July 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into breaking news, cultural commentary, and political analysis, offering listeners a dynamic start to the program. The hour opens with a detailed discussion of a tragic mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan, where a former high school football player targeted the NFL headquarters, killing four people—including an NYPD officer—before taking his own life. The shooter reportedly left a letter referencing CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), sparking debate about mental health, football, and public safety.
Clay and Buck sharply criticize CNN’s early coverage, which inaccurately described the shooter as “possibly white,” using this as a springboard to examine media bias, racial narratives, and the politicization of breaking news. They argue that mainstream outlets often rush to frame incidents through a left-wing ideological lens, especially when race or gun control is involved.
The hosts also explore the security implications of the attack, noting that even with armed guards and secure entry protocols, soft targets remain vulnerable. The conversation touches on the New York City mayoral race, highlighting the Democratic nominee’s controversial background and views on policing, including his current stay at a private compound in Uganda surrounded by armed security—despite advocating for social workers over police in violent situations.
Cincinnati Police Chief blames social media, not the criminals, for the brutal beatdown and said we don't have the full context of the videos. Buck points out there is no excuse for that level of mob violence.
Shifting to cultural commentary, Clay and Buck dissect the backlash against American Eagle’s ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. Critics accused the brand of promoting “eugenics” and “Nazi propaganda” due to the tagline “great genes.” The hosts push back, calling the outrage a symptom of woke culture, and argue that beauty standards, genetics, and aspirational marketing are being unfairly demonized. They emphasize that cultural battles shape political outcomes, asserting that the left’s push for uniformity and inclusivity often undermines excellence and meritocracy.
The hour also includes commentary on Israel and Gaza, with a clip from the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. addressing Hamas’s diversion of humanitarian aid. The hosts reaffirm their support for Israel and promote the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews as a trusted aid organization.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back in and never welcome in.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We hope you're always hanging out with us here on
the Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We have got a
lot to dive into a variety of different stories continuing
to percolate out there. Sean Davis is a Federalists going
to join us top of the next hour. And then
Mark Levin has a brand new book out. Many of
you watch him on Fox News with Sean Hannity regularly.
(00:23):
He'll be with us in the third hour of the program.
But yesterday, not far from our New York City studios
for iHeart where Buck broadcast for a very long time,
and where I have been and use those studios, and
where our crew is that you hear us talking with
all the time, there was a shooting about six thirty
(00:45):
pm Eastern. It appears that the shooter was in some
way targeting the NFL, according to a three page letter
that was allegedly left on the scene. I've not seen
that full letter excerpted, but a former high school player
of football drove all the way from Las Vegas to
(01:10):
New York City, went to the league offices in Midtown Manhattan,
that is the NFL, and reports are that he then
got on the elevator and went to the wrong floor.
Four innocent people killed, including a police officer who was
working as a security guard, and several other innocent people.
(01:30):
And then this individual shot himself in the heart with
his gun and said, study my brain for CTE. That
is the report that is out there. Now, you would
maybe be a little bit surprised over who exactly the
shooter was if you were watching CNN and they decided
(01:51):
to say during the course of their coverage that the
shooter was possibly white.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
This is cut nine. Listened to this with his face visible.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I mean, do they they have any idea at this
point who he is?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
They do not know who he is. They know he
is a male, possibly white.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
He's wearing sunglasses, he appears to have a mustache, and
that picture has been distributed to every police officer in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, Buck, you used to react to live incidents such
as these on CNN. The picture of the guy, and
we try to avoid saying the names of mass shooters
because there's evidence that it encourages their behavior. Picture of
the guy. He is clearly not white. So as like,
let's start here as a real time breaking news analyst,
(02:48):
How can you explain this in any way other than
this is CNN White people are to blame for everything,
would you? I mean, am I drawing too much a
conclusion here based on the picture? When I looked at it,
I'm like, that is not a possibly white man.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, I'll just you have to think what does possibly
white even mean? Yes? Right, you know you would think
either probably white or not white. I don't think that
possibly white would be a phrase that would come to mind.
But I think that CNN, in their breaking news coverage,
especially that there's a playbook that they run in their
(03:25):
news coverage of any horrific mass shooting, and it's either
get this story out as fast, get the details about
the shooter out as fast as possible, and then transition
rapidly into scoring political points. Right, So, oh, he's white,
this is this is this is Trump's fault, this is MAGA,
this is white supremacy, right, that's and and if he's
(03:48):
white and used a gun as then it's white guy
gun control, MAGA, Second Amendment. There's all these things that
they will immediately jump even if it's gonna be wrong,
and clearly a jump to conclusions moment for them, they
want to jump to the conclusion. They're looking for the
opportunity to jump to the conclusion. Whereas on the other side,
(04:09):
if it is a non white male and does not
have a motive that immediately can be ascribed to him
that fits in an anti right wing, particularly a white
supremacist or anti Trump rubric, then you got to just say,
we may never know the motive, we don't know what's
going on here. Let's not rush to anything. And this
(04:30):
is just what they do because this is really their
worldview and their politics on display every time an incident
like this happens. So we can walk through the specifics
of this, and I think it's worth just looking at
the layers of security and what happened here. But I
can tell everybody, I think the security conclusion that most
people would come to for what happened here is you
(04:52):
can't stop some maniac who has access to a gun
from going in and shooting people. You can try to
make it harder for that to happen. But this case,
you had an armed NYPD officer who unfortunately was killed
in the line of duty here tragically left behind wife
and children, but.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He in their son's twin sons, buck and an eight
month pregnant wife. That is the New York City police
officer who was shot.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But my understanding is he was shot in the back
in the lobby. So it doesn't matter who you are.
If you're in a civilian area, you're a comp and
someone comes up and shoots you in the back, there's nothing.
You know, there's no way that you're going to be
able to to stop that threat unless you get eyes
on this person in advance and are able to draw
down before they can they can they can hit you.
(05:38):
So there wasn't really a lot here from a security perspective.
I think the bigger conversation immediately is that this guy
had a couple of mental health flags. And you know,
mental health, just like a whole bunch of public policy issues,
runs a huge spectrum. Right There are tens of millions
of people in America who have some mental health challenge,
and I think you could argue that everybody has some
(05:59):
level of mental health challenge at different times in their lives,
grieving the loss of a spouse or a loved one.
