Dave Rubin hosts Jake, Blaine, and David Crane to dissect Stephen A. Smith's hypocrisy regarding Joe Biden's fried chicken incident versus his attacks on Trump, arguing Democrats cannot be racist. The group critiques the diluted Jesus Super Bowl ad, dismisses Charles Barkley's violent hyperbole as comedy, and questions Andrew Klavan's CIA psyop theories about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. While noting Bud Light's failed apology strategy, they praise Jason Kelce's retirement speech and predict Sean O'Malley will defeat Chido Vera in the upcoming UFC, ultimately highlighting how sports culture mirrors broader political polarization. [Automatically generated summary]
Making it was a lot of fun, even though I never thought I'd get paid to dunk a basketball on girls dressed up as a girl.
But the fact that this is even an issue, like with the men and women sports thing, when there's so many other important things that we should be attacking.
I've said this multiple times.
One of the reasons that aliens won't talk to us is because we continue to do stupid things like this, and I wouldn't either if it was me.
Let's legitimately do, let's play out this ludicrous experiment.
And then the third thing is Jeremy Boring wanted to make a comedy movie, a sports comedy.
He came to us, they trusted us, and I think the concept that they set of, let's make the type of movie that only the Daily Wire can make, the type of movie that Hollywood will not make right now.
Yeah, and I've been saying for like three years, I mean, the way the whole woke nonsense in sports ends is there is gonna be the most washed up, six foot eight, 250, you know, small forward, power forward in the NBA who's scoring three points a game and he's 38 years old, he's gonna retire, put on a dress, saves a woman, average a triple double in WNBA, the feminists will be cheering him on, and then everyone will finally realize how ridiculous the whole freaking thing was all along.
You see all these periphery sports, and no disrespect to track and field and things like that, the minute it gets into women's basketball or women's softball or one of these sports in the forefront, it's going to kill the narrative.
That's why they won't let it happen.
Volleyball, it almost happened, and they quashed it at the college level.
Now, in high school, we all know what happened to that poor girl recently, but it's ludicrous, man.
It's like the Mrs. Doubtfire, you know, white chicks, that sort of thing, and that was just a traditional comedy, and now in just two decades, we've come so far that we can make a movie about the same subject matter, but bring up the trans element to it, and it's completely different, and Hollywood won't touch it at all.
I'm 47 with a torn ACL in the left knee and one of these days I'm just getting some prosthetic boobs and I'm going to play in the WNBA.
That's how it's going to work.
All right, so we're going to hit a bunch of stuff with you guys kind of related to sports and culture and how these things have collided and usually, in my opinion, have unfortunately made sports too political.
But let's start off with a guy who does kind of what you guys do for a living, Stephen A. Smith, who I find to be an interesting guy.
Not just because he talks like this, but also because he sometimes get a lot of stuff right and then suddenly goes really wrong with a bunch of stuff.
So Joe Biden put out this video where he was eating fried chicken and talking basketball with a family of black people.
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Take a look.
Why don't you share about your passion of sports?
I'm playing AAU basketball right now.
Oh, you're really?
Are you a guard?
Yes, sir.
Now, what grade are you in?
Seventh grade.
Seventh grade.
Right now, I'm just doing basketball, playing guard on the JV team for my school.
Because ladies and gentlemen, if we're being fair, If we saw Donald Trump sit down in a black household eating fried chicken with a father and a son, what would we say?
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What would we say?
What would we say?
You know folks out there would be calling it racist.
Well, if it's racist for him, and I'm not saying it would be, but if it's racist for him, why wouldn't it be racist for Biden?
I mean, Trump could save, you know, burning puppies from a car, and if they happen to be Black Labs, somehow it would still be racist.
Yet Joe Biden can sit down and... Here's the... When it comes to Stephen A, there are moments where I agree with what Stephen A says.
Now, do I think he kind of talks out of both sides of his mouth?
depending on which way the pendulum swings.
Yes, I do.
I think he acts different around different people, but every now and then again,
he'll hit something I agree with.
My biggest thing is, at the end of the day, why isn't Joe Biden eating fried chicken?
Why are you eating a burger?
Like why is everybody else eating fried chicken?
But again, it's just one of those double standards where, it's impossible to be racist as a Democrat, apparently.
This is the same guy, same old white guy, who helped sign the crime bill, who did deals with Strom Thurmond, sitting down at a table with a family eating fried chicken, and also saying, if you don't vote for me, you're not black.
So it's a huge double standard.
It's just, at this point, it's laughable, but I think everybody sees it.
You know, the biggest evidence of the double standard is Biden did a thing And Donald Trump's name gets brought up.
