October 1, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a dynamic mix of political commentary, cultural analysis, and personal insight. Clay Travis opens the hour by reflecting on the viral response to his interview with Congressman Tim Burchett and a Twitter poll comparing bad decisions—Nico transferring to UCLA versus Kamala Harris choosing Tim Walz as VP. He also celebrates the show’s surging YouTube engagement, attributing the growth to algorithmic shifts and increased visibility, while warning about the broader implications of AI bias and algorithmic control over public discourse.
Clay dives into the media landscape, contrasting the depth of radio and writing with the superficiality of television soundbites. He critiques the advertising industry's left-wing bias, noting the absence of major brands like car companies and restaurants from conservative platforms despite massive audience reach. This leads into a cultural discussion about American Eagle’s successful ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney, which sparked controversy but resulted in a surge in sales and customer growth. Clay defends the campaign, arguing that “sex sells” and praising American Eagle for resisting cancel culture.
The hour takes a deeper turn with a provocative analysis of violent crime statistics in America, sparked by a Don Lemon clip questioning white male violence. Clay challenges racial generalizations and presents data showing that black men commit nearly half of all murders, followed by Hispanic men, white men, and Asian men. He argues that Asian-American communities have the lowest violent crime rates, attributing this to strong nuclear families and a cultural emphasis on education. Clay calls for a national conversation on how to replicate these values across all racial groups to reduce crime and improve public safety.
He also shares a personal anecdote about parenting and cell phone safety, contrasting American norms with Taiwan’s low-crime culture, as observed by Buck Sexton during his travels. The hour closes with commentary on Vice President JD Vance’s remarks about the government shutdown, including viral memes targeting Hakeem Jeffries over healthcare for illegal immigrants.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show a lot
of reaction rolling in to Tim Burchett, who was awesome
congressman from Tennessee. And I put up a poll question
that for those of you who are big college football
fans and also big interested in politics people, which I
think is a I know actually is a huge, huge
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number of you, which was the worst decision Nico to UCLA,
Sorry to the UCLA fans out there, or Kamala Harris
picking Tim Walls. It is up on my Twitter page
at Clay Travis. You can go vote there. Also want
to thank you guys here. As we start off our
number two, the numbers on the YouTube page were through
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the roof. Now partly this is because we're finally starting
to get somewhat treated fairly. We got banned from YouTube
all the time. We've talked about the fact that they
took down our interview with with Ran Paul with President Trump.
President Trump just settled for twenty four point six million dollars,
(01:07):
I think over YouTube banning him. He's going to use
the money to build the new dining room that he's
building off the patio there at the White House, which
is very funny and good for him. But we got
a digital summary and we added a lot of YouTube.
This is just in September. I saw this. Our total
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views on YouTube basically tripled in the month of September.
So that's a credit to you guys. Again, I don't
think it's coincidental. The algorithm is I got so many
thoughts on algorithms in general. The algorithm gives you whatever
you want the algorithm to give you. So YouTube could decide, hey,
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Clay and Buck videos are the most popular thing on
the planet, and it would feed those videos to you
over and over and over again. Or they can say, hey,
Clay and Buck are the worst people on the planet
and you would never be able to find us. So
when people say, well the algorithm, yeah, a person programs
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the algorithm. You can create an algorithm to do anything.
This is my fear in many ways. By the way,
about AI, everybody says, well, the AI is doing, the
AI is going to be a reflection of whatever is
put in and whatever guardrails are put in place. So
what I suspect will end up seeing this is my
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AI prediction is it looks like XAI, which is Elon
Musk's AI company is going to be the Fox News
of AI, and then everybody else is going to be
left wing AI. So I suspect that, like many other
things in life, you will end up choosing the AI
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that most you believe reflects your worldview, and that will
actually lead the AI to becoming even more polarized because
that will be the business model. That's my general thought. Now,
I gotta be honest. I didn't watch a lot of news.
I'm a sports guy. I didn't watch a lot of
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news on television. I've always been a reader and I
never trust video. I always have known that because I'm
in television that I love doing sports television, for instance,
but I've always known that it's hard to get great
in depth knowledge from television on anything. This is the
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reality television is a SoundBite era. And I always thought
it was funny because I've always done Radio two and
people say, Okay, what's the difference between writing, which is
where I started and by the way, please go buy
my new book Balls. I'm gonna talk about this a
little bit more later in the week, but it's up
(04:03):
pre ordered. I want this thing to be everywhere. I
think it's important, but people say, what's the different sween
writing radio and TV. Writing for me is just me
in front of a computer screen. Every word is mine
and there's nobody else helping, So for better or worse,
I have complete control of every argument that I make
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in a written article. And that is why, in many ways,
writing is still my favorite discipline because it's just me
sitting in front of a computer screen and there's no
one else to help, And for better or worse, it's
it's on me to make an argument, or to write
a column, or to write a book that hopefully is
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entertaining and helps to make people think. On a deeper level,
Radio we have the luxury of time, so I can
sit with you for three hours every day, but can
sit with you for three hours every day. Over time,
we become in some ways a family because you have
fifteen hours a week to spend with us, and we
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love all of you that spend that much time. But
you're going to learn about our families. You're gonna learn
about the things that we like, the serious things, the
not serious things. We hang out. It's basically just one
long form conversation. First time I did television, I did television.
I came out in a studio and they were like,
that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How was that so good? That was so great?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I was like, it's three minutes. I wish my wife
had that standard. There you go, but I'm but it's
three minutes. Like you go on television and you give
a couple of takes and then you're gone. And there
is not a great deal of nuance or complexity or
depth that television can convey. And so I was always
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a little bit skeptical of television in general when it
comes to complicated issues. And so I didn't watch I
didn't watch a lot of CNN. I've never watched MSNBC.
But I didn't really pay much attention to Fox News.
