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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Sunday Hang with Plain Buck Podcast. It starts now Stephanie
and Kentucky wants to weigh and we're taking some calls.
(00:20):
Final hour of the week. Happy Valentine's Day. Stephanie, what
should people watch?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, I have a very unconventional pick, but if you'll
give me like fifteen seconds to make the case for
it for the couples that are maybe not into romantic comedy,
so you've got to have an understanding girlfriend or wife
who's not expecting romantic comedy. But one of the most
romantic movies I think is out there is actually Spartacus.
And I know this is probably more of Buck Sally
maybe Uclay history guy, but it's it's very subtle, but
(00:48):
I think it's the most romantic movie out there, just
like the the artistry of making.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Can I just tell you, I'm gonna make this pitch
to carry and I'm gonna put this on you, Okay,
I'd be like, honey, you know what romantic movie we
should watch? Tonight Spartacus about the slave re vault against
the Romans.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, to be okay with a little gladiatorial combat and
ancient civilization warfare. But if you can put up with
that mixed in with again really subtle but super sexy romance,
I think I think it's a perfect movie if you
have a girl who's into that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I actually liked the I think it was like a cinemax,
which anytime you say cinemax now people think, I.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Don't know where you're going.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
No, you stopped that, sir. There was a remake of Spartacus.
It was a series, though not a movie. Very very
it was like three hundred. They kind of did a
three hundred approach to it.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Which is I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
By the way, it's a I think three I wish
they had done a whole bunch of historical graphic novel
three hundred kind of things.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But the Spartacus show was do you know what I'm
talking about? It was very good.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It was it was one of those channels I do
know what's talking about. But I'm just laughing about your
cinemac start. I'm like, are you going to tell us
about a man? You?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, this is the thing Cinemax.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It just turned into Skinemax, and everybody thinks of it
that way, which is pretty remarkable for a channel like that.
But I never saw I never saw such things. If
any of the B O O B s comes on
the screen, I have hurt my eyes and change the
channel right away. Skin Amax, remember that was they called it.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's what.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, Stephanie. By the way, thank you for the call.
I think it was Stephanie. I'll just point out Gladiator
actually has pretty romantic aspects as well. She's mentioning Spartacus.
Pam in Rhode Island. Pam, what do you suggest?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Hello? One of my most favorite movies ever in the
world is called Moonstruck with ship Yes, and it's got
Nicholas Cage, Vincent Gardinia, and Coccus. It's excellent.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I hear that movie is great and I have never
seen it. So I'm actually gonna take this recommendation to
the bank. I'm gonna tell carry we're watching it. Thank
thank you for the call. I think it's a great call.
That is a very famous I jotted down do you
have one that you legit? I mentioned anyone but you
because it's recent. Glenn Powell Sidney Sweeney pretty entertaining. Do
(03:13):
you have any that you actually think I'll give you well,
I'll give you three that I jotted down. First of all,
we had a dispute because there is sometimes.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Way category bleed over here.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But you gotta draw some lines here, Clay, can I
just throw you under the bus for a second. Clay's like,
my favorite romantic comedy is Happy Gilmore, Like, that's not
an romantic comedy. Billy Madison, Billy Madison, the wedding singer,
not giving me credit for those Okay, you did say
maybe on this one. Wedding crashers, Wedding crashers, legitimately hysterical movie. Again,
(03:47):
there's a balancing act between is it more comedy or romance? Historic?
Like you know, like meaning that it's a classic when
Harry met Sally? What about clueless? You're a clueless and
then nineties it's a great movie. Great, it's a great movie. U.
There's something about Mary. Probably you're gonna say more on
the comedy side, that's comedy, Groundhog Day, comedy, all right,
(04:12):
groundhog great movie.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And here is definite comedy, I mean, sorry, definite romance.
Love actually love, Actually I find that one depressing. I
find that depressive. Well, I mean, the guy is in
love with his best friend's wife. That dude, vote him
off them. I'm not saying that every single part of
love actually is incredibly Alan Rickman of Hans Gruber Diehard
(04:40):
Fame getting his sort of office, you know, the office tart,
the necklace and the wife finding out. Give it away,
the whole show, you give it away the movie. It's
been twenty something years if you haven't seen it. Gerard
agrees with me, and Gerard is a man's man, he
knows what's up. I'm just saying, forgetting Sarah Marshall, romance
(05:01):
or comedy, which come down on that. I like that
movie a lot, and it is the best. It is
the best thing Russell Brand has ever been in by far.
