The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain. Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isaacson. He's the most successful self-made business person in America. A printer, a scientist, a founding father, but maybe not the guy we think we know.

Franklin cast his lot on the side of revolution, and it's another thing that splits the family apart.

We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain, Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isaacson.

His media empire makes him the most successful self-made business person in America.

He's got a brand new book out. You can do it. Speak your mind, America, Rob.

We're talking to Rob Schneider, his book is You Can Do It, Speak Your Mind, America, Rob.

Last season, we tackled the ingenuity of Elon Musk with biographer Walter Isaacson. This time, we're diving into the story of Benjamin Franklin, another genius who's desperate to be dusted off from history.

Listen to On Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacson on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

And we talk about it in the book, Last Line of Defense, and the censorship effort, Russiagate, all this nonsense, all the man hours been wrapped up in this political weaponization of the DOJ as opposed to fighting crime.

And one of the reasons why I wrote Last Line of Defense, which you can get on Amazon right now, is there is a tendency, guys, I think, to now that we're past the fever dream, the fever broke, I think, in November of 2024, this kind of crazy woke nonsense and the lawfare that was brought against President Trump to throw him in jail for the rest of his life.

And so while President Trump was out of power, we were able to kind of hold the line on a lot of this for the Calvary to arise.

And again, the story of The Last Line of Defense, which you can get on Amazon now, is about standing up, pushing back.

The Last Line of Defense, how to beat the left in court.

I talked about this five years ago in my first book, Make America Healthy Again. Adults are sick, but our kids are even sicker, and they're starting out getting sick younger and younger.

It's a step in the right direction. I wrote it in my book five years ago. I could have saved you some time and money of writing this little report thingy if you wanted to just read that, but it's okay.

Actor/director/producer and former SNL performer and writer, Rob Schneider, joins Clay and Buck to discuss Hollywood, politics and his new book, "You Can Do It! Speak Your Mind, America."

he's got a brand new book out you can do it speak your mind america rob let's start right here

the book is out encourage everybody to go check it out

i'm evan ratliff last season we tackled the ingenuity of elon musk with biographer walter isaacson this time we're diving into the story of Benjamin Franklin another genius who's desperate to be dusted off from history

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This American X-wife is a really popular book among a certain set of women. Okay, they all live in Brooklyn about how freeing divorces.

Lens, for example, spent much of her book detailing her struggle to get free but never feels she needs to define freedom.

I still uphold that for timelessness and entertainment value, Bram Stoker's Dracula is actually one of I think it's one of the greatest novels of all time, which I know people flip out about.

But I'm like, no, it's amazing. It's incredibly well written. And it created the whole vampire genre.

We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain. Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isaacson.

He's the most successful self-made business person in America. A printer, a scientist, founding father, but maybe not the guy we think we know.

We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain, but those experiments are the most important scientific discoveries of the time.

His media empire makes him the most successful self-made business person in America. I mean, he was never early to bed and early to rise type person.

His newest work, Young Zionist Voices, A New Generation Speaks Out, brings together the next generation of impassioned Jewish leaders.

It has 31 essays. All of them are written by people under the age of 30.

And we decided at that moment that the next book we would do would try to bring together some of these voices into a single volume. It's called Young Zionist Voices.

And it's a really, really fascinating collection that really is kind of the snapshot of a moment.

And we got to work on something that ended up being called Jewish Priorities, 65 Proposals for the Future of Our People, which contains within it essays where the audience is us as a collective, the totality of the Jewish people.

And it just came together as this really kind of amazing, beautiful collection that was scheduled to publish on October 23rd, 2023.

Take, for example, Dara Horne's People of Dead Jews. Okay. That was a book that just sprung up out of nowhere. Very well written, very well researched. But the most important thing was the title because the title just grabbed what so many people were already feeling.

The article is called The Case Against Fauci. So yes, it gets, you know, the kind of article that just gets passed around without anybody reading it. But it's actually a book review of Stephen Macedo and Francis Lee's scathing new book called In Covid's Wake, How Our Politics Failed Us.

much of In Covid's Wake feels convincing in no small part because Macedo and Lee are of the liberal data-driven tribe they critique.

What was his book, Clay? The most famous one that he did? Was he the... Game Change. He was Game Change, really? Oh, wow.

He was a co-author with Heilman. Okay, yes, yes. So that's right.

You wrote the best-selling book, Game Change, which turned into an entire movie and sold, I don't know, probably hundreds of thousands, if not a million copies or more.

What was his book, Clay? The most famous one that he did? Was he the... Game Change. He was Game Change. Really? Oh, wow.

Yeah, he was a co-author with Heilman. Okay. Yes, yes. So that's right.

you wrote the best-selling book uh Game Change which turned into an entire movie and sold i don't know probably hundreds of thousands if not a million copies or more

So I'm really excited to get right into this interview with the author of the new book, The Invisible Coup, Peter Schweitzer.

I mean, as I'm going through everything that you have been talking about, what you've written in this book, all of the connections that you've made between Mexico and China and immigration, I'm pretty stunned.

What I talk about in the book is weaponized migration, and what I mean by that is foreign actors, that can be governments like Mexico's and China, or groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, who are seeking to weaponize it, to use it as a tool to undermine the United States.

And so that is where what I want to get into now, because I think a lot of people are ignorant. I think if you are in leadership, you should not be. And obviously you were able to define this and find this. So it's not like it's hidden. It's not as if you cannot know this information. But there are people in leadership who clearly are acting as though this is no big deal.

So go get it. It's The Invisible Coup. How American elites and foreign powers use immigration as a weapon.

Oh, and his latest book is Created Equal, and it is out, just came out, I believe, in May.

I talk in my newest book, Created Equal, about the wealth gap that so many people talk about in this country, 5 to 10x, blacks to white.

And I talk about the media quite a bit in my new book, Created Equal, and the role that they have played.