1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Welcome back in final hour before the Thanksgiving festivities begin 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: in earnest For many of you out there, and certainly 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: for many of the people working on this show and 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: also listening all over the country. We are thankful for 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: all of you, whether you're involved with this show directly 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: for work, or whether you are listening as maybe you 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: are traveling around the country and what is likely to 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: be the most frenzied Thanksgiving since all the way back 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, which feels like a very long time ago. 10 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: This is the third Thanksgiving we have had since COVID began, 11 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: and it feels like even for people with broken brains, 12 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: the vast majority of Americans are back to a normal 13 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving holiday. I just went down during the commercial break 14 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: to make sure that my kids had managed to make 15 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: it through their Thanksgiving Eve football game without anybody getting 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: really severely injured or any major fights breaking out. The 17 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: Travis Boys managed to stay healthy. Travel back to New 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: York City. Are your kids old enough fore they played 19 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: tackle football yet? My sixth grader played official tackle football, 20 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: but I have mandated that they can only play touch 21 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood because my eight year olds playing two 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: So if you're fifteen about to be fifteen year olds 23 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: tackling the eight year old. That's a recipe. How do 24 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: you feel about about about the young Travis boys playing 25 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: like high school tackle football. If they want to play, 26 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: they can play. I'm not going to stop him from doing. 27 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: Like I said, my sixth grader played first year ever 28 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: played flag football before, but this year in middle school 29 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 1: he played tackle football. Now it was against other sixth graders, 30 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: but buck, as you well remember, sometimes six and seventh graders, 31 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: I should say, the kid who hits puberty is a 32 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: monster out there on the field. Right. If you hit 33 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: puberty at twelve or thirteen earlier full puberty than other people, 34 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: you got a mustache, you might be six foot tall 35 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: out there compared to a lot of other kids they 36 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: are like five to four. So that was sometimes an issue, 37 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: you know. I at one point my kid said, it's 38 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: hard to tackle that kid. He's got a mustache, Dad, 39 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: And I was like, well, you know, that's a that's 40 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: an argument that you can make when you hit that 41 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: that borderline puberty or non puberty age for the for 42 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: the kids, everybody out there who's either played or coached 43 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: in that age range knows exactly what I'm talking about. Um, 44 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 1: what was the travel for you? Like, by the way, 45 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,519 Speaker 1: you came back from Florida, you're back in New York today. 46 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 1: Was it frenzied at the airports? I understand it's like 47 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: kind of crazy everywhere right now. Yeah, I was up. 48 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: I was there at five am. It was already like 49 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: long security lines and that's pretty much as and I 50 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: was taking the earliest possible flight. So you're gonna see 51 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: a lot of that going on. Um, But I do 52 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: think now people are really everybody who I think everybody 53 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: who is going to think normally about traveling in the 54 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: era of post COVID America, I think they're there. Maybe 55 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: some people will start to chill out a little bit 56 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: going forward, but look, it's it's good because we really 57 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: haven't had even last Thanksgiving. Last Thanksgiving wasn't a normal Thanksgiving, folks. 58 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: We all remember there was the you know, the pen 59 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: the Winner of Death and all this stuff, and the 60 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: Biden administration was hammering on how you better get the shot, 61 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: and they had pushed the vaccine mandate and there were 62 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: vaccine cards of people. Those vaccine cards the dumbest thing 63 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: people will look back historians will look back and they'll 64 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: be like, wait, you did care a little piece of 65 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,399 Speaker 1: paper that says you've got a shot, that doesn't even 66 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: stop you from giving the virus to other people any 67 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: like what it was this all about? But it felt 68 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: pretty normal today out there traveling airline attendants did have 69 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: masks on. However, in my flight, the attendants really, yeah, 70 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: I remember those, some of those Siberian prison guards. I 71 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: remember what they were like, thirty five thousand feet in 72 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: the sky. I have not forgotten. I have not forgiven. 73 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: I'm concerned. You mentioned earlier in the show that this 74 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: is crazy that kids going back to public school in Washington, 75 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: DC have to have a negative COVID test in order 76 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: to return to school. And yesterday we played you the 77 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 1: audio of doctor Fauci saying you should take a COVID 78 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: test before you go to your Thanksgiving dinner, and doctor 79 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: joh led and said, if you get the COVID booster, 80 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: you won't die of COVID. Then Washington Post Today, to 81 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: their credit, has an article up saying, actually, nearly sixty 82 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: percent of people dying with COVID have had either the 83 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: shots or COVID boosters. But I'm concerned you know when 84 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: you look at Los Angeles and they're talking about bringing 85 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: mass back, that a lot of you out there listening 86 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: to us in blue cities, even if you're in a 87 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: red state, may have things to worry about if the 88 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: numbers start to tick up on COVID. And certainly what 89 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: we're seeing, unfortunately buck especially for young kids, is a 90 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 1: lot of them were so isolated from other kids that 91 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: they didn't get the usual viruses and illnesses that young kids. 92 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a phrase snot knows kid for a reason. 