August 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Mindy and Boots discuss the latest American Eagle ad featuring Sydney Sweeny and the controversy around it!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gosh, are you outside enjoying this weather? It is absolutely
beautiful the entire weekend and I looked ahead at our
extended forecast for the rest of the week, Boots, this
is the weather we've been waiting for. Right now, it
is just gorgeous outside.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yesterday we had a car show at Creekside.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
They raised twenties of thousands of dollars for Children's Hospital.
At Christmas time they always all the proceeds the FOP
Brian Steele, my good buddy, the FOP present they donated
a huge check, so every Christmas. But we had perfect
with three hundred cars in downtown Gahan.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Is that? What's the biggest car show you do? And
how many do you do each summer? Ah?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
This year I only did it like fifteen.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But the biggest ones are the Vans Outdoors, which is
next Saturday. That's about two hundred. This one was three hundred.
If one for weather, the Arthritis Foundation would have been
over a thousand, and good Guys is seven thousand.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm really not a car person, as you know, but
there are so many people that love classic cars. Does
it just people back the nostalgia of it all?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's a good question. I think it's the memories, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's nostalgia.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, no, no, I mean the memories. I know that
I don't want no style. Nostalgia's when I think of
more going to the sokof. But yeah, but I think,
like like yesterday, there's a couple from the Moose Body
and Stephanie and they have a seventy eight Camaro and
they are just overjoyed to be around, have the hood
up and have people looking at it. And the people
that ruined car shows are the critiques, you know that
(01:29):
come in every once when I have a lib show up.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That gun green, I eating and Mike everything kills.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
There's always there's always a half glass empty, purple hair,
fat girl. But it was funny because yesterday I go
around and talk to everybody and are so just They
want to tell stories. Even Quarvette people. Corvette people get
a lot of flak. I'm not a true Quarvette person.
I'm a car lover, but you have I have a Quarvette.
I love that car, but I'm not the new balance
phone Holster shorts with the you know, with.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
The white white Cotte person.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, they have a pretty stereotype guy idea you didn't
know that yet.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Corvett guy never own a Corvette Pray because they could
never afford one.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah you can't, you don't want to afford one.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But I love them. I think they're so cool.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And there was probably one hundred and fifty of them there,
brand new ones, old ones in between ones.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You know why I would never own a Corvette because
I could never bring a lot of people where I'm
going because you only fies.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's what Sometimes we don't want everybody wait for there.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
We're different, you know, I want to know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I love everybody, But there was a time I need
bootstime and it's in that car who on one hundred and
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Our So we always like to begin raw with things
that people are talking about. Everyone listening right now. What
were you talking about this past week? And one of
the number one topics by far, by far was the
American Eagle ad.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
They didn't back down.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
With Sydney Sweeney, and they did not back down, they
did not apologize. I wonder if they had any idea
how much controversy this would spark.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I bet I bet Bud Lighte didn't think about as
much as these I think they did this on purpose.
I think it's so they could say in your face
because they know we're over the wokeness. Trump's brought America
back to where we're not sensitive anymore and everybody too.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Who are you not apologetic anything?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, and we don't. I don't care. In the Sydney sweet.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
We would have apologized for this. Sorry, we shouldn't have
done this. You know, several years ago they probably would
have had issue.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And someone says she's seeing Tom Brady. Good for Tom Brady.
If that's true, I don't know if it's I did
not know. Yes, she's smoking and you know what their
jean sails are through the roof, and there's nothing wrong.
I can't help but a person right now, if you
look at the mirror and think you're ugly, that's on you.
I don't think I'm good looking at all. I think
I'm just full of it and smart and happy, go lucky.
(03:39):
But God gave us some talent. Now, mindy, and we
give you a comment. You're a beautiful lady. Everyone thinks
you're very attractive. Come on, no, I think you're very
especially back in the day everybody watched Channel four. Now,
back in Channel four, you were one of the hottest
ladies in town. But you backed it with brains and
it's okay, there's not Randy's a lucky you mean guys
(04:01):
man made.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
He's hot.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, but she's smart too, she's my sister's are shut
up but but but it's always like, it's okay, why
Monica Day beautiful? I don't want to look at an
ugly person on television. I'm sorry, That's why I'm on radio.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I cannot believe the backlash that this ad has received
from people calling her a Nazi, this campaign being Nazi.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's left inspired.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
But you know what, just be happy. Just why try
to tear other people down. Aren't they supposed to be
the party that accepts everybody everything. It's so not right.
