Hour 2 - Defending Western Civilization
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1:02You're abandoning the mustache? It's been like a week.
1:05The ladies of America have spoken.
1:07They love the clay stash.
1:09The mustache has not been trimmed in any way, but I just haven't shaved while
1:13I've been down on the Florida Gulf Coast.
1:16He's going back to the beard, everybody.
1:18He's sneakily going back to the beard.
1:20The beard came in quick.
1:22I saw lovely ladies online saying that you are the Tom Selleck of talk radio
1:27now, and that is high praise.
1:29Is there anybody to compete with to be the Tom Selleck of talk radio?
1:33Is there anybody else with a mustache on radio?
1:37I don't, not that I know of.
1:39Yeah. I don't even know anybody else that has a mustache that does Fox News
1:43hits. Like, I don't even know who I would compete with on the mustache front
1:47on Fox News. So we both have like scraggly beards.
1:51Like Michael Berry has like a beard.
1:53He has like a Texas man's beard.
1:55There are people out there.
1:56Jesse Kelly. Oh, no. Oh, come on.
1:59He's most of his hair is on his face.
2:02There's that. It's not up top.
2:04So I just make it fun of Jesse because at the Munich conference that they
2:08just had, did you see the German guy with like the tiny little speck of
2:12hair that's left on top of his head?
2:13I don't know what he's trying to do.
2:15No, I didn't see this, but now I'll have to look this up.
2:17I'm sure you were harassing our friend Jesse on Twitter about this one.
2:20I'll have to go and see.
2:21Well, I just asked him.
2:23I was like, as a bald man, what does another bald man think about basically
2:26a soul spot that's left behind on the top of the head?
2:29To me, you should just go ahead and take that guy off because it's like
2:33it just looks like a desperate island that's hoping for support that has been overrun
2:38by the baldness. You know, I've never seen Hannity with a beard.
2:41I've never seen Hannity not clean shaven.
2:44And we're going on a long time here.
2:46I've never seen Hannity beard.
2:48First of all, Sean lost his Super Bowl bet to me, and then they did
2:52it Wednesday. Usually, I go on every Wednesday.
2:55I don't want to throw Sean under the bus here, but I get a text
2:58from his producer, and they say, hey, we can't have you on this week.
3:01I think Hannity might be ducking me after taking the L on the Super Bowl,
3:05and I'm just going to throw this out there.
3:07I'm not sure that Sean could grow a beard.
3:10You know, like my dad can't grow a beard.
3:12Nah, Sean could do a beard.
3:14He could pull off a Tom Selleck -style stash, too.
3:17You've got to get a facial hair bet with him for next year going.
3:20I don't know. Honestly, I don't even know.
3:22I could – Hannity with facial hair, I don't even know if I'd recognize him.
3:25I'd be like, who is this guy?
3:26He could go undercover. I don't know.
3:29I don't think – my dad can't grow facial hair.
3:32Like, he couldn't grow a beard if he needed to.
3:33The problem I have is not the beard.
3:35It's that it's gone white, and now it looks like oftentimes there's not actually hair
3:40there, and so I don't know what to do.
3:42It's kind of – it's quite the conundrum on the facial issue.
3:45Speaking of facial hair, you see what Hillary Clinton said about illegal immigrants?
3:50Yeah, but first, hold on.
3:52We went after AOC. That's a great transition.
3:55I just want to take a shot at Hillary.
3:56I just want to take a shot at Hillary.
3:57We'll play that audio in a sec here, actually.
3:59I like it. But I teased that AOC was trying to make a point about
4:04Venezuela and didn't recognize where the equator was.
4:07Now, I ripped her on Taiwan and China.
4:09I think huge majorities of Americans could not tell you what countries the equator runs
4:16through. I think that's actually high -level geographic knowledge.
4:20But if you were – totally, all she has to say is Latin America.
4:24She doesn't have to say that Venezuela is below the equator.
4:28Clay, if you're the guy on the dirt bike and you pop a wheelie and
4:33you eat it on the cement, that's on you.
4:36You know what I mean?
4:37No one made you pop a wheelie.
4:38Like, is it hard? Sure.
