Hour 1 - This Isn't Taught in School

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indicative, I think, well, a couple things. One, the Trump administration is doing an incredible job on law enforcement, and that has ramifications not just for right now, but also for the future. The idea that the federal government can't have a very active frontline role in bringing down national crime stats, I think that has been annihilated, which is a very good thing. You know, it usually falls upon state and local to deal with especially violent crime issues. And the federal government under Democrats is usually finding ways to let people out of prison early and do things like that. Well, we have some very interesting data. The big headline is that it's the lowest murder rate last year in, according to Pam Bondi, 125 years, which is nationwide. That's... Pretty wild. That's obviously something that we should all know. And I'm sure there'll be people that challenge those numbers. We've also got Trump speaking to Larry Cudlow and getting into the latest on the economy with him. This Trump economy is Enfuego. And you know what, Clay? I'll actually start with us on that one. I think when you're looking at the latest numbers. If this was a weak economy, if this was something that they could attack, you'd see this all over the place. But the big headline of the Wall Street Journal is that the U.S. has had its strongest job growth since late 2024, 130,000 jobs added in January, defying estimates. Like I said, that's the Wall Street Journal headline. And another big headline that I think, or rather an implied headline, I will imply it. The tariffs. We can go back almost exactly a year. I forget when really the market hit that 20% drop and there was that sky's falling moment and it was all blamed on the tariffs. I don't know how to say this other than to just say. It looks like, as we suggested, by the way, on this program, I think you could go back and pull some cuts. Everyone, oh, my gosh, all the economists, all the data nerds were coming out. This is terrible. The tariffs are terrible. Clay, looks like Trump was right and everybody else was wrong, or at least everybody who said that he was wrong, was wrong. Yeah, look, the argument was that back in April, one of the things that we may have gotten most right in the history of the show, the argument, you go back and you can look at the transcripts, we came on and we said, if there's one thing I feel confident in, it's that Trump is not going to tank the economy. And we said back in April, when everybody lost their mind, hey, now is a good time to go buy stocks. And if you don't have money on the sideline, that happens. The best thing you could do. is just hold on to the stocks that you have. And as we sit talking to you today, we basically are at all-time highs. And in fact, the overall stock market is up 40% since April of last year. One of the greatest runs that you could have possibly found if you had bought at that point in time. Now, the other thing that stands out to me about these numbers that came out, Buck, unemployment rate falls back down to 4.3%.

But significantly, and very few people are talking about this, we are actually adding a lot of jobs while removing a lot of people off government employment roles. So the private economy is on fire. I believe added 170,000 jobs because we knocked out and continue to dial back the number of government employees. So we're taking people off of the government payroll. I believe it's 250,000. Guys in New York, you can check that and make sure I'm right. I think it's 250,000 federal government employees are no longer on the payroll since Trump came into office, which is an extraordinary dial back in the number of people that are publicly employed as federal government employees simultaneously. We are also seeing the jobs that are being created are being created for Americans. That is, if you go back and look at a lot of the numbers from Joe Biden's time in office, a lot of people who were not American citizens were getting jobs in the United States. And American citizens were not as fortunate in the Joe Biden era as many of those jobs that were created were going to non-citizens. Now, if you go look at the numbers, in addition to the jobs being created, Americans are getting them. They're coming from the private industry as opposed to the bloating of the federal government, and all of that is moving in a very, very great job. And in fact, cut $14. I undercut it. They continue to increase the number of people that are not employed by our federal government. Your tax dollars, my tax dollars, are going to pay. far fewer people. Here's cut 14 assets saying there's actually 350,000 fewer people on the federal dole taxpayer funded. Labor force participation, the percentage of Americans that are looking for a job or have a job, actually went to its highest level since 2001. So actually people are coming back off the sidelines into the labor market because they see the high wage growth, all the factory starts and so on. And so that's thing one. You know, thing two is that because we've been reducing government workers, federal government workers so much, about 360,000 this year, that the jobs numbers actually kind of understate how wonderful. the economy is doing because the government worker employment has been a drag. And to put it in perspective that we've got the lowest government worker number since 1966 and the lowest share of government workers of the labor force in all of history. So, I mean, these are pretty positive things, Buck, and the stock market is responding in a very positive way with overall the surging number of people who are employed. Tax revenues are up. The overall federal deficit is coming down substantially, Buck, even though a lot of people don't want to talk about it. We're really firing on all cylinders in a pretty fantastic way.

