November 23, 2022 • 37 mins
Happy Thanksgiving eve! Clay and Buck discuss their favorite Thanksgiving meals, games, and traditions. Clay reflects, "We are fans of you and all you've allowed us to do all year... We are thankful for all of you." D.C. public schools require negative covid tests after Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Buck says, "Are you just going to create a forever covid emergency and let it go on forever?" Exposing government lies: Washington Post: Vaccinated people now make up a majority of covid deaths. It’s no longer a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Ice Cube says -- quite animatedly in our sound bite -- he turned down $9 million for a movie over his refusal to get the covid shot. CNN panel questions "non-binary" gender claim of Club Q shooter. Clay says, "If you call a defendant 'they,' many jurors may think there was more than one person that was involved."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. It's
Thanksgiving Eve. We are thankful for all of you and
appreciate the fact that you are spending your Thanksgiving Eve
with us. We know that many of you may be
listening as you are driving or flying across the country,
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maybe even around the world, and we certainly appreciate all
of you for hanging out with us, and we are
fans of you and everything that you guys have allowed
us to do so far this year. So Buck and
I both very thankful for all of you and want
you to be safe while you are traveling around the country.
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I've seen some photos and videos from airports all over
the country and it's really kind of crazy to see
how many of you are out and about. Buck is
in New York, I am in Nashville. We'll be celebrating
with our families close to home, and we can't wait
to be able to do that. So we've got a
lot to dive into. I'm gonna open up phone lines
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have a fun time with you guys on Thanksgiving Eve.
Here eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
If you want to react to us. We're going to
head out to Qatar, and I believe that is the
official pronunciation that Fox has decided on. Buck. I mean,
for the Arabic speakers out there, it's cutter. But we're Americans,
so we call things whatever we want. It's not the
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University of Madame, it is Notre Dame. Same idea. They
had a full article, I think on in the New
York Times that I read in the last couple of
days about how the pronunciation of the country there's like
seven or eight different ways to pronounce it, depending on
what angle you go with. But we are going to Doha,
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which is the capital of Qatar, and we will talk
to Alexei Wallace, who is a Fox soccer analyst in
advance of what should be a really fun Friday. I
know many of you will be watching a lot of
sports Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday as you eat your turkey kickback.
I actually Buck just came from my kids and a
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bunch of other neighborhood kids in a mass football game. Uh.
They are all out of school and first thing they
want to do. Uh my eight year old, my twelve
year old, and my fourteen year old are all a
part of the same game, big game breaking out. I'm
sure many of your kids are out. Hopefully they're running
around and having a fantastic time. So I have cousins
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who had a you know, I grew up right in
the middle of Manhattan, Like I lived right in the
concrete jungle right in New York City, and we would
go out. I had cousins that had a big place,
like a house, like how people live in houses. Yeah,
you're still stunned by how people live in houses. Yeah,
yeah they were. They had a yard. Yeah, and there
they were. There were not like h like like fifteen
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or twenty floors of people living above and low them.
It just had a and you know, they had a
big dog. But we used to remember we would play
basketball and even throw a football around, but we would
have to wear a jacket and tie for Thanksgiving and
Christmas as a family of the little kids. Do you
remember the days when you could just go out there,
no stretching, no, you know, you know. Now I'm like, oh, man,
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I need like like four minutes of like self shiatsu
on my lower back before I could even pick something
up off the ground. Back then, man, I have Thanksgiving
my cousins. We are all the same age. Basically throw
around football's play four on four basketball. It was America. Yeah.
And you know what's funny, I bet we have a
lot of people who work in hospitals for Thanksgiving. And
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first of all, we appreciate everybody who doesn't get Thanksgiving
off and has to work. We know that as many
of you out there listening to us right now keeping
the country running. But the amount of people who come
in with Thanksgiving family football injuries very often older guys
who's hand strings give out. Maybe the ACL doesn't stretch
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as well as it used to. Massive numbers of injuries
such that Buck I told my boys, I was like, hey,
when we finished the show today, I'll get back out.
We'll play some football. It's like sixty five degrees here
in Nashville, perfect day. But I said, Dad is all
time quarterback. Only only thing I'm risking is the shoulder.
I'm not getting out trying to run routes. I'm certainly
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not trying to keep up with my kids and chase
them down and get the two hand touch tags on.
So Dad is like a hired gunman, just stands there
with the old school, old school quarterback, all time QB
both sides and gets blamed anytime he throws an interception
or doesn't make a perfect throw by every kid on
the field who is always always judging the QB. So
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that is what's going on here. You came out. We
kind of live in a utopian like kids run around.
It's like goonies every day in this neighborhood. And so
I know many of you will be gearing up for
those games, and I hope again as I mentioned, I
know many of you are in your cars right now,
traveling to see the grandparents, traveling to see the kids
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on the roads. A few more million in the planes
and a couple of million on the buses and the trains.
I mean, people are moving. This is the first Thanksgiving
that we've had where you'll have about as many people
going as prep you know, pre pandemic era. Would you
prefer to travel on Thanksgiving or just stay home? What's
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your preferred Now? You're just getting married, so the family
dynamic can alter whether you want to travel or stay
home for the last solo with my family Thanksgiving that
I will have and Carrie is with her family, and
then we're gonna have to do the clay. You're gonna
have to advise me on this. Clay is going to
be marriage consolieri. You know we'd be like Clay in
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DoD we break down Christmas Thanksgiving? Is that a one
package of the two different things? Do you go all
in one one year? What about New Year's? You know,
I gotta work all these things out. It makes a
big difference. And I know those of you out there
traveling right now, once you add kids to the to
the travel routine, it makes a big difference because kind
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of easy to go back home when it's just you
and the wife or just you and the girlfriend or
whatever else. But when you start adding in multiple little
people and their schedules, it gets way more complicated. Yes,
And I also will tell you I mentioned this because
I flew back into New York today. I'm here in
New York City Midtown, and there were a lot of
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people that were wearing masks, which is unsurprised. I'm gonna
say a lot, maybe ten percent, I'd say ten percent
of the flight, which demeans. But I've also noticed that
there are now people who really get into like the
N ninety five mask with the two rubber straps. I
saw at least four or five people with this where
it is so tightly affixed to their head that you
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can see the line of the rubber and the back
of their scalp and kind of a you know, like
like they're it almost looks like a form of self asphyxiation.
And I feel very sorry for these people because clearly
there's there's something wrong here. And this also brings us
to why we we were both I mean, I don't
know if anything was getting us more fired up yesterday
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on the political scene, for sure than the Fauci because
he's if he came out and said that it was
it really is, guys, you really don't have to do
this stuff anymore. But I won't even at this point, Clay,
I won't even demand that he admit he was wrong
about everything, that he's horrible, he's an evil smurf. He's
the worst bureaucrat in the history of the country. I
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won't even get into it. He could just come out
now and say you don't have to do this craziness anymore,
and I would at least give him a little bit
of credit for not making people suffer through this madness. Anymore.
