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Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving. Weird thankful for you on this Thanksgiving Day

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Speaker 1: for being a listener here on the Clay Travis and

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. You're listening to the best of Clay

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Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton. Welcome back in our number three

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Speaker 1: Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We appreciate all of you

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Speaker 1: hanging out with us. So as you listen to the

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Speaker 1: reaction that we have had over the years. For decades,

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Speaker 1: Rush's theme song has reminded everyone out there truth and

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Speaker 1: clarity on the way. It's an iconic song forever that's

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Speaker 1: going to be attached to Rush Limbaugh and everything that

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Speaker 1: he represented. As we come up on the one year

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Speaker 1: anniversary of this show, these songwrites are expiring and we

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Speaker 1: wanted to take this time. Buck and we talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about this behind the scenes. As this songwrites are expiring,

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Speaker 1: take the time to find a song for this show

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Speaker 1: that could be as iconic and irreplaceable in the future,

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Speaker 1: and also that would feature a band that really loves

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Speaker 1: and respects what our political beliefs are. Because there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of you out there. Know there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of bands that do not respect what we believe in

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Speaker 1: every day, and so we spend a lot of time

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Speaker 1: on this book. And for us, this is really like

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Speaker 1: retiring the jersey in sports, because Russia stem song is

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Speaker 1: forever attached to his memory, everything he built, and we

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Speaker 1: deeply honor that his legacy, and that song is a

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Speaker 1: part of his legacy. Of course, So with all of

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Speaker 1: songwrites are expiring soon, we found this amazing band. Clay

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Speaker 1: is actually friends with the individuals in this band Lit.

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Speaker 1: You may know the band Lit. The song we've landed

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Speaker 1: on is called My Own Worst Enemy. It has tens

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Speaker 1: of millions of YouTube plays. There are hundreds and hundreds

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Speaker 1: of rock stations that we're playing it. When it first

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Speaker 1: is it's rare to find a rock band that honestly

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Speaker 1: no matter how good their music may be. These guys

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Speaker 1: and so I'll give you a I'll give you a story.

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Speaker 1: They live here in Nashville. The band is lit again.

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Speaker 1: The song is My own Worst Enemy. If you are

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Speaker 1: They woved Rush, and when we had this conversation with them, Buck,

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Speaker 1: going on and what the challenges are in the country.

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Speaker 1: And look the Biden administrations in charts. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff that's messed up right now, There's no question

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Speaker 1: about it. But we are planning a midterm election party,

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Speaker 1: Queensland in North Australia because the obviously the actual cave

432
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Speaker 1: is in Thailand. But it's amazing. I'll say this, there

433
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Speaker 1: are a few things in the world that I would

434
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Speaker 1: find more terrifying than having to spend six hours underwater

435
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Speaker 1: five and a half six hours underwater in a cave

436
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Speaker 1: with fast moving currents where at some points the cave

437
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:37,119
Speaker 1: is about shoulder width, so you've got darkness, claustrophobia, the

438
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Speaker 1: imminent prospect of death when you if you run out

439
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,640
Speaker 1: of oxygen, or if you just you know, hit your head,

440
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Speaker 1: and I mean there's any number. It is really well done.

441
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Speaker 1: I've I've been trying to tell folks about it. I

442
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:52,400
Speaker 1: remember that story. The story is even more in any

443
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Speaker 1: ways unbelievable and in the in the end inspiring that

444
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Speaker 1: I remembered it from the news reports. It's crazy what

445
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Speaker 1: they did to get I mean, not crazy as I

446
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: mean they should have done anything, but I mean what

447
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Speaker 1: they managed to pull off with those kids to get them.

448
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to give it all away. Is I

449
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: think everybody knows the kids Yeah that's a true story,

450
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: because it's a true story. But but yeah, that story

451
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 1: was captivating to follow and such an ennobling story because

452
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,119
Speaker 1: every day you thought, oh, they're going to find the

453
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Speaker 1: kids and they're not going to be alive. That was

454
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Speaker 1: sort of the subtext of this is a flooded cave.