And I would say comedy not I don't think it's
a romantic. I think you're probably gonna say comedy on
forty year old virgin. Yes, yes, when they're ripping his
chest hair off, you're not wondering is who's he gonna
(05:21):
end up with at the end? All right, So those
are mine? So what's your answer? What would you did
you give me? Wedding crashers, because wedding crashers is legitimately
a Clay is playing. He's dancing along the edge here
with this stuff. He's doing a lot of like like
frat frat boy comedy sets, like Old School is a
love story. He's a tremendous It's one of the great
love stories of our time. Basically the Romeo and Juliet
(05:43):
of two thousand and two. You know, I think, if
you're really talking rom coms, the top of the genre,
which I may have been forced to watch by various
girlfriends in an earlier life, things like you're talking Sleepless
and Settle, You've Got Male. These are awful films, Friend's Wedding,
(06:04):
I know, But that's the real canon of rom com.
See you're, You're, You're, You're blending comedy into rom com
separate genres like Animal House is not a rom com,
it's a comedy. Like you need to have This is
not nom There are rules, Clay, like you.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Need to be.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And and I think that those those movies, really, uh,
those kind of typify the the romantic comedy. You know,
who was really dominant Dinner for a while with Julia Roberts.
You know, my best friend's wedding and she was in it.
And also Hugh Grant was in all these movies. Matthew
McConaughey did a bunch of them. Who's the pretty girl
that Matthew McConaughey did a bunch The daughter of Goldie Hawns. Yeah, yeah,
(06:41):
Goldie Hawns daughter Kate Hudson. Kate Hudson was in all
these movies back in the day. I like Kate Hudson.
I was a fan. I was a fan George Roberts fan,
to be honest with you, So I really I'm a
tough customer. Pretty woman is. My wife was about this
the other day because that's sinister and disturbing movie. It
(07:04):
is like for a movie that was like considered to
be heartwarming and everything else, Like it's Act Clay.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It is bizarre. The whole thing is terrible. This guy
finds a street walker and pays her and falls in
love with her, and like, the whole thing is nuts.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, And anyway, I have not watched it recently, but
my wife came across it on Classic Film Network or something,
and she was talking about it with me. She said,
have you really I was like, no, I haven't thought
about pretty Woman and you know, thirty years or however,
forty years however long reminds you that, like the you know,
second Missus Doubtfire reference to that, which I is still
a movie that I love. Second Missus Doutfire reference if
(07:40):
you have not seen it, the YouTube if Missus Doubtfire
was a horror movie trailer is one of the great
Like it's it's timeless. It is so fun because they
take the actual trailer and just change the voiceover and
the commentary and you're like, this is.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
A terrifying movie.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
The whole premise of Robin William dressed up in this
like fat old lady suit and like hovering around children.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It is creepy, but it's a great movie.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I mean, they've done a great job with that. I
just watched Cobra Kai the Conclusion with my kids last night,
which was great. The Karate Kid extension that's on Netflix,
but I'm sure you've seen the Daniel was actually the
bad Guy compilation from Karate Kid where they make Johnny
out to be the good guy and like everything Daniel did,
and it actually they reference it in Cobra Kai some
(08:28):
but it is actually super fascinating. The way they can
put things together. We were watching Lioness. Carrie wanted to
watch it. You know, a lot of sort of girl
power stuff. Just if one of you knows Taylor Sheridan,
I respect the good work that he's done in some
other projects Lioness Slapdash. Tell him to hire me as
a consultant so that when he actually has people talking
about the CIA, it doesn't sound like someone just scanned
(08:51):
Wikipedia for fifteen seconds has absolutely no idea about anything.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Taylor Sheridan, I think is making so much money that
at I mean and the Yellow Show throw a little
bit my way so that his show about the CIA
isn't clown level, because it's clown level. I think he's
making hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And uh,
I actually we should invite I don't know that you
would come on, but we should invite Taylor Sheridan on
(09:16):
the show. I don't know if it'll come on now,
Thanks klay Well. I I'm like Buck, I'm impressed with
your entire he loves tell Sheridan Sundays with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You know, we we the show never stops here, so
we're always talking to the team, and we go from
trying to avert you know, nuclear war in Ukraine to uh,
dating advice in the modern era. You know, we we
jump topics here, like nobody's business.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
There's always always more to be said.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We leave some of it on the cutting room floor,
but we've got we've got a lot of a lot
of stuff having conversations about you know, uh, you know
the DM slide. You know, if you're a single guy.
