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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show Final hour. Final show of the final hour of the year. We're going to have some fun here as we roll into Christmas season. Buck is already out on his Christmas break and soon I will join him. And I know a lot of you have got kids that are getting out of school right now, grandkids that are getting out of school in earnest. Certainly by Monday, things are going to be really taking off with the Christmas season. We've updated you. The Brown University shooter is dead. Motivation still being tracked there. Expectation that Epstein files, many of them are going to be released. Erica Kirk last night endorsed J.D. vance. We have got Nike stock collapsing as they have lost their way. Fulton county fraud in the Atlanta 2020 election. All of that we are discussing. But we bring in now Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. We got a bunch of topics to hit with him, but I want to start with this. I watched a video of you on Thanksgiving. I think it was doing one mile of leg squats. And I actually, I showed my wife too, because she's in way better shape than me. And we were both just in disbelief that you pulled that off and you had a couple of buddies that were in weighted vests, too. So I want to start with a super important question here. How sore were you the next morning when you woke up after doing one mile of leg squats?
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
It was clay. Yeah, clay lunges, clay. It wasn't the next morning. It was two days later. By day five, I didn't think I was ever going to walk normal. It was horrible. I got, I got, I got, I wouldn't say hoaxed into it, but egoed into it because I have, I have a very good, you know, the Oklahoma State troopers, they have attack team and they're the ones that provide security for me. And you know, these are all heavy hitters. I mean, these guys are uncle draggers and they have a tradition where they do a mile lunges. Everything's gonna be morning. And I was like, okay, yeah, I'm gonna end up doing that with you, aren't I?
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Clay Travis
A mile of lunges. Like for anybody out there that does like has ever done a hundred yards of lunges, which is a long way, or if you've done it with basketball, let's say football, your coaches have said you guys played like crap last night. Like, we're doing lunges. It may be the worst workout pot, at least in my opinion. I'd way rather do push ups. I'd way rather do, you know, sprints off and on. Lunging just no non stop is brutal. I saw that. I couldn't believe it.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
I don't know how everything from the belly button down gets sore, but any sore. But I was hurting. I mean, it was, it was, yeah, it was, it was, it was rough. I'm just going to tell you, Clay, I had, I, I was, I. And then I said, I'll never do it again. And I thought, yeah, I'm going to do it next year too. Next year I'll be prepared, but I'm not doing the best. Now those, the two guys that did the, you know, on the tag team that did it with us, they did a 20 pound vest, God bless them. I have an ego, but I don't have that big one anymore. I'm still 48. They were in the 20s or talking.
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Clay Travis
With Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. We're going to get to the College Football Playoff, kind of a big deal in the states of Alabama and Oklahoma, among others right now. But let's, let's pivot here for a sec to the serious topics. This narco attacks that we're seeing off the coast of Venezuela. What should our audience know about that? You know, Buck and I have known Pete Hegseth for a long time. Secretary of War. We trust him implicitly, frankly, to make good decisions to make America safer. I was with Pete on election night, of all places, at Kid Rock's Honky Tonk, celebrating the fact that that Donald Trump had won. We didn't know. At least I didn't. Maybe he had some idea that he might end up being Secretary of War. You've had the opportunity to be briefed on these. They've tried to turn them into an issue, although I would say I keep up the quad box here just to see what they're saying on MSNBC and cnn. They basically have stopped those arguments because I'm guessing a lot of these videos that people have seen show that these attacks were justified.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Yeah, it's. And I had to. My disclaimer is I'm good friends with Secretary Hicksey. You know, I like the guy. But besides that, we have, we have certain authorizations that have to be hit before you can use lethal force in a, in a drone hit. And these powers go all the way back to 2024. In fact, the guy who's trying to speak out loud against this, the junior center from California, Adam Schiff, he helped draw the papers when he was in the House. So these authorities have been around for a long time. Obama used these authorities 500 times to kill 3700 terrorists. By the way, a few of them were actually US Citizens along the way. And so those same authorities are being used now with these narco boats, because these are terrorists, and no one can say they're not terrorists. There's 24 legally designated terrorist cartels, and this is one of them. The Maduro cartel is deemed a terrorist organization. So the authorities apply to it, too. The difference is it's in a different hemisphere and that it's Donald Trump doing it. And the Democrats really don't have a leg to stand on now when they start talking about this second hit that they. On this. There are strict rules to which we have, especially the Navy, when it goes to international waters on a shipwrecked or stranded person, not a body, but person, that we have to comply by. But there's also strict rules to which they have to apply by. Not by picking them up, too, but they can't put personnel in danger, in