Well, you certainly would know because it would be the lead story on every anti-Trump Democrat journalist website and news source out there if the economy was in some kind of a free fall and some sort of a tanking mode. It's gotten to the point where to try to argue that Biden had better. And when I say Biden, I understand he wasn't really in charge. the Biden regime, which is what we called it all along. The advisors in and around the White House during the Biden administration who were signing off on and pushing, you know, they had their own counsel of economic advisors. They had their own Treasury Secretary, et cetera, et cetera. Trump is just better at this than all of them. And Trump's team is better at this than all of them. He's better at freeing up the American economy, making... a clear path for wealth creation and essentially letting the business of the american people be business once again not demonizing the successful not focusing on marxist redistributive principles uh not focused on dey nonsense and training little kids and all these things that were hallmarks of the biden years never mind all the covid madness they pushed too clay this is just better I know that's a simple way of saying it, but it is just a better American economy than what you had under four years of Biden. And it is, yes, hearkening back to the four years of Trump's first term, which were a booming economy. And the only thing that put a little bit of a, you know, of a wrench in the situation was the woo flu. So that's what happened. Oh, I mean, it doesn't get talked about enough. February of 2020, for those of us who remember, was the greatest economy that we have ever seen in the history of the United States. By the way, we may be about to eclipse that here in 2026 because I think the numbers are starting to reflect it. But if you go back and look at February of 2020, until COVID suddenly exploded on the scene in that month of February 2020, Trump was cruising to re-election. The economy was going to be in November the greatest economy that we had ever seen. The only reason they were able to drag Joe Biden across the finish line was because of COVID. And remember, and this is important, I think, Biden got the nomination before COVID happened. In retrospect, the fact that he was 78 years old or whatever the heck he was when he was running, and they were able to hide him in the basement, it looked like some sort of grand plan that they had put together. But. Remember, he won and swept to basically the nomination. And then they just put him in the basement for six months. If they had actually, I mean, I think this is 100% true. And I bet you would sign off on it, Buck. If they had actually had to run a campaign, Biden's decrepitude would have revealed itself. And Trump would have won an unbelievable landslide in 2020. because they wouldn't have been able to hide the fact that he was mentally and physically unable to do the job, but for the fact they could put him in the basement, write the responses to all the questions that he needed to give and keep him hidden. And really, this, this, though, I think goes to a general set of theses, not quite 95 theses, but a general set of theses that we have on this show, which is, what's the better approach to crime and criminal justice to make people safer?

