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Welcome back in all right, point of clarification. My wife texted me in all caps 1 box Ali I I I I don't know who's going to take the fall on this one because 17 boxes is a lot. I I was like 17 boxes seems like a lot. Was it 17 sheets? Oh, I don't know. Clay, who is taking the fall here? Allie, this is now me getting thrown over the middle. I don't know. I'm not going to say I don't. This is, I'm not a blame guy but this is 100% on producer alley. Again, not the kind of guy I don't shift blame. You guys know I take it right on my shoulders. But this 100% producer Ali's fault. I will tell you Cozy Earth is amazing and my wife does love their products but she said it was not 17. I don't know how big the boxes are and honestly we have so many boxes arriving daily at the house that I have no idea what is in any of them. Like I buy Kirkland brand products at Costco and books and then otherwise I don't really buy anything. I, I, you can tell by the way I dress like I don't even know what's going on in the world. So anyway, Cozy Earth is amazing. Use my code Clay when we come back, a lot of you want to weigh in on that American Eagle story because I do think it's significant cold culturally and I want to tell you, speaking of significant culturally, prize picks is significant culturally because they're awesome. California, Texas, Florida, wherever you go across the country, 40 plus states. This business is just a lot of fun. The right now there are major league playoff games going on. I bet some of y' all have those games on while you are listening to us and you can go on and you can pick your favorite athletes. Just pick more or less on each of those players. We have won three out of the first four weeks in the NFL. I'm going to have a pick for you guys tomorrow on prize picks. All you have to do to get signed up. To use my name clay go to prizepix.com code clay you can download the app. Use Code Clay when you play $5 they will give you $50. That's prizepix.com code clay trying to make it four out of five weeks of winners tomorrow. But get hooked up and play along with us@prizepix.com Code Clay. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Buck will be back on Monday. He is in Taiwan. And I flagged this because I thought it was interesting. Let's see if I can find it as I scroll through. He was talking, in fact, let me just go ahead and pull up and make sure that I don't screw it up. He was talking about how safe Taiwan is and again, this is hopefully without China invading. And he was pointing. Yesterday I talked about the fact that after dark there's no fear. And I thought this was interesting. He said, so in Taiwan, you'll see someone in a coffee shop leave their cell phone on their seat to save their spot when they go to the bathroom. Asked some locals if this was normal. They thought the question was funny. Of course people leave their phones out. No theft. Civilized. Super interesting because I actually was out to dinner recently with my son and he got up to go to the bathroom and he left his phone on the table. And this is my 15 year old. So he's only had a cell phone for about a year because we don't give cell phones to the kids until they're 14. And that might have even been too young. But I feel like that's one of the parenting decisions we got right because a lot of people give their kids cell phones way too young. And we're finding out that there are significant consequences for that. And I said, no, no, you can't ever leave your cell phone at a table. And even if you're going to the bathroom, even if you're going somewhere for a short period of time, even if you think you're in a safe place, somebody will steal it. And the culture of many countries, that is not the case. You can just leave your things and. And you would never have to worry about it being stolen. And I was talking about this in the context yesterday when we played the cut of Don Lemon saying, why are white men so violent? And I said, first of all, using race as a proxy for criticism is not healthy because as soon as you use race as a criticism for proxy, a lot of people just dial out. This was my big thing with Colin Kaepernick when he protested in the NFL nine years ago and he said, well, police are just killing black men. Leaving aside the fact that it wasn't True. If he had protested and said, hey, police are killing too many people, then it would have been a more interesting conversation. I don't think that's true, unfortunately. I think police are thrust into constant acts of violence. And as we've talked about on this show, body cameras are actually showing you that almost every time police fire their weapons, they're in an incredible danger. And if they fire their weapons and they shouldn't have, everybody sees it and says, boy, that was unnecessary. But it's a tiny number of actual firearms usage by police that is in any way potentially not justified escalation of force. But if Kaepernick had said, hey, this. We should have a national conversation about police violence, as I have talked about quite a lot. And this was controversial to say back then. 75% of people that are shot and killed by police are white, Asian, and Hispanic. That blows people's minds. That's data, according to the Washington Post police shooting database, that 75% of people shot and killed by police are white, Asian, or Hispanic. Everybody, like, pauses and says, really? Is that true? Yeah, it is. Now you can say, well, you know, black people are around 12 or 13% of the population, so they're getting shot outside per capita of what the data would reflect. They