November 23, 2022 • 37 mins
Clay and Buck list their favorite holidays and pepper it with a few comments about their Thanksgiving meal likes and dislikes. Clay calls himself "pro-turkey," though a caller gives a good case for his own perfectly cooked prime rib. Buck confesses: "I'm outing my Thanksgiving secrets... I put horseradish cream on everything and I mix my cranberry sauce with my gravy." Washington Post says Musk’s "free speech" agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter and bans reusable water bottles! Twitter was so broken, Elon found a closet of "#StayWoke" T-shirts. California finishes counting.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Second hour, Clay and Buck starts right now. It is
Thanksgiving Eve, or I guess afternoon Eve, something like that.
Thanksgivings tomorrow. I know a lot of you are on
the road traveling across the country. I hope you're going
to have a great one tomorrow. I know it's for
a lot of people. You gotta think Thanksgiving is a
top three holiday for sure. I don't know that many
(00:22):
people who would put it at the number one would No,
no top for me, I gotta go. I mean, I
think a good question. What is your what you hear
your top three holidays? I'm not saying in order of importance,
because then you talk to people and the you know,
religious you know, religious stuff comes into it. For example,
you know, most people, most Catholics that I know, I
(00:42):
grew up a Roman Catholic. Most Catholics I know would
say their favorite as Christmas, even though Easter to the
church is a more important holiday. But like the Eastern Bunny,
No, no no, no, Santa Claus. It's just I'm just talking
about the coolness and the joy of the holiday. Clay,
I think, I go, oh, man, see this is when
you say my list. If you want me to start
(01:04):
just when you asked this question, I just did my
gold silver Bronze my top three power rankings here. You
already have it? Would you mentioned it? And I was like, oh,
let me think about that's what I'm saying. You aready,
you don't even have that. Okay, you're right, I mean,
I'll I have a feeling ours will probably two out
of three would be the same, But go ahead. What
is gold silver bronze medal, Gold medal holiday power ranking
(01:26):
for me? Christmas? Yeah, I think Christmas is overwhelmingly the
number one, right. I would be stunned if people would disagree.
I think the more likely when you are a kid,
Christmas is certainly number one. When you have kids, Christmas
is certainly number one. Maybe when you're like a young adult,
you could come with number two on my list. Halloween.
(01:48):
Halloween is my second favorite holiday, and I don't even
know that it counts as a holiday because we don't
get a day off. But Christmas number one. Halloween is
my silver medal, and then my bronze medal goes to
July fourth, so that would be my power rankings. Christmas,
Halloween July fourth my three favorite holidays. I go Christmas
(02:10):
July fourth, Thanksgiving in that order, and now taking the
theology out of it for Easter, because that is there
for the most important holiday. But if you're just talking
about fun time of year, I I love July fourth
man as a hill. I have great memories of July
fourth as a holiday. It's also a time when, you know,
I always feel like July fourth, there's a holiday where
the expectations like we're just celebrating America. The expectations aren't
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they You don't have to go see family. It's not
like New Year's Eve, where you have to for the
biggest party, which is, as we all know, a huge.
Don't ever try to make New Year's Eve the best
night ever because you'll fail. You know, for the drive,
you just want to hang out, have a couple of drinks,
you know, do a little barbecue on the back porch
or something. That's a great Fourth of July. Right, there's
no you know, if you want to see family, that's fantastic,
(02:56):
but you don't. You don't feel that it's the same
like Thanks Given in Christmas. People are just getting on
the road. We used to We used to drive Clay
and I think it's a six hour drive my family
would drive because I had my family and still do
have family in Charlottesville, Virginia area. Part of the family
on my dad's sides from Virginia. We would drive on
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thanks Getting like today this day, the Wednesday before thanks
every year we would drive down to Charlottesville, I ninety
five the whole way. The drive is that drive was brutal.
Ye six of us in the car. The I I
just remember, you know, we got lost one year in
a Civil War battlefield like kids, you not, you know,
this is pre GPS era, So drive around like I
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think that's a cannon, Like where are we? You know
this used to happen. So it was a little bit
of the National Lamprune's Vacation five and the sex. But
I've been to that Civil War battlefield by the way
as a super Civil War NERD. I think it was Manassas.
If you're I think we got I think we got
across the river. You're from the Potomac, you get over there?
Um yeah, that's I'll put thanks Giving by the way
(04:00):
Buck at four because I don't want anybody to lose
their mind. Who is a huge advocate of Thanksgiving. But
my top four would be and I think if rushmore
as it were, if you're if you're looking at if
you're looking at just the holidays again for what they are,
not spiritually or in a in a broader sense, but
like the traditions around them. There's something especially do you
(04:23):
guys get the color change in Tennessee? Because I will say,
when when the Northeast and you know New York, New Jersey,
New England, it really hits their really hit their stride
is with the changing of the leaves. The cider comes out,
gobble gobble, there's turkeys running around, and there's just something
really special about that. You know. I feel like if
you live in if you live in southern Arizona, think
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it's a little different climate, the different vibe. I would
also say, and again this is just for sheer fun
Memorial Days up there too. It's given Thanksgiving a run.
Obviously it's a very serious holiday, but for many people
out there, it's the official start of summer. And summer
is such a fun season. You know, school gets out,
(05:05):
you're a kid, you get out for the holiday, the
long summer break, you can start to travel uh and
uh and for a lot of people vacation summer starts
around then, so I would put memorial. I don't even
know in terms of like activities that are fun again,
I know they are, like you mentioned Easter, Veterans Day.
There are a lot of days that are important. You
(05:25):
can toss in a variety of different holidays, but I
think those are probably the five where fun is a
part of that. And I got I don't know. Sometimes
you catch a little a little shade for this one,
but I's gonna throw it out there. There's still this
big debate. How did we I know, the historically we
got to the place where turkey is just the centerpiece protein.
(05:45):
I am not I'm not kidding. I'm I'm making this up.
My driver, a very a very friendly gentleman from South
Asia who is a seek. We had a long conversation,
this one, a taxi driver that coming out of New
York and taking a cabin from LaGuardia, and he was saying, well,
what do you do for Thanksgiving? Sarah. We're talking to
his wife and a young child, and he said, I
love Thanksgiving, but I think turkey is dry, and honestly,
(06:07):
roast chicken is better. So he's like, we do roast chicken.
I'm sitting there. I'm saying, buddy, I think you're onto something.
You know, if people get so mad about this when
the turkey, why is it that we don't eat turkey
the other three hundred and sixty four days of the
year unless it's in coal cut form, which, let's be honest,
it's just like sodium. I mean, you know, he's onto
something people get to baky and cheese sandwiches. I'm a
(06:29):
pro turkey guy. Now. I understand that there is a
very anti turkey base out there, and I will say
it would be just tossing it out there if it
were the tradition that we all had steak on Thanksgiving.
First of all, the climate change, people would lose their minds,
(06:50):
right if you try to do you see, there's a
recent study out that red meat. All the stuff you've
heard about red meat, this hasn't getting a lot of play.
