talent was sacrificed for “the madness of DEI,” and cultural output has suffered as a result.

  • “…everybody else… it was the millennials who got fed, you know, into the wood chipper of DEI madness professionally. And this piece goes into details about it. And these places are not elite anymore. And Hollywood TV writing got really crappy and we all noticed, we have all in fact noticed.” [36:37]

4. The Media’s Failure on Terrorism and Honest Debate

[21:29–32:00]

• Buck’s Throwback to CNN Terrorism Panel (2016): Buck shares a flashback to his CNN appearance, where, during a discussion of the Nice truck attack, the media and academics emphasized Islamophobia and failed assimilation rather than confronting Islamic radicalism directly.

  • “Anytime someone says it's about gun control. The Nice terror attack involved a truck. It killed 86 people, 15 children, injured 450 people. It was a rented truck. Didn't need a gun.” [24:41]
  • “…there is this knee jerk reaction… constantly trying to sort of wrap all this around the bad rhetoric of people who want to speak openly and honestly about terrorism.” [26:36]

• Buck’s Response to Media Spin and “Islamophobia” Accusations: He laments how the default reaction is to worry about “Islamophobia” rather than acknowledge the ideological roots of terror. He sees this as emblematic of the Western elite’s self-defeating tendencies.

  • "This is the. I mean he did some great stuff. Norm MacDonald did some great stuff. I think maybe his all time great is that the real threat is that they're going to detonate a nuclear bomb in an American city. And just think of all the Islamophobia that will happen. Because that really just gets to the core of this, of this insanity.” [29:25]

5. Emails, Listener Calls, and Cultural Musings

[42:13–44:07]

• Women in Law Enforcement and Combat: Buck reads an email from a listener concerned about women in frontline roles, agreeing that there are real physical limits in policing and combat that can’t be ignored, but affirms he’s “not taking shots at anybody, just saying what it is.” [42:13]
• Musicals for Men: A lighthearted caller asserts the only “musical that men should proudly love is the Blues Brothers.” [43:26]
• AR-15 Registration Correction: A Connecticut listener corrects Buck on the state's gun laws—owners had to register rifles, not turn them in. Buck admits, “I was wrong. So I'm not always right. But most of the time. Shh.” [43:58]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Trump’s Tone:
  “He’s a little more of a brawler than I am with the words…That all said, you know, I didn’t think this was right. I didn’t like it. But…he’s a politician, he’s the president, you know, he’s not my dad.” [04:15]
• On Political Violence:
  “There are things that are so terrible and so sad that just as a human being, I think you would extend your sympathy to someone or their family, regardless of the political rhetoric that they have used in the past.” [05:14]
• Rob Reiner (audio):
  “What happened to him, that's not acceptable…And I believe in forgiveness. And what she [Charlie Kirk’s widow] said to me was beautiful and absolutely, you know, she forgave his assassin. And I think that that is admirable.” [08:45]
• On False Equivalence:
  “The false moral equivalency gets me very fired up because it is a game that the left plays constantly to…evade accountability at all costs.” [12:10]
• On DEI and Millennials:
  “This is the story of a generation derailed by DEI…I was only able to escape it because of some good luck, some great mentors…But I saw it all around me. My, my peers, my colleagues…no chance.” [32:01]

Major Timestamps

• [02:35] – Introduction & current events: Brown University & Bondai attack
• [04:15] – Trump’s statement on Rob Reiner and Buck’s reaction
• [08:45] – Rob Reiner’s response to political violence
• [12:10] – Buck on false moral equivalence and political rhetoric
• [15:20] – Discussion of January 6 and media coverage gaps
• [21:04] – Vanity Fair piece on Trump admin, segues to DEI
• [32:01] – Full rundown of how DEI created a “lost generation”
• [42:13] – Listener emails on women in policing/military & cultural sidebar
• [43:58] – Correction on Connecticut AR-15 laws

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Tone and Style

Buck Sexton employs sharp wit, directness, and a blend of frustration with restrained optimism. His style is conversational, occasionally irreverent, and deeply rooted in cultural critique. He’s unafraid to call out perceived hypocrisy and frequently connects current news to larger cultural trends impacting everyday Americans—especially millennials.