4:40But if you do it, you better know what you're doing.
4:42Most people have globes. Here's AOC whiffing.
4:45We told you she couldn't answer.
4:47She sounded like Miss South Carolina when it came to trying to explain what should
4:50happen if Taiwan invaded China or even what her perspective was on it.
4:55Here she is trying to play identity politics, saying Trump only invaded because he thinks
5:00he can invade countries south of the equator.
5:04It is not a remark on who Maduro was as a leader.
5:09He canceled elections. He was an anti -democratic leader.
5:12That doesn't mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts
5:17of war just because the nation is below the equator.
5:21No, we can, actually. We can, though, actually.
5:24There's plenty of precedent for this slash he's violating U .S.
5:28federal law. There's no immunity for that because you steal an election somewhere else.
5:31And I also add, I love that she really leans into with Maduro.
5:34This is this is for me.
5:36I just pronounce every word like you actually speak English.
5:40It is such an like a total over over exaggeration there.
5:45Remember, wasn't it? What was AOC's actual name when she went to school?
5:49Sandy, Sandy. Yes, of course.
5:52Sandy Cortez. Sandy Cortez. Interesting, isn't it?
5:55That she doesn't know who brought horses to the Americas when she's named for the
6:02guy who brought horses to America.
6:06You know what I mean?
6:06Like, if your name was like if your name was like, you know, like Clay
6:10Washington and your parents named you, you should probably know who the first president is.
6:14You know what I'm saying?
6:15You should probably have an idea.
6:16No doubt. Here is your point.
6:19Speaking of bearded women, here is Hillary Clinton to steal your transition.
6:24Long chin hairs going. Yep.
6:27Suddenly saying, yeah, illegal immigration was a mess and got out of control.
6:32This is also from Munich.
6:34I will say this before we play this audio, Buck.
6:37Hillary Clinton compared to AOC or compared to Kamala Harris.
6:4420, 30 points IQ smarter.
6:46I mean, you could not like Hillary.
6:48You could think she's diabolical.
6:51Yeah. She's considerably smarter than these other.
6:53Look, there was Obama said in this interview, and I think we'll get to some
6:56of those clips. The Democrats are too old.
6:59I think that a problem that they have also is that some of these Democrats
7:03are honestly, they're too dumb for politics, which is really dumb.
7:07That's a very dumb standard.
7:08But Hillary, again, you can say she's diabolical.
7:12You can say she's evil.
7:13You can have a lot of criticisms for Hillary Clinton.
7:15She is way smarter than Kamala Harris and AOC, and also she's just way more
7:20politically astute. Now, do I think she's being honest here?
7:24It actually makes me wonder, what is her game plan?
7:26Why is she being interviewed?
7:28Like, why is she in Munich?
7:29But here she is saying illegal immigration was out of control and it needed to
7:34be fixed. We need to call it for what it is.
7:37There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration.
7:43It went too far. It's been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed
7:49in a humane way with secure borders that don't torture and kill people.
7:54Okay. This is where we get into the answer.
7:59Go ahead. No, but to your point, like, she is at least willing to say
8:05publicly what is self -evident to the vast majority of Americans.
8:09And it makes me wonder, Buck, why is she doing this?
8:12What is the end goal for her?
8:14Because a lot of times you can say, well, that's just posturing to try to
8:17win an election. She's, I don't think, going to ever run for office again.
8:21What is her motivation to in any way be sane on this issue?
8:25Heck, why is she going to Munich at all?
8:27Just attention? I mean, I do think it's an interesting question for her.
8:31Most of the time, the answer is politics, angling for, you know, trying to get
8:35a promotion, things like that.
8:36But I don't know that necessarily applies here.
8:38No, she likes attention. She likes to be important.
8:41I mean, that's the one drug that a lot of these people in public life
8:45never tire of and the addiction never really fades.
8:48She wants people to listen to her and she wants to have a voice in
8:51things. I don't, that's not surprising to me at all.
8:54I also think, Clay, that with the collapse of the Obama -Biden dynasty, which is
9:02what has happened, I think that she sees a way not to run again.
