September 1, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you for listening. This is the best of with
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Bill O'Reilly came on and he dunked on us and said, hey,
I've got a million YouTube subscribers, And he wasn't even
trying to dunk on us. He was just kind of
just dropping it in there, like, Hey, no big deal,
million YouTube subscribers and we don't even have one hundred
thousand yet. And I don't know, I's still going to
be dunking on us at a million to one hundred thousand,
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but at least it's a really bit more respectable. And
eventually we're going to have all three hours of the
show up on the site, and I would appreciate if
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you are young yourself and you're out and about on
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show every day, but you think to yourself, boy, you
know what i'd really like to do I'd like to
see what t shirt Klay Travis is in today. The
only way you can do that is to be on YouTube.
Maybe you want to know what t shirt bucks in.
Only way you can do that is to be on YouTube.
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So let's get over one hundred thousand subscribers and we
will make Buck do a TikTok dance for over one
hundred thousand at some point in time. And look, you
can just catch up with the show and you can
watch it on video. We want you to be subscribed
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was reading recently. This is why I've gotten so fired
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up about the YouTube channel. More people now watch videos
of radio shows than actually listen to podcasts. Is that
kind of crazy? And I understand if maybe you're not
in that community that you're listening to the radio five
hundred and fifty five stations nationwide. We love all of you,
all fifty states, thank you. But people are busy. And
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I was kind of blown away that more people watch
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Clay Travis buck Sexton, click subscribe and also like the channel.
So we appreciate all of you. Okay, I don't know
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how many of you saw this, but I was over yesterday.
I was scrolling through and I don't even know how
the algorithm works, but somehow my social media algorithms saw
Sidney Sweeney in a tank top and tight jeans at
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a car and they were like, hey, let's feed this
to Clay. I don't know what could I don't know
how that happened. I really, I have no idea how
algorithms work. I don't know why they thought a girl
in a tight shirt and tight jeans would somehow that
I would be like, oh, I'm gonna That video just
ended up on my timeline and it turned into a
huge story yesterday because a store called American Eagle decided
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that they were going to sign Sidney Sweeney as their
chief spokesperson, and this thing went megaviral. The stock was
up like a couple one hundred million dollars since they've
announced it, and I was laughing about it because basically,
the very first job I ever had was working in
an American Eagle clothing store and yesterday going viral somehow.
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I don't know how it ended up on my timeline. Again,
I don't know how algorithms work. I don't know why
they thought that I would be interested in an attractive
woman and not very much clothes.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But so Sidney Sweeney stock is skyrocketing, thing goes megaviral
somehow ends up on my timeline for my very first
job when I was like sixteen years old. And you
know what they've decided to do. They replaced fat, unattractive
models with attractive models. And you're gonna think this is ridiculous,
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but I actually think it's evidence.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Of the culture healing.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And let me explain why, and I'll share some funny
stories about that job that I used to have back
in the day. But do you remember when a few
years ago, Victoria's Secret decided, Hey, I know the whole
Victoria's Secret model thing. You walk it by in a
mall and they have a gorgeous woman not wearing very
much clothes, and it turns out that putting gorgeous women
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in not very much clothes convinces women to go buy
more underwear than they otherwise would and like body lotion
and whatever else Victoria's Secret, it sells. And I'm not
putting myself out of this category either. My wife still
makes fun of me. I watched the Victorious Secret, uh,
like the Christmas special that they have, and then I
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went and bought like two hundred dollars of lingerie like
the next day, So yes, I am susceptible to advertising.
My wife was like, I like, you bought everything in
the whole store. Basically, I was a lot. I think
you're gonna look amazing in it. And she was like,
you watched the Victorious Secret fashion show, didn't you? And
I said yes, and it was incredibly useful. And there's
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a lot of men out there that know exactly what
I'm talking about, Like you see an attractive girl in
that outfit and you're like, I want my wife or
my girlfriend in that attractive outfit. Boom. It works because advertising,
by and large is aspirational. People want to look better
than they actually do you ever watch a romantic comedy.
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It's never the case that the guy and the girl
in the romantic comedy are both ugly, because nobody would go.
I don't know why. You just don't believe that two
really fat people should get together and space money to
go watch it. You want to watch a guy that's
typically sometimes better looking than you, a woman who's always
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better looking than the guy deserves. That is like the
romantic comedy writ large and Hollywood knows it, and that's
why it works. Somehow, Victoria's Secret decided, you know what,
I think we'll sell more lingerie if we put fat
people in lingerie. I just got to tell you it
didn't work. In fact, the company almost went bankrupt. And
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then they went back and they said, hey, you know what,
we should put more attractive people in our clothes, because
people want to think that they're going to look more attractive.
I'm fat and not particularly good looking. I don't see
somebody in the underwear store and think, hey, I want
them to look like me. I wish I was in
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better shape. I wish I was more ripped. That's how
everybody is. Okay, So American Eagle, where I used to
work they went with the fat model thing, and basically
the entire brand collapsed. And so now they're they're pivoting,
and they should fire everybody who said, Hey, you know
what we need fat models, unattractive women. Nike did the
same thing. Hey let's put Dylan mulvaney in a sports bra. Hey,
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let's put fat people in yoga pants. That'll make people
want to buy yoga pants. No, it doesn't work. Okay,
throughout history, attractive people, women in particular in clothing makes
people want to buy more clothing. So Sidney Sweeney is
now the spokesperson for American Eagle, and this happens almost
identical with Nike suddenly deciding, did you guys see Scotty
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Scheffler won the British Open, the Open golf championship over
the weekend. His insanely cute toddler kid, he's like ten
months old, eleven months old, roughly a year old, was
crawling around on the green and Nike's new advertisement replacing
trans people in women's gear men pretending to be women
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and fat people in yoga pants is Scotty Scheffler with
his son crawling, and it basically, as you've already won,
but now you've won again. Hey, fatherhood is good. It's
good to aspire to win a championship, But ultimately, the
most important job, I certainly feel this way, is when
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you have kids, raising them to be productive members of society.
