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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome and 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 not 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
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to Doha, 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
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and a bunch of other neighborhood kids in a mass
football game. Uh. They are all out of school, and
first thing they want to do. 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
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cousins 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 were
there were not like like like fifteen or twenty floors
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of people living above and loath them. They 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
where you could just go out there, no stretching, no,
you know, you know. Now I'm like, oh, man, I
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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 footballs,
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 first
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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
am strings give out. Maybe the ACL doesn't stretch as
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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. Did
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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 Years? 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 of easy to
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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 people that were wearing masks,
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which is unsurprised. I gotta 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 affix to
their head that you can see the line of the
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rubber and the back of their scalp and kind of
a you know, like like they're just 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 this to why we we were
both I mean, I don't know if anything was getting
us more fired up yesterday on the political scene for
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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 won't even get into it.
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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 since, he would
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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.
You can get back to two thousand nineteen era Thanksgiving.
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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
of your life. Somebody's sick, you say, okay, we'll change plans.
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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
or twenty percent or thirty percent of broken brains out there,
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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,
just to our nation's capital. Everybody more left wing, more
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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 didn't 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 shei's
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 was saying, and
this was back in August. I'm sure the numbers are
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even 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
that they've made where if you get the COVID shot
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or 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
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it is 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,
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unless it comes 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 talk about this one.
Just just differ in the loans again, you know, tens
of billions of dollars because Biden feels like it, folks,
we are thankful for a lot, but the poor governance
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Welcome back in Thanksgiving Eve
edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, as I continue to say,
we are very thankful for all of you and hope
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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 immediate way that it was politicized.
Everybody out there decided, oh, the right wingers are to
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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 from continuing. There are many
heroes there. But if you 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,
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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 newest version of The Santa Claus. Buck
My boys are obsessed. You watched The Santa Claus back
in the day that Tim Allen Santa Claus based movie,
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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? I save it
for the kids. When you and Carrie have kids, they
will probably love the Santa Claus. 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.
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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 back to Christmas movies and Thanksgiving
movies later. So I'm watching this. Yeah, we'll talk about
it in a second. But I'm watching this when out
of nowhere on my phone pops up a news alert,
and that news alert lets me know that the shooter
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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, the shooter might
not have been some Tucker Carlson watching Maga enthusiast Donald
Trump's supporter might have actually been also transgender. Listen. Attorneys
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for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich say in new
court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as non binary.
In a footnote to emotion as certain legal privileges, the
public defenders say, quote Anderson Aldrich is non binary. They
use they them pronouns, and for the purposes of all
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formal filings will be addressed as mix Aldrich. So another
was not mister or miss I don't know 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
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things here. One is I believe the individual here is
considered non binary, not transgender, right, meaning in between. It's
not someone who is going from female to male. But
we may be right about that. I don't so I
get all confused on this term. Everybody gets, you know,
what is non binary versus trying So non binary means
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neither quite fully on the female side of the spectrum
or the male side of the spectrum. Cist gender would
be if you're one or the other also known as gender.
If you're male or female that assists gender non binary
is you're in some middle ground between the two genders.
So a couple of interesting and interesting things that this
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brings up. I mean, one is just and look I
understand right, I mean I even saw people saying, 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 to 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
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individuals who are there. The army veteran who took down
the shooters should be praised for being a hero. 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,
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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 Democrats 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 are at a funeral and
someone yells at you that you are responsible for the
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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 standard
where 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
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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, 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
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to change his name at the age of sixteen. This
stretches back four years. This was not something that that
just they stumbled the pawn in this moment. And I
also think it raises issues. Why should the court accede
to this? Why should I mean, as far as the
court is concerned, there are men, there are women. There
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are differences in law that affect men and women. And
the claim that somebody has to be 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
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with plural pronouns when an individual committed a heinous act
is confusing. If I were, let me give it a sorry.
I'm just obviously fired up 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 prefer to me as the victim, because that's
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how I identify. I identify as a victim. He said, 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 law use to discuss a legal proceeding.
I'm so I got big problems with that. No, I
think you're 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
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advantage to the defendant because every time you refer to
the defendant, if you say they, it makes people think
that more than one person was involved in a 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.
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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, did I miss something here? Is this
multiple people who were involved? Is this one person who
was involved? All of it's 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
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mental illness that I believe is likely involved in the
behavior of this shooter. That's another issue that I have
from a pure legal and justice system perspective on this one.
Every time to your point of 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
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idea that there is perhaps a collective responsibility. They they
did this terrible thing, but you know they have a
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
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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
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
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was the preferred not mister or missus, but MX MX
M M right. No, I know I'm saying I don't
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. You know,
everyone knows. We could all fill in the blanks here.
It's this is crazy stuff that's going on. But also
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the fact that they lied about this us right away
and put this on specific individuals. I'm just gonna say this, AOC.
Wasn't she the one who called out after Bobert. Yeah, AOC,
if she has a shred of honor or integrity, should
publicly apologize to Congresswoman Bobert. This is not just a
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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
honor decency. Worse than that, even than her failure to apologize, Buck,
None of these people who jumped to conclusions about the
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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 right wing
as they describe it commentators, there are no consequences now
that they are proven wrong. I find it hard to
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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 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 Musk's takeover of Twitter is dangerous and
(25:24):
leading to people die. I mean, they 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 and so timeless, because when you think about it
in that context, the media just they unleash this devastation
of lies and they just speed off until the next one,
(25:45):
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every day. The Clay Travis and Buck set Show Welcome
Back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Thanksgiving Eve. We
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are headed now down to Qatar. I believe I'm pronouncing
that correctly, or at least as the pronunciation has been
agreed to to be joined by Fox Soccer analyst Alexei Lawless.
They are eight hours ahead of us. It is almost
Thanksgiving Day, I guess in Qatar and Alexei, first of all,
thanks for making the time for us. I know it's
an absolute crazy zoo over there with all the games
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going on. And I want to start with this question,
US is up one zero When you see the play.
As a former defenseman for the US men's soccer team,
when you see the play of Walker Zimmerman and the
foul that he committed that led to a penalty kick,
your immediate reaction was to say, or think, what well?
(27:58):
Something I can't say on the radio because I am
an ADVID listener to your show and I know you
have a level of decorum here. By the way, I
do I subscribe. I listened to it every day this
morning on the peloton here in the hotel in Qatar.
In Doha. Here I was listening to the show. So
I am a huge fan of both of you guys
and of this show. When I saw that I was disappointed.
(28:19):
I was angry, um, and you know I pictured I
pictured myself on the field. And look, mistakes happen in sports,
mistakes happens in life, and it's how you recover from them.
So ultimately, the US ties Whales won one. And you know,
I know that Buck was having some fun at Wales's expense.
You know, Bucks should know that. I mean, it's kind
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of come on, it's kind of fair, like how many
people even know that Whales is its own country. Well,
I understand that. I understand that, but you know they
they are a small country, but they are a hearty country.
