Hour 3 - Is Hegseth Natty?
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0:36Hour number three, Thursday edition.
0:37Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
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0:43as what should happen and what is going to happen with Iran with Stevie Yates,
0:49an expert on Middle Eastern policy.
0:52Carol Markowitz on why I'm a genius for my argument about Taylor Swift versus the
0:57Beatles. And Buck Sexton's book surging to number four overall on the Amazon ranking.
1:05And I mentioned all those things as well as us being right about the Tallarico
1:08story as it pertains to the Democrat primary in Texas.
1:12Go vote Texans. March 3rd is the primary.
1:17A little bit of a...
1:18We've got to come clean.
1:20I want to apologize to Michael Berry and to Jesse Kelly and all of our
1:25friends in Texas. We are going to reschedule now our trip to Austin, San Antonio,
1:30and Houston because my kids have an event on primary night that I cannot miss.
1:36I've got a senior in high school.
1:38I'm trying to make sure I don't miss any of his events.
1:40So we're going to get back down to Texas, but we're not going to be
1:43there in the next 10 days or so.
1:45And we will still hit all those markets.
1:46And we're going to do a cool event at the Alamo, which I can't wait
1:49to go to, to celebrate Crockett Coffee, as well as Davy Crockett himself and the
1:54legacy of the Alamo. And Buck's book is surging.
1:58And I'm very glad it's surging because I feel bad about all the stakes he's
2:01had to buy for me because I'm right about everything.
2:03I've got to be able to pay for them.
2:05That's right. Especially because the cost is just going up, especially in the expensive stake
2:12market of South Florida where more and more people are moving every single day and
2:17therefore they can charge higher prices for their stakes.
2:20All right. With that in mind, I have said that Kamala Harris is going to
2:25run for president. She is going to run for president.
2:28And recently, out to dinner with several of our mutual friends, I even went so
2:32far as to say, I think Kamala Harris is going to be the nominee for
2:37the Democrat Party. And my analysis, yes.
2:41Right. So that's insane. Just to be clear, that's insane.
2:43Just so everyone's clear, I'm going to the record with, I don't stake or no
2:47stake, Kamala is a nominee from Clay.
2:49Insane. Not as insane as Michelle Obama is going to be the nominee in the
2:53last election cycle, which he didn't get right, by the way.
2:56But insane. The logic on this, I think you might sign on to, though, as
3:02I work through. So first of all, we're going to find out at some point,
3:06where is the Democrat primary going to start?
3:10And much like the power brokers rigged everything for, back in the day, Hillary Clinton
3:16against Bernie Sanders, and much like I think the power brokers just rigged the Democrat
3:21primary in Texas for James Tallarico instead of Jasmine Crockett.
3:27Where they decide to put the primary will tell us a great deal about who
3:32they want to be the nominee.
3:33If they put it in the South, due to the impact of black voters, Kamala
3:39Harris is going to be the nominee.
3:40So put a star in this prediction.
3:44If they go to New Hampshire, if they go to Iowa, Kamala Harris will probably
3:49not be the nominee. But if they start with South Carolina or Georgia or even
3:54my home state of Tennessee, which is making a play to be the first primary
3:57state in the 2028 Democrat cycle, because remember, they're divorced now.
4:01Republicans do their thing. Democrats do their thing.
4:04They're in different states. Right now, Kamala is leading the charge.
4:10And one reason she's leading the charge is there's no other black candidate.
4:14And I saw this, and I don't know if I buy it, but Wes Moore
4:18keeps saying he is the governor of Maryland.
4:20I'm not sure that he's a great political talent, but he keeps saying, I'm not
4:24going to run. This is cut 23.
4:27Democrat governor of Maryland who happens to be a black man, Wes Moore saying, I'm
4:32not going to run. 23.
4:36So we're going to play that in a second.
4:39That is Wes Moore on 2028.
4:43One thing that I think ties in here is AOC, I think, is getting kneecapped.
4:48I think some of the Kamala Harris is behind it.
4:51Her answer in Munich, a lot of Republicans have had fun with it, but they
4:55managed to get left -wing media to write about it because they want to kneecap
5:00AOC, who's young, can raise a lot of money, and might have appeal with some
5:05minority voters. I think Kamala Harris wants to do that.
