1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. This is the best of with 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly came on and he dunked on us and said, hey, 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: I've got a million YouTube subscribers, And he wasn't even 5 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: trying to dunk on us. He was just kind of 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 2: just dropping it in there, like, Hey, no big deal, 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 2: million YouTube subscribers and we don't even have one hundred 8 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: thousand yet. And I don't know, I's still going to 9 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 2: be dunking on us at a million to one hundred thousand, 10 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: but at least it's a really bit more respectable. And 11 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 2: eventually we're going to have all three hours of the 12 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 2: show up on the site, and I would appreciate if 13 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: all of you would go and subscribe today. You type 14 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 2: in my name Clay Travis, you type in Buck Sexton. 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: You can get the latest videos. We're posting clips from 16 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 2: the show constantly if you want to be able to 17 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 2: share clips with maybe your kids are your grandkids, or 18 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: you are young yourself and you're out and about on 19 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 2: the road. Maybe you don't get to listen to the 20 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 2: show every day, but you think to yourself, boy, you 21 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: know what i'd really like to do I'd like to 22 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 2: see what t shirt Klay Travis is in today. The 23 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 2: only way you can do that is to be on YouTube. 24 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: Maybe you want to know what t shirt bucks in. 25 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 2: Only way you can do that is to be on YouTube. 26 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: So let's get over one hundred thousand subscribers and we 27 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 2: will make Buck do a TikTok dance for over one 28 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: hundred thousand at some point in time. And look, you 29 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 2: can just catch up with the show and you can 30 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 2: watch it on video. We want you to be subscribed 31 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 2: to the podcast as well. But this is crazy. I 32 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 2: was reading recently. This is why I've gotten so fired 33 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: up about the YouTube channel. More people now watch videos 34 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 2: of radio shows than actually listen to podcasts. Is that 35 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 2: kind of crazy? And I understand if maybe you're not 36 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 2: in that community that you're listening to the radio five 37 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five stations nationwide. We love all of you, 38 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 2: all fifty states, thank you. But people are busy. And 39 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 2: I was kind of blown away that more people watch 40 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: podcast video now then actually listen to podcast audio. So look, 41 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: we want to catch up with the where the world 42 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,679 Speaker 2: is going, and I would ask that you would go 43 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 2: and join us. It's free. Just click like and subscribe, 44 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 2: and you can put some questions in on the comments there, 45 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 2: and we're going to start to do YouTube focused videos 46 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 2: where we respond Buck and Eye to your questions and 47 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 2: you can only find that on YouTube. So go subscribe 48 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 2: Clay Travis buck Sexton, click subscribe and also like the channel. 49 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 2: So we appreciate all of you. Okay, I don't know 50 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 2: how many of you saw this, but I was over yesterday. 51 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: I was scrolling through and I don't even know how 52 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 2: the algorithm works, but somehow my social media algorithms saw 53 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 2: Sidney Sweeney in a tank top and tight jeans at 54 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 2: a car and they were like, hey, let's feed this 55 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: to Clay. I don't know what could I don't know 56 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: how that happened. I really, I have no idea how 57 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: algorithms work. I don't know why they thought a girl 58 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 2: in a tight shirt and tight jeans would somehow that 59 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 2: I would be like, oh, I'm gonna That video just 60 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 2: ended up on my timeline and it turned into a 61 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 2: huge story yesterday because a store called American Eagle decided 62 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: that they were going to sign Sidney Sweeney as their 63 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:29,519 Speaker 2: chief spokesperson, and this thing went megaviral. The stock was 64 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 2: up like a couple one hundred million dollars since they've 65 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 2: announced it, and I was laughing about it because basically, 66 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 2: the very first job I ever had was working in 67 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: an American Eagle clothing store and yesterday going viral somehow. 68 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 2: I don't know how it ended up on my timeline. Again, 69 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 2: I don't know how algorithms work. I don't know why 70 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: they thought that I would be interested in an attractive 71 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: woman and not very much clothes. 72 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 3: I don't know how that happened. 