And and look, I agree with you, the US should
have beaten Whales. And so you're dropping points there. And
in the way that had happened with Walker's Immerman making
that what amounts to a stupid foul. It shouldn't be
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done at any level, especially for a professional and it's
big in a World Cup. However, there's a couple of
games to play here, including this huge one on Black
Friday against against England, our friends England, So there is
plenty to play for when it comes to the World Cup.
And whether you're into soccer or whether you're not into soccer,
this is an opportunity to sit down and celebrate what
I feel is the greatest country in the world. There's
a very few things in our life and our world
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today that bring us together, and maybe soccer is one
of them. So Alexei, so I'm gonna put this out
there just in all fairness. Right, let's not looking good
for our guys on Friday. I'm just I know enough
about soccer, mostly from playing FIFA on PlayStation, but I
know enough about the English teams rankings and the American
teams rankings. It's not looking great for us. But you know,
we did win in seventeen seventy six, so we got
that going for us, which is nice. Iran, though we're
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gonna be playing Iran. Tell me as somebody who knows
this US national team inside and now, I don't care
if we are playing Iran in shuffleboard, if we're playing
Iran in wings, you name it. America has to win.
Are we going to win that match? Well, You're going
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to have to win in order to advance. So you're
absolutely right, Buck, this is going to be a huge game.
And look at you, as you know, sports sometimes mirrors
culture and society and politics and all those different things
and all of that is going to be on display
with Iran, which we have a long history from. Look
I grew up in the seventies and eighties and what
Iran represented to America and to Americans, and so that
will be part of the narrative. Ultimately, there's three points.
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So and to your point, it doesn't matter whether there's men's, women's,
co ed naked. If we're playing Iran, I want to
win and we need to win this game in order
to go on. I think because to your point, who
knows what's going to happen against England. They are a
better team, doesn't mean that US can't get a point
or get a win over there. I believe that this
is a good US team that can do some big
things and this would be huge if they would be
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able to beat England. But no matter what, that third game,
you're going to have to beat Iran. Okay. So that's
what a lot of people out there who they don't
if they don't follow this closely. We've got England, Wales,
the United States, and Iran in a group. And if
we had beaten Wales, we would have been an incredible
shape to advance because two teams advance. Do you see
this coming down to gold differential, in which case we're
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going to be watching on Friday, everybody recovering from Thanksgiving meals,
kicking the feet up watching. Do you feel like, even
if we lose to England, it's desperately important to keep
it close because gold differential may well decide who advances
to the knockout rounds. Yeah, you're absolutely right, it is
important that we keep it close. But I do feel
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that this has the opportunity in the makings of something historic.
And I know it's it's not a shirt, but this
is a this is a young team. It's the second
youngest team in the tournament. I think they have a
not just a responsibility that they feel, but also an
opportunity to do some big things and to get whether
it's people like yoursels or anybody else is listening out there,
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to at least step into the soccer tent, because once
you get in there, it's warm, it is welcoming. And
guess what it is American. We do have an American
soccer culture. It is vibrant, it is passionate, is discerning,
it is growing, and don't you dare apologize for it
because it is something that's very very special and unique
in the soccer world out there. But that has to
come out and manifest on the play on the field,
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especially when it comes to our men's team. Our women's
team they kick ass as we know and whin all
the time. The men's team has to step up. And
this would be a huge, huge moment in this World
Cup if they were able to get that result against
England on Black Friday and then parlay that into a
great result against Iran and get out of the group.
So we're speaking to Alexei lalas Fox Soccer analyst and
also a man who really popularized the bright red goatee
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of the nineteen nineties. If I recall, wasn't that you?
I remember this man, you're rocking that got was like
that was like a ten out of ten goatee. You
were not messing around. I feel like I've seen you
on TV. It's not there anymore. How are things out
in cutter Man? How's our Qatar? How's it going? You're
actually in country right now? There's been you know, some
new stories about there was like a beer band, but
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not really. But how how is it doing? A World Cup? There?
I can. I can assure you that I have never
once in the now couple of weeks that I've been here,
nor the other previous trips that I've taken, had a
problem finding alcohol. Uh, people believe me, something that doesn't
surprise me at all going forward. Yeah, but it is
it is a we have. We have this kick ass
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set when it comes to our Fox soccer set here
down at what's called the Corniche, which is down on
the water, the people here have been incredible. It is
a really really interesting, like you said World Cup in
that there's this brigadoonish type of experience where everybody is
in the same place, nobody travels anywhere, all the teams,
all the stadiums are here and we're gonna We're gonna
blow it out on Fox. And we have this incredible
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set here that has multiple levels and multiple stages, and
people come to it like it is part of the
star of the showdown here and it just augments all
of the coverage that that we are bringing. And part
of our job is not just to talk about the soccer,
but to talk about this country and this culture and
to make that part of the storytelling that we're doing.
Am I understanding. By the way, I want all of
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you to watch the US and Alexei and Stu and
all the crew that's out there, Jenny Taft, fantastic job
they're doing. But also I will be up in Columbus
for this Ohio State Michigan game, which is going to
be huge, and my understanding, as a part of our
pregame show, we're actually going to be integrating some of
you guys. It's my understanding it might not be a
one hundred percent accurate as a part of the World
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Cup to have you guys talking college football and maybe
a little bit of NFL. Also, so for people out there,
Alexei who don't know this US men's soccer team, you
mentioned how young they are. You played in the World
Cup back in nineteen ninety two in the United States,
the first time that you play in a World Cup
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match as a young guy. It feels like, what first
part of the question, second aspect here, how much more
comfortable and better did you play in game two? Having
just gotten the butterflies in some extent out in that
first ever World Cup match? Yeah? I mean, look, would
you realize a dream? There is a moment of ah
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and the sooner you get over it, the better off
you are going to be when you recognize it's the
game that you're playing, been played playing all along. Mine
was way back in the nineteen hundreds before you guys
were born, back back in nineteen ninety four, summer ninety four.
Like you said, Buck, a lot of hair. Never has
so much been done with the monoicum of talent and
a lot of hair, whether it was the goatie or
the hair on top of my head. I wish I
could still grow it. I've cleaned up on the outside,
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but I'm still a mess on the inside. But then
you walk out on that field, and in my case,
at that point, it was actually in Pontiac at the
Pontiac silverdam Rest in Peace, the Pontiac Silverdome. I grew
up in Detroit, so fifteen minutes outside of where I
grew up, walking on that field and realizing a dream. Now,
this US team has already done that, right, so now
they understand what the World Cup is. Now on Friday,
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when they walk out against against England, it's not just
with the realization that they're representing their country, but it's
also with the understanding that they're here's a competition here,
and you got to figure it out very very quickly
against a very very good team. But look, there's nothing
like it when you walk out on that field, when
you put your hand over your heart, you put that
shirt on, you sing that song for me, there is
nothing else, nothing else like it. And if I could,
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I would, I would do anything to get back in
all right, Alexei lawis of Fox Soccer, and Alexei, let's
hope that us, first of all, have a happy Thanksgiving
out there. I know you're abroad right now, and said
pass along the same for us to all the American
players out there. We're thinking about them and we appreciate
you joining us. And let's hope we get a w
on Friday. I will actually watch this. This sports competition awesome.