Like Stephen A. Smith still brings up Biden's name.
That's how you understand.
Stephen A. Smith, I feel like if he walked in here right now, I feel like we would all have a great time.
We'd have a great conversation.
I've seen this man in person at SEC Media Days walk around and take a selfie photo with every single person standing in line.
I saw that with my own eyes.
Took him about 45 minutes.
That's how I feel about him.
You know, walk in here, we'd have a great conversation and then sometimes he goes on ESPN and I think he just understands very well that his checks are signed by Disney and he has to say some of these things and I hate it because I don't think that's how he really feels about a lot of it.
To sit up there and call for its eradication across the board, where race and color and gender and sexual orientation and all of this other stuff doesn't get taken into consideration.
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Why do you ignore why it existed to begin with?
If you acknowledged why it existed to begin with, and you said that was then, this is now, I would feel you.
Because at least you're taking ownership of the iniquitous acts of the past by your race of people.
Not all, not most, but some.
And if you take ownership of it, then you're empowering yourself to change it.
But if you don't take ownership of it, you could never, ever, ever be inclined or provoke To change.
I think at some point it's a lack of knowledge, historically.
Yes, there's been inequities in the past.
There's been inequities in the past going from continent to continent, from different colors of people.
Any type of inequity, I think, is a bad thing on its face.
But at the end of the day, we live in an era now where we don't need to fight racism with racism.
The few times where it happens, and it can happen to every race, Because racism is not owned by one race, but what Stephen A is saying there is basically like, well, Clay Travis, you're not acknowledging what's happened in the past, so therefore you can't talk about what happens in the future.
I haven't done anything to anybody, and if you know history, this isn't a one-trick pony.
And Dave, this is where I have to give you a lot of credit.
I mean, you've been a big inspiration for me, just the growth that I've experienced personally
and politically over the last few years, because I remember a time when I would describe myself
as libertarian or classically liberal, and you had the courage to have people like Larry Elder
And not just have him on your show, but when Larry Elder would come in and bring stats and bring facts, you would listen to him and you'd change your opinion.
And, you know, kudos to you because that's why, you know, we started this show and why we're at The Daily Wire and hopefully standing up for these same sorts of things on the sports front.
You know what, it was, in retrospect, it was absolutely beautiful, and Larry and I eventually obviously became great friends, and I was literally campaigning with him to become governor of California during the Newsome recall, which didn't work out, but like, what a great sort of piece of that story.
Let me ask you something, and then I want to connect this to something with Charles Barkley, but generally about the amount of time you guys have to spend talking about social issues or cultural issues or political issues.
When do you want to do a sports show?
I mean, that seems to be the thing that has crushed ESPN, and yet everyone is sort of stuck under that doing the biz that you guys are in.
Yeah, well, and it's funny, Dave, because really, if you watch our show, Crane & Company, we don't talk about politics unless there's some intersectionality with sports where we can avoid it.
Like men and women's sports.
To me, that's not even political.
Just like it's not political for me to put my blinker on in the highway.
It's a safety issue.
You talk about NIL and college kids getting paid now.
That's a political issue, but it's something we have to talk about because it's affecting the sport.
What we want to do is we want to be that old school sports show that has common sense, talk about the culture stuff when we absolutely have to.
We don't go reaching for it.
We're not trying to get soundbites or race bait or clickbait or any of that.
I remember the days of me growing up and watching SportsCenter.
Three times in a row and not hearing a word about politics, just highlights and analysis.
And then baseball tonight came on after that.
That's what we want our show to be.
And I think that's why we've had the success we've had, because if there ever is an intersectionality where we have to cover it, we just use common sense, man.
I know it's like I said, when I was coaching, I don't care if you're white, black, blue, Green, yellow, tall or short.
I want you to either throw strikes, be able to catch the ball, or be able to put the ball in the basket.
That's all I care about and that's what we try and keep it at Crandon Company for as much as possible.
And that's why ESPN has hit this iceberg and them and Billy Zane and everybody's just looking for a lifeboat at this point.
You know it's funny you mention that because the thing that kind of made me want to do what I now do for a living is I used to watch SportsCenter like literally three four hours in a row and it was back back in the day with with Craig Kilbourne and Olbermann and they were funny as hell.
Alright, first off, my producer just told me that apparently there's a picture of Mike Tyson wearing a Trump mugshot t-shirt, so we're gonna put that up right now.
I suspect Charles Barkley's not gonna punch Mike Tyson!
No, look, if you've ever seen Charles Barkley swing a golf club, I don't think he could hit somebody in the face if they stood still with their eyes closed.
