Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 28, 2025


Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Oct 28 2025


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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.340 Guaranteed Human.
00:00:04.700 Welcome in Tuesday edition.
00:00:08.480 Clay and Buck, one week exactly
00:00:11.280 until we are officially on the election day of 2025.
00:00:18.500 New Jersey, go vote.
00:00:20.420 Virginia, go vote.
00:00:21.960 New York City, go vote.
00:00:23.500 I know there are other elections taking place.
00:00:26.360 I voted for alderman today in my town of Franklin, Tennessee.
00:00:31.080 So a lot of different aspects underway
00:00:34.540 as we move into the election season of 2025.
00:00:41.200 And in particular, by the way,
00:00:43.100 we'll talk with our friend Riley Gaines,
00:00:45.680 who AOC decided to attack out of nowhere over swimming.
00:00:51.760 Sometimes I was texting with Riley yesterday
00:00:54.380 when this happened that a lot of these attacks
00:00:57.420 seem like gifts because so many of the people
00:01:01.300 that are attacking Riley for just saying
00:01:04.060 men shouldn't be involved in women's sports.
00:01:06.780 I can't believe that this has become
00:01:09.400 such Democrat Party orthodoxy
00:01:11.620 that AOC would decide kind of out of nowhere
00:01:14.980 to just start tweeting at Riley Gaines angrily
00:01:18.720 about her past swimming successes.
00:01:22.840 Speaking of swimming, I went for a rare dip
00:01:26.220 in the Atlantic Ocean, technically Biscayne Bay,
00:01:30.100 over the weekend.
00:01:31.320 And right around the same time,
00:01:33.760 there was, in fact, a shark attack.
00:01:35.680 Yes, 46-year-old guy got attacked.
00:01:39.640 You sent me the link, and I was looking at it.
00:01:43.020 And, I mean, can you imagine
00:01:44.940 if you had gotten attacked by a shark?
00:01:46.580 After all our shark...
00:01:47.400 This is why I don't want to tempt fate
00:01:48.940 with the Alcatraz.
00:01:49.240 After all of our shark discussion,
00:01:49.500 I'm just saying, this is...
00:01:51.180 I'm starting to worry about your Alcatraz
00:01:53.100 swimming a little bit here, buddy,
00:01:54.100 which we've already committed to.
00:01:55.660 And I'm going to be in that launch boat
00:01:56.900 cheering you on nice and warm
00:01:58.700 with my Crockett hot cocoa
00:02:00.540 what we're going to start making by then.
00:02:02.920 But this guy, I believe, was snorkeling,
00:02:05.560 and it looked like he tried to touch the shark,
00:02:08.300 which is a bad idea.
00:02:09.400 Oh, well, that's very, very different.
00:02:12.220 It was not a predatory attack.
00:02:13.940 It was a leave-me-alone bite on the hand,
00:02:16.200 and he had to go to the hospital.
00:02:17.320 But technically, a shark attack
00:02:19.320 not far from where I was swimming.
00:02:21.120 On Sunday, I was walking into church.
00:02:23.600 This is 100% true.
00:02:25.120 Guy I had not met before comes up,
00:02:27.700 and he says that he is part
00:02:29.360 of a long-distance swimming team.
00:02:31.900 And they have been hearing us talk about
00:02:34.260 he had swam Catalina.
00:02:35.700 He had swam from Alcatraz,
00:02:38.880 and they do regular long training sessions,
00:02:42.760 and he was offering his skill set
00:02:45.540 and his team to me as a training companion.
00:02:49.480 This is, I mean, legitimately,
00:02:50.980 as I am walking into church on Sunday,
00:02:54.340 this gentleman I had never met before came up,
00:02:56.880 and he wanted me to know
00:02:58.440 that he had my back on the swims
00:03:00.280 and that he and the team were ready
00:03:01.880 to assist as necessary.
00:03:03.160 And I told him, I said,
00:03:05.180 well, I'm kind of getting a little bit terrified,
00:03:07.720 not of the swim,
00:03:09.180 but that I'm tempting fate,
00:03:10.740 and I'm going to be eaten by a shark.
00:03:12.880 And he told me that I would be fine.
00:03:14.400 So I hope he's right.
00:03:16.160 But yeah, you narrowly avoided attack
00:03:19.380 on a swim in Biscayne Bay.
00:03:23.320 Speaking of attack,
00:03:25.660 Buck, I cannot believe
00:03:29.940 that New York City
00:03:31.480 is really going to elect
00:03:33.540 Zoran Mamdani.
00:03:36.140 And the more videos I watch,
00:03:39.400 the more deep dive I do
00:03:41.160 on his life story,
00:03:43.180 I'm not sure there has ever been
00:03:45.820 a more transparent liar
00:03:48.660 liar that has accomplished
00:03:51.240 nothing in his life
00:03:53.160 that is poised for
00:03:54.940 an election victory
00:03:57.000 like Mamdani is.
00:03:59.540 35 years old,
00:04:01.040 never really done anything
00:04:03.020 of any significance in his life,
00:04:05.760 was raised in Uganda,
00:04:08.100 and unbelievably,
00:04:10.380 24 years after 9-11,
00:04:12.940 we really have hit
00:04:14.060 the Norm MacDonald joke
00:04:15.600 where everyone now says,
00:04:19.160 oh, can you imagine on the left
00:04:21.100 the Islamophobia
00:04:22.240 that so many victims of 9-11
00:04:24.440 had to deal with?
00:04:26.000 And Mamdani claimed
00:04:27.140 to have an aunt
00:04:28.180 that was afraid to wear her hijab
00:04:31.360 on the New York City metro
00:04:33.760 after the 9-11 terror attack.
00:04:36.780 And now, after it was pointed out
00:04:39.480 that the aunt story
00:04:40.660 couldn't possibly have been true,
00:04:43.060 he now says
00:04:44.460 it wasn't his aunt,
00:04:46.160 it was actually
00:04:47.540 his father's cousin
00:04:49.140 who passed away
00:04:50.640 a few years ago.
00:04:51.800 This is after he was caught
00:04:53.160 in the lie on an aunt.
00:04:55.220 Let's play this cut two, please.
00:04:57.280 I was speaking about my aunt,
00:04:59.180 I was speaking about
00:05:00.140 Zerafui,
00:05:01.780 my father's cousin,
00:05:03.720 sadly passed away
00:05:04.700 a few years ago.
00:05:06.380 And for the takeaway
00:05:08.020 from my more than 10-minute address
00:05:09.700 about Islamophobia
00:05:10.780 in this race
00:05:11.380 and in this city
00:05:11.940 to be the question
00:05:13.820 of my aunt
00:05:14.480 tells you everything
00:05:15.580 about Andrew Cuomo.
00:05:18.100 I mean, why does that,
00:05:19.540 I mean, if I said to you, Buck,
00:05:21.740 something that,
00:05:22.680 I mean, I've got two aunts
00:05:25.000 that are both deceased,
00:05:26.280 but if I said something
00:05:27.620 very specific
00:05:28.520 about their life story
00:05:30.180 at a point
00:05:31.660 in my political career,
00:05:33.220 it wouldn't be unfair
00:05:34.440 for people to say,
00:05:35.960 okay, tell me about these
00:05:37.180 aunts of yours.
00:05:38.060 Yes, he made it an issue.
00:05:41.280 This is the Jussie Smollett,
00:05:43.140 how dare you question me
00:05:44.660 when I'm caught in my lie, sir?
00:05:47.440 Well, yeah, actually.
00:05:49.100 That's how this works.
00:05:50.340 A few things on this, Clay.
00:05:52.000 One is the lack of,
00:05:55.920 first, Islamophobia
00:05:56.760 is a nonsense term.
00:05:58.400 I think Christopher Hitchens
00:05:59.280 once said it's like
00:06:00.140 a nonsense term
00:06:01.080 used by thugs
00:06:03.800 to silence idiots
00:06:04.680 or something like that.
00:06:05.660 It was essentially
00:06:06.440 the whole point
00:06:07.700 of Islamophobia
00:06:08.460 is to create some word
00:06:10.540 that shuts down criticism
00:06:11.880 of aspects of a faith
00:06:14.240 that now has about
00:06:15.340 two billion adherents worldwide
00:06:16.860 and is certainly something
00:06:18.960 that people should be allowed
00:06:19.960 to discuss.
00:06:21.380 Phobia is an irrational fear of.
00:06:23.200 There was a period of time
00:06:24.380 where there was plenty
00:06:25.960 of rational fear
00:06:27.060 of radicalized elements
00:06:28.580 from within the Islamic world.
00:06:30.100 And by the way,
00:06:30.700 there still is plenty
00:06:32.080 of rational discussion
00:06:33.420 to be had about elements
00:06:35.480 of the Islamic world
00:06:36.740 that are a problem
00:06:38.480 for Western civilization
00:06:39.600 and for the state of Israel,
00:06:42.140 for America,
00:06:42.840 for a whole bunch of things.
00:06:43.720 Okay.
00:06:44.220 But putting that aside
00:06:45.120 for a second,
00:06:46.040 a couple of things.
00:06:46.940 One is,
00:06:47.680 I mentioned this yesterday,
00:06:49.240 it is to America's
00:06:50.300 extreme credit
00:06:51.460 that there was so little
00:06:53.100 to the American people,
00:06:55.140 there was so little
00:06:55.760 actual Islamic bigotry
00:06:58.320 on display here
00:06:59.420 after 9-11
00:07:00.280 given the scope,
00:07:01.640 scale of those attacks.
00:07:02.440 And the continued attacks
00:07:04.260 that happened,
00:07:04.840 this is something
00:07:05.320 that gets lost
00:07:06.020 in this discussion, Clay.
00:07:07.500 There were further
00:07:08.900 jihadist mass murders
00:07:10.640 of Americans
00:07:11.380 that went on
00:07:12.360 for the better part
00:07:13.520 of two decades here.
00:07:14.680 It's kind of slowed down
00:07:15.820 in the last few years,
00:07:16.700 but it was a regular thing.
00:07:19.080 Oh, another,
00:07:19.960 another, you know,
00:07:21.500 bomb goes off somewhere
00:07:22.720 or someone's run down
00:07:24.120 10 people for no reason
00:07:25.260 in the street
00:07:25.920 in a mass murder attack.
00:07:26.980 And so with all
00:07:28.840 of that going on
00:07:29.720 and we had
00:07:30.960 multiple wars
00:07:31.740 and counterinsurgency
00:07:32.680 operations going on
00:07:33.940 against Islamist elements
00:07:35.400 and a, you know,
00:07:37.200 billions and billions
00:07:38.100 of dollars spent
00:07:38.720 on security,
00:07:39.420 we effectively have
00:07:40.500 airport security lines
00:07:41.680 because of Islamic radicalism.
00:07:43.380 Thanks, Islamic radicalism.
00:07:45.300 With all of that,
00:07:47.160 they still have to
00:07:48.380 make up stories
00:07:49.300 like this.
00:07:50.560 Zoran Mamdani,
00:07:51.660 he's not telling a story
00:07:52.960 about something
00:07:53.680 that would be truly
00:07:54.760 horrific and wrong.
00:07:55.560 You know, oh my gosh,
00:07:56.360 the firebombing
00:07:57.660 of a mosque
00:07:58.240 that occurred on,
00:07:59.580 you know,
00:08:00.000 in Brooklyn, right?
00:08:01.200 No, none of that happened.
00:08:03.140 But he's a theater kid
00:08:04.800 cosplaying radical
00:08:06.260 and so it's totally normal
00:08:08.080 for him to make up
00:08:09.000 the story of the aunt
00:08:10.760 who among hundreds
00:08:12.760 of thousands
00:08:13.380 of Muslims
00:08:14.320 in New York City
00:08:15.060 was the one
00:08:15.920 who was too scared
00:08:17.000 to ride the subway
00:08:17.740 with her hijab.
00:08:18.900 Give me a break, dude.
00:08:19.980 Clay, the guy's a fake
00:08:21.300 and he's a phony,
00:08:22.020 but the people voting
00:08:22.680 for him don't care.