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I love it. I love it. I love what you
guys to do it so I do, so keep on
doing it and make sure that you give me something
for what I'm on the peloton sweating my ass off, absolutely, sir,
Thank you so much. Play. Alexei is a fantastic guy. Buck.
I told you he listens to the show and he's
a great American soccer hero. So I remember because I
was playing soccer in high school back back when he
was on that national team or a writer around then,
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and he was one of the first guys I think
to really popularize the US men's national team of that era.
You know, just he was a well known guy as
men's soccer was becoming more of a thing here. You know,
this is really I think that was even pre MLS,
or maybe the MLS had just gotten going. I think
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the MLS built out, and I think I said ninety
two was ninety four. That was the launching point, that's right.
The MLS was the amount of attention that we had hosting.
And remember we're hosting to a large extent the World
Cup in twenty six which is why would ever experience
these guys get now hopefully could translate four years from
now when we hosted basically in the United States North
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America does. Yeah, but you know that Argentinean team, which
is supposed to one of the best in the world,
they got caught flat footed, folks. They were a little
slow in the third fourth quarter and Saudi Arabia beat them.
So I know it would be international shipping clay, but
maybe we could get them a little bit of a
boost a little bit of extra energy to help push them.
Very well played in the final quarters of their match,
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whether you're involved with this show directly for work, or
whether you are listening as maybe you are traveling around
the country. And what is likely to be the most
(39:55):
frenzied Thanksgiving since all the way back in twenty nineteen,
which feels like a very long time ago. This is
the third Thanksgiving we have had since COVID began, and
it feels like even for people with broken brains, the
vast majority of Americans are back to a normal Thanksgiving holiday.
I just went down during the commercial break to make
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sure that my kids had managed to make it through
their Thanksgiving Eve football game without anybody getting really severely
injured or any major fights breaking out. The Travis Boys
managed to stay healthy travel back to New York City.
Are your kids old enough for they play tackle football yet?
My sixth grader played official tackle football, but I have
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mandated that they can only play touch in the neighborhood
because my eight year olds playing too. So if you're
fifteen about to be fifteen year olds tackling the eight
year old, that's a recipe. How do you feel about
about about the young Travis boys playing like high school
tackle football? If they want to play, they can play.
I'm not going to stop them from doing. Like I said,
(41:00):
my sixth grader played first year ever played flag football before,
but this year in middle school he played tackle football. Now,
I was against other sixth graders, but buck, as you
well remember, sometimes six and seventh graders, I should say,
the kid who hits puberty is a monster out there
on the field. Right. If you hit puberty at twelve
or thirteen earlier full puberty than other people, you got
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a mustache, you might be six foot tall out there
compared to a lot of other kids that are like
five to four, So that was sometimes an issue, you know.
I at one point my kids said, it's hard to
tackle that kid. He's got a mustache, Dad, And I
was like, well, you know, that's a that's an argument
that you can make when you hit that borderline puberty
or non puberty age for the for the kids, everybody
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out there who's either played or coached in that age
range knows exactly what I'm talking about. Um, what was
the travel for you? Like, by the way, you came
back from Florida, You're back in New York today. Was
it frenzied at the airports? I understand it's like kind
of crazy everywhere right now. Yeah, I was up. I
was there five am. It was already like long security
lines and that's pretty much as and I was taking
(42:05):
the earliest possible flight. So you're gonna see a lot
of that going on. But I do think now people
are really everybody who I think everybody who was going
to think normally about traveling in the era of post
COVID America, I think they're there. Maybe some people will
start to chill out a little bit going forward. But look,
(42:26):
it's it's good because we really haven't had even last Thanksgiving.
Last Thanksgiving wasn't a normal Thanksgiving, folks. We all remember
there there was the you know, the pen the Winner
of Death and all this stuff, and the Biden administration
was hammering on how you better get the shot, and
they had pushed the vaccine mandate, and there were vaccine
cards and people those vaccine cards the dumbest thing. People
(42:48):
will look back, historians will look back. They'll be like, wait,
you did care a little piece of paper that says
you've got a shot. That doesn't even stop you from
giving the virus to other people? Any like what it
was this all about? But it felt pretty normal today
out there traveling airline attendants did have masks on. However,
in my flight, the attendants really yeah, I remember those,
some of those Siberian prison guards. I remember what they
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were like, thirty five thousand feet in the sky. I
have not forgotten. I have not forgiven. I'm concerned. You
mentioned earlier in the show that this is crazy that
kids going back to public school in Washington, DC have
to have a negative COVID test in order to return
to school, And yesterday we played you the audio of
doctor Fauci saying you should take a COVID test before
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you go to your Thanksgiving dinner, and doctor job led
and said, if you get the COVID booster, you won't
die of COVID. Then Washington Post Today, to their credit,
has an article up saying, actually, nearly sixty percent of
people dying with COVID have had either the cod shots
or COVID boosters. But I'm concerned. You know, when you
look at Los Angeles and they're talking about bringing masks back,
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that a lot of you out there listening to us
in blue cities, even if you're in a red state,
may have things to worry about if the numbers start
to tick up on COVID. And certainly, what we're seeing
unfortunately back, especially for young kids, is a lot of
them were so isolated from other kids that they didn't
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get the usual viruses and illnesses that young kids. I mean,
that's a phrase snot nosed kid for a reason. There's
almost always if you've got young kids, a little cold
or a little virus that they're working through to develop
their immune systems. And unfortunately, what you're seeing so far
this early part as we moved towards the winter, is
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a lot of those kids are getting RSV or they're
getting the flu, and that's actually more dangerous, unfortunately to
truly young children than COVID has been. And the way
we treated them for COVID made them more likely to
get them more serious illness. And there's now been a
run on a bunch of medications and abiotics for children.
I think they're they're even starting to report on a
(44:51):
shortage of children's tailing all. If I saw that, right,
I saw that. I saw Megan McCain tweet that out
earlier today that it's hard to find this is. I'll
just note if we do have a really bad upper
respiratory virus season that affects children, and so across the
board now flew an RSV and COVID, all these things.
They're not gonna want to tell you this until next summer,
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but eventually it will come out that not allowing children
to live normal lives and be exposed to the normal
upper respiratory infections that they come into contact with on
a regular basis made them effectively short term immunocompromise. I mean,
I do believe that that will eventually come out not
not immunocompromise in a severe way, but that they just
didn't have immunity against some of these things. So they're
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getting hit particularly hard because of the way that we
separated children, didn't let them live their lives, kept them away.
You know, we gotta remember there are some people we
don't hear about this anymore. There's some people who do
them let their kids see other kids for two years,
two years, you know, and they happen to live you know,
New York, DC, LA, few other places. But they were
(45:56):
keeping the kids locked away, almost like they're trying to
have them live in a bubble. And they were the
same people who took pictures of their kids getting COVID
shots that were completely worthless and put it on social
media to be social justice warriors and brag about about that.
I gotta correct something I said earlier in the Showbuck
And this is maybe a major major flaw in our
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holiday power rankings. Neither one of us ranked New Year's Eve.
