1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Welcome in our number three Clay Travis buck Sexton show. 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Buck is 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: off en route to the mountains and he'll be back 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: with us on Monday, and I will have the show 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: with you for this hour and the next couple hours. 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 2: You can weigh in eight hundred and two two. 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: Two eight eight two as we will be discussing all 8 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: of the issues of the. 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: Day and beyond. 10 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: We're joined now by the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: He has been in the midst of a big battle, 12 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: and Governor, I appreciate you joining us. 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: Let's start with this. 14 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: The redistricting that would potentially add five Republican seats has 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: led to Democrats fleeing your state. Most of them, it appears, 16 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: have gone to Illinois, which is among the most jerry 17 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: mandard of all states. They have fourteen Democrat seats three 18 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: Republican seats, despite the fact that President Trump got around 19 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: of the vote there in twenty twenty four. Of all 20 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: the places they could have run, that seems like a 21 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: really interesting choice to have made. What's the latest you 22 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: can tell us about them potentially having to come back 23 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: and do their jobs as elected legislator members. 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 3: Well, for one, you know, you just pointed out the 25 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 3: hypocrisy of these Democrats. It's not just a hypocrisy of 26 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: the Democrats in Texas. That's the hypocrisy of the Democrats 27 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: in Illinois as well as across the entire country who 28 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 3: are saying that Texas should not be doing this redistricting. 29 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 3: When you look at Illinois, when you look at California, 30 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 3: when you look at New York, when you look at Maassachusetts, 31 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 3: when you look at all the all the blue states, 32 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 3: that is the epitome of jerry mandering. What the Democrats 33 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: have done and what Texas is doing. We're just trying 34 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 3: to draw lines to allow voters to vote for the 35 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 3: candidate of the choice, easy example, and that in each 36 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 3: of these five sties that we're going to add, Trump 37 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 3: won those. I see the candidate of choices, Donald Trump 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 3: and a Republican Democrats that were a problem in Texas 39 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 3: because they think they had a quote ownership right to 40 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 3: Hispanic and Black voters. And now it turned out that 41 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 3: his Hispanic voters and black voters are voting Republicans, not Democrats. 42 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 3: So they have all kinds of problems. But where we 43 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 3: stand procedurally in all of this, and that is that 44 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 3: I took action yesterday in a proceeding to vacate or 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 3: remove from office the leader of this runaway renegade group 46 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 3: of Democrats, and followed proceeding in the Texas Supreme Court. 47 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 3: Texas Supreme Court immediately ordered the leader of the runaway 48 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 3: Democrats his name is jing Wu, to file papers in 49 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 3: the Supreme Court by Friday to respond to my allegations 50 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 3: because we are seeking to remove him from office and 51 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 3: to hold these people accountable, because we cannot conduct a 52 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 3: business in the Stead of Texas because they've broken a quorum, 53 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 3: and so for one, we're going to hold them account 54 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 3: vote for another, arrest warrants are out for all of them, 55 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,959 Speaker 3: and we're searching across the Stead of Texas to find 56 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 3: out if they're any Democrats in the Stead of Texas, 57 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 3: and if there are, we're going to be arresting them. 58 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 3: And we will have Department of Public Safety officers working 59 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 3: across the country to try to identify them. And know 60 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 3: this because I think the Democrats who are in Illinois 61 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 3: and New York at center don't know this, and that 62 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 3: is the FBI is out looking for them also so 63 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 3: we're going to track them down and get them back. 64 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 3: But the last one is this. This is total futility 65 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 3: by the Democrats. They've tried this before multiple times since 66 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 3: I've been governor. And what happens is a special session 67 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 3: in Texas last thirty days and they eventually have to 68 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 3: come back, and when they come back, they'll be arrested 69 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 3: since it's the capital, and we're going to get past 70 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 3: what was on the agenda, just like we have every 71 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 3: other time. 72 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,119 Speaker 2: Why do you think they're doing this. 73 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: Let's pretend that you were not the governor of Texas 74 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: trying to enact the law as you were elected to do, 75 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: and instead you were trying to just sit out there 76 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: and you're looking at this and you're saying, what is 77 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: their game plan here? You just laid out why it's 78 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: not gonna work. What do you think they are thinking 79 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: they are gaining from this? 80 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 3: I don't think that they are thinking to be on. 81 