1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: Welcome back in final hour of the week, Clay Travis 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Buck. 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: We'll be back with me on Monday. He's celebrating his 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: dad's birthday, traveling with his three month old baby, and 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: we just posted photos of that chunker of a kid. 6 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: Babies chubby babies. Is I just I think they are fabulous. 7 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: The pictures are up if you want a smile. I 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: believe they're up at clayanbuck dot com and you'll be 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: able to check them out there. By the way, I 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: haven't mentioned it yet today, but yesterday Bill O'Reilly came 11 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: on and he dunked on us and said, hey, I've 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: got a million YouTube subscribers. And he wasn't even trying 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: to dunk on us. He was just kind of just 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: dropping it in there, like, Hey, no big deal, million 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: YouTube subscribers and we don't even have a hundred thousand yet. 16 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: And I don't know he's still gonna be dunking on 17 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: us at a million to one hundred thousand, but at 18 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: least it's a really bit more respectable. And eventually we're 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: gonna have all three hours of the show up on 20 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 1: the site, and I would appreciate if all of you 21 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 1: would go and subscribe. Today. You type in my name 22 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: Clay Travis, you type in Buck Sexton. You can get 23 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: the latest videos. We're posting clips from the show constantly. 24 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: If you want to be able to share clips with 25 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: maybe your kids or your grandkids, or you are young 26 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: yourself and you're out and about on the road. Maybe 27 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: you don't get to listen to the show every day, 28 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: but you think to yourself, boy, you know what I'd 29 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: really like to do. I'd like to see what T 30 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: shirt Clay Travis is in today. The only way you 31 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: can do that is to be on YouTube. Maybe you 32 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: want to know what T shirt Bucks in. Only way 33 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: you can do that is to be on YouTube. So 34 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: let's get over one hundred thousand subscribers and we will 35 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: make Buck do a TikTok dance for over one hundred 36 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: thousand at some point in time. And look, you can 37 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: just catch up with the show and you can watch 38 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: it on video. We want you to be subscribed to 39 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: the podcast as well. This is crazy, I was reading recently. 40 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: This is why I've gotten so fired up about the 41 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: YouTube channel. More people now watch videos of radio shows 42 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: than actually listen to podcasts. Is that kind of crazy? 43 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: And I understand if maybe you're not in that community 44 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: that you're listening to the radio five hundred and fifty 45 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: five stations nationwide. We love all of you, all fifty states. 46 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: Thank you, but people are busy, and I was kind 47 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: of blown away that more people watch podcast video now 48 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 1: than actually listen to podcast audio. So look, we want 49 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: to catch up with the where the world is going, 50 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,839 Speaker 1: and I would ask that you would go and join us. 51 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: It's free. Just click like and subscribe, and you can 52 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: put some questions in on the comments there, and we're 53 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: going to start to do YouTube focused videos where we 54 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: respond Buck and I to your questions and you can 55 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: only find that on YouTube. So go subscribe Clay, Travis, 56 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: buck Sexton, click subscribe and also like the channel. So 57 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: we appreciate all of you. Okay, I don't know how 58 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: many of you saw this, but I was over yesterday. 59 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: I was scrolling through and I don't even know how 60 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: the algorithm works, but somehow my social media algorithms saw 61 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney in a tank top and tight jeans at 62 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: a car and they were like, hey, let's feed this 63 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: to Clay. I don't know what could. I don't know 64 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: how that happened. I really, I have no idea how 65 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: algorithms work. I don't know why they thought a girl 66 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: in a tight shirt and tight jeans would somehow that 67 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: I would be like, Oh, I'm gonna that video just 68 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: ended up on my timeline and it turned into a 69 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: huge story yesterday because a store called American Eagle decided 70 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: that they were going to sign Sidney Sweeney as their 71 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: chief spokesperson, and this thing went megaviral. The stock was 72 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: up like a couple one hundred million dollars since they've 73 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: announced it, and I was laughing about it because basically, 74 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: the very first job I ever had was working in 75 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: an American Eagle clothing store and yesterday going viral somehow. 