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Is the White House Press Corps Listening to C&B?

1 Apr 2022

CLAY: I gotta give credit where credit is due. I rarely do this, Buck. I gotta give credit to some of the members of the White House press corps. I think a lot of them are starting to listen to our show, Buck. We know some of them are — we appreciate you guys — because all of a sudden, they’re asking questions that, frankly, I haven’t heard even be debated hardly anywhere else, Buck.

This week we’ve been talking a decent amount about the Hunter Biden case. We’ve obviously got the steak bet over whether or not he’s going to be indicted. But we forwarded the conversation to how would Joe Biden respond if his son were indicted, maybe his brothers. I really think the interesting question coming out of this…

If you heard our interview with Miranda Devine, congrats, ’cause I thought it was really interesting. If you didn’t, you need to go to the podcast and listen to that. But I thought one of the most interesting questions that we talked to her about was whether Tony Bobulinski was going to testify, and if he did — she said she couldn’t tell us — if he testified front of that grand jury, to me Joe Biden could get subpoenaed to testify in front of that grand jury.

So a question that I would toss out to people in the White House press corps is, based on the grand jury investigation currently going on with Hunter Biden, would Joe Biden accept a subpoena in that investigation and testify under oath, or would he fight it? That’s a great question.

It should be asked in the White House press corps. But this is a good question. And it’s indicative of people listening and paying attention to where we are headed. The White House communications director Kate Bedingfield would not even entertain the “hypothetical” of whether or not Joe Biden would pardon his son. Listen to this.

CLAY: Great question. Great question. That’s what you should get. You could even hear her a little riled up, Buck, in that response.

BUCK: I remember… Clay, as they say we and our audience is old enough to remember when during the Russian collusion investigation there were blue — which, remember, just to be very clear, everybody, to put it in the proper context, was a massive fraud paid for by the Hillary campaign orchestrated through the deep state actors of the FBI and CIA and using and leveraging Democrat propaganda media all together.

That was the real collusion. The whole thing was a fraud. But I remember when people… There were months-long, it felt like, news cycles, just every day, every day. “What’s Trump gonna do when he has to pardon Ivanka? What’s Trump gonna do when he has to pardon Jared or Donald Trump Jr.?” just going down the family — and blue checks, just to remind everybody, were celebrating this notion.

They wanted Trump. They wanted the president of the United States’s family members to go to prison, to rot in prison for decades. For what? Didn’t matter. They’re just spiteful libs. So they hate people and they never think beyond that. Notice that Hunter Biden… There was never actually a federal criminal investigation of any of those individuals.

Hunter Biden right now is the target of the U.S. attorney of Delaware. This is a real thing. I think that the apparatus will find an offramp for him where he gets a little slap on the wrist. You think he may find actual criminal charges, but it’s real Clay. We can all agree that they’re really looking at this guy. He got millions of dollars. He clearly didn’t pay taxes on it.

So why isn’t the media entertaining this notion? ‘Cause, Clay, I don’t think they know yet. And we always have to remember… You know, they used to tell us in the CIA, don’t underestimate or overestimate your opponent, right? Don’t think that everything they do is genius just like don’t think everything they do is they’re a bunch of idiots. I don’t think the Democrats even necessarily know how they want to handle this. I think they’re still working this out.

CLAY: Well, they’re frustrated because even to this point, they’re having to acknowledge that what they basically called a right-wing conspiracy theory is the truth. And, by the way, can we start to stack up all the “conspiracy theories” that have been proven to be the truth just in the last year?

BUCK: Can we stack up things that we’ve been saying on this show that, you know, the Democrat media is, “Oh, the crazy Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.” It’s like, yeah? When have we had to come on the show and be like, “Hey, guys, we were really wrong on this one. We missed this by a mile”?

CLAY: “What in the world were we thinking?”

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Little Red Lyin’ Hood Takes Her Talents to MSNBC

1 Apr 2022

CLAY: It’s not gonna shock many of you out there but our friend Jen Psaki — a/k/a Little Red Lying Hood, as one of you memorably chose the nickname for her which I think is fantastic — has been effectively auditioning for the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party since she took over as the White House spokesperson, and she is reportedly going to be leaving.

I don’t know if they’ve officially, officially announced it yet, Buck, but she is going to leaving the Biden White House to take over a job at MSNBC where she now will be saying the same things except instead of being a member of the Biden White House, she now will be a paid member of the Biden White House propaganda team from NBC News working at MSNBC.

BUCK: (impression) “She’s totally gonna be a journalisto, Clay, who’s like calling balls and strikes and, like, not a Democrat propagandist. Like, no way.”

CLAY: That’s, first of all, a great impression.

BUCK: Thank you.

CLAY: I respect how much and how well she is at lying — I’m just gonna be honest with you — and I don’t think she’ll do an awful job in media. How would you assess…? If you were her agent, let’s say you’re making money (and a lot of these guys do make money) off of representing Democrats or Republicans or independents, whoever it might be.

I think she might actually translate well to just on-air propaganda directly, not pretending to be doing otherwise at MSNBC. I mean, they have a lot… I mean, like, if you compared, for instance, Jen Psaki or Joy Reid, Jen Psaki cannot possibly be as bad as Joy Reid, and they’ve given Joy Reid a television show, right?

BUCK: Oh, no, Psaki will be one of the stronger-by-ratings hosts over there. I think there’s no question about that. And, you know, it’s a good pickup for MSNBC, if I were trying to appeal to that audience of absurd communists who don’t live in reality, yeah, I’d probably hire Jen Psaki, too, ’cause who is better practiced in the arts of duplicitousness and make-believe when it comes to policy and what’s going on in America? I think she’s done quite a good job for a Biden that has no good stories to tell, really. So, she’s kept it going.

CLAY: Basically, Buck, since about August when everything fell apart in Afghanistan, we’ve had, like, nine months straight where everything’s been a total disaster.

