Hour 3 - Border, Crime, and the Culture War
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the hosts dive into a dynamic mix of political commentary, cultural analysis, and audience engagement. The segment opens with lighthearted coverage of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement, which Clay argues is a culturally significant moment that reflects traditional values like marriage and family. He suggests Swift’s influence could inspire younger generations to embrace the nuclear family, despite her left-leaning political endorsements. This leads to a broader discussion on the intersection of pop culture and politics, with Clay asserting that “politics is downstream from culture,” while Buck counters that Trump has reversed that dynamic.
The hour’s political core centers on President Trump’s 2025 pivot to crime reduction as a key campaign issue. The hosts highlight Trump’s deployment of federal resources to Washington, D.C., and his calls to expand efforts to other high-crime blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore. They emphasize Trump’s success in reducing violent crime, securing the border, and stabilizing the economy—framing it all under the “EBC” strategy: Economy, Border, Crime. Trump’s critics, they argue, are more concerned with opposing him than solving real problems, even accusing him of “lowering crime too fast.” The hosts also touch on Trump’s stance against transgender athletes in women’s sports, citing overwhelming public support for his position.
Throughout the segment, Clay and Buck engage with listener feedback—some supportive, others dismissive—about the Swift-Kelce engagement and its cultural relevance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. |
| 0:08.7 | Appreciate all of you hanging out with the true love edition of the program as Buck has just |
| 0:15.1 | been glowing with the news coming down that Taylor Swift and her football playing boyfriend Travis Kelsey have become engaged. |
| 0:24.1 | Oh, true love wins again. |
| 0:26.7 | We are running through a bunch of different stories out there. |
| 0:31.2 | The ongoing battle of Trump deploying resources to Washington, D.C., crime coming down, the discussion about whether it should also happen in Chicago, Baltimore, potentially other New York City, I think he even mentioned, potentially other blue cities out there. |
| 0:49.4 | This is going to continue to be the battle as Trump has made. |
| 0:54.2 | Is it fair to say, Buck, the story of the summer 2025, what he is trying to do when it |
| 1:00.7 | comes to violent crime? |
| 1:02.0 | I think it's fair to say that given that the tariff panic appears to be over, we have |
| 1:08.5 | set all-time record highs in the stock market this summer. |
| 1:12.0 | Given that the border is completely shut down, I said, and I think you signed off on this for |
| 1:19.1 | years, that the election was as easy as the EBC, economy, border, crime. The border is secure. |
| 1:28.7 | Now, we're going through the process of deporting many different illegals that were here, |
| 1:34.6 | but that scenario of the border being wide open and millions of illegals continuing to flood in as occurred under Joe Biden. |
| 1:43.2 | That's solved. |
| 1:45.4 | Trump has solved much of the border crisis. Crime is the economy with the tariffs now basically agreed to with the big |
| 1:53.2 | beautiful bill passed, which locked in the Trump tax cuts for the next decade plus. The economy, |
| 2:00.0 | I think, is on very sound footing and continuing to get better. |
| 2:03.9 | And Trump has now pivoted his attention to a large degree to crime. |
| 2:08.6 | And he's managed to do the impossible. |
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