July 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show opens with a deep dive into the state of the U.S. economy under President Trump, highlighting record stock market highs, strong trade deals, and the positive momentum of the administration’s first six months. The hosts emphasize the impact of tax cuts and anticipate further economic growth if the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. They also discuss Trump’s overseas meetings, including with the British Prime Minister, as part of his ongoing foreign policy efforts.
The conversation shifts to national security and public safety, with Clay and Buck asserting that the U.S. southern border is more secure than ever. They cite a dramatic drop in violent crime across major cities, referencing reports from outlets like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. A key segment focuses on a mass stabbing incident in Traverse City, Michigan, where a former Marine named Derrick Perry heroically intervened with a legally carried firearm. This leads to a broader discussion on the role of armed citizens in deterring violence and the philosophical divide between conservatives and liberals on gun rights.
Clay and Buck argue that opposition to firearms is rooted more in cultural and political ideology than in crime statistics. They criticize the media for downplaying the effectiveness of lawful gun ownership and highlight the importance of empowering law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and others. The hosts also connect the decline in crime to the Trump administration’s support for law enforcement and stricter immigration enforcement, including the deportation of hundreds of illegal immigrants convicted of murder.
The hour then pivots to cultural commentary, focusing on the backlash against “woke” advertising. The hosts praise American Eagle’s decision to feature actress Sydney Sweeney in a new campaign, calling it a return to aspirational marketing and a rejection of body positivity campaigns that promote unhealthy lifestyles. They argue that brands are shifting away from politically correct messaging because it failed to resonate with consumers. This segment includes a critique of the media’s labeling of traditional beauty standards as “Nazi propaganda,” which Clay and Buck dismiss as absurd.
In a broader cultural context, the hosts discuss the growing emphasis on health and fitness among younger generations. They note a decline in smoking and binge drinking, while expressing concern over the increased use of high-potency marijuana. They argue that marijuana legalization has led to unintended consequences, including public health risks and a thriving black market. The conversation also touches on the importance of teaching young people to take risks, pursue physical fitness, and engage with the world beyond their screens.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I saw an interesting story over the weekend and it
ties in with the story that I'm going to talk
about here shortly, and it is we talked about positive
the economy, great deal with the EU that appears to
be in place. Trump is over in Scotland right now.
I think he's still there. There has been, and he's
(00:30):
been meeting with the Prime Minister of Britain.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
All of that going on.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Stock market again today hitting an all time high, or
at least it was up a bit, but basically stocks
at all time highs. Economy things are going very very well.
Feels like the first six months of the Trump administration.
Now with the tax cuts embedded and with many of
the trade deals in place, that we're really prepared to
(00:57):
really kind of go on a next level splurge in growth,
particularly when the FED, and I say win the FED
inevitably finally gets around to agreeing to cut interest rates.
That's going to just add on more gas. We've talked
about the fact that the border is completely secure, more
(01:18):
so than it has ever been in the life of
anyone that is out there listening to us right now.
But also crime big article in I believe it was
the Wall Street Journal over the weekend saying that we
are maybe in the New York Times one or the other,
that we are headed for potentially twenty first century crime lows.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And they were.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Saying, boy, we can't even figure out what's going on.
And they said, this is especially unbelievable because there's way
more guns now than have ever existed in the history
of the United States. This was one of the lines
in the article where liberals were trying to I think
it was a New York Times come to grips with
(02:01):
why violent crime notwithstanding the story we just told you
in Cincinnati, why violent crime is declining precipitously all over
the country in many different cities, will police are able
to do their jobs? But the article actually said, but
there's way more guns on the street than ever before.
It's not guns on the street that is the issue.
(02:23):
It's guns on the street in the hands of bad guys.
Guns on the street in the hands of good guys
can actually make us significantly safer. And there was an
awful story that happened over the weekend, and I was
thinking about it because I just was up in Traverse City, Michigan,
and I know many of you out there are traveling
(02:43):
northern Michigan. It's beautiful in the summer, and I appreciate
again the guys who had me up there for several days.
My wife's from Michigan. But this guy deserves a great
deal of credit. There was an awful story. Guy went
into a Walmart and just it sounds like is a
psychologically unstable, insane person that had been known to authorities
(03:05):
up there quite a long time. I believe, stabbed eleven
people in a Traverse City, Michigan area walmart and then
in the outside in the parking lot. The stabbing suspect
was restrained by several people in the parking lot, including
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a guy named Derek Perry, who is a former marine.
I know marines out there say they're never a former marine,
but was in the Armed Services, and he had a
gun on him, and he pulled that gun out and
restrained this crazy person ended the attacks. And we don't
know what motivation this crazy person was acting under, but
(03:49):
I do think that people like this who are heroes
and stop evildoers perpetrators of violence, deserve to become famous
in a way that the serial attacker who desires fame
does not. We try to avoid sharing those people's names.
But on the flip side, this is an example of
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somebody who saw violent act happening. We were saying in Cincinnati,
most people weren't doing anything. Here in Traverse City, this guy,
Derek Perry, pulled out his gun and stopped this attack
from continuing. And I do think we can spend a
little bit of time here saying hey, we're letting police
do their jobs again, and also good citizens out there.
(04:33):
There does seem to be a positive momentum overall in
declining the amount of violent crime that is occurring all
over the country.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Everybody is safer when a good citizen has a firearm,
who knows how to use it, who was a lawful carrier.
This is an I appendix carry sometimes down here in Miami.
I should do it really all the time, but it's
tough because there's not a lot of room to I'm
just being honest, not a lot of room to conceal carry.