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For listeners new to the show or this episode:
This hour pieces together a worldview: one that finds danger not only in physical threats but also in what Buck sees as the moral and institutional missteps of American leadership, media, and elite cultural institutions. It’s as much about defending common sense and basic humanity as it is about politics—making a case for sanity, merit, and authentic sympathy in a divided America.

Transcript

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Join today, third hour of clay and Buck kicks off. Now we're going to return to some of the main stories of the day. We've talked about the first, second hours. For example, the. We still don't have the suspect in custody for the Brown University shooting. It looks like a targeted hit on campus. An assassination that may well have targeted. There are a lot of people saying that it did target a young Republican leader on campus. Woman, beautiful young woman. I mean, it's so, so heartbreaking that he's gone when you think about this sort of situation. And then the Bandai terrorist attack looks like they were training. The father son Muslim duo were training in the southern Philippines. Likely training in the southern Philippines, known to be an Islamic radicalism hotbed. There's actually a Netflix movie. I forget what it's called, but you can find it pretty easily. And I think it's Gerard Butler, who's one of Ali's favorites, right? Ali producer Ali, Gerard Butler, maybe. Oh, sorry. I know Butler is great. So, you know, I think I'm personally surprised whenever I see anything on Netflix that is good. So this movie was actually pretty decent. I can't remember the name of it, but anyway, it's like he's on a flight, he's a plane. They land there. There's like jihadists that are lopping heads off with, with machetes or whatever and, you know, the whole, the whole thing. So, yeah, anyway, it's a pretty, it's a pretty good movie. Like, it's a good watch. It's not, it's not gonna be up for the Oscars, but it's a pretty good movie. Point is, there's Islamic radicalism in the southern part of the Philippines that has been long, long since well established. It's likely that that's why they were there right before this attack to, to train, to get help, to get assistance. But I did want it. We haven't really talked about this yet today and it is something that is getting a lot of attention right now, which is, you know, Trump wrote something about Rob Reiner was killed and it was, it was horrible. I want to have this be a broad discussion. It's not. People want me. I've already been asked, oh, would you agree with what Trump said? That's not what I would have said. But also, I'm very different than Trump and I'm also not the leader of the free world. Ok. So it's different. I got different stresses, different pressures, and I have quite a different approach from Donald J. Trump. I think he's Fantastic. In so many ways. He's a little more of a brawler than I am with the words or likes to throw down, likes to get into the mud a bit more than I do. And he's very good at it. That all said. And sometimes you really need that. That all said, you know, I didn't think that this was right. I didn't like it. But. Ok, so, you know, Trump said something that I didn't agree with. He's a politician, he's the president. You know, he's not my dad. I mean, I don't know why people want. Oh, but now we're all talking about it. So that's the whole point. People want to attack Trump on this stuff. I just want to remind everybody out there of a couple things. First of all, there's. There is this move I see people making to say, well, what was Rob Reiner like after this or that situation? I don't think that really should matter very much because there are things that are so terrible and so sad that just as a human being, I think you would extend your sympathy to someone or their family, regardless of the political rhetoric that they have used in the past. I do think that that's. Now, there are obviously limits. Like, Buck, would you be sad when Hitler killed himself? No, of course not. But. Okay, Rob Reiner was, was a. Made great movies. And, and I'll let you hear this because. Because even I got a little bit of heat just for saying, look, he was a father, he was a husband, he made some great movies. Nobody should ever see suffer what he suffered at the hands of his own son. I mean, it's a horrific tragedy, obviously. Deep mental illness and addiction at the root of this evil which was perpetrated on him. But here he was when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. This is Rob Reiner on Piers Morgan's show. This is cut 4 back in September of this year. Play it. Continue to try to reassure the public.