455
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Speaker 1: There's no way these kids are going to have survived

456
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Speaker 1: for this long. And when they finally found them, then it's, oh,

457
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Speaker 1: my goodness, how in the world are we ever going

458
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Speaker 1: to get them out of here? And they managed to

459
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Speaker 1: do it. Speaking of the Terminal List. I was there's

460
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Speaker 1: an article up at OutKick one of our good writers

461
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: that we hired recently, David Hookstead. If you haven't already,

462
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: we had an incredible month. But OutKick is kind of

463
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: like Mona from Heaven. If you're a sports fan or

464
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: just a fan of pop culture and you think everything

465
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 1: has gone woke, they've got we've got a good article

466
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Speaker 1: about it. If that went up today about the Terminal List,

467
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: one point six billion minutes of viewership on Netflix only

468
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: show was the most recent show, Stranger Thing season four

469
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 1: is the only show that's beaten it in terms of popularity.

470
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Speaker 1: So I'll just point this out. Culture is important in

471
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Speaker 1: terms of what it's saying about what society is interested

472
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Speaker 1: in right now. Yellowstone is by far the most popular

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Speaker 1: show on television other than Sports. Doesn't get nominated for

474
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Speaker 1: any Emmy's wildly popular Terminal List, evidently on Netflix, insanely popular,

475
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Speaker 1: Top Gun, Maverick. What do all three of those movies

476
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: and or shows have in common? Relatively limited woke material

477
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 1: and or USA USA USA, right, That is what they

478
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Speaker 1: are overall selling is United States excellent, and I think

479
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: there's a huge demand for that. You can tell very

480
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Speaker 1: quickly in a lot of these shows. I mean, to

481
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Speaker 1: this point, Clay, I could even take a I think

482
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: there's a step even before that, when you're talking about

483
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Speaker 1: is the manifestation of or the way that the show

484
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,679
Speaker 1: actually tells the story? Right? Is that it folcus in

485
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: on those things. I think it really also comes down

486
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Speaker 1: to when they're sitting in the writer's room, is the

487
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Speaker 1: most important thing that they want to intain, entertain and

488
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Speaker 1: engage the audience or is it that they want to

489
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Speaker 1: get a pat on the back for the agenda and

490
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Speaker 1: the messaging behind this, because I think you see a

491
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Speaker 1: lot of shows where they start with a premise which is, oh,

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Speaker 1: let's make this about you know, let's make this about

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Speaker 1: some left wing, woke agenda item instead of is this

494
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Speaker 1: going to be a good story? Is this going to

495
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Speaker 1: really bring people in? And you know, you brought up

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Speaker 1: what was the huge show that everyone's oh my gosh,

497
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Speaker 1: why is it such a success? Similar numbers I think

498
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Speaker 1: to Yellowstone from years ago was The Walking Dead? Right?

499
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Speaker 1: And The Walking Dead's a show where you take a

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Speaker 1: graphic novel and you're just trying to make the most

501
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Speaker 1: engaging entertainment possible. There's some broader lessons about parenting and

502
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: you know, survival and other things in their right. But

503
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,959
Speaker 1: overall you're not getting a political lecture. You know, with

504
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: The Walking Dead, you're just watching something that's meant to

505
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Speaker 1: entertain you. Whenever they do that, their success when they're

506
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Speaker 1: giving you a lecture about walk politics. People. Increasingly you're saying,

507
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Speaker 1: I just don't want to watch this. Yep, And I'll

508
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: give you. I know, we got people who listen in Hollywood,

509
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: We've got a big audience in la I'll continue to

510
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: give this out. If you want to look like a

511
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Speaker 1: genius and you want to have the number one streaming

512
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Speaker 1: show or the number one television show, the number one

513
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: show in America, turn on Daunted Courage by Steven Ambrose,

514
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: a phenomenal book about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Turn

515
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Speaker 1: it into a mini series, into a I believe it

516
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: would be a television event the likes of which we

517
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Speaker 1: have not seen twenty years. Right in terms of a

518
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: historical connection to America pro America, Now you can say

519
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones was a television event. I love that show. Yeah,

520
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: it's a fantastical show about you know, about dragons, and

521
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: medieval times. Effectively, I'm talking about something that is rooted

522
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 1: in American history, that is unabashedly patriotic, that tells a

523
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: triumphal story of an overwhelming difficult and success. I'm sorry,

524
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 1: Clay to get this made. The Meriwether Lewis is going