I'm telling you a lot of people walking around in
New York still with masks on. And you know what, Buck,
that's such a good point, because this is his final
public event. If he had any semblance of the sincy,
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he would have come out and said, hey, you know what,
we are very fortunate now in the third Thanksgiving. This
is the third Thanksgiving since COVID hit. You really don't need,
if you analyze your risk factors, to be wearing masks
to Thanksgiving dinner. You really don't need to be doing testing.
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You can get back to two thousand nineteen era Thanksgiving.
You if you're sick and you don't feel well, hey,
don't go to Thanksgiving. I just got a text message
my brother in law and my niece. They have the flu.
Probably not going to hang out with them, just like
you wouldn't have for the last twenty or thirty years
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of your life. Somebody's sick, you say, okay, we'll change plans.
But if you feel well, you don't need to change
your behavior, just like you would have done back in
two nineteen. Buck, this was his opportunity to in some
way declare victory and embrace a return to normalcy. He
didn't do it, and as a result, the twenty five
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or twenty percent or thirty percent of broken brains out there,
they're never going to go back to. So I also
want to point out that DC, which is a political
echo chamber monoculture. I mean, there's DC is ninety five percent.
I think it is now officially more democrat than San Francisco,
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just to our nation's capital. Everybody more left wing, more
Democrat heavy even than San Francisco. It might be within
one or two percentage points of each other. Maybe they're
maybe San fran has a point or two one it,
but they're right alongside each other. Okay, and we've all thought,
you know, San Francisco is the most you know, the
most left wing major city in America for a long time, Clay,
the DC public schools are requiring negative COVID tests for
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people to return after Thanksgiving. Yeah, so I saw this
first of all, what a massive waste of time and resources.
And I guess the idea here is, oh, we're going
to test you after Thanksgiving because that's so much more
dangerous for COVID spread than everyone just living their lives
and getting COVID all the time, which is happening anyway,
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then this would be like it would be like saying
you're not allowed to come back to school until we
give you a test for the cold common cold and
you say, okay, but I'm probably gonna get a cold
in two weeks or you know, you can't stop this.
So what is this even doing at this point? But
I think this has become These have now become rituals
of the Democrat apparatus. This has become a thing that
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people do because it makes them feel good, the same
way that no one really thinks that Florida is going
to fall into the ocean because of climate change and
that recycling is really saving anything. But they do it because,
you know, it's a ritual. It's like a religious ritual.
You gonna make you feel good for people now, super
tight and ninety five masks and totally unnecessary testing for
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COVID is also a ritual. You know. I'm glad you
brought that up too. I'm reading right now, right before
we came on the show, I couldn't believe that this
is out there. But Washington Post headline, We've been telling
people this for quite some time. Vaccinated people now make
up a majority of COVID deaths subheadline, it's no longer
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a pandemic of the unvaccinated. I'm reading from the Washington
Post for the first time, a majority of Americans dying
from coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.
Fifty eight percent of coronavirus death in August were people
who were vaccinated or boosted. This is pretty it's pretty significant.
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And so again we've been telling you this was the
case for some time. But when you had a she'sh
jaw yesterday at the White House saying, hey, if you
get your COVID booster, you won't die of COVID, that's
a lie. Even the Washington Post now saying, and this
was back in August. I'm sure the numbers are even
(12:02):
more substantial now, unfortunately, and we should mention many of
these people are dying with COVID. They are wildly unhealthy.
You're dying with three four comorbidities along the way, and
COVID is one of them. It's not at COVID exclusively,
but it does continue to puncture this public health argument
they've made where if you get the COVID shot or
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you get your boosters, it's just a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
It's not true. Well, it hasn't been true for a
long time. And what you're going to see is they
just slow roll the data and the analysis of it
and the distribution of the obvious facts or the obvious
conclusions that come from all of this, until it is
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more palatable to their audience. Right, the Washington Post could
have said this six months ago. Correct their whole thing about, Oh,
it's it's for the first time. That's not true. That
hasn't been true in a lot of places across the
country since last winter when the pandemic was having yet
another phase. And first of all, it's not even a
pandemic anymore unless clay excuse me, sir, unless it comes
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to like emergency powers and maybe student loans. Yeah away
then and then apparently it's an emergency forever, which we
should talk about. So talking about this one just just
differ in the loans again, you know, tens of billions
of dollars because Biden feels like it, folks, We're thankful
for a lot, but the poor governance of the Biden
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Buck Sexton, Welcome back to Clay and bucked. You know,
there are people out there who took big stands against
swell the vaccine mandate, of course, and people took a
(14:57):
stand against masking at different times all this stuff. But
there were some surprises I think along the way, people
like uh, people like Novak Djokovic, who is probably the
best tennis player in the world today very much refused
to get the vaccine, even at the cost of not
being able to compete in the Australian Open, and that
(15:17):
whole kerfuffle. Um. There was also Kyrie Irving of the Nets,
the NBA player Clay is nodding as I go along here,
Yes right yer, yes, yes, thank you, thank you, a
very excellent guard on the on the Brooklyn Nets team
of basketball. And then there was also someone who I
(15:38):
think most of us know better from his work really
back in in the nineties. But um ice Cube says
that he turned down nine million dollars because he refused
to get the COVID shot. Let's hear from mister Cube.
I turned down a movie because I don't want to
get the more jab you know, turned down nine million
(15:59):
because I didn't want to get Yeah that jab. J'all
for trying to make me get it. So you know,
I don't know how Holly will feel about me right now?
You know what I'm saying now, Clay, Well, we may
have less use less salty language in our discussions about
the JAB. Mister Cube does have a point here, which
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is that they were very aggressive about trying to make people,
especially in media and Hollywood, get the shot, which now
we all understand it. Not only does it not stop,
the spread doesn't really work very well, if at all,
if at all, if at all, And there are I
think increasingly a lot of free thinkers out there that
looked at the data, and they can be from a
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variety of backgrounds. Right, I don't know what Novak Djokovic,
Ice Cube, Kyrie Irving and Aaron Rodgers all four, and
Clay Travis for that matter, all five of us have
in common at all. Right, most of those guys I
don't know at all, as few of them I know
a little bit. But for us to all come to
the same conclusion on the COVID shot, I think, again,
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from wildly different backgrounds with different professions. I think it's
been totally under a disgust, how diverse and h and
totally from different worlds. Many of the people who reach
the same conclusion have come from And we were just
talking about. Suddenly the Washington Post having to acknowledge. Hey,
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remember last winter, Buck, they made a big deal it's
winter of death. It's a pandemic of the vaccinated. No, no, no,
the unvaccinated. Now the Washington Post is saying, actually, vaccinated
people are more likely to be dying. Now. To be fair,
there are more people who have gotten a shot than
not in the United States, so the percentages are out there.
