December 19, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show wraps up the year with a dynamic mix of hard-hitting political analysis, cultural commentary, and lighthearted holiday debates. Clay opens the final hour by revisiting breaking news updates, including confirmation that the Brown University shooter is dead and suspected of also killing an MIT professor specializing in nuclear science. He notes the ongoing investigation into the shooter’s motives and the expected release of the Epstein files, which have dominated headlines. Clay also highlights recent cultural and political flashpoints, such as Nike’s collapsing stock price following years of woke branding decisions and revelations of Fulton County election fraud in Georgia’s 2020 race, which he argues altered Senate control and enabled Biden’s legislative agenda.
The centerpiece of Hour 3 is an in-depth conversation with Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, who begins with a humorous recounting of his grueling Thanksgiving workout—a mile of lunges—before pivoting to serious national security concerns. Mullen defends President Trump’s authorization of drone strikes on narco boats linked to Venezuelan cartels, explaining that these operations comply with long-standing legal frameworks and are essential to combating drug trafficking that has killed more Americans through overdoses than U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam. He blasts critics like Adam Schiff for hypocrisy and underscores the administration’s proactive stance against cartel terrorism. Mullin also calls out Bernie Sanders for blocking bipartisan “Right to Try” legislation that would allow pediatric cancer patients access to experimental treatments, accusing Sanders of prioritizing socialist healthcare agendas over saving lives.
The hour then shifts to cultural and lifestyle topics, including a spirited debate over the best Christmas movies. Mullen argues for Rambo as an unconventional holiday pick, while Clay champions Christmas Vacation and listeners weigh in with favorites like Die Hard, Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life, and underrated gems such as Four Christmases and The Man Who Invented Christmas. These exchanges provide a festive counterpoint to earlier discussions on policy and culture.
Clay closes the program with a passionate reflection on the power of culture in shaping institutions and personal choices, sharing a story about Vanderbilt University’s decisive response to pro-Palestinian campus protests after the Hamas terror attacks. He praises Chancellor Daniel Diermeier for enforcing discipline and protecting free speech without tolerating chaos, noting that such leadership has driven a surge in applications to SEC schools. Clay frames this as proof that “culture wins,” urging listeners to stand firm against woke ideology and defend Western values. The hour ends on an inspiring note with a former Hamas hostage’s testimony that terrorists feared Donald Trump, reinforcing Clay’s argument that strength and resolve are essential in confronting evil.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, Final Hour,
Final show of the final hour of the year. We're
going to have some fun here as we roll into
Christmas season. Buck is already out on his Christmas break
and soon I will join him. And I know a
lot of you have got kids that are getting out
(00:21):
of school right now, grandkids that are getting out of
school in earnest. Certainly by Monday, things are going to
be really taking off with the Christmas season.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We've updated you.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
The Brown University shooter is dead. Motivation still being tracked.
There expectation that Epstein files, many of them are going
to be released. Erica Kirk last night endorsed jd Vance.
We have got Nike stock collapsing as they have lost
their way, Fulton County fraud in the Atlanta twenty twenty election,
(00:59):
all of that we are discussing. But we bring in
now Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. We got a bunch of
topics to hit with him. But I want to start
with this. I watched the video of you on Thanksgiving.
I think it was doing one mile of leg squats,
and I actually I showed my wife too, because she's
in way better shape. Than me, and we were both
(01:21):
just in disbelief that you pulled that off, and you
had a couple of buddies that were in waited.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Vest two.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So I want to start with a super important question here.
How sore were you the next morning when you woke
up after doing one mile of leg squats?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was clay, Clay Lungele's Clay. It wasn't the next morning,
it was two days later. By day five, I didn't
think I was ever gonna walk no more. It was horful.
I got, I got, I got. I wouldn't say hoaxed
into it, but egoed into it because I have I
(01:58):
have a very good you know, the Oklahoma State Troopers,
they have a tag team and they're the ones that
provide a security for me. And you know, these are
all heavy hitters. I mean, these guys are uncle draggers
and they have a tradition where they do have mile lunges.
Everything's good, be morning. And I was like, okay, yeah,
(02:21):
I'm gonna end up doing that with you, aren't I a.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Mile of lunges?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Like for anybody out there that does, like has ever
done one hundred yards of lunges, which is a long way,
or if you've done it with basketball, let's say football.
Your coaches have said, you guys played like crap last night,
Like we're doing lunges. It maybe the worst workout pot,
at least in my opinion. I'd way rather do push ups.
I'd weigh whether do you know sprints off and on?
(02:47):
Lunging just NonStop is brutal.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I saw that. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't know how everything from the belly button down
gets sore, but any sort. But I was hurting. I
mean it was, it was, yeah, it was, it was.
It was rough. I'm just gonna tell you, Clay I
had I was, and then I said, I'll never do
it again. And I thought, yeah, I'm going to do
(03:12):
it next year too. Next year I'll be prepared, but
I'm not doing the best. So now, those are the
two guys that did the you know, on the tag
team that did it with us. They did a twenty
pound best. God left him. I have an ego, but
I don't have that big one anymore. I'm still forty eight.
They were in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We're talking with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. We're
going to get to the college football playoff, kind of
a big deal in the states of Alabama and Oklahoma,
among the others.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Uh, but let's uh, let's pivot here for a sec
to the serious topics this narco attacks that we're seeing
off the coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
What should our audience know about that?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You know, Buck and I have known Pete hagg sat
for a long time Secretary of War. We trust him, implicitly, frankly,
to make good decisions to make America safer. I was
with Pete on Election Night, of all places, at kid
Rocks honky Tonks, celebrating the facts that Donald Trump had won.
We didn't know, at least I didn't. Maybe he had
some idea that he might end up being Secretary of War.
(04:14):
You've had the opportunity to be briefed on these They've
tried to turn them into an issue. Although I would say,
I keep up the quad box here just to see
what they're saying on MSNBC and CNN. They basically have
stopped those arguments because I'm guessing a lot of these
videos that people have seen show that these attacks were justified.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, it's and I have to my disclaimer is I'm
good friends with Satory except to you know, I like
the guy. But besides that, we have certain authorizations that
had to be hit before you can use lethal force
in in a drone hit. And these powers go all
the way back to twenty twenty four. In fact, the
(04:57):
guy who's trying to speak out out loud to against
this the Junior Center from California, Adam Shift. He helped
draw the papers when he was in the House. So
these authorities have been around for a long time. Obama
used these authorities five hundred times to kill three thirty
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seven hundred terrorists. By the way, a few of them
were actually US citizens along the way, And so those
same authorities are being used now with these narcer boats
because these are terrorists and no one can say they're
not terrorists. There's twenty four legally designated terrorists cartels, and
this is one of them. The Moduro Cartel is deemed
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a terrorist organization. So the authorities can apply to hit too.