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 2: That's a good that's a good answer, by the way. 82 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 3: Uh, the reality is they're they're losing bad from this 83 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 3: and what we've seen it happen before. I'll tell you 84 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 3: what's happened in the past and why it's going to 85 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 3: be repeated again, and that is everyone listened to the show, 86 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 3: every every average Texans instead of Texas. They have to 87 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 3: show up for work. And if they don't show up 88 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 3: for us, I'm going to boycott today. I'm gonna break 89 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 3: quarm I'm not gonna go do my job. I'm gonna leave, 90 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 3: go to Illinois. They'd be fired. And so what these 91 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 3: Democrats are doing, they're angering the average Texas voter, of 92 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 3: the swing voter, if you would, who thinks, well, they 93 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 3: got to go to work, but these rogue Democrats don't 94 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 3: have to go to work. And then to make this 95 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 3: even more impactful against these democrats, I called a special 96 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 3: session which lasts thirty days, and I put eighteen items 97 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: on that session, the first of which were four items 98 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 3: to deal with the tragic floods that took place in 99 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 3: central Texas where we lost more than one hundred Texans. 100 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 3: They lost their life because of that flood. And we 101 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 3: need remedies such as warning systems, other strategies for our 102 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 3: rivers and flooding. We need laws passed that will protect 103 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 3: the lives of Texans in the future. And the reason 104 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 3: why those laws are not being passed, the reason why 105 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 3: the resources are not being provided to the fellow Texans 106 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 3: who need those resources. Is because Democrats are hold up 107 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 3: in Chicago and New York and the states across the country. 108 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: We're talking to the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. One 109 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: of the things that I think is a huge part 110 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: of this story that isn't being talked about enough, and 111 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: i'd like to get your reaction to this is one 112 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: reason you can redraw congressional maps and redraw lines is 113 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: because of the surge and Hispanic support for Republicans across 114 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: the state of Texas. Some people out there on the 115 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: left are saying, oh, this is racist. What it actually 116 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: represents is the majority of Hispanics in Texas voted for 117 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. They're now voting for you, They are voting 118 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: Republican and it has fundamentally altered the map, including in 119 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: particular down along the border in South Texas. For people 120 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 1: who may not know what has happened, what has the 121 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: data shown about Hispanic voters men in particular, but also 122 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: a lot of women flooding in to support Republicans. 123 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 3: Well, all you had to do was take a look 124 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 3: at the map of Texas on the night of the 125 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 3: president into election, and so all of the counties on 126 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 3: the border that Donald Trump won that have been blue 127 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 3: for more than one hundred years, and they were read 128 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 3: under Donald Trump. But Clay, get this very important fact, uh, 129 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 3: because this just obliterates any claim of racism. Let me 130 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 3: tell you what these maps do. Four of the new 131 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 3: districts we are creating are predominant Hispanic districts. And it 132 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 3: just turns out they're Hispanic Republicans. But these are going 133 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 3: to be Hispanic districts. And we preserve the Barbara Jordan 134 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 3: district and Houston. Barbara Jordan was a well known black 135 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 3: member of Congress for a long time and and her 136 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 3: district had been broken apart, uh, and we're putting it 137 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 3: back together. We're restoring that district. And so any allegations 138 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: about race playing a role adverse to Democrats here is 139 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 3: nothing but just an outright line. 140 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: Are you concerned at all? You can make the right 141 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: decision for Texas. I'm sure you've heard Gavin Newsom say, well, 142 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: if this happens, we're going to do that in California, 143 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: and Kathy Hochel in New York, the governor's there. I'm 144 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: sure you know those guys and gals. 145 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 2: Well, and JB. Pritzker even said maybe. 146 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: We'll take away some Are you concerned about other states 147 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: responding to Texas and how would you respond to governors 148 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: there making those threats. 149 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 3: Well, let's walk through that. For one, those states are 150 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 3: so jerrymandered it's hard to pick up any more seats. 151 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 3: I think I saw in the map of Illinois of 152 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 3: all the members of Congress, there are only three Republican 153 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 3: seats left, and so Jerry Manner and I don't think 154 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 3: they could rig it any more than they have right 155 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: now in California. Understand the facts correctly, Gavin Newsam is 156 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 3: trying to place I think a constitutional amendment on the 157 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,959 Speaker 3: ballot that would allow them to take action. The point 158 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 3: being that, unlike in Texas he as governor, he doesn't 159 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 3: have the unilateral authority to call for redistricting. In Texas, 160 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 3: we do. We don't have a commission here like they 161 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 3: do in California. And so bottom line is this, the 162 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 3: Democrats have hurdles that may not be able to be 163 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,839 Speaker 3: cleared in order for them to be able to do 164 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 3: any of their own redistricting. 