You know, you're a perfect accident, you got trauma. I mean,
there's we're talking about somebody who's nuts. Okay, this guy
is crazy, clearly insane, and a danger to himself and others.
And we live in a country now. We live in
a society where, thanks to leftist maniacs like the ACLU
(06:23):
who want to kick at the load bearing walls of
our civilization and see what happens, you basically can't lock
up anybody anymore for being a complete wacko who's a
danger to himself and others. It is almost impossible anywhere
to get that done. We have emptied out all the asylums,
and you get people at this guy's anger at the NFL.
Never played in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, played high, has nothing to do with the NFL,
has no connection to it at all. I also think
this is significant in New York City because one of
the biggest elections we're going to have this fall is
the New York City Mayor's race. And guess where mom
Donnie the lead New York City mayoral candidate for the
Democrat Party. Their nominee is a a Ugandan compound right now,
(07:06):
because he was born and raised in his youth in Uganda,
he has surrounded himself in Uganda with private security. This
is a guy who said that cops were basically unnecessary
and that we should have counselors, domestic counselors or social
(07:28):
workers who are showing up at scenes of violence and
trying to negotiate with the would be perpetrator, including domestic
violence incidents, which unfortunately often spiral into incredible danger for
the usually women who are calling to report domestic violence
related incidents. And so I do think that it is
(07:50):
yet another staggering hypocrisy that the guy who thinks hey,
social workers should be called to solve problems in New
York City had his own private security detail which is
very armed, surrounding and protecting him on his Ugandan compound,
which is where he is right now while this incident
(08:11):
is playing out. So I think New Yorkers again, I
have said that I think that Republicans and reasonable people
should not necessarily save New Yorkers from the idiocy of
their choices. The consequences of their selection of a nominee
is real, and the fact that you pick a guy
who was not an American citizen until twenty eighteen, a
(08:33):
guy who was born in Uganda and basically a card
carrying member of the Communist Party to represent the biggest
city in America. Seems like a really poor choice, but
it's the choice Democrats have made. But this guy, to me,
this incident crystallizes. I would also point out this is you,
you lived in this area. This is two major I
(08:56):
would say violent attacks that have happened in mid town Manhattan.
I know Luigi Mangioni, who everybody's kind of forgotten about,
now executed in cold blood the United Healthcare CEO on
the streets of Manhattan. And now you have this guy
driving all the way from Las Vegas, walking in and
trying to kill as many people as he possibly can.
(09:21):
It gets a lot of attention. I understand because New
York City related events are covered more than shootings that
happen elsewhere. But I do think this is where people
sit around and say, Okay, what's going on with New
York City? Can we in any way keep the streets safe?
Even Midtown Manhattan, which is ostensibly supposed to be a
very safe part of Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well where this happened. It's in a building where the
Blackstone Group, which is one of the most well known
private equity firms in the world, is located. The NFL
headquarters obviously is there as well, and you have a
lot of people. It's something of a crossroads. You have
a lot of people who they think of Wall Street
(10:01):
as down on Wall Street. That's actually original Wall Street
is more of a tourist area. Now there's not that
much in the way of finance. Most of the big
finance shops are in Midtown actually either on the West
side or the east side. But right where this is,
there's a number of very large financial institutions that are
headquartered there. So you just have a huge number of
(10:21):
people play in these office towers, coming and going all
the time. I have a cousin who who missed this
shooting in terms of being on that street by ten minutes.
I have another my cousin's husband works at Blackstone. So
you know, a lot of New Yorkers know people by
maybe a degree or two of separation. No people who
are right there at this building. I mean, if you
(10:45):
think of this is not an office tower like like
a standard. This is a big, big building, a lot
of people and a lot of people coming and going
from this area. It's also a place where you see
very little crime. There tends to be a pretty heavy
police presence. In the fact there was an MYPD officer
in the lobby. It just goes to show you that
I mean they had I mean they had that, they
(11:07):
had secure entry, they had procedures and precautions in place.
But if somebody with a rifle who knows how to
use it, doesn't care if they live or die, and
wants to go shoot a bunch of people in a
civilian area, it's a soft target. It's going to be very,
very difficult to stop that, certainly every time, or even
a majority of the times. So I don't think that
(11:29):
there's really much in the way of a security takeaway.
I do think there's a bigger conversation in terms of
what could have been done differently. I haven't seen anything yet.
It's not like the police response was super delayed or slow.
It's not that there wasn't anyone there. There was a
good guy with a gun there. This guy got the
drop on him and then killed a bunch of other people,
didn't kill a woman who came out of the elevator,
(11:49):
kind of let her go on video. So this guy's
a maniac. And now we'll look back and we'll see
how known was it that he was a maniac. But
I don't think Clay there any there are any takeaways
from this about what would make people in New York
City safer other than this is Uh, it's like a
horrible It's just a horrible situation that took lives for
(12:14):
no reason. And I don't think that there's anything that
we can do to prevent bad people in society from
killing people. Unfortunately, you can try, I'm saying all the time, right,
I mean, yeah, yes, have the arm the good guy there, Yes,
have the security precautions, and I'm sure that stops things.
Look at that you just we just talked about the
good guy with the gun stopping the mass stabbing travels.
I couldn't save everybody from being stabbed, right, So it's
(12:37):
this situation is is a very difficult one to defend against.
That's that's I think one of the big one of
the big recognitions that we have on this. We'll talk
more about this also, I saw Clay, they were There's
there's been more discussion of it, including from uh, the
the media, and then there's media discussion of that attack
(12:57):
in Cincinnati. We talked about the stabbing, but there's attack
the attack in Cincinnati. The police chief has weighed in
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Speaker 1 (14:12):
All right, welcome back in to Clay and Buck. Let's, uh,
let's talk about this as well. So we've had the
we had that mass shooting in New York City. We
gave you the the details of the shooter killed himself.
Uh fo. He killed four people, including an NYPD officer,
ran into a building, completely senseless, insane, horrific murders. And
the guy, I think you'll find out was I don't
(14:35):
know what. I don't know what the diagnosis would be
off somebody, you know, the proper medical diagnosis. I don't
know if it's a uh, you know, an extreme schizophrenic
or something. But the guy has clearly some very serious
mental had serious mental health issues. Uh. There's also this
Cincinnati attack that has gotten a lot of attention. We
talked about it yesterday and the Cincinnati chief of police,
(14:57):
whom I have to say, just listening to her, looking
at her, this shouldn't be your chief of police, Cincinnati. Okay,
I'm just gonna be honest with you about this right now.