00:08:24.360 Yeah, well,
00:08:25.000 let me hit you
00:08:25.660 with a couple
00:08:26.160 of more clips
00:08:26.980 that continue
00:08:27.860 to get attention.
00:08:30.780 This is in September
00:08:32.180 of 2023.
00:08:33.880 I know most of you
00:08:35.160 know this,
00:08:35.620 but maybe you've got
00:08:36.280 friends or family
00:08:37.240 out there.
00:08:38.040 I just saw a report,
00:08:39.720 Buck,
00:08:40.360 that New York City's
00:08:41.620 mayoral race
00:08:42.660 is on track
00:08:43.660 for the highest turnout
00:08:44.960 since 1993.
00:08:47.060 That was the
00:08:47.980 Rudy Giuliani win.
00:08:50.060 So,
00:08:51.020 WOR,
00:08:51.960 people in New York City
00:08:53.200 are woken up.
00:08:55.360 There is a lot
00:08:56.560 of enthusiasm.
00:08:57.720 There's a lot
00:08:58.260 of interest here.
00:08:59.700 Let me play a couple
00:09:00.900 of these cuts
00:09:01.620 from Momdani.
00:09:02.880 This is September
00:09:03.940 of 2023.
00:09:06.100 We have to make clear,
00:09:07.540 this is a quote,
00:09:08.680 that when the boot
00:09:09.620 of the NYPD
00:09:10.980 is on your neck,
00:09:12.980 it's been laced
00:09:14.060 by the IDF.
00:09:16.380 This is Momdani,
00:09:17.580 again,
00:09:18.100 cut three,
00:09:19.400 September 2023.
00:09:20.640 The importance for me
00:09:22.360 of international solidarity
00:09:24.280 is that it takes me
00:09:25.600 out of the American
00:09:26.600 political landscape
00:09:27.580 that reminds me
00:09:28.900 just how tame
00:09:30.440 some of the things
00:09:31.280 are that I'm actually
00:09:32.260 calling for.
00:09:34.060 And it reminds me
00:09:35.780 of the necessity
00:09:36.480 of grounding ourselves
00:09:37.600 in the struggles
00:09:38.440 as opposed to
00:09:39.740 the fights
00:09:40.260 around the struggles.
00:09:41.800 For anyone
00:09:42.740 to care
00:09:43.900 about these issues,
00:09:46.300 we have to make
00:09:47.260 them hyper-lobal.
00:09:48.000 We have to make clear
00:09:49.920 that when
00:09:50.580 the boot
00:09:51.700 of the NYPD
00:09:52.640 is on your neck,
00:09:54.800 it's been laced
00:09:55.880 by the IDF.
00:09:57.500 We're in a country
00:09:58.480 where those
00:10:00.220 connections abound,
00:10:01.980 especially in New York City.
00:10:03.560 You have so many
00:10:04.500 opportunities
00:10:05.180 to make clear
00:10:06.740 the ways in which
00:10:08.200 that struggle
00:10:09.260 over there
00:10:09.880 is tied to
00:10:10.800 capital's interest
00:10:11.560 over here.
00:10:12.140 Okay, let me play
00:10:14.200 one more, Buck.
00:10:15.100 And again,
00:10:15.600 he said when the
00:10:16.820 NYPD boot
00:10:18.440 is on your throat,
00:10:19.940 it has been laced
00:10:21.380 by the IDF.
00:10:23.420 Here he is
00:10:24.360 in 2020
00:10:25.200 saying,
00:10:27.020 we don't need police.
00:10:28.460 They don't create safety.
00:10:30.420 We need to take
00:10:31.220 the money
00:10:31.640 and defund
00:10:32.780 the NYPD.
00:10:34.280 This is about
00:10:34.800 as direct
00:10:35.360 as you can be.
00:10:36.300 Cut 33.
00:10:37.260 We need to defund
00:10:38.280 these institutions.
00:10:39.720 And I say that
00:10:40.400 as somebody
00:10:40.840 who has grown up
00:10:41.900 in this city,
00:10:42.480 who has seen
00:10:42.960 what these cops can do,
00:10:44.300 and who has seen
00:10:44.800 the ways in which
00:10:45.660 that police
00:10:46.580 have been integrated
00:10:48.120 into every part
00:10:49.000 of our lives,
00:10:49.960 that we had them
00:10:50.440 in our high schools,
00:10:51.380 that we had them
00:10:51.840 in our middle schools.
00:10:53.060 We do not need
00:10:54.300 police to be
00:10:55.180 in these places.
00:10:56.040 They do not create safety.
00:10:57.940 We need to
00:10:58.680 take this money,
00:10:59.880 defund the NYPD,
00:11:01.060 and refund the people.
00:11:03.700 I mean,
00:11:04.820 this is pretty straightforward.
00:11:06.340 The guy has told you
00:11:07.420 what at least
00:11:08.560 he thought was popular
00:11:09.880 at the time,
00:11:11.100 which is
00:11:11.640 he's a shape-shifting
00:11:13.000 amoeba
00:11:13.460 that is just
00:11:14.280 an actor
00:11:15.260 more than anything else,
00:11:16.520 I think.
00:11:17.260 Here's the truth, Clay.
00:11:18.820 It's like when they
00:11:19.700 hit him with all these ads,
00:11:21.000 all Cuomo has run.
00:11:21.900 Cuomo's run a garbage campaign
00:11:23.380 relative to what
00:11:24.820 it should have been.
00:11:25.560 For a guy who,
00:11:26.380 you can tell
00:11:26.940 that he's a Nepo baby
00:11:28.060 who became governor
00:11:29.280 because daddy was governor
00:11:30.580 and he has a last name
00:11:31.960 that New York has recognized.
00:11:33.260 He was a horrible governor,
00:11:34.340 by the way.
00:11:35.460 He's not a good campaigner.
00:11:36.600 He's actually not
00:11:37.100 a talented politician.
00:11:38.060 He has not run
00:11:39.440 a good campaign
00:11:40.260 in the city of New York
00:11:41.300 at all.
00:11:42.160 And as I've said,
00:11:43.060 if Mamdani's an F
00:11:44.160 as mayor in waiting,
00:11:46.240 Cuomo's maybe a C-.
00:11:48.260 Better,
00:11:49.260 better,
00:11:49.860 but not great.
00:11:50.720 Not great at all.
00:11:52.160 And I think that
00:11:53.440 the attacks on Mamdani
00:11:56.820 saying he doesn't have
00:11:57.960 enough experience,
00:11:59.580 the people voting for him
00:12:00.340 don't care.
00:12:01.440 And the attacks on Mamdani
00:12:03.460 that you and I
00:12:04.220 are now leveling,
00:12:05.540 which is that he's clearly
00:12:07.000 a woke radical leftist
00:12:09.120 who is anti-cop
00:12:10.680 at his core.
00:12:12.060 Clay,
00:12:12.660 they've already gotten
00:12:13.400 around this by saying,
00:12:14.700 you know,
00:12:15.160 he believed that then,
00:12:16.440 he's apologized,
00:12:17.660 he'll keep Jessica Tish
00:12:19.000 in her role
00:12:19.720 as NYPD commissioner
00:12:20.900 whom everyone respects.
00:12:22.220 And by the way,
00:12:23.120 people do respect.
00:12:24.340 But how long does he
00:12:25.100 keep her in that role?
00:12:26.220 And does he allow her
00:12:27.020 to actually do the job
00:12:28.000 the way she wants to?
00:12:29.020 Does she end up resigning
00:12:30.300 in a year in frustration
00:12:32.380 because she's handcuffed,
00:12:34.480 so to speak,
00:12:35.160 from doing the job
00:12:36.140 the way that she should,
00:12:37.000 even if she's kept
00:12:37.660 in that role?
00:12:38.740 But Clay,
00:12:39.100 that requires a degree
00:12:40.320 of political wisdom,
00:12:41.360 insight, and foresight
00:12:42.460 that you and I
00:12:44.060 and all of you
00:12:45.360 with us now have.
00:12:47.420 But the Mamdani voters don't.
00:12:50.100 They're just going to excuse
00:12:51.260 whatever they have to excuse.
00:12:52.840 And by the way,
00:12:53.360 a lot of them
00:12:54.000 think that he's just
00:12:55.000 fooling some of the normies
00:12:56.760 and is still every bit
00:12:58.140 the radical
00:12:58.560 and they like that, right?
00:12:59.720 So, you know,
00:13:00.400 we're preaching to the choir
00:13:02.400 on how anti-copy is,
00:13:03.980 but they're playing this game
00:13:05.400 very well
00:13:06.140 in the Mamdani campaign.
00:13:07.800 We will play
00:13:08.760 another couple of cuts,
00:13:10.320 including Mamdani's dad
00:13:12.160 saying that Hitler learned
00:13:14.480 everything he knows
00:13:15.460 from Abraham Lincoln.
00:13:17.840 Again, these are direct words
00:13:19.600 That would be news
00:13:19.960 to Abraham Lincoln,
00:13:21.120 which is the most amazing thing.
00:13:22.620 Abe would be like,
00:13:23.520 whoa, I didn't know
00:13:24.280 that I learned everything,
00:13:26.120 or rather that I, you know,
00:13:27.220 taught everything Hitler needed to know.
00:13:28.280 That he was the inspiration
00:13:29.460 for Nazidom,
00:13:30.800 according to Mamdani's dad.
00:13:32.820 This is what he's been
00:13:33.760 raised to believe.
00:13:35.760 And this race, again,
00:13:38.300 there's data out there
00:13:39.720 that suggests
00:13:40.320 that we may be headed
00:13:42.040 for the highest turnout
00:13:43.360 in a mayoral race
00:13:44.680 since 1993.
00:13:46.420 So, maybe there is hope
00:13:47.780 that I could be wearing
00:13:49.220 a red beret
00:13:50.100 for a week on the program.
00:13:52.280 Curtis Sliwa
00:13:52.880 is going to join us tomorrow
00:13:53.980 and make the case
00:13:55.440 for why I'm a moron.
00:13:57.000 And some of you
00:13:58.380 have already signed on to that.
00:14:00.100 We'll play some fun feedback
00:14:01.180 on that.
00:14:02.100 Look, having a lifeline
00:14:03.240 during an emergency is key.
00:14:04.840 Rapid radios
00:14:05.460 can be that lifeline.
00:14:06.680 These are modern-day
00:14:07.440 walkie-talkies.
00:14:08.700 They work on a nationwide
00:14:09.860 LTE network.
00:14:11.400 Rapid radios
00:14:12.120 will keep you connected
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00:14:57.120 Saving America.
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00:15:01.020 Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
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00:15:34.920 We have some things
00:15:35.900 to update you on.
00:15:37.180 One, Clay,
00:15:39.040 just this is a pickup
00:15:40.300 from yesterday.
00:15:41.200 Remember how
00:15:41.860 I played Governor Hochul,
00:15:44.340 the governor of New York,
00:15:45.280 Kathy Hochul,
00:15:45.940 the accidental governor.
00:15:47.160 In fact,
00:15:48.020 only the governor
00:15:48.920 because Cuomo
00:15:50.460 was grabbing ladies
00:15:52.260 by the waist
00:15:53.680 and kissing them
00:15:54.940 close to the mouth,
00:15:56.360 but not on the mouth,
00:15:57.640 but in Italian fashion.
00:16:01.240 Hochul
00:16:01.800 was claiming
00:16:03.400 that she doesn't even know
00:16:05.480 what the crowd
00:16:07.020 was chanting.
00:16:07.660 They were chanting
00:16:08.940 at the left-wing loon rally,
00:16:11.380 tax the rich,
00:16:12.580 tax the rich.
00:16:13.480 We played that yesterday,
00:16:14.480 and I said,
00:16:15.000 they're moving
00:16:15.600 from race communism
00:16:16.620 to more old-school
00:16:17.640 class communism,
00:16:18.700 right?
00:16:18.880 The original.
00:16:19.760 Communism is just
00:16:20.520 a religion of state envy
00:16:21.740 or rather of state-enforced envy
00:16:24.320 that always turns
00:16:25.140 into totalitarianism.
00:16:26.140 That's what real communism is.
