Hour 3 - A Gen Z's Perspective

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Bud Light has since been desperate to try to get people to drink the beer again. And they essentially have gone back to just trying to make funny comedy joke commercials again. They've been using Shane Gillis. They had Peyton Manning. They had a couple of those during the Super Bowl that took place. Did you see the ad for Budweiser with the, you did not see this ad? Okay. Budweiser had the most red-blooded, crazy patriotic ad that I've seen in a long time. It was a little bit ridiculous. But it was a Clydesdale horse, which has been a focal point of Budweiser for some time. And it had a baby bald eagle that basically was raised riding on the back of the Budweiser ad. And it was a bald eagle. And it was like an America. F yeah, crazy patriotic commercial. I think it is a direct response to the collapse of the brand that they decided, you know what, America's a good place, we should be embracing it more. And I do think it's a direct result of the cultural rejection of their woke advertising that that happened. And David and Scottsdale, I said we were going to get to some of your calls at the top of the third hour. That is, I think, the take that you were going to share. Most of the ads were crap. They were not particularly funny or engaging or even, frankly, memorable other than the Backstreet Boys, which dominated. But, David, what you got for in Scottsdale? Yeah, I was going to say that was by far the best commercial. Who doesn't love Freebird, a Clyde Del and a bald eagle. It was brilliant. one of the most pro-America ads I've ever seen. Yeah, thank you for the call. I do think that that is reflective of the cultural swing. I also got this buck. I saw a Danielle Jorinsky posted this on Twitter. I run a business, a sports bar, JJ's place. Yesterday, 80% of the bar wanted the turning point halftime show on. Interesting. The rest wanted Bad Bunny. To accommodate, I put the TVs on half and half. The 20% started canceling the orders, taking to social media, calling me racist, being disrespectful to my staff, and leaving one-star reviews on Google and Yelp. Mind you, the 80% who wanted the Turning Point halftime show weren't happy Bad Bunny stayed on. but they didn't leave me a bad review, take to social media, cancel their orders, or disrespect my staff. It's become impossible to run a business. I support three generations of my family on a sole income. Try to accommodate everyone. The bar business is not what it used to be, sad day. This to me, I thought, was really representative of the world in which we live now. If you wanted the turning point halftime show on, you were able to track it down, but you weren't going to attack someone over having bad bunny on. I thought that was kind of an interesting window into the world in which we live. The left, if they don't get what they want, tries to destroy you. The right just says, by and large, hey, we should have options.

Yeah, of course. Well, that's because the left is not just the party or even the ideology. It is the ethos, the central ethos is that of the malcontent. It's people that are unhappy with things. They think they're victims. They think that the world is out to get them. They think they're oppressed, whatever it may be. And so I wasn't surprised at all when I read that. I know it's gone a bit viral online. And it's one of those things that you know you can expect the same way that any time a leftist is upset about. anything being right wing anywhere or being even sort of conservative or traditional americana they're very quick to say they want to boycott and they'll never do you know they'll never go to this place again or they'll never buy this product again whatever it may be because they have no room there is no space on the left for anything other than whatever the hive mind demands which is a great opportunity to tell everybody about manufacturing delusion clay my book which comes out next week which is all about this about how the left uses brainwashing indoctrination propaganda about you please go and get at claynbuck.com your early copy and you will get a special for the pre-orders for the pre-orders a special video with a former CIA operations officer and myself talking about a whole range of intelligence mind control stuff, including, oh, yes, we get into MK Ultra, we get into some of that stuff. So, indeed, sorry, Clay, for the shameless plug, but it is, in fact, the case that the leftists are always going to be like this. They're always going to be intolerant of anything that isn't what they want. There's a sort of babyishness that I think is at the heart of it as well. And, you know, there's this idea that we have to have this, like the Super Bowl has to be like a celebration of Puerto Rico or something. No, actually. It didn't have to. Why? The Super Bowl should just be about entertaining the 100 million people that are watching. We don't actually need this to be like Puerto Rico History Month or something. Like we've had enough. We get it. If the Super Bowl had been in Puerto Rico, that might make sense. It wasn't. And I love Puerto Rico. I've spent more time in Puerto Rico than 99% of the people probably out there in this audience listening right now. I lived in the Caribbean. I even buck back in the day. took salsa dance lessons with my wife Laura and went salsa dancing in Old San Juan on a weekend trip. Yes, Buck is stunned. Laura is in the, I was just 99.999 percentile for excellent dancers. Like our next, our next video, or rather our next, forget about stakes. Our next bet.