9:05She's not going to run again.
9:06She's almost 80. And we know the age thing is actually taking a little bit
9:09more seriously now. But I think she sees a way for her to be involved
9:15as, if not kingmaker, have some behind -the -scenes power and sway.
9:20And what's more important to her than that?
9:23I mean, if she can't be the role, she wants to be involved in picking
9:26who has the role. I think Hillary loved Kamala getting smoked.
9:31Oh, for sure. Because it takes her off the table.
9:34Everybody who came after her, hey, you didn't campaign and you didn't go to Michigan,
9:40you didn't go to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin in the final days, and you lost a race
9:45to Trump and he's a joke.
9:47I actually think Trump winning the popular vote and smoking Kamala, deep down Hillary took
9:53a great deal of glee in it.
9:55Because it takes Hillary off the table, I think, as an awful politician who lost
10:03an election she should have won.
10:04And, again, this is my prediction in the years ahead, Buck.
10:07I think more and more people are going to keep looking at that 81 million
10:11Biden votes. And I just think more and more people are going to be saying
10:16there's no way that legally happened.
10:18Right? It is the equivalent of the steroids era in baseball, where whatever you think
10:24of people, Barry Bonds' performance, for those of you who remember when suddenly he's hitting
10:3070 home runs. And you got all these different athletes out there that never sniffed
10:3440, that suddenly are putting up 50 home runs.
10:37And it was self -evident that the rules had changed and everybody was cheating.
10:40I think the 81 million increasingly, even for people on the left, they're looking around
10:45and saying, wait a minute.
10:46How did that happen? How did Biden get 81 million?
10:50My point on that is, if you...
10:52Look at the overall Trump era and the votes that he produced in 1620 and
10:5724. I think it's going to be less of, hey, can you believe these people
11:01lost to him and more of what in the world happened in 2020 that Joe
11:06Biden was able to even get into office in any way?
11:09It is amazing. You go back at this.
11:10You go back and look at this.
11:11If you're a historian 20, 50 years from now, you will be told that a
11:18president who was unable to run for reelection because of his apparent and obvious dementia,
11:22which his opponents had been pointing out from the beginning of him running the first
11:26time in 2020, that guy got by far the most votes in the history of
11:33the republic. Not Obama, not Trump.
11:35That guy. That's a tough one.
11:38That's a tough one for people to make sense of.
11:41They're going to have to be a lot of Democrat historians.
11:45Unfortunately, most presidential historians are super douchebags.
11:48But not only that, Buck, it's as you stack additional elections.
11:53And I don't know if anybody's going to get 81 million votes in 2028.
11:57And again, you like just plot it and you're like, wait a minute, what happened
12:01here? People are going to say, well, it was covid.
12:03OK. And maybe do you think the fact that everybody suddenly allowed all of these
12:08different mail ballots to come pouring in?
12:10And they just counted everything under the sun again.
12:14I think the success that he had is going to be increasingly looked at with
12:20a bit of an eyebrow raise, even from people who claim that that they're not
12:25going to take, you know, denialism or allow it to to exist.
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14:08So we've got a lot of talkbacks, messages, and everything else to get to, which
14:12we will. Appreciate you being here with us for all of that.
14:16But I want to get into this Obama interview, Clay, but I probably will hold
14:21off on that for a little bit.
14:22But I first wanted, because we've mentioned this, Marco Rubio at this Munich security conference,
14:29I watch the whole speech, I will tell you.
14:32And I generally don't have time to watch, like, speeches that politicians give unless they're
14:36really good, because very busy.
14:38You know, I'll read the transcript, because reading a transcript is much, much faster.
14:41It's a much more efficient way to get the content without, although Carrie is, I'm
14:45a bit of an unk, I will admit, when it comes to the technology.
14:48I have a younger, cooler wife, and she knows you can do this thing where
14:54you press and the video goes double speed.
14:58Did you know about this?
14:59I didn't know about it.
15:00Laura is really adept at figuring out how to listen to things, but I think
15:06it's much more of an unk thing what you do, which I like to do,
15:09which is actually read the transcript as opposed to watch or listen to the audience.
