1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Welcome Back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show final hour 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: before Christmas for either Buck or myself. Buck is out. 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 1: He will be back on January sixth. He and his 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: lovely wife Carrie are taking a baby moon trip and 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: they are going to be on the road post Christmas. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: I encouraged him to do it. You may have heard 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: me talking about it. If you have kids or grandkids 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: that are expecting, one piece of advice if you're first, 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: because once you have one, two and three and four, 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: I mean everybody knows, it's pure chaos, almost impossible to 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: do anything. I do. Give anybody that I hear is 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: having their first baby the advice plan a really awesome 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: trip just the two of you go away because you 14 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: are going to be in the firing line as parents 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: for a long time. Best bit of advice I got, 16 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: and it's proven to be so true. Once you have 17 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,639 Speaker 1: young kids, you don't go on vacation, you go anymore. 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: You go on family trips. And a lot of you 19 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: right now are going to be on family trips during 20 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: the holidays, and you know exactly what I'm talking about. 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: It's actually more tiring than just going and working, cause 22 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: you're chasing kids around everywhere. If you got young kids, 23 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,199 Speaker 1: you go to the beach, or you go to the pool. 24 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. You got to be 25 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: on them like a hawk to make sure they're not 26 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: in the water. It is not relaxing. It is a 27 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 1: family trip, not a vacation. Until your kids get old 28 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,919 Speaker 1: enough where they can kind of take care of themselves. 29 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: Take that baby moon. Buck is going to be taking 30 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: a baby moon. He and Carrie as they get ready. 31 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 1: We're excited to have their first baby in April. It's 32 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: going to be super awesome. Couple of hours. Encourage you 33 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: to download the podcast. We've had some fun worse takes 34 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. An hour one. I gave you 35 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: my presidential ratings of my lifetime since nineteen eighty. A 36 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: lot of you reacting to that, and I thought there 37 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: would be. You know, it's controversial, you're ranking presidents. What's 38 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: mostly in my comments right now are people who are 39 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: Indiana Hoosier fans upset because I said Notre Dame's gonna 40 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: blow you out today, and they are Sorry, Indiana fans, 41 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: Notre Dame is going to wreck you. That's the first 42 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: college football playoff game taking place in snowy South Bend tonight. 43 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: I thought people were gonna be like, I can't believe 44 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: you've got so and so president. There's some of that. Actually, 45 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: a lot of you agree with my rankings overall. But 46 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: the number one thing in my comments right now I 47 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: just jumped in is my entire instagram is just all 48 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: Indiana Hoosier fans furious at me for saying what I 49 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: think is gonna be the reality, which is Notre Dame 50 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: is going to blow you out. But I wanted to 51 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: start off this final hour by saying again what I 52 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 1: said at the top of the show to start today, 53 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: Thank you. I think because of you, guys, twenty twenty 54 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: four has been one of the most monumental years American history. 55 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: And if you think about what we have all just 56 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: experienced together just since June. Joe Biden gets obliterated by 57 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump on June twenty seventh in the presidential debate. 58 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: Late July, well was it July thirteenth, Trump comes within 59 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: a quarter of an inch in Butler, Pennsylvania of having 60 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: his head blown off on live television. Mercifully, by the 61 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: grace of God, his ear is clipped and he survives. 62 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: Can you imagine how much different the world is today 63 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: if that assassin had been successful. July twenty first, Trump 64 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: suddenly finds out he's got a new opponent because Joe 65 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: Biden drops out, Kamala Harris gets elevated. They will be 66 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: writing books about twenty twenty four long after all of 67 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: us are gone, as one of the craziest presidential elections 68 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: and years ever. And I feel incredibly fortunate that we 69 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: all got to spend that year together that we were 70 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: on Buck and I doing our best to fight the 71 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: good fight for fifteen hours a week, and I appreciate 72 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:25,359 Speaker 1: all of you. And I've been thinking a lot about 73 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: the future, really as a dad or a granddad, or 74 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: a mom or a grandma. I know that a lot 75 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: of you think about this as well, but in particular 76 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: and a lot of time to think on the trip 77 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: that I made to Israel, and one of the things 78 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: that has stood out to me about twenty twenty four 79 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: is good and evil is real. And I really think 80 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: it's important to understand that because one of the things 81 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: we learned in twenty twenty four that is alarming for 82 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: me and I think we have to fix in the 83 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: years ahead is a lot of our young people have 84 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: lost the ability to distinguish between good and evil. And 85 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: I know it's a holiday season and I want to 86 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: think about I want you to think about this with me, 87 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: if you would. I wanted to save this final hour 88 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: to have this conversation with all of you, because I 89 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: know a lot of you are going to be sitting 90 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:26,799 Speaker 1: around your Christmas tables, variety of different ages, having conversations 91 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: across generations. There's gonna be a lot of young people. 