93 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,559 Speaker 1: There's almost always if you've got young kids, a little 94 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: cold or a little virus that they're working through to 95 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: develop their immune systems. And unfortunately, what you're seeing so 96 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: far this early part as we moved towards the wind 97 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: is a lot of those kids are getting RSV or 98 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: they're getting the flu. And that's actually more dangerous unfortunately 99 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: to truly young children than COVID has been. And the 100 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: way we treated them for COVID made them more likely 101 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: to get them more serious illness. And there's now been 102 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: a run on a bunch of medications and abiotics for children. 103 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: I think they're they're even starting to report on a 104 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: shortage of children's tail and all. If I saw that, right, 105 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: I saw that. I saw Megan McCain tweet that out 106 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: earlier today that it's hard to find this is I'll 107 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: just note if we do have a really bad upper 108 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: respiratory virus season that affects children and so across the 109 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: board now flu and RSV and COVID, all these things. 110 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: They're not gonna want to tell you this until next summer, 111 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: but eventually it will come out that not allowing children 112 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: to live normal lives and be exposed to the normal 113 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: upper respiratory infections that they come into contact with on 114 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: a regular basis made them effectively short term immunocompromise. I mean, 115 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: I do believe that will have eventually come out, not 116 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: not immunocompromise in a severe way, but that they just 117 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: didn't have immunity against some of these things. So they're 118 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: getting hit particularly hard because of the way that we 119 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: separated children, didn't let them live their lives, kept them away. 120 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: You know, we gotta remember there are some people we 121 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: don't hear about this anymore. There's some people who don't 122 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,559 Speaker 1: let their kids see other kids for two years, two years, 123 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: you know, and they happen to live in you know, 124 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: New York, dcla few other places. But they were keeping 125 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: the kids locked away, almost like they're trying to have 126 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: them live in a bubble. And they were the same 127 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: people who took pictures of their kids getting COVID shots 128 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: that were completely worthless and put it on social media 129 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: to be social justice warriors and brag about about that. 130 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: I gotta correct something I said earlier in the show, 131 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: Buck And this is maybe a major, major flaw in 132 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: our holiday power rankings. Neither one of us ranked New 133 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: Year's Eve. Oh I am anti New Year's Eve. So 134 00:06:54,839 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: you considered and rejected ranking, sir, sir, we have a 135 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: whole conversation. New Year's Eve is the most stressful, overrated, 136 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: annoying holiday. I will take National Pancake Day over New 137 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: Year's Eve. I will find, like you know, those random 138 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: holidays that they make. You're saying this, though, even this 139 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: surprises me because you've been a single guy for a 140 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: long time, so you could theoretically have celebrated New Year's Eve. 141 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: Now for parents like me, I'm at that day. I've 142 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: been in several different years where I've been like, hey, 143 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: let me try to trick my kids will watch the 144 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: New Year's ball drop from Times Square on the Eastern 145 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: time zone, and I can get my kids to go 146 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: to bed earlier. Let me tell you a little little 147 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: little dispatches from recently. You know, single man life now 148 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: engaged obviously, so I'm out of it. I'm out of 149 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: that game, thank god. But what it used to be 150 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: like every year for my you know, adult life eighteen 151 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: to thirty nine. You know, it's New Year's Eve, Okay, 152 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: you know, how do we make this the most amazing 153 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: night ever? And then you go out and ever get 154 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: super drunk to try to go to as many parties 155 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: they can, and it's never really what you wanted to be. 156 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: Then you get a little older, rights that's in your twenties, 157 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: maybe into your thirties, it's like, oh, there's all these parties, 158 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: and go to all these parties and you know you're 159 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: gonna have that moment where like you meet the beautiful stranger, 160 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: you make out at midnight, and you get married and 161 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: have five beautiful kids. It doesn't work that way. Everyone's like, 162 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: I'm so drunk, you know, they're all like stumbling over 163 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: each other. There's always someone who's yelling like I'm stuck 164 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: in line, I can't get in, and everyone's all upset. 