December 20, 2024 • 55 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in the final show of the year for Buck
and myself. Buck is out already getting ready for Christmas.
I know many of you are out and about because
two of my three kids are done with school and
the third may be coming home right now from finishing
his last exam, and it is bonkers everywhere with all
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the kids out and all the holiday festivity underway. We
hope all of you are having a very merry Christmas.
There are going to be more shows, We will have
guest hosts. We've got a special Christmas Eve edition for
all of you that no one has heard at all,
and we have a bunch of best of Yes, there
are actually best of versions of this show. But I
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want to start off by saying thank you, thank you,
thank you for making twenty four, twenty twenty four, I think,
one of the best years in our nation's history and
culminating it by giving Donald Trump a landslide victory. And
I know I speak for both Buck and myself when
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I say it has been an incredible privilege to get
to spend twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
and now twenty twenty four with all of you, and
I think this audience made a tremendous difference when it
came to the twenty twenty four presidential election. So I
want to start off today's show by saying thank you.
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We lectured a lot about the importance of getting out
and voting, and you guys responded in a monumental fashion
this year, and it has been such an incredibly fun
journey with all of you, and I can't wait for
twenty twenty five because I think we're gonna have a
lot of fun. I think we're going to have a
lot of winning going on in this country, but today's show,
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we're going to have a lot of fun. But also
I just want all of you to understand our profound
gratitude that we get to talk to you, the largest
radio audience in the country, and I know a lot
of you are listening to this on podcasts, so we
appreciate all of you and YouTube and however you find
this show. We say thanks to you. So let's talk
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about some of the fun. I want to give you
a roadmap of where we're going. By the way, I'm
not diving in to will there be a shutdown or
won't there be a shutdown? I feel like we have
gone through this so many times. Eventually they're going to
sign off on the budget. They're going to spend too
much money, and we're going to come back in in
twenty twenty five and they're probably going to do the
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same thing again. So spoiler alert, there is going to
be no profound victory in this dispute. We're still going
to spend way too much money and we're going to
be two trillion dollars in debt in this year's budget
and next year's budget, and most people have decided that
deficits don't matter, and there seems to be no imperative
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or interest to try to solve them. But I'm not
going to be the Grinch today. I'm not gonna be
Ba hug Bug. I'm not gonna be Ebeneezer Scrooge. I'm
gonna have some fun with all of you. So let
me give you a roadmap of where we're gonna go.
Uh start off the show today. I want the worst
takes that you heard in twenty twenty four. If you
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follow me on social media, you know that I have
shared my two already. You can find me at Clay Travis.
I'm going to play them for all of you. And
it's not just that they're the worst takes of twenty
twenty four in my opinion. But I want to hear
all of yours eight hundred two eight two two eight
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a two Did I get that right? Already screwed up
the phone number, But I want to hear from all
of you what you think the worst takes are. We're
going to play these for you. I'm gonna talk to
you about with Biden coming to a close in his tenure, mercifully,
where does his presidency rank? And how would I rank
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the presidents that have existed for my lifetime? So I'm young,
but I'm going to give you the opportunity to weigh
in as well. An hour two and then you guys
know I was in Israel last week. I want to
end with an inspiring idea and a series of thoughts.
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I'm working right now on a long form piece about
my trip to Israel. There's so many details to get right,
there's so many aspects to it. I'm going to hopefully
get it up on OutKick on Monday. I know that
a lot of you Israel is on your bucket list. Jerusalem.
You would love to go visit my grandparents My mom's
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parents were super, super religious, and on their bucket list
was to go to Jerusalem. They went in their retirement.
I know many of you would like to go as well.
I feel incredibly fortunate that I got to take that trip.
I'm going to try to share with you what I
learned and why I think think Israel matters so much
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as it pertains to what's going on in the United States.
I'm going to try to make that case for you. Uh.
And of course we will be taking a variety of
calls throughout the course of the program as well. Eight
hundred and two two two eight eight two. Okay, worst
takes of twenty twenty four. I said yesterday that I
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don't think Buck and I had any truly awful takes,
meaning things that when you go back and everything's on
transcript and you listen to it, you think, oh, my goodness,
you guys are complete morons. That can happen? I do.
I love the sports gamble. Anybody who has ever bet
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on a sporting event, you look like a moron basically
half the time, because you look at the game, you
analyze it, you consider what you think is going to happen,
and then you put your wager down and then it
might blow up completely in your face. And even if
you're the greatest gam of all time, you only win
about fifty five percent of the time. Otherwise you're biff
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in back to the future too, and you end up
the richest human who's ever existed. So most sports gamblers
lose money. The greatest ever win fifty five percent of
the time. That means they lose forty five percent of
the time. That's the reality. Okay, So I'm open to
the idea some of you may have awful, big time
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lunatic predictions that you remember from this program that we
got wrong. I don't think we had any We've gotten
things wrong before, as anybody who makes predictions does. But
I think we almost nailed between the two of us
everything all year long that was likely to happen. We
got all the Trump law fair correct, We got the
election correct. I was right at least one of the
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two of us was got a great stake for it
about whether or not Biden would be the nominee. Buck
got right that jd Vance would be the VP pick
when nobody was talking about Van's as the VP pick.
So I think if you go back and assess this
show overall, you would have to say we got a
lot right. But open phone lines if you can think
of something that we got completely wrong. That is not
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an opinion, you know, a prediction. For instance, some of
you like to play flutes. The flute I think is
not an instrument that anybody should play. Don't think men
look particularly masculine play in the flute. That's my opinion.
I'm right, and if you disagree, you're wrong. But that's
not exactly what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about
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something we told you that we just completely whipped on.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'll give you an example from a couple of years ago.
I thought that to twenty twenty two elections we would
have a red tsunami. I thought that herschel Walker would win.
I thought that Doctor Oz would win. I thought that
Carrie Lake would win. I was wrong on all those elections.
Twenty twenty four we finally got our red wave red tsunami.
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But twenty twenty two I think it got delayed by
the Supreme Courts Dobbs decision, and Democrats were able to
take advantage of it. That would be my thesis for
how to shake out. So if we'd been doing the
show at the end of twenty twenty two, you certainly
could have been like, hey, Clay, you totally whiffed on
that one. That was correct. But twenty twenty four, I
think we got almost everything right. You know who did
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not get almost everything right? Morning, Joe Joe Scarborough. Well
let's save that one. That is my number one overall
biggest whiff from any media member in twenty twenty four.
But let's go first to Nicole Wallace. This is my
running up the near champion. Joe Scarborough just barely edged
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out Nicole Wallace, both MSNBC prognosticators in June of twenty
twenty four, after all these videos of Joe Biden clearly
being mentally and physically unable to do the job were
going viral all over the internet. Do you remember what
the decision was, what the talking points were back in
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June of twenty twenty four before the presidential debate between
Biden and Trump on June twenty seventh, If you recall,
the debate was were they or were they not? Cheap fakes?
Do you remember when they made up that phrase, They
said that the videos of Biden looking unable to do
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the job were cheap fakes. One of the foremost proponents
Karine Jean Pierre, but she is at least a professional liar.
That's her job. To a certain extent. Here was Nicole Wallace,
who likes to think she's smarter than everybody else in
the media, saying, you're being lied to the Klay Traviss,
the buck Sextons of the world, the ones telling you
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that Joe doesn't have the mental or physical capacity to
be president, and the videos they're sharing, those are cheap fakes.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Listen, there's a growing and insidious trend in right wing
media broadcasts, print and social media. It is to take
highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly
from Republican National Committee social media accounts, and then use
those videos to spread messages virally to cast out on
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President Biden's fitness for office. Both the articles are based
on cheap fakes, videos of real events that are intentionally
manipulated to fool viewers, released on an R and C
opposition research social media account with zero independent fact checking
by these so called journalists, and spread throughout the right
wing ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Okay, they really tried to tell all of us that
they were cheap fakes, and that we were lying to
you with the stories that we were telling about Joe
Biden not being mentally or physically up to the job. Guys, gals,
this is the biggest lie of the twenty first century.
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I really do believe that Joe Biden was mentally and
physically capable of being president for the last couple of years.