should be just based on raw numbers. But then you go into the data as Don Lemon did not, and you say, okay, well, hold on a minute. What percentage of violent crimes are committed by black people? Huge percentages. In fact, if you go into the data, black men commit nearly half of all murders, and almost all of the victims of black male violence are black male. And so I actually asked this question on Twitter yesterday, and some of the responses were. Were very interesting, but I want to share it with you because it came out of the Don Lemon video where he's lecturing white men, white men, why are you so violent? And I said, well, you never make a video lecturing black men and asking why black men are so violent. And if I made that video, as I said yesterday on the program, people would say, oh, it's super racist. Look, here's a white guy lecturing black men. I don't think it's effective to single out racial groups and lecture them, but I do think data matters. And in fact, if you rank violent crime based on male violent crime, black men are the most violent, and this is murder, which is a crime we know occurs. So black men are statistically the most violent men in America. Hispanic men are statistically the second most violent men in America. White men, the people that Don Lemon was lecturing, are actually the third most violent men in America, Asian men. Almost no violence. Why do you think that is? Shouldn't an rational, reasonable American society sit and look at those data sets? These are real facts. Who's being murdered? If I said to you, hey, you know what? We're going to solve murder in this country, and, and we're going to focus all of our resources on Asian men, and we're going to take the Asian male murder rate down to virtually zero. The data wouldn't really change very much because there's almost no Asian murder. You would still have 97% of the murder rate in the country. Roughly. If we eliminated every Asian murderer in the country, if we eliminated every black murderer in the country, we would have about a 50% decline in murder. So if you were looking at the raw data set and you were saying, hey, how do we fix violent crime with murder being the apex, the top of the most violent crimes in America, how do we fix that? You would say, well, you don't spend much time on Asian people. You would spend more time policing in black communities. Secondarily, Hispanic communities. Third, white communities, fourth, Asian communities. But a more interesting question would be, why are Asian rates of violent crime so low in the United States? Wouldn't a rational, reasonable American conversation ensue from that? Why do Asian men commit comparatively almost no violence? And by the way, there are lots of poor Asian men, lots of recent immigrants, lots of low education families that are raising kids that don't have a lot of advantages. So you go statistically and look at average income for poor immigrant communities of Asians, and you compare them to black communities, say in New York City, the rate of violence in black communities is through the roof. The rate of violence in Asian communities is virtually non existent. Why shouldn't we ask those questions? Shouldn't we have a real, rational, reasonable, knowledgeable conversation about that? If our goal is my goal, your goal, all of our goals, regardless of our racial groups, would be, hey, I think less murder would be a good thing. I think less violent crime would be a good thing. I think more kids being safe on the streets, playing after dark would be a good thing. I think more of our wives, our sisters, our mothers, more of them being able our girlfriends, more of them being able to go for a jog at night in any American city without having to worry about being dragged off the street and raped, it would be a good thing. Less violent crime, crazy proposition here would be a great thing for Americans of all different backgrounds. Why is there no Violent crime in Asian communities. My answer would be two things. Dads are at home. Because I think the number one thing. If you told me the number one thing, Clay, you have a magic wand. You can change anything. It would be everybody gets raised in a nuclear family with dad and mom at home. I know that's not possible. I'm not attacking single parents out there, male or female. I'm just saying the data correlates. If you put dad at home, the rate of violent behavior by young men collapses across all racial groups. So number one, I think the data, if we want went and looked at, it would show dads at home in nuclear families are the best possible foundation for kids to be successful dads at home. Second, education is of paramount importance in the culture of the Asian community, more so than any other racial group. Asian families focus on education as a cultural construct. Maybe worldwide, I can't speak to it, but certainly in the United States, Dad's at home education. Now, I think if you correlate that, you would see that if you have those two things, the violent crime rate for young men is virtually non existent. So wouldn't a rational, reasonable society say we should do everything possible to try to get more dads at home and to try to get education as the foundation of cultural success in this country? Now, that's my philosophy. You may be out there and you might say, okay, there's something else that's going on here. But if we just look at the data sets. Violent crime, Black men number one. Hispanic men number two. White men number three. Asian men number four. What if America had the Asian male violent crime rate nationwide? America would be one of the safest countries