165 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: What should we know? 166 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: You mentioned that one of the reasons you're having this 167 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: special legislative session, was what happened with the flooding. What 168 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: should this audience, both in Texas and certainly outside of 169 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: Texas know about the latest there and how things are 170 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: going to be handled when it comes to that response. 171 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 3: So with regard to what happened in the Kurbbill area 172 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 3: as well as many other areas in the state that 173 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 3: got ravaged by flooding and where we lost so many lives, 174 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 3: first in the Kurbville area, we're still missing two people. 175 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 3: I want everyone to know that we continue and will 176 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 3: continue the search for the two people who remain missing, 177 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 3: and we will be deploying new strategies to make sure 178 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 3: that we're using every tool possible to find everybody who 179 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 3: is missing. Second, after a disaster like this, uh, there 180 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 3: are several steps that have to be taken, and there 181 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 3: they're all being taken. One is to clean up the debris, 182 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 3: the others to begin the rebuilding process. Because of the 183 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 3: generosity of so many of our fellow Texans and Americans 184 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 3: there there was a lot of money available where we're 185 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 3: going to start working to immediately rebuild homes and get 186 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 3: people back with a roof over their head. It could 187 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 3: be rebuilding it from scratch, it could be making repairs 188 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 3: to it. It could be in that area, there were 189 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 3: a lot of r V homes and those are being 190 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 3: provided by Samaritans Perse and so we have so many 191 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 3: organizations like that in addition to the resources the state has. 192 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 3: But then in addition to that, we want to make 193 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 3: sure that the state is passing laws and providing resources 194 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 3: to make sure events like this don't happen again. 195 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: We're talking to the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, much 196 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: less significant, so we talked to redistricting, the battle there, 197 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: We talked obviously the flood, all of that. The Texas 198 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: Longhorns are number one in the country and open the 199 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: season on the road at Ohio State in about I 200 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: think four weeks from when we're talking right now. Are 201 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: the Longhorns the best team in the country. 202 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 3: So I think the long Horns have the best defense 203 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 3: in the country, a lot of returners, and at every position, 204 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 3: whether we're on the line, they may have the best 205 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 3: two defensive ends in the country, the best linebacking corps, 206 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 3: the best defensive back bild. So their defense, which I 207 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 3: think was writing something like number third in the nation 208 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 3: last year, is going to be very stout very hard 209 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 3: to score upon. On offense. You know, there's a lot 210 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 3: of new faiths on the offensive linequarterback. Obviously, it's going 211 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 3: to be the big debut of Arch Manning. And because 212 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 3: the offensive line players they played a lot of snaps, 213 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 3: and because Arch himself was able to play a lot 214 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 3: of snaps, they have a sense of what to do. 215 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 3: That said, as you know, if you go into the 216 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 3: Ohio State Stadium and play a game there, that kind 217 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 3: of doesn't matter who you are. That's a tough game. 218 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 3: I will remind you of this. However, the last time 219 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 3: that the University of Texas Longhorns played at the Shoe 220 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 3: at Ohio State, they want, they defeated Ohio State led 221 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 3: by quarterback Vince Young. And we have a transformational quarterback 222 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 3: like that in Arch Manning this year, and I think 223 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 3: he's going to be able to go there leave them 224 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 3: to victory once again against an Ohio State team that 225 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:52,719 Speaker 3: itself is having to go through ever rebuilding year. 226 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: No doubt, Governor, feel free come on anytime. We're different 227 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: times of the year. Number one in Austin, number one 228 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: in Houston, highly rated all over your state. So we 229 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: appreciate everybody out there listening in the lone Star state. 230 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: Good luck to the Longhorns, and only about four weeks 231 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: till football season gets rolling. 232 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 3: Take care always wake a visit with you. 233 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Clay, appreciate that Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. 