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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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Rodney Williams
I'm Rodney Williams.
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Clay Travis
And I'm Travis Holloway. Welcome to the wealthbreak podcast, a real conversation about finance.
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Rodney Williams
Let's be honest, building wealth doesn't look the same for everyone.
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Jamie (Lawyer Friend)
I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have.
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Clay Travis
To revisit that and we're not stopping at success stories.
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What happens when it doesn't go right? How do you cope with it?
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Rodney Williams
Because wealth isn't just about money. It's about creating a life where you thrive and help others do the same.
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Clay Travis
Listen to the Wealth Break podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome back in final hour of the week. 14 hours up, 15th hour underway Friday. Let's have some fun. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Encourage you to go subscribe Clay & Buck YouTube page. Three hours of radio video of our radio show going to be going up there in the months ahead and you'll be able to consume this show in even more ways than you already can. You can find us on podcast. Crazily. Video of podcast is now more popular than podcast, which I never would have predicted. The media marketplace is evolving rapidly and we want to be everywhere, including all 555 stations from all of you out there in all 50 states. So you can find us on the iHeartRadio app. We are everywhere. Bunch of different news stories. Let me hit several of them off the top here. We have discussed in great detail the Bolton raid, the raid on Trump's former security advisor which took place this morning. We don't know a lot of the details associated with it, but it is is underway. Trump is he still talking? Guys talked for over an hour basically in the Oval Office surrounding an announcement which we are getting lit up for. It is very funny sometimes what the audience gets fired up about because it is a World cup related event and both Buck and I are proponents of soccer being a sport that is worthy of watching. Many of you disagree. The Kennedy center is going to host the group stage announcements on December 5th and I do think if you are of the opinion that America's stature on the global stage matters quite a lot. Trump is focused on trying to make next year's World cup one of the greatest events the United States has ever hosted and also on making the 2028 Summer Olympics a big deal as well. It mirrors in some ways the World cup which we hosted in 1994 and the Atlanta Olympics, which we hosted in 1996. Some of you are letting me know that we have hosted the Winter Olympics and I certainly don't want to shade that. But the Summer Olympics is a much bigger deal than the Winter Olympics. Way more countries participate, way more viewers watch and and are involved in that. And that's not to integrate the Winter Olympics. I hope to get to go what they're having them out in Park City right in the 2000 and 30s if I'm not mistaken. And I would love to be able to go out and watch some of those events in Park City outside of Salt Lake City, which is a fabulous there you go place to visit if you have never been. And I hope to be able to go to that. But 2026 World cup next year, I bet Buck and I will go to some of those Games. 2028 LA Olympics Texas Redistricting is currently underway. The votes the Democrats have shown back up after saying, oh, we're not going to be there. We've got I want to play this cut. We need to get her on the show. Virginia Governor win some Sears in what is turning into a heck of a donnybrook in Virginia. Virginia has unique gubernatorial processes in place. First of all, they have the election the year after every presidential election, off year election. So 2021, 2025 right now. And you can only serve one term. So Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who has done a fabulous job by all intents and purposes and would probably be a very big favorite to be reelected, is not able to run for a second term. He could run in four more years, but you can't serve back to back and so win some sea. Sears is running against Abigail Spanberger and that is currently underway also, and she's got a great ad. Maybe we'll play it for you before this show is out, but we need to get her on the program. Okay, Trump being Trump, there are still a bunch of funny clips that are coming out from that event. Here is a reporter asking Trump if he's going to take part in the World cup events. And Trump says, heck, you see what soccer players make. I may decide to start playing soccer. Cut 34 it's going to be a.
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Hyundai Sales Announcer
Big event at the gay center.
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Clay Travis
Do you intend to take part in it?
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Buck Sexton
Will you have a hard to play in on December 5th?
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Clay Travis
I may play.
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Donald Trump
I mean I see the money that these soccer players, you know, we call it soccer, but I see the money that these soccer players are making. I may try and Play. I'm a very good athlete. My son, My son is a very good athlete and he's a good soccer player. On the tall side, for soccer, he's six, nine.
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Clay Travis
He's pretty tall, but that's pretty tall.