But you mentioned the sales over at American Eagle. Through
the first quarter. The first quarter of this year, their
net revenue decreased to one point one billion, a decline
(04:46):
of five percent. One day after this ad with Sydney
Sweeney was released, stock jumped by ten percent, and American
Eagle's market cap has now exceeded two billion dollars. The
ad worked, and you know what, you know what the
best thing of all when you buy a pair of
these genes.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm buying a pair of this week.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And you have a butterfly on the pocket and I
think it's part of it. But proceeds go to domestic abuse,
their domestic abuse, and you're gonna fight that because you
think the model is too white.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Bring up beyond.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I have great genes genes J E A N S
genes g E N E S. It was very clever.
What I didn't know till I did a little research.
Do you know who the CEO of American Eagle is?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Jay Shottenstein from Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Good for him is the CEO. I know he's not
going to back down.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
A little bit of research. Shotenstein families do not take it.
They tell you to go pound that.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I know Bill really well and he will not take
it from anybody.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So whose Bill compared to Jay?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
They're all related, I know, But how I think they're
cousins or he's his nephew.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, how about that? Jay Shantenstein is the j of
American Eagle from Columbus, Ohio. We really have to try
to get him on the air talk it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'll reach out to Bill and ask him Okay, let's
do that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So you're here from you guys, the listener, What do
you think of this whole campaign at Was it clever
or do you think they just should have stayed away
from it? Six one four eight two one nine eight
eighty six. I am proud that American Eagle and for
any company who makes a decision like that to like
Boots said not back day didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And you know what's funny, It's so funny. Bud Light
reps are like pop, I mean bud Light and then
what do you call the people that do marketing?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
They're like, why didn't we do something like that?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Because I remember bud Light in the eighties, but Light
in the eighties, remember the three hot chicks and the
bikinis laying on the towel and Budwiser was across their
bikinis across. Oh yeah, I never got offended by that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know what, you're a marketing campaign exec. You want
to create pages and commercials. They're going to make people
want to buy your product.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's the name of the game. Last half empty people
are the worst. And here here's who's who's you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I look up to, mindy, I look up to a
heavy set lady that carries herself solid and knows who
she is and what she is, and she acts, Hey,
this is what God gave me. That's rock and roll.
No one owes her, you know, I know my mom
was a heavy woman, but she was beautiful. She never
left the house ugly or no make always top ten.
(07:36):
My mom was five ten, two hundred and thirty pounds,
and no one ever looked at her like a big
fat woman because she carried herself professionally and she had
comment there's nothing wrong with that because she knew she
couldn't be this sweeny lady. She knew she wasn't born
with those genes.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
No pun intended.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So American Eagle did refuse to apologize. They did issue
this statement. I'm going to read it to you. Sidney
sween has great genes is and always was about the genes,
her jeans, her story. We will continue to celebrate how
everyone wears their American Eagle jeans with confidence, their way.
Great jeans look good on everyone. How are you going
(08:17):
to fight that? Like, what is it really worth your
time to be so miserable and so upset that a
hot actress is modeling and advertising genes if you're really
that upset, then look in the mirror and do something
about it yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
There, that's true.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
If you're that unhappy with yourself, then do something.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Why'd your happiness? Chris? You're not scanny.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I'm not scanny, but you know who you are, and
you rock and roll it, don't you?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Why bother?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And anybody who's attacking Sidney Sweeney over this, like, get
a life. It's so true, but you know what, they
are miserable people out there, and misery loves company. When
we come back for the break, because I know we're
up against it, but we want to take your calls
on this. I know you guys have an opinion with
this again six one four, eight, two one nine eight
eighty six. But I found some research that really compares
(09:12):
liberal America to conservative America. Who really is happier with
their own lives? Right now?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I know who that is? So uh and the guess
who's not? Bud Light lost billions? American eel made billions,
So you pay.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You pay a Jacob job.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
You marked the right box and says were aw Indian
Boots on news radio six ten WTVN
Gosh, are you outside enjoying this weather? It is absolutely
beautiful the entire weekend and I looked ahead at our
extended forecast for the rest of the week, Boots, this
is the weather we've been waiting for. Right now, it
is just gorgeous outside.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yesterday we had a car show at Creekside.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
They raised twenties of thousands of dollars for Children's Hospital.