If you're a single guy, I don't think this is
a probably know you slide it into dms. You know,
I'm prominent people recently or prominent individual recently was in
the news for a little DM slide that got the
(10:07):
well it went beyond the DM slide, but the point is,
well Elon Musk has got another child, so uh And
it originally occurred because he jumped into the direct messages.
For those of you who don't know, you can send
messages on social media and everybody has like, hey, I
think you're cool, let's talk. You know, it's it's not
(10:28):
a problem. How many direct messages when you were single
in New York City do you think you sent? I've
pleaded the fifth on the like only I mean, for
the record, very few, but I plead the fifth on
even trying to give any kind of a actual number
here for people out there who don't know what percentage
(10:48):
of couples like, let's take away being in the same
school or being at the same work right.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Who meets online these days?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
As you can say, think it's like half at least half,
or couple it's more than half because because also people
are generally you know a lot of people sort of
say them at one wayhere they met another. It's sixty
to seventy sixty seventy percent now of people are meeting
their partner and then you know, eventually even their spouse
through some form of online you know, people use Instagram
(11:20):
as a dating site something. Did you meet your wife online?
I sent her a message on LinkedIn, I mean sorry,
not LinkedIn, not linkedinned.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
You are sorry? Sorry? No no, no, no, no, we I
mean we were aware of.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Each other from fox and she thought she at one
point was following me on Instagram and then realized I
had a girlfriend at that time, so that it was
hands off. And then I was single again, and then
I found out she was single, and then I reached
out Ali as can Ali pull up to the mic.
Here you're married to Gerard, the most masculine man on
the planet, but you slid into his DMS after you
(11:57):
met him?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, disclosure, I certainly did you.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Met him at a party?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Like we initially met at a party, And were you
following each other or you sought him out and just
went straight DM.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
We both sought each other out online and.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Then I but you sent the message to him first.
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
What's up to?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Basically just you up? Ali just went straight you up?
And now she's married.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Uh no, I I asked him what he was doing
and he said right now at this moment.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I said, oh sure, and he said coming to meet you.
So then we met him. Wow, and now you're married
and happily ever after. I see all of this social
media universe. I was I was married before technics. He
would have had to be on like uh, you know,
Christian Mingle or something back in the back in your days.
(12:52):
He would have had to use a dial up like
AOL Internet.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Clay would be like you've got mail, Like, heyually met
each other face to face and and we actually had conversations.
You guys are just throwing hell Mary's out there, got
like twenty different messages flying out no idea. Hey sportsman, sportsman,
you only need to catch one hail Mary to win
the Super Bowl, My friend, that's true. It's true. Well
(13:19):
so that but that that is the backdrop to the
story about Elon having more kids and everything. Here's my
take on Elon, and I may be in the minority
on this. Elon is the most brilliant successful person in
all of America right now. In my opinion, I think
(13:39):
Elon should have as many kids as Elon can take
care of because I want his genes creating the next
generation of genius. Now, other people out there don't have
my same take. I am super pro Elon as well
in terms of his I mean there's no question he's
the most important CEO, the most visionary CEO. What he
(13:59):
did for free speech and politics in this country by
buying it, I mean it's amazing, it's amazing, all due
respect and all that, but every kid wants a dad,
and if you're not around. And I also I think
it was a I think it was like my parish
priests of this to my mom a long time ago,
and she passed along to me.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You know, if you.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Want to if you want to love the child, love
the mother. For the husbands out there, it's a very important,
very important maxim as well to love the child, love
the mother. So I think you want to be around
I think that everyone wants a dad. I grew up
around a lot of very privileged as an understatement kids
in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And the ones who had broken families or separated families
or whatever, Clay, I'm telling you, they would have they
would have rather had fewer private jet trips and more
time with dad. Well, the data also reflects boys in
particular are the most broken by dads not being in
(14:59):
the house. In other words, younger girls, I think, because
they see their mom, who tends to have custody as
the role model, do not suffer as much as young
boys do from not having a man in the household.
