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00:04:10.000He's been in training and then she just finished her European tour so then she was just taking a break and then this is supposed to be like their first public moment back tonight.
00:04:20.000Yeah, so let's explain what this leaked document allegedly said.
00:04:39.000It's basically outlining, like, there's going to be a breakup, here's going to be the talking points of how we're going to say, you know, the relationship ended.
00:06:27.000So the point is, out of all of the flaming liberal celebrities she could date, can't we all agree he's like, he would be the best, most acceptable one?
00:06:36.000Everyone that she dated before this was like, not even American, first of all, just like very beta British boys.
00:06:43.000Artists, creative, like Travis Kelce's like Compared to all the other ones more manly.
00:06:48.000I think this is what partly fuels some of the let's call them conspiracy theories about the relationship is that it is kind of an outlier in her guy picking history.
00:07:01.000I also want to say that his PR team before when the relationship first happened they were interviewed somebody on his team was interviewed and they were like okay so we had planned for the entire year like different things that we were going to do to help promote his image.
00:07:17.000And they said the only thing that wasn't planned, the thing that shocked us that we never saw coming was this relationship with Taylor.
00:07:23.000So that was months and months, I mean a year ago at this point, that that interview came out.
00:07:27.000I think that that's interesting to note.
00:07:29.000And I also want to note that typical what you see in a PR relationship is you have one celebrity who is a lot lesser than, and then one celebrity that is huge that is needing to gain publicity.
00:07:43.000Respectfully, in both of their fields, they're both superstars.
00:07:46.000They're both at the top of their game.
00:07:48.000But wasn't there that whole thing with all the women being like, Taylor Swift made Travis Kelce famous?
00:08:23.000Mahomes is objectively probably the generational quarterback of his class.
00:08:28.000I would say Travis Kelce is a total stud.
00:08:31.000I'm not a Travis Kelce hater, actually.
00:08:34.000And I sort of agree with the fact that he's the least worst option I've seen Taylor Swift pick.
00:08:39.000That being said, if it was an arranged relationship, you know, kudos to the PR guy.
00:08:47.000If anything says this is a fake, it's actually, if this was an arranged relationship, they've actually executed it pretty amazingly and pretty flawlessly.
00:08:55.000I don't actually believe that, I don't think.
00:08:57.000But, I do think because it's such an outlier, it's one of the reasons it's all like, this feels very, and the fact they won the Super Bowl, are you kidding me?
00:09:05.000And he didn't even ask her to marry him?
00:09:23.000Well, he was, you know, he, since they've been dating, he shares, shares news about them and talks about her and has given interviews.
00:09:30.000And he's just like so smitten with her.
00:09:32.000And it's just like, she's the sweetest girl, most down to earth, so polite, good manners, like just so sweet around the family.
00:09:38.000I just don't see that guy as being somebody they could control if this is a PR relationship because he almost
00:09:44.000shares too much Like you know, the his mom shares a lot and the brother
00:09:49.000just got the big Podcasting they both they got over over a million dollars.
00:09:54.000Yeah over a hundred million dollars Joe Rogan money That's what Joe Rogan on his first Spotify deal was a
00:09:58.000hundred million dollar deal and Travis Kelsey I guess both of them just I didn't realize
00:10:03.000But yeah, it's their podcast together.
00:10:05.000But I think what's more interesting about that, and I didn't even plan to go into this, but Angelo and I talked about this a little bit last week, was with the Joe Rogan and the Alex Cooper, all of their podcast shows, it comes with their entire catalog of podcasts.
00:10:19.000New Heights is a relatively new podcast.
00:10:41.000They're giving them $100-plus million for everything that's going to happen in the future.
00:10:45.000I mean, even for the possibility of like a Taylor sit-down interview on New Heights, that's worth millions of dollars to them.
00:10:51.000Yeah, it's pretty remarkable, actually, what the brand of Taylor Swift can do, not only for herself, but for those around her, which will lead us into our next question topic.
00:11:04.000I want to get into this Swifties for Trump thing because I think strategically, it's a very smart move.
00:11:12.000Blake is making hand gestures over here.
00:11:16.000I will just say, strategically, it makes a lot of sense.
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00:13:06.000So Brittany Mahomes, for the audience, just to catch everybody up again, liked a Donald Trump post, but we've been saying that she didn't back down, and you have a slight clarification on that.
00:13:20.000She liked the post, and then everyone was freaking out, and then she put that original thing on her story, Of like, if you're a hater as an adult, you have unresolved childhood trauma.
00:13:28.000I don't know if you remember that one.
00:13:29.000And then she unliked the post, and then she posted an Abercrombie-sponsored post for the NFL Collection.
00:13:39.000And in the comments, which we have the picture of the liked comments, I don't know which one that it is.