73 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: But so Sidney Sweeney stock is skyrocketing, thing goes megaviral 74 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: somehow ends up on my timeline for my very first 75 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 2: job when I was like sixteen years old. And you 76 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 2: know what they've decided to do. They replaced fat, unattractive 77 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 2: models with attractive models. And you're gonna think this is ridiculous, 78 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 2: but I actually think it's evidence. 79 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: Of the culture healing. 80 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 2: And let me explain why, and I'll share some funny 81 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 2: stories about that job that I used to have back 82 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 2: in the day. But do you remember when a few 83 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 2: years ago, Victoria's Secret decided, Hey, I know the whole 84 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 2: Victoria's Secret model thing. You walk it by in a 85 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 2: mall and they have a gorgeous woman not wearing very 86 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,799 Speaker 2: much clothes, and it turns out that putting gorgeous women 87 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 2: in not very much clothes convinces women to go buy 88 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,679 Speaker 2: more underwear than they otherwise would and like body lotion 89 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 2: and whatever else Victoria's Secret, it sells. And I'm not 90 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 2: putting myself out of this category either. My wife still 91 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 2: makes fun of me. I watched the Victorious Secret, uh, 92 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 2: like the Christmas special that they have, and then I 93 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 2: went and bought like two hundred dollars of lingerie like 94 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 2: the next day, So yes, I am susceptible to advertising. 95 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 2: My wife was like, I like, you bought everything in 96 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: the whole store. Basically, I was a lot. I think 97 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 2: you're gonna look amazing in it. And she was like, 98 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 2: you watched the Victorious Secret fashion show, didn't you? And 99 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 2: I said yes, and it was incredibly useful. And there's 100 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 2: a lot of men out there that know exactly what 101 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 2: I'm talking about, Like you see an attractive girl in 102 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 2: that outfit and you're like, I want my wife or 103 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: my girlfriend in that attractive outfit. Boom. It works because advertising, 104 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: by and large is aspirational. People want to look better 105 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: than they actually do you ever watch a romantic comedy. 106 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 2: It's never the case that the guy and the girl 107 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 2: in the romantic comedy are both ugly, because nobody would go. 108 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 2: I don't know why. You just don't believe that two 109 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 2: really fat people should get together and space money to 110 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 2: go watch it. You want to watch a guy that's 111 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: typically sometimes better looking than you, a woman who's always 112 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 2: better looking than the guy deserves. That is like the 113 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 2: romantic comedy writ large and Hollywood knows it, and that's 114 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 2: why it works. Somehow, Victoria's Secret decided, you know what, 115 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 2: I think we'll sell more lingerie if we put fat 116 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 2: people in lingerie. I just got to tell you it 117 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 2: didn't work. In fact, the company almost went bankrupt. And 118 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 2: then they went back and they said, hey, you know what, 119 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 2: we should put more attractive people in our clothes, because 120 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 2: people want to think that they're going to look more attractive. 121 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 2: I'm fat and not particularly good looking. I don't see 122 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 2: somebody in the underwear store and think, hey, I want 123 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 2: them to look like me. I wish I was in 124 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 2: better shape. I wish I was more ripped. That's how 125 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 2: everybody is. Okay, So American Eagle, where I used to 126 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 2: work they went with the fat model thing, and basically 127 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: the entire brand collapsed. And so now they're they're pivoting, 128 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: and they should fire everybody who said, Hey, you know 129 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 2: what we need fat models, unattractive women. Nike did the 130 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 2: same thing. Hey let's put Dylan mulvaney in a sports bra. Hey, 131 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 2: let's put fat people in yoga pants. That'll make people 132 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: want to buy yoga pants. No, it doesn't work. Okay, 133 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 2: throughout history, attractive people, women in particular in clothing makes 134 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: people want to buy more clothing. So Sidney Sweeney is 135 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 2: now the spokesperson for American Eagle, and this happens almost 136 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 2: identical with Nike suddenly deciding, did you guys see Scotty 137 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 2: Scheffler won the British Open, the Open golf championship over 138 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 2: the weekend. His insanely cute toddler kid, he's like ten 139 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: months old, eleven months old, roughly a year old, was 140 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 2: crawling around on the green and Nike's new advertisement replacing 141 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 2: trans people in women's gear men pretending to be women 142 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 2: and fat people in yoga pants is Scotty Scheffler with 143 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 2: his son crawling, and it basically, as you've already won, 144 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 2: but now you've won again. Hey, fatherhood is good. It's 145 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 2: good to aspire to win a championship, But ultimately, the 146 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 2: most important job, I certainly feel this way, is when 147 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 2: you have kids, raising them to be productive members of society. 