May 28, 2021 • 39 mins
Clay Travis breaks down how everything went down with his new deal to take Rush Limbaugh's chair. Clay continues to take calls from all over the nation and he gets #Outkick trending!
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I'll Kick the Coverage with Clay Travis live every weekday
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Sports Radio our number two Friday addition, thanks to everyone
out there who has served or will serve Memorial Day
weekend as we roll in to what I hope will
be a fantastic Memorial Day, certainly a Memorial Day where
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it's fair to say sports is officially back, and it
doesn't feel very much different at all. Right as you
sit around and watch the NHL NBA playoffs going on.
Major League Baseball stadiums are full in most of the country. Certainly,
if you saw Phil Mickelson walking up to eighteen and
there were thousands of people swarming him all over South
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Carolina there on the golf course. One of the things
that I feel good about for those of you just
waking up, maybe you haven't heard the news. This is
my final OutKick show by choice. They aren't firing me.
I am moving to the Russian Limbaugh time slot, the
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biggest show in all of radio. I will be on
that show starting June one with Buck Sexton. Six years ago,
Don Martin and Scott Shapiro, who have done a fabulous
job running Fox Sports Radio, gave me the opportunity to
sit down at this mic. I have loved every minute
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of it. I've loved getting to know so many of
you and hopefully start your days or finish your days
a little bit better than it otherwise would have been.
And one of the things that I'm most proud of
and I felt, hey, I can make this move right now,
is I really do feel like we won the battle
to play sports. Even if you go back to the
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audio Danny g that you tracked down of me back
in March of last year talking about the idea of
an NBA and an NHL bubble and how ridiculed a
lot of people were of that idea. We won the
people out there that call Corona Bros. Who wanted to
shut down sports, didn't want your kids playing little league
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or high school or college or pro. We won sports
shut down for a couple of months, and then sports
did what I think sports should always do, particularly in
the United States of America find a way, find a
way to play even despite all the obstacles that were
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out there in the challenges of potentially and I hope
once in every hundred year virus that was spreading through
the United States. There are lots of people in my
industry that never believed that we should come back from sports.
There are people out there that would have said, if
they had their choice, hey, nothing happens for the rest
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of They're still people that would be arguing in favor
of shutdowns now. And I think we've had a substantially
important impact, the most influential I think in the world
of sports, this show and helping to fight for sports
to happen. So the fact that I'm able to leave
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here as we roll into Memorial Day weekend, I think
for many of you out there, this Memorial Day weekend
will feel absolutely and completely normal. It won't feel as
awkward and different and fundamentally ridiculous for many of you
as much of the past year has felt. And that's
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one reason that I feel like, Hey, we won this
battle and I can go and start new battles. Remember
having this conversation when it looked like the Big ten
wasn't gonna play, and when it looked like the Pact
twelve wasn't gonna play, and there was fear about what
the SEC and the Big Ten and the Big twelve
and sorry the SEC, the A, C, C and the
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Big twelve we're gonna do. And I remember talking to
a bunch of different people right on those days when
the Big Ten in the Pact twelve had said hey,
we're canceling the season, and they had said, hey, it
looks like all the college sports might shut down. And
I said, well, I'm gonna fight as hard as I
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can to try to keep that from happening. And if
I lose, I lose. And I always think, if you
believe a hundred percent that you were right, and I'll
always say and I quoted from this in an article
that I put up on out Kick yesterday talking about
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my decision to go to the new show, the biggest
show in Oliver Radio, I said, when I was a kid,
one of my idols was Davy Crockett, coon skin cap
walking around and the buckskin leggings everything else. Davy Crockett,
icon of American history, died in the Alamo. A little
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bit of a history lesson there. In case you've forgotten,
spoiler alert, dies in the Alumo. In case you didn't
know Davy Crockett story, might have thought it didn't it better? No,
he dies in the album What I Yea. I loved
his motto as a kid. His life motto was be
sure you're right and then go ahead, and I remember
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thinking that I've used that motto for my entire life,
because there's a nobility in losing. If you know that
you are right, you don't always win right. That's what
sports is about. Sports at its essence, is about teaching
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you how to try as hard as you possibly can
at something and still maybe it doesn't end up happening
for you. Failure and loss is a massive part of life,
and as I have aged, I have been less focused
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on the winds and more focused on the battles, because
if you love what you're doing, the wins and the
losses are going to happen. That's why I call the
podcast long form interview sessions that we've done wins and losses,
because I think there's a real focus in American now.
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When you win, people love to tell the story of
your win, but there isn't as much focus on the losing.
And I think one of the things that I've tried
to do on this show is talked to a lot
of people out there, kids going to school, right in
the car with your parents. There's a lot of focus
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on winning, but if you just focus on the winning,
it obscures everything that comes with the winning, and that's
always a lot of losing, and it's also a lot
of hard work. And I've kind of experienced it a
little bit in the past few weeks because I sold
out Kick and now I've I'm ascending to arguably the
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biggest chair in the last several generations in radio, and
people like the story of Oh, look at Clay Travis.
He's now started his own media company and sold it
and look he's going to do the Rush Show. And
I'm happy for those successes, but there's a lot less
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questions about what had to happen in order for those
successes to occur. Seventeen years of writing, when nobody's reading
what you're writing some of those years, I always like
to kind of focus on individual specific moments. I remember
going when I wrote my first book to a book
signing in Birmingham, Alabama at a books a million. Not
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a single person showed up for two hours, didn't sell
a single book. Remember going to Walmart? Do a book
signing in Walmart? Trust me, you question a lot of
the things that are going on in your life sitting there,
people walking by, crates full of diet dr pepper. They
won't buy your book. By the way, if you go
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into a store and see somebody who's an author sitting
with a book by the book, I think it's good karma.
I do that now, even if you have no interest
in it, even if you're gonna put in the sor
passenger seat of your car, never even opened the first book,
first page. You say, in a Walmart for two hours
and people aren't that interested in your book, You've got
a lot of time to just kind of figure out
what's going on in life. You go to a book
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signing books a million down in Birmingham, Alabama, not one
person shows up. I got a lot of time to
sit around and think, Hey, what am I doing with
my life choices that I'm putting myself out there, putting
every element of my heart and soul into what I'm doing,
and no one is responding to it in that particular
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time at that particular location. Perspective can be hard to
even contemplate when you're dealing with a situation like that.
And I really do credit sports with teaching me how
to lose, not with being comfortable losing, because there is
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a difference, but with working as hard as you can
and still not being successful and finding a way to
get back up and go and pour more effort in
and get a little bit better and get a little
bit better every single day. Whatever you do for a living,
if you can get a little bit better, eventually, you're
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going to be successful at that job. And I do
think we focus a lot on the end result, and
we don't focus on how you get to the end result.
