CLAY: Buck, theory for you. You were talking about wokeness being a religion. I think wokeness —

BUCK: A cult, actually, but —

CLAY: Yeah, cult is a good analogy too. It rots the brain. And if you embrace wokeness too much, you end up losing touch with all reality. And I think that’s what’s happened with Colin Kaepernick. We played a clip was it yesterday?

BUCK: Yes.

CLAY: I think of Colin Kaepernick saying the NFL was the equivalent of slavery, the NFL Combine because you get your picture taken with your shirt off and they figure out how much you can bench press and there’s a lot of, not surprisingly, physical details embodied in being a football player. And he’s got a new Netflix special.

He’s made tens of millions of dollars by Nike and Netflix by arguing that America is an awful place and he’s been begging for an opportunity to play in the NFL which doesn’t make any sense because he’s saying that you’re a slave if you play in the NFL. So he’s actually begging to be a slave again. Like, none of it adds up. His brain is broken, and he now is going…

I couldn’t believe this when I watched it. He now, Buck, is going after Carlton from the Fresh Prince and Steve Urkel from Family Matters. For those of you out there who don’t remember these shows, these are like wheelhouse shows for you and me, Buck. Like, these were sitcoms that aired in the early nineties, Will Smith, it made him a star. He was, at the time, a musician but he did the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Family Matters was a part of I think TGIF.

BUCK: It was.

CLAY: Full House universe and everything else.

BUCK: The dad was the cop from Die Hard.

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: And I believe he actually was cast in that role in part because Die Hard as a cop may him such a beloved and famous character.

CLAY: That’s right and Mr. Winslow I think was his name.

BUCK: Carl Winslow.

CLAY: Carl Winslow. That’s right.

BUCK: I watched that show all the time, by the way. I loved that show.

CLAY: So lots of you out there listening to us right now probably are familiar with these two shows. Well, Carlton was the cousin of Will Smith who was the cooler member of the cast, the premise of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air of us Will Smith’s character grew up in a rough neighborhood in Philadelphia. He was misbehaving so his family shipped him across the country to live in Bel-Air, California. Carlton is the son of Mr. Banks, who is I think a successful lawyer, I think —

BUCK: He’s a judge.

CLAY: He was a judge. Judge Banks. That’s right.

BUCK: Will Smith was west Philadelphia born and raised and on a playground, I believe, he spent most of his days.

CLAY: Chilling out max and relaxing all cool that’s where Will Smith was we could probably do the whole theme song there. What percentage of our audience watched the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and/or Family Matters?

BUCK: Twenty. Maybe. No, it’s just generational thing right? You have to be somebody who was like a an early teen, mid-teen in the nineties; so 20 to 30%.

CLAY: That’s after I will when people would sit around and watch television together, right? Like you had family television viewing.

BUCK: I bet Urkel… The character played by Jaleel White, Urkel became almost more of a cultural phenomenal people know accommodate too obviously Will Smith became one of the movie stars period also one of the biggest African-American movie stars of all time. But the whole Urkel character, Urkel character became a thing that people knew who didn’t even know the show, they say just, “Oh, yeah, he’s like Urkel.” He’s kind of the ultimate lovable nerd. I was a big Urkel fan for whatever it’s worth.

CLAY: Yes. All right. So Colin Kaepernick furious at the popularity of Carlton on the fresh brilliance of Bel-Air and Steve Urkel. This is a Netflix documentary. By the way, everybody was up in arms over the Dave Chappelle comedy special. The amount of stupidity and idiocy that has been distributed already in this Colin Kaepernick show, which almost no one in the woke universe cares about at all, just listen to this as Colin Kaepernick takes aim with 1990s TV sitcom characters and their roles.

BUCK: That was quite a preamble. I think we got it.

KAEPERNICK: (sappy music) Over the years, there have been some very popular TV shows starring black people. These shows share archetypal black characters, including social outcasts who assimilate or conform, like Carlton Banks, Steve Urkel. White people love these dudes, everything from the way they dress, way they talk, even the way they dance. It’s all so nonthreatening. These characters have come to be known by the sermon “acceptable Negro.” The acceptable Negro is a black character who inhabits white characteristics who makes white people feel comfortable. The acceptable Negro is a white man’s creation. Thing is, white people don’t get to decide who’s acceptable to us.

