Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 - Vanity Unfair

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 – Vanity Unfair
Date: December 20, 2025
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts
Theme: Dissecting the Susie Wiles Vanity Fair interview blunder, media pitfalls for conservatives, political intrigue, ongoing Brown University shooter investigation, and broader issues in media/academia hiring

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on recent political media missteps—most notably, Trump White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ ill-fated Vanity Fair interview (the “Vanity Unfair” of the title)—and the persistent risks conservatives face in legacy media “hit jobs.” Hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton explore lessons unlearned by Trump’s team, public reactions, and the psychological pitfalls for the right in seeking mainstream validation. The hosts also tackle the ongoing confusion surrounding the Brown University campus shooting, the challenges of campus safety and narrative politics, plus a lively sidebar on discrimination, hiring practices, and a humorous critique of left-leaning talk shows.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Susie Wiles Vanity Fair Interview: A Colossal Miscalculation

• Clay Travis lays out the blunder:

  • The Trump administration’s decision to allow Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to participate in a lengthy Vanity Fair interview was “Susie Wiles’ biggest misstep since becoming chief of staff” (04:07).
  • Engaging with legacy outlets like Vanity Fair almost guarantees negative, quote-cherry-picking coverage:
    • Clay: “You can't talk all day and allow them to cherry pick quotes. I can't believe she would fall for this…I read it yesterday and just, my jaw dropped that she had given this writer this much control and power.” (05:57)

• Buck Sexton's take:

  • While acknowledging it's a blunder, Buck suggests it’s more of a “tempest in a teapot”—no one will get fired or be deeply harmed.
  • On Conservative Hubris:
    • Buck draws a Game of Thrones analogy: “Hubris is the ultimate sin…one of the challenges conservatives have is we want a pat on the head so badly from somebody who's cool and famous that we'll just do anything for it.” (07:22)

• Why Republicans fall for legacy media:

  • Buck calls out the pattern of seeking approval from prestige outlets:
    • “Vanity Fair is a prestige journal. I think it's communist propaganda and it's written by the enemy…But it's something that people see when they go into a fancy doctor’s office.” (08:11)
  • Clay confesses: “I don't even know anybody who reads Vanity Fair…I just don't think most people that know I exist have ever opened a Vanity Fair magazine.” (09:04)

• Practical lesson:

  • Going into pivotal elections and midterms, Republicans can’t afford these unforced errors—it's a “media haymaker” that serves as a valuable (if painful) reminder (09:33–10:44).

Notable Quote

Clay Travis [05:57]: “You can't talk all day and allow them to cherry pick quotes. So I can't believe that she would fall for this. I read it yesterday, and my jaw dropped over the fact that she had given this writer this much control and power.”

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2. Political Implications from the Vanity Fair Piece

• J.D. Vance as GOP Frontrunner:

  • Clay highlights that Marco Rubio will not oppose J.D. Vance for a 2027 nomination, making Vance “the biggest favorite for a nomination on the Republican side since George H.W. Bush after Ronald Reagan” (11:10).

• Susie Wiles Criticizing Pam Bondi:

  • Travis is shocked at Wiles’ public rebuke of Bondi over the Epstein case, reading the Vanity Fair quote about Bondi giving “binders full of nothingness” and making up a client list:
    • “For the Chief of Staff to just...she’s right and all that, but for her to pull out a two by four and just whack the Attorney General on that…I kind of read that and was like, whoo, that was a pretty significant two by four.” (12:15)

• Buck notes the relationship between Bondi and Wiles goes back years, and suggests intra-administration conflict will get attention, but the real issue is regime media’s relentless anti-Trump bias (13:16).

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3. The Perennial Problem: Media Setup and Narrative Warfare

• Should conservative figures do mainstream profiles?
  • Buck asks if they’d do their own Vanity Fair profile, and Clay says yes, only if “every interview be completely recorded and that I have the ability to post a transcript of the entire thing” (22:59).
  • They agree: coverage by hostile media can backfire on the attackers and actually help conservatives, as “being attacked by legacy left wing media…it just reinforces the criticisms that we have for them.” (23:59)

Notable Quote

Buck Sexton [07:22]: “We want a pat on the head so badly from somebody who's cool and famous that we'll just do anything for it.”