the Trump-Maga Republican approach or the Democrat left-wing, you know, I think the data and we'll get into some of this, Clay, with Pam Bondi, it's irrefutable. It turns out that backing law enforcement and enforcing the law and locking up criminals makes people safer, make society safer overall. What's the better approach to the border if you actually want security? Enforcing immigration law or just letting everybody in and pretending their asylum seekers? I think that experiment has also been run. And what's the better approach to the economy? taxing the, you know, the absolute last drop out of everybody that you possibly can and the government spending as wastefully as it can and doing as much redistribution as it can or encouraging innovation, wealth creation, and Americans doing what Americans do. I just, at this point, people just refuse to accept that their team has lost and they are wrong on the other side, on all of the major issues. We're not even just talking about like the gender sports issue, which of course they've lost on as well. They're wrong. They're truly wrong. They're wrong on crime. They're wrong in the economy. They're wrong on the border. So everyone should feel good right now, listen to this show, because we've been right all along. I don't know what else to say. We're crushing them in reality. No, we're right. And we've been proven right. And the data continues to prove us right. And I hope you have kept your 401Ks invested. in the stock market. And if you have, you're setting at all-time highs. By the way, a couple of other stories that we will hit. Pam Bondi is testifying about the Epstein files on Capitol Hill. We'll see if there's anything more that's going to come out of that. We also have continued outcome. The Nancy Grace, Nancy Guthrie story, Nancy Grace's been talking about it a lot. And unfortunately, Buck, another trans shooting that took place in Canada. with 10 people who died as a result of that shooting coming on the heels of Minneapolis and coming on the heels of Nashville. And we're going to talk with Alex Berenson. I read yesterday I was kind of stunned. The New York Times basically, we're talking about right and wrong. New York Times editorial, they basically said, hey, we got it wrong on pot. Marijuana is, this stunned me buck. And I couldn't believe it when I was reading this editorial. More people use... pot now marijuana on a daily basis than drink alcohol were you as stunned by that as i was like to see that that is the prevalence I knew it would be much closer than anyone would have thought five or even 10 years, you know, five or 10 years ago. I wasn't clear that it would cross over, but I have a bunch of theories on this, and I have strong opinions on this, and we're going to, I think, I can't speak for you on this. I think some of my ideas on wheat are going to upset some people, including people that I like, on 90 or 95% of issues, but weed is a terrible and stupid and bad thing.

And we were lied to. And this is one of the few times where I will say, I actually, I will admit to being bamboozled on wheat isn't really addictive. It's not psychologically damaging. It's actually very useful in a whole range of medical things. That's really not, you know, that can be true in specific. So if you have glaucoma and you're going to tell us, oh, my God, it's the only thing that worked for me. Okay. That's not why people are smoking weed, okay? That's an outlier case, actually. That's not what's going on. 20 million people aren't smoking weed 21 days or more a month because of their glaucoma, all right? So we have to deal in what the reality is here. And Clay, it's a scourge. It's a scourge on people. And I'm here to tell them that. I'm here to get off my lawn with the weed. I'm the American Taliban when it comes to weed. Do not want it in my neighborhood. Do not want it in my face. I think it's a great example. I give credit to the New York Times for saying we got it wrong. You saying you got it wrong. I'll admit, I did not think it was going to be as destructive as it has been to overall society. And frankly, I think a lot of that has to do. We'll get into this. with the incredible strength of weed today. And some of our people are going to be mad at us on this, and this is where we're at the dinner table together as a family, and we're going to have it out a little bit, all right? You can get mad at us over this one, but we're here for you to tell you the truth, and let's do this. Chalk makes world-class all-natural supplements formulated to provide energy, drive, and stamina for men and women. Their bestseller, the Chalk Male Vitality Stack subscription multi-supplement bundle designed to support healthy testosterone levels in men. As guys age, T levels decline, you feel it with lower energy, a lagging overall vibe that you can feel. Chalk will help to drive your testosterone levels back up. 20% increase in as little as three months. What do you have to lose? Check it out. It's all natural. chalk.com. C-H-O-Q-C-O-Q-com. When you use my name Clay, you get a free $99 bag of chalk lit powder with your first delivery. That's chalk.com. C-H-O-Q dot com. My name, Clay, chalk.com, C-L-A-Y.