The difference is is that it's in a different hemisphere
and that it is Donald Trump doing it, and the
Democrats really don't have a leg to stand on now
when they start talking about the second hit that they
on this. There's strict rule to which we have, especially
the Navy when it goes to international waters on a
(06:06):
shipwrecked or a stranded person, not a body but person
that we have to comply by. But there's also strict
rules to which they have to apply by not by
picking them up to but they can't put personnel in danger,
in lethal danger along the way. And that's the argument
that they're saying because it was it was very apparent
(06:28):
that that one these are NARCO boats, there's no question
about it. Not every single one of them actually fits
the qualification. In fact, there's been way more boats that
we haven't been able to hit because they didn't meet
a certain criteria that it required for the hit to
take place, and we actually have hit. When the stranded
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these two individuals that was struck again, they were actively
still in what we'd call the fight. They weren't just
hopelessly clinging to debris in the water. They were actively
radio and another boat that was in the area they
were actually trying to turn over the vessel that was there.
That means that they were still we have to presume
they're still fighting. We have to presume that there's weapons
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on the boat because we've we when on the boats
that we've that we've encountered, we have found small arms
on those boats. So to strike anyone that has seen
the video, anyone that's been preached on it, if they
say any other thing, they're flat outlined to the American people.
And the President is being extremely proactive by protecting our
(07:31):
our our loved ones on our streets. I've used this
clay multiple times, but a statistic that your that your
audience might might find interesting is in twenty twenty four,
we lost more loved ones on our streets in the
US and our neighborhoods and our cities and our states.
And then we did an entire US personnel during the
(07:53):
Vietnam War just from drug overdoses. So they are poisoning
our streets. And thank god President Trump is being proactive
and send these narco boats and those that are trafficking
this stuff into our into our country to the bottom
of the ocean where they belong.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
What is Bernie Sanders doing? That is not helpful at all.
When it comes to a bill that you're trying to.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Pass, you're you're you're throwing the zingers at me, aren't
you son, Bernie Bernie Sanders is I got upset on
the poor that other. They called him mcrinch because he is,
but it's actually not funny what he's doing. Because what
he we have a we have a bill that basically
gives kids the right to try these are rare pediatric patients,
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kids that they don't have access to the same amount
of drugs that say, an adult with the same rare
cancer would have because they a lot of pharmaceutical companies
it's just not worth the lawsuit or or the or
the risk to allow to have children on experimental drugs.
(09:00):
But the drugs may work in adult cases, but they're
not authorizability to do it for for pediatric care. So
we had just we had a bill that was that
was going to give the children, our kids the same
right to try as an adult with the same type
of cancer. Bernie Sanders. And by the way, we got
it passed in the House by unanimous consent I meaning
(09:23):
not one single person voted against it. Well, we brought
it to the Senate for as we passed in the House,
to try to do the same thing by unanimous consent.
And Bernie Sanders, even though we had bipartisan support. We
had bipartison people speaking on on the floor with us.
He came to the forum blocked it for no other
reason because he wants to socialize our medicine. He literally
said that he's got a bill that he's wanting to
(09:44):
expand community health care for all uh and and by
the way, it's going to cost taxpayers billions of dollars
to do this. And this isn't going to cost the
taxpayers a penny because all we're saying is they have
the right to try, they have a right to be
part of experimental drugs. And he blocked it for his
own purpose. And it's it's frustrating to me because he's
(10:06):
he's playing politics with people's lives. Clay, I mean, this
drug might extend their life a day, it might extend
it a year, and it might cure it. But why
wouldn't you want to give kids the right to try
because of political reasons for you? And that was it,
and and it's very frustrating. I got very passionate about
it and called him the grenches, you know, not just
stilling gifts. But he's still in he's still in our
(10:28):
loved ones away from it. But it's it I don't
know how you explain that position, but this is what
you have when you have a career politician that was
literally elected office a year before I was born.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We're talking to Senator Mark Way Mullen of Oklahoma. All right,
let's go into some some really contentious issues.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
What are you want to pick with you on this one?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, we're going to get into Oklahoma Alabama in a sec.
But this is before we get to before we get
to OU's game against Bama today, which Alabama is going
to win. And I'm sure you're gonna want to fight
with me over that. But what is the best Christmas movie?
If you are with your family and you are sitting down,
as many people will be for the next week, and
you can only watch one Christmas movie, what would be
(11:10):
your number one draft pick?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Well, you you can't. It's got to go in two
categories here, because you can't just say my family, because
I got three girls and a wife and who I
always let's control it. I don't control.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's a smart man. You control. Yeah, okay, that that
is very important.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But if I'm with my boys, the best Christmas movie
is Rambo and people can argue about it all the
night all the time. But he's in the Sheriff's office.
It's clearly a Christmas tree in the background. That's a
Christmas movie. So that that's that's with my boys. Now,
if we're with the family, I love to laugh, and
I don't care how many times you watch Home Alone.
It's funny. Yeah, and and so that's that's probably our
(11:47):
always go to. But I also like, you know, Mickey
Mouse Christmas too. I love cartoons.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So wait a minute, you you like Rambo more than
die Hard? Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Absolutely, yeah, Okay, that's the take. But I appreciate that
you that you would argue it. All right, Well, okay,
but I grew up. I grew I grew up.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
In the age of Rambo and and Rocky and so
and Diehard came in later. The Diehard came in a
little bit later as I was getting older.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But I mean, what are you forty eight?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm forty eight, but did.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
A little bit forty six?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Diehard came out in like nineteen eighty nine, you were
like twelve eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
When when did Rambo came out?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Come out like eighty four eighty five?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
There I was, that's my that's my guess. I was
six years old, seventy years old.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I think I might be wrong on that. By the way,
somebody out there can fact check it, all right. I
know I'm not long about this. Norman, Oklahoma, Tonight, the
eyes of the sporting world are shifting to your home state.
I think that Alabama is going to win an ugly,
low scoring, defensive battle tonight.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I cannot wait to watch. Why am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So here here's my prediction. First of all, we went
to Tuscaloosa, which is an outstanding college football town. By
the way, I got to give them that man, that
town shows up. It was awesome experience. I was at
the game. We went into their stadium and beat them
in a hostile environment. Yeah, and we beat them with
the defense. They're coming to Norman. We don't lose a
lot of games in Norman. Now. Granted, oh you is
(13:20):
not known for showing up on bowl games. We've had
a rough spell on bowl games. However, we're in Norman.