Here's what I'll say.
I'm from Auburn.
You know where Charles Barkley played.
Charles Barkley is a legend.
Again, I'm one of those people, and I say the same thing about Taylor Swift, not to put the cart before the horse, but I don't rely on great basketball analysts for incredible political commentary.
Just like I don't go ask the baker down the street if he can make me a sword.
Or I'm so glad when we weren't developing the A-bomb at the Manhattan Project, they just picked the best singer that we had in the country to go try and develop it.
That's not how it works.
Charles says some things I laugh at.
I think he's really a comedian at the end of the day.
Do I think this is a clip that they took out of context that maybe Charles hadn't heard before, that they only played in that context and it upset him?
I think that's a possibility.
But at the end of the day, I'm not going to be swayed.
I'm not going to go up or down based on the political You know, innuendo or whatever of Charles Barkley.
And I saw Wesley Hunt the other day say, listen, I know Charles is six foot six, but he ain't punching me in the face.
And I guarantee he's not.
So, uh, look, if I, when I care about Charles Barkley, what's he, what I love him during March Madness, the NCAA tournament, love him on, uh, you know, inside the NBA and him and Ernie and Shaq.
I think they do an incredible job, but I just, this is one of those things I just look at breaking news.
Right, that unfortunately was couched in sort of the oppression Olympics version of reality that these people have.
Since you mentioned Bud Light, let's just talk about that for just a second.
What do you make of sort of the ongoing, I guess it's not as on at the moment, but it seems to me that Bud Light is just done as a brand.
I know they're pouring a ton of money into getting people to talk about them and pretend they're drinking again, but I'd never see anyone with Bud Light Blaine still loves it.
Sometimes I go back to the Jonah Hill on the soccer field super bad rule.
People don't forget.
Like I'm a guy, I was a Bud Light drinker before this.
That was my go-to beer and now Number one, every time I look at a Bud Light and I open it, I just see Dylan Mulvaney's face looking back at me.
And number two is, I don't, I can't, and I don't know anybody else out there that I'm buddies with that drank it before, that even if nobody's at the bar, You're afraid to ask the bartender for a Bud Light because it's so bad, let alone anybody being around so they can pour all the money they want into it.
They can put all these celebrities in it and try and make it cool.
They could have Paul Revere running to hand off a Bud Light to Benjamin Franklin and James Madison.
But at the end of the day, Dylan Mulvaney, and it's their fault, has ruined Bud Light.
The most important key ingredient is missing, and that's an apology, an acknowledgement of wrongdoing.
I mean, you want to talk about getting sales to skyrocket?
We could take an iPhone and record the CEO, write down a 30-second script for him, record that on an iPhone for no money, and sales would take off tomorrow.
But they don't want to do that because they don't want to lose whatever momentum they had in this, you know, woke globalist push.
Look, I thought about it as Bud Light selling out more than Dana White.
Dana White's a businessman.
Let me put it this way.
I would take $100 million from Bud Light if they wanted to sponsor David Cohn, and I would get around it by saying, They believe in the audience that I've built up that I'm gonna be able to be a champion.
I do think that an apology or an acknowledgement of wrongdoing would go the furthest way.
But if Bud Lights is saying, hey, you know what, we messed up so badly that we have to partner with the most masculine sport in the world to be able to salvage our brand, then I just, I thought about it as them selling out more than Dana taking on a new sponsor.
Well, you know, it's, it's, it's, yes, I guess it's one of the few gladiator sports I guess we have left.
But I mean, Dave, to be honest with you, and this is where I disagree with Blaine, if you did come out and apologize and take accountability for screwing up, nobody else in power is doing that.
How refreshing was it to see Shane Gillis go on SNL, which was basically SNL saying, listen, yeah, we fired you over some woke BS and stuff you had said in the past, but let's bring you back.
We were wrong.
Let's try and do something funny.
I enjoyed that.
I can relate to that, but nobody takes accountability and power anymore.
And if one person did it, it would be so refreshing.
You know, you can use whatever pun, drink, thirst, you know, whatever you want to use, but I actually think it would work.
Yes, I know, you're conservatives, you live in Nashville, you have to drink bourbon, but try some tequila.
It doesn't make you an illegal immigrant.
I wanna jump to something else related to the Super Bowl, because Andrew Klavan, one of my buddies, one of your buddies over at The Daily Wire, he had an interesting piece about some of the sort of craziness around something that was happening at the Super Bowl.
Let me read a small portion for you.
We were right when we said Trump's Russian collusion was a hoax, but they called that a conspiracy theory.