Oh I am anti New Year's Eve. So you considered
and rejected ranking, sir, sir, we have a whole conversation.
New Year's Eve is the most stressful, overrated annoying holiday.
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I will take National Pancake Day over New Year's Eve.
I will find, like, you know, those random holidays that
they make. You're saying this though, even this surprises me
because you've been a single guy for a long time,
so you could theoretically have celebrated New Year's Eve. Now,
for parents like me, I'm at that day. I've been
in several different years where I've been like, hey, let
(46:58):
me try to trick my kids. Will watch the New
Year's ball drop from Times Square on the Eastern time zone.
I can get my kids to go to bed earlier.
Let me tell you a little little little dispatches from recently.
You know, single man life HW now engaged obviously, so
I'm out of it. I'm out of that game, thank god.
But what it used to be like every year for
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my you know, adult life eighteen to thirty nine. You
know it's New Year's Eve? Okay, you know, how do
we make this the most amazing night ever? And then
you go out and ever get super drunk. They try
to go to as many parties as they can, and
it's never really what you wanted to be. Then you
get a little older, right, That's that's in your twenties,
maybe in your thirties, it's like, oh, there's all these
parties and going all these parties, and you know you're
(47:40):
gonna have that moment where like you meet the beautiful stranger,
you make out at midnight, and you get married and
have five beautiful kids. It doesn't work that way. Everyone's like,
I'm so drunk, you know. They're all like stumbling over
each other. There's always someone who's yelling like I'm stuck
in line, I can't get in, and everyone's all upset.
It's a total mess. And then you get a little
older and you're like, you know what, I'm not really
gonna do this New Year's Eve thing anymore. I'm not
(48:00):
gonna do it. And then about three weeks before it's
New Year's Eve, maybe a month before, people start texting you, hey,
we're gonna do something right, and the peer pressure starts
getting ratcheted up. You try to opt out, it gets
ratcheted up, and then all of a sudden you're like, Okay, well,
I guess I'll go to you know, that super expensive
restaurant where they're gonna give me a prefixed menu with
the worst cheapest food they have and the worst service imaginable,
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and they're gonna usher us in like cattle and usher
us out in scheduled seating, and the restaurant could care
less about the whole thing. And you're in for like
I mean, in New York City, Clay, a crappy restaurant's
gonna cost you two hundred dollars on New Year's Eve
for person. I mean, you go to a hotel in Miami.
I've been in Miami last few New Year's Eves. You
go to like a place that's just okay, five hundred
(48:44):
bucks a person on New Year's Eve. It's crazy. I
hate it. It's a great night for restaurants. I would
argue with you that New Year's Eve heading into New
Year's itself, and I'm curious if you would agree with
this number one night for women to be dressed up
in fancy dresses, ready to go out have a great
time that ends with them crying. I can't tell you
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the number of times. I can't tell anybody the number
of times that I have either been with or been
out on New Year's Eve. Everybody's in a great food,
especially if you're single twenties who look like they're at
their their prom or something that they're they're sitting outside
of the booming music at somesive party and the mascaras right,
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they're like, I just don't understand why he doesn't do that.
It is it is the number one night for girls
to cry about their boyfriends or their significant others, or
the guy that they thought was gonna be their boyfriend
that it didn't work out. I can't tell you the
number of times they're often you know, they got the
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fancy shoes that they're just done with, they got them
in their hand. To your point, mascara running down the cheeks,
fancy dressed and the heels broken on the shoes, so
they're walking around barefoot. Yet hair is a wreck. It
inevitably starts to rain. It is like the number one
night for so for single women tiers way, there's not
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even a close second. I think, so, like, how are
you not you're coming over to my side on this
one chief, which is New Year's Eve is the worst holiday? Well, no,
I was. I mean I was thinking I didn't even
think about New Year's Eve in my rankings. But I
was like, I thought, maybe you, as a long term
single guy might have it in your top five. No, no, no,
it's it's very Uh, it's not it's not good. And honestly,
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if there's one, you know, if there's one person you
wanted to the midnight kiss with, you know, you just
want to hang out with that person, You're gonna wait
till midnight. So why are you going to some big party?
I think the whole thing is, uh, it's a scam.
I don't know if it was made up to sell
Hallmark cards or something. Someone tell me what the conspiracy
is behind it. But I think New Year's Eve is
a scam and a half. And look, how do you
have a great New Year's Eve? Hang out with the
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people that you like the most, your family, your friends, whatever,
in a mellow setting. Maybe have a glass of champagna
or you know, a glass of whiskey or something, have
a good meal, watch the ball drop on TV, and
go great. Tomorrow's January first, let's get after it. Will
I will tell a lot of guys out there listening,
and some women as well. The college football playoff games
(51:19):
are on New Year's Eve tonight this year, so on
December thirty first, starting about four o'clock Eastern, all the
way up through the official New Year there right now.
I've got guys panicked right now because they hadn't done
the math in their head and they got wives or
they got girlfriends, and they were supposed to plan something,
and now all they want to do is just sit back,
have a couple of beers watch college football playoff direct
(51:42):
overlap with New Year's Eve. But they tried to brand
this when they expanded to the four team college Football Playoff,
they said, hey, we're gonna make New Year's Eve synonymous
with college football biggest disaster schedule ever because what they
didn't realize was a lot of people have big plans
and they created I think more fights are relating to
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sports over these games going on head to head than
they ever contemplated with My My thing is I do
love eating out and I love going that. That's my
way of experiencing different you know, cities and towns all
across America. I just want to what's the best food
they've got here? So I love going out to eat.
And New Year's Eve is literally the worst night of
the year to go out to eat. It is. It
is the worst night you were getting everything they're they're
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doing everywhere As a prefixed men. I never want a
prefix menu. I'm at a restaurant. If I was going
to prepare and only have one different way to one
set of food, I would do it at home. They
triple charge you in most places, so for eating out,
it's the worst night. And it's just amateur night. Man.
You know, it's like the best nights you have are
the ones you're not trying to have the best night.
And New Year's Eve it concentrates all that, Oh what
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you do on what are you going to do on
New Year's Eve? Go to sleep early, wake up the
next day, and just keep living my life. I think
that's why all the girls buck end up crying outside
because they built it up into a momentous occasion and stand,
whatever douchebag guy they're dating that they thought was going
to be the man of their dreams proves that he's
a douchebag, and they're just like, why did I ever
(53:07):
think that this will? You know a lot of people
think they're gonna get They think that the prosals gonna
happen at midnight and the resolution whatever, and you know
the guys actually, you know, seven fireballs in watching Clay's
Favorite sec football team lose to some other football team.
He is not thinking about that diamond ring. Ladies. I
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome and 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
(01:28):
University of not 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
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to Doha, 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
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and a bunch of other neighborhood kids in a mass
football game. Uh. They are all out of school, and
first thing they want to do. 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
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cousins 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 were
there were not like like like fifteen or twenty floors
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of people living above and loath them. They 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
where you could just go out there, no stretching, no,
you know, you know. Now I'm like, oh, man, I
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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 footballs,
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 first
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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
am strings give out. Maybe the ACL doesn't stretch as
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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
(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. Did
(05:50):
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 Years? 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 of easy to
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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 people that were wearing masks,
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which is unsurprised. I gotta 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 affix to
their head that you can see the line of the
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rubber and the back of their scalp and kind of
a you know, like like they're just 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 this to why we we were
both I mean, I don't know if anything was getting
us more fired up yesterday on the political scene for
(07:16):
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 won't even get into it.