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[Buck Sexton]

But you also just said that something this person you believe is armed and dangerous.

[Interviewer]

So how can both be true?

[Buck Sexton]

Well, yeah, yeah, right. And that's something that's unknown, but I think they may have stated, I'll tell you, that we had. Wait, I thought we had Rob Reiner. Cut four. Rob Reiner, Right. Oh, I'm sorry, guys. I'm looking at, I'm looking at yesterday's sheet. My, my fault. That's. That's on me. I was like, that wasn't the interview. Pull it over now. Guys, I'm sorry. I wanted to use this this cut. And so I just had it in my eyes. We'll get to it in a second. Point here is that Rob Reiner is somebody who suffered something that is. I wouldn't. Honestly, I wouldn't wish on, like, my worst enemy. It's just a horrible thing that happened. But I also. And I wanted you to hear how Rob Reiner responded to the Charlie Kirk Satch, because he did so in a. In a reasonable fashion. I did. There was a photo. I sent it to the team. I interviewed Rob Reiner back in 2019. I think it was so latter part of the first Trump administration in D.C. when I was. When I launched what was then Hill TV and the show Rising. And I obviously didn't agree with him on anything, but he's very nice, very pleasant guy. But the left wants to lecture us all on this right now. In the meantime, I cannot help but remember that somehow this is cons. We have it now. Okay, sorry. Here's the Rob Reiner clip that I meant to play for you guys. Play it. You first heard about the murder of Charlie Kirk. What was your immediate gut reaction to it?

[Rob Reiner]

Well, horror. Absolute horror. And I unfortunately saw the video of it, and it. It's in this. It's beyond belief what happened to him, and that should never happen to anybody. I don't care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable. That's not a solution to. To solving problems. And I felt like what his wife said at the service, that the memorial they had was exactly right. And totally, I believe, you know, I'm Jewish, but I. I believe in the teachings of Jesus and I believe in doing to others, and I believe in forgiveness. And what she said to me was beautiful and absolutely, you know, she. She forgave his. His assassin. And I think that that is admirable.

[Buck Sexton]

So there you have Rob Reiner. I've said that's how I felt about Rob Reiner's death. He was talking about Charlie Kirk's assassination. But I feel like it's something that should never happen to anybody. And, you know, we are all allowed to just have a human moment for one another. You can step out of the realm of politics for a second, because even online, I was getting some people yesterday, it's like, what. Why would you say that he made good movies or what? I mean, guys, you know, I know most of you don't feel that way, but, yeah, something absolutely horrible happened to somebody, you're allowed to say, wow, that's really horrible. It doesn't have to be. Well, how did he vote in the last election. And like what did he say about this politician or whatever it may be? There is something that has gotten more and more coarse in our discourse and it is, it is trembling, I have to say. Do we have, by the way, do we have. Sorry, because I think I was going to pull another clip from yesterday. So I'm going to ask you guys in advance. Do we have the question that Erica Kirk was asked at that, that sit down with Barry Weiss and a bunch of. Can you pull that? That's, it's 34. Okay, let's, because I want you guys to hear this. Meanwhile, the same voices, the same people who are, oh my gosh, you know what Trump said about Rob Reiner, they're out there supporting stuff like what this questioner asked. Play it.

[Interviewer]

Erica, I want to tell you how much I appreciate your calls for peace and unity. And I'm likewise horrified by the people in my so called camp who were cheering about Charlie's murder. I believe that they stoke the flames of violence. But even worse is when powerful, influential people on either side of the aisle stoke the flames. When they do it, the flames can become an inferno. And this leads me to Donald Trump, the most powerful and influential person on earth who has more responsibility than anyone else to put the flames out. Just last month, President Trump called on six Democratic lawmakers to be tried for sedition, which he clarified was punishable by death. He then reposted a simple message, hang them. I think that you've been making strides to bring peace to our country. And that turning point has been asking Democrats to decry the individuals who cheer for violence. I have and will continue to decry them. But any good faith effort to stop political violence must hold both parties to the same standard and expectation. So in that spirit, will you condemn the violent rhetoric of Donald Trump, the most powerful and influential person on earth?