00:16:27.960 It's not about the workers
00:16:29.340 and the revolutionary proletariat
00:16:31.060 and all.
00:16:31.320 That's all just,
00:16:32.280 that's all the make-believe stuff.
00:16:33.540 Once you get into, like,
00:16:34.380 the final boss level
00:16:36.200 of communism,
00:16:38.200 it's just totalitarianism
00:16:40.760 that roots itself
00:16:42.700 deep into the public psyche
00:16:44.260 via envy and hatred
00:16:45.900 of all that is good.
00:16:46.920 That's what actual communism is.
00:16:49.560 Envy is at the core of it all.
00:16:51.440 Here is Kathy Hochul, though, Clay.
00:16:53.100 I'm going to play
00:16:53.700 Mom Donnie's dad in a second,
00:16:55.060 but I just wanted to update this.
00:16:56.480 Kathy Hochul realizes that,
00:16:58.000 you know,
00:16:58.240 she's the governor of New York,
00:16:59.460 maybe going all in
00:17:02.160 on tax the rich
00:17:03.360 as a slogan
00:17:04.240 that a rally is not so great,
00:17:05.580 so now she's like,
00:17:06.300 I don't even know
00:17:07.040 what they were saying.
00:17:08.180 Play nine.
00:17:08.960 I thought they were saying
00:17:09.760 let's go bills.
00:17:10.520 I wasn't sure.
00:17:12.180 When you're up there,
00:17:13.400 I heard some noise.
00:17:14.500 I heard a lot of cheers,
00:17:15.920 but later on,
00:17:17.080 it became clear to me
00:17:17.960 that there is a,
00:17:18.700 I know there's passion for that.
00:17:20.340 I mean, I went in there
00:17:21.560 as the leader
00:17:22.180 of the Democratic Party
00:17:23.360 whose job it is to unify
00:17:25.700 and unify behind
00:17:27.240 the Democratic nominee.
00:17:29.020 I love the energy out there.
00:17:30.940 I told them that,
00:17:32.180 and what I want to do
00:17:32.740 is bottle all that up,
00:17:34.380 you know,
00:17:34.540 use it in a few days,
00:17:36.400 but take that to Long Island
00:17:38.840 and the Hudson Valley.
00:17:40.960 Clay,
00:17:41.380 Kathy Hochul,
00:17:42.020 let's play a game.
00:17:43.440 Moron or liar?
00:17:45.980 Liar here.
00:17:47.180 Sometimes often a moron,
00:17:48.780 but she did not think
00:17:50.520 they were saying
00:17:51.260 let's go bills.
00:17:52.560 I mean,
00:17:53.000 tax the rich
00:17:53.920 was pretty clear.
00:17:54.980 I mean,
00:17:55.120 you and I could hear it.
00:17:56.360 We were not at the rally,
00:17:57.740 and if you were at the rally,
00:18:01.300 you would have seen
00:18:02.080 some people's faces
00:18:03.160 and been able to lip read them
00:18:04.980 as well as they were chanting
00:18:06.780 tax the rich.
00:18:08.080 Again,
00:18:08.800 I think there is a quiet panic
00:18:10.900 setting in
00:18:11.780 among Democrats
00:18:14.680 that know what it takes
00:18:16.200 to win elections.
00:18:17.580 That if AOC and Momdani
00:18:20.280 are the face of the Democrat Party,
00:18:23.260 they're in trouble.
00:18:23.980 And really,
00:18:26.280 liberal became
00:18:27.320 such a negative word
00:18:28.700 for the Democrats
00:18:29.660 that they really ran away from it.
00:18:31.500 They talk about being progressives now.
00:18:34.260 I think New York City liberal
00:18:36.840 and California liberal
00:18:39.360 is going to be a huge part
00:18:41.780 of the 2026 campaign.
00:18:44.400 Because I think
00:18:45.240 if you look in New York City,
00:18:46.700 you're going to have Momdani,
00:18:48.140 you're going to have AOC,
00:18:49.260 you're going to have Schumer,
00:18:50.440 and you're going to have
00:18:51.440 Hakeem Jeffries.
00:18:53.340 That's four New York City
00:18:54.620 guys and gals.
00:18:55.820 And you're just going to say
00:18:56.860 those are New York City liberals.
00:18:58.820 And then as Newsom gears up
00:19:03.080 to run for the presidency,
00:19:05.820 I think California liberal
00:19:07.440 will also be an insult.
00:19:09.880 And I think increasingly
00:19:11.640 the decisions being made
00:19:13.300 by places like New York and L.A.
00:19:15.600 are at extreme odds
00:19:17.060 with the rest of the country
00:19:18.380 in a way that the Democrat Party
00:19:19.900 recognizes is toxic to their brand
00:19:22.320 in what they would call
00:19:24.220 flyover country.
00:19:25.580 And they have to win
00:19:26.540 some of those races
00:19:27.460 in order to have power
00:19:28.840 to enact the agendas
00:19:30.240 of New York and L.A.
00:19:31.320 Heck, Buck, even San Francisco,
00:19:33.540 I think you've got to give
00:19:34.180 some credit to their new mayor,
00:19:35.700 Daniel Lurie.
00:19:37.000 He seems sane, right?
00:19:38.560 On a level that Momdani
00:19:40.960 is not sane.
00:19:42.080 On a level that Brandon Johnson
00:19:43.700 in Chicago is not sane.
00:19:45.680 On a level that
00:19:46.780 that Karen Bass,
00:19:48.780 the mayor of Los Angeles,
00:19:50.960 is not, right?
00:19:52.040 Those are people
00:19:52.760 who are clear,
00:19:53.740 failed left-wing politicians.
00:19:56.220 I think some cities,
00:19:57.660 Muriel Bowser seems
00:19:58.840 somewhat reasonable, right?
00:20:00.740 The mayor of Washington, D.C.
00:20:04.280 The mayor,
00:20:05.040 and I'm saying that
00:20:05.680 from a Democrat context perspective,
00:20:08.100 not that I agree
00:20:08.940 with everything they do,
00:20:10.100 but just, hey,
00:20:11.260 Trump trying to drive down
00:20:12.560 violent crime in Washington, D.C.,
00:20:14.900 Pam kind of in favor of that.
00:20:16.240 That's Muriel Bowser.
00:20:18.480 Daniel Lurie,
00:20:19.400 the mayor of San Francisco,
00:20:20.700 actually negotiating with Trump
00:20:22.400 to try to say,
00:20:23.380 hey, we're trying to implement
00:20:25.160 a lot of the policies
00:20:26.080 you want to put in place,
00:20:27.220 but if I do it,
00:20:28.600 maybe we can get it through
00:20:30.000 without the chaos
00:20:31.180 that might come from people
00:20:32.540 who just hate you
00:20:33.400 in San Francisco,
00:20:34.920 rejecting the choices
00:20:35.920 you're making
00:20:36.440 even when they're rational.
00:20:37.820 my biggest concern, Buck,
00:20:40.840 is they make all these choices
00:20:43.160 that are awful,
00:20:44.520 and then they still
00:20:46.140 are going to just say,
00:20:47.660 well, the reason why
00:20:48.780 you know this didn't work,
00:20:50.340 because we didn't tax
00:20:51.420 rich people enough,
00:20:53.040 because we didn't go
00:20:54.580 far left-wing enough,
00:20:56.660 that's the reason
00:20:57.620 why the policies
00:20:58.600 that we're trying
00:20:59.380 to put in place fail.
00:21:00.520 That's my concern
00:21:01.380 about Mondani,
00:21:02.520 if he wins,
00:21:03.680 that they will refuse
00:21:04.600 to accept responsibility
00:21:05.920 if he tries to put
00:21:07.180 these policies in place.
00:21:08.680 I'm sorry, Claire,
00:21:09.320 are you trying to suggest
00:21:10.160 that if he's as much
00:21:11.260 of a disaster as you and I
00:21:12.680 and every sane person
00:21:13.580 with us right now
00:21:14.400 thinks he will be,
00:21:16.240 the voters of Mondani
00:21:17.540 will claim that real
00:21:18.400 Mondani-ism
00:21:19.040 has never been tried?
00:21:21.260 It's very sad.
00:21:22.600 It's very sad.
00:21:23.280 It's very true.
00:21:24.160 It's very, very certain.
00:21:25.120 All right,
00:21:25.400 speaking of Mondani,
00:21:26.860 Mondani,
00:21:27.640 I will say also,
00:21:28.600 everyone butchers
00:21:29.360 this guy's name
00:21:30.060 all the time.
00:21:31.360 It's amazing.
00:21:33.060 It shouldn't be that hard
00:21:34.300 to say but for some reason
00:21:35.600 going from the M
00:21:36.520 to the N, I think.
00:21:37.820 Am I mispronouncing this
00:21:39.360 or is this one of the few,
00:21:40.480 Zoran Mondani, right?
00:21:41.980 Like I can pronounce this.
00:21:43.020 Mondani, yes.
00:21:43.480 Yeah.
00:21:44.040 A lot of people say
00:21:44.740 Mondani,
00:21:45.980 you know,
00:21:47.260 Mondania,
00:21:48.980 you know,
00:21:49.220 they get all kinds
00:21:50.360 of things going on here.
00:21:51.260 All right,
00:21:51.480 let's get into his dad.
00:21:53.140 Let's talk about his dad
00:21:54.040 for a second here.
00:21:54.900 Zoran Mondani's father
00:21:55.940 who's a Columbia University
00:21:57.640 professor,
00:21:58.800 of course,
00:22:00.640 Mahmoud Mondani.
00:22:03.280 This is not long ago.
00:22:05.920 Oh, I know.
00:22:06.520 Here is Zoran's dad
00:22:08.860 on this country
00:22:10.820 that, remember,
00:22:11.860 Zoran is here
00:22:12.840 as a refugee.
00:22:15.220 Zoran is here
00:22:16.340 because the place
00:22:18.060 that he came from
00:22:19.180 was not a place
00:22:19.960 he could stay, right?
00:22:21.400 I mean,
00:22:21.580 that's my,
00:22:22.100 I think his dad came here
00:22:23.200 from Uganda
00:22:23.900 and whether he's not
00:22:25.580 technically a refugee,
00:22:26.480 he's certainly an immigrant
00:22:27.140 because Uganda,
00:22:28.640 it's got problems.
00:22:29.620 It's got a little bit of problems.
00:22:30.300 It's not a place
00:22:30.800 that a lot of people
00:22:31.680 choose to go
00:22:32.940 from a Western
00:22:34.940 civilized country, right?
00:22:36.440 There's just not
00:22:36.940 that many people
00:22:37.460 who are like,
00:22:37.740 hey, where are you headed next?
00:22:38.700 Oh, I was thinking
00:22:39.300 about America.
00:22:40.700 I was thinking
00:22:41.440 about England,
00:22:43.840 maybe Germany,
00:22:45.240 and then I chose
00:22:46.480 Uganda instead.
00:22:47.500 I don't think a lot
00:22:48.240 of people make that choice.
00:22:49.260 It was Italy
00:22:49.820 or it was Uganda.
00:22:51.680 Yeah, most people,
00:22:52.880 including Mondani's
00:22:54.080 own family,
00:22:55.120 have made the choice
00:22:55.960 to come back.
00:22:56.640 I do love Buck
00:22:57.460 that while he doesn't
00:22:58.320 trust the NYPD,
00:23:00.020 when he goes to Uganda,
00:23:01.220 they have a full security force
00:23:03.160 protecting the family.
00:23:04.640 Yes, but of course.
00:23:05.700 But of course.
00:23:07.100 Here is his dad
00:23:08.900 back in 2022,
00:23:10.100 Columbia University professor,
00:23:11.780 Professor Mondani,
00:23:13.140 play at six.
00:23:14.740 America is the genesis
00:23:17.060 of what we call
00:23:18.660 settler colonialism.
00:23:20.420 And the American model
00:23:21.920 was exported
00:23:23.100 all around the world.
00:23:24.760 Abraham Lincoln
00:23:26.500 generalized the solution
00:23:28.760 of reservations.
00:23:30.880 They herded American Indians
00:23:32.940 into separate territories.