lethal danger along the way. And that's the argument that they're saying, because it was, it was very apparent that that one. These are narco boats. There's no question about it. Not every single one of them actually fits the qualification. In fact, there's been way more boats that we haven't been able to hit because they didn't meet the certain criteria that it required for the hit to take place that we actually have hit. When these stranded these two individuals that was struck again, they were actively still in what we'd call the fight. They weren't just hopelessly clinging to debris in the water. They were actively radioing another boat that was in the area. They were actually trying to turn over the vessel that was there. That means that they were still. We had to presume they're still fighting. We have to presume that there's weapons on the boat because we have, on the boats that we've, that we've encountered, we have found small arms on those boats. So the strike, anyone that has seen the video, anyone that's been briefed on it, if they say any other thing, they're flat out lying to the American people. And the President is being extremely proactive by protecting our loved ones on our streets. I've used this claim multiple times. But a statistic that your audience might find interesting is in 2024, we lost more loved ones on our streets in the U.S. in our neighborhoods, in our cities and our states. And then we did an entire US Personnel during the Vietnam War just from drug overdoses. So they are poisoning our streets. And thank God President Trump is being proactive in sending these narco boats and those that are trafficking this stuff into our country to the bottom of the ocean where they belong.
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Clay Travis
What is Bernie Sanders doing that is not helpful at all when it comes to a bill that you're trying to pass?
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
You're throwing zingers at me, aren't you? Bernie Sanders is. I got upset on the poor the other day and called him a Grinch because he is. But it's actually not funny what he's doing, because what he. We have a. We have a bill that basically gives kids the right to try. These are rare pediatricians, patients, kids that they don't have access to the same amount of drugs that, say an adult with the same rare cancer would have, because a lot of pharmaceutical companies, it's just not worth the lawsuit or the risk to allow to have children on experimental drugs. But the drugs may work in adult cases, but they're not authorized to be able to do it for pediatric care. So we had as just. We had a bill that was. That was going to give the children or kids the same right to try as an adult with the same type of cancer. Bernie Sanders. And by the way, we got it passed in the House by unanimous consent, meaning not one single person voted against it. Well, we brought it to the Senate floor after we passed it in the House to try to do the same thing by unanimous consent. And Bernie Sanders, even though we had bipartisan support, we had bipartisan people speaking on it, on the floor with us, he came to the floor and blocked it for no other reason, because he wants to socialize our medicine. He literally said that he's got a bill that he's wanting to expand community health care for all. And by the way, it's going to cost taxpayers billions of dollars to do this. And this isn't going to cost the taxpayers a penny, because all we're saying is they have the right to try. They have a right to be part of experimental drugs. And he blocked it for his own purpose. And it's frustrating to me because he's. He's playing politics with people's lives, Clay. I mean, this drug might extend their life a day, it might extend it a year, and it might cure it. But why wouldn't you want to give kids the right to try because of political reasons for you? And that was it. And, and it's very frustrating. I got very passionate about it, called him the Grinches. You know, not just stealing gifts, but he's still in our loved ones away from it, but it's. It. I don't know how you explain that position, but this is what you have when you have a career politician that was literally elected office a year before I was bor.
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Clay Travis
We're talking to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. All right, let's go into some, some really contentious issues.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
On this one.
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Clay Travis
Well, we're going to get into Oklahoma, Alabama in a sec, but this is before we get to, before we get to, oh, you's game against Bama today, which Alabama is going to win, and I'm sure you're going to want to fight with me over that. But what is the best Christmas movie? If you are with your family and you are sitting down, as many people will be for the next week, and you could only watch one Christmas movie, what would be your number one draft pick?
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Well, you, you can't. You. It's got to go in two categories here because you can't just say my family, because I got three girls and a wife and who I always. Let's control.
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Clay Travis
I don't control the smart man. You let them control. Yeah, okay. That, that is very important.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
But if I'm with my boys, the best Christmas movie is Rambo. And people can argue about it all the night, all the time, but he's in the sheriff's office. It's clearly a Christmas tree in the background. That's a Christmas movie. So that, that's, that's with my voice now, if we're with the family. I love to laugh. And I don't care how many times you watch Home Alone. It's funny. Yeah. And, and so that's, that's probably our always go to. But I also like, you know, Mickey Mouse Christmas, too. I love cartoons.