These guys have lost two of their last three games,
not us Alabama has. They're going to come in. We're
going to get ahead because of our defense. We're going
to force turnovers. We're going to get ahead of them.
And if we get ahead of them and we're there
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in command at the end of the third quarter, we'll
win by two scorers.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I don't dislike the pick. It's going to be low scoring.
I think it's going to come down to turnovers. Who
can play better. John Mattier or Ty Simpson Senator. Have
a great Christmas. I'm sure we'll tell talk to you
after the first of the year. Keep fighting the battles
and maybe get the squats, maybe get the lunges ready
so so you're prepared. I don't know what workout you
(14:08):
got for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Are you saying that your wife and yourself are going
to do this challenge with me next year?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You know, when my wife watched that, she actually said
and she's in way better shape than I am. And
she looked at it and she said, he's crazy. And
I was like, I've got to ask him how painful
that is? Like I said this first question I asked you,
I was like, I I hate lunges more than any workout.
If you told me, hey, you have to I cheat
on the lunges all the time. I take extra steps
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between them, which is a way for everybody out there
who has had to do lunges any point. You can
cheat a little bit, you take two steps instead of one,
or but you weren't cheat.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I mean, that was a brutal workout. I got to
give you credit.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It was brutal. Ill I know you got to go,
so I'll do it real quick. I fought professional for
a long time. Anybody that's ever fought knows leg kicks
to the thigh suck they hurt so bad. Way after
the fighting, bruises on your face they go. They don't
hurt after the first day, but leg kick's hurt. This
was worse than any leg kick, kickboxing, sparring or professional
(15:07):
final I was ever involved in. It was awful, awful.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Awful, good stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Senator, we'll talk to you after the first of the year,
and condolences in advance for Alabama's big win that you're
gonna be watching later today.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
We're gonna talk again, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Fact check correction correction from the
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think I said eighty four eighty five for all of
you out there, by the way, Senator Mark Way Mullen wrong. Clearly,
Diehard is a better movie than Rambo, and I like both.
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Speaker 4 (17:08):
Dude, you are totally wrong. Christmas Vacation is not the
greatest Christmas movie. Everybody knows it's not Christmas until Hans
Kruber falls from the Knakatomy tower.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
My god, are you guys?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Dash?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What's wrong with you? I mean, even the Fat Man
outranks the Griswold Christmas. Oh my god, I'll pray for you.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
The end of die Hard confirms that die Hard is
the best action adventure movie. I don't even think you
limited to Christmas, although obviously it's said at the Knackatomy
pause a Christmas party, I think it is the best
movie that is outdoor from an action adventure perspective.
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want to reiterate, thank you guys so so much. Twenty
twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty three, twenty four now
we're complete, completing twenty twenty five, five different parts of
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the calendar year that both Buck and I have had
the honor and the privilege to be able to talk
with you guys every single day for three hours.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I think we have made a difference.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I think we have impacted the culture in a positive way,
and that's a tremendous credit to you guys. When we
came in, we had three hundred and fifty affiliate radio stations.
Now we have five hundred and fifty over five hundred
and fifty. A lot of you are new listeners. Some
of you have been with us from the moment we
first set down in front of these microphones on June
(19:49):
twenty first, and from our family to years. We can't
say thank you enough for the time that you give
to us every single day and that you have given
to us over the past five years. We'll be back
together on January fifth. We've got a lot of great
guests who are going to be guest hosts who are
going to be in there. I'm gonna get to your calls,
I'm gonna get some talkbacks. Let me tell you a
(20:10):
positive story quickly from my own family. So you guys
know that I went to Vanderbilt Law School, met my
wife Laura there, and I love Vanderbilt University, my hometown
of Nashville. A lot of times people get frustrated, Hey,
how do we win culture battles? Clay, Hey, look at
(20:33):
what's going on at my company. Look at what I'm
having to deal with. That doesn't make any sense. I
want to tell you a quick story of the impact
of culture and how it can lead to tremendous outcomes.
Some of you will remember, in fact, almost all of
you will remember, the protests that took place on college
campuses all over the country in twenty twenty three twenty
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twenty four, in the wake of the terror attacks that
happen by Hamas on innocent Israeli's twelve hundred deaths, the
worst day of death for people who were of the
Jewish faith since the Holocaust, and all over the country,
places like Columbia on the East coast, places like UCLA
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on the West coast, and many different points in between.
All these college kids, including my alma mater, undergrad of
George Washington University, all these college kids and their supporters provokers,
one might say, took over campus set up tents took
over campus buildings and argued that in actuality, the Hamas
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terrorists were the ones who were being unfairly treated. They said,
globalize the Intifada. Unfortunately we've seen far too often, but
we just saw it on Bondai Beach. What globalized the
enta fada actually means. It means innocent Jewish people are
killed for being Jewish. It is the very definition of
good versus evil. You know what happened as those protests
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were taking place all over the country. Some schools actually
stood up against those protests and even had counter protests,
and among them were many very prominent Southern.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Schools, the SEC and the ACC schools among them.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
My oldest son is in the process of applying to
colleges right now. It's crazy to me that I'm going
to have an eighteen year old in January and I'm
going to have a college kid on a campus this fall.
What we are seeing happen in this season of application
is all of those schools in the SEC and the ACC,
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all these Southern schools, and there were some arizonas of
the world out west as well. The places where the
students stood for good are seeing applications skyrocket, and I'm
excited to have a kid who's going to be enrolled
at an SEC school this fall. A big reason why
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he is is because of the way that Vanderbilt University
in particular, responded when they had pro Palestine protesters take
over the main campus building in the center of the campus,
Kirkland Hall. I don't think this story has gotten told enough,
but the chancellor of Vanderbilt's guy named Daniel Deermeyer. He
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walked in one morning as the protests were going on.
All these kids had stormed Kirkland Hall. He walked in,
turned around, walked back out, got on the phone with
Nashville police, and said, come in and get them all.
We're not letting this happen. It's one thing to have
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a principle of free speech. It's another thing to say,
as Vanderbilt does and all these SEC schools do, we're
not going to allow you to takeover campus buildings. Almost immediately,
the local Nashville police came in and they arrested all
the kids that were in their protesting. Then something interesting happened.