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, you see what just happened there? So the widow of Charlie Kirk, Erica Kirk, who is clearly still dealing with and processing the unimaginable grief of her husband being assassinated on live TV in front of thousands of people or on a live stream in front of thousands of people. And the situation now is, well, since we have to have standards, can't we do this both sides ism thing now, can't you condemn your side? Think about this. Charlie Kirk, who is a very close friend and ally of the of President Trump, is killed. And then we are told, because Trump said a mean thing about some politicians that nothing has happened to and Trump knows nothing is going to happen to and doesn't want anything bad to happen to somehow. There's an equivalency here. The false moral equivalency gets me very fired up because it is a game that the left plays constantly to. You know, I use this phrase, evade accountability at all costs. Oh, sure, our side, the left did something horrible, but it's really about both sides acting better. No, it's not. It is not. Actually, as we sit here, we think about the terror attacks that have just happened and who was likely behind them in the last few days and what ideological compatriots or who they go arm in arm with. This is of, for and by the left. And I think that this pretense that somehow it's about getting both sides to calm down. No, our side's actually pretty calm. We're good. I'm not saying we're perfect. But, you see, this is Trump having a maybe slightly intemperate truth social about a murdered director is actually not on the same scale as the entire Democrat Party, pretending and constantly screaming and shouting about how we are descending into fascism and Trump and all of his supporters are actual Nazis and that this is the destruction of the Republic and anything that can be done to save it should be done. Those are not the same thing. And it needs to be said that they're. The way we get through this is not by pretending that these are equivalent. It's not by saying, oh, this side and that side are somehow both, you know, you know, a plague on both houses. Like, we're all making mistakes here. Well, you know, if everyone's guilty, no one's guilty. If all sides are doing it, then I guess, what's the difference? No, the left is still the party of mobs, the party of violence, the party of do anything it takes, use the system to destroy and say the left, the Democrats, to destroy your political opponents to weaponize the justice system against them. And we cannot allow ourselves to be lulled into this false sense of equivalency. And also, I mean to ask Charlie Kirk's widow, will you condemn Donald Trump like that? Kid, Give me a break. He's not a kid. He's a young adult, but give me a break, dude. Really? Trump's friend gets killed, and you're mad about some Trump tweet? Isn't he turning up the heat? What are the results? Where are these results of the Trump rhetoric that I'm seeing play out time and time again with violence on the streets of America? I don't. I don't. And this is also why I think A lot of people have a particular revulsion to the way that the events of January six were. And put aside Agent Provocateur and the crowd and all this other stuff. I mean I brought this up again when I did that Bill Maher show back in October. We covered a lot of ground and I was right about everything. So I like referring back to it because I got on the record in the Democrats home turf and the Buckster was kicking ass and taking names over there. But I said to them, I said we're supposed to be so upset. There was one, there was one riot that involved Trump supporters and the only person who died was a Trump supporter, Ashley Babbitt, shot in the neck, I should say was killed by violence that day. Was Ashley Babbitt or Trump. Somebody told me somebody else was crushed by the way. I did get that. I had not heard that before. Team check that. That to me is more like, you know, mob. That's a sort of a mob situation. I don't think anyone intended for that person to be crushed. So that's a, a tragic situation that unfolded because of the riot. But check that for me anyway. The left had gone through months and months of far more destructive violent rioting and they celebrated it and they cheered and they, and they made it something that we were all supposed to be happy was going on. We were all supposed to set. We were supposed to celebrate their riots and the Democrat party did. BLM 2.0 was all, all exactly as they laid it out. We'll get into this. And also the team did find my old CNN throwdown on the terrorism stuff. So you can hear this is a little fun flashback from 10 years ago. You'll want to hear it. When I had no facial hair. CNN didn't like facial hair. It wasn't allowed. Yeah, you couldn't change your appearance as part of my contract. 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[Buck Sexton]

