Hour 1 - I Forgive You
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful and emotionally charged breakdown of the memorial event for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose recent assassination has galvanized the conservative movement.
Clay and Buck reflect on the massive turnout in Phoenix—nearly 90,000 attendees—and the impactful speeches delivered by Vice President JD Vance, President Donald Trump, Senior White House Advisor Steven Miller, and Charlie's widow, Erica Kirk, whose message of forgiveness and revival resonated deeply across the country.
Erica Kirk’s speech, delivered just 48 hours after her husband’s death, is highlighted as the most compelling moment of the day. Her biblical reference and refusal to incite violence underscore the conservative response to tragedy—marked by peace, unity, and spiritual renewal. Clay and Buck contrast this with leftist reactions to political violence, criticizing the media’s silence and the justification of riots as “the voice of the voiceless.”
The hosts also dive into broader political commentary, including California’s controversial law barring ICE agents from wearing masks, which they label “lawless” and contemptuous of immigration enforcement. They discuss the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by a trans-identifying individual, noting the lack of media coverage and accountability, and tying it to the leaked Roe v. Wade decision.
Kamala Harris’s new book becomes a focal point of debate. Buck pre-orders the memoir, promising to dissect its “score-settling” tone. The hosts mock its reception and suggest it as a punishment for fantasy football losers. They also speculate on Harris’s political future, with Stephen A. Smith declaring her career “over,” while Clay argues she may still run due to personal ambition and a perceived lack of alternatives. Gavin Newsom’s refusal to return Harris’s call during her campaign is cited as symbolic of intra-party rivalry.
Make sure you never miss a second of the show by subscribing to the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton show podcast wherever you get your podcasts! ihr.fm/3InlkL8
For the latest updates from Clay & Buck, visit our website https://www.clayandbuck.com/
Connect with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton:
FB - https://www.facebook.com/ClayandBuck/
IG - https://www.instagram.com/clayandbuck/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuck
Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/ClayandBuck
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@clayandbuck
Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuck
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome in. |
| 0:05.4 | We are rolling into the Monday edition of the Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. |
| 0:10.9 | We appreciate all of you. |
| 0:12.6 | I met a lot of you up in Michigan over the weekend, the great event at McAnaw Island for the Republican Party of Michigan. |
| 0:20.8 | We'll talk a little bit about that as we move along. |
| 0:24.7 | But Sunday taken over by the Charlie Kirk Memorial that I would venture to say almost all of you out there listening right now watched at least a part of if not substantial parts of i know |
| 0:39.2 | that many of you were among the 90 some odd thousand that were in that stadium or the overflow |
| 0:45.9 | crowd in the arena uh in the phoenix area and so i thought of course that we should start there |
| 0:54.0 | buck i'll bring you in right off the top here i watched full disclosure And so I thought, of course, that we should start there. |
| 0:56.2 | Buck, I'll bring you in right off the top here. |
| 1:03.8 | I watched full disclosure a lot of NFL football, as I also bet many of you did on Sunday. |
| 1:13.7 | But I wanted to make sure that I saw every minute of J.D. Vance, every minute of Erica Kirk, and every minute of Donald Trump as the keynotes for a day of memorial for Charlie Kirk. It was, I thought, an incredibly |
| 1:22.2 | well-done event. We've got several different cuts to play, but I imagine you also were watching a lot of |
| 1:29.6 | this during the course of your Sunday, perhaps unburdened by any concern about NFL football |
| 1:35.0 | as well. You might have had it on the entire day. You are accurate in your assumptions there. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah, Kerry in particular, I wanted to watch really almost the whole thing, I think. I mean, it was on for hours. I did a bit of babysitting, and so I wasn't able to give it my undivided attention because speed is adorable, but fussy sometimes. But I did get to watch. I watched... trump speech a watch erika's uh... speech |
| 2:01.8 | jadey vans stephen miller who i thought gave a |
| 2:05.4 | a in his own stephen miller way spectacular speech is very much a rallying cry |
| 2:09.7 | very much about |
| 2:11.6 | the fight for the future that charlie would want us all to |
| 2:15.2 | engage in and and stay focused on. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

