August 6, 2025 • 40 mins
There is ongoing controversy over actress Sydney Sweeney’s jeans advertising campaign for American Eagle. The ad campaign’s tagline, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” has Americans split over the ad’s wordplay. Critics of the ad say it promotes eugenics whereas American Eagle and supporters say it’s always been about the jeans. According to a YouGov Poll asking over 3K U.S. adults about the ad, a majority with 52% believe the wordplay in the ad is appropriate, whereas 16% found it inappropriate and 32% were undecided. Are we experiencing a cultural shift?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Radio all right business story that I don't think anyone
could have missed in the last few days.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It's a story about a very attractive young woman named
Sidney Sweeney. She is, she's got a movie I you know,
I don't follow a lot of the movie stars and
all that. I don't know if she's a movie star,
but you're an attractive young woman. And she posted an ad.
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Actually she agreed to advertise blue jeans, kind of a
very American product. Blue jeans. I remember during the Cold
War that one of the things that was really contraband
in Eastern Europe. And I was in Eastern Europe before
the Wall fell in nineteen eighty six, and if you
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could get a pair of blue jeans, I mean, that
was really something, okay, that epitomized America during the Cold War.
So blue jeans have always been very very American, you know,
represents the country, represents people who work with their hands
on farms. And so Sidney Sweeney has become the spokesperson
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for a company called American Eagle. I think it's a
longer name than that on the Stock Exchange, anyone Anyway,
I knew of her name. I knew that she's an
attractive young woman, and doesn't surprise me that like Brookshield
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before her, and you know Sidney Crawford and you know
various people. As a matter of fact, Beyonce has a
a blue jeen ad. Now, I think for one of
the competitors, Levi. But again, these are these are the
young people you know often in the music or in
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the movie industry, or in sports, that people look up to.
I think there was some publicity of Cindy. She and
Cindy Sweeney excuse me, was at the wedding of Jeff Bezos,
the Post editor over and I think it was Florence,
maybe it was Venice. It was one of those beautiful
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Italian cities. And I guess, you know, he invited it
was like a twenty million dollar wedding or whatever. He
invited all of the glitterati, including Tom Brady, and Brady
apparently was out on the dance floor with Sidney Sweeney.
Well hey, you know, well anyway, so she did this
ad and it was a you know, typical a blue
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gene ad. I mean, what do you think a blue
jeen ad is going to emphasize if you can, if
you can, guess, I think you'll figure it out. Blue jeans, right,
I mean, a car ad emphasizes the car, a beer
commercial emphasizes beer. Blue jeans ad emphasizes blue jeans. Now,
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who do you put in the blue jeans? Sidney Sweeney? Okay,
she wears the blue jeans very well. She's young, attractive woman,
and she's selling blue jeans not only to women who
want to look like Sidney Sweeney or want to wear
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blue jeans that might make them look like Sidney Sweeney,
or to guys who might like blue jeans as well,
and they will buy blue jeans because Sidney Sweety says,
buy blue jeans. So the the ad I thought was
clever talked about there was some reference to her genes,
her g E n E S genes, just like all
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of us. She has good genes. Okay, she has kept
herself in shape. I'm assuming that you know she inherited
good genes. Okay, A lot of people don't inherit good genes.
Nobody inherits perfect genes. To the best of my knowledge.
Baseball players, great baseball players. They the Red Sox have
some of them right now. They their eyesight is superior
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to the average person's eyesight because they got to hit
a baseball move in ninety nine miles an hour, or
a slider that falls off the table, or a sweeper
or whatever. So it's it's as simple as that. It
is really as simple as that. But to the American left,
nothing is simple these days, nothing is simple. So if
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you have seen the commercial, great, If you haven't, I
can't show it to you now. I can't imagine you
would have missed it. But I can play a little
bit of the commercials. I guess there was two or
three in this in the set of commercials. So without
any further ado, this is Sydney Sweeney twenty two, a rob.
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Listen carefully.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm not here to tell you to buy American eagle chains,
and I definitely won't say that they're the most comfortable
chins I've ever worn, or that they make your butt
look amazing. I'm going to need to do that. But
if you said that you want to buy the jeans,
I'm not gonna stop you. But as we're clear, this
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is not me telling you to buy American egle chens.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Sydney Sweeney has very keen you see what I did there, right,
So there's a play on words. She's using this. Uh
you know, I don't know an orange new sexy voice
or whatever. Okay, and I have one other shorter version
here just to give you a sense of it. The
video supports the script. I mean she wears her blue jeans. Well, okay,
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I don't want to say anything that's inappropriate, but she
knows how to wear her blue jeans. She's been blessed
with good jeans, not only her jeans, but her blue jeans.
So that's that's it. Okay, here's twenty two B. This
is a little shorter, but this is Sidney Sweeney another cut.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Jeans are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining
traits like her color, personality, and even eye color.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
My jeans are.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Blue, Sydney's Tweeny Hasbery Kenes. Now, there are some progressors
who have lost their mind, and to them this is
nothing more than Nazi propaganda. She happens to have blue eyes,
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so her jeans are blue. Her gens that she inherited
blue eyes, and her jeans are blue. Now, look, there's
a lot of products out there that are advertised by
attractive people, handsome men, attractive women, whatever however you want. Okay,
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but the left has lost their mind. It's almost as
if progressives are in a political suicide pact. It's almost like,
you know, James Jones, Reverend Jim Jones that have drunk
the kool aid, and the kool aid tells them that.
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And then when they found out that Sydney Sweeney, I
think she's twenty five. I could be wrong. I think
she's twenty five, the epitome of I guess. Okay, well,
I mean she is of that generation. When they found
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out that she registered as a Republican voter in Florida
on June fourteenth, twenty twenty four, it was all over.
It was all over. So if you've seen the Sydney
Sweeney ad and you think that it is, as I do,
a blue jeans ad, and a pretty darn effective one,
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because the stock of American eagle has soared pardon the
pun in recent days, give me a call if you
think that it's, you know, the prelude to I guess,
Nazi propaganda. If you really think that, and you'd like
to make the case for it, fine, I don't think
there's a person out there tonight who's going to even
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attempt that. But if you do, you will be given
an opportunity to make the case. Six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty. Six one seven, nine one ten thirty.
Those are the two numbers that will get you through.
Did this ad really bother you? It bothered a lot
of Democrats? And again, as I say, they are in
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a suicide pack. They don't know it, but they are
committing political suicide and they have accelerated that phenomenon in
the last week or so. Join the conversation. We're talking
about blue jeans. Blue jeans the ones you wear. You
can you can take the conversation in any direction you want.
