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That I've already shared with all of you from my Twitter account. If you haven't and can't remember where we were a year ago, rejoice. We have come a long way, America, in one year. From a president standing on the South Lawn of the White House completely unaware of what was going on during a supremely awkward concert at the White House, to Donald Trump ruling the country in a fabulous manner through the first half of his four year term. First half of the first year of his four year term. We will give you the absolute latest on Iran and Israel. We will dive into many of the biggest stories of the day because I am working and I bet a lot of you are working. I am back home in Nashville, had an amazing time up in Washington D.C. met so many of you. Appreciate Senator Hagerty's office for allowing my son to be an intern up there. He had an incredible time. Congress is out today and they are out tomorrow is my understanding. Which is why we are back. Because why celebrate Juneteenth for one day when you could celebrate it for two and be paid by the American taxpayer to do so? Welcome to your government. Now, I bet most of you are not taking Juneteenth off, but I did think that we should honor Juneteenth as one would by playing what went mega viral. We shared it with you yesterday on the social media accounts. Uh, when you actually dive in to the View, I would maintain that it is the dumbest program that has ever been allowed to appear daily on television for some time. And the arguments just keep getting more ridiculous. So there was a discussion. I want to give credit to one of the ladies on the View. Alyssa Farah Griffin has family of Iranian descent. I believe her father is Iranian. I could be wrong on that. Guys, will you check that in the studio? But she has a connection to Iran and in her family background and they were discussing freedoms for women in Iran. And just to reinforce, in case you are not aware, in Iran, women have, to a large extent, no Human rights at least comparable to what would exist in the west, for instance. And I believe they've only changed this recently. Women were not even allowed to go watch the Iranian soccer team play. The Iranian soccer stadium only allowed men to go watch soccer. Now, this is a big deal. Soccer is a huge sport all over the world. But the most popular sport in Iran, women weren't allowed to go in there. Sounds somewhat ridiculous, but that is true. I think they now allow a handful of women into the stadium. I think they have progressed there. You can be beaten and arrested if you are not covered correctly as you walk the streets of Iran. There have been protests from women who say, hey, can we just not have to wear a hijab? Can we just uncover our hair? Can we allow our faces to be seen? And the religious police will walk around in Iran and arrest and or beat women who defy dress codes all over the country. So whatever you think of life in America, women comparably have it pretty good here. And honestly, this was one of my biggest issues with the Megan Rapinoe on the US Women's soccer team. You know, for the, for the Women's World cup, you can basically pick every winner just by analyzing human rights in the country. Because while our women go on the international stage and rip America, the reason why our women are super talented at soccer is because they can wear shorts and they have basic human rights. Is it a surprise that the women who have the most human rights would also be the best at athletics? And also this speaks to the incredible wealth of America, because in general, it is a luxury to be able to put your kids into sports and allow them to develop as athletes. Most really athletic men get noticed and can have success around the world because male athletics is still a moneymaker to a large extent in much of the world. Women's athletics to a large extent is not in most of the world. And so it is an incredible sign of both human rights and the wealth of this nation that we have tens of millions of girls who are playing elite level soccer in this country. And so I wish that the U.S. women's soccer team, when they're on the global stage, instead of denigrating the United States and refusing to go visit the White House after they won the World cup in 2019 and Trump was in office, I wish they had said, hey, we may not agree on every political issue in the United States, but what we certainly agree on is women should be able to compete at the absolute highest level of athletics. And the reason why we're having success on the global stage is actually a reflection of America's embrace of human rights. And we wish women around the world had the same rights that women have in the United States. That's a really strong argument. I think it would have been compelling. I think that there would have been a lot of little girls all over the world who heard that and were even more aspirational to to be great at sports, but also to look up to the United States women who are great at sports and could be their role models going forward. Instead, Megan Rapinoe said, hey, if you're a man and you want to play women's soccer, I think you should be able to do so. She lifted the ladder, not unlike what we just saw Simone Biles do in her tweet at Riley Gaines. Ok, so they're discussing how life is in Iran. Alyssa Farah Griffin, who directly knows how the women of Iran are treated based on her family's background, is trying to make the point that Israel has basic human rights. And in fact, I haven't heard very many people react to this. But, you know, one of the things that they had to cancel in Israel because of all the missiles coming in from Iran. The pride march. The pride march. Israel, I believe, is the only country in the entire Middle east that would even have a pride march because gay people otherwise get thrown off the roofs of buildings and beheaded in many different Middle Eastern countries, which is why Gays for Gaza is one of the dumbest American political arguments of all time. But they were trying to have a conversation about that, and Whoopi Goldberg took it over and said she doesn't think black people in America have it better than the average woman in Iran. This was actually what ABC aired yesterday. Play the cut. I think it's very different than the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran. Not if