165 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: It's a total mess. And then you get a little 166 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: older and you're like, you know what, I'm not really 167 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: gonna do this New Year's Eve thing anymore. I'm not 168 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: really gonna do it. And then about three weeks before 169 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: it's New Year's Eve, maybe a month before, people start 170 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: texting you, hey, we're gonna do something right, and the 171 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: peer pressure start. It's getting ratcheted up. You try to 172 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: opt out, it gets ratcheted up, and then all of 173 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 1: a sudden you're like, Okay, well, I guess I'll go 174 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: to you know, that super expensive restaurant where they're gonna 175 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: give me a prefixed menu with the worst cheapest food 176 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: they have and the worst service imaginable, and they're gonna 177 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: usher us in like cattle and usher us out in 178 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: scheduled seating, and the restaurant could care less about the 179 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: whole thing. And you're in for like I mean, in 180 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: New York City, Clay, a crappy restaurant's gonna cost you 181 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 1: two hundred dollars on New Year's Eve. For person, I mean, 182 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: you go to like a hotel in Miami. I've been 183 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: in Miami last few New Year's Eves. You go to 184 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: like a place that's just okay, five hundred bucks a 185 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: person on New Year's Eve. It's crazy. I hate it. 186 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: It's a great night for restaurants. I would argue with 187 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: you that New Year's Eve heading into New Year's itself, 188 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: and I'm curious if you would agree with this number 189 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: one night for women to be dressed up in fancy dresses, 190 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: ready to go out have a great time that ends 191 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: with them crying. I can't tell you the number of times. 192 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: I can't tell you, buck the number of times that 193 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: I have either been with or been out on New 194 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: Year's Eve. Everybody's at a great food, especially if you're 195 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: singlehook who look like they're at their their prom or 196 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: something that they're they're sitting outside of the booming music 197 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: at Somebow's Eve party and the mascara right like, I 198 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 1: just don't understand why he doesn't do that. It is. 199 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: It is the number one night for girls to cry 200 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: about their boyfriends or their significant others, or the guy 201 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: that they thought was gonna be their boyfriend that it 202 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: didn't work out. I can't tell you the number of 203 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: times they're often you know, they got the fancy shoes 204 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: that they're just done with, they got them in their hand. 205 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: To your point, mascara running down the cheeks, fancy dressed 206 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 1: and the heels broken on the shoes, so they're walking 207 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: around barefooting. Hair is a wreck. It inevitably starts to rain. 208 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: It is like the number one night for so for 209 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: single women tears. There's not even a close second. So like, 210 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: how are you not you're coming over to my side 211 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:46,599 Speaker 1: on this with chief, which is New Yar's Eve is 212 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: the worst holid? Well, no, I was. I mean I 213 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: was thinking I didn't even think about New Year's Eve 214 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: in my rankings, but I was like, I thought maybe you, 215 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: as a long term single guy might have it in 216 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: your top five. No, no, no, it's it's very Uh, 217 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: it's it's not good. And honestly, if there's one you know, 218 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: if there's one person you wanted to the midnight kiss with, 219 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: you know you just want to hang out with that person, 220 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 1: You're gonna wait till midnight. So why are you going 221 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: to some big party? I think the whole thing is 222 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: it's a scam. I don't know if it was made 223 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: up to sell Hallmark cards or something. Someone tell me 224 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: what the conspiracy is behind it. But I think New 225 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: Year's Eve is a scam and a half. And look, 226 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: how do you have a great New Year's Eve? Hang 227 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: out with the people that you like the most, your family, 228 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: your friends, whatever, in a mellow setting. Maybe have a 229 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: glass of champagna or you know, a glass of whiskey 230 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: or something, have a good meal, watch the ball drop 231 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: on TV, and go great. Tomorrow's January first, let's get 232 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,839 Speaker 1: after it. Will I will tell a lot of guys 233 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: out there listening, and some women as well. The college 234 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: football playoff games are on New Year's Eve tonight this year, 235 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: so on December thirty first, starting about four o'clock Eastern, 236 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: all the way up through the official New Year there. 237 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: Right now, I've got guys panicked right now because they 238 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: hadn't done the math in their head, and they got 239 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: wives or they got girlfriends, and they were supposed to 240 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: plan something and now all they want to do is 241 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 1: just sit back, have a couple of beers, watch college 242 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: football playoff direct overlap with New Year's Eve. But they 243 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: tried to brand this when they expand into the four 244 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,719 Speaker 1: team college football Playoff, they said, hey, we're going to 245 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: make New Year's Eve synonymous with college football biggest disaster 246 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: schedule ever because what they didn't realize was a lot 247 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: of people have big plans and they created I think 248 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: more fights are relating to sports over these games going 249 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: on head to head than they ever contemplated with my 250 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: My thing is, I do love eating out and I 251 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: love going that. That's my way of experiencing different you know, 252 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: cities and towns all across America. I just want to 