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Will Cain of Fox & Friends Hangs with C&B

1 Apr 2022

CLAY: You might find yourself turning on Fox News and see this guy as start off your gaze on Saturday and Sunday. He is Will Cain. He’ll be there with you watching on Fox News suspect and, Will, I’ll start you off here. It’s Final Four weekend, and we predicted it. I don’t know if we talk about this on the air — I don’t think we have — Buck Sexton had never filled out an NCAA tournament bracket in his life. I don’t know how that’s possible, by the way, given that he knew you —

WILL: (laughing)

CLAY: — and at some point in time I would have thought you would have set up some sort of raffle at The Blaze back in the day. But somehow, we had never had Buck fill out a bracket. It looks like he’s going to win the bracket challenge. He has Villanova.

WILL: No!

BUCK: Oh, yes.

CLAY: Which is always the way it goes, right?

WILL: It is always the way it goes. Hey, Buck, how did you make it to this point in your life? Because I think it would have taken a proactive effort to avoid filling out a bracket. How did you go this long?

BUCK: You guys have to understand something. There’s America and then there’s growing up in New York City. College basketball in New York City is a… Everyone here just cares about… Like, I grew up watching the Knicks and the Bulls and all that. College basketball in New York City is a fraction of the interest that it is elsewhere because what are the teams, generally, in New York that people would get excited about?

WILL: Seton Hall, St. John’s. Back in the day, these were New York’s teams. New York City, that’s the thing — and I’m sure this is exactly what you want to talk about on Clay and Buck today. But this is supposed to be the basketball Mecca, is New York City, right? And there was a time when it felt when it felt like college basketball was also part of that.

Now, I’ll grant you, there’s been a fall from grace collegiately and professionally in New York City as the basketball Mecca. But I don’t know, man! Even your high school, right? I don’t know. I can’t remember which high school you went to, but I just think amateur basketball would have been a thing that wrapped you up in the bracket.

BUCK: No, it was big. My high school, Regis. Dr. Fauci by the way… This is true. This is not a joke.

CLAY: He played on the team! Yeah.

BUCK: He was the captain of the Regis team. He’s five-seven.

WILL: (laughing) Says something right there, right.

CLAY: Will, by the way… So, yeah, Buck has managed to avoid that. But we have been having fun with the Woke Bracket Challenge, which it looks like it’s gonna end up Keith Olbermann versus Rex Chapman. And I think you would acknowledge now, Buck, that the sports media has totally… Like, you’ve been blown away by how liberal the sports media is just starting to do the show with me, right?

BUCK: I have to put this to Will because you guys have both worked in both sides of the media — news media, straight up doing news media stuff. Clay, obviously, on this show and, Will, you and I worked together years, years ago, and you’ve both been… Will, you were at ESPN so you really know. Here’s Clay’s contention” Sports journalism is more woke and left-wing than political journalism. Do you agree with that statement?

WILL: Yes. I think so. It’s definitely more monolithic because outside of Clay and me, you really would have trouble pointing out open rebuttal to the orthodoxy of sports media. But, hey, so OutKick’s got this woke March Madness bracket. Clay, I have a little bit of a problem with it, and the problem is I think with the voters. You’ve clearly identified some of the wokest members of sports media, but here’s my contention.

I was thinking this. I think it was yesterday, I was voting in your poll. I don’t think you… I don’t think Olbermann gets to count and I don’t think Rex Chapman does. Now, here’s why. Because I don’t know that either of those — Rex maybe, but I don’t think Olbermann — is a true, indoctrinated wokester. I think Olbermann is just nuts.

I think he’s nuts, and Chapman may be as well. But you know, the Jemeles of this world believe in woke ideology as a path to power or as a path to what they consider to be social justice. Honestly, if you told me Olbermann had a bunch of racist stuff in his background whatever, I mean, I wouldn’t be blown away. He’s just nuts.

CLAY: Yeah, there’s an argument for that. We had to retire Jemele ’cause I think Jemele would win — Jemele Hill — every year if we allowed her to appear in the bracket challenge. So whenever you win the woke bracket, you’re retired, like, you get hung up in the rafters. So Keith Olbermann or Rex Chapman I think are gonna be the winners. Now, Rex is on the NCAA tournament coverage, so I think he would count. Olbermann, I do agree. Do you think so, too, Buck, that Olbermann is just bona fide insane at this point?

BUCK: I don’t even engage with him on Twitter. I kind of worry about the guy. I mean, he’s nasty. He’s not a nice person. This is well known all throughout the business. But nonetheless, you know, I mean, common human decency you just hope — you actually hope — the guy’s okay. He’s in a constant state of like frenzied rage meltdown.

WILL: Yeah, I don’t think he even lives up to the idea of woke. I think he’s just insane.

CLAY: Yeah. And I think this is one of those examples, by the way, of what happens if you don’t… What is he, like 55 or something? No family, no kids, he sits kind of on Twitter and just throws out all sorts of outlandish comments. And speaking of outlandish, by the way, Will, we were talking earlier in the show about what’s going on with Hunter Biden.

Right, and the way that all the sudden the Hunter Biden is legitimate to cover? Why do you think it’s become legitimate to cover all that. Like, New York Times is suddenly acknowledging it, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, they’re all willing suddenly to talk about a laptop story that’s 18 months old.

WILL: That really is a fascinating conversation. I don’t know where you two landed on it earlier in the show. There is a school of thought out there that Joe Biden has outlived his usefulness to the Democrat Party or to the powers, the centers of power on the left and now it becomes fine to do so. Or I guess the suppression of that story has already reaped the fruits of censoring it, and that is the replacing the centers of power, getting Donald Trump out.

 

I would pair it with apparently is this Vanity Fair story as well that goes into the lengths to which Dr. Fauci was in coordination with Peter Daszak to suppress the origins of covid, and the first reaction I had was why is Vanity Fair doing that story? So, you know, why all the sudden what we would call the mainstream media willing to address things they called conspiracies — what — I’m tempted to stay 12 months ago?

They’re probably calling this stuff conspiracies a month ago, right? A month ago, or at the very least silent on it. I don’t think the answer, Clay, is that it’s become undeniable. I don’t think that’s the answer because it has been somewhat obvious to undeniable for quite some time so the answer to why they’re covering it now, it sounds more conspiratorial and maybe more nefarious; it’s just not as easy as, well, the truth has finally come out.