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Donald Trump
So the tall side, it's on the tall side, but he's good. But no, I may, I may put on shorts. I look extremely good in shorts. Enjoying the play? No. It's going to be a lot of fun.
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Clay Travis
I do think you and I have hit on this a lot. Trump is way funnier than he gets credit for. I mean, just way, way funnier. He doesn't laugh, laugh like Kamala Harris has that really uncomfortable cackle whenever she tries to make a joke. Trump deadpans a lot of his humor, and I think people are just not. I mean, I understand our audience gets Trump's sense of humor, but I think a lot of his critics don't understand when he's actually joking and poking fun at them because they've kind of got the idea that he's Hitler and so the idea that he would tell a joke they don't get. And he's not a ha, ha, I'm going to laugh at my own jokes guy. But he's very good at deadpan. And so this is, this is very, very, very, very funny. From the White House a little bit earlier, let me hit you with this buck. You're a New York City guy. Cracker Barrel is being universally savaged over their decision to do away with the.
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Buck Sexton
They need Sydney Sweeney. I'm seeing the memes. Cracker Barrel needs Sidney Sweeney to save the brand.
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Clay Travis
So I have two questions for you to have some fun. To start off the day here, the third hour here. After 14 hours on the air so far this week, let me ask you this. We have seen the old white guy, Cracker Barrel guy. Both the cracker and the barrel canceled. We have seen the Native American, the Indian good looking Land O Lakes lady.
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Buck Sexton
Remember her?
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Clay Travis
Used to be on the Land O' Lakes Butter aunt. Poor Aunt Jemima has given up the ghost on the syrup. And Uncle Ben. Do you remember Uncle Ben from Uncle Ben's Rice back in the day? All of them have been canceled for being considered to be problematic. If you could bring back one, who do you bring back Cracker Barrel guy, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben or the, the Indian Land O Lakes girl?
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Buck Sexton
I'm probably Indian Land o Lakes girl. I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. I don't, I don't really have a strong Preference.
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Clay Travis
I got a strong. I've got a power ranking here. I know exactly. I think it's Aunt Jemima. I think Aunt Jemima really got treated unfairly and she was great on the pancake syrup. Now, I want the Cracker Barrel guy to come back, but I would like to see all four return. But I think Aunt Jemima would be my number one draft pick here in second part of this in your home city of New York, Cracker Barrel decided to reach out with all of this going on. And they had a public line dancing event in New York City as part of their rebranding of Crack. I'm sorry, I'm laughing because I just can't believe that this is real. These marketing people are such morons. They did a line dancing event in New York City after canceling the logo, after arguing basically that the brand was outdated. And now they're going to do line dancing in New York City.
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Buck Sexton
I'm going to tell you, it's crazy. AI people talk about what jobs are going to be under pressure from AI. I think marketing is going to be a career of the past in a lot of ways, because the tools of marketing, making things, pulling together, research, you know, making logos, brands, that's going to get a lot easier for everybody. And so I believe that you're going to see that also advertising, the advertising industry more and more, that's going to be brought in house. And with AI, you can create logos and decals and videos and all kinds of things on your own. So now I'm sure there are some very nice conservative marketing people out there, but generally those are industries that are absolutely dominated by communists and have been a huge problem for those of us who work in conservative media for as long as I've been doing this, because they block us all the time. They don't want to work with conservative brands. These Madison Avenue advertising executives and the rest of it, these marketing executives, they don't want to work with conservative brands. They bring extremely left wing politics to things. And so the wreckage that I think is going to run roughshod through those industries because of AI is. Well, in a lot of cases it will be a comeuppance that is well deserved.
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Clay Travis
Have you seen this video yet of the line dancing going on in New York City's meatpacking district?
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Buck Sexton
Okay, so can I just tell everybody meat Meatpacking is one of the trendiest.
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Clay Travis
Neighborhoods in New York.
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Buck Sexton
I think you would have one of the lowest levels of Republican registration in meatpacking, probably in all the five boroughs. I mean, it's up there with Brooklyn, the really blue parts of Brooklyn, which are 90 plus, 95% plus Democrat. So to roll out the line dancing in meatpacking is quite a thing to do.