234 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 1: You guys can react to that. Eight hundred and two 235 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: two two eight a two. We will continue to roll. 236 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: We'll get some of your talkbacks and some of your 237 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: calls as well. But for those of you out there, 238 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: maybe you got elderly parents, grandparents, they don't use cell phones. Well, 239 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: how about rapid radios. Maybe you got like I do, 240 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: a young kid. I got a ten year old out there. 241 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: You know what he loves, old school rapid radios. We 242 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: let him run around with it. We will use it 243 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: for football. I was just talking about the Texas Ohio 244 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: state game. Sometimes you go on the road for football games. 245 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: The whole cell phone networks it feels get overloaded. You 246 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: ever try to download tickets on your phone. Now you 247 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: know how frustrating that can be. The Wi Fi networks 248 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: get overwhelmed cell phone networks. But you know what happens. Inevitably, 249 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 1: there's always like one person who says, oh I got 250 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: full bars. I got no issue at all, and you 251 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: want you're trying to figure out how does that person 252 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: able to send text messages? How are they able to 253 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: make a call? What Rapid Radios does, and it's really remarkable, 254 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: is they use the entire cell phone network, so it 255 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you are signed up for. This is 256 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: a non tech right. So you're not using it for 257 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: text messages, you're not using it for the Internet. 258 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 2: You just pick it up and you talk. 259 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: Old school like when we were kids, we had those 260 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: Gi Joe walkie talkies. We'd be in two different cars 261 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: talking back and forth. This is like that, except way better. Nationwide, 262 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: it works everywhere. Why not use this as a backup 263 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: for your cell phones or to use in the event 264 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: of catastrophe because these things last for five days. 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Do it today Rapid Radios dot Com Code Radio. 275 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 4: You know them as conservative radio hosts, now just get 276 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 4: to know them as guys. 277 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 2: On this Sunday hang podcast with Clay and Fuck. 278 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: Find it in their podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app 279 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay 280 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out 281 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: with us. Producer Ali just shared with me we are 282 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: sitting at ninety nine thousand, seven hundred and fifty current 283 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: subscribers on YouTube, so go knock us over one hundred thousand, 284 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: and we have added right at nearly twenty four twenty 285 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: three thousand subscribers in the last couple of weeks since 286 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: I've been telling you guys to please go subscribe. I 287 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: am optimistic that come January you will be able to 288 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: get all three hours of the radio program on video 289 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: at YouTube. So again, that is not up now right now, 290 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: is just clips. But as we have been doing the 291 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: deep dive on the data, it's wild to me. I 292 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: never would have believed this is true, but more people 293 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: watch and listen now to podcasts on YouTube than actually 294 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: listen to audio only. This is one of those things 295 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: I never would have gotten right. It's hard to predict 296 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: where media is going. If you had told me five 297 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: years ago, hey, podcasts are going to be big, I 298 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: would have said, yeah, that makes sense. People are traveling, 299 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: They've got their phones. They want to be able to 300 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: get shows all over the place, no matter where they are. Yeah, 301 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: I get that. That makes sense. We should be available 302 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: on podcasts because this show so used to with Rush 303 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: not be available by and large on podcasts. So we 304 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: have built that over the last five years, four years 305 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: and change, Buck and I have I would have never 306 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: believed that audio show video would be more popular than 307 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: audio in podcasts, but that's where we are. So we 308 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: want to have a big base. Knock us over one 309 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: hundred thousand. 310 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 2: Right now. 311 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: You can get select clips from the show right now, 312 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: but starting in January, I am optimistic that you're going 313 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: to be able to watch all three hours of the 314 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: show as I'm waving at you right now on video 315 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: on the video version of the program. And this is 316 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: going to be a big growth area for the show 317 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: as well. So we appreciate all of you for being 318 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: good supporters of the program, and we want to be 319 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: on all places because different ages consume media different ways. 320 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: We want to be on podcast, video, and we want 321 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: certainly all five hundred and fifty five stations to be listening. 322 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: We'll do some talkbacks, I'll take some of your calls 323 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: when we come back, But in the meantime, I want 324 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: to tell you get hooked up right now with Chalk. 