The chief of police should be somebody who has some
degree of gravitas, commands and respect, seems competent. It should
(15:17):
not be somebody who you think would be at a loss,
like in some store selling wind chime somewhere and incense
or something. I mean, this woman strikes me as as
a huge lib start with that. Here she is dressing
down the media for their coverage of the video that
(15:38):
we all saw play fifteen.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
The post that we've seen does not depict the entire incident.
That is one version of what occurred. Because what happens
that social media post and your coverage of it distorts
the content of what actually happened, and it makes our
job more difficult. The irrespond with social media is it
(16:02):
just shows one side of the equation quite frequently without context,
without factual context, and then people run with that, and
then it grows legs and it becomes something bigger that
we then have to try to manage as part of
the investigation.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Okay, she also said nothing Clay to tell us. Okay, well,
what else happened that we need to know about?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, I mean, my question for you and for everybody
out there listening, is I watch the video, and I
agree context matters oftentimes in video. What could occur short
of that guy deciding to run and just start to
attack ten different people right with a nine four a gun?
(16:50):
That would suggest, Hey, a mob of people should beat
a guy and stomp him on the ground and knock
out his girlfriend, Like, what could happen like this is
I don't know if there was a follow up question
from the media, but the question that you're asked asking
is the right one. It is, Okay, what is the
(17:11):
context that in some way would provide self defense to
allow what took place in the video that went viral
to not be representative of that. Do we think that
this guy had a knife? Do we think he had
a gun? Do we think he attacked twenty different people
and they all felt compelled to simultaneously defend themselves.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If you see the comments, and you know, if you
see the comments online, this hasn't been said by an official,
but there's this insinuation from commenters, some of whom were
pretending maybe they have some inside knowledge that that maybe
a slur was used. And the whole thing here is, well,
if that happened, that changes it actually doesn't. Actually it
(17:53):
doesn't matter what word someone calls you, you're not allowed
to mob stomp them into the cement when they're defenseless.
This is maybe where the debate might go we find
out more details.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
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all right, this story I got I gotta be honest
with you all. I did not think that this story
would continue to have the legs, or that it would
(19:06):
be a sign of continued cultural rot inside of the
Democrat Party and much of the legacy media.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
But we talked about this last week.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
American Eagle, the store that had the great sense to
employ a teenage Clay Travis to help ensure that they
could sell as many of their clothes as possible, has
been on hard times of late. It is a sort
of I would say teen ish retail brand. People in
their teens and their twenties would be I would imagine
(19:37):
still the target audience that would typically wear these clothes.
And so they made the decision, Hey, we need to
kind of cut through the noise, and so we're going
to hire Sidney Sweeney as our new spokesperson.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And the outrage.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Over a blonde, blue eyed, white girl who is pretty
being hired to sell tank tops and jeans has frankly
staggered me this morning.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
If you were.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Happening to watch Good Morning America, this is ABC's morning
news show, Disney owned, this is the I want to
play this. I think we've got the totality of it
This is the story that they aired, saying the Sydney
Sweeney ad is actually a direct recall for eugenics and
(20:30):
for Nazism.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
This is real.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
This is what you would have heard this morning if
you were drinking your morning coffee, getting your kids ready
for the start of the day. On Good Morning, America
play it sweet again with the backlash of a new
ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
The ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is
Sidney Sweeney has great genes Now. In one ad, the blondehair,
blue eyed actress talks about jeens as in DNA, being
passed down from her parents.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda
with racial undertones.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
The pun good genes activates a troubling historical associations for
this country. The American eugenics movement and it's prime between
like nineteen hundred and nineteen forty, weaponized the idea of
good genes just to justify white supremacism.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
This is been real. Make this up. You cannot make
this stuff up. Now we're at a place in American
culture where this is actually really helpful though, because it
shows you how insane the woke left. And the good
news is, you know, woke used to be a term
play that they would throw around and they were proud
(21:46):
of it, right like, yeah, yeah, woke. You know, it
was supposed to be a good thing. We have successfully
flipped this around such that woke now is a very
effective pejorative for left wing maniacs who are malcontents, who
have no fun, who want they live with a constant
fear that somewhere someone else is having fun. They got
to stop that right away. Uh, no, joy allowed only
(22:09):
what the collective tells you. Uh, that's what's that's what
you can say, that's what you can celebrate. Now at
a point where hot chicks who are buxhom are problematic,
now we're at a point where a play on words
about Jens. Is it really a shock to one of
these anchors that beauty is overwhelmingly genetic? This is actually,
(22:29):
you know, I Clay and I could sit here. I
wish I was, you know, six' six with a six,
pack BUT i am. Not and some of the people
who are aren't that way because they are so fastidious
in their workout, routines but they have great. Genetics this
is just the. Truth this is. Reality professional athletes wants
you to believe that they worked so much harder than everybody.
(22:50):
Else you, know the difference is going TO d three
athlete and like a you, know professional level athlete overwhelmingly is.
Jeans how gifted were they naturally By god's hand in that?
Sport it's not? Effort. Okay this is where people talk
About god given talent or talent on loan From. God for,
example some people are just really good at things and
(23:11):
they're very. Lucky some people are just very, beautiful physically,
appealing and that has actually been a PRETTY i know
there have been variations in, it but that standard has
been somewhat consistent having to do with symmetry and health
markers for a very long. Time hot blonde chicks with
boobs not allowed to be in ads. Anymore this is
where we, Are, Clay It's. Nazism It's. Nazism, YES i
(23:36):
mean this IS i think it's.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Important and some of you can, say, well why SHOULD
i care about something like? This cultural battles matter and
fighting them, Matters and you might, say, WELL i care
way more about what the corporate tax rate is than
what the decisions are of major corporations when it comes
to how they SPEND ad, DOLLARS i get.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
IT i would argue they're directly.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Connected and the, phrase you, know politics is downstream from,
CULTURE i think is one hundred percent. Accurate and SO
i think if you win cultural, battles you win political.
Battles some of you may disagree with. THAT i think
it's one hundred percent true based on everything That i've.
Seen And i'm talking to you as a guy who
started off in the world of sports who just wanted
to argue about which quarterback was better and suddenly, heard,
(24:23):
oh you can't make that argument because the quarterback's a different.
