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Clay Travis
Tuesday edition of the Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now. I am a dad. See, now I've got two Dads talking to you here on the show. Clay, an old, grizzled, grizzled veteran of fatherhood.
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Buck Sexton
Me, gray bearded. Gray bearded.
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Clay Travis
I'm. I'm a rookie to this fatherhood thing. But I have to tell you, I absolutely love it and I appreciate so much all of the. Just the kind words and well wishes and everything from the moms and dads out there and everybody who were so kind as I was out for a few days, carry my wife, a total trooper, never lost her temper, never was anything other than upbeat during. It was pretty long. Pretty long time in the hospital. But we. She. I was gonna say we got through it. She got through it. I was there for moral support. And the only thing I learned is probably next time, wait until my wife is out of the hospital before I'm like, when can we have more? So I was like, can we. Can we do two or three of these? This is awesome. So, yes, the baby thing is incredible. And if I seem a little even more upbeat and bullion about the future than ever, it's because, well, you. All those of you who have had kids, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And the grandparents out there, you know that you just. It just kind of puts you in a frame of mind, in a mood. So everything is great. Carrie's doing fantastically. The baby is adorable, healthy. Everything is great. Thank you so much, Clay. Thank you for rocking out. I was listening when I was out because, you know, as one does when you're just sitting around in the hospital, talk radio is like your salvation when you are stuck in a hospital room for. For hours, hours and hours on end. So I was listening to podcasts and stuff, great shows, and I say we just jump right into it. And if you guys want to talk more, talk more fatherhood ideas or the first few weeks or anything, we can just throw that into the mix as we go. But, yes, I'm in kind of like walking on cloud, Cloud nine attitude, as I'm sure you all understand. It was fantastic. But we got a country to save, and we got a lot of things going on as well. So let's just lay out there that we'll discuss this. The situation, Clay, of this individual who has been sent the case of Gilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been sent to El Salvador, and now it's in the courts, and the libs are saying Trump has to bring him back. And Trump's like, that's foreign policy related. A judge can't actually review it. So we'll discuss this I think it's very interesting. I also threw out an idea on Twitter which I don't think is crazy. Maybe this is crazy, but I don't think this is crazy. Trump, Trump International, El Salvador. I think it would send such a signal this country is incredibly safe. He's talked about it in Gaza, for heaven's sakes, which is not incredibly safe. I think that this would send such a signal that great allies of the United States, people that make the right decisions. And I think it's a lovely place. The problem with El Salvador used to be that it was the murder capital of the world per capita or in the top three. Now it's the safest country in the Western hemisphere. So I think time to start putting in some, some foreign investment. I think the Trump International or whatever they want to call it, Trump San Salvador would be pretty cool. So if anyone has a line into Eric Trump of the Trump Organization, I just think it's an interesting idea. But Clay, I wanted to start with this one. The Trump. Let's just say what it is. The Trump war on woke campuses. And Harvard University has found out the Trump administration is going to freeze $2 billion that had been committed to this. It is tax day today, which we'll talk more about. So as Clay pointed out to me before the show, I think this is a particularly worthwhile time for us to say hold on a second. So the government backs the student loans with no, you know, with no risk to these institutions whatsoever. And so that lets them jack up the tuition endlessly. When my dad went to Harvard Business School, Clay, and was. He was a doc boy, that's what they called him. And waiting tables over the summer to make money to pay. And you could. Yes, Harvard Business School was like two grand for, for the year, for the semester. This is obviously like 1970. But now these schools are 80 grand, 75. 80 grand a year. It's outrageous. And on top of that, they're getting billions of dollars of research money and they're left wing lunacy factories. I like that Harvard and a bunch of other schools are getting some heat from the Trump team and that this is a real initiative. This is. They're not just coming up with this ad hoc. They want to make universities abide by the spirit of not only the Constitution, but the American ethos.