5:08And so as you work through this, who is, Buck, in your mind, the minority
5:15contender against Kamala Harris that could start to steal away some of her support?
5:22We now have that cut ready for you.
5:23Cut 23. Cut 23. could you be competitive in a democratic primary some big names
5:28might run gavin newsom the california governor among many others i respect all of them
5:33in terms of their intellect um in terms of where their heart lies in terms
5:40of the service that they want to provide to this country but ultimately your actions
5:45speak louder than anything um gavin newsom is somebody that i think has tremendous potential
5:50if he moves towards the center but ultimately affordability with taxes in the state of
5:56california the homelessness the crime he's going to have to answer those questions being a
6:01prisoner of the environmentalist out there he's gonna have to answer those questions okay that's
6:05stephen a smith why do i think stephen a smith is now being trumpeted and
6:09getting a lot of attention buck i think they see him as the kamala harris
6:13vanquisher because for black voters black guys are going to vote for stephen a smith
6:20over kamala harris they just are and you might think it's ridiculous that an espn
6:24commentator could be running for president all those things i understand them but why is
6:29this story so ascendant i think democrat power brokers don't see stephen a smith as
6:34a real contender to be president but i think they see him as the vanquisher
6:40of kamala harris because he is a minority candidate that would take away much of
6:47the support that otherwise might go to kamala do you buy this theory um i'm
6:53just saying they're giving him a lot of credence a lot of attention and they're
6:58elevating him as a serious candidate it may be just a story but i think
7:03it actually undermines kamala and i think that's one of the reasons he's getting some
7:07pop i i don't know mr stephen a but i think he is uh likely
7:12a fundamentally more serious and intelligent person than kamala harris so that is true i
7:19believe that is without a shadow of a doubt true so i i start from
7:23that premise which is if i'm looking at these people and their record of success
7:29i mean look he's a media commentator so is donald trump in a sense right
7:32or he was a media figure uh a a entertainment media figure as well as
7:37being a business you know a ceo and a mogul and all that but i'm
7:40just saying that's actually a very important skill set for politicians today to be able
7:46to communicate to be able to communicate effectively on the fly and to have a
7:50a um the charisma a presence in the digital realm of online and and social
7:57media and everything else is a real currency they tried to manufacture like manufacturing delusion
8:03by the the way the book that you should all get they tried to manufacture
8:06that charisma for kamala harris and they failed because she's so lacking in it and
8:13and they weren't able to just construct it around her and for her um i
8:18think stephen a would be a uh far more formidable just on that ground than
8:23she is even as somebody who's had spent a life in politics because kamala let's
8:28be honest she really has been able to ride the absolute peak of the dei
8:35wave among the democrat party she was a black female at a time when and
8:41she's actually as we know she's actually of of uh mixed ancestry and that she's
8:45south asian and black uh but she you know it's interesting you never hear people
8:50talk about her as the first like south asian presidential candidate which i think is
8:55interesting because why right i mean she well i mean it's it's the same thing
8:59with barack obama being half white right the nobody ever talks about barack obama the
9:04fact that his mom is white it's just completely uh buried in the narrative of
9:10race uh and it's the race that they want to feature and kamala's arguably to
9:15your point even more interesting because she's a multi -faceted uh minority right it actually
9:20she's half indian like that would be a big deal uh in in this in
9:24a similar vein if she had one on that front and it would have been
9:29completely snowed under yes and so i i think that uh for for kamala harris
9:35she didn't have to the same way that the left -wing media and this has
9:38been a very broad thing left -wing media because they were so dominant for when
9:43i say left i'm talking cnn new york times huff post vice remember when vice
9:48it was like hey i'm just like sitting here with a cigarette dangling out of
9:52my mouth talking about you know north korea bro and this was a billion dollar
9:57company i don't even know if you guys remember this this was a a like
10:00a far left it was like hipster news and i was always this is preposterous
10:06this is what i first started at the blaze 15 years ago everyone's like oh
10:10these guys are going to be worth billions and billions of dollars i'm like no
10:13they're not this is absurd i mean they they did raise a bunch of money
10:16and now the whole thing is completely collapsed and they basically had to fire everybody
10:19um but my point about it is that in that era where they had so
10:24much dominance of particularly online and internet culture and the traditional legacy media kamala harris
10:31was able to get by just by the very basic and superficial characteristics that were
10:36elevated by dei she's just not very good people say look how far she got
10:40she was the vice president well joe biden was president he had dementia so as
10:44we know this doesn't really mean anything per se in terms of someone's ability it
10:50just has to do with how they're able to ride the machine or how they're
10:52able to leverage the machinery of politics in that moment.