I now think it's funny. Fox News is the most
I now pay a lot more attention to news. You
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have to be crazy to watch MSNBC. I'm not like
I watch MSNBC. I read the New York Times, the
Washington Post, so to kind of have some sense of
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
They live in a crazy world.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
People say, oh, Fox News, it's super right, when Fox
News is just normal. And this is what they did
to me, and this is what they try to do
to anybody like me. I've talked about this before. They
try to always label me controversial. If you read any
article about me or somebody's talking about me, within thirty seconds,
(06:58):
they will say, Clay the controversial sometimes firebrand right wing
conservative political commentator. I don't think I'm controversial at all.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I say this.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I've been saying this for fifteen years now, as people
have constantly labeled me controversial. There's nothing wrong with controversy,
but I don't think most of my comments or opinions
are remotely controversial. They've labeled me super controversial for saying
men shouldn't play in women's sports, And again, I have
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nothing wrong with controversy, but when you are on the
side of eighty or ninety percent of people, what's controversial
is the other side. But that is an emblematic of
how they took over the culture. Is they label anyone,
anyone at all who is just not left wing. You're
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considered to be right wing, and they try to label
you as controversial, and it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Has an impact.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I give tremendous credit to iHeart for hosting this show,
but the most left wing industry in the country is advertising.
This show's audience is massive across all five hundred and
fifty five stations right now. There are millions of you
that will listen to me today on this program. Y'all
(08:25):
ever think about the fact that we've never had a
car advertisement on this program. Flip on MSNBC. Every car
brand in America advertises on MSNBC. We've never had a
restaurant on this program. Flip on CNN. Every restaurant in
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America advertises on those brands. And I'm thinking about this
a lot because I'm going to be potentially starting a
new media company, and when you rely on media companies
being founded and funded and existing or even having success
based on advertising dollars, the left has been brilliant in
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going after anybody who advertises on anything other than far
left wing and labeling them controversial to try to create
the idea that brands can't be associated with people like me,
or people like Buck or frankly, people like you. Think
about that, never a car, never a restaurant in the
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entire history of us being on this program.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's crazy, right.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Well, I think it ties in with the story that
I want to talk about this morning. I'm reading an
American Eagle headline American Eagle gained customers after their Sydney
Sweeney ads. Stock price has also skyrocketed. It's nearly doubled
since they debuted this ad. So if you had just said, hey,
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that's a pretty girl in jeans, that's probably going to work,
and you went and bought them there an eagle stock,
you've doubled your money just in the last few months,
nearly over this. But I thought this was interesting. This
is again from the Wall Street Journal. They said that
they have added nearly a million customers since they debuted
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the Sydney Sweeney ads, and not only that, they have
immediately sold out. And I don't even know what these
things are. I'm not exactly the hippus person on the
planet when it comes to clothes.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
As many of.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know, the Sweeney cinched waist denim jacket sold out
in one day, and the Sydney gene and I'm reading
from the Wall Street Journal, this is not my description.
An ultra wide leg with a butterfly on the back
pocket sold out in a week. They added a million customers,
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and they immediately sold out of everything that she was
wearing in the ads. Okay, here's something else. The owner CEO,
Jay Schottenstein, Big Ohio State guy by the way, Ohio
State Buckeye. He is seventy one years old, and he
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said he is also an Orthodox Jew, and he said,
quote according to the Wall Street Journal, he was perplexed
at the criticism of Sidney Genie Sidney Sweeney has good
genes because remember they said that was, oh, this is
a Nazi ad, this is about eugenics. This guy, an
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Orthodox Jew, actually said his mother in law grew up
in Nazi Germany and watched as the synagogue across the
street from her home was burned to the ground. Quote
I'm very conscious of that term.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
He said.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
He felt that the team had felt the campaign was
offensive in any way, we never would have done it.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Orthodox Jew whose.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Mother in law lived through actual Nazi Germany, said, Hey,
this is a crazy idea that you would try to
brand this a Nazi advertising campaign because we put a
pretty girl in denim, and the denim immediately sold out.
Do you know why, because pretty girls sell products. Sexy
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products sell I was laughing about this the other day.
Victoria's Secret has a new CEO. She's having a lot
of success. Do you know the new Victoria's Secret CEO's
plan make lingerie sexy again? It turns out putting unattractive
models in panties and bras doesn't make anyone want to
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buy more.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Panties than bras. I'm fat.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
They don't want to put me in a male underwear campaign.
It will be the least successful underwear on the planet.
Nobody's gonna see me in underwear and be like, I
want to look like that guy. I want to look
like that forty six year old dad of three. They
need a super ripped guy who's at least gonna make
you think, hey, maybe I'll be more attractive if I
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wear this underwear. Is people want to look better than
they actually are. They want the fantasy of hey, I'm
gonna put this on and I'm gonna look like a supermodel.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
This is not you know.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
They don't sell athletics shoes by putting fat guys in
sneakers and saying, hey, look at this guy's eighteen inch vertical.
They have a guy who can jump over the moon
in the tennis shoes, and they make you think you're
gonna jump over the moon too. I should start an
advertising agency. I've actually thought about this. I would sell
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everything better than what these morons at these advertising agencies do,
But I want to give credit because American Eagle said
basically screw you to all their critics. Stock price has
nearly doubled. They're selling out like crazy. They got a
million extra customers and all they did was go back
to the old adage of sex cells put a pretty
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girl in denim instead of some ridiculous androgynous you know, miss,
I don't even know what the unigender. I don't even
know what these terms are, pan sexual, whatever the heck
it is that nobody wants to be. They just put
a pretty girl in jeans and they immediately sold out.
Maybe America is going to be fine. And speaking of
selling out, Cozy Earth is selling out of their products
on a level that you could not believe because they
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got a crazy idea, Hey, we just want to have
awesome products available for everybody. And my wife is one
reason they're selling out because when they came on as
an advertiser, they said, hey, Laura Travis, you can go
on the website and you can order what you want.
What was the number alli ten boxes of stuff? They
were like, we've never actually we always did seventeen boxes.
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My wife bought seventeen boxes of their stuff. They always
say this, like, hey, new advertiser, you can go on
the website, just tell us what you want. They may
stop doing this now because my wife went on and
she was like, I'll get seventeen boxes of the stuff.
That's how much she loves this product. They got everything
bamboo sheets, amazing comforters. Basically, if you are out there
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in the marketplace to have better products in your home,
you need to be on the Cozy Earth website. They
will give you one hundred day, hundred nights sleep trial
to see if the Cozy Earth sheets are right for you.
Use my name Clay, you get twenty percent off everything.
Please go to this website because I think I almost
bankrupted the company by letting my wife go and buy
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whatever she wanted. So we've got to make sure the
company doesn't go bankrupt because Laura Travis went on the
website and took advantage.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Of it on a level I don't know we've ever
had it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So I need this company that actually make some money
here to make up for what my wife took from them.