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Buck Sexton
This is where Hillsdale College gets it right. And I'm not saying that just because they're a sponsor. I love a lot of what they put out into the educational ecosystem on a variety of different levels. But think about this, it is tax day. And I'm sure many of you are like me, stroking checks that you don't want to stroke to send to a government that you feel is likely to be wasting the money that you are giving them and that you could spend that money or save that money or utilize that money that you earned better than the government could. I am with you. Our tax rates are far too high. Okay, with that being said, colleges right now, colleges get. And team, you can correct me on this if I'm wrong, but I think this is pretty much true everywhere. They get tens of billions of dollars in direct cash payments from the American taxpayer. That should end, and we'll talk about that in a moment. But we're giving them property tax subsidies in almost every city and state and we are giving them tax exemption, meaning that their endowments can grow without having to be taxed in the same way that yours and mine's earnings are taxed. If you give them property tax exemptions and you give them not for profit status so they don't have to pay taxes, the taxpayers are already subsidizing colleges and universities to a massive degree to build on what Buck said. Then we also subsidize student loans and, and try to take the risk from the university itself and place it on the American taxpayer, our government. Why in the world are we also giving them tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies? I don't think any college or university should get any of our taxpayer dollars. I think a subsidy on property taxes and on not for profit status should give them plenty, plus their endowments. Let them actually deal with their own cost structure.
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Clay Travis
Right. I mean, there are limits on these things, right. You think about religious institutions, they are tax exempt, but you tend to. People understand why. Proselytizing, for example, if that's, if the government was funding that, there'd be an issue, right? Well, why are universities getting all this money that they can then use to pay salaries, administrative costs, all this other. They say it's for research as if they're all running darpa, you know, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency out of the Pentagon. Like they're all figuring out how to give sight to the blind. Really important, amazing stuff. I guarantee, if you think there's fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government, just wait until you see what the administrative staffs of universities have turned into. This has been true across education. By the way, my friend Ines Felcher has done great work on this clay, something like administrative headcount. And this is true from nursery. And you Know, public schools and you know, the very beginning of education all the way up through universities and PhD programs. Administrative staff has grown at breakneck pace in the last 20 or so years, like six times what actual teaching staff has. So whatever you think about how fast teaching staff is growing and the administrative staff. And this is where you get dei. This is where you, I mean, meaning people that, that's their job. We had diversity deans at my college. That was an actual job title and there were a lot of them and their job was to just march around and make sure that you never said a naughty thing or took a non approved position in public on the town square, in the college green or you'd be in trouble, you'd have to go to reeducation camp. And which did happen to people, I might add, that was one of the punishments you'd have to go and do like sensitivity training, essentially. Clay. And you know, the other part of this that I love is the. So yes, the tax. A lot of you are saying, why are my tax dollars going to subsidize? Harvard has a. What's the endowment? $60 billion, something like that.
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Buck Sexton
I was talking about that yesterday and I meant to look up what the. I'm going to look it up right now because again, outrageous. Yes, yes.
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Clay Travis
I mean this is, this is an amazing amount of money that they have piled together.
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Buck Sexton
53 billion as of last year.
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Clay Travis
That's astonishing. Astonishing. And so you sit here and you say, well, hold on a second. You're as you're getting ready to, you know, or hopefully you've already got it in. But if you're getting it in the last minute, pay your taxes and you're trying to make ends meet. Harvard with its tens of billions of dollars sitting in the bank and all these bloated salaries for professors who maybe teach a class once a week and take sabbaticals of a year where they get paid and all the, I mean, the waste and everything in this is mad. The other part of this play is the university system. We have to be on the same way. The federal bureaucracy has become a province of the left and essentially a form of permanent left wing governance that is not, that is not about elections. Right. The federal bureaucracy, if you, the EPA until Trump came along, was Democrats getting what they want, whether it was a Republican or a Democrat administration. The university system, it's the same thing. It's, you know, who wins, who loses doesn't change. The faculty at Harvard doesn't change. The board of overseers and they are factories of the Left wing insanity that has infected so much of this country in recent years. They're not teaching people important stuff, they're teaching people left wing nonsense. And so I think it's time that they're held to account.