253 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: what's the best food they've got here? So I love 254 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: going out to eat. And New Year's Eve is literally 255 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: the worst night of the year to go out to eat. 256 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: It is the worst night. You were getting everything they're 257 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 1: they're doing everywhere as a prefix met I never want 258 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: a prefix menu. I'm gonna restaurant. If I was going 259 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: to prepare and only have one different way to one 260 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: set of food, I would do it at home. They 261 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: triple charge you in most places, So for eating out, 262 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: it's the worst night. And it's just amateur night, man. 263 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: You know. It's like the best nights you have are 264 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: the ones you're not trying to have the best night, 265 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: And New Year's Eve it concentrates all that. Oh what 266 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: you do what are you gonna do on New Year's Eve? 267 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: Go to sleep early, wake up the next day, and 268 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: just keep living my life. I think that's why all 269 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: the girls buck end up crying outside, because they built 270 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: it up into a momentous occasion and instead whatever douchebag 271 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: guy they're dating that they thought was going to be 272 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 1: the man of their dreams proves that he's a douchebag, 273 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: and they're just like, why did I ever think that 274 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: this was? You know, a lot of people think they're 275 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: gonna get They think that the prosals gonna happen at 276 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: midnight and the resolution whatever, and you know the guys, actually, 277 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: you know seven fireballs in watching Clay's favorite SEC football 278 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: team lose to some other football team, he is not 279 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: thinking about that diamond ring. Ladies, I just got news 280 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: for you, no doubt that's true. Yeah, that's that's that's 281 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: how it happens. Look, this is a week for Black 282 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: Friday sales events, as you know, and that includes books. 283 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: How about that books are really important. 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So I've been watching some of the World 301 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: Cup in Qatar, which is the way every would say 302 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: it now, So I guess I say it that way too. 303 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: People also say cutter, gutter. There's a whole bunch of ways. 304 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: But Qatar, we'll have Alexei Lawless of the US men's 305 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: national team. He's a sports commentator, joining US the human 306 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: from Cutter to talk to Qatar, talk to us about 307 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: what's going on there. I have watched it, Clay, and 308 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: I obviously was low heartbroken by whales. But it's a 309 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: good It's been a good day in Saudi Arabia recently, 310 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: a good day in Japan recently, so submission happening there. 311 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: We'll get into all that in just a moment. I 312 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: do think it is fun. Soccer is the only sport 313 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: where after every foul, it's it's like as theatrical as 314 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: what you would see in an opera or something. They're 315 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: like rolling around and then the faces and it's like 316 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: oh oh, oh, you know the guys the Italian team, 317 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: like he kick them in of the shins. You know, 318 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: you're like, okay, I mean playing soccer, buddy, here would 319 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: come down. Many of these guys would never be able 320 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: to stand again. And then they would come out for 321 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: a while with that spray whatever that spray is they 322 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: put on, and then they miraculously recover. I love when 323 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: they carry them off on the stretcher to the side 324 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: and then they miraculously get back up and run back 325 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: out of the sacle. Oh like I got cleted in 326 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: the calf and now I'll never walk into calm Down, 327 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: com down. But I just realized I've made a little 328 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: Italy joked there. Italy is not even in one of 329 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: the great soccer play They didn't make the World Cup 330 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: this year. It's true, one of the great soccer powerhouses 331 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: of all time. Greg in Houston, Texas has some New 332 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: Year's Eve thoughts for us, even though it's Thanksgiving. I 333 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: guess we're gonna dive into New Year's Eve. What's up? Greg? Yes, sir, 334 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: you know, I'm sixty five, I'm retired, and I feel 335 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: exactly the same way as you guys do about New 336 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: Year's Eve. You know it is worthless, But forty years ago, 337 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, it turned out to be the best 338 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: day of my life. My love life was in a rut, 339 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: and I met my wife at his small New Year's 340 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 1: E party and we dated for about four years. What 341 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: was your Did you speak to her first? Do you 342 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: remember what you're opening? Yeah? Did you guys? Did you 343 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: guys smooch at midnight? Give us the details here, Greg, No, 344 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: My confidence was just in a rut. And I looked 345 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 1: at her and I said, oh, too good looking, too good? 346 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: She actually had to come to me. Oh so you 347 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: got approached. Good for you. I will tell twenty years later. Boom, 348 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: my mom approached my dad at a cocktail party. That's 349 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: how they met. Missus Sexton approached mister Sexton. Oh yeah, 350 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: he had good hair. I respect the game. Be good 351 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: ballsy from your mom there. No, I pretty much have 352 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 1: to approach everybody. Um day to the mister and missus 353 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: Clay Travis story about how you guys met. But right 354 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: now we had fast. I was recruiting the hot girls 355 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: for softball in law school and she's hot, and I 356 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: went up to it, got her on the team. 