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Again, dial pound 250. Say Clay and Buck to make the switch to Pure Talk. Okay, let's dive into something that is a little bit fun, but also yet another thing we were right about. So the data has come out, Buck, on the Super Bowl. And I said, bad bunny, bad choice for the Super Bowl. And people are still attacking me over this. I said, hey, you know what? The Super Bowl halftime show should not be in Spanish, should be in English. And I said, I just did Pierce Morgan show right before this show started. So it's going to be up in a little bit. But I told Pierce Morgan, because Pierce was like, well, what would you say if Pavarotti were the halftime performer? I said that would be a poor choice, Pierce. Come on, even if it is the greatest opera singer of all time. I don't think it would be a smart decision for the NFL to have an opera singer or anyone else. Pavarotti doing the national anthem, that would be cool. He's doing it in English if it's a national anthem. I don't think it would be smart to do the national anthem in Italian. So, although it would be maybe interesting to hear, the data has come out, Buck. Bad Bunny. lost 10 million viewers the most people that have ever turned off or left the Super Bowl for a halftime show in the history of the Super Bowl. Okay. And so I think this is a clear sign. Turning Point USA obviously got whatever it was, 6 million live streamers on their YouTube channel. And other people just decided to bail. I've said this before. It always has fascinated me. Almost always, the Super Bowl viewership peaks at halftime. So for those of you out there that say, well, I don't know why you care. Usually the biggest possible audience that is watching the Super Bowl watches at halftime. There are lots of people, as many of you know, because this is what frustrates me about the Super Bowl as a big sports fan. Tons of people come rolling into Super Bowl parties that have never watched an NFL game all year and they talk loudly and they distract me from being able to actually watch the game because I watch games all year. People like Buck, they come in and they're just chirping in the background. I knew this was going to turn into a little clay jujitsu move. to put me in the Camorra because I don't actually watch. Turp it in the background about all the other things going on in their life. And I'm like, I'm trying to hear what they're saying. I'm trying to watch the game. So, but it is the case that there were the most people to ever turn off the Super Bowl in the history of the Super Bowl. Can I ask you a real question?

Like, because I actually, when I've gone with you to college football games, I try not to ask a million questions, and you're actually very, very kind to explain the basics, so I have some idea what the heck is going on. Do you ever have to just be like, hey, guys, I need radio silence? Like, I can't answer, I can't answer all of your questions while I'm watching if you're in sort of a group set. Like, how do you handle that? Because I would assume everyone's like, Clay, what do you think about that wide receiver choice? Clay, what do you think about the assistant coach who's doing the blah-bitty blah? You are going to appreciate this. And I might be the only person on the planet who does this. I want to hear what the coaches say in the halftime interview. And I also want to hear in a post-game interview what the coaches and players say. So the game ends and there's Bedlam all around. And regularly, my poor kids, regularly I'm like, hey, Pipe down over there. I'm trying to hear what he's saying in the post game interview or the halftime interview. Because occasionally you get information, you know, players injured and the coach is jogging off and you can try to deduce from the interview. I don't know what percentage of people out there are like me and want to actually hear the interview. Now, the other thing, Buck, that I will say is... And I don't know how many people are like me in this way. When my team is playing poorly and it's a team that I actually care about, I mute the broadcast. My wife has been making fun of me for this for years. I don't want to hear announcers basically cheering on the other team and talking about how amazing they look. I can watch a game without announcers and tell every single thing I need to know by and large about the game. with the exception of sometimes, like I said, an interview with somebody on the field. So I will often sit in complete silence watching games during while I'm sitting in front of my television. My wife will walk in, she'll be like, You're just sitting in a room. It's completely silent watching a game. Like, yeah, the game's not going well. I don't need to hear the announcers pile on about how crappy my team's playing. So I would say in general, I want the information if it's useful to be to get from the interviews. But yeah, like this idea, I do think it's a, people are going to say, well, why does this matter? What is the lesson that should be drawn from it? I think it's that the NFL. should be trying to reach the broadest possible audience. And some people are going to roll their eyes about this. But I do think American cultural experiences that are shared matter. Having something that everybody is experiencing together as one is something that should be aspirational. We have relatively few of those. And making selections on a halftime show that alienates the vast majority of the viewership because they have no idea what's being said or what's being done. is a poor decision by the NFL, and I think they should reconsider going forward and try to get people very basically who speak English to perform at the halftime show. And I just have to say there's also been this, I like that he, Bad Bunny, his name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right? I have no idea what his actual name is. Is he related to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Are they brother and sister?