And honestly, we had the conversation about this last week
because I went and talked about why young men are
breaking in the direction of Republicans the University of Chicago.
(15:22):
I do think buck a big aspect of young men
struggling in America today is and this is me getting
on my me, climbing on my you know, prespicire my pedestal.
A lot of dads are failing at dadding, and a
lot of grandpas are.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Trying to pick up. The first rule of being a
dad is being present. That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And I know, I know other thing's not perfect, and
I know people have problems or whatever, but you know, yeah,
it's so I'm contradicting myself a bit here because I
do think the dad in the household matters a tremendous amount,
particularly for you. I would say, you're you're looking at
it through over the macro survival of the human species
over the next dollars of years, which is my concern.
(16:08):
By the way, this is why I tell my boys, hey,
get married and have as many kids as you can,
because the population is collapsing. This is my thing where
everybody's like, oh, the seas are going to rise like
four inches, and you know, you're not going to be
able to go to Newark and have as much fun
in Newark as you used to.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
And I'm like, do you guys not.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Realize the entire global population is collapsing and South Korea
is not going to exist in one hundred years, and
Italy's not going to exist and Japan's not going to exist.
This is my calamity. Buy in, like, we got to
have more kids, and ultimately kids are in endorsements and
investments in the betterment of the future. And it ultimately
(16:49):
to me, reflects an international depression that so many young
people out there are afraid to bring new life into
the world. This is what I worry about. And you know,
I think that on the right we've fallen a little
bit into this. Yes, it is true, judge not lest
you be judged. It's not about judging any one individual
(17:10):
or I think you should be able to have conversations
where you can say, look, this is what this is
what the aspiration is, right. I mean, as Christians, you
aspire to to you know, to live in the in
the in the way of Jesus Christ themself. You're never
going to get there, right, but you still there's something
(17:31):
you aspire. You're trying, you're trying to hold yourself up
to an ideal. And I think when you're talking about
the parenting stuff, and you know, Elon and all the kids, again,
Elon's amazing in so many ways.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
We have a lot of respect for that.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But I do think that it's important that people when
they can you.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Know, you want a mom and a dad.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, and you can't be a mom and a dad
when you have eight different moms and fifteen kids or
thirteen kids or whatever. It is the way that you
otherwise could now with someone like Musk, you're talking about
also a person who is maybe going to like help
save the human species. I mean, you know, there's other
I understand there's these other factors. So it's not to
criticize Elon. And you know, no one's perfect, and I
(18:13):
get all of that, but I do think it's okay
to still say out loud, we really do want a
mom and a dad at home taking care of the
you know, taking I don't mean in terms of like
chores and that labor differentiation.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
But kids need a mom and a dad. Kids need
a mom and a dead you know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
And there's a lot of talking left and living right,
and once you see it, you can't unsee it. We've
talked about it some on this program. A lot of
people out there who claim that they are ardent leftists,
do you know what they do in their own life.
They're married, they have kids inside of a wedlock, They
(18:48):
raise those kids, put them in private school, oftentimes live
in gated communities where their families are protected. And meanwhile
they tell you, hey, left wing ideals are to be
aspired to, but in their own life they talk left
and live right.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
And that is true.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Go look at the successful Democrat politicians out there. Most
of them live behind the wall. Most of them try
to be married and raise their kids. They put their
kids in private school. It's just kind of fascinating. Was
a great line about I give credit to him. Was
it Michael Moore back in the day. I think it
(19:29):
was Michael Moore who said, you look at the Democrats
and their constituency on the floor, but then when you
look at the suites, it's all a lot of rich
white people. You know, they got all the diversity down
on the floor. Look at the delegates, Look how representative
of the world they are. And then you start to
rise and you look at like the super expensive suites
(19:52):
that surround the convention. It's a bunch of super rich
white liberals who are pulling the strings for so much
of what's going on, and they're living differently than the
values with which they would otherwise associate themselves very often.
So yes, you can talk about the genius of an individual,
(20:12):
while also discussing how no one is perfect and there
are some things that maybe should be done a little
bit a little bit differently, or you know, aspirationally, we
could all want something
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Sunday Hang with Plain Buck Podcast. It starts now Stephanie
and Kentucky wants to weigh and we're taking some calls.