All right, welcome back. In here. You know, there's a piece in Vanity Fair, I read it this morning, and it's really a hit piece on the administration, but particularly it highlights a bunch of quotes from Chief of staff, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. And some of them are meant to raise eyebrows and they certainly did. Susie Wiles has responded. She says the article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest president, White House and cabinet in history context was disregarded, etc. Etc. Etc. Okay, that's all fine. Why are they doing a sit down with Vanity Fair? I gotta be honest with you. No sympathy on this one. Why are you doing a sit down with Vanity Fair? They hate you. And this is what they're going to do. Nobody in this White House should be giving lots of long term, many hours access to Vanity Fair writers, which formerly, by the way, was the employer of Olivia Newsy, among others. They've parted ways. I don't get this. I don't. I mean, it's clearly a mistake. That much is obvious. Why would they make this mistake? It's not a big deal. Trump knows, you know, Susie is loyal. It's gonna be a tempest in a teapot. But I just. Guys, come on. You know, what is that all about? I don't understand. What do they want? To reach the Vanity Fair audience. Vanity Fair audience hates their guts. All of them. Everybody who subscribes to Vanity Fair, I would get, I would wager 95%, maybe 99% hate Trump. So what are we doing? No good answers. There they learned a lesson, I guess. No surprise to us. Our friends, our friends at PureTalk told us that 2025 is the best year in the company's history. Your surprise support of PureTalk has helped them achieve a record breaking year. So on their behalf, a big thank you is in order. When you switch your cell phone service to PureTalk from AT&T, Verizon or T Mobile, you help PureTalk achieve that goal because of your generosity through their Roundup for charity program. 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And I would go on places including cnn, MSNBC had me on to debate. You can probably find this, the archives, too. It was actually Glenn Greenwald. They had me on one time to debate and that was it. That was never, never invited back. We were debating radical Islam. I think Glenn and I actually would see eye to eye on a whole range of free speech issues today. So, but on this issue, on the issue of radical Islam, Mr. Greenwald and I are in still firm disagreement. But I don't think, I think they thought they looked at me. They're like, this guy, what can he really, you know what I mean? Let's, let's, let's fillet him like a fish on tv. And, oh, this fish had some tricks. He could flop around a little bit in the boat. He knew what he was doing. But to that end, also over at cnn, over at cnn, this is on the day of the nice terror attack, which I always, anytime someone says it's about gun control. The nice terror attack involved a truck. It killed 86 people. Fifteen children, injured 450 people. It was a rented truck. Okay? This guy rented a truck and killed 86 people and wounded hundreds. Didn't need a gun, didn't need a bomb. And this was an Islamic State attack. And this was on, you know, Bastille Day is a big deal in France. It's not their Independence Day. Actually. It's different. It's like the storming of the Bastille, the French Revolution, which, you know, didn't go so well. But conversation for another time. But this is from that day. So I was on this panel and I am Not, I am not kidding when I tell you this is 2016, this is 10 years ago now I'm on this panel and they're all blaming the French. There's like four or five other guests. I mean, I'm going on memory now. I haven't seen the video myself. I'm just, they, I know the team pulled it up, but they had like four other guests I think, and they're all like, oh, this is what happens when you don't assimilate. And like, what we really have to figure out here is why aren't we making the Muslim minority in France more comfortable? I'm like, more comfortable? One of them just killed almost 100 people with a truck on the national holiday. What the hell is wrong with you people anyway? You can get a little flavor of that. I mean, this was a whole seven or eight minute long segment. But here's a little bit of the exchange with some third tier academic who's like, I'm going to explain terrorism to Buck. Play it the degree of right wing politics, Islamophobia and an idea.