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Chancellor Vanderbilt. He said, if these are students, I want
them kicked out.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Of the school immediately.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
They don't get to finish the semester, their credits don't transfer.
If they are students and they were trying to occupy
this building, they're gone.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Period.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Vanderbilt immediately kicked all of those nincome poop kids out.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You know what happened. Applications have skyrocketed.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Because earlier I was talking about culture, and it turns
out culture and bravery.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's contagious.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
When you stand up up for something significant in your life,
other people want to be with you. They actually want
to join you. They want to provide even more steel
in your spine. When I was a kid, nobody wanted
to come down to Tennessee to go to school.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
They would say things like, do y'all even have running
water down there?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Now you have got moms and dads in La Chicago,
New York City, some of the richest people in the
entire country, people who could send their kids anywhere, and
they're saying no to Columbia, and they're saying no to UCLA,
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and they are sending their kids.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
To SEC and ACC.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Schools overwhelming numbers because they're fed up with what they
have seen. And right now I'm excited to have my
kid at Vanderbilt starting in the fall. I don't know
that he would have gone to Vanderbilt if he hadn't
seen the way that the chancellor responded there. And I
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know a lot of you have kids and grandkids applying
to schools all over the country. Ole Miss got a
big game coming up this weekend against Tulane. I'm gonna
be honest, and I don't want to hear too many
old Miss people. Ole Miss would sometimes admit dead people
back in the day if you paid the application fee.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Ole Miss was like you're in back in the day twenty.
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I'm not trying to tell you, Hotty Toddy, I'm betting
on you guys.
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To beat too Lane.
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But everybody who knows everybody out there knows what I'm
talking about. If you had a kid in the South
and they got in a lot of trouble, but you
still wanted them to go to a college, Ole Miss
would welcome them with open arms. Hey they're rebels. It's
hard to get into every SEC school now and that's
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because culture wins and also culture loses. And I made
this decision in my own life. I went to George
Washington University. You guys may remember me talking about it.
Some on the program. They changed the name of the
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mascot from Colonials to revolutionaries. And that might not sound
like a lot. You might say, Clay, you're why do
you care? Well, because of why they did it. They
said they were changing Colonials because it had too much
of a connection to colonialism. Excuse me, we were the colonists.
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We were actually the people fighting back against the larger country,
the colonial army fought against Great Britain. You can say, well,
it's not that big of a deal. They just changed
the name to revolutionaries. No, instead of having steel in
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their spine, they listen to morons. Worse than that, they
negotiated with them. Even worse than that, they let them win.
Culture matters. The culture of the Southeastern Conference is one
where we know the difference between good and evil. The
culture of Southern schools in Red States, where I'm fortunate
to live, is one where we are proud to stand
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on the side of good and speak up against evil.
As we roll into this holiday season, I want for
all of you to think about that. Are you standing
up for a culture of good against evil? Are you
supporting free speech? And are you shouting down morons because
If you are not, then I would submit you are
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enabling a culture to take over wherever you are. That
is going to lead us into more peril us times
I thought about this. Uh, I just sent in a
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who was kidnapped by the evil of Hamas. Evil people
fear strength, bravery, courage. He is imperfect, as all of
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Hamas didn't fear Biden. They feared Trump. Listened to cut
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I confider something else by the held me captive. There
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Me changed completion.
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They were terrified of him, and they want to stay.
This scary so the old world hears it now on
be asked of the hostages, our families and our nation.
Thank you President Donald Trump for our freedom.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
He fought for us.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
He brought us home.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Sometimes you got to have a guy that the bad
guys are afraid of. Weak men are not making bad
guys afraid. Biden was weak. Trump is strong. And it
made all the difference for those hostages who were back
this holiday season this Honkah to be able to celebrate
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their freedom with their families. All right, we'll finish with
some fun stuff, But I was just thinking I wanted
to give you a little bit of a charge headed
into the holiday season about good versus evil and winning
and triumphing in the marketplace of ideas and how it
has real significance and real consequences. But you know, football's fun.
We don't always have to be super serious. I can
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pivot on the dime. Here, I've got a winner for you.
We won last night. If you're gonna be watching the
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App or wherever you get your podcasts. Not a good start, Nick,
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
National Lampoons Vacation Christmas Vacation best holiday movie there ever was.
We start playing Thanksgiving Day and it gets played approxiately
once or twice per day until the New yend. Best
em for anybody to still say and have the audacity
to say that Christmas Story is number one.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I can't get it.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Love you guys, Marry Christmas. Lynn from New Orleans are
are hey?
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Clay Love actually is one of my favorite movies Christmas
or otherwise. My husband has never seen it, and I
just don't get it. But I cannot stand It's a
wonderful life. I think it is boring drivel. It is
his absolute number one favorite movie of all time, hands down.
Guess it takes all kinds to make a marriage.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Happy.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Merry Christmas to all of you, and congratulations to Fox.
Happy all right.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Thank you Corey from the Twin Cities. O Oh, I do.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
Believe you are brilliant. But for Christmas the case and
I'd rank that number two after It's a Wonderful Life.
Martin Nostelgic more Family Bond for Like My Grandma and whatnot.
The one that is so overrated but as a great
movie is die Hard. It's not a Christmas movie. It's
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a cop movie.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Let's go quick calls. You each get thirty seconds. Jimmy
and Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Hey, Clay, God bless but God bless your little heart.
But I think you and Clay been riding the short
bus when he's Christmas movie choices. A Christmas Story is
hands down there and by the way, like it or not,
I'm sending you the Christmas Flute autographed by Pete Booty Gig.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
We ought to just finish the year on that call.
But jim in oak Ridge, North Carolina.
Speaker 11 (34:47):
Hey, hey, claim, Well, I appreciate all you've done. The
one show you haven't or movie we hadn't watched it
in a long time is it's called a Homecoming. The
Christmas Story is the Walton family so before the series
came out. So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Good night, good night, John Boy.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I remember watching that back in the day podcast listener
Dustin Ee.
Speaker 12 (35:16):
So everybody says that the Christmas Story or Christmas Vacation
I heard home Alone are some of the best Christmas movies,
most underrated Christmas movie, and I think it's my favorite's
Four Christmases with.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You haven't watched it.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I've never watched it. I'm adding it to the list.
I've actually heard other people say it's really good. Richard
from Pueblo, Colorado, Ff.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Look at the film The Man Who Created Christmas, No,
the Man who Invented Christmas. It's about Charles Dickens and
it's a really great movie. A little offbeat maybe, but
well done and definitely good to see.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
All right, Steve bit Poisy, Idaho, really quick. I'm trying
to get as many of you in as i can.