We like the rewards, but we don't like the cost
that is involved in getting there. And I think athletics
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is a perfect metaphor of that quest. Whatever you might
be pursuing this morning, as you go about your day,
much of your day is going to be spent not winning,
and much of your life is going to be spent
not winning. And in my experience, the ultimate winners are
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the people who can manage to lose and keep moving
forward even amidst all of the slings and arrows of
those losses. And that's what I've tried to get across
for much of the last six years on this show,
because to me, winning and losing individual games is less
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interesting than the larger context in which sports exists in
this society. And I really do believe that sports is
one of the great unifying bonds that we have in
this country. White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, doesn't matter
what your identity might be. When your team wins, you
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don't think about the things that make you different from
the fans that are sitting around you in that stadium
or that arena. And I think we need far more
of that in the country than we have right now.
And much of the time that I have spent on
this show has not been saying, hey, I want an
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athlete or a coach or a league to tell me
and spread whatever political opinion I have. I want everybody
to be Michael Jordan's, someone that we can all aspire
to embrace their excellence, regardless of what other divisions might
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exist out there. And so I would say, to the
extent you know you guys have been listening to me,
I'm forty two years old and I'm always going to
be for the rest of my life. We talk a
lot about Lebron James versus Michael Jordan's. To me, I'm
always going to be a Jordan guy because I believe
in the Jordan era. There's a reason why Jordan's was
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a uniter and why I believe Lebron ultimately as a divider,
and it has nothing to do with their talent on
the basketball court. Michael Jordan's brought all Americans together in
the way that he carried himself. He's imperfect. I'm not
gonna get into how good of a dad, or husband
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or any of those things he was. But from a
pure basketball perspective, Jordan's was a unifier. He made the
NBA more popular than it's ever been before. Lebron James
has been a divider. He's made the NBA less popular
than it ever has been before. Same thing, by the way,
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true of a guy like Tiger Woods, who I think
is of the Jordan's generation. All sorts of issues off
the court, off the course, but ultimately Tiger's goal was
to try to appeal to everyone with his excellence. I
think Tom Brady is a Michael Jordan's generation guy, big
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tent athletics as a conduit to reach everyone, and I
think we've unfortunately ended up in a world where Lebron's generation,
even though Lebron is not that much younger than I am,
a lot of younger athletes have taken Lebron's lead and
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they've divided us in the world of sports instead of
bringing us together. And I hope that we're going to
have a throwback, as often ends up being the case
to the Jordan's era in the years ahead, and the
Lebron divisiveness era is going to be left behind. We'll
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see whether or not that ends up happening. That's my hope.
And in that sense, sports is a metaphor for the
larger country, because I'm always going to be a guy
who grew up in the nineties and the two thousand's,
the late eighties, when I think people tended to get
a along pretty well, and social media ultimately, I've seen
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a lot more people coming to this opinion that I've
had for the past six years or so is much
more of a divider than it is a uniter, and
sports has reflected that division that we've seen in the
country in so many different levels. But this is my
final show. I'm gonna have a lot of time to
continue to talk to a much bigger audience, the biggest
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audience in all of radio going forward. I'm choosing to leave.
I think it's a luxury to be able to leave
any job. Trust me, I've gotten fired before, walked in
thought everything was going great. Next thing, you know, I
don't have a job anymore. So having the ability to
talk to you guys and tell you, hey, here's where,
exactly where I'm going. I appreciate you. You've been outstanding.
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I've loved being a of the family that we have created.
I don't agree on everything, be boring if we did,
but I do think we have created the most influential,
nearly the biggest sports talk show anywhere in the country
over the past six years. And I'm open up phone lines.
We got no guests and allowing you guys to react
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eight seven seven six three six nine. Danny G has
put together a mixtape to start off the third hour,
featuring some of the highlights or low lights of the
show over the past six years. I can't wait to
hear that. I haven't heard it yet, but I want
to give you guys chance to weigh in. As someone
drops off, you can hop on. Usually we have more
phone lines, but in vintage out kick fashion, our phones
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in Nashville are not working or at least not working
very well, and so we are running the phone lines
through l A. So as someone drops off, you can
hop on eight seven six three six nine. Who is up,
Danny G Let's go. Let's see here. You know, I
want to get to Travis and Georgia because he's been
holding for over an hour. Okay, sorry, well, I appreciate
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everybody waiting, By the way, I want to try to
get to all of you. Travis and Georgia. What's up?
So I had a question, But first off, I just
wanted to say I've been a fan of years since
you were doing the college football show on FS one's
seven eight years now. Been listening to this radio show
since day one and the Mike McIntire phone call hang
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up days and jug Adler Corey and all those all
those deals. Go. Uh, definitely some good times and thank you.
And the questions lash concern I had for the future
me and some of my friends talked about, is you know,
are you worried that in the sports world with guys
like you and will Kin shifting more out of the
sports world, that there won't be enough prominent voices in
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the sports world to fight these fights against the mob
and for sports to come back, and all these crazy
stories that you've gone to bat for and influence, you know,
who are gonna be the voices that will fight against
that this mob canceled culture idea in sports. Yeah, first
of all, thank you for holding and asking those questions
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and for being a fan for as long as you
have been. I did think a lot about that. Ultimately,
First of all, I'm running out kick and OutKick. We
have tens of millions of readers and growing at OutKick,
and I believe our impact there is only going to
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skyrocket more with the connection with Fox and the cross
pollination with Fox Sports and Fox News that OutKick will
be kind of the bridge connecting those two. So I
think our audience at OutKick is only going to grow.
So when there are stories, as you mentioned Doug Adler, uh,
for people who don't remember the Doug Adler story, ESPN
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fired him for saying I think it was Venus Williams
was charging the net and said like she was like
a guerrilla attack, and somebody said, oh, it's racist that
you would say. I don't remember the exact phrase, but
we played it a lot on the show. Nobody else
would touch it. Dug ended up getting his job back.
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I think that's because of us a show, A situation
like that happened when everybody, I think, recognizes that it's wrong.
But there are so many people that are afraid if
they speak out they'll become the target of the mob,
that they don't speak out. And I think you guys
listening to me and girls listening to me right now,
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sort of innately know that. Right there's so many of
you that have set and had a tweet or an
Instagram post or a Facebook post like queued up that
you want to send, and then you think to yourself,
wait a minute, I might lose my job. Somebody's gonna
be mad at me. I can't say what I actually think.
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Um And social media, which was supposed to be this
place that's fantastic where everybody can talk and share every
single opinion they've ever had, has instead ended up being
an echo chamber in many ways. And there's a so
many people who if you step outside the line, they're
ready to come after you. I think there's that palpable
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fear that's out there. To me, taking this new job
is about being able to expand the battles that we
fight and increase the size of our army. I thought
about this a ton. It's a smart question, Travis. Am
I more influential on this radio program Sports Radio in
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all fifty states to start the day? Or am I
more influential in that Russian Limbaugh chair? And ultimately, ultimately
I just decided, and I think it's the right decision.
But I'm not perfect when it comes to making decisions.
Trust me, I've had a lot of failures over the
years too. I think we're gonna have a bigger impact
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on the biggest radio show in the country, fighting the
battles that matter the most then I could on this show.