76 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: I don't know how it ended up on my timeline. Again, 77 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: I don't know how algorithms work. I don't know why 78 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: they thought that I would be interested in an attractive 79 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: woman and not very much clothes. I don't know how 80 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: that happened. But so Sidney sweeney stock is skyrocketing, thing 81 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: goes megaviral, somehow ends up on my timeline for my 82 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: very first job, when I was like sixteen years old, 83 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: and you know what they've decided to do. They replaced 84 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: fat on attractive models with attractive models. And you're gonna 85 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: think this is ridiculous, but I actually think it's evidence 86 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: of the culture healing. And let me explain why, and 87 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: I'll share some funny stories about that job that I 88 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: used to have back in the day. But you remember 89 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: when a few years ago, Victoria's Secret decided, Hey, I 90 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: know the whole Victoria's Secret model thing. You walk it 91 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,799 Speaker 1: by in a mall and they have a gorgeous woman 92 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: not wearing very much clothes. And it turns out that 93 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: putting gorgeous women in not very much clothes convinces women 94 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: to go buy more underwear than they otherwise would, and 95 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: like body lotion and whatever else, Victoria's Secret, it sells. 96 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,119 Speaker 1: And I'm not putting myself out of this category either. 97 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: My wife still makes fun of me. I watched the 98 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: Victorious Secret, like the Christmas special that they have, and 99 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: then I went and bought like two hundred dollars of 100 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: lingerie like the next day, So yes, I am susceptible 101 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: to advertising. My wife was like, I like, you bought 102 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: everything in the whole store. Basically I was a lot. 103 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: I think you're going to look amazing in it. And 104 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: she was like, you watched the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, 105 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: didn't you? And I said yes, and it was incredibly useful. 106 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 1: And there's a lot of men out there that know 107 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,119 Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about. You see an attractive girl 108 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: in that outfit and you're like, I want my wife 109 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: or my girlfriend in that attractive outfit. Boom. It works 110 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: because advertising, by and large, is aspirational. People want to 111 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: look better than they actually do. You ever watch a 112 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: romantic comedy. It's never the case that the guy and 113 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: the girl in the romantic comedy are both ugly, because 114 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: nobody would go, I don't know why. You just don't 115 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 1: believe that two really fat people should get together and 116 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: spend money to go watch it. You want to watch 117 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: a guy that's typically sometimes better looking than you, a 118 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: woman who's always better looking than the guy deserves. That 119 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: is like the romantic comedy writ large, and Hollywood knows it, 120 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: and that's why it works. Somehow, Victoria's Secret decided, you 121 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: know what, I think we'll sell more lingerie if we 122 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: put fat people in lingerie. I just gotta tell you 123 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: it didn't work. In fact, the company almost went bankrupt, 124 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: and then they went back and they said, hey, you 125 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: know what, we should put more attractive people in our 126 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: clothes because people want to think that they're going to 127 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: look more attractive. I'm fat and not particularly good looking. 128 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: I don't see somebody in the underwear store and think, hey, 129 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: I want them to look like me. I wish I 130 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,119 Speaker 1: was in better shape. I wish I was more ripped. 131 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: That's how everybody is. Okay, So American Eagle, where I 132 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: used to work, they went with the fat model thing, 133 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: and basically the entire brand collapsed, and so now they're 134 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: pivoting and they should fire everybody who said, hey, you 135 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: know what, we need fat models, unattractive women. Nike did 136 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: the same thing. Hey let's put Dylan mulvaney in a 137 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: sports bra. Hey let's put fat people in yoga pants. 