15:14It's so much more efficient, and there's no fuss, no muss.
15:19But I watched the whole thing, the video of it, instead of the transcript of
15:22what I'm saying, because the speech was so good.
15:24I just want to give you guys a taste of this.
15:27This is cut two. Here's Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference.
15:31It was masterful. Play it.
15:33We do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker.
15:37We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted
15:42to test our collective strength.
15:43This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and
15:47shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who
15:51understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who, together
15:55with us, are willing and able to defend it.
15:59And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo
16:03rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it.
16:06For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the
16:12West's managed decline. That gives you a pretty good overview of what he talked about,
16:19Clay, but it was a...
16:20full -throated defense of the Western order, of Western civilization, and of America's familial relationship
16:29to Europe, both in its origins and going forward?
16:34Yeah, look, basically what we have is, if you want to talk about the biggest
16:39possible debate going on right now, it's, is Western civilization a good or bad thing?
16:44Because the Democrat Party, because white people primarily were involved in Western civilization, believe that
16:52that makes it illegitimate. And so they've been trying to tear down the fabric of
16:57Western civilization for some time.
17:00And I thought Marco Rubio gave a very strident defense of the connective tissue between
17:05Europe and America rooted in the foundation of our shared appreciation for Western civilization, which
17:12is the reason why we have basically everything that exists that is positive in the
17:16world today. You had a great line.
17:18And what was it that they didn't even have the wheel yet in much of
17:23the world? Yeah. Yeah. They didn't have the wheel.
17:26They didn't have written language.
17:27They didn't have ironworking. They didn't have, I mean, go down the list.
17:33I mean, whatever. I mean, the ancient Romans were building aqueducts that stretched for, you
17:39know, scores of miles to connect fresh water sources.
17:42And, you know, we showed up in the Iroquois.
17:45We're living in effectively a Stone Age level of existence.
17:49I mean, they don't think in Australia, which happened relatively recently in 1780 or whatever
17:54when they arrived in Australia.
17:56I think it was the 1780s.
17:58They were living in basically Stone Age.
18:00I think Indigenous Peoples Day should exist, and they should all just be saying thank
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19:00Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show.
19:03Some sad news. Robert Duvall, 95 years old, legendary actor, godfather, apocalypse now, to kill
19:15a mockingbird. I loved him in one of the great Westerns of all time, Lonesome
19:22Dove. For those of you out there who remember the miniseries based on the Larry
19:27McMurtry Pulitzer Prize winning book, he was McCall.
19:35Gus. He was Gus. And Call was played by Tommy Lee Jones.
19:40One of the great Westerns.
19:41I think it was a miniseries on television.
19:44Probably the greatest miniseries of all time.
19:46Incredible thousand page book about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
19:50But Robert Duvall, and a lot of you obviously are going to remember him from
19:54Godfather. But Robert Duvall dead at the age of 95.
20:01That has just come down in the past couple of minutes.
20:06You have a favorite Robert Duvall character?
20:09One that stands out to you?
20:10I think Consulieri in The Godfather is, I think, the, that's just, you can't be
20:15more iconic in a non -leading role than that, I think.
20:19I think that was really, he was really good.
20:22Sir, I'm German -Irish. You know, I remember the whole, remember where he goes, he
20:25goes, the guy, he wants the role.
20:27And then he's like, and if he tries any rough stuff, I ain't a Boy
20:30Scout. Remember that whole thing?
20:32Then the horse's head in his bed.
20:33Godfather 1 is an incredible, holds up, and an incredible, a lot of old movies,
20:38people don't like to hear this.
20:39There's a lot of indicating not acting, they're too slow, whatever.
20:42Godfather 1 is incredible still to this day.
20:45Great movie. I think you can make an argument Godfather 2 is better than Godfather
20:491, which is one of the rare of all time sequels that you can even
20:53make an argument is better than the original.
20:55A lot of people say that.
20:56I'm in the camp that the original, the first one is still the best one.
20:59The second one is obviously a phenomenal movie too.
21:02I like the first one better just as a movie.
21:04I enjoyed it more. A lot of people of our parents' generation, I think, would
21:09say that the Godfather is their, they think, the best movie of all time.
