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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show our number two.

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Speaker 1: starting tomorrow. Buck was in Monday, Tuesday. I'm in today,

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Speaker 1: and I mean today and yesterday. And we are joined

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Speaker 1: now by the current Attorney General of Missouri, Eric Schmidt.

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Speaker 1: Tough loss, by the way, last night for Missoo against Army,

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Speaker 1: last second field goal. Were you watching, Eric? I was.

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Speaker 1: It was a tough loss. It's been kind of a

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Speaker 1: up and down season. Drink with though, I think has

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Speaker 1: got the program headed in the right direction. But you

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Speaker 1: would have liked to have won that game last night,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Yeah. As a heck of a game,

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Speaker 1: all right. So I want to thank you. You are

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Speaker 1: helping to fight battles for a lot of people out

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Speaker 1: there like me. I'm obviously in the state of Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Back in August, I went and talked at my local

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Speaker 1: school board. Before Attorney General Schmidt, we knew that everybody

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Speaker 1: who talked at their school board against masks was a

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Speaker 1: domestic terrorist. I guess I am a domestic terrorist went

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Speaker 1: and spoke out against it. What are you seeing on

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Speaker 1: the ground level in Missouri as it pertains to masking

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Speaker 1: in schools, as it pertains to what I believe is

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Speaker 1: the unconstitutional vaccine mandate overall? What is the situation in Missouri? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and first of all, thanks for what you do, Clay. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan, and I think the stands that

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Speaker 1: we have to fight back on all fronts. This is

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Speaker 1: COVID Tieranney and I've been pretty outspoken about this. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're fighting on behalf of parents. Let's just talk about

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Speaker 1: the local issues with mass mandates we have taken on.

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Speaker 1: Seeingles County, for example, is the biggest county in the state.

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Speaker 1: We sued them when they had a mass mandate in

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Speaker 1: place in one and rated a million peoples and I

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Speaker 1: But these these petty tyrants are embedded in some you know,

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Speaker 1: school districts and local governments and we're taking them all on.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I just fundamentally don't believe in the

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Speaker 1: not backed up by data or science in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Second of all, this has never been about that. It's

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Speaker 1: about power and control, and they're never going to let

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Speaker 1: They're not going to do it. I mean, they're they're

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Speaker 1: finding new reasons to continue their efforts to control people's lives,

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Speaker 1: and we've got to push back. So we sent a

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Speaker 1: These kids and parents should be able to make these decisions,

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Speaker 1: not government bureaucrats. And I think we've got to fight

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Speaker 1: The Missouri's the lead plaintiff on these cases. Certainly the

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Speaker 1: CMS healthcare worker, of vaccine manity. Those are going to

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Speaker 1: So this stuff has coming to a head, and I

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Speaker 1: role of the administrative state. But more broadly than that,

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Speaker 1: America has been the freest country in the history of

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Speaker 1: by the way, they're not going to stop there either. Clay,

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Speaker 1: You've already started to hear Joe Biden talk about the

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Speaker 1: climate crisis, and we're the tipping point, and they're going

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Speaker 1: at every turn. We're talking to Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the Supreme Court and the hearings that they're

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Speaker 1: here's the thing, and you know this as a lawyer.

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Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is, there's no constitutional authority

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Speaker 1: or statutory authority anywhere to force the vaccination of tens

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Speaker 1: kinds of general police powers. They don't. The federal government

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Speaker 1: hundred million Americans isn't one of them. At OSHA, by

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Speaker 1: This is breathtaking over each So it's about the vaccine mandate,

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Speaker 1: but it's also about a larger issue. Our founders where

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Speaker 1: you have separation of powers and checks and balance, so

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Speaker 1: larger proposition, right, which is you know, as I talk

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Speaker 1: the Deputy under Secretary of the EPA, right, But the

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Speaker 1: We have to pull away from this idea that these

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Speaker 1: It's about power and control. What are these mandates about

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Speaker 1: in these kinds of cases, you would have a tolling

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Speaker 1: for example, on the Ocean Man date that's early Sebruary,

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Speaker 1: Christmas Vacation dominated the votes in the thirty two thousand

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you this will be a good conversation. Let

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Speaker 1: in media. Okay, why is that significant? Because the way

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Speaker 1: Sexton by the EIB Network. Welcome back in Clay Travis

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Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show. I just retweeted my incredibly hot take

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Speaker 1: of the four best Christmas movies in my humble opinion

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Speaker 1: at the top of my Twitter feed. You will see it.

