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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alabama's Morning News. I'm JT.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
And our buddy Klay Travis is in the studio with
me this morning. For some weird reason, he decided to
come to Birmingham and had a great time at the
Touchdown Club.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
How was that?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Fantastic, great group of people raised a decent amount of
money for charity. I spent a lot of time in
Birmingham over the years, college football capital of America. Obviously,
I spent a lot of time talking about college football
as well as many other subjects under the sun. And
so I love it down here. You know, my mom
was born in Birmingham back in the day, did not know.
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And I've got a decent number of family that still
live in the area. So it's not a bad drive,
not a bad trip down from Nashville, easy to get
back and forth.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, the last time I saw you was at our
old building in studios.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh yeah. Prior to that was at Brian Denny.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, you were on the sidelines doing your crazy stuff
and having a good time. We kind of high five
day what's up? And my son was playing he's a
fullback with Derek down there.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, I mean I think Derrick Henry is the greatest
running back of his generation. And you know, I was
looking at the stats on yardage and the way they
use running backs now is there's always a couple of
them tandem backs. I don't know that anybody is ever
going to get to the numbers that Derek Henry's going
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to get to. I think he may be the last
of that generation of sort of workhorsebacks that a team
can put on their shoulders. I had the good fortune
obviously watched him play a lot at Alabama. But then
I live in Nashville and I'm a Titan season ticket holder,
and so I got to watch Derrick Henry with the Titans,
and I think he is the best most dominant running
back when you consider speed and size that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, the guy works out still, ye like nobody's business.
He's committed to his craft a hundred percent. He doesn't slouch.
He's not playing video games. The guy works for what
he's got done here. And I remember my son Michael said,
I think we're the only duo where the fullback's actually
smaller than the running back.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, I was going to say, because I thought I
was going.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To die when he fell on me one time, right,
and you know, first and goal from the two and
Derek's right up my.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But yeah, boom.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I mean, my son is one of the biggest Eriic
Henry fans on the planet. Remember the Titans didn't play
him for the first couple of years, and now he's
going to end up certainly in the top ten all
time for a career rushing yardage, and he may end
up top five.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah. Yeah, Well he's coaching now at West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
With your son is Yeah, that's awesome. I've been to
games at West Virginia. That's a cool, cool spot. Morgantown's
a great.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Blast having kids in sports and watching them.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Car I got three of them, so so it's been
fun as far as you know, Hey, as far as
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, Well, listen, let's talk about a couple of things
happening in the news. Not that there's anything really hot
happening right now. Charlie Kirk's new book just came out.
Eric has been promoting that as well and kind of
putting to rest a lot of myths and you know,
a lot of conspiracy theories under that whole thing. I'm
not one to go down rabbit holes. I think they
got the right guy. I'm sure you've seen him. Oh no,
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he's not the one, you know. Yeah, how about the
guy in the background with the earpiece going on? Why
was he so calmly walking away from the scene. Something
else is going on here. I don't buy any of
that craft to you.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
No, I don't. And it's why I think they should
have a public trial, meaning the trial should be on television.
Everybody should be able to watch the entire process. I've
got a law degree, and I think that sunshine is
the best disinfectant, and so if you allow everyone to
watch the full proceedings, I think it makes it harder
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for there to be conspiracy theories associated with it. Now,
if this guy potentially acted in concert with others, then
I think certainly that's an investigation that needs to take place.
But all of the evidence being laid out in public
in court for all to see, not just the jurors,
not just to have reported to us what occurred, but
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to be able to see it for our own eyes,
I think would be very significant towards trying to dispel
some of those stories.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Now, prior to that, Charlie was on a mission to
you know, when he went to school, he was there,
I think a semester, maybe a year, and he realized
that a lot of people in those classrooms lean liberals
as far as teachers go, and if you come up
with another idea and leaning right at all, you're going
to get ostracized. I can't tell you many times my
kids both went to Alabama called me and Sai, Dad,
You're not gonna believe what's happened in class today. And
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Charlie said, forget it. I'm out of college. I'm going
to have conversations where I'm not criticized or kids get
shoved down. We'll have open discussion. And I love that
about him. And he was right on track with his faith,
and he was, you know, like I've decided to try
and do since I turned forty five years old, to
recommit my life to Christ and make decisions based on
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how He wants us to live our lives instead of
this world. So any opinion that came out of that was, look,
you got an opinion, I got an opinion, But the
big opinion is what does God say about it?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Let's go to scripture and talk about it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So there was a lot of dialogue and a lot
of people were completely the other direction of Charlie, but kaboom.
You know, he gets taken out for having that dialogue.
Where do you think we are in a country where
even having dialogue and allowing it to happen still gets
criticized to the point of getting killed.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, I think it's the natural result of the argument
that words can be violence, because if you presume or
accept that words are violence, then using violence to stop
someone for speaking is justified because you're not engaging in
violent behavior without provocation. You're engaging in a response to
violent behavior.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And that's why I.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Think people of goodwill out there across the political spectrum
have to say words are not violence, speech is not violence.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
How do we change it? On oct How do we
do that?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think we have to convince kids that words don't
hurt them. You remember when I was a kid, and
I bet you told your boys back when they were kids.
You know, sticks and stones may break my bones, but
words will never hurt me. So the reality is words
do hurt. But you have to instill in kids that
they are tough enough to be able to withstand bad
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things happening to them, that they're not fragile, that they
are not breakable. That they are in fact, very tough,
and part of being very tough is learning how to
deal with people saying unkind things things I say all
the time. People say, you know, how in the world
do you do what you do in a social media age.