138 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: That'll make people want to buy yoga pants. No, it 139 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: doesn't work. Okay, throughout history, attractive people, women, in particular 140 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: in clothing makes people want to buy more clothing. So 141 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney is now the spokesperson for American Eagle, and 142 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: this happens almost identical with Nike suddenly deciding did you guys. See. 143 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: Scotti Scheffler won the British Open, the Open Golf championship 144 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: over the weekend. His insanely cute toddler kid, he's like 145 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: ten months old, eleven months old, you're roughly a year old, 146 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: was crawling around on the green. And Nike's new advertisement 147 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: replacing trans people in women's gear, men pretending to be 148 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: women and fat people in yoga pants is Scotty Scheffler 149 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: with his son crawling, and it basically says, you've already won, 150 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: but now you've won again. Hey. Fatherhood is good, it's 151 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: good to aspire to win a championship, but ultimately the 152 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: most important job, I certainly feel this way, is when 153 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: you have kids, raising them to be productive members of society. 154 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 1: So looking at that Sidney Sweeney ad, because again I 155 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: don't know how it happened, but it ended up in 156 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: my timeline, and it's reminding me of the nineties when 157 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: I worked in the American Eagle store and in the 158 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: Abercrombie and Fitch store. Back in the day, I made 159 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: four dollars and fifty cents an hour at American Eagle, 160 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: Rivergate Mall, Goodletsville, Tennessee. Four dollars and fifty cents an hour. 161 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: Probably the most fun job I've ever had, because I 162 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: was sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old and all I had 163 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: to do all day long was fold shirts and talk 164 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: to pretty girls when they walked into the store. I 165 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: had an excuse to talk to every pretty girl on 166 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: the north and the east side of Nashville that came 167 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: to Rivergate Mall. In fact, if you are listening to 168 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: this right now in Goodletsville, Tennessee, if you were a 169 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: cute girl that went into that store between nineteen ninety 170 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: six and nineteen ninety nine, there's almost one hundred percent 171 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: chance I hit on you because I had an excuse 172 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: to walk up and talk to you. That was the 173 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: best job ever. Four dollars and fifty cents. Got to 174 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: eat Chick fil A every day for lunch, on my 175 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: lunch break or my dinner break. Got to just hang 176 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: out in them all. Every teenager in America is there 177 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: at that point in time. And do you know how 178 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 1: they sold gear at both American Eagle and Abercrombie and Fitch. 179 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: Good looking people in the ads wearing the clothes. And 180 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: then we entered this weird world, this weird world where 181 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: we were supposed to pretend that, hey, instead of everybody 182 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: aspiring to be bigger, stronger, faster versions of themselves or 183 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: in better shape versions of themselves, that we should all 184 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: just be body positive, that there should be no aspiration anymore, 185 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: that the meritocracy shouldn't exist, and that we should just 186 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 1: take people as they were and put them in ads. 187 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: And it failed utterly. And I was actually thinking about 188 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: this not only in the context of what American Eagle 189 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: is doing and how successful it already appears to be, 190 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: but in the way that society shifts. It feels quite 191 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: clear to me that we are trying to turn back 192 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: time and go back to the eighties, the nineties and 193 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: the early two thousands, after a generation where we tried 194 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: to pretend things were not real right, that your grandparents' 195 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: world didn't exist anymore, that your parents' world didn't exist anymore. 196 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: And now we're turning back the clock and going back 197 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: to the era of the eighties and nineties and even 198 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: the early two thousands, when by and large most people 199 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: got along. And I was thinking about this in the 200 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: context of social media, because I shared over this week 201 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: race relations suddenly collapsed about twenty fourteen, I'm saying, what 202 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: caused all this? Why did we suddenly decide, Hey, let's 203 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: put fat people in spandex, let's put fat people in 204 00:11:52,520 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: BRA's in the windows at Victoria's Secret. Social media. Social 205 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: media came close to breaking this country, and everything that 206 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: social media advocated for actually made things worse. Starting about 207 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, overall happiness in this country collapsed. Thirty percent 208 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: of teenage girls suddenly want to commit suicide. Why They're 209 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: looking at Instagram. They've got zits and braces and they're 210 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: looking at Instagram. They're like, I'm so unhappy. They're seeing 211 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: this world that doesn't actually exist. And it's not a 212 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: faraway world like celebrities have always existed. It's hey, whatever 213 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: your life is, somebody in your school has a way 214 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: better life. They went on a better vacation, They've got 215 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: a better car, they look better in that dress. Gratitude 216 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 1: is the enemy of competition, and suddenly everything is collapsing. 