Cozyearth dot com, my name Clay, that's cozyearth dot com.
My name Clay, and let him know Clay and Buck
sent you if you get a post by survey.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Home isn't just where you live, it's how you feel.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
We've got these products all throughout the house, as you know,
because my wife bought seventeen boxes, and by bought, I
mean she went on and they sent us seventeen boxes
of their stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
She loved it all. Your wife will love it. You
will love it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Check it out cozyerth dot com code Clay, that's ceoz
y earth dot com. Cozyerth dot com code Clay twenty
percent off. Check it out today. You don't know what's
you don't know right, but you could on the Sunday
Hang with Clay and Buck podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Welcome back in all right.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Point of clarification, my wife texted me in all caps
one box, Alie, I don't know who's going to take
the fall on this one, because seventeen boxes is a lot.
I was like, seventeen boxes seems like a lot. Was
it seventeen sheets?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh, I don't know, Clay, who was taking the fall here? Ali?
This is now me getting thrown over the middle. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm not gonna say I don't this is I'm not
a blame guy. But this is one hundred percent on
Producer Alley. Again, not the kind of guy. I don't
shift blame you, guys know, I take it right on
my shoulders. But this is one hundred percent Producer Alley's fault.
I will tell you. Cozy Earth is amazing, and my
wife does love their products, but she said it was
not seventeen. But I don't know how big the boxes are.
And honestly, we have so many boxes arriving daily at
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the house that I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What is in any of them.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Like I buy Kirkland brand products at Costco and books,
and then otherwise I don't really buy anything, and you
can tell by the way I dress like I don't
even know what's going on in the world. So anyway,
Cozy Earth is amazing. Use my code Clay when we
come back. A lot of you want to weigh in
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appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Buckle me back on Monday.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
He is in Taiwan and I flagged this because I
thought it was interesting. Let's see if I can find it.
As I scroll through, he was talking. In fact, let
me just go ahead and pull up and make sure
that I don't screw it up. He was talking about
how saved Taiwan is and again this is hopefully without
China invading, and he was pointing yesterday I talked about
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the fact that after dark there's no fear, and I
thought this was interesting. He said, so in Taiwan, you'll
see someone in a coffee shop leave their cell phone
on their seat to save their spot when they go
to the bathroom. Ask some locals if this was normal.
They thought the question was funny. Of course, people leave
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their phones out. No, theft civilized. Super interesting because I
actually was out to dinner recently with my son and
he got up to go to the bathroom and he
left his phone on the table. And this is my
fifteen year old, so he's only had a cell phone
for about a year. Because we don't give cell phones
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to the kids until they're fourteen, and that might have
even been too young, but I feel like that's one
of the parenting decisions we got right, because a lot
of people give their kids cell phones way too young,
and we're finding out that there are significant consequences for that.
And I said, no, no, no, you can't ever leave
your cell phone at a table, and even if you're
going to the bathroom, even if you're going somewhere for
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a short period of time, even if you think you're
in a safe place, somebody will steal it. And the
culture of many countries that is not the case. You
can just leave your things and you would never have
to worry about it being stolen. And I was talking
about this in the context yesterday when we played the
cut of Don Lemon saying why are white men so violent?
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And I said, first of all, using race as a
proxy for criticism is not healthy, because as soon as
you use race as a criticism for proxy, a lot
of people just dial out. This was my big thing
with Colin Kaepernick when he protested in the NFL nine
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years ago and he said, well, police are just killing
black men, leaving aside the fact.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That it wasn't true.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
If he had protested and said, hey, police are killing
too many people, then it would have been a more
interesting conversation. I don't think that's true. Unfortunately. I think
police are thrust into constant acts of violence, and as
we've talked about on this show, body cameras are actually
showing you that almost every time police fire their weapons,
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they're in incredible danger and if they fire their weapons
and they shouldn't have, everybody sees it and says, boy,
that was unnecessary. But it's a tiny number of actual
firearms usage by police that is in any way potentially
not justified escalation of force. But if Kaepernick had said, hey, this,
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we should have a national conversation about police violence. As
I have talked about quite a lot, and this was
controversial to say back then, seventy five percent of people
that are shot and killed by police are white, Asian
and Hispanic. That blows people's minds. That's data, according to
the Washington Post police shooting database, that seventy five percent
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of people shot and killed by police are white, Asian
or Hispanic. Everybody like pauses and says, really is that true?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now you can say, well, you know, black people are
around twelve or thirteen percent of the population, so they're
getting shot outside per capita of what the data would reflect.
They should be just based on raw numbers. But then
you go into the data, as Don Lemon did not,
and you say, okay, well, hold on a minute, what
percentage of violent crimes are committed by black people? Huge
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percentages In fact, if you go into the data, black
men commit nearly half of all murders and almost all
of the victims of black male violence are black male
And so I actually asked this question on Twitter yesterday
and some of the responses were very interesting. But I
want to share it with you because it came out
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of the Don Lemon video where he's lecturing white men,
white men, why are you so violent? And I said, well,
you've never make a video lecturing black men and asking
why black men are so violent? And if I made
that video, as I said yesterday on the program, people
would say, oh, it's super racist. Look here's a white
guy lecturing black men. I don't think it's effective to
single out racial groups and lecture them, but I do
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think data matters.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And in fact, if you rank.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Violent crime based on male violent crime, black men are
the most violent.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And this is.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Murder, which is a crime we know occur. So Black
men are statistically the most violent men in America. Hispanic
men are statistically the second most violent men in America.
White men, the people that Don Lemon was lecturing, are
actually the third most violent men in America. Asian men
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almost no violence. What do you think that is, shouldn't
and rational, reasonable American society sit and look at those
data sets. These are real facts. Who's being murdered. If
I said to you, hey, you know what, We're going
to solve murder in this country, and we're going to
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focus all of our resources on Asian men, and we're
going to take the Asian male murder rate down to
virtually zero, the data wouldn't really change very much because
there's almost no Asian murder. You would still have ninety
seven percent of the murder rate in the country. Roughly,
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if we eliminated every Asian murder in the country, if
we eliminated every Black murder in the country, we would
have about a fifty percent decline in murder. So if
you were looking at the raw data set and you
were saying, hey, how do we fix violent crime? With
murder being the apex the top of the most violent
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crimes in America, how do.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
We fix that?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You would say, Well, you don't spend much time on
Asian people. You would spend more time policing in black communities,
secondarily Hispanic communities, third white communities, fourth Asian communities. What
a more interesting question would be, why are Asian rates
of violent crime so low in the unit United States.