21:13There's definitely a fair enough.
21:14If you look on top 100 all -time movie lists, Godfather is routinely, one and
21:20two are routinely top 10, top 5.
21:24Truly phenomenal. In fact, I was talking about the Godfather this weekend with my kids
21:28who haven't seen it yet.
21:29I was telling them I need to get it on.
21:31All right, let's play a couple of these other cuts.
21:34We mentioned, well, should I mention, should I update the Nancy Guthrie thing?
21:39I mean, they still lead the news with it every single day.
21:43And so I figure there must be a huge segment of this population.
21:47that is following it every single instant.
21:51Here is the latest on Nancy Guthrie.
21:53Let me play it for you.
21:55TMZ now says that they have received a fourth different ransom note and that this
22:02email that they have received says that Nancy Guthrie is now in Mexico.
22:07It has been, what, 16 days, I believe, since she went missing out in Arizona.
22:14And that is, let me make sure I get this cut right, that is cut
22:1832, I believe. It is Monday morning.
22:21We have received a fourth letter from the same person who says that he knows
22:26where Nancy Guthrie is and he wants money in return for the information.
22:32Essentially, he wants the reward.
22:34So I have something to say to you.
22:37And I have already talked to the FBI about this, that if you are not
22:42real, you're committing a crime and you should know that.
22:44And this is a serious federal crime.
22:47If you are real, this is the fourth letter you've sent.
22:51And I should tell everybody that in this letter, it says, I know what I
22:55saw five days ago south of the border and I was told to shut up
23:00so I know who he is.
23:02And that was definitely Nancy with them.
23:07So I don't know if you're real or not, if you're watching this, but if
23:11you are, if you're worried about getting this money and you really do have this
23:16information, send it to us, you're sending us these letters, send it to us, we
23:20will forward it to the FBI.
23:23Okay, so that is ongoing.
23:25It is obsessive coverage for two straight weeks and candidly, very little in the realm
23:34of certainty that has come out.
23:37Savannah Guthrie has put out a video trying to address the people who have kidnapped
23:42her mom, allegedly. The search for the guy who was on, I presume it's a
23:48man that was on the video, does not seem to have led to any tangible
23:52result there. So that is the latest on that one.
23:56Buck, you were mentioning Obama.
23:57We'll get to him in the third hour for everything he had to say, but
24:01I did want to play this.
24:02Gavin Newsom, who is certainly running for president, went overseas to Munich, and he said
24:09in Germany that ICE are basically Nazis.
24:14And this is the argument that is continuing to be made to go overseas to
24:20Germany, the birthplace of actual Nazis, and make this argument is, I think, even beyond
24:28the pale for Gavin Newsom.
24:30It also confirms that basically everybody that Democrats don't like is a Nazi or is
24:37Hitler. This is just a never -ending argument that they are on the constant Nazi
24:42merry -go -round with. But here was Gavin Newsom saying this in Germany, the country
24:47that did produce actual Nazis, oh, today, ICE agents enforcing America's immigration law.
24:53They're Nazis. I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police,
24:59something familiar in Germany. Those first images came out of my state, the second largest
25:04city in the United States of America.
25:05We saw 4 ,000 National Guard federalized, first time, we're never sitting there like this,
25:10and 700 active -duty Marines sent not overseas, but to the second largest city in
25:15the United States of America, militarizing the streets of my city.
25:19Masked men, masked men showing up, unaccountable, no idea, IDs.
25:25Okay. I mean, look, as ridiculous as these arguments are, it's even more absurd to
25:32go to the birthplace of legitimate Nazis and argue that ICE are Nazis.
25:37And I will point out, Buck, that right after President Trump got shot in July
25:41of 2024, Democrats came out and said, oh, the Nazi rhetoric has to stop.
25:47And then lasted about, what, two weeks?
25:49And then they went right back to Republicans are Nazis, Donald Trump's a Nazi, everybody
25:55that votes for Donald Trump is Nazi -adjacent, and now ICE are the new Nazis.
26:00Well, but the problem that they have is, if Trump is a Nazi, why should
26:03the Nazi rhetoric stop? And then you have to go back to...