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This is Ninth Side. My name is Dan Ray. We've
had a great show tonight. Let's finish strong, coming back
on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on wz Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You know, I don't think I've ever owned a peer
of blue jeans. I was a city kid, but I
might order a pair of blue jeans just to see
how they look. The only line is open right now
at six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. Well,
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let's let's go to the phones see what people have
to say. Go to start it off with Will on
Long Island. Hey, Will, welcome.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
How are you, Hey, Dan, it's been a while. How
are you.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's okay, don't be a stranger. I'm assuming you're appalled
at this commercial.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
I'm I would be appalled if it, you know, if
I wasn't used to it by now, right, I mean,
at this point, I just I laugh at them. You see,
in the fifties, in the forties, they had I always
talked about how they had infiltrated us to the left
and everything. But the thing was, there weren't so many
loonies running around because we had mental facilities to keep
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these people in. Right now they are there's so many
closed mental facilities. I live not far from one, and
big famous ones like Kogram State and these all the
places where these people that are now your neighbors are
now just amongst us all over the place, right, I
mean we're talking about we're talking about a commercial that's
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a play on words, right for jeans and jeans and
not some you know Nazi eugenics doctor Mengelev program.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
This is uh.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
We used to laugh at things like it was a
good it's a good play. On words, she's beautiful, so
therefore she has good genes. But the funny thing is
if you had put a guy in a dress on
there and said that she had good jeans or or
they them had good geens, it said they them have
good gens. They'd applaud this, and you'd receive all types
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of awards for your inclusivity and diversity because the rest
of us would be evolving into this mind mush with you, Right,
But when.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You look at the success that bud Budweiser had with
Dylan mulvaney I believe was his name or.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Her name, Yeah, that was a great See. I was
a marketing major, right, and the first thing I saw
when that came out, I said, Gee, let's see, your
horrible beer is mostly drunk by guys with cutoff T
shirts and frat boys who like to crush beer cans
on their head. And you put a transgender person that's
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mocking real women as the person who is now representing
your beer. If that's not knowing your not not knowing
your customer, I don't know what is.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That's what I thought. Okay, I have some friends of
mine who happened to be transgender. I have friends of
mine who I work with, who happen to be transgender.
They are amongst the nicest people you'd want to deal with.
But they are not doing beer commercials and trying to
somehow capitalize upon you know, They're just trying to live
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their lives. Okay, uh, And which is which is what
this country's supposed to be about.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
One of my closest friends was a transgender, all right,
he was at one point. I'm six foot four, two
hundred and sixty pounds, and I was a quarterback and
he was my center. And then one day, years later,
he had told me about his transitioning. Of course, at
first I was in shock and it was shocking to me.
But then obviously I have no problem with someone appearing
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on the outside the way they feel on the inside.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I just I don't need it. And I just think
when you're talking, when you talk about the Dylan Movailey,
I just think that Budweiser missed it. And the other
question is there a cultural change of foot And I
truly believe it here in New England. Okay, I'm going
to tell you a quick story and then I don't
I'll give you the final word. Tom Anino, who was
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my great friend for many years, and you know, a
blue collar democrat. Okay, when Chick fil A tried to
open up a Chick fil A business in Boston, Menino,
who was not what you would call progressive in the
in the sense of the word today, he was against
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it and he felt that the and I think he
was misinformed that the people who owned Chick fil A
were Southerners and they were closed minded, and they didn't
open on Sunday, and they were religious snake chuckers or whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
People told him they happened. They happened to produce great
chicken sandwiches. And whenever I have a chance to go
into Chick fil A, I will guess what chick fil
A is about to open at Boston Logan International Airport
this year. If that is not a harbinger of how
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the world has changed.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I think. I think that the social justice movement is
starting to backfire upon itself because it's getting so absurd.
It's no longer about actual social justice. It's more about
creating division and strife and chaos. And you're seeing that
in the pushback right. So the pushback to this is
American Eagle stock takes off. Another famous one was when
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Goya's president said I support Donald Trump, and then AOC
who's in my neighborhood, and all these Latinos. Yeah, but
they came out and they said, oh, I guess we're
gonna have to make our own Goya and boycott, you know,
boycott Goya. And guess what happened. What happened. The sales
went up a thousand percent in a month, and in irony,
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they hung her picture inside of Goya as honorary employee
of the month. Okay, So I believe they.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Had a sense of humor. That's what I believe. It
doesn't have anymore, particularly the progressive left. There's no sense
of humor.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I believe in some version of cancel culture. I have
to be honest because I am what you call a
free speech purist. So I believe what allowed Rosa Parks
to sit on the front of the bus was not
the legislation, but it was the Montgomery bus boycotts. When
some boycotts and some movements on social justice affect the
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pockets of the people in charge and the people's voices heard,
change is made. That doesn't mean that you automatically need
to bend a knee. Sometimes you need to stand up.
And American Eagle and Goya and other companies and Budweiser
have or their or their fans, at least the people
that consumed Budweiser made a statement and the companies had
to change course according to that. It works both ways,
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that's the beauty of it. But I am one hundred
percent in line with people making noise and boycott and
your product. Just like when the guy didn't want to
bake the cake for the gay couple, I probably would
have been the guy that says, you're entitled your opinion,
but I can't shop here. And just like he has
the right without government sanction, in my opinion, to do that,
they also have the right and to march outside with.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
The Baker First Amendment ground.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
And he should and he should. But then again, yeah,
I agree, I agree with that decision.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
But you know, and and guess what the marketplace there's
a huge, you know, gay population in America, there's a
growing transgender population, and there's a there's an this economic cloud.
We live in a capitalistic system. So anyway, uh, would
you consider buying would you be influenced by Sidney Sweeney or.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
No, I like American ego products for myself and my
family before this, I'll continue to buy them. I wouldn't
be influenced by anybody opposing or endorsing something that I
already liked, all right, But I think it's funny to watch,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's hysterically it's hysterically funny to watch. I mean, you
know that this is this is a eugenics I mean,
I know eugenics. Go back to Margaret Sandler. That's that
was real eugenics.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
They won't even know about anything.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
No, I understand that. But there'll be some people who
know what I'm talking about that, and I knew one
of them. Thanks, we've got to go. Thank you, good night.
Six thirty six one seven. I want to hear what
you think about this. Does this advertisement offend you? If
it does, I'd love to know why. I really don't
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understand it. Would the the Beyonce jeans invertisement offend you
not at all? I mean, did did Dylan mulveny offend you?
Didn't offend me. I'm a course guy. Okay, that's fine,
that's fine. This is a free, free country, free society. Okay.
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There was nothing in the Sydney Sweeney commercial, which in
my opinion, was anything other than marketing a product, and
it wasn't. It wasn't fascist propaganda. But when they found
out she was a Republican, whoa, it was off the chart.
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Joined the conversation six one seven six seven nine. And
if you like the ad and you like Sidney Sweeney,
you can call me too. This is a free speech zone.
Ladies and gentlemen, Night Side with Dan Ray coming right back.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Back we go, let me go to, Let's go to
new Let's go to New Hampshire. Steve is in Merrimack,
New Hampshire. Hey Steve, welcome back. How are you sir?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Hi Dan, great show tonight, Thank you. I really liked
your previous segment. I just want to say that that
Sydney Sweeney is a sweet, beautiful twenty seven year old girl,
and she is exactly the right point person for their jeans.
The marketing campaign was brilliant. I mean you, they couldn't
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have done a better job if they tried. They should
probably get a supplemental check for whatever they did, because
as far as I know, I believe in one day,
the American Eagle stock went up twenty three percent. You know,
and as opposed to what happened in twenty three with
you know and Isaac Bush with Dylan mcmahaney fiasco, where
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in Isi Bush lost thirty billion plus dollars and they
wouldn't apologize for it. If it was my company and
I was going to lose thirty billion, I'd be on
my hands and knees praying for you to come back.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But today, American, Today, American Eagle was up almost seven percent,
and in overnight futures it's up a little bit as well.
