Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucksxton show podcast.

Welcome everybody Friday edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks

Sexton show kicks off right now. I cannot believe it is December, but here we are some big things to talk to you about today.

The Red State Blue State throwdown last night, Ron DeSantis versus Gavin Newsom big props high-five and kudos to

Sean Hannity for pulling it all together there on fox and getting these two guys together. I watched the whole hour and a half of it. I thought it was generally interesting.

Clay and I are going to break down both the substance of that exchange and then some of the the policy fights and

disagreements that came from it over the course of of this hour with all of you

just also some news

uh... justice sandidio coner passed away ninety three years old

uh... passed away today

so there's that first uh... first woman on the Supreme Court and we also have George Santos is now a

former Republican member of Congress and I have some slightly well we'll see different sense of this different

analysis on this than some people I think might have based on the realities of

what this means politically and the precedent that it sets. But Clay, let's start if we can, if we can, let's begin here with the biggest takeaways from last night's debate which

are for me Ron de Santis I'll start with this one, I thought Ron DeSantis over performed relative to expectations based on what I've seen from him in other debates.

I think Gavin Newsom underperformed because he didn't even manage to be fun evil

Kiano. He kind of turned into a slimy, disingenuous and kind of nasty lib politician so I mean for me it was a big

win for for uh... desantis just in terms of what it was

will it move the needle

for Iowa or anything?

I think probably not

but what we saw was

...