you're black, not for everybody. Not if you're black. Let me tell you about being in this country. This is the greatest country in the world. But, yeah, I know that. I know that, and we all know that. But every day we are worried. Do we have to be worried about our kids? Are our kids going to get shot because they're running through somebody's neighborhood? Nobody wants to diminish the very real problems we have in this country. That's no one's intent, but I think it's important we remember there are places much darker than this country and people deserve, right? To be honest, not everybody feels that way. Not everybody feels that way. Listen, I'm sorry, you know, when you think about the fact that we were. We got the vote in 1965, okay? They don't have free and fair elections in Iran. It's not even the same universe. They can't go out of their house. You know what? There's no. There's no way I can make you understand. There's no way I can make you understand because you're a moron, Whoopi Goldberg. You make $8 million a year to go on a show, to not do basic research, to have no idea how things are around the rest of the world, to compare how black people live in America in 2025 with how women live in Iran in 2025 is so brain dead that, honestly, I think that the view has become so toxic for just its stupidity that ABC News has to be looking around, how much money could they possibly make off this show versus how much brand equity are they losing? I. I just can't believe that anyone could be this dumb. And by the way, it's not just Whoopi Goldberg. There are lots of people all over the United States who have no conception for how good we all have it in this country. And I really do wish, a part of me does, that every American had to spend two years sort of like the Mormon mission. A lot of you out there listening in Utah, you're part of your religious faith. Your kids will go on a two year mission. They don't know where they're going to go all over the world. If we had two years of service required for every American teenager at 18 years old, and you had to go to a third world country and actually try to make that third world country better, and you had to live there, and you had to see how people in that country lived. When you got on an airplane and you came back here, you would kiss the ground when you stepped off that airplane. There is no conception, by and large among huge populations in the United States of how incredibly fortunate we all are to live here, does not mean that the United States is perfect. No country created by humans in the history of mankind has ever been perfect. But if you had to choose right now, there's a great analogy that Warren Buffett has says. If you want to contemplate, I think it's such a good one. If you want to contemplate how you should feel relative to the rest of the world, imagine that there was a huge vase and there were 7 billion marbles in it. It's roughly the population of the world. Not one person in the United States. And if you drew a Marble out of that 7 billion, not one person in the entire United States should ever risk changing places. Right. It's a great analogy. If your kids are out there, if they don't understand gratitude, one of the most powerful emotions there is, if you had to take a marble out of that 7 billion and you changed places with whatever marble you drew, not one person in the United States should ever make that trade because the chances are that you would go to a vastly inferior country with vastly less human rights and economic resources. And so when I see people like Whoopi Goldberg, who are making millions of dollars a year, who have become fabulously wealthy, arguing that the average black person in America is somehow in worse place than the women of Iran and even the men, it is so incomprehensibly dumb that I think ABC News should be looking at a show like that and saying, boy, I know it's called the View, but we should have a standard of basic intelligence, and our show hasn't met it. Send Whoopi Goldberg to do the show from the average country in the third World and make her live like the people do there. First of all, she wouldn't do it. But I do think it would be important and clarifying in many ways to actually know of which you are speaking, as opposed to trying to denigrate and pull down the. But I do think it would be important and clarifying in many ways to actually know of which you are speaking, as opposed to trying to denigrate and pull down the aspirations, hopes and realities of so many young people that might be watching that show and believe her that they have no chance for success and then want to marinate in the idea of their own victimization because they aren't aware of how truly fortunate they are, no matter what your background is, to live in the United States of America today. So happy Juneteenth. I wanted to start with that today. National holiday, a lot of people taking the day off and maybe some people are going to be getting ready for July 4th as well. This is a day to grill. I'm going to be grilling today because we're celebrating my mother in law's birthday and we're going to be using good ranchers to help celebrate. We're going to put their meats on the grill. We're going to have a fabulous time. 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But my point stands that she has a Middle Eastern background and so probably has a little bit better of an idea of what life is like in the Middle east based on her family than Whoopi Goldberg would. And some of you can say, okay, well, why does it matter what Whoopi Goldberg is saying there? I think it matters immensely because so many kids who don't know any better, their knuckleheads, they think that they are victims. If you grow up believing, oh, I can't accomplish anything, the world is a light against me. Everything is so unfortunate for me in America in 2025. It takes a lot to break you out of that worldview. The reality is that no matter how you became a citizen or how long your family has become citizens of the United States, there is virtually no place in the world where it would be better for you to live than the United States right now. And so when you embrace this idea of victim culture, oppression, you end up, I think, stifling the ability of young people to have success. And since it's Juneteenth, I've been hammering this, and I don't know why