Hour 3 - What's Happening to the Culture?
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful blend of political analysis, cultural commentary, and audience engagement on the eve of pivotal elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia. With record-breaking voter turnout expected, the hosts emphasize the urgency of civic participation and preview the potential impact of key races, particularly the New York City mayoral contest featuring Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa.
The hour opens with reflections on voter motivation and turnout, drawing parallels to past elections where outsider candidates like Donald Trump and Barack Obama mobilized previously disengaged voters. Clay and Buck highlight polling data suggesting Mamdani may win due to vote-splitting between Cuomo and Sliwa, raising concerns about a far-left candidate potentially leading America’s largest city.
Cultural decay and low-trust societal behavior are central themes, illustrated by viral videos of Halloween “porch piracy,” where teens and even parents are caught on camera stealing entire bowls of candy. The hosts argue this behavior reflects a broader erosion of values, linking it to absent father figures and the inability to delay gratification—traits associated with long-term success. Clay connects this to his new book, Balls, which explores masculinity, responsibility, and the cultural challenges facing young men in America.
The show also addresses growing frustration with travel disruptions, including TSA delays and air traffic control issues, noting how these systemic failures are impacting everyday Americans. Clay shares a personal encounter with Trump aide Margo Martin at the Nashville airport, underscoring the real-world effects of government inefficiency.
In a fiery segment, the hosts tackle the controversy surrounding transgender access to women’s spaces and sports. They discuss a viral video of a woman banned from Gold’s Gym for objecting to a biological male in the women’s locker room, and a New York Post op-ed by a female soccer player advocating for sex-based sports divisions. The backlash from her teammates, who labeled her “racist” and “transphobic,” sparks a broader conversation about the Democratic Party’s stance on gender identity and its implications for women’s rights and safety.
Buck and Clay propose a provocative challenge: offering $100,000 to any biologically male soccer player who identifies as female and successfully joins a National Women’s Soccer League team. They argue this would expose the absurdity of current gender policies in sports and highlight the biological realities that are being ignored in favor of ideological conformity.
The hour closes with listener talkbacks, humorous banter about robe culture, Crocs fashion trends among teens, and a heartfelt farewell from Clay to his longtime neighborhood in Franklin, Tennessee. The hosts preview Election Day coverage, promising in-depth analysis of races in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome in our number three, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. |
| 0:09.5 | It is Election Eve in New York City, in New Jersey, in Virginia. |
| 0:15.3 | Vote, vote, vote. |
| 0:17.2 | New Jersey potentially going to come down to a Razor's Edge, Virginia, particularly A.G's race, |
| 0:23.9 | Razor Edge as we speak. Record potentially high turnout. We're going to talk to Ryan Gerdusky tomorrow, |
| 0:32.3 | Buck, on the program, which will be Election Day. But he tweeted yesterday, we very well may be hitting |
| 0:41.1 | more than two million votes by Tuesday night in New York City, the biggest mayoral election |
| 0:48.8 | in New York City history. So it makes it a little bit difficult to know exactly what is going to |
| 0:57.1 | happen because as you just heard Mark Simone talking with us, when you get into record high turnout, |
| 1:03.6 | motivation is high. There are a lot of people that haven't been polled. A lot of people, frankly, |
| 1:09.3 | that have not voted before. We've seen this in nationwide elections. Trump broughtlled a lot of people, frankly, that have not voted before. |
| 1:11.0 | We've seen this in nationwide elections. |
| 1:13.6 | Trump brought out a lot of people, frankly, that we didn't even know we're going to vote. |
| 1:19.5 | The same thing happened with Barack Obama when you go back to that election. |
| 1:25.8 | 2020, Joe Biden brought out a lot of people that may not even exist. you go back to that election. 2020. |
| 1:31.2 | Joe Biden brought out a lot of people that may not even exist because I think more and more, even Democrats are looking at the 81 million votes. |
| 1:37.1 | And they're saying, really? Really, 81 million? |
| 1:40.4 | But we want all of you to get out and vote New York, New Jersey, New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia. |
| 1:48.8 | And we will be breaking down all of that. |
| 1:51.9 | 800, 282, 282, 282, you can react to that. |
| 1:55.2 | I want to say something off the top here, Buck, as we are looking at these numbers. |
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