525
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: to have to be a gender fluid pan sexual and

526
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: William William Clark is going to have to go around

527
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: begging forgiveness from the Native peoples for the future disrespect

528
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: and betrayal of the colonists. Even otherwise, we can't make

529
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: that show. Politics is downstream of culture, which is a

530
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: great quote from Andrew Brypart, and I do think it's

531
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: true if you're out there and you're looking at what

532
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: the political message is coming through the cultural success stories

533
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: out there, whether it's Terminal Lists, whether it's Yellowstone, whether

534
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: it is Certainly, as you break it down, how much

535
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: demand there has been for Top Gun Maverick, the most

536
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: successful movie of all time from Tom Cruise's history, it's

537
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: because people want pro America, anti woke programming, and there

538
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: isn't enough of it. Did you see I know you're

539
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: on vacation and you're having a great time with the

540
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: fan which was very important. You've come back rested in

541
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: the fight. But did you happen to catch because I

542
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: see you sneaking on to Twitter a little bit when

543
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: you're on vacation. I was, I still have to manage

544
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: out Kick. Yeah, I didn't do TV, I didn't do radio,

545
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: but I'm still managing our stories at out So you

546
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: probably saw that they had a ninety million dollar right

547
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: off with a completed filmagirl. I mean, how now the

548
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: thing is, I want to see that movie so badly

549
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: because they wrote down when they took over, they three

550
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars CNN plus they said this is an

551
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: unmitigated disaster. It's done, and now ninety million dollars Batgirl.

552
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: And you know how popular superhero movies are, you could

553
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: basically get one hundred million dollars. I would think just

554
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: by advertising a lot to get people to come watch.

555
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: I screenwriter or a producer making a superhero movie and

556
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: you lose basically one hundred million dollars on it, you

557
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: really should learn to code, like you should find another

558
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: profession you should would be equivalent to. It's a great point.

559
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: You're making a superhero movie. The studios are all behind it.

560
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: You almost cannot fail because there's such demand for superhero movies.

561
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: And they watched your superhero movie and they said it

562
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: was so bad, we're just going to take a ninety

563
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: million dollar right off. They didn't even put it on

564
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Speaker 1: the streaming service. That's one thing if they say, hey,

565
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: this is not worthy of going to the movie theaters.

566
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Speaker 1: They said it's so bad that they don't even want

567
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: their brand associated with it. In other fields, I'm not

568
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: even sure I can think of an equivalent. I could

569
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: just I could just see this though, like like a

570
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: Batgirl movie where Batgirl swoops in the bank robbers and

571
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, look at this. Look at this Broad.

572
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: We're in a costume. She's like, excuse me, sir, Broad,

573
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: are you assuming my pronouns? Like you could actually do

574
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: a great send up of this thing. I mean you

575
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: could do a great Uh. There's a little bit of

576
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: send up of the overall culture that goes on in Deadpool,

577
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: which has been very popular as as a movie. But buck,

578
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: think about all the people that are cast in this movie.

579
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: They're saying, Hey, this is gonna be career altering for you.

580
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: You can't go wrong. You get into a superhero movie,

581
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: or the next Robert Downey Junior. I can completely do

582
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: the pitch that they would have been getting in their

583
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: Hollywood talent agencies, and then they get a call and

584
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: they say, yeah, this movie is so bad that even

585
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: though we spent ninety million dollars, we're basically just going

586
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: to burn it. I guarantee you we we could write

587
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: a better screenplay than whenever that was which in the

588
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: two of us in forty eight hours. Honestly, that's why

589
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Speaker 1: I want to see I feel cold play Travis buck

590
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Speaker 1: Sexton show. We appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

591
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton is now an engaged man. Congratulations, Buck, I

592
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: believe based on the photo that I saw you did

593
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: it from? Is that your apartment building in New York

594
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: City that I have seen amazing view up there? What

595
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: was it like to actually you've never proposed before, Nope,

596
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: you are a forty year old man who has never

597
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: been engaged, never married. What was the experience like and

598
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: how quickly has the wedding apparatus shifted into full speed?

