Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H3 - It's Hard to Hate the Guy
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0:19Welcome back in. Hour number three, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:23Go buy Buck's book. Manufacturing delusion.
0:28I have reviewed it on Amazon.
0:31Thank you. I do not see that my review has yet popped on the Amazon
0:35page. Clay gave it four stars because he doesn't want me to get a big
0:39head over it. That's right.
0:41And I purchased it. I got it today, as those of us who purchased it
0:46early did. And again, I would encourage all of you.
0:50Book is out today. Everywhere.
0:53Among the reviews, a harrowing, brilliant, important review.
0:57read, Megyn Kelly, terrifying, brilliant, essential, and ex -CIA officer's unmasking of totalitarian mind control,
1:08Glenn Beck. Meticulously researched and exceptionally written, manufacturing delusion is more than a book.
1:14It's a tool to protect your mind and soul.
1:17Best -selling author, Jack Carr.
1:21Okay. Those are among the reviews that you can find at Amazon .com and other
1:27locations as well. Buck, you and I are going to be in Texas in short
1:33order about two weeks from today.
1:36Because exactly two weeks from today is the very first major primary that I believe
1:45will occur in the nation when Texans will be going out and voting for their
1:50nominees in a wide variety of different races, including the one that is getting the
1:55most attention in the state.
1:56Again, we want all of you to go vote top up and down, bottom to
2:00top in the Texas primaries.
2:03Many different important races that are going on.
2:06But the Texas Senate race is receiving the largest amount of attention, both on the
2:14Democrat and the Republican side.
2:16On the Republican side, there are three different candidates and President Trump has come out
2:23and said, I like all three, which was, I thought, a great Trump question.
2:30He was asked if he was going to endorse and Trump said, no, I'm not
2:35going to endorse. Basically, I like all three.
2:38And all three are Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, the current senator, and Wesley, whose name
2:50is immediately escaping me because I tried to name all three of them off the
2:53top of my head. He's been on the show a great number of times.
2:57He is fantastic. And Wesley Hunt.
3:00My apologies to Wesley Hunt.
3:02Trying to name three right off the top of my head.
3:05All three of them are seriously contending, and whoever wins that Republican primary will likely
3:13be the next Republican senator from Texas or the continuing Republican senator from Texas.
3:20So Wesley Hunt, John Cornyn, and also Ken Paxton all running on the Republican side.
3:26Now, on the Democrat side, this has turned into a bit of a story today,
3:32Buck. Democrat Senate candidates, Jasmine Crockett, who has given up her congressional seat and instead
3:39now running to be the senator from Texas, and James Tallarico.
3:44I believe that's how you pronounce his last name.
3:46Is that correct, Buck, so far as you can tell?
3:49And he went on Stephen Colbert's show.
3:53And CBS decided they would not air the interview because they were worried about conflicting
4:00with the equal time doctrine.
4:02And the equal time doctrine, basically, as interpreted by our friend Brendan Carr, the FCC
4:09chairman who was on recently, he has said what I think is 100 % true,
4:13which is if you're going to have these late -night talk shows, you can't fit
4:19into the exemption of news programming if you're only having one side on all the
4:27time. There are no right -leaning guests on, for instance, Stephen Colbert's show.
4:31And Stephen Colbert would never have the Republican nominee on his show.
4:37And so, as a result, CBS said, we're worried about violating the equal time doctrine.
4:42We're not going to run this interview.
4:45That was a decision that was made by CBS Corporate.
4:49Well, Stephen Colbert, whose show has been canceled, I believe it is scheduled to end
4:54in May, went on and teed off, and I believe this aired on his actual
5:00CBS program, him ripping his bosses at CBS Cut 26.
5:05You know who is not one of my guests tonight?
5:08That's Texas State Representative James Tallarico.
5:12He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by
5:17our network's lawyers who called us directly that we could not have him on the
5:21broadcast. Then, then I was told in some...
5:25uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention
5:29me not having him on.
5:32And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about
5:37this. On January 21st of this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and
5:44smug bowling pin Brendan Carr.
5:46In this letter, Carr said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows
5:51because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes.
5:56Well, sir, you're chairman of the FCC.
5:59So FCCU. Okay. This is, I think, actually more interesting than Stephen Colbert is letting
6:08on. And it's actually super interesting in general.
6:13So he was only going to have James Tallarico on.