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Wouldn't a rational, reasonable American conversation ensue from that? Why
do Asian men commit comparatively almost no violence? And by
the way, there are lots of poor Asian men, lots
of recent immigrants, lots of low education families that are
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raising kids that don't have a lot of advantages. So
you go statistically and look at average income for poor
immigrant communities of Asians, and you compare them to black communities. Say,
in New York City, the rate of violence in Black
communities is through the roof. The rate of violence in
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Asian communities is virtually non existent. Why shouldn't we ask
those questions? Shouldn't we have a real, rational, reasonable, knowledgeable
conversation about that? If our goal, my goal, your goal,
all of our goals, regardless of our racial groups, would
be hey. I think less murder would be a good thing.
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I think less violent crime would be a good thing.
I think more kids being safe on the streets playing
after dark would be a good thing. I think more
of our wives, our sisters, our mothers, more of them
being able our girlfriends, more of them being able to
go for a jog at night, in any American city
without having to worry about being dragged out the street
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and right, that would be a good thing. Less violent crime,
crazy proposition here would be a great thing for Americans
of all different backgrounds. Why is there no violent crime
in Asian communities? My answer would be two things. Dads
are at home. Because I think the number one thing.
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If you told me the number one thing, Clay, you
have a magic one you can change anything, it would
be everybody gets raised in a nuclear your family with
dad and mom at home. I know that's not possible.
I'm not attacking single parents out there, male or female.
I'm just saying the data correlates if you put dad
at home, the rate of violent behavior by young men
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collapses across all racial groups. So number one, I think
the data, if we went and looked at it would
show dads at home in nuclear families are the best
possible foundation for kids to be successful. Dad's at home. Second,
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education is of paramount importance in the culture of the
Asian community, more so than any other racial group. Asian
families focus on education as a cultural construct. Maybe worldwide
I can't speak to it, but certainly in the United States,
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dads at home education.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Now, I think if you.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Correlate that, you would see that if you have those
two things, the violent crime rate for young men is
virtually nonexistent. So would a rational, reasonable society say we
should do everything possible to try to get more dads
at home and to try to get education as the
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foundation of cultural success in this country. Now that's my philosophy.
You may be out there and you might say, Okay,
there's something else that's going on here. But if we
just look at the data sets violent crime Black men
number one, Hispanic man number two, White men number three,
Asian men number four. What if America had the Asian
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male violent crime rate nationwide, America would be one of
the safest countries in the world. I take away from
looking at that data set, like Don Lemons, is, I'm
gonna lecture the third most violent group, white men, and
just tell you why you're the worst. My takeaway is,
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why shouldn't we all aspire to have the same violent
crime rate of the Asian community. What are they doing right?
And how do we take what they're doing right and
apply it to the nation.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I bet you won't.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Hear that conversation anywhere else in America. That analysis. Do
you know why, because so much of our conversation in
the country is terrified to acknowledge race unless it's to
say racism is bad. Yeah, racism is bad. Don't judge
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people based on the color of their skin. That is stupid.
But shouldn't we use data sets that involve race to
try to drive the best possible outcomes for everybody of
every race. And if Asian men are by far the
least violent in the United States, isn't it fair to ask, hey,
what are Asian families doing that is creating a culture
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that almost doesn't have violence at all? Because again, think
about it, if we had a culture of Asian violence
across the entirety of the United States the same rate,
there would be no crime of a violent nature in
this country. I think there's a great deal of value
in looking at it and saying, hey, how do we
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learn from this, what can we take from it? And
how do we as a society implement policies that try
to create more of what the Asian family, what the
Asian culture is creating when it comes to violence across everybody, white, Black, Asian,
and Hispanic, that would actually be using diversity as a
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strength because it's something that's very positive, and we're trying
to apply the lessons of that to the entirety of
the country. Violent crime is a choice. We're allowing it,
not letting people walk around in the streets after dark.
When I was in Memphis and I had to go
buy a car charger, and the lady at the front
desk said, are you sure you want to do that?
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Are you sure you want to get it's eight o'clock.
Are you sure you want to go out after dark
and go buy a car charger in Memphis? We're choosing
to live in a society like this. We don't have to.
We could fix it, We really could. We'll take some
of your calls. We'll continue to roll as we are
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And politics, but also a little comic relief. Claytravis at
buck Sexton.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
Vice President Jade Vance currently addressing the media about the
government shutdown from the White House, and I don't know
how many of you been paying attention to it, but
they have been using sombrero memes to make fun of
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Hakeem Jeffries because he is in favor of giving healthcare
to illegal immigrants. I understand that might sound crazy to
some of you out there who are not involved in
the Internet. These memes are absolutely hysterical. I'm not sure
if they're funnier than me playing the flute memes, which
basically was the existence for AI for many time, and
(35:17):
that some of you continue to pop out there. But
jd Vance just said that he promises if the government
shutdown is ended with the help of Hakeem Jefferies, that
the sombrero memes will end. That is a real clip.
In the meantime, we'll get that for you in the
third hour, when we will also be joined by our
friend Tutor Dixon. But first, here is cut twenty eight
(35:40):
jd Vance saying, Hey, the far left wing of the
Democrat Party basically decided they have to shut down. Listen
to cut twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
The American people who are watching. The reason your government
is shut down at this very minute is because despite
the fact that the overwhelming majority of Congressional Republicans and
even a few moderate Democrats supported opening the government, the
Chuck Schumer, AOC wing of the Democratic Party, shut down
the government because they said to us, we will open
the government, but only if you give billions of dollars
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of funding for healthcare for illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
That's a ridiculous proposition.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
This these clips are gonna be really, really funny. Jadie
Vance was just held to account and asked, are the
Jeffreys sombrero memes actually helpful? And this is the element.