217 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: Black people, white people, Suddenly, race relations are collapsing. Why 218 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: BLM comes up and say, hey, the whole world's racist 219 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: cops are unnecessary? Murder rates skyrocket, violent crime skyrockets. All 220 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: of it I think is connected directly to social media, 221 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: and I think it broke the brains of lots of people, 222 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: and I think society as a whole is paying the price. 223 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 1: And we're slowly coming out of that fever and recognizing 224 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 1: that everything that happened before twenty fourteen was actually pretty 225 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: good in this country and we were on a good trajectory. 226 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: And I think what Trump represents is that acknowledgment that 227 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 1: America is the greatest country that's ever existed, and what 228 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: we were sold was a bill of goods. Now, I've 229 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 1: got a big theory on this. I think the problem 230 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: was people tried to be too responsive to social media. 231 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 1: Except social media is to real life. What a carnival 232 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: funhouse mirror is. You know, you stand in front of 233 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: a carnival funhouse mirror back in the day. It makes 234 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: you look fatter or skinnier than you actually are. It 235 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: isn't reflective of reality. But we all know that, and 236 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: that's what makes the carnival funhouse mirror makes sense because 237 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: it's humorous, because it's showing you what you actually aren't. 238 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: My argument is social media is the carnival funhouse mirror. 239 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: Imagine if you adjusted your diet entirely based on what 240 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: you saw in a carnival funhouse mirror, you would actually 241 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: be making worse decisions for yourself than if you had 242 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: never stood in front of the mirror at all. My 243 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: argument is we're starting to come out of that Carnival 244 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: funhouse mirror era because the nation as a whole looked 245 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: at the reflection we saw in social media and we 246 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: thought it was the real world, and we started adjusting 247 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: policy as a result. And I think it explains almost 248 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: everything over the past decade, and that's why we got 249 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: so much wrong, and that's why we're starting to fix 250 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: so much right now. I want to talk about that more. 251 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: We'll take some of your calls. Also want to tell 252 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: you the IFCJ does incredible work. 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Sometimes all you can 269 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: do is laugh, and they do a lot of it 270 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: with the Sunday Hang Join Clay and Buck as they 271 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: laugh it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed 272 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. 273 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I actually 274 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: go to some of these carnivals just to make my 275 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: analogy about the crazy mirror, the funhouse mirror, because I 276 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: don't know how many kids actually still go to funhouses. 277 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: So here's a challenge for you, if you want to 278 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: make that analogy really stick, take your kids to the 279 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: local state fair or the local county fair and find 280 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: one of those funhouses. Because I don't know how many 281 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: of them actually even understand that analogy. I think most 282 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: people growing up would have been in there at some point. 283 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: But I think if you stand in front of it 284 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: and say, hey, that's social media, get off your phone, knucklehead, 285 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: don't pay as much attention to it, they'll get it. 286 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: There you go, solving the world's problems. A bunch of 287 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: people want to weigh in. I'm going to play some 288 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: of these. Podcast listener Max, he's got a message for me. 289 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 2: Gg Clay, Bleeping Travis. This is Hunter bleeping Biden. How 290 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 2: dare you talk about mine bleeping dad that way? And 291 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 2: that's right. I cook my own bleeping cocaine and crack 292 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 2: and whatnot. Deal with it, man, bleep you. 293 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: That is great. Make me laugh with the talkbacks. Here 294 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: is podcast listener Tampa Todd FF. He can't believe I 295 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: compare Dwell listen. 296 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 3: Clay, what's up, brother, Tampa Todd? 297 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 2: Here? 298 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 3: Did you actually compare my favorite quarterback Kurt Warner of 299 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 3: all time to Hillary Clinton? 300 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 2: And listen? 