Hour 2 - Bench Press Politics
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 2 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives deep into the Democratic Party’s branding crisis, voter registration trends, and cultural disconnect with young male voters. Clay and Buck analyze three key upcoming elections—Virginia, New Jersey, and the New York City mayoral race—highlighting Zoran Mamdani’s rise and the symbolic implications of his physical weakness, including his inability to bench press 135 pounds. This moment becomes a metaphor for the Democratic Party’s broader failure to resonate with average American men.
The hosts explore how masculinity, strength, and testosterone levels correlate with political affiliation, arguing that higher physical fitness and traditional masculine traits align more closely with Republican values. They cite voter registration gains for the GOP in swing states like Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, framing it as a cultural shift driven by disillusionment with progressive ideology.
Clay and Buck also dissect the Democratic Party’s embrace of victimhood narratives, lack of competitiveness, and suppression of masculine virtues like courage and bravery. They critique Gavin Newsom’s image strategy and contrast it with Vice President JD Vance’s perceived authenticity and strength. Listener call-ins reinforce the theme, with anecdotes about gym culture, strength benchmarks, and generational perspectives on masculinity.
The hour closes with commentary on the newly released Ghislaine Maxwell transcript, questioning her credibility and the origins of Jeffrey Epstein’s wealth. The hosts suggest strategic motives behind Maxwell’s statements and discuss the Trump administration’s push for transparency in the case.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome back in hour number two, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show Monday edition. |
| 0:10.0 | What to encourage you, go subscribe to the show, wherever you may spend your time on social media. |
| 0:18.9 | We have a great and thriving YouTube channel, but we are on Instagram. |
| 0:26.0 | We are on TikTok. |
| 0:27.8 | We are on Twitter slash X. |
| 0:30.7 | We are on truth social. |
| 0:32.7 | Basically, if there is a social media outlet, we have got a good audience that you guys have joined up with us. |
| 0:42.4 | There, we're also individually everywhere. |
| 0:45.5 | Clay Travis, Buck Sexton, search us out soon. |
| 0:50.2 | We hope to have all three hours of video available on YouTube, Rumble, wherever else people go to watch video, and that hopefully will be sometime after the first of the year. |
| 1:03.5 | But in the meantime, we are coming up on the end of summer, and the Democrat Party is not doing itself any favors. |
| 1:12.7 | We have, what I would say is I think you'd probably sign off on this buck as we get close to Labor Day being officially upon us. |
| 1:21.4 | Three major elections to kind of pay attention to. |
| 1:25.7 | We've got the governor of Virginia. We've got the governor of Virginia. |
| 1:28.6 | We've got the governor of New Jersey. |
| 1:31.1 | Both of those are traditionally, I think it's fair to say now, |
| 1:34.8 | blue states. |
| 1:36.0 | We'll see how Republicans are able to battle there. |
| 1:40.4 | And then we have the New York City mayor's race, |
| 1:43.7 | where Zoran Mamdami is mom |
| 1:46.7 | Donnie is the Democrat nominee you still got Andrew Cuomo in you still got Eric Adams in |
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