That it's not good for you is not true. Yeah,
I think they've done a huge study that they've been
saying it makes you fat, it brings up your cholesterol,
it'll you know, heart disease, lies, lies, red meat is
(07:10):
good for you. I do you look at calories on menus?
I mean I should Yeah, well I do sometimes, and
I eat a lot of chain restaurants because I got
the boys and we're out and about. Steak is remarkably
low in its caloric count. Did you know what kind
of steak, my man? I mean like a filet? I
eat filets. Filets have almost no Uh, they're like there,
(07:34):
there's a very low calorie count. The other one that
stunned me, Buck, and I'm gonna blow people's minds with
this one. Pancakes. Did you know that pancakes have almost
no calories? What? Yes, Clay, I'm trying to We should
have We should have free talked this second. Man, that's crazy.
It's big pancake is somehow gotten the industry calorie counters off.
(07:58):
My boys love Eyehot up right, and I will take
my kids. We used to go to Eyehop all the time.
And I was blown away by how few calories pancakes have. Well,
I mean with or without syrup, because without maple syrup,
pancakes or a doorstop, Clay, you know, we gotta hold
you accountable for this. Even with you know, they have
(08:19):
all these fancy ways to make pancake, and so you
can look at it and be like okay with the
And for my eyehop afficionados out there, they have all
the different types of syrup, right, they got the strawberry syrup,
you got your blueberry, you got your traditional maple syrup.
None of them, buck, I swear none of them have
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high calorie counts. My whole life, I would have thought
the least healthy thing you could eat on a menu
would be pancakes. I will tell you stunned on both
pancake and steak that they don't have very much calories.
I mean, it's definitely not the blue. You look at
it up right now, you look like you're eating right now,
(09:00):
You're you're in disbelief over my pancake calories. I mean,
I'm trying to pull something like well, it also depends
on look. This is where you get into a stack
of three eyehop buttermilk pancakes with nothing on them is
about five hundred calories. That's not much, right, wouldn't you
have thought way more than five hundred calories for a
stack of eyehop. But when you put a pat of
(09:23):
butter on each of the pancakes and drown them in syrup,
you're getting into like you're getting into like eight hundred
nine hundred calorie territory of my friend real Fest. Okay,
the Sentis Stack, which I believe is the greatest of
the Eyehop pancake offerings. This is like cinnamon sugar like,
I mean, it's incredible. I think it only had like
(09:43):
eight hundred calories. And the reason why I'm bringing this
up is I would go I would go to Eyehop
and I'd be like, you know what, I'm gonna get
chicken tenders instead, or I'm gonna get and people make
fun of me about this. Sometimes I would get the
salmon at Iehop. I have ordered the salmon at Iyehop.
How do they prepare the salmon at Iyehop? It's a
great question and probably why you should order the salmon
(10:03):
and Eyehop. Nobody's ever walked into Eyehop, maybe other than
me and been like, you know what I want to
get here today? A healthy fish? But when you looked
or I'd also get the steak tips. Again, not a
lot of people probably gone into Iyhop to get the
steak tips. The steak tips had more calories than the
Cini Stack pancakes. Blew. My mind couldn't believe it. I mean,
(10:26):
we're about to get inundated with emails from the various
IFBB and Fitness competitors. At our audience, we're gonna start
talking about macros and that Thanksgivings not the time to
blow it out and forget all about the Ali who
is super healthy on our crew is already saying, but
they lacked nutrients. I'm not claiming that you could live
forever on pancakes and be perfectly healthy. I'm just saying
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I thought it would be in the thousands. I'm seas,
do you want to tons of calories? If we're talking about,
you know, the defense on a sports team, I think
you want to go right to mister Clay Travis for
the most in depth analysis. But the guy who eats
a turkey sandwich on wonderbread with a Mountain Dew every
day for lunch because I watch him eat it, I
(11:12):
don't know if he is your go to nutrition guy,
I just don't know. I'm accurate, that's accurate. I mean
he though of late I have been starting now. I
don't want to say this because suddenly Mountain Dew maybe
about to support the show, and I would be very happy.
I've been trying to cut soda out of the diet
my wife here is to not eat drink sodas whatever,
and so I mostly have knocked sodas out. So that's
(11:35):
why I look so healthy now. It's obviously a joke.
I'm not the paragon of health. But I will tell
you I think a lot of people's brains are blown
by my pancake revelation so far. I mean, we're gonna
have to do a little bit of a little bit
of a fact check on on that one. I will
say one thing that there are certain foods that I
always think you want to pay for the higher quality. Right,
(11:56):
sushi comes to mind. If you eat raw fish, don't
really want to do the gas stay sushi. Some of
you probably on the road right now, going to see
Grandma and grandpa on Ethel, your second cousin Phil whatever,
Stay away from the raw fish of the gas station,
and that you know, usually not unless it's at what's
the place called It's so fancy. Maybe they they probably
fly in a chef from an Osaka province who has
(12:19):
been trained by anyway, um, but maple syrup. I'm sorry,
I think that you want the real I know the
real stuff is much more expensive. It is always worth
it this stuff that's flavored to be like syrup but
isn't actually pure maple syrup. You know, it's not the
place you want to save your cash. It's a good
point because there are lots of times when you pay
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a lot of money and you can't tell the difference.
I'll give you any wine for me. I'll just admit it.
Wine I can't. I can't tell you. I'm about the
dollar bottle of wine or a hundred or fifty dollars
whatever a normal bottle of wine costs. Can't tell the difference.
Steak steak, A really well cooked steak makes a tremendous
If you don't have the right product when it comes
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to protein, particularly red meat, it doesn't really matter how
good you are in the kitchen. And I'm pretty good
when it comes to steak preparation. If you don't have
a good cut of meat, it's always going to be
kind of just massy. You need the good foundation. There
probably true of a turkey as well. A large turkey.
You know you want, you want the good stuff. Although
I've never my mom has always been the one. I've
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never even bought a turkey, so I do not know
the I have bought a turkey before. I'm just giving
the shout out here honey baked Ham, honey baked turkey,
best ham, best turkey anywhere on the planet. Have you
ever heard of this brand's honey baked place? Yeah? Yeah, sure,
and honey bake anything. I bet there are lines out
the door at every Honey Baked place out there. They
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do the best turkey and the best ham. If you
want to open up the lines clay to anybody who
has very important tips for enjoying Thanksgiving in general, whether
food or otherwise, or just do you have a really
fun family tradition revelation. We're gonna sort of kick it
open and I'll probably make fun of the crying Twitter
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We're this is like we're we're hanging with everybody as
(14:06):
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the agency, you know. You'd get, like, you know, for
some people, you're a young guy, you don't want to
(14:26):
go all the way home or something. You get like
triple the pay for the day, and they're just federal
government across the board. It's nice. It's nice little holiday
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We got
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a great great amount of good calls rolling in. Let
me get a couple of them here as we hang
out with you on Thanksgiving Eve, Wayne and Lexington, Kentucky.
Strong Meal move here from you. Wayne. What do you
love Prime Rib? I want a strong high five A plus.