301 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 3: I know Tom Brady is the greatest and Trump is 302 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 3: the greatest president. I get that analogy, but come on, man, 303 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 3: Kurt Warner, it's not Hillary Clinton. I'm a big Rams fan. 304 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 3: Go Rams anyway, great job with the show, Have a 305 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 3: good weekend and keep rocking. And let's hope this Russia 306 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 3: Gates stuff really takes off. 307 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: Apologies to Kurt Warner. That probably wasn't fair. But if 308 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 1: Tom Brady is the goat, somebody has to and that's Trump. 309 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: Somebody has to be Hillary, and I think it's got 310 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: to be Kurt Warner in that analogy. 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This 330 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: is the opposition. I don't know if Trump's gonna be 331 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: able to overcome the guys. Rashita to Leave just had 332 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: a press conference. This is what it sounded like. Well, 333 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: seeing people, this is off for you. This is real. 334 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: Come on, hey, I'm gonna get all the media together 335 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna bank some pots and drums, pots and pans, 336 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: not even drums. I could have played a flute. I 337 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: could have at least she could have at least gotten 338 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: me out there with my incredible flute playing skills to 339 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: try to get some attention on the Capitol steps. All right, 340 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: So I was talking about Sidney Sweeney and the way 341 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: that culture is pivoting in a big way, and I 342 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: think it's basic repudiating everything on the internet. Social media 343 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: for the last decade, which has actually made things worse. 344 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: And much of Trump two point zero is about reversing 345 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: the awful decisions that have been made over the last 346 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: decade as the woke virus has taken over. That's my 347 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: big thesis here. I also think it's time for culture 348 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: to go back to things that used to work. And 349 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: I was thinking about this a lot because unfortunately, Malcolm 350 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: Jamal Warner died this week, tragically drowned in Costa Rica. 351 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: He played THEO on The Cosby Show. And I think 352 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 1: The Cosby Show, because of the allegations against Bill Cosby, 353 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: has actually not been as widely distributed as it should 354 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: have been. You know, young kids today, they love friends. 355 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: They're going back and finding a lot of older shows 356 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: which are representative of how life was before they were around, 357 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 1: and they're envious of what they see there from the 358 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: eighties and the nineties. I have young kids. We have 359 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: been watching all the eighties and the nineties movies. They 360 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: love them. So America's good. Hey, there's an aspirational goal 361 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 1: to them sitcoms. I wanted to play this cut. This 362 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: is from The Cosby Show, going back in time to 363 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: I think nineteen eighty four, and I want to talk 364 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: about what we've lost and why I think we have 365 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: to regain it using the cultural prism of sitcoms. 366 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 2: Listen, Dad, when I wear this on my day with Christine, 367 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 2: Oh she is gonna die. 368 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 4: Un fence? Does it again? 369 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: How much is it? 370 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 2: See the label Gordon Guardtrail. 371 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: This is the shirt Gordon Guartrail. 372 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 2: This big design. Check out these details, hidden buttons, flap 373 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 2: on the back, two tone pockets. 374 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 4: Work of heart? 375 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 2: How much? What real thrill? Pure silk? 376 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 3: Are your hands clean? 377 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 2: Doctor's hands are always clean? 378 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: Why they're always washing them? 379 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 2: How much? How much? How much? Dad? If you want quality, 380 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 2: you have to pay for it. 381 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: Oh well there must be a pair of pants. 382 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 4: In there too. 383 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: Okay, that's a funny clip for those of you that 384 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: remember watching it. Ninety five dollars I looked it up. 385 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: Would be the equivalent of two hundred and fifty dollars 386 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 1: for a shirt today. But I wanted to talk about 387 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: this because I know there are people out there. We 388 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: have a big audience in la for instance, and I 389 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: wanted to talk about it because it tied in with 390 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: to me what I'm seeing with Sydney Sweeney and the 391 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: way that we are going back in terms of how 392 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: we're selling goods. Most of us, and I would put 393 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: this in my camp. In the nineteen eighties and nineteen 394 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: nineties when we grew up, we watched shows like The 395 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: Cosby Show. And The Cosby Show was a revolutionary show 396 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: because Bill Cosby's character was a doctor and Claire Huxtable, 397 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: his wife, was a lawyer. You had high powered dad 398 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: and mom, highly educated, raising families and dealing with the hijinks. 