BUCK: Where do you come down, Will, ’cause we’ve been trying to do a little bit of war gaming, tea leaf reading, however somebody wants to put it. Clay is the Nostradamus of Nashville, I like to say. So we’ve been looking at this, where this heads with Joe Biden running again; if he doesn’t run again, who would be the standard-bearer, how would that play out. And also, if Hunter Biden faces criminal charges here, which I think he will just barely escape. Clay thinks he will be charged. Do you think that Joe Biden pardons or commutes the sentence of his son while his he’s president?

WILL: Well, I actually think I’m on your side, Buck, on that. I just don’t misunderstand a really good historical example of someone in this situation being held accountable. So I don’t have a lot of faith that even Joe Biden would be put in that position of having to pardon his son. I’ll believe it when I see it that there’s some real day of accountability for Hunter Biden.

And then as to what happens in the future, as to who runs, I think we have to say there’s just zero chance at this point that Joe Biden is the nominee of the Democratic Party. I think it’s zero. I don’t see any way that they can put him up, and obviously they can’t put Kamala up for president of the United States. So, I don’t know. What? Here’s the question:

How much power does a small, radical minority continue to wield? That’s it. The small, radical minority seems to drive Disney to its knees. There is no way what Disney is doing is in line with its profit line, its bottom line, the vast majority of its customer base. It’s just not. So willing to bend the knee to a small radical minority.

BUCK: Will, can I ask you on that point, just: Are you at all surprised that — ’cause it seemed like DeSantis passed this bill that bans indoctrination of children — truly children, kindergarten through third grade. The left says it’s the “don’t say gay” bill. They create this big fight. They find out that not only the American people, broadly speaking, with the bill in Florida — the residents of Florida who are Democrats by a 52% majority support it — and then and these comes out all against it and then Disney wokesters at the very top level are talking about their pansexual children.

WILL: Mmm-hmm.

BUCK: What is going on?

WILL: I can’t explain what’s going on with those employees, but I would say that Disney is just like and maybe even more to an extent every other corporation in America where they’re terrified of their employees and again terrified of that small radical minority. They’re not catering to their customer base. They’re catering to some fear of being branded something — transphobic, racist, whatever it may be — by this small percentage of their employee base.

And then beyond that, whatever voices they hear on social media. And then, therefore, to bring that back to Biden, is the Democratic Party gonna go down the same path? Are they gonna go down the path of Rashida Tlaib and AOC, which is the path to the wilderness, or when they decide or they have to move on from Joe Biden, do they get smart and go, “You know what? Maybe like a Joe Manchin type gives us our best chance at governing.”

CLAY: It’s a great question, Will, and we’ll talk about maybe when we come back and certainly it’s gonna be a conversation for months to come. Encourage everybody out there, by the way, to watch Fox & Friends with Will on Saturday, Pete Hegseth, Rachel Campos-Duffy. I think you guys will enjoy that for sure. But is there…? I think it’s gonna be Hillary, right? I mean, that’s my prediction.

WILL: Oh, boy. Nostradamus of Nashville.

CLAY: That’s my Nostradamus prediction in terms of how it’s gonna play out. But my question is, Buck — and I think this is a good one too — is there a Barack Obama who could come up and steal the nomination from Hillary even though she is the preferred candidate, right? It seemed like Hillary was gonna be the nominee in ’08, she ends up getting it yanked away from her by Obama.

Obviously Trump beats her in ’16. Is there somebody who can kind of come out of left field and be a fresh face to avoid Hillary getting the nomination in ’24? That, to me, is gonna be an intriguing question. Will, thanks, my man. Have a good weekend.

WILL: Hey, can I say I just recorded a podcast with Piers Morgan. We debate covid, masks, vaccines, gun control — and we agree on woke culture. You don’t want miss that as it drops on Monday in the Will Cain Podcast.

BUCK: Excellent.

CLAY: Awesome. Good stuff. Check that out for sure.

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Mailbag Friday: C&B 24/7 VIPs Share Fashion Tips

1 Apr 2022

CLAY: A couple of our Clay and Buck VIPs. You can go sign-up at ClayAndBuck.com and get some video footage of the show as well as some behind the scenes access. Edward wrote. You remember we were talking yesterday about me getting crushed for what I was wearing on television and then you were talking about you getting crushed for your appearance on television as well.

Which is crazy, ’cause we’re maybe the most dapper and good-looking men out there on the planet, really, in my opinion. My mom says it. Larry Kudlow. He says,

“Call Larry Kudlow. He’s considered a great dresser. I’m sure he could offer suggestions. His tailor is quite expensive, great shows.”

John says, “Clay, buddy, I hear scarves actually make you look quite dashing. Try that on TV.”

BUCK: With a scarf? I’m just on TV? No, that would be… Maybe you could pull off an ascot, you know, like Fred from Scooby-Doo, but that would be good. That would be quite a lookespecially if you get the… Like, the silk paisley ascot going on, that one could be a lot of fun.

CLAY: I might pull the scarf just for you and just as a nod to the Clay and Buck crew. When I’m standing outside, sometimes you have — you know, when I’ve been remote standing outside, sometimes it is a bit cool. I might find the largest, most ridiculous scarf imaginable and wear it and everybody who sees it… I would probably get crushed for wearing it, by the way. But everybody who sees it will say, “Oh, Clay’s wearing that as a nod to the audience.”

BUCK: You could do like a Tennessee Titans scarf or something. People will say, “Oh, look. So cool.”

CLAY: Like soccer. That’s popular. That’s true.

BUCK: Exactly.

CLAY: Everybody wears those now at soccer.

BUCK: It’s gotta look like almost like a pocket square that you’re using as a scarf. You know, we’re talking silk. We’re talking fancy patterns. That’s the real scarf action.