6:16Now, James Tallarico is on a and in a highly competitive Senate race against Jasmine
6:22Crockett. But Jasmine Crockett has a zero percent chance of being elected statewide from Texas.
6:30I want to repeat this.
6:32I think even Democrats are aware of this.
6:34If Jasmine Crockett is the nominee, there is a zero percent chance that Republicans have
6:40to worry about the Democrat in that race at all.
6:43I think elite Democrat leadership is aware of that.
6:47So when I hear and see this controversy emerging, I say, my goodness, this is
6:53elite Democrat power brokers deciding to set up this James Tallarico interview.
7:01If it airs, it's a huge bonus to him.
7:05But if it gets shut down under this FCC equal time doctrine, I would argue
7:12it's an even bigger bonus for him because most people would have never seen this.
7:17But for the fact that Stephen Colbert went on and attacked his bosses for not
7:21letting him have on James Tallarico.
7:24So I think, again, the fact that this was scheduled to happen the day before
7:28the Texas primary ballots went out and people started to vote.
7:33This feels to me a bit akin to what happened to Bernie Sanders back in
7:38the day. This is the Democrat Party saying we got a kneecap Jasmine Crockett and
7:44make sure she's not the nominee because maybe we can put this seat in play
7:49with James Tallarico. Do you see that?
7:51And by the way, Brendan Carr, let's invite him on the program again because he
7:55got attacked and we want to give him equal time on the program.
7:59We had him on recently.
8:00Do you read this in a similar way, Buck, or what stands out to you
8:05about this story? Again, there's no way the Republican nominee, whether it's Wesley Hunt, whether
8:10it is Ken Paxton or John Cornyn, is going to be allowed on Colbert.
8:17And this is where the significance of that letter from Commissioner Carr comes into play.
8:28Sorry, sorry. I just realized for a second I had a dog wander into my
8:34room and I had to hit the mic off.
8:36This is what happens in live radio.
8:37I have a baby and a dog and sometimes I roll into the room and
8:40it throws me off. I'm not pulling an AOC here, by the way.
8:42I do have an answer for Clay, but I was talking into a dead microphone
8:46for a second. I would say this on the FCC issue.
8:51This is going to take a lot of time for it to settle because, Clay,
8:55there has been no equal time.
8:57In fact, we have had Democrat dominance of the media under the guise of it
9:02being journalism, under the guise of it being neutral for our entire lives.
9:05This is just finally now faded away, or rather is fading away, where people at
9:12least know. CNN is a Democrat organ.
9:15New York Times is a Democrat organ.
9:17There's no ifs, ands, or buts.
9:19There's no we call it like we see it or whatever.
9:21And so how do you handle that in a regulatory environment?
9:26And increasingly, I think we have to get it now.
9:30The FCC chairman may disagree with this.
9:32I just think this notion that we're going to have these regulations and all of
9:36this infringements on, I think it's all infringements on the First Amendment, quite honestly.
9:40I think that, remember, the Obama administration claimed that it could block, this was the
9:47solicitor general under the Obama administration, that it could block the publication of a book
9:53in advance of the election under certain circumstances because of the regulations around speech and
10:01elections and dark money and politics and all this stuff.
10:04So that's where this stuff always goes.
10:06It goes to one side trying to leverage this for censorship, and I think our
10:12side trying to play fair more often and ending up just being on the losing
10:17end of the situation. So I don't know that there's going to be, remember, this
10:23would all take a lot of time, right?
10:24There's one thing for people to know, Clay, but then it also has to make
10:27its way through the courts and places will fight this and they'll say, how do
10:31you make this distinction? And you might get some bad judges and, you know, the
10:34Supreme Court. So this will take a while to sort out is my answer, but
10:39it is really important that everyone knows the Democrats have had a massive advantage in
10:44the establishment media landscape for our, for certainly for our entire lives.
10:50I would say long before that, yes, Rush.
10:53was the unsinkable aircraft carrier of free speech.
10:55Yes, there have been others who have been massive voices, and there's one cable channel
11:01that does quite well that is conservative, or Republican, whatever.
11:07The truth is, we're just beginning to address this disparity, Clay.
11:11I mean, the fact that there are even laws, think about this, that there are
11:14laws and that they've treated, or rather they're regulations, and they have treated some of
11:18these shows like they're neutral news programs.
11:21Does anyone really believe that?