That he was able was a lie, and it was
dangerous for our country. But to argue that he could
be president for four more years, that that man, I'm
not even sure he's going to be alive, That that
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man should be raising his right hand on January twentieth,
twenty twenty five, and be president until January of twenty
twenty nine. They tried to make that argument to you,
and they tried to lecture all of us who were saying,
this is dangerous. We need to be careful here. This
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guy doesn't have the mental and physical capacity to be president.
They went on MSNBC June of twenty twenty four and
tried to argue that the videos we were all seeing,
that they were actually cheap fakes, even though they were
from legitimate White House press events. They were arguing they
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weren't real. Okay. That is my run up nominee for
the absolute worst most dishonest take of twenty twenty four.
The winner it's going to be Joe Scarborough on Morning
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a time. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton them find them
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Welcome back in Clay Travis but Sexton show. We're having
some fun talking about the worst takes of twenty twenty four.
I'm going to get to some of your calls here
in a moment, because some of you do, in fact
have bad calls. You think that Buck or myself made
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eight hundred and two two eight a two. But my
take for the single worst opinion that was shared in
twenty twenty four, Joe Scarborough on Buck's Favorite Morning Joe
program said in March of twenty twenty four, FU, if
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you don't see this is the best version of Biden
there has ever been. This is real it is not
unfortunately spectacular.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Listen tape right now, because I'm about to tell you
the truth, and FU if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close second.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And I've known him for years. The Prazenskis have known
him for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I
wouldn't say it. That's the worst take of twenty twenty four.
Whatever you think of Joe Biden, the idea that in
March of twenty twenty four he was the best intellectual
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and analytical version of himself that he had ever been
is such an unbelievable lie that to be willing to
say it is evidence of your complicity in spreading absolute
and total propaganda. There's no way to defend that. If
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you consume that product, when you know that the people
that you trust to bring you the news are lying
to you, you can no longer trust them anymore. And
I think that's really what's happening with MSNBC and CNN's
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audience overnight vanishing this audience, it keeps growing in really
pretty massive numbers, and I think it's because, over time,
you weigh whether you can trust people or not. In
other words, and when I sit down in front of
this mic, am I an actor? Am I a propagandist?
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Am I someone who is trying to sell you something
that they don't believe at all? You can't fake radio.
I don't really think you can. People say, hey, what's
the difference between TV radio TV? I think there are
good actors and they can fake it on some level.
You put on makeup, you put on dress up clothes,
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you sit down and read off glass in front of you.
It's a very cosmetic thing. Now some of you are
watching the video version of me right now, but you
can see I'm in a T shirt. I certainly don't
have makeup on. I'm not even particularly bathed in good lighting,
and I'm sitting in an old red chair that my
family has had for twenty years. This is not something
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where people look at it think, boy, you know that
Klay Travis. He looks compelling. He's a dashingly handsome man.
On this video version, I sit down in front of
the mic, and I tell you every day exactly what
I think. My wife says, the reason that I have
never needed therapy is because I've gotten to do radio
for the last twenty years, and whatever opinions I have,
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I tell you in the mic. And when I'm done,
I've got no weight on my shoulders. I feel light
as a feather. I got to say exactly what I think.
And trust me, I know that's a privilege, because you
know what. The number one thing I hear from you
guys out and about is you say what I wish
I could say. Thank you. That's the number one thing
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you guys tell me when I see you out and
about who listened to the program. And I don't take
that for granted, because trust me, I know what it
feels like to have to grin and bear it inside
of a company working for people you may not be
that impressed by. Because you got to make sure that
you pay that mortgage, because you've got to make sure
that you are doing whatever you can to help your
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kids get into the right school to be able to
pay for it. Heck, to put Christmas presents under the
tree right now. That is the ultimate loyalty. That's the
ultimate duty that many of you feel for your kids
or your grandkids to try to make their lives a
little bit better. So I can't tell you how much
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I appreciate the fact that I get to speak for
so many of you who don't feel like you are
able to say what you really think. And I think
that's a huge part of why Donald Trump won because
we live in such a fundamentally dishonest place. But you know,
Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett said investing ultimately comes down to
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weighing the value of a company. And he said, if
you really look at the stock market over time, I
love this analogy. He said, it's really just a weighing mechanism.
You can fake things for a little while, but eventually
the value of a company is realized over time. And
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I think that's true of people who do what we
do for a living too. All of you every day
are busy and you are weighing, Hey, can I trust
that person not? Do I agree with that person all
the time? Because my argument is you should never agree
with anybody all the time. You should even question your
own opinions. If you're being honest with yourself every single day,
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you should be willing to consider new data. You should
welcome the idea that you might be wrong, because that
will lead to you having stronger opinions instead of just
making a decision and deciding no matter what the evidence shows,
that you're going to stick to it. That's my advice
for all of you. Because there's so much news every day,
there's so much data, you need to constantly be challenging yourself.
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But Joe Scarborough in that take the best intellectually, the
best analytical version of Biden. It's so dishonest. I don't
even know even if you were a left wing zelot,
how could you hear that? Watch Biden in the debate
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on June twenty seventh, and ever trust Joe Scarborough again.
Remember he didn't just say, Hey, I'm making this opinion
from a distance. He said his wife Mika has known
Biden for fifty years. He said he himself has known
Biden for a long time too. He's telling you I
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know and see things that you do not. And he
is still telling you that the best intellectual and analytical
version of Biden is the one that's going on right now. Now.
You saw how quickly everybody abandoned both the Nicole Wallace
take and the Joe Scarborough case as soon as they
had the June twenty seventh debate. But make no mistake
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about what was going on there. They would have gone
to the mat for Joe Biden and argued that for
their audience all the way through the election, Just like
they tried to tell you. As soon as Biden dropped out,
they pivoted and Kamala Harris was no longer the least
popular vice presidential candidate of all time. She was a
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sterling representative of the Democrat Party who could not have
done a better job. Heck, Joey Reid said, Kamala Harris
ran a flawless campaign. She said that on election night,
after everybody recognized that Kamala was going to lose, these
people lied to you, and they lied to you in
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so many direct ways that it's impossible to ignore. And
I think ultimately that's why their audience is collapsing, because
you know, if they would tell you that Biden was
the best version of himself and that videos you saw
that question that were cheap fakes, you can't trust them
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on anything. And ultimately, I tell my team all the time,
what I have found that works is smart, original, funny,
and authentic. Sofa smart, original, funny, and authentic. If you
got kids or grandkids that want to get into media,
those are the four hallmarks. Not everybody can do all four,
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but you got to make at least one of those smart, original, funny,
or authentic your basis for your career. You can do
all four. Congratulations, you're going to be super rich because
if you can replicate that and keep doing it over
and over against very rare. But you got to have
all four of those. And I think what you're seeing
is at places like CNN, at places like MSNBC, they're propagandists.
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They're willing to get talking points and just go out
and say them even if there's no basis in reality
for them. All Right, we come back. You guys can
weigh in eight hundred and two to two eight A two.
Some of you are saying we had some bad takes.
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He will be back on January sixth. He and his
lovely wife Carrie. You are taking a baby moon trip
and they are going to be on the road post Christmas.
I encourage them to do it. You may have heard
me talking about it. If you have kids or grandkids
that are expecting. One piece of advice if you're first,
because once you have one, two and three and four,
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I mean everybody knows, it's pure chaos, almost impossible to
do anything. I do. Give anybody that I hear is
having their first baby the advice plan a really awesome
trip just the two of you go away because you
are going to be in the firing line as parents
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for a long time. Best bit of advice I got,
and it's proven to be so true. Once you have
young kids, you don't go on vacation, you go anymore.
You go on family trips, and a lot of you
right now are going to be on family trips during
the holidays, and you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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Actually more tiring than just going and working, cause you're
chasing kids around everywhere. If you've got young kids, you
go to the beach, or you go to the pool.
You know what I'm talking about. You got to be
on them like a hawk to make sure they're not
in the water. It is not relaxing. It is a
family trip, not a vacation until your kids get old
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enough where they can kind of take care of themselves.
Take that baby moon. Buck is going to be taking
a baby moon he and Carrie as they get ready.