(05:05):
So this is why my my brother You see my
brother Mason, and he's got a fanny pack on. He's
not carrying lip gloss and the fanny pack that I
could tell you. You know, there's a very good way
to conceal carry down here. Uh so, or I'm not
lip class, you know what I mean. I mean chapstick,
lip closs, if yellow, other kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's Miami, it's Miami. There's not there's anything wrong with that,
you know, not that I'm just saying it's different kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But yeah, concealed carry in a fanny, fanny pack, fanny pouch,
whatever you want to call it. I think there's different
names for it's a very good way to do it.
My point merely being that everyone around you is safer
when a good, law abiding citizen is carrying. And we
see this play out over and over and over again.
So much of the objection to firearms from the left
(05:52):
and the Democrats is really just it's actually philosophical. It
has almost nothing to do with crime. Uh there's a
cultural level and a political philosophical level. The left opposes
citizens being armed because culturally they think of guns as
belonging to the bad people, not the bad people. Bad people, right,
(06:14):
the bad people might be criminals, No no, no, I mean
bad people like they don't like them Trump voters, people
that are proud to be in red states. People that
don't agree with them on abortion or don't agree with
them on immigration tend to have guns. Right, So there's
just this culture it's just a culture war issue. If
somebody sits down with me, Clay and they say, oh, hey,
(06:35):
I saw a video of you, you and your brothers
roll out at the range last week, and that's awesome,
I'd I'd love to come sometime. The chance that I'm
going to agree with them on a whole lot of
other things in life is like ninety five percent, but
it's very high, it's not one hundred percent. So that
on one level, on one level, that that's an issue,
(06:55):
or that's how that the issue goes. And then in
a political philosophical issue, I mean, every fire arm in
an individual citizens' hands is a reminder to the state
that there's a little personal act of rebellion going on here,
like there is a line at which the state cannot
and shall not cross. And that's a very foundational philosophical difference.
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The left, Democrats, socialists, they want the state to be
able to just flip a switch as we saw during
COVID and have absolute and total control over you to
include life and death. They want that control and power
over you. And when you have an armed populist, when
you have an armed citizenry, that's a very different calculation.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I thought you would appreciate this too. It was the
New York Times which explains this being the headline. After
surge during pandemic, homicides fall significantly. What they have tried
to do is not connect the BLM anti police movement
with the surgeon crome, because, as we point out on
(08:01):
this show, the surgeon crime didn't happen until May of
twenty twenty, when suddenly every cop was a bad guy.
They couldn't even put cops on television shows, and we
started hearing, hey, maybe we should replace the police with
domestic you know, domestic workers or whatever it is. The
(08:22):
social workers, domestic violence scenes don't need police officers. So
they're still trying to say, oh, this all happened because
of COVID, but now homicides are coming back massively, and
I think it's quite clearly because cops are able to
do their jobs again. And again, this is not a
one hundred percent representative survey, but this year, for instance,
(08:48):
Chicago's murder rate is down thirty three percent compared to
last year, Saint Louis twenty two percent, Baltimore twenty four percent,
Denver down forty percent. And these things are happening in
most cities nationwide now. And I just think it's interesting
(09:09):
because the talk had been, oh, police are awful, police
are awful, and as soon as you let police start
to do their jobs again, then oh, my goodness, guess
what happens. And so anyway, I do think that's yet
another positive that isn't getting very much attention. I don't
think it's coincidental that Trump has come into office that
(09:31):
he has said, Hey, cops, let's get bad guys off
the street, let's keep violent perpetrators behind bars, and let's
get all these illegal Did you see the stat I
think it got CBS dunked on. There was report, Hey,
Trump has only deported seven hundred and something murders, and
people are like, only murder's pretty rare. Like if you
(09:55):
can kick seven hundred illegals who are guilty of murder
out of the country, the violent crime rates can start
to improve. Now they're still too high all of those things.
But I did think, again, economy, border crime, when you
look at the data. I don't know that very many
people are talking about this. I think the FBI deserves credit.
(10:16):
I think the Trump administration deserves credit. If twenty twenty five,
if we are going to set potentially twenty first century
lows and murder, that's a very good thing. And I
think it's largely because police are being able to do
their jobs. And I think also guys like Derek Perry
who have weapons and see bad things happening and decide, hey,
(10:37):
I'm going to stop this, they deserve credit for helping
to create a culture that is the opposite of the
culture of hey, let me just get my phone and
take a video of a random guy committing an act
of violence.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to
try to stop it in any way. Yes, Well, again,
the way the media covers this is always aligned with
their ideological position against guns, so they try to downpla
the fact that there are so many instances of defensive
or even good Samaritan firearms. Use firearms, you know, sometimes
(11:11):
you don't even have to shoot, you just have to
have the gun, right, you can hold the gun on somebody,
you can, you know, prevent the shooting or the stabbing
from continuing. So it's the evidence on this is very clear.
But that's why clay I mentioned the philosophical points. It's
not about what the crime numbers are because there's no
argument to be made. Gang bangers don't care how much
(11:32):
you hate gun. They're gonna find a way to get guns.
There's hundreds of millions of guns in circulation this country.
They're gonna have guns no matter what. You're not stopping
the gang members by saying we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Make it extra super special illegal. If you get a
gun now, we're gonna limit your magazines. We're gonna get
rid of ar fifteens that have scary appendages on them
or you know that have That is that is about
gun lawful gun owners sticking your thumb in their eye
as the kamis.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That is what. It has nothing to do with actually
limiting crime, because it never works. If it was about that,
Eventually they would recognize that their policies or failures it
Once you understand that the opposition to guns is not
about it's not about gun violence, it's not about gun
crime unless you're just a complete ignoramis it works with
the ignoramises. But the people that actually understand this argument
(12:21):
and know the numbers will tell you, oh, no, those
who are running these places, these different NGOs, and you
know the Democrat apparatus that is trying to constantly pass
more gun laws, as if we don't have enough gun laws.