11:25I just look at this and say I can't get over the fact that this
11:30happened the day before voting was about to start.
11:33It is a huge gift to Tallarico, and it feels to me like the Democrat
11:38Party has convinced itself that, accurately in my opinion, Jasmine Crockett has no chance to
11:44win, and they're putting their finger down on the scales in favor of Tallarico.
11:49And, by the way, on the Republican side, this is going to be a Donnybrook.
11:54There are three big -time, serious contenders spending big money.
11:59Current Senator John Cornyn, and we've had all these guys on the program.
12:04Ken Paxton, who is the current Attorney General, and Wesley Hunt, who is a current
12:09congressman that is running to try to be the next senator from Texas.
12:14All of them have run very viable campaigns, but, man, all three of them would
12:21crush Jasmine Crockett and significantly would not need to raise any of the money that
12:30would otherwise be spent for other states.
12:33I think Democrats believe. I think they're wrong that he can win, but I think
12:37James Tallarico, they think, would at least have a puncher's chance, whereas Jasmine Crockett has
12:41no chance. And, again, Brendan Carr is right on this.
12:45Brendan Carr is 100 % right on this.
12:48You can't have late -night talk shows that are claiming that they're just comedy shows
12:53and only allow Democrats on as guests to basically make their political arguments on the
13:00show. And that's what they do.
13:02Well, this is what the Jon Stewart era of The Daily Show was so aggravating
13:09for a lot of us.
13:09Because, yeah, I mean, a lot of this stuff is clever and funny, but it
13:11was really a propaganda show.
13:13The whole point of it was to push Democrat themes through the prism of comedy,
13:18but because it was comedy, and, look, I mean, Trump is very funny.
13:23Trump's a politician, right? Comedy and politics are not in any way distinct, or rather,
13:29you know, separate from each other by their nature.
13:31They actually can be quite useful when paired together.
13:33I think one of Trump's biggest political gifts is how funny he is, and I
13:38think it completely... There are a lot of people who, you know, they don't like
13:42this about his style, or they think he's kind of gruff, but, man, he said
13:46something. And if you find yourself laughing at what a politician says, like, really kind
13:49of guffawing, it's hard to hate the guy.
13:52You know, it opens you up a little bit to it, and I think you
13:54warm up to him over time.
13:55Trump is the funniest politician of our lifetime, which is remarkable.
13:59Clay, the sitting president of the United States is the most humorous politician you or
14:04I have ever come across.
14:05He is the funniest. Yes.
14:07It's just a fact, right?
14:08It's pretty crazy when you say it out loud.
14:10But the Daily Show, because it was comedy, they would have politicians, or they would
14:15have more serious people on, and then they would cut and splice the interview so
14:19that it was a complete hit job.
14:21I mean, they would do whatever they wanted, and then if you point it out,
14:23they'd go, we have puppets on before us.
14:25It's just comedy, man. No, it's a political show with jokes.
14:30I mean, totally. And so this idea, it feels like a rig job, like that
14:37he was daring, that is Colbert, was daring his bosses to not allow Tallarico on.
14:42I would argue that, look, I'm no defender of Jasmine Crockett, but I would argue
14:48if they're going to have on Tallarico the day before the primary, that they should
14:53also have to have on Jasmine Crockett, not only the other Republican candidate, whomever that
14:59ends up being, but the other Democrat as well.
15:03That feels like a fair and impartial way to handle this.
15:07So I'd be upset if I was Jasmine Crockett.
15:11Indeed. Indeed. And not to be confused with any affiliation with Crockett coffee, of course.
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17:08I gotta say I particularly appreciate the Tears for Fears rejoin music since we had
17:14some really funky music for the last few days.
17:18Oh man, you know, I think I've told you guys this before.
17:21We love our theme song, but when I was asked and this was, you know,
17:25this was my, uh, when we were paired up Clay and they were like, what
17:28song would you want? I was like, I think I would want Tears for Fears
17:30rule the world. Like, I feel like that would be a great theme song.
17:34So, uh, and I do believe, I think Dennis Miller had it on his, uh,
17:38HBO show for a while.
17:39I always liked Dennis Miller, never met him, uh, but always thought he was a
17:42really good talent, uh, enjoyed his stuff.
17:45So anyway, um, also want to say we have now Eric just wrote in, I
17:52introduced my 20 year old son to you during the COVID lunacy.