I don't know where Budweiser is. I hope that Budweiser
has recovered. I'm not a Budweiser guy. I'm a course guy,
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as anybody who knows me. Let me look at Let
me look at five years, would you, for the fun
of it, Yeah, Bud was at three. I don't know
how long ago. This was twenty twenty one. It was
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three dollars and forty six cents. It closed up. I
don't know when the millenie milleni I'd hit. But if
you pick a point in twenty twenty three, say June,
it was two point seven seven, So it had slid
a little bit, but not much. It's now down to
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a dollar. It's down down to ninety nine cents a share.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, it comes down to political political correctness. You know,
you can call it social justice or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
But yeah, actually I'm mistaken. It's up to a dollar
three today.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
It was down.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, I'm looking at a five year thing here. So
it opened this morning at a dollar twenty three. Uh,
and it closed at one o four today. So whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You can't even buy it on margins.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Too, I guess. Yeah, yeah, man, that's you know.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I think that that this was a very brilliantly done ad,
and they did exactly what they intended to do. I
think that she really got some mileage out of it.
And I think Trump actually suggested that she doing that
for for Budweiser too. I think that's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Maybe that's, Hey, that wouldn't be a dumb thing for
bud Wiser. They could say, hey, we're trying to appeal
to a variety of constituencies. I think you should do
that if you know, particularly the number.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
One beer seller, the summer beer, you know, going back
to like the eighties. I mean, you know, they were
very popular and now actually cors Light they're doing very
very well. And you know some of the others, even
you know related products are doing really well too well.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'll tell you, I mean, I make no bones about it.
For me, I keep saying that I'm somebody I like
two things to cors Light or red wine, and it
doesn't have to be really expensive red wine. I have
a couple of favorite red wines that I buy. We
call them pizza wines. And you know, you don't have
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to have a hundred dollars bottle of wine. I couldn't.
I couldn't enjoy a hundred dollar bottle of wine. But no,
I got some wines that are ten eleven bucks and
they're good wines.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I like wine too, I don't just I don't drink
a lot of it, but I drink it once in
a while.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, I've come to become a wine drinker over time.
I wasn't one of you.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You actually got me going on cores late lately.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So well, Steve, I'll tell you, you know, it works
for me. It tastes good and the calories are not
I'm not wasting a lot of calories. So yeah, if
I don't know if I can advertise for for course light.
But if couse Light wants me to endorse course light,
I would definitely do that.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
As long as it's cold, I don't mind. I can't
take warm beer.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I agree with you. No, Absolutely, beer is intended to
be to be served cold. It's it's okay on a
cold day. If you come in from shoveling snow and uh,
and you've worked up a sweat or at, you know,
at a Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner, uh, A cold
beer is fine too. Yeah, if you, if if you,
if you, if you like beer, which I do, but
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it's for me, it's course light, Steve, I love it.
I've influenced you to get cores, all right, I hope
thanks Steve. Great minds think alike. Next man, talk to
you soon. Let's keep going, gonna go a little closer
to home. I'm gonna go to p even a Christian.
I want to hear some ladies do this one. Ladies,
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come on, let's let's let's get these lines. The only
line is six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
I got full lines Christian and peavity, Hey Christian, how
are you?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
I must have been under a rock. I haven't seen
the commercial and I'm very intrigued. But to me, if
it's geees, American geans usually bought the while of one
common ms, and it's about the body. So if she
happens to be a beautiful woman and the gees are
for everybody because everybody has a body, then that's not fascist.
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That's not all bout us, of course needs to be.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
No, she wears the let me let me put I'm
trying to be polite here. She wears the jeans very well. Okay,
and you heard did you hear what I played earlier
this hour?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah? And you know she's using kind of a sultry
voice here. You know, she's not talking like maybe that's
the way she normally talks, but she's she's got a
pretty sexy voice when she when she makes the pitch.
And you know, again, for those who are just joining us,
let me play the short version here, Rob, just for
the fun of it, play that fifteen second version of
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the of the commercial.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Passed on from parents to offspring, often determining traits like
her color, personality, and even eye color.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
My jeans are blue city.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, and the video on the commercial obviously it is.
When she talks about her eyes being blue, she's she's
a it's a close up shot of her face with
the with the blue eyes.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
So, yeah, I have a question.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
The cheese can't be like opa pants, They're gonna be
just gens So what's the issue? So the terminology?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
No no, no, no, no no. People are talking about
eugenics and they're saying that she's because she happens to be,
you know, a good looking woman and she has blue eyes.
That that smacks of the Nazi ethic that that put
people to death in during the Holocaust. I mean, of
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course it does. It has absolutely nothing. You're absolutely right.
It's an insult to the memory of people who died
in the Holocaust, all those who survived the Holocaust. She's
selling genes, that's what she's selling. And there's a little
bit between genes that you wear and genes that you
inherit from your parents.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
And I didn't want to go to your other diet.
But your producer will leave my name for the topic earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Absolutely, we'll we'll add you to that that list too,
and I will get back to everybody. I'm not going
to be able to call everybody back because we get
a lot of names, but I will mention and if
we actually do decide to utilize some of the Night
Side listeners UH in a class action suit and there
would be no expense for any of the uh this
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is going to be done by It would be done
by a law firm, no expense was just your name
would be part of the filing.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Okay, it's good.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Sounds great, Christians. I really enjoy your calls. You know that.
Thank you much. All right, talk to you by good night.
Hang on there, Rob. Rob will take his name, uh,
Christians at six one, seven two, five, four, ten thirty.
He will be off in about five seconds. You can
dial that one or you can dial six one seven
nine thirty. In the meantime, let me go to Ron
in Weymouth. Ron, you were next on Nightside.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
Welcome Ron, Hey, good evening, Dan. I'm very I like
your program very good, very much tonight. But I wanted
to comment on the Sydney Sweeney ad.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
And this socialist American agenda is what I call it,
saying the ad is racist, It couldn't be further from
the truth, saying that a white woman in an ad
that changes woods ge NS two Great Genes where it
means that the ad is white oriented, are even a
Nazi symbol, you know, the can't Swiss woods And they
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spread all around to TikTok, MSNBC, The Times, Washington Post,
Good Morning is section you know in all those all
those programs trying to connects as the other people that
call tonight with the eugenics of the nineteen thirties with
Nazism and know well, for.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Example, I'm reading an article here out of Forbes magazine
and says cris erupted of Sweeney and American Eagle promoting
Nazi era arian race eugenics with its implied message of
white beauty's superiority. I don't get that. I mean, right now, Beyonce,
who's an absolutely gorgeous woman, uh and very talented as well,
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she's doing an ad I believe for Levi Jeans. Oh his.
Here's here's some some professor at Columbia took to TikTok
saying it is both a testament to this political moment,
and it's contributed to and enforcing this kind of anti immigrant,
anti people of color, pro eugenic political moment. That post
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has garnered over three million views. Wow, and this article
in Form says, which said it better than me. There's
also been pushback against the campaign's overtly sexual tone. There's
obviously a sexual tone. She's saying, that'll make your butt
look amazing, and you know she's hearkening back to the
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controversial Cindy Croffin's white tank top and short shorts Pepsi
commercial that ran in the nineteen ninety two Super Bowl
and the campaign Brookes Shields did with Calvin Klein in
the nineteen eighties. The latter was deserved, as Shields was
an underage fifteen year old at the time, but Sweeney
is a twenty seven year old adult woman.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
I mean, right, and you know, Dan, let me talk
about racism. Well, I actually have black grandaudists, and I
mean I'm not anything like that.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
Congre would be women, black women, Dan, They've been out
of the cotton fields and into the modern America for
a very very long time.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Right.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
It's a big leap from a blonde, blue eyed actress
who is endowed with some you know, very good body
looks that's now connected with white racist and Hitler, you know,
the leftist either lights more fires, Dan, of racism are
the biggest biggots in the world.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well they are. Look, I can't disagree with anything you said.