(00:20):
Final hour of the week. Happy Valentine's Day. Stephanie, what
should people watch?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, I have a very unconventional pick, but if you'll
give me like fifteen seconds to make the case for
it for the couples that are maybe not into romantic comedy,
so you've got to have an understanding girlfriend or wife
who's not expecting romantic comedy. But one of the most
romantic movies I think is out there is actually Spartacus.
And I know this is probably more of Buck Sally
maybe Uclay history guy, but it's it's very subtle, but
(00:48):
I think it's the most romantic movie out there, just
like the the artistry of making.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Can I just tell you, I'm gonna make this pitch
to carry and I'm gonna put this on you, Okay,
I'd be like, honey, you know what romantic movie we
should watch? Tonight Spartacus about the slave re vault against
the Romans.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, to be okay with a little gladiatorial combat and
ancient civilization warfare. But if you can put up with
that mixed in with again really subtle but super sexy romance,
I think I think it's a perfect movie if you
have a girl who's into that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I actually liked the I think it was like a cinemax,
which anytime you say cinemax now people think, I.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Don't know where you're going.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
No, you stopped that, sir. There was a remake of Spartacus.
It was a series, though not a movie. Very very
it was like three hundred. They kind of did a
three hundred approach to it.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Which is I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
By the way, it's a I think three I wish
they had done a whole bunch of historical graphic novel
three hundred kind of things.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But the Spartacus show was do you know what I'm
talking about? It was very good.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It was it was one of those channels I do
know what's talking about. But I'm just laughing about your
cinemac start. I'm like, are you going to tell us
about a man? You?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, this is the thing Cinemax.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It just turned into Skinemax, and everybody thinks of it
that way, which is pretty remarkable for a channel like that.
But I never saw I never saw such things. If
any of the B O O B s comes on
the screen, I have hurt my eyes and change the
channel right away. Skin Amax, remember that was they called it.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's what.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, Stephanie. By the way, thank you for the call.
I think it was Stephanie. I'll just point out Gladiator
actually has pretty romantic aspects as well. She's mentioning Spartacus.
Pam in Rhode Island. Pam, what do you suggest?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Hello? One of my most favorite movies ever in the
world is called Moonstruck with ship Yes, and it's got
Nicholas Cage, Vincent Gardinia, and Coccus. It's excellent.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I hear that movie is great and I have never
seen it. So I'm actually gonna take this recommendation to
the bank. I'm gonna tell carry we're watching it. Thank
thank you for the call. I think it's a great call.
That is a very famous I jotted down do you
have one that you legit? I mentioned anyone but you
because it's recent. Glenn Powell Sidney Sweeney pretty entertaining. Do
(03:13):
you have any that you actually think I'll give you well,
I'll give you three that I jotted down. First of all,
we had a dispute because there is sometimes.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Way category bleed over here.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But you gotta draw some lines here, Clay, can I
just throw you under the bus for a second. Clay's like,
my favorite romantic comedy is Happy Gilmore, Like, that's not
an romantic comedy. Billy Madison, Billy Madison, the wedding singer,
not giving me credit for those Okay, you did say
maybe on this one. Wedding crashers, Wedding crashers, legitimately hysterical movie. Again,
(03:47):
there's a balancing act between is it more comedy or romance? Historic?
Like you know, like meaning that it's a classic when
Harry met Sally? What about clueless? You're a clueless and
then nineties it's a great movie. Great, it's a great movie. U.
There's something about Mary. Probably you're gonna say more on
the comedy side, that's comedy, Groundhog Day, comedy, all right,
(04:12):
groundhog great movie.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And here is definite comedy, I mean, sorry, definite romance.
Love actually love, Actually I find that one depressing. I
find that depressive. Well, I mean, the guy is in
love with his best friend's wife. That dude, vote him
off them. I'm not saying that every single part of
love actually is incredibly Alan Rickman of Hans Gruber Diehard
(04:40):
Fame getting his sort of office, you know, the office tart,
the necklace and the wife finding out. Give it away,
the whole show, you give it away the movie. It's
been twenty something years if you haven't seen it. Gerard
agrees with me, and Gerard is a man's man, he
knows what's up. I'm just saying, forgetting Sarah Marshall, romance
(05:01):
or comedy, which come down on that. I like that
movie a lot, and it is the best. It is
the best thing Russell Brand has ever been in by far.