more people don't hammer it. You know, I can't guarantee you're going to be rich. It's hard to get rich. You have to work, you have to get some good fortune. There's lots of things that go into you becoming wealthy. But every single person listening to me right now can guarantee they are not poor if they do the following. I hammer this home. I wish we had teachers hammering at home more often. Graduate from high school, get a job, get married, don't have a kid until after you get married. All of those things, if you do those four things which are very reasonable to be able to do that's a very aspirationally attainable goal. No matter where you live, you have a 0% virtual chance of being poor. Can't guarantee you're gonna be rich. Can guarantee you're not gonna be poor. Imagine if Whoopi Goldberg went around on the View making that argument to young kids. Hey, everybody's not gonna have a perfect setup. Everybody's born with different opportunities based on the economic realities of their parents, of the place that they're born, graduate high school, get a job, get married, have kids. After you get married, you have a zero percent chance virtually in America today of being poor. That seems like a very aspirational thing that every kid should be taught, particularly young men. I'm going to tee off on this some today because I've been thinking about it a lot, particularly young men who feel lost in the toxic masculinity era and don't really know how to become men. Summers when we get most of the outdoor repair work done on houses. Longer daylight hours, better weather, ideal for all those repairs to get done. Also, the time of the year when the leaffilter technician and installers are the busiest. 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I love by the way how awesome many of your comments are in the show. You don't have to wait in line at all. You can just grab the iHeart app. You can click the microphone button. You got 30 seconds. Trent in Kansas says, hey, maybe Whoopi should go visit Iran and try to come back. Listen to cut dd. Hey Clay, this is Trent in Kansas. I think you should challenge Whoopi Goldberg to go visit Iran and if she makes it back to come back and she can then explain to the people on her idiotic TV show just what Iran is actually like, that would actually be fantastic. Again I, I say this for everyone. If you are fortunate enough to be able to afford international travel and I get it is very expensive, I think one of the best things you can do for your kids is actually show them through missionary work, through travel, what much of the rest of the world has to live like. This is one reason that I love to travel. I want to see as many countries in my life as I can to just experience the fulsomeness of what world life represents. You guys know I'm a history nerd. There's lots of places I want to go that have been historically relevant throughout world history. There's tons of places I would love to go that I still haven't been. I'd never been to Italy till two years ago. I took my whole family over. Was an unbelievable experience. I wanted to go to Australia, I took my family to Australia. My kids are getting older. One reason I'm on the road and try to travel as much as I can now is once they get to be 18, get to be adults, they go off to college. I don't know how they're going to want to spend their time. I hope they're still going to want to travel with mom and dad and maybe as they realize how much travel costs, mom and dad's vacation start to sound a lot better. I bet there's a lot of you who are parents and grandparents that have experienced that. So I hope they're still going to want to be able to travel. But even if they don't, once they're over 18, I want to have helped to show them the places around the world and what it's like. I want to take them to Israel. I did the show from Israel in December. I think it would be incredibly eye opening and it's not always the things that you expect to be incredibly influential to you that are. I figured that walking around in the old city of Jerusalem and seeing the Christian and Jewish and Muslim religious sites would be incredibly moving. And it was. But you know, some of the things that you don't anticipate are what stick with you. In Israel, 18 year olds have AKs on their back and are serving for their country. You know, here, super popular Alabama sorority girl TikTok. I'm told it's all about rush. Oh, what outfits am I going to wear? Oh, how pretty am I? Look at all the things I can do with my makeup and my hair and all these different things. And it's wildly popular. The Alabama. If you don't know your kids, your grandkids, ask them about it, especially if they're girls. The Alabama sorority TikTok thing is a absolute, huge, massively popular social media event. And I think they even made team can look it up. I think they Even made a documentary about it or a reality show about it. Just the process of going to the University of Alabama and, and rushing to be a member of a sorority. All these 18 year old girls in Israel, the same 18 year old southeastern Conference sorority girls are instead in green fatigues with AKs on their back. Because every 18 year old in Israel, by and large, unless you're supremely religious, which is its own controversy there, now goes immediately into the armed forces and puts their life on their law, on the line to defend their country. You join the idf and I couldn't stop thinking about that. We're standing in line for coffee and these 18 or 19 year old girls walk in in their uniforms with AKs on their back and stand in line to get coffee. Totally normal. There same 18 year old girls here that are losing their minds over whether they have the right shoes to get in the right sorority at the University of Alabama. I'm not trying to judge the University of Alabama sorority girls, God forbid, good for them, they're happy. But the cultural difference, if you are fortunate enough to have teenage girls or teenage boys between what the average life in Israel would be like for an 18 year old girl right now and what the average life for an 18 year old girl trying to get in a Southeastern Conference sorority or a Big Ten sorority, a Big 12 sorority, or whatever it is, is seismic. They expect their 18 year olds in Israel to put their lives on the line. Every single one of them goes into training, knows how to