00:23:37.580 For the Nazis,
00:23:39.500 for the Nazis,
00:23:41.300 this was the inspiration.
00:23:43.680 Hitler realized two things.
00:23:45.840 One,
00:23:46.900 the genocide was doable.
00:23:49.460 It is possible
00:23:50.480 to do genocide.
00:23:52.580 That's what Hitler realized.
00:23:54.780 Second thing Hitler realized
00:23:56.340 is that you don't have
00:23:58.380 to have a common citizenship.
00:24:00.420 You can differentiate
00:24:01.480 between people.
00:24:03.300 The Nuremberg laws
00:24:04.540 were patterned
00:24:05.440 after American laws.
00:24:08.220 Anyway,
00:24:08.700 the U.S. put Indians
00:24:10.200 in reservations.
00:24:12.160 The U.S. invented
00:24:13.540 the model.
00:24:16.960 This is not true.
00:24:19.540 First of all,
00:24:19.900 when he talks about
00:24:20.260 settler colonialism,
00:24:21.220 I think he's trying
00:24:21.820 to speak specifically
00:24:22.620 in the context of Israel
00:24:23.780 as an apartheid state here
00:24:25.100 because obviously
00:24:26.420 America was a colony.
00:24:29.060 It was a colony
00:24:30.260 of settlers
00:24:31.340 and then we fought
00:24:32.800 a revolution
00:24:33.340 to become free.
00:24:34.560 I don't know
00:24:34.760 if he just skipped
00:24:35.320 that part of American history,
00:24:36.860 but it turned,
00:24:37.420 it was actually
00:24:38.220 the Spanish,
00:24:39.580 the French,
00:24:40.540 the Dutch,
00:24:41.260 the British,
00:24:41.840 they were the ones
00:24:43.160 who created this model,
00:24:45.400 not us.
00:24:45.740 This is actually
00:24:46.280 this argument
00:24:46.900 that he makes,
00:24:47.600 Buck,
00:24:47.800 this is why
00:24:48.640 I was so annoyed
00:24:50.240 and have not given them
00:24:52.200 any money.
00:24:52.800 What annoys Clay the most
00:24:53.780 is not the hatred
00:24:54.500 of America,
00:24:55.100 it's the wrong history.
00:24:57.700 Getting the history wrong.
00:24:58.980 You can hate America,
00:25:00.280 you have the right
00:25:01.000 to hate America,
00:25:02.220 but at least rooted
00:25:03.380 in historical accuracy,
00:25:05.120 this is like the,
00:25:06.440 and don't placate
00:25:07.740 those who hate America
00:25:08.860 and are rooted
00:25:09.800 in historical stupidity.
00:25:11.560 This is like
00:25:12.060 what happened
00:25:12.400 at my university,
00:25:13.380 George Washington University.
00:25:15.320 GW is now
00:25:16.320 the revolutionaries.
00:25:17.820 They were the colonials,
00:25:19.680 but they decided
00:25:20.900 that the colonials
00:25:22.520 had too much
00:25:23.340 of a context
00:25:24.120 of connection
00:25:24.820 to colonialism,
00:25:25.880 so they changed
00:25:27.960 the name
00:25:28.440 of the mascot.
00:25:30.240 We weren't
00:25:30.720 the colonial army.
00:25:33.700 We were
00:25:34.820 the colonized
00:25:36.100 who threw off
00:25:37.980 the oppressive
00:25:39.300 colonialism
00:25:40.540 that we were
00:25:42.200 founded upon,
00:25:43.160 right?
00:25:43.540 So,
00:25:43.940 if anything,
00:25:45.600 in the history,
00:25:46.820 we're the heroes
00:25:47.640 of the colonial
00:25:49.260 worldview
00:25:50.060 because we
00:25:50.980 took independence
00:25:52.420 from the places
00:25:53.820 that had colonized us.
00:25:55.760 In fact,
00:25:56.540 there were countries
00:25:57.480 where very explicitly
00:25:58.820 the removal
00:26:00.240 of the colonial
00:26:01.260 overlord
00:26:01.980 was premised
00:26:03.880 upon
00:26:04.320 the American
00:26:05.780 success in this,
00:26:06.980 right?
00:26:07.200 One example
00:26:07.780 would be
00:26:08.420 Haiti.
00:26:09.260 Haiti,
00:26:09.800 unfortunately.
00:26:10.580 The least successful
00:26:11.700 revolution
00:26:12.380 in the western
00:26:13.260 hemisphere,
00:26:13.840 probably.
00:26:14.600 But,
00:26:14.760 yes,
00:26:15.140 Buck,
00:26:15.400 to your point,
00:26:16.140 when in New York
00:26:17.140 City,
00:26:17.420 where you grew up,
00:26:19.080 one of the first
00:26:19.700 things they did
00:26:20.520 was tear down
00:26:21.640 the statue
00:26:22.220 of the king
00:26:23.220 and turn it
00:26:24.360 into lead
00:26:25.540 bullets.
00:26:27.200 I mean,
00:26:27.820 that is pretty
00:26:28.460 explicitly
00:26:29.260 anti-
00:26:30.480 the colonial
00:26:31.800 power
00:26:32.340 that puts you
00:26:33.300 in place.
00:26:33.580 So,
00:26:34.060 yes,
00:26:34.540 his argument
00:26:36.000 is bastardized
00:26:37.260 and what
00:26:37.780 it is really
00:26:38.340 designed to do,
00:26:39.540 and this is where
00:26:40.180 the identity
00:26:40.740 politics worldview
00:26:42.220 comes in,
00:26:42.980 is white men
00:26:44.020 are evil.
00:26:45.060 If you look
00:26:46.200 at what
00:26:47.080 the motivation
00:26:48.380 is by and large
00:26:49.860 of the modern
00:26:51.000 day Democrat
00:26:51.940 Party,
00:26:52.760 at its essence,
00:26:53.880 at its base,
00:26:54.920 it is white men
00:26:56.020 are evil.
00:26:56.680 That's what they
00:26:57.220 all believe.
00:26:58.160 Now,
00:26:58.380 some of those
00:26:58.920 white men
00:26:59.460 who take
00:27:00.200 their wives'
00:27:00.780 names are
00:27:01.520 voting also
00:27:02.500 to say white
00:27:03.440 men are evil.
00:27:04.280 There's a not
00:27:05.020 insubstantial cadre
00:27:06.100 of white people
00:27:06.840 that thinks that
00:27:07.720 white people are
00:27:08.560 evil.
00:27:08.840 They are
00:27:09.960 collaborators in the
00:27:11.360 wokeness.
00:27:11.820 White women
00:27:13.260 are actually
00:27:14.140 the founders
00:27:15.320 and primary
00:27:16.320 principal drivers
00:27:17.500 of the woke
00:27:18.380 virus in general.
00:27:19.680 In fact,
00:27:19.980 I think that's
00:27:20.460 likely true,
00:27:21.260 but it relies
00:27:22.380 on the villainy
00:27:23.800 of white men.
00:27:25.380 That is the
00:27:25.800 foundation of
00:27:27.040 the Democrat
00:27:27.580 Party.
00:27:28.380 And so when
00:27:29.500 Mom Donnie's
00:27:30.380 dad is making
00:27:31.220 the argument
00:27:32.000 that all that
00:27:33.960 is evil is
00:27:34.600 rooted in the
00:27:35.140 United States,
00:27:35.740 it's an intentional
00:27:36.520 argument because
00:27:37.260 what it leads
00:27:37.860 to is a
00:27:39.100 delegitimization
00:27:40.080 of the country
00:27:41.040 and its founding
00:27:41.720 and the
00:27:42.100 Declaration of
00:27:42.760 Independence
00:27:43.160 and the
00:27:43.560 Constitution,
00:27:44.460 and you can
00:27:44.980 tear it all
00:27:45.560 down as we
00:27:46.240 saw physically
00:27:46.860 happen in
00:27:47.400 2020.
00:27:48.120 There's also
00:27:48.440 an argument
00:27:48.860 that I've
00:27:49.500 thought of,
00:27:50.080 maybe Clay,
00:27:50.660 for a future
00:27:51.200 book,
00:27:51.680 but it would
00:27:51.980 be very
00:27:52.360 detailed and
00:27:52.900 historic and
00:27:53.480 have to get
00:27:53.920 deep into
00:27:54.240 the history.
00:27:54.840 But one of
00:27:56.000 the challenges
00:27:57.800 that the
00:27:58.440 Western world
00:27:59.120 has when it
00:27:59.820 comes to all
00:28:00.560 of this
00:28:01.300 wokeness and
00:28:03.320 historical oppression
00:28:04.360 stuff is that we
00:28:05.720 actually have
00:28:06.360 histories,
00:28:07.120 written histories,
00:28:07.740 that go back
00:28:08.420 quite a ways.
00:28:09.420 A lot of other
00:28:10.020 parts of the world
00:28:10.500 don't.
00:28:11.480 Yeah.
00:28:11.600 And so it's
00:28:12.140 harder for people
00:28:12.940 to know,
00:28:13.440 for example,
00:28:14.020 like you all
00:28:14.840 know that the
00:28:16.500 Portuguese and
00:28:17.260 the Spanish and
00:28:17.920 the French and
00:28:18.480 the British,
00:28:19.000 et cetera,
00:28:19.540 Western European
00:28:20.100 countries in the
00:28:20.840 age of exploration
00:28:21.840 starting right
00:28:22.560 around the early
00:28:23.620 1500s after
00:28:24.680 Columbus lands in
00:28:25.480 1492,
00:28:26.500 they start going
00:28:27.260 all over the
00:28:27.700 world,
00:28:27.920 they start
00:28:28.240 exploring,
00:28:28.920 and yes,
00:28:29.280 they fight and
00:28:29.880 they take over
00:28:30.500 pieces of land,
00:28:31.320 sometimes more
00:28:31.960 peacefully than
00:28:32.500 others,
00:28:32.860 but a lot of
00:28:33.480 the time with
00:28:33.860 violence and a lot
00:28:34.480 of the time they
00:28:34.860 spread disease.
00:28:35.860 But do people
00:28:36.240 know about all of
00:28:37.060 the tribes that
00:28:38.120 were exterminating
00:28:38.780 each other
00:28:39.140 beforehand?
00:28:40.280 Do people know
00:28:40.860 that the great
00:28:41.480 victory of the
00:28:43.900 Inca people,
00:28:44.740 for example,
00:28:45.360 was the
00:28:45.760 consolidation of
00:28:46.580 their empire
00:28:47.180 just a generation
00:28:48.500 before the arrival
00:28:49.440 of the Spaniards?
00:28:50.480 The consolidation
00:28:50.960 of an empire
00:28:51.680 that enslaved
00:28:52.360 and murdered
00:28:53.200 countless other
00:28:54.680 tribes.
00:28:55.900 They don't even
00:28:56.600 talk about this.
00:28:57.300 You talk about
00:28:57.740 the native
00:28:58.940 South Africans,
00:29:00.180 and this came up
00:29:00.900 recently when Trump
00:29:01.540 was talking about
00:29:02.060 South African
00:29:02.600 refugees.
00:29:03.800 How many of the
00:29:04.420 people that teach
00:29:05.080 about settler
00:29:05.580 colonialism,
00:29:07.080 for example,
00:29:07.600 at Columbia
00:29:07.920 University,
00:29:08.860 even know
00:29:09.460 that the
00:29:10.140 Zulus were
00:29:10.920 colonists?
00:29:12.280 The Zulu
00:29:12.800 tribe arrived
00:29:14.660 and through
00:29:16.080 warfare and
00:29:17.060 conquest and
00:29:17.880 enslavement of
00:29:19.060 those who were
00:29:19.700 there in advance
00:29:20.640 of the Zulus
00:29:21.180 became the
00:29:21.840 primary tribe
00:29:22.580 in that region
00:29:23.280 and the areas
00:29:24.160 that originally
00:29:24.720 the South African
00:29:25.660 Dutch colonists
00:29:26.580 colonized were
00:29:28.280 uninhabited.
00:29:29.640 Well, I mean,
00:29:30.880 this is not taught.