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I'm a little bit unique. If ten people say something
awful to me, I remember the one nice thing. And
I think if you marinate too much in negativity, which
social media has steeped in, oh my gosh, then it
ultimately has incredibly diabolical, frankly impact on mental health and
also your sense of self and sense of community. And
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you know, sometimes putting down the phone and engaging in
the real world is I think the best solution for
what often ends up ailing people when it comes to
mental health.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
No, we try to tell our kids too that when
people say mean things to your bully and getting bullied
is big time in this country. Like you said, as
far as social media goes in classrooms behind people's backs,
especially in schools with kids, that you got to look
at that person and understand that they've got some issues. Son,
So yeah, you know they're going through something, not so
feel lucky that you know you're in a better spot
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than them. And don't take that coming from him. Pray
for that kid that what's going on with him is
not going to be long.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Look in the seventies, eighties, nineties, early two thousands, if
you had a tough situation at school, which lots of
kids do, when you left school, you were at home
and you were able to get away from people being
able to reach out to you and engage in that continued.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Harassment or bullying, whatever it might be.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Nowadays, kids can't you know, it continues all day they
get on social media, that aspect is continuing, and look,
I think it's happening for everybody. I saw a stat
the other day and I've talked about it a lot,
thirty percent of teenage girls thought about killing themselves in
the last year.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Thirty percent.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
It's awful, And you start to understand why Australia is
doing that. You deal with the band.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You know we've talked about I'd heard you talking about
that that. I don't think it's a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I think it's a great idea. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Look, and people out there say, well, you don't want
more government overreach. I think one of the number one
jobs of government should be to protect children, and government
sets important age limits on a variety of things. Most
people don't want a nine year old to be able
to drive a car. You've got to be sixteen to
drive a car.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Good point.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Most people don't want an eleven year old to be
able to vote. You got to be eighteen to vote.
Most people don't want thirteen year olds buy an alcohol.
You got to be twenty one to buy alcohol. Heck,
most people out there don't want doctors able to operate
and cut somebody's genitals off when they're thirteen, Which is
you want the state to be involved to protect even
I mean I've said this quite a lot. You know,
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if I took my fifteen year old to get a tattoo,
my wife would murder me. But in most states it
wouldn't be allowed because we say, well, a fifteen year
old doesn't have the wherewithal to be able to consent
to a tattoo. And like social media, I think we should,
you know, put an age limit in place and make
it uniform because it's important because kids will all say,
well everybody else is doing it, and so you need
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to have one set standard. Kids are going to be
smarter than a lot of parents. They're going to find
ways to get on there, just like kids found a
way to get a Playboy magazine back in the day,
maybe looking to hear yeah, and found a way maybe
to get a beer before they were twenty one. Just
because kids find out ways to circumvent laws doesn't mean
that the laws themselves can't be well intentioned and.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Protect kids all the time too. Absolutely, because you look
at what's going on in the Internet now. It's like
taking kids to libraries and adult drag shows going on,
or you take a kid into a biker bar when
they're seven years old. I mean, you're not gonna do that.
That doesn't make sense. So when you get on the
Internet and it's.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Wide open, yes.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You know you've got anything from people that have good
intentions for young people all the way to pedophiles, to
criminals that have been convicted and released, to people that
are in the dark side of things in this planet.
They're allowed on there, just like your kids, aren't You
want them hanging out in the room with them If
you have the opportunity to just walk away from your home,
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the answer would be hell no.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So why do you let them get on your Internet?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And so I think that's an important precedent to set.
And I think Australia got this one right. I put
up a poll on my Twitter hand elect Clay Travis,
and eighty seven percent of people agreed with it. I
think most of the people that agree with their parents
and grandparents, and I think it's a good decision.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right, I know you're busy. I'm going to get
you one last thing here. We got so many people
that have come up and said, enough of this voting
people are not born in this country in the office.
I was talking to Senator Teberville about this a week
ago and he said, you know what, at I'm just
tired of it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Let's it's be done.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
If you're not born in this country, if you're not
pro American, you should not be serving in our Congress.
And we've got those situations happening right now. And I
think he's right. I think any elected office in this country,
whether it's you know, city, municipalities or state or federal government,
if you're not born in the SUS and you don't
portray a pro American attitude, get out. And you see
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what's going on in Minnesota, dearborn Michigan. The Somali's and
Sharia Lai. You kid me, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Look, I saw a stat We talked about it on
the program yesterday. And by the way, thanks to you
guys for carrying the program, having such good loyal listeners
with everybody would get a lot of calls and emails
from the Birmingham area. You guys have a great station,
great city. Eighty one percent of Somallies are on welfare
in MINNESOTAA. We have to go back to a real
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aggressive enforcement of an immigration policy that if you are
going to enter this country and immediately need welfare in.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Order to afford to live here.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
We've got enough citizens that we need to make sure
that we're taken care of. That cost all of us
a ton. We don't need to be importing people who
are not citizens of the United States and spending money,
all of our taxpayer dollars, all of our resources for
those people. So this is an easy call. I don't
even think it's particularly partisan. Democrat, Republican, independent Americans need
to take care of Americans, not the entire world.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, you've got early and veterans that are trying to
save money and go shop and take their groceries out
and want a little public's bag versus the folks that
are on the government dollars right who are walking etither
with a big full of shopping cart that we're paying for.
That's right, Yeah, America. First time with you, well, Claude,
great to see it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Thank you, my man.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Keep up the good work. I know you've got a
great morning show here and we certainly are honored to
be on the station and look forward to talking to
you again sometime soon.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Appreciate you, Thank you,