I love the Prime Rib two in fact, actually my
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favorite I will tell you Clay, my favorite steakhouse is
called the Prime Rib and it is in Baltimore, Maryland.
That is my all time favorite steakhouse. But Prime Rib,
which is obviously what they're best known for, is a
fabulous Thanksgiving addition, Wayne, do you have a special tip
for how you how you prepare your It's just the
right way. You just gotta be careful and don't over
(16:58):
cook it. Go. Yeah, I think that's right. By the way. Lexington,
Kentucky fabulous place. I had a really good time up
there this past weekend. If you have never been to Lexington, beautiful,
beautiful horse country, fantastic. I think you go closer to
rare on the Prime Rib. Closer to rare all the
time for me on meat. Also love a horse radish
(17:19):
with my Prime Rib. Absolutely so. See I'm I'm gonna
tell you the truth there, Clay, kind of out of
my Thanksgiving vibes here a little bit. I will use
the horse radish cream on whatever is on the plate.
I'll just I'll be like, oh, the green beans is
stuffing whatever I got. I will go horse radish cream
if it is available. Otherwise, I like to mix the
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cranberry sauce and the gravy. I know I'm a wild thing.
That's a solid move. But I think the horse radish
uh is truer ally just spat out her lunch. She's like,
what are you doing? I think the horse radish is
the most underrated of the condiment. Uh. You know, associations,
I think you get a win. I understand people out
there like, oh, I don't want to mix my steak
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Show continues on today. We're having a good time here.
I'm with the whole crew in New York City, Clay's
out in Nashville and taking calls from all of the
country about people's either best tip for something really delicious
for Thanksgiving. I mean one tip that I always tell people,
usually around fourth of July. But I'm just just throwing
this out there. Whenever people say, hey, should we get
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some sausage for the grill. Should we just get some
you know, you're in the store, you're getting your burgers,
you're getting your you know, your steaks or your chicken whatever.
Should we get a little sausage and throw on there?
The answer is always yes. It always gets eaten. No
matter wherever you are, people be like, oh, really, like
m that's sausage, a little a little charred on the outside.
And this is my experience in every barbecue I've ever
been to, So you always want to get a little sausage.
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And I would just say, if you've got any tips
for us on the Thanksgiving side. Now, I've never cooked
a Thanksgiving meal because I don't have kids yet, and
you know we're working on that, but my mom does
an amazing job. So if any of you have any
great ideas, first let us know. I did want to
have some fun because Clay and I are going back
and forth on this a lot, and it's I know,
whenever people in the media talk about Twitter, there might
be a moment you're like, I'm not even on Twitter. Yeah,
(20:24):
but you have to keep in mind here that this
is a forty four billion dollar acquisition and that this
is one of the libs. So should just take some joy,
be thankful for the fact that, if nothing else, Elon
Musk's acquisition of Twitter is melting the Libs left and right.
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They are losing their minds about this because this used
to be a place where not only could they suppress
their political opponents people like me Clay and others, but
it's a place where they got to have their way,
feel like they were more important and influential than they
really are, and create a rigged game for their ideas
and their self perception. I mean, Twitter really was a
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narcissism playground for blue check Libs for a long time,
and they never had to worry about people who would
oppose them being able to be platform in the same
way because it would be oh, you're what you're doing
is violence, or they would find somewhere to shut it down.
The Washington Post is now on a full on jihad
against the overtaking here of Twitter by Elon Musk. They're
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doing everything they can. We could say crusade as well,
whichever whichever one I don't know which one in the
Washington Post would prefers terminology, but they are going all
in to try to take down Elon Musk and say
that he is destroying this place. But one of my
favorite things Clay in this story where they're speaking to
the Trust and Safety group now just under trust and safety.
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This is straight out of Eric Blair better known as
George orwell, straight out out of his nineteen eighty four
thought process. You'd create a group that destroys trust because
all it does is elevate or suppress a political narrative
based upon the needs of the left, and you'd say
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it's for about trusting about safety, so you got to
trust them and they're keeping you safe. He's essentially obliterated
most of that group, and they're freaking out about this.
They're trying to pressure advertisers to leave. My favorite thing, though,
was in this very long Washington Post piece trying to
destroy Elon's takeover of Twitter. They wrote this under the
headline the wheels come off in violation of Twitter's longstanding
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practice of encouraging reusable water bottles. Tables in the war
room were dotted with buckets of vass water. Clay, not
only is Elon devoted to free speech, but he overrode
Twitter's reusable water bottle bottled policy and had bottles of
Voss water in there because he's destroying the planet as
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well as Twitter. I don't know that I've ever said
this to our audience before. I am so encouraged by
Elon Musk's bravery in essentially having FU money and being
willing to say to the Blue check brigade, the left
wingers out there, FU, which so few people are in
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a public fashion. I'd actually encourage all of you to
go sign up for Twitter. I mean, he's ended every
band right, Trump has access if he wanted to to
start tweeting again, Buck. I think that Elon Musk is
going to turn Twitter into a very popular and powerful
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message and voice for free speech, the likes of which
we have not seen in a social media era. And
for people out there who are not active on social media,
why this matters is through the algorithms they were able
to artificially distort really not very popular things, right the
idea that fourteen year old should have top surgery and
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get their their breast cut off, for instance, as if
it were a mainstream idea, and that does influence the
way that our conversation in the country takes place. Whether
you like it or not, that's dying, I think in
a big way. And it's going to become more rational
and more realistic. And the more of you out there
listening right now that pour in and start letting your
(24:31):
voices be heard, the more rational and real Twitter becomes.
The Trust and Safety Team kicked Jordan Peterson, of all
people off of Twitter because he referred to Elliott Page
by the original name that individual had was Ellen Page. Right,
I actually forget Ellen Page. The act nominated for an
(24:53):
Oscar I believe, yeah. I remember what was the movie
with the Juno? I think Juno? Thank you? Yeah for Juno,
And they kicked they kicked him off for that for
dead naming. So when they say things like it's about safety,
they're lying to you. When they say that they believe
in the First Amendment, the Trust and Safety Team was
lying to you. This is about the most woke cry
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baby libs creating a little cabal inside a social media
company that was built, by the way, on the false
promise that it would be a free speech platform. You're built,
got its users, got to the place where it was
powerful enough that then they decided to weaponize at wholesale
against the right in critical moments like the twenty twenty
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election with the Hunter Biden laptop suppression story, and this
is now. It's fascinating to see all this exposed. They
never thought this would happen. I mean, the people of
Twitter who are running this, the Trust and Safety Committee,
never I canna tell you this. The last people on
planet Earth that you want to have have your back
in a dark alley or a bar fight situation is
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anybody the Trust and Safety Committee. But we're seeing the
truth of this organization. And what it does is, I
think shows a lot of people everything that we talk
about and tell you about what's going on behind the
scenes at CNN, at cbscaving News, at Google, at Go
down the List, at Disney, at all these places. This
is what's happening. This is just getting to see from
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the inside how the left wing overtakes and corrodes these places.