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Clay Travis
I just, you know, really what this gets down to, and I know it's a silly, ridiculous story, but I do think it's reflective. They hire these executives who have contempt for the customer. That's really what this is about. When you decide you're gonna rebrand, oftentimes what you're saying is, the people who like us, we don't like them. And this was Bud Light. Hey, Bud Light's too fratty. They have an immature sense of humor. Yeah, most guys do. Most normal guys have a little bit of an inappropriate and immature sense of humor. Every single person married to a man knows this. Every single person raising a son or a grandson knows this. We all men are a little bit immature and oftentimes a little bit inappropriate. That doesn't make us bad people. In fact, it actually makes us somewhat more likable and endearing. Because if you have a sense of humor, as we just talked about with Trump, sometimes you can have a more effective communication strategy with humor than you can with straight, aggressive analysis of argument. The other thing here, though, Cracker Barrel and I thought Byron Donalds did a really good job calling in and talking about this because he had worked there when he was great.
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Buck Sexton
He's always, he's always, he's always a fun guest.
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Clay Travis
But good idea from Buck because he was tweeting about it. He was like, you know, shoot him a taxi, he'll call in and talk about it. But I do think I, I feel this and I see it because, you know, college football fans sometimes get raked over the coals because we're seen as rubes, because we're seen as not sophisticated football or, you know, you're not the right kind of person to appear oftentimes in television advertisement or whatever else. That's the people who eat at Cracker Barrel. And so they have contempt for their audience. And that's why you do a pop up event in the meat packing district of New York City. Because that CEO, that's who she wants coming to Cracker Barrel. She wants the, the trendy person from New York City who they're never going to eat at Cracker Barrel. That's not your base. It's old Southerners like me, people who want nostalgia from old Southern meals that they might have had in the past or that they might remember. And I just, it really, it really gets Me angry because you're destroying something that someone built that is actually great. And you have contempt for the people that have allowed that business to exist. You're turning your back on them. And it really fires me up, honestly.
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Buck Sexton
Well, this is, this is progressives all throughout the culture. They're locusts. They show up and they just destroy. They take over and destroy things left and right. California, for example, now, no, it's not destroyed. California still got a lot of beautiful stuff and, you know, great places to live. But in terms of governance, the taxes and all the way that it's handled, California became, became great when it was a red state. That's when California reached what it, you know, it became what it was when it was a reliably Republican state, actually. And then Democrats took over. And they do this in, in a lot of places. They take over something that is, you know, remarkable and they make it. I mean, look at what they did with Twitter before Elon bought it. Twitter was this cool social media site and then it just became infiltrated with these progressive lunatic left wingers. And then they turned it into a big social justice, you know, like a nonprofit basically, and were using it to discriminate against their political enemies. And they completely overran that place. I mean, this is why when Elon Bottard it was so fascinating. You saw this. It's like they burrowed in. As I always say, they're an invasive species. They don't seek to be in harmony with the right, with conservatives in these places. Live and let live, neutral space. That's all nonsense. They want to completely create a political monoculture. And unfortunately, clay marketing and advertising, it's kind of like Broadway. Total political monocultures. There's nothing else allowed except left wing stuff. And you know, that's. That needs to change. I hope it will change. But on the cracker barrel issue too, people were saying, well, who cares? Or why. No, it's not just that. The woman who was in charge of this, of this crappy rebrand effort clearly is like an MSNBC watching liberal. That's, that's one part of it. Why did they want to change it? What was the indicator that it was in need of change? It was old, it was white, it was Southern. That was. And those things are viewed by the people put in charge of the rebrand as inherently negative. That's the point. That's why it offends people that they messed up with this thing.