At Christmas time they always all the proceeds the FOP
Brian Steele, my good buddy, the FOP present they donated
a huge check, so every Christmas. But we had perfect
with three hundred cars in downtown Gahan.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Is that? What's the biggest car show you do? And
how many do you do each summer? Ah?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
This year I only did it like fifteen.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But the biggest ones are the Vans Outdoors, which is
next Saturday. That's about two hundred. This one was three hundred.
If one for weather, the Arthritis Foundation would have been
over a thousand, and good Guys is seven thousand.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm really not a car person, as you know, but
there are so many people that love classic cars. Does
it just people back the nostalgia of it all?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's a good question. I think it's the memories, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's nostalgia.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, no, no, I mean the memories. I know that
I don't want no style. Nostalgia's when I think of
more going to the sokof. But yeah, but I think,
like like yesterday, there's a couple from the Moose Body
and Stephanie and they have a seventy eight Camaro and
they are just overjoyed to be around, have the hood
up and have people looking at it. And the people
that ruined car shows are the critiques, you know that
(01:29):
come in every once when I have a lib show up.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That gun green, I eating and Mike everything kills.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
There's always there's always a half glass empty, purple hair,
fat girl. But it was funny because yesterday I go
around and talk to everybody and are so just They
want to tell stories. Even Quarvette people. Corvette people get
a lot of flak. I'm not a true Quarvette person.
I'm a car lover, but you have I have a Quarvette.
I love that car, but I'm not the new balance
phone Holster shorts with the you know, with.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
The white white Cotte person.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, they have a pretty stereotype guy idea you didn't
know that yet.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Corvett guy never own a Corvette Pray because they could
never afford one.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah you can't, you don't want to afford one.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But I love them. I think they're so cool.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And there was probably one hundred and fifty of them there,
brand new ones, old ones in between ones.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You know why I would never own a Corvette because
I could never bring a lot of people where I'm
going because you only fies.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's what Sometimes we don't want everybody wait for there.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
We're different, you know, I want to know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I love everybody, But there was a time I need
bootstime and it's in that car who on one hundred and
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Our So we always like to begin raw with things
that people are talking about. Everyone listening right now. What
were you talking about this past week? And one of
the number one topics by far, by far was the
American Eagle ad.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
They didn't back down.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
With Sydney Sweeney, and they did not back down, they
did not apologize. I wonder if they had any idea
how much controversy this would spark.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I bet I bet Bud Lighte didn't think about as
much as these I think they did this on purpose.
I think it's so they could say in your face
because they know we're over the wokeness. Trump's brought America
back to where we're not sensitive anymore and everybody too.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Who are you not apologetic anything?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, and we don't. I don't care. In the Sydney sweet.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
We would have apologized for this. Sorry, we shouldn't have
done this. You know, several years ago they probably would
have had issue.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And someone says she's seeing Tom Brady. Good for Tom Brady.
If that's true, I don't know if it's I did
not know. Yes, she's smoking and you know what their
jean sails are through the roof, and there's nothing wrong.
I can't help but a person right now, if you
look at the mirror and think you're ugly, that's on you.
I don't think I'm good looking at all. I think
I'm just full of it and smart and happy, go lucky.
(03:39):
But God gave us some talent. Now, mindy, and we
give you a comment. You're a beautiful lady. Everyone thinks
you're very attractive. Come on, no, I think you're very
especially back in the day everybody watched Channel four. Now,
back in Channel four, you were one of the hottest
ladies in town. But you backed it with brains and
it's okay, there's not Randy's a lucky you mean guys
(04:01):
man made.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
He's hot.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, but she's smart too, she's my sister's are shut
up but but but it's always like, it's okay, why
Monica Day beautiful? I don't want to look at an
ugly person on television. I'm sorry, That's why I'm on radio.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I cannot believe the backlash that this ad has received
from people calling her a Nazi, this campaign being Nazi.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's left inspired.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
But you know what, just be happy. Just why try
to tear other people down. Aren't they supposed to be
the party that accepts everybody everything. It's so not right.