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4. Breaking Down the Brown University Shooter Investigation

• Baffling Lack of Progress:

  • Clay and Buck express exasperation that days after the shooting, there’s little information and no suspect identified.
  • Official press conference (28:06–31:18) reveals: no motive, unclear statements, and a lack of security cameras in the older building where the crime occurred. Authorities are even asking the public for footage from Teslas and home cameras.

• Skepticism over transparency:

  • Buck: “I don't believe him…Explain to me why there are all these people that say that they have heard, that someone heard and yet now we're told nothing. I'm sorry, it doesn't pass the smell test for me.” (28:48)

• Brown University’s response:

  • Buck shares that sources claim Brown is being “less than helpful” to law enforcement, likely out of concern for the school’s PR if the murder is found to be politically motivated (33:00).

Notable Quote

Clay Travis [32:24]: “If you can’t make your kids safe enough to at least get the shooter of someone on a campus arrested, what in the world are we doing?”

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5. Sidebars and Memorable Moments

• “The View” as Fodder:

  • A Landman TV show clip is played, mocking The View:

  • Character: “Bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else...It’s like a fart in church funny.” (26:33–26:54)

• Word-Nerd Banter:

  • Clay and Buck debate the pronunciation of “patina” vs. “Patna,” with producer Greg settling the debate via Merriam-Webster—both are acceptable (14:50–15:33, 21:01–21:57).

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6. On Discrimination and DEI in Academia and Media

• Lost Opportunity Generation:
  • Buck references an article (“The Lost Generation” in Compact Magazine), arguing explicit discrimination in hiring against white men, especially ages 30–50, across academia and media (42:49–45:50).
  • Clay echoes the sentiment from his experience in law school, challenging the narrative of “white male privilege” as inaccurate and outdated.

Notable Quote

Buck Sexton [44:57]: “It was racist and it was immoral and people need to speak about it that way…The reason that TV shows are so crappy is they were hiring bad writers.”

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Important Timestamps

• 04:07–06:29: Susie Wiles Vanity Fair interview, why it was a strategic error
• 07:22–09:04: Buck’s “Game of Thrones” hubris analogy; need for validation from prestige media
• 11:10–13:16: Political implications for J.D. Vance, Rubio, and rifts within Team Trump
• 22:59–23:59: Would they sit for a Vanity Fair profile? “Record everything, control your narrative.”
• 28:06–31:18: Brown University shooter investigation—audio from officials, scrutiny of campus security
• 32:24–34:56: Discussion on the PR risks for Brown University if the crime is politically motivated
• 42:49–45:50: DEI fallout—white men “lost generation,” Buck’s firsthand CIA hiring stories

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Notable Quotes

• Clay Travis [05:57]:
  “You can't talk all day and allow them to cherry pick quotes. So I can't believe that she would fall for this. I read it yesterday, and my jaw dropped over the fact that she had given this writer this much control and power.”

• Buck Sexton [07:22]:
  “We want a pat on the head so badly from somebody who's cool and famous that we'll just do anything for it.”

• Clay Travis [32:24]:
  “If you can’t make your kids safe enough to at least get the shooter of someone on a campus arrested, what in the world are we doing?”

• Buck Sexton [44:57]:
  “It was racist and it was immoral and people need to speak about it that way…The reason that TV shows are so crappy is they were hiring bad writers.”

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Episode Tone:

Conversational, humorous, at times caustic, but always direct—with Buck and Clay riffing on news, politics, and culture as they highlight the perils and absurdities facing conservatives in elite media and academia.

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For New Listeners

This summary touches every major content point—if you missed the episode, you’ll understand why the Vanity Fair blunder matters, what it signals about conservative-media relations ahead of the 2026 midterms, how campus politics and safety failings intersect, and why current DEI narratives are under renewed fire. Buck and Clay’s back-and-forth keeps it lively, with plenty of pointed jokes and personal insights throughout.

Transcript

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[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, I mean, it's a blunder, but it's going to pass. It doesn't really matter. There's nothing that no one's going to get fired over this. It's not going to change.