00:29:31.820 No one knows
00:29:32.260 these things.
00:29:32.660 This is all true.
00:29:34.040 This is also
00:29:34.720 the story of
00:29:35.840 human civilization
00:29:36.720 civilization is
00:29:37.460 human populations
00:29:38.800 moved to areas
00:29:39.760 where there was
00:29:40.780 no people,
00:29:41.420 right?
00:29:41.740 So at what
00:29:42.820 point does
00:29:44.020 land,
00:29:44.760 it's really
00:29:45.460 kind of amazing,
00:29:46.600 right?
00:29:46.840 The whole argument
00:29:47.560 is premised on,
00:29:48.740 to your point,
00:29:49.780 a fact that the
00:29:51.880 historical record
00:29:52.740 is very limited,
00:29:53.800 but land is,
00:29:56.900 like,
00:29:57.000 at what point do
00:29:57.800 you say,
00:29:58.200 oh, this land
00:29:58.800 is owned by
00:29:59.680 someone?
00:30:00.860 When do they
00:30:01.520 become the owners?
00:30:02.740 The whole premise
00:30:03.760 is just absolutely
00:30:04.840 ridiculous.
00:30:05.620 And these land
00:30:06.300 acknowledgments,
00:30:07.200 which are now
00:30:07.560 the basis of
00:30:08.540 almost every
00:30:09.080 major Democrat
00:30:09.860 event,
00:30:10.780 you know,
00:30:11.020 they start off
00:30:11.580 by apologizing
00:30:12.440 to the initial
00:30:13.460 owners of the
00:30:14.900 land or dwellers
00:30:16.640 of the land.
00:30:17.920 The great
00:30:18.900 exterminators,
00:30:19.900 if you're going
00:30:20.300 to look for them
00:30:20.820 of other human
00:30:21.400 beings,
00:30:21.840 would certainly
00:30:22.300 be the Mongols,
00:30:23.480 actually,
00:30:24.100 in the 13th.
00:30:24.640 How many of you
00:30:25.180 sit around thinking
00:30:25.800 a lot about the
00:30:26.400 Khurasmian Empire?
00:30:28.440 You might not
00:30:28.820 have even heard
00:30:29.220 of the Khurasmian.
00:30:29.660 It was actually
00:30:30.080 huge.
00:30:31.780 It was gone.
00:30:32.740 They killed
00:30:33.180 basically all of
00:30:34.080 them,
00:30:34.260 the Mongols.
00:30:34.780 They showed
00:30:35.100 up.
00:30:35.320 They didn't
00:30:35.520 like them.
00:30:36.000 They killed
00:30:36.280 all of them,
00:30:36.620 every man,
00:30:36.980 woman,
00:30:37.140 and child,
00:30:37.500 because that's
00:30:37.780 how they used
00:30:38.080 to do things.
00:30:38.760 The notion,
00:30:39.640 Clay,
00:30:40.060 that America
00:30:40.960 came up with
00:30:42.040 the idea of
00:30:42.860 genocide in all
00:30:43.840 of human history
00:30:44.500 is one of the
00:30:45.280 dumbest things
00:30:45.700 I've ever seen.
00:30:46.360 Only a truly
00:30:46.900 historically ignorant
00:30:47.780 person who hates
00:30:48.820 white men would
00:30:49.820 say such a thing,
00:30:50.660 and that is where
00:30:51.320 Mom Donnie's dad
00:30:52.260 comes down on this.
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00:32:44.880 Welcome back in.
00:32:46.260 Hour number three,
00:32:47.460 Clay Travis, Buck
00:32:48.660 Sexton Show.
00:32:50.200 A lot of positive
00:32:51.180 things.
00:32:51.820 I always try to
00:32:52.740 make sure that I
00:32:53.640 talk about the
00:32:54.300 positivity as much as
00:32:55.900 I possibly can.
00:32:57.620 We are continuing to
00:32:59.440 set new all-time
00:33:01.000 records.
00:33:01.800 In fact, the S&P
00:33:03.440 500, new all-time
00:33:05.420 record as I am
00:33:06.640 speaking to you.
00:33:07.660 The Dow Jones
00:33:08.440 Industrial Average,
00:33:09.940 new all-time record
00:33:11.340 as I am speaking to
00:33:12.780 you.
00:33:13.620 And the NASDAQ,
00:33:15.200 new all-time record
00:33:16.540 as I am speaking
00:33:17.920 with you.
00:33:18.740 All-time records.
00:33:21.180 For those of you
00:33:21.900 out there that
00:33:22.680 own stock in any
00:33:24.220 way, pensions,
00:33:25.360 401ks, individual
00:33:27.080 stocks, chances are
00:33:29.400 if you happen to go
00:33:30.660 gander at your stock
00:33:32.660 values, they have
00:33:33.900 never been higher in
00:33:35.320 your life.
00:33:36.520 And I do just want to
00:33:38.260 continue to point it
00:33:39.240 out that in April,
00:33:41.680 you were told, oh my
00:33:42.960 goodness, the stock
00:33:44.120 market is collapsing.
00:33:46.320 Donald Trump has no
00:33:47.460 idea what he's doing
00:33:48.420 with the economy, and
00:33:50.260 the S&P 500 is up
00:33:52.580 2,000 points since
00:33:55.500 then.
00:33:56.320 If you had bought
00:33:57.300 stock back in April,
00:33:59.100 you're up around 40%
00:34:01.400 now on those stock
00:34:04.180 purchases.
00:34:05.140 If you merely just
00:34:08.000 held on to your
00:34:09.620 existing stocks and
00:34:10.960 just didn't even pay
00:34:11.820 attention to any of it,
00:34:13.180 this year, the S&P 500
00:34:15.620 is up right at 18%
00:34:18.140 so far.
00:34:19.240 You might say, okay,
00:34:19.960 well, Clay, how does
00:34:20.620 that contextualize?
00:34:21.700 On average, the S&P 500
00:34:24.460 is going to be up
00:34:25.180 around 9%.
00:34:26.260 On average.
00:34:27.340 Some years you might
00:34:27.960 lose 20, some years
00:34:29.000 you may make 20, but
00:34:30.720 this year is a very
00:34:32.260 good year so far for
00:34:33.840 stocks, and we are at
00:34:35.520 record highs.
00:34:36.820 So, I understand
00:34:39.060 also, those of you
00:34:39.960 out there who say,
00:34:40.600 Clay, man, you don't
00:34:41.360 know what you're
00:34:41.700 talking about.
00:34:42.260 The economy's not as
00:34:43.140 good on the ground as
00:34:43.980 you're saying.
00:34:44.280 I get it.
00:34:45.680 And I think a lot of
00:34:46.620 that is still working
00:34:47.780 through the disaster
00:34:49.260 that was the Biden
00:34:50.340 economy.
00:34:51.280 In general, the stock
00:34:53.340 market runs 6 or 12
00:34:55.200 months in advance of the
00:34:56.640 economic conditions you
00:34:57.920 see on the ground.
00:34:59.180 And so all of this is
00:35:00.500 very positive.
00:35:01.360 Trump is trying to make
00:35:02.500 the economic conditions
00:35:03.720 better for all of us on
00:35:05.360 the ground.
00:35:06.300 And right now, he's in
00:35:07.380 Asia.
00:35:08.080 He is meeting with
00:35:09.020 Japan.
00:35:10.040 I saw this morning that
00:35:11.500 he had a great reception
00:35:12.860 in Japan.
00:35:13.880 He is scheduled to be in
00:35:14.860 South Korea.
00:35:15.500 Buck, I don't know if
00:35:15.980 you saw this, some
00:35:17.300 whispers that he might
00:35:19.400 meet Kim Jong-un again.
00:35:21.580 Remember how quickly the
00:35:23.160 meeting with North Korea's
00:35:24.660 reclusive dictator
00:35:25.820 happened in the past.
00:35:28.100 He's going to be in
00:35:28.900 South Korea, Trump is.
00:35:30.400 He's going to be meeting
00:35:31.620 with Chinese Premier Xi.
00:35:33.680 So there is some
00:35:35.120 possibility, maybe there'll
00:35:36.420 be additional aspects of
00:35:37.680 that.
00:35:37.900 As part of his travel, on
00:35:40.340 Air Force One, Trump has
00:35:42.120 been answering questions
00:35:44.080 quite a lot.
00:35:45.420 And among those questions,
00:35:47.360 let's play a couple of
00:35:48.160 these cuts because I
00:35:48.920 thought they were
00:35:49.440 entertaining and I want
00:35:50.340 to make sure that we
00:35:51.880 keep you updated with
00:35:52.840 what the president is
00:35:53.940 saying, even as we are
00:35:55.420 following the New York
00:35:56.800 City's mayor race.
00:35:58.060 Tomorrow, we will have
00:35:59.080 Curtis Sliwa on the
00:36:00.300 program.
00:36:00.820 And even as we are
00:36:02.280 following what's going
00:36:03.160 on in New Jersey and
00:36:04.360 Virginia, one week from
00:36:06.100 today is the 2025
00:36:08.320 elections, also coming
00:36:09.600 up on the one-year
00:36:10.360 anniversary of Trump's
00:36:11.640 record win in 2024.
00:36:14.260 But Trump yesterday on
00:36:15.900 Air Force One was asked
00:36:17.800 about would he be running
00:36:19.340 in 2028, this obsession.
00:36:21.920 Here is Cut 21.
00:36:23.540 We have great people.
00:36:24.640 I don't have to get into
00:36:25.680 that, but we have one of
00:36:26.740 them standing right here.
00:36:27.880 We have J.D., obviously,
00:36:30.620 the vice president is
00:36:31.680 great.
00:36:32.720 I think Marco is great.
00:36:33.840 I think I'm not sure if
00:36:35.440 anybody would run against
00:36:36.520 us.
00:36:37.460 I think if they have a
00:36:38.520 formed a group, it would
00:36:39.400 be unstoppable.
00:36:41.480 I really do.
00:36:42.040 I believe that.
00:36:43.100 I would love to do it.
00:36:45.860 I have my best numbers
00:36:46.920 ever.
00:36:47.300 It's very terrible.
00:36:48.140 I have my best numbers
00:36:49.020 ever.
00:36:49.940 If you read it, am I not
00:36:53.580 really going to have it?
00:36:54.480 You'll have to tell me.
00:36:55.480 Okay, so Trump talking
00:36:58.080 again, the obsession,
00:36:59.500 Trump 2028.
00:37:00.640 I'm going to be honest
00:37:01.120 with you, Buck.
00:37:02.120 I wish he could run
00:37:02.800 again.
00:37:03.720 I mean, I know he's 79,
00:37:05.420 but he's not going to run.
00:37:07.480 I wish he could.
00:37:09.080 I do think the idea of a
00:37:11.760 J.D.
00:37:12.300 Marco ticket unity from
00:37:14.920 the start is starting to
00:37:17.260 get some momentum.
00:37:18.520 Do you buy the idea that
00:37:19.940 that duo, Marco Rubio
00:37:21.940 obviously has 768 different
00:37:24.360 jobs inside of the Trump
00:37:25.600 administration right now,
00:37:26.860 primarily Secretary of
00:37:28.040 State, J.D.
00:37:29.220 Vance VP.
00:37:30.420 Do you buy the idea that
00:37:31.840 those guys might just say,
00:37:33.260 hey, let's keep the band
00:37:34.220 together and have a unity
00:37:35.720 ticket and we might not
00:37:37.120 even see that much drama
00:37:38.660 in 2028 that Trump might
00:37:42.000 just say, hey, these are
00:37:42.800 my guys.
00:37:43.360 I'm not going to run.
00:37:44.160 I'm 83 years old, but they
00:37:45.620 have my complete and total
00:37:46.820 endorsement.
00:37:48.280 I could see a world where
00:37:50.080 people just say, yeah, you
00:37:51.380 know, I like this team.
00:37:52.300 I like how things are
00:37:53.200 going.
00:37:54.000 You buy this?
00:37:54.980 I mean, because I'm
00:37:55.600 starting to think it's more
00:37:56.440 and more of a possibility
00:37:57.400 that they just say, hey,
00:37:58.440 we're a unity ticket.