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But yet afraid. Yeah, what do doctor jos said yesterday?
We can eliminate basically all deaths if people get the
booster shots. That's not true. It's just a lot lie.
So how can you expect people to continue to go
forward to listen to these clowns. You can't. And I
give credit to ice Cube for joining the ranks of
those who are willing to publicly condemn this shot. Look
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As I continue to say, we are very thankful for
all of you and hope that you and your families
have fantastic Thanksgivings and travel safely to wherever you may
be going to meet with those friends and family. We
talked some about the shooting out in Colorado and the
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immediate way that it was politicized. Everybody out there decided, oh,
the right wingers are to blame for this shooting that
took place at a gay club. And again, credit to
the people in that club who managed to keep that
shooting continuing. There are many heroes there. But if you
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turned on CNN, if you turned on MSNBC, if you
read the New York Times, the Washington Post, the usual
suspects in pr they all said, oh, Fox News is
to blame. Conservative talk radio is to blame right wing
influential figures have blood on their hands. Then something interesting
happened late last evening. I was sitting around watching the
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newest version of The Santa Claus. Buck, my boys are obsessed.
You watch The Santa Claus back in the day, that
Tim Allen Santa Claus based movie? Or was that after
your time? You're really putting me on the spot here, chief,
I have never seen The Santa Claus. Should I see
this movie? Save it for the kids. When you and
Carrie have kids, they will probably love The Santa Claus.
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Tim Allen spoiler alert is Santa Claus And there's a
new Disney Plus special that's out with Tim Allen where
they're counting down till Christmas. I know it's the day
before Thanksgiving, but my boys are obsessed with Christmas already.
What is the well, you know what, we'll come after
Christmas movies and Thanksgiving movies later. So I'm watching this. Yeah,
we'll talk about it in a second, but I'm watching
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this when out of nowhere on my phone pops up
a news alert, and that news alert lets me know
that the shooter is actually in the court filings claiming
to be transgender. Here is CNN cut twenty reacting to
the news late last evening that oh, wait a minute,
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the shooter might not have been some Tucker Carlson watching
maga enthusiast Donald Trump supporter might have actually been also transgender. Listen.
Attorneys for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, say in
new court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as
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non binary. In a footnote to emotion as certain legal privileges,
the public defenders say quote Anderson Aldrich is non minary.
They use they them pronouns, and for the purposes of
all formal filings will be addressed as mix Aldrich. So
know there was not mister or miss I don't know
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what to say about that. I mean, that's not anything
that we had heard from his background. People have been
looking into his background, and I don't know if anybody
here are you guys lawyers? I mean, you know, I
don't know if I don't know what to say about that.
I mean, that's what he's now saying. I also, okay,
a few things here, And one is I believe the
individual here is considered non binary, not transgender, right, meaning
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in between. It's not someone who is going from female
to male. But believe may be right about that. I don't,
so I get a confused on this term. Everybody gets,
you know, what is non binary versus trying So non
binary means neither quite fully on the female side of
the spectrum or the male side of the spectrum. CIS
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gender would be if you were one or the other,
also known as gender if you're male or email that
assists gender. Non binary is you're in some middle ground
between the two genders. So a couple of interesting things
that this brings up. I mean, one is just and
look I understand right, I mean I even saw people saying,
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you know, well we shouldn't. This isn't like some kind
of a gotcha moment. Hold on a second. People on
the right were the ones who were saying, including you
and me, what happened in Colorado Springs is horrific. We
should come together and grieve as a community. We should
so support to the human beings, the men and women
and LGBTQ individuals who are there. The army veteran who
took down the shooters should be praised for being a hero.
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That's how we wanted to talk about this and cover
this incident. And if there's something there were by the
way red flag laws in Colorado didn't stop this individual.
There are some security and procedural issues to discuss to
try to prevent such a horrific thing from happening in
the future. We're not going to stop all of these
as we know, but we can talk about how we
might be able to stop it and discuss that in
a serious and sober minded way. It was the Democrat
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who were saying this is Lauren Bobert's fault. It was
the Democrats who were saying, this is Tucker Carlson's fault.
They did this right away. And so you know, if
you are at a you know, if you're at a funeral,
and someone yells at you that you are responsible for
the death of the person that is being mourned. You're
going to defend yourself, right, You're gonna say I didn't
do you know? So, I think it creates this unfair
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standard word. Now we're being told, hey, guys, let's not
you know, well, let's focus on the issues at hand
here or not get too deep into the pushback to
the media. No, I'm sorry. They weaponized the narrative. It
was wrong. They jumped to a conclusion that fit there,
and they slandered people. And now it was fascinating. You
might have seen this clan social media. Initially it was well,
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clearly this person aldrich clue, this person is just doing
this as some kind of a troll of the court
or defense. Yeah yeah, or some kind of defense. Not true.
This individual wanted to change his name at the age
of sixteen. This stretches back four years. This was not
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something that just that just they stumbled a pawn in
this moment. And I also think it raises issues why
should the court accede to this? Why should mean as
far as the court is concerned, there are men, there
are women. There are differences in law that affect men
and women, and the claim that somebody has to be
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referred to by different pronouns, in fact, plural pronouns. I
really mean this. The New York Times has even had
this discussion in the past. Using plural pronouns is grammatically
incorrect and confusing. Yes, and in a court situation, to
be confusing the jury with plural pronouns when an individual
committed a heinous act is confusing. If I were, let
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me give it a sorry. I'm just obviously fired about this, Clay,
if I were accused of a serious crime and I
kept saying, you can't refer to me as as the
as the defendant. You have to refer to me as
the victim, because that's how I identify. I identify as
a victim. You say, well, no, of course not. That's
going to confuse the jury. You don't get to make
up the language that other people in a court of
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law use to discuss a legal proceeding. I'm so I
got big problems with that. No, I think you're a
one hundred percent righte about this. And from a legal perspective,
you can imagine how the jury could be confused in
a big way. It's actually a tremendous advantage to the
defendant because every time you refer to the defendant, if
you say they, it makes people think that more than
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one person was involved in a crime. Right, So if
you say they did this shooting, then my initial response
is like, who are the shooterers? Plural directly, and I'm
sure most people sitting on a jury would be. And also,
if you're reading the transcripts as a lawyer, which I
used to have to do, when you're using a plural,
you are constantly thinking in your head, Okay, wait a minute,
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did I miss something here? Is this multiple people who
were involved? Is this one person who was involved? All
of it crazy? And I think it also ties in
with what we said on this program, which is this
is unfortunately just further evidence of the mental illness that
I believe is likely involved in the behavior of this shooter.