[Clay Travis]

But I do think it's instructive in that we keep making the same blunders. Shouldn't that be addressed?

[Buck Sexton]

So my theory about the show Game of Thrones, which I think does very much descend into nihilism and maybe well and well then the final seasons, it just collapses into nonsense. But I think overall the show doesn't really have much, as much as I enjoyed it, doesn't really have a heart and soul. Although the takeaway I have from it is that hubris is the, is the ultimate sin or vanity is the ultimate sin. If you look at all the characters that have really bad things happen to them that you, that you're rooting for, hubris is what brings them down. And I think one of the challenges that conservatives have in general, and this isn't unique to this instance, we see this with whenever some, you know, third tier celebrity says anything conservative and conservatives go, oh my gosh, did you see this guy who was playing the, you know, number four lead in a sitcom from the 80s? Now there are some conservatives who are from A.C. i mean, from, you know, entertainment. I mean, like James woods is a brilliant guy and a great commentator and a very accomplished actor.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm fine with that. But I mean, when people go after some one thing that a person says, it's like, we want a pat on the head so badly from somebody who's cool and famous that will just do anything for it. There was a bit of this also when in the early days when people were so excited about Kanye and his relationship and Kim Kardashian and her relationship with Trump, I was like, guys, slow your roll with this a little bit. Vanity Fair is a prestige, a prestige journal. I think it's communist propaganda and it's written by the enemy. But it's something that people see when they go into a fancy, you know, doctor's office out on the table or they go into a fancy law office or something. And I think it's very hard right now for a White House that is racking up so many wins to think that anybody could really puncture their. Their balloon of greatness right now. So I think there was a bit of. I think there was a bit of hubris in thinking that they could maneuver around this and not get got. But I also think that this is a tempest in a teapot. Who really cares? Everyone's going to keep working together. Everyone knows that this was a hit job. So what's. What really? What difference does it make?

[Clay Travis]

My concern is, it's just. I mean, it's a judgment error. And to your point, I don't even know anybody who reads Vanity Fair. So I guess it would be nice if Vanity Fair wrote an incredible profile about me. I. I don't think anybody would see it, like, if, you know, like, I just. I don't think most of the people that have any idea I exist even have opened a Vanity Fair magazine. So I'm wondering. Yeah, my. My big issue.

[Buck Sexton]

Can I just give you. I actually think there's something important from this, too, though. I mean, I. Hubris might be the thing that I view as how they fell into this a little bit, which I understand, because the Trump administration has just completely shellacked its opponents for the last year. I mean, ever since the election, they've been on defense, defense, defense. The opponents of Trump and the. And this administration. But I think this is a good reminder, Clay, because I've been saying all along, Kamala lost by 250,000 votes over a handful of states, basically, in a country of 350 million people, give or take, that is a razor thin actual margin. I know the Electoral College win was big, and it was an incredible story with Trump. We've celebrated that all along. My point is merely, there's still a lot of people that would have voted for Kamala, and there are a lot of people who are going to vote for the next Democrat. And the midterms are coming up, and the opposition is every bit as dedicated. Yeah, they've been. They've been beaten a few rounds, Clay, but they're about to get back in the ring. So I think that this is a little bit of a media haymaker that the Trump administration caught on the jaw. And it's probably a good reminder as we go into this midterm year. Yeah. The other side they're still gunning for us.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. No, I think that's 100% right. I will say there were two bits of news that I thought were interesting from the Vanity Fair piece. First of all, again, let me just say it's a colossal miscalculation that you would spend this much time with a writer. When his opening paragraph, Buck says nine people died in the January 6th terror attack. Basically nine people. I mean, that's a complete and total lie. I do think the fact that they reiterated yet again that Marco Rubio is not going to run against J.D. vance and that he will support J.D. vance if he runs. J.D. vance is going to enter 2027 after the midterms as, I think the biggest favorite for a nomination on the Republican side since. Go back in time with me, Buck. George H.W. bush after Ronald Reagan. Would that be the. I mean, it will have been. Now, I'm not saying that he's 100% going to be the nominee, but if Marco Rubio is not going to run against him in 2027, there is going to be a Patna of expectation surrounding JD Vance the likes of.