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Speaker 1: All you have to do is go to at Clay

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Speaker 1: Travis you can vote in that It'll be right at

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Speaker 1: the top. You can't miss it. You can click your

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Speaker 1: vote or you can climb into the comments and throw

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Speaker 1: as many punches, as many elbows, as many wild attacks

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Speaker 1: as you would like at people over your favorite Christmas movie.

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Speaker 1: We've also got loaded lines a lot of you want

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Speaker 1: to weigh in here. Alex Berenson coming up next. Let's

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Speaker 1: go first to Steve in Cleveland. Steve, what you got

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Speaker 1: for me? Hey? Claim Eric, Christmas to you and to

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Speaker 1: all of your listeners. So totally spot on with a

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Speaker 1: Christmas story. It is my favorite. That movie was much

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Speaker 1: of it was filmed in Cleveland, but it's actually set

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Speaker 1: in Northwest Indiana in a fictionalized town of Home. But

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Speaker 1: the Christmas story, Yeah, and the setting year is nineteen

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Speaker 1: thirty nine because they have the Wizard of Oz characters.

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Speaker 1: But the house that they filmed that the outside is

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. It's on West eleventh Street and it's actually

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Speaker 1: a museum. There's a little museum across the street, a

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Speaker 1: gift store of course, and it backs right onto the

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Speaker 1: steel mills in Cleveland. You walk into that backyard and

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Speaker 1: the west Side Steel Shop is right there. So it's

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Speaker 1: very much you know that that Northwest Indiana industrial setting,

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Speaker 1: even though it was filmed in Cleveland. The parade scene,

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Speaker 1: the storefront scene. That actually is Public Square in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: It's it's the Terminal Tower. It's the Higbee Store is

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Speaker 1: where they had the all the stuff on display, the

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Speaker 1: Trained Red Rider gone, all of that. The Higbee Store

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Speaker 1: today is now a casino. Unfortunately it closes a department store,

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Speaker 1: but it was a department store up until probably I

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Speaker 1: think the nineteen nineties. So you know, much of it

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Speaker 1: was filmed in Cleveland. It was set in Northwest Indiana.

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Speaker 1: But just a wonderful movie. I love it, watch it

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Speaker 1: every year. Thank you for the call. Fantastic info there, Mary,

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Speaker 1: Christmas to you and your family as well. I need

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Speaker 1: to go visit that house. I would love to go

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Speaker 1: visit that a house in Cleveland, the Christmas Story House.

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Speaker 1: I just I think I said this on the show yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Went to the Hemingway House in Key West, phenomenal. You're

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Speaker 1: ever in Key West, go tour that. And also the

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Speaker 1: Little White House, the Southern White House, Key West White

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Speaker 1: House where Harry Truman spent over a hundred days of

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Speaker 1: his presidency. Also a phenomenal tour area to be able

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Speaker 1: to dive into. Let's go to Bob in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: What you got for me, Bob Hey, great show, thanks

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Speaker 1: for taking my call. Big Bill Murray fan live in Charleston,

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Speaker 1: So I have to go with Scrooge is my favorite

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Speaker 1: Christmas movie. That's a good one too. I love Bill

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Speaker 1: Murray New Ghostbusters. I think it might be a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a spoiler alert, but there's a Bill Murray

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Speaker 1: cameo in the New Ghostbusters movie that came out. My

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Speaker 1: kids loved it, and I got to meet Bill Murray once.

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Speaker 1: My wife. I think her favorite person on the planet.

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Speaker 1: Certainly it's not me, but I think our favorite person

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Speaker 1: on the planet maybe Bill Murray. She was with me.

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Speaker 1: Was the Super Bowl in New York City and Fox

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Speaker 1: had a party and Bill Murray came in, actually with

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Speaker 1: Chris Myers, who calls games for Fox. And at the

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Speaker 1: time we had two young kids who were obsessed with Ghostbusters,

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Speaker 1: and so when they found out that mom and dad

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Speaker 1: were going to New York, they said, oh, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get to meet Peter Bankman, right, like they just made

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Speaker 1: They had never been to New York. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: know the Ghostbusters are in New York. Mom and Dad

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Speaker 1: are going. Kids were super young, They're like, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: meet Peter Bankman, and so we did. And so we

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Speaker 1: came back and we're like, look, mom met Peter Bankman.

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Speaker 1: We had a picture and they were absolutely blown away.