I'm gonna send it to our producer Greg. By the way, Ali,
I'm not gonna say that Ali is passing the blame
on the Cozy Earth controversy, but she just said, I
(36:38):
can't say on air whose name it was, but he
was completely wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Controversy grows. One box of cozy earth gear per my
wife Laura, twelve sets of sheets. All of the information
was wrong. Ali was one hundred percent wrong. Not a
blame guy. Ali's not a blame girl, but she says
someone else was wrong. The truth will
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Out of the bed.
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show a lot
of reaction rolling in to Tim Burchett, who was awesome
congressman from Tennessee. And I put up a poll question
that for those of you who are big college football
fans and also big interested in politics people, which I
think is a I know actually is a huge, huge
(00:23):
number of you, which was the worst decision Nico to UCLA,
Sorry to the UCLA fans out there, or Kamala Harris
picking Tim Walls. It is up on my Twitter page
at Clay Travis. You can go vote there. Also want
to thank you guys here. As we start off our
number two, the numbers on the YouTube page were through
(00:46):
the roof. Now partly this is because we're finally starting
to get somewhat treated fairly. We got banned from YouTube
all the time. We've talked about the fact that they
took down our interview with with Ran Paul with President Trump.
President Trump just settled for twenty four point six million dollars,
(01:07):
I think over YouTube banning him. He's going to use
the money to build the new dining room that he's
building off the patio there at the White House, which
is very funny and good for him. But we got
a digital summary and we added a lot of YouTube.
This is just in September. I saw this. Our total
(01:30):
views on YouTube basically tripled in the month of September.
So that's a credit to you guys. Again, I don't
think it's coincidental. The algorithm is I got so many
thoughts on algorithms in general. The algorithm gives you whatever
you want the algorithm to give you. So YouTube could decide, hey,
(01:55):
Clay and Buck videos are the most popular thing on
the planet, and it would feed those videos to you
over and over and over again. Or they can say, hey,
Clay and Buck are the worst people on the planet
and you would never be able to find us. So
when people say, well the algorithm, yeah, a person programs
(02:16):
the algorithm. You can create an algorithm to do anything.
This is my fear in many ways. By the way,
about AI, everybody says, well, the AI is doing, the
AI is going to be a reflection of whatever is
put in and whatever guardrails are put in place. So
what I suspect will end up seeing this is my
(02:37):
AI prediction is it looks like XAI, which is Elon
Musk's AI company is going to be the Fox News
of AI, and then everybody else is going to be
left wing AI. So I suspect that, like many other
things in life, you will end up choosing the AI
(03:00):
that most you believe reflects your worldview, and that will
actually lead the AI to becoming even more polarized because
that will be the business model. That's my general thought. Now,
I gotta be honest. I didn't watch a lot of news.
I'm a sports guy. I didn't watch a lot of
(03:21):
news on television. I've always been a reader and I
never trust video. I always have known that because I'm
in television that I love doing sports television, for instance,
but I've always known that it's hard to get great
in depth knowledge from television on anything. This is the
(03:43):
reality television is a SoundBite era. And I always thought
it was funny because I've always done Radio two and
people say, Okay, what's the difference between writing, which is
where I started and by the way, please go buy
my new book Balls. I'm gonna talk about this a
little bit more later in the week, but it's up
(04:03):
pre ordered. I want this thing to be everywhere. I
think it's important, but people say, what's the different sween
writing radio and TV. Writing for me is just me
in front of a computer screen. Every word is mine
and there's nobody else helping, So for better or worse,
I have complete control of every argument that I make
(04:27):
in a written article. And that is why, in many ways,
writing is still my favorite discipline because it's just me
sitting in front of a computer screen and there's no
one else to help, And for better or worse, it's
it's on me to make an argument, or to write
a column, or to write a book that hopefully is
(04:48):
entertaining and helps to make people think. On a deeper level,
Radio we have the luxury of time, so I can
sit with you for three hours every day, but can
sit with you for three hours every day. Over time,
we become in some ways a family because you have
fifteen hours a week to spend with us, and we
(05:10):
love all of you that spend that much time. But
you're going to learn about our families. You're gonna learn
about the things that we like, the serious things, the
not serious things. We hang out. It's basically just one
long form conversation. First time I did television, I did television.
I came out in a studio and they were like,
that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How was that so good? That was so great?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I was like, it's three minutes. I wish my wife
had that standard. There you go, but I'm but it's
three minutes. Like you go on television and you give
a couple of takes and then you're gone. And there
is not a great deal of nuance or complexity or
depth that television can convey. And so I was always
(05:55):
a little bit skeptical of television in general when it
comes to complicated issues. And so I didn't watch I
didn't watch a lot of CNN. I've never watched MSNBC.
But I didn't really pay much attention to Fox News.
I now think it's funny. Fox News is the most
I now pay a lot more attention to news. You
(06:18):
have to be crazy to watch MSNBC. I'm not like
I watch MSNBC. I read the New York Times, the
Washington Post, so to kind of have some sense of
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
They live in a crazy world.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
People say, oh, Fox News, it's super right, when Fox
News is just normal. And this is what they did
to me, and this is what they try to do
to anybody like me. I've talked about this before. They
try to always label me controversial. If you read any
article about me or somebody's talking about me, within thirty seconds,
(06:58):
they will say, Clay the controversial sometimes firebrand right wing
conservative political commentator. I don't think I'm controversial at all.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I say this.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I've been saying this for fifteen years now, as people
have constantly labeled me controversial. There's nothing wrong with controversy,
but I don't think most of my comments or opinions
are remotely controversial. They've labeled me super controversial for saying
men shouldn't play in women's sports, And again, I have
(07:35):
nothing wrong with controversy, but when you are on the
side of eighty or ninety percent of people, what's controversial
is the other side. But that is an emblematic of
how they took over the culture. Is they label anyone,
anyone at all who is just not left wing. You're
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considered to be right wing, and they try to label
you as controversial, and it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Has an impact.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I give tremendous credit to iHeart for hosting this show,
but the most left wing industry in the country is advertising.