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Clay Travis
And again, we're going to go to break, but I do think that is the only reason the business exists. If you take away the Southern charm of Cracker Barrel, there is nothing left that is the foundation of the brand. You're never going to get trans influencers from Brooklyn to show up at Cracker Barrel to go eat. They don't like the people who consume their product. And honestly, it is malpractice to have people running the company that don't respect the people that consume the product. I mean, that's the truth. Uh, look, Tunnel the Towers, their support and your support makes a lasting difference for so many families like the Clark family. U.S. air Force Sergeant Jesse Clark's military service came to an end after a chemical exposure caused a large tumor to form in his brain. As a result, he's paralyzed on the left side of his body, legally blind, prone to memory loss, and in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. Friends like you helped Tunnel the Towers Build this hero a new smart home to help him live a more independent life. So many more families like the Clarks need your help now. Tunnel the Towers was founded after the horrific events of 911 to help families like the Clarks. We can't forget, not when they've sacrificed so much for all of us. America's heroes have given so much and thanks to them, you can give a lasting and impressive donation to help show your commitment to their sacrifice. Join us in donating 11amonth to tunnel the towers at t2t.org that's t the number 2t.org sometimes all you can do is laugh and they do a lot of it with the Sunday hang. Join Clay and Buck as they laugh it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts this Labor Day.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Jamie (Lawyer Friend)
Hey. Thanks for meeting me here on such short notice. This place isn't bugged, is it?
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Clay Travis
Bugged? Wait, Jamie, what's going on?
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Jamie (Lawyer Friend)
It's just you're my only lawyer friend and I need your professional opinion. Do you see that brand new Hyundai Tucson out there?
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Clay Travis
Yeah, that's all.
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Jamie (Lawyer Friend)
I paid for it.
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Clay Travis
Ah, I think I need to get.
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Buck Sexton
Back to you on that.
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Jamie (Lawyer Friend)
Do you know what you want?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I do now.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Into Clay and Buck. And we've got an update for you on this story about the raid on former Trump national security adviser from term one, John Bolton's house. Just play this. This is J.D. vance. He just spoke about it.
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J.D. Vance
Also, we're in the very early stages of an ongoing investigation into John Bolton. I will say we're gonna let that investigation proceed. What I can tell you is that unlike the Biden DOJ and the Biden FBI, our law enforcement agencies are going to be driven by law and not by politics. And so if we think that Ambassador Bolton has committed a crime, of course, eventually prosecutions will come. But as you know, Kristen, this is all part of gathering evidence, trying to understand something that we're worried about. And of course, I'll let the FBI comment on the next stage of the investigation.
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Andrew Giuliani
What's at the root of this?
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J.D. Vance
Well, I'll let the FBI speak to that. Classified documents are certainly part of it, but I think that there's a broad concern about, about Ambassador Bolton. They're going to look into it. And like I said, if there's no crime here, we're not going to prosecute it. If there is a crime here, of course Ambassador Bolton will get his day in court. That's how it should be. But again, our focus here is on did he break the law? Did he commit crimes against the American people? If so, then he deserves to be prosecuted.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Safe Clay Travis, Buck Sexton SHOW. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We are joined now by Andrew Giuliani, who is heading up the World cup on behalf of the Trump administration. I'm sure there is an official title he can fill us in with. We played many of the audio cuts from earlier today where President Trump announced the Kennedy center will host the group stage draw on December 5th. And we'll get into that in a sec. But President Trump said he's got a great sense of humor, as you well know, that he looks great in shorts. Andrew, you have known the president for a very long time. Your dad Rudy has known him forever. Have you ever seen President Trump in shorts in your life?
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Andrew Giuliani
You know, that's the hardest question I've got all day, and I didn't think it would be from the Clay and Buck show right there.
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Buck Sexton
So, yeah, there you go.
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Clay Travis
Right off the top amendment on.
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Andrew Giuliani
On this one. I just seem to not recall. I don't recall. We'll put it that way.
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Clay Travis
All right, let's dive. We'll get into the World cup in a minute. But President Trump also said that he wanted to basically give a shout out to your dad and how much he had been right about and how unfairly he was treated for having President Trump's back. So we're gonna get into the World cup in a minute. But how is your dad doing? And what does hearing that from the president mean to him?
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Andrew Giuliani
Oh, it means a ton. And obviously, look, the president and my father and so many other people that Fought for justice, that stood by Donald Trump, that stood by this MAGA movement, you know, really took one on the chin for four years. So to see the resilience of Donald J. Trump, to see the resilience of Rudy Giuliani, as, you know, we say words all the time and, you know, we put up quotes and we read passages from those that are wiser than us. But to actually see it in the flesh, to see what resilience actually is, for four years, I can tell you, I learned, my daughter learned, and I hope the United States of America learned a lot. And I think the one way that I describe it with Donald Trump, if you want to know about him, you know, take everything else and take a 30 second point in his life. When he came a millimeter away from losing his life, his instinct was to get up and tell the world that they were ready to fight, fight, fight. That's Donald J. Trump. And frankly, as a son, I can tell you that's Rudy Giuliani as well.