That's another issue that I have from from a pure
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legal and justice system perspective on this one. Every time
to your point, Clay, yes it could be they, so
were there multiple shooters? It's confusing, as you just discussed,
absolutely true, but also it raises this this idea that
there is perhaps a collective responsibility they you know they
did this terrible thing, but you know they have a
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long history. Well who is they exactly right? This it
diffuses responsibility for the individual the individual acts, and I
would say even you know, in some ways is also
a stealth I'm just gonna say it, a stealth mental
health defense. The jury is going to be hearing all
the time about this, about this person who insists on
being called they if I'm a jury, I'm if I'm
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a juror I'm sitting there saying, okay, this person is
mentally unbalanced. That's what's going to happen. So it's a
way of introducing a sort of insanity defense without actually
doing that because the person also what was it, what
was the preferred not mister or missus, but MX MX
M M right. No, I know I'm saying, I don't
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even know how you pronounce it. What I mean, you know,
if I want to do a court of law and
I and I wanted them to refer to me at
you know, everyone knows we could all fill in the
blanks here. It's this is crazy stuff that's going on.
But also the fact that they lied about this right
away and put this on specific individuals. I'm just gonna
say this, AOC. Wasn't she the one who called out Yeah, AOC,
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if she has a shred of honor or integrity, should
publicly apologize to Congresswoman Boberg. This is not just a
political part, is it. That is actually the case here.
If she will not apologize, she is a person of
no honor or decency. And we know by the way
that she will not apologize because she does have no
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honor decency. Worse than that, even than her failure to
apologize Buck. None of these people who jumped to conclusions
about the motivations of the shooter are going to be
held accountable by the media either, right, all these people
who went on CNN and MSNBC and attacked Fox News
and attacked Congresswoman Bobert and went after all the different
(29:27):
right wing as they describe it commentators, there are no
consequences now that they are proven wrong. I find it
hard to believe that this shooter is a Tucker Carlson viewer,
or a you know, Daily Wire subscriber, or a Clay
and Buck listener. And yet that is what they are
(29:47):
going to try to ascribe as the motivation. They're not
going to have to own the fact that they were wrong.
They try to use this shooting to further leverage the
narrative that Elon Musks takeover of Twitter is dangerous and
leading to people die. I mean, everything they could fit
this into they did. And look, there's a reason why
Rush's concept of the drive by media is so accurate
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and so timeless, because when you think about it in
that context, the media they unleash this devastation of lies
and they just speed off until the next one, no
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every day The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Welcome
(31:43):
back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Everybody
a lot to talk about today, and in particular, I
gotta say we were discussing the student loan situation for
a second there. I just want to come back to
this because because the Biden administration, we've gone from we've
gone from Hold on a second, why are we pausings too? Oh?
(32:06):
Because we're in a pandemic, all right? I think that
that was a sketchy argument. Clay in the first six months.
I mean from you know, February of twenty or March
of twenty twenty until let's say end of summer, you know,
basically the fall. I found it unpersuasive really, but okay,
maybe given that they were doing PPP and all these
(32:28):
other things. Fine. The fact that they are officially extending
this state of emergency and then they're also officially extending
the student loans delay, I mean, this is this is
just ridiculous. I mean, this is flagrantly not in the
power of the presidency unless you're just gonna just declare
(32:50):
a forever COVID emergency and make it up as you
go along, which is kind of what they're doing. Yeah,
and credit to the Senate. I don't know that we
talked about it very much on the show, but see
sixty two senators, which is hard to get a vote
for sixty two senators to agree on anything, have voted
that the pandemic emergency should be over, including crazily Chuck
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Schumer and the other part of this that's wild to
think about, Buck is remember Joe Biden went on Sixty
Minutes back in September and said COVID's over and a
base part of the Democrat Party was unwilling to accept
that COVID could be over, and it undercuts his argument
(33:32):
on behalf of student loans and many other executive actions
that he has taken, including certainly loan forgiveness for student loans,
to be arguing in September, Hey, COVID's over, and I
think they've extended it now until June buck which means
that COVID and we can check on that and make
sure I'm right, but I think it extends all the
way the emergency does. Now til June. COVID is three
(33:56):
years in. By the time that this is at three
are Ya, three years in, by the time that this
thing is continuing. You hurt me trying to do math
in my head. The same reaction I had yesterday when
doctor Fauci had his good By press conference and he's
telling us for a third straight Thanksgiving, Hey, you should
be wearing a mask and testing and you can't have
(34:17):
a normal Thanksgiving. What person, that's a good question. What
percentage of people going to Thanksgiving tomorrow do you think
are doing a Thanksgiving that is almost identical to what
the Thanksgiving would have looked like in twenty nineteen of
five percent of Americans I think are still living in
this delusion that they have to obey all the time.
(34:39):
You think percent of Americans are like back to normal
for Thanksgiving, I'm pretty much. I think that of the
proportion of people, and this is bait, I just got
off a plane, right, the proportion of people that still masks,
sometimes in some places a little higher. The proportion of
people who think that, you know, maybe they should get
(35:00):
maybe their kids should get well, actually the kids as
we know. That was really a breaking point here in
the whole Faucciite regime. Was you know, when Faucci's grind
saying get you Toddler's shots three, four and five, A
lot of people walk around saying, uh, I don't think so,
I don't think. I don't think I want to get
my kids the shot at all, because most people didn't
(35:21):
get it at all, right, I mean, and that was
in the ninety ninety six ninety seven percent range. People
didn't get the shots for their kids. It was fastening.
That was all sort of time though, where Twitter was
still under the firm in the firm grip of the commissars,
which we should talk about the what is the trust
and safety. If you were trying to come up with
(35:43):
an additional chapter for George Orwell's nineteen eighty four, it
could have been the Trust and Safety Committee at Twitter, right,
which is just suppressing ideas that are like But they
were elevating all these parents who were blue check libs,
not that the blue check means the same thing anymore,
who were having their little toddler. Here's streaming down their faces.
They're getting jabbed with a colored vaccine and the look
(36:04):
of glee on some of those parents' faces. They are
deranged libs who need to stop watching MSNBC. That's the truth.
I actually saw Nate Silver, who some of you may know,
he's a prognosticator data analyst, kind of flip out on
Twitter this week saying, essentially, these people who claim that
(36:25):
they're checking for misinformation are actually the biggest purveyors of
misinformation on social media. And I was like, yes, yes,
they are one hundred percent. And certainly Elon Musk has
come to that realization. And I think if you are
a rational, sentient, normal human being, you are looking around
now and saying, man, a lot of these people who
(36:47):
claim to be looking at misinformation are severely broken individuals
who are spreading misinformation more than almost people. They also
they've lived in these echo chambers of leftist orthodox for
so long their entire lives that when they're actually forced
to grapple with opposing ideas, it really just overrides the
(37:08):
system and they want to crawl into a fetal position
and freak out. Let's talk a little bit about Elon.