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Clay Travis
So wait a minute. You like Rambo more than Die Hard?
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Yes, absolutely. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
Okay. That's the wrong take, but I appreciate that you. That you would argue it. All right.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Okay. But I grew up. I grew. I grew up in the age of Rambo and, and Rocky and so. And Die Hard came in later. Damn. Die Hard came in a little bit later as I was getting older.
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Clay Travis
But I mean, what are you, 48?
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
I'm 48.
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Clay Travis
But Die Hard 46. Die Hard came out in, like 1989. You were like 1289.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
When did, when did Rambo came out?
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Clay Travis
Come out like 84, 85.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
There I was. That's my, that's my guess. I was six years old, seven years old.
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Clay Travis
I think I might be wrong on that, by the way. Somebody out there can. Fact Check it. All right. I know I'm not this Norman. Oklahoma. Tonight, the eyes of the sporting world are shifting to your home state. I think that Alabama is going to win an ugly, low scoring defensive battle tonight. I cannot wait to watch. Why am I wrong?
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
So here's my prediction. First of all, we went to Tuscaloosa, which is an outstanding college football town by the way. I got to give him that, man, that, that town shows up. It was awesome experience. I was at the game. We went into their stadium and beat them in a hostile environment and we beat them with the defense. They're coming to Norman. We don't lose a lot of games in Norman. Now, granted. Oh, you is not known for showing up on bowl games. We've had a rough spell on bowl games. However, Warren Norman. These guys have lost two of their last three games. Not us. Alabama has. They're going to come in, we're going to get ahead because of our defense. We're going to force turnovers. We're going to get ahead of them and if we get ahead of them and we're there in command at the end of the third quarter, we'll win by two scores.
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Clay Travis
I don't dislike the pick. It's going to be low scoring. I think it's going to come down to turnovers. Who can play better, John Mattier or Ty Simpson? Senator, have a great Christmas. I'm sure we'll talk to you after the first of the year. Keep fighting the battles and maybe get the squats, maybe get the lunges ready. So, so you're prepared. I don't know what workout you got for Christmas.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Are you saying that your, your wife and yourself are going to do this challenge with me next year?
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Clay Travis
You know, when my wife watched that, she actually said she's in way better shape than I am. And she looked at it and she said, he's crazy. And I, I was like, I've got to ask him how painful that is. Like I said this first question I asked you, I was like, I, I, I hate lunges more than any workout. If you told me, hey, you have to, I cheat on the lunges all the time. I take extra steps between them. Which is a way for everybody out there who has had to do lunges. Any point you can cheat a little bit, you take two steps instead of one or, but you weren't cheating. I mean, that was a brutal workout. I got to give you credit.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
It was brutal. I, I'll tell you, I'll, I know you got to go. So I'll do it just real quick. I fought profession for a long time. Anybody that's ever fought knows that leg kicks to the thigh suck. They hurt so bad way after the fight. Bruises on your face they go. They don't hurt after the first day, but leg kicks hurt. This was worse than any leg kick, kickboxing, sparring or professional fight I was ever involved in. It was awful, awful, awful good stuff.
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Clay Travis
Senator, we'll talk to you after the first of the year. And condolences in advance for Alabama's big win that you're going to be watching later today.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
We're going to talk again. All right. See you. Bye.
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Clay Travis
That's Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. He'll be at the big game tonight. I haven't minute finished my prize picks pick so I'm going to have to change the order here and I'm going to tell you Pure Talk instead. They love everything that you've made happen. So many of you have switched from AT&T, Verizon and T Mobile over to Pure Talk. On their behalf. A big thank you is in order. They have saved so much money for all of you and they've been able to donate over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership, a nonprofit that stands on the front lines of preventing veteran suicide. That's just one of the charitable focuses they have. And when you choose Pure Talk as your wireless provider, you choose to support American jobs. And with that money big wireless guys throw around on advertising, you're bombarded with offers. But thank you for switching to pure talk. £250, say Clay and Buck. That's £2 50 from everyone in the Pure Talk family. Thank you for your trust and and God bless America. Sometimes all you can do is laugh. And they do a lot of it with the Sunday hang. Join Clay and Buck as they laugh it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
This is where mindset comes in.