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Buck Sexton
I just think at a bare minimum, if you want to have complete independence, you should do what Hillsdale College did. Harvard has $53 billion in their endowment. They have again, it's not like they have to, to, to, to pay a massive amount of tax on that endowment every year. They return around 8, 9, 10% probably a year on average. So they're growing that at a $5 billion a year clip. I don't think that a, that a government should be in the business of dictating to colleges exactly what they can do. But if you take our taxpayer dollars, then the government does have a say in what you do. I mean that's been established for a long time. Go back and read Bob Jones, put in my constitutional law hat. When the government gives you money, they have a right to be involved in the way that you run your college and university. And I think the biggest solution here as we sit on tax day is why are we giving billions of dollars in subsidies, tens of billions of dollars in direct cash subsidies from our tax dollars to these universities. They should be able to make their business, which is the university, work without needing any money from the federal government at all. If they can't, they got to cut back like most businesses would that don't have tens of billions of dollars in federal dollars coming in.
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Clay Travis
And I know what they're going to do now. They're say the research grants and they're going to, they're going to try to promote. The New York Times is going to come forward because remember this is, this is, this is like the cathedral of the left. This is so important to them to have dominance not just of, of education in a broad sense, Clay, but, but of elite educational institutions. They have seized so called elite. They have seized these places and leveraged them for their own maximum benefit. They turn into indoctrination factories for kids to come out with. Yeah, I know not everybody. I went to Amherst, you know, you went to law school at Vanderbilt, that you can go to these places and not come out a communist. But I'm sure Vanderbilt's probably, well, I don't know how left wing is Vanderbilt. I have no bananas.
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Buck Sexton
I think Vanderbilt is actually committed a credit to the new chancellor at Vanderbilt. They kicked all the protesters out. They have a, they have. The University of Chicago free speech code has Been solidly committed. They just resigned the Chancellor for 10 years. I'm really very confident in the direction Vanderbilt's going, but. But I hope that other schools follow that lead. And I don't think it's coincidental that Vanderbilt is able to go that direction while being based in a state like Tennessee.
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Clay Travis
Well, that's what I was going to say.
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Buck Sexton
I think the SEC schools in general, Buck, are a little bit different than your Northeastern Ivy League schools.
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Clay Travis
As the weather gets better, the schools get less insane. Not always true, but, you know, I know there's Duke and there's some exceptions to this, but as things get warmer, I think you tend to have less. The most. The most radical stuff is in the Northeast. It's where I went. It's in the areas where I went to school. That's where you have the craziest stuff. Maybe the Pacific Northwest, too. But there's nothing that. That really can compare to how crazy those places are, how, you know, Brown University, Wesleyan University, these. These institutions. But, Clay, I would just say I think this is. This is important. You know, Stephen Miller is reportedly very much involved with this working group that's. That's going after. And I think it's. It's necessary to put these universities on notice. They've been engaged in racism. Yes, according to the Supreme Court, they've been engaged in racism for a long time. These are racist institutions that are getting. These are constitutional violators. They are violating the right that all of us have to be judged not by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character or by our SAT scores. They are in violation. And still to this day, they're trying to just pull all these games so part of. We can get into some of what the Trump administration wants from them. They want an end to all DEI programs. This is to continue to get federal funding. They want access to admission records because they know that all these schools are just. They're ignoring the Supreme Court. They're just going to keep doing what they did, which is making sure that they have, you know, the percentage of black students they want, the percentage of Native American students they want, and so on and so forth. They're going to do that, even though that's a violation of what the Supreme Court has said. So I think this is. I think this is great. And it also is going to change people's thinking, because one of the things, you know, Clay, I'll be honest about this. Whenever I would have. I don't know what your experience was with this. Whenever, you know, earlier on particularly my media career. Like, young conservatives would reach out to me. They would say, I have a professor who is a communist. Like, I'm going to write a paper that really tells him. And I said no. I said no because I want you to get the best possible. I'm not saying don't lie, like, don't write things that you'd be embarrassed by. But don't think you're going to die on this hill and be a hero by getting an F as a student at some school your parents are paying God knows how much money to send or that you're taking out loans to go to get the best job you can, be as successful as you can help change the country when you get out of that place, because you're not going to change it really effectively from the inside. I think the mystique of a lot of these places is fading. And that's part of the power the left has counted on. Like, oh, I went to Harvard. Even you look at some of the people who went to Harvard, they're morons.
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Buck Sexton
I know this. Your wife went to the University of Florida. It's almost impossible to get to the University of Florida.
