Hour 2 - Reality of Political Violence

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We have a lot of guns in my house, and we have armed security now, and we live behind that. And I'm thankful for that existing as an option for us, but I'm also simultaneously of the opinion that the degree to which violence has become commonplace. And we saw it with Charlie Kirk. We saw it with President Trump almost exactly two years ago. We talked about this yesterday. where within a quarter of an inch, President Trump came from being assassinated on live television. Unfortunately, that will be not the last of the violence, much of it emanating from the left. But if you are listening to us right now, certainly the way to win battles in the marketplace of ideas is not with violent acts. Most of the violent acts are coming from the left right now. And Amy Coney Barrett just... testified about the fact that she has been a target. And we know Brett Kavanaugh has been a target. And Buck, I would just say this. We need, I'm convinced, way more security on Supreme Court justices. Way more security on them. Back in the day, they could bike into work, I think, occasionally and all of those things. The idea that we have Supreme Court justices who are having to wear bulletproof vest, especially the ones like Amy Coney Barrett who have young children, this is cut for. Listen to what she just testified to. A few years ago around the time of the Dobbs leak, my security detail sent me home with a bulletproof vest, and I carried it into my house, put it into my bedroom, dropped it down on a table, turned around and my 12-year-old son was standing in the doorway of my bedroom. And he wanted to know what it was and why I had it. And I didn't know how to respond because maybe I lack imagination, but I didn't expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one. It's also been reported in the news that roughly six weeks ago, I was the victim of a swatting incident. At that point, my teenage son, one of my teenage sons opened the door to go out with friends and saw in our street. It was full of police cars. who had responded to a false report of gunshots and raised voices in my home. Many of us, me included, have received threatening anonymous deliveries designed to intimidate and harass us. Okay, Clay, a few things on this that immediately come to mind. First of all... I'd have to check and see what the current penalties are for swatting, but there should the same way that if you harm a federal official physically, you should we explain? I just probably people out there who don't even know what swatting officially is. So this is when you get a, it comes from obviously a SWAT team. It's when you make a false report into the police of essentially a.

Democrats controlled, at that point in time, my recollection is, certainly the White House, they would have been able to put forward a new justice to replace Brett Kavanaugh. The Dobbs opinion does not become law until it is published. So his decision, that guy to show up and try to kill Brett Kavanaugh, was motivated by a logical process under which he had been incentivized by the leaking of that opinion. This is not going to go away. In a five to four world, In a six to three world even, you change one or two justices and the overall outcome of opinions can change. So the fact that Amy Coney Barrett is having to wear a bulletproof vest and have that conversation with her 12-year-old kid and what happened with Charlie Kirk. I hate to say it. Someone is going to continue on the left to try to kill conservative justices. And their logic in their head is motivated by the reality of getting a new justice. The original assassins were a sects of Shia Muslims called the Nizari Ismaili. And some of you, for example, who have played the game. what's the super well uh assassins creed you know some of this backstory but there is a real history here and they would generally assassinate leaders. And there's some debate still about where we get the term. Some say it has to do with being a hashish eater. Some say it's kind of just a garbled version of local dialect. The point being, Clay, they were absolutely feared during their rise in the Middle East. And they were very effective. Because the whole situation became they would have people who would get close to you. You wouldn't know it. And then generally it was with knives. They would take out a leader. Well, now you have this in the back of your mind. If you're not going along with what someone wants or whatever, you know that there's always this possibility that you are under mortal threat and you could be replaced by somebody who is more pliant to whatever the ruling regime or whatever your adversaries want. And this is something we have to understand. It's not just the political climate on the left, which clearly, you see this, I tell you, it's actually a comedian that I've generally liked in the past, but he's making jokes about Luigi Mangione. And I didn't like the jokes because I don't think there's anything funny about it. You know, and other people say, oh, well, comedians will make fun of everything. Yeah, but there was some political commentary in it as well, being like, I mean, we weren't this guy saying effectively. Just down the street from where we are right now is where that. CEO was assassinated. There was a little bit of like, well, nobody was really mad at Luigi, right? That was essentially the joke. And the answer is, or rather my response would be, no, we're absolutely horrified. What that guy did was absolutely disgusting. And in Bucks America, he would be facing a firing squad, and it would be happening very quickly. I do think this is a whole other, we haven't really gotten into this conversation on the show, but I have done some digging. I think one of the great injustices that we've seen, particularly Clay around, well, predating us a bit our lifetime.