I think Elon is changing the way discourse happens online,
Clay in a good way. I think it's fantastic. Clay, Travis,
and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. It's
Thanksgiving Eve. We are thankful for all of you and
appreciate the fact that you are spending your Thanksgiving Eve
with us. We know that many of you may be
listening as you are driving or flying across the country,
(00:22):
maybe even around the world, and we certainly appreciate all
of you for hanging out with us, and we are
fans of you and everything that you guys have allowed
us to do so far this year. So Buck and
I both very thankful for all of you and want
you to be safe while you are traveling around the country.
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I've seen some photos and videos from airports all over
the country and it's really kind of crazy to see
how many of you are out and about. Buck is
in New York, I am in Nashville. We'll be celebrating
with our families close to home, and we can't wait
to be able to do that. So we've got a
lot to dive into. I'm gonna open up phone lines
(01:07):
have a fun time with you guys on Thanksgiving Eve.
Here eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
If you want to react to us. We're going to
head out to Qatar, and I believe that is the
official pronunciation that Fox has decided on. Buck. I mean,
for the Arabic speakers out there, it's cutter. But we're Americans,
so we call things whatever we want. It's not the
(01:28):
University of Madame, it is Notre Dame. Same idea. They
had a full article, I think on in the New
York Times that I read in the last couple of
days about how the pronunciation of the country there's like
seven or eight different ways to pronounce it, depending on
what angle you go with. But we are going to Doha,
(01:52):
which is the capital of Qatar, and we will talk
to Alexei Wallace, who is a Fox soccer analyst in
advance of what should be a really fun Friday. I
know many of you will be watching a lot of
sports Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday as you eat your turkey kickback.
I actually Buck just came from my kids and a
(02:14):
bunch of other neighborhood kids in a mass football game. Uh.
They are all out of school and first thing they
want to do. Uh my eight year old, my twelve
year old, and my fourteen year old are all a
part of the same game, big game breaking out. I'm
sure many of your kids are out. Hopefully they're running
around and having a fantastic time. So I have cousins
(02:35):
who had a you know, I grew up right in
the middle of Manhattan, Like I lived right in the
concrete jungle right in New York City, and we would
go out. I had cousins that had a big place,
like a house, like how people live in houses. Yeah,
you're still stunned by how people live in houses. Yeah,
yeah they were. They had a yard. Yeah, and there
they were. There were not like h like like fifteen
(02:57):
or twenty floors of people living above and low them.
It just had a and you know, they had a
big dog. But we used to remember we would play
basketball and even throw a football around, but we would
have to wear a jacket and tie for Thanksgiving and
Christmas as a family of the little kids. Do you
remember the days when you could just go out there,
no stretching, no, you know, you know. Now I'm like, oh, man,
(03:19):
I need like like four minutes of like self shiatsu
on my lower back before I could even pick something
up off the ground. Back then, man, I have Thanksgiving
my cousins. We are all the same age. Basically throw
around football's play four on four basketball. It was America. Yeah.
And you know what's funny, I bet we have a
lot of people who work in hospitals for Thanksgiving. And
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first of all, we appreciate everybody who doesn't get Thanksgiving
off and has to work. We know that as many
of you out there listening to us right now keeping
the country running. But the amount of people who come
in with Thanksgiving family football injuries very often older guys
who's hand strings give out. Maybe the ACL doesn't stretch
(04:03):
as well as it used to. Massive numbers of injuries
such that Buck I told my boys, I was like, hey,
when we finished the show today, I'll get back out.
We'll play some football. It's like sixty five degrees here
in Nashville, perfect day. But I said, Dad is all
time quarterback. Only only thing I'm risking is the shoulder.
I'm not getting out trying to run routes. I'm certainly
(04:23):
not trying to keep up with my kids and chase
them down and get the two hand touch tags on.
So Dad is like a hired gunman, just stands there
with the old school, old school quarterback, all time QB
both sides and gets blamed anytime he throws an interception
or doesn't make a perfect throw by every kid on
the field who is always always judging the QB. So
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that is what's going on here. You came out. We
kind of live in a utopian like kids run around.
It's like goonies every day in this neighborhood. And so
I know many of you will be gearing up for
those games, and I hope again as I mentioned, I
know many of you are in your cars right now,
traveling to see the grandparents, traveling to see the kids
(05:08):
on the roads. A few more million in the planes
and a couple of million on the buses and the trains.
I mean, people are moving. This is the first Thanksgiving
that we've had where you'll have about as many people
going as prep you know, pre pandemic era. Would you
prefer to travel on Thanksgiving or just stay home? What's
(05:30):
your preferred Now? You're just getting married, so the family
dynamic can alter whether you want to travel or stay
home for the last solo with my family Thanksgiving that
I will have and Carrie is with her family, and
then we're gonna have to do the clay. You're gonna
have to advise me on this. Clay is going to
be marriage consolieri. You know we'd be like Clay in
(05:50):
DoD we break down Christmas Thanksgiving? Is that a one
package of the two different things? Do you go all
in one one year? What about New Year's? You know,
I gotta work all these things out. It makes a
big difference. And I know those of you out there
traveling right now, once you add kids to the to
the travel routine, it makes a big difference because kind
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of easy to go back home when it's just you
and the wife or just you and the girlfriend or
whatever else. But when you start adding in multiple little
people and their schedules, it gets way more complicated. Yes,
And I also will tell you I mentioned this because
I flew back into New York today. I'm here in
New York City Midtown, and there were a lot of
(06:31):
people that were wearing masks, which is unsurprised. I'm gonna
say a lot, maybe ten percent, I'd say ten percent
of the flight, which demeans. But I've also noticed that
there are now people who really get into like the
N ninety five mask with the two rubber straps. I
saw at least four or five people with this where
it is so tightly affixed to their head that you
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can see the line of the rubber and the back
of their scalp and kind of a you know, like
like they're it almost looks like a form of self asphyxiation.
And I feel very sorry for these people because clearly
there's there's something wrong here. And this also brings us
to why we we were both I mean, I don't
know if anything was getting us more fired up yesterday
(07:15):
on the political scene, for sure than the Fauci because
he's if he came out and said that it was
it really is, guys, you really don't have to do
this stuff anymore. But I won't even at this point, Clay,
I won't even demand that he admit he was wrong
about everything, that he's horrible, he's an evil smurf. He's
the worst bureaucrat in the history of the country. I
(07:36):
won't even get into it. He could just come out
now and say you don't have to do this craziness anymore,
and I would at least give him a little bit
of credit for not making people suffer through this madness. Anymore.
I'm telling you a lot of people walking around in
New York still with masks on. And you know what, Buck,
that's such a good point, because this is his final
public event. If he had any semblance of the sincy,
(08:00):
he would have come out and said, hey, you know what,
we are very fortunate now in the third Thanksgiving. This
is the third Thanksgiving since COVID hit. You really don't need,
if you analyze your risk factors, to be wearing masks
to Thanksgiving dinner. You really don't need to be doing testing.