00:37:59.500 We're Trump 3 2.0 3.0,
00:38:01.880 however you want to say
00:38:02.700 it.
00:38:03.400 And let's not have all the
00:38:05.000 drama of this huge fight.
00:38:06.660 Let's just keep things
00:38:07.400 rolling.
00:38:08.100 What do you think?
00:38:09.860 Is it too clean?
00:38:11.440 It all sounds great and it
00:38:13.800 would be phenomenal in so
00:38:15.460 many ways.
00:38:17.000 A lot could happen in two
00:38:19.460 and a half years, my
00:38:20.280 friend.
00:38:20.620 You know, this is this is
00:38:21.980 the thing.
00:38:23.280 This is the way we think
00:38:25.020 the story should go.
00:38:27.340 And that to me means it's
00:38:29.420 unlikely that that is the
00:38:30.720 way the story will play
00:38:31.860 out.
00:38:32.760 That's how I view this.
00:38:34.280 Yes, it should go this
00:38:35.360 way.
00:38:35.960 There is a pathway.
00:38:37.780 But remember, I was I was
00:38:40.080 doing shows, Clay, in
00:38:40.960 2019.
00:38:42.900 You know, I was doing doing
00:38:43.980 the solo buck shows in
00:38:45.000 2019.
00:38:45.420 I was saying, guys, the
00:38:47.100 country, things are great.
00:38:48.720 Enjoy it.
00:38:49.260 Trump's kicking ass.
00:38:50.380 Economy's phenomenal.
00:38:51.440 We're at peace.
00:38:52.160 You know, things are
00:38:52.600 great.
00:38:53.160 And then a few months
00:38:55.100 later, you're doing
00:38:55.900 tick tock video dances by
00:38:57.680 yourself in your apartment
00:38:58.720 in New York City.
00:38:59.720 We don't have we don't have
00:39:00.900 to go back to that trauma
00:39:02.200 every time.
00:39:03.060 You know, it was very
00:39:03.860 difficult.
00:39:04.180 I still want to see the
00:39:05.360 tick tock dance.
00:39:06.480 My hair was getting
00:39:07.480 longer and my waist was
00:39:08.780 getting bigger every day of
00:39:10.100 the covid pandemic.
00:39:10.980 And I'm doing these tick
00:39:12.000 tock dances alone in my
00:39:13.220 tiny apartment in New
00:39:14.260 York, surrounded by
00:39:15.000 lunatics who don't think
00:39:15.940 you can go outside.
00:39:17.320 I would have I mean
00:39:19.260 this.
00:39:19.720 I walked into your
00:39:20.720 apartment.
00:39:21.260 The first thing I said
00:39:22.020 was I was like, I would
00:39:23.520 have gone insane.
00:39:25.080 You know, we didn't
00:39:25.820 really do covid here in
00:39:27.220 Franklin, Tennessee.
00:39:29.200 Just basically like March
00:39:30.700 and April and maybe a
00:39:31.840 little bit of May.
00:39:32.940 People were like, you
00:39:34.260 know, a little bit.
00:39:35.260 And then it was kind of
00:39:36.120 over.
00:39:36.640 And then every time I see
00:39:38.440 people, you some of you
00:39:40.380 guys still have a lot of
00:39:41.200 post-traumatic stress.
00:39:42.260 You L.A., you New York,
00:39:44.120 Chicago residents who
00:39:45.820 really had to go through
00:39:47.160 the chaos and the
00:39:48.280 insanity.
00:39:49.540 You L.A.
00:39:50.200 people, most a lot of
00:39:51.200 them had yards.
00:39:53.300 More so.
00:39:54.180 Weather more so.
00:39:55.020 But I mean, Gavin
00:39:55.620 Newsom was arresting
00:39:56.620 paddleboarders.
00:39:57.820 I mean, that's true.
00:39:58.860 I mean, this was a
00:39:59.700 wouldn't even let them
00:40:00.280 walk on the I'm just
00:40:01.220 saying New York turned
00:40:02.560 into a prison camp with
00:40:04.480 masking.
00:40:05.040 It was insane.
00:40:05.620 The only reason to live
00:40:07.180 in New York City is to
00:40:08.440 be able to experience the
00:40:10.180 city.
00:40:10.800 Anybody who has ever had
00:40:12.220 to be cloistered in tiny
00:40:13.560 little apartments that I
00:40:16.040 do think New York had it
00:40:17.160 the worst of everybody.
00:40:18.000 I would have lost my
00:40:18.860 mind.
00:40:19.240 I certainly wouldn't have
00:40:20.060 been able to stay.
00:40:21.360 Trump being Trump, by the
00:40:22.600 way, in addition to
00:40:24.080 saying, hey, J.D. and
00:40:25.360 Marco could be an
00:40:26.160 incredible team.
00:40:27.000 He also decided to tee
00:40:28.440 off on Jasmine Crockett
00:40:30.080 and he challenged them to
00:40:31.580 a cognitive test.
00:40:33.080 AOC.
00:40:33.500 We're going to talk about
00:40:34.340 AOC coming after our
00:40:35.520 friend Riley Gaines here
00:40:36.500 in a moment.
00:40:37.380 But Trump also challenged
00:40:39.000 AOC and Jasmine Crockett
00:40:40.640 to a cognitive test.
00:40:41.820 And you'll want to hear
00:40:43.100 this.
00:40:43.420 Cut 22.
00:40:43.800 All I can tell you is
00:40:44.740 that we have a great
00:40:45.540 group of people, which
00:40:46.420 they don't.
00:40:47.720 They have Jasmine Crockett,
00:40:49.160 a low IQ person.
00:40:50.460 They have AOC's low IQ.
00:40:53.780 You give her an IQ test.
00:40:56.100 Have her pass the exams
00:40:58.620 that I decided to take
00:40:59.980 when I was at Walter Reed.
00:41:01.640 I took those very hard.
00:41:04.640 They're really aptitude
00:41:05.600 tests, I guess, in a
00:41:06.700 certain way.
00:41:07.240 But they're cognitive tests.
00:41:09.140 Let AOC go against Trump.
00:41:11.100 Let Jasmine go against
00:41:13.300 Trump.
00:41:13.580 I don't think
00:41:14.040 Jasmine, the first
00:41:15.720 couple of questions are
00:41:16.720 easy, a tiger, an elephant,
00:41:18.240 a giraffe, you know.
00:41:19.780 When you get up to about
00:41:20.980 five or six, and then
00:41:22.040 when you get up to 10
00:41:23.040 and 20 and 25, they
00:41:25.360 couldn't come close to
00:41:26.580 answering any of those
00:41:27.760 questions.
00:41:28.940 I mean, he is just so good.
00:41:30.740 You know what's really
00:41:31.840 unfair is if Trump
00:41:34.280 doesn't run again, and I
00:41:36.000 think that he does just
00:41:36.840 like to say that he's
00:41:37.500 going to run again because
00:41:38.120 it upsets the libs so
00:41:39.020 much.
00:41:39.340 But if he doesn't run
00:41:40.480 again, Clay, our jobs
00:41:42.020 will never be as
00:41:43.680 entertaining as they have
00:41:44.960 been in the Trump era
00:41:46.700 because he makes
00:41:48.160 you guys even remember
00:41:50.240 what it was like back in
00:41:51.540 in the days when, oh,
00:41:53.120 everything Obama said was
00:41:54.460 genius and perfect.
00:41:55.440 It was boring and
00:41:56.500 generally useless and
00:41:57.660 often lies and wrong in
00:41:59.240 the Bush era.
00:42:00.560 Whatever.
00:42:01.420 You know, people just said
00:42:02.260 stuff, you know, Clinton
00:42:03.560 and Clinton stuff got a
00:42:04.660 little spicy toward the
00:42:05.540 end, as we know.
00:42:06.060 But in general, we did
00:42:08.540 not have a president who
00:42:09.840 just says hilarious things
00:42:11.080 all the time.
00:42:11.820 Can we play the end of
00:42:12.800 that clip?
00:42:13.480 I mean, the part where I
00:42:15.420 mean, it's not scripted,
00:42:16.800 right, where he just
00:42:18.040 talks about I presume that
00:42:19.840 they're showing you
00:42:20.620 pictures of animals as a
00:42:22.020 part of the cognition
00:42:22.760 test.
00:42:23.280 but just can we play like
00:42:25.220 the last 10 seconds of
00:42:26.440 that again because I
00:42:28.640 mean that his comedic
00:42:29.960 timing and the fact that
00:42:31.120 people don't get his
00:42:32.920 sense of humor.
00:42:34.680 I really I feel like so
00:42:36.820 many people who have
00:42:37.680 Trump derangement
00:42:38.740 syndrome really what they
00:42:40.640 have is an inability to
00:42:42.240 process tone and context
00:42:44.500 because I mean, how could
00:42:46.540 you not laugh at this at
00:42:48.040 the end of this answer?
00:42:51.420 Maybe we don't have the
00:42:52.480 ability to pull it out.
00:42:54.720 They're really aptitude
00:42:55.800 tests, I guess, in a
00:42:56.900 certain way, but they're
00:42:57.800 cognitive tests.
00:42:59.340 Let AOC go against
00:43:00.980 Trump.
00:43:01.960 Let Jasmine go against
00:43:03.520 Trump.
00:43:03.860 I don't think Jasmine, the
00:43:05.700 first couple of questions
00:43:06.720 are easy, a tiger, an
00:43:07.960 elephant, a giraffe, you
00:43:09.200 know.
00:43:10.160 When you get up to about
00:43:11.200 five or six and then when
00:43:12.380 you get up to 10 and 20
00:43:13.780 and 25, they couldn't come
00:43:16.200 close to answering any of
00:43:17.760 those questions.
00:43:19.140 All right.
00:43:19.800 So Jasmine Crockett has
00:43:21.100 fired back, Buck.
00:43:22.480 Jasmine Crockett says, I
00:43:24.680 got into college on my
00:43:26.160 own.
00:43:26.940 Trump didn't.
00:43:27.960 This is Jasmine Crockett
00:43:29.460 responding to Trump saying
00:43:30.980 she has a low IQ.
00:43:32.920 Cut 23.
00:43:34.940 I'm waiting on a reporter
00:43:36.360 and maybe it'll be you,
00:43:37.420 Caitlin, that finally ask
00:43:38.860 him what is his IQ?
00:43:40.100 Because he is constantly
00:43:41.080 talking about he doesn't
00:43:41.920 even know what a low IQ
00:43:42.860 is.
00:43:43.280 He don't even know which
00:43:44.220 scores are low.
00:43:45.460 And I can guarantee you
00:43:46.560 that whatever score, if
00:43:47.940 he's taken one anytime
00:43:49.560 recently, I'm sure that his
00:43:51.560 disqualifies as low.
00:43:52.560 Listen, he's never been
00:43:53.580 known to be an Einstein.
00:43:54.900 This is not a guy who got
00:43:56.740 in on merit when it came
00:43:58.780 to going to college.
00:43:59.700 This is someone who, but
00:44:01.320 for him being born with a
00:44:02.540 silver spoon, probably
00:44:03.300 wouldn't have got into
00:44:03.880 anybody's institution
00:44:05.200 unlike me.
00:44:06.480 So, you know, I am not
00:44:08.000 worried about that.
00:44:08.800 And I wish people would
00:44:10.000 look at the fact that you
00:44:11.300 have a president of the
00:44:12.120 United States who
00:44:13.040 consistently is obsessing
00:44:15.300 over two women of color
00:44:17.080 that are members of the
00:44:18.060 House.
00:44:18.520 OK, so the whole women
00:44:20.980 of color thing is
00:44:23.000 Jasmine Crockett, in your
00:44:24.300 opinion, an elite
00:44:25.680 intellect buck.
00:44:26.820 I'll answer first.
00:44:28.020 No.
00:44:28.920 And it's not just
00:44:29.740 Jasmine Crockett.
00:44:30.900 I'm disappointed.
00:44:32.220 I bet you are on some
00:44:33.260 level, too.
00:44:34.460 You know who's really
00:44:35.100 disappointed by it is
00:44:36.180 Laura Travis, my wife.