399 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: And the cultural importance of The Cosby Show was what 400 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: it showed us, which is all families, white, Black, Asian, 401 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: and Hispanic actually have way more in common than we 402 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: do a part. And I think this is so important. 403 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: I was thinking about it because I've been watching current 404 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: pop culture shows. There's almost no dads. Think about it 405 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: for a minute. There is almost no dad present in 406 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: a nuclear household, nuclear family household, in any pop culture 407 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: shows today. There are lots of strong moms, they tend 408 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: to be single moms, but in terms of pop culture, 409 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 1: just think about this. I grew up. Many of you 410 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 1: grew up either raising your kids or watching these shows yourselves. 411 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: The Cosby Show, Nuclear family, Fresh, Prince of bel Air, 412 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: Nuclear Family, Family Ties, Nuclear Family, Growing Pains, Nuclear Family, 413 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 1: Full House, Dad, Mom had died. Think about all of 414 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: the shows that we watched in the eighties and nineties, 415 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 1: Even while there was a lot of divorce out there, 416 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: we understood that the aspirational goal of a healthy household 417 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: was a dad at home raising kids. All of these 418 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: shows that I could run through as you think about 419 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: them in your own life, Family Matters, and I might 420 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: repeat some Growing Pains, Family Ties. All of the most 421 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: popular shows had dads at home with mom raising kids. Dads, 422 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: while they might have been the butt of the joke, 423 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: as oftentimes happens in sitcoms, were still integral tim Allen 424 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 1: with home improvement back in the day, even up to 425 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: Modern Family, where you had non traditional in some ways 426 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: family but also still very strong parenting father in the 427 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: household raising kids. Where is dad gone? Is it any 428 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 1: wonder that boys are struggling in society today when we have, 429 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: even in pop culture, eliminated all of the dads from 430 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: the stories that we tell on television. And I've said 431 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: this before, Buck and I have talked about this. Look, 432 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 1: there's lots of shows that I think if I had 433 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 1: billions of dollars and I ran a media company, I 434 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: would greenlight the Lewis and Clark Expedition show. Just make Undaunted, 435 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 1: courage the book into a huge streaming series. It would 436 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: be the most popular show in America. I'm telling you 437 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: if it was done well, going into American history finding 438 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: strong characters being successful, there's a huge demand for them. 439 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: I would submit to you because I asked about this 440 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: on social media. Yellowstone. Really the reason why Yellowstone was 441 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: such a huge success was Kevin Constoner's father figure. Look, 442 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: he's got a lot of flaws if you watch that 443 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: show spoiler alert, lots of murders, everything else, But innately, 444 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 1: what he's trying to do is hold the family together. 445 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: He's a strong male character. They almost don't exist in 446 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: the context of family today. Why Why has Hollywood written 447 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: men out of most of their comedic dramas and most 448 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,679 Speaker 1: of their movies and most of their streaming success shows. 449 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: And really is that representative of what America wants? Or 450 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: is it another example of the carnival funhouse mirror of 451 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: social media deciding that men are toxic white men in particular. 452 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking about this a lot because my new 453 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: book that's gonna come out called balls. Yes, balls, and 454 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: I'm raising three young boys. No one wants weak men. 455 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: If the culture creates weak men, then there are no 456 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: aspirational goals. And you can say, well, if you have 457 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: to look to television to raise your kids, you're jo Yeah, 458 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 1: I agree, that's not good. But you know what's worse 459 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: not having a male figure in your household and not 460 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: even having an aspirational father figure that you see on television. 