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You can get back to two thousand nineteen era Thanksgiving.
You if you're sick and you don't feel well, hey,
don't go to Thanksgiving. I just got a text message
my brother in law and my niece. They have the flu.
Probably not going to hang out with them, just like
you wouldn't have for the last twenty or thirty years
(08:42):
of your life. Somebody's sick, you say, okay, we'll change plans.
But if you feel well, you don't need to change
your behavior, just like you would have done back in
two nineteen. Buck, this was his opportunity to in some
way declare victory and embrace a return to normalcy. He
didn't do it, and as a result, the twenty five
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or twenty percent or thirty percent of broken brains out there,
they're never going to go back to. So I also
want to point out that DC, which is a political
echo chamber monoculture. I mean, there's DC is ninety five percent.
I think it is now officially more democrat than San Francisco,
(09:24):
just to our nation's capital. Everybody more left wing, more
Democrat heavy even than San Francisco. It might be within
one or two percentage points of each other. Maybe they're
maybe San fran has a point or two one it,
but they're right alongside each other. Okay, and we've all thought,
you know, San Francisco is the most you know, the
most left wing major city in America for a long time, Clay,
the DC public schools are requiring negative COVID tests for
(09:49):
people to return after Thanksgiving. Yeah, so I saw this
first of all, what a massive waste of time and resources.
And I guess the idea here is, oh, we're going
to test you after Thanksgiving because that's so much more
dangerous for COVID spread than everyone just living their lives
and getting COVID all the time, which is happening anyway,
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then this would be like it would be like saying
you're not allowed to come back to school until we
give you a test for the cold common cold and
you say, okay, but I'm probably gonna get a cold
in two weeks or you know, you can't stop this.
So what is this even doing at this point? But
I think this has become These have now become rituals
of the Democrat apparatus. This has become a thing that
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people do because it makes them feel good, the same
way that no one really thinks that Florida is going
to fall into the ocean because of climate change and
that recycling is really saving anything. But they do it because,
you know, it's a ritual. It's like a religious ritual.
You gonna make you feel good for people now, super
tight and ninety five masks and totally unnecessary testing for
(10:53):
COVID is also a ritual. You know. I'm glad you
brought that up too. I'm reading right now, right before
we came on the show, I couldn't believe that this
is out there. But Washington Post headline, We've been telling
people this for quite some time. Vaccinated people now make
up a majority of COVID deaths subheadline, it's no longer
(11:17):
a pandemic of the unvaccinated. I'm reading from the Washington
Post for the first time, a majority of Americans dying
from coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.
Fifty eight percent of coronavirus death in August were people
who were vaccinated or boosted. This is pretty it's pretty significant.
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And so again we've been telling you this was the
case for some time. But when you had a she'sh
jaw yesterday at the White House saying, hey, if you
get your COVID booster, you won't die of COVID, that's
a lie. Even the Washington Post now saying, and this
was back in August. I'm sure the numbers are even
(12:02):
more substantial now, unfortunately, and we should mention many of
these people are dying with COVID. They are wildly unhealthy.
You're dying with three four comorbidities along the way, and
COVID is one of them. It's not at COVID exclusively,
but it does continue to puncture this public health argument
they've made where if you get the COVID shot or
(12:23):
you get your boosters, it's just a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
It's not true. Well, it hasn't been true for a
long time. And what you're going to see is they
just slow roll the data and the analysis of it
and the distribution of the obvious facts or the obvious
conclusions that come from all of this, until it is
(12:44):
more palatable to their audience. Right, the Washington Post could
have said this six months ago. Correct their whole thing about, Oh,
it's it's for the first time. That's not true. That
hasn't been true in a lot of places across the
country since last winter when the pandemic was having yet
another phase. And first of all, it's not even a
pandemic anymore unless clay excuse me, sir, unless it comes
(13:07):
to like emergency powers and maybe student loans. Yeah away
then and then apparently it's an emergency forever, which we
should talk about. So talking about this one just just
differ in the loans again, you know, tens of billions
of dollars because Biden feels like it, folks, We're thankful
for a lot, but the poor governance of the Biden
(13:28):
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shed light on the truth every day. Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton, Welcome back to Clay and bucked. You know,
there are people out there who took big stands against
swell the vaccine mandate, of course, and people took a
(14:57):
stand against masking at different times all this stuff. But
there were some surprises I think along the way, people
like uh, people like Novak Djokovic, who is probably the
best tennis player in the world today very much refused
to get the vaccine, even at the cost of not
being able to compete in the Australian Open, and that
(15:17):
whole kerfuffle. Um. There was also Kyrie Irving of the Nets,
the NBA player Clay is nodding as I go along here,
Yes right yer, yes, yes, thank you, thank you, a
very excellent guard on the on the Brooklyn Nets team
of basketball. And then there was also someone who I
(15:38):
think most of us know better from his work really
back in in the nineties. But um ice Cube says
that he turned down nine million dollars because he refused
to get the COVID shot. Let's hear from mister Cube.
I turned down a movie because I don't want to
get the more jab you know, turned down nine million
(15:59):
because I didn't want to get Yeah that jab. J'all
for trying to make me get it. So you know,
I don't know how Holly will feel about me right now?
You know what I'm saying now, Clay, Well, we may
have less use less salty language in our discussions about
the JAB. Mister Cube does have a point here, which
(16:21):
is that they were very aggressive about trying to make people,
especially in media and Hollywood, get the shot, which now
we all understand it. Not only does it not stop,
the spread doesn't really work very well, if at all,
if at all, if at all, And there are I
think increasingly a lot of free thinkers out there that
looked at the data, and they can be from a
(16:43):
variety of backgrounds. Right, I don't know what Novak Djokovic,
Ice Cube, Kyrie Irving and Aaron Rodgers all four, and
Clay Travis for that matter, all five of us have
in common at all. Right, most of those guys I
don't know at all, as few of them I know
a little bit. But for us to all come to
the same conclusion on the COVID shot, I think, again,
(17:07):
from wildly different backgrounds with different professions. I think it's
been totally under a disgust, how diverse and h and
totally from different worlds. Many of the people who reach
the same conclusion have come from And we were just
talking about. Suddenly the Washington Post having to acknowledge. Hey,
(17:28):
remember last winter, Buck, they made a big deal it's
winter of death. It's a pandemic of the vaccinated. No, no, no,
the unvaccinated. Now the Washington Post is saying, actually, vaccinated
people are more likely to be dying. Now. To be fair,
there are more people who have gotten a shot than
not in the United States, so the percentages are out there.
(17:49):
But yet afraid. Yeah, what do doctor jos said yesterday?
We can eliminate basically all deaths if people get the
booster shots. That's not true. It's just a lot lie.