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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 since, he would
(08:01):
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.
You can get back to two thousand nineteen era Thanksgiving.
(08:25):
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
of your life. Somebody's sick, you say, okay, we'll change plans.
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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
or twenty percent or thirty percent of broken brains out there,
(09:08):
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,
just to our nation's capital. Everybody more left wing, more
(09:28):
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,
(10:11):
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 didn't 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
(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 shei's
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 was saying, and
this was back in August. I'm sure the numbers are
(12:02):
even 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
that they've made where if you get the COVID shot
(12:23):
or 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
(12:43):
it is 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,
(13:06):
unless it comes 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 talk about this one.
Just just differ in the loans again, you know, tens
of billions of dollars because Biden feels like it, folks,
we are thankful for a lot, but the poor governance
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Welcome back in Thanksgiving Eve
edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, as I continue to say,
we are very thankful for all of you and hope
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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 immediate way that it was politicized.
Everybody out there decided, oh, the right wingers are to
(15:15):
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 from continuing. There are many
heroes there. But if you 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,
(15:38):
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 newest version of The Santa Claus. Buck
My boys are obsessed. You watched The Santa Claus back
in the day that Tim Allen Santa Claus based movie,
(15:58):
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? I save it
for the kids. When you and Carrie have kids, they
will probably love the Santa Claus. 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.
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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 back to Christmas movies and Thanksgiving
movies later. So I'm watching this. Yeah, we'll talk about
it in a second. But I'm watching this when out
of nowhere on my phone pops up a news alert,
and that news alert lets me know that the shooter
(16:42):
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, the shooter might
not have been some Tucker Carlson watching Maga enthusiast Donald
Trump's supporter might have actually been also transgender. Listen. Attorneys
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for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich say in new
court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as non binary.
In a footnote to emotion as certain legal privileges, the
public defenders say, quote Anderson Aldrich is non binary. They
use they them pronouns, and for the purposes of all
(17:30):
formal filings will be addressed as mix Aldrich. So another
was not mister or miss I don't know 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
(17:52):
things here. One is I believe the individual here is
considered non binary, not transgender, right, meaning in between. It's
not someone who is going from female to male. But
we may be right about that. I don't so I
get all confused on this term. Everybody gets, you know,
what is non binary versus trying So non binary means
(18:14):
neither quite fully on the female side of the spectrum
or the male side of the spectrum. Cist gender would
be if you're one or the other also known as gender.
If you're male or female that assists gender non binary
is you're in some middle ground between the two genders.
So a couple of interesting and interesting things that this
(18:36):
brings up. I mean, one is just and look I
understand right, I mean I even saw people saying, 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 to 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
(18:57):
individuals who are there. The army veteran who took down
the shooters should be praised for being a hero. 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,
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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 Democrats 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 are at a funeral and
someone yells at you that you are responsible for the
(19:39):
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 standard
where 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
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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, 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
(20:23):
to change his name at the age of sixteen. This
stretches back four years. This was not something that that
just they stumbled the pawn in this moment. And I
also think it raises issues. Why should the court accede
to this? Why should I mean, as far as the
court is concerned, there are men, there are women. There
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are differences in law that affect men and women. And
the claim that somebody has to be 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
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with plural pronouns when an individual committed a heinous act
is confusing. If I were, let me give it a sorry.
I'm just obviously fired up 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 prefer to me as the victim, because that's
(21:28):
how I identify. I identify as a victim. He said, 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 law use to discuss a legal proceeding.
I'm so I got big problems with that. No, I
think you're 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
(21:49):
advantage to the defendant because every time you refer to
the defendant, if you say they, it makes people think
that more than one person was involved in a 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.
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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, did I miss something here? Is this
multiple people who were involved? Is this one person who
was involved? All of it's 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
(22:35):
mental illness that I believe is likely involved in the
behavior of this shooter. That's another issue that I have
from a pure legal and justice system perspective on this one.
Every time to your point of 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
(22:55):
idea that there is perhaps a collective responsibility. They they
did this terrible thing, but you know they have a
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
(23:17):
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
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
(23:37):
was the preferred not mister or missus, but MX MX
M M right. No, I know I'm saying I don't
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. You know,
everyone knows. We could all fill in the blanks here.
It's this is crazy stuff that's going on. But also
(23:58):
the fact that they lied about this us right away
and put this on specific individuals. I'm just gonna say this, AOC.
Wasn't she the one who called out after Bobert. Yeah, AOC,
if she has a shred of honor or integrity, should
publicly apologize to Congresswoman Bobert. This is not just a
(24:18):
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
honor decency. Worse than that, even than her failure to apologize, Buck,
None of these people who jumped to conclusions about the
(24:39):
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 right wing
as they describe it commentators, there are no consequences now
that they are proven wrong. I find it hard to
(25:01):
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 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 Musk's takeover of Twitter is dangerous and
(25:24):
leading to people die. I mean, they 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 and so timeless, because when you think about it
in that context, the media just they unleash this devastation
of lies and they just speed off until the next one,
(25:45):
no accountability whatsoever. So what we finally have more information
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Back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Thanksgiving Eve. We
(27:13):
are headed now down to Qatar. I believe I'm pronouncing
that correctly, or at least as the pronunciation has been
agreed to to be joined by Fox Soccer analyst Alexei Lawless.
They are eight hours ahead of us. It is almost
Thanksgiving Day, I guess in Qatar and Alexei, first of all,
thanks for making the time for us. I know it's
an absolute crazy zoo over there with all the games
(27:35):
going on. And I want to start with this question,
US is up one zero When you see the play.
As a former defenseman for the US men's soccer team,
when you see the play of Walker Zimmerman and the
foul that he committed that led to a penalty kick,
your immediate reaction was to say, or think, what well?
(27:58):
Something I can't say on the radio because I am
an ADVID listener to your show and I know you
have a level of decorum here. By the way, I
do I subscribe. I listened to it every day this
morning on the peloton here in the hotel in Qatar.
In Doha. Here I was listening to the show. So
I am a huge fan of both of you guys
and of this show. When I saw that I was disappointed.
(28:19):
I was angry, um, and you know I pictured I
pictured myself on the field. And look, mistakes happen in sports,
mistakes happens in life, and it's how you recover from them.
So ultimately, the US ties Whales won one. And you know,
I know that Buck was having some fun at Wales's expense.
You know, Bucks should know that. I mean, it's kind
(28:39):
of come on, it's kind of fair, like how many
people even know that Whales is its own country. Well,
I understand that. I understand that, but you know they
they are a small country, but they are a hearty country.