We were right when we said COVID came from a Chinese lab, but they called that a conspiracy theory.
We were right when we said Hunter's incriminating laptop was real and they called that a conspiracy theory.
Now they're trying to convince us that it's a conspiracy theory that Taylor Swift is a CIA agent trained to create a green screen psyop that looked like a successful Music tour so she could then pretend to fall in love with Pfizer plant Travis Kelsey while he disguised himself as a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs whom the deep state has constructed to win a make-believe Super Bowl choreographed by the same George Soros team that faked the World Trade Center attacks and
Using the very crisis actors who pretended to land on the moon so that Taylor Swift could then endorse Joe Biden for reelection and the Democrat party could plausibly flood the polls with Android Swifty voters and steal yet another election from Donald Trump.
About to have a heart attack.
You can fool us once, my friend, but try to fool us a second time and we'll start babbling gibberish and sticking our heads so far up our own asses we'll be able to fart through our ears.
You can see how he's reading.
You can see how he's written 30 books.
But what he's referencing there is before the Super Bowl, for like two weeks, there was this long lead up with a lot of people on the right politically saying that it was all a psyop, that this Kelsey thing with Taylor and all of this stuff was to get votes for Biden.
Like, really, would you be shocked if you came out and found out that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce coming together was a get out to vote push?
Right.
By, you know, the left side.
I would not be shocked about that at all.
I could see it.
I hope that's not true.
I try to see the best in every situation.
But when you look at it and it works, you look at the amount of money that the NFL made up this whole Romeo and Juliet situation that's going on with Travis and Taylor.
Financially, it worked out.
It just Something about it really never felt genuine to me, and you add Travis Kelce now getting paid, what, $20 million to do a Pfizer commercial, or $15 or $20 million, something like that, for a Pfizer commercial.
You mix that with Taylor Swift.
At some point, I think you're going to see Taylor Swift go out for Joe Biden and start campaigning, because everything's so bad right now.
But I'll go back to what I said about Charles Barkley.
If you vote Based on what somebody that's good at singing tells you to do, then I'm more worried about you than I am any PSYOP, because you can be... That is one of the dumbest possible things that you could do.
So, look, do I think there's some nefariousness behind it?
I would not... I'm not putting anything past these people anymore.
That's the reason why the chiefs who were mediocre, The entire regular season, I know they dunce a little bit, all of a sudden get in the playoffs, Taylor Swift shows up, and they're just running, killing the Ravens, killing everybody they face.
There's a lot deeper than this goes, in my opinion, but Taylor Swift, I'm just glad, I'm so glad it's over.
For the record, I will only vote for whoever Dolly Parton votes for, and that's how I make all of my political decisions.
I wanna hit one other thing related to Travis's brother, Jason, who just retired from the Philadelphia Eagles, and in his speech, I thought he hit something really nice.
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Also giving me three beautiful girls and a life that increasingly brings me more fulfillment off the field than it does on.
We've had a great run, Kai.
I am a product of my upbringing.
I think one of the best things a person can be in this world is a father.
A father who is present, loving, devoted, just may be the greatest gift a child could ask for in our society.
It continues, but I just thought it was sort of a beautiful way to put a cap on a career, because he had a great career, and to credit his dad and then be proud of what he's become as a person, even outside of sports, I thought it was pretty beautiful.
We get caught up in all of the political stuff and the cultural fights.
Yeah, and look, I think this is a serious problem that we have in society, that parents aren't around and, you know, it's one of the reasons that we're seeing a decay with our young people and the decisions that they're making is that you don't have that person there to push you.
And it's not just to just be proud of you unconditionally, right?
It's those tough times.
A father and a parent is meant, just like a coach, to be able to push you further than you can push yourself.
And I think he had that.
He said that for a reason.
And I will always say, centers in football.
If there was one person I had to have in a foxhole with me and also do my taxes, I'm walking straight into the football building, going to the offensive line room and getting the center.
They're the toughest.
They're typically the smartest.
And I think you saw the whole person.
Uh, that, that he was in, in this whole speech.
And it was so genuine and it was so real.
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And I thought Travis being in there was great too.
I got a brother, you know, we weren't able to play against each other at a high level, but we both went through that same thing and helped push each other even further than we could take ourselves as I mentioned.
So I felt that that was genuine to me and, uh, he will be very, very greatly missed.
As long as as long as this guy's career was in the NFL, especially playing off the line and the center position as healthy and as many snaps as this guy's played is ridiculous.
And, you know, you really think about it and you go back to the podcast they started.
Jason Kelsey is such a likable guy because he's almost like us.