92 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: And there are some signs that are really positive I 93 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: think about young people in this nation. I'll give you 94 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: a positive before I dive into the things that have 95 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: me a bit troubled. Young men in this country showed 96 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: up and voted for Donald Trump in enormous numbers. The biggest, 97 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: according to the Wall Street Journal swing in voting of 98 00:05:55,279 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: any group was young men went from Biden plus fourteen 99 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty to Trump plus fourteen in twenty twenty four. Now, 100 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 1: there are a variety of different polls out there, but 101 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: I'm specifically referencing the voter analysis from the Wall Street Journal. 102 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: That's a seismic twenty eight point swing. Young men, I believe, 103 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: are done with the BS and they realize they've been 104 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 1: lied to. And I think a lot of young women 105 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: are starting to see it too. For COVID, imagine if 106 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: you were sixteen years old and suddenly they shut down 107 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: your high school and you didn't get to go to prom, 108 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: and you didn't get to finish your basketball season or 109 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: your soccer season, and you didn't get to hang out 110 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: with your friends that summer because they shut down all 111 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: the different hiking trails, and they shut down the public 112 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: basketball courts, they shut down the beaches, the swimming pools, 113 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: and then they to old Jay, Hey, Joe Biden sharp 114 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: as attack. You're profoundly distrustful now of the government at large. 115 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: And I think this is going to be a big 116 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: story going forward. But also here's what troubles me young people, 117 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: and I don't think we talked about this, but according 118 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: to a poll, forty one to forty percent thought that 119 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: the murder of that United Healthcare CEO is justified. Young 120 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: people on many college campuses from the East coast at 121 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: Colombia to the West coast at UCLA overwhelmingly set up 122 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: protests on campus to say that the Palestinians were the 123 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: force for good and the Jewish people were the force 124 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: for evil in the Middle East. If you cannot distinguish 125 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: between good or evil, we are in a really dangerous 126 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: place as a society. And coming back from Israel, I 127 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: want to share some of the stories, and I'm putting 128 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: it in my own words, but producer Ali was there 129 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: with me, and Andrew, who is our tech engineer, was 130 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: there for a lot of these conversations as well. There 131 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: were three experiences with Israeli's that I had that really 132 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: stood out, and I want to tell you each of 133 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: their stories, what I learned from them and why I 134 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: think it's important in the United States because some people 135 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: I read hop in every now and the mentions, they're like, 136 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 1: why should I care what goes on in Israel. Maybe 137 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: some of you out there of that opinion. Maybe some 138 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: of you are misguided and you actually think that Israel 139 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: is the force for evil in the Middle East. Maybe 140 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: you've consumed content making those arguments. I want to tell 141 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: you that what happens in Israel, I believe echoes with 142 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: what happens with Western civilization going forward, and one of 143 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: the profound evils that has taken root in this country 144 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: that we have to destroy, I believe is the idea 145 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: that America is not a force for good, that our 146 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: history is evil, and as a result that any of 147 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: our founding fathers or the documents that they created, whether 148 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: it's Declaration of Independence, whether it's Constitution, whether it's the 149 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, all of it should be destroyed because 150 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: they don't have the moral legitimacy to have created it. Understand, 151 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 1: that's what attacking this country's founding is actually about. It's 152 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: about delegitimizing our history to such an extent that we 153 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: got to rename Washington d c. Or we got to 154 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: tear down the Jefferson Memorial because Thomas Jefferson happened to 155 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: have owned slaves, or all of these different attacks which 156 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: are predicated on the idea that we should define people 157 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: not by the best thing they did, but by the 158 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: worst thing they did. And to me, what Judeo Christian 159 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: culture largely coalesces around is the idea of aspiring to 160 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: be better versions than ourselves and offering people forgiveness and 161 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: redemption when they are the worst version of their selves. Now, 162 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: every single person out there listening to me knows that 163 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: inherently in all of your lives. If people in the 164 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: public arena defined you by the worst thing that you 165 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: ever did, you would look like a profoundly awful human being. 