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Speaker 1: Tony in Missouri, What you got for me? Tony? I actually, Clay,

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Speaker 1: I'm up in a minute, but thank you anyway. So

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Speaker 1: whoever typed in MO is the symbol for Missouri Minnesota

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Speaker 1: is MN. So the staff, the staff of the way

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to have I think we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to go back through all of the all the state

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Speaker 1: of abbreviations with the staff here. All right, So Tony

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, not Missouri, what you got for us? Tony?

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Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm actually a bigger fan of the Diehard series,

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Speaker 1: and die Heart is definitely a Clearstoms movie. Regardless, I

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Speaker 1: agree with you that Diehart is a Christmas movie, and

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Speaker 1: and by it is such a good movie. And for

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Speaker 1: those of you who are like, oh, how's the diehardted

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Speaker 1: Christmas movie, it's a big debate that people have every year.

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Speaker 1: It's because the Nakatomi Towers they're having their Christmas party.

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Speaker 1: That's why John McClane is flying cross country from New

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Speaker 1: York to LA to try to get back with his

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Speaker 1: estranged wife and he's going back for Christmas and they're

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Speaker 1: having the Christmas party when spoiler alert, the terrorists take

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Speaker 1: over the Nakatomi Towers. By the way, Nakatomi our story

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Speaker 1: for you. It's on Avenue of the Stars, the building

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Speaker 1: that they used for Nakatomi Towers in LA, and I

587
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: would stay right next to it when I was on

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Speaker 1: the Fox Law doing all my Fox Sports events, and

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Speaker 1: I've never felt older. They would give us a lot

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Speaker 1: of times, like twenty two and twenty three year old

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Speaker 1: production assistants, young people right out of college who were

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Speaker 1: working on the shows, and they're in charge of driving

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Speaker 1: us around and making sure that we're there for the shows.

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Speaker 1: And one time we were driving by and one of

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Speaker 1: the production assistants was driving and I said, hey, you

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Speaker 1: know you just moved to LA because I spent a

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Speaker 1: lot of time in LA for the Fox stuff and

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Speaker 1: this girl had just moved in. I said, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's a really famous building. That's the Nakatomie Towers from

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Speaker 1: die Hard, And she had no reaction at all. And

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Speaker 1: I said, you've heard of die Hard, right, and she

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Speaker 1: was like no. And so on some level, my thought

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Speaker 1: was how in the world was she ever hired? That

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Speaker 1: should be one of the questions they ask on the

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports If you haven't seen die Hard, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that you deserve to have a job at Fox Sports.

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Speaker 1: Tom in Wilder, Kentucky, what's up, Tom, Hey Clay, Merry Christmas, buddy, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Marry Christmas. You have You've got to have a Christmas

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Speaker 1: Carol in there? There's like five different versions. Yes, which

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Speaker 1: one do you like the best? I like the George C. Scott. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the thing was filmed in London. Yes, And it's just

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Speaker 1: it's an awesome movie. I mean it's the true meaning

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Speaker 1: of Christmas. Maybe I'm showing my age a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I like I like the Griswolds too. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: like a Christmas story. But no, I mean the Christmas

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Speaker 1: Christmas Carol, the Dickens Christmas Carol version. There are, like

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Speaker 1: you said, so many different versions. You mentioned George C. Scott.

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Speaker 1: I just immediately have flashbacks every time I hear his

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Speaker 1: name of the opening of the movie Patton, which is

620
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: one of the greatest movie openings of all time, with

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Speaker 1: him standing in front of the great huge American flag.

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Speaker 1: But that version of a Christmas Carol is very good. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: I believe how in Pompano Beach, Florida. One more call

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Speaker 1: before we go to break and get ready for the

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Speaker 1: for the Alex Berenson discussion at the top of the

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Speaker 1: third hour, How what you got for us? I like

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00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: the Miracle on thirty fourth Street. I'm old. I know

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Speaker 1: if you ever saw, Oh no, I've seen, I've seen

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Speaker 1: all the all. Thank you for the call. And I

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Speaker 1: know there are a lot of people out there who

631
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Speaker 1: have favorites from their own generation or their own era,

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00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: or ones that you just grew up watching with your

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Speaker 1: parents or your grandparents. That is an absolute classic as well.

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Speaker 1: I tend to think your version of nostalgia is, in

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Speaker 1: many ways for Christmas films a function of the movies

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Speaker 1: you remember watching the most when you were a kid,

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Speaker 1: and your own kids will have their own version of them.

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Speaker 1: But I've always said one of the best things about

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Speaker 1: being a parent, and I'm forty two and I've got

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Speaker 1: a thirteen and eleven and a seven year old is

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