17:56That's a smart time to do it.
17:58And he has become a clear eyed diehard buck devotee ever since he threatened not
18:03to come home for spring break.
18:04If I didn't get manufacturing delusion for him today, woohoo.
18:08And now we will see him in two weeks.
18:10I assume they got the book.
18:10So Clay, a smart decision made.
18:13I love it. When a plan comes together.
18:15Amen. Um, and, uh, we've got a plan to sell Buck a lot of his
18:20books, manufacturing delusion. Go check it out right now.
18:24Go buy it. My copy has already arrived and Buck, you make fun of me
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18:30Um, I would point out there is a Warner brothers component here as Netflix and
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18:41They've reopened that battle. Uh, and we will see who ends up getting that assets,
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19:40Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
19:42Welcome back in to Clay and Buck.
19:45Uh, and I just want to say thank you so much to all of you
19:47who are sending in kind words about the book, uh, which I have out today,
19:52manufacturing delusion. It is very timely.
19:55There's a lot of history.
19:56There's a lot of research.
19:57There's some anecdotes from my time in the CIA, just a few.
20:00It's not about that, but I threw some things in there.
20:03Um, the CIA cleared them.
20:05I had to clear the entire book and I did.
20:08Uh, so that is really the, my, my focus today is getting as many of
20:14you as possible to get a copy of the book.
20:15You can obviously get it on Amazon.
20:17There's the audio book, which I read myself.
20:20And, uh, I think you'll, those of you who like audio books, there you go.
20:23It'll be my voice doing the whole book for you.
20:25Um, and you know, so far we're doing really well.
20:28There is this book out from John Meacham today.
20:31He's trying to rain on my parade, but because of you, I don't think that's
20:35going to happen, but let's not let that smug communist who hates Trump and says
20:39it is, uh, inexcusable for you to have voted for him again.
20:42Said that on TV last year.
20:44Let's not let him get that number one slot for book sales today.
20:48It's all on you. I'm doing some other great shows and I really appreciate that.
20:53And it's funny, Clay, you really do in this business.
20:56You find out who your friends are at book launch time.
20:59It's a very interesting thing.
21:01There are a lot of people that'll be like, Oh yeah, I love your stuff.
21:04Oh yeah, buddy, whatever. But there are the people who say, send it to my
21:09producer and we'll give it some thought.
21:11And the people who are like, that's awesome for you, buddy.
21:14When do you want to come on?
21:16And I will tell you this.
21:17And I think you're the same way, Clay.
21:19We remember who's on what side of that equation, just like any of you would
21:24trust me. It's interesting. You see who's, you see who's for real and, uh, who
21:29is, who belongs in the cheap seats.
21:31Well, look, this audience to its credit buys books in a substantial way.
21:36So you probably have noticed over the five years that we've been doing the show
21:40since. And again, we began the show talking about this, but they is the five
21:45year anniversary of rush passing.
21:47And we have a spirit.
21:48special one -hour show uh that is up and producer ally said a super nice
21:53thing she said like both you and buck are the kind of sons that rush
21:59would have had if he had had kids which is a super complimentary nice thing
22:03to say from producer ally and much of the staff that spent years and years
22:08working with rush yeah it's a very nice thing to say um but that's a
22:12credit to rush in the show and the fact that people are intellectually curious but
22:16you may well have noticed that we have a lot of authors on because it
22:19is hard to sell books and ideas matter and making strong arguments matters um and
22:26so i think we have something of people i think we have something of a
22:30a an obligation with a platform this big for to have people who are writing
22:37good we need good books to be written about what we believe and about what
22:42matters to us those of us who see the world the way that we do
22:46and we we have a role to play in that you know it's it's and
22:51some other places are abandoning that role unless you're in a very narrow subset and
22:54that's a shame but this platform and many others like it um and i will
22:59say many of the independent big conservative names uh are are having me on they've
23:03had you on the past clay and they also um take that approach uh so
23:09you know we can't have every book on or this would be a this would
23:11be just like a this show would just be like a book club because everybody
23:14i i feel badly i mean i get i do you get the same thing
23:18i get literal boxes of books pile up at my i don't know how they
23:22find i guess the publishers know where i live they find my home they send
23:26it to my home address and i refuse to ever throw a book in the
23:29trash no matter whose book it is so i have to find a home for