Race and the reason you're, being you, know dismissive Of
JaMarcus russell is because he's a black. Quarterback maybe he just.
STINKS i, mean have you considered. That maybe you just
look at the objective performance and all sports fans care
about is whether somebody is a part of the meritocracy and,
(24:46):
excellent which is the goal of. Sports and when they
try to restrain excellence and the meritocracy and drag us
all down into the muck of, averageness to, me that
is a form of. Communism AND i think it's intentional
THAT i don't think it's for making away unit.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Control if you want a society that you you'll notice
something in countries where the state has absolute, control and
there are places today In North, Korea, china there there
are plenty of places where the state exercises absolute. Control
do you know what you overwhelmingly have as? Well uniformity
(25:26):
and a, sameness even if it's not, true, right but
a sameness that is enforced upon the, people even to
the point OF i mean The, soviets for, example we're
very into people were dressing in a way that that
women were de. Sexualized they were supposed to be factory workers,
(25:47):
too just like the. Men you, know you were cogs
in a, machine a machine that the state has full control.
Over because the celebration of, excellence of, beauty of, joy of,
laughter of any of these things that break from the
control of the state is inherently a minor rebellion against
against their. Control so if you want to control, people
(26:07):
you demoralize, them you undermine, them you make them feel
or make them act as though they're all the. Same
there's nothing to aspire. To you take what the state gives.
You you are what the state says you are and Now,
clay look at some of the ads they were running
with ugly fat people selling. Clothing, look you know we're sitting,
(26:29):
here you AND i get to do a. JUMP i
truly mean. This the fact that we make a living
doing radio every day is a blessing From god and
this audience and the legacy Of. Rush it is incredible
that we get to do. This and you AND i
both had jobs where people could tell us show up
at this, time wear this, clothing do WHAT i. Say
so you know we've been on different sides of. THIS
i don't get to be a runway.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Model, yes that's you, Know like IF, i you AND,
i if you AND i were in charge of selling male,
underwear it would be the worst selling underwear of all.
Time like if they were, like, hey we want to
take you guys shirtlets posing an.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Underwear, WELL i was, SAYING i think we could sell. Underwear,
well we would hire people Like Sydney sweeney to sell.
It but you're saying if we were the if they
were the face of their underwear, brand.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It would be like everybody would look at it and be,
LIKE i don't want to look like those.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
GUYS i mean clothing is.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Aspirational you look at any, model by and large throughout
the history of, retail people want to see better looking
people than them in.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
There but here's the interesting thing about. It in Ancient,
greece how many people did you see walking around? Me,
rather how many statues do you see when you go
into like The Metropolitan museum Of art of morbidly obese
people with like saggy skin.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Everywhere, no not a lot didn't. Exist it didn't. Exist and,
look here's the other thing about that. Segment and, AGAIN
i do think it's important because let's just say you're
a normal. Person you're a normal person making breakfast in the.
Morning good, Morning america is not hard. News they are
trying to send a message To american, eagle you went too,
(28:06):
white you went too pretty in the girl that you.
Picked that is not inclusive. Enough and think about the
argument that's being made when you, look first of, all
it's a friggin', pun, right good genes genes J E
A N s and genes G E N E. S.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Right it is a pun which is very common in.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Advertising but what they're saying, is if you take it,
literally white people are not allowed to have good genes
because The nazis once. Existed SO i like to think
Maybe i'm wrong that my boys have good genes because
of me and their. Mom they got half their, mom
(28:46):
way better genes than, me by the, way especially in
the looks, department and hopefully they look like her more
than they do, me and they got half of, me,
RIGHT i like to think that would mean that my
boys have good. Genes does that mean That i'm A
nazi sympathizer THAT i would say, That, buck you've got
a baby, boy they got half, you they got half your, Wife.
CARRIE i bet you would like to think that your
son has good? Jeans are you not allowed to say?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That only white people are not allowed.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
To say that they hope their kids have good, jeans
or that a really pretty woman has good, Jeans like
that's good for her mom and, dad, RIGHT i, mean
like we want.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
They're, interesting notable, people you, KNOW i think about. THIS
i actually watched the The abercrombie and of course now
we're gonna hear That clay also worked At, abercrombie so
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don't know if they still have that, rule but you
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(29:46):
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i worked at The Pentagon city mall or In. Virginia
that's a little. Bit i'm just gonna tell, You, Clay
it's a little grading on a curve, there because LIKE
dc area you were working, at like The Nashville, Abercrombie
you're THE Dc. Abercrombie DC's hollywood for ugly. People i'm
just saying that's what THEY i think that's.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
True by the, Way i'll tell you, this there's also
a lot of short people on The East. Coast every
TIME i walk, AROUND i get advantages tall. Privilege there's
a lot of really short. DUDES i know you took
advantage of this In New York. City every TIME i
walk Around New York, City i'm, like this is the
shortest dude In america Town you ever noticed? This, like
go To New York. City it is the shortest group of.
(30:26):
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world is your. Oyster it Is i'm telling you never noticed.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
THAT i never. NOTICED i never noticed.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
This every TIME i go into a bar In New York,
CITY i am the tallest guy.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
There wear you wear like basically cowboy boots with six
inch heels on. Them THOUGH i mean like those.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
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Speaker 1 (30:49):
FIVE i wear.
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i'm taller than most of the men In New York.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
City you, know back to the beauty standard thing here
for a, SECOND i think it's it's worth noting as.
Well people, say, oh this is about, inclusivity AND i
think to, myself like a whole on a, second, no,
no, no this wasn't about, hey we need you. Know you
know who was one of the biggest supermodels in the
world in the, Nineties Naomi campbell for, example, Right Naomi,
(31:16):
campbell a black, woman stunningly beautiful woman like nobody would
ever you know in the sort of beauty assessing. World
incredibly beautiful. Woman it wasn't we need more, people we
need more Hot asian and, Black and you know, That
i'd be, like, look you're appealing the different con they're all,
beautiful they're all, very very good. Looking it was we
(31:36):
NEED i don't want us to say fat and ugly
people in general to be selling our. Clothing so it,
wasn't you, know it wasn't inclusivity in the sense, of you, know,
diversity like like we want different kinds of. Beauty it
was we don't want beauty. Anymore we want something, else
which is a whole other.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
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come around to and to me. Time they've been trying
to cancel me for it for. Years do you know
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We hope you're always hanging out with us here on
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He'll be with us in the third hour of the program.