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Clay Travis
We were just talking to one of our neighbors whose boy wants to go there. And they're talking. They're talking Ivy League equivalent SAT scores, or act, I guess, if you're in the South, Ivy League equivalent scores to get into University of Florida. Now everybody wants to go University of Tennessee.
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Buck Sexton
Buck. When I was a kid, 17, 18 years old, you basically had to have a pulse to get into the University of Tennessee. They have tens of thousands of applicants now. It's become increasingly difficult to get in there. University of Georgia. It's almost impossible. Uf. I mean, what's happening is people are voting with their actual dollars. And I'll tell you this, when I was a kid, nobody from Chicago, Louisiana or New York City would brag about sending their kid to an SEC school. Now they all do. It's a major cultural shift.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. 2Dads. You know, that could be the subtitle of the show today. We got two Dads now. So Clay's gonna give me a lot of advice because he's been in this game a while, seen some stuff. He has been to the mountaintop. He's got the gray hair in the beard, too. And as he pointed out, I do too. But that's not from being a parent.
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Buck Sexton
You saw this. We'll have some fun later. You saw that. I went trending over my argument that men shouldn't dye their beard. Jason Day's wife got involved, Ohio State's coach. We'll have some fun with that. At some point I was, I was.
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Clay Travis
Chuckling, chuckling heartily at Clay, throwing, throwing sand in the eyes of some folks in the sports media world about the bearded, the dye of, of the bearded, the dye in the beard, whatever, you know what I mean? But I wanted to get into this first before. We should definitely talk about that. It's a lot of fun. But this is something that the Democrats are really dug in on. You notice stock market is not in free fall or anything. So that story has faded. Last week it was, the economy's gonna melt down. Now it's like, no, it's gonna be okay. There's a pause. Calm down. But Clay, this story about the deportation of somebody who now what's interesting. There's a lot of, a lot of conflicting news reports on this about what is established versus what is alleged versus, you know what. Has the Trump administration admitted there was a mistake? No, Stephen Miller says there absolutely was not a mistake. It's not so there's just a lot of, you know, competing information and voices on this. But here, here's what I will say is interesting to me. You see who the Democrats are rallying behind now and I don't mean as just like one day in the news cycle, but you see the individuals who were at the top of the Democrats list of concerns. And this is true in the Democrat Party, Democrat Media, it's Ms. 13 gang members who are being deported. It is, you know, anti Semitic, pro Hamas, you know, anti Jewish, campus protester types. Oh, we're so, we're so upset and worried about them. They're rallying behind this 17 year old who allegedly, because you know, we have to say that murdered a young man at a high school football game. You're seeing these are the people the left chooses to spend its energy and time trying to defend, build up, create stories, even lie about to promote them. So I just think that's, it's interesting because Trump is forcing them, at least in the case of these deportation issues, to defend people that you say to yourself, really this is where you're going to put all your energy. Scott Jennings, Scott Jennings was, was on CNN talking about just this issue of focus and where the Democrats focus. This is cut 6. Listen to what he had to say about the quote, Maryland man that has been deported. Play it. What they also believe is that politically the American people want them to be as aggressive as possible and pull all the levers they can pull to solve a crisis that has festered from for years. And you know that we keep calling this guy Maryland man in the press. Nobody seems to worry about the Maryland mother, Rachel Marin, who was murdered by someone that the previous administration let out of jail. I mean, Clay, I actually think this is a even more powerful analogy than or more apt analogy than maybe people think at first glance, because it really has been Democrat policy that we're just not going to enforce the laws about immigration. And if that means that people are going to die and be raped and murdered by illegals who shouldn't be in the country in the first place, that's the cost of doing business. But if one person, one person is deported who should have had, you know, an extra 10 minutes in front of a judge somewhere, the republic is falling. That's really the position they take.
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Buck Sexton
I told you that this is exactly what was going to happen with the deportations. You can go back seven or eight months. I said they're going to find one person that they decide is their poster board for someone who shouldn't have been deported and they're going to try to use it as a anecdote to try to destroy the entire deportation process. And so that's what they've done. And based on my research on this guy, he shouldn't be here. And I think the point that Scott Jennings made and that you're making as well taken and it builds on what I said yesterday. Buck, I'm sure you saw the Taylor Lorenz defending the. The would be killer of the in the United Health Care CEO. She said he was a morally upstanding man. Effectively.