I think it's the most significant win for rational sane
thought in years in the United States of America that
what Elon Musk is doing right now with Twitter. And
it's important that we retired Nancy Pelosi, and it's important
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that the House flipped. But I think you can argue
the most significant thing to occur in our country in
twenty twenty two. Again, some people are gonna think it's crazy.
I think it might be Elon Musk buying Twitter because
of the influence that Twitter has in a way we
talk about every single topic on the planet. Just having
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a neutral, unbiased platform of even handedness is so radical
that it's changing things over for ever for every person
or audience right now. If you're somebody who used to
enjoy posting on Facebook because it gave you a voice,
or you posted, you know, you posted stuff maybe even
on Instagram or things like that in the past of
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a political nature, you have not been getting a fair
shake for years. Now, for at least six or seven
years that is, that is for sure, and maybe longer.
You can now get a fair shake, we believe. We
have to see how this plays out on Twitter, where
you could actually have a voice, and it's up to
the users. It's up to other human beings whether they
want to like it, share it, follow you all those
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other things. And it's not literally a group of cry
baby libs sitting in a room going, oh, your thoughts
make me scared. So you can't actually say that. And
by the way, I would say this too, Buck. If
you are out there and you're like, I'm too busy
to get on Twitter. I don't want to spend time
worrying about it. I understand that aspect too. You can
follow Buck or Eye at Clay Travis at Buck Sexton.
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Just at the end of the day you're like, hey,
I listen to these guys during the day. Let me
see what they have tweeted during the course of the day.
Or you want to check in every couple of days
and just see what stories are out there that we
may not get to on the radio show. I would
just say, hey, go follow us. I think you'll enjoy
just being able to see what we're putting out there
and the fact that I think we're starting to have
more and more influence real quick. Apparently I thought this
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closet full of stay Woke T shirts. Yes, that's real.
I honestly thought that was a Babylon be back in
action headline. That is crazy but not surprising, very funny
and real and a sign of how broken Twitter was
before Elon Musk bought it in terms of the marketplace
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Show Thanksgiving Eve Edition. We're gonna take some of your calls.
Let me give you a little bit of an update
out here, Buck. All of the counting, what is it,
sixteen days or fifteen days since election day? It appears
as basically done in California, and we told you this
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several days ago was likely to be the case, but
it now, based on projections and everything else, appears to
be official. Republicans will have two hundred and twenty two seats.
Democrats will have two hundred and thirteen, so that will
be the final tally in the House. Two eighteen is
a majority, So it's not, you know, the red wave
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in terms of congressional seats that we wanted, but Nancy
Pelosi officially retired. Things actually went buck pretty well in
New York and California for Republicans, interestingly enough, and certainly
very very well in the state of Florida. But that
now officially is done. We did. We had the votes
for a red wave, we didn't have them in the
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right places. That's right, That's what really happen. Mean now
that we have all the data, the numbers, everything to
so this is why I think it threw off some
of the some of our sense on where this would
go based on the polling and everything else. If you would,
I mean, I'll tell you this. If someone had told
me we're gonna have what almost four million more Republican
votes than Democrat votes in the mid term, I'd say, well,
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Democrats better bending down the hatches for that butt kicking. Unfortunately,
a lot of those additional votes were in New York
and California and didn't translate into wins in some of
those key states like you know, Arizona, etc. But it
did give us some congressional seats in New York and
California that we really needed, no doubt, And I think
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that's pretty significant. And they put it in place again
tally in twenty twenty seven million more votes for Democrats
in the twenty twenty election twenty twenty two, four million
more almost votes for Republicans, So we're talking about an
eleven million vote swing in terms of how the country voted,
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and that's pretty's less crazy than it felt like we
were the day after the mid term. I'll tell you
that there's more same people here than it felt like,
you know, the morning after the midterm election. We're moving
in the right direction. I think that's exactly right. A
bunch of you want to weigh in variety of topics,
opening the phone lines eight hundred two A two two
eight eight two. As we sit here on Thanksgiving Eve,
Jeff in Cape Coral, Florida, I was getting made fun
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of by Buck for ordering salmon. I think I've ordered
to salmon at ihop and at Denny's. Right, wait, I
wasn't making hold on. I love Sam, guys, go ahead,
but of all the places you would order salmon met
my wife has really been on this for years. Is
that a good move or a bad move? Jeff? They
they come in. Here's how it happens. They come in
a vacuum field and they're frozen fresh. Okay. Any of
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the distributors, I'm not going to name any, but the
ones that delivered to the restaurants. So all the cook
has to two is prepared properly. For example, you can
just do that and do like a lemon wheel and
some still on it, Boom, it'll be fantastic. So this
is a good question for you. I am not a
salmon uh, you know, expert in terms of taste testing.
But my argument would be, like a big restaurant, let's say,
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a chain restaurant like a Logan's Steakhouse or out Back
or something like that that had salmon would not be
that different relative to a super expensive restaurant salmon, whereas
a steak may be substantially different in taste. Is that
a crazy take or do you kind of buy into
that as a restaurant. No, no, no, it's not crazy
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at all. It Actually it's both relevant. I mean, for example,
any fish, if it smells like fish, it's not fresh.
I don't care what fish it is. Um. And as
far as when the steak comes, I mean this is um.
You were talking about calories comparison fat's flavor. You're not
going to get as many calories in the filet as
versus a ribbi because that flavor, and to think butter
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or pancakes, everything the other side, thank you very much.
Talking about oh yeah, something else, go ahead, go ahead, No,
I was gonna say, one tip that we do at home,
m when we do our steaks on the grill, it's
twenty five bucks. I forget, we've got it. Um you
know one of the big stores. But it's the thermometers
you put in there and they are absolutely perfect every
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single time. Oh, there's no question. You gotta have a
meat people do that. Thank you so much, Jeff. So,
I do cook a lot the things I cook a
lot of our eggs and red meat, which probably explains
you know a lot about my my dietary habits. Um.
I cool a lot of eggs and red meat. And
the key, the basic key to eggs is to cook
them slowly and be very active because they can go
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wrong very very fast, and then turn into rubber. It's bad.
But with steak, people that think they can gauge, especially
if it's an inch and a half thick, which most
of your like New York strips your rib eyes, you're
gonna want about an inch and a half thick on
that one. Very hard. There's this pomp do you know,
the palm test clay where you can touch different parts
of your palm for media. Yet, if you're a chef
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you can do that, but for most of us. You
push it, You're like it's a little squishy. I don't know.
I guess it's done. And you never want to bite
into a beautiful steak and have it either way too overcooked.
That's the worst, or when it's like cold in the
middle that that's happened. That's happened. You don't want that.
We got Trent in Kansas got to smoke in the
turk comment. H yeah, Hey guys, um big tip on turkey. Um,
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it's all in the prep um. I personally do a
three day uh Brian dry season prep um and then
I'll smoke it for ten to twelve hours real you know,
low and slow um, and it comes out to be
the most perfect juicy white meat, dark meat. It doesn't matter,
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uh turkey. Um, it's you know, anybody can can cook
a turkey, but it's all about how you prep it.
Thank you for the call. I don't doubt that at all.