So looking at that Sydney Sweeney ad, because again I
don't know how it happened, but it ended up in
my timeline, and it's reminding me of the nineties when
I worked in the American Eagle store and in the
Abercrombie and Fitch store. Back in the day, I made
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four dollars and fifty cents an hour at American Eagle
Rivergate Mall, Goodletsville, Tennessee. Four dollars and fifty cents an hour.
Probably the most fun job I've ever had, because I
was sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old and all I had
to do all day long was fold shirts and talk
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to pretty girls when they walked into the store. I
had an excuse to talk to every pretty girl on
the North and the East side of Nashville that came
to Rivergate Mall. In fact, if you are listening to
this right now in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, if you were a
cute girl that went into that store between nineteen ninety
six and nineteen ninety nine. There's almost one hundred percent
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chance I hit on you because I had an excuse
to walk up and talk to you. That was the
best job ever. Four dollars and fifty cents. Got to
eat Chick fil A every day for lunch, on my
lunch break or my dinner break. Got to just hang
out in the mall. Every teenager in America is there
at that point in time. And do you know how
they sold gear at both American Eagle and Abercrombie and Fitch.
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Good looking people in the ads, wearing the clothes. And
then we entered this weird world, this weird world where
we were supposed to pretend that, hey, instead of everybody
aspiring to be bigger, stronger, faster versions of themselves or
in better shape versions of themselves, that we sh all
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just be body positive, that there should be no aspiration anymore,
that the meritocracy shouldn't exist, and that we should just
take people as they were and put them in ads.
And it failed utterly. And I was actually thinking about this,
not only in the context of what American Eagle is
doing and how successful it already appears to be, but
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in the way that society shifts, it feels quite clear
to me that we are trying to turn back time
and go back to the eighties, the nineties, and the
early two thousands, after a generation where we tried to
pretend things were not real right, that your grandparents' world
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didn't exist anymore, that your parents' world didn't exist anymore.
And now we're turning back the clock and going back
to the era of the eighties and nineties and even
the early two thousands, when by and large most people
got along. And I was thinking about this in the
context of social media because I shared over this week
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race relations suddenly collapsed about twenty fourteen. I'm saying, what
caused all this? Why did we suddenly decide, Hey, let's
put fat people in spandex, Let's put fat people in
bras in the windows at Victoria's Secret social media? Social
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media came close to breaking this country, and everything that
social media advocated for actually made things worse. Starting about
twenty fourteen, overall happiness in this country collapsed. Thirty percent
of teenage girls suddenly want to commit suicide. Why they're
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looking at Instagram? They've got zits and braces, and they're
looking at Instagram. They're like, I'm so unhappy. They're seeing
this world that doesn't actually exist, and it's not a
faraway world like celebrities have always existed. It's hey, whatever
your life is, somebody in your school has a way
better life. They went on a better vacation, They've got
a better car, they look better in that dress. Gratitude
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is the enemy of competition. And suddenly everything is collapsing.
Black people, white people, Suddenly, race relations are collapsing. Why
BLM comes up and says, Hey, the whole world's racist
cops are unnecessary. Murder rates skyrocket, violent crime skyrockets. All
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of it I think is connected directly to social media,
and I think it broke the brains of lots of people,
and I think society as a whole is paying the price.
And we're slowly coming out of that fever and recognizing
that everything that happened before twenty fourteen was actually pretty
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good in this country and we were on a good trajectory.
And I think what Trump represents is that acknowledgment that
America is the greatest country that's ever existed, and what
we were sold was a bill of goods.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I've got a big theory on this. I think the
problem was people tried to be too responsive to social media,
except social media is to real life. What a carnival
funhouse mirror is. You know, you stand in front of
a carnival funhouse mirror back in the day. It makes
you look fatter or skinnier than you actually are. It
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isn't reflective of reality. But we all know that, and
that's what makes the carnival funhouse mirror makes sense because
it's humorous, because it's showing you what you actually aren't.
My argument is social media is the carnival funhouse mirror.
Imagine if you adjusted your diet entirely based on what
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you saw in a Carnival funhouse mirror, you would actually
be making worst decisions for yourself than if you had
never stood in front of the mirror at all. My
argument is we're starting to come out of that Carnival
funhouse mirror era because the nation as a whole looked
at the reflection we saw in social media and we
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thought it was the real world, and we started adjusting
policy as a result. And I think it explains almost
everything over the past decade, and that's why we got
so much wrong, and that's why we're starting to fix
so much.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right now, you're listening to the best of Clay Travis
and buck Sexton.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I actually
go to some of these carnivals just to make my
analogy about the crazy mirror, the funhouse mirror, because I
don't know how many kids actually still go to funhouses.
So here's a challenge for you, if you want to
make that analogy really stick, take your kids to the
local state fair or the local county fair and find
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one of those funhouses, because I don't know how many
of them actually even understand that analogy. I think most
people growing up would have been in there at some point.
But I think if you stand in front of it
and say, hey, that's social media, get off your phone, knucklehead,
don't pay as much attention to it, they'll get it.
There you go, solving the world's problems. A bunch of
people want to weigh in. I'm gonna play some of
(15:18):
these podcast Listener, Max, He's got a message for me.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Clay Bleepin' Travis, This is Hunter bleeping Biden.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
How dare you talk about mine bleeping dad that way?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
And that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I cook my own bleeping cocaine and crack and whatnot.