10:56I just don't think she's formidable.
10:58The worst thing for Kamala Harris and her brand is going to be running again.
11:02She's going to get absolutely, if she becomes the nominee.
11:05Your point about running again, she has no downside.
11:08In the primary, that's true.
11:09If she runs in a general election, she's done.
11:12And how old is she?
11:13She's not that old. 58, I think.
11:16Yeah, pretty young, actually. Look, I think the bigger picture here, and we've got the
11:21Westmore audio as well, is Democrats, because of the identity politics with which they have
11:27imbued the entirety of the party.
11:30The reason why I argued Michelle Obama back in 2024 was because by Democrat Party
11:35rules, you can't replace a black woman with a white man.
11:39And I think that same issue is going to apply in 2028.
11:44So they need Kamala to get knocked out.
11:47This is crazy, but just follow me on their strained logic.
11:51They need a minority who has appeal for black voters to knock Kamala out so
11:57they can avoid the racist and sexist argument.
12:00And you know that I like this because this would mean that Kamala maybe even
12:04thinks twice about running. Although that's now, I think, I got a little ahead of
12:07my skis on the road.
12:08But she's going to get crushed, okay?
12:09She absolutely has no shot if she does throw her hat in the ring.
12:13That all said, though, why do you feel this way, given that Joe Biden, black
12:20and black female voters in the 2020 primary, went with Joe Biden?
12:28Because there wasn't a viable black candidate available.
12:33What do you mean Kamala?
12:34She was out. She dropped out before people voted.
12:39So in the 2020 primary, Biden had black support because he had been the vice
12:47president for Barack Obama. There was no viable black candidate.
12:53Remember, it was Mayor Pete.
12:54It was Elizabeth Warren. It was Mayor Bloomberg tried to jump in at the end.
13:00And Biden got smoked in New Hampshire and in Iowa.
13:07And then James Clyburn said, it's Biden.
13:09We're voting for him. We're not letting Bernie be the nominee.
13:12It was a bunch of white guys and gals all competing.
13:16And Biden was the choice.
13:18I don't think Kamala is going to drop out this time before votes are cast.
13:22And so they need somebody to box her out.
13:26Now, could be Stephen A.
13:27Smith, Wes Moore, who you predicted could end up being the guy, is saying publicly,
13:32at least, I'm not running.
13:33This is that audio. Your potential presidential ambitions are not a secret, right?
13:39Oh, well, they're a secret to me.
13:41Really? Oh, yes, they are.
13:43I am very committed. You have no idea whether or not you might run for
13:47president or not. No, I'm not running for president.
13:49I'm not. Because I love what I'm doing.
13:51And remember, you know, four years ago, I'd never held an elected office in my
13:55life. I don't come from a political background.
13:57I'm not. I'm not one of these people who's been spending 20 years, you know,
14:01going from your job to job.
14:03Okay. So the best way to end up president is to claim you have no
14:07interest in being president. But if Wes Moore, Stephen A.
14:11Smith, they need a viable black candidate, I think, Buck, to box Kamala out of
14:16the black candidate box, because otherwise she's going to get the support.
14:20And black women, I think, are going to show up in big numbers for Kamala
14:24no matter what. I think they're kind of floating AOC.
14:26Problem with AOC is she might be a dumber version of Kamala Harris.
14:31And I'm not sure exactly how this is going to shake out.
14:34So that's the prediction there.
14:36We'll see if there's any legitimacy to it at all.
14:38But I do think they're trying to find a person that could be the choice.
14:45I think Gavin Newsom is going to be the nominee, and everyone knows it.
14:48And that's where this is all heading, and they're not going to try anything.
14:52I think the Democrats have lost two elections running women against Donald Trump, and they're
14:58not going to take a Trump heir and put him up against – put that
15:01individual, which is probably going to be J .D.