And I would say comedy not I don't think it's
a romantic. I think you're probably gonna say comedy on
forty year old virgin. Yes, yes, when they're ripping his
chest hair off, you're not wondering is who's he gonna
(05:21):
end up with at the end? All right, So those
are mine? So what's your answer? What would you did
you give me? Wedding crashers, because wedding crashers is legitimately
a Clay is playing. He's dancing along the edge here
with this stuff. He's doing a lot of like like
frat frat boy comedy sets, like Old School is a
love story. He's a tremendous It's one of the great
love stories of our time. Basically the Romeo and Juliet
(05:43):
of two thousand and two. You know, I think, if
you're really talking rom coms, the top of the genre,
which I may have been forced to watch by various
girlfriends in an earlier life, things like you're talking Sleepless
and Settle, You've Got Male. These are awful films, Friend's Wedding,
(06:04):
I know, But that's the real canon of rom com.
See you're, You're, You're, You're blending comedy into rom com
separate genres like Animal House is not a rom com,
it's a comedy. Like you need to have This is
not nom There are rules, Clay, like you.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Need to be.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And and I think that those those movies, really, uh,
those kind of typify the the romantic comedy. You know,
who was really dominant Dinner for a while with Julia Roberts.
You know, my best friend's wedding and she was in it.
And also Hugh Grant was in all these movies. Matthew
McConaughey did a bunch of them. Who's the pretty girl
that Matthew McConaughey did a bunch The daughter of Goldie Hawns. Yeah, yeah,
(06:41):
Goldie Hawns daughter Kate Hudson. Kate Hudson was in all
these movies back in the day. I like Kate Hudson.
I was a fan. I was a fan George Roberts fan,
to be honest with you, So I really I'm a
tough customer. Pretty woman is. My wife was about this
the other day because that's sinister and disturbing movie. It
(07:04):
is like for a movie that was like considered to
be heartwarming and everything else, Like it's Act Clay.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It is bizarre. The whole thing is terrible. This guy
finds a street walker and pays her and falls in
love with her, and like, the whole thing is nuts.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, And anyway, I have not watched it recently, but
my wife came across it on Classic Film Network or something,
and she was talking about it with me. She said,
have you really I was like, no, I haven't thought
about pretty Woman and you know, thirty years or however,
forty years however long reminds you that, like the you know,
second Missus Doubtfire reference to that, which I is still
a movie that I love. Second Missus Doutfire reference if
(07:40):
you have not seen it, the YouTube if Missus Doubtfire
was a horror movie trailer is one of the great
Like it's it's timeless. It is so fun because they
take the actual trailer and just change the voiceover and
the commentary and you're like, this is.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
A terrifying movie.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
The whole premise of Robin William dressed up in this
like fat old lady suit and like hovering around children.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It is creepy, but it's a great movie.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I mean, they've done a great job with that. I
just watched Cobra Kai the Conclusion with my kids last night,
which was great. The Karate Kid extension that's on Netflix,
but I'm sure you've seen the Daniel was actually the
bad Guy compilation from Karate Kid where they make Johnny
out to be the good guy and like everything Daniel did,
and it actually they reference it in Cobra Kai some
(08:28):
but it is actually super fascinating. The way they can
put things together. We were watching Lioness. Carrie wanted to
watch it. You know, a lot of sort of girl
power stuff. Just if one of you knows Taylor Sheridan,
I respect the good work that he's done in some
other projects Lioness Slapdash. Tell him to hire me as
a consultant so that when he actually has people talking
about the CIA, it doesn't sound like someone just scanned
(08:51):
Wikipedia for fifteen seconds has absolutely no idea about anything.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Taylor Sheridan, I think is making so much money that
at I mean and the Yellow Show throw a little
bit my way so that his show about the CIA
isn't clown level, because it's clown level. I think he's
making hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And uh,
I actually we should invite I don't know that you
would come on, but we should invite Taylor Sheridan on
(09:16):
the show. I don't know if it'll come on now,
Thanks klay Well. I I'm like Buck, I'm impressed with
your entire he loves tell Sheridan Sundays with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You know, we we the show never stops here, so
we're always talking to the team, and we go from
trying to avert you know, nuclear war in Ukraine to uh,
dating advice in the modern era. You know, we we
jump topics here, like nobody's business.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
There's always always more to be said.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We leave some of it on the cutting room floor,
but we've got we've got a lot of a lot
of stuff having conversations about you know, uh, you know
the DM slide. You know, if you're a single guy.