00:13:48.00052 was the liked comments and she liked Trump Vance 2024, glad to see her not backing down.
00:13:56.000And then she had them up for about an hour or two.
00:14:00.000I remember I texted Alex when I saw that she liked them and then she unliked them pretty
00:14:14.000One of their big, big sponsors and so I would guess that Abercrombie said do not like this on your sponsored post.
00:14:21.000She probably has a quote of sponsored post she has to do for Abercrombie and they said this one will not count if you like these comments, etc, etc.
00:14:28.000Yeah, the Trevor Project, which is like let's fund kids transitions or whatever, is like the main charity they ask you to donate to when you check out there.
00:14:57.000Says, I want to thank beautiful Brittany Mahomes for so strongly defending me and the fact that MAGA is the greatest and most powerful political movement in the history of our now failing country.
00:15:11.000Anyways, it goes on and calls them a beautiful couple.
00:15:14.000And then he'll see them at the Super Bowl.
00:15:16.000And he'll see them, yeah, which is a prediction, by the way.
00:15:18.000It is a prediction that I think they'll be in the Super Bowl and also that Trump will be the president attending the Super Bowl.
00:16:36.000I feel like there's a lot of conservative women that listen to her music.
00:16:39.000Oh, there's tons of conservative women that listen to her music.
00:16:41.000She's the biggest artist in the entire world now.
00:16:45.000And to the levels of Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, she will go down as, whether you like or not, her stardom, her superpower, her Influence is of the likes of those other artists the
00:16:58.000Beatles She is in there also her tour now number one best-selling
00:17:02.000tour of all time, and she's got a long track record That's the other thing right years and years multiple hit
00:17:06.000number ones. I mean so she is a massive star So yes when you're talking about somebody that is that big
00:17:12.000of a celebrity of course you're going to have fans of all different religions
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00:20:02.000So maybe she is voting for Trump and we'll get some kind of photo op of Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Mahomes at a Trump rally before November.
00:20:19.000I also want to just point out, if Brittany Mahomes is truly voting for President Trump, and she's not going to come out and deny that she is, that shows incredible moral bravery and character on her part, because she is now very, very close friends with Taylor Swift, who may or may not say, I can't be seen, pictured, hanging out with Brittany anymore.
00:20:38.000This is a PR nightmare for me because it looks like I condone her supporting Trump.
00:20:42.000Like, she's risking a lot that she's gained in the last year with her friendship with Taylor by not denying it.
00:20:49.000So I think that that's really admirable.
00:20:51.000I think that we'll know more tonight, because we have pictures of them in the suites together at all the games.
00:20:58.000They watch pretty much every game together.
00:21:00.000Last year, so I think we will know more, which will tell us where Taylor's leaning.
00:21:05.000I mean, I don't see her voting anything other than Democrat, but if she's going to speak out about the election.
00:21:12.000But here's the other thing that I think it's like, oh, this just this all makes it so juicy.
00:21:39.000She knows that he is a good person, and so if this is somebody who's been a lifelong Democrat saying there's something deeply corrupt with this party, you need to be voting for Trump, and I'm endorsing Trump, Maybe Taylor seeing that, like, oh my gosh, is there maybe something that I've been duped on when it comes to staunchly supporting Democrats and hating Trump?
00:21:57.000I'm just saying, even if she... That's not gonna happen.
00:22:00.000Even if she... I'm not saying she's gonna endorse Trump.
00:22:30.000Yeah, so this is from her Miss Americana documentary that's on Netflix of her explaining why she needed to start getting political on social media.
00:22:37.000But I will say this does... I mean, what, Taylor Swift's 33, right?
00:22:42.000So this would have been like five years ago.
00:22:44.000So she was like 28 and she was just finding her voice.
00:22:47.000She was like becoming like a grown woman kind of stage.
00:22:51.000Like, I'm not trying to actually belittle that.
00:22:54.000I'm just saying at 34, she might be past this sort of like...
00:22:58.000She votes against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which is just basically protecting us from domestic abuse and stalking.
00:24:15.000Turns out it's just it's just white dudes for Kamala.
00:24:20.000That video though is what makes me so curious as to where her mind is at right now because she has people around her that are now supporting Trump.
00:24:36.000And, you know, Britney thinking the way she is.
00:24:38.000Like, oftentimes that happens, like, the two move as one.
00:24:41.000I mean, you will find couples where, I mean, they were high school sweethearts, so they picked each other before they were probably thinking.
00:24:47.000I'm sure they're both voting for Trump.
00:24:50.000When a celebrity, like, is careful to not say anything these days, it usually she knows that it implies that either
00:24:58.000a winger or they're like a weird Aaron Rodgers type who's gonna vote for
00:25:03.000you know well this is kind of a... do a write-in for... yeah what we
00:25:07.000were talking about during the break which is that
00:25:10.000I like before the break the Michael Jordan thing like Republicans buy shoes too
00:25:14.000And I think that, from a business perspective, and we all know Taylor's a huge businesswoman, huge capitalist, I mean, she has the whole Green Party against her for her private jet and her flying across the country multiple times.