Deal with it, man, bleep you that is great.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Make me laugh with the talkbacks. Here is podcast listener
Tampa Todd FF. He can't believe I compare d Well listen.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Clay, what's up, brother, Tampa Todd?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Here?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Did you actually compare my favorite quarterback Kurt Warner of
all time to Hillary Clinton? And listen, I know Tom
Brady's the greatest and Trump is the greatest president. I
get that analogy, but come on, man, it's not Hillary Clinton.
I'm a big Rams fan.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Go Rams.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Anyway, Great job with the show, have a good weekend,
and keep rocking. And let's hope this Russia Gates stuff
really takes off.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Apologies to Kurt Warner. That probably wasn't fair. But if
Tom Brady is the goat, somebody has to and that's Trump.
Somebody has to be Hillary, and I think it's gotta
be Kurt Warner. In that analogy.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're listening to the best of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Let's check in and see how the opposition to Trump
is going Rashita to leeb Is on the steps of
the US Capital. This is what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
How, seeing people, this is off for you?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Did we play that again one more time? Here? This
is the opposition. I don't know if Trump's gonna be
able to overcome the guys. Rashita to leave. Just had
a press conference. This is what it sounded like.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Well, seeing people, this is off for you?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
This is real. Come on, hey, I'm gonna get all
the media together and I'm gonna bang some pots and drums,
pots and pans, not even drums. I could have played
a flute. I could have at least she could have
at least gotten me out there with my incredible flute
playing skills to try to get some attention on the
Capitol steps. All right, So I was talking about Sidney
Sweeney and the way that culture is pivoting in a
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big way, and I think it's basically repudiating everything on
the internet social media for the last decade, which has
actually made things worse. And much of Trump two point
zero is about reversing the awful decisions that have been
made over the last decade as the woke virus has
taken over. That's my big thesis here. I also think
it's time for culture to go back to things that
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used to work. And I was thinking about this a
lot because unfortunately, Malcolm Jamal Warner died this week, tragically
drowned in Costa Rica. He played THEO on The Cosme Show.
And I think the Cosm Show, because of the allegations
against Bill Cosby, has actually not been as widely distributed
as it should have been. You know, young kids today,
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they love friends. They're going back and finding a lot
of older shows which are representative of how life was
before they were around, and they're envious of what they
see there from the eighties and the nineties. I have
young kids. We have been watching all the eighties and
the nineties movies. They love them. So America's good. Hey,
there's an aspirational goal to them sitcoms. I wanted to
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play this cut. This is from The Cosby Show, going
back in time to I think nineteen eighty four, and
I want to talk about what we've lost and why
I think we have to regain it using the cultural
prism of sitcoms.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Listen, Dad, when I were the Summer Day with Christine.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh she is gonna die un friends does it again?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
How much is see the label Gordon Guardtrail.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
This is the shirt.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Gordon Gartrail is a big designer.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Check out these details, hidden buttons, flap on the back,
two tone.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Pockets, work of art.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
How much?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What's real? Thrill?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Pure silk?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Are your hands clean?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Doctor's hands are always clean?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You know why they're always washing them?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
How much?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
How much?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
How much?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
If you want quality, you're gonna have to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Or well, there must be a pair of pants in
there too. Okay, that's a funny clip for those of
you that remember watching it. Ninety five dollars I looked
it up, would be the equivalent of two hundred and
fifty dollars for a shirt today. But I wanted to
talk about this because I know there are people out there.
We have a big in LA, for instance, and I
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wanted to talk about it because it tied in with
to me what I'm seeing with Sidney Sweeney and the
way that we are going back in terms of how
we're selling goods. Most of us and I would put
this in my camp. In the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties,
when we grew up, we watched shows like The Cosby show,
and The Cosby Show was a revolutionary show because Bill
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Cosby's character was a doctor and Claire Huxtable, his wife,
was a lawyer. You had a high powered dad and mom,
highly educated, raising families and dealing with the hygiens. And
the cultural importance of The Cosby Show was what it
showed us, which is all families, white, Black, Asian, and
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Hispanic actually have way more in common than we do
a part. And I think this is so important. I
was thinking about it because I've been watching current pop
culture shows. There's almost no dads. Think about it for
a minute. There is almost no dad present in a
nuclear household, nuclear family household, in any pop culture shows today.
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There are lots of strong moms. They tend to be
single moms. But in terms of pop culture, just think
about this.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Many of you grew up either raising your kids or
watching these shows yourselves. The Cosby Show, Nuclear Family, Fresh,
Prince of bel Air, Nuclear Family Family Ties, Nuclear Family
Growing Pains, Nuclear Family, Full House, Dad mom had died.
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Think about all of the shows that we watched in
the eighties and nineties. Even while there was a lot
of divorce out there, we understood that the aspirational goal
of a healthy household was a dad at home raising kids.
All of these shows that I could run through as
you think about them in your own life, family matters,
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and I might repeat some Growing Pains Family ties. All
of the most popular shows had dads at home with
mom raising kids. Dads, while they might have been the
butt of the joke, as oftentimes happens in sitcoms, were
still integral Tim Allen with Home Improvement back in the day,
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even up to Modern Family, where you had non traditional
in some ways family but also still very strong parenting
father in the household raising kids. Where is dad gone?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Is it any.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Wonder that boys are struggling in society today when we have,
even in pop culture, eliminated all of the dads from
the stories that we tell on television. And I've said
this before, Buck and I have talked about this. Look,
there's lots of shows that I think if I had
millions of dollars and I ran a media company, I
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would greenlight the Lewis and Clark Expedition show, just make
Undaunted Courage the book into a huge streaming series. It
would be the most popular show in America. I'm telling
you if it was done well, going into American history
finding strong characters being successful, there's a huge demand for them.
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I would submit to you because I asked about this
on social media. Yellowstone. Really the reason why Yellowstone was
such a huge success was Kevin Consoner's father figure. Look,
he's got a lot of flaws if you watch that
show spoiler alert, lots of murders, everything else, But innately,
what he's trying to do is hold the family together.