23:32this i'll donate it to the library i'll give it away to friends who want
23:36that particular author etc but i feel like i'm the custodian of all these books
23:40that i never asked for i don't have enough room i mean you've you've been
23:43in the studio here clay i don't have enough bookshelves for the books that i
23:46already have and i you know i keep accruing more uh we got a couple
23:49of funny emails by the way i should uh should hit uh vip email from
23:54matt hey clay and buck just listening to you talk about the low iq democrats
23:58likely running for president in 28 aoc newsome um and uh and and others uh
24:06potentially including uh certainly kamala harris what are your thoughts about mark kelly is he
24:11a smart guy is he running in 28 i think both arizona senators will give
24:16it a shot um i would expect that he would run uh i don't i've
24:20not spent any time around him i do know people who say that he is
24:23a smart guy and they like him who i respect uh but i don't know
24:26anything at all about him so i wouldn't denigrate him by saying that he's unintelligent
24:30certainly if you've won election in one of the seven toss -up states i mean
24:35gretchen whitmer is going to run josh shapiro is going to run um that is
24:39a pretty strong argument that you would have some national appeal because you're already having
24:45to uh appeal to independence remember trump won what did trump win arizona by like
24:52six points i think in 2026 i think of the toss -up states the seven
24:57that we talked about a lot in 2024 arizona was basically uh the the biggest
25:03win uh that anybody got i mean trump ran away with that um and so
25:07they're now trying to run in states that may be uh slanted towards the red
25:12so i would be curious to see how he would do another email by the
25:15way from bert i've noticed you guys use the phrase back in the day quite
25:18often what exactly does it mean uh i'm 93 and i'm sure it does not
25:24mean the same to me as it does to you you young whippersnappers uh well
25:28thanks for the email yeah back in the day for you could mean uh back
25:32in world war ii uh which is uh truly back in the day but for
25:37buck and i i would say back in the day means 80s 90s um which
25:41is like uh recent history for for you if you're 93 uh yes uh i
25:47think that is definitely the case and i guess we do use the term back
25:50in the day sometimes yeah when i think back in the day it's like the
25:55spice girls and um the rise of hip -hop and like the movie clueless uh
26:01michael jordan's supremacy in the nba like that's back in the day for me so
26:06yeah it's not that far back to me our bird is astute bird is correct
26:10we have a different different timeline that we are working with um we should also
26:16mention uh as we are getting ready we're talking all about the texas primary season
26:21you guys are going to decide a lot um if you look at the prediction
26:26markets right now uh democrats are favored to take back the house and republicans are
26:32only about 60 percent to maintain control of the senate look the house is probably
26:37going to impeach trump if they get taken back i understand you guys can predict
26:41exactly what they will do what i will say is the senate uh i mean
26:46you guys know how hugely important the senate can be for the last two years
26:49um particularly as it pertains to the supreme court uh because we've got a lot
26:54of justices who are over 70 years old now and uh as we saw happen
27:00with ruth ruth bader ginsburg you never know or scalia for that matter you never
27:05know when that moment is going to come as soon as you are over the
27:09age of 70 um and in particular the risks just increase and so and so
27:16I would say, look, we're still 10 months away, 8 months away, 9 months away
27:20from official verdicts coming down.
27:23But I do think the Senate, as much attention as we should put on the
27:27House, the Senate is by far the most significant of the impacts that could happen
27:34in 2026. If Republicans lose control of the Senate, you lose the ability to get
27:40a lot done that has to do with the judiciary in a way that I
27:43don't know very many people have thought about.
27:45So I would even say some of the older, right -leaning Supreme Court justices, maybe
27:56it's time to start thinking about that a little bit.
27:58I mean, just in the same way, look, Kennedy I thought was really smart the
28:02way he stepped down. He got someone who was a former clerk appointed to take
28:06his role. If you compare that with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the stakes can become quite
28:12significant. A lot of people looked back at Ruth Bader Ginsburg and said she should
28:16have stepped down when Obama could have named her replacement.
28:18To your point, Buck, we've talked about this.
28:20They bragged about what incredible physical condition she was in.
28:24They did stories on her workouts.
28:26It was bizarre. It was bizarre.
28:28Yeah. There was a cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as fitness influencer.
28:34And they would show these little – did you actually see this, Clay, when they
28:37were doing this? Oh, yeah.
28:37I watched it. Yeah, yeah.