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Because the fact is, and I'll say this to you Buck directly, the vast Majority of ISIS's victims are Muslim. Not us, not the Muslims. I'm fully aware, fully aware of that. I mean, no one just they're coming after us. They're not coming after us more than they're coming after us. I was referring to the Islamic State, which very clearly through its external operations arm, which has been at work, by the way, for a number of years now, along with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which until recently was considered the most virulent and deadly of the jihadist terrorist organizations for this kind of external plotting. They are continuing to do this. Of course. They're killing Muslims. They're killing Muslims in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, in Iraq. I've actually seen some of the handiwork of what they've done in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. This is to protect for the people who are doing it. They can consider themselves Muslim as well, even though the victims are Muslim. I'm not getting into a theological discussion. I'm trying to just focus on the counterterrorism. She's saying. She's saying that the people who are it's being perpetrated against are Muslim, but the attackers can be Muslim as well. Right. But I have to say I don't understand why that's being directed at me. By no means did I say that wasn't the case or it wasn't True. So I don't understand why that's being directed me. I'm merely saying you said they're coming after us. They're not just. Yes, they are. They are in fact coming after us. We need to sit here and talk about all the time after each other. They're going after Shia. I'm referring to America and Europe and the west and all peaceful Muslims and everyone around the world who doesn't believe that strapping a suicide vest on because you're disaffected, because you have some belief that somehow this will take you to a place of paradise and vergence. Whatever the case may be. Everybody who isn't on that team is on my team. This notion you have in your head that when I say us, I'm referring to what Republican Americans. I was in the counterterrorism. I was working with foreign allies all over the world to try and stop these kinds of attacks. Implication that's preposterous. And I have to be honest with you, after this sort of an attack happens, there is this knee jerk reaction that we see from people who are center to left of center constantly trying to sort of wrap all this around the bad rhetoric of people who want to speak openly and honestly about terrorism. We're just trying to empower the moderates from within Muslim societies. We're trying to empower our allies in countries that we do work with in the Muslim world and outside the Muslim world to stop people from getting mowed down at a celebration of a national holiday. That's it. Which include other Muslims. I've said that four or five times already. Okay, we're getting off track here. We are getting off track. Thank you. Nice try. Lemon, you moron. That guy's a. Honestly, a true dumbass. And I would say it to his face right now. Over. And I don't. I could care less. He is a dumbass. Really. The fact that CNN gave him his own show as long as they did is. Is appalling. And he's a baby, too. He's unprofessional. He's a baby. He's childish and dumb. So. And anyway, there's a little third. Notice the little back and forth he's trying to get it back to. We really just want to talk about Islamophobia. This was within hours of 86 people being mowed down by a truck. And we didn't even play some of the other people all the throat clearing about, oh, this is really about, you know, we don't want to single out Islam or whatever it's like that's your takeaway. That the big problem we face is, you know, this is the. I mean he did some great stuff. Norm MacDonald did some great stuff. I think though maybe his all time great is that the real threat is that they're going to detonate a nuclear bomb in an American city. And just think of all the Islamophobia that will happen. Because that really just gets to the core of this, of this insanity. It's like, it's like a death wish from within our own society. The problem isn't the terrorists. Whether it's in Bondi or it's on Brown University campus or, or it's, you know, at, at the Covington School or it's in Iraq or it's, you know, the problem are not the enemies of civilization. The problem is the people who are trying to stop them. And everything we do to stop them somehow either justifies them or makes them worse. This we saw in Gaza too. Look at Israel with Gaza October 7th. Everything Israel does is, is terrible. It's bad, it's genocide according to some people. And it's making the problem worse. You're creating future generations of suicide bombers. Trust me this, they love Gaza suicide bombers plenty before October 7th happened and before the Israeli response. Gaza. The Palestinians have been celebrating that stuff for as long as I have been alive. They're not celebrating, you know, their great math scores on the testing there. I gotta tell you, they're not celebrating all the achievements they're making in the sciences. But suicide bombers, they got a lot of time to celebrate that. It's just true. And so why do you think now we have all these. Do you think it's just the mayor of Providence? I'm sorry, not the mayor, the police chief of Providence who doesn't want to say what has already been reported by eyewitnesses that this guy was yelling Allah walk bar. No, it's his boss. The mayor. Probably got a call from whatever, you know, Democrat, third rate clown is the gut. Who's the governor of Rhode island right now? I don't even know. I mean it's like, you know, I mean is Rhode island even really a state? Guys, let's be honest. It's kind of like Massachusetts. Little brother, whoever the whole Daniel McKee. Be honest with you. Never heard of this guy. He's a Democrat, right? Obviously the state's very Democrat. Or is he one of those like Mitt Romney Republicans, Democrat. All right, we'll find out. My point is the chief of police knows that the whole game here is we gotta make sure we keep a grip on all the Islamophobia. Gotta keep a grip on all the Islamophobia. Um, no, actually, I think we should be honest about things because, you see, and this is what's happening more and more, and now that we even have X, at least we have one place where people can share things more honestly without fear of being shut down or throttled. At least not in the same way they were before. We all notice this, and they're never going to really win a war on noticing. Actually, this is a perfect place for me to