Hour 1 - Clay: Sorry, NY
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a fast-paced, politically charged discussion centered on breaking news, ideological battles, and cultural commentary. The hour opens with the Senate’s landmark vote to defund PBS and NPR, a conservative goal decades in the making. The hosts frame this as a generational shift in media accountability, pending final approval from the House.
A major focus of the hour is the rise of Zohran Mamdani, a New York City mayoral candidate whose far-left platform includes abolishing private property and implementing socialist economic reforms. Clay and Buck debate whether Republicans should strategically allow Mamdani to win, arguing that his radicalism could serve as a wake-up call for voters and galvanize GOP turnout in the 2026 midterms. They suggest that Democrats embracing Mamdani could backfire nationally, especially in swing districts.
The show features strong listener engagement, with calls and messages split between defending New York City and supporting Clay’s provocative idea of “sacrificing” NYC to expose Democratic extremism. The hosts also highlight Elizabeth Warren’s public distancing from Mamdani, interpreting it as a sign of internal Democratic discomfort with his ideology.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome in Thursday edition, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. |
| 0:09.0 | We appreciate all of you hanging out with us. |
| 0:12.2 | We've got an awesome show headed your way. |
| 0:14.7 | Some good news right off the top. |
| 0:17.0 | The Senate late, I guess it was early this morning or late last night, |
| 0:28.1 | depending on how you want to actually classify it, but they have voted to take the taxpayer money from PBS and NPR. |
| 0:31.3 | This is something that's been talked about for generations. |
| 0:33.2 | They actually have done it. |
| 0:42.6 | The House has to officially approve it, but I do think sometimes we can get lost in the generational change that is occurring in front of us. |
| 0:48.6 | Sometimes you get lost in obsessing about smaller things and missing the bigger picture. |
| 0:51.9 | So try to be cognizant of that on this program. |
| 0:53.6 | So let me give some good news right off the top. |
| 0:57.9 | They've been trying to do this. I just, just a fun Google search, July 1st, 2004. |
| 1:04.9 | The White House is one step closer to defunding public radio. So upset. That's 2004, everybody. We've been trying to do this since I was in college and Clay was working on his PhD. |
| 1:10.7 | I think this has actually been going on in the 70s and 80s. Since I was in college and Clay was working on his Ph.D. |
| 1:14.9 | I think this has actually been going on in the 70s and 80s. |
| 1:18.9 | I think Republicans have been saying, why are we funding this since the 70s? |
| 1:24.0 | I think it's legitimately older than many of the people who are listening to this program right now. |
| 1:25.6 | We are very close to that occurring. |
| 1:26.8 | Let me give you a little bit of a roadmap. |
| 1:31.4 | Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee, our friend's going to join us next hour. Also, |
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