I Smell Pop Culture: Clay Aiken

I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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Tv & Film

4.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

He came in 2nd place in season 2 of American Idol, but Clay Aiken will always be #1 in our hearts!

Unfortunately Lane doesn’t share the same affection for Clay, and in season 4 episode 18, she says we need to wipe out the “Rubens, the Clays, the Clarksons” like we did with disco.

We’re talking to the one and only Clay Aiken to find out what really went down on the Idol stage 20 years ago, how he got into politics, and what it’s like being Lane’s target!
He’s not invisible, he’s pop culture!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.6	I am all in.
0:08.0	Again!
0:10.7	More, more, more.
0:13.9	I want to kiss you more.
0:16.6	More, more.
0:19.6	I want to kiss you more. I smell pop culture with Easton Allen
0:24.7	An I heart radio podcast.
0:27.0	Oh, I love the smell of pop culture in the morning.
0:29.4	That's right.
0:30.0	It's Easton Allen.
0:31.3	I am your host today on I Smell Pop Culture.
0:34.4	Scott Patterson has given me the code to this podcast. I have taken over the feed for
0:40.3	this one day, this short little period of time. Thank you for downloading this episode. Thank you for
0:46.4	not deleting this MP3. I really need this, everybody. I need this so bad. Here's what we do on I
0:51.1	Smell Pop Culture. We love Gilmore Girls, right? We love it.
0:54.4	We love Gilmore Girls.
0:55.2	We want to live in Stars Hollow.
0:56.8	The cool thing about Gilmore Girls is that they exist within the same universe as us.
1:03.2	It's so fine.
1:04.3	It's so crazy.
1:05.5	Every episode is just loaded floor to ceiling with pop culture references from the real world.
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