And and look, I agree with you, the US should
have beaten Whales. And so you're dropping points there. And
in the way that had happened with Walker's Immerman making
that what amounts to a stupid foul. It shouldn't be
(29:00):
done at any level, especially for a professional and it's
big in a World Cup. However, there's a couple of
games to play here, including this huge one on Black
Friday against against England, our friends England, So there is
plenty to play for when it comes to the World Cup.
And whether you're into soccer or whether you're not into soccer,
this is an opportunity to sit down and celebrate what
I feel is the greatest country in the world. There's
a very few things in our life and our world
(29:21):
today that bring us together, and maybe soccer is one
of them. So Alexei, so I'm gonna put this out
there just in all fairness. Right, let's not looking good
for our guys on Friday. I'm just I know enough
about soccer, mostly from playing FIFA on PlayStation, but I
know enough about the English teams rankings and the American
teams rankings. It's not looking great for us. But you know,
we did win in seventeen seventy six, so we got
that going for us, which is nice. Iran, though we're
(29:45):
gonna be playing Iran. Tell me as somebody who knows
this US national team inside and now, I don't care
if we are playing Iran in shuffleboard, if we're playing
Iran in wings, you name it. America has to win.
Are we going to win that match? Well, You're going
(30:07):
to have to win in order to advance. So you're
absolutely right, Buck, this is going to be a huge game.
And look at you, as you know, sports sometimes mirrors
culture and society and politics and all those different things
and all of that is going to be on display
with Iran, which we have a long history from. Look
I grew up in the seventies and eighties and what
Iran represented to America and to Americans, and so that
will be part of the narrative. Ultimately, there's three points.
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So and to your point, it doesn't matter whether there's men's, women's,
co ed naked. If we're playing Iran, I want to
win and we need to win this game in order
to go on. I think because to your point, who
knows what's going to happen against England. They are a
better team, doesn't mean that US can't get a point
or get a win over there. I believe that this
is a good US team that can do some big
things and this would be huge if they would be
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able to beat England. But no matter what, that third game,
you're going to have to beat Iran. Okay. So that's
what a lot of people out there who they don't
if they don't follow this closely. We've got England, Wales,
the United States, and Iran in a group. And if
we had beaten Wales, we would have been an incredible
shape to advance because two teams advance. Do you see
this coming down to gold differential, in which case we're
(31:14):
going to be watching on Friday, everybody recovering from Thanksgiving meals,
kicking the feet up watching. Do you feel like, even
if we lose to England, it's desperately important to keep
it close because gold differential may well decide who advances
to the knockout rounds. Yeah, you're absolutely right, it is
important that we keep it close. But I do feel
(31:36):
that this has the opportunity in the makings of something historic.
And I know it's it's not a shirt, but this
is a this is a young team. It's the second
youngest team in the tournament. I think they have a
not just a responsibility that they feel, but also an
opportunity to do some big things and to get whether
it's people like yoursels or anybody else is listening out there,
(31:56):
to at least step into the soccer tent, because once
you get in there, it's warm, it is welcoming. And
guess what it is American. We do have an American
soccer culture. It is vibrant, it is passionate, is discerning,
it is growing, and don't you dare apologize for it
because it is something that's very very special and unique
in the soccer world out there. But that has to
come out and manifest on the play on the field,
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especially when it comes to our men's team. Our women's
team they kick ass as we know and whin all
the time. The men's team has to step up. And
this would be a huge, huge moment in this World
Cup if they were able to get that result against
England on Black Friday and then parlay that into a
great result against Iran and get out of the group.
So we're speaking to Alexei lalas Fox Soccer analyst and
also a man who really popularized the bright red goatee
(32:42):
of the nineteen nineties. If I recall, wasn't that you?
I remember this man, you're rocking that got was like
that was like a ten out of ten goatee. You
were not messing around. I feel like I've seen you
on TV. It's not there anymore. How are things out
in cutter Man? How's our Qatar? How's it going? You're
actually in country right now? There's been you know, some
new stories about there was like a beer band, but
(33:03):
not really. But how how is it doing? A World Cup? There?
I can. I can assure you that I have never
once in the now couple of weeks that I've been here,
nor the other previous trips that I've taken, had a
problem finding alcohol. Uh, people believe me, something that doesn't
surprise me at all going forward. Yeah, but it is
it is a we have. We have this kick ass
(33:24):
set when it comes to our Fox soccer set here
down at what's called the Corniche, which is down on
the water, the people here have been incredible. It is
a really really interesting, like you said World Cup in
that there's this brigadoonish type of experience where everybody is
in the same place, nobody travels anywhere, all the teams,
all the stadiums are here and we're gonna We're gonna
blow it out on Fox. And we have this incredible
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set here that has multiple levels and multiple stages, and
people come to it like it is part of the
star of the showdown here and it just augments all
of the coverage that that we are bringing. And part
of our job is not just to talk about the soccer,
but to talk about this country and this culture and
to make that part of the storytelling that we're doing.
Am I understanding. By the way, I want all of
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you to watch the US and Alexei and Stu and
all the crew that's out there, Jenny Taft, fantastic job
they're doing. But also I will be up in Columbus
for this Ohio State Michigan game, which is going to
be huge, and my understanding, as a part of our
pregame show, we're actually going to be integrating some of
you guys. It's my understanding it might not be a
one hundred percent accurate as a part of the World
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Cup to have you guys talking college football and maybe
a little bit of NFL. Also, so for people out there,
Alexei who don't know this US men's soccer team, you
mentioned how young they are. You played in the World
Cup back in nineteen ninety two in the United States,
the first time that you play in a World Cup
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match as a young guy. It feels like, what first
part of the question, second aspect here, how much more
comfortable and better did you play in game two? Having
just gotten the butterflies in some extent out in that
first ever World Cup match? Yeah? I mean, look, would
you realize a dream? There is a moment of ah
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and the sooner you get over it, the better off
you are going to be when you recognize it's the
game that you're playing, been played playing all along. Mine
was way back in the nineteen hundreds before you guys
were born, back back in nineteen ninety four, summer ninety four.
Like you said, Buck, a lot of hair. Never has
so much been done with the monoicum of talent and
a lot of hair, whether it was the goatie or
the hair on top of my head. I wish I
could still grow it. I've cleaned up on the outside,
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but I'm still a mess on the inside. But then
you walk out on that field, and in my case,
at that point, it was actually in Pontiac at the
Pontiac silverdam Rest in Peace, the Pontiac Silverdome. I grew
up in Detroit, so fifteen minutes outside of where I
grew up, walking on that field and realizing a dream. Now,
this US team has already done that, right, so now
they understand what the World Cup is. Now on Friday,
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when they walk out against against England, it's not just
with the realization that they're representing their country, but it's
also with the understanding that they're here's a competition here,
and you got to figure it out very very quickly
against a very very good team. But look, there's nothing
like it when you walk out on that field, when
you put your hand over your heart, you put that
shirt on, you sing that song for me, there is
nothing else, nothing else like it. And if I could,
(36:14):
I would, I would do anything to get back in
all right, Alexei lawis of Fox Soccer, and Alexei, let's
hope that us, first of all, have a happy Thanksgiving
out there. I know you're abroad right now, and said
pass along the same for us to all the American
players out there. We're thinking about them and we appreciate
you joining us. And let's hope we get a w
on Friday. I will actually watch this. This sports competition awesome.
