Hour 3 - Riley Gaines vs. AOC
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In Hour 3 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, Clay and Buck deliver a dynamic mix of political analysis, cultural commentary, and personal anecdotes, with a spotlight on the booming Trump economy, escalating border security measures, and the intensifying clash over women’s sports and identity politics.
The hour opens with Clay celebrating record-breaking highs in the S&P 500, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ, crediting President Trump’s economic policies for the surge. He contrasts this with media narratives from earlier in the year that predicted economic collapse, emphasizing the disconnect between Wall Street performance and lingering ground-level effects from the Biden-era economy.
The hosts then pivot to Trump’s Asia tour, highlighting his meetings with leaders in Japan, South Korea, and potentially North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Trump’s comments aboard Air Force One spark speculation about a JD Vance–Marco Rubio unity ticket for 2028, with Clay and Buck debating the plausibility of Trump stepping aside while endorsing his successors.
A major segment features Trump’s challenge to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, mocking their intelligence and inviting them to take cognitive tests. Crockett fires back, accusing Trump of elitism and racial obsession, prompting Clay and Buck to critique the intellectual caliber of current congressional representatives across party lines.
The conversation shifts to fentanyl trafficking, with praise for the Trump administration’s aggressive military response to drug boats in international waters. Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends the policy, arguing that lethal force is justified against cartels poisoning Americans with counterfeit pills. Clay and Buck applaud the administration’s elite communicators, including Rubio and JD Vance, for articulating complex issues with clarity.
The hour also features an in-depth interview with Riley Gaines, who discusses her recent clash with AOC over women’s sports. Gaines shares her experience as a new mom, pushing back against cultural narratives that discourage young women from motherhood. She also responds to AOC’s dismissive comments about her athletic achievements, defending her fifth-place NCAA ranking and criticizing the left’s hypocrisy on women’s sports and fairness.
The segment ends with lighthearted banter about Clay’s upcoming Alcatraz swim challenge, Buck’s quest to hit a 100 mph tennis serve, and listener feedback from Michigan and Georgia. Riley humorously bets that Buck’s serve is more likely than Clay completing the swim, while Clay jokes about shark fears and training laps.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome back in our number three, Clay Travis Buck Sexton's show. |
| 0:09.7 | A lot of positive things. |
| 0:11.2 | I always try to make sure that I talk about the positivity as much as I possibly can. |
| 0:17.1 | We are continuing to set new all-time records. In fact, the S&P 500 new all-time record as I am speaking to you, |
| 0:27.2 | the Dow Jones Industrial Average new all-time record as I am speaking to you, and the NASDAQ, |
| 0:34.7 | new all-time record as I am speaking with you, all-time records. |
| 0:40.7 | For those of you out there that own stock in any way, pensions, 401Ks, individual stocks. |
| 0:48.2 | Chances are if you happen to go gander at your stock values, they have never been higher in your life. |
| 0:56.0 | And I do just want to continue to point it out that in April, you were told, oh, my goodness, |
| 1:02.9 | the stock market is collapsing. |
| 1:05.5 | Donald Trump has no idea what he's doing with the economy. |
| 1:09.1 | And the S&P 500 is up 2,000 points since then. |
| 1:15.5 | If you had bought stock back in April, you're up around 40% now on those stock purchases. |
| 1:24.3 | If you merely just held on to your existing stocks and just didn't even |
| 1:31.1 | pay attention to any of it, this year the S&P 500 is up right at 18% so far. You might say, |
| 1:39.3 | okay, well, Clay, how does that contextualize? On average, on average, the S&P 500 is going to be up around 9% on average some |
| 1:47.0 | years you might lose 20 some years you make make 20 uh but this year is a very good year so far for |
| 1:53.4 | stocks and we are at record highs so um i understand also those of you out there who say clay |
| 2:00.3 | man you don't know what you're talking about. |
| 2:01.8 | The economy's not as good on the ground as you're saying. I get it. And I think a lot of that is |
| 2:06.6 | still working through the disaster that was the Biden economy. In general, the stock market runs |
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