28:38You would look on, like, the main page of the Huffington Post, which at one
28:43point was a big lib website.
28:44It doesn't even exist anymore.
28:45I don't know. And they'd show video of, like, Ruth Bader Ginsburg with half -pound
28:49weights, like, barely raising her head.
28:51And they're like, yeah, get after it, Ruth.
28:53Like, look at her, beast mode.
28:56It was like a delusion, a manufactured delusion.
28:59The title of a fantastic book that is out today that all of you should
29:02go get a copy of.
29:03I'm going to be relentless.
29:06Usually I get to rely on Clay to sell everything for us, which is great,
29:09or to promote everything for us, which is great.
29:11Today I have to promote, damn it.
29:14Tomorrow you've got the whole show for yourself.
29:15I can't even imagine how many promotions you're going to be able to get in.
29:18Oh, I totally forgot about that.
29:20I'm at Mar -a -Lago for the day at an event.
29:23President not going to – You're going to wear your top hat and monocle, Clay?
29:26Mar -a -Lago with the big boss.
29:28What's funny is I've been running around right now trying to make sure about what
29:31clothes I've got packed. I just need a personal person who just lays out everything
29:36that I'm supposed to wear because I have no idea what to wear to any
29:40event. I'm only going to be on one day.
29:42And so – but I'm right now – I was out of breath.
29:46Can I tell you something?
29:47You can – AI. This is another thing where AI is really – I guess
29:53I'm going to admit something now on the show.
29:54I've taken a photo before because I was curious, like, about whether something fit, like,
30:00a suit, whether a suit still fit me enough.
30:03And I really wanted an objective.
30:05AI, if you use – like, you can go and grok, take a photo –
30:09or have someone take a photo of you and be like, does this suit fit
30:12the way that a men's, like, custom or tailored suit should fit?
30:16But, Clay, it will break it down to the – I mean, it's like all
30:21of a sudden you have a guy named, like, Vincenzo, who's like, hey, it's a
30:24little tight in the chest, a little loose in the – you know, does the
30:27whole thing for you. Hey, maybe he put a little bit of weight on AI
30:29over Christmas break. I don't need to – I don't need to get – A
30:32little too snug. It's like it's pulling, and it's pulling because your gut is pulling.
30:36I'm like, hey, AI, slow down a little bit.
30:39But I'm just saying it actually works very well.
30:42Like, you can ask it – you can even ask it for outfit advice, guys.
30:46Once you realize what a tool AI is for you, it is – it's pretty
30:51incredible. I used grok seven different times this morning getting ready just to answer different
30:58questions. I don't think I mentioned this yesterday.
31:02Valentine's Day dinner, as I was getting ready to go out, wife hit me with
31:08– is that what you're wearing?
31:10Not a good start to – yeah, the devastating off -the -top -rope wife, is
31:15that what you're wearing? I was in Florida over the weekend, and I did not
31:19have a pair of pants.
31:20I did have shorts. And so other than my track pants, which are awesome from
31:26XXXY, great brand, but not very fancy.
31:31And so my wife was not happy with the options that I had.
31:36And is that what you're wearing was the first thing I heard when I came
31:42out wearing what I thought was a great outfit to Valentine's Day dinner.
31:46Following the 9 -11 – by the way, you haven't noticed this yet, Buck, but
31:50Super Bowl next year is on Valentine's Day.
31:55Super Bowl 61 is Valentine's Day.
31:58I – it's going to be the biggest breakup day in the history of mankind
32:02because a lot of women are going to find out that their boyfriends care way
32:06more about football than they do celebrating that relationship.
32:10Following – and probably some men, but a lot more women.
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32:31Daniel's father also took part in the efforts at Ground Zero.
32:34He died years later from a rare 9 -11 -related leukemia.
32:38Daniel's death, like so many others, was also a direct result of 9 -11 -related
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33:14Keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history on the Team 47 podcast.
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33:44Hosing up shop today on Clay and Buck, and it is a great time to
33:49remind you all to get Manufacturing Delusion, my book, which came out today.
33:55Get yourself a copy. I know you're like, Buck, you're talking about it a lot.
33:57Yeah, it's published day, and it took me two years to get here, so there
34:00we go. Let's rock it up those charts, everybody.
34:03Why wouldn't you get a copy?
34:04Just think about it. Put it on yourself.