148 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 2: So looking at that Sydney Sweeney ad, because again I 149 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 2: don't know how it happened, but it ended up in 150 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 2: my timeline, and it's reminding me of the nineties when 151 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: I worked in the American Eagle store and in the 152 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 2: Abercrombie and Fitch store. Back in the day, I made 153 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 2: four dollars and fifty cents an hour at American Eagle 154 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 2: Rivergate Mall, Goodletsville, Tennessee. Four dollars and fifty cents an hour. 155 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 2: Probably the most fun job I've ever had, because I 156 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 2: was sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old and all I had 157 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 2: to do all day long was fold shirts and talk 158 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 2: to pretty girls when they walked into the store. I 159 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 2: had an excuse to talk to every pretty girl on 160 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 2: the North and the East side of Nashville that came 161 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 2: to Rivergate Mall. In fact, if you are listening to 162 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: this right now in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, if you were a 163 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 2: cute girl that went into that store between nineteen ninety 164 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 2: six and nineteen ninety nine. There's almost one hundred percent 165 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 2: chance I hit on you because I had an excuse 166 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 2: to walk up and talk to you. That was the 167 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: best job ever. Four dollars and fifty cents. Got to 168 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: eat Chick fil A every day for lunch, on my 169 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 2: lunch break or my dinner break. Got to just hang 170 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 2: out in the mall. Every teenager in America is there 171 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 2: at that point in time. And do you know how 172 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,559 Speaker 2: they sold gear at both American Eagle and Abercrombie and Fitch. 173 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 2: Good looking people in the ads, wearing the clothes. And 174 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 2: then we entered this weird world, this weird world where 175 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 2: we were supposed to pretend that, hey, instead of everybody 176 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 2: aspiring to be bigger, stronger, faster versions of themselves or 177 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: in better shape versions of themselves, that we sh all 178 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 2: just be body positive, that there should be no aspiration anymore, 179 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 2: that the meritocracy shouldn't exist, and that we should just 180 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 2: take people as they were and put them in ads. 181 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: And it failed utterly. And I was actually thinking about this, 182 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 2: not only in the context of what American Eagle is 183 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 2: doing and how successful it already appears to be, but 184 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 2: in the way that society shifts, it feels quite clear 185 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 2: to me that we are trying to turn back time 186 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 2: and go back to the eighties, the nineties, and the 187 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 2: early two thousands, after a generation where we tried to 188 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 2: pretend things were not real right, that your grandparents' world 189 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 2: didn't exist anymore, that your parents' world didn't exist anymore. 190 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 2: And now we're turning back the clock and going back 191 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 2: to the era of the eighties and nineties and even 192 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 2: the early two thousands, when by and large most people 193 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: got along. And I was thinking about this in the 194 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 2: context of social media because I shared over this week 195 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 2: race relations suddenly collapsed about twenty fourteen. I'm saying, what 196 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: caused all this? Why did we suddenly decide, Hey, let's 197 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 2: put fat people in spandex, Let's put fat people in 198 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 2: bras in the windows at Victoria's Secret social media? Social 199 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 2: media came close to breaking this country, and everything that 200 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 2: social media advocated for actually made things worse. Starting about 201 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, overall happiness in this country collapsed. Thirty percent 202 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 2: of teenage girls suddenly want to commit suicide. Why they're 203 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 2: looking at Instagram? They've got zits and braces, and they're 204 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 2: looking at Instagram. They're like, I'm so unhappy. They're seeing 205 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 2: this world that doesn't actually exist, and it's not a 206 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 2: faraway world like celebrities have always existed. It's hey, whatever 207 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 2: your life is, somebody in your school has a way 208 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 2: better life. They went on a better vacation, They've got 209 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 2: a better car, they look better in that dress. Gratitude 210 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 2: is the enemy of competition. And suddenly everything is collapsing. 