use weapons, understands that at any moment in time there might be a terror attack and they might have to fire their weapon and defend the people in their country. And here we just have frivolity. And so how many of our people out there, how many 18 year olds in America understand what 18 year olds in Israel do? Not very many. Now some of you who are part of Birthright Israel and you get over there and you see it, all those things, and I'm just using Israel as an example, but I bet a lot of 18 year olds in America are sitting around depressed right now, like, oh, the wifi's not working, it's summer, I'm so bored. And you're like, well you know, you could be in a bomb shelter or you could be on your stomach crawling underneath people firing at you, maybe being concerned about your nail, what's it called? I've never had my nails done. The nail salon. Not being able to get you in today. Maybe it's not that big of a deal in the larger context. And there are many countries like this around the world. And so if I could wave a magic wand, I think America would be transformed if everybody had to do a Mormon style mission for two years in another country. And I think our overall national discourse would actually be much healthier. Now, I understand some of you out there listening to me right now are like, hey Clay, that's what I did when I was 18. Yeah, good for you. Good for you for having the discipline, having the courage, the bravery to do it. What percentage of 18 year olds serve their country in the United states right now? 0.5%, 1%. It's a tiny, tiny percentage of young men and women. There are some volunteering to do it. More power to you. But I'm just saying it's not the same as when the entire culture has to do it. And it does change things immensely. And yes, I am right. There is an actual documentary about the Alabama sorority rush. And I just the dichotomy because look, I'm a guy who comes out of covering college football and I'm not claiming to be some tough guy. I've never served in the military. I went off to college when I was 18. But I do think I have tried to have a larger global perspective of what life is like. And that's one of the benefits of traveling, is sometimes things stick out to you which seem normal in that country that are staggering to us based on the way that we typically live. In Israel, 18 year old girls are walking around with AKs ready to take out anybody who is a terrorist and highly skilled and highly trained in how to use incredibly deadly weapons. And here in the United states, the average 18 year old girl is on TikTok trying to figure out how to buy the newest swimsuit for summer. They're not the same. And I think Whoopi Goldberg, it's hard to pick on 18 year olds because if you remember when you were 18, you're ignorant about many different things. That's what you rely on adults to help you recognize. But Whoopi Goldberg is the adult. She should be the person who has a larger perspective to make her audience understand how their lives fit in the context of the larger world. Every black person in the United States today is incredibly fortunate on average to live in the United States today than in Africa. This is not a doubt at all. The average standard of living in any African country is a pinprick of the average standard of living of the average black person in America today. Didn't they have that girl went viral recently? The 18 year old girl. You guys looked that up. I don't think we played it on the show. But she was so upset about racism in America that she moved to Africa. And then after only a few months in Africa, she was like, actually, I want to go back to America. And I'm not trying to pick on her, but she was uniquely susceptible to the argument that she was oppressed and she was a victim and she didn't have a high quality of life. And as soon as she went to Africa, she was like, actually, sorry, I want to go back. I want to go back to the United States. Actually, way better there. That's how virtually every person of every race would be if they went to a different country. And yesterday I was talking about the fact that I was getting attacked because Elon Omar, who was born in Somalia, was ripping the United States says, one of the worst countries in the world. And I said, isn't it amazing how often the people who rip the United States, even if they have multiple passports, even if they have citizenship in multiple countries, they almost never go back. If you truly thought that this country was awful, you should go to a better country. If you think that you live in a crappy city or state in the United States, I would tell you to move to a new city or state. If you're not happy with where you are, if you're not happy with the country that you live in and you have the ability to go to a new country, do it. You know, the ultimate lie that they have been telling for so many years is that America is a fundamentally awful, racist country. If that were true, how come during Joe Biden's era, 10 million-plus people risk their entire lives to come to this country, the overwhelming majority of whom are black and brown. Because it's a lie. Because this is the greatest country that has ever existed in the history of the world, and most people are taking it for granted. If you are living here already because to a large extent, we don't understand the larger world and how fortunate we all are. But if you doubt it, look at how many people were willing to risk everything to try to come here. Overwhelmingly minorities. If America were a supremely racist country, do you think tens of millions of black and brown people would be doing everything they can to illegally enter this country? Of course not. So some of the lies that we are being told that are being propagated by people like Whoopi Goldberg are actually insanely pernicious because they aren't true. And she's old enough to know better and have some basis of rational thought. But People listen to her and they believe it and it leads to unfortunately a non positive universe right now. So we're going to dive into some of this. I'll take some of your calls, your talkbacks, everything else associated with it. But I want to tell you right now, Pure Talk, you can use your phone. £2 50 you go say clay and buck. When you push £2 50 you can get a great incredible offer from Pure Talk. 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