Hour 1 - Who Do You Trust?
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In Hour 1 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, Clay Travis dives into the latest political and cultural flashpoints dominating the news cycle. The ongoing government shutdown, now in its second day, which Clay calls the “Schumer Shutdown”, driven by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s fear of a progressive primary challenge from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). Clay predicts AOC will run for president in 2028 and possibly pivot to challenge Schumer for his Senate seat if her White House bid falters. He even speculates on a Gavin Newsom–AOC ticket as the likely Democratic pairing for 2028.
The discussion then shifts to a Gallup poll revealing trust in media has plummeted to a record low of just 28%, compared to over 70% in 1980. Clay explores why Americans no longer trust legacy media, citing misinformation during COVID-19 and the Russia collusion narrative. He challenges listeners to share which media figures they still trust, emphasizing the difference between agreeing with someone’s opinion and trusting their factual accuracy.
Clay also breaks down the controversy over illegal immigrants receiving healthcare benefits in the Democrats’ continuing resolution. While Democrats claim federal funds aren’t directly paying for undocumented healthcare, Clay explains how federal dollars flow to states like California, New York, and Illinois, which then allocate funds for these services. He ties this to COVID-era spending that Democrats want to make permanent, warning that these embedded costs are fueling the shutdown fight.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.6 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 0:26.6 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, in the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.6 | People ask us all the time how we can save the next generation. |
| 0:38.4 | We've got our show and the info is an antidote, but we also have a couple books coming out, Clay. |
| 0:43.5 | That's right. And you can pre-order both of them right now and be book nerds just like us. |
| 0:48.5 | You'll laugh, you'll nod, and you'll get smarter too. |
| 0:51.4 | Mine's called balls, how Trump, young men in sports saved America. |
| 0:55.3 | And mine is manufacturing delusion, how the left uses brainwashing, |
| 0:59.0 | indoctrination, and propaganda against you. |
| 1:01.9 | Both are great reads. |
| 1:03.3 | One might even say they would make fabulous gifts. |
| 1:06.5 | Indeed. |
| 1:07.2 | So do us a solid and pre-order yours on Amazon today. |
| 1:11.5 | Welcome in Thursday edition, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show. I hope all of you are having fantastic starts to your day so far. |
| 1:22.1 | Buck is still in Taiwan. He interviewed the president of Taiwan today. He'll play some of that for you on Monday when he is back stateside. That picture is up. He will be back with you on Monday. I've got you for today and tomorrow solo. We got a lot to dive into. Shutdown has hit day two. I think many of you out there are |
| 1:49.3 | relatively unimpacted and also unimpressed with the battle that is currently underway, the |
| 1:56.9 | Schumer shutdown. We'll dive into some of those details. Stephen Miller from the White House |
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