But yesterday, not far from our New York City studios
for iHeart where Buck broadcast for a very long time,
and where I have been and use those studios, and
where our crew is that you hear us talking with
all the time, there was a shooting about six thirty
(00:45):
pm Eastern. It appears that the shooter was in some
way targeting the NFL, according to a three page letter
that was allegedly left on the scene. I've not seen
that full letter excerpted, but a former high school player
of football drove all the way from Las Vegas to
(01:10):
New York City, went to the league offices in Midtown Manhattan,
that is the NFL, and reports are that he then
got on the elevator and went to the wrong floor.
Four innocent people killed, including a police officer who was
working as a security guard, and several other innocent people.
(01:30):
And then this individual shot himself in the heart with
his gun and said, study my brain for CTE. That
is the report that is out there. Now, you would
maybe be a little bit surprised over who exactly the
shooter was if you were watching CNN and they decided
(01:51):
to say during the course of their coverage that the
shooter was possibly white.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
This is cut nine. Listened to this with his face visible.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I mean, do they they have any idea at this
point who he is?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
They do not know who he is. They know he
is a male, possibly white.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
He's wearing sunglasses, he appears to have a mustache, and
that picture has been distributed to every police officer in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, Buck, you used to react to live incidents such
as these on CNN. The picture of the guy, and
we try to avoid saying the names of mass shooters
because there's evidence that it encourages their behavior. Picture of
the guy. He is clearly not white. So as like,
let's start here as a real time breaking news analyst,
(02:48):
How can you explain this in any way other than
this is CNN White people are to blame for everything,
would you? I mean, am I drawing too much a
conclusion here based on the picture? When I looked at it,
I'm like, that is not a possibly white man.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, I'll just you have to think what does possibly
white even mean? Yes? Right, you know you would think
either probably white or not white. I don't think that
possibly white would be a phrase that would come to mind.
But I think that CNN, in their breaking news coverage,
especially that there's a playbook that they run in their
(03:25):
news coverage of any horrific mass shooting, and it's either
get this story out as fast, get the details about
the shooter out as fast as possible, and then transition
rapidly into scoring political points. Right, So, oh, he's white,
this is this is this is Trump's fault, this is MAGA,
this is white supremacy, right, that's and and if he's
(03:48):
white and used a gun as then it's white guy
gun control, MAGA, Second Amendment. There's all these things that
they will immediately jump even if it's gonna be wrong,
and clearly a jump to conclusions moment for them, they
want to jump to the conclusion. They're looking for the
opportunity to jump to the conclusion. Whereas on the other side,
(04:09):
if it is a non white male and does not
have a motive that immediately can be ascribed to him
that fits in an anti right wing, particularly a white
supremacist or anti Trump rubric, then you got to just say,
we may never know the motive, we don't know what's
going on here. Let's not rush to anything. And this
(04:30):
is just what they do because this is really their
worldview and their politics on display every time an incident
like this happens. So we can walk through the specifics
of this, and I think it's worth just looking at
the layers of security and what happened here. But I
can tell everybody, I think the security conclusion that most
people would come to for what happened here is you
(04:52):
can't stop some maniac who has access to a gun
from going in and shooting people. You can try to
make it harder for that to happen. But this case,
you had an armed NYPD officer who unfortunately was killed
in the line of duty here tragically left behind wife
and children, but.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
He in their son's twin sons, buck and an eight
month pregnant wife. That is the New York City police
officer who was shot.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But my understanding is he was shot in the back
in the lobby. So it doesn't matter who you are.
If you're in a civilian area, you're a comp and
someone comes up and shoots you in the back, there's nothing.
You know, there's no way that you're going to be
able to to stop that threat unless you get eyes
on this person in advance and are able to draw
down before they can they can they can hit you.
(05:38):
So there wasn't really a lot here from a security perspective.
I think the bigger conversation immediately is that this guy
had a couple of mental health flags. And you know,
mental health, just like a whole bunch of public policy issues,
runs a huge spectrum. Right There are tens of millions
of people in America who have some mental health challenge,
and I think you could argue that everybody has some
(05:59):
level of mental health challenge at different times in their lives,
grieving the loss of a spouse or a loved one.
You know, you're a perfect accident, you got trauma. I mean,
there's we're talking about somebody who's nuts. Okay, this guy
is crazy, clearly insane, and a danger to himself and others.
And we live in a country now. We live in
a society where, thanks to leftist maniacs like the ACLU
(06:23):
who want to kick at the load bearing walls of
our civilization and see what happens, you basically can't lock
up anybody anymore for being a complete wacko who's a
danger to himself and others. It is almost impossible anywhere
to get that done. We have emptied out all the asylums,
and you get people at this guy's anger at the NFL.
Never played in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, played high, has nothing to do with the NFL,
has no connection to it at all. I also think
this is significant in New York City because one of
the biggest elections we're going to have this fall is
the New York City Mayor's race. And guess where mom
Donnie the lead New York City mayoral candidate for the
Democrat Party. Their nominee is a a Ugandan compound right now,
(07:06):
because he was born and raised in his youth in Uganda,
he has surrounded himself in Uganda with private security. This
is a guy who said that cops were basically unnecessary
and that we should have counselors, domestic counselors or social
(07:28):
workers who are showing up at scenes of violence and
trying to negotiate with the would be perpetrator, including domestic
violence incidents, which unfortunately often spiral into incredible danger for
the usually women who are calling to report domestic violence
related incidents. And so I do think that it is
(07:50):
yet another staggering hypocrisy that the guy who thinks hey,
social workers should be called to solve problems in New
York City had his own private security detail which is
very armed, surrounding and protecting him on his Ugandan compound,
which is where he is right now while this incident
(08:11):
is playing out. So I think New Yorkers again, I
have said that I think that Republicans and reasonable people
should not necessarily save New Yorkers from the idiocy of
their choices. The consequences of their selection of a nominee
is real, and the fact that you pick a guy
who was not an American citizen until twenty eighteen, a
(08:33):
guy who was born in Uganda and basically a card
carrying member of the Communist Party to represent the biggest
city in America. Seems like a really poor choice, but
it's the choice Democrats have made. But this guy, to me,
this incident crystallizes. I would also point out this is you,
you lived in this area. This is two major I
(08:56):
would say violent attacks that have happened in mid town Manhattan.