Pretty, well, I was wondering if there's some relation there. But I thought it was interesting that there was this, well, Spanish is now the language of anti-colonialism. That is truly hilarious. Oh, that is very funny. That is a hilarious take that you were seeing online now from some people. Like, well, of course, like this is Spanish is the language like against oppression of, and the oppression of native people. So I had to do, I had to take to Twitter on this one or to ask to be like, guys, nobody showed up. With more brute, by the way, Spain, I love my time in Spain. I think Spain is a beautiful country, an amazing place. I think it probably saved Western civilization, Battle of Lepanto, a whole bunch of tours with Charles Martel. There's a whole lot. I'm very pro-SPain, just to be clear. I think what Spain did for the world is a great Catholic country for hundreds of years, and it did amazing things. That all said, the Spanish showed up in the new world, and they were like, we're going to take all your stuff. We're going to kill a lot of you. And anybody who doesn't do what we say, we're definitely killing you and burning down your whole village. It wasn't like the Puritans arriving in Massachusetts trading corn with the natives at Thanksgiving or whatever. It was. I hadn't seen this that people are saying that Spanish is the anti-colonial language. Oh, it's very funny. Oh, yeah. Spanish is now the language of the oppressed or something. I'm like, well. You got to learn a little bit about how we got here, everybody. So, yes, it turns out if you learn your history. I mean, the Spanish, there's a reason they're called the conquistadors. They weren't showing up to, like, just settle. They realized that this, and this is how they funded the Spanish Empire by just taking all of the gold. And there was tremendous gold, particularly with the Incas, but also with the Aztecs. They just took all their stuff. They had treasure galleons going back to Spain to pay for the Spanish Empire and its wars in Europe. And they were absolutely brutal. Like, this is, it's just so funny me that people are thinking this. And then people are like, yeah, but what about the British in their role in the transatlantic slave trade? I'm like, oh, no, that's true. The British for a couple hundred years were the second worst when it came to the transatlantic slave trade. Anyone at home want to know who they act? By far, by far the biggest perpetrator of the transatlantic slave trade, the Portuguese. And where do they take all of the slaves? Mostly. Brazil, the Caribbean, and parts of South America, but mostly Brazil. By far, number one. So I just think it's interesting. Spain, Portugal. Now we think of them as like, you know, like the motherland for Latin America and everything else. But man, they were the colonial powers par excellence, and they were rough. They were playing for keeps back in the day. It's also funny because anyone that actually talks about reparations. The idea is that the United States should be the sole payer of reparations. When, to your point, Buck, Europe is actually responsible overwhelmingly for all of slavery in Africa. And of course, people only focus on slaves from Africa, right, despite the fact that for...

thousands of the barbary pirate slave trade in white christians which went on uh millions of people and went on for hundreds of years went as far the north african slavers went as far as iceland and ireland picking off white people to sell into slavery and uh this isn't this isn't taught in schools and people you tell them this they'll be like that's not true google it actually better crock it you'll see all uh it's actually I think symptomatic of one of the great major issues that we have in this country, which is historical literacy and the inability to understand. our country, but basically the whole landscape of the world historically, everything. I mean, this is really, I mean, this is intentional. The entire purpose of much of left-wing cultural argument is to, they made it explicit with the 1619 project, root all of American history and indeed all of Western civilization to slavery, which began in 1619, which is why they tried to with Nicole Hannah-Jay Jones, New York Times. try to argue, hey, the real focus of America is not 1776 when we got independence. It's actually 1619 because America is founded in the original sin of slavery and therefore nothing that occurred in America is legitimate. We can burn down the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, all of the great heroes of American life. They are illegitimate because the Constitution, all of the great heroes of American life. They are illegitimate because the true founding of America happened in 1619. Very, starting in the early 1800s, so even before here in America. And then in America... We fought a huge, massive civil war with how many casualties, Clay, in total? 600,000 people died in a time when the population of the United States was, I think, only like 15 million or some 20 million, like a huge percentage of people died. The British became a global anti-slavery force. America said, we can't allow this anymore here, and then we had a very bloody civil war to end that practice. What do the Portuguese and the Spanish do? You know, I mean, I'm just saying, like, where's their huge cost in blood and treasure to make up for this stuff? Anyway, you know, I mean, look, anybody who studies this, it is, again, we are historically illiterate as a country when you actually study the history of the United States and frankly the history of the world. You have a little bit more depth to be able to discuss many different issues. Here's something else for some of my Latin American friends down here, including a lot of Brazilians. You know when Brazil abolished slavery, Clay, formally? It was like 1940 or something, right? Well, 1888.