166 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:50,439 Speaker 1: If every single person listening right now, if the worst 167 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: thing that you ever did suddenly went public on social 168 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: media and everybody saw it, you would be defined in 169 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: this modern era as an awful human being, and you 170 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: might go viral for it, and everybody would judge you 171 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: based on it. And I don't care who you are. 172 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: Every single one of you listening to me right now, 173 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: you got something in your mind. You're like, oh, man, 174 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 1: if that went public, I would have been done for it. 175 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: Maybe it happened twenty years ago, maybe it happened forty 176 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: years ago, maybe it happened last week. You know it 177 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: to be true. That's what the woke mind virus is doing. 178 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: They want to define us, drag us all the way 179 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: back down to the worst, most base version of ourselves 180 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: and say this is who we are. To me, what 181 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: Judeo Christian values are about is understanding that bad things 182 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: can be done, but elevating humanity to the best versions 183 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: of ourselves. When I go to Washington, DC, and I 184 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: look out and I see the Washington Monument, and I 185 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: see the Jefferson Memorial, and I see the Lincoln Memorial, 186 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: and I see the MLK Memorial and the World War 187 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: Two Memorial. I don't think about the worst thing that 188 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: any of the individuals involved in those places, the Vietnam 189 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: War Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the New World War 190 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: I Memorial. I think about collectively the best version of 191 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: ourselves and what we can accomplish. That, to me is 192 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: what Western civilization is. Embracing the best from the past, 193 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: understanding that none of us are perfect, but that we 194 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: can aspire to a higher version of ourselves, and that 195 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 1: that should be the goal. And that's one of the 196 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 1: lessons one of the things that kept resonating for me 197 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: as I traveled through Israel, which in many ways is 198 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: the birthplace of religion and also to a large extent, 199 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: the birthplace of civilization. That area is when we come back. 200 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: I want to tell you about three stories that I 201 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: heard that I found to be profoundly moving that I 202 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: think will impact all of you from the Holy Land 203 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 1: as we get closer to Christmas. I'd encourage you to 204 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: keep listening grab this. I hope these stories you'll be 205 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 1: able to share with your friends and family as we 206 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 1: move closer to Christmas, and I'm thankful that I was 207 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: able to go to Israel, a place where many people 208 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: out there dream of going your whole lives thanks to 209 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: one of our sponsors, the IFCJ, that's the International Fellowship 210 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: of Christians and Jews. I talked about the history of 211 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: Judeo Christian relations and the aspirational goals of both of 212 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: those religions and trying to rise to a better version 213 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: of yourself and continue to be a better version of 214 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: yourself in the years ahead. That's what the IFCJ does. 215 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: From providing bomb shelters, fortified vehicles, hospital that can convert 216 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: underground to be able to protect everybody in an er 217 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: that literally can be taking place inside of a parking garage, 218 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: They're also providing Hanukkah food boxes filled with necessities to 219 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: those in need. 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Welcome back 229 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I'm talking about Western civilization. 230 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: I'm talking about Jdaeo Christian values here a few days 231 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: before Christmas and the experience that I had in Israel. 232 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: Until you know, on Christmas Eve, we're going to have 233 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: a special interview with a tour guide who took us 234 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: around the Old City of Jerusalem. For thousands of years, 235 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: that has been the central location of incredibly historic Christian, 236 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: Jewish and Muslim religious locations, and so I think you 237 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: guys are going to enjoy that. But I'm talking about 238 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: some of the things that I learned based on conversations 239 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: that we had and one of the stories that stuck 240 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: with me that was so proound, profound, And you guys 241 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: know I'm awful at pronouncing names, so I may screw 242 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: this up. Malchi shim tav is the father of one 243 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: of the kids that's currently being held hostage in by 244 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: Hamas in Gaza. He was kidnapped. His son was at 245 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: the Nova Festival. Now, for those of you who don't remember, 246 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: the Nova Festival is kind of like a Bonnaroo, It's 247 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: like a Burning Man, It's kind of like a Coachella, 248 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: one of these big old school It would have been 249 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: a Woodstock, one of these large music festivals where tons 250 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: of kids come to a large extent eighteen to thirty 251 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: five year old, but a lot of really young people. 