If you're spending three days on the turkey, it better
be good. But Rick and North Carolina are really quick.
You're gonna obliterate my pancake argument. Oh you just drive
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it to go. He said he had a degree in chemistry.
Buck and he wanted to go after my pancake. The
biochemists wanted to point out that your pancake argue is
both numerically untrue and could lead people to ingest a
whole lot of sugar my pancake diet. I think people
are gonna lose a lot of money if they just
eat pant I mean lose a lot of weight if
they just eat pancakes. We'll be back final hour before Thanksgiving.
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We're gonna head down to Qatar with our boy Alexei
Wallace doing the World Cup. Should be fun. Fleet Travis,
and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Second hour, Clay and Buck starts right now. It is
Thanksgiving Eve, or I guess afternoon Eve, something like that.
Thanksgivings tomorrow. I know a lot of you are on
the road traveling across the country. I hope you're going
to have a great one tomorrow. I know it's for
a lot of people. You gotta think Thanksgiving is a
top three holiday for sure. I don't know that many
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people who would put it at the number one would No,
no top for me, I gotta go. I mean, I
think a good question. What is your what you hear
your top three holidays? I'm not saying in order of importance,
because then you talk to people and the you know,
religious you know, religious stuff comes into it. For example,
you know, most people, most Catholics that I know, I
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grew up a Roman Catholic. Most Catholics I know would
say their favorite as Christmas, even though Easter to the
church is a more important holiday. But like the Eastern Bunny,
No, no no, no, Santa Claus. It's just I'm just talking
about the coolness and the joy of the holiday. Clay,
I think, I go, oh, man, see this is when
you say my list. If you want me to start
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just when you asked this question, I just did my
gold silver Bronze my top three power rankings here. You
already have it? Would you mentioned it? And I was like, oh,
let me think about that's what I'm saying. You aready,
you don't even have that. Okay, you're right, I mean,
I'll I have a feeling ours will probably two out
of three would be the same, But go ahead. What
is gold silver bronze medal, Gold medal holiday power ranking
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for me? Christmas? Yeah, I think Christmas is overwhelmingly the
number one, right. I would be stunned if people would disagree.
I think the more likely when you are a kid,
Christmas is certainly number one. When you have kids, Christmas
is certainly number one. Maybe when you're like a young adult,
you could come with number two on my list. Halloween.
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Halloween is my second favorite holiday, and I don't even
know that it counts as a holiday because we don't
get a day off. But Christmas number one. Halloween is
my silver medal, and then my bronze medal goes to
July fourth, so that would be my power rankings. Christmas,
Halloween July fourth my three favorite holidays. I go Christmas
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July fourth, Thanksgiving in that order, and now taking the
theology out of it for Easter, because that is there
for the most important holiday. But if you're just talking
about fun time of year, I I love July fourth
man as a hill. I have great memories of July
fourth as a holiday. It's also a time when, you know,
I always feel like July fourth, there's a holiday where
the expectations like we're just celebrating America. The expectations aren't
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they You don't have to go see family. It's not
like New Year's Eve, where you have to for the
biggest party, which is, as we all know, a huge.
Don't ever try to make New Year's Eve the best
night ever because you'll fail. You know, for the drive,
you just want to hang out, have a couple of drinks,
you know, do a little barbecue on the back porch
or something. That's a great Fourth of July. Right, there's
no you know, if you want to see family, that's fantastic,
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but you don't. You don't feel that it's the same
like Thanks Given in Christmas. People are just getting on
the road. We used to We used to drive Clay
and I think it's a six hour drive my family
would drive because I had my family and still do
have family in Charlottesville, Virginia area. Part of the family
on my dad's sides from Virginia. We would drive on
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thanks Getting like today this day, the Wednesday before thanks
every year we would drive down to Charlottesville, I ninety
five the whole way. The drive is that drive was brutal.
Ye six of us in the car. The I I
just remember, you know, we got lost one year in
a Civil War battlefield like kids, you not, you know,
this is pre GPS era, So drive around like I
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think that's a cannon, Like where are we? You know
this used to happen. So it was a little bit
of the National Lamprune's Vacation five and the sex. But
I've been to that Civil War battlefield by the way
as a super Civil War NERD. I think it was Manassas.
If you're I think we got I think we got
across the river. You're from the Potomac, you get over there?
Um yeah, that's I'll put thanks Giving by the way
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Buck at four because I don't want anybody to lose
their mind. Who is a huge advocate of Thanksgiving. But
my top four would be and I think if rushmore
as it were, if you're if you're looking at if
you're looking at just the holidays again for what they are,
not spiritually or in a in a broader sense, but
like the traditions around them. There's something especially do you
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guys get the color change in Tennessee? Because I will say,
when when the Northeast and you know New York, New Jersey,
New England, it really hits their really hit their stride
is with the changing of the leaves. The cider comes out,
gobble gobble, there's turkeys running around, and there's just something
really special about that. You know. I feel like if
you live in if you live in southern Arizona, think
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it's a little different climate, the different vibe. I would
also say, and again this is just for sheer fun
Memorial Days up there too. It's given Thanksgiving a run.
Obviously it's a very serious holiday, but for many people
out there, it's the official start of summer. And summer
is such a fun season. You know, school gets out,
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you're a kid, you get out for the holiday, the
long summer break, you can start to travel uh and
uh and for a lot of people vacation summer starts
around then, so I would put memorial. I don't even
know in terms of like activities that are fun again,
I know they are, like you mentioned Easter, Veterans Day.
There are a lot of days that are important. You
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can toss in a variety of different holidays, but I
think those are probably the five where fun is a
part of that. And I got I don't know. Sometimes
you catch a little a little shade for this one,
but I's gonna throw it out there. There's still this
big debate. How did we I know, the historically we
got to the place where turkey is just the centerpiece protein.
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I am not I'm not kidding. I'm I'm making this up.
My driver, a very a very friendly gentleman from South
Asia who is a seek. We had a long conversation,
this one, a taxi driver that coming out of New
York and taking a cabin from LaGuardia, and he was saying, well,
what do you do for Thanksgiving? Sarah. We're talking to
his wife and a young child, and he said, I
love Thanksgiving, but I think turkey is dry, and honestly,
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roast chicken is better. So he's like, we do roast chicken.
I'm sitting there. I'm saying, buddy, I think you're onto something.
You know, if people get so mad about this when
the turkey, why is it that we don't eat turkey
the other three hundred and sixty four days of the
year unless it's in coal cut form, which, let's be honest,
it's just like sodium. I mean, you know, he's onto
something people get to baky and cheese sandwiches. I'm a
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pro turkey guy. Now. I understand that there is a
very anti turkey base out there, and I will say
it would be just tossing it out there if it
were the tradition that we all had steak on Thanksgiving.
First of all, the climate change, people would lose their minds,
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right if you try to do you see, there's a
recent study out that red meat. All the stuff you've
heard about red meat, this hasn't getting a lot of play.
