Hour 1 - High Stakes Tennessee Showdown
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 1 kicks off with Clay and Buck recapping the Thanksgiving holiday, sharing personal anecdotes about family traditions, football, and travel during one of the busiest weekends of the year. From there, the conversation pivots to major breaking news and political developments shaping the national narrative.
The hosts lead with prayers for the West Virginia National Guardsman critically injured in a Washington, D.C. shooting and mourn the loss of a 20-year-old servicewoman. They highlight growing concerns about immigration and security failures tied to the Biden administration’s chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, emphasizing the need for stricter vetting of refugees.
A major focus of this hour is the high-stakes special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, where Republican candidate Matt Van Epps faces a well-funded Democratic challenger. Clay urges voter turnout, warning that Democrats are “playing with house money” to flip a deep-red district for narrative momentum ahead of the midterms. President Trump’s endorsement of Van Epps is featured, along with an analysis of why Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is campaigning in Nashville. The discussion underscores how even one seat could impact the GOP’s razor-thin majority.
Economic issues dominate the next segment, with gas prices hitting four-year lows, averaging around $3 per gallon nationally. Clay and Buck frame affordability as the defining issue for the 2026 elections, contrasting falling fuel costs with persistent inflation on other goods. They note how energy prices influence voter sentiment and political strategy.
International affairs also enter the mix, as the hosts examine reports of potential U.S. action against Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. They explore the geopolitical stakes, including oil production, regional stability, and the fight against narco-trafficking, while speculating on whether military intervention or diplomatic pressure is imminent.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome in Monday after Thanksgiving edition, probably some of you a little bit, a little bit, |
| 0:12.2 | maybe possibly, a little bit too much fun over the course of the holiday weekend. |
| 0:18.1 | I had an awesome time. |
| 0:19.5 | Buck had an awesome time. |
| 0:20.8 | We hope all of you did. |
| 0:22.8 | Traveled on the busiest travel days of the year and I thought everybody handled themselves |
| 0:28.4 | pretty well, at least based on the airports that I was in. I imagine Buck, you found the same to be |
| 0:34.5 | true. It did not appear that there was any sort of mass related issues when it came to travel with over 80 million of us projected to be on the road. |
| 0:45.3 | So I hope friends, family, and I was stunned how few people actually do play football on Thanksgiving Day. |
| 0:51.9 | I put up a poll on my own site. |
| 0:53.9 | Only 16% of people |
| 0:55.4 | join me and running around and playing a family Thanksgiving game. So a football game. |
| 1:01.0 | I watched a lot of football. That's pretty much all I did, Buck, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. |
| 1:05.4 | Did you watch any of the football at all? Did you see any games going on over the course of the weekend? Did your brothers or your dad kidnap you and hold you hostage in front of the football at all. Did you see any games going on over the course of the weekend? |
| 1:11.4 | Did your brothers or your dad kidnap you and hold you hostage in front of the television at any |
| 1:16.4 | point? I tried to turn on at one point when we were all in food coma. Some college football and my |
| 1:23.5 | family mocked me and said, you don't have to pretend, Buck. We'll just tell Clay that you watch some if he asks us. |
| 1:30.3 | And then we ended up, I think, turning on Bluey for my little nephew. |
| 1:35.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:35.9 | I've heard that's a killer show for all the kids out there. |
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