This show's audience is massive across all five hundred and
fifty five stations right now. There are millions of you
that will listen to me today on this program. Y'all
(08:25):
ever think about the fact that we've never had a
car advertisement on this program. Flip on MSNBC. Every car
brand in America advertises on MSNBC. We've never had a
restaurant on this program. Flip on CNN. Every restaurant in
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America advertises on those brands. And I'm thinking about this
a lot because I'm going to be potentially starting a
new media company, and when you rely on media companies
being founded and funded and existing or even having success
based on advertising dollars, the left has been brilliant in
(09:09):
going after anybody who advertises on anything other than far
left wing and labeling them controversial to try to create
the idea that brands can't be associated with people like me,
or people like Buck or frankly, people like you. Think
about that, never a car, never a restaurant in the
(09:31):
entire history of us being on this program.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's crazy, right.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Well, I think it ties in with the story that
I want to talk about this morning. I'm reading an
American Eagle headline American Eagle gained customers after their Sydney
Sweeney ads. Stock price has also skyrocketed. It's nearly doubled
since they debuted this ad. So if you had just said, hey,
(09:56):
that's a pretty girl in jeans, that's probably going to work,
and you went and bought them there an eagle stock,
you've doubled your money just in the last few months,
nearly over this. But I thought this was interesting. This
is again from the Wall Street Journal. They said that
they have added nearly a million customers since they debuted
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the Sydney Sweeney ads, and not only that, they have
immediately sold out. And I don't even know what these
things are. I'm not exactly the hippus person on the
planet when it comes to clothes.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
As many of.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know, the Sweeney cinched waist denim jacket sold out
in one day, and the Sydney gene and I'm reading
from the Wall Street Journal, this is not my description.
An ultra wide leg with a butterfly on the back
pocket sold out in a week. They added a million customers,
(10:54):
and they immediately sold out of everything that she was
wearing in the ads. Okay, here's something else. The owner CEO,
Jay Schottenstein, Big Ohio State guy by the way, Ohio
State Buckeye. He is seventy one years old, and he
(11:16):
said he is also an Orthodox Jew, and he said,
quote according to the Wall Street Journal, he was perplexed
at the criticism of Sidney Genie Sidney Sweeney has good
genes because remember they said that was, oh, this is
a Nazi ad, this is about eugenics. This guy, an
(11:38):
Orthodox Jew, actually said his mother in law grew up
in Nazi Germany and watched as the synagogue across the
street from her home was burned to the ground. Quote
I'm very conscious of that term.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
He said.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
He felt that the team had felt the campaign was
offensive in any way, we never would have done it.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Orthodox Jew whose.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Mother in law lived through actual Nazi Germany, said, Hey,
this is a crazy idea that you would try to
brand this a Nazi advertising campaign because we put a
pretty girl in denim, and the denim immediately sold out.
Do you know why, because pretty girls sell products. Sexy
(12:32):
products sell I was laughing about this the other day.
Victoria's Secret has a new CEO. She's having a lot
of success. Do you know the new Victoria's Secret CEO's
plan make lingerie sexy again? It turns out putting unattractive
models in panties and bras doesn't make anyone want to
(12:54):
buy more.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Panties than bras. I'm fat.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
They don't want to put me in a male underwear campaign.
It will be the least successful underwear on the planet.
Nobody's gonna see me in underwear and be like, I
want to look like that guy. I want to look
like that forty six year old dad of three. They
need a super ripped guy who's at least gonna make
you think, hey, maybe I'll be more attractive if I
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wear this underwear. Is people want to look better than
they actually are. They want the fantasy of hey, I'm
gonna put this on and I'm gonna look like a supermodel.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
This is not you know.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
They don't sell athletics shoes by putting fat guys in
sneakers and saying, hey, look at this guy's eighteen inch vertical.
They have a guy who can jump over the moon
in the tennis shoes, and they make you think you're
gonna jump over the moon too. I should start an
advertising agency. I've actually thought about this. I would sell
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everything better than what these morons at these advertising agencies do,
But I want to give credit because American Eagle said
basically screw you to all their critics. Stock price has
nearly doubled. They're selling out like crazy. They got a
million extra customers and all they did was go back
to the old adage of sex cells put a pretty
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girl in denim instead of some ridiculous androgynous you know, miss,
I don't even know what the unigender. I don't even
know what these terms are, pan sexual, whatever the heck
it is that nobody wants to be. They just put
a pretty girl in jeans and they immediately sold out.
Maybe America is going to be fine. And speaking of
selling out, Cozy Earth is selling out of their products
on a level that you could not believe because they
(14:39):
got a crazy idea, Hey, we just want to have
awesome products available for everybody. And my wife is one
reason they're selling out because when they came on as
an advertiser, they said, hey, Laura Travis, you can go
on the website and you can order what you want.
What was the number alli ten boxes of stuff? They
were like, we've never actually we always did seventeen boxes.
(15:03):
My wife bought seventeen boxes of their stuff. They always
say this, like, hey, new advertiser, you can go on
the website, just tell us what you want. They may
stop doing this now because my wife went on and
she was like, I'll get seventeen boxes of the stuff.
That's how much she loves this product. They got everything
bamboo sheets, amazing comforters. Basically, if you are out there
(15:27):
in the marketplace to have better products in your home,
you need to be on the Cozy Earth website. They
will give you one hundred day, hundred nights sleep trial
to see if the Cozy Earth sheets are right for you.
Use my name Clay, you get twenty percent off everything.
Please go to this website because I think I almost
bankrupted the company by letting my wife go and buy
(15:49):
whatever she wanted. So we've got to make sure the
company doesn't go bankrupt because Laura Travis went on the
website and took advantage.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Of it on a level I don't know we've ever
had it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So I need this company that actually make some money
here to make up for what my wife took from them.
Cozyearth dot com, my name Clay, that's cozyearth dot com.
My name Clay, and let him know Clay and Buck
sent you if you get a post by survey.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Home isn't just where you live, it's how you feel.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
We've got these products all throughout the house, as you know,
because my wife bought seventeen boxes, and by bought, I
mean she went on and they sent us seventeen boxes
of their stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
She loved it all. Your wife will love it. You
will love it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Check it out cozyerth dot com code Clay, that's ceoz
y earth dot com. Cozyerth dot com code Clay twenty
percent off. Check it out today. You don't know what's
you don't know right, but you could on the Sunday
Hang with Clay and Buck podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Welcome back in all right.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Point of clarification, my wife texted me in all caps
one box, Alie, I don't know who's going to take
the fall on this one, because seventeen boxes is a lot.
I was like, seventeen boxes seems like a lot. Was
it seventeen sheets?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh, I don't know, Clay, who was taking the fall here? Ali?