So how can you expect people to continue to go
forward to listen to these clowns. You can't. And I
give credit to ice Cube for joining the ranks of
those who are willing to publicly condemn this shot. Look
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As I continue to say, we are very thankful for
all of you and hope that you and your families
have fantastic Thanksgivings and travel safely to wherever you may
be going to meet with those friends and family. We
talked some about the shooting out in Colorado and the
(19:41):
immediate way that it was politicized. Everybody out there decided, oh,
the right wingers are to blame for this shooting that
took place at a gay club. And again, credit to
the people in that club who managed to keep that
shooting continuing. There are many heroes there. But if you
(20:03):
turned on CNN, if you turned on MSNBC, if you
read the New York Times, the Washington Post, the usual
suspects in pr they all said, oh, Fox News is
to blame. Conservative talk radio is to blame right wing
influential figures have blood on their hands. Then something interesting
happened late last evening. I was sitting around watching the
(20:25):
newest version of The Santa Claus. Buck, my boys are obsessed.
You watch The Santa Claus back in the day, that
Tim Allen Santa Claus based movie? Or was that after
your time? You're really putting me on the spot here, chief,
I have never seen The Santa Claus. Should I see
this movie? Save it for the kids. When you and
Carrie have kids, they will probably love The Santa Claus.
(20:46):
Tim Allen spoiler alert is Santa Claus And there's a
new Disney Plus special that's out with Tim Allen where
they're counting down till Christmas. I know it's the day
before Thanksgiving, but my boys are obsessed with Christmas already.
What is the well, you know what, we'll come after
Christmas movies and Thanksgiving movies later. So I'm watching this. Yeah,
we'll talk about it in a second, but I'm watching
(21:06):
this when out of nowhere on my phone pops up
a news alert, and that news alert lets me know
that the shooter is actually in the court filings claiming
to be transgender. Here is CNN cut twenty reacting to
the news late last evening that oh, wait a minute,
(21:29):
the shooter might not have been some Tucker Carlson watching
maga enthusiast Donald Trump supporter might have actually been also transgender. Listen.
Attorneys for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, say in
new court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as
(21:51):
non binary. In a footnote to emotion as certain legal privileges,
the public defenders say quote Anderson Aldrich is non minary.
They use they them pronouns, and for the purposes of
all formal filings will be addressed as mix Aldrich. So
know there was not mister or miss I don't know
(22:11):
what to say about that. I mean, that's not anything
that we had heard from his background. People have been
looking into his background, and I don't know if anybody
here are you guys lawyers? I mean, you know, I
don't know if I don't know what to say about that.
I mean, that's what he's now saying. I also, okay,
a few things here, And one is I believe the
individual here is considered non binary, not transgender, right, meaning
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in between. It's not someone who is going from female
to male. But believe may be right about that. I don't,
so I get a confused on this term. Everybody gets,
you know, what is non binary versus trying So non
binary means neither quite fully on the female side of
the spectrum or the male side of the spectrum. CIS
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gender would be if you were one or the other,
also known as gender if you're male or email that
assists gender. Non binary is you're in some middle ground
between the two genders. So a couple of interesting things
that this brings up. I mean, one is just and
look I understand right, I mean I even saw people saying,
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you know, well we shouldn't. This isn't like some kind
of a gotcha moment. Hold on a second. People on
the right were the ones who were saying, including you
and me, what happened in Colorado Springs is horrific. We
should come together and grieve as a community. We should
so support to the human beings, the men and women
and LGBTQ individuals who are there. The army veteran who
took down the shooters should be praised for being a hero.
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That's how we wanted to talk about this and cover
this incident. And if there's something there were by the
way red flag laws in Colorado didn't stop this individual.
There are some security and procedural issues to discuss to
try to prevent such a horrific thing from happening in
the future. We're not going to stop all of these
as we know, but we can talk about how we
might be able to stop it and discuss that in
a serious and sober minded way. It was the Democrat
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who were saying this is Lauren Bobert's fault. It was
the Democrats who were saying, this is Tucker Carlson's fault.
They did this right away. And so you know, if
you are at a you know, if you're at a funeral,
and someone yells at you that you are responsible for
the death of the person that is being mourned. You're
going to defend yourself, right, You're gonna say I didn't
do you know? So, I think it creates this unfair
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standard word. Now we're being told, hey, guys, let's not
you know, well, let's focus on the issues at hand
here or not get too deep into the pushback to
the media. No, I'm sorry. They weaponized the narrative. It
was wrong. They jumped to a conclusion that fit there,
and they slandered people. And now it was fascinating. You
might have seen this clan social media. Initially it was well,
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clearly this person aldrich clue, this person is just doing
this as some kind of a troll of the court
or defense. Yeah yeah, or some kind of defense. Not true.
This individual wanted to change his name at the age
of sixteen. This stretches back four years. This was not
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something that just that just they stumbled a pawn in
this moment. And I also think it raises issues why
should the court accede to this? Why should mean as
far as the court is concerned, there are men, there
are women. There are differences in law that affect men
and women, and the claim that somebody has to be
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referred to by different pronouns, in fact, plural pronouns. I
really mean this. The New York Times has even had
this discussion in the past. Using plural pronouns is grammatically
incorrect and confusing. Yes, and in a court situation, to
be confusing the jury with plural pronouns when an individual
committed a heinous act is confusing. If I were, let
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me give it a sorry. I'm just obviously fired about this, Clay,
if I were accused of a serious crime and I
kept saying, you can't refer to me as as the
as the defendant. You have to refer to me as
the victim, because that's how I identify. I identify as
a victim. You say, well, no, of course not. That's
going to confuse the jury. You don't get to make
up the language that other people in a court of
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law use to discuss a legal proceeding. I'm so I
got big problems with that. No, I think you're a
one hundred percent righte about this. And from a legal perspective,
you can imagine how the jury could be confused in
a big way. It's actually a tremendous advantage to the
defendant because every time you refer to the defendant, if
you say they, it makes people think that more than
(26:31):
one person was involved in a crime. Right, So if
you say they did this shooting, then my initial response
is like, who are the shooterers? Plural directly, and I'm
sure most people sitting on a jury would be. And also,
if you're reading the transcripts as a lawyer, which I
used to have to do, when you're using a plural,
you are constantly thinking in your head, Okay, wait a minute,
(26:53):
did I miss something here? Is this multiple people who
were involved? Is this one person who was involved? All
of it crazy? And I think it also ties in
with what we said on this program, which is this
is unfortunately just further evidence of the mental illness that
I believe is likely involved in the behavior of this shooter.