252 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: And right now the wound is still very fresh there. 253 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: But when you walk onto those grounds, they have big 254 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: placards that they have put in place with everybody's image 255 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: on them who was murdered that day, over four hundred people, 256 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: and also many of them were kidnapped by Hamas when 257 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: they came across the came across the border and began 258 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: to kill people because they were Jewish on October seventh, 259 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: which was the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust, 260 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: and they were killed entirely because they were Jewish, nothing else, 261 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: no other reason. To me, it is the most profoundly 262 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: evil act that I have seen in recent history. Certainly 263 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: nine to eleven was our version of what happened on 264 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: October seventh. But what distinguishes what happened to Israel from 265 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,239 Speaker 1: nine to eleven is they took hundreds of hostages. And 266 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: I talked with this gentleman whose son has been held 267 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: hostage for over four hundred and thirty days. And when 268 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: I say you look into his eyes, he does not 269 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: look like he has slept for four hundred and thirty days. 270 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: He said, his son, who was twenty when he was kidnapped, 271 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: turned twenty one and now twenty two in captivity. Can 272 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: you imagine what it would be like to have in 273 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: this holiday season your son or daughter, young, healthy, effervescent, 274 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: went to a music festival and has now been held 275 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: for over four hundred and thirty days as a hostage, 276 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: simply because they have to be Jewish. I'm going to 277 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,239 Speaker 1: tell you a little bit more about his story when 278 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 1: we come back, and a couple of the other stories 279 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: that to me, are so important in this time of 280 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: the holy season. Look, it's late in the gift processing 281 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: and purchasing cycle, not too late for you to still 282 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: get a great gift from rapid radio. With a rapid 283 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: radio walkie talkie, you can talk to one family member 284 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: with the push of a button, or every family member 285 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: at the same time. The distance between you and the 286 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: intended connection point doesn't matter. 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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. 295 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: Awful news by the way, and I'm going to continue, 296 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: but it really ties in with what I'm talking about 297 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: right now. This is breaking news. A lot of people 298 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: are injured after a car plowed into a crowd at 299 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: a German Christmas market in what is suspected to be 300 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: a terror attack. I'm reading from the New York Post. 301 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: This just happened. A car plowed into a group of 302 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: people shopping at a Christmas market in eastern Germany Friday, 303 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: leaving many wounded in what officials are saying was a 304 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: targeted attack. Driver was immediately arrested after what local outlets 305 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: are calling a terror attack. In the city of Magdeburg, 306 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: according to the German news outlet Build, So more details 307 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: of this are going to come out. There's been other 308 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: attacks in Christmas markets like this, but again this one 309 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: happening in Germany, and it ties in exactly what I'm 310 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: talking about good and evil. If you attack someone because 311 00:19:54,400 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: of their religion, you're evil period. If Israel they will 312 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 1: put down their weapons tomorrow, the country wouldn't exist in 313 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: a week. If every Middle Eastern country put down their weapons, 314 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: there would be peace in the Middle East. Immediately. I 315 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: was talking as we went to break about the dad 316 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,199 Speaker 1: whose son was in captivity for his twenty first and 317 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: his twenty first birth twenty first and twenty second birthday. 318 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: He said, on that day at the Nova terror attack, 319 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: they were texting with their son, and they also had, 320 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: as many of you probably do with your kids, an 321 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: ability to track their cell phones on their own cell phone, 322 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: and they said, he suddenly went silent. Imagine what it's 323 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: like to know that there's a terror attack underway at 324 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: a music festival that your son or daughter went to. 325 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: They're texting you that they can hear gunfire, that there 326 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: are terrorists approaching them, and then suddenly you don't hear 327 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: anything at all from them. That's what happened to tons 328 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: of Jewish family. He's on October seventh, and that dad 329 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: told me. He said, all we could do was just 330 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 1: look at the phone. And they saw the phone moving. 