It's as simple as that. Congratulations. I hope you enjoy
your granddaughters. We just had a first.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Oh, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I absolutely going into.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
The medical field. And it's a very good field to
go into.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well, so they're going to become doctors or or nurses.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
They might become a one is going to be well,
one is going to be a veterinarian, and the other
one is going to be a prominent nurse. I hope,
you know, maybe a doctor.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
That's how it's a tougher climb to become. I'm a veterinarian.
There are a few eve veterinarian schools. So if she's
going to become a veterinarian, she's gonna she's gonna be great,
a great asset to uh to the medical field for sure. Ron,
I appreciate your call as always.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Dan, and good luck
to you in your program. I've listened to it for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Well, I'll tell you I know you by your voice,
and I know you by Ron and Weymouth. And if
you ever see me in the street, please come up
and say hello, I want to shake your hand.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Okay, thanks Man, I absolutely will.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Thanks Ron, I'll drop.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
All right, Okay, now look I got two calls lined up,
got Tim and Mooren, and I got room for you.
So I'd like you to have some courage, have some
backbone and weigh in on this one six two lines
at six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty and
one line at six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
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I think the callers tonight have been spectacular. I think
they've been respectful. I think they've been well spoken. They
are the epitome of what Nights has represented for a
long long time. So feel free whether you agree or disagree.
This is North America's back porch. This is not the
Dan Ray Show. This is Nightside with Dan Ray, and
you represent Nightside. Step up on the porch, express yourself.
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Coming back on Nightside. Final segment coming up, we're talking
about the Sydney Sweeney Blue Jeans commercial and the unnecessary
divisive controversy that it seems to have engendered. No fault
to her and no fault to American Eagle. There are
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some people in this country who just are looking for
every opportunity to divide this country. And if we cannot
agree on this commercial, I don't know. You know, if
you don't, you don't need to buy blue jeans. You
don't need to buy blue jeans. I want you to
call the show six one, seven, two, five, four ten
thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty Got
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room for you, make it happen. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
No, I don't know how I can have any open
lines at seven minutes to midnight. Very very surprising to me.
I thought this is a great topic. There's no one
here who wants to criticize the commercial. Give you that opportunity.
Despite and again I think what's important here is that.
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And I'm going to make this very clear, and then
I'm going to go to a wave calls and I
can use a couple more if you'd like. However, I
don't have a problem as a as an American with
the two political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans. But
when the Republicans start to bring into their party whack
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right wing wack of doodles, and believe me, I hear
from the right wing wack of doodles on this program
all the time. I get stuff from some of them.
They know who they are. And when the Democrats allowed
the progressive wack of doodles to come in to their party,
it weakens the two parties. And we do not need
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a country that is one political party. We need a
country that has two competitive parties, and we don't need
the type of democracy that they have in Britain or
Israel with fifteen parties. Let's go to the calls. We're
gonna get them all in. Gonna go to Tim. Tim,
thank you for your patience, holding and thank you for
(35:30):
calling in a little early so I can talk a
little bit to you tonight.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Welcome, Hi, Dan, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
You are very welcome. Tim. Thanks to check it in.
Go right ahead. What's your thought on this one?
Speaker 7 (35:41):
You're right, too many people want to divide his party.
Sydney Sweeney is a beautiful woman twenty seven years old, yep.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
And she knows how to wear a peerage blue jeans.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
She sure does. She looks great in them.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah, and an eagle American eagle stock has gone up.
Don't don't chase the stock. I'm not advocating people to
buy a stock as it goes up. But it would
have been great if you knew in advance that this
ad was going to come out, because it's so predictable.
I mean, the the far left has lost their mind,
(36:18):
their collective mind, so hasn't before far right, but the
far left should they just should have. And most of
my smart liberals, progressive listeners, they're not participating tonight because
what it's being said about this this ad is indefensible
in my in my opinion, are you a blue Jeans guide,
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Tim or no? Do you wear jeans or not? Levi
five oh one? Okay, well, Beyonce is I guess I'm
advertising Levi jeans. I'm not. She's advertising five oh ones.
But whatever makes you comfortable. You work out doors as
a mason. I know that from our previous conversations. It's
a it's an amazing skill that you have to be
(37:01):
able to build those walls and other uh and other
stone items as well as I can never figure out.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
How to work every day with work boats.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, you gotta you don't want to drop those stones
on your foot. You're not gonna be wearing sandals doing
what you do for a living.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
Now anyhow, I called you today at twelve nineteen to say, oh.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Okay, Well, I forget what I was doing at twelve nineteen,
but obviously I wasn't near the phone.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
We'll talk to you on my nice it T shirt
and my mud The both of them say the voice
of reason.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Well that doesn't lie, that's for sure. I am the
voice of reason. And my last name is spelled are
e a, the first letters of the word reason, so
it fits.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Hey, thanks Tim, I'm gonna get one more in than
a great dog. Fifteen years you had.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Him, No, I only had it for ten. Wish I
had him longer. Ten die.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
You can't be Dan. Thanks some man.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
You take care you too, Tim will talk so thanks much.
Appreciate it about Okay, you too, and stay safe. Okay,
let me go to Warren. Warren, you're gonna have the
last word of the night. I'd love to know what
you think. I think I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 11 (38:19):
Yeah, I'm I'm amazed that this is even a controversy.
This is someone trying to pick something. They're trying to
make up stories that that are not there. Things are
that are not there.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Desperately watch that commercial over.
Speaker 11 (38:36):
And over again, and I don't get where they get Naziism.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
And you watch the commercial over and over because you
like the commercial. Don't kid me. I'm only.
Speaker 11 (38:47):
I mean all right, Like if you did you ever
watch them married with Children El Bundy.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I didn't.
Speaker 11 (38:56):
He had a great line, all right, and it goes
like this, ugly I'll say, pretty women make us by beer.
Ugly women make us drink beer.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Oh we're gonna get in trouble for that one, Warren,
but we'll let it go. Hey, look, thank you for
calling in, but I'm flat out of time, buddy, as.
Speaker 11 (39:22):
Always, all right, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
You bet you. Thanks Warre. I appreciate it very much. Okay,
we're done for the night. I want to thank the
state Auditor, Diane Disuglio. We're gonna get that legislature audited
by hook or by crook, and we're gonna do it
the right way. And I want to thank everybody who
called in tonight, those of you who didn't. I what
can I say? My name's Dan Ray. I'll end it
as always, Rob Brooks, great job, Marie, a great job.
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to heaven. That's what my pal Charlie ray Is who
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They loved you and you loved them. I do believe
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great Thursday everyone, Dan Ray for Nightside, Thanks so much,
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Radio all right business story that I don't think anyone
could have missed in the last few days.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It's a story about a very attractive young woman named
Sidney Sweeney. She is, she's got a movie I you know,
I don't follow a lot of the movie stars and
all that. I don't know if she's a movie star,
but you're an attractive young woman. And she posted an ad.