211 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,319 Speaker 2: Black people, white people, Suddenly, race relations are collapsing. Why 212 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 2: BLM comes up and says, Hey, the whole world's racist 213 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 2: cops are unnecessary. Murder rates skyrocket, violent crime skyrockets. All 214 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 2: of it I think is connected directly to social media, 215 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 2: and I think it broke the brains of lots of people, 216 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 2: and I think society as a whole is paying the price. 217 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 2: And we're slowly coming out of that fever and recognizing 218 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 2: that everything that happened before twenty fourteen was actually pretty 219 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 2: good in this country and we were on a good trajectory. 220 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 2: And I think what Trump represents is that acknowledgment that 221 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 2: America is the greatest country that's ever existed, and what 222 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 2: we were sold was a bill of goods. 223 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 4: Now. 224 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 2: I've got a big theory on this. I think the 225 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: problem was people tried to be too responsive to social media, 226 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 2: except social media is to real life. What a carnival 227 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 2: funhouse mirror is. You know, you stand in front of 228 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 2: a carnival funhouse mirror back in the day. It makes 229 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 2: you look fatter or skinnier than you actually are. It 230 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 2: isn't reflective of reality. But we all know that, and 231 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 2: that's what makes the carnival funhouse mirror makes sense because 232 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 2: it's humorous, because it's showing you what you actually aren't. 233 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 2: My argument is social media is the carnival funhouse mirror. 234 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 2: Imagine if you adjusted your diet entirely based on what 235 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 2: you saw in a Carnival funhouse mirror, you would actually 236 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 2: be making worst decisions for yourself than if you had 237 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 2: never stood in front of the mirror at all. My 238 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 2: argument is we're starting to come out of that Carnival 239 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 2: funhouse mirror era because the nation as a whole looked 240 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 2: at the reflection we saw in social media and we 241 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: thought it was the real world, and we started adjusting 242 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 2: policy as a result. And I think it explains almost 243 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 2: everything over the past decade, and that's why we got 244 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 2: so much wrong, and that's why we're starting to fix 245 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 2: so much. 246 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: Right now, you're listening to the best of Clay Travis 247 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: and buck Sexton. 248 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 2: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I actually 249 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 2: go to some of these carnivals just to make my 250 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 2: analogy about the crazy mirror, the funhouse mirror, because I 251 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 2: don't know how many kids actually still go to funhouses. 252 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 2: So here's a challenge for you, if you want to 253 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 2: make that analogy really stick, take your kids to the 254 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 2: local state fair or the local county fair and find 255 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 2: one of those funhouses, because I don't know how many 256 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 2: of them actually even understand that analogy. I think most 257 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 2: people growing up would have been in there at some point. 258 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 2: But I think if you stand in front of it 259 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 2: and say, hey, that's social media, get off your phone, knucklehead, 260 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 2: don't pay as much attention to it, they'll get it. 261 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 2: There you go, solving the world's problems. A bunch of 262 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: people want to weigh in. I'm gonna play some of 263 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: these podcast Listener, Max, He's got a message for me. 264 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 5: Clay Bleepin' Travis, This is Hunter bleeping Biden. 265 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: How dare you talk about mine bleeping dad that way? 266 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 6: And that's right. 267 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: I cook my own bleeping cocaine and crack and whatnot. 268 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: Deal with it, man, bleep you that is great. 269 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 2: Make me laugh with the talkbacks. Here is podcast listener 270 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 2: Tampa Todd FF. He can't believe I compare d Well listen. 271 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 4: Clay, what's up, brother, Tampa Todd? 272 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 7: Here? 273 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 4: Did you actually compare my favorite quarterback Kurt Warner of 274 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 4: all time to Hillary Clinton? And listen, I know Tom 275 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 4: Brady's the greatest and Trump is the greatest president. I 276 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 4: get that analogy, but come on, man, it's not Hillary Clinton. 