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That's get Refunds dot Com. 374 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: Fleet Travis and buck Sexton on the front lines of 375 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: Welcome Back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show Thanksgiving Eve. 376 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: We are headed now down to Qatar. I believe I'm 377 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: pronouncing that correctly, or at least as the pronunciation has 378 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: been agreed to to be joined by Fox Soccer analyst 379 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: Alexei Lawless. They are eight hours ahead of us. It 380 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: is almost Thanksgiving Day, I guess in Qatar and Alexei, 381 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: first of all, thanks for making the time for us. 382 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: I know it's an absolute crazy zoo over there with 383 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: all the games going on, and I want to start 384 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: with this question. US is up one zero when you 385 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: see the play. As a former defenseman for the US 386 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,199 Speaker 1: men's soccer team, when you see the play of Walker 387 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 1: Zimmerman and the foul that he committed that led to 388 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: a penalty kick. Your immediate reaction was to say, or think, 389 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: what well, something I can't say on the radio because 390 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 1: I am an ADVID listener to your show and I 391 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: know you have a level of decorum here. By the way, 392 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: I do I subscribe. I listened to it every day 393 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: this morning on the peloton here in the hotel in Qatar, 394 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: in Dohak. Here, I was listening to the show. So 395 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,360 Speaker 1: I am a huge fan of both you guys and 396 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: of this show. When I saw that, I was disappointed, 397 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 1: I was angry. Um And you know I pictured I 398 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: pictured myself on the field, and look, mistakes happen in sports, 399 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: mistakes happens in life, and it's how you recover from them. 400 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: So ultimately, the US ties Whales won one. And you know, 401 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,360 Speaker 1: I know that Buck was having some fun at Wales' expense. 402 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: You know, Bucks should know that. I mean, it's kind 403 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: of come on, it's kind of fair, Like how many 404 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: people even know that Whales is its own country. Well, 405 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 1: I understand that, I understand that, but you know, they 406 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: they they are a small country, but they are a 407 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: hearty country. And and look, I agree with you, the 408 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: US should have eaten whales, and so you're dropping point there. 409 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: And in the way that had happened with Walker's imerman 410 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: making that what amounts to a stupid foul, and it 411 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: shouldn't be done at any level, especially for a professional 412 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: and it's big in a World Cup. However, there's a 413 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: couple of games to play here, including this huge one 414 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 1: on Black Friday against against England, our friends England, so 415 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: there is plenty to play for when it comes to 416 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: the World Cup. And whether you're into soccer or whether 417 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: you're not into soccer, this is an opportunity to sit 418 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: down and celebrate what I feel is the greatest country 419 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: in the world. There's a very few things in our 420 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 1: life and our world today that bring us together, and 421 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: maybe soccer is one of them. So Alexei, so I'm 422 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: gonna put this out there just in all fairness, right, 423 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 1: it's not looking good for our guys on Friday. I'm 424 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: just I know enough about soccer, mostly from playing FIFA 425 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: on PlayStation, but I know enough about the English teams 426 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: rankings and the American teams rankings. It's not looking great 427 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: for us. But you know, we did win in seventeen 428 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: seventy six, so we got that going for us, which 429 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 1: is nice. Iran, though we're gonna be playing Iran, tell 430 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: me as somebody who knows this US national team inside 431 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: and now, I don't care if we are playing Iran 432 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: in in shuffleboard, if we're playing Iran in Tiddley wings, 433 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: you name it. America has to win. Are we going 434 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: to win that match? Well, you're going to have to 435 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: win in order to advance. So you're absolutely right, Buck, 436 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: this is going to be a huge game. And look 437 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 1: at you, as you know, sports sometimes mirrors culture and 438 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 1: society and politics and all those different things, and all 439 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: of that is going to be on display with Iran, 440 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: which we have a long history from. Look I grew 441 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: up in the seventies and eighties and what Iran represented 442 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: to America and to Americans, and so that will be 443 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: part of the narrative. Ultimately, there's three points. So and 444 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: to your point, it doesn't matter whether there's men's, women's, 445 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 1: co ed naked. If we're playing Iran, I want to win, 446 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: and we need to win this game in order to 447 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 1: go on. I think because to your point, who knows 448 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: what's going to happen against England. They are a better team. 449 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that US can't get a point or get 450 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 1: a win over there. I believe that this is a 451 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: good US team that can do some big things, and 452 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: this would be huge if they would be able to 453 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,120 Speaker 1: beat England. But no matter what, that third game you're 454 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 1: going to have to beat around. Okay, So that's what 455 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: a lot of people out there who they don't if 456 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 