It's always about I don't like the people who own guns,
and I want the state to have more control. It's
so it's a philosophical thing. They use the crime thing
(12:43):
as a as a as a means of mobilizing the
gun grabbers out there. So I just I have no
tolerance for it. I find it the people it's out
also an issue, by the way, where the the Democrat
media doesn't feel that the least been embarrassed for knowing
absolutely nothing. This is where the chainsaw bayonet thing came.
Remember that on USA today, have you seen this AR
(13:06):
fifteen could be fitted with a chainsaw bayonet. And then,
of course chainsaw bayonets totally sold out because it's such
a fun novelty item, like no one, no one's breaking
into a liquor store, like give me all your money
or I'll get you with my chainsaw bayonet. But they're
they're idiots on the subject. They don't care because it's
about they don't like the people that have the guns,
and so that's I always try to explain this to
(13:27):
people in that way, so then then it all makes sense.
Then you get that Clay and I can sit here
all day and talk about the good guys with guns
and all the good things that happened from a society
with law abiding gun owners. They don't care. They want
to control you. It's a means of control, and they
want to separate people based on whether they support guns
or not. So the gun people are bad people. That's it.
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Speaker 1 (18:50):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we are rolling
through the Monday edition of the program Friday, I think
we talked about this major cultural shift that has occurred
where the idea that hey, I'm gonna put I know,
(19:11):
we talked about this someonhe it was happening because it
was so crazy, but the idea that, for instance, Nike
was going to put a man who's pretending to be
a woman in a sports bra and be like, you
should go buy Nikes, and all of us kind of
looked around, like this is crazy. And then the thing
that really got popular was hey, really obese people in spandex, Like, hey,
(19:37):
you should wear spandex and be really happy with your
body even if you were three hundred pounds.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
It was like, well, I don't know how I feel
about all this.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
There's really a revolution, I would say against those ads
because buy and Marge they didn't work. And I talked
about this on Friday Buck. One of the best jobs
I ever had, maybe the most fun job I ever had,
was making four dollars and fifty cents an hour working
at the American Eagle Rivergate Mall Goodlettsville, Tennessee when I
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was in high school. And American Eagle stock has been
not good for much of the last five years, and
I went back and looked at it. It's a very
popular retail chain, and they decided, hey, we've got to
change our overall mojo and they said, we're going to
hire Sidney Sweeney. And Sidney Sweeney is now doing ads
(20:31):
for American Eagle that I think it's fair to say
are sexy in nature, and in general it's going to
shock some of you.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I think, how do you say it? It is fair
to say it is a little sexy for Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yes, yes, well, some people don't know who Sidney Sweeney is,
but and I understand that in the audience. But the
idea being that in general she's Buxom Buxom would be
Buxhom last, Buxom last for sure. That in general, one
way that products sell themselves is by putting pretty girls
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in the product and deciding that people will want to
buy products that pretty girls are trying to sell.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
And this has been a trend for a very very
long time.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And so this ad is up and what I would
call is the sort of fat, noseringed, pink haired contingent
of the world out there is angry that brands are
going back to good looking girls, and this has gone viral.
(21:37):
One of these left wingers, I want to play this
for you, Buck says that the American Eagle ad of
Sydney Sweeney is Nazi propaganda.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Listen, should we be surprised that a company whose name
is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this?
Probably not, but it's still really shocking. Like a blonde haired, blue,
two eyed white woman is talking about her good gens
like that is Nazi propaganda.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Nazi propaganda. Not a cute girl in jeans talking about
her good jeens is Nazi propaganda, according to the left. Now,
I mentioned this, I think on Friday Book. I don't
know how you've ever been influenced by advertising involving attractive women.
(22:30):
I think the most direct result ever. And my wife
still makes fun of me about this. I watched the
Victorious Secret Fashion Calendar Show or whatever that thing's called.
They do like a Christmas spectacus, I've heard they do
like a Christmas spectacular, bunch of girls in lingerie. I
watched it, went out, bought like two hundred dollars in
lingerie for my wife maybe the next day. I mean,
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I just went and bought everything and I was like,
I'm a stooge, but this worked on me. I'm gonna
go get everything boom, bring it back all right. So
I can't speak for all men, but in general, I
would say that men are influenced by attractive women trying
to get them to buy things. But Nazi propaganda and
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the question I asked, and I would love to know
a lot of this. Are the same people who were
putting fat women into spandex and saying like, you're healthy,
even though obviously if you're super obese you're not healthy,
like you should lose weight. Are those the same people
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do you think making the ads now and they just
recognize that the cultural wins have shifted, or do you
think these companies fired the people who did such an
awful job doing I mean, Victoria's Secret's a perfect example
of this. They were like, we're gonna do away with
supermodels and just put our product on regular people. And
people are like, this is not you know, like I
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don't want to know what I'm going to look like.