I know Luigi Mangioni, who everybody's kind of forgotten about,
now executed in cold blood the United Healthcare CEO on
the streets of Manhattan. And now you have this guy
driving all the way from Las Vegas, walking in and
trying to kill as many people as he possibly can.
(09:21):
It gets a lot of attention. I understand because New
York City related events are covered more than shootings that
happen elsewhere. But I do think this is where people
sit around and say, Okay, what's going on with New
York City? Can we in any way keep the streets safe?
Even Midtown Manhattan, which is ostensibly supposed to be a
very safe part of Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well where this happened. It's in a building where the
Blackstone Group, which is one of the most well known
private equity firms in the world, is located. The NFL
headquarters obviously is there as well, and you have a
lot of people. It's something of a crossroads. You have
a lot of people who they think of Wall Street
(10:01):
as down on Wall Street. That's actually original Wall Street
is more of a tourist area. Now there's not that
much in the way of finance. Most of the big
finance shops are in Midtown actually either on the West
side or the east side. But right where this is,
there's a number of very large financial institutions that are
headquartered there. So you just have a huge number of
(10:21):
people play in these office towers, coming and going all
the time. I have a cousin who who missed this
shooting in terms of being on that street by ten minutes.
I have another my cousin's husband works at Blackstone. So
you know, a lot of New Yorkers know people by
maybe a degree or two of separation. No people who
are right there at this building. I mean, if you
(10:45):
think of this is not an office tower like like
a standard. This is a big, big building, a lot
of people and a lot of people coming and going
from this area. It's also a place where you see
very little crime. There tends to be a pretty heavy
police presence. In the fact there was an MYPD officer
in the lobby. It just goes to show you that
I mean they had I mean they had that, they
(11:07):
had secure entry, they had procedures and precautions in place.
But if somebody with a rifle who knows how to
use it, doesn't care if they live or die, and
wants to go shoot a bunch of people in a
civilian area, it's a soft target. It's going to be very,
very difficult to stop that, certainly every time, or even
a majority of the times. So I don't think that
(11:29):
there's really much in the way of a security takeaway.
I do think there's a bigger conversation in terms of
what could have been done differently. I haven't seen anything yet.
It's not like the police response was super delayed or slow.
It's not that there wasn't anyone there. There was a
good guy with a gun there. This guy got the
drop on him and then killed a bunch of other people,
didn't kill a woman who came out of the elevator,
(11:49):
kind of let her go on video. So this guy's
a maniac. And now we'll look back and we'll see
how known was it that he was a maniac. But
I don't think Clay there any there are any takeaways
from this about what would make people in New York
City safer other than this is Uh, it's like a
horrible It's just a horrible situation that took lives for
(12:14):
no reason. And I don't think that there's anything that
we can do to prevent bad people in society from
killing people. Unfortunately, you can try, I'm saying all the time, right,
I mean, yeah, yes, have the arm the good guy there, Yes,
have the security precautions, and I'm sure that stops things.
Look at that you just we just talked about the
good guy with the gun stopping the mass stabbing travels.
I couldn't save everybody from being stabbed, right, So it's
(12:37):
this situation is is a very difficult one to defend against.
That's that's I think one of the big one of
the big recognitions that we have on this. We'll talk
more about this also, I saw Clay, they were There's
there's been more discussion of it, including from uh, the
the media, and then there's media discussion of that attack
(12:57):
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Speaker 1 (14:12):
All right, welcome back in to Clay and Buck. Let's, uh,
let's talk about this as well. So we've had the
we had that mass shooting in New York City. We
gave you the the details of the shooter killed himself.
Uh fo. He killed four people, including an NYPD officer,
ran into a building, completely senseless, insane, horrific murders. And
the guy, I think you'll find out was I don't
(14:35):
know what. I don't know what the diagnosis would be
off somebody, you know, the proper medical diagnosis. I don't
know if it's a uh, you know, an extreme schizophrenic
or something. But the guy has clearly some very serious
mental had serious mental health issues. Uh. There's also this
Cincinnati attack that has gotten a lot of attention. We
talked about it yesterday and the Cincinnati chief of police,
(14:57):
whom I have to say, just listening to her, looking
at her, this shouldn't be your chief of police, Cincinnati. Okay,
I'm just gonna be honest with you about this right now.
The chief of police should be somebody who has some
degree of gravitas, commands and respect, seems competent. It should
(15:17):
not be somebody who you think would be at a loss,
like in some store selling wind chime somewhere and incense
or something. I mean, this woman strikes me as as
a huge lib start with that. Here she is dressing
down the media for their coverage of the video that
(15:38):
we all saw play fifteen.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
The post that we've seen does not depict the entire incident.
That is one version of what occurred. Because what happens
that social media post and your coverage of it distorts
the content of what actually happened, and it makes our
job more difficult. The irrespond with social media is it
(16:02):
just shows one side of the equation quite frequently without context,
without factual context, and then people run with that, and
then it grows legs and it becomes something bigger that
we then have to try to manage as part of
the investigation.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Okay, she also said nothing Clay to tell us. Okay, well,
what else happened that we need to know about?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, I mean, my question for you and for everybody
out there listening, is I watch the video, and I
agree context matters oftentimes in video. What could occur short
of that guy deciding to run and just start to
attack ten different people right with a nine four a gun?
(16:50):
That would suggest, Hey, a mob of people should beat
a guy and stomp him on the ground and knock
out his girlfriend, Like, what could happen like this is
I don't know if there was a follow up question
from the media, but the question that you're asked asking
is the right one. It is, Okay, what is the
(17:11):
context that in some way would provide self defense to
allow what took place in the video that went viral
to not be representative of that. Do we think that
this guy had a knife? Do we think he had
a gun? Do we think he attacked twenty different people
and they all felt compelled to simultaneously defend themselves.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If you see the comments, and you know, if you
see the comments online, this hasn't been said by an official,
but there's this insinuation from commenters, some of whom were
pretending maybe they have some inside knowledge that that maybe
a slur was used. And the whole thing here is, well,
if that happened, that changes it actually doesn't. Actually it
(17:53):
doesn't matter what word someone calls you, you're not allowed
to mob stomp them into the cement when they're defenseless.