277 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 4: I'm a big Rams fan. 278 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 3: Go Rams. 279 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 4: Anyway, Great job with the show, have a good weekend, 280 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 4: and keep rocking. And let's hope this Russia Gates stuff 281 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 4: really takes off. 282 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 2: Apologies to Kurt Warner. That probably wasn't fair. But if 283 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 2: Tom Brady is the goat, somebody has to and that's Trump. 284 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 2: Somebody has to be Hillary, and I think it's gotta 285 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 2: be Kurt Warner. In that analogy. 286 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: You're listening to the best of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 287 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 2: Let's check in and see how the opposition to Trump 288 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 2: is going Rashita to leeb Is on the steps of 289 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 2: the US Capital. This is what it sounds like. 290 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 3: How, seeing people, this is off for you? 291 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 2: Did we play that again one more time? Here? This 292 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 2: is the opposition. I don't know if Trump's gonna be 293 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 2: able to overcome the guys. Rashita to leave. Just had 294 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 2: a press conference. This is what it sounded like. 295 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 5: Well, seeing people, this is off for you? 296 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 2: This is real. Come on, hey, I'm gonna get all 297 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 2: the media together and I'm gonna bang some pots and drums, 298 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 2: pots and pans, not even drums. I could have played 299 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 2: a flute. I could have at least she could have 300 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 2: at least gotten me out there with my incredible flute 301 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 2: playing skills to try to get some attention on the 302 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 2: Capitol steps. All right, So I was talking about Sidney 303 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 2: Sweeney and the way that culture is pivoting in a 304 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 2: big way, and I think it's basically repudiating everything on 305 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 2: the internet social media for the last decade, which has 306 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 2: actually made things worse. And much of Trump two point 307 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 2: zero is about reversing the awful decisions that have been 308 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 2: made over the last decade as the woke virus has 309 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 2: taken over. That's my big thesis here. I also think 310 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 2: it's time for culture to go back to things that 311 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 2: used to work. And I was thinking about this a 312 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 2: lot because unfortunately, Malcolm Jamal Warner died this week, tragically 313 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 2: drowned in Costa Rica. He played THEO on The Cosme Show. 314 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 2: And I think the Cosm Show, because of the allegations 315 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 2: against Bill Cosby, has actually not been as widely distributed 316 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 2: as it should have been. You know, young kids today, 317 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 2: they love friends. They're going back and finding a lot 318 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 2: of older shows which are representative of how life was 319 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 2: before they were around, and they're envious of what they 320 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 2: see there from the eighties and the nineties. I have 321 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 2: young kids. We have been watching all the eighties and 322 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 2: the nineties movies. They love them. So America's good. Hey, 323 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 2: there's an aspirational goal to them sitcoms. I wanted to 324 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 2: play this cut. This is from The Cosby Show, going 325 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 2: back in time to I think nineteen eighty four, and 326 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 2: I want to talk about what we've lost and why 327 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 2: I think we have to regain it using the cultural 328 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 2: prism of sitcoms. 329 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 3: Listen, Dad, when I were the Summer Day with Christine. 330 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: Oh she is gonna die un friends does it again? 331 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 3: How much is see the label Gordon Guardtrail. 332 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 5: This is the shirt. 333 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: Gordon Gartrail is a big designer. 334 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 4: Check out these details, hidden buttons, flap on the back, 335 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 4: two tone. 336 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 3: Pockets, work of art. 337 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 4: How much? 338 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: What's real? Thrill? 339 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 3: Pure silk? 340 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 4: Are your hands clean? 341 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 3: Doctor's hands are always clean? 342 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: You know why they're always washing them? 343 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 4: How much? 344 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 3: How much? 345 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: How much? 346 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 4: Dad? 347 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 3: If you want quality, you're gonna have to pay for it. 348 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: Or well, there must be a pair of pants in 349 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 2: there too. Okay, that's a funny clip for those of 350 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 2: you that remember watching it. Ninety five dollars I looked 351 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 2: it up, would be the equivalent of two hundred and 352 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 2: fifty dollars for a shirt today. But I wanted to 353 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 2: talk about this because I know there are people out there. 