There's going to have to be a dance challenge, and you're going to have to salsa dance and post it on your social is what's going to have to happen here. As long as Laura is. I want the full thing. I want rose in the mouth. I want the flowy sleeves, you know, the super tight like gaucho pants or whatever. I want the whole thing, man, I want it all. Laura wanted because we were in the Caribbean, we were living in the Caribbean at the time. She wanted us to take salsa dancing lessons together. So we had a Puerto Rican salsa dance instructor. I don't know. We went once a week or something. And then we went out salsa dancing in Puerto Rico, state and old Sam Juan. I love Puerto Rico. It's a beautiful country. One of the most beautiful places in the world. But the Super Bowl should be, halftime show should be in English. Like, I don't even see that as being controversial. But. We got some talkbacks. I always love this. Can I just say something? We have a lot of Asian Americans in this country, a lot of Asian Americans, a lot of Chinese Americans. Should the Super Bowl next year feature a Chinese pop band to show, you know, to pay homage to like the contributions of the Chinese? So the whole thing will be in Mandarin. Is that where we want to go? I'm just wondering, why not? By the way, the NFL probably would love it because they want TV rights in China. So, like, let's just go for it. Let's just make this the new thing. We're going to unite the country by dividing the country. That's the plan. I think it would probably be Korean K-pop, which is, I understand, very, very popular right now. The Super Bowl halftime show should not be in Korean. Like, that is not, I don't think, I don't think that's a smart play. I don't think, by the way, that Korea's, whatever the biggest sporting event in Korea is, I have no earthly idea. Like, it should, I don't think that it should be in English. Like, I would, I would think that was a bad look if the goal is to have every Korean in South Korea. Who knows what the most popular thing in North Korea is. But I don't think that it should be in English. Since we're in like show and tell and sharing time here, you know, Clay, I recently tried paddle or Paddle, if you want to go with the more Latin. I played for the first time. I'm playing again today. This is very popular in Latin America and Spain. Is this a version of, what is this a version of? Like how would it, is it? It's, it's a little bit like a cross between. I don't know, maybe like racquetball and squash, and it's something like, it's somewhere, it's like if squash and tennis had a baby, maybe, I mean, it's a little bit, but it's really for people who want to have the sort of social interaction of tennis without having to learn how to play tennis is what I would say, having done both, that's where I would say it is. It's different. What's the thing that's so popular now that is like. Padel? Oh, you're talking to pickleball? How does it compare to pickleball? Pickle balls for senior citizens, which is cool, by the way. It's cool. You play pickleball with your cold 1911 when you go to the range. You're good to go.

Like, that's the way it's supposed to be. There's a place for the walkers to collect near the pickleball court. Pickleball is just, it's for senior citizens. When I'm a senior citizen, I'll play pickleball. It's lovely. So Padell is more physically engaging than pickleball. Padale is pickleball for people who drive around on vespas and drink very small coffees. I don't know all. I've seen people playing all these different sports, but I will play this because if you want to reach out and you want to, by the way, you're going to get ripped for that take. And I don't even have enough knowledge of it to know. I just know pickleball community is going to come for you with their paddles and their, you know, definitely more scared of 1911, Colt 1911 community, but pickleball community, yes, they bite and they kick. Brad from Raleigh Durham says we're racist. Cut D. A lot of times are your guys getting on your rant. You sound racist, man. You really do. The whole thing with Bad Bunny was about the history of Puerto Rico. I mean, come on, man. So what, what does it sound? I don't like the music. Why does that sound racist? I don't understand. Also, saying it should be in English is not racist. Like, English is the language of the country. If I went to Japan and I said, you know what, sumo wrestling, if they have halftime shows, or the baseball at Japanese baseball, they should only do it in English. Or they should only do the halftime shows in Chinese. I would think that would probably make the average Japanese sports fan not enjoy it as much as they otherwise could. If your goal is to put on something that over 100 million people will enjoy, my suggestion would be you should do it in the language that most of the people watching are watching in. Regardless of what your background is, you should be able to understand what someone is saying. That's the foundation of communication. So I don't even understand that everybody who wants to try to attack people immediately says it's racist. But I don't even understand how it's racist to say I think that major American cultural institutions should speak English. I told you before, I confided in you, and then you shared it with a few million people that I work out listening to Creed still. That's okay. That's okay. Now we have, for example, a very robust. audience of Cuban Americans down here in South Florida who listen to this show. I know because they give me the thumbs up and a wink whenever I see them in public so whatever and there are people, right? If they want to make fun of Creed, that's okay. If they want to say that Creed is gringo slop, I'm not going to take that personally. I think they're wrong. But you see what I mean? You're allowed to not like a musical actor, or even a genre, and that doesn't make you a bad person. It doesn't make you a racist in any direction. And I don't like that people do this thing where they try to make it that because it's just lazy. It's just lazy thinking. It's a celebration of the history of Puerto Rico.