331 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 1: And they had been talking with their son about where 332 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: he needed to go and how he could get away, 333 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,239 Speaker 1: and giving him advice and telling him that there were 334 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: terrorists everywhere, thousands of them that had poured across the border, 335 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: and they said, suddenly the phone started to move, and 336 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: first they thought, oh, this is great. He's gotten in 337 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: a car. He's getting away. And as they were watching 338 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 1: that phone, suddenly their son's phone started going right toward Gaza, 339 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: and they were furiously they said, texting him, you're going 340 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: the wrong way. Turn around. They thought he was lost. 341 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: They could watch his phone speeding across the farm land there, 342 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to Gaza, and then they saw 343 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: it go in to Gaza and it vanished. And they 344 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: have not heard from their son in four hundred and 345 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: thirty days. Hamas took him because he's Jewish. They don't 346 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: know if he's dead. They don't know if he's alive. 347 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: The last thing they saw the last contact they had 348 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: with their son was his cell phone going into Gaza. 349 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: They desperately hoped maybe somebody stole the phone, maybe somebody 350 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: was running off with it. Then they found out that 351 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 1: he was a terrorist. Talk about good and evil. Look 352 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: into someone's eyes who is a parent. I said, have 353 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: you can you sleep? He said no, basically hasn't been 354 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: able to sleep for four hundred and thirty days. That's evil. 355 00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: Good and evil exists. It's important to call it out. 356 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: Talked with a mom, Leora bin Sir. She came to 357 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: Nova and metas she had a gun on her waistband handgun, 358 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: sat down and told me her story. On October seventh, 359 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 1: she was in a hospital. She had just given birth 360 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: to her third child. One day before. October sixth, twenty 361 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: twenty three. They all woke up that morning with missiles 362 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: being fired all over Israel. They were all told to 363 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 1: go into their bomb shelters. She was texting with her husband. 364 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: Her husband was back at their home with their two 365 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: older kids, young kids all five and under. Slowly from 366 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 1: inside the hospital with a baby nursing on her, she 367 00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 1: became aware that terrorists had come into Israel real and 368 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: were inside of her husband's kibbuts the village murdering people. 369 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 1: Her mom was there. She was texting with her mom. 370 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: Grandma was in town as grandmas are because there had 371 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: been a baby born and she wanted to be able 372 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: to help with those younger kids. Her husband. They didn't 373 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: have guns at that time. Her husband stood by the 374 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 1: door with the biggest butcher knife he could find to 375 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,959 Speaker 1: try to defend the kids if the terrorists came in. 376 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: I want you to think about that good and evil 377 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: is real, okay, And it's emotional to hear these stories. 378 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: She was texting with her husband and with her mom. 379 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: There's nobody there to protect them. People being murdered left 380 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: and right next to them because they're Jewish. Nobody's coming. 381 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 1: She called her brothers, who had been in the IDF. 382 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: Every eighteen year old in Israel just about serves their 383 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: country because they have to, because people want to kill 384 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: them because they're Jewish. She texted her brothers said, get 385 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 1: your guns. They're gonna kill my kids and my husband 386 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: and my mom, our mom. You have to get there. 387 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: Brothers got in the car loaded up with all the 388 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: guns they could get rushed there. There's no protection. People 389 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: being murdered left and right. They get to the door. 390 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: Mercifully they get her husband and those kids out. They 391 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 1: save them. They go back to look for mom. Grandma. 392 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: Grandma is sixty five years old in a different room, 393 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: different house. There, her son's found her murdered, riddled with bullets. 