461 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: You may think it's ridiculous, but I guarantee you there 462 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: were lots of young kids, black, white, Asian, Hispanic that 463 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: watched The Cosby Show back in the day and thought, 464 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: I want to one day be like Bill Cosby. I 465 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: want to be married and I want to have kids 466 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: in my house. And they thought, I want to be 467 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: like Tim the Toolman Taylor, or I want to be 468 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: on Home Improvement, or I want to be like Jason 469 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: sever on Growing Pains. I'm going to be the dad. 470 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to raise the kids. That's my job. I'm 471 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 1: going to provide for a family, and I'm going to 472 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: give them a better future than I had. That, guys, 473 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: is what men want. We are innately wired to provide 474 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: for a family. To protect a family. What happens when 475 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: you write men fathers out of all of the Hollywood stories, 476 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: you create weak men. You don't even create aspirational figures 477 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: that dad's young men can aspire to be. And it 478 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 1: feels very intentional to me. Looking at social media, you 479 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: would think men don't matter, dads are worthless. Moms are 480 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: celebrated all the time, and I wish no single mom 481 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: had to exist, because, trust me, I can only imagine 482 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: how hard it is to have to try to fulfill 483 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: both roles. And I wish there were no men that 484 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 1: walked out on homes all those things right, And I'm 485 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: not disparaging moms who are busting their ass having to 486 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: do two roles. But I just come back to one 487 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: of the and this is in the new book, but 488 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: I was thinking about it in the ACA THEO. I 489 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: was going back and watching old Cosby show clips. I 490 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: was thinking about it in that context. One of my 491 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: son's friends came in recently and he said, you know, 492 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: we're being taught that white men have all this power. 493 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: This is a couple of years ago, ten year old 494 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: kid and he's going off on, you know, just being 495 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: a funny kid. And he ultimately comes to the punchline, 496 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: which is basically this, mister Clay, they tell me that 497 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: boys and men we have all this power and everything else. 498 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: My mom doesn't even let me pick what I get 499 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: to eat for dinner. And imagine for those young boys 500 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: out there, what that disconnect is between, Hey, you're the 501 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: cause of all of the problems in America today. You men, 502 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: you're awful, and simultaneously you don't maybe have a father 503 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: figure in your household and you don't even see one 504 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: and pop culture, is it any wonder that young boys 505 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: are lost? And I just implored you, Hollywood, how about 506 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: just make a show where a dad is a dad 507 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: like they were throughout the eighties and the nineties two thousand. 508 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: Do not have to be a perfect dad, just a 509 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: dad so that people can see, Hey, this is what 510 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: I could aspire to be someday. I'd like to have 511 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: a family. I'd like to live in a household. I'd 512 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: like to get married and help raise kids. We used 513 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: to see that lifestyle all the time. It does not 514 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: exist now. That is a flaw, and I would submit 515 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 1: it's coming from the whole fallout of me too, which 516 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: basically went from hey, don't commit crimes to men or 517 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: evil men are wrong, and I think Hollywood followed that 518 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: on social media and intentionally wrote men out of starring 519 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: roles in the family Unit. So we got a lot 520 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: of people in LA listening to a lot of smart 521 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: people in the creative space. How about you just make 522 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,479 Speaker 1: a good, old fashioned sitcom with a good dad. It 523 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: dominated the ratings in the eighties and the nineties and 524 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: the early two thousands. I got a crazy idea for you. 525 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: I think you can dominate streaming in the twenty twenties 526 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: because people are desperate to see it. The world's not 527 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: as different as you want to think it is. Whether 528 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: it's putting a hot girl in jeans and a tank 529 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: top and starting to sell gear again like American Eagle 530 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: is doing, or just finding a great American dad, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic, 531 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: putting them into a sitcom and letting America recognize particularly 532 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: young boys. The biggest, most aspirational goal that you should 533 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: have is to one day be a good dad. Look, 534 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: I want to tell you, speaking of aspirational goals, I 535 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: wish my Braves weren't so awful. I wish that when 536 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: I watched the Atlanta Braves play I didn't have to. 537 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: In the back of my mind, think, boy, you know what, 538 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: I hope Ronald Acune has playing tonight because the team's 539 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: probably gonna lose, but at least he's gonna make a 540 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: bunch of big plays. He's fun, he's an unbelievable athlete. 