15:03Vance, up against another female candidate to lose.
15:08So I think it's going to be Gavin Newsom.
15:11I think they're going to go – look, they ran the old establishment white guy
15:14in 2020. Say what you will about what they had to do to, quote, win
15:18that election. Biden was president for four years, so their game worked, right?
15:23Let's just – we've got to live in reality.
15:25I think it's Gavin Newsom.
15:28What do the betting markets say, Mr.
15:29Betting Market Man? Gavin Newsom is the favorite in the betting markets.
15:33I'm just saying black women are not showing up to vote for Gavin Newsom.
15:36I think they have to figure out a way to box Kamala out or dilute
15:41her black vote in order for someone else to be the nominee.
15:44I don't disagree with you that they think Gavin Newsom may be the pick.
15:47Here's the problem, I think, though.
15:48I think California is such a disaster, according to most of the general public.
15:53I'm not sure a California politician from the Democrat Party could get the nomination.
15:58Not the Democrats. They voted in the recall very strongly to keep him there, so
16:02this is the problem they have.
16:04Well, California Democrats like him.
16:06I'm not sure that nationwide they do.
16:09And I also think the Democrats, and when they're talking black female primary voters, I
16:12think they just want to vote for who they think is going to win because
16:15they want the agenda. I don't think there's any – there's nobody who's going to
16:19– They're probably going to win because they're not Declanons going to win because they
16:20don't win. fire voters on the democrat side this time around i think anyway we
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18:04i hadn't lifted weights uh heavy weights in a while he was spotting me and
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18:14a radio host who can both do two plates i'm just throwing that out there
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18:40a middle -aged guy and then pete hegseth they just posted a video and he
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20:01-a -y welcome back in clay travis buck sexton show all right hegseth 315 we're
20:07gonna have some fun with this but i did want to play a couple of
20:12cuts that i think are directly connected to each other and tie in with some
20:16of the arguments we've made on this show steven a smith i think he may
20:19well run um he's been doing a lot of shows with our friend bill o'reilly
20:23well we need to get uncle bill on we'll ask him what he thinks about
20:26this but gavin newsom won't go on steven a smith's uh politics focused radio show
20:34which i believe airs on sirius xm you can hear this program on sirius xm
20:39on channel 123 now every single day and here is steven a smith calling out
20:45gavin newsom listen gavin newsom 22 still waiting for you to come on the show
20:50mr governor still waiting still waiting gavin newsom i keep telling you it's gonna be
20:55more far more pleasant than you realize because i just want to ask questions and
20:59i want to listen to your answers i don't want a got you moment i
21:02don't want to make you uncomfortable i don't want to go back and forth with
21:05you interrogating you like i'm some prosecutor or whatever i simply want you to answer
21:10for your state about the homelessness that obama just alluded to which he labeled an
21:14embarrassment about the crime about defunding police about being a sanctuary city and state about
21:20billions in debt maybe he should stop yelling if he wants gavin to come on
21:27his show just an idea he's like i'm not gonna yell at you i don't
21:31know you're not selling him on the not yelling when you're yelling uh here is
21:36caitlin collins on stephen colbert show she is a cnn host um and she says
21:41uh they're still talking about the talarico but we talked about this i do think
21:45it's important she specifically said that's it I don't think Republicans want a Democrat administration
21:52to order right wing talk radio to have Democrats on.
21:55Cut 16. I think it's actually a really slippery slope because I think that you've
22:02seen some people on the right cheering this and saying, well, that's what we want
22:05Brendan Carr to do. I think that they don't want a Democratic administration saying that
22:09right wing talk radio must give equal time to Democrats or to see that moment.
22:14And so for me personally, on our show, I have Democrats and Republicans on.
22:18I want to know what everyone's saying.
22:20I want my viewers to know what the debate is that's in Washington.
22:23I don't think anyone wants the federal government telling people who they should book on
22:27their show and who the guests should be on their show.
22:31Again, this is important. We've invited a lot of Democrats on this program over the
22:35years. None of them will come on.
22:37So there is a difference between extending an invite and it not being taken and
22:42never extending an invite. Buck, you got nearly the best -selling book in America.