354 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 2: We have a big in LA, for instance, and I 355 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 2: wanted to talk about it because it tied in with 356 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 2: to me what I'm seeing with Sidney Sweeney and the 357 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 2: way that we are going back in terms of how 358 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 2: we're selling goods. Most of us and I would put 359 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 2: this in my camp. In the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties, 360 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 2: when we grew up, we watched shows like The Cosby show, 361 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 2: and The Cosby Show was a revolutionary show because Bill 362 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 2: Cosby's character was a doctor and Claire Huxtable, his wife, 363 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 2: was a lawyer. You had a high powered dad and mom, 364 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:36,719 Speaker 2: highly educated, raising families and dealing with the hygiens. And 365 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 2: the cultural importance of The Cosby Show was what it 366 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 2: showed us, which is all families, white, Black, Asian, and 367 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 2: Hispanic actually have way more in common than we do 368 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 2: a part. And I think this is so important. I 369 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 2: was thinking about it because I've been watching current pop 370 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 2: culture shows. There's almost no dads. Think about it for 371 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 2: a minute. There is almost no dad present in a 372 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: nuclear household, nuclear family household, in any pop culture shows today. 373 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 2: There are lots of strong moms. They tend to be 374 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 2: single moms. But in terms of pop culture, just think 375 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 2: about this. 376 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:19,479 Speaker 1: I grew up. 377 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 2: Many of you grew up either raising your kids or 378 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 2: watching these shows yourselves. The Cosby Show, Nuclear Family, Fresh, 379 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 2: Prince of bel Air, Nuclear Family Family Ties, Nuclear Family 380 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 2: Growing Pains, Nuclear Family, Full House, Dad mom had died. 381 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 2: Think about all of the shows that we watched in 382 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 2: the eighties and nineties. Even while there was a lot 383 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 2: of divorce out there, we understood that the aspirational goal 384 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 2: of a healthy household was a dad at home raising kids. 385 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 2: All of these shows that I could run through as 386 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 2: you think about them in your own life, family matters, 387 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 2: and I might repeat some Growing Pains Family ties. All 388 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 2: of the most popular shows had dads at home with 389 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 2: mom raising kids. Dads, while they might have been the 390 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 2: butt of the joke, as oftentimes happens in sitcoms, were 391 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 2: still integral Tim Allen with Home Improvement back in the day, 392 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 2: even up to Modern Family, where you had non traditional 393 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 2: in some ways family but also still very strong parenting 394 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 2: father in the household raising kids. Where is dad gone? 395 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: Is it any. 396 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 2: Wonder that boys are struggling in society today when we have, 397 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 2: even in pop culture, eliminated all of the dads from 398 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 2: the stories that we tell on television. And I've said 399 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 2: this before, Buck and I have talked about this. Look, 400 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 2: there's lots of shows that I think if I had 401 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 2: millions of dollars and I ran a media company, I 402 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 2: would greenlight the Lewis and Clark Expedition show, just make 403 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 2: Undaunted Courage the book into a huge streaming series. It 404 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 2: would be the most popular show in America. I'm telling 405 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 2: you if it was done well, going into American history 406 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 2: finding strong characters being successful, there's a huge demand for them. 407 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 2: I would submit to you because I asked about this 408 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 2: on social media. Yellowstone. Really the reason why Yellowstone was 409 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 2: such a huge success was Kevin Consoner's father figure. Look, 410 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 2: he's got a lot of flaws if you watch that 411 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 2: show spoiler alert, lots of murders, everything else, But innately, 412 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 2: what he's trying to do is hold the family together. 413 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 2: He's a strong male character. They almost don't exist in 414 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 2: the context of family today. Why Why has Hollywood written 415 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 2: men out of most of their comedic dramas and most 416 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 2: of their movies and most of their streaming success shows. 417 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 2: And really is that representative of what America wants? Or 418 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 2: is it another example of the carnival funhouse mirror of 419 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,199 Speaker 2: social media deciding that men are toxic white men in particular. 