This is now me getting thrown over the middle. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I'm not gonna say I don't this is I'm not
a blame guy. But this is one hundred percent on
Producer Alley. Again, not the kind of guy. I don't
shift blame you, guys know, I take it right on
my shoulders. But this is one hundred percent Producer Alley's fault.
I will tell you. Cozy Earth is amazing, and my
wife does love their products, but she said it was
not seventeen. But I don't know how big the boxes are.
And honestly, we have so many boxes arriving daily at
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the house that I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What is in any of them.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Like I buy Kirkland brand products at Costco and books,
and then otherwise I don't really buy anything, and you
can tell by the way I dress like I don't
even know what's going on in the world. So anyway,
Cozy Earth is amazing. Use my code Clay when we
come back. A lot of you want to weigh in
on that American Eagles story, because I do think it's
significant culturally, and I want to tell you, speaking of
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appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Buckle me back on Monday.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
He is in Taiwan and I flagged this because I
thought it was interesting. Let's see if I can find it.
As I scroll through, he was talking. In fact, let
me just go ahead and pull up and make sure
that I don't screw it up. He was talking about
how saved Taiwan is and again this is hopefully without
China invading, and he was pointing yesterday I talked about
(19:30):
the fact that after dark there's no fear, and I
thought this was interesting. He said, so in Taiwan, you'll
see someone in a coffee shop leave their cell phone
on their seat to save their spot when they go
to the bathroom. Ask some locals if this was normal.
They thought the question was funny. Of course, people leave
(19:50):
their phones out. No, theft civilized. Super interesting because I
actually was out to dinner recently with my son and
he got up to go to the bathroom and he
left his phone on the table. And this is my
fifteen year old, so he's only had a cell phone
for about a year. Because we don't give cell phones
(20:12):
to the kids until they're fourteen, and that might have
even been too young, but I feel like that's one
of the parenting decisions we got right, because a lot
of people give their kids cell phones way too young,
and we're finding out that there are significant consequences for that.
And I said, no, no, no, you can't ever leave
your cell phone at a table, and even if you're
going to the bathroom, even if you're going somewhere for
(20:33):
a short period of time, even if you think you're
in a safe place, somebody will steal it. And the
culture of many countries that is not the case. You
can just leave your things and you would never have
to worry about it being stolen. And I was talking
about this in the context yesterday when we played the
cut of Don Lemon saying why are white men so violent?
(20:55):
And I said, first of all, using race as a
proxy for criticism is not healthy, because as soon as
you use race as a criticism for proxy, a lot
of people just dial out. This was my big thing
with Colin Kaepernick when he protested in the NFL nine
(21:16):
years ago and he said, well, police are just killing
black men, leaving aside the fact.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That it wasn't true.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
If he had protested and said, hey, police are killing
too many people, then it would have been a more
interesting conversation. I don't think that's true. Unfortunately. I think
police are thrust into constant acts of violence, and as
we've talked about on this show, body cameras are actually
showing you that almost every time police fire their weapons,
(21:45):
they're in incredible danger and if they fire their weapons
and they shouldn't have, everybody sees it and says, boy,
that was unnecessary. But it's a tiny number of actual
firearms usage by police that is in any way potentially
not justified escalation of force. But if Kaepernick had said, hey, this,
(22:08):
we should have a national conversation about police violence. As
I have talked about quite a lot, and this was
controversial to say back then, seventy five percent of people
that are shot and killed by police are white, Asian
and Hispanic. That blows people's minds. That's data, according to
the Washington Post police shooting database, that seventy five percent
(22:33):
of people shot and killed by police are white, Asian
or Hispanic. Everybody like pauses and says, really is that true?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now you can say, well, you know, black people are
around twelve or thirteen percent of the population, so they're
getting shot outside per capita of what the data would reflect.
They should be just based on raw numbers. But then
you go into the data, as Don Lemon did not,
and you say, okay, well, hold on a minute, what
percentage of violent crimes are committed by black people? Huge
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percentages In fact, if you go into the data, black
men commit nearly half of all murders and almost all
of the victims of black male violence are black male
And so I actually asked this question on Twitter yesterday
and some of the responses were very interesting. But I
want to share it with you because it came out
(23:28):
of the Don Lemon video where he's lecturing white men,
white men, why are you so violent? And I said, well,
you've never make a video lecturing black men and asking
why black men are so violent? And if I made
that video, as I said yesterday on the program, people
would say, oh, it's super racist. Look here's a white
guy lecturing black men. I don't think it's effective to
single out racial groups and lecture them, but I do
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think data matters.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And in fact, if you rank.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Violent crime based on male violent crime, black men are
the most violent.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And this is.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Murder, which is a crime we know occur. So Black
men are statistically the most violent men in America. Hispanic
men are statistically the second most violent men in America.
White men, the people that Don Lemon was lecturing, are
actually the third most violent men in America. Asian men
(24:26):
almost no violence. What do you think that is, shouldn't
and rational, reasonable American society sit and look at those
data sets. These are real facts. Who's being murdered. If
I said to you, hey, you know what, We're going
to solve murder in this country, and we're going to
(24:48):
focus all of our resources on Asian men, and we're
going to take the Asian male murder rate down to
virtually zero, the data wouldn't really change very much because
there's almost no Asian murder. You would still have ninety
seven percent of the murder rate in the country. Roughly,
(25:09):
if we eliminated every Asian murder in the country, if
we eliminated every Black murder in the country, we would
have about a fifty percent decline in murder. So if
you were looking at the raw data set and you
were saying, hey, how do we fix violent crime? With
murder being the apex the top of the most violent
(25:33):
crimes in America, how do.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
We fix that?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You would say, Well, you don't spend much time on
Asian people. You would spend more time policing in black communities,
secondarily Hispanic communities, third white communities, fourth Asian communities. What
a more interesting question would be, why are Asian rates
of violent crime so low in the unit United States.
(26:02):
Wouldn't a rational, reasonable American conversation ensue from that? Why
do Asian men commit comparatively almost no violence? And by
the way, there are lots of poor Asian men, lots
of recent immigrants, lots of low education families that are
(26:26):
raising kids that don't have a lot of advantages. So
you go statistically and look at average income for poor
immigrant communities of Asians, and you compare them to black communities. Say,
in New York City, the rate of violence in Black
communities is through the roof. The rate of violence in
(26:47):
Asian communities is virtually non existent. Why shouldn't we ask
those questions? Shouldn't we have a real, rational, reasonable, knowledgeable
conversation about that? If our goal, my goal, your goal,
all of our goals, regardless of our racial groups, would
be hey. I think less murder would be a good thing.