This is maybe where the debate might go we find
out more details.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Look, I don't know how many of you have gone
through the let's be honest, sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary process
of setting up a will and a trust. But both
Buck and myself have, and we hope to be living
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all right, this story I got I gotta be honest
with you all. I did not think that this story
would continue to have the legs, or that it would
(19:06):
be a sign of continued cultural rot inside of the
Democrat Party and much of the legacy media.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
But we talked about this last week.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
American Eagle, the store that had the great sense to
employ a teenage Clay Travis to help ensure that they
could sell as many of their clothes as possible, has
been on hard times of late. It is a sort
of I would say teen ish retail brand. People in
their teens and their twenties would be I would imagine
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still the target audience that would typically wear these clothes.
And so they made the decision, Hey, we need to
kind of cut through the noise, and so we're going
to hire Sidney Sweeney as our new spokesperson.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And the outrage.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Over a blonde, blue eyed, white girl who is pretty
being hired to sell tank tops and jeans has frankly
staggered me this morning.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
If you were.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Happening to watch Good Morning America, this is ABC's morning
news show, Disney owned, this is the I want to
play this. I think we've got the totality of it
This is the story that they aired, saying the Sydney
Sweeney ad is actually a direct recall for eugenics and
(20:30):
for Nazism.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
This is real.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
This is what you would have heard this morning if
you were drinking your morning coffee, getting your kids ready
for the start of the day. On Good Morning, America
play it sweet again with the backlash of a new
ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
The ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is
Sidney Sweeney has great genes Now. In one ad, the blondehair,
blue eyed actress talks about jeens as in DNA, being
passed down from her parents.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda
with racial undertones.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
The pun good genes activates a troubling historical associations for
this country. The American eugenics movement and it's prime between
like nineteen hundred and nineteen forty, weaponized the idea of
good genes just to justify white supremacism.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
This is been real. Make this up. You cannot make
this stuff up. Now we're at a place in American
culture where this is actually really helpful though, because it
shows you how insane the woke left. And the good
news is, you know, woke used to be a term
play that they would throw around and they were proud
(21:46):
of it, right like, yeah, yeah, woke. You know, it
was supposed to be a good thing. We have successfully
flipped this around such that woke now is a very
effective pejorative for left wing maniacs who are malcontents, who
have no fun, who want they live with a constant
fear that somewhere someone else is having fun. They got
to stop that right away. Uh, no, joy allowed only
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what the collective tells you. Uh, that's what's that's what
you can say, that's what you can celebrate. Now at
a point where hot chicks who are buxhom are problematic,
now we're at a point where a play on words
about Jens. Is it really a shock to one of
these anchors that beauty is overwhelmingly genetic? This is actually,
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you know, I Clay and I could sit here. I
wish I was, you know, six' six with a six,
pack BUT i am. Not and some of the people
who are aren't that way because they are so fastidious
in their workout, routines but they have great. Genetics this
is just the. Truth this is. Reality professional athletes wants
you to believe that they worked so much harder than everybody.
(22:50):
Else you, know the difference is going TO d three
athlete and like a you, know professional level athlete overwhelmingly is.
Jeans how gifted were they naturally By god's hand in that?
Sport it's not? Effort. Okay this is where people talk
About god given talent or talent on loan From. God for,
example some people are just really good at things and
(23:11):
they're very. Lucky some people are just very, beautiful physically,
appealing and that has actually been a PRETTY i know
there have been variations in, it but that standard has
been somewhat consistent having to do with symmetry and health
markers for a very long. Time hot blonde chicks with
boobs not allowed to be in ads. Anymore this is
where we, Are, Clay It's. Nazism It's. Nazism, YES i
(23:36):
mean this IS i think it's.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Important and some of you can, say, well why SHOULD
i care about something like? This cultural battles matter and
fighting them, Matters and you might, say, WELL i care
way more about what the corporate tax rate is than
what the decisions are of major corporations when it comes
to how they SPEND ad, DOLLARS i get.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
IT i would argue they're directly.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Connected and the, phrase you, know politics is downstream from,
CULTURE i think is one hundred percent. Accurate and SO
i think if you win cultural, battles you win political.
Battles some of you may disagree with. THAT i think
it's one hundred percent true based on everything That i've.
Seen And i'm talking to you as a guy who
started off in the world of sports who just wanted
to argue about which quarterback was better and suddenly, heard,
(24:23):
oh you can't make that argument because the quarterback's a different.
Race and the reason you're, being you, know dismissive Of
JaMarcus russell is because he's a black. Quarterback maybe he just.
STINKS i, mean have you considered. That maybe you just
look at the objective performance and all sports fans care
about is whether somebody is a part of the meritocracy and,
(24:46):
excellent which is the goal of. Sports and when they
try to restrain excellence and the meritocracy and drag us
all down into the muck of, averageness to, me that
is a form of. Communism AND i think it's intentional
THAT i don't think it's for making away unit.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Control if you want a society that you you'll notice
something in countries where the state has absolute, control and
there are places today In North, Korea, china there there
are plenty of places where the state exercises absolute. Control
do you know what you overwhelmingly have as? Well uniformity
(25:26):
and a, sameness even if it's not, true, right but
a sameness that is enforced upon the, people even to
the point OF i mean The, soviets for, example we're
very into people were dressing in a way that that
women were de. Sexualized they were supposed to be factory workers,
(25:47):
too just like the. Men you, know you were cogs
in a, machine a machine that the state has full control.
Over because the celebration of, excellence of, beauty of, joy of,
laughter of any of these things that break from the
control of the state is inherently a minor rebellion against
against their. Control so if you want to control, people
(26:07):
you demoralize, them you undermine, them you make them feel
or make them act as though they're all the. Same
there's nothing to aspire. To you take what the state gives.
You you are what the state says you are and Now,
clay look at some of the ads they were running
with ugly fat people selling. Clothing, look you know we're sitting,
(26:29):
here you AND i get to do a. JUMP i
truly mean. This the fact that we make a living
doing radio every day is a blessing From god and
this audience and the legacy Of. Rush it is incredible
that we get to do. This and you AND i
both had jobs where people could tell us show up
at this, time wear this, clothing do WHAT i. Say
so you know we've been on different sides of. THIS
i don't get to be a runway.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Model, yes that's you, Know like IF, i you AND,
i if you AND i were in charge of selling male,
underwear it would be the worst selling underwear of all.
Time like if they were, like, hey we want to
take you guys shirtlets posing an.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Underwear, WELL i was, SAYING i think we could sell. Underwear,
well we would hire people Like Sydney sweeney to sell.