I want to pretend that I'm gonna way better, Like
I don't buy I don't buy a bathing suit and think, oh,
I'm going to look as good as the guy who's
in the bathing suit ad. But I definitely don't want
to look like nobody's going to buy an ad if
I'm in the bathings I'm in the bathing suit ad Like.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
This is not a way to sell products. I think
that the people who were doing the ads before in
many cases are the ones who now have shifted with
the wind. That would be my just same people.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
They just completely they've made principles like the Yeah, I
mean you see this with a lot of people in
the in the corporate on the corporate side of things,
they just whichever way the wind is blowing is how
they're going to as how they're going to go.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And I think that this was pretty inevitable. There is
a part of this as well that maybe doesn't get
as much attention or focus, but the whole body positivity thing. Yeah,
as people become more and more health focused, and I
really mean that in the broadest term health focus, but
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of things. But this whole range, what I'm saying is
the idea that you could be morbidly obese and should
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be proud of. That is very similar to the idea
that you could be so anorexic that your you know,
your central nervous system could shut down and people would
be like, oh, yeah, look at how skinny you are. Right,
I mean this, it's deeply unhealthy, and more and more
people I think have realized this. I don't mean it's
unhealthy like you don't look sexy in a bikini. That's
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a whole other universe of thinking or whole other perspective
on it. It is you are heading toward a shortened
lifespan less mobility, less energy, poor sleep, type two diabetes,
heart all this stuff. So I think body positivity more
has also play run into not just a cultural pushback
(26:31):
on this madness, but also science. Yeah, the science, you
could say, I think people are seeing this more and more.
It's also why I would note, and this is a
really positive thing. Binge drinking in the culture has really
gone down substantially. There's a lot of data to support this.
Drinking in general is on a decline. You know, excessive drinking.
(26:52):
I'mlen to talk about having a glass of wine or
two with dinner, but drinking as a form of almost
sport to excess because it is horrible for you. And
if you want to be healthy and you want to
feel good, drinking so much that you wake up the
next day with a hangover on a regular basis is
essentially throwing a hole. It is throwing a wrench into
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all of your plans. So I think that this is
a pretty seismic shift. And yes, hot chicks are a
part of it. That is also true. There's going to
be more of a focus on the aspirational side of beauty,
and because if everybody is physically beautiful, then like nobody's
physically beautiful, right, I mean, we're all doing the best
of what we got. Very few of us win the
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genetics lottery the way that the Victoria's Secret Models do.
But that doesn't mean that we all just give up.
And you know the side that we're going to go to,
the Rosi o'donald route. You know, it can be a
little more. You can put a little more thought into
your health, into your appearance, into all of those things.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Aspiring to be healthier and stronger and all of those things,
I would argue is one of the most important things.
That young men and young women can be tough. And
it doesn't mean that you're gonna, to Buck's point, look
like a Victoria's Secret Supermodel if you're a woman, or
you're gonna look like Superman if you're a guy. But
getting in the gym and trying to get stronger is
(28:11):
a really good thing. And I do think that younger
people are cognizant of this, and there are some negatives.
Because I'm raising three young boys, there are some negatives.
I think that their society is embracing that are different
than prior generations. You know, there is a benefit to
(28:32):
taking risk a lot of kids today, for instance, don't
want to get driver's license. They're happy to just stay
on their phones as opposed to going out on dates
or going out.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I think that's having an impact across the board. But
it is true, like my kids, when they see someone
smoking a cigarette, they react like someone is shooting As
young kids, they would react like someone was shooting up Heroin.
I grew up in an era when somebody's mom always
was smoking cigarettes in the car with the windows all
(29:04):
rolled up, and you know, you were always like trying
to just get a breath and it's cold outside, and
you know, the whole car is just filled with smoke. Heck,
I remember you know this certainly, Remember when every bar
you went to there was just a cloud of smoke everywhere.
Remember when they had smoking sections and restaurants and that
(29:26):
was a laugh because the smoke just went everywhere. You
go into a bar now and there's nobody smoking. I mean,
there are a lot of decisions that have been made
that I think are beneficial, and I think to your point,
young kids are not using drugs now. One downside is
they're actually using marijuana, which is much stronger at levels
(29:47):
that are somewhat high, and that is maybe more destructive
than using alcohol would be on some levels, because the
marijuana kids are using today is much stronger than the
marijuana that would have existed to twenty five or thirty
years ago. And our friend Alex Berenson has wrote a
whole piece about how destructive that can be. I think
we kind of sold the idea that pot is not dangerous,
(30:08):
and the frequent use of pot is actually incredibly dangerous.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So there's one of the areas of public policy where
I will admit I was. I was. I think it's
very rare for me to be bamboozled. But on the
it's no big deal, we legalize it, no big problem
I have. I am very much in the other direction.
I don't think people should obviously get locked up or
something for smoking weed, But this notion that we should
(30:35):
just allow it, it's everywhere. It's a it's a total
mess in New York City. Now, you walk down the
street and I'm walking down the street with my baby
and people are blowing marijuana smoke in our faces all that.
It's disgusting. It's just digusting.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It feels to me almost like marijuana smoking is more
common than cigarette smoking.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Now, yeah, we just certainly I smell marijuana in New
York City. I was just there more frequently than I
smell cigarette smoke. That is a true statement walking around midtown.
And it is not harmless. It is very bad for
your mental health. There's a lot of stuff. But we
were all, we were live. We were told it was
all about getting people, you know, treatment for their glaucoma,
to help with their pain. It was all gonna be.
(31:11):
It was going to pay for all the schools. Right. No,
because when you tax a lot of weed is so
easy to make or so he's to grow rather that
when you tax it heavily, you just the black market
just grows even more because people want to just get it.
They don't want to pay these higher prices.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
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All right, welcome back into Clay and Bock so much
who discussed out. I want to talk a little bit
about some of the big policy things going down, like
Trump on Russia, part of his discussion this morning with
care Starmer and where that's going to, where that's heading next.
Also the situation in Gaza getting a lot of attention
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years ago, and well they should have never been taken,
(33:28):
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I'm sorry, I'm pulling up to get the exact right number,
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We are at ninety almost ninety four thousand, So in
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Now.
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I meet a lot of these people. I know you
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A lot of people out there, especially in the summer,
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And so I made a joke recently. I was out
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Speaker 2 (35:58):
I got to talk back here in ee podcast listener.