If you're a single guy, I don't think this is
a probably know you slide it into dms. You know,
I'm prominent people recently or prominent individual recently was in
the news for a little DM slide that got the
(10:07):
well it went beyond the DM slide, but the point is,
well Elon Musk has got another child, so uh And
it originally occurred because he jumped into the direct messages.
For those of you who don't know, you can send
messages on social media and everybody has like, hey, I
think you're cool, let's talk. You know, it's it's not
(10:28):
a problem. How many direct messages when you were single
in New York City do you think you sent? I've
pleaded the fifth on the like only I mean, for
the record, very few, but I plead the fifth on
even trying to give any kind of a actual number
here for people out there who don't know what percentage
(10:48):
of couples like, let's take away being in the same
school or being at the same work right.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Who meets online these days?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
As you can say, think it's like half at least half,
or couple it's more than half because because also people
are generally you know a lot of people sort of
say them at one wayhere they met another. It's sixty
to seventy sixty seventy percent now of people are meeting
their partner and then you know, eventually even their spouse
through some form of online you know, people use Instagram
(11:20):
as a dating site something. Did you meet your wife online?
I sent her a message on LinkedIn, I mean sorry,
not LinkedIn, not linkedinned.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
You are sorry? Sorry? No no, no, no, no, we I
mean we were aware of.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Each other from fox and she thought she at one
point was following me on Instagram and then realized I
had a girlfriend at that time, so that it was
hands off. And then I was single again, and then
I found out she was single, and then I reached
out Ali as can Ali pull up to the mic.
Here you're married to Gerard, the most masculine man on
the planet, but you slid into his DMS after you
(11:57):
met him?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, disclosure, I certainly did you.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Met him at a party?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Like we initially met at a party, And were you
following each other or you sought him out and just
went straight DM.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
We both sought each other out online and.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Then I but you sent the message to him first.
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
What's up to?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Basically just you up? Ali just went straight you up?
And now she's married.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Uh no, I I asked him what he was doing
and he said right now at this moment.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I said, oh sure, and he said coming to meet you.
So then we met him. Wow, and now you're married
and happily ever after. I see all of this social
media universe. I was I was married before technics. He
would have had to be on like uh, you know,
Christian Mingle or something back in the back in your days.
(12:52):
He would have had to use a dial up like
AOL Internet.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Clay would be like you've got mail, Like, heyually met
each other face to face and and we actually had conversations.
You guys are just throwing hell Mary's out there, got
like twenty different messages flying out no idea. Hey sportsman, sportsman,
you only need to catch one hail Mary to win
the Super Bowl, My friend, that's true. It's true. Well
(13:19):
so that but that that is the backdrop to the
story about Elon having more kids and everything. Here's my
take on Elon, and I may be in the minority
on this. Elon is the most brilliant successful person in
all of America right now. In my opinion, I think
(13:39):
Elon should have as many kids as Elon can take
care of because I want his genes creating the next
generation of genius. Now, other people out there don't have
my same take. I am super pro Elon as well
in terms of his I mean there's no question he's
the most important CEO, the most visionary CEO. What he
(13:59):
did for free speech and politics in this country by
buying it, I mean it's amazing, it's amazing, all due
respect and all that, but every kid wants a dad,
and if you're not around. And I also I think
it was a I think it was like my parish
priests of this to my mom a long time ago,
and she passed along to me.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You know, if you.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Want to if you want to love the child, love
the mother. For the husbands out there, it's a very important,
very important maxim as well to love the child, love
the mother. So I think you want to be around
I think that everyone wants a dad. I grew up
around a lot of very privileged as an understatement kids
in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And the ones who had broken families or separated families
or whatever, Clay, I'm telling you, they would have they
would have rather had fewer private jet trips and more
time with dad. Well, the data also reflects boys in
particular are the most broken by dads not being in
(14:59):
the house. In other words, younger girls, I think, because
they see their mom, who tends to have custody as
the role model, do not suffer as much as young
boys do from not having a man in the household.