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C&B Parody: The Compliance Creeper

1 Apr 2022

BUCK: There is the issue of the people out there who want to make sure you keep wearing the mask ’cause, you know, yes, I was told to change my mask on a plane a couple days ago. I really can’t believe that a human being would actually do that at this point, but it happened, and there are people who do this. You gotta be on the lookout. Public service announcement.

ANNOUNCER VOICE: Beware of the Compliance Creeper – that authoritarian type who enforces their will, bit by bit, until they have total control.

ANNOUNCER: The profile: power hungry officials who can’t resist the urge to tell others what to do.

VOICE #1: You better wear that mask, young man!

VOICE #2:  High Schooler: But the data now says…

VOICE #1: Comply!

ANNOUNCER: The target: freedom-loving individuals who value common sense and liberty.

ANNOUNCER: The tactic: using fear and paranoia to force you into doing ridiculous things.

VOICE #3:  Follow those arrows!

VOICE #4: Mask between bites!

VOICE #5: Six feet! Six feet!

ANNOUNCER: And before you know it, you’re standing in a circle in the middle of a park wearing a beekeeper suit. (sfx buzzing)

ANNOUNCER: But like a T-Rex, there are signs the Compliance Creeper is coming… (sfx pound, pound)

ANNOUNCER:  It starts small, like a government program, slowly infringing on your rights… (sfx pound, pound) And then, before you know it, the creeper is on your back and in your business. (sfx T-Rex scream). But there is a way to stand up to the Compliance Creeper. Tune in to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Like modern-day ghostbusters, who you gonna call? Compliance Busters, Clay and Buck — heroes to the cause. (uplifting sound). Clay Travis and Buck Sexton: Making sense in an insane world.

BUCK: That’s what we’re here for. You know, Clay, I still see in some places they haven’t gotten rid of them in elevators. I just want to remind everybody that in New York City, you’re constantly in elevators ’cause all the buildings are pretty tall here. You’re in elevators all the time. They had the little “stand here,” “stand here” symbols and they’re still in elevators here in a lot of places.

It’s hard to come up with something dumber. I mean, now that we know what we know about the virus, but also should have known this from the very beginning, it is stupid beyond words. This was a… I wonder how much money was spent painting little feet symbols for where you should stand all across America.

CLAY: I hope that young kids out there who have been overwhelmingly taken advantage of by this absurdity — and, by the way, great job by producer Ali putting together that little segment there, writing and getting it done. Let me just say, I hope that they rebel. Usually, parents understand — and those of you who have been kids rebelling against your parents understand — the trajectory is that the next generation rebels against whatever the prior generation was in favor of.

I hope that there are kids out there that are going — in the years ahead — to mock and ridicule endlessly the stupidity of many of the adults in their lives for the past two years. “Stand here in the elevator,” as if you’re gonna be safer. The “sit inside all of circle” in a park. The fact that there was police tape up around playgrounds, that there were kids on paddleboards in the ocean that were told, “Hey, you can’t be out there!” They filled up skate parks with sand. I mean, there is such an unbelievable litany of insanely dumb decisions that could be mocked and ridiculed to the high heavens.

I hope that it’s going to happen, Buck. I’m cautiously optimistic that it is, because it is such fertile terrain.

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Old Video Exposes Fauci’s Biggest Lie

1 Apr 2022

CLAY: One of the reasons why we would love to have had Dr. Fauci on this show, even though his staff says they have no time to do this show, despite the fact that he’s doing every YouTube show under the planet in order to get attention. They found — and I gotta give credit to whoever tracked this down.

But this is from early in the 2000s on C-SPAN. Dr. Fauci was on taking questions, and he was asked about someone who had already had the flu. Listen to this clip.

CLAY: Wow.

BUCK: What’s funny, Clay, is that that was what any honest doctor said. I mean, many doctors told me that early on in the pandemic. That was the consensus belief of the medical community, that there’s always exceptions to things in medicine, right? You’ll always find stuff that can defy what is generally known to be true.

But usually, natural immunity is better. Not always the case, but usually it’s better than even any vaccinated community you get, and they just lied to us about that. Fauci lied about it the whole time and here he is telling you about the flu. What are the chances that the flu vaccine is not better than natural immunity, as Fauci said there?

But then the new mRNA vaccines that were very rapidly rushed to market and very little testing over the long-term done on them, never mind everything else, that they were gonna suddenly defy what had been known in modern medicine for a long time?

Look, they didn’t want to allow there to be a loophole for people, and they wanted there to be a one-size-fits-all policy. And so that is why they just — in their authoritarian overreach — said, “Everybody, even if you’ve gotten covid before, must get the shot.”

CLAY: And not only that, Buck, arguably, that was a huge failure of American health policy because in the early days, it was hard to get the vaccine. And what we should have done is say, “Hey, if you already had covid, you likely have a durable protection through natural immunity. If you know that you had covid, you should step back out of the line and allow the elderly and the immunocompromised to rush to the front of the line.

“We’ll get them as many shots as we possibly can as quickly as we can. Those are the people that are actually in danger.” Instead, Buck, we ended up with these lies. I’ve never heard Fauci say that, never heard him say anything at all like that. You can also say, “Well, why did things change?” Maybe it had a bit to do with the amount of money that is being poured into Big Pharma.

I saw this survey tying in with this natural immunity discussion from Fauci. I’m not sure if you saw this. This is actually from the CDC, so take it with a grain of salt. But they surveyed, Buck, 7700 high school kids between January and June of 2021. So this is last year, and 40% of teenagers said they persistently felt sad or hopeless during the past a year.

This is the middle of the covid mess: 29% said a parent lost a job during the pandemic, 40% said they’d experienced hunger, 43% said they had consumed alcohol, 30% of them said they drank more during the pandemic, 26% percent said they drank six or more times in the past month and — this is the one that really was just gut-wrenching — more than half, 55%, reported experiencing emotional abuse by a parent or other adult in their home, including being the target of swearing or insult.

Now, that’s an expansive definition of being a target. But the stress levels that we created via lockdown — economic, health — are indefensible. And the people who overwhelmingly bore the brunt of all of these lockdowns were kids. We failed the most helpless of our community — the people who need us to take care of them the most — with lockdowns. That data, again, from the CDC. It’s the staggering how much we failed kids in this country.