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He's a strong male character. They almost don't exist in
the context of family today. Why Why has Hollywood written
men out of most of their comedic dramas and most
of their movies and most of their streaming success shows.
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And really is that representative of what America wants? Or
is it another example of the carnival funhouse mirror of
social media deciding that men are toxic white men in particular.
And I'm thinking about this a lot because my new
book that's gonna come out called Balls, Yes, Balls, and
I'm raising three young boys. No one wants weak men.
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But if the culture creates weak men, then there are
no aspirational goals. And you can say, well, if you
have to look to television to raise your kids. You're
joy Yeah, I agree, that's not good. But you know
what's worse not having a male figure in your household
and not even having an aspirational father figure that you
see on television. You may think it's ridiculous, but I
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guarantee you there were lots of young kids, black, white, Asian,
Hispanic that watched The Cosby Show back in the day
and thought, I want to one day be like Bill Cosby.
I want to be married and I want to have
kids in my house. And they thought, I want to
be like Tim the Toolman Taylor, or I want to
be on Home Improvement, or I want to be like
Jason sever on Growing Pains. I'm going to be the dad.
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I'm going to raise the kids. That's my job. I'm
going to provide for a family, and I'm going to
give them a better future than I had. That, guys,
is what men want. We are innately wired to provide
for a family, to protect a family. What happens when
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you write men fathers out of all of the Hollywood stories,
you create weak men. You don't even create aspirational figures
that dad's young men can aspire to be. And it
feels very intentional to me, looking at social media, you
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would think men don't matter, dads are worthless, moms are
celebrated all the time, and I wish no single mom
had to exist, because, trust me, I can only imagine
how hard it is to have to try to fulfill
both roles. And I wish there were no men that
walked out on homes all those things right, And I'm
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not disparaging moms who are busting their ass having to
do two roles. But I just come back to one
of the kids, and this is in the new book,
but I was thinking about it in the bake of THEO.
I was going back and watching old Cosby show clips.
I was thinking about it in that context. One of
my son's friends came in recently and he said, you know,
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we're being taught that white men have all this power.
This is a couple of years ago, ten year old
kid and he's going off on, you know, just being
a funny kid, and he ultimately comes to the punchline,
which is basically this, mister Clay, they tell me that
boys and men we have all this power and everything else.
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My mom doesn't even let me pick what I get.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
To eat for dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And imagine for those young boys out there, what that
disconnect is between, Hey, you're the cause of all of
the problems in America today. You men, you're awful, and
simultaneously you don't maybe have a father figure in your
household and you don't even see one in pop culture.
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Is it any wonder that young boys are lost? And
I just implore you, Hollywood, how about just make a
show where a dad is a dad like they were
throughout the eighties and the nineties two thousands. Not have
to be a perfect dad, just a dad so that
people can see, Hey, this is what I could aspire
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to be someday. I'd like to have a family. I'd
like to live in a household. I'd like to get
married and help her a kids. We used to see
that lifestyle all the time. It does not exist now.
That is a flaw, and I would submit it's coming
from the whole fallout of Me Too, which basically went
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from hey, don't commit crimes to men or evil men
are wrong? And I think Hollywood followed that on social
media and intentionally wrote men out of starring roles in
the family unit. So we got a lot of people
in la listening to a lot of smart people in
the creative space. How about you just make a good,
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old fashioned sitcom with a good dad. It dominated the
ratings in the eighties and the nineties and the early
two thousands. I got a crazy idea for you. I
think you can dominate streaming in the twenty twenties because
people are desperate to see it. The world's not as
different as you want to think it is. Whether it's
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putting a hot girl in jeans and a tank top
and starting to sell gear again like America An Eagle
is doing, or just finding a great American dad, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic,
putting them into a sitcom and letting America recognize particularly
young boys. The biggest, most aspirational goal that you should
have is to one day be.
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Great stuff, Buck, you'll love this. You were out. I
talked about growing up. Unfortunately we lost Malcolm Jamal Warner
aka THEO Huxtable and the Hulk Hogan for if you
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were in the eighties, like two iconic figures of any
of our youths.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
I when I was ten years old, I think the
coolest guy on the planet to me was my dad,
and then Hulk Hogan may have been number two.
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It was like my dad and then Hulk Hogan, Like
I think that might have been the list.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I'm impressed that your dad was above Hulk Cogan because
Hulk Hogan was I think my dad was above hul
Coogan too.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
But I mean the putting food on the table for us.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
As much as I love the Hulk of Maniacs and
all you know, someone one was feeding us, one was not.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You will think about this now more. I think now
that you're a dad and you start to watch more
shows as your son gets older. But I went off
because thinking about The Cosby Show and all the eighties
and nineties sitcoms, the fact that there are not strong
dad figures in basically anywhere in pop culture, and a
lot of people reacted to that. Steve and Cincinnati wanted
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to react.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Here's aa hey, your Friday Third Hour was really powerful
and spot on when you're comparing the nuclear family shows
in the eighties, even the dysfunctional families were great to watch.
Think about like Roseanne married with children. Even the Simpsons
had a dad in the house. Yes, the butt of
the jokes, but a dad, a working dad in the house,
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providing for his family.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Keep up the good word, Clay, and welcome back, Buck.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Thank you good I just I agree that Homer Simpson,
though you love Homer even though he gets made fun
of a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
All the dads are there, the other one, Carl Winslow
family matters, White, black didn't matter.
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Carl Winslow reaction.
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BB here listening to your bit here on where have
all the dads gone? And I'll fitcom dads and how
great they were in the nineties. And I'm a white
male and I used to think Carl Winslow is like
the best dad in the world and a great role model.
I think we need that back on television again.