Thank you podcast listeners out there. Bill North Carolina hit it.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I've worked both on the ad agency side and the
corporate side, and I can tell you the people who
made the switch to beautiful women, the decision was made
by the corporate people. They fired the old agency, hired
a new agency just to keep their jobs. That's how
it worked.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah, I mean I agree with that, the agency versus
corporate side. You know, I think the people making the
decisions probably realized beautiful women actually sell genes, actually sell
anything that you need them to sell in an ad
This has been known for all of human history so yeah,
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I saw an interesting story over the weekend and it
ties in with the story that I'm going to talk
about here shortly, and it is we talked about positive
the economy, great deal with the EU that appears to
be in place. Trump is over in Scotland right now.
I think he's still there. There has been, and he's
(00:30):
been meeting with the Prime Minister of Britain.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
All of that going on.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Stock market again today hitting an all time high, or
at least it was up a bit, but basically stocks
at all time highs. Economy things are going very very well.
Feels like the first six months of the Trump administration.
Now with the tax cuts embedded and with many of
the trade deals in place, that we're really prepared to
(00:57):
really kind of go on a next level splurge in growth,
particularly when the FED, and I say win the FED
inevitably finally gets around to agreeing to cut interest rates.
That's going to just add on more gas. We've talked
about the fact that the border is completely secure, more
(01:18):
so than it has ever been in the life of
anyone that is out there listening to us right now.
But also crime big article in I believe it was
the Wall Street Journal over the weekend saying that we
are maybe in the New York Times one or the other,
that we are headed for potentially twenty first century crime lows.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And they were.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Saying, boy, we can't even figure out what's going on.
And they said, this is especially unbelievable because there's way
more guns now than have ever existed in the history
of the United States. This was one of the lines
in the article where liberals were trying to I think
it was a New York Times come to grips with
(02:01):
why violent crime notwithstanding the story we just told you
in Cincinnati, why violent crime is declining precipitously all over
the country in many different cities, will police are able
to do their jobs? But the article actually said, but
there's way more guns on the street than ever before.
It's not guns on the street that is the issue.
(02:23):
It's guns on the street in the hands of bad guys.
Guns on the street in the hands of good guys
can actually make us significantly safer. And there was an
awful story that happened over the weekend, and I was
thinking about it because I just was up in Traverse City, Michigan,
and I know many of you out there are traveling
(02:43):
northern Michigan. It's beautiful in the summer, and I appreciate
again the guys who had me up there for several days.
My wife's from Michigan. But this guy deserves a great
deal of credit. There was an awful story. Guy went
into a Walmart and just it sounds like is a
psychologically unstable, insane person that had been known to authorities
(03:05):
up there quite a long time. I believe, stabbed eleven
people in a Traverse City, Michigan area walmart and then
in the outside in the parking lot. The stabbing suspect
was restrained by several people in the parking lot, including
(03:26):
a guy named Derek Perry, who is a former marine.
I know marines out there say they're never a former marine,
but was in the Armed Services, and he had a
gun on him, and he pulled that gun out and
restrained this crazy person ended the attacks. And we don't
know what motivation this crazy person was acting under, but
(03:49):
I do think that people like this who are heroes
and stop evildoers perpetrators of violence, deserve to become famous
in a way that the serial attacker who desires fame
does not. We try to avoid sharing those people's names.
But on the flip side, this is an example of
(04:10):
somebody who saw violent act happening. We were saying in Cincinnati,
most people weren't doing anything. Here in Traverse City, this guy,
Derek Perry, pulled out his gun and stopped this attack
from continuing. And I do think we can spend a
little bit of time here saying hey, we're letting police
do their jobs again, and also good citizens out there.
(04:33):
There does seem to be a positive momentum overall in
declining the amount of violent crime that is occurring all
over the country.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Everybody is safer when a good citizen has a firearm,
who knows how to use it, who was a lawful carrier.
This is an I appendix carry sometimes down here in Miami.
I should do it really all the time, but it's
tough because there's not a lot of room to I'm
just being honest, not a lot of room to conceal carry.
(05:05):
So this is why my my brother You see my
brother Mason, and he's got a fanny pack on. He's
not carrying lip gloss and the fanny pack that I
could tell you. You know, there's a very good way
to conceal carry down here. Uh so, or I'm not
lip class, you know what I mean. I mean chapstick,
lip closs, if yellow, other kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's Miami, it's Miami. There's not there's anything wrong with that,
you know, not that I'm just saying it's different kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But yeah, concealed carry in a fanny, fanny pack, fanny pouch,
whatever you want to call it. I think there's different
names for it's a very good way to do it.
My point merely being that everyone around you is safer
when a good, law abiding citizen is carrying. And we
see this play out over and over and over again.
So much of the objection to firearms from the left
(05:52):
and the Democrats is really just it's actually philosophical. It
has almost nothing to do with crime. Uh there's a
cultural level and a political philosophical level. The left opposes
citizens being armed because culturally they think of guns as
belonging to the bad people, not the bad people. Bad people, right,
(06:14):
the bad people might be criminals, No no, no, I mean
bad people like they don't like them Trump voters, people
that are proud to be in red states. People that
don't agree with them on abortion or don't agree with
them on immigration tend to have guns. Right, So there's
just this culture it's just a culture war issue. If
somebody sits down with me, Clay and they say, oh, hey,
(06:35):
I saw a video of you, you and your brothers
roll out at the range last week, and that's awesome,
I'd I'd love to come sometime. The chance that I'm
going to agree with them on a whole lot of
other things in life is like ninety five percent, but
it's very high, it's not one hundred percent. So that
on one level, on one level, that that's an issue,
(06:55):
or that's how that the issue goes. And then in
a political philosophical issue, I mean, every fire arm in
an individual citizens' hands is a reminder to the state
that there's a little personal act of rebellion going on here,
like there is a line at which the state cannot
and shall not cross. And that's a very foundational philosophical difference.