(00:42):
Actually she agreed to advertise blue jeans, kind of a
very American product. Blue jeans. I remember during the Cold
War that one of the things that was really contraband
in Eastern Europe. And I was in Eastern Europe before
the Wall fell in nineteen eighty six, and if you
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could get a pair of blue jeans, I mean, that
was really something, okay, that epitomized America during the Cold War.
So blue jeans have always been very very American, you know,
represents the country, represents people who work with their hands
on farms. And so Sidney Sweeney has become the spokesperson
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for a company called American Eagle. I think it's a
longer name than that on the Stock Exchange, anyone Anyway,
I knew of her name. I knew that she's an
attractive young woman, and doesn't surprise me that like Brookshield
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before her, and you know Sidney Crawford and you know
various people. As a matter of fact, Beyonce has a
a blue jeen ad. Now, I think for one of
the competitors, Levi. But again, these are these are the
young people you know often in the music or in
(02:12):
the movie industry, or in sports, that people look up to.
I think there was some publicity of Cindy. She and
Cindy Sweeney excuse me, was at the wedding of Jeff Bezos,
the Post editor over and I think it was Florence,
maybe it was Venice. It was one of those beautiful
(02:33):
Italian cities. And I guess, you know, he invited it
was like a twenty million dollar wedding or whatever. He
invited all of the glitterati, including Tom Brady, and Brady
apparently was out on the dance floor with Sidney Sweeney.
Well hey, you know, well anyway, so she did this
ad and it was a you know, typical a blue
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gene ad. I mean, what do you think a blue
jeen ad is going to emphasize if you can, if
you can, guess, I think you'll figure it out. Blue jeans, right,
I mean, a car ad emphasizes the car, a beer
commercial emphasizes beer. Blue jeans ad emphasizes blue jeans. Now,
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who do you put in the blue jeans? Sidney Sweeney? Okay,
she wears the blue jeans very well. She's young, attractive woman,
and she's selling blue jeans not only to women who
want to look like Sidney Sweeney or want to wear
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blue jeans that might make them look like Sidney Sweeney,
or to guys who might like blue jeans as well,
and they will buy blue jeans because Sidney Sweety says,
buy blue jeans. So the the ad I thought was
clever talked about there was some reference to her genes,
her g E n E S genes, just like all
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of us. She has good genes. Okay, she has kept
herself in shape. I'm assuming that you know she inherited
good genes. Okay, A lot of people don't inherit good genes.
Nobody inherits perfect genes. To the best of my knowledge.
Baseball players, great baseball players. They the Red Sox have
some of them right now. They their eyesight is superior
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to the average person's eyesight because they got to hit
a baseball move in ninety nine miles an hour, or
a slider that falls off the table, or a sweeper
or whatever. So it's it's as simple as that. It
is really as simple as that. But to the American left,
nothing is simple these days, nothing is simple. So if
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you have seen the commercial, great, If you haven't, I
can't show it to you now. I can't imagine you
would have missed it. But I can play a little
bit of the commercials. I guess there was two or
three in this in the set of commercials. So without
any further ado, this is Sydney Sweeney twenty two, a rob.
(05:17):
Listen carefully.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm not here to tell you to buy American eagle chains,
and I definitely won't say that they're the most comfortable
chins I've ever worn, or that they make your butt
look amazing. I'm going to need to do that. But
if you said that you want to buy the jeans,
I'm not gonna stop you. But as we're clear, this
(05:39):
is not me telling you to buy American egle chens.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Sydney Sweeney has very keen you see what I did there, right,
So there's a play on words. She's using this. Uh
you know, I don't know an orange new sexy voice
or whatever. Okay, and I have one other shorter version
here just to give you a sense of it. The
video supports the script. I mean she wears her blue jeans. Well, okay,
(06:08):
I don't want to say anything that's inappropriate, but she
knows how to wear her blue jeans. She's been blessed
with good jeans, not only her jeans, but her blue jeans.
So that's that's it. Okay, here's twenty two B. This
is a little shorter, but this is Sidney Sweeney another cut.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Jeans are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining
traits like her color, personality, and even eye color.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
My jeans are.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Blue, Sydney's Tweeny Hasbery Kenes. Now, there are some progressors
who have lost their mind, and to them this is
nothing more than Nazi propaganda. She happens to have blue eyes,
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so her jeans are blue. Her gens that she inherited
blue eyes, and her jeans are blue. Now, look, there's
a lot of products out there that are advertised by
attractive people, handsome men, attractive women, whatever however you want. Okay,
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but the left has lost their mind. It's almost as
if progressives are in a political suicide pact. It's almost like,
you know, James Jones, Reverend Jim Jones that have drunk
the kool aid, and the kool aid tells them that.
(07:48):
And then when they found out that Sydney Sweeney, I
think she's twenty five. I could be wrong. I think
she's twenty five, the epitome of I guess. Okay, well,
I mean she is of that generation. When they found
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out that she registered as a Republican voter in Florida
on June fourteenth, twenty twenty four, it was all over.
It was all over. So if you've seen the Sydney
Sweeney ad and you think that it is, as I do,
a blue jeans ad, and a pretty darn effective one,
(08:33):
because the stock of American eagle has soared pardon the
pun in recent days, give me a call if you
think that it's, you know, the prelude to I guess,
Nazi propaganda. If you really think that, and you'd like
to make the case for it, fine, I don't think
there's a person out there tonight who's going to even
(08:55):
attempt that. But if you do, you will be given
an opportunity to make the case. Six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty. Six one seven, nine one ten thirty.
Those are the two numbers that will get you through.
Did this ad really bother you? It bothered a lot
of Democrats? And again, as I say, they are in
(09:15):
a suicide pack. They don't know it, but they are
committing political suicide and they have accelerated that phenomenon in
the last week or so. Join the conversation. We're talking
about blue jeans. Blue jeans the ones you wear. You
can you can take the conversation in any direction you want.
(09:38):
This is Ninth Side. My name is Dan Ray. We've
had a great show tonight. Let's finish strong, coming back
on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on wz Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You know, I don't think I've ever owned a peer
of blue jeans. I was a city kid, but I
might order a pair of blue jeans just to see
how they look. The only line is open right now
at six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. Well,
(10:10):
let's let's go to the phones see what people have
to say. Go to start it off with Will on
Long Island. Hey, Will, welcome.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
How are you, Hey, Dan, it's been a while. How
are you.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's okay, don't be a stranger. I'm assuming you're appalled
at this commercial.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
I'm I would be appalled if it, you know, if
I wasn't used to it by now, right, I mean,
at this point, I just I laugh at them. You see,
in the fifties, in the forties, they had I always
talked about how they had infiltrated us to the left
and everything. But the thing was, there weren't so many
loonies running around because we had mental facilities to keep
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these people in. Right now they are there's so many
closed mental facilities. I live not far from one, and
big famous ones like Kogram State and these all the
places where these people that are now your neighbors are
now just amongst us all over the place, right, I
mean we're talking about we're talking about a commercial that's
(11:08):
a play on words, right for jeans and jeans and
not some you know Nazi eugenics doctor Mengelev program.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
This is uh.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
We used to laugh at things like it was a
good it's a good play. On words, she's beautiful, so
therefore she has good genes. But the funny thing is
if you had put a guy in a dress on
there and said that she had good jeans or or
they them had good geens, it said they them have
good gens. They'd applaud this, and you'd receive all types
(11:41):
of awards for your inclusivity and diversity because the rest
of us would be evolving into this mind mush with you, Right,
But when.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You look at the success that bud Budweiser had with
Dylan mulvaney I believe was his name or.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Her name, Yeah, that was a great See. I was
a marketing major, right, and the first thing I saw
when that came out, I said, Gee, let's see, your
horrible beer is mostly drunk by guys with cutoff T
shirts and frat boys who like to crush beer cans
on their head. And you put a transgender person that's
(12:20):
mocking real women as the person who is now representing
your beer. If that's not knowing your not not knowing
your customer, I don't know what is.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That's what I thought. Okay, I have some friends of
mine who happened to be transgender. I have friends of
mine who I work with, who happen to be transgender.