That's another issue that I have from from a pure
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legal and justice system perspective on this one. Every time
to your point, Clay, yes it could be they, so
were there multiple shooters? It's confusing, as you just discussed,
absolutely true, but also it raises this this idea that
there is perhaps a collective responsibility they you know they
did this terrible thing, but you know they have a
(27:36):
long history. Well who is they exactly right? This it
diffuses responsibility for the individual the individual acts, and I
would say even you know, in some ways is also
a stealth I'm just gonna say it, a stealth mental
health defense. The jury is going to be hearing all
the time about this, about this person who insists on
being called they if I'm a jury, I'm if I'm
(27:58):
a juror I'm sitting there saying, okay, this person is
mentally unbalanced. That's what's going to happen. So it's a
way of introducing a sort of insanity defense without actually
doing that because the person also what was it, what
was the preferred not mister or missus, but MX MX
M M right. No, I know I'm saying, I don't
(28:19):
even know how you pronounce it. What I mean, you know,
if I want to do a court of law and
I and I wanted them to refer to me at
you know, everyone knows we could all fill in the
blanks here. It's this is crazy stuff that's going on.
But also the fact that they lied about this right
away and put this on specific individuals. I'm just gonna
say this, AOC. Wasn't she the one who called out Yeah, AOC,
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if she has a shred of honor or integrity, should
publicly apologize to Congresswoman Boberg. This is not just a
political part, is it. That is actually the case here.
If she will not apologize, she is a person of
no honor or decency. And we know by the way
that she will not apologize because she does have no
(29:04):
honor decency. Worse than that, even than her failure to
apologize Buck. None of these people who jumped to conclusions
about the motivations of the shooter are going to be
held accountable by the media either, right, all these people
who went on CNN and MSNBC and attacked Fox News
and attacked Congresswoman Bobert and went after all the different
(29:27):
right wing as they describe it commentators, there are no
consequences now that they are proven wrong. I find it
hard to believe that this shooter is a Tucker Carlson viewer,
or a you know, Daily Wire subscriber, or a Clay
and Buck listener. And yet that is what they are
(29:47):
going to try to ascribe as the motivation. They're not
going to have to own the fact that they were wrong.
They try to use this shooting to further leverage the
narrative that Elon Musks takeover of Twitter is dangerous and
leading to people die. I mean, everything they could fit
this into they did. And look, there's a reason why
Rush's concept of the drive by media is so accurate
(30:09):
and so timeless, because when you think about it in
that context, the media they unleash this devastation of lies
and they just speed off until the next one, no
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a lot to talk about today, and in particular, I
gotta say we were discussing the student loan situation for
a second there. I just want to come back to
this because because the Biden administration, we've gone from we've
gone from Hold on a second, why are we pausings too? Oh?
(32:06):
Because we're in a pandemic, all right? I think that
that was a sketchy argument. Clay in the first six months.
I mean from you know, February of twenty or March
of twenty twenty until let's say end of summer, you know,
basically the fall. I found it unpersuasive really, but okay,
maybe given that they were doing PPP and all these
(32:28):
other things. Fine. The fact that they are officially extending
this state of emergency and then they're also officially extending
the student loans delay, I mean, this is this is
just ridiculous. I mean, this is flagrantly not in the
power of the presidency unless you're just gonna just declare
(32:50):
a forever COVID emergency and make it up as you
go along, which is kind of what they're doing. Yeah,
and credit to the Senate. I don't know that we
talked about it very much on the show, but see
sixty two senators, which is hard to get a vote
for sixty two senators to agree on anything, have voted
that the pandemic emergency should be over, including crazily Chuck
(33:11):
Schumer and the other part of this that's wild to
think about, Buck is remember Joe Biden went on Sixty
Minutes back in September and said COVID's over and a
base part of the Democrat Party was unwilling to accept
that COVID could be over, and it undercuts his argument
(33:32):
on behalf of student loans and many other executive actions
that he has taken, including certainly loan forgiveness for student loans,
to be arguing in September, Hey, COVID's over, and I
think they've extended it now until June buck which means
that COVID and we can check on that and make
sure I'm right, but I think it extends all the
way the emergency does. Now til June. COVID is three
(33:56):
years in. By the time that this is at three
are Ya, three years in, by the time that this
thing is continuing. You hurt me trying to do math
in my head. The same reaction I had yesterday when
doctor Fauci had his good By press conference and he's
telling us for a third straight Thanksgiving, Hey, you should
be wearing a mask and testing and you can't have
(34:17):
a normal Thanksgiving. What person, that's a good question. What
percentage of people going to Thanksgiving tomorrow do you think
are doing a Thanksgiving that is almost identical to what
the Thanksgiving would have looked like in twenty nineteen of
five percent of Americans I think are still living in
this delusion that they have to obey all the time.
(34:39):
You think percent of Americans are like back to normal
for Thanksgiving, I'm pretty much. I think that of the
proportion of people, and this is bait, I just got
off a plane, right, the proportion of people that still masks,
sometimes in some places a little higher. The proportion of
people who think that, you know, maybe they should get
(35:00):
maybe their kids should get well, actually the kids as
we know. That was really a breaking point here in
the whole Faucciite regime. Was you know, when Faucci's grind
saying get you Toddler's shots three, four and five, A
lot of people walk around saying, uh, I don't think so,
I don't think. I don't think I want to get
my kids the shot at all, because most people didn't
(35:21):
get it at all, right, I mean, and that was
in the ninety ninety six ninety seven percent range. People
didn't get the shots for their kids. It was fastening.
That was all sort of time though, where Twitter was
still under the firm in the firm grip of the commissars,
which we should talk about the what is the trust
and safety. If you were trying to come up with
(35:43):
an additional chapter for George Orwell's nineteen eighty four, it
could have been the Trust and Safety Committee at Twitter, right,
which is just suppressing ideas that are like But they
were elevating all these parents who were blue check libs,
not that the blue check means the same thing anymore,
who were having their little toddler. Here's streaming down their faces.
They're getting jabbed with a colored vaccine and the look
(36:04):
of glee on some of those parents' faces. They are
deranged libs who need to stop watching MSNBC. That's the truth.
I actually saw Nate Silver, who some of you may know,
he's a prognosticator data analyst, kind of flip out on
Twitter this week saying, essentially, these people who claim that
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they're checking for misinformation are actually the biggest purveyors of
misinformation on social media. And I was like, yes, yes,
they are one hundred percent. And certainly Elon Musk has
come to that realization. And I think if you are
a rational, sentient, normal human being, you are looking around
now and saying, man, a lot of these people who
(36:47):
claim to be looking at misinformation are severely broken individuals
who are spreading misinformation more than almost people. They also
they've lived in these echo chambers of leftist orthodox for
so long their entire lives that when they're actually forced
to grapple with opposing ideas, it really just overrides the
(37:08):
system and they want to crawl into a fetal position
and freak out. Let's talk a little bit about Elon.
I think Elon is changing the way discourse happens online,
Clay in a good way. I think it's fantastic. Clay, Travis,
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