We're excited to have their first baby in April. It's
going to be super awesome. Couple of hours. Encourage you
to download the podcast. We've had some fun worse takes
of twenty twenty four. An hour one. I gave you
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my presidential ratings of my lifetime since nineteen eighty. A
lot of you reacting to that, and I thought there
would be. You know, it's controversial, you're raking presidents. What's
mostly in my comments right now are people who are
Indiana Hoosier fans upset because I said Notre Dame's going
to blow you out today. Sorry, Indiana fans, Notre Dame
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is going to wreck you. That's the first college football
playoff game taking place in snowy South Bend tonight. I
thought people were gonna be like, I can't believe you've
got so and so president. There's some of that. Actually,
a lot of you agree with my rankings overall. But
the number one thing in my comments right now I
just jumped in is my entire instagram is just all Indiana.
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Hoo's your fans furious at me for saying what I
think is gonna be the reality, which is Notre Dame
is gonna blow you out. But I wanted to start
off this final hour by saying again what I said
at the top of the show to start today, Thank you.
I think because of you, guys, twenty twenty four has
been one of the most monumental years in American history.
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And if you think about what we have all just
experienced together just since June. Joe Biden gets obliterated by
Donald Trump on June twenty seventh in the presidential debit
eight late July, well was it July thirteenth, Trump comes
within a quarter of an inch in Butler, Pennsylvania of
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having his head blown off on live television. Mercifully, by
the grace of God, his ear is clipped and he survives.
Can you imagine how much different the world is today
if that assassin had been successful. July twenty first, Trump
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suddenly finds out he's got a new opponent because Joe
Biden drops out, Kamala Harris gets elevated. They will be
writing books about twenty twenty four, long after all of
us are gone, as one of the craziest presidential elections
and years ever. And I feel incredibly fortunate that we
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all got to spend that year together that we were
on Buck and I doing our best to fight the
good fight for fifteen hours a week. And I appreciate
all of you. And I've been thinking a lot about
the future, really as a dad or a granddad, or
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a mom or a grandma. I know that a lot
of you think about this as well, but in particular
at a lot of time to think on the trip
that I made to Israel, and one of the things
that has stood out to me about twenty twenty four
is good and evil is real. And I really think
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it's important to understand that because one of the things
we learned in twenty twenty four that is alarming for me,
and I think we have to fix in the years ahead.
Is a lot of our young people have lost the
ability to distinguish between good and evil. And I know
it's a holiday season, and I want to think about
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I want you to think about this with me, if
you would. I wanted to save this final hour to
have this conversation with all of you, because I know
a lot of you are going to be sitting around
your Christmas tables, variety of different ages, having conversations across generations.
There's gonna be a lot of young people. And there
are some signs that are really positive I think about
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young people in this nation. I'll give you a positive
before I dive into the things that have me a
bit troubled. Young men in this country showed up and
voted for Donald Trump in enormous numbers. The biggest, according
to the Wall Street Journal swing in voting of any
group was young men went from Biden plus fourteen in
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twenty twenty to Trump plus fourteen in twenty twenty four. Now,
there are a variety of different polls out there, but
I'm specifically referencing the voter analysis from the Wall Street Journal.
That's a seismic twenty eight point swing young men. I
believe are done with the BS and they realize they've
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been lied to. And I think a lot of young
women are starting to see it too. For COVID, imagine
if you were sixteen years old and suddenly they shut
down your high school and you didn't get to go
to prom, and you didn't get to finish your basketball
season or your soccer season, and you didn't get to
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hang out with your friends that summer because they shut
down all the different hiking trails, and they shut down
the public basketball courts, they shut down the beaches, the
swimming pools, and then they told you, hey, Joe Biden,
sharp as attack, you're profoundly distrustful now of the government
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at large. And I think this is going to be
a big story going forward. But also so here's what
troubles me young people, and I don't think we talked
about this, but according to a poll, forty one to
forty percent thought that the murder of that United Healthcare
CEO is justified. Young people on many college campuses from
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the East coast at Colombia to the West coast at
UCLA overwhelmingly set up protests on campus to say that
the Palestinians were the force for good and the Jewish
people were the force for evil in the Middle East.
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If you cannot distinguish between good or evil, we are
in a really dangerous place as a society. And coming
back from Israel, I want to share some of the stories,
and I'm putting it in my own words, but producer
Ali he was there with me, and Andrew, who is
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our tech engineer, was there for a lot of these
conversations as well. There were three experiences with Israelis that
I had that really stood out, and I want to
tell you each of their stories, what I learned from
them and why I think it's important in the United
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States because some people I read hop in every now
and the mentions, they're like, why should I care what
goes on in Israel? Maybe some of you out there
of that opinion. Maybe some of you are misguided and
you actually think that Israel is the force for evil
in the Middle East. Maybe you've consumed content making those arguments.
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I want to tell you that what happens in Israel,
I believe echoes with what happens with Western civilization going forward,
and one of the profound evils that has taken root
in this country that we have to destroy, I believe,
is the idea that America is not a force for good,
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that our history is evil, and as a result that
any of our founding fathers or the documents that they created,
whether it's Declaration of Independence, whether it's Constitution, whether it's
the Bill of Rights, all of it should be destroyed
because they don't have the moral legitimacy to have created it. Understand,
that's what attacking this country's founding is actually about. It's
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about delegitimizing our history to such an extent that we
got to rename Washington, DC, or we got to tear
down the Jefferson Memorial because Thomas Jefferson happened to have
owned slaves, or all of these different attacks which are
predicated on the idea that we should define people not
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by the best thing they did, but by the worst
thing they did. And to me, what Judeo Christian culture
largely coalesces around is the idea of aspiring to be
better versions than ourselves and offering people forgiveness and redemption
when they are the worst version of their selves. Now,
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every single person out there listening to me knows that
inherently in all of your lives if people in the
public arena defined you by the worst thing that you
ever did, you would look like a profoundly awful human being.
If every single person listening right now, if the worst
thing that you ever did suddenly went public on social
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media and everybody saw it, you would be defined in
this modern era as an awful human being, and you
might go viral for it, and everybody would judge you
based on it. And I don't care who you are.
Every single one of you listening to me right now,
you got something in your mind. You're like, oh, man,
if that went public, I would have been done for.
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Maybe it happened twenty years ago, maybe it happened forty
years ago, maybe it happened last week. You know it
to be true. That's what the woke mind virus is doing.
They want to define us, drag us all the way
back down to the worst, most base version of ourselves
and say this is who we are. To me, what
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Judeo Christian values are about is understanding that bad things
can be done, but elevating humanity to the best versions
of ourselves. When I go to Washington, DC, and I
look out and I see the Washington Monument, and I
see the Jefferson Memorial, and I see the Lincoln Memorial,
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and I see the MLK Memorial and the World War
II Memorial. I don't think about the worst thing that
any of the individuals involved in those places, the Vietnam
War Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the New World War
I Memorial. I think about collect actively the best version
of ourselves and what we can accomplish. That, to me
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is what Western civilization is. Embracing the best from the past,
understanding that none of us are perfect, but that we
can aspire to a higher version of ourselves, and that
that should be the goal. And that's one of the
lessons one of the things that kept resonating for me
as I traveled through Israel, which in many ways is
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the birthplace of religion and also to a large extent,
the birthplace of civilization. That area is when we come back.
I want to tell you about three stories that I
heard that I found to be profoundly moving that I
think will impact all of you from the Holy Land
here as we get closer to Christmas. I'd encourage you
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to keep listening grab this. I hope these stories you'll
be able to share with your friends and family as
we move closer to Christmas, and I'm thankful that I
was able to go to Israel, a place where many
people out there dream of going your whole lives thanks
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Spend Christmas z with the guys. Find them on the
iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back
in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Awful news by the way,
and I'm going to continue, but it really ties in
with what I'm talking about right now. This is breaking news.
A lot of people are injured after a car plowed
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into a crowd at a German Christmas market in what
is suspected to be a terror attack. I'm reading from
the New York Post. This just happened. A car plowed
into a group of people shopping at a Christmas market
in eastern Germany Friday, leaving many wounded in what officials
are saying was a targeted attack. Driver was immediately arrested
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after what local outlets are calling a terror attack in
the city of Magdeburg, according to the German news outlet Build.
So more details of this are going to come out.