325 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 2: If you don't have energy, If you. 326 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 1: Are walking around and you feel like Joe Biden any moment, 327 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 1: you might just be phase first on the ground. You're 328 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: dragging your feet, your mouth is hanging open, you can 329 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: barely speak. Don't you want to have a little bit 330 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 1: more Trump energy? Don't you want to have higher testosterone? 331 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 1: Don't you want to feel like a man instead of 332 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden and many of the men who supported him. 333 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: Get hooked up today with Chalk. All you have to 334 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: do is go to chalk dot com. Check it out, 335 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: choq dot com. What do you have to lose? Use 336 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: my name Clay Lowess, price on subscription for life and 337 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: you will get a massive discount. 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A lot of people want to weigh in 348 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: for a variety of a different commentary of what we 349 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: have been discussing so far. And thank you for sending us, 350 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: by the way over one hundred thousand instantly as soon 351 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: as I ask for that. Would like for you guys 352 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: to continue to sign up. But Rob from West Palm 353 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: says KK has got a concern about the show being 354 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: available for three hours on radio every day. 355 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 2: Let's listen. 356 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 5: Are you sure you guys want to put all three 357 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 5: hours of your show on YouTube so that everyone can 358 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,360 Speaker 5: actually see you guys, especially with your homeless beard and 359 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 5: you're so snazzy jackets. I don't know, man, you might 360 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 5: want to think that. 361 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: Over look I appreciate that. I always love to hear 362 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,479 Speaker 1: positive feedback about my appearance. I so, first of all, 363 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: I'll be doing the show in T shirts most days. 364 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: Just prepare for that. You can already see it on 365 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. But I will say when I did 366 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: sports talk radio, I did not want to be on 367 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: early in the morning because I think you should join 368 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: judge us for what we say, not for how we 369 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: look while what we while we are speaking right, television 370 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: is primarily a cosmetic thing. Most people put on makeup. 371 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: I don't, Buck doesn't, but you have entire makeup apparatus. 372 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: It's like a you know, sort of stylized play in 373 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: many ways here, I love the radio, but yeah, I 374 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: was not that excited about being on radio early in 375 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: the morning because I don't take a shower. I was 376 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: on live at five am Central for three hours solo, 377 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: and I wasn't that excited. I mean, I'm, you know, 378 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: getting three or four hours of sleep. I'm sure that 379 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: I looked ridiculous and my hair's not comb very well. 380 00:20:59,000 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 2: So I wasn't that. 381 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: Excited about being able to get hooked up on that. 382 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: So this one, again, I'm not claiming that you're going 383 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: to be blown away by physical appearance, but you will 384 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 1: be able to watch it. And I just think it's 385 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: important to be available everywhere because there's so many different 386 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: ways now that people are consuming products on a day 387 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: to day basis, and I think I think all that 388 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 1: factors in. By the way, let's hit some more of 389 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 1: these talkbacks. I love the talkback function. Brian and Wooster 390 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: Mass has this to say. 391 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 6: He's dd just on the subject of the Democrats and 392 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 6: just the party of bitterness and hating beauty. We used 393 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 6: to read about this stuff in school. I mean Kurt 394 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 6: Vonnegut story, Harrison Berger on you know George Orwell nineteen 395 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 6: eighty four, you know, repeat the lie two plus two 396 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,360 Speaker 6: eegals five. We used to be have to We used 397 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 6: to be forced to read these books in high school 398 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 6: as like cautionary tales. And now it's like, this is 399 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 6: the democrat world, the liberal world, and you know, nobody 400 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 6: understands it. 401 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: I think the challenge that we're in is it's very 402 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: I mean, what did Mark Twain say a lie? Can 403 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: somebody look up? You can get halfway around the world 404 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: before you even put your pants on. And that's a 405 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: paraphrase of a famous Mark twain line. I think it's 406 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: never been more true. And I would argue that it's 407 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: not even just lies. It is selective contextualization. And let 408 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: me explain what I mean by that and why I 409 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: think this ties in with video and long form listenership 410 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: and things like that. I think people are willing to 411 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: consider context. I think, in fact, most people crave context 412 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: because in your own life, if you only took one 413 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: sentence out of a conversation, or in your own life, 414 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: if you only took one text message out of a 415 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: context thread, how much would it change the way that 416 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: you understood it? And I always say, and I'm very 417 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: very aggressive and arguing this even with our own social team, 418 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: and they've heard me say it over and over again. 