(36:39):
I love it. I love it. I love what you
guys to do it so I do, so keep on
doing it and make sure that you give me something
for what I'm on the peloton sweating my ass off, absolutely, sir,
Thank you so much. Play. Alexei is a fantastic guy. Buck.
I told you he listens to the show and he's
a great American soccer hero. So I remember because I
was playing soccer in high school back back when he
was on that national team or a writer around then,
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and he was one of the first guys I think
to really popularize the US men's national team of that era.
You know, just he was a well known guy as
men's soccer was becoming more of a thing here. You know,
this is really I think that was even pre MLS,
or maybe the MLS had just gotten going. I think
(37:22):
the MLS built out, and I think I said ninety
two was ninety four. That was the launching point, that's right.
The MLS was the amount of attention that we had hosting.
And remember we're hosting to a large extent the World
Cup in twenty six which is why would ever experience
these guys get now hopefully could translate four years from
now when we hosted basically in the United States North
(37:43):
America does. Yeah, but you know that Argentinean team, which
is supposed to one of the best in the world,
they got caught flat footed, folks. They were a little
slow in the third fourth quarter and Saudi Arabia beat them.
So I know it would be international shipping clay, but
maybe we could get them a little bit of a
boost a little bit of extra energy to help push them.
Very well played in the final quarters of their match,
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whether you are listening as maybe you are traveling around
the country. And what is likely to be the most
(39:55):
frenzied Thanksgiving since all the way back in twenty nineteen,
which feels like a very long time ago. This is
the third Thanksgiving we have had since COVID began, and
it feels like even for people with broken brains, the
vast majority of Americans are back to a normal Thanksgiving holiday.
I just went down during the commercial break to make
(40:16):
sure that my kids had managed to make it through
their Thanksgiving Eve football game without anybody getting really severely
injured or any major fights breaking out. The Travis Boys
managed to stay healthy travel back to New York City.
Are your kids old enough for they play tackle football yet?
My sixth grader played official tackle football, but I have
(40:39):
mandated that they can only play touch in the neighborhood
because my eight year olds playing too. So if you're
fifteen about to be fifteen year olds tackling the eight
year old, that's a recipe. How do you feel about
about about the young Travis boys playing like high school
tackle football? If they want to play, they can play.
I'm not going to stop them from doing. Like I said,
(41:00):
my sixth grader played first year ever played flag football before,
but this year in middle school he played tackle football. Now,
I was against other sixth graders, but buck, as you
well remember, sometimes six and seventh graders, I should say,
the kid who hits puberty is a monster out there
on the field. Right. If you hit puberty at twelve
or thirteen earlier full puberty than other people, you got
(41:21):
a mustache, you might be six foot tall out there
compared to a lot of other kids that are like
five to four, So that was sometimes an issue, you know.
I at one point my kids said, it's hard to
tackle that kid. He's got a mustache, Dad, And I
was like, well, you know, that's a that's an argument
that you can make when you hit that borderline puberty
or non puberty age for the for the kids, everybody
(41:43):
out there who's either played or coached in that age
range knows exactly what I'm talking about. Um, what was
the travel for you? Like, by the way, you came
back from Florida, You're back in New York today. Was
it frenzied at the airports? I understand it's like kind
of crazy everywhere right now. Yeah, I was up. I
was there five am. It was already like long security
lines and that's pretty much as and I was taking
(42:05):
the earliest possible flight. So you're gonna see a lot
of that going on. But I do think now people
are really everybody who I think everybody who was going
to think normally about traveling in the era of post
COVID America, I think they're there. Maybe some people will
start to chill out a little bit going forward. But look,
(42:26):
it's it's good because we really haven't had even last Thanksgiving.
Last Thanksgiving wasn't a normal Thanksgiving, folks. We all remember
there there was the you know, the pen the Winner
of Death and all this stuff, and the Biden administration
was hammering on how you better get the shot, and
they had pushed the vaccine mandate, and there were vaccine
cards and people those vaccine cards the dumbest thing. People
(42:48):
will look back, historians will look back. They'll be like, wait,
you did care a little piece of paper that says
you've got a shot. That doesn't even stop you from
giving the virus to other people? Any like what it
was this all about? But it felt pretty normal today
out there traveling airline attendants did have masks on. However,
in my flight, the attendants really yeah, I remember those,
some of those Siberian prison guards. I remember what they
(43:09):
were like, thirty five thousand feet in the sky. I
have not forgotten. I have not forgiven. I'm concerned. You
mentioned earlier in the show that this is crazy that
kids going back to public school in Washington, DC have
to have a negative COVID test in order to return
to school, And yesterday we played you the audio of
doctor Fauci saying you should take a COVID test before
(43:29):
you go to your Thanksgiving dinner, and doctor job led
and said, if you get the COVID booster, you won't
die of COVID. Then Washington Post Today, to their credit,
has an article up saying, actually, nearly sixty percent of
people dying with COVID have had either the cod shots
or COVID boosters. But I'm concerned. You know, when you
look at Los Angeles and they're talking about bringing masks back,
(43:50):
that a lot of you out there listening to us
in blue cities, even if you're in a red state,
may have things to worry about if the numbers start
to tick up on COVID. And certainly, what we're seeing
unfortunately back, especially for young kids, is a lot of
them were so isolated from other kids that they didn't
(44:11):
get the usual viruses and illnesses that young kids. I mean,
that's a phrase snot nosed kid for a reason. There's
almost always if you've got young kids, a little cold
or a little virus that they're working through to develop
their immune systems. And unfortunately, what you're seeing so far
this early part as we moved towards the winter, is
(44:31):
a lot of those kids are getting RSV or they're
getting the flu, and that's actually more dangerous, unfortunately to
truly young children than COVID has been. And the way
we treated them for COVID made them more likely to
get them more serious illness. And there's now been a
run on a bunch of medications and abiotics for children.
I think they're they're even starting to report on a
(44:51):
shortage of children's tailing all. If I saw that, right,
I saw that. I saw Megan McCain tweet that out
earlier today that it's hard to find this is. I'll
just note if we do have a really bad upper
respiratory virus season that affects children, and so across the
board now flew an RSV and COVID, all these things.
They're not gonna want to tell you this until next summer,
(45:14):
but eventually it will come out that not allowing children
to live normal lives and be exposed to the normal
upper respiratory infections that they come into contact with on
a regular basis made them effectively short term immunocompromise. I mean,
I do believe that that will eventually come out not
not immunocompromise in a severe way, but that they just
didn't have immunity against some of these things. So they're
(45:36):
getting hit particularly hard because of the way that we
separated children, didn't let them live their lives, kept them away.
You know, we gotta remember there are some people we
don't hear about this anymore. There's some people who do
them let their kids see other kids for two years,
two years, you know, and they happen to live you know,
New York, DC, LA, few other places. But they were
(45:56):
keeping the kids locked away, almost like they're trying to
have them live in a bubble. And they were the
same people who took pictures of their kids getting COVID
shots that were completely worthless and put it on social
media to be social justice warriors and brag about about that.