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show President Trump speaking right now in the White House. Our thanks to Senator Mark Wing Mullen Fact check correction correction from the team here. Rambo came out in 1982. I think I said 8485 for all of you out there. By the way, Senator Markway Mullen wrong. Clearly Die Hard is a better movie than Rambo and I like both. And let's see Sean in Melbourne, Florida in in listening on 92.7W E WMMB radio. Fire away. Dude, you are totally wrong. Christmas vacation not the Greatest Christmas movie. Everybody knows it's not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi Tower. My God, are you guys da. What's wrong with you? I mean, even the fat man outranks the Griswold Christmas.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Oh, my God.
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Clay Travis
I'll pray for you. The end of Die Hard confirms that Die Hard is the best action adventure movie. I don't even think you limit it to Christmas. Although obviously it's set at the knock Katomi Paws a Christmas party. I think it is the best movie that is out there from an action adventure perspective, period. All right, listen here. I'll save the pick. Actually, I'll save the pick for prize picks instead. I'll tell you, if you bought gold, you're doing cartwheels right now because gold has been incredible. Gold and silver, in fact, are both up 60% in value this year. If you bought gold, you you are ecstatic about how well it did in 2025. And you can let Birch Gold Group help you diversify and convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax shelter to IRA in physical gold. For every $5,000 of gold you buy, you get an ounce of silver for free. Here's how you get hooked up. Text my name, Clay, to 9898 98. To get your eligibility for this offer today. Again, Clay 989-898. Birch Gold Group's free silver with qualifying purchase ends on Monday. That's 989-898, Clay. Text it today. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Okay, final half hour of the year. Let's have some fun again. I want to reiterate. Thank you guys so, so much. 2021, 2022, 23, 24. Now we're complete. Com completing 2025, five different parts of the calendar year that both Buck and I have had the honor and the privilege to be able to talk with you guys every single day for three hours. I think we have made a difference. I think we have impacted the culture in a positive way. And that's a tremendous credit to you guys. When we came in, we had 350 affiliate radio stations. Now we have 550 over 550. A lot of you are new listeners. Some of you have been with us from the moment we first sat down in front of these microphones on June 21st. And from our family to yours, we can't say thank you enough for the time that you give to us every single day and that you have given to us over the past five years. We will be back together on January 5th. We've got a lot of great guests who are going to be guest hosts who are going to be in there. I'm going to get to your calls. I'm going to get some talkbacks. Let me tell you a positive story quickly from my own family. So you guys know that, that I went to Vanderbilt Law School, met my wife Laura there, and I love Vanderbilt University, my hometown of Nashville. A lot of times people get frustrated. Hey, how do we win culture battles, Clay? Hey, look at what's going on at my company. Look at what I'm having to deal with. That doesn't make any sense. I want to tell you a quick story of the impact of culture and how it can lead to tremendous outcomes. Some of you will remember, in fact, almost all of you will remember the protest that took place on college campuses all over the country in 2023, 2024, in the wake of the terror attacks that happened by Hamas on innocent Israelis. 1200 deaths, the worst day of death for people who were of the Jewish faith since the Holocaust. And all over the country, places like Colombia on the east coast, places like UCLA on the west coast, and many different points in between, all these college kids, including my alma mater undergrad of George Washington University, all these college kids and their supporters, provokers, one might say, took over campus, set up tents, took over campus buildings, and argued that in actuality, the Hamas terrorists were the ones who were being unfairly treated. Uh, they said, globalize the intifada, unfortunately, we've seen far too often, but we just saw it on Bondi beach. What globalize the intifada actually means. It means innocent Jewish people are killed for being Jewish. It is the very definition of good versus evil. You know what happened as those protests were taking place all over the country. Some schools actually stood up against those protests and even had counter protests. And among them were many very prominent Southern schools, the SEC and the ACC schools among them. My oldest son is in the process of applying to colleges right now. It's crazy to me that I'm going to have a 18 year old in January and I'm going to have a college kid on a campus this fall. What we are seeing happen in this season of application is all of those schools in the SEC and the acc, all these Southern schools, and there were some Arizonas of the world out west as well. The places where the students stood for good are seeing applications skyrocket. And I'm excited to have a kid who's going to be enrolled at an SEC school this fall. A big reason why he is is because of the way that Vanderbilt University in particular responded when they had pro Palestine protesters take over the main campus building in the center of the campus, Kirkland Hall. I don't think this story has gotten told enough, but the chancellor of Vanderbilt's a guy named Daniel Dearmire, he walked in one morning as the protests were going on. All these kids had stormed Kirkland Hall. He walked in, turned around, walked back out, got on the phone with Nashville police and said, come in and get them all. We're not letting this happen. It's one thing to have a principle of free speech. It's another thing to say, as Vanderbilt does and all these SEC schools do, we're not going to allow you to take over campus buildings things. Almost immediately, the local Nashville police came in and they arrested all the kids that were in there protesting. Then something interesting happened. Chancellor Vanderbilt, he said, if these are students, I want them kicked out of the