but the elimination of capital punishment as a realistic deterrent, largely because, one, it's not pursued, but it's also not pursued because the bureaucratic dragging it out has gotten so insane that no one thinks that if you're going to be executed in 20 years, that has any effect on what anyone's thinking now. I'm a belief, and people will say, but you're supposed to be a Catholic. I'm imperfect. What can I tell you? I'm a big believer in capital punishment. I think for certain crimes, it's quite obvious. There should be capital punishment and assassination should be one of them. You should face a firing squad. We put, you know, people in situations where they have to use firearms lawfully on a daily basis. Firing squad is not cruel or inhumane. It is quick. It is efficient and it gets the job done. I think that the situation of the Supreme Court justices. has to be also put Clay in the context of the attempted mass assassination of conservative members of Congress in 2018 at the baseball field in Alexandria, where Steve Scalise was shot with a 5-5-6 round, where Rand Paul was shot at by a left-wing lunatic, the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, having to wear a bulletproof vest, Charlie Kirk being assassinated, two assassination attempts, including a bullet actually hitting the president of the United States, who is clearly a Republican in his right wing. There is no... version of a monologue you can do on the left. Their closest thing is January 6th. January 6th, and they'd probably say ICE agents. Well, we should talk about that, by the way. This is, you don't want to get shot by an ICE agent? Don't resist arrest and try to run ICE agents over with your car. That's a pretty straightforward rule. I agree. Also, I would say this as building on the Amy Coney Barrett, one of the great flaws of we had a caller yesterday who was trying to filibuster conspiracist. One of the great flaws of the way that Charlie Kirk assassination has been covered, Buck, the guy was a left-wing lunatic who was acting on trans ideology to justify killing Charlie Kirk. This is one of the reasons why I get so angry about now that the evidence has been presented. There can be no question. This is presented, sworn testimony, law enforcement officers in a court of law. People are relieving the left and the Trantifa lunacy of the responsibility for what happened to Charlie Kirk ideologically and making it some tangled web of international Israel and turning point and his closest friends. And guys, it's crap. That's all nonsense. It's all nonsense. And it actually makes the most sense. Leave aside the fact that the dads are involved, as we've pointed out, the dad is testifying against his own son in a potential death penalty case. Imagine how difficult that is. And the fact that you would ever do that as a dad if you thought there was any way your son didn't actually do it. That's, I think, kind of crystallizes it. Also, Charlie had a longstanding and close relationship with some of the most pro-Israel donors on the right. He was personally in contact with and friends with Benjamin Netanyahu. It doesn't, their crazy idea doesn't even make sense. This was like the Russia collusion thing. What, do you think Trump is going to do something where Russia has it over him for four years in office that they could at any point in time destroy his presidency and make him a trade? It made no sense. Yes. This makes no sense. A trans lunatic inspired assassination of a right wing figure makes total sense. But instead of holding people accountable.

based on what their motivation was, it is turned into a cesspool of conspiracy. What makes more sense? A guy who was sleeping with a dude pretending to be a chick is upset because Charlie Kirk has been speaking out on trans-related issues and thinks he's doing his lover a favor and striking back. Or... all of the crazy fevered dream conspiracies. Again, left-wing violence, left-wing violence. And Amy Coney Barrett, unfortunately, is speaking about this. Home broken into, families caught off guard. You have to make an immediate decision how to protect everybody. Do you want to use non-lethal because maybe you're concerned about your aim? Maybe you are concerned about what exactly is going on. Maybe you've got teenagers in the household, and sometimes they make moronic decisions. I talked about this recently. One of mine went out. after the alarm had already been set, then tried to get back in. My wife is showing up. Is it going to be him? Who is it? Probably you may have been in a situation like that. Would you like to have both lethal and also non-lethal opportunities to defend yourself? That's what Sabre's all about. The Sabre Home Defense Launcher delivers seven pepper or impact projectiles to more than most competitors. Even a near miss can create a large pepper crowd that helps deter and advancing. threat, don't wait until you wish you had protection. Right now, save up to 15% on select saber bundles. Visit saberprotect.com. You can also call 844-824 safe because when you're responsible for the people you love most, being prepared matters. That's saberprotect.com. SaberProtect.com. Precet your pals. Clay and Buck. On the iHeart app. If you're trying to grow spiritually while juggling a busy life, Intouch.org, is a really helpful place to pause and catch your breath. Sometimes you just need a moment to refocus, and that's exactly what you'll find there. You can dive into practical, down-to-earth teaching from Dr. Charles Stanley. Read a short devotional that fits into your day or explore free study guides that speak to real-life situations you might be dealing with. Whether you're looking for direction, comfort, or simply a little encouragement to keep going, there's always something meaningful waiting for you. It's easy to use. It's available anytime, and it meets you right where you are in your walk with God. When you're ready for a bit of clarity or a spiritual reset, take a moment to see how in touch.org can support your day. It might be exactly what you need. Our podcast version of the Clay Travis N. Buck Sexton Show is proud to be supported by Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, non-profit Christian university based in Beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. At GCU, programs are built to move at the speed of relevance with practical skills, career readiness, and opportunity for every learner. Grounded in Christian truth, GCU works to empower the next generation to lead with integrity, serve with purpose, and help transform their communities, building a future that matters. Find your purpose at GCU, private, Christian, affordable, non-profit, visit gCU.edu to learn more. Dad, Disney activities are unleashed.