Fire away.
Speaker 13 (36:09):
I agree with Christmas Vacation, but number one. It Happened
on Fifth Avenue nineteen forty seven about a homeless world
wor coo Vette. It breaks into a mansion on Fifth Avenue.
He gets busted, discovered by the daughter, they fall in love.
It's a romantic comedy.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Best Christmas.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Thank you. We will add it to the list.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Jeff and Winston Salem has been waiting a long time.
I just want to give him a shout out. Merry
Christmas to him. We didn't get to him. We love
all of you on behalf of buck Mee and all
of our families. Merry Christmas to all of you. And
to all of you have a good night.
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, Final Hour,
Final show of the final hour of the year. We're
going to have some fun here as we roll into
Christmas season. Buck is already out on his Christmas break
and soon I will join him. And I know a
lot of you have got kids that are getting out
(00:21):
of school right now, grandkids that are getting out of
school in earnest. Certainly by Monday, things are going to
be really taking off with the Christmas season.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We've updated you.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
The Brown University shooter is dead. Motivation still being tracked.
There expectation that Epstein files, many of them are going
to be released. Erica Kirk last night endorsed jd Vance.
We have got Nike stock collapsing as they have lost
their way, Fulton County fraud in the Atlanta twenty twenty election,
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all of that we are discussing. But we bring in
now Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. We got a bunch of
topics to hit with him. But I want to start
with this. I watched the video of you on Thanksgiving.
I think it was doing one mile of leg squats,
and I actually I showed my wife too, because she's
in way better shape. Than me, and we were both
(01:21):
just in disbelief that you pulled that off, and you
had a couple of buddies that were in waited.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Vest two.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So I want to start with a super important question here.
How sore were you the next morning when you woke
up after doing one mile of leg squats?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was clay, Clay Lungele's Clay. It wasn't the next morning,
it was two days later. By day five, I didn't
think I was ever gonna walk no more. It was horful.
I got, I got, I got. I wouldn't say hoaxed
into it, but egoed into it because I have I
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have a very good you know, the Oklahoma State Troopers,
they have a tag team and they're the ones that
provide a security for me. And you know, these are
all heavy hitters. I mean, these guys are uncle draggers
and they have a tradition where they do have mile lunges.
Everything's good, be morning. And I was like, okay, yeah,
(02:21):
I'm gonna end up doing that with you, aren't I a.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Mile of lunges?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Like for anybody out there that does, like has ever
done one hundred yards of lunges, which is a long way,
or if you've done it with basketball, let's say football.
Your coaches have said, you guys played like crap last night,
Like we're doing lunges. It maybe the worst workout pot,
at least in my opinion. I'd way rather do push ups.
I'd weigh whether do you know sprints off and on?
(02:47):
Lunging just NonStop is brutal.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I saw that. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't know how everything from the belly button down
gets sore, but any sort. But I was hurting. I
mean it was, it was, yeah, it was, it was.
It was rough. I'm just gonna tell you, Clay I
had I was, and then I said, I'll never do
it again. And I thought, yeah, I'm going to do
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it next year too. Next year I'll be prepared, but
I'm not doing the best. So now, those are the
two guys that did the you know, on the tag
team that did it with us. They did a twenty
pound best. God left him. I have an ego, but
I don't have that big one anymore. I'm still forty eight.
They were in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We're talking with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. We're
going to get to the college football playoff, kind of
a big deal in the states of Alabama and Oklahoma,
among the others.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Uh, but let's uh, let's pivot here for a sec
to the serious topics this narco attacks that we're seeing
off the coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
What should our audience know about that?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You know, Buck and I have known Pete hagg sat
for a long time Secretary of War. We trust him, implicitly, frankly,
to make good decisions to make America safer. I was
with Pete on Election Night, of all places, at kid
Rocks honky Tonks, celebrating the facts that Donald Trump had won.
We didn't know, at least I didn't. Maybe he had
some idea that he might end up being Secretary of War.
(04:14):
You've had the opportunity to be briefed on these They've
tried to turn them into an issue. Although I would say,
I keep up the quad box here just to see
what they're saying on MSNBC and CNN. They basically have
stopped those arguments because I'm guessing a lot of these
videos that people have seen show that these attacks were justified.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, it's and I have to my disclaimer is I'm
good friends with Satory except to you know, I like
the guy. But besides that, we have certain authorizations that
had to be hit before you can use lethal force
in in a drone hit. And these powers go all
the way back to twenty twenty four. In fact, the
(04:57):
guy who's trying to speak out out loud to against
this the Junior Center from California, Adam Shift. He helped
draw the papers when he was in the House. So
these authorities have been around for a long time. Obama
used these authorities five hundred times to kill three thirty
(05:18):
seven hundred terrorists. By the way, a few of them
were actually US citizens along the way, And so those
same authorities are being used now with these narcer boats
because these are terrorists and no one can say they're
not terrorists. There's twenty four legally designated terrorists cartels, and
this is one of them. The Moduro Cartel is deemed
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a terrorist organization. So the authorities can apply to hit too.
The difference is is that it's in a different hemisphere
and that it is Donald Trump doing it, and the
Democrats really don't have a leg to stand on now
when they start talking about the second hit that they
on this. There's strict rule to which we have, especially
the Navy when it goes to international waters on a
(06:06):
shipwrecked or a stranded person, not a body but person
that we have to comply by. But there's also strict
rules to which they have to apply by not by
picking them up to but they can't put personnel in danger,
in lethal danger along the way. And that's the argument
that they're saying because it was it was very apparent
(06:28):
that that one these are NARCO boats, there's no question
about it. Not every single one of them actually fits
the qualification. In fact, there's been way more boats that
we haven't been able to hit because they didn't meet
a certain criteria that it required for the hit to
take place, and we actually have hit. When the stranded
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these two individuals that was struck again, they were actively
still in what we'd call the fight. They weren't just
hopelessly clinging to debris in the water. They were actively
radio and another boat that was in the area they
were actually trying to turn over the vessel that was there.
That means that they were still we have to presume
they're still fighting. We have to presume that there's weapons
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on the boat because we've we when on the boats
that we've that we've encountered, we have found small arms
on those boats. So to strike anyone that has seen
the video, anyone that's been preached on it, if they
say any other thing, they're flat outlined to the American people.
