Welcome into outkick the show. I am your fearless leader, Clay Travis. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

Wednesday edition of the program. I will be in Las Vegas Thursday, Friday, into the weekend.

So there will not be any outkick the shows. I do want to tell you there's a couple of great wins and losses podcasts up.

One with Alexi Wallace about basically the history of American men soccer as using his career as a window to view that from 1994 up to the present day and projecting into what 2026 might be like.

Encourage you to go listen to that and phenomenal interview with Miranda divine about the New York Post breaking the news story.

Surrounding the the Hunter Biden laptop and all of the resulting fallout. If you kind of have a sense for what that story is about but have never really had the opportunity to dive into it in earnest. I think you will really enjoy that podcast.

And I would encourage all of you to go check that out. So those are on the wins and losses podcast also in the Clay and Buck podcast feed again encourage you to go check all those out. I think you will enjoy them long form.

And there's like 50 of those long form interviews that are up now. You can scroll through check them all out and enjoy them at your leisure. If you're going on a long drive.

If you've got a trip and you need something to entertain you audio wise lots of great options in there. I think you will enjoy them right off the top here.

As well. I want to give happy birthday greetings to my aunt Prius who is 100 years old today. Technically my great aunt my grandma's sister born in 1923. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama has lived there for almost her entire life. She has lived since my great uncle who was a World War II fighter pilot died in his life.

She has 80s. She will her. She has lived on her own in Birmingham up to and including the present day. She is currently hospitalized not particularly healthy right now. She's been a little bit sick.

In fact, she has pneumonia and she's barely spent any time in the hospital in her entire life. But she is having her 100th birthday today. My mom is down there took her a cake. So I mean 100 years old. Imagine what she has seen living from 1923 to 2023 in this great country.

She is having has had a tremendous life in Birmingham and I just want to make sure that I wish to her 100 year birthday today.

I want to dive into I'll start with the AFC and the NFC championship games and give you my picks on what I think we are going to see in these two games. And I'm doing that on Wednesday obviously because I'm not going to be doing this show on Thursday or Friday.

And so I am going to take the chiefs. Okay. It's a tough call. Chiefs are right now around a one and a half or two point underdog. This line has moved quite a lot because we don't know how healthy that Patrick Mahomes is going to be the Bengals have won.

I believe three straight in a row against the chiefs one at last year in Kansas City to advance to the Super Bowl. Ultimately, however, I like the chiefs. I just feel like the chiefs are going to bounce back and win this game.

I think Patrick Mahomes is going to play at a fairly healthy level.

Granity has the high ankle sprain. I'm sure that that will be a hindrance on his ability to scramble. But I think he will make enough plays as the chiefs starting quarterback who plays throughout this game to get the win.

So I am on the chiefs right now. Now I'm betting on Wednesday. So if you're placing your bets on Wednesday. If suddenly on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, we get news that Patrick Mahomes is not going to play.

Obviously, that would change my opinion on this game. But as we are speaking on Wednesday afternoon based on the fact that he has been participating in practice.

I believe that the value play is on the chiefs as a home underdog against the Bengals. I also like the under in this game.

The defenses are going to come to play. You saw how well the Bengal defense underrated story played on the road in Buffalo. Chiefs defense has been playing very well. Also, I believe both of these defenses will come to play.

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