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The left, Democrats, socialists, they want the state to be
able to just flip a switch as we saw during
COVID and have absolute and total control over you to
include life and death. They want that control and power
over you. And when you have an armed populist, when
you have an armed citizenry, that's a very different calculation.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I thought you would appreciate this too. It was the
New York Times which explains this being the headline. After
surge during pandemic, homicides fall significantly. What they have tried
to do is not connect the BLM anti police movement
with the surgeon crome, because, as we point out on
(08:01):
this show, the surgeon crime didn't happen until May of
twenty twenty, when suddenly every cop was a bad guy.
They couldn't even put cops on television shows, and we
started hearing, hey, maybe we should replace the police with
domestic you know, domestic workers or whatever it is. The
(08:22):
social workers, domestic violence scenes don't need police officers. So
they're still trying to say, oh, this all happened because
of COVID, but now homicides are coming back massively, and
I think it's quite clearly because cops are able to
do their jobs again. And again, this is not a
one hundred percent representative survey, but this year, for instance,
(08:48):
Chicago's murder rate is down thirty three percent compared to
last year, Saint Louis twenty two percent, Baltimore twenty four percent,
Denver down forty percent. And these things are happening in
most cities nationwide now. And I just think it's interesting
(09:09):
because the talk had been, oh, police are awful, police
are awful, and as soon as you let police start
to do their jobs again, then oh, my goodness, guess
what happens. And so anyway, I do think that's yet
another positive that isn't getting very much attention. I don't
think it's coincidental that Trump has come into office that
(09:31):
he has said, Hey, cops, let's get bad guys off
the street, let's keep violent perpetrators behind bars, and let's
get all these illegal Did you see the stat I
think it got CBS dunked on. There was report, Hey,
Trump has only deported seven hundred and something murders, and
people are like, only murder's pretty rare. Like if you
(09:55):
can kick seven hundred illegals who are guilty of murder
out of the country, the violent crime rates can start
to improve. Now they're still too high all of those things.
But I did think, again, economy, border crime, when you
look at the data. I don't know that very many
people are talking about this. I think the FBI deserves credit.
(10:16):
I think the Trump administration deserves credit. If twenty twenty five,
if we are going to set potentially twenty first century
lows and murder, that's a very good thing. And I
think it's largely because police are being able to do
their jobs. And I think also guys like Derek Perry
who have weapons and see bad things happening and decide, hey,
(10:37):
I'm going to stop this, they deserve credit for helping
to create a culture that is the opposite of the
culture of hey, let me just get my phone and
take a video of a random guy committing an act
of violence.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to
try to stop it in any way. Yes, Well, again,
the way the media covers this is always aligned with
their ideological position against guns, so they try to downpla
the fact that there are so many instances of defensive
or even good Samaritan firearms. Use firearms, you know, sometimes
(11:11):
you don't even have to shoot, you just have to
have the gun, right, you can hold the gun on somebody,
you can, you know, prevent the shooting or the stabbing
from continuing. So it's the evidence on this is very clear.
But that's why clay I mentioned the philosophical points. It's
not about what the crime numbers are because there's no
argument to be made. Gang bangers don't care how much
(11:32):
you hate gun. They're gonna find a way to get guns.
There's hundreds of millions of guns in circulation this country.
They're gonna have guns no matter what. You're not stopping
the gang members by saying we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Make it extra super special illegal. If you get a
gun now, we're gonna limit your magazines. We're gonna get
rid of ar fifteens that have scary appendages on them
or you know that have That is that is about
gun lawful gun owners sticking your thumb in their eye
as the kamis.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That is what. It has nothing to do with actually
limiting crime, because it never works. If it was about that,
Eventually they would recognize that their policies or failures it
Once you understand that the opposition to guns is not
about it's not about gun violence, it's not about gun
crime unless you're just a complete ignoramis it works with
the ignoramises. But the people that actually understand this argument
(12:21):
and know the numbers will tell you, oh, no, those
who are running these places, these different NGOs, and you
know the Democrat apparatus that is trying to constantly pass
more gun laws, as if we don't have enough gun laws.
It's always about I don't like the people who own guns,
and I want the state to have more control. It's
so it's a philosophical thing. They use the crime thing
(12:43):
as a as a as a means of mobilizing the
gun grabbers out there. So I just I have no
tolerance for it. I find it the people it's out
also an issue, by the way, where the the Democrat
media doesn't feel that the least been embarrassed for knowing
absolutely nothing. This is where the chainsaw bayonet thing came.
Remember that on USA today, have you seen this AR
(13:06):
fifteen could be fitted with a chainsaw bayonet. And then,
of course chainsaw bayonets totally sold out because it's such
a fun novelty item, like no one, no one's breaking
into a liquor store, like give me all your money
or I'll get you with my chainsaw bayonet. But they're
they're idiots on the subject. They don't care because it's
about they don't like the people that have the guns,
and so that's I always try to explain this to
(13:27):
people in that way, so then then it all makes sense.
Then you get that Clay and I can sit here
all day and talk about the good guys with guns
and all the good things that happened from a society
with law abiding gun owners. They don't care. They want
to control you. It's a means of control, and they
want to separate people based on whether they support guns
or not. So the gun people are bad people. That's it.