And the President is being extremely proactive by protecting our
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our our loved ones on our streets. I've used this
clay multiple times, but a statistic that your that your
audience might might find interesting is in twenty twenty four,
we lost more loved ones on our streets in the
US and our neighborhoods and our cities and our states.
And then we did an entire US personnel during the
(07:53):
Vietnam War just from drug overdoses. So they are poisoning
our streets. And thank god President Trump is being proactive
and send these narco boats and those that are trafficking
this stuff into our into our country to the bottom
of the ocean where they belong.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
What is Bernie Sanders doing? That is not helpful at all.
When it comes to a bill that you're trying to.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Pass, you're you're you're throwing the zingers at me, aren't
you son, Bernie Bernie Sanders is I got upset on
the poor that other. They called him mcrinch because he is,
but it's actually not funny what he's doing. Because what
he we have a we have a bill that basically
gives kids the right to try these are rare pediatric patients,
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kids that they don't have access to the same amount
of drugs that say, an adult with the same rare
cancer would have because they a lot of pharmaceutical companies
it's just not worth the lawsuit or or the or
the risk to allow to have children on experimental drugs.
(09:00):
But the drugs may work in adult cases, but they're
not authorizability to do it for for pediatric care. So
we had just we had a bill that was that
was going to give the children, our kids the same
right to try as an adult with the same type
of cancer. Bernie Sanders. And by the way, we got
it passed in the House by unanimous consent I meaning
(09:23):
not one single person voted against it. Well, we brought
it to the Senate for as we passed in the House,
to try to do the same thing by unanimous consent.
And Bernie Sanders, even though we had bipartisan support. We
had bipartison people speaking on on the floor with us.
He came to the forum blocked it for no other
reason because he wants to socialize our medicine. He literally
said that he's got a bill that he's wanting to
(09:44):
expand community health care for all uh and and by
the way, it's going to cost taxpayers billions of dollars
to do this. And this isn't going to cost the
taxpayers a penny because all we're saying is they have
the right to try, they have a right to be
part of experimental drugs. And he blocked it for his
own purpose. And it's it's frustrating to me because he's
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he's playing politics with people's lives. Clay, I mean, this
drug might extend their life a day, it might extend
it a year, and it might cure it. But why
wouldn't you want to give kids the right to try
because of political reasons for you? And that was it,
and and it's very frustrating. I got very passionate about
it and called him the grenches, you know, not just
stilling gifts. But he's still in he's still in our
(10:28):
loved ones away from it. But it's it I don't
know how you explain that position, but this is what
you have when you have a career politician that was
literally elected office a year before I was born.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We're talking to Senator Mark Way Mullen of Oklahoma. All right,
let's go into some some really contentious issues.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
What are you want to pick with you on this one?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, we're going to get into Oklahoma Alabama in a sec.
But this is before we get to before we get
to OU's game against Bama today, which Alabama is going
to win. And I'm sure you're gonna want to fight
with me over that. But what is the best Christmas movie?
If you are with your family and you are sitting down,
as many people will be for the next week, and
you can only watch one Christmas movie, what would be
(11:10):
your number one draft pick?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Well, you you can't. It's got to go in two
categories here, because you can't just say my family, because
I got three girls and a wife and who I
always let's control it. I don't control.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's a smart man. You control. Yeah, okay, that that
is very important.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But if I'm with my boys, the best Christmas movie
is Rambo and people can argue about it all the
night all the time. But he's in the Sheriff's office.
It's clearly a Christmas tree in the background. That's a
Christmas movie. So that that's that's with my boys. Now,
if we're with the family, I love to laugh, and
I don't care how many times you watch Home Alone.
It's funny. Yeah, and and so that's that's probably our
(11:47):
always go to. But I also like, you know, Mickey
Mouse Christmas too. I love cartoons.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So wait a minute, you you like Rambo more than
die Hard? Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Absolutely, yeah, Okay, that's the take. But I appreciate that
you that you would argue it. All right, Well, okay,
but I grew up. I grew I grew up.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
In the age of Rambo and and Rocky and so
and Diehard came in later. The Diehard came in a
little bit later as I was getting older.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But I mean, what are you forty eight?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm forty eight, but did.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
A little bit forty six?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Diehard came out in like nineteen eighty nine, you were
like twelve eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
When when did Rambo came out?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Come out like eighty four eighty five?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
There I was, that's my that's my guess. I was
six years old, seventy years old.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I think I might be wrong on that. By the way,
somebody out there can fact check it, all right. I
know I'm not long about this. Norman, Oklahoma, Tonight, the
eyes of the sporting world are shifting to your home state.
I think that Alabama is going to win an ugly,
low scoring, defensive battle tonight.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I cannot wait to watch. Why am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So here here's my prediction. First of all, we went
to Tuscaloosa, which is an outstanding college football town. By
the way, I got to give them that man, that
town shows up. It was awesome experience. I was at
the game. We went into their stadium and beat them
in a hostile environment. Yeah, and we beat them with
the defense. They're coming to Norman. We don't lose a
lot of games in Norman. Now. Granted, oh you is
(13:20):
not known for showing up on bowl games. We've had
a rough spell on bowl games. However, we're in Norman.
These guys have lost two of their last three games,
not us Alabama has. They're going to come in. We're
going to get ahead because of our defense. We're going
to force turnovers. We're going to get ahead of them.
And if we get ahead of them and we're there
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in command at the end of the third quarter, we'll
win by two scorers.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I don't dislike the pick. It's going to be low scoring.
I think it's going to come down to turnovers. Who
can play better. John Mattier or Ty Simpson Senator. Have
a great Christmas. I'm sure we'll tell talk to you
after the first of the year. Keep fighting the battles
and maybe get the squats, maybe get the lunges ready
so so you're prepared. I don't know what workout you
(14:08):
got for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Are you saying that your wife and yourself are going
to do this challenge with me next year?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You know, when my wife watched that, she actually said
and she's in way better shape than I am. And
she looked at it and she said, he's crazy. And
I was like, I've got to ask him how painful
that is? Like I said this first question I asked you,
I was like, I I hate lunges more than any workout.