school immediately. They don't get to finish the semester. Their credits don't transfer. If they are students and they were trying to occupy this building, they're gone. Period. Vanderbilt immediately kicked all of those nincompoop kids out. You know what happened? Applications have skyrocketed. Because earlier I was talking about culture, and it turns out culture and bravery, it's contagious. When you stand up for something significant in your life, other people want to be with you. They actually want to join you. They want to provide even more steel in your spine. When I was a kid, nobody wanted to come down to Tennessee to go to school. They would say things like, do y' all even have running water down there? Now you have got moms and dads in la, Chicago, New York City, some of the richest people in the entire country, people who could send their kids anywhere, and they're saying no to Columbia and they're saying no to ucla, and they are sending their kids to SEC and ACC schools. Overwhelming numbers because they're fed up with what they have seen. And right now, I'm excited to have my kid at Vanderbilt starting in the fall. I don't know that he would have gone to Vanderbilt if he hadn't seen the way that the chancellor responded there. And I know a lot of you have kids and grandkids applying to schools all over the country. Ole Miss got a big game coming up this weekend against Tulane. I'm gonna be honest, and I don't want to hear from too many Ole Miss people. Ole Miss would sometimes admit dead people back in the day. If you paid the application fee. Ole Miss was like, you're in back in the day, 20. I'm not trying to take Hottie Toddy. I'm betting on you guys to be too lame. But everybody who knows everybody out there knows what I'm talking about. If you had a kid in the south and they got in a lot of trouble, but you still wanted them to go to a college, Ole Miss would welcome them with open arms. Hey, they're rebels. It's hard to get into every SEC school now. And that's because culture wins, wins. And also culture loses. And I've made this decision in my own life. I went to George Washington University. You guys may remember me talking about it some on the program. They changed the name of the mascot from Colonials to Revolutionaries. And that might not sound like a lot. You might say, clay, you're. Why do you care? Well, because of why they did it. They said they were changing colonials because it had too much of a connection to colonialism. Excuse me. We were the colonists. We were actually the people fighting back against the larger country. The colonial army fought against Great Britain. You can say, well, it's not that big of a deal. They just changed the name to Revolutionaries. No, instead of having steel in their spine, they listened to morons. Worse than that, they negotiated with them. Even worse than that, they let them win. Culture matters. The culture of the Southeastern Conference is one where we know the difference between good and evil. The culture of Southern schools in red states where I'm fortunate to live is one where we are proud to stand on the side of good and speak up against evil. As we roll into this holiday season, I want for all of you to think about that. Are you standing up for a culture of good against evil? Are you supporting free speech? And are you shouting down morons? Because if you are not, then I would submit you are enabling a culture to take over wherever you are. That is going to lead us into more perilous times. I thought about this. I just sent in a clip. Strength matters. Steel in the spine matters. Listen to what former Hamas hostage Omer Shimtov said. The only person that Hamas feared was President Trump. He was in the Hamas tunnels under the ground, stolen away from his friends and family. One of 250 innocent people who was kidnapped by the evil of Hamas. Evil people. Fear. Strength, bravery, courage. He is imperfect as all of us are. But he says things changed when President Trump won. Hamas didn't fear Biden. They feared trump. Listen to cut 28. I can tell you something else about the terrorists who held me captive. There was one man they feared the most, President Donald Trump. When he was elected, the way they treated me changed completely. They were terrified of him. And I want to say this clearly so the whole world hears it now. On behalf of the hostages, our families and our nation, thank you, President Donald Trump, for our freedom. He fought for us. He brought us home. I love that. Sometimes you gotta have a guy that the bad guys are afraid of. Weak men are not making bad guys afraid. Biden was weak. Trump is strong. And it made all the difference for those hostages who are back this holiday season, this Hanukkah, to be able to celebrate their freedom with their families. All right, we'll finish with some fun stuff, but I was just thinking, I wanted to give you a little bit of a charge headed into the holiday season about good versus evil and winning and triumphing in the marketplace of ideas and how it has real significance and real consequences. But, you know, football's fun. We don't always have to be super serious. I can pivot on a dime here. I've got a winner for you. We won last night. If you're going to be watching the NFL this weekend, and I am, if you're going to be kicking it back your feet, kicking up your feet with your friends and family, here is a winner. I hope we can win two in a row. Marcus Mariota, Bryce Young, Jackson Dart, Cam Ward, Shador Sanders. That is five starting quarterbacks in the NFL. Super easy. All of them to throw more than one half touchdown pass. We'll have it up @clay and buck.com I will tweet this out. But just five quarterbacks. Marcus Mariota, Bryce Young, Jackson Dart, Cam Ward, Shador Sanders. All of them to throw more than one half touchdown. And if I'm right, back to back winners coming your way from Santa Clay. Sign up@prizepix.com Code Clay. That's prizepix.com Code Clay. You get $50 when you play. $5 in your accounts. That's pricepicks.com Code Clay. You can play in California and play in Texas, play in Georgia. Santa Clay's coming to town. Five of those touchdown passes, we win. That's prizepix.com code clay. Keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history on the Team 47 podcast. Clay and Buck highlight Trump replays from the week. Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
This is where mindset comes in.