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Buck Sexton
That's powerful stuff. I was then going to ask about FIFA if I could for a second. Sorry. Tough to follow that up. I think that's an incredibly important point, though, made about Donald Trump and the kind of man he is and his temperament and his character. But can I ask you, you are on the task force on the FIFA World Cup 2026. Trump was speaking about it today. Just. Andrew, I'm gonna put this out there, ok? You were a goalie, if I recall, right, Weren't you a soccer goalie back in the day?
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Andrew Giuliani
You know, you'd be the only one that would know that there. You do remember that? You know, I actually, I do.
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Buck Sexton
I remember you playing goalie on my brother's sis. So Andrew and my little brother were on the same soccer team, Clay.
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Clay Travis
And I remember that. That insider knowledge. Yes.
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Buck Sexton
You didn't want to bring it into Andrew's house, let me tell you. You know what I'm saying? I mean, did those elbows fly a little bit in the keeper box?
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Clay Travis
Maybe?
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Buck Sexton
Sometimes, you know.
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Andrew Giuliani
Absolutely. Well, under a Buck Sexton administration at St. David's you know, we had to make sure that we had the best athletes in there. I actually thought I was a decent goalie until I think we played against a kid who was on the, you know, under 12 national team. I stopped the first shot, and then I think he scored four straight goals. And I realized that maybe I should go take up golf. So that's what happen.
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Buck Sexton
Think, well, golf is a great game, too. But tell me this, tell me everybody out there who is a little, whether they love soccer or not. And this we're trying to hammer home. How is this a showcase for America, a showcase for the Trump administration bringing business. And now he's talking about bringing safety into these cities so Americans and visitors from all over the world can enjoy an incredible sporting event in 2026 the way that it should be.
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Andrew Giuliani
Yeah. A couple perspectives and I think for Americans to really understand the scope of how large the World cup is, we'll take the Super Bowl. Super Bowl. About 130 million people watched the Super Bowl. I think that's about the number last year. The World cup final last time around was 1.5 billion, with an expected 2 billion. Just watching the final alone, it actually dwarfs the Super Bowl. But when you actually look at the fact that this is the largest sporting event in human. This really is. It's the first time. This is 48 teams. You've got 11 US cities, five other cities in Mexico and Canada. And this is also happening over our 250th birthday. So just think about this. If the United States team can go on a run in the round of 16, they could end up playing in Philadelphia on July 4th on our 250th birthday. What this can do in terms of showing to the world what the United States of America actually is, there's no other sporting event that can even compete for the scope of this. And that's what I think Donald Trump understands better than anybody as somebody who understands not just how media works, but obviously how to connect with people in a way that, you know, certainly nobody in my lifetime has. He understands just how much of a platform this actually gives to the United States of America.
- [32:11]
Clay Travis
Today announced and this is going to be a cool event. I'm looking at my calendar, so I think I've got this right. It'll be Friday, December 5th. For everybody out there that doesn't understand why this matters, they are going to be drawing, I believe, and announcing the the group stage matchups. That's when you'll start to see as you just laid out all of the different dates for when the US Team will play other teams around the world? That's going to be taking place at the Kennedy Center. What will that look like for people out there who may not necessarily be huge sports fans, but are probably going to get caught up in maybe some of the excitement surrounding this?
- [32:49]
Andrew Giuliani
This will be like the NFL Draft times 100. Because think these people that are excited that their teams have qualified, obviously, Argentina, the defending champion, Brazil, France all these great soccer nations. They'll then finally know that their team will start in New York or will start in Houston, or maybe we'll start in San Francisco. And so what you'll end up seeing at that point is people from all around the world start to make their reservations, start to buy their tickets, start to really get through this process. And you'll see really, from a tourism perspective, incredible opportunities for American small businesses. And I think that's really where the President is focused on as well. It's not just an opportunity to showcase, from a media perspective perspective, what the United States actually means, not just to other Americans, but to the rest of the world. It's a great opportunity to show off American small business and how we lead from the front. And really also the exciting thing, too, is this kicks off a decade of mega events. You're not just looking at the World cup, but you're looking at the Olympics coming up in 2028. You're looking at maybe a Women's World cup coming up in 2031, other major events that are really kicking off under Donald Trump's leadership. So it's exciting. The draw really is the first part where people will really start going crazy about World Cup 2026.
