Extra: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Dec 16 2025
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Meet my friends, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton! If you love Verdict, the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show might also be in your audio wheelhouse. Politics, news analysis, and some pop culture and comedy thrown in too.
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I'm Getting a Bad Vibe
Updates on the Brown University shooting, where speculation grows about whether the attack was a politically motivated assassination targeting Ella Cook, a prominent conservative and College Republicans leader on one of the nation’s most left-wing campuses. Buck examines eyewitness reports suggesting the shooter yelled “Allahu Akbar,” raising questions about radical Islamic extremism and why authorities in Providence are withholding key details. He warns of political spin and compares this case to past incidents where officials obscured jihadist motives, such as the Pulse nightclub attack. Buck promotes his upcoming book Manufacturing Delusion, warning about the resurgence of radical Islam and the dangers of silencing truth under the guise of political correctness.
Bondi Beach Police Response
Buck explores the police response failures during the Bondi attack, highlighting video evidence of officers—particularly female officers—struggling to subdue armed attackers under restrictive use-of-force policies. Buck calls for an honest conversation about physical realities in law enforcement and the dangers of politically driven policing standards. Buck also investigates the attackers’ training links to jihadist networks in the southern Philippines, including ISIS affiliates like Abu Sayyaf and BIFF. He explains how these terror groups provide ideological indoctrination and tactical skills, drawing parallels to patterns seen in past plots against U.S. targets. This segment underscores the resurgence of radical Islam and the global spread of jihadist ideology.
The Lost Generation
In a major cultural segment, Buck highlights a Compact Magazine exposé on DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), arguing that DEI policies have derailed a generation of professionals, lowered standards in elite institutions, and degraded quality in media, publishing, and Hollywood. He explains how diversity hiring became an explicit, racially biased practice that sidelined meritocracy, resulting in declining creativity and institutional prestige.
Name that Terrorist Group
Buck explores the broader terrorism threat landscape, drawing on his experience as a former CIA Counterterrorism Center analyst. He argues that radical Islam remains a unique global security challenge, contrasting it with other religions and dismantling the narrative around “Islamophobia.” This segment includes a candid discussion on why media and political elites downplay Islamist violence while exaggerating right-wing extremism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | Whether you're lighting a candle on the menorah or placing baby Jesus in the Nativity, |
| 0:09.7 | we hope your holiday is full of grace, wonder, and love. |
| 0:12.5 | And maybe even a little snow. |
| 0:14.4 | Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from all of us at the Clay and Buck Show. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome and everybody to the Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. |
| 0:26.4 | It is just going to be me today. |
| 0:29.0 | And I'm sorry to say, you will pick it up in my voice. |
| 0:31.4 | I have a cold. |
| 0:32.5 | No surprise. |
| 0:33.8 | I stayed out till 10 p.m. one night, like a crazy minute. |
| 0:37.7 | 10 o'clock, Eastern nuts. |
| 0:40.0 | How can you do that, Buck? |
| 0:41.0 | Well, it was my Christmas party, but now I'm paying the price. |
| 0:43.9 | I have gotten the cold that has been ripping around Florida and I guess probably the whole East Coast. |
| 0:50.8 | And also, we have play out today because his uncle passed away. So he is going to his |
| 1:00.4 | uncle Kenneth, 84 years old, a Vietnam War vet, Clay's mother's brother, sadly passed away. It was |
| 1:09.7 | something that they knew was likely imminent, but it's always, always so difficult |
| 1:17.6 | when you lose a family member. |
| 1:18.8 | It's Clay's mom's only siblings. |
| 1:20.1 | So Clay is at the service today, and I am here helming the show solo as a result. |
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