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Thank you, guys.
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I love I love the show Family Matters. But I
watch Family Matters all the time.
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I think, and you'll, I think, sign on to this.
Dad's in a sitcom nuclear face. Family is ripe. People
desperately want it.
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So we appreciate all of you. Okay, I don't know
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how many of you saw this, but I was over yesterday.
I was scrolling through and I don't even know how
the algorithm works, but somehow my social media algorithms saw
Sidney Sweeney in a tank top and tight jeans at
(02:56):
a car and they were like, hey, let's feed this
to Clay. I don't know what could I don't know
how that happened. I really, I have no idea how
algorithms work. I don't know why they thought a girl
in a tight shirt and tight jeans would somehow that
I would be like, oh, I'm gonna That video just
ended up on my timeline and it turned into a
huge story yesterday because a store called American Eagle decided
(03:21):
that they were going to sign Sidney Sweeney as their
chief spokesperson, and this thing went megaviral. The stock was
up like a couple one hundred million dollars since they've
announced it, and I was laughing about it because basically,
the very first job I ever had was working in
an American Eagle clothing store and yesterday going viral somehow.
(03:45):
I don't know how it ended up on my timeline. Again,
I don't know how algorithms work. I don't know why
they thought that I would be interested in an attractive
woman and not very much clothes.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But so Sidney Sweeney stock is skyrocketing, thing goes megaviral
somehow ends up on my timeline for my very first
job when I was like sixteen years old. And you
know what they've decided to do. They replaced fat, unattractive
models with attractive models. And you're gonna think this is ridiculous,
(04:18):
but I actually think it's evidence.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Of the culture healing.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And let me explain why, and I'll share some funny
stories about that job that I used to have back
in the day. But do you remember when a few
years ago, Victoria's Secret decided, Hey, I know the whole
Victoria's Secret model thing. You walk it by in a
mall and they have a gorgeous woman not wearing very
much clothes, and it turns out that putting gorgeous women
(04:43):
in not very much clothes convinces women to go buy
more underwear than they otherwise would and like body lotion
and whatever else Victoria's Secret, it sells. And I'm not
putting myself out of this category either. My wife still
makes fun of me. I watched the Victorious Secret, uh,
like the Christmas special that they have, and then I
(05:04):
went and bought like two hundred dollars of lingerie like
the next day, So yes, I am susceptible to advertising.
My wife was like, I like, you bought everything in
the whole store. Basically, I was a lot. I think
you're gonna look amazing in it. And she was like,
you watched the Victorious Secret fashion show, didn't you? And
I said yes, and it was incredibly useful. And there's
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a lot of men out there that know exactly what
I'm talking about, Like you see an attractive girl in
that outfit and you're like, I want my wife or
my girlfriend in that attractive outfit. Boom. It works because advertising,
by and large is aspirational. People want to look better
than they actually do you ever watch a romantic comedy.
(05:45):
It's never the case that the guy and the girl
in the romantic comedy are both ugly, because nobody would go.
I don't know why. You just don't believe that two
really fat people should get together and space money to
go watch it. You want to watch a guy that's
typically sometimes better looking than you, a woman who's always
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better looking than the guy deserves. That is like the
romantic comedy writ large and Hollywood knows it, and that's
why it works. Somehow, Victoria's Secret decided, you know what,
I think we'll sell more lingerie if we put fat
people in lingerie. I just got to tell you it
didn't work. In fact, the company almost went bankrupt. And
(06:27):
then they went back and they said, hey, you know what,
we should put more attractive people in our clothes, because
people want to think that they're going to look more attractive.
I'm fat and not particularly good looking. I don't see
somebody in the underwear store and think, hey, I want
them to look like me. I wish I was in
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better shape. I wish I was more ripped. That's how
everybody is. Okay, So American Eagle, where I used to
work they went with the fat model thing, and basically
the entire brand collapsed. And so now they're they're pivoting,
and they should fire everybody who said, Hey, you know
what we need fat models, unattractive women. Nike did the
same thing. Hey let's put Dylan mulvaney in a sports bra. Hey,
(07:09):
let's put fat people in yoga pants. That'll make people
want to buy yoga pants. No, it doesn't work. Okay,
throughout history, attractive people, women in particular in clothing makes
people want to buy more clothing. So Sidney Sweeney is
now the spokesperson for American Eagle, and this happens almost
identical with Nike suddenly deciding, did you guys see Scotty
(07:30):
Scheffler won the British Open, the Open golf championship over
the weekend. His insanely cute toddler kid, he's like ten
months old, eleven months old, roughly a year old, was
crawling around on the green and Nike's new advertisement replacing
trans people in women's gear men pretending to be women
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and fat people in yoga pants is Scotty Scheffler with
his son crawling, and it basically, as you've already won,
but now you've won again. Hey, fatherhood is good. It's
good to aspire to win a championship, But ultimately, the
most important job, I certainly feel this way, is when
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you have kids, raising them to be productive members of society.
So looking at that Sydney Sweeney ad, because again I
don't know how it happened, but it ended up in
my timeline, and it's reminding me of the nineties when
I worked in the American Eagle store and in the
Abercrombie and Fitch store. Back in the day, I made
(08:34):
four dollars and fifty cents an hour at American Eagle
Rivergate Mall, Goodletsville, Tennessee. Four dollars and fifty cents an hour.
Probably the most fun job I've ever had, because I
was sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old and all I had
to do all day long was fold shirts and talk
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to pretty girls when they walked into the store. I
had an excuse to talk to every pretty girl on
the North and the East side of Nashville that came
to Rivergate Mall. In fact, if you are listening to
this right now in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, if you were a
cute girl that went into that store between nineteen ninety
six and nineteen ninety nine. There's almost one hundred percent
(09:16):
chance I hit on you because I had an excuse
to walk up and talk to you. That was the
best job ever. Four dollars and fifty cents. Got to
eat Chick fil A every day for lunch, on my
lunch break or my dinner break. Got to just hang
out in the mall. Every teenager in America is there
at that point in time. And do you know how
they sold gear at both American Eagle and Abercrombie and Fitch.