If you told me, hey, you have to I cheat
on the lunges all the time. I take extra steps
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between them, which is a way for everybody out there
who has had to do lunges any point. You can
cheat a little bit, you take two steps instead of one,
or but you weren't cheat.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I mean, that was a brutal workout. I got to
give you credit.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It was brutal. Ill I know you got to go,
so I'll do it real quick. I fought professional for
a long time. Anybody that's ever fought knows leg kicks
to the thigh suck they hurt so bad. Way after
the fighting, bruises on your face they go. They don't
hurt after the first day, but leg kick's hurt. This
was worse than any leg kick, kickboxing, sparring or professional
(15:07):
final I was ever involved in. It was awful, awful.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Awful, good stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Senator, we'll talk to you after the first of the year,
and condolences in advance for Alabama's big win that you're
gonna be watching later today.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
We're gonna talk again, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's Senator Mark Wade Mullen of Oklahoma. He'll be at
the big game tonight. I haven't minute finished my prize
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. President Trump
speaking right now in the White House our thanks to
Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Fact check correction correction from the
team here. Rambo came out in nineteen eighty two. I
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think I said eighty four eighty five for all of
you out there, by the way, Senator Mark Way Mullen wrong. Clearly,
Diehard is a better movie than Rambo, and I like both.
And let's see Sean and Melbourne, Florida in in listening
on ninety two seven we WMMB radio fire away.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Dude, you are totally wrong. Christmas Vacation is not the
greatest Christmas movie. Everybody knows it's not Christmas until Hans
Kruber falls from the Knakatomy tower.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
My god, are you guys?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Dash?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What's wrong with you? I mean, even the Fat Man
outranks the Griswold Christmas. Oh my god, I'll pray for you.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
The end of die Hard confirms that die Hard is
the best action adventure movie. I don't even think you
limited to Christmas, although obviously it's said at the Knackatomy
pause a Christmas party, I think it is the best
movie that is outdoor from an action adventure perspective.
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back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show. Okay, final half
hour of the year. Let's have some fun again. I
want to reiterate, thank you guys so so much. Twenty
twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty three, twenty four now
we're complete, completing twenty twenty five, five different parts of
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the calendar year that both Buck and I have had
the honor and the privilege to be able to talk
with you guys every single day for three hours.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I think we have made a difference.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I think we have impacted the culture in a positive way,
and that's a tremendous credit to you guys. When we
came in, we had three hundred and fifty affiliate radio stations.
Now we have five hundred and fifty over five hundred
and fifty. A lot of you are new listeners. Some
of you have been with us from the moment we
first set down in front of these microphones on June
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twenty first, and from our family to years. We can't
say thank you enough for the time that you give
to us every single day and that you have given
to us over the past five years. We'll be back
together on January fifth. We've got a lot of great
guests who are going to be guest hosts who are
going to be in there. I'm gonna get to your calls,
I'm gonna get some talkbacks. Let me tell you a
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positive story quickly from my own family. So you guys
know that I went to Vanderbilt Law School, met my
wife Laura there, and I love Vanderbilt University, my hometown
of Nashville. A lot of times people get frustrated, Hey,
how do we win culture battles? Clay, Hey, look at
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what's going on at my company. Look at what I'm
having to deal with. That doesn't make any sense. I
want to tell you a quick story of the impact
of culture and how it can lead to tremendous outcomes.
Some of you will remember, in fact, almost all of
you will remember, the protests that took place on college
campuses all over the country in twenty twenty three twenty
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twenty four, in the wake of the terror attacks that
happen by Hamas on innocent Israeli's twelve hundred deaths, the
worst day of death for people who were of the
Jewish faith since the Holocaust, and all over the country,
places like Columbia on the East coast, places like UCLA
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on the West coast, and many different points in between.
All these college kids, including my alma mater, undergrad of
George Washington University, all these college kids and their supporters provokers,
one might say, took over campus set up tents took
over campus buildings and argued that in actuality, the Hamas
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terrorists were the ones who were being unfairly treated. They said,
globalize the Intifada. Unfortunately we've seen far too often, but
we just saw it on Bondai Beach. What globalized the
enta fada actually means. It means innocent Jewish people are
killed for being Jewish. It is the very definition of
good versus evil. You know what happened as those protests
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were taking place all over the country. Some schools actually
stood up against those protests and even had counter protests,
and among them were many very prominent Southern.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Schools, the SEC and the ACC schools among them.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
My oldest son is in the process of applying to
colleges right now. It's crazy to me that I'm going
to have an eighteen year old in January and I'm
going to have a college kid on a campus this fall.
What we are seeing happen in this season of application
is all of those schools in the SEC and the ACC,
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all these Southern schools, and there were some arizonas of
the world out west as well. The places where the
students stood for good are seeing applications skyrocket, and I'm
excited to have a kid who's going to be enrolled
at an SEC school this fall. A big reason why
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he is is because of the way that Vanderbilt University
in particular, responded when they had pro Palestine protesters take
over the main campus building in the center of the campus,
Kirkland Hall. I don't think this story has gotten told enough,
but the chancellor of Vanderbilt's guy named Daniel Deermeyer. He
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walked in one morning as the protests were going on.
All these kids had stormed Kirkland Hall. He walked in,
turned around, walked back out, got on the phone with
Nashville police, and said, come in and get them all.
We're not letting this happen. It's one thing to have
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a principle of free speech. It's another thing to say,
as Vanderbilt does and all these SEC schools do, we're
not going to allow you to takeover campus buildings. Almost immediately,
the local Nashville police came in and they arrested all
the kids that were in their protesting. Then something interesting happened.
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Chancellor Vanderbilt. He said, if these are students, I want
them kicked out.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Of the school immediately.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
They don't get to finish the semester, their credits don't transfer.
If they are students and they were trying to occupy
this building, they're gone.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Period.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Vanderbilt immediately kicked all of those nincome poop kids out.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You know what happened. Applications have skyrocketed.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Because earlier I was talking about culture, and it turns
out culture and bravery.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's contagious.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
When you stand up up for something significant in your life,
other people want to be with you. They actually want
to join you. They want to provide even more steel
in your spine. When I was a kid, nobody wanted
to come down to Tennessee to go to school.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
They would say things like, do y'all even have running
water down there?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Now you have got moms and dads in La Chicago,
New York City, some of the richest people in the
entire country, people who could send their kids anywhere, and
they're saying no to Columbia, and they're saying no to UCLA,
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and they are sending their kids.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
To SEC and ACC.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Schools overwhelming numbers because they're fed up with what they
have seen. And right now I'm excited to have my
kid at Vanderbilt starting in the fall. I don't know
that he would have gone to Vanderbilt if he hadn't
seen the way that the chancellor responded there. And I
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know a lot of you have kids and grandkids applying
to schools all over the country. Ole Miss got a
big game coming up this weekend against Tulane. I'm gonna
be honest, and I don't want to hear too many
old Miss people. Ole Miss would sometimes admit dead people
back in the day if you paid the application fee.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Ole Miss was like you're in back in the day twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I'm not trying to tell you, Hotty Toddy, I'm betting
on you guys.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
To beat too Lane.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
But everybody who knows everybody out there knows what I'm
talking about. If you had a kid in the South
and they got in a lot of trouble, but you
still wanted them to go to a college, Ole Miss
would welcome them with open arms. Hey they're rebels. It's
hard to get into every SEC school now and that's
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because culture wins and also culture loses. And I made
this decision in my own life. I went to George
Washington University. You guys may remember me talking about it.