22:47How many late -night talk show host invites have you gotten on to promote your
22:51book? Zero. Zero. I think it's fair to say that you probably would go on
22:57one of these late -night talk show hosts if you thought it would sell books
23:00if they offered the opportunity for you to go on.
23:03I would. Hasn't been extended.
23:04I've never been invited on a late -night talk show I would go on.
23:09So this is very different when they try to say, well, they're going to mandate
23:14that you, we've said before, we would go on The View.
23:16We have even emailed The View and said, hey, we're willing to come on.
23:20You claim conservatives won't go on.
23:22The reality is left -wingers, by and large, will not go on conservative shows.
23:29Buck, you've been on Bill Maher.
23:31I mean, I would. I'm not kidding.
23:32I mean, the Pod Save America bros, they said they wanted to have me on.
23:37I emailed them and told them when I was in L .A., which was a
23:41couple weeks ago, I didn't hear back, probably just email got lost.
23:45But I was willing to go on their show when my book came out because
23:49I said, hey, I'll talk to audiences anywhere to try to persuade people.
23:54I think that a part of this, and this is not to take these hosts
23:58off the hot seat necessarily, but I guess I'm helping them out a little bit.
24:01A part of this is that particularly Democrat audiences have an expectation that the little
24:08unreality that they live in, this little delusion that has been manufactured for them, like
24:15Manufacturing Delusion, the title of a great book you should all get today, Manufacturing Delusion,
24:19my friends, on Amazon, that the truth is, Clay, these audiences, like the audience of
24:26The View, doesn't want a robust exchange.
24:28They want people on that stage, they want Whoopi and Joy and the rest of
24:35them to tell them exactly what they want to hear, to feed into the political
24:40prejudices that they already have and pretend like there's no other alternative and anyone who
24:46says otherwise is a racist, a bigot, a Nazi, or whatever.
24:51That they have to have effectively, all of liberal media got turned into a safe
24:58space, a safe space for Democrat lib audiences, and now they can't undo this, they
25:04can't unring the bell because those audiences become incredibly, I mean, dude, even, look, I
25:10give Lamar credit, he told me this each time I came on his show, he's
25:14like, I get a world of you know what for having you on, just so
25:18you know, and he's like, every time that happens, I'm reminded of why it's good
25:22to have you on. To his credit, one of the very, Bill Maher, one of
25:26the very few, who's like, let's actually have real ideas here on the show from
25:30the other side. Let's not have, you know, he had, he had Megyn Kelly on
25:34in the last year, he's, I mean, I can't even think of all the people,
25:37but he's had real conservatives, real right -wing voices, actual Trump supporters on the show.
25:45Nobody else who makes a living doing Democrat commentary of any, you know, consequence whatsoever
25:53does the same thing. No one.
25:55Yeah, and I give credit in the same way.
25:58Piers Morgan has a lot of people of a variety of different perspectives.
26:01Now, that's not a traditional talk show.
26:03It's you. He's running like a Jerry Springer situation over there.
26:06I've seen how that goes.
26:07There's lots of yelling. He's like, all right, everyone, stop poking each other in the
26:10eyes. Yeah, I have fun going on that show just because it's one big Donnybrook.
26:15But, yes, there at least is the attempt.
26:18All right, let's come back.
26:19I believe we now have, that was serious stuff.
26:22Do we have the audio?
26:23Here is Pete Hegseth letting it be known.
26:26Here's a little bit of news, by the way.
26:28Abigail Spanberger, the so -called moderate governor of Virginia, all of that is in quotation
26:33marks, has been chosen to deliver the State of the Union response.
26:37Is that next week? I believe, if I'm not mistaken.
26:40Total Trojan horse. Total head fake for the entire state.
26:44I told you. Actually, I'm not sure you're here.
26:46I know people who are now thinking about moving to Florida from Virginia because they're
26:52so angry about what's happening in their state.
26:54Well, I mean, look, this is what Democrats do.
26:57And I do think, before we play this, have some fun with this.
27:02Look, Democrats pretend that they're going to be moderate, and then they run far left
27:07wing. This is why I love Trump.