419 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: Include the question. When we put up an answer, always 420 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: include the question, because what we ask impacts the way 421 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 1: that the answer is given, and when you just pull 422 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: a random answer out, it doesn't contextualize anything. And so 423 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: I think one reason why long form has grown in popularity. Heck, 424 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: why a lot of you listen to all three hours 425 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: on podcast and why people watch it on video is 426 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: they want the full context of conversation. There's a desperate 427 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: craving for actual complexity, and it often is not served 428 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 1: in the SoundBite era in which we live. And so 429 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: I think that I think that factors in here in 430 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: a huge wave, a lot of you weighing in. By 431 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: the way, yesterday we were saying, hey, we try to 432 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: be honest with you guys. We're not going to get 433 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: everything right. In fact, sometimes we get things wrong. And 434 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 1: I said, if I were pointing to something that I 435 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: said I thought would happen, that I was completely wrong on. 436 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 1: I thought we would get a twenty twenty two red wave. 437 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: Those of you who were listening a couple of years ago, 438 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: you remember me predicting it. We did it now. We 439 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: got it in New York, we got it in Florida. 440 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: We didn't get it nationwide. We got it enough to 441 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: flip the House back to Republican control in twenty two, 442 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: but we did not get it enough to also have 443 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: flipped the Senate. And there were a lot of close 444 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: governor races and Senate races that did not go the 445 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: direction that we had hoped they might. This is let's 446 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 1: see a podcast listener, Robin from Texas c see here's 447 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: our talkback listen. 448 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 7: Hey clan Buck, Robin from Texas. Here. I keep hearing 449 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 7: you guys be down on yourself for the big miss 450 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 7: on the supposed red wave in twenty two, and I'm 451 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 7: going to give you some grace here. There was a 452 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 7: lot of redistricting after the twenty census, and it affected 453 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 7: the twenty two election in ways that you both couldn't 454 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 7: have foreseen, which caused all this gerymandering that went on. 455 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 7: I think you guys do a great job, and I 456 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 7: love this show so so much. 457 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: Well that's super nice, but I do think it's important 458 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: we get things wrong to come on and say've always 459 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: screwed that up. And I do believe that what you 460 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: hit on though, is very important. And I talked about 461 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 1: this a little bit. We were talking with the Governor 462 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: of Texas, Greg Abbott at the top of this hour, 463 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Democrats have decided they don't 464 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: like redistricting. That's because they've redistricted all their states already. 465 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: They did it earlier after the twenty twenty census, which 466 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: actually had a lot of errors in it. And if 467 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,159 Speaker 1: you read the New York Times, which I do, so 468 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: you don't have to, they actually did a deep dive 469 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: on this and they said, hey, things are actually slanted 470 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: in favor of Democrats right now. In twenty two and 471 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: twenty four, both of which were Republican House majorities, but 472 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: very small Republican House majorities, the nationwide vote totals were 473 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: not reflected in the House. Democrats did better because they 474 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: jerrymandered more effectively than Republicans did. And you say, okay, 475 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: what do you mean by that? Data wise, Clay, Nationwide, 476 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: if you just count all of the different House seats, 477 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: they're four hundred and thirty five of them, and you 478 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: put all those votes in, Republicans won each of the 479 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: last two election cycles by around two plus points nationwide. 480 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: If that were extrapolated into the four hundred and thirty 481 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: five representatives, Republicans would have had bigger majorities in twenty 482 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,120 Speaker 1: two and twenty four than Republicans actually ended up with. 483 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: So Democrats have more effectively jerrymandered than Republicans have, such 484 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: that the actual nationwide popular vote, which is reflected in 485 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: some way in the House, has actually over advantaged Democrats 486 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 1: compared to Republicans. And that doesn't even consider the biggest 487 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: overadvantage of Democrats, which as. 488 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 2: They county legal immigrants for purposes. 