394 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 1: And when they found her, think about this for a minute, 395 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: she was holding a picture of her grandkids. They killed 396 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: her because she was Jewish. Evil is real. I talked 397 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 1: with that mom, three kids, all under five, and I said, 398 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 1: because I saw she was wearing that gun on her hip. 399 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: She said she's never left the house without that gun 400 00:26:55,760 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: on her hip since. Think about that. In the hospital 401 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: with a baby, she said, she thought it's just going 402 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: to be the two of us, now, her and that baby. 403 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: She thought her husband was going to be killed. She 404 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 1: thought her kids were going to be killed, her mom 405 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: was killed. That just happened last year, over a thousand 406 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: people murdered because they were Jewish. I just told you. 407 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 1: At the Christmas market in Germany, somebody just drove a 408 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: car through it. American college kids protested and said the 409 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: Jews are the bad guy. A lot of young people 410 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: are saying, hey, that United Healthcare CEO, he got murdered. 411 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: Oh the killer's the good guy. A country is in 412 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: profound difficulty in trouble when there is not a recognition 413 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: that good and evil still exist, and it's even more 414 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: dangerous when there is an inability to tell between the 415 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: two and what happened there, it's already happened here right 416 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 1: on nine to eleven. We know it. There are people 417 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 1: in this country right now who want to kill us 418 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: because they are evil and they believe that the way 419 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 1: that we live is evil. And so when people say, oh, well, 420 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: you didn't go into Gaza, I don't have to. I 421 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: don't have to because I know what Hamas did on 422 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,719 Speaker 1: that day, and they would kill every Jew in the 423 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: world if they could, and they would celebrate while they 424 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: did it. That is evil. And I understand it's not 425 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: every Muslim person. And if you judge anybody based on 426 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: their religion, you're an imbecile. There are awful evil Christians, 427 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: and they're awful evil Jews, and they're awful evil Muslims 428 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: and every and everybody else right an atheists and whatever 429 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: religion you choose or don't choose to support. But good 430 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: and evil is real. And when you stare upon it. 431 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: It's important to call it out. I'll give you another 432 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: story from inside that kibbutz, and then I'm gonna tell 433 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: you one more to finish up. Do you know why 434 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: they have the bomb shelters there. It's not to protect 435 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: from people running around with AK forty seven's riddling bodies 436 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: with bullets. It's because all the time they shoot rockets 437 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: into Israel from other countries and so on. That morning, 438 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: when they started to shoot rockets, they did that intentionally 439 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: because they wanted everybody in those bomb shelters. All these 440 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,719 Speaker 1: homes have to have bomb shelters. Think about how crazy 441 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: that is. All of them have to have bomb shelters. 442 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: You know what they did. They went in and lit 443 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: those homes on fire because they knew the people were 444 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: then going to have to run out of the bomb shelters. 445 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: If you walk around in any of these kibbutz's, they're 446 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: burned out. They waited outside until moms and dads and 447 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: their kids came out, and they executed everybody as they 448 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: came out, or they took them a hostage. I stood 449 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 1: in front of one house where a mom and dad 450 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: were shot to death trying to hold the door of 451 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: their bomb shelter closed and they had three little kids 452 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: behind them that all died of smoke inhalation because their 453 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: home was burned down. If you got young kids or 454 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: you got grandkids, imagine being parents holding those doors with 455 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 1: everything you got while the terrorists are firing at you. 456 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 1: You're murdered when they found them, they are holding the door, 457 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: and all of your kids die of smoke inhalation behind 458 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: you after watching you get murdered. That happened all over 459 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: the border with Gaza. I know it's easy to say, oh, well, 460 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: that's the Middle East. Why should I care about it? 461 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: Israel is the front line of Western civilization in this country. 462 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: If you do not stand with Israel, then you are 463 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: standing against Western civilization, Judaeo Christian values, basic human rights 464 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: for men and women around the world. And if they fall, 465 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: they're going to come for other countries. You want to 466 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: talk about the danger of what might happen next. They're coming. 