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This is one of the dumbest talkbacks we've ever gotten in the history of the talkback button. I was going to be a little more polite, but I disagree with our friend from the retired law enforcement community. He's in the law enforcement community. Does he think the president should have no protection? Like the president accepted the risk. I would say a lot of people, especially someone like Amy Coney Barrett, I'm not trying to sound sexist, but she might not feel as comfortable, say, conceal carrying. And also the notion of these justices concealed carrying in the first place, you know, they... They're older. You know, some of them are in their 70s. It's going to be, and I know you're going to say, Buck, you're a whippersnapper. I'm 70. I could out shoot you any day. Don't send me those talkbacks. I know for a lot of you, that's true. But the point I'm making is, one, it's sad that this is the situation. I mean, this is a little bit like when you think back to the, I mean, the White House for a while, you can just like walk up and knock on the door. By the way. Things have changed a lot. I mean, this is a crazy take. We should protect people who are in positions where people kill them because of their politics. Like, I don't want the Supreme Court justice dropping out because they're afraid they might get killed. Symbolism can be subtle, but a strong way to express what you believe in anyway. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews recognized the value of a meaningful symbol and the connection that it can convey to like-minded individuals. On the month that we're recognizing our nation's 250th birthday, a symbol itself of how freedom endures, the IFCJ. has created a symbol to share with you and others in this audience. It's a flagpin introducing the flags of both the U.S. and Israel, two countries that pursue personal freedoms. One of the many similarities our two nations have, the international fellowship of Christians and Jews, a U.S.-based nonprofit, has been helping those in Israel during this time of need and standing strong as an important ally. The flagpin is yours free when you go online to flagpinifcj.org. Again, you'll get this flagpin to show that you stand with... Israel flagpin IFCJ.org. Welcome back in Clay and Buck rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program here in New York City. And we were watching at the end of the first hour. By the way, we should say YouTube now streaming for three hours live every day. So I can look directly into your soul right now. I'm staring directly into the camera. We're going to be doing more and more cool experiments with the YouTube universe out there. We're going to be taking your questions in the comments. We want you to go subscribe. We want to be interactive as many different ways as we can. You can find this show on satellite radio. You can find us on 600 AM FM stations. You can find us pretty much everywhere now, including three hours on video.

Some of you were saying the audio wasn't working perfectly. It's going to take a little while for us to start to deliver everything flawlessly, but it is a fun experiment and good growth for the show. We want to be all places for all people. At the end of the first hour of the show, Buck pulled up in advertisement for the new movie Supergirl. Also known as a trailer. Yes, advertisement trailer. Supergirl has been out for a few weeks now. They are trying to revitalize the DC Comics world inside of Warner Brothers, and they've made a new Superman, and now they have made a new Supergirl. Buck played the video. The movie is a disaster in terms of pure business. We have a writer at Outkick who does a great job Ian Miller, and he wrote that this movie is on track to lose several hundred million dollars. Can we just take that in for a moment? To lose... $200 million on a comic book movie. It seems like a level of malpractice and professional stupidity that would get you banned from the industry forever. I mean, the executives that Green lit this, how can they still have jobs after this? Like, they should have jobs. They should just have jobs, you know. uh selling like lawn equipment somewhere i don't know that they should not be green lighting movie projects but i watched the trailer this is the fun part of course clay and i had a different reaction i watched it in my head i'm thinking this you can tell with certainty is the worst steaming pile of you know what of any movie maybe i've i've seen a trailer for in years it's like a sassy i've never even seen this actress before also do you know who she i've never even heard of her i think her name is millie acock uh and i may be mispronouncing that she this is so let's start with the trailer and then i want to i'll analyze her i think we're not going to play the trailer no no no i'm sick you thought the trailer was the worst thing ever you mr clay travis were like It doesn't look bad. Well, I said it doesn't look that, but the trailer of any movie should not look awful. Here's my general perspective. Having said that, as someone who has worked as in media, my concern with this movie would be, I know biology on the left doesn't exist, but in general, boys want to be bigger, stronger, and faster than they are. The male aspiration is to be a superhero, to be a great athlete, to be able to, you know. Well, this is why the action movie genre of our youth was so unbelievably popular, I think almost entirely with guys. It was watching men, usually on huge doses of steroids, carry machine guns and defeat bad guys. So they have tried to androgynize superherodom and badassness.