420 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 2: And I'm thinking about this a lot because my new 421 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 2: book that's gonna come out called Balls, Yes, Balls, and 422 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 2: I'm raising three young boys. No one wants weak men. 423 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 2: But if the culture creates weak men, then there are 424 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: no aspirational goals. And you can say, well, if you 425 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,239 Speaker 2: have to look to television to raise your kids. You're 426 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 2: joy Yeah, I agree, that's not good. But you know 427 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 2: what's worse not having a male figure in your household 428 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 2: and not even having an aspirational father figure that you 429 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 2: see on television. You may think it's ridiculous, but I 430 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 2: guarantee you there were lots of young kids, black, white, Asian, 431 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 2: Hispanic that watched The Cosby Show back in the day 432 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 2: and thought, I want to one day be like Bill Cosby. 433 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 2: I want to be married and I want to have 434 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 2: kids in my house. And they thought, I want to 435 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 2: be like Tim the Toolman Taylor, or I want to 436 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 2: be on Home Improvement, or I want to be like 437 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 2: Jason sever on Growing Pains. I'm going to be the dad. 438 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 2: I'm going to raise the kids. That's my job. I'm 439 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 2: going to provide for a family, and I'm going to 440 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 2: give them a better future than I had. That, guys, 441 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 2: is what men want. We are innately wired to provide 442 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 2: for a family, to protect a family. What happens when 443 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 2: you write men fathers out of all of the Hollywood stories, 444 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 2: you create weak men. You don't even create aspirational figures 445 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 2: that dad's young men can aspire to be. And it 446 00:25:54,359 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 2: feels very intentional to me, looking at social media, you 447 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 2: would think men don't matter, dads are worthless, moms are 448 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 2: celebrated all the time, and I wish no single mom 449 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 2: had to exist, because, trust me, I can only imagine 450 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 2: how hard it is to have to try to fulfill 451 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,439 Speaker 2: both roles. And I wish there were no men that 452 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 2: walked out on homes all those things right, And I'm 453 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 2: not disparaging moms who are busting their ass having to 454 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 2: do two roles. But I just come back to one 455 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 2: of the kids, and this is in the new book, 456 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 2: but I was thinking about it in the bake of THEO. 457 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 2: I was going back and watching old Cosby show clips. 458 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 2: I was thinking about it in that context. One of 459 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 2: my son's friends came in recently and he said, you know, 460 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 2: we're being taught that white men have all this power. 461 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 2: This is a couple of years ago, ten year old 462 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 2: kid and he's going off on, you know, just being 463 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 2: a funny kid, and he ultimately comes to the punchline, 464 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 2: which is basically this, mister Clay, they tell me that 465 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 2: boys and men we have all this power and everything else. 466 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 2: My mom doesn't even let me pick what I get. 467 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 3: To eat for dinner. 468 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,360 Speaker 2: And imagine for those young boys out there, what that 469 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 2: disconnect is between, Hey, you're the cause of all of 470 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 2: the problems in America today. You men, you're awful, and 471 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 2: simultaneously you don't maybe have a father figure in your 472 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 2: household and you don't even see one in pop culture. 473 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 2: Is it any wonder that young boys are lost? And 474 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 2: I just implore you, Hollywood, how about just make a 475 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 2: show where a dad is a dad like they were 476 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 2: throughout the eighties and the nineties two thousands. Not have 477 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 2: to be a perfect dad, just a dad so that 478 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 2: people can see, Hey, this is what I could aspire 479 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 2: to be someday. I'd like to have a family. I'd 480 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 2: like to live in a household. I'd like to get 481 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 2: married and help her a kids. We used to see 482 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 2: that lifestyle all the time. It does not exist now. 483 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,719 Speaker 2: That is a flaw, and I would submit it's coming 484 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 2: from the whole fallout of Me Too, which basically went 485 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 2: from hey, don't commit crimes to men or evil men 486 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 2: are wrong? And I think Hollywood followed that on social 487 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 2: media and intentionally wrote men out of starring roles in 488 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 2: the family unit. So we got a lot of people 489 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 2: in la listening to a lot of smart people in 490 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 2: the creative space. How about you just make a good, 491 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 2: old fashioned sitcom with a good dad. It dominated the 492 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 