There's been other attacks in Christmas markets like this, but again,
this one happening in Germany and it ties in exactly
what I'm talking about good and evil. If you attack
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someone because of their religion, you're evil. Period. If Israel
put down their weapons tomorrow, the country wouldn't exist in
a week. If every Middle Eastern country put down their weapons,
there would be peace in the Middle East immediately. I
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was talking as we went to break about the dad
whose son was in captivity for his twenty first and
his twenty first birth twenty first and twenty second birthday.
He said, on that day at the Nova terror attack,
they were texting with their son, and they also had,
as many of you probably do with your kids, an
ability to track their cell phones on their own cell phone,
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and they said, he suddenly went silent. Imagine what it's
like to know that there's a terror attack underway at
a music festival that your son or daughter went to.
They're texting you that they can hear gunfire, that there
are terrorists approaching them, and then suddenly you don't hear
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anything at all from them. That's what happened to tons
of Jewish families on October seventh, and that dad told me.
He said, all we could do was just look at
the phone, and they saw the phone moving, and they
had been talking with their son about where he needed
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to go and how he could get away, and giving
him advice and telling him that there were terrorists everywhere,
thousands of them that had poured across the border. And
they said, suddenly the phone started to move, and first
they thought, oh, this is great. He's gotten in a car.
He's getting away. And as they were watching that phone,
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suddenly their son's phone started going right toward Gaza, and
they were furiously they said, texting him, you're going the
wrong way. Turn around. They thought he was lost. They
could watch his phone speeding across the farm land there,
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getting closer and closer to Gaza, and then they saw
it go in to Gaza and it vanished. And they
have not heard from their son in four hundred and
thirty days. Hamas took him because he's Jewish. They don't
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know if he's dead. They don't know if he's alive.
The last thing they saw, the last contact they had
with their son, was his cell phone going into Gaza.
They desperately hoped maybe somebody stole the phone, maybe somebody
was running off with it. Then they found out that
he was a terrorist. Talk about good and evil. Look
into someone's eyes, who is a parent. I said, have
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you can you sleep? He said no, basically hasn't been
able to sleep for four hundred and thirty days. That's evil.
Good and evil exists. It's important to call it out.
Talked with a mom Leora been Sir. She came to
Nova in Metas. She had a gun on her waistband handgun,
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sat down and told me her story. On October seventh,
she was in a hospital. She had just given birth
to her third child one day before October sixth, twenty
twenty three. They all woke up that morning with missiles
being fired all over Israel. They were all told to
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go into their bomb shelters. She was texting with her husband.
Her husband was back at their home with their two
older kids, young kids all five and under. Slowly from
inside the hospital with a baby nursing on her, she
became aware that terrorists had come into Israel and were
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inside of her husband's kibbuts the village, murdering people. Her
mom was there. She was texting with her mom. Grandma
was in town as grandmas are because there had been
a baby born and she wanted to be able to
help with those younger kids. Her husband. They didn't have guns.
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At that time, her husband stood by the door with
the biggest butcher knife he could find to try to
defend the kids if the terrorists came in. I want
you to think about that good and evil is real, Okay,
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And it's emotional to hear these stories. She was texting
with her husband and with her mom. There's nobody there
to protect them. People being murdered left and right next
to them because they're Jewish. Nobody's coming. She called her brothers,
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who had been in the IDF. Every eighteen year old
in Israel just about serves their country because they have to,
because people want to kill them because they're Jewish. She
texted her brothers said, get your guns. They're gonna kill
my kids and my husband and my mom, our mom.
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You have to get there. Brothers got in the car
loaded up with all the guns. They could get rushed there.
There's no protection, people being murdered left and right. They
get to the door. Mercifully, they get her husband and
those kids out. They save them. They go back to
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look for mom. Grandma. Grandma is sixty five years old
in a different room, different house. There, her son's found
her murdered, riddled with bullets, and when they found her.
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Think about this for a minute. She was holding a
picture of her grandkids. They killed her because she was Jewish.
Evil is real. I talked with that mom, three kids,
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all under five, and I said, because I saw she
was wearing that gun on her hip. She said, she's
never left the house without that gun on her hip since.
Think about that. In the hospital with a baby, she said,
she thought it's just going to be the two of us, now,
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her and that baby. She thought her husband was going
to be killed. She thought her kids were going to
be killed, her mom was killed. That just happened last year,
over a thousand people murdered, but because they were Jewish.
I just told you. At the Christmas market in Germany,
somebody just drove a car through it. American college kids
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protested and said, the Jews are the bad guy. A
lot of young people are saying, Hey, that United Healthcare
ceo he got murdered. Oh, the killer's the good guy.
A country is in profound difficulty in trouble when there
is not a recognition that good and evil still exist.
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And it's even more dangerous when there is an inability
to tell between the two and what happened there. It's
already happened here right on nine to eleven. We know it.
There are people in this country right now who want
to kill us because they are evil and they believe
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that the way that we live is evil. And so
when people say, oh, well, you didn't go into Gaza,
I don't have to. I don't have to because I
know what Hamas did on that day, and they would
kill every Jew in the world if they could, and
they would celebrate while they did it. That is evil.
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And I understand it's not every Muslim person. And if
you judge anybody based on their religion, you're an imbecile.
They are awful evil Christians, and they're awful evil Jews,
and they're awful evil Muslims and every and everybody else
right and atheists and whatever religion you choose or don't
choose to support. But good and evil is real, and
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when you stare upon it, it's important to call it out.
I'll give you another story from inside of that kibbutz,
and then I'm gonna tell you one more to finish up.
Do you know why they have the bombshelters there? It's
not to protect from people running around with ak forty
seven's riddling bodies with bullets. It's because all the time
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they shoot rockets into Israel from other countries and so on.
That morning when they started to shoot rockets, they did
that intentionally because they wanted everybody in those bomb shelters.
All these homes have to have bomb shelters. Think about
how crazy that is. All of them have to have
bomb shelters. You know what they did. They went in
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and lit those homes on fire because they knew the
people were then going to have to run out of
the bomb shelters. If you walk around to any of
these kibbutz's, they're burned out. They waited outside until moms
and dads and their kids came out, and they executed
everybody as they came out, or they took them a hostage.
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I stood in front of one house where a mom
and dad were shot to death trying to hold the
door of their bombshelter closed, and they had three little
kids behind them that all died of smoke inhalation because
their home was burned down. If you got young kids,
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or you've got grandkids, imagine being parents holding those doors
with everything you got while the terrorists are firing at you.
You're murdered when they found them. They are holding the door,
and all of your kids die of smoke inhalation behind
you after watching you get murdered. That happened all over
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the border with Gaza. I know it's easy to say, oh, well,
that's the Middle East. Why should I care about it.
Israel is the front line of Western civilization in this country.
If you do not stand with Israel, then you are
standing against Western civilization, Judeo Christian values, basic human rights
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for men and women around the world. And if they fall,
they're going to come for other countries. You want to
talk about the danger of what might happen next. They're coming.
They believe that we are evil, we're not. Again, that
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analogy is perfect. If Israel put down their weapons, they
would all be dead tomorrow. If the Middle East put
down their weapons, there would be peace. Israel's the good guy.
We've got to stand with them when we come back.
I'll tell you one more story rolling into Christmas that
I think is really important. And I certainly appreciate all
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you guys listening to me and understand it's going into Christmas,
but I think these are important conversations some people say, hey,
I'll just expect you to tell me, like, what's a
better movie Home Alone? Or you know, the Christmas Story,
the answers Christmas Story. By the way, all the Home
Alone is good. But I know so many of you
are going to be with friends and family over the holidays.
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I want you to be sharing these stories with the
kids that are home from college that frankly are knuckleheads
and a lot of them don't know any better. And
I want that image with you as you get ready
to be with your friends and family, to think about
that alignment between Christians and Jews. I mean, I just
told you there's a car tear attack just happened in Germany.
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Evil is real, and the importance of being able to
distinguish between good and evil is maybe the most foundational
element of the United States, the most profoundly I think
good country to ever exist in the history of the world.
When they try to tell us that our history is awful,
when they try to denigrate us and tear down our
founding fathers and our leaders, it's about stripping away our
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moral authority to see evil and call it out. That's
what they're doing. It's important to understand this, and I
hope you'll talk with the young people in your friends
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Do it today? Patriots Radio hosts a couple of regular guys,
(55:08):
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free
iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts,
Welcome in the final show of the year for Buck
and myself. Buck is out already getting ready for Christmas.