in the world. My takeaway from looking at that data set unstead like Don Lemons is I'm going to lecture the third most violent group, white men, and just tell you why you're the worst. My takeaway is why shouldn't we all aspire to have the same violent crime rate of the Asian community? What are they doing right and how do we take what they're doing right and apply it to the nation? I bet you won't hear that conversation anywhere else in America that analysis. Do you know why? Because so much of our conversation in the country is terrified to acknowledge race unless it's to say racism is bad. Yeah, racism is bad. Don't judge people based on the color of their skin. That is stupid. But shouldn't we use data sets that involve race to try to drive the best possible outcomes for everybody of every race? And if Asian Men are by far the least violent in the United States. Isn't it fair to ask, hey, what are Asian families doing? That is creating a culture that almost doesn't have violence at all? Because again, think about it. If we had a culture of Asian violence across the entirety of the United States, the same rate, there would be no crime of a violent nature in this country. I think there's a great deal of value in looking at it and saying, hey, how do we learn from this? What can we take from it? And how do we as a society implement policies that try to create more of what the Asian family, what the Asian culture is creating when it comes to violence across everybody, white, black, Asian and Hispanic, that would actually be using diversity as a strength because it's something that's very positive. And we're trying to apply the lessons of that to the entirety of the country. Violent crime is a choice. We're allowing it, not letting people walk around in the streets after dark. When I was in Memphis and I had to go buy a car charger and the lady at the front desk said, are you sure you want to do that? Are you sure you want to? It's 8 o'. Clock. Are you sure you want to go out after dark and go buy a car charger in Memphis? We're choosing to live in a society like this. We don't have to. We could fix it. We really could. We'll take some of your calls. We'll continue to roll as we are diving into the program here. Also, my wife is still firing away about Cozy Earth and again, not a blame guy, but this is all Ali's fault. I'll explain at the end of the hour. Hour. But in the meantime, you got a great family memories. How many of them are preserved forever? How many of you have got the ability to ensure that your family's old photos, that your family's old VHS tapes, that your family's old film reel slides? Your dad and mom ever put like a white sheet on the wall? Old school. Put in some of those slides in the projector and, and let you check them all out. Legacy Box can ensure that all of these great family memories that you have are preserved forever. My family, my mom's family is all from the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. 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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show Vice President J.D. vance, currently addressing the media about the government shutdown from the White House and I don't know how many of you have been paying attention to it, but they have been using sombrero memes to make fun of Hakeem Jeffries because he is in favor of giving health care to illegal immigrants. I understand that might sound crazy to some of you out there who are not involved in the Internet. These memes are absolutely hysterical. I'm not sure if they're funnier than me playing the flute memes which basically was the existence for AI for many times and that some of you continue to pop out there. Uh, but J.D. vance just said that he promises if the government shutdown is ended with the help of Hakeem Jeffries, that the Sombrero memes will end. Uh, that is a real clip. Uh, in the meantime, we'll get that for you in the third hour when we will also be joined by our friend Tudor Dixon. But first, here is cut 28. JD Vance saying, hey, the far left wing of the Democrat Party basically decided they have to shut down. Listen to cut 28.

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To the American people who are watching, the reason your government is shut down at this very minute is because despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Congressional Republicans and even a few moderate Democrats supported opening the government, the Chuck Schumer AOC wing of the Democratic Party shut down the government because they said to us, we will open the government, but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for health care for illegal aliens.

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That.

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That's a ridiculous proposition.

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This. These clips are going to be really, really funny. J.D. vance was just held to account and asked, are the Jeffrey Sombrero memes actually helpful? And this is the element. I'm going to send it to our producer, Greg. By the way, Ali, I'm not going to say that Ally is passing the blame on the Cozy Earth controversy, but she just said, I can't send on air whose name it was. But he was completely wrong. It wasn't me. Controversy grows. One box of cozy earth gear per my wife Laura. 12 sets of sheets. All of the information was wrong. Ally was 100% wrong. Not a blame guy. Ally's not a blame girl. But she says someone else was wrong. The truth will out throw me under the bed.

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This is an I Heart podcast.