That was probably the single most important decision making aspect
that I had. The other one was being able to
know that I can say exactly what I think, And
as I said earlier, Don Martin and Scott Shapiro, who
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hired me at Fox Sports Radio, have been phenomenal in
that respect. And my boss throughout this entire process has
been Julie Talbot, who runs Premier, which is a syndication
arm of my heart, and she is the person who
sold me on taking the new gig to help fill
the Russian Limbaugh void and being able to work for
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her is a tremendous reason why I felt comfortable taking
this job. But in terms of impact, I'm in a
fortunate place now where I'm not gonna need money. I
don't have to make choices based on money, and that's
a luxury. I'm gonna be honest with you that I've
not really had for the vast majority of my life.
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Like a lot of you, I grew up middle class.
I'm not going to pretend that I was super poor
or anything. But it's only in the last several years
that I've been going that I go to a restaurant
and don't look at the price of the of the
items on the menu. For most of my life, I
would never order whatever it was the most expensive dish
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on the menu no matter where I went. It wasn't
like I was going to super fancy restaurants. You know,
you have that consciousness of cost of price, and it's
a luxury to not have to worry about money. And
the way that I'm approaching the luxury is not by saying, hey,
I'm gonna work less hard. It's by saying, hey, I
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can do things that I think matter more than ever before.
Because I don't have to worry about making sure that
I can pay my mortgage this month. I don't have
to worry about making sure that my kids are taken
care of. I've I've taken care of that responsibility, and
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now I'm really focused on how can I fight the
battles that matter the most in the country, whether I
win or lose them, just so the battles are taking place,
so that we have a real robust First Amendment in
this country, as opposed to big tech saying what can
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and can't be trending and what can and can't be shared.
I saw the other day, just to use an example,
Facebook has disallowed for over a year anybody to post
articles saying that COVID might have been created in a
laboratory in China. It now appears, based on American intelligence,
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that there's probably a more likely than not position that
COVID was created in a Chinese lab. So face Book
for over a year wouldn't allow anyone to share an
article suggesting that COVID might have come from a Chinese
lab and now it's turning out that that is likely
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to be true. Well, the entire purpose of having a
debate about how these situations emerged or didn't emerge, how
COVID came to spread around the world. They disallowed what
might be the truth to even be discussed on Facebook.
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They didn't allow it. And now what they called the
conspiracy theory and tried to devalue and delegitimize appears like
it is the most likely truth. And now you can
share those stories on Facebook. My question, and this is
what my testimony in front of the Senate UH Subcommittee
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then UH House Judiciary, was who checks the fact checkers.
It's scary to me that we live in an Orwellian
world where Facebook has some anonymous person that you and
I don't know, making a determination about quote unquote, what
the truth is and what happens when they get it
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wrong like they did. I want and this one reason
I love radio. I can't guarantee you that you're gonna
see my tweet. I can't guarantee that you're gonna see
my Facebook post. I can't guarantee that you're gonna see
whatever I post on Instagram. Big tech has the power
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to keep me from reaching you through social media. It's true.
They don't have the power to keep me from reaching
you through radio and through right now television. What's old
is new. What may end up being the most reliable
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method by which to talk honestly with the entirety of
the American population may well be radio. So taking over
the biggest show in all of radio, it seems like
a pretty good way to talk to as many people
as possible and hopefully hopefully make the country a little
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bit better in the process, while entertaining you and making
you a smile and making your day a little bit better.
That's my goal going forward, and that's what I hope
to be able to accomplish. We're keeping the phone lines
open eight seven s nine when we come back, more
of your calls. I appreciate all of you. This is
OutKick on Fox Sports Radio. This is Outkicked the coverage
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with Clay Travis. All right, let's get some more call
is in? Dang, who's up next? Let's see here we
have another fan that's been waiting for over an hour.
Kenny in New York. Kenny, what you got for me? Man? Hey? Clay?
Congratulations man, This is huge. You worked for you earned it.
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Last year. You were the guy that we watched and
listen to for hours. You kept a steady course, never
lost focus. How does it feel. I'm excited. First of all,
I appreciate guys like you willing to to wait and
talk as long as you have on the show. But
thanks and thank you Kenny for for being a fan. Um,
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I am super excited. I I don't feel any apprehension
or nervousness about the new decision because I spent so
much time thinking about it. I'm convinced it's the right
choice and that it's gonna be really exciting to have
a new challenge if you think about whatever you do
for a career. When I started doing radio, I was
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one of the three man crew. Well, initially I started
doing radio as guest, coming on for fifteen minutes segments
to talk about things that I had written. And then
I was one of a three man crew. And now
I've done solo radio all sports, and now I'm ready
to sort of expand and talk about the larger world.
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By the way, we're still going to talk about sports
on the new show. Stepping in for for Russia's time slot,
I am confident that we will talk a lot about
sports because sports and politics have intersected, same thing with
pop culture, certainly politics, choices that are being made in
the country. We're gonna talk about whatever the biggest stories
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are every single day, not just in the world of sports.
To me, what's so exciting about this new gig and
why I couldn't say no, is it expands our audience,
but also the horizon of topics that we and talk about.
And I know you guys want that already because when
there was no sports last year and we had to
fight the battle for sports to come back but COVID
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had shut everything down, our audience skyrocketed because I think
there's such a desperate demand for honesty and facts in
the country today. And that's what Buck Sexton and I
are going to do. Taking over the biggest time slot
in all of radio com June one, we'll have the
biggest audience that exists anywhere in radio. And I don't
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take that responsibility lightly. Who's up next? Who We got
on the v I P Line, our friend Catfish Jake
and Tennessee. Hey, what's up Catfish Jake? How are you
a good brother? How are you man? It sounds like
you're having a pretty good morning. Yeah, doing well. Big congrassman.
I always love to say in a native Nashville guy,
um work his ass off and it is what's coming
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to him up. Um. Good for you, man. I appreciate
you have me on after I did the whole Catfish
thing and that was of the best things up, the
most fun things I ever did. The second interview I
did after that was yours. First was the boys. Uh,
you know with putting and throughout the Harskey. Uh, you're
putting together the legal dream team is awesome. I appreciate
all that support. Man. It's gonna give you big props.
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And I want to say one thing about how you
talk about sports and listen people up and and uh,
I appreciate your consistency. Consistency is the main thing for me.
I don't care if I agree with whoever it is
or not if they're consistent and that can be respected.
And you're always pretty consistent and what you're saying what
you do. But I got the privilege of playing some
golf a long time ago when I worked at of
Course in Nashville with Mason Rudolph. He's an old PGA
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tour player, and he lost the sun, tragically lost the son.
He had three sons trying to play the loss of
Sun once and like you were saying, you learn how
to fail and learn how to get back up through sports.
He said the only way that he got through losing
his son was because he was a professional golfer and
played sports all his life, and it taught him how
to get knocked down and get back up. So what
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you're saying about failing over and over and over again
and and having what you're sharing that learning about, it's
absolutely true. I love that message. And uh, I think
it's really cool to what you're doing, man, And they
congrats to you, look forward to say what you're gonna
have to have down in the future. Appreciated, my man.
This is outkicked the coverage with plate trafficks. All right,
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Danny G should we take some more calls here right
before we go to break or should we go to
break and take him we come back? You know, Tommy
and Florida has been hanging for an hour, so let's
get to him first. Yeah, Tommy and Florida, what's up,
my man? I got him break? Yeah, Yeah, we got you.