I know many of you are out and about because
two of my three kids are done with school and
the third may be coming home right now from finishing
his last exam, and it is bonkers everywhere with all
(00:23):
the kids out and all the holiday festivity underway. We
hope all of you are having a very merry Christmas.
There are going to be more shows, We will have
guest hosts. We've got a special Christmas Eve edition for
all of you that no one has heard at all,
and we have a bunch of best of Yes, there
are actually best of versions of this show. But I
(00:43):
want to start off by saying thank you, thank you,
thank you for making twenty four, twenty twenty four, I think,
one of the best years in our nation's history and
culminating it by giving Donald Trump a landslide victory. And
I know I speak for both Buck and myself when
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I say it has been an incredible privilege to get
to spend twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
and now twenty twenty four with all of you, and
I think this audience made a tremendous difference when it
came to the twenty twenty four presidential election. So I
want to start off today's show by saying thank you.
(01:27):
We lectured a lot about the importance of getting out
and voting, and you guys responded in a monumental fashion
this year, and it has been such an incredibly fun
journey with all of you, and I can't wait for
twenty twenty five because I think we're gonna have a
lot of fun. I think we're going to have a
lot of winning going on in this country, but today's show,
(01:49):
we're going to have a lot of fun. But also
I just want all of you to understand our profound
gratitude that we get to talk to you, the largest
radio audience in the country, and I know a lot
of you are listening to this on podcasts, so we
appreciate all of you and YouTube and however you find
this show. We say thanks to you. So let's talk
(02:10):
about some of the fun. I want to give you
a roadmap of where we're going. By the way, I'm
not diving in to will there be a shutdown or
won't there be a shutdown? I feel like we have
gone through this so many times. Eventually they're going to
sign off on the budget. They're going to spend too
much money, and we're going to come back in in
twenty twenty five and they're probably going to do the
(02:32):
same thing again. So spoiler alert, there is going to
be no profound victory in this dispute. We're still going
to spend way too much money and we're going to
be two trillion dollars in debt in this year's budget
and next year's budget, and most people have decided that
deficits don't matter, and there seems to be no imperative
(02:55):
or interest to try to solve them. But I'm not
going to be the Grinch today. I'm not gonna be
Ba hug Bug. I'm not gonna be Ebeneezer Scrooge. I'm
gonna have some fun with all of you. So let
me give you a roadmap of where we're gonna go.
Uh start off the show today. I want the worst
takes that you heard in twenty twenty four. If you
(03:18):
follow me on social media, you know that I have
shared my two already. You can find me at Clay Travis.
I'm going to play them for all of you. And
it's not just that they're the worst takes of twenty
twenty four in my opinion. But I want to hear
all of yours eight hundred two eight two two eight
(03:39):
a two Did I get that right? Already screwed up
the phone number, But I want to hear from all
of you what you think the worst takes are. We're
going to play these for you. I'm gonna talk to
you about with Biden coming to a close in his tenure, mercifully,
where does his presidency rank? And how would I rank
(04:00):
the presidents that have existed for my lifetime? So I'm young,
but I'm going to give you the opportunity to weigh
in as well. An hour two and then you guys
know I was in Israel last week. I want to
end with an inspiring idea and a series of thoughts.
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I'm working right now on a long form piece about
my trip to Israel. There's so many details to get right,
there's so many aspects to it. I'm going to hopefully
get it up on OutKick on Monday. I know that
a lot of you Israel is on your bucket list. Jerusalem.
You would love to go visit my grandparents My mom's
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parents were super, super religious, and on their bucket list
was to go to Jerusalem. They went in their retirement.
I know many of you would like to go as well.
I feel incredibly fortunate that I got to take that trip.
I'm going to try to share with you what I
learned and why I think think Israel matters so much
(05:02):
as it pertains to what's going on in the United States.
I'm going to try to make that case for you. Uh.
And of course we will be taking a variety of
calls throughout the course of the program as well. Eight
hundred and two two two eight eight two. Okay, worst
takes of twenty twenty four. I said yesterday that I
(05:23):
don't think Buck and I had any truly awful takes,
meaning things that when you go back and everything's on
transcript and you listen to it, you think, oh, my goodness,
you guys are complete morons. That can happen? I do.
I love the sports gamble. Anybody who has ever bet
(05:43):
on a sporting event, you look like a moron basically
half the time, because you look at the game, you
analyze it, you consider what you think is going to happen,
and then you put your wager down and then it
might blow up completely in your face. And even if
you're the greatest gam of all time, you only win
about fifty five percent of the time. Otherwise you're biff
(06:05):
in back to the future too, and you end up
the richest human who's ever existed. So most sports gamblers
lose money. The greatest ever win fifty five percent of
the time. That means they lose forty five percent of
the time. That's the reality. Okay, So I'm open to
the idea some of you may have awful, big time
(06:27):
lunatic predictions that you remember from this program that we
got wrong. I don't think we had any We've gotten
things wrong before, as anybody who makes predictions does. But
I think we almost nailed between the two of us
everything all year long that was likely to happen. We
got all the Trump law fair correct, We got the
election correct. I was right at least one of the
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two of us was got a great stake for it
about whether or not Biden would be the nominee. Buck
got right that jd Vance would be the VP pick
when nobody was talking about Van's as the VP pick.
So I think if you go back and assess this
show overall, you would have to say we got a
lot right. But open phone lines if you can think
of something that we got completely wrong. That is not
(07:13):
an opinion, you know, a prediction. For instance, some of
you like to play flutes. The flute I think is
not an instrument that anybody should play. Don't think men
look particularly masculine play in the flute. That's my opinion.
I'm right, and if you disagree, you're wrong. But that's
not exactly what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about
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something we told you that we just completely whipped on.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'll give you an example from a couple of years ago.
I thought that to twenty twenty two elections we would
have a red tsunami. I thought that herschel Walker would win.
I thought that Doctor Oz would win. I thought that
Carrie Lake would win. I was wrong on all those elections.
Twenty twenty four we finally got our red wave red tsunami.
(08:00):
But twenty twenty two I think it got delayed by
the Supreme Courts Dobbs decision, and Democrats were able to
take advantage of it. That would be my thesis for
how to shake out. So if we'd been doing the
show at the end of twenty twenty two, you certainly
could have been like, hey, Clay, you totally whiffed on
that one. That was correct. But twenty twenty four, I
think we got almost everything right. You know who did
(08:20):
not get almost everything right? Morning, Joe Joe Scarborough. Well
let's save that one. That is my number one overall
biggest whiff from any media member in twenty twenty four.
But let's go first to Nicole Wallace. This is my
running up the near champion. Joe Scarborough just barely edged
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out Nicole Wallace, both MSNBC prognosticators in June of twenty
twenty four, after all these videos of Joe Biden clearly
being mentally and physically unable to do the job were
going viral all over the internet. Do you remember what
the decision was, what the talking points were back in
(09:07):
June of twenty twenty four before the presidential debate between
Biden and Trump on June twenty seventh, If you recall,
the debate was were they or were they not? Cheap fakes?
Do you remember when they made up that phrase, They
said that the videos of Biden looking unable to do
(09:27):
the job were cheap fakes. One of the foremost proponents
Karine Jean Pierre, but she is at least a professional liar.
That's her job. To a certain extent. Here was Nicole Wallace,
who likes to think she's smarter than everybody else in
the media, saying, you're being lied to the Klay Traviss,
the buck Sextons of the world, the ones telling you
(09:49):
that Joe doesn't have the mental or physical capacity to
be president, and the videos they're sharing, those are cheap fakes.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Listen, there's a growing and insidious trend in right wing
media broadcasts, print and social media. It is to take
highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly
from Republican National Committee social media accounts, and then use
those videos to spread messages virally to cast out on
(10:18):
President Biden's fitness for office. Both the articles are based
on cheap fakes, videos of real events that are intentionally
manipulated to fool viewers, released on an R and C
opposition research social media account with zero independent fact checking
by these so called journalists, and spread throughout the right
wing ecosystem.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Okay, they really tried to tell all of us that
they were cheap fakes, and that we were lying to
you with the stories that we were telling about Joe
Biden not being mentally or physically up to the job. Guys, gals,
this is the biggest lie of the twenty first century.