(27:08):
I think less violent crime would be a good thing.
I think more kids being safe on the streets playing
after dark would be a good thing. I think more
of our wives, our sisters, our mothers, more of them
being able our girlfriends, more of them being able to
go for a jog at night, in any American city
without having to worry about being dragged out the street
(27:28):
and right, that would be a good thing. Less violent crime,
crazy proposition here would be a great thing for Americans
of all different backgrounds. Why is there no violent crime
in Asian communities? My answer would be two things. Dads
are at home. Because I think the number one thing.
(27:52):
If you told me the number one thing, Clay, you
have a magic one you can change anything, it would
be everybody gets raised in a nuclear your family with
dad and mom at home. I know that's not possible.
I'm not attacking single parents out there, male or female.
I'm just saying the data correlates if you put dad
at home, the rate of violent behavior by young men
(28:14):
collapses across all racial groups. So number one, I think
the data, if we went and looked at it would
show dads at home in nuclear families are the best
possible foundation for kids to be successful. Dad's at home. Second,
(28:37):
education is of paramount importance in the culture of the
Asian community, more so than any other racial group. Asian
families focus on education as a cultural construct. Maybe worldwide
I can't speak to it, but certainly in the United States,
(29:00):
dads at home education.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Now, I think if you.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Correlate that, you would see that if you have those
two things, the violent crime rate for young men is
virtually nonexistent. So would a rational, reasonable society say we
should do everything possible to try to get more dads
at home and to try to get education as the
(29:27):
foundation of cultural success in this country. Now that's my philosophy.
You may be out there and you might say, Okay,
there's something else that's going on here. But if we
just look at the data sets violent crime Black men
number one, Hispanic man number two, White men number three,
Asian men number four. What if America had the Asian
(29:51):
male violent crime rate nationwide, America would be one of
the safest countries in the world. I take away from
looking at that data set, like Don Lemons, is, I'm
gonna lecture the third most violent group, white men, and
just tell you why you're the worst. My takeaway is,
(30:12):
why shouldn't we all aspire to have the same violent
crime rate of the Asian community. What are they doing right?
And how do we take what they're doing right and
apply it to the nation.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I bet you won't.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Hear that conversation anywhere else in America. That analysis. Do
you know why, because so much of our conversation in
the country is terrified to acknowledge race unless it's to
say racism is bad. Yeah, racism is bad. Don't judge
(30:47):
people based on the color of their skin. That is stupid.
But shouldn't we use data sets that involve race to
try to drive the best possible outcomes for everybody of
every race. And if Asian men are by far the
least violent in the United States, isn't it fair to ask, hey,
what are Asian families doing that is creating a culture
(31:12):
that almost doesn't have violence at all? Because again, think
about it, if we had a culture of Asian violence
across the entirety of the United States the same rate,
there would be no crime of a violent nature in
this country. I think there's a great deal of value
in looking at it and saying, hey, how do we
(31:34):
learn from this, what can we take from it? And
how do we as a society implement policies that try
to create more of what the Asian family, what the
Asian culture is creating when it comes to violence across everybody, white, Black, Asian,
and Hispanic, that would actually be using diversity as a
(31:55):
strength because it's something that's very positive, and we're trying
to apply the lessons of that to the entirety of
the country. Violent crime is a choice. We're allowing it,
not letting people walk around in the streets after dark.
When I was in Memphis and I had to go
buy a car charger, and the lady at the front
desk said, are you sure you want to do that?
(32:16):
Are you sure you want to get it's eight o'clock.
Are you sure you want to go out after dark
and go buy a car charger in Memphis? We're choosing
to live in a society like this. We don't have to.
We could fix it, We really could. We'll take some
of your calls. We'll continue to roll as we are
diving into the program here. Also, my wife is still
(32:39):
firing away about Cozy Earth. And again, not a blame guy,
but this is all Ali's fault. I'll explain at the
end of the hour. But in the meantime, you've got
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Speaker 2 (34:24):
And politics, but also a little comic relief. Claytravis at
buck Sexton.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
Vice President Jade Vance currently addressing the media about the
government shutdown from the White House, and I don't know
how many of you been paying attention to it, but
they have been using sombrero memes to make fun of
(34:54):
Hakeem Jeffries because he is in favor of giving healthcare
to illegal immigrants. I understand that might sound crazy to
some of you out there who are not involved in
the Internet. These memes are absolutely hysterical. I'm not sure
if they're funnier than me playing the flute memes, which
basically was the existence for AI for many time, and
(35:17):
that some of you continue to pop out there. But
jd Vance just said that he promises if the government
shutdown is ended with the help of Hakeem Jefferies, that
the sombrero memes will end. That is a real clip.
In the meantime, we'll get that for you in the
third hour, when we will also be joined by our
friend Tutor Dixon. But first, here is cut twenty eight
(35:40):
jd Vance saying, Hey, the far left wing of the
Democrat Party basically decided they have to shut down. Listen
to cut twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
The American people who are watching. The reason your government
is shut down at this very minute is because despite
the fact that the overwhelming majority of Congressional Republicans and
even a few moderate Democrats supported opening the government, the
Chuck Schumer, AOC wing of the Democratic Party, shut down
the government because they said to us, we will open
the government, but only if you give billions of dollars
(36:09):
of funding for healthcare for illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
That's a ridiculous proposition.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
This these clips are gonna be really, really funny. Jadie
Vance was just held to account and asked, are the
Jeffreys sombrero memes actually helpful? And this is the element.
I'm gonna send it to our producer Greg. By the way, Ali,
I'm not gonna say that Ali is passing the blame
on the Cozy Earth controversy, but she just said, I
(36:38):
can't say on air whose name it was, but he
was completely wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Controversy grows. One box of cozy earth gear per my
wife Laura, twelve sets of sheets. All of the information
was wrong. Ali was one hundred percent wrong. Not a
blame guy. Ali's not a blame girl, but she says
someone else was wrong. The truth will
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Out of the bed.
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