[Buck Sexton]

Did you just say patina?

[Clay Travis]

I thought it was pronounced Patna.

[Buck Sexton]

I think it's patina. Am I wrong?

[Clay Travis]

Someone check penumbra. There'll be a penumbra of expectation. I think I pronounced that one right. That is completely surrounding J.D. vance. That he's going to be an aura of expectation that he's going to be the nominee. And then the second part, when we have our, our fact check there on my pronunciation also, this I thought was kind of interesting. Susie Wiles absolutely hammered Pam Bondi on the Epstein thing. Quote, I think she completely whiffed on appreciating. That was the very targeted group that cared about this. First she gave them binders full of nothingness and then she said the witness list or the client list was on her desk. There is no client list and it sure as hell wasn't on her desk. I mean, for the Chief of Staff to just. I mean, she's right and all that, but for the Chief of Staff to pull out a two by four and just whack the Attorney General on that. I presume Susie Wiles said all that face to face with Pam Bondi at some point in time too. But I did think that was a pretty significant. I, I kind of read that and I was like, whoo. There. That was. That was a pretty significant two by four.

[Buck Sexton]

But you have to also remember, it is widely believed Susie and Bondi have a close relationship stretching Back to Florida. It is widely believed that the reason Pam Bondi did not get fired over that is Susie Wiles. So she threw herself in front of Trump's very understandable rage at that situation because it was totally unforced error. But, you know, again, Clay, I. Yes, people are talking about it, so we have to talk about it for a second. But I feel like we cover it by just saying, or rather it is covered the topic. We've gotten what we want out of it by reminding the administration that regime media, I know that seems weird because Trump is the administration, but I mean, the forever regime, you know, the Democrat apparatus media will do everything they can to destroy Trump. They have learned no lessons. They are no more ethical, they are no more honest, and they really, really want to impeach him again, make sure the Democrats have the House in order to do so. And they want to push all of them. There's nothing about what Biden did. The problem that they have with Biden is merely that the border was so bad and he was so inept and then so clearly had dementia that he cost them power. But, Clay, all the policies that were being written in Biden's name for him, they wanted to pursue all that stuff again. They want to go right. Vanity Fair wants to go right back to the White House putting out statements about how 12 year olds need gender reassignment surgery. Like they want that. So they've changed nothing.

[Clay Travis]

I hope they have learned not to do this again, but the fact that they had to learn this lesson again is tough. By the way, big win for me in the opener of the show. My pronunciation, according to Merriam Webster dictionary, is acceptable, as both pronunciations are acceptable. That is according to producer Greg's research, which I've always said, producer Greg is an elite research talent.

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, you go. You Google it and it says party nut. So that's. That is the American pronunciation. Pronunciation. I've. I've never heard it pronounced a different way. But then I've learned something. I've learned something new. But, Clay, I feel like we could take a draw on that one. So you can go both ways.

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Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. So we have a lot of stories that. All right, producer Greg, Settle down, settle down. All right. He's really, you know, the thing is.

[Clay Travis]

He'S got my back on this. He must be like me.

[Buck Sexton]

You mess with producer Greg's on the fly research skills and, you know, you might as well insult his puppy or something. I mean, he is, he is throwing down over this one. All right. It's very clear that they're that the most common. Ok, the most common pronunciation in English is patina, but there is an alternative pronunciation which is British English. Mr. Clay Travis of London Patna.

[Clay Travis]

Okay.

[Buck Sexton]

That's from. So it's cool. If you lived in the uk, I would say that makes, maybe you'd go to the theater with your patina. But yes, it is technically both allowed in, in English. And there you go. So I was hoping we were going to get the word police to pull you over just one last, one last time, write you a word pronunciation ticket at the very end. And yeah, producer Ali's dad is British. That's how he says it. But something, something different.

[Clay Travis]

I'm sorry for just having a little class and just a little bit of je ne sais quoi. As I was gonna say, I like.

[Buck Sexton]

How the guy, the born and raised Tennessee guy, throwing some British English into the mix here it's. There you go.