27:09Trump basically gave everyone a roadmap of exactly what he was going to do, and
27:15effectively... Thank you. he has just moved down the list check mark check mark check
27:18mark whether you agree or disagree with it i'm not sure we've had a campaign
27:22or a candidate who said more exactly what he would do and then getting into
27:27office has done exactly what he said uh okay uh pete hegseth video posted secretary
27:33of war pete hegseth our friend let's be honest video our our hunky the ladies
27:39will our hunky secretary of war all right this is true here he is with
27:44his son spotting him which i'm gonna be honest with you i had my 15
27:47year old spotting me uh in this video i don't know that this kid is
27:51old enough to be able to be much of a a big help in the
27:55event that this went poorly given how much the weight is here is hegseth three
28:00plates 315 this is the video just posted all right here we go for the
28:05detail three plates gone on the spot long time coming let's see let's go gotta
28:13keep the butt down gotta keep the butt down if i can don't lift i
28:18got one one two three i got it i got it i got it i
28:24got it don't touch it yeah there we go all right 315 buck and i
28:38was just saying this i worked out with my 15 year old this past weekend
28:41there are witnesses uh in a in a gym down in uh florida and i
28:46had my 15 year old spotting me i said i haven't tried to do 225
28:50in a while and i said i just want to prove near the end of
28:53a workout i want to prove i can still do it and so my 15
28:56year old spotted me 225 so i can do that's two plates 315 buck is
29:02freaky strong particularly when you think i mean hegseth definitely weighs under 200 pounds and
29:08he's whatever he is 45 years old now yeah um i'm a huge pete fan
29:14okay are you throwing a flag on hegseth's numbers hold on hold on hold on
29:19i'm a huge secretary of war fan he's doing a great job with the pentagon
29:22with the changing of the way that uh we work with industry to bring the
29:29best technology and the best tools the warfighter and i i think pete is doing
29:33a great job and pete is a friend of yours pete is a friend of
29:36mine i think there might be a little bit of performance enhancing drugs involved i'm
29:41just saying i'm just saying i'm throwing a i i think we could have a
29:45little trt a little trt you know maybe probably definitely some bpc 157 to help
29:50with the recovery i'm thinking a little trt he's juicing up those numbers a little
29:54bit you know is he did he did he pop a few anivar for a
29:58few weeks before this that technically wouldn't be legal but you know you can get
30:02it under certain medical circumstances i don't know i don't know i'm just asking questions
30:06i'm just asking questions but a little trt boost to get the 315 up some
30:11of you some of you out there know what i'm talking about some of you
30:14out there know that would that would help a lot that would help a lot
30:17because if he is doing that truly natty that's pretty wild that's really that is
30:21quite that is quite impressive i know that please i know some of your champion
30:25powerlifters and you know you're amazing and we don't you don't need to send us
30:28your shirtless photos we're this is clay and i represent the middle -aged dad caucus
30:33here okay so i don't i didn't need to see that you were a champion
30:36bodybuilder you won the arnold classic yada yada no no we're the middle -aged caucus
30:40here okay middle -aged dude caucus to us 315 is pretty is pretty hefty on
30:46the bench if you don't weigh 260 pounds like that's your clay when i got
30:50really fat honestly or you know for me when i gained a lot of weight
30:53i was throwing crazy numbers up on the bench and it actually was bad because
30:57i was like whoa i'm getting stronger well yeah but like there's a lot of
31:00fat you know you have to sort of look at it based on body weight
31:03right correct like like your wife can probably lift twice her body weight which is
31:08freakishly strong so this is how you can assess actual strength but the overall number
31:14is not going to be the same for like a woman who weighs 120 pounds
31:17as a guy who weighs 280 pounds or whatever most guys can't bench their own
31:23body weight whatever you weigh out there most guys cannot do it here uh that's
31:28why for a lot of people if you if you're not look i like to
31:31lift it's not like i'm a professional lifter by any stretch of the imagination two
31:35plates is an incredible target right like most like most people see for those of
31:40you who don't know the bench uh the bar is 45 pounds and when we
31:44say two plates we mean two 45 pound uh weights on each side that's 225
31:50easy math 315 is three plates there are very few guys that are not professional
31:57lifters that can throw up 315 um so 225 there's not that many guys 25
32:03of the general population of that of adults um that includes i'm trying to see
32:09if that includes men and women because obviously if a woman can throw up 225
32:12i mean that's i mean a woman throwing up 225 is off the charts freakish