- [34:14]
Buck Sexton
Does Trump like soccer, Andrew? Do we have any real sense of this? He loves spectacle, he loves sport. We know that for sure. Is he. Is he a soccer guy? Because he says his son Baron, who's six nines, I would think basketball should be in his future, is a soccer player. What can you tell us about this? Give us a little inside baseball, if you will.
- [34:32]
Andrew Giuliani
Well, I could tell you, yes, obviously. Look, we're all trying to always in life make our parents or our kids proud. And so I think the fact that Barron is such a soccer fan really has major influence on the President. But I wasn't sure about that very question until I saw him at the final of the Club World Cup. And, you know, sometimes the President, considering he's trying to end multiple wars, that he's working on, tariff issues, that he's working on all kinds of different issues, you know, D.C. trying to give the quality of life back to Washingtonians. Like we saw New Yorkers get their quality of life a few decades back, sometimes he doesn't have time for an entire soccer game. Well, he actually sat through the entire soccer game and then gave out the trophy to Chelsea, the winning team. I think he does have a passion for soccer. But more than anything, guys, we know he's got a passion for great American events and really being able to show off the United States of America the way that it should be. You guys know, on the left, media has, I think, told fantastic lies about what the United States of America actually is and what our first 250 years actually was. Well, the President actually wants to set the record straight on that. And the World cup is a great opportunity to do that, Andrew.
- [35:46]
Buck Sexton
You know, it's something that we do here on the show. We're very dedicated to bringing frontline ground truth to this audience whenever we can. And so with that spirit, I think you just have to tell us which World cup matches we're joining you at as the World cup ambassador, and we'll do that research for our 550 affiliates and the podcast and everything else. That's the dedication we have to American sport.
- [36:15]
Andrew Giuliani
Well, that is great dedication. If you guys keep asking me question about President Trump in shorts, I think we got to send you to the Iran Games. I think that's where we're going to send you guys, to be determined, guys, to be determined.
- [36:26]
Buck Sexton
That's a. That's a fair point. Clay, which games we're going to with Andrew, you keep pushing them on this.
- [36:32]
Clay Travis
How many games do you think you will watch in person? This is like the greatest job out there. Honestly, when you told me a while back you were going to be doing this, that's kind of, you know, sometimes you get like, you know, they gave Kamala Harris the border, which didn't go very well. You got assigned, hey, let me make sure that the soccer tournament, the global phenomenon that is the World cup, goes well. How many games do you think you'll actually go to?
- [36:56]
Andrew Giuliani
No, it's fantastic. And I feel very blessed. And look, I ended up in the last Club World cup going to all 11 stadiums multiple times. Oh, wow. Really? I think, yeah. And the real focus of our task force, more than anything else, and this is right from President Trump, is let's make these sites, let's make sure they're safe and secure. I'm not even worried about the people that are trying to come into the country illegally now because DHS has done such a good job, Holman and Secretary Noem done such a good job at eliminating that number to almost zero. Heard about who's tried to come in over the last four years under Biden. So, so much of our mandate is making sure that these stadiums, that these fan fests are safe. Because, look, you go back to, let's say the Olympics, Munich in 72 or Atlanta in 96, and you think about a security incident. I Want to make sure that on July 20th next year, what people are talking about is something that happened on the field, some great play that happened on the field, a great goal that was scored. If that ends up happening, guys, then I know I've, I've done my job to take another football reference. It's kind of like a long snapper. If nobody talks about my performance in the game afterwards, it means we've done our job.
- [38:08]
Clay Travis
One last little bit, I want to circle back to something you told us. It is the possibility for those of us who are sports fans that you could have the US men's soccer team playing on July 4, also have a UFC fight on the lawn of the White house. On the 250th anniversary of the United States. Sounding to me like July 4th, 2026 is potentially setting up as an all time awesome day.