Late. That's late in the process. I mean, go look. Pull it up. I mean, I'll ask Grock. Some countries that you know of did not abolish slavery until like World War II era. Well, this is the, there's a note here that while they formally abolished it legally, Clay, thousands of people continued to work in effectively slave conditions for decades after the formal abolition in Brazil. But point here being everybody, you all know. Oh, 1619 project. Hmm. Portugal. How many people knew that? Just saying. I just groked it. So we'll find out some of these countries you're going to hear and you're going to be like, what? Like this is unbelievable. Nigeria, for instance, Buck, did not end slavery until 1936. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there are people alive who were slaves in Nigeria. There you go. But I'll hit you with a couple of other of those that you probably don't hear about very much. Look, every living room and family room should have a cozy earth cuddle blanket during the winter months. Right now, the ultra plush cuddle blanket, all the rage. It's on sale this week. We've got them. They're amazing. We've got them in the Travis household. They are fantastic. Everything Cozy Earth makes is soft and luxurious, including the Cuddle Blanket, and purchase is totally risk-free. You get 100-day money-back guarantee, 10-year warranty, because this kind of comfort's made to last. Go online to cozyEarth.com. Use my name Clay to get up to 20% discount on a Cuddle Blanket. And if you get a post-purch survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here. One more time. CozyEarth.com is the website. Use the promo code, Clay, to get your discount on the purchase. That's cozyEarth.com promo code C-L-A-Y.

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Mauritania, 1981. So again, and we should point out too, because some of you are popping off in there and making a point, there are still people who are enslaved. in the world today, right? Like there are people that are in many places in Africa. There are countries where there are still active slavery practices. By the way, African countries in particular where that is still going on. And it's usually Arab Muslims or ethnic Arab Muslims who are enslaving black Africans, which also, you know, New York Times doesn't like to talk about that very much. Also, Clay, you mentioned Nigeria. Nigeria's in the opening chapter of this book, Manufacturing Delusion, because I was there chasing the group, this is true story, obviously, it's in the book, chasing the group that would become Boko Haram in the earliest days, and checking out the radicalization that was involved, the mosques in parts of Nigeria where nobody goes because it's super dangerous. And yeah, I think you should get a copy of the book, my friends. Go to clay and buck.com if you want, you can get the... Special video download, Clay. We're entering the shamelessness zone, my friend. I need everyone listening to this show to buy this book. It's actually really good, and I wrote it. Clay and I write our books, which especially in the days of AI, I think this is going to be a very unusual thing. People who write their books, but I wrote it, wrote every word, how the left uses brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda. Read every word. Manufacturing delusion. For the people who want to get the audiobook. I did the audio, which Clay also told me was going to take a long time and drive me nuts, but it was really fun actually when it was done. Doing it wasn't that fun. It took forever. But the audiobook is me. Yours truly voicing it. So there we go. Clay, everything you said about this process was true, by the way. It takes forever and I need everyone to buy the book or else I will be sad because it's a really good book. It's a lot of work. Go buy Buck's book. It'll be out on Tuesday. We'll be right back with all of you.

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