00:44:38.040 There are a lot of people
00:44:39.840 who represent us in
00:44:41.240 Congress and in the
00:44:42.480 Senate that are not
00:44:43.980 high intellect.
00:44:45.020 That's not ideal.
00:44:45.920 They're also not great
00:44:47.520 communicators.
00:44:48.320 That is really not ideal.
00:44:49.940 Like we are not
00:44:50.840 represented in general
00:44:52.700 Republicans, Democrats,
00:44:53.940 independents by the most
00:44:55.400 accomplished and
00:44:56.600 intellectually sound and
00:44:59.120 great communicators out
00:45:00.960 there.
00:45:01.320 I think one thing that
00:45:02.380 Trump diagnosed in
00:45:03.640 politics was that he
00:45:05.640 could have the success
00:45:06.980 he had with no
00:45:08.000 background in politics
00:45:09.360 because there are a lot
00:45:11.440 of lightweights that he
00:45:12.540 is knocking out and
00:45:13.880 pushing around candidly
00:45:15.120 when it comes to
00:45:15.820 arguments and it comes
00:45:16.840 to the political
00:45:17.380 direction of the
00:45:18.060 country.
00:45:19.480 All true.
00:45:20.820 And this is why we
00:45:23.380 continue to hope for
00:45:25.360 reform of our
00:45:27.460 government system.
00:45:28.240 Yet we have people who
00:45:29.720 are so often buffoons
00:45:31.100 representing us.
00:45:32.600 Yes.
00:45:32.980 Government system.
00:45:33.720 So there's a problem
00:45:35.220 there.
00:45:35.980 It's a bit like how we
00:45:36.980 all want to tackle the
00:45:37.660 debt, but we don't want
00:45:38.300 any of the good spending
00:45:38.980 to stop.
00:45:39.620 Talk more about this.
00:45:41.160 But look, AI is being
00:45:43.060 used in our everyday
00:45:43.720 lives more and more, and
00:45:45.660 it's only going to get
00:45:46.260 bigger.
00:45:46.980 I've read and reread the
00:45:48.100 White House's plans for
00:45:49.180 artificial intelligence.
00:45:50.020 It's a huge priority for
00:45:51.480 President Trump and his
00:45:52.660 administration.
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00:47:26.740 Clay Travis, Buck Sexton
00:47:28.280 Show.
00:47:29.000 We are excited to be joined
00:47:31.400 by our friend, Riley
00:47:32.760 Gaines.
00:47:33.380 I don't think you've been on
00:47:34.620 since you officially became
00:47:36.180 a mom.
00:47:36.900 So, let's start there before
00:47:38.040 we get into you versus AOC.
00:47:41.560 What has, we have a lot of
00:47:43.500 moms out there and dads.
00:47:45.100 Buck is a recent new dad, as
00:47:46.780 you know.
00:47:47.640 What has most surprised you
00:47:49.660 about being a mom that maybe
00:47:51.400 you didn't anticipate?
00:47:52.980 How has it gone so far?
00:47:54.760 Do you have any advice for
00:47:56.320 maybe expectant moms that
00:47:58.140 might be out there listening
00:47:59.120 that have not had baby one
00:48:00.860 yet based on your experience?
00:48:02.580 Ann, congratulations.
00:48:05.920 Well, thank you.
00:48:06.820 And congratulations to Buck,
00:48:08.120 too.
00:48:08.840 Look, I will say the thing that
00:48:09.920 has surprised me most is
00:48:12.340 honestly, and look, I know my
00:48:15.640 experience is, you know, one
00:48:17.480 thing and it is very different
00:48:18.820 than other women.
00:48:20.060 But honestly, how easy it is.
00:48:22.040 I think, especially as women,
00:48:24.040 especially as younger women, you
00:48:25.020 get wrapped up in all the horror
00:48:26.300 stories.
00:48:27.320 I heard them all during pregnancy.
00:48:29.420 Everyone told me, you know, well,
00:48:30.300 you just wait and I kept waiting
00:48:32.200 and waiting and none of the bad
00:48:33.360 things that all of the women
00:48:34.580 said were going to happen
00:48:35.420 happened to me.
00:48:36.080 I had a fantastic pregnancy and
00:48:37.340 then it was, OK, well, you just
00:48:38.360 wait until delivery and
00:48:40.480 delivery came.
00:48:42.000 She was born and the process
00:48:43.360 was a breeze.
00:48:45.160 And then it was, OK, well, you
00:48:46.080 just bank up on your sleep now
00:48:47.280 because you're not going to get
00:48:48.040 any sleep when she's here.
00:48:49.120 And let me tell you, I've slept
00:48:50.460 like a dream.
00:48:51.020 She's been just the best baby.
00:48:52.600 And so I think the message that
00:48:54.420 I want to send is that there are
00:48:56.200 good stories out there, too.
00:48:57.640 So it has been just the most
00:49:00.340 magical past four weeks.
00:49:02.380 She'll be a month tomorrow, which
00:49:03.800 is insane.
00:49:04.600 It's gone so quick.
00:49:06.120 Isn't it the best, Riley?
00:49:07.340 The first one is my first one,
00:49:08.820 too.
00:49:09.080 It's been so much fun.
00:49:10.060 And honestly, I share a lot of
00:49:11.940 your sentiment because people
00:49:12.980 and I know a lot of it was
00:49:14.940 well-intentioned, but there's
00:49:16.740 this, you know, oh,
00:49:17.960 congratulations to the baby.
00:49:19.220 You're never going to sleep
00:49:20.120 again and your life is going to
00:49:21.200 be so hard.
00:49:22.300 That wasn't even true for us.
00:49:23.880 The baby was about was hit the
00:49:25.860 five month sleep regression.
00:49:27.060 And we've actually since worked
00:49:28.500 with the baby and now sleeping
00:49:29.620 great again.
00:49:30.560 But our baby slept like a baby.
00:49:33.060 It was fine.
00:49:34.180 And it's been amazing.
00:49:35.000 And I just want more of them.
00:49:36.400 I don't know.
00:49:36.940 I just feel like there's a
00:49:38.620 little bit of a strange, even
00:49:40.380 on the right, a strange
00:49:41.960 cultural like batten down the
00:49:43.500 hatches thing where everything
00:49:45.300 me.
00:49:45.540 You were you were a super high
00:49:46.780 level swimmer.
00:49:47.640 I'm sure you had to get up at
00:49:48.860 five o'clock in the morning a
00:49:50.020 lot and spend a lot of time in
00:49:51.460 the pool.
00:49:52.080 And that's not always fun or what
00:49:53.600 you want to do, but it's
00:49:54.740 really worthwhile.
00:49:57.000 That's it.
00:49:57.760 And that's the exact same with
00:49:59.220 with motherhood.
00:50:01.020 I think there's an attempt to
00:50:03.280 again, especially when we're
00:50:04.660 talking about younger women, to
00:50:06.340 to scare them out of it,
00:50:07.840 honestly.
00:50:09.320 And I think you guys both know
00:50:11.380 we live in this.
00:50:12.260 What about ism culture where you
00:50:13.780 share these stories and you
00:50:14.800 almost feel shameful for doing
00:50:16.640 it because you'll have someone
00:50:17.700 else who will say, well, what
00:50:18.760 about my experience or what
00:50:20.460 about this?
00:50:21.200 And, you know, they want us to
00:50:23.140 feel shameful for having these
00:50:24.360 great experiences.
00:50:24.960 But I'm just here to say
00:50:26.120 hasn't been that that way with
00:50:28.460 us.
00:50:28.660 We've had a fantastic
00:50:29.900 experience.
00:50:30.860 I just want to say, Riley, I've
00:50:32.300 I've had people yell at me
00:50:33.600 before because I just shared
00:50:35.640 the positive experience that
00:50:36.980 I've had of making walking a
00:50:38.760 part of my daily routine.
00:50:40.440 People get mad at me.
00:50:41.480 Like, of course, you think
00:50:42.620 walking is, you know, Mr.
00:50:44.280 like radio.
00:50:45.260 I thought walking.
00:50:46.380 I mean, unless you have some
00:50:47.200 real problem, like that's
00:50:48.280 something we could all enjoy
00:50:49.360 and share.
00:50:49.800 But I just want to tell you,
00:50:51.160 even when you give people the
00:50:52.760 most solid and positive and
00:50:54.960 kind hearted advice, there will
00:50:56.440 be people who are angry at
00:50:57.620 you.
00:50:59.340 100%.
00:50:59.740 Yeah.
00:51:01.080 Walking probably also makes you
00:51:02.640 a racist, too.
00:51:03.560 So it is funny that you would
00:51:06.120 say, of course, now, yeah, you
00:51:08.500 got to give reparate that you
00:51:10.260 would say that anybody would
00:51:11.540 say, hey, maybe you should just
00:51:12.780 walk a little bit more.
00:51:13.780 And the response is, well,
00:51:15.000 you're elitist.
00:51:15.740 Like, I think walking something
00:51:17.440 that most of us share.
00:51:18.220 All right.
00:51:19.240 So you texted me yesterday
00:51:21.120 and it reminded me of you
00:51:23.560 texting me when Simone Biles
00:51:25.100 came after you.
00:51:26.660 So for those who do not know,
00:51:28.300 AOC decided kind of out of
00:51:31.300 nowhere.
00:51:31.740 I mean, you tell us the story,
00:51:33.340 Riley, to just attack you.
00:51:35.700 And I think my immediate
00:51:36.700 response was, this is so great
00:51:38.520 for you, which was the same
00:51:39.600 thing when Simone Biles did it.
00:51:41.700 And I'm sure you had the same
00:51:42.900 reaction because there are so
00:51:44.500 many fake accounts out there.
00:51:46.120 Like, my initial reaction is,
00:51:48.560 okay, let's make sure it's
00:51:49.620 actually Simone Biles.
00:51:50.900 Let's make sure it's actually
00:51:52.060 AOC because this is such a
00:51:54.520 ridiculous, bad angle to be
00:51:56.440 attacking someone on that I
00:51:59.140 can't believe it's real.
00:52:00.520 So tell people who don't know
00:52:02.020 you're sitting around yesterday
00:52:03.320 afternoon and AOC decides kind
00:52:06.240 of out of the blue to come
00:52:07.120 after you.
00:52:08.000 What happened?
00:52:08.660 It's so funny you mentioned
00:52:11.200 that about Simone Biles because
00:52:12.420 honestly, it's virtually like
00:52:14.500 the exact same realization and
00:52:18.260 actions that I went through when
00:52:19.960 this happened because I'm sitting
00:52:21.060 there now, especially being a new
00:52:23.300 mom, I'm not on my phone all the
00:52:24.440 time, but I see this notification
00:52:25.620 pop up and it says, you know,
00:52:27.300 AOC mentioned you in a comment.
00:52:28.880 I click on it and I read it and it
00:52:30.960 says something to the effect of if
00:52:33.700 you channeled all of your anger
00:52:35.280 towards swimming, maybe you would
00:52:36.580 have been faster or something to
00:52:38.340 the effect.
00:52:39.000 Better than fifth in all of
00:52:42.400 American NCAA swimmers.
00:52:44.900 This is the line of attack she
00:52:46.320 decided to hit you with.
00:52:48.000 You're only the fifth best at
00:52:50.000 something in the entire United
00:52:52.520 States that doesn't, I'd love to be
00:52:54.760 the fifth best at anything, by the
00:52:56.160 way.
00:52:56.620 But yes, that's what she decided to
00:52:58.280 attack you with.
00:53:00.100 It is so true.
00:53:01.280 Like it proves this line of defense
00:53:04.000 or these arguments that they're
00:53:05.400 using, it proves that they know
00:53:07.080 nothing about sports.
00:53:08.080 And honestly, it's pretty utterly
00:53:10.560 misogynistic because, I mean, you
00:53:12.200 think about it, Clay, would she
00:53:13.640 call the fifth best college
00:53:16.200 football player in the nation
00:53:17.820 mediocre or bad at his sport or
00:53:20.940 whatever, or the fifth best college
00:53:22.840 basketball player?