The game was in the Bay Area. Like, why are we celebrating Puerto Rico at the Super Bowl? Also, why aren't we celebrating New Hampshire at the Super Bowl? I mean, who cares? This is absurd? Why aren't we celebrating Papua New Guinea at the Super Bowl? Like, what are we doing here, folks? Yeah, and look, I said this earlier. The game in Miami had Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, and Jennifer Lopez celebrated Puerto Rico. It was six years ago. But it was in Miami. It actually made sense that you would do a Latin-infused... celebration of South Florida culture writ large. And those are also crossover artists with huge global appeal. In English. Bad Bunny is not popular outside of Latin America. But to your point, they went to San Francisco to do it, which makes even less sense. Also, look, the reason people say something's racist is not to actually have an argument. It's to end an argument because the idea is once you say that, it's the worst thing that you can say. And then the argument turns into, well, I'm not racist instead of it being an argument about the underlying aspects of the dispute in the first place. My argument to you would be the first person to say that's racist is actually just acknowledging that they've lost the underlying dispute because they're having to go to just ad hominem attack, by the way. But. I wanted to play that because he was angry and he wanted to call us racist. And, you know, we try to share all perspectives. When we come back, we'll take some more of your calls. We'll continue to interact. We're going to have Ashley Brassfield on at the bottom of the hour. But when tragedy strikes, the Tunnel of the Towers Foundation honors America's heroes and their families like United States Army Specialist, Andy Kingsley. Andy served our nation with honors, part of the 82nd Airborne Division throughout his distinguished career. He received various awards and decorations, including Purple Heart. But while Andy was deployed, he was severely injured. The incident resulted in the loss of his right leg, partial vision loss, a traumatic brain injury, and more. He spent over a year at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, learning how to navigate life with his injuries. Living with severe combat injuries can make even life's daily tasks challenging. That's why receiving a specially adapted mortgage-free smart home from Tunnel the Towers has been life-changing for Andy. It allows him to live with greater independence and dignity. This is the power of giving to Tunnel the Towers. Many more heroes like Andy need your support. Donate $11 a month to Tunnel the T-2T.org. That's T, the number two, t.org.

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You know, Ashley, we've been talking a fair bit today about sports. Clay loves the sports. He is a sports ball aficionado. You don't just like the sports in theory. You are a Division I athlete at the University of South Carolina. So you've actually been to NCAA stuff and competed. Buck, what is the mascot of the University of South Carolina? That's a great lead in. Is there any chance that you know? Make him say it. Zero. Oh, it's a fun one. Ashley, I'll let you tell everyone. Well, we're the Gamecocks, but, you know, the short version is go Cox. That's, of course, what we say. I thought that's the cheer at South Carolina. Yes. Well, yes. Well, we are very proud. I'm a very proud of Codc. Okay dokey. Now, I want to ask you about these skiers, these skiers, though. Trump, very unhappy with them, I think rightly so. They're getting asked about whether they have mixed feelings about America, competing rather on behalf of America at the Winter Olympics. I just feel like they should have mixed feelings about the fact that so few people actually want to watch skiing in the first place that maybe they shouldn't be jerks. What do you think? Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I mean, this is, I think the Winter Olympics and the Olympics in general, I mean, I played beach volleyball. That's the most watched sport in the Olympics in general. So this is Winter Olympics now. But I think that the skiers, you know, getting asked the question, are they worried to compete on behalf of the United States? The question itself in general, why are you even asking that? I mean, I think that politics and sports, obviously there's some convergence. We saw that last night with the Super Bowl performance. They're representing their country. They've worked their entire lives to get there. Just why are you even asking that in the first place to them? You should be asking them about, you know, their wins, how they're willing to compete. Any other question than that. Actually, I think that's really important. And we may dive into this tomorrow because the Winter Olympics will become more of the story, I think, in the wake of the Super Bowl ending. But I did through Grok, which I love using. This is an example of left-wing sports media turning this into a story. And for people out there who don't know, during Biden, Clinton, and Obama, 20 years, there were no questions about politics that were asked of American athletes. Only when Trump has been in office, Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 have sports media decided, oh, we should ask, I don't know, a downhill skier. what he or she thinks about American immigration policy. And then when they get an answer, they turn it into the narrative that this is so controversial that everybody has to talk about it. You were an athlete at the University of South Carolina. I've actually spoken to a lot of athletes in my career as a media guy to try to tell them, hey, be careful of media using you.