That's as simple as it is for them. Everything else
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Continued whining. In the aftermath of the Colbert Late Show,
Uh cancelation this time coming from smuglib whom I've known
all along was a smuglib. Some people kind of liked him,
some people thought he was funny, but some of us
thought David Letterman was a smuglib. Here he is.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
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Speaker 2 (16:07):
I know you can think I create the talent without
agreeing with the without agree with the politics. But here
is David Letterman weighing on the Colbert cancelation. Play twenty
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I mean, you're telling me sixty minutes the pinnacle of
journalistic excellence and integrity for decades, and many of those
decades the number one viewed show in America. They've they've
decided we're sorry. He let us give you twenty million
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Is this a business or a charity that they're running
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It's to see how the the Libs think about media. Well.
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we are rolling
through the Monday edition of the program Friday, I think
we talked about this major cultural shift that has occurred
where the idea that hey, I'm gonna put I know,
(19:11):
we talked about this someonhe it was happening because it
was so crazy, but the idea that, for instance, Nike
was going to put a man who's pretending to be
a woman in a sports bra and be like, you
should go buy Nikes, and all of us kind of
looked around, like this is crazy. And then the thing
that really got popular was hey, really obese people in spandex, Like, hey,
(19:37):
you should wear spandex and be really happy with your
body even if you were three hundred pounds.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
It was like, well, I don't know how I feel
about all this.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
There's really a revolution, I would say against those ads
because buy and Marge they didn't work. And I talked
about this on Friday Buck. One of the best jobs
I ever had, maybe the most fun job I ever had,
was making four dollars and fifty cents an hour working
at the American Eagle Rivergate Mall Goodlettsville, Tennessee when I
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was in high school. And American Eagle stock has been
not good for much of the last five years, and
I went back and looked at it. It's a very
popular retail chain, and they decided, hey, we've got to
change our overall mojo and they said, we're going to
hire Sidney Sweeney. And Sidney Sweeney is now doing ads
(20:31):
for American Eagle that I think it's fair to say
are sexy in nature, and in general it's going to
shock some of you.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I think, how do you say it? It is fair
to say it is a little sexy for Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yes, yes, well, some people don't know who Sidney Sweeney is,
but and I understand that in the audience. But the
idea being that in general she's Buxom Buxom would be
Buxhom last, Buxom last for sure. That in general, one
way that products sell themselves is by putting pretty girls
(21:05):
in the product and deciding that people will want to
buy products that pretty girls are trying to sell.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
And this has been a trend for a very very
long time.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And so this ad is up and what I would
call is the sort of fat, noseringed, pink haired contingent
of the world out there is angry that brands are
going back to good looking girls, and this has gone viral.
(21:37):
One of these left wingers, I want to play this
for you, Buck says that the American Eagle ad of
Sydney Sweeney is Nazi propaganda.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Listen, should we be surprised that a company whose name
is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this?
Probably not, but it's still really shocking. Like a blonde haired, blue,
two eyed white woman is talking about her good gens
like that is Nazi propaganda.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Nazi propaganda. Not a cute girl in jeans talking about
her good jeens is Nazi propaganda, according to the left. Now,
I mentioned this, I think on Friday Book. I don't
know how you've ever been influenced by advertising involving attractive women.
(22:30):
I think the most direct result ever. And my wife
still makes fun of me about this. I watched the
Victorious Secret Fashion Calendar Show or whatever that thing's called.
They do like a Christmas spectacus, I've heard they do
like a Christmas spectacular, bunch of girls in lingerie. I
watched it, went out, bought like two hundred dollars in
lingerie for my wife maybe the next day. I mean,
(22:53):
I just went and bought everything and I was like,
I'm a stooge, but this worked on me. I'm gonna
go get everything boom, bring it back all right. So
I can't speak for all men, but in general, I
would say that men are influenced by attractive women trying
to get them to buy things. But Nazi propaganda and
(23:14):
the question I asked, and I would love to know
a lot of this. Are the same people who were
putting fat women into spandex and saying like, you're healthy,
even though obviously if you're super obese you're not healthy,
like you should lose weight. Are those the same people
(23:35):
do you think making the ads now and they just
recognize that the cultural wins have shifted, or do you
think these companies fired the people who did such an
awful job doing I mean, Victoria's Secret's a perfect example
of this. They were like, we're gonna do away with
supermodels and just put our product on regular people. And
people are like, this is not you know, like I
(23:56):
don't want to know what I'm going to look like.
I want to pretend that I'm gonna way better, Like
I don't buy I don't buy a bathing suit and think, oh,
I'm going to look as good as the guy who's
in the bathing suit ad. But I definitely don't want
to look like nobody's going to buy an ad if
I'm in the bathings I'm in the bathing suit ad Like.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
This is not a way to sell products. I think
that the people who were doing the ads before in
many cases are the ones who now have shifted with
the wind. That would be my just same people.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
They just completely they've made principles like the Yeah, I
mean you see this with a lot of people in
the in the corporate on the corporate side of things,
they just whichever way the wind is blowing is how
they're going to as how they're going to go.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And I think that this was pretty inevitable. There is
a part of this as well that maybe doesn't get
as much attention or focus, but the whole body positivity thing. Yeah,
as people become more and more health focused, and I
really mean that in the broadest term health focus, but
learn more about this stuff, and also as the tool
(25:01):
to improve your health dramatically, not to wait until you're sick,
not to you know, this is not about you know,
the thing you take when you already have the condition,
so much as its ways to get yourself into a
better day to day health and have more energy and
all this, and the most notable one is the GLP ones.