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Clay Travis
Not a good start. Nick from Biloxi, you're absolutely right. National Lampoons Vacation Christmas Vacation. Best holiday movie there ever was. We start playing it on Thanksgiving Day and it gets played approximately once or twice per day until the new year. Best ever for anybody to still Say and have the audacity to say that Christmas Story is number one.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
I can't get it.
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Clay Travis
I don't understand it.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Love you guys.
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Clay Travis
Merry Christmas, Lynn from New Orleans rr.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Hey, Clay. Love actually is one of my favorite movies, Christmas or otherwise. My husband has never seen it and I just don't get it. But I cannot stand It's a Wonderful Life. I think it is boring drivel. It is his absolute number one favorite movie of all time, hands down. Guess it takes all kinds to make a marriage happy. Merry Christmas to all of you and congratulations to Fox. Happy holidays.
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Clay Travis
Thank you. Corey from the Twin Cities. Oh, oh.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
I do believe you are brilliant. But for Christmas vacation, I'd rank that number two after It's a Wonderful Life. More nostalgic, more family bound for like my grandma and whatnot. The one that is so overrated but is a great movie is Die Hard. It's not a Christmas movie. It's a cop movie.
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Clay Travis
All right, let's go. Quick calls. You each get 30 seconds. Jimmy in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Hey, Clay. I got blessed, but God bless your little heart, but I think you and Clay been riding a short bus. One of these Christmas movie choices. A Christmas Story is hands down there. And by the way, like it or not, I'm sending you the Christmas flute autographed by Pete Booty Gig.
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Clay Travis
We ought to just finish the year on that call. But Jim in Oak Ridge, North Carolina.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Hey. Hey, Clay. Buck, I appreciate all you've done show you haven't. Our movie we hadn't watched in a long time is it's called a A Homecoming, A Christmas Story. It's about the Walton family. So before the series came out. It's a great.
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Clay Travis
Night. Good night, John boy. I remember watching that back in the day podcast listener Dustin Ee.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
So everybody says that A Christmas Story or Christmas Vacation. I've heard Home Alone are some of the best Christma movies. Most underrated Christmas movie, and I think it's my favorite is Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. You haven't watched it? Check it out.
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Clay Travis
I've never watched it. I'm adding it to the list. I've actually heard other people say it's really good. Richard from Pueblo, Colorado. Ff.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
Look at the film. The man who Created Christmas. No, the man who Invented Christmas. It's about Charles Dickens and it's a really great movie. A little offbeat maybe, but well done and definitely good to see.
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Clay Travis
All right, Steve, Idaho, really quick. I'm trying to get as many of you in as I can fire away.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin
I agree Christmas vacation but number one it happened on Fifth Avenue 1947 about a homeless World War II vet breaks into a mansion on Fifth Avenue. He gets busted, discovered by the daughter, they fall in love. It's a romantic comedy. Best Christmas.
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Clay Travis
Thank you. We will add it to the list. Jeff and Winston Salem has been waiting a long time. I just want to give him a shout out. Merry Christmas to him. We didn't get to him. We love all of you on behalf of Buck, me and all of our families. Merry Christmas to all of you and to all of you. Have a good night.
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10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000.
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Clay Travis
This is where mindset comes in.
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Trainer Games Host
Someone will be eliminated.
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Clay Travis
Pressure is coming down. Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season 2.
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