541 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: Maybe you've reached that situation with your favorite Major League 542 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: Baseball team. You get to August. 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I 560 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: promise you're gonna have some fun. All you have to 561 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: do is go to pricepicks dot com. My name Clay, 562 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: that's pricepicks dot com. Code Clay. Keep up with the 563 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 1: biggest political comeback in world history on the Team forty 564 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 1: seven podcast play and book Highlight Trump. Free plays from 565 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: the week Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the 566 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio ASP or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back 567 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Please go subscribe to 568 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. We'll put up a bunch of these 569 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 1: clips from the show if you like them. I know 570 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: a lot of you reacting to what I just said about, Hey, 571 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 1: let's put some dads back in culture. And again, I 572 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: understand if you're responding, you're saying, well, if you have 573 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 1: to rely, yeah, I get it. In an ideal world, 574 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: what kids seeing culture would not impact them. I agree 575 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 1: it's far more important to learn from your own parents. 576 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: But what if you don't have a dad in your household, 577 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: maybe seeing somebody that is a dad could be aspirational 578 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 1: to you on a sitcom. 579 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 2: Look, the world. 580 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,320 Speaker 1: Didn't change in twenty fourteen when social media just arrived. 581 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 1: It is a carnival funhouse mirror going back to things 582 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 1: that worked in the eighties and nineties, in the early 583 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: two thousands, It's still gonna work today. I'm willing to 584 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 1: bet on it. Heck, my whole career has basically been 585 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:25,439 Speaker 1: a bet on it. A lot of people reacting. Let's 586 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 1: go to Tom in Tennessee. What you got for is Tom? Hh? 587 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 4: Hey, Clay, this is Tom and Tennessee. Let's not forget 588 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 4: about the fabulous Al Bundy with married with children, nuclear 589 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 4: family to the ends love. 590 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: Even when it was being played for laughs as the 591 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: Albundy character was, the dad was still home, Peg Bundy 592 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: was still there. I'm not saying that's the most ideal, 593 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,839 Speaker 1: even heck Homer Simpson, but dads were still all in 594 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 1: the story. Now they almost don't exist. Ronda, cedar Hill, Missouri. 595 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: What you got JJ? 596 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 3: Hi, Clay, This is Randa from Cedar Hill, Missouri. Loved 597 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 3: the show. Just thought i'd let you know my husband 598 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 3: now refers to low team men as flute players. I 599 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 3: love it, gotta love it. 600 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: Flute players. They're gonna come. I mean, at some point 601 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 1: in time, I'm gonna be dead and you're gonna be like, 602 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 1: who killed him? And the number one suspect is gonna 603 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: be some guy walking around with a flute. This is 604 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. They sent this to me. 605 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: I think it ties in with what we're just talking about. 606 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: Jay Leno, trying to explain why Colbert got canceled, says 607 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 1: nobody wants to be lectured to cut twenty good job 608 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 1: by the Reagan Institute. 609 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 5: Funny is funny people. You know, it's funny when someone 610 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 5: who is not when you make fun of their side 611 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,279 Speaker 5: and they laugh at it. I just find getting out. 612 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 5: I don't think anybody wants to hear a lecture, you know. 613 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,800 Speaker 5: To me, it's just when I was with Rodney. It 614 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,320 Speaker 5: was also the Economy Awards. Get to the joke was 615 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 5: quickly as high. Why shoot for just half an audience 616 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 5: all right time? You know, why not try to get 617 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 5: the whole? I mean, I like to bring people into 618 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 5: the big picture. I don't understand why you would alienate 619 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 5: one particular group you know, or just don't do it 620 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 5: at all. I'm not saying you have to throw your 621 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:21,320 Speaker 5: support or whatever, but just just do what's funny. 622 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 1: Amen, Just do what's funny. Just do maybe what's worked 623 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: for generations and look at what has worked in the 624 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 1: past and build new things on top of them. That's 625 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: kind of the way capitalism works. Maybe get back to it. 626 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: I love all of you. Have fabulous weekends. Please go 627 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 1: subscribe to the Clay and Buck YouTube channel. Videos of 628 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 1: everything we've been doing all week will be up. Be safe, 629 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,920 Speaker 1: have fun, Buck. We'll be back with me on Monday. 630 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: Thank y'all for listening.