I mean, this is a revolution in health. I know
(25:24):
lots of people who have taken them with you know,
I'm not doing an ad for them right now, but
with incredible results. I am personally a believer in peptides
for the future, for longevity for a whole rate. Now
peptides a branch chan amino acid. That's a whole range
of things. But this whole range, what I'm saying is
the idea that you could be morbidly obese and should
(25:48):
be proud of. That is very similar to the idea
that you could be so anorexic that your you know,
your central nervous system could shut down and people would
be like, oh, yeah, look at how skinny you are. Right,
I mean this, it's deeply unhealthy, and more and more
people I think have realized this. I don't mean it's
unhealthy like you don't look sexy in a bikini. That's
(26:10):
a whole other universe of thinking or whole other perspective
on it. It is you are heading toward a shortened
lifespan less mobility, less energy, poor sleep, type two diabetes,
heart all this stuff. So I think body positivity more
has also play run into not just a cultural pushback
(26:31):
on this madness, but also science. Yeah, the science, you
could say, I think people are seeing this more and more.
It's also why I would note, and this is a
really positive thing. Binge drinking in the culture has really
gone down substantially. There's a lot of data to support this.
Drinking in general is on a decline. You know, excessive drinking.
(26:52):
I'mlen to talk about having a glass of wine or
two with dinner, but drinking as a form of almost
sport to excess because it is horrible for you. And
if you want to be healthy and you want to
feel good, drinking so much that you wake up the
next day with a hangover on a regular basis is
essentially throwing a hole. It is throwing a wrench into
(27:12):
all of your plans. So I think that this is
a pretty seismic shift. And yes, hot chicks are a
part of it. That is also true. There's going to
be more of a focus on the aspirational side of beauty,
and because if everybody is physically beautiful, then like nobody's
physically beautiful, right, I mean, we're all doing the best
of what we got. Very few of us win the
(27:34):
genetics lottery the way that the Victoria's Secret Models do.
But that doesn't mean that we all just give up.
And you know the side that we're going to go to,
the Rosi o'donald route. You know, it can be a
little more. You can put a little more thought into
your health, into your appearance, into all of those things.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Aspiring to be healthier and stronger and all of those things,
I would argue is one of the most important things.
That young men and young women can be tough. And
it doesn't mean that you're gonna, to Buck's point, look
like a Victoria's Secret Supermodel if you're a woman, or
you're gonna look like Superman if you're a guy. But
getting in the gym and trying to get stronger is
(28:11):
a really good thing. And I do think that younger
people are cognizant of this, and there are some negatives.
Because I'm raising three young boys, there are some negatives.
I think that their society is embracing that are different
than prior generations. You know, there is a benefit to
(28:32):
taking risk a lot of kids today, for instance, don't
want to get driver's license. They're happy to just stay
on their phones as opposed to going out on dates
or going out.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I think that's having an impact across the board. But
it is true, like my kids, when they see someone
smoking a cigarette, they react like someone is shooting As
young kids, they would react like someone was shooting up Heroin.
I grew up in an era when somebody's mom always
was smoking cigarettes in the car with the windows all
(29:04):
rolled up, and you know, you were always like trying
to just get a breath and it's cold outside, and
you know, the whole car is just filled with smoke. Heck,
I remember you know this certainly, Remember when every bar
you went to there was just a cloud of smoke everywhere.
Remember when they had smoking sections and restaurants and that
(29:26):
was a laugh because the smoke just went everywhere. You
go into a bar now and there's nobody smoking. I mean,
there are a lot of decisions that have been made
that I think are beneficial, and I think to your point,
young kids are not using drugs now. One downside is
they're actually using marijuana, which is much stronger at levels
(29:47):
that are somewhat high, and that is maybe more destructive
than using alcohol would be on some levels, because the
marijuana kids are using today is much stronger than the
marijuana that would have existed to twenty five or thirty
years ago. And our friend Alex Berenson has wrote a
whole piece about how destructive that can be. I think
we kind of sold the idea that pot is not dangerous,
(30:08):
and the frequent use of pot is actually incredibly dangerous.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So there's one of the areas of public policy where
I will admit I was. I was. I think it's
very rare for me to be bamboozled. But on the
it's no big deal, we legalize it, no big problem
I have. I am very much in the other direction.
I don't think people should obviously get locked up or
something for smoking weed, But this notion that we should
(30:35):
just allow it, it's everywhere. It's a it's a total
mess in New York City. Now, you walk down the
street and I'm walking down the street with my baby
and people are blowing marijuana smoke in our faces all that.
It's disgusting. It's just digusting.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It feels to me almost like marijuana smoking is more
common than cigarette smoking.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Now, yeah, we just certainly I smell marijuana in New
York City. I was just there more frequently than I
smell cigarette smoke. That is a true statement walking around midtown.
And it is not harmless. It is very bad for
your mental health. There's a lot of stuff. But we
were all, we were live. We were told it was
all about getting people, you know, treatment for their glaucoma,
to help with their pain. It was all gonna be.
(31:11):
It was going to pay for all the schools. Right. No,
because when you tax a lot of weed is so
easy to make or so he's to grow rather that
when you tax it heavily, you just the black market
just grows even more because people want to just get it.
They don't want to pay these higher prices.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So well, positive is good looking. Advertisements are back, which
I think is just a repudiation of the woke era.
Maybe some of you disagree. I don't think so, but
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I meet a lot of these people. I know you
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A lot of people out there, especially in the summer,
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And so I made a joke recently. I was out
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Speaker 5 (36:04):
I've worked both on the ad agency side and the
corporate side, and I can tell you the people who
made the switch to beautiful women, the decision was made
by the corporate people. They fired the old agency, hired
a new agency just to keep their jobs. That's how
it worked.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah, I mean I agree with that, the agency versus
corporate side. You know, I think the people making the
decisions probably realized beautiful women actually sell genes, actually sell
anything that you need them to sell in an ad
This has been known for all of human history so yeah,
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