00:25:28.000And I think that her best-case scenario is to just say nothing.
00:25:31.000That's our best-case scenario, too, is for her to just say nothing.
00:26:02.000I'm just going to say she's going to endorse, I'm just going to be the optimist, she's going to endorse Trump and say you shouldn't be a fan of her music.
00:26:17.000I've had terror threats now from ISIS.
00:26:20.000I have to, sorry, I have to stay silent.
00:26:22.000This was your big Twitter thread that went off where you were like, when she, the terrorist threat against her in Europe, you were like, hey, Trump killed ISIS and That would almost be stronger than a normal endorsement though.
00:26:33.000She's like, basically, I would endorse Kamala except that Trump fans are so evil they would kill me if I did it.
00:26:39.000She's stayed pretty silent on the Israel-Palestine stuff.
00:29:10.000Guarantee if Zimmerman shot a white guy, this wouldn't even be a story.
00:29:13.000Newsflash, this wasn't a crime of racism, it was self-defense.
00:29:17.000So a lot of her comments are, donate to the Trayvon Martin Foundation, donate to the Trayvon Martin Foundation, we won't forgive you until you donate to the Trayvon Martin Foundation.
00:31:02.000So it's just interesting to see a story like this come back around full circle, and now we have influencers that are on uncancellable podcasts, apparently, get cancelled.
00:31:13.000Yeah, so then Tana did a video where she was like, I'm clearly not with Not with Brooke.
00:33:33.000Before we get into the Mormon story, which is very exciting, I'm fascinated by it.
00:33:39.000Alex, tell us how people can find you, follow you, and what you're up to.
00:33:44.000All right, so we are rebranding my podcast with Turning Point USA to be the number one health and wellness podcast in the conservative movement.
00:33:53.000And we are rebranding on Monday, 9-9 at 9 a.m.
00:33:59.000So be following me at Real Alex Clark on Instagram to find out the new name.
00:34:05.000And that day we'll be announcing who my first guest is.
00:34:09.000Actually, a lot of exciting announcements that people don't know coming out on Monday, 9am.
00:34:15.000And for those who don't realize, our audience maybe doesn't always overlap with yours, but your podcast has grown a lot.
00:34:24.000Well, actually, Charlie has been getting into a lot of the subject matter I cover.
00:34:28.000So if you have liked Charlie's episodes recently, like the one with Callie Means, if that was an episode that you really liked or you enjoyed watching Callie on Tucker, I've interviewed Callie.
00:34:38.000So those types of doctors, experts in health and wellness, really offering a countercultural look at food, pharma, And also just society, culture as we know it, you know, parenting, things like that.
00:35:07.000It's well earned, and hey, here's to the next chapter announced on Monday for Alex Clark, so be sure to check that out.
00:35:15.000All right, so we've got, speaking of countercultural, this is not exactly what Mormons are known for, but there is a new reality show or something coming out?
00:35:23.000Yes, so it comes out tomorrow, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
00:35:29.000I will be sitting with my popcorn watching this show.
00:35:32.000I'm so interested because back in 2022 there was this group of mom talk influencers on TikTok.
00:35:38.000They were all Mormon moms in Utah and basically the scandal came to light that this whole group of mom talk influencers were all swingers.
00:36:35.000It's all the girls from that same group and it talks about how they were getting divorced, talks about their relationships with drinking or not being a part of the Mormon Church or like they're partying all this stuff so it's kind of I've seen a lot of people on TikTok that are really devout Mormons that have spoken out about this and been like this is not what we stand for this is not we want but it's kind of turned into like an expose in a way of this group of people that I think a lot of people are worried this is going to Like, come across like they're speaking for the Mormon culture.
00:37:40.000There's a dark underside to this, which is you have people who are kind of Like sociopathically, they're basically misrepresenting what they do because they're clearly not really following Mormonism.
00:37:50.000It can tend to create a double, like a hidden life versus their public persona.
00:37:56.000I think also what was different for them was, especially in that culture, a lot of the men are the breadwinners, the women are, and that's kind of why they started to become famous, was because they're all stay-at-home moms.
00:38:05.000Mommy bloggers just started writing about their lives, posting about fashion, posting about hair stuff, and then they kind of blew up.
00:38:11.000Amber Filler up, I think, was like the beginning.
00:38:13.000of the mormon bloggers and that net then these women
00:38:17.000started making ten times the amount of money their husbands are making and i
00:38:20.000think that it really change their dynamic uh... where is this comes out
00:38:24.000this week it comes out tomorrow on what channel who look secret lives of mormon