And honestly, we had the conversation about this last week
because I went and talked about why young men are
breaking in the direction of Republicans the University of Chicago.
(15:22):
I do think buck a big aspect of young men
struggling in America today is and this is me getting
on my me, climbing on my you know, prespicire my pedestal.
A lot of dads are failing at dadding, and a
lot of grandpas are.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Trying to pick up. The first rule of being a
dad is being present. That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And I know, I know other thing's not perfect, and
I know people have problems or whatever, but you know, yeah,
it's so I'm contradicting myself a bit here because I
do think the dad in the household matters a tremendous amount,
particularly for you. I would say, you're you're looking at
it through over the macro survival of the human species
over the next dollars of years, which is my concern.
(16:08):
By the way, this is why I tell my boys, hey,
get married and have as many kids as you can,
because the population is collapsing. This is my thing where
everybody's like, oh, the seas are going to rise like
four inches, and you know, you're not going to be
able to go to Newark and have as much fun
in Newark as you used to.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
And I'm like, do you guys not.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Realize the entire global population is collapsing and South Korea
is not going to exist in one hundred years, and
Italy's not going to exist and Japan's not going to exist.
This is my calamity. Buy in, like, we got to
have more kids, and ultimately kids are in endorsements and
investments in the betterment of the future. And it ultimately
(16:49):
to me, reflects an international depression that so many young
people out there are afraid to bring new life into
the world. This is what I worry about. And you know,
I think that on the right we've fallen a little
bit into this. Yes, it is true, judge not lest
you be judged. It's not about judging any one individual
(17:10):
or I think you should be able to have conversations
where you can say, look, this is what this is
what the aspiration is, right. I mean, as Christians, you
aspire to to you know, to live in the in
the in the way of Jesus Christ themself. You're never
going to get there, right, but you still there's something
(17:31):
you aspire. You're trying, you're trying to hold yourself up
to an ideal. And I think when you're talking about
the parenting stuff, and you know, Elon and all the kids, again,
Elon's amazing in so many ways.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
We have a lot of respect for that.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But I do think that it's important that people when
they can you.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Know, you want a mom and a dad.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, and you can't be a mom and a dad
when you have eight different moms and fifteen kids or
thirteen kids or whatever. It is the way that you
otherwise could now with someone like Musk, you're talking about
also a person who is maybe going to like help
save the human species. I mean, you know, there's other
I understand there's these other factors. So it's not to
criticize Elon. And you know, no one's perfect, and I
(18:13):
get all of that, but I do think it's okay
to still say out loud, we really do want a
mom and a dad at home taking care of the
you know, taking I don't mean in terms of like
chores and that labor differentiation.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
But kids need a mom and a dad. Kids need
a mom and a dead you know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
And there's a lot of talking left and living right,
and once you see it, you can't unsee it. We've
talked about it some on this program. A lot of
people out there who claim that they are ardent leftists,
do you know what they do in their own life.
They're married, they have kids inside of a wedlock, They
(18:48):
raise those kids, put them in private school, oftentimes live
in gated communities where their families are protected. And meanwhile
they tell you, hey, left wing ideals are to be
aspired to, but in their own life they talk left
and live right.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
And that is true.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Go look at the successful Democrat politicians out there. Most
of them live behind the wall. Most of them try
to be married and raise their kids. They put their
kids in private school. It's just kind of fascinating. Was
a great line about I give credit to him. Was
it Michael Moore back in the day. I think it
(19:29):
was Michael Moore who said, you look at the Democrats
and their constituency on the floor, but then when you
look at the suites, it's all a lot of rich
white people. You know, they got all the diversity down
on the floor. Look at the delegates, Look how representative
of the world they are. And then you start to
rise and you look at like the super expensive suites
(19:52):
that surround the convention. It's a bunch of super rich
white liberals who are pulling the strings for so much
of what's going on, and they're living differently than the
values with which they would otherwise associate themselves very often.
So yes, you can talk about the genius of an individual,
(20:12):
while also discussing how no one is perfect and there
are some things that maybe should be done a little
bit a little bit differently, or you know, aspirationally, we
could all want something
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