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Welcome, everybody. podcasts. Welcome everybody, Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Box Sexton show gets going right now.

A lot of things on the menu today for our news items and analysis much to discuss.

For one thing, New York Times and others still trying to find a way to justify that they lied about the laptop and they're still taking cheap shots.

They will not report honestly that it is absolutely real. They keep saying

some of it's real but some of it we don't know you can't disprove it. It's it's all hysteria.

Speaking of hysteria. Brian Stelter, do you remember him, Clay? He used to have a show at CNN.

Brian Stelter is worried about ways that Trump, were he to win the election

would punish the news media.

He might say very mean things about them.

Very mean things, probably the neatest

you we mentioned yesterday that there's all this talk about people crying

do you remember when Brian Stelter shared that he just like curled up in the fetal

position and had during COVID do I remember clay that was one of the pinnacle moments of

Lib wimpiness during COVID I still celebrate Stelter's whole catalog.

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