Thanks to all right, all right, all right. First of all,
some of your callers are saying they're disappointed. I'm so
excited because I predicted you'd make this move about a
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year ago. I got three quick points to make. I
started listening to you, and I wrote them down here,
so it's sound like I'm reading. I started listening to
your show about three months. Three months into your show,
and I told all my friends that you would be
the number one guy in sports, and I was right.
You always took calls, you actually listened, and you had
an optimistic view Russian the Ball respected and listen to
his audience, and that's why I think you'll make a
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great fill in now you. Second point, you have an
opportunity now to make a truly effect and positive effect
on our world. And I believe that your libertarian freedom
viewpoints are exactly what we need in this country, way
more than the sports guy could ever do. You can
have a positive effect on us. Three to the brass
that are listening at Fox, your replacements should be Jonas
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Knox and Brady Quinn. Those guys are absolute rock stars.
Last point, Now that you're replacing Limball, more people are
going to hate you, which I know you will thrive
in that environment. But even more importantly, more people are
going to be able to hear you and they will
love you. I think you will feel his shoes perfectly.
I don't think a better replacement could be found. Good
luck and to use your words, free speech and boobs.
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Good luck, brother. I can't wait to see hear your
next show. See you man, oh man. All these calls
are great, We'll keep taking them. I want to give
you guys a forum. I've loved being uh, sort of
the captain of the ship of out Kick with all
of you, and I know there's gonna be good people
in this chair going forward, but I want to be
able to interact with as many of you as I can,
uh to finish out the show here eight seven seven
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six three six nine. This is OutKick on Fox Sports Radio.
This is OutKick the Coverage with Clay Travis. What's up, everyone,
It's me three times NFL All Pro Shawn Mari and
I have a new sports podcast called The Lights Out
Podcast with Sean Mariner. This podcast especial to me is
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I get a chance to talk to some of the
best we've ever done it on the field or the
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or a NASCAR Cup Series champion, the Lights Out Podcast
will bring it to you the only way I know
how to. I'm giving you the best insight from the
best we've ever done. Listen to Lights Out with Shawn
Marion all the I Heart Radio app or wherever you
get your podcast Final OutKick Show. As I am leaving
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to step into the biggest show and all of radio
still will be at my heart Russian Limbaugh's Uh chair,
I will be there with Buck Sexton. We start on
June one. I hope all of you are having an
early Memorial Day weekend start and uh we're letting you
guys weigh in. No guests. Who's up next? Energy, Let's
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go to the v I P Line. Kim in Indiana,
Kim in Indiana. What you got for me? Well, I,
like the other caller, I wrote everything down because yesterday
I was an emotional wreck after hearing about this. UM,
but it's not about me. This is about you, and
I just want to say congratulations to you and your family. UM.
I am a certain that your new show is going
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to be absolutely phenomenal because you're great and I wanted
you to know that I, as I've always said, I
wish I could have found you sooner. Um. You have
been a staple in my life for the last year
and a half. UM. I am just incredibly, incredibly blessed
to have been a part of this show and to
be a v I P. And I'm glad that your
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news show is gonna have a podcast because unfortunately my schedule,
especially Tuesday through Thursday, does not allow that time slot
for me to listen, So I'll have to listen to
you the next morning, UM, which will be fine because
I'll still get to hear you. But I would say finally, UM,
I just want to say that I'm really happy for you,
and that you will be missed beyond words, and that
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there's not enough hours in the day to express your
value to this world, but safe to say you are
loved and in honor of you, I would like to
end my call now to all your haters out there,
especially that idiot that said that he would only be
happy if you were trending because you were dead with
your words, which is the bath unless you need to
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ask BAP, God bless you, Clay. I love you thank
you so much. I love you guys as well. Um,
I don't know if you saw yesterday when the news
came out that I was that I was taking over
for Rush, I was trending, and uh, you know, I'll
go in every now and then I see I trend
off and on. If you know, on Twitter they have
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a list of who's trending and everything else. And uh,
and there are a lot of people reacting, both positive
and negative. That doesn't really surprise you either. But one
guy tweeted, all due respect, I don't want to see
Clay Travis's name trending unless it's because he has past,
which really, I mean, unfortunately for that guy, I'm still alive. Uh,
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but it is kind of amazing what social media leads to.
Let's see. Actually, do you think we can do it
to close out? To close out, um, the final show?
Everybody listening right now who is on Twitter just hashtag
out kick or hashtag Clay Travis just to drive people
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crazy who hate me, all right, so they'll think that
I died. Just has a good way to finish the
final show. Do you think we could how high on
the trends list in the final hour? Can we get
if those of you are active on Twitter, uh is
uh is ding don Clay Travis just at at Outkicks
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tag Clay Travis is dead or hashtag Clay Travis. I
don't want my mom and check her phone, but maybe
just hashtag Clay Travis. And also, I don't want to
jinx myself if I get into a traffic accident driving home,
if I actually died after telling everybody to have so hashtag?
Right you driving home from Panama City, I mean I
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will back home, I mean back to the place here
in Florida, but yeah, I'll have to drive back home
for a little while. What do you think should we
do one hashtag just OutKick or is it going to
complicate things if we do too. I think we should
just do hashtag Clay Travis to make it simple. Alright, hashtag? Well, yeah,
hashtag it's the last show for Outkicks, that's true. Well,
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and that also honors you guys. Let's go hashtag and
we're gonna keep the OutKick theme in the interim. I mean,
I'm still gonna be working hard on the podcast, and
you still want listeners right here too, Right, So what
the show name may change, I guess is what I'm say.
So let's let's do either one. Um, well, let's do
OutKick because it's a final show for Outkaick. Let's do
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hashtag OutKick everybody listening right now, and you can also
hashtag Clay Travis if you want to open right now.
Three devices open right now, so Danny G is starting
the charge and if you want to. By the way,
this is also cool if you want to interact with
people who are OutKick listeners right now. Uh, and make
some connections here in the final show OutKick, you know,
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hashtag OutKick, hashtag Clay Travis. Uh. You guys can interact
with each other, um connections, connections like tinder. Who knows
you might meet your husband or wife by hashtaging OutKick
or tagging Clay Travis right now. Let's do that for
the final hour. You guys can interact. I can also
then easily go make sure that I see all your
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comments for me soaking the crew. Uh, instead of having
to tag us all either OutKick with the hashtag in
front of it or hash hashtag man. I can barely
talk hashtag Clay Travis. We also have Danny G. When
we come back. You put together a great medley of
great moments. Four work four hours. Danny g worked on
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this medley that he's gonna play. I haven't heard it
at all. We'll see if he makes me cry, which
I'm a little bit afraid might happen. Hashtag OutKick, hashtag
Clay Travis. Final hour of the program is up next.
I love all of you, I think all of you.