[Clay Travis]

Maybe I'm gonna have to get a VAT in the Vanity Fair subscription. I'm gonna be going to be reading about all the high class people that I didn't even know existed.

[Buck Sexton]

And can I actually ask you this legitimately? If Van said, I want to do a profile on, let's just say Clay and Buck show, I want to do both. Sit down with both of us. Would you be willing to do it on the precondition that we have a recording of all the questions or would you just do it and think that we could negotiate around what they would ask us knowing that, I mean, look, the photo they picked at Caroline Levitt, I mean, that's just, they're just, it's.

[Clay Travis]

Just especially if you compare it to the.

[Buck Sexton]

This is a very good looking young woman. And to pick that photo of her, it's like they found a, you know, a large pore somewhere in her face and went to like microscopic size on it. It's crazy.

[Clay Travis]

Look, I, I think the only way. It's a good question. The only way you can do an interview with somebody. So yes, I would say yes on Vanity Fair. And you say, well, you just criticize the White House for doing it. I would insist that every interview be completely recorded and that I have the ability to post a transcript of the entire thing. And then when they selectively edited my quotes to make it sound like we had said and you had said, and certainly they would. I had said crazy things that are unacceptable. I would say, actually here's the full quotes. And everybody would read them and they would say, yeah, that sounds like something Clay Travis would say. That sounds like something Buck Sexton would say. Also. I would do it because oftentimes there is an advantage in being attacked by legacy left wing media because it just reinforces the criticisms that we have for them. So worst case scenario, they write awful things about us. What do I care? Best case scenario, maybe they actually managed to do a somewhat fair piece and it just increases the number of people that might decide, hey, maybe I should listen to those guys on the radio.

[Buck Sexton]

You know, we haven't played yet that we need to. I meant to get to it yesterday, but talking about opposition media, Landman, a show that you like very. Oh yes, Carrie likes it too. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm wishy washy on.

[Clay Travis]

It, but I do, I actually haven't ever watched it. I like the clips that I've seen. I need to watch.

[Buck Sexton]

Okay, Laura, like the clips are the best part of it.

[Clay Travis]

I'll tell you.

[Buck Sexton]

A lot of it kind of is not as great as I think it should be. But there's the Landman weighs in on the View and we have that cut and you should hear it. Christmas spirit coming your way. Gold and silver are great investments for those who have purchased them in the last year. Year to date they're up more than 60%. And experts believe the value of gold and silver is only going to continue to rise. You know the reasons for the increase in value inflation in this country is one, central banks around the globe purchasing large quantities of precious metals. There's a long term thesis on precious metals that just makes sense. And that's why if you look over the last 30 years, this goes up. Diversify with Birch Gold Groups help. They can also help you convert an existing IRA or 401k, do a tax sheltered IRA and physical gold. And for every $5,000 you buy, you get an ounce of silver. Birch Gold Group has this special deal in Place until December 22nd. Get gold and get silver with Birch Gold Group. Text my name Buck to 98-98-9890 to claim your eligibility for this offer. Text Buck to 98-98-98 today.

[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I appreciate all of you hanging out with. I wanted to play this because I tried to be in the holiday spirit, but the reality is everybody in New York City's in trouble. Well, actually we'll get to that in a sec, but this is Landman. You referenced it so we don't forget. This is the Landman taking a shot at The View. One of the things I may do once football season is over is dive into Landman Season one, which I heard was very good, but I think they're on season two, and I believe it is bad and has not been very entertained. That's what I've heard from. From others. But here is the view shot from Landman. It sounds a little bit like maybe we got some Clay and Buck, listeners in the writing staff of the Landman show. Listen, I don't know what to do. Whatever. You want to read a book, watch.

[Buck Sexton]

Tv, watch one of them daytime talk shows, you know, like to be here or something.

[Clay Travis]

What's the View?

[Buck Sexton]

Bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got to be up their ass about.

[Clay Travis]

It's pretty funny. Don't sound funny.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, it ain't joke funny.

[Clay Travis]

It's like a fart in church funny.

[Buck Sexton]

You know what I mean?

[Clay Travis]

That don't sound funny either.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, it depends on your proximity to the fart.