489 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: Of House seating and the census, which benefits Democrats in 490 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: a substantial way. So they're getting angry now that Texas 491 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: is doing what Illinois has already done, and what New 492 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: York has already done, and what California has already done. 493 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: I even saw the Democrat governor of Massachusetts, Healey I 494 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: believe is her name. She said, well, if Texas is 495 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: going to do this, we're going to have to jerrymander more. 496 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: And every seat is already jerrymandered so that there are 497 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: no Republican congressmen or women from Massachusetts. So there's a 498 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,479 Speaker 1: lot of these governors that are claiming to be upset. 499 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: Jmi Pritzker is a good example. Democrats already have a 500 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: fourteen to three advantage in his state. It's one of 501 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: the most jerrymandered states in the entire nation, California. Gavin 502 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: Newsom's crew has already drastically jerrymandered the state of California 503 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: such that the percentage of Republican vote is actually lower now. 504 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: To be fair, this also happens in red states in general. 505 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: If you control a state, you are setting it up 506 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 1: so that you end up with more congressmen women then 507 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,199 Speaker 1: would otherwise occur my home state of Tennessee. They are 508 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: nine congressional seats, eight of them are held by Republicans. 509 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: Trump won the state of Tennessee something like thirty points 510 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: wasn't remotely close, but there are still in the state 511 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: of Tennessee around thirty five percent of people that vote Democrat. 512 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: They're actually underrepresented in the state of Tennessee because the 513 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 1: state is. 514 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 2: So overwhelmingly read. 515 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: My point on this is Democrats have actually been better, 516 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: according to The New York Times, at gerrymandering than Republicans have. 517 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: And what they're upset about is twenty twenty six is 518 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: expected to be a very close race in the House again, 519 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: and it may come down to two or three seats, 520 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: as it has the past few years. So if Texas 521 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: ads five, that puts the finger and the scale a 522 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: little bit more into favor of the Republican Party. They 523 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: really need to go back and look at counting illegal 524 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: immigrants in for purposes of congressional seats. And they also 525 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: really need to go back and address a larger issue 526 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: at play here, which is they totally screwed up the 527 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty census and as a result, Democrats ended up 528 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: with more congressional seats in their states via the electoral 529 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: College map than they otherwise should have. And it's like 530 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: nobody is even willing to talk about that or have 531 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: a deep discussion about it. Okay, I'll take some of 532 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: your calls and we will read more emails, more talkbacks. 533 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you when we return. In the meantime, 534 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: I trust my kids to be able to be in 535 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: touch with them because we have Pure Talk phones for 536 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: both of them. Seventeen year old, they're about to go 537 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: back to school. He has got all sorts of extracurricular activities. 538 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: Fourteen year old. It's football season. 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You can start saving 557 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: now pound two five zero, say Clay and Buck, you 558 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: can make the switch to pure talk today. That is 559 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: pound two five zero. Make the switch pound two five zero. 560 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 4: Cheap up with the biggest full comeback in world history 561 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 4: on the Team forty seven podcast. Playin Buck Highlight Trump 562 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 4: Free plays from the week Sundays at noon Eastern. Find 563 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 4: it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. 564 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all 565 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: of you hanging out with us. 566 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 2: I don't know have you. 567 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: Heard me last night with our good friend Sean Hannity, 568 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: who will be on in many of these stations in 569 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: about ten minutes. Yet last night he had a brilliant 570 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: idea and I give him credit for this. He said 571 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 1: on the show. Hey, I don't understand why bud Light 572 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't just sign Sidney Sweeney, and I just I mean, 573 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: it is brilliant. I think overnight, bud Light could reverse 574 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: the anti mail universe that they created when they put 575 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: in place the Dylan mulvany trans influencer ad. If they 576 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 1: just put Sidney Sweeney in a tank top and gave 577 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: her a bottle of beer to hold and said, hey, 578 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: you know what I loved when beer companies had pretty 579 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: girls and everybody wanted to watch football and kick their 580 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: feet up and enjoy a beer. I think overnight the 581 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: brand would change. I'm not kidding. I mean, I think 582 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 1: one of the negatives is you can destroy your brand overnight. 583 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: I think one of the positives is if you just 584 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: have a little bit of success, you can immediately flip 585 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: everything in a good direction. We got a bunch of things. 586 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: Keep me updated on the emails, guys, Lorenzo wrote in 587 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: loved the show. Will Clay ever try to get Dodger 588 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: Dogs as a sponsor again? 