(11:03):
I really do believe that Joe Biden was mentally and
physically capable of being president for the last couple of years.
That he was able was a lie, and it was
dangerous for our country. But to argue that he could
be president for four more years, that that man, I'm
not even sure he's going to be alive, That that
(11:26):
man should be raising his right hand on January twentieth,
twenty twenty five, and be president until January of twenty
twenty nine. They tried to make that argument to you,
and they tried to lecture all of us who were saying,
this is dangerous. We need to be careful here. This
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guy doesn't have the mental and physical capacity to be president.
They went on MSNBC June of twenty twenty four and
tried to argue that the videos we were all seeing,
that they were actually cheap fakes, even though they were
from legitimate White House press events. They were arguing they
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weren't real. Okay. That is my run up nominee for
the absolute worst most dishonest take of twenty twenty four.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis but Sexton show. We're having
some fun talking about the worst takes of twenty twenty four.
I'm going to get to some of your calls here
in a moment, because some of you do, in fact
have bad calls. You think that Buck or myself made
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eight hundred and two two eight a two. But my
take for the single worst opinion that was shared in
twenty twenty four, Joe Scarborough on Buck's Favorite Morning Joe
program said in March of twenty twenty four, FU, if
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you don't see this is the best version of Biden
there has ever been. This is real it is not
unfortunately spectacular.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Listen tape right now, because I'm about to tell you
the truth, and FU if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close second.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And I've known him for years. The Prazenskis have known
him for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I
wouldn't say it. That's the worst take of twenty twenty four.
Whatever you think of Joe Biden, the idea that in
March of twenty twenty four he was the best intellectual
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and analytical version of himself that he had ever been
is such an unbelievable lie that to be willing to
say it is evidence of your complicity in spreading absolute
and total propaganda. There's no way to defend that. If
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you consume that product, when you know that the people
that you trust to bring you the news are lying
to you, you can no longer trust them anymore. And
I think that's really what's happening with MSNBC and CNN's
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audience overnight vanishing this audience, it keeps growing in really
pretty massive numbers, and I think it's because, over time,
you weigh whether you can trust people or not. In
other words, and when I sit down in front of
this mic, am I an actor? Am I a propagandist?
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Am I someone who is trying to sell you something
that they don't believe at all? You can't fake radio.
I don't really think you can. People say, hey, what's
the difference between TV radio TV? I think there are
good actors and they can fake it on some level.
You put on makeup, you put on dress up clothes,
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you sit down and read off glass in front of you.
It's a very cosmetic thing. Now some of you are
watching the video version of me right now, but you
can see I'm in a T shirt. I certainly don't
have makeup on. I'm not even particularly bathed in good lighting,
and I'm sitting in an old red chair that my
family has had for twenty years. This is not something
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where people look at it think, boy, you know that
Klay Travis. He looks compelling. He's a dashingly handsome man.
On this video version, I sit down in front of
the mic, and I tell you every day exactly what
I think. My wife says, the reason that I have
never needed therapy is because I've gotten to do radio
for the last twenty years, and whatever opinions I have,
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I tell you in the mic. And when I'm done,
I've got no weight on my shoulders. I feel light
as a feather. I got to say exactly what I think.
And trust me, I know that's a privilege, because you
know what. The number one thing I hear from you
guys out and about is you say what I wish
I could say. Thank you. That's the number one thing
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you guys tell me when I see you out and
about who listened to the program. And I don't take
that for granted, because trust me, I know what it
feels like to have to grin and bear it inside
of a company working for people you may not be
that impressed by. Because you got to make sure that
you pay that mortgage, because you've got to make sure
that you are doing whatever you can to help your
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kids get into the right school to be able to
pay for it. Heck, to put Christmas presents under the
tree right now. That is the ultimate loyalty. That's the
ultimate duty that many of you feel for your kids
or your grandkids to try to make their lives a
little bit better. So I can't tell you how much
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I appreciate the fact that I get to speak for
so many of you who don't feel like you are
able to say what you really think. And I think
that's a huge part of why Donald Trump won because
we live in such a fundamentally dishonest place. But you know,
Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett said investing ultimately comes down to
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weighing the value of a company. And he said, if
you really look at the stock market over time, I
love this analogy. He said, it's really just a weighing mechanism.
You can fake things for a little while, but eventually
the value of a company is realized over time. And
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I think that's true of people who do what we
do for a living too. All of you every day
are busy and you are weighing, Hey, can I trust
that person not? Do I agree with that person all
the time? Because my argument is you should never agree
with anybody all the time. You should even question your
own opinions. If you're being honest with yourself every single day,
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you should be willing to consider new data. You should
welcome the idea that you might be wrong, because that
will lead to you having stronger opinions instead of just
making a decision and deciding no matter what the evidence shows,
that you're going to stick to it. That's my advice
for all of you. Because there's so much news every day,
there's so much data, you need to constantly be challenging yourself.
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But Joe Scarborough in that take the best intellectually, the
best analytical version of Biden. It's so dishonest. I don't
even know even if you were a left wing zelot,
how could you hear that? Watch Biden in the debate
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on June twenty seventh, and ever trust Joe Scarborough again.
Remember he didn't just say, Hey, I'm making this opinion
from a distance. He said his wife Mika has known
Biden for fifty years. He said he himself has known
Biden for a long time too. He's telling you I
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know and see things that you do not. And he
is still telling you that the best intellectual and analytical
version of Biden is the one that's going on right now. Now.
You saw how quickly everybody abandoned both the Nicole Wallace
take and the Joe Scarborough case as soon as they
had the June twenty seventh debate. But make no mistake
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about what was going on there. They would have gone
to the mat for Joe Biden and argued that for
their audience all the way through the election, Just like
they tried to tell you. As soon as Biden dropped out,
they pivoted and Kamala Harris was no longer the least
popular vice presidential candidate of all time. She was a
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sterling representative of the Democrat Party who could not have
done a better job. Heck, Joey Reid said, Kamala Harris
ran a flawless campaign. She said that on election night,
after everybody recognized that Kamala was going to lose, these
people lied to you, and they lied to you in
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so many direct ways that it's impossible to ignore. And
I think ultimately that's why their audience is collapsing, because
you know, if they would tell you that Biden was
the best version of himself and that videos you saw
that question that were cheap fakes, you can't trust them
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on anything. And ultimately, I tell my team all the time,
what I have found that works is smart, original, funny,
and authentic. Sofa smart, original, funny, and authentic. If you
got kids or grandkids that want to get into media,
those are the four hallmarks. Not everybody can do all four,
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but you got to make at least one of those smart, original, funny,
or authentic your basis for your career. You can do
all four. Congratulations, you're going to be super rich because
if you can replicate that and keep doing it over
and over against very rare. But you got to have
all four of those. And I think what you're seeing
is at places like CNN, at places like MSNBC, they're propagandists.
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They're willing to get talking points and just go out
and say them even if there's no basis in reality
for them. All Right, we come back. You guys can
weigh in eight hundred and two to two eight A two.
Some of you are saying we had some bad takes.
We'll take those calls in the meantime, prize picks get
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He will be back on January sixth. He and his
lovely wife Carrie. You are taking a baby moon trip
and they are going to be on the road post Christmas.
I encourage them to do it. You may have heard
me talking about it. If you have kids or grandkids
that are expecting. One piece of advice if you're first,
because once you have one, two and three and four,
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I mean everybody knows, it's pure chaos, almost impossible to
do anything. I do. Give anybody that I hear is
having their first baby the advice plan a really awesome
trip just the two of you go away because you
are going to be in the firing line as parents
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for a long time. Best bit of advice I got,
and it's proven to be so true. Once you have
young kids, you don't go on vacation, you go anymore.
You go on family trips, and a lot of you
right now are going to be on family trips during
the holidays, and you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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Actually more tiring than just going and working, cause you're
chasing kids around everywhere. If you've got young kids, you
go to the beach, or you go to the pool.
You know what I'm talking about. You got to be
on them like a hawk to make sure they're not
in the water. It is not relaxing. It is a
family trip, not a vacation until your kids get old
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enough where they can kind of take care of themselves.
Take that baby moon. Buck is going to be taking
a baby moon he and Carrie as they get ready.