26:06And why should you not kill him, right?
26:07I mean, that's the real challenge of this, right?
26:09If he's actually Hitler... That's the next level of the analysis.
26:12Yeah. But they... You should kill him.
26:14The people who are saying, hey, maybe we toned down the Nazi rhetoric are people
26:18who have said he's a Nazi.
26:19So if you've said he's a Nazi, why would you tone it down?
26:23If you've said he's a Nazi and he's not, that's the only reason you would
26:27tone it down. So they're essentially admitting that they're scumbag liars, which is not a
26:31surprise, but that's where things are.
26:35It's also tiresome. But, play, that kind of psychological manipulation is very common among demagogues
26:40and among leftist totalitarian movements, which I get into in some detail in Manufacturing Delusion,
26:47the fantastic book that is available tomorrow on wherever fine books are sold, including online.
26:51How many interviews are you...
26:54Where will people hear you promoting the new book, which is out tomorrow and everybody
26:58should go buy? A whole bunch of shows.
27:01Some of your favorite conservatives are very kindly going to be having me on their
27:04programs, which will be a lot of fun.
27:08Not going to get on Rogan.
27:10I don't know what it is.
27:11At this point, like Rogan's had so many episodes.
27:15Neither you nor I have been on that show.
27:17Yeah. And at this point, it's like, what, I'm going to be episode number 6
27:20,000 in, like, the year 2055 or something?
27:22Like, you know, there's, like, comedians I've never heard of that no one's ever heard
27:26of that go on there.
27:26People are coming back for, like, their eighth round.
27:28I'm just like, all right, man.
27:29No love. No love from Joe.
27:31What can I tell you?
27:32It is what it is.
27:34An ex -CIA guy writes what's clearly going to be a bestseller about mind control.
27:37Why would Joe Rogan want to talk about that book?
27:40I don't know. There's no interest.
27:42Only two outlets that I would want to do that I haven't done.
27:45I mean this honestly. Bill Maher, for whatever reason, won't have me on.
27:49I think it has to do with the banning from CNN because they're owned HBO
27:55and CNN, same parent company, Warner Brothers.
27:57I would go on that show.
27:58You went on that show.
27:59You've been on several times.
28:01It's a fun sort of Donnybrook over a variety of different issues.
28:05And then Joe Rogan is the other one I would put on.
28:07Otherwise, like, I don't even, I feel like I've done every, well, The View, right?
28:11I mean, there are some that would just be fun to go on.
28:13I have a dream, Clay.
28:15I have a dream that one day the two of us will get to do
28:17The View together. And now maybe this is a fantasy more than a dream, but
28:23it would be a lot of fun.
28:24That's all I could say.
28:25It would be a great time for everybody, all involved.
28:27Well, were you on when I had Brendan Carr on?
28:29And I think you were out that day, that chairman of the FCC.
28:32And I said, just so you know, because he's got, continues to give guidance about
28:36the fact. I don't know if you saw this story.
28:38I think it's a huge story.
28:39I meant to share it on my Twitter feed about the unfair treatment of political
28:44ideas. Did you see Apple News, which is among the biggest of all news sources,
28:51has basically not linked Fox News, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal.
28:55It only links left -leaning news sources.
28:59And so if you're out there and you were just super busy and you get
29:03your iPhone and you used Apple News to inform you as to what is going
29:08on in the world, Apple News only cites left -wing news organizations.
29:14It never, ever cites, and I'm talking about big organizations.
29:19I mean, Fox News, kind of big.
29:20The Wall Street Journal, kind of big.
29:22New York Post, pretty big.
29:24Never cites them. And so it's actually not only the citation, the site traffic that
29:31a site like that sends is a basically in -kind contribution to the overall business
29:37itself. Because if you go look, and I know this because I ran Outkick for
29:42a long time, and you go look at the data on where traffic comes from,
29:47even now in an AI age, Google, Apple News, these big sort of news aggregating
29:57sites drive tremendous traffic that is translated into real dollars from an advertising perspective.
30:07And they're not even citing it.