1: they don't follow this closely. We've got England, Wales, the 457 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: United States, and Iran in a group, and if we 458 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: had beaten Wales, we would have been an incredible shape 459 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: to advance, because two teams advance. Do you see this 460 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: coming down to gold differential, in which case we're going 461 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 1: to be watching on Friday, everybody recovering from Thanksgiving meals, 462 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: kicking the feed up watching. Do you feel like, even 463 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: if we lose to England, it's desperately important to keep 464 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: it close because gold differential may well decide who advances 465 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 1: to the knockout round yours, Yeah, you're absolutely right, it 466 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: is important that we keep it close. But I do 467 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: feel that this has the opportunity in the makings of 468 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: something historic, and I know it's it's not a shirt, 469 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: but this is a this is a young team. It's 470 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: the second youngest team in the tournament. I think they 471 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: have a not just a responsibility that they feel, but 472 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: also an opportunity to do some big things and to 473 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: get whether it's people like yourselves or anybody else is 474 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: listening out there, to at least step into the soccer 475 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: ten because once you get in there, it's warm, it 476 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: is welcoming. And guess what it is American. We do 477 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: have an American soccer culture. It is vibrant, it is passionate, 478 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: is discerning, it is growing, and don't you dare apologize 479 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: for it because it is something that's very very special 480 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: and unique in the soccer world out there. But that 481 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: has to come out and manifest on the play on 482 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: the field, especially when it comes to our men's team. 483 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: Our women's team they kick ass, as we know, and 484 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 1: win all the time. The men's team has to step up. 485 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: And this would be a huge, huge moment in this 486 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: World Cup if they were able to get that result 487 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: against England on Black Friday and then parlay that into 488 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: a great result against Iran and get out of the group. 489 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: So we're speaking to Alexi lalas Fox Soccer analyst and 490 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: also a man who really popularized the bright red goatee 491 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: of the nineteen nineties. If I recall, wasn't that you? 492 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: I remember this man, you know rocking that got was 493 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: like that was like a ten out of ten. Gote 494 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: you were not messing around. I feel like I've seen 495 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: you on TV. It's not there anymore. How are things out? 496 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 1: And cutter man? How's our Qatar? How's it going? You're 497 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: actually in country right now? There's been you know, some 498 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,919 Speaker 1: new stories about there was like a beer band, but 499 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 1: not really. But how how is it doing a World 500 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: Cup there? I can I can assure you that I 501 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: have never once in the now a couple of weeks 502 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: that I've been here, nor are the other previous trips 503 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: that I've taken, had a problem finding alcohol. Uh, people 504 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: believe me sometime. That doesn't surprise me at all going forward. Yeah, 505 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: but it is it is a we have we have 506 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: this kick ass set when it comes to our Fox 507 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: Soccer set here down at what's called the Corniche, which 508 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 1: is down on the water. The people here have been incredible. 509 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: It is a really really interesting, like you said, world 510 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: Cup in that there's this brigadoonish type of experience where 511 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: everybody is in the same place, nobody travels anywhere, all 512 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: the teams, all the stadiums are here and we're gonna 513 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 1: We're gonna blow it out on Fox. And we have 514 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: this incredible set here that has multiple levels and multiple stages, 515 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: and people come to it like it is part of 516 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 1: the star of the showdown here, and it just augments 517 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: all of the cover that we are bringing. And part 518 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: of our job is not just to talk about the soccer, 519 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: but to talk about this country and this culture and 520 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: to make that part of the storytelling that we're doing. 521 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: Am I understanding by the way, I want all of 522 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 1: you to watch the US and Alexei and Stu and 523 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: all the crew that's out there, Jenny Taft, fantastic job 524 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: they're doing. But also I will be up in Columbus 525 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: for this Ohio State Michigan game, which is going to 526 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: be huge, and my understanding, as a part of our 527 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: pregame show, we're actually going to be integrating some of 528 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: you guys. Sin's my understanding. It might not be a 529 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: one hundred percent accurate as a part of the World 530 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: Cup to have you guys talking college football and maybe 531 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 1: a little bit of NFL. Also, so for people out there, 532 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: Alexei who don't know this US men's soccer team, you 533 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: mentioned how young they are. You played in the World 534 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,200 Speaker 1: Cup back in nineteen ninety two in the United States, 535 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: the first time that you play in a World Cup 536 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: match as a young guy. It feels like what first 537 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: part of the question, second aspect here, how much more 538 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: comfortable and better did you play in game two? Having 539 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: just gotten the butterflies in some extent out in that 540 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: first ever World Cup match? Yeah? I