Hour 1 - Colbert is Not a Martyr
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into a dynamic mix of political analysis, media critique, and cultural commentary. The hour opens with President Trump’s live Oval Office meeting alongside the President of the Philippines, Bongbong Marcos, where Trump addresses military cooperation, missile defense, and the Russia collusion hoax, which he calls the “biggest scandal in history.” Trump also accuses former President Obama of treason and reiterates claims that the 2020 election was stolen, asserting he won in a “landslide.”
The hosts then pivot to Hunter Biden’s media presence, speculating on his potential political ambitions following a widely discussed interview. They debate whether Hunter sees himself as a political savior for the Biden family, drawing parallels to past political comebacks.
A major segment focuses on the collapse of late-night television, with sharp criticism of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon. The hosts highlight Colbert’s show reportedly losing $40 million annually, contrasting it with Greg Gutfeld’s success on Fox News. They argue that ideological bias, not profitability, drives decisions in mainstream media, likening late-night TV to the WNBA as a subsidized, failing enterprise.
The conversation also revisits the Breonna Taylor case, criticizing the DOJ’s sentencing of a police officer to nearly three years in prison despite his acquittal on state charges. The hosts frame this as a politically motivated response to BLM-era pressure.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:05.3 | Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now. |
| 0:10.5 | Appreciate you being with us. |
| 0:12.3 | A lot to dive into. |
| 0:13.9 | Right now, as we're talking to you, President Trump is speaking to the nation. |
| 0:18.6 | He is in the Oval Office. |
| 0:20.5 | He's doing a sit down with the President |
| 0:21.9 | of the Philippines, and they're covering a whole range of topics. And that is in real time |
| 0:28.9 | as I'm speaking to you, Trump right now, laying into the Russia hopes as the biggest scandal |
| 0:35.1 | in history. And we'll bring you some of the key sound bites |
| 0:39.3 | from this meeting also discussion from the president from our president |
| 0:44.1 | right there's the Philippine president there's president Trump sitting side by |
| 0:46.7 | side but of more cooperation military cooperation with the Philippines and |
| 0:53.3 | Trump saying we're going to have more |
| 0:54.8 | missiles than we've ever had before, slow missiles, fast missiles, big missiles, small missiles. |
| 1:00.5 | So we've got that to dive into, and we'll bring you some of it. |
| 1:05.2 | Hunter Biden, the interview he did is actually getting a lot of attention, and now Clay is not |
| 1:10.6 | the only person that I have heard who thinks that he might see a role for himself in politics. |
| 1:17.6 | I still, I just want to say, I still think this is crazy, but there's a little voice in my head that says, |
| 1:23.1 | oh my gosh, there's a small chance that Clay actually may be on to something with this one. |
| 1:28.0 | And I will be the crazy one for having missed it. |
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