(09:38):
Good looking people in the ads, wearing the clothes. And
then we entered this weird world, this weird world where
we were supposed to pretend that, hey, instead of everybody
aspiring to be bigger, stronger, faster versions of themselves or
in better shape versions of themselves, that we sh all
(10:00):
just be body positive, that there should be no aspiration anymore,
that the meritocracy shouldn't exist, and that we should just
take people as they were and put them in ads.
And it failed utterly. And I was actually thinking about this,
not only in the context of what American Eagle is
doing and how successful it already appears to be, but
(10:22):
in the way that society shifts, it feels quite clear
to me that we are trying to turn back time
and go back to the eighties, the nineties, and the
early two thousands, after a generation where we tried to
pretend things were not real right, that your grandparents' world
(10:45):
didn't exist anymore, that your parents' world didn't exist anymore.
And now we're turning back the clock and going back
to the era of the eighties and nineties and even
the early two thousands, when by and large most people
got along. And I was thinking about this in the
context of social media because I shared over this week
(11:06):
race relations suddenly collapsed about twenty fourteen. I'm saying, what
caused all this? Why did we suddenly decide, Hey, let's
put fat people in spandex, Let's put fat people in
bras in the windows at Victoria's Secret social media? Social
(11:30):
media came close to breaking this country, and everything that
social media advocated for actually made things worse. Starting about
twenty fourteen, overall happiness in this country collapsed. Thirty percent
of teenage girls suddenly want to commit suicide. Why they're
(11:51):
looking at Instagram? They've got zits and braces, and they're
looking at Instagram. They're like, I'm so unhappy. They're seeing
this world that doesn't actually exist, and it's not a
faraway world like celebrities have always existed. It's hey, whatever
your life is, somebody in your school has a way
better life. They went on a better vacation, They've got
a better car, they look better in that dress. Gratitude
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is the enemy of competition. And suddenly everything is collapsing.
Black people, white people, Suddenly, race relations are collapsing. Why
BLM comes up and says, Hey, the whole world's racist
cops are unnecessary. Murder rates skyrocket, violent crime skyrockets. All
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of it I think is connected directly to social media,
and I think it broke the brains of lots of people,
and I think society as a whole is paying the price.
And we're slowly coming out of that fever and recognizing
that everything that happened before twenty fourteen was actually pretty
(12:58):
good in this country and we were on a good trajectory.
And I think what Trump represents is that acknowledgment that
America is the greatest country that's ever existed, and what
we were sold was a bill of goods.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I've got a big theory on this. I think the
problem was people tried to be too responsive to social media,
except social media is to real life. What a carnival
funhouse mirror is. You know, you stand in front of
a carnival funhouse mirror back in the day. It makes
you look fatter or skinnier than you actually are. It
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isn't reflective of reality. But we all know that, and
that's what makes the carnival funhouse mirror makes sense because
it's humorous, because it's showing you what you actually aren't.
My argument is social media is the carnival funhouse mirror.
Imagine if you adjusted your diet entirely based on what
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you saw in a Carnival funhouse mirror, you would actually
be making worst decisions for yourself than if you had
never stood in front of the mirror at all. My
argument is we're starting to come out of that Carnival
funhouse mirror era because the nation as a whole looked
at the reflection we saw in social media and we
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thought it was the real world, and we started adjusting
policy as a result. And I think it explains almost
everything over the past decade, and that's why we got
so much wrong, and that's why we're starting to fix
so much.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Right now, you're listening to the best of Clay Travis
and buck Sexton.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I actually
go to some of these carnivals just to make my
analogy about the crazy mirror, the funhouse mirror, because I
don't know how many kids actually still go to funhouses.
So here's a challenge for you, if you want to
make that analogy really stick, take your kids to the
local state fair or the local county fair and find
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one of those funhouses, because I don't know how many
of them actually even understand that analogy. I think most
people growing up would have been in there at some point.
But I think if you stand in front of it
and say, hey, that's social media, get off your phone, knucklehead,
don't pay as much attention to it, they'll get it.
There you go, solving the world's problems. A bunch of
people want to weigh in. I'm gonna play some of
(15:18):
these podcast Listener, Max, He's got a message for me.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Clay Bleepin' Travis, This is Hunter bleeping Biden.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
How dare you talk about mine bleeping dad that way?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
And that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I cook my own bleeping cocaine and crack and whatnot.
Deal with it, man, bleep you that is great.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Make me laugh with the talkbacks. Here is podcast listener
Tampa Todd FF. He can't believe I compare d Well listen.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Clay, what's up, brother, Tampa Todd?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Here?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Did you actually compare my favorite quarterback Kurt Warner of
all time to Hillary Clinton? And listen, I know Tom
Brady's the greatest and Trump is the greatest president. I
get that analogy, but come on, man, it's not Hillary Clinton.
I'm a big Rams fan.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Go Rams.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Anyway, Great job with the show, have a good weekend,
and keep rocking. And let's hope this Russia Gates stuff
really takes off.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Apologies to Kurt Warner. That probably wasn't fair. But if
Tom Brady is the goat, somebody has to and that's Trump.