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Clay Travis
That was the other one that I left off the list. It's. It's Luigi, it's Ms. 13 gang members. It's anti Semitic. Pro Hamas protesters.
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Buck Sexton
I think what it is is they've lost the ability to distinguish between good and evil. And I think unfortunately what it.
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Clay Travis
Maybe they just support evil Clay. That's also a possibility. Like maybe they just have some. There's something about them that they want to root for the bad guys.
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Buck Sexton
Well, that's interesting. I actually think it's just identity politics. What do all of these things have in common? The brown skinned person has done something wrong with the exception of Luigi, which is obviously, I think indefensible what he is alleged to have done. And so they're trying to use their identity politics worldview even though it doesn't apply. The situation October 7th is the perfect one, right? That is Jewish people were attacked on October 7th. 1200 innocent Jewish people were killed. And the fact that it was the Jews are seen as white even though as we have talked about, like there's a lot of people, a variety of different skin tones who are Jewish. They don't have the facility to be able to analyze good and evil because the prism through which they see good and evil is based on race. And so all of this is directly connected to the idea that white people are oppressors. And so what happens to a white person is. Is justified. Here's a good question for you. And again, I hate to go time to kill 1980s book that John Grisham wrote that later turned into the movie starring Matthew McConaughey. But I think the story of the United Health Care CEO would be very different if the United Health Care CEO had been a minority. Because then you would have a white guy walking up to a minority on a street corner in New York City, outside of a prominent Manhattan hotel, committing an execution on camera. And the argument would be, well, why in the world was this allowed to happen? This is white supremacy. Right? Like, this guy just thinks that he can take a life at any point in time and so they can. I, there's also tools to build it.
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Clay Travis
I don't think there was enough focus put on this because it is the, you know, it is the extreme end, but it is where identity politics and left wing indoctrination can take a deranged person or a person and make them more deranged. And it was that the terrorist shooter in Tennessee was trying to kill little boys and girls in school, but wanted to make sure that no one thought she was racist. Yes.
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Buck Sexton
Ok, great point.
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Clay Travis
That's a real thing, everybody. That's one of the things they didn't want you to know. The manifesto. A trans terrorist is going to murder little little kids. Okay? Helpless little children. And she doesn't, though, want people that, that she wants to be her, like, renown. That's her, that's her legacy or whatever. But she doesn't want anyone to think she's racist because that, that for posterity would be really sad.
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Buck Sexton
It is, it is really such a good point and an awful one that in her writings she was so cognizant of leftist ideology that she wanted to make sure the people she targeted were white so she didn't get called racist after she killed a bunch of innocent people.
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Clay Travis
Let's just boil this down.
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Buck Sexton
She also killed a black worker at the school, so she killed everybody. But the fact that that was how broken her brain was, that she was still applying leftist ideology in that way.
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Clay Travis
Well, you also, you see that she's fine being a child murderer.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
But would not be fine if people thought that she was a racist. That is how, I mean, this is how fundamentalist, the left wing, identity politics, religion has become. Better to be a child murderer than a racist, or rather be considered a racist. She's not even, you know, that's the thing. It's just a perception that she would be a racist. And so she changed her target set. You know, this is, this is why a lot, a lot of the stuff that Trump is doing and taking on here is so important and so powerful because there has been really a weaponization of resentment that has occurred through identity politics for a long time now. And people have grown tired of it. And enough is enough and there needs to be Action taken. But, Clay, you're right about how all these different individuals, the way that race plays into the. To the view of the left, that these are victim cases. I'll just say this. If you have a, you know, a like, white attorney who is representing or rather who is in trouble or something for one of these cases, I saw something about some woman said that she was going to be deported and she's like a civil rights attorney. That's not going to get the attention. The same way that a guy named, like Mahmoud, whatever his name is, who was being deported. Right. And that's not going to get attention from the left. The same way that this guy Kilmar Gar Abrego Garcia is getting all of this attention. The same way that. I know that this is going to seem like I'm taking us. I'm weaving too much. But can I just throw this in there? Because I didn't get to talk about this. I thought, this is interesting that they found this altar. They found this altar in Guatemala. Did you see this clay? And the altar is for. For my.