such that, and you talk about this, that we're supposed to believe a hundred-pound girl is just going to beat up all these different guys. Now, I don't buy it, but also the bigger issue here is I don't think most women aspire to be superheroes like most men do. Sports are more popular with men. That doesn't mean that women can't like sports. Superhero movies are more popular with men. That doesn't mean that women can't like it too. But the business side of these movies themselves, Barbie worked because a lot of women love Barbie, right? Has there been a successful real superhero girl movie? And some people are going to say Black Widow Clay. Wonder Woman would be the only one. Wonder Woman. That would be the only one. Wonder Woman existed and was done well and seemed to hit the stride right. And maybe Black Widow, but I was going to say that was a part of the Avengers canon, so you're basically jumping in there. I don't buy that by and large there is a big marketplace for these movies. And so I would have been skeptical to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in this movie. I would have been the executive who said, no, here's what I think's going on, Buck. I think they would rather lose hundreds of millions of dollars and have people in Hollywood know that they made the Girl Boss Supergirl movie than they would actually make money making movies that people like. Yes, they're insulated at some level from the stupidity and the professional incompetence that they display as long as they're ideologically aligned. They will still have the jobs will still be there for them. They will still get. the funding because a lot of these studios and these huge conglomerates and these corporations, they make money on some things and they lose it on others willingly. Yes. And on the creative side of things, that's absolutely the case when it comes to these movies. I wish there were the same way on, you know, you have these betting markets now for different things. They should start having box office movie bet stuff. You can do it. Did they have it for now? Did they have it for this, though? Because what you would be able to see is that everybody with a brain cell knew this Supergirl movie was going to absolutely tank. And the fact that they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on this is just flatly insane. It's ideologically driven. It's flatly insane. It looked horrible. It looked like a video game. That's the other thing that's done the movies. They've ruined movies. Everything is like a CGI and it's all computer. I actually think in an era of a, this is a little bit of a broader point, but in an era of artificial intelligence and people able to kind of make their own, you know, movie by just going into grok creative or something, movies that seem more just down to the human and authentic and well written.

are going to do well and movies that are all about lasers and space aliens and everything blowing up. I think we're, I think we've been inundated too much with that. Oh, I got a bunch of thoughts on all that. First of all, this ties in with what you're saying. The new Mona remake, and I may not Moana or however you pronounce that movie, the Disney remake with Dwayne Johnson. The South Pacific, right? It's bombed. And it's just a remake. And evidently, the AI and the CGI is a disastrous. I mean, he looks ridiculous. Nobody's watching it. It looks fake. It's just a remake of the animated movie. This Millie Aycock, the Supergirl. Is that really your name? I think it's something like that. Everybody's eating. I think it's Millie Aycock. It might be Millie Ayok. Alcock. He keeps saying Aycock. It's Alcock. Millie Alcock, not Acoq. Acock. You got to be careful. So Alcock. She insulted Christians and Dads in the run-up to the movie, too. That's a great idea right before your movie comes out. It's not only that they're making bad movies, it's that they have these moron actor and actresses who go out. If I were making a movie. I would want and they cost hundreds of millions of dollars. I would fill an obligation on behalf of everybody who worked on the movie to make that movie audience as big as possible. I think they need to start writing into, I saw you tweet this, I've talked about it, I think they need to start writing into these actor and actresses contracts. If we decide that you're a moron in the promotion of this movie, we're going to take a lot of your money away because you are cutting the legs out of these films. And let me say this too. Young Washington, I saw Tommy Laren tweet that it's a really good movie. I haven't seen it yet. Week two, Young Washington made more money than Supergirl. Okay? I bet Young Washington has one-twentieth, if that, maybe one-hundredth of the advertising budget to get people aware that it exists. Also, the production budget overall, too. But this is the point. People want good movies and good content. Content. And this isn't some unimportant thing. The dominant American art form of certainly, I would say, 1980 to about 10 years ago. The dominant American art form globally, and here was movies. There was nothing bigger than a big movie in the culture. Yeah, there are some big musical acts. Yeah, there were some things that, but a huge movie was the thing. To be a Hollywood star in the 80s, the 90s, the early 2000s made you the biggest celebrity really in the world. Yes, there were some big sports celebrities, but nobody's more famous really than Tom Cruise. I mean, maybe Michael Jim Jordan. You get what I'm saying. There's a level of, of,