30:09But when we had Brendan Carr on, I pointed out to him, hey, you know,
30:14Buck and I emailed the ladies at The View because they argued that they invite
30:18conservatives, but they just don't come on.
30:20And I thought Bill Maher was funny about this, too, because Bill Maher said, yeah,
30:24basically every conservative that I invite comes on the show.
30:28Lots of left -wingers won't come on because they are afraid of leaving their bubble
30:33where no one challenges their arguments.
30:36But this is something that I've been saying, Clay, for a very long time, which
30:40is starting even on, like, I was a college Republican in the year, the first
30:45time in the year 2000, okay?
30:46So going back quite a ways.
30:48Starting in college and then all the way up through if you happen to do
30:51anything in media, writing, TV work, any of that kind of stuff, radio.
30:55So the right -wing ecosystem was one of constant, you know, iron sharpens iron, right?
31:03It was constant heat and challenge and difficulty.
31:09And, you know, how do you get stronger through overcoming challenges, through resilience, through –
31:14whereas the left -wing, you got to just bounce from easy overpaid gig, the easy
31:19overpaid gig. It's a huge ecosystem for you to go to, never challenged or whatever.
31:24They got intellectually flabby and flimsy, and they got the media that they deserve as
31:29a result of that. It's really true.
31:31Clay and I have talked about this before.
31:33We could sit here. There's a whole – I could name a dozen – and
31:38I mean big -name people, right?
31:39Because the left -wingers are like, what about this guy who's like an assistant professor
31:42of this at Harvard who's also writing for, you know, HuffPost on occasion?
31:45No, I mean their big names.
31:48Our big names are way more competent and way more capable and intelligent than their
31:53big names in media. It's not even close.
31:55Not even close. Would absolutely smoke them.
31:58Not just Clay and me, a lot of the others out there, too.
32:01Our team, just better, smarter individuals because we've had to be.
32:05Yes. Because it wasn't possible to just go everywhere you wanted to go and have
32:09everyone applaud whatever dumbass stuff you had to say, which is true of a lot
32:13of people that worked at, you know, CNN and then ABC and then, you know,
32:17and at the BBC and then, you know, all these different – it's all the
32:20same crap. Well, you have to know the full scope of arguments, which is the
32:24only way that you can actually be well -versed.
32:27And I still think most people on the left have no earthly idea what arguments
32:32we make on this show.
32:33And I said, I mean, they don't even hear when their side people like AOC
32:39embarrass themselves at the Munich conference.
32:41It just doesn't even – echo or ricochet inside of their world such that they
32:46can realize that they're supporting true ignoramuses all right let's talk about something that is
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34:20you get your podcasts welcome back in to clay and buck uh we've got a
34:25lot of calls a lot of things to talk about today which we're looking forward
34:29to with all of you um i also want to tell you our friend alex
34:33berenson clay put out an article over the weekend talking about how healthy coffee is
34:38for people specifically a big study that he cited in his sub stack uh that
34:43looks at how it decreases dementia a great time to remind everybody of crockett coffee
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35:05you which is great and we love coffee i drink it every day and i
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35:32you can get an autographed copy of the new book right didn't we uh determine
35:35that which is going to be out tomorrow um yeah yeah i think we're doing
35:39that i gotta i gotta figure that out there you go code book but put
35:43book on the put book on the hot seat here okay code book we gotta
35:47get some code book for subscribers gotta figure that out for the first 100 subscribers
35:52oh no make him sign more than that i signed a thousand subscribers i signed
35:57a thousand we have thousands of subscribers buck sack it up get some uh get
36:02that get that risk how do i get all those books though you know i
36:05gotta figure this out you gotta buy them figure it out um all right uh
36:09when we come back you should go buy buck's book you should drink our coffee
36:13and uh you should hear what barack obama had to say in a sit down
36:17also i gotta tell you it's rare that i'm surprised by what people are angry
36:22about in the talkbacks this one surprises me we can have some fun with this
36:27when we come back uh anger afoot uh we will play it for all of
36:31you and uh thanks to everybody out there hanging out with us on a day
36:34when a lot of people are off we are hanging out with all of you
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