589 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 8: Look? 590 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 2: I love la It is a fabulous city. 591 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,959 Speaker 1: Maybe the most overrated thing in all of Los Angeles 592 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: is a Dodger dog. It's a hot dog, and it's 593 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: not even a very good hot dog. And back when 594 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: I did my sports talk show, they played in April 595 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: Fool's prank on me where they said that we now 596 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: had a huge new sponsor and it was Dodger Dogs. 597 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: And I had to pretend that I love Dodger dogs 598 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: because they were spending millions of dollars on the show. 599 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: And so I was like, uh, well, you know, I 600 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 1: previously said they were awful, but uh, I'm kind of 601 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: in a tough spot of here, guys, So they April 602 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: fools me into believing that Dodger Dogs was now the 603 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: presenting sponsor of my sports talk radio show. That was 604 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 1: a tough one because, let me tell you, Dodger dogs 605 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: are awful and not even as good as normal hot dogs. 606 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: I apologize to Dodger fans out there. Jeff in Greenville, 607 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: North Carolina. What you got for chef? 608 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Hey, how's it going? 609 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 5: Uh? 610 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 3: First time caller, longtime listener, You guys do a fantastic job. 611 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 2: I do, miss Rush, though we all do. 612 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 3: Is there a possible way that if they do go 613 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 3: forward with AI, that they somehow can water market so 614 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 3: that you know, Uh. 615 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. I don't know exactly what he's 616 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 2: talking about. 617 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 4: It. 618 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: I mean, AI is going to be super confusing because 619 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: what they can already do, and we have a lot 620 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: of fun with this, is they can make me look 621 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,719 Speaker 1: like I'm playing flutes. If you're on social media, they 622 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: can make me look like I'm swimming from Alcatraz. You 623 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: guys are really really funny about it. But videos are 624 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: starting to take over. And I'm being honest about this. 625 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: I think within a year, certainly by the twenty twenty 626 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: eight presidential election, they will have any candidate running for 627 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 1: any office saying the most awful things imaginable in an 628 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,919 Speaker 1: effort to try to go viral and destroy the legitimacy 629 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,360 Speaker 1: of a candidacy. I'm just telling you it's all coming 630 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 1: so I don't know how you fix that. By the way, 631 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: a couple of different talkbacks Yolanda, I understand, Miami Beach. 632 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: She's going after Joe Wanda yesterday. Cut aa. 633 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,240 Speaker 3: Hi guys, I love your show. 634 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 6: This is Yolanda from Miami Beach, and. 635 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 8: My name is spelled with a J, but pronounce Yolanda 636 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 8: because that's the way with Italy. 637 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: I totally get that. The woman in Texas who compared 638 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: the Holocaust to Texas trying to redistrict. Her name is 639 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:17,319 Speaker 1: jo La and Da, and it is pronounced it is 640 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: pronounced Joe Londa most of the time like you. It's 641 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,880 Speaker 1: just a different pronunciation for Yolanda. I don't claim to 642 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: understand it. Craig in North Carolina, what you got, Craig play? 643 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 8: Craig in North Carolina. Your most recent OutKick was off 644 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 8: the charts. 645 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 2: Good. 646 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,280 Speaker 8: We really need to get behind the Free Delbert movement? 647 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 8: Can you produce t shirts that's say free Delbert Carver. 648 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 8: Proceeds can be donated to the Delbert Carver Defense Fund. 649 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 8: God bless yell. 650 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 1: Delbert Carver was arrested in Atlanta. You know, they haven't 651 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: managed to arrest the dobbs leaker. They haven't managed to 652 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: arrest anybody for the so called pipe bomb or whatever 653 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 1: it was on Jen's We haven't arrested anybody for Russia 654 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 1: collusion on the left side. Nobody has paid really for 655 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: the lineup against Trump. But they arrested a guy for 656 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,799 Speaker 1: throwing a sex toy, a green sex toy on the 657 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: court during a WNBA game. There now have been three 658 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,760 Speaker 1: of these. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, 659 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 1: you can look it up. It is a prank that 660 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 1: is currently being played out, and the guy who was 661 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 1: arrested was named Delbert Carver, and I have pledged to 662 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,800 Speaker 1: get him the best legal defense team on the planet. 663 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 1: We got a free Delbert. I appreciate all you. We'll 664 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: have some fun Thursday Friday. On the program, Buck is 665 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,120 Speaker 1: headed to the mountains with his family to get away 666 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: a little bit at the summer break. I appreciate all 667 00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: of you. Thanks for sending us over one hundred thousand 668 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel. 669 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,240 Speaker 2: Keep subscribing. See you all tomorrow.