It but you're saying if we were the if they
were the face of their underwear, brand.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It would be like everybody would look at it and be,
LIKE i don't want to look like those.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
GUYS i mean clothing is.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Aspirational you look at any, model by and large throughout
the history of, retail people want to see better looking
people than them in.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
There but here's the interesting thing about. It in Ancient,
greece how many people did you see walking around? Me,
rather how many statues do you see when you go
into like The Metropolitan museum Of art of morbidly obese
people with like saggy skin.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Everywhere, no not a lot didn't. Exist it didn't. Exist and,
look here's the other thing about that. Segment and, AGAIN
i do think it's important because let's just say you're
a normal. Person you're a normal person making breakfast in the.
Morning good, Morning america is not hard. News they are
trying to send a message To american, eagle you went too,
(28:06):
white you went too pretty in the girl that you.
Picked that is not inclusive. Enough and think about the
argument that's being made when you, look first of, all
it's a friggin', pun, right good genes genes J E
A N s and genes G E N E. S.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Right it is a pun which is very common in.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Advertising but what they're saying, is if you take it,
literally white people are not allowed to have good genes
because The nazis once. Existed SO i like to think
Maybe i'm wrong that my boys have good genes because
of me and their. Mom they got half their, mom
(28:46):
way better genes than, me by the, way especially in
the looks, department and hopefully they look like her more
than they do, me and they got half of, me,
RIGHT i like to think that would mean that my
boys have good. Genes does that mean That i'm A
nazi sympathizer THAT i would say, That, buck you've got
a baby, boy they got half, you they got half your, Wife.
CARRIE i bet you would like to think that your
son has good? Jeans are you not allowed to say?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That only white people are not allowed.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
To say that they hope their kids have good, jeans
or that a really pretty woman has good, Jeans like
that's good for her mom and, dad, RIGHT i, mean
like we want.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
They're, interesting notable, people you, KNOW i think about. THIS
i actually watched the The abercrombie and of course now
we're gonna hear That clay also worked At, abercrombie so
did my, Wife so they were only they were only
hiring the. Hotties Apparently clay was a, maligionist very loose.
Standard they did make me cut my facial. HAIR i
don't know if they still have that, rule but you
were not allowed to have a facial. Hair Pentagon, City
(29:46):
Pentagon city for those of you in THE dc, AREA
i worked at The Pentagon city mall or In. Virginia
that's a little. Bit i'm just gonna tell, You, Clay
it's a little grading on a curve, there because LIKE
dc area you were working, at like The Nashville, Abercrombie
you're THE Dc. Abercrombie DC's hollywood for ugly. People i'm
just saying that's what THEY i think that's.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
True by the, Way i'll tell you, this there's also
a lot of short people on The East. Coast every
TIME i walk, AROUND i get advantages tall. Privilege there's
a lot of really short. DUDES i know you took
advantage of this In New York. City every TIME i
walk Around New York, City i'm, like this is the
shortest dude In america Town you ever noticed? This, like
go To New York. City it is the shortest group of.
(30:26):
Guys you're six feet tall In New York. City the
world is your. Oyster it Is i'm telling you never noticed.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
THAT i never. NOTICED i never noticed.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
This every TIME i go into a bar In New York,
CITY i am the tallest guy.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
There wear you wear like basically cowboy boots with six
inch heels on. Them THOUGH i mean like those.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Guys give you don't run desantus. ME i am six
foot six foot one to eighty.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
FIVE i wear.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Flip flops a lot of the, time and flip, Flops
i'm taller than most of the men In New York.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
City you, know back to the beauty standard thing here
for a, SECOND i think it's it's worth noting as.
Well people, say, oh this is about, inclusivity AND i
think to, myself like a whole on a, second, no,
no, no this wasn't about, hey we need you. Know you
know who was one of the biggest supermodels in the
world in the, Nineties Naomi campbell for, example, Right Naomi,
(31:16):
campbell a black, woman stunningly beautiful woman like nobody would
ever you know in the sort of beauty assessing. World
incredibly beautiful. Woman it wasn't we need more, people we
need more Hot asian and, Black and you know, That
i'd be, like, look you're appealing the different con they're all,
beautiful they're all, very very good. Looking it was we
(31:36):
NEED i don't want us to say fat and ugly
people in general to be selling our. Clothing so it,
wasn't you, know it wasn't inclusivity in the sense, of you, know,
diversity like like we want different kinds of. Beauty it
was we don't want beauty. Anymore we want something, else
which is a whole other.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Thing this is my argument that eventually everybody's going to
come around to and to me. Time they've been trying
to cancel me for it for. Years do you know
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(32:36):
where cosmetic diversity actually makes everybody.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
More money is the strip.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Club there's not very many of, those And i've never
heard of politician make that, argument probably just because they're
not as smart as.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Me, Okay, OH i defer To. CLAY i defer To
clay on this one. Entirely and that's that's that Was
Clay travis analysis, everybody by the.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
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Speaker 2 (32:57):
True we got the guys who run strip. CLUBS i
bet listening right, now and they're just Like Clay travis is.
Brilliant i'm telling, you that's the number one cosmetic diversity
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PODCASTS i want to know something because we talked about this,
yesterday the situation In. Gaza he's rarely ambassador to THE,
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wanted you all to hear this play. SEVENTEEN i would
refer you and the good.
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Rama, MANUEL i would refer you to THE un website,
itself which says that in the month Of june two,
thousand one hundred and thirty four trucks were sent Into,
gaza only two hundred and sixty arrived at their. Destination
means ninety percent was diverted By. Hamas so you want
to blame us for that, TOO i mean for crying out.
(34:05):
Law you want to blame us for conducting a war
while we're providing as much humanitarian aid as. Possible hamas
is using this propaganda to score points in the international,
community and like a social, contagion everybody is picking this.
Up israel is starving a. Population we are not starving a.
Population we will never starve a. Population we will continue
(34:27):
to Flood gaza with humanitarian aids as we conduct the
work to Destroy hamas.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Period it's worth noting that that narrative About, hamas or
rather about the children Of gaza, starving has taken has
taken root in a lot of, places including on the,
right and as we're hearing. There, look we need to
get the facts, straight and there are there's ample reporting
That hamas is diverting a huge portion of those. Shipments
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so this is WHERE i want to remind you that
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by the, way we got a couple of awesome. Guests
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