- [38:37]
Andrew Giuliani
Oh, it is going to be an unbelievable day. When you think about, and I think the whole celebration of America's 250 years, there's going to be nothing like it. I've seen some of the plans, and there's more and more plans being added every single day on this. It's going to be so exciting to continue to see this. And I've had the opportunity to talk to Dana White about this, and it's. I cannot wait. Just get your popcorn ready. We'll put it that way.
- [39:05]
Buck Sexton
Just to be clear, Andrew, I didn't ask about Trump wearing shorts. So I get to go to the UFC fight. Just, just so we're clear on that one.
- [39:13]
Clay Travis
I'll go to the Iran game. I'll do my research, make sure.
- [39:18]
Andrew Giuliani
Yes, that's what we're going to need. Obviously, some of our best people at the Iran game. So we'll, we'll send you there. Very important.
- [39:25]
Buck Sexton
Clay is ready.
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Clay Travis
Ready.
- [39:26]
Buck Sexton
You know, he's a team player. That's the one thing you can say about Clay. Andrew Giuliani, executive director for the White House Task Force on FIFA. Our friend Andrew. Always good to talk to you, man. Let's talk to you again soon as this gets closer.
- [39:36]
Andrew Giuliani
Okay, guys, I'm not supposed to have this much fun at work, so, you know, thank you guys for everything that you do and I'm looking forward to chatting with you guys a bunch here over the next 292 days.
- [39:47]
Buck Sexton
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- [41:36]
Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Bugs. Wait, Jamie, what's going on?
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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That's all I paid for it.
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Clay Travis
Ah, I think I need to get.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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- [46:59]
Clay Travis
I saw you send that and good for him. I just. Seven hours, a long conversation.
- [47:06]
Buck Sexton
There's a lot, a lot of, a lot of life wisdom and what not to share, you know. So we'll talk to him about it, we'll bring him on, ask him what's going on.
- [47:14]
Clay Travis
We should get Sean on. We haven't had Sean on in a while. A While too. I mean, he's just.
- [47:18]
Buck Sexton
Yeah, absolutely. So. Yes, indeed. Please check out the Clay and Buck podcast network. Do we have Trump talking about his knowledge of grass? Not the kind you smoke, the kind that goes on a course or on a field. Do we have it?
- [47:32]
Clay Travis
Yes.
- [47:33]
Buck Sexton
Play it.
- [47:34]
Donald Trump
One of the things we're going to be redoing is your parks. I'm very good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world. And we're going to be regressing all of your parks, all brand new sprinkler systems, the best that you can buy. Just like Augusta. It'll look like Augusta. It'll look like, more importantly, Trump National Golf Club. That's even better. But we're going to look. We're going to have all brand new, beautiful grass. You know, like everything else, grass has a life. Do you know that? Grass has a life? You know, we have a life and grass has a life. And the grass here died about 40 years ago. So we're going to be rebuilding all of your parks and it's going to happen fast. It's going to go up like a miracle. So you do the job on safety and I'll get this place fixed up physically and we're going to be so proud of it at the end of six months. But let's say at the end of a year, this place will be maxed out in terms of beauty.
- [48:30]
Clay Travis
Isn't it kind of amazing how Trump is just trying to fix legit, legitimately, everything, even including the grass of Washington D.C. yes, yes.
- [48:39]
Buck Sexton
But it's great. And these are things that we should be able to count on government to care about, like making things orderly and beautiful and safe. Isn't that what government's supposed to do when it can. Where it can within its remit? So Trump doing fantastic things. I'm just, honestly this weekend, everybody, just think about it. You're not tired of winning yet, but there's a lot of winning going on right now, so go enjoy yourselves.
- [49:07]
Clay Travis
No doubt. We'll be back with you Monday. Thanks for spending time with us. See you then.
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Clay Travis
And I'm Travis Holloway. Welcome to the wealthbreak podcast, a real conversation about finance.
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Rodney Williams
Let's be honest, building wealth doesn't look the same for everyone.
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Jamie (Lawyer Friend)
I feel like sometimes being broke is a cycle and that we might have.
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Clay Travis
To revisit that and we're not stopping at success stories.
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Rodney Williams
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Clay Travis
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