They are amongst the nicest people you'd want to deal with.
But they are not doing beer commercials and trying to
somehow capitalize upon you know, They're just trying to live
(12:53):
their lives. Okay, uh, And which is which is what
this country's supposed to be about.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
One of my closest friends was a transgender, all right,
he was at one point. I'm six foot four, two
hundred and sixty pounds, and I was a quarterback and
he was my center. And then one day, years later,
he had told me about his transitioning. Of course, at
first I was in shock and it was shocking to me.
But then obviously I have no problem with someone appearing
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on the outside the way they feel on the inside.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I just I don't need it. And I just think
when you're talking, when you talk about the Dylan Movailey,
I just think that Budweiser missed it. And the other
question is there a cultural change of foot And I
truly believe it here in New England. Okay, I'm going
to tell you a quick story and then I don't
I'll give you the final word. Tom Anino, who was
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my great friend for many years, and you know, a
blue collar democrat. Okay, when Chick fil A tried to
open up a Chick fil A business in Boston, Menino,
who was not what you would call progressive in the
in the sense of the word today, he was against
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it and he felt that the and I think he
was misinformed that the people who owned Chick fil A
were Southerners and they were closed minded, and they didn't
open on Sunday, and they were religious snake chuckers or whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
People told him they happened. They happened to produce great
chicken sandwiches. And whenever I have a chance to go
into Chick fil A, I will guess what chick fil
A is about to open at Boston Logan International Airport
this year. If that is not a harbinger of how
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the world has changed.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I think. I think that the social justice movement is
starting to backfire upon itself because it's getting so absurd.
It's no longer about actual social justice. It's more about
creating division and strife and chaos. And you're seeing that
in the pushback right. So the pushback to this is
American Eagle stock takes off. Another famous one was when
(15:09):
Goya's president said I support Donald Trump, and then AOC
who's in my neighborhood, and all these Latinos. Yeah, but
they came out and they said, oh, I guess we're
gonna have to make our own Goya and boycott, you know,
boycott Goya. And guess what happened. What happened. The sales
went up a thousand percent in a month, and in irony,
(15:31):
they hung her picture inside of Goya as honorary employee
of the month. Okay, So I believe they.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Had a sense of humor. That's what I believe. It
doesn't have anymore, particularly the progressive left. There's no sense
of humor.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I believe in some version of cancel culture. I have
to be honest because I am what you call a
free speech purist. So I believe what allowed Rosa Parks
to sit on the front of the bus was not
the legislation, but it was the Montgomery bus boycotts. When
some boycotts and some movements on social justice affect the
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pockets of the people in charge and the people's voices heard,
change is made. That doesn't mean that you automatically need
to bend a knee. Sometimes you need to stand up.
And American Eagle and Goya and other companies and Budweiser
have or their or their fans, at least the people
that consumed Budweiser made a statement and the companies had
to change course according to that. It works both ways,
(16:31):
that's the beauty of it. But I am one hundred
percent in line with people making noise and boycott and
your product. Just like when the guy didn't want to
bake the cake for the gay couple, I probably would
have been the guy that says, you're entitled your opinion,
but I can't shop here. And just like he has
the right without government sanction, in my opinion, to do that,
they also have the right and to march outside with.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
The Baker First Amendment ground.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
And he should and he should. But then again, yeah,
I agree, I agree with that decision.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
But you know, and and guess what the marketplace there's
a huge, you know, gay population in America, there's a
growing transgender population, and there's a there's an this economic cloud.
We live in a capitalistic system. So anyway, uh, would
you consider buying would you be influenced by Sidney Sweeney or.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
No, I like American ego products for myself and my
family before this, I'll continue to buy them. I wouldn't
be influenced by anybody opposing or endorsing something that I
already liked, all right, But I think it's funny to watch,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's hysterically it's hysterically funny to watch. I mean, you
know that this is this is a eugenics I mean,
I know eugenics. Go back to Margaret Sandler. That's that
was real eugenics.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
They won't even know about anything.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
No, I understand that. But there'll be some people who
know what I'm talking about that, and I knew one
of them. Thanks, we've got to go. Thank you, good night.
Six thirty six one seven. I want to hear what
you think about this. Does this advertisement offend you? If
it does, I'd love to know why. I really don't
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understand it. Would the the Beyonce jeans invertisement offend you
not at all? I mean, did did Dylan mulveny offend you?
Didn't offend me. I'm a course guy. Okay, that's fine,
that's fine. This is a free, free country, free society. Okay.
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There was nothing in the Sydney Sweeney commercial, which in
my opinion, was anything other than marketing a product, and
it wasn't. It wasn't fascist propaganda. But when they found
out she was a Republican, whoa, it was off the chart.
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Joined the conversation six one seven six seven nine. And
if you like the ad and you like Sidney Sweeney,
you can call me too. This is a free speech zone.
Ladies and gentlemen, Night Side with Dan Ray coming right back.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Back we go, let me go to, Let's go to
new Let's go to New Hampshire. Steve is in Merrimack,
New Hampshire. Hey Steve, welcome back. How are you sir?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Hi Dan, great show tonight, Thank you. I really liked
your previous segment. I just want to say that that
Sydney Sweeney is a sweet, beautiful twenty seven year old girl,
and she is exactly the right point person for their jeans.
The marketing campaign was brilliant. I mean you, they couldn't
(19:57):
have done a better job if they tried. They should
probably get a supplemental check for whatever they did, because
as far as I know, I believe in one day,
the American Eagle stock went up twenty three percent. You know,
and as opposed to what happened in twenty three with
you know and Isaac Bush with Dylan mcmahaney fiasco, where
(20:21):
in Isi Bush lost thirty billion plus dollars and they
wouldn't apologize for it. If it was my company and
I was going to lose thirty billion, I'd be on
my hands and knees praying for you to come back.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But today, American, Today, American Eagle was up almost seven percent,
and in overnight futures it's up a little bit as well.
I don't know where Budweiser is. I hope that Budweiser
has recovered. I'm not a Budweiser guy. I'm a course guy,
(20:53):
as anybody who knows me. Let me look at Let
me look at five years, would you, for the fun
of it, Yeah, Bud was at three. I don't know
how long ago. This was twenty twenty one. It was
(21:14):
three dollars and forty six cents. It closed up. I
don't know when the millenie milleni I'd hit. But if
you pick a point in twenty twenty three, say June,
it was two point seven seven, So it had slid
a little bit, but not much. It's now down to
(21:35):
a dollar. It's down down to ninety nine cents a share.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, it comes down to political political correctness. You know,
you can call it social justice or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
But yeah, actually I'm mistaken. It's up to a dollar
three today.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
It was down.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yeah, I'm looking at a five year thing here. So
it opened this morning at a dollar twenty three. Uh,
and it closed at one o four today. So whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You can't even buy it on margins.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Too, I guess. Yeah, yeah, man, that's you know.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I think that that this was a very brilliantly done ad,
and they did exactly what they intended to do. I
think that she really got some mileage out of it.