to tell the story that they want to tell. You're not even really aware of how you're being used. I'm curious, when you were at South Carolina, did they, you may not have gotten a ton of questions in volleyball. Certainly basketball and football would get the majority of questions from media. But did you guys have training like that? Because I think a lot of athletes are becoming aware that it's not really what they're being saying. They're using you as a proxy. The sports media are to say what they want to say, but using your voice. No, I think that's exactly right. And we had a little media training to answer your question. I think the two most significant things from my time at University of South Carolina that I recall is I was there from 2019 to 2021. And during that period of time, obviously COVID hit. I was forced to spit in tubes for a year and a half. And I was never vaccinated. There was kind of pressure campaigns internally that, you know. were put on us, those that were not vaccinated at the time. But another thing that was taking place was Black Lives Matter. And to give you a perspective, beach volleyball, if you'll probably look at the demographics across the board for Division I Beach Volleyball, I guarantee majority of the girls that are involved in it are Caucasian, at least. And the Black Lives Matter, we all had to sit down to talk about if we're going to put a Black Lives Matter, I guess, patch under our SEC patch on our jerseys. And none of our team, for perspective, were black. And so just it's virtue signaling and the fact that we all had to sit down, have a meeting to talk about if we were all okay with that, just a waste of time, not something sports related, not academic related, even. It's really, those were the two most significant things that I recall. I mean, the spinning in the tubes and then, of course, the Black Lives Matter Patch. You and Riley Games were both in office. Riley does a lot of work with us at Outkick, and they had the same pressure they put on her. She was a swimmer at the University of Kentucky. You just mentioned that you were in college in 2020. That makes you way younger than either Buck or myself. So the Super Bowl halftime show. Is it, what is your take? I mean, way younger than you, like younger than me, but yeah, go ahead. All right. So my take is, regardless of what you think, that it's not crazy to want the Super Bowl halftime show to be in English since most people in America speak English. But what was your overall assessment? You can love it. You can hate it. I presume that you watched of the Super Bowl halftime show. Yes, I definitely tuned in. There's a lot of controversy. I've had to comment about it on other news outlets, of course, as well. So I was very interested. And of course, after his Grammy's acceptance speech, Bad Bunny talking about ICE and then Roger Goodell coming out saying, oh, it's not going to be political. I was skeptical to see if that would be actually true. And I mean, for the most part, I think that Bad Bunny was not. political in this performance besides saying, you know, God bless America as well as other Latin American countries at the time. I think one of the main things, like you said, that the obvious was nothing was in English besides Lady Gaga's performance. But I think the main difference is that I noticed of Kendrick Lamar's performance last year at the Super Bowl and this performance is there was much more diversity, which I know that's a lefty term, but I did notice that the overall stage presence.

I guess the setup of the actual performance. It was impressive, in my opinion. But I do think there's something to be said. If you're going to try and attract a broader audience, and this is American football game, I think the NFL for a long time has tried to play the card in the marketing scheme that they're going to be FIFA. They want this worldwide presence. They have games in Germany, Mexico City and all these things. So they try to take that on. And yes, Bad Bunny is pretty well known amongst my generation. I do think there is a lot of people that listen to him. But if you're looking at the broader NFL audience, are they? actually marketing to that audience. I do not think they are here. The performance itself ended up being okay, but I do think that they have an issue with knowing their audience and what their audience wants. What is the worst genre of music, Ashley? I'm going to have to go scream-o. I feel like it's scream-o. I don't even know what that is. What is you? This is like a generic thing. Take us into this Gen Z world. What is this Screamo? Well, you know, I love a good classic rock. I love the Led Zeppelin. I'm a big country music fan. I'm from the southeast. And I think screamo is the type of rock music where it's just like complete screaming, if you know what I mean. Like very dark. Hair metal is what old people would call this. Okay. No, no, no, no. Hair metal is like. Hair metal is like. Hair metal is like. Hair metal is like. Hair metal is like. Hair metal is like. Okay. Sorry, sorry. Hair metal guy. Hair metal is amazing. You're going to throw. Utterly discussed. Sorry. I meant I meant death metal, not a hair metal. Sorry. I don't want your, I don't want your hate mail. No, I enjoy some Led Zeppelin at ACDC, all the classic rock, but that's a little too far for me. You know, some wrap, it all sounds the same nowadays, so we'll put that in that category as well. Also, did you think the NFL game was so boring that people should just stop watching the NFL because it's usually so boring? I don't know. That's where I come down on this. That's a good point. And I know a lot of Patriots fans that are just really disappointed today. But I mean, I was really wanting a good game here. And we didn't get one. And I think they were saying that Bad Bunny got more yards in the first half than the Patriots. That was a funny line. That was a very funny line. By the way, the postseason NFL, the wildcard round and the divisional round were about as good as football could get. Any one play could have changed the outcome. This was a really poor game. But the postseason up until now was pretty good. What, so significant, significant question here. And we're talking to Ashley Brassfield as we go forward. What do you think there's so much talk. I wrote a book about it about young people supporting President Trump and the fact that culturally many people have begun to reject the left. We're now in the year two. What would you say the vibe of people around your age in America is today? Is that same momentum existing? Has it changed? Where is, you know, the 25-year-old in America today based on your experience?