We're excited to have their first baby in April. It's
going to be super awesome. Couple of hours. Encourage you
to download the podcast. We've had some fun worse takes
of twenty twenty four. An hour one. I gave you
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my presidential ratings of my lifetime since nineteen eighty. A
lot of you reacting to that, and I thought there
would be. You know, it's controversial, you're raking presidents. What's
mostly in my comments right now are people who are
Indiana Hoosier fans upset because I said Notre Dame's going
to blow you out today. Sorry, Indiana fans, Notre Dame
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is going to wreck you. That's the first college football
playoff game taking place in snowy South Bend tonight. I
thought people were gonna be like, I can't believe you've
got so and so president. There's some of that. Actually,
a lot of you agree with my rankings overall. But
the number one thing in my comments right now I
just jumped in is my entire instagram is just all Indiana.
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Hoo's your fans furious at me for saying what I
think is gonna be the reality, which is Notre Dame
is gonna blow you out. But I wanted to start
off this final hour by saying again what I said
at the top of the show to start today, Thank you.
I think because of you, guys, twenty twenty four has
been one of the most monumental years in American history.
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And if you think about what we have all just
experienced together just since June. Joe Biden gets obliterated by
Donald Trump on June twenty seventh in the presidential debit
eight late July, well was it July thirteenth, Trump comes
within a quarter of an inch in Butler, Pennsylvania of
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having his head blown off on live television. Mercifully, by
the grace of God, his ear is clipped and he survives.
Can you imagine how much different the world is today
if that assassin had been successful. July twenty first, Trump
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suddenly finds out he's got a new opponent because Joe
Biden drops out, Kamala Harris gets elevated. They will be
writing books about twenty twenty four, long after all of
us are gone, as one of the craziest presidential elections
and years ever. And I feel incredibly fortunate that we
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all got to spend that year together that we were
on Buck and I doing our best to fight the
good fight for fifteen hours a week. And I appreciate
all of you. And I've been thinking a lot about
the future, really as a dad or a granddad, or
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a mom or a grandma. I know that a lot
of you think about this as well, but in particular
at a lot of time to think on the trip
that I made to Israel, and one of the things
that has stood out to me about twenty twenty four
is good and evil is real. And I really think
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it's important to understand that because one of the things
we learned in twenty twenty four that is alarming for me,
and I think we have to fix in the years ahead.
Is a lot of our young people have lost the
ability to distinguish between good and evil. And I know
it's a holiday season, and I want to think about
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I want you to think about this with me, if
you would. I wanted to save this final hour to
have this conversation with all of you, because I know
a lot of you are going to be sitting around
your Christmas tables, variety of different ages, having conversations across generations.
There's gonna be a lot of young people. And there
are some signs that are really positive I think about
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young people in this nation. I'll give you a positive
before I dive into the things that have me a
bit troubled. Young men in this country showed up and
voted for Donald Trump in enormous numbers. The biggest, according
to the Wall Street Journal swing in voting of any
group was young men went from Biden plus fourteen in
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twenty twenty to Trump plus fourteen in twenty twenty four. Now,
there are a variety of different polls out there, but
I'm specifically referencing the voter analysis from the Wall Street Journal.
That's a seismic twenty eight point swing young men. I
believe are done with the BS and they realize they've
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been lied to. And I think a lot of young
women are starting to see it too. For COVID, imagine
if you were sixteen years old and suddenly they shut
down your high school and you didn't get to go
to prom, and you didn't get to finish your basketball
season or your soccer season, and you didn't get to
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hang out with your friends that summer because they shut
down all the different hiking trails, and they shut down
the public basketball courts, they shut down the beaches, the
swimming pools, and then they told you, hey, Joe Biden,
sharp as attack, you're profoundly distrustful now of the government
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at large. And I think this is going to be
a big story going forward. But also so here's what
troubles me young people, and I don't think we talked
about this, but according to a poll, forty one to
forty percent thought that the murder of that United Healthcare
CEO is justified. Young people on many college campuses from
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the East coast at Colombia to the West coast at
UCLA overwhelmingly set up protests on campus to say that
the Palestinians were the force for good and the Jewish
people were the force for evil in the Middle East.
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If you cannot distinguish between good or evil, we are
in a really dangerous place as a society. And coming
back from Israel, I want to share some of the stories,
and I'm putting it in my own words, but producer
Ali he was there with me, and Andrew, who is
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our tech engineer, was there for a lot of these
conversations as well. There were three experiences with Israelis that
I had that really stood out, and I want to
tell you each of their stories, what I learned from
them and why I think it's important in the United
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States because some people I read hop in every now
and the mentions, they're like, why should I care what
goes on in Israel? Maybe some of you out there
of that opinion. Maybe some of you are misguided and
you actually think that Israel is the force for evil
in the Middle East. Maybe you've consumed content making those arguments.
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I want to tell you that what happens in Israel,
I believe echoes with what happens with Western civilization going forward,
and one of the profound evils that has taken root
in this country that we have to destroy, I believe,
is the idea that America is not a force for good,
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that our history is evil, and as a result that
any of our founding fathers or the documents that they created,
whether it's Declaration of Independence, whether it's Constitution, whether it's
the Bill of Rights, all of it should be destroyed
because they don't have the moral legitimacy to have created it. Understand,
that's what attacking this country's founding is actually about. It's
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about delegitimizing our history to such an extent that we
got to rename Washington, DC, or we got to tear
down the Jefferson Memorial because Thomas Jefferson happened to have
owned slaves, or all of these different attacks which are
predicated on the idea that we should define people not
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by the best thing they did, but by the worst
thing they did. And to me, what Judeo Christian culture
largely coalesces around is the idea of aspiring to be
better versions than ourselves and offering people forgiveness and redemption
when they are the worst version of their selves. Now,
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every single person out there listening to me knows that
inherently in all of your lives if people in the
public arena defined you by the worst thing that you
ever did, you would look like a profoundly awful human being.
If every single person listening right now, if the worst
thing that you ever did suddenly went public on social
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media and everybody saw it, you would be defined in
this modern era as an awful human being, and you
might go viral for it, and everybody would judge you
based on it. And I don't care who you are.
Every single one of you listening to me right now,
you got something in your mind. You're like, oh, man,
if that went public, I would have been done for.
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Maybe it happened twenty years ago, maybe it happened forty
years ago, maybe it happened last week. You know it
to be true. That's what the woke mind virus is doing.
They want to define us, drag us all the way
back down to the worst, most base version of ourselves
and say this is who we are. To me, what
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Judeo Christian values are about is understanding that bad things
can be done, but elevating humanity to the best versions
of ourselves. When I go to Washington, DC, and I
look out and I see the Washington Monument, and I
see the Jefferson Memorial, and I see the Lincoln Memorial,
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and I see the MLK Memorial and the World War
II Memorial. I don't think about the worst thing that
any of the individuals involved in those places, the Vietnam
War Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the New World War
I Memorial. I think about collect actively the best version
of ourselves and what we can accomplish. That, to me
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is what Western civilization is. Embracing the best from the past,
understanding that none of us are perfect, but that we
can aspire to a higher version of ourselves, and that
that should be the goal. And that's one of the
lessons one of the things that kept resonating for me
as I traveled through Israel, which in many ways is
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the birthplace of religion and also to a large extent,
the birthplace of civilization. That area is when we come back.
I want to tell you about three stories that I
heard that I found to be profoundly moving that I
think will impact all of you from the Holy Land
here as we get closer to Christmas. I'd encourage you
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to keep listening grab this. I hope these stories you'll
be able to share with your friends and family as
we move closer to Christmas, and I'm thankful that I
was able to go to Israel, a place where many
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Spend Christmas z with the guys. Find them on the
iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back
in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Awful news by the way,
and I'm going to continue, but it really ties in
with what I'm talking about right now. This is breaking news.
A lot of people are injured after a car plowed
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into a crowd at a German Christmas market in what
is suspected to be a terror attack. I'm reading from
the New York Post. This just happened. A car plowed
into a group of people shopping at a Christmas market
in eastern Germany Friday, leaving many wounded in what officials
are saying was a targeted attack. Driver was immediately arrested
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after what local outlets are calling a terror attack in
the city of Magdeburg, according to the German news outlet Build.
So more details of this are going to come out.