mean, look, would 541 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: you realize a dream? There is a moment of ah, 542 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: and the sooner you get over it, the better off 543 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 1: you are going to be when you recognize it's the 544 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: game that you're playing, been played playing all along. Mine 545 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 1: was way back in the nineteen hundreds before you guys 546 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: were born, back in nineteen ninety four, summer ninety four. 547 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: Like you said, Buck, a lot of hair. Never has 548 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: so much been done with the monoicum of talent and 549 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: a lot of hair, whether it was the goatie or 550 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: the hair on top of my head. I wish I 551 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: could still grow it. I've cleaned up on the outside, 552 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: but I'm still a mess on the inside. But then 553 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: you walk out on that field. And in my case, 554 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 1: at that point, it was actually in Pontiac at the 555 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 1: Pontiac silverdam Rest in Peace, the Pontiac Silverdome. I grew 556 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 1: up in Detroit, so fifteen minutes outside of where I 557 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: grew up, walking on that field and realizing a dream. 558 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 1: Now this US team has already done that, right, so 559 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: now they understand what the World Cup is. Now on Friday, 560 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: when they walk out against against England, it's not just 561 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: with the realization that they're representing their their country, but 562 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: it's also with the understanding that there's there's a competition 563 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 1: here and you got to figure it out very very 564 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: quickly against a very very good team. But look, there's 565 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,439 Speaker 1: nothing like it when you walk out on that field, 566 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,360 Speaker 1: when you put your hand over your heart, you put 567 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: that shirt on, you sing that song for me, there 568 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: is nothing else, nothing else like it. And if I could, 569 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: I would, I would do anything to get back in 570 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: all right, Alexi Lawless of Fox Soccer and Alexei, let's 571 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: hope that us first of all, have a happy Thanksgiving 572 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: out there. I know you're abroad right now, and it 573 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: pass along the same for us to all the American 574 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: players out there. We're thinking about them and we appreciate 575 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: you joining us. And let's hope we got a w 576 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: on Friday. I will actually watch this. This sports competition awesome. 577 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love what you 578 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: guys to do it so I do. So keep on 579 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: doing it and make sure that you give me something 580 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: for what I'm on the peloton sweating my ass off. Absolutely, sir, 581 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: thank you so much. Let's play. Alexei is a fantastic guy. Buck. 582 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: I told you he listens to the show and he's 583 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 1: a great American soccer here. I remember because I was 584 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: planning soccer in high school back back when he was 585 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: on that national team or right around then, and he 586 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: was one of the first guys I think, to really 587 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: popularize the US men's national team of that era. You know, 588 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: just he was a well known guy as men's soccer 589 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: was becoming more of a thing here. You know, this 590 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: is really I think that was even pre MLS, or 591 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: maybe the MLS had just gotten going. I think the 592 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: MLS built out and I think I said ninety two 593 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: was ninety four. That was the launching point, that's right. 594 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: The MLS was the amount of attention that we had hosting. 595 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: And remember we're hosting to a large extent the World 596 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: Cup in twenty six which is why I would ever 597 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: experience these guys get now hopefully could translate four years 598 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: from now when we hosted basically in the United States 599 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: North America does. Yeah. But you know that Argentinian team, 600 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: which is supposed to be one of the best in 601 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: the world, they got caught flat footed, folks. 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We are so appreciative of a 640 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: all of you listening, tuning in, getting to hang with you. 641 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: Even had a guest call in from the other side 642 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: of the planet with Alexei Lallis giving us a ring 643 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 1: from Cutter. Great, great guy. I appreciate him making the 644 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: time for us because you know, you look, America is 645 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 1: on the world stage here. Whether you like soccer or not, 646 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: America is on the world stage. And I actually do 647 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: like soccer a bit, as does Clay. So it's gonna 648 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 1: be interesting to see what happens on Friday. We have 649 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: something cool to tell you about. It's a great weekend 650 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: for it as well. We have a new podcast that 651 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: will be dropping and it will be going up this weekend. 652 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: It's like a hang with Clay and Buck and we're 653 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: gonna be taking some different stuff that from the week 654 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: Sundays with Clay and Bucks actually called you can find 655 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: on the I Heart app wherever you get your podcast. 656 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: If you're listening to the show now, you're like, oh, 657 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: what is this? Well, we're pulling together hang time and 658 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 1: we want to do more and more special stuff as 659 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: well going forward. And I'm gonna be in on Friday 660 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: so we can talk about the best Black Friday deals 661 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Clay is going to be doing 662 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: family time and some sports watching. So I'll be in 663 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: Columbus actually for this big Michigan Ohio State game. So 664 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: I'm traveling to Columbus, Ohio. I hope to see many 665 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: of our listeners. I think we're number one, or have 666 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: been at different times in Columbus, in Cleveland and at Cincinnati, 667 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 1: so that our extended radio family time is what you'll 668 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: be spending time with there, so you'll be seeing some 669 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: of them. Who is So it's Ohio State Michigan Is 670 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? The biggest game probably right up there. 