2: ratings in the eighties and the nineties and the early 493 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 2: two thousands. I got a crazy idea for you. I 494 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 2: think you can dominate streaming in the twenty twenties because 495 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 2: people are desperate to see it. The world's not as 496 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 2: different as you want to think it is. Whether it's 497 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 2: putting a hot girl in jeans and a tank top 498 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 2: and starting to sell gear again like America An Eagle 499 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: is doing, or just finding a great American dad, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic, 500 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: putting them into a sitcom and letting America recognize particularly 501 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 2: young boys. The biggest, most aspirational goal that you should 502 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 2: have is to one day be. 503 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: A good day. You're enjoying the best of program with 504 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 505 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 2: Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. 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My book got delayed by 524 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 6: six months and then a whole year basically because of 525 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 6: the CIA review process. That's a conversation for another time. 526 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 6: But the good news is there's some cool CIA stories 527 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 6: in there that I finally can tell you for the 528 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 6: first time in the book. 529 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 3: So there you go, and they will both be out. 530 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 2: You'll be able to get those autograph copies through Crockett Coffee. 531 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 2: So in the meantime, my old book new one will 532 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 2: be out November, then another new one from Buck in January. 533 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 2: Great stuff, Buck, you'll love this. You were out. I 534 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 2: talked about growing up. Unfortunately we lost Malcolm Jamal Warner 535 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 2: aka THEO Huxtable and the Hulk Hogan for if you 536 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 2: were in the eighties, like two iconic figures of any 537 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 2: of our youths. 538 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 6: I when I was ten years old, I think the 539 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 6: coolest guy on the planet to me was my dad, 540 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 6: and then Hulk Hogan may have been number two. 541 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 3: It was like my dad and then Hulk Hogan, Like 542 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 3: I think that might have been the list. 543 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 2: I'm impressed that your dad was above Hulk Cogan because 544 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,239 Speaker 2: Hulk Hogan was I think my dad was above hul 545 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 2: Coogan too. 546 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 3: But I mean the putting food on the table for us. 547 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 6: As much as I love the Hulk of Maniacs and 548 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 6: all you know, someone one was feeding us, one was not. 549 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 2: You will think about this now more. I think now 550 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 2: that you're a dad and you start to watch more 551 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 2: shows as your son gets older. But I went off 552 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 2: because thinking about The Cosby Show and all the eighties 553 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 2: and nineties sitcoms, the fact that there are not strong 554 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 2: dad figures in basically anywhere in pop culture, and a 555 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 2: lot of people reacted to that. Steve and Cincinnati wanted 556 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 2: to react. 557 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 5: Here's aa hey, your Friday Third Hour was really powerful 558 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 5: and spot on when you're comparing the nuclear family shows 559 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 5: in the eighties, even the dysfunctional families were great to watch. 560 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 5: Think about like Roseanne married with children. Even the Simpsons 561 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 5: had a dad in the house. Yes, the butt of 562 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 5: the jokes, but a dad, a working dad in the house, 563 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 5: providing for his family. 564 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 3: Keep up the good word, Clay, and welcome back, Buck. 565 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 6: Thank you good I just I agree that Homer Simpson, 566 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 6: though you love Homer even though he gets made fun 567 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 6: of a lot. 568 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 2: All the dads are there, the other one, Carl Winslow 569 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 2: family matters, White, black didn't matter. 570 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 3: Carl Winslow reaction. 571 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 7: BB here listening to your bit here on where have 572 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 7: all the dads gone? And I'll fitcom dads and how 573 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 7: great they were in the nineties. And I'm a white 574 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 7: male and I used to think Carl Winslow is like 575 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 7: the best dad in the world and a great role model. 576 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 7: I think we need that back on television again. 577 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. 578 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 6: I love I love the show Family Matters. But I 579 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 6: watch Family Matters all the time. 580 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 2: I think, and you'll, I think, sign on to this. 581 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 2: Dad's in a sitcom nuclear face. Family is ripe. People 582 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 2: desperately want it.