BUCK: Some of us were screaming from the rooftops about all of this and saw this, and there has been no accountability whatsoever for those who not only opposed the — now we see — correct point of view that lockdowns are disastrous, that it will punish children unnecessarily, that it will lead to people drinking themselves to death.

It will lead to despair, deaths of despair. It will lead to massive loss of businesses, income, jobs, the inflation that we have. It turns out telling people to stay home and just sending out trillions of dollars over time, that have negative effects on the economy. You just don’t necessarily feel them right away.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: All of that we warned about that, and the people that were shouting everyone down with, “Shut up, Grandma Killer! You don’t care about anything but money” or, you know, some other slander. None of them have been publicly repudiated. None of them have received what honestly should be the humiliation of knowing that they made everything worse and nothing better during covid.

I think that Fauci in many ways is the standard-bearer for that. He made everything worse, nothing better. If there had been no CDC… Think about this, everybody: If the CDC had not existed as a federal agency, it is likely we would have been better off over the last two years than we were with the CDC becoming so politicized, shutting down schools because the teachers unions wanted them to.

And what is really the argument on the other side of this now? When you look at the data, they have no argument. I mean, Clay, it’d be one thing if we were saying, “Hey, look at all these bad things,” and they say, “But look at this chart. We cut covid cases in half where we did X and where they did Y, covid cases continued to skyrocket.”

Nowhere. The number of success stories that they have to point to when it comes to lockdown mentality versus Team Reality is zero. They have success in exactly zero places. Even places that are island, you know, Australia and others, they all eventually got rocked with covid too. It wasn’t masks. It wasn’t lockdowns. We all see the truth, and Anthony Fauci honestly, man… I mean, I joke around about him a lot. I don’t know how the guy sleeps at night. I really don’t.

CLAY: I agree with you, and we’re gonna keep hammering it home for the next six months. November has to be a reckoning. There have to be consequences for the politicians who got so much so wrong. You age-adjust California and you compare it with Florida, virtually no difference in terms of covid issues, right?

Florida has a lot more elderly people than California does; so when you age adjust and consider those populations, Florida got it right. Kids never missed school. Went for the entire year. Didn’t wear masks. Businesses have come roaring back. There are more businesses open, I believe, and more people employed now in Florida than there were before we shut down.

And, by the way, Buck, we still have not regained the jobs that we lost when we decided to shut everything down in March of 2020. There are still millions of people out there that have not gone back to work. The Trump economy — the number of people who were working right before the lockdowns, right before covid came to our shores and we officially lost our minds. We’re still not back to the same employment that we had in late February, early March of 2020.

BUCK: I want every person in November when they go in to cast their votes this fall — and this is why we continue to remind everybody about this. I want them to go back to those feelings of, “My school can’t be open because why? My child has to be masked in school for eight hours a day while adults are drinking at bars and doing whatever they’re doing because why, exactly?

“BLM protests and riots are okay, but me going to a relative’s funeral or having a wedding or going to a graduation is too dangerous, because why?” Those decisions became entirely partisan, were pushed by one political ideology in this country, the Democrat Party, and unless they are made to feel the pain of humiliating loss at the polls, they will have learned no lesson other than they can get away with something on a scale lake this.

CLAY: There has to be a reckoning, absolutely positively has to be consequences for the decisions that were made.

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Dub Digs Up 5-Star Podcast Reviews

1 Apr 2022

CLAY: We’ve been talking about it for a while. You can go give us a 5-star review if you search out Clay Travis or Buck Sexton. Dub is in charge of reviewing these. Have you read these at all yet, Buck? I’m looking at them right now for the first time. So Dub has picked these. These are 5-star reviews. I’m gonna read a few of them.

I told you we’d do it, and if you reach out to Dub on Twitter, then I’ll get you an autographed copy of my book because you have made it. First one here, Buck, Johnny Trevor says, “How to get Dr. Fauci, Tony Fauci on the show: Get to his ego. For that day the show will be called “The Tony Fauci with Two Other Guys Show. He’s in.” Probably accurate.

BUCK: I mean, I think actually if we let him host it, if he got to call in as a guest and he’s like (impression), “And now on The Fauch Hour. I am joined by two horrible, untrue, anti-science people who are the worst, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton. Look at his hair. He’s ridiculous. Applicable to both.” You know, like, maybe then he would do it.

CLAY: Eagles Fan 61, “Buck, says, Fauci moped. I think Fauci stole Buck’s moped because he refused to triple mask while he rides it around town by himself. Great show. I really enjoy the banter back and forth and appreciate all the truth you guys share. Keep up the great work.” A lot of responses having to do with your moped. Are a moped and a scooter different?

BUCK: Yeah, I gotta fact check this. A moped is what Italian guys drinking tiny coffees drive around in.

CLAY: It’s actually cooler than a scooter.

BUCK: Yeah. An e-scooter is… Like, the scooter, the Razor scooter that I’m a lot of you bought for your kids with a little motor on it and it’s a bigger than that scooter and you just go bzz. You just sort of… It’s like you’re riding around on an electric razor or something. Like, it just is a little… You know, it gets you going. So —

CLAY: I think the moped is way cooler, honestly, than the scooter.

BUCK: Whoa. Whoa.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Way harsh, Travis.

CLAY: And not just because I watched that Luca movie, one of the Pixar movies I think was focused on everybody wanting a moped, and that was set in Italy as well. Yeah, I think it’s definitely cool.

BUCK: You’re sitting down on a moped, just so you understand. That’s the big difference.

CLAY: Yeah, that’s how you move on a mobile vehicle. Nobody stands on a vehicle that moves. This is the thing like standing with your scarf flowing behind you.

BUCK: I don’t understand. In New York City, it gets rough on these streets. I can throw a karate kick from my standing position so easily just in case, you know?

CLAY: I’m almost done with Cobra Kai, by the way, and that is true. You could wreck someone.