That it's not good for you is not true. Yeah,
I think they've done a huge study that they've been
saying it makes you fat, it brings up your cholesterol,
it'll you know, heart disease, lies, lies, red meat is
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good for you. I do you look at calories on menus?
I mean I should Yeah, well I do sometimes, and
I eat a lot of chain restaurants because I got
the boys and we're out and about. Steak is remarkably
low in its caloric count. Did you know what kind
of steak, my man? I mean like a filet? I
eat filets. Filets have almost no Uh, they're like there,
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there's a very low calorie count. The other one that
stunned me, Buck, and I'm gonna blow people's minds with
this one. Pancakes. Did you know that pancakes have almost
no calories? What? Yes, Clay, I'm trying to We should
have We should have free talked this second. Man, that's crazy.
It's big pancake is somehow gotten the industry calorie counters off.
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My boys love Eyehot up right, and I will take
my kids. We used to go to Eyehop all the time.
And I was blown away by how few calories pancakes have. Well,
I mean with or without syrup, because without maple syrup,
pancakes or a doorstop, Clay, you know, we gotta hold
you accountable for this. Even with you know, they have
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all these fancy ways to make pancake, and so you
can look at it and be like okay with the
And for my eyehop afficionados out there, they have all
the different types of syrup, right, they got the strawberry syrup,
you got your blueberry, you got your traditional maple syrup.
None of them, buck, I swear none of them have
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high calorie counts. My whole life, I would have thought
the least healthy thing you could eat on a menu
would be pancakes. I will tell you stunned on both
pancake and steak that they don't have very much calories.
I mean, it's definitely not the blue. You look at
it up right now, you look like you're eating right now,
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You're you're in disbelief over my pancake calories. I mean,
I'm trying to pull something like well, it also depends
on look. This is where you get into a stack
of three eyehop buttermilk pancakes with nothing on them is
about five hundred calories. That's not much, right, wouldn't you
have thought way more than five hundred calories for a
stack of eyehop. But when you put a pat of
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butter on each of the pancakes and drown them in syrup,
you're getting into like you're getting into like eight hundred
nine hundred calorie territory of my friend real Fest. Okay,
the Sentis Stack, which I believe is the greatest of
the Eyehop pancake offerings. This is like cinnamon sugar like,
I mean, it's incredible. I think it only had like
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eight hundred calories. And the reason why I'm bringing this
up is I would go I would go to Eyehop
and I'd be like, you know what, I'm gonna get
chicken tenders instead, or I'm gonna get and people make
fun of me about this. Sometimes I would get the
salmon at Iehop. I have ordered the salmon at Iyehop.
How do they prepare the salmon at Iyehop? It's a
great question and probably why you should order the salmon
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and Eyehop. Nobody's ever walked into Eyehop, maybe other than
me and been like, you know what I want to
get here today? A healthy fish? But when you looked
or I'd also get the steak tips. Again, not a
lot of people probably gone into Iyhop to get the
steak tips. The steak tips had more calories than the
Cini Stack pancakes. Blew. My mind couldn't believe it. I mean,
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we're about to get inundated with emails from the various
IFBB and Fitness competitors. At our audience, we're gonna start
talking about macros and that Thanksgivings not the time to
blow it out and forget all about the Ali who
is super healthy on our crew is already saying, but
they lacked nutrients. I'm not claiming that you could live
forever on pancakes and be perfectly healthy. I'm just saying
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I thought it would be in the thousands. I'm seas,
do you want to tons of calories? If we're talking about,
you know, the defense on a sports team, I think
you want to go right to mister Clay Travis for
the most in depth analysis. But the guy who eats
a turkey sandwich on wonderbread with a Mountain Dew every
day for lunch because I watch him eat it, I
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don't know if he is your go to nutrition guy,
I just don't know. I'm accurate, that's accurate. I mean
he though of late I have been starting now. I
don't want to say this because suddenly Mountain Dew maybe
about to support the show, and I would be very happy.
I've been trying to cut soda out of the diet
my wife here is to not eat drink sodas whatever,
and so I mostly have knocked sodas out. So that's
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why I look so healthy now. It's obviously a joke.
I'm not the paragon of health. But I will tell
you I think a lot of people's brains are blown
by my pancake revelation so far. I mean, we're gonna
have to do a little bit of a little bit
of a fact check on on that one. I will
say one thing that there are certain foods that I
always think you want to pay for the higher quality. Right,
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sushi comes to mind. If you eat raw fish, don't
really want to do the gas stay sushi. Some of
you probably on the road right now, going to see
Grandma and grandpa on Ethel, your second cousin Phil whatever,
Stay away from the raw fish of the gas station,
and that you know, usually not unless it's at what's
the place called It's so fancy. Maybe they they probably
fly in a chef from an Osaka province who has
(12:19):
been trained by anyway, um, but maple syrup. I'm sorry,
I think that you want the real I know the
real stuff is much more expensive. It is always worth
it this stuff that's flavored to be like syrup but
isn't actually pure maple syrup. You know, it's not the
place you want to save your cash. It's a good
point because there are lots of times when you pay
(12:40):
a lot of money and you can't tell the difference.
I'll give you any wine for me. I'll just admit it.
Wine I can't. I can't tell you. I'm about the
dollar bottle of wine or a hundred or fifty dollars
whatever a normal bottle of wine costs. Can't tell the difference.
Steak steak, A really well cooked steak makes a tremendous
If you don't have the right product when it comes
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to protein, particularly red meat, it doesn't really matter how
good you are in the kitchen. And I'm pretty good
when it comes to steak preparation. If you don't have
a good cut of meat, it's always going to be
kind of just massy. You need the good foundation. There
probably true of a turkey as well. A large turkey.
You know you want, you want the good stuff. Although
I've never my mom has always been the one. I've
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never even bought a turkey, so I do not know
the I have bought a turkey before. I'm just giving
the shout out here honey baked Ham, honey baked turkey,
best ham, best turkey anywhere on the planet. Have you
ever heard of this brand's honey baked place? Yeah? Yeah, sure,
and honey bake anything. I bet there are lines out
the door at every Honey Baked place out there. They
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do the best turkey and the best ham. If you
want to open up the lines clay to anybody who
has very important tips for enjoying Thanksgiving in general, whether
food or otherwise, or just do you have a really
fun family tradition revelation. We're gonna sort of kick it
open and I'll probably make fun of the crying Twitter
lives in a little bit here too. But we're hanging.
We're this is like we're we're hanging with everybody as
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gotta stop calling at the agency. People are like, that's
you know, but that's what we all used to call it,
the agency, you know. You'd get, like, you know, for
some people, you're a young guy, you don't want to
(14:26):
go all the way home or something. You get like
triple the pay for the day, and they're just federal
government across the board. It's nice. It's nice little holiday
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We got
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a great great amount of good calls rolling in. Let
me get a couple of them here as we hang
out with you on Thanksgiving Eve, Wayne and Lexington, Kentucky.
Strong Meal move here from you. Wayne. What do you
love Prime Rib? I want a strong high five A plus.
I love the Prime Rib two in fact, actually my
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favorite I will tell you Clay, my favorite steakhouse is
called the Prime Rib and it is in Baltimore, Maryland.