[Clay Travis]

All right, so that is lame. A little bit hard to hear that audio. But mocking the ladies on the View for being millionaires upset with other millionaires billionaires are doing. And we will continue to. To follow that. There's a press conference going on right now in. I'm looking right now, an update. Buck, I know you talked about this a lot yesterday and we talked about it some. On Monday, they are having an updated press conference. Sorry, that's the press conference yesterday that they're reacting to on the. On Fox News. I. I watched all. I read all the coverage and everything else. The f. Are you as befuddled as I am that we could be in a situation where it appears they have no idea how to catch this guy who was the shooter, and even the imagery that they potentially have of the shooter. I know we've got some audio from that press conference. Let me hit a. A little bit of that and. And pull it up here. This was trying to explain what's going on. They say they don't have a motive. Cut 3.

[News Reporter / Official]

There is no information that the investigative team has about motive. Zero. Zero. There's nothing about. Even if. Even if taking at face value what one or two witnesses may have said about what something was said. Okay. And there are many witnesses that say nothing was said. There's nothing about what we know was perhaps said that indicates any kind of motive that is related at all to ethnicity or political outlook or culture. There's nothing at all that we know Right now about that. And I think that that is a dangerous road to go down, particularly in today's environment.

[Buck Sexton]

Okay, yeah, just dangerous road to go down. Just tell us the facts, man. By the way, I don't believe him. I'm just going to say this right now. I noticed he started parsing there anything that's relevant or whatever. Really what's going on here? Explain to me why there are all these people that say that they have heard, that someone heard and yet now we're told nothing. I'm sorry, it doesn't pass the smell test for me.

[Clay Travis]

And then she says, let me. This is the Rhode Island Attorney General saying, and this is a question that a ton of you have been asking, why wasn't there any footage? I know they keep showing additional footage of this person. It appears to be a 5 foot 8 male figure, a little bit overweight potentially. It's hard to tell because of jackets and it's cold. Wearing a mask, you don't see a ton. But here is cut 4 saying why wasn't there better footage? They're asking crazily buck people who might have had Teslas parked in the area. Hey, can you guys check all of your cameras on your car and see if you might have better footage here? They're asking for people in the neighborhood who might have cameras to be able to help out here was cut 4 trying to explain why there isn't better footage of this shooter.

[News Reporter / Official]

There was a, a major addition put on that building within the last five years or so. That, that is a modern building attached to older one in the back. So it doesn't come as a surprise to me at least that there are cameras in the newer part of the building and there is video footage. Okay, so there's the back part of the building, old part and front part, new part. The shooting occurs in the old part, towards the back, up towards Hope street in that older part of the building. There are fewer if any cameras in that location, I imagine because it's an older building. So as students are fleeing the area of the shooting into the new part of the building, there are cameras in that, in that brand new building that show that chaos. But the only, but the only, the only video of the. Of the presumed anticipated, suspected. However you want to define a person of interest, you have it. We would release it if we thought it would be helpful in identifying this subject because we are relying on the press and public to help get us there. There would be no reason for us to hold it back. We're looking for the Best image we can.

[Buck Sexton]

Dan.

[Clay Travis]

Got a follow up. I pretty sure. Thank you for explaining that because it really clarifies it.

[Buck Sexton]

Although I'm sure some people watching would.

[Clay Travis]