32:16too but um i think it's about it's about what it's like one it's less
32:20than one percent of the overall population can do that so can do 225 so
32:24315 is like one in 10 000 strong uh i mean it's crazy so buck
32:29has called out the secretary of war maybe he has to come on and defend
32:33his uh bench press ability i'm not calling i'm just asking questions i just feel
32:36like this is a great opportunity to explore the benefits of the anti -aging and
32:42oh this is increasing regimen i would say that is available to look for trt
32:47for people i have by the way lots of joe rogan talks about how he's
32:50on it lots of people will talk about how they take it and everyone that
32:54i know who has taken trt and medically supervised i'm talking about okay just be
33:00clear this for guys obviously not for girls because men and women are different um
33:03and guys in middle age uh this is a huge a huge overall health benefit
33:10to them under a doctor's care done the proper way and at the proper dosing
33:15but it does make you consider it does help well rfk jr has admitted that
33:20he did this if you've seen him with his shirt off he's 74 years old
33:23and he is like dude crazy of course by the way he's taking more than
33:26trt but that's another conversation this is the other thing too people start admitting to
33:30like little bits of this this is very big in miami culture people be like
33:33oh like i just take some peptides for recovery it's like no i think you
33:37take anabolic steroids there's a lot of that there's a lot of that here so
33:40i haven't just say i haven't taken anything ever uh so i'm happy with my
33:45225 um uh and uh anyway we'll see people are now demanding remember when i
33:50said i could do 185 10 times back in the day and everybody was in
33:54disbelief over that i posted a video maybe i'm gonna have to post a video
33:57at 225 evidently but 315 we just shared it that's good i mean look the
34:02positive here is everybody should be trying to do more especially guys lifting having more
34:09muscle it allows you to be a much better training like it is essential for
34:14men and women women i am amazed a lot of the women listening to this
34:18are much better shaped than me and that's great but a lot of women i
34:22still come across who say i don't want to get big from weight lifting that
34:26you will get smaller a hundred percent you will tighten up from your waist will
34:32get tighter your arms will get smaller weight lifting will only make you unless you're
34:37taking crazy amounts of performance enhancing drugs as a woman is only going to make
34:41you actually smaller that's why the most popular category for female bodybuilders is bikini yeah
34:48no i mean it's a great point because for a lot of women they still
34:51worry oh i'm going to get too bulky oh i'm not going to be uh
34:54i'm not going to have a feminine figure to your point like muscle is good
34:58for everybody i mean my mom is in her 60s my mom is like like
35:01she's a smith machine but she's dead lifting and doing you know it's absolutely obviously
35:06do all these things safely and consult your trainer and your doctor before you start
35:09any exercise regimen but strength training is so critical and there's still this weird almost
35:14like how the food pyramid people like should i really have 12 servings of grain
35:17a day absolutely not that's finally gone getting like like resistance training for strength is
35:23something that everybody every adult should do at all ages at an appropriate level for
35:28them it is only good for your health and that that's a i mean that's
35:32a message that i think should get out there a lot more for yeah look
35:34your your wife does a lot of lifting my wife lifts i mean they're way
35:37better shaped than us uh well i mean but that's the way you know what
35:40i mean like we're successful radio guys like we got to have the wives that
35:43are you know what i mean come on yeah they're better shaped than us uh
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37:14for clay clay and buck this is kathy i'm calling from california way up north
37:20in california because i couldn't be near any of the cities anyway i just want
37:23to put my two cents in about clay's mustache i agree with you buck i
37:28think his mustache looks great i think he looks better without the beard but with
37:32the mustache he looks very good that way and i agree with you it's almost
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37:49here as always happens they like the stash buddy they like the stash one more
37:53here rochester new york unidentified this is i on our talk back talking weights and
37:59play and buck that uh bench and two plates that's something to be proud of
38:02uh i know a lot of middle -aged guys they can't you know they sit
38:06there and they say oh the bench bench doesn't do anything for you it's because
38:10they suck at at it so anyway proud of you guys keep it up keep
38:14spreading the good word thank you for the encouragement and it is true people say
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