That is my all time favorite steakhouse. But Prime Rib,
which is obviously what they're best known for, is a
fabulous Thanksgiving addition, Wayne, do you have a special tip
for how you how you prepare your It's just the
right way. You just gotta be careful and don't over
(16:58):
cook it. Go. Yeah, I think that's right. By the way. Lexington,
Kentucky fabulous place. I had a really good time up
there this past weekend. If you have never been to Lexington, beautiful,
beautiful horse country, fantastic. I think you go closer to
rare on the Prime Rib. Closer to rare all the
time for me on meat. Also love a horse radish
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with my Prime Rib. Absolutely so. See I'm I'm gonna
tell you the truth there, Clay, kind of out of
my Thanksgiving vibes here a little bit. I will use
the horse radish cream on whatever is on the plate.
I'll just I'll be like, oh, the green beans is
stuffing whatever I got. I will go horse radish cream
if it is available. Otherwise, I like to mix the
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cranberry sauce and the gravy. I know I'm a wild thing.
That's a solid move. But I think the horse radish
uh is truer ally just spat out her lunch. She's like,
what are you doing? I think the horse radish is
the most underrated of the condiment. Uh. You know, associations,
I think you get a win. I understand people out
there like, oh, I don't want to mix my steak
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I'm with the whole crew in New York City, Clay's
out in Nashville and taking calls from all of the
country about people's either best tip for something really delicious
for Thanksgiving. I mean one tip that I always tell people,
usually around fourth of July. But I'm just just throwing
this out there. Whenever people say, hey, should we get
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a Thanksgiving meal because I don't have kids yet, and
you know we're working on that, but my mom does
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great ideas, first let us know. I did want to
have some fun because Clay and I are going back
and forth on this a lot, and it's I know,
whenever people in the media talk about Twitter, there might
be a moment you're like, I'm not even on Twitter. Yeah,
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but you have to keep in mind here that this
is a forty four billion dollar acquisition and that this
is one of the libs. So should just take some joy,
be thankful for the fact that, if nothing else, Elon
Musk's acquisition of Twitter is melting the Libs left and right.
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They are losing their minds about this because this used
to be a place where not only could they suppress
their political opponents people like me Clay and others, but
it's a place where they got to have their way,
feel like they were more important and influential than they
really are, and create a rigged game for their ideas
and their self perception. I mean, Twitter really was a
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narcissism playground for blue check Libs for a long time,
and they never had to worry about people who would
oppose them being able to be platform in the same
way because it would be oh, you're what you're doing
is violence, or they would find somewhere to shut it down.
The Washington Post is now on a full on jihad
against the overtaking here of Twitter by Elon Musk. They're
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doing everything they can. We could say crusade as well,
whichever whichever one I don't know which one in the
Washington Post would prefers terminology, but they are going all
in to try to take down Elon Musk and say
that he is destroying this place. But one of my
favorite things Clay in this story where they're speaking to
the Trust and Safety group now just under trust and safety.
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This is straight out of Eric Blair better known as
George orwell, straight out out of his nineteen eighty four
thought process. You'd create a group that destroys trust because
all it does is elevate or suppress a political narrative
based upon the needs of the left, and you'd say
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it's for about trusting about safety, so you got to
trust them and they're keeping you safe. He's essentially obliterated
most of that group, and they're freaking out about this.
They're trying to pressure advertisers to leave. My favorite thing, though,
was in this very long Washington Post piece trying to
destroy Elon's takeover of Twitter. They wrote this under the
headline the wheels come off in violation of Twitter's longstanding
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practice of encouraging reusable water bottles. Tables in the war
room were dotted with buckets of vass water. Clay, not
only is Elon devoted to free speech, but he overrode
Twitter's reusable water bottle bottled policy and had bottles of
Voss water in there because he's destroying the planet as
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well as Twitter. I don't know that I've ever said
this to our audience before. I am so encouraged by
Elon Musk's bravery in essentially having FU money and being
willing to say to the Blue check brigade, the left
wingers out there, FU, which so few people are in
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a public fashion. I'd actually encourage all of you to
go sign up for Twitter. I mean, he's ended every
band right, Trump has access if he wanted to to
start tweeting again, Buck. I think that Elon Musk is
going to turn Twitter into a very popular and powerful
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message and voice for free speech, the likes of which
we have not seen in a social media era. And
for people out there who are not active on social media,
why this matters is through the algorithms they were able
to artificially distort really not very popular things, right the
idea that fourteen year old should have top surgery and
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get their their breast cut off, for instance, as if
it were a mainstream idea, and that does influence the
way that our conversation in the country takes place. Whether
you like it or not, that's dying, I think in
a big way. And it's going to become more rational
and more realistic. And the more of you out there
listening right now that pour in and start letting your
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voices be heard, the more rational and real Twitter becomes.
The Trust and Safety Team kicked Jordan Peterson, of all
people off of Twitter because he referred to Elliott Page
by the original name that individual had was Ellen Page. Right,
I actually forget Ellen Page. The act nominated for an
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Oscar I believe, yeah. I remember what was the movie
with the Juno? I think Juno? Thank you? Yeah for Juno,
And they kicked they kicked him off for that for
dead naming. So when they say things like it's about safety,
they're lying to you. When they say that they believe
in the First Amendment, the Trust and Safety Team was
lying to you. This is about the most woke cry
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baby libs creating a little cabal inside a social media
company that was built, by the way, on the false
promise that it would be a free speech platform. You're built,
got its users, got to the place where it was
powerful enough that then they decided to weaponize at wholesale
against the right in critical moments like the twenty twenty
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election with the Hunter Biden laptop suppression story, and this
is now. It's fascinating to see all this exposed. They
never thought this would happen. I mean, the people of
Twitter who are running this, the Trust and Safety Committee,
never I canna tell you this. The last people on
planet Earth that you want to have have your back
in a dark alley or a bar fight situation is
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anybody the Trust and Safety Committee. But we're seeing the
truth of this organization. And what it does is, I
think shows a lot of people everything that we talk
about and tell you about what's going on behind the
scenes at CNN, at cbscaving News, at Google, at Go
down the List, at Disney, at all these places. This
is what's happening. This is just getting to see from
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the inside how the left wing overtakes and corrodes these places.
I think it's the most significant win for rational sane
thought in years in the United States of America that
what Elon Musk is doing right now with Twitter. And
it's important that we retired Nancy Pelosi, and it's important
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that the House flipped. But I think you can argue
the most significant thing to occur in our country in
twenty twenty two. Again, some people are gonna think it's crazy.
I think it might be Elon Musk buying Twitter because
of the influence that Twitter has in a way we
talk about every single topic on the planet. Just having
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a neutral, unbiased platform of even handedness is so radical
that it's changing things over for ever for every person
or audience right now. If you're somebody who used to
enjoy posting on Facebook because it gave you a voice,
or you posted, you know, you posted stuff maybe even
on Instagram or things like that in the past of
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a political nature, you have not been getting a fair
shake for years. Now, for at least six or seven
years that is, that is for sure, and maybe longer.