34:05Be like, I listen to this guy.
34:06And sometimes he's pretty okay.
34:08He says some good things.
34:09I actually think you'll enjoy the book.
34:10People who are reading it are like, wow, it's really good.
34:12I'm like, well, thank you.
34:13Hey, Clay, is there a little bit of like a, you know, it's like when
34:17someone tells you, wow, you've lost weight.
34:19You're like, yeah, but I didn't think I was like that fat before.
34:23I didn't know you noticed how fat I was until, yeah.
34:26Well, it's a little bit of a faint praise, low expectations.
34:29You know? They're like, wow, it actually is really well written.
34:32It's a good book. You actually wrote this?
34:33Yes, I actually wrote this.
34:34It's a book. Go check it out.
34:36So go get your copy or get the audio book of it too, which I
34:38did. And then Clay, you can go to now calls, do VIP emails, do all
34:41these good things because you are, Clay is hanging out with Thurston Howell III tomorrow
34:46and company at Mar -a -Lago and abandoning us for the day.
34:50But he will come back after he has ordered some servants around and had a
34:55mint julep or two on the veranda.
34:57He will tell us, or what's your favorite, Southside?
35:00Is that your country club drink?
35:01Like, what's your, what, when you're chilling out by the golf course?
35:06If it's not a beer, it's going to be an old -fashioned.
35:08That would be my go -to liquor drink.
35:10Yeah. Is the Southside just a thing they talk about in, like, the Northeast?
35:13It's like a, it's like an iced tea with some kind of a booze in
35:16it, I think. I forget.
35:17I don't even know what a Southside is.
35:18That's what country clubs, yeah, people at country clubs drink something called the Southside, I
35:21thought. Anyway. We got a ton of talkback.
35:24Do you want me to hit them?
35:25Debbie says, thank you for writing a book.
35:28Sacramento. Good morning to the both of you.
35:31And my love goes out to Rush Limbaugh.
35:34I listened to him when he was on KFBK here in Sacramento, and all of
35:38his updates and fun things that he did.
35:40And I just want to let Buck know that I bought his audio book this
35:44morning. I am on the road a lot.
35:45It's hard for me to read a book, but I sure listen to a lot
35:49of them, and his is my next one.
35:51Thank you so much for taking the time to write it.
35:53I'm sure it's going to be fantastic.
35:56Thank you so much. I really, really, I really do appreciate that.
35:59And Clay knows you blood, sweat, and tears into these books, and every person who
36:02reads it or buys one copy or downloads it, really appreciate it.
36:06By the way, Clay, a Southside is a classic, refreshing gin cocktail, gin, lime juice,
36:11simple syrup, and mint. So similar.
36:13This is why I think a country, this is like the country club drink of
36:16choice in the Northeast. People have Southsides, which is basic.
36:19It's almost like a mint julep.
36:21Yeah, I'm not a huge gin guy.
36:23That wouldn't be the base.
36:24I like bourbon. I like whiskey.
36:27I like vodka, okay. Tequila.
36:30But not a gin drinker so much.
36:32But yeah, for people out there.
36:33I would be tequila, and then there's like 100 feet of empty space, and then
36:37everything else. Pretty much, if I'm going with a liquor.
36:41By the way, you're right.
36:42I appreciate her. So many people don't have time to read, and you did the
36:46podcast. I mean, you did the audiobook version of your book, which is great as
36:51well. Let's hit two of these real quick.
36:53Bill in Texas, D. Hey, Clay and Buck.
36:56Bill from Hutto, Texas. And I tell you what, if MAGA people were out shooting
37:02up schools and hockey games and whatever else, churches, we'd be hearing a huge outcry
37:09that MAGA people should have their guns taken away from them.
37:12And not likely we'll be hearing that about any trans.
37:15And so, just thought I'd mention it.
37:18They just pretend the trans shooters don't exist.
37:20That's 100 % right. Podcast listener Mike, also down in Texas.
37:24E. Hey, this is Mike in Texas.
37:26You know, the pro -trans people are always saying, if you don't let these people
37:29transition, they're going to kill themselves, which is a lie.
37:32But it seems like if we let them transition, they're going to kill everybody else,
37:36and then possibly themselves. It's actually, unfortunately, what you're seeing from the evidence.
37:43There's a lot of truth to that.
37:45Thank you, guys. Buy Buck's book.
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