bring into this conversation something that I think is we should. Can we put this up, team? I haven't even sent this to you yet, but I wanted to get to it today. I'm not sure Clay will be as fired up about this one tomorrow as I am, so I wanted to get to it, but it's this piece in compact. I'm sorry, wait, let me make sure I have the. I'm giving this the right. Yes. CompactMag.com CompactMag.com, the Lost Generation by Matthew Schmitz. This is. We should put it [e-mail]. this is an amazing takedown, piece by piece, of what has really happened in the DEI apparatus in America in the last 10 years. He even says he starts this off beginning. I'm quoting him here. Beginning in 2014, Prestige Industries decided they urgently needed to diversify. They didn't purge established boomers. Instead, they did everything possible to avoid hiring white millennial men. This is the story of a generation derailed by dei. This is what I have observed, and it really coincided with my time in the private sector, at least in the media, this obsession with, you know, who ran cnn? An old white guy, Jeff Zucker. But who are they trying to hire? As many minorities and particularly minority women as possible for all the roles, the lower down roles. Right. The entry level and, you know, the three to five year kind of positions. This is true across Wall street, true across law, and they were open about it. This is what the diversity, hiring. And one of the reasons why I think there's such a frustration to my fellow millennials out there. We got the. We got the worst of this. It was the generation above. You know, if you really hit your peak professional years in the 90s, you. Yeah, there was some of this, but you escaped it. But if you started to. In the. In the early mid-2000s, 2010, you know, if you were trying to hit your professional peak, you were completely locked out of. Act as a White male. So if you were a, if you were around age 30 at this time, 30 to 45, let's say as a white male, or even entry levels, let's say, you know, 20 to 20 to 45, you were non hireable, unhirable in Hollywood as a writer, in academia, all the colleges, all the, this whole piece, this Matthew Schmitz guy, it's a brilliant piece, truly, and you should read it because you'll understand what's really happened to my generation. And I was only able to escape it because of some good luck, some great mentors, you know, Glenn and Rush and people letting me have a chance in a business that has a very high failure rate to begin with, which is, you know, media and commentary. But I saw it all around me. My, my peers, my colleagues, you know, not in media, but people that I knew in other industries, particularly people I knew were trying to make it in creative industries. No chance. You weren't going to get that writing in Hollywood. You had no shot. He goes through all these different details, but also, you know, you look at a place like Goldman Sachs and I actually had a friend some years ago who was an in HR at Goldman Sachs and she talked to me about this extensively. All the guys who were at the very top, once they started doing this stuff 10 years ago, the people who were the fat cats who were making the big bucks, they got to stay. They, no, no, diversity did not mean we were replacing the CEO. That, that is not what it meant. Diversity over the last 10 years meant, oh, you're 25, you need a job. Sorry, we have to take somebody who is a person of color. Oh, you're 30 years old and you're, you're looking for your big break to get into, like I said, a university teaching position, news media, television, television writing. No chance has to be. And you know, this is the part of it, these institutions, I mentioned this before with Brown University, they became a lot less impressive because they got rid of standards. They started making decisions not based upon excellence at the craft or the ability that one has, but on skin color, explicitly racist policies. And this was all throughout our society. And it was my age cohort going up 10 years and down 10 years, give or take. So say, you know, if you're, if you're 30 to 50 right now, man, you got screwed over professionally. If you were trying to work in any of these fields. And the other part of it is you're not allowed to notice, you're not allowed to notice that when they started doing this and they insisted on hiring women and minorities for roles that otherwise white men would have gotten. And like I said, this piece, Compact Mag.com writes it up. We'll put it up atclay and buck.com so you can find it easily. We'll cross post it there. These play all of a sudden TV got really bad. Movies started to suck. What happened? Well, you weren't hiring the best writers anymore. It's pretty straightforward. Also, the publishing industry, I was telling about books before, what's happened to conservative books publishing industries in a really rough state. You know why? They had published too many white male authors. And so there was all this rush to publish books that are garbage, but the people were the right color or the right gender for the purposes of the publishers. And remember, the people that are going to get their break, not the, you know, if you were established, if you were a boomer, you, and you were at one of these elite institutions, you already had tenure or the equivalent thereof. It was everybody else that you, it was the, it was the millennials who got fed, you know, into the wood chipper of DEI madness professionally. And this piece goes into details about it. And these places are not elite anymore. And Hollywood TV writing got really crappy and we all noticed, we have all in fact noticed. So they can tell us. You're not allowed to notice these things, whether it's radical Islam and terrorism or DEI and the quality of the scripts that you're, you're seeing produced on tv. But we do in fact notice. So that is, that is where that stands. And I really, I thought that piece was, was, was very powerful. No matter how safe you think you are, you can be safer. You want to be prepared. That's where Saber comes in. Saber's a company we trust to provide our families with the best non lethal self protection tools. Clay has them, I have them. If Sabre makes it, it's in our homes. Saber spelled S A B R E the website is saberradio.com you can go big with their pepper spray projectile launcher shaped like a pistol or rifle or get their innovative 2 in 1 pepper light. Both a flashlight and a pepper spray. Saber's the number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. Decide whatever you want when you go to their site. They have so many great products. 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[Buck Sexton]

Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. We got some VIP emails. We got lots of stuff here. First up here we got an email from Morris about women. Women in law enforcement. Buck, love when you're flying solo. I remember the times when you filled in for Rush and was impressed with someone so much younger than Rush who was so knowledgeable. Buck, a while back I watched a video of two female British law officers attempting to apprehend a suspect. The guy was not some muscle bound tough dude, he was skinny. The two women together were totally unable to detain this guy. He eluded their grasps and escaped, leaving them helpless. My own daughter is a law officer, I'm proud to say. However, I don't think women should be put in such situations. I believe the same thing about women in combat. A woman, no matter how strong she may think she is, cannot throw some 185 pound soldier over her soldier over her shoulder and escape. It ain't happening. And thank you. Have a merry Christmas. Yeah, that's all true, horse. So thank you for. For writing in. That is. That is all accurate. And I just. Again, I'm not taking. I'm not taking shots at anybody. I'm just saying what it is. Let's play aa. Hi Clay and Buck. This is Steve from Toledo. The only musical that men should proudly.

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Women may like it, but they may not. I did not even know that was a musical, by the way. I. I gotta talk back to. We don't have time. I don't think we have time for actually play the guy from Connecticut. We have time for it, whichever one that is. You know the guy talking about the gun? This is Steve from Connecticut. Just wanted to correct one thing you did say about the AR15s in Connecticut.

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