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Sports Radio our number two Friday addition, thanks to everyone
out there who has served or will serve Memorial Day
weekend as we roll in to what I hope will
be a fantastic Memorial Day, certainly a Memorial Day where
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it's fair to say sports is officially back, and it
doesn't feel very much different at all. Right as you
sit around and watch the NHL NBA playoffs going on.
Major League Baseball stadiums are full in most of the country. Certainly,
if you saw Phil Mickelson walking up to eighteen and
there were thousands of people swarming him all over South
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Carolina there on the golf course. One of the things
that I feel good about for those of you just
waking up, maybe you haven't heard the news. This is
my final OutKick show by choice. They aren't firing me.
I am moving to the Russian Limbaugh time slot, the
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biggest show in all of radio. I will be on
that show starting June one with Buck Sexton. Six years ago,
Don Martin and Scott Shapiro, who have done a fabulous
job running Fox Sports Radio, gave me the opportunity to
sit down at this mic. I have loved every minute
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of it. I've loved getting to know so many of
you and hopefully start your days or finish your days
a little bit better than it otherwise would have been.
And one of the things that I'm most proud of
and I felt, hey, I can make this move right now,
is I really do feel like we won the battle
to play sports. Even if you go back to the
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audio Danny g that you tracked down of me back
in March of last year talking about the idea of
an NBA and an NHL bubble and how ridiculed a
lot of people were of that idea. We won the
people out there that call Corona Bros. Who wanted to
shut down sports, didn't want your kids playing little league
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or high school or college or pro. We won sports
shut down for a couple of months, and then sports
did what I think sports should always do, particularly in
the United States of America find a way, find a
way to play even despite all the obstacles that were
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out there in the challenges of potentially and I hope
once in every hundred year virus that was spreading through
the United States. There are lots of people in my
industry that never believed that we should come back from sports.
There are people out there that would have said, if
they had their choice, hey, nothing happens for the rest
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of They're still people that would be arguing in favor
of shutdowns now. And I think we've had a substantially
important impact, the most influential I think in the world
of sports, this show and helping to fight for sports
to happen. So the fact that I'm able to leave
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here as we roll into Memorial Day weekend, I think
for many of you out there, this Memorial Day weekend
will feel absolutely and completely normal. It won't feel as
awkward and different and fundamentally ridiculous for many of you
as much of the past year has felt. And that's
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one reason that I feel like, Hey, we won this
battle and I can go and start new battles. Remember
having this conversation when it looked like the Big ten
wasn't gonna play, and when it looked like the Pact
twelve wasn't gonna play, and there was fear about what
the SEC and the Big Ten and the Big twelve
and sorry the SEC, the A, C, C and the
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Big twelve we're gonna do. And I remember talking to
a bunch of different people right on those days when
the Big Ten in the Pact twelve had said hey,
we're canceling the season, and they had said, hey, it
looks like all the college sports might shut down. And
I said, well, I'm gonna fight as hard as I
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can to try to keep that from happening. And if
I lose, I lose. And I always think, if you
believe a hundred percent that you were right, and I'll
always say and I quoted from this in an article
that I put up on out Kick yesterday talking about
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my decision to go to the new show, the biggest
show in Oliver Radio, I said, when I was a kid,
one of my idols was Davy Crockett, coon skin cap
walking around and the buckskin leggings everything else. Davy Crockett,
icon of American history, died in the Alamo. A little
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bit of a history lesson there. In case you've forgotten,
spoiler alert, dies in the Alumo. In case you didn't
know Davy Crockett story, might have thought it didn't it better? No,
he dies in the album What I Yea. I loved
his motto as a kid. His life motto was be
sure you're right and then go ahead, and I remember
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thinking that I've used that motto for my entire life,
because there's a nobility in losing. If you know that
you are right, you don't always win right. That's what
sports is about. Sports at its essence, is about teaching
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you how to try as hard as you possibly can
at something and still maybe it doesn't end up happening
for you. Failure and loss is a massive part of life,
and as I have aged, I have been less focused
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on the winds and more focused on the battles, because
if you love what you're doing, the wins and the
losses are going to happen. That's why I call the
podcast long form interview sessions that we've done wins and losses,
because I think there's a real focus in American now.
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When you win, people love to tell the story of
your win, but there isn't as much focus on the losing.
And I think one of the things that I've tried
to do on this show is talked to a lot
of people out there, kids going to school, right in
the car with your parents. There's a lot of focus
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on winning, but if you just focus on the winning,
it obscures everything that comes with the winning, and that's
always a lot of losing, and it's also a lot
of hard work. And I've kind of experienced it a
little bit in the past few weeks because I sold
out Kick and now I've I'm ascending to arguably the
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biggest chair in the last several generations in radio, and
people like the story of Oh, look at Clay Travis.
He's now started his own media company and sold it
and look he's going to do the Rush Show. And
I'm happy for those successes, but there's a lot less
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questions about what had to happen in order for those
successes to occur. Seventeen years of writing, when nobody's reading
what you're writing some of those years, I always like
to kind of focus on individual specific moments. I remember
going when I wrote my first book to a book
signing in Birmingham, Alabama at a books a million. Not
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a single person showed up for two hours, didn't sell
a single book. Remember going to Walmart? Do a book
signing in Walmart? Trust me, you question a lot of
the things that are going on in your life sitting there,
people walking by, crates full of diet dr pepper. They
won't buy your book. By the way, if you go
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into a store and see somebody who's an author sitting
with a book by the book, I think it's good karma.
I do that now, even if you have no interest
in it, even if you're gonna put in the sor
passenger seat of your car, never even opened the first book,
first page. You say, in a Walmart for two hours
and people aren't that interested in your book, You've got
a lot of time to just kind of figure out
what's going on in life. You go to a book
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signing books a million down in Birmingham, Alabama, not one
person shows up. I got a lot of time to
sit around and think, Hey, what am I doing with
my life choices that I'm putting myself out there, putting
every element of my heart and soul into what I'm doing,
and no one is responding to it in that particular
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time at that particular location. Perspective can be hard to
even contemplate when you're dealing with a situation like that.
And I really do credit sports with teaching me how
to lose, not with being comfortable losing, because there is
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a difference, but with working as hard as you can
and still not being successful and finding a way to
get back up and go and pour more effort in
and get a little bit better and get a little
bit better every single day. Whatever you do for a living,
if you can get a little bit better, eventually, you're
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going to be successful at that job. And I do
think we focus a lot on the end result, and
we don't focus on how you get to the end result.
We like the rewards, but we don't like the cost
that is involved in getting there. And I think athletics
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is a perfect metaphor of that quest. Whatever you might
be pursuing this morning, as you go about your day,
much of your day is going to be spent not winning,
and much of your life is going to be spent
not winning. And in my experience, the ultimate winners are
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the people who can manage to lose and keep moving
forward even amidst all of the slings and arrows of
those losses. And that's what I've tried to get across
for much of the last six years on this show,
because to me, winning and losing individual games is less
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interesting than the larger context in which sports exists in
this society. And I really do believe that sports is
one of the great unifying bonds that we have in
this country. White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, doesn't matter
what your identity might be. When your team wins, you
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don't think about the things that make you different from
the fans that are sitting around you in that stadium
or that arena. And I think we need far more
of that in the country than we have right now.