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Buck Sexton
Where they were. Yeah. Where they were killing young kids, like sacrificing young kids hundreds of years ago. But. Yes.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. No, no, of course. Right. But this is an ancient civilization used for sacrifice.
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Buck Sexton
I didn't want people to think that this was a modern story. Yeah, but.
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Clay Travis
Yes, but it's just so fascinating when you see the online conversations people try to create these. Here you go. Here's the. Here's a quote. Here's a quote from an archaeologist. Okay. They found a child sacrifice altar from the Mayans. Okay. This is established by the archeologists. And this is. You're going to see how this connects what we're talking about a second ago. And they will lecture us. Oh, my gosh. About colonization and the lectures. But all these things they find. Tens of thousands of children were brutally mutilated and murdered at this altar by the Mayans. Their own children. It's like the Canaanite deity Moloch. You know, when the Israelites came in, there was a Canaanite deity. It's in the Bible. Many of you know this Moloch, and it was the God of child sacrifice. They had this clay. Here's what the archaeologist says. We see how the issue of sacrifice exists in these cultures. It was a practice. It's not that they were violent. It was their way of connecting with celestial bodies. Does anyone think that if we found a child sacrifice altar in, you know, the center of Ireland, that the archaeologists would be saying, well, this isn't violent, it's about, you know, it's about religion. So that doesn't count. They always take this view, they always racialize everything. And the race component plays into the way the left sees everything, including these different individuals today that they're all rallying behind.
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Buck Sexton
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Glad to see him and to see you guys so healthy and happy. I have a couple practical tips because I'm a practical lady and I got a lot of kids. Number one, make sure your wife is well fed and hydrated while she's recovering. Bring her everything. Just bring her things. It really helps her get her feet under her faster to have someone simply letting her rest while she's just feeding a baby. Also, look up wake windows. The biggest mistake I made with my first kid was not knowing that she couldn't really be up for very long. 35 to 60 minutes as a max for a newborn and I accidentally kept her up too long and that made it harder for her to sleep when she was supposed to. So wake windows. That's a good one. And finally, a lot of calls that you make as a parent that seem super important like preschools and weaning methods and potty training styles are just calls on the margins and they feel really big in the moment but they're not actually. So if you have the big values taken care of which you and Carrie do, relax on the Smaller stuff. All right. Have a great time. Enjoy.
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Buck Sexton
That is Mary Katherine Ham from the Clay and Buck podcast network. Buck. I believe she has four kids. Mary Kathryn Ham does. So she has some idea what she's talking about. She's been through the wars a little bit. I would echo what she said. We're going to have some good advice coming from a variety of of people out there in, in our universe for Buck as he and Carrie, as they get ready for baby number one. I do think that as you get ready. Yeah. Start to work towards number two. I would say that, that, that, that is very true. I hadn't really thought about it very much. But for the first in particular, you obsess over every minute detail. By the time you get to 2, 3, and I'm certain by the time you get to 4 or 5, if you ever get there, all like, you are so much more chill about a lot of the decisions that you make. I can tell you by baby three, you're just so much more comfortable. But you do obsess over every little minute decision with baby one and, and then two and three and on beyond Rachel Compost Duffy, who gave you guys congrats. I don't know if you saw it on the show over the weekend.
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Clay Travis
Thank you for the kind words. We were, we were actually in the hospital with the baby watching Fox saw you hosting and saw the nice shout out. So thank you.
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Buck Sexton
Well, she's got nine and so she, I think probably knows better than almost anybody.
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Clay Travis
She was advising Carrie in the early days of us dating about, you know, he's a good guy and you know what I mean? So I was like, thank you, Rachel.
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Buck Sexton
No, that was fantastic. So we'll be back. I want to talk Buck. When we come back, this crazy story out of Texas. You have a kid who is stabbed to death, 17 years old. We talked about this a little bit last week. There's a fundraiser online set up for the person who stabbed. That fundraiser has now raised $500,000. They also just dropped the bail to $250,000. And the family has now bought a $500,000 house that they are living in. 17 year old stabs another 17 year old. This goes to me, Buck, the difficulty of telling the difference between good and evil. We'll break this down a little bit for you guys when we come back. Thanks for hanging with us. Tuesday edition.
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