Somebody has to be Hillary, and I think it's gotta
be Kurt Warner. In that analogy.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're listening to the best of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Let's check in and see how the opposition to Trump
is going Rashita to leeb Is on the steps of
the US Capital. This is what it sounds like.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
How, seeing people, this is off for you?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Did we play that again one more time? Here? This
is the opposition. I don't know if Trump's gonna be
able to overcome the guys. Rashita to leave. Just had
a press conference. This is what it sounded like.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Well, seeing people, this is off for you?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
This is real. Come on, hey, I'm gonna get all
the media together and I'm gonna bang some pots and drums,
pots and pans, not even drums. I could have played
a flute. I could have at least she could have
at least gotten me out there with my incredible flute
playing skills to try to get some attention on the
Capitol steps. All right, So I was talking about Sidney
Sweeney and the way that culture is pivoting in a
(17:27):
big way, and I think it's basically repudiating everything on
the internet social media for the last decade, which has
actually made things worse. And much of Trump two point
zero is about reversing the awful decisions that have been
made over the last decade as the woke virus has
taken over. That's my big thesis here. I also think
it's time for culture to go back to things that
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used to work. And I was thinking about this a
lot because unfortunately, Malcolm Jamal Warner died this week, tragically
drowned in Costa Rica. He played THEO on The Cosme Show.
And I think the Cosm Show, because of the allegations
against Bill Cosby, has actually not been as widely distributed
as it should have been. You know, young kids today,
(18:08):
they love friends. They're going back and finding a lot
of older shows which are representative of how life was
before they were around, and they're envious of what they
see there from the eighties and the nineties. I have
young kids. We have been watching all the eighties and
the nineties movies. They love them. So America's good. Hey,
there's an aspirational goal to them sitcoms. I wanted to
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play this cut. This is from The Cosby Show, going
back in time to I think nineteen eighty four, and
I want to talk about what we've lost and why
I think we have to regain it using the cultural
prism of sitcoms.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Listen, Dad, when I were the Summer Day with Christine.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh she is gonna die un friends does it again?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
How much is see the label Gordon Guardtrail.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
This is the shirt.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Gordon Gartrail is a big designer.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Check out these details, hidden buttons, flap on the back,
two tone.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Pockets, work of art.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
How much?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What's real? Thrill?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Pure silk?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Are your hands clean?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Doctor's hands are always clean?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You know why they're always washing them?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
How much?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
How much?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
How much?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
If you want quality, you're gonna have to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Or well, there must be a pair of pants in
there too. Okay, that's a funny clip for those of
you that remember watching it. Ninety five dollars I looked
it up, would be the equivalent of two hundred and
fifty dollars for a shirt today. But I wanted to
talk about this because I know there are people out there.
We have a big in LA, for instance, and I
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wanted to talk about it because it tied in with
to me what I'm seeing with Sidney Sweeney and the
way that we are going back in terms of how
we're selling goods. Most of us and I would put
this in my camp. In the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties,
when we grew up, we watched shows like The Cosby show,
and The Cosby Show was a revolutionary show because Bill
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Cosby's character was a doctor and Claire Huxtable, his wife,
was a lawyer. You had a high powered dad and mom,
highly educated, raising families and dealing with the hygiens. And
the cultural importance of The Cosby Show was what it
showed us, which is all families, white, Black, Asian, and
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Hispanic actually have way more in common than we do
a part. And I think this is so important. I
was thinking about it because I've been watching current pop
culture shows. There's almost no dads. Think about it for
a minute. There is almost no dad present in a
nuclear household, nuclear family household, in any pop culture shows today.
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There are lots of strong moms. They tend to be
single moms. But in terms of pop culture, just think
about this.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Many of you grew up either raising your kids or
watching these shows yourselves. The Cosby Show, Nuclear Family, Fresh,
Prince of bel Air, Nuclear Family Family Ties, Nuclear Family
Growing Pains, Nuclear Family, Full House, Dad mom had died.
(21:39):
Think about all of the shows that we watched in
the eighties and nineties. Even while there was a lot
of divorce out there, we understood that the aspirational goal
of a healthy household was a dad at home raising kids.
All of these shows that I could run through as
you think about them in your own life, family matters,
(22:03):
and I might repeat some Growing Pains Family ties. All
of the most popular shows had dads at home with
mom raising kids. Dads, while they might have been the
butt of the joke, as oftentimes happens in sitcoms, were
still integral Tim Allen with Home Improvement back in the day,
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even up to Modern Family, where you had non traditional
in some ways family but also still very strong parenting
father in the household raising kids. Where is dad gone?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Is it any.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Wonder that boys are struggling in society today when we have,
even in pop culture, eliminated all of the dads from
the stories that we tell on television. And I've said
this before, Buck and I have talked about this. Look,
there's lots of shows that I think if I had
millions of dollars and I ran a media company, I
(23:02):
would greenlight the Lewis and Clark Expedition show, just make
Undaunted Courage the book into a huge streaming series. It
would be the most popular show in America. I'm telling
you if it was done well, going into American history
finding strong characters being successful, there's a huge demand for them.
(23:24):
I would submit to you because I asked about this
on social media. Yellowstone. Really the reason why Yellowstone was
such a huge success was Kevin Consoner's father figure. Look,
he's got a lot of flaws if you watch that
show spoiler alert, lots of murders, everything else, But innately,
what he's trying to do is hold the family together.
(23:44):
He's a strong male character. They almost don't exist in
the context of family today. Why Why has Hollywood written
men out of most of their comedic dramas and most
of their movies and most of their streaming success shows.
(24:05):
And really is that representative of what America wants? Or
is it another example of the carnival funhouse mirror of
social media deciding that men are toxic white men in particular.
And I'm thinking about this a lot because my new
book that's gonna come out called Balls, Yes, Balls, and
I'm raising three young boys. No one wants weak men.
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But if the culture creates weak men, then there are
no aspirational goals. And you can say, well, if you
have to look to television to raise your kids. You're
joy Yeah, I agree, that's not good. But you know
what's worse not having a male figure in your household
and not even having an aspirational father figure that you
see on television. You may think it's ridiculous, but I
(24:51):
guarantee you there were lots of young kids, black, white, Asian,
Hispanic that watched The Cosby Show back in the day
and thought, I want to one day be like Bill Cosby.