And much of the time that I have spent on
this show has not been saying, hey, I want an
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athlete or a coach or a league to tell me
and spread whatever political opinion I have. I want everybody
to be Michael Jordan's, someone that we can all aspire
to embrace their excellence, regardless of what other divisions might
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exist out there. And so I would say, to the
extent you know you guys have been listening to me,
I'm forty two years old and I'm always going to
be for the rest of my life. We talk a
lot about Lebron James versus Michael Jordan's. To me, I'm
always going to be a Jordan guy because I believe
in the Jordan era. There's a reason why Jordan's was
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a uniter and why I believe Lebron ultimately as a divider,
and it has nothing to do with their talent on
the basketball court. Michael Jordan's brought all Americans together in
the way that he carried himself. He's imperfect. I'm not
gonna get into how good of a dad, or husband
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or any of those things he was. But from a
pure basketball perspective, Jordan's was a unifier. He made the
NBA more popular than it's ever been before. Lebron James
has been a divider. He's made the NBA less popular
than it ever has been before. Same thing, by the way,
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true of a guy like Tiger Woods, who I think
is of the Jordan's generation. All sorts of issues off
the court, off the course, but ultimately Tiger's goal was
to try to appeal to everyone with his excellence. I
think Tom Brady is a Michael Jordan's generation guy, big
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tent athletics as a conduit to reach everyone, and I
think we've unfortunately ended up in a world where Lebron's generation,
even though Lebron is not that much younger than I am,
a lot of younger athletes have taken Lebron's lead and
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they've divided us in the world of sports instead of
bringing us together. And I hope that we're going to
have a throwback, as often ends up being the case
to the Jordan's era in the years ahead, and the
Lebron divisiveness era is going to be left behind. We'll
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see whether or not that ends up happening. That's my hope.
And in that sense, sports is a metaphor for the
larger country, because I'm always going to be a guy
who grew up in the nineties and the two thousand's,
the late eighties, when I think people tended to get
a along pretty well, and social media ultimately, I've seen
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a lot more people coming to this opinion that I've
had for the past six years or so is much
more of a divider than it is a uniter, and
sports has reflected that division that we've seen in the
country in so many different levels. But this is my
final show. I'm gonna have a lot of time to
continue to talk to a much bigger audience, the biggest
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audience in all of radio going forward. I'm choosing to leave.
I think it's a luxury to be able to leave
any job. Trust me, I've gotten fired before, walked in
thought everything was going great. Next thing, you know, I
don't have a job anymore. So having the ability to
talk to you guys and tell you, hey, here's where,
exactly where I'm going. I appreciate you. You've been outstanding.
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I've loved being a of the family that we have created.
I don't agree on everything, be boring if we did,
but I do think we have created the most influential,
nearly the biggest sports talk show anywhere in the country
over the past six years. And I'm open up phone lines.
We got no guests and allowing you guys to react
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eight seven seven six three six nine. Danny G has
put together a mixtape to start off the third hour,
featuring some of the highlights or low lights of the
show over the past six years. I can't wait to
hear that. I haven't heard it yet, but I want
to give you guys chance to weigh in. As someone
drops off, you can hop on. Usually we have more
phone lines, but in vintage out kick fashion, our phones
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in Nashville are not working or at least not working
very well, and so we are running the phone lines
through l A. So as someone drops off, you can
hop on eight seven six three six nine. Who is up,
Danny G Let's go. Let's see here. You know, I
want to get to Travis and Georgia because he's been
holding for over an hour. Okay, sorry, well, I appreciate
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everybody waiting, By the way, I want to try to
get to all of you. Travis and Georgia. What's up?
So I had a question, But first off, I just
wanted to say I've been a fan of years since
you were doing the college football show on FS one's
seven eight years now. Been listening to this radio show
since day one and the Mike McIntire phone call hang
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up days and jug Adler Corey and all those all
those deals. Go. Uh, definitely some good times and thank you.
And the questions lash concern I had for the future
me and some of my friends talked about, is you know,
are you worried that in the sports world with guys
like you and will Kin shifting more out of the
sports world, that there won't be enough prominent voices in
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the sports world to fight these fights against the mob
and for sports to come back, and all these crazy
stories that you've gone to bat for and influence, you know,
who are gonna be the voices that will fight against
that this mob canceled culture idea in sports. Yeah, first
of all, thank you for holding and asking those questions
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and for being a fan for as long as you
have been. I did think a lot about that. Ultimately,
First of all, I'm running out kick and OutKick. We
have tens of millions of readers and growing at OutKick,
and I believe our impact there is only going to
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skyrocket more with the connection with Fox and the cross
pollination with Fox Sports and Fox News that OutKick will
be kind of the bridge connecting those two. So I
think our audience at OutKick is only going to grow.
So when there are stories, as you mentioned Doug Adler, uh,
for people who don't remember the Doug Adler story, ESPN
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fired him for saying I think it was Venus Williams
was charging the net and said like she was like
a guerrilla attack, and somebody said, oh, it's racist that
you would say. I don't remember the exact phrase, but
we played it a lot on the show. Nobody else
would touch it. Dug ended up getting his job back.
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I think that's because of us a show, A situation
like that happened when everybody, I think, recognizes that it's wrong.
But there are so many people that are afraid if
they speak out they'll become the target of the mob,
that they don't speak out. And I think you guys
listening to me and girls listening to me right now,
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sort of innately know that. Right there's so many of
you that have set and had a tweet or an
Instagram post or a Facebook post like queued up that
you want to send, and then you think to yourself,
wait a minute, I might lose my job. Somebody's gonna
be mad at me. I can't say what I actually think.
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Um And social media, which was supposed to be this
place that's fantastic where everybody can talk and share every
single opinion they've ever had, has instead ended up being
an echo chamber in many ways. And there's a so
many people who if you step outside the line, they're
ready to come after you. I think there's that palpable
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fear that's out there. To me, taking this new job
is about being able to expand the battles that we
fight and increase the size of our army. I thought
about this a ton. It's a smart question, Travis. Am
I more influential on this radio program Sports Radio in
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all fifty states to start the day? Or am I
more influential in that Russian Limbaugh chair? And ultimately, ultimately
I just decided, and I think it's the right decision.
But I'm not perfect when it comes to making decisions.
Trust me, I've had a lot of failures over the
years too. I think we're gonna have a bigger impact
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on the biggest radio show in the country, fighting the
battles that matter the most then I could on this show.
That was probably the single most important decision making aspect
that I had. The other one was being able to
know that I can say exactly what I think, And
as I said earlier, Don Martin and Scott Shapiro, who
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hired me at Fox Sports Radio, have been phenomenal in
that respect. And my boss throughout this entire process has
been Julie Talbot, who runs Premier, which is a syndication
arm of my heart, and she is the person who
sold me on taking the new gig to help fill
the Russian Limbaugh void and being able to work for
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her is a tremendous reason why I felt comfortable taking
this job. But in terms of impact, I'm in a
fortunate place now where I'm not gonna need money. I
don't have to make choices based on money, and that's
a luxury. I'm gonna be honest with you that I've
not really had for the vast majority of my life.