467 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: They believe that we are evil, we're not. Again, that 468 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: analogy is perfect. If Israel put down their weapons, they 469 00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: would all be dead tomorrow. If the Middle East put 470 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: down their weapons, there would be peace. Israel's the good guy. 471 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: We've got to stand with them when we come back. 472 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: I'll tell you one more story rolling into Christmas that 473 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: I think is really important. And I certainly appreciate all 474 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: you guys listening to me, and I understand it's going 475 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: into Christmas, but I think these are important conversations. Some 476 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: people say, hey, I'll just expect you to tell me, like, 477 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: what's a better movie Home Alone? Or you know, the 478 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: Christmas story, the answers Christmas story. By the way, all 479 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: the Home Alone is good. But I know so many 480 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: of you are going to be with friends and family 481 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: over the holidays. I want you to be sharing these 482 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: stories with the kids that are home from college that 483 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: frankly are knuckleheads and a lot of them don't know 484 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: any better. And I want that image with you as 485 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: you get ready to be with your friends and family, 486 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: to think about that alignment between Christians and Jews. I mean, 487 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: I just told you there's a car terror attack just 488 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: happened in Germany. Evil is real, and the importance of 489 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: being able to distinguish between good and evil is maybe 490 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: the most foundational element of the United States, the most 491 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: profoundly I think good country to ever exist in the 492 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: history of the world. When they try to tell us 493 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 1: that our history is awful. When they try to denigrate 494 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: us and tear down our founding fathers and our leaders, 495 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: it's about stripping away our moral authority to see evil 496 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,920 Speaker 1: and call it out. That's what they're doing. It's important 497 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: to understand this, and I hope you'll talk with the 498 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: young people in your friends and family as the holiday 499 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 1: season is upon us. All right, look, Prize picks much 500 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 1: less serious college football playoffics here, and you can have 501 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: some fun if you want to have some fun in 502 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: forvolity because you're going to have serious conversations. How about 503 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: just go download Prize Picks right now. Trust me, put 504 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: in named Clay. Indiana's playing against Notre Dame. It's going 505 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: to be a great game today. We got all games 506 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,720 Speaker 1: going on all day Saturday. You guys know, I love fun. 507 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: I understand there's some seriousness out there, but almost nobody 508 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: loves college football and the NFL more than me. It's 509 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: important to have fun in your life because there is 510 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: a lot of seriousness right now. When you play a 511 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 1: five dollars wager, all you have to do is pick 512 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 1: more or less. You can get fifty dollars when you 513 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: use my name Clay. That's pricepicks dot com. My name Clay, 514 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,720 Speaker 1: Clay prizepicks dot com. Use my name Clay do it today. 515 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:32,239 Speaker 2: Patriots Radio hosts a couple of regular guys, Clay Travis 516 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 2: and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app 517 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,319 Speaker 2: or wherever you get your podcasts. 518 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: Welcome back Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I want to 519 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: finish with a story that I thought was compelling, powerful 520 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: and perfect going into Christmas. So I'm talking about my 521 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 1: trip to Israel, the Holy Land. On Christmas Eve. We're 522 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: going to have an interview with a history guide to 523 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,360 Speaker 1: who told us all about the Western Wall, all about 524 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 1: the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Muslim holy sites, 525 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 1: to all of it. I think you're really gonna enjoy it. 526 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 1: But there was a man named Neer Metzger. Forty eight 527 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 1: year old dad was kidnapped and murdered, stood inside of 528 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:19,240 Speaker 1: a bombshelter for seven hours while his neighbors were being murdered, 529 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 1: hoping that his son and daughter and his niece they 530 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 1: would survive. They did, and I stood on a concrete 531 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: platform with him, which was the only remaining part of 532 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 1: a home that was buried but burned, and the people 533 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: who lived there, the man and woman were murdered. And 534 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 1: we stood there and we looked out and you could 535 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: see Gaza in the distance. And by the way, Israelis 536 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 1: have a great sense of humor, oftentimes about the danger 537 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 1: that they face, as people who deal with danger often do. 538 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: It's a bit macob. I said, how the world, why 539 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 1: do you live here? Why do you live here? And 540 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 1: they said, other than the rockets, it's amazing. Other than 541 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 1: people trying to kill you and firing the rockets, it's amazing. 542 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,320 Speaker 1: But as I stood there with near Betsker, I said, 543 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 1: you gotta come back here. He said, yeah, I want 544 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,720 Speaker 1: to rebuild it. I said why. He said, I want 545 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: Hamas to look over here at the village they tried 546 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 1: to destroy, and I want them to see it bigger, better, 547 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,319 Speaker 1: more profoundly successful than it ever was before. And I 548 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: want them to understand they failed. We want And I 549 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,240 Speaker 1: just thought it was such a profound message. Good will 550 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 1: triumph over evil if enough people pursuing good are active. 551 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 1: I hope all of you pursue good this holiday season. 552 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,760 Speaker 1: Thanks from all of us, Merry Christmas.