Some on the program. They changed the name of the
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mascot from Colonials to revolutionaries. And that might not sound
like a lot. You might say, Clay, you're why do
you care? Well, because of why they did it. They
said they were changing Colonials because it had too much
of a connection to colonialism. Excuse me, we were the colonists.
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We were actually the people fighting back against the larger country,
the colonial army fought against Great Britain. You can say, well,
it's not that big of a deal. They just changed
the name to revolutionaries. No, instead of having steel in
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their spine, they listen to morons. Worse than that, they
negotiated with them. Even worse than that, they let them win.
Culture matters. The culture of the Southeastern Conference is one
where we know the difference between good and evil. The
culture of Southern schools in Red States, where I'm fortunate
to live, is one where we are proud to stand
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on the side of good and speak up against evil.
As we roll into this holiday season, I want for
all of you to think about that. Are you standing
up for a culture of good against evil? Are you
supporting free speech? And are you shouting down morons because
If you are not, then I would submit you are
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enabling a culture to take over wherever you are. That
is going to lead us into more peril us times
I thought about this. Uh, I just sent in a
clip strength matters, stealing the spine matters. Listen to what
(29:14):
former Hamas hostage Omer shim Tav said. The only person
that Hamas feared was President Trump. He was in the
Hamas tunnels under the ground, stolen away from his friends
and family, one of two hundred and fifty innocent people
(29:36):
who was kidnapped by the evil of Hamas. Evil people
fear strength, bravery, courage. He is imperfect, as all of
us are, but he says things changed when President Trump won.
Hamas didn't fear Biden. They feared Trump. Listened to cut
twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
I confider something else by the held me captive. There
was one man they feared the most, President Donald Trump.
When he was elected, the way they treated.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Me changed completion.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
They were terrified of him, and they want to stay.
This scary so the old world hears it now on
be asked of the hostages, our families and our nation.
Thank you President Donald Trump for our freedom.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
He fought for us.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
He brought us home.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Sometimes you got to have a guy that the bad
guys are afraid of. Weak men are not making bad
guys afraid. Biden was weak. Trump is strong. And it
made all the difference for those hostages who were back
this holiday season this Honkah to be able to celebrate
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their freedom with their families. All right, we'll finish with
some fun stuff, But I was just thinking I wanted
to give you a little bit of a charge headed
into the holiday season about good versus evil and winning
and triumphing in the marketplace of ideas and how it
has real significance and real consequences. But you know, football's fun.
We don't always have to be super serious. I can
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pivot on the dime. Here, I've got a winner for you.
We won last night. If you're gonna be watching the
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your friends and family, here is a winner.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
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That is five starting quarterbacks in the NFL. Super easy,
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We'll have it up at clayanbuck dot com. I will
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App or wherever you get your podcasts. Not a good start, Nick,
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
National Lampoons Vacation Christmas Vacation best holiday movie there ever was.
We start playing Thanksgiving Day and it gets played approxiately
once or twice per day until the New yend. Best
em for anybody to still say and have the audacity
to say that Christmas Story is number one.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I can't get it.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Love you guys, Marry Christmas. Lynn from New Orleans are
are hey?
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Clay Love actually is one of my favorite movies Christmas
or otherwise. My husband has never seen it, and I
just don't get it. But I cannot stand It's a
wonderful life. I think it is boring drivel. It is
his absolute number one favorite movie of all time, hands down.
Guess it takes all kinds to make a marriage.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Happy.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Merry Christmas to all of you, and congratulations to Fox.
Happy all right.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Thank you Corey from the Twin Cities. O Oh, I do.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
Believe you are brilliant. But for Christmas the case and
I'd rank that number two after It's a Wonderful Life.
Martin Nostelgic more Family Bond for Like My Grandma and whatnot.
The one that is so overrated but as a great
movie is die Hard. It's not a Christmas movie. It's
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a cop movie.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Let's go quick calls. You each get thirty seconds. Jimmy
and Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Hey, Clay, God bless but God bless your little heart.
But I think you and Clay been riding the short
bus when he's Christmas movie choices. A Christmas Story is
hands down there and by the way, like it or not,
I'm sending you the Christmas Flute autographed by Pete Booty Gig.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
We ought to just finish the year on that call.
But jim in oak Ridge, North Carolina.
Speaker 11 (34:47):
Hey, hey, claim, Well, I appreciate all you've done. The
one show you haven't or movie we hadn't watched it
in a long time is it's called a Homecoming. The
Christmas Story is the Walton family so before the series
came out. So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Good night, good night, John Boy.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I remember watching that back in the day podcast listener
Dustin Ee.
Speaker 12 (35:16):
So everybody says that the Christmas Story or Christmas Vacation
I heard home Alone are some of the best Christmas movies,
most underrated Christmas movie, and I think it's my favorite's
Four Christmases with.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You haven't watched it.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I've never watched it. I'm adding it to the list.
I've actually heard other people say it's really good. Richard
from Pueblo, Colorado, Ff.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Look at the film The Man Who Created Christmas, No,
the Man who Invented Christmas. It's about Charles Dickens and
it's a really great movie. A little offbeat maybe, but
well done and definitely good to see.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
All right, Steve bit Poisy, Idaho, really quick. I'm trying
to get as many of you in as i can.
Fire away.
Speaker 13 (36:09):
I agree with Christmas Vacation, but number one. It Happened
on Fifth Avenue nineteen forty seven about a homeless world
wor coo Vette. It breaks into a mansion on Fifth Avenue.
He gets busted, discovered by the daughter, they fall in love.
It's a romantic comedy.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Best Christmas.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Thank you. We will add it to the list.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Jeff and Winston Salem has been waiting a long time.
I just want to give him a shout out. Merry
Christmas to him. We didn't get to him. We love
all of you on behalf of buck Mee and all
of our families. Merry Christmas to all of you. And
to all of you have a good night.
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