Welcome in to Outkick the show. I am your fearless leader, Clay Travis. I hope all of you are having

fantastic Mondays, wherever you may be across the country or around the world. We are rolling into

what should be a really great Thanksgiving. I got a lot to talk about you, a variety of different topics out

there. I first want to say my thanks to the ambassador of the Vatican, Brian Birch, and also the

ambassador for Italy, Tillman Fertita, for helping to get set up last week. I was in Italy. I had an

unbelievable opportunity. I worked behind the scenes to get my law school friend, Justin Ishbio,

who has bought the Chicago White Sox. I told this story a little bit.

But Justin and I were talking and he said, hey, Clay, what's the best way I could introduce myself to Chicago White Sox fans going forward because he's going to run the team?

And I said, well, we should just go to the Vatican, meet the Pope, and invite him to come and throw out the

first pitch when eventually you get this new stadium done. He's like, do you think we could make

that happen? I said, I don't know. I mean, it's a good idea. Let's see if we can make it happen.

And so the ambassador to the Vatican, eventually I was put in touch with him. I reached out to the Trump White House. I said, hey, how would we make this happen? And on Wednesday of last week, Justin presented the Pope with a 2005 Chicago White Sox autographed jersey by the World Series champion team that year.

The Pope had been in the crowd for that game.

He was a big White Sox fan.

And he was presented with that autographed team jersey, which he was super excited to get.

And he also said that he would like to come and throw out the first pitch for the new stadium in Chicago.

Pope has not been to Chicago, by the way, since like 1979.

So we've got an American Pope who is a sports fan, just a normal dude from the south side of Chicago that happens to be the Pope.

We got set up. We got the opportunity to meet him to convey that offer. It was phenomenal.

Thanks to the ambassador to the Vatican and also the ambassador to Italy and everybody in the

Trump White House who helped to set that up. It was fantastic. It was super awesome. It's my second

trip to Italy. If you haven't been,

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