00:53:23.700 No way she wouldn't say that.
00:53:25.220 But because it's, number one, I
00:53:26.540 think women's sports, which is
00:53:27.620 hilarious because they claim to
00:53:29.540 care about and watch women's
00:53:30.920 sports.
00:53:31.580 And two, I think a less mainstream
00:53:33.760 sport like swimming, of course,
00:53:35.260 this is more of a niche sport.
00:53:36.780 It's, if you're not the best, if
00:53:38.260 you're not on the Olympic team, if
00:53:39.640 you're not getting gold medals at
00:53:42.320 the Olympics, then you're actually
00:53:43.660 just not good at your sport.
00:53:45.400 And that was AOC's line of defense.
00:53:47.360 So, or her argument that she went
00:53:50.340 with it there.
00:53:51.000 And so, um, can I just put, you
00:53:53.760 can have this six foot, go ahead.
00:53:56.040 No, no, no, you go ahead.
00:53:56.940 I didn't, I didn't want to interrupt
00:53:57.900 you, Riley.
00:53:58.380 Go ahead.
00:53:59.820 No, I, my, I think the point is you
00:54:02.920 have two sides of this argument.
00:54:04.940 One side is to be with and standing
00:54:07.520 for women who merely want fair
00:54:09.540 competition, safety in their sports
00:54:11.280 and privacy in areas of undressing.
00:54:12.900 And the other side is the side of the
00:54:15.540 six foot four man who was 462nd the
00:54:19.780 year prior when competing against the
00:54:21.140 men and who flashes women in the
00:54:22.720 locker room and AOC made the side
00:54:24.900 that she chose very clear.
00:54:28.160 Now I have to ask you Riley, because
00:54:31.780 you understand how competitive sports
00:54:34.640 are and you're somebody who knows the
00:54:36.880 work that has to go into it and, and
00:54:38.620 just the, the realities of the sports
00:54:41.580 world.
00:54:42.640 We haven't really gotten to know each
00:54:44.800 other that well, but there's a
00:54:46.380 controversy out there about whether or
00:54:48.180 not, as a recreational middle-aged
00:54:50.920 tennis player, I will be able to get
00:54:52.580 a hundred mile an hour serve on camera
00:54:54.700 as evidenced by a speed gun.
00:54:57.780 Now I got to be, let me interrupt him
00:55:00.040 here.
00:55:00.780 This has been several months where he
00:55:03.180 hasn't in good weather.
00:55:04.600 I'm just going to point out where there
00:55:06.200 hasn't been a test going on Riley, just
00:55:09.180 for your ability and error.
00:55:11.020 Riley, just so you understand, we
00:55:12.420 already have a 97 on the record.
00:55:15.120 Okay.
00:55:15.300 97 miles an hour, but Clay and some of
00:55:17.560 the doubters in this audience think
00:55:19.660 that I will not be able to with a
00:55:21.280 little more, uh, limber shoulder and a
00:55:24.600 little, little more, you know, uh, of
00:55:26.560 the old Riley during the show commercial
00:55:29.100 break, he has a rubber band that he is
00:55:32.220 stretching out his shoulder with.
00:55:34.180 Clay, that was for the trust tree.
00:55:35.820 That's not for Eric on the radio.
00:55:37.540 Anyway, there's got to be a clip of
00:55:39.780 this go ahead.
00:55:43.260 Do you think, do you think what side of
00:55:45.220 this bet I have till the end of the
00:55:46.560 year?
00:55:46.840 I'll decide that much I have till the
00:55:48.440 end of the year, which now takes me
00:55:49.800 through, uh, I got about, you know,
00:55:51.060 eight weeks to get this done.
00:55:52.520 Can it be done by yours truly?
00:55:54.640 Yes or no.
00:55:56.720 Honestly, but I think there is a, a more
00:55:59.640 plausible chance of you serving a 100
00:56:02.780 mile per hour serve.
00:56:04.620 Then there is Clay Travis actually
00:56:06.720 swimming Alcatraz.
00:56:08.920 Wow.
00:56:10.040 Look, I'm just sitting here innocent and
00:56:12.540 much like, much like Riley when AOC came
00:56:15.760 after, I'm just a nice, kind, considerate
00:56:17.900 person here.
00:56:18.640 And I just got two by Ford hacksaw Jim
00:56:20.980 Duggan style by Riley here, which I
00:56:23.880 invited Clay in July.
00:56:24.960 You're both invited next July to do this.
00:56:28.180 I think we could, we could make something
00:56:29.520 out of it.
00:56:30.440 Can I doggy paddle the Alcatraz swim or is
00:56:33.280 that just, is that too gauche?
00:56:37.160 Honestly, the worst part is how cold it
00:56:39.320 is.
00:56:40.320 Oh, that's the worst part of all of it.
00:56:42.500 I am both less buoyant and less insulated
00:56:45.160 than I used to be Clay.
00:56:46.380 So that may, that's, that's one of the
00:56:47.700 few times this was not to my advantage.
00:56:49.740 Well, I saw your husband, Louie, um, and
00:56:52.760 he was saying that there are moments where
00:56:55.900 you think about sharks.
00:56:57.040 Did you think this is the part that I'm
00:56:58.800 actually now is in my head.
00:57:00.320 I'm not going to lie.
00:57:01.220 The idea of getting attacked by a shark
00:57:04.720 while trying to do this, you did this
00:57:06.920 pregnant.
00:57:07.780 Did you truly have no fear of sharks at
00:57:10.120 all, Riley, when you got in the water,
00:57:11.720 like didn't even cross your mind or at
00:57:14.960 some point when you're in the depth of
00:57:16.980 the, the, the swim there, did you think,
00:57:19.220 Hey, this is a little bit scary.
00:57:22.900 It's so funny looking back.
00:57:24.500 Cause you're right.
00:57:25.060 I did this at gosh, seven months pregnant
00:57:27.320 and you're, you're kind of in the middle
00:57:28.840 of the ocean and you reach a point where
00:57:31.240 it gets really cold.
00:57:32.740 And I think that indicates of course, that,
00:57:34.700 you know, the water gets deeper.
00:57:36.400 And in those moments, it's a bit unsettling,
00:57:38.260 like, Oh gosh, what is swimming underneath
00:57:39.660 me?
00:57:39.980 But sharks, I'm, I'm, I don't think I'm
00:57:41.580 really scared of sharks.
00:57:43.020 Um, I watched soul surfer growing up.
00:57:46.020 Bethany Hamilton actually is just, I mean,
00:57:47.840 she's a dear friend of mine.
00:57:49.260 Um, but sharks are, are never something
00:57:51.800 that, that really scared me.
00:57:53.220 Louie, he's actually sat right next to me.
00:57:55.480 We're in the car together now.
00:57:57.060 Uh, he's just a sissy is what it is.
00:58:01.440 I'm, I'm a sissy with Louie then.
00:58:03.760 Uh, let me ask you this though, back on
00:58:05.580 the AOC thing, uh, Riley, um, and tell
00:58:08.540 Louie, we said hi too.
00:58:10.040 Um, why do you think she decided to attack
00:58:13.560 you kind of out of nowhere?
00:58:14.700 It's the same question that I had when I
00:58:16.580 saw Simone Biles come after you.
00:58:19.320 It's not an attack that makes her look
00:58:21.660 better to your point, being, attacking
00:58:24.640 someone for only being the fifth best at
00:58:27.580 something.
00:58:28.680 Again, I would love to be the fifth best
00:58:30.640 at anything.
00:58:31.200 So with everybody out there listening, it's
00:58:33.240 not a good line of attack.
00:58:34.880 Where is this coming from?
00:58:36.440 Is it organized?
00:58:37.700 Do you think somebody is asking her to do
00:58:39.860 it?
00:58:40.080 Was she looking for this opportunity?
00:58:41.680 And then you've offered to debate her and
00:58:44.060 she followed up again.
00:58:45.320 I think you were on with Laura Ingram
00:58:46.660 last night.
00:58:47.540 Where is all of this coming from in your
00:58:49.740 mind?
00:58:51.440 Well, it is interesting because when you
00:58:54.500 compare this to Simone, because Simone and
00:58:56.540 her argument, I mean, you would imagine
00:58:58.640 that an Olympian, the best of the best
00:59:00.820 there, she's like in a total league of
00:59:02.280 her own.
00:59:02.740 There's no one even close to her.
00:59:04.360 You would imagine she would understand
00:59:05.740 and approach this from an athlete, which
00:59:07.040 of course she didn't, but she didn't
00:59:08.140 necessarily have to be politically
00:59:10.620 competent.
00:59:11.360 And AOC, her position, of course, is
00:59:14.400 morally bankrupt, but it's just totally
00:59:15.960 politically ignorant.
00:59:17.860 Not only is this something that, I mean,
00:59:19.560 99, 100 percent of the Republican Party
00:59:22.240 and those who voted for Donald Trump, the
00:59:24.480 77 million people who voted for Donald
00:59:26.480 Trump agree with that mention me in women's
00:59:28.960 sports.
00:59:29.620 But it's what?
00:59:30.400 Like, I would say 80 percent of the
00:59:33.220 Democratic Party.
00:59:34.100 I think the number in the Gallup polls has
00:59:36.680 been somewhere between 60, 70.
00:59:38.140 I think it's more than that, of their own
00:59:40.240 party that don't agree with them.
00:59:41.960 And so why is she doing this?
00:59:43.520 I think it's something that's successful
00:59:44.940 on social media platforms where you can
00:59:48.000 kind of acquire that cesspool of radical
00:59:50.220 insane lunatics, which those exist on
00:59:53.860 X.
00:59:54.100 I mean, I think her her initial post got
00:59:55.840 what, like 45 million views.
00:59:58.660 So you can imagine the past 24 hours what
01:00:02.220 my messages on all platforms look like when
01:00:05.140 you're having to field 45 million AOC cronies
01:00:10.000 who just follow her page and listen to what
01:00:11.980 she says.
01:00:13.600 But I don't know.
01:00:14.840 It's not politically expedient at all.
01:00:18.200 And I think that the terrifying point here is
01:00:20.680 that this is the leader of their party.
01:00:23.400 People like Crockett and AOC and Mom Donnie,
01:00:27.420 that that's who all other Democrats at all
01:00:29.660 levels, by the way, that's who they look to.
01:00:32.340 Try to find me a moderate Democrat.
01:00:33.840 Clay, I think you tweeted it a few weeks ago
01:00:35.780 talking about how Fetterman was the most
01:00:38.920 sane Democrat.
01:00:39.960 And it's there's not even a close second.
01:00:42.800 Like, like try and try and think of a
01:00:44.800 moderate Democrat at any level.
01:00:47.640 I mean, there just isn't one.
01:00:49.540 So this is their this is their party's leader.
01:00:51.940 This is what I guess they believe will work.
01:00:54.900 But we will continue to see them lose in
01:00:57.480 2026 and 2028.
01:00:59.000 And further on, if they continue with, I
01:01:03.000 mean, supporting the policies, the harmful
01:01:05.740 policies that they support.
01:01:09.160 Thank you so much, Riley, for being here.
01:01:10.860 And congrats again to you and Louie.
01:01:13.540 Yep.
01:01:14.600 Well, thank you, guys.
01:01:15.820 I want to see a video of Buck in this
01:01:17.860 commercial break.
01:01:18.500 Oh, this serve, this serve is going to
01:01:20.560 happen, everybody.
01:01:21.320 It's going to happen.
01:01:22.180 I wish you could see him with the rubber
01:01:24.100 band trying to loosen up the right shoulder
01:01:26.060 during the commercial breaks.
01:01:27.640 I mean, that was in the trust.
01:01:28.560 That was in the trust tree.
01:01:29.920 That was in the trust tree.
01:01:31.260 And Clay is now violating trust tree.
01:01:33.060 OK, that's enough of that.
01:01:34.280 But yes, Riley, I am trying to limber up
01:01:36.040 this old man's shoulder just a little bit
01:01:38.140 like the backstroke only for the tennis
01:01:40.780 court.
01:01:41.280 Thank you for being here, Riley.
01:01:42.360 Well, thank you, guys.
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