BUCK: That’s right. When I hit the little bell that goes “Ding-ding!” and somebody think funny, I’m like, “Karate kick!”

CLAY: You need a different sound. BBS William says, “The best part of this show is not having to hear Clay,” this is true, Buck, “try to start the monologues in his show while huffing and puffing into the mic because he just ran up three flights of stairs at 5 a.m. Time slot works perfectly for the listeners. A War Eagle.”

Got a great interview up with Bruce Pearl, by the way. Buck. I’m on the third floor in my house. So I think a couple of times on this show I’ve come running back up after going to get some quick lunch or whatever and you can hear me huffing and puffing a little bit.

BUCK: We know never to worry, ’cause even if you’re not in the video shot and not at the microphone. We know that within three seconds of the intro music you’re gonna come at a dead sprint like you’re running wind sprints in between during the commercial breaks and you tend to make it. But I will say doing radio when you’re out of breath is hard.

CLAY: It’s tough.

BUCK: That’s next level. That’s like the top tier. What’s the top belt in judo? Is it purple or something? Whatever, it’s —

CLAY: It’s always black. Isn’t black belt top at everything?

BUCK: Probably I don’t know.

CLAY: I think black belt is top. I could be wrong. I’m not a judo expert but it is tough when you’re… Not that we’re extreme athletes, but when you’re trying to talk while also catch your breath that’s not an easy thing to do. That’s one of the things I notice my wife does the Pelotons all of the times the girls and guys who are instructors there to be able to have normal conversations while going full speed and working out is a pretty impressive skill. Do you want to read a couple of these reviews?

BUCK: Sean in Williamsburg, Virginia, “Verb as ‘to Fauci,’ Clay and Buck rocking out another solid show today. Keep on trucking, guys. Rush would be proud. Thanks for the new euphemism today, i.e., messing something up completely forever. It will be known as pulling a Fauch or to Fauci something up.” I totally agree. I even say someone cuts you off on the highway and almost causes an accident, you yell out the window, “Go Fauci yourself!” Very important.

CLAY: I got cut off recently, and I actually wanted to stick a middle finger up. I don’t remember the last time I did it.

BUCK: Oh, man.

CLAY: I was legitimately angry. So I should have just pulled up and said, “Hey, Fauci yourself!”

BUCK: That would be on Dead… Is Deadspin the sports, left-wing sports site or one of those?

CLAY: Oh, it’s lost its… I think it’s like four people read it. It still exists but like four people read that site yes. Yes, me flicking somebody off would definitely be there.

BUCK: What’s the one that is all the celebrity stuff. TMZ! It’s TMZ, Travis. That’s where you’d be. Finn writes in, “Dub rocks. Better ways to get a 5-star review for me throw in an autographed photo of Dub, drive over to Beaumont, Texas, after your rallying with Michael Berry and buy me a beer. Dub knows how to get there.” So apparently, we got a Dub fan writing in about how Dub is the best. So that made the list.

CLAY: Smart way. That’s aggressive, that’s next level, that’s 4D chess, take advantage of the guy who’s actually reading the review, suck up to him. We got one more we’ll hit with you before the show runs out. It’s pretty funny. But we appreciate all of you giving 5-star reviews. Thanks to Dub for looking all these up.

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CLAY: I think there’s only one left here, Ms. Carrie K. if you want to read it down here.

BUCK: Miss Carrie K: “Even my 6 and 8-year-old love it, y’all. We love us some Clay and Buck in this house. Just yesterday I was home with my 6-year-old who was home sick I was listening to the Daily Review and she was coloring. Clay says, ‘Everything Biden touches turns to crap.’ Without missing a beat, she says, ‘Well, that’s true, isn’t it, Mama?’

“And just like that, I know I’m raising a true conservative. Thanks, guys, for all you do. You got me through a drive from Nashville to California and back. You’re in Williamson County; we’re in Williamson County too. And bonus, one, for sucking up to the czar of 5-star reviews.” So there we go. Dub gets a lot of love in the reviews, I gotta say.

CLAY: Dub is getting a lot of reviews. Go give him a 5-star.

BUCK: He’s like the bouncer at the nightclub, you know. You gotta make nice with the bouncer at the nightclub.

CLAY: There’s no doubt.

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Hillary Is Laying in the Weeds for 2024

1 Apr 2022

CLAY: To circle back around the discussion about Kamala, my theory is that the pressure that is being brought to bear now is being brought to bear on Hunter Biden because the expectation now is that he’s gonna get indicted. And if he gets indicted, the walls are gonna get closer and closer on Joe Biden. And Joe Biden is going to announce — this is my opinion — soon after the midterms, which will be a shellacking:

“I have helped to restore normalcy to America. I’ve solved covid,” this is not true, but this is what he’s gonna say, “and given my age, I do not think I have it in me to serve until I’m 86 years old, and so I won’t be seeking reelection in 2024.” This is my prediction. Like early on, I thought, “Hey, maybe they’ll try to elevate Kamala because she’ll be more difficult to beat if she’s an incumbent.”

Now I think that Kamala has been such a disaster that he will serve out his term, and I think Hillary is gonna be the nominee, and that Hillary is laying in the weeds, and she is almost Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan. Like, she’s gonna come running out with that crowbar and hit ’em right in the knee and take out Kamala, and she will be — she believes that she is — the rightful first woman to be in the Oval Office.

She’s coming back, baby, and she is going to be, in her mind, the nominee. We know the DNC has done all the dirty work for Hillary before, and everything is angling, to me, towards Hillary Clinton 2024 presidential candidate.

BUCK: I think that’s probably right. I can’t see the flaw in the logic. I think that it’s almost impossible to imagine that given the problems that Biden now has… Keep in mind, there’s no option here where this gets better. I mean, just work through it for Biden specifically, then we can get more into the Hillary thing. Let’s think this through. Let’s say that I’m right and the charges are… You know, they’re gonna make him pay a fine. Let’s be very clear for everybody. Nobody else would get that treatment, okay?

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: If he took millions of dollars, didn’t register as a foreign agent, hid money, wire transfer fraud —

CLAY: Didn’t pay taxes.