There's been other attacks in Christmas markets like this, but again,
this one happening in Germany and it ties in exactly
what I'm talking about good and evil. If you attack
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someone because of their religion, you're evil. Period. If Israel
put down their weapons tomorrow, the country wouldn't exist in
a week. If every Middle Eastern country put down their weapons,
there would be peace in the Middle East immediately. I
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was talking as we went to break about the dad
whose son was in captivity for his twenty first and
his twenty first birth twenty first and twenty second birthday.
He said, on that day at the Nova terror attack,
they were texting with their son, and they also had,
as many of you probably do with your kids, an
ability to track their cell phones on their own cell phone,
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and they said, he suddenly went silent. Imagine what it's
like to know that there's a terror attack underway at
a music festival that your son or daughter went to.
They're texting you that they can hear gunfire, that there
are terrorists approaching them, and then suddenly you don't hear
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anything at all from them. That's what happened to tons
of Jewish families on October seventh, and that dad told me.
He said, all we could do was just look at
the phone, and they saw the phone moving, and they
had been talking with their son about where he needed
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to go and how he could get away, and giving
him advice and telling him that there were terrorists everywhere,
thousands of them that had poured across the border. And
they said, suddenly the phone started to move, and first
they thought, oh, this is great. He's gotten in a car.
He's getting away. And as they were watching that phone,
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suddenly their son's phone started going right toward Gaza, and
they were furiously they said, texting him, you're going the
wrong way. Turn around. They thought he was lost. They
could watch his phone speeding across the farm land there,
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getting closer and closer to Gaza, and then they saw
it go in to Gaza and it vanished. And they
have not heard from their son in four hundred and
thirty days. Hamas took him because he's Jewish. They don't
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know if he's dead. They don't know if he's alive.
The last thing they saw, the last contact they had
with their son, was his cell phone going into Gaza.
They desperately hoped maybe somebody stole the phone, maybe somebody
was running off with it. Then they found out that
he was a terrorist. Talk about good and evil. Look
into someone's eyes, who is a parent. I said, have
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you can you sleep? He said no, basically hasn't been
able to sleep for four hundred and thirty days. That's evil.
Good and evil exists. It's important to call it out.
Talked with a mom Leora been Sir. She came to
Nova in Metas. She had a gun on her waistband handgun,
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sat down and told me her story. On October seventh,
she was in a hospital. She had just given birth
to her third child one day before October sixth, twenty
twenty three. They all woke up that morning with missiles
being fired all over Israel. They were all told to
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go into their bomb shelters. She was texting with her husband.
Her husband was back at their home with their two
older kids, young kids all five and under. Slowly from
inside the hospital with a baby nursing on her, she
became aware that terrorists had come into Israel and were
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inside of her husband's kibbuts the village, murdering people. Her
mom was there. She was texting with her mom. Grandma
was in town as grandmas are because there had been
a baby born and she wanted to be able to
help with those younger kids. Her husband. They didn't have guns.
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At that time, her husband stood by the door with
the biggest butcher knife he could find to try to
defend the kids if the terrorists came in. I want
you to think about that good and evil is real, Okay,
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And it's emotional to hear these stories. She was texting
with her husband and with her mom. There's nobody there
to protect them. People being murdered left and right next
to them because they're Jewish. Nobody's coming. She called her brothers,
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who had been in the IDF. Every eighteen year old
in Israel just about serves their country because they have to,
because people want to kill them because they're Jewish. She
texted her brothers said, get your guns. They're gonna kill
my kids and my husband and my mom, our mom.
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You have to get there. Brothers got in the car
loaded up with all the guns. They could get rushed there.
There's no protection, people being murdered left and right. They
get to the door. Mercifully, they get her husband and
those kids out. They save them. They go back to
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look for mom. Grandma. Grandma is sixty five years old
in a different room, different house. There, her son's found
her murdered, riddled with bullets, and when they found her.
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Think about this for a minute. She was holding a
picture of her grandkids. They killed her because she was Jewish.
Evil is real. I talked with that mom, three kids,
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all under five, and I said, because I saw she
was wearing that gun on her hip. She said, she's
never left the house without that gun on her hip since.
Think about that. In the hospital with a baby, she said,
she thought it's just going to be the two of us, now,
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her and that baby. She thought her husband was going
to be killed. She thought her kids were going to
be killed, her mom was killed. That just happened last year,
over a thousand people murdered, but because they were Jewish.
I just told you. At the Christmas market in Germany,
somebody just drove a car through it. American college kids
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protested and said, the Jews are the bad guy. A
lot of young people are saying, Hey, that United Healthcare
ceo he got murdered. Oh, the killer's the good guy.
A country is in profound difficulty in trouble when there
is not a recognition that good and evil still exist.
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And it's even more dangerous when there is an inability
to tell between the two and what happened there. It's
already happened here right on nine to eleven. We know it.
There are people in this country right now who want
to kill us because they are evil and they believe
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that the way that we live is evil. And so
when people say, oh, well, you didn't go into Gaza,
I don't have to. I don't have to because I
know what Hamas did on that day, and they would
kill every Jew in the world if they could, and
they would celebrate while they did it. That is evil.
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And I understand it's not every Muslim person. And if
you judge anybody based on their religion, you're an imbecile.
They are awful evil Christians, and they're awful evil Jews,
and they're awful evil Muslims and every and everybody else
right and atheists and whatever religion you choose or don't
choose to support. But good and evil is real, and
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when you stare upon it, it's important to call it out.
I'll give you another story from inside of that kibbutz,
and then I'm gonna tell you one more to finish up.
Do you know why they have the bombshelters there? It's
not to protect from people running around with ak forty
seven's riddling bodies with bullets. It's because all the time
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they shoot rockets into Israel from other countries and so on.
That morning when they started to shoot rockets, they did
that intentionally because they wanted everybody in those bomb shelters.
All these homes have to have bomb shelters. Think about
how crazy that is. All of them have to have
bomb shelters. You know what they did. They went in
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and lit those homes on fire because they knew the
people were then going to have to run out of
the bomb shelters. If you walk around to any of
these kibbutz's, they're burned out. They waited outside until moms
and dads and their kids came out, and they executed
everybody as they came out, or they took them a hostage.
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I stood in front of one house where a mom
and dad were shot to death trying to hold the
door of their bombshelter closed, and they had three little
kids behind them that all died of smoke inhalation because
their home was burned down. If you got young kids,
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or you've got grandkids, imagine being parents holding those doors
with everything you got while the terrorists are firing at you.
You're murdered when they found them. They are holding the door,
and all of your kids die of smoke inhalation behind
you after watching you get murdered. That happened all over
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the border with Gaza. I know it's easy to say, oh, well,
that's the Middle East. Why should I care about it.
Israel is the front line of Western civilization in this country.
If you do not stand with Israel, then you are
standing against Western civilization, Judeo Christian values, basic human rights
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for men and women around the world. And if they fall,
they're going to come for other countries. You want to
talk about the danger of what might happen next. They're coming.
They believe that we are evil, we're not. Again, that
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analogy is perfect. If Israel put down their weapons, they
would all be dead tomorrow. If the Middle East put
down their weapons, there would be peace. Israel's the good guy.
We've got to stand with them when we come back.
I'll tell you one more story rolling into Christmas that
I think is really important. And I certainly appreciate all
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you guys listening to me and understand it's going into Christmas,
but I think these are important conversations some people say, hey,
I'll just expect you to tell me, like, what's a
better movie Home Alone? Or you know, the Christmas Story,
the answers Christmas Story. By the way, all the Home
Alone is good. But I know so many of you
are going to be with friends and family over the holidays.
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I want you to be sharing these stories with the
kids that are home from college that frankly are knuckleheads
and a lot of them don't know any better. And
I want that image with you as you get ready
to be with your friends and family, to think about
that alignment between Christians and Jews. I mean, I just
told you there's a car tear attack just happened in Germany.
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Evil is real, and the importance of being able to
distinguish between good and evil is maybe the most foundational
element of the United States, the most profoundly I think
good country to ever exist in the history of the world.
When they try to tell us that our history is awful,
when they try to denigrate us and tear down our
founding fathers and our leaders, it's about stripping away our
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moral authority to see evil and call it out. That's
what they're doing. It's important to understand this, and I
hope you'll talk with the young people in your friends
and family as the holiday season is upon us. All right, look,
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