The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton ShowHour 2 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show for Thursday, November 12, 2026, picks up where the first hour’s political coverage left off. Buck opens by encouraging listeners to follow the show hour by hour through the podcast and on YouTube. He also promotes the Clay and Buck Podcast Network, including Carol Markowitz, David Rutherford, Ryan Girdusky, and Steven Yates. Clay and Buck then trade stories about Buck’s first-ever college football game, an Alabama and Ole Miss matchup in Tuscaloosa in the fall of 2021, which leads into the first main topic.
The main story of Hour 2 is the viral Ole Miss video. Buck lays out the facts as reported: a Ring doorbell camera at an off-campus Oxford, Mississippi apartment captured three white female students walking past on the evening of Friday, November 6th. Two of them made monkey-like noises and chest-beating gestures at the camera, and the apartment is shared by three Black freshmen. The 13-second clip went viral on TikTok with tens of millions of views. Buck and Clay say the students have since withdrawn from the university and that one student’s family has received death threats. They play a clip of a CBS News interview in which the apartment residents say they have mixed feelings about the apology and still found the gestures hurtful. Clay and Buck argue the incident is being blown out of proportion. They point out that the students reportedly did the same thing at four doors, that there was no evidence they knew who lived inside, that the students apologized, and that no crime was committed. They call it an example of online mob culture and “woke” overreach, and Clay draws comparisons to other people who lost their careers over remarks seen as racially insensitive, including a PR executive, a Sacramento Kings announcer, and a tennis commentator.
The hosts use the story to criticize media coverage choices. Buck contrasts the Ole Miss story with the killing of 15-year-old Austin Payne of Albany, Georgia, who was shot to death on Halloween night. Buck says four suspects are in custody and argues the case got little national coverage, including from the New York Times. Clay adds a comparison to a Texas track meet stabbing, arguing it received different treatment from the justice system. The hosts say that what a news organization chooses to cover reveals its motives. Callers weigh in on the Sacramento announcer’s later career, and a South Carolina caller says Austin Payne is already being disparaged on social media.
The hour’s major interview is with Ben Ferguson, host of The Verdict podcast and a former CNN contributor, who has been reported as a finalist for White House press secretary. Ferguson says he has not spoken with President Trump directly. He argues that Democrats have “declared war” on the president and his cabinet, and that the choice of Stephen Miller as chief of staff signals a war footing. He says he would bring the combative style he learned in his seven years at CNN to the briefing room. He and Clay also discuss falling murder rates, with Clay noting Nashville’s murder rate is down 37.5 percent and Ferguson saying Memphis is down more than 40 percent. Ferguson credits President Trump’s crime policy, deportations, and the National Guard deployment in Memphis, and he describes being a victim of gun crime in Memphis and shooting back.
Ferguson also gives his read on the Texas election results. He says Texas remains a conservative state but that Republican voters, frustrated over unmet promises on the border and deportations, along with high diesel prices, tariffs, and fertilizer costs, either voted Democratic or stayed home. He says Republicans lost the governor’s office, the lieutenant governorship, and a Senate seat to James Talarico, and that Senator Ted Cruz has opened an Austin office to help rebuild the party. He talks about waiting for a possible call from the White House, including a funny story about a friend who blocked his number and pranked him by pretending to be the president. Clay says he has told the president Ferguson would be a great press secretary and stresses that the reports of Ferguson’s candidacy come from others.
Hour 2 closes by returning to the Nvidia and Jensen Huang story. Clay asks Buck, a former CIA analyst, whether China could have leaked news of a relationship with an alleged Chinese spy just to cost Huang his job and weaken American AI. Buck says it is possible and fits how China’s Ministry of State Security operates, but stresses there is no reporting to support it yet. He adds that the Nvidia board may know more than the public does, possibly through information from the government. He frames the situation as a high-stakes AI race with China, with trillions of dollars at stake. The hosts joke that top executives will now be wary of potential honeypot schemes, then tee up the final hour.
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