BUCK: — didn’t pay taxes, you are going to prison, okay. I have no — there’s no doubt in my mind that he broke the law and should go to prison. This is about will the justice system treat the son of a Democrat president differently. And I say yes. Clay says it may be overwhelming to the point where they actually have to bring a charge. Okay.

CLAY: And I think that’s why they’re using a grand jury, by the way, because that way they can say, “Oh, it’s not us bringing the charges. The grand jury agreed to.”

BUCK: They put it to a grand jury. That’s a little —

CLAY: Understood. Understood. But it’s a little bit of a fig leaf in terms of the government saying, “We didn’t bring these charges, the grand jury agreed to them.”

BUCK: So okay. So let’s assume for a second that my side of this is correct in that he doesn’t actually — Hunter doesn’t — face any real charges. Then everyone’s going to be like, “Wait a second,” ’cause they’re gonna have to have a statement of what he did, and it will be clear there was wrongdoing, and essentially the Republicans will be hammering the Biden crime family for…

Remember with Hillary. And this may have cost Hillary, you know, Hillary didn’t go to prison, folks, but it might have cost her the election that there was the whole email scandal, Comey bailed her out, because people realized it was so unseemly, it was so obvious. That’s a huge problem. So that alone — and that’s the best option, I think, for Democrats.

If you’re right and he faces criminal charges and gets convicted — and even if he takes a guilty plea — now it’s the son of the sitting president is a convicted felon. Does he go to prison? If he goes to prison is his father gonna… It’s 100% Joe Biden commutes the sentence in my mind, ’cause he’s not gonna let his son go to prison. Does he pardon him?

You get this question. But this creates a nightmare for Democrats. And it would be one thing if Biden was popular, gas prices were low, the economy was roaring and the border was secure. Then he can get away with anything. It’s like the talent versus your baggage thing in sports, right? If your talent outweighs your baggage, you’re always gonna have a job. You’ll always be good to go in sports. Biden’s talent doesn’t outweigh his baggage, and his baggage is getting heavier.

CLAY: The argument for all of life — this is a good lesson for everybody out there — so long as your talent exceeds your problems, you’ll always be employed. Biden’s talent is far exceeded right now by his problems. And here’s the question that, I know we got a lot of White House media, a lot of media in general: Will Joe Biden testify if he is subpoenaed as part of the Hunter Biden grand jury investigation? Because he should be, he should be subpoenaed to testify about some of the emails and some of the stories involved in potential criminal wrongdoing. Will he testify? I’d love to hear what the White House would say.

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Get Ready for the Biggest Surge of Illegals at the Border — EVER

1 Apr 2022

BUCK: So here we have a situation where the Biden administration is just going to hope that you’re not gonna pay attention to this. That’s not gonna work very well, though, because when it comes to the southern border, it’s getting so bad that even the Democrat media is spending some time on it. Here is the announcement.

Remember, we’ve been talking to you about Title 42. Now, just by way of quick review, Title 42 is a CDC authority at our southern border that allows for immediate expulsion of some persons — not family units and the asylum, essentially single adult males and I think under certain circumstances family units may have also been expelled but it gets very deep in the weeds.

But some people could be turned away just because of the covid threat and the cross-border covid issue, right? So, we’re in a time of all kinds of restrictions; you’re not allowed to bring people who have covid into this country. That was the CDC’s authority. Now, this is going away. We’ve known for a while that it would go away. The Biden administration has been talking about it. Here is CNN announcing that — this is the breaking news today — yeah, Title 42 is going away in May.

JOHN KING: Breaking news this hour: President Biden now rolling back a Trump-era pandemic policy that effectively blocked migrants from entering the United States. CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez joins us now from Del Rio, Texas, near the US-Mexico border.

PRISCILLA ALVAREZ: The CDC now announcing that on May 23rd, it’s going to terminate the public health authority that has allowed authorities to turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. The reason for that decline is to allow the Department of Homeland Security to set up its preparations for when they go back to the normal operating procedure that was in place before these restrictions and as they anticipate more migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

BUCK: Can we just say, Clay, they’re hitting all-time records for the last year and on a month-to-month basis already.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: So you notice that guy CNN anchor goes effectively blocked migrants. It blocked very few migrants, especially recently. In the early days there were more who were being blocked. Remember and these are illegal migrants, just so we’re all very clear, folks.

This is not, “Oh, you’re trying to come into the country legally.” These are illegal migrants who you would think can’t they be turned away right away? Noooo. No, not because of our asylum laws. Clay, they’re already preparing for what they believe, according to Border Patrol intelligence, is the biggest surge at one time of illegal migrants coming into America EVER as soon as this policy goes away — and Team Biden’s just like, “Yeah, I guess we’re gonna go for it.”

CLAY: In all honesty, Buck, who is advising the Biden the White House? Because let’s just be honest. If you were trying to do pretty much the worst thing possible in virtually every category, that’s what Biden administration is doing. Buck, think about this. You’re at 40% approval. You look at the data. You and I are data guys. You look at the data.

Do you know where you get crushed already the most by Republicans, independents, and even large segments of Democrats? Border security! You’ve spent more time, if you’re the Biden White House, worried about the sovereignty of Ukraine’s border than you have our own southern border. And then you make the decision with already a 40% approval rate that effective May 23rd, right as the weather’s turning, you are going to give a green light to everybody south of the border, Buck.

And you know that immediately what’s gonna happen is we’re gonna see a replication of that Del Rio, Texas, moment where there are tens of thousands of people gathered right there in clusters at the border. You know that there’s gonna be huge caravans working their way up from Latin America through Mexico headed right for our border — and, oh, by the way, Buck, you’re also now, “the science.”

You’re supposedly the Party of Science! You are saying — I just want everybody out there to think about this — covid is so under control that we can end covid restrictions at our southern border. But simultaneously you are arguing covid is not under control enough for American citizens to be able to take off their masks on airplanes and while they walk around in airports. Just think about this, Buck.