You can now get a fair shake, we believe. We
have to see how this plays out on Twitter, where
you could actually have a voice, and it's up to
the users. It's up to other human beings whether they
want to like it, share it, follow you all those
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other things. And it's not literally a group of cry
baby libs sitting in a room going, oh, your thoughts
make me scared. So you can't actually say that. And
by the way, I would say this too, Buck. If
you are out there and you're like, I'm too busy
to get on Twitter. I don't want to spend time
worrying about it. I understand that aspect too. You can
follow Buck or Eye at Clay Travis at Buck Sexton.
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Just at the end of the day you're like, hey,
I listen to these guys during the day. Let me
see what they have tweeted during the course of the day.
Or you want to check in every couple of days
and just see what stories are out there that we
may not get to on the radio show. I would
just say, hey, go follow us. I think you'll enjoy
just being able to see what we're putting out there
and the fact that I think we're starting to have
more and more influence real quick. Apparently I thought this
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was a joke. Apparently Elon Musk really did find a
closet full of stay Woke T shirts. Yes, that's real.
I honestly thought that was a Babylon be back in
action headline. That is crazy but not surprising, very funny
and real and a sign of how broken Twitter was
before Elon Musk bought it in terms of the marketplace
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Show Thanksgiving Eve Edition. We're gonna take some of your calls.
Let me give you a little bit of an update
out here, Buck. All of the counting, what is it,
sixteen days or fifteen days since election day? It appears
as basically done in California, and we told you this
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several days ago was likely to be the case, but
it now, based on projections and everything else, appears to
be official. Republicans will have two hundred and twenty two seats.
Democrats will have two hundred and thirteen, so that will
be the final tally in the House. Two eighteen is
a majority, So it's not, you know, the red wave
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in terms of congressional seats that we wanted, but Nancy
Pelosi officially retired. Things actually went buck pretty well in
New York and California for Republicans, interestingly enough, and certainly
very very well in the state of Florida. But that
now officially is done. We did. We had the votes
for a red wave, we didn't have them in the
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right places. That's right, That's what really happen. Mean now
that we have all the data, the numbers, everything to
so this is why I think it threw off some
of the some of our sense on where this would
go based on the polling and everything else. If you would,
I mean, I'll tell you this. If someone had told
me we're gonna have what almost four million more Republican
votes than Democrat votes in the mid term, I'd say, well,
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Democrats better bending down the hatches for that butt kicking. Unfortunately,
a lot of those additional votes were in New York
and California and didn't translate into wins in some of
those key states like you know, Arizona, etc. But it
did give us some congressional seats in New York and
California that we really needed, no doubt, And I think
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that's pretty significant. And they put it in place again
tally in twenty twenty seven million more votes for Democrats
in the twenty twenty election twenty twenty two, four million
more almost votes for Republicans, So we're talking about an
eleven million vote swing in terms of how the country voted,
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and that's pretty's less crazy than it felt like we
were the day after the mid term. I'll tell you
that there's more same people here than it felt like,
you know, the morning after the midterm election. We're moving
in the right direction. I think that's exactly right. A
bunch of you want to weigh in variety of topics,
opening the phone lines eight hundred two A two two
eight eight two. As we sit here on Thanksgiving Eve,
Jeff in Cape Coral, Florida, I was getting made fun
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of by Buck for ordering salmon. I think I've ordered
to salmon at ihop and at Denny's. Right, wait, I
wasn't making hold on. I love Sam, guys, go ahead,
but of all the places you would order salmon met
my wife has really been on this for years. Is
that a good move or a bad move? Jeff? They
they come in. Here's how it happens. They come in
a vacuum field and they're frozen fresh. Okay. Any of
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the distributors, I'm not going to name any, but the
ones that delivered to the restaurants. So all the cook
has to two is prepared properly. For example, you can
just do that and do like a lemon wheel and
some still on it, Boom, it'll be fantastic. So this
is a good question for you. I am not a
salmon uh, you know, expert in terms of taste testing.
But my argument would be, like a big restaurant, let's say,
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a chain restaurant like a Logan's Steakhouse or out Back
or something like that that had salmon would not be
that different relative to a super expensive restaurant salmon, whereas
a steak may be substantially different in taste. Is that
a crazy take or do you kind of buy into
that as a restaurant. No, no, no, it's not crazy
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at all. It Actually it's both relevant. I mean, for example,
any fish, if it smells like fish, it's not fresh.
I don't care what fish it is. Um. And as
far as when the steak comes, I mean this is um.
You were talking about calories comparison fat's flavor. You're not
going to get as many calories in the filet as
versus a ribbi because that flavor, and to think butter
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or pancakes, everything the other side, thank you very much.
Talking about oh yeah, something else, go ahead, go ahead, No,
I was gonna say, one tip that we do at home,
m when we do our steaks on the grill, it's
twenty five bucks. I forget, we've got it. Um you
know one of the big stores. But it's the thermometers
you put in there and they are absolutely perfect every
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single time. Oh, there's no question. You gotta have a
meat people do that. Thank you so much, Jeff. So,
I do cook a lot the things I cook a
lot of our eggs and red meat, which probably explains
you know a lot about my my dietary habits. Um.
I cool a lot of eggs and red meat. And
the key, the basic key to eggs is to cook
them slowly and be very active because they can go
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wrong very very fast, and then turn into rubber. It's bad.
But with steak, people that think they can gauge, especially
if it's an inch and a half thick, which most
of your like New York strips your rib eyes, you're
gonna want about an inch and a half thick on
that one. Very hard. There's this pomp do you know,
the palm test clay where you can touch different parts
of your palm for media. Yet, if you're a chef
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you can do that, but for most of us. You
push it, You're like it's a little squishy. I don't know.
I guess it's done. And you never want to bite
into a beautiful steak and have it either way too overcooked.
That's the worst, or when it's like cold in the
middle that that's happened. That's happened. You don't want that.
We got Trent in Kansas got to smoke in the
turk comment. H yeah, Hey guys, um big tip on turkey. Um,
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it's all in the prep um. I personally do a
three day uh Brian dry season prep um and then
I'll smoke it for ten to twelve hours real you know,
low and slow um, and it comes out to be
the most perfect juicy white meat, dark meat. It doesn't matter,
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uh turkey. Um, it's you know, anybody can can cook
a turkey, but it's all about how you prep it.
Thank you for the call. I don't doubt that at all.
If you're spending three days on the turkey, it better
be good. But Rick and North Carolina are really quick.
You're gonna obliterate my pancake argument. Oh you just drive
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it to go. He said he had a degree in chemistry.
Buck and he wanted to go after my pancake. The
biochemists wanted to point out that your pancake argue is
both numerically untrue and could lead people to ingest a
whole lot of sugar my pancake diet. I think people
are gonna lose a lot of money if they just
eat pant I mean lose a lot of weight if
they just eat pancakes. We'll be back final hour before Thanksgiving.
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We're gonna head down to Qatar with our boy Alexei
Wallace doing the World Cup. Should be fun. Fleet Travis,
and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
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