But you mentioned the sales over at American Eagle. Through
the first quarter. The first quarter of this year, their
net revenue decreased to one point one billion, a decline
(04:46):
of five percent. One day after this ad with Sydney
Sweeney was released, stock jumped by ten percent, and American
Eagle's market cap has now exceeded two billion dollars. The
ad worked, and you know what, you know what the
best thing of all when you buy a pair of
these genes.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm buying a pair of this week.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And you have a butterfly on the pocket and I
think it's part of it. But proceeds go to domestic abuse,
their domestic abuse, and you're gonna fight that because you
think the model is too white.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Bring up beyond.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I have great genes genes J E A N S
genes g E N E S. It was very clever.
What I didn't know till I did a little research.
Do you know who the CEO of American Eagle is?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Jay Shottenstein from Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Good for him is the CEO. I know he's not
going to back down.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
A little bit of research. Shotenstein families do not take it.
They tell you to go pound that.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I know Bill really well and he will not take
it from anybody.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So whose Bill compared to Jay?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
They're all related, I know, But how I think they're
cousins or he's his nephew.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, how about that? Jay Shantenstein is the j of
American Eagle from Columbus, Ohio. We really have to try
to get him on the air talk it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'll reach out to Bill and ask him Okay, let's
do that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So you're here from you guys, the listener, What do
you think of this whole campaign at Was it clever
or do you think they just should have stayed away
from it? Six one four eight two one nine eight
eighty six. I am proud that American Eagle and for
any company who makes a decision like that to like
Boots said not back day didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And you know what's funny, It's so funny. Bud Light
reps are like pop, I mean bud Light and then
what do you call the people that do marketing?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
They're like, why didn't we do something like that?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Because I remember bud Light in the eighties, but Light
in the eighties, remember the three hot chicks and the
bikinis laying on the towel and Budwiser was across their
bikinis across. Oh yeah, I never got offended by that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know what, you're a marketing campaign exec. You want
to create pages and commercials. They're going to make people
want to buy your product.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's the name of the game. Last half empty people
are the worst. And here here's who's who's you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I look up to, mindy, I look up to a
heavy set lady that carries herself solid and knows who
she is and what she is, and she acts, Hey,
this is what God gave me. That's rock and roll.
No one owes her, you know, I know my mom
was a heavy woman, but she was beautiful. She never
left the house ugly or no make always top ten.
(07:36):
My mom was five ten, two hundred and thirty pounds,
and no one ever looked at her like a big
fat woman because she carried herself professionally and she had
comment there's nothing wrong with that because she knew she
couldn't be this sweeny lady. She knew she wasn't born
with those genes.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
No pun intended.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So American Eagle did refuse to apologize. They did issue
this statement. I'm going to read it to you. Sidney
sween has great genes is and always was about the genes,
her jeans, her story. We will continue to celebrate how
everyone wears their American Eagle jeans with confidence, their way.
Great jeans look good on everyone. How are you going
(08:17):
to fight that? Like, what is it really worth your
time to be so miserable and so upset that a
hot actress is modeling and advertising genes if you're really
that upset, then look in the mirror and do something
about it yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
There, that's true.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
If you're that unhappy with yourself, then do something.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Why'd your happiness? Chris? You're not scanny.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I'm not scanny, but you know who you are, and
you rock and roll it, don't you?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Why bother?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And anybody who's attacking Sidney Sweeney over this, like, get
a life. It's so true, but you know what, they
are miserable people out there, and misery loves company. When
we come back for the break, because I know we're
up against it, but we want to take your calls
on this. I know you guys have an opinion with
this again six one four, eight, two one nine eight
eighty six. But I found some research that really compares
(09:12):
liberal America to conservative America. Who really is happier with
their own lives? Right now?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I know who that is? So uh and the guess
who's not? Bud Light lost billions? American eel made billions,
So you pay.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You pay a Jacob job.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
You marked the right box and says were aw Indian
Boots on news radio six ten WTVN
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