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Like a lot of you, I grew up middle class.
I'm not going to pretend that I was super poor
or anything. But it's only in the last several years
that I've been going that I go to a restaurant
and don't look at the price of the of the
items on the menu. For most of my life, I
would never order whatever it was the most expensive dish
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on the menu no matter where I went. It wasn't
like I was going to super fancy restaurants. You know,
you have that consciousness of cost of price, and it's
a luxury to not have to worry about money. And
the way that I'm approaching the luxury is not by saying, hey,
I'm gonna work less hard. It's by saying, hey, I
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can do things that I think matter more than ever before.
Because I don't have to worry about making sure that
I can pay my mortgage this month. I don't have
to worry about making sure that my kids are taken
care of. I've I've taken care of that responsibility, and
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now I'm really focused on how can I fight the
battles that matter the most in the country, whether I
win or lose them, just so the battles are taking place,
so that we have a real robust First Amendment in
this country, as opposed to big tech saying what can
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and can't be trending and what can and can't be shared.
I saw the other day, just to use an example,
Facebook has disallowed for over a year anybody to post
articles saying that COVID might have been created in a
laboratory in China. It now appears, based on American intelligence,
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that there's probably a more likely than not position that
COVID was created in a Chinese lab. So face Book
for over a year wouldn't allow anyone to share an
article suggesting that COVID might have come from a Chinese
lab and now it's turning out that that is likely
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to be true. Well, the entire purpose of having a
debate about how these situations emerged or didn't emerge, how
COVID came to spread around the world. They disallowed what
might be the truth to even be discussed on Facebook.
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They didn't allow it. And now what they called the
conspiracy theory and tried to devalue and delegitimize appears like
it is the most likely truth. And now you can
share those stories on Facebook. My question, and this is
what my testimony in front of the Senate UH Subcommittee
(24:59):
then UH House Judiciary, was who checks the fact checkers.
It's scary to me that we live in an Orwellian
world where Facebook has some anonymous person that you and
I don't know, making a determination about quote unquote, what
the truth is and what happens when they get it
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wrong like they did. I want and this one reason
I love radio. I can't guarantee you that you're gonna
see my tweet. I can't guarantee that you're gonna see
my Facebook post. I can't guarantee that you're gonna see
whatever I post on Instagram. Big tech has the power
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to keep me from reaching you through social media. It's true.
They don't have the power to keep me from reaching
you through radio and through right now television. What's old
is new. What may end up being the most reliable
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method by which to talk honestly with the entirety of
the American population may well be radio. So taking over
the biggest show in all of radio, it seems like
a pretty good way to talk to as many people
as possible and hopefully hopefully make the country a little
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bit better in the process, while entertaining you and making
you a smile and making your day a little bit better.
That's my goal going forward, and that's what I hope
to be able to accomplish. We're keeping the phone lines
open eight seven s nine when we come back, more
of your calls. I appreciate all of you. This is
OutKick on Fox Sports Radio. This is Outkicked the coverage
(26:54):
with Clay Travis. All right, let's get some more call
is in? Dang, who's up next? Let's see here we
have another fan that's been waiting for over an hour.
Kenny in New York. Kenny, what you got for me? Man? Hey? Clay?
Congratulations man, This is huge. You worked for you earned it.
(27:16):
Last year. You were the guy that we watched and
listen to for hours. You kept a steady course, never
lost focus. How does it feel. I'm excited. First of all,
I appreciate guys like you willing to to wait and
talk as long as you have on the show. But
thanks and thank you Kenny for for being a fan. Um,
(27:38):
I am super excited. I I don't feel any apprehension
or nervousness about the new decision because I spent so
much time thinking about it. I'm convinced it's the right
choice and that it's gonna be really exciting to have
a new challenge if you think about whatever you do
for a career. When I started doing radio, I was
(28:00):
one of the three man crew. Well, initially I started
doing radio as guest, coming on for fifteen minutes segments
to talk about things that I had written. And then
I was one of a three man crew. And now
I've done solo radio all sports, and now I'm ready
to sort of expand and talk about the larger world.
(28:24):
By the way, we're still going to talk about sports
on the new show. Stepping in for for Russia's time slot,
I am confident that we will talk a lot about
sports because sports and politics have intersected, same thing with
pop culture, certainly politics, choices that are being made in
the country. We're gonna talk about whatever the biggest stories
(28:48):
are every single day, not just in the world of sports.
To me, what's so exciting about this new gig and
why I couldn't say no, is it expands our audience,
but also the horizon of topics that we and talk about.
And I know you guys want that already because when
there was no sports last year and we had to
fight the battle for sports to come back but COVID
(29:09):
had shut everything down, our audience skyrocketed because I think
there's such a desperate demand for honesty and facts in
the country today. And that's what Buck Sexton and I
are going to do. Taking over the biggest time slot
in all of radio com June one, we'll have the
biggest audience that exists anywhere in radio. And I don't
(29:33):
take that responsibility lightly. Who's up next? Who We got
on the v I P Line, our friend Catfish Jake
and Tennessee. Hey, what's up Catfish Jake? How are you
a good brother? How are you man? It sounds like
you're having a pretty good morning. Yeah, doing well. Big congrassman.
I always love to say in a native Nashville guy,
um work his ass off and it is what's coming
(29:54):
to him up. Um. Good for you, man. I appreciate
you have me on after I did the whole Catfish
thing and that was of the best things up, the
most fun things I ever did. The second interview I
did after that was yours. First was the boys. Uh,
you know with putting and throughout the Harskey. Uh, you're
putting together the legal dream team is awesome. I appreciate
all that support. Man. It's gonna give you big props.
(30:15):
And I want to say one thing about how you
talk about sports and listen people up and and uh,
I appreciate your consistency. Consistency is the main thing for me.
I don't care if I agree with whoever it is
or not if they're consistent and that can be respected.
And you're always pretty consistent and what you're saying what
you do. But I got the privilege of playing some
golf a long time ago when I worked at of
Course in Nashville with Mason Rudolph. He's an old PGA
(30:36):
tour player, and he lost the sun, tragically lost the son.
He had three sons trying to play the loss of
Sun once and like you were saying, you learn how
to fail and learn how to get back up through sports.
He said the only way that he got through losing
his son was because he was a professional golfer and
played sports all his life, and it taught him how
to get knocked down and get back up. So what
(30:56):
you're saying about failing over and over and over again
and and having what you're sharing that learning about, it's
absolutely true. I love that message. And uh, I think
it's really cool to what you're doing, man, And they
congrats to you, look forward to say what you're gonna
have to have down in the future. Appreciated, my man.
This is outkicked the coverage with plate trafficks. All right,
(31:20):
Danny G should we take some more calls here right
before we go to break or should we go to
break and take him we come back? You know, Tommy
and Florida has been hanging for an hour, so let's
get to him first. Yeah, Tommy and Florida, what's up,
my man? I got him break? Yeah, Yeah, we got you.