How is this…? I don’t understand how they can be so politically tone-deaf that they can think to themselves, “We’re gonna open the border,” which is gonna be a disaster, and argue, “The reason why we can do it is because covid is relatively under control,” while simultaneously telling everybody out there listening to us right now who is an American citizen, “Put your mask on, sheep, as soon as you enter into an airport, as soon as you get on an airplane, because it’s not safe enough for you to take that mask off.” How could they be this dumb? How is this possible?

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BUCK: I just wanted to add that, going back to the border thing for a second, the situation could be even worse than people anticipate not only because of Title 42 going away and a huge border surge. But the Biden administration is — and this is hat tip to my friends at the Center for Immigration Studies for this analysis.

They’re considering changing the asylum process, changing the rules in the asylum process so that asylum officers will be deployed right to the border. So instead of even the, “Oh, you have to appear before a judge,” they’ll just have asylum officers deployed to the border who can say, “Oh, yeah? Okay, that sounds good! You now get in,” basically to speed up the asylum process even more for everybody. They want the illegal surge, folks, just so understand this: The Biden administration is not trying to stop this. They invite this.

CLAY: And it’s just gonna be another… I don’t know. How low can Biden’s approval ratings go, Buck? I mean that is one question, right? He’s at 40. Can he go to 35? I’ve seen him at 37 in some places, some polls. That’s about as low as I’ve ever seen anybody. Could he…? I don’t know the answer.

But it feels like they’re trying to touch the bottom of modern American political approval ratings. Remember, the polls are also skewed in his favor, Buck, so it’s even wilder to think. When you hear he’s in the upper thirties, we know that that’s not accurate. Historically, it’s in favor of him. I think it’s a wild idea that they continue to make the worst possible decisions.

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Joe Biden, Transgender Activist

1 Apr 2022

CLAY: What was yesterday, National Trans Visibility Day? If you had told me today, “Hey, the Biden administration has come out in favor of 12-year-olds chopping their genitals off and also that they need to have it happening,” I’d be like, “Surely that’s April Fool’s.” No, no, that was March 31st. That’s real.

BUCK: This is actually remarkable. Joe Biden is 79 years old, he’s almost 80, and he is suddenly an ardent trans-rights-for-children activist? Think about the way the left actually functions. Many of us were warning any American who would listen in 2020, yeah, they would have (impression), “Joe Biden. Here, here. No joke. Love the choo-choo, the Amtrak. You can trust me.” This guy’s just a Trojan Horse for the left, folks.

He’s gonna do… You’re gonna get as much AOC-style policy as possible through the lens of Joe Biden or with Joe as the veneer, the facade for all of this, and here he is speaking about transgender Americans. Remember, “of all ages,” ’cause they really… This is really about the kids. Play 12.

BUCK: Okay. I just want to know what are these anti-trans bills, exactly? Because if it’s an anti-trans bill to say that men shouldn’t play in women’s sports, the Democrats should own that. They should say, “Joe Biden, Mr. I’m the Moderate Who’s Gonna Unite the Country, should have to tell the American people going into this midterm election that he is in favor of biological males,” also known as men, “or biological boys, competing against females or girls.

CLAY: I agree.

BUCK: He should say that. Instead of saying, “It’s hateful,” okay, what’s hateful about it? Let’s actually tell you, the more people learn about the Democrat-aligned trans agenda, the more the American people go, “Hold on a second,” and real question for you, Clay: Do we think that Biden could get more than two letters of the LGBTQIA+ acronym? ‘Cause I doubt it. I think he could get two max. But now he’s a big trans agenda hero? Give me a break.

CLAY: Well, what’s happened is — first of all, when you hear Biden speak, is it just me, or does it sound at this point like he’s slurring every single word? I know I texted, I think, you, Buck. The teleprompter that they have for Joe Biden now is like a movie screen. When he’s reading off of this teleprompter… I’ve never seen a teleprompter that massive in my life. I mean, it is scary what they need to put in front of him so that he’s reading it.

BUCK: Anyone who’s been around a person who’s also at that stage of life… Look, people age differently at different levels, but one thing I do know is that it’s also not linear. The difference between 65 and 70 for a lot of folks, 65 to 70 is pretty… I mean, I know this from members of my own family. You don’t really see a difference.

Once you get into the difference between 75 to 80 and 80 to 85, just human beings, you age more rapidly at that point and energy and things change. We’re all going there. I’m going there, God willing. I’m going there; Clay’s going there. We’re all gonna be there one day.

This guy’s a president of the United States. He’s the commander-in-chief. There’s a big war in Europe right now. We got a wide-open border that’s about to get worse. We’re gonna talk about it. There is the guy calling the shots, Clay? This is the best the Democrat Party can do? It’s kind of stunning when you really take a step back.

CLAY: It’s also stunning how quickly… Because, by and large, there’s not really much of a battle over gay issues anymore, and so Democrats are desperately to try to find a wedge issue — this is the truth — and so they are arguing that whatever tiny minority of the population that is transgender is being discriminated against, when the reality is many people are saying what I think the vast majority of Americans would say is, “Look. “I’m not gonna get riled up about what adults decide to do when it comes to their genders. But when you are requiring me to accept that a biological man is allowed to suddenly compete against women, that’s the very destruction of women’s athletics.” That’s the difference between, “Hey, you can be whatever gender you want, but as soon as you’re trying to argue you’re the greatest women’s swimmer of all time or bicyclist or whatever else it might be, I’m not gonna stand for that.”

BUCK: Ask yourself this question, everybody, right now. In states like New York and California as part of this agenda, do you think that the Democrat base and maybe even a majority of Democrat voters in those states would support the state taking a child away from one’s parents if the parents did not do “gender affirmation” surgery? I think there are a lot of people, Clay, in the Democrat left who would say, “Yes, if you won’t do ‘gender affirmation’ for a 13-year-old, the state should be able to take your kid away.” I think this is where it’s heading. I really do.

CLAY: It’s madness that we are allowing children… We won’t let anybody buy a beer ’til they’re 21, but you can cut your genitals off when you’re 12? It’s child abuse.

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