671 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: This year Tennessee Georgia was a big game one versus two, 672 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: one versus one depending on how you look at the rankings. 673 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 1: And Michigan is third, Ohio State is second. Whoever wins 674 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: is going to probably win the Big Ten and go 675 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I just think when you stack up 676 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: that Michigan offense against the Ohio defense, it's likely that 677 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,800 Speaker 1: the better team will win. You got to say, Ohio State, 678 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: they're gonna be They're gonna be fired up that you 679 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: call them Ohio Oh Wait, isn't that? Is that not 680 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: the same thing. There's a university, there's Ohio which is 681 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: like the University of Ohio, and then there's Ohio State. 682 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: Ohio State is the big I gotta get this stuff 683 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: right or else the fraternity brothers where we go visit 684 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: will be throwing those red solo cups full of their 685 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: pungent juice at me. So yeah, lots lots of high 686 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: end alcohol consumption I imagine going to be going on 687 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: in Columbus. So I'm excited for that game. But I'm 688 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,239 Speaker 1: also excited. I mean, look, a lot of people are 689 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: gonna be on Friday. You got kids running around, you 690 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,279 Speaker 1: got family members, you pop on the television, and if 691 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: the US can keep it close against England, I think 692 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: it gonna be a pretty enjoyable game. And obviously a 693 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: lot of people watch NFL on Thursday and then college 694 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: football Saturday. It's a good weekend. We were talking about 695 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 1: this because soccer is a funny game and that you 696 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,799 Speaker 1: can if someone dominates a basketball game, meaning they're just 697 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: scoring a lot of points throughout. There's no huge surprises. 698 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: There can be momentum shifts and a team can come back, 699 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: but you can dominate a soccer game. You could have 700 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: you know, fifteen shots on goal, seventy percent of the 701 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 1: possession and loose because you didn't actually put it in 702 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,320 Speaker 1: the net and they got one time. So you know, 703 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 1: that's that's basically my way of saying, maybe America gets 704 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,080 Speaker 1: a miracle here, like not quite beating the Soviets in hockey, 705 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: but you know, back in the day, but close to it, 706 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: it's easier to pull off upsets. To your point, you 707 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: said earlier, Saudi Arabia Beatum Argentine totally unexpected, and today 708 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 1: Germany lost to Japan. Nobody would have foreseen either of 709 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: those outcomes. So maybe fingers crossed the US on Friday 710 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 1: can do something against England. Shelley in Las Vegas, Nevada 711 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: has some thoughts for us. What's up, Shelley, Hi? How 712 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: are you? I just want to tell you just rethink 713 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 1: New Year's Eve because New Year's Eve is my birthday. Well, 714 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: happy birthday. It advanced, Shelley. Now now I do like 715 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,960 Speaker 1: it a little bit more. All right, see now, and 716 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 1: I live in Las Vegas, where they're always celebrating, so 717 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 1: so yeah, times I feel left out that, Hey, why 718 00:35:55,520 --> 00:36:00,120 Speaker 1: isn't somebody celebrating my birthday? But the whole world celebrates 719 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,839 Speaker 1: my birthday? You know, Shelley, I'll just tell you. I can, 720 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: I can? I can? I hear you on this one 721 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:09,400 Speaker 1: because my fiance's birthday is Christmas, so she has to 722 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,840 Speaker 1: share her birthday with Baby Jesus, which can kind of 723 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 1: be that's tough. I mean, you know, I love my 724 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: care bear, but baby Jesus is a big deal, so 725 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: tough combo for kids. Yeah, Rick in North Carolina, I 726 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,799 Speaker 1: think this is our salmon expert. I was trying to say, 727 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 1: all salmon tastes the same, Rick, Am I totally crazy 728 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 1: over this? Yeah? Well, a couple of things. I initially 729 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 1: called on the calorie content of food because I was 730 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: with you on the stake thing, and I can give 731 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 1: you the science on that one, but you totally lost me. 732 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,399 Speaker 1: On the pancakes with the butter in the syrup. Yep, 733 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 1: there's no way that's that's low calorie. But all right, 734 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 1: I do what about my argument though about salmon all 735 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,479 Speaker 1: tasting kind of the same even at the fanciest place. 736 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: I'm a commercial salmon fishing tender in Alaska, so there's 737 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 1: five different types of salmon that that we catch up there. 738 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 1: And you don't want to get farmed raised. There's farmed 739 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: raised in wild salmon. And I challenge you to this, 740 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: Go buy a piece of stocky salmon from wild Alaskan 741 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 1: stokey salmon, and buy a piece of farm raised salmon 742 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 1: and cook them exactly the same way. And I think, 743 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,799 Speaker 1: all right, I will check that out. I'll try that 744 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: and have a happy Thanksgiving. From CLAYM. Buck Amen play 745 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,759 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of a 746 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: truth