Think a multimillion dollar store with a huge endowment could afford new cameras in an old building. I mean, I love that reporter following up. If you didn't, have you had trouble hearing him? He said, I think a lot of people out there would say a multibillion dollar university could find a way to put cameras in an old building, even if it's an old building. What is your reaction? You've done investigations on, on cases, you know, involving shootings like this before. Does this strike you as. As crazy as it does me that we could have such limited information? They also are scrubbing, evidently pages on the Internet because Internet sleuths, let me just say this, they're not always right in trying to identify suspects. So that could be part of this, that they're people are trying to figure out, looking at faculty profiles, looking at student profiles, who's 5 foot 8, who could have been in that area. It's staggering to me that we could be sitting here, you know, five days basically after the shooting and have no idea who did it. And every day I think, Buck, it probably would become less likely that we would figure out who did this.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, yes, that's all true. And I have also heard from people who are following the investigation very closely that law enforcement feels like Brown University is being less than helpful in some ways, that the university is clearly very concerned about the messaging that comes out of this whole thing, or the takeaway, if you will. Because look, we all understand, right? If this is so, let's just say, let's just lay this out. If this was a. And I do not believe this is the case at all, to be clear, but I'm just trying to explain why Brown is. According to people I know who are talking to sources in law enforcement in Rhode island, this was just last night I was talking to them, that Brown is seeming like it doesn't really want to just open up everything that it can and be as helpful as possible. If the young woman, for example, who was killed here had been a former girlfriend of the shooter, you would have a, you know, a situation where it's a clearly a personal vendetta that has no broader thematic anything other than a horrible murder of a beautiful young woman. Ok, if this guy targeted a Republican on the campus, and again, we don't know that, But Brown is 80%, 90%.

[Clay Travis]

95%, maybe Democrat, the vice president of the Republican college campus was murdered. She's one of the two people. And the president has come out and said that he thinks it's connected to her politics because she was well known on campus for having conservative politics.

[Buck Sexton]

Right. President Trump.

[Clay Travis]

No, no, no, the president.

[Buck Sexton]

Brown president.

[Clay Travis]

Sorry, the president of the Brown Republican.

[Buck Sexton]

There we go. Okay.

[Clay Travis]

There's a lot of presidents. She was the. She was the vice president. Was the president. He has come out and said, the college kid who's the president, I think she was targeted based on her politics.

[Buck Sexton]

So, you know, I was. I was a college Republican. Clay, you were a college libertine. So I remember what it was like.

[Clay Travis]

You.

[Buck Sexton]

You were doing. KEG stands for freedom. I remember what it was like on campus. I was known. Everyone knew that I was a Republican.

[Clay Travis]

Because there were so few people where you went.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, it was like a little tribe. It was a little. A little group of us that wore, you know, Sperry Topsiders and blue blazers a lot. And, you know, we walked around, tried not to get wedgies. And yes, we. We were the college Republicans. Everybody knew.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

So everyone would have known, or largely would have known that this young woman was a college Republican if, in fact, it was political. And as you said, the head of their college Republicans thinks it was. That causes a whole issue for Brown because it also raises the. Why is it that the standards for what you can say about Christians and Republicans on a campus are. You can basically, you know, chase them off, threaten them, do anything you want. But if you were to say anything about, like, a trans student, the university comes down and you look a ton of bricks. It's obvious. And we went through this also with. With Jews and Muslims on campus in places like Columbia University in New York. Look, Brown is concerned about. This is my point here. Brown University is like, oh, this could be a real issue for us in a PR sense beyond the horrible double murder that took place here.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. And I just, again, and I think a lot of you are with me on this, it is an. A colossal failure that this could be allowed to occur. If you're a parent of a child on a college campus, a school shooting is something that you would worry about. I mean, I think in the back of their mind, people constantly worry about bad things happening to their kids at elementary school or all the way up into. Into college. What are we doing that there could not be ample evidence of all of this that would lead to an immediate arrest. It's hard to stop somebody from being crazy. But what motivated this guy? Why does it seem like they're trying to fight so hard from putting that motivation out there. And how is it that we're reduced to the point of begging people who might have Tesla vehicles in the area to potentially share videos when I guarantee you, if you looked at the budget that Brown University puts into campus security and safety, it would boggle your mind how much they spend on this. There's certainly, what do we say, room and board plus tuition. The budget average price now is $95,000 a year. If you can't make your kids safe enough to at least get the shooter of someone on a campus arrested, what in the world are we doing? We'll talk about that. We'll take some of your calls, by the way. 800-282-2882. In the meantime, price picks available in 40 plus states including California, Texas, Florida and Georgia. You can download the Prize Picks app today. Use my name Clay as the code. Get $50 instantly in lineups when you play. $5. That's code clay Prize Picks. You can play along in Georgia. You can play in Texas. You can play in Florida. You can play in California. You can get hooked up wherever you are out there. $50 lineup code clay on prize picks for $50 instantly in lineups when you play. $5 win or lose 50 bucks just for playing. I'll give you a pick tomorrow. Prizepix.com code clay want to be in the know when you're on the go the Team 47 podcast drop highlights from.