Thanks to all right, all right, all right. First of all,
some of your callers are saying they're disappointed. I'm so
excited because I predicted you'd make this move about a
(31:42):
year ago. I got three quick points to make. I
started listening to you, and I wrote them down here,
so it's sound like I'm reading. I started listening to
your show about three months. Three months into your show,
and I told all my friends that you would be
the number one guy in sports, and I was right.
You always took calls, you actually listened, and you had
an optimistic view Russian the Ball respected and listen to
his audience, and that's why I think you'll make a
(32:03):
great fill in now you. Second point, you have an
opportunity now to make a truly effect and positive effect
on our world. And I believe that your libertarian freedom
viewpoints are exactly what we need in this country, way
more than the sports guy could ever do. You can
have a positive effect on us. Three to the brass
that are listening at Fox, your replacements should be Jonas
(32:24):
Knox and Brady Quinn. Those guys are absolute rock stars.
Last point, Now that you're replacing Limball, more people are
going to hate you, which I know you will thrive
in that environment. But even more importantly, more people are
going to be able to hear you and they will
love you. I think you will feel his shoes perfectly.
I don't think a better replacement could be found. Good
luck and to use your words, free speech and boobs.
(32:47):
Good luck, brother. I can't wait to see hear your
next show. See you man, oh man. All these calls
are great, We'll keep taking them. I want to give
you guys a forum. I've loved being uh, sort of
the captain of the ship of out Kick with all
of you, and I know there's gonna be good people
in this chair going forward, but I want to be
able to interact with as many of you as I can,
uh to finish out the show here eight seven seven
(33:10):
six three six nine. This is OutKick on Fox Sports Radio.
This is OutKick the Coverage with Clay Travis. What's up, everyone,
It's me three times NFL All Pro Shawn Mari and
I have a new sports podcast called The Lights Out
Podcast with Sean Mariner. This podcast especial to me is
(33:32):
I get a chance to talk to some of the
best we've ever done it on the field or the
trap so whether it's talking to a super Bowl champion
or a NASCAR Cup Series champion, the Lights Out Podcast
will bring it to you the only way I know
how to. I'm giving you the best insight from the
best we've ever done. Listen to Lights Out with Shawn
Marion all the I Heart Radio app or wherever you
get your podcast Final OutKick Show. As I am leaving
(33:56):
to step into the biggest show and all of radio
still will be at my heart Russian Limbaugh's Uh chair,
I will be there with Buck Sexton. We start on
June one. I hope all of you are having an
early Memorial Day weekend start and uh we're letting you
guys weigh in. No guests. Who's up next? Energy, Let's
(34:18):
go to the v I P Line. Kim in Indiana,
Kim in Indiana. What you got for me? Well, I,
like the other caller, I wrote everything down because yesterday
I was an emotional wreck after hearing about this. UM,
but it's not about me. This is about you, and
I just want to say congratulations to you and your family. UM.
I am a certain that your new show is going
(34:41):
to be absolutely phenomenal because you're great and I wanted
you to know that I, as I've always said, I
wish I could have found you sooner. Um. You have
been a staple in my life for the last year
and a half. UM. I am just incredibly, incredibly blessed
to have been a part of this show and to
be a v I P. And I'm glad that your
(35:03):
news show is gonna have a podcast because unfortunately my schedule,
especially Tuesday through Thursday, does not allow that time slot
for me to listen, So I'll have to listen to
you the next morning, UM, which will be fine because
I'll still get to hear you. But I would say finally, UM,
I just want to say that I'm really happy for you,
and that you will be missed beyond words, and that
(35:24):
there's not enough hours in the day to express your
value to this world, but safe to say you are
loved and in honor of you, I would like to
end my call now to all your haters out there,
especially that idiot that said that he would only be
happy if you were trending because you were dead with
your words, which is the bath unless you need to
(35:44):
ask BAP, God bless you, Clay. I love you thank
you so much. I love you guys as well. Um,
I don't know if you saw yesterday when the news
came out that I was that I was taking over
for Rush, I was trending, and uh, you know, I'll
go in every now and then I see I trend
off and on. If you know, on Twitter they have
(36:05):
a list of who's trending and everything else. And uh,
and there are a lot of people reacting, both positive
and negative. That doesn't really surprise you either. But one
guy tweeted, all due respect, I don't want to see
Clay Travis's name trending unless it's because he has past,
which really, I mean, unfortunately for that guy, I'm still alive. Uh,
(36:29):
but it is kind of amazing what social media leads to.
Let's see. Actually, do you think we can do it
to close out? To close out, um, the final show?
Everybody listening right now who is on Twitter just hashtag
out kick or hashtag Clay Travis just to drive people
(36:53):
crazy who hate me, all right, so they'll think that
I died. Just has a good way to finish the
final show. Do you think we could how high on
the trends list in the final hour? Can we get
if those of you are active on Twitter, uh is
uh is ding don Clay Travis just at at Outkicks
(37:17):
tag Clay Travis is dead or hashtag Clay Travis. I
don't want my mom and check her phone, but maybe
just hashtag Clay Travis. And also, I don't want to
jinx myself if I get into a traffic accident driving home,
if I actually died after telling everybody to have so hashtag?
Right you driving home from Panama City, I mean I
(37:40):
will back home, I mean back to the place here
in Florida, but yeah, I'll have to drive back home
for a little while. What do you think should we
do one hashtag just OutKick or is it going to
complicate things if we do too. I think we should
just do hashtag Clay Travis to make it simple. Alright, hashtag? Well, yeah,
hashtag it's the last show for Outkicks, that's true. Well,
(38:01):
and that also honors you guys. Let's go hashtag and
we're gonna keep the OutKick theme in the interim. I mean,
I'm still gonna be working hard on the podcast, and
you still want listeners right here too, Right, So what
the show name may change, I guess is what I'm say.
So let's let's do either one. Um, well, let's do
OutKick because it's a final show for Outkaick. Let's do
(38:23):
hashtag OutKick everybody listening right now, and you can also
hashtag Clay Travis if you want to open right now.
Three devices open right now, so Danny G is starting
the charge and if you want to. By the way,
this is also cool if you want to interact with
people who are OutKick listeners right now. Uh, and make
some connections here in the final show OutKick, you know,
(38:47):
hashtag OutKick, hashtag Clay Travis. Uh. You guys can interact
with each other, um connections, connections like tinder. Who knows
you might meet your husband or wife by hashtaging OutKick
or tagging Clay Travis right now. Let's do that for
the final hour. You guys can interact. I can also
then easily go make sure that I see all your
(39:08):
comments for me soaking the crew. Uh, instead of having
to tag us all either OutKick with the hashtag in
front of it or hash hashtag man. I can barely
talk hashtag Clay Travis. We also have Danny G. When
we come back. You put together a great medley of
great moments. Four work four hours. Danny g worked on
(39:30):
this medley that he's gonna play. I haven't heard it
at all. We'll see if he makes me cry, which
I'm a little bit afraid might happen. Hashtag OutKick, hashtag
Clay Travis. Final hour of the program is up next.
I love all of you, I think all of you.
This is OutKick on Fox Sports Radio. This is OutKick
the Coverage with Clay Travis.
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