599
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: Because I'll tell you, when I got engaged many years ago,

600
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: the thing that most stunned me about it was how

601
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: much knowledge women all carry in their head about weddings

602
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: that I had never given a thought to. How quickly

603
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: that process was underway soon after I got engaged. Give

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00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: you a couple of things, and then I promised, we'll

605
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: talk about the news for everybody. People are good, people

606
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: want to hear about this, Yes, they do. So. Uh.

607
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say is pretty pretty funny.

608
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: But she had absolutely no idea. So I had met

609
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: with her dad because I went asked for the hand.

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00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: I went down to Asheville, where her family has a home. Yes,

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00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: and obviously Asheville was a memorable experience for many reasons,

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00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: and I asked for her hand from her father. I

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00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: would do that. By the way, how did you end

614
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: up isoed? Were you asked him to take me to

615
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: see a piece of property that they were thinking about? Smart? Yeah,

616
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: we kind of went the woods, yeah, you know. Yeah,

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00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: and uh, so I asked for the hand and then, uh.

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00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: The plan was to just find a perfect sunset on

619
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: the rooftop when nobody nobody would be up there. Yeah,

620
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: and uh and I you know, I went up there.

621
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Speaker 1: She had no idea. So I went down was Saturday night?

622
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: Is this Saturday after Saturday night? Saturday night. Yeah, it

623
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: was really nice. I actually saw two listeners who were

624
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: visiting New York City from Chicago on our way to

625
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: the restaurant and they're like, hey, Buck, I was like,

626
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: I just got engaged, Like we listened all the times.

627
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: That was great. We had some visitors from I saw

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00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: the picture go out on social media too. You texted

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Speaker 1: Ali who also, by the way, we should mention engaged

630
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,959
Speaker 1: like last week too. I know love is in the

631
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: air on the Clay and Buck Show. Yeah, there's producer

632
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: Ali is engaged a couple of weeks ago. I'm engaged now.

633
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: So as for the wedding stuff, I will tell you, man,

634
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: the our basic approach to this and and then we

635
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: have to start trashing Joe Biden. Our basic approach to

636
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: this is, we're gonna try to throw a big, fun

637
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: engagement party at New York City for everybody. You'll be invited,

638
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: the team, you know, We'll just we just want to

639
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: throw a big party in New York and then we're

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00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: gonna have a immediate family and you know, best man,

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00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: best what do you not best one? What do you

642
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: call it? And brought made of honor or whatever. Yeah,

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00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: but like just very small ut at a church suoner

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Speaker 1: rather than later, Like what's the time frame, like get

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Speaker 1: in the next six months, which is the next six months?

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Speaker 1: I mean, because this is my understanding, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: a lot of people out there listening know this. This

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Speaker 1: is the busiest year for weddings on record. I believe.

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Speaker 1: I actually was down when I was at Rosemary Beach

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Speaker 1: one of the times Buck I was working out in

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Speaker 1: the gym and the guy next to me was a

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Speaker 1: big fan and he owned wedding venues all over the country,

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Speaker 1: West Coast primarily, and he was talking so, I know,

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Speaker 1: working out there in the in the gym, I was

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Speaker 1: designed him for fifteen or twenty minutes on the machine

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Speaker 1: and uh, and he was talking about how busy all

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Speaker 1: of it is every day of the week. Basically, people

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Speaker 1: are getting married now because so many people couldn't in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty twenty twenty one because of COVID, and twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two is supposedly the biggest wedding year ever. So

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Speaker 1: this is this is stressing me out a little bit. Now, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll figure all this stuff out, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: we canna get married, so there we go. So let's go, Well, congratulations.

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Speaker 1: The pictures are up on social media. They should be

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Speaker 1: up on Clay and buck dot com if they're not already.

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Speaker 1: If you want to go see Buck proposing to the

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Speaker 1: Lovely Carry and Carry as a producer at Fox News

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Speaker 1: for anyone who's wondering. So that's how Carrie and I

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's the connection, that's how we know each other,

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Speaker 1: and that's how it all got going. That's awesome. Well,

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Speaker 1: and her dad is a third generation fighter pilot. So

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Speaker 1: you thought you were kind of a badass because you're

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Speaker 1: a CIA analyst formerly, and good to be humbled in

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Speaker 1: law is way bigger of a badass, let's be honest.

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Speaker 1: Good to be humbled. So