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[Buck Sexton]

Appreciate you being with us and we want to get to your calls, your talkbacks, all of that. It is my last show, live show of the year. Clay will be with you the rest of the week. I will be nursing my Vocal cords until I have to record my book. Manufacturing Delusion available for pre order. Please go pre order it now so you don't forget. And the copy arrives on the day of publishing which is February 17, which is going to be here so fast. Going to be here so fast. And we need, we need to sell some books, my friends. I need you guys all to get it publishing industry. Clay, I talked about this story a bit from the. The guy in what was a tab tablet magazine. Do you know I'm talking about where he wrote about our like our generation. I'll include you to be inclusive. Our generation that was essentially blocked out from a lot of opportunities as part of the DEI mania. And how like boomers who talk about di. They have no idea.

[Clay Travis]

Correct.

[Buck Sexton]

Because they complete. They had already gotten to the points in their career where it didn't matter. They weren't doing entry level hiring or even. It's really that second or third tier of your first promotion, your second promotion when like real things start getting going for you or real opportunities open up to. Yeah, I'm sorry I said tablet, Compact Magazine, Compact Mag.com. i do remember that the Lost generation. It is such a good piece and it's just so important because it really hones in on they. What they did to people was wrong. What they did to a whole generation of white Americans who are men. White American men is wrong. It was, it was unconstitutional, which the Supreme Court has now very clearly weighed in on. It was racist and it was immoral and people need to speak about it that way. And this goes into chapter and verse. The reason that TV shows are so crappy is they were hiring bad writers.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, no, I remember. So what was so interesting about this is we were being told people around our age, hey, we need to have more diversity, equity and inclusion. This is unacceptable what's going on. And I remember looking around, for instance, in my law school class, there were more girls than guys in my law school class. And I remember being lectured because we'd go to on campus interviews and they would say, well these, these, you know, law firms have to hire way more women because it's unacceptable what's been going on. And I'm looking around like what? We're actually more girls in our class than there are boys. Like you're yelling at us in this generation who have had none of the benefits of by and large a world in which was everything was slanted towards white people. And then you're, you're hectoring us as if we're have this incredible white Privilege. And I think that's what a lot of young men have finally reacted to is this whole idea of male privilege, this whole idea of white male privilege. It's all a big bowl of bs.

[Buck Sexton]

And it's actually the reverse, though. It's even more like the discrimination. I don't like the term reverse discrimination because it's just discrimination. Discrimination against white males in hiring was explicit. It was real. And it really only affected one. This is the key, because a lot of boomers are like, it's not that bad. Sorry, boomers. It actually was that bad. And it affected people who are currently 30 to 50. OK, if you're 30 to 50 right now, you got screwed over by these policies in a whole range of industries. Academia, clay. When I was the CIA, there were people with PhDs in the humanities that I worked with from, from the fanciest Ivy League schools. You know why they were at the CIA with me? They were white guys. They couldn't get jobs. You're. You're a white guy who speaks Arabic and you have a Middle Eastern studies degree, you know, and a PhD from Harvard or whatever. You can't get a teaching job anywhere.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, anywhere.

[Buck Sexton]

And it's because they explicitly said, we're going to stop hiring white guys. Same with Hollywood. Same with, you know, a lot of this, by the way, in the lib media. You look at the way. Yeah. Jeff Zucker ran cnn. So many of the contributors, they were trying to bring in all the time. There's always women and minorities and the whole. It was such a focus on this. Anyway, I, I forget what even triggered me on this issue, but I got fired up.

[Clay Travis]

Well, it was the compact, the article which is, Is circulating now. We'll put it up on clay. And Buck, you can go read it when we come back. By the way, your boy, Mom Donnie, I say your boy because New York City, somebody's got to stand up for New York City. He says that giving people no charges on buses will actually make things way safer. That is crazy. We've also got a 101-year-old patriot that I think people will enjoy hearing from. And we got a couple of guests coming everybody's way. Buck's final show of the year. Go buy his book.

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