peak movie that we reached and it has been nothing but downhill for a while now and wokeness has played a lot of this now the movies were always the movie studios were always left wing but they were trying to make money and they were trying to compete based upon box office results Now a lot of this feels like Clay. It's an insulated circuitry where they can make these terrible movies, but they're owned by these huge companies that own these massive libraries of content that can make money. Or in the case of like a Comcast, they can make really stupid decisions on the content and creative side because everyone's got to pay for cable and internet hookups still. So they're insulated from these decisions financially. But the other side of it that also doesn't. So that's one part of why it's gotten so bad. The ideology has been able to run wild. And then the DEI hiring for the writers. This is real. This is very clear. This was a mandate. You don't get to mandate. We're only hiring women and particularly minority women to write and then tell us that you're not changing standards because clearly you are. Otherwise, why would you have a mandate to hire women and minority writers? The writing for a lot of these shows is terrible. The writing for a lot of these big budget projects is just trash. And if you actually had a studio that was focused on just... making good content for audiences, I think it would completely. It's like people, look at Elon Musk with X. Where does all the, like the most cutting edge conversation online right now all happens, not on Instagram, not on Facebook, not on TikTok, it's on X. Because if a one place that's actually on mission, everybody knows it. I will say positive, the most successful two movies to come out of the summer blockbuster relative to what they cost. obsession and the one that's what's the other one look it up their horror movies coming out of youtube universes that are created by kids in their 20s and they have come back rooms i haven't heard of that one yeah obsession and back rooms have dominated because there's more cultural vibrancy coming out of youtube go subscribe to our youtube channel and the market actually responds to it i also this ties in with the other part of this the supergirl Some of these shows that were super successful are now getting remade. I'm curious, 800, 282, 282, 282. If any of you have watched this yet, I have not. They're remaking Little House on the Prairie. You did not grow up watching Little House on the Prairie. I watched this show. I loved it. Laura Ingalls, Paw, Michael, what's the guy's name, who was the Paw, Michael Landon, I think was his name. Many of you watch that show, 1974 to 1983. They are now remaking it, and the reviews that I have read, Buck, it ties in with Supergirl because to me, the strongest part of Little House on the Prairie was the relationship.

between more Ingalls Wilder, who is the primary protagonist of the show, and her dad. Her dad, the Michael Landon character, Paw, on that program. How do you think reportedly Netflix has remade Little House on the Prairie? Boss Girl. Got to go boss girl. Mom is now the focus of the show, and it's girl boss on the prairie starring mom. See, this is the race communists of the left. And when I say race communists, it's also gender communists and, you know, all of it. they create a zero-sum environment where, and this is true of masculinity, there's no such thing as masculinity that's good, there's only toxic masculinity. If you talk about masculinity that is good, the left will shout at you for saying, are you telling me women can't be brave? Are you telling me women can't be tough? Are you, well, no, I'm not saying that, but that is what they do. The same thing is true about fatherhood and being a dad. and being courageous and a leader of the family. You can't depict that without people going, but what about all the women? What about all the single mothers? You know, you sit here, you go, Who says, no one's saying that can't also be, but we can't celebrate this thing? We can't talk about this and depict this. It goes to what we said. I agree with you that there's a huge marketplace opportunity here, but largely writing dads out of family dramas. Even the family dramas where dads used to be a star like Little House on the Prairie is actually a cultural decision. That is not positive for the country. And it makes me, again, just make Lewis and Clark. Make me happy and make Lewis and Clark. I'd also say we're talking about violence, political violence, crime in cities and all this. Make dads great again. Yeah. Fatherhood is a critical piece of all of this. The violence comes from men who don't have strong role models and a young age who don't know what it is to be a man navigating America today in a positive, masculine way. And so we need more stories of great dads. shown because it does it does matter it does actually have an influence on people all right you own a business you need to protect it with business insurance and you got to prepare for whatever could come your way but business insurance is tough there are claims coverage gaps employee questions a lot of issues super sure is a company in business it's new

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