BUCK: So Colin Kaepernick’s analysis is idiotic and you and I are obviously gonna explain why on multiple levels. But for one thing, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will Smith, is not the… He’s basically saying that the Urkel character and Carlton have white characteristics and therefore that’s what’s… Those are side characters in those shows.

The lead character that is beloved that turned into a superstar in the Fresh Prince is Will Smith who is a rapper, a young, aspiring, you know, black guy who’s making his way in America. He doesn’t have these characteristics. Why is he going after Urkel and Carlton doesn’t make any sense. And Urkel is a secondary character as well perhaps the most famous on that show to be fair.

But the primary character is Carl Winslow, who’s, you know, a lovable black dad of a family that they’re all together and it’s a little bit similar to The Cosby Show at some level except it’s not a doctor, right? What is he even talking about? What Colin Kaepernick’s saying doesn’t even make sense in the context of the shows he’s picking out the.

CLAY: Not only that, it presumes that Carlton and Steve Urkel weren’t also widely popular in the black community, which they were.

BUCK: Yes. Yes.

CLAY: And still are! It is so mind-numbingly stupid what he is putting out there. It’s like Mad Libs from critical race theory that hasn’t even been fully analyzed by critical race theorists — and let’s remember, Colin Kaepernick is half white and was raised by a white family! How is he trying to become some sort of wild revolutionary, and deciding what is and what is not acceptable for black people?

First of all, I reject the premise of the idea that anything is acceptable or unacceptable based on race, right, of an overall group, because what should be is, individuals — white, black, Asian, Hispanic — decide what they like, for better or worse, and consume it, right? The idea that an entire culture finds something acceptable or unacceptable is crazy.

But Carlton helped to make the Fresh Prince a really popular show, as did Steve Urkel. I went to school with a ton of kids of all races who loved both those shows! And what it represented was entertainment in a wide variety… Almost all of the stars were black on those shows, and it had a wide variety of different black perspectives — a nerd, an awkward son, like are reflected in all families.

So this stupidity from Colin Kaepernick… I don’t even know, Buck, if there’s anybody still left out there defending him, because when I used to attack Colin Kaepernick’s arguments and say, “Look, this guy is not a good voice for anything in the world,” there’d be a lot of Blue Check Brigade members who would say, “What are you talking about, Clay Travis? You’re racist.” How dare you. No. This guy’s an imbecile, and the fact that anyone ever considered him to be a voice for anything other than dividing and destroying this country is a fundamental failure of everyone who ever worked in sports media.

BUCK: The whole Kaepernick phenomenon is a scam, and I would even go beyond that. You know Jack Brewer. He’s an NFL player. He’s an NFL captain.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: I talked to him yesterday, and interviewed him and talked to about this subject, and he said, “We have to remember that while a lot of folks will hear this and they’re hear you and me talking about this, and they’ll say, ‘Of course, of course the comparison of a slave auction to the NFL Combine is intellectually indefensible and morally reprehensible,” right?

Of course that’s true. But Jack, who is an African-American — former NFL player himself said, “Look, a lot of young black guys are gonna hear this, they’re gonna hear Kaepernick, and they’re actually gonna take it to heart,” and it will create a bitterness and a resentment and a misunderstanding of the society around them and issues that they will then play. So Jack Brewer was telling me even though a lot of, folks, maybe can see Kaepernick for who he really is now, he still has his constituency and it’s damaging. He is pouring poison in the ears and showing people things on screen that are detrimental to them.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: These are lies he is peddling. These are reprehensible things that he is trying to push particularly on young minds and it’s just really troubling. The media’s embrace of Kaepernick, though, has always been disgusting, by the way, ’cause he’s was anti-cop for his own purposes. That’s what actually it was. Every cop listening to this knows. He played this game of, “Oh, it’s about systemic…”

CLAY: He said cops are modern-day slave catchers, Buck.

BUCK: He said, “Oh, it’s about systemic…” No, no, no. That’s what they — do. They always say something that’s just too stupid, the leftists, the anti-cop left. They always say something that’s too stupid, and then they try to do this, “Oh, it’s about systemic…” They start muttering something about balancing historical injustice, and then you go, “Oh, okay. No. Sorry. Anti-cop.” All right. Clay and I obviously both get fired up about this.