And I think Trump actually suggested that she doing that
for for Budweiser too. I think that's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Maybe that's, Hey, that wouldn't be a dumb thing for
bud Wiser. They could say, hey, we're trying to appeal
to a variety of constituencies. I think you should do
that if you know, particularly the number.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
One beer seller, the summer beer, you know, going back
to like the eighties. I mean, you know, they were
very popular and now actually cors Light they're doing very
very well. And you know some of the others, even
you know related products are doing really well too well.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'll tell you, I mean, I make no bones about it.
For me, I keep saying that I'm somebody I like
two things to cors Light or red wine, and it
doesn't have to be really expensive red wine. I have
a couple of favorite red wines that I buy. We
call them pizza wines. And you know, you don't have
(23:27):
to have a hundred dollars bottle of wine. I couldn't.
I couldn't enjoy a hundred dollar bottle of wine. But no,
I got some wines that are ten eleven bucks and
they're good wines.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I like wine too, I don't just I don't drink
a lot of it, but I drink it once in
a while.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, I've come to become a wine drinker over time.
I wasn't one of you.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You actually got me going on cores late lately.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So well, Steve, I'll tell you, you know, it works
for me. It tastes good and the calories are not
I'm not wasting a lot of calories. So yeah, if
I don't know if I can advertise for for course light.
But if couse Light wants me to endorse course light,
I would definitely do that.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
As long as it's cold, I don't mind. I can't
take warm beer.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I agree with you. No, Absolutely, beer is intended to
be to be served cold. It's it's okay on a
cold day. If you come in from shoveling snow and uh,
and you've worked up a sweat or at, you know,
at a Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner, uh, A cold
beer is fine too. Yeah, if you, if if you,
if you, if you like beer, which I do, but
(24:42):
it's for me, it's course light, Steve, I love it.
I've influenced you to get cores, all right, I hope
thanks Steve. Great minds think alike. Next man, talk to
you soon. Let's keep going, gonna go a little closer
to home. I'm gonna go to p even a Christian.
I want to hear some ladies do this one. Ladies,
(25:03):
come on, let's let's let's get these lines. The only
line is six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
I got full lines Christian and peavity, Hey Christian, how
are you?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
I must have been under a rock. I haven't seen
the commercial and I'm very intrigued. But to me, if
it's geees, American geans usually bought the while of one
common ms, and it's about the body. So if she
happens to be a beautiful woman and the gees are
for everybody because everybody has a body, then that's not fascist.
(25:33):
That's not all bout us, of course needs to be.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
No, she wears the let me let me put I'm
trying to be polite here. She wears the jeans very well. Okay,
and you heard did you hear what I played earlier
this hour?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah? And you know she's using kind of a sultry
voice here. You know, she's not talking like maybe that's
the way she normally talks, but she's she's got a
pretty sexy voice when she when she makes the pitch.
And you know, again, for those who are just joining us,
let me play the short version here, Rob, just for
the fun of it, play that fifteen second version of
(26:10):
the of the commercial.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Passed on from parents to offspring, often determining traits like
her color, personality, and even eye color.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
My jeans are blue city.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, and the video on the commercial obviously it is.
When she talks about her eyes being blue, she's she's
a it's a close up shot of her face with
the with the blue eyes.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
So, yeah, I have a question.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
The cheese can't be like opa pants, They're gonna be
just gens So what's the issue? So the terminology?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
No no, no, no, no no. People are talking about
eugenics and they're saying that she's because she happens to be,
you know, a good looking woman and she has blue eyes.
That that smacks of the Nazi ethic that that put
people to death in during the Holocaust. I mean, of
(27:13):
course it does. It has absolutely nothing. You're absolutely right.
It's an insult to the memory of people who died
in the Holocaust, all those who survived the Holocaust. She's
selling genes, that's what she's selling. And there's a little
bit between genes that you wear and genes that you
inherit from your parents.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
And I didn't want to go to your other diet.
But your producer will leave my name for the topic earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Absolutely, we'll we'll add you to that that list too,
and I will get back to everybody. I'm not going
to be able to call everybody back because we get
a lot of names, but I will mention and if
we actually do decide to utilize some of the Night
Side listeners UH in a class action suit and there
would be no expense for any of the uh this
(28:01):
is going to be done by It would be done
by a law firm, no expense was just your name
would be part of the filing.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Okay, it's good.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Sounds great, Christians. I really enjoy your calls. You know that.
Thank you much. All right, talk to you by good night.
Hang on there, Rob. Rob will take his name, uh,
Christians at six one, seven two, five, four, ten thirty.
He will be off in about five seconds. You can
dial that one or you can dial six one seven
nine thirty. In the meantime, let me go to Ron
in Weymouth. Ron, you were next on Nightside.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
Welcome Ron, Hey, good evening, Dan. I'm very I like
your program very good, very much tonight. But I wanted
to comment on the Sydney Sweeney ad.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
And this socialist American agenda is what I call it,
saying the ad is racist, It couldn't be further from
the truth, saying that a white woman in an ad
that changes woods ge NS two Great Genes where it
means that the ad is white oriented, are even a
Nazi symbol, you know, the can't Swiss woods And they
(29:03):
spread all around to TikTok, MSNBC, The Times, Washington Post,
Good Morning is section you know in all those all
those programs trying to connects as the other people that
call tonight with the eugenics of the nineteen thirties with
Nazism and know well, for.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Example, I'm reading an article here out of Forbes magazine
and says cris erupted of Sweeney and American Eagle promoting
Nazi era arian race eugenics with its implied message of
white beauty's superiority. I don't get that. I mean, right now, Beyonce,
who's an absolutely gorgeous woman, uh and very talented as well,
(29:45):
she's doing an ad I believe for Levi Jeans. Oh his.
Here's here's some some professor at Columbia took to TikTok
saying it is both a testament to this political moment,
and it's contributed to and enforcing this kind of anti immigrant,
anti people of color, pro eugenic political moment. That post
(30:06):
has garnered over three million views. Wow, and this article
in Form says, which said it better than me. There's
also been pushback against the campaign's overtly sexual tone. There's
obviously a sexual tone. She's saying, that'll make your butt
look amazing, and you know she's hearkening back to the
(30:27):
controversial Cindy Croffin's white tank top and short shorts Pepsi
commercial that ran in the nineteen ninety two Super Bowl
and the campaign Brookes Shields did with Calvin Klein in
the nineteen eighties. The latter was deserved, as Shields was
an underage fifteen year old at the time, but Sweeney
is a twenty seven year old adult woman.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
I mean, right, and you know, Dan, let me talk
about racism. Well, I actually have black grandaudists, and I
mean I'm not anything like that.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
Congre would be women, black women, Dan, They've been out
of the cotton fields and into the modern America for
a very very long time.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Right.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
It's a big leap from a blonde, blue eyed actress
who is endowed with some you know, very good body
looks that's now connected with white racist and Hitler, you know,
the leftist either lights more fires, Dan, of racism are
the biggest biggots in the world.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well they are. Look, I can't disagree with anything you said.