I gotta correct something I said earlier in the Showbuck
And this is maybe a major major flaw in our
(46:17):
holiday power rankings. Neither one of us ranked New Year's Eve.
Oh I am anti New Year's Eve. So you considered
and rejected ranking, sir, sir, we have a whole conversation.
New Year's Eve is the most stressful, overrated annoying holiday.
(46:37):
I will take National Pancake Day over New Year's Eve.
I will find, like, you know, those random holidays that
they make. You're saying this though, even this surprises me
because you've been a single guy for a long time,
so you could theoretically have celebrated New Year's Eve. Now,
for parents like me, I'm at that day. I've been
in several different years where I've been like, hey, let
(46:58):
me try to trick my kids. Will watch the New
Year's ball drop from Times Square on the Eastern time zone.
I can get my kids to go to bed earlier.
Let me tell you a little little little dispatches from recently.
You know, single man life HW now engaged obviously, so
I'm out of it. I'm out of that game, thank god.
But what it used to be like every year for
(47:19):
my you know, adult life eighteen to thirty nine. You
know it's New Year's Eve? Okay, you know, how do
we make this the most amazing night ever? And then
you go out and ever get super drunk. They try
to go to as many parties as they can, and
it's never really what you wanted to be. Then you
get a little older, right, That's that's in your twenties,
maybe in your thirties, it's like, oh, there's all these
parties and going all these parties, and you know you're
(47:40):
gonna have that moment where like you meet the beautiful stranger,
you make out at midnight, and you get married and
have five beautiful kids. It doesn't work that way. Everyone's like,
I'm so drunk, you know. They're all like stumbling over
each other. There's always someone who's yelling like I'm stuck
in line, I can't get in, and everyone's all upset.
It's a total mess. And then you get a little
older and you're like, you know what, I'm not really
gonna do this New Year's Eve thing anymore. I'm not
(48:00):
gonna do it. And then about three weeks before it's
New Year's Eve, maybe a month before, people start texting you, hey,
we're gonna do something right, and the peer pressure starts
getting ratcheted up. You try to opt out, it gets
ratcheted up, and then all of a sudden you're like, Okay, well,
I guess I'll go to you know, that super expensive
restaurant where they're gonna give me a prefixed menu with
the worst cheapest food they have and the worst service imaginable,
(48:23):
and they're gonna usher us in like cattle and usher
us out in scheduled seating, and the restaurant could care
less about the whole thing. And you're in for like
I mean, in New York City, Clay, a crappy restaurant's
gonna cost you two hundred dollars on New Year's Eve
for person. I mean, you go to a hotel in Miami.
I've been in Miami last few New Year's Eves. You
go to like a place that's just okay, five hundred
(48:44):
bucks a person on New Year's Eve. It's crazy. I
hate it. It's a great night for restaurants. I would
argue with you that New Year's Eve heading into New
Year's itself, and I'm curious if you would agree with
this number one night for women to be dressed up
in fancy dresses, ready to go out have a great
time that ends with them crying. I can't tell you
(49:06):
the number of times. I can't tell anybody the number
of times that I have either been with or been
out on New Year's Eve. Everybody's in a great food,
especially if you're single twenties who look like they're at
their their prom or something that they're they're sitting outside
of the booming music at somesive party and the mascaras right,
(49:29):
they're like, I just don't understand why he doesn't do that.
It is it is the number one night for girls
to cry about their boyfriends or their significant others, or
the guy that they thought was gonna be their boyfriend
that it didn't work out. I can't tell you the
number of times they're often you know, they got the
(49:49):
fancy shoes that they're just done with, they got them
in their hand. To your point, mascara running down the cheeks,
fancy dressed and the heels broken on the shoes, so
they're walking around barefoot. Yet hair is a wreck. It
inevitably starts to rain. It is like the number one
night for so for single women tiers way, there's not
(50:11):
even a close second. I think, so, like, how are
you not you're coming over to my side on this
one chief, which is New Year's Eve is the worst holiday? Well, no,
I was. I mean I was thinking I didn't even
think about New Year's Eve in my rankings. But I
was like, I thought, maybe you, as a long term
single guy might have it in your top five. No, no, no,
it's it's very Uh, it's not it's not good. And honestly,
(50:33):
if there's one, you know, if there's one person you
wanted to the midnight kiss with, you know, you just
want to hang out with that person, You're gonna wait
till midnight. So why are you going to some big party?
I think the whole thing is, uh, it's a scam.
I don't know if it was made up to sell
Hallmark cards or something. Someone tell me what the conspiracy
is behind it. But I think New Year's Eve is
a scam and a half. And look, how do you
have a great New Year's Eve? Hang out with the
(50:55):
people that you like the most, your family, your friends, whatever,
in a mellow setting. Maybe have a glass of champagna
or you know, a glass of whiskey or something, have
a good meal, watch the ball drop on TV, and
go great. Tomorrow's January first, let's get after it. Will
I will tell a lot of guys out there listening,
and some women as well. The college football playoff games
(51:19):
are on New Year's Eve tonight this year, so on
December thirty first, starting about four o'clock Eastern, all the
way up through the official New Year there right now.
I've got guys panicked right now because they hadn't done
the math in their head and they got wives or
they got girlfriends, and they were supposed to plan something,
and now all they want to do is just sit back,
have a couple of beers watch college football playoff direct
(51:42):
overlap with New Year's Eve. But they tried to brand
this when they expanded to the four team college Football Playoff,
they said, hey, we're gonna make New Year's Eve synonymous
with college football biggest disaster schedule ever because what they
didn't realize was a lot of people have big plans
and they created I think more fights are relating to
(52:03):
sports over these games going on head to head than
they ever contemplated with My My thing is I do
love eating out and I love going that. That's my
way of experiencing different you know, cities and towns all
across America. I just want to what's the best food
they've got here? So I love going out to eat.
And New Year's Eve is literally the worst night of
the year to go out to eat. It is. It
is the worst night you were getting everything they're they're
(52:25):
doing everywhere As a prefixed men. I never want a
prefix menu. I'm at a restaurant. If I was going
to prepare and only have one different way to one
set of food, I would do it at home. They
triple charge you in most places, so for eating out,
it's the worst night. And it's just amateur night. Man.
You know, it's like the best nights you have are
the ones you're not trying to have the best night.
And New Year's Eve it concentrates all that, Oh what
(52:46):
you do on what are you going to do on
New Year's Eve? Go to sleep early, wake up the
next day, and just keep living my life. I think
that's why all the girls buck end up crying outside
because they built it up into a momentous occasion and stand,
whatever douchebag guy they're dating that they thought was going
to be the man of their dreams proves that he's
a douchebag, and they're just like, why did I ever
(53:07):
think that this will? You know a lot of people
think they're gonna get They think that the prosals gonna
happen at midnight and the resolution whatever, and you know
the guys actually, you know, seven fireballs in watching Clay's
Favorite sec football team lose to some other football team.
He is not thinking about that diamond ring. Ladies. I
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