I want to be married and I want to have
kids in my house. And they thought, I want to
be like Tim the Toolman Taylor, or I want to
be on Home Improvement, or I want to be like
Jason sever on Growing Pains. I'm going to be the dad.
(25:14):
I'm going to raise the kids. That's my job. I'm
going to provide for a family, and I'm going to
give them a better future than I had. That, guys,
is what men want. We are innately wired to provide
for a family, to protect a family. What happens when
(25:36):
you write men fathers out of all of the Hollywood stories,
you create weak men. You don't even create aspirational figures
that dad's young men can aspire to be. And it
feels very intentional to me, looking at social media, you
(26:00):
would think men don't matter, dads are worthless, moms are
celebrated all the time, and I wish no single mom
had to exist, because, trust me, I can only imagine
how hard it is to have to try to fulfill
both roles. And I wish there were no men that
walked out on homes all those things right, And I'm
(26:20):
not disparaging moms who are busting their ass having to
do two roles. But I just come back to one
of the kids, and this is in the new book,
but I was thinking about it in the bake of THEO.
I was going back and watching old Cosby show clips.
I was thinking about it in that context. One of
my son's friends came in recently and he said, you know,
(26:42):
we're being taught that white men have all this power.
This is a couple of years ago, ten year old
kid and he's going off on, you know, just being
a funny kid, and he ultimately comes to the punchline,
which is basically this, mister Clay, they tell me that
boys and men we have all this power and everything else.
(27:03):
My mom doesn't even let me pick what I get.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
To eat for dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
And imagine for those young boys out there, what that
disconnect is between, Hey, you're the cause of all of
the problems in America today. You men, you're awful, and
simultaneously you don't maybe have a father figure in your
household and you don't even see one in pop culture.
(27:31):
Is it any wonder that young boys are lost? And
I just implore you, Hollywood, how about just make a
show where a dad is a dad like they were
throughout the eighties and the nineties two thousands. Not have
to be a perfect dad, just a dad so that
people can see, Hey, this is what I could aspire
(27:54):
to be someday. I'd like to have a family. I'd
like to live in a household. I'd like to get
married and help her a kids. We used to see
that lifestyle all the time. It does not exist now.
That is a flaw, and I would submit it's coming
from the whole fallout of Me Too, which basically went
(28:14):
from hey, don't commit crimes to men or evil men
are wrong? And I think Hollywood followed that on social
media and intentionally wrote men out of starring roles in
the family unit. So we got a lot of people
in la listening to a lot of smart people in
the creative space. How about you just make a good,
(28:34):
old fashioned sitcom with a good dad. It dominated the
ratings in the eighties and the nineties and the early
two thousands. I got a crazy idea for you. I
think you can dominate streaming in the twenty twenties because
people are desperate to see it. The world's not as
different as you want to think it is. Whether it's
(28:55):
putting a hot girl in jeans and a tank top
and starting to sell gear again like America An Eagle
is doing, or just finding a great American dad, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic,
putting them into a sitcom and letting America recognize particularly
young boys. The biggest, most aspirational goal that you should
have is to one day be.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
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Also, when Klay's got a book coming out in November,
I've got a book coming out in January. I mean
the publishers have actually got this set up. I mean
like the books are happening. My book got delayed by
six months and then a whole year basically because of
the CIA review process. That's a conversation for another time.
But the good news is there's some cool CIA stories
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(30:32):
first time in the book.
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You'll be able to get those autograph copies through Crockett Coffee.
So in the meantime, my old book new one will
be out November, then another new one from Buck in January.
Great stuff, Buck, you'll love this. You were out. I
talked about growing up. Unfortunately we lost Malcolm Jamal Warner
aka THEO Huxtable and the Hulk Hogan for if you
(30:59):
were in the eighties, like two iconic figures of any
of our youths.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
I when I was ten years old, I think the
coolest guy on the planet to me was my dad,
and then Hulk Hogan may have been number two.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
It was like my dad and then Hulk Hogan, Like
I think that might have been the list.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I'm impressed that your dad was above Hulk Cogan because
Hulk Hogan was I think my dad was above hul
Coogan too.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
But I mean the putting food on the table for us.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
As much as I love the Hulk of Maniacs and
all you know, someone one was feeding us, one was not.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You will think about this now more. I think now
that you're a dad and you start to watch more
shows as your son gets older. But I went off
because thinking about The Cosby Show and all the eighties
and nineties sitcoms, the fact that there are not strong
dad figures in basically anywhere in pop culture, and a
lot of people reacted to that. Steve and Cincinnati wanted
(31:52):
to react.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Here's aa hey, your Friday Third Hour was really powerful
and spot on when you're comparing the nuclear family shows
in the eighties, even the dysfunctional families were great to watch.
Think about like Roseanne married with children. Even the Simpsons
had a dad in the house. Yes, the butt of
the jokes, but a dad, a working dad in the house,
(32:15):
providing for his family.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Keep up the good word, Clay, and welcome back, Buck.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Thank you good I just I agree that Homer Simpson,
though you love Homer even though he gets made fun
of a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
All the dads are there, the other one, Carl Winslow
family matters, White, black didn't matter.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Carl Winslow reaction.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
BB here listening to your bit here on where have
all the dads gone? And I'll fitcom dads and how
great they were in the nineties. And I'm a white
male and I used to think Carl Winslow is like
the best dad in the world and a great role model.
I think we need that back on television again.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I love I love the show Family Matters. But I
watch Family Matters all the time.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I think, and you'll, I think, sign on to this.
Dad's in a sitcom nuclear face. Family is ripe. People
desperately want it.
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