It's as simple as that. Congratulations. I hope you enjoy
your granddaughters. We just had a first.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Oh, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I absolutely going into.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
The medical field. And it's a very good field to
go into.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well, so they're going to become doctors or or nurses.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
They might become a one is going to be well,
one is going to be a veterinarian, and the other
one is going to be a prominent nurse. I hope,
you know, maybe a doctor.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
That's how it's a tougher climb to become. I'm a veterinarian.
There are a few eve veterinarian schools. So if she's
going to become a veterinarian, she's gonna she's gonna be great,
a great asset to uh to the medical field for sure. Ron,
I appreciate your call as always.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Dan, and good luck
to you in your program. I've listened to it for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Well, I'll tell you I know you by your voice,
and I know you by Ron and Weymouth. And if
you ever see me in the street, please come up
and say hello, I want to shake your hand.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Okay, thanks Man, I absolutely will.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Thanks Ron, I'll drop.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
All right, Okay, now look I got two calls lined up,
got Tim and Mooren, and I got room for you.
So I'd like you to have some courage, have some
backbone and weigh in on this one six two lines
at six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty and
one line at six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
(32:51):
I think the callers tonight have been spectacular. I think
they've been respectful. I think they've been well spoken. They
are the epitome of what Nights has represented for a
long long time. So feel free whether you agree or disagree.
This is North America's back porch. This is not the
Dan Ray Show. This is Nightside with Dan Ray, and
you represent Nightside. Step up on the porch, express yourself.
(33:15):
Coming back on Nightside. Final segment coming up, we're talking
about the Sydney Sweeney Blue Jeans commercial and the unnecessary
divisive controversy that it seems to have engendered. No fault
to her and no fault to American Eagle. There are
(33:36):
some people in this country who just are looking for
every opportunity to divide this country. And if we cannot
agree on this commercial, I don't know. You know, if
you don't, you don't need to buy blue jeans. You
don't need to buy blue jeans. I want you to
call the show six one, seven, two, five, four ten
thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty Got
(33:56):
room for you, make it happen. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
No, I don't know how I can have any open
lines at seven minutes to midnight. Very very surprising to me.
I thought this is a great topic. There's no one
here who wants to criticize the commercial. Give you that opportunity.
Despite and again I think what's important here is that.
(34:27):
And I'm going to make this very clear, and then
I'm going to go to a wave calls and I
can use a couple more if you'd like. However, I
don't have a problem as a as an American with
the two political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans. But
when the Republicans start to bring into their party whack
(34:48):
right wing wack of doodles, and believe me, I hear
from the right wing wack of doodles on this program
all the time. I get stuff from some of them.
They know who they are. And when the Democrats allowed
the progressive wack of doodles to come in to their party,
it weakens the two parties. And we do not need
(35:09):
a country that is one political party. We need a
country that has two competitive parties, and we don't need
the type of democracy that they have in Britain or
Israel with fifteen parties. Let's go to the calls. We're
gonna get them all in. Gonna go to Tim. Tim,
thank you for your patience, holding and thank you for
(35:30):
calling in a little early so I can talk a
little bit to you tonight.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Welcome, Hi, Dan, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
You are very welcome. Tim. Thanks to check it in.
Go right ahead. What's your thought on this one?
Speaker 7 (35:41):
You're right, too many people want to divide his party.
Sydney Sweeney is a beautiful woman twenty seven years old, yep.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
And she knows how to wear a peerage blue jeans.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
She sure does. She looks great in them.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yeah, and an eagle American eagle stock has gone up.
Don't don't chase the stock. I'm not advocating people to
buy a stock as it goes up. But it would
have been great if you knew in advance that this
ad was going to come out, because it's so predictable.
I mean, the the far left has lost their mind,
(36:18):
their collective mind, so hasn't before far right, but the
far left should they just should have. And most of
my smart liberals, progressive listeners, they're not participating tonight because
what it's being said about this this ad is indefensible
in my in my opinion, are you a blue Jeans guide,
(36:39):
Tim or no? Do you wear jeans or not? Levi
five oh one? Okay, well, Beyonce is I guess I'm
advertising Levi jeans. I'm not. She's advertising five oh ones.
But whatever makes you comfortable. You work out doors as
a mason. I know that from our previous conversations. It's
a it's an amazing skill that you have to be
(37:01):
able to build those walls and other uh and other
stone items as well as I can never figure out.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
How to work every day with work boats.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, you gotta you don't want to drop those stones
on your foot. You're not gonna be wearing sandals doing
what you do for a living.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
Now anyhow, I called you today at twelve nineteen to say, oh.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Okay, Well, I forget what I was doing at twelve nineteen,
but obviously I wasn't near the phone.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
We'll talk to you on my nice it T shirt
and my mud The both of them say the voice
of reason.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Well that doesn't lie, that's for sure. I am the
voice of reason. And my last name is spelled are
e a, the first letters of the word reason, so
it fits.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Hey, thanks Tim, I'm gonna get one more in than
a great dog. Fifteen years you had.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Him, No, I only had it for ten. Wish I
had him longer. Ten die.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
You can't be Dan. Thanks some man.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
You take care you too, Tim will talk so thanks much.
Appreciate it about Okay, you too, and stay safe. Okay,
let me go to Warren. Warren, you're gonna have the
last word of the night. I'd love to know what
you think. I think I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 11 (38:19):
Yeah, I'm I'm amazed that this is even a controversy.
This is someone trying to pick something. They're trying to
make up stories that that are not there. Things are
that are not there.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Desperately watch that commercial over.
Speaker 11 (38:36):
And over again, and I don't get where they get Naziism.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
And you watch the commercial over and over because you
like the commercial. Don't kid me. I'm only.
Speaker 11 (38:47):
I mean all right, Like if you did you ever
watch them married with Children El Bundy.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I didn't.
Speaker 11 (38:56):
He had a great line, all right, and it goes
like this, ugly I'll say, pretty women make us by beer.
Ugly women make us drink beer.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Oh we're gonna get in trouble for that one, Warren,
but we'll let it go. Hey, look, thank you for
calling in, but I'm flat out of time, buddy, as.
Speaker 11 (39:22):
Always, all right, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
You bet you. Thanks Warre. I appreciate it very much. Okay,
we're done for the night. I want to thank the
state Auditor, Diane Disuglio. We're gonna get that legislature audited
by hook or by crook, and we're gonna do it
the right way. And I want to thank everybody who
called in tonight, those of you who didn't. I what
can I say? My name's Dan Ray. I'll end it
as always, Rob Brooks, great job, Marie, a great job.
(39:48):
All dogs, no, all dogs, all cats, all pets go
to heaven. That's what my pal Charlie ray Is who
passed fifteen years ago. That's why your pasts are past.
They loved you and you loved them. I do believe
you're going to see with them again. Hope this is
again tomorrow night on Nightside. I will be on Facebook
Nice Side with Dan Ray in a couple of minutes,
really quickly. You're not going to spend a lot of time,
but we'll say hello. Hope you'll stop by. Have a
(40:09):
great Thursday everyone, Dan Ray for Nightside, Thanks so much,
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