Yeah, I'm going to go with its change. And I know a lot of people are not going to want to hear that. But I do think it has changed. And I know it was on with a buck on his podcast talking about this not too long ago of the elections in November, what we were seeing with Zohran Mamdani. And I think that was the tell all sign there that what was happening with affordability, then they didn't like that word. So they changed it over to pricing. And now the president's going to be on the road every week this year going into the midterms to help Republicans win due to the fact that the messaging is just really not there on that domestic issue. Another thing with my generation. We lived through the last 20, 25 years of war in the Middle East. Very exhausted about the foreign policy issues, I think. They're sick of it. They want the focus to be on that domestic policy, feeling that affordability, the pricing. back in their pockets palpably. And, you know, there's reasoning there that it's going to kick in in 2026 with the big beautiful bill, but also I cover a lot of Congress. And what you're seeing from Congress currently is one of the most unsuccessful Congresses in the first year of a president's term where they passed less than 40 bills. So I think that there is this essence of disappointment from Gen Z currently. And I do think that they feel that from the right, President Trump was able to take the cultural issues going on these podcasts. I mean, he really took the bull by the horns in 2024. And I think it's kind of sloped down on our generation since then. They're much more moderate in certain ways when it comes to cultural aspects. And I think even the president's talks about the bad bunny performance. I don't know if it's going to resonate very well sometimes. There's been moments where I question it myself. But I do think there's still hope if they can get those affordability and domestic issues down. But I do think there is a lot of people in my generation that have kind of gone down the slope of disappointment to an extent. Well, before we let you go, Taylor Swift, is she your generation's Beatles? Because this is an outrageous claim that somebody has made recently on this show. Who made that? Who made that claim? That would be Clay, of course. A brilliant man by the name of Clay Travis who might have voted him before. Well, that's the question. Would you have rather had Taylor Swift instead of bad bunny, Clay? A billion percent more. Taylor Swift is the Beatles of the 21st century. Look at the skilled pivot from the Capitol Hill reporter over here. You notice that, by the way? She's not taking that hand grenade. She's like, well, let's just move into another version of answering the question. I like that. That was good. You know, I'm not the biggest Swifty myself, but at the same time, Taylor Swift is an extremely talented performer. I may not agree with her politics in many ways, but she is very talented. I think her last tour, the number she did when it came to, you know, selling tickets worldwide. It shows that she really has gained momentum with the female, you know, Gen Z demographic. I mean, she's been around since I was probably eight years old. I went to a Taylor Swift concert. So I will say the amount of time she's put in, she's become very successful.

To the extent, I agree with you there. I think that as far as music skill, the Beatles might have something on her, but we'll see. I guess we'll see, Clay. We'll see. Ashley Brassfield, Daily Caller. Great to have you, Ashley. We'll talk to you soon. My pleasure. Thank you. There's no need to overpay for cell phone service. Pure Talk changed that half a dozen years ago. If your current cell phone company is AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon, you're spending more money than you need to. Pure Talk service is on the same cell phone towers and networks, so it's the exact same 5G nationwide service. For $25 a month, Pure Talk gives you unlimited talk, text, and plenty of data. Now compare that to your cell phone bill. Pure Talk is an American wireless company with an all-US-only customer service team. When you call, you're talking to someone right here in the U.S. a well-trained member of the team who could help you switch over in as little as 10 minutes. It's my cell phone company, and I did the switch over, and it was like 10 minutes. Keep your phone number and keep your phone if you want. It's that easy. No contract, no cancellation fee either. Just dial pound 250. Say the keywords, Clay N. Buck, you'll get 50% off your first month. Again, dial pound 250. Say Clay and Buck to make the switch to Pure Talk.

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